On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 7:47 PM, Larry C. Lyons <[email protected]> wrote: > > Houw about this choice bit of hypocrisy: > > Scanning the thousands of hopped-up faces in the crowd, I am > immediately struck by two things. One is that there isn't a single > black person here.
Have you ever been to Kentucky? My experience is they're still more segregated than average. Especially in the south. You could say that about any rally there. This proves my point as to why the RS is a shit rag: http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/in-defense-of-pjtvs-tea-party-tracking-poll/ 35% of Black Likely Voters Strongly or Somewhat support the Tea Party movement, and that 32% of Black Likely Voters are Somewhat or Very Likely to vote for a candidate for Congress who is supported by the Tea Party movement. > The other is the truly awesome quantity of medical > hardware: Seemingly every third person in the place is sucking oxygen > from a tank or propping their giant atrophied glutes on motorized > wheelchair-scooters. KY was/is a big tobacco state so I could see the oxygen tanks. > As Palin launches into her Ronald Reagan > impression "Government's not the solution! Government's the > problem!" the person sitting next to me leans over and explains. > > "The scooters are because of Medicare," he whispers helpfully. "They > have these commercials down here: 'You won't even have to pay for your > scooter! Medicare will pay!' Practically everyone in Kentucky has > one." Again, if you go to KY you will see first hand "practically everyone in Kentucky has one." is a blatant lie. > A hall full of elderly white people in Medicare-paid scooters, railing > against government spending and imagining themselves revolutionaries So you can only complain about government overspending if you don't use anything from the government? Wouldn't you have to leave the country to not be a hypocrite in your eyes? > as they cheer on the vice-presidential puppet hand-picked by the GOP > establishment. If there exists a better snapshot of everything the Tea > Party represents, I can't imagine it. The GOP hand picket Biden? I know for a fact they would never pick such an idio ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology-Michael-Dinowitz/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:328360 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
