However, wherever there is union activity, you can bet that a handful of self-anointed anarchists are skulking in the shadows, waiting to create chaos. Just once, I'd love to see the unionists beat the bloody crap out of the anarchists. Just once! Can you imagine these young molotov cocktail throwing morons showing up at a Tea Party protest? Um, that wouldn't work out too well for them. Nope, it sure wouldn't.
The scumbags made a mess of Trafalgar Square yesterday, as the unionists allowed them to hijack their peaceful protest. Half a million unionists stood by as THESE idiots trashed the place:
Little Johnnie smashes a vehicle. How cute is that! His mom must be SO proud. Idiot.
The police had a really bad day. The Daily Mail calls it "civil disobedience", but around here we call it hooliganism. These kids would be taken behind the barn by a handful of grown men if they tried to throw furniture through a store window in the Ozarks. A butt-whoopin' would commence, after which said boys would not be able to sit down for a week.
But that's just how WE roll. The union organizers here in the States have been trying to create a protest like this one, but so far our union sheep (baaaah! Truuuuumka!) haven't resorted to standing aside while furniture is tossed around, and our home-grown rabblerousers have been kept in check. Is it just a matter of time before one of our large cities looks like this?
Not here. NOT HERE.
lr:
ReplyDeleteToronto went through exactly the same madness at last year's G20 fiasco/gabfest, with similar (albeit lesser) outcomes. And the reason? Ill-defined ROE for the police and, in Toronto's case, an inept, PC-selected Chief who clearly had no competence to manage such occurrences. The idiotarians had their peaceful drumfests and "1-2-3-4" chants, whilst the "Black Bloc" hooligans were permitted to run amok (note: many of the Black Block scum arrived from Quebec and the States by bus...).
I can assure you, the Toronto Police rank-and-file are livid at their command, as the leftist MSM painted them as the problem. I don't doubt that the Met response contained many of the same features as Toronto.
I saw the news stories about the closing down of Oxford Street in London this week. Having been there, it does make it a bit more personal.
ReplyDeleteTax the rich. Sure. I was recently reminded that if the US government were to tax the richest people -- all the billionaires -- at 100%, take away all of their money and assets leaving them with nothing, it would raise 1.2 trillion dollars. The budget for the US this year? 1.6 trillion dollars.
I remember Dave Berg's "Berg's Eye View" in Mad magazine years ago: A little girl wanted her mother to buy a bunch of things. The mother explained that she did not have the money, to which the little girl replied, "Buy some!"
This is the attitude of many people today. Many of these anarchists, er, spoiled brats have never been held accountable for their actions. Let's say they succeed in ending society as we know it. Are they going to riot when their food does not sew and reap itself? Or are they just going to condemn those who do the sewing and reaping? Let's throw these people into the middle of the wilderness for a while and make them responsible for their own survival.
Several years ago Fay and I were walking around a street celebration On Granville Street in Vancouver. On every block there were signs on where people could get free food if they were homeless. A homeless person went up to Fay and asked her for money. Fay said no. This guy then called Fay a bitch and said "You don't know what it's like to be hungry!" (This was certainly true because Fay has always made it a priority to do what was necessary that she not be hungry.) Fay had to keep me from decking the guy. If he had laid a finger on her, he never would have been hungry again.
I think that people are only going to take so much. If the unionists and the anarchists do not realize this, then they will run into a storm of such magnitude that they will be not know what hit them. Hopefully these people will wise up before it gets to that point.
Isn't this democracy in action? I'm shocked we learned nothing from the Madison, Wisconsin clown show (still going on BTW).
ReplyDelete//sarc :-L
For the record ..."Althouse" has been the best coverage of the fandango in Madison, bar none.
Aridog, good grief! Don't the gimme-gimme crowd in Madison have an existence outside of the union? The photographs at your link are pitiful.
ReplyDeleteMatt, I'm glad Fay stopped you from feeding that sorry SOB a knuckle sandwich. He probably would've sued you and won. x(
Earl, I don't know about Canada, but here many police are members of the very union that despises them. It's crazy! I predict that ridiculous situation will change very soon.
The images are pitiful, but the photographs are quite good ... over the entire affair, far better than any published by MSM.
ReplyDeleteI will be absent for a while as my main computer has been torpedoed once again by a Trojan or virus hidden in an email from a presumably trusted source today.
I am setting up a totally new main computer so it will take a while.
Ari:
ReplyDeleteStep One: Assuming that you have not migrated to MacWorld, load the new PC with Ubuntu OS. Shun MS Windows like the plague.
/likely too late to stop his descent into more of Bill Gates' Hades...
Are they going to riot when their food does not sew and reap itself?
ReplyDeleteToday's food almost does exactly that. For thousands of years, almost everybody was a farmer.
Today almost nobody is. Today, the land provides for all, but provides jobs for damned few.
Tomorrow, the factory. The reasons for the loss of manufacturing jobs can be argued to death but at the end of the day, more and more is being made with fewer and fewer people. This trend will continue. I believe it will accelerate.
What happens when the median person is economically useless? When the only chance of increasing their share of the pie is mass rage and social extortion? Maybe just what we're seeing now, only ubiquitous, frequent, and ugly.
And just a few short years after half of the people formerly known as "the work force" are useless, 90% of them will be...
I don't have an answer here. I'm just thinking that within 20 years or so the familiar landscape of politics could become obsolete, and we will be as disoriented as the captain of a Clipper would be shot into space on the Shuttle.
How do you maintain a dignified and sober culture when everything material is given to you? When productive work is the domain of a small minority? When "earning a living" at "making stuff" is as unlikely as "earning a living" playing basketball or tennis?
What is owed to the talented few? What to the rest?
And what bargaining chip exists but social peace?
Scarcity was the curse of humanity from our beginning. We may see Abundance become our new curse.
Aridog, good luck with your computer project. The same thing happened to me this past winter...I'm STILL retrieving pictures and bits of information from my pile-o-smoking-parts old HP.
ReplyDeleteLewy, you make good points, but I have to believe that American ingenuity will prevail. If there aren't any jobs, we will create them. When the gravy train runs out, there will be no choice, will there? I believe a lot more people will be growing and bartering food as Big Farm prices soar through the roof. People are already sick and tired of cheap Chinese imports of EVERYTHING, and I anticipate a market for sturdy, quality American products made right here at home (in right-to-work states). Also, the Asian market has enormous potential for American-made products...IF we can get the gov't (and the f*cking unions) OUT of our manufacturing and trade processes.
Also, unless the tax code is burned at the stake, you will see a lot more lower and middle class wealth generation flying under the radar. I'm already seeing it. People are fed up with the uber-rich and enormous conglomerates like GE paying little or no taxes while their own meager checks are ripped to shreds by Uncle to support bums and bridges to nowhere.
We haven't hit bottom yet. It's coming. When that happens, we'll see what we're made of.
Earl # 6....
ReplyDeleteNow that have this crippled PC/Laptop working on a different docking station, temporarily I may just take the time to look in to Ubuntu. My new machine has a 100% clean Windows XP Pro installation ... e.g., absolutely no bloatware or other non-essential junk ware. I could, however, wipe the HDD and replace it ...IF my software is all wholly compatible with Ubuntu ... which I don't know yet ... and may take some tedious time in voice mail hell to find out. Some of my items are not current versions but I need them and they suit me ...e.g., AutoCAD and various iGrafx packages. Plus I must retain full MS Office capability and Adobe Acrobat Standard or Pro capability. I'm upgrading my Photoshop, Kodak, and Lightroom software so I can check that before I buy. A "killer" would be if FastStone Image Viewer didn't run on Ubuntu ... but that's easily checked with FastStone.
Lewy Said;
ReplyDelete"Today's food almost does exactly that. For thousands of years, almost everybody was a farmer.
Today almost nobody is. Today, the land provides for all, but provides jobs for damned few.
Tomorrow, the factory. The reasons for the loss of manufacturing jobs can be argued to death but at the end of the day, more and more is being made with fewer and fewer people. This trend will continue. I believe it will accelerate.
What happens when the median person is economically useless? . . ."
This has been fodder for science fiction authers for decades at least.
Try Heinlein's 'Beyond This Horizon', Pournelle's 'Mercenary' series or 'Riders Of The Purple Wage' by Philip Jose Farmer to see how various authors see the results of a society where not only are few gainfully employed, but those few are able to produce enough for the whole of society to live (relatively, in some cases) well.
Heinlein & Farmer's versions are quite a bit brighter than Pournelle's.
DWT - thanks for the links. Yes, sci-fi is the only place to look because radical abundance is sui generis.
ReplyDeleteAri - here's another idea - since you probably won't get everything you want on Linux... look at virtualization technology like VMware. Have one "machine" which you use to surf the net. If it gets infected, just blow it away and create a fresh one. The other (virtual) machine, lock down - try shutting down "services" you don't need (they create network vulnerabilities). Run all your essential software and store your important. Browse nothing, or just a few trusted sites.
Just a thought.
OT : Well, well, turns out the main problem seems to be in the "expansion docking station" ... required for multiple card readers, etc., but not required by me any more ... the regular port replicator docking station will do fine, and is what I am using now.
ReplyDeleteI LOVE reasons to procrastinate (setting up the new computer)... it's part of being a guy, right?! :D
Lady Red ... reference back up document files ... those I have, double in some cases. I run a back up of all "Documents & Settings" nightly to an external HDD. Due to the current glitch I'm only a couple days behind and with luck I'll have the docking stations switched out tonight (many wires, many many wires, dusty wires, dusty, dusty wires, etc.)...
ReplyDelete...that is IF I do not run screaming down the street nekid projecting vomit as I go ... after I listen to the Jug Eared Messiah 'esplain hisseff tonight.
In case you can't tell ... I think we no more belong in Libya doing any damn thing than we'd be bright to set up shop selling block ice to Eskimos. I like my neighbors fine, however, I am also very f**king fine with their tribal arse cousins and such killing each other hand over fist. Let'em do it ... It saves on ammo for us.
Lady red said: "... IF we can get the gov't (and the f*cking unions) OUT of our manufacturing and trade processes."
ReplyDeleteI am afraid I have to agree with you, even on unions. The AFL-CIO of blowhard phoney (never "labored" in his life) Richard Trumka is no union I'd recognize.
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@Ari #14
ReplyDeleteOh, look... Obama has his own marionette.
And, for accuracy, it's Inuit, not "Eskimo". Eskimo is a dialect reference for "eaters of raw flesh", which is culturally not on, apparently.
And, whilst on that topic, if anyone has a big screen or a rep cinema near them, I cannot recommend Zacharias Kunuk's "Atanarjuat- the Fast Runner" highly enough. A story of classical Greek scope, it is one of my Best 10 Films. It is simply mesmerizing, just utterly gripping.
And who was behind the anarchy, pray tell? None other than a Senior NuLabr poobah's entitlement-fixated "progressive" spawn. Spit.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/law-and-order/8423532/Captain-Anarchy.-Key-Labour-figures-sons-behind-the-violent-breakaway-cuts-protests..html
Eart @ 16 ....
ReplyDeleteMost of these *spontaneous* mob actions, worldwide, are fomented by agenda driven demagogic leadership, acknowledged or not.
No better example exists today than the murderous Afghan *peaceful civilian* attack on the UN compound where they killed a dozen plus people in protest* of the burning of a Koran by a church-of-what's-happening-now whack job of a pastor in Florida two weeks ago.
It was blatantly anti-American and they just couldn't find any verifiable Americans at the moment, so they murdered Nepalese and others at the UN facility. *Leaders* were plainly visible in several videos shouting in the bullhorns and directing the action. (Just like Wisconsin's recent clown show, sans murder, etc.) Witnesses among the Afghan rioters said that the Imams had encouraged the action during prayers at the Mosque...which had just let out.
Now as a man who lives in the largest Muslim community in the USA I will tell you something .... I had not heard about the Koran burning from anyone local, no one, zero, nada.
I did hear, on local television news, not from neighbors, that the Koran burning Pastor Terry Jones will try to visit the Arab Festival this coming June. Now that should be interesting. If he winds up unconscious lying by a curb I'll not lose any sleep. Maybe the *Apologetics* Evangelists can join him in the gutter ... they're expected back too.
These outsider agitators seem to fail to grasp that it is an Arab Festival, not a *Muslim festival* and much, of the entertainment et al is distinctly not Taliban or Sharia approved.
My overly droned on point is simple: large spontaneous mob actions very rarely happen without agitation by a core of rabble rouser politically driven folks. Period.
We might want to consider that before we step in and "Arm" the Libyan rebels ... been there, done that before ...we armed the Afghans in the 1980's against the Soviets and see how that has turned out?