Wall Street Protests

[ZenGum]

Brothel?! Honestly, Officer, I just play the piano in the front bar. I had no idea ...

[Lamplighter]

[TheMercenary]

Well done protesters!!!! You really made a statement on this one!

OAKLAND -- Occupy Oakland protesters broke into City Hall, stole an American flag from the City Council chamber and set it on fire Saturday night, punctuating a wild day in which police deployed tear gas, arrested more than 200 marchers and dodged hurling objects.
Demonstrators spent the day trying to break into a convention center and temporarily occupying City Hall and a YMCA, all the while snaking around lines of riot-clad police periodically shooting bean bag projectiles, among other uses of nonlethal force.
Saturday marked the first major clashes between protesters and police since November and left three officers with minor injuries, as protesters threw bottles, metal pipes, rocks, spray cans and "improvised explosive devices," police said.
Late Saturday, paramedics wheeled a pregnant protester away from Frank H. Ogawa Plaza after witnesses said she was hit in the kidney by a police baton. She yelled: "Police did this to me!"
Oakland Mayor Jean Quan spoke moments after the City Hall invasion, saying the city would ask for "stay away" orders against many of the protesters who have repeatedly been arrested in Oakland.
"This particular faction of Occupy ... they're very violent and I'm going to be asking for a lot more mutual aid," Quan said, adding that the weekly marches prevent the city's police force from patrolling other parts of Oakland. "They are hurting the neighborhoods by continuing to do this on Saturday nights."

http://www.contracostatimes.com/top-stories/ci_19843263

[sexobon]

Just a training exercise in preparation for the 38th G8 summit in Chicago this May.

[TheMercenary]

Chicago will be interesting. I wonder if the protesters plan on upping the violence level there as well. And further it will be interesting how Rham "It through" will respond.

[Griff]

It will make great television!

[piercehawkeye45]

Originally Posted by TheMercenary

Chicago will be interesting. I wonder if the protesters plan on upping the violence level there as well. And further it will be interesting how Rham "It through" will respond.

I'm guessing there will be a sect of OWS that will be very violent and attempt to start riots, but I doubt OWS as a whole will endorse it since it is a very heterogeneous group. It will be the same what you posted about Oakland, a bunch of idiots who want to start trouble and using the Occupy Movement as a cover.

[TheMercenary]

Originally Posted by piercehawkeye45

a bunch of idiots....

the Occupy Movement...

I am pretty sure that pretty much sums it up for most of the Nation.

[Lamplighter]

Occupy PDX

Chapman and Lownsdale squares were reopened Thursday
to foot traffic for the first time in two and a half months.

On Friday, Occupy Portland announced that it will throw a potluck in the park at noon Sunday.

Well, what did you expect they would do !

[TheMercenary]

Oh hell. I haven't thought about that show in years. Thanks for the memory.

[infinite monkey]

It seems analogous to losing weight: when you have 100 pounds to lose you can start shedding pretty quickly, and still have a lot left to lose. When you only have 10 pounds to lose, it's a struggle dipping into the fat reserves.

So I don't really get it either.

*shrugs*

[infinite monkey]

I know. I feel so horribly for them. I'd like to take up a collection to save their 6th home in the Hamptons.

Sorry, but right now I don't feel sorry for one freaking rich person on earth...

Sure, they deal with all kinds of issues that us ordinary folk deal with, except for the ones they can buy their way out of.

[Undertoad]

Just read the thread from 3.5 months ago, and live and learn. Imagine that you don't get the change the subject.

[Lamplighter]

Originally Posted by Undertoad

Just read the thread from 3.5 months ago, and live and learn.
Imagine that you don't get the change the subject.

I can't remember threads from two weeks ago, let alone 3.5 months

So lets start from today...

For example, since 2007 the number of millionaires has dropped 40 percent,
while income reported by millionaires has dropped in half.

I take it from this quote your point is that Mitt Romney's income dropped
from $113,4000 per day to last year's level of only $56,700 per day.
That was, indeed, a terrible loss...

[infinite monkey]

OK, what page is that exactly?