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These are the People of Occupy Wall Street (POWS). And yes, they are legion. Butt not in a good way. There are a million stories in their naked, smelly city. Here are a few more of them.
Today’s theme #1: I can’t believe someone is getting more favorable treatment than me! That’s not fair!:
And you know this exactly how? Your union boss told you? Did you know your union boss makes more money than you do, too? Have you checked his tax return yet?
“I had to transfer to a tech school because I couldn’t afford $30k a year for tuition.” Congratulations! It’s not fair, butt you learned more in one year than many have after 7 years and $200k in loans. As a bonus, you’ll actually be able to find a job with your technical degree.
Beginning with Theme# 2, we enter what I call “The gallery of the damned.” They see the struggle and not only do they not want to get down with it, they choose to submit – before the fight even gets underway. Not really exemplary of the good old American can-do spirit now, is it?
Theme #2: I’m so unaccustomed to disappointment that I just can’t deal; I’m giving up:
“I’m scared I’ll lose my apartment my girlfriend, our pets EVERYTHING. I’ve always dreamed of owning my own house but they’re crushing my Dream.” Hey dude, Martin Luther King Jr. had a DREAM, what you’ve got is a “want” list. If you are America’s future, I’m scared too.
Even those who have nothing to worry about – yet - are consumed with negativity in this group:
You may be right about not deserving your good luck. Who did you vote for in 2008?
You’re a communications major and this is the best you can do? REALLY ?!? Good luck with that third job, maybe it will come with fries.
Theme #3: We’re all going to die!
You might want to investigate Glen Beck’s emergency gourmet food supply. You seem like a good candidate for catastrophe preparedness.
OK, I give up: where DO you want to raise your kids? Cuba? Venezuela? Canada’s good, butt pray America repeals Obamacare: in case your kid needs medical care and you don’t want to wait 9 months to get it. On second thought, maybe you shouldn’t raise kids.
Theme #4: Preemptively giving up:
“I’ll never find another job”
The forward looking giver-upper: I’ve got a job now, butt I’ll never find another one – ever!
“I’ll never have children”
Yeah, weddings cost a fortune these days. Almost more than children. Oh, and for the record: where ever you go, there you are.
“I’ll never retire”
If only I had wisely joined a union.
“I’ll never succeed”
Just like IBM drowned out the late Steve Jobs and his company; what did he call it again?
“I’ll never find a job”
“I am the lost generation.” No argument there. Try buying a clue to get yourself out of the maze. Or at least call 911.
“I’ll never realize my dreams”
This week’s winner of the “preemptively smashing the most dreams in one post” sweepstakes. And she’s not even out of high school yet! BTW, your “dream” will only be unrealistic if you become a self-fulfilling-loser. Careful, you’re on that track.
The bottom line of all the messages from the POWS today: The greed and corporation of banks and corporations have made life unfair. And it should be – fair, that is. Collectivism, as Doctor-in-waiting Marcos explains below, is apparently the only answer:
Subcomandante Insurgente Marcos added this thesis to his handwritten statement:
“We declare: That we will make a collective network of all our particular struggles and resistances. An intercontinental network of resistance against neoliberalism, an intercontinental network of resistance for humanity.
This intercontinental network of resistance, recognizing differences and acknowledging similarities, will search to find itself with other resistances around the world.
This intercontinental network of resistance is not an organizing structure; it doesn’t have a central head or decision maker; it has no central command or hierarchies. We are the network, all of us who resist.”
I agree: the world definitely needs more resistors. And capacitors too:
“Resistance” by Lenny and Meriel Lenfestey
Or as professional resistor and broadcast specialist, Al Sharpton, would say: “Resist we much.” (with sincere apologies to Walt Whitman)
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I didn't think it was possible, but these testimonies are getting stupider.
ReplyDeleteMy heart cries for these poor people. NOT!!! I know, I'm a MOL. In my 60+ years, I have never asked for anything....NO unemployment, welfare, WIC, help from parents or friends. NOTHING! It hasn't been easy all the time, especially in the last 10 years I have been alone and retired. But noone promised me things would be easy. And I try to make the best of it. I suppose that makes me the 1%. :)
ReplyDeleteOh, and the few that are doing so well; have they ever considered savings some of those earnings for the possible hard times to come? If not, why not?
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ReplyDeleteI finally found the origin of Fat Al's Resist we much battle cry. Seems he lost his muchness when he went through the looking glass, too. Ah, well...
" I am an AfAm man. I went to a tony private school, Columbia and Harvard - all for free! I've had two books published - no I didn't have to write them. I've made millions and was briefly a Senator. I've never really worked at all and still don't. I spend mega millions of taxpayer money (not yours) on sightseeing and lavish parties. No entourage is too small if I am craving a cheeseburger. Make sure you leave your whine fest and vote for me AGAIN in 2012 - I can assure you I will continue to deliver the same change I have given you. The hope part is over - but blame that on Bush - remember him?"
ReplyDeleteBarack Obama
It's like the grasshoppers are revolting against the ants - hmmmmmmmm.
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wow, what a great analogy and yes, oh so true!
ReplyDeleteReplying to my own reply; this morning, since MOTUS was still on yesterday, I looked up ND Farm Subsidies; in Ward County, where I live, there was $13,898,000 in subsidies in 2010 - that is correct, yes you read that right, in ONE YEAR .... is it any wonder that farmers are DumRats? I looked up people we know, and they are RAKING IT IN from subsidies. It makes me just SCREAM!
ReplyDelete<span>Replying to my own reply; this morning, since MOTUS was still on yesterday, I looked up ND Farm Subsidies; in Ward County, where I live, there were $13,898,000 in subsidies in 2010 - that is correct, yes you read that right, in ONE YEAR .... is it any wonder that farmers are DumRats? I looked up people we know, and they are RAKING IT IN from subsidies. It makes me just SCREAM!</span>
ReplyDeleteThose POWS made me ill.
ReplyDeleteMy husband's testimonial would read, "After 30+ years of working for an employer, I was let go on a downsizing move ten years ago. As a soon-to-be senior citizen, finding a comparable job was tough. Instead of giving up, I started my own company."
Husband is doing better than ever and is certainly less stressed, as I was more than 15 years ago when I quit a federal government job to found my own business.
Personally, I think POWS stands for Pile Of Whining Shit.
I am an AfAm man.....That part is a lie!
ReplyDeleteYour last sentence speaks my heart.
ReplyDeleteI'm seeing a real pattern here and have figured it out; it's their massive loans to go to college that are keeping them in misery. They were sold a con that if they went to college, they would get a wonderful, high paying job that didn't require them to do much. who's to blame? the Colleges and yes, our government.
ReplyDeleteIt's not Wall Street they're mad at; it's their useless college degrees and huge debts.
I feel sorry for them, I really do. Life sucks, it's hard, it's not fair and the just do not survive. It's a lesson that they never learned until now and they're confused, scared.
Their maturity that will come, their acceptance that they're not really special at all is going to hit them hard. Let's hope they come through it OK.
BO went to a protest to get some new ideas:
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I agree that college loans are to blame for their misery. Butt, it's hard for me to feel sorry for them, because their tantrums and "woe is me" attitude are disproportionate to their problems. The anti-semitism and anti-military bent of a lot of the POWS doesn't endear themselves to me, either. And the "twinkles" and creepy "human mic." I could go on, butt you get the idea.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.breitbart.tv/occupy-protesters-creepy-hand-signals-explained/
The 22 year old in the 3rd picture down seems confused; he thinks he is a manger.
ReplyDeleteI think I might have stumbled upon his "personal reasons" for dropping out of school.
Mine would read:
ReplyDeleteI went to grad school, a decision made partly based on the recommendations of liberal professors who assured me that my particular graduate degree would result in guarranteed employment for the rest of my life due to the high demand. I have since discovered that the reality is that in an economic downturn there is a huge glut of people with my particular degree and that no one was hiring. I first took a job in a related field then when the recession hit, I was laid off with most of the rest of the lower level employees. I have since started my own business and even though times are tough, my hope is that in 2012 we will elect politicians with the moral fortitude to actually restructure taxes and regulations to create a scheme that makes sense and doesn't require as much time working on compliance.
Let's see if the embed works this time.
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Mine would read:
ReplyDeleteI trained as a lawyer, worked for the Federal Government, and eventually landed a job in one of the evil, greedy corporations the POWs rail against every day. I was laid off after 9/11 -- as was my wife -- and neither one of us could find jobs in the financial services industry. We both went back to school, earning degrees in special education. We now work at the same school, and adopted a beautiful girl with Down Syndrome. We don't make nearly the amount of money we did before, but our lives are much, much better. I thank God everyday that I live in a country where it is possible to reinvent yourself this way.
I salute all the entrepreneurs here who have taken their future out of the hands of others and created their own livlihoods. Even though we can’t all do that, you’re the ones who make opportunities for the rest of us as well.
ReplyDeleteSo cheers to the job makers and self-sustainers who help make this still fine country work – even though it’s harder than ever these days.
...and now, back to the whiners:
PS: a salute to the rest of us too, simply for not giving up.
ReplyDeleteI've noticed that the FleaBaggers seem to think that grade-point-average and class-standing should somehow reflect their ability to get and keep a job. Yes, there are some businesses that base their hiring practices on those things, but that is usually only for the first job you get out of college. After that, most businesses really do not care how you did in college, or even what college you attended. They only care how well you can perform. Butt, it is not in the interest of most colleges to point this out, they want people to believe that college really means something out in the real world.
ReplyDeleteI'm trying to convince my grandchildren to go to trade schools, except for the ones that should become engineers. And even with the engineers, I tell them to just get a bachelor's degree, and then go out and get their education.
Kids that go to college and get useful degrees (how about engineering in any of its various areas) have not had trouble finding jobs. The trouble with the POWS whiners is that they majored in partying with a minor in something that ends with the word "Studies." Yes, colleges are selling these useless degrees, but what ever happened to "buyer beware!"
ReplyDeleteAnd a salute to you, MOTUS, for keeping our spirits up when so often the chips are down and it seems like all hope is lost!
ReplyDeleteBTW, do you think Lady M is EVER going to take my advise and get that boob job?
Perhaps we should turn the tables so these occu-whiners understand the truth. Factoring in world poverty, healthcare and education they are actually the 1%. I know, I know it's not fair they were born in the greatest, most blessed nation on earth butt there is a way to fix it: pack up your smelly tents, tarps and mattresses and get a one way ticket to any third world country and join the actual 99%! :-$ And don't let the liberty hit you on the way out.
ReplyDeleteKudos to you and your wife John Smith. You're the kind of people who really make the world a better place, not the preachy do-nothings of OWS
ReplyDeleteThanks, butt it's definitely a two way street here!
ReplyDeleteAnd about the boob job: no, I don't think so. She thinks it will ruin her tennis game.
There has been a shortage of nurses for a number of years!!!!! I agree with you sb, they need to get an education in something that is useful and stop whining about how unfair the situation is. No one forced them to take the loans. College is not free.
ReplyDeleteThat is a great story John Smith. You always have the most inspirational and uplifting stories. Thank you.
ReplyDeleteGod Bless America. Today, tomorrow and every day!!!!!! Love it or leave it!!!!!! :-D :-D :* :-D :-D
ReplyDeleteSince my Gators got beaten (AGAIN) like the red headed steps.....here's a little take on Occupy Wall Street, framed by the SEC (that's a football conference, not the government agency...for the liberals who stop by).
ReplyDeleteOccupy Herbstreit
I have to say, the Herbstreit protesters at least have a clue.
These fleabag creatures are truly pathetic. DH and I were 21 years old when we got married in 1971 and still in school. Once we were married, our parents (on both sides) felt like it was our business to make a life for ourselves--no more financial help, which was fine with us, since we truly wanted to make it on our own. DH went to school while I worked full-time. Then we traded off, me in school, he working. We eventually ourselves through grad school, both had good jobs, and we worked our butts off to pay off those loans. I think it took us 15 years, and we went to state schools, not private. We were using the envelope system and paying $30 a month for our loans. That was half our rent. We didn't buy our own home until we'd been married for 10 years. We had one child, seven years after we were married. No one ever gave us a dime--ever! It was tough, but as we face retirement, we know that if the economy goes to crap, we will survive. What whiners these people are. I literally cannot read their pathetic little messages to the world.
ReplyDeleteIf these people manage to get what they want (and it seems obvious that what they want is debt forgiveness for their high-priced school loans), then there will never again be a "student loan" program--never. I imagine that all these high-priced colleges, where tuition has gone up 300% a year, will also go belly-up. Boo-freaking-hoo. I live next door to two English PhD's teaching at the local private college who do less real work than any two adults I've ever known. If they lose their jobs due to the schools having to cut back--oh, shock, sad--not!
Love this column by Kurt Schlichter:
ReplyDeleteRight now, idealistic young Americans are gathered together to fight injustice and build a better world.
Sure, they're a little dirty, and maybe some of their language is a bit rough, but they've left behind family and friends, as well as the creature comforts the rest of us take for granted, to make a stand for what they believe in.
It's just too bad that today the mainstream media is focusing on the spoiled, incoherent clowns of Occupy Wall Street and ignoring our young fighting men and women.
http://washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/columnists/2011/10/sunday-reflection-protestors-should-try-occupying-reality-real-change
Hey, he's my neighbor! Nice guy and family man too! O:-)
ReplyDeleteI can't take all this whine anymore! Please make it stop! More stupid, unreadable testimonies indeed.
ReplyDeleteYou are so funny. I can't tell you the number of times you have cheered me up with this whole Boooo and Mooo administration. You have a great funny spin on the insaneness of this joke of an administration. Thank you MOTUS for doing this every day. Your country and your fellow countrywomen (and men) are forever in your debt!!!!!! You rock :-D :-D :*
ReplyDeleteI am curious...Since the government took over student loans did they also take over the existing student loans?
ReplyDeleteAnyone know?
I have a story like that ..... I went to medical school in the seventies-eighties. I worked hard 120 hrs per week was not uncommon then. Because I was a women I was steered away from any surgical specialties the thought being that I would take a job away from a "man". My own family tried to steer me into being a pediatrician or obstetrician. I didn't like any of those fields went into a medical specialty and graduated from my residency training at the age of 30. I continued to work hard, in several yrs I was board certified. Did I make a decent living? Yes Did I think I deserved it? Yes Did I make a lot of money? No But I paid my bills took care of family and aside from an odd vacation here and there did not live what I would consider an "extravagant" lifestyle. I will say I chose to put my child in a private school mostly because I thought he would get "lost" in the public school. Well ... After obamacare passed and I realized that I had a bullseye on my back I decided that's it closed the office found a job at a hospital. I work regular hrs more or less get health care benefits which I never had on my own ......All I can say is that all the 50 something MD's are thinking the same way as me .... Good Luck finding a doctor in the future!
ReplyDeleteBTW Motus LOVE your posts and reading it.....
Ain't it the truth....
ReplyDeleteI don't remember where I heard this butt....this is the generation that all got trophies....
I think some of you should post your story at the 53% site...
ReplyDeleteI don't feel sorry for these kids who were convinced to take out huge student loans to get a degree in a useless field such as international studies or philosophy. They expected to be able to graduate and cherry pick their perfect job: one that is high-paying, requires no nights or weekends to interfere with socializing, and will advance them up the corporate ladder. Sorry, this is the real world calling...no such job exists. Now they have to look at what is available and don't want to take a lower-paying, less prestigious job.
ReplyDeleteThey should be protesting the colleges and federal student loan offices.
MOTUS, you bring me and many others laughter in a world where everything seems upside down. God Bless You!
ReplyDeleteTo Blonde Gator, my fellow sad Gator!!!! Sniff, sniff. Better days are ahead, my friend. Better days are ahead!!!!!
ReplyDeleteTo the "I'm more likely to be in jail than college" guy:
ReplyDeleteOnly if you've committed crimes, moron! And even if you've committed crimes, the likelihood that you would be apprehended and prosecuted and jailed is not all that high. If you've go a problem with the numbers of black males in prison, tell them to stop robbing and mugging and murdering!
Furthermore (I'm still speaking to the moron): your chances of getting into college and getting financial aid were much higher than those of a white male (or most any other demographic) with similar qualifications.
We can use that other slogan, too, considering the yoyo's we have in government right now:
ReplyDeleteChange it (government) or lose it (freedom)!
I went to the school that gave me the most scholarship money, so did my daughter and granddaughter. From the time I was old enough to visit the candy store on the corner, I knew if
ReplyDeleteI walked in with a dime, I wasn't going to walk out with an all-day-lollipop.
My dh went to a top law school for free, courtesy of the Marine Corps, and a tour of duty in a nasty, dirty place, where people were getting shot.
As I tell my kids, we're from the 'just suck it up and do it' generation..
I'm sick of these whiney little flea brains. I did a blog post on who is REALLY behind the OWS protests. These deluded shills are just being used by the commies and others who want to destroy America.
ReplyDeleteIf they spent more time reading the want ads, than writing stupid notes on note pads, they might get somewhere.
Who are some of the 99%?
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http://weaselzippers.us/2011/10/16/communists-march-with-chicago-occupiers-cpusa-leader-given-overwhelming-applause-after-solidarity-speech/
http://www.breitbart.tv/occupy-portland-protesters-sing-f-the-usa/
<span><span>Bored Housewives of
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<span>American Thinker, </span>
<span>by Clarice Feldman</span>
Original Article
<span>10/16/2011 </span>
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<span>In his book God Knows, Joseph Heller perfectly described the manipulative, power hungry bored first lady. Bathsheba, in his telling, is a constant meddler, jockeying for power and, desperate to have her son, Solomon, made David's successor to the throne. She spends her free time in creative activities like inventing pantaloons because she is way too narcissistic to play second fiddle even to the king. We should be so lucky. The last two Democrat First Ladies cost us a bundle in their effort to be co-Presidents. Hillary ("two for the price of one"), with hair.....</span>
"I've had two books published"...to inform the universe just how special I really am. Please send $3.
ReplyDeleteJanice that's excellent advice. I man or a woman should always have a trade/skill. There are hundreds. Just because you work in an office does not mean that you can't learn to weld, speak farsi, or fix washing machines.
ReplyDeleteMy daughter went to Unm for one year on a NM scholarship. She had a full schedual and also walked 1 1/2 miles to and from a 40 hour a week job, and she kept a 3.75 grade average. After one year she realized that she simply did not know what she wanted to do, so she moved to Aspen, CO, wehre she worked her way into restuarant managment. Recently she bought a lemon, and did some aut work - at 24 not she calls us up full of inspriation: she wants to be a mechanic. She absolutely loved getting under the hood of a jeep.
NOw, she will do what I sai dint he first place, and go to a trade school. Butt, she did not waste 6 years and 50k learning what she wanted!!
Thanks for posting this again, Breeze. I posted it early this morning on the Saturday thread, where it still reposes. In the closet, archive, whatever.
ReplyDeleteToo good to be missed. A Must Read that everyone should share.
Thanks for posting this again, Breeze. I posted it early this morning on the Saturday thread, where it still reposes. In the closet, archive, whatever.
ReplyDeleteToo good to be missed. A Must Read that everyone should share.
Some bits to whet your appetite - though Clarice's byline should suffice:
ReplyDeleteThe last two Democrat First Ladies cost us a bundle in their effort to be co-Presidents. Hillary (“two for the price of one”), with hair styles changing weekly, mucked about for ages with a large, costly cadre of her own staff in the West Wing and a wonkish task force jerry rigging what they imagined would be a more perfect health system, only to learn we hated it and it had no chance at passage.
Michelle Obama has followed suit telling us what to eat, that community service work is good and income generating occupations bad, and how to exercise. At the same time she spends millions of our tax dollars touring the world with her family and friends wearing costumes, generally of the bizarre sort beloved by the not very bright trendy fashionistas who write Style Section copy, and doing not one visible thing that isn’t chosen and fashioned for her own benefit.
Some bits to whet your appetite - though Clarice's byline should suffice:
ReplyDeleteThe last two Democrat First Ladies cost us a bundle in their effort to be co-Presidents. Hillary (“two for the price of one”), with hair styles changing weekly, mucked about for ages with a large, costly cadre of her own staff in the West Wing and a wonkish task force jerry rigging what they imagined would be a more perfect health system, only to learn we hated it and it had no chance at passage.
Michelle Obama has followed suit telling us what to eat, that community service work is good and income generating occupations bad, and how to exercise. At the same time she spends millions of our tax dollars touring the world with her family and friends wearing costumes, generally of the bizarre sort beloved by the not very bright trendy fashionistas who write Style Section copy, and doing not one visible thing that isn’t chosen and fashioned for her own benefit.
I read this early on Lucianne.com. Excellent.
ReplyDeleteI just cannot imagine being in that nasty, stinky group. Even when I was young, I liked being clean and having a comfy bed to sleep in. I know, camping was fun, but it was always wonderful to get back home.
ReplyDeleteNot so wee won #1 putting her Fashion Icon mother to shame. And those are black tights she has on. (She does seem to be buttoning-up challenged like mom, however.)
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Guess which one is the first lady?
http://news.daylife.com/photo/06XGectbw9gc9?__site=daylife&q=Michelle+Obama
Not so wee won #1 putting her Fashion Icon mother to shame. And those are black tights she has on. (She does seem to be buttoning-up challenged like mom, however.)
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Guess which one is the first lady?
http://news.daylife.com/photo/06XGectbw9gc9?__site=daylife&q=Michelle+Obama
All I see is GIMME GIMME GIMME, not because they earned it or because they deserve it butt because they DONT WANT TO PAY BACK THE MONEY THEY BORROWED. You can bet they all have computers, cellphones and a place to sleep at mommy's house (with the exception of the aging granola groupies who missed the love-ins in the 60's and are making up for it now). Do I feel sorry for them ? Absolutely not.
ReplyDeleteThe one very important lesson that the liberal arts colleges do not teach, but the engineering and medical schools do, is that your education really starts once you leave college.
ReplyDeleteMalia will run rings around Mooch. The asymmetrical hemline is deliberate. And the tights are patterned - maybe navy blue?
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Malia will run rings around Mooch. The asymmetrical hemline is deliberate. And the tights are patterned - maybe navy blue?
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Bettyann, what a great story. Sounds like she just needed to figure out what she really wanted. Most people don't know at 18 what they want to do. Some wait until they are 30 (or 40 or 50).
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ReplyDeleteI've been in the housing industry since I started my own framing company in 1992, the year I separated from the USMC. After 10 years building new homes, I made a lateral move -working for a builder as the Architect, and designed more than 70 homes in 6 years worth upwards of $150M. Unfortunately, the owner of the company overspent and over-leveraged his holdings and eventually went under after the housing bubble burst. I saw this possibility and chose to leave the company about a year before his bubble burst. I started a new company in residential and light commercial design and I'm approaching my 4-year anniversary. I have no health insurance and I'm a single parent of a 19 year old son. I have a high school diploma and a few college credits in mathematics.
ReplyDeleteI also work doing contract labor for a home improvement company. In February of this year I broke my ankle on a jobsite. I drove myself home, and stopped at a Rite Aid store on the way to buy an Ace bandage. I wrapped my ankle and stayed off of it for a couple of days. Within a week I was back at work in the field with the ankle heavily wrapped; no one would pay me to sit home. My ankle healed, though it till hurts if I lean on it the wrong way and -like so many other injuries from working so long in construction and as a Marine- when the weather turns ugly. I didn't sue anyone and I apologized to the contractor for missing time.
I am still in the housing industry.
I am not well educated nor wealthy. The most I ever earned in one year was slightly over $80k. If things pick up a bit before the end of this year, I'll earn about half of that.
I don't blame anyone for my success or lack thereof. And my perseverance will pay off when my industry returns from the ashes.
You big bunch o' babies.
Beautiful!!!!!
ReplyDeleteYay, Kurt!
Ha! From that last picture we finally know where MO got her "wide stance". Check out the Granny-stance!
ReplyDeleteWho wants to bet MOo is the only one without hose on? The King woman has them on, and it even looks like Granny R has them. Granny R looks better there than I have ever seen her look. Very well dressed. Unlike her daughter.
ReplyDeleteButt may I ask, where is wee won #2? And why is Malia holding hands with BOo. It's like she is the stand-in wife.
ReplyDeleteSara - that is an outstanding point. Just living in America puts you in the top 1% of the world. Add in all "conveniences" of their lives and their constant lounging. The fact that they can smoke their boy weight in pot a day and still not be homeless is astounding.
ReplyDeleteSaw this on FB... now, this gives me some hope for the future generation!
ReplyDeleteButt if your neighbors have tenure, they'll probably be there forever, unfortunately.
ReplyDeleteWhy don't all of these whiners join the armed services? They'd get free housing and 3 meals a day and they'd get their student loans paid off. Oh, right, that might just require some work, or more scary, an actual deployment. I'm beginning to appreciate Israels requirement for service. It sure makes them into adults. Maybe that's why their country is so sucessful.
ReplyDeleteThese stories just make me mad. Where are these kids parents? Why did they not tell them that at some point in life it's just not fair? Are these all the kids that grew up getting trophies just for being on the team without having earned anything? Is this what we get for eliminating all competition from schools? If so, I want it back!
When my husband and I graduated from college we both worked. We put my entire salary away and lived on his. Why? Because I knew at some point I'd want to have kids and stop working. We bought a starter house, had one child then moved up to a bigger one. We learned to live below our means. We don't pay for cable, cell phones and we buy used cars. I'm home so most of our meals are cooked here. We give at least 10% to our church. We have a significant amount in our 401K. Are there times when I wish we had more? Of course. But then I look at the great kids we have and what I'm able to do for them (mom's taxi service!)and how respectful they are of what they have and the people around them and I just want to hug them (although they're teens and won't let me :( ) And I know if something should happen to my husband's job, we'd pull through because we're not whiners. We'd buckle down and figure it out.
Wee Won #2 was shunted off with ValJar and Granny, who darned near broke her neck trying to get on camera.
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#2 shows more of her mom's fashion influence.
#1 at a moody age. In that family, who wouldn't be moody? Her mom has to be an embarrassment to her - imagine the ribbing at school. "Jumping Jacks! Jeez!!!!"
Wee Won #2 was shunted off with ValJar and Granny, who darned near broke her neck trying to get on camera.
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#2 shows more of her mom's fashion influence.
#1 at a moody age. In that family, who wouldn't be moody? Her mom has to be an embarrassment to her - imagine the ribbing at school. "Jumping Jacks! Jeez!!!!"
MOTUS, the warning to newbies about "butt" is hilarious. But shouldn't it be "conseat"?
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MOTUS, the warning to newbies about "butt" is hilarious. But shouldn't it be "conseat"?
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Just noticed something. The girls' hair. Natural color. Natural. Hmm. Campaign season?
ReplyDeleteJust noticed something. The girls' hair. Natural color. Natural. Hmm. Campaign season?
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This one doesn't need a caption.
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<p><span><span><span>Here is an email that I received this morning from my 30 yo son…Philosophy graduate ‘04, Ayn Rand fan, firm believer that you can’t trust what the media report to the public, third year vehicle technician, 10 year Canadian Reservist and an Afghanistan veteran ’08 <he>:</he></span></span></span>
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</p><p><span><span><span>"In Calgary, about 300 protesters marched down Eighth Avenue S.W. and gathered outside Bankers Hall in the downtown core."</span></span></span><span><span> </span></span>
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</p><p><span><span>"After commenting on Ludwig, the reporter asked me how many people I figured were here. I looked around, made an overestimation, and said, "Hard to say. About three hundred?" '</span></span>
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</p><p><span><span></span></span><span><span>"Ha!"</span></span>
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</p><p><span><span>"And no, I wasn't there protesting against people that have more money than me, like most seemed to be doing. I was just there because it was interesting. I like that people are upset with the current system, but their ideas on how to make it better are flimsy at best, and downright immoral at worst. But it's an aimless kind of protest: people were protesting just about everything, but the media makes it out to be some kind of socialist movement, which it isn't. It's an aimless, non-goal, movement of people simply voicing their disgust with how things are. And I suppose that's okay."</span></span></p>
Another photo just turned up. You don't suppose she was into the sauce before this event, do you?
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Another photo just turned up. You don't suppose she was into the sauce before this event, do you?
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It's difficult to tell whose hips are swinging the most, MOO or BOO!! VooDoo Granny looks like she's has had some 'work' <insert> done as well! ;) </insert>
ReplyDeleteHey 58 year old loser ["If only I had wisely joined a union"], try being that age with not only latent, incurable bone marrow cancer, but end stage renal disease and on dialysis. I was forced by law to go on Medicare (or have no way to pay for dialysis which totals $100K yearly), still working and not blaming anyone else except the idiot crony capitalism this government has crafted over the last forty years. You and your fellow travelers are undermining the shining city on a hill into a rotten warren fit only for demoRATs and their fellow parasites!
ReplyDeleteGood point Chris! Butt a scary one as well!
ReplyDeleteThe first reaction that comes to my mind is, "The Wee Wons didn't attend the 10th anniversary ceremonies of '911' in New York, BUTT.........................!!!"
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ReplyDeleteWell looky-looky who's playin' to his base:
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Color me surprised *sneer*
Is that red skirt furry?
ReplyDeleteCould Malia's skirt be shorter?
(Should have said that was directed to the putative 99%.)
ReplyDeleteThanks for posting this article, schatzi. It's grim news, indeed. I guess that the shantytown in downtown Manhattan will be there indefinitely. :(
ReplyDeleteIf I had it to do over again, I'd have become an RN. I attended a college that happens to have one of the top nursing schools in the country. I went with English because I thought I could fall into a tech writing job. That same college has a "fast track" program for RN certification, geared toward people who already have bachelor's degrees, and it takes 15 months. Unfortunately, that's full-time and daytime classes. I can't afford to quit work to go to school in the daytime. :(
ReplyDeletethe 99% seem to be a bunch of brats that weren't spanked enough!! IMHO
ReplyDeleteOhhh, MOTUS & MOL's, you'll LUV this photo! Look who else is keeping an eye on Barky!
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He could also use this as a poster for PIGford. Bwhaaaaaa!
O/T butt interesting? Follow the link and slide down to the second photo with Lady Gaga and Chelsea Clinton. Amazing that they look so much alike - separated at birth? Butt then we know ol' Bill has always liked to cat around. Things that make you go 'hmmm'.
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New Campaign Wighat - same old angry expressions.
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New Campaign Wighat - same old angry expressions.
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