Social gathering for MN conservatives and their families.

FAMILY PICNIC IN THE PARK:
Thursday, August 20, 2009
5:30 – 9:00 pm

Central Park, Roseville, MN

Kids activities & Special Guests!

FREE hot dogs, chips, beverages, & dessert!
Everyone is welcome!

When: Thursday, August 20th, 5:30 to 9:00 pm
Where: Foundation Park Shelter in Roseville’s Central Park – 2545 Victoria Street
North, Roseville, MN 55113 (South of Cty. Rd. C and North of Hwy 36)
Why: Social gathering for conservatives and their families.  Let’s get to know each other better. Also, this is a great opportunity to meet and talk with some of the announced candidates campaigning for the Republican endorsement in next year’s Governor’s race.

Other:  We are planning to have kids activities.  We’ll make sure they have fun and you get time to relax and talk with our other guests. Mark it on your calendar

- Spread the word – Post on Facebook – Send a tweet!
Whether its for the free hot dogs and beer or the chance to have a one-on-one conversation with your future governor…. we look forward to seeing you!

Sincerely,
Minnesota Republicans HD54A
www.MNGOP54A.org
Hosted by Republicans in HD54 serving the communities of: Roseville, Lauderdale and St. Anthony
Supported by Republicans in 54B, 50A and 50B serving the communities of: Arden Hills, Columbia Heights, Fridley, Gem Lake, Hilltop, Little Canada, New Brighton, Roseville, Shoreview, St. Anthony and Vadnais Heights
Also endorsed and supported by: Minnesotans for Limited Government

CONFIRMED GUESTS -
Gubernatorial candidates:
Rep. Tom Emmer
Rep. Paul Kohls
Rep. Marty Seifert
Sen. David Hann
Sen. Mike Jungbauer
Sen. David Senjem
Former State Auditor and Eagan Mayor Pat Anderson
Former Rep. Bill Haas
Leslie Davis
Phil Herwig
Other Legislators and Special Guests:
House Minority Leader Rep. Kurt Zellers,
Rep. Matt Dean
Sue Jeffers, KTLK 100.3 FM Radio Program Host,
Mitch Berg, AM1280 Radio Program Host,
2008 US Congressional candidate (CD4) Ed Matthews,
2008 US Congressional candidate (CD5) Barb Davis White,
2008 House of Representatives candidate (HD54A) Mark Laliberte
2008 House of Representatives candidate (HD50A) Tim Utz
2006 MN Senate candidate (SD50) Rae Hart Anderson

Sample letter about Health Care bill

Feel free to copy and paste this to your Senator or Representative!

Dear…

I implore you to vote NO on the Health Care Bill that is being pushed through Congress at this time.

Voting NO on this bill does not mean that you are not caring for America’s health care needs. It only means that this is a poorly designed bill that will severely hurt America’s economy and relations between the people and Congress.

We the people do NOT want more government control over health care – we want the free-market FREEDOM to be able to offer health care to all people. The government’s job is to provide and ensure that freedom to create and invent and live to our greatest potential as business people and hard workers. More government control only stunts and oppresses our ability to to do such things. Congress persons are not the only people who care about their fellow Americans! We will easily take care of each other if given the chance and the government quits taking all our resources!

Yes, health care systems need to be revised – give the power back to the people to provide. Protect doctors from frivolous lawsuits.  Keep all levels of health care as issues between doctors and their patients. Revamp Medicare/Medicaid to eliminate all the fraud that takes place.

There are ways to make health care affordable for all people – but it is not through *another* government program. Government control only makes things better for the government; it does NOT make things better for the rest of us.

Thank you for your time,

“All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.” Ed.Burke

Calling the Senators listed below?

Here are some tips to make it easier:

1. Print this handy phone list.
2. Set aside 30 minutes for many phone calls, or 5 minutes every hour for one call at a time, or 15 minutes here, 15 minutes there, whatever you can do – it really doesn’t matter how. Just do!

EVERY LITTLE BIT HELPS!

3. Dial the first number on the list – or start at the bottom and dial up.
4. This -or something like this- is all you have to say:

“Hello,
I am calling today to thank Senator _________ for his/her service to the American people and to let Senator ___________ know that I am strongly opposed to the Cap and Trade bill. It is very important to me that s/he votes NO on it when it comes time to do so… Thank you for taking my call.”

5. If you feel like saying more, do so, but that is really all there is to it!

Calling all phone users: Cap and Trade ACTION Alert!

Yes, we need to care for the environment and be energy-source independent, but Cap and Trade is NOT the way to do it. The House Bill was 1800+ pages long and full of earmarks that will come out of our pockets. House Reps only read the parts that perked their lobbyist-loving ears – if even that much. Most didn’t read it at all. Who knows what nonsense and thievery lurks within all those pages???

We need everyone’s help, no matter what state you are in. It’s time to hold legislators on BOTH SIDES OF THE AISLE accountable – they work for us and can’t just take our money in taxes for their every whim! We’ve let them get this far – no more! They’ve got to come up with a better way to save the environment or they shouldn’t be in office!

Here is an email that I received from the St. Paul Tea Party Organizers about how you can get involved and make a difference:

Call Senators to Vote Against Cap and Trade!

We must act NOW! The goal is to make 10,000+ calls to the Senators to vote against the Cap n Trade legislation. Contact everyone you know. Send out this information to everyone and start calling now, let’s light the phones on fire this week and next in DC! Make it clear to the Senate how American patriots feel about Cap n Trade. Our goal of course it to stop the legislation but also to keep track of how many calls were made.

Please call ALL the Senators on the committee list below even if they are not your Senator. Then email nocapntrade@gmail.com with a note letting us know how many calls you made and to which Senator.

This step is very important so we can keep a tally. Please ask all your contacts to do the same. We want to be able to show that the Senators who vote for this bill are acting against the majority of contacts they receive. This is a multi-state nationwide effort.

Majority members

Barbara Boxer, California, Chairwoman

(202) 224-3553 / (916) 448-2787

Max Baucus, Montana

(202) 224-2651 / (406) 657-6790

Tom Carper, Delaware

(202) 224-2441/ (302) 856-7690

Frank Lautenberg, New Jersey

(202) 224-3224/ (973) 639-8700

Ben Cardin, Maryland

(202) 224-4524/(410) 962-4436

Bernie Sanders, Vermont

(202) 224-5141/ (802) 862-0697

Amy Klobuchar, Minnesota

(202) 224-3244 / (612) 727-5220

Sheldon Whitehouse, Rhode Island

(202) 224-2921 / (401) 453-5294

Tom Udall, New Mexico

(202) 224-6621/ (505) 346- 6791

Jeff Merkley, Oregon

(202) 224-3753/ (503)-326-3386

Kirsten Gillibrand, New York

(202) 224-4451/ (212) 688-6262

Arlen Specter, Pennsylvania

(202) 224-4254/ (215) 597-7200

Minority Members

Jim Inhofe, Oklahoma, Ranking Member

(202) 224-4721/ (405) 608-4381

George Voinovich, Ohio

(202) 224-3353 / (513) 684-3265

David Vitter, Louisiana

(202) 224-4623/ (225) 383-0331

John Barrasso, Wyoming

(202) 224-6441/ (307) 261-6413

Mike Crapo, Idaho

(202) 224-6142

Kit Bond, Missouri

(202) 224-5721

Lamar Alexander, Tennessee

(202) 224-4944

Here is the entire Senate Contact list with senators’ email/contact information as well.

Please remember to email nocapntrade@gmail.com with a list of the calls you made so we can keep a national tally.

Ayn Rand on the death of the media

Ayn Rand published Atlas Shrugged in 1957. How did she know what the 21st century would be like?

“People said it because other people said it. They did not know why it was being said and heard everywhere. They did not give or ask for reasons. ‘Reason,’ Dr. Pritchett had told them, ‘is the most naive of all superstitions.’” -p228

“No space was given by the newspaper to the progress of the construction of the John Galt Line. No reporter was sent to look at the scene. The general policy of the press had been stated by a famous editor five years ago. ‘There are no objective facts,’ he had said. ‘Every report on facts is only somebody’s opinion. It is, therefore, useless to write about facts.’” – p229

“The reporters who came to the press conference in the office of the John Galt Line were young men who had been trained to think that their job consisted of concealing from the world the nature of its events. It was their daily duty to serve as audience for some public figure who made utterances about the public good, in phrases carefully chosen to convey no meaning. It was their daily job to sling words together in any combination they pleased, so long as the words did not fall into a sequence saying something specific.” – p233

The poor you will always have with you, and you can help them any time you want.

I have never agreed with the “end poverty” campaign. It’s a nice idea, but I don’t think anybody else can solve a country’s poverty problems – change must come from within the one with the problem. I don’t know of any viable countries around the world that became productive members of the world by anyone else’s doing.

When a group of people sets out to solve other people’s problems by forcing another group of people to provide for it – it fertilizes national co-dependency – which is a mental illness – socialism, and worse.

It’s a good thing when someone is giving from their own independent decision, it’s another thing when someone takes my money under penalty of law and demands more and shames me for my success over someone else’s struggle. I have a right to make money and keep it, and nobody else’s problems can dictate a right to take it. The UN’s millennium goals are a global manifestation of being “bent” into the creation (ala Leanne Payne) in order for those who are calling the shots to achieve a (false) sense of significance or sense of purpose. Poverty is not going to be wiped out by 2015 because Jesus said they’d always be with us, and that doesn’t mean I don’t care for them wherever I can, because I do – but that’s MY choice, not some global organization’s choice.

Quotes from Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand

“What is morality?” she asked.

“Judgment to distinguish right and wrong, vision to see the truth, courage to act upon it, dedication to that which is good, integrity to stand by the good at any price.” – p177

“It will be destroyed because it was the best and there were men who thought it expedient to seize a share of its wealth.” -p189

The definition of insanity or a “looter’s” mentality – his mother to Henry Reardon, successful steel producer:

“That’s your cruelty, that’s what’s mean and selfish about you. If you loved your brother, you’d give him a job he didn’t deserve, precisely because he didn’t deserve it – that would be true love and kindness and brotherhood. Else what’s love for? If a man deserves a job, there’s no virtue in giving it to him. Virtue is the giving of the undeserved.” – p209

“You know, Mr. Reardon, I don’t like people who talk too much about how everything they do is just for the sake of others. It’s not true, and I don’t think it would be right if it ever were true.” – p211

“It was… Destroyed at the whim of some men who sat and voted… Who knows by what minds?… Who knows whose will had placed them in power? – what motive moved them? – what was their knowledge? – which one of them unaided could bring a chunk of ore out of the earth?… Destroyed at the whim of men who he had never seen and who had never seen [his work]… Destroyed because they so decided. By what right?

He shook his head. There are things one much not contemplate, he thought. There is an obscenity of evil which contaminates the observer. There is a limit to what it is proper for a man to see. He must not think of this, or look within it, or try to learn the nature of its roots.” – p215

Atlas Shrugged

MsBeeeesTwitterMap

I’m racing CristaHuff and TxSkirt to see who can mark all 50 states first by who we are following on Twitter. You can see my map by pushing the button below.

I’ll give you an agenda

There is another way to look at the Nanny State concept. I feel like I am babysitting these yahoos who don’t know how to uphold the Constitution and do their jobs! I have to write them every week to teach them why they are there!

Here’s my weekly letter to one of my fine democratic representatives in Washington:

Issue: Government Reform (No matter what the topic, I ALWAYS pick Government Reform when I contact the dear idiots in office.)

Dear Mr. Representative,
I have recently received your form letter in response to the original compositions I earlier sent to you about the Stimulus Bill, the GIVE Act, the AIG Bruhaha, and the GM Takeover. Thank you for taking the time to respond to me.

However, I am concerned about your perception for why you are even serving in Washington. In your letter you tell me to rest assured that you are working hard and you say, “I am doing all that I can to further my agenda”.

“MY agenda” you say? YOUR agenda? Mr. Representative, YOU are not there to pursue your own political and career agenda. YOU are in office to pursue MY agenda, and my FAMILY’s agenda, and my NEIGHBORS’ agenda.

Our agenda is not bailouts and government takeovers of private companies.

Our agenda is not nationalized health care.

Our agenda is not forced “volunteerism” which is an oxymoron for sure.

Our agenda is not life terms and benefits for politicians.

Our agenda is not insane spending. Do you realize that you Democrats have authorized more spending of tax dollars THAN ALL OTHER PREVIOUS ADMINISTRATIONS COMBINED IN THE HISTORY OF AMERICA???!!!

No sir, do not keep pursuing your agenda, for your agenda will be soon cut short.

Our agenda is to let capitalism do its thing. The reason “capitalism” supposedly “didn’t work” in recent years is that the government interfered and derailed the natural consequences of financial mismanagement and theft. If the government had left well-enough alone, the companies would have been forced into bankruptcy and bankruptcy rules and laws would have self-righted the industry! What’s more, dishonest businessmen would have been facing the consequences of their crimes! It would not destroy the nation, it would improve it!

You Dems holler and scream about the mistakes Bush made. Why in the world are you repeating them 10 times over??? Some change, I tell you!

Our agenda is affordable health care through private companies that are not subsidized out of the playing field by government bureaucracy and micro-management. With variety and choice comes competition. With competition come improved products and lower prices. With improved health care products and lower prices come healthier, happier consumers!

Healthier and happier consumers make a greater country!

Our agenda includes support for personal responsibility, freedom and independence, fiscal responsibility, excellence in industry, strength and honesty in a limited government, higher quality education through consumer driven choice, and much more than what you Democrats are socially pushing.

The days of the Democratic agenda are numbered, Mr. Representative. It’s high time that you and your fellow representatives remember WHO you really work for.

the care and feeding of liberals

I hopped over to read Frank’s blog post of conservatives reaching people via social media and was inspired to share my experience of conversing with liberals. Then I thought my response would be a great thing to share on my own blog!

I am new to this whole politics thing. Until recently, I have been one of those good little conservatives with her nose to the grindstone, running a business, taking care of her family, and taking this great nation for granted. I have never been taught to be involved in politics. Current Events class is as far as it went for me in high school, and no one ever talked politics at home. It wasn’t right or polite. Politics was a nasty, volatile, high falutin’ world that only the smartest, brightest, most educated, devious and hard-hearted minds could have a part. Now as I see my country on the brink of destruction, I see how that is so far from true. I have a serious civil responsibility to be part of the process that keeps my country great – beyond voting every 4 years. (No, I was not taught to vote in the congressional elections!)

I realize now that I need to be in the Conversation all along – even with the opposing camps! In the last few months I have learned a lot via Twitter. I have noticed that the way you approach a liberal mind is key. Although their comments are often hard to stomach, I have had some success by jumping in and conversing with them using just a few simple principles:

1. Approach with respect for their right to have that opinion.

2. Then, ask questions. Why do they think that? Where did they learn/develop their idea? What has been their experience with that?

3. Agree with them whenever possible. When they make a comment about Republicans spending too much money and then go on about how O has to fix it, agree. The republicans did/do spend too much. They have failed in financial responsibility since the Reagan years.

4. Gently, GENTLY offer other views – often in the form of a question. What do you think about? What would happen if? Don’t you think the results would…?

In one month on Twitter with this approach, I’ve already seen a couple flaming libs calm down and one even became a conservative/libertarian champion! Being new to this whole politics thing myself, I was terrified that I was going to get shot down and be called bad names in my first conversation with a “liberal troll” like person. But all I did was honestly ask questions and pose other perspectives. Even when he started attacking (which they will do when doubts about their ideas start to creep in), I stayed cool and considerate.

I have noticed a remarkable psychological condition among libs. They want to be taken care of. They’ve been taught that they are not capable of taking care of themselves – that they don’t have what it takes to make it. They need someone bigger and smarter to do it for them. Somewhere down the road, they have been failed by adults who should have been equipping/encouraging them to be all they are capable of being. Their dignity and beautiful individuality has been smothered or squashed by lack of individualized care, consideration, respect, and relationship that has failed to call them higher. Call it the break down of the family, mass education, whatever, but that’s who we are dealing with. Essentially they are looking to the government to reparent them. It’s a dangerous, dangerous situation that leaves them open to the likes of Hitler and other charismatic types who will fill that void with self-serving rhetoric.

These people need to be encouraged by fellow citizens, called out to be more than who they think they are capable of being. They need to be challenged to look within to see that they are more than they have been told – that they are capable of taking care of themselves and others. They need to know that human beings are designed to be satisfied through hard work, ingenuity, freedom of choice, and meeting responsibilities, and that they won’t truly be happy until they are in charge of those things. No one else can give them that sense of being, least of all the government.

5. Finally, don’t get into a name calling/ put down / attack frenzy. That’s their mode of self-protection. I can’t blame them. If someone were messing with my life-long paradigms, and I was starting to see how I had been disserviced by the system, I’d feel rage too. They don’t realize where it’s coming from. They think you are the threat. But if you stay calm and cool (don’t doubt your position, stay honest, remember they still have the right to think what they think, and keep to these 5 principles of discourse), you can become an advocate for them, rather than an enemy.

In the case of conservatives reaching liberals, we can’t fight fire with fire. These people are dying of thirst – thirst for life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. They are crying out for someone to affirm that they have what it takes to create a decent life for themselves. They have been taught the lie that only the government can do that for them. They’ve been taught that conservatives/capitalists are the enemy. Calling names and attacking only adds fuel to the fire. What they need is a cup of cool water from each one of us. Kind, respectful conversation can reach many, many of them.