April 16, 2009

A simple 'Links' Day

The Tea Party Revolution

By Jacob Laksin

“It was a gray, drizzly day in Morristown, New Jersey, but that didn’t keep some 300 demonstrators – young and old, placard wielding and politically unarmed – from turning out to the city’s downtown green to take part in what has rapidly become a national phenomenon: the Tea Party protest.”

 

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”Yuna Leary, who grew up in St. Petersburg, Russia, in the former Soviet Union, showed her dissatisfaction with the government’s handling of the economy with her sign: “I could’ve stayed in the U.S.S.R if I knew it would come to this.”

 

 

Forever in Blue Jeans

by George Will

“On any American street, or in any airport or mall, you see the same sad tableau: A 10-year-old boy is walking with his father, whose development was evidently arrested when he was that age, judging by his clothes. Father and son are dressed identically -- running shoes, T-shirts. And jeans, always jeans. If mother is there, she, too, is draped in denim.”

 

Comment:

 

The old saying, ‘Clothes make the man,” was coined for a reason. 

 

CNN Reporter at Chicago Tea Party: It's "Anti-CNN Since This is Highly Promoted By the Right-Wing, Conservative Network Fox"

“CNN correspondent Susan Roesgen could barely get through her live shot at the Chicago tea party this afternoon. Over shouts of, "You're not a reporter," Roesgen quickly wrapped up an interview with an attendee, then said, "I think you get the general tenor of this. It's anti-government, anti-CNN since this is highly promoted by the right-wing conservative network Fox."”

 

Comment:

 

Upsetting the MSM is good

 

Rick Perry: Tea party darling

By Andy Barr

“Texas Gov. Rick Perry’s star is rising among a new constituency â€” the anti-tax “tea party” crowd — in the wake of his recent endorsement of a Texas state House resolution affirming the state’s sovereignty.”

 

Georgetown Says It Covered Over Name of Jesus to Comply With White House Request
By Edwin Mora

“Georgetown University says it covered over the monogram “IHS”--symbolizing the name of Jesus Christ—because it was inscribed on a pediment on the stage where President Obama spoke at the university on Tuesday and the White House had asked Georgetown to cover up all signs and symbols there.”

 

Perry fires up anti-tax crowd

By Kelley Shannon

“Texas Gov. Rick Perry fired up an anti-tax "tea party" Wednesday with his stance against the federal government and for states' rights as some in his U.S. flag-waving audience shouted, "Secede!"”

 

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