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Guest 11-06-2011 10:35 AM
Enjoy the Humor
 
It is better to see the humor in all of this. I lived a few miles from Woodstock and drove by a few times during the "protests". In the main they were drugged up youths who waddled through the mud and the only impact was their effect on the poor farmers property. If you go to Woodstock today you will see small booths selling what are obvious drug pipes, etc. and a few nutty old painted up hippies playing a guitar in the square.. On Sunday they catch the noon bus back to New York City for the week. A friend manages the Woodstock Golf Course and he designed and sells a golf hat with "Golf in Peace" as the logo. There are a bunch who buy it as a statement they were there. These are wealthy people demonstrating their own humor at the drama going on. It is truly humorus that the senior members are demonstrating against society as they live in paradise. Come on now..This is all funny drama! :jester:

Guest 11-06-2011 12:15 PM
Loveitthere I must disagree with you.

Guest 11-06-2011 02:20 PM
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Tea Party people do not trash places and go the bathroom anywhere they want like dogs. Tea Party people have coherent thoughts and ideals. There is no comparison. TP people are my neighbors and friends not a bunch of hippie wanna bees who are doing drugs and having sex like animals.
Your description of the Tea Party matches what I saw when I visited Occupy Boston.

Guest 11-06-2011 03:15 PM
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You posted at 11:05 and that's about the time I saw them in full force (about 10 or 15 of them) as I drove west down Parr Drive. I wondered what it was about. Actually, I saw them when they were first forming at 10:00 AM., as I was on my way to government day at Laural Manor. (Gotta love that! :oops:)

Anyway, I did manage to slow down to read one sign that said, "Hands Off
Social Security!" Perhaps I should go back and see some of the other signs. However, assuming they are all on the same page, I wonder what they hope to accomplish.

By coincidence, I came to this board to start a new thread to ask about this subject. (rubicon, you beat me to the punch!)

What's the deal? What do they hope to accomplish by holding up signs to passing cars? Is Social Security in danger of being cut?

If anything, the retirement age might go up, but that would not affect them. The other thing is they might require rich people to pay in more money. Are the protesters against that? Ha! I better go back and get more information. Stay tuned. As the terminator said: "I'll be back!"

:wave:
Maybe they're here because many have the notion that if you are a Villager, you are rich. Ha! The ones that think that don't live at my house!

When we first came, we attended a seminar (you know, the ones you always have a flyer for in your mailbox) and one of the businesses involved was Milhorn Law Firm. He told us not to put the license tag, The Villages, on the front of your car. He said that 441/27 is referred to as "have a wreck road" by many of the lawyers because when the scammers see that tag, they associate it with an opportunity for big bucks and easy prey. He was the one that told us too many non-Villagers think everyone in TV has lots of money.

Guest 11-06-2011 03:31 PM
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Maybe they're here because many have the notion that if you are a Villager, you are rich. Ha! The ones that think that don't live at my house!

When we first came, we attended a seminar (you know, the ones you always have a flyer for in your mailbox) and one of the businesses involved was Milhorn Law Firm. He told us not to put the license tag, The Villages, on the front of your car. He said that 441/27 is referred to as "have a wreck road" by many of the lawyers because when the scammers see that tag, they associate it with an opportunity for big bucks and easy prey. He was the one that told us too many non-Villagers think everyone in TV has lots of money.
That may be true but what you are describe are insurance scams and for obvious reasons. The interesting thing about these folks is that they know the insurance companies know they are scamming but they love to play the game. Normally there are a few doctors and lawyers working in concert to make such a scam effective. I think the reason they do it is because they agree and adhere to Obama's philosophy of a redistribution of wealth:crap2:

Guest 11-06-2011 03:33 PM
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Your description of the Tea Party matches what I saw when I visited Occupy Boston.
Well. in Kalifornia they are destroying property and there have been hundreds of police arrests. Are you actually defending these animals?

Guest 11-06-2011 09:15 PM
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Your description of the Tea Party matches what I saw when I visited Occupy Boston.

I don't think there was any reports of crack dealing at Tea Party gatherings.

http://boston.cbslocal.com/2011/11/0...deteriorating/

Guest 11-08-2011 10:09 PM
As reported by CBS Los Angeles-"SoCal Street Cart Vendors Hurting After ‘Occupy’ Group Splatters Blood, Urine"...
http://losangeles.cbslocal.com/2011/...s-blood-urine/

Guest 11-08-2011 10:16 PM
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As reported by CBS Los Angeles-"SoCal Street Cart Vendors Hurting After ‘Occupy’ Group Splatters Blood, Urine"...
http://losangeles.cbslocal.com/2011/...s-blood-urine/
These vendors had started off by offering free snacks and drinks to the protesters. When they stopped doing that they were violently attacked and had their pushcarts (their businesses) practically destroyed. It doesn't pay to be nice, I guess.

How anybody can see parallels between these miscreants and the supporters of the Tea Party is so absurd.

Guest 11-09-2011 07:06 AM
I can see one parallel - hijacking.

There's some big conservative money now behind the Tea Party (to say nothing of Fox News) on a national scale and it certainly did NOT start out that way.

In that article, I found an interesting comment:
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Over a million protesters were participating in the occupy protest. No violence was to be seen. No press were to be seen. Everyone wanted to ignore the protest all together. They said it was too small and had no real gumption. Escalation of the protest is the only way to be heard. The people that hear are looters and predators. They hijack the protest. Big business jumps in… after all they are looters and predators.

Moral of the story: Pay attention to the peaceful protesters. Help them fix the problem they are upset about. Unfortunately when you ignore them, the protest will become hijacked and out of hand. Hard to control. Because the original cause of the protest will not even be considered. This protest will happen again once the current hijacked protest subsides.
Most everything back east has still been peaceful. Makes me wonder why the problems seem to be eruting in California - but, then, we all know that things are (how can I put this politely) "different" in CA.

Drunks, addicts and homeless tried to crash the group in Boston and they were forcibly removed with the help of the Boston Police Department.

Perhaps Boston's history helps keep things orderly.

Out west it seems to be a different story.

I would imagine that the OWS and Tea Party are still in lock-step agreement about bank bailouts - so there's another parallel.

Guest 11-09-2011 08:33 AM
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These vendors had started off by offering free snacks and drinks to the protesters. When they stopped doing that they were violently attacked and had their pushcarts (their businesses) practically destroyed. It doesn't pay to be nice, I guess.

How anybody can see parallels between these miscreants and the supporters of the Tea Party is so absurd.
There is no comparison despite attempts to lump them together. The Tea Party is comprised of comcerned working citizens who are peaceful and respectful of property. The occupiers are bums, and societies rejects who have nothing better to do then do drugs and destroy property. Who would ever hire one of those hippie Wanabees?

Guest 11-09-2011 10:21 AM
Great column by Mary Beth Hicks on TownHall.com. These kids need to grow up.

http://townhall.com/columnists/maryb...ers/page/full/

Guest 11-09-2011 12:30 PM
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There is no comparison despite attempts to lump them together. The Tea Party is comprised of comcerned working citizens who are peaceful and respectful of property. The occupiers are bums, and societies rejects who have nothing better to do then do drugs and destroy property. Who would ever hire one of those hippie Wanabees?
I've said it before, and I'll say it again - have you (or anyone) gone down there and actually SEEN any of these demonstrations?

I found a few loonies when I went there - sure enough and I won't deny it. But I also found college students, school teachers, veterans, police officers, firefighters, unemployed financial services personell (people who, like me, used to work at Fidelity and Putnam).

Again, be careful when you paint with a broad brush. After all, some people went to Tea Party rallies and found stuff like this:

http://www.blueridgemuse.com/node/3539

or...

http://likeawhisper.wordpress.com/an...protest-signs/

or..

http://www.philly2philly.com/politic...vement_racism_

or...

http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com...t-is-al-qaeda/

Guest 11-09-2011 01:05 PM
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Posted by Guest (Post 415969)
I've said it before, and I'll say it again - have you (or anyone) gone down there and actually SEEN any of these demonstrations?

I found a few loonies when I went there - sure enough and I won't deny it. But I also found college students, school teachers, veterans, police officers, firefighters, unemployed financial services personell (people who, like me, used to work at Fidelity and Putnam).

Again, be careful when you paint with a broad brush. After all, some people went to Tea Party rallies and found stuff like this:

http://www.blueridgemuse.com/node/3539

or...

http://likeawhisper.wordpress.com/an...protest-signs/

or..

http://www.philly2philly.com/politic...vement_racism_

or...

http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com...t-is-al-qaeda/

Didn't dig deep enough DJ. The Hitler signs like other accusations were adequately debunked. Lyndon LaRouche supporters admit the Hitler signs are theirs and that they have no Tea Party Connection.
http://mrctv.org/blog/larouche-suppo...amahitler-sign

Maybe you might was to read noted speaker, author and columnist Walter E. Williams' take on racism before you search for old accusations against the Tea Party to try to use to prop up the naive children being used by leftist socialists to give cover for their anti-capitalist agenda.

http://townhall.com/columnists/walte...ist/page/full/

Guest 11-09-2011 01:15 PM
the only thing that is shown in the media are the loonies, fire bombing, and all the other mob scene stuff.

Are some of you saying that what they show in the national news is not representative of reality? I just don't understand how that could possibly be. Isn't the media the all knowing? All seeing? Unbiased reporting (barf).

Yes the above is sarcasm:D

btk


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