SmartZone Communications Center: Fw: [BuckhornClub] Fwd: Wal-Mart vs. The Morons

http://district50ablog.blogspot.com/ Thanks G-man for another great contribution: Wal-Mart vs. The Morons

1. Americans spend $36,000,000 at Wal-Mart Every hour of every day.

2. This works out to $20,928 profit every minute! 3. Wal-Mart will sell more from January 1 to St. Patrick's Day (March 17th) than Target sells all year. 4. Wal-Mart is bigger than Home Depot + Kroger + Target +Sears + Costco + K-Mart combined. 5. Wal-Mart employs 1.6 million people, is the world's largest private employer, and most speak English. 6. Wal-Mart is the largest company in the history of the world. 7. Wal-Mart now sells more food than Kroger and Safeway combined, and keep in mind they did this in only fifteen years. 8. During this same period, 31 big supermarket chains sought bankruptcy. 9. Wal-Mart now sells more food than any other store in the world. 10. Wal-Mart has approx 3,900 stores in the USA of which 1,906 are Super Centers; this is 1,000 more than it had five years ago. 11. This year 7.2 billion different purchasing experiences will occur at Wal-Mart stores. (Earth's population is approximately 6.5 Billion.) 12. 90% of all Americans live within fifteen miles of a Wal-Mart. You may think that I am complaining, but I am really laying the ground work for suggesting that MAYBE we should hire the guys who run Wal-Mart to fix the economy. This should be read and understood by all Americans Democrats, Republicans, EVERYONE!! To President Obama and all 535 voting members of the Legislature, It is now official you are ALL corrupt morons: a.. The U.S. Postal Service was established in 1775. You have had 234 years to get it right and it is broke.

b.. Social Security was established in 1935. You have had 74 years to get it right and it is broke.

c.. Fannie Mae was established in 1938. You have had 71 years to get it right and it is broke.

d.. War on Poverty started in 1964. You have had 45 years to get it right; $1 trillion of our money is confiscated each year and transferred to "the poor" and they only want more.

e.. Medicare and Medicaid were established in 1965. You have had 44 years to get it right and they are broke.

f.. Freddie Mac was established in 1970. You have had 39 years to get it right and it is broke.

g.. The Department of Energy was created in 1977 to lessen our dependence on foreign oil. It has ballooned to 16,000 employees with a budget of $24 billion a year and we import more oil than ever before. You had 32 years to get it right and it is an abysmal failure.

You have FAILED in every "government service" you have shoved down our throats while overspending our tax dollars.

AND YOU WANT AMERICANS TO BELIEVE YOU CAN BE TRUSTED WITH A GOVERNMENT-RUN HEALTH CARE SYSTEM ??

Folks, keep this circulating. It is very well stated. Maybe it will end up in the e-mails of some of our "duly elected' (they never read anything) and their staff will clue them in on how Americans feel.

History Lesson on Your Social Security Card

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Thanks G-man for another elucidating contribution.
                    
Just in case  some of you young whippersnappers (& some older ones) didn't know  this. It's easy to check out, if you don't believe  it. Be sure and show it to your family and  friends. They need a little history lesson on what's what  and it doesn't matter whether  you are Democrat or Republican. Facts are   Facts. 
Social Security Cards up until the 1980s expressly  stated the number and card were not to be used for identification  purposes. Since nearly everyone in the United  States now has a number, it became   convenient to use it anyway and  the message,NOT FOR   IDENTIFICATION,was   removed. 



An old Social Security card with  the "NOT  FOR IDENTIFICATION" message. 
Our Social Security 

Franklin  Roosevelt, a Democrat, introduced the Social 
Security (FICA)  Program. He promised: 

1.) That participation in the Program  would be 
Completely  voluntary, 

No  longer Voluntary 


2.) That the participants would  only have to pay 
1% of the first $1,400 of their  annual 
Incomes into the  Program, 

Now  7.65% 
on the  first $90,000 
  

3.) That the money the participants  elected to put 
into the Program would be deductible  from 
their income for tax purposes each  year, 

No  longer tax deductible 


4.) That the money the  participants put into the 
independent 'Trust Fund' rather  than into the 
general operating fund, and  therefore, would 
only be used to fund the Social  Security 
Retirement Program, and no other 
Government  program, and, 

Under  Johnson the money was moved to 
The General Fund and  Spent 


5.) That the annuity payments to  the retirees would never be taxed as  income. 

Under Clinton &  Gore 
Up to 85% of  your Social Security can be Taxed 

Since many of us have paid into FICA for years  and are 
now receiving a Social Security check every month  -- 
and  then finding that we are getting taxed on 85% of 
the money  we paid to  the Federal government to 'put 
away'  -- you   may be interested in the following: 

------------ ---------  --------- --------- --------- --------- ---- 

Q:  Which Political Party took Social Security from   the 
independent 'Trust Fund' and put it into  the 
general fund so that Congress could spend  it? 

A:  It was Lyndon Johnson and the democratically 
controlled House  and Senate. 

------------  --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- ---------  -- 

Q: Which Political Party eliminated the income   tax 
deduction for Social Security (FICA)  withholding? 

A:  The Democratic Party. 

------------  --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- ---------  ----- 

Q: Which Political Party started taxing  Social 
Security  annuities? 

A:  The Democratic Party, with Al Gore casting   the 
'tie-breaking' deciding vote as President of  the 
Senate, while he was Vice President of the   US 

------------  --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- ---------  - 

Q: Which Political Party decided to start 
giving  annuity payments to immigrants? 

AND MY  FAVORITE: 

A:  That's right! 

Jimmy  Carter and the  Democratic Party. 
    
   Immigrants  moved into this country, and  at age 65, 
began to receive Social Security payments!  The 
Democratic Party gave these payments to  them, 
even though they never paid a dime into  it! 

------------  -- ------------ --------- ----- ------------ ---------  --------- 

Then, after violating the original  contract (FICA), 
the Democrats turn around and tell you that  the Republicans want to take your Social Security  away! 

And  the worst part about it is uninformed citizens believe   it! 
If enough people receive this, maybe a seed  of 
awareness will be planted and maybe changes  will 
evolve. Maybe not, some Democrats are  awfully 
sure of what isn't so. 




But it's worth a try. How many people will YOU send this to? 

Actions speak louder than bumper  stickers.


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Timothy Utz appointed to the C. H. Charter Commission.

12/22/10 Press release # 1 Appointment to Charter Commission On December 13th 2010, Timothy R. Bloomquist, Chief Judge Tenth Judicial District appointed Timothy Utz to the Columbia Heights Charter Commission. The four year appointment expires on December 13, 2014. According the Columbia Heights website the Commission under the state constitution "...is charged with keeping the charter current under procedures authorized by state statutes..." As the commission is in review of the city charter in coming months, Tim looks forward to having an impact on city government holding fidelity to our Constitution and restoring our Republic. Meetings are open to the public and Tim hopes citizens attend meetings, become informed on local government activities. Swearing in ceremony is scheduled for Tuesday December 28, 2010 1:00pm at Columbia Heights City offices. Citizens and the press are invited to attend the event.

Here We Go Again...

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Thanks Tim for sharing.

Folks,

I could not state better than Emma, My 9 year old granddaughter on the value, purpose and meaning of Christmas. In a society bent on “holiday greetings” over “Christmas” season her insight at 9 gives hope to our great country that the future generations may restore our Republic if we hold onto our history and purpose in life.

Tim Utz

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Sent: Wednesday, December 22, 2010 4:38 PM Subject: Here we go again

Christmas is a lot of fun,but we can't forget what Christmas is really about.It's fun getting presents,spending time with family,caroling,sledding,getting Christmas cards,decorating,and even wearing a smile!But,we should ware a smile about Jesus and his birth.Many people don't know Jesus so,e-mail this to any body family,friends, or even people you just got to know.

Here we go again!! YAY!!! It's Christmas!! Jesus is born!!Ya know lets not buy anything this year or the next,or the next!!

Now do we here that at all? Well I never heard it in my life! Have you?Ya know as I said before a lot of people don't know Jesus,how he loves you,how he died for you,how he teaches us in ways we don't know,and how he waits for you up in heaven.I you want to know how you can go to heaven,and learn about Jesus,look for a church,and talk to the pastor. We need a lot of people to understand that Jesus is waiting for them in heaven. Have a great Christmas and a happy New Year!

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Tim Utz Appointment

12/22/10 Press release # 1 Appointment to Charter Commission On December 13th 2010, Timothy R. Bloomquist, Chief Judge Tenth Judicial District appointed Timothy Utz to the Columbia Heights Charter Commission. The four year appointment expires on December 13, 2014. According the Columbia Heights website the Commission under the state constitution "...is charged with keeping the charter current under procedures authorized by state statutes..." As the commission is in review of the city charter in coming months, Tim looks forward to having an impact on city government holding fidelity to our Constitution and restoring our Republic. Meetings are open to the public and Tim hopes citizens attend meetings, become informed on local government activities. Swearing in ceremony is scheduled for Tuesday December 28, 2010 1:00pm at Columbia Heights City offices. Citizens and the press are invited to attend the event. Timothy David Utz Fidelity to the Constitution, Restoring the Republic 2 Chronicles 7:14 If my people which..... This communication is private and not for consumption by any third party or governmental authority. The 4th amendment privacy rights under our Federal Constitution are fully invoked with this communication as specified in the original context and meaning of December 15, 1791.

From SAF

SAF, ANJRPC ASK FOR SUMMARY JUDGMENT IN NEW JERSEY LAWSUIT

BELLEVUE, WA - The Second Amendment Foundation and the Association of New Jersey Rifle and Pistol Clubs have filed a motion for summary judgment in their federal lawsuit that challenges New Jersey handgun carry laws. SAF and ANJRPC filed the lawsuit last month in federal district court in New Jersey. If this motion is granted, there could be action on the case early in 2011. "We're challenging New Jersey's unconscionable law that forces citizens to demonstrate some absurd justifiable need' in order to exercise a constitutional right to keep and bear arms," said SAF Executive Vice President Alan Gottlieb. "The way Garden State officials consistently abuse their authority to deny handgun licenses under existing statute is simply unconstitutional, and our case will prove that." "Our papers represent a superb piece of legal work and establish a rock solid foundation for restoring sanity to the way New Jersey treats the fundamental right of self defense," added ANJRPC President Scott Bach. "The right to defend yourself with a firearm outside the home has long been denied in the Garden State, and we intend to change that." The legal brief filed as part of Monday's summary judgment motion details the legal reasons for overturning New Jersey's carry laws. "Our partners in New Jersey anticipate opposition from the state Attorney General," Gottlieb said. "We expect a motion for dismissal to be filed by the Attorney General sometime next month." Since its historic Second Amendment victory in McDonald v. City of Chicago, SAF is also pursuing challenges to similar gun permit law abuses in New York, California, Maryland and Washington, D.C., and has also filed a federal lawsuit challenging North Carolina's Emergency Powers statute, along with several other important Second Amendment cases.

The Second Amendment Foundation (www.saf.org) is the nation's oldest and largest tax-exempt education, research, publishing and legal action group focusing on the Constitutional right and heritage to privately own and possess firearms. Founded in 1974, The Foundation has grown to more than 650,000 members and supporters and conducts many programs designed to better inform the public about the consequences of gun control. SAF has previously funded successful firearms-related suits against the cities of Los Angeles; New Haven, CT; and San Francisco on behalf of American gun owners, a lawsuit against the cities suing gun makers and an amicus brief and fund for the Emerson case holding the Second Amendment as an individual right.

from League of American Voters

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TO OBAMA: WIMPS DON’T WIN

By Dick Morris

Moving to the center is not a two-dimensional process. It has a third dimension — the difference between strength and weakness. In the course of coming in from the cold of his extreme far-left positions, the president looks like a wimp, abandoning his long-held views in the face of electoral defeats, adverse court rulings, recalcitrant Democrats and strong, united Republican opposition.

And wimps don’t win.

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When Bill Clinton moved to the center, he arrived in triumph. After vanquishing the Republican Congress during the government shutdown of 1995-96, he agreed to a balanced-budget deal with Newt Gingrich and Trent Lott. But it was his deal, along his lines, on his principles. When he signed a welfare reform bill, he did so after beating back and vetoing two Republican bills that coupled reform with harsh cuts to Medicaid. After he got a bill on his own terms, he signed it.

Barack Obama’s “compromise” with the Republicans over the Bush tax cuts is no more of a compromise than was the deal Emperor Hirohito cut with Gen. Douglas MacArthur on the deck of the battleship Missouri after the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. It was a surrender, not a compromise. It was submission, not triangulation.

Obama is checkmated as long as Republicans hold firm, challenge him on solid grounds anchored in public opinion and remain united. He can either lose the election of 2012 because he is an obstinate ideologue who won’t compromise and won’t abandon his socialist principles or he can lose it because he does surrender and is too weak to be president.

He does not have a third option — winning the budget fights and winning reelection — as long as the Republicans properly mount their challenge, because public opinion, the essential element for victory, is not with him.

• Americans want spending cuts, not tax increases
• Americans believe that cutting spending is more important even than cutting the deficit (see Rasmussen)
• Americans oppose ObamaCare
• Americans are against letting the Environmental Protection Agency impose carbon dioxide restrictions without consulting Congress.
• Americans are against unilateral National Labor Relations Board action to eliminate the secret ballot in union elections.
• Americans oppose earmarks
• Americans do not want the Federal Communications Commission to limit or censor talk radio.

These are the grounds for our battles in 2011-2012. It is on this turf that the Republican House majority must fight. The fearful “moderate” Democratic senators will cave in. And then Obama will be forced to surrender because the Force — public opinion — is not with him. You can govern by ignoring what Americans think if you have a majority. But not if you don’t.

And with each surrender — over his desire to raise the debt limit without mandated spending cuts, over his support for bailing out states in trouble, and over his demand to raise taxes in the 2012 budget — Obama will get weaker and weaker.

His inability to fight and win the war on terror and his choice to become mired in Afghanistan with no real plan for winning will contribute to the image of weakness.

In 2012, he will face America denuded of all the programs he passed in 2009-2010, with an economy only slightly improved but with at least 7-8 percent unemployment, and with a manifest inability to measure up to the job of president.

Most presidents face a challenge of weakness. With Eisenhower, it was his refusal to stand up to Joe McCarthy. With Kennedy, it was his inability to pass legislation. With Nixon, it was his inability to get ahead of the Watergate scandal. With Ford, it was his helplessness in the face of inflation. With Carter, it was the hostage crisis. With Reagan, it was his failure to control the Iran-Contra affair. With Bush-41, it was his passivity on the economy. With Clinton, it was the flip-flopping early in h is presidency. With Obama, it will be his retreat in the face of the Republican counterattack of 2011.

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From GOPUSA re FCC Take over of Internet

Fellow American Patriot, Barack Obama has a "Christmas surprise" for the American people. It's based upon the FCC's self-imposed December 21 deadline to implement new Internet rules. Via the FCC, Mr. Obama wants to take control of the Internet---YOUR Internet---your ability to contact your friends, your relatives, and your elected representatives in government. This "stealth" use of new rules and regulations will sneak up on us just before Christmas. Quite frankly, not too many people know about this; or really take the notion seriously, because, after all, we have the 1st Amendment to the U. S. Constitution to protect us. Right? Wrong! The FCC is ready to add the Internet to its "portfolio" of regulated industries. The Obama Administration wants to take control of the Internet. BEFORE CHRISTMAS! (even though the regulations won't "officially" go into effect until after the holidays. FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski announced that he has circulated "draft rules" that he says will "preserve the freedom and openness of the Internet." No statement---I call it a bald face lie---reflects the vast gulf between the rhetoric and the reality of Obama Administration policy. Obama's FCC is ready to steal our Internet freedom by simply declaring it has the "right" to regulate it. Here's the underlying problem for Barack Obama. Internet journalists tend to report the news without coloring it with the brush of "political correctness." They challenge the lies that the Obama Administration puts out that the so-called "mainstream media" simply accept and repeat as the truth. Please, CLICK HERE to send a FAX to every single Member of Congress TODAY, and tell them that they need to exercise their Constitutional authority and oversight over the FCC, by insisting that the FCC postpone the implementation of these new regulations until proper Congressional Committee hearings are held to determine whether the Executive Branch has the Constitutional authority to take over the Internet. Three federal judges in three different cases have already ruled that the Internet deserves the same protection under the First Amendment as printed material receives. AND, please be sure to send a sizeable DONATION to the United States Justice Foundation (USJF) as we keep this Internet freedom issue before the eyes of every Member of Congress. We must not let the federal government continue to whittle away at our Constitutional freedoms!

From GO

Fellow American Patriot, Barack Obama has a "Christmas surprise" for the American people. It's based upon the FCC's self-imposed December 21 deadline to implement new Internet rules. Via the FCC, Mr. Obama wants to take control of the Internet---YOUR Internet---your ability to contact your friends, your relatives, and your elected representatives in government. This "stealth" use of new rules and regulations will sneak up on us just before Christmas. Quite frankly, not too many people know about this; or really take the notion seriously, because, after all, we have the 1st Amendment to the U. S. Constitution to protect us. Right? Wrong! The FCC is ready to add the Internet to its "portfolio" of regulated industries. The Obama Administration wants to take control of the Internet. BEFORE CHRISTMAS! (even though the regulations won't "officially" go into effect until after the holidays. FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski announced that he has circulated "draft rules" that he says will "preserve the freedom and openness of the Internet." No statement---I call it a bald face lie---reflects the vast gulf between the rhetoric and the reality of Obama Administration policy. Obama's FCC is ready to steal our Internet freedom by simply declaring it has the "right" to regulate it. Here's the underlying problem for Barack Obama. Internet journalists tend to report the news without coloring it with the brush of "political correctness." They challenge the lies that the Obama Administration puts out that the so-called "mainstream media" simply accept and repeat as the truth. Please, CLICK HERE to send a FAX to every single Member of Congress TODAY, and tell them that they need to exercise their Constitutional authority and oversight over the FCC, by insisting that the FCC postpone the implementation of these new regulations until proper Congressional Committee hearings are held to determine whether the Executive Branch has the Constitutional authority to take over the Internet. Three federal judges in three different cases have already ruled that the Internet deserves the same protection under the First Amendment as printed material receives. AND, please be sure to send a sizeable DONATION to the United States Justice Foundation (USJF) as we keep this Internet freedom issue before the eyes of every Member of Congress. We must not let the federal government continue to whittle away at our Constitutional freedoms!

From the Minnesota Majority re Dream Act

STOP THE DREAM ACT

The next 24 hours will be the most important opportunity for grassroots activists to STOP the DREAM Act amnesty from passing in Congress.

This Action Alert is based upon information from Immigration Action Report.

The DREAM Act is an amnesty for 2.1 million undocumented young adults in this country. Vote is set for 10am in the Senate on Saturday, December 18, 2010. We only have one chance to stop this!

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) has filed a cloture motion (to start/stop debate) on the House amendment to the Senate amendments to H.R. 5281, the DREAM Act, setting up a cloture vote on the measure for Saturday morning, December 18, 2010. There will be 2 possible votes, but the first vote is the most important!

60 votes are needed to pass first vote - then only 51 votes to pass second vote and if it wins, the DREAM Act will go to the President to become law.

STEP 1

Call Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell at (202) 224-2541. Explain your version of the following:

"I'm calling to tell Senator McConnell that every single Republican in the Senate had better vote NO ON CLOTURE for the Dream Amnesty. All 42 GOP must vote NO to stop this bill from advancing. I am going to hold Senator McConnell, as minority leader, personally responsible for keeping Republicans together in opposition to this terrible Dream Act AMNESTY bill that would allow Obama and Homeland Security to give Amnesty to any and all illegal aliens according to the 'waiver' on page 5 line 21. Please let Senator McConnell know that Americans are counting on him to assure all GOP Senators vote NO on DREAM Act AMNESTY CLOTURE."

STEP 2

Please select from our suggested talking points and then call your Minnesota US Senators.

• Senator Amy Klobuchar (202) 224-3244
• Senator Al Franken (202) 224-5641

Suggested messages:

• "Vote NO on Cloture for the DREAM Act. Please vote NO tomorrow on the DREAM Act."
• "Please ask Senator _______ to vote NO ON CLOTURE ON THE DREAM AMNESTY BILL and tell Harry Reid that America wants Congress to come home for Christmas and end the lame duck!"
• "Please ask Senator _____ to vote NO ON DREAM AMNESTY CLOTURE because HR5281 on page 5 line 21 allows Obama and Homeland Security to waive all requirements and grant amnesty to almost all illegal aliens in America."
• "Please vote NO ON CLOTURE FOR 5281 AMNESTY BILL because this bill will displace and replace millions of innocent American workers, students, and voters."

MN Supreme Court to Rule on DNA Use!

MN Supreme Court to Rule on DNA Use!

The Minnesota Supreme Court has announced that it will review the Baby DNA lawsuit filed March 11, 2009 against the Minnesota Department of Health for the State's collection, storage, use, and sharing of newborn DNA without parent knowledge or consent!

This is GREAT news!

As Randy Knutson, lead attorney for the nine families who filed the lawsuit, says: "The Minnesota Supreme Court has granted review of the case. This is rare, and important. It means that the [MN] Supreme Court has found it to be one of the few cases important enough for it to review and decide. We are confident that the Supreme Court will take a long, hard look at the DNA privacy rights of parents and children, as well as the conduct of the Minnesota Department of Health."

Mr. Knutson has requested our financial support. We need your help to raise $26,000 to underwrite key portions of preparing the case for the Supreme Court hearing.

A win for these nine families will be a win for every Minnesota family. Parents will be able to protect their children from becoming involuntary subjects of government genetic research. Parents will be able to preserve their child's DNA ownership rights. Parents will be empowered to say no to the government's DNA grab. A win will also help protect parent and child DNA and privacy rights nationwide.

Please donate $500, $250, $50 or more today! (Write "Baby DNA lawsuit" in the "Add a Designation" section, which is above where you add your credit card info). You can also mail your check to the CCHF address below.

Your DNA is your private property. Individual consent for storage, use, analysis and sharing must be obtained at all times, including at birth.

This lawsuit is critical. Your financial support is essential.

And...your gift is tax-deductible! Please give generously (click here)!

Twila

Twila Brase RN, PHN

President

Citizens' Council for Health Freedom

1954 University Ave. W, Ste. 8

St. Paul, MN 55104

www.healthcarefreedom.us 651-646-8935

Conlon Death

Conlon Death

It is with great distress that we must announce the death of

Tom Conlon,

Saint Paul's longest serving Republican

Tom Conlon a 5 term member of the Saint Paul School Board died Sunday from apparent natural causes.

Survived by his parents Tom Sr. and Odelia Conlon.

Funeral arrangements will be provided by O'Halloran and Murphy Funeral Directors and The Saint Louis King of France Catholic Church, Saint Paul, MN

More information will be provided as it becomes available.

log onto www.SaintPaulRepublicans.org for more information.

Conlon Irish Wake

Conlon Irish Wake

Invite you

to a traditional Irish Wake honoring Tom Conlon

Sunday, December 19th, from 4-8pm at O’Gara’s Bar & Grill, on the corner of Selby & Snelling Ave, Saint Paul, MN Irish music, laughter, reminiscing and sobbing provided Memorial Service to be held at 2pm, Monday, December 20th at The Saint Louis King of France Catholic Church, Saint Paul, MN

Reason To Vote

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Donna Schmitt for City Council

Tuesday, November 2, we have a right and duty to exercise our right to vote.  It is important that we educate ourselves with how our candidates stand.  But even beyond that, we need to realize that we are responsible for our representatives and their actions.  If they make good decisions we need to praise them, if they make poor decisions, we need to hold them accountable.  We cannot elect our representatives and think they can read our minds and that they will represent us in every decision.  We need to keep them accountable at all times.  If they ignore us, we need to ignore them at the poll by voting for their opponent.
The October 20th edition of the Northeaster has probably one of the best comprehensive voter’s guide for our area but unfortunately it is not available online.  Dig it out of the recycle bin and check it out.
The polls are open from 7:00 a.m until 8:00 p.m. on Tuesday.
Donna Schmitt

To inspire you, here are some quotes from our forefathers:

“Now, more than ever before, the people are responsible for the character of their Congress. If that body be ignorant, reckless and corrupt, it is because the people tolerate ignorance, recklessness and corruption. If it be intelligent, brave and pure, it is because the people demand these high qualities to represent them in the national legislature…
If the next centennial does not find us a great nation, it will be because those who represent the enterprise, the culture and the morality of the nation do not aid in controlling the political forces.”
James A. Garfield, 20th President of the United States

John Hancock, whose signature dominates the Declaration of Independence said…
“I urge you, by all that is dear, by all that is honorable, by all that is sacred, not only that ye pray but that ye act!”

Daniel Webster, the great Statesman of the early 19th century said…
“Our destruction if it come at all, will be from…the inattention of the people to the concerns of their government, from their carelessness and negligence.”

“Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn’t pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children’s children what it was once like in the United States where men were free.”
–Ronald Reagan; 40th President of the United States

Donna Schmitt For City Council

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TrainingManual.pdf (application/pdf Object)

The following is a link to the Election Integrity Watch Training Manual. Democrats WILL cheat on Tuesday. It is what they were created to do. It is our responsibility to keep our eyes open and make sure we catch them in the act when ever possible! This manual will help you stay out of trouble by doing it properly. This doesn't mean they won't come after you anyway, but you can beat them at their intimidating coercive slave mongering game by following a few simple rules. Go Get Them when they cheat! And lets take our country back! And put the evil Govt Genie back in the bottle where it should be. No, not all Democrats are cheaters. There are plenty of Democrats out there that are haplessly and unfortunately ignorant of whose bed they climbed into. They have always voted Democrat, it is all they know. Their parents and grandparents voted Democrat so they do. And have been so indoctrinated they have no clue what they are doing. And will just continue to vote the way they always have. Which doesn't bode well for the country, but that is the way it is. At least until they finally wake up. Many of these people are just like you and I, in fact have far more in common with Republicans than they do with those Dems that will cheat. This isn't some kind of personal attack. The greatest majority of Democrats are good, honest, God fearing people who just want to do the right thing and many of them are now Tea Party members. It is not these people we have to be concerned about. And it is not these people I refer to. So take a stresstab, and go vote Liberty this year. Your Country needs you! TrainingManual.pdf (application/pdf Object)

'Vote Sloat' Rally

with special guests

Tim Utz and the Big Green Bus

Saturday, October 30th, 12:00pm - 12:45pm
Kordiak Park Parking Lot
1845 49th Ave NE
Columbia Heights, MN 55421

It's time to show our enthusiasm for
Greg Sloat and Tim Utz

Gina Bauman has been invited

Come make a local presence, hear some good news, cheer and....

if you like, caravan to the Emmer Rally at the Anoka County Airport

to greet Governor Chris Christie from New Jersey!!  

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Council Work Session 10/18/2010 - Donna Schmitt For City Council

http://district50ablog.blogspot.com/ "Monday night there was discussion about the surcharge that the city is paying to the MET Council for non-sewage flow in the the sewage system in district 2 of the city. This ends up at 37th and 5th street collection. This is an area between 5th Street and Jefferson and 42nd to 37th. This surcharge is $81,900 a year. This surcharge can be offset by doing such things as the sump pump disconnect program which removed some clear water from the sewage system. The City of Columbia Heights participated in this program and it seemed to be quite successful." To read more click link below. Council Work Session 10/18/2010 - Donna Schmitt For City Council http://district50ablog.blogspot.com/

Heads up re: Tax Payer Funded School, from Act For America

Katherine Kersten: TiZA vs. the search for truth

http://www.startribune.com/opinion/commentary/105067899.html?page=3&c=y

The battle over the role of Islam in a Minnesota public school is heating up again in a federal courtroom in St. Paul. The conflict began in January 2009, when the ACLU of Minnesota sued Tarek ibn Ziyad Academy -- a K-8 charter school with campuses in Inver Grove Heights and Blaine -- for violating constitutional prohibitions against government endorsement of religion.

TiZA since has fought tooth and nail -- erecting procedural barriers to prevent the ACLU from investigating what goes on behind its doors. The school's tactics have gone far beyond the usual rough-and-tumble of lawyers in our adversary system. Its chief tool has been attempted intimidation of all who would draw back the curtain on its secrets.

One of TiZA's first targets was the ACLU itself. A few months after the suit began, the school filed a $100,000-plus defamation claim, citing ACLU executive director Chuck Samuelson's simple statement that "[TiZA is] a theocratic school ... as plain as the substantial nose on my face." The court dismissed the claim.

In January 2010, the ACLU was back in court to seek a protective order, on grounds that intimidation by TiZA was discouraging potential witnesses from appearing. The ACLU filed affidavits by a former TiZA parent and a former TiZA staff member, who described what they interpreted as threats of violence against them. In her affidavit, the female staff member said that Asad Zaman -- TiZA's executive director -- had suggested after she displeased him: "We could just kill you, yeah tell your husband we'll do his job for him." (Zaman has no recollection of making such a statement, he said in an affidavit.) The court barred witness harassment or intimidation by either party.

In June 2010, the ACLU returned to court to quash what it described as yet another TiZA attempt to intimidate current and former employees from speaking about what they had seen at the public school. TiZA's "Staff Handbooks include a secrecy clause, and related threat of legal action for violating it," according to the ACLU's court filings. TiZA "wields [these provisions] as a sledgehammer to keep former employees quiet about what they saw at the school." As a result, "former TiZA employees have expressed fear about speaking to the ACLU."

According to the ACLU, TiZA's refusal to agree not to enforce the secrecy clause "sends the ominous signal that current and former employees who talk to the ACLU may be forced to defend themselves against a baseless, expensive lawsuit."

On Oct. 1, Judge Donovan Frank agreed -- affirming an order the ACLU had earlier won barring TiZA from enforcing the confidentiality clause in the context of this litigation.

The court's order and memorandum spoke volumes: "It appears that information related to TiZA's business, finances, operations and office procedures is public data and cannot be kept secret." "The relevant question ... is why TiZA, a public charter school, does not want to allow its former and current employees to participate in the informal discovery process to ascertain the truth about how TiZA operates."

The court's strong language in response to TiZA's actions was unusual: "[I]ntimidation and threats will not sit well with a fact-finder such as a jury." As a result of the school's actions, "[T]he Court may be required to draw adverse inferences about how TiZA operates as a result of TiZA's efforts to keep information about its operations secret. ... [TiZA's] behavior during the discovery process thus far ... has not been consistent with a good faith search for the truth."

The ACLU has characterized TiZA's recent actions regarding the secrecy clause as "only the last in a long line of intimidation efforts." Not quite. Last month, an attack was launched from a different front.

Several organizations that are not even parties to the lawsuit went to court in an attempt to disqualify the ACLU's lawyers -- Dorsey & Whitney -- from representing the ACLU on grounds that Dorsey personnel had previously communicated with Zaman about entities involved in the litigation. The organizations include the Muslim American Society of Minnesota (MAS-MN), MAS-MN Property Holding Corporation and the Minnesota Education Trust (MET).

What might they fear? Perhaps that Dorsey lawyers are in a position to prove that the scandal thus far -- and Zaman's role in it -- is just the tip of the iceberg. Dorsey lawyers had this to say in a Sept. 10 letter filed with the court:

"The ACLU believes Mr. Zaman's testimony relating to control of virtually every significant event at TiZA, MAS-MN, MET and MET's subsidiaries, coupled with his efforts to hide such control, constitute powerful evidence against TiZA's denials that it is a Muslim school and that it funnels state and federal money to other Muslim organizations."

Every time we read about this lawsuit, we have to pinch ourselves and say: We're talking about a public, taxpayer-funded school.

Katherine Kersten is a Twin Cities writer and speaker.

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Gina Bauman will be holding Townhall Meetings- come on down and meet her

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Gina Bauman for MN State Senate

Gina will be holding two Town Hall style meetings
this week on Thursday evening 10/21 and Saturday morning
10/23.

 

The Thursday event will be at the New
Brighton Family Service Center, 400 10th Street NW, Room 424 at 6:30
PM.

 

On Saturday, the meeting will be at the Anoka
County Fridley Branch located at 410 Mississippi St NE and will begin at 10:30
AM.

 

Invite your friends and neighbors to one or
both of these informal question and answer sessions where Gina will address your
questions and concerns.

 

Light refreshments will be served.

 

Hope to see you
there.


Gina Bauman for MN State Senate


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From the heart of a Muslim - Tawfik Hamid

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Thanks for Sharing Gman and Thanks to Dr. Hamid for saying what needs to be said as a first step toward changing Islam. Now lets see what happens!

date: Monday, October 18, 2010, 10:20 AM

 

"For evil to flourish, all that is needed is for good people to do nothing."
                                                                 Edmund Burke

I am a Muslim by faith.... a Christian by spirit....a Jew by heart....and above all I am a human being."  Dr. Tawfik Hamid. Dr. Hamid is an Egyptian scholar and author    From the heart of a Muslim - Tawfik Hamid

 

I was born a Muslim and lived all my life as a follower of Islam.

After the barbaric terrorist attacks done by the hands of my fellow Muslims everywhere on this globe, and after the too many violent acts by Islamists in many parts of  the world, I feel responsible as a Muslim and as a human being, to speak out and tell the truth to protect the world and Muslims as well from a coming catastrophe and war of civilizations. 

I  have to admit that our current Islamic teaching creates violence and hatred toward Non-Muslims. We Muslims are the ones who need to change. Until now we have accepted polygamy, the beating of women by men, and killing those who convert from Islam to other religions. 

We have never had a clear and strong stand against the concept of slavery or wars, to spread our religion and to subjugate others to Islam and force them to pay a humiliating tax called Jizia. We ask others to respect our religion while all the time we curse non-Muslims loudly (in Arabic) in our Friday prayers in the Mosques.

What message do we convey to our children when we call the Jews "Descendants of the pigs and monkeys".. Is this a message of love and peace, or a message of hate? 

I have been into churches and synagogues where they were praying for Muslims. While all the time we curse them, and teach our generations to call them infidels, and to hate them. 

We immediately jump in a 'knee jerk reflex' to defend Prophet Mohammad when someone accuses him of being a pedophile while, at the same time, we are proud with the story in our Islamic books, that he married a young girl seven years old (Aisha) when he was above 50 years old. 

I am sad to say that many,  if not most of us, rejoiced in happiness after September 11th and after many other terror attacks.  

Muslims denounce these attacks to look good in front of the media, but we condone the Islamic terrorists and sympathise with their cause.  Till now our 'reputable' top religious authorities have never issued a Fatwa or religious statement to proclaim Bin Laden as an apostate, while an author, like Rushdie, was declared an apostate who should be killed according to Islamic Shariia law just for writing a book criticizing Islam. 

Muslims demonstrated to get more religious rights as we did in France to stop the ban on the Hejab (Head Scarf), while we did not demonstrate with such passion and in such numbers against the terrorist murders. 

It is our absolute silence against the terrorists that gives the energy to these terrorists to continue doing their evil acts.  We Muslims need to stop blaming our problems on others or on the Israeli/Palestinian conflict. As a matter of honesty, Israel is the only light of democracy, civilization, and human rights in the whole Middle East . 

We kicked out the Jews with no compensation or mercy from most of the Arab countries to make them "Jews-Free countries" while Israel accepted more than a million Arabs to live there, have its nationality, and enjoy their rights as human beings. In Israel , women can not be beaten legally by men, and any person can change his/her belief system with no fear of being killed by the Islamic law of 'Apostasy,' while in our Islamic world people do not enjoy any of these rights.  I agree that the 'Palestinians' suffer, but they suffer because of their corrupt leaders and not because of Israel . 

It is not common to see Arabs who live in Israel leaving to live in the Arab world. On the other hand, we used to see thousands of Palestinians going to work with happiness in Israel , its 'enemy'. If Israel treats Arabs badly as some people claim, surely we would have seen the opposite happening. 

We Muslims need to admit our problems and face them. Only then we can treat them and start a new era to live in harmony with human mankind.  Our religious leaders have to show a clear and very strong stand against polygamy, pedophilia,slavery, killing those who convert from Islam to other religions, beating of women by men, and declaring wars on  non-Muslims to spread Islam.

Then, and only then, do we have the right to ask others to respect our religion. The time has come to stop our hypocrisy and say it openly: 'We Muslims have to Change'.  
  
Tawfik Hamid    

 

 

Dr. Tawfik Hamid is an Islamic thinker and reformer, and one time Islamic extremist from Egypt. He was a member of a terrorist Islamic organization Jamaa Islamiya with Dr. Ayman Al-Zawahiri, who later became the second in command of Al-Qaeda. Some twenty-five years ago, Dr. Hamid recognized the threat of radical Islam and the need for a reformation based upon modern peaceful interpretations of classical Islamic core texts. Dr. Hamid provided a fresh and theologically valid interpretation for the Quran to counterbalance the radical teaching.

As the Daily Express (UK) mentioned, "Dr. Hamid has predicted the attacks on the twin towers, Madrid and London." After September 11, Dr. Hamid decided to speak out through western broadcast and print media. He has appeared on shows spanning the spectrum from CNN to Fox News, and his articles and Op-Ed pieces have appeared in publications such as the Wall Street Journal, the New York Daily News, and the Jerusalem Post. Dr. Hamid's exceptional knowledge of the jihadi mindset has caused him to be invited as a guest speaker at private and governmental fora around the world. Dr. Hamid has a unique insight into the minds of radical terrorists and wants to share ways in which he can positively influence their way of thinking and end their violent actions.

Dr. Hamid, who is also known as Tarek Abdelhamid, has a medical degree in internal medicine and a Master's degree in cognitive psychology and educational techniques. Currently Dr. Hamid is a Senior Fellow at the Potomac Institute for Policy Studies and President of the Global Movement Against Radical Islam. Dr. Hamid is also the author of Inside Jihad.

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Tim Utz, Gina Bauman, Russ Bertsch in debate

"After watching the video of the event it doesn't appear that anything terribly exciting happened. All of the GOPers (Gina Bauman for SD50 Senate, Tim Utz for HD50A House, and Russ Bertsch for HD50B House) presented their Conservative case well in spite of the shallowness of the softball questions while the libs showed their true socialist leanings. Hopefully those who generally don’t follow politics will watch one of the many replays or the internet feed and conclude that all of the DFLers need to be denied election or re-election to office as they all showed they are clueless when it comes to what the people want or need."

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Minnesotans for Personal Choice and Competition in Health Care Endorse Tim Utz

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Press Release #60
10-5-10 Endorsement
From Minnesotans for Personal Choice and Competition in Health Care
Tim Utz for House received the endorsement of Minnesotans for Personal
Choice and Competition in Health Care. The group promotes Constitutional
responsible private solutions to providing Americans health care and chose
Tim for his stand on Constitutional principles of government and liberty to
provide health insurance. Click below for a link to the organizations
website and endorsement.

http://www.myminnesotahealthcare.com/

Timothy Utz
Endorsed Candidate for Minnesota House 50-A in 2010
BPOU Delegate
CD-5 Delegate
Republican Party State Delegate
Republican State Central Delegate
Campaign Committee for Constitutional Republicans
www.timutzforhouse.com
This communication is considered private and not transmittable or
reproduced without written authorization from the candidate.


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Understanding Obamacare.

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Another great great submission from the Gman, neither one of us said this. I believe it is a posting from "Marilyn" Apologies to whoever wrote it, It is good so I am posting it.



"Let me get this straight. We're going to be "gifted" with a health care plan we are forced to purchase and fined if we don't, written by a committee whose chairman says he doesn't understand it, passed by a Congress that hasn't read it but exempts themselves from it, already signed by a president who also  smokes, with funding administered by a treasury chief who didn't pay his taxes, to be overseen by a surgeon general who is obese, and financed by a country that's broke.

What the hell could possibly go wrong?"



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