Why Im Attending The Occupy Houston March On
October 6

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I’ve worked ever since I graduated college. I willingly pay all my taxes. I vote in every[...]

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Open Thread

post from Crooks and Liars on 04 October 2011 11:30:27 PM. © Crooks and Liars

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Geek alert: The Star Wars AT-AT pancake requires thirteen individual pancake pieces on the griddle, which are then glued together with more pancake batter and heated through to cook the "glue."

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Open thread for night owls: Occupy Wall Street
roundup, day 18

post from Daily Kos on 04 October 2011 11:30:03 PM. © Daily Kos

Map created with BatchGeoToday in Occupy Wall Street news:

Looking for an event near you, or have an event we don't know about yet? Here's a list of over 200 Occupy Wall Street solidarity events around the country.
David Dayen asks Sen. Jeff Merkley for his take on the protests:
?I think the movement is a reaction to how quickly the United States responded to the banks when they were in trouble, and how feebly we responded to American workers when they faced troubles of their own,? said Merkley. ?They are responding to both problems in the economy and government dysfunction.?
I asked Merkley for his reaction to how the movement is essentially protesting him and his colleagues for their inability to break free of corporate shackles that prevent them from building an economy that works for the other 99%. ?I agree that the system is broken,? Merkley said.
Congressional Progressive Caucus co-chairs Raúl Grijalva and Keith Ellison released a statement in support of the protests. It reads in part:
We have been inspired by the growing grassroots movements on Wall Street and across the country. We share the anger and frustration of so many Americans who have seen the enormous toll that an unchecked Wall Street has taken on the overwhelming majority of Americans while benefitting the super wealthy. We join the calls for corporate accountability and expanded middle-class opportunity.
Tuesday, AFSCME, the Communications Workers of America, and the Amalgamated Transit Union expressed their support for Occupy Wall Street. In addition to a statement from the national CWA, CWA District 1, which represents New York and New Jersey, sent out a statement of their own. District 1 had already featured Wednesday's march on its website.
The Amalgamated Transit Union, like 1199 SEIU, pledged material support like food and supplies in addition to offering solidarity and rally participants.
Daily Kos bloggers are keeping up with events (many with personal, on-the-ground reports.) A mothership diary with resources can be found here.
The next large Occupy Wall Street rally is scheduled for Wednesday, 4:30 PM ET.

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Occupy Houston March To Start On Thursday,
October 6 At 8:30 AMWhy I Will Be There

post from Texas Liberal on 04 October 2011 11:26:09 PM. © Texas Liberal

(Blogger’s Note— I’m going to say just I what I said yesterday in this space with one new link at the bottom and a new poster for the event below the links. I’ve been heartened by the amount of blog traffic my posts on the Occupy movement and Occupy Houston have been receiving. Let’s be [...]

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Tuesday Stuff

post from The Liberal Doomsayer on 04 October 2011 11:24:00 PM. © The Liberal Doomsayer

(I'll try again to post tomorrow...)

Happy 150th birthday to acclaimed U.S. artist Frederic Remington - here is a tribute...

...and I wonder what Remington would have thought of "Goodhair" Perry...

...and by the way, I think K.O. and Louise Slaughter mean Silent Clarence Thomas here, not Scalia; they're right all the same, though, especially on the "retroactive recusal" thing...

...and speaking of those zany teabaggers (on behalf of whom Thomas's wife has cleaned up), here's a tune just for them.

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C&L's Late Night Music Club With Foster The
People

post from Crooks and Liars on 04 October 2011 11:00:54 PM. © Crooks and Liars

Title: Pumped Up KicksArtist: Foster The People

LA's Foster The People have unleashed an inescapeable tune that's ready-made for commercials and movie scenes. It's certainly catchy as hell and I'll admit that it's kind of grown on me. What current music are y'all listening to?

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Late Night FDL: Playboy Club, Buhbye!

post from Firedoglake on 04 October 2011 11:00:48 PM. © Firedoglake

NBC has cancelled The Playboy Club, the sexy melodrama?set in mid-1960s Chicago and centering around the flagship key club?which was one of the most subversive series on network television.[...]

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Get Ready for the Shotgun Wedding

They said that Thomas Dewey looked like the little man on the wedding cake. Maureen Dowd said that the first President Bush looked like every woman's first husband. Whoever Mitt Romney is, now ... the GOP's got him. There's no Chris Christie. No no[...]

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Beware of the 'Botnets'

The US government and the country's internet service providers can't agree what to do about 'botnets', collections of compromised computers remotely controlled by malevolent parties. That's even though both sides agree they are one of the greatest[...]

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Time to Dig Up the Gipper

It's official. All our pleading and begging was for naught. Chris Christie is out. That leaves us Republicans with the most embarrassing slate of presidential candidates since 2008. I mean my God, we may hang tea bags from our tricorn hats, but, Jesus, do we have to pretend we support Gingrich, Perry, Romney, and the rest? It's damned demeaning.

I've been looking for another presidential savior all day. I had a good line on a big, mean, mangy dog, but his owner wouldn't agree to let him run. She worried Rep. Bachmann might bite him, or even worse, use her crazy eyeball emissions to shatter his psyche like she did with Rick Santorum.

Then, I remembered a Facebook campaign I launched during the last presidential cycle. I called it "Dig Up Dutch '08." My plan was to dig up our greatest leader, Ronald Wilson Reagan, and run his corpse for president.

The plan to dig up Dutch was very popular. People flocked to it. We quickly raised enough money for a shovel, but no one had a gunnysack. For lack of burlap, the OBAMUNIST USURPER is our president.

It's time to try again. I've renamed the Facebook group. It's called, "Dig up Dutch's Digits '12." Yeah, I said "digits". I'm setting my sights lower this time, so we won't need a gunnysack--a lunch pail will be enough. We'll dig up the Gipper's hand and sew it onto Fred Thompson' forehead.

Think about that for a moment--It combines the charisma of our greatest president's desiccated hand with the former senator's pure natural animal sexuality. We can't lose.

Here's the group's description:

A group dedicated to digging up our sainted Ronald Reagan's desiccated hand, attaching it to Fred Thompson's forehead and running it for president in '12. Face it, with our current candidates, the GOP will be lucky to pull more than 22% of the vote. Hand-Headed Thompson will make a great president. The Gipper's hand is just as alert as it was in 1980. Combined with Thompson's natural animal sexuality, the Dutch's Didgets are a sure winner.

So sign up for "Dig up Dutch's Digits '12," and if you think you can score a lunch pail, please send me a note.