Mark Dayton and Tom Emmer Tied for Governor Spot

According to recent polls Mark Dayton and Tom Emmer are in a tie for Governor.  Dayton is an extremist lefty propping himself up heavily  with his own money.  I remember him when he was an active and responsible head of tourism in the Rudy Perpich administration.   Democrats, including Mark Dayton, were real Americans in those days.   There would never have been a Democrat politicking to the United Nations against an American state as the shameful Mr. Obama did this past week against Arizona. 

I had the pleasure of being acquainted with Governor Perpich, a real Democrat who loved his country, his state, and his home in the Iron Range. 

Twenty five years ago American Mark Dayton showed some promise as a devoted public servant, but his recurring problems with alcoholism and some mental issues since then have dampened his political hopes and crippled his abilities.   About the only thing he has going for him is his wealth and the  DFL victimhood powerhouse which is strong enough and corrupt  enough to nominate and elect Al Franken as junior U.S. senator from Minnesota. 

Minnesota has become   Left by habit.  Its citizens enjoy raising taxes on other people to pay for follies.  If it weren’t for Governor Pawlenty and the state constitutional requirement to balance the state budget every session, every state activity here would be in the red. 

Here is an article from Powerline regarding our Gopher state gubernatorial race:

“We have been reporting on the Minnesota gubernatorial race among Tom Emmer, a solid conservative; Mark Dayton, a deeply flawed and wackily liberal Democrat; and tax-raiser Tom Horner playing the traditional spoiler’s role as the representative of the Independence Party. Republicans have been dispirited by an early poll showing Dayton with a substantial lead, but today’s NPR/Humphrey Institute survey has the race tied among likely voters, 34-34, with Horner at 13 percent.

The poll also suggests a lot of volatility, with quite a few voters whose minds aren’t made up; also, of course, the third-party candidate injects volatility because it is hard to predict how many who say they support him in polls will change their minds in the voting booth and pull the lever for someone who can win.

All of which means that we have a hot race that should stay interesting until November 2. If you want to help save Minnesota from the embarrassing prospect of a Mark Dayton administration–Dayton makes Jesse Ventura look like a model of stability and good judgment–go here, read about Emmer and donate to his campaign.”

This Gay Business, The Unisex Left and Our America of Tomorrow

We live in a time where  in our society we seem to be expected to wear our sex on or sleeve. 

Gay is in.  The female, husky in mind and body, mouth and girth, the American equal and surpassing of anything old and male……..with the gifts  of Gaia, feelings over mind and matter.  The ideal of our day in academic America and all it produces.

The male made passive, obedient, submissive, insignificant, reduced to entertainment  and made small, and above all contrite, bowing and begging forgiveness for his millenia of “sin”, oh these many worlds of human life.   The ideal of our day in academic America and all it produces.

Whatever would you think the result to be in an America where almost all of its teaching units are coached or threatened by products of Women’s Studies, Black Studies, and Gay and Lesbian Studies to advance the stature or lack of it for the modern American Obama Democrat, or any other Democrat of the New American Age?

We are what we are programmed to be. 

And we  have been programmed above all to love ourselves (unless you maintain yourself as an old time MALE, or an old time FEMALE!   

 We have been  programmed by these Studies  to become  free of the old time……to become sexually, politically, religiously, economically, mentally the same…….except some things “same” are better and more important  than other things “same”.

Our universities tell us that being female and gay is better for America’s future.  Agents from the Studies Department carry these vital messages.  Who  in normal society  hires phDs in penis or vagina studies, black racism or graduate students majoring in the sins of Western societies?    Room must be created for this army of New American Leftwing Liberation.

I am a product of the old time male and female world.  And feel deeply fortunate to have lived at such a time before the American fall.   Yet, I must admit that this profound gratitude which radiates throughout my being, might never have been noticed except for the depth of America’s collapse caused by this New American Leftwing Liberation.

It is a constant with the human being to value little until what is valued is lost.

Have you ever listed who you think you are in relative order of importance?  

I have many times since my divorce about twenty years ago………..I try not to deceive myself, but that often is not easy for anyone to do.   But for me, the order of this affair is almost always the same:

I am a live, adult human male.    I have a good mind…..not the quickest or the deepest, nor one which has permitted me to play the piano, but one quick enough, rich in memory and collection of knowledge.   I have been healthy.  

I am a father.  I was a son.  I am an American.  I am a fan and critic of the human being.  I was a son-in-law and a husband.  I am a Teacher…..I’m conservative….and an  Artist in Landscaping Art, am Politically Aware,  natively curious, an owner of a small company, a Prager fan, a neighbor, I am white, middle class, speak English, plant plants, enjoy classical music, particularly nearly anything Beethoven,  and viewing professional sports, especially football, and somewhere at about this level of the listing, I mention that I happen to be gay. 

I am neither proud nor ashamed that that seems to be my “proclivity”  as I call it.  It was in my genetic material.  I would have preferred not to have had to face its difficulties which challenged the most important being of my being….being a father.   Fortunately, I had married a wonderful woman who was a wonderful mother for my children.  We did not anticipate decades ago what difficulties might occur in our future.  Who does?

I am an American.  That ranks highly for me.   It is likely I rank “American” higher than most, because I was raised a child of World War II,  age eleven when the war ended.  The war helped me learn to read and become curious and aware of the world around me.   God, country, Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness had more powerful meanings in those days.  We weren’t supposed to love ourselves.

The broader public knows little to nothing about what “gay” entails. 

What does “not gay” mean?   Try to answer that question.  I expect I am as unique  a creature in whatever sexual attractions I have, known or unknown, as anyone, including you, dear reader. 

I discovered my gayness over a long period of time.  I was fortunate…..very, very fortunate to have discovered this by myself  rather than to have been by age fifteen  told  or encouraged by  some bureaucrat, some ignoramus stupid enough to make judgments about so important a discovery in ones personal life.   My body is very, very personal to me as yours is likely to you.  Ones feelings are not fixed in cement.

So why am I making this note so public?

I conduct my life as  a conservative human being,  to me a far more important nature than my sexuality.  Yet, I am a member of a conservative political crowd which, in general, allows itself to be called bigotted…..which in the general is a valid description, in my view.

I am profoundly opposed to gay marriage.  Marriage throughout history has in most cultures been considered a sacred event to lead to the union of male and female to produce healthy offspring to perpetuate human life in the family unit.  I agree with our religious conservatives that this is a classic law of life.

But what of the gay male or female?  What is the overall conservative message for their future in something that might resemble a family unit, especially a recognized legal union?  

So many of the  conservative religious offer nothing realistic or meaningful  I am aware of.   They  seem unable to understand the vacuum in which they expect these fellow Americans to live. 

I am satisfied with my life without a partner.  But that is my blessing and disappointment.

Conservatives MUST offer something for gays.  It is my view most more adult male homosexuals would prefer to ally themselves to our conservative causes than to the sirens from the Left.  They pay taxes to Leftwing follies, too.   But they go to college to have their politics shaped.  Every year it seems to occur at a younger age by political demand.

The solution is for conservatives to support Gay Unions….not marriages which should legally  be confined to male-female unions as society’s recognition of the vital importance of this union to produce children within a normal  family unit. 

Common sense dictates two males as mamas or two females as papas or any such mix beyond the traditional,  isn’t exactly equal to a real mama and papa per family unit despite, as Dennis Prager reminds us, what is taught at university. 

The conservative religious appear fanatic when their testimonies demand unwarranted sacrifice.  Such pronouncements create enemies to weaken the broader greatness of the respectful conservative society so essential in a healthy, dynamic democracy.

Dennis Prager warns us that with the elimination of marriage as it has been practiced through the human’s social existence, we begin to pretend, and then state, and aver that  there is absolutely no difference between the human male and female except the visually obvious, a victory for looniest and the most bigotted of the American Leftwing, the graduates of the Women’s, Black, and Gay and Lesbian Departments of most of our neighborhood universities.

I add these words to the broader American gay community.  Your political actions from your social and political leadership  have been among the ugliest, most viscious, intolerant and most vile of any movement ever in American history.  It has been disruptive, deceptive, and totally unworthy in a democracy, but at least it has not been violent.  A more honest, professional, less leftwing American mainstream press would expose your present and past evils instead of fawning over you simply for your vote  for a more Marxist America.  Forever shame on you!

That is a very expensive price to pay to accompany the dissolution of the traditional human family.  Hopefully, soon, the movement will rise above its junior high school maturity.

Justice in Marxist Ortega’s Nicaragua

Reading fiction has never been a priority of mine.  It’s  the real life stuff that hooks me every time.   This evening I watched a CBS review of the tyranny and corruption in the land of Marxist Dictator, Daniel Ortega of Nicaragua passing sentence against an American for a crime he didn’t commit.

An American, Eric Volz,  was sent to prison by a bought judge and paid  witnesses including the mother of the murdered victim, and politically aroused mobs. 

Nicaraguan prisons are not reproductions of Guantanamo.   The Nicaraguan judicial system under Daniel Ortega bares no resemblance to due process.  Yet, a year after his imprisonment, an appeals panel cleared Eric Volz of all charges.  Eventually, the lives of everyone on this panel became imperilled.  Volz made it home in January, 2009.  The following is an article at CNN.com/world written by Brittany  Harris, Jan. 11, 2008:

 

“I still can’t believe I’m not in prison,” Volz told CNN’s Anderson Cooper. “I still can’t believe there are not guns.”

The Nashville,Tennessee, native was released from Nicaraguan custody in December 2007, after a three-judge panel overturned his conviction in the strangulation of his former girlfriend, Doris Jimenez. She was found killed in a clothing store she owned in the seaside town of San Juan del Sur.

Volz had lived in Nicaragua for several years and started a magazine called “El Puente,” or “The Bridge,” which he hoped would help close the divide between Nicaraguans and Americans.

The couple had broken up before Jimenez was murdered on November 21, 2006. Volz says he was hours away from the crime scene the night she was killed.

His alibi appeared to be airtight.

Ten witnesses placed Volz at an office in Managua — a two-hour drive from San Juan del Sur — on the morning Jimenez was killed.

But the presiding judge believed a witness who said he’d seen Volz in San Juan del Sur on the day of the murder. Nelson Dangla had originally been charged with killing Jimenez and was granted immunity in exchange for his testimony against Volz.

Volz says he knew from the beginning he would not be treated fairly.

“It was so obvious that I was innocent,” Volz says. “It was almost like I was being held as a bargaining chip. It wasn’t even real.”

Before Volz was sentenced, a mob gathered in the streets, demanding justice. The scene was so chaotic that Volz was forced to barricade himself in an office with a U.S. Embassy official and kick through a wall to escape the crowd.

“It was one of the darkest days of my life,” Volz recalled. “Being an innocent man, seeing people that I knew who sincerely believed I was a murderer. They were out for blood.”

For the next 14 months, Volz says he struggled to stay alive in prison.

“I kind of describe it as social chess,” he says. “You really have to be very delicate in the relationships and not get too close to anybody, but also not isolate yourself too much. It was very tricky.”

Then, on December 17, 2007, a three-judge panel overturned Volz’s conviction and ordered his immediate release from prison. It was four days before he was actually freed.

Volz says he was given just a moment’s notice before his release.

“I didn’t know I was going free until the moment they presented the release papers in front of my face,” Volz says. “[It] was only 15 minutes before I got on a plane and I was leaving the country.”

Even though Volz is home, he says the case is far from over.

The Nicaraguan judges who ruled in his favor may face jail time because of their decisions. And, prosecutors are taking Volz’s case to the Nicaraguan Supreme Court to try and get his conviction re-instated.

Volz says the hardest part of the whole ordeal is that Jimenez has become forgotten in the uproar.

“A very talented, motivated young woman — who was working hard to improve her life — was murdered,” he says. “Nobody really seems to care about her and who she was, and what she lived for.”

Despite everything that’s happened to him there, Volz says he’d like to return to Nicaragua someday.

“I want people to know that there are a lot of good people in Nicaragua,” Volz says. “I don’t want them to blame Nicaragua in general.”

 

The following is another interview with Eric Volz, this one by Tim Elfrink at Miami New Times,which illustrates the nature of justice of the  nations south of the Rio Grande which are run by Hugo Chavez type thugs anxious to stir local hates against today’s  rich but toothless, fat, and Leftwing tiger “up North”.  Bait for hate this time, was Eric Volz.

“How much of a role did politics and Daniel Ortega’s regime play in keeping you in prison?

 At the heart of this crisis is Daniel Ortega’s efforts to stay in power, even if that means sacrificing the principals his revolution helped plant 20 years ago. Ortega is a dictator. Radio stations have been burned. Opposition leaders have been jailed and threatened. Investors have had their property seized and stolen. He meets all the requirements of leading in an authoritarian way. Ultimately, people won’t stand for it. The international community continues to not have any trust in him as a leader. That hurts the economy.

Why did Ortega feel keeping you in prison helped him politically?

Whenever you have something that’s a symbolic case like this in the news, where an American supposedly murders a local Nicaraguan, a politician like Ortega says, “Can this be used advantageously some way?” He tirelessly campaigned for 16 years to be president again. Then two weeks before he takes over, my case happens. It immediately became the main bilateral case between the U.S. and Nicaragua. You have an American in jail becoming the first point of contention between Ortega and the U.S. in 16 years. There were a lot of circumstantial hints suggesting I was being used as a diplomatic piece to consolidate his power, to cement his reputation that he was the same man he was in the ’80s, and to curry favor with other allies in the region.

So why did he release me? It got too big for him. World news was covering this, my mother was down there, and his own courts declared me released. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice was on TV demanding my release. He wouldn’t release me at first, and for a week I was a political hostage. But one of the things people don’t realize is that when a government official like the secretary of state goes on TV to make an assertive demand like that, there are dozens of highly placed telephone calls going on behind the scenes.

Miami has a large Nicaraguan community. Did it play a role in helping win your release?

 We received a lot of support from the Nicaraguan-Americans in Miami. The exile community in Miami mostly fled in the ’80s, so they’re not supporters of Ortega’s decision-making.”