I killed bushes!

Paul Douglas has been fired from WCCO. The station is in mid purge of anchors and employees and the Global Warming champion must have put them over the carbon cap. 

Paul Douglas, WCCO’s longtime weatherman, was released today from the station as part of a nationwide CBS purge, a wide-ranging and dramatic response to dwindling ad revenue and viewership.

Douglas, who also serves as a Star Tribune columnist, joins at least five WCCO employees, including weekend anchor John Reger, who were told their services were no longer needed as the CBS corporation reacts to a sluggish economy and stiff competition from the Internet.

“Times are tough, many people are losing their jobs and I am not exempt from this troubling trend,” Douglas said in a letter he e-mailed today  to close friends. “I was the target at a time when there are systemic, long-term challenges.”

What?!!!!! You mean daily fearmongering and fact fabricating trying to pry liberty and freedom from Americans all in the name of neo-socialist global warming junk science hasn’t been raking in the profits? I can’t believe that all the liberal Al-Gore-is-a-god lunacrats haven’t been buying ad time and helping the station. 

All kidding aside, we all know that bleeding heart liberalism doesn’t sell, and WCCO is pretty much worst of the worst when it comes to biased news media outlets. 

So, I’m up at 4 AM in the Springtime at a time when Lunacrats are trying to tell me that we’re facing Global Warming and I must sacrifice all freedom and liberty and turn over decision making to the Government who knows what’s best…… except I’m up this early in the Spring to go into work and plow snow…..

Well, the good thing is we don’t have to worry about how Major League Baseball would score a game that was canceled due to a blizzard…… Well, that is until the Twins open their new stadium up that Uncle Carl was too cheap to put a roof on himself.

Happy global warming day, I’m sure glad I didn’t participate in Earth hour Saturday, there’s no telling how bad the snow would have been…..

I have a letter in the Star Tribune today.

BACHMANN’S BULBS
The other side
In the March 26 Blog House, Tim O’Brien decided to run a partisan attack from a DFL blogger against Rep. Michele Bachmann. O’Brien decided to note their off-topic attacks and even used the phrase ‘dim bulb’ as a lead in.

My blog, residualforces.com, also addressed the subject, but mine was in support of Bachmann and her plan to save the light bulb, so it was ignored.

I wrote, “In an attempt to reverse the stupefying move by the dim bulbs who wrote and supported the energy bill, Rep. Michele Bachmann (R MN6) is authoring a bill to bring back the light bulb. … In case you didn’t know, the recent energy bill has put the incandescent light bulb on the endangered species list and will ban the sale of them altogether in the very near future. Bachmann opposed the social engineering Energy bill which actually created no new energy and, in fact, was designed to make it harder and more expensive to get reliable and abundant energy.”

Maybe my comments just didn’t fit the anti-Bachmann agenda. Liberals always seem to demand choice, so long as they get to control the options. (You can also find some more fabulous factual coverage at truthvmachine.com.)

So for those of you who read O’Brien’s column, please keep in mind that what Bachmann is trying to do is allow you to choose the light bulb you want — it has nothing to do with bedrooms.

ANDY APLIKOWSKI, BLAINE

Here’s the post I quoted. Bachmann Aims To Bring Back Da Bulbs

So Al Gore is now going to try to shame people into submission on Global Warming.

(CBS) Self-avowed “P.R. agent for the planet” Al Gore says those who still doubt that global warming is caused by man - among them, Vice President Dick Cheney - are acting like the fringe groups who think the 1969 moon landing never really happened, or who once believed the world is flat.

And to that, I Andy Aplikowski, one who he is attacking, would respond by saying:

People who think man has and will destroy the planet Earth in a matter of a few years are just like those that thought the Earth is the center of the Universe.

I should note that I just put my GlobalClimateScam.com sticker on my truck about an hour ago after washing her.

(picture coming soon) Just to make Al Gore proud.)

Have you heard about Rep. Jim Oberstar’s (D MN8) bill that would basically federalize any body of water, or low spot that may hold water in America? Probably not, since it is one of the biggest power grabs ever attempted in the US, but it is done by a Democrat.

Washington DC – Today, Congressman Jim Oberstar is introducing legislation to fix the Clean Water Act after it was damaged by two U.S. Supreme Court rulings. The pair of rulings issued in 2001 and 2006 question the ability of the Environmental Protection Agency and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to enforce the Clean Water Act on wetlands, streams and ponds that are not part of a major “navigable” waterway.

Now  Oberstar says the bill won’t create “onerous” new rules and regulations, but it will empower the Federal Government to take over or regulate your land.

Excluding immigration, how many laws does the US Government ignore or not enforce?

Folks Oberstar’s bill will destroy the American way of life. It will not only affect land development, but also recreation. As I understand it, this bill will also open the door to regulate the use of bodies of water, IE boating.

Minnesota, Land of 10,000 lakes, none of which you can use.

Ed notes how the AP just can’t get the facts straight about how Kyoto has a history of being rejected in the US.

Once again, the AP has failed to report the history of this treaty correctly. While Bush does not support the Kyoto approach, he had nothing to do with rejecting the pact. The Senate rejected it in 1997, almost four years before Bush took office. When Al Gore pushed Bill Clinton to sign the treaty, the Senate reacted by passing a resolution informing Clinton that Kyoto would not get ratified.

We’ve rejected both Kyoto and McCain’s own ‘Kyoto 2.0′ before. This is a wealth redistribution program, with the hidden agenda of killing the American economy.

What a crappy week. Put in over 55 hours at work. Non-stop manual labor with no down time. Lunch break, try inhaling a bite in 15 minutes between things.  Throw in meetings almost every night, and that leaves for one tired AAA. So I was supposed to head to the cabin last night, but when i finally left work at about 7 last night (like almost every day this week) after starting at 7 AM, and I hadn’t even had a chance to pack up yet, and I had no strength to do it. Too much sod laid, too many fire hoses dragged, too my digging, lifting, and running around coordinating road crews, gas line replacement, and other things that just pop up in the course of the week. I like week ends, because they mean this week is over. Yeah!

Add to that, a sharp shooting pain in my lower back that makes simply moving a painful chore now, and I surrendered to crashing last night. I really have no clue what’s going on in the news, and I am far too tired to care. Some people may be pissed I didn’t post some things, but too bad. I’ve been too busy to even spend time with my dogs, so back the frack off.

And besides, some people think I suit the DFL’s agenda better than the GOP, so quite honestly, I could care less about blogging right now. The fact that some people think I do no good, pisses me off. Why is it that some people think they own the ….

What was once a mandatory passion is now a sore spot as some people don’t like the way I do it. I say frack them, but I am just getting tired of people thinking they can tell me how to be me. I’m finally getting to that point many people reach where you have too much going on, and you need to cut some things out. Well, since I have no real life, there’s no frills to cut there. Being active in politics, well, it sounds like the most appealing.

Quit poli-blogging, well, this week it has seriously crossed my mind. if no one appreciates it, why in the hell do I bust my ass doing it? I may be ready to walk away from it all and have a real normal life, since, after all, everything, all the political and blogging crap I do, is for free and I don’t get a dime to do it, and in fact, it ends up costing me a lot, money, time, and stress. It all feels like it is not worth it anymore. I think that is because it isn’t anymore.

So I am about to head out of town this morning to get the heck out of this goll darn town, but before I do I want to post this email from earlier this week from a person I know.

With all the buzz in the late days of the Minnesota Legislature’s 2007 session, it seems to me I have figured out a personal course to help the state’s fortunes. I’m switching parties at the next election and voting DFL.

Yessiree! I’m going to help Minnesota do what was suggested in an editorial in today’s paper, to cause the rich and almost rich to leave the state if they won’t pay more tax. It would help our transportation issues significantly if they took their businesses with them, as some have already done. Less business mean less people driving to work, which would allow our land of ten thousand lakes to be what it is most suited for; a state-wide retirement community. We’d still have hospitality and entertainment jobs, but workers would have to compete with retirees looking to stay active and supplement retirement incomes.

Our own experience teaches us that some folks won’t move, but will commute every other weekend to other states. Well, that’s better than to-from work here five days a week on highways that are underfunded and mortgaged to our children.

We’ll need to lower the state tax by 50% at least, to encourage wealthy folks to retire here and withdraw the 401k they accumulated working elsewhere.

Oh, and as for education, we’ll need less of it. You see, the reality would be that 21 year old graduates would have to look for jobs in other states. So, they may as well be educated by other states, as many are now anyway as a result of the high cost of state education.

My wife and I will finally be united in all things after 27 years of marriage. I just won’t mention that she’ll likely be retiring sooner than her plans.

Yes, I think the DFL has an excellent long term strategy! Who says they’re a disorganized party bent on self destruction? Maybe some of those newly elected legislators won’t be one termers after all.

A little snark, but a little truth in there about if the DFL & Big Government/Nanny State types gets its way. There will be no job grow in this state if spending continues to grow at or near double digit levels. I’m sorry, but as one of those who will be left behind to pay the bill, I can’t afford to pay for a better Minnesota. I can barely pay for a better AAA.

We need to make Government better, not bigger.

(What’s the best home remedy for a sore back? Seems like a muscle or nerve strain, not spine related.)

Anyways, as the tittle suggested this is a bunch of random crap. Lots of thoughts from over the course of the week. To sum it all up, I am tired of fighting an uphill battle to prove all is not well or things could be better, and I no longer have the time to do it. My ‘pay the bills’ job is going to be crazy for the entire Summer, and well, it deserves more of my attention than the GOP-blogging cause.

What I am going to do? I don’t know. I am tired, exhausted, just plain worked,  and I have learned not to make decisions when your mind is in this state. Honestly, I feel like I don’t want to do any of it anymore, but I think that is the emotions and exhaustion are speaking. Or maybe it is because of the way certain people treat me. I don’t know.

Some people I know look to me for inspiration, others with disdain. I guess maybe it is time for me to find some inspiration again. What will AAA do?  

Anyways, hopefully I can do some soul searching this weekend to see if it is even worth it anymore.

Have a good weekend,

AAA

PS: Don’t buy that ‘Planet’ biodegradable dishwasher detergent, it sucks tailpipe and may have busted my dishwasher. I hope to get back from the cabin early enough tomorrow to get a new one and install it. So I got that going for me.

It pains me to do it, but I must acknowledge Rosie O’Donnel today. She made hay out of Sheryl Crows’ one square lunacy too.

Crow made her comments on her blog last week, and Rosie took a moment on this morning’s “The View” to express her incredulity at the supposedly enviro-friendly suggestion. “Have you seen my ass?!” bellowed Rosie,

And Good old Babs had some great advice too.

and Barbara Walters was good enough to warn viewers not to use their sleeves, another of Crow’s helpful suggestions.

No word yet how this will affect the ‘Freedom to Poop’ law here in Minnesota. If you have the right to have a ‘pesky’ poop in a non-public restroom …. can you use more than the alloted squares?

I surely hope political discourse can get back above the bowl sometime soon. We have a world to save, one square at a time.

You first Ms. Crow!

‘We can make it work with only one square per restroom visit, except, [...]

I think this is probably going to be an excelent example of “do as I say, not as I do”

Update:

TvM’s Gary goes sci-fi : Klingons around Uranus