Hey, just cuz Minneapolis has canceled their New Year’s celebration doesn’t mean you have to. Have a happy and safe night tonight folks.

Stay tuned, I will be doing something special to recap the year of RF sometime tomorrow.

That’s pretty much the message from a bunch of people who sent me emails overnight with the link to Fred Thompson’s video to Iowegians on the eve’s eve’ eve of the Caucus. 

I’m down at the girlfriends, and my wireless signal is running like molasses in Juneau, so I can’t get it to load, and that means I haven’t seen it yet.  I hope it is as good as they say it is. 

Don’t forget I’ll be on KTLK 100.3FM again on New Year’s Eve morning. Sue Jefers and I will be filling in for Dan Conry from 9 to 11 AM. You can listen online here.  651-989-KTLKWe should be joined by Rep. Tom Emmer, as well as talking about notable stories and quotes from the year. 

Gary at Let Freedom Ring clears up another MSM attack on Fred Thompson. And that is where you can find out the rest of the REAL story. 

Mike Huckabee is making John Kerry look like a pro-hunter… not to mention a person of class.

Republican Mike Huckabee took his presidential campaign for a quick pheasant-hunting expedition in Iowa on Wednesday, and at one point, a reporter asked why he hadn’t invited sporting enthusiast Dick Cheney along. “Because I want to survive all the way through this,” Huckabee replied, in a chuckling dig at the vice president’s accidental shooting of a quail-hunting partner last year.

What a classless punk. Seriously Mr. Huckabee, do you really have to pick up on every single left wing attack joke about Bush and Cheney? And people call me the worst Republican ever.

Any good sportsman, though, couldn’t miss a distinctly Cheneyesque moment in the press accounts of the former Arkansas governor’s morning hunt: At one point, Huckabee’s party turned toward a cluster of reporters and cameramen and, when they kicked up a pheasant, fired shotgun blasts over the group’s heads.

This, friends, is dangerously bad hunting form.

I think the Huckster is trying a bit too hard to prove himself. Either he is a terribly dangerous hunter, or he is desperate to win over the 2nd Amendment conservatives doing something that is completely unnatural to him. That is hunting and carrying a firearm.

Suffice to say, if any of our hunting mates had pulled a stunt like Huckabee’s yesterday, we never would have invited them back. It’s the sort of behavior that drives safety-conscious hunters up the wall, because it reinforces a reckless, gun-totin’ stereotype.

My colleague James Oliphant reports that Huckabee’s party was about 75 yards away from the press corps Wednesday when a pheasant jumped up and flew toward the reporters, drawing several shots. “That was too close,” he reports a cameraman saying.

And he was making jokes about Cheney only moments before.

Huckabee emerged happily from his hunt, three dead pheasants in tow, Oliphant reports. Asked for a metaphor to describe the hunt, he replied, “Don’t get in my way. This is what happens.“

Huckabee for President? No way in heck, and I don’t care if he threatens to shoot me. Over my dead body.

So DFLer Linda Pfeilsticker blows a .17 and almost no one on the left is outraged at the irresponsibility of driving an automobile at nearly twice the legal limit. Plus Pfeilsticker is not going to let a little irresponsibility get in the way of becoming a lawmaker, she’s going to continue her run for the State House.

Pfeilsticker & Sen. Metzen: The ‘power hour’ caucus?

One of the guests Sue Jeffers and I had on when we sat in for Dan Conry on KTLK 100.3FM was Professor Al Pekarek who is one of the growing number of scientists who dispute the lunacy that is the Global warming movement. The truth is that the Earth’s climate is always changing, and there is little humans can do to change that.

But that isn’t stopping Gov. Tim Pawlenty (Sierra Club MN) from teaming up with the man made global warming fearmongers. He’s still touch and go as to whether he will accept Will Steger’s invitation to consume vast amounts of fossil fuels flying up to the Arctic Circle to see that ice actually melts and freezes. (who knew!)

In the end, the Governor may realize he cannot take his base for granted and his leftward drift on green issues could end up being the final straw for him with conservatives, so he may refuse the grand photo op so many lefties have taken already.

But the Governor has decided to Steger is not untouchable, and will be appearing with him next week in Northern Minnesota to try to convince people to buy into the non-sense that is the current agenda of environmentalism. (Read: An end to your way of life.)

Explorer Will Steger and Gov. Tim Pawlenty are teaming up again on global warming.

Pawlenty and Steger will host a community forum to discuss climate change next Friday in Ely.

The meeting at Vermilion Community College will include representatives of the mining and paper industries, academic experts and union advocates. Pawlenty’s office announced the Jan. 4 meeting on Thursday.

This is a prime example of getting in bed with your political enemies, “Union advocates”. Why in the world are union advocates part of the Governor’s environutter agenda? These are the people who work harder to defeat Republicans and conservatives than  …..

It is just astonishing to see Pawlenty jump into the Al Gore deep end of the kool aid filled global warming lunacy pool, what’s worse are his swim partners he is now choosing.

I’ll be on KTLK FM 100.3 Thursday morning with Sue Jeffers again. This morning was an absolute blast. Tune in from 8 to 11 as we sit in for Dan Conry.We should be joined bySen. David Hann (R SD42) We’ll also have a Professor on to discuss Global Warming. You can listen online as well. Go to the KTLK webpage, and click on the listen live button at the top.

Guess who is going to be on KTLK FM 100.3 tomorrow morning with Sue Jeffers?

Tune in from 8 to 11 as we sit in for Dan Conry this Wed and Thur morning.

You can listen online as well. Go to the KTLK webpage, and click on the listen live button at the top.

Did y’all get to have a 4 day weekend? Yeah, I was supposed to, but weather got in the way. Despite Al Gore and Tim Pawlenty’s insistence that man is the cause of global warming and the Earth is broken, winter is hitting in Minnesota. When winter hits, snow falls. And when snow falls, I have to plow. Its Christmas Eve morning, and I am up at 4:30AM. Well, off to work. Merry ChristmasAAAPS: I bet this will make a good excuse to be crabby tonight at Dinner. Sweeeeeet