“Everyone’s been calling it our Valley Forge moment,” said Michael McCarthy, a former Navy medic in Providence. “Everybody thought that George Washington couldn’t possibly survive in the Northeast.”…”I welcome the challenge of this cold weather,” said Dwayne Hudson, a landscaper who has been living at the Occupy Denver site for nearly two weeks. “This is like war. You know, soldiers do it when they occupy a place. I’m sure the mountains of Afghanistan get pretty cold.” [HP]
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Soldiers also get paid and get pretty good pensions because they are fucking working, Dwayne.
Comparing camping out in Manhattan to running missions and getting in firefights in Afghanistan is the NKI
Pretty sure governments funded both campaigns of hard trained soldiers. A bunch of hippies in tight jeans probably won't hold up for long.
Maybe I could have timed this offensive better…
-Napoleon Bonaparte
Two guys that worked outside for a living is one thing, but I am not sure about those Starbucks baristas or Russian Literature majors being up to the task. Skinny jeans aren't very warm..
2,500 Americans died at Valley Forge for our freedom.
A few fat bitches got maced and 1 person got hurt in Oakland for OWS.
Seems like a very logical comparison
Pretty sure OWS is better funded than the Continental Army
Are you kidding, this is our Dostoevsky moment
- Russian Lit majors
It's gettin' cold out here
It's gettin' cold out here
So take off all your clothes
On the upside, frozen bodies are easier to move and don't smell as bad.
/Glass half full body transportation quant
I am predivting that the cold conditions will bring a spike in raping as well as statutory raping as the protesters cram together to conserve body heat. I suspect we might get in a couple of guy rapings as well.
Just don't let me get stuck with your hospital bill when you get frostbite/trenchfoot/hypothermia, k?
-every NYC taxpayer
revolution is more of a Pasternak moment.
That's a long distance call, Todd
-T.Tate
OWS (Office) Linebacker
pretty sure people weren't screwing under tarps in valley forge.
-history major
Respect
- Everyone
Saturday Night
Rain and snow. Light snow accumulation. Windy with lows in the lower 30s. North winds 15 to 25 mph with gusts up to 35 mph. Chance of precipitation 90 percent.
- Old Man Winter
You already are….see Medicaid
you think zuccotti smells bad wait until the dysentary outbreak
I have climbed the peaks of Hindukush, scaled the statue at Zucotti, and traversed from Lincoln Park to the steps of the Colorado State Capital. I am Dwayne, the landscaper. Hear me roar.
–Lawnboy
You have died of dysentery.
- Oregon Trail
Yea no shit dickhead, now that sellout Wilbur is going to be laughing his ass of as we freeze our off, has the check from the glue factory even cleared yet?
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Think a little less Valley Forge, little more Whisky Rebellion…except they actually had something to fight for
How do the protesters take a sh*t?
Occupy NYC – 5 deaths from hypothermia, 3 from Dysentery, 4 from STD, 1 from drum circle/homeless fight.
If we can survive relentlessly getting fucked in the ass and in the fucking ear while being pissed on and shits taken on our chests from the banksters, we can survive the relentless fluffy white stuff comming down from beautiful mother nature.
-Billy "Natural"
More important than the OWS protesters, if the weather this weekend leads to chicks wearing less skimpy costumes, I am going to be fucking pissed.
- every guy in NYC
#ows is really a Bulgakov chapter.
OK… so that makes 9 deaths total. Got it.
- UBS Fatality Quant
Less this weekend, but more skimpy on Monday. Complain to Old Man Winter above.
By opening their mouth.
Stacey is going to be swamped at the empathy table when the cold front comes in.
Don't want to hear it.
-SF Resident who pays more taxes for degenerates than all of you.
If they want the proper historical context, based on values and expected outcome, I strongly suggest renaming their plan "Operation Barbarossa".
Now that the generators are gone I'm going to kill them all! Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha
- the one its not nice to fool with
I actually enjoyed this.
This will serve as the hilarious premise for Encino Man 2.
Soon, chafed nipples will be added to the list of most-common injuries treated by medics, joining bongo blisters and food-prep mishaps.
McDonald's, 160 Broadway/corner of Maiden Lane.
-not kidding
The history majors will get it. The sociology, psychology, communications, music, art history, gender studies and english majors of OWS will think they've named the operation after a shaving cream
Can you swing by then?
-Mt Everest
Yeah no shit. Nice try fucking Dwayne. Not only is it cold in the mountains of Afghanistan but the fucking Taliban and al-Qaeda bomb and shoot at you, you can't just retreat into a tent and listen to people drumming on paint buckets ya fucking moron.
These people would flee like cockaroaches if a Taliban sniper was on them.
2,500 European Colonists. They weren't Americans yet. But get your point.
Thanks Stalin!
Um… yeah we were. We had to stay warm.
Yes this is exactly like Operation Barbarossa. I seem to remember the bankers burning down the PB&J huts and local Mcdonalds in a scorched earth policy. Then somehow temperatures in New York equaled that of – 30 degrees rural Russia. Yes Operation Barbossa = fat ass OWS protesters sitting in an inner city park with heat generators.
Patchouli is flammable.
Just sayin……
Ill take the over on NYC hypo, under on dysentery
FTP Denver
Over on OAK
Under on sun stroke, over on old people
Im not touching the ATL.
"Yet many of America’s major banks are too big to fail, so they can privatize profits while socializing risk."
- NYTimes OP-ED
things GW had at valley forge that OWS lacks –
- a purpose
- fire
- wooden dwellings
- a 9" cock
Hey hippie. It's October. Don't call me when you're thinking about moving into my town. Don't call me when you're in my town. Call me when you're on my block and I see you moving furniture in next door.
- Mercury Morris' Great Great Great Grandfather
Needs moar Hessians.
I see a long slow retreat up Broadway in the freezing cold as the professional homeless pick off the stragglers' snacks and electronics.
…or after a movie featuring Jane Fonda.
Let's hope this is thier '68 Chicago DNC, not Valley Forge
Im here for the drum circle….
"Yet many of America’s major banks are too big to fail, so they can privatize profits while socializing risk."
- NYTimes OP-ED
And yet you bankers wonder why there are thousands of hippies outside your offices.
Pretty sure the entire Taft-Hartley world and most of Europe is funding OWS.
When do we provide them with the small pox blankets?
That Guy, do you know That one guy? Do you know the UBS Guy?
I laughed.
Needs more bongo
Wait isn't McDonalds a…corporation?
And some of the senior members of the finance committee get "lost" in Koreatown…
So lobby Congress to reinstate Glass-Steagall and pull a Standard-Oil-circa-1911 on BAC/WFC/JPM. That might actually have a productive result- unlike banging on a ten-tin in an office plaza on lower Broadway.
Don't tell me about Frozen, I've been to Chozin…
No, not Valley Forge. More like Stalingrad I think.
Watch the History channel much?
Brilliant
- Everyone born '82-'88
Why would we name it after that one guy from pirates of the carribean?
…also, what the hell is shaving cream?
-the mangy 99%
Police action?
Or a horse that almost won the Triple Crown?
Methinks they don't realize they're all just actors in a play directed by unions and other interested parties.
You mean in terms of cannibalism? I heard that Rami has been eating Stacey.
Fidelio?
Not sure if you were soliciting a password or not.
So are Apple, Starbucks, and North Face, but you see a hell of a lot of those logos in Zucotti as well.
Principles don't matter when you're using your dad's AmEx
Get off my lawn.
-W. Kowalski
Speak up. It's hard to hear you over our industrial heater
Bullshit. The only lobbying that matters is $$$, and big business and the banks have it all. You banker fucks love telling the dirty trash to go get jobs instead of begging for a handout, and harp on about personal responsibility, which is easy to say when you have the tax payers funding your gambling, err job. Obama needs to shut down the Crony Capitalism and push the MIT and Stanford nerds away from Wall Street and into creating something. You know, something other than complex instruments used to rape private investors and municipalities around the country, i.e. provide utility.
Is there an echo in here?
Ironic that the protestors mention "personal responsibility" and most cry about their school loans…which they freely signed up for and then pissed away on worthless degrees from second tier schools.
Neither do principals.
Bring out your dead!!
remember the gulags?
No bottles allowed.
- OWS Directorate of Boxed Alcohol
Last I checked, the UAW, SEIU, National Education Association, Teamsters, etc. weren't exactly short of lobbying $$$.
And how does suggesting that Glass-Steagall be reinstated and BAC get the "Standard Oil" treatment– both of which I personally think would be good ideas– translate to my telling anyone to get a job?
They were Americans from the second they loaded their muskets, you PC fuckface.