Sue Jeffers Show 3/15/08 Review + Action Items

Sue Jeffers has her own blog. This is meant to be a supplement listeners to her informative radio show on Saturdays from 5-7PM. The Hubster highly recommends her show as a useful tool for busy Minnesotains to keep in touch with Minnesota politics. All

1. Legislators introduced 1538 pieces of legislation this year thus far. Sue Jeffers (and I) think that they are up to no good.


2. Baby DNA taken by force! Lawsuit of nine families against the Department of Health.


3. Lead Republican for Health and Human Services (R) Jim Abler supports the charge against DNA Rights. Contact Jim Abler to force the issue. Remind him that the government does not have ownership over our DNA. We The People tell the government what it can do.


4. Guns, Guns, Guns. Every time there is a gun incident, people fall into the non sequitor that what we need is "gun control". Gun control is never having to say I missed. The cops aren't necessarily going to bail you out, so stay armed and lead criminals with warm lead. Guests and Gun Trainers Tim Grant and Randy Penrod talk about gun rights and federalism. Gun Train is available through the AACFI. Voting is the final peaceful check-and-balance towards guarenteeing our rights, so it is important to maintain that. 32 States have right to carry laws, but it ideally is unnecessary because the right to carry shall not be infringed according to the second amendment. In Katrina they confiscated guns in Louisianna. If we do not excersize our rights, we lose them. Jefferson and Washington made it clear that carrying arms are paramount. Washington stated it is second only to the Constitution itself.


5. Police cannot be everywhere at once. It is up to you to defend yourself.


6. Heller Case upholds the 2nd Amendment, major victory.


7. Gun Databases is a major infringement issue. It is a tool designed to assist government in stripping the 2nd Amendment rights at the appropriate time. Forum Thread on House File 953 with all of the appropriate information, and who to contact about it.


8. Gun Show Loophole Canard mentioned. There is no such thing, except in the minds of fringe liberals who propegate myths to sell their bankrupt ideas. Gun Myths Debunked.


9. Gun Owners need to know when to draw their arms and when not to, and to get a lawyer every time it is discharged in self-defense, because emotionally invested people who defendend themselves are useless. It is another reason to get gun training.


10. Most Homeowner's Insurance does not generally cover gun incidents, so call your insurance agent to add it.


11. Doctors ask you if you have a gun in the house. It is none of their damn business, and it isn't relevant to anything. Democrats are attempting to turn it into a public health issue so they can waste dollars on research furthering the canard.


12. Stand Your Ground Bill may get passed next time. It was narrowly defeated by one vote. The goal of this bill is to put the onus on the State to explain why a shooter was wrong, rather than on the shooter to explain why he/she didn't run away instead. Better luck next time.


13. Sue Jeffers lights the grassroots fire underneath the behind of our "incompetant State Party Chair", and his "replica" Brandon being the only one in the race. What is Gov. Pawlenty going to do? Andy Aplikowski keeps us up to date on his blog.


14. MNGOCR.org - Minnesota Gun Owners Civil Rights Association.


15. Randy Penrod's email - firearmsinstructor@hotmail.com.
    

Card-Check Petition

Currently, companies decide whether or not to unionize by a 42 day private election. Those 42 days allow bosses to give the employees the opportunity to educate his workforce on what a union would mean.

As I was listening to a free podcast by the Heritage Foundation, I noted that the democrats want to take away the secret ballot, and dramatically shorten the voting period to 5 days. This favors unionization because it allows union bosses to bribe and/or intimidate people into unionizing, which may or may not be in their best interest. The shorter time period remarkably favors a misinformation campaign.

Employees currently have the option whether or not to unionize, but democrats want to change that. Guaranteeing a permanent job for safety for a few extra benefits cuts short that potential for greatness. This is the part that is so profoundly UnAmerican. We believe in the pursuit of Life, Liberty, and Happiness, while the democrats (and negotiable republicans) want to place a guarantee on that happiness in return for a few votes. Perhaps change means to some liberal democrats first and foremost recognizing that the human individual posses too much freedom.

A Union may allow employees to cross the finish line in the middle of the pack in the race of life, but is that what they want? It is surely not what the Founding Fathers wanted for them. This may sound familiar.

"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness." - The Declaration of Independence.

If you have 30 seconds more, petition Card-Check, to protect the employees right to make an informed decision.

Obama's Press Secretary Wags the Dog

Rather than including congressional republicans in the process, congressional democrats took the low road in excluding republicans from the Stimulus Package entirely. Perhaps Stimulus is a misnomer. Rush Limbaugh has deemed it Porkulus, and imitators have deemed it Spendulus, but it is what it is. That is a bill designed solely for the survival of democrat special interest groups. It has nothing to do with the economy.

This can be illustrated many ways. One is by pointing out some of the hundreds of items that waste millions and billions of dollars that create homework for the people, putting Americans behind gov't desks instead of lasting private sector positions. It was jammed down the collective throats of "us" with a complicit media who intends to keep us out of the loop.



It has only succeeded in galvanizing opposition, and rather than take a step forward and address the economy. Obama has yet taken another step backward and address Rush Limbaugh through his Press Secretary Gibbs in a media food fight. The point is to try to marginalize mainstream conservatism as something fringe and unusual (which cannot be farther from the truth), and to distract people from political underhandedness in Washington. Rather than being government watchdogs, as is a proud tradition of the media, the pundits have become subsidiary government cheerleaders. The only criticisms these days are marginalizations of those who dare criticize legitimate concerns, and their talking points are directed from Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel and Press Secretary Gibbs.

This all could have been avoided with Rush Limbaugh's Bipartisan Plan. Republicans won 46% of the vote, so they spend 46% of the bill in the form of tax cuts. Democrats won 54% of the vote, so they spend 54% of the money on spending plans. This would have the support of nearly every American, and would turn the page on partisan politics. However Obama has made no single move towards bipartisanship.



Gibbs is simply 'wagging the dog', aiming that Americans won't hold him and congressional democrats accountable. Hopefully Obama will get around addressing Wall Street and Main Street one of these days after growing the government into oblivion. As stunning as this is, Obama has grown the government in his first six weeks than every other American President before him combined.

"A government big enough to give you everything you want is powerful enough to take away everything you have." - Thomas Jefferson