Show up at the tea party, bring your signs and let’s take our country back from the corporations which have bought our government and raided our nation’s wealth! End NAFTA, stop Walmart, end corporatism! The original Boston Tea Party was about protecting our nation from monopoly [huh!?], let’s support the new movement, and make our government once again for the people instead of the corporations!!! Bring back our jobs from where they’ve been outsourced, get our trade policy to benefit all of America instead of just importers and sellers of foreign-made goods…get America back to a nation which produces real goods, because we can’t succeed if we don’t have an industrial base. Let’s use this opportunity to TAKE OUR COUNTRY BACK from the rich and powerful interests that would enslave us!!!!!!!! [Bold added.]

Talk about completely missing the point of the original Boston Tea Party! Has this person ever read the Declaration of Independence?

If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you
But make allowance for their doubting too,
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or being lied about, don’t deal in lies,
Or being hated, don’t give way to hating

That’s Ayn Rand’s favorite poem, I heard.

Video evidence above:

[After leaving office, former members of Congress] find it quite convenient to associate with other former members of the opposing party and start a lobbying firm. What might have appeared to be contentious differences when in office are easily put aside to lobby their respected party members. Essentially no philosophic difference of importance exists — it’s only a matter of degree and favors sought, since both parties must be won over. The differences they might have had while they were voting members of Congress existed only for the purpose of appealing to their different constituencies, not serious differences of opinion as to what the role of government ought to be. This is the reality of bipartisanship. Sadly our system handsomely rewards those who lobby well and in a bipartisan fashion. Congressional service too often is a training ground or a farm system for the ultimate government service: lobbying Congress for the benefit of powerful and wealthy special interests.

This article from the Washington Post, though a bit old, offers greater (financial) perspective on the subject as well. Don’t miss it.

Please excuse my language today, I just find this sort of hypocrisy beyond outrageous! I wonder though what would make a man such as the governor, (i.e.: a rich, powerful man who without a doubt has an abundant selection of women at his disposal – freely, not to mention HIS WIFE!) would spend $80,000 a year for sex. Even Julia Roberts only charged $3000/week; Mr. Spitzer routinely shelled out the same amount for one freakin’ HOUR! Either these girls have some out-of-this-world skills, or “The Sheriff of Wall Street” must have some very, very, very sick fantasies! Most New Yorkers don’t even make near $80,000 a year … or even 2! But maybe I’m just falling victim to the Marxist notion of price.

Isn’t it amazing how it’s always the self-righteous ones that tend to be the sleaziest of them all, whether they be Republican or Democrat? I wonder what’s hiding in Obama’s closet(s)? Do you think he could be Muslim? Just kidding. He might be a socialist however.

P.S: On a more serious note, I believe prostitution should be perfectly legal … I just don’t think public officials (or anyone else, for that matter) should be able to enjoy it at my expense.

Now, State Senator Carl Kruger, seeing that New Yorkers will take just about anything, wants to basically stop us from using any electronic devices while walking outside. Via WNBC:

A state senator from Brooklyn said on Tuesday he plans to introduce legislation that would ban people from using an MP3 player, cell phone, Blackberry or any other electronic device while crossing the street in New York City and Buffalo.

NewsChannel 4 reported that Sen. Carl Kruger is proposing the ban in response to two recent pedestrian deaths in his district, including a 23-year-old man who was struck and killed last month while listening to his iPod on Avenue T and East 71st Street In Bergen Beach.

“While people are tuning into their iPods and cell phones, they’re tuning out the world around them,” Kruger said…

Yep, you’ve got to leave it to politicians to manufacture the crime of WWLM — Walking While Listening to Music. It is impossible to walk for more than 30-45 seconds in New York City without having to cross a street! Now imagine having to interrupt your phone conversation, or having to pause your iPod, every 30 seconds, just so you can cross a street! Why does Mr. Senator think that, for some reason, I can’t use my eyes and ears at the same time? Your guess is as good as mine.

Politicians really are awkward creatures: they think of every little thing as a big problem that needs to be solved by legislation. Not to sound too insensitive, but if a grown man doesn’t know how to properly cross a street, he really may be out of “tune” with the world, but an iPod is the least of his problems. Maybe Mr. Senator ought to consider legislation that would ban people from listening to music or the radio while driving their cars.

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P.S: Holy sh*t! I think I’m blogging!

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