Neat!

This is a protest in Bogata, Columbia. I do not know the overall arching ideal of the protest and whether or not I would be in agreement, but I have this to say: "Wow. You have my attention. Who came up with this? I wish I had a job for them. Magnimus splash!"

Protest signs according to:

Yahoo Babelfish: We must right to infuriate to us. Education of excellence and for all.

Google Translate: Have the right to be outraged. Excellence and education for all.

What would 99% do?

It is hard to believe that the people that expanded the country to the West did it without iPhones, the Internet, or protesting. They did it with a few tools, inspiration, and perspiration. The tools and opportunities that are available to us today are mind-boggling. What are your desires? Given the chance to fulfill them, would you?

Let us then forget desires.

Let us focus on something you really believe in. You believe in it so much you join a protest. You camp out in a park day after day, night after night, week after week. In this bad economy you believe a job is a right. You demand that Wall Street provides jobs.

Then it happens. Job providers come to you. They meet your demands. They come providing jobs.

And then you say...

[ insert snide clever remark about OccupyWallStreet here ]

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Minimum Qualification

Minimum qualification.

Pen and paper.

Other than that, ... ? It's Monday. Are you going to work and earn money or not go to work and say you want money?

Allen Gregory Must Die

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Sunday, October 30^th, Fox premiered a new cartoon in the 8:30 prime-time slot between "the Simpsons" and "Family Guy." The style and execution of the animation is beautiful. That being said, that is not enough to give this show even one star.

I hope that the second episode is a cross-over with "Family Guy" and Stewie Griffin beats Allen Gregory to death with a baseball bat.

It is generally unfair to judge a series on the pilot episode, but the basis of the series has been set up. The series is set around Allen Gregory, an emo seven year old version of Charlie Brown in a gay Alex P. Keaton outfit. He has been home-schooled but is now being thrust into the public education system.

There are three points that are going to stick in the craw of those that do not like this show off the bat due to the feeling the popular media is trying to shove alternative ideals down our collective throats:

• Allen Gregory's parents are a homosexual couple. There is a scene of hubby petting his hubby while describing what he feels. Don't worry, he was petting his partner's stomach. It could have been worse. We learn during the pilot one of the husbands was (is?) straight and had a wife and kid(s). The other husband pursued him so persistently that he just gave up and accepted it as fate that he should be with the other man instead of his wife. This was the closest thing to humor in the episode. Was it social commentary on the feminization of men in our culture? Was it a reflection of white guilt portrayed as heterosexual guilt just as whites voted for Obama that straights try the same sex out of "equality guilt?"
• Allen Gregory falls in love with with his sixty-something female principal. Fine. In second grade I had a crush on my twenty-something teacher. I love the movie "Harold and Maude." When I was nineteen, if I met Maude, I probably would have fallen for her. This show portrays Allen's love fantasy as a visual sequence. Even though it is his fantasy, it is still a portrayed romantic and sexual fantasy between a seven year old and a sixty something year old, a pedophiliac episode depiction during prime time. They also did it to Phil Collins "In The Air Tonight." Try as you might, you cannot taint my memory of its use in "Miami Vice." There was no attempt at an allusion to true love but a thrust too gross the audience with overemphasizing varicose veins and the ravages of old age to the body.
• Remember "the Breakfast Club" and Molly Ringwald had a Sushi lunch? So does Allen. However, the seven year old Allen has wine as a beverage to have with lunch. Yes, the school punishes him, but the parents packed the wine in the first place.

So, if you are not entrenched in Amish prudishness, was this show still decent?

No.

There are several characters illustrated, the character development slims it down to fewer than what you see, and the dialog thins the cast down to two character types:

• A character that discusses the current topic of interest. No other character dialog is listened to. No other character feelings are concerned. Dialog is pushed forward in self interest.
• A character that discusses the current topic of interest. They understand what is going on. They wonder why they are being ignored.

Basically, writing dialog is extremely easy for this show. There are no conversations. Characters just bleat what they want.

Everything I complained about could be put together into a show and could be funny or it could be dramatically heartfelt and thought provoking. Unfortunately it was disjointedly awkwardly liberally pointlessly preachy and unfunny.

Yes, there is the general argument of parents should control what their kids watch, but I must stress that the promos I saw on FOX portrayed an overly intelligent kid entering public education. I did not see any of this grotesque humanity portrayed in the previews for this pre-bedtime TV show.

By now we all know "Family Guy" is NOT family friendly. When there is such a well defined change to adult programming, why would you put something more socially over the edge BEFORE it?

I wish I could recommend [ Adult Swim ] for this show, but everything about the show is boring or possesses an attempt as controversial while being meaninglessly offensive.

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The 53 Percent

Are you tired of #OccupyLocationX ? Are you irate that they say they represent the 99%, that they represent you?

Have you heard of the 53% yet? You are probably the 53%.

Consider retweeting the following:

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Obama Hates Artists

The Obama re-election campaign has a contest for artists to design a poster promoting Obama's Jobs Bill. There will be three winners. What do they win? An autographed copy of their poster.

Really? Obama wants artists to do work for him and the compensation is their own artwork. No money. A job is doing work for someone and receiving compensation, ie. money. Heaven forbid anyone gets compensation for doing work on promoting the Jobs Bill.

What if you do not win? Look at the Submission Terms. Your artwork, name, and address can still be used by the campaign to promote the Jobs Bill and his re-election without any compensation.

Why don't we trust Obama? Why don't we like his Jobs Bill? He does not understand what a job or real work is.

By the way Obama, artists sign their artwork, not you you arrogant Marxist.

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Former Soviet Citizen Confronts OccupyWallStreet

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Cash Outlawed

The economy is not hurting enough. You need to really dig at it a bit more to make it crawl. What are you going to do?

Outlaw the use of cash.

Yes. In Louisiana resale shops are not allowed to use cash. The idea is to make it easier for law enforcement to follow the sale of stolen goods via paper and e-paper trails.

This will of course create a well-spring of new identity fraud methods. With the lax nature of allowing illegal immigration there is already a good customer base ready for this. There will be a lot of money to be had to provide this service.

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