Raje's Rants
Latest Thoughts, Insights, and General Brilliance (or not) from the World's Least Dangerous Men
Saturday, October 08, 2011
Monday, October 03, 2011
Off With Their Heads, Because We Don't Have Any Brains
Wait, Roseanne Barr is still alive?
Awfully generous that you get a chance to go to a re-education camp before the guillotine. Ed Morissey has the right take...
Imagine if anyone had said anything remotely like this at a Tea Party rally about socialism and socialists, even in jest. And this isn’t just some unknown provocateur — Barr is one of the most successful entertainers and producers in Hollywood, or at least she was at one point in time.I'll predict that the Wall Street protestors and their ilk will do a tremendous job recruiting... new members of the Tea Party.
...Just remember that when conservatives organize into grassroots movements, it’s almost always about protecting their own property and individual liberty. When leftists decide to start grassroots movements, like OccupyWallStreet or Barr’s example of leftist populism, it almost always involves seizure of property, threats of violence, and eventually re-education camps and the guillotine.
Labels: bad jokes, celebrity hippie update, hippies suck
Damn Hippies
Apparently, hippies are back and trying to stink up New York...
More than 700 protesters demonstrating against corporate greed, global warming and social inequality, among other grievances, were arrested Saturday after they swarmed the Brooklyn Bridge and shut down a lane of traffic for several hours in a tense confrontation with police.
The group Occupy Wall Street has been camped out in a plaza in Manhattan's Financial District for nearly two weeks staging various marches, and had orchestrated an impromptu trek to Brooklyn on Saturday afternoon. They walked in thick rows on the sidewalk up to the bridge, where some demonstrators spilled onto the roadway after being told to stay on the pedestrian pathway, police said.
The majority of those arrested were given citations for disorderly conduct and were released, police said.
Some protesters sat on the roadway, chanting "Let us go," while others chanted and yelled at police from the pedestrian walkaway above. Police used orange netting to stop the group from going farther down the bridge, which is under construction.Ah, yes, the struggles of Columbia University graduate students are what keep me up at night. Look, these people are serious...
...Erin Larkins, a Columbia University graduate student at who says she and her boyfriend have significant student loan debt, was among the thousands of protesters on the bridge. She said a friend persuaded her to join the march and she's glad she did.
"I don't think we're asking for much, just to wake up every morning not worrying whether we can pay the rent, or whether our next meal will be rice and beans again," Larkins wrote in an email to The Associated Press. "No one is expecting immediate change. I think everyone is just hopeful that people will wake up a bit and realize that the more we speak up, the more the people that do have the authority to make changes in this world listen."
Roundtable discussions, guys. That's our solution.
Every time I see these people, I'm reminded of this scene...
Oh, wait, it's more like this scene...
Someone get me a digger and a Slayer CD, stat!
Labels: hippies suck, it's not a south park parody