BREAKING: #OWS PROTESTERS IN OAKLAND CLASH WITH POLICE

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Zombie at PJM has video, photos and expects further updates:

Chaos reigns on the streets of Oakland tonight as rioting has broken out when Occupy protesters tried to reclaim their camp from the police. . . .
After the Occupy Oakland encampment was torn down early Tuesday morning by police, the ousted protesters reconvened outside the Oakland Library on Tuesday afternoon and voted to attempt a re-occupation of the same plaza from which they had just been evicted. . . .
After an hours-long standoff at 14th and Broadway, interrupted by several confrontations and arrests, everything started to turn violent some time after 9:30pm.

The Oakland Tribune reports:

Occupy Oakland demonstrators clashed all over downtown Tuesday night with police who lobbed tear gas at least three times in futile attempts to fully disperse the more than 1,000 people who took to the streets after the early-morning raid of the movement’s encampment.
The rolling protest came about 12 hours after hundreds of police from throughout the Bay Area rousted about 300 people from the two-week old camp at Frank H. Ogawa Plaza. Tensions escalated after protesters vowed to return to the plaza.
“We had to deploy gas to stop people from throwing rocks and bottles at police,” said Interim Police Chief Howard Jordan, adding that he was unsure about what other crowd-control methods were used by outside police agencies.
There were unconfirmed reports that flash-bang grenades and wooden dowels were launched at protesters.

Stay tuned at PJM for further updates from Zombie.

UPDATE: The NY Times reports on the Oakland riot, including reports that some protesters sang “We Shall Overcome” — as if these mangy white hipsters are victims of injustice and the Oakland P.D. is commanded by Bull Connor.

Because Young People Aren’t Reminded Often Enough How Ignorant They Are

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In answer to a question about Occupation Wall Street: “Why does Generation Y blame capitalism — and not Obama — for its misfortunes?”

The teaching of “self-esteem” in schools has bred insolence in youth, so that it never occurs to young people to think: “Hey, maybe I’m wrong.”

Sixty-six percent of those under 30 voted for Obama. When his policies fail, they are incapable of thinking that perhaps their choice was unwise. Instead, it must be some sort of trick, for which scapegoats are to blame.

‘Proud To Be A Liberal’

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by Smitty

This cartoon is a hoot, but I’m not dealing with its copyright restrictions. Check the cartoon for a list of things for which we’re supposed to, somehow, thank these fellows.

Cartoon Snark
Civil Rights Wikipedia does a fine job of airbrushing the Democrat Party resistance.
Women’s Right to Vote Don’t forget to claim Margaret Sanger.
Social Security Do you really want that albatross about the neck? Really? Even Krugman the Risible admitted it’s a godforsaken Ponzi scheme.
National Parks Point.
Clean Air No, environmental conservation is a perfectly conservative point. Note the first two syllables: “conserve”.
Clean Water See above.
Minimum Wage As long as Economics has no meaning, liberals can take another victory lap on this one.
Worker Safety Wait. Without liberals, no workers would be safe? Really?
Consumer Protection Protection as in “Sure would be a shame if you didn’t vote a certain way. . .” protection?

In the first place, the liberals stole the notion of classical liberalism. That, apparently, occurred at the end of the Progressive Era. As the internet is increasingly used to point out what a sad little confidence game these ‘liberals’ are playing, look for them to test a new label in focus groups.
In any case, the modern liberal/Progressive remains a sad by-blow of an intellectual encounter between Rosseau and Marx.
Just keep on pluckin’ that chicken, liberals.

Report: 14-Year-Old Runaway Girl Gets Banged at ‘Occupy’ Protest in Dallas

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You call it “statutory rape.” The 99% call it “social justice“:

Dallas Police continue to investigate whether a teenage runaway was sexually assaulted by an adult male at the Occupy Dallas encampment behind City Hall.
A source within the Dallas Police Department who spoke on condition of anonymity because of the ongoing investigation said the girl ran away from home in Garland last month and that she is now refusing to cooperate with investigators. She initially told officers that she had sex with a man in his early twenties and had engaged in sexual activity with several other people.
Some members of the group told CBS 11 the girl identified herself as a 19-year-old and never knew she was 14.


Via Verum Serum and AOSHQ.

Herman Cain Builds Lead Over Romney, Rick Perry 5th in New CBS/NYT Poll

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The big news? This poll was taken Oct. 19-24, entirely after last week’s Vegas debate (Perry’s best performance to date) and covers the period during which the abortion controversy was supposedly (if you believe Karl Rove) destroying the viability of the Cain campaign:

Herman Cain ………………. 25%
Mitt Romney ………………. 21%
Newt Gingrich …………….. 10%
Ron Paul ……………………… 8%
Rich Perry ……………………. 6%
Michele Bachmann ………. 2%
Rick Santorum ……………… 1%
Jon Hunstman ……………… 1%

Earlier today, I heard Megyn Kelly discuss this poll on Fox and she felt obliged to point out that Cain and Romney are actually in a statistical tie because of the 4% margin of error. Right: And Rick Perry is in a statistical tie with Michele Bachmann, with Jon Huntsman close behind.

Perry’s effort to revive his campaign has already encountered difficulties. Three Republican governors — Terry Brandstad of Iowa, Bob McDonnell of Virginia and Haley Barbour of Mississippi — are criticizing Rick Perry for playing footsie with Birthers.

It’s a good day to be the Future Ambassador to Vanuatu.

Breakfast With Ehlinger

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by Smitty

Ladd is on his way back home, and we staged a coordinated attack on a brace of breakfast samplers at IHOP.

There were no injuries in the attack, and we fought the pancakes to a draw. Then we retreated with only a few weeks damage to our lifespans from all the bacon.

Ladd is truly an excellent American, and it’s great to know that there are a few of his ilk in the struggle against the herd of RINOs out there.

Godspeed, Ladd, and may we cross silverware again in that endless struggle for truth, justice, and decent breakfast.

#OWS and the Socialism of Fools

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August Bebel called anti-Semitism the “Socialism of Fools,” and MRC’s Joe Schoffstall had no trouble finding it in the Zuccotti Park mob:

“Israel is white Europe — eastern Europeans — who has [sic] usurped and occupied Arab land, and they have displaced the indigenous Arab Palestinian people at gunpoint. When Israel was founded in 1948 … in 1949, Israel secretly began working on a nuclear … atomic nuclear program to wipe out her neighbors. So the hatred of the Arabs for Israel is understandable. … And I’ll say that the Jews control Wall Street. Google ‘Jewish billionaires.’ Google ‘Jews and the Federal Reserve bank.’ Google ‘Jews and Wall Street.’ America’s finances is [sic] controlled by the Jews. Wall Street, the media, the legal profession — Jewish money is the engine in politics. … The Jews commit more white-collar crime than any other ethnic group on the earth and they go unprosecuted because they can buy their way out of it.”

Scratch an anti-capitalist, and a Jew-hater bleeds.

Update (Smitty): Welcome, Instapundit readers!