{"id":9679,"date":"2009-04-15T14:33:48","date_gmt":"2009-04-15T19:33:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=9679"},"modified":"2009-04-15T17:44:23","modified_gmt":"2009-04-15T22:44:23","slug":"dc-tea-party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=9679","title":{"rendered":"DC Tea Party complete with Leftist insurgencies"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m sorry I took so long to get this up – the rain turned my laptop into an eight pound paperweight so here I am at home with a beer cracked open again.<\/p>\n

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Here’s the crowd when I first got there;<\/p>\n

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I guess there were about 500 until the rain started pouring down on us and it thinned out a bit. But there were some good signs;<\/p>\n

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Some needed spell check;<\/p>\n

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The pig balloons made another appearance;<\/p>\n

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There were rumors that some of the Left were going to infiltrate the tea parties. Of course, being DC and being full of liberals, you just know the crack pots would show up to try and disrupt it. Like Code Pink’s Medea Benjamin;<\/p>\n

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Medea had a piece of pink tape on one of her three corners that said I (heart) Fox like that’d be camoflage. I asked her if she thought her disguise was good enough;
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Then there were these clowns from MoveOn who tried to make it look as if we protesting for the rich;
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\nThe sign;
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\nThis guy made sense until he started ranting about the war;
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It was a pretty good turn out until the rain started pounding us. We saw an IVAW shirt and a few Ron Paul shirts. I didn’t get as many pictures as I normally would because of the rain, but I think I captured the mood – as dampened as it became. Surprisingly, a huge number of people stuck around. We had us a good little group of our own. TSO hooked up with LT Nixon and we ran into Hooper and 509th Bob.<\/p>\n

As always, there are more pictures at my Flickr PhotoStream<\/a>. Age of Hooper<\/a> has more pictures and videos – I especially like the “Did I do that?” sign.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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