Lives in a Shoe

For Hallie

For Hallie:  Black/Latino strife.

It has gotten worse lately.

Free Markets, Fiscal Responsibility, Constitutionally Limited Government

JOHN STOSSEL & MAXIM LOTT: $20,000,000,000,000 in Debt and Rising: Now that Trump’s made a deal with Democrats, our national debt is higher than ever.

Glenn Reynolds:  I never expected Trump to be any good on the debt, and he hasn’t been. But neither has any other president, and one lesson of the Obama era is that apparently nobody cares about the debt except the Tea Party, which was neutralized because it was threatening bipartisan opportunities for graft.

Patriotic Dissent - Tea Party Style (from April 15 2009) 

From a small town in a blue state...

Belle and I discussed our concerns in the car before we printed our signs.  We are veterans at this tea party stuff, having attended the very first one in Seattle in February [when it was a "Taxpayers Demonstration] .  Today we were in downtown Mt. Vernon, Washington with friends and neighbors -- patriots all.

Belle was not the only Canine American demonstrating.  Lovely Betsy the St. Bernard encouraged passers-by to "Bark for Freedom".  Her owner's sign says "Big Government = Less Freedom". 

Belle's sign says "Less Pork...More Kibble".  She's beautiful and brainy, that dog.

My sign says "Give Me Liberty...Don't Give Me Debt."  (The reverse says "Deficit Spending is Nuts -- Dems or GOP.  STOP IT.")  Both parties had a hand in this.

Below the break, more pictures -- our encounter with Miss Betsy Ross and other patriots.

From a small town in a blue state...

Belle and I discussed our concerns in the car before we printed our signs.  We are veterans at this tea party stuff, having attended the very first one in Seattle in February [when it was a "Taxpayers Demonstration] .  Today we were in downtown Mt. Vernon, Washington with friends and neighbors -- patriots all.

Belle was not the only Canine American demonstrating.  Lovely Betsy the St. Bernard encouraged passers-by to "Bark for Freedom".  Her owner's sign says "Big Government = Less Freedom". 

Belle's sign says "Less Pork...More Kibble".  She's beautiful and brainy, that dog.

My sign says "Give Me Liberty...Don't Give Me Debt."  (The reverse says "Deficit Spending is Nuts -- Dems or GOP.  STOP IT.")  Both parties had a hand in this.

Below the break, more pictures -- our encounter with Miss Betsy Ross and other patriots.

Patriotic Dissent - Tea Party Style (from April 15 2009)

From a small town in a blue state...

Belle and I discussed our concerns in the car before we printed our signs.  We are veterans at this tea party stuff, having attended the very first one in Seattle in February [when it was a "Taxpayers Demonstration] .  Today we were in downtown Mt. Vernon, Washington with friends and neighbors -- patriots all.

Belle was not the only Canine American demonstrating.  Lovely Betsy the St. Bernard encouraged passers-by to "Bark for Freedom".  Her owner's sign says "Big Government = Less Freedom". 

Belle's sign says "Less Pork...More Kibble".  She's beautiful and brainy, that dog.

My sign says "Give Me Liberty...Don't Give Me Debt."  (The reverse says "Deficit Spending is Nuts -- Dems or GOP.  STOP IT.")  Both parties had a hand in this.

Below the break, more pictures -- our encounter with Miss Betsy Ross and other patriots.

Thousands of Juggalos Travel to Washington in One Tiny Car

Good explanation of why:

Romanticized vid from Reason, here, gets the point across, though.

Here's the important thing:  the Founders probably wouldn't have liked the cultural transgressions or the music -- but it is America.  Just that -- America. So let them hear you and don't let them stop you.  

 

 

 

America

Howie Carr notices:

Seriously, doesn’t it look like almost all of the heavy lifting in the wake of Harvey is being done by people who belong to what the Southern Poverty Law Center would describe as “hate groups?”

Speaking of which, when does the SPLC’s food drive begin? Are the non-workers of the Socialist Workers Party and the Spartacist League loading any southbound 18-wheelers with relief supplies this weekend?

Maybe everyone in “the Resistance” is worn out from wearing pink hats and black masks and tipping over statues and sucker punching passers-by with bicycle locks in Berkeley and grabbing an old lady’s flag on the Boston Common and burning it — all those wonderful manifestations of how Love Trumps Hate, as they say.

Of course, it’s the last weekend of summer, so you can’t expect the likes of Jeffrey Epstein to be scrambling his private 747 out of the Hamptons to airlift foodstuffs to Galveston and Beaumont. You can’t be asking Brooklyn hipsters or Occupy Wall Street to occupy a relief shelter when the Beautiful People are jetting into Nantucket for brunch at the Chanticleer Inn.

Besides, as assorted adjunct professors at third-rate colleges have been tweeting out all week, those are Trump voters stranded down there in the Lone Star State — bitter clingers and irredeemables.

Then there’s John Kerry — he did sell his second wife’s first husband’s trust fund’s yacht when he moved from Nantucket to the Vineyard, but he could still enlist in the Cajun Navy. America’s Gigolo has other plans this weekend, though. According to The Hill, Liveshot is busy — “Kerry races to save American cycling team.”

Well, first things first.