An inspiring slide show and song; 2010 by Lloyd Marcus (YouTube popup) This has been around for a couple months now, but is worth the look, has over 900,000 views.

A YouTube Video which shows email excerpts from the usual suspects in the ClimateGate Scandal. Eye Opening!!  Must watch!

The video is also here at its origin Watts Up With That

See more on ClimateGate here

To All,

Our next BPOU Meeting will be at a new location and a new time and we will have a lot of action to keep you involved.

We will hear from our candidates for State House, State Senate and County Commissioner. I have asked them to prepare a five minute speech and also accept three questions on topic from the audience.

Our main speaker will be Drew Emmer (yes, Tom's uncle). Drew is going to discuss the 'Colorado Model.' This should frighten you! A story of how four rich leftists from Chicago (I believe) set out to turn the state of Colorado from Red to Blue. They were successful, and now have spread this model to 18 states with Minnesota being one of the 18. Drew is heading up an organization called Americans for Prosperity. AFP has branches in 27 states and Minnesota will be 28. They are organized to combat the leftist 'Colorado Model.'

We will also talk about the upcoming Caucus and Endorsing Conventions. Where and when they are and how to become delegates.

Lastly, but not least, we will start our second round of Gubernatorial Candidate visits. Pat Anderson will stop by and talk to us about her campaign.

The meeting will be Dec 10^th at the Woodbury Sheraton and will start at 6:30 prompt. I look forward to seeing you there.

Sarah Palin will be the main attraction at what's being billed as the "First National Tea Party Convention."

Tea Party Nation announced Wednesday that last year's Republican vice presidential candidate will serve as keynote speaker for the conference, scheduled to take place in Nashville, Tennessee February 4-6. A representative for Palin has not confirmed the former Alaska governor's speaking role at the gathering.

The group also announced that Rep. Michele Bachmann will be speaking at the gathering as well. The Minnesota Republican has become a hero among many in the conservative movement. A representative for Bachmann confirms her speaking role.

The full article is here at CNN.com

Link to the National Tea Party Convention

A nice little PowerPoint Presentation to show you what a trillion dollars looks like.  Maybe your congressman should see this too.

One Trillion (Requires PowerPoint or Power Point Viewer)

The presentation will require at minimum the Microsoft PowerPoint Viewer available here.

UPDATE: The original artwork appears here

The Rasmunssen Reports daily presdential approval index hit a new low of -15 percent today.  The approval index is determined by subtracting those that strongly disapporove of the president from those that strongly approve of his performance.  Todays index is based on 27 percent who strongly approve of the president and 42 percent who strongly disapprove of his performance.

This article is more than a week old. Sorry if you have seen it before. But I thought it would be worth the read.

She is a striking brunette with a decidedly outspoken attitude. She lambasts President Barack Obama as a socialist and has become the darling of America's right-wing activists who flock to her appearances. She is hated by liberals and loved by conservatives.

Sarah Palin? Not quite. Meet Michele Bachmann, a Republican congresswoman from Minnesota who is being hailed as a new and increasingly powerful voice in American politics.

Read the rest at the Guardian.uk

Hundreds of private e-mails and documents hacked from a computer server at a British university are causing a stir among global warming skeptics, who say they show that climate scientists conspired to overstate the case for a human influence on climate change.

Read the article here

UPDATE: More at ClimateAudit.org

And Mirrored at  Watts Up With That

Related:  Revenge of the Climate Laymen  Wall Street Journal

UPDATE 2:  A YouTube Video on the hacked emails  (How the World Works)

UPDATE 3 (11/21/09): Collusion, Corruption, Manipulation and Obstruction  (the Air Vent)

UPDATE 4:

• The Evidence of Climate Fraud
• Climategate Heats Up

UPDATE 5 (11/22): In the trenches on climate change, hostility among foes   Washington Post

UPDATE 6: (11/23) Glenn Beck weighs in

UPDATE 7: (11/25)

• Searchable Database of the CRU emails
• The Secret Life of Climate Researchers (Iowahawk satire)

UPDATE 8: (11/29) - Global Warming Urban Heat Effect  (YouTube; a 6th grader and dad analyze GISS data.)

The December 2009 BPOU newsletter is available for reading online or download.  Newsletter 372 KB PDF

Contents for this issue

• Candidate Forum on Conservatism
  • Andrea Kieffer
  • Kathy Lohmer
  • Eric Ogren
• Liberal Hypocrisy - by Brian Marum
• Upcoming Events
• Committee Update
• Newsletter Submissions
• Next Month

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Sarah Palin's new book Going Rogue, an American Story is officially on sale today. The book has only six chapters and is over 400 pages long. I have my copy on order from Amazon, and got a shipping notice yesterday. I can't wait to get my copy. My copy arrived on the 19th.

Newsweek cover photo of Sarah is below..

On Monday, the Ban Ki-moon, secretary general of the United Nations wrote an Op/Ed for the N.Y. Times explaining the importance of the Copenhagen Climate Summit to the future of mankind. If I didn’t know he was a Harvard educated South Korean, based on his name and his comments I’d think he was a dope smoking hippie from a California commune. His Op/Ed follows – read and make note of the bold passages. At the end we will discuss the concerns that every American should have as you digest this Climate Change propaganda piece courtesy of the left wing media.

Read the whole article and especially the editorial comments

The SD56 BPOU is moving the location and time for our meetings. The meeting will start at 6:30 PM

New location;

Prestwick Golf Club
9555 Wedgewood Dr
Woodbury, MN 55125
Directions

Prestwick Golf Club will also have a meal offering for $12.00

I was watching one of our new favorite TV shows on the USA cable network last night, "White Collar". And this anti-Bachmann commercial sponsored by the Sierra Club ran;  It was actually quite comical.  The "evil"' Michele Bachmann is being chastised for supposedly receiving contributions from "Big Oil".  I was thinking who is this guy named Big Oil, since corporations are banned from making political contributions.  Meanwhile unions can take members dues and use the money without permission for numerous political uses.  Who do you suppose made those laws?

Sierra Club "Stain" Ad-Michele Bachmann

The health bill that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is bringing to a vote (H.R. 3962) is 1,990 pages. Here are some of the details you need to know.

What the government will require you to do:

• Sec. 202 (p. 91-92) of the bill requires you to enroll in a "qualified plan." If you get your insurance at work, your employer will have a "grace period" to switch you to a "qualified plan," meaning a plan designed by the Secretary of Health and Human Services. If you buy your own insurance, there's no grace period. You'll have to enroll in a qualified plan as soon as any term in your contract changes, such as the co-pay, deductible or benefit.

• Sec. 224 (p. 118) provides that 18 months after the bill becomes law, the Secretary of Health and Human Services will decide what a "qualified plan" covers and how much you'll be legally required to pay for it. That's like a banker telling you to sign the loan agreement now, then filling in the interest rate and repayment terms 18 months later.

• Sec. 59b (pp. 297-299) says that when you file your taxes, you must include proof that you are in a qualified plan. If not, you will be fined thousands of dollars. Illegal immigrants are exempt from this requirement.

Read the rest of the mess at the WSJ

The South West Washington County Bulletin (dated Nov 2) has an article about the Republican endorsement of the several school board candidates. Not sure what the fuss is about. Various organizations have endorsed school board candidates for as long as I can remember.  Is it any different to be endorsed by a political party than it is to be endorsed by a teachers union, or other advocacy group? I don't see much difference.

The SWWCB article can be seen here. NOTE: You may have to create a free account to view the article.

Michele Bachmann (R-MN) has been one of the more vocal opponents of ObamaCare. Last week on Sean Hannity’s television program, Ms. Bachmann announced the “House Call on Congress.” She urged Americans to come to Washington, DC, to a press conference on the Capitol steps at Noon on Thursday, November 5. After the presser, Ms. Bachmann will lead the citizens through House office buildings to confront Democrats on their own turf. She hopes to draw thousands to DC to tell the Democrats to their faces, “We don’t want a government takeover of our healthcare.” Yesterday, Ms. Bachmann announced that conservative talk radio host Mark Levin would join her.

Read the whole article here.

The original "Make a House Call" article on mnsd56

UPDATE:  Powerline Blog - If You Can Get to Washington On Thursday

Two of the three Republican endorsed candidates were elected to the ISD 833 school board. Congratulations to Doug Kemper (1st) and Lauri Johnson (3rd).  Edward Nowak was just edged out by Marsha Adou (4th). Tracy Brunnett finished 2nd to round out the list of new or reelected board members.

* - Endorsed by SD56 Republicans.

Official results are here 

The November 2009 Newsletter is available for download.

Contents

• Voter ID
• Yellow Ribbon Network
• School Board
• State Convention
• 2010 Caucus
• MN Restoration Contract

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