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2011-10-15 Europe

Protesters burn cars and police van in Rome as 'Occupy' protests spread worldwide

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Posted by tipper 2011-10-15 12:45|| || Front Page|| [5 views ] Top

#1 Starting to look like the British riots. Should be fun when night falls.

Posted by tipper 2011-10-15 12:55|| 2011-10-15 12:55|| Front Page Top

#2 The media is desperate to tag something, anything with the alternative to the Tea Party. Are these actions really any different than what's been going on in Greece for an even longer period of time? If violence is what the media wishes to promote as a means to scare those who oppose their agenda, maybe they'd better pause and think for once what will happen when the leash is cut from those you loath so much.

Posted by Procopius2k 2011-10-15 13:07|| 2011-10-15 13:07|| Front Page Top

#3 Right on Proco. Let me know if these boobs have a real plan for a solution, the ones in NY et. al. sure don't.

These protests have a lot in common with President Hope-n-Change. They are nothing but a blank slate on which anyone can write their grievances or fantasy wishes. (I want a pink pony)

Posted by AlanC 2011-10-15 14:20|| 2011-10-15 14:20|| Front Page Top

#4 It will never happen here. The OWS mental cases' tears will extinguish any lit match.

America's P*ssy Rage Boy:

His hard scrabble, the MAN is keeping him down story:
Opposite Sides of the Protest Come Together, Briefly
Mr. Hall is a well-educated young man with a privileged upbringing who said he was following a calling greater than getting a job and making money. He said he saw the protest as a global movement to help fight poverty and economic inequality. He has spent the past month sleeping in the park and is one of the organizers of the protest.

Mr. Hall said that he grew up in New Mexico and that both his parents were politically active lawyers who were thrilled that he was pursuing a socially conscious life and was involved in the Occupy Wall Street protest. Mr. Hall said he attended Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh and then transferred to Bard College in upstate New York because of its reputation as a socially conscious school.

He had been renting in Washington Heights for the past two years while attending doctoral classes at Columbia University as a nonmatriculated student. He said that he supported his modest lifestyle with savings from working as a teenager and that he also had a small trust fund from his grandfather that he had not drawn from yet. For the past four weeks, he has eaten free meals and has slept in the park.

How about Mr. Hall attending his classes and working on his dissertation so he too can contribute half his gross pay for the next 40 years? For the Greater Good, of course.

Posted by Eohippus Phater7165 2011-10-15 17:11|| 2011-10-15 17:11|| Front Page Top

#5 Carnegie Mellon tuition: $47,050 Commuter, $57,520 Resident

Bard College tuition: $43,600 Commuter, $55,592 Resident

Posted by Eohippus Phater7165 2011-10-15 17:11|| 2011-10-15 17:11|| Front Page Top

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