My parents and their friends all gathered in front of our TV every night to watch the hearings. I remember the paranoia that these hearings caused. My parents and their friends were no exception to this paranoia. Anyone who dared disagree with anything McCarthy was testifying to was labeled a “Pinko” and everybody became suspect. I, of course was of a young age, and I couldn’t understand what all the hysteria was about.

Ahh, with age comes wisdom. I guess because my parents were such rigid Republicans, I just had to rebel and register as a Democrat. Now even though I am still a registered Democrat, I can’t identify with either party.

If Matthews voice could be masked and an X placed over his face, it would be even better.

Because all the protests were organized by the far Left. And even though they agreed with our stand, they felt really uncomfortable standing around hearing Republicans in general being trashed along with the war. At the time, I remember thinking, “How asinine! How selfish! How short-sighted! People are dying! Bush is grabbing power hand over fist, and they KNOW it!”

But now the shoe is on the other foot, and the country I love is in danger. Now the same type of choice is MINE. Will I not join hands with whatever resistance I can find, in this time of peril? I’ve decided that I will. In hopes that in the days and years to come, I may once again be arguing with them, and railing against some of their policies. Because if I DON’T, we may not have a country left to argue over. Because if I don’t, I am really no different from the good sensible Republicans who sat silent while Bush began the destruction that Obama looks set to finish.

Without Hillary as POTUS, our only chance to stop this madness right now is for the American people to get angry enough that the bastards begin to fear us. And I mean all of us – Democrat, Republican, Green, Libertarian, whatever.

This takeover by the oligarchy and bankrupting of our nation is too big a danger to this country to worry at this time about our other differences, real and important as they may be.

I plan to be attending the protest Tea Party here in San Antonio on April 15th. And yes, I may have to stand shoulder to shoulder with everything from rabid pro-lifers, to global-warming deniers, to crazy total free-marketers, to Ron Paul loonies. But I will. Because it’s important.

Here’s the promo for the event here in San Antonio: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jXGrQ9uiLSo

I’m going to check out the site for the Tea Parties — surely if I search, I should be able to find it.

When I buy something, I make sure to log out at Amazon from the No Quarter account, and then log in as myself. Then I pop into No Quarter, and click on any Amazon ad — it doesn’t matter which one — then I search for what I’m buying (usually cat food, heh!). I also buy food items in bulk, such as that California-grown rice (Lundberg) and the most fresh, tasty organic walnuts I’ve found (Good Sense) and Paul Newman’s items, such as his organic raisins. I’ve also gotten Bob’s Red Mill products in bulk.

BTW: A lot of grocery items right now are on DEEP discount. I need to get that link up.

P.S. My testimony about Beauty Bridge is 100% accurate. I think i got my package in about 3 business days. And the shipping is free. They carry only the best brands. L’Occitane is exquisite — and all the ingredients come from a province in France (no Chinese adulterated products — tragically, almost all drug store lotions and make-up are now made in China and are contaminated with all kinds of impurities, including LEAD in lipstick.

Getting Weary Barry elected shows how far we’ve dropped. A facade, empty, greedy, selfish and mean society cannot do anything meaningful for others. Or, shall I say, won’t. And that is the point.

It doubly pains me that greedy, self-interested Americans are attempting to take us down and may succeed. Are younger generations aware of what we may lose?

I don’t believe they do and it saddens me. I saw one of the video’s and how many young women had no idea what Roe V Wade was. So I did my own little experiment here. I asked my daughter and her friends, and my daughter in law and her friends. Only one of them, my daughter, knew what it was. You wouldn’t believe some of the answers I got, even from the ones that didn’t believe in abortion. Those that didn’t understand that there are some circumstances where there is no other choice.

Diana–I enjoyed reading about your memory as a baby of that fatal day. I was a high school senior. When a student came up to us and said “President Kennedy has been shot”, I said you shouldn’t be saying stuff like that. Then when we heard the report, we cried and felt that our world had come to an end. At a reunion, a classmate said that the world changed our senior year and hasn’t been the same since.

I think I should have added the reason I believe that memory stayed in my mind was it was most likely the first traumatic experience I had in life. I remember my mother dropping the dish and it breaking. Her screaming. Then running in the room where I was. I was too young for it to really have an impact on me, but I remember the impact it had on my mother. It changed her forever. I’m sorry you had to experience that, I know he was deeply respected and loved by many.

Diana–I enjoyed reading about your memory as a baby of that fatal day. I was a high school senior. When a student came up to us and said “President Kennedy has been shot”, I said you shouldn’t be saying stuff like that. Then when we heard the report, we cried and felt that our world had come to an end. At a reunion, a classmate said that the world changed our senior year and hasn’t been the same since.

I really miss Uncle Walter (Walter Cronkite). At the end of his broadcast, he would give viewers a body-bag count (Vietnam fatalities). Even though our family had an Air Force pilot who was MIA, we still thought the public should be informed of the war’s realities and ultimate sacrifices.

It doubly pains me that greedy, self-interested Americans are attempting to take us down and may succeed. Are younger generations aware of what we may lose?