Tomorrow, as you know, is Tax Feedom day or something like that. It’s starting to weird me out how much the teatard protest announcements sound like hippie protest announcements. Folk singers? Presentations of colors?
The theme of the Tea Party is Redress of Grievances Concerning Fiscal and Economic Policy. Please make up signs that go along with the theme!
There’s going to be tables set up for the organizations that are organizing and supporting the Tea Party, so get to Genesee Crossroads Park at 11:30am to mingle amongst the tables and get acquainted with the groups and the other people that are participating! Folksinger Liz Abbott will be performing during this time as well. The formal presentation portion of the Tea Party will kick off 12noon with the Presentation of the Colors.
Please join us, rain or shine and bring your family and friends! Last years Tax Day Rochester Tea Party was an inspiring experience for the 1500 people who participated. Here’s a video of that wonderful day!
MikeJ
I need to see if there’s a Seattle gathering. My sign, “Stop government Waste: No New Tankers!” and a pic of a 767.
demimondian
The difference is that the hippie protests didn’t feature red Jello molds with marshmallow layers…and the brownies contained ingredients forbidden by Tea Party central.
skippy
all i can think of is “bob roberts” (i’m on my i-touch so i can’t get a link, but google “bob roberts tim robbins” if you are unfamiliar).
mai naem
Well, I was driving by a major cross street yesterday. Not near a government building. There was a single guy dressed up in a n Uncle Sam outfit holding up a sign – Congress is controlled by Crooks. That was the whole sign.
demimondian
@MikeJ: I’m there with you. I’m thinking “No more Ballmer tax breaks!”
General Egali Tarian Stuck
Funny we didn’t get tea baggers when Bush was blowing a trillion plus surplus handed him by a democrat president. But then Bush wasn’t BLackety BLACk BLack mofo BLack
Man the bullshit is piling up so fast you need wings to stay above it.
Tim F.
Weird. I dreamed I saw saint Augustine alive like you and me.
Incertus (Brian)
The advantage of being swamped with work is that I don’t have time to keep up with this nonsense, and I don’t have energy to want to punch someone for it. On the other hand, college sophomore poetry papers. I need a drink.
soonergrunt
With this crowd, presentation of the colors should mean posting the state and national flags. Oh, and the Stars and Bars and a First Navy Jack (Don’t Tread On Me flag).
OT, LTC Lakin is officially under investigation for:
Art. 87, UCMJ; Missing Movement
Art. 92, Failure to Obey an Order or Regulation
To praphrase John O’Connor at CAAFlog:
RareSanity
Wait…A 50 Cent (previous post) AND a CB4 reference in the same night?
B-J is really uppin’ its street cred…
TenguPhule
Corrected for accuracy.
27% of the nation is so certifiably insane that mercy kills should be the order of the day.
TenguPhule
It could be worse.
Svensker
And guns and swords and uniforms were not scattered on the ground but instead were clutched to the bellicose yet pudgy bosoms of the Tea Party militiatards dancing round and round.
DougJ
That’s just Dylan’s spin on Joe Hill.
mr. whipple
Sounds like Festivus.
malraux
In some ways, I really really hope so. Just as the boomers tended to define their politics as rejections of those dirty hippy ideas, I’m hoping that the teabaggers will have the opposite effect on the millennials (or whatever the current generation is). Imagine the next three or four decades being defined by reflexive anti-teabagging, progressive ideas being tossed into bills just to annoy the converatives, etc.
Bubblegum Tate
Festivus was several months ago, teabaggers.
Comrade Kevin
For some reason, I saw the title, and though DougJ had written “I dreamed I saw Jane Galt last night”.
MikeJ
@TenguPhule:
It could be verse.
soonergrunt
@MikeJ: Normally I’d agree with you, but seeing as how the newest KC-135 is older than I am at age 40, we probably actually do need some new tankers.
MikeJ
@soonergrunt: Mainly just to piss off any Boeing employees among the teabaggers. They don’t seem to recognize that they’re the biggest welfare queens in America.
soonergrunt
@MikeJ: That they are.
Well, there are a few people in the medical department of the US Army.
maus
@MikeJ: Doubtful, but there’s a Bellevue event, I believe.
Zam
So they are gonna highlight the 5 black people there? I bet at least 3 are reporters there to cover it.
MikeJ
@maus: I was just trying to google up MS’s government revenue. There’s a fair number of strapping young bucks eating T-bones in Bellevue because of the government.
Dave C
Amateurs. Somebody wake me when the tea partiers find their Abbie Hoffman or Jerry Rubin.
soonergrunt
@MikeJ: It’s a shit-ton of money that MS gets from the government.
99% of the computers owned by the federal government are running MS Windows and MS Office.
The Department of Defense by itself is the world’s largest MS customer by a huge margin.
RD
Liz Abbott is a Teabagger? That’s unfortunate.
RD
Also. . . Odd how the Teabaggers are starting to sound more and more like community organizers, eh?
OMFGFALSEFLAG!!!!111!!!
Calming Influence
@mr. whipple: @Bubblegum Tate:
It’s obvious you both have only a rudimentary knowledge of Festivus, so I would respectfully ask you to refrain from commenting on things you don’t understand.
One of the sacred rites of Festivus is The Airing Of Grievances. Those of us who celebrate Festivus have no need to have grievancesredressed; the important thing is to air the grievance and publicly humiliate those who have caused us grief.
petorado
Shall we warn them to stay away from the brown acid? Nah, I guess even Confederate hippies need their Woodstock
Bill E Pilgrim
The difference is that the entire 60s cultural and political movement wasn’t just a marketing scheme cooked up by a cable TV network and some extreme left wing activist groups to find a new angle to market the Democratic party.
That’s exactly what “the tea party” is, and it’s all it is.
It’s remarkable if you stand back and think about it, how the Republican party, in near-complete rout, managed to invent this complete bullshit about some “grass roots” “third” party and thereby get everyone talking about it as if it’s some significant force, when otherwise it would have been simply the extreme right-wing, white, male, base of what the Republican party has become, bitterly grumbling and ranting and raving because they lost. As we saw in yet another set of figures about who they really are, yesterday.
In other news: David Broder thinks that Barack Obama is moderate, patient, and “not driven by a compulsion to provide instant gratification for his constituents”. This shouldn’t make me nervous but it does.
asiangrrlMN
@skippy: Alan Rickman best damn part of that movie. It was too painfully true for me to laugh very much (I watched during the W. regime).
gocart mozart
@skippy:
Your wish is my command. Excellant movie by the way and very prescient for the late ’80’s.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2af69xt0VKE
Zuzu's Petals
@Bill E Pilgrim:
Exactly right.
slightly_peeved
So how much are they paying for the use of that park to run their meeting?
DougL (frmrly: Conservatively Liberal)
@demimondian:
I would love to be a (distant) spectator at a Teabagger rally where they serve Red Bull, chili and brownies heavily laced with ExLax.
You can bet that would be a rally to remember!
@mr. whipple:
The first thing I thought was “Reparations! They want reparations!”
HeartlandLiberal
Well, as a solid member of the dwindling middle class, I get a $2,700 plus refund this year. Only half of that is due to overpayment I do every month through the year to insure I do not owe anything. I would say off hand we benefited from reduction in taxes on the middle class. And that was taking the standard deduction this year, only the second time in my adult life I did not itemize, but we are heading for retirement, and I massively cut spending on certain items that would have qualified, and we paid off our mortgage two years ago, so did not have that deduction.
Of course, I would not have joined the TeaBaggers anyway.
I believe in socialist undertakings like roads, bridges, police, fire departments, medicare, social security, public eduction.
I could extend the list, but I think you get my drift.
Honus
@skippy: When I saw Bob Roberts year ago, I thought it was hilarious. I didn’t realize it was so prophetic.
WereBear (itouch)
So I’m not the only one wondering why they, in their extremity, are dressing up and taking to the streets just like the DFHs they scorned and worse, long ago?
Irony is always a stranger to them.
RSA
And if you don’t know anything about fiscal or economic policy, come anyway! It’s enough to feel aggrieved.
El Cid
This is really late, but please let me express my love for the title, it made me laugh pretty good.
DougJ
Thanks!