Oh look, Democrats don’t pay their fair share. Looks like Democrat El ‘Gas Tax’ Tinklenberg didn’t pay his dues to properly be in the Stillwater Parade.

Wow - I witnessed the same kind of ‘cheating’ at the Stillwater Lumberjack Days Parade. I wrote a letter to the editor, but of course NONE of the major papers would print it. Here it is: 

I found it very interesting that DFL endorsed El Tinklenberg has already cheated the 6th District of Minnesota, the same district he is running to represent. 

On Sunday, July 26th, at 12:45pm, Tinklenberg and about 6 of his followers walked the length of the Lumberjack Days Parade route, proudly showing off their campaign shirts “Tinklenberg for Congress”, while the candidate shook hands and spoke to hundreds of people lined up on sidewalks. The trouble is, the parade started at 1pm! All other candidates (including the person he is running against, Congresswoman Michele Bachmann), paid their $350 registration fee to Lumberjack Days for their exposure time. Tinklenberg must have thought he was entitled to the same benefits as those who worked hard and followed the rules. I guess we can’t blame him - after all, that is a common theme in the DFL platform.
Karen | 08.12.08 - 11:55 am | #

This is kinda a short article by the Strib, but I never fail to point out this very important fact heading into the 2008 elections. 

WASHINGTON - Federal budget deficit soars in July, pushed higher by stimulus payments, failed banks

Obviously it is a partial story that didn’t cpmpetely make it through the intertubes, but again, DEMOCRATS CONTROL THE PURSESTRINGS OF CONRESS RIGHT NOW. 

President Bush can’t spend a dime with out Congress first passing the bills. Democrats hold both gavels in their iron fists. 

DEMOCRATS ARE INCREASING THE DEFICIT WITH HANDOUT AFTER HANDOUT!

Bad news from Joe Repya, the MN VFW is …. well, they aren’t supporting the troops. 

Minnesota VFW Would Rather Play Politics Then Support Our Troops!

Written by Joe Repya

Monday, 11 August 2008 14:08

Victory signs will be printed this week. Sadly, I have been forced to take the sponsorship of the Minnesota VFW off our sign. Late Friday I was notified by the Minnesota State VFW Commander Stan Kowalski and his staff, Don Nix - Senior Vice Commander, Donald Dallman - Junior Vice Commander and Raymond Trebus - Judge Advocate, that they had reversed their support for the Victory Over Terrorism signs. Their reason was they do not support the Iraq War. His statement counters the National VFW whose position is clear that the Iraq War is a battlefield of the War on Terror.  I have long experienced the Democratic Party leanings on the Minnesota VFW. Shamefully, partisan politics has no place when the nation is at war. National veteran’s organizations like the VFW have long ago been de-politicized over war. They believe that once war starts, you can’t choose sides, debate stops at the waters edge once the shoots are fired. This is especially important today with an all volunteer military. Veteran’s organizations can’t choose which wars they will support the troops over and have any credibility. A lesson that the Minnesota Department of the VFW has not embraced.  As a veteran of Viet Nam, the Gulf War and Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF), I’m insulted with the position Commander Kowalski has taken. How can the Minnesota VFW ask any OIF veteran to become a member of their organization. If you agree, please call the State VFW Headquarters at 651-291-1757 and tell Commander Kowalski he should be ashamed of himself for playing politics over supporting our brave troops!

So gas is getting less painful to buy nowadays, but don’t think the crisis is over. Due to a stronger dollar and American’s using less, the price of oil is down. But, if it keeps going down the behavior spurred from the high prices will be short lived. 

Sooner or later, if prices continue to fall, people won’t be restricting their driving, buying tin can cars, and forgetting about those lazy weekend drives up to the lake to boat and fish. Yes, oil consumption will go back up, and with out an adequate supply, so will the price again. 

We do still need to drill here. The other option is to continue to live our lives less fillingly than we did in the past. That means yesterday may be the greatest our lives ever were.

Well, they are talking about her getting ready for redistricting. 

 Is someone preparing for redistricting?

She’d have to win reelection before she’d face redistricting……

Wait a tick, they have called the 2010 CD6 race as well. Sheesh, do Melendez and Tinklenberg know these guys are admitting they haven’t got a snowball’s chance in hell in the 6th? 

Rep. Rod Hamilton, one of the 6 Republicans who we all can personally thank for the $6.6 Billion transit tax increase, is now screaming like a little schoolgirl who just spilled glue on her new shoes cause he tried to have his vote bought, but the check bounced. 

Six months ago, Rod Hamilton was center stage in the biggest drama at the State Capitol. And so was Hwy. 60, a crucial roadway splitting southern Minnesota that many believe is in need of expansion and improvements.

Today, the theatrics continue, with Hamilton in effect complaining that he was duped, and Hwy. 60 is no nearer to getting the attention he thinks it needs.

In February, Hamilton was one of six Republican legislators whose votes were needed to override Gov. Tim Pawlenty’s veto of a $6.6 billion transportation funding bill that ushered in Minnesota’s first state gas tax hike in 20 years.

At the time Hamilton made things clear: If DFLers would provide funding for Hwy. 60, they would get his vote.

When Hamilton, a pork producer whose district relies heavily on the highway, cast his vote to override, the legislation contained 22 lines that appeared to instruct the Minnesota Department of Transportation to give Hwy. 60 a higher priority for funding.

But MnDOT now contends the language was never clear and is withholding any commitment to the Hwy. 60 project.

What’s more, the key DFL legislator who sponsored the transportation bill said Hamilton misunderstood the language concerning Hwy. 60.

Rep. Bernie Lieder, DFL-Crookston, who chairs the House Transportation committee, said there was never an intention to give the highway special status in return for Hamilton’s vote.

Rep. Hamilton, if you don’t know yet that Democrats like Lieder will do and say anything for social engineering bills like the one you allowed to pass, frankly you are unfit to serve in the MInnesota House. No seriously, if this man is so willing to tax Minnesotans an extra $6.6 Billion just so he can get a road fixed on his behalf, he’s the perfect example of corruption and power driving far too many politicians now. 

Since being a Legislator in Minnesota is viewed more as a career now then actually serving the public,weak minded Legislators like Hamilton will be far too quick to fall to the pier pressure in order to do what they think will get them reelected, rather than what is right.

There’s too much power and money in St. Paul and it may be time for term limits. I think that may be the only way to truly reform our Government. If we put regular people back in charge we just may get a Government that works for us. The way it is now, we work for the Government.  That’s not the way it is supposed to work. 

If Legislators actually had to live under the laws they passed, and live with the taxes they helped create, our Government would be completely different. Instead of Legislators trying to bribe the citizens to part with more of their money (actually tricking them into thinking it is really someone else’s money) for the public good, we’d have people that would say, “No! This hurts more citizens than it would actually help.”

“Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.” 
P. J. O’Rourke 

Here’s a nice try at making affairs OK from WCCO. 

‘U Of M’ Doctor Explains Edwards’ Admitted Affair

I’m sorry, I have never liked John Edwards. He’s always seemed like a slickster and a trickster. But now that we now know for sure that he cheated on his wife, it makes it even easier. 

Any man or woman that cheats on their spouse is a low life. Especially those that run around pretending that ‘they are the one and only’. Let’s not forget that his wife is dying of cancer. That became an issue last year during the Democratic primary battle. Elizabeth Edwards announced she was terminal with cancer and John Edwards decided to keep running. He said she’d want him to keep running. 

Well, I guess we now know why John would leave his wife to run for President. His heart was not fully committed to her. Oh I know that for the sake of his future in politics and liberal activism the story is ‘John is forgiven’, but I think this will, well should be if the media would let the American public make up their own minds, a major example of why John Edwards is a hypocrite and phony. 

He runs around the country playing the whole ‘Two Americas’ game. Well, it turns out there are two Americas. One where men are fully committed and devoted to their wives, especially when they are suffering from terminal cancer. And then their is the one that Edwards lives in where he just needed a little loving. 

A man that would cheat on his wife is a low life scumwad. I don’t care the circumstances. Real men don’t cheat. It is a sign of character flaw and weakness that men or women cannot remain loyal to those they love. People who cannot say “no” have no business running this country. The moral decay in this country can be pointed back to the intentional destruction on the family. 

If the Democrats continue to allow Edwards to remain a party leader, and don’t shun him into the shadows, it speaks volumes for how little family values means to that party. 

I am just waiting for Edwards to take the stand in his own defense and say that he was channeling Bill Clinton the entire time he was having sex with a woman that wasn’t his wife. 

The Strib did run my LTE. And it is the top one in the online version.

Not an energy policy

The author of the Aug. 8 Letter of the Day (”Don’t fall for this tired Republican tactic”) is upset that Republicans are poking fun at Barack Obama’s so-called energy plan.

 

What he fails to understand is that improving our vehicle’s MPG by 3 percent to 5 percent is not a long-term energy policy. Sure, it will save us all a few dollars at the pump, but it will not solve the long-term problem this country faces. That is a reliable energy supply.

 

Obama’s suggestions that we make our homes uncomfortable by adjusting our thermostats — harkening back to President Jimmy Carter urging us to wear sweaters some 30 years ago — and spend money at overpriced service shops to “tune up our cars” and inflate our tires are simply going to cost us money out of our pockets and still not solve our dependence on foreign sources of energy.

 

We need an all-of-the-above strategy, not some phony gimmick or Band-Aid solution that will not produce any new energy. Our government got us into this mess. We’re all paying higher prices at the pump and on our heating and cooling bills because it put a de facto ban on domestic energy.

 

Neither political party is innocent on how and why we got into this mess, but it is clear which party is trying to solve the problem.

 

Sweaters and tire gauges are great Father’s Day gifts, but they are a poor example of energy policy.

 

ANDY APLIKOWSKI, BLAINE

My good friend Joe Repya is at it again. He’s launched another grassroots pro-troops, pro-victory campaign. 

 

EAGAN, MINNESOTA - The Minnesota Support Our Troops Coalition, that brought you the 30,000 “LIBERATE IRAQ - SUPPORT OUR TROOPS lawn sign campaign in 2003, is at it again. This time the Coalition, with the help of Minnesota’s American Legion, Disabled American Veterans and Veterans of Foreign Wars, are printing thousands of signs that read “VICTORY OVER TERRORISM – LET OUR SOLDIERS WIN!”

At noon on September 1, the anti-war crowd claims they’ll have upwards of 50,000 marching from the Minnesota Capitol Building to the Excel Energy Center where the Republican National Convention, at the Excel Energy Center in Saint Paul.

We are asking everyone who supports our men and women in uniform defending America in the War on Terror to line the streets from the Excel Center with our signs. It is our way of being “Minnesota Nice” and wishing these protesters a “nice day in Minnesota.” We encourage no discussion or verbal exchange with the demonstrators - only a pleasant “smile!

You can pick up a sign as long as the initial order lasts on Saturday, August 16th, in the parking lot of STEPHANO’S Restaurant, the corner of Highway 13 and Cliff Road (across from Walgreen’s) from 12:00 Noon to 3:00 PM. Please arrive early since we are printing a limited number. Your donations will be greatly appreciated and will allow us to print more signs. 

Let’s make sure people here from the silent majority. 

Closed circuit to Joe: BUMPER STICKERS!!!!

Wow, wow, wow, is right. I left the following comment on a St. CLoud Times Your Turn commentary piece trying to attack Rep. Bachmann with talkingpoints. It is a pretty weak piece and I just couldn’t help myself.

AndyAplikowski wrote:

Wow, Wow, wow, that’s a lot of facts, but there are a couple missing. 

Mr. Sullivan also happens to be a large donor to former MNDOT Commissioner Democrat El Tinklenberg. 

Plus all the facts Mr. Sullivan listed add up to one critical thing. They isn’t enough energy for America. We need more Energy. If we increase our domestic supplies, we won’t be dependent on foreign sources. Right now we’re not able to do that.

Oh and China is only temporarily shutting factories and banning the usage of automobiles. Basically they have told their exploding middle class to take a vacation from the real world and stop living the way they want. China has a well documented history of brutal and dictator behavior where the freedoms and liberties are rationed by the Communist Government. 

Is Mr. Sullivan advocating that the American Government adopt the tactics and policies of the Chinese Government? Frankly the only thing to learn from how China deals with freedom and liberty is how not to do it.