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My favorite song by my favorite band from what I think is the best album ever made by any band or artist.

This song still gives me chills.

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http://youtu.be/tkJNyQfAprY

Damnit, the forum does not take forum embed code?

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Russian Blue.  Best friend for 15 years and counting.

I contributed a couple hundred posts on this subject on another forum that I belong to.

To the video:

If they were not obeying officers, then the officers were withing their power to use spray on them. Even though they appeared to be peaceful, they could still be breaking the law by disobeying the officers.

Could they have handled it differently? Absolutely. Kind of a dick move.

To the movement:

What are they protesting?  Capitalism?  Go sit in front of the Capital building in Washington.  

Too much student debt?  You don't HAVE to take those loans.

Too many corporations with too much wealth?  Stop buying their crap.  
That is the ONLY way you will get their attention.  NOT by sitting in your own filth in some park chanting and banging drums.

Separation of wealth?  If you had the wealth you would think differently.  Do something to get some wealth.  Petitioning the government for wealth redistribution will make everyone poor, not everyone rich.  A common misconception.

Want to see some of their demands?  Read these and break them down if you wish.

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This is one of the lists I found on the OWS website.

"Forum Post: Proposed list of OWS Demands

Repeal the Taft-Hartley Act. Unionize ALL workers immediately.

Raise the minimum wage immediately to $18/hr. Create a maximum wage of $90/hr to eliminate inequality.

Institute a 6 hour workday, and 6 weeks of paid vacation.

Institute a moratorium on all foreclosures and layoffs immediately.

Repeal racist and xenophobic English-only laws.

Open the borders to all immigrants, legal or illegal. Offer immediate, unconditional amnesty, to all undocumented residents of the US.

Create a single-payer, universal health care system.

Pass stricter campaign finance reform laws. Ban all private donations. All campaigns will receive equal funding, provided by the taxpayers.

Institute a negative income tax, and tax the very rich at rates up to 90%.

Pass far stricter environmental protection and animal rights laws.

Allow workers to elect their supervisors.

Lower the retirement age to 55. Increase Social Security benefits.

Create a 5% annual wealth tax for the very rich.

Ban the private ownership of land.

Make homeschooling illegal. Religious fanatics use it to feed their children propaganda.

Reduce the age of majority to 16.

Abolish the death penalty and life in prison. We call for the immediate release of all death row inmates from death row and transferred to regular prisons.

Release all political prisoners immediately.

Immediate withdrawal from Iraq and Afghanistan.

Abolish the debt limit.

Ban private gun ownership.

Strengthen the separation of church and state.

Immediate debt forgiveness for all.

End the 'War on Drugs'."

http://occupywallst.org/forum/proposed-list-of-ows-demands/

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That sounds kinda crazy. So I found another one.

"1. Complete bans on federal political contributions, replaced by public campaign financing.
2. Reversal of the "Citizens United v. FEC" Supreme Court decision.
3. Combating Washington's "revolving door."
4. Bans on gifts to federal officials.
5. Tax reform – eliminating special carve-outs and increasing progressiveness.
6. Single-payer health care.
7. Increased environmental regulation.
8. Reduction of the national debt through a progressive income tax and elimination of corporate handouts.
9. Federal job-training programs.
10. Student loan debt forgiveness.
11. Immigration policy, including amnesty for illegals.
12. Recalling the U.S. military globally.
13. Education mandates and teacher pay.
14. Massive expansion of public works projects.
15. Spurring China to end currency manipulation.
16. Reenactment of the Glass-Steagall Act.
17. Refinance all underwater mortgages at 1% interest rate.
18. One-year freeze on all foreclosures.
19. Free air time for all political candidates who gather sufficient signatures.
20. Immediate withdrawal of all troops from Iraq and Afghanistan."

http://www.opposingviews.com/i/money/occup...shows-ignorance

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This one makes a bit more sense.

And another one:

The "Occupy Wall Street" protesters have listed 13 proposed demands from their website.

Demand one: Restoration of the living wage. This demand can only be met by ending "Freetrade" by re-imposing trade tariffs on all imported goods entering the American market to level the playing field for domestic family farming and domestic manufacturing as most nations that are dumping cheap products onto the American market have radical wage and environmental regulation advantages. Another policy that must be instituted is raise the minimum wage to twenty dollars an hr.

Demand two: Institute a universal single payer healthcare system. To do this all private insurers must be banned from the healthcare market as their only effect on the health of patients is to take money away from doctors, nurses and hospitals preventing them from doing their jobs and hand that money to wall st. investors.

Demand three: Guaranteed living wage income regardless of employment.

Demand four: Free college education.

Demand five: Begin a fast track process to bring the fossil fuel economy to an end while at the same bringing the alternative energy economy up to energy demand.

Demand six: One trillion dollars in infrastructure (Water, Sewer, Rail, Roads and Bridges and Electrical Grid) spending now.

Demand seven: One trillion dollars in ecological restoration planting forests, reestablishing wetlands and the natural flow of river systems and decommissioning of all of America's nuclear power plants.

Demand eight: Racial and gender equal rights amendment.

Demand nine: Open borders migration. anyone can travel anywhere to work and live.

Demand ten: Bring American elections up to international standards of a paper ballot precinct counted and recounted in front of an independent and party observers system.

Demand eleven: Immediate across the board debt forgiveness for all. Debt forgiveness of sovereign debt, commercial loans, home mortgages, home equity loans, credit card debt, student loans and personal loans now! All debt must be stricken from the "Books." World Bank Loans to all Nations, Bank to Bank Debt and all Bonds and Margin Call Debt in the stock market including all Derivatives or Credit Default Swaps, all 65 trillion dollars of them must also be stricken from the "Books." And I don't mean debt that is in default, I mean all debt on the entire planet period.

Demand twelve: Outlaw all credit reporting agencies.

Demand thirteen: Allow all workers to sign a ballot at any time during a union organizing campaign or at any time that represents their yeah or nay to having a union represent them in collective bargaining or to form a union.

These demands will create so many jobs it will be completely impossible to fill them without an open borders policy"

http://www.washingtontimes.com/blog/waterc...-post-manifest/

Now this is genuine fodder for discussion.

If anyone wants to add me on Facebook, my name there is Daniel Kerwood.  Profile picture is the same one on here.  Tetris Battle there.  

I also have a Tetris Friends account, but have not been on there in a while.  I should go back.

nice.. vid of your 999999?

Hahaha... that was at LEAST 1995.  Have not played the original in many years.  I am a purist, so I need to get a nicely used NES first.  

Side note - a co worker of mine just spent $1,500.00 on Ebay for a NES, Super Nintendo, N64, and Gamecube.  All barely used in original boxes.  Now THAT is devotion.

Annoying the girlfriend with playing it for about 3 hours a day.

Greetings all.

Been a loyal Tetris player since the NES.  I am part of the 999,999 club.  Always been a fan of the original style.  Not to keen on the newer versions.  Although I am on Tetris Friends and Tetris Battle on Facebook.

Got one star away from level 50 on Tetris Battle.  Then fell to 48.  Dagnabbit.

Looking forward to contributing to the site.  I am not new to forums or Tetris.