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My respect for Pat Robertson of the 700 Club has just taken a significant hit.
I'm doing some late night work and was watching the 700 Club when there a brief report about Los Angeles considering banning trans fat ala New York. Mr. Robertsons comments:
"Well, I'm not in favor of Big Brother, but..." whereupon he launched into the evils of trans fat (heart disease, cancer, etc). His closing comments "Well, if we don't do it ourselves, government will have to. So I approve." In other words "I approve of tyranny when I agree with it's motives." Well, Pat, why not mandatory taking of vitamins with random urine tests and blood work. Or, exposure meters ensuring that our sun UV exposure doesn't exceed safe limits? Or government required exercise with again random tests? Why not? It is for our good after all. If we don't do it voluntarily, the government should.
Right?
Walter Williams sees again the tyrananny state at work. I wonder why Mr. Robertson's vision is so occluded here?

CIC

I listened to the President;s speech last night. I like the point he made about where and why the troops where going where they're going (over 80% of the terrorists' attacks happen within a thirty mile radius of Baghdad. Very similar to the vast majority of shootings, murders and assaults happen in just two zip codes in Minneapolis).
Now, I'm a military history buff. I took a full year of the history of WWII in college. Well over half of all the hundreds of books I own are military related. They go from front line soldiers (Band of Brothers for example) all the way up to the diplomatic papers between Stalin, Churchill and Roosevelt. I have a number of books dealing with that war that was the genesis for all modern warfare-The War Between the States. Now, all that being said, I probably have done deeper studies of war tactics and strategy than the vast majority of Congress. And we have a Commander-in-Chief and a military that is far more qualified to determine what's needed in Iraq than elected representatives. Period.
I just got off the phone with a good friend of mine. He's exasperated with Pawlenty and Coleman and their lack of support for the President. He said he'd be willing to give a pass to soemone who complains BUT offers an alternative to the President. Pelosi, Rangel, Hillary, Murtha even Coleman have absolutely NO counter plan. None at all. And none of the critics has stated what would happen if we left. I stated to my friend a great example of what would happen if we left is Fallujah. There was the first and then the second battle of Fallujah. The first was prematurely ended due to politics. And the second cost many more lives but was necessitated by the failure of the first. And what do those who oppose the battle against radical Islam in Iraq suppose will happen if we don't win there? What happened when we left Somalia? Lebanon? All that happened was that the radical Islamisists were encouraged.
And so it will be in Iraq.
So, when you hear someone criticize the battle in Iraq, as for a detailed counter plan.

Coined

The day before her coronation, I heard Nancy Pelosi say this "Democrats are back and that is cause for celebration," Pelosi told the crowd. "Thanks to you, working moms in this country know there's a mom in the speaker's office..."
My term for San Fran Nan: Tyrananny Nancy.
And as for the lefties sweep in November? So many have accused the Republicans for straying from the platform, both here in Minnesota and nationally. Nah. Not true. I only wish that were true. However, every one of those Republicans was elected. And they were elected by people who wanted to see the gavel in the hands of someone who had the "R" designation after their name. I've seen it here locally. I've seen it statewide. I've seen it nationally. The electorate was unwilling to hold Republican politicians responsible and accountable. They were elected by us and passed laws in our name.
Same holds true for every single erosion of our liberties.
As Walt Kelly so eloquently stated:

Hit the street running

Less than a week in power and as I posted here the lefties are lefties. Newly installed MN AG Lori Swanson has already lodged her first big lawsuit (as a matter of fact, her first lawsuit period) against a Minnesota company, Allianz Life. AG Swanson is a legal superwoman! She has the ability and the talent, in less than five working days, to gather all the evidence and file all necessary papers to enter a lawsuit against a major PRIVATE Minnesota employer and major provider of annuities. All I can say is-wow!
Now, I noticed that she's hired former MN AG Mike Hatch. A few loose dots and I'm wondering: do you think that this was one more lawsuit that Mike Hatch just longed to launch but ran out of time? That perhaps , just perhaps, all that paperwork was just sitting there at 1400 Bremer Tower just aching to be filed? And Ms. Swanson has decided to become Ms. Michelle Hatch, jr. And that she's hired Mike Hatch to assist here in her quest to follow her mentor and predecessor in making the business climate in Minnesota even more inhospitable?

And in those same five working days, the MN State Legislature has a $2,250,000,000 surplus (meaning that you and I have been overtaxed. This surplus did NOT come from reduced spending). And the lefties response to your being overtaxed? Come on. That's a rhetorical question. Their only answer is: Increase taxes. A sales tax increase. An increase in vehicle registration fees (a tax increase by another name). Increase vehicle taxes. Increase the gas tax. Allow counties to charge a wheelage tax. Allow counties to impose a county wide sales tax (if Hennepin County can do it, why not us?). And of course, the cry is for a cap on property taxes. How? Increase other taxes to be sent to St. Paul and then sent to sent back to the local governments, after of course the bureaucrats all along the way take their cuts to administer all the comings and goings of your money. Take that money from your back pocket (exactly like a pick pocket, and for exactly the same reasons) so the locals won't take it from your right pocket.
Oh, and as they increase taxes all around, they want to cap health insurance premiums. No irony or duplicity there.

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