Collin Rosenmarkle's Dad Couldn't be Reached for Comment

Collin Rosenmarkle of Burke, Va. , burns a $20 bill as protestors,
who are calling for an end to the Federal Reserve and are part of
the Occupy D.C. movement, demonstrate in front of the Federal
Reserve, in Washington, Sunday, Oct. 9, 2011.

Can't be for sure, but if he'd earned the twenty himself, ("you want fries with that?") I doubt he'd be so quick to burn it.

Lumberkid Climbed the Mountain

Image for illustration purposes only. Lumberkid's mountain may just possibly been
less steep; though I wouldn't be surprised if the summit was protected by
mountain goats with laser cannons and chainsaws. And bears. I'll bet there were bears.

Motivations

Just expanding on my theory of why people go to demonstrations. Especially demonstrations with no clear agenda. "Hey guys? This reporter wants to know if we've got a list of demands. Do we have a list of demands?"

Great Comment

The story is about dishonesty in the Occupy DC event. No surprise that an organizer paid a dozen or so Hispanics to march holding signs that they couldn't read. (probably it was the signs that got them busted)

But better than the story was the first comment by someone by the name of dallasyankee:

There go the Hispanics again, taking jobs americans wont do

Is this a great country or what?

I'll Just Post the Video

Because if you type the words out, I'm pretty sure the secret assassination panel will put add your name to the list.



"Let's all da-da da-da da-da-da" Yeah.

h/t: the Cube

Na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na

Batman!

Sorry I've not exactly been posting my fool head off. I've been wrapped up in this new protest. I call it Occupy Service Van, but it has lately been escalating to Occupy Customer's Location.

Did you see the CBS video of the protesters who didn't know why they were there? I know why they're there, and that's why I haven't yet started sending tazer batteries to the NYPD: They're mainly there to meet and impress members of the opposite sex. That's why the guys are there anyway. And that has always been the common denominator of civil disobedience. Trust me, I was young and foolish once as well.

Tax Them More?

Does he know that the US has one of the highest corporate tax rates in the world? And that there's a good case to be made for lowering corporate taxes, and eliminating the taxes on corporate profit made overseas? High taxes there just drive corporations to invest overseas profits overseas.

And I'm not sure of the break-down but a large chunk of corporate ownership belongs to the little guy; me, you, and our pension plans. Ah well, probably doesn't matter to this guy. All he knows is that the other guy's slice of pie looks bigger than his.

It's just silly, a lot of it. And it's foolish of the Democrats to identify with these guys. We've got 13 months until the election; who can keep their anger level this high for 13 months? Well, I did once but the phone company was involved.

And even if a few of them are still raging after a year, isn't there a pretty good chance that the rest of us will be fed up by then?

photo via

Keeping the Aisles Clear

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RIP Steve Jobs

This was my first computer, the Classic model, something like 3 years after this was made. My brother introduced me to the Mac, and I still have it, and yes, it still runs.


It's got an external 80 MB (yes Megabyte) hard drive and no color. The internal HD is a 20 MB monster. I've kept it so as to be able to access my old invoices to the government. (and starting it up just now, it still had the correct date, though the time was a few hours off)

I expect Steve Jobs will be remembered as a Edison or Ford. Just an astounding output of work.

And even of you're a Windows person; you can thank Jobs for your graphical user interface and "windows". When the Mac came out with these features, Microsoft had to follow suit or be left behind. Thanks to Steve Jobs, Apple became insanely great, twice.

RIP Steve Jobs.

Whatever Happened to Code Pink?

Activists take part in a demonstration to protest

against corporate greed near the Capitol Building
in Washington, DC, on October 5, 2011.

I saw these familiar t-shirts and thought the Pinkists were at it again. Remember the bloody hands they shoved in Condi Rice's face? Well it stands to reason, with the same wars happening, plus another one as well, that they would be out protesting eventually. But as the caption points out, it's "war? eh, not so much" these days. Now it's corporate greed. The signs still mention war but they're probably left over from back in the days when Bushitler roamed the White House. (Obhitler just doesn't ring the same)

So now, depending on who you ask, it's: corporate greed, student loans, wall street, bankers, and somehow union interests. War, that's just sooo 2008.

photo and caption via Daylife