{"id":3948,"date":"2009-08-15T21:21:07","date_gmt":"2009-08-16T04:21:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dailylife.barrowroad.com\/?p=3948"},"modified":"2009-08-15T21:21:07","modified_gmt":"2009-08-16T04:21:07","slug":"day-227-off-to-a-tea-party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.dailylife.barrowroad.com\/?p=3948","title":{"rendered":"Day 227: Off to a Tea Party"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As soon as I got home from the Stacks, I changed and grabbed my friend Vance.\u00c2\u00a0 There was a Tea Party protest rally in front of the offices of our two Senators, Baucus and Testor.\u00c2\u00a0 Much it is about excess spending, but right now it is about stopping a complete replacement of our health care system with one that will ration care and &#8220;help&#8221; Gramma to see how it is in her own best interest to bow out gracefully rather than fight to survive.\u00c2\u00a0 Of course, the pledge is that it will save money.<\/p>\n<p>Right.\u00c2\u00a0 With the Federal Government running it, save money?<\/p>\n<p>I might have been born in a barn (metaphorically speaking; it was the Northern Pacific Hospital in Glendive, \/\\\/\\onTana!) but it wasn&#8217;t yesterday!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">This is in front of Sen. Baucus&#8217; office&#8230;sort of; it is about half a block to the right past this building.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailylife.barrowroad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/day22701.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3949\" title=\"day22701\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dailylife.barrowroad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/day22701.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"432\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.dailylife.barrowroad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/day22701.jpg 864w, http:\/\/www.dailylife.barrowroad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/day22701-300x259.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Here is a shot from a little farther down&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailylife.barrowroad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/day22702.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3950\" title=\"day22702\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dailylife.barrowroad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/day22702.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"339\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.dailylife.barrowroad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/day22702.jpg 864w, http:\/\/www.dailylife.barrowroad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/day22702-300x203.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">More people than the last time!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">And a panorama of six photos stitched together in MS ICE, in front of Sen. Testor&#8217;s office.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailylife.barrowroad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/day227stitch.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3952\" title=\"day227stitch\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dailylife.barrowroad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/day227stitch.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"103\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.dailylife.barrowroad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/day227stitch.jpg 2884w, http:\/\/www.dailylife.barrowroad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/day227stitch-300x62.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/> <\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">People on every corner.\u00c2\u00a0 Lots of supportive hons and waves.\u00c2\u00a0 And a few unsupportive ones too&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">As part of theAstroturf Mob, I am waiting for my check.\u00c2\u00a0 No one seemed to know where it was&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">~Curtis in \/\\\/\\onTana! {!-{&gt;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As soon as I got home from the Stacks, I changed and grabbed my friend Vance.\u00c2\u00a0 There was a Tea Party protest rally in front of the offices of our two Senators, Baucus and Testor.\u00c2\u00a0 Much it is about excess spending, but right now it is about stopping a complete replacement of our health care [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,3,18,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3948","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-inspiration","category-life-at-home","category-pad-2009","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dailylife.barrowroad.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3948","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dailylife.barrowroad.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dailylife.barrowroad.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dailylife.barrowroad.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dailylife.barrowroad.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3948"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.dailylife.barrowroad.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3948\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3954,"href":"http:\/\/www.dailylife.barrowroad.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3948\/revisions\/3954"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dailylife.barrowroad.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dailylife.barrowroad.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dailylife.barrowroad.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}