Could be like Forrest says to his Jennie: peas in a pod.
Occupy Atl. teams with hip-hop festival, will not leave park
Occupy Atlanta’ plans to partner with a hip-hop festival scheduled to take place in the downtown Atlanta park the group has claimed for the past week. The festival on Oct. 22 at Woodruff Park takes place five days after the deadline issued by Mayor Kasim Reed for the demonstrators to remain in the park legally, reports the Associated Press.
A fellow named “Killer Mike” has been the front man for the get-it-together efforts, having apparently, been a victim of some corporate greed himself.
…Hip-hop artist Killer Mike joined the protesters on Thursday, saying he identified with a lot of their causes.
“I think that we’re living in a crucial time now where so much money is invested with so few people that there’s not enough opportunity for young people to take full advantage of the American dream,” said the rapper, also known as Mike Bigga. “I’m here on behalf of hip-hop because 20 years ago we were speaking on behalf of the people. Somewhere along the line we got co-opted by corporations and I believe that any rapper that’s worth his weight should be out here with the people.”
See? Every single day of the Occupy crap IS a revelation! Who KNEW Tupac and Biggie and Puffy Daddy ~ or whatever he’s calling himself these days ~ all those guys NEVER wanted those FAT RECORDING CONTRACTS, PACKED CONCERT STADIUMS or to start their OWN RECORDING LABELS read: become CORPORATE TITANS THEMSELVES?!?!?!?!?!?
The park is a good place to start the cleansing process. And I’m sure there won’t be a SOUL in the place who’s packing anything other than LUNCH when the Occupiers and the HipHoppers get together.
Because I want to remember the good times. When I could playfully pump my palms in the air and shout “peenabuddahjelly time” without taking out a payday loan and hating everything a corncob stands for anymore.
Peanut shortage sending peanut butter prices up
Consumers should be prepared to shell out a bit more for peanut butter soon.
Another hot, dry summer in key producing states and competition from more profitable crops like cotton have significantly shrunk the U.S. peanut crop this year. The tight supply means consumers will soon pay more for yet another grocery staple.
…The J.M. Smucker Co., which makes Jif peanut butter, plans to raise its wholesale prices 30 percent in November. Kraft Foods Co., which launched its Planters peanut butter in June, is raising prices 40 percent on Oct. 31. A spokesperson for ConAgra Foods Inc., which makes Peter Pan peanut butter, was not immediately available to comment but multiple media outlets report that the company plans to raise its prices as well.
…Like many farmers, Dawson found at the start of the planting season that he could make more money growing corn and cotton than peanuts. As a result, he and other U.S. growers cut back on planting peanuts.
A miserable drought and scorching temperatures followed in key peanut-producing states like Georgia and Texas. For some farmers this was the second hot summer in a row.
…But according to USDA estimates this week, farmers who had runner peanuts — the most common kind and the type used for peanut butter — could sell their crop for nearly $1,200 a ton, up from nearly $450 a ton last year.
You better Skippy on down and grab you some jars in a Jif. They’re gonna be like gold. Already at the commissary this afternoon, an elderly couple had the peenybutter blocked completely while they argued over whether Gramps had REALLY heard the price was going up or not. I snuck in behind her as she gestured and snagged four jars of Peter Pan while those arms were flappin’ at him. Got out unscathed, but I can’t speak for any of the souls in the line that was forming behind me.
They were still there when we got through in the aisle.
Comes to us from the Right and Honorable Police Commissioner Augustine Chihuri
“Let me warn all social miscreants who are soiling the country’s social fabric, cultural norms and values by perpetrating abominable and weird activities of women sexually molesting men, sometimes at gunpoint, to stop the practices forthwith,” he warned.
I have some bad news for the 99 percenters down at Occupy Boston.
Comrades, I fear you have been infiltrated by the one percent, the super rich.
I have been studying the Boston police reports, and most of these hippies, er revolutionaries, are from the ’burbs. Not the city, but the bosky dells, especially Cambridge.
…Here’s another lad, age 20, white non-Hispanic naturally, and he lists his address as 208 Lowell Mail Center, Cambridge. That’s a funny street address, no?
I Googled it and it came back to the Lowell House, on the campus of Harvard University. It’s described on the Crimson Web site as a “lovely neo-Georgean building” with a tower that “contains a set of Russian Bells that come from the St. Danilov Monastery in Moscow.”
Did I mention that “each suite has a ‘private’ bathroom.” Unlike the Nashua Street Jail.
“Cantabrigians”, he calls them. And they all seem uniformly rather large, judging by the police descriptions. Large and lily white.
Hmmm. People’s movement.
Anyways, the most incisive critique I’ve yet seen of Occupy anything was left by astute social observer HonestEd in the comments:
Remember that they were inspired by the Arab Spring, not the Irish Spring.
BWAhahaha!
UPDATE: This example of a Portland 99%er could use a bar of Irish Spring in his filthy mouth.
**NSFW Language** In fact, the whole thing’s a general assault on intelligence.
The “Occupy Wall Street” protests have been a thorn in the side of a number of lower-Manhattan businesses. But the U.S. congressman who represents the district where protestors have gathered has a blunt message for the area’s business owners: deal with it.
“All of us have to live with expressions of democratic demonstrations or whatever,” Rep. Jerry Nadler (D-N.Y.) told the Washington Times’s Kerry Picket when asked about complaints from the area’s residents and business proprietors. “I think businesses are being damaged a hell of a lot more by our stupid economic policies” than by the protests, Nadler said.
This entrepreneur, who hasn’t been able to set up his food vendor cart in two weeks, is much better at articulating demands than the vast majority of OWSers I’ve seen interviewed.
“I want them to go.”
I think they should get him to run against ginormous Jerry next year.
Fast and Furious: The Holder Subpoena Goes Out And it’s a BIG one.
House Oversight Committee Chairman Darrell Issa (R-CA) has issued his much-anticipated subpoena to Attorney General Eric Holder regarding Operation Fast and Furious, the “gun walking” program that sent American guns across the border into the eager hands of Mexican drug cartels. Some thought the subpoena would go out yesterday, but apparently it took Issa a while to finish writing it. It’s the double-meat foot-long subpoena.
“Top Justice Department officials, including Attorney General Holder, know more about Operation Fast and Furious than they have publicly acknowledged,” Issa stated. “The documents this subpoena demands will provide answers to questions that Justice officials have tried to avoid since this investigation began eight months ago. It’s time we know the whole truth.”
To that end, Holder is required to produce virtually every communication anyone associated with the Justice Department or ATF ever sent to anyone regarding Operation Fast and Furious, or “any Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Force firearms trafficking case based in Phoenix, Arizona.” The subpoena specifically names no less than 16 DOJ officials, including Holder, his deputy James Cole, Assistant Attorneys General Lanny Breuer and Ronald Weich, and Deputy Assistant Attorney General Kenneth Blanco, among other names familiar to students of the Fast and Furious scandal.
…It will be interesting to watch the Attorney General respond to this massive request for information. Office supply stores in the D.C. area should brace themselves for a run on black markers.
The sound of a bus rumbling to life beneath the White House may well be heard, and Eric Holder’s family should prepare for the possibility that he’ll be spending a lot more time with them.
…with his lame (Made With Pride In Canada) Bus Tour he’d contact these guys
DETROIT – Detroit police have impounded a party bus they say operated illegally as a strip club for reveling football fans at a popular tailgating spot.
The Detroit News and WDIV-TV report that the “Booty Lounge” bus was parked Monday near Ford Field, where the Lions played the Chicago Bears. Police say it was cited for not having a state safety inspection and because the driver didn’t have a commercial license.
FALLS CHURCH, Va. – It seemed like a great idea — build a treehouse on his property for two growing boys. But for one local man, it’s turning into a big, expensive lesson in government red tape.
The euro zone could launch its European Financial Stability Facility safety net for struggling members even if Slovakia fails to ratify a beefed-up EFSF, Austrian Foreign Minister Michael Spindelegger said in a radio interview on Wednesday.
But he said he assumed Slovakia would still approve the fund despite domestic political wrangling that brought down the government on Tuesday.
“If Slovakia does not approve then we have to reevaluate. That means we either we install the safety net nevertheless — we have to see if that is possible legally. I personally would favor this.”
Remember the scene in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade…
…ListenLogic is detecting, he says, a change in the tone of discourse about the so-called 1 percent richest Americans.
There still are postings that talk about taxing the 1 percent more severely or even throwing them in jail. “But then,” says Schiavone, “there’s an increase in ‘let’s kill’ them. We see ‘eat the rich,’ ‘kill the wealthy.’ There are images circulating of senior executives being decapitated, images of blood. Artists are releasing images of banks on fire.”
Such extremism, he hastens to point out, is not representative of the objectives of most Occupiers. “Is that the movement? Absolutely not. They have been trying to be peaceful and respectful.” But the movement harbors within it, he says, persons “a lot more radical.”
Of the two signs at the Occupy Pensacola “organizing” meeting last Saturday, one was a delightful “Eat the Rich”. So that’s half the sentiment, and they had one fellow out of a generously estimated crowd of 150 who was so vociferous and strident in his opinions, the gathered assemblage decided he needed a “group hug”.
Yeah.
Thank YOU, Mr. President.
Of course, he’ll be nowhere to be found when the first person dies at the hand of an Occupier. Our lone wolf’ll be drafting his “blame the previous administration” screed.
Senate Republicans poised to block Obama jobs plan
October 11, 2011 2:04 AM ET
By ANDREW TAYLOR
WASHINGTON (AP) – President Barack Obama’s jobs bill, facing a critical test in the Senate, appears likely to fail because Republicans oppose its spending components and its tax surcharge on millionaires.
If every Democrat in the Senate supports Obama – there are 53 of them in their caucus — then the bill passes.
If his own Party doesn’t support him, well, it’s because of those Republican h8trs, obviously.
…Meanwhile, the protesters are starting to notice folks taking advantage of the demonstration by grabbing some of the free food and clothes that have been made available in Zuccotti Park.
“The tourists take all the food, and the hipsters take all the clothes,” said one demonstrator.
People taking YOUR stuff? Stuff meant for YOU?!! YOUR FREE stuff? They’re taking it? They expect to just…take YOUR stuff??!
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Move right along folks and, hey! Go protest Wall Street!
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi’s husband, a real estate developer and investment banker, stands to make millions of dollars in a previously undisclosed residential real estate project in California as a partner with the father of a woman Mrs. Pelosi helped become ambassador to Hungary, records show.
Radical labor organizer Stephen Lerner of SEIU intends to terrorize the families of bank executives in their homes as part of the Occupy Wall Street protests.
SEIU, a longtime ally of ACORN, has done it before, as ably documented by Big Government’s Liberty Chick.
The home invasions are scheduled to begin Tuesday.
It sure didn’t help that World News Tonight felt they had to feed some Occupier flame tonight:
I think Diane Sawyer forgets she’s one of those $1.1 million average types. The DNC has tied themselves in to this now as well.
This turns into people being assaulted and terrorized by these chanting cretins in their own homes, and I think you’ll see Middle America explode like the tiger Tojo giant Yamamoto was worried about.
Why uptown? Because that’s where the rich folks live!
Organizers are planning a march on Tuesday that will visit the homes of JP Morgan Chase (JPM, Fortune 500) CEO Jamie Dimon, billionaire David Koch, hedge fund honcho John Paulson, Howard Milstein, and News Corp (NWSA, Fortune 500) CEO Rupert Murdoch.
The millionaires and billionaires are being targeted for what event organizers called a “willingness to hoard wealth at the expense of the 99%.”
Extrapolating that, some goober with a personal grudge in Witchita decides to take his union thugs to the local Wells Fargo branch president’s relatively modest suburban home…
ST MARYS, Ga. (WLS) – Officials in southeast Georgia are considering a money-saving program that would put inmates in fire stations.
…The inmates would have no guard, but would be monitored by a surveillance system and by the traditional firefighters, who would undergo training to guard the inmates.
Only the government could come up with such an insane idea.
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For her belated birthday dinner Daughter wanted just a simple meal of NY Strips and steamed broccoli
I also made some buttermilk/pecorino/bacon biscuits to provide the starch element, and they turned out pretty yum too.
We decided to crack open one of Daughter’s Birth Year bottles, to see how they were holding up. While 1993 was a fantastic year for daughters it wasn’t such a brilliant year for wine. Rather poopy, in fact. It also wasn’t a vintage port year. After some looking about it seemed to me my best bet for her was Châteauneuf du Pape and there’s no better producer there than Château de Beaucastel
But how would an 18 year old wine from a sketchy vintage that has been kept in shall we say less than ideal circumstances hold up?
I’m happy to say not so bad. When first poured it was a little flat and tasteless, and as you can see the color is not the deep inky red that Châteauneufs usually are. After a few minutes in the glass it opened up quite a lot and the soft red fruit and cherry came back. Sadly, the tannins are long gone and I’m afraid by her 21st it will be more brick-like in color but it was all in all a very pleasant celebration and a special way to do it.
I just got done with the McDonald’s corporate site “Contact Us:Marketing/Advertising” section.
Michelle WIE?!?!?! Are you CRAZY?!?!?! There are so many other LPGA young ladies (Christy Kerr? Morgan Pressel? Brittany Lincicome? 16 yr old CHAMPION Lexi THOMPSON, HELLO?!?!?) who have EARNED our respect, played the events and fought their way into titles! Vice someone who NEVER did her time “in the trenches”, was touted as a “phenom”, but NEVER produced and CHOKES under pressure. You all have made some questionable calls marketing-wise in the past few years, but this is the first one I can really, really sink my teeth into and KNOW that you are completely OUT TO LUNCH.
Michelle Wie is the ultimate symbol of everything stage-door-Daddy, superficial, manufactured hype and fake in advertising and YOUR targeted audience knows it.
You would THINK YOU would.
Those poor girls with LPGA championships under their belts ~ INCLUDING a SIXTEEN YEAR OLD, while that WORTHLESS, choker of a piece of “I felt really good about my game today” fluff still, to this day, grabs what little endorsement money there is to go around for the women…dear GOD, that has to be galling.
Now let’s repeat the non-conformists’ oath: I promise to be different! (audience repeats) I promise to be unique! (audience repeats) I promise not to repeat things other people say! (audience repeats, laughs) Good!
Washington’s National Air and Space Museum was closed Saturday afternoon after sign-wielding demonstrators tried to storm the building on the National Mall.
At least one person was pepper sprayed when the crowd pinned a guard against a wall and another guard came to his rescue, Smithsonian spokesperson Linda St. Thomas told NBC station WRC.
…Protesters included people from the October 2011 Stop the Machine group and Occupy D.C., an offshoot of the larger Occupy Wall Street movement in New York.
Really, “Occupiers”?!?!?! Tearing up the priceless treasures of the country, which belong to ALL Americans?
For what? FOR WHAT?
This has NOTHING to do with YOUR rights and EVERYTHING to do with YOUR ABUSE of the rights of others.
And when your fellow citizens, whatever city you are in, look at you with suspicion and disgust, you can point to this, as well as your poopy little poster boy (*content warning*) in New York leaving his present on the police car, for where the patience with your indulgent little temper tantrum went up in a puff. You’ve neither the self control nor the lack of self centeredness to be a member of society who could participate in a gathering that required either.
And people in this country have worked too hard and too long to watch dancing, tweeting minions destroy what little they have left, their dignity included.
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