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April 15th – Tea Party Day | Midnight Blue Says — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 03:14:37 +0000

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By: Jimmie

Jimmie — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 07:25:35 +0000

Actually, the protest in 1773 was much, much smaller. Not even Nancy Pelosi, as dumb as she is, would claim otherwise. You should be ashamed.

However, you do forget that the anti-War protests (and the Prop 8 protests) did have central, top-down organization. the anti-war protests, for example, were spearheaded by groups like MoveOn and the various anti-American front groups such as International ANSWER. To pull nearly half a million people into protests, as I've said before, without a main charismatic figure around which to rally and no activist group setting the whole thing up is quite the accomplishment.

By: Cheesecake

Cheesecake — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 06:50:25 +0000

T-Shirt Yes. (Edited to change the link to something a bit shorter - J)

By: Cheesecake

Cheesecake — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 06:31:20 +0000

So we should have someone commit grisly suicide to prove a point?

GENIUS! We'll sign up some lefties.

By: fostert

fostert — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 02:15:14 +0000

The odd thing is that I really had a real tea issue. I just ran out of my good tea from Darjeeling. Now I'm drinking Twinings. But I'll get paid soon, and I can order some tea online from the same retailers I visited in Darjeeling. In a month, I'll be back to drinking the fine Muscatel Valley tea that I'm used to. Wooohoooo! For the record, the Muscatel Valley teas are worth their weight in gold for the first two flushes. The third flush is worth less than gold for some of the plantations. And we don't talk about the fourth flush. It's a dirty secret in Darjeeling. That's the Monsoon Flush, but there is another name for it: Lipton.

By: fostert

fostert — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 01:48:47 +0000

What's so strange is that you guys are beating your chests about getting 300,000 people to turn out in a protest. Compare that to the 750,000 that protested Bush's war. Don't remember that? No surprise, the media ignored it. And in Boston, the tea protest in 1773 was ten times the size of this protest in Boston. And Boston now has more than a hundred times the population that it did back then. But I'll give credit where it's due, this is the largest conservative protest in history. But conservatives don't really know how to protest. Martin Luther King could fill the entire mall in DC, and people had to be turned away. And some of the anti-Vietnam War gatherings were much larger and one even featured a man actually burning himself to death. You guys will never come close to our level of protest. I was hoping to watch a real protest, but I was really disappointed. You guys need some old hippies to show you how it's done. Or maybe the Red Shirts from Thailand. Or the Yellow Shirts. Take your pick. Everyone in Thailand can protest better than you guys. And we stoned hippies can do it better than anyone in Thailand. You didn't even beat the anti-Prop 8 protests. And gays represent only 2% of our society.

By: The Historian

The Historian — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 13:46:15 +0000

THE LEFT IS LYING ABOUT THE ECONOMY

Tea Parties are a pushback against manipulation

http://greensrealworld.blogspot.com/2009/04/econo…

By: Jimmie

Jimmie — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 12:56:31 +0000

A decent reporter could have found that out pretty easily. But that would have involved going to a tea party without a preconceived narrative to advance.