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By: cocktailhag

cocktailhag — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 06:45:11 +0000

Ah, but in their minds they’re sweeping the nation….. Good luck to them with that.

By: Meremark

Meremark — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 06:37:21 +0000

You banked my angle on the streetbaggers, for media to shout out and holler back comparisons of crowds for Peace — at Gulf war One, at the Dalai Lama, at pre-Iraq invasion — versus yesterday’s goofoff tea-cozy circling jerks. Here’s the tepid tea numbers, counted at the place that does politics rightly best — FiveThirtyEight.COM (# of US Rep.s + Sen.s)

The same number as FUX News audience ratings — 300,000.

Versus Peaceful millions and millions and millions …

By: cocktailhag

cocktailhag — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 22:16:19 +0000

At the big peace rally before Gulf War I the streets were filled with people for blocks around, and surprise, no corporate sponsor was required for this.

By: cocktailhag

cocktailhag — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 22:12:35 +0000

Also, that tax levels for the middle classes do not change. The differences are all at the top.

By: Meremark

Meremark — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 22:10:50 +0000

Your great line, CH.
“… somehow disappointed that the experience wasn’t scarier.”

Somehow? Cortex O.D.’d on Fearstupid addiction, that’s how. Not only does the brain damage evermore deprive them of a sense of ‘scarier,’ the same goes for ‘experience.’

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In terms of Pioneer Sq. coverage with 5 W’s and How: When We Were Wonderfully Welcomed by the Dalai Lama in it, not long ago, there must’ve been 25,000 of us. How? In standard English.

By: karrsic

karrsic — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 16:34:36 +0000

If the Bush era proved anything, it’s that tax levels don’t correlate to government size or its level of intrusion into the lives of private citizens.

By: rmp

rmp — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 15:09:12 +0000

I’m like you Retzilian. I have always had a hard time not calling crap, crap and refusing to let the stink just pass by. Although, I also agree with Hag on how useless it might be. I suspect that you could pick and chose and only have a discussion with the farts who just take too simplistic a view and ignore the turds.

By: cocktailhag

cocktailhag — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 14:21:55 +0000

Ewwww. Creep-o-rama, Retzilian. Oddly, the people there looked just like they did here. Middle aged, working class, and equally clueless. Maybe they’re being trucked from place to place.
I chose not to engage for the same reason you wouldn’t have. It doesn’t do any good, and things get scary pretty fast.

By: cocktailhag

cocktailhag — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 14:09:06 +0000

I would have been much more nervous with a sign like that; as it was I spent my entire circuit suppressing giggles. I was a tad disappointed that, bookish town that we are, even the teabaggers seemed to be pretty good spellers.

By: Retzilian

Retzilian — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 14:06:16 +0000

What about athletes? We won’t even go there.

Regarding the tea parties, I agree that the tone is sad, if not pathetic. I watched a video of the nearby downtown Cleveland rally posted by a local blogger and I was mostly nonplussed, if not embarrassed once again for the locals who are so stupid and mean-spirited and clueless.

http://bloggerinterrupted.com/

While they are no worse than any other cross-section of “baggers” in videos around the ‘nets, when they are your townfolk, you are stung by their miserable stupidity.

I almost went to the Palin rally in Strongsville last fall, but I would have gotten into a fight if I had been there; same with this tea bag event: It would have started off with my challenging someone’s sign and asking them what they wanted to accomplish. Then, I’d be correcting their ignorant remarks and crappy right wing talking points, then they’d get hostile and start frothing, and then I’d have to punch them.

Oh, I can’t afford bail and lawyers right now. So, thanks for letting me go vicariously through you, CH. You’re much more mature and restrained than I. heh.