Illustrating Absurdity: #OWS Redux
You keep giving me absurd news copy, I'll keep writing posts!
Under the This is Rich category, The OWS kitchen staff is getting fed up with homeless and ex-con freeloaders who are eating their food... Say what?!
"The Occupy Wall Street volunteer kitchen staff launched a 'counter' revolution yesterday -- because they’re angry about working 18-hour days to provide food for “professional homeless” people and ex-cons masquerading as protesters.
For three days beginning tomorrow, the cooks will serve only brown rice and other spartan grub instead of the usual menu of organic chicken and vegetables, spaghetti bolognese, and roasted beet and sheep’s-milk-cheese salad.
They will also provide directions to local soup kitchens for the vagrants, criminals and other freeloaders who have been descending on Zuccotti Park in increasing numbers every day." (emphasis mine).
How thoughtful! Today's definition of Irony: "Protesting that the wealth needs to be shared while withholding your own." Occupy Wall Street Kitchen Slow-down Targets Squatters.
Occupy Portland is upset because it's lost $20,000 in donations via PayPal:
"Organizers of Occupy Portland say they fear as much as $20,000 donated to the group through a PayPal account has disappeared.
They also say the group's finance committee has hijacked the demonstration's Internet domain name and filed for incorporation against the wishes of the group's decision-making body.
The demonstrator who filed the papers with the state said Wednesday she did so to protect the protest, and she has received death threats as a result."
Death threats? That's beyond the pale, but then, so is this supposed movement. Occupy Portland fears it has lost $20,000 in donations.
Finally, in the Too Stupid to Run a Mile category, the idiot Mayor of Los Angeles has come to the conclusion that Occupy Los Angeles "cannot continue indefinitely." Occupy LA: Occupy LA "Cannot Continue Indefinitely," Villaraigosa says.
Yah think? With the violence and law enforcement push back in Oakland, Atlanta, and other cities, Villaraigosa sees the handwriting on the wall: All this bad press will ruin the PR for my December trade mission to Asia!
Just like him--when the going gets tough, the tough get out of town.