A Movement Explained - What does the Tea Party mean?

The Weekly Standard Magazine ^ | April 2, 2012 issue | MATTHEW CONTINETTII

[Cincinatus' Wife]

Newt Gingrich of Georgia and Dr. Brenda Fitzgerald throw mock tea crates into the Chattahoochee River in Roswell, Ga., in 1994.

The Lamestream Media Didn’t Warn Us: “Barack Obama is Coming!”

[Cincinatus' Wife]

March 28, 2012: One Hour of CLEAR thinking: [C-SPAN video] Newt Gingrich Speaks with Georgetown University Students about Social Security. Our rights come from God. We're exceptional because we inherited from our Founding Fathers the understanding that power comes to each one of us personally -- we loan power to the state, government does not loan it to the people. It’s about taking power BACK from government and returning it to the people.

[867V309]

Awesome picture of Sister Sarah!

The tea party has been criticised by some as a sailing ship without a captain. They don't understand: the Tea Party is not the ship, it is the wind.

[Cincinatus' Wife]

A telling 3 minute exchange from the Q&A after the Georgetown lecture linked in Post #2, as Newt zero's in on the utility and dignity of work:

Video clip: Former Child Janitor to Gingrich: Your Jobs Plan Offended Me

[Cincinatus' Wife]

Newt Gingrich is going after unpledged delegates - "soft" delegates that haven't committed in primaries already completed, including all the PA (72) and MT (26) and (IL (69) delegates, since these delegates remain unpledged regardless of primary vote.

AND though there are going to be some “winner take all” primaries, the following contests are also on the schedule:

RI (16) proportional
NY (92) proportional
WVA (28) proportional -- elect delegates (who list their presidential pick on ballot)
NC (52) proportional
OR (25) proportional
AK (33) proportional
KY (42) proportional
TX (155) proportional
CA (169) proportional (by district)
NM (20) proportional
SD (25) proportional

The Green Papers

[867V309]

Thanks for that. Work, for me, is validating-not to mention satisfying. I’m afraid many young people would rather just stare at their iCrap, if you’ll pardon the expression.

[Cincinatus' Wife]

Big Education has replaced personal responsibility, invigorating challenge and the thrill of success with the false, cuddly pap of self esteem (that once challenged, drives those hit between the eyes by real life, into the arms of “OWS” and progressive politics, looking for sympathy and support).

[LomanBill]

What does the Tea Party mean?

 

"TO SECURE THESE RIGHTS,
governments are instituted among men,
deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed"

 

[Cincinatus' Wife]

.....“The greatest frustration I’ve had since leaving the speakership is the denseness of Washington in accepting new ideas,” Gingrich told the Georgetown crowd. “We are surrounded by a news media that is cynical, and by consultants who are cynical, and by lobbyists who are cynical.” They think big ideas are “silly,” he complained.

“I haven’t done a very good job as a candidate because it is so difficult to communicate big solutions in this country,” he said wistfully near the end of his talk. “The entrenched structure of the system is so hostile to it.” The students nodded; some clapped. Gingrich didn’t pause. He didn’t smile. He wasn’t looking for a cheer. For what it’s worth, he was trying to make a point.”

http://www.nationalreview.com/blogs/print/294868

[LomanBill]

"The entrenched structure of the system is so hostile to it."

That is its nature.

Meet the New Boss, Same as the Old Ba'al.

[Cincinatus' Wife]

Once they’re entrenched those in power don’t want anyone overrunning their territory. Time to take back our territory.

[LomanBill]

[“We are surrounded by a news media that is cynical special, and by consultants who are cynical special, and by lobbyists who are cynical special.” They think [the proletariat's] big ideas are “silly,” he complained.]

 

"It's important to note that the vanguard elite are, for Lenin, not just a thoretical category to explain the development of political strategies, but a specific grouping of special individuals who must be identified and trained distinctly form the broad mass of the population"
--New perpsectives on anarchism
http://books.google.com/books?id=p5t0R0ckDMAC&pg=PA106&lpg=PA106&dq=The+vanguard+elite+lenin&source=bl&ots=Bi7Th4KdQS&sig=Wxt6aznFBXZ4zd9QJCb4ZR_Eh6w&hl=en

 

 

[LomanBill]

>>Time to take back our territory.

Achieving that goal requires a population of citizens who are educated sufficiently that they will accept no government that is not constrained to it’s specified American purpose “TO SECURE THESE RIGHTS”.

Part of that process is to empower them with an understanding of their own appetites -- and with the ability to manage and meet those appetites for themselves...

“Urban Organic Episode 1 - OAK: Aquaponic gardening with Bryant Terry, Keba Konte and Eric Maundu”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8jnflDWICMA&feature=share

...so that their own physiology can not be used to enslave them via the usual Bread and Circus act wherein "COMMERCE BETWEEN MASTER AND SLAVE IS DESPOTISM".

Observe that the arrangement of Maslow's hierarchy of needs  is the same now as when Moses was leading his folks out of Egypt...

Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs Chart

...and observe that the Appetite of Tyranny is never far removed from the Tyranny of the Appetite.

[Cincinatus' Wife]

"The Nation's" Top 50 Progressives… and Socialists and Communists "The Nation's" list of leading American "progressives" is an illuminating insight into the American left and the very essence of "progressive" thought -- whatever that might be. Take a look at it, study it, think about it. This is truly a teachable moment.

[Cincinatus' Wife]

Watermelons:

"Lysenko himself spent much time denouncing academic scientists and geneticists, claiming that their isolated laboratory work was not helping the Soviet people. By 1929 Lysenko's skeptics were politically censured, accused of offering only criticisms, and for failing to prescribe any new solutions themselves. In December 1929, Soviet leader Joseph Stalin gave a famous speech praising "practice" above "theory", elevating the political bosses above the scientists and technical specialists. Though for a period the Soviet government under Stalin continued its support of agricultural scientists, after 1935 the balance of power abruptly swung towards Lysenko and his followers. Lysenko was put in charge of the Academy of Agricultural Sciences of the Soviet Union and made responsible for ending the propagation of "harmful" ideas among Soviet scientists. Lysenko served this purpose by causing the expulsion, imprisonment, and death of hundreds of scientists and eliminating all study and research involving Mendelian genetics throughout the Soviet Union. This period is known as Lysenkoism. He bears particular responsibility for the persecution of his predecessor and rival, prominent Soviet biologist Nikolai Vavilov, which ended in 1943 with the imprisoned Vavilov's death by starvation. In 1941 Lysenko was awarded the Stalin Prize."

Trofim Lysenko

Lysenkosim

Agronomy

[LomanBill]

Americans are free Individuals for whom government secures inalienable rights.

Communists/progressives [except for the vanguard elite who are eating milk and apples in the Farm House, of course] are slaves to the collective; the governance of which builds walls in order to contain its subjugated human property.

[Timber Rattler]

I'll mever forgive the GOP-E for THIS:

Next for GOP leaders: Stopping Sarah Palin

[LomanBill]

[eliminating all study and research involving Mendelian genetics throughout the Soviet Union.]

Fast forward a couple of decades to the Soviet Cesium-powered "Gamma Grain" Tractor:

"Soviet era "Gamma Grain" tractors fitted with Cs-137 sources, abandoned

Early in 2002 the IAEA learned of an experimental Soviet-era agricultural project called Gamma Kolos. (Kolos, a Russian word, refers to grain.) In the program, which started in the 1970s but was abandoned, tractors fitted with containers of cesium 137 (and lead shielding to protect the driver) irradiated wheat seeds before sowing them, in an attempt to induce beneficial mutations in the crops. The radiation was also applied to grain after harvest, to prevent it from germinating. A total of ten of the containers have been recovered in Georgia, Moldova and Ukraine; no one knows how many more are unaccounted for. "

Ooopski!

[ryan71]

Tea Party? What Tea Party? There used to be a tea Party. We used to be out there. Seems like a long time ago.

We have a million reasons to be out there, on the streets. Where are we?

[Cincinatus' Wife]

“Ooopski!”

Bump!