While the rest of you were all in attendance at the various Tea Parties being held around the U.S.A., collie, the Mrs. and I were attending to family business. Announcing the first official Tea Party Baby! -- born to us at precisely 6:00 AM PDT on April 15th, 2009 here in an undisclosed suburb of Seattle. Vital statistics: Baby boy weighing in at 7 pounds 5 ounces and 20 inches long. Disposition: Mother and baby are doing fine (although the CyberCipher is somewhat sleep deprived and collie remains, shall we say, "unimpressed".) I promised all of the participants at HotAir.com and MichelleMalkin.com pictures -- and never let it said the collie and the CyberCipher don't deliver on their promises. So without further ado, here ya' go:

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CyberCipher had to work today, so I snuck out of the house and caught the bus to Westlake Park in downtown Seattle with CC's video camera in tow.

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While the debate over Obama Derangement Syndrome (ODS) rages on (e.g. here) and the propensity of some folks to invoke Godwin's law when discussing President Elect Obama is decried as shameful behavior akin to the kind of "stuff" routinely seen at web sites like Daily KOS, I nevertheless remain puzzled and alarmed by one thing, viz. the numbers. After taking a good look at the numbers, how is it that black people in the United States overwhelmingly perceive the election of Barack Obama as some kind of victory for their people/race?

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Republicans are now running an ad that finally hits back hard on the Mother Of All Bailouts (MOAB) that was precipitated by the Community Re-Investment Act (CRA). Here's a link to the YouTube version of the ad entitled "What Just Happened?"

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Everyone needs to see this YouTube slide show and elected government officials, especially Democrats, need to own up to their role/involvement in the current economic apocalype. Burning Down The House - What Caused Our Economic Crisis?

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