Steve Jobs and the Adullamites Who Occupy Wall StreetBy Clarice Feldman
The president and his attorney general, along with a number of other high-ranking administration officials, found themselves in deep trouble this week as their scandalous conduct in Solyndra and Fast and Furious received increased congressional scrutiny and some media attention. To distract voters from the real cause of their unhappiness, the friends and supporters of the almost-hero of Altgeld Gardens (Obama, the community organizer who almost got the asbestos out of that Chicago slum property but never succeeded) have organized largely astroturf occupations of Wall Street, D.C., and elsewhere which demonize the very forces which could and do improve our lives.
My friend who posts under the pen name "Danube of Thought" calls the people occupying Wall Street and elsewhere Adullamites, after the Biblical description (Samuel 22:1-2) of those who gathered around David when he escaped Saul and went to the cave of Adullam: "everyone who was in distress, everyone who was in debt, and everyone who was discontented." It seems a perfect fit for these mobs.
Unlike Altgeld Gardens, where there was a defined target -- asbestos removal -- the goal of these folks (besides getting others to give them the wherewithal, like blankets and food, to carry on) is unclear.
It seems to me that today's Adullamites' message is at bottom:
When do we want it?
Now!
What do we want?
???????
On what might -- were this not billed as a totally unstructured movement -- be deemed Occupy Wall Street's "official website," one poster listed these demands:
The administrators of the website, however, indicate that this was not a position adopted by "consensus"; it represents only one supporter's view. But there is hardly more clarity elsewhere, and this utterly childish list seems to accurately convey the varied naïve and unworkable demands by a powerless group of dopes and dupes.
In D.C., the turnout was paltry. The legitimate ranks the event turned out were even thinner than they appeared. The marchers included Hispanics who were paid to carry signs whose meaning they didn't understand.
In Los Angeles, the crowd was also thin and astroturfed byvarious labor unions:
But it is clear that whatever these people think they are doing, Nancy Pelosi applauds them and blesses them "for their spontaneity. It's independent ... it's young, it's spontaneous, and it's focused. And it's going to be effective." Like maggots drawn to rotting meat, she's joined by other rich lefties eggingthe demonstrators on.
But as Professor Bainbridge and our own Rick Moran note, the claim that the corporations run the government is ridiculous on its face.
In any event, those who are supporting the Occupiers and marching with them include many who are the very beneficiaries of Obama's stimulus legislation, which bailed out them and their employers.
I think it clear that the Occupiers cannot refine or focus their demands. If they do pick discrete objectives, it will alienate significant portions of their already limited number of supporters. The mob is not particularly cohesive. They have a wide range of inconsistent desires. I doubt that without a goal there can be a victory, just as I doubt that hiring organizers to mobilize tenants instead of engaging asbestos removal teams was the way to go at Altgeld Gardens. These folks need engineers, entrepreneurs, and people willing to invest again, not rabble-rousers, if they wish to recharge our economy, which has been battered by Obama-generated uncertainty and regulatory overreach.
The untimely death of Steve Jobs last week underscored the vast difference between organizing malcontents and improving the world. Online, the picture of the occupation that most emphasized the incongruity of it all to me was an anti-corporation protester being taped on an Apple iPad. And surely, the tweets and texting and e-mailing and reporting on the demonstrations involved the use of millions of Jobs-created Apple products.
Heritage's Edwin Feulner described the divide between the occupiers and Jobs better than I can:
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Sunday, October 9, 2011
Steve Jobs and the Adullamites Who Occupy Wall Street
Friday, October 7, 2011
H CAIN GIVES MSNBC LIBTARD A DONKEY WHOOPPING
MEDIAYOU‘RE ’DISTORTING’ WHAT I SAID: HERMAN CAIN BATTLES LAWRENCE O’DONNELL ON MSNBC
There’s a lot we could cover regarding the back-and-forth interview Thursday night between Lawrence O’Donnell and Herman Cain. A lot. But we’ll focus on one thing: O‘Donnell’s smug accusations that Cain sat on the “sidelines” during the Civil Rights Movement and Cain’s response. Oh boy — here we go.
Let‘s start with Mediaite’s explanation of the exchange:
O’Donnell and Cain talked about so much more, as well, from a passage in Cain’s book where he describes “staying out of trouble” rather than directly participate in the civil rights movement, to Cain’s military service. O’Donnell, in fact, openly admonished Cain for his lack of participation in the movement — which, obviously, did not sit well with Cain one bit. “Did you expect every black student and every black college in America to be out there in the middle of every fight? The answer is no.”
That’s a good start. But there’s also plenty of of other quotes to work in. Like this one from O’Donnell:
“Mr. Cain, in fact you were in college from 1963 to 1967, at the height of the Civil Rights Movement, exactly when the most important demonstrations and protests were going on. You could easily, as a student at Morehouse [College]…actively participated in the kinds of protests that got African-Americans the rights they enjoy today. You watched from that perspective at Morehouse when you were not participating in those processes…black college students form around the country and white college students from around the country come to the South and be murdered fighting for the right of African-Americans. Do you regret sitting on those sidelines at that time?”
Wow. That question followed an earlier one where O’Donnell suggested that if Rosa Parks and 60s-era black would have taken his [Cain's] father’s advice and stayed out of trouble, blacks would not have won their civil rights.
Not surprisingly, as the tension built and Cain increasingly became annoyed at the accusatory and suggestive questions, Cain finally let O’Donnell have it:
“Lawrence, Lawrence, Lawrence, I’m going to– I’m going to try this one more time. I graduated from High School in 1963. I didn’t start college until the fall of 1963. Now I don‘t understand why you’re trying to make a big deal out of this small point, when we have an economy on life support. WE got 14 million people out of work, and you want to try and deduce something that is incorrect form my words in my book. OK? Let’s do the people of this country a service, Lawrence.”
And with that, O’Donnell moved on to — homosexuality.
You can watch the Civil Rights Movement part in the first clip, and the rest of the interview in the second one:
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Thursday, October 6, 2011
Detroit terror suspect accused of vehicular jihad against FBI agent
Detroit terror suspect accused of vehicular jihad against FBI agent
Posted on October 5, 2011 by creeping
DETROIT – A federal judge in Michigan has ordered a man suspected of supporting terrorist groups held on allegations he tried to crash into the car of an FBI agent who was following him as part of heightened security for the 10th anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks.
Reed S. Berry, 26, of St. Joseph was under surveillance because of his suspected terrorist links, according to an FBI affidavit filed in U.S. District Court in Grand Rapids.
The government has said the links include Internet communication with one or more groups involved in international terrorism.
Defense lawyer Elias Muawad said what the government has labeled terrorist links in court filings appear to be online speech protected by the First Amendment. He also said his client, Berry, has been upset about being under investigation for months, subject to searches and barred from air travel.
“He was feeling like a caged person,” Muawad told The Associated Press on Sunday.
According to the Sept. 23 complaint that charged Berry with assaulting a federal officer, the FBI executed a search warrant March 9 seeking evidence linking Berry to foreign terrorist groups.
“The FBI investigation to date has developed information that Berry was using the Internet both to contact and to provide affirmative support to one or more FTOs,” or foreign terrorist organizations, the complaint said.
The FBI then got a warrant May 11 to search Berry’s Yahoo email account, and investigators now are reviewing its contents, the complaint said.
In anticipation of the 10th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, “the FBI decided to maintain around-the-clock knowledge of Berry’s whereabouts that weekend,” the complaint said.
FBI Special Agent Samuel Moore and Michigan State Police Detective Sgt. Larry Dyksterhouse were watching Berry the night of Sept. 9 and had been told that their “target” was aware he was under surveillance, the complaint said.
The agents followed Berry as he drove around Benton Harbor and St. Joseph. They said he traveled to various locations and at one point turned his headlights off and just sat in the vehicle.
Moore said Berry eventually put his car in reverse and began speeding toward Moore’s stopped vehicle. The agent said he “immediately accelerated forward and to the hard left, avoiding a direct collision” with Berry.
On Wednesday, U.S. Magistrate Hugh Brenneman in Grand Rapids ordered Berry detained before the assault trial.
“In addition to the present offense, defendant is well aware the FBI is using considerable resources to investigate whether defendant has been participating in terrorist-related activities,” Brenneman wrote in his order that Berry stay behind bars until trial.
Brenneman also cited the fact that Berry has a wife in London and “has told the FBI he wants to leave this country and never return.” And, the judge said, Berry’s state criminal record shows “a repeated disregard of the judicial system” with bond and parole revocations.
Frank Miller’s superhero takes on al Qaeda in ‘Holy Terror’ (video)
Frank Miller’s superhero takes on al Qaeda in ‘Holy Terror’ (video)
Posted on October 5, 2011 by creeping
via Blazing Cat Fur
The trailer:
Bonus below the fold: Where has all the good propaganda gone?
Imagine if all the well-known superheroes and Hollywood would have taken on al Qaeda full speed after 9/11 instead of cowering and appeasing Muslims?
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