Got an email a few minutes ago from JohN McCain’s campaign. I didn’t make it past the first paragraph. (Or the tittle:   Act Now to Stop a Democrat Takeover)

Dear Andrew,

Our Party needs to pull together, and we need to do it now.

Never in memory have the Democrats, liberal special interests groups, labor unions and unregulated “527″ soft-money groups come together with so much money and so much determination toward one purpose:Defeating Republicans.

Sir, 

You have made a career out of “working across the isle with Democrats”. On major issues when we needed a united party to defend the Constitution and conservative principles, you walked away from us. 

So now that you need us, the conservative Republicans, I find it hypocritical for you now play on the notion of stopping the Democrats from defeating Republicans. Frankly I find it amazing that you won the nomination. Lord knows that there were better choices for us conservatives in this race. 

That being said, you’re going to have to do more than just send us emails begging us to give you money to get you elected. We don’t trust you. Sure, we’re stuck with you, but we don’t have to like it. 

Rather than run around pandering to the Democrats and advocating liberal freedom squashing policies like global warming, why don’t you come and see us, listen to us, find out what makes us tick and what YOU have to do in order for us to help you. 

The choice is yours. You can continue to ignore us, take us for granted, and assume we are you campaign’s limitless ATM. But we’re not going to take it anymore. We are going out and finding solid conservatives who we not only agree with, but who don’t take us for granted. We’re going to help them get elected because they haven’t worked against our interests and issues in the past. 

We are pulling together and circling the wagons around the last remaining true conservatives in office, and those running for office to defeat liberals. We’re not lemmings. We have functioning brain stems. 

If you want to see a united party, I suggest you quit trying to make the party in your less than strict conservative image and join us for a change. 

Sincerely,

Andy Aplikowski

Blaine, Minnesota

www.residualforces.com

PS: Let’s just say you do win, keep in mind, I will be old enough to run in 2012. I’d like to take this chance to announce my intention to explore a run for President in 2012. 

(I preemptively numbered this post assuming it will be one of many fisking John McCain emails.)

(This post left intentionally blank since McCain isn’t being reported as coming to Minnesota this weekend. If time permits I will try to look into his schedule to see what he will be up to instead of winning the hearts and minds of Republican activists in here Minnesota.)

Bring Your TinFoil Hats, Ear Plugs, And A Cushion; The Republican Party State Convention is this weekend. 

Guess who’s coming to Minnesota on Friday. Ron Paul is coming to rile up his supporters for what could only be seen as more attempts at high jacking local parties for the losing cause that is Ron Paul’s Presidential run. 

Ron Paul
Live and In Person!
In Rochester Minnesota

 

Friday morning, May 30, 7:30 AM
At the Mayo Memorial Park
Directly behind the Civic Center

 

Now I know that doesn’t sound like a candidate who can see the writing on the wall. It doesn’t look like a guy who is giving up. It doesn’t look like a rally to tell his troops to do what they want rather than the no holds barred tactics they’ve planned. 

I loathe big conventions to begin with. I’d much rather volunteer for a committee spot or task the day of them then sit in the delegation listening to canned speeches (i’ve already heard) or lame parliamentary debates. This coming State Convention is going to be a fountain of lame for a guy like me. 

There is not a contested State-wide race. The Platform debate is going to be a mess due to all the insane and petty way more specific then should be stuff that has made it this far (mostly Libertarian crap, gee, wonder who). I pray that the time sat watching people argue Republican platform resolutions is repaid in heaven, because it is like hell on earth most of the time. And it is all for nothing since the elected officials don’t simply place the platform on the voting button and actually use their own judgement. 

Party platforms should be simple and based on core principles that one can grasp in 60 seconds by reading the few statements. You shouldn’t need a dictionary, encyclopedia, and 3 hours to figure out what it means to be Republican. And as specific as it has gotten, no one can possibly be 100% “pure”.

And what worse for a guy who really doesn’t like meaningless state conventions?

Yeah, it is 3 days long and down in Rochester. So this little event for the benefit of politicians and folks I could care less about right now in my life is going to cost me a few hundred dollars and prevent me from taking care of important business outside of the political world. 

PS: I decided against running for National Delegate. I figure I’ve pissed off both sides about as much as possible. McCain’s slate is being set up by people who hate the fact that this blog and I even exist. And well, we all know how I feel about the book tour that is the Ron Paul campaign. 

I’m just going to sit and wait and pray my dogs don’t drive my mom batty or ruin her house while I’m away. But of course there’s also the State Central Meeting which takes place immediately following the convention. From an email that came through to me this weekend, it seems that nothing is changing at the top, and the cover your ass strategy is contagious. 

In other words, don’t get frustrated by the fountain of lame, go local and focus on MN & US House races. 

My house made it through the storm un harmed yesterday. Minus the problem with none of the light switches working. Unfortunately I had just gotten 240 yards of sod about an hour before it rolled through. I got about a third of it down before the storm.

I just got back home after spending the night at my girlfriend’s house…. where the light switches did work. I am now going to go lay some more sod.

My Mom forwarded this one over this morning.

Remember the election in 2006?

Thought you might like to read the following

A little over one year ago:

1) Consumer confidence stood at a 2 1/2 year high;

2) Regular gasoline sold for $2.19 a gallon;

3) The unemployment rate was 4.5%.

Since voting in a Democratic controlled Congress in 2006 we have seen:

1) Consumer confidence plummet;

2) The cost of regular gasoline soar to over $4.00 a gallon;

3) Unemployment is up to 5% (a 10% increase);

4) American households have seen $2.3 trillion in equity value evaporate (stock and mutual fund losses);

5) Americans have seen their home equity drop by $1.2 trillion dollars;

6) 1% of American homes are in for foreclosure.

America voted for “change” in 2006, and we got it!

There’s a ton more in it. I’ll post more later.

This one is completely politically incorrect, but funny enough for a Friday before a long holiday weekend. 

Note: PG-13 (naughty words & stereotypical political incorrectness)
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(I tried to clean up the formatting as best I could)

This is too true to be funny.

What the heck happened?

The next time you hear a politician use the word ‘billion’ in a casual manner, think about whether you want the ‘politicians’ spending your tax money.

A billion is a difficult number to comprehend, but one advertising agency did a good job of putting that figure into some perspective in one of its releases.

A.
A billion seconds ago it was 1959.
B.
A billion minutes ago Jesus was alive.
C.
A billion hours ago our ancestors were living in the Stone Age.
D.
A billion days ago no-one walked on the earth on two feet.
E.
A billion dollars ago was only 8 hours and 20 minutes, at the rate our government is spending it.

While this thought is still fresh in our brain, let’s take a look at New Orleans. It’s amazing what you can learn with some simple division.

Louisiana Senator,
Mary Landrieu (D),
is presently asking the Congress for $250 BILLION to rebuild New Orleans . Interesting number, what does it mean?

A.
Well, if you are one of 484,674 residents of New Orleans (every man, woman, child), you each get $516,528.

B.
Or, if you have one of the 188,251 homes in New Orleans, your home get $1,329,787.

C.
Or, if you are a family of four, your family gets $2,066,012.

Washington, D. C .
HELLO!

Are all your calculators broken?

Accounts Receivable Tax

Building Permit Tax

CDL License Tax

Cigarette Tax

Corporate Income Tax

Dog License Tax

Federal Income Tax

Federal Unemployment Tax (FUTA)

Fishing License Tax

Food License Tax

Fuel Perm it Tax

Gasoline Tax

Hunting License Tax

Inheritance Tax

Inventory Tax

IRS Interest Charges (tax on top of tax),

IRS Penalties (tax on top of tax),

Liquor Tax,

Luxury Tax,

Marriage License Tax,

Medicare Tax,

Property Tax,

Real Estate Tax,

Service charge taxes,

Social Security Tax,

Road Usage Tax (Truckers),

Sales Taxes,

Recreational Vehicle Tax,

School Tax,

State Income Tax,

State Unemployment Tax (SUTA),

Telephone Federal Excise Tax,

Telephone Federal Universal Service Fe e Tax,

Telephone Federal, State and Local Surcharge Tax,

Telephone Minimum Usage Surcharge Tax,

Telephone Recurring and

Non-recurring Charges Tax,

Telephone State and Local Tax,

Telephone Usage Charge Tax,

Utility Tax,

Vehicle License Registration Tax,

Vehicle Sales Tax,

Watercraft Registration Tax,

Well Permit Tax,

Workers Compensation Tax.

STILL THINK THIS IS FUNNY?

Not one of these taxes existed 100 years ago, and our nation was the most prosperous in the world.

We had absolutely no national debt, had the largest middle class in the world, and Mom stayed home to raise the kids.

What happened?
Can you spell ‘politicians!’

And I still have to ‘press 1′
for English.

I hope this goes around the USA
at least 100 times

Well, I gotta get my butt going and get to work so I can pay all those taxes. 

Thankfully it is Friday, unfortunately I’ll be working this weekend too. 

…..Elected officials are the last people you want setting policy. This is a snippet from a PiPress commentary rebutting the arguments against domestic energy sources from Sen. Amy Klobuchar (Emily’s List MN)

These proven solutions are not without their down-sides and environmental costs — and Congress must intensify the demand for technological answers — but we are a producer nation that is totally dependent on abundant and reliable energy. Our domestic supplies of coal, oil and natural gas offer the most immediate hope for a nation whose energy needs are increasing, not decreasing.

Read the rest. You too Senator, make that both of you. Unless of course you share the goals of the environmental leftists and those using the notion of “climate Change” as a tool to unravel the American way of life. 

Congresswoman Michele Bachmann (R MN6) joined the blogoshpere this week and is now on True North as well. 

Her latest post is a perfect example of what the Republican Party and this country needs.,…. common sense on energy policy. 

I put $205 of diesel into my truck this weekend on my way back from the cabin. Between you and me, I really want that to go down, not up. 

President Bush vetoed the Pork Farm bill this morning.

WASHINGTON - President Bush vetoed the $300 billion farm bill on Wednesday, calling it a tax increase on regular Americans at a time of high food prices in the face of a near-certain override by Congress.

It was the 10th veto of Bush’s presidency. But since it passed both houses of Congress with veto-proof majorities, his action will likely be overridden.

The president believes the legislation is fiscally irresponsible and gives away too much money to wealthy farmers, yet his criticism rang hollow with lawmakers from both parties who voted for increased crop subsidies, food stamps for the poor and other goodies to help their districts in an election year.

Both Houses passed it with large majorities, but will they override? They will try so today according to radio reports.

What will Sen. Coleman do? I’d say to give him a call, but what’s the point? Sustaining the veto would be the fiscal conservative thing to do, and he has been running around the state saying he would vote to override.

How much longer must the America taxpayers be forced to pay for other people’s pet projects before we throw the bums out of Washington who don’t under stand that we are not ATMs and that pork is a major part of the corruption we loathe?

Rep. Bachmann (R MN6) & Ramstad (R MN3) both voted against the Bill. Rep. Kline voted for it along with Sen. Coleman. All Democrats voted for it, naturally.

Will Congress place another $300 billion of debt load for handouts and subsidies on the backs of Americans, or will common sense and fiscal sanity prevail. Time will tell. I for one think it is time to return our Government back to being run by the people.

Can you say term limits?

PS: I still haven’t gotten my deficit spending stimulus check yet. Maybe if I was a farmer or had a K Street lobbyist it wouldn’t have taken 5 months getting around to placate me.