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As stated last night, I did go to the Dallas Tea Party.

Didn’t really stay all that long, though – and 25% of the time I was there was spent working on a meatball sub from Subway.

In fact, if you want a more comprehensive (not much more, but he’s at least got multimedia) idea of some of the happenings, go visit His Randomness&#153 over at Random Numbers.

For my part, I was pleased with the crowd and their enthusiasm.&#160 And the couple of speakers I heard were okay.&#160 Not awe-inspiring, but they didn’t embarrass themselves, either.

My only problem with the whole soirée was the emcee – Mark Davis, who can be heard on WBAP AM 820 weekdays from 8:30 – 11:00 and has a blog here.

Mark Davis, in my view, is not the conservative he claims to be.&#160 He’s way too damned cordial to B. HUSSEIN!!!&#160 Obambi and the absolute fools&#160 who voted for him (be they black, white or polka dot) for my tastes:

Q: But how do you square that with the fact that this is not a presidency you wanted to see happen?

A: I’m sure I will spend ample time opposing various Obama administration initiatives. But I know tomorrow that I will see the faces of black people of a certain age who were not allowed to drink from the same water fountains that my parents did. While Barack Obama is not descended from slaves, his wife is. Her ancestors were chattel in the country she will now serve as First Lady. Only the coldest heart is unmoved by this.

Guess I’ve a cold-assed heart, then.&#160 Because I am most certainly not&#160 moved by any socialist’s ascendancy to the residence at 1600 Pennsylvania – I don’t give a royal shit what&#160 color he is.&#160 And add to that the circumstances surrounding the integrity of the election, plus&#160 the fact that Jugears McHopenchange still&#160 hasn’t proven his Constitutional fitness for the office, and the only thing it all moves me to do is retch.

Davis called this “indeed further evidence of the greatness and goodness that is America.”&#160 I call it evidence that America’s been dumbed down to the point of damnfoolishness.

In addition to that, Davis isn’t as pro-life as he claims to be – if you listened to him during the Terri Schaivo outrage, you found out that he came down on the side of Mikey Shitstain when it came to the Republicans in Congress attempting to save Terri’s life.

If that’s&#160 conservatism, make me a liberal.&#160 If there was ever a time for an American congress to work to save the life of an American citizen, it was then.&#160 If there was ever a time for Davis to be on the side of life, it was then – and he wussed out.

So anyway – it’s bad enough that the Tea Party had to put up with him as emcee.&#160 Now plan on having a pair of long-lasting earmuffs – because Davis flat-out doesn’t know when to shut up.&#160 Once he gets started, it’s tangent after tangent after aside after aside after…well, you get the idea.

But the Tea Parties themselves were extremely enjoyable.&#160 Crunchie over at the Rott has a recap, as does the beautiful & talented Michelle and the aforementioned Random fella.

Now for the next step.&#160 Where do we go from here?

Denizens, between a full day of work, a couple of hours spent at the Dallas Tea Party&#153, and having to do a couple chores upon arrival at the Domecile&#153, I don’t have much gumption to write tonight.

Time permitting, tomorrow I might have an overview of the soir&#233e.&#160 Maybe.

I’ll give him this – Big Dickhead Perry is doing his damndest to rehabilitate his image to us conservatives.

Gov. Rick Perry joined state Rep. Brandon Creighton and sponsors of House Concurrent Resolution (HCR) 50 in support of states’ rights under the 10th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.

“I believe that our federal government has become oppressive in its size, its intrusion into the lives of our citizens, and its interference with the affairs of our state,” Gov. Perry said. “That is why I am here today to express my unwavering support for efforts all across our country to reaffirm the states’ rights affirmed by the Tenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. I believe that returning to the letter and spirit of the U.S. Constitution and its essential 10th Amendment will free our state from undue regulations, and ultimately strengthen our Union.”

Perry continued: “Millions of Texans are tired of Washington, DC trying to come down here to tell us how to run Texas.”

Nice going, Governor.&#160 Keep it up and I might have to think twice about turning my back on you like I did here.

Hm.&#160 So now I’m a “right-wing radical” and an “extremist”.

The Department of Homeland Security is warning law enforcement officials about a rise in “rightwing extremist activity,” saying the economic recession, the election of America’s first black president and the return of a few disgruntled war veterans could swell the ranks of white-power militias.

A footnote attached to the report by the Homeland Security Office of Intelligence and Analysis defines “rightwing extremism in the United States” as including not just racist or hate groups, but also groups that reject federal authority in favor of state or local authority.

I see.&#160 So the Founding Fathers were themselves radicals & extremists.

Nice to know I’m in such honored company.

(U) Rightwing extremism in the United States can be broadly divided into those groups, movements, and adherents that are primarily hate-oriented (based on hatred of particular religious, racial or ethnic groups), and those that are mainly antigovernment, rejecting federal authority in favor of state or local authority, or rejecting government authority entirely. It may include groups and individuals that are dedicated to a single issue, such as opposition to abortion or immigration.

Let’s see…

Anti-government?&#160 Anti-this&#160 government.&#160 Check.

Prefer state/local government over some tin-plated bureaucrat with a pathetic comb-over trying to tell me how to live my life, what vehicle I can drive, how much gas mileage it has to get, how much so-called “pollutants” it dumps into the atmosphere, paper or plastic, etc?&#160 Check.

Opposition to immigration?&#160 Yeah, the illegal variety.&#160 Check.

Opposition to abortion?.&#160 Yeah, absolutely.&#160 Check.

Yep, guess that makes me an “extremist”.

Or one majorly pissed-off, had-it-up-to-here with-a-bunch-of-socialist-pussies American citizen.

You decide.

Well, well, well.&#160 How the mighty&#160 have fallen.

EXCLUSIVE: Lindsay Lohan in Tears: I’m in “Absolute Hell”

In the newest issue of Us Weekly, Lindsay Lohan opens up about her heartbreaking split from Samantha Ronson, the “humiliating” weekend showdown with Ronson’s family, and says that friends’ fears she is suicidal are unfounded.

Hm.&#160 I guess your breasts are no longer a “really big hit” with the aforementioned Ms. Ronson, are they?

“It’s absolute hell,” Lohan told Us on Monday in a far-ranging interview over several lengthy phone calls and emails where she was agitated, crying and baffled by the turn of events.

Ronson broke it off with her girlfriend of nearly two years last Friday, and hired five security guards to keep Lohan out of an afterparty for her sister Charlotte at the Chateau Marmont. (Lohan was staying directly one floor above the Ronsons with her mom Dina and sister Ali.)

The next day, Ronson changed the locks on the Hollywood Hills home she shared with Lohan. On Monday, Ronson’s mom and sister asked police about obtaining a restraining order against Lohan, Beverly Hills Sgt. Nutall confirms to Us.

Particularly when she’s driving.

Especially&#160 when she’s driving.&#160

Lohan says she’s “so alone” without Ronson.

“Everyone’s turned on me,” says the actress. She tells the magazine that the night of the Chateau showdown, Nicole Richie walked by her and said “Uck,” and Drea De Matteo said, “Come at me, b—h.”

Well, slut-ola, maybe folks have just had it up past&#160 the proverbial “here” by your diva-based bullshit act.&#160 Certainly folks like me had enough of your Schitty Schtale Schtick&#153 a helluva&#160 long time ago, y’know?

Here’s a clue, bimbo:&#160 Stop trying to pattern your life after Britney & Paris & Mary-Kate and all the rest of the teen diva bitches.&#160 Try going back to the wholesome girl from the Disney flicks you were in before your breasts&#160 became “a really big hit”.

In other words, stop being a fucking brat.

And another thing:&#160 Give up the lezbo BS.&#160 No mother is going to want their little girl to emulate that.&#160 Make the choice – yes, Lindsay, it’s a choice; don’t argue, you can’t win – to go back to being attracted to guys.&#160 We’ll appreciate you a lot more, trust me.&#160 So will the rest of the world.

The choice is yours, Lohan.&#160 Try to make a good one this time.

In case you’ve been under a rock, Captain Richard Phillips was rescued by the Navy Seals.

Damn skippy, men.&#160 Good work.

But of course, Obambi the Incompetent had to drag this out beyond where it needed to go:

President Barack Obama in a statement said, “I share the country’s admiration for the bravery of Captain Phillips and his selfless concern for his crew. His courage is a model for all Americans.”

Obama had given standing orders for a rescue effort if Phillips’s life was in danger, Gortney said.

Oh, for fuck’s sake, Jugears.&#160 Whatever happened to “Sniper?&#160 Target.&#160 Go”?&#160 Did this FBI team or whatever really&#160 have to spend nearly four friggin’ days wasting time with these chickenshits?

They’re pirates, for crying out loud!&#160 Standing orders should&#160 be to shoot on sight!

But I guess that wouldn’t be in line with the fucking Geneva Conventions the leftards get hard-ons to quote, y’know?

The Department of “Well, It Worked For Goebbels&#153” brings us this little bit of hilarity from NewsBusters.

If you want to argue that Rush Limbaugh the radio sensation will soon crumble and fail, that he’s headed for a “last hurrah,” would you sign up as your expert….an Air America executive? That’s what media critic Michael Wolff did in a Vanity Fair article on Limbaugh, “the man who ate the GOP.”

More to the point, I might ask the question:&#160 “Haven’t they been spewing this bullshit for the past 20 years?”

I mean, this blind little band of piggies is getting pretty desperate to find that truffle, isn’t it?&#160

Now after the Sabbath, as it began to dawn toward the first day of the week, Mary Magdalene and the other Mary came to look at the grave. And behold, a severe earthquake had occurred, for an angel of the Lord descended from heaven and came and rolled away the stone and sat upon it. And his appearance was like lightning, and his clothing as white as snow. The guards shook for fear of him and became like dead men.

The angel said to the women, “Do not be afraid; for I know that you are looking for Jesus who has been crucified. He is not here, for He has risen, just as He said. Come, see the place where He was lying. Go quickly and tell His disciples that He has risen from the dead; and behold, He is going ahead of you into Galilee, there you will see Him; behold, I have told you.”

—Matthew 28:1-7

2000 years later, it still isn’t about bunny rabbits (real or chocolate), baby chicks or colored eggs.

Happy Easter, Denizens.&#160 He&#160 is risen.

I found this interesting little tidbit about the Dallas County jail a couple days ago.

A potentially dangerous situation in the Dallas County jail was averted in February after a young boy wandered away from his mother and wound up in a secure area where prisoners were working.

On Feb. 16 around 9 pm, a group of inmates in the Lew Sterrett Justice Center kitchen told sheriff’s jail staff that a child was standing in a hallway unattended, according to sheriff’s reports I finally got my hands on.

[…]

A malfunctioning elevator appears to be the culprit, although the reports don’t make it very clear. It looks like you need a key to take the elevator from the visitors area down to the kitchen below. But this child somehow managed to do it. A work order was issued for the elevator, according to the reports.

This would be the same Dallas County jail that, the very next month, failed a state inspection.&#160 For the seventh straight time, I might add.

Inspectors with the Texas Commission on Jail Standards briefed county commissioners Friday morning about the results of their four-day evaluation of the four jails now operating.

They detailed broken toilets, dirty and “severely clogged” air vents, remote-controlled doors that wouldn’t open or close properly, broken intercoms, slow response to fire drills, inadequate smoke detection and removal systems, inadequate staffing, improper mixing of high- and low-security inmates and numerous plumbing problems.

The county jail system – the nation’s seventh-largest – hasn’t passed a state inspection since 2003. In addition, the jails remain under a federal court order to improve medical and mental health care, sanitation and fire safety systems.

Curious, no?

Oh.&#160 Did I mention that the jail is run by the county sheriff?&#160 And did I mention that the sheriff is a lezbo Demoscum?&#160 In a county full of abject incompetents just like her?

And did I mention that the lezbo bitch has had four fuckin’ years to fix the problems at the county lockup, and hasn’t???&#160 And that things have deteriorated to the point where a small child can wander into prisoner territory?&#160 And that at least a few of those prisoner have probably been busted on child sex charges (don’t know this for a fact, but it stands to reason)?

Well, now you know.

Your tax dollars at work, Dallas County.

I’m counting the days until I’m no longer a resident of this hellhole.

Boy, those warrior stud muffins&#160 at Al-Obambi really strike fear into the hearts of those Somali pirates, don’t they?

NAIROBI, April 11 (Reuters) – Pirates seized a U.S.-owned and Italian-flagged tugboat with 16 crew on Saturday in the latest hijacking in the busy Gulf of Aden waterway, a regional maritime group said.

Andrew Mwangura, of the Mombasa-based East African Seafarers’ Assistance Programme, said the crew were believed to be unharmed on the tugboat, which he added was operated from the United Arab Emirates.

[…]

“This incident shows the pirates are becoming more daring and violent,” Mwangura told Reuters by phone.

Offhand, I’d say that they’ve become…emboldened…by the lack of a strong leader at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave.

(And I despise&#160 using that word, because when talking foreign affairs, it seems to be the only word that Sean Hannity knows.&#160 I mean, it seems that every other word out of Hannity’s mouth is emboldened&#160 when it comes to foreign policy, y’know?)

Sorta reminds me of FP under…oh, say…Peanuthead:

One thing Carter did not have was foreign policy expertise. As a result, he relied on his foreign policy advisers, Secretary of State Cyrus Vance (who was a partner in a major New York law firm) and National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski, a professor at Columbia University. The results were disastrous. Under Carter, the US allowed the Shah of Iran to fall and the Islamist Ayatollahs to take over. The Soviets invaded Afghanistan and Carter sent aid to the anti-Soviet Islamists. He drastically slashed support for South Korea. These policies are still causing repercussions thirty years later with Iran and North Korea both developing nuclear weapons and al-Qaeda being based in Afghanistan.

Remind you of anyone in particular?

They’re calling this “not a bow”

Yeah, and I’m Brad Pitt.&#160

Item:&#160 Somali pirates hijack a US-flagged cargo ship with 20 Americans on board.&#160 The United States, under Ayatollah B. HUSSEIN!!!&#160 Obambi, promptly sends naval vessels (among other things) that way.

Item:&#160 The crew, possibly realizing remembering what happened the last time a Demoscummic excuse-for-a-president dealt with a hostage situation, retake the vessel themselves, although the vessel’s captain reportedly remains a hostage.

Us 48-percenters could prob’ly learn a thing or two here.

Don’t have time to do much right now, Denizens, so here’s something I glommed onto, courtesy of Gateway Pundit.

Enjoy.

The Department of Absurdity&#153 apparently can’t wait to bring us this story.

Seems the Detroit brownshirts, having recently vanquished the politically-late-yet-unlamented Kwame Kilpatrick, needed a new target on which to practice their particular brand of Draconianism.

Enter the Pillow Fighters&#153.

Police in Detroit have ruffled some feathers after they cracked down on an organized pillow fight at a downtown park.

The Detroit News reports that police at Campus Martius Park prevented the feathery fight Saturday by disarming pillow-toting participants.

What was that old canard?&#160 Something about not bringing a pillow to a gun fight…?

The bout was part of a worldwide event organized on social networking Web sites. Other bouts included one on Wall Street, where hundreds pounded each other in front of the New York Stock Exchange.

Michael Davis of Hamtramck, Mich., said police confiscated the 32-year-old man’s pillows but returned their cases. He said he was told that he needed a permit.

Participant Scott Harris added that as far as he knows it’s “not illegal to own a pillow.”

“When pillows are outlawed, only outlaws will have pillows.”&#160

Detroit police spokesman James Tate said the issue wasn’t about the bout but the mess it would have created.

I call bullshit.&#160 Your politicians spew that much crap every day, and you morons do nothing.&#160 What’s their&#160 excuse?

I mean, pillows don’t kill people, people do.

Pissweaseled killjoys.

Denizens, remember back about two weeks before the ’08 general election when then-Senator Hair-Butt-Plugs all but invited the Axis of Evil&#153 world to test them – to “come say it to their faces”, as it were?

Remember this money quote?

“Mark my words,” the Democratic vice presidential nominee warned at the second of his two Seattle fundraisers Sunday. “It will not be six months before the world tests Barack Obama like they did John Kennedy. The world is looking. We’re about to elect a brilliant 47-year-old senator president of the United States of America. Remember I said it standing here if you don’t remember anything else I said. Watch, we’re gonna have an international crisis, a generated crisis, to test the mettle of this guy.”

Well, lo & behold and saints be praised – for once, Vice-Ayatollah Gaffemeister has, probably to our everlasting detriment, been proven correct:

North Korea appeared to launch a rocket on Sunday, the Japanese government said, defying calls from world leaders to scrap a plan that has caused international alarm.

It was not immediately clear if the launch had been successful, or if it was a long-range version of the rocket.

Y’know, suddenly I feel a helluva&#160 lot less safe.&#160 How ’bout you?

The rocket is supposed to fly over Japan, dropping boosters to its west and east on a path that runs southwest of Hawaii.

The United States, South Korea and Japan say the plan is actually the test of a Taepodong-2 missile, which is designed to carry a warhead as far as Alaska.

Which would mean – depending on the launch vector, of course – it could also&#160 hit Hawaii and the Lower 48&#153.

Now there’s&#160 Change You Can Believe In&#153!!!&#160

The Ayatollah Obambi’s reaction, of course, was extremely predictable.&#160 Assuming, of course, you’re using former President Peanuthead as your template:

North Korea’s development and proliferation of ballistic missile technology pose a threat to the northeast Asian region and to international peace and security. The launch today of a Taepo-dong 2 missile was a clear violation of United Nations Security Council Resolution 1718, which expressly prohibits North Korea from conducting ballistic missile-related activities of any kind. With this provocative act, North Korea has ignored its international obligations, rejected unequivocal calls for restraint, and further isolated itself from the community of nations.

We will immediately consult with our allies in the region, including Japan and the Republic of Korea, and members of the U.N. Security Council to bring this matter before the Council. I urge North Korea to abide fully by the resolutions of the U.N. Security Council and to refrain from further provocative actions.

Preventing the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction and their means of delivery is a high priority for my administration. The United States is fully committed to maintaining security and stability in northeast Asia and we will continue working for the verifiable denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula through the Six-Party Talks. The Six-Party Talks provide the forum for achieving denuclearization, reducing tensions, and for resolving other issues of concern between North Korea, its four neighbors, and the United States. North Korea has a pathway to acceptance in the international community, but it will not find that acceptance unless it abandons its pursuit of weapons of mass destruction and abides by its international obligations and commitments.

“Stop!&#160 Or we shall wag our fingers and scold you a second time!”

Lemme as you 52-percenter pussies a question:&#160 What good’s it gonna do arguing about the economy or bemoaning the fact that a lot of you people are jobless or bitching that we NEEEEEEEEEED!!!!!!!&#160 the bailout stimulus package du jour&#160 if we’ve all been reduced to a nation of glass?

So how does “Hope and Change!!!&#153” sound to you now, hmmmmmmm???

Asshats.