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Photo courtesy City of Phoenix Convention Center website

There is still plenty of time to attend the 2009 Convention/NRA Meetings and Exhibits in Phoenix this weekend (May 16th and 17th). Here’s some information to help you enjoy the event:

• Admission is $10 for non-NRA members, and the price includes a one year NRA associate membership.

• Admission is free for NRA members and their families, military and law enforcement personnel,  and organized youth groups.

• To enter and register for the event, go to the Phoenix Convention Center North building, hop on the escalator, and take it down to the exhibit hall level.

• The easiest way to find the escalator is to enter the Convention Center through the main doors, which are on the West side of the building. Hang a left when you hit the area that splits into four directions, and the escalators will be almost immediately on your left. If you hit the food court, you’ve gone too far.

• There are several public parking garages downtown, and most are running a flat $12.00 per day. There are a few metered spaces here and there, but you are not likely to find an available meter this weekend.

• The Metro light rail runs a short block from the Convention Center, and at $2.50 for an all-day pass, it could be your best bet for getting down there on the cheap. There are several park and ride facilities on the rail line, if you want to get most of the way there and use the rail as a shuttle in to the downtown area

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The first event of the 2009 NRA Annual Meeting and Exhibits, held in Phoenix, Arizona, was the Grassroots Workshop put on by the NRA Institute for Legislative Action (ILA) at the Sheraton. The grassroots activists were seated by state, so that they could begin networking with other politically active members.

The workshop started with a rousing speech by Dick Heller of the Heller vs. D.C. Supreme Court case. Mr. Heller made history recently when he won his case and the Supreme Court, for the first time ever, affirmed that the 2nd Amendment protects an individual’s right to keep and bear arms. Mr. Heller continues to fight for gun rights and encouraged attendees to fight for their rights by recruiting new NRA members and actively supporting political candidates who support gun rights.

The Powerful Gun Lobby (Voters)

The grassroots attendees are what the media and anti-gun activists refer to as “the powerful gun lobby.” Looking around the room, it was obvious that the media’s bogeyman was a room filled with 375 average, politically conscious, neighborhood housewives, fathers, sons and daughters – all ordinary Americans.

Various NRA staff gave moving speeches and highlighted current legislative initiatives that either help protect the rights of gun owners, or threaten those rights. President Obama was praised several times for his stimulus of the gun industry and bolstering the NRA’s membership roster.

I'm a bitter gun owner and I vote.

Attendees at the workshop were encouraged to write, or call, their congressmen in opposition or support of gun related legislation. The get-out-the-vote message was also very clear. The message – encourage other gun owners to register to vote, vote in all available elections, and to join the NRA.  Attendees were encouraged to exercise their rights to speak out, to peacefully assemble, to petition our government, to vote, and to keep and bear arms.  American exceptionalism at its finest!  We live in the only country in the world where these rights are enshrined.  The NRA wants people to exercise all of their rights in order to protect their freedoms and insure liberty for all.

For additional information on legislative issues, or how you can become involved, please go to the NRA-ILA webpage.

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We’ve decided to take the plunge and join the hep and cool world of Twitter.  We got us some new fangled, fancy phones with a thing-a-majig that slides out so we can text to our heart’s content (which has been about once a century to this point), and keep you updated on all of the going-ons at the NRA Convention in Phoenix this weekend.

So far, we only have two people following us, but wow, what a list so far – exurbanjon and Karl Rove.  How awesome is that?

Feel free to follow us at GreatSatanInc, and become part of our illustrious list.

We’ll be adding our tweets to the site very soon so you can follow allong with our oh, so exciting lives.  I just have to figure out how to send this, wait, I think I press this button, no – oops, I just deleted that whole message.  Uh, I’ll get this thing up and running as soon.

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The NRA’s 138th Annual Meeting and Exhibits opens to public on Friday May 15, 2009 at the Phoenix Civic Plaza and Convention Center. The NRA Celebration of American Values exhibit halls will provide you with a cool respite from the scorching Arizona sun. Thanks to Bitter for hooking us up with the 2nd Amendment Blog Bash, so that we could help bring you the inside track on the happenings this weekend. Take a peek at the Exurban League to see some of the fun that has already happened!

If you are planning on attending the NRA Meeting and Exhibits, you are in for a treat! The schedule is jammed full with everything from an indoor air rifle range and manufacturer and dealer exhibits, to book signings with Uncle Ted (Ted Nugent) and Colonel Oliver North. The Civic Plaza is decked out for the event and you can comfortably spend time around fellow shooters and hunters.

Admission to the NRA Convention is free for NRA members and for nonmembers its only $10 and includes a free NRA Associate Membership!

Come check out the NRA Celebration of American Values!

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We would like to welcome the NRA and all members and guests to our great state.  For those who aren’t aware, The NRA is holding The 138th NRA Annual Meeting & Exhibits at the Phoenix Convention Center May 14th – May 17th.

Highlights of this convention and event include NRA’s Celebration of American Values Leadership Forum on Friday, 300,000 sq. ft. of exhibitors showing off their latest and greatest, and TED, WHITE and BLUE featuring Ted Nugent (Hooray for Uncle Ted!).

We are very happy to report that we will be attending as media, and we plan on bringing you as much information as possible about this great event. Thanks to Rachel, Bitter and the rest of the NRA press crew for making this possible (hope you like the tortillas)!

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President Mer-see-bo-ku blundered yesterday when he welcomed guests to the Whitehouse by saying, “Welcome to Cinco de Cuatro—Cinco de Mayo at the White House.”  For those who don’t habla Espanol, cinco is Spanish for “four”, which means our President of the world greeted his guests with, “Welcome to Five of Four.”

Since Exurban Kevin already beat me to the Star Trek punch, I will make a suggestion to the President –

Since you seem to be quite skilled at purchasing DVD’s, have your aids pick up some Sesame Street, Electric Company and Villa Alegre DVD’s.  Then sit down with your daughters and learn how to count in Spanish the way that the residents here at Casa Diablo Grande did when we were five or six years old.

And I’m the one that’s supposed to be embarrased because I can’t speak Spanish when I go to Europe?

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