I'm on vacation this week in Stonington, Maine. I spotted this sign in the back window of a pick-up truck. Maybe the owner should drive it over to Bar Harbor where Captain Kickass and family are spending the weekend. UPDATE: Our dinner was interrupted by the roaring boom of jet fighters buzzing Penobscot Bay because of the President's holiday. The restaurant shook and excited customers ran for the windows to get a look. Our military really is impressive and the bay at sunset must have been a beautiful sight from the sky. I wondered if President God-Damn-America and our Tea Party-phobic First Lady in their travels across this great land have possibly come to realize that America is a great country.
When I first saw this I wasn't sure if it was a poster for a local band, just more 'edgy' street art or maybe related to the last appearance of the Unabomber I shot recently. Either way, the mainstreaming of this murderer isn't exactly a settling feeling.
This actually goes a step further. Notice the detail paid to the assembling of what looks like a laptop bomb.
Heading for the subway this morning I spotted this bumper sticker from NewsBusters.org prominently placed on the back window! What a refreshing bit of sanity here in the seat of Obama County, Williamsburg, Brooklyn.
Huge, massive turnout! Easily several thousand. People lined up doubled up along the sidewalk and across the street.
Peaceful demonstration with one minor disturbance from possible infiltrators, updates to follow.
Tuesday, June 8 - UPDATE: There is a report that a a crew of Coptic Egyptian Christian journalists who came to NYC to cover the event were mistaken for infiltrators and were shouted at. The police took care of the situation quickly. No violence of any kind reported. I am very sorry that the journalists were mistreated in any way. Details to follow.
Thursday, June 10 - UPDATE: The Coptic Christian journalists have a issued a statement clarifying what happened. It was a situation in which a misunderstanding was quickly resolved and they were able to freely join and interact with the other demonstrators without incident.
Lots, and lots of VIDEO below. Take a look at the photo slide show.
LET ME BE CLEAR. I don't care if a mosque is built in NYC. There are plenty. In fact, there's a huge mosque uptown on 97th Street where I grew up. We have freedom of religion here, thank God and the Constitution. But you have to ask yourself, why there? And why on the anniversary of the attacks? That is taking a step way over the line for a group that is so sensitive. The organizer of the mosque has also some very questionable ideas about the attacks.
VIDEO: Simon Deng, who was enslaved as a child by Arabs in his native land, Sudan, speaks about the first attack on the WTC orchestrated by the blind sheik, Omar Abdel-Rhahman.
Robert Spencer!
The one and only Noni Darwish. Video below!
Pamela Atlas!
Al Jazeera was there.
Check out the great video below of Bev Carlson. She is dynamite!
The family members of the victims who brought photos of their loved ones were the most touching. I could feel their pain. It hasn't diminished in the years since the attacks.
I spoke to a woman whose son was on flight 175. She said that he called her several times from the plane during the hijacking to tell her what was happening. In the last call he knew he was going to die. He told her, "Don't worry. It will be quick." Then silence.
Great bags.
Must-see VIDEO: First responder with an emotional and vivid account of what it was like to be there on September 11, 2001.
Political Street Art: Violence Is The Religion of the Left
There is a lot of street art in my neighborhood, some of it political, some not. The running theme overall is a seething self-loathing. In the non-political street art category, some are so obscene that I would be ashamed even taking a photograph of it, much less putting it up on my blog.
This above recent example is a curious item of anarcho-hipsterim. No surprise that the left would embrace yet another terrorist. This time it's Ted Kaczynski, the Unabomber. I'm always suspect of any reference to the World Trade Center in leftist art because it's usually either trooferish or a swipe at America. This one in particular strikes me odd because the Unabomber, a Harvard graduate, hated modern society and everything that the World Trade Center and New York City represented.
I went to the Tea Party in Manhattan tonight. There was a terrific crowd and some very small counter-protesting and even a bit of of the promised infiltration.
Unbeknownst to me, every year on tax day there are demonstrations on the steps of the Farley Post Office on 31st Street and 8th Avenue. I had no idea! So before the Tea Party started there was all this other stuff going on. Anti-war funding demonstrators, young kids protesting cuts in the public schools budget, the raging grannies/code pink and even the Anarchist Marching Band for some reason.
Now on to the Tea Party. Overall a solid event! Lots of people and the speakers were great. Big thanks to David Webb and Kellen Guida for putting it all together.
There were so many outstanding signs I couldn't post them all here, so please check out the full photo slide show. Everything is there.
I don't want to waste too much space on the lame infiltrators but since they made such a big deal out of 'taking down the Tea Party' here they are. This leftist and her hippie boyfriend came strolling into the Tea Party looking for a confrontation toting a sign with indecipherable racist and bizarre messages. She actually made a grab for a sign held by a friend of mine and she got put in her place real quick. If she was trying to make others look bad, she failed miserably and ended up with a police 'minder' for the rest of the event.
What the heck does that mean? 'Equal access to BOOTS'?
The rest of the Tea Party was energetic and positive. The crowds lined both sides of the street on 8th Avenue!
My very first protest sign. I printed out at work but didn't take with me 'cause I only got two hands.
I'm on vacation this week in Stonington, Maine. I spotted this sign in the back window of a pick-up truck. Maybe the owner should drive it over to Bar Harbor where Captain Kickass and family are spending the weekend.
