OccupyWallStreet - Not

[Oceander]

A little tourists' cornucopia from the big, bad OccupyWallStreet thingey.  I took the images below on my way to work this morning - discarded most of 'em cause they were just too pathetic - and thought I'd share them.  My absolute fave is that earnest-looking upper middle class white kid in the bottom 4 pix (my "vignettes") - especially the last one, where he's so neatly folding his Buzz Lightyear towel - probably still smells like Downey fabric softener mommie used when she washed it for him.

Just a warning - these pics are the small(er) versions of my originals.  If you click on one, it will open up a larger version in a new window.  Be forewarned, however: the larger files are about 1.1MB to 1.4MB in size.


   

   

 

[Rapunzel]

Thanks, O.........

[Oceander]

Should have some more coming today - I walk by there every day to work after all - and maybe even some video (maybe, no promises).

[Oceander]

Okey dokey.  Got a lot more.  Y'know, it's sorta funny; yesterday I was rather hesitant about letting my camera show around the zoo - after all, the cage bars have disappeared - but today I just waltzed around taking pictures - and video (which has a running commentary from yours truly) openly and brazenly.  These rubes want their pictures taken, so I was happy to oblige!  Best part is, not a single one noticed the little "red flag" I was wearing, front and center, where anyone could have seen it if they'd only paid attention to detail; here's a pic of my camera kit, see if you're smarter than the average liberal:  figure out what my "red flag" was:

[Oceander]

Update:

So, I went out just now to catch the daily protest "march" from the occupywallstreet monkeys.  Got some photos, but I can tell you that, in all honesty, there were probably more police officers along the march route than there were protestors marching.  That, in my view, is utterly pathetic.

[aligncare]

Thanks for braving the stench for us.

These images are the first I've seen of the mini Marxists.  Unfortunately the weather will remain warm for the next few days.  I think Bloomy was counting on a drop in temperature to send these rats scurrying home to their deluxe midtown condominiums.

[Oceander]

Thanks for braving the stench for us.

These images are the first I've seen of the mini Marxists.  Unfortunately the weather will remain warm for the next few days.  I think Bloomy was counting on a drop in temperature to send these rats scurrying home to their deluxe midtown condominiums.

It's not actually too stinky; the weather is cool enough to keep most of the sweat down, and a significant majority of these people are middle-class college grads (or college students), who probably have a Pavlovian aversion to too much B.O.

[Rapunzel]

~LOL~ love the first hand reports.

[Oceander]

Ok, a few more updated images from this laughable farce of a "protest":

First, here's an anti-capitalist "protestor" and his "moll" perusing the internet on an expensive notebook - an Apple for those who can't tell from the image - inside, of all places, the McDonalds on Broadway just across from the park they've planted themselves in!

The incongruities just abound:  but for capitalism and all of the benefits it provides, these two yo-yos wouldn't have (1) a laptop that cost about $2,000, and that can process data at several billion operations a second, (2) a wireless connection - provided for no extra charge by McDonalds - that is robust enough and fast enough to download graphic-intensive websites in almost real time, (3) a comfortable, well-lit, clean place in which to sit for as long as they want, for the price of a cup of coffee (and not even that, since they brought in cups from other capitalist establishments as well), or (4) the extra money, after necessities are taken care of, to pay for a $2,000 plus notebook and cups of high-priced coffee in downtown Manhattan.  And that's just the first few things I can think of off the top of my head.

In other words, not only are these folks hypocrites - denouncing for rank political effect the very products and services that they are so willing to take advantage of - they're also bald-faced liars because (a) they quite clearly are not toiling in service to this mythical "1%" they keep yammering on about, and (b) they aren't poor because they clearly have plenty of cash to spare for the nicer amenities in life.


Oh, and the best part?  Mr. "Protestor" hurriedly tried to put a bandana across his face once he realized that I had a camera and wasn't afraid to use it.  Sap.

[Badeye]

Well done, Oceander.

[mystery-ak]

Our man on the scene...well done Ocean!!

[massadvj]

We have a TV station and now a national news correspondent.  Watch out, Fox!  We'll show you what REAL conservative media looks like.

[Oceander]

Some more delightful little vignettes from the occupy-some-place-in-the-same-city-as-Wall-Street "occupancy":

First, my absolute favorite, because it captures in one image the sum-total of the hypocrisy and intellectual incoherency of the OccupyWallStreet gang.  I call this one Anti-capitalist Capitalism.  Gotta ask, people:  which is it?  Are you anti-capitalist or not, 'cause this guy is clearly a capitalist.  Maybe he's really just a nasty, evil capitalist plant - an agent provocateur - placed there to bring disrepute on the "purity" of your anti-capitalist fervor?

Of course, the usual suspects showed up, too.  Doesn't look like this guy's been sleeping in the park all week; probably here to inspect the ranks of the "useful idiots" who have been sleeping in the park (and enjoying the perks of McDonalds, too).

Then there's the rank-and-file "useful idiots" enjoying more of the fruits of capitalism - $12 a pack cigarettes and Blackberry smartphones (the guy's using a Blackberry smartphone - hope you'll believe me, 'cause the pic showing it is a bit too blurry to post).  Ahhh, $12 a pack cigs and a 3G smartphone - life can't get any sweeter for an anti-capitalist "protestor."

Here's a few more, also enjoying those $12 a pack cigs.  Y'know, the claims of poverty and exploitation would be a bit more believable if they were at least smoking some roll-your-own - Drum used to be my favorite - after all, it's cheaper:

Finally, the pièce de résistance:  two of the only real workers I could find at this merry little ship of fools, this confederacy of dunces.  God Bless these gents and keep them well, they are some of the few here who actually deserve some consideration; notice, however, that not only are they working hard, they're not whinging about how hard they have it, and quite frankly, they have it substantially harder than any of the middle-class, trustafarian, college-educated "protestors" do.  God Bless you gentlemen:

(just as a gentle jab at certain "sensitive" points:  I would point out that these guys are also about the only immigrants I could see at this "protest" - apparently, immigrants come here to work hard and make something better for themselves - guess the U.S. isn't nearly half so bad as the rest of the world; perhaps the "protestors" would like to go find that out for themselves first-hand).

[massadvj]

Really great, OC.

[Oceander]

Really great, OC.

Thanks.  I got tons more that I want to put up later on - I've already wasted enough time at work today putting these together.

[aligncare]

This is just precious, O.

Notice all the leather stretched across the drum heads and the leather shoes and leather belts.  Oh, my -- what would PETA think of their fellow travelers?  And are those Down vests I see?  Oopsie.

[aligncare]

We have a TV station and now a national news correspondent.  Watch out, Fox!  We'll show you what REAL conservative media looks like.

LMAO!!!!

[mystery-ak]

Now I know what happened to Sir Anthony Hopkins.... whistle

[Oceander]

Here's another shot of the "protestor" & his "moll" in McD's:



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[aligncare]

Good one, myst.  Are those fava beans in the sack at his side? 

What an uncanny resemblance to Hopkins. 

[Oceander]

Ok, so I couldn't resist, here are two more pics of OccupyWallStreet "protestors" enjoying themselves in McDonalds.  I hope you'll take it on trust that the first one - the magenta lady - shows a couple of protestors; the second should speak for itself.  Also, in the second, notice again the rather expensive Apple notepad.  For a bunch of poor, downtrodden "working-class" mugs these people are pretty loaded.  I wonder if Mommy and Daddy know what their boys are doing?

 

[Oceander]

Good one, myst.  Are those fava beans in the sack at his side? 

What an uncanny resemblance to Hopkins. 

Looks like he's already swilled all of the chianti, however.

[DCPatriot]

Thanks.  I got tons more that I want to put up later on - I've already wasted enough time at work today putting these together.

I like that you're cognizant of the "rule of thirds"...when composing your pics.  Big thumbs up!

[Oceander]

I like that you're cognizant of the "rule of thirds"...when composing your pics.  Big thumbs up!

Thank you.  Sometimes I try to get it right, sometimes I just get lucky.  Cropping really helps, too.

[DCPatriot]

BTW....I have Park Place ......if anybody has Boardwalk, I am willing to split the $1 MILLION prize.

(after seeing the McDonald's pics)