The Glade 4.0

And there has in fact been nothing so far to match the behavior of Tea Party crowds in the summer of 2009.

Deregulation. It's the government that's said you have to buy your energy/heating fuel from corporation X. Otherwise you could use whatever corporation (or smaller organization such an an electric cooperative) to buy these from. Or they are public utilities run by the government. Yes there are certain segments of the public who are only serviced by one electric provider even with deregulation, but they are the tail not the dog.

If you're really set in your convictions, you could move or even chop fire wood. Humanity has existed for ~5800 years (longer if you're an evolutionist) without AEP. lived for I think the point is that most of these people aren't that set in their convictions.

I'm pretty sure there would only be one electric provider basically everywhere even with total deregulation. Every power company would have to build its own infrastructure, so if there were 5 competing companies 80% of that infrastructure would be totally wasted.

It'd be interesting to know if there's any "incitement of hate" going on at these rallies by any of the speakers. How much of that did we hear about the tea party rallies?

Facism is not a school of thought, it is a racial slur.

Facism is not a school of thought, it is a racial slur.

So, I took my laptop, a projector, and a projector screen to our local protest and killed it with farts.

http://news.yahoo.com/whos-behind-wall-st-protests-110834998.html;_ylt=Ahr3zVYX7mmZVzx0lquXKGJvzwcF;_ylu=X3oDMTNvdmRrZTAxBG1pdANKdW1ib3Ryb24gVVNTRgRwa2cDYTYxNGNhMTEtMzMwMi0zYTMxLWFkM2EtZDEwYjc3MWI2NzViBHBvcwMxBHNlYwNqdW1ib3Ryb24EdmVyAzM2ODFkNWUwLWY1OGMtMT

Former carpenter Robert Daros, 23, saw that poster in a cafe in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Having lost his work as a carpenter after Florida's speculative construction boom collapsed in a heap of sub-prime mortgage foreclosures, he quit his job as a bartender and traveled to New York City with just a sleeping bag and the hope of joining the protest movement.

Well, the Occupy Wall Street Protest and its offshoots are problematic and flawed from a factual standpoint. These people have been moved to actions (as ineffective as it might be) by some horribly flawed (in most cases) and outright fallacious rhetoric that does not reflect any manner of reality.

So, I took my laptop, a projector, and a projector screen to our local protest and killed it with facts.

NEW YORK - Protesters in Zucotti Park in Lower Manhattan were being told to move by Friday morning to allow for cleaning crews to perform maintenance.

NEED MASS TURN-OUT, SHOW UP NO LATER THAN 6 A.M.

This is an emergency situation. Please take a minute to read this, and please take action and spread the word far and wide.

Occupy Wall Street is gaining momentum, with occupation actions now happening in cities across the world.

But last night Mayor Bloomberg and the NYPD notified Occupy Wall Street participants about plans to “clean the park”—the site of the Wall Street protests—tomorrow starting at 7am. "Cleaning" was used as a pretext to shut down “Bloombergville” a few months back, and to shut down peaceful occupations elsewhere.

Bloomberg says that the park will be open for public usage following the cleaning, but with a notable caveat: Occupy Wall Street participants must follow the “rules”.
NYPD Police Commissioner Ray Kelly has said that they will move in to clear us and we will not be allowed to take sleeping bags, tarps, personal items or gear back into the park.
This is it—this is their attempt to shut down #OWS for good.