Apr 16th 2010 By Asylum Staff

'Obama = Secret Muslin' and Other Signs From Tea Party Tax Day Protests

Those nutty Tea Party people were at it again yesterday, this time organizing nationwide protests to demand free nachos for America! OK, the "free nachos" part of that statement is a total lie -- but man, wouldn't free nachos be awesome?

In reality -- although "reality" is a word rarely used to describe the hilariously poor spellers who support the Tea Party movement -- the protests concerned taxation, seeing as how it was April 15 and all. Clever!

Asylum sent correspondents to four Tea Party Tax Day gatherings around the country. Frequent contributor Harmon Leon traveled over 100 miles round-trip to hit protests both at Alameda County Fairgrounds in Pleasanton, Calif., and in San Francisco's Union Square. We also had photographers on the ground at events in Grand Prairie, Texas, and Kingston, N.Y.

Click through the photos to see images from the four gatherings.

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San Fran Body Art Tattoo Expo

The best tattoo artists in the country gathered to make human canvases out of attendees. Shops boasting names like Fonzy's Ink Spot, Johnny Casino's, Mark of the Tiki, Ink Therapy, and Mom's Body Shop left their permanent marks behind on their clients -- and their backs.

San Fran Body Art Tattoo Expo

The Cow Palace was turned into a virtual house of pain, where supportive friends clenched the hands of those in need of a new tramp stamp.

San Fran Body Art Tattoo Expo

Unfortunate tattoo choices were also on display. Getting the "Fart!" tattoo on your rear would be a firm commitment to never getting laid again. This tattoo boldly declares, "I don't want to have sex with another human being ever again, and I clearly don't care."

San Fran Body Art Tattoo Expo

The main event at the Body Art Expo was the big tattoo contest, which was judged by the likes of ink legend Rick "Papa" Walters. "Papa Rick tattoed Jesus Christ," proclaimed the emcee to the (literally) colorful crowd.

San Fran Body Art Tattoo Expo

The judging was done on the basis of clarity, colors, how it heals, and the piece as a whole. Suggestion to Hollywood: The concept of a big-stakes tattoo contest could make for a great Will Ferrell movie.

San Fran Body Art Tattoo Expo

This guy's back proves he's fully committed to the lifestyle. He's the Michael Jordan of the tattoo contest -- a past champ numerous times over. "I got my first tattoo at 15," said the human art display. "It was done with a needle and a bottle of ink. I have 13 tattoos underneath."

San Fran Body Art Tattoo Expo

Scary dudes come on stage shirtless to show off their chest tattoos. A nightmare scenario would be to meet these guys while hearing the phrase, "Welcome to prison!"

San Fran Body Art Tattoo Expo

More scary guys!

San Fran Body Art Tattoo Expo

Each limb was made a separate tattoo category as contestants took to the stage and showed off their decorated appendages for the judges.

San Fran Body Art Tattoo Expo

Now if you're going to be in a tattoo contest in the best leg tattoo category, why not wear shorts? The whole "hopping around stage, holding half your pants up" thing really isn't the most flattering look.

San Fran Body Art Tattoo Expo

Tags: funny signs - FunnySigns - nachos - obamacare - protesters - san francisco - SanFrancisco - Sarah Palin - SarahPalin - taxes - Tea Party - tea party movement - TeaParty - TeaPartyMovement - union square - UnionSquare

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Friday 16 April

By Whoeverwhatever

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Oh your not bias at all!! Ok 1 sign miss spelled big deal and now you dub the whole movement nutty and hilariously poor spellers. Kinda makes you look like a bigot when you classify a group of people based on one sign.

Friday 16 April

By Surprised

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Is anyone supposed to be surprised that Asylum (and the rest of the AOL affiliated sites) are lining up to mock tea-partiers? Look, I don't subscribe to ANY political party/group/organization. If you don't agree with them fine, but to purposefully try to discredit someone just because you don't agree makes you look like a partisan hack. Find me a group, any group that doesn't have the 10% idiot crowd. It's like the first 5 rows of any church. Thats ok though, I used to come to this site daily. I supported your advertisers and enjoyed your content. Unfortunately I will just have to change my habits. Not due to some crazy "OMG the mocked Palin/Tea party/etc" form of boycott, honestly it's because you show a lack of understanding. You don't want people with political views different from your own on your website unless it's to mock them. You belittle people who are finally getting involved in the process, you mock Christians (exclusively), and your form of tolerance is obviously only representative of one side of an issue.

It's ok, much love for ya, I'll take my time and clicks elsewhere. I hope you find the viewers you deem acceptable and profitable.

Friday 16 April

By Hurricane

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So you found 1 guy who can't spell. Big effing deal. Go to any lefty rally and you'll find 100.

Not to mention all those smart hippies that use a Mercedes Benz symbol as a peace sign because they don't know any better.

God bless the Tea Party folk. Keep it up!

Thursday 10 February

By JCfromNC

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*facepalm*

Peace Symbol

Friday 16 April

By Red

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Who knew so many teabaggers read Asylum? Isn't that like spying on the enemy? You guys here do prefer coffee over tea, right?

There must be a comedy site dedicated to right-wingers. Oh yeah, foxnews. That site makes me lol out loud. Funny clips. I wouldn't have clicked on it if I didn't think it would be. Common sense and all...

Friday 16 April

By Brian (PC gamer extraordinaire)

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yea, i always go to fox when i'm in need of some humor.

Friday 16 April

By poppajo8

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Where would you recommend everyone get their unbiased news? Please, enlighten everyone with the ideal news source.

Friday 16 April

By Atticus Templar

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can someone kill these idiots? please?

Friday 16 April

By Whoeverwhatever

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Let me guess your a compassionate liberal. I can tell because you want to put an end to free speech and kill anyone that doesn't agree with you.

Monday 19 April

By Daniel

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you better read the polls Asylum...

Obama said army Corps wrong like three times in the same speech and no one made fun of him??????

Dude... get a life....

try going to a TEA party.... Its not what the media reports...

Sunday 06 June

By vix

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where do these people get the time to protest during the day? Oh I forgot, they are on the dole and are protesting against themselves. Damn those people who sit home all day getting entitlements!

It's funny to see these people are mad and being worked up into a frenzy by people who have only their self interests at heart....yes, Glenn Beck is a entertainer who deals in hyperbole and the more he riles you up the more money he makes. Tools!

Monday 19 April

By drathx

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@whoeverwhatever Let me guess, your a concerned conservative. Hate to break it to you but your favorite man started all this trouble, remember? Starting unnecessary wars that cost billions of dollars? The patriot act(you know that one that gave the government power to spy on you and take away your rights)? Quadrupling the size of government? Kind of sounds like the opposite of what your going for. But hey he didnt rasie taxes so our national debt tripled too. Sounds like you guys know what your doing. Oh and throw in overly racist and homophobes and you got a party you can trust.

Sunday 06 June

By vix

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The thing is, the tea party is the fringe mepublican voter, they are not new voters who just popped up out of the woodwork to wreck havoc on our do nothing congress. They just happened to pop up when we elected a black man to the white house. They claim to want to take back our over taxing government but they don't have a leg to stand on when stats show we are paying the lowest in tax rates in the last 30 years. You see these signs and you wonder who is feeding them this information, but I know the answer to that one. I just wish these people would think for themselves do a little research instead of being spoonfed by people who are getting rich off them, but that is the American way God bless it (and God bless the world after all he created it)