Residual Forces

I’m sure you’ve all read me railing about my blog’s inconsitancies of late. One minute it is there, one minute it is not. 

Well, it happened again this morning and this time I called  a tech at my host and they took a look at things. 

Well, let’s just say that maybe I am the target of a little hacking or spam pinging to crash my server. It was a very technical explanation but it sounded like an intentional attack meant to shut RF down, most likely for my political commentary. It is a mere annoyance, but still a sign of the ghestapo like behavior of the left nowadays. 

That is if it was really an intentional act, or just a fluke that I seem to be the target of some digital douchebaggery. 

It was afterall, just yesterday that Firedoglake linked to me for when a few of us exposed Fecker and Minnesota Monitor for the propaganda units they really are. The cesspool of political “debate” those sites preach to is, well…..

And yes, I am a credentialed blogger to the RNC. Thank you very much for noticing. And for pointing out how some blogs are mere propaganda arms for the radical left, and have nothing to do with real journalism. 

Long live RF, ya commie pinkos!!!

MPR has a story about how the poor municipalities are whining about having trouble filling up their fleet’s fuel tanks. 

St. Paul, Minn. — The high cost of gasoline and diesel fuel is putting a squeeze on some city budgets. The city of North Mankato’s fuel budget is projected to be $64,000 in the red by the end of the year.

City Administrator, Wendell Sande, said officials expected rising fuel costs, but not an increase of this magnitude.

“We allowed for 25 percent. This will be substantially more than that. Our average cost for diesel fuel in 2007 was $2.38 a gallon. Our most recent purchase was $4.09,” Sande said.

And what have the citizens, who fund the very government whining to them, had to deal with? Oh yeah, the exact same problem of high fuel costs, plus all the increased taxes, increased fees, and increased cost of food. 

Welcome to the club. The complaint department is right over there, the line forms in the rear.

Take a number, sit down, and shut up. 

We’re approaching the deadline for Minnesota House candidates to reach their fundraising threshold for public financing. That date is August 18th and they need to get at least 30 donations of $50. (please chime in if I don’t have this exact) [Source: Minnesota Campaign Finance and Public Disclosure Board ]

So please everyone, dig in and donate to your local House candidates. It is basically free to donate to candidates for Minnesota House if you use the PCR form. You donate $50 to a candidate and the state will send you a check for $50. You can only do it once, but it is a great way to get everyone involved in the donations. ($100 per couple)

We on the right need to take full advantage of this program, especially since if our candidates don’t meet the minimum for money raised by the 18th, they can’t get public financing. I can just about guarantee you that every Democrat will do this. We need to make sure every Republican does too. 

You can find a list of candidates here on the MNGOP website. Please take a moment and cut them at least a $50 check this week so they can make the threshold.

Tune in tonight to CNN.

    Congresswoman Michele Bachmann

    On CNN Tonight, Monday,

    August 4, 2008 at 8:00 pm CDT

    Larry King Live!

    To discuss the Democrats’ Lack of an Energy Agenda and Republican Plans for

    Cutting Gas Prices Now!

Hey, in case you didn’t know, volunteers are who win elections. If you want to see a return to commons sense and fiscal responsibility, please find your local GOP, and tell them you want to help. 

TRUST ME I know how busy everybody is nowadays, but Voter ID is so very important. Even if you can spare just one shift of a few hours, it will help!

You should be able to find your local affiliate here. If not we can use all the help we can get here in Blaine. We already have the DFL on the run here, we want to go for the win before November.

There’s a great piece in the Philly Inquirer about Energy and the prospects of what America’s Energy policy will look like after the next elections. It is well worth the read. 

Last week’s energy debate in Congress gives voters concerned about gasoline prices a good idea where U.S. energy policy is headed.If Barack Obama is in the White House, Democrats win a filibuster-proof majority in the Senate, and Nancy Pelosi has fewer pesky Republicans to ignore in the House, this will be energy rule No. 1:

Forget more drilling. Offshore. Alaska. Doesn’t matter.

Then step two, let slip by an unidentified Democratic aide recently in The Hill newspaper: “Right now, our strategy on gas prices is, ‘Drive small cars and wait for the wind.’ ”

In other words, suck it up, gas-guzzlers. Break out the Carter-era sweaters and hair shirts, turn down the thermostats this winter, and let the drill bits rust. Policies of the 1970s are good enough for the 21st century.

Let’s not forget the other dire need for fringe leftist energy policy:

A scientific break through that makes the wheel look like child’s play so that we can some how transfer goods to the store front (or across the country) with out a drop of oil. Currently trucks burn diesel to transfer goods. No oil means no diesel so some mystical energy will need to be created. All the talk of hybrids and plug in electrics have been for micro cars, not heavy freight trucks. This is the most crucial portion of our nation’s energy use based on our economy, but the one that is most often not talked about. 

There’s even a growing acceptance of nuclear power, though it’s grudging in some circles. As the mostly self-anointed President Obama evolves on this one - expect an “As I’ve said consistently” head fake - look for subsidies to shrink, plants to become unaffordable, and the release of The China Syndrome - 30th Anniversary Edition, with an intro by “An Inconvenient Truth” scare-meister Al Gore.

Necessary as all those energy sources are, though, the reality is we’ll need oil for decades, and the less we get from unstable regimes the better.

And that’s where the consensus ends. You see the differences from the presidential campaign to the local races, including Pennsylvania’s Seventh District, with Democratic freshman Rep. Joe Sestak against Republican Craig Williams.

This is where I’ll point out how energy policy matters on an even more local level. Here In Minnesota, the State Legislature has banned Nuclear Energy Plants from being built. We have 2 currently, but any ideas for new ones are off the table. It is crucial to know what the energy policy is for every candidate this election, even for those at the State House level. 

You could wind up voting for someone who believes high taxes and out of control spending on junk science and unproven technology is to cure for the most crucial problem facing Americans and our economy. We do still need reliable and cheap oil. 

By and large, you’ll only see rhetoric and wishful thinking from liberals on this issue. 

Vote wisely. If you make the wrong choice on th ballot, it could trickle all the way down to forcing you to no longer enjoy the freedom and ability to live your life as you see fit. Heck, that big hunk of metal you currently call your car, could just be a 3,000 paper weight if the liberals have their way. 

Anyways, go read the whole piece : Back Channels: On energy, Democrats in office means a return to the 1970s.

Too Good!

A Night On Da Boat

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Yeah, so RF is retarded plain and simple. I cannot view it from home when i use my wireless. I’ve tried everything I can and it just won’t work. 

Luckily I was at the cabin so I didn’t notice this weekend. But here I am at home and yep, still doesn’t work.

As busy as I am, it doesn’t matter. I’m supposed to be able to do everything and cover for everyone. But of course some people think that is OK, and it is my responsibility to cover for them and like it. Oh and it isn’t just one person. Seems AAA is the person most likely to have everything thrown on their shoulders these days. 

So I took off to the cabin and played hookey from my real life and played with my new camera. Stay tuned.

In a post earlier this week(on True North, I pointed out how Democrat Speaker of The House Nancy Pelosi is setting the agenda in Congress and allowing zero chance that something she doesn’t approve of gets to even see the light of day on the floor of the US House.

Anyone who actually has to get themselves from point A to point B (hint: that’s all of us out here in America) is feeling the pain at the pump and is demanding something be done. Because we’ve surrendered so much of our power over the economy and markets to Congress over recent history, we’re held hostage to the political whims of politicians and their special interest friends’ agendas, not what is best for the Country.

Well, Pelosi is once again flexing her muscle as “the Decider” of what Congress can even debate. In her latest display of being out of touch but not giving a dang, she is promising to deny any chance of true energy independence before Congress’s recess. There will not be more oil in Pelosi’s America.

For weeks, pressure has been mounting in Congress to approve more domestic oil drilling, but House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has held the line, using her power to block a vote on offshore drilling.President Bush has made almost daily calls for Democratic leaders to take action. House GOP leaders, citing a new poll showing that a slim majority of Californians now favor offshore drilling, issued a release Thursday saying “even (Pelosi’s) own California neighbors oppose her efforts to block new drilling far off American coasts.” GOP lawmakers are so disgruntled they’re urging Bush to deny Congress its August break by calling a special session on energy.

Polls show Americans understand market economics and want us to drill more here at home to reduce our dependence on foreign oil. Heck even just the debate over how badly we need to start using our own Domestic Oil supplies has lowered oil prices and gasoline at the pump (not diesel yet though, grrrrr!)

Americans and common sense Republicans like Rep. Michele Bachmann (R MN6) have been pushing Pelosi to just give us a chance to lower Energy prices, but she is steadfast in her position that we suffer from the high prices. She doesn’t really want us using oil and these high prices are helping her agenda move along. High prices have forced Americans, against their will, to drive less and change the way we live.

Local media has been dreadful at asking Democrat incumbents in Congress if they share the obstructionist view of Pelosi or if they would be willing to allow debate over domestic oil supplies. All they do is mention the talking point plan of releasing a few one time drops from the Strategic Reserve. They say that extra supply will lower prices some.

But it is a one time influx of supply that will have no lasting effects and puts taxpayers on the hook to replace the oil eventually in the future. It is a perfect example of the difference between Republicans and Democrats.

Just look at the Stimulus Checks most of us got this year. Even Democrats knew that Government needed to give back some money to taxpayers so we could cycle through the economy.

The Democratic Scheme:
Democrats chose a one time rebate check. The affect has been largely unnoticeable, and since it was one time money, its chances of pumping up our economy are over. Not everyone got one and the bureaucracy struggled in sending them out and the extra money was trickled into the economy over several months. The affects were marginal at best and the debt spending is going to cost us more in the future to cover the deficit.

The Republican Solution:
In 2001 & 2003 when our economy was slumping, Republicans pushed for tax cuts. They got them and for every single month since, Americans of all pay levels, had more money to spend as they saw fit, after every single paycheck. Economic growth was strong for years as there was a constant supply of more money in the hands of the users of the economy. (if they had only controlled spending at the same time, we’d still have growth)

Is it better to give a hungry man a fish, or to teach him how to fish?

The Democrats running to be rubberstamps for the Obstructionista Pelosi had better be careful. The public is waking up and learning that the problems with our energy market and economy lead back to Congress. And gee, for some reason things really got bad these last 2 years.

Hmmmm, I wonder what happened last year that would have had such drastic effects on things? Oh yeah, Americans thought they voted for “change” in the 2006 elections. And look what kind of change they got. If Pelosi keeps it up, voters will vote for ‘Change’ again this election. Only this time it will be real change and common sense conservatives and Republicans will win the majority back.

Speaker Bachmann, now that would be great. We’d actually get to keep our lightbulbs not to mention reduce our dependncy on foreign oil.

Ok, so RF is back up now and seems to be intact. There is a gremlin somewhere who doesn’t seem to like what I am doing or something. 

Anyways, fingers crossed this is over and RF will be stable now. (Except from my wireless connection at home which still doesn’t work. If I plug in to my cable modem, all is fine, but with wireless, I can view everything on the web, except my blog. I have no clue and not the time to figure it out. 

Anyways, as you were.