Only Stupid Rubes from Flyover Country Would Go to a Tea Party!

The Socialist elites on both coasts are full of derision for the mass, grass-roots movement which has culminated in the massive Tax Day Tea Party protests across the company.

Paul Krugman's recent Op-Ed in the New York Times and Marc Cooper's Opinion piece in the L.A. Times both rail against the Tea Party movements. On one hand, Krugman denies that the blatantly Socialist policies of the Obama administration deserve such appellation, and claims that the flailing G.O.P. is merely casting about for bogeymen. On the other hand, Cooper actually questions the sanity of those who do no agree with his Left-Wing views.

Both Krugman and Cooper sound the same (perhaps coordinated?) tune that this grass-roots movement is just a front for the Republican Party. Not only are they wrong (as anyone who attended one of these events today could attest to), but even were these protests "organized" by politically motivated forces, how is that different than the "community organizing" undertaken and advocated by our Community-Organizer-In-Chief?

Of course, both sides have lost sight of the real issues which triggered the Tea Party Movement:

1. The massive spending increases being pushed through by the Obama Administration, which will lead to . . .
2. Massive new deficit spending and vastly rising U.S. national debt, and
3. The creeping nationalization of U.S. industry.

Democrat Party = Socialism = Obama = End of Capitalism and Freedom as We Know Them

OBAMUNISM

The Anti-Gun Spin Machine

Following the recent shooting incident in Binghamton, NY, ABC News' 20/20 just did a piece of Leftist spin entitled Carrying a Gun Wouldn't Necessarily Get You out of a Shooting.

It is too easy, in today's urban reality, for liberal propagandists to find police officers (most of whom cannot handle their own weapons) who will advocate that Americans leap from rooftop to rooftop or hide in a closet, rather than seeking proper training and arming themselves.

In the article, it is clearly admitted that in order to properly respond to a lethal-force situation, proper training is required. Immediately, the assumption is made that Americans either would not or should not seek such training (which is all part of serving as a "well-regulated* militia"). Why is this? Liberal agenda?

* well-regulated = properly disciplined, trained, and equipped

I wouldn't visit Washington, D.C. right now . . .

According to an article in the Washington Post (and reported elsewhere), the senior Taliban leader in Pakistan (Baitullah Mehsud) has threatened to "amaze the world" with an attack on Washington, D.C.

Below is a an analysis of the damage that would occur in the NCR (National Capital Region) from a 550 kiloton surface burst. As you can see, all of DC-proper would be annihilated, and significant damage would extend into NoVA and Maryland.

Remember that Hezbollah is utilizing our porous southern border with Mexico to infiltrate the United States, and that Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of Iran has selected Hezbollah to conduct terror operations against the U.S. if the U.S. were to strike Iranian nuclear facilities (see this report from Jihad Watch). Furthermore, Pakistan is a failing state armed with nuclear weapons.

Iran + Taliban + Hezbollah + Pakistani nukes = I wouldn't visit D.C.

On a brighter note, any nuclear weapon supplied by the Pakistanis (or stolen by the Taliban from Pakistan) would likely only have a yield of around 35 kilotons (more than double the yield of the bomb that destroyed Hiroshima, but less than double the yield of the bomb that destroyed Nagasaki). Both of those bombs were air bursts, which makes most efficient use of the destructive power of the burst. A surface detonation causes much of the energy of the bomb to be absorbed by the earth and immediately surrounding infrastructure.

So, if you live or work in D.C., you had better hope that the Administration's foolish quest* for the non-existant "moderate Taliban" pays off . . . if not, I'd find another place to be.
Source: Vulnerability of populations and the urban health care systems to nuclear weapon attack - examples from four American cities
William C. Bell and Cham E. Dallas
http://www.ij-healthgeographics.com/content/6/1/5

* even the Huffington Post agrees that the position of the Obama Administration on the transnational insurgency raging in Afghanistan and Pakistan is foolish.