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Email to Florida Governor Charlie Crist

Wyoh — Tue, 12 May 2009 12:55:40 +0000

Subject: Veto SB 2600

Apparently emboldened by the mass thievery going on at the national level, I see our Florida legislature has taken the policies of our Dear Leader to heart and started grabbing for cash with both greedy little hands. I am referring, of course, to SB 2600 in which $6 million dollars from the Division of Licensing Concealed Weapons and Firearm Trust Fund has been raided in a move that would make Vikings, Mongols and Tuskens quite proud.

I am the kind of voter who insists on research, and ordinarily I would quadruple-check anything disseminated by the NRA, however, I am most irritatingly required to rely on the their report of this misappropriation due to the myfloridahouse.gov website’s pitiful coding, which prompts me to download the ASP file that should instead be displaying the full text of the bill.

I sincerely hope this isn’t by design. That’s the sort of thing that could cause people to start filing lawsuits.

As a Citizen of this country, as a CCW holder in the state of Florida, I urge you to put an end to this foolishness. Line-item veto this misappropriation, line-item veto the threat to our state’s education budget if their trust fund theft is circumvented, and shine the light of publicity on the cockroaches that conceived the entire scheme. Prove to us that you’re different, that you’re not the typical politician, that you deserve your Governorship and a future Senate seat.

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The Real Story

Wyoh — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 12:59:58 +0000

If you’re one of those who just doesn’t get the Tea Party movement, or thinks it is somehow engineered by Haliburton, watch and listen:

Click here to view the embedded video.

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Tea Party Action

Wyoh — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 03:13:54 +0000

Media coverage, such as it is, of recent Tea Parties:

(Via Glenn)

Tampa Tea Party Parking Locations

Wyoh — Sun, 12 Apr 2009 18:40:45 +0000

I played around with Google maps a little and got it to spit out the parking garages near Lykes Gaslight Park in downtown Tampa:

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Because I Am Not A Subject

Wyoh — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 17:34:19 +0000

Granted it’s an “unnamed aide” making this idiotic claim, but it sure looks like not only a bow, but a BOW, from here. And prompts our newest Tea Party sign:

Downloadable in large size on our signs page.

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The City of No Love

Wyoh — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 15:21:32 +0000

Add Philadelphia to the list of locations making holding a Tea Party somewhat difficult. Contact information via the link.

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Gear Report

Wyoh — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 23:25:29 +0000

We were late getting our SJ Gear ordered due to a much-needed trip to the beach last weekend for the end of the kids’ spring break holiday, so had to rely on the reports of others to verify the quality. Not that I was worried, mind you…I am a designer by trade, and have been designing for print merchandise for decades, but red is a tricky color, can bite you in the butt when you’re not looking, and there are some tricks to pulling it off.

Our shirts arrived today (two black, one white and one gray), and I am happy to report they look spectacular.

The graphics and printing are sharp, the colors bright. Cute kids not included.

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Feeling All 8th Grade-y

Wyoh — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 18:21:00 +0000

I will bet five American dollars that this little thrown-together, spur-of-the-moment, coattail-riding shindig gets triple the media coverage of the Tax Day Tea Parties.

Any ~~suckers~~ takers?

Via Malkin

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Minor Update & Reminder

Wyoh — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 15:20:50 +0000

We’ve made a page specifically to hold the Google map listing all the Tax Day Tea Party locations here. Future maps will be added to this page, as well.

Reminder to all who have purchased SJ Gear: We want to see your stuff! Email your pictures to us, or upload them via the Facebook group.

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Ouch, Baby, Very Ouch

Wyoh — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 15:32:51 +0000

Over on The Line is Here (which, fyi, is no longer updated, kept for archival purposes), we have an entire category of entries devoted to “(Formerly) Great Britain,” illustrating the often jaw-dropping ways government is intruding into the lives of private citizens. It looks every day more and more as if reality is imitating fiction, as Kage Baker readers will attest, particularly the insane Nanny-State laws described in The Life of the World to Come.

And as the Prof has been known to observe on more than one occasion, “Great Britain is lost to us.” Well, maybe not:

Heaven knows my country has its problems. Our Parliament has been vitiated, our local councils scorned. Our public services are increasingly run by and for their employees. Britain is almost the last place in the Western world where you’d want to fall ill. (Labour politicians are trying to fabricate a row about the fact that I made this point on Sean Hannity’s programme, but everyone knows it to be true.) Our people are governed, not by their elected representatives, but by quangoes, human rights judges and Eurocrats.

Then again, each of these problems has its solution. Indeed, several solutions could usefully be imported from your country: dispersed jurisdiction, states’ rights, the separation of power, open primaries, regionalised welfare, elected sheriffs, a local sales tax. I’ve even co-written a book showing how all this could be done in just one 12-month parliamentary session: it’s called The Plan.

And where did the ideology that actuated the American Revolution originate? Who first came up with the idea that laws should be passed only by elected legislators? We did. That idea was Britain’s greatest export, our supreme contribution to the happiness of mankind.

Forget subsequent flag-waving histories of the War of Independence, and go back to what the colonist leaders were arguing at the time. They saw themselves, not as revolutionaries, but as conservatives. In their eyes, they were standing up for what they had assumed to be their birthright as freeborn Englishmen. It was Great Britain, they believed, that was abandoning its ancient liberties.

And here, my friends, is Britain’s tragedy. The things those colonists feared – the levying of illegal taxes, the passing of laws without popular consent, the sidelining of Parliament – have indeed come about. They have come about, not as the result of Hanoverian tyranny, but in our own age, driven by rise of the quangocracy and the EU.

To put it another way, British freedoms thrive best in America, and British patriots should be campaigning to bring them home. I’ll be staying here, Larry, working to repatriate our revolution.

A doff of the Liberty Cap to you, Mr. Hannan, and godspeed.

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