Cartoons from Townhall

My Pictures from the March on DC

Lots of Pictures of the "Tens of Thousands" of "Angry", "Gun-Totting" "Radical" "Mob"

Why it is Laughable to Say "Tens of Thousands"

In 1995 there was something called the Million Man March where an estimated 870,000 people attended.


Now take a look at these two pictures...









Which one was from today?



If you didn't already guess, the first one was from 1995 and the second was from today....
You make your own judgement on how many people were there.

Here is another comparison photo for you:

Million Man March:

9/12 March on Washington:

(Mind you, there are a few difference, there are people in the entire area behind the huge tree on the left side of the picture that wasn't there in '95, I know because I was in that area AND that green area you see in the middle was blocked off by the police. )

March of Washington, Hundreds of Thousands of Patriots

I've never been surrounded by so many people and felt so safe! I've never been around so many American's and felt so proud! I've never been so encouraged! Today was such an amazing experience! It was a monumental moment in our fight against government waste, fraud, corruption, control...etc

I have to say that this March on Washington was not even remotely about a group of "sore losers" (as the Huffington Post claimed) expressing their racist and bi-partisan views. While there I heard and saw discontent about overall spending, fundamental changes, control and the corrupt agendas of the Obama's administration. I didn't hear or see, anything or anyone saying or carrying racial slurs. I even saw a poster with the words "Faces of Fascism" sprawled across it and pictures that included Obama's face alongside Bush's. This wasn't about Obama being elected, it wasn't some racist attempt to harm the president...it was all about claiming our rights as American's to disagree with the govenment.

From the moment we left our hotel room we started seeing the protesters. On the metro, men gave up their seat to women/children/elderly while people sang God Bless America. The metro stops were packed and people continues to cheer, chant and sing as they exited the buildings. When I was on Pennsylvania Avenue there was a SEA of people! I have no words to descirbe the amount of people there...you'll have to wait for the pictures.

The people were so nice, so polite, so friendly that I felt like everyone was someone I had already met! We marched all the way down Pennsylvania Avenue and gathered on the lawns of the Capitol building. My estimate would be somewhere around 750,000 to 1,200,000 people....don't pay attention to the media, look at the pictures and videos and make your own judgement about how many were there!

We walked around for a while, and then pulled out our blanket and sat on the lawn listening to the speakers. Which I must admit, I didn't see once! You could at least hear the speakers from where I was, but not see them. There were some people that couldn't hear very much but that was a blessing since it meant that the protest was a lot bigger than even the organizers imagined!

My mother and I met countless people from Maryland, South/North Carolina, Ohio, Texas, California, Washington State, Michigan, Florida, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, New York, Virginia, Tennessee, Georgia and I know there were a lot more states represented!

I'm trying to get the pictures up as sooon as I can, I have a couple hundred so its taking me a little longer to get an album of some sort going. In the meantime, I'll put up some YouTube vids and article links as they come up.

Information:
Michelle Malkin: Celebrating the 9.12 rallies; Turnout est. at 2 million; Update: How many?
Atlas Shrugs: A Failed Presidency...and its only six months...Millions on the Mall


Some of my favorite pics from the day...

Can't make it to DC on 9-12?

Here is a clever idea.

Do you you have a friend, family member, neighbor, aquaintence who can't go to D.C. for the 9-12 March on Washington?

Well, you can make sure everyone you know is being represented! Just have them give you a picture of themselves and tuck it away in the corners of your posters.

We all know that in theory there are 10 for every 1 going to D.C. this Saturday but wouldn't it be cool to be able to see the faces of those that couldn't make it.

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Are you the one that can't make it to D.C. this weekend? Ask around, you'd be surprised!

BUT If you don't have a friend going to protest you can always email me your picture and I will gladly paste it up there with a few other I have already!

therightwingchick@gmail.com

Glenn Beck's The New Republic: America's Future 8/24 (repost)

Beck is doing a series this week called, The New Republic: America's Future. He will ask the hard questions and talk about the things that no one is talking about. He makes sure to point out that "this show is an opinion show."

I will do my best to detail at least some of the key information that he covers, even if its not on "time" and place the youtube clips below for more detailed information.

Beck does an amazing job of putting a million details into a 1 hour programs and it is sometimes impossible to get everything! So don't forget to tune in all this week at 5 pm on Fox to watch The Glenn Beck program.

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Topic: Economy, Things that don't make sense. Until they start making sense you should not allow them to pass any other bill.

Part 1

Why is no one else asking these questions?

1. Can we survive this debt?
a. If yes, how?
2. What is the rush on Health Care? Cap and Trade?
3. Who is writing these bills?
4. Will Washington read and understand these bills?
5. Why is it grassroots if it is for and astroturf if it is against?

According to USDebtClock.org

• $32, 232 debt per citizen
• $191, 832 liability per citizen
• $23, 812 private debt per citizen
• $306 million interest on debt

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Part 2

Reasonable Questions for Unreasonable Times

• Cloward- Piven Strategy in a Nutshell, 1966 Nation's Article
  
• Basic Idea: Everyone on welfare will wipe out poverty. Accomplish that through community organization overwhelming system that would lead to a new system.
  

• Liberal Democrate, Pat Caddell, Former Democratic Pollster: guest
  - Doesn't believe that the Cloward-Piven Strategy is what's going on even though he thinks we might eventually get there.
  - He wants to know where you get these bills 6 months into the administration when previous administrations were still "finding the bathroom"
  - With the issue of Holder and the CIA, Caddell was asking himself, The country said move on? The President say move on? But extremely liberal organization are pushing this. So I had to ask myself, is Barack Obama really in control? Whose really in control here?
  

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Part 3

Reasonable Questions for Unreasonable Times

• over 3 dozen Czars, special advisers to President
• Van Jones, Green Job's Czar: Board member for APOLLO alliance, the group that wrote the stimulus bill
  
• "I'm basically a community organizer withing White House"-Van Jones
• Bio on Van Jones
  Arrested during the Rodney King Riots
  "I met all these young radical people of color, I mean really radical, Communists and Anarchist, and it was like 'this is what I need to be a part of'"..."by August I was a communist"- Van Jones
  Member of STORM- Radical Revolutionary
  Van Jones work included "mobilzing young people of Color into Militant Direct Action and combin it with more deeply-rooted organizing in our communities."
  "He considers himself a revolutionary just a more effective one"-Van Jones
  
  
  

Questions Glenn Beck Program posed to the White House
Was the White House aware of Van Jones' background in radical politics? If so, did this give the White House any pause?

Response from the White House
Mr. Jones is entirely focus on one policy goal: building clean energy incentives which create 21st century jobs that improve energy efficiency and utilize renewable resources (Statement WH Council on Environmental Quality)

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Part 4

Reasonable Questions for Unreasonable Times

• The role that the APOLLO alliance and Van Jones have in the actual stimulus bill.
  
• Stimulus includes more than 110 billion for Green initiatives.
• APOLLO Alliance, Van Jones put this organization together to promote Environmental blah blah
  
• Apollo aligns big labor social justice groups and the green movement.
• Apollo aligns interest of many deep pocketed left activist groups
• Apollo backers include SEIU ACORN, AFL-CIO, UNION STEELWORKERS + more
• Labor was guaranteed its piece of the pie in stimulus with Davis-Bacon
• Davis Bacon act mandates prevalent wage on Govt-Assisted Fed projects
• ACORN eligible to receive 4.1 billion in stimulus funding
• Pat Caddell: They are looting--It's all about the money
  

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Part 5

Reasonable Questions for Unreasonable Times

• APOLLO Alliance asked for 11 billion for Smart Grid and received 10.9 million. APOLLO Alliance wanted 100 million for job training for Smart Grid. They got more than they asked for in many areas.
• "Hooptee for Hybrids" found in Van Jones' book from a few years ago --the foundation for the Cash for Clunkers.
  
• How did these Czar get vetted? The White House is doing it, supposedly.
  

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Part 6

Reasonable Questions for Unreasonable Times

Day 1

• Can we survive this debt? If yes, how?

• Why the rush on health care reform, cap-and-trade?• Who is writing these bills?

• Will Washington read and understand the bills?

• Why are you called "grassroots" if you are for, but "Astroturf" if you are against?

• Our unfunded liabilities for Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid is close to $100 trillion. Is there any way to pay for these programs without bankrupting America?

• We are in so much debt, why spend more borrowed money on cap-and-trade and health care programs before we stop the flow of red ink?

• The stimulus package funneled billions of dollars to ACORN: How does giving billions of dollars to ACORN stimulate the economy?

• If it was so important for Congress to pass the stimulus bill before they even had time to read it, why has only a fraction of the stimulus money been spent six months later?

• Former President Bush said he had to abandon free market principles in order to save them; how exactly does that work?

• Why won’t member of Congress read the bills before they vote on them?

• Why are citizens mocked and laughed at when they ask their congressman to read the bills before they vote on them?

• Was the "cash for clunkers" program meant to save the Earth or the economy? Did it accomplish either?

• How did Van Jones, a self-proclaimed communist, become a special adviser to the president?

• Did President Obama know of Van Jones’ radical political beliefs when he named him special adviser?

• The Apollo Alliance claimed credit for writing the stimulus bill; why was this group allowed to write any portion of this bill?

• If politicians aren’t writing the bills and aren’t reading the bills, do they have any idea what these 1,000-page plus bills actually impose on the American people?

• If the "public option" health care plan is so good, why won’t politicians agree to have that as their plan?

• If town hall meetings are intended for the politicians to learn what’s on our mind, why do they spend so much time talking instead of listening?

• Politicians are refusing to attend town hall meetings complaining, without evidence, that they are scripted. Does that mean we shouldn’t come out and vote for you since every campaign stop, baby kiss and speech you give is scripted?

• Why would you want to overwhelm the system?

• Is using the economic crises to rush legislation through Congress what Rahm Emanuel meant when he talked about not letting a crisis go to waste?

• What are the president's "czars" paid? What is the budget for their staffs/offices?

U.S. Rep Lincoln Diaz-Balart

Got up early this morning to attend a small meeting with my Representative Lincoln Diaz Balart. He is a Republican so there was definitely a lot of like minded thinking going on with his constituents and staff. He detailed the main issues he has with H.R. 3200, went over some options he is looking into, talked about the issues we are facing as a country, discussed the Cap and Trade Bill as well as talked about the general attitude in Congress.

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Most Important Tidbit I Learned: In HR 3200 on pg 198 it says that funds for the new program will come from Medicare but it goes on to say that "taxes will automatically increase if saving is not achieved." Since Medicare is bankrupt and they are in the red every year, this is a nice way of hiding a 600 billion tax increase.

• Diaz-Balart is looking at an alternative bill, HR # 2520

• Things he and other Republicans are wanting to see in a bill:
  --Provisions for pooling of small business in order to negotiate with insurance companies for better rates and access across state lines.
  --Tax Credits
  --TORT Reform

• One of the attendees was the Ex Insurance Commissioner of FL and he told a story about a woman who worked for him that was unable to pay the approx $300 monthly fee for insurance. So this man recommended the Florida Healthy Kids for her. She applied and was happy with the help she was receiving. 6 months later she came to him and wanted to be enrolled in the insurance program. When asked what happened with the FL Healthy Kids, she said that if she was going to have to be filling out paperwork every 6 months she would rather just pay the $300 in insurance.
  

• Rep. Balart explained that when he left for the Recess he felt it was a done deal and that the recess was a technicality that the Blue Dogs won, but he is starting to hope that we have a chance.
  

• He said he didn't know one Republican supporting Bill HR #3200
  

• "This is an ideological battle." Diaz-Balart

• Out of all the Blue Dogs, there are 50 from Districts that were won by McCain in the election and those are the ones that this bill is going to depend on.
  

• In Florida, Rep. Boyd and Sen. Bill Nelson are two to focus on contacting

• 1/6th of economy is dependent on the Health Care field.
  

• There was a conversation about the Lockerbie bomber and Diaz-Balart believed that "Obama could have stopped it." I also learned that Prince Andrew was a Lobbyist for the Lockerbie Bomber.

Overall it was a good meeting with great information about several topics facing this country. It was nice to meet with my Representative and feel like our voices are being heard even if its not the majority.