Oh, wait, you want evidence that Teabaggers used the term themselves first. Well, I can extend you that courtesy, even though you have yet to demonstrate how the term is homophobic.

From my understanding it's the local people. And from something I read a few weeks ago the disapproval and outrage is not really based on any party lines even though the Tea Party is drawing the headlines. A lot of people don't want this as that area the stadium is proposed is already one of the worst in the ATL metro…

Do they not? Have they not been critical of other teams or events (like the Olympics) who rip people off in various ways?

Evidence of divas jumping in front of a camera without knowing what the fuck they are talking about?

Every sports team rips off the city they reside in. Keep it up and write about all of them.

Actually, it was the activists themselves who started using Tea Bag comments. they called themselves "Teabaggers" before anyone in the mass media did (granted, the talking heads at MSNBC were probably just waiting for the opportunity to do it publicly).

If the Atlanta Braves stop trying to scam the public out of huge sums of money we will stop publishing articles about the Atlanta Braves trying to scam the public out of huge sums of money.

So why include this? :

Have you considered getting your sports news and information from someplace else?

Had the Braves offered McCann the same deal as the Yankees, they would be paying him the same amount of money as the two worst hitters in baseball, BJ and Uggla. Instead they offer him less than those two, both in years and dollars, and McCann goes to a team that actually wants him. In fact, you have no idea what…

An article praises the Tea Party, and your response is to complain that the website that posted this pro Tea Party article is too liberal.

I live in Cobb. Understand what this deal does — takes property tax revenue that voters approved to fund park bonds — public parks, teeter-totters, swings, you know, stuff EVERYONE gets to use — and re-directs it to fund a for-profit, private corporate entertainment complex. Bait-and-switch does not do it justice. It…

"Yup, its the old "ballpark village" con. More often than not, these developments fail to materialize"

Why would people expect the Tea Party to oppose Boston transplants dressing like Indians in their county?

This has to be here, in every post about the Braves and Cobb county. It's a law.

The best part of this article is the embarrassing admission that the author watches Lawrence O'Donnell.

After living in Cobb for about 6 or 7 years I was sure this "deal" that wasn't even voted on by the tax payers wasn't going to fly without some major opposition. The commission agreed to a pretty huge sum of money in a very conservative area. But like the articles states not just conservatives are angry - people…

Huh. It's kinda surprising the Georgia Tea Party would reject such a sweet deal.

Given that the original tea party was a protest against government subsidizing corporations (the crown lowered taxes on the East India Company, allowing EIC to establish a monopoly on tea,) it seems the tea party is living up to its name for once.

On growing up in pre-civil-rights-era Louisiana
“I never, with my eyes, saw the mistreatment of any black person. Not once. Where we lived was all farmers. The blacks worked for the farmers. I hoed cotton with them. I'm with the blacks, because we're white trash. We're going across the field.... They're singing and…