Uh oh. The masses are revolting. (“You said it. They stink on ice!” — QUICK! What movie is that from? No, not Braveheart! Think again!)
At least eight North Texas municipalities, and about 1,000 municipalities nationwide, hosted tea party events.
Police estimated several thousand people attended the Dallas event, with protesters waving yellow “don’t tread on me” flags and a variety of signs alternately decrying taxes, panning a federal economic stimulus package and chiding Obama as a socialist/communist.
Oh, he’s not a communist. Nobody’s dead. Yet. Except those pirates. And come on, admit it: That was kinda cool.
“We will be called haters, and we are. We are haters of big-spending politicians. We will be called racists, and we are — we are members of the human race,” Dennis, a McKinney resident, said as silence turned to roars.
Hah?
What he should have said is “We will be called racists — and we are! We privilege the only race that matters: the human race! And we are sick and tired of being treated not like humans but like numbers on a ledger sheet, cogs in a giant federal bureaucratic machine, cranking away, day and night, to feed the megalomaniacal lusts and appetites of our overlords in Washington who steal our souls and bury our dreams with their blueprints for a new tomorrow that never comes because it exists solely in the fetid depths of their own solipsistic imaginations, the excreta of a collectivist phantasm that trembles before the individual human conscience and individual human liberties! They may take our lives, but they’ll never take OUR FREEDOM!”
Or something similar. In his own words, of course.
As for secession:
“There’s a lot of different scenarios,” [Governor Rick] Perry told the rally, according to the Associated Press. “We’ve got a great union. There’s absolutely no reason to dissolve it. But if Washington continues to thumb their nose at the American people, you know, who knows what might come out of that.”
I do.
As for that other movie …
And I do think Jeff Goldblum will make an excellent addition to the latest iteration of a show that seems to have been on the air longer than that test of the Emergency Broadcast System. You know, Waiting for Godot is on Broadway now, with Nathan Lane and Bill Irwin. I would pay good money to see a production with Jeff Goldblum and Christopher Walken as Vladimir and Estragon. (I remember when Robin Williams and Steve Martin did their turn back in the late 80s/early 90s(?). Beckett sued the producers for changing some of the dialogue so that it would allude to contemporary political events. The late Irish playwright was not amused.)
How did I get on this topic? See what happens when I’m overcaffeinated?
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Actually, they were banned by some health-and-safety czar who feared students and staff at the historic Bodleian would faw down go boom.
