…ask the guy in Samantha Bee’s interview for a conceptual model of that. “All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others (Orwell).

…and donate 25 copies of Animal Farm to any of the Occupied locations. Maybe some lights will go on in currently dark minds.

Could have spent feeding the poor. Sad, really. LOL.

First it was Atlas Shrugged coming to reality; now it is Animal Farm. The world gets crazier by the day.

My taxpayer money pays their salaries. At least 700 billion of it.

Tell our government to stop socializing risk

Oh, I learned all about their views of “personal” vs. “private” property when I walked by once and observed one of them approach another who was smoking a cigarette and ask latter for a cigarette. The reply was a slight gesture to the burning cigarette the cold yet impressively concise “My last one.”

The requester whined “Awww. Really??” indicating (I think) not disappointment with his supposed bad luck, but rather disbelief that the reply was truthful, and frustration that he wouldn’t be able to smoke (and I’m guessing not also disappointment at the selfishness of his fellow protester, because my guess is that he didn’t find it so surprising, given that it takes one phony egalitarian to know one).

I will give the requester credit for one thing: a surprising sense of probability. Assuming 20 cigarettes per pack, and therefore only a 5% chance that the cigarette being smoked was actually the last one (and even lower chance given the possibility that the smoker had more than one pack), the requester had enough sense to be skeptical of the reply he got. So credit to him for that exhibition of minor intelligence.

But the moral of the story is that, to most people but particularly to the OWS crowd, sharing is a much more attractive idea when it’s the other guy’s stuff.

It usually stops at one’s own wallet.

NT

No wonder the Administration supports them. And it was interesting to see a certain Obama appointee being less than truthful in some statements this week. Might just lead to seeing him being frogmarched from office … http://bit.ly/qVdDUt

For $700 bucks it better come with a toilet.

“Back in the thirties we were told we must collectivize the nation because the people were so poor. Now we are told we must collectivize the nation because the people are so rich.” – William F. Buckley, Jr.

Well you occupiers of a Marxist bent, what will it be?

“Che Guevara is still at room temperature”-anonymous

Can they help it if some have bigger needs than others.

No love lost for OWS, but the post article that you link to says it’s a $700- a night hotel, but doesn’t say that is the price they spent on a room. The going prices are about mid $200- a night for the W Downtown. Check out spg.com. Did they get a suite that was $700-?

If your bunking with a roomie and take the prices on spg.com it comes to about $125 a night + tax. Not going to get much cheaper in NYC. The post article quotes hypothetical prices for an expensive room or if they ordered glenlivet scotch etc, but not what they spent. Not a big story, but shows you how the media distorts for ratings. It’s like the $16- muffin story – pure nonsense.

I mean, its easy to just throw barbs. Thats what has happened with the Tea Party critiques – where does it get us?

Truth is, both tea party and #OWS folks have some valid points. Why not see what we have in common rather than succumb to the Us VS Them mentality that establishment politicians want so desperately?

Its so easy to think the enemy is the other – defined by who? By establishment politicians AND corporations. Not one or the other.

I think what Egypt is struggling with is instructive. The #OWS people are not our enemy.

Read this about the current uprising in Tahir Square:

“But while unity reappeared in the square, where Coptic Christians once again stood guard as their Muslim compatriots bowed to pray, the political class remained deeply polarized over what sort of civilian government might succeed the military.”

Certainly, if Christians can stand in defense of Muslims, we can support our brothers in our fight against political and corporate meglomania.

We need to take back our country. Take it back from the political elite, and the corporate elite.

One of the most enduring legends of the English-Speaking world is that of Robinhood, who, we are told, stole from the rich and gave to the poor.

The truth is a little different. In 1096 Pope Urban II called upon the Christian Rulers of Europe to lead armies to the Middle East to reconquer the Holy Land from the Muslim Invaders. Many kings, including William Rufus of England, realizing that their thrones would be in jeopardy if they were away for several years, hired mercenaries to go in their places. Robin Hood was one such mercenary. He and his men were no more or less merry than any mercs before or since.

While they were fighting in the Holy Land, King William Rufus died in a hunting accident to which his brother and successor, Henry I, was the only witness. When Robin Hood and his men returned to England, somewhere around 1102, King Henry denied any knowledge of his brother’s agreement and refused to pay them.

Robin Hood and his men then took the only option available to collect what was owed them: Banditry! They gave a little bit to the people so that they wouldn’t hand them over to the King’s agents. That didn’t take much, given that all wealth was owned by the King and the people lived on the edge of starvation. In the end, they kept most of what they stole form the King for themselves