Truth Surfer

52 kindergarten students from Jefferson Elementary School, in Faribault, Minnesota wrote a letter to their legislators requesting that the Tilt-A-Whirl be made the State's official amusement ride. The Tilt-A-Whirl was invented in Faribault by Herbert Sellner in 1926. All you want to know about the Tilt-A-Whirl State Representative Patti Fritz, who represents Faribault, introduce a bill that would do exactly what the 52 kindergarten students asked ( Click here to read Rep. Fritz's comments about this legislation. ) Senator Dick Day (pictured) has a companion bill in the senate, however he is waiting to see where the bill goes in the House before introducing it to committee. "I'm not going to spend a lot of time on it," Day said. My guess is that Mr. Day is focused more on a different kind of ride... Maybe a ride to the 2008 general election, where he could be facing incumbent Tim Walz (D) for the 1st Congressional District's seat. A funny irony is that Faribaul...

With former Vice President Gore's popularity as of late, one has to ask "Why not?" A search on the web comes up with many crusaders, whose purpose is to get All Gore to run for President in 2008, again one must ask "Why not?" The reasons are numerous why Al Gore should give it one more try. Can you imagine what the last eight years might have been like with President Gore over Bu$h? Let's explore: 1. www.algore.org 2. www.electgore2008.com 3. www.draftgore.com (you have to listen to the song "Run Al Run") Are you with me? Well then you'll need some "Gore for President" stuff: www.cafepress.com You know the Republicans FEAR Gore - especially since they've already started attacking him! The only question left is..... Who will be his running mate? ( Stay tuned )

The very organizations and people who should be protecting our children instead have banned together to defeat legislation that would protect our children. Democrat Rep. Joe Mullery, chair of the public safety/cilvil justice committee has joined with church hierarchy, school boards association, and day care associations to oppose legislation that would allow victimes of child abuse to bring civil suit. Defeating this legislation also continues to put children at risk to child abusers that have yet to be exposed. Earlier this week leaders of the Archdiocese of Minneapolis and St. Paul, the Northerneastern Minnesota Synod(ELCA), the Minnesota Childcare Association and the Minnesota School Boards Association opposed child sexual abuse prevention legislation from moving gorward in the House of Representatives. Leaders of these organizations said Minnesota should continue to limit the ability of victims of childhood sexual abuse from suing their organizations. According to the Sexual Abuse ...

As General Tommy Franks, who commanded the US forces when they first entered Iraq more than four years ago, declared, "We don't do body counts'. Unfortunately, that's part of the ongoing problem; While the United States is showing disdain for counting the Iraqi dead, they are more than aware of the continually rising numbers. Our refusal to count the Iraqi dead, especially those by U.S. operations, demostates why there’s been a sharp erosion of support for Americans among the general populous. It's also goes a long way to explain why we find ourselves involved in yet another war quagmire. We may not count Iraqi civilians deaths, but they do. Every child that took a stray bullet from a U.S. gun, every bombing that was meant for us but took their family members instead, and every intentional killing by whatever side because of our occupation has etched a mark on the Iraqi population's hearts and minds. They've come to see our war as one of foreign military oc...

This is so painful to watch …and maybe the reason why everyone wants to pretend 'all is okay in Iraq' as it's too painful to see it 'as it is'. There’s a lot of Jessie MacBeth’s out there…more and more everyday. "We just have to scare them first". Well I'm scared... Since ‘Nam, I didn’t think it could ever happen again…I was wrong. You can’t set right anything when you lose your own soul. America has lost it's soul and our government doesn't care...and the American people don't care...this can't continue as it's maddness...

Note to Governor Pawlenty, next time...stay home or better yet, bring the troops home. If you really cared then your two day secret junket to Iraq would have been better spend visiting with your mentor and chief Mr. Bu$h... explaining how the Iraq escalation strategy is pushing our overstressed troops even further. That the only thing the surge will do is hurt our troops more. Pawlenty said he planned the tax payer funded trip to Iraq after about 2,600 Minnesota National Guard troops learned in January that they would be staying in Iraq for as much as six more months. They had been scheduled to come home this month. He said he wanted to thank them for serving under difficult circumstances...(naturally his trip shamefully made a good PR and a photo OP!) Given that 72% of the troops in Iraq are having to do multiple tours ( Beyond the Call of Duty ), wouldn't it have been better to allow the troops to come home then Pawlenty to go there? Especially now that the top military generals ...

Bu$h: It’s too early to judge the success of this operation, Yet even at this early hour, there are some encouraging signs.” In Iraq same day: suicide bombers and gunmen attacked Shiite religious pilgrims, “killing at least 130 people in one of the deadliest days of the four-year war .” Shouldn't we be starting impeachment proceeding by now? This man is dangerous, a liar, and not fit for office.