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Monday, January 24, 2011

STEVE CATES: FROM THE PUBLISHER - 01-22-11

By Steve Cates on January 24, 2011 at 01:32 pm
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Well, I can almost feel my toes and finger tips again. Another two hours of midwinter on the ’49 Ford 8N. Driveway once more passable for two wheel drive vehicles. For now. After a point it gets to be a puzzle. Moving snow around when you can’t push it sideways in a long trough gets to be interesting…and cold. But we are about half way through and it has been a little bit of a challenge but at least no nine million below. Maybe at the end of this winter we should go someplace south for a while. You know, like Linton or Strasburg.

ND Media – Puff Piece Parade - I keep reading the ND media puff pieces about Byron Dorgan and Earl Pomeroy. Collective amnesia does not allow any print, no television, or hardly any radio to mention that Dorgan, Conrad and Pomeroy all voted for ObamaCare. Thanks you guys. Now for the first time in the history of this great nation, legislation has been passed that allows the federal government to force you under penalty of law to buy health insurance. Trust me, all evidence indicates that if they think they can make you do this that they will think that they can make  you do anything.

ObamaCare – Killing the Obamanation - ObamaCare was named “ The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act “. Well it turns out that their will be nothing affordable about it. So why spend endless years on court appeals as the validity of this monstrosity works it’s way to the U.S. Supreme Court? Why not find the chink in the armor, the Achilles’ heal, the heart that provides life to this legislation? Simply repeal Section 1501 of the act, commonly known as the Minimum Essential coverage Provision which requires that every United States citizen, other  than those falling within specified exception, maintain a minimum level of health insurance coverage? Forcing people to buy anything is repulsive. This section of the legislation could be repealed with overwhelming support of Americans. Send it up to the Prevaricator In-Chief and make him veto it over and over and over until the American people understand just who he is.


Regulatory Fiat – The New Tyranny - Be sure and thank Byron, Kent and Earl for their part in institutionalizing tyranny by bureaucracy.  We are in a very, very dangerous time. Issues of such magnitude that their resolution had to be the result of debate and vote are now beyond your reach or oversight. With or without purposefully vague laws Obama’s EPA attacks the state of Texas by making up rules as they go along. The EPA is bound and determined to enforce Carbon control under cover of unimaginable leaps of logic and evidence. Anthropogenic global warming turns out to be a fraud. The very fraud that EPA uses as the basis of new rules and you have no redress. Obama’s Federal Communication Commission, having been told no by congress and the courts begin their effort for federal control and there is much evidence that the end game is United Nations control of the internet. No debate. No Vote. Just the way socialist statists like it. Bravo Team North Dakota! Way to put America’s version of a nappy-headed Hugo Chavez at the helm of our nation!

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Avatar for Kade

Did you actually say

nappy-headed

???  Man that is really bad.

Kade on January 30, 2011 at 06:29 pm
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Yes I did. Twenty years ago when I was in college and had numerous black friends it was no big deal. When my Dad who lives in MI told me that some teacher was fired for using the description of cute little black kids I was very surprised. I had no idea. Kind of outside the black urban culture and sensitivity here in ND. No disrespect meant. I have 3 nieces and nephews who are 1/2 black and I love them to pieces. Who can keep up on the ever evolving world of racial grievance? Not me. Sorry.

Steve Cates on January 31, 2011 at 03:14 am
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Greetings, Mr. Cates:
How about a little something about the homeschool bill, HB1211?  I don’t have the latest Beacon opened before me, so please forgive me if there’s some coverage on this bill.  North Dakota Homeschool Association is working hard at getting more improvements (when I say improvements, I mean freedoms!) made to the existing law.  The opposition, aka Department of Public Instruction, had nothing new (no facts, that is) to put forth to the House Education Committee; they’re just opposed and sprinkle their testimony with alot of vague scenarios. They also state children have the RIGHT to be taught by a “qualified teacher” (that’s code for “NDEA member”, I think). The Tribune quoted a DPI representative as saying the department gets alot of calls about kids playing outside and working on the farms.  Gasp! Come to think of it, last time I was in town I saw a bunch of kids outside a government building playing—-during school hours! And they’re concerned about keeping an eye on the welfare of these poor homeschooled kids.  And some might “fall through the cracks”...really.  No report from DPI about how testing scores are stacking up, public vs. homeschool. Take a gander at the NDHSA.blogspot.com for video coverage of proponents, opponents and the bill, too.  Dr. Stegman, a young veterinarian from Cavalier (I might have city wrong) is a bright and shining example of the finished product that home education can, and does, turn out.  He gives testimony in one of the videos. 
 
Thanks for your time; I appreciate what the Beacon has to offer.

Wendyo on February 15, 2011 at 10:16 pm
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