Remember, These Women Claim To Be Speaking For All Women

Code Pink took to Capitol Hill to protest over women's rights and the usual litany of demands.

And to be noticed, they dressed even. . .  Pinker than usual.  

Valiant, brave members of Code Pink chanting, "Respect Us!"  

From Protein Wisdom:  

Representatives of Code Pink, NOW, Planned Parenthood and Rock the Slut Vote were scheduled to speak on the west lawn of the Capitol, addressing the issues of reproductive rights, equal pay and the Equal Rights Amendment.

 And as always, claim to represent all women when they speak.  

If Move On Organizes A Protest Against Mitt Romney And No One Show Up, Does It Still Happen?

Sometimes I get emails.

Dear MoveOn member,

News broke this morning in The Boston Globe that Mitt Romney may have been in charge of Bain Capital for three years longer than he'd previously reported—a bombshell that could change the trajectory of the presidential race.1 The press is all over the story, and people everywhere are wondering what Mitt is hiding by not releasing his tax returns from this period.

When George Romney, Mitt's father, ran for president in 1967, he released 12 years of tax returns. He said, "one year could be a fluke, perhaps done for show."

But that's all Mitt has released, one year. He willingly provided 23 years of tax returns to the McCain campaign in 2008 before being rejected for the vice presidential slot. Now he wants to be president—but he's unwilling to release the same information to the American people.

Why? That's the question—and the only way we'll find out is if Romney releases his returns.

That's why MoveOn members are showing up at Romney campaign offices all over the country on Friday to turn the heat way up and deliver a simple message: Release your returns now!

There's a Romney office in Chester [Virginia]. Can you stop by TOMORROW at NOON to drop off our "Release Your Returns" letter to make sure they, and the media, get the message?

That was Thursday.  I checked my calender, it was clear save for taking my daughters to the park to play.  Sure, I can swing by to see who will show up.

I arrived on scene at the campaign office about 12:30.  I figured I should give them some time get arrive and get organized.

Where the office is at is a pretty modern office park with ample parking and a few posh restaurants with some apartments  nearby.  The idea behind it all is to work, eat and play all within a few hundred yards of where you live. It's nice.

I wasn't sure on the exact location of the campaign office so I started to look for a group of people carrying around the same mass produced sign.  No luck.

It was a beautiful day out.  Not too hot in the mid eighties range.  So the weather shouldn't have been an issue for these true believers.

I double checked the address on my phone and found the place.

It really wasn't that difficult to find.  

There wasn't anyone is sight.  To one side of the building.

Or to the other side. 

I don't know if it was because it was Friday the 13th or that it was the second Friday of the month and the welfare Living Assistance checks came in the mail that day or what was the reason. There wasn't anyone from Move On there. 

I went inside and talked to Matt (I apologize if I got his name wrong, I didn't write it down at the time) and he told me that no one from Move On has showed up to picket. 

I didn't wait too long as I had my kids with me and they were anxious to get to the park and why wait on nothing? 

As I left the office complex, I checked to see if there were any protesters out near the busy street, trying to catch eyeballs as people drove by.  Nope.  Nothing there either.

I don't know how the others went but the protest in Chester, Virginia was a bust.

I did pick up a Romney bumper sticker so there's that. 

Video: Bill Whittle And The Bridge In Your Mind

Via Insty.



The 'Bob' Bill Whittle is talking about in the video is more of a tinman than a strawman. It's more common than not when hearing people talk about how they first started up their (successful) business to listen to a similar story.

Wednesday Night Video Dump: Bill Whittle On The #OWS Protests

How the 'precious snowflakes' that are the #Occupy Wall Street crowd are a bunch a sniveling crybabies. But Mr. Whittle lays it out with a little bit more nuance.

Video: LA Teacher Unions Playing It Fast And Loose With The Facts During Protest

Via Prof. Reynolds.

Quite a few hippies-- not the traditional type that was explored earlier-- present, selling out for 'The Man' (and by extension, themselves) and not the other way around.

Teachers frequently claim, for example, that California is in either 49th or 50th place among the 50 states in per-pupil spending. In fact, the Golden State is 31st in per-pupil spending.

Teachers also say the Golden State could solve its chronic budget shortfalls by raising tax rates on the rich. But California is already unusually dependent on taxes collected from high earners. This is why revenue collections can drop sharply during recession, while spending -- which has increased 37 percent since 2001 -- continues to grow at rates exceeding inflation and population growth.

Feel Good Story Of The Week: Wannabe Flag Burner Chased Off By Peaceful Protest

Benjamin Haas was counting on his freedom of speech when he was planning on making his protest speech but he forgot one thing. That everyone else had freedom of speech too.

LSU graduate student Benjamin Haas had originally planned to burn an American flag Wednesday to promote his First Amendment rights and to support an LSU student arrested last week for stealing and burning a flag.

When Haas finally arrived to a chaotic scene, he was surrounded by a large crowd yelling obscenities and chanting, "U-S-A" and "Go to hell hippie, go to hell."

Water balloons and bottles were thrown at him and, before Haas could speak, horse-mounted police escorted him out for his own safety to a police car on Highland Road as the crowd followed and he was driven off.
[. . .]
Haas' plans developed after LSU student Isaac Eslava was arrested last week for cutting down and burning the American flag at the LSU War Memorial on the Parade Ground.

Eslava, a native of Colombia, allegedly burned the flag early May 2 just hours after the death of Osama bin Laden.

Got that? Haas was protesting the arrest of Isaac Eslava who vandalized and destroyed public property because Osama bin Laden was killed.

Perspective.

The New, New Tone In Action: Union Protester Hits Woman For No Reason Whatsoever

Via The Other McCain, The Daley Gator and Da Tech Guy.

And they say chivalry is dead.



As much as I would have loved to see Tabitha Hale, the woman assaulted, kick him back in the jewels, violence is the end game for many of the progressive type protesters.

They would be able to use that one event as a chance to say, "Look how violent those right wing types are! They punch back!" And a willing media will lede with that story for at least a week.

As it stands now, the guy may get a slap on the wrist. Makes me wistful for the days of vigilante justice.

Damn, I've read too many western books growing up.

Update: This is what a union thug looks like.

About Sums It Up

Henry has more over at Disrupt The Narrative.

One Last Post About That Racist And Violent Common Cause Rally

Via Insty.

If you can handle one more posting about The Common Cause rally, this should be it. Unless something really good comes along.

James Taranto points out a few things he noticed in the Wall Street Journal:

The press release is framed as a condemnation of the Common Cause supporters--or, in the group's unwieldy description of them, "a few of those attending the events around a gathering Common Cause helped to organize Sunday near Palm Springs." The statement goes on:

Anyone who has attended a public event has encountered people whose ideas or acts misrepresented, even embarrassed, the gathering. Every sporting event has its share of "fans" whose boorish behavior on the sidelines makes a mockery of good sportsmanship; every political gathering has a crude sign-painter or epithet-spewing heckler.
Everybody does it? Think it through and you will see that this is a stunning indictment of the American left.

[. . .]
In claiming that everybody does it, Common Cause is committing the fallacy known as hasty generalization: drawing an overbroad conclusion based on a statistically insufficient sample. A famous example from politics is the apocryphal quote attributed to the late Pauline Kael, film critic of The New Yorker: "I don't understand how Nixon won. Everybody I know voted for McGovern."
[. . .]
There is another rich irony to Common Cause's "condemnation" of its rally's participants. The purpose of the event was "to call public attention to the political power of . . . corporations, their focus on expanding that power, and the dangers it presents to our democracy." Common Cause is targeting Justices Scalia and Thomas because they voted with the majority in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, the 2010 decision that--as Common Cause put it in a fund-raising appeal last year--"inexplicably gave corporations the same rights as individuals" to engage in political speech.
[. . .]
Common Cause's position is that only individuals, not corporations, have the right to free speech. So what is Common Cause? As we noted above, its website describes it as a "grassroots organization." But that term has no legal meaning. As Common Cause's "Frequently Asked Questions" explains, the group is a "a 501(c)(4) nonprofit, tax exempt organization." A corporation, just like Citizens United.
[. . .]
For the sake of truth in advertising, Common Cause should change its name to Hypocrisy Hub.

Please read the whole thing.

"Their Fingerprints Are On The Pillows That Are Suffocating All Of Us"

Yesterday, the 'Common Cause' rally was highlighted here to show some of the hatred and vitriol and, quite frankly, violence that dwell in the hearts of their followers. Common Cause can't control those who wanted to appear at their rallies anymore than the Tea Parties can.

But what do the the organizers say about those who were invited to speak at a special discussion panel that used extensive rhetoric? "Fight to stop this evil"? Is that a metaphor or was fight meant in the literal sense of the word?



The real cause of their hate and violent rhetoric? (At least I only hope it's rhetorical.)

Global Warming, is there anything it can't do?

Actually, Global Warming is a small apart of it. "Evil" corporations are polluting the planet, causing the earth to overheat. Anti-Global Warming is just a root in the tree of Progressivism. Social Justice is another root that has a vague enough sounding name that it sounds like a good idea until you start to examine it. Give money to the poor from everyone who makes more than I do is what Social Justice is when stripped down to the bare bones.

I think the people in the video feel entitled to say those things because they consider themselves to be on the 'side' of everything that mighty and just. Clean air and water! Free health care! What kind of monster would oppose that sort of thing? Surely some sort of greedy-eyed hunchback who uses the blood of the poor to mix the cement in the foundation in order to build mansion plantation (sorry, forgot who I was talking about) would do such a thing. At least that's how I would imagine a conservative to appear if I went by their description alone from the video above. So of course if you are on the side of good, everything else will be bad and worthy of scorn and hate and violence.

Because, in their minds, they are the good guys.

Obviously this doesn't apply to all liberals but the most liberal of liberals. The kind who sign up for a Common Cause rally. A very vocal and violent sounding-- again, one only hopes they are speaking rhetorically-- minority.

The rest of the liberals are clueless dolts who haven't thought out their positions very well. They say, "Free stuff? Sure, sign me up!" without realizing that if everyone was promised cookies and lemonade, by the time it was distributed it would only be a couple of crumbs and a teaspoon of juice-- to paraphrase what Jesse Hughes said.

I think I've beaten the 'New Tone' thing to death with a tire iron (whoops, did it again, violent imagery). But its obvious to me that there was no 'New Tone'. It was only another way to tell conservatives and Republicans to shut up.

Video: Progressives Admitting They Want To Torture And Hang Clarance Thomas

I think that 'New Tone' has been stepped on, kicked around, ran over, its wires cut, its bell cracked and buried by now.

Language warning, liberals have filthy mouths.



Notice the Van Jones cameo?

Anyway, despite what was being said for the benefit for the camera at the news conference, you can see what's really on their progressive minds when they think they are among friends.

Torture, lynchings and killings. One more way to make you 'shut up'.

Da Tech Guy noticed a few other things.

Monday Morning Palate Cleanser

It's Monday and I'm waiting to hear back from a couple of people involved with the Richmond Tea Party about how they thought the Convention went off.

In the meantime, how about a palate cleanser. Call it, "When The Tables Are Turned".

The headquarters of the SEIU in Arizona get picketed.



I can't find where exactly but I believe it was Moe Lane who said that when filming, you need to do it in teams of two. One person being the obvious camera man, the other guy off to one side, capturing the entire event. Even in the worst case scenario and the main party gets arrested, the second camera man can slip away with the footage tucked safely away.

If You Need One More Reason To Hate The MFM*. . .

It's in their description of "overwhelmingly white audience" from last Saturday's Restoring Honor Rally put on by Glenn Beck.

*The last 'M' stands for Media. The MF means what you think it means.

Reflections After A Day By The Reflection Pool

600,000 was the number I kept hearing about the total attendance. I hold that number to be more accurate than any number the Washington Post puts out.

As for ignoring advice, it's worked so far, why stop now?

Moving on.

No matter what's been reported on Restoring Honor, it was not a protest rally. It was more of a multi-denominational call to prayer for the individual. A call for those present and to those listening if they would be the ones to stand up and be the leaders this country needs for tomorrow. So they can put together what the leaders of today are tearing apart.

Beck did walk a delicate line between preaching and asking people to look within themselves for a higher power.

I'll try to do more on this later in order to do it justice. The concept of where morals and honor come have been known to fill a book.

A couple more things and a word of before signing off:

Thanks to Jim for putting this video together.



For the 'Swimming' incident that Smitty alluded to, it happened after lunch. We were walking back to garage where the van was parked when my daughter wanted to toss a penny in a fountain. She threw one in then wanted to put her hands in the water. I looked away for one second and the next thing I knew, she was head over heels in the fountain. It was still shallow enough she could stand up in it no problem but she was soaked head to toe. I did luck out. This was one of the few times I've had a change of clothes for her. When we got back to the van, I was able to get her into dry clothes. More shaken than anything.

Also, it was very nice finally meeting Adam and Sally, fellow bloggers in arms over at Conservatives for Palin, face to face after being only names on our secret "Palinlist" email.

Next time, I will stop by the Red Radio crew's after party. Couldn't very well attend with a fiver year old, could I?

Previously: On The Road To Restoring Honor.

MORE: When the rally is over, notice how nice and spotless the grass is?

On The Road To Restoring Honor. UPDATED

The road stretched out in front of me with a full cup of coffee to keep me company. I have a bag of Krispy Kreme doughnuts next to me. It takes a man at the end of his rope to despair into a bag of those. The chocolate glazed ones were tasty.

My five year old traveling companion (daughter, it's never too young to get them involved) informed me that the doughnut with rainbow sprinkles was "Yummy".

There were good signs along the way.

This was right before picking up my Samoan attorney blogger from The Other McCain, Smitty. Read what he was able to do when you have Wi-Fi access instead being limited to the realm of a LAN like myself.

The overflow of the crowds was almost out to the Washington Monument.

Smitty and I arrived right when the rally started and couldn't crowd our way up more than halfway up along the Reflecting Pool. Those press credentials I printed out myself could only get so far.

Will be posting an update later. Meanwhile, Bob Belvedere will be posting updates today also.

UPDATED: Reflections after a day by the Reflecting Pool.

Bertha Lewis Arrested

Of ACORN fame.

The people who knows who she is will either laugh at her or take her being arrested as a badge of honor, depending on which side of the political spectrum the fall on.

Remember The Good Old Days When You Could Burn An Effigy of George W. Bush With Impunity?

Today, not so much.

A bar owner could be in serious trouble with the federal government. He was videotaped burning a statue of President Obama.

And the whole thing was video taped.
[. . .]
The President of Milwaukee's NAACP is outraged and worries it could be racially motivated. "Very offensive. And it sends a terrible message to other people," said Jerry Ann Hamilton.

Yester Years Pub and Grill is owned by Karen Schoenfeld. We wanted to ask her what the bartender meant with the fire. But a message left at the bar wasn't returned. And no one answered the door at her New Berlin home.

"I regret that it happened, that it happened in our state. I think that's the worst image that a person can send out," said Hamilton.

The radical left has cultivated and harvested this attitude of protests for the last eight years. Hell, they've refined it to a science. At the very least an art form in the way of movies. While many people from the right side of the aisle as well as those in the center (at least, those paying attention) stood by and watched in shock silence at what was going on.

The roots of this can be traced all the way back up to the leaders of the Democrat Party. They sat idly on their thumbs when their crazed supporters would call out for the death of George W. Bush. Marching in parades with a noose around the neck of a mock-up Bush doll. Attending protest rallies comparing Bush to Hitler. A very common practice. Even going so far as to have a giant inflatable made of his likeness so people can throw shoes and whatever else they want at him. And the liberal left likes to accuse conservatives of needing Obama to fuel their two minute hate. No real calls for civility went out but rather more encouragement by way of saying nothing to help increase the hate for George Bush.

So now someone responds in kind with burning an effigy of Barack Obama and the Secret Service are called in. Yes, they are just doing their job. No, I don't want Obama to be killed. Last thing this country needs is to make a saint or a martyr out of him. But did the Secret Service investigate everyone who held a sign that said, "I'm here to kill Bush (Shoot me)"?

I shudder to think about the amount of overtime accrued if the Secret Service did investigate everyone who said they wanted to 'Kill Bush'.

If what the bartender did was a crime then there should be a long list of people in front of him waiting to be brought up on the same charge. If not, then the charges should be dismissed because of a huge precedence of court cases brought in before hand.

It's not like they tied a noose around a life sized dummy of Barack Obama and hung it from their chimney. That happened to Sarah Palin.



Can't an effigy be burned in good fun anymore without someone making a federal case out of it? Not when you have a controlling man child in charge of the nation, you can't.

Call Out For An 'Opperation Chaos' Of Sorts

To be honest, I have no idea how effective this would be. It depends, like all things, on the participation.

Have enough people ordering a free sticker, the more it will cost Moveon.org and Presente.org.

As far as I could tell, I entered two different names with two different emails but kept the mailing address the same and it accepted both. So hopefully, two free stickers are on their way and will go right into my burn barrel.

I'll have to look up a few more older addresses and enter those as well.

Imagine A Tea Party Rally Like This

Sorry blogging has been light. Been busy on the homefront and some things had to take a backseat for the moment.

Answer: You Can Be Damn Sure It Isn't A Tea Party

Question: What kind of event is it when a cameraman is roughed up by the protesters?

Jim Hoft has more about the rally where they were trying stifle the citizen journalist.



Woman slapping journalists: Check.
People masking their faces: Check.
Organizer telling the cameraman he should go: Check.

Seems like a nice wholesome event for the family to me.

But according to Barack Obama and Bill Clinton, Tea Parties foment hate. . . Or something.