Byron York has this piece about the counterproductive urge on the left to characterize the Tea Parties as extreme, racist, and violent. After turning a few rocks over he seems to find the motherlode under the Southern Poverty Law Center.
In 1989, the SPLC warned of the growing threat of skinheads, saying, “Not since the height of Klan activity during the civil rights era has there been a white supremacist group so obsessed with violence. …”
In 1992, the SPLC warned of the growing threat of other white supremacist groups, which it claimed had grown by 27 percent from the year before.
In 1995, the SPLC warned of the growing threat of right-wing militias.
In 1998, the SPLC warned of the growing threat of Internet-based hate groups, which according to one press account had “created the biggest surge in hate in America in years.”
In 1999, the SPLC warned that the growing threat of Web-based hate groups was growing even more, with a 60 percent increase from the year before.
In 2002, the SPLC warned of the growing threat of post-Sept. 11 hate groups, which it said had grown 12 percent between 2000 and 2001.
In 2004, the SPLC warned (again) of the growing threat of skinhead groups, whose numbers it said had doubled in the previous year.
In 2008, the SPLC warned of the growing threat of hate groups overall, whose number it said increased 48 percent since 2000.
And in 2010, just a few weeks ago, the SPLC warned of the growing threat of “patriot” groups, which it said increased by 244 percent in 2009.
Man, that’s what I call growth. With numbers like that, 387% of every American man, woman, and child, white, black, yellow, red, and other, gay, and straight are violent white supremacists.
With them as a “credible source”, it’s no wonder the left is wetting their pants at all the white supremacists hiding in the McDonald’s bathroom, and neighbor’s dog house.
But it’s not just one org pumping out implausible statistics; it’s a complete self-reinforcing system of paranoia. Which brings me back to last summer, after the left-wing mensa kook shot the guard at the Holocaust museum. At the time, Jesse Walker wrote a piece at Reason Magazine on the reaction to that, long before the libel against the Tea Parties got its socks on:
Who killed Stephen Tyrone Johns, the guard gunned down at the Holocaust museum in Washington, D.C., last week? If you only read the news pages, the culprit should be clear: the 88-year-old Nazi James W. von Brunn. But in the opinion section, the answer looks cloudier. For some pundits, blame rests not just with the killer but with a host of angry voices on the radio, the television, and the Internet.
I think you all remember. According to the media, the guy was not only a typical white supremacist, but he was the tip of an iceberg. Remember?
Bonnie Erbe of U.S. News and World Report indicts the “promoters of hate” for the shooting, adding, “If yesterday’s Holocaust Museum slaying of security guard and national hero Stephen Tyrone Johns is not a clarion call for banning hate speech, I don’t know what is.” In The New York Times, columnist Paul Krugman warns that “right-wing extremism is being systematically fed by the conservative media and political establishment.” His colleague Frank Rich has written a piece that begins with the museum shooting but rapidly becomes an argument that “homicide-saturated vituperation is endemic among mini-Limbaughs.” After the museum murder, Rich writes, Glenn Beck “rushed onto Fox News to describe the Obama-hating killer as a ‘lone gunman nutjob.’ Yet in the same show Beck also said von Brunn was a symptom that ‘the pot in America is boiling,’ as if Beck himself were not the boiling pot cheering the kettle on.”
Beck. Boiling pot. Heh.
Less than a month before the museum murder, an assassin shot the Kansas abortionist George Tiller, prompting a similar set of complaints. For the record, I don’t think Tiller’s critics in the media and the pro-life movement should be blamed for that crime. Speakers are not morally responsible for all the ways their words can be received. But in that case, at least, there was a coherent connection between the rhetoric and the killer’s target. Say what you will about Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck, or Michael Savage, but I don’t remember any of them railing against the Holocaust museum. If Beck, to borrow Rich’s mixed metaphor, is cheering on a kettle, it isn’t the kettle that produced von Brunn.
Which brings us to the nub:
We’ve heard a lot of warnings about extremist paranoia in the months since Barack Obama became president. We’ve heard much less about the paranoia of the centrists; indeed, the very idea that the sober center could be paranoid sounds bizarre. But when mainstream columnists treat a small group of unconnected crimes as a “pattern” of “rising right-wing violence,” their thesis bears more than a little resemblance to the conspiracy theories of the fringe figures they oppose. In both cases, the stories being told reflect the anxieties of the people discerning the patterns much more than any order actually emerging in the outside world.
This is an interesting and highly counterintuitive thesis. He’s suggesting that the “center” has become so paranoid, that they’ve manufactured a threat, and the threat then becomes the driving force behind a witchhunt.
This certainly isn’t without precedent. The Salem witchhunters weren’t radicals; they were the pillars of their community. But hunt witches, unfairly and irrationally, they most certainly did.
I’d reframe this a little. I’m not so convinced that there is a such thing as a “center”, as Walker claims; I think what he’s referring to is the elite. The “center” if you will, of the political/media establishment. But the point remains. The “respectable” establismentarian position can take on a tinge of paranoia.
The classic account of American conspiratology is Richard Hofstadter’s 1964 essay “The Paranoid Style in American Politics.” It’s a flawed, uneven article, but it includes several perceptive passages. The most astute section might be this:
It is hard to resist the conclusion that this enemy is on many counts the projection of the self; both the ideal and the unacceptable aspects of the self are attributed to him. The enemy may be the cosmopolitan intellectual, but the paranoid will outdo him in the apparatus of scholarship, even of pedantry. Secret organizations set up to combat secret organizations give the same flattery. The Ku Klux Klan imitated Catholicism to the point of donning priestly vestments, developing an elaborate ritual and an equally elaborate hierarchy. The John Birch Society emulates Communist cells and quasi-secret operation through “front” groups, and preaches a ruthless prosecution of the ideological war along lines very similar to those it finds in the Communist enemy.
Hofstadter doesn’t acknowledge it, but the argument could be applied to a lot of his audience as well. His article begins with a reference to “extreme right-wingers,” a lede that reflected the times: As he was writing, America was undergoing a wave of alarm about the radical right. This had been building throughout the Kennedy years and had intensified after the president’s assassination, which many people either blamed directly on the far right or attributed to an atmosphere of fear and division that they traced to the right’s rhetoric. By the time Hofstadter’s article appeared, the projection he described was in full effect not merely on the fringes but in the political center. Just as anti-Communists had mimicked the Communists, anti-anti-Communists were emulating the red-hunters.
History does seem to have a way of repeating itself, doesn’t it?
In 1961, for example, Walter and Victor Reuther of the United Auto Workers and the liberal attorney Joseph Rauh wrote a 24-page memo urging the attorney general to deploy the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Internal Revenue Service, and the Federal Communications Commission in “the struggle against the radical right.” By this they meant not just the Birchers and the Christian Crusade but Goldwater and the libertarian Volker Fund.
Goldwater???
In Before the Storm, his history of the Goldwater movement, the independent historian Rick Perlstein describes Group Research Incorporated, a UAW-funded operation, as “the mirror image of the political intelligence businesses that monitored left-wingers in the 1950s, identifying fellow-travelling organizations by counting the number of members and officers shared with purported Communist Party fronts. Group Research did the same thing, substituting the John Birch Society for the reds.“
The implications of this for the present are clear: the allegations of radicalism coming from the left and the establishment organs toward the tea parties are a reflection of the left-wing radicalism among those who have actually seized power.
Walker then goes on to make the case that the militias, then and now, are also generally being tarred as far more radical than they really are. The whole thing is worth a read.
Aryan Nations leader Richard Butler complained to New York Post reporter Jonathan Karl in The Right to Bear Arms, Karl’s balanced assessment of the militia phenomenon. “They’re actually traitors to the white race; they seek to integrate with blacks, Jews, and others.” It’s true that some racists and anti-Semites popped up in militia circles. Some blacks, Hispanics, and Jews showed up as well. The driving force behind the movement was fear of the government, not fear of foreign races and religions.
The militias may be a little nuts, but so are the people running this country. The difference is the militias aren’t dangerous, because they’re not in power.
And speaking of paranoid nuts, hi there, stalkers! How’s Fearless Leader?
Tags: Militias, Tea Parties
Meanwhile,back in the reality zone.
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/candance-moore/2010/04/21/shocking-report-police-find-tea-parties-more-peaceful-anti-war-prote
Where does the SPLC get its money, anyway?
Grants from MSNBC?
I get the feeling that most of their “research” involves the use of Google and a few key words.
There may have been a big increase in anti-government websites or something, but that doesn’t translate into anything in the real world.
Howdy folks! Long post! Hey, lobo91 -- new avatar! Who’s that? Very cute.
http://www.splcreport.com/
@ savages_girl:
hey babes!
@ savage:
Yyyyyyyup.
@ lobo91:
Don’t forget wiki,thats a huge research favorite of the race detectives.
@ savages_girl:
Hi sg!
@ snork:
That link has a lot of good information
Looks like the SPLC has about the same success rate of accurate prediction as Nobel Laureate Paul Krugman, who “accurately” predicted nine out of the last none recessions under the Bush administration during the period of 2002-2006. Perhaps they should corroborate with Mr. Nobel?
Shills…
Haven’t done any research at SPLC. Any “hate groups” on the left? My guess,the ratio is 10:1.
Only problem with the article I can see is that for some reason York sees the press as centrist. Anyone who can fool themselves with this kind of idea really needs to reflect.
@ savage:
! hi honey!
#5 -- SAVAGE
@ savage:
The SPLC is one of the more trusted NGOs out there, but there are a ton of these left-wing NGOs all quietly chomping away on the rebar of society. A really good site to look the whole damn spider’s web is discover the networks.
savages_girl wrote:
That’s Leia, the Wonder Sheltie.
She actually makes me write that. It’s in her contract.
Let’s try that again. Discover the networks.
OT -- I found the un-Mata Hari.
@ vagabond trader:
#8
Hi VT! How’s it going?
Jeesh,right on cue.
http://weaselzippers.us/2010/04/22/newt-gingrich-the-tea-party-will-end-up-as-the-militant-wing-of-the-republican-party/
@ lobo91:
LOL! I believe you!
@ savages_girl:
Spring has sprung in the northeast! Yaaaaay!
snork wrote:
Which is itself possibly the scariest thing about this article. After being spectacularly wrong on this for decades, people still actually take them seriously when, once again, they warn of the wolf in the sheepfold. Where does this credibility (and credulirty) come from? They haven’t been right yet. Why does anyone expect them to be right the next time they whine about non-existant white supremacists coming out of the storm drains to eat people’s brains?
@ vagabond trader:
Newt. Shut up. You had your 15 minutes, and Clinton stole your lunch money. Just shut up, k?
@ vagabond trader:
Yeah, all those old men and ladies and soccer moms and little girls carrying signs.
CJ has pretty good taste.
Iron Fist wrote:
Don’t you remember the storm drain next to the grassy knoll? Everybody knows about that.
Wolf!
Wolf!
Wolf!
Wolf!
@ snork:
At one time the dude actually made sense.
@ snork:
@ mjazz:
Waiting for these rinos to use the teabagger word.Out out begone!
IS the SPLC a hate group itself?
The problem is actually worse. They forgot to include Kilgore Trout as an active racist.
@ buzzsawmonkey:
Sheltie!
Sheltie!
Sheltie!
Sheltie!
Yeah well I went to a Tea Party on the 15th, those grannies on walkers
looked pretty dangerous to me.
@ vagabond trader:
And then they wonder why we aren’t enthusiastically supporting them. Damn, first Michael Steele tells blacks the Republicans offer them nothing, now Newt attacks the Tea Party. Are they trying to destroy the Party? Seriously, time for them all to retire.
lobo91 wrote:
“Come in,” she said. “I’ll give you
Shelties from the storm.”
@ RIX:
I am ascared of them.
I like that observation that in the Bush years dissent was patriotic, in the Obama years dissent is racism. While Obama probably has more threats against him, I think his numbers are overblown and probably used different parameters.
The GoP rolls over too much politely for the left. AKA John McCain types. great guy but not assertive enough.
mjazz wrote:
He lost his balls somewhere.
Maybe his current wife doesn’t like him being a conservative.
Earth Day: An Assault On Man
Someone was just talking about this a few threads back.
Earth Day is the same as… Lenin’s birthday!
How diabolical can you get?
chickadee wrote:
It’s that damn fruit and water diet.
@ orangecrush:
Funny,haven’t seen any movies simulating the assassination of Obowma.
@ vagabond trader:
Me too. They are much more frightening than say Islamic groups, that threaten the South Park creators with a death like Theo VanGogh. Yep tea partiers are the ones to fear. lol
Yeah , can’t trust them. Heck, they actually go to bingo!
@ vagabond trader:
Did you see Psycho as a kid?
vagabond trader wrote:
That’s because they don’t sell silver bullets at Wal-Mart.
@ mjazz:
A-scarred for life.
Iron Fist wrote:
These people are not conservatives. We have no need of their half assed services and that pisses them off.
Look how Crist is threatening to run as an Independent just to fck up Rubio.
Some of these bums are morphing into the category of outright enemy.
@ vagabond trader:
Shhh! You’re gonna get us all locked up./
@ vagabond trader:
Gee, I really used to love Newt. What the hell happened to him? Someone’s gonna find a picture of him and Crist holding hands at Oil Can Harry’s.
snork @ 17:
I see she’s sporting a latex glove. Can’t afford the “fleshlight” lol
@ huckfunn:
Who knows, maybe someone already has these type of photos.Its the only logical explanation.
@ buzzsawmonkey:
Will there be cookies?*
*Note: “Cookies” in Sheltie dialect refers to any type of food or food-like substance able to be consumed by Shelties.
So, correct me if I’m wrong—seeing as how I don’t visit Yertle’s Place as so many here still do—but isn’t habitually-wrong SPLC the Source of Choice for the Mad King these days?
@ buzzsawmonkey:
Between them,wiki and Kos he has the world of haters covered.
buzzsawmonkey wrote:
Yup. CJ holds them in high regard.
He’s said so on multiple occasions.
@ RIX:
Ever got between them and a buffet?
@ vagabond trader:
Newt’s just embarrassing. Wish he’d just go away.
Von Brunn didn’t shoot anybody. Read the details--
http://rex84.ipbfree.com/index.php?showtopic=1817
@ lobo91:
I guess he’s a big one for Dees, Dems and a dose.
@ starviego:
Sure,tell that to the family of the murdered guard.
@ starviego:
I think I’ll pass on the conspiracy sites, thanks.
And for the record, even if he didn’t actually shoot the guard, and one of the other did so accidentally, it was still his fault. Had he not died in custody, he still would have been legally responsible for the death.
Are you talking about the Early Bird Special? No, I wouldn’t do that.
huckfunn wrote:
I agree. He’s a joke now. Not what we need.
What a ridiculous time for him to start reaching across the aisle . . . . to commies, no less.
HEY GUYS!
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/this message will self destruct in 5… 4… 3… 2… *poof*
buzzsawmonkey wrote:
When they talk about the South, yes. However, Yertle took exception to that report about racism in Hawaii.
snork wrote:
Some things are just too haole to jest about.
Those Tea Partiers are a nasty crew and we sure as shootin don’t need any Christians speaking at the Pentagon either./
On the 25th pick in the first round Tim Tebow is taken by Denver.
Actually, isn’t it time that the would-be pejorative “Teabagger” was embraced?
What, after all, is the Tea Party movement doing but discomfiting the Left by showing it—up close and personal—that the Right has big balls?
mountains and windmills…maybe the worst photo ever!
m wrote:
Hey! I was just about to call in. Can you unselfdestruct for a few minutes?
mawskrat wrote:
The windmills were probably a Quixote hat-tip.
To the Defense of the Prophet SWS
ICK! I went over to cj’s and it is like reading kos!
typicalwhitey wrote:
{typicalwhitey}
How the heck are you? Good to see you.
well, that was fun.
typicalwhitey wrote:
With a hint of Manson.
coldwarrior wrote:
It was delightful. And thanks for the drink.
lol
coldwarrior wrote:
Y’all sound like a bunch of Yankees… and I don’t mean that in a bad way
Doing good chick…been really busy with the grandson
@ chickadee:
@ huckfunn:
i would be the northerner NOT from NYC!
fuck!
savage wrote:
sorry? i dindnt quite get that?
huckfunn wrote:
I don’t think M, Carolina Girl or I sounded like a bunch of Yankees. . . . . did we?
@ coldwarrior:
mom is making me watch all her FUCKING STUPID ASS TELEVISION SHOWS. God, I cannot wait to get back to work and get the fuck out of here…
the blogmocracy radio will be fun, i look forward to this little project.
@ savage:
ouch.
chickadee wrote:
Nah; I was just thinking of the predominate voices. But as I said, I don’t mean it in a bad way. After all, I wasn’t born in Texas but I got here as quick as I could.
@ coldwarrior:
Once my mom is gone, I am selling the house, giving my brother half the money and I’ll leave this state.
I really enjoyed talking to everyone! It was nice meeting you all. Actually, I’m currently in AL but lived in NY for 40 years.
Where could I have listened?
@ huckfunn:
I had a great time
mtc wrote:
Nice to have spoken to you
savage wrote:
Get out of California while you still have your sanity.
@ savage:
get the hell out of CA, good move.
@ savage:
I wish my mom were still alive. She died in 2004. Enjoy your mom while you can.
@ mtc:
@ Speranza:
fun fun fun
mtc wrote:
It was nice hearing your voice.
@ mjazz:
We took it down. The real show hosted by macker will be this weekend.
@ Speranza:
That was cool. It’s interesting to finally associate voices with personas that seem to exist only in the cyber world.
savage wrote:
You could always try the old, “gee mom, we so rarely get the time to talk face to face, , , why don’t we turn off the TV and just visit?” thing.
So it was a conference call?
@ coldwarrior:
yeppers
@ Speranza:
Hey Speranza.
I often wondered what your voice sounded like.
typicalwhitey wrote:
CJ is more radical than DAILY KOS.
@ Speranza:
It’s beyond impossible to live in California anymore and I was born and raised here.
Goddamn turd world shithole LA is becoming.
chickadee wrote:
I sound a lot like Richard Burton huh?
mjazz wrote:
Yes, it was like a conference call. But like teenagers all talking at once.
It was great.
savage wrote:
The land of fruits and nuts and Charlie Johnson.
mjazz wrote:
for all intents and purposes…the blogmocracy radio gets trooped out for real saturday.
Wow!! It was so great to hear all your voices!! I’m sorry I came to the party so late. You all sound so great!! But I am a little saddened to know that I sound like a Yankee now. LOL! I guess all these years here have taken their toll.
@ Bordm:
.
And listen to endless hours of how wonderful Obama and Pelosi and Boxer are? yuk!
Speranza wrote:
Better. You sounded like an American Richard Burton.
huckfunn wrote:
Half the people here I do not even know whether they are male or female.
chickadee wrote:
and I look like Errol Flynn!
savage wrote:
Relax, breath deeply and tell us what you really think.
Bluebird wrote:
Sound like a Yankee? Derek Jeter???
CJ went to the SPLC once he was cornered on the illegals, drug mules, coyote human trafficing, wage slaves, the young Mexican sex slaves in the orange groves in Fl. , the Unions and Democrats handing out ID’s to illegals along with fake Union shop work tickets, together with the fake X-rays of the scab illegal Mexican welders on high pressure gas lines near schools in Texas ect.
He is the Lord of Fools on Planet earth.
IMHO
sinking he is into madness
@ huckfunn:
If I do that, I’ll explode.
Great takedown snork!
huckfunn wrote:
Actually my accent is not so pronounced normally, as Sperana will attest -- but I had wine at lunch and my vocal cords get lazy….
Anybody ever notice how similar “Keynesian” and Kenyian” are?
mtc wrote:
Mine died in 1976. A terrible blow.
Speranza wrote:
You do?
Does ANYONE here look like Robert Mitchum? (at all)?
lol
huckfunn wrote:
If I’d called in, all you would have heard was “Woof! Woof woof!”
Carolina Girl wrote:
Tonight you actually sounded like a Carolinian.
chickadee wrote:
Someone here looks like Richard Boone aka Paladin.
taxfreekiller wrote:
I’m pretty sure his feet have already touched bottom….
@ savage:
California is a Marxist State.
@ savage:
LOL, you have my sincere sympathy, inane television or inane conversation, one is as bad as the other.
@ Speranza:
My uncle William looks like Mitchum.
Speranza wrote:
There was a story about Yogi Berra (could’ve been Casey Stengel). A streaker ran across the field at some point during a game. Afterward, the announcer asked Yogi if the the streaker was a boy or a girl. Yogi said “I don’t know. They had a bag over their head”.
Speranza wrote:
Happens when I get excited, too, and meeting new people, which, in many ways this was!
@ Rodan:
It used to be a paradise here, now it’s nothing but illegals, commies, union thugs and scumbags.
huckfunn wrote:
My favorite Yogi Berraism (after he saw the movie “Papillon” on TV) -- “Steve McQueen looked pretty good -- he must have made the picture before he died”
Carolina Girl wrote:
You sounded perfect.
How areyou guys talking to each other????
@ Bordm:
Oh, she had a hissy fit the other day when we were testing out the blogtalkradio, thinks I have no idea how great Democrats are to the US.
Fuck, I wanted to bash her face in.
@ Speranza:
HAW!
Keep in mind.
These commie nut case tax, spend, and Constitution rippers are voted in by Democrats who live and work amoung U.S..
Know well the ones at the top are depending on the vote “for the dole” slaves to keep them in power no matter the cost or the law.
Carolina Girl wrote:
You really had the accent tonight. I have spoken to you many times and there was never a trace of it in your voice previously.
@ Carolina Girl:
Rodan said you sound like me, lol!
Bless!
@ Rodan:
This election in November will be interesting, not so much for Governor, but to see if the legislature changes. Unfortunately, both houses of California are based on population, and the liberal areas are continually sending insane people to Sacramento. But the state’s in deplorable shape, Arnie and the Dems have increased taxes so much that it gives the conservatives something good to run on. The Teachers Union is losing clout with the electorate.
typicalwhitey wrote:
Blogmocracy radio
Carolina Girl wrote:
I love what wine does for the ladies.
Speranza wrote:
Ok help me out here.
How do I join??
@ m:
Well, I hope you’re on the call next time and not the switchboard. So when we do it Saturday, it will be broadcast somewhere? It’s Flyboy’s birthday, so we may not be able to join in because of celebrating with liquor.
typicalwhitey wrote:
We were testing out a Blogmocracy radio show (i know, we’ve done it before but it’s like herding cats!) Keep an eye out for the real thing!
Btw, I have pictures from 0′s visit to Cooper Union today, but no idea how to post them. Should I email them to the blogmocracy gmail account ?
Carolina Girl wrote:
Governor Christie of New Jersey just won a solid victory against the teachers union.
@ savage:
Savage! That’s fucked up!
Bluebird wrote:
Yes that would be great.
lobo91 wrote:
Hey! That’s a new look for you, Lobo. I was gonna comment on it earlier but then you ‘splained. Shelties are great dogs.
@ m:
So can we call in and stuff?
Carolina Girl wrote:
My father looked like Charlton Heston.
@ m:
why do you think I want to go back to work?
Not much more of this Commie shit I can handle
typicalwhitey wrote:
This Saturday you can.
@ Speranza:
The Jazz Blog is Far Left.
Carolina Girl wrote:
Oh you would be great liquored up. All the inner love you have for Snowball will come out in a torrent of expletives that would make a truck driver blush.
@ Speranza:
Okay… I’m going to try it.
@ Carolina Girl:
Yep, Macker will host. I guess we’ll give you this one off
(happy b-day Flyboy!) but I hope you’re a regular! Maybe you can help translate when my southern comes out (like it ever stops), lol!
@ Bluebird:
Yes, please! Cool!
@ huckfunn:
Leia says “Woof!”
I think that means thank you.
Or possibly that she’s hungry.
@ Speranza:
Think I’ll turn red? lol
MTC! Sorry I missed you screening! I would have loved to have said hey! Rodan went for the free-for-all ~:D
my penguins need to win this hockey game so i can go to bed….its near the end of the second OT…early tee time in the AM.
Rodan wrote:
It really is. It is not even center-left, it is way out therein left field now.
@ savage:
OK, that’s just wrong, I know what you mean, but it’s still wrong. I got lots of Libs in the non-immediate family. I just laugh at them and tell them that I will be there when the scales finally fall from their eyes. Sarcasm is a great weapon.
savage wrote:
I love when you get hot in the collar over Chuckhead.
@ typicalwhitey:
Yep. We’ll do an announcement thread, and then put the player on the blog so people can listen live and call in and all that cool stuff! You should hear these guys when they get going! lol!
coldwarrior wrote:
At least the Rockies managed to split their series with Washington.
Did the Nationals go out and get a whole new team over the winter, or what?
New pic:
http://i106.photobucket.com/albums/m263/christie44/Mobile%20Uploads/2010-04-19_192123-1.jpg
@ coldwarrior:
No kidding, I am missing the Sharks / Av’s because of this!!!!
And my Kings lost last night, those bums…..
Bordm wrote:
I just remind them how much money their little children and grandchildren are going to owe thanks to Obama’s deficits. That usually shuts their pie holes.
@ lobo91:
rockies?
nationals?
what is this of which you speak?
@ coldwarrior:
It’s spring.
Proper Americans watch baseball now.
//
@ typicalwhitey:
AAWWWWWWW! Man he’s growing!
bar wrote:
end of second OT…its gonna be a long one.
sorry, bar.
@ lobo91:
Not until playoff Hockey is over, then maybe not even then.
lobo91 wrote:
baseball? i’ll have to google that.
@ m:
I know!
one more:
http://i106.photobucket.com/albums/m263/christie44/Mobile%20Uploads/2010-04-19_162225.jpg
Speranza wrote:
Here is one of the pictures I took at the Beaumont, Texas TEA Party. It goes with your statement. A couple of the others are good also.
@ Bordm:
OMG! That is hilarious!
@ typicalwhitey:
He’s so cute. And a toddler now.
You’ll have to update your avatar.
@ typicalwhitey:
Too cute! ~:D
@ Bordm:
That’s great. You should have let us link’em here!
night, everyone.
@ Bordm:
I know. I know. It’s just torquing me off to see her pop off leftist nonsense….
@ chickadee:
good idea chick!
typicalwhitey wrote:
I can’t take any credit, I saw the little lady with the sign and asked her if I could take her picture. It was the best sign I saw that day.
@ coldwarrior:
Something tells me this year will be a repeat of 1993, when we tore a path to the Stanley Cup through Canada.
But then I think that every year, even the years we don’t make the playoff’s.
You know, I have been a fan for my entire life. But lost interest the last few years, so watching them doesnt have that same emotional effect that it had before. Its really weird and nice not to be angry all the time.
The San Diego Chargers burned me out.
What the hell am I going to do with my LT jerseys?
Damn theirs that anger again…
@ m:
I posted the links on a thread that night, anything I have there is free for anyone’s use. I suppose I could have sent the link in an email, I got busy and it slipped my mind. No biggie.
savage wrote:
I figured that, we all have to let off steam on occasion. This is a good place to do that.