Let’s Have A Tea Party
February 27th, 2009 at 10:47 am by Preston Taylor HolmesIt’s national tea party day, and like T-Man, I have to work so that I can pay taxes to provide more handouts for the Obamabots.
However, I have it on good authority that some Buffet regulars are heading down to Nashville for the Nashville Tea Party. Hopefully they will report back later in the day. If you’re in the middle Tennessee area, get down to Legislative Plaza around Noon to protest the Feds’ attempt to bankrupt the country and control our lives through confiscatory taxation and environmental restrictions on our daily lives. Or, if not, find one in your area.
T-Man’s contribution to Tea Party day is definitely worth a read. It’s “How to Explain Conservatism to Your Squishy Liberal Friends: Individualism ‘R’ Us” by P.J. O’Rourke. My Tea Party Contribution today is to steal T-Man’s Tea Party contribution. It’s blog redistribution. Read and share with your uneducated friends. They need someone besides Katie Couric and Oprah to explain Conservatism in clear and simple terms.
Under collectivism, powers of determination rest with the entire citizenry instead of with the specific citizens. Individual decision-making is replaced by the political process. Suddenly, the system that elected the prom queen at your high school is in c harge of your whole life. Besides, individuals are smarter than groups, as anybody who is a member of a committee or of a large Irish family after six in the evening can tell you. The difference between individual intelligence and group intelligence is th e difference between Harvard University and the Harvard University football team.
February 27th, 2009 at 12:50 pm
It’s too bad really, because this was one protest that I really wanted to be at. Growing up in Boston you get the benefit of living in the town where the original fight for individual liberty began, including the original tea party, so this protest resonates with me on several levels.
Instead we have to work so that Obama can take MORE of our money to do what he thinks is best for everybody.
The founding fathers are WEEPING in their graves over this.
February 27th, 2009 at 12:52 pm
Amen, T.
February 27th, 2009 at 3:27 pm
There has been large scale confusion over the difference between collaboration, which makes individuals better, and collectivism, which kills individual contribution altogether. Because of the closeness of definition they can be mistaken. In fact, they have been fatally mistaken in front of our very eyes.
So much good is gone, simply because Americans stopped using a fuckin’ dictionary.
February 27th, 2009 at 6:35 pm
Like you PTH and T-Man, I too have to work, however I’m so there in heart and soul.
OT,, please e-me and let me know how to put a photo in the photo thingy as I would like to post one (and am a complete puter ignoramous). In fact I’m gonna’ send you the one I want and I’m gonna’ send a duplicate to Cranky and ask him to work his mad photo shop skills to honor the Second Annual National Swamp Rabbit Day (April 17). It’s a Jimmy Carter thing, google Jimmy Carter and Swamp Rabbit and you’ll see what I mean.
February 27th, 2009 at 7:00 pm
OT again,, PTH your gonna’ have to E-Me as I can’t click your name and E-you.
February 27th, 2009 at 9:18 pm
I had every intention of going but had in impromptu root canal.
Either way, I wrote a little nastygram back to Jim Cooper.