This evening we attended the Hampton Roads Tea Party at Chesapeake State Park.  What a great experience! There’s my Mom and Kelsey wearing matching USA tshirts in front of some other attendees.  There were some great picket signs made up and TONS of information to be had from a variety of booths.  The next time I attend one of these rallies I’m definitely taking a bookbag with me.

Some of the booths:
Campaign for Liberty
Family Foundation
Virginia News Source
Ayn Rand Center
Fair Tax Org
Chesapeake and Portsmouth Taxpayer’s Alliances

We came home with all sorts of documentation, some t-shirts, some buttons, and lots of good info and resources.  Loved the presentations by the speakers, wish they’d had more time to speak. Towards the end they were all getting cut off and hurried off of the stage.

Can’t wait to attend the next one, and hit up some of the Libertarian meetings in the meantime.

I don’t know any of these folks, they were just kind enough to pose or sit/stand still and allow me to take their pictures.

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Me, Lately.

This is me lately.

Ayn Rand’s Atlas Shrugged on my Kindle 2.  I read it straight through (with much bitching and yelling at the characters in the middle of the night as I stayed up late, unable to put it down), and am now reading it aloud to Mike and the boys.  Kelsey and I are also taking on Anthem as a read-aloud; the way it’s structured and its length makes it a fantastic literature study (reading comprehension, guessing at plot developments to come, etc - not to mention the entire “what do you think of this kind of lifestyle” issue) to tackle over a couple of quick days.

My hat.  I LOVE my new hat.  I’ve gotten so many great responses to this, as I’m now wearing it whenever I step out of the house.  Folks do double-takes.  First they just glance up at it in the normal passerby curiosity, and then a split-second later their eyes jerk back to it and they stare at it, soaking it in.  Then a grin spreads across their face as they get it.  So far I haven’t met anyone who treated me negatively or said anything negative about it.  If you want to pick up one of your own, head over to RightWingStuff.

I’m also working my way through The 5,000 Year Leap.  We recieved our package from the NCCS and dove into it eagerly.  A More Perfect Union is a very well-done movie (the boys were able to sit through it without getting bored and distracted, even), and the Principles of Liberty DVD is well worth the watch.  We’ve been passing out copies of the pocket constitution (I bought a bunch of them) and referring to our own copies at least once a night. Anyhoo; 5,000 is the first book in years that has driven me to highlight passages and scribble notes in the margin. When I get done reading it, Dad’s claimed dibs to read it next.  I can’t wait until Kelsey is patient enough to read through this one.  I’ll probably try to work through it with him this summer, bit by bit, and see if he can handle it.

I highly recommend all three things pictured above… after all, I own ‘em!

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I was just listening to an audiobook called “Plan Z” by Robert Pagliarini.
Near the beginning, he challenges the listener to go to Google and type in “how bad” - and says that Google will automatically fill in “is the economy” for you with its suggested searches.

So I tried it while I was listening.

…and yet the politicians will tell you that (insert arbitrary, made-up-on-the-spot percentage here) of people think the economy is doing fine, or is on the upswing, or are in a positive mood on the outlook of the economy.

Sure doesn’t look that way to me.  Those searches look like a helluva lot of worry.

Btw, this audiobook is a free download from Audible.com. Go grab it.

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