An Ol' Broad's Ramblings
How Cool!
For anyone in the Chicago area, y’all might want to check into this:
The Chicago Young Republicans (CYRs) are really taking the April 15th Tea Party in Chicago to a new level — after the protest on Daley Plaza during the afternoon, the CYRs have organized a protest cruise on Lake Michigan to channel the original Boston Tea party more than two hundred years ago.
And they’ve really outdone themselves with this one — booking the largest tall mast ship in the country for a two hour Tea Party adventure on the lake, following a large rally on Navy Pier sure to get major media attention.
The festivities kick off at 430pm April 15th, with the ship sailing at 515pm. Big John and Cisco Cotto from WIND 560AM emcee the event, with some very (VERY) special guests promised.
From 430pm-900pm, there will be an event on the dock at the Billy Goat Tavern at Navy Pier, to send the ship out into the lake, and for the duration of the cruise. This event is open to anyone sick and tired of reckless spending and a Congress that doesn’t bother to read legislation before passing it.
The cruise on the tall ship itself lasts from 515pm to around 630pm, and is a ticketed event, open to the first 125 people to sign up. Tickets include catered food and open bar on the cruise (for tickets, head to http://chicagoyrs.com).
I don’t suppose there’s a cool ship for the Nashville Tea Party? 
H/T: Sheila
Thanks for posting this! I’d like to go to it, but I better stay and work cuz you know we’re going to need the money to pay for ___ (insert food, gas, electric, etc.)
Well, there is one in Appleton, y’know!
And there’s one in Fond du Lac @ 5:30…but since they closed down the Mr’s work place…someone has to bring home the bacon!!!
Whut?! You think a couple of hours is gonna mean the difference between mac & cheese and beans & rice? LOL Hey….we need as many rational folks out there as possible. The more folks, the bigger the message.
You’re Right – I’ll be there!!!!
LOL See? I knew you were a smart cookie!
Let’s see. Muffy and Bruce will party on their yacht after the “grassroots uprising.” So these are the real beneficiaries of your teabagging?
I though it was the rebels who had the original affair, not the tories.
You sheep go out and do the visibility, the sheep herders celebrate.
So, to protest wasteful spending they’ve chartered a yacht for a party?
In what world does that make sense?
Ever known anyone to pool their funds to do something? Plus charge a fee to help pay for said something? These are young people. But I guess since they are young people who haven’t been brainwashed into the idealism of the left, it’s wrong. Got it.
Y’all really are sad, angry little people.
Hon, you are just a bit north of naive. Can’t believe someone as sharp as you would be so clueless to play right into our hands.
This ship in a bottle represents exactly what we have charged all along about this made up event. A bunch of spoiled brats who want to use ordinary people to protect their goodies, who then celebrate it on board a yacht.
The gift that keeps on giving.
By the way, if you think this is angry can’t wait for the foaming at the mouth displays re-enacted all across the country. It is going to get ugly and damaging to the GOP who staged managed this thing.
LMAO And hon, you are a far south of having any common sense.
The GOP has NOTHING….I repeat…NOTHING to do with these events. Matter of fact, most of the so called reps who have wanted to come and speak, have been turned down. This is not a party issue, this is a PEOPLE issue. If you have a job, work hard to support your family, only to see the morons in D.C. swoop in and take YOUR hard earned funds away from you to give to some lazy ass SOB who is out whining no one is giving him enough, is ok, then YOU have serious problems.
Once again, you miss the entire point. Did you even look at the site? Did you read what it said? Obviously not, or you just choose to show ignorance. The actual event is on shore, “ ….a large rally on Navy Pier….
And FYI…..I am not a Republican!
Gee, what took them so long to find this?? Glad they found it – it will help bring out more angry citizens who are tired of getting taxed to death! The Mr. and I will be in FdL tomorrow. You have a good trip to your Tea Party! We’ll compare notes later!
Unfortunately, there are those who believe it’s ok for the gubmint to control their lives, suck their paycheck dry, and overstep the bounds of the Constitution. Sad creatures, don’cha think?
This is a comment I received – and well said…..Oh my. There’s been a lot of that, if people want to bitch they can bitch, but I think there is a difference between choosing to spend $30 to have dinner (and beer/wine/pop) and spending billions of dollars to prop up failing companies and nationalize banks, auto companies, healthcare and anything else Obama can take over. And as was pointed out, the rally is on the pier, for free!- the ship was needed because you can’t throw crates off the pier into navigable water but you can from the ship after it’s left dock (with permission from the coast guard and ropes tied on to pull them back of course….) Well we will have fun while they are at home being angry.
Priceless! Heh!
Well, here’s another comment I recieved – I guess I should stay up later w/the Ol’Broad to wait for all the comments to come in……
“If you want to make a difference and get a message across, you have to be heard – why not have a mini reenactment of the Boston Tea Party in Obama’s back yard?
As was pointed out, the event is free and is on the pier – For those who choose to go on the ship, it’s not free, but some food and drinks (don’t worry, only beer and pop, Muffy will have to get her martini’s elsewhere) are included.
To me, there is a difference between CHOOSING to spend money on dinner and the politicians – who haven’t read the legislation – wastefully spending billions of dollars.
But perhaps I am just a spoiled brat.”
Well Ol Broad it’s time for me to say good-night – BIG day tomorrow!
You are being screwed blue and tattooed as the phrase goes by the private sector and not a peep, not a whimper. Health care going up double digits thanks to the health insurance industry. When the economy gets back on track gas will start leaping. Credit card companies that are getting TARP funds are jacking up rates and fees like there is no tomorrow.
But we are supporting lazy good for nothings?I that isn’t an observation that comes git wrapped in the confederate flag.
When your side starts laying claim to common sense that is when the belly laughs start.
No one from the GOP? Since when did Dick Armey, Newt Gingrich and Rupert Murdock cut up their membership cards. And you are not a Republican? I love it. Seems like NOBODY voted for Bush now a days.
You’d better hope you get turnout and you’d better hope that the crowd behaves itself and not turn into a bund rally like those Palin get togethers. You are already peddling up hill against a very popular president.
Pardon me but the statement does say they will be celebrating on the boat. Oh excuse me. The swells will be celebrating while the peasants who dropped $20 bucks or parking to protest their ) tax increase have to find grub elsewhere after the event.
Thanks for the amusement during these trying times Kate.
kr, do you have spell check? I would suggest you use it once in a while.
I never said I didn’t vote for Bush. Actually, I voted for him 4 times. After the 2006 election, he wasn’t exactly what we had in mind. Kissing too many libtard butts. He was never a conservative, but the alternatives were NOT an option.
Newt Gringrich is not one of the organizers. Neither is Dick Armey, nor is Rupert Murdock.
Please, put down the doobie, remove your head from your ass, and wake up!
Kate, I know what it takes to organize one of these things and I’ve seen what they have turned out for communications. This is wealthy money intended to protect wealthy money. And as to paraphrase the Shake and Bake commercial, “and you helped.”
The guy up here in Wisconsin who is organizing this thing is Mark Block, a GOP organizer and paid Americans for Selective Prosperity staffer.
You are being played. Fortunately there aren’t too many of you.
How can you be so smug about being so screwed? What is so clever about this is they fire you up to think we are not on your side and that we all have to work together on this.
By the way Kate. It’s spelled Gingrich.
Now that we’ve got that out the way it was a convenient way to avoid my point wasn’t it?
You know, I do understand the anger that happens when you’ve lost. But this isn’t going to get you out of the political wilderness. People are not only tired about the tax cut obsession but they know it doesn’t it work and they have some idea of where it is coming from.
My blog, I can make typos if I want. And after a very long day, I’ll make a lot of ‘em, even with spell check.
Tax cuts don’t work, eh? LMAO Just how old are you anyway? 10? Because that’s the only reason you could possibly buy into your nonsense. It’s an economic FACT! Any rational economist will tell you tax INCREASES stifle the economy.
Why would I want to run a company, PRIVATE company, that creates jobs, is some jackass like you wants to come along and STEAL my, and my employees, hard earned profits?
OH yeah, and the difference between you and me? I believe people should keep their money, and they can spend it better than you can. And it ain’t smugness if I’m right, and you’re wrong. It’s a reality. If you want to live in a cesspool, that’s your business, but I do NOT!
“Any rational economist will tell you tax INCREASES stifle the economy.”
Yeah, bet you hang out with all of them don’t ya Kate?
I’m talking about economists Kate. Not home economists.
I don’t live in a cesspool. I don’t live in the south.