UPDATE #4:For those of you who are alarmed by the tea party phenomenon, here are instructionson how to reduce your risk.
UPDATE #3: For those of you who still don’t know the little joke the MSM was playing on the normal people at tea parties, this explanation of what “teabagging” is might help. Ugh !
UPDATE #2: Here is somebody who does understand what this tea party phenomenon is about.
In the last few days before Wednesday, I began to hear rumblings that the virtually-0rganized Tax Day protests had finally grown to such an extent that the Republican Party wanted to jump on the bandwagon. It was too late. Even the head of the RNC was denied a speaking role. This was a movement that had already grown outside the mainstream of American politics.
Oprah Winfrey, accustomed to giving unknown authors a portion of her prominence by featuring their works, felt compelled to jump on the Boyle bandwagon after only one song. It was only two years ago when, it took until Paul Potts that years’ BGT winner, was already crowned, before Oprah, then still ahead of the new media curve, introduced him to an American audience. Now, Oprah has to make the introduction early–or at least as early as she can, since millions of Yankees have already seen Ms. Boyle, even though her singing career spans a grand total of two minutes and twenty seconds.
This is the speed of the modern internet. Instead of needing the establishment to give credibility to a movement–be it political or cultural–the establishment needs those movements to keep them relevant.
I was wondering if anyone would figure this out besides me.
UPDATE: Not everybody thinks that the tea parties were a good idea.
Rep. Jan Schakowsky (D-Ill.) blasted “tea party” protests yesterday, labeling the activities “despicable” and shameful.”
Of course, her opinion might be affected by the fact that her husband is going to jail for fraud and tax fraud. That will color your attitude toward tea parties, I guess.
I arrived at the tea party in Mission Viejo at 5 PM. There were between 400 and 500 people standing on the four corners that intersect adjacent to the City Hall and LIbrary. I thought I had taken a bunch of photos with my iPhone camera since I had forgotten my camera. Then I went home and attempted to download the photos. It was then that I learned that I had been pushing the wrong button, turning the camera off instead of snapping a photo. I was fooled by the shutter sound that apparently was the camera turning off. I went back at 6:30 PM and took these photos when the crowd was down to about 100.
Here is the rear view of one group that was about 150 people at 5 PM
This is the opposite corner and still has about 100 people at 6:30.
That corner is down to a few but had about 100 people at 5 PM.
This is a small table when attendees could sign a petition to recall a city councilman. They got 60 signatures today. Many of us had already signed. There was another petition for Obama about spending. I doubt it will do much good but the numbers were significant for a small city in Orange County.
This one is included because I liked the sign “Tax and spend has got to end.”
I would call this a success although Mission Viejo has a tradition of community activism which is bipartisan.
On the other hand, we didn’t have anything like this.
The robber, a 32-year-old man identified by Life.ru as “Viktor,” burst into the salon at around 5 p.m. waving a pistol and ordered all of the stylists and clients to hit the floor and toss him their money.
At this point, 28-year-old Olga, whom Life.ru describes as a “delicate” girl trained in martial arts, was apparently still standing when she offered to hand over her cash. But when Viktor tried to accept her contribution, Olga surprised him with a quick punch to the chest, knocking the wind out of him before she flipped him to the ground.
Olga proceeded to tie Viktor up with a hair-dryer cord, gagged him and dragged him into a storage room…
She tied him to the radiator with handcuffs covered in frilly pink fabric, gave him some Viagra and had her way with him several times over the next 48 hours. When she finally let him go on the evening of March 16, Viktor had been “squeezed like a lemon,” Life.ru reported.
