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US presidential hopeful Rick Santorum has swept the contests for the Republican Party nomination in Minnesota, Missouri, and Colorado.
Mr Santorum outperformed longtime front-runner Mitt Romney, who has struggled to connect with the party's conservative base.
Supporters in Missouri heard Mr Santorum declare victory for all those "building the conservative movement".
The eventual nominee will face Barack Obama in November's election.
Former House of Representatives Speaker Newt Gingrich hardly campaigned in the three states that voted on Tuesday, and did not even appear on Missouri's ballot.US presidential hopeful Rick Santorum has swept the contests for the Republican Party... more
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Last night at PCW Minnesota Mayhem from the Williams Arena in Minneapolis, MN
‘The Massachusetts Redblood’ Mitt Romney (R-MA) entered the arena in high spirits along with his wrestler, Yamamoto Tanaka (R).
Who looked to stem the Romney tidal wave? Rick Santorum (R-PA) and his charge, The Right Rev. Randy Richardson- the former Triple R, that’s who.
MATCH #1
‘New Age Sensitive Guy’ Blaine Thomas-Taylor (D) of Politically Correct w/ Soccer Mom (D)
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T-Roy (R) w/former head of the Susan G. Komen Race for the Cure Karen Handel
Big Oil Promo
Big Oil (R) claims that the end of the world is here because… GAS PRICES WILL GO BACK OVER $4 A GALLON BY MEMORIAL DAY!
MATCH #2
Arizona Rough Justice: D.B. Ruff and Connor Justice (R) w/Sheriff Joe Arpaio
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Occupy Wall Street: Nate and Shane (D) w/Adam
MAIN EVENT:
Minnesota Mayhem Match
K-Roy (R) w/Newt Gingrich (R-GA)
Magnum PO’d (R) w/Robbyn Masters and Ron Paul (R-TX)
Yamamoto Tanaka (R) w/’The Massachusetts Redblood’ Mitt Romney (R-MA)
Rick Santorum came out next. Romney got on the mic and wanted to know where his wrestler was.Last night at PCW Minnesota Mayhem from the Williams Arena in Minneapolis, MN... more
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By David Edwards
Monday, February 6, 2012 14:24 EST
Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum on Monday asserted that former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney was “uniquely unqualified” for the GOP nomination because of the similarities between health care laws in Massachusetts and President Barack Obama’s health care reforms, including the repeatedly debunked claim that “death panels” would ration care to seniors.
Speaking at a ballroom across the street from the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, Santorum pointed to a report (PDF) from the the non-partisan organization Families USA that found at least 15 major similarities between Obama’s Affordable Care Act and the reforms Romney enacted in Massachusetts.
“Both create government panels to dictate quality and cost containment,” Santorum explained. “Some of you may be familiar with the Independent Payment Advisory Board — which is a board separate from Congress, independent of Congress — that President Obama created to control health care costs. How? By cutting reimbursements to doctors and hospitals under the Medicare program. Well, Gov. Romney has a similar program called the Council on Health Quality and Costs.”
“Some people refer to these types of boards as death panels,” he added. “Why? Because they ultimately decide to ration care to those procedures and people because they don’t believe these procedures are effective in providing care, that the utilization isn’t worth the costs.”
“So, again, you have government making decisions and rationing and apportioning care based on research that shows what outcomes are dictated by the research that’s out there.”
In 2009, Politifact named “death panels,” a term thought to have been first used by former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin (R), as their “Lie of the Year.”
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/02/06/santorum-romney-and-obama-both-created-death-panels/
Watch this video from CNN, broadcast Feb. 6, 2012.
"Funny how he says "Some people refer to these types of boards as Death Panels" to the best of my recollection only His Party does!!!"By David Edwards
Monday, February 6, 2012 14:24 EST
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By Andrew Jones
Monday, December 19, 2011
Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN) received another uncomfortable moment on the campaign trail about her anti-gay views Sunday evening.
According to CNN, the congresswoman and her husband Marcus encountered Kathy Schnell, a woman wearing a Bachmann sticker and holding up a sign saying “Gay-friendly Iowan.”
While smiling to sign the poster, Bachmann asked “Gay-friendly Iowan?”
Schnell proceeded to pick Bachmann’s brain on the number of America gays.
“I wonder if you’re aware that 10% of the population is gay?” she said. “And if you have 28 children, then 2.8 of those kids are very likely gay.”
Thinking that the GOP presidential candidate wasn’t listening to her, Schnell told her friend “She’s not listening to me.”
That prompted Bachmann to reply, “Well, that’s according to the Kinsey Report.”
A few seconds later, her husband Marcus jumped in and told Schnell, “Your facts are wrong.”
“That’s not valid?” Schnell replied back.
“No it isn’t,” he said. “No, it’s not at all. It’s been a myth for many years.”
The Kinsey reports are based on the two books written by Dr. Alfred Kinsey about human sexual behavior in 1948 and 1953. It is widely considered groundbreaking research that helped change popular perceptions about the size and make-up of America’s LGBT population.
This isn’t the first time Bachmann has been confronted on the campaign trail about her views on LGBT rights and the community at large.”
Two weeks ago, Bachmann encountered a 8-year-old who told her, “My mommy’s gay but she doesn’t need any fixing.”
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/12/19/bachmanns-husband-kinseys-research-on-homosexuality-is-a-myth/
WATCH: Video from CNN, which was broadcast on December 19, 2011.
"A Half Ass answer and she is Off!!!" =)By Andrew Jones
Monday, December 19, 2011
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A flash mob of dozens “glittered” a Marcus Bachmann stand-in (actor Carl Atiya Swanson) Thursday in front of Bachmann & Associates, the Christian counseling center owned by Michele and Marcus Bachmann, while dancing to Lady Gaga’s “Born This Way.”
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Jerome Liebling, a pioneering socially conscious documentary photographer and teacher for more than half a century, died on July 27th in Northampton, Mass., at the age of 87. Mr. Leibling’s subtly powerful pictures influenced a generation of socially minded photographers and documentary filmmakers.
Along with a wave of pioneering photographers who included Walker Evans, Paul Strand, Berenice Abbott, Helen Levitt and Gordon Parks, Jerome Liebling helped define the look of 20th century documentary photography. Leibling took to the streets of New York in the 1940s to make art by turning his camera onto corners of urban life that had too often been ignored by many photographers before him. He captured the lives of ordinary people on the streets of New York, including in his childhood neighborhood of Brighton Beach, as well as around the world.
Most of Mr. Liebling’s life was spent teaching. He started a photography and film department at the University of Minnesota in 1949, and taught at Hampshire College from 1970 to 1990. The school’s photography building is named in his honor. A number of of Mr. Liebling’s students became professional photographers and filmmakers, receiving Academy Awards, Emmys and Peabody awards for their work.
Liebling received numerous awards and grants, including two Guggenheim Fellowships, a National Endowment for the Arts Photographic Survey Grant, and a fellowship from the Massachusetts Council on the Arts. His photographs are in the permanent collections of many museums, including the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, the Fogg Museum in Cambridge, Massachusetts, the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., and the National Gallery of Canada in Ottawa.
This piece includes a number of high-resolution photographs, a photo-gallery and two documentary short films.
http://disembedded.wordpress.com/2011/08/19/jerome-liebling-a-documentary-photographer-whose-camera-captured-the-human-spirit/Jerome Liebling, a pioneering socially conscious documentary photographer and teacher... more
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A Minnesota school district allowed a homecoming event called "Wigger Day," during which students wore clothes and behaved in a manner that "from their perspective, mimicked black culture," according to a federal class action lawsuit filed against the district on Friday.
The suit alleges that despite student council voting on a "tropical theme" for homecoming in 2009, a group of approximately 60 students from the predominantly white school instead attended the event dressed for "Wigger Wednesday" in "oversized sports jerseys, low-slung pants, baseball hats cocked to the side and 'doo rags.'"
"Wigger is a pejorative slang term for a white person who emulates the mannerisms, language and fashions associated with African-American culture," the complaint explains.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/08/03/wigger-day-red-wing-minnesota_n_916323.htmlA Minnesota school district allowed a homecoming event called "Wigger Day,"... more
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Two national civil rights groups and a Minneapolis law firm filed a federal lawsuit Thursday against the Anoka-Hennepin School District on behalf of five current and former students who say they were bullied at school because of their perceived or actual sexual orientation.
Outside a Champlin middle school Thursday morning, the Southern Poverty Law Center, National Center for Lesbian Rights and Faegre & Benson law firm announced that the suit had been filed in U.S. District Court against Minnesota's largest school district.
It seeks to end the district's sexual orientation curriculum policy, also known as the neutrality policy, and seeks compensation for the students who say they were repeatedly bullied because they were gay, lesbian, bisexual or transgender, or perceived to be GLBT.
"The Anoka-Hennepin School District, where we stand today, has refused to take a stand against harassment and bullying," said Mary Bauer, the legal director at the Alabama-based Southern Poverty Law Center. "This policy sends a message to kids that who they are is not OK. Our plaintiffs have stood up and said no more."
The announcement comes a day after the school district released a statement acknowledging that federal authorities have been investigating the district since November after a compliant or complaints of student bullying. In the statement Wednesday, the district also said it wanted to work with the two national civil rights groups to resolve concerns about the policy instead of going into costly litigation.
"We feel that it would be better to put our energy and resources into materials for training students and all staff that would be more effective than what we're doing," district spokeswoman Mary Olson said Thursday.
Sam Wolfe, an attorney with the Southern Poverty Law Center, said they met with the school district once after their May request. But refusal by the school board to get rid of the policy is a "nonstarter" for further discussions, he said.
"There is a great sense of urgency that this problem needs to be addressed," Wolfe said. "We can't really wait for the federal government to go through their process. It's important with school starting again ... that we really need to move forward now."
The sexual orientation curriculum policy allows teachers to discuss issues related to sexual orientation in the classroom but requires them to maintain neutrality -- the only local school district known to have such a policy.
District leaders maintain that the policy is appropriate because the community is split on GLBT issues.
Bullying has been a high-profile issue in the district over the past year.
Last fall, after a number of student suicides in the 38,000-student Anoka-Hennepin district, GLBT advocates argued that some deaths stemmed from bullying because of real or perceived GLBT orientation. In December, the district said an investigation into six teen suicides had found no links to bullying.
http://www.startribune.com/local/north/125958688.htmlTwo national civil rights groups and a Minneapolis law firm filed a federal lawsuit... more
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This is Michele Bachmann. She is about to run for president on an ignorant, homophobic campaign. This fate could have been avoided if she had a sassy gay friend. Oh wait she's married to one!This is Michele Bachmann. She is about to run for president on an ignorant,... more
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I have rebuked my sexuality and forsaken my gaydom.
But how?
Simple: I prayed it away. All it took was a trip to Minneapolis and an a few appointments at Bachmann and Associates' reparative therapy sessions. There, I learned that the only way to correct my misguided sexual orientation was through Christ.
http://tinyurl.com/647e226I have rebuked my sexuality and forsaken my gaydom.
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So the former RIPublican governor screws the pooch on the state budget, declines to run for a third term, then tells fellow RIPublicans to hold the line of the budget. The MN economy will crash shortly as thousands of state employees have no income. No income by anyone slows the economy. No income means no tax revenue for income or sales.
Why are countries with low tax rates suffering from slow sluggish economies. Why are highly taxed countries not having the same problem. Could it be that they live within the means that they wants themselves to live? i.e. cradle to grave healthcare and education for all. Sweden, Denmark, Germany all have high tax rates on both individuals and corporations. All have much lower disparity in income than the U.S.
Where is the economic growth from all of the tax cuts previously? Reagan cut taxes after coming into office and had two recessions. Bush had to raise taxes, Clinton raised taxes further and there was economic growth like not seen since the end of WWII. Bush II cut taxes and the economy stalled before Osama put it in hiatus. Obama allowed the RIPublicans to force and extention of Bush's tax cuts and the economy is about in a double dip recession from it when it was climbing out with the stimulus (that was under financed because of RIPublican pressure).
Tax cuts for the wealthy never creates jobs, ever!So the former RIPublican governor screws the pooch on the state budget, declines to... more
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Source: NYT
With only hours remaining before most Minnesota services will shut down if the state does not approve a new budget, political leaders met behind closed doors on Thursday but emerged again with no deal on a spending plan and no signs of a resolution in sight.
And so, on the eve of a holiday weekend, Minnesotans were bracing for the possibility that the state’s parks and the Minnesota Zoo will be closed, hunting and fishing licenses will not be issued, and the state’s lottery system and racetracks will shut down. By Thursday afternoon, workers were already closing the state’s 84 major rest areas along highways. Thousands of state workers were preparing to be sent home without pay, and contractors were getting ready to walk away from a hundred road construction projects that are underway.
While the budget year begins on Friday in many states, Minnesota was one of several that had yet to seal a deal by Thursday afternoon, but was one of the few in the nation making immediate preparations for a shutdown. The last such standoff in Minnesota came under an entirely different set of leaders in 2005, but involved the shutdown of far fewer services and lasted a matter of days.
Since early this year, the politicians in St. Paul have been locked in a battle over how to solve budget woes under a divided government. Republicans, who took control of both chambers of the Legislature last fall, urged sharp cuts and a cap on spending to the $34 billion that the state expected to take in over the next two years. Gov. Mark Dayton, a Democrat elected in the fall, called for collecting more in income taxes from the highest earners to solve an anticipated $5 billion deficit and to spare cuts in services to the most vulnerable.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/01/us/01minnesota.html
"Does this mean Pabst Blue Ribbon stocks went up today????Source: NYT
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On Twitter.com, there is an atmosphere of constructive intellectual exchange that challenges and causes each of us to think about why we believe what we believe. The internet represents a similar component of technological advance as Movable Type did to the First Enlightenment* (1650AD-1800AD). Twitter.com, Facebook.com and MySpace.com are analogous the coffeehouses and debating clubs of First Enlightenment. Through these electronic forums, Information and Ideas are being freely exchanged at a rate too fast for most governments to adapt to (for the purpose of maintaining their own power and the status quo)
One of my fellow Citizens and Patriots, responding to one of my “tweets” suggested that a split was occurring amongst WE THE PEOPLE in general and, in particular, those of us who take a greater interest in Liberty, Freedom and Politics.
My fellow citizen and cohort described this perceived split as "Libertarian" vs "Conservative". Before I say more, I thank my said cohort for bouncing their ideas off from me, so I would be inspired to reflect upon what causes me to believe what I believe in this regard. I hope that each of you are enlightened by our exchange of ideas...."
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It seems Michele Bachmann made a big splash at the Republican debates when she formally threw her hat into the ring. But, many of her supporters may have wished she'd thrown her panties in instead.It seems Michele Bachmann made a big splash at the Republican debates when she... more
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Thank you Pawlenty for creating this mess.
Thank you GOP legislators for not compromising.
Now our state will shut down and we will have to deal with:
* Can't enjoy our state parks
* Can't have court procedings heard in a timely manner
* Universities will shut down
* Essential Government services sharply curtailed
* Roads not being repaired
* Locked Highway rest stops
* No Drivers Licences issued
and the list goes on and on...
SHAME on you, GOP Legislature!
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/06/10/minnesota-budget-layoff-notices_n_875219.htmlThank you Pawlenty for creating this mess.
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This is a teaser for an article that I posted on my Blog MINNESOTA JUDICIAL REFORM
AND ACCOUNTABILITY [ http://bit.ly/jPM1H8 ]. It includes Proposed Legislation that I have sent to my Minnesota US 6th District Representative, Michele Bachmann. In my humble opinion, this should be the single most important issue of the 2012 Elections.
Upon reading my article and proposed legislation, I believe you will reach the same conclusion that I have: Sovereign Immunity is a fraud. It was not provided for in the Constitution or the Bill of Rights. It results from a deliberate and fraudulent Judicial Interpretation to the 11th Amendment. Sovereign Immunity is what prevents WE THE PEOPLE from suing and holding accountable our Elected Officials, Judges, Government and Government Agencies and Government Bureaucrats. For we rank and file citizens, the political party that you belong to should not be a consideration in supporting this proposed legislation. After reading my article, I believe you will be as angry and motivated for this proposed reform as I am.
If Upon reading this, you find yourself in agreement with my assessment and proposed Legislation Please contact Representative Michele Bachmann [ http://bachmann.house.gov ] at the following voice and fax numbers.
Washington D.C. Office
103 Cannon House Office Building Washington, DC 20515
Phone: (202) 225-2331 Fax: (202) 225-6475
Woodbury Office
6043 Hudson Rd, Suite 330 Woodbury, MN 55125
Phone: 651-731-5400 Fax: 651-731-6650
St. Cloud/Waite Park Office
110 2nd Street S, Suite 232 Waite Park, MN 56387
Phone: 320-253-5931 Fax: 320-240-6905
LEGAL EVIL? In their own words - Revised and Updated to include Proposed Legislation Language sent to my MN US Representative, Michele Bachmann [ http://bit.ly/jPM1H8 ]
With the US Judiciary's reputation for integrity and honesty firmly embedded in the minds of WE THE PEOPLE, what standing does any single Citizen have to challenge their reputations? To overcome this handicap, I will use the American Legal System’s own words to expose the true nature of their integrity and character.
Let us begin with the words of former FBI director J Edgar Hoover:
"The individual is handicapped by coming face to face with a conspiracy so monstrous he cannot believe it exists.''
Next, I am going to use the words of Judges themselves. Judges allege that they reach conclusions by citing existing case law aka previous rulings of judges.
In my research on immunity for Judges and States, I was astonished and dismayed to learn the liberties the Judges had taken, and leaps of logic they had used, to interpret and write case law and rules in their favor.
The first cases I will cite are:
Wiggins v Hess (1976, CA8 Mo) 531 F2d 920
"Judicial immunity applies even when judge acts maliciously and corruptly; judge loses his immunity from liability for damages in violation of 42 USCS &1983 ONLY if he acts in clear absence of jurisdiction."
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Holloway v Walker (1985, CA5 Tex) 765 F2d 517
"Judges absolute immunity from suit under 42 USCS & 1983 for actions take under jurisdiction is not avoided by allegation that the acts are performed pursuant to bribe or conspiracy."......
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