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Mayor Bloomberg schedules Saturday night for #OWS crackdown.

Last week, Bloomberg implied it was only a matter of time before the city tried to put an end to the protests, but offered no hints on when that would be.

“The one thing I can tell you for sure,” he said, “is if anybody in the city breaks the law we will arrest them and turn them over the district attorneys.”

He said people charged the police a few nights ago, adding, “that is just not something we’re going to tolerate, period.”

You may have missed said police-charging – it happened the same night as Sarah Palin announcing that she wasn’t running for President, and Steve Jobs passing away – but the Occupy Wall Street people certainly didn’t, and they were not really what you’d call happy about the fact that the cops un-apologetically used pepper spray and police batons on the would-be Jacobins. Or that the rest of the world more or less shrugged at the news, once the meda got around to reporting it. Or that the entire thing is largely – and accurately – seen as a Democratic party establishment stalking horse. Continue reading Mayor Bloomberg schedules Saturday night for #OWS crackdown.

Are these the first #occupywallstreet -inspired death threats?

Maybe:

Several influential New York state lawmakers have received threatening mails saying it is “time to kill the wealthy” if they don’t renew the state’s tax surcharge on millionaires, according to reports.

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The email references terminology that has been used in the “Occupy Wall Street” movement — that the1 percent, the super rich, are exploiting the remaining 99 percent of Americans. The angry message demanded that Albany politicians “stop shoveling wealth from the lower 99 percent into the top 1 percent” and “set aside your ‘no new taxes on anybody’ pledge.”

Continue reading Are these the first #occupywallstreet -inspired death threats?

#rsrh I imagine the frustration of the #occupywallstreet people…

…must be at sky-high levels right now: here they are in the aftermath of some potentially-useful direct action confrontations* (that’s Commie-speak for “the hippies tried to rush the barricades and got smacked back”) with NYC cops, and nobody’s paying attention because of Steve Jobs. And if they weren’t focusing on that, they’d be focusing on Sarah Palin confirming that she isn’t running for President (which everybody knew already, frankly). Coming in second to either story would be bad enough: dropping down to third must be a humiliation for the ages.

Oh, well, I should go make breakfast.

Moe Lane

*I notice with some amusement that the protests turned violent as soon as the union goons showed up. Well, they call groups like SEIU “The Purple People Beaters” for a reason.

#rsrh Question for #occupywallstreet …

…how do you guys tell the difference between your protesters, and vomiting homeless people?

This is not a trick question. You have to understand: from the point of view of normal people the usual trick of checking hygiene, smell, facial hair, fashion sense, and/or sign messages simply doesn’t work. One wonders how your faction is handling that, assuming of course that your faction even really cares…

Headline of the Day, I Spoke Too Soon Edition. #occupywallstreet

Damn, but this is funny – and you only need the headline, really.

Occupy Wall Street protest, swelled by Radiohead hoax, marches on NYPD HQ, but gets lost

Says it all, doesn’t it? Whoever wrote the headline over at the NY Daily News earned his or her corn for that one.

Moe Lane

PS: But, hey, far be it from me to not be helpful; if any of those protesters wanted to hear Radiohead, well, click the link for assistance. Because I’m a giver.

#rsrh “End the War! Tax the Rich! …”

“…Go on a march to protest at NYPD HQ, which is in charge of neither the military nor the IRS!”

(Via @allahpundit) I have to admit, there’s something fascinating about watching the Occupy Wall Street people flail about and try to imitate their betters in the Tea Party movement. It’s a slightly embarrassing, and not very complimentary, fascination; I imagine that it’s much like the feeling that people (hopefully) would have from watching those infamous videos where homeless people are liquored up and then egged on into fighting each other. I don’t want to encourage these doofuses (doofi?) to keep it up until the weather changes and they all have to go back to living in their parents’ basements… but I just can’t look away from the continuing train wreck.

Ach, well, it’s not like they were contributing to society anyway.