TEA Parties
 

Dangit... I wanted to attend the TEA Party from noon to two in Ventura CA today, and I didn't make it. Drat.

That sucks UG. How come you didn't make it?

The Boston Tea Party was to protest taxation without representation.

Guess what? You have representation. You voted. You lost.

Now get out there and do something for the GOOD of the country. Or keep whining. Your choice.

That is all.

will they have Devonshire cream? *hopehope*

Its a good thing you missed it.

Didn't you read or hear that ACORN planned to infiltrate the tea parties and take names in order to report back to Obama with a list of right wing subversives that need watching.

It had to be true....Michelle Malkin said so!

So people who disapprove of the current government aren't allowed to voice their discontent? This is no different than anti-war protests in 2002. The actions of the government do not sit well with these people, so they are taking advantage of their 1st Amendment rights to express their dissatisfaction. Yes the original Boston Tea Party was in direct response to the British taxes levied on the colonies. However its not about the tea then or now. Its about a group of people who see the government overstepping it's boundaries and voicing their concerns about it. Yeah its a little outlandish and some of what a few people at these "Tea Parties" have to say is a bit on the ridiculous side, but that doesn't matter in the big picture, and neither does the fact that the original Tea Party was about taxation sans representation.

Where did I say they have no right to voice their discontent? They can voice their discontent all they want. However, I would think more highly of their efforts (and by their I mean Fox News and the ilk) if they had fashioned it after something that didn't smack of ridiculous, and if their patriotism included wanting our country to succeed instead of hoping we fail miserably so that they can be "right."

Not impressed. Yawn. Oh, and still, blaming it on Obama....come on, how do they do that with a straight fucking face? Who the fuck got us into this mess? I'm glad there are those of us who aren't mooing cattle following the collective trough of lies.

We will go down in flames. Then they can cheer and be "right." How nice that will be for them, as they stand in bread lines all puffed up and proud with their I told you so eyes. For me, I didn't approve of Bush, AFTER he fucked it all up, but I would have hoped we would never see the mess we do now. I suppose my brand of patriotism isn't about being personally "right" but about fixing the fucking shit so that this American Dream doesn't become a paragraph in a cheesy history book.

Un. Be. Lievable.

Dissent is patriotic.

It's what makes us great.

Constant whining just makes us look like the French.

;)

uh the french! Thats a really low blow.

That's where I was aimin'

:)

so. No Devonshire cream, I suppose.

you wankers.

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are you, classicman, kicking me in the nether region in a celebratory manner due to the absence of Devonshire cream? An absence you yourself most likely engineered? HUH?

is that what you're doing there?

Real matoor, classic, real matoor.