why are all these people so in to tea bagging?

What's up with all these tea-baggers?  I don't really watch the news, so I hadn't heard about this tax day tea party thing.  It's unfortunate that r(libertarians,nutjobs) is so close to 1.

I'm sort of a libertarian... I would prefer to have smaller government and less government involvement in my life than more.  But when I see people claiming to be libertarians marching around with signs like these, I question my libertarian inklings.  I can only hope that Nutjob -> Libertarian; and not Libertarian -> Nutjob.

Is it too late to give them the south?  Let them hate taxes, black people, france, science, mexicans, jews, diversity, wine, gays, Target, sex, foreign cars, education, and the rest of the world.  Maybe if we give them all of our wal-marts, dollar stores, and waffle houses they'll let us keep California.

The more I think about it, the better idea it sounds.  Let's secede from the south, who's with me!?

TBR Breakdown of Obama and Rebuttal

I think it's interesting to see how Obama's campaign theme has continued to run through his first 36 days of his presidency. I'm on the hope theme, but it's sort of hard to buy it when I turn on the news, check the stock market, or think about Detroit. Obama says the right things, but in fairly vague terms. Frankly though, I wasn't really paying attention, I couldn't stop staring at that fox, Nancy Pelosi. She's a vision in green.

How about the rebuttal? First all, how did Louisiana get a Rhodes Scholar to go to their state? I'm pretty sure this guy took voice lessons from Kenneth, the page.



He spent a lot of time talking about how he and Obama have diverse backgrounds... thanks dipshit, I'm not blind. I particularly appreciated his yarn about his sheriff buddy and Katrina. Break his point down... I'm from India, don't trust government... lower taxes for businesses, tax credit for home buyers, Democrats are big spenders, drill for oil, TER-ROAR!, Amerrrrrica... don't monitor volcanoes, etc. Look buddy, clearly we need volcano monitoring.

To be serious for a minute, the Indian guy made a couple points I typically agree with. Unfortunately, he did it in the hick-ass way Republicans tend to do shit. I don't necessarily agree with everything the Prez sez, but I'm impressed by his ability to play well with others, especially given his massive political capital.

Apparently not Northrax?

For Buskus:

NEW YORK (WABC) -- A New Jersey factory that makes fenugreek seeds was the source of the mystery syrupy smell that wafted from time to time over New York City.

"Given the evidence, I think it's safe to say that the Great Maple Syrup Mystery has finally been solved," said Mayor Bloomberg. "I want to thank the City's environmental protection and emergency workers, as well as their colleagues in the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection, for their diligence in finding the source of the smell, which was a lot like finding a needle in a haystack. Air samples taken by DEP have confirmed that the odor in New York City was an ester associated with fenugreek seed processing. The Health Department confirmed that the odor does not pose a health risk, but I am pleased to know that our OEM and DEP smelling sleuths got to the bottom of this mystery." The International Frutarom Corporation factory in North Bergen was tracked down to be the source.

The city Department of Environmental Protection dispatched a team of inspectors earlier this month after the city's 311 system was deluged with calls from New Yorkers reporting the mysterious scent drifting through parts of upper Manhattan and Queens.

In 2005, hundreds of people in New York and across the river in New Jersey reported the strangely seductive odor.

At the time, Bloomberg said a slew of agencies - the NYPD, the Office of Emergency Management and the Health Department - investigated the scent and found nothing toxic or links to terrorism.

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You got a little sand...here, let me get that