Pakistan On The Brink Of Collapse?

Bad bad tidings from Bloomberg: The Taliban is now controlling areas only 70 miles from Islamabad, Pakistan’s capital:

The Taliban have captured some houses in the district of Buner, where they are patrolling the streets, preventing the government from functioning and frightening residents, Babak said.

The drive into Buner brings the Taliban to within about 110 kilometers (70 miles) of Islamabad, their closest approach to the capital with organized ground forces in the five years since they began fighting the government for territorial control.

Sufi Muhammad, the pro-Taliban cleric who guaranteed peace in exchange for Islamic law in the so-called Provincially Administered Tribal Area, threatened fresh protests unless the government appoints Islamic judges to replace the conventional judiciary by April 23. The government has said appointing judges takes time.

Richard Holbrooke, the U.S. special envoy to Pakistan and Afghanistan, has said he is troubled by the peace accord in the area, where militants have burned schools, banned education for girls and beheaded government officials.

Not a pleasant thought – all of those nukes falling into the hands of Islamofascists, is it?

Obama Refuses To Meet With Netanyahu

Wow.

He bowed to the Saudi king, shook hands warmly with anti-American  Commie/Socialist leaders, Chavez and Ortega, and Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, but he has no time in his busy schedule for Israel’s Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu:

“Netanyahu won’t attend AIPAC summit, asks Peres to represent Israel,” from the Jerusalem Post, April 19 (thanks to Pamela):

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu on Sunday canceled his plans to attend the upcoming AIPAC summit, after it became clear that US President Barack Obama would not meet him during the conference. Netanyahu announced that while he will not attend the conference in person, he will send a video-taped message to Washington….

I wonder if it has something to do with  this incident that happened in Israel’s King David Hotel, in early March:

Sources tell Foreign Policy that when Secretary of State Hillary Clinton met with Netanyahu at the King David Hotel earlier this month, such was the concern that a certain former Mossad analyst who now serves as Netanyahu’s security advisor may pose a counterintelligence problem that, after conferring with an aide, Clinton suggested to Netanyahu that they reduce the number of people in the room.

The former analyst, Uzi Arad, has recently headed an Israeli think tank that convenes the influential annual Herzliya strategy dialogue. Arad has been unable to get a U.S. visa for the past two years, he has suggested, because he was identified in a 2005 indictment (though not by name) as one of the Israelis who met with then-Pentagon Iran specialist Larry Franklin. Franklin pled guilty in 2005 on charges related to unauthorized disclosure of national-security information to people not authorized to receive it, including officials with the Israeli government.

Clinton’s suggestion was made, sources say, in the hopes that Netanyahu would get the message and excuse Arad from the meeting. What happened instead, sources report, was that Netanyahu dismissed from the meeting Israeli ambassador to Washington Sallai Meridor, who has since announced his resignation. (An account of the meeting previously published on ForeignPolicy.com revealed that Clinton seemed remarkably constrained and tight-lipped during it.)

U.S. officials knowledgeable about the meeting declined to comment about the incident but did not deny that Arad’s presence at the meeting was a concern to the U.S. delegation. The Israeli Embassy did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

The Obama administration also snubbed the Israeli Chief of Staff a little later in March:

“Israeli Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Gabi Ashkenazi cut short his visit to Washington after getting an extraordinarily cool reception from the new U.S. administration.”

On his current trip to Washington, Ashkenazi sought to meet the administration of President Barack Obama, but most officials were unavailable.

***

On March 12, Ashkenazi left for a five-day visit to the United States meant to lobby the Obama administration to abandon the planned U.S. dialogue with Iran, Middle East Newsline reported. Ashkenazi, scheduled to meet with the American-Israel Public Affairs Committee, was expected to have brought new Israeli intelligence on Iran’s nuclear weapons and missile programs.

But the diplomatic sources said the administration made it clear that nobody in a policy-making position was available to sit with Ashkenazi. This included the president, Vice President Joseph Biden, Gates, National Intelligence director Dennis Blair or Mullen.

And perhaps Obama doesn’t wish to discuss the 900 million he has pledged to Gaza which we all know will end up in the hands of Hamas.

At any rate, not a great way to treat a valued ally of the United States. Very troubling.

Hat tip: Jihad Watch

Everything That’s Old Is New Again

Check out this editorial cartoon from 1934:

The names and faces have changed, but the rest applies to 2009 quite nicely, doesn’t it?

Of course, Obama will tell you that massive spending got us out of the Depression.

Via Professor Bainbridge on a tip from Jane.

Cheney: Release The Rest Of The Memos

You know, the ones that reveal how the tough interrogation tactics  saved American lives:

Balls now in Obama’s court. And as Drew at AoSHQ explains, it’s a lose/lose for him:

Will Obama do it and risk people thinking, “maybe this wasn’t such a bad idea after all”. If they don’t do it, then the argument becomes, “there must be something so valuable they can’t talk about it”. Which again means, it worked.

It seems all the Obama administration can do is ignore this or they better find some contemporaneous memos that say, “this isn’t doing any good”.

Either way, well played by the Dark Lord and Master.

Video via Atlas Shrugs, who says bluntly:

Releasing memos to make us look bad but not the good it did? Evil.

She’s right. Gah! Everything this administration does gives me heartburn.

Who’s Dis Guy?

If you were like me, you were wondering who that mysterious smirking dude in the background of all of the Obama/Chavez love fest pictures was.

Venezuela News and Views:

This is quite a piece of news, of the astounding sort. For me, the shock is the incredible realization that Nicolas Maduro, a general failure in life has managed to reach two of the highest offices in the country strictly on his servility merits to El Supremo, a.k.a. Hugo Chavez. But also, as a strange relief of sorts, we are left to admire how a totalitarian regime sets itself in place.

Nicolas Maduro

There is really nothing positive to write about him. He is a failed union leader, from the Caracas subway system if memory serves me well. He never did anything smart in his life, and since the press got him as a source of news in 1998, there is nothing I can point that he did that showed creativity, originality or even hard work. He gained weight and got known for his escapades to visit his guru in India, first class ticket of course, at tax payer expense one may presume sinc ehe never bothered showing the receipts and even for an assemblyman paycheck, first class tickets to India is quite a bundle.

Oh…hey, look! He started Venezuela’s “civilian group”:

The third thing Maduro did was to organize the “civilian” group within chavismo. In this meaning, “civilian group” meant organizing non military folks that were willing to be as devoted to Chavez, no questions asked, as the military that Chavez so obviously favored. Which admittedly was not much hard work either as all were only too willing to imitate Maduro.

Is this “civilian group” just as powerful, just as strong,  just as well funded as their military, I wonder?

Related:

Jungle Mom has a great pictorial of Chavez meet and greets with bad guys the world over.

Obama After Ortega Speech: Hey, Don’t Blame Me!

Obama claims he was only three years old when America engaged in those despicable acts.

No, really.

Ortega “droned on about the offenses of the past”:

…dredging up U.S. support of the Somoza regime and the “illegal” war against the Sandinista regime he once led by U.S.-backed Contra rebels in the 1980s. Ortega was a member of the revolutionary junta that drove Anastasio Somoza from power in 1979 and was elected president in 1985. He was defeated in 1990 by Violeta Chamorro and ran unsuccessfully twice for the presidency before winning in 2006.

Of the 19th and 20th centuries, Ortega said: “Nicaragua central America, we haven’t been shaken since the past century by what have been the expansionist policies, war policies, that even led us in the 1850s, 1855, 1856 to bring Central American people together. We united, with Costa Ricans, with people from Honduras, the people from Guatemala, El Salvador. We all got together, united so we could defeat the expansionist policy of the United States. And after that, after interventions that extended since 1912, all the way up to 1932 and that left, as a result the imposition of that tyranny of the Samoas. Armed, funded, defended by the American leaders.”

Ortega denounced the U.S.-backed attempt to overthrow Fidel Castro’s new Communist government in Cuba in 1961, a history of US racism and what he called suffocating U.S. economic policies in the region.

In his 17-minute address to the summit, Obama departed from his prepared remarks to mildly rebuke Ortega.

“To move forward, we cannot let ourselves be prisoners of past disagreements. I’m grateful that President Ortega did not blame me for things that happened when I was three months old. Too often, an opportunity to build a fresh partnership of the Americas has been undermined by stale debates. We’ve all heard these arguments before.”

Have we? Have we also agreed with them?

Uh oh…

Actually, the president misspoke on the sequence of events in Cuba. The invasion of CIA-trained rebels at the Bay of Pigs in Cuba occurred in April 1961. Obama was born August 4, 1961.

Where is TOTUS when you need him????

Hat tip: Gateway Pundit

Fausta has more.

Related:

Ouch! An AP writer compares Obama to Soviet leader Michael Gorbachev..

And an Obama Doctrine emerges:

Other countries have “good ideas” , too…

Well, huh…let’s just see how that compares with the Bush Doctrine:

Bush Doctrine:

The security environment confronting the United States today is radically different from what we have faced before. Yet the first duty of the United States Government remains what it always has been: to protect the American people and American interests. It is an enduring American principle that this duty obligates the government to anticipate and counter threats, using all elements of national power, before the threats can do grave damage. The greater the threat, the greater is the risk of inaction – and the more compelling the case for taking anticipatory action to defend ourselves, even if uncertainty remains as to the time and place of the enemy’s attack. There are few greater threats than a terrorist attack with WMD.

To forestall or prevent such hostile acts by our adversaries, the United States will, if necessary, act preemptively in exercising our inherent right of self-defense. The United States will not resort to force in all cases to preempt emerging threats. Our preference is that nonmilitary actions succeed. And no country should ever use preemption as a pretext for aggression.

Obama Doctrine:

He said that first, he remains intent on telling the world that the United States is a powerful and wealthy nation that realizes it is just one country among many. Obama said he believes that other countries have “good ideas” and interests that cannot be ignored.

Second, while the United States best represents itself by living up to its universal values and ideas, Obama said it must also respect the variety of cultures and perspectives that guide both American foes and friends.

UPDATE:

Oh, what the hell, conservatives may as well capitalize on the on the shocking ineptness of the Obama administration:

How about tee shirts for the Obama 2009 “We Suck” tour.

That’s Amore!

That’s Amore´!

In Trinidad where love is king
When Prez meets Dictator here’s what they say:

When the moonbats fly like a big pizza pie
That’s amore!

When the oceans recede at the Hope you decreed
That’s amore!

Bells will ring ting-a-ling-a-ling, ting-a-ling-a-ling
And you’ll sing “Viva La Revolucion!”
Hearts will play tippy-tippy-tay, tippy-tippy-tay
Like a gay chupacabra

When Dictators  drool just like a pasta fazool
That’s amore!

When you dance down the street with unicorns  at your feet
You’re in love

When you both dream of change and you know you’re not
Dreaming signore
Scuzza me, but you see, back in old Trinidad
That’s amore!

With apologies to Dean Martin…… after looking at all of these pictures this weekend, that song has been stuck in my head.

Fausta has complete coverage of Obama’s Summit of the Americas/USA  Sucks  tour, and supples a linkfest to end all linkfests:

Others blogging on this story:
Memeorandum
The Latin Variation Of The Jihadist Fist Bump
Good News! Commie Chavez Wants to Be Friends With President Obama
Finally: Obama and Evil Clown grip and grin
President Obama warmly smiles, shakes hands with Hugo Chavez
At least he didn’t bow
How noble! How wonderful!
Change!… Dear Leader Greets Dear Leader
Obama Chavez Handshake, with Chavez’s speech at Doha.
Via Larwyn, Friend of Dictators, Associate of Evil
Obama warmly greets Comrade Chavez
The TOTUS: Down Trinidad and Tobago way
Shot of the day
Live From the Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago
You don’t know where that hand has been!
Pals
Obama and Chavez
When Bammy met Hugo
Hugo Chavez’s gift to Obama: L.A. pillage

You can follow the Fifth Summit of the Americas Facebook Page

More links Chavez’s soul
Shaking hands with the devil
Obama laughs it up with Hugo Chavez
You are known by the company you keep
Is this mano-a-mano stroking getting out of hand?
Obama, the Mexican guns, and Latin America: blame the US first
McClatchy: Obama and Hugo Chavez “shared a friendly handshake”
WHY HE’S NOT MY PRESIDENT: Reason # 200
Inspiration on the Library Shelf
Say hello to my little friend

A couple more: The American Thinker from a few days ago:

Obama re-designates FARC Marxist narcoterrorists as ‘insurgents’

No wonder Chavez loves his new buddy.

And Ed Morrissey at Hot Air, a year ago:

Bill Richardson brings all the campaign talent to Team Obama that took him from the most-experienced candidate to an embarrassing also-ran. In this clip, Richardson works his magic on several topics. He keeps emphasizing that Barack Obama is “bringing people together”, a “fresh voice”, and “change” — but he can’t offer any specifics about any of those qualities. But when he talks about Obama’s foreign policy, Richardson really hits bottom:

“We’re going to need to see who is going to be the strongest candidate against Senator McCain. And I believe that is Senator Obama with his emphasis on change and bringing people together, a fresh voice internationally, somebody that is able, in my judgment..to bring…. at least I just got back from Latin America, from Venezuela, where he has enormous support, where people really want to see a change in American foreign policy and they see Obama as that agent of change.“

Actually, in retrospect, that wasn’t even close to hitting bottom.

I like Greta’s take: “AWKWARD”!

And one more link to BlackisWhite Imperial Consigliere, who is now ashamed of his country.

Okay, okay...I have to add still one more link, because Geoff is now telling us that The White House says that the handshakes “didn’t mean anything”.

UPDATE:

Okay, I’m not even gonna pretend this is the last link…let’s face it….there may be more.

I knew I recognized that handshake from somewhere.  Thanks for reminding me, IOWNTHEWORLD.

UPDATE II:

Hey, feel free to add verses to That’s Amore! like Cfm990 did:

If i may
When we both hate the yanks. No need for thanks
that’s….
As we exclaim to each other. your my America hating brother
that’s….

Another Perspective On The Navy Seals Rescue Of Captain Phillips

This is an unsubstantiated account from an established member of a forum who claims to have gotten the full poop from some Navy Seals pals in Virginia Beach. He wanted to know why the ordeal dragged on for four days. The answer he got is very unflattering toward the President:

Philips’ first leap into the warm, dark water of the Indian Ocean hadn’t worked out as well. With the
Bainbridge in range and a rescue by his country’s Navy possible, Philips threw himself off of his
lifeboat prison, enabling Navy shooters onboard the destroyer a clear shot at his captors — and none
was taken.

The guidance from National Command Authority — the president of the United States,
Barack Obama — had been clear: a peaceful solution was the only acceptable outcome to this standoff
unless the hostage’s life was in clear, extreme danger.

The next day, a small Navy boat approaching the floating raft was fired on by the Somali pirates — and
again no fire was returned and no pirates killed. This was again due to the cautious stance assumed by
Navy personnel thanks to the combination of a lack of clear guidance from Washington and a mandate
from the commander in chief’s staff not to act until Obama, a man with no background of dealing with
such issues and no track record of decisiveness, decided that any outcome other than a “peaceful
solution” would be acceptable.

After taking fire from the Somali kidnappers again Saturday night, the on-scene commander decided
he’d had enough.

Keeping his authority to act in the case of a clear and present danger to the hostage’s
life and having heard nothing from Washington since yet another request to mount a rescue operation
had been denied the day before, the Navy officer — unnamed in all media reports to date — decided
the AK47 one captor had leveled at Philips’ back was a threat to the hostage’s life and ordered the
NSWC team to take their shots.

Three rounds downrange later, all three brigands became enemy KIA and Philips was safe.

There is upside, downside, and spinside to the series of events over the last week that culminated in
yesterday’s dramatic rescue of an American hostage.

Almost immediately following word of the rescue, the Obama administration and its supporters claimed
victory against pirates in the Indian Ocean and [1] declared that the dramatic end to the standoff put
paid to questions of the inexperienced president’s toughness and decisiveness.

Despite the Obama administration’s (and its sycophants’) attempt to spin yesterday’s success as a result
of bold, decisive leadership by the inexperienced president, the reality is nothing of the sort.
What should have been a standoff lasting only hours — as long as it took the USS Bainbridge and its
team of NSWC operators to steam to the location — became an embarrassing four day and counting
standoff between a ragtag handful of criminals with rifles and a U.S. Navy warship.

This version correlates with the official version of events as reported in articles like this one from Times Online:

The 20-man crew of the Maersk Alabama said that the 508ft (155m) container ship, carrying food aid to Mombasa in Kenya, had been harassed by pirates for a week before the vessel was boarded on Wednesday, April 8, more than 300 miles (500km) off the Somali coast. Four pirates in a fast-moving skiff boarded the cargo ship with grappling irons at about 7.15am local time amid a hail of gun-fire into the air.

***

The USS Bainbridge, on pirate patrol 300 miles away at the time of the attack, arrived on Thursday morning. As it stalked the lifeboat at about midnight Captain Phillips tried to escape by jumping into the sea and swimming towards the warship. Before the US Navy could react the pirates fired shots, leapt in after Captain Phillips and recaptured him. The incident was reportedly captured on video by a circling US drone.

On Friday night President Obama gave authority to use lethal force to save the life of Captain Phillips. The next night the Seals arrived.

***

The Seal sharpshooters reportedly had many opportunities to shoot but held fire because they believed that Captain Phillips was not in imminent danger. On Sunday morning the pirate wounded by the ice pick asked to come on board the USS Bainbridge. The surrendering pirate reportedly told officers that the pirates were ready to kill their captive and demanded a ransom.

The lifeboat was drifting closer to the hostile Somali coast where the hostage could have been taken to a stronghold. When the weather deteriorated on Sunday US Navy negotiators offered to tow the drifting lifeboat to calmer waters. The USS Bainbridge had attached a 200ft towline but reeled it in slowly until the lifeboat was only 75ft behind the warship.

As darkness fell at 7.19pm on Sunday the snipers, watching through their night-vision rifle scopes, saw two pirates poke their heads out of a lifeboat hatch. The third, visible through a window, pointed his AK47 at Captain Phillips’ back.

ABC News reported that Captain Phillips had moved to one side of the lifeboat to relieve himself, giving the sharpshooters clean shots. Commander Frank Castellano, the captain of the USS Bainbridge, decided that the American hostage was in imminent danger andgave the order to fire. The snipers each took a single shot, killing all three pirates immediately, officials said. “This is something that was not overly complicated,” Mr Cummings said. “The distance was not that far. A few things made it more difficult. They were shooting a moving target from a moving platform, and you need a lot of patience too. On something like this they probably had to go for head shots . . . And they had to do it simultaneously.”

It’s worth noting that when Captain Phillips arrived home in Vermont to a hero’s welcome he thanked the Navy Seals and his crew.

But no thanks in the offing for Obama’s purported heroic willingness to make the “tough decision” to use lethal force.

Hat tip: Atlas shrugs

UPDATE:

Here’s yet another perspective on the devastating implications of the rules of engagement employed during the hostage crisis.

UPDATE II:

On the other hand…

a retired Marine Corps four-star general disputes the above account, telling the Washington Times that that the Navy Seals rescue of Captain Phillips was a “textbook operation”, not curtailed at all by the Commander in Chief.

I’m not sure what part of the internet account he disputes, as it correlates with what he says, and what contemporary media accounts reported. The internet perspective simply expressed the frustration of the Navy Seals as retold by the anonymous forum poster who reported that they felt stymied by the rules of engagement, (which the General did not dispute).

The ROA did call for a peaceful conclusion unless the Captain’s life was in danger, and as they were getting nearer to the Somali coast, without decisive action,  the pirates could have gotten away with taking Phillips hostage in Somalia.

UPDATE III:

One more perspective appears at Free Republic.

Your “Real” story is not exactly the way I heard it, and probably has a few political twists thrown in to stir the pot. Rather than me trying to correct it, I’ll just tell you what I found out from my contacts at NSWC Norfolk and at SOCOM Tampa.

First though, let me orient you to familiarize you with the “terrain.”

Keep reading.

Take it for what it’s worth. Maybe we’ll never know the whole story.

RELATED:

What perfect timing!  A new high seas adventure series is due out this summer: Bait Boat.

Why Right-Wing Extremists Are Scary

Hippy Critic over at IOWNTHEWORLD puts us to some knowledge:

America Is An Obamanation assesses the threat level at yellow:

Which explains why the DHS is taking steps to halt this alarming trend.

Perhaps it also explains why the NSA has been stepping up its efforts to spy on Americans:

The National Security Agency intercepted Americans’ e-mails and phone calls in recent months on a scale that went beyond limits set by Congress last year, The New York Times reported on Wednesday.

The problems were discovered during a review of the intelligence activities, the Justice Department said in a statement Wednesday night, and said they had been resolved.

Citing unnamed intelligence officials, the Times said the NSA had engaged in “‘over-collection’ of domestic communications of Americans.” Sources reportedly described the practice as varying from significant to systemic to unintentional.

Hmmmmm.

Blogger alert:

For your free Right-Wing extremist blog badge, see America Is An Obamanation:

Robert Stacy McCain could use one of those badges. See Suzanne at Insert Clever S. Login Here for a video of his rousing speech at the ‘Bama tea party: “you might be a right wing extremist if…”

We’re all sooo busted!

CNN And MSNBC Potty Mouths Not Helping Ratings

As liberal commentators and anchors on CNN and MSNBC engage in their  puerile  tea-bagging  “jokes” (for lack of a better word) that mock the participants of the tea parties, news consumers are rejecting their coverage in droves for “right wing extremist” central, Fox News:

Keep laughing, chuckleheads.

Hat tip: Gateway Pundit

Thanks to Jim Treacher and Batton Lash for comic.

Related:

Latest count on the tea parties (I was going to say “head count” but I was worried some lefty might come by and die from a fit of laughter…I’d never forgive myself)!

Pajamas media is reporting over a half a million estimated participants, and the reports are still coming in.

Also, isn’t it slightly ironic in light of all the disgusting tea bagging jokes, that some people are calling us the despicable ones?!

Yeah…exercising our right to free speech – truly shocking and despicable! And of course, racist!

Also Related:

MSNBC’s Keef Olbermann’s obsession with ‘tea bagging’ has raised more than a few eyebrows, prompting him, finally, to display documented proof that he doesn’t have any special insight into teabagging, himself.

Video:Signs from the Dallas Tea Party

Reeko put this video together of his favorite signs from the Dallas tea party. He’s right, these are great:

God Bless Texas!

Video: Rep. Thaddeus McCotter speaking @ Plymouth, Michigan tea Party

Rising GOP star, U.S.Representative Thaddeus McCotter, MI (of Red Eye fame) appeared at the tea party in Plymouth, MI, yesterday, and spoke:

Standing firm for taxpayer rights.

The Overland Park Tax Day Tea Party @JCCC

Just wow.

Some words that come to mind….massive…spirited….surreal…noisy! The cars passing by the busy intersection wouldn’t stop honking. And there was a radio show in progress, (Darla Jay’s) in one area of the grounds, and more announcements and speakers in another area. Also…I spied my first agent provocateurs of the day…perhaps you’ll spot them in the pictures.

The protest was several thousand strong, but I’m still looking for an official estimate of crowd size. Unfortunately, the KMBZ radio station website hasn’t  posted anything that is terribly helpful. I’ll check again in the morning.

UPDATE: KMBC estimates the crowd at 10,000! Scroll down for video.

UPDATE II: The Overland Park protest tied for fourth place in attendance nationwide! See Kansas City Tea Party for more.

Hmmmm….

Okay, that’s it for now…I can’t keep my eyes open. I’ll finish posting pictures, tomorrow.

In the meantime, Rantings and Ravings has her OP pix up.

Okay, six hours later…how about some more pix:

The obligatory dog with a sign

Gulf War veteran, here.

Yeah yeah yeah…Don’t get me started!

Some people put a lot of time and thought into their signs.

The recurring ATM theme…

We are all economists, now…

Loved this guy…

For more coverage of the JCCC tea party, see Kansas Meadowlark.

See Michelle Malkin for coverage of other tea parties across the nation.

More pix sent to me by email:

slideshow, here.

Kudos to the Kansas city tea Party for putting on a wildly successful tea party.

KMBC video of tax day tea parties:

Here’s the video hubby shot of the event…see what I mean about, “massive, spirited, noisy”, etc.

Kansas City Tax Day Tea Party @ Liberty Memorial

This one was huge.  Organizers say there were 4 to 5000 people, which sorta jives with the KC Star, which says “over 4000″. The protest started at 4:00 in the afternoon, and the weather was perfect; close to 70 degrees.

Here are the first few pictures emailed to me from Ginger.

The keynote speaker, Chris Stigall of 710 KCMO

I’ll be downloading my own pix in short order.

And away we go!:

Kudos to Americans for Prosperity for putting on a world class tea party. Great job, guys!

Okay, at this point, I had to run…I had one more tea party to go to, but first we had to stop and refuel, take a potty break, and get some chow.

Next stop – Johnson County Community College in Overland Park!

More pictures from the Kansas city tax day tea party, here.

See Michelle Malkin for coverage of other tea parties across the nation.

Dee from Conservatism With Heart gave a great speech at this tea party, video here.

And here’s keynote speaker, 710′s morning talker, Chris Stigall:

Part one:

Part two:

Here’s my video…keep in mind I’m the world’s worst videographer:

The Lee’s Summit Tax Day Tea Party

I’m in between tea parties, right now, so I’m going to have to make this quick. There was a great turnout for such a last minute, and not heavily promoted  noon hour event. Nice Deb isn’t good at crowd guesstimates, but I would say there were between 300 and 400 people there for some great speeches, and musical entertainment.

This particular protest was planned by a couple of local moms, who, contrary to what tea party critics like  this numbnut in the Kansas City Star may think, are not  leaders of some Republican organization, but were provoked into action by the disastrous deficit spending we’ve all been witnessing coming out of Washington.

So without further ado, here are some pictures from The Lee’s Summit Tea Party, which was most definitely a grass roots event!:

No trolls, or agent provocateurs in this group!

Here’s a few clips of the Lee’s summit tea party from the video I took:

See Michelle Malkin for coverage of other tea parties across the nation.

And now I’m off to the Liberty Memorial! Catch you later!