This'n'That; February 5th[TeaParty;IRS;AmericanTerrorists]

Tea Party "Convention" To Make A Profit [While I'd pay dearly to see a Governor Palin speaking engagement, I think the costs involved are way too steep for the average family; for this working guy; for the movement itself. What started out as a bunch of individual patriots and individualists is seemingly turning into another for-profit endeavor like the obamacRATic or RepublicRATic political parties. If the Tea Party movement continues along this path, chances are really good that it'll become another political party to replicate the pollution vomited by the aforementioned parties. ]

The convention in Nashville has taken a beating for more than a month from other Tea Party groups and some Republican leaders for charging a $549 registration fee plus airfare and hotel. Two groups, the American Liberty Alliance and the National Precinct Alliance, are boycotting the meetings. And Reps. Michele Bachmann and Marsha Blackburn withdrew from speaking over concerns from the House Ethics Committee about members supporting a commercial venture - a taboo under House Rules. "I spoke to Marsha yesterday and she wishes that she weren't getting mixed signals from the House Ethics Committee," says Mark Skoda, a Memphis Tea Party activist who has become the convention's unofficial spokesman. Nashville Tea Party leaders Judson and Sherry Phillips, who organized the event, have made no secret that their group, Tea Party Nation, is for-profit. But they argue that any profits are given back to the cause. "I don't run around in a sack," says Skoda, in a tan sports jacket, a black turtleneck and black slacks. "It's a misnomer that in order to be a grassroots activist, you have to be a pauper." The genteel atmosphere of the first day of the convention was a far cry from the angry, raucous crowds usually associated with Tea Party protests. Certainly one must have some means to attend the convention. Located next to the Grand Ole Opry arena and miles of outlet shops, the resort features five restaurants, a spa and 47 acres of buildings and botanical gardens all encased under domed glass; there's even a river walk and a "show-boat" tour. Basic rooms start at $149 a night for parking-lot views plus $25 a day for parking. Attendees were mostly white and older; there were more women than men. Some were Republicans, more were Independents. To a person they loved Sarah Palin. A couple were even Democrats. "We're been good friends with [Democratic Louisana Senator] Mary Landrieu for years," says Glen Williams, 73. He and his wife JoAnn left their cattle ranch in Winsboro, Louisiana to attend the convention. "But what she's done with health care," says JoAnn, shaking her head, "now we're gonna have to work against her and we're here to learn how." The 600 tea partiers (plus another 500 that have bought tickets to the closing dinner Saturday night where Palin is slated to speak) all support "first principles" of small government and strong individual rights, Skoda says, but the meeting isn't about drafting a platform or endorsing leaders. Most of the break-out sessions revolve around practical grassroots skills like new media training, voter registration and forming and growing local groups. Still, a couple of sessions are overtly political; conservative Republican Tom Tancredo, a former congressman, will be speaking on immigration and Kitchen Table Patriots co-chair Ana Puig will discuss the "Correlations between the current Administration and Marxist Dictators of Latin America." Certainly, the Tea Partiers are better organized than, say, the Cindy Sheehans or Code Pinks of the left ever were during the Bush Administration.

"My usual inclination when I'm frustrated is to pull a pistol out and end everything," William Temple, 59, a retired Secret Service agent from Brunswick, Georgia, says while pretending to fire a gun at the man standing next to him. Temple was dressed as a revolutionary Scotsman named Button Gwinett, one of the signers of the Constitution; tomorrow he says he'll come dressed as a British Red Coat. "I voted Republican through [Ronald] Reagan's years and after that everything from the Republican Party went into the trash bin," Temple drawls in a mock-Scottish accent. "Now I'll vote for any Republican, Democrat or Independent that falls along Tea Party lines. For example, I like that fellow running against John McCain," Temple says, referring to former Rep. J. D. Hayworth, who's expected to challenge McCain in the Arizona Republican primary. "Sarah's a woman I hope to kiss one day. My vote for McCain was a vote for her."

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IRS Preparing for Tax Day, April 15th

[NICHOLAS CAGE BEWARE!! What'ta Hell does the Internal Revenue Service need these 60 tactical weapons for?? They already know where the vast majority of tax cheats are: they work in the "Clown Prince" obama's regime--Those cheats that managed to escape employment by obama are primarily white collar workers, not us work-a-day taxpayers. I think yesterday was the time to buy weapons of your own!!] The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) intends to purchase sixty Remington Model 870 Police RAMAC #24587 12 gauge pump-action shotguns for the Criminal Investigation Division.

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• fourteen inch barrel
• modified choke
• Wilson Combat Ghost Ring rear sight
• XS4 Contour Bead front sight
• Knoxx Reduced Recoil Adjustable Stock
• Speedfeed ribbed black forend

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Those The "Clown Prince" Protects, Bows To...

WASHINGTON --- The nation’s top intelligence official warned this week of the threat posed by “homegrown terrorism,” though he said there was no evidence yet of an organized terrorist network operating in the U.S. A small number of American Muslims are engaged in extremist activities at home and abroad, said Director of National Intelligence Dennis Blair Tuesday at a Senate hearing. Their focus remains largely overseas, he said, but the threat to the homeland from Americans with links to radicals abroad remains troubling. “We are concerned that the influence of inspirational figures such as Anwar al-Awlaqi will increasingly motivate individuals toward violent extremism,” Blair said. Al-Awlaqi is the radical Yemeni cleric linked to Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, the alleged Fort Hood shooter, as well possibly to Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, the Nigerian who attempted to blow up an American airliner in Detroit on Christmas Day. Blair also separately warned that al-Qaida or its affiliates overseas was planning a big attack against the U.S. in the next six months.

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