We're Making Progress

Because I have no work to do right now because I STILL DON'T KNOW IF I HAVE A JOB (I'm taking a deep breath and recentering myself) I've been able to fill my time with my activist work. After a bit of a upheaval in the leadership structure of our tea party group, we've regrouped and have brought together a group of kick ass people (I humbly include myself in this group). I volunteered to get the website up and running. I crossed my fingers and began clicking away and before I knew it I had the website up and running. I'm very proud and pleased with how it is turning out. Here's the link: http://chicoteaparty.ning.com/. Go check it out. There are some pretty impressive videos of the town halls around the country. The number of people who are showing up at these town hall meetings is far greater than is being presented in the press. While these people often show a great deal of passion, they are no where close the to "manufactured angry mobs who spew hate" that they are being portrayed as by the media and the administration.

The next big event for our local tea party group is a nationwide protest on August 28th in Sacramento at the State Capitol. They are projecting between 50,000 - 100,000 people will participate. The focus of the march is on AB32 which is California's version of Cap and Trade which was passed 3 years ago, but is coming into effect now. The effects of this bill on agriculture, mining, transportation, commercial trucking, and the timber industry is devastating. We will also be protesting the cut off of access to water to farmers in central and northern California by a federal judge in order to protect a fish (minnow). The lack of water flow is causing hundreds of thousands of acreage to become fallow. In some central California towns the unemployment rate has reached 48%. Our tea party group is chartering a bus. I'm impressed that we have enough people who want to participate that we will fill a bus. Even more amazing is that we are considering chartering a second bus if we continue to get the positive response that we are getting. We really are starting to have an impact. We may be scoffed at, disparaged, and dismissed by those who disagree with us, but we are a sleeping giant that has awakened from a very long sleep. We've lots of energy, are highly motivated, and very talented. We will be victorious. Check out the following audio video of a song put out by a European rock group with libertarian leanings. Europe is ahead of us politically regarding this socialist issue and they are getting a clue and beginnning to say no more. Here's the link for the audio: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G1viGgpwSY0&eurl=http://stereogum.com/archives/album_art/new-muse-uprising_082681.html&feature=player_embedded