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I can guess why a raven is like a writing-desk, Alice said. Do you mean you think you can find out the answer? said the March Hare. Exactly so, said Alice. Then you should say what you mean, the March Hare went on. I do, Alice replied. At least I mean what I say. That's the same thing, you know.

Not the same thing a bit! said the Hatter. You might just as well say, I see what I eat is the same thing as I eat what I see! You might just as well say, added the Dormouse, I breathe when I sleep is the same thing as I sleep when I breathe! It IS the same thing with you, said the Hatter.

Can you imagine stumbling upon the Mad Hatters tea party, watching as the discussions become increasingly absurd and yet wanting a permanent seat at the table? Could Lewis Carroll have been having nightmares about the Paris climate treaty when he wrote Alices Adventures in Wonderland?

President Trump was 100% correct (not just 97%) when he showed real international leadership this week and walked America away from the madness laid out before him and us on the Paris climate table.

From suggestions that Earths climate was balmy and stable until the modern industrial era, to assertions that humans can prevent climate change and extreme weather events by controlling atmospheric carbon dioxide levels to claims that withdrawing from Paris would imperil our planets very survival the entire process has been driven by computer models and hysteria that have no basis in empirical science.

There is absolutely no real-world evidence that plant-fertilizing carbon dioxide has replaced the powerful natural forces that have driven Earths climate from time immemorial. Moreover, even if the United States totally eliminated its fossil fuels, atmospheric CO2 levels would continue to climb. China and India are building new coal-fired power plants at a feverish clip. So is Germany. And China is financing or building dozens of additional coal-burning electricity generators in Africa, Asia and elsewhere.

Plus, even if alarmists are right about CO2, and every nation met its commitments under Paris, average planetary temperatures in 2100 would be just 0.2 degrees Celsius (0.3 F) lower than if we did zilch.

But our closest allies wanted Trump to abide by Obamas commitment. Some did, because they want America to shackle its economy and drive energy prices into the stratosphere the same way they have. Others dearly want to follow a real leader, and walk away from the mad Paris tea party themselves.

But even poor countries signed the Paris treaty. Yes, they did because they are under no obligation to reduce their coal, oil or natural gas use or their CO2 emissions. And because they were promised $100 billion a year in cash, plus free state-of-the-art energy technologies, from developed nations that would have become FMCs (formerly rich countries) as they slashed their energy use and de-industrialized.

But the Paris climate treaty was voluntary; the United States wouldnt have to do all this. Right. Just like its voluntary for you to pay your taxes. China, India and poor developing countries dont have to do anything. But the USA would have been obligated to slash its oil, gas and coal use and carbon dioxide emissions. It could impose tougher restrictions, but it could not weaken them. And make no mistake: our laws, Constitution, legal system, the Treaty on Treaties and endless lawsuits by environmentalist pressure groups before friendly judges would have ensured compliance and ever more punishing restrictions.

But hundreds of companies say we should have remained in Paris. Of course they do. Follow the money.

If we are to avoid a climate cataclysm, leading experts say, the world must impose a $4-trillion-per-year global carbon tax, and spend $6.5 trillion a year until 2030 to switch every nation on Earth from fossil fuels to renewable energy. Thats a lot of loot for bankers, bureaucrats and crony corporatists.

But, they assure us, this transition and spending would bring unimaginable job creation and prosperity. If you believe that, youd feel right at home in Alices Wonderland and Looking Glass world.

Who do you suppose would pay those princely sums? Whose jobs would be secure, and whose would be expendable: sacrificed on the altar of climate alarmism? Heres the Planet Earth reality.

Right now, fossil fuels provide 80% of all the energy consumed in the USA reliably and affordably, from relatively small land areas. Wind and solar account for 2% of overall energy needs, expensively and intermittently, from facilities across millions of acres. Biofuels provide 3% mostly from corn grown on nearly 40 million acres. About 3% comes from hydroelectric, 3% from wood and trash, 8% from nuclear.

Kentucky, Ohio, West Virginia and other states that generate electricity with our abundant coal and natural gas pay 8 to 10 cents per kilowatt-hour. California, Connecticut, New York and other states that impose wind, solar and anti-fossil fuel mandates pay 15 to 18 cents. Families in closely allied ultra-green Euro countries pay an average of 26 US cents per kWh, but 36 cents in Germany, 37 cents in Denmark.

EU manufacturers are already warning that these prices could send companies, factories, jobs and CO2 emissions to China and other non-Euro countries. EU electricity prices have skyrocketed 55% since 2005; 40% of UK households are cutting back on food and other essentials, to pay for electricity; a tenth of all EU families now live in green energy poverty. Elderly people are dying because they cant afford heat!

The Paris treaty would have done the same to the United States, and worse.

The Heritage Foundation says Paris restrictions would cost average US families $30,000 in cumulative higher electricity prices over the next decade. How much of their rent, mortgage, medical, food, clothing, college and retirement budgets would they cut? Paris would eliminate 400,000 high-pay manufacturing, construction and other jobs and shrink the US economy by $2.5 trillion by 2027. Other analysts put the costs of remaining in Paris much higher than this again for no climate or environmental benefits.

Big hospitals like Wake Forest Baptist Medical Centers Comprehensive Cancer Centerin Winston-Salem, NCand Inova Fairfax Womens and Childrens Hospital in Northern Virginia pay about $1.5 million per year at 9 cents/kWh but $3 million annually at 18 cents $5 million at 30 cents and nearly $7 million at 40 cents. How many jobs and medical services would those rate hikes wipe out?

Malls, factories and entire energy-intensive industries would be eliminated. Like families and small businesses, they would also face the new reality of having pricey electricity when it happens to be available, off and on all day, all week, when the wind blows or sun shines, instead of when its needed. Drilling and fracking, gasoline and diesel prices, trucking and travel, would also have been hard hit.

Americans are largely prohibited from mining iron, gold, copper, rare earth and other metals in the USA. Paris treaty energy prices and disruptions would have ensured that American workers could not turn metals from anywhere into anything not even wind turbines, solar panels or ethanol distillation plants.

Most of the bountiful renewable energy utopia jobs would have been transporting, installing and maintaining wind turbines and solar panels made in China. Even growing corn and converting it to ethanol would have been made cost-prohibitive. But there would have been jobs for bureaucrats who write and enforce the anti-energy rules and process millions of new unemployment and welfare checks.

Simply put, the Paris climate treaty was a terrible deal for the United States: all pain, no gain, no jobs, no future for the vast majority of Americans with benefits flowing only to politicians, bureaucrats and crony capitalists. President Trump refused to ignore these realities, this economic suicide pact.

He therefore formally declared that the United States is withdrawing from the treaty. He could now submit it for advice, consent and rejection by the Senate. He could also withdraw the United States from the underlying UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, or negotiate a better accord that is fair to America and its families and workers. But that is now largely irrelevant. Whats important is this:

We are out of Paris! And President Trump is leading the world back from the climate insanity precipice!

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When U.S. Rep. Rob Woodall took questions at a forum in Lawrenceville Thursday evening, he called most of his questioners by their first names.

Thats because there are few regulars at the United Tea Party of Georgias monthly meeting the four-term Republican doesnt know. What was missing was angry commentary about the health care bill passed by House Republicans last month or uncomfortable questions about the latest in the Russia investigation.

Thats because Woodalls appearance was a closely guarded secret. An email from the group Monday touted a special guest speaker but withheld the name.

For reasons that will be made clear at the meeting we are not announcing our speaker, but he is very knowledgeable on on the politics of the day, the email said, especially at the federal level.

While there were communications to the group suggesting that Woodalls staff asked that the event not be pre-publicized to avoid protests, Woodall said that was not the case.

That would stun me. That is not our policy, he said.

But Woodall did not publicize the appearance at the meeting, held in a restaurant at the Gwinnett County Airport, on his social network feeds or his Congressional web page.

David Hancock, United Tea Party co-chairman, said there was back-and-forth communication between his group and Woodalls staff over keeping the event quiet. Nobody wanted to deal with protesters, he said.

I wanted to have a meeting just like we had last night, he said That was a dream meeting. If we had four or five people there whose job it was just to disrupt, we wouldnt have gotten that.

Woodall, one of the more conservative members at the Capitol, told the tea party group he had no intention of providing a forum for protests from the left.

It is true that we have been protested. Weve had more meetings people have tried to take over in the last six months than the last six years, he said. And where do you think they learned the techniques they are using? Its tea party doctrine right down the line.

Hes right about the tea partys claim on town hall activism. In 2009, tea party groupsharassed congressional town halls from coast to coast, billowing their ire over Obamacare to the point that, like today, members of Congress stopped holding them.

But Ilene Johnson, communications director for the Gwinnett County Democratic Party, said that doesnt give Woodall a free pass to hide from people who disagree with him. Virtually every post on his Facebook page includes a comment demanding a town hall.

He has an obligation to hear all points of view, Johnson said. He is obligated to represent everybody and not just the people who voted for him.

Gabe Okoye, chairman of the Gwinnett Democrats, said plans are in the works for a District 7 town hall for everyone, whether or not Woodall attends.

It wont be secret. Everybody can come, he said. Well leave a chair for Mr. Woodall in case he shows up.

Okoye said members of congress should be expected to hold in person meetings with a broad range of constituents, not just reporters.

He doesnt just represent the Republicans, he represents all of us, he said.

Town halls down sharply

Woodall, R-Ga., has avoided traditional town hall meetings since President Donald Trumps inauguration despite constant requests to do so. But he is hardly alone among his congressional colleagues.

In a story this week,Politico.com noted that Congressional town halls are down sharply during this months legislative break compared to the April recess not not just among Republicans. While GOP town halls are down drastically, such forums from Democratic members of Congress fell 14 percent when comparing the two breaks.

The drop off raises the question of whether members of Congress have an obligation to hold more public forums in their districts, even if it means facing hostile crowds.

Woodall has represented the 7th District since 2011. Before that he was chief of staff for former 7th District Rep. John Linder, who handed him the keys when he retired.

Georgias 7th District stretches from Snellville in the south up to Cumming and has been pretty safe for Woodall. He didnt have a primary opponent last year and clobbered a political unknown in the general election, taking 60 percent of the vote.

Since Trumps election, Woodall has done some town halls by telephone, a preferred alternative to those eschewing the face-to-face type. But in past years, hes also held regular, honest-to-goodness town halls.

Its not like he didnt get criticism then. One frequent online critic who attended a town hall last year in Cumming went on the congressmans Facebook page to tell him his comments on drug pricing were pretty dumb.

And the telephone town halls dont insulate him from criticism either. Angry callers were on hand for one such conference call in February as Woodall gamely defended the president against those worried about conflicts from Trumps business interests and ties to Russia.

What I love about the outsiders that have taken over the White House is that it gives us the ability to look at the world through new eyes, Woodall said,according to a story in the Gwinnett Daily Post. I think one of the ways President Trump looks at the world through different eyes is Why are we still fighting with Russia 40 years later?

The Post reported that his reply prompted shouts and name calling.

No responsibility to help protesters

Woodall took some tough question at Thursdays gathering too. Tea party members held his feet to the fire on enacting tougher immigration standards, fighting for tax reform and supporting the president.

To his credit, Woodall did not always tell them exactly what they wanted to hear, including his support for visas for the high-tech industry and agriculture and his insistence that Congress has a duty to counterbalance presidential power. But in the end, folks lined up to shake his hand rather than jab their fingers at him.

For the folks not in the United Tea Party who missed a chance to question their congressman, Woodall said hes happy to meet with them in his office.

Folks dont think your congressman will sit down with you, he said.

Johnson, the Democratic activist, allows that Woodall does take appointments to meet with constituents. But she said not everybody can take off from work to upbraid their elected official. Town halls, usually held in the evening, are more responsive, she said.

For that opportunity, its likely she will keep waiting.

I feel no responsibility to help protesters protest, Woodall said.

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Cabinet News

Jun 2, 2017

MONT VERNON The Mont Vernon Historical Society Museum will be open from 1-4 p.m. Saturday, June 10, featuring a spot of tea from the Boston Tea Party. The museum is located on the second floor of Town Hall.

A small portion of tea from one of the chests tipped into the harbor during the infamous Boston Tea Party in 1773 will be on display this year. Ask a docent how it came to the museum.

Another display includes the recent gift of a David Dutton clock that is unlike others in the collection. Dutton was a mechanic who lived in Mont Vernon and designed and built shelf clocks in the mid-1830s. The inner workings were originally made of wood, then later of metal. Other clocks of interest include two rare antique Nutter clocks.

Lamson Farm and Grand Hotel memorabilia, and a quilt made by the Kings Daughters organization that includes a square that is more than 150 years old, are also on display.

The museum will be open from 1-4 p.m. on the second Saturday of the month from July through October. There is no charge to visit, although donations are accepted.

Submitted by Mont Vernon Historical Society

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The newest POLITICO/Morning Consult pollis filled with terrible news for Donald Trump.

Every single demographic except evangelical Christians believes the country is on the wrong track. Meanwhile, support for impeachment has jumped from 38 percent to 43 percent, and among Democratic women, the figure is a whopping 75 percent.

One number in particular, however, is absolutely stunning: According to the poll, 36 percent of tea party supporters believe Trump should be impeached.

The tea party movement rose to prominencewith a series of protests against President Barack Obama in 2009 and 2010 that swept a far-right Republican House majority into power. Representatives elected by members of this movement went on to found the Tea Party Caucus and, later, the Freedom Caucus.

This is significant because, despite a few minor scuffles, the Freedom Caucus is largely working with Trump to pass his agenda, most notably his push to strip millions of low-income and sick people of health care. Yet more than 1in 3of the right-wing activists whose movement swept these congressmen into power now want Trump impeached.

Even while the tea party fractures over the issue of impeachment, House Republicans maintain a unified front in defense of Trump, and have evencolluded with the White Houseto underminethe Russia investigation. This reveals a basic failing of Republicans to listen to their own voters further evidenced by the refusal of the vast majority ofGOP representativestohold town halls.

If Republicans continue to ignore the warning signs from within their own coalition, they will be massively vulnerable in 2018 and beyond.

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CHESTERTOWN The threat of rain over Tea Party Weekend did not appear to dampen anyones spirits as the annual festival in downtown Chestertown was well attended.

The 41st annual Chestertown Tea Party Festival celebrated the local legend of Kent County Colonists storming a ship in the Chester River and dumping its load of tea in protest of British taxes. Whether true or not, the festival celebrating it continues to be a big draw in Chestertown.

Lt. John Dolgos of the Chestertown Police Department said that the attendance at the Tea Party Festival appeared to have been higher than in the past couple of years.

Another one in the history books, and it was a good one, he said.

Spanning four days, Tea Party weekend kicked off Friday evening with the Street Party at the foot of High Street. Mayor Chris Cerino and Street Party Coordinator Aundra Anderson made some opening remarks before musical act Dell Foxx Company began their set.

This is Andersons fourth year as Street Party coordinator.

She was tasked with transforming the event. Last year, the Street Party shifted away from its previous incarnation of a high-priced, Colonial dress and plated dinner affair to free admission and food trucks.

The atmosphere is meant to be a little more casual than the rest of the weekend, which is Colonial-centric. Andersons goal for the kickoff event aimed at Kent County residents, was to kind of set the tone for the weekend of providing a fun, family-friendly atmosphere, something where you feel comfortable bringing your kids, she said in a phone interview last week.

Originally from the Midwest, Anderson, a Washington College alum and its director of admissions communications, said that she has experienced a fair share of festivals and fairs, but nothing like Chestertowns Tea Party.

(There was) nothing with that kind of character behind it, this idea of celebrating Colonial rebellion, she said.

Margaret Jordan has been attending the Tea Party Festival since she and her husband moved to Chestertown in 2001. She was glad to see people participating.

Im not into dressing Colonial, but I enjoy that theres so many people out. I like seeing the people I dont normally see; I like to see the town sharing an event together, she said Friday night.

Maddy Margulies, a recent graduate of Washington College, also was enjoying the first night of the festival. From Pennsylvania, Margulies said that she has never been in Chestertown during Tea Party. She was excited to finally participate.

It is a good atmosphere (and) its really fun so far, she said.

Another popular stop of the night was the caricature artist, About Faces, which Ruth Tonkyro described as a highlight while she waited for her daughters portrait to be completed.

The family had travelled from Leonardtown to partake in the annual Tea Party Distance Classic and Run for Radcliffe on Saturday morning.

Its just a lot of fun. We originally came here for the run and then when we found out what else was here, we were kind of disappointed we didnt stay longer because its really cool, Tonkyro said.

Getting the community involved started earlier this year, with the additional Tea Bag Art Project launched by the Chestertown Arts & Entertainment district. The project asked participants to create artwork on oversized tea bags, large canvas sacks. The completed bags were displayed in storefronts throughout downtown.

The tea bags included a new slogan designed by Zane Carter, stating, Chestertown: Steeped in History. Stirred by Art.

I was very happy with the community engagement, Kay MacIntosh, Chestertown economic development and marketing coordinator, said in a phone interview Tuesday. The project drew in about 60 participants.

On Saturday, Chestertown was thrown back in time to the Colonial era, based on the story of patriots in 1774 tossed the brigantine Geddes cargo of tea into the Chester River as an act of rebellion again British taxes.

Caleb Schultz, 12, of Betterton was enjoying himself at the Tea Party Festival Saturday.

I think the festival is great, he said while walking down High Street.

Michelle Thompson, who just moved back from Chestertown from living in Virginia, said she never missed a Tea Party, even while living away. She said this years festival was pretty great.

Its always great to come down here and depend on things being the same, like my fried clams I have right here, Thompson said. You also get to see a lot of people you havent seen in years. Thats the most wonderful part.

As a start to the day, the Colonial Parade began, incorporating floats and an assortment of marching bands. This year, attorney Tom Yeager was honored as the parades grand marshal.

After the parade, Dick Goodall, CEO of Dixon Valve & Coupling Co., received the Edna Ross Award, which is given annually to a local business person for outstanding service to the community, according to the Tea Partys website.

Saturdays re-enactment is what brings many to the Tea Party. Re-enactors took to High Street at 2 p.m. for a skit before they marched down to the river, boarded rowboats and overtook the Geddes, portrayed by the schooner Sultana. After a mock-fight, the tea was tossed overboard.

The rain held off until the Colonists were triumphant in their rebellion, having disposed of the tea in the Chester River.

Artisans and food vendors lined the High and Cross streets downtown. Attendees and entertainers dressed in Colonial outfits. Benjamin Franklin made an appearance, as did John Jay.

Charles Bauman and his dad, Michael, came from Delaware to partake in the celebrations. Charles dressed the part as George Washington because he just wanted to.

Baumans wife is originally from Chestertown and has been attending Tea Party since she was a kid, which, he said, is how the whole family got involved.

On Sunday, Tea Party changed gears, with a craft beer and wine tasting in Wilmer Park, followed the crowd favorite, Tea Party Raft Race.

The Tea Cup, the top prize gifted to the raft with the best synthesis of creativity, engineering, and speed, according to the Tea Partys website, went to a Willy Wonka-inspired creation. The raft was styled after the movies blue and white boat, propelled by a team of Oompa-Loompas spinning a waterwheel.

The long weekend formally concluded on Monday with a Memorial Day Parade at 10 a.m.

Sabine Harvey, president of the planning committee, has been a long-term participant in the festival, and seldom gets to enjoy the event that she spends a year planning, but its community commitment is what keeps her involved.

Its such a great community event and so many community organizations, Harvey said. I love this county and so I want to contribute. Ive gotten to meet and know a whole bunch of people I otherwise never would have met.

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Weather does not dampen Tea Party - My Eastern Shore