Read my lipstick!

Don't Tread On Me!

T-Town Tax Day Tea Party at International Park

"When the representative body have lost the confidence of their constituents, when they have notoriously made sale of their most valuable rights, when they have assumed to themselves powers which the people never put into their hands, then indeed their continuing in office becomes dangerous."
- Thomas Jefferson


I've just returned from the Tea Party at International Park, Toledo, Ohio and took a few pictures, even though it was difficult with the drizzle. When one fellow, dressed in a nice suit, was walking toward me when I was aiming to take a picture, I joked and said, "Smile!" And he questioned, half-jokingly, "Are you with DHS?" I said, "No, David Ben-Ariel."


Having been in politico-religious demonstrations in Israel, aware of the Israeli government's tactics, like a bunch of Bolsheviks, it's sad that Americans now need to be concerned of leftist intimidation against our freedoms of speech and religion as we've become a police state and it's only going to get worse if folks don't act now.

Beyond Conspiracy: Police State America


"Shall I tell you what the real evil is? To cringe to the things that are called evils, to surrender to them our freedom, in defiance of which we ought to face any suffering."
-- Lucius Annaeus Seneca, c. 4 BC - 65 AD

The few photos I took testify that a growing number of Americans are teed-off, as the various signs of the times reveal. If I had made it a sign, it would have been:

Who cares about your dog? Show us YOUR papers!

Emperor Obama has got to go! Let justice be served and our Republic restored and our Constitution upheld, so help us God.


I was only there for about a half an hour, 12 - 12:30, and folks were still pouring in as I left, the parking lot packed.

The flag the fellow is holding in the wind reads, "Don't Tread On Me!"

East Side Toledo Bike Path is "Sweet"

This afternoon my neighbor's sons and I rode our bikes on the bike path starting behind McDonald's near International Park, going down under the Anthony Wayne Trail Bridge (agreeing we would walk across it soon, even though it's "really high" and I assured them they couldn't fall off) to the South entrance of International Park passing several women with children and strollers and a few adults on bikes, round to near the Boyer ship (where they wanted to fish a dead fish out of the water and I said no), continued along the walkway past the restaurants at The Docks, past the international flags we identified as we rode by them (me telling them which countries I had been to) and then up under the gazebo there in the park where some teenagers were talking, one telling the other to watch his language in front of the kids, apologizing to me, "Sir" (I must look my 47 years), as the other told him not to tell him what to do - that he was older than him, and then we went to some rocks and sand on the Maumee River under the Cherry Street Bridge and then leaving we rode by those same teens walking on the sidewalk and the one who earlier had cussed apologized to me as we rode by, shocking me, and I said it was ok.

When I asked the boys what they would say about the bike trail, the youngest said he liked that it was "flat" and they both said it was "sweet."

International Park Map
View of the S.S. Willis B. Boyer Museum Ship