by Smitty
Ladd goes there, and gets his L. Frank Baum on:
9/12 Video: Tito ‘The Builder’ Munoz
The peroration of the best speech of the day:
9/12 DC Rally
by Smitty
UPDATE 1530 ET: More photos by Stacy:
Andrew Breitbart talks to some of those black Tea Party activists the MSM say don’t exist.
Dave Weigel of Slate and Michael Moynihan of Reason magazine say, “We’re the media your mother warned you about.”
Sarah D. is another lovestruck Stephen Kruiser groupie.
UPDATE: Tito “The Builder” Munoz video.
Welcome, Instapundit readers!
[updated @1316] America’s youth speaks!
CAPITOL HILL–First strike crowd pan, at 11 AM, with a couple of hours to the rally.
Stacy is pacing about, muttering, erroneously in my opinion, that Beck’s Restoring Honor rally was ill-conceived and will hurt attendance. Rather a narrow view, that. The light mist falling is supposed to taper off around noon.
DaTechGuy just arrived, and reports a throng at the Washington Monument.
The good news about the Tea Parties is that there is no central coordination. The bad news about the Tea Parties is that the entropic influence of Erik Telford cannot be stopped.
Back at you at noon. Rain is abating, by the power of my pink Hawaiian print. The crowd down at the Washington monument is supposed to commence marching here. I predict a crowd size similar to the Kill the Bill Rally a couple of centuries ago in March.
1300 crowd pan:
Updates to follow.
They Told Us There Was Going to Be a Huge Rally at the Mall in Washington . . .
. . . so I said, “Quick, Smitty! Let’s go to the Mall!”
We didn’t find a huge rally, although Smitty enjoyed his Starbucks coffee and was impressed by the 70% discounts at the Aeropostale fall fashion sale.
However, as dedicated citizen-journalists, we were determined to keep hunting until we found the real story . . .
This kind of sexist exploitation of women — advertised for sale in their underwear! — deserves to be exposed as misogynistic patriarchal oppression. The management of Victoria’s Secret, however, asked our undercover investigative team to leave the store.
Having failed to find the “huge rally” at the mall, we checked our directions and discovered that the event we wanted to cover was actually the 9/12 Taxpayer March from the Washington Monument to the U.S. Capitol. Tabitha Hale explained that this is what they call the “mall” in Washington.
Smitty’s just hoping they have an Aeropostale store . . .
Rule 5 Sunday
by Smitty
Let me be clear: it was modern art.
How, thought I, could one describe the current Administration’s economic policy using only half a pizza on a stand in an Italian restaurant? The answer proved to be lifting off one more piece, so that the remaining half gravity-checked itself on the deck next to Stacy McCain, whose attention threatened to divert from the Alabama game on the telly to that distant thing known as reality, but then held onto the game.
Nevertheless, the half a pizza on the deck, crying to be bailed out at the expense of generations unborn, was the most profound thing I could come up with at that time and place. What can I say, Mrs. Other McCain? I tried.
Oh, you didn’t come here for crack-head attempts to spin an outburst of idiocy on my part? OK, on with the show.
- American Power:
- Natalie Portman, who, after Slashdot, really doesn’t interested me unless petrified and covered in hot grits.
- Bikini Moments
- Jewel
- Theo Spark:
In danger of drowning Rule 5 Sunday, NTTAWWT. - Victoria Azarenka
- Bedtime Totty, though the jim-jams are a trifle dodgy.
- Thursday Totty
- Bedtime Totty
- Red Friday Totty
- Today’s Weather
- Jaymes Swimwear
- Saturday Totty
- Patriotic Totty
- Bath Night
- Once And Future World Revolutionary, having a ball. See what she did there?
- Book Burning
- Hook Up
- Major Retreat
- Always Remember
- Lady Gaga wha?
- Stray Cats, ‘Rock This Town’. Go, Setzer.
- Dorothy Lamour
- Self portrait of Paco gardening in the buff?
- Gwyneth Paltrow damage control.
Completely Unofficial Survey Indicates John Dennis Surge In CA-8
by Smitty
While not as weird as a Dread Zeppelin cut, Billy Bob’s survey effort over at Birch Tree Sustainable Studios shows that John Dennis, while as big a longshot as my local Patrick Murray candidacy, is worth every bit of support that can be mustered. If the trend continues, and the Tea Parties turn out the vote, the GOP could be faced with a moment where it has to put its Federalism where its mouth is. I yearn for that.
Previously:
Senator Jim DeMint Rocks
by Smitty (via Cubachi on Twitter)
DeMint is a statesman. He, along with a few dozen other Senators and a few score in the House are the best hope for the country. This Weekly Standard profile offers a window into the Progressive rot that must be expunged, dating to DeMint’s Representative days:
But when he arrived in Washington to assume his House seat, no one would have pegged him as a troublemaker. He was elected president of his House class and regularly attended seminars given by the House GOP leadership.
But something happened to DeMint in these leadership seminars that would change the course of his life. The gatherings were entirely focused on the means for concentrating and preserving political power: How to milk K Street lobbyists for political contributions; how to place earmarks into appropriations bills so they would be deemed essential to the folks back home.
One day, DeMint had had enough. He rose up in a seminar to question why representatives of the party of smaller government were so focused on earmarks and political fundraising. Why aren’t we talking about reforming the federal tax code or addressing the health care mess?
Midst laughter, someone shouted, “You’ll catch on to the system, DeMint.” But DeMint never did.
The Constitution is predicated upon an informed, attentive electorate. The internet has been a catalyst for the Tea Parties to become informed. The Ruling Class is cordially invited to step aside.
Kudos to DeMint for being like Lot, and managing to stay righteous amongst the wicked, as opposed to Lott, who seems to have had less success with that.
BlogCon: Paparazzi!
Caleb Howe tries to help Jason Mattera think of a better BlogCon pickup line than this one:
John Hawkins was trying this one on everyone, including a couple of cocktail waitresses at the Rocket Bar in Chinatown.
Cheryl Prater at the FreedomWorks reception, where she had to explain to John Hawkins that she is not Sissy Willis.
Cheryl and her friends employ the “I’m-Not-Sissy-Willis” buddy system.
With Brian Sutton of The Right Scoop.
Sarah Desprat of FreedomWorks found herself surrounded by admirers, even though she’s not Sissy Willis.
Bloggers chow down at FreedomWorks reception.
With Duane Lester of All-American Blogger.
Chris Renner‘s proximity to Adrienne Royer demonstrates the obvious: Chicks dig hats.
BlogCon Fever — Catch It!
Jim J. of AnthropoCon and Amanda Carpenter. Insert “Beauty and the Beast” punchline here.
With Nice Deb and Jim Hoft of Gateway Pundit.
Stephen Kruiser and friends develop contingency plans in case someone is foolish enough to start talking about “net neutrality.”
Susannah Fleetwood brought her favorite lawyer to BlogCon. His name is Chris Fleetwood. Wow, what a coincidence, huh?
Cord Blomquist is a ninja master of blog-pimping.
Her name is actually Rachel Semmel, but she managed to convince Jason Mattera that she’s Sissy Willis.
UPDATE: Welcome, Instapundit readers! Also linked in Duane Lester’s “BlogCon Photo Dump,” which features the lovely Tania Gail of Midnight Blue, who spent an hour yesterday trying to convince John Hawkins that she is not — repeat, not — Sissy Willis.
UPDATE II: They Told Us There Was Going to Be a Huge Rally at the Mall in Washington . . .