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Guess I will have to go over to Bay and Queen and babysit on Saturday morning...nothing worse than institutionalise stupidiy from both ends of the spectrum....as dad would say to the lugan kids in the basement "don't make me come down there" - Have the protestors ever considered going to Bay Street on a buisness day and maybe just maybe arrive cleaned up and apply for a job at one of the corporations that they "hate" - They might be surprised and find that they will be hired - "if you want to change things - change them from the inside" - banging on the door cursing will get you no where. People do not realize that those "at the top" actually want your help! They are not that smart and running a system is not a job they really want - If YOU want it TAKE IT!

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Guess I will have to go over to Bay and Queen and babysit on Saturday morning...nothing worse than institutionalise stupidiy from both ends of the spectrum....as dad would say to the lugan kids in the basement "don't make me come down there" - Have the protestors ever considered going to Bay Street on a buisness day and maybe just maybe arrive cleaned up and apply for a job at one of the corporations that they "hate" - They might be surprised and find that they will be hired - "if you want to change things - change them from the inside" - banging on the door cursing will get you no where. People do not realize that those "at the top" actually want your help! They are not that smart and running a system is not a job they really want - If YOU want it TAKE IT!

I can’t wait till they occupy the Vancouver art gallery on Saturday……..Me and the boy are going to go down to witness the shit show…….I wonder how long it will take for the Bay center to get it’s windows smashed……..Also, a lot of Starbucks around, not to mention the Tiffany & Co. store is only a block away…..

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Like Colbert?

I don't think so. She takes herself much too seriously.

Not like Colbert. Colbert winks at the audience. Coulter doesn't. It doesn't mean she actually believes what she spouts any more than Colbert. She's not a comedienne, she's an entertainer who has a new gig feeding a certain extremist group of Conservatives what they want to here. What's really funny is delusional nutjobs like Ezra Levant seem to be convinced she's serious.

I've long said people like Coulter have two audiences; far right crazies that think she's serious, and left-wingers who think she's serious. For those of us with our sense of irony intact, the whole show is pretty obvious.

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Not like Colbert. Colbert winks at the audience. Coulter doesn't. It doesn't mean she actually believes what she spouts any more than Colbert. She's not a comedienne, she's an entertainer who has a new gig feeding a certain extremist group of Conservatives what they want to here. What's really funny is delusional nutjobs like Ezra Levant seem to be convinced she's serious.

I've long said people like Coulter have two audiences; far right crazies that think she's serious, and left-wingers who think she's serious. For those of us with our sense of irony intact, the whole show is pretty obvious.

Complete nonsense.

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Not like Colbert. Colbert winks at the audience. Coulter doesn't...

Colbert is very superficial that way, and lacks a deeper command of any issue. He does not write all his own material, and is certainly more of an "entertainer". Coulter is smarter and sharper of wit (bites harder) on the fly....she was booked by Bill Maher's defunct broadcast television show for these very attributes years ago.

I can't watch Colbert very long....he is almost infantile at times.

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Flaherty says Wall Street protesters have a point CTVNews

Finance Minister Jim Flaherty says the Occupy Wall Street protests have a point, but as for the upcoming Occupy Bay Street rally in Toronto -- not so much. Speaking to reporters in Ottawa, Flaherty said American protesters are "legitimately frustrated" by the income gap levels between rich and poor and the high unemployment rate for youth. But he said Canada's situation is different than the United States because of tougher financial laws and a more progressive taxation system."In Canada we have a progressive income tax and it favours people with lower incomes who are vulnerable, quite frankly, in Canadian society. Our tax system is clearly progressive," he said prior to flying to France for an important G20 meeting on the economy. "Having said that,

I see a point that income distribution is important and that there is a concern that a very, very small group of people have very large incomes.

However, Canadian supporters of the movement rejected Flaherty's assertions."Canada has an income inequality rate that is growing faster than the American rate," Occupy Edmonton organizer Chelsea Taylor told The Canadian Press."In the past few decades in Canada, the top third of all wealth gains in income have gone to the richest one per cent in Canada."

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A recent poll showed Americans support the Occupy Wall Street protest by a two-to- one ratio over the Tea Party.

I'm a bit surprised ... but it looks like the Harper government has decided to 'ride the wave' of going after the 1%'ers.

We'll see how long that lasts.

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Who says I’m doing anything illegal? That’s quite the leap……..My wife’s family has been doing business with this particular bank since the mid 80s, years prior to them leaving South Africa and our meeting……The majority of our “wealth” is managed through various CIBC accounts/portfolios…….Any money we deposit into any of our overseas accounts has already been taxed in Canada, nothing illegal about…….That being said, I can’t speak for my dog’s account in the Turks & Cacaos or my cat’s account on the Isle of Mann ;)

We really don't need all your personal details.

If you say it's all legal so be it. Dog's and cat's too?

:lol:

Why then are you so agitated by the protesters? Why do you suggest they'll be attacking businesses when in fact there's been nothing like that occur?

Why do you say "Let them eat rat sht"?

Pretty extreme comments by someone who's not bothered by it.

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I can’t wait till they occupy the Vancouver art gallery on Saturday……..Me and the boy are going to go down to witness the shit show…….I wonder how long it will take for the Bay center to get it’s windows smashed……..Also, a lot of Starbucks around, not to mention the Tiffany & Co. store is only a block away…..

You know the problem is not capitalism - nor is it the striving by some fair minded youth for some sort of socialism..It is this super finacial complexity combined with fiat currency that has morphed into an intangable thing...no one knows what is of true value anymore - so we create a fantacy that as we know - when illusion is the replacement for reality that reality always rears it's beautiful head and spoils the dream....People who acquire unbridled wealth by simply having wealth - who in turn...generate more supposed wealth...then more again - creating a disparity - and a situtation that can not continue in the real world without screwing up the natural order of things...Those so-called 1%ers are there artifically - NOT because they are smart - because they had the unwavering ambition to have wealth at any cost - and dedicated their every waking moment to the accumulation of more wealth - BUT - were blinded to the reality that the wealth was NOT material... So of course things are off kilter - when idots have control of the material world via - fiatism.

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... So of course things are off kilter - when idots have control of the material world via - fiatism.

Yea...I hate fiatism....back in the 70's, a friend of mine had a one year old Fiat 124 with vibration issues, so he took it back to the dealer and when they pulled the engine pan, the crankshaft journals were rusty, and probably installed that way!

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Not to mention that they now won't allow the park to be cleaned like it normally is. I guess they don't mind treating public property like a landfill site and bathroom.

And you just now that after they're done their stupid protest, that park is gonna be trashed needing a ton of work and clean up.

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Yea...I hate fiatism....back in the 70's, a friend of mine had a one year old Fiat 124 with vibration issues, so he took it back to the dealer and when they pulled the engine pan, the crankshaft journals were rusty, and probably installed that way!

Traced my history back to about 1860 - and the Lada is not my mamma - seems that my ancestors were from Chechneya....and those Russians were not friends of mine. You might find that you are a spawn of some white guy....who invented the Fiat...and your mama might have been a dwarf that always reclined in the back seat....I don't know what the hell that is supposed to be - but I suppose it is briefly entertaining?

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Park Cleanup Postponed, Heartening NYC ProtestersNEW YORK (AP) — The officia cleanup of a plaza in lower Manhattan where protesters have been camped out for a month was postponed early Friday, sending up cheers from a crowd that had scrambled to scrub the park on its own out of fear the effort was merely a pretext to evict them.

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Supporters of the protesters, including union members, had started streaming into the park in the morning darkness well beforehand in a show of solidarity.

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Boisterous cheers floated up from the crowd in New York as the announcement of the cleaning postponement circulated, and a small group soon marched away with brooms, saying they were going to clean up Wall Street, a few blocks away.

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Not to mention that they now won't allow the park to be cleaned like it normally is. I guess they don't mind treating public property like a landfill site and bathroom.

And you just now that after they're done their stupid protest, that park is gonna be trashed needing a ton of work and clean up.

It's a private park, not public property.

It's cement/marble - not hard to clean.

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Because the past is a good predictor of the future. Just look at what these people did at the Seattle G20 potest.

Seattle?

:lol: :lol:

1999 ... most of these protesters were 13 years old then!!

:lol:

It's awesome the effect these protests are having, turning grown men into anxious shaking mounds of jello!

Tell you what ... call your stockbrokers and advisors and get out of any deals, deposits etc. That might be a bit on the 'shady' side. Go straight. Get clean. Pay your taxes like a Canadian. Pay your employees a decent living wage. Give them a decent pension too.

You'll feel better about yourself and maybe even become a convert who preaches the good clean life to other rich angry crooks. :)

Start a group, call it 'Greed Anonymous ...

Greed is a bottomless pit which exhausts the person in an endless effort to satisfy the need without ever reaching satisfaction. Erich Fromm

The 'good life' is not a destination: It's the journey.

Anyone who's ever been in business with someone who used every trick to take more than his share, should have a good understanding of how the rest of us feel about the increasing wealth of the 1%: They're scam artists, crooks in motive and methods.

And we're onto them. :D

It's interesting to me, spending time as I do among the wealthy and the middle-low income: The wealthy spend effort in trying to enjoy the good life they have, constantly trying to keep their fear and anxiety at bay and convinced that others are out to get them. The low-middle income people have no such uncertainty: They know the rich predators are out to get them and do, and they enjoy life in spite of them, knowing they are better people than the predatory wealthy.

The low road may have less traffic, but it's fraught with potholes and corruption and other predators. The high road provides a better journey.

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No way...I just made a bundle in the stock market...tax free!

Bundle hugh? Get the spare room ready - I am coming to stay for a month or two...and I expect a bit of expense money to make touring about the hood more enjoyable ....oh - I will need a nice car also - and a driver....which makes me think of Miss Daisy...how is your eye sight old man?

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Blame creeping socialism - that took the herd and put it in a manageable situation that the capitialist could profit on with ease. Some one had better modernize their thinking and get with the times - old political theory learned in university is date and out of touch - and rhetoricals like "down with capitalism" make no sense. To bad that it is the educated young that are protesting - they really do not have an education - but a conditioning - No one actually takes the time to diligently size up the sytem and see how it is working NOW...instead they chant old Marxist slogans from some by gone era that is gone forever.

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I think that starting with the tea party, now the OWS protests and I am sure there will be lager protests to follow...all together they are the start of what till be the second American Revolution.

"If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around them will deprive the people of all property until their children wake up homeless on the continent their Fathers conquered...I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies... The issuing power should be taken from the banks and restored to the people, to whom it properly belongs." -Thomas Jefferson

It seems like people are finally waking up.

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We really don't need all your personal details.

If you say it's all legal so be it. Dog's and cat's too?

:lol:

Why then are you so agitated by the protesters? Why do you suggest they'll be attacking businesses when in fact there's been nothing like that occur?

Why do you say "Let them eat rat sht"?

Pretty extreme comments by someone who's not bothered by it.

Hey, when I’m being accused of something by someone without the obvious facts, I’ll tend to qualify myself…….

And I’m not the least bit agitated by them…..I think it will be live “entertainment”……..As for store windows being smashed…..well let’s say a small percentage of the population of greater Vancouver has set a precedent of going bat shit crazy when the Canucks lose or Guns & Roses cancels a concert…….When we have again, a small portion calling for revolution, my spidy senses kick in………A for the eat Rat Shit…….Merely me alluding to the French Revolution and Marie Antoinette’s “let them eat cake”….well when these “revolutionaries” are living in their own filth and attracting rats……I’m sure you see the connection now

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