I listen to NPR daily (nothing else but inane college football talk on the radio here) as I drive to and from work. This morning I heard this bit of garbage from NPR presented as news:
LATOYA DENNIS, BYLINE: Just down the road from the state capitol building in Madison, Christina Long is living in a three bedroom duplex.
CHRISTINA LONG: This is the kitchen. It’s nice and neat. Stove, table, refrigerator, dishwasher.
DENNIS: Long has lived here for the past three months. She’s furnished the living room with a couch, a console TV set that looks like it’s from the ’70s, and a storage cabinet. She says there’s nothing like having your own home. But there’s just one catch: It’s not her home and she’s not renting it either.
LONG: It’s illegal, but at the same time it’s reasonable to me. I mean, you know, is it really illegal to have somewhere to stay? To me, socially(ph) , no, it’s fair.
DENNIS: Long is a single mother of three from Chicago, and she argues that housing should be a human right.
LONG: Everyone deserves somewhere to live. Everyone deserves their own peace of mind. Everybody deserves to be comfortable.
How is this human waste of space named Christina Long not in jail? She’s been publicly outed as illegally squatting in a house, and yet she seems almost proud of it. Listen to the audio.
NPR audio
Hello! I have a question for Latoya Dennis and Christina Long…. If “housing should be a human right” and “Everyone deserves somewhere to live” and Everybody deserves to be comfortable” WHO THE FUCK PAYS FOR IT????
I want a free house and evidently I “deserve to be comfortable” too. “Everybody” does according to Christina Long. So where does the money come from to pay for all our free houses? Who builds the houses? Who cuts down the trees to build them? Who drives the trucks to transport the lumber? Who explores for the oil, drills for the oil, refines the oil into gas and diesel so the trucks can deliver the lumber, etc etc, etc?
I suppose you want free healthcare too. And you can’t “be comfortable” without food, so farmers and transport companies and grocery stores – and probably restaurants – all need to cater to you as well.
What’s that? Some people have to work to provide for the stuff you want? Who pays them if you can’t be bothered to pay for the shit you take from them? Somebody? Maybe “the government?” Hey Christina, has it ever occurred to you that – even though you can’t be bothered to support yourself and your out-of-wedlock-kids-you-can’t-afford-to-house – others have to work and pay taxes to support you and the decisions you’ve made?
That’s what I thought. Christina Long is a waste of space who wants me – and every other working person – to be her slave because she has a desire “to be comfortable.” Fuck you Christina. We outlawed slavery back in the 1860′s. But you evidently think it should be reinstated as long as you benefit from it.
Ok, deep breath…..
So I’m thinking Latoya Dennis created a stupid little story that made it to Morning Edition. Big deal. NPR has crap like this all the time. Now I know that NPR presents a leftist worldview, but they usually at least make an attempt at balance, but the only thing even close to providing a balanced view here is a quote from a realtor, explaining that they can’t show or sell a house if a squatter is living there. And that squatters break shit and don’t do repairs.
Again, I heard the story this morning and basically brushed it off. So on my way home tonight I hear this story about “The People’s Mic”. And how they’re now using “mic check” to disrupt and shut down those they disagree with, such as Bachmann and Gingrich. I’m no fan of either of them, but that doesn’t mean I think they should be prevented from speaking at their own events. “Batshit” Bachmann has nothing on these anti-democracy assholes.
As the hucksters say on TV, “But wait, there’s more!”
Just before the “Mic Check” story, there’s a fluff piece about the “founder” of the Occupy movement, some Canadian named Kalle Lasn. The NPR summary of the story is here.
Adbusters Co-Founder Discusses OWS
Anyway, you need to take the time to listen to the story, as Kalle talks about how he now wants people to occupy board meetings, banks, and universities. He goes on to tie in lots of leftist ideas, such as the “human experiment on planet earth”, global warming tipping point, social unrest worse than the 60′s, etc. And to assert (I’m paraphrasing here because I don’t remember the exact quote) “unlike the Tea Party, this movement will last because….”
Not sure WTF this dude has been smoking, but I maybe they didn’t report the 2010 mid term elections in Canada. And I think the 2012 elections will be an even bigger refutation of leftist, big government policies. (Note that I don’t think a damn thing in DC will change, as the politicians all say one thing but vote for bread and circuses anyway. But they’ll all talk small government.)
Once again, the NPR story had no attempt at balance, no attempt to discuss alternatives, just a bunch of crap presented as fact.
I listen to NPR daily – except during their pledge drives, that crap is unbearable – and this was one of the worst days I’ve ever heard. Besides, I had a headache this afternoon and listening to the promote OWS shit that NPR thought was broadcast worthy today pissed me off. So I had to vent.
gk
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