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AS MICHAEL RAMIREZ SEES IT: NOVEMBER 21, 2011

 

 



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SALLY MORRIS: GIVING THANKS WITH YOUR ACTIONS

It is not enough to be “thankful” and then to ignore the gift for which we give thanks.  This is hypocrisy.  If we do not use this gift we disparage it.  Recently a man told me that the only way to change things for the better is through prayer.  I submit that the venerable Pilgrims prayed while they cut wood, fed their chickens or planted their corn.  They did not just pray and then sit back and wait for results. 

Steve - Here is a short piece for the Beacon - short shelf life as it is holiday related.  Hope it is useful.  Happy Thanksgiving!  By the way, I am also submitting it to our own website, in case that makes a difference.  If it's okay with you, publish it.  Thanks!  Sally Morris

GIVING THANKS
Sally Morris

It is right and proper that Americans begin our Holiday Season with a celebration the Pilgrims dedicated as a day to give thanks.  These courageous and humble men and women might have had a Day of Grumbling – of the 110 souls who landed at Plymouth Rock, fewer than 50 survived to share in the banquet

They had renounced the comforts of home, parted with friends and family, made this sacrifice for the freedom to worship.  This was the birth of the America we now know.  It is interesting in that this could not have happened without two things: people who were willing to place conscience and morals above all else and . . . a consortium of private investors, the Merchant Adventurers, who risked their wealth to finance it.  America was born into the marriage of “Virtue” and “Capitalism”.

And so today we find a land rich in resources and history and a people who have inherited greater wealth than any known to Man.  We are the sole possessors of that which humankind has sought since the beginning of time: FREEDOM.  The freedom to worship, the freedom to engage in business, to create, to speak without fear, to enjoy our homes and families – that freedom to which Jefferson alluded in the Declaration of Independence, “Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness”. 

Most of us think of the warmth of a family gathering and our gratitude for that.  I am thankful for family, and friends, those still with us and those who have gone before and are here in spirit when we are together.  I remember the huge dinners my mother would prepare, the turkey and all the rest – the wine, and the faces of my brothers and sisters and parents in the candlelight.  I think of a brisk walk in the November gloaming and coming back in to a roaring fire by the hearth.  But when we give thanks this year let’s also think of the heritage of our freedom in America and those here and abroad, past and present, who have defended it.

It is not enough to be “thankful” and then to ignore the gift for which we give thanks.  This is hypocrisy.  If we do not use this gift we disparage it.  Recently a man told me that the only way to change things for the better is through prayer.  I submit that the venerable Pilgrims prayed while they cut wood, fed their chickens or planted their corn.  They did not just pray and then sit back and wait for results. 


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SCHMID - LOOKING BACK FROM THE LEFT COAST: NOVEMBER 20, 2011

ND Legislature did just that, full bag of negative labels, All of the students here are Fighting Sioux, a place for heavy drinking and crude behavior, we're basically playing catch-up, 5,000 to 8,000 trucks a day, little public planning and oversight, urgent care and emergency room visits have doubled, huge women’s purses, The North Dakota way! , Devils Lake swallowed most of his family’s farm, the state has a special shipping advantage



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DENNIS PATRICK: THE SPIRIT OF THANKSGIVING

Despite attempts in recent years to debunk the Pilgrim Thanksgiving story, at least one vital historical event gives evidence of a bed rock foundation for the Thanksgiving spirit. This evidence won’t be taught in the classroom.

At this time of year it is appropriate to again read George Washington’s Thanksgiving proclamation. He declared “...a day of public thanksgiving and prayer, to be observed by acknowledging with grateful hearts the many and signal favors of Almighty God, especially by affording them an opportunity peaceably to establish a form of government for their safety and happiness.”



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JUDGE CYNTHIA FELAND AND THE “FOREVER” PRELIMINARY HEARING

Watch the video to understand how 2.25 hours is “FOREVER” according to Judge Cynthia Feland

The FALSE claim that Spencer issues were part of the case “from the get-go” is repeated over and over to the North Dakota Supreme Court as well as to the Court’s Disciplinary Board Panel that heard the case of Cynthia Feland on June 29 and 30, 2011. It is especially significant as Sandy Blunt’s supposed refusal to obtain reimbursement of Spencer moving expenses was a primary aspect of Blunt’s trial and conviction. During that hearing, North Dakota Supreme Court Disciplinary Board Chief Council asks Judge Feland why Spencer was not a subject of the August 7, 2007 Preliminary Hearing.

 



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AS MICHAEL RAMIREZ SEES IT: NOVEMBER 16, 2011

 

 



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VASKO KOHLMAYER: ATHEISM - WHY IT IS LOGICALLY INCOHERNT

It is crucial that we grasp this point: Atheists claim that everything is ultimately matter and motion, and yet in their reasoning they resort to categories which cannot be accounted for by matter and motion. This constitutes a contradiction at the very heart of atheistic thought.



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STEVE CATES: MORE LIES AND MORE EVIDENCE WITHHELD BY BURLEIGH COUNTY PROSECUTORS

In addition to the “Wahl Memo” which was the narrowly considered subject of the November 1, 2011 North Dakota Supreme Court Disciplinary Board Hearing Panel in the case of Cynthia M. Feland, lots of other discovery was withheld by prosecutors from defendant Blunt. Besides the Wahl Memo, four reports of investigation were created and withheld!

NONE OF THE FOUR BCI REPORTS AUTHORED BY QUINN WERE PROVIDED TO BLUNT

A MAJORITY OF THE MATERIAL AND EXCULPATORY EVIDENCE FROM THE REPORTS WAS WITHHELD!



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AS MICHAEL RAMIREZ SEES IT: NOVEMBER 11, 2011

 

 



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SCHMID - LOOKING BACK FROM THE LEFT COAST: NOVEMBER 11, 2011

ND students are just average, ND will take Minnesota to court, Fighting Sioux nickname issue, Jim and Sheri Kleinsasser, a Pyrrhic victory, The case of UND student Caleb Warner, one day, it’ll fade", Minot will be Olive Garden’s third ND location, Smoot was found dead, A good day’s work, “marvelous display of visionary thinking”, an instant town called Centerville



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SALLY MORRIS: TAX PLANS BE DAMNED!

We don’t need to hear one more word about taxes because given our debt and its service and the enormous cost of this overwhelming government bureaucracy that totters on the withering shoulders of our dwindling productive class, if we took the last dime from every millionaire, the last penny from every kid’s piggy bank, shook the lint out of every pocket of every homeless person and went through the upholstery of your sofa, we could not handle this debt.

So, taxes be damned.  Let’s talk about cuts.  Instead of hearing how Rick Santorum would build up our military, let’s find out what he will cut so as to keep the doors of West Point and Annapolis open, because at this rate they must close soon.



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STEVE CATES: ETHICS COMPLAINT RESPONSE - RIHA, SUHR, AND FELAND - TELL….LIES?

Richard Riha, Lloyd Suhr, and Cynthia Feland signed a statement addressing my attorney ethics complaint in which they absolutely did not tell the truth.

If these prosecutors had the S/A Quinn BCI reports in their possession and had provided them to Mr. Blunt (as has been claimed in numerous motions, arguments to the N.D. Supreme Court, and multiple times by Ms. Feland during her Disciplinary Board hearing, as well in various documents before The Court subsequent to my complaint), why in the world did those prosecutors of Blunt (Riha, Suhr, and Ms. Feland) explicitly state that “he complains of a failure to disclose statement which never existed”?

There is only one possible answer to this question….. Riha, Suhr, and Ms. Feland absolutely knew that she had NEVER given the November 2007 BCI Quinn Reports to Mr. Blunt!

Making a false statement in an ethics procedure is likely more than bad form, or violation of  attorney ethics.......it is illegal.

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DENNIS PATRICK: VETERAN’S DAY 2011

Veterans I’ve met, especially from the draft era (1973 and before), almost without exception remember with nostalgia their days of military service. This I find amusing since many were drafted reluctantly, although a few joined voluntarily and some even stayed in for a career. That speaks volumes in affirming their generally positive experience.

Veterans, especially those serving as youngsters, found the military to be a sort of finishing school as they transitioned from adolescence into adulthood. Many who wished to elude the draft were motivated to enlist in other services to avoid the rigors of Army field duty. Some people were never aware that the draft also populated the other services though not to the extent as with the Army. Either way, the vast majority served honorably much to their credit.



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STEVE CATES: CYNTHIA FELAND – FROM PREVARICATING PROSECUTOR TO “THE LYING JUDGE”

The clinical term is pathological….. Cynthia Feland is no longer the Prevaricating Prosecutor. She has become the Duplicitous Jurist – “The Lying Judge.”

To publically and repeatedly call an attorney, former prosecutor, and now judge a liar seems a very dangerous thing. And according to North Dakota law could be ruinous.

Claims like this are made by either the insane, the stupid, or one who has sufficient command of fact to verify such a contention.

Truth is the only protection against legal liability when one makes such an assertion.

So, who is lying? You decide.



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ND SUPREME COURT DISCIPLINARY BOARD RECOMMENDS SUSPENSION OF JUDGE CYNTHIA FELAND

North Dakota Standards for Imposing Lawyer Discipline 6.22, which provides suspension is generally appropriate when a lawyer knows that he or she is violating a court order or rule, and causes injury or potential injury to a client or a party, or causes interference or potential interference with a legal proceeding.



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AS MICHAEL RAMIREZ SEES IT: NOVEMBER 8, 2011

 

 



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JOSEPH SOBRAN: PUNISHING “HATE”

The "progressive" community - news media, politicians, and various moralists at large - is in a lather about "hate crimes," demanding federal legislation to combat them. The trouble is that nobody seems to know exactly what they are.

The concept of hate crimes is too nebulous, too subject to arbitrary application, to be a useful legal category. It's sufficient that murder is already a crime; especially heinous murders can be punished appropriately under existing laws. There is no need to give the state more discretionary power than it already has.



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VASKO KOHLMAYER: ATHEIST - THERE IS NO SUCH THING

When you query atheists, you realize their insistence on God's non-existence is not based on reason, logic, evidence or science. Most skeptics deny the existence of God because they do not wish God to exist.

Atheism's shaky foundations can be in most cases easily exposed with a few pointed questions. After the pretension to objectivity falls away, what remains is mere personal opinion.

Wishing that God did not exist is everyone's prerogative. But one would hope for more intellectual consistency from those who claim a worldview informed by reason.



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DUSTIN GAWRYLOW: SHOULD NORTH DAKOTA RACE TO IMPLEMENT THE OBAMACARE HEALTHCARE LAW?

To implement or not implement ObamaCare - that is the question facing every state in the nation.  

Unfortunately, the State legislature is making it very difficult for you, the voters, to let them know what you think on this, or the other issues that will be coming up.
While there is a good argument in favor of building and controlling the healthcare exchange, there is no good reason to think the Federal Government will reimburse North Dakota the $83 million that has been the reported cost.


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DR. PAUL KENGOR: NO REGRETS - FRANK KRAVETZ’S STORY

Frank’s life as a soldier took a dramatic turn on November 2, 1944 in a bomb-run over Germany. He crammed into the tail of a B-17, wedged inside a flak jacket. The target was Merseberg, a major industrial area. He flew amid an air armada of 500 heavy bombers—each carrying eighteen 250-pound ‘general purpose’ bombs—escorted by 900 fighter planes. While the Americans were ready for business, so was the Luftwaffe.

For too long, guys like Frank didn’t tell their story. Frank is now willing to share. There are others like him, and they won’t be around much longer. A decade or two from now, they’ll be nearly extinct…. Men like Frank Kravetz have no regrets, but we’ll regret not pausing to record their history.

 



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MARK STEYN: FIGHTING FOR THE RIGHT OF GOVERNMENT SUPPORTED SLOTH

 

I don’t “stand with the 99%”, and certainly not downwind of them. But I’m all for their “occupation” continuing on its merry way. It usefully clarifies the stakes. At first glance, an alliance of anarchists and government might appear to be somewhat paradoxical. But the formal convergence in Oakland makes explicit the movement’s aims: They’re anarchists for statism, wild free-spirited youth demanding more and more total government control of every aspect of life – just so long as it respects the fundamental human right to sloth.



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HAL NEFF: LIBERALISM, RELIGION OF THE MUDDLE MINDED?

Why do I do it? I sign onto the Bismarck Tribune on-line site to read and to comment on news articles, opinion letters, and Op Ed pieces. This has the sound of serious business, but it is not.



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RUBEN LACKMAN: LOGIC WITH LACKMAN - JOBS, MONEY, AND WEALTH

The Sioux, and all other Native North Dakotans, actually deserved a better “fight” from those taking huge pay checks to pretend to be concerned about the education of students who have paid 10% increases in tuition their entire academic careers. To surrender to an inept conglomeration like NCAA is stunningly gutless.



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AS MICHAEL RAMIREZ SEES IT: OCTOBER 28, 2011

 

 



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SCHMID - LOOKING BACK FROM THE LEFT COAST: OCTOBER 28, 2011

World’s Largest Buffalo, the silver carp, They just don’t have the money, 42 ND counties have won the disaster sweepstake, I know nothing -- NOTHING!”, Michelle Turnberg was a TV anchor in Fargo, Hettinger, get ready, you’re next, we’re almost overwhelmed, crashes involving trucks, 500-foot statue of Sakakawea, The ash has useful applications, retarded and temporarily insane



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MARK STEYN: SELF-RELIANCE, DIAPERS,  AND OCCUPYING AMERICA

 

Maybe we could all be issued with free diapers. As a casual glance at the headlines suggests, there’s almost nothing you can’t get government to pay for, but that’s no reason not to demand more. At its core, the “Occupy Wall Street” movement (in the political rather than the diaper-filling sense) is a plea for ever more extended adolescence funded at public expense. Don’t knock it. Dozing around listening to drum circles all day is more dangerous than it looks. Last week, several dozen members of “Occupy Las Vegas” occupying land located under the final approach to Runway 19 at McCarran International Airport narrowly missed being hit by a 50lb slab of what’s euphemistically known as “blue ice” that fell from the bathroom of the President’s plane. Perhaps, as a symbol of the new post-self-reliant America of adult babies, Air Force One should be fitted with a giant diaper.     



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DENNIS PATRICK: ALL SAINTS EVE IN CONTEXT

In light of today's "multicultural" environment, Halloween demands a fair hearing. In perspective, Halloween extends back more than one and a half millennium but few people associate Halloween with observances of the ancient Christian church.

In his book "The Screwtape Letters" C. S. Lewis cites Martin Luther pointing out that the quickest way to deal with the Devil is to mock and ridicule him. He is a defeated foe. We should act like it.

The celebration of All Saints Eve has progressed from the pagan to the Christian to the secular. Even so, this is no reason for Christians to abandon the holiday. "Therefore do not let anyone condemn you in matters of...observing festivals...." (Col. 2:16).

Why not reclaim Halloween in the context in which it was originally celebrated?



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BRENT MCCARTHY: THE REALLY GREEDY - OCCUPIERS AND DEMOCRATS

In response to the genuine grass roots pro-freedom protests of the Tea Party, Democrat leaders are organizing violent pro-Communism protests on Wall Street and across America. They are preaching the same class warfare rhetoric preached by people like Marx, Lenin, Mao, Castro, Hitler and President Obama.

Planes leave the US every minute to countries that already have the economic system that Democrat are demanding. The problem is that those on the extreme far left (the mainstream of today’s Democratic Party) are unhappy people who believe that they will be happy once everyone else is made to be miserable. They are driven by the jealousy of seeing others happy.



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AS MICHAEL RAMIREZ SEES IT: OCTOBER 24, 2011

 

 



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MARK STEYN: FOURTH GRADE ECONOMIC FOOLISHNESS – BIDEN PROMISES THE MORE DEBT FIX

 

When a nation of 300 million people presumes to determine grade-school hiring and almost everything else through an ever more centralized bureaucracy, you’re setting yourself up for waste on a scale unknown to history. For example, under the Obama “stimulus”, US taxpayers gave a $529 million loan guarantee to the company Fisker to build their Karma electric car. At a factory in Finland.

If you’re wondering how giving half-a-billion dollars to a Finnish factory stimulates the US economy, well, what’s a lousy half-bil in a multi-trillion-dollar sinkhole? Besides, in the 2009 global rankings, Finnish schoolkids placed 6th in math, 3rd in reading and 2nd in science, while suffering under the burden of a per student budget half that of York City. By comparison, America placed 17th in reading, 23rd in science, and 31st in math. So the good news is that, by using US government money to fund a factory in Finland, Fisker may be able to hire workers smart enough to figure out how to build an unwanted electric car that doesn’t lose its entire US taxpayer investment.

In a sane world, Joe Biden’s remarks would be greeted by derisive laughter, even by Fourth Graders. Certainly by Finnish Fourth Graders.



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