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I just don't get the tea party thing from yesterday. If their goal was the same as the Boston tea party, I could see the connection. If the issue involved tea, I could see the connection. A tea party to protest government spending...I don't see the connection.
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Symbolism I suppose."There is no creature more arrogant than a self-righteous libertarian on the web, am I right? Those folks are just intolerable."
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Easy connection, if not totally the same.
"A folks against taxes protest" slogan wouldn't have been as catchy.
It is kind of like us calling ourselves Cougars. We really aren't Cougars are we.Comment
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The tea industry needed a bailout, so the American people gave them one.
Yesterday I drove through central Utah and even they were having tea parties.
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Taxed Enough AlreadyOriginally posted by KillerDog View PostPrepare to put mustard on those words, for you will soon be consuming them, along with this slice of humble pie that comes direct from the oven of shame set at gas mark “egg on your face”! -- Moss
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It is also an attempt by conservatives to wrap themselves in the mantle of the founding fathers.Comment
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They are tea parties so that Rachel Maddow could make fun of them on her show and use the phrase "tea bagging". She used some sort of mind control machine to make the conservatives do this so that she could have a good funny bit for her show. That Jon Stewart hack.Comment
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Give Babs and me another 20 years...Originally posted by byu71 View PostWhat's to explain? It's a bunch of people, most of whom you've never met, who are just as likely to be homicidal maniacs as they are to be normal everyday people, with whom you share the minutiae of your everyday life. It's totally normal, and everyone would understand.
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From what I've heard and read, it was about spending, not taxes.Originally posted by byu71 View PostComment
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It was probably a lot of things to a lot of different people. If someone is blowing your money through spending, you are probably not as likely to feel good about giving them your money, taxes.Originally posted by KillerDog View PostComment
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I guess that is the connection. Just like the Boston Tea Party, few participants agreed on what they were really doing.Originally posted by byu71 View PostComment
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Until we start chasing your grandsons? Sure. But please make sure there is a little bit of your inheritance left by then.Originally posted by byu71 View PostWhat's to explain? It's a bunch of people, most of whom you've never met, who are just as likely to be homicidal maniacs as they are to be normal everyday people, with whom you share the minutiae of your everyday life. It's totally normal, and everyone would understand.
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I'm guessing some Richfield moms were upset they had to explain to their children what tea is. Can't they put up a wall around these signs?Originally posted by Fiyero View PostThe tea industry needed a bailout, so the American people gave them one.
Yesterday I drove through central Utah and even they were having tea parties.
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Something tells me that if Robin and I went in there and voiced our concerns, we wouldn't be counted among the "everyone" who is "welcome."Originally posted by DU Ute View Post
Robin,
I'm assuming we're on the same page. Forgive me if I err."Wuap's "problem" is that he is smart & principled & committed to a moral course of action. His actions are supposed to reflect his ethical code.
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