D.C. Hell on Earth. DemonPass in; Constitution out.

Nuff' said.


-Kook
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Oh happy day...

Could it be? After repeated buzzkills and fizzles this past year are we about to win one? Over half in and it is Brown 53% Marta Marcy Martha Marsha whatever Coakley 47%


Update: now it is Brown 53% Croakley 46% with almost 70% of the vote counted.

UPDATE. SHE CONCEDES!!





-Kook
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While we slept by Feed your ADHD

I am reposting this because I could not express what I am feeling any better. Dr. Dave, aka Snarky Basterd, already did the work for us.
Feed Your ADHD: while we F****** slept.




While we slept this morning, the real mobsters, the ones dishing out and accepting bribes in the District of Criminals, completely fucked our country along straight party lines (60-39) … with the first vote on Christmas Eve in more than a century.
Atlas just shrugged.
And the funny thing is, we didn’t sleep. We marched on our capitol buildings during the spring, leading up to TEA Party day on April 15. We screamed during townhall meetings and at local Congressional and Senate offices all summer long. We marched on Washington a million-plus strong in September. We stormed Congressional offices in the fall. We added more than a million signatures to a petition to Congress to stop this madness. We phoned and we blogged and we emailed and we snail mailed and we faxed and we twittered and we bled patriotism, pleading with them:
STOP WHAT YOU’RE DOING AND USE YOUR LAST BRAIN CELL TO COME TO YOUR SENSES.
And they didn’t hear a fucking thing.
I don’t know how much more awake we could have been. I don’t know how much louder we could have screamed. I don’t know how many more ways we could have made our opposition known.
In the end, it didn’t matter. They think they know better than us. And now it’s done.
And that’s fine. Let them have their perceived notion of power. Let them slink back home for Christmas and get drunk on the stinking fumes of their “victory.” Let them dance wildly in the shimmery mirage of the “history” they’ve made.
Because now the real fight begins. The fight for November 2010 and 2012 and every forthcoming election thereafter. The fight to send these fuckers back to their homes, tattered and broken, never to be heard from again.
Be bloody angry. Let it burn in you. Let it harden your resolve. Use it to carry on and maintain your focus. Keep it close and keep it ready for when you need it, for when it will be your time to have your voice truly heard.
Get out your checkbooks and give to the organizations that will try to stop this un-Constitutional legislation in the courts. Beat the bushes and find real conservative candidates who are truly willing to honor the Constitution and write them checks and speak out on their behalf.
Then, when the time comes, scream so loudly with your finger in the voting booth that the Socialists will be shocked when the 7 p.m. newscasts declare them extinct.
We’re coming for you, fatcats. Enjoy your good times. Your days of thievery are done. Forever.



-Kook
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"The Tea Party" party

Doesn't this sound great:

The "Tea Party" Is Now Official in Florida

Posted by Stephanie Condon

(AP Photo/George Ruhe)

The "Tea Party" is now an official political party in Florida.

An Orlando lawyer named Frederic O'Neal has registered the Tea Party with the office of the Florida Secretary of State, Politicoreports, and intends to run candidates against both Republicans and Democrats in state and national races.

"The current system has become mired in the sludge of special interest money that seeks to control the leadership of both parties. It's time for real change," O'Neal reportedly said in a press release.

One of Florida's most prominent Republicans, Gov. Charlie Crist, already faces a conservative challenger in his bid to become the GOP's 2010 Senate nominee. Conservative Marco Rubio is gaining credibility among the state's conservatives, and has won the endorsement of the anti-tax, pro-limited government Club For Growth.

The split among conservatives and moderates in the Florida GOP is part of a larger debate within the party about the future of its identity.

O'Neal, the new chair of the Tea Party in Florida, reportedly compared his party to the Conservative Party in New York's 23rd District -- another example of the GOP's moderate-conservative fissure. In a special election to represent New York's 23rd congressional district, Conservative Party candidate Doug Hoffman drove out the local Republican Party candidate, Dede Scozzafava. The district is Republican-leaning, but the Democratic candidate ultimatelyprevailed over the Conservative in last Tuesday's election.

Even though the conservative lost in that race, "tea partiers" and other conservatives "remain convinced they're on the right side of history," CBSNews.com's Charles Cooper wrote. "And in writing down their morning-after election analyses... they also delivered a hard-edged message to the Republican establishment: Get behind us or get out of the way."

The Tea Party has been registered with the state since August and is one of 32 minor political parties certified in Florida, Politico reported.

Warning: this so called "tea party" party is Bovine Scatology at it's finest. This so called party was founded by leftists in an attempt to split the votes between Independents and Republicans in the upcoming midterm elections in 2010. Do not buy into this scam or the scam artists behind it as our nation's future is at stake. They realize that polling indicates roughly 30% of Americans would vote for an independent or "tea party" affiliated candidate, 20% would vote Republican and 38% would vote Democrat. If they can capitalize on this split, the 38% voting Democrat wins, but if the 3o% and the 20% split between independent leaning and Republican leaning candidates are even close to being unified the "Party of NO" wins. Dems have used this to attack Republicans falsely since Obama's selection, and yet I believe it could be a winning idea if used properly, but that is subject matter for my next post.

Awakenings

We have all talked of the lull due to the recess, and have spoken of it as the calm before the storm. Do not be deceived. They know we are coming and BOTH sides are preparing for war. The accounts in history are many and describe clearly the calmness before the battle is joined, when both sides make ready. Just because the reportage in the news lately has not drawn our immediate ire, do not fall prey to the calming effect that time has on our demeanors. There is a reason for each and every blogger who starts to put thoughts to screen. We are no different in purpose than any of the founders who wrote pamphlets and columns in newspapers and letters to friends, except they were more educated, eloquent, and enlightened than we. There is also a reason that blogs such as mine and all of yours have attracted others who may not feel the compulsion to vent their frustration and anger at a screen, or to persuade others to the truth. These people want to know and to understand and they too share the frustration, the anger, the angst, and the sadness of what they see. The need for this assembly in our capital on 9.12 grows ever more urgent despite the apparent calmness in the news.

This demonstration is to force the awakening of the ignorant and the apathetic in our country of what is transpiring, so that first one thing then another provokes a united rumbling and resounding response that can no longer be ignored. I do not care if it continues to be ignored by those holding the reins of power now, they do so at their peril. Our goal should be to awaken the rest of the People. Awaken them as we were awakened after we watched two towers fall. It has become more than a struggle on a single issue where we must find common ground. This is a struggle to take back control of our once blessed Republic and snatch her from the precipice from which the Washington elite have positioned her. I have a single comment I ask you all to think on; Those who represent us, (and I use the term “represent” loosely), have never had a problem agreeing on those issues that increase their power and thicken their wallets.

I couldn’t care less whether they claim to be Republican or Democrat, the identity they select to disguise their avarice is irrelevant to our primary concern…they no longer listen to Us, they no longer fear Us. We are no longer being represented by them, and in so doing, they forget themselves. They do not rule by fiat; they do not have a divine birthright no matter what their last name might be. They are not ordained by the creator. They are simply people, men and women, who were ostensibly chosen to go forth and do OUR business as opposed to theirs. They do now draw their authority to rule over us from nothing we have consented to give. They trample our contract,(The Constitution), and label us AstroTurf, Bitter Clingers, Domestic Terrorists, Hicks, Hillbillies, Homophobes, Kooks, a Mob, Nazis, Nutjobs, Rednecks, Rubes, Racists, TeaBaggers, Zealots, and every other imaginable and demeaning term their arrogance can devise when we proclaim their divergence from and hold them accountable to their original oath and question their allegiance.

Today, tomorrow and every day forward we must not allow them to divide us on the petty and insignificant issues that divide us into smaller groups that they can handily eradicate or set against one another.

I ask you to unite on the singular issue most glaringly despicable in the Capitol: their dismissal of Us. They want us to believe that they are no longer answerable to the American people or our laws.

But. They. Are.

Glenn Beck just confirmed

He is going to be you know where,  you know when.

9.12.2009

and so will I.

912 events in DC

The Liberty Summit will be a huge gathering of limited government activists and leaders from around the country. It will feature guest speakers and panels on the biggest issues of the day. We are deciding between the DC Armory and the Shakespeare Theatre.

Here are some of the potential speakers for the Liberty Summit, which will be held the morning of Thursday, September 10th.

Dick Armey - FreedomWorks

C. Boyden Gray - FreedomWorks

Yaron Brook - Ayn Rand Center for Individual Liberty

Chris Chocola - Club for Growth

John Tate - Campaign for Liberty

Michael Cannon - Cato Institute

Dan Mitchell - Cato Institute

Sen. Jim DeMint
Rep. Ron Paul
Rep. Jeb Hensarling
Rep. Jeff Flake
Rep. Doug Lamborn
Rep. Virginia Foxx
Rep. Marsha Blackburn
Rep. Tom Price
Rep. Scott Garrett
Rep. Mike Pence
Rep. Michele Bachmann
Rep. Paul Broun

I have already registered to attend. Tickets are free and there are roughly 500 left. Anyone going to DC will find it well worth your while to attend this one. I suspect that some bigger names may be there too. Maybe someone who is on radio and last name ends with a "B"

STAND UP!!!!!

Picture yourself as a soldier in Iraq or Afganisistan. 2 or 3 of your best friends have laid down their lives for with no knowledge of your family. You are doing all this because you believe that the folks back home in small town America deserve the opportunity to start that small company, or invent that new product that will make everybody's' lives a little easier or you believe that the family with 3 kids in elementary school should be able to raise their children in decent neighborhoods with running water and electricity and maybe even a dog. Now you have just signed for your third tour, and now we have a pResident who apologizes for everything we have ever done. He shows no support for the amazing accomplishments we have achieved in Iraq or Afghanistan and yet you hear that Americans will be marching on Washington for their shameful activities committed by our elected officials over the last decade. You realize that America does stand behind you. You realize that America does feel a just a touch of what you have gone through since 2003. Then September 12th 2009 comes along and no one is there. No protests. No tea Party supporters, no nothing. What would you say to that soldier who has stood up for america for almost a decade yet you couldn't stand up for a single weekend. How could you look him in the eyes knowing you could have spoken out, could have exercised the right of free speech his friends died for but you didn't have time or you wanted to see American Idol? Our Brave men and women have given up lifetimes, friends, family all so that we could have the opportunity to stand up for what is right. Is it too much for them to ask for us to stand up for a single weekend?Join us in DC on 9-12. Join us in standing up for responsible government and personal liberty and freedom.

Leaving on a Jet Plane...

Plane Tickets? Check.
Hotel Room for 4 nights? Check.
Figuring out how to get around on the DC Metro System...uhhh working on it.
But I am going to be there on 9-9-09.

Ok, who else is going?

Making a difference???

I just ran through the list of tea parties for Florida (my home state) for July 4th on Resist.net. There are only 38. 38 different tea parties in different cities for July 4th?...wow. That gives me alot of choices on where to go for the 4th. I promise I will be at one, probably one of the larger ones. This is a fairly liberal area where I live, although N.Florida is very conservative. I am pleasantly surprised to see this many choices and this many people organizing to protest. Based on recent polls, I bet there are just as many choices or bigger tea parties in KOOKs neck of the woods simply because pResident Obama has plummeted in the polls in the midwest. Is it possible we are making a difference after all?

For those of you who cannot fly to NY on a whim and someone else’s dime.

You too can be like the Big O

Below is a synopsis of the play that the Pres and Michelle My Belle went to see. Looks like more of the same to me. Doesn’t surprise me in the least. He defines himself this way, he lives in the past. Even though he is POTUS he still has to dwell on his ethnicity. Well 50% of it anyway. If you ask me the damn thing is scary. But it has all of Big O’s favorite things except Fritters and Pie. It talks about Songs, trains, slaves, oppression, struggle, ghosts, fathers, loaning money, evil white people, evil capitalists, wild religions, and sacrifice (of pigeons).

Joe Turner's Come and Gone is a play by American playwright, August Wilson, the second installment of his decade-by-decade chronicle of the African-American experience,The Pittsburgh Cycle. … which chronicled the struggles and lives of African-Americans in the 20th century. Joe Turner’s Come and Gone is set in the second decade of the 20th century and chronicles the lives of a few freed former enslaved African-Americans in the North. The play deals with issues of race and reconstruction, but also more broadly examines finding your personal identity and finding your way in life. With many former enslaved Africans moving North looking for jobs and security after the emancipation, there was racial tension between the newly freed former enslaved Africans and many of the white working class and the immigrants coming into the country looking for the same jobs that the African-Americans were looking for. This play acknowledges this conflict and shows how certain characters dealt with the problem.

Scene 1- The audience is introduced to Seth Holly’s boardinghouse, where Seth and his wife Bertha are in the kitchen watching Bynum in the backyard. Seth is complaining to Bertha about Bynum’s strange spiritual activities. Bertha tells Seth to let him be as he isn’t bothering anyone. They also talk about Jeremy, a young man staying in the boardinghouse, getting arrested the night before for supposedly being drunk in public. Seth then has a monologue about the poor situation that the freed slaves are in after traveling up North. He worries that the African-Americans are too naïve and that all the promises of jobs in the North will be taken by the poor white Americans. Then Rutherford Selig, the People Finder, comes to order dustpans from Seth, a maker of pots and pans. Then Bynum talks about an adventure that he once took up river where he found the “shiny man”, a man he found on the road that offered to explain to him the Secret of Life. He had a spiritual encounter with the man, and sees the ghost of his father, telling him to find his song in life. His song, he later explains, is the Binding Song, which he uses to bind people to one another. Selig leaves and Jeremy enters, and after getting a scolding from Seth, he tells him that the white cops came and picked him up for no reason and that he was, in fact, not drunk at all. Then Herald Loomis and his daughter Zonia enter, looking for a place to stay for the week. They reveal that he is looking for his wife, Martha. After Seth shows them to their room, Jeremy relates a story about his guitar-playing abilities and how he is wary of playing for white men or money because of a bad experience. Bynum convinces Jeremy to go down to a bar to play for some money. Seth confides in the Bynum and Bertha his lack of confidence in Loomis, and thinks that he is a “mean looking” man and he doesn’t want to help him find his wife because of it. After this Mattie Campbell enters, looking for Bynum because she has heard that he can “fix things”. Her man, Jack has up and left her, but she wants him to come back. Bynum tells her that he can only bind people that wish to be bound; that she is better off just letting him find his own path in life. Jeremy intervenes and suggests that Mattie stays with him as to cure both of their loneliness. The scene ends with Zonia and Reuben, the little boy from next door. Reuben discloses Bynum’s odd tendencies to Zonia and tells her a story about his friend Eugene that used to sell pigeons to Bynum so he could use their blood in his rituals.

Scene Two- It is a week later and the audience again finds Seth and Bertha eating breakfast in the kitchen. Seth is still worried about Loomis’s intentions and doesn’t like the look of the man. He suspects that he knows who Loomis’s wife is but won’t tell him because he is worried about what he will do once he finds her. Selig returns to the house to pick up the dustpans that Seth has made for him and Loomis pays him to try to find his wife because Bynum tells him that Selig is the People Finder.

Scene Three- It is the next day and yet again we find Seth and Bertha in the kitchen. Seth is upset because he can’t find anyone to front him the money to make a new factory for making pots and pans. Then Bynum and Jeremy talk about the importance of being in love with a woman and how being with a woman is all a man needs in life. Then the last boarder enters, Molly Cunningham. She is also looking for a place to stay because she missed her train to Cincinnati. Jeremy takes a liking to Molly’s appearance.

Scene Four- Again they are in the kitchen of the boarding house when the scene opens. The group has just finished eating breakfast when Seth suggests they “juba”- an African style call and response song and dance. Loomis enters and demands that they stop the singing. He goes into an episode where he talks in tongues and falls to the floor. He starts recalling a religious hallucination and Bynum has to calm him down and take him upstairs.

Act Two

Scene 1- Seth informs Loomis that he has to leave the boardinghouse because he thinks that Loomis was drunk when he had his episode. Seth tells him that he runs a respectable house and won’t put up with any shenanigans. Loomis and Zonia have until the next Saturday to leave the house. Bynum, Molly and Mattie are left in the kitchen where they talk about how children often follow in their parents’ footsteps. Molly asserts that she will never follow her father’s path and that she will always be a strong, independent woman. Mattie leaves for Doc Goldblum’s, where she cleans and irons for work. Jeremy returns to the house from work and reveals to Seth that he would not give a white foreman 50 cents to keep his job so he was fired. Seth thinks it was an idiotic choice because now he is out of a job and no longer makes $8 a month. Molly tells Jeremy that he could easily get his job back by simply returning to work. Jeremy then asks Molly to travel around with him because he needs a woman that is independent and knows what she wants. Molly agrees but refuses to return to the South.

Scene Two- Bynum and Seth are playing a game of dominoes and Bynum is singing a song about Joe Turner. Loomis asks Bynum to stop because he is uncomfortable with the song. Bynum reveals that he knew all along that Loomis was taken away by Joe Turner and that he needs to find his song in order to start his life again. Loomis relates his story to Bynum and Seth, telling them that he was taken by Joe Turner’s men while trying to preach to some gambling African-Americans. He spent seven years on Turner’s chain gang and only survived by the thought of his wife and daughter. He tells them that after seven years he returned home to find that his wife had left and his daughter was living with her grandmother. The scene ends with Loomis being skeptical of Bynum and his voodoo abilities.

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Scene Five- In the final scene Loomis and Zonia leave the boardinghouse as it is Saturday. Bertha tells Mattie that all she needs in life is love and laughing- which they all start to do. Then Martha Pentecost [Loomis] enters with Selig looking for Loomis and Zonia. Loomis reenters with Zonia and he recounts the last decade of his life; his search for her and the heartache it has caused him. Martha tells him that she has moved on with her life because she couldn’t wait for him any longer. Martha also reveals that she had Bynum put a binding spell on her and Zonia and that is why they have come to find each other. Loomis goes into a rage and pulls out a knife. He denounces his Christian background and slashes his chest. The stage directions read “Having found his song, the song of self-sufficiency, fully resurrected, cleansed and given breath, free from any encumbrance other than the workings of his own heart and the bonds of the flesh, having accepted the responsibility for his own presence in the world, he is free to soar above the environs that weighed and pushed his spirit into terrifying contractions.” He leaves and the play ends with Bynum yelling “Herald Loomis, you shining! You shining like new money!”

Character analysis

Seth Holly- Born of free African-American parents in the North, Seth seems to be the only static figure in the play. He has some security in the fact that he owns a home and has steady job that none of the other characters can claim. He is set in his ways; never losing his composure and always running a respectable house. He even condemns other African-Americans that do not follow this kind of lifestyle. He is economically very capitalistic and does whatever is necessary to stay afloat; including working night shifts and odd craftsman jobs he can pick up from Selig. He understands his world on a very literal level, and doesn’t aspire to become more than he is.

Bertha Holly- As Seth’s wife, Bertha is also pretty static. She knows her place in the hierarchy of the boardinghouse, yet still has some say in the decision making and will often voice her opinion. Her happy-go-lucky nature and motherly care makes Bertha the character that some seek out for advice. In the end, she tells Mattie that the only two things you need in your life are love and laughter; the things that she has had faith in and have helped her get by.

Bynum Walker- Also comfortable with his identity as an African conjurer, Bynum is one of few characters that understands his own identity. Known as a “Binder”, Bynum was taught his “song” early in his life and has continued to sing it ever since. At the complete opposite spectrum of Seth, Bynum is still completely in touch with his African roots and often performs rituals and tribal traditions. Convinced of the fact that everyone has their own song, Bynum perpetuates the theme of identity and our constant search for it.

Rutherford Selig- The only white character in the play, Selig is a descendent of white men that brought slaves over the Atlantic to be sold in America. Known as the people finder, Bertha is extremely suspicious of Selig, claiming that he only finds people that he takes away in the first place. This suspicion of white peddler perpetuates the mistrust between the races in the North and histories repetition. Selig’s identity is well enforced with the history of his ancestors and the professions that he and they chose.

Herald Loomis-Having been enslaved by Joe Turner for seven years, Loomis has completely lost his way in life. His wife moved to the North and left him with his young daughter. His world as a deacon of his church, father, husband, land owner, was completely destroyed when he was abducted. As Bynum later points out, Loomis has lost his song to Turner and needs to find himself through his own identity, not by identifying with his previous life. In the end he finds his song, an independent, self-sufficient song that he can sing proudly.

Molly Cunningham- Molly represents the opposite of Mattie. Molly is young, attractive, and independent. Unwilling to let herself be told what to do anymore, by anyone, Molly is convinced that she will never return to the South and refuses be associated with anything that her old life entailed.

Martha Pentecost- Like Molly, Martha is an independent African-American woman. She decided to leave the South after she felt that Herald could no longer have been alive. She attempted to escape the racial persecution, but still finds it In the North. For strength, she rejects her African identity and turns to Christianity. She does what it takes to ensure her self preservation and remains a strong, self-sufficient woman until the end.

Theme/ideas

The major themes in Joe Turner’s Come and Gone are identity, migration, and racial discrimination..

Music

….The juba is described as:

“(The Juba is reminiscent of the ring shouts of the African slaves. It is a call and response dance. BYNUM sits at the table and drums. He calls the dance as other clap hands, shuffle, and stomp around the table. It should be as African as possible, with the performers working themselves up into a near frenzy. The words can be improvised, but should include some mention of the Holy Ghost.”

This song is a way for the African-Americans to relate with one another and continue their relationship with their heritage. Finally, Bynum is often seen and heard singing throughout the show. The first time he sings is to lighten the mood from the work they are doing. Then later he sings about Joe Turner kidnapping slaves and forcing them to work on his chain gang. Bynum’s singing is a characterization of his wisdom and age. He seems to know a song for all occasions and characters. Not only does he physically sing on stage, Bynum’s character also refers to “finding your song”. Music is so important to this man that each person’s soul and purpose in life is characterized by their song.

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Joe Turner's Come and Gone - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia