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This is a story from Real Clear Politics with video showing Rep. Tom Perriello (D-VA) saying this.

They aren’t JUST stealing taxpayer dollars but they are stealing our freedom and liberty and they don’t give a crap. The subterfuge and illusion of what all the Democrats are doing is finally going viral and those Americans who lived their lives thinking they didn’t need to pay attention to the politicians have awaken.

To the Lincoln Davis’(TN D-4) and Colin Peterson’s (MN D-7) you have fooled NO ONE by your vote to pass the self executing Slaughter Rule yet telling anyone who calls your office that you will be voting no to Obamacare. You are no better than the scum sucking bribery infested Bart Gordon or Jim Oberstar.

Americans are angry and they are now targeting more than just YOU, they are going after any Democrat elected official whether they be a county commissioner, mayor or state official. You all will be targeted to boot out of office.

Rep Lincoln Davis Tn D-4, Rep Colin Peterson MN D-7, Bart Gordon, James Oberstar, Rep Tom Perriello, Slaughter Rule, Self executing rule, healthcare, obamacare

Minnesota is really coming up with the billboards. This one is of the Gipper!

On I-94E near Albertville. I love it, love it, love it.

Ed Morrissey at Hot Air has all the info on the sign.

Billboards, Minnesota, Hope and Change, Ronald Reagan

This is what happens when Somali Muslim ‘refugees’ are imported by the US State Department and supposedly sponsored by churches. This isn’t the first we’ve heard about this problem.

Creeping Sharia in the US
Refugees and Tyson’s causing angst in Shelbyville AGAIN
More on Creeping Sharia pushed by Somali’s in Oregon
Tyson Foods importing more immigrants with Leprosy, VD, TB
Tyson Foods now importing Somali refugees for cheap labor

That is just the tip of the ‘Creeping Sharia’ iceberg in this country.

From Atlas Shrugs – Imposing Sharia In America: Somali Muslims “out for blood” at Minnesota high school

Tensions mount at OHS | JEFFREY JACKSON, owatonna.com

Monday’s altercation between four white students and a group of Somali students — how many Somalis were actively involved is in dispute — ended with one of the white students going to the hospital. The student, a senior at OHS, spent the night in the hospital after medical personnel feared that he might have swelling on the brain.

The high school students and their parents spoke on the condition of anonymity, saying they feared further threats and violence if their names were made public.

Although the actual fight between the white students and the Somali students happened Monday, the parties agree that the roots of the fight can be traced back to a paper written for an English composition class earlier in the month.
The senior who ended up in the hospital on Monday was given an assignment to write a paper for the class and post it on the class’ blog for other students to read and comment on. He posted the paper on Friday, Nov. 6.

He chose as his topic what he called “Somalian privileges” and wrote in his paper that the Somali students in the high school were allowed to “bend the rules.” As one example, he said that though most students weren’t allowed to wear hats in school, the Somali students routinely wore hats without being told to take them off.

Within a half hour, after the class had been dismissed, he was surrounded by a “pretty big group” of Somali students who had been given copies of the paper from other students in the class, the boy said. The Somalis were, the boy said, “pushing, yelling and asking questions” — specifically asking him if he had written the paper.

The boy, who is on work release allowing him to leave school early, left and went to the place where his mother works. A few hours later, the mother received a telephone call from one of the school’s vice principals who first informed the mother about the incident and about the paper that had been posted online.

“No threats were made,” OHS Vice Principal Julie Sullivan said Wednesday about the Nov. 6th incident. Sullivan did say that she was approached that day by several Somali students who were upset about what the boy had written on the class blog.

The next Tuesday — there were no classes on Monday — the boy and his mother met with Sullivan after the vice principal had called Monday evening requesting a meeting. At that meeting, Sullivan informed the pair that the boy was going to be suspended for four days because of what he had written in the paper.

“I was not happy for him writing that paper,” the mother said. But, she said, although the official paperwork says the boy was being suspended for “language and inappropriate comments” and that the vice president did talk “briefly” about the paper, the real reason the boy was suspended was concerns by the administration that the boy might be attacked if he remained in school.

“She mentioned that several times,” the mother said of Sullivan. “She said it was for his safety.”

What’s more, he said, on the weekend before the boy returned to school, the boy sent text messages to some Somali students — messages that Johnson characterized as “inflammatory.”

The boy’s mother acknowledged Wednesday that she had been told this week about the text messages, but said that the message was only that the boy was not going to apologize to the Somali students for what he had written in his paper.

Shortly after the boy returned to school Monday, the incident began. The boy was sitting with three of his friends in the school’s C Plaza when, he said, he was approached by a group of Somali students.

“They were out for blood,” one of his friends said.

The boys said that at least 30, perhaps as many as 40, Somali students were involved in the altercation. School officials dispute that number, saying that some of the Somalis who were there were bystanders who were watching the fight take place. Owatonna Police Chief Shaun LaDue, whose department is investigating the incident, said Wednesday that “no less than 20 people” were involved in some fashion in the incident.

There’s more to that story too – read it all.

Notice who is punished here. The victim! Let me think, what is in the area of Owatonna, MN.  Ohhhh meat packing/processing plants. What a coincidence.

Creeping Sharia, Islam, Muslims in MN, Somalis in MN, Somalis, Somali refugees

An arm of the Muslim Brotherhood (Islamic Circle of North America) now has billboards in Minneapolis this week.

From Jihad Watch:

They say they want to encourage dialogue via these billboards. Great. I’ll start. The billboard says that Islam is “the way of life of Adam, Noah, Abraham, Moses, Jesus & Muhammad.” That is a reflection of the Islamic supremacist notion, rooted in the Qur’an (3:67, 5:116, 9:30, etc.), that the Biblical prophets taught Islam, and their messages were corrupted by their followers to create what we know of today as Judaism and Christianity. In this view, Judaism and Christianity have no legitimacy whatsoever: they are renegade, twisted, hijacked versions of the original Islam.

So my question is: How does ICNA hope to encourage dialogue by making a declaration at the outset that Judaism and Christianity are false, renegade religions? Wouldn’t it be more likely to encourage dialogue if ICNA, instead of simply trying to convert people to Islam (which is really what this call to “dialogue” is all about), acknowledged the supremacist aspects of some Islamic texts and teachings, and offered a way forward for Muslims that would blunt the potential of those supremacist texts and teachings to incite believers to hatred and violence?

Here’s a suggestion, how about a billboard decrying the terrorist activities of their fellow Muslims? How a billboard denouncing the suicide bombers killing and maiming people around the world in the name of Allah and Mohammad? How about a billboard pleading for Muslims around the world to end Muslim subjugation and violence against women? How about a billboard educating Muslims to be more tolerant of other religions instead of advocating death to kafirs?

None of this will of course happen since that is not the purpose of Islam. The purpose of these jihadist groups is to eliminate all opposition to their political ‘religion’.

Islam billboards, Islam, political Islam, Muslim Brotherhood, Mpls MN

This Week’s Post Was Suggested By Beth

Cpl. Benjamin S. Kopp
21 years old from Rosemont, Minnesota
3rd Battalion, 75th Ranger Regiment
July 18, 2009

Ben Kopp has been a fighter since the day he was born. When he was born his mother was given morphine to stop her labor so the doctors could deliver her via a cesarean section. But it caused his heart rate to slow and when he was born he wasn’t breathing. But he recovered to the amazement of everyone. “Ben has always been up for a challenge,” said his mother, Jill Stephenson. “He came into the world a fighter.”

On July 10, 2009, Cpl. Benjamin Kopp was wounded in the Helmand province of Afghanistan. He was hit in the knee that hit his popliteal artery and the loss of blood caused him to go into cardiac arrest on the operating table at a battalion surgical center. As a result of his injuries, Cpl. Kopp developed swelling in his brain was put into an induced coma to try and save his life. But he died on July 18.

But his service didn’t end with his passing. Upon his death, by his own desire, his organs were donated to people in need saving their lives.

“Please continue to say prayers for all of the men and women who so proudly serve our country,” Stephenson wrote online. “Ben had a deep love of country and has just left a legacy of heroism for all of us to cherish. Be as proud of him as I was as his mother.”

You can read much more about Cpl. Benjamin S. Kopp here.

These brave men and women sacrifice so much in their lives so that others may enjoy the freedoms we get to enjoy everyday.

For that, I am proud to call them Hero.

We Should Not Only Mourn These Men And Women Who Died, We Should Also Thank God That Such People Lived

This post is part of the Wednesday Hero Blogroll. For more information about Wednesday Hero, or if you would like to post it on your site, you can go here.

Wednesday Hero, Cpl Benjamin S. Kopp

I know I’ve been absent and it’s a combination of factors. Just got back from a vacation/trip to Minnesota. My visit to family was a bit different this time in that a good friend from Tennessee came with me. Her son had just recently moved to Duluth, MN to a new Coast Guard station after spending a year of duty on a 110 foot cutter in the Gulf patrolling the oil rigs. People often commented to him that at least it must be cooler on the water, that isn’t true. Because the water temperature is so warm those 130º temps also include high humidity, just think you’re on a small boat in those temps for 30 days at a time. He wanted cold weather for a change and the Duluth station was open. The neat thing, my friend and I spent time with her son while introducing him to my family plus we visited the North Shore of Lake Superior. I hadn’t spent time up on the North Shore in years and had forgotten how beautiful and quirky the area and people are. We had a great time.

In Grand Marais,MN we ate at a pizza place and later saw this billboard. You betcha ya gotta luv it!

On our drive through Sauk Center,MN we saw this restaurant and absolutely cracked up. What a funny combination.

For some reason my internet has been slow as molasses which has been highly irritating.

Sven and Ole Pizza, Grand Marais Mn, Sauk Center, chinese mexican buffet

My former home state must be so proud.

Minnesota, Al Franken, Senate, Democrats

Here’s another example of Democrats who profess to support the troops, actions not words reveal their true colors once again.

Democrats block effort to make it easier for deployed soldiers to vote

NASHVILLE – Today at the state capital Democrats voted against legislation that would have made it easier for Tennesseans serving in the military to participate in elections even if they are deployed outside of the state or the country.

All three Democrats on the House Elections Subcommittee – Rep. Gary Moore of Joelton, Rep. Harry Tindell of Knoxville and Rep. Eddie Yokley of Greeneville, voted against a straightforward bill today that would have allowed military personnel serving overseas to send in their absentee ballots electronically (by fax), to make it easier for them to vote.

All Republican members of the committee voted for the legislation.

For more on this story go here.

Tennessee, military voting, Rep Gary Moore, Rep Harry Tindell, Rep Eddie Yokley, Democrats

What is it with Minnesota and Islam? Taxpayers support the madrassa like charter school for Muslims and now have a state program where in essence the state is processing Shariah compliant mortgages for Muslims.

From IBD – Mortgage Madness

The Minnesota program, the first in the nation, will be administered by the state’s housing agency, which will buy homes, with taxpayers’ dollars, and resell them at higher prices to Muslim buyers.

To circumvent Islamic Shariah law, which, we’re told, forbids Muslims from buying or selling loans that charge interest, the transaction will have higher up-front costs, including the amount of interest that would have been charged over the life of the loan.

This is a clear mixing of religion and state, which runs afoul of the Constitution and should incite the American Civil Liberties Union to launch a complaint and file a lawsuit. Yet we’ve seen no word from the group that recently filed a lawsuit against a Muslim, mosque-based charter school that takes public funds.

Not only is this an affront to MN taxpayers of all other religions but it’s also an affront to private sector business. It’s also pandering from the state to a special interest group.

Read about the MN Islamic Charter School

Islam, Minnesota, Murabaha financing, Tarek ibn Zivad Academy, Tiza, Sharia Law, mortgages

Good grief, I think I’m stunned. This ruling came out of the Socialist Nanny State of Minnesota. How is it possible there could a modicum of common sense left in the state?

Minnesota: $2.6 Million in Red Light Camera Tickets Refunded – The Newspaper (A Journal of the politics of driving)

The problems for Minneapolis began in 2005 when the city decided to issue red light camera tickets without the sanction of state lawmakers. By April 2007 the Minnesota Supreme Court had ruled that the use of automating ticketing machines violated state law and deprived motorists of due process (view ruling). The city was forced to end its program for good, but it had no intention of returning the $2.6 million collected from the program.

In addition to the city’s fines, thousand of drivers paid hefty surcharges to their insurance company and about 300 had their drivers’ licenses suspended as a result of the illegal photo tickets. The lawsuit was required to force the unwilling city to take action in May to clear the driving records of those affected. The three plaintiffs who brought the successful suit will receive $1500 each, and the city will cover the legal fees accumulated during the lengthy court battle.

Unfortunately for Tennessee, the Tennessee Attorney General Robert E. Cooper ruled the use of red light cameras and speed cameras are constitutional. Tennessee plans to raise revenue for it’s budget deficit by once again screwing drivers.

Tennessee Attorney General Promotes Photo Ticketing (12/03/2008)
Tennessee Attorney General issues opinion supporting the use of red light cameras and speed cameras.

“It is an accepted principle that enactments of the General Assembly are presumed constitutional,” Cooper wrote. “Whenever the constitutionality of a statute is attacked, courts are required to indulge every presumption in favor of its validity and resolve any doubt in favor of, rather than against, the constitutionality of the act.”

The legislature in 2008 embraced red light cameras while Bredesen officials were quietly exploring the possibility of adopting a freeway speed camera setup similar to that used in Arizona. Cooper cited the rational basis test as establishing the constitutionality of the legislature’s actions.

“If any reasonable justification for the law may be conceived, it must be upheld by the courts,” Cooper said, citing the Tennessee Court of Appeals. “Absent implication of a fundamental right, a legislative act will withstand a substantive due process challenge if the government identifies a legitimate governmental interest that the legislative body could rationally conclude was served by the legislative act.”

The appeals court made similar arguments in a July decision that stated there is no problem in allowing prosecutors to presume the owner of a vehicle is guilty. Shifting the burden of proof presents no constitutional difficulty as long as the state can establish that a vehicle committed a crime (read decision). According to Cooper, the only protection the legislature allows is that private vendors may not decide who is guilty.

Where’s due process in the State of Tennessee?

Red light traffic cameras, speed cameras, Minneapolis MN, Tennessee, AG Robert Cooper, Gov Phil Bredesen