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COFFEE OR TEA-SARAH'S GOT A BRAND NEW BAG
There's a place in Yunnan Province, an area called Pu'en, a place of tea plantations where the locals pick jungle tea-tea from wild tea trees. These tea trees are the original source of the world's tea. In ancient times this tea was picked for the Emperor. The people are Lahu Chinese and they use young girls as pickers. The tea is naturally sweet and the fragrance varies from place to place. Tea from high up in the hills smells and tastes different than tea from the valleys.
This is why the world of coffee and tea is forever separated in time and space and place. A cup of pekoe sharing a saucer with a scone and the tea-time violinist at Harrods is a world away from the Brazilian beans that have passed northward through the Yucatan only to be boiled in the blue/white speckled coffeepots of Texan cowboys. The aroma of this, doubled with that of fried fatback, cornbread and beans has its own elegance. One as great as all the Schubert played on all the Stradivariuses of the world. The chords that befit these scenes are strangely similar. The D Major of Schubert's Serenade and the D Major of Down in the Valley.
My mother has been a tea drinker all her life, mostly iced tea in the midday and hot, creamy tea on the peripheries. Whole families of Indian Coolies have derived their livelihood from this slight woman. She never drinks coffee; coffee is not the drink of a "southern" lady. Coffee does not go with tuna salad sandwiches on white bread. Coffee never goes with cucumber sandwiches cut in wedges, free of crust and splayed with pickled mayonnaise sprinkled with paprika and pepper. The setting is important here-screened-in-porches on the backs of riverside homes.
The men of these women do not drink coffee either. My stepfather transitioned from tall glasses of iced tea to longneck beers but never to coffee; while my father, on the other hand, loved the aromatic rhythms of Kanuba. He could follow Xavier Cugat down a Conga line of coffee swillers. How strange, looking back, that these two desiccated groups should evolve into political forces. |
Finally, coffee and tea have become political. It was not a Starbucks crowd that gathered in Nashville Saturday night to hear Sarah Palin speak. No, it was the so-called Tea Party, a group that has been coalescing since last summer.
Some of you can remember a blog called The Golden Ass Café in which I drew parallels between the customers of the Golden Ass Café (circa 1960's) and the current political world. Friday night was the Jazz And Poetry Diversity Crowd, Obama's natural milieu, but as the previous year passed by, I began to feel that the folk crowd-the Wednesday and Saturday Folk Crowd-was beginning to feel some alienation. The reasons were all around us. These people joined to White Hispanics comprised 80% of the country population and yet their representation on television and in the media is rapidly diminishing. This all came to a head during the August Congressional recess and the so-called "Town Hall Meetings". The froth on the head appeared Saturday night in Nashville. Sarah Palin finding a new "Ticket to Ride" appeared as the keynote speaker of the so-called Tea Party Convention. It was vintage Palin all the way. Little gratuitous remarks, "Let's hear it for the Veterans in our audience" and little and slightly larger patronizing remarks, "Let's hear it for all those who love America."
Sarah's speech, in all, was a well-crafted professional speech with highs and lows-valleys and mountaintops, but while it may have fooled most of the audience in Nashville, it did not fool me. I was reminded of my days in acting school at Desilu Studios when Laura Rose, the instructor, would turn to the crowd after an exercise or improvisation and ask the question, "Did you believe them?"
Bad acting brings on disbelief and Sarah Palin was not believable as a formulator of Tea Party politics; she was quite believable as an opportunist in a designer dress that covered cheap underwear.
P.S. All day on this day past, people have been asking me my opinion of Peyton Manning and the Colts. There seems to be less interest in the Saints; all that changed when Tracy Porter pointed his way to victory; Peyton Manning's face looked like the crashing of the Hindenburg.
Frankly, I must say that I'm not much of a sports fan; but when it comes to football, there's only one team for me and that's the Patriots. Part of this is because some years back I interviewed Myra Kraft, Robert Kraft's wife. Sitting in her drawing room, I was struck by her extraordinary graciousness. On another occasion, I played a concert in Pembroke on Robert Kraft's birthday.
People like the Krafts are unique in the world of professional sports. They are philanthropists who collect art and, in the case of Mrs. Kraft, support the transition of Central Asian families to Israel. "They have never seen a light switch," she told me. All of this started when, as a young girl, she went door-to-door collecting funds for other charities. She was, after all, the daughter of philanthropist Jacob Hiatt.
And so, as silly as this my sound, I can't think of the Patriots without thinking of the Krafts and as one woman said to me yesterday afternoon, "If the Patriot's are not in the Super Bowl, it's not the Super Bowl to me."
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I know this sounds exceedingly selfish on my part and I am embarrassed to say it in so public a forum. I hope she never goes away. For the self-described political satirist, she is the gift that keeps giving and giving and giving....
I'm so ashamed.
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I want Sarah Palin to run for president for a very different reason: I want to see her muck up the Republican primary process beyond reclamation.
Could you imagine how that would play out? Palin could never carry off a 6 month campaign. Her affectations would become tiresome in the extreme. She'd embarrass herself virtually every day. And her GOP opponents would either have to highlight her incompetence or shut their mouths and let her display it in all its flamboyant color.
This would make the GOP nomination process a combination between a 3 ring circus and a titillating reality show.
Sarah: Please, please run!!
And I can say that, cause it's "sarcasm", right?
Good for the gooosssssss, good for the gander.
"Cultural populism is the stock in trade of Sarah Palin, who uses it to try to make Tea Party supporters forget her warm support for the Bush-Paulson $700 billion bailout of Wall Street in October 2008, when Palin was running for vice president."
Yes, she is as phony and opportunistic as they get.
And full of snarky little commenst which her audience eats up like candy.
All of them are.
Snarky and transparent.
No immigrants, no gays, no women's lib need apply.
"42,000 jobs in our state were saved by the Recovery Act."--
That's the one Palin and every single Repub was against.
The keyword is jobs "saved". The majority of those jobs were in education, over 74%. An additional 17% of jobs "created" went to kids in summer/fall part time programs.
Who's going to pay for all those jobs next year?
And, buy the way, saving those jobs cost $ 231,000 per job.
Sing along... happy days are here again... happy days are here are here again....
Just hope that Scotty boy is dumb enough to give Katie Couric a shot at him on prime time television. He'll know more Supreme Court cases than Palin who couldn't name a single one other than Roe v. Wade, but he's someone who takes a lot of financial industry money and doesn't want to regulate the bankers. Like Dave Kent says, he's just a Reagonomic supply-sider and someone has to pin him down as to exactly how he thinks all that "free enterprise" easy money b.s. is gonna did us out of the hole W's small government deregulation dug us into.
Kids in part time programs get $231,000 each?
Don't think so.
All the jobs saved were $231,000 per year jobs?
I don't believe it.
And maybe I will look up all the good that Recovery and Stimulus Act did, while the pubs sat on their political motivated destroy Obama butts.
And,since we're on that subject--Palin used Alaska state funds to pay for her and her family's trips.
You would support us paying for that, but not jobs in education?
Yet, Pelosi flying her family on our dime is tantamount to treason to you people.
That's values, repub style.
Emmanuel says retarded, fire him! Limbutt says it, eh, no big deal.
That's Palin's idea of fair and balanced, as it is all of you ditto-heads.
And if Brown votes against bank reform, we will know that what we suspected all along is true.
And you will have been bamboozled yet again by hype.
Where you been?
"W's small government deregulation dug us into"
I take it you did not take my advise and educate yourself on the deregulation issue.
It's only a fifty minute free video.
Or,you can keep spewing the uneducated, preconcieved,ideological trash your progressive handlers keep telling you happened.
PBS=FRONTLINE=THE WARNING
This is PBS, not a real conservative strong hold.
Note,"Clinton was forced into these beliefs" They could'nt help themselves.
See you in an hour.
Please act like adults and stop the bickering. If I had Walter's phone number, I would advise him to look at the extended "gotcha" posts by the same 3 or 4 antagonists that go on forever, and realize that most casual readers are bored by it and tune out.
Now, how's this for bipartisanship? I'm an avowed conservative and I consider Sarah Palin to be a drama queen and a dope! Howzat?
To overcome Scott's pickup truck?
Good. So when someone says she is great and would make a great president, you don't bicker, you do what?
America is gone lady. Bushco took care of that, in case you didn't notice.
Only way to get it back is to make the criminals pay.
The 231.000 is how much the government spent per job to save. And get off your soapbox, you air your dirty laundry here or any other public site... you're goin go get feedback.
I'm a little confused by your post.
Most of the Blog postings on this site are opinion forums.
Followed by discussion forums.
Read this blog posting and the opinions expressed.
This would be a boring sight if people only posted happy thoughts on posts they agree with.
The windfarm debate dominates these forums. I have never participated.
Your observation that this is about the future of this country is correct.
Until we acknowledge the dishonest liberal policies that removed credit standards, and flooded the world economy with toxic
investments,guaranteed by the taxpayer,we will never begin to recover and learn from our mistakes.
On occasion I respond to liberal posters placing blame elsewhere.
The key is to remember you are participating in opinion forums.
Opinions are like a#$%^%$#, everybody has one.
Your post is no exception.
You put a list of my posts on here to show what?
To do what?
What was the point of that?
That wasn't dirty laundry, it was what you were looking for....my personal life.
You asked for it, you got it.
Your tactics are pretty low-down, but I'm used to it.
Why don't you show a list of possee from today, or notafreewind from yesterday?
Is there some reason you single me out?
And i'd like to know the source of your info. I can't find it anywhere. How does a job save cost $231,000?
And you will find out, when another president BREAKS THE LAW and you won't be able to do a dam thing about it....
Your so-called "republic" is dead.
And you killed it with your apathy.
This is the kind of "tea-party" I want.
And read this article...same people are behind the baggers, like it or not.
"Cannabis and the Federal Reserve System
Submitted by Permaculture Re... on Sat, 02/06/2010 - 09:00"
Maybe not so fast bitter, appears Obama is becoming more and more Cheney-like these days.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704022804575042112185849380.html?mod=WSJ_hpp_sections_opinion
That's how it is....if you haven't seen it in that Darth-like creature, you have missed the boat.
How many people do you know who shoot their "friend" in the face, and the "friend" apologizes for getting in your way?!?
But i have to wonder why chinless gets so much power....I know he ran some real creepy stuff for his bud HW...but still.
Remember, when Obama told Beebeeguns to stop the settlements, Beebeeguns said Up Yours!
it's all got to be related somehow....
and now Pence is going on video saying USA should let Israel dictate our policy....genocide is allowed by the whole world---i don't understand. Are we all under hypnosis?
I would put the rest of it up, but you wouldn't believe it!!!
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Moving from London to Cape Cod in 1979 he became one of Cape Cod's best-known entertainers and musicians. During these years he also wrote seven novels, two symphonies and an opera. His first symphony was written in 1962 as he was finishing his military service including tours in Korea and Japan. Prior to moving to London in 1978 he spent twenty years in L.A. working in film and recording studios. He can be seen in the DAN AND DAD SHOW each Saturday night at 9:30 on Channel 17.
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