tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9361564.post8676851279591070580..comments2024-03-27T01:27:21.576-08:00Comments on The Immoral Minority: New definition for heartless: Throw a Halloween themed party at the expense of those your law firm threw out into the streets.Gryphenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02356503547155430235noreply@blogger.comBlogger17125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9361564.post-67435130818734508692011-10-31T11:37:50.797-08:002011-10-31T11:37:50.797-08:00What heartless bastards. Now I'll be the first...What heartless bastards. Now I'll be the first to admit that I have on occasion looked the other way when coming across the homeless and/or destitute, more from wishing such suffering didn't exist then from being purely indifferent to their suffering.<br /><br />But I would never, never mock them in such a cruel, callous way.<br /><br />Again, heartless bastards.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9361564.post-13895723966781124942011-10-30T19:12:28.431-08:002011-10-30T19:12:28.431-08:00These people are deplorable. Profiting from people...These people are deplorable. Profiting from people's misfortune and then mocking them at a party.<br /><br />And when one or more of these people fall on hard times (and they WILL) they will of course not remember or acknowledge this party.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9361564.post-57872315880708757152011-10-30T18:22:58.537-08:002011-10-30T18:22:58.537-08:00Great Comments, All!
The core of this problem is...Great Comments, All! <br /><br />The core of this problem is the unwillingness to acknowledge the humanity and plight of the homeless in our country, the true victims of the greed of corporate America. <br />One Paycheck, One catastophic illness, One sheriff's sale, One death of a provider, one twist of fate can ruin the lives of an entire family. <br /><br />OWS get's it, they share the same spaces and share what they have with those less fortunate, they bring the light of the media on the plight in our own back yards. They see the dignity in these people and are fighting for them as well as us. <br /><br />We aren't line items to be slashed on a piece of paper, we're people who demand fairness and accountability. <br /><br />This is what American Exceptionalism should look like. <br /><br />Namaste, Gryphen. Your work isn't done in vane. You have my deep and profound respect and humble gratitude.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9361564.post-52625058656663295442011-10-30T17:21:51.937-08:002011-10-30T17:21:51.937-08:00Anon @ 1:31 p.m.
Re: "But the rules of the m...Anon @ 1:31 p.m.<br /><br />Re: "But the rules of the marketplace are just as constraining as human nature. Government cannot force financial institutions to give loans to people who can't afford to pay them back and then expect that somehow things will all magically work out. Sooner or later, reality catches up with us."<br /><br />Funny how Palin's crony capitalism via Mat Maid (and all its derivatives) embodies exactly what she rails against in the financial collapse. <br /><br />The state's ag commission has just approved a loan to her BFF Franci Havemeister's (lover of cows, that was her qualification to become Ag Secretary) father, a drive-through milk house with half a million dollars. <br /><br />Cowman Havemeister is the one who said he doesn't ask for a handout from government, he just wants them to provide a market for him. <br /><br />Teabagger rationale. . .no wonder Sarah did so well governing those people.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9361564.post-78998073616335256262011-10-30T16:21:45.726-08:002011-10-30T16:21:45.726-08:00I wish karma acted a bit more quickly.I wish karma acted a bit more quickly.onethingnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9361564.post-73547388573183667842011-10-30T15:44:58.830-08:002011-10-30T15:44:58.830-08:00The sad/funny thing about these people dressed in ...The sad/funny thing about these people dressed in "homeless attire", is that I'm pretty sure they are not privileged 1%ers. Like most of the mid and low-level right-wingers they've bought the bull that it couldn't happen to them, they're just too smart. They are probably a paycheck away and too dumb to acknowledge it.<br /><br />Pathetic.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9361564.post-46084613424809193932011-10-30T15:31:21.365-08:002011-10-30T15:31:21.365-08:00I'd bet that every employee of this firm votes...I'd bet that every employee of this firm votes GOP and calls themselves a Christian, too.Sally in MInoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9361564.post-68007306706781338152011-10-30T15:15:47.011-08:002011-10-30T15:15:47.011-08:00Anne in DC (@ 1:50)
These people feel that they h...Anne in DC (@ 1:50)<br /><br />These people feel that they have the right to deny themselves nothing. These are the people who think that dieting is "self discipline" and don't realize that they are drones. They are sociopaths. The people who they see OWS or who are seen in homeless camps are not real to them. Those people are subhuman shells to them.<br /><br />Their awakenings will be rude for them, but scary because if in this life something so tragic happens to the ones up as high as they are that they are shaken to see the cruelty of their ways, the rest of us will be really, really bad off.From St. Elsewherenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9361564.post-15915342391295028272011-10-30T15:11:06.159-08:002011-10-30T15:11:06.159-08:00What a people we have let ourselves become. I than...What a people we have let ourselves become. I thank God for the OWS movement; it does show there is some hope left that human decency will re-emerge and ultimately prevail.Not What You Want To Hearnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9361564.post-76767231732438365422011-10-30T15:06:14.784-08:002011-10-30T15:06:14.784-08:00http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E6JEgYs8A-Q
I don&...http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E6JEgYs8A-Q<br /><br />I don't know the validity of this clip (just found it googling Steven J. Baum), but makes sense that foreclosure is yet more opportunity to profit.<br /><br />The only difference between these guys and a thug with a gun is the thug with a gun is easy to recognize. There is no accounting for the soulless. Just as we have laws to protect us against thugs with guns, we need laws protecting us from these guys. <br /><br />LoveAndKnishesFromBrooklyn (and other); "THIS IS WHY WE OCCUPY!" Awesome!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9361564.post-88946082441763649772011-10-30T14:32:26.564-08:002011-10-30T14:32:26.564-08:00Amongst all those people foreclosed upon was huge ...Amongst all those people foreclosed upon was huge group of CHILDREN that no longer had a roof over their heads either. <br /><br />So Baum thinks that's a funny party theme eh.<br /><br />May they rot in hell.<br /><br />~Canuck~Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9361564.post-53071122621201528082011-10-30T14:05:44.866-08:002011-10-30T14:05:44.866-08:00The best thing to happen would be for Karma kickba...The best thing to happen would be for Karma kickback exponential - have that firm go belly up and the CEO's end up jobless, homeless and destitute.<br /><br />Unfortunately, even if that happened, which is unlikely, those people are so detached from reality that they would never acknowledge the error of their ways.hedgewytchnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9361564.post-73047048445239108372011-10-30T13:50:26.294-08:002011-10-30T13:50:26.294-08:00I can only wonder how these heartless, soulless cr...I can only wonder how these heartless, soulless creeps sleep at night knowing that they have condemned so many to homelessness, including children. They embody the very selfishness and greed that OWS is demonstrating against.Anne In DCnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9361564.post-82395567417629946222011-10-30T13:45:22.866-08:002011-10-30T13:45:22.866-08:00Calling them "heartless bastards" would ...Calling them "heartless bastards" would be too kind.WakeUpAmericanoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9361564.post-32445421381952665432011-10-30T13:33:46.475-08:002011-10-30T13:33:46.475-08:00That they would do this is totally depraved. I hop...That they would do this is totally depraved. I hope the state investigates their firm, and if they pulled any legal shenanigans that some of those lawyers get their licenses suspended or revoked.<br /><br />I wonder if those people attend church and feel godly all the while they are casting good people out of their homes - often without justification.<br /><br />Man, this is pure slime. Shame, shame, shame on them.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9361564.post-87036661335097071632011-10-30T13:31:04.969-08:002011-10-30T13:31:04.969-08:00And yes trolls, Sarah Palin would be the first in ...And yes trolls, Sarah Palin would be the first in line with a nasty word to say about the homeowners who had the nerve to try and partake of an American Dream.<br /><br />Don't believe me? Her first overseas speech was to blame people wanting to own homes instead of rent or build out of extra Sports Complex materials. . .<br /><br />"The mortgage crisis that triggered the collapse of our financial markets was rooted in a well-meaning but wrongheaded desire to increase home ownership among people who could not yet afford to own a home."<br /><br />"Politicians on the right AND left wanted to take credit for an increase in middle-class home ownership. But the rules of the marketplace are just as constraining as human nature. Government cannot force financial institutions to give loans to people who can't afford to pay them back and then expect that somehow things will all magically work out. Sooner or later, reality catches up with us."<br /><br />From the horse's mouth, in Going Rogue and rehashed in all her six-figure speeches since.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9361564.post-16476435198418704322011-10-30T13:06:29.630-08:002011-10-30T13:06:29.630-08:00As someone else on another site said:
"THIS ...As someone else on another site said:<br /><br />"THIS IS WHY WE OCCUPY!"LoveAndKnishesFromBrooklynnoreply@blogger.com