And Libs somehow claim to hold the intellectual high ground? 

Just look at the people involved.  In the '60s they were called "hippies" -- coooooool to the last drop -- same people are now retired Wall Streeters with funny stories to tell.

Hey, dufus, er . . . Nelson, try that dumpster diving freegan crap in Darfur.  Oh, wait a minute, they don't have any dumpsters and . . . they don't have food to put in them any way. 

Another useless story brought to you by the drive by media.  No wonder their losing viewers faster than Bill Clintoon can unzip at an intern convention. 

If the stores go out of business, where will they get their food from?

Capitalism works better. I eat better.

Leftists=lazy=living off of those who actually work.

The segment showed Nelson serving a four-course meal, which included a mixed green salad, stuffed peppers, and a tofu cheesecake with strawberries.

So was the cheesecake made from ingredients found in the dumpster, or was it found "whole"? Because I'm pretty sure that store bought cheesecakes (tofu or otherwise) are not made by non-profit, carbon-neutral, organic, hippie love communes. They're made, and sold by,*gasp* corporations! For profit! *double gasp* So apparently hypocrisy is not that big of a concern. For that matter, where did the greens and peppers come from?

Also; although the discarded food might be up for grabs, I'm pretty sure that the dumpsters themselves are private property and climbing into them constitutes trespassing. Never mind - I'm sure that if she gets hurt while pawing through dumpsters, she would never sue the store for negligence. </sarcasm>

If Nelson really had the mental capacity to be an "executive" and that designation isn't just BS, why doesn't she get off her butt and set up a system for recovering that food before it hits the dumpster?

It's already being done in Manhattan, feeding the poor and creating jobs, so the "progressive" thing for her to do would be to get it off the ground in Brooklyn.

Sorry, I forgot, progressives never "do," they just "talk" about what us working folks should do for them.

While Nelson's reference to capitalism may have been thinly veiled, it seems that lately many of the lefties have been dropping the pretense of something being for the: children/furry critters/poor/environment/insert bleeding-heart cause here, and are now just openly bashing capitalism on its own.

Next they'll be openly identifying what they've been pushing all along as socialism.

Just think of what we could do with all the energy from FDR spinning in his grave at what must be at least warp speed by now.

Thompson/Giuliani 2008

The hippie movement part duex! Thats all this is. During the 60's it was "the man", now its Bush. These are people that are obsessed with the 60's and mad they missed them. The products of dope smoking, LSD tripping professors, that were doing the same thing when they were young. But because they dident work, and belived in free love, and had their women turn tricks for them so they could have their drugs. Idiots. Brainwashed little idiots.

Save a SeAL, club a liberal!!

they're true parasites, thieves. Stealing what they *think* isn't wanted. Is this a sustainable lifestyle? How many million people can you support off of garbage? Is it like welfare, where you're going to mandate people with jobs to throw away a certain percentage of good food so the garbage burglers can continue their artificially sustained independence?

Did any of these @sshats even *ask* before digging in? Or is basic courtesy too much? What about invasion of privacy? Are these freekgens going to allow some media folks to dig thru *their* garbage in case there might be something in there?

I remember as a naive kid, asking why a local Burger King had to lock down it's garbage cans for when it threw out food that had sat too long under the heat lamp instead of giving it to the homeless. The answer was simple: lawsuits. If a homeless guy eats something and gets ill, the company is at fault. In further escalation of the lack of responsibility, an unlocked dumpster was considered "enticement" or some similar legal term. So anyone who dug thru and rescued an old Whopper where the mayonnaise had gone pear-shaped, well, the King was gonna get sued.

Leftist bleeding heart lawyers made sure that this stuff went to waste with their litigious, no-responsibility society. Now they want to try to make it look like it was the *businesses* who wanted to lock it up in the first place! This is as retarded as those kids' propaganda cartoons about corporations that deliberately destroy the environment just to produce nothing but evil noxious pollution-not making a product, other than oily black sludge and toxic smoke clouds while grinding up forests full of cute animals to feed the furnaces...not even using the heat generated to do anything useful. No business, even the most morally reprehensable, does something unless it makes money-destruction and waste don't make money.

Interestingly, when I was in college during the mid to late 60's, the majority of the first "hippies" I knew were former conservative Republicans.  As their traditional ties to authority began to unravel, the eventual break was more emphatic and flamboyant. 

Jer

So are these "freegans" going to protest every time a tiger mauls his prey, or every time a shark munches on a dolphin? Probably. It's nature (which we are a part of, not outside of) to eat meat. It's why our digestive system, our teeth, everything in our bodies are they way they are. To eat meat is natural, not something to be seen as evil or "murder" as they like to say.

And by the way, if these neoprogs want to eat their food out of trash, let them. That means that there's more room inside the restaurant for me and my family to eat and relax and not have to listen to their crap.

Again, one MORE reason to see that our side is the rational one and that these idiots' ideas are the ones to avoid at all cost.

People who live like this used to be called "bums."