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 holds General Meetings on the 3rd Sunday of the month. The next General Meeting should be on Sunday, 19 September,
from 3-5 p.m., at Pedrotti’s North Wind Ranch, 13715 FM 1560N, Helotes, TX 78023. Click here for directions!
2. Misandrists strike again! Saw this on Instapundit. A 45-year-old woman, charged with ending a domestic
dispute by killing her 26-year-old husband of five days, is a registered lobbyist for a group fighting domestic violence. http://www.ajc.com/news/atlanta/woman-charged-with-killing-344266.html
This video shows what a cop faces every time he meets the public. At times I can get down on cops behaving badly.
My friend Kurt does -- you should see all the stuff he sends! -- but this time he pointed out "In fact, for all the reports
of police abusing, beating and shooting innocent people, this is about as legitimate as you can get for a self-defense shooting."
Then he follows up with "Notice that the bad guy's gun, pointed straight into the cop's face, MISFIRES before
it goes off on the second trigger pull."
The law, which also makes it a crime to transport illegal immigrants and to hire day laborers off the street,
has sent a jolt through the undocumented workforce in the state, the principal corridor for illegal migrants entering from
Mexico.
Some like Roldan, 34, who has a steady job as a warehouse worker and three U.S.-born daughters in Phoenix schools,
plan to stay put, lower their profile and wait to see how the law will affect them.
Others, like Mexican day laborer
Jesus Aguilar, 52, say the measure leaves them few options but to leave Arizona and try their luck elsewhere.
"Since
the law says that people hiring undocumented day laborers will get fined, no-one wants to (hire) us," said Aguilar, who
early on Monday was among some two dozen migrants touting for landscaping and building work at a day labor site in north Phoenix.
"We
are thinking of going to Utah or New Mexico ... Here it is just too racist," he added. . . . The new Arizona
state law seeks to "discourage and deter the unlawful entry and presence of aliens and economic activity" in the
desert state, and Hispanic activists say it is already having a marked impact.
"What is a father to do if, in 90
days, they can be stopped by any police officer and questioned ... when their family is at home and their kids in school?"
said Elias Bermudez, the founder of Phoenix nonprofit Immigrants Without Borders.
"That's going to create havoc,
so a lot of them are saying, 'Look, before they pick me up, I'd rather leave the state of Arizona either to another
state or back home,'" he added.
So, the come here, take jobs Americans or legal immigrants
should be doing (those who have jobs, that is, as opposed to the professional criminals) and put their kids in our schools
-- and whine that we're racists for doing what Mexico does (get tough on illegal immigrants)? They should just consider
Rodolpho's solution:
For Mexican day laborer Rodolfo Espinoza, meanwhile, it was simply time to go back
home to work as a fisherman on the Pacific coast of northwest Mexico, where he has a wife and four children.
"This
new law gives us no other option than to leave ... I'm going back to Mexico, where I feel more comfortable," he added.
A Community Disorganized: Chicago Democrats Want National Guard Brought In.
(http://jammiewearingfool.blogspot.com/2010/04/community-disorganized-chicago.html)
"In order to curb Chicago's rampant and increasing outbreak of violence, State Representatives John Fritchey (D-11th
District) and LaShawn Ford (D-8th District) want to call in the National Guard. Yesterday, the legislators urged city and
state officials to use the Guard to bolster a thinly stretched Chicago Police."
The first incident made national news. Last March, after the University of Maryland men's basketball
team beat Duke, students spilled out into College Park to celebrate. That brought out the riot police. In footage captured
by several students with their iPhones, Maryland student Jack McKenna dances down the street with dozens of other students,
then stops when he sees two cops on horseback. Unprovoked by McKenna, three riot cops then enter the picture, throw McKenna
up against a wall, and begin beating him with their batons. According to attorney Christopher Griffiths-who is representing
McKenna and another student, Benjamin Donat-both suffered concussions, contusions, and cuts from the beatings.
McKenna
was charged with disorderly conduct, a charge that as of last week was still pending but now seems certain to be dropped.
Prince George's County has since suspended four police officers, the three captured on tape beating McKenna and the sergeant
who supervised them. But were it not for those iPhone videos, it would have been McKenna's word (and possibly those of
whatever celebrating student witnesses he could round up) against the word of three of Maryland's finest. Or at least
three. It seems likely that a number of other cops would have come forward to lie on behalf of those who beat McKenna.
If
that sounds harsh, consider this: After the iPhone video of McKenna's beating emerged, investigators subpoenaed 60 hours
of surveillance video from the College Park campus police. The only video police couldn't manage to locate was the one
from the camera aimed squarely at the area where McKenna was beaten. Funny how that works. Campus police claimed that a "technical
error" with that particular camera caused it to record over the footage of the beating. As public pressure mounted, police
later found what they claimed was a recording of the lost video. But two minutes of that video were missing. Coincidentally,
those two minutes happened to depict key portions of McKenna's beating. The kicker? The head of the campus video surveillance
system, Lt. Joanne Ardovini, is married to one of the cops named in McKenna's complaint.
4.
Of course, not all beatings are equal. Imagine this scenario (FICTION ALERT!):
(FICTION!) (AP) BOSTON - Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick's chief campaign fundraiser is recovering
from injuries she suffered in a Friday night altercation with a group of people in Boston's Back Bay, the governor's
office said Monday.
Bautsch Allee suffered a broken leg and her boyfriend suffered a concussion and a fractured nose
and jaw in the incident, which happened after a fundraising event at Bouchee restaurant on behalf of the Massachusetts Democratic
Party on Friday evening.
Patrick was at the fundraising event at the restaurant, but was not present when the incident
occurred.
Pyle Klotkin, a Patrick spokesman, said Allee had surgery during the weekend and is facing a recovery time
of two to three months.
The Democratic fundraiser coincided with a rally for the so-called "tea party" movement
in the Boston Commons. The rally was led by former Alaska Governor and unsuccessful vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin.
According
to police and governor's office sources, Allee and her boyfriend were accosted by individuals who may have been among
a group of conservative activists protesting outside Bouchee during the fundraiser. Sources described the assailants as "middle-class
white people" wearing "chinos and polo shirts."
Response to the horrific outbreak of political violence
was swift. The White House released a statement from President Barack Obama, a close friend and political ally of Gov. Patrick....
Of
course, in that case, this would be THE NEWS every day. But, this is fiction. In reality? It was a Republican who got whacked
by some presumed liberals. So, "why would that be news?"
Annabel Park says there's no coup in the works to remove her as the leader of the Coffee Party movement
and replace her with someone more angry, radical and willing to be confrontational with conservatives. But a recent article
in Newsweek suggests otherwise.
Park, contacted through Facebook, criticized the Newsweek article and it's author
Steve Tuttle for quoting a woman at a Washington DC Coffee Party who said the movement would die "unless we get someone
a little more powerful."
"Steve spoke to one person at one event who was curious enough to attend. She is
not one of the organizers and I don't know any movement to oust me. He needed to look for conflict and exaggerated what
he came across," Park told The Daily Caller.
6. Randy sent me a link to this. Wow.
If you can't get to D.C. to see the physical wall, do check out this one. The Virtual Wall.
Yep -- that's what it says! This was at a protest THE TEACHER organized. This is no B.S. either--the
sign is clearly visible in the NEWS REPORT! See Reason's Hit & Run for more. (H/T: Instapundit)
They've pushed out another software update on the Nook and this one is amazing. They redid some of the interface
and now have a couple of games: Sudoku and chess. The Nook kicks my behind on chess :-(.
What's really
amazing is the beta-version web browser. Clunky but amazing.
"Everybody Draw Mohammed Day." Now, there's an idea! I first saw it when Hot Air posted on it. The idea seems to be taking off. I do have an idea (but no talent).
UPDATE: The originator
of the idea, Molly Norris, has chickened out. She even says she joined Ban "Everybody Draw Mohammed Day!" on Facebook.
The 12-year-old has been fighting her case through the courts in the conservative town of Buraidah,
near Riyadh, the capital. She was married against her wishes to her father's elderly cousin last year. A dowry of 85,000
riyals (£14,500) was paid and the marriage consummated.
But the best part came earlier in the article:
It
also prompted the state-run Human Rights Commission to appoint a lawyer to represent her. The commission has capitalised on
the case and pushed for a legal minimum age for marriage of at least 16.
Three committees have been assembled to examine
the possibility. Medical experts, child psychologists, social workers and scholars in Islamic law will debate the issue over
the coming months before submitting their recommendations to a public hearing.
Based on these findings, the commission
and the Ministry of Justice will issue new guidelines and impose a legal minimum age for the first time. "The main aim
is to not allow cases like this to happen again," said Alanoud alHejailan, a lawyer for the commission.
There
will be some opposition, of course, but we feel that public opinion has changed on this issue. We want to gather all the public
support we can for a minimum age for marriage."
Gotta love them Saudi's, eh? Well, like
the article mentions, their warrior prophet (Peace Be Upon His Victims) took a 9-year-old wife. This old man waited
an additional 3 years. By their book, he's a saint!
First: The Good. Remember when President Obama proposed a $100 Million budget cut?
My friend of olde, Randy, sent me a link to this wonderful illustration of how ridiculously little that was --
Next: The Bad. Senate Bill 3217, the the Restoring American Financial Stability
Act of 2010, introduced by Democrat Senator Chris Dodd of Connecticut is now up. This "crap sandwich" weighs in at 1,421 pages (pdf file). Tea Party Patriots' email calls it "TARP Forever."
Finally: The UGLY! H.R 157, The "District
of Columbia House Voting Rights Act of 2009" (as "reported" in the house). (Go to Thomas.LOC.gov, select "Bill Number," and type "H.R. 157" in the search box.) This bill says:
(a)
In General- Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the District of Columbia shall be considered a Congressional district
for purposes of representation in the House of Representatives in the One Hundred Twelfth Congress and each succeeding Congress.
Is
this a problem? YES! The US Constitution says:
The House of Representatives
shall be composed of Members chosen every second Year by the People of the several States, and the Electors in each State
shall have the Qualifications requisite for Electors of the most numerous Branch of the State Legislature.
Washington
is a city inside the District of Columbia, which is NOT a state. There are other Federal Districts. Are they next?
Will they next decide to give them two Senators, too? You want the District of Corruption to be a State with Representatives
and Senators? Amend the Constitution.
Absent that, this is B L A T
A N T L Y UNCONSTITUTIONAL!
You can still see and hear some great Clifton Jansky and then listen to Vladimir Lenin, Davey Crockett, and Thomas Jefferson
discuss America. All in just ten minutes! As I write, it's on the SATP front page, plus it's available directly on You-Tube. Hey,I can link to it, too (!) --
A disabled caravanner who kept a penknife in his glove compartment to use on picnics has blasted the authorities after
being dragged through court for possessing an offensive weapon.
Rodney Knowles, 61, walks with the aid of a stick and
had used the Swiss Army knife to cut up fruit on picnics with his wife.
Knowles yesterday admitted possessing an offensive
weapon at Torquay Magistrates Court. He was given a conditional discharge.
Jenny Whitehead, a breast cancer survivor, paid £250 for an appointment with the orthopaedic surgeon after being
told she would have to wait five months to see him on the NHS. He told her he would add her to his NHS waiting list for surgery.
She was barred from the list, however, and sent back to her GP. She must now find at least £10,000 for private
surgery, or wait until the autumn for the NHS operation to remove a cyst on her spine.
"When I paid £250
to see the specialist privately I had no idea I would be sacrificing my right to surgery on the NHS. I feel victimised,"
she said.
The case will reopen the debate over NHS policy towards patients who pay for some of their care privately.
Following a Sunday Times campaign in 2008, the government ordered the NHS to stop withdrawing care from patients who received
additional private treatment or drugs. Cancer sufferers were being barred from further NHS treatment after buying potentially
life-saving medicines not offered by the health service.
Whitehead's case, which has shocked her local Labour MP,
reveals that patients who go private in despair at long waiting lists still risk jeopardising their NHS treatment. Department
of Health officials admit it remains official policy.
How long until this non-sense comes here? We've
followed much the same path as trod by the British lately. Obama Care (which is actually Pelosi Care--Obama just let her
do it, pork and all) is a prime example. But yes, the Brits are FAR ahead of us. As one of Dr. Jerry Pournelle's correspondents put it: "There will always be . . . a large island off the coast of France."
Despite the rain, there was a good crowd last night at the Tea Party! Got an email from an SATP board member who
said the police estimate was over 400 at our peak.
Of course we were worried about infiltrators. Found only one. Name of "Vladamir," I believe:
(That's actually Jon, who's boundless effort saved the San Antonio Tea Party not that long ago.)
In other words, theoretically the law kicks them out of the federal health
plan now in order to force them to join insurance exchanges … that don’t exist yet. Looking forward to tomorrow,
when we’re inevitably told that they meant to do that. Exit question for lawyers: Who would have standing to sue
to force the federal health plan to drop Congress now? Any citizen, or is it more refined than that?
This video is making the rounds -- for good reason! Someone filmed the traffic just four days before the great earthquake.
AMAZING! See also the notes over at Car Lust to see what to look for. WOW!
Hollywood has said goodbye to actor Meinhardt Raabe, who played the Munchkin coroner in The Wizard Of
Oz.
Flowers were laid on the Hollywood Walk Of Fame star dedicated to the 124 Munchkin actors, after Raabe died in Florida
on Friday, aged 94.
Playing the coroner, he was one of nine Munchkins to have had a speaking part in Oz, pronouncing
the Wicked Witch of the East "most sincerely dead".
The actor, who was 1.37m tall, was one of the last surviving
Munchkins.
Raabe was born in Watertown, Wisconsin, in 1915, and was a member of the Midget City cast at the Chicago
World's Fair in 1934.
. . .
He used the money from this and other appearances
to pay his way through University, earning a bachelor's degree in accounting and a master's degree in business administration.
He
married Marie Hartline, who worked for a vaudeville show called Rose's Royal Midget Troupe, in 1946. She died in a car
crash in 1997. Raabe was injured in the same accident.
The Wizard Of Oz, filmed between 1938 and 39, featured a cast
of 124 Munchkins - some of whom were children.
Raabe said the pay was pitiful - "by today's standards, people
would say you were crazy to work for that," he once noted - but enjoyed the recognition the film brought him.
In
later years, he toured fan conventions and released a book, Memories of a Munchkin: An Illustrated Walk Down the Yellow Brick
Road, in 2005.
The actor lived a full life after Oz. He was a pilot and an instructor in the Civil Air Patrol during
World War II; He worked as a spokesman for the Oscar Mayer hot dog company for 30 years; and he was also a horticulturalist
and teacher.
The coroner is gone and we are all smaller for the loss.
We may have some unwanted company at future Tea Party events. Be on the lookout and everyone should bring video cameras.
I'll have my Zi8, but a flip, or a cell phone camera will do just fine. When the act up we MUST be taping them so
the media can't successfully paint us as violent.
The media? Hah! YOU are the new media. The old
media wants to paint us as violent, dangerous nuts. So, they will gladly ignore the violence done by the other side.
This might come in two ways.
They
might also try to act as "Agents Provocateur." They'll try to engineer a situation that makes us look bad. We've had that happen already, when
an experienced counter protester managed to get one of us to react to what he said in a way that looked really bad on camera.
That's why I re-wrote "The Rules" back when I was Chairman. Then, there were the Alex Jones people who protested Glenn Beck on 15 April 2009:
Yes, they really are coming for us. Another example, there's
Crash The Tea Party. They could be unaffiliated with any group, but engage in spitting and name calling while pretending to be one of us (given how it was reported when it DIDN'T really happen, just imagine the reports
if someone did!) Then there's the anarchists, even they are getting organized!
So -- bring cameras and record everything you can!
Looking in the guestbook, you'll see a note from Les &
Ramona Harnish. They're travelling all the way from Lancaster, PA for the TAXED ENOUGH ALREADY, Round 2 soiree.
Wow!
Grrrrrr . . . Check out the handout that North East Independent School District's Roosevelt High School teacher Barbara
Geerdes handed out. She TRIED to keep these from leaking out by collecting them, but one student managed to sneak one out:
Note well how the imagery supports the liberal==good and conservative==bad message. Note, too, that near the end,
the universe is turned upside down, and liberals believe in freedom while conservatives are nanny-state ninnies.
This
is a deliberate poisoning of our kid's minds. This woman should be fired -- immediately and for cause.
According
to this page, the principal of NEISD's Roosevelt HS is one Bernice Cantu. I think I'll drop her a note....
This flash video is well worth the time: Those Old Westerns. Stick with it if you see people you don't recognize, that will change. I really liked the ending, too.
Zombietime has a BUNCH of photos from the March 20th event in San Francisco. The commies are on the march! Go, look at them and despair, you capitalist pigs!
