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1-20-12- new Letter to the Editor sent to the Strib- not expecting publication: All of the goals and duties cited by the Indian tribal leaders also hold true for the state government leaders. Since a former "leader", Skippy Humphrey, failed miserably as the state representative when he negotiated the gaming compact the tribes enjoy, we must find another way to generate revenue for the state from the massive amount of gambling going on here. Every other state put in a sunset renegotiaiton clause, but we are unique in granting the no-tax-revenue-to-the-state clause FOREVER. Nothing in those clauses prevents us from opening competing casinos to generate revenues. Our state Constitution also allows casinos and gambling by statute. The state AG finding by Mike Hatch was nothing but a political smokescreen when he was actively running against Pawlenty, who wanted a casino. The opinion was a masterful piece of circular reasoning, encompassing more pages of questionable assumptions than our entire state conmstitution. If it didn't, there wouldn't have been a need for legislatures past to enact a whole section in the state laws specifically outlawing types of gambling, and regulating others like pull tabs.

12-30-11- Commentary submitted to ther RedStar, not expecting publication: "In your "Letter of the Day" on Friday, Clara Grace James writes that "We are criminalizing people of color such that they comprise 90 percent of the juveniles in the Hennepin County Detention Center". That is entirely incorrect, and one of those irrelevant factoids so loved by those who want to help others (always with other people's money). Those juveniles are actuually committing criminal acts, therefore they are detained. The color of their skin is irrelevant when they are caught red-handed. It does not help any that their older relatives and neighbors specifically target these kids to do their street crimes for them because the juvenile will get off sooner and it is much harder to convict the shadowy ringleader than the kid who actually swipes something. Maybe if the juvenile records of those adult thugs were more routinely available to the justice system, they could put those guys away forever. Of course, the same people who want to help the poor with transit to the manufacturing jobs in the suburbs are the ones who used zoning laws, pollution laws, noise laws, endless nuisance code compliance laws, OSHA laws, and tax laws to chase jobs out of the city, removing the ability of the poor to make a living anywhere near their neighborhood. And finally, the idea of "mass" transit from the inner city to jobs that are spread thinly around a vast suburban area is ludicrous. The very concept of mass transit is to move a very widespread populace to a concentrated area of work, a ship that has already sailed in this metro area. "

10-24-11- On Monday Oct 24 2011, the RedStar posted a Letter of the Day as follows: "A recent letter writer asked if there are buyers out there for the Chevy Volt. The answer is definitely "yes." I have owned my Volt since June after being on a waiting list for three months and having to buy it from out-of-state. Yes, the Volt is definitely the most expensive car my family has owned, but just as we pay extra for wind energy and organic foods, we think it is a good investment in the future of our planet. While running errands I estimated that about a third of vehicles I saw were in the Volt's price range or higher. Like many of those vehicles, my Volt is a beautiful car with amazing technology. Unlike the others, my Volt is getting well over 900 miles per gallon and is costing me only about $17 per month to drive. Are there disadvantages? Absolutely! Since I haven't stopped at a gas station in four months, my windows are getting very dirty. And I doubt that I could ever be happy with a nonelectric car again. The easy acceleration and incredibly quiet drive of an electric car makes gas-powered cars, even ones I used to love, seem like dinosaurs. Certainly the Volt is not for everyone. However, those of us who can support this new technology today will allow it to become more typical and thus cheaper technology for tomorrow. ROBIN COUNCILMAN, ST. LOUIS PARK" The expected-to-not-be-published-by-the-RedStar letter I sent questioned whetther Robin will return the $7000 welfare check we all wrote so she could experince those good feelings from her "green" car.

6-26-11- Letter submitted to the RedStar, not expecting to be published. I find it hilarious that your cartoonist descibes Dayton as in the middle. How? He wants to expand state sending by 8% in his 1st year in a recession. He wants to increase taxes on the rich by 63% (8% to 13%), an increase that is massive by any measure. Put another way, he wants to raise those person's taxes by $100,000 each. And republicans stuck in a block of cement? How about the "tax the rich mantra" of the Democrats? Or their never ending cry for increased spending to pay off the teachers union, regardless of the results? The Democrats and Dayton should be depicted as a bunch of fat lemmings feeding on tax dollars as they all run over the bankruptcy cliff, all the while dragging the rest of us down with them.

3-12-11- In response to an inane editorial by the RedStar attacking Michelle Bachman on4-12-11. Was it a secret appropriation? The bill was not printed or posted on the internet, and the Dems added at least 500 pages after the "debate" started (no amendments allowed) and they had ceremoniously displayed the copy of the bill at the House Presiding Officer desk. Then it wasn't available for the public to read for days after it passed. Yeah, it was secret appropriations; heck, the whole stinking bill was secret. Remember Pelosi's snarky quote? "But we have to pass the bill so that you can find out what is in it,". Finally, if you are going to accuse Michelle of violating the 9th commandment with the snide false witness line, then let's charge the Dems with violating the 6th by stealth funding murder (abortions) with Planned Parenthood appropriations. I presume this new-found respect for the 10 commandments also means you will be publishing an editorial tomorrow asking Congress to not work on a sabbath (4th), and of course, all rhetoric about the rich having to pay their fair share will have to cease (10th). Bill G.

12-15-10- from the Education Minnesota Retired site, in the form of a talking points memo for teachers: "Taxpayers do not pay your pension. You paid about 1/2 as a direct deduction from your salary while the other half was costed against each salary settlement ñ in other words you paid every cent of the investment. The rest is earnings from that investment." In what fantasy world is it not taxpayer money? They are paid with tax money, and the crap about "costed against each salary settlement" means the school district or the state put it in, and every dime they have is taxpayer money. This begs the question, do government employees pay taxes? What if they were exempt from all taxes, but we reduced their salary for a net zero effect? Wouldn't they still have exactly the same anount of cash? Wouldn't we save a bunch of bureaucratic red tape (read "money") by eliminating the farce of paying them with tax money so they can pay it back as taxes? So far, every dollar involved had to pay a red tape fee for the original earner to keep track of pay the taxes, the government to collect it, the teacher to keep track, and for the government to re-collect it. By the time we get done fooling around, half the money has been spent just keeping track of it.

8-4-10- Letter submitted to RedStar (not expecting publication)- Isn't it rich to see a complaint in your paper by Move-On.org, an organization underpinned by literally millions of George Soros' money that exists purely to influence elections, complaining about sombody else (Target's measly $150K) trying to "buy" an election. Guess they don't like someone else horning in on their turf.

4-30-10- Letter submitted to the RedStar (not expecting publication) "In yet another example of why we need to quit the UN the United Nations has put Iran on its commission on the status of women which it says is dedicated to gender equity and the advancement of women. Really. Sort of like putting Hitler on the Board of the Holocaust Museum. What a bunch of Useless Nincompoops."

10-21-09- Quote: Chairman Max Baucus , D- Mont., regarding posting bills 72 hours before a vote- "It's all good faith," he said. "It's based on comity. We work together. We trust each other. And that's worked very, very well." Who is he kidding? We, the People, don't trust any of them, and the omnibus, pork-barrel crap coming out of Congress gets worse every year!

1-16-08- So Hillary's State Department will watchdog Bill's bribe money flow and avoid the appearance of any monkey business. Will that be done as well as she guarded his zipper? How about as well as she keeps track of legal papers that are subpoenaed and mysteriously show up ON HER COFFEE TABLE just days after the statute of limitations on the crimes they reveal expired? Or maybe she will track it as well as her $10,000 cattle future that went up 900% while every other investor her broker handled lost money? Chest waders don't go nearly high enough to protect you from what she is shoveling. The old saying is this is like the fox guarding the chicken coop, but I suppose tit it more like the Hen guarding the Fox den.

9-30-08- I love how the "leaders" of Congress are blaming the bailout failure on partisianship. 66% of Republicans and 40% of Democrats voted against it- that is true BI-partisianship. These buffoons who "lead" Congress are being exposed for the frauds they really are like the Wizard of Oz when Toto pulls back the curtain.

9-26-08- watched 3 questions in the debate tonight (the Twins were more important). All 3 happened to be to Obama- he never answered any of them. He gave one short sentence that was vaguely related to the question, and then he would say " the real question here", or "the question we really need to know", or "what's really important here" and then head off into the stump speech. He also had lots of specifics about McCain's proposals, but his own were generalities like "we need to do health care for everyone" or some other vague promise like "95% of Americans will get a tax cut". He did say he would eliminate corporate tax loopholes, remove corporate tax breaks etc. Of course, all those cost increases to business can have only 2 possible results. Either they raise prices, effectively taxing everyone, no matter how poor. Or they lose market share to a foreign company who doesn't have to pay those taxes, and we get job losses to go along with the lost taxes and even larger imbalance of trade. Talk about an economic disaster waiting to happen.

7-26-08 T. Boone Pickens and GE- the ultimate hypocrites. TBP & GE have gone green, promoting wind and anything else other than oil. TBP claims expert status on the issue because he is "an oilman", but he leaves out that he is much bigger in wind and natural gas, both of whom cannot compete with oil as an energy source without subsidies. He just wants wind because he can cry "the earth is dying" and get crooked politicos like Algorical to give him your tax money, and he can use the power of eminent domain to route his power lines. GE has put way too many eggs in the wind turbine basket, which comes out at at least twice the cost of coal electricity, so they are taking the same cynical pork trough approach. The CEO has managed to take a huge company and drive it into the ground while stealing millions of dollars of profit for himself and having to spin off the GE appliance division because he is too incompetent to run it. HE ought to be canned and made to return every penny above minimum wage he ever took from GE.

4-28-08 lot of speculation that Hillary is running so hard so Obama will lose so she can be the nominee in 2012. Quite possibly true. Also note, that Obama could be so bad if he did get in that he would not stand for re-election in 2012. With his tax and spend and surrender policies, he could be in a recession, with reduced tax revenues and increased spending, huge deficits, and a full scale civil war raging in Iraq with us not there. If that happens, the American people may very well want "change" again, back to what we have now. Of course, if Hillary does get the nomination this time she will probably lose due to such poor black turnout. What state is she going to take away from the Red state column? Arkansas isn't enough.

4-28-08 Hillary talked about annihilating Iran if they nuked Israel, and even offering the same umbrella to Saudi Arabia and other sheikdoms in the area. Not bad, but since she constantly votes to reduce nuclear capability, ban testing, unilaterally disarm, and not fund missile defense, she is just shoveling it. The new policy should be SAD (singularly assured destruction). Simply put, a WMD attack against any country that asks to be under our defense umbrella guarantees the destruction of the political entity that made the attack. If the attack is made by a puppet like Hamas, the puppeteer (Iran and possibly Syria) disappears also.