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Minnesota Republicans (and Democrats) resist Fiscal TAR
MN GOP CD6 Chair David FitzSimmons
As if it were not bad enough that members of this writer's Republican Party voted for NDAA, this past weekend rank and file Republicans suffered another betrayal at the hands of our party elite.
This Past Saturday, April 14, 2012, this writer served as a delegate at Minnesota CD6 Republican Convention at the Mounds Views Community Center in Mounds View, Minnesota.
As this writer’s regular readers know, for the past 3+ years this writer has submitted articles regarding the failure of various Government institutions to provide citizens with financial information which is supposed to be a matter of public record:
July 8,2009 Write a letter to your City and County: Where's the money? http://exm.nr/HNBoUh
August 2,2009
Wright County MN Massive Financial Cover Up Continues
http://exm.nr/ITBzcY
August 11,2009 Wright County MN Massive Financial Cover up Continues 2
http://exm.nr/nEgOuE
September 8, 2009
Apology to the Little Old Ladies of Wright County Minnesota
http://exm.nr/IzEKVg
And for these past 3 years, Wright County has not provided, nor have any of my state elected officials been able to force Wright County to give me all of the information this author has requested. Not my State Senator or Representative, Not the State Auditor nor the State Attorney General.
Not even the MN IPAD http://www.ipad.state.mn.us
The State IPAD agreed that this writer was entitled to the information and said they would prepare a legal brief to that affect. However, this writer would have to hire and attorney and sue the County for the
information in Court.
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We can thank all of our duplicitous elected State officials, Republican and Democrat alike, for providing all municipal entities with a way to avoid giving citizens information which is supposed to be a matter public record.
To defeat the duplicity of our elected officials, In 2010 this writer submitted approximately this TAR (Transparency, Accountability and Reform) resolution to his local precinct. It passed but somehow got lost
in the process to be added to the Republican Platform.
“Requiring all Minnesota Municipalities (Cities, Counties,
Schools, etc) to post their budgets and actual revenues and spending on
the internet in layman’s terms with no aggregates over one hundred
dollars.”
Now, at this point, this writer asks the reader if they would think that any elected official working in the best interests of rank and file Americans would have any problem enacting such legislation; especially
given that this financial information is supposed to be public record.
Keep that answer in mind while you read the rest of this article.
In pursuing adoption of this resolution and subsequent legislation, this writer had the 1st Principles of the
Founding Fathers in mind:
The fundamental understanding our US Founding Fathers had in
drafting our constitution, is People under Natural Law have free will,
and are not virtuous by nature. Therefore, governments must be
constructed in anticipation of the nature of man. Acting on this
knowledge, our Founding Fathers built into our Government and
Constitution, various checks and balances.
Amongst these checks and balances were transparency and
accountability. All of our problems today emanate from the slow,
persistent rolling back of the checks and balances, transparency and
accountability our Founding Fathers built into our Government and
Constitution.
http://bit.ly/nLIqPn
Yet somehow, Amy Koch, then the Senate Majority leader and my State Senator would not even try to author or pass this bill. Senator Koch just stopped returning this writer’s calls and emails on this Fiscal
TAR. (Nor on my proposals for Judicial TAR) 2 Republicans Legislators flat out told me in confidence that no one in the Minnesota Legislature wants great transparency.
This year this writer again had substantially the same resolution passed at the precinct level, then passed forward at the Wright County BPOU level. Finally this writer attended the MN CD6 Convention as a
delegate to....
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Those were my thoughts.
In Closing:
Thank you, my fellow citizens, for taking your valuable time to read and reflect upon
what is written here.
Please join with me in mutually pledging to each other and our fellow citizens our
lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor to our mutual endeavors of restoring
liberty and economic opportunity to WE THE PEOPLE as our Founding Fathers
envisioned and intended. [Last Paragraph, Declaration of Independence]
This article is written with the same intentions as Thomas Paine http://ushistory.org/paine. I seek no leadership role. I seek only to help the American People find their own way
using their own “Common Sense”
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Michelle Bachmann Tosses Up Her Tar Baby Sleep Toy, Again.
Michelle Bachmann Joins The Hall Of Shame.
Today's post has nothing to do with NUTTIN. Michelle Bachmann lost the Repub Primary and we don't have to fear her insaneness any longer.
(Or do we?) BUT.....
Why do we have to see and hear the nonsense she spreads so furiously around like so much TAR on a leaky roof? Hey MAINSTREAM MEDIA, listen up! We are sick of Bachmann and her convoluted ideas about reality. Banish her to FOX FAKE NEWS where she belongs and leave us to enjoy the sweet aroma of FACT FILLED TRUTH! Yeah right, like I believe, in this LOONEY TUNE TEA PARTY America we find ourselves in, that THAT will ever happen. thinkingblue
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Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) blasted President Obama following his proposed "crackdown" on firms found to be manipulating the oil market, saying he is "waving a tar baby in the air" as a distraction from high gas prices.
"This is just about waving a tar baby in the air and saying that something else is a problem," Bachmann said in an interview Wednesday with The Shark Tank, a conservative news organization that covers Florida politics. "I have never seen a more irresponsible president who is infantile in the way that he continually blames everyone else for his failure to first diagnose the problem and second to address the problem. It's always everyone else's fault."
She said her message for the president is, "Get over it," and stop blaming everyone else.
The term "tar baby" is a racially loaded phrase coined in the "Brer Rabbit" tales. The term generally means a "sticky situation," but has also been used as a derogatory term for a black person.
Rep. Doug Lamborn, a Republican from Colorado, apologized last year after he said associating with Obama was "like touching a tar baby."
Bachmann's attack on Obama comes after he pushed Congress this week for legislation that would increase penalties on oil speculators manipulating the market. He called for increased federal supervision of the markets and funding for enforcement.
“We can’t afford a situation where speculators artificially manipulate markets by buying up oil, creating the perception of a shortage and driving prices higher, only to flip the oil for a quick profit,” Obama said during a Rose Garden speech Tuesday. MORE HERE http://thehill.com/video/house/222491-rep-bachmann-obama-waving-tar-baby-in-the-air-with-crack-down-on-oil-speculators-
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On April 6, 1956 Michelle Bachmann (YIKES) came into existense.
So here is a belated birthday gift for those of us who enjoy listening to this exotic queen from La La Land. Michelle Bachmann the Minnesota-Representative-turned-failed-presidential-candidate's 56th birthday. To celebrate, we've drawn up this list of the 56 best things about Michele Bachmann.
Don't say we never do anything for you, M-Ba! FROM: http://www.indecisionforever.com/blog/2012/04/06/the-56-best-things-about-michele-bachmann
1. She enjoys corn dogs.
2. She also enjoys "noodles, cheeses, chicken and bacon."
3. She's tough on Iran and knows our imaginary embassy in Tehran should be relocated to Krypton or Atlantis.
4. There was that one time she dressed up like Princess Leia at a debate. That was awesome.
5. She gets all her facts about HPV vaccinations from random women she meets, unless they happen to be scientists.
6. She was born 24 years after the Lindbergh baby kidnapping, so there's no way you're pinning that on her.
7. She never looks directly into a TV camera because she knows her eyes will turn the viewers at home into stone.
8. She totally understands why you didn't do your math homework.
9. She's pro-choice, in terms of lightbulbs.
10. She was the first Jewish Republican to run for president, and she's not even Jewish. MORE HERE: http://www.indecisionforever.com/blog/2012/04/06/the-56-best-things-about-michele-bachmannMichelle Bachmann Joins The Hall Of Shame. Today's post has nothing to do with... more-
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Naomi Klein schools Keystone XL
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#Canada hates unethical oil: http://clicktotweet.com/qZt7B | And so does @NaomiAKlein and @SapienceFilm. The world needs more Canada.
Alberta's Tar Sands are a true embarrassment for us Canadians; not only is it a human rights crisis for the Indigenous communities living in Alberta and British Columbia, but an environmental disaster of epic proportions.
Many pipelines transport this dirty oil all around North America, and our exports make us the United States' biggest provider of oil. In the last few years, a new extension to a current pipeline has been proposed to carry Tar Sands oil all the way to Texas, putting some of North America's most fragile ecosystems and waterways in serious peril.
Bill McKibben and his team at 350.org helped spearhead a movement called Tar Sands Action (http://www.tarsandsaction.org), enlisting the help of people all over the US and Canada willing to express their dismay and anger about this possible new pipeline.
As of November 6th, thousands of people have risked arrest, standing in front of the White House, as well as Canada's Parliament in Ottawa, to protest.PLEASE SHARE this Thought Bubble by RETWEETING: TWEET: #Canada hates unethical... more-
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Eternal Vigilance: Sovereign Immunity - The 11th Amendment Revisited
"Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty."-- Wendell Phillips, (1811-1884)
"But you must remember, my fellow-citizens, that eternal vigilance by the people is the price of liberty, and that you must pay the price if you wish to secure the blessing. It behooves you, therefore, to be watchful in your States as well as in the Federal Government."-- Andrew "Old Hickory" Jackson, 7th President of the USA, Farewell Address, March 4, 1837
Our Founding Fathers were determined to see their hard one liberties survive that nature of man.
In writing our Constitution, one of the 1st things they considered was the historic problem of violent and bloody succession of leaders.
The simple formula is this; the more concentrated the power of a people group, the bloodier the succession. In other words the fewer people who hold a nation’s power the greater the chaos as result of its transfer. It is the simplest economics, many grappling for a consolidated, rare resource and you get blood. The genius of the US founders was their deep insight into history and human nature. They understood this formula and structured the government to avoid this problem. Their solution was so simple it seems surprising. They structured the government to recognize every citizen’s sovereignty and made the leaders servants of those sovereigns. To further hinder the natural tendency for humans to consolidate power, they spread national power to sovereign states, and split the power of the central government to different branches.
In essence they made the resource of national power abundant to all by dispersing it to every citizen sovereign. This created a nation in which a person was empowered to pursue happiness as he/she saw fit and if someone tried to consolidate that power, it was so dispersed it would be difficult to accomplish. http://bit.ly/pnYDAb [Article Continues below almost universal translator]
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Further, Founding Fathers did not believe mankind to be virtuous by nature. And so they built various checks and balances into the divided powers of Government.
“The fundamental understanding our US Founding Fathers had in drafting our constitution, is People under Natural Law have free will, and are not virtuous by nature. Therefore, governments must be constructed in anticipation of the nature of man.Acting on this knowledge, our Founding Fathers built into our Government and Constitution, various checks and balances.
Amongst these checks and balances were transparency and accountability. All of our problems today emanate from the slow, persistent rolling back of the checks and balances, transparency and accountability our Founding Fathers built into our Government and Constitution.” http://bit.ly/nLIqPn
Not only did they create checks and balances between the 3 Federal Branches of Federal Government and Between Sovereign States, they provided for the final Check and Balance between the Government and WE THE PEOPLE, the Individual Voting Sovereigns by insuring the Government would be transparent and accountable.
Among the series of checks and balances the Founding Father's provided us were:....
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In Closing,
Thank you, my fellow citizens, for taking your valuable time to read and reflect upon what is written here.
Please join with me in mutually pledging to each other and our fellow citizens our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor to our mutual endeavors of restoring liberty and economic opportunity to WE THE PEOPLE as our Founding Fathers envisioned and intended. [Last sentence, US Declaration of Independence ( http://bit.ly/ruPE7z )]
This article is written with the same intentions as Thomas Paine http://ushistory.org/paine. I seek no leadership role. I seek only to help the American People find their own way using their own “Common Sense” http://amzn.to/kbRuar
Finally, Well Regulated American Militia's posted notice of a FTX Meeting September 16, 2011 to
September 18, 2011. Click here for details. http://t.co/ESZHNFP
The Minnesota Militia is planning a meet and greet for Sunday October 2, 2011. More details as they become available. http://bit.ly/n6cnqh
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Overcoming the Devastation of Legal Abuse Syndrome http://amzn.to/oliiQU"Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty."-- Wendell Phillips, (1811-1884)... more-
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Gasland--Sure You Want Shale Gas ?
Ever heard of "fracking" ?
When filmmaker Josh Fox is asked to lease his land for drilling, he embarks on an investigation that leads to many shocking revelations. Take a look at the trailer for "Gasland." What do you think, fact or fiction?Ever heard of "fracking" ? When filmmaker Josh Fox is asked to lease his... more-
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Tar Sands Debate 1
Many of us, certainly the Canadians among us, have heard the criticisms leveled at the tar sands operations in Alberta, a western Canadian province that is fast becoming the "Saudi" of North America by media standards. In this video, a Syncrude worker presents a reclaimed tar sands site which, they claim, shows the possibility of restoring mining and extraction sites back to functional ecosystems once the operations are finished. Does this mean that the environmental impact is only temporary?
The debate question is this: Are there effective ways to reduce the impact of the oil sands production? If not, then what should be done?Many of us, certainly the Canadians among us, have heard the criticisms leveled at the... more-
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Tarballs wash up on Cocoa Beach (Brevard County, Florida)
COCOA BEACH --
A gorgeous day out on the beach in Brevard County turns to worry after tarballs begin washing up.
Brevard County Emergency Management began receiving calls from beachgoers around 1:30 p.m. Tuesday who spotted them in the water in the area near Minuteman Causeway from 3rd Street South down to 6th Street South.
One beach regular said he collected five pounds in a plastic shopping bag in a short amount of time.
“It's like all over the place," said Paul Davis, a Cocoa Beach resident. "I've been picking it up for like half an hour, an hour. Just picking up big pieces, not even chasing the little pieces. But it's sad.”
“We are asking people not to pick up tar if they see it. If they want to pick it up, use a plastic bag to collect it,” said Kimberly Prosser, a Brevard County spokeswoman.
County officials ask anyone seeing tar on the beach to call 211.
Tarballs have washed up on Brevard County beaches over the past few weeks.
Three samples from Satellite Beach, Patrick Air Force Base and Melbourne Beach were sent for Coast Guard testing.
The Satellite Beach sample came back negative as being related to the Gulf oil spill.
The two others are pending.
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Ode to Perdido Beach Days
Summer escapes on escapades of slicks next to none
Beach resorts in white sand, crystal coasts in the sun
Hand ball racquet, tennis or high, the beach isn't far
Coastal borders, favorite locales, all now under tar
The aim of the Amish in good faith, takes care of the land
Coastal living along Gulf sands now in dire need a hand
Once feathers plumed in delight, a seabird's playful flair
Feathers now fume amidst oil plumes of surface water flare
Truly memorable, beach goers go, in realms of rig remnant
Amenities abound for the lucky few, who even envy cement
When that oil rig blew we already knew of the environment
Sparkle pools, fluffy wide stretches, and what that all meant
Beach going breeze blowing seas as far as the eye can see
Shrinking glaciers way up north beyond this scope of plea
Drink your pleasure, pool-side treasure, today what will it be?
Beautiful sight but for plumes to fight in morning's futility
Spacious settings, ample time, yes once a nice place to relax
Nations watch this ocean beach march as marshes turn to wax
Unbelievable umbrellas, poets, pelican fellas, now all sideways
Gulls and terns in hopes of a return to old Perdido Beach days
Patrick Daniel Adams
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China scientists say cigarette butts protect steel
The remnants of used cigarettes, among the world's most common form of trash, leak chemicals that have been shown to kill fish and damage the environment. The problem could be alleviated if new uses are found for the cigarette butts.
"When people walk on the streets, they usually see cigarette butts scattered everywhere, on the ground or the grass," said Jun Zhao, a Ph.D. student at the Xi'an Jiaotong University, by telephone. "I felt it was quite significant to do a project related to environmental protection."
The study is particularly relevant to China, where about 30 percent of the world's smokers live, a number roughly equal to the entire U.S. population. The country is home to both the world's largest tobacco grower and cigarette producer.
Zhao and other researchers in northwest China said Friday they have found that cigarette butts soaked in water can help guard against corrosion in a type of steel commonly used in the oil industry.
The finding was recently published in the American Chemical Society journal Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research.
Zhao said she started the research after noticing that cigarette butts turn the color of water brown when immersed in it, like the color of antiseptics. "That inspired me to wonder if the two are related," she said.
The researcher started collecting cigarette butts for the project around 18 months ago, picking them up from ashtrays atop roadside trash cans and collecting them from friends whom she had asked to save the butts.
"I have bags and bags of cigarette butts for the project. I have no idea how many of them I have," she said.
Researchers found that extracts of cigarette butt water could substantially protect N80 type steel from corroding when in hydrochloric acid at 90 degrees Celsius (194 degrees F). That type of steel is often used to make drill rods, which costs oil producers millions of dollars annually when they corrode.
A compound material produced from the burning of nicotine and tar is what protects against corrosion, Zhao said, adding she planned to study its effect on preventing rusting in other metals.
The findings are "very convincing," said Guy D. Davis, a materials consultant based in Baltimore, Maryland, with 30 years of experience researching the treatment of surfaces.
Together with another researcher, Davis has previously studied the use of tobacco extracts on steel and aluminum. "Tobacco seems to be one of the best plant-based inhibitors" of corrosion, Davis said.
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Greenpeace protesters breach “secure” oilsands site
EDMONTON — Activists from the environmental group Greenpeace seized a giant dump truck and shovel at Shell’s Albian Sands open-pit-mine north of Fort McMurray Tuesday.
A news release from the group says protesters from Canada, the U.S. and France entered the mine site at 8 a.m. and blockaded the truck and shovel by chaining together pickup trucks.
Two groups of activists then scaled the machines and chained themselves down while a third unveiled a giant banner reading: “Tar Sands: Climate Crime.”
Mike Hudema, a spokesman for the group, said they are prepared to remain at the site until their message is heard.EDMONTON — Activists from the environmental group Greenpeace seized a giant dump... more-
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Do you know what your husband in doing? Unusual form of activism used to reach bank CEO
During rush-hour commute this morning, two Indigenous Canadian women – Eriel Tchekwie Deranger, and Heather Milton-Lightening – scaled flagpoles in front of the main entrance of Royal Bank of Canada’s (RBC’s) headquarters in Toronto, dropping a banner reading “Please Help Us Mrs. Nixon.com” – appealing to the bank to pull its massive investments in Alberta tar sands projects. Supported by RAN, the Ruckus Society, and their Indigenous People’s Power Project, they were joined by dozens of Toronto RAN activists, swarming entrances to ensure every RBC employee heard our appeal Mrs. Janet Nixon, the wife of RBC CEO Gordon Nixon, to lend her strong and influential voice to those fighting to protect Canada’s clean water and respect Indigenous rights by pushing RBC to stop bankrolling the tar sandsDuring rush-hour commute this morning, two Indigenous Canadian women – Eriel... more-
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The trouble with tar sands..by David Suzuki
If you want to be scared, you don’t need to watch a horror movie or read the latest Stephen King bestseller. Real terror can be found by simply firing up Google Earth, the computer program that allows users to look at satellite pictures of any place on the planet. By mousing over and zooming in, you can see what Alberta’s tar sands look like from space....If you want to be scared, you don’t need to watch a horror movie or read the... more-
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