Spartanburg Tea Party

From our pal Dennis:

I am planning on driving up to 9/12 sometime on Friday September 10 and wanted to know if anyone wanted to carport and/or caravan to somewhere in Virginia late Friday evening and get a room. Then get up in morning and ride the Metro into Washington for the event. I went on the bus last year and would rather go myself with a small group since it took me a week to get over the trip. So if you are interest call or email me at 864-680-3044 or freeclink@aol.com.

Dennis Clinkscales

Caleb Howe at Redstate reports on the somewhat highly publicized “calling out” by James Cameron of the global warming skeptics and the ridiculous and pathetically cowardly way he backed out at the last minute.

Read Caleb’s account and you’ll delight in how Ann McElhinney (producer of the Anti-Gore documentary Not Evil Just Wrong) who is truly a hero among the Globally Sane kept agreeing to more and more tactics that Cameron put forth until he simply had no place to hide and canceled his big showdown.

About 5 years ago I decided that I would no longer support either financially or with attendance figures the work of people employed in the entertainment industry who I assessed to be tearing down America by either their work product or by abusing the opportunity their job gave them to have a microphone and spew their inane beliefs. “Beliefs” … cause they never had to back up their blathering with facts or documents or sources or actual experience. I wasn’t censoring them, I wasn’t denigrating their work product, it was just my personal boycott. Yes I’ve missed some good movies, and perhaps there are a few holes in my music collection of CDs that I’d enjoy listening to on long car trips. There are probably a few books that I’ll never have the joy of the “aha” moment in discovering the key to an intricate plot line, and I’ve been a bit lost in some pop culture water cooler discussions about certain TV series. And my lack of patronage has had zero impact on any of those artists. The only positive impact has been on my conscience.

I imagine the impact that an all out boycott by all the awakened patriots would have on the entertainment industry. I ponder how awesome it would be to see their products go unread/unwatched/unlistened to because we are so angry at how they’ve taken advantage of their public pulpit to besmirch American values. I think gleefully of a scenario where … like Newsweek being sold for a dollar … these artists come to understand just how little we value the shills they have become. But I know that will not be happening. It is hard to deny ourselves the escapism pleasure, especially in these turbulent times.

So I’ll just do the happy dance at James Cameron making a cowardly, hypocritical idiot of himself this weekend, and continue to pass up the opportunity to enrich and reward the egos of those I consider … yes I’m saying it … anti-American.

The Palmetto House Republican Women are hosting a golf tournament with a portion of the profits from this tournament going to Blue Star Mothers of Spartanburg. The tournament details are:

Date: Monday, September 20, 2010

Place: The Links O’ Tryon, Campobello, SC

Time: 12 noon Reg & Practice, 1 pm Shotgun Start

Format: Captain’s Choice

Cost: $65 per Golfer, $260 per Team

Registration Deadline: September 14, 2010

If you would like more information please contact Gaye Holt at gayeholt@charter.net and she’ll send you a registration form.

Politico writers Jim Vandehei, Andy Barr, and Kenneth P. Vogel do an assessment of Haley Barbour calling him “The most powerful Republican in politics.”

Read the article and find out why. This is one of the reasons he’s on my “watch” list …

At the moment, Barbour’s power is derived from his ability to tilt gubernatorial and statehouse races with his RGA funds. These races might not be as sexy as some of the star-studded races for Senate or as dramatic as the battle for control of the House. Yet they could prove even more important over the long haul because they will create the next generation of Republican leaders — and set the terms for the decennial redrawing of House seats.

I remember the day that the sub-human, despicable creature called Bart Stupak caved (shock) and you and I began funding abortions with our tax dollars. It was a dark and gut-wrenching day.

So in an effort to “kick the darkness ’til it bleeds daylight” (TY Bruce Cockburn) I found Dan Benishek’s website that day and donated money. Not a lot. Just a way of keeping my sanity that day. Most of us can’t strike as hard or as often as we want to against the truly evil among us, so we must relish the “take THAT!” moments.

The blogsphere and the good people in Michigan rallied and this week Dr. Dan become the Republican candidate to run for Stupak’s seat. NOW PAY ATTENTION HERE … the night of the primary, Tuesday night at 1 am with all votes counted, Dr. Dan was ahead by … 1 vote. I’ll let you create your own GOTV speech from that to share with your friends/neighbors.

So … here is Dr. Dan, thanking US for making this happen. As you will see from this video, he’s a regular guy, one of us, who has just had enough.

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Monday is the next Spartanburg County Council meeting. They are held in council chambers located at 366 North Church Street. If you would like to be on the email list to receive notification of meetings and an advance copy of the agenda, email dziegler@spartanburgcounty.org with your request.

4:00 begins the committee reports

5:30 begins the regular county council meetings

remember we learn more in the committee meetings than in regular council meeting, so if you can come and be a watchdog (and perhaps help some of the rest of us understand what’s happening) we’ll see you at 4:00 pm

here is the calendar of meetings, including Planning Commission meeting which we should also begin attending.

ObamaWatchNews notes that 2 of Obama’s judicial nominees for federal bench in California have been sent back and will likely not be confirmed.

Under a rarely invoked rule, the Senate must agree to carry over pending nominations when it goes on a 30-day recess. But Republican leaders objected to carrying over several disputed nominees, including Liu and Chen.

The folks at GOOOH (Get Out Of Our House) will be having a bus to DC leaving from Rock Hill. If I see other offers of buses, I’ll post them up.
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What: GOOOH Bus to DC Restoring Honor Rally DC,55 seats Only $60.00
When: Friday, August 27, 2010 9:00 PM
Price: $60.00 per person
Where: Municipal Parking Downtown Rock Hill, SC
GOOOH Bus to DC Restoring Honor Rally DC Aug 28th

GOOOH BUS 55 seats
TV, Bathroom, Water Provided
ONLY $60.00
Paypal accepted or check or money order
Bus stops every 2-3 hours for a leg stretch and snack. (2 short stops and 1 big stop for breakfast outside DC)
Bus departs from ROCK HILL SC Downtown Municipal parking (Map) at 9:30 SHARP
we will arrive in DC early morning around 7am and the bus will pick us up around 5:30PM
On the way back we will make a big stop for dinner in Richmond, VA around 7:30PM and after that 2 short stops. We should be back in Rock Hill around 3AM.

This an historic event and a must see (you gotta be there).

So contact us ASAP as seating is absolutely limited. First come first serve!

We will be playing movie on the bus too. Funny movies/cartoon. )))

If you need more info please call. 1-803-322-7013 talk with us Julian and Kelmi )))

eburke has a great piece at Redstate re: Lessons Learned from Tuesday’s primary results.

Take a quick read … you’ll see:
1. why 1 vote makes a difference!

2. why we’ve got to close our primaries

3. why the most patriotic thing some conservative candidates can do is GET OUT OF THE RACE!

You’ll notice over there … there on the right —> we’ve updated our candidate bios/websites. The primary elections are over and we now move to the November elections, so we will include the conservative third party candidates in our listings.

If you know of conservative third party candidates who are running for either statewide or Spartanburg offices, please send me their names and websites … email to info@spartanburgteaparty.org