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Old 10-22-2011, 08:15 PM   #1
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I, for one, wouldn't feel safe at all! I mean, those people might vandalize me, and then disorderly conduct all over my face.



Jesus Christ I can't believe I wrote that.
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Old 10-22-2011, 09:23 PM   #2
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Old 10-22-2011, 09:44 PM   #3
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First person to say "Kumbaya" gets sent to Time Out.

Washington Post
By Marc Fisher
Updated: Saturday, October*22, 4:10*PM

For tea party and Occupy Wall Street movements, some common ground
Quote:
Wayne Schissler walked the four blocks from his workplace
to the small Occupy Allentown protest to show the young demonstrators
that a tea party member is not a monster.
What he learned after a few hours of talk surprised him.

“They didn’t stink, and they weren’t on drugs,” he said. “I could see me being them, 30 years ago.”

Fifteen hundred miles away in rural Minnesota, Vas Littlecrow,
a tea party die-hard since the movement’s early days,
let the Internet noise about Occupy Wall Street wash over her,
leaving her alternately annoyed and intrigued.
She went on Google Plus to debate the Occupiers,
“and they started saying things that clicked with me,” she said.
“This was deja vu with how I got into the tea party.”
<snip>
No one expects the tea party and Occupy movements to merge forces,
but their adherents are discovering that their stories are often strikingly similar:
They searched for jobs and came up empty.
They found work, but their pay barely covered food and rent,
with nothing left over even to buy an old car.
They saw their towns empty out as young people moved away in search of money and meaning.
<snip>
Sorta nice to hear of people talking to one another.







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