A PLEDGE PIN? ON YOUR UNIFORM???
According to an eyewitness report in the comments of this http://globalguerrillas.typepad.com/globalguerrillas/2009/09/journal-protest-as-national-security-threat.html post, the big protest anticipated by police never materialized. Pumped up with visions of WTO 1999, though, the police force was augmented by cops from Chicago and Miami, as well as National Guard. Given that predisposed mental state, it was not surprising that some cops misbehaved by looking for trouble where there wasn’t any, and then overreacted to low key demonstrations of disgust at their misbehavior.
Oh, I dunno. The Bagdad-style snatch-and-grab was kind of a novelty. Never saw that one done before. Maybe I'm a noob, though. I've never seen anyone disappeared before.
Wow, you weren't exaggerating about that Newshoggers entry.
Yeah, I rarely have to exaggerate much.
Well, it's kind of similar to what I pointed out to a few people when all the Righties started showing up for town meetings: The amount of carrying on and wailing, comparable to the coverage in Blogland when it was Lefties getting arrested on Capitol Hill at those bogus "symposiums" or whatever the fuck they were... well. Obviously the Valuable Lesson we are meant to learn is that Greens and other Lefties need to slobber more, let fly with more racist slurs, and pack more heat. Then maybe Blogland would start giving a shit about what they do.It's true that to some extent, this is just Blogland aping how big-time media thinks (or doesn't think). But I can't be the only who recalls that Blogland sells itself on being an alternative to big-time media. Does it even notice just how often it's no more "alternative" than a bag of generic white bread?Strolling all over Blogland has truly been a valuable learning experience, but somehow I don't think I've learned what they intended me to learn.-- ms_xeno
While most of Blogland consists of the vacuous rambling of shut-ins, at least they don't base their content on actual deception. The pwoggie and freeper blogs, OTOH, being desperate social-climbing pundit-wannabes, are merely the echo chamber for their party's more successful mainstream pundits.As far as reporting actions like Pittsburgh, I'm not holding my breath. Anything happening outside of the the comfy cosey confines of the duopoly is verboten on the pwoggie blogs. They wouldn't want to disturb their reader's beautiful minds...
The Democratic Party's little Deciders and their blogging little helpers like them some anti-Republican Party protests, provided the progressive pecksniff proprieties are observed. The protests should be staged in a way that won't alienate the swing vote and, ideally, they'll target personalities rather than issues. Not that issues are out of bounds, of course. Democrats believe in the power of ideas. They themselves are filled to the brim with ideas, all smacking into each other like bumper cars. They have so many ideas and the bumper car action is so fierce that ideation leaks from every orifice.Sometimes people mock them for confusing ideas with marketing, but put them under an MRI and any progressive can prove that there's activity related to brain function going on. Ideas live in brains! It's measurable! There are metrics! Therefore, there are ideas.It can be vexing to explain the problem to them; their intellectual life consists of equating busyness in pursuit of propriety to purpose in pursuit of principles.
According to an eyewitness report in the comments of this http://globalguerrillas.typepad.com/globalguerrillas/2009/09/journal-protest-as-national-security-threat.html post, the big protest anticipated by police never materialized. Pumped up with visions of WTO 1999, though, the police force was augmented by cops from Chicago and Miami, as well as National Guard. Given that predisposed mental state, it was not surprising that some cops misbehaved by looking for trouble where there wasn’t any, and then overreacted to low key demonstrations of disgust at their misbehavior.
ReplyDeleteOh, I dunno. The Bagdad-style snatch-and-grab was kind of a novelty. Never saw that one done before. Maybe I'm a noob, though. I've never seen anyone disappeared before.
ReplyDeleteWow, you weren't exaggerating about that Newshoggers entry.
ReplyDeleteYeah, I rarely have to exaggerate much.
ReplyDeleteWell, it's kind of similar to what I pointed out to a few people when all the Righties started showing up for town meetings: The amount of carrying on and wailing, comparable to the coverage in Blogland when it was Lefties getting arrested on Capitol Hill at those bogus "symposiums" or whatever the fuck they were... well. Obviously the Valuable Lesson we are meant to learn is that Greens and other Lefties need to slobber more, let fly with more racist slurs, and pack more heat. Then maybe Blogland would start giving a shit about what they do.
ReplyDeleteIt's true that to some extent, this is just Blogland aping how big-time media thinks (or doesn't think). But I can't be the only who recalls that Blogland sells itself on being an alternative to big-time media. Does it even notice just how often it's no more "alternative" than a bag of generic white bread?
Strolling all over Blogland has truly been a valuable learning experience, but somehow I don't think I've learned what they intended me to learn.
-- ms_xeno
While most of Blogland consists of the vacuous rambling of shut-ins, at least they don't base their content on actual deception. The pwoggie and freeper blogs, OTOH, being desperate social-climbing pundit-wannabes, are merely the echo chamber for their party's more successful mainstream pundits.
ReplyDeleteAs far as reporting actions like Pittsburgh, I'm not holding my breath. Anything happening outside of the the comfy cosey confines of the duopoly is verboten on the pwoggie blogs. They wouldn't want to disturb their reader's beautiful minds...
The Democratic Party's little Deciders and their blogging little helpers like them some anti-Republican Party protests, provided the progressive pecksniff proprieties are observed. The protests should be staged in a way that won't alienate the swing vote and, ideally, they'll target personalities rather than issues. Not that issues are out of bounds, of course. Democrats believe in the power of ideas. They themselves are filled to the brim with ideas, all smacking into each other like bumper cars. They have so many ideas and the bumper car action is so fierce that ideation leaks from every orifice.
ReplyDeleteSometimes people mock them for confusing ideas with marketing, but put them under an MRI and any progressive can prove that there's activity related to brain function going on. Ideas live in brains! It's measurable! There are metrics! Therefore, there are ideas.
It can be vexing to explain the problem to them; their intellectual life consists of equating busyness in pursuit of propriety to purpose in pursuit of principles.