Bookworm on Feb 17 2012 | Filed under: Occupy Wall Street, Tea Parties
When Obama came to San Francisco, two of my favorite photo-essayists attended the street protests, which marked the rare coming together (sort of) of Tea Partiers and OWSers, all of whom are discontented with Obama. Here’s Zombie. And here’s Fund47. I’d add more but anything I say would be redundant, as their posts are vivid [...]
Bookworm on Jan 31 2012 | Filed under: Media matters, Occupy Wall Street, Tea Parties
Over the years, I’ve written more than 10,000 posts. (Yeah, that’s a scary thought, isn’t it.) They do tend to run together in my mind, but there are a few standouts. These are the posts in which I felt that I offered an insight or analysis that is genuinely helpful to considering a serious issue [...]
Bookworm on Nov 28 2011 | Filed under: Tea Parties
Fact: The Tea Party, when it held three protests in the City of Richmond, applied for permits, and paid $10,000 for permits, potties, police, etc. Fact: The OWS protesters in Richmond simply plunked themselves down, paying nothing (and, I’m guessing, incurring significantly greater police and janitorial charges than did the Tea Party crowd). Fact: When [...]
Bookworm on Oct 18 2011 | Filed under: Barack Obama, Occupy Wall Street, Tea Parties
Up until recently, the Tea Party might just as well have been called the DevilNaziEvilRacistUgly Party as far as the Progressives and their ilk were concerned. In retrospect, calling participants “Tea Baggers” was one of the nicer things the Left said. Barack Obama did nothing to stop this concerted attack against a substantial portion of [...]
Bookworm on Oct 17 2011 | Filed under: Occupy Wall Street, Tea Parties
My kids taught me how to make simple videos, and now I’m going crazy: If the embedded video isn’t showing, you can see it here.
Bookworm on Sep 10 2011 | Filed under: Sarah Palin, Tea Parties
Our own Bizcor had the opportunity to attend a Tea Party Express rally on Labor Day. Here are his impressions: On Labor Day I attended a Tea Party Rally for the very first time and I really only went because Sarah Palin was going to speak. I am an unabashed admirer. As far as the [...]
Bookworm on Aug 30 2011 | Filed under: Tea Parties
Zombie got in some serious exercise on Saturday, trotting back and forth between a Tea Party rally and a Green Party goof up in Napa, California. Check it out, and take to heart the final message, which is about the one thing that trumps politics.
Bookworm on Apr 18 2011 | Filed under: Tea Parties
San Francisco has the geographic virtue of being a small city. Zombie was therefore able to zip around and photograph Sally Zelikovsky’s true grass roots protest (complete with attendees bringing imaginative, home-made signs), and then to contrast it with a carefully astroturfed pro-big government protest. The contrasts are striking. I urge you not only to [...]
Danny Lemieux on Apr 17 2011 | Filed under: Capitalism, Democrats, Economics, Government, Taxes, Tea Parties, Uncategorized
Is our democracy germinating the seeds of its own destruction? Alexis de Toqueville warned, “The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public’s money.” That day has come. It is not yet gone. Democracy in ancient Athens lasted about 250 years. We in the United [...]
Bookworm on Mar 03 2011 | Filed under: Democrats, Taxes, Tea Parties
On the “real me” facebook, a “joke” is making the rounds: ”A public union employee, a tea party activist, and a CEO are sitting at a table with a plate of a dozen cookies in the middle of it. The CEO takes 11 of the cookies, turns to the tea partier and says, ‘Watch out [...]
Danny Lemieux on Jan 09 2011 | Filed under: Activism, Communism, Democrats, Republicans, Sarah Palin, Tea Parties, Uncategorized
“If they bring a knife to the fight, we bring a gun.” – President Barack Hussein Obama I posted this as a comment to Book’s previous post, but have now posted it independently as a challenge to all of us Bookworm salon aficionados. Here’s the premise: virtually all the political violence that has happened in America [...]
Bookworm on Jan 05 2011 | Filed under: Tea Parties
I’ve noticed lately, in talking to liberals, that their frontal lobes have been taken over by the Tea Party. Sadly, when I say this I don’t mean that they’ve embraced the Tea Party’s commitment to smaller government and greater individual freedom. I mean instead that the idea of the Tea Party sits in their brains, [...]
Bookworm on Nov 08 2010 | Filed under: Socialism, Tea Parties
As I’ve related in past posts, my liberal friend repeatedly calls me a fascist or Nazi for supporting the Tea Party. Aside from being really rude, these appellations bewilder me. The historical record is very clear that both the Italian fascists and the Germany Nazis were socialists. Socialism, by definition, means the concentration of political [...]
Bookworm on Oct 03 2010 | Filed under: Barack Obama, Tea Parties
After being dismissed and diminished by the media and administration as [fill in your condescending or derogatory epithet here], the Tea Party, which was a response to the Democratic tidal wave in 2008, has changed the face of politics into the foreseeable future. Sarah Palin is no small part of the grassroots movement. I think [...]
Bookworm on Sep 30 2010 | Filed under: Tea Parties
I attended the Marin GroupaPalooza, and did a tongue in cheek blog post here, imagining how a Progressive would have perceived the event. John Yoo has just published his take on the event, which is straightforward and clear — and nicely rebuts Obama’s (and the rest of the Left’s) paranoid fantasies about the event. I [...]
Bookworm on Sep 26 2010 | Filed under: Tea Parties
A little imp made me tell my Progressive friend that I would be attending the Bay Area Patriots‘ GroupaPalooza, which is, essentially, a convention for the small but robust number of conservatives in the Bay Area. I’ve mentioned this friend before. He’s the one who assured me that the Tea Party is a direct descendant [...]
Bookworm on Sep 18 2010 | Filed under: Capitalism, Christians, Communism, Military, Tea Parties
I know this will come as a surprise to all of you, but I was not born wise or well informed. I blush to think of some of the behaviors in which I indulged, and the ideas that I held, when I was younger. When I was a very little girl, I picked up from [...]
Bookworm on Sep 12 2010 | Filed under: Tea Parties
A friend of mine is horrified that I’m affiliated in any way with the Tea Party movement. They are, he tells me, Nazis. They are, he says, the direct descendants of George Wallace’s racist, antisemitic, separatist movement. They are, he assures me, far right wing paramilitary nutcases who want to take over the country for [...]
Bookworm on Aug 30 2010 | Filed under: African-Americans, Race, Tea Parties
Aside from the LaRouchites who appear at the Tea Party rallies, complete with their posters showing Obama with a Hitler mustache, I am unaware of any significant racist rhetoric or imagery from the Tea Party. Certainly the media’s minions, despite their ugly fulminations and accusations about racism, never point to actual evidence of wide-spread or [...]
Bookworm on Apr 30 2010 | Filed under: Tea Parties
One of the big jokes in the blogosphere has been the fact that a Tea Party protest comprised in no small part of smiling grannies (a term I use with great love and respect) standing outside an Obama appearance, was met with riot police: Yesterday, I asked jokingly just how stupid those riot police felt [...]
Bookworm on Apr 25 2010 | Filed under: African-Americans, Race, Tea Parties
“I sent the club a wire stating, ‘PLEASE ACCEPT MY RESIGNATION. I DON’T WANT TO BELONG TO ANY CLUB THAT WILL ACCEPT PEOPLE LIKE ME AS A MEMBER.’” — Groucho Marx, quoting a telegram he sent to the Friar’s Club of Beverly Hills, as recounted in Groucho and Me (1959), p. 321. The Democratic Establishment [...]
Bookworm on Apr 24 2010 | Filed under: Tea Parties
No wonder the Democratic establishment is so terrified of these Tea Partiers. What they lack in violence, they make up in insight: Thanks, Earl, for sending this one along.
Bookworm on Apr 24 2010 | Filed under: Democrats, Muslim violence, Tea Parties
As they usually do, the Democrats have picked a non-violent party and tarred it with the extremist brush (that would be Democrats v. Tea Partiers), while ignoring and abasing themselves before a genuinely threatening movement (that would be Democrats v. radical Islamists). And as always, Mark Steyn ties everything effortlessly together. I particularly like his [...]
Bookworm on Apr 23 2010 | Filed under: San Francisco, Tea Parties, Unions
I’m all for reducing pollution, but we don’t need a trumped-up excuse like “climate change” in order to achieve a cleaner environment. Minimizing pollution is a legitimate goal which stands on its own merits; concocting hysterical disaster scenarios (such as those shown in An Inconvenient Truth) only serves to undermine any credibility the environmental and [...]
Bookworm on Apr 08 2010 | Filed under: San Francisco, Tea Parties
The beauty of a Tea Party in San Francisco is that this is home turf for Pelosi, Boxer and Feinstein. It makes a real impact if their own home town makes a showing against the policies these three gals advance. Here’s the latest news. SAN FRANCISCO TEA PARTY UPDATE 1. VENUE The San Francisco Tea [...]
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