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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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More photos from the town hall, we got there around 4:30 or so.

the gentleman in the light blue shirt showed up and started taking pictures of the protesters

when asked why he was taking photos of us he turned tail and ran

taking off in his SUV

WOW, I hope they checked her for guns and bombs, she looks dangerous.

Newsperson from Fox35

the crowd early in the evening

This car showed up with oregon plates, WTF?

of course it was full of ProBama signs

Don’t tread on me.

crowd getting longer, still more then an hour before they will let us in.

I counted over 150 in a rough count up to the corner at about 6:30. the line went around the front of the building and down the road a ways.

finally inside, there was room for 125 and they let about 30 in from the line outside. the rest were all union and Alan’s supporters that were let in before the ‘mobsters’

us with Alan!

here is the crowd inside, remember only 30 were from outside and a few of those were pro Obamacare. notice the human child shields in use in front.

Alan’s kids took 3 seats that could have been used by those that waited over 2 hours outside, and he played them like a violin every time anyone raised their voice.

He also used them to cut the meeting short, their bedtime came up a lot.

looking up something in the bill someone in the crowd mentions.

it’s in here some where…

there’s only over 1000 pages, shouldn’t be hard to find.

here it is. Oh you are misreading it, I’m a harvard grad, you are just… well a rube!

the company you keep, side by side with Gary Siplin.

Alan’s press secretary and former member of the unbiased media Todd Jurkowski was manning the mic

Kids bed time, one more question, we started with a pro and we’ll end with a pro question. I’ll give Grayson credit for telling todd to ask 2 more questions and end with an against question. the crowd wasn’t pleased, the meeting lasted only about 1 hour and only slightly over a dozen questions were asked.

after the meeting. we missed what happened outside and the line stretched way down the road making it at least twice as long as the last time I had seen it.

UPDATE: video @ pereiraville

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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 if Muslim Americans showed up at a town hall meeting to protest O’care, would the democrats have the balls to call them un-american and terrorists? We know Nancy has the biggest balls of the democrats but I’m sure she wouldn’t think of it. Not that they could get into a townhall to protest anyway, they would have to make their way through the jungle of plants!

WTF was hurricane Andrew? I’m watching the news and they are talking about this ‘hurricane’ that supposedly struck Miami on 8/17/92. OK, I pretty sure there has never been a ‘hurricane Andrew’ as they keep saying, the only hurricane ever was Katrina that the black-people-hating Bushitler unleashed with his weather machine on Na’leans. Those lying MSM vast-right-wing-conspiracy-theory creating bastards trying to rewrite history and make their leader Bushitler look good. Next they’ll be making up something like Florida getting hit by 4 hurricanes in 2004 or some BS like that! Don’t believe them! There was only Katrina.

So I wonder if the big O, Pelosi, and the rest of the donkeys would call them terrorists?

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?