Downtown Sarasota Tax Day Tea Party

DATE: 15 April 2009
TIME: Noon-2pm
LOCATION: Marina Jacks Sarasota Bayfront
NOTE: The location has been changed, and is no longer in front of the courthouse as previously stated
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Bradenton Tax Day Tea Party

DATE: 15 April 1009
TIME: 5-7pm
LOCATION: Mixon Fruit Farm, 2712 26th Ave E. Bradenton
From the Mixon site: We invite everyone to come together across party lines, share ideas, voice concerns, and inspire one another to take action. The Government is meant to be in the hands of the people, so let us unite and make it [...]

Venice Tax Day Tea Party

Wow. You know this thing is getting big if even sleepy Venice is roused to action. . .
DATE:15 April 2009
TIME: Wednesday Noon - 1 PM
LOCATION: Gazebo in Centennial Park (in downtown Venice) on West Venice Ave., Venice, FL
POC: Patricia Rule at Prule_fl_mi@yahoo.com and Karen Rodemaker at birder2@verizon.net
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Lakewood Ranch Tea Party — Update

The final details on the Lakewood Ranch Tea Party:
DATE: 15 April 2009
TIME: 3-7 pm
LOCATION: Off the patio from Ed’s Tavern on Main Street
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In addition to flags and signs, the organizers are asking people to bring bags (burlap bags, 50lb rice bags, etc) filled with bubble wrap and marked TEA. There are several [...]

Catharsis.

I’m sure most of you have heard clips of the Daniel Hannan p!mp-slapping of British PM Gordon Brown. Here’s the full version of the video. Wow. In my perfect world, I’d have a chance to say the same things to Obama, and do so with the same measure of poise and righteous [...]

Now a Lakewood Ranch Tea Party?

Schweet. It looks like Lakewood Ranch (east Bradenton, FL) may be joining the Tea Party movement. The sec’y of the Manatee County Republican Party contacted me today. According to her, they’ll be closing down “Main Street” on April 15th for a time so we can have a tea party. [...]

“Obama can’t be any worse than the Republicans. . .”

This was a sentiment often expressed by independents, libertarians and disgruntled Republicans during the last election cycle. Well, the data is in. We can now state empirically that YES HE CAN!
Budget deficits under Bush and Obama

Is this the change you were waiting for?
HT: Fausta’s Blog, via Facebook.

Heh.

Pic credit: Impossible to say. Success had many fathers, in this instance. . .

Obama poll numbers still trending south

Zogby’s latest numbers on Obama are pretty stark — 50-50% approve/disapprove. It’s usually best to take Zogby polls with an entire salt lick, but he usually gets the general trendline correct. Though I doubt half of America has truly broken free of Obama’s mesmerizing BS, I do think he’s losing [...]

Matt Drudge = undead HP Lovecraft?

Check out the uncanny similarities between Drudgereport editor Matt Drudge and HP Lovecraft, the morbid creator of the Cthulhu Mythos:

Normally when confronted with separated twins, we assume something simple, such as a plot to conceal one of them, likely behind an iron mask. But HP Lovecraft was a freaky dude, and he died [...]