I’m trying to recall what exactly we Los Angelinos ever did to the Bostonians, or, to the New Englanders for-that-matter.
Sure we have better wine and better skiing, and Hollyweird (I guess); we might even have better seafood! But what did we ever do to deserve the McCourts?! I mean, don’t these people realize that we don’t have a professional football team (with divided interests in our local college teams [go Trojans!]) – and, after the Laker season is done – we only have baseball to look forward to?! And what these two New England imports have done to the Dodgers is unconscionable – talk about scuttling a ship!! They’ve mortgaged the Dodgers to-the-hilt! We can only hope that some cool pirate (in the form of Mark Cuban) sails into Los Angeles Harbor and stops these camouflaged Dodgers from dumping any more tea overboard!
The Brits need their tea like we need our baseball, and good baseball at that – not the mediocre efforts of this patchwork blue-and-white quilt that Joe Torre is non-managing into oblivion (though I can’t hold him completely to blame for the Dodger implosion of 2010). It is credible to suggest, however, that at least 15 games were blown by ye olde Yankee skipper – who we know by now – only won as many games as he did because of the Steinbrenner bankroll.
But getting back to the original Boston Tea Party…if I remember correctly, American “patriots” were more-than-a-bit pissed off with the Tories (those sympathizers of the Crown) – and to make these Tories uncomfortable (and irritable), a group of “patriots” boarded a tea-laden ship in Boston harbor, and, dumped all-of-the-tea into the harbor – infuriating the tea-drinking Tories – eventually forcing them to turn to coffee (for the betterment of all Americans I believe!).
Yet when I suggested throwing a new tea party not long after the first Bush coup – I didn’t envision the neo-Nazi movements that have now taken place in Republican strongholds around the country! I mean, if I understand the impetus behind the original tea party – it was for hard-working Americans to get out from under the yoke of the British crown. I have never thought that the Democrats (and certainly not Obama) have conducted themselves as royalty in quite the manner as the Republicans have.
Certainly there are many, many wealthy Democrats – some-of-whom have utilized the unions to line-their-pockets – but I’m willing to bet dollars-to-cents that at least 70% of America’s millionaires and billionaires are Republicans! Thus, the grass roots movement of the Tea Party (unless it is financed by the Federal Reserve Bank, er, the Crown) has me very confused – as I believe that a true, tea-party movement should be throwing a monkey wrench into the maneuverings of the ultra-rich (those who support the crown, er, the acquisition of wealth at the expense of others), and not, helping restore some form of social equilibrium. True tea partiers would probably start riding bicycles or use public transportation instead of financing Big Oil; true tea partiers would most likely grow their own food instead of padding the pockets of supermarket chains; true tea partiers would likely make their own libations and purify their own drinking water instead of, well you get the picture; and, true tea partiers probably wouldn’t attend Dodger games until the McCourts were properly tarred and feathered and put out adrift at sea…