Political Lobbying

I would like to see the Tea Party take over the Republican Party and reach out to all Americans to bring us along to a conservative, capitalist, liberty-loving nation--most fruitful for the rise of an anarchist-individuator republic. Protecting gun rights is a solid way to defend liberty, and begin to get our people thinking about smaller, less intrusive government. I have been lobbying the state legislators to try and defend our gun rights. Much of the language in the below-presented email is adapted from NRA alerts sent to other members and myself: Dear Legislator: Now that the Senate Judiciary Committee has concluded its review of various dangerous, anti-gun bills, it is time for Democrats and Republicans in the Minnesota House and Senate to stand tall and squash in Committee any outrageous bills to tax, restrict and register legally owned firearms. These bills must not be folded in a slippery way into one large omnibus bill to be quickly voted on without careful review and rejection, before public opposition is allowed to surface to protect the rights of our great citizens and patriots. You are being graded on how you suppress, encourage, vote for or vote against these terrible, liberty-depriving anti-Second Amendment bills. Depriving Minnesotan freedom lovers of their God-given and constitutionally guaranteed right to bear arms by means of enacting incremental, so called-reasonable, so-called sensible, anti-gun laws is a classical falsehood perpetrated on the American people by the Left and the Democrats. They claims to restrict liberty and constitutional guarantees in the name of public safety and for the common good. Let Democrats and liberal Republicans in our Legislature buck the national trend. If you work to pass this destructive omnibus bill, please be aware that we Tea Party conservatives will strive to elect anti-tyrannical legislators and reverse this horrible attempt to restrict our right to keep and bear arms. This plot is incremental deprivation of liberty and it must not happen here. Thank you, Ed Ramsey #612-360-5320

President Destruction

By design and by accident, he has pledged to bring America to its knees, and, by golly, Obama's plan in working.

The Fight For Liberty

Here is an email that I am sending to representatives and senators in the Minnesota legislature seeking to restrict our Second Amendment Gun Liberties: Dear Legislator: The Minnesota House in the Public Safety, Finance and Policy Committee is considering a bunch of dangerous, anti-gun bills: HF: 237, 238, 239, 240, 241, 242 & 298. I vigorously and firmly oppose paasing any of these anti-gun and anti-liberty bills. Do not pass them individually or in one omnibus bill. Please oppose all gun control legislation this session, especially the mentioned bills above. We will not tolerate or reward any legislator that votes for these un-American, liberty-crushing, incremental efforts to rob us of our Second Amendment liberties. All these bills are DFL-generated. Minnesota has long had strong gun culture, and who are the liberty-haters and liberty-deprivers that now seek to take away constitutional rights from law-abiding citizens? Can you not love liberty, and say no to President Obama and the East Coast gun-haters? Fund mental health if you want to but do not in the name of reasonable, balanced, common sense gun control, start to incrementally rob us of our freedom here. Liberty is the common good; restricting liberty in the name of the common good is setting up nanny-state authoritarianism. Is that the legislative legacy that Minnesota represents? I think not and hope not. Please squelch and vote against any anti-gun legislation that bubbles up in the Legislature this year. I am a long-term and proud NRA member, and we will not endure restrictions to our Second Amendment Rights. Thanks, Ed Ramsey #612-360-5320 edramsey33@comcast.net

Time For Boomers To Stand Tall

The editors at the Star Tribune never let a little problem like inconsistency stand in their way. In their Sunday edition (Travel Section, 2/3/2013) they marvel that baby boomers still set the trends for leisure travel, as befits their status as America's wealthiest generation. Then in the same edition they lament that at least some of the baby boomers are the most squeezed generation suffering from the current recession. Their earning power is down. Their savings and investments have deteriorated. They are approaching retirement with aging parents to support and adult children that have moved back home. So which is it? Are the boomers wealthy or impoverished on the cusp of retirement? Maybe it is a little of both, respective to each family, to each individual. The Star Tribune article goes on to list ways that the boomers have suffered, and it seems credible. What is my response? As one of them, approaching retirement age, and being a person of modest income, I believe that I have skin in this game. What is my response? My answer is so what? We are older, face age discrimination, are the first fired and the last hired, and face issues of health and disability. So what. We must not go to the federal Behemoth and demand more Social Security, Medicaire and Medicaid to alleviate our suffering. We must cowboy up and be willing to live on less, and get smaller checks and fewer government services. We must be willing to work until we are 72or 75 years old at whatever low-paying job we can glom onto. We will demand that the government balance its books next year. We want non-discretionary spending balanced too. It will hurt like hell. But we are heroes, the children and grandchildren of those heroic members of the great generation that lived through the 1930s and world War II. We will live within our means and quit demanding federal handouts. If that means grandma living up the block alone can no longer afford to live in her home, then we neighbors on the block decide who will give her a room int he basement of our homes to provide for the needy. Our kids, grandkids and great-grandkids need a goverment without debt now. Today let AARP go pound sand, as we heroice boomer men and women stand tall and sacrifice now to give the next generations a fighting chance.

Annie, Get Your Gun

There is something quintessentially American about our gun culture. An extension of feminist thinking must be to urge the majority of women to start packing heat. If they are good enough to serve in combat, women are good enough to pack heat at the civilian end of the spectrum.

Mavellonialism, A Short Definition

Mavellonialism is simply a value system promoting the liberation of every individual. They would have the social and legal authority to exercise this right, if they of their own free will elected to leave their groups and do their own thing. To be liberated, each individuator must pledge to subjugate none, and be subjugated by none.

Let Our Women Go

We can differ about values, but my main point is that if each person really believe that she or he can live as she wants to, and refuses to accept subjugation as an option, it becomes much more difficult to oppress anyone for very long, very effectively. That to me is hopeful, and a venue for human liberation, of which the improvement in status for all women (52% of our race) is a mechanism for uplifting all.