Monday, 26 April 2010
When Mountains Move
They say if you can apply enough force, you can move mountains.
I have given some thought to this, as I come from People who really don't like being "moved" by outside forces that much.
I am Ani Yun Wiwa (Of the Total of All Real People)
My Great Aunt Ruby (who was a Medicine Woman) said to me when I was a boy, "Danny you just look White, NEVER forget that you are Really CHEROKEE."
If you know the History of my Ancestors you realize we REALLY don't like being moved. If you don't, you can see why Here.
That's my Mother's side, mostly from Cherokee, Welsh and Irish Stock,
My Father's People come from the Mountains of Pennsylvania, Platt Deutch, Pennsylvania Dutch and Scots.
So I am descended from a rather stiff necked stubborn stock.
Which makes me by nature Conservative.
It is not that my People cannot accept change its just that we think what is good enough for the North American Continental Plate is good enough for us.
A sedate Plate Tech tonic shift of say, 5 to 10 centimeters a year give one time to consider the direction and implications.
So it was with my own particular cultural matrix I listened to Iowa's National Committeeman expounding on some actions by our Party Leadership at the 2cd District Convention last Saturday.
You can find some information on that subject on the Iowa Independent website in
Iowa’s Scheffler supports GOP ‘purity test’
Iowa Christian Alliance President and Republican National Committee member Steve Scheffler is among 10 co-sponsors of a resolution being circulated that aims to impose a conservative litmus test on potential GOP candidates.
The resolution, dubbed a “purity test” by the media, became public Monday. It lists 10 positions Republican candidates should support to demonstrate that they “espouse conservative principles and public policies” that are in opposition to “Obama’s socialist agenda.” Any Republican candidate who breaks with the guidelines of the resolution on three or more of these issues would be penalized by being denied party funds or the party endorsement.
Mr Scheffler mentioned the New York Politician Dierdre Scozzafava as an example. What he failed to mention was that it was the Voters who rejected her and the Party Leadership there which chose her.
Also not mentioned was the peculiar case of Senator Arlen Specter who did not seem to have much of a problem with the Republican Party LEADERSHIP, but was quick to jump ship when it became apparent that the Voters were probably going to reject him in the next Primary.
It is for those reasons along with my Native Conservative Nature that I feel that any "Litmus Test" needs to be left in the hands of the Party Membership and not entrusted to the Party Leadership, who have been sorely failing in that area.
The only Litmus Test I can in good conscience support is that rendered by the VOTERS in a PRIMARY.
Most of us are Adults and WE can decide for OURSELVES who we want to represent US.
The Party Leadership does not seem to have a good track record in this area anyway.
To go back to what I started this with I think it is true, if you apply enough force you CAN move mountains,
I also think the Political Class in this country HAS applied that force, but perhaps unwittingly, and the Mountains of the Poltical Desires of the Body Plolitic ARE on the move.
There are two other truths, if the Mountians Move, you had best be going in the same direction as they are or get out of their way.
IMO Mr Scheffler has not taken these truths to heart and feels that he can LEAD us in the direction HE chooses.
Tuesday, 30 March 2010
Tax Slavery Day
This just in
By overwhelming majority, the people who responded to my inquiry about where to hold the April 15th tax slavery protest have voted to take our protest to the state run silent media. so with that said, we will be holding out lunch hour protest at the corner of green square park and the KCRG/Gazette building, 11:30 am 12:30 pm. on Thursday April 15th 2010.
Bring your signs, your voice and your outrage.
Let the state run media outlets know that we will no longer tolerate their poor "reporting" and slanted headlines made to cover up an unpopular President, Governor and legislature.
headlines like this pretty much sums up the fine job our Iowa media outlets are doing.
I know a lot of people are working, but if we wait until late in the day, we have no chance of getting any media exposure.
See you there and as always, spelling and grammar mistakes are mine !
Jeremy
www.CrTeaParty.org
Now some may think this is Hyperbole, for them I present the following to mull over
Whenever there is talk of Tax Cuts the Left gets hysterical about what the Republicans are "giving" to the Rich.
Set aside for the moment that average hardworking American Families will also get tax buts.
Consider the concept of a Tax Cut as GIVING someone money.
Let me put it in simpler terms. Say in the form of a Word Problem such as we might have worked in Grade School
If John sticks a gun in Richard's face and has him empty the $100 dollars Richard has in his wallet into John's hands but does NOT (because he did not know about it) have him hand over the $200 Richard has stuck down in his boot.
How much money did John GIVE to Richard???
Now MY answer is NOTHING, not ONE RED CENT was given to Richard by John.
The Progressive Left would do this calculation differently.
Just think 100 years or so during the rise of Unionism, Socialism and Marxism, the Left spoke fervently about the Right of the Workers to the Proceeds of their Labor.
But it is now the 21st Century and the Progressive Left has a New Paradigm.
The Proceeds of YOUR Labor is now the Common Property of Mankind and anything that the Collective leaves to you is the GIFT of the Benevolent State,
If you disagree with those concepts join your fellows on April 15 and exercise your Right to
peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
And if anyone should have the gall to tell you that what you are doing just shows how Racist you are?
Just look confused and say, "But Marxism is not a Race."
Friday, 26 March 2010
HIDDEN IN THE BILL!
Unbelievable - Harry Reid Hidden deep in the Health Care Bill this passage.
They never stop, they will keep trying to shove this down our throats until they get it through... pass on to everyone...
The impudent tyranny of Sen. Harry Reid
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid of Nevada is proving once again... the maxim that darkness hates the light. ... See More
Buried in his massive amendment to the Senate version of Obama care is Reid's anti-democratic poison pill designed to prevent any future Congress from repealing the central feature of this monstrous legislation!
Beginning on page 1,000 of the measure, Section 3403 reads in part: ". it shall not be in order in the Senate or the House of Representatives to consider any bill, resolution, amendment or conference report that would repeal or otherwise change this subsection."
In other words, if President Barack Obama signs this measure into law, no future Senate or House will be able to change a single word of Section 3403, regardless whether future Americans or their representatives in Congress wish otherwise!!
Note that the subsection at issue here concerns the regulatory power of the Independent Me dicare Advisory Board (IMAB) to "reduce the per capita rate of growth in Me dicare spending."
That is precisely the kind of open ended grant of regulatory power that effectively establishes the IMAB as the ultimate arbiter of the cost, quality and quantity of health care to be made available to the American people. And Reid wants the decisions of this group of unelected federal bureaucrats to be untouchable for all time.
No wonder the majority leader tossed aside assurances that senators and the public would have at least 72 hours to study the text of the final Senate version of Obama care before the critical vote on cloture. And no wonder Reid was so desperate to rush his amendment through the Senate, even scheduling the key tally on it at 1 a.m., while America slept.
True to form, Reid wanted to keep his Section 3403 poison pill secret for as long as possible, just as he negotiated his bribes for the votes of Senators Mary Landrieu of Louisiana, Ben Nelson of Nebraska and Bernie Sanders of Vermont behind closed doors.
The final Orwellian touch in this subversion of democratic procedure is found in the ruling of the Reid controlled Senate Parliamentarian that the anti repeal provision is not a change in Senate rules, but rather of Senate "procedures." Why is that significant?
Because for 200 years, changes in the Senate's standing rules have required approval by two thirds of those voting, or 67 votes rather than the 60 Reid's amendment received.
Reid has flouted two centuries of standing Senate rules
to pass a measure in the dead of night that no senator has read, and part of which can never be changed. If this is not tyranny, then what is?
DON'T SIT BY AND LET THIS HAPPEN IN THE DARK!!! FORWARD TO EVERYONE ON YOUR LIST!
Pelosi: we have to pass the health care bill so that you can find out what is in it
Friday, 19 March 2010
Kill the Bill
This just in:
If you are concerned about the direction of the health care bill, please come and show your support!!!
Sent: Thursday, March 18, 2010 9:29 PM
Subject: impromptu Saturday health care protest in front of U.S. Representative David Loebsack's office
this may be a bit short notice, but i just got word that there is going to be a protest in front of Loebsack's
Cedar rapids office at 11am Saturday.
office is at 150 1st Ave NE Ste 375. Could you bring a bullhorn or a sign or a bunch of friends !you could also call his office number
(202) 225-6576 and let him know how you feel.
Washington, D.C. office of U.S. Representative David Loebsack
(please call between 9am & 5pm)
as always, spelling and grammar mistakes are mine !
Jeremy
www.CrTeaParty.org
Wednesday, 17 March 2010
Slaughtering the Constitution
It would appear that the House is really uneasy about actually voting on Obamacare again so they are just going to PRETEND that they voted to pass a bill.
This tactic is called the Slaughter Rule and I think that is what it does to the Constituion.
Nancy Pelosi explains to the American Public why it is so important to do this.
from the Washington Post
Monday, 15 March 2010
The Turtle And The Scorpion
As the story is told, the river was rising in Flood.
A scorpion and a turtle were trapped on an island.
The turtle decided to try to swim to the shore.
The scorpion asked the turtle to let him ride on his back.
"No way" replied the turtle, "you will sting me."
"That would be insane." answered the scorpion, "We would both die then."
Seeing the logic, the turtle let the scorpion on his back.
When they were halfway to safety the scorpion stung the turtle.
"Why did you do that?" the turtle cried as he sank below the waves.
"It is my nature." the scorpion called back,
"It is what scorpions do, you KNEW that when you let me on your back!"
I thought about this story, when I heard that Christopher Reed had been told that his Social Conservative credentials were lacking and that a substantial PAC of Social Conservatives would be putting forth their own candidate for Iowas Second Congressional District.
One of the first thoughts that popped into my mind was.
This will help Miller-Meeks.
That was reinforced when I saw this Poll on a Website.
Now all Polls can be subjective.
What makes this one interesting is that it is on a website run by a Social Conservative.
The same person, I am informed who broke the news to Mr Reed that he was lacking as a Social Conservative, and who was seen recently gathering signatures for the Petition of the new candidate.
The second thing that popped into my mind was:
In what Universe is Christopher Reed not completely and without any reservations whatsoever NOT committed to the Cause of Social Conservatism??
Look at the Poll.
A few things are crystal clear.
This new event is not going to hurt Miller-Meeks.
The arrival of a second Social Conservative Candidate, from the SAME locale, Marion, cannot accomplish anything but split the ranks of Social Conservatives.
Call me an untrusting paranoid, but I, to paraphrase Shakespeare,
Smell something Rotten in the State of Iowa.
Friday, 5 March 2010
I Only Have Four Tickets
Sorry for the short
notice, but I have four extra tickets for the Robbie Knievel (son of Evil
Knievel) Event at the County Fair ....if anybody wants them.
Robbie
is going to try to jump over 1,000 Obamacare supporters with a Caterpillar D-9
bulldozer.
Monday, 1 March 2010
Elected committee persons by Precinct:
Precinct | Committee Person | Committee Person |
CR01 | John Erceg | |
CR02 | | |
CR03 | | |
CR04 | | |
CR05 | | |
CR06 | | |
CR07 | Calvin Busch | |
CR08 | John King | Allen Gunnerson |
CR09 | Michael Psiropoulos | Nathan Houstman |
CR10 | Roger Walton | Gabriel Cooper |
CR11 | Josh Thurston | |
CR12 | James Pettit | David Chung |
CR13 | Carole Boddicker | |
CR14 | | |
CR15 | | |
CR16 | Jim Burke | |
CR17 | Craig E. Seeley Jr | |
CR18 | Mary Lehner | Greg Lehner |
CR19 | Robert Zeck | |
CR20 | | |
CR21 | Stanely G. Giles | Christine M. Giles |
CR22 | Lisa Jones | |
CR23 | Christian Fong | Mary Pat Bower |
CR24 | Ron Meyer | Chris T. Nesseth |
CR25 | Eric Rosenthal | Jim Toom |
CR26 | Jeremy Cobert | Jude Walker |
CR27 | James McCoy | |
CR28 | Howard Ohsman | Mary Ernzen |
CR29 | Sarah Henderson | Megan Hippensteel |
CR30 | Mary Bowman | Cheryl Hoech |
CR31 | Michael Richard | Dean Slyter |
CR32 | Robert R. Bruckman | Zina Dotzler |
CR33 | Linda Miller | |
CR34 | Dennis R. Getz | Donald Woods III |
CR35 | | |
CR36 | | |
CR37 | Matthew J. Cannon | |
CR38 | Norm Carpenter | Tim Pugh |
CR39 | | |
CR40 | Paul Pelletier | Rose Eaton |
CR41 | William H. Dahlsten | Robin B. Tucker |
CR42 | Tom Kincheloe | |
CR43 | E. Bernard Hayes | |
CR44 | Denny Lemaster | Rachel Jones |
CR45 | Steve Rhinehart | Harold Primrose |
CR46 | | |
CR47 | | |
Bertram | Joshua Hamilton | Vicki Johnson |
Boulder | | |
Brown | John Meyer | Terrie Meyer |
Buffalo | | |
Central City | | |
Clinton | | |
College | | |
Fairfax | Annette Koons | Dawn Brown |
Fayette | | |
Grant | | |
Hiawatha 1 | | |
Hiawatha 2 | Steve West | Jim Felker |
Jackson | Deb Foster | |
Linn | Mark Streuber | |
Linn Mar | Jacob Nieuwsma | John Thomas Mark |
Lisbon | | |
Maine | Karen Balderston | Dale Carr |
Monroe-1 | Nancy Mobley | Tami Johnson |
Monroe-2 | Steve Armstrong | Connie Armstrong |
Mt Vernon North | | |
Mt Vernon South | Tommy LeForce | Adam Meinecke |
Otter Creek | Melody Miller | |
Putnam | Thomas M. Tjemeland | Kathleen Banowetz |
Robins | Randy Fouts | David E. Haupt |
Spring Grove | John Haible | |
Squaw Creek | Cheryl Hop | Andrew Maixner |
Washington | Michael Cortesio | Cynthia Cortesio |
M1-1 | Bill Barrow | Sandra Conklin |
M1-2 | Giora Neta | Toni Neta |
M1-3 | | |
M2-1 | Jim Conklin | Marvin Spragg |
M2-2 | Robert Vonk | David Graeff |
M2-3 | Rich Balvanz | Patricia Grundy |
M3-1 | Richard Bice | Joan M. Scotter |
M3-2 | Douglas Dunn | Len Kulish |
M3-3 | | |
M4-1 | Tom Petrzelka | Jill Petrzelka |
M4-2 | Brent Oleson | Kirk Taylor |
M4-3 | David Johnson |
Saturday, 27 February 2010
The Chair's Decision Is Not Subject To Question
That might be called
"How to Chair a Meeting Jack Murtha Style"
Those who viewed the above video might be thinking, "That is Wrong"
In my opinion they would be correct.
My opinion, however is not universal, there are some who deem that is exactly how to Chair a Meeting.
I recall experience a sense of confusion during the times I witnessed the Chair of the Republican Party State Convention, refusing to recognize Calls for Division, or saw a County Chair refusing to recognize an Appeal of the Chair's decision. Numerous occasions during County meetings when questioners were met by a declaration, of Out of Order by Fiat.
My thinking got foggy and I wondered, "How did I get into a meeting run the way Progressive Liberal Democrats run them?"
I mean I THOUGHT I was in a meeting held by the Republican Party, but what was happening was NOT what I thought the Republican Party stood for.
I have certain concepts that I hold Sacred
One: The Foundation of Democracy is respect for the Will of the Electorate, with due consideration for the Rights of the Minority and limited by Constitutions, By-Laws, Rule of Order, which spell out the Powers of the State and Rights of Individuals and those areas in which the State,
MUST NOT INFRINGE.
Two: That Constitutions, By-Laws, Rules of Order have MEANING. They mean what they SAY and not what someone WISHES they mean.
There are those who think that Constitutions are Living, Pliable Documents that can be altered in definition to fit a desired outcome.
They feel that matters of import are best left to an elite who know what is best and the rest of us should sit quietly until they make our decisions for us and tell us what we should do.
That we should submit to Centralized Control of Society.
In my opinion, this attitude permeates our National, State and Local Government and must be challenged and changed.
For us here locally, I think we need to start by cleaning our own house,
If not here, where?
If not now, when?
What are YOUR thoughts??
Sunday, 21 February 2010
Of Sausages and Politics and Things That Go Bump In The Night
They say that anyone who is upset by the sight of something Ugly should not watch Sausage being made or Politics in Action
and that Things That Go Bump In The Night usually refers to something Ugly and Menacing Lurking in the Darkness .
I have avoided watching Sausage being made, but I did experience the other 2 on a Tuesday Night recently.
I think at times I have become a relic of a forgotten age. In our present era where we are surrounded by varying hues of Gray, I am told I think in terms of Black and White, that I have too rigid a concept of things such as Constitutions, By-Laws and Rules of Order.
I might say I am Sorry about that but I am not.
When, for instance I look at Section VIII of the
CONSTITUTION OF THE REPUBLICAN PARTY OF LINN COUNTY
and see
The Executive Committee is subject to the orders of the Linn County Central Committee, and none of its acts shall conflict with actions of the Linn County Central Committee.
The term none, means never, not at all.
To me it does not mean, "unless we feel like it", or "unless we decide we know what is best."
It just means it is not supposed to happen,
But then I have simple modes of thinking.
So when the Executive Board took it upon itself to change the meeting place last spring and later decided to close the Party Office.
Both of which were established by Votes of the Central Committee, what comes to my Mind is "That is wrong"
Yes I still think in such outmoded terms of Right and Wrong,
I lack nuance.
A Rule is Followed or it is Broken.
When I read in the
BY-LAWS OF THE LINN COUNTY REPUBLICAN CENTRAL COMMITTEE
IX. RULES OF ORDER
Robert's Rules of Order Revised shall prevail unless modified by these by-laws.
I actually think Robert's Rules of Order are to Obeyed.
Silly me.
So when I see some one like John King rising to present a motion based on Robert's Rules of Order and QUOTING from a Text of them, only to be Ignored and Ruled Out of Order.
Again I have the simplistic reaction of
That is WRONG.
Taken in isolation, complaints about actions over the last year could be construed as "nit picking"
Taken in total they comprise a "Pattern of Behavior"
When anyone has risen to object to anything they deem to be irregular they are invariably ruled "Out of Order"
When a member of the Executive Board has spoken out of turn, not in keeping with the Strictures of Robert's Rules of Order they have been Recognized Ex post Facto, after the fact.
I do not make the claim that this is a local problem.
It is not.
I was at the last State Convention, if you were not in attendance I suggest you query someone who was to verify the following.
There was controversy over the selection of delegates.
The Convention was informed by a Member of the Rules Committee as to the Proper manner of amending the National Delegate List.
That method was implemented and when it was in the process there was a hasty motion to end debate.
The Chair recognized the Voice Vote as affirming closing debate and motions.
Had that been limited to the Decision by the Chair all would have been in order.
BUT
The Chair refused to hear Calls for Division.
I know this for a fact. I was there. I too called for Division.
Members holding microphones Called For Division.
It was not the case that the Chair did not hear.
It was the case that the Chair FLAGRANTLY violated
The Rules of Procedure.
Which seem to apply only to us, not to them.
We are told if we object that we are creating controversy which will hinder Republicans from being elected.
I say that is the Solid Wast Product of a Male Bovine.
WE have NOT created this controversy, we are reacting to Improper Actions.
So what should we do?
Our Committee is charged with the Management of Affairs of the Republican Party in this County, the Executive Board is charged with Routine Business between meetings and to advise and assist the Central Committee.
This not what is being followed.
Sit quietly while our Constitution, By-Laws and Rules of Order are ripped into shreds?
Wait to be told what decisions have been made by others for us to follow?
So that Republicans chosen by them can be elected?
This reminds me of a Soviet Era Anecdoti.
Where was the First Soviet Election?
Eden
God ripped a rib out of the side of Adam, made Eve
And said
Now choose a Wife
Anyone else feeling a pain in their side?
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