{"id":6933,"date":"2009-05-09T14:25:07","date_gmt":"2009-05-09T20:25:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ncobrief.com\/index.php\/archives\/miscellaneous-thoughts-and-wanderings\/"},"modified":"2009-05-09T14:25:07","modified_gmt":"2009-05-09T20:25:07","slug":"miscellaneous-thoughts-and-wanderings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ncobrief.com\/index.php\/archives\/miscellaneous-thoughts-and-wanderings\/","title":{"rendered":"Miscellaneous Thoughts and Wanderings"},"content":{"rendered":"

The SA Tea Party made the final decision on a venue for our 4th of July bash \u00e2\u20ac\u201c the lovely destination ranch, the Rio Cibolo Ranch<\/a>, which a group of us went to visit last Saturday. I just hope the fields are still as green and lovely in July as they are right now. Well, the property is bounded on two sides by a fairly deep waterway, so I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t suppose the water bill is as much of a challenge. There is a huge pavilion with a stage, a small arena with stadium seats, and we will probably have a larger stage put up out in the open for our main events. We\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll have live music, games, hayrides\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 the reading of the Declaration of Independence, and fireworks and all.<\/p>\n

At this point, the SA Tea Party is sort of catching their collective breath, still; everything was so focused on the Tax Day event, then with sorting things out for the long hard long-distance pull. And there will be a long, hard pull: there are just too many people that are unhappy with the current administration. We make sick jokes about who the FBI infiltrator is among all the people who come to the open meetings, and wonder how many of us are now on the Homeland Security watchlist \u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 although our security specialist (a retired LAPD officer, with his own consulting firm)<\/em> has pointed out, with some humor that mostly, the working agents tend to be rather straight-laced conservatives, whose natural sympathies are with us anyway. And a lot of us are military veterans also \u00e2\u20ac\u201c so it kind of boggles the mind, thinking of us all being painted as dangerous political activists and radicals. Seriously, if worse came to worse \u00e2\u20ac\u201c who would come and arrest us all? Ourselves?<\/p>\n

Note to the alphabet networks \u00e2\u20ac\u201c I am looking at you, CNN \u00e2\u20ac\u201c not many people outside a certain milieu were familiar with the term \u00e2\u20ac\u0153tea-bagging\u00e2\u20ac\u009d three weeks ago. Look, if you are going to insult and denigrate a wide swath of your public, it would help to use a term of abuse that people didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t have to go look up a definition for. Oh, and I found this little gem<\/a> courtesy of a google-search at Huffington Post <\/p>\n

Oh, my \u00e2\u20ac\u201c what delicate little flowers they are, at the Huff-Po \u00e2\u20ac\u201c was that truly the worst they could find? When I think of some of the signs referencing GWB that were featured here and there at Huff-Po approved protests, I can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t help shaking my head. Poor babies \u00e2\u20ac\u201c it must have been a considerable shock, finding out that so very many of the unwashed are somewhat less than totally enamored of the One. Who was the blogger who used the tag line \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Did I hurt your feewings? Good!<\/em>\u00e2\u20ac\u009d \u00e2\u20ac\u201c I can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t remember if it was Acidman or Kim du Toit. <\/p>\n

Speaking of the One \u00e2\u20ac\u201c who else besides me is pretty tired of seeing his face, or Michelle\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s face all over every damned magazine on the supermarket check-out stand news-racks? It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s been three months now \u00e2\u20ac\u201c are they just doing an Oprah on us? The same face on the cover of every issue. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s worse than Tiger Beat in the days of the British invasion \u00e2\u20ac\u201c it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s like Pravda, with the bright\u00e2\u20ac\u2122n\u00e2\u20ac\u2122shiny happy face of the Leader and his coterie on the front page and on all the covers, and in the newsreels, while the kulaks are being ground down and starved into submission, the workers are taking over the factories and running them into the ground, and the professional middle class are threatened with being gutted and reduced to camping out in a few rooms of their McMansion, cooking over a fire of sticks in the middle of the room. And I am sitting here, in front of my computer, saying \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Well, gosh-darn it, you knew he was a product of Chicago machine politics for chrissakes \u00e2\u20ac\u201c what the frack else did you expect?<\/em>\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n

Oh, and I still hate my call-center job, by the way. Still can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t count on the income stream from the books to the point where I can quit it, though.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The SA Tea Party made the final decision on a venue for our 4th of July bash \u00e2\u20ac\u201c the lovely destination ranch, the Rio Cibolo Ranch, which a group of us went to visit last Saturday. I just hope the fields are still as green and lovely in July as they are right now. Well, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,1,5,16,21,83,40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6933","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aint-that-america","category-general","category-media-matters-not","category-military","category-sarcasm","category-tea-time","category-working-in-a-salt-mine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncobrief.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6933","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncobrief.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncobrief.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncobrief.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncobrief.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6933"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ncobrief.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6933\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncobrief.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncobrief.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncobrief.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}