*Interesting Items - 4/20 by Alex Gimarc * Monday, April 20, 2009 Howdy all, a few Interesting Items for your information. Enjoy - In this issue:
1. Tea Parties 2. Teabagging 3. Drilling 4. WAR 5. DHS Memo 6. Strata Sphere 1. Tea Parties. Over half a million of our countrymen participated in a series of locally organized and executed anti-spending, anti taxation protests last Wednesday. The turnout far exceeded anything the organizers or the opponents on the left expected. Expected leftist attempts to stir up trouble via taxpayer-funded groups like ACORN never materialized significantly enough to get reported after wards. The crowds were large, festive, worried, and very well behaved. The drive-by media was out in force, hectoring, lecturing, and making the leftist case that participants were only a small group of small minded, bible thumping, gun loving, anti-homosexual, right wing lunatics. A reporter from CNN was particularly egregious in her coverage. The response to her assault on those she interviewed was sufficiently significant that CNN is now in full CYA mode, using its corporate muscle to remove You Tube video clips that showed her in action on the air. Her e-mail has been disabled and she is officially on leave. Late Republican party attempts to participate were for the most part rebuffed. Up here, we had crowds of around 1,600 – 1,700 in both Wasilla and Anchorage. I did not hear of any protests in Fairbanks. Nationwide, some Republican congress critters including Orin Hatch (R, UT) were lustily booed and heckled when they attempted to speak at the events. Hatch and others that had voted for and supported the bailout last October did not meet with a kind, adoring crowd. Expect another round of protests on the Fourth of July. This is a true grass roots movement, one that supports smaller government, lower spending, and lower taxation. We are in a time with taxation with representation, and that representation is not paying attention. It will be replaced – one way or another, regardless of DHS memos to the contrary. The big danger of this movement is that it will spin off and form a third party movement. Historically, third parties only serve to divide the vote and install those that oppose them into office; they elect what they despise the worst. A better choice – indeed the only choice - would be to do the same thing the Christians did with the Republican party thirty years ago, that is, take it over. 2. Teabagging. The drive-by media, particularly open homosexuals in the drive-by media like Andrew Sullivan had a fine old time calling names during their coverage of the Tea Party protests. Early on, they started calling the participants “teabaggers” and the engaging in the protests themselves as “teabagging.” The actual term refers to an obscure homosexual sex act that I won’t bother to describe. But I do want to note the almost universal adoption of the term by every single drive by media on-air reporter and commentator. Given the open message coordination channel out of the WH from Rahm Emanuel and David Axlerod into the drive-by media, WH involvement in this name calling is not out of the realm of possibility. Essentially, they were calling those that participated in the protests girly-men, homosexuals or faggots. I thought name calling was supposed to be a bad thing, particularly name calling that in any way involved the self-described Children of the Rainbow. If this is the way they comport themselves, perhaps they are not nearly as mainstream or as nearly well behaved as they would have us pretend that they are. While all this was going on, the drive-bys were laughing uproariously at the inside joke, apparently unknown by the Tea Party participants. However, Limbaugh had it figured out very early in the event, researching the term when it started showing up excessively during coverage of the protests. He gave a heads-up to the listeners of his program early Wednesday. 3. Drilling. A federal appeals court in Washington halted all drilling plans in the Chukchi, Beaufort and Bering Seas Friday. The excuse was the Bush administration had not adequately considered environmental concerns when the areas were opened for oil and natural gas leasing in 2005. Given the new Interior Secretary, who opposes offshore drilling, the green-dominated Obama administration, and the fascist congress, I would not expect to see this decision appealed. The areas involved have tens of trillions of cubic feet of natural gas easily available for domestic production. Lawsuits were brought by Bristol Bay fishermen, environmental groups, and native subsistence whaling interests. I would expect this action to further divide Alaskans among one another as a small number of our neighbors have jumped on board the environmental bandwagon and are actively obstructing energy independence for both this state and the nation. Eventually this sort of thing is going to cause a massive rewrite of the Clean Air, Clean Water, and Endangered Species laws. Sooner would be better than later. Our Boy Senator Mark Begich blamed the entire thing on the Bush administration rushing through offshore leases without adequate environmental study. Of course, there is no level of environmental study that is adequate to the greens as long as it concludes that drilling and production are acceptable. ADN, Sat. 4. WAR. The Alaska Legislature defeated Governor Palin’s nomination of Wayne Anthony Ross, WAR for the next Attorney General of the State of Alaska. This marks the first time that a governor’s nomination for Attorney General was defeated by the legislature. It also marks a hardening of attitudes against Palin in the legislature. Democrats voted en masse against Ross, with the excuses being a combination of his opposition to a special right for rural subsistence, anti-gay marriage comments, and comments regarding an ongoing food fight between Palin and senate democrats over appointment of a replacement for Senator Kim Elton, who resigned from the senate to go work for the Obama administration. Elton was one of the ringleaders for the democrats during the Troopergate scandal during last year’s presidential election. He has been rewarded. There were also nine Republicans that voted against the nomination, including the Speaker of the House and the Senate President. Palin did not actively push the nomination, so she takes some of the blame also. Ross would have been able to use the resources of the state to declare and conduct a war in the courts against the greens and the feds that are systematically shutting down all development in the state. It is not clear that the next appointee will be able to do so. 5. DHS Memo. Janet Napolitano’s Department of Homeland Security (DHS) rushed out a nine page anti-conservative screed, describing the terrorist threat to the nation caused by opposition to Obama’s and congress’ spending policies, gun control policies, and anything else the administration may come up with. The memo was an unclassified summary of a yet to be released classified report. It slammed single issue voters on the right; warned against manufacture of a whole new army of Timothy McVeighs out of returning war veterans; and talked about anger, hate and radicalization on the right. Interestingly enough, the memo consistently tied the term “terrorist” to all manner of conservative concerns. This comes from the same agency that has pointedly refused to refer to our Islamist enemies as terrorists. The memo was rushed out the day before the Tea Party protests took place, likely in an attempt to divert attention from the protests. It attempts to provide the legal foundation that will redefine any and all conservative opposition to all things out of the fascist congress and Obama as terrorism. Once you redefine the opposition as terrorists, you then can set the stage for dealing with them in ways outside the political process. And the left wonders why gun and ammunition sales are way up since November 4 last year. As the week progressed, Secretary Napolitano made the rounds of the cable channels defending the contents. She did not do all that well, but she did not back off the conclusions either. The memo also brought demands for her resignation, letters from members of congress to DHS and President Teleprompter, and a demand for an apology from the Veterans of Foreign Wars. It represents what he thinks of conservatives and what he and his leftist buddies would like to do to conservatives. This attempt at diverting attention from the Tea Party protests will backfire significantly and ratchet up organized opposition on the right precisely at the time when the fascist congress and the Obama administration want to push through another round of big government, intrusive laws, rules, regulations and judicial nominations. 6. Strata Sphere. Blogs and bloggers change a bit over the years as interests change and events take place. As with most things, we see what someone is made of when the heat is turned up. Most real conservatives do very well, and are remarkably toughened by the fire. Charles Johnson of Little Green Footballs and Michelle Malkin are two recent notable examples. Others don’t do so well and swing to the Dark Side of the Force, withdrawing from the battlefield of ideas and liberty under the specious notion that there is no difference between the left and the right. The most recent of the latter approach is AJ Strata of the Strata Sphere. This blog is pretty good in the topics of global warming and the war on terror. However, we Americans in recent years have been swinging more and more toward regionalism, where we are interested in the things of our particular region of the country rather than the interests of the whole. Historically regionalism waxes and wanes based on the external threat. External threat is perceived to be low these days, so we turn inward and concentrate instead on regional differences. In the Strata Sphere’s case, the regionalism is that area close to the Beltway, northern Virginia and western Maryland. When you hang out with those that are invested in the growth of power, scope and size of the federal government, it, like all narcotics, is quite difficult to resist. Over the course of the last year or so, the writer, who by the way was a McCainiac, has attacked conservatives with an increasing frequency and ferocity. Last week, the writer announced that he was no longer a conservative. The tone of the announcement was almost religious in tone. Yet what happens when you live in an area infested by the left and decide you are not longer conservative – for whatever reason? Inevitably you will become a leftist, if for no other reason than a desire to get along with your new found friends. Expect the leftward drift of that blog continue, with a corresponding exponential loss in useful and interesting content. More later - - AG "If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen." - Samuel Adams, speech at the Philadelphia State House, August 1, 1776. Note: Interesting Items can be found at the following locations: The Alaska Standard http://thealaskastandard.com/ MatSuValley News http://www.matsuvalleynews.com District 28 http://www.dist28.com/ subscriber and supporter Elbert Collins at http://thatselbert.wordpress.com/ and the home page: http://home.gci.net/~agimarc Rod Martin's The Vanguard site is also a long-time supporter of this column: http://www.thevanguard.org/ _,_._.,___ ------------------------------ *Shout Out* ** *It's a long time between April 15 and July 4. If you have any Tea Party News, we will be gladly pass it on. 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