What is with those people?

Who the hell is against an organization that fights child sex slavery?!  Occupidiots must be of perverts as the party they typically vote for.

Bad form.

If an airline sells lifetime first class tickets, good for any flight at any time, they should have either set up rules on who can buy them, or honor the tickets they sold, no matter how much it's costing them. 

Why?  Because this ain't right.  These people bought these tickets for several hundred thousand dollars, in good faith that they'd be honored.  It wasn't smart of the airline to offer these tickets in the first place, and to offer them without restrictions confining who could purchase and use the tickets (i.e., "We thought originally it would be something that firms would buy for top employees.").  Since they didn't, and individuals actually shelled out the cash for them and actually use them, the airline has started realizing that they're losing money on them, and begun looking for a way to revoke the tickets (at best) or restrict how and how often they can be used (at least). 

Somehow, that strikes me as an attempt to break a contract that they willingly entered into with the individuals who bought those tickets.  And that strikes me as no different that a little kid on a playground, getting his butt kicked at games, wailing "You cheated!  I'm gonna take my ball and go home!"
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One last point of interest--in the comments on the linked story, there were several individuals giggling about how it "serves the rich bastards right--can't cry about the problems of the one percent."  Except...it has nothing to do with the rich bastards in the so-called one percent.  It's exactly the same as paying cash for a house or car, and having the bank or car lot coming in, screaming "YOU'RE NOT MAKING YOUR PAYMENTS!!!" and trying to foreclose/repossess because they're not making money off the interest.

And those idiots giggling about that happening to the rich?  Yeah, somebody needs to point out that they are the one percent--the poorest individual in the United States is still in the richest one percent for the rest of the world. 

The hypocrisy is staggering.

99%? Not so much.

I don't recall hearing any "complete shutdown" of any city hosting a May Day Occupidiot protest.  I've heard of violence, and of vandalism, but not of any "complete shutdown" of commerce. 

99%?  More like less than 1%.  An easily discouraged by rainy weather less than one percent.

It really takes a lot of courage to taunt people whose entire job is protecting them.

No, really--do you know how many dog attacks are caused by people taunting them?  What makes this bunch of ground apes think that the cops they're taunting (really?  really??  a donut on a stick and string?  can they be any less original in their mocking?) won't wind up turning on them?  Yeah, they may not own a car right now, might not even have their drivers' licenses...but all the cops I've ever known have long memories for insults, and most people like that tend to ignore traffic laws.  I wonder if someone can be driven into bankruptcy by repeated traffic violations tickets?

In the meantime, I wonder how many emergency calls that particular pack of ground apes make, and how long it's going to start taking to get a response?  I wonder how quick cops will respond to calls made on them? 

And I wonder how long it's going to be before the nightsticks come out.

Behold...

The North American Ground Ape.  

• I'd be willing to bet that the reason this one wasn't flinging her own feces at the professor and classmates was because she was constipated.

• This one did what monkeys tend to, climbed on top of something high, and screeched and screamed down at people below him.   

• And, like all social animals, the group tries to bully individuals it perceives as members into following the group's mores. 

• We've already established that the North American Ground Ape tends to sh!t where they eat.  

Note that most of these were of the Fishbelly Variety of North American Ground Ape, rather than the Chocolate Variety.

Yet another lesson Occupidots need to learn:

Don't sh!t where you eat.  Literally--the van used to transport it had also been used to haul food.

What does Islam and the Occupy movement have in common?

Both lie through their teeth when they claim to be peaceful movements.

I would bet that the main difference is that the Occupidiots individually have less physical courage when it comes to personal martyrdom than do the sand lice that inhabit the Middle East.

If this is anything like the "Arab spring" in the Middle East...

...does this mean we're going to have occupidiots trying to #Occupy the Cockpit of whatever airline like this?

Not quite the way he envisions, perhaps, but yes.

Cornell West has been quoted by Real Clear Politics as saying that “the push for more entitlements ‘is going to be fought in the streets.’” He’s probably right, but I strongly doubt things will turn out the way he hopes, considering that he’s heaped praise on the Occupidiots for their foray into “civil” disobedience.

What’s more likely to happen is that the Occupidiots are going to get frustrated, the violence they’re keeping contained within their squatters’ camps is going to spill out, and the adults in this country are going to have to spank the spoiled children. I can foresee some dumb, lazy, entitled punk deciding that he’s got a right to the money carried by some productive member of society walking past a squatters’ camp, and attempting to redistribute the wealth without the power of the government and the IRS behind him. Like as not (anywhere but the People’s Republics of Illinois, Massachusetts, and other “crime-safe, gun-free” zones), said productive member of society is going to be armed, and lazy, worthless punk is going to wind up ventilated.

That’s going to spark a riot. And then it’s going to have to be contained. If the government is unwilling to do it (likely, given Richmond’s preferences), then it will fall to the citizens.

And we, the people, are getting damn fed up with the vicious beasts biting the hands that are forced to feed them in the first place. I strongly suspect that, should we, the people, be forced to contain the Occupidiots’ riot(s), there are going to be heads busted, followed in short order by either another civil war (please, God, no), or a complete and total rout in the voters’ booths of those who refused to do their jobs in the first place.