Protesters On Grand

On my way to Arby's to pick up one of their excellent Reuben sandwiches and their even better Jamocha shakes on Friday about mid-day I came across a small group of normal-looking people waving signs in front of Computer Village and Denny Rehberg's branch office here in Billings. I'm guessing they were not big Obama fans See the picture to the left.

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I asked the guy in the blue shirt above what the occasion was. He said that some of them were from the Sierra Club but I don't think they were waving the sign "Drill-Baby-Drill." Maybe they were trying to infiltrate the tea party protesters who showed up after the Sierra Club folks.

I saw one of the Sierra Club walk away kind of angry looking, probably because her sign was so lame. See it on the sidewalk to the right. The tea party people seemed to be having a good time.

Maybe Denny Rehberg is running for office this early and called on his ace quick responders. I don't think we've heard the last of these good folks, though the main stream media probably won't have much to do with them.

Some Ideas Have Consequences

Some pictures of a Tea Party meeting in Concord New Hampshire.

The Heritage Foundation is always good for useful information. Our so-called representatives in Washington DC should check this site out.

I was talking to a friend from college days who said he was going to a Tea Party meeting in Concord NH. I asked him to take some pictures. See below. But first, just to remind ourselves how this whole thing got started. I mean in recent years, no in Revolutionary times of course. Remember Rick Santelli on the floor of CBOT?

More pictures of the Tea Party meeting in Concord NH.

These people look like fairly normal people to me. No guns. No Bibles here anyway. Just peacefully petitioning their representatives with their grievances. I am pretty sure I went to college with that guy in the blue collared shirt on the right.

Tea Party in Billings

Around 12:30pm today I was driving up 27th St and found these folks parading from the Yellowstone County Courthouse down toward the Post Office.


It was fairly cold and rainy, so I just waved and took a few pictures from the car with my trusty pocket camera.

It looked like there were some interesting signs. I suspect while I was on 27th St there were several hundred people there, of varying ages, all looking fairly normal, at least to my eyes.

"Don't Tread On Me" looks like a fairly traditional flag of protest.





Maybe the starting point was the
Courthouse to the
right.