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TEA Partiers: “A new breed.”

Thursday, April 14th, 2011

But if, on the other hand, this form of government contains principles that will lead to the subversion of liberty — if it tends to establish a despotism, or, what is worse, a tyrannic aristocracy; then, if you adopt it, this only remaining assylum for liberty will be shut up, and posterity will execrate your memory.—Brutus, Anti-Federalist paper

Congresswoman Loretta Sanchez of Kawliforna knows how to get along with people. Mock TEA party candidates with a southern accent.

Of course, we know a Southern accent is Hollywood code for a hick, McCarthyist.

She know three things about the Constitution—that she read from a cue card—but apparently hasn’t read the rest. She complains that getting things done with people who know the Constitution is difficult.

That is the way it is supposed to be. Just because you violated the Constitution in the past, except the three things you happen to know about, doesn’t mean that the Government—that is the We the People part of the Constitution that you might have missed—are going to let you continue.

Stephanie Miller, radio talk show host, is heard saying at the end of clip, “Yeah, this is a new breed. This really is.”

A new breed? There were about 40 guys a little over 220-years ago that thought the Constitution was a pretty good idea. In fact, the “TEA Party” movement was named after an action some of them took one Christmas season.

Oh, you might not have heard about it. You’re from Kawliforna.

Now the Constitution did have its detractors. They were known as the Anti-Federalists. Just about everything that they complained about the Constitution has been fulfilled in the Platform of the Democratic Party.


(Video from Youtube, April 13, 2011)

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48% Say Their Views Closer to Tea Party Than Congress

Tuesday, April 5th, 2011

Forty-five percent (45%) say the average Tea Party member has a better understanding of the problems America faces today than the average member of Congress does. That figure is down seven points from a year ago. Still, today only 31% think the average member of Congress has a better understanding. Twenty-three percent (23%) are undecided.

In the ongoing budget-cutting debate in Washington, some congressional Democrats have accused their Republican opponents of being held captive by the Tea Party movement, but voters like the Tea Party more than Congress.

The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 48% of Likely U.S. Voters say when it comes to the major issues facing the country, their views are closer to the average Tea Party member as opposed to the average member of Congress. Just 22% say their views are closest to those of the average congressman. Even more (30%) aren’t sure.

Rasmussen Reports

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Williams Tea Party, March 14, 2011

Tuesday, March 15th, 2011

The former Western Coconino County Tea Party Patriots began meeting again on Monday March 14, led by Joyce Mechtley, to re-organize the group. The group meet informally to discuss various topics.

Joyce announced a general TEA Party meeting of various Arizona groups on Saturday in Prescott.

It was decided to change the name to the Williams Tea Party as that is what the Flagstaff group refers to them as. The group will still serve for members from Ash Fork, Valle and the surrounding area.

It was decided, also, that the meetings would be held the second Monday of each month. If the group grows to the extent of last year, a board will be selected and board meetings will be held from 6 to 7 pm. The general meeting will follow from 7 to 8:30 pm.

The group will also start a web site as soon as possible. The web site will be administered by Glen Davis. The web site address will most likely be williamsteaparty.com. The plan for the web site is to utilize blog software to make it easier for members to contribute to the site.

George Lockhart brought up the Spring Flower Ranch development and wondered if we could obtain the State growth plan. The Spring Flower Ranch was, apparently, a development planned in Parks which, so far, has suffered due to the economy.

John Lee brought up concerns about the Perrin Ranch wind farm project. Concerns are that the wind generators will not produce enough electricity to be profitable enough to sustain. Eventually, tax payers or APS customers will have to pay extra to keep them running as has happened in England.

There was, also, discussion concerning finding suitable candidates to replace Coconino County Supervisors and other officers.

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Organizational meeting of Williams Tea Party.

Thursday, March 3rd, 2011

The next tea party meeting will be on Monday, March 14 @ 7:00 PM- 8:30 PM. Meeting will be at the Williams recreation center, in between the Information Center and the Aqua Center on Railroad St (Rt 66 west) in Williams.

It will be an organizational meeting. Anyone interested in helping and giving ideas of what we can do to take America back would be greatly appreciated.

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Tony Windsor doesn’t get the message.

Wednesday, March 2nd, 2011

Apparently, those damn Tea Party members over in the United States are spreading vitriol all over Australia. Really? How did they get through TSA? Isn’t the Australian T.E.A. Party doing their jobs?

In fact, they are.

The Sydney Morning Herald reports, “Mr [Tony] Windsor [Minister of Parliament, or MP in Australia] said there were some ‘points of commonality’, to the debate over the rhetoric of the Tea Party movement in the United States.”

The Australian T.E.A. Party web site states that the TEA Party is, “A worldwide movement, united for Free Markets, Fiscal Responsibility, Constitutionally Limited Small Governments and Individual Freedom.”

So, yes, the TEA Party has a common goal. It is the supposed goal of the Republican Party in America, the PATRIOT act notwithstanding. But apparently, political science is way above his head. Or he is an elitist. The goal, Mr. Windsor, is freedom and liberty. Do you have a problem with that?

Windsor gives the U.S. TEA Party too much credit. Apparently, his own people can see that a tax based on a false science is tyranny. In the United States, it can only be considered valid with a generous twisting of the words of the Constitution of the United States of America. Since the “tax” is to be paid to the United Nations, it is totally unconstitutional.

In 1850, when France was fast moving to become the first Communist Empire, Claude Frédéric Bastiat wrote a treatise to his countryman, concerning the matter, called The Law. In this plea from this dying man, he wrote:

“And does not experience prove this? Look at the entire world. Which countries contain the most peaceful, the most moral, and the happiest people? Those people are found in the countries where the law least interferes with private affairs; where government is least felt; where the individual has the greatest scope, and free opinion the greatest influence; where administrative powers are fewest and simplest; where taxes are lightest and most nearly equal, and popular discontent the least excited and the least justifiable; where individuals and groups most actively assume their responsibilities, and, consequently, where the morals of admittedly imperfect human beings are constantly improving; where trade, assemblies, and associations are the least restricted; where labor, capital, and populations suffer the fewest forced displacements; where mankind most nearly follows its own natural inclinations; where the inventions of men are most nearly in harmony with the laws of God; in short, the happiest, most moral, and most peaceful people are those who most nearly follow this principle: Although mankind is not perfect, still, all hope rests upon the free and voluntary actions of persons within the limits of right; law or force is to be used for nothing except the administration of universal justice.”

He was a French TEA Party member spreading vitriol. The “vitriol” that he was spreading was that the only purpose of law was to maintain the right to protect oneself, their property and their liberty. That is, also, a collective right of the people (not the National Guard). There is no natural right for a person to attack the right of life, liberty or property of another person, according to this treatise. Therefore, there is no collective right, even legislatively, to attack the right of life, liberty or property. It is a central principle of the works of John Locke and a principle which was used in the writing of the Declaration of Independence. That is the point of the American TEA Party, even though—for the most part—it has been construed to mean Republican party. I’m pretty sure, from reading the Australian T.E.A. Party web site, it is central to their thinking.

According to the Sydney Herald article, Mr. Windsor said, “Just remember you could be responsible for driving someone that’s got a slight degree of mental illness to something that they wouldn’t normally do.”

You mean, like voting for a carbon tax based on false science?

I guess, since the NRA showed video of the Australian government melting down all the guns they stole from the citizens, they will now have to make a law keeping slingshots, pies and other dangerous weapons at least a thousand-yards from any politician.

This whole concept Bastiat calls legal plunder. The point is, Mr. Windsor, that the people of the United States are sick of this legal plunder. We are sick of being forced into communist unions to work instead of the free association of men. We are sick of giving paychecks to those who do not want to work or those who are here illegally. We are sick of the government taking away our RIGHT to Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of happiness.

I think the message, Mr. Windsor, it that your people are too.

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Fair Tax Act

Friday, February 11th, 2011

H.R.25 — Fair Tax Act of 2011

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‘Communist Monopoly’ Teaches Downside of Socialist Life

Sunday, January 23rd, 2011

A Polish research institute has developed a board game to teach young people about life under Communism. In the game, which is inspired by Monopoly, players must wait in endless lines at stores for scarce goods. For added realism, they have to put up with people cutting in line and products running out — unless they have a “colleague in the government” card.

There are no glamorous avenues for sale, nor can players erect hotels, charge rent or make pots of money. In fact, a new Polish board game inspired by the classic Monopoly is all about communism rather than capitalism.

The goal of the game, which will officially be launched on Feb. 5, is to show how hard and frustrating it was for an average person to simply do their shopping under the Communist regime in Poland. The game has been developed by the Institute of National Remembrance (IPN), a Warsaw-based research institute that commemorates the suffering of the Polish people during the Nazi and Communist eras.

Just like in the original Monopoly, acquisition is the name of the game. In this case, however, that means struggling to get basic necessities such as food, clothing and furniture. “In the game, you send your family out to get items on a shopping list and they find that the five shops are sold out or that there hasn’t been a delivery that day,” the IPN’s Karol Madaj told SPIEGEL ONLINE Thursday, explaining that the game “highlights the tough realities of life under Communism.”

Indeed, there are many ways in which the game, which is called “Kolejka” after the Polish word for queue or line, builds frustration. Some rules allow other players to jump the line and get the last of a certain product, while others force players to give up their place in the queue.

Spiegel Online International

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The Surprise Inside: George Washington

Thursday, January 20th, 2011

©2011 by Glen C. Davis

KIM KIM FOSTER-TOBIN- kkfoster@thestate.com - A three-sided structure that covered the front and sides of Washington's statue was intended to display a rally graphic, said S.C. NAACP executive director Dwight James. However, the graphic was not finished in time for the rally at the Statehouse Monday.

On the celebration of the birth of Martin Luther King past, in South Carolina, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) covered the statue of George Washington at the Capitol building with a three sided wooden structure. Said S.C. NAACP executive director Dwight James, according to the Columbia Herald Online, “What we had constructed was a background with a graphic to be placed on it. We weren’t trying to obstruct anything.” Apparently the graphic was not finished in time.

Of course, the question is Why situate a graphic to cover up the statue?

The answer to that is clear. It is a clear attempt at revisionist history for the “revolution.” While text books laud the Muslim founding of America—which never happened—The White House did issue a Lief Erickson day proclamation. It fell short of confirming or denying that the Vikings may have been the first Europeans to actually set foot within the borders of what we now know as the United States of America.

Lief Erickson day is a national holiday celebrated on October 9 each year. I do not know if you saw that on CNN.

It raised the ire of conservatives across the country. Including black Republican Tea Party activist Lloyd Marcus, who told Fox News, “I thought, you know, this is just totally absurd, totally ridiculous. I don’t know if George Washington had slaves or whatever but … George Washington was our first president.”

Yes, Mr. Marcus, George Washington did own slaves. Over 300 at the time of his death. Washington had a struggle with the contradiction of slavery after the American Revolution. He arranged for the freedom and future care of his slaves, in his will, after the death of his wife Martha. He might have freed them earlier had he not grown old from fighting a war against the British to free our colonies, then serving two-terms soothing the petty bickering of Thirteen distinct States.

What struck me as odd about the affair is that the one statue they chose to put a graphic around is the one man who would have been gracious enough to say that is what the First Amendment is all about.

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The excuse for Democrats being the way they are.

Friday, January 14th, 2011

In this lecture by Frances Fox Piven Professor of Political Science and Sociology at The Graduate Center, City University of New York, we find out the allure of the TEA Party movement. Great sex. Apparently liberals aren’t gettin’ any.

As for the “racist” nature of the TEA Party, she should probably review this video:

So maybe Keith Olberman might want to spend some of those campaign dollars to Arizona representatives in other ways tonight.

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Whose watching?

Sunday, January 2nd, 2011

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Happy New Year.

Friday, December 31st, 2010

Happy New Year?

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A Marine in a TEA party

Tuesday, December 28th, 2010

June 5, 2010

Oh, say can you see by the dawn’s early light
What so proudly we hailed at the twilight’s last gleaming?
Whose broad stripes and bright stars thru the perilous fight,
O’er the ramparts we watched were so gallantly streaming?
And the rocket’s red glare, the bombs bursting in air,
Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there.
Oh, say does that star-spangled banner yet wave
O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave?

On the shore, dimly seen through the mists of the deep,
Where the foe’s haughty host in dread silence reposes,
What is that which the breeze, o’er the towering steep,
As it fitfully blows, half conceals, half discloses?
Now it catches the gleam of the morning’s first beam,
In full glory reflected now shines in the stream:
‘Tis the star-spangled banner! Oh long may it wave
O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave!

And where is that band who so vauntingly swore
That the havoc of war and the battle’s confusion,
A home and a country should leave us no more!
Their blood has washed out their foul footsteps’ pollution.
No refuge could save the hireling and slave
From the terror of flight, or the gloom of the grave:
And the star-spangled banner in triumph doth wave
O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave!

Oh! thus be it ever, when freemen shall stand
Between their loved home and the war’s desolation!
Blest with victory and peace, may the heav’n rescued land
Praise the Power that hath made and preserved us a nation.
Then conquer we must, when our cause it is just,
And this be our motto: “In God is our trust.”
And the star-spangled banner in triumph shall wave
O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave!

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Swindle of the year

Monday, December 13th, 2010

By Charles Krauthammer
Friday, December 10, 2010

Obama is no fool. While getting Republicans to boost his own reelection chances, he gets them to make a mockery of their newfound, second-chance, post-Bush, Tea-Party, this-time-we’re-serious persona of debt-averse fiscal responsibility.

Barack Obama won the great tax-cut showdown of 2010 – and House Democrats don’t have a clue that he did. In the deal struck this week, the president negotiated the biggest stimulus in American history, larger than his $814 billion 2009 stimulus package. It will pump a trillion borrowed Chinese dollars into the U.S. economy over the next two years – which just happen to be the two years of the run-up to the next presidential election. This is a defeat?

If Obama had asked for a second stimulus directly, he would have been laughed out of town. Stimulus I was so reviled that the Democrats banished the word from their lexicon throughout the 2010 campaign. And yet, despite a very weak post-election hand, Obama got the Republicans to offer to increase spending and cut taxes by $990 billion over two years. Two-thirds of that is above and beyond extension of the Bush tax cuts but includes such urgent national necessities as windmill subsidies.

Read more a the Washington Post

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Weiner: Rich people won’t pay estate tax b/c they’ll be dead

Wednesday, December 8th, 2010

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House tea party members, including King, raked in earmarks

Friday, December 3rd, 2010

While tea partiers may have railed against government spending on the campaign trail, members of the House Tea Party Caucus sought more than $1 billion in earmarks last year, according to a National Journal review of records compiled by Citizens Against Government Waste.

Most of the 52 members of the Tea Party Caucus sought some earmarks, with U.S. Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa) requesting 13 earmarks totaling more than $6.6 million. The biggest earmark King signed on to was $1.5 million for the Interstate 29 Reconstruction and Utility Relocation Project. Other earmarks varied from infrastructure projects to higher education equipment purchases to $350,000 for the Visiting Nurses Association to fund a telehealth initiative.

The Iowa Independent

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