State spending is out of control, and no one seems to be doing anything about it. I thought it would be a neat little digg at elected officials to have a logo for my sidebar that just showed the numbers spinning out of control. Like any good MOBster that wants good looking professional graphics, I went to Derek Brigham of Freedom Dogs. While working on the graphics we pulled in Larry Colson to help with some the javascript.

While I was putting them through the demanding paces in the graphic development, I started thinking this should be more than just a logo. Now it is still a work in progress, and if I wait for it to be perfect, the people in St. Paul will have spent a few more hundred million dollars in the blink of the eye.

I’ll be keeping a MOB Focus Page going that you can get to by clicking on the nifty logo in my sidebar. We’re setting things up so that other MOBsters can display the logo on their own blogs. We’ll get that ironed out over the weekend. Contact me if you want me to send you the code. It’ll be a cut and paste feature, so no upload or download to worry about.

I just figured maybe it is time to send a message to people that bloggers are not just tin foil hat wearing, cheeto stained fingered, people sitting in there mom’s basement writing to themselves, oh yeah in their underwear. I get accused of that weekly by GOP loyalists and comment trolls sent to shut me up by Republican leaders. It gets quite annoying, and just proves to me that the leaders of this party have no intentions whatsoever of trying to keep Minnesota from being a liberal mecca.

They treat bloggers like me as enemies most days, when all I/we want is less. Less government spending, intervention, and mandates. They are not open to ideas and have absolutely no money, plan, nor desire to spread the word that more government is actually the problem. And they don’t understand that a lot of us started blogging because people like them weren’t listening. Maybe you create you own enemies sometimes.

I have bi-partisan hatred coming at me, which leads me to believe I’m doing something right if people in both parties hate me. We won’t get into why each does right now, but put simply I’m calling one party a bunch of socialists and accusing members of the other one of trying to act like people in the other party.

So here is the beginning of what will hopefully turn into something big, er small. MOB Focus. I fully believe that our elected leaders should not be trying to find more money to spend just to pander to all the special interest groups. There’s enough money being drained out of our pocket books already for them to spend in St. Paul. We’re in the top 10 on most tax burden lists out there.

I believe enough is enough, and that they waste too much money already. Unfortunately, most people who feel that way too, are down and out, feeling hopeless that anyone will listen to them, or frustrated that no one will even consider the alternative to massive spending increases. I feel that some people should be listening to us and trying to fight for what we believe, but are more concerned with insulating certain people from us, than conveying our message to them.

OK, when I started typing this it wasn’t supposed to be an editorial. I’ll be ranting like this a lot over the coming weeks and months, so I will leave it right there.

I’ve begun to add contact information for Pawlenty, links to the ‘find your legislator’ pages for the legislature, links to the Caucus pages for the Legislature so you can keep an eye on them, and I will be compiling a list of places to go get ’second’ opinions of the ’state of the state grab bag’. Once again you can get to all that with one simple click of the mouse right on that MOB Focus logo.

It is a work in progress, no where near done. If there are any links or information you think would be good to add, or want the code to add this to you blog, let me know.

Minnesota Monitor is a collective blog of ‘progressive’ ‘new journalists’ here in Minnesota. During the 2006 election cycle, it became known that the blog site’s contributors were receiving money to blog. After some crack investigative work, we found out that the site was in fact being funded by George Soros through one of his many shadow 527 groups.

It would be good to remember the outrage in the media when a journalist was paid to pimp for NCLB by the White House, which BTW was stupid on both parties’ sides. Hint, follow that link, it goes to MediaMatters.org’s story on how sucky Mr. Williams was for taking money to write positively on NCLB.  MediaMatters.org is one of the groups that funds MiniMoni. (Go here to follow the money)

Of course no one in the media cared here in Minnesota about MiniMoni, except a few of us on the right who do this with out compensation. Had the MOB’s politically active members been funded by someone, you can bet your arse that these lefty shill bloggers ‘new journalists’ would be up in arms. In fact they have, on many occasions, tried to point out the employment or affiliations of certain bloggers on the right. But never have they once, felt compelled to disclose to the readers of MiniMoni who is keeping the lights on.

It would be interesting to see if this story and possible investigation will soon lead to an end to the Soros secret of Minnesota’s lefty ‘new journalists’ or for the many cloned sister sites he has around the country.

NEW YORK (AP) — A company that helps advertisers connect with bloggers willing to write about their products for payment will now require disclosures amid criticism and a regulatory threat.

Before this week, advertisers were barred by PayPerPost Inc. from telling bloggers they can’t disclose the sponsorship, but bloggers were able to decide on their own whether or not to do so. Under the new policy, bloggers must disclose that they are accepting payment, either in the write-up or in a general disclosure policy on the blogger’s Web journal.

Oh, this doesn’t count.

Besides other bloggers questioning the ethics of receiving payments without disclosure, the Federal Trade Commission said in a Dec. 7 staff opinion that failure to disclose could, in some cases, violate consumer-protection laws on deception. The FTC did not single out PayPerPost or say whether it would launch any investigation.

David Sifry, founder of the blog search site Technorati, praised PayPerPost’s move.

“Overall, this is an encouraging and long-awaited change,” he said. “I think that people have learned that without trust, all posts become suspect. … By encouraging honesty and transparency in sponsored posts, PayPerPost adds (some) clarity to the waters they muddied when they launched six months ago.”

Yes, the local Soros shills have a lot of explaining to do. Sure, they aren’t selling products, but they are selling ideas to their readers, and getting paid to do it. They are actually much closer to the old media, than new media.

A quick look at their front page is little different than looking at your regular Editorial page. Some Republican said something hypocritical, Hillary rules, Maverick McCain is great because he disagrees with Bush, Liebermann is a traitor, Out of Iraq, conservatives suck, It’s for the children, failed Iraq policy and lies lies lies, oh and raise wages. (Yes, I was being melodramatic)
So time will tell if MiniMoni will be honest with their readers and Minnesotans and admit they are nothing more than mere puppets of George Soros.
And to get this out of the way again, no one has ever given me a dime to blog.

This is interesting. Democrat Senator to be Jim “the Incestuous Pedofile author” Webb engaged in a little dirty gamesmanship on bloggers during his campaign.

If you are a Virginia blogger, chances are that the Webb campaign has an opposition research book on you. Bloggers that made the cut include Chad Dotson, Jim Hoeft, Ben Tribbett, Waldo Jaquith, Josh Chernila, Lowell Feld, Jim Riley, J.C. Wilmore, Jon Henke, and a host of others. These are not your typical background checks either… a significant amount of money was spent crafting the kind of opposition research one would typically find on a candidate running for public office.

It seems as if the Webb campaign made a strategic decision to unleash this opposition research if something damaging came out against their candidate, simply to personally slander the blogger making the claim.

Once source for this information described it as “Nixonian”. Not only were Republican bloggers thouroughly researched, but Democratic allies of Webb as well, in the event they turned on the Webb campaign.

Talk about smearboating. A later update in this goes on.

[...] what makes this particularly atrocious isn’t the fact that research was done. Rather, that it was done (1) on Democratic operatives and volunteers, (2) that it was done to slander bloggers who broke with potentially damaging stories, and (3) the reports are reportedly fairly extensive and deep, designed to tear a reputation down rather than constructively deal with the issue potentially presented.

Ahhhh, opposition research and blackmale is about to grace political bloggers with inclusion now. Oh joy. What is very disturbing in this case though is how Webb, A Democrat, was preparing an attack against his fellow Democrats.

First Amendment? What first amendment? What’s next, a law trying to sillence political speech near elections? Oh wait, John McCain already did that didn’t he? I guess silencing political and free speech is a bipartisan affair.

Some people really are complete jagoffs.

But when you get someone who lives an otherwise joyless existence, whose only raison d’ etre is to make your existence a living hell, the fun is gone, and it’s time to hang it up.

I know what you mean Leo. Some people just should realy stay shut up. Especially those who hide behind anonymity. I know a lot of bloggers argue for it, but come on folks, the blogs are not the federalist papers.
The MOB just won’t be the same with out ya. Best of luck and stay in touch.

This made me speechless.

Dear Andy,

It’s Christopher Chesny. I had my email posted on
KvM a week ago.
I understand you are going back to your blog to
try to keep shop there and fight for truth in the
Minnesota Republican Party. Good luck to you on that.
It will be tough but you will win in the end. In
Oklahoma, we were one of the the few states where we
made gains in the state senate and in some county
races. Here in Rogers County we have a majority on the
County Commission for the first time ever.
I digress though and get to what I wanted to post
about. I wanted to say thank you for all the time you
put into KvM. Over the past year and a half, reading
your stuff day in, day out was some of the most
entertaining stuff I would get to do on a regular
basis. You probably posted there more than you did
your own blog. You helped give KvM the energy that
gave it a national presence, for better or worse. Some
of your footwork on the scandals was better than any
“journalist.” You became a textbook example of what a
blog can and should be during times like that, and
showed what the media (i.e., the machine) was not
doing and should have been doing.
I have to say you have become probably my favorite
blogger over the course of this past year. Your fight
for the truth is awe-inspiring and should be
commended. I have never seen in my time reading blogs
anyone so dedicated to the truth than you. You are, in
effect, my “North Star of Justice.”
Your time at KvM was not wasted. Don’t let anyone
tell you otherwise. You were an inspiration to me and
others like me. It was some of the funniest (and
funnest) reading I have had in my life. It was a wild
ride, but I kept up. Thank You for your time at KvM. I
will keep reading you at RF.

Sincerely,
Christopher Chesny

P.S., Don’t ever give up.

I’ve emailed him back a reply, and I just can’t say thank you enough for the kind words. The best part about it is that it was fun for him. It was fun for me. I didn’t mean to make the signing off post at KvM imply that it wasn’t.

I’m just glad that others appreciated it. When you’re staring into the Machine’s gullet on a daily basis and on most days you knwo just about everyone is against you, it is remembering messages like these that keep you going. I’ll never be a Powerline, Captain ‘Fresca’ Ed, Hugh, or Insta Pundit, but I am making a difference.

Blogs do matter, no matter what party folks tell you. We do reach out to a new group of people. We do touch hearts, we do touch minds. We do affect change. We’ll become even more important in politics, and I hope I can play a small part in that.

So thanks again Christopher, I just hope I can not let good readers like you down. People like you have put your faith in me do keep up the good fight. It is a good thing I am a Polish German American. I’m too stupid to know when I am up against the odds, and too dang stubborn to know when to quit.

I’m not going anywhere. There is too much truth to be found and brought to the masses.

Dang it. Well, my host called and said we got issues here. Seems my little blog isn’t exactly little anymore. Not that I am Powerline by any means, no how. But I am having bandwidth issues. Chances are it is just a spike here, but I gotta do something about them. I am also going to figure out how to move BvW to a sub folder of RF. Like residualforces.com/BvW or something. I really doubt Wetterling will try again. Maybe it is more hope, for her sake. Enough Patty!

So in the next day or 2 things may be a bit weird here at RF. It is just some tech tweaking.

Hey, for those of you out there who say that RF is slow loading, is it any better now that I don’t have all those candidate logos on the sidebar?

Oh, and I am hoping to get an email issue fixed. For some reason I don’t get my email notifications when someone comments. Oh and by the way I tried to up the level of security on comments if someone is having problems. Sorry. Some smear merchants were getting kinda nasty. I figured out who it was. Silly silly. You shouldn’t have called pretending to be all nice. So, in other words, back off party loyalists.

They wouldn’t be so worried and trying to destroy my reputation, if I wasn’t doing something right. All I am doing is raising questions that should be answered by party leadership. I’m not trying to ruin anyone’s rep, I just want to fix my party. The Party I was told belonged to me and the other activists.

I really should abide by my 24 hour blogging embargo, but…

Minnesota’s Tim Pawlenty got the w. So did new Congresswoman Michele Bachman. As Democrats turn their electoral college hopes to Ohio, Colorado, and Virginia in 2008, the GOP needs to focus on Minnesota, Iowa and Wisconsin. Keeping Pawlenty in the statehouse was a very big deal.

Hugh, we got our asses handed to us here. The entire Republican Party was working on that one race, and they barely won it over the most unlikeable man ever to run for office, and I am including John Kerry. In the mean time, we lost every other statewide race and a congressional seat, the state House big time, as well as a bigger loss in our state senate.

We now have a goll darn commie counting ballots as Secretary of State. We have the mini Mike Hatch going to continue his legacy of abusing the Attorney Generals office for personal and political gain. We have a bleeding heart liberal spending freak who has never seen a spending increase she didn’t like as our state Auditor. And a dishonest and unethical Senator headed to Washington who couldn’t answer a straight question with anything more than a pre-scripted poll tested talking point if her life depended on it. And what did the state party do to stop that? Nothing.

Mark Kennedy got beat because he had to go it alone, just like the others. They had no help from the state party in getting their message out. What is the message of the Republican party in Minnesota as a whole? We had a few guys running around talking about Republican issues, but not the state party. What the hell do we stand for? The people that I agreed with on the issues that mattered for their races lost last night. Yes I wanted Pawlenty to win, but at the sacrifice of the rest of the offices? I’m thrilled Bachmann won, she’s awesome. But again, what about the rest of the ticket? Was it all worth it? We beat a nasty excuse for a human in Hatch that even creeps out trial lawyers, and a woman who destroyed her great career as a child safety advocate by running the most dishonest and deceitful campaign in Minnesota. Why was it so hard?

I have a terrible feeling that the RNC might have made a huge mistake in coming here for 2008. Granted no where did well last night, but having seen the carnage first hand from the inside, and watching good men thrown under the bus or ignored from day one, I have a pretty big fricking bone to pick with my party’s leadership right now. A weak man keeps those who make him look weak out of sight.

There is no team here in Minnesota. They’ve shunned and silenced anyone who dares to dissent from what the leadership wants, myself included. They’ve even gone so far as to try to get some bloggers to quit. Well, I got some news for ya, look out. I fully understand my posts on this subject will end what little relationship I have left with the party staff and leadership and it will dry up any connections that might be left, but let’s just be honest shall we? People need to know who is to blame for our complete and total devastation last night. It wasn’t that each and every good Republican on the ballot was disliked, it was that each one of them was fighting it all alone and there was absolutely no coordination being set up by the party.

A lot of the leadership and staff don’t really care for my blogging anymore anyways I don’t think. I don’t keep secrets as secrets and I blog it like I see it, not how they want it. Oh, and I was blogging on behalf of a different candidate than they wanted, but I was pretty much urged not to blog for Pawlenty by his people, so that’s fine. I took the hint. If they didn’t want my help, fine. He was willing to do what ever he had to to win I’m not their hand picked person who is fully in tune with what they want to say, and exactly how they want it said. Believe it or not folks, I do actually think the way I blog, except with out the spelling errors.

I do this because I love Republican politics. I’m passionate about winning, and I try to pass that along through my blogging. Through my writing I try to sell our message to people. I am reaching out for hearts and minds with my thoughts. You can’t win voters by sending them a stupid quote some one said years ago. That may win props with pissing off your counterparts in the other party, but it doesn’t do shit for winning voters minds. Half the time I don’t even know what you’re talking about.

Politics is kinda like being a sales man. You have to be good at selling your message in the right way to the right people. One message doesn’t work for everyone, but you do need some universal similarities for people to connect with Republicans as a whole. We don’t have that right now, or didn’t in the campaigns. If you’re really good at selling it, the people you tell will tell someone else about your message and they tell someone else, and so on and so on. The hostile media here in Minnesota requires a state party that will help spread the message for ALL our candidates and our general message of what it means to be Republican.

They’ve shunned the blogosphere as far as I can tell. They don’t trust us or something. An early attempt was made, but then they pulled back for reasons I will never know. And quite frankly they are idiots for it. They’ve kept us at arms length and played to hand picked favorites who they could use how they wanted. They don’t realize there are dozens and dozens of us conservative bloggers here in Minnesota. We all have hundreds and hundreds of readers that talk to thousands and thousands of people who all talk to tens of thousands of their friends, family, and coworkers. Just because not everyone reads blogs isn’t a good reason to ignore them. (More on this later.)

So yeah, this is the first of a bunch of what went wrong posts. I’m going to catch hell for it, but oh well, I am finally going to be honest with just why the heck we got our butts kicked yesterday. The Republican Party of Minnesota is a wreck. As far as the party goes, we’re not a party of activists, we’re a party of one. BTW: Where the hell is Eric Hoplin what BPOU meeting was he relegated to go visit last night? Where was he? I didn’t see him. Let me guess, sent to the DFL Party? So weak.

OK, enough. Off topic. basically, to rebut Hugh’s “at least Pawlenty won”. But we destroyed everything else in order to make that happen. Conservatism will rule the day here in Minnesota again in elections, like it did in 2002. The Democrats will evicerate our state and economy and conservaism will be the cure (ahem change) everyone wants. It’ll also happen nationally too. Pelosi and Reid will gut the war effort, rape the economy for every dollar, and mandate lefty hippy happy thoughts.

There will be a second coming of conservatism that is for sure. We will have a second ‘Reagan revolution’. Who will be the one who gets to lead it will be an interesting thing to watch. More interesting is when conservatism is popular or the ‘cool thing to do’ again, will we let the people who have run away from it back in when things are looking good? I’m not too happy being lead around by fair weather conservatives.

(If you do not hear from me, I was probably ‘dealt with’ for speaking, with out having this approved.)

Leona Pussyratfink of the MOB blog psychomister is trying to fracture the MOB. He has set up a splinter group of blogs in an attempt to ursurp the MOB, the St. Cloud Area Blogs, or SCABs are an illigitimate and unconstitutional organization. No doubt Leona is bitter from his defeat in the MOB elections. He did try to cheat, and even that didn’t help him win.

So as this MOBnation will not fracture under my leadership, I am installing a link embargo to any of these SCABs.

Larry Schumacher
Let Freedom Ring!
Psycmeistr’s Ice Palace
SCSU Scholars
MOB Executive Order #003 - Thou shalt not link to the SCABs!

I hope this embargo is successful. Because I will not let the MOB dissolve under my leadership (snicker). I would hate to have to send in the MN Militia and or god forbid, use the remaining KAR nuclear weapons to destroy the ceading bloggers.

This is my take on a code of Ethics for RF. Pay attention Joe!

I will never call a lefty a commie if they are only being socialist, if I can help it.

I will never call teh media bias when they aren’t being bias.

I will spell the word *the* wrong when ever possible, but never on purpose.

I will never take money to blog, it isn’t by choice, it’s just no one is dumb enough to pay me to make an argument on their behalf.

That about does it. Anything to add Joe?

JOE TUCCI ADDS: No unsanctioned hits. Capische? 

AAA for MOB Mayor
For immediate release
September 30, 2006
Contact: Tami MacGenius, AAA for MOB Mayor Spokesbabe
867-5309

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Andy Aplikowski released the following after learning of Swiftee’s frequent travels to Cuba to deliver Summit beer to Castro.

“It is a sad state of the MOB when one of our finest moonbat monitors is moonlighting as a communist. America has a beer embargo on Cuba, and I would have hoped my opponent would have honored that. Fidel Castro has been a brutal dictator to his people, and he should not have the privilege of Summit brewed beer.” said Andy Aplikowski.

“It is a sad commentary on Swiftee’s patriotism that he feels the need to profit from the suffering of the Cuban people.” said Tami MacGenius the AAA for MOB Mayor Spokesbabe. “He’s had an honorable career in moonbat bashing, and crude but funny photoshopping of Mr. Young, but I fear this new development will tarnish that.”

Andy Aplikowski added, “I want MOB voters to know that I have never drank beer with Communist dictators, nor will I. It saddens me to know that a man I respected deeply as a true American patriot and MOB star has sunk to this level. I call for an immediate investigation into whether or not Swiftee has also visited Hugo Chavez.”

MacGenius added, “AAA for MOB Mayor campaign received photos earlier today that appear to be Hugo Chavez, Fidel Castro, and a fat guy thanking Swiftee during a parade in his honor. There was also a photo supplied to us that shows Chavez opening up a case of Summit beer. If this turns out to be true, we hope that Swiftee will save the MOB the embarrassment and with draw from the race.”

Please see attached photos.

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Update:

The Photos are flying in.