My sign would say, DON'T SHRINK GOVERNMENT, SHRINK WALL STREET!

I hope that message would resonate with both sides. - DJ

@Quark:I've always considered it a matter of the ruling elite's ability to divide and concquer the middle and lower classes. Keep people mad at immigrants, hispanics, African-americans, jews, muslims, hippies, gays, etc., and they won;t focus on their true masters. Even the concept of "classes" is banned from US mainstream media.

Maxrot,

Even tho the cynical part of me also expects predatory behavior by Republicans, the nurturing side of me is horrified by the idea of "eating my own." But I guess aberrant thinking is mankind's downfall. (My husband and I have an ongoing debate as to whether this is a result of low I.Q., failure of our species to evolve enough to overcome these problems, or individual mental disease. It's probably a combination of all of these and more.)

Mark K: I happened to catch “Coast-to-Coast” patriarch Art Bell provide an ominous assessment of the future of humankind the other night. Humans would eventually destroy the habitability of the Earth—and likely sooner rather than later—so we should be thinking about the feasibility of off-shoring to another planet now. But if we encountered alien life in our next home, why should the native inhabitants trust us to behave? What rationale would they have for not slaughtering humans on the spot? After all, how should an alien intelligence judge us just by viewing our activities here on this planet? War, bigotry, starvation—is this what humans would bring to another world? The most popular television programming are crime shows like “Law and Order” and its ilk. Is this what life is all about on Earth, an alien intelligence would justly muse? Do humans really find violence “entertaining?” If we sent out a signal out into space describing ourselves, just how much would we have to lie about ourselves? What moral right do we have to colonize another planet when in the generality humans clearly don’t give a damn about the welfare of their own kind, much less about indigenous life? One recalls the Eagles’ song “The Last Resort”: “Call someplace paradise—kiss it good bye.”

Meanwhile, The NY Times released a poll reportedly describing Tea Party supporters as mostly wealthy, white, male and “concerned” about the direction the country is going in. Maybe so, but once more we are being led astray by the mainstream media relying on polls instead of engaging in serious reporting. We know that the motivation of the people behind the “movement” is greed and control, but polls don’t aim to dig deep enough to discover this. It doesn’t matter that their aims conflict in many ways with that of the “movement” they support: the talking points of paranoia and hysteria that the mob eagerly feeds on both conceals and abets their true designs. These polls that allegedly give an “accurate” picture of the Tea Party movement only show visceral responses to fear and prejudice, not logical, well-thought-out responses. And these polls only tell us what the respondents want to us to know; no one is asked to explain difficult questions, such as why the “movement” is almost wholly a white movement--a movement shot-through with racism and conspiracy “theories" that suggest a government-backed Armegeddon of the white race.

What these polls do tell us, however, is that the Tea Party people are the same people who in the 1930s opposed the New Deal as a “socialist” or “communist” program, and in the 1950s and 60s thought that school desegregation and civil and voting rights laws were “social engineering.” Back then, people were not afraid of exposing their bigotry and narrow-mindedness as rational and reasonable; they do the same today, except that we are accused of being overly imaginative in what we see right in front of our eyes.

What sign would I carry at a Tea Party gathering? I have a couple of choices - Cancer in two formats (my sign and the nemisis of animals everywhere). Or I'd hook up with Billionaires For Wealthcare. I would savor the confused reactions.

Tea Parties Created as a Political Ploy

According to a secret document uncovered by Politico, a Republican public relations firm created the "Tea Party Express" charter to generate more profits for itself. Video:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3036677/ns/msnbc_tv-countdown_with_keith_olbermann#36530066

Education is very much important for it holds the key to success. Unfortunately, the cost of education today are getting higher and higher. That's why some parents are now having a hard time sending their kids to school. It is the duty of ever parent to send thier kids to school in order for them to acquire preoper education. While there are some people who have been blessed of having a family to call their own, there are some people that are just hoping for someone that are willing to adopt them. As though international relations weren't strained enough, the Russian adoption return might make things just a little worse. I do not know who needs to be blamed, the adoptive parents or the adoption agency, though I think I side with parents. (Everyone see that movie The Orphan? This is almost the very same thing, except no one's been killed yet.) Some children are just not best served in a normal home, and need more substantial care than a normal family can offer or even fund, even with payday advances or second jobs.

Abortion is a dastardly act. We can diminish such an act with the rich, especially the white rich, who would be willing to help support more social programs for mother and child. Abortion continues because the white rich are too selfish to free some of their horded money. American corporation could also help in paying their fair share in taxes.

Thom,

I listened to the show today and loved it. I have a huge request that really could do alot to forward the discourse about the teaparty. Is there any way shape or form you could get the book by the survivor of the teaparty posted? I would love to read it and never new it existed, I would have loved reading this history even if there were no modernday "teaparty". If you know if it has been reproduced or reprinted, please let us know. If not please consider posting the full text of the book. If you need someone to transcribe it, I'd be glad to do it.

Many, many, thanks

A loyal listener yetanotherguy

when I contacted an editor why they paper omitted the gruesome details, he responded by saying the editors didn’t want to “revolt” readers, to which I responded isn’t that the point? It seems that it is OK to hate, but it’s not “OK” to learn the consequences of that hate.

That's why you hate when pictures of aborted babies are shown - the gruesome reality of "hate" from the left. Abortion is a hate crime to the innocent.

I listen to your show every afternoon. I have to disagree with your take on the Tea Party of 1773, though. The colonists were protesting the government-sponsored monopoly represented by the East India Tea Company (the only company allowed by the British to import tea to England or its colonies), fearing the possibility of other similar (government controlled) monopolies in the future. Further, they argued that Parliament had no authority to levy taxes in the colonies, because the colonies had no representation in that legislative body. They believed in taxation, but only locally, where they had a say.

Yes, the Tea Act of 1773 lowered the taxes on tea, which enabled those who were "allowed" to sell tea to sell it more cheaply than "black market" Dutch tea, but the protests were all about government control and overreach- not "globalism" or "corporatism."