Media coverage is a double-edged sword, isn't it?
I heard on the telly this morning there is a march planned for today (?), and yet I haven't read of it here.
What gives?

Pft! I won't listen to any OPC, no matter how logical or well-reasoned!

simple yes or no......these parks belong to everyone, right(including the 1%!)?

Funny, I could have almost exactly predicted those responses from the various local news organizations. Did KATU manage to work in something about cyclists running stop signs?

Nothing new here. All the anti-occupiers ever seem to offer up is knee-jerk(*) derision, contempt and condescension.

* from Webster's online dictionary:

knee-jerk (adj): readily predictable, automatic, reacting in a readily predictable way

You see, frankieb, the shoe fits perfectly.

Fits both of us quite well, really.

@C.O.
"simple yes or no......these parks belong to everyone, right(including the 1%!)?"

Simple answer: YES! But be sure to bring your own sleeping bag. (Sorry, the rest of the 99% are sick of paying your way.)

I hope this isn't true:

http://www.oregonlive.com/portland/index.s…

"Occupy" is imploding.
Between this money problem, and the problems within the group about drugs / alcohol / fighting....
it is imploding.
Does this mean they can't pay to fix the damage they caused the park, that they assured us to fix?

haha: "It didn't not smell like hippies." -CrazyNative

What seems to me to be the most unfortunate aspect of the Occupy movement (nationwide - not just here in Portland) is how badly figures in the mainstream media seem to want it to fail. The people who comment on the stories by the mainstream media don't seem to be much better, either.

Kind of sad, all things considered, when people are too myopic and narrow-minded, or too paralyzed by their partisanship to stop, and take a moment to actually think critically about the nature of a political movement that purports be trying to help them out of one of the worst financial and economic crises in the history of this country.

I simply don't understand why so many people seem to want socio-political movements that try, however naively, to effect positive social change to fail. It's like this country is mostly populated by grumpy masochists or something.

This is why I get all my news from Blogtown.

frankieb, I've only posted about your knee-jerk reaction to any stories about the occupy movement four times (five, if you count this one). How many times have you posted your derision about the movement yet? Is it more or less than the number of times you posted "Honeybucket"?

dmitrir - trolling again are we?

Hey, wait, this is a comment trap, isn't it? Thanks, Steve. btw, whats the weather gonna be this weekend and what's on TV this Friday?

Damnit, if Sam Adams was having sex with protestors I WOULD BE OUT THERE IN A HEART-BEAT.

I have such an online-nutter-comments boner right now.