Rantings of a Right-Wing Radical Extremist

A government big enough to give you everything you need is big enough to take it all away - Thomas Jefferson

As some of you know, yesterday over 800 "tea parties" were held in all 50 states, providing a forum for average hard-working, tax-paying American families to express our anger at the abusive nature of the fiscal irresponsibility of our government, as well as the increasing intrusion into the private sector and the everyday lives of individuals. We are tired of over spending and over taxing by both parties. On its own, the government produces nothing, absolutely nothing! It's very easy to be generous with money that is not your own. When the government provides for its citizens through social programs it must first take it from someone else. I heard a very humorous illustration of this at the Greenville, S.C. tea party. Apparently they were selling "Obama Burgers". You stand in line and pay for your food. Upon doing so, your burger is promptly cut in half and given, for free, to the person behind you in line. How perfect a picture is that of how our government works?

I was disappointed that the Augusta party was held at a time that did not allow me to attend. In the spirit of the day, I ran all my errands with a group of tea bags hanging from my rearview mirror. For those of you that remember my "really big earring" years, you'll be interested to know that I also went to Pioneer Clubs last night with tea bags hanging from my ears in political protest. It's hard to get a firm number of the attendance of the parties as the conservative blogs may inflate the numbers and the main stream media greatly deflates them, (when they talk about them at all). I've heard that law enforcement estimates thus far are about 189,000. Considering these events took place in the middle of the day during hours when most tax-payers are actually WORKING, I think the turnout was tremendous. I wonder how many of us desired to attend but were unable.

Oddly enough, (I say this with great sarcasm), you would not even know that these rallies happened if you relied on the main stream media. The New York Times did have a front page report of the protests..........in Afghanistan. I flipped through the cable news outlets during the late afternoon hours yesterday for comparison. It was not particularly enlightning. I already knew what I was going to see. Fox News understood the size of the story and it's potential impact on future politics in our nation, choosing to cover it almost to the exclusion of all other news. "People in 50 states gathering for 'Tea Party' protests" was the running banner at the bottom of their reporting. CNN, on the other hand chose to portray us this way: "Protesters serve 'Tea' with anger". Glad that the annoying idiot Keith Olbermann was not on at this hour, I checked to see what MSNBC was reporting as pertinent news. I'm glad I did. Otherwise I would have missed the compelling, nationally relevent story of two Dominoe's employees that were sticking cheese up their noses and salami on their rears before applying it to the food they were preparing.

The one thing that inspired me the most was Glenn Beck's opening monologue at the tea party held at the Alamo. I'm not ashamed to say I was cheering at the TV, right along with the crowd. In the words of my friend, Annah Brunk, "I just love that man. He says all the things I'm thinking but can't articulate!"