Albemarle Co. Virginia – MSNBC reports that the FBI and local authorities are investigating a disconnected propane line at the home of the brother of Rep Tom Perriello (D), who voted for healthcare reform. Tea partiers had posted the address online thinking it was Perriello’s house.  [MSNBC] UPDATE: Cville has more.

It’s about violence, real or threatened, and the Kenyan in the White House:

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But wait, there’s more:
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Now they’re mocking Parkinson’s victims:

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Today’s DC Tea Party box score: 300 (sez Dems), 2,000 (sez flack). You keep going to the well, the well runs dry. [Politico]

We’ve been ignoring the Dimwit News out of Texas all week, but it just keeps coming, so let’s share…

• The photo above is from Sunday’s Rick Perry rally, featuring Sarah Palin and Ted Nugent. Everyone got a chuckle when the Houston Press published it, but now Perry opponent (and former Demrat Houston mayor) Bill White has posted it on his Facebook page. [via SFL]

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The Super Bowl of Tea Parties is under way in Nashville!

“If you take 1,000 so-called tea partiers and ask them what this movement is, you’ll get 1,000 different interpretations,” said Mark Williams, a talk-radio host and chairman of the Tea Party Express. “But they’re all waving American flags and speaking out against the galloping socialist agenda.”

We hope they brought their own flags, however:

There was no prayer or Pledge of Allegiance to open the convention — nor was there an American flag in the convention hall. ([Convention spokesman Mark] Skoda blamed the oversight on the hotel staff.)

Let’s see: No flags, no prayer, no Pledge — sounds like the Galloping Socialist Agenda is doing just fine.

Tea Party convention begins in Nashville [WaPo]

Judson Phillips, whose for-profit Tea Party Convention begins today, demonstrates how his acute grasp of math will soak his event in red ink, understating the Bush Deficit by a mere trillion dollars.

Tea Party profiteer downplays Bush’s fiscal mess before throwing him under the bus [ThinkProgress]