American's for Prosperity along with Michele Bachmann and others are sponsoring a House Call to your Congressman(woman) on Nov 5th at 12:00 Noon. The visit can be to Washington DC, or to your local congress critter's office.  The object is to tell your representatives that you want them to keep there hands off your health care. The lastest health care bill is 1990 pages long, and will raise taxes, limit choices, cut Medicare, and more.

Read more here 

UPDATE: 11/02/2009 - More here at Renew America and here  at the liberal TPM

The city of Woodbury, MN has $1,000,000 from the federal government, make that local, state, and US taxpayers money. It is seeking input on where to waste  spend the funds.   From Twincities.com

Michele Bachmann - MN6 (R) has posted a short video on her Facebook account. Here she explains how Republicans are locked out from presenting any alternatives the health care bills floating around in Congress.  Video

All I can say is the President is very busy with golf, doing fund raisers, and really thinking a lot about maybe someday sending more troops to Afghanistan.  Plus there is all the nationalizing of US businesses that he has to do. 

Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty will endorse Doug Hoffman, the Conservative Party nominee who has gained significant traction in his special election battle against Republican Dede Scozzafava and Democrat Bill Owens in a New York House race.

Read the rest on Politico

And Pawlenty on Obama:

Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty criticized President Barack Obama on Monday for "projecting potential weakness" on national security.

"History proves that it is weakness, not strength, that tempts our enemies," the Republican governor said during an interview with the conservative news outlet Newsmax.

Read it here on Twincites.com

Please remember the School Board Election is on Tuesday, November 3rd.

The following candidates have been endorsed by our local BPOU56. (Learn more about them from the Woodbury Bulletin articles.)

Laurie Johnson - a mom first, is very aware of the need for strong curriculum in our schools. She is, by profession, a problem solver and can see clearly inefficiencies in a system and find alternatives. She plans to examine the issues regarding the fact that 833 is under “corrective action” because of lagging scores math and reading for the last five years.

Ed Nowak - a dad first, by profession, he is an engineer and manager: he knows the value of a good work ethic and personal integrity. He too is a natural problem solver as well as a high achiever: he has 3 master’s degrees. It is clear he has a thirst for knowledge and an appreciation for high academic standards.

Dave Kemper - another dad first, has a proven record of supporting his children by being a leader in various scouting and religious groups. A network technician by profession, he will focus on parent-school communication and the levy issues. At the moment, he has children in 3 different public schools within 833 including his youngest in the Spanish Immersion program at Nuevas Fronteras.

Polling Places: South Washington County Area Schools - Independent School District (ISD) 833

• ISD 833 - Cottage Grove P7
  • Includes these 3 precincts - Cottage P2, P3 and Grey Cloud Island Twp
  • Polling Place is Pinehill Elementary School at 9015 Hadley Ave S in Cottage Grove
• ISD 833 - Cottage Grove P8
  • Includes these 5 precincts - Cottage Grove P4, P5, P6, P9, P10
  • Polling Place is Cottage Grove Elementary School at 7447 65th Street S in Cottage Grove 
• ISD 833 - Cottage Grove P9
  • Includes these 5 precincts - Cottage P1, P7, P8, P11, P12
  • Polling Place is the 833 School District Service Center at 7362 East Point Douglas Rd in Cottage Grove 
• ISD 833 - Newport P5
  • Includes these 2 precincts - Newport P1 & P2
  • Polling Place is Newport Elementary at 851 6th Ave in Newport
• ISD 833 - Woodbury P1
  • Includes these 2 precincts - Woodbury P1 & P2
  • Polling Place is Woodbury Junior High School at 1425 School Drive in Woodbury
• ISD 833 - Woodbury P2
  • Includes these 4 precincts - Woodbury P6, P7, P8, P9
  • Polling Place is Woodbury Senior High School at 2665 Woodlane Drive in Woodbury
• ISD 833 - Woodbury P3
  • Includes these 5 precincts - Woodbury P4, P5, P10, P11, P13
  • Polling Place is Lake Junior High School at 3133 Pioneer Drive in Woodbury
• ISD 833 - Woodbury P4
  • Includes these 4 precincts - Woodbury P12, P14, P15 and Afton W2 P1
  • Polling Place is Liberty Ridge Elementary at 11395 Eagle View Blvd in Woodbury

UPDATE: 10/30/2009 :  Sample Ballot for ISD833

I guess this has been around for a while, but I think it is worth watching;

A capsule profile of Michele Bachmann from the beginning to now...

When Marcus Bachmann came home that Saturday evening in 2000, he checked the telephone answering machine and was mystified by the many messages congratulating his wife for something. "Michele," he said, "do you have something to tell me?" She did.

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Some of her supposed excesses are, however, not merely defensible, they are admirable. For example, her June 9 statement on the House floor in which she spoke of "gangster government" has been viewed on the Internet about 2 million times. She noted that, during the federal takeover of General Motors, a Democratic senator and one of her Democratic House colleagues each successfully intervened with GM to save a constituent's dealership from forced closure. One of her constituents, whose dealership had been in the family for 90 years, told her that the $15 million dealership had been rendered worthless overnight, and, Bachmann said, "GM is demanding that she hand over her customer list," probably to give it to surviving GM dealerships that once were competitors.

Read the whole article at the Washington Post

Sarah Palin has endorsed Doug Hoffman, conservative party from New York's 23rd congressional district. In addition to the endorsement her political action committee SarahPAC has contributed the maximum amount to Hoffman's campaign. The Republican endorsed candidate is Dede Scozzafava who holds many of the same positions that the Democrat candidate has.

Read Sarah Palin's Facebook entry

The following link provides a short video profile of each of the school board candidates in ISD 833.  The election will be Nov 3, for those living in the school district.

Candidate Profiles

Candidate Registrations at SOS

I know every one is waiting with baited breath for this;  the Senate (Baucus) version of the health care bill all 1502 pages of it. 

Download it here  About 2.2 MB PDF file.

The OFA (Obama's 'Organizing For America') is planning on making 100,000 phone calls to Congress on Oct 20, in support of ObamaCare.  We on the right need to burn the phone lines down, and swamp out any effect of the OFA sycophants.

Read some more on that here

Sarah Palin has added another notebook entry to her Facebook page.  This one explains how good intentions do not always work out so well. It further explains some likely unintended consequences of government mandates;

Sarah's Facebook entry:

Now that the Senate Finance Committee has approved its health care bill, it’s a good time to step back and take a look at the long term consequences should its provisions be enacted into law.

The bill prohibits insurance companies from refusing coverage to people with pre-existing conditions and from charging sick people higher premiums. [1] It attempts to offset the costs this will impose on insurance companies by requiring everyone to purchase coverage, which in theory would expand the pool of paying policy holders.

However, the maximum fine for those who refuse to purchase health insurance is $750. [2] Even factoring in government subsidies, the cost of purchasing a plan is much more than $750. The result: many people, especially the young and healthy, will simply not buy coverage, choosing to pay the fine instead. They’ll wait until they’re sick to buy health insurance, confident in the knowledge that insurance companies can’t deny them coverage. Such a scenario is a perfect storm for increasing the cost of health care and creating an unsustainable mandate program.

Read the rest here

The Heritage Foundation posted some results from just released reports on the effects of the $787 billion stimulus bill;

The Obama administration released the first hard numbers on how many jobs their $787 billion stimulus package has created or saved on Recovery.gov today. The number: 30,383 jobs from roughly $16 billion worth of stimulus contracts awarded directly by federal agencies.

Crunching the numbers, that comes to $533,000 per job “saved or created.” To put those 30,383 jobs in perspective, consider that the U.S. economy lost 263,000 net jobs just last month and has lost 3.6 million net jobs since President Barack Obama was sworn into office.

It doesn't get much better in the rest of the report.

I took my mom to a doctor appointment the other day. The waiting room had a plasma TV with CNN on. (I only watch CNN when I have no choice, not even to turn it off. ) They were discussing how many jobs were saved by the stimulus plan.  But then I observed that all the jobs that they listed were government jobs.  i.e. teachers, police, etc.. Well that makes it all much clearer. It has nothing to do with the real economy, but everything to do with government expansion.

Taxpayers need to know the full story when it comes to how ACORN has used government funds in its work. But, while the federal funding ACORN has received is significant -- $53 million in direct federal grants since 1994, it also gets funds from states too. Minnesota taxpayers, in fact, have forked over $109,000 from 1996 to 2008, in fact.

In light of the recent reports of ACORN’s problems enforcing ethical and even legal behavior within its organization, many states have launched their own investigations into how that funding has been spent. I wrote to Governor Pawlenty last week to urge him to have an independent investigation of this matter in Minnesota. The full text of my letter is below:

The following thumbnails describe a very small sampling of the locust horde of Leftist bureaucrats President Barack Hussein Obama has deliberately chosen to help him grasp the helm of America's ship of state, strip it from the American people, and steer it hard to port.

The Obama Administration is plainly subverting democracy in America, wildly careening our previous 230-year history of democracy so dangerously Leftward that after a mere nine months we are in terrible danger of sinking.

Read the article here

American Thinker is a must visit website/blog, that I visit daily.

President Obama has won the Nobel Peace Prize - The Nobel committee said in awarding the prize;  "We have not given the prize for what may happen in the future. We are awarding Obama for what he has done in the preceding year,"  Since the nominations closed on Jan 31, 2009, the award was apparently given for his nomination and election in 2008.  I can only assume that " It must have been the Greek columns that put him over the top."

Meanwhile here is a compilation of Obama's five most embarrassing speeches.

Even in Detroit, the Tigers Twins game 163 was one for the ages. Read the article in the Detroit Free Press

Sarah Palin made a entry in her Notes page on Facebook today:  Read it here

I left the convention a little early, and there are no straw poll results yet. Lots of good speakers today. Michele Bachmann wowed the the audience as usual, as did John Kline, Eric Paulsen, and Tim Pawlenty. All were emphasizing a freedom message which was a hit with the conventioneers. Will update the voting results when available.

All nine gubernatorial candidates also gave five minute speeches preceding the straw ballot vote. The ballot was setup with a vote for 1st pick, and 2nd pick. Should be interesting how that went down.

Of course there was the usual convention voting on party constitution amendments. Which took up a lot of time. Maybe we need a different way of handling those things. Sure are time consuming.

A presentation by Grant Cermak on a new database management system, for the party and candidates is using the full power of the Internet, and the relational database. It should be a great tool for candidates.

UPDATE: 1st Choice Results (1-9): Seifert, Emmer, Anderson, Hann, Kohls, Herwig, Jungbauer/Haas/Davis (tie)

UPDATE 2:  2nd Choice Results (1-9): Hann, Emmer, Anderson, Seifert, Kohls, Haas, Jungbauer, Davis and Herwig

UPDATE 3: TrueNorth has a review of the convention. It also nicely covers the Nathan Hansen / Veterans controversy. I had to leave before that issue was partially resolved.  Sounds like it still needs some work.

You can listen to the GOP Gubernatorial Candidate Forum here   Eight of the nine GOP candidates participated in the forum. Michael Jungbauer did not attend, though he did sign up for it. 

One year ago today, Congress smartly allowed the ban on off-shore drilling to expire. After months of urging Congress to take every action at its disposal to increase the supply of American-made energy, I was thrilled to celebrate Energy Independence Day 2008.

However, one year later, we have made no progress. First, the Obama Administration put an abrupt halt to plans already in place to open up the outer continental shelf and public lands in Utah to energy exploration. And, Interior Secretary Ken Salazar has announced it could be 2012 before the administration even decides whether it will consider moving forward.

Washington is not only not making progress; it is, in fact, sending us further from achieving energy independence than even before.

Read the rest of Michele Bachmann's article here.

My assessment is we will never achieve energy independence. Our demand for energy far out strips our ability and the will of government to permit us to create the energy needed for this country.  The current fad of renewable energy is misplaced, and will cause us to lose many precious years of energy development in more productive areas.  But it is a good way to waste taxpayers dollars.