Showing posts with label 20090415 Tea Party. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 20090415 Tea Party. Show all posts

Thursday, September 24, 2009

This week in The Tentacle

This week in The Tentacle

Thursday, September 24, 2009
Karl Rove and the Spitballers
Chris Cavey
Last week Karl Rove spoke at the Goucher College “President’s Forum “series. Mr. Rove and Goucher President Sanford J. Unger took the stage in front of an audience of over 500. The evening was a learning experience for the liberal student body; however, for me, it was just vintage Karl Rove.

Random thoughts:
Joan McIntyre
Healthcare:

Chip away at the items one by one. Stop forcing insurance companies to have mandated coverage outside normal everyday items. IVF (In vitro fertilization) is one example. Do a basic coverage; with wellness visits and then, if you must, do an a-la-carte menu for the rest.

Wednesday, September 23, 2009
Big Media Missing the Point
Kevin E. Dayhoff
Everyone who bickers about the size of the crowd in Washington on September 12, or what network covered it and what media did not cover it, or whether the protest was the work of conservatives or un-American racists is sorely missing the significance of the entire event.

Go Back Home
Tom McLaughlin
Kuching, Malaysia – Illegal logging and poor forest practices are two separate things” and “if there is one thing I hope could be improved over time it would be the quality of data that everyone could share” are the words of wisdom spouted by one Alberto Goetzl. Mr. Goetzl, a policy bureaucrat wonk from Poolesville, Maryland has been sharing these brilliant insights to the people of Malaysia through a program sponsored by the U.S. State Department.

Tuesday, September 22, 2009
Let the Games Begin
Roy Meachum
After Frederick City primaries last week, Republican friends insisted on talking about how Democratic winner Jason Judd’s chances were doomed in November, saying the Democratic winner would get his butt whipped when everybody could vote. There was also comment along the line his working for a union makes him anathema to local citizens.

Beware The Quiet on Carbon Dioxide
Farrell Keough
Might the EPA being covering up information pertaining to Global Warming? How could that possibly be true – this is a cabinet level agency whose sole interest is protecting American citizens by ensuring the environment receives the attention it deserves.

Monday, September 21, 2009
Grass-Roots Betrayed
Steven R. Berryman
Much has been said on all sides in evaluating recent protestors in Washington, as well as in Frederick. Just what is a legitimate “grass-roots” uprising, anyway?

It’s Expensive Going Green, But Worth It
Michael Kurtianyk
Whatever happened to going green? Didn’t it seem that the big buzzword in housing in 2008/early 2009 was going green? Has this become a fad that has passed already? What does it mean to go green anyway?

Friday, September 18, 2009
Jennifer’s Last Hurrah
Roy Meachum
Jennifer Dougherty’s defeat Tuesday resulted not from a single cause but a number of political crimes, all of them self-inflicted. One by one, she managed to offend her fellow Democrats – from Ron Young to Andrew Duck and all the faithful in between. All by herself, she managed to make seeking office tediously boring; primarily because of the way she inevitably lost – time after-time.

Why the low turnout?
Joe Charlebois
Why the low turnout in the City of Frederick elections? There are numerous reasons, so here are a few as I see it.

Thursday, September 17, 2009
Happenstance Happens…
Tony Soltero
A year ago or so, there was an ugly accident on a double-decker shuttle bus that serviced Washington Nationals’ games. A couple of young male passengers were killed when the bus ran under an overpass, prompting speculation about whether the passengers had stood up on the bus at the wrong moment, thus putting themselves in harm's way.

Living in an Insane World
Patricia A. Kelly
For at least the past one hundred years, the government of the United States of America has increasingly encroached upon the lives of the people.

Wednesday, September 16, 2009
Enough Already…
Kevin E. Dayhoff
In the last week, we have witnessed a full-court press by President Barack Obama, in his efforts to push forward broad sweeping health care reform. He’s everywhere. He’s everywhere…

Monks, Monkeys and a Mad Englishman
Tom McLaughlin
Krabi, Thailand – This beach resort has the atmosphere of a quiet upscale scene as opposed to the honky tonk of Phuket Island or Ocean City, Maryland. The beaches, hotels and restaurants are filled with sexy Swedes. I can't seem to get away from those blue eyes and blonde hair, nor do I want to. They have taken over South Thailand.

Tuesday, September 15, 2009
From the Desk of the Publisher:
John W. Ashbury
Once again, our Roy Meachum has discovered that recovery from surgery is far more difficult than he had expected. Progress is being made, but, as most people know, set-backs are a part of the game. Hopefully he’ll be fit enough to resume on Friday.

Addressing the Algebra Crisis
Nick Diaz
In recent years, many jurisdictions throughout our country have experienced their share of educational crises – such as “whole language“ and “fuzzy math“ in general – and “TERC” in particular. Even now, the state is still in the grips of an “algebra crisis.”

20090924 sdosm This week in The Tentacle

Related:

Is President Obama media over-exposed?

Recent The Tentacle columns by Kevin Dayhoff on Obama over-exposed

http://www.thetentacle.com/

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September 16, 2009
Enough Already…
Kevin E. Dayhoff http://www.thetentacle.com/author.cfm?MyAuthor=41

In the last week, we have witnessed a full-court press by President Barack Obama, in his efforts to push forward broad sweeping health care reform. He’s everywhere. He’s everywhere…

September 9, 2009
Two Plus Two Equals Five
Kevin E. Dayhoff http://www.thetentacle.com/author.cfm?MyAuthor=41
By now we have all had an opportunity to either read or watch President Barack Obama’s national address to our schoolchildren that aired yesterday at high noon.

20090918 sdsom Recent TT on Obama overexposed
20090422 Smiling Sheep

Recent http://www.thetentacle.com/ columns by Kevin Dayhoff on Obama over-exposed

http://kevindayhoff.blogspot.com/2009/09/recent-tentacle-columns-by-kevin.html http://tinyurl.com/mk2k96

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Saturday, April 18, 2009

Bob Allen: Hundreds turn out for Tax Day Tea Party

Hundreds turn out for Tax Day Tea Party in Westminster (20090415 Westminster Tea Party_

Carroll County protestors take a colonial style stand

By Bob Allen Posted on
www.explorecarroll.com 4/17/09

Motorists driving along Route 140 in Westminster, April 15, were greeted with a very noisy, colorful and unusual spectacle.

Several hundred protesters -- a large number of them middle-aged and older -- braved the rain and chill to stand along the north shoulder of the highway, from the Church of the Open Door two blocks to the intersection of Gorsuch Road.

They were taking part in an event billed as a Tax Day Tea Party, one of several held across Maryland and across the nation April 15.


More: Hundreds turn out for Tax Day Tea Party in Westminster

20090417 Bob Allen: Hundreds turn out for Tax Day Tea Party

http://explorecarroll.com/news/2762/hundreds-turn-tax-day-tea-party-westminster/#comment-73

And more from Bob Allen on http://www.explorecarroll.com/

BERC seminars aim to turn the tide of unemployment
Published April 17, 2009 by Carroll Eagle
The 30 or so people attending one of two all-day workshops last month at the Carroll County Business and Employment Resource Center are just a handful of names and faces behind the recent headlines. An estimated 4.4 million Americans have lost their jobs ... ...

Act of 'Passion'
Published April 12, 2009 by Carroll Eagle
It's 6 p.m. on a Sunday, and kids are drifting into St. Bartholomew Catholic Church, in Manchester. At the end of this sunny day, the shadows across the lawn outside are beginning to soften and fade in the impending twilight. Inside, things aren't quite ... ...


Kevin Dayhoff: www.westgov.net Westminster Maryland Online www.westminstermarylandonline.net http://kevindayhoffwestgov-net.blogspot.com/

Pictures and report on the Westminster Tea Party April 15 2009

That's seems to be MD Senator David Brinkley in the front of the crowd - with his hand on his heart and the red sweater underneath the dark jacket...


Hampstead Mayor Haven Shoemaker


Crowds lining the Route 140 in Westminster.


Crowds lining the Route 140 in Westminster.

Michelle Jefferson and Ben Franklin

Pictures and report on the Westminster Tea Party April 15 2009

Michelle Jefferson reports on the 20090415 Westminster Tea Party

Last Thursday, April 16, 2009, Michelle Jefferson filed the following pictures and report from the Westminster Tea Party:

Thu, Apr 16, 2009

The attendance at the Westminster Tea Party was amazing! Approximately 750 showed up with rain gear, umbrellas and signs, braving the elements with sheer determination to express their discontent with the current goings on at the federal and state levels.

The enthusiasm wasn’t dampened by the weather and all involved made a personal commitment to become involved, stay involved and take a stand against what we believe to be an over intrusive and taxing government.

Even Ben Franklin showed up and gave us the thumbs up!


Editor’s note – also see “Hundreds turn out for Tax Day Tea Party in Westminster” by Bob Allen in http://www.explorecarroll.com/

And do not miss:

The White House Responds to the Tea Party Protests

Republicans Crash the Tea Party

20090416 Michelle Jefferson reports on the Westminster Tea Party

Kevin Dayhoff: http://www.westgov.net/ Westminster Maryland Online http://www.westminstermarylandonline.net/ http://kevindayhoffwestgov-net.blogspot.com/

Powerline: An obscene insult by CNN and MSNBC


Powerline: An obscene insult by CNN and MSNBC

An obscene insult

April 18, 2009 Posted by Scott at 7:14 AM

The star hosts of CNN and MSNBC news shows have notoriously derided the tea party demonstrations around the country with reference to the practice of teabagging (which I had never heard of before they brought it up). As John noted, both networks' "journalists" used the rallies as an occasion for childish sexual innuendoes -- in the case of MSNBC, the same obscene teabag "joke" was repeated 51 times in a 13-minute segment.

The Media Research Center detailed the teabagging references in an informative
press release. The Huffington Post noted the references as well as more "jokes" in the same vein (including a video of Cooper's jape, over which David Gergen cluelessly chortles).

While sitting in for Keith Olbermann on April 15, MSNBC's David Shuster
packed the teabagging puns into his report on the protests. Shuster is like a juvenile student who has commandeered the loudspeaker system at his high school to commit the prank of a lifetime. Maybe it was just a case of Olbermann's writers feeding Shuster the same good stuff they usually give to Olbermann.

Andrew Sullivan is
giddy; he seems to think the phenomenon is a big ball of fun.

[…]

Via reader Jim Rice.

UPDATE: I had missed
Matt Taibbi's vulgar assault on Michelle Malkin in this context drawing on the heterosexual form of the practice.

Read the entire post here: An obscene insult

http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2009/04/023353.php

20090418 Powerline An obscene insult by CNN and MSNBC

Kevin Dayhoff: www.westgov.net Westminster Maryland Online www.westminstermarylandonline.net http://kevindayhoffwestgov-net.blogspot.com/