Are remakes EVER a good idea???

Okay maybe Batman was... oh and Willy Wonka. Gene Wilder came off a little pedophile-ish, but the Boston Tea party??.C'mon, it's been done and it was done well the first time. I hope all of the right wingnuts know their history well enough to know it was early colonists in Massachusetts protesting paying taxes to the British Government.The issue wasn't paying the tax, it was who they had to pay it to. They wanted to pay their taxes to their own government. Ultimately playing a big part in the Revolutionary War. So now we have all these lunatic far right wing fanatics dressing up as tea bags, early colonists, protesting the very government the ACTUAL brave disgruntled colonists fought to create. It's really been fairly amusing to me. But it seems like a parody of something wonderful in our country's history.
So my mom called me last night to tell me that her friend there had attended one of these tea parties. I was actually shocked because the population there is barely breaking 100 AND I would have pegged my mom's friend as a Dem. So I look to see how many are going on in Utah... Wow! I think these wingnuts and their leader Glenn Beck needs to remember that tea is against the Word of Wisdom. Pretending it's tea but drinking something else could be construed as "the appearance of evil". Get a ham, some funeral potatoes and a Jello salad and call it a costume/pot luck party. Leave the heroes in history alone.
Now the Governor of Texas wants to secede?? A civil war? A Revolutionary AND a Civil war??? Will they name their country Texas? They aren't legally allowed to secede the whole state, but they CAN break it up into 4 states and then they could leave the rogue American patriot sympathizers in a small corner they leave behind. The last American Civil War had much to do with where a man's place should be according to his skin color. I'm a bit disturbed that THAT is what this one would be about as well. Because we all know that you can "blah blah blah" all you want about taxes, less government, and socialism but the truth is you are a bigot. The President of the UNITED States of America is black and far more intelligent, moral, and inspiring than anyone you know or have ever encountered. You don't think he belongs there. He's forgotten his station. You still pass down the racial hatred to your children and act like it's something to be proud of. Like I said before, there are pirates, traitors, hate mongers and disloyal people in America. How many people would give anything to have the opportunities that we enjoy. Your racist legacy is something that will continue to be passed on and that is nothing to be proud of. Our future depends on the best and the brightest of our children. America is no longer a country of white supremacy or segregation, it was never meant to be and honestly, it never really was. But that all of these fanatics who are clinging to racial hatred is sad and dangerous. People speak of socialism like it's a plague, but the real sickness is the people who truly cling to some twisted idea of totalitarianism (look it up). Out of curiosity who would lead the new country called Texas? The current Governor or the previous President. And when you declare war against America, where will you get your troops? Over the fence? You definitely need a game plan.

For those of you who want a good laugh now the tax deadline has come and gone, here is a link to some various tea parties:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/searchG/?cx=partner-pub-3264687723376607%3Atlvacw-gkue&cof=FORID%3A11&ie=ISO-8859-1&q=tea+bag&sa.x=0&sa.y=0&sa=Search#1391

Sorry, I can't embed this for some reason but the stories are on the left hand side of the page and there are several pages of the different tea parties.

Also on this one feel free to tattle to my mom.

Awww, my heart bleeds...

So the Mormon church is being targeted with a vengance because people believe that our church passed Prop 8 singlehandedly. Yet again, bigotry astounds me. Hate to protest hate, and lies to beef up the tale. I have argued this issue all day. God loves everyone. It is in keeping with our beliefs that marriage is something that is sacred between a man and a woman. We were among a coalition of other faiths (who are now defending us) including Jews, Catholics, and others. We didn't do this on our own AND actually we make our own choices so it's not even true that all the Mormons in CA did this. The money and time was NOT donated by the Mormon church but by members and again, we did this in concert with other faiths. Hatred has swept the country with protests in every state whether we voted the issue or not. To me this is just stupid.
Then I see this at the Huffington Post:

Glenn Beck Accosted At Wendy's: "You Racist Bigot!".
Conservative personality Glenn Beck was accosted at his local Wendy's Saturday night. Beck's full Wendy's rant below: (I chose to not edit his grammatical mistakes, because he is stupid and this is futher proof.)
It happened to me at Wendy's Saturday night. We are on the bus and we stop to get fuel and I said, I'm going to go in, I'm treating. Everybody wants a Frosty. I'm going to go get Frosties. And one of the security guys, said, No, you're not. I said, Yeah, I am. I mean, it's a truck stop. How much trouble am I going to get in in a truck stop? Everybody here you can trust. You're not going in. I went in, but I had to bring the swat team with me and so I'm just, I just want to Frosty, please, the guy standing next to me, who, by the way, I may point out. Had food in his hair, is a truck driver and he turned around. He looked at me and the recognition was immediate and he said, You racist bigot! And I just said -- I wanted to say, I think you have me mistaken for someone else, but I knew he knew who I was and he just hated me for who I was. You conservatives that have destroyed this country! And the hatred was so deep, it was breath taking. Luckily the swat team was there and I just separated myself from him and he just shouted through other people and there were children in the restaurant and he blamed me for everything, I believe including the Holocaust, and the hatred was palpable. The guy screamed at the restaurant, you better not let me see you in the parking lot because I've got a truck and I'll run your ass over! Wow. Is this who we've become? Is this who we've become?

Who WE'VE become Mr. Beck? No. Who you have become. You do not build up your party, you tear down mine. Even worse you keep telling people that you are Mormon. Stop doing that. It's embarrassing. Although maybe CNN could send you to cover one of the Gay protests. You think Dems hate you??? You ain't seen nothing yet.
I also came across this in reading of the hostilities towards my faith. It is an excerpt I snipped for length from the L.A. Times:

First there was former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney's unsuccessful run for the Republican presidential nomination. Many in the church were shocked that Romney's Mormon faith was a source of discomfort for some voters."Latter-day Saints were just amazed to think there was such bigotry in the country," church spokesman Michael Otterson said.

Really? Latter-day Saints were amazed by bigotry?? No one was amazed when one of my daughters primary classmates said she'd like to assassinate Obama. (Another said Obama sucks). No one was amazed when my daughter was told that Obama was a communist, marxist, socialist, nazi, muslim or whatever the lie of the day is. I have never seen such bigotry in my life. I have listened to the "n-word" comes out of church members who assume that I am as backward as they are. Racist jokes, terroristic remarks, hate. All in MY LDS neighborhood. Guess what my friends that encouraged this?? YOU ARE BIGOTS TOO