Corydon Tea Party

Saturday, November 11th was no only a day to celebrate Veterans throughout the nation, down in Corydon it was a day to celebrate the history of this nation and to protest our current situation.

As the Harrison County GOP reports:

Corydon played host on Saturday to a Tea Party, held on the square on the grounds of the First State Capitol.



It was a beautiful day and between 550 and 600 people turned out to hear a variety of speakers talk about issues facing America, including the First Amendment, the Second Amendment, the right-to-life, health care, cap-and-trade, bailouts, and other topics.

Patriot Paul, of Indianapolis Tea Party fame, read the Declaration of Independence.

More coverage from The Corydon Democrat and The Louisville Courier-Journal. Special thanks to the Harrison County GOP and Scott Fluhr for the photo at left.

A question

Our taxes, whether it's income, sales or property; federal, state or
local, keep going up.

Yet we seem to be getting no proportional increase in services. In
fact, if you look at the core functions of government - security
through the military and police, fire, foreign policy, roads, sewers,
etc. - those services appear to be decreasing in effectiveness.

So we pay more to our government(s) yet we get less in services.

Where is the money going?

Is is just me

Or has the Nobel Peace Prize not only jumped the shark, it jumped
every fish and aquatic mammal at Sea World San Diego?

"The Ego Has Landed."

Kudos to Drudge Report for the fantastic headline.

As you know, I am probably the most knowledgable guy anywhere when it
comes to being rejected by girls. Obama's courtship of the
International Olympic Committee on behalf of Chicago (NOT the US) was
an utterly ridiculous use and waste of presidential prestige.

Which makes the IOC's rejection of Obama the equivalent of the guy
proposing to the girl on the scoreboard and big screen at an NFL game
- and being rejected. Multiplied by about 500.

Exit question: would Obama have gone to the same lengths to push an
Olympic bid for a city like New York, Los Angeles or Dallas, where
Obama cronies would not have directly benefitted?

When is Being "Objective" Not Really Being Objective?

When you write angry, bitter partisan trash like Chris Worden did over at IPOPA in a piece entitled:
Horrific Census Work Death: Would Murder Surprise Anyone?

In it, Worden writes:

As you probably know by now, a U.S. Census worker was found in Big Creek, Kentucky naked and gagged, hanging from a tree with his census badge taped to his body and the word "fed" written across his chest.

The part I like is how the local authorities say they haven't ruled out suicide by Bill Sparkman, the substitute teacher and Boy Scout leader trying to earn extra cash doing door-to-door questioning in an area known for anti-government sentiment.

The Associated Press story features an intriguing suggestion that Mr. Sparkman might have inadvertently come across a marijuana harvest, but it's not clear to me how anybody would have thought the jig was up because somebody came to the door unless they were growing pot in the living room, in which case, one wonders why they would have answered.

If this case is solved, we will learn that a bunch of anti-government crazies who were whipped into a lather by right-wing radio decided they were mad as hell and not going to take it anymore.

We got your message, so you can stop now. You really, really hate America.

To me, this is worse than lefties blaming the Oklahoma City bombing on conservative talk radio, mainly because Worden has attempted to position himself as some sort of reasoned pundit.

The truth is now out, and it appears Worden is no different than the raving lunatics who inhabit places like "Democratic Underground" and "DailyKos". Perhaps his writing skills are a bit bettter, but his rhetoric is unacceptable.

Because of this, I am removing all links to IPOPA from this blog and disassociating myself from IPOPA. Not that I think Worden will either notice or care, but I cannot accept that sort of immaturity.