Archive | November, 2011
Occupy Protester Charged with Assault Using a Hammer
No word as to whether a sickle was also involved. Portland police say they have charged a man with assaulting another man with a hammer at the Occupy Maine encampment in Lincoln Park. Police charged Chris Schisler who said recently he has been staying at the camp for several weeks, with assaulting another member of [...]
Pelosi: We’ll do for childcare what we did for health care
18. November 2011
Captain Queeg still trying to find those stolen strawberries. “I could never get a babysitter — have five kids in six years and no one wants to come to your house. … And everywhere I go, women say the same thing” about how hard it is to find the kind of reliable care that would [...]
Even Detroit Laying Off Government Employees Now
18. November 2011
Government might just be too big when even left-wing bases like Detroit are measuring government employee terminations by the hundreds. “Detroit Mayor Dave Bing, who outlined an emergency plan two days ago, isn’t wasting any time taking action” in tackling his city’s financial crisis, our colleague Micki Maynard at the Changing Gears project reports. “Today, [...]
Obama’s Defense Secretary Lists India as Enemy of the United States
18. November 2011
Gaffetastic. “We face the threats from rising powers — China, India, others — that we have to always have sufficient force protection out there in the Pacific to make sure they know we’re never going anywhere,” Mr. Panetta said during a visit to a shipyard in Groton, Conn., where he toured a submarine, the Mississippi, [...]
Bill Schulz of Red Eye Makes Perez Hilton Post
17. November 2011
Perez Hilton posted this picture and an accompanying story without any indication he knows the guy in the center is Bill Schulz of Fox News, who is almost certainly faux-protesting for an upcoming segment on Red Eye. Hilton writes: Yesterday we told you Bradley Cooper was named Sexiest Man Alive by People magazine. We also [...]
Occupy Protesters Now Terrorizing School Children on Way to Class
17. November 2011
99%! They were caught in the middle of madness. Some grade school students were forced to walk a gauntlet of screaming “Occupy Wall Street” protesters just to get to school on Thursday. It was a wild day in lower Manhattan for most everyone involved, including elementary school children who had to brave the mayhem just [...]
Associated Press Admits: Occupy Protesters are “Scruffy”, Violent
17. November 2011
Took ‘em long enough. Although both Democrats and the Occupy protesters have similar views on economic inequality and corporate responsibility, each holds the other at arm’s length. There’s little benefit to Democrats in opening their arms wide to a scruffy group that has erupted in violence, defied police and shown evidence of drug use while [...]
No Surprise: Union Boss Arrested at Occupy Protest
17. November 2011
Totally a grassroots movement, y’all. It’s just pure coincidence that so many left-wing establishment figures happen to be involved, I’m sure. Nothing says grassroots like a union boss from one of the world’s largest unions. Oh, and she happens to have a long history of organizing union establishment-backed protests. (Statesman Journal) — Portland police have [...]
Occupy San Diego Expressed Solidarity for Man Who Tried to Kill Obama
17. November 2011
Two elements to this story. First, Occupy San Diego held a moment of solidarity for Oscar Ortega-Hernandez, the man who fired shots at the White House. That follows a protester at Occupy D.C. referring to the shooter as a “so-called” terrorist. You can see video of Occupy San Diego’s moment of solidarity at the first [...]
Rasmussen: Gingrich Leads Big in Iowa
17. November 2011
Big. The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey of Likely Iowa Republican caucus-goers shows Gingrich with 32% followed by former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney at 19%. Georgia businessman Herman Cain, who led in Iowa last month, drops to third with 13% of the vote. Texas Congressman Ron Paul draws 10% of the vote in Iowa, [...]
18. November 2011
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