This is considered somewhat unprofessional.

Sleep tight.

It’s you who are the corporate lemming.

But humans have minds capable of planning, collaboration, and communication. We *can* change the rules, and if 99% of the planet *really* wanted to do something there’s not much the other 1% could do about it.

Your second premise is misleading. Corporations are required to try to maximize shareholder return; it isn’t as though the shareholders can demand specific changes in corporate policy.

You can too:  
https://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/826/p/salsa/donation/common/public/?donate_page_KEY=7842

Sending more troops to prevent a disaster from getting worse, does not equate with creating the disaster. Which Bush did, by taking his eye off of Osama Bin Laden to invade a country that wasn’t even a threat to us.

2) So that also means its not Obama’s budget. Thank you for admitting that I’m right.

3) Thanks for agreeing with me as well that the bailout was planned and put in place under Bush with the approval of the GOP as well as the Democrats. That Obama executed it merely means he was doing what President’s should do, which is execute the plans of their forbears if those plans are for the greater good of the country.

4) Obama’s not submitting a tax code review is due to the fact that the GOP has refused to even consider any increase in any taxes for anyone above the middle class. Sorry if you think Obama not futilely wasting his time in the face of toddler-level opposition, is somehow the fault of Obama and not the toddlers.

So, you’re 0 for 4.

Why do I need to keep reminding right-wingers of history we all lived through? But I know why: you don’t want to remember it, because it proves how wrong you are. So, I guess I will have to keep repeating it. And I’m fine with this.

Now then,
if it is not “Government” will he face any due process investigation?
I watched the clip several times -
You declare his action ‘illegal’, notice NONE of the other uniformed paramilitary guys raised a finger afterwards  to halt the flash-bang grenades when it was apparent that the people were helping a severely wounded innocent man.

At one level it is barbarous-
and another … they make this into THEIR STATE.

Does anyone else find this language to be excessively neutral?  I don’t recall the Rodney King incident being reported as, “Mr. King lies on the street after being struck in the head by police enforcement cylinders.”

Ha everything turned out as I hoped. No. But things are a hell of a lot better then they would have been. Did you almost have sticker shock on your 1040EZ two years ago, but then turned it over and filled out the “making work pay” worksheet so you still got an OK refund? Obama! Did you have to fill out payroll tax holiday tax forms on all the new hires and fax them to corporate? You gotta remember that the business contribution part of payroll taxes levied against businesses that hire lots of low to mid income employees is a huge deterrent to hiring. Our government puts a huge business tax on hiring po’ folks. Hiring a thousand working poor is a bigger tax hit than letting the CEO cash in his multi million options at 15%. The Obama backed payroll tax holiday is supply-side economics at its best.

Are we all disappointed with Obama? Has it worked out how we imagined? No. But I’m not gonna complain much.

BTW, Occupy Houston is having a House of Corporate Horrors in Tranquility Park Saturday night and a poetry and scary stories reading on Sunday night. I may be doing a dramatic reading of Oliver Sachs “The Man Who Fell out of Bed” sunday night. If you are out in the burbs. I suggest you come in. These events will be way cooler Nightmare on the Bayou, or Phobia: The Darke Institute. We will not be cooler than the NW Mall Carnival. Hit the carnival early and then come downtown. The NW Carnival is the last chance the Great Plains carney tribe have to make the money to overwinter here in Texas before they come back for the Livestock Show and head back north. Times are hard for them and the NW Carnival is hipper than Astroworld ever was.

Oh wait, thread hijak.

 Back to the original point. Shouldn’t Scot Olsen’s care be subsidized by the VA?

He is also entitled to due process and further enjoys the protection of the laws of the state of California which prohibits attacking an unarmed peacefully protesting citizen by firing a weapon at their head.

If your ambition is to see Scott Olsen prosecuted for vagrancy then I presume you are also eager to see his attacker or attackers prosecuted for assault and recklessly endangering the lives and safety of those trying to render aid by launching an explosive device into a crowd?  What was the police-approved alternative?  Leave him to bleed in the streets?   Would such a scene be less illegal if the police had “lawfully ordered” them not to render assistance?

Under the First Amendment the right to peaceably assemble has the same precedence as the right of free speech.  It may not be infringed by any act of government.  Any law which prohibits, regulates or otherwise interferes with the free assembly of American citizens in protest is unconstitutional on its face:  as void as a law prohibiting the distribution of a newspaper or regulating the content of a political speech.

One of the most distressing trends in recent American history is this growing myth that the Constitution is some kind of legal morality tale designed to look good on a textbook cover.

The Constitution is the law and it is superior to every other law in this country. Even if the OWS movement settles on no other agreed-upon message, my hope is their courage at least reminds us that first offended by the shameful thing America has become is the Constitution.