Category: politics

economics

MF Global Obama

John Corzine was the US Government, in the same sense, and to the same extent, as the Occupy Wall Street protestors are the US government.  He stole his depositors money, and pissed it away, not on wine, women and song, nor on gambling on stocks nor horses, nor at the casino, nor on purchasing little boys for sexual purposes, but gambling on Greece. You know how the occupiers demand virtue jobs at government expense?  Jon Corzine was betting on the …

politics

Pepper spray theater

Observe that when the video begins, all the students obviously know that the designated group of pepper sprayees is going to be pepper sprayed, and everyone has taken their positions to spray, to be sprayed, or, for the great majority, to watch the spraying in the confident knowledge that only the designated evil bad guys will be spraying, and only the designated innocent victims at the designated spray point will be sprayed. In the first five seconds of the video, …

politics

Real eviction for fake Occupy Denver

You can tell that when Occupy Denver was finally evicted, it was a real eviction (not a pretend eviction to be immediately followed by them being allowed back in as happened with Occupy Oakland) because this time, no Kent State Moment, no highly dramatic confrontation footage, no gigantic hordes of police dressed in maximum menace gear. Seems that when you actually evict the Occupiers, you don’t need nearly as many police as when you pretend to evict them.   Two hundred …