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We'll be scarce the next few days.

Check out this trailer for Act of Valor movie coming out in February!

Laura Pollen, RIP

Cuba's leading dissident has died of heart failure while being cared for in one of their world leading health facilities. You may recall our post where she is seen leading the Ladies in White.

Our fingers are crossed that the movement continues in her honor.

More at Babalu.

News & Endorsements

Today's Drudge links to CBS: Violence Breaks Out at 'Occupy'...

Sandberg reported police clashed with some protestors, wielding their night sticks and batons. A police officer in a white shirt, possibly a captain, hurled his megaphone and wound up rolling around in the street with a protestor, throwing punches. Other officers surrounded the white-shirted officer, throwing punches.

Police say the protestors were throwing bottles and bags of garbage at officers, Sandberg reported. Police say they were trying to control the situation when it got out of hand.

A number of arrests have been made, Sandberg reported.

Completely unrelated, a couple product endorsements found this morning:

Hornady Zombie Ammunition!



And Oleg helps Kel-Tech with their advertising:

UPDATED 10.15 6:30am

And to prove our Attention Deficit Disorder, we're posting this video which also has nothing to do with anything else in this random, unorganized post.

NSFW WARNING - Profanity and brutal honesty:

Monday Afternoon Cigar

We celebrated Columbus Day with a Rocky Patel Decade. The flavor was extra capitalistic.

Quote of the Day

Actually, of the last century. We saw this at Green Mountains Homesteading in the left column with many other great quotes.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn:

And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if every Security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family? Or if, during periods of mass arrests, as for example in Leningrad, when they arrested a quarter of the entire city, people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling with terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood they had nothing left to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever else was at hand?... The Organs would very quickly have suffered a shortage of officers and transport and, notwithstanding all of Stalin's thirst, the cursed machine would have ground to a halt! If...if...We didn't love freedom enough. And even more – we had no awareness of the real situation.... We purely and simply deserved everything that happened afterward.

What will surprise anyone who reads Solzhenitsyn, these feelings and regrets are far more rare than they should be. It is not uncommon for us to read his works and feel compelled to scream "Why didn't you fight back?!". As our studies broaden we learn that many did fight. But not enough.

Will there be enough next time?

38 Dead on Wall Street UPDATED 6x & BUMPED

[orig post 10.3 8pm]

No, not the Obama Re-Election Committee "Occupy Wall Street" liberals progressives communists that are there this week. We're talking about their fore-fathers. The Communist infiltrators in 1920.

September 16, 1920 - a horse-drawn carriage conceals a large bomb. It is detonated at Broad and Wall Streets in New York. 38 Dead, 400 injured with 143 of them seriously.

It was the second attack on the United States from Soviet-backed communists. The first attack came a year earlier in numerous mail bombs. All but one were discovered and disabled. The one blowing the hands off of Georgia Senator Hardwick's housekeeper.

In short, the "Occupy Wall Street" crowd are showing how far the American Communist has fallen. In 1919-1920 it was the "Red Scare" with the bombings and the Soviet-funded agitation. Today, it is the 'privatization of banks'? You mean the banks that have been private all these years?

WSJ:

The seeming aimlessness of the Wall Street protestors may reflect that they are raging against their own machine. Their political favorites ran all of Washington until January, and many of their policies have been passed or implemented via regulation: national health care, turning big banks into public utilities, huge increases in government spending, green energy subsidies and regulations to kill fossil fuels. We sympathize with their frustration at the sad economic results of all this, but if the protestors want something better they might try joining the tea party.

Our fellow bloggers have been joining the chorus of accusing NYPD of aggressive tactics. We've taken the opposite view and assumed that with the density of officers, they are behaving correctly and that the protester videos are edited to show only part of the story. We have no doubt the pepper-sprayed girls were told to move and were warned - it just isn't in the videos.

Here is a video of the officers asking people to leave the bridge. They did not, and 700 were arrested.



WeaselZippers has a list of the 13 demands. Marx would be proud of the demands, but would hide in shame if he saw this poorly executed operation.

WeaselZippers also reports that MoveOn.Org is supporting this Obama Re-Election Rally protest.

NiceDeb has some great commentary and video:

There is a reason many in the center-right have been ridiculing #occupywallstreet as clueless, incoherent children who don’t seem to have seem to have the slightest idea how detached from reality their message/argument/vision – whatever is.

We found this image at EnglishRussia. Translated:

We are young followers of Lenin's doctrine.

How timely. Some other old Soviet posters there too.

Other images found at Gothamist.

These kids have some super-supportive parents. All that money for a Sociology education, and they go and skip class.

UPDATED 10.4 10am

Click Here to see a collection of photos from the protest. Here's one showing two generations of Democrat voters:

And at Prof. Jacobson's blog:

The “Richest 5%” Are The New Kulaks

History shows, the top 5% doesn't catch all the state's enemies, and must be expanded in order to move the Dictatorship of the Proletariat to pure Communism.

UPDATE 10.5 11am

Walls of the City reports some participants quit their jobs "to come and protest about… people not having jobs?" Yep.

EnglishRussia has some photos from a precursor to our Occupy Wall Street demonstration. Here is one that stood out:

Same message. Shorter hair. More soap.

UPDATE 10.6 10:30am

EnglishRussia posts some black & white photos today. Not sure, but it appears these are from the current Occupy Wall Street marches. Can anyone confirm?

And o'Reilly is having fun at their expense too. This video found at Moonbattery:



And from a Facebook friend:

UPDATE 10.8 4:45pm

Remember when we were told the Egypt freedom fighters Muslim Brotherhood riots were 'what democracy looks like'?

Jim Treacher on Facebook:

This is what democracy smells like!

From UK MailOnline:

And from IOTW:

UPDATE 10.9 6pm

The core reason for the protest, as described by Bookworm Room:

It’s pretty clear that a core issue animating these protesters is the ridiculous debt obligations that they voluntarily assumed.
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Student loans started out as a good idea. The GI Bill got the whole thing started... What most people forget now is that the GI Bill was payment for services rendered. In that way, it differed dramatically from student loans, which are payments for . . . what?
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...the student loan program has given young people the completely unfounded and unreasonable belief that their current economic situation and future earning potential are irrelevant to their academic choices.
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...the loans have expanded greatly the number of young people who can be indoctrinated in Marxist crap by grossly overpaid professors at America’s “finest” schools. ... The demands are unicorn and fairyland stuff, made possible only by immersion in the academic world of Marxist fantasy.
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...the loans have created a self-entitled group of people who, rather than pay off their debt, feel that it’s totally appropriate for them to attack others’ financial livelihood, as they’re doing now when they try to interfere with our nation’s economic core.
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Just as the Vietnam war protests had nothing to do with actual principles, and everything to do with a spoiled generation’s fear of the draft; so too do today’s protests in America’s financial centers have nothing to do with concerns about America’s economy, and everything to do with deadbeat kids who willingly took on an unreasonable amount of debt, and are now facing the financial consequences for their cupidity and stupidity.

The Looking Spoon has a top ten list of things you may hear at the protests. Our favorite:

3. We won't rest until the rich are paying our fair share.

And finally, Bob chimes in:



UPDATE 10.10 9:30am

Via Zombie:

Cowboys & Communists

Let's Play!

iTunes Link

Bush's Fault...

Great video found over at IOTW. Using his words and showing his results.



YouTube will save this nation.

No liberal progressive communist can win re-election when we have access to his blathering about policies that failed.

This is also why future Democrats that win the White House will be inexperienced newbies who do not have any YouTube baggage.

Sound like anyone we know??

Mr. Jobs, RIP

Steve Jobs: one of our two favorite business leaders, and the only one who is real.

Dead at 56. Will we see another business leader like him again?

Steve narrates this Think Different commercial back in 1997, but it is really just his autobiography in one minute.



Our other Steve Jobs posts: Our Tribute post in February, and our response to his resignation in August.

From Big Government, a great cartoon:

and the announcement that Westboro Church will protest Jobs' funeral. Mike Flynn:

The fringe crazies at Westboro Church are going to protest Steve Jobs’ funeral for…well, for reasons I can’t possibly explain. As best I can tell, they believe this titan of capitalism should have done more to support their particular religious views. I don’t know. But, their tweet is delicious…

UPDATED 5:30pm




UPDATED 6.14:  The video above has been taken offline.  Here is the audio of Steve Jobs narrating "The Crazy Ones" commercial, played after his death at the Cupertino campus.

Perception

From Dictionary.com:

per·cep·tion   [per-sep-shuhn] noun

1. the act or faculty of apprehending by means of the senses or of the mind; cognition; understanding.
2. immediate or intuitive recognition or appreciation, as of moral, psychological, or aesthetic qualities; insight; intuition; discernment: an artist of rare perception.
3. the result or product of perceiving, as distinguished from the act of perceiving; percept.
4. Psychology . a single unified awareness derived from sensory processes while a stimulus is present.
5. Law . the taking into possession of rents, crops, profits, etc.

Here is our 'result of perceiving'

Found at Moonbattery:

And at IOTW:

What perceiving leads to these images?

Doug Ross: Van Jones: Dude, Like 80% of Americans Are Marxist Crackpots Ready to Launch an "October Offensive" Against the Man