I haven’t really pushed the Tax Day Tea Party movement here, because you can find references to the activities everywhere, but Roxanne, lead blogger for what may well be the lead site, asked that I share my views with you and link to her site.
What do I think about it? I agree with Donald Douglas:
I tell you what: In my experience of 25 years of political participation and scholarship in political science, I can’t really recall quite the phenomenon as this buildup for the April 15th Nationwide Tax Day Tea Party Rallies. Oh sure, Fox News has been cheerleading from the sidelines, but whatever influence the Fox personalities have had is nothing compared to the genuine outpouring of grassroots patriotism that we’re seeing today. This is the best I’ve felt about conservative politics since the Democrats won power last November.
For a flavor of what I’m taking about, check out this website I found yesterday, “The New Tea Party and Revolution.” The front page of the site lists hundreds of scheduled Tea Party events all around the country. I counted at least 150 and that’s before I scrolled even halfway down. This is the kind of interest and spontaneity that cannot be manufactured by a few conservative cable TV shock jocks. This is the Real McCoy! It’s history in the making!
It would certainly be possible for the “Right” to use Alinskyite tactics or AxelTurfing, but that’s not what we do.
There are a lot of Per Se Conservatives, such as Rick Moran, who pooh-pooh the whole business as not orchestrated enough for their tastes, and thus liable to end in embarrassment. On the other hand, you’ve got moonbats claiming that it’s all drummed up by Bush-front multinationals. Just how seriously the Obama administration is taking the right of individuals to assemble in protest can be seen by the bizarre Department of Homeland Security document that suggests it’s all promulgated by racist militia members.
Of course, it’s easy for me to write about this as a grassroots effort, having watched it evolve on FaceBook and websites and Twitter, and it doesn’t hurt that I’m rolling in dough from all that sweet, sweet cash I’m sent by those Bushite front groups. Hey, that reminds me. Jeff’s still got a fundraiser going on here, so please send him something, if you can.
So, what do I think? I think that when Lefties are demonstrating it’s a good time for Starbucks to board up their windows, so maybe Dunkin’ Donuts ought to consider that.
Jimmie Bise has an excellent round-up of round-ups.
Hilarious, via Benedick: Obama’s on-line outreach bedevilled by lefty trolls
Enoch’s going into the belly of the beast, Madison, WI, on Wednesday.
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My wife is very up for us to go to the Lansing , Michigan one. We drove up to Lansing on Saturday to meet Mikey NTH and have him show us around the area so as not to get lost or something stupid like that.
Made up a Protein Wisdom T-shirt to wear to advertise for this site and maybe meet others who read/comment here. Should be fun. I’ll take some pictures, especially if the HuffPo types show up. With MSU nearby I expect they can get some to come.
Barring any last-minute issues, I should be at the one in KC at the Liberty Memorial.
The First Amendment is still operative? Maybe John McCain can work to get these icky protests squelched in a bipartisan manner.
I see the tea parties as a valid and interesting form of protest. One thing I would warn people about however, is that all sorts of groups are organizing to try to subvert this movement. Watch out for the Ron Paul folks, the 9-11 Truthers and the others who will be out in force. Alex Jones’ minions will be handing out DVDs of The Obama Deception.
Barack Obama’s socialist policies are tearing this country apart.
The Republican Party is the biggest threat to killing the “tea parties.” John Gibson is coming to one of the ones in Tulsa. The same John Gibson who supported all of the bailouts and creeping fascism that these tea parties are protesting.
I have no idea who Alex Jones is, so he may be as much of a kook as the Truthers.
But (I’m going to say it!) Ron Paul is right on all of the domestic issues. On foreign policy, he and a bunch of other libertarians are nuts. But he’s right domestically and at this juncture in history, our Socialist/Communist/Fascist/totalitarian domestic tendencies are what is going to sink us and most of the free world.
http://stlouisteaparty.com/ – I’m taking my over-taxed butt to this rally.
Check out this map:
View 2009 Tea Parties in a larger map
I’m heading for the one in Indianapolis, 4:30–6:30.
I haven’t “marched” since my mom took us kids to school the morning after the Kent State shootings wearing black arm-bands.
I was eleven. I figure it’s time I balanced my karmic political scales.
I’ll be heading down to the one in Philadelphia and/or Trenton. Took off work months ago for precisely that purpose.
In my experience of 25 years of political participation and scholarship in political science, I can’t really recall quite the phenomenon as this buildup for the April 15th Nationwide Tax Day Tea Party Rallies.
Me either. Usually this stuff starts small and gets propped up and built up by organizations. This started with a bang and has been citizen driven. Such a contrast from the carefully orchestrated A.N.S.W.E.R.-driven anti War on Terror protests.
This is genuine grass roots, and it goes very deeply and widely into American society.
Oh. And if you have to work, if you have kids to take care of, if you have to wash your dog, find another day for that. Be there. I know conservatives have lives, I know we have jobs. Take one day off this year. BE THERE.
Definitely not “Rent A Mob” where lefty DBs call each and every disaffected group to support one another’s mob. Bring a camera, the signs are clever.
I’m thinking I might take the trusty digital camcorder. I have a fairly large card in my phone and it does video, but I’ll get higher resolution and far better optical zoom with the Sony.
1. Despite what’s implied above, the words “tea” and “tax” appear nowhere in the DHS document.
2. Some of the groups pushing the events include Armey’s, Norquist’s, and the Kochtopus. All of them support MassiveImmigration.
3. I’ve posted comments about my much more effective plan to oppose BHO here a few times, and they haven’t exactly gone over too well. Those who are smart and who want a way to oppose BHO that would actually be effective – instead of just electorally-insignificant events – are invited to push the plan at my name’s link.
oh jeez. You won already. Congratulations. Buy yourself something that makes you feel pretty.
Many of the people who will be at these rallies support views I don’t, or oppose things I do support. If I refused to associate with anyone who didn’t agree with me 100%, I’d either never vote, or I’d always have to write in my own name.
Nor does taking part in a Tea Party rally necessarily exclude also taking part in other approaches.
I’ll be there for the hot Code Pink chicks. MEOW!
I will be in St Louis this week, and am going to try to attend their event. Would prefer to go to the one in Indy. I am also holding off on sending in my returns, my annual tradition, until 11:59 PM.
1. The idea of the “Taxed Enough Already” parties featuring John Galt and “No Taxes” signs as a great big happy circus tent is ludicrous. Anyone can see exactly where they’re coming from as easily as people saw where the anti-war protests were coming from.
2. Regarding happyfeet’s comment about Cantor’s floor “ambushes” of Dems, that’s not what I’m talking about. I’m talking about something higher level involving walking someone through the flaws in their policies, flaws that the MSM never points out. That would hopefully involve a series of questions, such as you might have seen lawyers do when they attempt to reduce someone’s credibility. I’m not talking about yet another cable TV food fight.
I am also holding off on sending in my returns, my annual tradition, until 11:59 PM.
I guess Michelle is just going to have to wait to buy that ruby-encrusted waffle iron and matching chicken tongs until your money comes in JD.
Are hot Code Pink chicks involved in your solution Smme?
That’s definitely a unique twist on the concern troll approach. No, don’t do this! Do something else, don’t bother going, it just won’t matter anyway. Best to stay home yeah, that’s it…
I hope to make it to Lansing. I have to get back to town by 3:00 and it’s at least an hour drive, so maybe I’ll go early?
Yeah, I think I see why his suggestion is not being well-received.
Has anyone ever run across a good Moby?
Most of them are utter morons.
For some unknown reason, my last two comments didn’t show up after I left the two “Something much more effective” comments above. I don’t know whether that’s a technical issue or something else.
Rather than reposting, let me suggest visiting my site and taking a good look to see whether I’m a “Moby” or not. Of course, thinking that is right in line with falling for the “parties”.
After I deposit the check I need to write the check to the IRS and drop the giant catoon sized envelope off at the post office, I’m gonna go home and wet up a double handful of Lipton tea bags and drive over to representative Fosters office and whip em at the door. Businessman my ass. OUTLAW!
Lansing one is scheduled from noon to 1 pm. I’m going to try to get there by 11 to give myself some leeway.
I might try to make the FairTax rally in SC this weekend. Hannity is going to be at the one in Atlanta and I am not sure I could deal with that. I have a very low smarm tolerance.
There’s actually going to be one in a little town less than an hour from Atlanta near Castle McGehee. No Hannity there I imagine, and for those like me who are allergic to ITP traffic it could make the difference in whether I go or not.
Anyone else wish the “24ahead” asshole would stop spamming every damned place with his endless declarations of how what ever anyone else is doing is ineffective, while what he’s doing will have guaranteed results?
I do, particularly since if he believed his own bullshit he’d be doing it instead of telling everyone else to do it.
One of those 24ahead comments I saw on another site was signed “Lonewacko,” FWIW.
This clown used to come by during the elections and give us all sorts of great advise that amounted to not calling BS on lying mendoucheous Dems. It may not be a Moby, I am not yet convinced, but it certainly has a pea-brain, and is trying to drive traffic to its website. It is kind of sad.
24ahead is the passive-aggressive version of Warren Bonersteel.
[…] Some of my favorites are Dan Collins and Jeff Goldstein at Protein Wisdom and Dan weighed in here with Tax Day Tea Parties. […]
But the die was cast. Through a perfectly legal “underground” campaign, a relatively insignificant question had risen to the top.
For the White House, the question was not so much how to answer it — but what to do about it, and how to prevent it in the future.
Self awareness is not a strong point with this bunch, huh?
Lonewacko aka 24ahead is a single issue anti-immigration guy. He used to be associated with Michelle Malkin and AllahPundit until he apparently got a little too strident and had to retire his nom de blog.
There’s one at 5 pm in Rancho Cucamonga near Victoria Gardens … I plan on going to that one.
One of the standard leftist talking points about tea parties is to ask “Why now? Why didn’t the spending bother you before?”
Instead of going through a history of annoyance with spending and pointing out how much worse it is now (which is both true – and how), simply note that congress is no longer controlled by Republicans. We voiced our annoyance already. Now we’re doing it a different way.
Incidentally concern trolls work for Ron Paul too.
Lots of different flavors of dumb up above; if enough people had done what I suggested before the election both McCain and BHO would have dropped out a couple years ago. I tried to ask BHO a question once, but I can’t do everything for you: I need others to help out.
Note also that Malkin has suggested to her readers the same thing I’m suggesting; none of her readers took her up on it either. The GOP is doing something similar to what I suggest, but they – of course – aren’t doing it correctly.
As for my domain name, I switched last year but the old name redirects to the new one. I was one of the last posters to Malkin’s immigration blog, but that just petered out. There was no getting “too strident”.
If you’re a dumb 10-year-old and your idea of fun is getting into a blogwar with Amanda Marcotte, this site is great.
If, however, you actually want to do things that are effective read my site and watch how I do what I do. One of my posts can have a greater impact than anything this site has ever posted because I actually know how to do things in an effective fashion.
And yet you’ve accomplished nothing, whereas Jeff has taught a hell of a lot of people about the abuse of interpretation and its effects.
Weird.
In any case, you mebbe need to, oh, I dunno, be less of an annoying prick. Supposedly we’re your natural allies, yet you seem determined to make it otherwise.
LW, there are two ways one’s name can become a damaged brand. One is if others feel sufficiently threatened by you that they engage in an all-out smear campaign against you. I think in your case we can rule that out.
The other way your name can become a damaged brand is by your own doing.
Look 24ahead even if your ideas were as foolproof and awesome as you say, your presentation is about as bad as can be imagined. You come across as arrogant, contemptuous, dismissive, and almost insane in your assurance and glassy-eyed zealotry. In other words at best you creep people out and no one is going to buy into what you’re selling.
If you are sooooo effective, why can’t you even convince us?
Back to the tea parties, I watched Laurence O’Donnell on MSNBC earlier, spewing all of the Fox is funding this crap. He had the audacity to say that people are actually protesting Bush’s tax policies, then proceeds to dismiss all of the protesters as right wing kooks.
is 24Ahead person same as Warren? Definitely warrenesque.
Happyfeet – 24 is not the same as warren bonersteel. Equally repugnant, but different, nonetheless.
because I actually know how to do things in an effective fashion.
Well, you’ve been highly effective at accomplishing one thing.
Bye-eee!
geoffb and Carin:
I wish I could make it to Lansing – though the Toledo one might be slightly closer, but, geez, it’s Toledo. My husband has no interest in going, and I can’t make that drive by myself (pain problem). I might try to talk my mom into going. If I make it, I’ll definitely make myself a big ol’ OUTLAW sign, in the hopes of spotting other pw people.
A tea party, sounds like big fun for effeminates.
Instead of injecting myself into a cloud of body odor and mouthy hicks, I think I’ll skin free-market-mouseketeers of their money.
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Hoping you girlish victims have fun painting your faces and raising your signs and shouting your invectives. Do sally forth and gush for me, won’t you? I’ll be too busy to attend your code pinky street dance.
Don’t I feel silly now.
I mean, I had thought it was going to be an earth-shaking, game-changing, and some-other-grand-sounding-hyphenation experience, destined to reshape the government of the most powerful nation in the world.
Not some dumb old opportunity to exercise my right to freedom of speech and assembly. I mean, those rights are just for show, like the dishes in the china cabinet. We aren’t supposed to actually use them. That’s so gauche!
I won’t be part of such a low brow gathering, obviously. I can’t be seen sallying and gushing by my betters, after all.
Oh yes, it’s the wise ones who’ll be in the streets protesting the cost of fixing what they themselves collapsed. Makes sense to me.
Rebecca,
There are ones all over Michigan if Lansing is too far. This is the Michigan page of events.
Yes, I think I’ll make an Outlaw sign.
Hmmmm. If all the lefties are denigrating the effort it must be having some effect. Inbmy best Nelson Muntz; Ha Ha
FNC Tax Day Tea Parties. Free promotion.
Well, meya has her talking points / marching orders. Good little fascista.
Got any evidence, SFAG?
Didn’t think so.
Only 4 of them.
http://tinyurl.com/coa896
The others count too. Why not? They get the promotion. This is not one to miss.
Good little fascista. A faithful foot soldier, you are.
A VOICE AT LAST! I’ve heard the media for years and been frustrated…voted for Reagan and for Ross and against everyone else…feeling all alone…but then with the stations that started reporting the news with a different point of view…I realized I wasn’t alone or silent there were others like me…My husband and I are off to Utah to attend hopefully TWO TEA Parties….my sign…Crisis? The only crisis is in Washington D.C. don’t waste it!
Four?
There are hundreds of them, SFAG.
But do keep up the serial lying.
http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&hl=en&msa=0&msid=112875499027114938790.0004647d9f61bab744fd4&ll=38.272689,-96.679687&spn=27.495109,57.128906&z=4&source=embedOver 450, to be precise.
meya,
Go back to reading your important Cindy Sheehan book, or watching video of the New Way Forward to O! or whatever those mass rallies we just saw were called…
Hey I watch me some teevee
Yeah, you do seem like the sort who gets all of her information from MSNBC, SFAG.
LTC John, I just loved that frozen rictus on the face of Jane Hamster when she was asked for evidence that Fox News was behind the Tea Parties.
She’s apparently not as good at spur of the moment clumsy lies as our very own SFAG.
Yes, meya is parroting the MSNBC narrative. She gets a fascista brownie point for each dishonest comment she types.
But the promotion works nationwide.
So when Fox News covers an Obama speech, that means they’re behind Obama? When they cover a tornado or an earthquake they’re “promoting” natural disasters?
You’re pathetic, SFAG.
Almost as pathetic as your cult leader, Jane Hamster.
meya,
You do realize you sound like one of the “Commies is puttin’ flouride in our water to control our minds” types from the 1950s, yes?
FAUX NEWZ IZ CONSPIRATIN’ !!!
Yes, meya is parroting the MSNBC narrative.
And unfortunately completely missing the irony.
Again.
Even if you accept the fascista’s lies as being true, the lying fascista has only shown that less than 1% are sponsored by Fox affiliates. Evil, evil I tell you. Having staged protests fully funded by Soros is a good thing.
“Bloggers, local organizers, paultards, truthers, dick armey’s corporate fronts, the media, twitter, etc”…
Oh cripes, meya HAZ ENEMIES LIST!!11!!1
Oh noes! Those Commies…er…Fox News staffers have gotten to USA Today!
They’re going to be pollutin’ our precious bodily fluids!
Sorry, SFAG. Your lies, and those of Obama, are coming out, and people don’t like it.
Deal.
“dick armey’s corporate fronts”
Switch that for “The Trialteral Commission” and you have a John Bircher.
Pray, continue, meya. This is comedy gold.
These tea parties are interesting because so much of the right wing has gotten into them.
And by “interesting” you mean “they scare the fascists shitless”.
You want some krazy, go find the O’Donnell clip with Schuster from MSNBC last night. He was in a full-on lather.
What I want to know is whether anyone has looked into possible NASCAR and Walmart ties.
The standard tsunami of stoopid from KKKomrade meya.
You know what promoting something looks like.
Ah. The old “I know it when I see it” standard.
They couldn’t be covering it because it’s an unprecedented grassroots movement, and hence newsworthy.
Nope. It must be an EEEEEEEEEEEVIL FOX KKKONSPIRACY!
Somebody’s stupid all right, SFAG.
Hint: it isn’t me.
What I want to know is whether anyone has looked into possible NASCAR and Walmart ties.
Unless Lipton is sponsoring a car this year I doubt NASCAR is interested.
Don’t you have to actually pay taxes in order to protest taxes?
Why are you people, um, protesting, again?
Oh, you’re showing up in the street because all the mean blonds on Fox News told you to, OK.
“They couldn’t be covering it because it’s an unprecedented grassroots movement, and hence newsworthy.”
Of course they cover it. They should. This is phenomenal to see. But you don’t see any “USA Today Tax Day Tea Parties” for example, do you?
Ah, but that’s just what they want you to think, B Moe.
I have it on high authority that Jeff Gordon hatched the idea for the Tea Party movement at a secret Bohemian Grove meeting with Dick Cheney, Sarah Palin, and Rush Limbaugh.
And yes, there’ll be a southern-style iced tea tie-in later on.
It’s all about the benjamins, baby.
You know what promoting something looks like. Don’t be stupid.
Like at the debates, when a couple thousand FairTax supporters would rally on one side of the building and a couple dozen anti-war protesters on the other and the media would only show the anti-war folks, you mean like that?
4 out of 450 does not a conspiracy make, SFAG.
Your precious bodily fluid are safe. Really.
Or when the LA Slimes didn’t mention the large group protesting right outside their own friggin’ building.
I’m sure they just missed that.
AH! If the Southern Style iced tea folks are in on the CONAPIRAZSEE, then BIG SUGAR will be there too – those Southern folks ruin, er, sweeten iced tea…
C&H is pulling the strings!!!
They must attempt to discredit and tear down anything that does not agree with their worldview. How is it that I know of these yet do not watch Fox?
If NASCAR was behind this, then Jamie Little would be somewhere at one of these.
Right. And who suffers from the actions of Big Sugar?
The Cuban people, that’s who.
It’s all a conspiracy to keep us from having free health care and bitchin ’57 Chevys.
And where is sugar grown? Hawaii!
And where is Obama from? Hawaii!
IT ALL FITS TOGETHER, PEOPLE! CONNECT THE DOTS!
I don’t even watch TV, JD, but I also knew all about them.
Must be those evil Fox mind control rays. I probably forgot to wear my tin foil hat one day.
But if you consumed sugar or tea – THEY GOT TO YOU! FNORD!
Meya and thorito are hoarding tin foil, Spies.
God, I miss Robert Anton Wilson.
OMG! I’m drinking tea right now! It’s too late for me! Save yourselves!
FNORD! Classic.
Will Sean Hannity be doing a Elvis impersonation at your Fox News tea party?
Will Glenn Beck fill his adult diaper with hot tears?
Will Megyn Kelly pull off her rubber face and reveal that she’s actually Danny Bonaduce in drag?
Will Bill Hemmer pull down his pants and reveal where the real Megyn Kelly’s sexual organs were transplanted?
Sounds worth paying $2 at the door for the show.
#104 – hey, you weren’t supposed to see that…uh, I have to get back to work now, yeah, thats it.
“4 out of 450 does not a conspiracy make, SFAG.”
Specially when I write “not a conspiracy at all.” Nothing slips by you.
“They must attempt to discredit and tear down anything that does not agree with their worldview. How is it that I know of these yet do not watch Fox?”
See I think the discredit here is upon foxnews, not the teaparties. I think these are genuine expressions of the variety of rightwing frustrations with current events, not the least of which is losing. Having been on hte other side, a protester, organizer, etc…, and seeing various groups play around an issue i’m into, I see whats going on.
Foxnews, to their credit, claims to be covering this like they covered the million man march. Think about that one.
Specially when I write “not a conspiracy at all.â€
Specially after doing everything you could to imply that it was a conspiracy.
Keep it up, SFAG.
Your increasingly desperate spinning is quite amusing.
the million man march
HAHAHAHAH!
When you get caught in one lie, there’s always another one in the queue ready to recycle.
Okay, I think you are a mental midget and a stoopid fucking fascista.
Weird…
When the admitted communists organized the “peace” marches and all sorts of other slimy sorts — pro-jihadis, anti-semites, and the general “destroy the US” folks — joined in, we were told that didn’t matter, because it was a Mass Movement to, um, Act Now to Stop War and End Racism.
But the tea parties? Why, the very broadness of the groups organizing them makes them suspect!
My suspicion: you could go through archives of one the ANSWER marches and find more calls for violence than you’ll find at ALL the tea parties combined.
You’re drawing a bad parallel, meya. There were actually a few white people at the million man march.
SFAG, you haven’t mentioned the JOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOS yet.
Are they involved as well?
‘Cause how can you have a conspiracy this organized without JOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOS pulling the strings somewhere behind the scenes, right?>
Another “mass movement” which had its ugly bits airbrushed out of reporting and history — Farrakhan’s “million man march”.
And to correct your assertion — I was unaware that Fox sent multiple personalities to the MMM, or that the MMM took place in more than one location.
Weird, how your “facts” really aren’t.
SFAG is all about the Farrakhan.
Antisemitism and murder gets her wet.
#112 – excuse me, the approved term is “New York Money Men”.
Are they in New York these days? I thought they were based in Ingolstadt, Bavaria.
Ewige Blumenkraft!
Heute die Welt. Morgen das Sonnensystem!
#116 – I work for The Gnomes of Zurich, not the Bavarian Illuminati…and we use New York as our….oops, forget I said anything.
I think her mention of the million man march had something to do with one of the other smears I heard that the tea parties were racist. They are the million white man march I guess.
But I thought the Chinese invented tea.
Well she is right in line with the Department of Homeland Security.
So I guess the term OUTLAW was not just figurative.
…those that are mainly antigovernment, rejecting federal authority in favor of state or local authority, or rejecting government authority entirely.
Are they questioning my patriotism?
No, they’re doubting your devotion to The Party.
It’s rather amusing the way belief in local control of, say, education has become the rhetorical equivalent of being a bomb-throwing anarchist.
As a somewhat member of the Department of Homeland Security all I can say is that I’m in your blogs reading you!
Mwa-ha-ha-ha-ha!
Looks like killing pirates has got the Democrats blood lust up.
http://www.redstate.com/moe_lane/2009/04/13/democrats-finally-kill-dc-minority-school-program/
Maybe we can get some of those Million Man Marchers to join the DC tea party, you think?
OH NOOOOOES!
Who cares about these stupid right wing extremists and their tea parties we have more important things to cover.
http://newsweek.washingtonpost.com/onfaith/panelists/susan_brooks_thistlethwaite/2009/04/must_love_dogs.html
And besides, dogs make the world a better place.
The best thing about dogs is that dogs love you back. A dog loves unconditionally. Dogs know that of faith, hope and love, the greatest of these is love.
Its true, dogs are very patriotic.
I feel for our dear leader.
“I think the whole country has emotional fatigue, and if we’re emotionally fatigued by all these crises, imagine how President Obama feels.
I looked at the picture of Bo happily running down the hallway alongside President Obama, looking up and plainly enjoying this cool chase game. The President was smiling, looking down at Bo.I hoped the President was having fun too. I hoped playing with the puppy gave him a little relief from stress. Dogs are good for that.”
Dogs are fucking stooges.
QUESTION AUTHORITY!
FYI for anyone in Tampa, assuming I can sneak out of work, I’ll be at the one downtown. Look for a tall unbelievably handsome guy holding up a sign that says “Obama lied, Economy died” or some variation thereof.
geoffb:
Thank you for that link! I’ve been looking at a different site, hoping that one closer to me would magically appear, and beginning to despair that Oakland County had become too monolithically liberal for any bubbles of outrage to survive. Now I have three to choose from that are within a half hour drive – which is about my limit. Heck, maybe I’ll bring my metal detector and pick whichever protest has some good history nearby. I’ve been trying to find a good spot for easy access to the Rouge so I can pan for gold too. (Don’t laugh, there’s wee bits of placer gold all over streams in Michigan, with some documented finds in Birmingham.)
See, if you really want to go OUTLAW, you have find a way to drop off the radar. Since I don’t want to be the Jesse James kind of outlaw, I’m working at all kinds of treasure hunting, including a super secret morel spot that I found last year. My husband is an aircraft mechanic, which should tell you how bleak our financial outlook appears… but we have a secret weapon, thanks to our neighbors to the east. It’s still slow, but we have more options than what’s obvious to the casual observer, and that puts us in a better position than a lot of people in this pathetic state.
Rebecca:
Glad you found something closer. I myself know next to nothing about the SE Michigan area. Mostly traveled through Detroit on my way to fish in Canada.
My late father-in-law was the city manager of Oak Park for many years but had retired for some time before I married his daughter. A nice city from what I’ve been told and the contact I had with the city employees in dealing with his situation was always good.
The Lansing Tea Party one is only an hour drive for us. Expressway almost all the way and so is not a bad trip. I hope yours is a good one for you.
You can tell how rattled the left is by how badly they want to stop people from going to these.
Expect trouble: black bloc guys, protesters showing up to cause trouble and get into fights, people standing up to make speeches that make the tea party movement look bad, etc. And expect the legacy media – if they cover this at all – to only focus on that.
Chris Taylor-
Expect trouble: black bloc guys, protesters showing up to cause trouble and get into fights, people standing up to make speeches that make the tea party movement look bad, etc. And expect the legacy media – if they cover this at all – to only focus on that.
Exactly.
I plan on attending the Columbus, OH “tea party” tomorrow (Statehouse lawn from 6:00PM to 7:30PM) – not because I think it will have any effect politically, but merely to see what happens with my own eyes– and then– to see how the “media” presents this same event.
I hope to meet other Central OH “outlaws” in attendance–Look for a guy standing near State/High wearing a Pittsburgh Pirates coat and hat.
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I am grow weary of hearing excuses and watching the finger pointing taking place in our country’s political arena.
So here are some facts.
#1 Congress, under Democratic control in 2007 and 2008, held the purse strings that led to the deficit Obama inherited. A Republican president, George W. Bush, had a role too: He signed the legislation. Neither political party did us any favors.
#2 Obama supported the emergency financial bailout package in Bush’s final months — a package Democratic leaders wanted to make bigger. Hes not completly innocent either.
It’s okay to disagree with the pinciples and ideas of those attending the Tea Partys(as long as you have taken the time to understand them). You don’t even have to like them. That is what makes our country so wonderful. All I ask, as one American citizen to another is that you don’t try to diminish their voices. They have a right to be heard and acknowledged too. Besides, it’s nice for a change, to hear people say what they mean and mean what they say.
“Here is my advice as we begin the century that will lead to 2081. First, guard the freedom of ideas at all costs. Be alert that dictators have always played on the natural human tendency to blame others and to oversimplify. And don’t regard yourself as a guardian of freedom unless you respect and preserve the rights of people you disagree with to free, public, unhampered expression.” ~Gerard K. O’Neill,
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