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We went to the Tea Party today in downtown Orlando, we arrived early and it was already crowded, we had to park on the other side of the lake.

Here is a shot of the bandshell from across the lake.

All the seats were taken already.

lots of people with signs, I didn’t see anyone that looked like terrorists, but they are sneaky

Obviously a traitor to his race, racist!

Another traitor to his race on the stage!

‘when the people fear the government you have tyranny, when the government fears the people you have liberty’

Obviously a threat, it couldn’t mean take them out of office, racist.

‘RACIST’….Wow, what a patriot speaking truth to power… Wait a minute, I’m confused!

the one you can’t make out reads warning Obama’s plan for living americans is a cookbook!

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

Got cancer, take a cruise

hey Obama, tell the American people the truth for a change

more ‘racism’

Hulk Hogan showed up. We heard rumors in the morning that he might be there.

His girlfriend or wife. Not sure if the blonde on the right is his daughter Brooke.

RTE and Hulk

Me and Hulk

We were tired and headed out early

A very successful event, people were still arriving when we were leaving.

the sign RTE was carrying is the graphic I created here

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“The plans were on display in the bottom of a locked filing cabinet, stuck in a disused lavatory with a sign on the door saying ‘Beware of the leopard’” - hitchhiker’s guide

So last night Alan Grayson held a town hall that he hoped no one would find out about, in a small union hall to intimidate the crowds, filled with 100 of his supporters so that the deck was stacked in his favor. only 30 people that waited in line for about 3 hours got in.

us with Alan Grayson, I was going to put ‘rabbit ears’ on him but I figured the guy taking the photo wouldn’t have taken it!

the tiny venue he chose, only 30 were let in from the outside, the rest are union thugs and supporters that were let in through the side door.


the crowd outside the venue about an hour before they started letting people in.
I did a rough count and there was almost 200 people (both pro and against), the door was at the back of the building and the line stretched all the way to the front and around the corner and down the street. not sure what the final count would be as we were one of the lucky few to get in and we got there at 5pm (the event was supposed to start @ 7:45 but started after 8).
While in line, the gentleman in front of us yelled an inappropriate racial comment when after waiting in line for hours they let in several supporters ahead of us. everyone around him told him in no uncertain terms that it was not appropriate. unfortunately if someone got that on video, that will be the clip they feature to show the ‘angry racist crowd’.

So in defending socialist medicine, The grand leader points to the post office as an example of a government department that has private competition and that it would be the same with obamacare. His stupidity knows no bounds, instead of proving his point, if you look closely you’ll see that it actually disproves it.

Case in point, I write a letter to my Aunt Bea, put it in an envelope and it is ready to go. how will I get it to her? It is just a personal letter, a hello or happy birthday or some such thing. well the cheapest way would be to put a 44¢ stamp on it walk out to my mailbox throw it in and put up the flag. I can’t provide any hard numbers, but I’m willing to bet that most personal letters and greeting cards are sent US mail, when was the last time you got a letter/card from a friend or relative sent to you via a different method (Fedex, UPS, etc.)? Why is this? cause it is the cheapest and easiest method to send a letter or card (also the fact that the US post office has a monopoly on non urgent cards and letters). Sure, if it is important to you or the recipient that it gets there fast and on time, then you might consider another service, but in the case of a letter or card, the government wins over the private sector.

So the private sector can only deliver urgent letters/cards or packages, this is the only competition the post office has. If you want to mail a package or an urgent letter then you have several companies, there is the USPS, Fedex, UPS, DHL and I’m sure there are others. The USPS is probably the least expensive, but then some say that  it is also the least reliable. so then you can chose a company that suits your needs in either cost or reliability.  So is the big O right? Can the private sector, at least in the case of packages and urgent letters survive against the USPS? In this case, sort of. See the big eared one forgets one thing, he’s comparing FREE healthcare with a service that is not free. You can not take a package to the post office and mail it for free, it will cost you. The USPS runs somewhat like the private sector, it charges for everything to try to make money to continue to operate, and unlike Fedex and other private sector companies, it FAILS to do this. So to compare the two, you would have to imagine that the  USPS was paid for by the taxpayers and was totally free. How well do you think that Fedex and UPS would do if you could mail any package for free at the post office.

Private companies might still be able to survive if the USPS was free, there would be less as the profits wouldn’t sustain as many companies as there are now, but some would survive with same day/next day urgent packages and letters and with packages too big or dangerous for theUSPS to deliver and if they were more reliable then the USPS and things like that. So with free package delivery service from the USPS, I still think that a private sector would be around.

So I guess you are saying to yourself “HA, what a moron, he proved the O’s point, private sector healthcare will survive under socialized healthcare!”. WRONG, now I get to the final look at the USPS vs healthcare… cold hard cash.

Let’s say the post office is free, let’s say there are still private companies that deliver packages. I need a package sent across the country, I need it there fast and reliable. I can send it for free, but it isn’t always reliable and it may not get there on time, so I take it to the other guys. They want $50 (prices might be higher to make up for less quantity) to send the package, but it is much more reliable and it will get there on time. so $50 versus $0. Is it worth $50? I guess it depends on whether I think it is worth it and if I have the money. Am I willing and able to pay the $50? how about if it was $500? $5000? Are you beginning to get my point? Healthcare isn’t a choice of $50, healthcare is a choice of $500 or $5000. You can go to the obamacare clinic and get it free or the private clinic and get it for $500+. do you really think private clinics will survive except for the rich? obamacare will become a single payer healthcare system, it is what BO wants as he has stated several times on video, he can try to cover up the fact, but youtube shows his true intentions.

One final point, yes I know you’re thinking “but it’s free healthcare right?”, Fedex and the others survive against the USPS because they provide better and more reliable service. The USPS is probably one of the better government run operations and people are still willing to pay more to get better reliability, and we are talking here about packages. The post office tries hard to compete because it has competition, if it had none, the speed and reliability would go down. If the post office loses a letter or package, well most anything lost could be replaced, if socialist healthcare loses a life….

Ask yourself one thing, Obama and Congress all use the USPS, why will they not be using socialized medicine?

(editor’s note: it seems I posted these in reverse order so it appears the crowd is getting smaller rather than larger; sorry about that.)

WESH 2 News’ Michelle Meredith

Local 6

WESH 2

Michelle Meredith again

Stupidest thing heard at the teaparty,

Woman walking by asks me – what’s going on?
Sherlock – Protest against the stimulus spending bill!
Woman dumbfounded – why? it’s free money!
S – someone has to pay for it, who do you think that will be?
W –

she walked away without responding.

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Photos from the Orlando Tea Party, Three Thousand Strong!

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REICH: …”I am concerned, as I’m sure many of you are, that these jobs not simply go to high-skilled people who are already professionals or to white male construction workers…I have nothing against white male construction workers, I’m just saying there are other people who have needs as well.”

The weatherman said today would be a beautiful day, It appears he was way off. It has been cloudy and depressing all day, hopefully it is not a sign of things to come, hopefully the polls are way off too. We went to Starbucks and got our free $10 cup of coffee, I hate coffee, but I figured if I’m going to get fucked in the ass I want my free cup of coffee. We also went to Shane’s Rib Shack and got a free lunch, much better then the coffee.

The ones that will suffer the most if the one wins are our troops, he has promised to end the war (not win the war, win seems to be a word he does not know except for his campaign), in Iraq. A war has three outcomes, win, lose or draw. pulling troops out is losing. So the idiot is going to snatch defeat from the hands of victory and then blame Bush for his own stupidity I’m sure. Then he’ll do the same in Afghanistan too, Osama has been waiting for this moment ever since he got his ass handed to him by US troops. As he said when Clinton turned tail and ran from Somalia, ‘America is a paper tiger, bloody their noses and they’ll run.’ or something to that effect. Now comes the easy part, stage a major attack on US troops in Afghanistan that kills as many as possible and the idiot one will have an excuse too do the same as Clinton. I think Osama got it wrong though, and he knows it too now, it’s not America that is the paper tiger, it’s the democrats that turn and run from a fight.

‘Teach a man to fish and he’ll eat for a lifetime, give the man a fish and he’ll be back tomorrow for you to give him another fish.’

That’s not really how the saying goes, but it’s more appropriate. The idiot actually thinks that people that have heath care will continue to pay for it when the ones too lazy or stupid to get their own are getting it from free? How stupid do you have to be? How about someone thinking of expanding their business and making it bigger and hiring more people, would they change their mind if it would make things worse for them? The sheer stupidity boggles the mind. There has been a lot of talk of going John Galt on the internet if his highness wins, and while I don’t think people will do so, it might happen as a result of the sacred one’s policies. Getting punished for working harder isn’t an incentive to make you work harder. If your boss asked you to work overtime for less pay, would you? Most likely not.

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Looks like the Democrats are willing to do whatever it takes to win the election, Acorn is up to their usual tactics here in Central Florida. I love how the left is always up in arms about how W stole the election in 2000 when most of the voter fraud was done by the left.

There are rumors going around that Mr O is going to dump Biden and pick up Clinton as his VP. It’s supposed to work with Biden dropping out for ‘health reasons’ after the first VP debate. I’m not sure I believe that will happen. Why would Biden do this? He would most likely be giving up ever running for President again and he has shown he wants the office, having run several times, what would be his incentive to drop out?

What would be Hillary’s incentive? She doesn’t really want the VP slot, she wants the big chair. Everyone knows that O screwed her, he didn’t even consider her when selecting his VP the first time around. Taking the VP slot will mean that she can’t go for the big chair for at least 8 years (8 to 10 if you’re counting in Obama years) if they win, and then she has to hope that O doesn’t F&^k things up and  that is a long shot. After the way the prick treated her during the primary and the VP selection snub, she should tell him to F#$k off and die.

Hillary’s best bet is to hope he loses so that she can run in 4 years again, if Obama loses, he won’t get the nod next time and she is almost sure to get the nomination.

Like I said, I don’t think he will do this, It would show that his campaign is very worried and that the Palin pick is the biggest factor they are worried about. I’m don’t think that Obama’s ego could take the bruising if he has to bring in Clinton to salvage his campaign.

wRitErsbLock and I drove out to The Villages, FL today to hear Governor Sarah Palin speak.  Here are a few of the pictures I took with my Nikon D300 w/ a Sigma 70-210 2.8 lense.

Sarah Palin’s autograph.

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As I’ve said before, Obama doesn’t want to be president because he loves his country, he wants to be president because he loves himself, and everyone in Hollywood and at his rallies and even the world loves him. Bow before him. Well everyone except the bitter religious gun clingers, but do they even count? They are not even human are they? more like subhumans that the real humans have to deal with, like cockroaches really. He is a shining star burning very bright that needs those greek columns and a large stadium to hold the large adoring crowds along with his even larger ego. Bow before him. He is the Messiah that will fix everything and nothing. It matters not that he has never done anything, it just matters that he is, bow before him. He has shown that he can out shine everyone, or at least out maneuver them. Bow before him. He did it to Hillary, did she really think she could beat a man, especially one as great as the Messiah? Bow before him. Did that old fish McCain truly think he can out shine the Messiah? Bow before him.

But the star dims, a new star rises and shines brighter then his, how can this be? Panic… Palin

Sorry, I just couldn’t resist the pun!
So Obama claims that his experience of running for president is on par with running a city and a state. It seems pretty sad and is quite an eye opener that this is his only experience that he can point to! Imagine walking into an office to apply to be a manager and saying “I’m qualified for this job because I have been managing my job search!”. Yea, that’ll work. Obama can’t even claim that, he’s basically just ‘with the band’, his campaign has a manager and lot’s of staff to run it, he just shows up for the gigs, so if anything he is saying he knows how to hire people! Yea, that’s who I want to be President, an HR person!
From what I’ve seen, all the people that are attacking Palin, that want her to drop out, or are complaining that she wasn’t vetted and betting on when she’ll drop out, all seem to be Obama supporters. This seems to be odd to me, if you want your candidate to win, wouldn’t it be better if she stays in the race if she is as bad as you say? Or do you maybe not believe that to be true? The only reason to wish her off the ballot is if you fear your guy might not be able to win against her, and he can’t disqualify her as he did to all his opponents in his first state senate run, so maybe getting her to drop out or McCain to drop her is the way to go.
Obama smartly chose to say to the media that family should be left out of the campaign, It was smart because it made him look good and because he knows the MSM and the koskrazies won’t listen and will do the job for him anyway. He has the MSM wrapped tightly around his finger and knows it. They will go after Palin with all they got while ignoring  Obama’s inexperience, terrorist friends, and Rezko ties. Us magazine, who gave us a lovey-dovey article on Barack & Michelle now gives us ‘babies, lies and scandal’ about Palin.