This is hilarious, no joke.
There are more deals per day on Asian sports betting markets than on the New York Stock Exchange
Alexis de Tocqueville once described what he saw as a chief part of the peculiar genius of American society—something he called “self-interest properly understood.” The last two words were the key. Everyone possesses self-interest in a narrow sense: I want what’s good for me right now! Self-interest “properly understood” is different. It means appreciating that paying attention to everyone else’s self-interest—in other words, the common welfare—is in fact a precondition for one’s own ultimate well-being. Tocqueville was not suggesting that there was anything noble or idealistic about this outlook—in fact, he was suggesting the opposite. It was a mark of American pragmatism. Those canny Americans understood a basic fact: looking out for the other guy isn’t just good for the soul—it’s good for business.
The top 1 percent have the best houses, the best educations, the best doctors, and the best lifestyles, but there is one thing that money doesn’t seem to have bought: an understanding that their fate is bound up with how the other 99 percent live. Throughout history, this is something that the top 1 percent eventually do learn. Too late.
Frank Miller is a Right Wing Nut Job. He keeps going off about islamoterrorism and all this stuff in his rant. Dude, you need to get out more.
Frank Miller Calls Occupy Movement ‘Louts, Thieves and Rapists’
300 and Holy Terror creator Frank Miller expresses his thoughts about the Occupy movement on his blog.
Everybody’s been too damn polite about this nonsense:
The “Occupy” movement, whether displaying itself on Wall Street or in the streets of Oakland (which has, with unspeakable cowardice, embraced it) is anything but an exercise of our blessed First Amendment. “Occupy” is nothing but a pack of louts, thieves, and rapists, an unruly mob, fed by Woodstock-era nostalgia and putrid false righteousness. These clowns can do nothing but harm America.
“Occupy” is nothing short of a clumsy, poorly-expressed attempt at anarchy, to the extent that the “movement” – HAH! Some “movement”, except if the word “bowel” is attached - is anything more than an ugly fashion statement by a bunch of iPhone, iPad wielding spoiled brats who should stop getting in the way of working people and find jobs for themselves.
This is no popular uprising. This is garbage. And goodness knows they’re spewing their garbage – both politically and physically – every which way they can find.
Wake up, pond scum. America is at war against a ruthless enemy.
Maybe, between bouts of self-pity and all the other tasty tidbits of narcissism you’ve been served up in your sheltered, comfy little worlds, you’ve heard terms like al-Qaeda and Islamicism.
And this enemy of mine - not of yours, apparently - must be getting a dark chuckle, if not an outright horselaugh - out of your vain, childish, self-destructive spectacle.
In the name of decency, go home to your parents, you losers. Go back to your mommas’ basements and play with your Lords Of Warcraft.
Or better yet, enlist for the real thing. Maybe our military could whip some of you into shape.
They might not let you babies keep your iPhones, though. Try to soldier on.
Schmucks.
FM
Some are saying this may be what America will turn into. I don’t know…
but Greece is definitely in a state of civil upheaval bordering on war. Back home though, “It is remarkable how passive the American people are about unemployment,” says Edward Wolff, a labor economist at New York University.
Which is to say that in the good ol’ US of A the long-term unemployed aren’t angry at a system that destroyed their livelihood and their future - they’ve just sort of resigned themselves to suffer under the ‘well, that’s the way things go’ mentality.
To quote the nation, yet again:
The unemployed are persistently blamed for their own unemployment, which eases pressure on government to help them. If only they acquired enough education and skill, the argument goes—and it is endlessly repeated—they would be hired. Corporate executives, politicians and many prominent economists push this view, and the unemployed, encouraged to blame themselves, keep silent. Or as Richard Sennett, a New York University sociologist, puts it: “People don’t cooperate with each other. They’ve lost the desire to do so and the skill that cooperation requires, so when things fall apart, they react as if it were their individual failure and are passive about it.”
In closing …
“What we are really doing is asking Americans to tough it out for the next two or three years,” says Lawrence Mishel, president of the Economic Policy Institute, a labor-oriented think tank. “And that is going to leave a scar on many people long after the jobs come back.”
So we’ll see what those scars lead to.
http://www.thenation.com/article/164495/why-arent-jobless-flocking-zuccotti-park
➜ Wi 99: Declaration of Economic Emergency for the 99%
Everybody go RSVP for this event in Milwaukee.
wi99:
November 17: National Day of Action
Over 25 million Americans need work but Congress can’t pass a jobs bill.
As joblessness pushes more people into safety-net programs every day, Congress cuts funding.
Three years after big banks and Wall Street ruined our economy, the gap between the richest…
➜ Birth Acquired Herpes Is Sad
What could suck more?
Chase Bank in Oakland during today’s general strike, just a few hours ago.
These aren’t X-rays.
Max de Esteban took these cameras (and other gadgets) apart and photographed each layer. He then put them back together to create one image!
Gadgets Photographed Piece by Piece & Reconstructed
via Kateoplis
