Don Surber remarks that the Occupy folks are the real 1 percenters.  They don’t work and have  trashed and stunk up their environment wherever they  show up.  They have feeling of entitlment, but don’t really want to do anything but lay around and maybe beat a few drums.  I mentioned before that they are upset about some of the same things that triggered the beginings of the TEA party that they look down on with so much disdain. The Occupiers are doing more alienating than winning over.  They are destroying parks and behaving badly, and what few solutions they have to offer are outright goofy. As Don points out:

Now let us get a few things straight about who these loony goons are. For the most part they are spoiled rotten brats who took out huge loans to pay for four years of self-indulgence at some over-rated liberal arts college. Somehow, they were able to spend a few months in the fall camping out and protesting against the working class while not working themselves.

They are in that upper 1% who do not have to work.

Now it appears that they are attacking dock workers and commuter, by blocking the ports on the West Coast and blocking traffic in Houston. Once again we observers are wondering “What’s the point?”.  It apears the people they really are going after and trying to hurt is the commuter, truck drivers, and port workers. The typical blue collar worker the left and the unions claim are trying to protect.

The protest in Houston was an attempt to snarl traffic and cause more pollution and working class people losing lost wages.  These idiots aren’t making friends or support for their cause.  The occupiers in Oakland Ca, are even bolder, they blocked all traffic coming and going into the port.  Causing people to miss their shifts and lose their pay.  I doubt if any of the Wall Street moguls noticed or even cared.

The companies that operate the 26 berths at the nation’s fifth-busiest container port told longshore workers not to report for the 7 p.m. evening shift – effectively halting work for the next eight hours and preventing 100 to 200 employees from earning the pay they would have received on a typical shift.

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“We are ecstatic with the results,” said Milo Avery, 22, of Oakland. “This day is the culmination of a lot of hard work. It’s a historic and momentous step in this movement.”

These aren’t the same longshore workers of years gone by, The Teamsters and longshore workers would have busted some heads, and still have made it to work on time.  I guess we are just more civilized these days. All the same it just seem very prudent for a bunch of near do wells to take on longshoremen in the streets.

As we struggle in a Obaman economy kept repressed buy policies which are intended to give government more control over businesses and peoples lives.  The White House has agreed in principle to  continue the payroll tax reduction, to further sweeten the pot Congress, is considering paving the way for the Keystone XL pipeline.  The pipeline would create jobs in construction provide ethical oil,  create stronger trading with one of our true allies. President Obama is  resistant to this, of course, and would rather see us revert to the greener world of the stone age.  He has threatened a veto if provisions are attached to clear the way for the Keystone pipeline provisions.

Obama warned that he would veto an extension of the payroll-tax cut, his top legislative priority, if House Republicans link it to a measure that would force the administration to greenlight the pipeline project.

“Any effort to try to tie Keystone to the payroll-tax cut, I will reject,” Obama told reporters Wednesday after meeting at the White House with Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper.

It’s as if he is intentionally trying to keep the economy down.

I must admit I haven’t watched all the hullaballoo on the 10th year aniversery of 911.  Burned into mind is this demonstration from Palastine.

Its just a matter of principle. When camera’s were banned and confiscated at at Congressman  Chabot’s Town Hall meeting, Leaders of the the Tea Party stepped up and spoke against the action, even though it was a couple of liberals that were aggrieved.

The controversy has yielded a rare moment of agreement between progressives and Tea Party activists. Odom sharply criticized Chabot in an email to supporters on Thursday, writing, “Just when you think you’ve seen it all… a story breaks about a Republican Congressman (or his staff) instructing police to confiscate cameras from constituents in the audience of a townhall event! Yep, you read that right, at a public townhall event, in a public venue (high school gym), hosted by a public official and coordinated by public staffers, personal/private cameras and cell phones are now being forcefully removed to keep video footage from hitting YouTube.”

He then directed readers to his blog post on the matter, in which he states, “This is a clear violation of rights and Congressman Chabot should be ashamed of himself. His staff should be rebuked, an apology should be given, and the officer should be punished.”

Would leftist be as as quick to defend aggrieved Tea Party folk?

Brarak Obama Leads his Nation

President Obama has had a rough week.  The economic recovery has taken a nose dive with stock market crashes, Standard and Poors downgraded our Credit rating for the first time in history.  The 11th District court declared ObomaCare unconstitutional.  And a judge threw out an Obaman rules intended to slow down  Oil and grass drilling.

Polls show his approval ratings are down and all the while candidates are drawing cheers throughout the country while Republicans are having a hayday focusing on how they would do things different.

President Obama went and played golf.  Cant really blame him. His troubles are beginning to weigh heavily on him. As he explained when He compared himself to Martin Luther King.

And now that King has his own memorial on the Mall I think that we forget when he was alive there was nobody who was more vilified, nobody who was more controversial, nobody who was more despairing at times.  There was a decade that followed the great successes of Birmingham and Selma in which he was just struggling, fighting the good fight, and scorned, and many folks angry.  But what he understood, what kept him going, was that the arc of moral universe is long but it bends towards justice.  But it doesn’t bend on its own.  It bends because all of us are putting our hand on the arc and we are bending it in that direction.  And it takes time.  And it’s hard work.  And there are frustrations.

So President Obama took some time off to do something he doesn’t quite stink at.