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Monday, October 17. 2011

Making the Revolution!

A good reminder: Occupy Wall Street and the Chicago '68 Riots.


The Revolution comes to Oakland:


 





I wish the media would go down to Union Square and interview all the happy young people there. Here's my comment for these envious and hate-filled kids and their media-invented movement - self-important kids and superannuated kids who somehow have time to do street theater which I am sure must be fun and somewhat gratifying if you have no responsibilities in life:


 


Posted by Bird Dog in Hot News & Misc. Short Subjects at 17:54 | Comments (2) | Trackbacks (0)

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I keep this stuff about Norway's high taxes, and its free education, free healthcare, etc. Excuse me, but isn't a great deal of economic wealth in Norway generated by the off-shore drilling of oil?
#1 parentofed on 2011-10-17 22:29 (Reply)
I was 15 in 1968. Funny, now, to think of how, then, I saw Senator Abraham Ribicoff (D-CT) as courageous and Mayor Richard Daley (the First) as vile in their "Gestapo/You SOB" clash caught on TV. My admiration for Daley hasn't improved a bit over the years, but my regard for Democrat Connecticut senators like Ribicoff and Dodd has certainly changed.

I have always liked that line in Revolution!, "But if you go carrying pictures of Chairman Mao...", yet it is remarkable now to see The Beatles credibly held up as troubadours of conservatism, particularly vis a vis Occupy.
#2 Ralph Thayer (Link) on 2011-10-18 07:01 (Reply)

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