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OK.
Except that PETA still disapproves of your operation.
And this just in from our good friends at Daily Kos (yeah, lefty as all git out, so sue me…)
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/1...ide&via=blog_1
Over 500,000 “likes” for Occupy Wall Street Solidarity events, 40 percent growth since last night. Since last night!
Hey, Counselor, maybe it was the Pitting you gave them? Who knows? If so, thanks! Sorry about your lawn…
Bricker, do you think I’m going to have to pass an ideological purity test when I join Occupy Austin tomorrow afternoon?
I suspect that you have never cooked for peace activists but I can assure you that 99% of them are more than pleased to chow down on raised right chicken.
Usually they’re desperate for protein. 
I never got any shit from the vegetarians or even the vegans in the crowd.
Just thanks for having a meatless entree available.
Usually these folks are big on tolerance.
Could be. I’ve already eaten crow on the substance of my Pitting - I was way off base in considering this effort useless, given the effects it has had.
I find it difficult to reconcile that set of claims with what I know of PETA. As I understand it, PETA’s position is uncompromising: it’s wrong to kill a chicken and eat it. Undoubtedly, if given a choice, they would applaud your humane efforts over more unenlightened factory farming techniques, but I do not believe that would translate into approval for your occupation overall.
Well, you never know, you just never know. They tried something similar a few months back, May, I think, and it was meh. Mostly harmless, and sank without a ripple. They were very polite, as I recall.
Maybe there is no reason why this took off and the other didn’t. If you can have a cause without an effect, then you can have an effect without a cause. That’s Heisenberg. I think. Pretty sure.
Hey! No cruel treatment of non-human animals!! Let the Crow Go!
It’s posts like this one that make me think Gitmo has some value after all!
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after all, getting arrested and having your name on file is not exactly conducive to life in the fast lane as far as your professional career aspirations are concerned.
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From the look of the stream of drum banging rejects who just chanted past my office, I think the “professional career aspirations” ship sailed awhile ago.
Who are they protesting to anyway? Most of the investment banks are all up in Midtown these days. And do you really think these people will be out in force come January bonus time when it’s 5 degrees out?
Some reason they should be? In order to satisfy your expectations?
Yet another topic that doesn’t get any buzz these days. I think everyone has just given up on that.
Although I was a vegetarian for seven years, a vegan for six months, and a sous chef in a vegan catering service for several years, I can’t say that I ever cooked a peace activist. I wonder what they taste like – probably a bit stringy.
The reality of the progressive movement is that the same folks who’ll say, “yeah, sure, PETA, in an ideal world you’re right so here’s a placard spot” will also eat free-range chicken on the same day. It’s somewhere between pragmatism and a borderline-ridiculous degree of big-tentism.
You have to simmer them slowly for at least 5 hours or they’re very tough.
Quite flavorful though.
Be sure to wash them thoroughly first.
Real life needs to come first. Assholes like me will always be waiting when you come back, so no worries.
Your chickens are probably worth more than my analysis, anyday. Anyway, I would trade my analysis for some chicken. I bought a 90 acre farm and lived there for ten years. Raised a couple of chickens, and since then, I always make the effort to buy farm raised at the Farmers market.
A regular chicken (not one of those mutants purdue has bred,) allowed to eat a mix of food and walk around tastes so much better than what you get at the supermarket (except if you feed them fish, than they don’t taste good. Learned that.)
So no, I appreciate what you do and realize the mix of skills required to do it successfully is formidable.
Yup. Met too, Mine, too. It’s nobody else’s fault but my own, and in ten years I think it’ll be bigger than ever.
I’m sorry. I know that here, in Central PA there are several companies that can’t find enough people to hire. And, I know some people who are waiting out their unemployment before they go looking seriously. I don’t blame them. If you figure unemployment gives you $8 an hour, and somebody wants to hire you for $10, then you are really working for $2.
There is a lot that is wrong with the world. I think it’s hard to blame corporations for Veteran’s benefits though, wouldn’t you agree?
I do. It seems to me like were casting a lot of blame on corporations or investment bankers that really don’t have anything to do with them.
Why? I mean seriously, why? Why on earth would you think he would or could fix things. Has he done anything? He hasn’t even closed Gitmo. For chrissake’s at least Bush would actually do what he said. At least you knew where he stood. This guy hasn’t done anything but continue Bush’s policies while pretending he stood for “change.” Christ, the gullibility. What do you think is going to happen by taking to the streets?
I mean overrall our society is an incredibly complex and interrelated system. If you step back and use human history as a comparison, it works incredibly well for the bulk of the people. We are spolied by how good we have it. We haven’t really had a serious problem societywise since the Great Depression. Few of us remember that. But we have become so spoiled by the largesse of the last 3 decades that we think we have it coming to us, and we whine and take to the streets because our houses don’t keep appreciating at 15% year. Or, we can’t find jobs that we like? To a mexican, our country is ripe with opportunity. He just looks at things a little more realistically.
And people have the nerve to compare this to the Arab Spring? That’s like Johnny Depp comparing getting photographed to getting raped. It’s such a stupid comparison that it reveals just incredible ignorance of what real suffering, real social injustice is.
Anyway, the point is that these protestors don’t even know what the problem is, much less the solution.
Sadly, the solution is that we, as a society need to get lean and mean, and suffer for a while, readjust our expectations, so that we can be competitive and excel. It has nothing to do with Obama, or Bush, or Bankers. It has to do with the fact that we overrall, as a society… suck.
Oh, Im a dancing fool. We’re looking for revolution in the wrong direction.
Oh, you’d like that, wouldn’t you, you perv.
Here are pictures from the Wall Street march. They are all ages and many occupations. Calling them hippies or unwashed is dishonest. They are a cross section of Americans who are pissed at the theft of our wealth by those who bought our government.
Ummm, I’m not being dishonest, but they look like a bunch hippy weirdos to me.