Dakota Beacon

Our social media is every bit as bad as the old MSM.  We need to support alternatives (Parler and Rumble, etc.).  In the meantime, please use your own contacts to spread information.  The silencing of the people and the cotrolling of our formerly free press, is a huge part of destroying our country.  Stalin would be the first to teach us the importance of controlling the means of communication - it is essential if a people is to be subjugated.  If we are to remain free we need to do everything we can to overcome and thwart this control.  We are living in a time of war in our own country - this is a fact, not hyperbole.  

As we struggle through the longest election season in anyone's living memory, some are beginning to despair that we can solve the matter and - also importantly - repair the damage this election has caused.  One party has decided it was worth it to destroy the nation just to drag their comatose candidate across the finish line.  They pulled out every stop.  The organ is crashing through the sound barrier now.  People, driven by the knowledge that this was by no means an honest election, have reached the breaking point.  We'd better all pray for America.

The 2020 election decided how the United States would be governed. It was a referendum on the interests of the Ruling Class versus the Country Class. In other words, those of the perpetual political class and their sycophants who comprise the Washington, DC swamp against the rest of us.

A poem by Scots poet Robert Burns (1759-1796) repeatedly comes to mind. It appears below. A few Scottish/Gaelic words have been altered to render the poem a bit more intelligible.

We are becoming a nation of hypochondriacs and sheep that need to be told what to do.  We have to change our attitude about this.  We need to take responsibility for our own health decisions, our own business decisions, our own lives.  Allowing governnment to step in to "take care of us" has been an unqualified disaster.  We need to take these decisions back.  We are perfectly capable of deciding when or whether to close our businesses, to stay home if we are sick or to go to work when we are well.  

GLORIOUS TEN DAYS; GOV. BURGUM; CREIGHTON UNIVERSITY; DON'T BITE THE HAND THAT FEEDS; OUT OF SYNC; PARENTS SUPPORT HOMESCHOOLING; IF YOU LEAVE, STAY AWAY; BOO BIRDS ARE ACTIVE; AVOID BECOMING DETROIT; ANTICIPATING A PROBLEM; LINE 3 PIPELINE; DAKTOIDS

Republicans are known best for one thing - attacking each other.

Today we mourn and remember Dr. Walter E. Williams—economist, teacher, cultural commentator, and, most importantly, devoted husband, loving father, and friend. To our Grove City College family, Walter was a long serving member of the Board of Trustees, an adjunct economics professor, a graduation commencement speaker, and a recipient of an honorary doctorate degree. In this tribute, Dr. Caleb Fuller—who studied under the instruction of Williams at George Mason University—offers personal stories to honor our friend.

You read that right.  My new title is "President-Elect" and it might as well be yours, too!  We need to address the climate of threats in our political and business life in America today.  It is wholly un-American and it nearly always emanates from the left.  You might be afraid to put a sign in your yard or wear a MAGA hat.  Maybe you don't take a client if you are afraid it isn't politically correct enough.  Fear is beginning to be the driving force.  It NEEDS TO STOP.

Halloween and its candy has passed. Thanksgiving with all its scrumptious food went into the history books. Christmas and New Year’s feasting lie ahead. How are you set for calories? Acquiring more than you can burn? Weight gain through the Holiday Season becomes a problem for many.

Need motivation? Visualize this. A four-stick package of butter weighs one pound. Imagine carrying several packages of butter around your waist. Get the idea? Not good!

Do you live to eat, or eat to live? Poor eating habits reflect unrestrained indulgence, possibly a lack of self-discipline, or both.

Leaders’ increasing exhibition of blatant hypocrisy is also a sign of a declining republic. In a healthy one, this is less possible because politicians are held accountable. But to whatever degree a pseudo-elite establishment places itself beyond voter discipline (e.g., via rigged elections), it can in the same proportion place itself beyond the voters’ government-imposed burdens.

Megalomaniacs will never stop exercising irrational control over you because control is the goal, an end unto itself. They inflict their torments not just with the approval of their own consciences, but at the urging of their most animalistic desires.

America used to be known as "a nation of laws, not of men".  Those days are gone.  Our resurrection as a great nation depends upon our return to that philosophy.  We have fallen into lawlessness in all areas because we have tolerated it when we thought we could wink at it.  As the summer has taught us, this is no joke.  Our recklessness may have cost us our most precious asset - the consent of the governed.  For there is no consent if there is no fair election.  A stolen election means government without consent.  Think about that.

GLIMMER OF GOOD NEWS; VIRUS IN THE LOCKUP; TALE OF TWO STATES; NOT COOL, KELBY; SANFORD SUCCESSION; HOW ABOUT AN 8TH GRADER WITH A BEARD; U.S. ARMY CORPS OF ENGINEERS; PLEASE, RECONSIDER THE CONCEP; "KNIVES OUT'; LIFE IS NOT GOOD; DAKTOIDS

Rockwell had a vision of America which, although some of us were lucky enough to live seems today but a sweet memory.  It might be the way to go now, though.  In a nation torn apart by everything from disease to mob violence to massive fraud, perhaps it is time we took a look at the America of our youth and childhood, a time which, with all its obvious imperfection, was one of human scale life.  It was really difficult to choose which images to share, but it doesn't matter - you should really search for some more anyway.  Maybe you remember far enough back to even have a favorite.  Please take time out today and get grounded in the real heart and soul of America.  I think it still might be there if we only look for it.

The past few days have focused attention on the insane behavior and "mandates" and "bans" of governors throughout the nation.  They are all behaving like escapees from a mental institution, people with grandiose delusions of grandeur.  It you think they are odd, think about the people who follow their orders!  Today, following a most delightful Thanksgiving celebration - best in years, in fact - I thought I would send some more information for the governors of the two states which most closely affect my family, North Dakota and Minnesota.  I strongly urge you to join me in communicating with them.  Paraphrase, if you like, from my letter to them.  Send them your thoughts.  Write to as many governors as you like.  

Our masters - power-mad nutjobs like Governor Tim Walz, Governors Whitmer, Cuomo, Hogan, Newsom, Wolf and many others, have decided to rob us of Thanksgiving.  And they will if we let them.  It's kind of up to us whether we want to be victims of an armed robbery or not.  The so-called "pandemic" is being used for the same purpose our schools have been - to destroy our social fabric, our family units, our culture.  They will if we let them prevail.  Maybe this is the time to lay down the law to THEM.  Some ethical and principled (and realistic) law enforcement personnel, sheriffs and police, are refusing to play the game.  Good for them.  Florida's Governor de Santis went one better - he is blocking mayors and local officials from trying to enforce mask "mandates".  We need more like him.

We live with and are infected by many types of coronaviruses. Coronaviruses were first identified in the mid-1960s and are known to cause the common cold (viruses 229E and OC43). Other forms of the coronavirus include MERS-CoV (Middle East Respiratory Syndrome) and SARS-CoV (severe acute respiratory syndrome). NL63 causes upper and lower respiratory tract infections as well as bronchiolitis (not the same as bronchitis). The HKU1 coronavirus also produces upper respiratory infections leading to pneumonia.

For whatever it is worth in calming the paranoia of the pandemic, remember this. The ten worst pandemics in history were far worse than the COVID-19 pandemic today. Included in the worst were the 1968-1970 Hong Kong flu (H3N2) and the 1918 Spanish flu.

It is said we get what we are willing to put up with.  So - what is our limit?  We went along with cancelling Easter, remember, and Mothers' Day, Fathers' Day, Fourth of July, Labor Day, Veterans' Day, too, was shut down for most, at least as to public events.  Now it is Thanksgiving.  In most of our states we have some petty dictator from Ruritania waving decrees around to restrict us, making everything normal in life illegal.  It can't go on this way.  These ridiculous, puffed-up potentates need to be taken down more than a few pegs.  In many jurisdictions, police and sheriffs hae outright refused to participate in these illegal decrees and the enforcement of them.  Good for them.  

Have former president Jimmy Carter and the CIA been “picking winners and losers” of elections in foreign countries to forward the cause of a “one world order”? Have Democrats and even some Republicans used dishonest means to win elections?  If such were true, it would explain the hesitance of CIA directors (the consummate “deep state”) of the last two decades in not properly investigating the hardware and software used for our own elections.

This weekend we have seen a storm of news and events.  We are unquestionably living in "interesting times".  The coming weeks will reveal whether America will go the way of Russia c. 1917 or whether we will go back to American c. 1776.  Never have we been faced with an election crisis of such proportion (unless you county 1860, when half of the nation split).  Now is the time we must demand a fair and free election and accountability for those involved in subverting our process.  It will not be enough to simply overturn the fake election - we must punish those who participated in undermining it and disenfranchising American citizens.  We must, however, be patient enough for this to work its way through our legal system.  In the meantime don't believe what you hear - especially on Fox News, CNN, CBS, ABC, NBC or MSNBC.  You are more likely to hear the truth from independent sources - Dan Bongino, Rebel News, OAN News, NTD News, maybe even Newsmax and others.  Your best bet is if you heard in on the main stream (including Fox) don't believe it - it is probably not true.

UNDERESTIMATING ND RISK; ND ATTITUDES; “TO PUT IT BLUNTLY, WE’RE IN HELL”; MINOT'S COVID STRUGGLE; VIRUS, ETC; SANFORD HEALTH; BLAME YOURSELVES; BUFFALO CITY PARK; OH NO, LADUKE AGAIN!; THRILL OF A LIFETIME; QHAT DO MINNESOTANS THINK? DAKTOIDS

Over 15 years ago, we were warned of Dominion Voting by Democrats who knew our CIA used it to throw elections in countries hostile to the US. Those same Democrats sit by and say nothing while the scam is revealed by President Trump and his team of patriots. These lawyers are no less important to our country's existence than were Nathan Hale and George Washington, who said “Our country owes its life to heros whose names it will never know...”. Our modern day heros are the signers of affidavits testifying to voter fraud of giant proportions involving at least 10 states and possibly elected members from both political parties. The “insurance policy” of a rigged election is a strong elixir to any politician without ethics. We have those modern-days “signers” to thank for saving America this week; our time may well come in the weeks ahead… are we up to it?

The idea, and issue, of income inequality recently surfaced on news headlines when the renowned RAND Corporation published a detailed and thorough study about income inequality in the United States. In this article, economist Dr. Mark Hendrickson looks at the study and states, “I don’t dispute the authors’ conclusions. But the proper response to that conclusion is: So what?”

Here's why we need better judges appointed.  Trump has made progress in this department, but the swamp is huge an deep.    Our law schools are apparently training people to believe that natioal sovereignty isn't a thing.

Governor Walz bans snowmen for the holidays.

Mainstream media, left wing media, corporate media, big media – different names for the same elitist press that regards itself as the fourth estate but serves as a fifth column. CBS, NBC, ABC, CNBC, CNN, NPR, PBS, New York Times, LA Times, Chicago Times – the list goes on.

Corporate media no longer practices journalism as once known. The giants clearly align with the liberal establishment regardless of politician, candidate, or cause. It no longer “speaks truth to power.” It became an unchecked power in itself.

Corporate media today serves to defend the Ruling Class and the administrative state. Big media regards itself as part of the state, the unelected fourth branch of government. No longer are they suspicious, curious, doubtful, or distrustful of government. They see themselves covering the flanks of the Ruling Class and protecting the powerful.

I chanced upon an interview with Eric Metaxis and Dick Morris.  Morris is asking Americans to take an important action immediately to help ensure an honest, fair election.  

YES, IT’S A CRISIS; REGIONAL PROBLEM; MANITOBA'S LOCKDOWN; RUDE HOLIDAY SURPRISE; CORN STALKS AND LEAVES; THE BAR GOT A NEW LOOK; SCROUNGING; UP BY YOUR BOOTSTRAPS; HAMM’S BEAR MAN; DAKTOIDS

It isn't enough that criminals strike once.  It seems that we are supposed to just let them out of stir to strike again and again.  We have allowed various celebrities to bail these criminals out.  Yesterday we read that no less than the president of Macalester College in St. Paul, has decided to pay off the fines and turn criminal students loose on the public again.  It appears as though she thinks the Twin Cities have not suffered enough at the hands of these unruly and violent mobs.  I'd say this woman needs to join all those celebrities we saw on national TV over the summer "taking responsibility".  Unfortunately they didn't seem to mean it.  Let's put the responsibility right there - on the people who are responsible for these criminals being turned loose on the rest of us.  

My daughter gave me a book - Sing for Your Life - the story of Ryan Speedo Green.  It turned out to be the most inspiring story I have seen in a very, very long time.  It is the story of a stormy childhood, poverty and the odds of a good life stacked against him.  Please take a few moments to read the brief introduction to Green and pleast listen to his magnificent voice.  I hope you find this as inspiring as I have!  It is a legend of what the determination to take hold of one's own life and make of it what he wanted it to be.  Along the way Green, too, was inspired.  Other singers, teachers, mentors, are all acknowleged by Green for helping him turn his life around.  Please share his story with others.  

Our entire system of laws, our very Constitution itself is being subverted by people's willingness to be manipulated.  What is scary is that the highest and mightiest among us are apparently trembling and coming under the control of those who want to deny us our most basic rights - the right of access to our legal system and our First Amendment rights.