Operation American Spring; epic fail
You may have missed the news, but Operation American Spring, the gathering of anti-Obama Americans in DC touted to be tens of millions of marchers demanding the ouster of many in the administration as well as some Republicans, kind of flopped on Friday when only a few hundred showed up according to the Washington Times;
Operation American Spring was billed as far back as six months ago as a rally call for patriotic Americans to force leaders in Washington, D.C., to return to a more limited and constitutional style of governance — and to oust those leaders who weren’t listening. Among the group’s targets: Mr. Obama and Mr. Boehner, as well as Attorney General Eric Holder, Sen. Majority Leader Harry Reid, Sen. Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, vice president Joe Biden and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi.
Initial projections were for between 10 million and 30 million to come from around the nation and converge on the downtown capital city streets outside the White House and Capitol Building — a number the organizer of the event, Army Col. Harry Riley, called optimistic yet doable, given one million militia had already agreed to come.
While I agree with much of what the march symbolized, when you depend on the militias to round out your numbers, I’m not going to be there for you. For one thing, they’re fringe crackpots who are most interested in themselves, marching around in uniforms they wouldn’t wear in the military because they’re lazy. And, I’m guessing that most of them were chapter cases if they ever did get into the military. Remember the Hutarees;
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I had not even heard about this event unitl hearing of its utter failure. I have to imagine that if it was somethng mainly happening on the far right fringes, that it is no wonder I didn’t hear of it.
Pbbhhtt….. yeah 30,000,000 STRONG!!!
I can’t believe you didn’t provide an overhead aerial photograph….
I have one here…..
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Look at all those folks!!!
Hutaree?!?!? …..more like Daktari…..but where people who actually knew what they were doing.
Yea, I’d do Cheryl Miller. Hell, I’ve even been hard enough up at times…I’d do Judy. But that’s just between us guys ya know. 😀
Damn, Sparks, I don’t believe I would have told that! 😉
Lurker Curt…Sometimes, back in the day, times were hard ya know. You had to take it where you could get it. 😀
If I might add, being drunk at the time as my excuse, I’ve done uglier than Judy for sure. 😀
Oh,I wasn’t judging…I have a past as well…no questions, please…
So it would be safe to say that you’ve done the “walk of shame” more than once?
Saw a pic on FB, front and center was a fringee wearing CAV brass and a Trident. Gah.
Agree with some of the goals, but far too many looney tunes.
Yea it’s all fun and games and serious…until somebody has to cough up the air fare from CA or elsewhere to DC. Then the hem-haws and throat clearing begins. Remember we’re talking about fringe element, “militia” types here.
To the Hutarees…guys first, when you show for the battle in an old Toyota Camry it’s a dead give away and all downhill from there. Plus that hot brass all over the car is gonna make paint chip off! That could mean a $900 paint job at Maaco! May I suggest an auction somewhere for an old, Duece and a Half, or used Humvee. At least you won’t look as much like the mental cases you all are.
I have a Toyota Camry. Got a problem with that ?
john, nah I’m good with Toyota Camrys. They’re good, solid rigs. My only problem is one with four, armed “militia” types riding around in it. That’s what they want to see at the McDonald’s drive through. Or a police, pull over for a burned out tail light! 😀
Hutarees, take note. There is a model year 1983 M923 5 Ton Cargo Truck on Ebay for only $760.00. Only $500.00 down and it runs!!!
How about we try to be for something positive rather than be against something. You gather more of a crowd for positive issues, it’s the whole flies with honey thing. Like, oh I don’t know, Glenn Beck’s Restoring Honor rally on the Mall a couple of years ago. Because restoring something is much more positive than just yelling about how much you don’t like something/one. (Not that I’m against what these people represent, just not the way they want to go about getting their message out.)
Damn, the Black Helicopters got there and rounded ’em up before we could get a picture of the crowd . . . .
EPIC FAIL!!
Also I thought EPIC SNAIL!!!
Well, those who did show up can rest assured that their DHS/FBI pics and files have been updated, and their emails, calls, and text messages captured by NSA. Plus, the undercover guys probably made some new connections.
2/17 Air Cav They remind me of Robert De Niro in “Taxi Driver”, when he starts talking to the Secret Service guy about wanting to join and the guy takes out his notebook and says, “Sure just give me your name and address and we’ll get back to you. We’re always looking for good people”. Yea I bet money a lot of those militia numbnuts walked up to undercover guys, spouting off their rhetoric only to have the guy shake hands and say, “Hey are you on Facebook? Maybe we could chat, what’s your email brother?” The militia guy says, “Yea sure we can. By the way, I got this award in Iraq and this one in the ‘Stan. Kinda hush-hush stuff…you get me HUH…eh…eh. I got more weapons and ammo at home than the local National Guard Armory. I think it’s high time we took back this country…by force if needed. Been training out in the woods two weekends a month with my “boys”, on search and destroy missions. I’m up for that man, how bout you brother?”. Undercover guy, “Hey cool, what’s you name bro, by the way lemme get your cell and I’ll come down for one of those weekend training missions. Man I love that stuff!” Militia turd, “Sure it’s (his name here) and my cell is (his number here)”. I think you get the picture. As 2/17 Air Cav said, lot’s of files were updated and created that day. DHS/FBI and NSA are gleaning info as we speak.
And a question about that ad i see here on the upper right corner of your blog for
Extreme men’s swimwear, spandex fetish wear, bikinis, thongs, G-strings and male chastity gear.
Do you get a % of sales? or is a a per click thing ?
How is it going so far?
IIRC, that is usually driven by your browsing history…..
So……. yeah……
Hahahahahahaha.
Owned.
Oh hell….lmao
I would bet that the income generated by Paul Wickre and Daniel Bernath’s clicks from here to that site would be rather large.
Why are you looking at men wearing spandex and gender benders when you could be looking at the women on the Victoria’s Secret site?
I’m getting it, too, and I assure you I don’t look at any of those sites.
Too bad it fell through, really. Being slandered but having a large crowd is still good PR. Being slandered and having no one there isn’t.
Personally, I can’t wait to see what the Tea Party will do as we get closer to November. Monitor Mark Levin, guys!
Even when I agree with him, he’s so shrill and irritating I just want to give him a slow-drop neck-strech so I can watch his feet kick….
Love Levin. He is not gifted with a radio voice but he has loads over those who do. It’s called substance, intelligence, and knowledge. Years ago, I had trouble listening to him because I was sidetracked by hearing him. Now, I get a kick out of his schtick.
Funny, I’ve never heard anyone complain about his voice before. To me, he sounds almost like Paul Giammati.
I’ve been listening to the man as long as I can remember. I did a research paper last year on “Ameritopia” and how the Obama Administration is a new form of Utopist thought and attempts. I tied the current to examples from Plato’s “Republic” and the like. Got an A out of it, too.
I haven’t read “The Liberty Amendments” yet, but I swear, this man is a modern-day Founding Father.
You’re just smitten. He does have a voice that, at times, sounds like fingernails on a blackboard. But he’s damn brilliant and loves this country from top to bottom.
And in the end, that’s all that matters.
Part Ron Paul nuts, part “nirthers”, part Laroucheites with their Obama/Hitler posters.
Uh, yeah. Pass.
Reminds me of an old article from “The Onion”
“South Postpones Rising Againfor yet another year”
http://www.theonion.com/articles/south-postpones-rising-again-for-yet-another-year,377/
As for the philosophy of this group, I think The Onion got it right there, too:
“Area Man a Passionate Defender of what he imagines the Constitution to be”
http://www.theonion.com/articles/area-man-passionate-defender-of-what-he-imagines-c,2849/
Yep. Visions of the local Sons of Confederate Veterans chapter meeting dance in my head more vividly each time I look at that picture…each one repeating the same dominionist, US as a Christian nation fallacy.
Did I say Trident as in one? Looks like the guy on the right has one on his hat and another on his shirt. Maybe he’s legit…if not, at least it’s not a biker this time. 🙂
Ah, yes, the Cavalry SEALs.
You know, the hardest part about being a Cavalry SEAL is putting that SCUBA mask onto your horse…
(also looks like he’s got one of those “Soldier of Fortune” airborne/skull badges above the SEAL Trident, which as we know is a violation of the Looney Militia Uniform code which clearly states that fake awards take precedence over completely fabricated ones.
BTW, I’m pretty sure I saw this guy at a gun show once.
Aw, who am I kidding? I see him at EVERY gun show!! 😀
Aye, right next to his brother species, the Greater Confederate-flag Tshirted Beer Gutted Wannabe Revolutionary.
Yep, the creepy guy with the table full of Nazi stuff.
BTW, am I the only one who wants to scream ” IN THE HOLY NAME OF JOHN MOSES BROWING, IT’S A MAGIZINE, NOT A CLIP!!” at gunshows?
Might read this month’s American Rifleman – interesting article on just that. And yes, some box magazines’ original nomenclature was “clip”. Including the sainted 1911’s)
Good, I’m not the only one.
The mask on the horse is relatively easy. It’s getting those damn dolphins to accept a saddle that’s a problem. And then there’s trying to keep those crazy bastards in formation. No, I do not envy the CAV SEAL.
Martinjmpr Thank you I needed that! ROTFLMAO. “SCUBA mask onto your horse… ” Classic…golden there.
Works better than tryin’ to ride a damn seahorse . . . .
Hondo and it’s hell keeping the horses on the Blackhawk till you touchdown. That’s a bitch. They don’t like flying, especially with the doors open! 😀
They can’t parachute in either, that scares the shit out of the horses and mule teams!
Yes, and scaring the shit out of the horses while they’re in the air will definitely make you unpopular with the DZSO!
Martinjmpr…Getting the SCUBA gear on the horse is nothing. Getting them to stay still on an open door Blackhawk into the LZ is the real bitch. The head room for the rider sucks big time. Plus the crew chief has all that those horse apples to clean up after every insertion/extraction. Not like the good old days of Cavalry on 19th century rail cars eh. Now we’ll have ash and trash runs dumping out bails of hay with the MREs and ammo.
Nothing better to line your pup tent or sleeping hole with than a bale of hay.Beats a pad or a rubber lady any day.
CLAW131…Roger that!
Except when you get caught taking the straw from the German farmer’s cow feeder and get put on KP for two days.
Hey, at least the liberal snub-it-if-it’s-conservative media ignored it…
Another gathering of beer bellies in BDU’s I assume?!
Hey, now that you mention it… where’s Adam Koskesh on this one?
Much larger than a lot of pro baby killing aka women’s rights aka abortion rallies aka what US Constitution that are covered on TV by the lame stream media.
Good luck ever getting a huge group of responsible adults together to protest though because they are too busy being responsible and getting shit done.
I stay pretty informed, but I never heard about it until it failed. You can’t attend something you don’t know about.
Although I support the sentiments, I’m really leery about spending money on political causes. If I had George Soros money, sure, but we still live paycheck-to-paycheck and can’t afford something frivolous like flying to DC for a protest.
Our vacation last week? A few days in Wyoming, a couple of hours north of here. BTW, great place, wonderful people. We’re seriously considering moving there. Cost of living is low and combined taxes (no state income tax) are the lowest in the country.
Common Sense,BTDT in Wyoming (Powell). Planning on moving back to there (Cheyenne) over the summer. Just remember, Wyoming’s population is about the same as a medium sized American city, but has really long residential streets.
Wyoming in the winter. Gives me the shrinkage just to write that.
Naw, it’s not too bad. Up there in the north end near Powell/Cody in the Big Horn Basin, the winter weather was milder than what we had experienced down in Colorado Springs where we had spent the previous 20 years.
I might not mind living in Cheyenne, it’s home to the Union Pacific RR Steam Fleet, which already has the World’s largest operating steam locomotive, and they’ve started work on resurrecting an even bigger one!
Yep, I can’t wait to get there and see the Challenger and the Big Boy 4-8-8-4 up close and personal. I’m a long time steam fan.
The NKP 765 does it’s summer excursions back in my old neck of the woods,Indiana,Michigan, etc.
Yeah, NKP 765 is also a beauty, and I CAN’T WAIT to see N&W 611 return to the rails, kind of a bummer they didn’t decide to resurrect N&W 1218 as well! Yeah, I’ve been a “Railnerd” ever since I was a kid!
Depends on whether or not you like seeing dogs frozen to trees in the winter, Proud Infidel.
Cheyenne’s out on the plains in eastern WY. Gets cold as hell there.
That and counting the dogs stuck to fire hydrants as you drive through town?
Maybe they were all out at that nevada ranchers place.
You’re actually making some sense, VWP. Did you get a new supply of meds recently?
You should really invest in apostrophes.
They’re really useful, y’know?
Farflung Wanderer…I agree. VWP you can find apostrophes in the NY Times, NYSE listings under “APOS”. Remember, buy low…sell high.
VWP I can read from your comment your new meds regimen must be kicking in. A little more work on that whole grammar, punctuation thingie and you’ll be close to coherent. However, I can’t leave you without saying it…just for shits and giggles, GFY.
Well, HAPPY, HAPPY, JOY, JOY with Smurfette getting cornholed by a unicorn while it’s shitting jelly doughnuts and farting rainbows. it’s the unwanted inbred who has taken a break from glue sniffing just long enough to prove once again that he is indeed his own cousin, BUT DAMN, he/she/it said something that actually made sense, is the world coming to an end tomorrow? I want to know, because if it is, I wanna call in sick from work and drink some booze instead, I want to go out with a buzz!
So what happens if you want to join one of those militia groups but don’t have your own gear or “big black scary gun”? Will they have a bake sale to raise the money for your gun? Or is it more a lemonade stand/dunking booth thing?
Hey Valkyrie, did you get the email I sent you?
SOP is to buy a cheap commie milsurp- a Mosin Nagant or SKS is typical. Then, one slaps every bit of crappy plastic from the Tapco catalogue on it. A $20 optic of some sort completes the look. Viloa! Scary black gun for under $200!
True, it likely is less functional than when it was original… but now it’s extra scary!
Don’t forget the XXXL BDUs and the 7.62 design t-shirt.
Also with SKS’s going for nearly $500 now, it’s pretty much the Mosin-Nagant by default.
Or a Ruger 10-22 if you’re worried about getting attacked by commie squirrels.
You can’t attend what you don’t know about. I didn’t hear about any of this until just now, reading about it here.
And…millions of people expected? Dream on. And I don’t make a habit of going anywhere that there is going to be a crowd of rowdies. I have no desire to get shot at, and if even a few thousand had shown up, particularly with the militias there, with the threat against El Presidente, who do you think would have been called in to deal with “security”? The Capitol Police? The National Guard? The MARINES?
No thanks. Don’t need that kind of action.