"King Obama" by Lenin and the Castros

From the Pasadena Patriots with Victoria Jackson as Butterfly, Jim Riley as Shemp Thorkleson and myself as Lenin, the anarchist singer-songwriter. What a great time taping up at Riley's Farm, a working colonial re-enactment facility. Let's put this one over the top and please post and send and retweet.

Here's their reunion tour photo:

Back from DC ....(but barely)

I will post as soon as the blood returns to my brain. Still grieving over lost digital camera with all my backstage pix in it (Ray Stevens, Breitbart, Michelle Bachmann, Tucker Carlson, Ron Paul, the list goes on...)

I'll live... but here is one from my buddy, Tommy Z., who performed last night also. One of my heroes, Christopher Lord Monkton.

We discussed the framing of the debate by climate hoaxers when the call people like him, "Climate Skeptics." His reply was that science entails skepticism so he welcomed it. We then discussed Einstein's Theory of Relativity (really...he, more than I.) The man brought his A Game to the stage later.

Next Stop: Washington Monument

I got the good news yesterday. Freedomworks has included me in their Thursday evening line-up for the National Tea Party Tax Day event. Not a reprise of 9-12 but with many of the same organizers, this promises to be just as stirring as September.

The Tea Party Express will roll in early that day and I will get to see my friends on the busses. I asked Ron and Kay Rivoli, Lloyd Marcus, and my fellow Pasadena Patriot VICTORIA JACKSON to sing along in the chorus for me.

They gave me a prime time slot of 7:37 PM (they are very precise, and will "play off" long-winded overtimers. I don't think that'll be the case as the lineup includesCongressmen Ron Paul and Tom Price, Andrew Breitbart and one of my heroes, Christopher Lord Monkton, famed climate scientist (and truth-based skeptic.)

CSPAN should have it live but Fox News will probably have it in the background and play sound bites as they are prone to do.

I'll tweet pictures from backstage. The stage has its back to the White House and we will face the Monument and crowd that gathers up the hill to it.

Red Sox Need 5 Year Old Trash Mouth

Is this what is has come to? The Red Sox are guilty of nothing less than child abuse for pushing this kid out in front of the crowd to mimic the Herb Brooks speech in "Miracle."  "Screw 'em!" Joshua Sacco screams and the crowd goes wild (not to mention that the kid is a "shipper,"  flown in from Tennessee and not even a real Sauks Fan.) This is a new low for our culture, and I realize that it is really no different than the 60,000 Yankee fans chanting "Red Sox Suck," but a five year old? The child was basically a puppet, run my his parents. Which reminds me of the Palestinian kids who chant mindlessly, "Irsaraelis are Pigs."  Not much difference.

As for the Rivalry, I like to quote Mike Francesa as he likes to call the Red Sox the Daylight Savings Team

Spring Ahead  -   Fall Behind

Showdown in Searchlight

Let me sum it up in two anecdotes:

1. The story of the T-Shirt vendor (there is a sub-culture of camp followers who sell Tea-Stuff) who lost his billfold with $4000 in it. You guessed it. It was returned to Lost & Found with nary a devalued Federal Reserve note missing.

2. As I drove in from LA via I-15, as I took the left in Searchlight off Nipton Rd., there was a commotion of sign-holders and protesters. As I was following a small caravan of Tea bumper-stickered cars, we all slowed down because we were anxious to be among our own. The "We Love Harry" signs made me realize I had to follow the GPS as it said another 2 miles out of town. BUT...the small group from Reid's lair (barely a minion) turned out to be as nasty as we have heard and seen (on YouTube.) Andrew Breitbart (God Bless him!) wades right into the swamp every time (remember the CPAC lobby?...or the Pasadena Tea Party?) Here he is engaging the local yokels and, SPOILER ALERT, they not only threaten and harras AB but EGG the Tea Party Express busses as they pass! Turns out they are upper level Reid and DNC NV management. (HT: IOTW)

So here's another video of my experiences that can never really explain the level of emotion and camaraderie present. Remember, TPX picked this dust bowl of a former mining company, planted a flag in it, rolled up a flatbed and 30,000 plus showed up. Seems we were able to mine a little more gold out there. My friends on the Tea Party Express, the Rivolis, Lloyd Marcus, Darla Darwald and Amy Kremer, were in fine form and absolutely revved up. They treated us like family. Thanks guys! Victoria Jackson, my new Pasadena Patirot friend and fellow Free Radical (new video coming soon,) was in fine form with her "I Hope I Don't Get Sick." It was Victoria who helped me to no end, with the VIP pass, getting me to meet THE people so I have a shot at getting on the next tour and generally being in my corner when she was there to perform. Thanks, VJ! Stacy McCain and Ali Akbar missed half the show because they booked for Las Vegas after Palin.

Say your prayers, boys and girls, and young Cakeman might get a seat on the bus soon.

Random observations:

When Palin arrived it was like Shea Stadium when they ushered the Beatles through the screaming girls.

Sky-writing that upstaged the speakers

Windy, blowing dust and it was chilly at noon even though it was your basic desert.

TPX has three busses now. One for the admin. One for staff and one ofr musicians (new gold one)

At least 25 large RV's and just as many smaller ones...people arrived the night before and camped.

The three-lane road was overwhelmed (remember Arlo Guthrie in the Woodstock movie:" The Thruway is closed, Man!") into and again out when the crowd started to caravan to the Ann Coulter event in LV.

Victoria asked me to be her "teleprompter" along with her friend, Brenda, as the wind was nasty and lyrics would have flown away. I was honored.

Same crowd that was in DC...Ma and Pa Kettle, Granny and Grandpa, lone wolves and wingnuts (of course, Media Matters focused on the "Obama in a headdress" poster and applied that to all 30,000.)

Moment  that summed it up for me: Vicky, Joe the Plumber and Senate candidate Chick DeVore (vs. Boxer) all conversing about their love of the country.

 And a must-see: KTNV's aerial footage of the miles of cars and the size of the crowd