But Don’t Take a Slice of My Pie…
Wouldn’t it be ironic if money ended up being the thing that killed the Occupy Wall Street protests. Two stories out today suggest it might be. The first is about the famously fancy food being catered to the young radicals. It has attracted in great numbers the homeless and the recently incarcerated — some of […]
Read the rest of this entry »Dumb-Ass Republicans
Of all the Republicans I know — and I know a lot of them — only about, say, one percent of them are among the top one percent of income earners in this country. So why are the other 99% of Republicans Republicans? It’s an essential question that doesn’t get asked enough. If the top […]
Read the rest of this entry »Green Eye-Shaded Anarchists
Funniest story of the day by the wonderful Ginger Otis at The New York Post. It details squabbling among protesters over — wait for it — the $500,000 in wealth they have accumulated. With quotes like these from “occupiers” it’s hard not to laugh: “The other day, I took in $2,000. I kept $650 for […]
Read the rest of this entry »Occupancy Wanted
Is it possible to rent a Wall Street Occupier? I’d be willing to pay, say, $49 per hour — a dollar less than I just got socked to park on West 76th Street — for an angry protester with a drum and a tent. If the Occupiers really want to after bald greed, I can […]
Read the rest of this entry »Are You Smarter Than a Wall Street Protester?
I stole that headline directly from New York Magazine which just published the results of a quiz of the Wall Street protesters on current — and basic — economic and political questions. I would love to comment more on the results, but I don’t want to skew your answers on the survey. Besides, I’m too busy […]
Read the rest of this entry »Daddy Warbucks Fights Back!
It was bound to happen. The so-called Wall Street “fat cats”, who have been giving far more money to Democrats than to Republicans in recent years — especially to President Obama — have had it with serving as a punching bag for the Obama Administration and the Democratic Party, which have married themselves to the Occupy Wall Street radicals. […]
Read the rest of this entry »Quote of the Weekend, Mort Zuckerman
“the door to [the Occupy Wall Street protests] was opened by the Obama administration, going after the ‘millionaires and billionaires’ as if everybody is a millionaire and a billionaire and they didn’t earn it. . . . To fan that flame of populist anger I think is very divisive and very dangerous for this country.” […]
Read the rest of this entry »Orchestrated Anarchy
http://youtu.be/VrzQedHM6SY The New York City Police Department sure trains its officers well. I was just watching footage from today’s demonstrations, where protesters repeatedly violated direct orders from the NYPD. It’s amazing more police batons weren’t used. Many of the police officers are the same age as the protesters and far harder working. It’s got to […]
Read the rest of this entry »Obama’s Victims & Demons
Charles Krauthammer writes thoughtfully this morning on a point I touched on last week to some criticism: In an attempt to fire up his base, President Obama has ginned up a dangerous climate of blame-the-other-guy in this country. Krauthammer calls it “The Scapegoat Strategy.” He writes: Obama’s new strategy: Don’t whine, blame. Attack. Indict. Accuse. Who? The rich […]
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