Combating the icon isn't easy, but friend Christina Molina is tireless when it comes to debunking the myth of Castro's executioner, whether painted on the side of a food truck, or the t-shirt.

 Here's her latest from The Tolucan Times:

 From Pop Culture to Slop Culture: The Importance of Educating Yourself Before Jumping on a Bandwagon

Pop culture icons have been around as long as I can remember. They can be anything from a real person to a character or symbol. Some of the most well-known pop culture icons on the human side include Elvis, Marilyn Monroe, Princess Diana, and Pee-wee Herman. People find ways to identify with these icons and they proudly display them on t-shirts, hats, bracelets, etc. This is a common and acceptable practice, right?

Now picture yourself walking down the street and you see a guy coming towards you. He is wearing a t-shirt with someone’s face on it. As he gets closer, you realize that the “icon” he has chosen to display on his shirt is Adolf Hitler or maybe Osama bin Laden. What do you think now? Is this just another famous pop culture icon or has this person crossed the line? Chances are you will feel shocked, confused, and offended by this ignorant display of bad taste.

Cuban Americans, many of us who live in the San Fernando Valley (especially in the cities of Burbank, Glendale, and Pasadena), are shocked, confused, and offended regularly by one of the most mass-produced pop culture images: the image of Che Guevara. In case the name doesn’t ring a bell, just think of a bearded man in a beret and at the top of the beret, a red star. Yes, that guy, made popular by bands like Rage Against the Machine and worn everywhere across the various Occupy movements in the country. To those proudly displaying his face on their clothing and hats who don’t know any better, he is a symbol of the revolution and he is a hero.

Let’s talk a bit about Ernesto “Che” Guevara and let’s discover who he really was. He was born to a wealthy Argentinean family and as a child, he loved to read. He began reading the works of Karl Marx and Vladimir Lenin, which influenced him greatly in his adult life. He studied medicine, but was considered a failure because he never actually became a doctor nor did he ever open his own medical practice. He joined forces with Fidel Castro and helped him launch the revolution in Cuba, which overthrew the Batista regime. The Cuban people believed the message they had been sold by Castro and Guevara, so they initially lent their support to the cause. Sadly, they soon came to realize that everything they had been promised was a lie.

Ernesto Che Guevara did not believe in free elections, freedom of religion, freedom of speech, press, assembly or any other rights granted to us here in the United States. He was a homophobe, a racist, and had no tolerance for anyone whose beliefs differed from his. He was a mass-murderer who led firing squads that killed innocent men, women, and children simply because they did not share his ideology. He believed that a “…revolutionary must become a cold killing machine motivated by pure hate.”

Is this the kind of guy whose image someone really wants to proudly wear on a t-shirt? Are these Che t-shirt-wearing “rebels” really aware of whom the real Che was, or do they simply not care? This is the Land of the free, the United States of America, and thank goodness we have the right to wear what we want and believe in what we want. The purpose here is not to impose censorship by any means; it is to educate and open the eyes of those who probably do not know. If more folks were educated about who Che really was, then maybe parents would hesitate before buying their kids merchandise with his face on it. Maybe even adults would think twice before walking around with a red-star clad beret. Ultimately it is your choice, but if you wouldn’t walk around wearing a Hitler or bin Laden t-shirt, then why would you walk around in a Che t-shirt?

I recently purchased a t-shirt displaying Che’s face with a big red circle and slash across his face (as in “Say No to Che”). While walking with my daughter in Old Town Pasadena on Jan. 2, a man in a wheelchair began to yell at me. He screamed, “Viva Venezuela!” and then he yelled for me to kiss his rear end. (Of course he used a much more colorful word.) What could I do? Here is this man in a wheelchair and I would really look like a big jerk if I stood there and engaged in a full-scale argument with him. I simply acknowledged his remarks as trash and kept on walking. Trust me; it took everything to hold back from engaging, but I did not want to expose my daughter to further insults. This man knew who Che was and he chose to verbally attack me for wearing my anti-Che shirt, as it was his right to do so. (I can only imagine what would happen to him in Venezuela if he tried to exercise the same freedom of speech!)

On Jan. 3, I was at Disneyland with my mom, daughter, and niece. Since my dad proudly served in the United States Army, I wanted my mom to experience the daily flag retreat ceremony. (If you haven’t experienced the flag retreat at Disneyland, you are missing out — it’s a treat!) During the ceremony, members of the Armed Forces, past and present, are invited to stand around the flagpole as the flag is lowered. As the hymn of the United States Marine Corps played, an elderly woman was helped out of her wheelchair by her son. She stood there with great difficulty, but she held her head high with pride as she saluted the American Flag and tears streamed down her face. After the ceremony I approached her and I thanked her for her service. She was a WWII Veteran and had met her husband in the Marine Corps. Before I could thank her any further, she looked at my shirt and said, “I really like your shirt! A lot of people don’t know who he really was, but you know! Good for you! Thank you for wearing that!” I could not believe that this American hero was thanking me for wearing my shirt. I asked to take a photo with her and in turn, her son requested if he could take a photo with me because she wanted one with me in that anti-Che Guevara t-shirt. My mom could only look in amazement. It’s not very often that she actually tells me that she’s proud of me, but she sure let me know how impressed she was with me and how proud she is that I stand up for what I believe in.

Now that you know, will you stand up for what you believe in? Or will you choose to follow the sheepish masses as they continue to idolize a mass murderer and Communist icon? Food for thought….

The author, Cristina M. Molina, poses with a WWII Veteran and U.S. Marine who quickly recognized and commended Cristina on her anti-Che Guevara t-shirt.

Bless her blatantly shameless hypocritical forked tongue.

San Fran Nan now claims no democrat 'connection' with the growingly obvious agenda of the Occupy Movement and their very near future plans as she tries to distance herself, her party, and the administration from them ... for some reason.

Let's have a closer look, shall we?

ABC News (Oct. 9, 2011): Pelosi Supports Occupy Wall Street Movement

Nice Deb (November, 21, 2011): The #OWS Hall Of Shame: Democrats Who Support/Supported The Occupy Wall Street Movement

Yeah ... that's what I thought she said. Maybe Nan and her party are a little worried about all those previous Wall Street political donations drying up? After all, it is an election year.

Fact is, the MSM would never call this woman, or any of these democrats, on this. We are on our own, folks. Let's do our very best in November...

HT: Weasel Zippers bunch

Self-proclaimed "conservative" Andrew "Who is Trig Palin's Real Mom?" Sullivan has written a piece for Mad Magaz-- huh? Oh, yeah, for the yet unpublished issue of Newsweek ... right. I believe it is meant to move a bit away from calling Obama's opposition and vocal critics "racists" to just simply being "dumb". Yeah, that'll work. Here is the planned cover, and an excerpt from the article (with more @ Politico):

“[I]t remains simply a fact that Obama has delivered in a way that the unhinged right and purist left have yet to understand or absorb. Their short-term outbursts have missed Obama’s long game … [T]he president begins by extending a hand to his opponents; when they respond by raising a fist, he demonstrates that they are the source of the problem; then, finally, he moves to his preferred position of moderate liberalism and fights for it without being effectively tarred as an ideologue or a divider. This kind of strategy takes time. And it means there are long stretches when Obama seems incapable of defending himself, or willing to let others to define him, or simply weak. I remember those stretches during the campaign against Hillary Clinton. I also remember whose strategy won out in the end.”

Yeah, that 2008 Obama playbook was such a success then that it can be used again in 2012 to win over all the dumbies ... even though pretty much of the "dumb" opposition/critics (some of which voted for him in 2008 but swear they will not again in 2012) have seen the playbook and don't like how the game ends. If anything the voting public is a heck of a lot wiser in 2012. Now, if only the stinkin' GOP could get their game in order...

HT and more on this from Noel Sheppard @ NewsBusters

(Photo by Kimberly White/Getty Images)

Very early this morning at Occupy San Francisco when dozens (re-)gathered ... AFTER squatters attacked police trying to clear out the encampment overnight.

Come on. Stop trying to play us here. Just admit it, and LOUDLY, what this is ... what you are all about. The defeat of our republic, and replacing it with communism. Maybe if you busy bees shout it loud enough the MSM might accidentally report it in the background of trying to paint you as a noble movement/cause that has anything in common with the rest of peeved America, or the TEA Party movement.

Meanwhile, squatters in Washington DC are going on a hungar strike. Remember, this venue is where protesters used their children as shields between themselves and the DC police. I wonder if they will withhold food from those children too...

HT: Weasel Zippers

Update: Snakes-biting-faces and Ducks-quacking-walking-crapping: University professor preaches the gospel of Karl Marx to a cheering crowd #Occupy Chicago

I've heard clips of Adam Carolla's radio talk show before, and he is always quite frank and colorful in his pull-no-punches opinionating on subjects. Generally he comes off as a mix of libertarian and conservative. Glenn Beck highlighted this bit of Adam Carolla on an anti-Occupy Wall Street rant, that is really very spot-on ... but be warned there is a graphic language splash zone involved.

It really is a beautiful thing...

Pitbull comments: This absolutely brilliant rant perfectly describes Occupy Wall Street -- and by extension all "progressives" and liberals.

We all know while in Cuba the limo-lib elites do not do as the Cubans do. They enjoy the fabricated tourist island paradise the world media paints, some even enjoying the company of the Castros themselves. Some people discover the harsh disparity themselves.

Right now there are thousands of useful idiots occupying and soiling the streets of cities around the nation in hopes of moving us into the wonderful system of communism/socialism ... whatever they want to call it. They believe everyone should have the same, and nobody should have anymore than anyone else. All wealth and personal property should be redistributed equally.

Equally? Well, as you read here everyday you know it's not so equal in Cuba. Nor is it equal in any other communist enclave around the world. Even socialist Europe is showing ugly stretch marks from their decades of running a socialist Nanny State existence into the ground. China tries to hold itself up as the most perfect communist country ever. Those of us that do not romance the dehumanizing system of government are not fooled by its dabbling in capitalism in order to keep feeding its government machine. Even Castro is considering some of that, while hoping Obama can get the USA opening doors and windows to some of our tourism and financial bucks to re-fuel their regime.

But this is why those elites within our own government, business, and entertainment communities can so easily plan and push for our fundamental transformation to a socialist, and eventually a full-fledged communist, system. It is because they believe they will not have to give up an inch of property, a single dime, or an ounce of sweat and blood once the conversion from our republic to their ideal utopia? Well, all anyone needs to do is look to all pockets of the Marxist faith around the world to see where they get that idea. How about China's own rich and its "princelings"...

One evening early this year, a red Ferrari pulled up at the U.S. ambassador's residence in Beijing, and the son of one of China's top leaders stepped out, dressed in a tuxedo.

Bo Guagua, 23, was expected. He had a dinner appointment with a daughter of the then-ambassador, Jon Huntsman.

The car, though, was a surprise. The driver's father, Bo Xilai, was in the midst of a controversial campaign to revive the spirit of Mao Zedong through mass renditions of old revolutionary anthems, known as "red singing." He had ordered students and officials to work stints on farms to reconnect with the countryside. His son, meanwhile, was driving a car worth hundreds of thousands of dollars and as red as the Chinese flag, in a country where the average household income last year was about $3,300.

The episode, related by several people familiar with it, is symptomatic of a challenge facing the Chinese Communist Party as it tries to maintain its legitimacy in an increasingly diverse, well-informed and demanding society. The offspring of party leaders, often called "princelings," are becoming more conspicuous, through both their expanding business interests and their evident appetite for luxury, at a time when public anger is rising over reports of official corruption and abuse of power.

State-controlled media portray China's leaders as living by the austere Communist values they publicly espouse. But as scions of the political aristocracy carve out lucrative roles in business and embrace the trappings of wealth, their increasingly high profile is raising uncomfortable questions for a party that justifies its monopoly on power by pointing to its origins as a movement of workers and peasants.

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But I am sure our communists can do it better.

Given my late night heavy last night this caught my eye today. Chock-full of tongue-in-cheek (and a sprinkling of colorful language and racy metaphor) , but peppered with a lot of truth of the 5 ways the Occupy Wall Street Generation was ruined.

This is good...

See, we were raised on 1980s movies and sitcoms, and the "cold, unfeeling grownup who works too hard" was the villain in half of them. The whole point of these "body switching" comedies -- where a kid winds up in the body of a grownup -- was that the career-driven workaholic dad learned what life was really all about. The message was clear: If you work too hard, you'll lose your soul.

The characters who worked their asses off were shown to be stiff prudes who come down on the lighthearted main character with an iron fist. Or maybe that person is the main character, but by the end they realize that the only way to truly enjoy life is to lighten up and embrace their inner child. They finally stand up and quit their grindstone job in a hail of applause, and live a life of stress free bliss. As a side note, at some point, those people had to urinate ... so the little kid trapped in the dad's body...

Yeah, goes into some colorful language and racy metaphor right there, so go to the link and read the whole article for a much needed laugh. I think you will find yourself seeing the truth behind the snarking. After reading it I came to the conclusion the #OWS movement is useful idiots abuse.

PS: Had to add this because I feel it balances the above article ... Actor John Ratzenberger has his head on pretty straight on America's workforce problems:

As the last couple months have chugged along we (at least here in the north) have seen the weather transform from warm and pleasant to cold and annoying with the threat of the worst is yet to come. It will be a long and messy slog...

In these last couple months we have been witness to what can be loosely described as a live social test study, an experiment, in civilization under the merging ideologies of socialism/communism and anarchy. Once again, both have failed. Even in joining forces they still fail ... this time their own willing participants are the victims, some with their lives. I see people citing "Lord of The Flies" to describe the Occupy squatters' communities. But I think it goes deeper than that. These are not immature children. These are adults, most higher-educated in colleges, as we saw from the signs griping over student loan debt. The subjects in the William Golding story did not choose to throw-off the real world and build their own society. They were thrust into it, and seek to recreate what they left behind. The Occupy areas are filled with people who simply just don't like the real world they live in, so, they believe they have removed themselves from it and are building the utopia their liberal college professors and leftist philosophy authors designed and promised. However, what they are finding really is close to the end results of the Golding story.

The opposing dynamics of the two groups are obvious. The children in the fictional story discovered that simply acting like adults with laws and restrictions, without the real world experience of failure and success in order to make wise judgements to enable peaceful coexistence, was impossible ... It was no more than a dangerous game. The Occupiers are discovering that their united abstract ideals of anti-responsibility, anti-establishment, anti-structure, anti-accomplishment, and total childlike communal sharing eventually brings out the individual primal self-centered and self-serving messiness not tolerated in a structured society, even with all its imperfections. The stronger not only get their way, but get the rest to acquiesce and to believe it is best for the collective in order to keep the false peace. This too shall play out through a long and messy slog...

Right now the MSM is in a state of outrage over the systemic failure of a college coach/athletic department/college administration NOT taking action and properly reporting child rape inside their tight-knit 'community' ... But the same MSM, that has praised and promoted this "99% - Occupy" farce not only refuses to condemn the anti-social and completely lawless anarchy that this movement has morphed into, but blatantly refuses to report on it. What is in this video, this one woman speaking, and those women standing around 'up-twinkliing' their fingers in agreement, have dragged REAL 'feminism' back not decades, but perhaps, at the very least, a century...

Both Penn State University and the Occupy movement sought/seek to cover up and ignore the most base of cruel and degrading violations of other human beings in order to protect their own community's image and agenda. The individuals are expendable for the cause. And (not so) oddly, when the truth of the social debauchery is revealed it results in rioting.

I am beyond disgusted at the state this country is in right now. Both the Occupy and the PSU abominations CAN be directly traced back to the failures of our universities. And the MSM ... Well, they have their own community's image and agenda to protect, dontcha know.

Yeah, I said it. Anyhow, it will be a long and messy slog...

Quizzing the squatters at #OWS in Zuccotti Park ... for prizes!

And the top prize is...

Note (6:30 mark) the wandering thug that is the squatting community's handler. Seems this utopia has a certain degree of "free speech" limitations going on. Watch the faces of the squatters being questioned when the red sweater guy comes by and starts his thing. Oh, and the "Anarchy for Me but Not for Thee" moment when he swipes the reporter's cards. But nice to see a sense of humor hasn't been scrubbed from this new community ... yet.

HT: WZ

(Damage in yesterday's Occupy Oakland mess. You might be "better than this", but you are in bad company.)

THIS is what socialism/communism looks like, kids. It is not the one-like-minded utopia you have been fed. They gather the collective, and then they lay down the alternating rules/laws, and define "truth" and "reality" at any given moment to fit their agenda and need. It is why you are called useful idiots. There are enough people living in the USA from the former USSR and Eastern Europe, and the current Communist Cuba to pick their brains about how this wonderful life under socialism/communism works. You were led to the gathering of the hive, and now you are no more than personal rights/private life eunuch worker drones for the collective to rule and roll. It might be a wake-up call for a small percentage of young mush minds of ideology that started this trek through a new world order, but perhaps a start. Lesson #1: Don't be some idiot to a cause.

YouTube: Think it's a worker's paradise at Occupy Wall Street? Guess again -- there's strife, distension and violence. Two people who have been at Occupy from day one discuss how the internal order hasn't worked for them.

More @ Ace of Spades Headquarters about how the MSM is slowly having to actually report on the dark side of this #OWS movement ...

"Welcome to the party, pals".

Now, a palate cleanser:

It is so hard to grab a really great sample from this Patriot Post piece, so I strongly suggest a full read...

"The moment the idea is admitted into society that property is not as sacred as the laws of God, and that there is not a force of law and public justice to protect it, anarchy and tyranny commence. If 'Thou shalt not covet' and 'Thou shalt not steal' were not commandments of Heaven, they must be made inviolable precepts in every society before it can be civilized or made free." --John Adams, 1787

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The intellectually challenged Occupy morons have built their movement around the errant assertion that if the assets of the 1 Percent were entirely redistributed, everyone would live happily ever after. Unfortunately, what the 35 Percenters really want, "redistributive justice" as Obama calls it, would require the redistribution of income from the other 65 percent of Americans families who live on earned income, so that everyone could be equally impoverished.

Of course, there's a problem with liquidating the assets of the 1 percent (comprised of more celebs and pro athletes than Wall Street bankers), or even the top 25 percent of the so-called rich: Most of their assets are on paper, and the rest of that "wealth" is in the form of small businesses and real property that support the jobs of tens of millions of Americans who actually work for a living -- and take pride in their occupations.

Thus, liquidation would result in the collapse of the entire economy, leaving everyone under the same statist tyranny as Obama's 35 Percenters -- equally miserable, equally dependent upon the government, and that much closer to Obama's mandate to implement Democratic Socialism.

Fact is, socialist economies always fail. In the inimitable words of former UK Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, "Socialist governments ... always run out of other people's money. They then start to nationalize everything."

Of course, socialists never let reality intrude upon their classist fantasies of universal equality and happiness. Nineteenth-century historian Alexis de Tocqueville once observed, "Democracy and socialism have nothing in common but one word: equality. But notice the difference: while democracy seeks equality in liberty, socialism seeks equality in restraint and servitude."

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The drawback to being somebody's/something's useful idiot is you are the first to be expendable, no matter what level you are operating at. You are dangerous to the cause, because if the confused masses see you turn against the cause those undecided masses will then be enlightened.

How popular is this socialist (yes, it is what it is) movement in the city streets?

Poll: OWS least popular among lower income groups

Poll: Voters Viewing Occupy Wall St. Unfavorably

And a footnote to my late night post regarding Oakland. I think it is getting to the point where we will soon say Oakland is not "occupied" but has been invaded and taken over. The mayor of Oakland is a major failure to the citizens of that city. I pity the Oakland cops. This ain’t nothin’ yet. It’ll get worse. They will be torn between their union and their duty… and their own private property and families’ safety as residents of the city. I wonder if it would be possible for the city to impeach the mayor… just a thought for future reference. If anything, all this will be pre-made political ads for the person who will challenge her in the next election.

Make no mistake, a large percentage of these constant squatters are professional anarchist protesters, much the same that travel the world to make trouble at the G-Summits. They are not indigenous to the cities, in many cases. Another thing, they are trying to claim the violence and vandalism was perpetrated by Oakland cops disguised as anarchists. SERIOUSLY?

The mayor of Oakland needs to be held accountable for this by the citizens of Oakland and the business there. And not to feel left out Occupy Seattle got busy too.

I want to hear the MSM try to spin this as somebody else's fault, other than the squatters and those bussing in to assist them, and try to sell to the American people how it's just a couple bad apples in the bunch. They had better think long and hard before saying the words "Occupy" and TEA Party in the same breath ever again...

More coverage and photos and videos at Big Government, Weasel Zippers and Michelle Malkin.

Remember, Obama and select democrat leaders have come out publicly in support of this. In for a penny ... In for a pound. As are these people:

Did she say "shutting down the schools"??

Funny thing about arrests and public records, there is some interesting information to be gleaned within. Given that, to date, the arrests of #OWS participants in the various squatter locations around the country has pushed past the 3000 mark as of last night, there is room for growth in that respect, especially since it is not all being disclosed to the public. You might like to know some of those poor drowning-in-college-debt former coeds, that majored in BS classes/courses and entered the real world to discover there are few, if any, jobs for their college majors reside at hardly squalor class addresses ...

Many “Occupy Wall Street” protesters arrested in New York City reside in more luxurious homes than some of their rhetoric might suggest, a Daily Caller investigation has found.

For each of the 984 Occupy Wall Street protesters arrested in New York City between September 18 and October 15, police collected and filed an information sheet recording the arrestee’s name, age, sex, criminal charge, home address and — in most cases — race. The Daily Caller has obtained all of this information from a source in the New York City government.

Among addresses for which information is available, single-family homes listed on those police intake forms have a median value of $305,000 — a far higher number than the $185,400 median value of owner-occupied housing units in the United States.

Some of the homes where “Occupy” arrestees reside, viewed through Google Maps and the Multiple Listing Service real estate database, are the definition of opulence.

Using county assessors and online resources such as Zillow.com, TheDC estimated property values and rents for 87 percent of the homes and 59 percent of the apartments listed in the arrest records.

Even in the nation’s currently depressed housing market, at least 95 of the protesters’ residences are worth approximately $500,000 or more. (RELATED SLIDESHOW: Opulent homes of the ’99 percent’)

The median monthly rent for those living in apartments whose information is readily available is $1,850.

Of the 984 protesters arrested, at least 797 are white. The median age of “Occupy” protesters taken into custody is 27 years.

Ten demonstrators were arrested more than once. The vast majority of the arrests, it should be noted, were for nonviolent offenses.

The arrest intake documents show that arrestees came to New York from all over the country but particularly from the Northeast.

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However, that's okay, according to a really rich fat cat that desires to be a hero to the #OWS, who says you CAN be "rich" and be part of the useless #OWS and still gripe about the rich. But remember, you cannot be "rich" and have any part in the TEA Party movement. See how that works?

And to fill-in the empty spots on the evening news footage the busted and rebranded ACORN is paying homeless folks to join the squatters:

NYC's Mayor Bloomberg now has a major mess on his hands after nearly two months of appeasing and acquiescing to this pocket of vile and useless invasion within one of the busiest areas of the city...

Mayor Bloomberg struck a tougher tone with the Occupy Wall Street protestors Wednesday - and said the city might be forced to "take actions" at Zuccotti Park.

Bloomberg said the city must listen to the residents and business owners near the protest site who are starting to loudly complain about the demonstrators.

"This isn't an occupation of Wall Street," Bloomberg told reporters. "It's an occupation of a growing, vibrant residential neighborhood in Lower Manhattan and it's really hurting small businesses and families."

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Yes, one business that was thriving and offering a great service to other WORKING PEOPLE in the area has had to dump 21 employees onto the growing unemployment lines as a consequence of the endless Occupy Wall Street squatting ... partly from the squatters and partly because of the actions of inaction from the city officials. So, I guess that fits in, somehow, with #OWS-supporting Obama and his plan to help create more jobs ... how?

Not to be outdone, the Mayor of Oakland, California, who had that city's crime-ridden squatter enclave cleared out in dramatic form but let them back in, is now calling for city employees, including the police, to join the ranks of the squatting dregs. As you might suspect, if you have even half an ounce of common sense, you too will understand how the Oakland police are not only confused but a bit miffed over this.

Oh, and the late term addition of supporters/joiners to the #OWS comes from Planned Parenthood ... of course. Meanwhile, more Ivory Tower input meant to buck-up the #OWS meme in the way of "The New Declaration of Independence".

Bonus material for this post: Part 2 of Stephen Colbert's interview with #OWS heads Justin and Ketchup is below the fold ... He makes a lame "Cubans" reference near the end of his shtick.

Part 1 here.

I'm sure it is cute and funny on some levels, but he's just another Michael Moore with better mug and clothing, and punchlines. Gotta love those pro-socialist/communist champions comfortable with their fat bank accounts and easy access to the public eyes/ears.

HT: Weasel Zippers

While the #OWS continues to fester on the streets of some of the nation's cities, a list has been compiled, and added to (with cited sources), of those joining or supporting the movement. Just a few:

Communist Party USA, American Nazi Party, Ayatollah Khamenei, Supreme Leader of Iran, Barack Obama, The government of North Korea, Louis Farrakhan, Nation of Islam, Revolutionary Communist Party, David Duke, Joe Biden, Hugo Chavez, Nancy Pelosi...

I need to remind The PJM's Zombie about Castro. Then there is the newly Islamic Tunisia.

Now you can add this to the #OWS fan club:

The Occupy Wall Street Movement has found an unlikely fan: Iran's government Basij force, whose thuggish members are thought to have been heavily involved in the crackdown that followed the disputed reelection of Iranian President Mahmud Ahmadinejad in 2008.

In their latest move in support of the movement, a number of young Basij members have launched a website that purports to cover news and developments about the movement in order to "fill in the gap by Western media."

The Wall Street Fall website -- with content in both Persian and English -- was launched over the weekend by the head of the Basij militia, Mohammad Reza Naghdi.

"This news website can notably be influential in informing the people living under the sun specially those truth enthusiasts living in the west who are captives of universal Zionist media propaganda," Naghdi was quoted as saying on October 30.

Earlier this month, Basij members from Iranian universities staged a rally to denounce what they described as policies employed by the United States and some other Western countries to prevent the people's awakening. [...]

You remember the Basij, don't you? She will remind you.

Meanwhile, the entrenchment of useless occupation continues, and as city leaders try to regain control of their areas through the police the occupiers actually believe they are above the law and the authorities, even to the point of threatening the police. And just so we understand this movement isn't "sexist" there are those within that are equal opportunity rapists, as a young deaf man experienced. Then there are those keeping track of all the arrests within the #OWS 'communities'. It's closing in on 3000 ... For those insisting this bunch is the same as the TEA Party, the TEA Party's arrest/crime/rape tally is 0.

And then there are those who really, really want to be a part of the movement, but simply refuse to acknowledge they are the 1% enemy the #OWS are screaming about.

HT: Weasel Zippers

Cross-posted @ CW

Smells like socialist spirit...

And then there's this ...

Is it fair the 1% has all the great fresh organic gourmet food and forbids 99% of NYC's homeless from having any? I ask you, huh??

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.

To show they mean business, the kitchen staff refused to serve any food for two hours yesterday in order to meet with organizers to air their grievances, sources said.

As the kitchen workers met with the “General Assembly’’ last night, about 300 demonstrators stormed from the park to Reade Street and Broadway, where they violently clashed with cops.

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The Assembly announced the three-day menu crackdown announced earlier in the day — insisting everybody would be fed something during that period.

Some protesters threatened that the high-end meals could be cut off completely if the vagrants and criminals don’t disperse.

Unhappiness with their unwelcome guests was apparent throughout the day.

“We need to limit the amount of food we’re putting out” to curb the influx of derelicts, said Rafael Moreno, a kitchen volunteer.

A security volunteer added that the cooks felt “overworked and underappreciated.”

Many of those being fed “are professional homeless people. They know what they’re doing,” said the guard at the food-storage area.

Today, a limited menu of sandwiches, chips and some hot food will be doled out — so legitimate protesters will have a day to make arrangements for more upscale weekend meals.

Protesters got their first taste of the revolt within the revolt yesterday when the kitchen staff served only peanut butter and jelly sandwiches and chips after their staff meeting.

Organizers took other steps to police the squatters, who they said were lured in from other parks with the promise of free meals.

A team of 10 security volunteers moved in to the trouble-prone southwest section of Zuccotti Park in a show of force to confront them.

“We’re not going to let some members of this community destroy the whole movement,” a volunteer said.

Some arguments broke out as the security team searched tents — but no violence erupted.

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Aside from the irony factor, imagine if the TEA Party did this ...

Perhaps they should go from "EAT THE RICH" to "FEED THE POOR". This is the collective. This is how it would look if the state gave us everything we needed ... The quality would be crap, and we would want for everything.

And college tuition ... And healthcare ... And luv ... And sex ... And drugs ... And housing ... And "Rock-n-Roll"

Local police chased out squatters at Occupy Oakland and Occupy Atlanta in the last 24 hours. It was what you would expect it to have looked and sounded like. The 1960s are as dead as the #OWS hero Che. People just have no stomach for the BS. I posted a mash-up of the Oakland and Atlanta actions over at Chandler's Watch, with other gems included, but don't want to clutter the Babalu sidewalk with the squatters' droppings.

Nice to see the occupy movement is about to target those mouthy overpaid slugs in Hollywood. Perhaps they could convince Michael Moore he IS in that awful evil 1% he so openly spits at.

Fun times ...

Not surprisingly the MSM refuses to cover the actual "Occupy Wall Street" doings that, in all reality, are so far outside the slobbery and fawning fictional Hollywood 'revolution' romance quality of news coverage they have been spinning. Theft within the squatter community itself, vandalizing of property and bullying of private businesses that are trying to protect themselves from the disrespectful freeloaders, and also rape are being minimized, if not completely buried in the coverage. NONE of which do I recall EVER being reported at (and you know the MSM would have) from TEA Party rallies since their inception a couple years ago.

But given the blog universe is pretty much the raw facts news media right now, these stories are getting out in spite of the lying dino-MSM, and the different OWS sects (due to their origin in big cities throughout the country) are trying to make themselves appear in control of their situations. Look at what they are assuming to do now:

Efforts by the Occupy Baltimore protest group to evolve into a self-contained, self-governing community have erupted into controversy with the distribution of a pamphlet that victim advocates and health workers fear discourages victims of sexual assaults from contacting police.

The pamphlet says that members of the protest group who believe they are victims or who suspect sexual abuse "are encouraged to immediately report the incident to the Security Committee," which will investigate and "supply the abuser with counseling resources."

Yeah, that'll work...

The directive also says, in part, "Though we do not encourage the involvement of the police in our community, the survivor has every right, and the support of Occupy Baltimore, to report the abuse to the appropriate authorities."

Despite this caveat, the heads of three rape crisis centers and a nurse who runs the forensic division at Mercy Medical Center called the message about not involving police dangerous. They said it contains erroneous information that could undermine efforts to convince victims to properly report crimes and get the counseling they need.

"It might actually passively prevent someone from seeking justice," said Jacqueline Robarge, the executive director of Power Inside, a nonprofit support group that helps women who have been victimized.

The hodgepodge of anti-establishment activists who have erected a tent city at the Inner Harbor as part of the broader Occupy Wall Street movement are trying to develop their own rules of conduct, developed through committees and approved by a general assembly.

"I understand that they want to transform themselves," Robarge said. "But they have to do that in the context of our culture and community. … We're talking about people's lives here."

The "security statement" appears to be one of several attempts to govern what the memo calls "our newly forming, delicate yet strong community."

Meanwhile: You can add the NorKs to the growing list of support and champions for the OWS movement in this country.

Egyptian activist Mohammed Ezzeldin joined the spoiled and soiled masses. I wonder how long they would have mindlessly repeated his words had he gone into anti-Israel memes, or called for jihad, or insisted on the USA follow the doctrine of Sharia Law? A non-American inspiration for these people? Would they have listened to Lech Walesa or Dr. Oscar Elias Biscet and repeated their words, or heeded their warnings?

While I respect Rep. John Lewis's work during the civil rights movement, I'm not a fan of his politics or ideology for this nation. However, I obviously respect Rep. Lewis more than these people because I would have allowed him to speak. And, agree with him or not, I believe a TEA Party rally would have allowed him to speak his mind also. Take note, if this is how they treat somebody of support, how do you think the opposition will be silenced were they to take control (we do have examples, you know)?

Occupy D.C. protesters try to storm The Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum. Innocent tourists (families) are inside viewing the priceless historical artifacts of this nation's aeronautic accomplishments. What was their purpose for trying to cram themselves into the museum? Just an ordinary 'flash mob' disruption of noise, or worse?

There are those trying to compare the OWS to the TEA Party. On so many levels this is crap. Neither group have the same goals in mind for this nation and her people. One wants government out of our lives as much as possible so we can thrive on our own. The other is insisting government should control and provide everything, and they are angry that in the last three years it hasn't happened as quickly as they were led to believe it would. Those supporting the OWS try to point out the TEA Party isn't real American's, but is funded by "millionaires and billionaires". Really? George Soros and the powerful unions in this country are funding the OWS circus. It is very apparent these people are quite easily led away from the individual's though process, and are easily incitable. They have been trained and are supported by the same union thugs we saw in Madison, WI. late last winter. The way they have treated the areas where they have squatted for three weeks is an indication they respect nothing or nobody. These 'protesters' are beginning to out-stay their welcome. Is this what Obama had in mind? He sure is throwing his full support behind them.

Cross-posted @ CW