These Occupy Wall Street losers really are an endless source of entertainment.  It would be even more amusing if I didn't know that half of them would murder me in my sleep, given the chance.  I have become really addicted to scouring YouTube to look for more of their drivel to listen to.

This video was fruitful for a few different reasons.  The woman at 0:58 is a nit-wit.  She advocates free college education for all.  As to who is going to fund this "free" education, her only remark is that, "then you have to look into tax dollars."  Genius.  A lot of my more intelligent FB friends that are Leftists are defending OWS by saying that they have the same gripe at root as the Tea Party.  But they do not.  They are, in fact, the opposite of the Tea Party, and this woman proves it.  The guy at 1:30 says that absolutely, the central government should take over the banks.  I've not heard many Tea Partiers espouse that notion.



My favorite buffoon, though is the arrogant guy at 2:15 who, after kicking his less-experienced fellow protester off camera, admits that, yes, he is a leader of this leaderless movement.  But that is not his master stroke.  That comes at 2:32, where he announces that he is an out-of-work Plumber's Helper.  To help the chap out, here is a photo of a plumber's helper:

 The guy who appears from 5:15 through 5:30 is the most reasonable person interviewed here.  To quote him:

"It's not gonna do shiiiiiiit."

"All these people's not gonna be here in a little while.  Let one really good bad wind come through ... it's gonna be empty, man."

The 99 Percent - Student Loans

There is a new crop of people on We Are the 99 Percent who have buried themselves in Student Loan debt.

I don't know about y'all, but is sounds like the simplest solution here is to abolish student loans.  They are simply hurting too many people!





n2a - 789 Chevy

The very existence of this car makes me so happy!  It is built on a Corvette C-6 platform, and incorporates styling elements from 1957, 1958, and 1959 Chevrolets, as you move from front to rear along the vehicle.  I'm especially pleased about the 1959 rear treatment, as the 1959 Chevy seems to get very little love, and I've thought it awesome ever since riding in my grandparents' '59 back in the day.  This was built by an outfit called n2a - No 2 Alike.



Is that sweet, or what!?

Occupy Atlanta Buffoons.

Watch both videos in their entirety, if you have the patience.  The "call and response" thing they are doing so that everyone can (usually) be heard, is very funny.  I guess they felt that if they had rented a Public Address system, the Capitalists would have won.





I cannot imagine a nation in which these buffoons are in charge of anything!  I think that they should all be required to watch Wild in the Streets, as an antidote to their stupidity.  But I think the point of that film would be lost on them.

Wall Street Hippies (Part 3) - How I Stopped Worrying and Learned to Love the Income Gap!

A friend of mine posted this chart on FaceBook recently (a real friend, not just someone I know through FaceBook).  He found it at Mother Jones.  He made the point that these "Occupy Wall Street" hippies are mostly about envy.  I'm sure that he is right.  What I'm not sure of is whether they'd be happier being wealthy enough to be in one of the red/orange/yellow squares ... or, whether it would make them much happier to have everyone in the blue.  I suspect the latter.  Socialism, after all, is not about causing everyone to have plenty; it is about spreading the misery around equally.  And the Wall Street Hippies have concluded that those in the top income brackets are not carrying their fair share of misery.

But I find at least two objections to this chart and the realities behind it.  The first is that the Mother Jones / Wall Street Hippie thinking depends upon this being a Zero Sum Game.  In that view of things, there is a fixed amount of wealth in the world, and the only question is how to divide it up.  It would be like having ten of your friends over and ordering a medium pizza.  It wouldn't seem fair for one fellow to have eight pieces while the rest divide up the remaining two slices of pizza.  But the point is, there is no limit on how large the pizza can get.  In reality, you are able to order an Extra-extra-extra-extra Large pizza.  And then, even if you divide it unevenly, everyone has plenty.

The economy is not a Zero-Sum Game.  Wealth can be and is being created.  The pizza is getting bigger.  How does the total wealth of the world increase?  It increases by commerce, but mainly by genius, inspiration, perspiration (hard work), patience, faith, and by people diligently and zealously pursuing their vocations.  I would be willing to wager that 99% of the Wall Street Hippies have more expensive and more capable cell phones than my family has.  Our Century has the richest poor people in the history of the planet.

How I Stopped Worrying and Learned to Love the Income Gap!

And here is the other main point.  The folks at Mother Jones and the Wall Street Hippies create (or most likely, just find; creating is too hard for them) charts like this to prove one main point:  The rich are getting richer and the poor are getting poorer.

But why are they surprised?  This is the expected outcome in the world.  In fact, I will be so bold as to say that it is God's intended way for the world to be.  How do I know this?  I read it in the Bible:

"For I say unto you, That unto every one which hath shall be given; and from him that hath not, even that he hath shall be taken away from him."

I put that in red font, because those are the word of the Lord Jesus Christ himself.  You can read the context here in St. Luke's Gospel the 19th Chapter.  Maybe it seems odd to you that it should be this way.  But it inevitably is.

Perhaps my favourite professor of all time was my Physics professor at Cooper Union, Professor Milton Stecher.  Freshman Physics was a "weed out" course, helping to identify and separate weak students form the herd, perhaps giving them time to choose another major before wasting four more years.  Professor Stecher was fond of quoting the verse above and applying it to his students.  Those of us in the "hath" category, were those with the greatest aptitude for Physics.  They were also those who did the required homework every evening.  Those in the "hath not" category were those who did not like Physics, or found it difficult, and therefore abandoned the nightly wrestling with it.  During the first week of classes, Professor Stecher asked us to cast our minds forward to the night before the Final Exam in his Physics class.  He asked us:  "Which group will you find studying hard that night?"  After giving us a moment to reflect upon this, he gave us the answer:

"You would expect those who had not done the homework to study more on the night before the Final Exam.  But you would be wrong.  It is precisely those who have been diligent all throughout the semester that you will find still toiling away, perhaps unnecessarily, the night before the Final.  For I say unto you that unto every one which hath shall be given; and from him that hath not, even the little he hath shall be taken away."

Wall Street Hippies (Part 2)

In my last blog entry, I linked to this We Are the 99 Percent site.

Since then, I've spent some more time looking at the photos of self-pitying and whining over there, and one clear theme is:  Massive student loan debt with a degree which does not guarantee employment.

I will propose to you that this is due in large part, not to corporate greed, but to the self-centeredness of these people with the wrong degrees.  I, too, might have gone to art school:

But I chose to major in Mechanical Engineering, partially because I felt that there was a greater market for that skill.  When you choose to major in something you "just really, really like", it may be that you are being selfish.

The free market is there to provide you information about what degree to take, and in what field.  I will propose to you that those who major in fields other than their most beloved ones are not being greedy.  Quite the contrary, they have the hearts of servants, being willing to subjugate their own selfish desires in order that they may serve where they are really needed, not merely where it is groovy and fun!

This woman, for example, had the chance to make a mid-course correction between her tow degrees and listen carefully to what the market was telling her:

I have to admire this guy, though,because he accepts at least partial blame:

The Wall Street Hippies

Okay, I'm sorry if it sounds rude to point this out, but the "Occupy Wall Street" and "We Are the 99 Percent" hippies are just idiots.  And these idiots are getting on my last nerve.  In any blog entry of reasonable length, I can only give you a tiny flavor of their idiocy.  But it is out there for you to find, if you have the stomach for such things.

A young woman quoted in this article captures the impetus behind this movement pretty clearly:

"I don't think we're asking for much, just to wake up every morning not worrying whether we can pay the rent, or whether our next meal will be rice and beans again,"

In other words, she is unwilling to face the struggle for existence that all people in all places have had ... forever.  How weak is that?  You wonder, in the case of these people, if the wrong sperm won the race.  Pretty much everyone has to worry about how they will eat and how they will pay the rent.  Duh!  But this bunch seems fixated on the wealthiest 1%, who they vilify for not having to face this struggle.  They are the 99% ... and they are moral and ethical retards.

What these hippies need is a mega-dose of Dave Ramsey!  Then, they would not have $75,000 in student loans or $35,000 in credit card debt.  I am currently swimming in an enormous sea of credit card debt myself, but the difference is, I admit that it is my fault.  My own damn fault.  I was covetous.  I bought things that I had not yet earned.  I am paying the price that God intends for people who act in this covetous way.  Funny, too, how all the people on We Are the 99 Percent accumulated their credit card debt only through medical costs, the cost of diapers, and the cost of food.  Sure.  I'll be they never bought any alcohol, marijuana, gaming devices, trendy clothing, or luxuries with those credit cards.  Right.

These folks sometimes rail against the American education system ... and perhaps with some validity because, dude, it's "genocide".  Oh, and by the way, just where in the USA is this genocide occurring?

The reference to prohibition is telling.  I'm pretty sure that the Prohibition of alcohol was repealed last century.  Let me check ... yes, it was.  Presumably he is talking about the prohibition of recreational drugs.  I have an idea that this is why 99% of the Wall Street Hippies are out of $$$ ... they spent it on drugs.

This woman's sign reflects the ridiculous notion that 99% of the country is behind them.  We are not!

The middle class used to be too big to fail.  But you are not the middle class.  You are leeches.  Middle Class used to mean that you worked hard for a living, and took care of your own business.  But these people never want to have to pay for their own rent or food.

Poverty used to cause hard work.  Now it causes loud, obnoxious protests with colorful balloons.

These leftists with the signs remind me of the folks who displayed their self-pity on the internet, apologizing to the world for the last Bush presidential victory:  "Sorry world!  We are good little hippies and voted against the evil Bush!  Sorry we failed you!"  It was pathetic.  As is this.  

I beg to differ.  He could have gotten through school without student loans.  He could have worked his way through school, as folks used to do all the time.

In his semi-autobiographical book Black Boy (1945) Richard Wright tells of the old school attitude towards poverty and want.  He and his family would not take help from others.  It was a matter of pride, to provide for themselves through their labor.  Now, many of us have grown soft, weak, and have a mindset of complete dependency on others.  We are a bunch of namby-pamby wimps, whining for the government to take care of us, and protesting and rioting when others succeed in creating wealth for themselves.

On the Occupy Wall Street front page, they compare their movement to the Arab Spring.  But the very Wikipedia link to which they lead us defines the reasons for the Arab Spring as:

"... to organize, communicate, and raise awareness in the face of state attempts at repression and internet censorship."

We have little of either of those in this country, in case you hippies have not noticed.  The fields (of potential wealth creation) are "white unto harvest"!  Go make some money.  It will make you feel better.  If you've gotten yourself in a desperate financial situation, as I have, go and buy this book, and do exactly what it says.  It works.

This video gives a little flavor of the Occupy Wall Street protests.  The woman's sign (at around 2:00 into the video) pretty much says it all:  STOP Capitalism.




If I need to do a separate blog on the virtues of Capitalism, maybe I will.  But it will not be stopped by a bunch of pathetic non-contributing losers and whiners like this.  I imagine their numbers will dwindle once the less pleasant winter weather sets in.

 Honestly, I could rant for pages and pages about this.  But I can't - I have to go to work!