Protest the IRS!

Email from the Seattle Tea Party Patriots:

Seattle Tea Party Patriots,
ACTION ALERT !! Short notice

Size matters count, so lets make it count!  Spend your lunch time tomorrow saving the country with the rest of the nation. Let's not get personal with Obama on this protest. Please keep the signs focused on the IRS and on the same page as the TPP.

When-Tues, 5/21 NOON, at your local IRS office.
Seattle- 2nd and Jackson.
Tacoma- 1200 Pacific Ave.
Bellevue- 520 112th Ave NE.
Everett- 3020 Rucker Ave.
Kitsap- Silverdale 9657 Levi Rd NW
Bellingham- 114 W. Magnolia St.
Spokane- 920 W. Riverside Ave.

Tea Party Patriots: Rein in the IRS - Tuesday, May 21 @ Noon
Ever since the IRS scandal broke, we have heard numerous stories from around the country about Tea Party, 9/12, Patriot groups, and even individuals who feel they were unfairly targeted by the IRS. This type of abuse cannot be tolerated and so we are calling for nationwide protests tomorrow, May 21, 2013 at 12pm noon at local IRS offices. We'd like to give a hat tip to groups in Cincinnati who began planning the first IRS protest - due to the Cincinnati IRS location being outed as the division that was heading up the discrimination tactics. We are extremely excited that so many around the country are joining in solidarity. Will you stand with us tomorrow? Click to find the location nearest you.

You can access a page with all of the information at the Tea Party Patriots Citizens Fund website.
You can also download the tool kit here:

1. Talking Points
2. Sample Letter to the Editor
3. Sample Letter to Senator
4. Sample Tweets
5. Infographic Showing the IRS Scandal Timeline
6. A sample Press Release – IRS Abuse of Power
7. Sample Sign Messages for Protest
8. Sample Blog Post
9. Sample Press Release – IRS Protests

Focus on the Reason to Protest Tomorrow
As tomorrow nears, it is important for us to stay focused on the message. With everything that is going on - Benghazi, Amnesty, DOJ/AP scandal, IRS scandal - it is easy to try to point to specifics. What all of this shows us is that BIG GOVERNMENT policies do not work. Dana Loesch wrote an excellent piece on this today at RedState. Click to read the post.

Thanks again for all of your support.
-National Tea Party Patriots Support Team

In Liberty,
Mark Young and Greg Moon
Seattle Tea Party Patriots
Keli Tea Party Patriots

I'll be working, alas, and nowhere near an IRS office, nor able to "get away" at Noon. I hope we can get enough nationwide to make an impression. 

Honestly, this targeting of political opponents by government agencies is egregious enough that OFA, the Purple People Beaters, and #Occupy should be participating, too.

But I bet they don't.

Seen in The City (My The City)

On the way home from the Armed Forces Day event at Ft Lewis today -- pics and maybe even video to follow, maybe tomorrow -- we passed by the local Merchant of Death (that Mrs. Drang spoke of in Bang!) and spotted several large, cheery banners proclaiming SALE!!1!

Pulled a u-ie in the lot of a local apartment complex (don't tell!) and went back to see.  Very crowded.  Including the previously empty wall racks and, significantly, the hooks on the back wall that held the Evil Black Rifles -- all full again.  Also shelves in the glass cabinets.

Guns, guns, guns, all over the place.  And the prices look to be about where they were 6 months ago, too.  (Still not a lot of ammo, though, and that still ain't cheap.)

Coon-fingered a 22/45 w/threaded barrel and top and bottom picatinney rails.  Seems like just the thing for varmints; we are pretty sure there's a coyote den in the 'hood...

Chatted with the head instructor from the range, compared stories.  Will probably be taking some classes there, myself, hopefully at least some with Mrs. Drang.  (I want to check out their home defense and "tactical shotgun" courses.)  I'm also thinking about doing their carbine league.

(Some tell me they think this place is 'way too expensive, and they prefer West Coast Armory; WCA may be better, but it's so far away I can't convince myself that the price point is worth it.)

Leaving, Mrs. Drang spotted her new "wheels":

IRS Delenda Est

In addition to the flagrant politicization of the processing of tax exemptions for organizations --"OFA?  Right away!  Tea Party?  Come back in a decade!" -- we now have this:
Disabled Veterans Have Checks Stolen By IRS : Freedom Outpost

All I can say is that it is rapidly coming to this:

GOAL Post 2013 SPECIAL

I haven't actually checked my email yet this morning, but that's okay, someone else posted Joe Waldron's latest GOAL Post, a "special" for the special session of the WA Legislature.  So click the link and RTWT.

Raise a glass

Final five survivors of WWII Doolittle Raid on Tokyo to toast 'those who have gone' at 70th reunion of daring air strike | Mail Online

Seen at DP.

I find it a little annoying that it's reported in a Brit paper; a news search shows that it was also reported on Fox News and a variety of aviation and local news sources.

Earworm of the day, 05/13/13

Holy Cow!

http://www.flixxy.com/the-incredible-power-of-concentration-miyoko-shida.htm

No embed code, alas, you'll just have to click through to see this incredible performance yourself...

Newsflash!

I am told this is a very important development: Ball corporation pint-and-a-half canning jars are back in stock, for the first time in years.

Papierren, Bitte

DaddeyBear can translate into Russian.  I'd do Korean, but I haven't installed the Hangul font set on the computer, and don't own a Hangul keyboard.

Biometric Database of All Adult Americans Hidden in Immigration Reform | Threat Level | Wired.com.

Sheeple bleating "If you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to worry about!" in 3, 2...

And what was that His Imperial Majesty was saying about people who don't trust the government?

Seen at Instapundit. Who also posted a link to a Twitter post ("tweet" just sounds dumb) by Daniel Drenzer entitled “So, in all, this has been a pretty crappy week for people who dislike conspiracy theories.”

LLaL

Laughing Like a Loon:

Seen in comments at Tam's place.