I'm surprised that you even check with MSNBC. You must be a masochist. They will have their predictable poison spin. So what? This is just a warm up. A lot of people I know have never bothered to be 'the ones' in the streets before. It should be serious fun.

Ignore ... ignore ... ignore.

When you can't ignore any more, mock and trivialize.

Any questions?

I see no puppets.

Kooks will come out to any rally. They did not define the rallies. Same can't be said of anti-Bush rallies.

And, by the way, the Tea Party movement is not against Obama, per se — espeically on a personal level. It's against the state running our lives and confiscating most of the fruit of our hard-earned labor (isn't sending 50 percent or more to our governments enough?)

These exceptions prove the rule. Nearly 1 million people protested, peacefully and in a civil if spirited manner. Get back to me 1,000 protests from now.

Glad that you've registered, Trevor. Seriously. Stick around. Comment often. We monkeys love to throw poo around here.

Let's take your poo piece by piece ...

And a "kook" is a pretty subjective definition. I think someone who complains about getting a tax cut is a kook.

Certainly. What was Norm complaining about? Not being doled out $400 by his government. He was complaining about his economic freedom being trampled. People with a good sense of economic freedom don't cheer the government deciding — out of the goodness of its heart — sending him a $400 check, which won't even cover the payment on a hybrid the government insists we drive.

Someone who didn't complain when a Republican ran up trillions in debt to create massive wealth inequalities, but does complain when a Democrat attempts to re-strengthen the middle class is, to me, the kook.

Do you know that Norm didn't complain? Quite an assumption there, Trevor. For the record, we Monkeys complained a lot. Obama and the Dem Congress proposes racking up debt by a factor of 10 — more debt in their plan than in the entire history of this country combined. Doubling the current debt in five years, and tripling it in 10 years. So, yeah. It's reason to protest ... while holding the child who will be left with the bill in one's arms.

Restrengthen the middle class? Are you serious? Obama and the Dems just imposed a HUGE increase in the tobacco tax. Who pays for that? The "middle class" and "lower," the kind of factory workers and (frankly) welfare recipients and working poor who smoke. And an "energy" tax from Obama's asinine "cap-and-trade" scheme to combat phantom global warming will sock everyone. You wanna impress me? Get your guy to cut payroll taxes and entitlements. That's real reform.

To you, someone who didn't want to see his cousin blow up in Iraq or his friend commit suicide from untreated PTSD is a kook.

Nice view of our military you have, Trevor. Ask an Army Ranger or a Navy SEAL if he agrees with that description of himself and his buddies. And you better have an ice pack handy when you ask.

Or would I only have been a kook if I engaged in some "street theater"? You see, when we protested the Iraq war when we didn't have our own cable channel to help us get attention.

A little street theater would have impressed me ... and identified you as a kook with more time than marketable skills can fill. Your own cable channel? Please. Ever hear of MSNBC or CNN or the BBC?

One million yesterday? Please.

Sue me, then. Estimates are from a half-million to 1 million at this moment. Not to shabby considering, unlike the left, conservative activists don't have the money, nor unions, nor professional activists to bus in lay-abouts to pump up the numbers like you guys do.

And the state is running your life? What is the state preventing you from doing?

If Obama has his way, my health insurance will be run by the kinds of incompetents that operate Homeland Security. I'm currently prevented, as a resident of California, from operating my car without paying about $200 annually to the state — for little good reason. Auto registration should not be so punitive. Taxes and surcharges discourage all sorts of ordinary activity. Obama sees himself as a guy with all the answers for American citizens. Whether you need help or not, just go along for the good of everyone.

The cars we drive? Directed by the government. How often we burn our fireplaces? California has decreed. What the market price for energy is? Screw the market. The government will decide. Etc.