WASHINGTON, D.C. Here are some pictures I took at the tea party in D.C. Ma’am, I have to agree… And my personal favorite… LET’S HOPE FOR RECOVERY! PHOENIX, ARIZONA Lindsey kindly provided these pictures from a tea party in Phoenix.
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4th of July Tea Parties
Posted in Current Events, Economy, Founding Fathers, FREEDOM, Guns, Health Care, Politics, Taxes on July 13, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Symposium on Freedom
Posted in Economy, FREEDOM, Politics on June 12, 2009 | 6 Comments »
Tuesday night I plopped myself down on the couch, needing to “veg,” and began channel surfing. Much to my delight I happened upon this Symposium on Freedom aired on C-Span, led by Rep. Todd Akin (R-MO). The highlight, I thought, was Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN), who articulates well the dangerous threat to freedom imposed by [...]
Nice Euphemism, AP…
Posted in Current Events, Economy, Politics on June 1, 2009 | 4 Comments »
From the AP: “General Motors…will file for bankruptcy protection on Monday in a deal that will give taxpayers a 60 percent ownership stake and expand the government’s reach into big business.” Nice euphemism. I think they mean…in a deal that will give the federal government (aka the Obama Administration) a 60 percent ownership stake…. The [...]
A Question Answered
Posted in Economy, Politics on May 27, 2009 | 16 Comments »
Mike left an interesting and important question in a comment on a previous post, and I left a much lengthier response than I intended. Nevertheless, why waste all of the time I spent answering it, as well as very good discussion material, in a comment thread? So here is the exchange… “Question, please reply. Are [...]
Obama Adds Insult to Injury…Snubs Nevada Governor
Posted in Current Events, Economy, Politics on May 21, 2009 | 20 Comments »
President Obama has injured Las Vegas, there’s no doubt about it. Reports the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority: “…over 400 conventions and business meetings scheduled to take place in Las Vegas recently have canceled. These canceled events translate into 111,800 guest in Las Vegas and over 250,000 “room-nights.” The canceled conventions and meetins [...]
The Bursting of the Bubble
Posted in At Home, Economy on May 19, 2009 | 11 Comments »
I speculated in this post that our rental house is being foreclosed on. I just learned that this is indeed the case. We were already living in the house when it sold to new owners in late 2005. The only thing we’ve ever really known about said new owners is that they moved here from [...]
Andrew Lloyd Webber Beseeches Fellow Britains Not To Engage in Piracy
Posted in Economy, Politics, Society, Taxes on May 1, 2009 | 1 Comment »
I was already a fan, for Phantom and Evita, but now I really like this guy. Andrew Lloyd Webber recently published this brilliant op ed at Mail Online: The Last Thing This Country Needs is a Pirate Raid on the Wealth Creators Who Still Dare Navigate Our Stormy Waters (…And don’t lynch me as a [...]
Graph and Gumption
Posted in Economy, Politics on April 24, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Obama’s people made up the above graph back when they were trying to sell the stimulus plan. Says Geoff, who expounds on this at Innocent Bystanders: “The unemployment rate was never supposed to go over 8%. But when you compare projections to the actual unemployment results (the triangles in maroon), the actual data doesn’t seem [...]
The Method Behind the Madness…or, The Flavor of the Tea
Posted in Economy, Politics, Society, Taxes on April 20, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Many in the media are trying to cast the tea party goers as extremist nut jobs, partisan hacks who are simply anti-Obama, or even racists protesting the fact that Obama is black. LUDICROUS! The vast majority of tea party protesters are simply average, “working” (and taxpaying) Americans who have HAD IT with the manifestly irresponsible [...]
This Is Why I Don’t Watch CNN
Posted in Current Events, Economy, Politics, Society, Taxes on April 16, 2009 | 5 Comments »
So I asked the question in my previous Tea Party post, “I wonder how these tea parties will be covered in the news?” Well, lets take a look… [Youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6G3fvNhdoc0&eurl=http%3A%2F%2Face.mu.nu%2F&feature=player_embedded] Ace poses some fitting questions: “Is she there as a representative of CNN or of the Obama Administration? And is there a meaningful distinction between the [...]
