Please Mrs. Elliott, stop helping!

Having read about the Joint Transporation Committee voting to take more of our money, ( http://dakotawarcollege.com/archives/10435 ) I wrote this Letter to the Editor last night and submitted it to our local papers.  Why am I telling you this? To Brag?  To say “What a good boy am I”?  No.  Frankly, I don’t think you really care.  Nor should you.

I am putting this on my blog page to LEAD BY EXAMPLE.  When things bother you, don’t complain to your neighbor.  Write a letter to the editor of your local paper, send a note to your representative in the Statehouse or Congress.  Put the pressure on them for a change.

Here’s the letter: 

 Last November the voters of District 2 chose Elaine Elliott(D) to represent us in Pierre.  We chose her to be our voice, our advocate.  I’m sure she had all of us in mind this week when she voted to raise our taxes.  You see Elaine is on the Joint Transportation Committee and they just voted to pass a bill that would raise all our taxes and make it more expensive to own and operate our cars and trucks.

 Tell me Elaine, were you thinking about the farmers in Spink and Brown Counties when you voted to raise the fuel tax by ten cents a gallon?  Farmers who have been devastated with spring flooding and fall rains.  Were the folks who lost most of their retirement funds in the stock market and are now working part time jobs to make ends meet on your mind when you voted to raise the auto registration fees?  How about the all the folks on unemployment?  The highest unemployment in decades!  Were you thinking of them when you voted to raise the auto use tax by more than thirty percent?  And then there’s those senior citizens on a fixed income whose car is their only means to get around.  I’m sure you were considering them when you voted.

If this is the way you intend to “help” us here in Spink and Brown Counties, please, Elaine, don’t do us any more favors.

Rick Skorupski

And then there was nothing….

Each night as I go to sleep there is a chance that I will not wake up again in this world.  As each decade in my life passes the possibility becomes more and more probable.

Lord, am I glad I am not an atheist. Imagine going through life knowing that at any moment pfffft!  All done.  No more.  All your dreams, aspirations, your friendships, gone.  No consciousness, no memories, no nothing.  Not even an awareness that pfffft! has happened.  Done.

My life is precious to me, oh so very precious.  That part of me that make me ME is extremely important to me.  I wake up with it each morning and go to bed with it each night.  I wake thankful to be alive.  Thankful that I have another day to be with the wife I love and the share the greatness of what is life. 

I don’t think I am so different from the very vast majority of the rest of mankind.  We are all self aware, and we all have an instinctive fear of death.

Now, how about the life that was never allowed to be?  The one aborted in the womb?  Regardless of when you might think that life begins, you can agree with me that a child aborted in the womb has no chance of that life.  The life potential was stolen that would make that cluster of cells a baby then a child then an adult individual.  A person unlike any other person on the planet before or since has been eliminated.  That child has been robbed of the very thing you have – life.  Your self awareness and consciousness.  Before that child even had the chance… pffffft!  Nothing.

How can an atheist be pro abortion?  An atheist does not believe in God as a giver of life.  He (or she) does not see any afterlife in his or her future.  The atheist sees life as a one time occurrence.  Live it and then your gone.  So with that point of view how could someone possibly choose to take that which is most precious from another?  How indeed and so casually. 

At the same time how can someone who believes in a higher power choose to squander what his or her God has given? If life is a gift then it is a gift to the one it is given.  To take that gift from the one to which it was given in the womb is the ultimate theft.  To never allow that life to grow and be given the opportunity choose his Lord is to never allow that life closeness to God. 

It has only been in recent years that I have become vigorously anti-abortion.  I believe it is because I have learned just how precious to me my life has become.  It is because I know life, that I choose to be pro life

Ensign’s ex-mistress, husband sought $8.5 million.. OH the OUTRAGE!!!

From Rules for Radicals By Saul Alinsky – 1971

“Make the enemy live up to its own book of rules.”

The news media was OUTRAGED because this guy had an extra marital affair.

The same news media had no problem with blow jobs in the closet off the Oval Office.

The same news media didn’t see anything wrong with Barney Frank’s boyfriend running a male prostitute ring out of the house where they both lived.  Neither did the House Ethics Committee.

If Senator Ensign had been a Democrat, Cynthia and Doug Hampton would have been charged with blackmail and, if they happened to be Republicans, boiled in oil in the press.

Now I am not saying that what is good for the goose is good for the gander, I am saying that the outrage should be applied equally.  Anything else is just propaganda.

Just imagine if Gov. Blaggo had been a Republican… What if William Jefferson (D) Louisiana (remember him?  The guy with $90,000 in bribe money wrapped up in his freezer.)?  What if the (D) after his name would have been an (R)?  The newsies and left wingers would still be talking about it (and both he and Blaggo would be in jail).

What if George Bush had installed a current KKK member as part of his senior staff.  Imagine the headlines!!!!

But to post a member of the Black Panthers to your White House staff gets a wink and a nod from the press.  Post an avowed Communist and the press gives it a passing glance.  When Van Jones is forced to resign because of the Glenn Beck outing, the NY Times puts it on page A-32.  The major media outlets failed to mention it at all.

My point? When did the forth estate become a fifth column?

It’s the same fire, hold ALL their feet to it.

If your news outlet does not report the news without blatant bias, let them know why you no longer patronize them.

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Just to give credit where credit is due ….  Here’s where I got the headline and the original story:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091002/ap_on_go_co/us_ensign

Another example of unbiased reporting.

 

From the Los Angeles Times:  Social Security checks may shrink in 2010

http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-social-security24-2009aug24,0,3067702.story?track=rss

If this were a Republican Administration, the left wing (spelled main stream) media would be using this as the lead on EVERY news story.  They would run it to death.
 
Katie Couric would start her nightly broadcast from the front to the Social Security Administration building.

Sixty Minutes would be interviewing nursing homes that are going to close because the patrons will have less money to fork over. 
 
Dateline would have a parade of seniors who will loose their homes because of the “cuts”.
 
The newsies would be out on the streets looking for poor starving old folks choosing between rent and food. 
 
The New York Times would be running stories about how much the head of the SSA gets paid. 
 
The Sunday talk shows would have a parade of liberal democrats talking about how these “cuts” will devastate seniors.
 
The bottom line and purpose of all this reporting is to tell everyone just how mean President (insert Republican name here) is to CUT Social Security payments.
 
Now, however, since they have “their guy” in the White House, seems nary a whimper.
 
But they are unbiased journalists…..  Just ask them.

And now… Heeeerrrssss Davy!!!!!

This particular post is local to South Dakota.  We have a governor’s race heating up in the state and the positions of all the candidates should be known.  However, certain positions of one of the candidates seem to be hidden from view.

The Legislative Transportation Committee wants to raise our gas taxes by a dime, double our registration fees and then add an extra penny to the road use (sales) tax on all vehicle purchases.  All in all over 100,000,000 dollars (that comes out to about $150.00 each for every Man, Woman and Child in South Dakota). In the typical family of four that means $600 in extra taxes each year!!!!  For those of you who graduated from a government school, that’s 50 dollars a month!!!

They want this money to pay for road repair.  I want to know what happened to the gazillions we got from the porkulas bill for those same repairs?

Dave Knudson is on this committee.

I didn’t see a press release from our esteemed Gubernatorial candidate condemning these recommendations.  Did you?????

According to Blog protocol and giving credit where credit is due, here’s where I first got wind of this committee’s activities.

http://www.keloland.com/NewsDetail6162.cfm?Id=88986

Let’s have a new standard “Beyond ANY Doubt”

I would like to talk about the murder of Coach Ed Thomas.  Here was an Iowa high school coach who was working with 20 or so students in a weight room when a person came in and shot him dead.  

This story has been all over the wires and both news and sports pages, I won’t link to it here.  If you haven’t read about it, look it up. There have been stories about the coach, the shooter, the students, the town.  Countless words written yet the newsies never ask these questions, “I thought it was illegal to carry a concealed weapon in Iowa? How could this happen?”

To the gun control nuts here’s a newsflash – People who are bent on first degree murder don’t care if carrying a gun is against the law.  I know this is a shocking position to take but it seems to be true. 

On to my second point.  I truly believe in cases such as this there should be a speedy trial and execution of sentence (AND I do mean execution).

When a jury can find a criminal guilty by the higher standard “beyond any doubt” the rules should change.  If a prosecutor proves, and the jury agrees, that the man is guilty “beyond any doubt” then there should be one appellate review and the sentence should be carried out.  All with 90 days.

It is unfortunate that Iowa has foolishly chosen to eliminate the death penalty.  Iowans will have to pony up $50,000 each year to house, feed and keep healthy this disgusting piece of human excrement.

Once upon a time in America

 

There was a time in this land when it was controlled by an oppressive government.  A government that had layers upon layers of bureaucrats, regulations and confiscatory taxes.  Rules and regulations were sent down from on high telling the masses what they could and could not do.  The government controlled the money through a central banking system.  They used that system to control industry.  They burdened business, large and small, with excessive taxes, regulations and fines.  Thus forcing them to comply with the state or go under.  Most of those in power were appointed and untouchable under the law.  The king sat in his palace and passed out edict after edict……..

Oh you thought I was talking about today?

No, I was referring to a time 233 years ago when the people overthrew an oppressive government and put in it’s place one with few taxes and even fewer regulations.  A government based on individual rights and freedom.  A government with free enterprise at it’s core that grew from thirteen little “third world” colonies to the strongest, richest and most successful nation in the history of the world.  This new nation “Conceived in Liberty” went from little more than thirteen fiefdoms to “Sea to Shining Sea” in under one hundred years.

I am truly thankful that I was born in the United States of America.  I am thankful that I remember the end of that era. The end of a time when individual freedoms were more important then the state.  A time when freedom and liberty were taught in school as good things and Socialism and Stateism were an enmity of that freedom. (Yes, I spelled it right… look it up)

Today we find our nation in a great cultural conflict.  There are those, like me, who think the framers of our nation got it right.  Then there are those on the extreme left, and currently in power, who feel that our Constitution was unfair and must be abolished.

For twenty one years of my life I worked in service to my country.  Many times I was asked to reaffirm my willingness to support and defend The Constitution of the United States.  Though I am no longer active duty Navy, I still hold that commitment in my heart.  I will work, within the law, to help educate and enlighten those who have never been taught “The Blessings of Liberty”.  I will do what I can to gain and hold a conservative majority in my Statehouse and the Federal Congress.  I am again this day proclaiming ‘My life, my fortune and my Sacred Honor’ in the course of restoring freedom to this great land.

What a profound short little paragraph that says it all!!!

“You cannot legislate the poor into freedom by legislating the wealthy out of freedom. What one person receives without working for, another person must work for without receiving. The government cannot give to anybody anything that the government does not first take from somebody else. When half of the people get the idea that they do not have to work because the other half is going to take care of them, and when the other half gets the idea that it does no good to work because somebody else is going to get what they work for, that my dear friend, is about the end of any nation. You cannot multiply wealth by dividing it.”      Dr. Adrian Rogers, 1931

Climate Bill Set for Vote After Deal Is Reached – “We the People” CAN stop this.

Here’s the article:

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124579482359843937.html

If you do not send a note to your Congressman(woman) and Senators TODAY, they will pass this thing. If they do, $6.00 gasoline will be considered cheap.

Write, call, email NOW!!

Don’t put it off unless you like having your electric bill, gas bill and food bill doubled.

Cap & Tax WILL kill this country.

I can’t say this strongly enough…… DO IT NOW!!!!

As much as they try to take it away, this is still a country “Of the people, by the people and for the people”.  BE The People and let your voice he heard in Washington.

Otherwise just sit back and sing the BOHICA song.

http://www.nj1015.com/personalities/jim-gearhart/audio/bohica.mp3

Two letters

I wrote two letters this morning to the staff of Congresswoman Herseth – Sandlin.  I wanted to express my concern with two issues that are causing me to loose sleep.

The first is Cap and Trade (better known as a $600,000,000,000 Cap & Tax bill).

Now… I did not bother to tell her that the whole global warming thing is a fraud and a scam based on junk science, she already knows that and doesn’t care.

I didn’t tell her that carbon dioxide levels rise AFTER the planet warms and is cooling back down, she knows that too.

I did not get into a discussion about water vapor being the greatest greenhouse gas and that Carbon Dioxide is only one percent of the total.

Nor did I mention that less than one percent of Carbon Dioxide is generated by man (meaning if we stop EVERYTHING we can only effect .01 PERCENT of the greenhouse gasses) – she knows that as well and still doesn’t care.

What I told her about is something she does care about.  Her job.

I pointed out to her was that the penalty of any cap and trade bill is the price of energy.  Energy we, in South Dakota, use to grow food.  I reminded her that she represents South Dakota and not San Francisco.  I suggested she support the people who put her there or they might not support her reemployment in 2010.

Since I was on a roll, I then typed another note about another of my concerns – national healthcare.

Here is part of that note:

There was a song produced in the seventies by the Cowsills called “Feelin’ Groovy“.  The opening line was “Slow down, you’re movin’ too fast…”

That’s the way I feel about the health care issue.  Congress is moving at a break neck pace to pass some kind of health care reform.  Our President wants a bill to sign in just a few weeks.

This is all moving too fast.  When we rush we make mistakes, mistakes that will be hard to fix in the future.  Look at what happened with the ill fated stimulus bill.

Let’s take a step back and do some homework before passing laws that effect more than 15% of this nation’s overall economy.

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Here’s the deal…. If you want a nation that is better for your children than it is for you, get on the computer and write your congressional repetitives.  Express your concern with doing so much so fast.