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Occupy's May Day protests off to slow, soggy start in NYC
Reuters ^ | May 1, 2012 | By Edith Honan and Mike Segar

Posted on 05/01/2012 7:57:09 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer

(Reuters) - Occupy Wall Street's call for a general strike to mark International Workers Day got off to a slow start on Tuesday, with sparse gatherings at a handful of spots around a rainy New York City.

At Bryant Park in midtown Manhattan, about 100 activists gathered where the group had promised a "pop-up encampment" emblematic of the movement's early days in lower Manhattan's Zuccotti Park near the Wall Street financial district.

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: occupy; occupywallstreet; parasites; socialism
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Soggy socialist parasites.
1 posted on 05/01/2012 7:57:20 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
They forgot to borrow a umbrella from mommy?
2 posted on 05/01/2012 8:04:07 AM PDT by TYVets (Pure-Gas.org ..... ethanol free gasoline by state and city)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
I visited the Occupy Wall Street site last October.I was in the neighborhood and dropped by to laugh at the creatures on exhibit.At one point I asked a cop if it was OK to taunt them and he smiled and said “naaaah,they're not worth the effort”.
3 posted on 05/01/2012 8:04:07 AM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Unlike Mrs Obama,I've Been Proud Of This Country My *Entire* Life!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
The face of Occupy:

Tell me again how the Tea Party movement are violent racists and the Occupy movement is the peaceful common man.

4 posted on 05/01/2012 8:07:59 AM PDT by Domandred (Fdisk, format, and reinstall the entire .gov system.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Yeah, well, 5 of the occupy anarchists (Oboma reelection supporters) have been arrested so far in an attempt to blow up the Cleveland bridge to celebrate their day of “It’s Not Fair Those Who Go To Work Every Day Have More Stuff Than Us Who Are Too Lazy To Get Our Own Jobs” Day.


5 posted on 05/01/2012 8:09:44 AM PDT by concerned about politics ("Get thee behind me, Liberal")
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

As I said on a previous post, it always depends upon the weather.....


6 posted on 05/01/2012 8:13:43 AM PDT by Nifster
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
I hear the employment numbers this week are going to suck - again. I find it odd these so called "innocent unemployed people" are out campaigning for the leader of a party who's destroyed the economy they're suppose to be bitching about!
Talk about self defeating behavior! Why don't they just shoot themselves right now and end their self inflicted misery? These people are gluttons for punishment! Sheesh!
7 posted on 05/01/2012 8:17:19 AM PDT by concerned about politics ("Get thee behind me, Liberal")
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To: TYVets

Mommy probably wouldn’t let them out of the house so they wouldn’t catch a cold.


8 posted on 05/01/2012 8:17:19 AM PDT by MNlurker
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Can I make an observation? These “occupy” whatever people claim to want to reform excesses of capitalism and all that. But, why would they pick Mayday to stage major events? Mayday is the communist worker’s holiday. Do they want to be associated with communism? Do they realize the symbolism associated with Mayday? Or do they not care? Or are they really communist/socialist sympathizers and want to let the world know that?

Or, are some of these kids so uneducated that they don’t know about the history of Mayday????


9 posted on 05/01/2012 8:20:24 AM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Only the committed commies (who should ALL be committed!) will show up in the pouring rain. Let’s hope for afternoon cloudbursts!


10 posted on 05/01/2012 8:22:37 AM PDT by JimRed (Excising a cancer before it kills us waters the Tree of Liberty! TERM LIMITS, NOW AND FOREVER!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

“Hey, do you want to go downtown and protest the oppression of capitalism and its vice-like grip on our government and its boot on the neck of working people?”
“Nah, it looks like it might rain”.


11 posted on 05/01/2012 8:23:06 AM PDT by AppyPappy (If you really want to annoy someone, point out something obvious that they are trying hard to ignore)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
Obama Voters Kick Off Spring Rally


12 posted on 05/01/2012 8:23:06 AM PDT by Iron Munro (If Repub's paid as much attention to Rush Limbaugh as the Dem's do, we wouldn't be in this mess)
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To: Dilbert San Diego
Do they want to be associated with communism? Do they realize the symbolism associated with Mayday? Or do they not care? Or are they really communist/socialist sympathizers and want to let the world know that?

Or, are some of these kids so uneducated that they don’t know about the history of Mayday????

Yes on at least one count per individual to each of the above.

13 posted on 05/01/2012 8:27:46 AM PDT by JimRed (Excising a cancer before it kills us waters the Tree of Liberty! TERM LIMITS, NOW AND FOREVER!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

They’re disgusting.


14 posted on 05/01/2012 8:29:29 AM PDT by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: JimRed

I would hope for a few accurate lightning strikes.


15 posted on 05/01/2012 8:30:07 AM PDT by stbdside
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To: concerned about politics
I find it odd these so called "innocent unemployed people" are out campaigning for the leader of a party

Where do you get that information?

16 posted on 05/01/2012 8:32:30 AM PDT by Age of Reason
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Nobody can stand these asses. I was in San Fransisco a week and a half ago and my Cabbie says:

“And over there we had the Occupy Movement, til we kicked ‘em out. Enough! What a bunch of _ _ _ holes.”


17 posted on 05/01/2012 8:34:54 AM PDT by golux
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To: Iron Munro

Does Nancy Pelosi hike up her dress when she stands whith this guy?


18 posted on 05/01/2012 8:36:36 AM PDT by Lurkina.n.Learnin (The democratic party is the greatest cargo cult in history.)
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To: Dilbert San Diego
Or, are some of these kids so uneducated that they don’t know about the history of Mayday????

That's my first guess.
Kids today don't know the socialist and communist leaders of the past - or the consequences of letting them rise to power - because the schools no longer teach history. They've replaced it with their own version of socialism studies! Today, leaders like Joseph Stalin are considered hero's in Americas classrooms.

On May 13th, 1932, Hitler (German National Socialist Party) ran for election, but lost to his opponent from the Republican Party.

He ran again and defeated the Republicans, and we all know how Hitlers Socialist party ended up after that.

19 posted on 05/01/2012 8:38:30 AM PDT by concerned about politics ("Get thee behind me, Liberal")
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To: JimRed

Spray em down with DDT.


20 posted on 05/01/2012 8:45:03 AM PDT by Eric in the Ozarks
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