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Today is Thursday, April  16,  2009.   In tribute to the fantastic turnout for the great American Tea Party,  I am preparing tea and biscuits for breakfast.  I'm making yogurt biscuits and I need to gather together the following ingredients: 2 cups flour; 1 tsp. baking powder; 1/4 cup skim milk; 1 cup non-fat yogurt and 1/4 tsp baking soda.   I need to pre-heat my oven to 450 degrees and sift all the dry ingredients together.  I'm ready to stir in the yogurt and milk.  Now I will turn out the mixture onto a floured surface and knead gently.  I've shaped the dough into little biscuits and I will place them in the oven for 12 minutes.  

While sipping my tea, I am looking at the front page of the N.Y. Times and ...POP...They have done it again!  I can't find one word about the unbelievably successful turn out for the grass roots "tea parties" held all over the country.  Not one word.  The mainstream media dismissed these parties as being a gathering of right-wing lunatics.  A reporter on CNN took things even farther by suggesting that Fox News was behind the entire movement.   I watched her completely unprofessional and fleeting coverage of these events and was appalled by her outrageous accusations and horrible behavior.

ABC's Dan Harris reported on "Good Morning America" that "The White House says the president is unaware of the tea parties and will hold his own event today".  What!!  Impossible!!  

Let's set the record straight once and for all.  The "tea parties" were an enormous victory for democracy.  Ordinary people of all walks of life and political affiliations gathered together to express their outrage over massive government spending,  bloated budgets, failed bail-outs and high taxes.  

This may have been democracy's finest moment.  

My biscuits are ready and my second cup of tea is calling out to me.   Let's breakfast together again tomorrow.