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Clearing the Browser Tabs – #OccupyMyBlog Monday Edition

Jimmie | October 3, 2011 | Comments (0)

I should have known, when I wrote about the Day of Rage, a couple of weeks ago that it would become the Month of Rage. After all, the participants weren’t exactly plucked from the ranks of the gainfully-employed (unlike the Tea Parties) and the Professional Left has been looking for any reason to dump money into a headline-grabbing stunt.

Now we have the stunt. On Twitter, you can follow the hashtag #OccupyWallStreet and read the ongoing travails of a mixture of always-ready anarchists, bored rich kids, and earnest progressives who have yet to learn that money follows power and not the other way around as they broadcast their doing on the iPhones, iPads, and other communications tools of corporate manufacture.

The real story here, from what I’ve seen, is the presence of the Professional Left, who have used their union, political, and media contacts to turn the small outpouring of youthful angst into a headline-grabbing cry for more government meddling in our already gut-shot economy. Already, the MSM is at work comparing the protests to the Tahrir protest in Iran wherein brave people were murdered by their tyrannical government. Thankfully, some of the MSM have shown restraint and have compared #OccupyWallStreet to the Tea Parties. Neither comparison is appropriate or welcome.

And now, links!

The MSM has launched its latest attack at Rick Perry, which of course means he scares the spit out of them. Michelle Malkin called out the “Macaca Media” for their wicked double-standard and Herman Cain committed a major blunder when he took the bait.
Chris Muir goes Shakespeare!
Speaking of Chris Muir, he featured patriotic pinup entrepreneur Gina Elise in a strip last month. Joy McCann has more on Elise and that strip. Good stuff, and not just for the cheesecake.
I love this headline from the UK’s Daily Mail: “Give us less posturing and more enterprise”. We could apply that to our government as well.
Salena Zito made a point that I’ve made here a couple times. President Obama has no one in his administration who will tell him “no”. I will disagree on one point. She thinks he used to have such a person when Rahm Emanuel was his Chief of Staff, but I don’t think that he did much, if any, of that while he was there.
Stacy’s quest to know the mind of the Blogfather continues apace, with offerings of a sweet savour to the nostrils of He Who Grants the Instalanche.
Dan Collins wrote an excellent essay on the ties between sociopathy and progressivism that gets way down in the weeds, but that is also well worth your time.
I’m a big fan of the works of H.P. Lovecraft and have always wanted to run a role-playing game set in in a world of the Cthulhu Mythos (What? You didn’t know I’m a gamer?). If I do, I’ll likely use Realms of Cthulhu for Savage Worlds — check out Tommy Brownell’s comprehensive review here.