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The Teaparties

  • 16-04-2009 11:37am
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    Closed Accounts Posts: 798 ✭✭✭


    What do ye think of these tea parties?
    Seems like they are attacking Obama despite him reducing their taxes. Some good vids on youtube of the nuts attending them. Tiny crowds as well.

    Love the name of it though teabagging, lead by Dick Army. lol


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 46,938 ✭✭✭✭Nodin


    Its amusing in places, primarily for its exposure of just how "Fair and Balanced" Fox news is.
    http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/04/15/AR2009041503177.html?nav=hcmodule


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 795 ✭✭✭Pocono Joe


    What do I think? I think politicians are (or should be) shaking in their boots. More then 800 tea parties were staged across the country protesting higher taxes and out-of-control government spending.

    The events were organized by ordinary average everyday people... people who used the power of the Internet to coordinate their rallies. Something quite unique that should have both the democrats and republicans, who’s out of control governmental spending gives drunken sailors a bad name, reason for grave concern. And there will be political consequences in 2010 and 2012 because of it.

    This mass movement of ordinary people who don't believe their elected officials are listening should worry both the party of Hope and Change, and the party that supposedly champion’s Smaller Government and Fiscal Responsibility.

    The people at these rallies don’t much care what the mainstream media thinks of them. They don’t worry about being invited to high stakes cocktail parties. And what is happening in our government right now is not what these people signed up for. All they care about is questionable bailouts, runaway spending, the growing deficit, generation theft, and the loss of personal accountability.

    But they have something very powerful in their grasp… the power of their vote at election time. And they will use it.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 798 ✭✭✭bobbyjoe


    Pocono Joe wrote: »
    What do I think? I think politicians are (or should be) shaking in their boots. More then 800 tea parties were staged across the country protesting higher taxes and out-of-control government spending.

    The events were organized by ordinary average everyday people... people who used the power of the Internet to coordinate their rallies. Something quite unique that should have both the democrats and republicans, who’s out of control governmental spending gives drunken sailors a bad name, reason for grave concern. And there will be political consequences in 2010 and 2012 because of it.

    This mass movement of ordinary people who don't believe their elected officials are listening should worry both the party of Hope and Change, and the party that supposedly champion’s Smaller Government and Fiscal Responsibility.

    The people at these rallies don’t much care what the mainstream media thinks of them. They don’t worry about being invited to high stakes cocktail parties. And what is happening in our government right now is not what these people signed up for. All they care about is questionable bailouts, runaway spending, the growing deficit, generation theft, and the loss of personal accountability.

    But they have something very powerful in their grasp… the power of their vote at election time. And they will use it.


    What are the numbers turning out like? Look pretty small from what I've seen.
    Seeing people call Obama a fascist can't be helping.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 795 ✭✭✭Pocono Joe


    bobbyjoe wrote: »
    What are the numbers turning out like? Look pretty small from what I've seen.
    Seeing people call Obama a fascist can't be helping.

    They say a picture is worth a thousand words.
    http://michellemalkin.com/2009/04/15/massive-tax-day-tea-party-usa/


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 798 ✭✭✭bobbyjoe


    Pocono Joe wrote: »
    They say a picture is worth a thousand words.
    http://michellemalkin.com/2009/04/15/massive-tax-day-tea-party-usa/

    Biggest one's look in the low thousands.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,718 ✭✭✭The Mad Hatter


    Some day soon, someone is going to tell the republicans what 'teabagging' is, and then there'll be some red faces. I think the connotations of the word - and the fact that liberals are laughing our asses off - are the only reason this thing has any publicity at all.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,368 ✭✭✭thelordofcheese


    Some day soon, someone is going to tell the republicans what 'teabagging' is, and then there'll be some red faces. I think the connotations of the word - and the fact that liberals are laughing our asses off - are the only reason this thing has any publicity at all.

    It's also a beacon for every sore loser in america to come out and get some old fashioned hatin' on for the current president.

    Shots are starting to emerge of the less savoury and/or borderline retarded placards.

    teaparty08.jpg

    Wow....


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 795 ✭✭✭Pocono Joe


    Some day soon, someone is going to tell the republicans what 'teabagging' is, and then there'll be some red faces. I think the connotations of the word - and the fact that liberals are laughing our asses off - are the only reason this thing has any publicity at all.


    No one is calling the tea parties "tea bagging" except for Olbermann and Maddow of MSLSD, the kooks at Air America, the left wing blogosphere, and obivously some here. Republicans call them "tea parties." Why is the left so engrossed with "tea bagging?"


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 46,938 ✭✭✭✭Nodin


    Pocono Joe wrote: »
    What do I think? I think politicians are (or should be) shaking in their boots. More then 800 tea parties were staged across the country protesting higher taxes.

    ...despite the fact that most will be left untouched.
    Pocono Joe wrote: »
    and out-of-control government spending.
    .

    ....having failed to get off their asses over Bushs expansion of Government spending, but now getting all hot and bothered about nessecary bailouts by the current Government.
    Pocono Joe wrote: »
    The events were organized by ordinary average everyday people.

    ....who will unaffected by the increase in taxation, but still feel motivated by the very real threat of a Communo-muslim coup......and the Ron Paul people, musn't exclude them.
    Pocono Joe wrote: »
    ... people who used the power of the Internet to coordinate their rallies. .

    Cranky right wingers on teh intarweb? Truly these are amazing times.
    Pocono Joe wrote: »
    Something quite unique that should have both the democrats and republicans, who’s out of control governmental spending gives drunken sailors a bad name, reason for grave concern. And there will be political consequences in 2010 and 2012 because of it..

    Indeed. RP could be in with a shout....maybe....
    Pocono Joe wrote: »
    The people at these rallies don’t much care what the mainstream media thinks of them.
    ..

    Or anyone else. Which is fortunate, in a way.
    Pocono Joe wrote: »
    They don’t worry about being invited to high stakes cocktail parties. And what is happening in our government right now is not what these people signed up for.
    ..

    ...because their crowd lost.
    Pocono Joe wrote: »
    All they care about is questionable bailouts, runaway spending, the growing deficit, generation theft, and the loss of personal accountability.
    ..

    ...Texas' future as a state of the US, communism, muslims, Federal brain-rays that read your bank a/c numbers from your head and the rumour of nude photos of Ayn Rand on the net.
    Pocono Joe wrote: »
    But they have something very powerful in their grasp… the power of their vote at election time. And they will use it.

    All 8-10,000 of them.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 46,938 ✭✭✭✭Nodin


    Pocono Joe wrote: »
    They say a picture is worth a thousand words.
    http://michellemalkin.com/2009/04/15/massive-tax-day-tea-party-usa/

    Brilliant, because I've got one of Cheney with horns, Rumsfeld eating children - and this is really good - one that shows how Bush was really a chimp.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 795 ✭✭✭Pocono Joe


    Nodin wrote: »
    Brilliant, because I've got one of Cheney with horns, Rumsfeld eating children - and this is really good - one that shows how Bush was really a chimp.

    There is a difference between fact and fiction (well... to most anyway).


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 46,938 ✭✭✭✭Nodin


    Pocono Joe wrote: »
    There is a difference between fact and fiction (well... to most anyway).

    True. I just wouldn't got to Michelle Malkin to find out what it was.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 120 ✭✭HomesickAlien


    Pocono Joe wrote: »
    The people at these rallies don’t much care what the mainstream media thinks of them. They don’t worry about being invited to high stakes cocktail parties.

    :confused:

    ...are some of the cocktails explosive?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 795 ✭✭✭Pocono Joe


    Nodin wrote: »
    True. I just wouldn't got to Michelle Malkin to find out what it was.

    So you think the pictures of various tea parties at Michelle Malkin’s website are fiction? Hmmmmmm..........


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 795 ✭✭✭Pocono Joe


    :confused:

    ...are some of the cocktails explosive?

    Only the Kamikazes and Jager Bombs. ;)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 120 ✭✭HomesickAlien


    Pocono Joe wrote: »
    So you think the pictures of various tea parties at Michelle Malkin’s website are fiction? Hmmmmmm..........

    I think his point was that someone like michelle malkin isn't always going to show pictures that portray the tea parties in a negative light.

    Like...

    slide_1391_20032_large.jpg

    ...or...

    slide_1391_20037_large.jpg


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 795 ✭✭✭Pocono Joe


    I think his point was that someone like michelle malkin isn't always going to show pictures that portray the tea parties in a negative light.

    Right back at you... And I doubt the HuffingtonCOMpost would show pictures of the tea parties in a positive light. That is where you got your extreme examples from, correct?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,487 ✭✭✭banquo


    Lots of nuts at the tea parties. Lots of nuts at Obama rallies. Lots of nuts in every assemble, from the inauguration to the typical press conference to the St. Paddy's day parade.

    I'd go to a tea party if I was a US citizen. And I'd bring my homemade Ron Paul 2008 poster with me that's been supporting my bedroom wall for over a year.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 795 ✭✭✭Pocono Joe


    banquo... a voice of reason has no place here. :D


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,368 ✭✭✭thelordofcheese


    Pocono Joe wrote: »
    banquo... a voice of reason has no place here. :D

    Nor at tea-bagging rallies, it would seem.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,108 ✭✭✭Lirange


    Shots are starting to emerge of the less savoury and/or borderline retarded placards.
    Borderline?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,108 ✭✭✭Lirange


    Nor at tea-bagging rallies, it would seem.
    Speaking of ... File this under "did he just say that?"



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,487 ✭✭✭banquo


    Nor at tea-bagging rallies, it would seem.

    Stop calling them that! :P:D

    I remember getting my college grant money two Novembers ago, and I nearly went over to campaign for the wrinkly Dr. Hardly what the taxpayers intended though.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 795 ✭✭✭Pocono Joe


    bobbyjoe wrote: »
    Biggest one's look in the low thousands.
    Some early estimates indicate about 750,000 people attended more than 800 protests in all 50 states.
    banquo wrote: »
    Stop calling them that!
    Funny. There’s an old saying that goes something like "You make fun of the things you're afraid of." And hey, if someone here has an obsession with teabagging... well to each his own. It’s just something some folks got to face up to.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 798 ✭✭✭bobbyjoe


    Pocono Joe wrote: »
    Some early estimates indicate about 750,000 people attended more than 800 protests in all 50 states.


    Funny. There’s an old saying that goes something like "You make fun of the things you're afraid of." And hey, if someone here has an obsession with teabagging... well to each his own. It’s just something some folks got to face up to.

    750,000 at 800 rallies is less than 1,000 per rally. Hardly a massive turnout.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 86,729 ✭✭✭✭Overheal


    http://www.thedailyshow.com/video/index.jhtml?videoId=224258&title=tempest-in-a-tea-party
    Nodin wrote: »
    Its amusing in places, primarily for its exposure of just how "Fair and Balanced" Fox news is.
    http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/04/15/AR2009041503177.html?nav=hcmodule
    Without the spectacle of a 1773-style tea-bag dump in the square, the handmade signs became the focus of the event.

    Stupid reporter. Its 1337. n00b.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,076 ✭✭✭✭bnt


    Moonbattery has pictures from various cities. There are a few non-white faces there: effigies of Obama. :rolleyes:

    You are the type of what the age is searching for, and what it is afraid it has found. I am so glad that you have never done anything, never carved a statue, or painted a picture, or produced anything outside of yourself! Life has been your art. You have set yourself to music. Your days are your sonnets.

    ―Oscar Wilde predicting Social Media, in The Picture of Dorian Gray



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,829 ✭✭✭KerranJast


    Conservatives need to unquestioningly support their Presidents decisions and not say anything that could be perceived as criticism. Anything else is unpatriotic and endangers American citizens security.


    :rolleyes:


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 46,938 ✭✭✭✭Nodin


    Pocono Joe wrote: »
    Right back at you... And I doubt the HuffingtonCOMpost would show pictures of the tea parties in a positive light. That is where you got your extreme examples from, correct?

    He's not a socialist. It's not communism. It's not a conspiracy. Yet theres a touch of the same hysterical hyperbole that ran through the election still there. When they start criticising in real world terms, they'll get a less contemptous reception.

    (And as a rule of thumb in political silly abuse, you can only start shouting Hitler if he starts a war. Otherwise its just stupid)


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 46,938 ✭✭✭✭Nodin


    KerranJast wrote: »
    Conservatives need to unquestioningly support their Presidents decisions and not say anything that could be perceived as criticism. Anything else is unpatriotic and endangers American citizens security.

    '...in this time of war'.?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 795 ✭✭✭Pocono Joe


    KerranJast wrote: »
    Conservatives need to unquestioningly support their Presidents decisions and not say anything that could be perceived as criticism. Anything else is unpatriotic and endangers American citizens security.
    :rolleyes:

    I hear you. Go against the ONE and Homeland Security might just send out directives to law enforcement agencies warning of potential heightened activity by these "right wing extremists"... Oh Wait... :(


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,368 ✭✭✭thelordofcheese


    KerranJast wrote: »
    Conservatives need to unquestioningly support their Presidents decisions and not say anything that could be perceived as criticism. Anything else is unpatriotic and endangers American citizens security.

    I see what you did there.
    Funny. There’s an old saying that goes something like "You make fun of the things you're afraid of." And hey, if someone here has an obsession with teabagging... well to each his own. It’s just something some folks got to face up to.

    We also mock the ridiculus, as can be seen here.
    Also - I just love that people at these rallies are calling Obama a socialist and a fascist. Mutual exclusivity means nothing to them. Next thing you know, they try and say Obama is both black AND white......

    hey, wait a second!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,487 ✭✭✭banquo


    I love when Fox call Obama the first half-black president. The colour of his skin is brown, at least give him that.

    @thelordofcheese, I believe the correct way to make your first point is this:

    ohoq9.jpg

    The fascist/socialist quandary always bothers me too. It's just namecalling.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 86,729 ✭✭✭✭Overheal


    Pocono Joe wrote: »
    I hear you. Go against the ONE and Homeland Security might just send out directives to law enforcement agencies warning of potential heightened activity by these "right wing extremists"... Oh Wait... :(
    Im not quite sure if you understood the original sarcasm, which was about the Conservative driven idea that unless everyone gave their full support to the government post 9/11 it would expose the US to more attacks. Or maybe you did.

    Anywho Jon Stewart did his homework yesterday and fished out some great Before (2001) and After (2009) clips of the folks at Fox News, like Sean Hannity and O'Reilly, on their dramatically shifted opinions about public protest over taxes just 8 short years later. Who'da thought, huh?

    Video isnt up at the time of posting but you should be able to catch it on his homepage by the time you read this.

    http://thedailyshow.com

    Regarding the Fascism looneys, I think its hilarious...

    http://www.ellensplace.net/fascism.html

    1. No comment
    2. Shutting down gitmo
    3. No Bin Ladens here. Unless you count Bernie Madoff. And GM CEOs. Okay you can have that.
    4. Cutting some of the most beautiful, excessive, needless programs ever :( Goodbye F-22 and Airborne Laser. We hardly knew ye.
    5. Female Secretary of State
    6. Nothing control about the lunatics in this asylum, clearly.
    7. Immigration Reform?
    8. I can't say anything here without getting banned, I am sure of it. Needless to say I have never liked what I saw.
    9. I think we know how this is going
    10. Werent we debating a new labor bill a couple months ago?
    11. If the appaling intelligence of some (some) of these protesters is any indicator(!) *Badum Tssh!*
    12. Not really
    13. No
    14. Definitely not

    :rolleyes:


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 13,018 ✭✭✭✭jank


    Christ, it took the left a few years to get this pissed off at Bush, Obama isnt in office 100 days yet you would swear that there is a revolution out there...:pac: thats if you look at fox news. Majority of Americans state that he is going in the right direction regarding the economy and they approve of him so far. In fact the figures for the economy is as high as 75%. TBH this was a huge publicity stunt backed my fox and other right wing media outlets.

    There will be always nuts on both sides. "Obama is Hitler" nuts on the right, "Bush is Hitler" on the left. The thing is when there were anti war demos, which by the way attracted millions of americans then the right focused on a few loonies breaking bottles or burning flags and ignored the public sentitment. However, other then blogs and that cnn one the main stream media instead of making hay of these new right wing nut jobs have basicly ignored the tea bags. Now if there were so liberally biased wouldnt they be replaying clips of these nuts over and over again protraying them as anti american ala fox?

    Where were these guys the last 8 years when bush was trying to lower taxes but increase spending, yea thats going to work! The moveon.org crowd released a video about the national debt giving out about it about 4 years ago. But the right described them as left wing loons. Now they are in agreement! Can we all shake hands. American politics is the best comedy you can get!

    Anyway tea party yawwwn!


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 795 ✭✭✭Pocono Joe


    Overheal wrote: »
    Im not quite sure if you understood the original sarcasm, which was about the Conservative driven idea that unless everyone gave their full support to the government post 9/11 it would expose the US to more attacks. Or maybe you did.

    Yeah I got it. Maybe you didn’t quite get my sarcastic response to it. Let me try and explain... You just noted "the Conservative driven idea that unless everyone gave their full support to the government post 9/11 it would expose the US to more attacks." Well think about it... the feelings you noted were merely words... Obama took action. Now isn’t that scary!

    Also, if you get a chance, look into "Operation Vigilant Eagle."


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,368 ✭✭✭thelordofcheese


    Pocono Joe wrote: »
    Yeah I got it. Maybe you didn’t quite get my sarcastic response to it. Let me try and explain... You just noted "the Conservative driven idea that unless everyone gave their full support to the government post 9/11 it would expose the US to more attacks." Well think about it... the feelings you noted were merely words... Obama took action. Now isn’t that scary!

    Wait, the DHS has been doing this shit since 2002 and suddenly, now that their focus has shifted to a movement that is a beacon for anyone with any kind of beef against the current american government (as amply demonstrated by the protesters themselves), you've decided that it's a horrible organisation and it's not right?

    Cry my a river, tbh. You don't get to champion the setting up an organisation who's raison d'être is to spy on american people and then cry foul when they spy on you.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 86,729 ✭✭✭✭Overheal


    Pocono Joe wrote: »
    Yeah I got it. Maybe you didn’t quite get my sarcastic response to it. Let me try and explain... You just noted "the Conservative driven idea that unless everyone gave their full support to the government post 9/11 it would expose the US to more attacks." Well think about it... the feelings you noted were merely words... Obama took action. Now isn’t that scary!
    Just checking :o
    Also, if you get a chance, look into "Operation Vigilant Eagle."
    Hate speech is not protected by the constitution afaik, and white supremacists are known for a lot of it. That and if theyre buying up arms, wouldnt you want someone keeping an eye on them?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,854 ✭✭✭✭silverharp


    this made me chuckle




    "The message from folks in Greenville to Congressman Gresham Barrett was clear Friday evening: Voters are mad about the $700 billion bailout he voted for and the massive government stimulus package he is now supporting.

    Barrett, a Republican, attempted to speak before an estimated crowd of 4,000 people at a Post Tax Day Tea Party in the Upstate only to be greeted by boos from most everyone in attendance. No other speakers were booed.

    Protesters screamed “go home” and blew air horns during the duration of Barrett’s five minute speech. Some even turned their backs to him.

    Messages on dozens of signs and hundreds of fliers also expressed a similar contempt for “Bailout Barrett.”

    The gubernatorial candidate did his best to deliver his speech, but the crowd never let up.

    “I know you’re mad, I know you’re frustrated, and I hear you,” a shaken Barrett said over the crowd. “You may turn your back on me, but I’ll never turn my back on you.”

    Barrett has come under heavy fire across the state for his bailout and stimulus support, something that will seriously hamper his gubernatorial bid. Especially with so much of the anger coming from his own backyard in the Upstate. "

    A belief in gender identity involves a level of faith as there is nothing tangible to prove its existence which, as something divorced from the physical body, is similar to the idea of a soul. - Colette Colfer



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 992 ✭✭✭LostinKildare


    Wait, the DHS has been doing this shit since 2002 and suddenly, now that their focus has shifted to a movement that is a beacon for anyone with any kind of beef against the current american government (as amply demonstrated by the protesters themselves), you've decided that it's a horrible organisation and it's not right?

    Cry my a river, tbh. You don't get to champion the setting up an organisation who's raison d'être is to spy on american people and then cry foul when they spy on you.

    Agreed. You asked for the Orwellian bureaucracy, you got it. Where was the outrage from the Right a few years ago when Rumsfeld's people were spying on Quakers and grannies? (EDIT: in the case of the Quakers, maybe they were trying to spot the next Nixon, and if so, godspeed. ;))

    And re the military, aside from the very real vulnerability of traumatised vets returning from an unpopular war to a depressed economy, there's already a significant group of dangerous extremists in the military. This was documented several years ago by Bush's DOD: http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/07/washington/07recruit.html

    Quote:
    The report quotes Scott Barfield, a Defense Department investigator, saying, "Recruiters are knowingly allowing neo-Nazis and white supremacists to join the armed forces, and commanders don't remove them from the military even after we positively identify them as extremists or gang members."
    Mr. Barfield said Army recruiters struggled last year to meet goals. "They don't want to make a big deal again about neo-Nazis in the military," he said, "because then parents who are already worried about their kids signing up and dying in Iraq are going to be even more reluctant about their kids enlisting if they feel they'll be exposed to gangs and white supremacists."

    Personally, I would like the govt to keep an eye on the activities of true hate groups, and it seems like conservatives would want to draw a distinction between their own dissenting free speech and the hate speech of extremists rather than pretend that the DHS report is targeting them. Instead they're following the pied pipers Limbaugh, Malkin, Coulter, Bachmann, etc. right off a cliff.

    Pocono Joe, if you’re concerned about the govt spying on average law-abiding citizens (and yes I think we all should be) then why don’t you make a donation to the ACLU? They do great work.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 795 ✭✭✭Pocono Joe


    Pocono Joe, if you’re concerned about the govt spying on average law-abiding citizens (and yes I think we all should be) then why don’t you make a donation to the ACLU? They do great work.

    Great Work? You think fighting for NAMBLA is "great work?" Sorry, but the American Criminal Liberties Union will never see a penny from me.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 14,483 ✭✭✭✭daveirl


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 86,729 ✭✭✭✭Overheal


    Its all just Psychology 101. They didn't vote for him so whatever he does that slightly inconveniences them is fascist. And similarly 8 years ago with Bush, it was the Dems crying outrage and the Fiscal Conservatives mumbling "Meh".

    Best example is Rushbo'. Failed out of college; the guy can't talk about Third Level Education without referring to it as Left-Wing Brainwashing camps :rolleyes: in his own words, I assure you.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 992 ✭✭✭LostinKildare


    Pocono Joe wrote: »
    Great Work? You think fighting for NAMBLA is "great work?" Sorry, but the American Criminal Liberties Union will never see a penny from me.

    Yeah, I figured that. I was just poking you with a stick. ;)

    They did help Rush Limbaugh beat that drugs rap, though. Gotta give them props for that.

    http://www.aclufl.org/news_events/?action=viewRelease&emailAlertID=41


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 261 ✭✭TheHeadhunter


    bobbyjoe wrote: »
    nuts attending them... Tiny crowds as well.


    So people angered by outrageous taxation and insane spending are nuts now? Wow. Did you know the average 20 year old will now have to pay around $114,000 in taxation over their lifetime simply to cover the interest on Obama's spending so far!?

    Also at a tea party in new york they had in excess of 12,000 people in attendance. Tiny?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 46,938 ✭✭✭✭Nodin


    So people angered by outrageous taxation


    What outrageous taxation would that be....?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 992 ✭✭✭LostinKildare


    Also at a tea party in new york they had in excess of 12,000 people in attendance. Tiny?

    New York City? Source please.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 261 ✭✭TheHeadhunter


    NYPD Estimate 12,000 were at the Tea Party in NYC.

    http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/apr/17/tea-party-protest-backers-ask-for-more/

    The above article also states 12,000 may have been on hand to oppose Obama's socialist regime in Atlanta.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 992 ✭✭✭LostinKildare


    NYPD Estimate 12,000 were at the Tea Party in NYC.

    http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/apr/17/tea-party-protest-backers-ask-for-more/

    The above article also states 12,000 may have been on hand to oppose Obama's socialist regime in Atlanta.

    I realise that the organisers said that the NYPD estimated 12,500 and that this figure has been repeated in the conservative blogosphere.

    This is highly suspect -- as a matter of policy, the NYPD does not provide crowd estimates. Can you point to an official NYPD link or even a news source that gives that figure? (the wash times link above doesn't mention NYC)

    The figure I've seen is 2,000, cited by the AP and reported by these news sources:

    New York Newsday http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/nation/wire/sns-ap-tax-day-protests,0,7882137.story

    San Diego Union Tribune http://www3.signonsandiego.com/stories/2009/apr/15/bn15taxcopy-protests-rdp/

    Salon http://mobile.salon.com/politics/war_room/feature/2009/04/16/nyc_party/index.html

    and even Fox News http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/04/16/gop-hopes-pick-steam-tea-parties/


    Just keeping you honest . . . .


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,171 ✭✭✭af_thefragile


    Ron Paul is the only sane person in the american congress.
    I really really hope these "teaparties" are a success and they manage to pass the H.R. 1207 bill giving the government the right to audit the Federal Reserve of america.
    A lot of ugly skeletons are buried in the Fed... if only one could dig them out.
    Ron Paul is trying his best, i hope he succeeds!


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