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bratboy wrote:

...the sorry state of our public education system.

While it may not apply to the guy holding the sign, I blame computers.
Spelling was a big deal in papers I had to write, then in high school when I started using computers to write my papers, they had this nifty piece of software called a spell checker.

English is not a very phonetic language, so spelling mistakes are easy. Spell checkers take care of most of them.

Personally I wish we'd just scrap current spelling conventions and go strictly phonetic. The current spelling conventions do allow us to sometimes figure out the meaning of a word because we can sometimes figure out the root language, but here in America, most of us are not well versed in other languages (let alone Latin and Greek where a lot of our words come from) so there's not much point to it.

Tea for Tea Bag should be spelled the same as Tee for Golf Tee.
Just to be on topic

why are you up so early

Dissent is great, though it doesn't play well with the "you're either with us or against us" meme of just a few years ago...

Hey, no smurf, isn't Obama a "war-time" President, TOO?

The tea baggies are giving aid and comfort to the enemy, right? RIGHT?

No graph here. But, anecdotally...
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/sleuth … s-col-blog

Gonzo Goes (Back) to Washington
Guess who's coming to dinner? Well, the man who may be the biggest surprise guest at this weekend's White House Correspondents' Association dinner isn't exactly an international celebrity, or a sex symbol, or a man of power. In fact, he's out of work, can't find a new job and is wanted by human rights groups for war crimes.

Yes, that's who's coming to dinner: Alberto Gonzales, the former attorney general, who is still under scrutiny in a federal criminal probe of the mass firings of U.S. attorneys in 2006. He's also one of six Bush administration officials being investigated by a judge in Spain for complicity in approving torture.

You might think Gonzo would be a little bashful about showing up at a place that will be jam-packed full of the new guard in the Obama administration and the very Democrats in Congress who drove him from office. But no, he'll be there all right this Saturday night. Gonzales is a confirmed guest of the Houston Chronicle, his old hometown paper.

The newspaper's Washington bureau chief, Rick Dunham, tells the Sleuth he invited Houston natives Gonzales and Margaret Spellings, the education secretary under President Bush, to be his guests because - why not? - they're from Houston.
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Mary Ann/ Democrats
Why are you outraged over the eight that Bush fired and not over the real mass firing that took place under Clinton? A free press that is sold out to an ideology that sees only one side of every issue and won't point out/bring out both sides, is frustrating enough to those of us old enough to remember the facts, that we will eventually have had enough! We quit buying your papers, and you are going out of business in mass. We quit watching your evening news. Now Fox News is blowing your news outlets out of the park. Janine Garofilo (sp?) says that it's because of the President's race that people went to the Tea Parties. But that is not true.
You hypocrites are going to keep this up until Texas, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Alaska, Florida, Montana and others, are going to take all our tax dollar marbles and leave you guys with the bills that Obama is running up, knowing that at least half the country he is claiming to lead is dead set against these choices and the moral choices he is making in our names. You think you have us stumped and that there is nothing we can do about it except submit. But there is another choice. A peaceful choice. We can follow the example of the former soviet republics who had significant "values-differences" with the Kremlin. Then we will see who is willing to start a war over oil and money for their cronies!

They're coming out of the woodwork this AM on CSPAN/WJ. Topic: O'Bama to give speech in Egypt on U.S. Muslim relations.

"This man (O'Bama) is a danger to the Nation."

bratboy wrote:

Besides, everyone knows what the tea party astroturfing was really about

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...the sorry state of our public education system.

I think he just forgot to put the tiny "(over)" at the bottom of the page, because I'm also certain it says "non-violent action." on the back of that poster thingee he's holding.

Say... Wasn't that a favorite sorta slogan during the good old "Why do you hate America?" Republican era way-way back in ancient 2007?

infrastructure. mostly via taxes.

mo' ron wrote:

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Makes you kind of want to do a counter protest, just so they get reeeeeaally pissed off.

The items aren't necessarily related. Cut funding to all of the programs that the federal government has no Constitutional authority to perform. That money that is no longer being spent can instead be left in the hands of the people.

bratboy wrote:

I love the old lady with the "ZERO TAXES" sign. 

Because social security is funded by taxes or because typically it's not taxed?

Tallgeese wrote:

I like the "cut taxes not defense" one.
Bit of cognitive dissonance going on there.

My favorite also.

NokX wrote:

it's the left being fascists in this case.

Er, what?