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A new survey displays the negativity Americans feel toward the United States financial system proceeds to grow. Faith in the American economic system is indicated by only 23 percent of those surveyed. But it isn't hopeless, professionals say. Regulators, with work, can repair that trust. But the public must also be educated enough to know when the program is failing them.

Every item that is delivered to every store in the United States is palletized in the delivery truck - and a loading dock and fork lift is necessary for offloading the goods. 

So the corner store is out of the loop.  No fork lift.  No loading dock. 

The Social Sciences Department of the Cleveland Public Library will hold their non-fiction book club discussion on Thursday, December 8, 2011 at 12:00 PM in the Social Sciences Department (Sports Research Center).  We will discuss the book entitled, "God Never Blinks: 50 Lessons from Life's Little Detours." (Regina Brett)

The Social Sciences Department of the Cleveland Public Library will hold their non-fiction book club discussion on Thursday, December 8, 2011 at 12:00 PM in the Social Sciences Department (Sports Research Center).  We will discuss the book entitled, "God Never Blinks: 50 Lessons from Life's Little Detours." (Regina Brett)

The Social Sciences Department of the Cleveland Public Library will hold their non-fiction book club discussion on Thursday, December 8, 2011 at 12:00 PM in the Social Sciences Department (Sports Research Center).

And if the rat is killed with Warfarin, then maybe he'll be eaten and the anti-coagulant will then harm the next animal in the food chain..

What a horrible idea - feed a chemical which will make an animal hemorage internally. 

That's way out there. 

That's human ingenuity...

 Cleveland Plain Dealer reports today, November 21, 2011, "Cleveland Municipal Court fines disappear; in 9 cases, fees dismissed by 1 clerk."

Coty is the young man on the Left with his brother, cousin, and teacher.

"Don't count the days, Make the days count!" That was one of our High School mottos along the line.

You should, by law, only use force to protect someone's life or to protect them from being bodily injured. If you're not protecting somebody's life or protecting them from bodily injury, there's no need to use force. And the number one thing that they always have in their favor that they seldom use is negotiation - continue to talk, and talk and talk to people. You have nothing to lose by that. This bullrush - what happened last night is totally uncalled for when they did not use negotiation long enough. capt. ray lewis

 The Republican con TENDERS are a sorry bunch.  (Maybe Huntsman, Paul  are not to be totally humiliated)

Mit has maintained the non-confrontational sideline as a strategy.  Which might be OK until the discussion turned to the fact that at the termination of his Massachusetts governorship Mr. Romney "allowed" about 11 of his top state staffers to "buy" the hardrives out of their state owned computers for $65 bucks a piece.

 I'm not into cut and paste, but the AP report needs to be read. 

In the USA, peaceful protest still pisses a lot of us off - and of course the natural reaction to being pissed off is  force.

At Kent State during the Viet Nam era, peaceful protest pissed off the Ohio National Guard, so they brought live ammo to their task, and murdered some young people.

They were pissed off at the peaceful protesting.  Peace can be antagonizing.  

Peace is antagonizing because it it never static, settled.    

Here is an Image from lmcshane which reminds me of the murals in old post offices - work project administration era - but not quite - cuz the baskets are woven and the dress isn't quite right for that era. So Where is this image?  I'll go back and read the post.

Lot's of fun picking up on this image and running it through Photoshop... thanks

Public parks across the nation are the address for many of us. 

I know because Tucker walks with me in parks. About twice a day. 

And this is what we see.

Lot's of people living out of shopping carts. 

and occupying a bench. 

Maybe they need an injunction to stay there! 

You think?

Old man Winter...What do You think?

If 

I'll bet these kids haven't  read Jack Kerouac's On The Road - like young people everywhere, they are in the moment - enjoying a warm weather (mostly junk food corn syrup laced) lunch on a United States National Park  bench near their high school in Lowell, Massachusetts - Kerouac's home town.  

Contemplate that.

Contemplate this:

WELCOME is the first thing you see when you look inside. 

Here is an Occupy media tent which has internet connected computers for the public to use to post news, do research, or read about other Occupy events around the world.  

In response to Guy Templeton's blog regarding "Tremont West Development Corporation and most board members will be sued in court if they don't include amended by-laws mail out."

First of all, the TWDC Board Minutes of May 2011 reflects the following:

 B. Annual Meeting/Membership Maintenance – A lengthy discussion continued about the inclusion

of resumes, biographies, questionnaires and personal statements in the packets to be sent to all

CORRECTION: tremont west development corporation and most board members will be sued in court if they don't allow and include amended by-laws by members namely guy templeton black in twdc amended by-laws mail out to members although twdc will send their amended by-laws to members -

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Attached is a pdf of the Suffolk Superior Court Memorandum of Decision and Order issued this afternoon. See attached PDF: http://realneo.us/system/files/Occupy_4.pdf

Here is a link to the National Lawyer's Guild which represented the Occupy plaintiffs.  The link includes all the filings from the plaintiffs

For  the sake of Google searches, I put in the following text:

Dear Friends, At 1:00 AM Tuesday night, after two months of peaceful protest against the people and institutions that wrecked our economy, police officers under direct orders from the Mayor of New York City raided Occupy Wall Street and evicted protestors from Zuccotti Park.