Savage Republican

I remember reading a few years back in “Liberty” magazine a statement that there are really only two political parties in America: the party of big government with its left (Democrats) and right (Republican) wings (and various factions) and the libertarians. All we need to do is look at the past five years of spending and a trip by GWB to Louisiana and $200,000,000,000 in EXTRA spending is proclaimed so he doesn’t have to endure criticism, and we see that Liberty magazine is right. 100%.
That being said, I see where my favorite non-responsive left wing Prairie Pravda columnist Nick Coleman says that babies are being “thrown out” because of stadium spending.
And so we see the bitter fruit of living in a democracy rather than a republic. Nicky shows the bitter struggle for HIS idea of forcing people to pay for HIS type of welfare while he excoriates others for wanting THEIR type of forced welfare. And so in a democracy, majority rules. In a constitutional republic this should never ever be a problem. All forms of welfare paid for out of forced takings of the citizens money would not be legal.
So, Nicky is not against welfare. He’s not against legal thievery. He’s just against welfare for the other guys.
And so I’d ask Nicky “And why do people go to the legislature and ask for money/special dispensation? Because they can. And babies do have a voice. They are called collectivists…like you.”
Welcome to democracy- and the Constitution is over the horizon…in back of us.

Every now and then, the Strib prints an eye-opening article. Today was one of those rare instances. What bothers me about the online version of this story is that it does not include all of the information that was in the print version of the story. The most important missing piece (important for those who might be looking for a way out of slavery) was any contact information for a rescue group called Civil Society. A quick Google search on the executive director that was quoted in the article gave me this.

Another equally important piece of missing information was a map that showed where in the world these people are coming from. Of course, exact numbers are not known but according to this Wikipedia article on the subject, the vast majority come from Asia, Southeast Asia, Africa and (increasingly) Islamic states.

Most of these slaves are women, which begs the question – WHERE IS NOW???? Where are these women’s rights groups that claim to speak for me when it comes to things like abortion and jobs? Why are they not speaking out against this horrific abuse of women? Could it be that they are only concerned about the rights of left leaning American women? While I certainly hope that is not the case, I fear it is.

I applaud Civil Society and their CARROT project and I hope that this article will lead to greater discussion about this hidden problem. Maybe this problem will get the exposure it so richly deserves when the issue of illegal immigration (remember these women are not in the country legally) is brought up.

Posting is going to be sporadic for me this week. My computer is in the shop and while I will have internet access, I do have to share the family computer which means I won’t have quite as much time to write. Throw in precinct caucuses, sports and a city council meeting and we are talking about a very full week.

However, I did want to get this posted. According to this article in yesterdays Star Tribune, Minnesota’s population is declining (according to the latest census reports). Now there certainly can be (and ‘m sure are) many reasons for this decline, but I would like to list just a couple for you.

1) Minnesota’s high tax burden. While the tax burden has gone down since Governor Pawlenty has taken office, as I noted before, Minnesota is still one of the highest taxed states in the country.

2) our government’s insistence on dictating every aspect of our lives…whether it is smoking bans in Hennepin County and St Paul or same-sex marriage, the state insists on interfering in the daily lives of average Minnesotans. Now I know that there are some out there who will say “wait – didn’t you just defend government interference via defense of DOMA?” DOMA would not be necessary if it were not for judicial activists pushing gay unions on those who do not choose to participate in that lifestyle. Marriage has always been a union between one man and one woman. That is not to say that anything otherwise is “unacceptable” necessarily, but anything other than that is not marriage and no amount of denying it will make it so!

3) the Roe effect. There is no denying that abortion happens in Minnesota. Because of the liberal laws in this state, it probably happens a lot and as I said here, it is something that is a known factor in population studies.

The article does point out something that was noted in the article that was the subject of my previously linked post:

The big winners in the next decennial census sweepstakes appear to be Florida, Texas and Arizona — all Sunbelt states that have been outpacing the Northeast and Midwest in population growth.
Texas could gain three seats, as could Florida. New York could lose two seats; Arizona could gain two.

What do those 3 states have in common? Hmmmm….

A print version of the Strib article said it all (link not available) when it ended saying that Minnesota needed to “grow or lose out”. Gee…ya think?

The MN GOP announced on Monday that they were mailing an interactive CD out to selected voters regarding the pending Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA). This interactive CD is a voter ID tool. There is a short video presentation that you can watch and afterward (via authorized web access) you can answer a few voter id questions on the issue. After that announcement, the DFL outrage machine flew into action, pouring out letters to the editor, stories and breathless press releases about “domestic spying” and “invasions of privacy”. An MPR employee even managed to get his hands on an unreleased Beta copy of the CD and, in violation of the “Terms of Use” agreement that he agreed to, he began to decompile data on the disk!

One of the most comical aspects of this whole kerfluffle is this (from the Star Tribune story linked above):

“While acknowledging that they had not seen the CD, DFL Party officials accused Republicans of their own version of “domestic spying” and called the effort “an intolerable abuse of trust.”

What is driving all of this? Has the DFL decided that data privacy is an important issue? No, what is driving this is fear…fear of the voter. 78% of the voters in Sen. Dean Johnson’s district (Sen Johnson is the DFL Senate Majority Leader) want the opportunity to vote on DOMA. Nineteen states have already passed DOMA – by overwhelming majorities! The vast majority of Minnesotans WANT to have the opportunity to VOTE on DOMA. So what are they afraid of?? They are afraid that the majority of Minnesotans see through their callous, partisan ruse. They are attempting to turn the debate from the fact that they are refusing to allow the people of Minnesota a vote on an important issue into a debate on whether or not a privacy policy statement may or may not be included on a CD that was NOT EVEN MAILED TO CITIZENS UNTIL TODAY!!

I subscribed to Rep. Ron Paul’s email newsletter.
And I got an auto-reply from the Congressional computer to confirm that it was me that was asking for the subscription. So I did.
I then received THREE different confirming responses that my subscription response had been accepted.
Of course.