October 22, 2011 – 8:23 am
All is not hunky dory within the Charlotte Occupiers group. Perhaps they just don’t have enough drums? (CBS Charlotte) “Occupy Charlotte†protesters have carried out an official coup within the group. Thomas Shope, 47, credited with helping to organize “Occupy Charlotte,†was exiled from the group for claiming leadership. A YouTube video broadcasts the group’s […]
October 21, 2011 – 7:38 pm
More people were arrested in Cincinnati today Cincinnati police arrested 23 men and women and cleared out Piatt Park in the early hours of Friday morning, putting an end to the occupation of the small park near the Main Library by Occupy Cincinnati, an off-shoot of the Occupy Wall Street movement. Here’s where it gets […]
October 21, 2011 – 9:04 am
The Boston Herald’s story is actually about the Boston Occupiers turning to…… Occupy Boston has turned to the local experts on street survival — the homeless — as members of the leaderless movement prepare to dig in for a long winter in their makeshift tent city on the Rose Kennedy Greenway downtown. The homeless have […]
October 20, 2011 – 11:01 am
I have to ask of Occupy supporters, are these nutjobs representative of the movement? (Washington Post) Two weeks after a Washington protest group affiliated with Occupy DC shut down the Air and Space Museum, some protesters are heading to New York’s cultural institutions for a demonstration. Occupy Museums will demonstrate at the Museum of Modern […]
October 19, 2011 – 4:35 pm
With high unemployment, low GDP, a stagnant economy, low consumer confidence, rising food and fuel prices, real wages going down, and even more people without health insurance, I’d hate to think if Obama had made what he considers to be bad choices. From the interview with Jake Tapper “I guarantee it’s going to be a […]
October 19, 2011 – 8:55 am
New York Magazine decided to brave the unsanitary and squalid conditions of Zuccotti Park and ask questions of the Occupy Wall Street folks. 50 of these supposedly super smart and informed Occupiers …..how smart can one be to go days without bathing and changing clothes while living with people doing the same?…..were asked questions, and, […]
October 17, 2011 – 7:37 am
Shameless, simply shameless. After listening to many wonderful speakers (and some who decided to interject their own political messages) discuss Martin Luther King, Jr., (NM)President Obama couldn’t resist interjecting his own far left politics and pandering (Washington Times) Drawing parallels between civil rights legend Martin Luther King Jr. and his own leadership challenges, President Obama […]
October 16, 2011 – 8:41 am
No, really, that’s his plan, and he is going to use the rage from the Occupy movement to campaign against Republicans. Then, the same guy who took massive amounts of Wall Street, Big Bank, Big Financial, and Big Corporate money in 2008, voted for bailouts, gave Wall Street, banks, financial institutions, and corporations, will take […]
October 14, 2011 – 9:15 am
Hey, I’m just using Obama math, since @amandacarpenter was wondering if anyone could put together a count of the arrests (MSNBC) New York City police clashed with Occupy Wall Street protesters and arrested at least four of them after owners of the park being occupied ditched cleanup plans that demonstrators claimed were a pretext to […]
October 13, 2011 – 7:02 pm
Entitlement mentality (CBS New York) “There’s a lot of stuff we wouldn’t have to clean up if the city provided basic human rights, like a Port-A-Potty,†said demonstrator Gene Wagner. “If you would’ve given us a Port-A-Potty 30 days ago, we would’ve maintained it ourselves.†Or, you could have paid to rent one, like everyone […]
