New shoes

Yup, I got new dirty-filthy-hippy-commie-liberal socialist shoes.

Winter time in San Diego just means I have to wear socks with my Birkenstocks.

My favorite thing about Birks might be that they call a wide shoe "normal", "for normal, sturdy feet" (kind of funny because an arch as high as mine is not "sturdy," it needs support, and those silly foam arch supports you can buy to put in other shoes are a fucking joke if you have feet like mine.

Birkenstock calls what is normally a women's width (a B is a normal women's width) "narrow", "for slim, slender feet," which totally makes me giggle since some asshole shoe salesman told me he "might have some boxes in the back" that would fit me. The fucker, as if I hadn't endured enough torture finding shoes that fit a EE width with a high instep and arch and and a decidedly NOT wide heel. My swim coach used to call me "paddle-foot," nice if you are a duck, but humliating for a teenaged girl.

I wear a boys size and boys shoes are crap for women's feet. Eeek, women's shoes are crap for women's feet, which sort of helped me to give up on women's shoes, the painful, ridiculous things. I made the mistake as a young adult of buying a pair of women's work shoes that were too narrow and after 2 days they pinched a nerve and it took six months for the feeling to come back in two toes. When a shoe salesman says to me, "Oh, they'll stretch," they get a murderous look and a good talking to from me. They usually walk away, hanging their head in shame.

I bought my first pair of Birks 28 years ago, and I have one pair that is 13 years old and has been re-soled 3 times and I have 2 pairs that have had the footbed liner replaced. My other shoes haven't been outside their boxes in years.

Why isn't this toad completely irrelevant?

Rove Misses Security Experts' Assessments Of Climate Change

I saw these and I just couldn't resist using them this morning. I saw the video of Rove and thought of this one:



And some of the commenters at Huffington Post really need to be sprayed:

Sons of Anarchy

Yep, I watch it. I really wanted to not watch it, and I thought the main characters were reprehensible creatures for the first six shows I watched. I almost gave up, but then I grew to care about the characters and now I watch it, albeit a year behind because I refuse to pay for basic or extended cable.

I might not even have noticed the articles on the Hells Angels deaths if I didn't watch it. I may be a bit rough in my speech patterns and use vulgar language in my blogposts, but biker gangs scare the crap out of me now and they always did. No doubt that the good people who helped me as a teenager (a gazillion freaking years ago) had secrets from their distant past that we all want to stay buried, then and now. Now, now, I said secrets, not bodies.

Goldman Sachs and Occupy Wall Street's bank: the real story

When Goldman got huffy at a credit union honouring OWS and pulled its anniversary dinner funding, much more was at stake

(Greg Palast on Democracy Now since blogger felt the need to NOT display my other post, this one links to the Guardian UK.)

Republishing Victoria Jackson parody because Blogger has problems

Victoria Jackson Goes to Occupy Wall Street


Jebus, what a dipshit she is. I really admire this guy's patience with her, "inane" was far too kind a description of her questioning. She is contitutionally incapable of doing anything but annoying anyone with half a brain and good hearing. I would love to duct tape her and force her to listen to this interview. I wonder if even she can stand the sound of her voice?

And here's the parody.


Oh yeah, RepugnantThuglican debate here.

See "For Colored Girls"

"For Colored Girls
2010 R 133 minutes
Tyler Perry (Madea's Family Reunion) directs his own adaptation of the Obie-winning stage play by Ntozake Shange, constructed as a series of poetic vignettes that collectively explore the lives of modern African-American women."

So, there is the above description of the film and then there is the amazing experience of watching the film. I'm not much of a theatre goer, so some of it felt a little weird at first. Still, I have never seen such an awesome (in the true sense of the word) cast. They were, powerful and mesmerizing. The end of the movie was more beautiful than I have ever seen in a film before.

Columbia Journalism Review article link, must read

The Myth of Income Equality, Courtesy of AEI

"This post by James Pethokoukis, who recently hopped over to AEI from Reuters, shows how to combine the worst tendencies of Slate (contrarian shtick), Business Insider (misleading, hyped headlines), and think tanks (paid-for spin), and puts it in internet-friendly listicle format..."

I love the graphs and charts and what Ryan Chittum does with them, lol

What the fuck is wrong with blogger?

Why aren't my posts showing up? Or showing up with the comments linked to the wrong post? Or showing up with duplicate "add to any" links?

22 posts show up, 32 are listed for the month of October.

44-51 arrested at Occupy SD

By R. Stickney, Kelly McPherson
NBCSanDiego.com
updated 2 hours 28 minutes ago

If I felt better I would be protesting

Update, October 18, 2011 11:00 AM
Olbermann interviews St. Shamar Thomas.
Physically, I've felt like crap this week. I am sorry I missed this last weekend:

hat tip to ThePoliticalCat


sniff, sniff, never had Marines bring happy tears to my eyes before, lol.

Love these two messages

A Global Day of Action for Occupy Wall Street
The latest dispatches from Mother Jones reporters at protests in New York and other US cities.
—By the Mother Jones news team
Sat Oct. 15, 2011 12:05 AM PDT

Occupy Streams

Live Occupy streams WORLDWIDE

Chief Lansdowne in candid interview during raid on Occupy San Diego on 10/14

(I don't know what happened, I wasn't there, but Frank knows what happened)

by FRANK GORMLIE on OCTOBER 14, 2011 Day of Tension and Pepper-spray Ends in Compromise for Occupy San Diego at Civic Center Plaza

Police Macing at Occupy San Diego

I AM NOT MOVING - Short Film - Occupy Wall Street

Walmart Bleach Fight Sends 19 to Hospital

By Stephanie Rabiner on October 12, 2011 8:48 AM (Findlaw)
Police have arrested Theresa Jefferson, 33, in connection with a Walmart bleach fight over the weekend.

Jefferson reportedly targeted her intended victim, and followed her into a Baltimore-area Walmart. Once inside, she attacked the woman with bleach, Pine-Sol and ammonia.

The chemicals mixed, creating a toxic gas. Hazmat crews were called, and nineteen people were sent to the hospital for eye and respiratory injuries.

It appears as though the Walmart bleach fight was part of an ongoing dispute between the two women. The unnamed victim is dating Jefferson's baby daddy, according to the Baltimore Sun.

Soon after the incident, Jefferson turned herself in, reports ABC News. She is currently being held on $350,000 bail and has been charged with assault, malicious destruction of property, and theft.

The theft charge may seem a bit odd, but when you consider the crime's definition, it makes significantly more sense.

Theft is commonly defined as the unlawful taking of property with the intent to permanently deprive the owner of its use or value. If you obtain property (cleaning supplies) without the owner's consent, and then destroy it (pour it out), you are unlawfully depriving him of its value.

Maryland law also makes it illegal to obtain property if the person "willfully or knowingly uses the property in a manner that deprives the owner of the property."

When Theresa Jefferson started the Walmart bleach fight, she knowingly used the cleaning supplies in a way that deprived the store of its value. Walmart certainly can't re-package bleach and Pine-Sol that have been on the floor.




OMG, you can't make this shit up. I didn't think the stupidity of people could still stun me. Consider me stunned.

Deconstructing right wing retardia

I'm grateful to Adler for doing this because I have a hard time thinking clearly once I realize that the tactic of repeating the same lies relentlessly is being used again.

The Weekly Standard, National Review and the '53 Percent' Meet Occupy Wall Street
Ben Adler on October 14, 2011 - 3:42pm ET


"...It should come as no surprise that conservatives are misrepresenting Occupy Wall Street’s position on their right to be there, considering that conservatives have spent the last two weeks misrepresenting the substance of their views. National Review was quick on the draw, tossing up innumerable items on the subject last week...


... The other main tack conservatives have taken is to mock and dismiss the protesters as ignoramuses and extremists..."

951 cities - 82 countries
This weekend -- October 15 2011

5 Reasons the Right Is Terrified of Occupy Wall St.
The Occupy Wall Street Movement is so frightening to the Right because it may directly affect voter behavior in the upcoming election.
October 12, 2011 |

Watching GOP debate at Dartmouth

and the only thing saving my sanity is following the Twitter stream, because some of the people I follow on Twitter are laughing their asses off at these clowns. http://twitter.com/#!/search/%23econodebate shows me the people who are watching this thing and are actually serious about it. Oy.

NYPD Costs Rise As Occupy Wall Street Protests Continue

NYPD pension plans lost so much money on Wall Street that the overtime will help

http://www­.youtube.c­om/watch?v­=ln1QILrnF­zQ



Here's a thought:

Europe considers tax on trading after crisis

http://www­.reuters.c­om/article­/2011/09/2­1/eu-tradi­ng-tax-idU­SLDE78K055­20110921
Read the Article at HuffingtonPost

The man fell and died close to Occupy SD

It wasn't a suicide or homicide, it was an accident. Read the comment thread and notice how popular the right-wing fucktards who mindlessly regurgitate Rush Limpdick and Asshole Hannity are. It makes me sick how many assholes there are in this county.

Man Falls to Death During Occupy SD
By Lindsay Hood and Sarah Grieco | Tuesday, Oct 11, 2011 | Updated 9:31 AM PDT
Source: Man Falls to Death During Occupy SD | NBC San Diego

A new village being born in the shadow of City Hall at Occupy San Diego

thanks Frank! (title click for article)

Occupy Wall Street Emerges as "First Populist Movement" on the Left Since the 1930s

Occupy Wall Street Emerges as "First Populist Movement" on the Left Since the 1930s

For San Diego's Broken Roads, Broken Promises Too

For San Diego's Broken Roads, Broken Promises Too

Carl Demaio and Nathan Fletcher MAKE ME SICK, the fucking attention hogs. They are part of the problem with not just local politics but national politics. They are examples of part of the reasons why the national Occupy Wall Street protests are growing, Well that and the fact that Americans expect all kinds of services and don't want to pay taxes for them. San Diegans are egregiously stupid in this particular regard- Gimme gimmee gimmee, but don't raise my taxes to pay for it, bro. Why the politicians play into that retarded game is no secret, they are whores in the pockets of the M-I-C and the developers in this filthy county.

Fuck 'em. Fuck the stupid, selfish voters, the whore politicians, and the horrid, greedy developers who want to make a quick buck on their developments, especially if they can get the local governments to make up infrastructure funding deficits and then bail so they never have to deal with the cost of infrastructure maintenance.

I've lived my whole life here, but I think it's time to go somewhere else. Somewhere where there is water, a sense of community and less greed and selfishness.

Naomi Klein on Occupy Wall Street

Published on Friday, October 7, 2011 by The Occupied Wall Street Journal
Occupy Wall Street: The Most Important Thing in the World Now
by Naomi Klein

"...“Why are they protesting?” ask the baffled pundits on TV. Meanwhile, the rest of the world asks: “What took you so long?” “We’ve been wondering when you were going to show up.” And most of all: “Welcome.”..."

The Endgame of Occupy Wall Street Is Critical Mass

Great article, thanks.
Read the Article at HuffingtonPost