Thanks to Dan Cocozza for this idea!

There is something off when you have a company like GE pushing being “Green” on it’s NBC and Universal television programs when they would be a major manufacturer of “Green” machinery. They could, at least, that all of their advertising is for capitalist purposes only.

We held our first 9/12 Project Group in Belleview. I opened it with Peeps as Orlando/Kissimmee member Laura Loughlin volunteered to do last month.the one for Orlando/ Kissimmee did a month earlier. We had a great meeting with enthusiasm to move forward. We discussed tackling issues like conservation, Marion County gas tax increases and the efforts to stop Marion County School children from mandatory respectful standing during the Pledge of Allegiance.

Below is a photo of a few 9/12ers, Dick Daniels and a father and son…whose names slip me…

The next day we had the second 9/12 meeting for the Orlandp/Kissimmee group. That group did not go as well. The group will need some tweaking to get focused and be effective.

A LOT of people showed up for the Tea Party in Orlando. We guestimated 3,000. Before the event I made a lot of signs over at Lake Eola. I ran into the fellow below who got the teapot sign I made.

I do like this teabag sign.

Sorry this is out late. The above was in The Orlando Sentinel Wednesday, April 15th. Oddly enough Tax Day.

The Sentinel wants the light rail. They have never cared who pays for it. They know private business refuses to pay for it becausee they have been vocal to say they know they can’t make any money from it. It’s a money loser. The private business, though, will take the tax dollars, make a mint of dough and then knowingly create a white elephant that the tax payer gets stuck with. They are just being capitalists.

So is the Sentinel. The difference: The Sentinel is supposed to have ethics and keep their opinions on the editorial pages. They just see add revenue and couldn’t care less otherwise. The photo to the left is of a pleasant looking Lee Constantine taking the Sentinel’s side. And then on the other side is an angry Paula Dockery now not taking the Sentinel’s side.

I should not be able to look at the cover of any newspaper with any journalistic ethics and see their political preferances. Yet here it is. I don’t want to see newspapers go away. But this kind of mess is almost worse.

It’s sad to watch the newspaper industry slowly slide away and be in a surreal self-denial.

Another great one written by Ken Culotta.

Protests can be fine, but there are ways to do them and ways NOT to do them. There should be college classes of how to be politically active and maybe this sort of mess wouldn’t happen.