but the author of the Candorville “comic” appears to have stepped on his dick today. This alleged “comic” appears in the Gannett Star daily. On the comics page, mind you, not on the op-ed page where it belongs, where its counterparts Doonesbury and Mallard Fillmore, et al., also belong.
Supposed Tea-Partier: “Plus, these protests [OWS – ed.] are violent.”
Candorville Author Alter-Ego: “Almost all the violence is coming from the cops.”
Supposed Tea-Partier: [Liberal putting words into his mouth that condon the police raids simply because OWS didn’t have permits — not because they chose not to get them, but because it was flatly illegal to camp in Zucotti Park and most all the other Occupy venues, including the one on the steps of the Indiana Statehouse – ed.]
I guess the “comic” “artist” didn’t figure on being OBE when he submitted his “work” in advance by all the reported rapes and other assaults that we’ve been hearing about at the various Occupy sites.
Conversely, I don’t think I ever heard of a violent act being committed at a Tea Party function. And you sure didn’t get scabies and lice and TB sitting down with Tea Partiers.
I guess the comics just can’t be comic anymore. Everything — including what our kids read and enjoy — has to be infested with lib-soc politics. At least according to Gannett.
First of all, if you’re afraid of your kids being exposed to ideas that challenge your world view, don’t let them read the newspaper. Secondly, your “rampant” “misuse” of “quotation marks” is “incredibly” “annoying.”
Finally, having been struck six times in the thigh by a police officer’s baton for simply recording his actions with my iPhone just last week, I have very little sympathy for your point of view.
Poor widdle OWS hippie. I am so sorry. Mostly because I wish I’d been wielding the baton. What y’all missed growing up was a few good spankings from your parents. In your particular case, you were in the wrong place at the wrong time…something else your parents apparently neglected to teach you to recognize. Probably because they were stoned at the time. Or because they left your societal education to a Spanish-speaking nanny who was used to that back in the old country.
And I see that you’ve completely ignored the thrust of the post, which was, gee, how many rapes and assaults took place in the OWS camps that had nothing to do with the cops? Indeed, people were told not to report rapes in the camps. The “extra” “quotation” “marks” against which you weakly inveigh are intended to convey irony — a subject apparently also missing in your education (see above).
Classy people, those OWS hippies. And fairly clueless if Mr. Kess is any indication.
Oh, and just for the record: My wife and I don’t have kids. Which if you were a regular reader here you would know.
What the cats do with the newspaper after we’re done with it is their business.
When you have tens, or even hundreds of thousands of people sleeping overnight for weeks in crime-ridden urban areas, you’re going to see the same crimes that happen every day in every urban area.
By the way, have you stopped to ask yourself why the Occupy protests swell to large numbers in the evenings and overnight? It’s because people like me show up to join them after we get off WORK. And as for being a “hippie,” this hippie owns a business that employs seven people. And believe me, if YOU came at me wielding a baton instead and you weren’t wearing a badge, it would be the last thing you ever did because this hippie has a concealed carry permit.
But that’s ok, you’re not the first person on the Internet who doesn’t know what he’s talking about.
Big words from someone who chose to lie down with dogs and got up with fleas.
I notice in passing that the tea party folks managed to avoid all the violence and disease during their rallies. They also cleaned up after themselves. And avoided the police batons.
Smelly hippies who think they know it all didn’t seem to be able to avoid any of that. Probably because they’re generally legends in their own minds and don’t realize that the rest of the world just sees an annoying loudmouth.
Me, I just write what I see.
By the way, this just cries out for comment.
See, here is a basic difference between you and me. I have more damn sense than to go camping in goblinville, and so do most of the people I know. You may have read about a little neighborhood called Broad Ripple here in Indianapolis. There have recently been a few nighttime assaults and robberies and I believe at least one rape there…because people (mostly young women) have no damn sense and think that they can go into a questionable neighborhood at night and wander around alone and drunk and nobody will touch them, apparently because they have some special fairy-godmother protection. Guess what, that doesn’t work. And neither does letting a bunch of clueless innocents do the same thing en masse without somebody there to protect them from said goblins.
Maybe you should have put that CCW to good use and helped guard some of those little innocents overnight instead of going home and letting the goblins get to them. That’s what folks of my ilk would have done in similar situation — assuming that people of my ilk would ever take part in an illegal Occupation. But I’m sure you take the typical liberal attitude that the threat of violence won’t solve the problem. Don’t know why, given that you’re probably still feeling that baton.
Eh. You’d probably just freeze anyway. From the way you talk, your CCW primarily provides Dutch courage.
Hmm. You’re posting from a California IP. How did you ever get past the “good cause” requirement for a CCW there? Eh, never mind, I really don’t want to know.
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Hmm. Actually, I”m not done. It’s my blog, so fuck you anyway. I don’t actually care one way or the other about you Occupiers; if you get the shit kicked out of you, or have to be decontaminated, or end up dying of TB, that’s your business. The thing that really gets my goat about you filthy hippies is this:
YOU VOTED FOR WHAT WE HAVE TODAY. WHAT IN HEAVEN’S NAME ARE YOU WHINGING ABOUT?
You want socialism? Barry and Harry will be happy to give it to you, or would be if it weren’t for the fact that the Right took the House back last year.
I paid my fucking student loans off. If you’re stupid enough to get yourself into tens of thousands of dollars in debt for a degree that can’t even get you a job flipping burgers, don’t ask me to help. Ask your university, your academic advisors, and your professors. They’re the ones who got you into this mess, not me.
I’m paying two 30-year fixed mortgages. You can’t pay off your ARM and can’t flip your house? NOT MY PROBLEM. Pay or go bankrupt and lose the property. I didn’t tell you to try to make a fast buck flipping properties. I would have advised against it.
To paraphrase George HW Bush: “Message: I. DON’T. CARE.”
Curmudgeon. Title of blog. Remember?
Fuck all you goddamn parasites on the body politic. GET THE HELL OFF MY LAWN.