Foreign Press Covers Tea Party Protests

It is a sad day when Americans have to look overseas for accurate reporting of what is happening on America soil. Here is a news story of the Washington, D.C. Tea Party on July 4th.
Hat tip to Conservative Scalawag.

What a liberal said about the Tea Parties

"Let us find out what a liberal thinks about such things, shall we?

I guess people in this country really are pathetic enough to protest on a day where all Americans should have been coming together to celebrate our independence. Specifically, South Carolina takes the cake.

No sense of history and grossly self-loathing about his countrymen. No surprise on either point. The unwashed masses can never do anything to suit the self-appointed leftist, ruling class elite.

U.S. Senator Jim DeMint of S.C. attended a "tea party" that was more of an insult to our president and the country itself than a show of appreciation and thoughtfulness . He spoke in front of more than 800 people at Cannon Park in downtown Charleston. He ran down the president's attempt to save a economy that was merely destroyed by the party he aligns with."

No facts are offered to support the claim the republicans destroyed the economy. there is a shocker. how about a discussion on Democrat culpability in the mortgage crisis? Or that Barney Frank did not learn a darn thing and wants repeat the same policies?
Barack Obama is trying to save the economy? That one boggles the mind. Obama has tripled the national debt since taking office. The amount of debt is so staggering, we are on the verge of losing our AAA credit rating. The superb rating survived the Great Depression, but may not survive Obama's economic illiteracy." more by Jaime Jeffords at the Eye of Polyphemus.

It's a little late, Colin

So Colin Powell now wants to say that government should be kept as small as possible. And that we can't pay for all the programs we might want. Really. Where were you on November 1st, 2nd, and 3rd! Chasing after Obama's Hope and Change, as I recall. I am glad to hear this message now, but there is a sour aftertaste. Our country is being attacked from within by socialist/communists that YOU helped to put there. Thanks. NOT.

Nobody can say with a straight face that "we didn't know" what Obama was all about. I published this post on my blog on October 29, 2008. It is titled:

MEMORIES OF MARXIST PROFESSORS

Barack Obama shrugs off charges of socialism, but noted in his own memoir that he carefully chose Marxist professors as friends in college.

-Fox News

This sure brings me back to the old days. All these years since I attended UCLA, whenever anybody mentioned Liberal Professors, I nodded knowingly. I, too, had Marxist professors in college.

It was just before I graduated that I found myself taking an elective class in Sociology at UCLA in 1987. I didn't know what to expect. I mean, what exactly *is* Sociology? OK, so I'd go in with an open mind. When I was presented with a TON of Marxist material, I was taken aback. HUH? What is going on here? Did we not win the Cold War? Yikes! Did I complete the class? Yes. Did I complain, raise my hand, or otherwise try to argue with the professors? No. I knew I had stumbled into a bastion of American Marxism, and I walked quickly in the other direction. America has freedom of thought and freedom of speech, so they had a right to their opinions. But I didn't need to be a part of it.

My father explained communism to me when I was very young. I remember his explanation. He told me communism is where you own a cow. And the government comes and takes it away. Definitely not the American way, I thought. I have thanked my lucky stars every day of my life that I was born in America. When we own a cow, we get to keep it. I love this country. I love our freedoms. I love the American Dream, where anybody can come from anywhere and through hard work and perseverance they can make a good life for themselves. My parents and grandparents did it. My husband's father came to America as a teenager, fresh from wartime Shanghai, after having escaped the holocaust. While his teenage older brother worked and put food on the table, he went to school and became an electrical engineer. No parents to help them. Nobody but themselves. He met a nice lady, married and had 5 children who all grew up to marry and are raising families successfully. No welfare.

I remember when my friend from college, N, told me that her buddy from Harvard Law School, Barack Obama, was running for President of the United States in the Democrat Primary. Would I like to volunteer? Or donate money? Or attend a fundraiser? I told her I was a Republican. Also, I felt I didn't know much about Barack Obama. I would be careful to listen and learn more. I mean, you never know.

And now I hear he was the type of person in college who *sought out* Marxist professors? Sorry. But that is the exact opposite of me. But wasn't that a long time ago, you ask. Yes. But look at what Barack Obama's views are right now, Today. He wants to "spread the wealth". Those are his words. When he was asked in greater detail if he would still go ahead with that tax plan if increasing taxes of small business hurt the economy such that there would be LESS wealth to "spread around", would he still go through with it? He said yes, in the interest of "fairness". So it is not about enriching the poor at all. It is about punishing the achievers in society. This is the opposite of the America I was raised to love.

I hope you will look very closely at the candidate you wish to vote for. I know we need a change from these last 8 years. But this kind of change takes away from our children. It gives them a country with less hope, not more.

Anxiously Awaiting Fireworks

Here are 4 of my boys as we wait for the local fireworks show to start.
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Greetings from CA Wildfire Rebuild

Many readers know that I live on a block where 8 neighbors' houses burned to the ground last November 15th. Here is my update on our progress.
This is my own front yard flag with a view to the neighbor's house. It didn't use to be that big. The house went from around 3000 square feet to 4500. Doesn't bother me at all. I'm happy for them.

This picture shows 2 houses around the corner. I like the flag in front (has been hanging there since November 2008) and the moon in the sky. There are still 4 properties on this street that have not yet begun to rebuild.

And this is the house on the corner. This family will be the first to move in. Hopefully in the next couple of months.

And a happy 4th of July to all of you.

Times Square Tea Party

Looks like a nice group showed up in New York City. At times, I get downtrodden about all of the Change going on in this country. Seeing these wonderful patriots lifts my spirits. The Tsunami is building. Usurpers BEWARE.
More footage of Times Square as seen on Glenn Beck.

Hat tip to Nearly Nobody's News.

Obama's Big Moves

Video commentary by Dick Morris about how Obama plans to ruin talk radio. How Obama is planning to ruin the census and project more residents in northwest (liberal) cities. How Obama will give amnesty to illegals, making them legal and give them full government health care, creating a large and growing group of Democrat voters. This is how he plans to keep power for the next 2 decades.