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According to guests on The Ed Show last night, the Oakland protesters were throwing chemicals, paint, stones, and bottles at the police officers before they did anything. Three police officers are also injured, but that's not considered news on most blogs. What serving in Iraq has to do with the injured protester's condition, other than making him a martyr, is beyond me.

"Are you tired of the OCCUPY coverage? I’m not. I’m actually f*cking ecstatic that people seem to care. For once. About something."

Thank you! On CNN this morning the anchors were spewing their vile bullshit about hippies and bongo drums and GASP! organic chicken being “catered” (read: donated) to the people in Oakland. Imagine that! People actually giving a damn, coming together and expressing the purest form of democracy. How horrid!

People caring is nothing new. Their opinions may not perfectly align with yours, but they care.

Wait. Hold the phone. I am reasonably (!) intelligent but was that video with Johnny Depp serious? Whattheh? Really? It was a joke, right?

Uh. Hokaaay then. I will say that Gervaise serenaded Elmo to sleep with N is for Nap. Johnny can't touch that.

Admit it, you'd hit that with the...nevermind. She's awful pretty, ain't she?

Man I want to marry all the Pajiba ladies today.

If Obama cared about Student Loans, he wouldn't have gotten rid of Subsidized Federal Loans or the economic hardship deferment.

I heart Gillian forever. Even through the worse seasons of X-Files, it's true.

Commenters on there are funny -- "Her English accent is so bad!" Um... hate to break it to you, but she was born there and lived there off and on as a child, and has pretty much lived there full time post-X-Files, but whatever. Snarky commenter is snarky.

@Robert - I don't watch the Ed Show, but I live in Oakland and every first hand report I've read by both civilians and media reported that the police instigated the violence on Tuesday night. Protesters did throw items but only after the the police began tear gassing them.

Also, the Oakland police chief reported that the camp had been broken up on Monday night with "no injuries." This is despite picture of bloodied protesters being freely circulated.

Also, love how naturally Gillian Anderson is aging. She's a fox!

I wish the Occupy movement would agree on what the hell they want. I get they are pissed, most of us are in one way or the other. But what is their plan on how to fix it? What is the point of their protests? And just what the hell are they protesting? That 1% of this country is better off than most of us? What justifies them as to thinking they should get a slice of their pie? So you graduated college and now can't find a job. Well, how were your grades? Were you in the top 10% of your class in a major that has a good hiring rate? Or were you a layabout average student with a liberal arts degree? Are you looking anywhere in the country, or only metropolitan areas? What have you done to distinguish yourself?

There are jobs out there, they just aren't jobs you may want. That is the distinction. Day after day we turnover temps here because they simply don't want to do the work to earn the money. It's too "hard".

It sucks to get laid off as a Project Manager at 30 and suddenly have to work as an admin assistant for $9 an hour. I know because I did it. I did it because I had to and at the time it was 6mos of unemployment and then you were cut off.

I work for a corporation. Every year I get, if I'm lucky, about a .5% raise. Every year we bitch about it. Is it fair when my company is making money hand over fist and having record sales? No, maybe not. But what exactly can I do about that? And what entitles ME to that "extra" money and not my co-workers? Who decides?

Capatalism is a flawed idealogy, but all of them are. The problems arise when corporations become so powerful they can sway policy in their favor. That is what needs to change. Term limits, end to congressional entitlement packages, cap corporate campaign funds, etc. But not one of those weasels in Washington is going to take the silver spoon out of their own mouth. Probably not even if we ask pretty, pretty, please.

Occupy needs to fold up their tents from the entrance to Bank of America and camp out at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue and the Capital building. That is the only place change is going to come from.

However this whole thing just feels like a political stunt at this point so I doubt that will ever happen.

what do you all think of Obama’s proposed Student Loan programs?

I think it wasn't people still in school who were signing the hell out of that petition which was "heard loud and clear".

So...good for the kids, I guess.

You're not the first person to describe the clip along the lines of: "Johnny Depp taking Ricky Gervais down a peg or two"; but I don't get it. It's obviously 'a bit' - a very funny bit, yes, but not real. Yet US media seem keen to claim it's Depp dealing to Gervais for the way he slighted Hollywood at the Golden Globes. Whaaa?
I think the giveaway is when Depp says you can't diss Tim Allen...

You know who seemed to care and also liked to occupy places?

Mice. Ha, you thought I was going to say Nazis.

Busy day at work so I'm late to this post, but I would watch the mother grabbing Hell out of a movie that featured only Steve Buscemi and Sean Bean sitting in a room. The tension of not knowing who was going to die first, and in what gruesome manner, would be excruciatingly delicious.

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