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TeaParty Interviews

April 15, 2009 – 22:13 | by Mark Urbin

Neil Cavuto interviews Michelle Malkin

Glenn Beck interviews Ted Nugent

A CNN reporter meets reality.

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Tea Party Day

April 15, 2009 – 11:41 | by Mark Urbin

I’ll be at the Tea Party in Worcester, MA taking pictures for PJTV.

Update: I’ve posted a few of the over 450 pictures I took to PJTV.com

Update: Latest estimates for attendance is 2000 plus.

Update: I have some more photographs posted on flickr.

Update: More photographs at Urbin Photography

Update: Michelle Malin is looking at the early history of the modern Tea Party movement.

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The left’s answer to Free Speech

April 15, 2009 – 11:34 | by Mark Urbin

What we can expect from the left. Plans to disrupt Americans exercising their basic Civil Rights as set out in the First Amendment of the Constitution.

As you may know a bunch of redneck traitors are planning a protest on April 15th involving waving around a few tea bags and demonstrating mild irritation at Prez. Obama for making them pay taxes. Here is your chance to do your duty for your president and country and send these fools an unmistakable message.

First of all you can sign up at Huffington Post to become a tea party reporter. It would be a good idea to meet some people to take names and also pictures if possible which should also be forwarded to Janet Napolitano at the DHS.

Next you can join with our comrades at ACORN who have plans afoot to disperse these traitors.

Basically the plan works like this – ACORN has infiltrated the redneck groups that are planning all this. On the 15th at the proper moment a van pulls up with 5 young black women with pro Obama signs. They will be peaceful and respectful. Our infiltrators will verbally attack them with profanity and racial slurs and physically push them around while our camera crew films. In a minute they take off and it is all over.

Doesn’t seem like much till that night when the video gets put on the news and all you see are crazy hillbilly conservatives attacking innocent black counter protesters, shouting racial slurs and pushing them around.

You too can be a part of the glorious moment in history and help keep these traitors in check.

Note how the leftist casually uses racist slurs. The left can not compete in the free market of honest and open debate.

HT to Red State.

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The left’s “Deity”

April 15, 2009 – 09:27 | by Mark Urbin

I kid you not. I received the following tweet from a leftist troll today.

I’m a supporter of change the change our great and divine leader president Obama has brought to america

Let’s take a look at that statement through the eyes of a rational adult in a free society.
First off, “great and divine leader”? This leftist troll should move to North Korea, he would fit right in.
Second, note that the troll capitalized the name of his “great and divine leader”, but couldn’t be bothered to capitalize the name of the nation he lives in and provides him the freedoms to decent.

This leftist troll was complaining about American citizens exercising their First Amendment rights.
He claimed that this exercise of the basic Human Right of Free Speech was “treason” against his “great and divine leader.” This leftist troll sets his cult of personality beliefs above that of the Constitution of the United States of America. I would not be surprised if this leftist troll demonstrated the left’s typical lack of basic history by calling those who are exercising their Civil Rights “fascists.”

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Kudos to the Cast & Crew of Star Trek!

April 14, 2009 – 13:31 | by Mark Urbin

The new Star Trek movie had an advance premiere, complete with the cast and director.
What is really cool, is where they held it. Camp Arijan, Kuwait. Yup, a sneak premiere for members of the US Military serving overseas.

Present were actors Zoe Saldana, Bryan Burk, Karl Urban, Zachary Quinto, Chris Pine, Eric Bana and director/producer J.J. Abrams.

Here are some quotes collected by Spc. Howard Ketter

“We feel priviledged to be here and to meet the people who are working hard on our behalf,” said John Cho, who starred as Hikaru Sulu in “Star Trek” the movie.

“It’s so easy for people to take for granted, the fact that [service members] are here doing work that makes this possible,” said Abrams.

“It struck us that there was an opportunity to not just have it be about the movie, but to have it be about something that’s more important than all that stuff,” Abrams commented.

Good on Abrams and the cast!

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Monday Book Pick – PsychoShop

April 13, 2009 – 15:27 | by Mark Urbin

Psychoshop, by Alfred Bester and Roger Zelazny

Roger Zelazny finished a manuscript that Bester didn’t complete before his death. The result is an interesting blend of the two writer’s styles complete with really well written fight scenes (Zelazny was an Aikido instructor for years).

The Monday Book Pick Archive.

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Why the Churchill bust had to go.

April 13, 2009 – 10:43 | by Mark Urbin

Leslie Bates posted a very likely explanation over at E-Ramblings.

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Ten Top Reasons to scrap the Tax Code

April 12, 2009 – 10:43 | by admin

Freedomworks.com sums it up nicely.

Adam Smith famously noted in the Wealth of Nations that complex tax codes are “more burdensome to the people than they are beneficial to the sovereign.” Our tax code is broken. It’s unfair, complex, inhibits saving, investment and job creation, imposes a heavy burden on families, and undermines the integrity of the democratic process. We should scrap it and rebuild a simple, low, flat, fair, and honest tax code.

Here is the list:
1. THE CODE IS TOO COMPLEX.
2. THE CODE IS BEYOND COMPREHENSION.
3. THE IRS IS TOO BIG.
4. THE CODE CORRUPTS THE CULTURE IN WASHINGTON. DC.
5. THE CODE TAXES SOME INCOME TWO OR MORE TIMES.
6. CONGRESS USES THE TAX CODE TO LEGISLATE MORALITY.
7. HIGH MARGINAL TAX RATES PENALIZE SUCCESS.
8. COMPLYING WITH THE CODE COSTS AMERICANS BILLIONS.
9. THE CODE DRIVES POLITICAL DONATIONS
10. LAWS SHOULD REST ON PRINCIPLES OF JUSTICE.

Stop by and read the whole thing.

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Another poison threat from Communist China

April 12, 2009 – 09:54 | by Mark Urbin

Fox News reports that 500 million pounds of poisonous drywall was shipped to the United States from Communist China during a four-year period of booming home construction.

Materials from Communist China made with poisonous materials is not a new story. There are times when it’s best not to go with the lowest bidder.

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“Hope & Change” does not include tolerance.

April 11, 2009 – 23:44 | by Mark Urbin

It seems that tolerance, as well as diversity, is not included in the set of “Hope & Change.”

Since Arizona State University made the rational and well thought out decision not grant our Dear Leader an honorary degree because of his overall lack of experience in just about anything, the radical extremist far left that makes up the most rabid of Team Lightbringer’s supporters have reacted true to form.

ASU dared to defy their leftist deity, so they want the heretics burned. I’m not kidding. There have been actual death threats from the “open minded and tolerant” left.

Laurie Chassin co-chairs the ASU Honorary Degree Committee along with Christine Wilkinson, but she is on sabbatical this year and is not involved in this year’s evaluations. According to a source within the administration, she reportedly received death threats after this story hit national news on Thursday. An ASU spokesperson said they started receiving hate-email within minutes after the story was published on Huffington Post.

The President’s friend and advisor, the terrorist William Ayers should be proud.

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