Hot In Cleveland

"The Obama Administration announced the appointment of five new Czars today..."
Oops, wrong post - sorry.

May 7, 2012, Newsnet5.com,  CLEVELAND - Dozens of members of Occupy Cleveland showed up at a Cleveland courthouse to support the five people charged in connection with an alleged plot to blow up a northeast Ohio bridge.

The five suspects -- 21-year-old Connor Stevens, 24-year-old Joshua Stafford (aka “Skully”), 26-year-old Douglas Wright (aka “Cyco), 20-year-old Brandon Baxter (aka “Skabby”) and 37-year-old Anthony Hayne (aka “Tony” & “Billy”) – pleaded not guilty during their arraignment Monday morning.

The suspects had the charges -- conspiracy and attempted use of explosive material to damage physical property affecting interstate commerce -- read to them in open court.

In all, about 50 members of the Occupy Cleveland group went into courthouse. After the arrests were made, Occupy Cleveland said the five suspects were associated with the group, but they were “in no way representing or acting on behalf of Occupy Cleveland.”

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The city of Cleveland decided to not renew the group’s permit a day after the arrests, but did not say if the decision was related to the bomb plot.

The FBI said the five self-proclaimed anarchists came up with a plan to blow up the Route 82 bridge over the Cuyahoga National Forest in Brecksville. They were arrested after allegedly pushing a button they thought would detonate a C4 bomb placed at the base of the bridge on April 30.

An undercover informant working with the FBI had provided the group with an inert bomb.

Oh those wacky kids!  What they need is for someone to give them each a great big hug!!!  They are so misunderstood.  Well, if these friendly (and, I might add, well-groomed) waifs are going to get charged with attempting to blow up the Route 82 bridge, at least they're getting the moral support they need from their 'buds' in 'Occupy Cleveland'...

Yes, that's right, the nice folks I began writing about last October (remember back then when I said the Occupy Groups were mostly 'Socialists', 'Anarchists', 'Communists', and 'Union Labor'?  Oh, and remember when a some of you said that I was NUTS?  Yes, SOME of you said that out loud AND in print - didn't cha?) 

Okay, whose wittle cheeks are chock-full of NUTs now, huh?  Whose little face is 'packin' nuts' of every shape and size making they little cheeks so they's fixin' to bust???

Hmmm?

Oh yeah, da's right.  YOU...   Who's nutty now?  (Read to the tune of 'Who's Sorry Now' by Connie Francis)

No, not me, I'm officially NOT nuts any more as I nailed it last October in:  Fringe (A Little More 'Red' Sauce Please...)

And you, you few who doubted me?  You are so BUSTED. 

Yeah, it feels good to be me right about now...


Except, well, maybe, it doesn't. 

Because, if I was right about the groups working behind the scenes of the 'Occupy' movement, we are closer to the cliff than I thought.  When you have 'Political Party Leaders' (a.k.a.:  Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi, Joe Biden, Barack Obama, Religious Leaders and Employee Unions) spurring on the folks (Communist Party USA, Anarchists, and the US Nazi Party come to mind) who want to push America into Anarchy - well, we've got trouble - heap big trouble.

There hasn't been much said nationally about the 50+ Occupy Cincinnati members who showed up in court two days ago to express solidarity with five idiots who wanted to blow up a bridge, to send dozens, or perhaps hundreds of people into a river.  To what? To give them a thrill ride? 

No, you blow up a bridge to make people (who just happen to be on the bridge when you blow it up...)  DIE.   

So, I guess I need to ask this question:  Why am I thinking about this?  Why is some guy in his PJ's drafting a post about it when the Alphabet Soup Corp of Reporters didn't find it noteworthy at all?

Either one of two things is going on:

1.  The Associated Press is withholding all media coverage so that the FBI, CIA, and Department of Homeland Security can work stealthily behind the scenes to uncover the 'Rest of the Story' and assure that the responsible parties are punished to the fullest extent of the law,

or,

2.  Johnny Depp was on the 'Ellen' Show announcing that he would rather swallow a 'bag of hair' rather than do this. 
 
The Answer, of course, is Option 2.  The Professional Media in American has its priorities.  You can find the Johnny Depp clip everywhere, but not so much as a peep about 'Occupy' folks plotting to blow stuff (and people) up posted anywhere outside of Cleveland (a.k.a.: Ground Zero - MidWest Edition). 

If it weren't so terribly sad - it'd be funny. 


But, hey, what do I know?  Like I said, I'm just a guy in his PJ's typing this as my wife watches TV in the other room. 

I think I'll join her for the remainder of the evening in order to catch up with the real news of the day.  Perhaps I'll find out why 'America is OBSESSED with Pippa Middleton'? 

Or maybe I'll find out why America is NOT obsessed with the going's on IN America?

The enemy is not at the door.

The enemy is in Your House.

Excerpted from the Weekly Standard, October, 2011:  In an interview that will be aired tonight on ABC News, President Obama continues to express his commitment to the Occupy Wall Street protesters.
 
“The most important thing we can do right now is those of us in leadership letting people know that we understand their struggles and we are on their side, and that we want to set up a system in which hard work, responsibility, doing what you’re supposed to do, is rewarded,” Obama tells ABC News.

“And that people who are irresponsible, who are reckless, who don’t feel a sense of obligation to their communities and their companies and their workers that those folks aren’t rewarded.” 

Your House.

Your choice.

Choose wisely.

But choose quickly, you ,know, while you still can...

or,

"Have a Holly-Jolly-Nazi Christmas"

I just went back to the American Nazi Party website to see if they were putting out another clarion call for even MORE 'Nazis' to Occupy Wall Street.

Seriously, what's an OCCUPATION of Wall Street if you can't have some of your Big-Labor-Union-supported-Nazi brothers and sisters over for a nice relaxing overthrow of the United States Economy?

I figured that stopping back at their site was a good idea since things have gotten 'more interesting' since we last visited the OWS supporters. I was NOT disappointed. Although it was 'more interesting' than I imagined that it would be... And, quite a bit more - surreal.

I haven't stopped back at the Communist Party USA site as yet, between you and me, the ANP site home page was enough of a shock for today - thanks.

The two groups above have both received moral support from President Obama, Vice-President Biden, and Nancy Pelosi and financial support from Liberal Activist / Anarchist Groups nationwide.

Our friendly Wall Street Occupiers have continued to live up to society's expectations of them.

Well, what I actually mean is:

They continue to stink up the place (but I hear the drug sales are way ahead of this fall's projections!)

Unfortunately, thefts and assaults are also UP at the OWS protest, hmmm, maybe due to a lack of Police Officers? Hey! We'd better pass that Jobs' Bill now - right VP Biden?!?! Nice goin' "Plugs". Sit down Joe, before you hurt yourself...

Certainly it couldn't be the quality of the participants that has created the criminal environment, right?

Hey, Liberal Moms and Dads, bring the kiddies! I hear they're having organic chicken and vegetables, spaghetti bolognese, and roasted beet and sheep’s-milk-cheese salad tonight -- Yumm-O!!!

Anyway, we last visited these folks in the post entitled, "Fringe". So what the heck, it's been a week, let's go back and see what the ANP is up to now!

I did.

And no, I'm not making this up (see screen shot above, which begins this post)...

"9th Annual White Unity Christmas Party this December 10th at noon in Laurens, SC!!!"

Yes, nothing says "It's Baby Jesus' Birthday Party!!!" like putting on your best 'Nazi' attire, oiling your weapons, singing 'Aryan Carols', and Goosestepping into the 2011 Holiday season with a few hundred of your closest Nazi Friends!

The following two photos were found on LIFE.com, both depicting Hitler's Christmas Party in Munich, December 18, 1941:

Gunther: "Hey, Heinrich, wasn't Jesus, a, a, um, Je..."
Heinrich: "Shut up, or the boss is gonna KILL you."
December 18, 1941 Nazi Christmas Party

"Holy crap, wasn't Jesus a Je...? Now I've got to shoot myself.
On second thought, where's Gunther?"
A Nazi Christmas, December 18, 1941

So, I guess REAL Nazis celebrate the birth of the Man who was called, "The King Of the Jews"? Perhaps back then, they thought Christmas meant something else? Maybe they were the first folks attempting to take the 'Christ' out of 'Christmas'?

Time for a little research - yeah, you know it's not my favorite thing, but I don't like mowing the lawn either, but it must be done.

Here are excerpts from an article found on the DailyMailOnline.com which discusses Christmas in Germany under Nazi-rule:

Nazi Germany celebrated Christmas without Christ with the help of swastika tree baubles, 'Germanic' cookies and a host of manufactured traditions, a new exhibition has shown.

The way the celebration was gradually taken over and exploited for propaganda purposes by Hitler's Nazis is detailed in a new exhibition.

Rita Breuer has spent years scouring flea markets for old German Christmas ornaments.

She and her daughter Judith developed a fascination with the way Christmas was used by the atheist Nazis, who tried to turn it into a pagan winter solstice celebration.

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Selected objects from the family's enormous collection have gone on show at the National Socialism Documentation Centre in Cologne.

'Christmas was a provocation for the Nazis - after all, the baby Jesus was a Jewish child,' Judith Breuer told the German newspaper Spiegel. 'The most important celebration in the year didn't fit with their racist beliefs so they had to react, by trying to make it less Christian.'


The exhibition includes swastika-shaped cookie-cutters and Christmas tree baubles shaped like Iron Cross medals.


The Nazis attempted to persuade housewives to bake cookies in the shape of swastikas, and they replaced the Christian figure of Saint Nicholas, who traditionally brings German children treats on December 6, with the Norse god Odin.

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Civilians were ordered to send Christmas cards to the soldiers at the front. There were also tips on how to make Christmas cookies in the face of food shortages.

In 1944-1945, the Nazis tried to reinvent the festival once again as a day to commemorate the dead, in particular fallen soldiers. 'By then nobody felt like celebrating,' Breuer explained.

Happily, the German people mostly ignored the clumsy propaganda efforts and continued with the same traditions as before.

The is a legacy of the Nazi Christmas. The wartime version of the traditional Christmas carol 'Unto us a time has come' is still sung. 'The Nazis took out the references to Jesus and made it into a song about walking through the snow,' Breuer said.

"Hey Hitler - no snow in Hell little man. Hope you brought your smoking jacket... You're gonna need it. 'Cause you be smokin'..."

Yeah, you're right, this is wrong on ALL levels

Given the information 'borrowed' from the Daily Mail Online, I now have a better understanding of the symbiotic relationship between Nazis, Unions, Communists, and Liberals in the United States.

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Each has unrelentlessly attempted to eliminate 'God' from the lexicon of our language. Each has attempted to diminish the foundations of our Judeo-Christian Nation, undermining our religious under-pinnings.

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Coincidentally, each of the above groups looks to the Democratic Party as their preferred avenue for 'Fundamental Change' in America.

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Gee, I wonder why that is?

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OWS people: You want change? Start with your own mind.

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Dig it. Yeah man. Groovy...

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Step 1: Get your head out of the sand (or, um, rump, either term is equally appropriate to today's discussion)

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Fool(s) On the Hill (Part I)

"Hill"

fool

noun

1. a silly or stupid person; a person who lacks judgment or sense.

2. a professional jester, formerly kept by a person of royal or noble rank for amusement: the court fool.


3. a person who has been tricked or deceived into appearing or acting silly or stupid: to make a fool of someone.


4. an ardent enthusiast who cannot resist an opportunity to indulge an enthusiasm (usually preceded by a present participle): He's just a dancing fool.


5. a weak-minded or idiotic person.


verb (used with object)
6. to trick, deceive, or impose on: They tried to fool him.

verb (used without object)
7. to act like a fool; joke; play.

8. to jest; pretend; make believe: I was only fooling.

Verb phrases
9. fool around,
a. to putter aimlessly; waste time: She fooled around all through school.
b. to philander or flirt.
c. to be sexually promiscuous, especially to engage in adultery.

10. fool away, to spend foolishly, as time or money; squander: to fool away the entire afternoon.

11. fool with, to handle or play with idly or carelessly: to be hurt while fooling with a loaded gun; to fool with someone's affections.


Idiom

12. be nobody's fool, to be wise or shrewd.


Synonyms 1. simpleton, dolt, dunce, blockhead, numskull, ignoramus, dunderhead, ninny, nincompoop, booby, saphead, sap. 2. zany, clown. 5. moron, imbecile, idiot. 6. delude, hoodwink, cheat, gull, hoax, cozen, dupe, gudgeon.

Antonyms 1. genius.

Illustration: An American Fool

(Feel free to use the word 'Tool' interchangably with 'Fool'. Either works fine for purposes of our discussion of today)

Where to begin?  I'm not sure, there's a LOT to cover. There is so much to tell and there is so little time to tell it. Perhaps less time than we thought.  But perhaps, enough time, if I ever actually begin this post. 

The President of the United States weighed in this past week on the Occupy Wall Street Movement(s) springing up 'spontaneously' (Lie #1) across the Nation.  Wow, do I feel better now, knowing that the President is vaguely aware that we are experiencing our very own American Fall rallies! 

Clarification:  The American Fall movement is loosely based on the Arab Spring series of the Middle East's spontaneous, clean, and fun-loving events which recently turned one-time US-friendly evil dictatorial regimes over to Islamic-extremist religious radicals, who, as we all know, are neither 'evil' nor 'dictatorial'.  They're just 'misunderstood' according to the Obama Administration.  We're not smart enough to understand why turning nations over to the Muslim Brotherhood is a 'good thing'.   

Cindy Lauper said it best, "Mullahs just want to have fun.  Mullahs just want to have fun!"  Sing with me now - Oh Mullahs just want to have guns!  Oops, one of them Freudian slips got in there - sorry!  



For the purposes of illustration, saying these 'Occupy Wall Street'  (interchange the name of your town here) events are 'Spontaneous expressions of Free Speech' is a LOT like my wife saying, "My breast 'augmentation' procedure is scheduled for next Thursday." (This, of course is a completely fictional example as we all know, my wife is prefect, as is.) 


Two weeks later you pass my wife on the street and notice that 'something is different'.  You ask, "Hey, um, Mrs. Mike, did your breasts, um, did they get much larger than they used to be?"

"Yes, they did.  And it happened all at once.  It was all so, so... 'spontaneous'.  Sure it cost George Soros a lot of money, but it pretty much happened on its own - without my intervention.  I was asleep at the time.   And then when I woke up - Ta Da!  There they were!  Boobs as far as the eye can see!!!" 


Hey, speaking of 'Boobs as far as the eye can see'...  (Nice transition, eh?)


Freedom's 'bestest-ever' friend Frances Fox Piven wrote a piece in The Nation Magazine (December, 2010) entitled "Mobilizing the Unemployed" which included the following:

Mass protests might change the president's posture if they succeeded in pressing him hard from his base, something that hasn't happened so far in this administration. But there are obstructions to mobilizing the unemployed that would have to be overcome.

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Protesters need targets, preferably local and accessible ones capable of making some kind of response to angry demands. This is, I think, the most difficult of the strategy problems that have to be resolved if a movement of the unemployed is to arise. Protests among the unemployed will inevitably be local, just because that's where people are and where they construct solidarities. But local and state governments are strapped for funds and are laying off workers. The initiatives that would be responsive to the needs of the unemployed will require federal action.


Local protests have to accumulate and spread—and become more disruptive—to create serious pressures on national politicians. An effective movement of the unemployed will have to look something like the strikes and riots that have spread across Greece in response to the austerity measures forced on the Greek government by the European Union, or like the student protests that recently spread with lightning speed across England in response to the prospect of greatly increased school fees.    


So I'm wondering, if Frances (don't call her 'Foxy') Piven publicly calls out to the troops in December, 2010 and they begin assembling 'in public' ten months later.  It's almost as if the two events (and Van Jones' American Dream scam) are somehow related... 

IRONY ALERT:  Ten months later, hmm?  Isn't the normal human gestation period something like ten months long? 

"Congratulations America, it's an American Fall!!!  It looks a LOT like 'Socialism;'  but it has your eyes!"

IRONY ALERT ENDS:


Seriously, if something is discussed 'openly' for almost a year would you really call it 'spontaneous'?  It's interesting that America tosses a whole BUNCH of Liberal Democrats out in the November 2010 elections and less than one month later, Frances Fox Piven 'gets busy'.

Yes, Frances (NOT the 'Talking Mule') Piven goes back to what she's done best for DECADES:  mobilizing and organizing Unions, College Professors, Students, and the befuddled 'Soft-Headed' citizens to turn back the clock against the will of the People.
   
So the question becomes, is ANY of this 'spontaneous'?

Another 'Defining Moment' in literature:

spon·ta·ne·ous adjective
1. coming or resulting from a natural impulse or tendency; without effort or premeditation; natural and unconstrained; unplanned: a spontaneous burst of applause.


2. (of a person) given to acting upon sudden impulses.


3. (of natural phenomena) arising from internal forces or causes; independent of external agencies; self-acting.


4. growing naturally or without cultivation, as plants and fruits; indigenous.


5. produced by natural process.


From a purely 'definitional' perspective, I'm thinking, um, no. 


None of this is 'Spontaneous'.


And I'll prove it.  Soon, but not now. 

As for me, I'm running a fund-raiser for our local High School Marching Band and the rest of the weekend is pretty much GONE.


I'll be back - I ALWAYS come back.  The thing is, I DO what I can, in the amount of time I have to do it in.  This is why I keep sending these words out adrift into cyber-space.  I'm hoping they land upon friendly shores. 


I have hope that I'll wake up in an America that looks more familiar to me than the one I've lived in for the past five years. 

There ARE Two Americas. 

You simply need to decide which one you chose to live in in the future.  Because what's at stake is the future itself. 

No pressure.