This is no longer The San Antonio Tea Party's home (it was once, and then it wasn't, and then once again it was, and now once again it's not). The San Antonio
Tea Party now lives at http://www.sanantonioteaparty.us/ This is now just the blog of little old me. Robin Juhl, proprietor
"The American people are basically stupid!" -- Liberal idiot caller
to the Hugh Hewett show at about 5:50 p.m. CST on 28 Feb 10
The San Antonio Tea Party plans to hold General Meetings on the 3rd Sunday of the month. The next General Meeting should be on Sunday, 15 August.
They are usually from 3-5 p.m. The last one was at the Scottish Rite Cathedral, 308 Avenue E, San Antonio, 78205. (That's just NE of the Alamo! Parking was available at 1st Presbyterian Church).
Join the San Antonio Tea Party and other patriots at a rally on Saturday, July 31, 2010 from 10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., on the South steps of the capitol
in Austin. The theme: BACK TO BASICS...RESTORING THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE AND THE CONSTITUTION!
WELL, IT SAVES GAS: Instead of dashing to the scene of an accident, lawyers in need of clients dash to
blog posts about accidents.
2. A bigger lie could not be told. Who are the Tea Partiers?
Aging hippies who are screaming "Me! Me! Me!" Or so these lying idiots say:
The tea party is a harbinger of midlife crisis, not political crisis. For men of a certain age, it offers
a counterculture experience familiar from adolescence -- underground radio, esoteric tracts, consciousness-raising teach-ins
and rallies replete with extroverted behavior to shock the squares -- all paid for with ample cash.
The partyers are
essentially replaying the '60s protest paradigm. (We're aging boomers ourselves, so we know it when we see it.) They
fancy themselves the vanguard of a revolution, when in fact they are typical self-absorbed, privileged children used to having
their way -- now -- and uninhibited about complaining loudly when they don't. It's the same demographic Spiro Agnew
called "an effete corps of impudent snobs who characterize themselves as intellectuals."
In a flashback of
"turn on, tune in, drop out," the partyers reject mainstream culture, don the equivalent of Che T-shirts that say
"Don't Tread on Me," and join sects with trippy names like Oath Keepers, Patriotic Resistance and Freedom Force.
Instead of getting themselves "back to the garden," they get off the grid and, like the Bill Ayers crew, indulge
in fantasies about armed rebellion against the establishment.
But the (often-overlooked) truth about the '60s is
that the great accomplishments we associate with the era -- civil rights, putting a man on the moon -- were made not by boomers
but by the generation born before World War II, which accepted shared sacrifice and saw it as an expression of their belief
in duty, honor and country, not as socialism.
At Woodstock, Haight-Ashbury and the marches on Washington, the boomers
socialized rather than sacrificed. They made great theater, and the media couldn't resist them. It still can't.
Fracking
liars....In reality, it's the hippies and yippies and weathermen who took over. We just want our country back from these
still-stinking hippie commies. But They Think You Are Stupid (.com) and think you'll believe the opposite of the truth.
4. This makes me sick. Yes, I gave Orly Taitz the brush-off at the 2009 Tax Day Tea Party.
But she's supporting McCain's opponent. What to do, what to do?....
5. Take a LOOK AT THIS! See all the crap one must go through to get permission from your Lords and Masters to have a gun in your home if you live in the Washington, District of Corruption.
Some have guessed that my recent comments are based on my overall displeasure with the Obama Administration.
they are not; however it does seem that the best technical minds in U.S. industry are still striving to find HOW America
can continue to be "exceptional", while the Administration does not want America to BE "exceptional".
8. What's that they say about rats and ships? More good news!
"U.S. Rep. William Delahunt blew nearly $560,000 in campaign cash last year - much of it on lavish
meals and a family-friendly payroll that includes his ex-wife, son-in-law and daughter - stoking speculation the Quincy Democrat
is emptying his war chest and won't seek re-election."
9. A Jobs Program.
That's what Dr. Jerry Pournelle always said about NASA's decision to go with the Space Shuttle and kill off all the
alternatives. Well, when the Space Shuttle retires . . .
10. Obama's Rules of Order. Via Patterico, we get this priceless summary from the
great Mil-Blog, Ace of Spade HQ :
Obama's Rules of Order: As noted in an update to an earlier thread, Gabe has been keeping track of
"rules" Obama keeps setting down in order to secure a rhetorical advantage for himself:
1. Democrats get more
time because "I'm the President."
2. Republicans may not criticise my bill. They can only talk about things
on which we agree.
3. Republicans may not use the word "Washington" because it tips the scales.
4.
Republicans may not use or reference an actual copy of the Senate bill. That's a "prop" and it's unfair.
And
add to that 5:
5. We're not in "campaign mode anymore," by which he means McCain cannot mention his dirty
dealings.
On the other hand, Democrats are allowed to introduce props -- some guy just showed a three-page Blue Cross
pre-existing-condition-exclusion list -- and of course can use their favorite rhetorical tactic of telling a story of, say,
Sally Mae Hirshberg, a spry, elfin great-grandmother, 104 years young, recently forced to eat cat food because her health
care provider refused to cover her for the 60 cubic centimeter breast implants she so desperately needed.
Ken Emanuelson posted this on Facebook. They say it's the "first" British Tea Party, but it's not really. The folks who dunked the Tea in Boston Harbor were British subjects and thought of themselves
as such. It's just taking a while for the idea to make it back to the homeland.
The Tea Party Movement
in the USA has demonstrated the huge scale of public opposition to excessive taxation. In the UK, tax is much higher and,
in addition, British membership of the democratically unaccountable EU raises the issue of "no taxation without representation".
From the Boston Tea Party to the Brighton Tea Party, it's time to demonstrate our opposition to excessive taxation.
Did I ever mention giving Orly Taitz the brush off?
1. Quote of the day: Does not Dionysius seem to have made it sufficiently clear that there can be nothing
happy for the person over whom some fear always looms?
2. Mitt Romney can't imagine "the United States Senate without John McCain."
I can! So can Michelle Malkin:
What we have here is a failure of GOP imagination.
Imagine a United States Senate without
an illegal alien amnesty-peddling, bailout-caving, free speech-limiting, fairweather global warming cultist who has spent
decades bashing the conservative wing of the Republican Party and then tries to pander to it whenever his seat is on the line.
It's
easy if you try.
3. Yet ANOTHER reason I dislike McCain! HotAir's Allahpundit
tells it well:
I figured his spokesmen would keep hammering the Birther thing, but a full-blown ad replete with cameo
by Orly Taitz? Quoth Ron Burgundy: "Boy, that escalated quickly. I mean, that really got out of hand fast."
My
feelings about Birtherism are well known and, needless to say, this is an efficient way of marginalizing Hayworth with undecided
centrists who might otherwise be weary of decades of maverickiness. (Geraghty was moved this morning to note Hayworth's
willingness to make chitchat with the John Birch Society.) But I hope McCain's prepared to explain why he's
ready to go bareknuckle on Hayworth by linking him to Taitz when he refused to go bareknuckle on The One by linking him to
Rev. Wright. The single biggest knock on his campaign among grassroots righties was that he pulled his punches against Obama
after years of "straight talk" about Republicans and conservatives. I guess he figures, a la Romney, he doesn't
have a prayer with grassroots righties anyway and can afford to shrug off their irritation over the double standard, but he's
going to be asked about it. Wonder what the explanation will be. (Emphasis added by Juhl)
I
just sent you a message about people who think I'm stupid and when I submitted it I'm told, "Don't let them
get away with it?" Who are them and what is it?" And I'm really confused because you said this blog is about
you, and then you're asking me to "help us" rebuild the San Antonio Tea Party. I didn't even know the party
was broken! And who is "us?"
My reply was:
This is *transitioning* into
my personal blog. There are still a lot of leftovers from when it was the official site of the San Antonio Tea Party (SATP).
Sorry for the confusion. You can find the SATP at their new site: http://www.sanantonioteaparty.us/
Who thinks
you're stupid? Those who fancy themselves our lords and masters that hold (or seek to hold) power in government so that
they can use it to their ends.
Also, I'm sorry to say the SATP was broken for a while. But they're past
that and they are starting to roar back!
But then I remembered THIS:
You must, you must, YOU MUST SEE THIS!
These are
some of the people who really do think you are stupid. The very thing they propose now they were bad-mouthing then as
a threat to thecore of our Republic (for the record: They were right back then). But they figure that you are
too stupid to realize that now, when they are the one's threatening to do this, that they were ever on the other side.
Nope, you're just a mindless drone that will forget what they said then, believe whatever they say now, and be ever so
grateful when they take another few $BILLION from the economy to get a few $millions in benefit (plus more power for them).
Yes, they really do think you are stupid and you should not let them get away with it!
When Joni Schmidt, the founder of both the San Antonio Tea Party and The Boerne Tea Party speaks, I for one listen.
She no longer heads either, so she can speak her mind:
In the mid-1960s,
Salter was a full-time community organizer for the Southern Conference Educational Fund, in the very poor and highly segregated
North Carolina black belt. Klan activity was heavy, and "Local law enforcement was almost completely dominated by the
United Klans of America." Klan dues were collected at the police station in Enfield.
Having received many death
threats, Salter carried a Smith & Wesson .38 special in his attaché case. One night, on a long stretch of isolated
country road, a Klan vehicle tried to force Salter's car into a high-speed chase, by tailing him nearly bumper-to-bumper.
"But I continued to drive sedately, mile after mile...with my revolver in my hand." Salter and the other community
organizers had put out word on the grapevine that they were all armed, and he surmises that this was the reason that the Klansmen
did not try to shoot him that night.
Soon after, "a local civil rights stalwart, Mrs. Alice Evans, of Enfield,
opened fire with her double-barreled 12 gauge, sprinkling several KKKers with birdshot as they endeavored to burn a cross
in her driveway one night and, simultaneously, approaching her home with buckets of gasoline." The Klansmen fled and
went to the hospital. Mrs. Evans donated the cross to the Smithsonian Museum.
Salter then recounts the story of the
armed students and teachers who protected Tougaloo College, near Jackson, Mississippi, when Salter taught there in 1961-63.
That story is recounted in the op-ed to which I linked in the previous post.
Rod Tuason has become the latest person to learn that it's not very wise to post threats, especially
ones involving killing someone, on a Facebook page believed to be private.
Tuason is an East Palo Alto police detective
who allegedly posted a note on Facebook threatening to kill anyone he found openly carrying a handgun, even if that person
was carrying it legally.
4. As long as we're on the topic of guns.... Check
out this graphic from WikiPedia that shows how the tide has turned. Cool!
5. The NY Times is run by slimes. All the News That
Fits Their Agenda gets print. They'll happily publish secrets that hurt America. But real news that might hurt their
new owner? Shhhhhh!
This is a scandalous story, involving one of the world's largest banks, a powerful federal judge,
and two Mexican telecom giants. Under any other circumstances, the business section of the Times would be expected to cover
it, as the Journal and Bloomberg have. Yet as of Saturday midday, I cannot find a single mention of any aspect of this case,
anywhere in the physical New York Times, or on its Web site--not even a blog post or a wire story. Perhaps as the lawsuit
moves on, the Times will be compelled to cover it. But for the moment, it certainly appears that Carlos Slim's investment
has bought the silence of one of the world's most important newspapers.
It was 1982, dusk on a summer night near San Jose, when a band of thugs yelled homophobic slurs at Palmer
and a colleague.
"We were what they perceived as a couple of faggots, which was the term they used, walking through
their neighborhood," he said. "And it would have been one of those modestly ironic moments if my colleague might
have been murdered in a gay bashing, when he was straight."
The threats were vivid and believable: "We're
going to kill you. They'll never find your body."
Palmer told his colleague to run. The thugs chased Palmer,
who stopped under a streetlight and pulled out his gun.
"I did not say anything witty or clever," he recalls.
"In the movies, they say something very clever. I just said, 'If you come closer, I will kill you.' Very blunt.
And they stopped."
He is convinced that if he hadn't had a gun he would be dead. Even though the legal weapon
was not fired, "it did the job it was intended to do. It evened up the odds from a gang of young men who thought it would
be really fun to beat to death two guys walking down the street."
7. Who you gonna
believe, them "Palistinans" or your lying eyes? The "Palestinians" keep claiming the Jews have
no history in Israel. All that stuff about Jerusalem being their historic capital and stories about that mythical "Solomon"
are just made up to help them steal Arab land. Riiiiiight....
The greatest threat to the hopes of those who think parts of Jerusalem should be off-limits to Jews comes
not when Jewish-owned buildings go up in the city, but rather when Jews start digging into the ground of East Jerusalem. Because
the more the history of the city is uncovered, the less credible becomes the charge that Jews are alien colonists in what
the media sometimes wrongly refer to as "traditionally Palestinian" or "Arab" Jerusalem.
That's
the upshot from the release of an amazing archeological dig conducted just outside Jerusalem's Old City. The excavations
conducted by archeologist Eilat Mazar in the Ophel area revealed a section of an ancient city wall of Jerusalem. According
to the press release from the Hebrew University, under whose auspices the project was carried out, the dig uncovered the wall
as well as an inner gatehouse for entry into the royal quarter of the ancient city and an additional royal structure adjacent
to the gatehouse as well as a corner tower. While ancient buildings are not uncommon in the city, the significance of this
discovery is the fact that these edifices can be dated to the 10th century before the Common Era - the time of King Solomon,
credited by the Bible for the construction of the ancient Temple in Jerusalem. Pottery found at the lowest levels of the dig
is dated to this era.
Even more telling is the fact that bullae - seal impressions - with Hebrew names were found, as
well as seal impressions on jar handles inscribed with the words "to the king," which means they were employed by
the Israelite state in that time. Inscriptions on the jars, which Mazar says are the largest ever found in Jerusalem, showed
them to be the property of a royal official.
Daniel Mintz and Meredith Berkman funded the dig. They are a New York couple
whose funding is supporting both the dig and the preservation of the site for public viewing as part of the national park
that exists around the Old City walls. You can view pictures of the site here . . . While finding ancient Jewish
artifacts as well as the traces of Solomon's city in Jerusalem may seem nothing out of the ordinary, for the last century
and a half, a great many academics and intellectuals have attempted to put down the existence of the ancient Jewish kingdom
- which has always served as a symbol of Jewish nationhood - as a religiously inspired fiction. This deconstruction of both
biblical literature and history has sought to undermine the very idea of the historical truth about ancient Israel, as well
as the notion that Jewish nationhood had its roots in the past. This has been put to use by anti-Zionists and Arabs who have
thought that if they could destroy the idea of King David's existence as a historic figure, they could delegitimize modern
Israel. Thus, Palestinian propagandists and the Palestinian Authority itself, which has steadfastly denied any Jewish connection
to the Old City, the Temple Mount, or even the Western Wall, have copied revisionist scholarly work doubting Jewish history
and incorporated that work into their negotiating position about the city's future. The Muslim religious authority that
controls the site of the Temple Mount has vandalized the area, destroying a treasure trove of antiquities in the ancient place
because its officials fear that any find revealing the Jewish origins of the place will undermine their fallacious claims
that seek to portray Jews as foreign occupiers in their own ancient capital.
It serves the purposes of the enemies of
modern Israel to pretend that there is no such thing as biblical history or an ancient kingdom of Israel. But what Eilat Mazar
and her colleagues have done is to illustrate once again just how deep the roots of Jewish Jerusalem run. Three thousand years.
8. QUOTES OF THE DAY #1: "It's my health, it's my choice." That's the Premier of Newfoundland's explanation for why he didn't trust Canada's socialized health care
system for his surgery. What will they do when ObamaCare (tm) destroys our system?
One of the most remarkable incidents in a very distinguished
career happened on his second tour in Vietnam in March 1970. When Schwarzkopf received word that men under his command had
encountered a minefield on the notorious Batangan Peninsula, he rushed to the scene in his helicopter, as was his custom while
a battalion commander, in order to make his helicopter available. He found several soldiers still trapped in the minefield.
Schwarzkopf urged them to retrace their steps slowly. Still, one man tripped a mine and was severely injured but remained
conscious. As the wounded man flailed in agony, the soldiers around him feared that he would set off another mine. Schwarzkopf,
also injured by the explosion, crawled across the minefield to the wounded man and held him down (using a "pinning"
technique from his wrestling days at West Point) so another could splint his shattered leg. One soldier stepped away to break
a branch from a nearby tree to make the splint. In doing so, he too hit a mine, which killed him and the two men closest to
him, and blew an arm and a leg off Schwarzkopf's artillery liaison officer. Eventually, Schwarzkopf led his surviving
men to safety, by ordering the division engineers to mark the locations of the mines with shaving cream.
10. Are you giving money to the GOP? So, where's it going? Private jets, limousines, catering and flowers! Just think of how they'll spend tax money once elected. They'll be tight-fisted for sure! (not)
11. Speaking of child rapists... This one is worse. Much, MUCH worse!
A Delaware pediatrician has been charged with multiple acts of child rape and abuse over the course of
more than a decade in what may be the worst pedophilia case in US history. A grand jury indictment unsealed on Monday
by Delaware's Attorney General's office charges Earl Bradley with sexually assaulting and molesting 102 girls and
one boy in the years since 1998. . . . Biden [Delaware's Attorney General ]'s office has faced questions
over why reports about Bradley in 2005 were not passed along to the state's professional regulation official or the Board
of Medical Practice.
He has ordered an investigation into whether mistakes were made that allowed Bradley to continue
practicing after parent complaints.
SENATOR EVAN BAYH, (D-IND.): (D-IND.): I have had a growing conviction that Congress is not operating
as it should. There is much too much partisanship, and not enough progress. Too much narrow ideology, and not enough practical
problem solving. Even at a time of enormous national challenge, the people's business is not getting done.
MORAN:
Is he right, George?
GEORGE WILL: Well, it's hard to take a lecture on bipartisanship from a man who voted against
the confirmation of Chief Justice Roberts, the confirmation of Justice Alito, the confirmation of Attorney General Ashcroft,
the confirmation of Condoleezza Rice as Secretary of State. Far from being a rebel against his Party's lockstep movement,
Mr. Bayh voted for the Detroit bailout, for the stimulus, for the public option in the healthcare bill. I don't know quite
what his complaint is, but, Terry, with metronomic regularity, we go through these moments in Washington where we complain
about the government being broken. These moments have one thing in common: The Left is having trouble enacting its agenda.
No one when George W. Bush had trouble reforming Social Security said, "Oh, that's terrible - the government's
broken."
2. Remember
the video of Andrew Breitbart hammering that low-life moron from Salon? Well, the uber-idiot that Solon moron based
his stuff on sought out Breitbart. In doing so, he chose . . . unwisely.
We'll indulge him because we believe this encounter is illustrative of tactics the left employs
far too often when they engage in verbal fisticuffs-calling their ideological opponents "racists" or some other
invective, selectively ignoring essential details of the story when it's advantageous to their cause-but it's also
illustrative of tactics the right doesn't use often enough. Breitbart is one of the few high profile conservatives in
the media today ready and willing to take the fight to the left the way they've always taken it to us (I'm a former
Berkeley College Republican, I know). As White House Deputy Chief of Staff Jim Messina famously said, "If you get hit,
we will punch back twice as hard." Breitbart has turned the left's tactic back on them and the net result is an
offensive conservatism that's been largely absent from political discourse in recent memory. And if the cheers at the
tail end of this video are any indication, we would probably benefit from a few more confrontations like this one.
This really gets me. Sunday, we had some morons show up with a megaphone (after the Move-On folks had left).
They kept nattering about racism. That was really funny, given that I shared a table with four Hispanics at the luncheon
and our speaker at that moment was a black guy.
When she first arrived in Sweden after her rescue from a Nazi concentration camp, Judith Popinski
was treated with great kindness.
She raised a family in the city of Malmo, and for the next six decades lived happily
in her adopted homeland - until last year.
In 2009, a chapel serving the city's 700-strong Jewish community was
set ablaze. Jewish cemeteries were repeatedly desecrated, worshippers were abused on their way home from prayer, and "Hitler"
was mockingly chanted in the streets by masked men.
"I never thought I would see this hatred again in my lifetime,
not in Sweden anyway," Mrs Popinski told The Sunday Telegraph.
"This new hatred comes from Muslim immigrants.
The Jewish people are afraid now."
Malmo's Jews, however, do not just point the finger at bigoted Muslims
and their fellow racists in the country's Neo-Nazi fringe. They also accuse Ilmar Reepalu, the Left-wing mayor who has
been in power for 15 years, of failing to protect them.
Mr Reepalu, who is blamed for lax policing, is at the centre
of a growing controversy for saying that what the Jews perceive as naked anti-Semitism is in fact just a sad, but understandable
consequence of Israeli policy in the Middle East.
i.e. -- "Stupid Jews deserve it! It's all
because of Israel! Blah, blah, blah!"
Second, for him to continue to say that he does not hear the Republican party admit its failings
or problems is to ignore some of the loudest and brightest lights in the party. From Jim DeMint to Tom Coburn to Mike Pence
to Paul Ryan, any number of Republicans have admitted the excesses of the party and done constructive and serious work to
correct them and find and promote solutions. Even John McCain has said again and again that "the Republican party lost
its way." These leaders, and many others, have been offering real proposals, not ill-informed muttering diatribes that
can't distinguish between conservative and liberal, free enterprise and controlled markets, or night and day. Does Glenn
truly believe there is no difference between a Tom Coburn, for example, and a Harry Reid or a Charles Schumer or a Barbara
Boxer? Between a Paul Ryan or Michele Bachmann and a Nancy Pelosi or Barney Frank?
Third, to admit it is still "morning
in America" but a "vomiting for four hours" kind of morning is to diminish, discourage, and disparage all
the work of the conservative, Republican, and independent resistance of the past year. The Tea Partiers know better than this.
I don't think they would describe their rallies and resistance as a bilious purging but, rather, as a very positive democratic
reaction aimed at correcting the wrongs of the current political leadership.
And who are the political
leaders in the Republican party? Mitch? Yeah, OK. The ones with the positions of power and authority? What do THEY have
to say? Not the "we were wrong" Glenn is calling for. McCain? He helped LEAD them into the big government darkness.
The Tea Parties ARE a purging--and we are purging ourselves of the "RINOs," the big government Republicans.
Michelle Malkin put it well in Attention, GOP: John McCain is the problem:
If you didn't gag when you read this sentence, you are not paying attention:
"Even John
McCain has said again and again that 'the Republican party lost its way.'"
"Even John McCain?"
The Republican party "lost its way" on core limited government principles because of McCain's radical progressive
agenda. Question for Mr. Bennett: Can you please provide the exact citation and context of the so-called admission you
attribute to McCain?
Because to this day, McCain refuses to admit his own individual responsibility for supporting
the pre-socialization of the economy started under George W. Bush and continued under Obama. And fellow Republicans continue
to whitewash McCain's fiscal irresponsibility record.
McCain has never admitted he was wrong about his support
of:
*The $700 billion all-purpose, earmark-stuffed TARP bailout;
*The $25 billion auto bailout;
*The $300
billion mortgage entitlement bailout; and
*The first $85 billion AIG bailout.
His latest McLame-est excuse for
supporting TARP? He was "misled."
This is the kind of weasel the GOP put up as the standard bearer
in the last election! Remember that? The big-money-men had anointed him long before the Texas primary, so I didn't bother
to exercise the pleasure of voting against him in the primary (It was "Go Hillary!" for me) Yeah, McCain was a
great American as a POW. But once he got into politics he went sour, just like a gallon of milk left out for a few weeks
in the hot Arizona sun!
The embattled liberal group ACORN is in the process of dissolving its national structure, with state and
local-chapters splitting off from the underfunded, controversial national group, an official close to the group confirmed.
"ACORN
has dissolved as a national structure of state organizations," said a senior official close to the group, who declined
to be identified by name because of the fierce conservative attacks on the group that began when a conservative filmmaker
caught some staffers of its tax advisory arms on tape appearing to offer advice on incorporating a prostitution business.
The
videos proved a rallying point for conservatives who had long accused the group of fomenting voting fraud. Though the videos
did not produce criminal charges, they appear to have been fatal to the national organization.
"Consistent with
what the internal recommendations have been, each of the states are developing plans for reconstitution independence and self-sufficiency,"
said the official, citing ACORN's "diminished resources, damage to the brand, unprecedented attacks."
Polanski, 76, was arrested in September when travelling to Zurich to receive a lifetime achievement
award at a festival. He is still wanted after fleeing the United States on the eve of his 1978 sentencing for having sex with
a 13-year-old girl.
Polanski completed the film while in jail and under house arrest.
Ghost Writer producer Alain
Sarde told the awards ceremony how he was "lamenting" with Polanski that the director could not be in Berlin to
accept his prize.
He said Polanski replied: "Even if I could I wouldn't go, because the last time I went to
a festival to get a prize I ended up in jail."
Awwww...I just BLEED for the SOB, don't you?
Those YER-OH-PEONS are so "culturally advanced" that they just can't see what the big deal is. Well, a whole
lot of bleeding really should have happened back in 1978....
It was great to see the San Antonio Tea Party coming back to life. He Who Shall Not Be Named almost killed it off, but he failed. It was wonderful to see some
of the old gang (heh--been less than a year!) but heartening to meet so many who had no idea who I was. Fresh blood
-- that's very good!
Joni Schmidt, the original leader of the San Antonio Tea Party was also there
and we had a L-O-N-G talk. She wanted a picture with Joe the Plumber, and I managed to snag a couple:
Thanks to all of you who stopped by to get a bumper sticker, flag, Constitution, or yard sign from me!
I counted about 230 folks. Could have been more, but it could have been worse. It's a good re-start.
He Who
Shall Not Be Named did not show up, but Move On.Org did. The sang ""Happy Birthday" to us at the end
of their counter protest. Gotta hand Angie Drake that one -- it was a nice touch. Angie and I talked afterward (Yes, the local Move On coordinator and I can be civil
to one another. Hell, I like Angie and she's a military spouse. Not a bad person, just...wrong on her politics.)
Remember, your opponent isn't necessarily evil. Isn't that the mistake too many on the other side make about
us? We resist "The One!" so we must be evil.... So, too, with them.
2. Frustrated Owner Bulldozes Home Ahead Of Foreclosure. WLWT.com:
"The average homeowner that can't afford an attorney or can fight as long as we have, they don't
stand a chance," he said.
Hoskins said he'd gotten a $170,000 offer from someone to pay off the house, but
the bank refused, saying they could get more from selling it in foreclosure.
Hoskins told News 5's Courtis Fuller
that he issued the bank an ultimatum.
"I'll tear it down before I let you take it," Hoskins told them.
And
that's exactly what Hoskins did
3. The HexaCopter.This video is in German with subtitles. The HexaCopter is really, really cool!
4. I never did like Bill O'Reilly much. Right wing? BAH! Especially after
he let Geraldo Rivera savage Michelle Malkin. Now, he shows another lack of class and brains. Bill thinks that
when there's a hurricane it's a great excuse for the p[olice to force their way into into homes and collect guns from
people. Via GatewayPundit:
1. Remember the Duke Lacrosse Players' Accuser? You know, the one who just made up the story about
being raped, that ruined the lives of some Duke university students when every liberal wacko piled on with "OF COURSE
THEY ARE GUILTY!" before there was any evidence? Well, she's getting hers (http://www.wral.com/news/local/story/7068705/):
Durham, N.C. - Durham police arrested Duke lacrosse accuser Crystal Gale Mangum, 33, late Wednesday after
she allegedly assaulted her boyfriend, set his clothes on fire in a bathtub and threatened to stab him.
Authorities
charged her with attempted first-degree murder, five counts of arson, assault and battery, communicating threats, three counts
of misdemeanor child abuse, injury to personal property, identity theft and resisting a public officer.
Bankruptcy fears in Dubai and Greece roiled world credit markets in recent months as investors braced
for the possibility of default. But United States governments have their own share of woes.
The city of Vallejo, Calif.,
located just north of San Francisco, filed for bankruptcy in 2008. Jefferson County, Ala., is on the brink of what would be
the largest government bankruptcy in the history of the U.S.--surpassing the 1994 filing by Southern California's Orange
County. At least 39 states expect a budget shortfall in 2011 with the tab estimated at more than $180 billion.
Free-spending
America isn't quite a banana republic yet. But in a Forbes ranking of sovereign debt the U.S. comes out No. 35, one rung
below Estonia, on a global list of 85. Hard to believe that the U.S. would default on its debts based on its AAA bond rating,
but based on credit default swap spreads there is a 3.1% chance of a U.S. default in the next five years, according to CMA,
a London credit information specialist. Seven sovereigns have lower default probabilities, including France, Australia and
Germany. Norway has the lowest default probability at 1.5%.
3. We really did visit the moon?
Imagine that! Despite the best efforts of those who wuld deny Neil Armstrong & co. their due, there is solid evidence
that America really did put men on the moon: the mirrors they left behind. Using these reflectors, scientists on Earth can
measure the distance to the moon to within about a millimeter. Trouble is, there's nobody there to wipe off the dust
that's accumulating on them.... Dusty mirrors on the moon obscure tests of relativity (http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn18527-dusty-mirrors-on-the-moon-obscure-tests-of-relativity.html)
The liberal Lautenberg has been a staunch gun-control advocate and critic of the tobacco industry. He
wrote laws to ban smoking on domestic airline flights and to institute a national minimum drinking age of 21.
It would be easy to dismiss the attempt to link Bishop and the Tea Party movement given the absurdity
of the connection. After all, Bishop loves Obama, so how could the "anti-Obama" nature of the Tea Party movement
have caused Bishop to do anything?
It's just that these things have a way of working their way into the mainstream
media, regardless of how outlandish the supposed connection.
Keep repeating Amy Bishop and Tea Party in the headlines,
and it will not be long before 35% of Democrats believe there is a connection.
And that is the true slant.
After
all, they successfully smeared Christians with Timothy McVeigh (despite the fact he was an atheist).
Another report from the department showed prices paid at the farm and factory gate rose a faster than
expected 1.4 percent from December after a 0.4 percent gain in December, as higher gasoline prices and unusually cold temperatures
helped boost energy costs.
Mark Rudd's website says that his commitment to "fighting U.S imperialism"[3] was inspired
by the revolutionary movement in Cuba, which at that time was in its ninth year.[4] In 1968, Rudd and Bernardine Dohrn and
other leaders of SDS were invited to Cuba to meet with Cuban and North Vietnamese delegates. His experiences in Cuba strengthened
Rudd's anti-war and pro-Communist sentiments.[5] Rudd had described the life of Cuba as "extremely humanistic"
and he idealized Ernesto "Che" Guevara, referring to him as the "Heroic Guerilla."[6]
The truth is that while I campaigned for President Bush and supported him in both of his runs for president,
I became disillusioned with his presidency earlier than most. I wrote the book "Rome Wasn't Burnt in a Day"
in 2004, and predicted if Mr. Bush and the GOP Congress didn't stop spending money at such a reckless rate, they would
lose their majority and wreck the Congress.
Even though I was correct on both counts, I received a firestorm of criticism
from Washington conservatives who blog on sites like Newsbusters. Their main complaint seemed to be that I was being too tough
on Mr. Bush.
History has proven that, if anything, I was not tough enough on an administration that doubled the national
debt and turned a $155 billion surplus and turned it into a $1 trillion debt. Most other Republicans who trashed me for years--ironically
calling me a RINO (Republican In Name Only) for being critical of my party for spending too much money--put party loyalty
over conservative principles.
As I said at the time to these statist Republicans, my positions on taxes, spending and
limited government have not changed one bit since the first day I walked into Congress in 1994 when I was known as a right-wing
zealot.
Unfortunately, it was the Republican leadership who became more liberal with Americans' tax dollars and
it was large swaths of the Washington conservative establishment who sat silently by because they enjoyed being in power so
much that they never bothered to let their principles get in the way of supporting reckless GOP party bosses. Speaking truth
to power was not in vogue when Republicans were in charge. That spinelessness led to a Pelosi speakership.
8. ANOTHER STEP FORWARD! The Supreme Court of the State of Washington decided the Second Amenedment
applies to the states.
1. Congrats to Patterico! “Patterico” is an L.A. County prosecutor who runs
one heck of a good website: Patterico’s Pontifications. Patterico recently passed his Seventh Blogiversary and passed 20-Million page views. Back when I ran my old blog, “The View From The Nest,” Patterico was
one of the first to link to me. When I announced I was taking it down, he was one of the few to bother to ask me why
and to wish me well. Hope I can meet the guy some day!
2. They’ve made
a Quark-Gluon Plasma! What’s that you ask? Well, since you asked…do bear in mind this is
physics-geek stuff… They stripped some gold atoms of their electrons, accelerated them to 99.995% of the speed
of light—and them whacked them together. The collision is so fierce that it melted the protons and neutrons down
into what they are made of: quarks and gluons. This plasma of sub-sub-atomic particles is so hot and compressed
it’s like the state of the universe a microsecond after the Big Bang.
Now, that’s
pretty cool (so to speak). But what’s really hot is that they’ve observed that at this temperature and pressure,
THE LAWS OF PHYSICS CHANGE! Instapundit pointed to the article at The New York Times which notes:
The departure from normal physics manifested itself in the apparent ability of the
briefly freed quarks to tell right from left. That breaks one of the fundamental laws of nature, known as parity, which requires
that the laws of physics remain unchanged if we view nature in a mirror.
This may explain
why the universe is not 1/2 matter and 1/2 anti-matter. That is BIG news. If you have any degree of geekiness,
hie thee over there before the article disappears.
3. It just keeps getting better
(or weirder). Remember the professor who killed her brother, got released, and then murdered the folks at her
college when she didn’t get tenure? Michelle Malkin notes this from the Boston Globe:
Amy Bishop was charged with assault in 2002 IHOP dispute
In March, 2002, Bishop walked into an International House of Pancakes in Peabody with her family, asked for a booster
seat for one of her children, and learned the last seat had gone to another mother.
Bishop,
according to a police report, strode over to the other woman, demanded the seat and launched into a profanity-laced rant.
When the woman would not give the seat up, Bishop punched her in the head, all the while
yelling “I am Dr. Amy Bishop.”
4. Dr. Jerry Pournelle is a wise man.
One should read his writing with regularity. Here’s a long-ish sample:
"Just Say No to the Health-Care Summit" by Betsey McCaughey in today's Wall Street Journal gives a number of reasons and is well written, but the title
says it all. The Republicans should respectfully decline: the summit is an auto-de-fe in their honor.
McCaughey notes that Obama used to say that if you like your doctor and your present health care plan, you get to keep
them under his reforms. At the Republican conference Obama invited himself to he made it clear that is not true: under neither
the Senate nor the House version of the health care bills that will be the starting point of the upcoming summit, everyone
will be required to buy a government-approved health care plan (complete with homeopathic and mental health and various other
mandated coverages inserted by a flurry of lobbyists -- there's a lot of room for mandates in those enormous bills). Few
of the plans people have now cover all those things. If you don't buy a government approved plan, the IRS gets to come
after you until you do. The IRS gets a budget increase for this. See the Iron Law if you wonder what that will mean.
The Nuts have 40% of GDP now: a full 40% of every
activity in these United States is now controlled by government. The health care bills will add another 12 to 15% as well
as raise the deficit.
Just Say No.
====================
Have a Cup of Tea
I often wonder why the
Wall Street Journal runs the weekly "Tilting Yard" column by the very liberal Thomas Frank, but this morning's
item "The Tea Parties Are No Great Awakening" is informative about the upcoming liberal tactics regarding the Tea Party movement.
In essence, they intend to show that it's all a front from the Creeps. It's a right wing conspiracy fomented
by Dick Armey for the benefit of lobbyists lead by Jack Abramoff. Frank believes he can prove this. He's found a former
Abramoff associate in the pay of a non-profit that says it helps coordinate the Tea Party movement. Isn't that proof enough?
If not, he offers a lot of speculation to persuade you; he hasn't got any more proof.
Niven's Law says that there is no cause so noble and pure that it will not attract fuggheads, and his corollary
to that law is that the fuggheads will usually attract most of the press attention. That is as true of the Tea Parties as
anything else: it gets and will get fuggheads, and it will also get Creeps and Crooks. The Creep wing of the Republican Party
was rejected in 2008 and now these remoras are looking for a shark to attach themselves to. The Tea Parties are a great attraction.
I suspect the Country Club Republicans will devise a way to show how they were actually
conservatives all along, and the Creeps will show that they would have been conservatives only there were compelling reasons
for Big Government Conservatism, and anyway can't you forget the past?
I so say
this: watch those who want to go to the Health Care Summit. Perhaps there's a good reason for a Republican to go to that
Summit, but I haven't thought of it. Just Say No.
===============
It's amusing that the liberals are now saying that Evan Bayh is a conservative democrat. This
is nonsense. A quick Google turns up: "Actually, Bayh has a liberal voting record during his time in Senate. His
lifetime ACU rating is 20.70, and his 2009 ADA score is 70%." Bayh has charm and comes from a long time prominent
political family in Indiana. He has always run as a conservative democrat but has voted liberal on most issues.
The astonishing thing is that he quits the Senate because Washington is paralyzed at time when
his party has extraordinary majorities in both houses as well as the White House. What this says is that Democrats can't
govern: the ravening wolves have taken over the Party and the Nuts are in control of it. In 2008 the country turned out the
Creeps: the weirdo "we have a right to rule" faction of the Republican Party. It is now about to turn out the Nuts,
and Bayh can see that coming.
So who do we turn to now?
The obvious answer is that government is too large, and no one can govern now; the remedy is the same as always, transparency
and subsidiarity. Whether we can do that I can't say. Turn back, O man. Forswear thy foolish ways. Old now is earth. And
none may count her days...
Jeremiads are always appropriate for Ash Wednesday...
Pournelle's Iron Law of Bureaucracy states that in any bureaucratic organization
there will be two kinds of people. First, there will be those who are devoted to the goals of the organization. Examples are
dedicated classroom teachers in an educational bureaucracy, many of the engineers are scientists at NASA, even some agricultural
scientists and advisors in the former Soviet Union collective farming administration.
Secondly,
there will be those dedicated to the organization itself. Examples are many of the administrators in the education system,
many professors of education, many teachers union officials, much of the NASA headquarters staff, etc.
The Iron Law states that in every case the second group will gain and keep control of the organization. It will write
the rules, and control promotions within the organization.
Gen Mohiudin Ghori said his soldiers had seen Taliban fighters placing women and children
on the roofs of buildings and firing from behind them.
The joint offensive in southern
Helmand province has entered its fifth day.
US Marines fighting to take the Taliban
haven of Marjah have had to call in air support as they come under heavy fire.
They
have faced sustained machine-gun fire from fighters hiding in bunkers and in buildings including homes and mosques. . . .
Gen Ghori, the senior commander for Afghan troops in the area, accused the Taliban of
taking civilians hostage in Marjah and putting them in the line of fire.
"Especially
in the south of Marjah, the enemy is fighting from compounds where soldiers can very clearly see women or children on the
roof or in a second-floor or third-floor window," he is quoted by Associated Press as saying.
"They are trying to get us to fire on them and kill the civilians."
Like I
said: War Crimes. If captured, no “Club Cuba” for them -- Try them and if guilty HANG THEM.
That’s allowed in the Geneva Accords
Meanwhile, to the north, British forces
have discovered an insurgent cache of stolen Afghan army and police uniforms.
This image makes it clear where 7 years of technology development went into developing the ipad. It compares
the ipad with the HP TC 1100. Yes it is a shallow gimmicky comparison, but the sad thing is that it highlights exactly what
a whole lot of people think make the ipad an overpriced gadget.
How they could leave pretty much EVERYTHING useful out
just baffles me. No SD card. No real GPS. No phone capabilities (although rumor has it that skype will work with it on release).
No way to plug in an external monitor or external storage. No camera. No USB ports.
"No new ideas," writes Tony Blankley, was the most prominent criticism
made by the deep thinkers at MSNBC of Sarah Palin's Tea Party convention speech. Blankley summarizes other objections
to the speech advanced on MSNBC and comments: "The American people have had a bellyful of new ideas in the last year.
The next winning politician and party will only have to offer two: Stop it now and start rolling it back immediately!
It may take decades just to execute those two ideas."
Mr. Romney, 62, and his wife, Ann, were sitting in Row 15 of the economy
section of the Embrarer 190 airplane, waiting for the plane to take off when the incident happened.
The man sitting
in front of Mr. Romney's wife dropped his seat back and when Mr. Romney asked him to move it upright for takeoff, the
man became "physically violent." Another report said that the man tried to strike Mr. Romney.
This
guy is a multi-millionaire who's considered the front-runner for the Republican nomination to the Presidency and he flies
COACH? Who the *&^#$ does he think he is-one of us? How DARE he fly coach! Serves him right if he gets punched out!
A friend presented this brilliant strategy, right from the Left-wing Democratic playbook. Remember reading
about "Hoovervilles," the shantytowns erected by the homeless during the Great Depression? I suggest that tea-partiers
consider nominating various depressed municipalities Obamaville, in honor of the President's magical non-stimulating
stimulus bill which, at last count, had cost taxpayers some $850 billion and which, as of this writing, has left us with a
national unemployment figure hovering around 10 percent. . . .
"Welcome to Obamaville," a billboard
might say, "where seldom is heard an encouraging word and the taxes are higher today."
c. Sure, you know that if you were a Tea Party advocate and you had been a suspect in the attempted murder of a
Harvard Professor with a pipe bomb and you were to murder three people, the media would tar the Tea Parties nationwide with
your blood-letting; BUT if you're a Socialist and a far-left political extremist who was "obsessed" with President
Obama to the point of being off-putting (as a "family source" put it) that would get lost in the shuffle! (http://www.bostonherald.com/news/regional/view/20100215oddball_protrait_emerges_suspects_family_pals_offer_clues/srvc=home&position=0)
The terrible news from Alabama, and the revelation that it apparently could have been stopped dead 24
years ago but for Massachusetts has a tiresomely familiar ring to it. Whether it's the rampant hackery, liberal do-goodism
or cronyism, they just keep letting criminals go so they can do it again. Killers and rapists. The latest version of this
old story has a new twist: it involves the politically vulnerable U.S. Rep. Bill Delahunt, D-Mass., who as the former Norfolk
DA reportedly signed off on an "accidental shooting" that cops are now reinvestigating as a potential coverup by
the former police chief, when Amy Bishop killed her brother and attempted an armed carjacking in 1986. Bishop went on to become
a person of interest in the attempted 1993 bombing of a Harvard prof who oversaw her doctoral work. She's now is being
held in the killing of three faculty members involved in her University of Alabama tenure bid.
A prisoner has been accused of throwing boiling oil over an al Qaeda terrorist who planned to murder thousands
with dirty bombs.
The 22-year-old inmate is accused of scarring for life Dhiren Barot, who was jailed for life for leading
a British-based terrorist cell that plotted bombings across the world.
Barot's lawyer claimed he had the boiling
oil thrown over him during the attack in the high security Frankland Prison in County Durham.
The unnamed prisoner faces
charges of wounding and assault occasioning actual bodily harm following the incident on July 6.
He will appear in court
later this month.
Where can we contribute to the defense fund for Mr. "Unnamed Prisoner?"
The whole thing is sad; that the Times seems unable to give a reasonably sympathetic hearing to
Americans mad at Wall Street, Washington, Republicans and Democrats but instead travels to Idaho to interview and emphasize
what it depicts as a particularly strange group of them; that those Americans angry at both political parties would channel
their anger toward immigrants; that minorities would feel intimidated by Americans mad at Wall Street, Washington, Republicans
and Democrats. The Times doesn't get into the question of how anti-immigrant and how heavily armed the average non-Tea
Party-activist Idaho resident is. Nor does it get into the fact that a certain set of wild-eyed true believers who don't
appear normal to outsiders tends to exist on the fringes of just about every mass movement, from the AFL-CIO to the Obama
campaign.
Yeah, but ideology comes FIRST, folks, then the "News" -- IF it "Fits!"
8. I distrust "Honest John" McCain.
Senate Republicans will lay out
a 10-point election year agenda this spring, Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) suggested on Tuesday morning.
McCain said Republicans
would craft a list of 10 legislative pledges which they would seek to enact within the first 60 days of taking back control
of Congress, if they were to do so in this fall's elections.
"We Republicans have to provide - and we will
later this spring - a positive vision with what we want to do for the country," McCain said during an interview on KFYI
radio in Arizona.
9. "Naked Girls Reading Science Fiction." Hmm. I really LOVE science
fiction. It's the Pinchbottom Burlesque, in New York on March 5th. WARNING: LINK IS NOT SAFE FOR WORK
(NSFW)! (http://io9.com/5469851/let-a-live-nude-girl-read-science-fiction-to-you) Wonder if MyLovelyWife will let me attend? (Probably not....)
1.
Saw Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Lightning Thief. A bit formula, but who cares--it was a lot of fun! Heard Michael Medved's review on the radio; he give
it four stars. I've learned that his tastes pretty much match mine.
2. MyLovelyWife gave me a Barnes
& Noble "Nook" for Christmas. **I LOVE IT!** I'm on the seventh
book now. A good review of the Nook is at Powerline (who you should already be reading regularly). I really do love carrying a couple of dozen books with me at once.
3. I've
been working my way through the Honor Harrington series, created by David Weber. Love 'em! I've bought the latest of the books for the Nook, since I'd
already read them all in hardcopy (and many occupy my bookshelf). Weber has made all the back issue available--free--and
I have them all loaded on the Nook.
Senator Evan Bayh's decision
not to seek re-election this November makes him just the latest among numerous Democrats who announced they are quitting.
They have looked at the Obamacare debacle, the crippling debt, the millions of lost jobs, and the looming national security
disaster heralded by the increase in jihad terror attacks on American soil, and they're getting out. They know that Americans
are waking up to how the big government policies of the Democrats are continuing to hurt our economy, and are ruinous for
America.
I called ClimateGate "the
global warming scandal of the century" back on November 20. Deeper and deeper it goes. Over the weekend, University of
East Anglia global warming cultist Phil Jones conceded that there has been no statistically significant warming over the last
15 years....
The worldwide population of polar
bears has doubled in the past thirty years. But don't take my word for it.
Here's the gist of a report by the U.S. Senate Environment and Public Works Committee released on January 30, 2008:
The U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service estimates that the polar bear population is currently at 20,000
to 25,000 bears, up from as low as 5,000-10,000 bears in the 1950s and 1960s. A 2002 U.S. Geological Survey of wildlife in
the Arctic Refuge Coastal Plain noted that the polar bear populations "may now be near historic highs."
8. Can the citizens of a state
recall a Senator or Representative from the Congress? That's
never been litigated. But it's about to be. See Big Goverenment's Menendez NJ Recall Update: The Tea Party Goes to Court. It's an interesting legal question.
9.
Player vs Player's tribute to Snoopy. PvP is a great web comic; read it every weekday. Skull the
Troll is a character that can be seen only by those who believe in him. This particular strip is PRICELESS, do go see it. Here's what the artists says about it:
The first panel of today's comic was sketched, inked, and colored live during a class on webcomics
I taught at the Charles M. Schulz Museum. It was an honor to be asked. The classroom was full of eager "students"
and they all were kind enough to seem very interested in what I was doing.
So I got to draw the first part of this comic on hallowed
ground
Joni Schmidt took up the Flag in San Antonio and organized the first San Antonio Tea Party using Facebook.
The page is still there. Our first Tea Party was in front of the Alamo on 27 Feb 09.
I heard about the rally afterward, found Joni
and the Facebook group through a Google search, and joined Facebook just to be a part of it. We realized not everyone is willing
to sign up for Facebook and the movement needed a publicly available web site, so I created TheyThinkYouAreStupid.com.
And off we went!
The tea party movement is in danger of getting a bad reputation
for allowing birfers and truthers to share the stage. At the National Tea Party, Joseph Farah treated the birfer issue as
legitimate. In Texas, tea party activists have rallied to Debra Medina who, just yesterday, refused to definitely dismiss
the 9/11 truther conspiracy as crackpot nonsense. If a candidate cannot do that, we cannot help that candidate. It's that
simple.
So we arrive at one of those moments where I am fully prepared to part ways with the individuals and groups
willing to share the stage and treat as legitimate the crazies who believe the President was born in Kenya, the crazies who
believe our government was complicit September 11th terrorist attacks ... two groups, incidentally that increasingly overlap.
This
sets us up for attacks from the left and from within that we must anticipate. It is one thing to separate ourselves from these
individuals and groups. It is quite another to know that these people are among us. We should be careful. All of us have an
obligation to vet those who we ally with. Just because someone is stridently against the size of government does not make
him an ally if he also believes the U.S. Army blew up the World Trade Center. Such a person brings disrepute on us all, deservedly
so.
Indeed. I was most put out when one of our speakers at the Independence Day Celebration started
waving his birth certificate about and challenging Obama to produce his. I was appalled at that nonsense and almost
jerked the jerk off the stage (he had promised to restrict his remarks to one subject and had broken that promise).
The responsible official for the State of Hawaii has produced a certificate showing his birthplace was Hawaii AND stated this at a press conference:
"I, Dr. Chiyome Fukino, director of the Hawaii State Department of Health, have seen the original
vital records maintained on file by the Hawaii State Department of Health verifying Barack Hussein Obama was born in Hawaii
and is a natural-born American citizen. I have nothing further to add to this statement or my original statement issued in
October 2008 over eight months ago...."
Full Faith and Credit shall be given in each State to the public Acts, Records, and judicial Proceedings
of every other State. And the Congress may by general Laws prescribe the Manner in which such Acts, Records and Proceedings
shall be proved, and the Effect thereof.
The very same type of "record" given by Hawaii
in the case of Obama is "record" enough for every other citizen born in Hawaii to prove their citizenship for purposes
of voting, getting driver's licenses, getting into the military, and getting the most very-God-awfully-high security
clearances. That is more than good enough.
The "Birfers" can just get in line behind the "troofers"
to kiss my hairy, wrinkled old behind. There should beIS no place in the Tea Party for them!
The first anniversary of the first San Antonio Tea Party protest in front of the Alamo (lead by Joni Schmidt) is coming
up. You ARE going to be there on Sunday, 21 Feb for the big celebration at sunset station, right? Joe the
Plumber's coming back!
Marvel Comics Editor-in-Chief Joe Quesada Thinks You Are Stupid!
You DID know about Marvel Comics having Captain America bad mouth the Tea Parties in issue 602, right. Well, they
got caught, and now they're sorry (that they got caught, that is!) Check out the "apology" and "explanation"
from their editor-in-chief, Joe Quesada, in the Washington Times:
Where Mr. Houston is correct is in our accidently [SIC] identifying in one of the held up signs, the
group as being a part of the Tea Party instead of a generic protest group. That's something that we need to apologize
for and own up to, because it's just one of those stupid mistakes that happened through a series of stupid incidents.
There's
more drivel at the article. You can believe all ofit you want and if you do then you are indeed as stupid as Marvel-ous
Joe thinks you are. Just compare all the items on the page with both the true points and canards on the Tea Party.
"Teabag"
sign? Check. "All white protesters?" Check. "Stop The Socialists" sign? Check.
"No Government in My Medicare" sign (As in "ha ha, those stupid tea baggers")? Check. "America
not American't" sign? Check. "Down with the socialist regime" sign? Check. Flag waving
rednecks? Check!
That's all just his soft lie. Here's the biggie:
This, however,
is where Mr. Houston misreads what's happening in the story. He assumes that the people protesting in the streets are
the Watchdogs, when in fact they are not, so this is an element that is taken out of context.
BULLSHIT!
You think we're stupid? You think we can't read? Look at the dialogue in the cartoon! (click image to
expand)
SAM: So, I guess the whole "hate the government" vibe around here isn't limited to
the Watchdogs.
Capt Anti-America: We're not in New York anymore, Sam
THIS WAS A
STRAIGHT UP ATTACK ON THE TEA PARTIES. MARVEL COMICS THINKS TEA PARTIES ARE WORTHY OF THEIR SPIT AND ARE TRYING TO LIE
THEIR WAY OUT OF IT! (Why yes, we all know that "all caps" is considered yelling.)
Home improvement retailer Lowe’s has expanded its 10 percent military discount
to all day, everyday, for active-duty, National Guard and reserve, retiree and disabled service members, and their families,
company officials announced Wednesday.
Those who want to receive the discount must present a valid military
ID card.
3. If you thought the “Green Police” commercial was funny, it’s time to stop laughing. This is just the early part of the article. Follow the link and keep reading!
In
true bureaucratic fashion, the mayor responded by calling a meeting and bringing together a coalition of government and concerned
citizens, dubbed the Cambridge Climate Emergency Congress. The City recently released " <http://www.cambridgema.gov/CityOfCambridge_Content/documents/Climate_Congress_Notes_12-12-09.pdf> Climate Congress Notes 12-12-09," 89 pages of minutes rom its first meeting. The suggestions were distilled into
a " <http://www.cambridgema.gov/deptann.cfm?story_id=2457&pv=Yes> Proposal for Climate Emergency Response" for the second Congress. Some of the radical ideas make for humorous reading
-- that is, unless you ever plan to live or work in Cambridge.
To get an idea of the thinking
of our climate first responders, consider this bullet point:
"Need to change community norms and expectations
such that it is all right to tell your neighbors what they can and cannot do in the realm of climate change‐related
behavior." (Notes 11.)
Behavior modification will not be limited to busybody neighbors; the Climate Emergency
Congress is an official government body that includes the mayor and the entire city council, with the support of seven former
mayors. Its Proposal #1 is to create a Climate Emergency Response Board (CERB), a further expansion of legislative authority
over the minutia of our private lives. http://www.americanthinker.com/2010/02/green_police_arent_just_in_sup.html
4. More unforced errors by the left concerning Palin. The keep looking like what they are: Idiots
with "Palin Derangement Syndrome." In a word: Idiots, idiots, idiots!
It is so funny to hear liberals complaining
about the lack of skin color-only diversity at their own gatherings. (Lord knows they complain enough about other
groups’ events.)
By the way, the title of the article is, “A Diversity of Opinion,
if Not Opinionators.” It should read, “A Diversity of Opinionators, if Not Opinions.” Different skin colors,
not opinions, is the kind of diversity liberals obsess over.
“Fox has the
list of donors, which comprises a set of interlocking slush-type funds that pay for the anti–Tea Party campaign. The
largest of these is the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME,) which has kicked in a total
of $9.9M in a single year to two funds that provide the cash for the non-grassroots movement. Yes — government workers’
money is being used to fend off Tea Party protesters.”
The Ensuring Liberty Corporation, a 501(c)4, and its affiliated PAC, the Ensuring Liberty PAC (ELPAC) were formed
to address the next step in the growing impact of the TEA Party movement through fund raising, candidate recruiting and the
development of a Congressional Caucus of like-minded representatives that stand for the TEA Party “First Principles”.
These first principles are:
·Fiscal Responsibility
·Lower Taxes
·Less Government
·States’ Rights
·National Security
In short, Ensuring Liberty will combine the money of Club for Growth and the grassroots mobilization of the Tea Party movement with a proprietary “’campaign tool kit’”
that enables a standard set of electioneering practices” to make sure the money and people inputs result in super-efficient
outputs. This should satisfy both donors and “doers” as will the commitment that their support will be limited
to candidates who fully embrace these unifying first principles.
Another unique feature
of Ensuring Liberty is that successful candidates will be expected to caucus in support of the first principles knowing that
their fidelity or lack thereof will be reported to the Liberty PAC membership. The Ensuring Liberty caucus member who
turns his back on the principles, will expect the membership to turn their backs to him.
6. Could
Joy Behar and Eve Ensler (creator of the execrable " Vagina Monologues") possibly get ANY STUPIDER?
ENSLER: Well, I just think the idea that she doesn't believe in global warming is bizarre.
BEHAR: Every scientist at every note believes in it but Sarah Palin doesn't
believe in it.
ENSLER: And I think we just kind of have to walk around
the world at this point and look at what is happening to nature and earthquakes and tsunamis.
BEHAR: Right.
ENSLER: And weather changes to
just feel it. But I think that idea that she doesn't believe in global warming and she could actually run for vice president,
and we have a country where that is possible, it seems insane.
BEHAR:
It's unbelievable. It does seem insane and the fact that she has not negated the possibility of running in 2012.
ENSLER: But we have. We have negated the possibility of her winning.
Hey dummies – she’s already winning by getting you morons to look ever more
stupid! Love it; LOVE IT!
7. Hurrah! The
AP has finally woken up to the fact that there’s a months-old scandal on that UN Global Warming report. Fake the
data! Refuse to publish the code! “Hide the decline!” The AP is still in cover-it-up mode, but
at least they’re now aware they have a problem.
1. For the record: I was
not interviewed and did not know this was coming.
2. For the record: Matt did not really "urge" me to step down from the Chairmanship/Presidency.
He stated he would leave SATP if I remained Chairman and assumed the new office of President. Given that he held the
domain for the web site, the passwords for the web site, hosted the web site on his servers, and held the password to the
"blast email" account, AND given that SATP was about $20,000 in debt at the time, it was my belief that SATP could
not have survived Matt walking out and refusing SATP access to those assets. Letting Matt have the Chairmanship gave
SATP time to recover. Note that when he DID finally leave, he did cut SATP off from those assets.
3. For the record: I did not know Matt
Perdue was a convicted thief when I was the SATP Chairman. Had I known that, I would have argued strongly against him
being on the board of directors and would NEVER have allowed him to assume the Chairmanship/Presidency. Better to do
what Toby Marie Walker (head of the Waco Tea Party) advised me: "Just start over." In a way, that's what happened in the end -- but with better and smarter people at the helm.
5. Eric Adam called this morning & we chatted.
He pointed out that Tea Party Support's website appears to have been taken down. His take? Two-fold: "Couldn't
happen to a nicer guy!" and "You reap what you sow." We both agreed on this:
When it comes to Tea Parties, Matt Perdue is DONE.
3. Patterico has a piece up about the LA Times reacts to the use of the term “negro”
differently, depending on who’s using the term. Excellent stuff. I like the ending:
She and her editors are, after all, merely following Journalism’s Hypocritical Oath: above all else, do no
harm to Democrats.
Two can play at the “just make up some lies" game: MARVEL COMICS HATES AMERICA!
(Wait. What if it’s true that Marvel hates America…they sure seem to look down on average Americans!)
One of the folks who has REALLY impressed me is Toby Marie, head of the Waco Tea Party. Toby runs a taut ship up
there. They don't suffer the "drama" problems we have gone through because she keeps everyone pointed
in the same direction. Want drama? Take it elsewhere--that's the "corporate culture" she's infused
into the Waco Tea Party.
Their newsletter is always good, too. Things are POPPING up in Waco! Check out their web site and check out their events....Oh, and they had a GREAT cartoon:
Heard her in a radio interview that was just fascinating. One of the things she said is that some folks
did a study where they asked both men & women what would disqualify someone from being considered for a second date.
The average man, she said, had about three things that would disqualify a woman. The average woman, she said, lad a
list of 300 things!
What were the things that could disqualify a man? Really petty stuff--like ordering water
without specifying it be BOTTLED water.
How the right to arms saved the non-violent civil rights protesters
Over at the Volokh Conspiracy, David Kopel has a great short piece on the usefulness of being armed when the boys in white
hoods come calling. It's short; DO GO READ IT!
We’ll let you in on a little secret: the reason these donors give to the DNC is not because
they actually believe in what the DNC is doing. They give money because they want things, and most of what they want
is pictures of them with famous people to hang on their walls at home, or in their offices. Whenever we do special events
here in Chicago, the houses we go to are filled with snapshots of the owners with every Democrat imaginable over the last
20 years. 95% of these pictures are taken at $1,000 a person photo-op meet and greets. Those political evenings
feature weak drinks and room temperature cheese. Occasionally, here in Chicago, there are hot waiters in little tuxes,
passing mediocre spinach puffs. If you are lucky.
. . .
BUT, in this economy, people are already averse
to forking out the money they used to for meet and greets. If heat was put on these people for giving to the current
60 Democrats in the Senate, for instance, many wealthy Democrat donors might find it reasonable to make do with the photos
they already have this year, instead of ponying up the funds to take new ones with Claire McCaskill, Evan Bayh, Chuck Schumer,
Barbara Boxer, et al.
Had an interesting conversation during an office break. I was describing how good the book "Inferno" (by Niven & Pournelle) is to Ted. I was describing how they update Dante's description, and that the ultimate punishment is being continuously
chewed by Satan.
He disagreed. He said the worst punishment he could think of would be to have to watch loved-ones
suffer punishment and to not be able to stop them from making the mistakes that lead to that.
Ding! Clickity click
and I had up Luke 16:19-31 (Revised Standar Version):
[19] "There was a rich man, who was clothed in purple and fine linen and
who feasted sumptuously every day.
[20] And at his gate lay a poor man named Laz'arus, full of sores,
[21]
who desired to be fed with what fell from the rich man's table; moreover the dogs came and licked his sores.
[22]
The poor man died and was carried by the angels to Abraham's bosom. The rich man also died and was buried;
[23]
and in Hades, being in torment, he lifted up his eyes, and saw Abraham far off and Laz'arus in his bosom.
[24]
And he called out, `Father Abraham, have mercy upon me, and send Laz'arus to dip the end of his finger in water and cool
my tongue; for I am in anguish in this flame.'
[25] But Abraham said, `Son, remember that you in your lifetime
received your good things, and Laz'arus in like manner evil things; but now he is comforted here, and you are in anguish.
[26] And besides all this, between us and you a great chasm has been fixed, in order that those who would pass from
here to you may not be able, and none may cross from there to us.'
[27] And he said, `Then I beg you, father,
to send him to my father's house,
[28] for I have five brothers, so that he may warn them, lest they also
come into this place of torment.'
[29] But Abraham said, `They have Moses and the prophets; let them hear
them.'
[30] And he said, `No, father Abraham; but if some one goes to them from the dead, they will repent.'
[31] He said to him, `If they do not hear Moses and the prophets, neither will they be convinced if some one should
rise from the dead.'"
(Spacing added for readability)
So, there's Ted's
vision of the worst possible punishment in Hell -- Jesus's description of Heaven.
Starbucks has brushed aside a request from a gun control advocacy group to ban the display of guns in its retail locations,
saying it will abide by laws that allow patrons to openly carry unloaded weapons.
The national Brady Campaign to Prevent
Gun Violence made the request in the wake of a series of meetings in local restaurants over the past few months by Bay Area
Open Carry, a group that hopes to make it legal to carry loaded guns in California. Peets Coffee & Tea and California
Pizza Kitchen responded to similar requests by banning displays of weapons in the companies' coffeehouses and restaurants.
"Starbucks
does not have a corporate policy regarding customers and weapons; we defer to federal, state and local laws and regulations
regarding this issue," Starbucks' customer relations department said in response to the Brady Campaign's request.
The
head of a local chapter of the Brady Campaign was disappointed by the response.
Generally speaking, anything
that disappoints the Brady Bunch is a good thing.
Correction: James O’Keefe was not even ACCUSED of wiretapping
In my earlier post, I said we'd have to denounce James O'Keefe if he really did attempt to wiretap a Senator's office. Well, we don't 'cause he didn't. My apologies for believing the smut that calls itself news.
The crowd was big by 9 a.m. It was really big by noon. It was an incredible experience by the time Glenn Beck
did his show. It was absolutely freaking astounding, can't move anywhere it was so packed by the start of our Tea
Party. Yet I ran into these lovelies twice. (Yes, God, I hear you.) I'd forgotten my camera that day
(D'Oh!), but I did have my cell phone.
Here's the winners of the San Antonio Tea Party Chairman's
award for best signs for the 2009 Tax Day Tea Party:
On the fifth day, according to His plan, The Lord took up a lump of clay and built Himself
a man. He named the man "Adam."
On the sixth day, he put the man to sleep, extracted a rib, and built .
. . The Critic.
The Critic soon instructed Adam on the many errors of his ways. The Critic made Adam change his
fig leaf, comb his hair, trim his beard, sit up straight, and put up curtains. Then The Critic rearranged the Garden,
transplanting these flowers here and those bushes there, because it was just ALL wrong.
The Lord observed all this and
decided in His Infinite Wisdom that resting on the seventh day was the better part of valor.
Married men find
the above funny.
Women note that it's incorrect--the fig leaf came later! Thus do they prove that they
are indeed the daughters Eve.
Done? OK. How'd you do? I got 12 of 12.
( I preen....)
John Ziegler has some interesting things to note. Probably the biggest thing is that just just by picking answers at random, you should get three right, on average.
Yet, 26% of the people -- one in four! -- did WORSE than that! The result is horrible, as he notes:
Taking
this concept out of the theoretical and into the practical, I have written previously about how Scott Brown's magnificent
win is being overrated as an indication of a political shift in this country. How could his victory really be all about repudiating
health care reform when only 32% of adults in this country know that no Republicans voted for it and only 39% know Harry Reid
leads the Senate? This means that at least 61% of potential voters have absolutely no clue about what is really going on regarding
the most publicized public policy issue of the past year!
More and more I am convinced that all that matters in
elections is how you look/sound, what your personal narrative is, whether you are part of the party the public (often wrongly)
thinks is in power, and how the media treats you. That is a recipe for both the destruction of the conservative movement as
well as the nation itself.
Oye Vey -- if we don't get the truth out, we are screwed!
Why do so many get it wrong? BIG MEDIA tells L*I*E*S!
This chart from Cato@Liberty covers most of the years I've been alive. It illustrates that our masters in Washington, District of Corruption,
have gone totally insane.
