Posted on 10/07/2011 2:14:03 PM PDT by presidio9
Michael Oher, offensive lineman for the Baltimore Ravens, was online Wednesday night when his Twitter feed started filling up with tributes to Steve Jobs. A bewildered Oher tweeted: "Can somebody help me out? Who was Steve Jobs!" He was on his iPhone at the time.
Who was Steve Jobs? Well, he was a guy who founded a corporation and spent his life as a corporate executive manufacturing corporate products. So he wouldn't have endeared himself to the "Occupy Wall Street" crowd, even though, underneath the patchouli and lentils, most of them are abundantly accessorized with iPhones and iPads and iPods loaded with iTunes, if only for when the drum circle goes for a bathroom break. The above is a somewhat obvious point, although the fact that it's not obvious even to protesters with an industrial-strength lack of self-awareness is a big part of the problem. But it goes beyond that: If you don't like to think of Jobs as a corporate exec (and a famously demanding one at that), think of him as a guy who went to work, and worked hard. There's no appetite for that among those "occupying" Zuccotti Park. In the old days, the tribunes of the masses demanded an honest wage for honest work. Today, the tribunes of America's leisured varsity class demand a world that puts "people before profits." If the specifics of their "program" are somewhat contradictory, the general vibe is consistent: They wish to enjoy an
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A liberal organizer told the Daily Caller on Thursday afternoon that he paid some Hispanics to attend “Occupy DC” protests happening in the nation’s capital.
TheDC attended the protest event, an expansion of the “Occupy Wall Street” movement that began in New York City. Some aspects of the protest, it turned out, are more Astroturf than grassroots.
One group of about ten Hispanic protesters marched behind a Caucasian individual from the DC Tenants Advocacy Coalition, a non-profit organization dedicated to supporting rent control in Washington, D.C.
Asked why they were there, some Hispanic protesters holding up English protest signs could not articulate what their signs said.
Great essay, read it all. One of Steyn’s end-of-civilization best.
Steyn ping!
Definition of oxymoron.
Sad, but true.
Brilliant skewering by Mark Steyn of the hard-left’s anti-capitalist ideology and the futility of the ‘Wall Street Protests’. Well worth the quick read.
Anarchists who are so lazy they want government to perpetuate the anarchy. Well, it’s hard to blame them, with a fellow like Barack Obama perfectly willing to do that for them.
"In an amusing inversion of the Russian model, Van Jones became a czar after he'd been a Communist."
That's beautifully done.
I love this guy.
"Anarchists who are so lazy they want government to perpetuate the anarchy.
That's what always amazed me about these idiot anarchists. They seem to always congregate around leftist/Marxist/Democrat protests. They have got to be completely clueless as to their own political mandate as to associate with those who would have government run our lives.
Sounds like a protest for the politically and ideologically conflicted.
I have a friend who is a libertarian that works for the state of AL. I asked him one time how he feels coming to work and experiencing ideological conflict every day. We both always got a laugh out of it when I brought up the subject. But the reality is, ideology often ends where your livelihood begins. But the morons in this protest act like they all just got back from drug rehab.
Just doing what any good community organizer would do: Get some day laborers from the Home Depot parking lot.
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I still think that the 13 Points of their manifesto has been written for the Onion or SNL. It CAN'T be serious!
Book recommendation: The Secret Knowledge on the Dismantling of American Culture, by David Mamet. He is a reformed liberal playwright and essayist. This book details the background of American culture that has brought "Occupy Wall Street" into reality. He is not writing about the current event, but what he details about the past 30 years shows us how those dolts in Manhattan can be Anarchists for Big Government.
You'll remember our CD lecture on dear Mr. Gibbon, that goofy old literary stylist. But I doubt Van Jones would get it.
Buy Machiavelli a drink for me ...
I have that book.
The style is very..Kipling.
Yes. Lovely compound-complex sentence.
I’m about to collapse. I’ll try to pay your ticket before the mail picks up tomorrow.
Mark Steyn ping. Limbaugh almost got it the other day. The occupy gang are capitolists while the Tea Party are capitalists.
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Thanks for the ping Slings and Arrows.
De nada.
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