On a beautiful Southern California Sunday afternoon in San Diego, the Tea Party Express II (also known as the Keep Unemployable Howard Kaloogian Out of Gangs Tour) kicked off yesterday and, out a population of 1.3 million, an impressive one thousand (1000! … 1-0-0-0 … 400 less than the size of my high school graduating class) patriots showed up and, as always, the message was muddled:

(Image Peggy Peattle SDUT)

(Image Peggy Peattle SDUT)

More pictures here.

They seem to be dealing with issues other than taxes although for the life of me I can’t put my finger on it.