#OccupyWallStreet Photo of the Day

This is good:

The #Occupy Crowd is Disenchanted With The One

I think this is instructive:

Numerous protesters at yesterday’s Occupy Wall Street rally in New York City viciously blasted President Obama as a horrible failure, signaling a major break from a liberal base that once celebrated Obama’s lofty rhetoric of hope and change.

“I feel that Obama, especially on the civil liberties perspective, has raped me in the a–,” admitted a shirtless man who donned a purple flower in his hair. “I’m not very happy with his job in the slightest.”

The disillusioned demonstrator, who identified himself as a financial analyst, went on to scold Obama for capitulating to Wall Street bankers and global monetary interests.

“The guy freaks me out a little bit,” the man said. “I’m not going to lie. He’s pretty, and we all think we did something because of his color, and I don’t discount that, but for f—k’s sake, he scares the hell out of me.”

The growing dissatisfaction among the president’s most liberal supporters could make November’s election more competitive, as former Obama diehards stay home instead of casting a ballot in his favor.

Other Occupy protesters—who spent the majority of Tuesday cluttering city streets in a series of disorganized mass demonstrations celebrating May Day—accused the president of behaving like a “Nazi,” a charge that could be found particularly offensive in light of accusations that a cohort of Occupy sympathizers are anti-Semitic.

“I voted for Obama, and it was a big mistake,” said one protestor who lofted a sign equating Obama with a swastika symbol. “I’m very angry about it. Obama is murdering thousands of people throughout the world with his drone strikes.”

The occupier accused Obama of having the same foreign policy priorities as his predecessor, George W. Bush.

“The foreign policy between Bush and Obama is the same. He hasn’t changed,” he said. “[Obama] did talk like a Nazi in the campaign, but you gotta vote for a black president, which I did, but I will never again vote for a Democrat, not even for dog catcher.”

Note the highlighted racial remarks about people who voted for him because of his color. Well, the novelty is over and now you're stuck with an incompetent president. Well done, OWS voters.

This is good news for the rest of us because I think it means most voters will not feel the racial pressure to support Obama in 2012 that they felt in 2008. They might actually vote (or stay home) based on the job they think the candidate has done (or will do) instead of just choosing a candidate based on the melanin content in their skin.

#OccupyWallStreet Cartoon of the Day

On this National Temper Tantrum Day the #Occupy slugs still haven't realized they're really just #Occupawns:

#OccupyWallStreet Will Leave Their Parents' Basements For a May Day Protest

Commies of the world unite!

Occupy Wall Street demonstrators, whose anti-greed message spread worldwide during an eight-week encampment in Lower Manhattan last year, plan marches across the globe today calling attention to what they say are abuses of power and wealth.

Organizers say they hope the coordinated events will mark a spring resurgence of the movement after a quiet winter. Calls for a general strike with no work, no school, no banking and no shopping have sprung up on websites in Toronto, Barcelona, London, Kuala Lumpur and Sydney, among hundreds of cities in North America, Europe and Asia.

In New York, Occupy Wall Street will join scores of labor organizations observing May 1, traditionally recognized as International Workers’ Day. They plan marches from Union Square to Lower Manhattan and a “pop-up occupation” of Bryant Park on Sixth Avenue, across the street from Bank of America’s Corp.’s 55-story tower.

“We call upon people to refrain from shopping, walk out of class, take the day off of work and other creative forms of resistance disrupting the status quo,” organizers said in an April 26 e-mail.

Occupy groups across the U.S. have protested economic disparity, decrying high foreclosure and unemployment rates that hurt average Americans while bankers and financial executives received bonuses and taxpayer-funded bailouts. In the past six months, similar groups, using social media and other tools, have sprung up in Europe, Asia and Latin America.

There will likely be some disruptions as these organized temper tantrums occur around the country. However, Occupy has been largely ineffective and other than stinking up public parks they really haven't had much real impact on national or world affairs. I expect that record of failure to continue.

Finally, Someone Who Understands the #Occupy Movement

This news from KTLA:

BREAKING: Dr. Jane Goodall named grand marshal for 2013 @RoseParade!

I'm hoping she can work with the #Occupy movement while she's here. They're barely evolved beyond the chimp stage so I'm sure be able to help them.

The Remnants of the Occupy Movement Turn on Ben and Jerry

The lefty Vermont ice cream moguls Ben and Jerry didn't quite get the welcome they thought they would from the Occupy drones:

Occupy Stupidity  -- The Occupy movement is obsessed with its patented consensus decision making process, which is simultaneously one of the most hilarious, unproductive and downright stupid processes ever conceived by man. But when the liberal Ben & Jerry's founders said their money would not be divvied out that way, things turned a bit contentious at an Occupy meeting, TheDC's David Martosko reports:

"But when [Ben and Jerry's co-founder Jerry] Greenfield explained to the occupiers assembled in the sanctuary of the West Park Presbyterian Church how little control they would have over the funds his group was raising, their mood quickly turned from supportive to hostile ... 'I think it’s absolutely essential that your donors have zero say in where the money goes,' said Linnea Palmer Paton, an audience member. 'Right now we have a system where the wealthy design, create, build and have control over what happens. And I think it’s very important that the wealthy do not have that power.'"

Yes, it is a much better idea that a group of college radicals, bums and aged hippies come together and decide how to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars. How could that possibly backfire?

Maybe they should pass out some Chunky Monkey and make the kids happy.

Political Cartoon of the Day

h/t Newsbusters:

Socialism Comes To a Burning, Crashing End in Greece

This is the logical end result of socialism:

The Greek parliament approved a deeply unpopular austerity bill to secure a second EU/IMF bailout and avoid national bankruptcy, as buildings burned across central Athens and violence spread around the country.

Cinemas, cafes, shops and banks were set ablaze in central Athens as black-masked protesters fought riot police outside parliament.

State television reported the violence spread to the tourist islands of Corfu and Crete, the northern city of Thessaloniki and towns in central Greece. Shops were looted in the capital where police said 34 buildings were ablaze.

Give it a few years and this could be #OccupyWallStreet responding to the kinds of cuts that will be necessary in the U.S.

#OccupyWallStreet Photo of the Day

Yeah.

#OccupyWallStreet Quote of the Day

From Iowahawk:

"You can't build a moral high ground on feces and glitter."

And yet they try. CPAC begins tomorrow, the big annual meeting of conservative activists that will feature a number of prominent speakers including the top GOP candidates. The union and #Occupy goons are planning to try and disrupt the event, even to the extent of committing acts of violence against conference speakers and attendees.

Several people came up with the same suggestion - next year's CPAC conference should be held in a state where concealed carry is allowed. I'll see your glitter bomb and raise you one Glock.  Checkmate.

The #OccupyWallStreet Movement is Past Its Expiration Date

How do you know when your leftist protest movement is past its expiration date?  When lefty cities like Oakland have finally had enough:

Oakland City Hall was set to reopen Monday after municipal employees worked to clean up damage they said was caused over the weekend by Occupy protesters, about 400 of whom were arrested following clashes with police in this Northern California city.

The mass arrests, described by police as the largest in city history, appear to have injected new life into the Occupy movement as protesters in a number of American and European cities took to the streets Sunday to express their solidarity with the Occupy Oakland group.

"The Occupy movement will respond, as we have always responded: With an overwhelming show of collective resistance," Occupy Wall Street said in a statement posted on its website.

The City of Oakland is getting what it deserves. They babied this movement and allowed it to violate numerous city ordinances all in the name of "freedom of protest and assembly", and now that they've finally grown tired of this silly game, putting the genie back in the bottle isn't going to be easy. The city now has a whole collection of spoiled brats who aren't going to give up their city-granted freedoms very easily. And with solidarity protests breaking out in other cities, like L.A., we appear to have some more temper tantrums to work through before this movement finally dies.

Oakland Has An Old Fashioned Hippie Butt-Whomping

Good times were had by all but #OccupyOakland:

Oakland police made more than 300 arrests during a tense Occupy Oakland protest Saturday, with city officials expressing frustration and outrage at the tactics of some demonstrators.

City Administrator Deanna Santana said the city "will not be bullied by threats of violence or illegal activity. ... Breaking into buildings, assaulting police officers, provoking confrontations and vandalizing property are tactics that are counterproductive and divide our community. They drain scarce city resources away from the neighborhoods in greatest need. Oakland deserves better."

Other city officials said the protests prevented police from dealing with other emergencies.

"This particular faction of Occupy ... they're very violent, and I'm going to be asking for a lot more mutual aid," Mayor Jean Quan told the Oakland Tribune. "They are hurting the neighborhoods by continuing to do this on Saturday nights."

Mayor Quan babied these people for months, giving them everything they wanted and them some. She allowed them to block Oakland streets, shut down ports and harass local citizens. She's been a disaster for the city and is now suddenly a born again law-and-order mayor. If you want to fix the problem, first dump the liberal politicians and then let the cops do their job.

Ah, There's Nothing Like #OccupyChicago in the Spring

The socialist drones whose evil spawn is the #Occupy movement have big plans for the G8 meeting in Chicago in May.  This is from their release:

“On May 1, 50,000 people from all over the world will flock to Chicago, set up tents, kitchens, peaceful barricades and #OCCUPYCHICAGO for a month. With a bit of luck, we’ll pull off the biggest multinational occupation of a summit meeting the world has ever seen.

“And this time around we’re not going to put up with the kind of police repression that happened during the Democratic National Convention protests in Chicago, 1968 … nor will we abide by any phony restrictions the City of Chicago may want to impose on our first amendment rights. We’ll go there with our heads held high and assemble for a month-long people’s summit … we’ll march and chant and sing and shout and exercise our right to tell our elected representatives what we want … the constitution will be our guide.

“And when the G8 and NATO meet behind closed doors on May 19, we’ll be ready with our demands: a Robin Hood Tax … a ban on high frequency ‘flash’ trading … a binding climate change accord … a three strikes and you’re out law for corporate criminals … an all out initiative for a nuclear-free Middle East … whatever we decide in our general assemblies and in our global internet brainstorm – we the people will set the agenda for the next few years and demand our leaders carry it out.

“And if they don’t listen … if they ignore us and put our demands on the back burner like they’ve done so many times before … then, with Gandhian ferocity, we’ll flashmob the streets, shut down stock exchanges, campuses, corporate headquarters and cities across the globe … we’ll make the price of doing business as usual too much to bear.”

When you look at their demands you see some of the underlying perversions in their beliefs. A "nuclear-free Middle East" is another way to say "disarm Israel", because nobody else in the Middle East has nukes and I'll bet they wouldn't consider Iran to be part of the Middle East once Obama lets them finish their bomb.

And when they talk about bringing 50,000 nuts from all over the world to this protest, 50,000 won't even make a dent in the nut population already in Chicago.  I'll bet that doesn't even represent 10% of the Chicago nut collection.  At least the wind in Chicago will blow the stench away.

Personally, I hope they shut Chicago down.  That city owes all of us a big one for giving us Obama and it would be fun to see how Rahm Emanuel handles a major outbreak of civil unrest.  I'll bet he has some Mayor Daley (the First) in him and there will be some head knocking before it's all over.  I doubt if he caves into the protesters the way Nanny Bloomberg did in New York City.

Occupy Protests Have Lost Their Cachet

These #OccupyWallStreet protests and their unholy offspring around the country, which  some political professionals suggest were created specifically as a campaign tool in anticipation of a Mitt Romney nomination, quickly grew tiresome and now some of their old allies are turning on them:

Obama vs. Occupy -- At first, Obama was all like, "Occupiers are cool. You guys are awesome!" But eventually the reality of the situation caught up with him, as it tends to do. The honeymoon is over, as TheDC's Matthew Boyle reports:

"President Barack Obama's administration has ordered the United States Coast Guard to protect grain ships at the Port of Longview from violent 'Occupy' protesters and dockworker union members, according to a local news report. The Daily News in Longview, Wash., reported that the Coast Guard will protect a grain shipment from an onslaught of 'Occupy' protesters and members of the International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU). The ship will be transporting grain to Asia. A date for the shipment has not yet been set. The group of leftwing activists had shut down ports all along the West Coast on Dec. 8, including the Port of Longview. The Coast Guard will apparently be helping the ship load its grain at the port, and then depart for Asia, safely... The Coast Guard is a part of the United States Armed Forces and ordinarily falls under the authority of the Department of Homeland Security. The president can, however, at any time, move the Coast Guard to operate under the U.S. Department of Navy, and Congress can do the same during times of war. As the nation's commander-in-chief, President Obama has the ability to control what actions the Coast Guard takes."

Well done, Mr. President. And guess who else is 99% fed up with the filthy, violent degenerates of the Occupy movement? The Washington Post reports:

"Mayor Vincent C. Gray called on the National Park Service today to remove protesters from McPherson Square to 'allow for elimination of the rat infestation, clean up, and restoration' of the downtown park. In a letter to Park Service Director Jonathan B. Jarvis, Gray suggests moving the McPherson protesters, who have camped in the park since October, to a separate encampment at Freedom Plaza. Because both sites are on Park Service land, Gray does not have the authority to directly order an eviction. But today's demand is Gray's most dramatic pronoucement yet on the ongoing protests. His letter was accompanied by a memorandum from the city's health director reporting that both encampments are at risk for outbreaks of 'communicable disease, hypothermia or food borne illness.'"

The Occupy movement is less than four months old, and they've already imploded. It's not FAIR!!!

I walked by and through MacPherson Square many times during my 2005 trip to Washington D.C. It was on our way to the White House, and the subway stop we used was located on the edge of the square. It wasn't the nicest place - quite a few homeless hanging out there - but it certainly didn't have the problems it has now that these losers have camped out there for months. It's time for them to go.

As far as Washington goes, why do Occupy protesters want to starve Asian kids? Stopping these grain shipments doesn't do anything to "get back at the 1%", it just raises grain prices for people in other parts of the world who need the stuff. It's time for some serious head-knocking up there.

Tournament of Roses Parade Photo of the Day

The #Occupus, the moron-powered octopus built from trash bags that's supposed to represent something to the #Occupy crowd (h/t KTLA):

After all those floats costing $250,000 and up, I'm sure this will be a real treat for the folks on the parade route.

The L.A. Media Have Become the Official Spokesmen For #OccupyRoseParade

For the last several days every news broadcast on every L.A. TV or radio news station has carried a story on the plans for #Occupy morons to infect the Rose Parade next Tuesday.  There's absolutely no real news value in these repeated reports...unless it's the goal of the media to promote the morons in hope of a disruption or confrontation during the parade.  After all, there's nothing like a good old-fashioned police hippie whomping to stimulate the ratings.

The washed-up theater majors that make up #OccupyRoseParade plan to showcase a 70-foot octopus made of trash bags that's supposed to represent corporate greed (what, no giant puppets??), and will be relegated to following along behind the cops who officially end the parade...and the network TV coverage.  But it wouldn't surprise me a bit if the networks hang on a bit and give them national coverage, again in the mindless search for ratings.

The Pasadena Tea Party briefly considered a counter-demonstration when it appeared the protesters would be allowed in the actual parade, but wisely dropped their plans in favor of allowing people to enjoy a politics-free family event.  Too bad the #Occupy morons and their enablers in the media don't have that level of maturity.

#OccupyWallStreet Quote of the Day

From the owner of Java Joe's, a coffee joint in Iowa where some #Occupy morons showed up and started to chant.  She promptly kicked them out, trespassed them so they can be arrested the next time they show up, and added this:

“We all have our rights, but not in my place.”

Exactly. The First Amendment does not trump private property rights.  It does not give anyone the right to disrupt a business.  They have a right to speak, with definite limitations, but not a right to be heard.

There's video of the scum being removed at the link.

Why Isn't Anyone Going After Romney?

Good question:

Mitt Romney's confidence is brimming. The former governor, now widely seen as the favorite to win Iowa, announced Wednesday he'll stay in the Hawkeye State the night of the caucus, a clear indication he anticipates a good result. If he does capture Iowa, he'll head into New Hampshire, long his political stronghold, with a chance to become the first non-incumbent GOP presidential candidate ever to win the first two primary contests - a back-to-back triumph that would all but secure the nomination.

So, naturally, his Republican rivals have spent the last week castigating him on the trail and eviscerating him on TV, all in a desperate attempt to slow down his momentum and keep their own campaigns viable. Right? No - they've nearly done the opposite.

In a new radio ad released Wednesday, Texas Gov. Rick Perry set his sights not on Romney but on former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum, who is enjoying his own surge in Iowa. In the ad and on the campaign trail, Perry criticized Santorum's previous support for earmarks, calling the ex-U.S. senator part of the big-spending Washington establishment. He does not, however, mention Romney.

It's an old story this primary, where Romney has not faced the kind of withering attacks that normally confront a front-runner. His rivals have trained their fire on one another instead.

Just examine the Iowa landscape this week as the campaigns make their last desperate push. Reps. Michele Bachmann and Ron Paul are at each other's throats over the defection of the Minnesota congresswoman's Iowa state chair.

Paul, meanwhile, has spent most of the last month barraging former House speaker Newt Gingrich with a litany of hard-hitting TV ads. Paul himself has received blistering criticism from Gingrich and Santorum, each of whom has said his isolationist-leaning foreign policy is unacceptable.

As they form a circular firing squad, Romney stepped back. Rather than engage his GOP opponents, as he's done most of his campaign, he's focused almost entirely on his No. 1 target, President Obama.

It's interesting that the GOP candidates aren't going after Romney. Have they all decided his nomination in inevitable and they're hoping for a cabinet position?

What's even more interesting is the seeming lack of attention from the press and Democrats. Perhaps they've figured out that Romney is really the guy they want to run against so they're holding their fire...for now. As I wrote yesterday, once he's the nominee we'll find out stuff about Romney and especially his religion that we can't even imagine right now. And the #Occupy forces will be turned out in big numbers to oppose the former Wall Streeter Romney. That's why that movement was created - with Romney in mind.

We'll see what happens after Iowa.

Parade of Fools

It's almost too bad the Tournament of Roses didn't allow these idiots into the parade:

Although the group is not part of the parade, its Web site OccupytheRoseParade.org says, “Float #44/#99 will be our float with visual displays including a 250 foot ‘We the People’ U.S. Constitution, a 50 foot ‘We The Corporations’ version, a giant ‘Goldie Sachs’ Wheel of Fortune exhibit, a Wall Street ‘Occupy The Octopus’ (Occupy The Vampire Squid) representing Goldman Sachs, Bank of America and Citibank (i.e. Wall Street) and much more,” the Web site states.

Must be the doing of all the out-of-work theater majors.

The Immaturity of the Left Will Be In Full Display in 2012

We can expect this kind of stuff all year:

Protesters heckled and chased Newt Gingrich and his wife as they left the Iowa Capitol on Wednesday, a turbulent scene that Iowa political leaders fear could be replayed again and again before Jan. 3, jeopardizing the civil discourse tradition of the Iowa caucuses.

The leaders say they’re gearing up for a showdown.

The protesters — some involved with the Occupy movement — say they plan to attend candidate appearances, stand up, scream questions and disrupt the events.

The foundation of the caucuses is civil dialogue, where Iowans can engage in conversation, said Matt Strawn, chairman of the Iowa Republican Party.

“The more that agitators disrupt these events, the more it takes away from the Iowa caucus experience,” Strawn said. “It doesn’t give other Iowans an opportunity to ask the questions.”

Obama didn't face this kind of opposition from conservatives in 2008 and won't see it in 2012. Why? Well, his Secret Service detail would quickly remove anyone disrupting his events, and conservatives are not that immature. We don't try and stifle the speech of our political opposition. We try to persuade them with the strength of our arguments, not the strength of our screams.

The Occupy people may succeed in temporarily silencing GOP candidates, but they won't succeed in winning people to their cause. That kind of behavior is very annoying and certainly not attractive to anyone but the very weak-minded and immature.