Posted on 10/29/2011 12:22:46 PM PDT by mdittmar
New York (CNN) -- Demonstrators encamped in a Lower Manhattan park faced New York's first snow storm of the season Saturday without the benefit of propane tanks and generators that they had been using to cook food and keep warm.
"It's pretty dirty, and we're all freezing cold," said Alec Courtney, who says he runs a shoe-shine stand at the city's Zuccotti Park to make money. "We just try to huddle together."
Courtney, a resident of the New York City borough of Brooklyn, says he's been camping at the park for the last 20 days and plans to stay there -- despite the inclement weather -- to support "the cause."
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When are they going to try and cross the Delaware River?
Good time to hit ‘em with the fire hoses. Thanks mdittmar.
We are drinking a fine Australian Shiraz while watching the snow fall outside. Must be wet and chilly on the streets of New York. LOL.
“So, who in that ragtag crowd wears shoes that they get shined?”
I was down there this morning, about an hour before it started snowing. It was raining then and I saw maybe 6-8 out of the tents.
I am enjoying this!
Fear not, reality-challenged faux occupiers; the DNC Media has your backs.
Even if all you do is sit in a filthy tent and shiver, CNN will make it sound noble and heroic.
Now wonder when the IRSh!ts going to come in and collect the taxes and spread his wealth????????????
smoke em up johnny
I think this must be a typo. I think it should say he runs a turd-shine stand. But you know what they say about shining a turd.
Same here, except it's a Washington State Riesling.
(Note to self: The white side of the cellar is down to a few dozen bottles. Ammo resupply as soon as the weather breaks).
Thank goodness for Big Wine!
Here’s hoping it drops to 20 below zero!!!
“Even if all you do is sit in a filthy tent and shiver, CNN will make it sound noble and heroic.”
Good post. The corrupt MSM will cast their sordid garbage pile as the equivalent of the Valley Forge encampment.
“Same here, except it’s a Washington State Riesling.”
A most excellent source of good Rieslings. You have a refined knowlege of viniculture! :)
We are Wall Street. Its our job to make money. Whether its a commodity, stock, bond, or some hypothetical piece of fake paper, it doesnt matter. We would trade baseball cards if it were profitable. I didnt hear America complaining when the market was roaring to 14,000 and everyones 401k doubled every 3 years. Just like gambling, its not a problem until you lose. Ive never heard of anyone going to Gamblers Anonymous because they won too much in Vegas.
Well now the market crapped out, & even though it has come back somewhat, the government and the average Joes are still looking for a scapegoat. God knows there has to be one for everything. Well, here we are.
Go ahead and continue to take us down, but youre only going to hurt yourselves. Whats going to happen when we cant find jobs on the Street anymore? Guess what: Were going to take yours. We get up at 5am & work until 10pm or later. Were used to not getting up to pee when we have a position. We dont take an hour or more for a lunch break. We dont demand a union. We dont retire at 50 with a pension. We eat what we kill, and when the only thing left to eat is on your dinner plates, well eat that.
For years teachers and other unionized labor have had us fooled. We were too busy working to notice. Do you really think that we are incapable of teaching 3rd graders and doing landscaping? Were going to take your cushy jobs with tenure and 4 months off a year and whine just like you that we are so-o-o-o underpaid for building the youth of America. Say goodbye to your overtime, and double time and a half. Ill be hitting grounders to the high school baseball team for $5k extra a summer, thank you very much.
So now that were going to be making $85k a year without upside, Joe Mainstreet is going to have his revenge, right? Wrong! Guess what: were going to stop buying the new 80k car, we arent going to leave the 35 percent tip at our business dinners anymore. No more free rides on our backs. Were going to landscape our own back yards, wash our cars with a garden hose in our driveways. Our money was your money. You spent it. When our money dries up, so does yours.
The difference is, you lived off of it, we rejoiced in it. The Obama administration and the Democratic National Committee might get their way and knock us off the top of the pyramid, but its really going to hurt like hell for them when our fat a**es land directly on the middle class of America and knock them to the bottom.
We arent dinosaurs. We are smarter and more vicious than that, and we are going to survive. The question is, now that Obama & his administration are making Joe Mainstreet our food supply will he? and will they?
Should be its own thread...if it has already been posted; I can't find it.
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it’s not a phenomenon... it’s all part of a script they are following, trying to ‘achieve’ critical mass through the media
it’s all carefully orchestrated
kind of like the former marine in oakland getting hit in the face with a canister... and a stun grenade landed next to him a moment later. obviously targeted so they can use the event for their ‘kent state’ moment.
watch... they’ll be trying to convince the troopers to join their cause... fight back against the ‘oppression of the man’
Thank you, Lord, for all that wonderful snow.
says that they are cold .... they are asking for help .. imagine that.....
I wouldn’t pee on them to keep them warm
They could just go home!
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