to golfing nut
 

actually, the speaker at la hacienda monday night is a black conservative and author. if you have concerns about racism in the Tea Party (not a political party, by the way) you should go there and listen to him speak! either one of the meetings will open your minds....and thursday night there is a wonderful program open to the public put on by Americans for Prosperity, as well as a conservative liberty alliance meeting on tuesday nights...usually can be found in the rec news at rec centers schedules. will post more info soon. these are all in the Villages. lots of information to be had for those who will listen (let him who has ears, hear!)

Monday is always "boys night out" for me and my friends and Twilight Golf is on the agenda, or I would probably go. For me it would be "preaching to the choir" anyway.

Someday, I've got to make a meeting though.

Re: The Tea Party
 

I have some advice for some of you posters from my Mom. If you can't say anything nice about someone don't say anything at all;)

I did not know what space to post this link on but since tea partiers seem to like quoting from Saul Alinski, this seems like a good place.

How many of you actually know who Alinski was and what he stood for? Read the link and you should find it interesting at least from a historical viewpoint. History - Salon.com

I thought the saying went "if you can't say something nice about someone, come sit next to me".

Raising my hand in excitement I say...I know I know choose me....Saul Alinsky was Woody Allen's uncle and as funny with his words as Woody

Could you link me to the TEA PARTY on here talking about Saul Alinsky ?

Thanks.


Only mention I know is when YOU brought it up and I gave a quick reply, and then responded to COLOGAL who asked a question.

I must have missed the Tea Party talking about him !!

Thanks..would appreciate it as I have studied him in detail..at least as much as I can get my hands on...please link me to that where they brought it up

Thanks again

PS...Message to VK....I did not bring it up, I swear. Will let you know who did when buggyone lets me know. (this is a longstanding conversation that VK has had with me on Alinsky who thinks I have brought it up sufficiently and I have not brought him up, only responded so this is important :) This goes back FOUR years by the way

I did not say the tea party posters here on this forum liked quoting from Alinski. You assumed it. Please stop attacking me like that. Ask the question one time but you asked 5 times in that one post.

Google "tea party and alinski" and you will find hundreds of sites where quotes are made about alinski.

I put the link on as a piece of information for those - me included - who know next to nothing about Alinski. It gives a pretty interesting historical background.

If you felt attacked than I surely apologize.

When I read "I did not know what space to post this link on but since tea partiers seem to like quoting from Saul Alinski, this seems like a good place."

I did not know you heard from Tea Partiers at other places and thus I apologize cause I never saw it on here. Made an assumption, and frankly never heard any Tea Partiers ever discuss him but would not be surprised.

There is a lot to read on this man...but this was discussed quite a bit on here in 2007 and 2008.

It is interesting to note something like this on Alinsky...

"CNN's Soledad O'Brien would not brand Saul Alinsky as a leftist radical, and neither would she say President Obama was influenced by his writings – but she had no problem tying Alinsky's controversial beliefs to the Tea Party movement on Monday's Starting Line.

As a community organizer in Chicago, Barack Obama mirrored the tactics Alinsky laid out in his book "Rules for Radicals" – which featured a tribute to the devil Lucifer, "the very first radical." GOP candidate Newt Gingrich has recently connected Obama's beliefs with Alinsky's, sparking a media debate over the matter."

Sort of the reverse of where that last post was going and some stretch HOWEVER if you read Alinsky it may not be.

CNN Bypasses Obama-Alinsky Ties, but Links Tea Party to Alinsky | Media Research Center

I know that Gingrich brings him up a lot !

Tea Party tonight
 

New villages tea party tonight at LaHacienda Very good speaker is expected. begins at 6:30 pm come check it out

Fyi
 

promised to post time and place of thursday meeting of Americans for Prosperity...it will be held at six thirty at Lake Miona rec center..i advise arriving early....great speakers, especially brandon darby!

post script
 

P.S. if one googles brandon darby you will find many links making him sound like a "snitch" because he interfered with an attempt to place a bomb at the 2008 Republican convention! hear his real story from him, himself!

I don't think an FBI informant is a snitch but I do wonder if Darby planned the attack to entrap the others. Either way, a couple of bad guys got put away so Darby did good. If it was an actual plan for anarachists to hurt people and they got caught before it was done, that was excellent work.

I think it is wrong, though, for Darby and others, to be equating anarchist terrorism with the ones of us who are liberal in our social and political thinking. That is just as bad as liberals equating conservative minded people with killings of abortion doctors.

I seem to remember a lot of finger pointing at conservatives after the Oklahoma bombing of Timothy McVeigh. The liberal media and certain liberal politicians (re: Bill Clinton) were very guilty of this.

the point is...
 

the point is that this is an opportunity to hear his story from his own lips and his evolution from an idealistic young liberal to a conservative. i found him very interesting when i heard him last year. we really do all need to listen to each other's experiences and try to understand them. thanks for googling...