Give these Sphincter muscles an inch and they will take a yard or a city block.

Trespassing is a criminal offense in, I believe, every one of the 50 states. The moment it becomes clear that their intent is to disrupt commerce rather than engage in it, they should be put where they belong. Their condition upon arrival as said containment facility is solely up to them. They can comply or deal with the consequences of their lawless behavior.

a few of Orlando’s version of the OWS lemmings at Best Buy or WalMart but alas, there were none when I visited. I guess noon was too early for the fleabag rodents.

I guess there will be no squatting in WalMart today.

Clean up in aisle five.

knocking the teeth out of annoying people.

Ending with “just flat being ignored” is a real comedown for any insurrectionist who plans such activities, as well as seeing their flaming “supporter wannabe’s” fizzle out when the going get tough.

Great After-Thanksgiving feel good moment for me.

Now on the Left Coast, I’d understand, but they don’t put up with this crud in the conservative heartland.

by Thanksgiving. Gobble, Gobble.

What a bunch of dummies…They should be arrested for sheer stupidity.

Charles Halloran: All right, you go back and tell them that the New York State Supreme Court rules there’s no Santa Claus. It’s all over the papers. The kids read it and they don’t hang up their stockings. Now what happens to all the toys that are supposed to be in those stockings? Nobody buys them. The toy manufacturers are going to like that; so they have to lay off a lot of their employees, union employees. Now you got the CIO and the AF of L against you and they’re going to adore you for it and they’re going to say it with votes. Oh, and the department stores are going to love you too and the Christmas card makers and the candy companies. Ho ho! Henry, you’re going to be an awful popular fella. And what about the Salvation Army? Why, they got a Santa Claus on every corner, and they’re taking a fortune. But you go ahead Henry, you do it your way. You go on back in there and tell them that you rule there is no Santy Claus. Go on! But if you do, remember this: you can count on getting just two votes, your own and that district attorney’s out there.

The handcuffs were a nice touch. This could possibly be the feel good story of the week!

And I have to say…two of those “chicks” have nice going aways.

In other WM news, we had two bomb threats today including one at the store across the street from the Home Office here in Bentonville. I have no way to prove it but I believe that OWS or someone sympathetic to their “shut down Black Friday” cause was responsible for both.

I fully support their alienating actual working people and encourage them to keep it up. Most WM employees can’t afford to take time off to indulge their inner rebel and join OWS protests. That privilege is reserved to the spoiled children of the upper middle class.

… have never has as much class as the folks in Tulsa – what caught my interest was the peppr-spraying shopper just over the hill from me in Porter Ranch!

Drudge is calling it ‘Black & Blue Friday’ and that certainly fits.

I went to Best Buy in Arcadia (near Pasadena) today and upon setting out, regarded it as a fun trip to the zoo (it was). The place was jammed and most displays (phones, video cameras, etc.) were almost totally demolished.

that there is a gross inconsistency on treatment of protests, without regard for how peaceful or violent they are, based on who the protesters are and what they are protesting.

Example:

It is getting harder and harder for pro-life protesters to peacefully assemble with signs on public sidewalks. These protests can be completely silent and leave plenty of room on the sidewalk for people to pass, and they are treated harshly, insulted, sometimes threatened, and have cities, courts, and police try to chase them off more and more frequently. (Note: Not all pro-life protests are like this, but some of the most extreme actions (that I have witnessed or read about from credible sources) taken against pro-life protests have been against the quietest and most peaceful protests.)

The TEA Party has rallies that are peaceful, neat, and clean. They collect all the appropriate permits. They obey the laws. They come, have their rally/protest (when applicable), and leave. They proclaim a clear, ideological message. They self-regulate, meaning that people that try to join them proclaiming unacceptable messages of racism and hate are removed as they are clearly NOT what the TEA Party is about. People opposed to the TEA party try to infiltrate carrying unacceptable messages. They try to infiltrate to cause division. They are sometime violent and disruptive in their protest from without. In the Media, the TEA Party is presented only as a bunch of angry, racist, gun-grabbing, (presumably wealthy) white men. It is almost impossible to get a major news report on the TEA Party that doesn’t call them racist, at least outside the blogosphere or Fox News. Those accusations are, of course, based on what the reporters WANT to believe about the TEA Party, not on anything that has actually been witnessed about them.

Now consider OWS. The threats and violence they receive are almost exclusively from their own people. Sure, they get insulted from outside their movement, but most of us seem to appreciate occasionally insulting people that are openly broadcasting their personal stupidity. Of course, most of the insulting also happens in personal or internet discussions, not large groups of people that hate them and what they believe walking up to them and shouting insults at them while trying to intimidate them into leaving. Well, back on point. Rather than peacefully protesting in public areas for a short time (a few hours, etc), they settle down (occupy) areas, frequently illegally, for long periods of time while trying to demand stuff that isn’t theirs. They gather wherever they deem fit, with or without permits, apparently now believing that they can setup their protests on/inside private property without permission or fear of consequence. In spite of all this, they are still generally the media darlings. Most news reporting ignores their ‘little’ problems (like rape, theft, assault, murder), and downplays or fails to report those issues OR other illegal activities. When reported, such reports try to make it appear the unusual exception to the rule AND as if they are counter to the movement. The OWS movement in general is about wanting the persons, property, money, or life of other people without actually having to earn it, and taking it from those people if the OWS members cannot have such themselves. It is an entire MOVEMENT based on taking what is not yours from others just because they have it and you want it. So it is an entire movement based on theft (with the justification for assault, rape, and murder under certain circumstances). Now they are gathering inside private businesses to attempt to disrupt the businesses and the business customers. It was nice to see them being treated in accordance with the law, which all-too-rarely happens with OWS.

Considering this huge double-standard in treatment of protesting, I’d love to see one thing in a news report.

Compare OWS videos like this with a hidden camera of 1 person doing the following in a Planned Parenthood clinic:

1. Sitting silently in the lobby/waiting area.
2. Handing each woman entering a brochure detailing the organizations (and there are such organizations, though still fewer than needed) that will help a girl/woman with carrying a child to term, including handling the medical costs of pregnancy and childbirth, and that will then assist that woman in putting the child up for adoption.

That is it. Never say anything. Hide in a corner when nobody is around. I guarantee a few things would happen.

1. The media that didn’t have the video (and I suggest releasing comparative videos about a week into coverage) would present this action as worse that it was.
2. The person with the brochures would be lucky to get 2 distributed before being forced to leave, possibly with police escort and all that fun booking stuff.
3. If the police were involved and an arrest happened, bail would not happen for at least 24 hours with 48-72 being more likely.

Why do I guarantee those three things? Because people doing little more than that on the sidewalks OUTSIDE such places have been arrested. (By ‘little more’, I mean that rather than being silent while handing out such brochures, they were encouraging people to consider choosing life and noting that they could be helped with any problems that might raise.)

Now don’t get me wrong. Abortion is NOT my pet issue. I believe personally that it is the wrongful taking of a life and should thus be illegal. I also believe that such is an issue that states should decide for and by themselves, not an appointed (not elected) court, listening to perjury and fraudulent claims, making an often misrepresented, misreported, and misinterpreted decision by judicial fiat.

It is just the difference in behavior and treatment of the Pro-Life protesters verses the OWS protesters is one of the best for demonstrating the double-standard being applied.

Of the OWSters to Flash Mobsters.
I mean, why be dirty all the time?

I’d be interested to see a cluster graph of “lost inventory” of stores where they gathered compared to where they were not.

Wal-Mart sucks. The company is an example of how irresponsible capitalists invite unionization and public-sector regulation and ruin it for those of us who ARE responsible.

Not all capitalists are irresponsible, but when they let their greed get away from them, they sow the seeds for their own demise, and the people who run Wal-Mart–the Walton family, which collectively is worth about $100 billion–are irresponsible capitalists.

They don’t provide affordable healthcare benefits, or ANY healthcare benefits, for a large block of their two million employees. They DO–as the young man in the video was chanting–pay below-poverty-level wages. They offer ONE paid holiday. They import the bulk of the goods they sell; they’re the best thing that ever happened to China. Their work force is highly regulated by a “tattle-for-promotion” atmosphere.

Not everything about Wal-Mart is bad. The company has its own fleet of trucks, and its drivers are among the best-compensated in the trucking industry.

As well, the company in general is well-run: very organized.

But I detest much about the company. It’s extremely difficult to do business with Wal-Mart: ask any regional sales rep. It dramatically under-compensates the bulk of its employees and imposes almost Draconian control over them. Wal-Marts have put thousands and thousands of local retail “mom-and-pop” businesses and made-in-America manufacturers out of work.

Perhaps worst of all, as we’ve seen from “the news” over the past few days, and from hundreds of pictures of Wal-Mart shoppers circulated in email, Wal-Mart stores seem to be clearinghouses for some of the most tasteless human behavior, on a daily basis, I’ve ever seen.

I work for a company that does business with Wal-Mart. I regularly visit the company’s distribution centers and see, on a first-hand basis, how the company does business and treats its employees. It is NOT cool.

The bottom line is that personal responsibility is a two-sided coin. Yes, the workers of the world must be responsible for themselves. But the managers and industrialists (a la Ayn Rand’s “Atlas Shrugged”) must also be responsible for the welfare of their workers IF THE STUPID MORONS DON’T WANT THE PUBLIC SECTOR AND UNIONS STEPPING IN AND TAKING CONTROL.

You treat your employees right, and you don’t have to worry about unions and public sector regulations. This is common sense.

The trouble is, too many upper-echelon managers don’t get it. They’ve been taking advantage of the job shortage and putting the screws to their employees–their fellow Americans–and their country: cutting pay, increasing workloads (I’m making less than I did 10 years ago and doing more work, and so are my brothers and sisters, all of whom have college degrees), shipping jobs overseas, and all of this against the backdrop of upper-management bonuses, pay raises, “golf Fridays” and Caribbean/Colorado “cruise conventions.” This is stupid. I have friends and relatives who are hard-core, dyed-in-the-wool, anti-union, anti-government conservatives who are getting really fed up with their employers.

This is how the political left gets its power: when capitalists behave irresponsibly. If they’re truly Americans, and not just greedy pigs taking advantage of the freedoms this country affords, then they’ll realize that those freedoms come with responsibility; as people in leadership positions, they’ll realize that they have to take care of America and their fellow Americans. That’s how it works. The free market system must serve all those who work for it, not just the few.

If they don’t realize this, well . . .. That’s how we get poisonous presidents like Obama.

Wal-Mart sucks. Refuse to shop in its stores until the greedy, irresponsible Walton family lets loose of some of its excessive wealth (which is mostly, I’m sure, in the form of stocks): spreads it around a little. That, more than anything, will shut up dorks like Obama: if the private sector takes care of its own.

looked relatively clean…