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Jim Kirby of Arizona is enjoying a few calm days camping in Searchlight before the masses descend for this weekend’s Tea Party rally.
Friday, March 26, 2010 | 2:01 a.m.
Harry Reid
Sun archives
- Harry Reid’s gun party competes with Searchlight tea party (3-24-2010)
- Gibbons seeks donations, offers trip to tea party (3-18-2010)
- The Tea Party’s (old) paranoia (1-24-2010)
- ‘Tea Party’ set turns out in Las Vegas at its anti-Harry Reid finest (1-13-2010)
- Grass roots or not, Nevada tea parties had assist (9-1-2009)
- Hundreds rally against Harry Reid, proposed health care reform (8-31-2009)
- Countering the hysteria (8-26-2009)
- Anti-tax advocates rally against spending, Obama (4-15-2009)
Saturday schedule
Supporters begin to gather at parking lot of Harrah’s Laughlin.
Expected departure time of caravan of vehicles from Laughlin to Searchlight. The caravan will be led by the official Tea Party Express buses.
Expected arrival time of Tea Party Express caravan at the Searchlight rally site.
“Showdown in Searchlight” Tea Party rally. Location: near U.S. 95 and Coyote Mine Road.
Expected departure time of the Tea Party Express caravan from Searchlight to Henderson.
The prerally at Henderson Pavilion has been organized by Grassroots Nevada in support of the Tea Party Express.
Conservative author and commentator Ann Coulter will speak at the rally to welcome the Tea Party Express to Henderson.
Expected arrival time of the Tea Party Express caravan at the Henderson Pavilion (final Tea Party rally of the day). Location: 200 S. Green Valley Parkway.
Showdown in Searchlight
Henderson Pavilion
Diane Kendall signed on to scout a location for what could be the largest political event in Nevada history.
But right now it’s just a dirt lot with a dozen Porta Potties. And Kendall is feeling the pressure.
The local real estate agent volunteered to help the Tea Party Express find a venue for its “Showdown in Searchlight,” a massive rally to demonstrate national disgust with U.S. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid in his hometown, headlined by former Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin.
In less than 48 hours, thousands of members of the conservative grass-roots movement are expected to descend on this unremarkable spot next to a sand and gravel pit. There are stages to build, fences to erect and lines to paint.
While Kendall waited for help Thursday, it was just her, her two dogs — Yogi and Buffy — and a can of Red Bull.
The cars keep coming. Travelers want to know if they’ve found the right spot for Saturday’s rally. See, there are no signs yet.
“Where’s Harry’s house?” a man says.
Kendall gives some directions before sending him on his way.
“I don’t know what I got my butt into, but I’m doing it,” she said, taking a swig of her energy drink. “All I can do is hope for the best.”
Indeed, logistical nightmares abound.
Organizers expect 5,000 to 10,000 people, sending out a breathless statement urging the media to feature aerial coverage of the event and arrival of bus caravans of supporters.
The 300-square-foot lot seems much too small to accommodate a crowd of that size. The rickety mining town is home to fewer than 1,000 people.
It has one gas station and two places to eat — a casino and a McDonald’s housed in a gas station. Typically the biggest commotion the sun-bleached community sees all year is the rumbling engines of motorcycles as they make their way toward the Laughlin River Run.
Organizers think 38 portable toilets will be adequate. Others have their doubts. The Clark County Water Reclamation District, fearing the town’s tiny sewage system might not handle the pressure of Saturday’s crowds, will dispatch a four-person crew to keep toilets flushing during the rally.
Metro has assigned extra police to handle traffic and any disturbances.
Residents are shaking their heads, wondering what will become of their quiet little town. Some aren’t sticking around to find out.
Richard Vincentz manages Cree’s Mobile Home Park, just off U.S. 95. He said many of the park’s tenants are leaving for the weekend to stay in Las Vegas and Laughlin.
“What the hell were they thinking?” Vincentz said of the event’s organizers. “That many people in this small town. Where are they going to park? Where are they going to eat? We shall see.”
Starla McManigal, who manages the Terrible’s gas station, was busy stacking soda cases 5 feet high Thursday, stocking up for an expected feeding frenzy. She’s been preparing for months, ever since the Tea Party Express announced its rally. Snacks, water, fruit, even random knickknacks.
Normally, she orders 24 cases of fruit per week. She ordered 25 cases for this weekend alone.
“I’m here to turn a buck,” McManigal said. “If they want to do this every two months, I’m happy.”
She said clerks have been fielding phone calls from people across the country desperate for information.
“They ask us if the rally’s set for Saturday,” she said, laughing. “It’s huge.”
Turns out hating Reid might result in an unexpected stimulus package for his hometown.
“Searchlight doesn’t get many tourists, so I’m glad they’re choosing to bring all their out-of-state money to my hometown,” he said in a statement.
The economy has hurt businesses and homeowners here, just as it has elsewhere. Six months ago, Kendall said Searchlight saw its first foreclosure. Residents say they could use a boost.
The town’s only motel, the 21-room El Rey, is sold out today, with a few spots for Saturday.
“Harry Reid has done a lot for this town,” manager Marie Stowers said. “But Sarah Palin is bringing in all sorts of people and all sorts of money. I’d like to shake her hand.”
Verlie Doing, owner of the Searchlight Nugget, is split. She would like more restaurant traffic, but she’s also one of Reid’s biggest supporters.
The casino sells copies of his first book, “Searchlight,” at the counter. On the wall just outside the restroom is a photo collage, with a picture of Doing and Reid during his first campaign for lieutenant governor. She’s known Reid since 1967.
“I’m all for people who want to have these tea parties,” she said. “But I’m mad as I can be at them for having one in his hometown. I think it’s rotten.”
Democrats will hold a counter demonstration in the casino parking lot, serving tea and doughnut holes.
Jim Kirby, a retired IBM engineer, and his wife drove their RV here Tuesday, hoping to get a decent camping spot for the Tea Party rally. He feels betrayed by Congress, saying health care legislation will “bankrupt this country,” and expresses a common mantra in the Tea Party movement: “Kick out the incumbents, put in new people and limit them to two terms.”
He’s not alone. Reid has his fair share of local detractors.
Stowers, for one, thinks Reid should have tackled the economy before health care. “I think he wants his name in the history books,” she said.
For now though, she’ll settle for a booked motel and 15 minutes of fame. She’s waiting to see herself on tonight’s “NBC Nightly News.”
“I’ve been on all the networks except for CNN,” she said, blushing.
hope they cash their goverment program social security checks before they get there. how many ill informed people can you get in 1 place at a time. gosh there better be some doctors there that take medicare, that evil goverment program. hope many enjoy their day off from work with pay that unions worked to get. gee to bad that food is protected with vsome quality control from the goverment. wish i could call these folks hypocrites, sorry just dumb racists. call it like it is
it takes a very special loser to go to the tea party...
nothing but nut jobs...
look at the speakers...
sarah palin...
joe the plumber...
victoria jackson...
some real intellectual heavyweights...
not exactly the big big thinkers of our time...
hee hee hee...
hoo hoo hoo...
haa haa haa...
Once again the left loving have no constructive dialect. Its like all the other garbage you spew - if someone does not agree with your line of thinking, you resort to name calling and belittling. Your traits of acting like little children tell me alot about you and your party - you have to have someone to look out for your needs as you can't do it yourself. This is why you follow every word that your leaders spew - you do not have a thought in your head of your own. Just play follow the leader off that bridge that is coming up - you'll enjoy the view before you hit rock bottom. The only issue is that you are trying to take everyone else along on your losing ways - we won't follow, so you have a nice ride, while it lasts.
@brown, Sigmund Freud called and wants his projection theory back.
Sarah Palin, Joe the Plumber and Victoria Jackson.
LOLOLOLLOLLOOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLLOLOLOLOLOLOLLOLOLOL.
I see stupid people.
IT'S A CARNY CONVENTION!!!
brownIn4,
Did you have something constructive you wanted to write? Because your first post failed to contain any.
The ANTI-ASHJIAN commcercial the NutJobs are running is the worst :30 second ad I have ever seen in my life.
"scott ashjian, get lost!" Like a bunch of Junior High kids kicking somebody out of the "cool crowd"!
Have you ever???
It's likely to give the guy a big boost in the polls!
This is nothing more than a bunch of old white people who can't stand the fact that Obama was elected. Racism still runs deep in this country.
They only expect 5 to 10k? After the months of international promotion on Fox News? If they get anything less than 50K this will be a failure. All I want from them is to LEAVE ALL YOUR MONEY HERE before you depart.
I'd go just to see the spectacle.
LarryVegas is nearing NIRVANA!!!
Liberal's posting here have no constructive criticism to offer, only name calling and little school children behavior. The Tea Party protesters simply want this country to be of the people, for the people, and by the people. The recent Healthcare Reform Bill was of the politicians, for the politicians, and by the politicians. This is the problem. The majority of Americans despise this crappy piece of legislation, and will make their voices really heard next election(s) when every single bum in the government who voted yes will be voted out of office, and the crap will be repealed.
I'll settle for watching the "spectacle" on TV and the internet coverage . . . but agree with CJJames, they can all leave their money here before they depart--my take on the teabaggers is they're the typical mad-at-the-world-looking-for-an-outlet sheep that latch onto any ideas that aren't their own to agitate on any issue that gives them an outlet to spew venom from their illiterate, empty heads. They're Chatty Cathy-like Fox clones who never bother to check facts or other sources. Hope they enjoy their $300+ trailer/mobile/houseboat rooms down there.
I wonder if Palin can see Mexico from Searchlight?
You see? minnetonka above here just illustrates my point..
it's funny how someone threw out the "cross burning" thing.
it just shows that the left can't argue with the core belief of lower taxes and less government,...because without that...they can't forward THEIR agenda.
oh, and when it's all said and done...make sure to count all the cash in your wallet after these tea party people leave...then invite a bunch of welfare moms to town...then compare the results.
Never thought they would get so many nut cases in one spot.
stevem :
People hate your posts for your conservatism, however I've noticed that the only time you go overboard is when you blame every little crime issue or problem on the liberals. If you stay on subject as you have above, you will not be like these idiot liberal posters above with their name calling and insults.
so all this hype about the "thousands" of teabagger party people and they havent even sold out a 21 room hotel for the weekend???
stevam i doubt anyone would argue against common sense government - however the TB's dont come across as genuine with their agenda. where the hell were they during the bush days? - bush is the one that created this mess - i dont recall fox news supporting any antibush rallies -
both parties are complete hypocrites and liars. neither party is looking out for the people, only for power. and the TB party is just another arm of the extreme right wing. no better than the extreme left wing.
Let the Tea Baggers come. As a flaming liberal I absolutely support their 1rst Amendment right to free speech. Although when I went to their little Tea Bagger Rally in front of Caesars a few months back they were not respectful of my 1rst Amendment Rights. They chased my daughter and told her to go back where she came from. (LOL She's part native American) Told me I was going to hell and that I was a socialist and a communist because I had the audacity to say Health Care is a moral issue.
These folks are ignorant, intolerant rednecks. Let them spew their hate. That way anyone can see them for the bigoted, hatefilled people that they are.
Thank you Harry Reid for the strength and determination you have shone time and again. I'm another Patriotic Nevadan voting for you in November.
Kickboxermoma :
Sure can;t match your user name with your liberal jibberish blah blah blah!!
However I DO believe that Native Americans have been screwed over by this country and as indigenous peoples they have the right to come and go as they please, and have rights to ANY and ALL forms of reparation from our government and all due respect from us the people who stole their lands.
I don't agree with Reid or the healthcare reform in the form that it was passed, but this event is ridiculous. Searchlight is a small town and a large amount of people for this event has the potential to ruin the desert lands. The infrastructure is not meant to be there for a large crowd like this to trash the area.
Its fitting that Reid's supporters are serving donut holes.
BTW the largest political event in Nevada history was the May 2006 Immigration March. 60,000 people closed down the Las Vegas Strip. The RJ in its typical repressive fashion tried to say it was 5,000 people but the overhead cameras from the helicopters and the Front page photos of the marchers quickly put a lie to that story. The number was then upgraded to 60,000. So if the Tea Partyers can top 60,000 then yep they will have the largest political event in Nevada history. Otherwise it's just another rally.
nevadaappleslices :
Give me a break! these folks are not gonna trample over the desert like the Laughlin Motorcycle Run hordes do each year..And these people are NOT gonna trash the area, they are civilized folks who probably want a little fresh air and sunshine, a cold beer, and some BBQ!!
Kickboxermoma :
What does that have to do with anything???? 60 thousand illegals marching dow LVB demanding free charity from the taxpayers of America in no way can be considered a "political event"
This seems like a great chance for potential disaster.
My prayer is for all participants to be grown ups, to ratchet down the flames that have been unleashed, and to have respect for other points of view.
The guys setting up opposition in the casino parking lot should have some quick tear down plans ready. The people who will show up are not likely to be worrying about the law. It is their point of view that comes first. That is why they are assembling 5-10 thousand people in a town that can't possibly feed them.
If you are a wingnut that is going, be good Nevadans and have a case or two of water with you. Some people may not be thinking ahead.
Good luck to all you lunatics. I really hope you have fun listening to the roster of retards talking.
Be safe, and don't shoot anyone.
@ If you think supporting 1rst Amendment rights is jibberish fine by me. I'm only speaking of the lack of 1rst Amendment protection I experienced from the Tea Baggers. That's why I'm not surprised by the spitting and the calling out of epithets or the vandalism promoted by members of the Tea Bag movement. I will not be intimidated by cowardly ignorant rednecks who don't know the difference between medicare, socialism,and communism. I am a proud American and I support the Constitution and the Bill of Rights
Let's have a little snapshot of our TeaPartiers;
"A staffer for Rep. James Clyburn (D-S.C.) told reporters that Rep. Emanuel Cleaver (D-Mo.) had been spat on by a protestor. Rep. John Lewis (D-Ga.), a hero of the civil rights movement, was called a 'ni--er.' And Rep. Barney Frank (D-Mass.) was called a "faggot," as protestors shouted at him with deliberately lisp-y screams.
Clyburn was downright incredulous, saying he had not witnessed such treatment since he was leading civil rights protests in South Carolina in the 1960s.
"It was absolutely shocking to me," Clyburn said, in response to a question from the Huffington Post.
"I stayed home to meet on the campus of Claflin University where fifty years ago as of last Monday... I led the first demonstrations in South Carolina, the sit ins... And quite frankly I heard some things today I have not heard since that day. I heard people saying things that I have not heard since March 15, 1960 when I was marching to try and get off the back of the bus."
And just LOOK AT THE FACES OF THIS UGLY BRIGADE:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/04/16...
This isn't PATRIOTISM; It's EXTREMISM.
extremism n.
extremist adj.
One who advocates or resorts to measures beyond the norm, especially in politics.
Looks like a bunch of people that use to live at a compound in Hayden Lake Idaho.
@environprotctor Who says they were "illegal"? I am a U.S. citizen as were many of the people who were at the march.The march was a political statement.That was political event with a political agenda.
The TBers can't fill up a 21 room motel and they have to import people to make up the numbers who will be there. Conclusion I would draw. - Dedicated fringe movement that does not have a massive following.
So ya, let's see if they could get 60,000 Nevadans to demonstrate and close down the Strip. They haven't been able to get more than a 1000 people at a rally and there are still alot of California imports for the demos.
Oh yeah, thousands will come to searchlight.
You can't even get las vegans to leave the big city.
Get ready for the real crazies to show up.
The lunatic fringe has never had as much encouragement as it gets now from the GOP
In fact, the GOP has become the lunatic fringe.
5000-10,000 people a dozen port-a-pottys
Sounds like Sara and Sue might have to share their johns on their million dollar rented motor homes.
Or maybe they will just leave all their sh*# on the ground when they leave.
In the 70s the State of Ohio brought out the National Guard to shoot college students with flowers in their hands. If this was a real state, we'd call out the National Guard to blow these domestic terrorists away at the first sign of violence.
It's interesting that Republicans say that Democrats resort to name calling and childish behavior when people don't agree with them. That may be true to a certain extent. I think this behavior is better than the threats of violence and harrasment that the "Tea Party" is resorting to! A member of a "Tea Party" will commit the next major act of terrorism on American soil! You heard it here first! People forget that the KKK was a widely accepted group for years before the government stepped in and started arresting them for their actions. The "Tea Party" is full of the same type of idiots that beleive anything they hear because they are not intelligent enough to actually do their own research and find the truth!
Come on Tea Party lets lead by example!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Tell these socialist that we will not accept socialized medicine and refuse to burn our children and grandkids money. The first stand will be repealing the prescription drug benefit that socialist bush & co enacted. We are not welfare Kings and Queens we are Americans we pay for our own medicine, we are not sissy Frenchman, we are rugged individuals who earn our own keep. Only by rejecting this socialized medicine program do we have any moral authority to demand ending this "reform bill" without appearing hypocrites who have ours and are afraid our ox is being gored by expanding programs.
Prescription benefit cost :
The total expenditures of the program for 2008 $49.3 (billions). Projected net expenditures from 2009 through 2018 are estimated to be $727.3 billion.[26]
source
2009 ANNUAL REPORT OF THE BOARDS OF TRUSTEES OF THE FEDERAL HOSPITAL INSURANCE AND FEDERAL SUPPLEMENTARY MEDICAL INSURANCE TRUST FUNDS, Table III.C19.--Operations of the Part D Account in the SMI Trust Fund (Cash Basis) during Calendar Years 2004-2018, Page 120
We cant keep spending our kids and grand children future for people who failed to plan for retirement and feel some sense of entitlement to retirement. Dont be hypocrites we LIKE NO SOCIALIZED MEDICINE that takes from the working family to give to free loaders!!!!!!!!
ctlrick:
That was as bad the wingnuts. Hate it or love it, in the USA we are essentially free to be cowardly killers, as long as you are evil enough, you can create great harm. After you've committed the act of violence we'll lock you up, sometimes even kill you.
I claim no part of your desire to "blow these terrorists away" and tell you mano a mano to go get help. You have become what you despise. We reject your violence more than we despise the rights violence, we ARE better than that.
liberals = people that failed freshman college economics.
Ann Coulter and Sarah Palin?
You mean the same-old, same-old Republicans?
I thought these teabaggers were independent and grass-roots!
Probably not one in the group with an IQ over 100.
Where is the Tea Party support for ridding us of the 2006 socialist prescription drug benefit??
Come on people, I am beginning to think the people ripping on the tea party are right. You make it look like we love socialism when we get something for free but are afraid expanding coverage is just goring our ox. Stand up lets lead by example!!!!!!!!
The Tea Party protestors need to ask Sarah Palin [since she's making so much money off of the backs of the problems and troubles of this country]; DOES she plan on donating her million dollar episodes on Alaska adventures to these recession stricken states in the areas of education, community resources and hardship services? If she doesn't like federal intervention; she or other Alaskans shouldn't accept those annual oil checks.
She quit her governor's position, mid-term, to launch her book tour. She lied to Alaskans about the reasons for her early departure but she should have just said, I'll have a conflict of interest at that point, I'll be on my book tour.
How much has the war in Iraq cost us between the two bush's? These types of groups and political stars thrust into the limelight with no basis of real experience are a danger to society. Talk about real solutions and measures; act responsible and stop the violent rhetoric.
As for me; I'll have to cancel my animal planet membership and bad move mark burnett. what a sell out; it's easier to pimp out and make money for the instant gratification apparently. The rich and the richest have been given enough breaks through the tax cuts and loop holes; oh right still on the backs of the average citizens.
Isn't real leadership coming to the table and working on solutions?
overweight seniors
ill informed people
dumb racists
special loser
stupid people
IT'S A CARNY CONVENTION!!!
NutJobs
Like a bunch of Junior High kids
old white people
teabaggers
mad-at-the-world-looking-for-an-outlet sheep
Chatty Cathy-like Fox clones
nut cases
teabagger party people
Tea Baggers
ignorant, intolerant rednecks
bigoted, hatefilled people
wingnut
lunatics
roster of retards
UGLY BRIGADE
Looks like a bunch of people that use to live at a compound in Hayden Lake Idaho.
real crazies
lunatic fringe
domestic terrorists
idiots
not one in the group with an IQ over 100
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Just some of the views from your fellow Americans. Please keep em coming. With every unjustified, resentful remark, you just prove the point. Thanks.
Wow! They told me I can carry a sign! They told me I could make up a sign! Whoa,I may get on Fox News ,Wheres Reed's house? Where the hells the bathrooms,they got an early bird special in that restaurant? HEY SARAH!!WHOO HOO!!.
Hey "dipstick" I am not overweight and not a senior citizen. I am an American who has always stood up for "common sense" Our Government is out of control and Harry is leading the corruptness! Why don't you turn the channel away from MSNBC and listen to another side of what the Tea parties are all about! As for a "waste"....I think having Americans who care about America is VERY exciting.
I am deeply suspicious of why all these outsiders are here telling us how to vote. I think its up to Nevadans. I was leaning to Tark, but I think after this I am voting Reid. Not because I like him, i just feel these people are treating us here in Nevada like we are stupid. Something just rubs me the wrong way when they try and make a laughing stalk of Searchlight. I have lived here for over 30 years and I like Searchlight just the way it is trailers and all.
Americangirl10, You are so right. I am neither fat nor stupid. The liberals are the dumb losers. The Tea Party is made up of folks who love America. Very different from the Dems and liberals who love themselves and care less about what most of Americans want.
THEY should move away to a place where the government rules, ie Cuba, Then we'll see how they like it. The libs have nothing better to do than berate the good folks of the Tea Party. Get a life you losers!!!
"Men fight for liberty and win it with hard knocks. Their children, brought up easy, let it slip away again, poor fools. And their grandchildren are once more slaves." - D.H. Lawrence
"Men fight for liberty and win it with hard knocks. Their children, brought up easy, let it slip away again, poor fools. And their grandchildren are once more slaves." - D.H. Lawrence
These people aren't fighting for liberty. The heavy lifting was done for them over 200 years ago. All the "I've got mine, screw you" crowd need to do is cast their vote in the next election for Sarah Palin or whoever they believe can do a better job.
UpOnTheHill:
I have no problem with the lot of you (so kindly grouped by you) gathering to have some fun.
Just keep it fun. What you are seeing is a reaction to your years of demonizing the left. Your team has drawn the line in the sand and we have listened to your sides sophomoric hatred long enough.
Now that we call you on it, you want to have a pity party?
If you all quit with the buzzwords and hatemongering, we'll meet you in the parks of America and be neighborly. If you don't we will destroy your brand. It is out of date, and rancid.
Until then, please know there are more of us than of you. And we will assume the role of the grownup in America. You have not shown up as anything but troublemakers.
Go have your party, clean up when you leave, and have a nice life.
hey up on the hill...
excellent summation...
thanks partner...
Really the Tea Partiers going to Searchlight is sort of a sad commentary on what is happening today in our country. I just hope there are some intelligent tea party people who realize that Searchlight is a very small town and it is in the desert, i.e. water, food, and sanitation. As for Palin and Coulter, where is the much talked about independence from the Tea Party members, these two ladies live in an alternate universe with little to do with reality. I wonder how many tea party members are on social seccurity and Medicare? Interesting thought. In this case Harry Reid is our knight in white armor.
Watching the LIBERALS squeal in here amuses me. I think we ALL know now what happens when Democrats/Progressives are in control. May we NEVER, EVER allow this ever to happen again! It will be my pleasure to fire this out-of-control, arrogant Harry "Backdoor" Reid as well as D.Titus and S. Berkley!
Ladyat62: So you support dumping the medicare prescription drug benefit we can not afford that was enacted under socialist Bush right??
You make a great point, we dont want to be like Cuba where they take from the working to give to the freeloaders.
I am beginning to wonder, NO tea party supporters have weighted in on this. Is the tea party movement really made up of a bunch of old folks who "got theirs". Socialized medicine is socialized medicine.
i can't wait to hear from victoria jackson...
what a mental dynamo she was...
i mean is...
i mean was...
anyway...
who the hell was she...
i mean is she...
i mean was she...
oh yeah...
an snl reject from about 30 years ago...
who always acted like a ditz...
by the way...
i doubt she had any acting ability...
you tea baggers really know how to get the heavy hitters...
hee hee hee...
hoo hoo hoo...
haa haa haa...
I'd have more respect for the Tea Party if someone like Ron Paul was involved rather than the likes of Palin and Coulter. You Betcha!... barf
joe the plumber...
who the hell would want to hear this guy speak...
only L-O-S-E-R-S!!!
Who finances these nation-wide chartered bus tours? Searchlight is only the beginning of a 44-stop tour.
Who is putting up the money for all this? Is it huge oil conglomerate Koch Industries, the backer of America for Prosperity or who? I'm sure small grass-roots donations and organizations are not pulling off these kind of huge organized campaigns. And what is the budget for the administrators, publicity, transportation, etc. of the Tea Party Express? We need somebody to follow the money.
DessertSun :
Don't worry, Obama is a one term president wanna be, Reid, Pelosi, and the whole HCR yes vote bunch are going to be voted OUT of office for this flagrant violation of their constituents voices across the country. It will NEVER happen again because the current administration violated the most important rule, that is to be government of the people, for the people, and by the people..Liberal haters to blazes with you all here!!!
ladies and gentlemen...
i have bad news...
las vegas is generally considered to be a city with attractive women...
with showgirls and such...
but sadly...
most sadly...
i must announce today the attractive quotient for the women of nevada will plummet...
the attractive quotient will be taking a nosedive...
you see...
ann coulter is in town...
and sadly...
most sadly...
ann is the ugliest person on the planet...
hopefully ann will be leaving quickly...
most quickly...
leave quickly ann...
i beg you!!!
sarah palin...
hee hee hee...
hoo hoo hoo...
haa haa haa...
damn...
just saying her name is funny...
fear not my stupid pathetic ugly lying always making a threat or fear mongering republican friends...
the party is in good hands...
sarah palin is here...
hee hee hee...
hoo hoo hoo...
haa haa haa.
Find out what health insurance reform means for you.
http://harryreid.com/ee/index.php/landin...
Someone should make a rule that only so many characters be allotted to each poster here. This will control idiots like Birdiedreamin up there...
Folks, I see that FireNancyPelosi.com is going strong. Everyone needs to jump in and help fire these idiots. Spread the word, November will be an especially great month this year watching arrogant Progessives canned!
White hoods and crosses for burning will be available at Tea Party vendor booths.
At some point, I suspect Searchlight will secede from the Union and very likely...nobody will notice.
Birdie - your insight and commentaries always make me glad I'm on the other side. Thanks for confirming my position - have a nice day.
Birdieman, everyone knows is some dumb loner loon. Having said that, he is the posterchild for the Democratic Party. I ask you, would you want people like him running our country? He IS the face of the radical Progressives. As scary as it seems there are actually others like him. As they say, "Every village has one". LOL
is it just me...
or are these tea bagger events taking on an air like...
i don't know...
like...
a world wide wrestling event!!!
hey brownie...
does your wife know you have a man crush on me???
hey dessertsun...
want to grab some lunch partner???
well, there goes the neighborhood
JeffFromVegas, you seem like a decent person. Aside from the fact your assuming my views. Anyway, how do you feel knowning your on same team as Birdiedreamin? From your preivous post:
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"If you all quit with the buzzwords and hatemongering, we'll meet you in the parks of America and be neighborly. If you don't we will destroy your brand. It is out of date, and rancid.
Until then, please know there are more of us than of you. And we will assume the role of the grownup in America. You have not shown up as anything but troublemakers"
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I can see where your side is clearly assume the role of grownups.
No taxation without representation!
couple of thoughts:
1] wonder how much sarah is getting paid
2] why doesn't the RJ have this on their home page?
3] wouldn't faux news have already been set up if this was a BIG DEAL?
4] how scary...they are coming to Henderson the same day
Birdie - you are one sick puppy. Please tell me what kool-aid you drink so I never have any. You have revealed your true colors today.
LOL FireNancyPelosi.com It's focus is to raise money to defeat the Democrats that voted "Yes" for Government TakeOver of our Heath System. Happy donating! : ) Gotta love it!
I noticed the nut talk stations are squabbling about this event. oh, the fire department arson investigators said the Gilchrist fire was electrical in nature, the nut talkers came on the air and said it was "arson." Just like they falsely claimed that California Forrest Fires were set by "Mexican Radical Gangs." There is no responsibility whatsoever on teabag talk radio.
FROM THE RJ (blog page)
Harrah's in Laughlin says Tea Party can't hold rally in parking lot
Posted by Laura Myers
Thursday, Mar. 25, 2010 at 09:37 PM
Harrah's has told Tea Party Express organizers they can't hold a Saturday morning rally in the hotel-casino's parking lot to kick-off a bus convoy up to Searchlight.
So, the Tea Partiers are upset with the way things are and feeling the economic pinch, but they can afford to come here for the weekend? And they will go to Searchlight and boost the economy of Harry Reid's hometown!
It's another example of what a great job he's doing. He's attracting tourists ... even hateful, racist ones. That's good for our economy and it will help Senator Reid by reminding us of how valuable he is to Nevada that these people think he's this important. And they are right!
what do you think the over under is on the number of confederate flags at the world wide wrestling...
i mean...
tea bagger event...
10???
That's right--he must be awfully effective and important--they're starting off their nation-wide tour in his tiny hometown.
But just what is the real message to Reid? Mass intimidation?
"It's another example of what a great job he's doing. He's attracting tourists ... even hateful, racist ones. That's good for our economy and it will help Senator Reid by reminding us of how valuable he is to Nevada that these people think he's this important. And they are right!"
Hilarious! It really is genius if you think about it. By all means, TP's, spend your Social Security dollars here.
joe the plumber...
he's our man...
if he can't save the stupid pathetic ugly lying always making a threat or fear mongering republican party...
no one can...
go joe!!!
it's just so damn easy!!!
hey dessertsun...
i am too damn hungry...
gonna grab lunch without you...
maybe next week...
let me know...
LOL I love it! TeaPartExpress.org Join people! Drives LIBERALS crazy and that's what you want! LOL AND, donate at FireNancyPelosi.com
You Tea Party folks are really just a bunch of hypocrites! You arent even socialist, your full blown communists. You have your SOCIALIZED MEDICINE (that by the way is going to bankrupt the country on its own and/or saddle your kids and grandchildren to pay huge tax burdens to pay for your care)But you dont care.
You have your SOCIALIZED MEDICINE and prescriptions paid for by people trying to raise families, but you dont care. You got yours, now you are afraid someone else may get theirs or your SOCIALIZED MEDICINE may see some cuts or limits to its unsustainable growth.
Just do not like your Ox gored but dont mind having hard working families buy your medicine for you.
We need REAL people who believe in self , not hypocrites who want complain about spending yet keep their hands out. Freakin Communists...if you cant afford your medicine get a job you have no business being retired.
It's pretty amazing that Harry Reid, who could live in any gated community in Las Vegas, chose to stay in his hometown of Searchlight, Nevada. A hometown that offered him nothing but hardship growing up. I wonder if any of the "tourists" tomorrow will ponder that.
Green: was that your closing argument or opening statement? Either way, it was pathetic.
DesertSun you are the probably some guy sucking up free SOCIALIZED MEDICINE on the prescription drug benefit socialist bush put in place and now your ready to take your country back!!!As long as it means you keep getting the SOCIALIZED MEDICINE you want. Hence your refusal to even acknowledge the subject.
Everyone should be concerned with this healthcare issue that most all of the above comments show a lack of intelligent research on the subject. This bill lacks fiscal responsibility, accountability and a disddain for the edicts of our constitution.
"The powers delegated to the federal government are few and defined. Those which are to remain in the state governments are numerous and indefinite. The former will be exercised principally on external objects, (such) as war, peace, negotiation and foreign commerce. The powers reserved to the several states will extend to all the objects which, in the ordinary course of affairs, concern the lives, liberties, and properties of the people." --James Madison
Most of you won't realized what has happened to your liberties until you are hit over the head or in your pocketbook...it will then be too late! You should right now be contacting your Attorney General,Catherine Cortez Masto, requesting that she join in the lawsuit with the other states in protest to this government-control of our health. You will, of course, do this, unless you are standing there with your hand out "Well, what can you do for me?" And this is not the end of it, this administration will let the Bush Tax Cuts expire, which is going to affect you, and then the government will institute a Value Added Tax (National Sales Tax) which is going to cost you again...but they need the money and the only way to get it is to tax...you remember, though, don't you, that Obama promised "NO NEW TAXES"? Maybe you believe that he is only going to tax the rich? Well, look at Congress. See any poor politicians there? but they have exempted themselves from having to join in on this health care. Doesn't that worry you? It's like hiring someone else to rob a place...and they're the ones who get caught and go to prison, while you remain safe. Smart thinking, liberals and socialists! No where in the Constitution does it say government is obligated to take care of you...provide you with welfare, subsidies, grants, or other entitlements. You should be the master of your own fate.
tmh
The Tales of Sea Biscuit(Harry)
It was mild early Spring day and there was a light breeze coming from the North which kept the temperature in the mid 60's.
Sea biscuit(Harry) was up early this morning (after woking late last night) for he is to prepare himself for a practice race this weekend. You see this "Alaskan" philly in flying into town to bring in to question Sea Biscuit(Harry)'s viability as the favorite to win the "Nevada Derby" come November.
It seem as though the "Alaskan" philly handlers have made a grave error in their timing to challenge Sea Biscuit(Harry)because he is having one of his best week in a long time. He just won at the "Santa Anita(Healthcare) Downs, which was a great emotional lift for him.
Secondly, the scheduled day of the practice race, Saturday is Sea Biscuit(Harry)'s day, because fans from all over are coming to celebrate the grand opening of the new Clark County Shooting Range. This project was made possible because of his hard work and this is how he can show his appreciation for the constant support the fans have given him over the years.
Fast forward to Saturday:
The race is on and as they are coming down the final turn it's the "Alaskan" philly by a neck. But, Sea Biscuit(Harry) is coming up fast on the outside and as they cross the finish line.
OH MY! OH MY! IT'S IT"S A PHOTO FINISH.
Stay Tune for the final decision.
Your comments against the Tea Party participants are soo hateful. Regardless of age or employment status we have the right to gather and express our opinions.In order to be taken seriously you need to debate with facts not fantasy.We believe the Reid-Obama agenda is to redistribute wealth.50% of Americans don't pay any federal taxes. When you allow people with no skin in the game to dictate the rules they will continue to take from the government...I mean the tax payer.
"In order to be taken seriously you need to debate with facts not fantasy."
Tell that to Sarah Palin. I'm sorry but any party that she is the leader of can't be taken seriously, except by the lunatic fringe.
I find nothing hateful about calling a hypocrite a hypocrite!!
Of course people have a right to express their opinions, God Bless them. The right to call a hypocrite a hypocrites, also exists.
How about debating the fact that we enacted a prescription drug benefit in 2003 that went into effect in 2006 that we can not afford? (well over 780 billion paid by the tax payers in addition to a system that is going to bankrupt the country) That my friend is SOCIALIZED MEDICINE, take from the working families to pay for others. What would you call it. Sounds like redistribution to me!!!
So why do any of their supporters completely ignore this little socialist scheme?
That is hypocritical, add a huge entitlemnt, say nothing about it , expand and wow ,we suddenly need to fight the socialist.
Many of their points, notably control spending are dead on, how ever it is painfully obvious to even the dimmest observer that many, many of them mean any "control and cut spending that doesnt not effet me." "The Reid-Obama Agneda" may be to redistribute wealth, but so was the bush agenda when they decided we need to pay for peoples prescription for them in addition to a system that is already going to crush us.
"When you allow people with no skin in the game to dictate the rules they will continue to take from the government...I mean the tax payer." So are you saying their should be some means test to determine if someones voice should be heard?
Where was the rage when we enacted a that huge entitlement? And why should it be exempt from being repealed in order to get spending under control. SOCIALIZED MEDICINE IS SOCIALIZED MEDICINE, are some "entitled" to it (at any expense) while others are not?
I hope the hwy patrol roadblock the entrance and ticket all these rednecks unsafe vehicles that probably aren't smogged/registered or safe to drive. Afterwards they can DUI the whole lot of em
lol!
Little "Sea Biscuit" should have been put to pasture a long time ago.
The all too casual threats of violence and slander need to be removed from all posts
Looks like boinicotti would find himself right at home with these liberal nutcases..
Have the next hoedown on Wall Street in front of Goldman Sachs and see if Palin or Coulter shows.
Son of an alcoholic hard rock miner who committed suicide. His mother took in wash from brothels to help ends meet. Harry had to hitchhike 50 miles to attend high school and now he is the majority leader of the Senate. Sure the man sticks his foot in his mouth on occasion, but he is a whiz behind the scenes. Reid is an expert vote counter, persuader and parliametarian. He has never forgotten Nevada or what he can do for his state, which has been a lot. Of course the baggers no nothing of this, they just like to be in a crowd of others who have inchoate anger, happily fueled by the likes of Ann Coulter and Sarah Palin. I am not about to replace a powerful ally of this state and commen people with Sue Lowden or Danny Tarkanian or the tea party candidate. If Harry goes, that leaves me with Heller (my rep), Ensign, hopefully not Gibbons again, and Reid's Republican replacement. Thanks but no thanks. I take some comfort that somebody in Nevada is not ignoring me or my needs.
Come on down. We'll have a whole lot of stoopid goin' on!
sandy99 :
Would you please tell us exactly what Reid has done for Nevada lately when it really counts? , I mean being a member of state government is easy when things are going well, but what we vote for them and pay them to do is to solve problems when things are NOT going so well.. So please tell us what he has done because all I see is 13.9 percent unemployment, lost opportunities for business diversification, inaction on jobs , and turning away from Nevada's real problems to concentrate solely on the hated healthcare Reform Bill. Please tell us what he has done?????
environprotector:
Are you confused? This article is about Harry Reid, not Jim Gibbons...
You would think Nevada only has ONE SENATOR!
(Technically, we DO have 2!)
WHERE IS our BAD BOY?
Why don't the NutJobs have anything nasty to say about John Ensign?
How many JOBS has John Ensign brought to Nevada recently?
What is Ensign's "FOCUS"? What is his CURRENT STATUS in the Senate? Does ANYONE UP THERE have a SHRED OF RESPECT LEFT for this creep?
Will the Tea Set be calling Ensign to account tomorrow???
I like that Palin, shes a babe and Couldter I'd like to ... her in the... I think me and my whole family going to show up down there. Does RTC go down there,???
Sarah Palin is not qualified to give her opinion
on the color of the sky or the day of the week... Who the hell would listen to Sarah Palin's opinions on ANYTHING???
http://politicalhumor.about.com/od/sarah...
Can't you Tea & Toast folks find ONE PERSON to speak at these Carny Conventions with a lick of intellect and an ounce of decency and respect???
First thing comes out of the liberal's mouths regarding this stupid healthcare bill is "it is the law of the land now" it is amazing they were not screaming "it is the law of the land" when the patriot act was passed. I do not know anyone who was personally affect by the patriot act but now with MANDATORY healthcare and a government that can intrude on each and every one of our lives, and have the i.r.s. to back them up, the liberal useful idiots cannot stop parroting this phrase over and over. So as long as the leftist, socialist, communist dictate intrusive laws on our lives it is OK. Also I have discovered that phrases like "I hate tea-baggers' " anybody who disagrees with the obama hs to be racist" ""Republicans keep crying and whining" "The Party of NO" and spelling "America: as "Amerika" and so on and so on is only liberal-speak for "shut up, go back to work, so you can pay taxes to support me, my sloth-like lifestyle, my illegitimate kids, my drug,drinking,gambling, and other non-productive habits. then I shall crawl out of my hole every four years to cast my obama vote which will negate the vote of the working person who wants a change back to a conservative America, then crawl back to my hole and wait for the free money. healthcare and all the other free stuff I feel I am "entitled" to...Man November cannot get here quick enough, bye bye Harry!
JeffFromVegas :
Sorry, I meant to include that idiot Gibbons as well!!!!
this will not turn out well
don't take the brown acid, tea-baggers!
DEMOCRATS: America did not become great because its citizens expected a lot from their country. We became great because we expected a lot from ourselves. Does that make sense to you?
boinicotti :
I suggest that you find better things to do with your time..
RACE_CAR_DIVA:
No, the answer to both situations is yes, that is what I expect. So no, that doesn't make sense to me, but I am not a democrat, I just think they are correct way more than the other team.
seeing the tea-bag commercial on fox news was the equivalent of a advertisement for Monster Truck Madness.....
RE, wierd comment, considering the KKK was created by the democrat party. your party has had a long history of hatred, and violence, so its rather interesting you democrats would accuse the republicans of the racism, hatred and violence that the dems have owned for 200 years. so, with all the name calling, hateful, horrid remarks, we can expect,when the dems time has run out, you all will, sit down shut up and deal with it right???
there is a time and a place for everything, but a small desert town with little facilities is not the place for a major protest. do it in Las Vegas where they are used to cleaning up after masses of people, not in a small town where people choose to live in a small town to avoid dumb stuff like protests and the media.
lipton, the president of the United States is a Black Democrat. The KKK was created by ex-confederate soldiers, not the democratic party.
The KKK was established in 1865. The current year is 2010. The right wing has since switched from the Democratic party to the Republican party. The KKK is a right-wing radical organization.
So yes, people are going to say that the tea-party protesters have racist motivations simply because their message appeals greatly to racist groups who don't like the idea of a African American leading the federal government.
This is news? YAWN, YAWN...snooooozzzzzzz
@lipton lol...keep telling yourself that...it wasn't a dem that yelled n*gger and f*ggot the other day. Please go ahead and elect another republican like Bush that will deny there is a recession then send checks for $400 to all Americans just before re-election and call it a "stimulus package"
Keep looking for Obama's false birth certificates also while you're at it.
Biden is qualified to run a toaster but is not qualified to screw in a light blub.
Just the other day, he give his regards for a person he said was dead but was alive.
His ability to stick his foot in his foot is extraordinary.
I hope it rains. Heavily.
Lipton;
I think you been sipping more then tea, since when did the Dems create the KKK? You just won my award for biggest idiot on this blog.
For all you baggers out there, just came from Boulder City, place was dead, my guess good luck getting ten thousand Red Necks in Searchlight, its not going to happen.
Weather, wind is blowing up in Boulder at least 30 MPh, so the baggers that do show up should get a nice sand blast !
ya honestly what a strange, strange event
- Mark Szczygiel
A real Stimulus to Southern Nevada -- without corrupt politicians paying off their buddies with Taxpayer Dollars.
Sorry kids... a real grass roots movement is taking place and this round is going to be huge.
Washington D.C. has failed America Miserably...
Wait until the borrowed money runs out and we'll see who the real whiners are.
Real Hope and Change Begins in Searchlight!
This is not a grassroots movement. This is a orginized movement by Republicans trying to get back in power. As a independent observer, who votes both parties, I'll put my money on Obama. Yes the Republicans may pick up a few seats, including Reids. But if Lowden gets the nominee, they can put that seat back in the Dems colume, she has nothing upstairs.
Anybody remember the big blowup rat? One of the better attention getters.
Be careful before you dismiss these folks. They're just the tip of the anger iceberg.
November will show how big this thing has become.
no krases, it was created by the democrat party. Denial is not a very good trait. and of course you would say that its all switched now!!!!!!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ku_Klux_Kla...
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krases, try not to be a democrat, be original and read the whole thing, not just pick and choose what you want it to be. There are lots of links that support the fact that the democrat party was the party that was against the civil rights movement,thats when the republican party was created and the first republican president was Lincoln who freed the slaves with great disapproval from the democrats. Point of this whole thing would be... its quite interesting, the accusations slithering out of the mouths of the democrat party was created by the democrat party. Like it or not, learn from history, because it does repeat itself.
and RE, you really don't want to start, with the repub that called someone a name do you? Or maybe you do, I never once said there weren't slimeballs on both sides, if you think for one minute, by blaming a repub for calling someone a nasty name, that, this kind of behavior is owned solely by the republican party, you are definitely more stupid than first thought. Its gonna be a long fall off that high horse, and I can't wait.
March 20, 1854
Opponents of Democrats' pro-slavery policies meet in Ripon, Wisconsin to establish the Republican Party
May 30, 1854
Democrat President Franklin Pierce signs Democrats' Kansas-Nebraska Act, expanding slavery into U.S. territories; opponents unite to form the Republican Party
July 6, 1854
First state Republican Party officially organized in Jackson, Michigan, to oppose Democrats' pro-slavery policies
February 11, 1856
Republican Montgomery Blair argues before U.S. Supreme Court on behalf of his client, the slave Dred Scott; later served in President Lincoln's Cabinet
February 22, 1856
First national meeting of the Republican Party, in Pittsburgh, to coordinate opposition to Democrats' pro-slavery policies
March 27, 1856
First meeting of Republican National Committee in Washington, DC to oppose Democrats' pro-slavery policies
May 22, 1856
For denouncing Democrats' pro-slavery policy, Republican U.S. Senator Charles Sumner (R-MA) is beaten nearly to death on floor of Senate by U.S. Rep. Preston Brooks (D-SC), takes three years to recover
March 6, 1857
Republican Supreme Court Justice John McLean issues strenuous dissent from decision by 7 Democrats in infamous Dred Scott case that African-Americans had no rights "which any white man was bound to respect"
June 26, 1857
Abraham Lincoln declares Republican position that slavery is "cruelly wrong," while Democrats "cultivate and excite hatred" for blacks
October 13, 1858
During Lincoln-Douglas debates, U.S. Senator Stephen Douglas (D-IL) states: "I do not regard the Negro as my equal, and positively deny that he is my brother, or any kin to me whatever"; Douglas became Democratic Party's 1860 presidential nominee
October 25, 1858
U.S. Senator William Seward (R-NY) describes Democratic Party as "inextricably committed to the designs of the slaveholders"; as President Abraham Lincoln's Secretary of State, helped draft Emancipation Proclamation
June 4, 1860
Republican U.S. Senator Charles Sumner (R-MA) delivers his classic address, The Barbarism of Slavery
April 16, 1862
President Lincoln signs bill abolishing slavery in District of Columbia; in Congress, 99% of Republicans vote yes, 83% of Democrats vote no
July 2, 1862
U.S. Rep. Justin Morrill (R-VT) wins passage of Land Grant Act, establishing colleges open to African-Americans, including such students as George Washington Carver
July 17, 1862
Over unanimous Democrat opposition, Republican Congress passes Confiscation Act stating that slaves of the Confederacy "shall be forever free"
August 25, 1862
President Abraham Lincoln authorizes enlistment of African-American soldiers in U.S. Army
September 22, 1862
Republican President Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation
January 1, 1863
Emancipation Proclamation, implementing the Republicans' Confiscation Act of 1862, takes effect
lipton:
There was a time republicans were great Americans. You have outlined some of them.
We lost benefit of the doubt about 1865 or so...
...think about joining the dems, they'll listen to you, and open their tent to you.
Democrats supported Slavery and its expansion into the northern states
2. Democrats introduced the Missouri Compromise and the Kansas-Nebraska Act to expand slavery into the northern states
3. Democrats support of the Dred Scott Decision
4. Democrats supported Fugitive Slave Laws
5. Democrats collectively opposed the 13th Amendment to end slavery
6. Democrats collectively opposed the 14th Amendment to give blacks citizenship
7. Democrats collectively opposed the 15th Amendment to give blacks the right to vote
8. Democrats exhausted every efforts to destroy Reconstruction including opposing the 1867 Reconstruction Act and coming up with the Compromise of 1877
9. Democrats opposed the Freedman Bureau
10. Democrats opposed Senate Bill 60 of 1866 to give blacks 40 acres and mule (It was Democratic President Andrew Johnson that vetoed the Bill)
11. Democrats supported of the Slaughter House Case
12. Democrats opposed the 1866 Civil Rights Acts
13. Democrats opposed the Ku Klux Klan Act of 1871 and continue to opposed anti-lynching laws up through 1965
14. Democrats passed a multitude of Jim Crow Legislation
15. Democrats passed of Black Codes
16. Democrats establishment of the Ku Klux Klan and other terrorist auxiliaries for their Party to keep blacks in their place
17. Democrats promoted White Supremacy
18. Democrats opposed blacks schools and colleges
19. Democrats supported of Plessy v Ferguson legalizing Segregation
20. Democrats were against the decision in the case of Brown v Board of Education
21. Democrats supported, participated and endorsed over 5,000 lynching in states under their control
22. Democrats opposed to the NAACP and other organization designed to help blacks
23. Democrats were in opposition to blacks holding political office and drove many from office during Reconstruction with terror and violence
24. Southern Democrats debated against the passage of the 1964 Civil Right Act
25. Southern Democrats debated against the passage of 1965 Voting Rights Act
26. Southern Democrats fought against Affirmative Action
27. Southern Democrats fought against the integration of Southern schools
28. Democrats supported and participated in burning down middle class black communities like those in Rosewood, Florida, Wilmington, North Carolina and the Greenwood District (Black Wallstreet) in Tulsa Oklahoma
Please read #16 very carefully.
cpo, yes I do, and alot of other non political party affiliated sources. what is idiocy, is just following blindly and believing something is or isn't so, just because you want to. Keep on being stupid.
Jeff from Vegas, I am no longer a republican, and will vote more independent, so long as they are not lawyers or have gaming or mining affiliations. Both parties are out of control, however, with what has happened recently, the dems take the cake. Never in a million would I join the dem party, I have a work ethic and take pride in working for what I have.
Tick, tick, tick, tick, tick, BOOOOOOOM... and suddenly the world is a better place.
Doc, not sure where you are going with your post, but if I were to take a guess, I think its within our grasp to see in our lifetime.
Just contributed to Reid.
Seriously, has anybody seen any reliable data on the average IQ of tea Baggers and Christian Conservatives? Dubya's handlers sure manipulated them well for his second term and it looks like they are doing it again, after narrowly failing to defeat health care. Scary bunch!
I was raised with Republican party views and I have also witnessed one of my parents turning their views almost completly towards the opposite.
Now in my mid 40's My views have slowly changed but in a way that does not lean in a liberal view or a conservative view.
My view is that the United States has lost its pledge of ONE NATION UNDER GOD.Oh that's right do not use the God or you now offend people
Our One Nation is completly gone and has been smoothered in political rehteric.Power and control has taken our once free and world friendly and human race serving attitide and unity away.
I am ashamed to watch news and see all the bickering amongst our leaders and it is only going to get worse.
The thrashing of this guy and that guy has turned our country upside down.What happened to the days of United We Stand? We were slowly losing this before 09/11/01 and we regained our Unity rapidly and even as horrible as 9/11 was I was also SO Proud to be an AMERICAN.Since then this country has declined in its Unity more rapdly than it was before 9/11 and has deteriated towards self destruction.We need not to worry any longer of a terorist attack as much as we have to worry of Destroying Ourselves.
We looked for Change when we elected Pres.Obama to office.I do not think we understood his meaning of CHANGE and the change We The People were looking for.
Now there is almost unrest in our Country and Violence against Politicians.Now we have a different movement being the Tea Party and I wonder what their platform is.I strongly question it?
The only movement we need is a United We Stand Movement,A Unity movement.There is a small chance that this would ever happen but those individuals who are sick and tired of this countries division and have views of both parties would get together Arm and Arm merge their views into one package and lead a movement of Unification we would have true Change is this great land and reverse the self destruction it is Facing.As most American's stand and aplaud The National Anthem,a song by Bruce Springsting(Godbless The U.S.A.)remember The love for this country when they were written and how you feel when it is finished and carry that feeling with you into the days before you.
May this Country Stand Strong once again!!!!!
Lipton;
You are already proven Stupid, posting as a fact from Wiki. If you had a brain you would know that Wiki is unreliable and a source of nothing. Why cant you baggers post any real source ?? Because your liars, this means you.
TKARASEK:
Here you go
http://www.asanet.org/press/20100223/Evo...
Thanks Jeff. I thought there would be more than a 6 point spread by their actions.
I think the teabaggers need to stay in their own home states and work for whatever it is they think dickarmey wants them to and leave Nevada to us Nevadians. In my opinion. I'll be voting for Harry!
cpo, I'm 99.9% confident that according to you, anywhere that had facts that are not in lockstep with you, would be considered unreliable, with the exception of MSNBC of course, and maybe Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi and the big B-Ho. I'm fairly certain, they would never tell the people anything that wasn't the gospel truth. cpo, have you ever heard the term gullible? check out the definition, I think thats probably you they use as an example!! Its amazing that there is really people who make it through life so stupid and uneducated about our history.
and nellpost what makes you think there are no Nevadans in Searchlight today, that don't want what the the big B-Ho is dishing out? there really aren't as many blood suckers as you think, you all just scream loud, thats all. and to clarify to the one that will be saying,lipton, you are an idiot, we just passed the healthcare bill that all americans wanted, well to you all I say, they didn't pass it because all wanted it, they passed what "they" wanted, and convinced the few dumb ones that, thats what they want and need to "save" us. This admin doesn't really care if 50 or 5000 want it, they needed to make history with govt control one step closer to socialism. leave Nevada to Nevadans???? we are 3 billion short of budget, dems won't make consessions, and Obamacare just tagged on 600 million required by our state to further expand medicaid,are you really this stupid??? No wonder Nevada is a toilet bowl,swirling around waiting to be flushed.Yep, leave it to Nevada!!!!! Harrys busy building a train to Victorville!!!!!Nevada stimulus with out of state contractors, yep, he's the man.
It is well known that certain members of the democratic party started the KKK in 1865/66.....
The Democratic Party's war against African-Americans continued after the Civil War (which many Democrats in fact opposed, often working actively to undercut the Union war effort). Democrats, both north and south fought the attempt to implement the equality for African-Americans gained at such a high cost. This opposition was often violent. Indeed, the Ku Klux Klan operated as the de facto terrorist arm of the national Democratic Party during Reconstruction.
It was the Democrats too that passed all those Jim Crow laws.
thanks guys, you are absolutely correct. I'm really kind of surprised more democrats aren't aware of the history of the party they stand behind.
wow!!!! where did all the devoted democrats go? I at least expected, some typical vile remark.
I am NOT a tea party person.
Very few of us Democrats (I am an exception) know that Jefferson Davis was the head of the Democratic party in America before he was the President of the Confedracy.
A prominent Democratic congressman beat an abolitionist senseless with a cane at the Abolitionist's desk in congress before the Civil War started.
A Supreme Court packed with Democrats ruled in favor of slavery in the Dred Scott decision.
The south's leaders were almost exclusively Democratic when they imposed and fought to maintain Jim Crow laws.
Civil Rights legislation was opposed by Al Gore's father who was a prominent Democrat.
One organization that prominent southern Democrats had to belong to to succeed (up until about 1960 or so) the KKK.
I am a JFK Democrat but unfortunately the party appears to be slipping back into that mindless knee jerk radicalism and racism that it was founded on.....