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I only got back to town for the last 15 minutes of the Bismarck rally, but I did attend.  I noticed that the “cops” were not Bismarck PD.  I also noticed that a few of the parking spots in front of the doors were occupied by blacked-out Ford Expeditions and the like, with Montana plates and an amazing knack to not get ticketed for violating the 10 minute parking zone.

I’m not part of the black helicopter, tinfoil hat crowd.  Since the Bismarck rally was held in front of a federal building housing various courts, one would expect some heightened security.  I just find it interesting that another one of those sinister “memos” went out treating American citizens as a bigger threat than hardened terrorists.

Here’s the link.

Many are alarmed with the speed and blindness with which our nation is veering toward a leftist, socialist predicament at the hand of President Obama and his willing accomplices in the Congress. It’s nothing new, folks. It’s actually (like everything else the left has been trying for forty years) a page out of a very old playbook. I refer you to Genesis chapter 47, where we can walk through the process step by step in the situation with ancient Egypt:

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This is a one-time chance, folks.  My friends have a third member of their family, baby Charlie Smith.  The handsome little guy was born with Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome, which meant he had to be born in Rochester and has already endured some pretty amazing surgeries to keep his little heart functioning.  I’m told he’s got a couple more to go, as well.  In the mean time, he and his mommy and daddy have to live in a strange place and will be coming home to some big medical bills.  That’s where you can help.

You need only to do two things:  first, download and print out a copy of this PDF document.  Second, take it to a Space Aliens Restaurant near you and present the printout when you pay for your meal.  They’ll donate 25% of the bill to benefit baby Charlie and his loving mommy and daddy.

Isaac and Elysa are truly great kids, and I want to do what I can to help out with this fundraising.  If you are unable to make it to SA this Monday, you can also call American Bank Center and inquire about the Charlie Smith Benefit Fund.  The address of the fund:

American Bank Center
attn. Tina Valeu
320 N 4th St
Bismarck, ND 58501


Here’s the link to the PDF document one more time.  If you have Adobe Acrobat Reader installed, you’re good to go.  It may take a little bit for the program to load, but the file should download reasonably quickly.  Click on the icon below to download the free Adobe Reader if necessary.



When you print the PDF, don’t forget to take it with you and present it to your server when you pay for your meal!  This is only valid for April 6th at the time of service.  Thanks in advance if you’re able to help on Monday.

I was alerted to the comment below to a Boston.com photo feature story about the North Dakota flooding.  I think it’s a fantastic contrast to a place like New Orleans, where people have been conditioned to trust a corrupt, liberal-dominated bureaucracy for their welfare (in multiple meanings of the word):

Just a personal observation…as I watched the news coverage of the
massive flooding in the Midwest with the levee’s about to break in Fargo, ND, what amazed me is not what we saw, but what we didn’t see…
1. We don’t see looting.
2. We don’t see street violence.
3. We don’t see people sitting on their rooftops waiting for the
government to come and save them.
4. We don’t see people waiting on the government to do anything.
5. We don’t see Hollywood organizing benefits to raise money for
people to rebuild.
6. We don’t see people blaming President Obama. (Except for Don Marchant, post #30)
7. We don’t see people ignoring evacuation orders.
8. We don’t see people blaming a government conspiracy to blow up
the levees as the reason some have not held.
9. We don’t see the US Senators or the Governor of North Dakota crying on TV.
10. We don’t see the Mayors of any of these cities complaining about
the lack of state or federal response.
11. We don’t see or hear reports of the police going around
confiscating personal firearms so only the criminal will be armed.
12. We don’t see gangs of people going around and randomly shooting
at the rescue workers.
13. You don’t see some leaders in this country blaming the bad
behavior of the North Dakota flood victims on “society” (of course there is
no wide spread reports of lawlessness to require excuses).

Posted by Bill Baxten March 27, 09 01:56 PM

I saw this box the other night while doing some grocery shopping, and it made me stop for a second.  I’ve read and heard plenty about the relative efficiency of Wal-Mart’s distribution model and their business in general.  Hurricane Katrina was one such example; while the government floundered about, Wal-Mart was prepared. 

The sight of this box had me wondering, when have I ever seen government try to conserve or do with less?  Rather, government is in the business of telling its citizens to do those things, while growing itself ominously larger on the backs of the people.

Imagine how many boxes Wal-Mart uses and re-uses, and that 80 cents described on the side of this box becomes significant.  I wish all our government services came with such a label!  I think a lot of programs would take a hike as soon as people realized what they cost and weighed the benefits thereof.

My apologies if someone has posted this already.

Yesterday I was unable to attend a committee hearing on Senate Bill 2278 (PDF), which seeks to add “sexual orientation” to the state’s anti-discrimination laws. It’s a sneaky “foot in the door” for the homosexual agenda, one which has to be stopped.  But I did draft an email to my legislators…

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If the little rodent is deemed to see his shadow today, do you suppose the mainstream media will attribute the shadow to President Obama’s radiance?

I’m fully prepared to be called a “racist” for disagreeing with President Obama, as they started that little game during the campaign. They sure set the tone early, however, as evidenced by the benediction “prayer” by Rev. Joseph Lowery:

“Lord, in the memory of all the saints who from their labors rest, and in the joy of a new beginning, we ask you to help us work for that day when black will not be asked to get in back, when brown can stick around… when the red man can get ahead, man; and when white will embrace what is right. That all those who do justice and love mercy say Amen. Say Amen…”

Well, there you have it.  Hope!  Change!

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According to this AP article published online by KX Net, Lee Enterprises is having financial difficulties.  I suppose the article was triggered by this news release from Lee.

While in the checkout line the other day I saw a Tribune on the counter, with a blazing headline about the Gaza conflict.  The way the headline read, Israel was an evil aggressor, attacking the helpless innocent Hamas folks across the way.  They can’t even tell the truth that this was a retaliatory strike after an unending barrage of rocket fire from the Palestinian terror group.

And they wonder why revenues are down.  Of course they’ll blame something else, but the fact of the matter is that people are sick of reading this garbage.  If they give up yellow journalism and just report the news, they might have better luck.

Cop won’t let neighbor on his property to rescue his cat from a tree, because he’s afraid of being sued if someone gets hurt.

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According to this article there are eighteen states with legislation in the works to require serialization of ammo.  Some of the bills have died, others are still going, but all are part of an anti-gun push that we need to fight with everything we’ve got!

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If you’re in the North Dakota National Guard or any other branch of service and eligible to vote in North Dakota, I’d like you to take a look at something before you vote for our state’s Representative to the United States Congress.

In June of 2006, House Resolution 861, “Declaring that the United States will prevail in the Global War on Terror, the struggle to protect freedom from the terrorist adversary” was brought to a vote.  You can download a PDF of the resolution by clicking here.

RESOLUTION

      Declaring that the United States will prevail in the Global War on Terror, the struggle to protect freedom from the terrorist adversary.

      Whereas the United States and its allies are engaged in a Global War on Terror, a long and demanding struggle against an adversary that is driven by hatred of American values and that is committed to imposing, by the use of terror, its repressive ideology throughout the world;

      Whereas for the past two decades, terrorists have used violence in a futile attempt to intimidate the United States;

      Whereas it is essential to the security of the American people and to world security that the United States, together with its allies, take the battle to the terrorists and to those who provide them assistance;

      Whereas the Taliban, Al Qaeda, and other terrorists failed to stop free elections in Afghanistan and the first popularly elected President in that nation’s history has taken office;

      Whereas the continued determination of Afghanistan, the United States, and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization will be required to sustain a sovereign, free, and secure Afghanistan;

      Whereas the steadfast resolve of the United States and its partners since September 11, 2001, helped persuade the government of Libya to surrender its weapons of mass destruction;

      Whereas by early 2003 Saddam Hussein and his criminal, Ba’athist regime in Iraq, which had supported terrorists,
      constituted a threat against global peace and security and was in violation of mandatory United Nations Security Council Resolutions;

      Whereas the mission of the United States and its Coalition partners, having removed Saddam Hussein and his regime from power, is to establish a sovereign, free, secure, and united Iraq at peace with its neighbors;

      Whereas the terrorists have declared Iraq to be the central front in their war against all who oppose their ideology;

      Whereas the Iraqi people, with the help of the United States and other Coalition partners, have formed a permanent, representative government under a newly ratified constitution;

      Whereas the terrorists seek to destroy the new unity government because it threatens the terrorists’ aspirations for Iraq and the broader Middle East;

      Whereas United States Armed Forces, in coordination with Iraqi security forces and Coalition and other friendly forces, have scored impressive victories in Iraq including finding and killing the terrorist leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi;

      Whereas Iraqi security forces are, over time, taking over from United States and Coalition forces a growing proportion of independent operations and increasingly lead the fight to secure Iraq;

      Whereas the United States and Coalition servicemembers and civilians and the members of the Iraqi security forces and those assisting them who have made the ultimate sacrifice or been wounded in Iraq have done so nobly, in the cause of freedom; and

      Whereas the United States and its Coalition partners will continue to support Iraq as part of the Global War on Terror:

      Now, therefore, be it Resolved, That the House of Representatives—

      (1) honors all those Americans who have taken an active part in the Global War on Terror, whether as first responders protecting the homeland, as servicemembers overseas, as diplomats and intelligence officers, or in other roles;

      (2) honors the sacrifices of the United States Armed Forces and of partners in the Coalition, and of the Iraqis and Afghans who fight alongside them, especially those who have fallen or been wounded in the struggle, and honors as well the sacrifices of their families and of others who risk their lives to help defend freedom;

      (3) declares that it is not in the national security interest of the United States to set an arbitrary date for the withdrawal or redeployment of United States Armed Forces from Iraq;

      (4) declares that the United States is committed to the completion of the mission to create a sovereign, free, secure, and united Iraq;

      (5) congratulates Prime Minister Nuri Al-Maliki and the Iraqi people on the courage they have shown by participating, in increasing millions, in the elections of 2005 and on the formation of the first government under Iraq’s new constitution;

      (6) calls upon the nations of the world to promote global peace and security by standing with the United States and other Coalition partners to support the efforts of the Iraqi and Afghan people to live in freedom; and

      (7) declares that the United States will prevail in the Global War on Terror, the noble struggle to protect freedom from the terrorist adversary.

Earl Pomeroy voted no.

This resolution was a symbolic gesture to say to the men and women of our military services, and those who love them something equivalent to, “We believe in the cause for which you fight and that your victory is certain.”  Once again: Earl Pomeroy voted NO. You can see his vote by clicking here.  His name is right next to Ms. Pelosi.

If Earl Pomeroy cannot even deviate from the extreme liberal left of Nancy Pelosi’s Democrat Party for a symbolic measure to encourage our soldiers and their families, is there anything he will stand up for?  He’s notorious for photo ops with the troops, and visits that serve his image back here in North Dakota, but when he returns to Washington he votes like a San Francisco liberal…NOT like the North Dakotans he claims to represent when he flies back here in a new flannel shirt to campaign.

It’s time to vote him out of office, for once and for all.

Clint F
http://www.bismarckmandanblog.com

Apparently smarter heads prevail.  It looks like Dan Cooper was ousted out of his own gun company after a USA Today article bragged up his support of the Obamessiah.

The page on the Cooper Firearms website reads:

In response to the recent article highlighting Dan Cooper’s personal political donations, the board of directors, shareholders and employees of Cooper Firearms of Montana, Inc would like to issue the following statement.

The employees, shareholders and board of directors of Cooper Firearms of Montana do not share the personal political views of Dan Cooper.
Although we all believe everyone has a right to vote and donate as they see fit, it has become apparent that the fallout may affect more than just Mr. Cooper. It may also affect the employees and the shareholders of Cooper Firearms.

The board of directors has asked Mr. Cooper to resign as President of Cooper Firearms of Montana, Inc.
Daily operations will continue with the competent staff currently in place in Stevensville, MT producing the finest, most accurate rifles money can buy.

Dan Cooper has spent all of his working life producing the highest quality rifles built here in the USA. He started with nothing but the American Dream and built that into firearms company anyone would be proud of. We firmly believe Dan stands by the 2nd amendment.
We wish him all of the best in his future pursuits.

I’d buy a Cooper rifle…but only after I make sure that he truly has been shown the door.  If he stays, sales will likely go elsewhere.  I’m sure that’s what the rest of the company was thinking.  Like they said above, his decisions affect the employees and stockholders of that company.  To do a stupid stunt like support Obama can only hurt, and I read that they’ve heard from thousands of angry gun owners/buyers.