1. Guy Tridgell
Frowning takes 68 muscles.
Smiling takes 6.
Pulling this trigger takes 2.
I'm lazy.
Posted on 09/14/2009 10:29:00 AM PDT by Chi-townChief
The Tea Party needs help. Community organizing can eat up valuable time, even though the mood guiding last week's lively rally in New Lenox seemed to have a feel more like Astroturf than grass roots.
Still, we heard you Tea Partiers loud and clear soon after you arrived in the Home of Proud Americans on roads paved with taxpayer dollars, while police officers who draw checks from Big Brother managed the throng.
The message: We need to get the government out of our lives.
The government sticks its fat nose in our affairs too often, messing with our freedoms and choking us. Government unchecked can become a really big word: socialism.
Today, you can relax, brothers and sisters.
In the best interests of moving the revolution forward, we offer a few extra planks for the Tea Party platform.
• Obamacare, Shmobamacare.
Ever hear of the Veterans Administration? For too long the VA's been handing out free health care to the men and women who served this country.
Get rid of it.
Thanks for answering the call of duty, soldiers, but your post-traumatic stress disorder is not our problem.
• Same goes for you, blue hair. Medicare is gone.
We don't care if you are retired and living on a fixed income.
You're old. You've lived a long time. You should have saved your money for emergencies.
• Send those National Weather Service satellites to the moon.
What is the government doing in the business of forecasting the weather, anyway?
The accurate prediction of floods and hurricanes saves lives all the time. Some of that work is taking place practically next door at Argonne National Laboratory near Lemont. But so what? We've got a rugged, pioneer ethic. We can handle anything Mother Nature throws at us.
The forecast tomorrow calls for 75 degrees and sunny? We're going to show the world we're tough and wear parkas and moon boots.
• Let the potholes bloom.
Why do we need the U.S. Department of Transportation to help build and maintain our roads?
Let's privatize. Leave the construction of roads to the minds in the business world who know something about transportation, like the people who run Chrysler or General Motors.
• Quit trying to guarantee that we should have a fresh, clean supply of water, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. You and your Clean Water Act are going down the drain.
Didn't you know God intended fish to have five eyes?
Fecal matter in the drinking water? We'll drink to that, just like the original patriots did centuries ago.
• Stop already with the air traffic control.
The Federal Aviation Administration cannot be trusted to make sure those steel tubes filled with people in the sky get to where they are supposed to be.
And didn't you know the skies are free? Anybody and everybody should have a right to use them. Let the games of chicken begin!
• Please, U.S. Department of Agriculture, stop inspecting our meat.
If we want our steak from a feed lot where cattle with open sores wallow in their waste, it's our choice.
One heapin' helpin' of roundworm, medium rare, coming up!
• Abolish the Food and Drug Administration.
What have you done, besides blocking the sale of thalidomide and sparing us a wave of deformed babies?
• Quit tracking that swine flu, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Let it roam free.
We're strong. We can take on any pandemic. What does not kill us makes us stronger.
• Why, Consumer Product Safety Commission, do you meddle so in our children's lives? Out with you.
If we want to buy the Electroshocker Play Pen and Scorpion Farm for Christmas, that's our choice. Not yours.
Wait, wait. We have a question on the floor. Mr. Lipton is requesting that he and Mr. Bigelow be excused to attend their kids' football game at the public school down the street.
Request granted. We are a simple collection of the people who are free to do as they wish. We don't want to be hypocrites.
Hmmm ... all of the signs at the Tea Party rallies are home-made, instead of walls of pre-printed signs. But we're the ones that feel more like Astroturf?
It's really pathetic that papers allow editorials that are based on clear lies. It's one thing to have an opinion. It's another to have an opinion that is clearly unsubstantiated by facts.
He’s the “dumbass” in communist.
How to distinguish Liberty from Tryanny:
| Liberty | "Soft" Tyranny | |
| 1 | Rights are inherent in, and unalienable from, individuals | Rights are granted/rescinded by the majority through the government |
| 2 | Fundamental rights are life, liberty, and property (absence of coercion) | Fundamental rights are food, housing, and healthcare (absence of necessity) |
| 3 | Property is owned by individuals who make decisions as to its use, improvement, and transfer | Property is owned by 'the public' with government officials making decisions as to its use, improvement, and transfer |
| 4 | Government exists to protect the rights of individuals | Government exists to plan and direct the resources of society |
| 5 | Government authority is decentralized in a federal system with limited and enumerated powers | Government authority is centralized in a national system with broad and necessarily intrusive powers |
| 6 | Government action is prescribed by rules fixed and announced beforehand | Government action is arbitrary and at the descretion of "czars" and planning boards |
| 7 | Economic activity is driven by a large number of small entities interacting according to simple rules | Economic activity is driven by a small number of large entities operating within the constraints of complex regulations |
| 8 | Effective innovation results from contrarian thinking, individual initiative, and the voluntary exchange of property | Efficient implementation of government planning requires conformity of opinion, collective action, and the coerced transfer of property |
| 9 | Standards of living for the many increase permanently as they utilize improved products and services conceived by the few | Standards of living for the many increase temporarily as they utilize property redistributed from the few |
| 10 | Altruism is using one's own resources in concrete acts to help specific individuals | Altruism is obligating the resources of others for broad-brush programs to help mankind in the abstract |
Rights exists solely as a way to fairly decide whose will shall prevail in cases where two or more people disagree. They do not exist for the purpose of enslaving one person for the benefit of another (e.g., the "right" to free medical care.)
Liberty is the right to do whatever does not infringe the rights of others. Rights empower you to help yourself, free from interference by others.
Tyranny makes you a serf to be used by the elite to further their own power. Once upon a time, the nobility used religion to convince the serfs they had to serve the nobility. Modernly, the elite use good people's feelings of altruism to convince them to enslave both themselves and their neighbors. It's basically the same con game, just using a more sophisticated hook.
What a pompous, elitist a$$hole.
Saying we want to get rid of essential government services is an out and out lie, and this frothing idiot knows it.
What we DO want to get rid of is over-taxation and over-regulation, both of which the government has gone completely out of control on.
Got that, Mr. Leftist?
Anagrams of Guy Tridgell:
Girly Glut, Ed.
Turgidly Gel
Geld Liturgy
Ugly Dirt Leg
Turd Egg, Lily.
So let me get this straight, the fact that we need a government to do some things — which is in fact, why the founders got together to draft the Constitution in the first place — is proof that the government must do everything.
Hokay . . . .
Why even respond to this dribble.
Actually, I’m very encouraged by how hard we’ve hit these guys, reducing them to writing this kind of disingenous b/s or saying “that’s racist” and “well, what about Bush” over and over again.
“Same goes for you, blue hair. Medicare is gone.
We don’t care if you are retired and living on a fixed income.
You’re old. You’ve lived a long time. You should have saved your money for emergencies.”
Uhhhh, Guy...Your political messiah said he would pay for “schmobamacare” but eliminating $500MM in Medicare fraud and waste. Are you saying he shouldn’t?
Actually, I don't believe he does. I think it's like Maceman says that this clymer Tridgell sees government needing to do some things as meaning that it should do everything. He obviously has never read the Constitution because he couldn't tell you the difference between an enumerated power and solar power.
VA - quality of care is universally despised.
Medicaid - Broke. Also, below-cost payments forcing doctors out of the field and costing hospitals (and taxpayers, and insured patients) a fortune.
Medicare - Ditto Medicaid.
The rest have their problems, too. But we’re talking health care and the Government’s record on health care is, well, hideous.
I didn’t read his entire laundry list—it’s the same old liberal playbook editorial: “Don’t like government? Then let’s get rid of the things that government is created to do!”
Word to this hairball editor: conservatives aren’t anarchists, dumbass. We believe that government is a necessary evil and should provide for things like roads and police forces. I could give you my laundry list of everything government *shouldn’t* and isn’t authorized to provide, but it’d take about a week to list.
There must have been a crowd of mediots like Tridgell in Jayson Blair’s hot tub this past weekend. Their wet dreams posing as opeds trying to trash the tea parties show a high level of inhaling what Clintoon didn’t inhale.
Yes, the latest dumass ploy.
I guess we have no choice but to agree to whatever it is they want to do... we sure wouldn’t want to have roads with ‘potholes’ in them.... /sarc
Almost as bad as the folks over at the AARP community website. They decided to coin the phrase ‘talibangelicals’ yesterday to describe the teaparty.
**LOVED** 'Ugly Dirt Leg'!
;^)
Idiot..
Well put Maceman.
They always argue that way for expansion of government -
using legitimate, or even semi-legitimate policies and programs to justify illegitimate programs.
Here’s a concept that no leftist can fathom:
Just because it sounds like, or may even BE, a good idea, does NOT mean the government should do it.
1. Guy Tridgell
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