Two hundred and forty-three years ago today...

...some dudes dumped 342 chest of tea into Boston Harbor.

Piss off the Mayor of Richmond...

...and get audited.

When the local Tea Party had a rally they paid permit fees and insurance in the amoubt of $10,000. The only people who have paid while the local Occupiers do their thing is the taxpayer. So the local Tea Party asked for their money back and now they are being audited. That strikes me as politics as usual. So here's hoping the Mayor and City Auditor of Richmond learn what it means to live in interesting times and that the Tea Party and their attorneys are successful in making those times interesting.

Heh.

Top Ten Reasons Why Mad Tea Partiers Aren't Even the Least Little Bit Like "Occupy" Fill-In-the-Blankers

...and no. He can't count. Just consider it more for your money.

Another group of reactionary...

H/T to Firehand.

Over 300,000 present at...

...The Restore Honor Rally in DC. Wow! The counter-protest only had 3,000 present.

Borepatch has pictures and commentary.

I can but hope...

The Tea Party movement has made itself...

...a threat to the Democrats and the Left in general. They are going to have a major influence in the coming elections. So we should expect for the Left to target and smear the Tea Party at every opportunity. All it proves in the end is that they are as bugfuck nuts as those they try to link them to.

I like Sarah Palin but...

Now the smart thing will be for independents who are such a part of this Tea Party movement to, I guess, kind of start picking a party...

Sorry Sarah, you are wrong. The thing for the Tea Party guys to do is ignore party and support candidates that match the ideals of the Tea Party movement be they Republican, Democrat, or other. Party politics is one of the reasons we're in the mess we are.

I was looking through Baen's publishing schedule...

... and I noticed the Taxpayers' Tea Party: A Manual for Reclaiming Our Country by Sharon Cooper and Chuck Asay. This is the description of the book from Amazon.

In living rooms across America, citizens are struggling to pay their taxes and also struggling to believe that the same congressmen they elected on promises of not increasing those taxes are not planning to do just the opposite. Sally Jefferson is one of those Americans, but she's not just going to mouth off to her coworkers about how tough it is. She and her friends are going to DO something about it this time, and prove that democracy still works in the process.

Taxpayers' Tea Party is more than a manual for political revenge; it's step-by-step guide in cartoon form to carry out our own American Revolution.

It doesn't come out until July, but I think I'll put it on my list.

Epic Slap Down.

I know this is posted all over the internet but hey, the more the merrier. Marines are marksmen. Here we have a bullseye.

This rant from Marie Cocco...

This rant from Marie Cocco about guns at protests and guns in general is more of the same brainless twaddle we've come to expect from the gun control. The gist of Cocco's comments are that the mere presence of a firearm endangers everyone around it, the Obama administration is bending over for the NRA, and we're nuts to think the "government" is planning to take our guns away. I guess whether you would agree with her points" depends on the particular lens through which you view the world. Hers is all firearms are bad [except those in the hands of "trained" local, state, or federal authorities] and all gun owners are delusional lens. The fact that we've been fighting to maintain our right to keep and bear arms for the last forty years and how that might influence our attitudes is outside the range of her blinders. As is the meaning of the right to keep and bear arms.

They’ve been showing up for President Barack Obama’s public appearances, boldly displaying their perfectly state-permitted firearms.

The state doesn't "permit" me to possess firearm. the state doesn't grant the the right to keep and bear arms. The Constitution doesn't grant me the right either. I have that right as a living, breathing human being. The Constitution merely acknowledges what already exists.

At the beginning of her rant Cocco asks the question "So what will placate the armed and dangerous gun guys?" and provides her own answer "Nothing." That's not correct. Most gun owners will be placated when the anti-gun contingent truly acknowledge that we have a right to keep and bear arms and prove it by ceasing attempts to limit or abolish it. They can also get the hell out of our lives and let us live it as we choose so as we harm no one else. That I suspect is a bit beyond her.

H/T to Jacob G. Hornberger

We're jackbooted thugs...

...and racists according to E. J. Dionne Jr. Why? Because some gun owners have taken firearms to Tea Party and health care protests.

This is not about the politics of populism. It's about the politics of the jackboot. It's not about an opposition that has every right to free expression. It's about an angry minority engaging in intimidation backed by the threat of violence.

So we're Jackboots because some gun owners have chosen to carry firearms to protests. The weapons were holstered or slung. They were not pointed or brandished. They threatened no one. They were in compliance with local and state law or I guarandamntee you the local cops following them around would have arrested them. We're Jackboots because we oppose the changes to health care the White House and Congress are trying to ram down our throats. We're Jackboots because we've finally got off our asses and started to challenge our elected representatives, the media, and the LEFT. I won't say we're doing it the same way the LEFT did for the eight years of the Bush Administration because for the most part our side is polite and show disrespect only when disrespect is shown to us. The Jackboots Dionne are the ones on your side: the Unions, the gun-haters, the LEFT, and your fucking media.

Thanks to David

A dead on quote from the past...

...that is applicable to the current protests and the Democrat reaction to them.

It is amazing how many people think that they can answer an argument by attributing bad motives to those who disagree with them. Using this kind of reasoning, you can believe or not believe anything about anything, without having to bother to deal with facts or logic. - Thomas Sowell, Random Thoughts for December 2004

...and just for the hell of it another quote from Thomas Sowell.

If we become a people who are willing to give up our money and our freedom in exchange for rhetoric and promises, then nothing can save us. - Thomas Sowell, Random Thoughts for December 2004

John Lewis: The Rights of Man

A speech given by Dr. John David Lewis, Visiting Associate Professor, Duke University, Philosophy, Politics and Economics at the Boston Tea Party, July 4th, 2009.

No surprise here

When opposition increases and it looks like your not so well laid plans are coming apart don't worry. you can always claim racism. Twit.

Pelosi and Hoyer in USA Today

Gasoline on a fire.

The protests increase and...

...Obama's ratings drop. Must be a coincidence.

A new Quinnipiac University poll shows 50 percent of Americans approve of the job Obama is doing compared to 42 percent who don't. - Fox News

A "shill" speaks

Over at Kevin's is a clip from C-Span of a lady, member of the "mob" and paid "shill", letting the hosts hold some. Their deer in the headlights looks are almost as good as what she says. Go listen. This is an organic movement. We are grassroots. The only Astroturf around here is what comings out of ACORN's and SEIU's and their master's asses.

It may be later than you think

...when the Tea Party happened in Boston Harbor in 1773, they didn’t dump their own tea into the harbor - Mostly Cajun

America is at that awkward stage. It's too late to work within the system, but too early to shoot the bastards. — Claire Wolfe, 101 Things to Do 'Til the Revolution (1996)

NC: A Tea Party in Raleigh

A tea party is scheduled for June 3, 2009 in Raleigh. Details can be found here. It's sponsored by Americans for Prosperity.