Great Satan, Inc.

As promised, here is the complete set of photographs that were taken at the Tax Day Tea Party in Phoenix on April 15th, 2009.

To view an image, click on it, and a new window will appear in front of this one.  From there, you can scroll through the images with the arrows on the bottom, or just click on the image, and you should return back to this page.

[Show slideshow]

1 2 ►

If anything goes wonky on this page, just let me know, and I’ll try to fix it.

[Read more →]

Which is ironic since she claims to be a comedian.

If you are fortunate enough to have missed Janeane Garofalo’s latest bats**t crazy rant on MSNBC, you can see it at Olbermannwatch.com, along with some great commentary by my favorite late night show, Red Eye.

Being called a “redneck and a “racist” by her doesn’t make me angry, it makes me laugh. She’s been a joke for a long time, and this latest nonsense just makes her even less credible (like the CNN reporter at the Tea Party) and more of a joke than ever before. A sad, pushing fifty but trying to look twenty, unattractive on the inside and out joke.

Anyone that calls a group of people rednecks, and in the same breath accuses said rednecks of being racist can not possibly be taken seriously. I’m not exactly sure which combination of mental illnesses she suffers from (NPD for one), but one of the symptoms is obviously cognitive dissonance.

Another reason to not be upset is the drivel she spews isn’t meant for me, it’s meant for the Elvis Factor, the “enlightened” that congregate at the Starbucks the next day over lattes and talk to hear their own voice, but never listen.

So, here’s to you Janeane – I’m not laughing with you, I’m laughing at you.

[Read more →]

The Tax Day Tea Party brought several thousand people to Wesley Bolin Memorial Plaza today. It was impossible to get a count of the attendees, as we saw a steady stream of people both arriving and leaving for the two hours that we were at the event. I’m thinking there were ten thousand there easily.

A very large group of people crammed into an area in front of the Capitol Building where politicians, concerned citizens and radio and TV hosts were speaking. It was so crowded in that area that we were never able to actually see who was speaking, so we chose to mill around the crowd and take some photos for your viewing pleasure.

We’ll be writing more about the event itself within the next few days, but I wanted to leave you with the best quotes of the day:

A woman holding a sign in one hand and a cell phone to her ear:

I’m standing in front of the capitol with fifty thousand other people and they all hate Obama.

This one is our favorite:

If I would have known that protesting would be this much fun, I would have done it in the ’60’s instead of starting to protest in my sixties.

Some general crowd shots:

Just some of the many clever and creative signs (we’ll post more later):

We would like to dedicate this one to the exurbanleague.com guys:

I’ll post some more tomorrow, but I’ll leave you with this one. I haven’t decided what is more humorous – seeing “hippies” at the Tea Party, or the camera crew grabbing them out of the crowd and making a fuss over them. I might normally say that they got lost on their way to a Phish concert, but they did have Tea Party signs :

P.S. – If you didn’t already know it, Arizona is a beautiful place:

[Read more →]