$10,000 Olbermann Donation for Right-winger to undergo Waterboarding Interrogation Procedure Unreal

http://hotair.com/archives/2009/05/29/olby-to-mancow-youre-sure-this-waterboarding-was-legit-right/

http://gawker.com/5273106/oh-keith

Erich "Mancow" Muller's publicist's email:

"It is going to have to look "real" but of course would be simulated with Mancow acting like he is drowning. It will be a hoax but have to look real."
No one disputes that the e-mail is genuine. Note that it contains other words than "hoax"—words like "look real" and "simulated." And—most importantly—"with Mancow acting like he is drowning."

As foolish as these two clowns are, equivicating the circumstances of the $10,000 event, their target audience is more so in the belief that it actually means anything:

FB friend, FBI 9-11 whistle-blower, and 9-11 conspiracy theorist Coleen Rowley wrote on Facebook.com (or possibly quoted):

I was worried they'd let Sean Hannity off his waterboarding boast. If he doesn't have the conviction of his beliefs about something he says he's passionate about--the need for U.S. to continue torture--what else is just braggadocio?

[Response:] Jamie Delton at 7:24pm May 23

The conviction of Hannity's beliefs is probably not that he can demonstrate self-abuse but that enhanced interrogation should not be removed for any administration protecting our nation. Olbermann is an idiot obsessed with waterboarding people. Time to move on, Coleen.

Then ensued a 35 item comment thread among her friends that included lefty appeals to not make them PUKE! in response to a suggestion they thank Cheney for keeping us safe etc.

Jamie Delton at 9:35pm May 23


Well Rush Limbaugh can tell you exactly why! Listen to Rush


Dawn Ashby at 9:35pm May 23


Jamie, I certainly hope you are being facetious. I can't even COMPREHEND the idea that someone could still be so delusional. Thank Cheney? Don't make me PUKE!


Eric Schechter at 9:46pm May 23


Jamie must be kidding. We should have figured that out from his "it looks like a good read." That was over the top.


Jamie Delton at 10:17pm May 23


no


Dawn Ashby at 10:33pm May 23


wtf? seriously?please. get help.


Jamie Delton at 10:54pm May 23


Try it



...


Dawn Ashby at 12:33am May 24

forget conservative vs liberalforget republican vs democrat
what about RIGHT VS. WRONG???????



Two Lefties then argue against Dawn.

Previously I had said:

Jamie Delton at 11:57am May 23

My previous 3 comments dispute your "it doesn't work" argument. But really even if it doesn't work all the time, we should not hamstring the next generation on the basis of OUR shortcomings, even if those shortcomings are imaginary, by removing an interrogation option that is basically harmless.


Dick Cheney says the documents Obama refuses to release prove enhanced interrogation works.

This anti-war nuttiness comes also from moderate Republicans proud to be bi-partisan but who, for their left perspective, depend only perhaps on a single-issue spouse or friend. More importantly this anti-war nuttiness comes also from the Ron Paul crowd that is now partially controlling the MN GOP.

The best part of this exposed hoax is it proves to the Dawn Ashby's of the world that right-wing self-respect (such as that of Hannity) trumps any foolish notion that you have to undergo enhanced interrogation to preserve it in our government for futre generations.

Even with Olbermann's $10,000, only about 2 people submitted to broadcast waterboarding and of those at least one, Mancow/Erich Muller, very likely did not feel any SINCERE transformation or breaking of his beliefs. Mancow/Erich Muller seemed to me to be playing with Olbermann in the interview above, knowing that Olbermann had been fooled by him (Mancow/Erich Muller).

David Shuster is an Idiot

http://hotair.com/archives/2009/05/29/video-david-shuster-tries-fails-to-conceal-his-absolute-disdain-for-tancredo/

Tancredo said nothing except that a supreme court candidate said something racist. David Schuster then acts like Tom Tancredo, who has never used race-baiting in his life, unlike Lefties like Ed Schultz who decried on racist grounds the argument that Obama's government debt "enslaved" tax payers, hinders Shuster and Susan Molinari's consideration of Sonia Sotomayor on the merits of her opinions. Tom Tancredo, Gingrich and others are right to accuse Sotomayor of racism. The gender sentiments of Sotomayor are so ridiculous they don't merit comment.

Hat-tip to www.Hotair.com

MN GOP List Policy and alleged list abuse

The 400 MN GOP delegates should have the list of 400 delegates for social networking and the decision process. That should be an agenda item at the MNGOP State Central Meeting June 13 at the Earle Brown Heritage Center 6155 Earle Brown Drive Brooklyn Center http://www.earlebrown.com/.
Directions here: http://www.google.com/calendar/event?eid=N3Z1NGIzNzFmM3Ixa3BpOGl1OTQ3dGxiaWsgc2Q0NW1uQG0.
At another level of data privacy, the 4-7 thousand BPOU officers should also be able to communicate by email with the 400 delegates before the SCC convention. That also should be on the agenda as a separate item as well as any other levels contemplated.

I'm 65B VC with John as Chair.
Although I think 65B Chair John Gilmore was wrong to release MNGOP emails to the internet without consulting at least one other 65B officer (me), I agree with all his points in his comment below. It is mystifying why Nate Hansen chooses to use childish rhetoric against John and other old guard Neo Con Republicans. But it is also mystifying why John strongly accuses fellow Old Guard republicans who are simply maintaining a data privacy policy in addition to possibly mis-using that same data. There may be more to this story.

Here is Gilmore's blog:
http://conservativeminnesotans.blogspot.com/2009/05/mission-accomplished.html

May 30, 2009 12:46 AM Malzacher/Gilmore said... Ah, a Kool-Aid drinker post at last. MC can't believe its good fortune in being called BOTH neoconservative (read Jews!) and communists. This post has made our day.
We are a target because we have been labeled Neocons. And Dr. Paul doesn't like them; ergo his supporters (or some) don't either. MC admits life can be easier when someone else does your thinking for you. Yes yes, we know, we've heard it all before: we outsourced ours to Richard Perle, Bill Kristol, and the rest of the Jewish cabal.
We tire of Ron Paul (so wrong on Iraq) and *some* of his followers even though we were supportive of them having a voice and presence in the party, both at the state convention as well as national. Inclusion does not mean agreement. It does mean a healthy but respectful debate over ideas.
Sadly, our friend Nate makes his debut comment here by calling us names. It is not condescension on our part when we say we simply don't have time for such childishness.
Substantively, the email list previously posted here has NEVER been treated in a manner consistent with a trade secret. Nate surely must know that it has been used by current party leadership to favor allies and punish critics.
He never addresses this point in his response. Contrary to his Carey/Sutton talking points, it takes almost zero money to generate and maintain this list. To claim that making them public makes them useless is to insult our intelligence. MC knew what it was doing when it put a graphic of Alice in Wonderland at the top of this post.
Oh, and Nate, the DFL already has our lists. MC knows this firsthand but let's keep that between us; people feel special if they are fooled into thinking they are part of something secret. Da Vinci Code for Republicans!
The very worst outcome of transparency, from what we can glean from Nate's comment, is that the DFL might spam us.
Oh the humanity! We don't want to pick on Nate in this regard as we heard from other whiners as well. Our response to them all, though, is the same: grow a pair.
Here, however, is what MC does not understand:
Ron Carey, Tony Sutton, hop along Darren and other current leadership (Brian Sullivan, Evie Axdahl etc etc) were thugs fit for Chicago in their conduct toward Ron Paul supporters at the state convention and, to a lesser degree, the national convention. MC knows: it was at both and saw such conduct firsthand. Ron Paul supporters, of which,
putatively, Nate is one, know this as well.
Though he leads with quoting Dr. Paul, Nate never tells the reader that he recently endorsed
1. Tony Sutton
2. Michael Brodkorb.
We assume when he's told by the old guard whom to support for secretary/treasurer MC will get another endorsement letter in its email inbox. Unless, of course, by hocus pocus it is deemed a trade secret.
Last, with attention to detail and degree of logic from the the Tony "I lost Norm's senate seat for him" Trimble school of law, Nate claims MC didn't stand down the hacks. MC could never teach because we don't have patience in the face of such sloppiness.
MC contacted state central delegates using emails that had come into our possession. MC received a certified letter from, yes!, Tony Trimble threatening a lawsuit and demanding we contact him and return all lists. MC did contact said office. MC never heard from legal counsel for RPM (can we review how legal work is ladled out at the State Central meeting?). The old guard even went after the job of a friend of MC's who used the same list. Stay classy,
you thugs.
We posted about the insanity here: http://tinyurl.com/nfbhyh
This was the stand down mentioned above.
We are amused that an ersatz Ron Paul supporter has openly endorsed his persecutors and claims, somehow, MC lacks the moxy to challenge the established order. We date ourselves when we recall that old cigarette ad about fighting rather than switching.
We trust our readers to figure out who remains fighting and who has switched. As to the motives for switching, MC never overstates the obvious.
May 30, 2009 11:07 AM

http://conservativeminnesotans.blogspot.com/2009/05/mission-accomplished.html

Craig Westover, who proposed to release the delegate list to the delegates themselves at the State Central meeting Thursday May 21:
http://opengop.wordpress.com/


From my Facebook conversations:

Jamie Delton at 8:28am May 30
It was fun Alison. I met some new friends. I'm not a delegate but I am interested in the dividing lines on the state exec board on the issue of sharing delegate contact info (about 400 emails) with the delegates themselves. From observing Craig Westover's presentation on May 21 and from what I've been told, only Dorothy Bill [Doug -ed] and Scott support sharing contact info among the delegates. Perhaps sharing only email/phone info and not address info would be an acceptable compromise. The delegates at some point need to candidly discuss the issues among themselves and they can't do it without contact info. The process should already be started. On the other hand if the intentions of the recent Ron Paul wave of people do not reflect traditional conservative values then it's just as well the longstanding 'throttle' on internal comm be preserved. RP-ites' intentions may be questioned because of specific CD2 activity reported by Janet and because many admit not voting for McCain last November.
Alison Krueger at 8:57am May 30
List minning is always sensitive. I wonder if State Central Dels./Alts. would be willing to get gmail accounts in order to assure privacy and communication. IE. State C. Del#1BPOU16B@Gmail... it could also be passed on to replacements from cycle to cycle. Another good thing would be that the party couldn't control it. I think I'll pass that idea along the pipeline and see if it would be palatable...I suppose the only problem would be to get a volunteer to create the deal. ...

The CD2 activity may have showed the RP-ite's were using the list issue as a political football for short-term gain.

The people below will decide this issue on June 13. I suggest we place on the agenda at least two separate proposals: 1. Share the 400 delegate/alternate list (emails/phones only) among the delegates for limited mutual networking and decision making only. 2. Share the 400 delegate/alternate list with each BPOU Chair for the same purpose before the convention.
[update 5:50PM, 8:43PM 5/30/09]
Nate Hansen CD4 Deputy Chair on Facebook suggests a 3rd proposal: a secure authenticated forum for the 400 delegates/alternates only. This is a good idea which fosters transparency and can be probably be implemented by Joel Carey, MN GOP IT staff, on the existing MN GOP site at little cost.
My FB response:
You misidentify the problem Nate. You have transmitted and stored data. SSL encrypts transmitted data accessed via an https prefixed web address such as a web forum. Security of an SSL forum which might be implemented by the MNGOP IT staff on their domain or on facebook.com, is not exactly what we need. Stored data security (accessed via credentials) may be a useful tool but it is also not exactly what we need.We need MNGOP policy that allows for mutual use of the list for SCC delegates to communicate with other delegates and directs IT to set up credentials and SSL or allows a distribution list. The policy should be complete with no-forwarding policy, credential responsibilty etc. If there exists such policy already - perhaps from the RNC - then it should be disclosed.
[update 5:50PM, 8:43PM 5/30/09]
http://www.mngop.com/ContactUs.aspx

Ron Carey, State Chair
Dorothy Fleming, State Deputy Chair
dorothy@mngop.com 651-842-0100 www.deputydot.com
Tony Sutton, Secretary/Treasurer agsutton@msn.com
Brian Sullivan, Republican National Committeeman brianfsullivan@hughes.net
Evie Axdahl, Republican National Committeewoman leaxdahl@aol.com
Congressional District 1
Steve Perkins, Chair
Duane Quam, State Vice Chair
Congressional District 2Janet Beihoffer, Chair
Congressional District 3 Rick Weible, Co-Chair
Margaret Cavanaugh, Co-Chair
Congressional District 4Bev Aplikowski, Chair
Bill Jungbauer, State Vice-Chair
Congressional District 5 Carleton Crawford, Chair
Adam Weigold, Deputy Chair
Congressional District 6 David FitzSimmons, Chair
Scott Andersen, State Vice Chair
Congressional District 7Craig Bishop, Chair
Doug Lindgren, State Vice Chair
Congressional District 8Ted Lovdahl, Chair
Kurt Daudt, State Vice Chair

St. Paul's famous Antique Car Display to be unwrapped for Mayoral Candidate Eva Ng this Thursday

See St. Paul's Famous Antique Car Display with Dick Pellow, Former District 6 State Representative and help support Eva Ng, Candidate for Mayor

Date:

Thursday, May 28, 2009 Time: 5:00pm - 8:00pm

Location: Antique Car Museum

Street: 1350 Jackson Street

City/Town: Saint Paul, MN
Phone: 6514886675

Come see Saint Paul's unique privately held Antique Car Museum and say hello to Eva Ng, Candidate for Saint Paul Mayor. Refreshments and appetizers served.
Suggested Donation: $25

Ethanol

Great post I'd like to share by my friend Cindy at www.LadiesLogic.com

http://www.looktruenorth.com/limited-government/49-conservatism/8319-fueling-the-myth.html

So in summation, ethanol pollutes more, reduces fuel efficiency, ruins the fuel system in your car to the point of being dangerous, takes tillable acreage away from food production and does not reduce our foreign dependence on oil one iota?????

Can someone please tell me again why government should be mandating that we use this stuff?

In a recent CD4 convention speech at Jimmy's Food and Drink in Vadnais Heights (http://www.twincitiesrestaurantblog.com/tcrb/2007/05/jimmys_vadnais_.html), we learned Mart Seifert is taking a brave conservative stance against additional ethanol subsidies as imprudent, failure-proven government policy, despite constituent interest.

Minnesota Democrat's Irresponsible Deception Finally Graphed

Bruce Kaskubar's graph says it all:

http://www.olmstedgop.org/ocgop/?p=../docs/MNbudget

http://www.minnesotademocratsexposed.com/2009/05/25/must-read-from-the-olmsted-county-gop-minnesota-spending-run-amok/

Please refer to the graph. The blue (top) line represents total state spending in billions of dollars for each year since 1960. The general shape of that line is known as an exponential curve. That means spending isn't just growing, spending's growth is growing! The orange (bottom) line represents what we would expect to spend each year if we just kept up with population growth and spent the same amount per person per year. The yellow line (next one up) represents what we would expect to spend each year if we just kept up with inflation. Finally, the green line (next one up) is what we would expect to spend each year if we kept up with inflation and population.

Michael Brodkorb, whose site MinnesotaDemocratsExposed.com featured this excellent article, is running for Deputy Chair of the MN GOP against Dorothy Fleming.

Minnesota Democrat's irresponsible deception over the course of many years, but most strikingly, at a time when we can't afford tax increases in the current recession, is helpully graphed by Bruce. The graph illustrates what is usually referred to by Minnesota Democrat budget experts as "leading" salaries keeping up with inflation. The trend is actually an increase in the RATE at which EACH person is taxed. As Bruce puts it, spending isn't just growing, spending's growth is growing. Yet the Democrats continued their same rigid spending advocacy and refused, when asked by the governor, to apply smart cuts based on sober evaluation of government functions and priorities. And to all those saying "a pox on the houses of both parties" let me remind you the Democrats control BOTH the MN house and senate and twiddled their thumbs for MONTHS without acting to propose a balanced budget which is the legislature's most important duty. Minnesota Democrats have done this session after session after session despite in many cases controlling one or more body or the governorship. Instead they again engaged in deception by proposing in the last days various bills and a weakly thought-out budget in the last few seconds. Their self-aggrandizing eagerness to enter a special session which they were sure would be blamed on Governor Pawlenty was foiled by Pawlenty when he announced the Democrats had submitted enough spending bills for him to line item veto and unallot. Unallotment is the process of meeting the legislative constitutional duty of not spending more than the revenue available by removing over-spending - gee, what a concept! Too bad Minnesota Democrats had no clue about unallotment before they submitted all their narrow interest bills in the last days. Too bad their principles didn't guide them to make the hard decisions themselves to obtain a balanced budget proposal when they had control of the process from January to May 2009.

Full disclosure - I'm 65B Vice Chair under John Gilmore and Ward 1 Treasurer in the St. Paul Republicans City Committee.

Ron Carey MN GOP Executive Board Chair:
http://www.startribune.com/opinion/commentary/45872847.html

Tony Sutton is a candidate in the June or July elections for this position of Executive Board Chair.

Here is Ron's piece in it's entirety:

This legislative session, we have seen a stark contrast in leadership from those at the Capitol.
Gov. Tim Pawlenty offered a balanced budget starting in January. Facing a $5 billion deficit, he worked to set the priorities in state government, incorporated reform and kept Minnesota looking to the future. By not raising taxes, we will be able to attract and encourage businesses to hire more workers so we can emerge from this recession.
On the other hand, Democrats passed spending bills that left the budget unbalanced by $3 billion. In a last-minute stunt, they passed another tax increase to claim they offered a balanced budget even though they didn't have the votes to override a veto. It's a disturbing lack of leadership from the Democrats in charge of the Legislature to fail in their most basic of tasks -- to balance the budget.
Fortunately, Pawlenty will not call a special session and will not allow a government shutdown. He will use the power of line-item vetoes to reduce Democrats' out-of-control spending and will use the process of unallotment to cross the final gap. The decisions he is forced to make because of the Democrats' failure are not easy, but it's exactly the kind of bold leadership we needed in our state. The Democrats, too willing to accept a special session, relish the threat of a shutdown and consistently delay their work to the last minute.
While the Democrats stomp their feet and call Pawlenty names, they have only themselves to blame. They took three months to unveil their tax-increase proposals. They missed their own self-imposed deadlines to pass budget bills. They passed spending bills unbalanced by $3 billion. Then they deliberately passed a last-minute veto-bait tax increase that had no chance of standing.Democrats refused to sit down with Pawlenty to examine meaningful reforms to state government to reduce the out-of-control rate of growth in large parts of the budget. Instead, they sought to pass the buck to average Minnesotans through myriad tax increases, even though they knew they didn't have the votes to override a veto. Under their proposals, Democrats would have eliminated the home mortgage interest deduction, would have raised income taxes and alcohol taxes, and would have imposed taxes on Internet downloads. No Minnesotans would have escaped the raid on their pocketbooks.
Although Larry Pogemiller and Margaret Anderson Kelliher are fond of accusing Pawlenty of unwillingness to compromise, the Democrats refused to work with Pawlenty. He extended several offers incorporating some of their key priorities and accepting some of their positions, but the Democrats stubbornly refused to give up on forcing Minnesotans to pay billions more in taxes. Raising taxes on working families and struggling businesses during a recession is a recipe for disaster, and Pawlenty was right to stand his ground and say no to more taxes.
In the end, Minnesota will be stronger for Pawlenty's decisive action. The unallotments and line-item vetoes aren't the ideal solution to the budget, but they are the best available tools we have to prevent further overreach from Democrats.
Ron Carey is chairman of the Republican Party of Minnesota.

Walk with Eva Ng in the Grand Old Day Parade

Support St. Paul Minnesota Mayoral candidate Eva Ng by marching in the Grand Old Day parade with us!
Contact Jamie.Delton@gmail.com or call me at 651-224-6564

Grand Old Day Parade, Sunday, June 7, 10a.m. - Grand and Fairview

The State Executive Board of the MN GOP at 525 Park St under Ron Carey Thursday May 21 (3rd Thursday) voted unanimously to approve a $500 donation to Eva Ng's campaign. This was unsolicited after Bill Jungbauer's State Exec Vice Chair report and Bev Aplikowski as CD 4 chair mentioned Eva's campaign. The donation is in addition to the prior CD4 donation of $500 under Bev! Everyone supports St. Paul's next Mayor, Eva!

Upcoming parades with Eva:

White Bear Avenue Parade, Wednesday, July 8, 7:00p.m. - White Bear Ave. & Hawthorne/Hazel Ave

Rondo Days Parade, Saturday, July 18, 10:00a.m. - St. Peter Clever Church, Central and Oxford--just north & east of I94/Lexington exit

Rice Street Festival Parade, Thursday, July 23, 6:30p.m. - Geranium --both sides of Rice Street These were the lineup places last year...subject to change this year.

http://deltondigest.blogspot.com/2009/05/eva-ng-picks-up-cd4-resounding.html

http://deltondigest.blogspot.com/2009/04/eva-ng-ing-conservative-st-paul-city.html

http://deltondigest.blogspot.com/2009/04/eva-ng-to-speak-on-radio-and-at-local.html

http://deltondigest.blogspot.com/2009/04/eva-ng-fundraising-event-today-saturday.html

http://deltondigest.blogspot.com/2009/04/eva-fever-taking-hold-in-st-paul-mn.html

Obama FB comments; Pathetic DFL Letters to Editor

Comments

http://www.letfreedomringblog.com/?p=4738

Madd, The best way to disintegrate the DFL’s tactic is to tell everyone you come in contact with that the DFL didn’t even meet their constitutional responsibility of submitting a balanced budget. If you don’t have one already, put a team together that’ll put that information into LTE’s.

Let them know that the DFL is all spin & no facts & ZERO priorities other than spending money by the fistful & raising taxes. Then ask people why they’d vote for such a group.

FB Comments

Andrew Breitbart - When all is said and done the loathed president risked it all to create a democratic Iraq. And the president for whom adulation is everything will risk nothing to stop Iran from going nuclear. Popularity is overrated.

JF at 8:59pm May 25
The loathed president will come to be seen for the hero he is, and the courage it took to actually act on removing Saddam Hussein. His legacy will be a great one, despite the treasonous MSM that created the loathing. On the contrary, the legacy of the current fraud illegally inhabiting the White House will be that of the most damaging administration of our lifetime.

HH at 9:01pm May 25
Couldn't say it better, myself. May I quote you on that?Bettina Viviano at 9:04pm May 25
The Fraud has done in four months what none of us thought was possible. Even an old friend of mine, who thought I was an alarmist when I cried about the Fraud, said he was sorry and that I was "right" and that even he couldn't believe "how fast" Zero has sent this country to hell.

By the way, what the Moonbat media doesn't tell you...there are ... Read Moreplenty of people in Iraq who thank America for what we did. Saddam wasn't such a good guy, and it seems his son took it upon himself to just break down doors and rape and sodomize any woman he wanted. People know more freedom there than ever and all we get is %&&^! on by Moonbats. I have a girlfriend there. She is very grateful that she doesn't have to lie awake at night waiting to get raped, tortured and sodomized.


JF at 10:23pm May 25
Leaving you all with a poem I made up today:

There once was a man named barack,
the media became his flock,
they confused the dumb masses,... Read More
who voted like asses,
now our dollar has sunk like a rock!

RO at 11:09pm May 25
Not only Iran, but North Korea. When history is written, it will show that the US made great strides to introduce modern politics and economies in the Middle East, but were thwarted from within by forces who were comfortable with the moral ambiguities of fundamental Islam, and were thwarted externally by those who took advantage of this president'... Read Mores naivete. When the next 'cuban missile crisis' occurs, it will likely not be a harmless showdown of wills, but a mess we'll have to clean up for decades if not centuries. Welcome to Relativism 2.0, where truth and values are luxuries, and laissez-faire's extrapolated to a whole other level.

St. Paul Public Schools approve Webster name change despite strong community opposition

St. Paul Public Schools approve Webster name change despite strong community opposition

After acknowledging several achievements, including that of outgoing SPPS Superintendent Meria Carstarphen, and hearing from citizens on the 3 school closings and other cost saving measures like reducing school nurse availability, we finally submitted our public comments on substituting "Barack and Michelle Obama Service Learning Elementary" for "Webster Magnet" and rejecting "Webster Service Learning Elementary".

http://www.startribune.com/local/stpaul/45454682.html

St. Paul elementary school to get Obama name After intense debate about Webster Elemetary’s new name, the board voted 5-1 to rename it after Barack and Michelle Obama. By EMILY JOHNS, Star Tribune

There were only 3 people who spoke in support of the name change - among them possibly Principal Lori Simon (I had thought the woman had only mentioned the name of Principal Lori Simon), a woman who referred to the "racial aspects" of the name change, and Natalie Sumner (according to her name tag) who stated the teachers and their students were assigned to distribute sample ballots on various local streets.

As the citizens spoke I crossed off various points I had intended to present - the signage cost, the fact that not one reference to Daniel Webster can be found on the http://www.webster.spps.org/ website (I ran an analytic tool and verified this, and the resources page contained the word "Web'ster"), the lack of precedent and the presence of tradition in regard to St. Paul school names, the fact that a school should reflect the community not government, etc
Somewhere out there is video ...
Below is my speech.

I oppose the name change.
I represent Ward 1 as treasurer in the City Committee.
and 65B as a Vice Chair.
I am a database professional.
I attended for many years Unity Unitarian Church across the street which is a social partner and collaborater with Webster.

My nephew [and neice!] live nearby.
A service learning focus may be acheived with the Webster Service Learning Elementary name. The established historic career of Daniel Webster more appropriate for focussing children on service learning than Obama's career.

Let me read you a sentence from Wikipedia's entry on Daniel Webster.
Webster's efforts on behalf of New England FEDERALISM, shipping interests, and WAR OPPOSITION resulted in his election to the House of Representatives in 1812, where he served two terms ending in 1817.

In conclusion please table Consent item 15.
Thank you


I was surprised how close the election was - 60% of 854 votes cast.
After we regrouped for our regularly scheduled City Committee meeting Jennette Gudgel, whose family goes back to the 1700's in America, observed, "Those poor children will be so disappointed." The children of Webster are not being told the truth about Obama.

Let's just face it Democrats have proven to be Socialist - all doubt is now eliminated

Patrick Ruffini, a famous political techie and a FB friend, agrees with Michael Steele in OPPOSING the RNC's resolution to rebrand the Democrats Socialist.
http://www.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Ftwurl.nl%2Fe7uw6n&h=b37126c1e9477649778ced4c822bfc98

The Democrats validated in the last 100 days that they were Socialist and eliminated any doubt any one had. I support the RNC resolution.

I commented [This is updated for accuracy :)]:


Anonymous at 10:07pm May 13 via Facebook Mobile
It is way too past tense! Right solutions to critical problems are the
way to go.
Jamie Delton at 10:49pm May 13
I don't agree with you on this Patrick but even if I did the Rheil
World comment on your group's FB page seems to imply it is not important that young Republican voters remember and be reminded what the Greatest Generation died fighting - Socialist Germany and Fascist Italy. I have not yet heard a
"substantial" argument let alone debate that Obama's socialist agenda - yes that's what it is - is the right direction. Most Obama voters are not fully aware of the socialists' aims within the Democrat party. Demands for substance should be fulfilled by the demanders themselves. What is so out of touch in calling the
administration and Democrat congress socialist?
Jamie Delton at 11:30pm May 13
In St. Paul Minnesota you will find socialist Democrats who will admit
it to your face and are proud of it. I'm sure they exist elsewhere. The RNC resolution is not out of touch. Not all socialist Dems have to be coaxed into admitting it like Howard Dean was coaxed by Jason Lewis.
Anonymous at 6:46am May 14 matters of substance should be debated and passed to move the party forward. this will have no great effect and instead will make us look silly, bitter and petty.
Jamie Delton at 10:37am May 14
The substance of the RNC's decision is years of experience and a
knowledge of history, Mike. Few Socialist Dems are courageous enough to argue their point in public. Yet they will work
behind the scenes and damage the country in the belief Obama voters approve.

To the critics on your wall who say
"How about making sure that we could legitimately be referred to as the Conservative Republican Party rather than trying to rebrand the other guys?"
I say Granted we blew it on some issues when we had the chance - immigration for example.
But you are obscuring, as the Democrats wish to be obscured, government borrowing/deflation for a serious threat (GW Bush) and needless damaging deep Trillion dollar borrowing meant to symbolize in some childish way a new nationalist socialism or faith in America. It is really dependence on government. And it has to be identified.




And what is this from the GOP national head??

Michael Steele in response to a Romney caller:

Remember, it was the base that rejected Mitt because of his switch on pro-life, from pro-choice to pro-life,” Steele replied. “It was the base that rejected Mitt because it had issues with Mormonism. It was the base that rejected Mitt because they thought he was back and forth and waffling on those very economic issues you’re talking about.

Read more: "GOP, RNC to rebrand Democrats as 'Socialists' - Roger Simon - POLITICO.com" -

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0509/22445.html

Remember one word. Linux!

Using the GPG tool in Linux.

http://ask.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/04/15/1743215

Any Linux professional can accomodate secure storage on a USB device.
Setup user or company department with a new gpg install on a new linux account.
create a gpg certificate - have them type in their email as recipient (email@me.com below) and a passphrase (the passphrase is yourpasswd below).
You then set their private key to level 5 ultimate trust.
If you were exchanging data with someone you would now export a public key for them to give to other IT for encrypting data to be sent.
In a simple archiving system creating a public key maybe unnecessary (though I've never tried it).
Hence forth in a cron/shellscript archive system you need only the two commands below:

Archive:
cat somefiletobearchived gpg -e -r email@me.com > somearchivedfile.gpg
Retrieve/Restore:
echo yourpasswd gpg --batch --passphrase-fd 0 -d somepreviouslyarchivedfile.gpg > somenewfilename
Remember to escape $ and other shell-misinterpreted characters in yourpasswd with \.
Do not ever use gpg option passphrase-fd with -e. Gpg will skip the first line of data with no warning and you'd never know since often only the recipient with the passphrase will ever extract the data.

Secure socket protocols such as WPA2 and the secure web protocol https are redundant. Both are limited to secure TRANSMISSION not secure storage. Wireless routers needn't have WEP WPA2 etc unless you are sharing a directory.
Finally some computer consultants and bloggers are saying this.
So verify https in all private website visits, do not share any directories in Windows File Manager, and be secure in your unsecured Access Point, wireless router or wireless modem!

The Sed command line stream editor tool in Linux installations is a great opportunity for young students to gain computer expertise and a foothold in the market. Know sed and regular expressions backwards and forwards. It is a complex data processing tool.

Apparently the pipe is not rendered in Blogspot. Of course you are piping (ASCII 124 Decimal)to gpg in the above samples.

Obama's policies are destroying this once great nation

Modern "wisdom" in the style of Obama says do nothing for protection of us and instead engage in fatally misguided economic policy.
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2009/05/10/upsdie-down_economy_96411.html
I give this economy 2 years maximum before it completely crumbles. Obama must do a 180 now, in 2009. Obama's policies are destroying this once great nation.

In the meantime the brilliant Janet Napolitano as head of Homeland Security has a handle on this national threat: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vg6oYDJ9hSU
assessing right wing groups and veterans potential terrorists while describing documented terror acts from actual confirmed terror groups including those whose issues Democrats support "manmade disasters".

From LGF, a new Dutch political film.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-BTdlNtcWBg
No excuses
No denial
No cowardness
Take your freedom back

The liberal Democrats in Minnesota are doing everything to impose similar a servitude upon the Minnesota taxpayer in a variety of ways from electing school board candidates to governor. The liberal Democrats in Minnesota exploit every excuse for taxes there is and then some. There is no growth anymore in productivity. We can't afford socialist, progressive or liberal Minnesota Democrats. We might lose more jobs in 2007-2009 than we gained in the entire 5 year period 2002-2007 http://seekingalpha.com/article/136537-wall-street-is-still-operating-on-hope .

Meanwhile, in the here and now, the labor retreat in this recession is already much deeper than any downturn in a generation, according to the Economic Policy Institute. And more losses are likely in the months ahead. But let's assume no more labor contraction. We're still facing quite a challenge in rebuilding. Just to return to the pre-recession labor market status, the economy at this point needs to create 7 million new jobs, according to EPI. That's a daunting number if you consider that nonfarm payrolls grew by 7.9 million in the 5 years through the end of 2007. But that was a period of robust growth, cheap money, a roaring bull market in all the major asset classes, and a real estate boom of unprecedented proportions. Don't hold your breath for a repeat any time soon. The reason is debt. There's lots of it, and it weighs especially heavy on household balance sheets.

And Obama Did help cause it.

http://www.facebook.com/ext/share.php?sid=80752308999&h=3Pazv&u=kRxcE&ref=nf
WASHINGTON - "That wasn't me," President Barack Obama said on his 100th day in office, disclaiming responsibility for the huge budget deficit waiting for him on Day One.It actually was partly him — and the other Democrats controlling Congress the previous two years — who shaped the latest in a string of precipitously out-of-balance budgets.And as a presidential candidate and president-elect, he backed the twilight Bush-era stimulus plan that made the deficit deeper, all before he took over and promoted spending plans that have made it much deeper still.



"Except for preferring to ride sidesaddle, I consider myself a pretty masculine guy."

- Andrew Breitbart's motto in Facebook


Happy Mother's Day!

Eva Ng picks up CD4 - A resounding unanimous May 5 endorsement for the Eva Ng for Mayor Campaign!

From Facebook:
Dinner after the 2009 City Convention. In this photo: Clint Gerner, Rory Koch, Theresa Reilly (photos), Georgia Dietz, Lori Windels (photos), Greg Copeland, Chris Jacobsen, Eva Ng



MNGOP CD4 Congressional District 4 Update - first meeting of new officers.

Jamie Delton's 65B Report on CD4 meeting - A resounding unanimous endorsement for the Eva Ng for Mayor Campaign! Eva Ng is well on her way to success, leading St. Paul voters to a strong fall win.


May 5 RPM (Republican Party of Minnesota) HQ
First public meeting of newly minted CD 4

Bev Aplikowski Chairman
Nate Hansen Deputy Chair
Skip Wolverton re-appointed Treasurer
Lorri Zuleger Secretary

Bill Jungbauer State Executive Board VC (Vice-Chair)

David Daniels VC
Andrea Perzichilli VC
Dennis Dunnigan VC
Mike Downing VC
Jim Carson VC
Nick Quade VC

Plus several House and Senate District Chairs, Deputy Chairs, Treasurers, Secretaries, or 1st and 2nd VC's.
The board needs a Deputy Treasurer.

Red Savoy's after hours team building
Bev Aplikowski
Jim Carson
Bill Jungbauer
Jamie Delton 2nd VC 65B
Andrea Perzichilli
David Daniels
Mike Boguszewski
Jeff Hagen
Kendra?
Lori Zuleger
John Kossett
Jim Schotmuller
Nate Hansen
Jake Barnett
Jill and Colin Wilkinson

Bev Aplikowski's knowledge of parlimentary procedure is excellent.
There was an executive board orientation meeting last night.
David Daniels at Savoy's argued against government funded art because it affects the art itself (you had to hear him explain it).

Jim Carson is the tech who setup Kathie's website http://fourthdistrictgop.com/, using TreePad / Tree View (cost 40 Euros from Europe) with Filezilla. Tortoise Subversion SVN might be the perfect substitute for the FileZilla FTP to maintain multiple updates from multiple web authors. A Tortoise Subversion SVN repository in apache2 might be created on the web server - typically located at svn.fourthdistrictgop.com available for multiple authors to check in (commit) or check out (update).
Another approach is a somewhat more complex system based on Joomla and other open source applications exemplified by http://www.looktruenorth.com/.
Ultimately to accomodate multiple authors, a WordPress hosted blog may be adapted to serve as a website.

After an impassioned request for CD 4 support from Eva Ng for Mayor Campaign representative Clinton J. Gerner with campaign representative Lisa Laliberte Belak present as a BPOU rep, the following actions transpired:

Chris Jacobsen moved to allocate $100 from the state fund for Eva.
SD 57 Tom Willenbring moved to allocate the remaining $30 in the state fund for Eva for Mayor since Skip wanted to close out that account.
Jake Barnett moved to allocate $370 from the federal fund for Eva.
All motions seconded and prevailed.
There were no objections.

Attention CD4 House and Senate District BPOU officers:

CD 4 BPOU Leadership Training
When
Sat, May 9, 10am – 12pm
Where
Republican Party of Minnesota 525 Park St, Ste 250 Saint Paul, MN 55103

I might post the Brain-storming session results. They are quite good.

update 5/6/09 Scott Walker gave an update on the St. Paul City Committee elections and reminded everyone about the June 7 Sunday Grand Old Day Parade.

Back to CD4 - The 6 state-level committees were recognized and the existing assignments tabled for review.

The Nov 13 MN Massacre Anniversary Dinner was discussed which celebrates the Nov 8 1978 elections in which Republicans end decades of DFL dominance and win two U.S. Senate seats and the governorship in the Minnesota Massacre.

Jonathan had excellent reapportionment thoughts and encouraged everyone to submit real legislative proposals NOW so they have a chance in 2010.

Preserve Federal Guidlines; Drop Federal Funding - Allow Shift to States

David Strom who has a string of excellent Must-Reads on his facebook social network, especially in the last months during the financial market hearings and debate about potential recipients and government solutions (I know - oxymoron!), where we got peek after peek into the backend of our financial system, this morning posts this link from Sean Trende:

http://realclearpolitics.blogs.time.com/2009/05/01/do-you-really-mean-that-senator-demint/

We never correct or review mistakes by Democrats after we are voted back (as in 1995) to clean up. No follow through.
If we can't persuade people to roll-back to individual states various federal Democrat programs that have expired and are destroying our trust and name with their cost under the unprecedented deficit, such as 1930's set-aside programs at the very least, and bring the money back into the federal treasury, then what can we actually do for anyone besides play a sort of disapproving father figure role?
That's one thing about the Real ID unfunded mandate - -I always felt it SHOULD be unfunded. GW had it right.
Let's begin the process of down-sizing old federal programs to the state level and phasing them out at the federal level, preserving only the federally coordinated crop rotation principles as a sort of farmer's certification. If the states individually decide full funding is unworthy or too expensive the funding will die only in that state. Most states can't pickup the federal spending on all the federal programs they like so we do it in batches of 5 or 6 programs - each state then decides which of the 6 it wishes to save.

Nuclear Moratorium preserved by Democrats

We need to reduce energy costs in a sector that didn't ask for a bailout as far as I know, encourage work by making work more profitable for entrpreneurs and companies, create jobs, increase productive capacity, increase GDP, and make things the world wants. Instead we have malicious policy that increases energy cost, discourages work, neglects potential job opportunities, encumbers productive capacity, and discourages innovation.
The Democrat party drives this misguided policy.
The Democrats are wrong on energy, taxes, bailouts and federal government role and size.

http://kstp.com/news/stories/S908171.shtml?cat=1

"We can only do so much with renewable power," said Rep. Tim Faust, DFL-Hinckley.

He added: "I hope that Minnesota never has to build a nuclear power plant. Never has to build another coal plant.


Why would anyone hope that?


I hope that conservation and renewable energy can make up the difference,

What difference?

but I'm afraid that won't happen. What happens if we can't keep up?"

Keep up with what? The energy companies WANT to invest in valuable infrastructure in our state and Democrats primarily oppose that.
The 1994 moratorium makes no sense especially in these hard times.


Others said more nuclear power has too many downsides.

Rep. Bill Hilty, DFL-Finlayson, said the nuclear option would distract from efforts to develop renewable energy and could stick ratepayers with the multimillion-dollar costs of considering a new nuclear plant. Others questioned the safety of nuclear power and what to do with the spent fuel and wastewater it produces.

"We haven't solved the issue of waste, a million-year radioactive toxic legacy that we'll pass on to untold generations," said Rep. Frank Hornstein, DFL-Minneapolis.

The House vote isn't the final word on the issue.

It could still come up as a House-Senate conference committee works on a final energy policy bill, although the House vote shows it will be difficult to pass
a change in the policy.

Pawlenty has recommended repealing the moratorium, and GOP House members said nuclear should be part of the conversation.

"It shouldn't be that scary," said Rep. Joyce Peppin, R-Rogers. "It should be something that we just leave as one of our options."

To the pro-nuke Dems you are going to have to leave the party Specter style to effect any change on energy policy.
To the anti-nuke Republicans you should be held up and taught a lesson in energy policy by Jason Lewis.
There are alot of little things that some Republicans do to disappoint and discourage other Republicans in MN. Departing from us to support Democrats' energy policy, green scams, and misguided conservation are among the worse.