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Escondido Tea Party Tax Revolt, April 15th, 2009.Escondido is located in North San Diego County in sunny Southern California. Today, however, it was windy and cold (for SoCal anyway), and most of us were wondering where all the Global Warming went… we would have welcomed some. Anyway, we had about 1,000 people show up, perhaps a bit more at the peak. The Tea Party was scheduled for 5 to 7 pm outside the post office on Escondido Blvd. I arrived about 4:45pm at which time there were about 300+ folks mostly on the east side of the Blvd. where...

Reports are rolling into talk radio stations in San Diego about massive Republican vote suppression. Thousands of Republican voters in San Diego and as far north as Los Angeles showed up to vote on Tuesday only to be told that they were registered "Non-Partisan". This meant that they could not vote for the Republican Primary candidates. Non-Partisan (independent) voters in California can vote for Candidates in any other party, including the Democrat party, but are prohibited from voting in the Republican Primary unless they are registered as a Republican. Rick Roberts [http://www.760kfmb.com] is currently reporting on this and has had...

Where Were You On 9-11-2001? By PsyOp There are seminal event in history that imprint on peoples minds an indelible mark never to be forgotten. Pearl Harbor. The Kennedy Assassination. These are events that no adult American who lived through them will ever forget. All can tell you where they were and what they were doing when they heard the news. Many of us who were not around then have heard the stories. 9/11/2001 is another such event. We all remember where we were and what we were doing when we heard the news. But some would have us all...

Soldiers Defend Body Armor FORT BELVOIR, Va. - Soldiers are volunteering dramatic personal accounts of lives saved and injuries avoided thanks to the Army's body armor. Their first-hand accounts of what happens demonstrate confidence in what the Army is doing to protect them. Interceptor Body Armor is a modular system that features an outer tactical vest with hard protective plates. Spc. Gregory T. Miller, 101st Airborne Division, told Congress at a hearing last month that this body armor saved his life while he was on patrol in Kirkuk in preparation for Iraqi elections in December 2005. He was hit in...

For the last year I heard one criticism after another directed at the training of Iraqi Security Forces. In the last month, that criticism has reached a crescendo as the debate on when or whether to leave Iraq has raged in the media—a media that has turned into an echo chamber for bad information and mis-interpreted facts. The main complaint is why Iraqi security forces are not ready to step up and take on the terrorists so we can get the hell out. After all, it only takes twelve weeks to train a U.S. Soldier or Marine, and the Iraqis...

Headlines We'd like to see on Nov. 3, 2004. 1. U.S. to Osama--CAN YOU HEAR US NOW! 2. Clinton Advises Kerry: "Better Put Some Ice On That..." 3. Big Dig Buried By Bush Landslide. 4. U.S. to Osama--Pound Sand! 5. Kerry Loses Medals--Throws Election Instead. 6. Kerry Torpedoed! 7. Rats Leaves Sinking Swift Boat. 8. Word of The Day: Landslide 9. Osama Sees Shadow: Four More Years of War On Terror. 10. Kerry Gets B**ch Slapped by Bush. 11. Kerry: I Voted For Myself Before I Voted For Bush... 12. Kerry Loses--Edwards Sues Kerry. 13. Boxer Wins! Remains Irrellevant.

C-BS Admits Kerry Footage Fake, But Story True… UPI (Unseemly Press Int’l). A new Swift Boat veteran’s television ad has created more controversy for C-BS News. C-BS, recently discovered to be an unregistered 527 PAC operating in lock-step with the DNC, says it did not give the Swift Boat Vets permission to use their news footage of Kerry throwing his medals over the fence at the White House in 1972. The ad is a series of audio and video clips of Presidential Candidate John Kerry throwing ribbons and medals over the White House fence while explaining in various interviews why...

Barry Goldwater, The Conscience Of A Conservative, 1960. *all italics appeared in the 1990 print edition from which these quotes were culled. All quote are presented in the order they appeared in the book. "Every great movement-social; political, or religious-in its infancy, is marked by militancy. Its faithful shine with a spirit of sacrifice, a willingness to accept defeat and humiliation rather than compromise principal. Its True Believers are impatient, to the point of intolerance, with the half-hearted and the half-committed. He who is not with us is against us. That is the way we were." - Patrick J. Buchannan,...

As we all know, Michael Moore could give Nazi propagandist Joseph Geobbels a run for his money, and Fahrenheit 9/11 will go down in history as one of the most Anti-American pieces of hate propaganda ever published. When it goes down though, it needs to go down in flames straight into history’s dust-bin. The only real way to do this is to get it out of theaters as quickly as possible. That means a boycott of course. But not just of the movie, but of the theaters. A lot of movies are coming out over the next few weekends. Several...

Giving Aid & Comfort, Part 2. What can one say? When it rains, it pours. And this last week, it has been mana from heaven for those who hate America. If all the Jane Fonda’s, John Kerry’s, Osama Bin Laden’s and Saddam Hussein’s of the world had convened a meeting to devise a propaganda campaign to hurt America and her defenders, they could not, in their wildest dreams, have concocted anything as effective as Abu Ghraib Prison. In a fit of blinding stupidity a handful of morons did what legions of Saddam Fehdayen could never do. They stained the reputation...

Giving Aid & Comfort. By Daniel Ingham 04/11/04 “Is there not some chosen curse, some hidden thunder in the stores of heaven, red with uncommon wrath, to blast the man who owes his greatness to his country's ruin!” - Joseph Addison. Where does patriotism end and treason begin? Or, where does support for the troops and aid and comfort for their enemies begin? These are questions that many have been asking and debating at some level or other since the President first aimed our collective sights at Iraq and the brutal regime that held it in it’s yoke. It’s one...

The Second Amendment - Commentaries (from the Good, the Bad, and the just plain Stupid). "A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed." - Second Amendment to the Constitution, ratified December 15, 1791. If you believe the term "militia" means the National Guard then you must believe that freedom of speech is reserved for the Government Printing Office. - Unknown. You [Minutemen] are placed by Providence in the post of honor, because it is the post of danger. The eyes not...

Mohammed, The Mad Poet Quoted.... Not too long ago I was listening to the radio, Bill O'Reilly on KFMB, as I recall. During his show, Bill was talking about some passages from the Koran that had appeared in print that seemed to contradict much of the CAIR and other Islamic apologist propaganda. During the program a man, a Muslim, called in to the show to accuse O'Reilly of being unfair and taking things out of context, etc. He then said that you need to have an Imam explain these passages to you so you can understand their meaning. This of...

Uday & Qusay Permanently Recalled. Mosul, Iraq. By PsyOp Yesterday, American soldiers assigned the 101st Airborne division entered the Northern Iraqi city of Mosul to conduct a special recall election of Uday and Qusay Hussein, heirs apparent of the former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein. Just one year ago Saddam was re-elected by an overwhelming 99% majority of the Iraqi people. In that same election, his sons Uday and Qusay were elected to the Iraqi Senate and put in charge of much of the government’s bureaucracy. Since then, Iraqi citizen had come to regret the decision, if in fact they made...

Bio-Chemical Weapons & Saddam: A History. In recent months there has been a great deal of bad information going around in the argument over whether we should attack Iraq, and whether Iraq is a threat to us. Some of that bad information is simple ignorance concerning chemical and biological warfare, and some is deliberate dis-information. Among those charges are that we (1) sold Saddam chemical and biological weapons, (2) equipped his army, (3) helped him in his war with Iraq. These charges are specious but start with a germ of fact. These “facts” are always twisted, blown out of proportion...

After I posted my first couple of quote compilations I was asked by former Freeper 2Treivers if I had any Reagan quotes in my collection. It turned out that I had just a few, too few. So, for the last year I have been going through his speeches and addresses to cull quotes. What you see here is about half of what I've collected, and I have lots of his works still to read. I had hoped to get these posted in time for his birthday, but editing turned out to be harder than I thought--Choosing what to cut was...

Appeasment or War. Thoughts on The Subject. Today I turned on the television and was greeted by the sight and sound of Susan Sarandon's attempt to tub on our heartstrings and make the case for Saddam. Then I read an article about 1,000 so-called historians coming out against the war (some posthumously). So, in response to both, I offer the following historical wisdom on the subject. In war and peace alike there must be men charged with superintending the protection of walls and gates, and with inspecting and marshalling the citizens. - Aristotle. The Politics, Bk. VI. C.334-23 b.c. More...

ELECTIONS Elections are won by men and women chiefly because most people vote against somebody rather than for somebody. - Franklin P. Adams, Nods & Becks, 1944. Elections, my dear sir, to offices which are a great object of ambition, I look at with terror. - John Adams, letter to Thomas Jefferson. December 6, 1787. Corruption in elections has heretofore destroyed all elective governments. What regulations or precautions may be devised to prevent it in future, I am content with you to leave posterity to consider. You and I shall go to the Kingdom of the just or at least...

9/11 Plus One There has been a lot of talk about how we should mark this one year milestone of the September 11th, 2001 attack. How much is too much? How little is not enough? Should it be a party or should it be a wake? Is patriotism appropriate, or will it make us appear jingoistic? Should we show the event on TV for all to relive, or rely on the images burned into our minds eye? Should we be angry or sad? I don’t know what the answer is, but I know what I don’t want. I don’t want...

When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.     We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life,...