First Coast Tax Day Tea Party

[Jameson]

Well, I am about to take care of some last minute chores, get a quick shower and a bite to eat and head out for this, so-called Tea Party.  If anyone wants to spit on me and call me nasty names I will be wearing a green St. Patrick's Day Yankees hat, it even has a shamrock on the side . I will of course be taking photos so I will be moving about, but I am easy to spot.  I hope to meet one or two of you there.  Remember its all about community!

Have fun at the rally, JC!

[NotNow]

Many, many, many of these people who engage in the Tea Parties are doing so out of fear, which leads to anger all brought forth by propaganda filled with lies and half truths.

They must be proud... being the only group to ever be possibly influenced by such tripe!!

But if someone holds a sign calling Obama Bush or Cheney or Rumsfeld or... etc etc etc...a socialist, or a Nazi, they are fair game in my book.

Cmon JC... do you hear yourself?

I thought it was against the rules to mention deleted posts on this site.  When I mention my posts being deleted StephenDare! you just delete them again.  What are the rules?  And do they apply to all?

[NotNow]

Pop Quiz.  Did your Taxes go up or down this year?

I am paying more.  Sixteen different taxes have gone up this year.

[NotNow]

Stephen-
My taxes went up this year and I actually take home less than I did last year.

Well then you're in the minority.

In 2010, the average American needs to work 99 days to meet their tax obligations....that's the lowest it has been in over 35 years....for comparison, under W it took as much as 124 days.

Unfortunately, this isn't necessarily a good thing....we'll need more revenues (along with spending controls) to wipe out the budegt deficit.  

Your source for this information?  What revenues and spending controls would you suggest?

http://www.taxfoundation.org/publications/show/151.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Estate_tax_in_the_United_States


And just wait until next year:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bush_tax_cuts

[Sportmotor]

rules only apply to those that dont agree with some people on here.

[finehoe]

The fact of the matter (in my original post) is that ALL mainstream media outlets have ignored the story of a Republican Woman and Man being attacked by Far-Left Protesters when they left a restaurant for almost a week now.

This is a tiresome, formulaic tactic.  Take the topic at hand, sidestep any critique aimed at the right, and transition to talking about how the problem is actually liberal in origin, or that liberals do it more often, or that the left is actually more guilty of it, or whatever. This is persuasive at times, less so at others, and too often beside the point.

[NotNow]

Hopefully Notnow and BT will be out before hand with a spell checker.

Never been to... and not part of the movement and your attempt to identify me with this group is pretty silly...  Even more silly is your attempt to use a few spelling errors to identify them as a group while ignoring the same type of errors from protesters of other groups.

I see that your own quotes on the spelling errors of the libruls have been erased, but this seemed to be a simple enough idea when you agreed with it.

Sorry, pushed the wrong "quote" button.  This is where StephenDare! mentions his post being deleted, which he tells me is against the rules when I protest him deleting my posts (and my views).

[NotNow]

The sign spelling "jokes", to put that term as loosely as possible, are really getting rather annoying.  I understand the disagreement with the message, but to continually deride these people reflects rather poorly on yourselves.  They are citizens of this country just like you are.  They are concerned about their nation, just as I am sure you are.  They have at least taken enough time out of their lives to turn off the TV, make a crude sign and try to get involved.  That's a heck of a lot more than can be said for most.  You can totally disagree with their message and you can believe their being misguided is a result of their being uninformed or incapable of grasping the issues.  To paint the tea parties in that light I also believe to be enormously broad and untrue, but even that would not motivate me to post this.

But the transparent holier than thou patting yourself on the back you engage in by relentlessly making fun of these people annoys me and makes me less inclined to value anything else you have to say.  Sorry, but I had to say it.

Well somehow the comments I quoted were deleted, but its pretty much comeuppance for the many comments made by the rightwingers (specifically on this site) when the shoe was on the other foot.

And here. 
Double standards.

[JC]

So, I havenot seen a single racist sign yet. And I've been here since 5:30.

[NotNow]

But...But...talk to those people JC.  We have been assured that they are all nincompoops, boobs, maroons, and RACISTS!   Surely when you talk to them their true colors will show.  Their grammar MUST be horrible!

[JC]

But...But...talk to those people JC.  We have been assured that they are all nincompoops, boobs, maroons, and RACISTS!   Surely when you talk to them their true colors will show.  Their grammar MUST be horrible!

Nope grammar is fine too. Nothing to report really.  I don't support their overall position but what I am seeing is not what I've been seeing on the tv. 

[NotNow]

So these actually might be middle class Americans out supporting a conservative or libertarian leaning political viewpoint in a peaceful and civilized manner? 

OMG!  That doesn't sell newspapers...or generate hits or an outlandish thread title.  Quick, find a misspelled sign and take a picture of it, or at least find one that we can easily photoshop.

[Sportmotor]

or have someone go out there and make one on purpose to take a pic of

[Clem1029]

Careful y'all...you're disrupting the narrative!! And you know what happens around where when you do that...

[buckethead]

Don't go yet, JC... I'll be there with my poorly worded, inflamatory signs in a few minutes.

I had to smack a couple republicans up, so I was delayed.