{"id":18600,"date":"2010-04-15T18:21:29","date_gmt":"2010-04-15T23:21:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=18600"},"modified":"2010-04-15T18:21:29","modified_gmt":"2010-04-15T23:21:29","slug":"indianapolis-tea-party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=18600","title":{"rendered":"Indianapolis Tea Party"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ok, so Caro and I and her ghey Dog Mosby headed over to the Indianapolis Tea Party this afternoon, and thought I would share some pictures.<\/p>\n<p>As fortune would have it as we were a block away we were on a sidewalk when I realized that the man walking alone next to me was former Congressman and current <a href=\"http:\/\/www.johnhostettler.com\/\">IN Senate Candidate John Hostettler<\/a>. I&#8217;m a bit of a fan of his, although not certain if I would support him in the primary or not. (I missed voter reg by 2 days.) Either way, I introduced myself and he seemed to remember me from some testimony I gave <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stoptheaclu.com\/2006\/09\/09\/hit-the-aclu-where-it-hurts-the-pocketbook\/\">in support of a bill he authored.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"134 by jlilyea, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/thisainthell\/4523920183\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4020\/4523920183_c04e72c2d1.jpg\" alt=\"134\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not even going to guess how many folks there were there, nor the nationalities etc.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"136 by jlilyea, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/thisainthell\/4523921653\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4007\/4523921653_7bf304b891.jpg\" alt=\"136\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"140 by jlilyea, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/thisainthell\/4524561574\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4064\/4524561574_e39d3af00b.jpg\" alt=\"140\" width=\"333\" height=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"146-1 by jlilyea, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/thisainthell\/4523929723\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4029\/4523929723_d5901899ec.jpg\" alt=\"146-1\" width=\"333\" height=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>These pictures don&#8217;t really do justice to how many people were there.\u00a0 I have some others that show more, but I had to have Jonn load these as it was, so I will try later.\u00a0 But trust me there was over 1,000 people there, probably a lot more.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"153 by jlilyea, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/thisainthell\/4523933125\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4068\/4523933125_8752e700dc.jpg\" alt=\"153\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>OK, so I was particularly looking for any folks with signs that were offensive, and\/or for anyone I thought might be an infiltrator. I saw one in the former category, the standard Obama as joker thing. Honestly, I find all that stupid but whatever. Now, I don&#8217;t know if he was a tea-partier or not, but I will say he stood out for his extreme disregard for personal hygiene. Dude smelled and looked like he slept in the sewer. Again, don&#8217;t know if he was ours or theirs, but dude was not normal, and neither side would willingly claim him.<\/p>\n<p>As for the next picture, infiltrators or not?<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"154 by jlilyea, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/thisainthell\/4523939733\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4050\/4523939733_0346d6065d.jpg\" alt=\"154\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nFreaks for Freedom and Kooks for the Constitution? Either they were tea-partiers goofing on the MSM stereo-type of the conservatives, or they were lefties thinking they were funny. From their sort of crunchy look I would lean towards the latter. I wouldn&#8217;t be surprised at all if Claymore found a post at DU that said &#8220;OMFG, I totally PWN&#8217;d the rethuglicans with a ridiculous sign.&#8221; If they were tea partiers, I guess I think their sign is dumb.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, my dog had a good time, and chicks seem to dig him.<br \/>\n<a title=\"155 by jlilyea, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/thisainthell\/4524571246\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4021\/4524571246_38eb746377.jpg\" alt=\"155\" width=\"333\" height=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The tea party patriot hat here made me nervous, but his daughter and Mosby hit it off, and it was very cery cute.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"161 by jlilyea, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/thisainthell\/4523942643\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4046\/4523942643_2ee7936369.jpg\" alt=\"161\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ok, so Caro and I and her ghey Dog Mosby headed over to the Indianapolis Tea &hellip; <a title=\"Indianapolis Tea Party\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=18600\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Indianapolis Tea Party<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":148,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18600","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-protestsrallies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18600","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/148"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18600"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18600\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}