bbbbmer comment-25158 2010-04-20T00:54:59Z 2010-04-20T00:54:59Z Fortunately that's not a qualification for a seat on the city council... bbbbmer 2010-04-20T00:54:59Z The Parrhesiac comment-25156 2010-04-19T23:46:56Z 2010-04-19T23:46:56Z nice - gets my vote for having good taste in music. The Parrhesiac 2010-04-19T23:46:56Z Jay Spooner comment-25142 2010-04-19T19:59:17Z 2010-04-19T19:59:17Z Rachel Rocks! Jay Spooner 2010-04-19T19:59:17Z Rafter comment-25122 2010-04-19T17:31:01Z 2010-04-19T17:31:01Z I love Rachel Maddow Rafter 2010-04-19T17:31:01Z Rafter comment-25110 2010-04-19T07:10:32Z 2010-04-19T07:10:32Z Gross. Thanks. People with signs wasting their time. Both sides totally blowing it. Greed and ignorance Vs. Poor me. Rafter 2010-04-19T07:10:32Z bbbbmer comment-25106 2010-04-19T06:28:27Z 2010-04-19T06:28:27Z They provide GREAT comedic monologue material for late night hosts... and anyone else with an intellect and a sense of humor... bbbbmer 2010-04-19T06:28:27Z Marion Millin comment-25059 2010-04-19T02:08:23Z 2010-04-19T02:08:23Z Something positive about the origin and support for the Teabaggers http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b_cEpN1Srs4 and about their use about the term for themselves http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lAcTMepFLhA&feature=related Marion Millin 2010-04-19T02:08:23Z Rafter comment-25049 2010-04-18T20:35:05Z 2010-04-18T20:35:05Z Not one positive thing being said. Rafter 2010-04-18T20:35:05Z bbbbmer comment-25043 2010-04-18T16:09:08Z 2010-04-18T16:09:08Z I'm sure you had a point to this comment, but a nonsensical one to be sure... To paraphrase a former Comedy Central ad, irony and wit are hard -- leave it to the professionals... bbbbmer 2010-04-18T16:09:08Z bbbbmer comment-25009 2010-04-18T16:06:30Z 2010-04-18T16:06:30Z I can imagine that your entertainment life must consist of Lawrence Welk and Hee Haw... Um, Bill Maher, Sean Penn, Keith Olbermann, and Whoopi Goldberg, are GREAT Americans, in the manner addressed by the late great journalist Sarah McClendon when she yelled across a press room at the equally late and great ARCHIBALD (not 'Alexander') Cox, special prosecutor for the Watergate investigation, upon being notified that he was fired by Richard Nixon for getting too close to exposing Nixon for the crook that he was..... Each of these people has moved the bar forward on asserting democratic values in our society and addressing hypocrisies and wrongs. They are, to paraphrase Paul Wellstone and Howard Dean, members of the Democratic wing of the Democratic Party.... You, sir, seem to be advocating a version of the Democratic Party that never existed -- basically you seek a 'moderate Republican' platform -- which actually doesn't exist anymore... For the GOP, it's the teabaggers or nothin'.... But one thing is certain -- you are NOT a Democrat..... bbbbmer 2010-04-18T16:06:30Z bbbbmer comment-25010 2010-04-18T16:04:39Z 2010-04-18T16:04:39Z What name calling??? Are you playing victim because you wish to wallow in ignorance??? Far be it from the teabaggers to have the bright shining light of day shone upon them.... Your loss -- now, and in November, honey.... bbbbmer 2010-04-18T16:04:39Z bbbbmer comment-25015 2010-04-18T16:03:50Z 2010-04-18T16:03:50Z We didn't originate the name 'teabaggers' -- but it sure fits... along with their leader from the heavily corporate funded FREEDOMWORKS, Dick Armey.... It's not our fault that conservatives who hold sexuality in such disdain seem to fall into nomenclature that expresses their latent desires... Btw, honey, by comparison, I've no doubt that you'd think that I do 'pretty well'... The only 'hate and misery is that projected by yourself.... bbbbmer 2010-04-18T16:03:50Z Marion Millin comment-25035 2010-04-18T06:29:51Z 2010-04-18T06:29:51Z The demographic is all those who went along with Trickle Down Theory and are now outraged that they're finally, inevitably, getting Trickled On. Duh. Gee, it was never sposedta happen to THEM, just all those OTHER SUCKERS. What's bizarre is seeing the same "small gubmint" "no taxes" slogans that got us in this mess being waved as a solution. This is Reaganomics folks, exactly what you asked for. Deal with it. Honestly. Marion Millin 2010-04-18T06:29:51Z bbbbmer comment-25033 2010-04-18T05:30:05Z 2010-04-18T05:30:05Z They don't know 'why', or their explanations will be premised on spoon fed Foxnoise the factuality of which one could drive a Mack Truck through... including mythic tax increases, and nonsensical kvetching about how they'll go to prison if they don't pay for healthcare (which is specifically addressed to the contrary in the actual bill)... They just want to be 'mad' at someone, and the teabaggers have provided well funded targets in Pelosi, Reid, and Obama.... and mostly because Pelosi's a woman and Obama's a person of color.... Like Bill Maher said last night, the demographic of these teabaggers is basically the Republican base -- or a KKK rally.... without the white sheets... I guess there wasn't a sale at KKKmart.... bbbbmer 2010-04-18T05:30:05Z bbbbmer comment-25014 2010-04-18T05:24:58Z 2010-04-18T05:24:58Z Thanks -- it's been a while since I made that reference, and I thought it looked a bit odd..... thanks again....lol... i must say that i remember that press conference LIVE and even THEN i wept with pride when sarah said that to Mr. Cox at the top of her lungs.... (i was only 17 at the time, and even then a 'progressive', though i didn't have the lexicon to express it using such a term)... she was an AMAZING American, and Mr. Cox was a hero that helped rid America of Nixon's toxicity.... bbbbmer 2010-04-18T05:24:58Z Dale Kooyman comment-25028 2010-04-18T03:16:38Z 2010-04-18T03:16:38Z Oracle, why do you find the Tea Party more "appealing" now? Dale Kooyman 2010-04-18T03:16:38Z Marion Millin comment-24977 2010-04-17T23:28:20Z 2010-04-17T23:28:20Z Jay Spooner, what do you think is the effect on political "joy and optimism" when a County department director leaks a private email from a citizen, outside County channels to her boyfriend and you leak it to your friend who's running for City Council, who leaks it to the owner of the illegal business, that was the topic of the message to the County, who posts it online, resulting in threats and harassment to the person who contacted the County official in good faith? How much "joy and optimism" can citizens have that public officials will do their jobs rather than violate the public trust in order to protect their friends, cronies and those who operate businesses illegally? Where is the "joy and optimism" in the knowledge that existing and aspiring public officials think that violating the public trust and public health and safety codes are necessary to establish businesses? If both sides are corrupt to the gills, the dumbest and most mispellingest signs imaginable don't matter. No one can take the high road on "the issues," if everyone involved is standing in a ditch, covered with the same muck. Marion Millin 2010-04-17T23:28:20Z bbbbmer comment-25016 2010-04-17T23:05:11Z 2010-04-17T23:05:11Z Oracle, I hate no one. However, you seem to hate EVERYONE who isn't right of Richard Nixon.... You, honey, are NO Democrat.... bbbbmer 2010-04-17T23:05:11Z Oracle comment-25013 2010-04-17T22:50:34Z 2010-04-17T22:50:34Z bbbbmer, seems filled with hate and misery. Do not judge Democrats by its fringe element. Most of us are not crazed "progressives" and many of us are not goose-stepping to Obama policies. We voted for Hillary and responsible, experienced government. Right now the Tea Party is much more appealing than the Obama administration. Oracle 2010-04-17T22:50:34Z resolute comment-25007 2010-04-17T21:32:52Z 2010-04-17T21:32:52Z You progressives think you're so cool calling tea partiers disgusting names such as teabaggers. You copy each other because there isn't a logical brain cell in your head. You don't have a leg to stand on so you're reduced to calling us names. You think it's so funny....tea bagger. "HA, HA, HA. I'm so witty. Look at me. I'm so intelligent." People can see through that, and they see through your arrogance. What a miserable life you must lead. resolute 2010-04-17T21:32:52Z Oracle comment-24989 2010-04-17T16:32:54Z 2010-04-17T16:32:54Z Bill Maher is a far-left lunatic and embarrassment to many Democrats. He speaks for the lunatic fringe, which is why he's dismissed by rational people. Same with Sean Penn, Whoopi Goldberg, Keith Olbermann, etc. The party desperately needs to shift to a more centrist position before all is lost. Oracle 2010-04-17T16:32:54Z Davi Rodrigues comment-24988 2010-04-17T16:31:52Z 2010-04-17T16:31:52Z Sorry bbbbmer, but your name calling and such is just not enticing me to watch a single video you posted. I'm tuning you out Davi Rodrigues 2010-04-17T16:31:52Z Oracle comment-24987 2010-04-17T16:28:31Z 2010-04-17T16:28:31Z Actually the NY Times survey found Tea Party people to be more intelligent and wealthier than the average person. The mainstream media focused on those two findings. I'm a moderate Democrat who finds Obama's progressive movement distrubing and Tea Party ideals much more appealing. Oracle 2010-04-17T16:28:31Z bbbbmer comment-24982 2010-04-17T15:02:39Z 2010-04-17T15:02:39Z Are you aware of the funders of Freedomworks, and other organizations that claim the 'teabagger' mantle??? Here's a schooling from Rachel Maddow on the funding fakery of all this 'tea party' nonsense... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b_cEpN1Srs4 And then there's the utter stupidity of the 'teabaggers', many/most of whom haven't a CLUE of what and why they're protesting, and the utter mythology these people recite in support of their protests, when so many of them receive public aid of one sort or another.... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q_s-lvpRj00 And then there's the hypocrisy of the whole thing, with so many of these misdirected silly and stupid sheeple demanding to get rid of government as long as they don't get rid of their public aid and benefits.... http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/16/opinion/l16tea.html Now, I think that a significant sum of the teabaggers are just plain dumb and are being used to promote a corporatist agenda without their knowing it. Here on planet earth we call these people 'fools', for they do not realize just how insidiously they are being manipulated by the corporate interests banking these outbursts, ALL of which are directed against the Democratic Party and what has become known as the triumvirate of evil, Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid, and President Obama, and especially the former and latter, one because she's a woman, and the other because he is a person of color. There is legitimate anger and angst out there, but if it's not channeled toward the benefit of these people, any of your 'movement's' energies will be lost on corporate diversions benefitting only corporate interests. Instead of organizing for people of modest means, you are being organized against your own interests, and for the interests of those organizing you. And trust me -- you're being organized to the hilt... And I suspect at least *some* of you know that... Btw, here's another very salient discussion about the whole teabagger mess from last night's BILL MAHER SHOW.... http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/04/17/simon-johnson-on-real-tim_n_541509.html bbbbmer 2010-04-17T15:02:39Z Davi Rodrigues comment-24981 2010-04-17T14:16:27Z 2010-04-17T14:16:27Z Marion, what are you talking about? bbbbmer, There are many of us who have been calling out the posers and usurpers within the TEA party crowd. I'd say we have a greater propensity to challenge our own than any other political or grass roots movement. You are trying to paint the general body as robots of the ultra right, when that's not the case. Sure the big money propelled the event, but a large block of the body is there to tell both sides we aren't taking their falsehoods anymore. Absent this tour was some of the big money support from the farmers, pro-big business, and developers, and water for farms people. they realized they weren't getting the return on their investment in the way of support. We don't want to be used by anyone. Davi Rodrigues 2010-04-17T14:16:27Z bbbbmer comment-24979 2010-04-17T10:08:49Z 2010-04-17T10:08:49Z Actually, per a NYTimes article on them from a week ago or so, a preponderance of the teabaggers are on some form of aid, which is why they seem to have all this time to 'protest', and pay virtually no taxes at all. In fact, the bottom 40% of income earners in America pay no income taxes at all. I'm sure a plethora of these folks fall into that category. There is some legitimate anger in these people and no doubt many of them are unemployed and dislocated in one way or another. But it's not because of Obama. Like trained seals they dance to the tune of Foxnoise, Beck, and Rush, and are Hannitized into submission to the corporate will, channeled into protests against the very people who are trying to help them, but they're just too dumb to realize it. But even Fox can't perpetuate this lie forever. Eventually these big lies are discovered for what they are, and when people realize their falsity, they double down against their deceivers, just as they hung Mussolini on a meat hook... and sent Hitler into a suicide, or faux suicide and an Argentinian grave... These 'teaparties' are very well funded, well orchestrated booboipalooza's -- and their leader, former disgraced congressman Dick Armey (the drunken letch) of Freedomworks, doesn't work for free... There are at least twelve pseudo-nonprofits supported by enormous contributions from Koch Industries and other corporations pouring millions into the effort to de-legitimate the Obama administration and the Democratic party. It ain't gonna work, m'dears....These people are starting to see through the corporate gauze of this faux-grass roots movement, for NO ONE REALLY believes that corporations are 'good' for America, especially when they've lost their job... And even their mascot, Sarah Palin, is kinda fading -- her speaking fee has shrunk just in the past couple of weeks, especially after these teabaggers found out that she raked in $12 million last year for her role in making stupid people feel good about themselves... Frankly, I don't think this 'movement' will last until November -- and the teabaggers will need a nap by then.... bbbbmer 2010-04-17T10:08:49Z mybluehaven comment-24972 2010-04-17T05:21:13Z 2010-04-17T05:21:13Z No Joy? No optimism? That's the best criticism this writer can come up with about a protest rally??? Let's ask it this way . . . does Spooner want the Joy and optimism of anti-war rallies? How about amnesty for illegal alien events, or protests at World Trade Conferences? Bad attempt to denigrate the folks who pay the bills, Spooner. Besides, if you paid attention you woulde have seen plenty of Joy and optimism about the coming November elections . . . mybluehaven 2010-04-17T05:21:13Z Mark Urquhart comment-24971 2010-04-17T03:52:53Z 2010-04-17T03:52:53Z More zany pictures here : http://www.facebook.com/dumbtube#!/album.php?aid=45822&id=1619707722&ref=mf Mark Urquhart 2010-04-17T03:52:53Z