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Archive for 2009
November 15, 2009
IN ST. LOUIS, WHERE STUFF IS ALWAYS HAPPENING, they had a “rolling Tea Party” this weekend.
“SMART DIPLOMACY:” Japan expert to ABC: Yes, Obama’s bow made him look like an idiot.
HEH: KSM Sounds LIke An Early 90s Techno Band Name. Kinda like KLF. On which there’s an interesting story involving “comandante Glenn Reynolds.”
ROBERT X. CRINGELY PROPOSES a space garbage scow to clean up orbital debris.
Some related thoughts here.
WALL STREET JOURNAL: Concerns Rise Around Obama Trip. “President Barack Obama arrived here late Sunday to press China on issues from climate change to economic restructuring, amid rising concerns that his first swing through Asia as president will yield more disappointment than progress on trade, human rights, national security and environmental concerns.”
WALL STREET JOURNAL: Melanie Kirkpatrick reviews Sarah Palin’s Going Rogue.
A TEA PARTY PROTEST IN SALT LAKE CITY: Reader David Kirkham emails:
Saturday we had the most important Tea Party in Utah to date! We have a delegate system here in Utah. If a candidate wins 60% of the delegate votes at the convention they become the party nominee and there is NO PRIMARY election–the winner immediately advances to the general election. This delegate process levels the playing field and allows for challengers with relative little money to take on an entrenched incumbent like Senator Bennett.
We (Tea Party and 912ers) decided it was time to put down our protest signs and start to organize for the convention. Notice there are no signs in the pictures. This was strictly business. We got all our email lists together and put out a call to action for a Tea Party/912 event to train people how to become delegates. During the event, I asked how many people were currently delegates…no more than 8-10 people raised their hands. There were all NEW people to the political process.
We had the Utah State Capitol people (GREAT guys) set up 500 chairs and it was standing room only. There must have been 600 people at the event–they all drove through a snow storm to be there. Everyone one of them wants to be a delegate. There are only 3,300 delegates in the state. We gathered names and emails and are currently breaking them down into the precincts. We are setting up precinct captains for further training mobilization. A State Representative told me he simply could not believe the turn out. The most telling comment of the day came from another State Representative, “Bennett’s toast.”
No media–oh well. We’ll do it without them.
I guess I’m a community organizer now LOL.
Those are springing up everywhere lately. Pic below.
POLITICO: President Obama takes heat on Afghan timing. “President Barack Obama made no effort to conceal his irritation when his press corps used the first question of his maiden Far East trip to ask what was taking him so long on Afghanistan.”
UPDATE: Why does he hate us?
ANOTHER UPDATE: President Obama: The Great Procrastinator.
SHOCKER: Lindsey Graham tumbling in the polls. I’d call him a weathervane, but to be honest the wind seems to be blowing the other way now.
L.A. TIMES: “ROCK STAR” HANNAH GILES trains new activists.
DOG BITES MAN: Extremism and Anti-Semitism at London School of Economics.
AMAZON: Best Books of 2009, as picked by editors and customers.
UPDATE: Yes, Mark Levin’s Liberty and Tyranny is #2 on the customer-favorites list. Between Dan Brown and Glenn Beck, which is a pretty good place to be on any book list . . . .
VICTOR DAVIS HANSON: Thoughts From The Later Republic.
A TEA PARTY PROTEST IN HARRISBURG, PENNSYLVANIA:
The Pennsylvania Tea Party took its message of limited government to this capital city Saturday.
Hundreds of protesters from regional groups that came from as far as the Ohio and New Jersey borders gathered at Harrisburg’s City Island early yesterday afternoon for a march through the city to the Capitol.
Twisted Sister’s “We’re Not Gonna Take It,” blared over a loud speaker as the protesters, a mixed bag of blue jean-clad participants sprinkled with some activists in camouflage and colonial garb, signed petitions and waved flags while they waited to march. A handful of people wore holstered handguns.
“Can you hear me now? Can you hear me now?” they chanted in response to organizer Diana Reimer as she called the group to action with a bullhorn.
The Tax Enough Already Party — TEA — that grew out of a series of April 15 Tax Day rallies, joined forces with more than three-dozen like-minded regional groups, for its first march on Harrisburg. Capitol police estimated that 1,500 to 2,000 protesters ultimately massed on the Capitol steps where the march ended.
This stuff just keeps going on, underneath the national-media radar.
CLARICE FELDMAN: Khalid Sheikh Mohammed Trial Will Be A Three-Ring Circus.
COME BACK IN HALF AN HOUR, and I’ll give you another look at it.
BITES FROM THE APPLE: A roundup of news from the Apple empire. Including more reports on the “iTablet.”
VIDEO: Al Gore met by hundreds of protesters. This kind of thing just keeps happening.
INTERNING: A chance to work really hard for no pay!
Things you thought you were getting in the auto bailout. … Chrysler’s showy electric and hybrid cars? Forget them. Now that Chrysler has your money, they’re dead. … GM’s 2010 IPO? The one that was going to raise money to repay taxpayers? It’s receding rapidly into the future. “It depends on how quickly we become profitable. … I can’t promise a date,” says GM Chairman Ed Whitacre. Translation: Not going to happen. … Suckers!
Dang. Fooled again.
SHOCKING NEWS: Local Man Claims Responsibility For Own Problems.
SINO-INDIAN RIVALRY heating up Nepal? “Inexorably and almost invisibly, Nepal has emerged as the focus of the competition between India and China to seize the strategic advantage along the Himalayas.” But the Nepalese Maoists look on the Chinese as backsliders.