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Very surreal, almost like a

Donal — Sun, 04 Dec 2011 15:01:19 +0000

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Very surreal, almost like a Christmas Carol mashup at Otakon or ComicCon.

Thought you might like my

Celestial Elf — Sun, 04 Dec 2011 10:46:27 +0000

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Thought you might like my Occupy themed version of A Christmas Carol

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Verified Atheist — Sat, 03 Dec 2011 13:47:48 +0000

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Richard Day — Fri, 02 Dec 2011 20:50:16 +0000

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Jeeze, seeing those

Jeni Decker — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 03:05:09 +0000

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Jeeze, seeing those bulletpoints at the end in black and white scared the hell out of me. Frightening, truly.

Fantastic summation post, Donal.

It is not Envy, I only want

Resistance — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 00:09:44 +0000

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It is not Envy, I only want to be free.

With a roof over my head and food on the table I will be satisfied.

Instead we are kept hungry and homeless; to be enslaved to serve others.

If it weren't for the taxes on my house and property, I wouldn't need to slave for another.

"They shall build houses and inhabit them;

they shall plant vineyards and eat their fruit.

They shall not build and another inhabit;

they shall not plant and another eat;

for like the days of a tree shall the days of my people be,

and my chosen shall long enjoy the work of their hands".

(Isaiah 65:21-22 ESV)

I don't want to slave for riches or the rich.

Yes, but you don't

Michael Maiello — Wed, 30 Nov 2011 17:17:25 +0000

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Yes, but you don't understand. He likes it.

Occupy Baltimore denied

Donal — Wed, 30 Nov 2011 16:10:08 +0000

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Occupy Baltimore denied request to continue outdoor protest

The city has rejected Occupy Baltimore’s request to continue their outdoor protest downtown until spring time, saying the group’s encampment violates the city’s laws against permanent camping in public parks and green spaces.

Ryan O’Doherty, a spokesman for Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake, said Wednesday the city will enforce the camping prohibition “at a time of its choosing” and won’t share its plans with the news media. ...

... O’Doherty noted that “each city’s own circumstances in dealing with encampments is different and a violent confrontation has been avoided here.”

O'Doherty is now considered a shoo-in for the role of Pawnbroker:

PAWNBROKER

We couldn’t have met in a better place to do our nasty deeds. Come inside. Shh! You’re so noisy you could wake the dead!

MRS. COBBLER

Just so it ain’t ’em it wakes.

PAWNBROKER

No chance of that! He’s cold as a kipper by now!

(ALL Laugh)

Doing a Christmas Carol

Elusive Trope — Wed, 30 Nov 2011 14:19:42 +0000

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Doing a Christmas Carol through street theater is a positively excellent idea. Just about everybody knows the basic storyline and agrees basically that Scrooge needed to reform himself (but needed a little help to see the light). Getting people to look at the 1% issue through this prism I think can be very powerful.

"God bless us, every one."

Cal Thomas also bangs the

Donal — Wed, 30 Nov 2011 14:18:54 +0000

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Cal Thomas also bangs the envy drum:

As a young reporter, I interviewed many successful people. "Where did you go to college and what did you study?" I asked them. "What is your philosophy of life and work ethic?" Rather than envy them, I wanted to be like them.

This is what's missing from the envy culture of the movement known as Occupy Wall Street (OWS). Envy is greed's equally bad brother. Those who lack what they think they deserve lust after the money and property of wealth creators. They seem to know little of what used to be called the "work ethic."

If Thomas actually listened to Occupy protestors, he would hear that most of them would be happy to work hard for pay, and are in fact protesting hard for no pay. Conservative media pundits know that it's a persistently high unemployment rate that is driving OWS, but it's convenient and comforting to dismiss it as envy—a capital sin they know all too well.