"Not Part of the 99%"? Youre Fooling Yourself - StumbleUpon. "I'm not part of the 99%. " That's the catch-phrase of a counter-protest that misunderstands the entire nature of the Occupy movement. Buying the lies that 99% activists are just a bunch of unemployed hippies looking for handouts, people like the following young student trumpet their work-ethics, and chide the rest of us for not being them. Parodying the various signs held by Occupy demonstrators, this picture epitomizes a view that misses the entire point of the protests. "The 99%" does not refer to people who want handouts; it refers to the people who pay the larger share of taxes, work the longer amount of hours, do the harder degree of work, and yet continually have our pay, jobs, health, environment and economy endangered or destroyed by the other 1%. * Having her pay or job cut so that her CEO can get a pay raise. * Losing her job or the company she works for to a badly-played gamble by one or more of her bosses. * Any combination of the above.
Psychology of Color | Miss Centsible - StumbleUpon. Things Other People Accomplished When They Were Your Age - StumbleUpon. Facebook Suicide. In march, at the peak of Facebook popularity, I quit. with four swift clicks of the mouse, I canceled my account. Gone was the entire online persona I had created for myself – profile pictures, interests and activities, work history, friends acquired – all carefully thought out to showcase to the world the very best version of me, all now deleted. Ironically, the decision to destroy my carefully built-up virtual image came as a result of wanting to enhance my profile. All that particular week I’d been hungry for new quotes on my page, something to reflect the week I’d been having: something introspective.
I perused a quotes website and found this one attributed to Aristotle: “We are what we repeatedly do.” I became despondent. Whatever the label, I was unhappy and feeling empty. The baby-boomers were at one time thought to be the most self-absorbed generation in American history and carried the label of the Me Generation. And so I quit… - Carmen Joy King.