C'est La Vie
December 2011
A first-year hedge fund associate explains why Wall Street is rigged against the 99% →
reddit.com
Excerpt:
If you aren’t in the .1%, you have no access to the derivatives markets, you have no access to the special deals that hedge funds and other wealthy investors get, and you have no access to the resources, information, strategic services, tax exemptions, and capital that the top .1% is getting.
… I’m a first-year analyst on wall street, and based on what I see day in and day out, I support the OWS movement 100%.
But you should really read the whole thing.
Michele Bachmann says that, if elected president, she will close the US embassy in Iran. The US does not have an embassy in Iran, and hasn't for roughly thirty years. →
twitter.com
And she’s on a foreign policy committee…?
GOP 2012: We want you… To be misinformed.
“Christmas is fun. Multiculturalism is boring. Even if you’re not a Christian, you like presents and food, that’s Christmas, you can enjoy that. But any time multiculturalism invades, it just takes the fun out of something.”
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Greg Gutfeld on Fox News’ The Five
Things I learned from this argument:
1. Only on Christmas does one receive food and presents
2. Christmas is not multicultural
3. Non-white people are invasive and scary
4. Christmas is the only legitimate holiday during the winter season, excluding Haunukah, Kwanzaa, Bodhi Day, Eid-al-Adha, and Winter Solstice.
5. Greg Gutfeld is an idiot.
(via reallyfoxnews)
So this exists...
“anarcho-confederates” so far their facebook page has 50 likes….
“This is a page for Southerners from the states of the former Confederate States of America who are anarcho-capitalists to gather and hang out.”
apparently just anarcho-capitalists that like confederate flags and stuff.
WAT
lol wut? h-how does that even work?
How is this a real thing?
This is terrible in just about every way.
Oh these are golden.
The Oddishey.
The Oddishey.
I have so much love for this post.
November 2011
Occupy protesters “branded” with UV ink →
cultureofresistance.tumblr.com
So now they have resorted to secretly tracking protestors through invisible, UV light pens. Perhaps they will move to simply tattooing people with an identification number in the future.
From Justin Elliott at Salon.com
Occupy protesters in Montreal were dismayed to find they had been marked by police with a special ink that is only visible in UV light after being arrested during a raid of Victoria Square Friday. …
“It felt very similar to some one drawing on you with a nail,” Haigh tells me. “It really wasn’t a pleasant feeling and I passed a good 24 hours wondering what they had done to me before my friends and I figured it out. I did get a rash from the ink for a few days and my hand was rather sensitive.”
She adds the marking faded after four days, “but I still feel my body was violated.”
To secretly mark peoples skin with a chemical agent for the purpose of future identification is a clear violation of every principle that defines a free society.
“Those who are going to be over 21 on November 12th, I ask for your support.”
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GOP presidential contender Rick Perry, misstating the U.S. voting age, which is 18. (via officialssay)
We all make mistakes, though.