Two recent events emphasized the importance of having a pocket video camera when protesting the federal government or its employees. One was a Tea Party protest; the other, a pro-life protest. Citizen videos helped refute media lies in both cases.

Remember when “dissent was the highest form of patriotism?”

That was when Leftist Democrats were protesting against a Republican President. Now that one of their own is in the White House, protest is not so patriotic.

Democrats have been looking for their American Reichstag Fire moment since the Tea Party protests started.

They have been aided and abetted by a corrupt Mainstream Press. So, for protection, conservatives who are considering raising their voices against the federal government and its employees would be wise to purchase an inexpensive pocket video camera.

Two incidents come to mind where the presence of citizens with video camera helped expose the rotten lies of the Left/Democrats.

The first is the despicable attempt to brand Tea Party protesters as “racists.” Several black congressmen walked through a party of Tea Party protesters on their way to Congress this past weekend. Several allegedly heard a racial slur being used. Despite many video cameras present–including those of a media anxious to find such things–no proof has been forthcoming. One congressman released a statement that he declined to press charges against an arrested protester.

Since no arrests, according to the DC police, were made, this makes whatever the Congressman says on the matter suspect.

This Joseph Goebbels moment was repeated even on Fox News. Andrew Breitbart responds most ably in 2010: A Race Odyssey — Disproving a Negative for Cash Prizes or, How the Civil Rights Movement Jumped the Shark.

Instapundit Glenn Reynolds has a nice round-up of the faux slur: SMEARING THE TEA PARTIES.

The second lie about Tea Party protesters happened in St. Louis. Rep. Russ Carnahan, no stranger to bending the truth curve, alleged that protesters left a coffin in his yard.

This is a lie. Jim Hoft, of Gateway Pundit, was present and filed a comprehensive report of the event, as well as the media lies that were told.

Leftist Democrats are desperately looking for conservatives who will use illegal tactics that have long been employed by the Left.

There will be no riots, no rock throwing, no beat-downs from Conservatives and Libertarians.

But there will be dissent and documentation of that dissent. It’s time for all good citizens to buy a hand-held video camera. If you plan to protest and raise your voice, it’s a good idea to document it.

Otherwise, you risk being called a “racist”–and worse.

One suspects that video cameras might, in the end, prevent the Democrats who shredded the Constitution, from achieving their Americanized Reichstag Fire.

NOTE: The Instapundit recommended the Creative Labs Vado pocket video camera.

UPDATE: Like we’ve said before: all the talk of violence originates from the Left–where much of the violence itself has historically taken place.

And currently. Rep. Cantor’s Richmond Campaign Office Shot at Overnight. This doesn’t make every Democrat a shooter.

By the same logic that’s been employed against the Tea Party, it doesn’t even mean that any shots were fired. By Dem standard, Cantor’s office would have to have been yelled at, with the media claiming that Democrats had shot at Cantor’s office; that would be the proper parallel.

BONUS VIDEO: Pence: “Americans have every right to oppose government takeover without being smeared”

video h/t: Hot Air

MAGNIFICENT!

From VD Hanson:

Like it or not, between 2001 and 2008, the “progressive” community redefined what is acceptable and not acceptable in political and public discourse about their elected officials. Slurs like “Nazi” and “fascist” and “I hate” were no longer the old street-theater derangement of the 1960s, but were elevated to high-society novels, films, political journalism, and vein-bulging outbursts of our elites. If one were to take the word “Bush” and replace it with “Obama” in the work of a Nicholson Baker, or director Gabriel Range, or Garrison Keillor or Jonathan Chait, or in the rhetoic of a Gore or Moore, we would be presently in a national crisis, witnessing summits on the epidemic of “hate speech.”

So here we are with the age-old problem that once one destroys decorum for the sake of short-term expediency, it is very hard to restore it in any credible fashion on grounds of principle when the proverbial shoe is on the other foot. A modest suggestion: If the liberal community wishes to be more credible in its concern about contemporary extremist anti-administration rhetoric, then they might try the following: “Please, let us avoid extremism and do not fall into the same trap as Baker, Chait, Keillor, Gore, Moore, or Range when they either expressed open hatred toward their president, or speculated about the assassination of their president, or compared their president to a fascist. We must disown such extremism, past and present.”

Progressives: Hypocrisy is a founding tenet of the movement.

UPDATE on April 12, 2010: Ever hear of a secondary Instalanche? That’s what happens when Instapundit mentions an article which has linked to one of yours. As in, GraniteGrok’s Wanna tick off a Progressive – show them your pocket videocam – with the red light on!

It’s not an Instalanche–however, it is a very nice uptick in traffic for a sunny Monday!

The combination of an Force-8 wind gust blasting a mega-billboard led to the destruction of ten new cars at Chinese car dealership in Jinan city, east China’s Shandong province, March 20, 2010. There were no reports of injuries.

Five hundred people were evacuated today in Southern Iceland after a volcano located near the Eyjafallajoekull glacier erupted. There were no casualties.

1918 Katla Volcano

Geophysicist Páll Einarsson warns the Eyjafallajoeull volcano may signal an eruption from nearby Katla, a far more powerful volcano located underneath the Mýrdalsjökull icecap.

Eyjafjallajökull has erupted three times since the settlement of Iceland in the 9th century AD, in 920, 1612 and 1821. All three eruptions were rather small but caused flooding. However, there is a short distance to Katla, Einarsson said, which is a powerful and vicious volcano, ruv.is reports.

“Katla is of a completely different kind […] but they seem to be connected, because all known eruptions in Eyjafjallajökull were related to Katla eruptions and therefore it seems that they might a prelude to eruptions in Katla,” Einarsson said.

The last Katla eruption occurred in 1918.

“The volcano Katla is subglacial and has a reputation as one of the most dangerous volcanoes of Iceland. Its peak reaches 1493 m in height and the extension of the glacier Mýrdalsjökull which lies over it reaches 595 km².”

A Katla eruption could mean flooding from the heat of the volcano melting the icecap and/or the threat of icebergs:

Before the National motorway no.1 had been constructed, people feared traversing the plains in front of the volcano because of the often occurring glacier runs and the deep rivers to cross. Especially fatal was the glacier run after the eruption of 1918.

Through the ages many farms have been swept away by Katla eruptions with that of 1311 being recorded as particularly damaging. A farmer named Sturla is said to have survived with his young son by clinging to an iceberg which later drifted back to shore. An eighteenth century eruption killed several people while others were stranded for days on mountains that turned to islands as floods engulfed the plains.

In Katla´s last eruption in 1918 icebergs the size of houses were seen floating out to sea. More recently in 1955 and 1979 there have been floods though no eruption that you could see.

Marc Ambinder at the The Atlantic reports Democrats and the White House have been in discussions on whether Obama could sign an Executive Order which would “clarify” federal policy on funding abortions in regards to the Dem’s Healthcare reform legislation.

From The Atlantic:

The White House and Democratic leaders have discussed whether an executive order by President Obama clarifying federal policy on funding abortions might be used to mollify pro-life Democrats, still wavering less than 24 hours before the scheduled vote on health care reform legislation. Late yesterday, talks between the leader of the faction, Bart Stupak, and Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s office broke down after pro-choice Democrats made it clear that they would not support a separate vote to add anti-abortion language to the bill itself.

Ambinder, in his piece, failed to clarify just what the executive order would entail. More from Life News:

Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) — Apparently unable to find enough votes for the pro-abortion Senate health care bill and with talks breaking down on how to allow Rep. Bart Stupak a vote on some sort of motion or bill to stop abortion funding, Democrats appear to be relying on a potential executive order to corral more votes for the bill.

The idea is to promise an executive order from President Barack Obama to stop the massive abortion funding and promotion in the Senate measure.

And,

“It should be noted that all of the problems listed in the NRLC letter — with the possible exception of no. 5 (pro-abortion administrative mandates) — would be created by and controlled by the proposed statutory language of H.R. 3590,” Douglas Johnsn of National Right to Life told LifeNews.com. “If the bill is signed into law, these statutory requirements and defects are not subject to correction or nullification by the chief executive or his appointees, whether by Executive Order, regulation, or otherwise.”

After suffering though a February where the sun shone less than two days and a record amount of snowfall–over three feet–March arrived armed with sunshine and warmer weather. At 1:32 PM EST, in our northern hemisphere, spring, or the Spring or Vernal Equinox became official. Last year, according to NOAA’s Official guide to Times Solstices and Equinoxes, spring arrived much earlier in the day at 7:44 AM EST.

What is an Equinox and why does Spring arrive each year at a different time, or in some cases, a different day?

From nmm.ac.uk:

At the times when the Sun is crossing the celestial equator day and night are of nearly equal length at all latitudes and so we call these dates the equinoxes (= ‘equal night’). In March, as the Sun is moving northwards along the ecliptic, this is called the vernal equinox and in September as the Sun is moving southwards we refer to it as the autumnal equinox. The equinoxes are also the points on the celestial sphere where the ecliptic and equator cross and the vernal equinox is used as the zero point in measuring star co-ordinates.

The Earth takes approximately 365.25 days to go around the Sun. This is the reason we have a leap year every 4 years, to add another day to our calendar so that there is not a gradual drift of date through the seasons. For the same reason the precise time of the equinoxes are not the same each year, and generally will occur about 6 hours later each year, with a jump of a day (backwards) on leap years.

Image – Telegraph

The authorities haven’t caught him but so far, the Moundsville flasher (WV) has 1,199 Facebook fans.

Moundsville Flasher Facebook Page

The man has flashed residents of Moundsville , WV, seven times:

MOUNDSVILLE — A woman jogging on First Street was the latest to spot the flasher.

Police say he was, as always, nude from the waist down, this time with a black concert T-shirt pulled up over his head, “wrapped around like a turban,” in the jogger’s words.

And the flasher may be broadening his territory.

“Usually he is between Cedar Avenue and Grant in the areas of Second, Third and Fourth Streets,” says Sgt. Don DeWitt of the Moundsville Police. “This (Wednesday night’s sighting) is a little out of that general area.

Moundsville is small blue collar town, pop. 9,998 in 2000, located in northeastern West Virginia along the banks of the Ohio River. Home of the infamous West Virginia State Penitentiary, a favorite site of paranormal investigations.

Facts on Flashing or Indecent Exposure

Exhibitionism (“Flashing”): Exhibitionism is characterized by intense, sexually arousing fantasies, urges or behaviors involving exposure of the individual’s genitals to an unsuspecting stranger. The individual with this problem, sometimes called a “flasher,” feels a need to surprise, shock or impress his victims. The condition usually is limited to the exposure, with no other harmful advances made, although “indecent exposure” is illegal. Actual sexual contact with the victim is rare. However, the person may masturbate while exposing himself or while fantasizing about exposing himself.
-Medicine Net

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Mummy Dearest…

The last time neighbors saw 82-yr-old Patricia Bostrum alive was 6 yrs ago.

According to her daughter, Nancy “Sunny” Bostrum, her mom was away, traveling, and that she’d seen her mother alive just six weeks before the cops discovered Patricia’s mummified corpse sitting upright in a chair in her California home.

Sonny was a “person of interest”. According to the cops, Sonny claimed she didn’t know her mother was dead despite the fact that Sonny visited her mother’s home, paid her mother’s utility bills, and picked up her mother’s mail.

That’s all behind Sonny as she’s applied to run for city council, hoping to help…. the elderly.

Daughter in mummified mom case runs for council