RADIO CALLER SAYS DEER CROSSING SIGNS ‘ENCOURAGING DEER TO CROSS’ (Moron alert)

Calling into the Y94 Morning Playhouse radio show, Fargo-area resident “Donna” aired her frustrations about a number of deer-related car accidents she has been involved in recently – three to be exact.

Donna believes the North Dakota and Minnesota Departments of Transportation are responsible for the problem, however, she told the radio hosts that she has written local news outlets about her grievance and they refuse to take her seriously. It’s extremely frustrating to Donna as she believes she has crafted a very simple and effective solution to her problem.

Secession! Lakota Sioux Nation Leaves The Union! (Again)

 

President Barack Obama has an unexpected foreign policy problem – in the Western United States. The Lakota Sioux nation has seceded from the United States, according to a story on the anti-American website La Voz de Aztlan.

 

English: Collage of Lakota people from various public domain sources. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

 

America’s First Drone-Assisted Arrest Upheld in Court

 

First, our government used them on suspected terrorists half-way around the globe. Then, they used them on American citizens half-way around the globe. Now, they’re using them on Americans right here on U.S. soil, and a North Dakota judge sees no reason to be alarmed. Just last year, for the first time in America, a predator drone was used to assist police in the arrest of farmer Rodney Brossart and his family in the small town of Lakota, North Dakota.

Senator Rand Paul’s Bill to Protect Citizens From Drone Surveillance

When Senator Rand Paul (R-Ky.) introduced his bill in June, he was responding to growing concerns over privacy by

English: United States Senate candidate , at a town hall meeting in Louisville, . (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

American citizens. The purpose of his bill is elegantly simple: “To protect individual privacy against unwarranted governmental intrusion through the use of unmanned aerial vehicles commonly called drones.” Paul’s bill is very specific:

[A] person or entity acting under the authority [of], or funded in whole or in part by, the Government of the United States shall not use a drone to gather evidence or other information pertaining to criminal conduct or conduct in violation of a statute or regulation except to the extent authorized in a warrant that satisfies the requirements of the Fourth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States.

Paul explained that “Americans going about their everyday lives should not be treated like criminals or terrorists and have their rights infringed upon by military tactics.”

Prison Planet.com » Government, Military To Fly Predator Drones Over North Dakota

 

Local pilots protest use of blinding lasers in their airspace

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In conjunction with The Federal Aviation Administration, the Air National Guard plans to fly unmanned Predator aircraft over North Dakota and have them aim lasers at ground targets in the latest development in the ongoing mass expansion of the use of drones in US skies.

North Dakota news website INFORUM reports that the Air National Guard’s 119th Wing, based at Fargo’s Hector International Airport, will begin operating the drones by early October.

(“Ron Paul thinks he could win Idaho, North Dakota and Alaska on Super Tuesday.”) Super Tuesday: Ron Paul’s parallel campaign

Ron Paul thinks he could win Idaho, North Dakota and Alaska on Super Tuesday.

The Texas congressman will be on the ballot in all 10 states today, but he’s focused his resources on three with caucuses — “fertile political fields,” he calls them — where low turnout could give his motivated supporters greater influence.

Prison Planet.com » How Ron Paul’s McGovernite strategy can win on Super Tuesday … and beyond

Today’s Super Tuesday primaries give Ron Paul a rare chance to shine. There are 49 delegates up for grabs in Virginia, and Paul is the only candidate to have filed against Mitt Romney. How well he does will be the first real field test of the Paulite constituency.

The libertarian is playing down his chances. He says that he’s looking instead for a strong performance in Alaska, Idaho or North Dakota. All of them are caucuses in small states, so it’s easier to out-organise the opposition and leverage his activist muscle into a victory. This was the Ron Paul strategy from the very beginning. He never expected to win anything in the early rounds (except, perhaps, Iowa). Instead, he hoped to pull in a consistent 20 to 30 percent of the vote in every contest – snagging the odd caucus here and there.

If he’s never seemed depressed in interviews by his results thus far, it’s because everything is sort of going to plan. The only real disappointment was Maine, which he stood a chance of winning. Otherwise, Paul is exploiting the new rules that apportion delegates according to one’s share of the vote.

Timothy N. Baldwin — States Dissolving the Union: Pep-Rally Talk

Anyone who has read my articles for the past several years knows I advocate the principles of Federalism and State Sovereignty. What is becoming a joke to me, though, is this demonstrably pep-rally doctrine that the States will and should dissolve the union because the federal government ignores the constitution—as if evident violations are new to our generation. What would be new, rather, is for people to address these constitutional problems in terms of practical political redress, not editorial hype and patriotic emotionalism.

No Sovereign Qualities

Reason and experience show, people will not dissolve deep-seated political ties except in the most unlivable conditions, and sometimes not even then. People would rather remain with what they know to stay relatively or seemingly secure than to uproot an entire political system and take the risks of what that implies.

Let us be frank: the States are not currently positioned to be independent from the union. Neither is there indication that they will be in the foreseeable future. For over 200 years, the States have formed their societies, governments, and economies with the understanding and presumption that their wealth, security, and stability depend on the other States and federal government.

States (North Dakota excluded) have not instituted even the most basic necessity of sovereign nations: a state bank. Neither has any State maintained a well-regulated militia for a “Free State”, another basic necessity to execute sovereignty. For all practical purposes, there is not one State treating itself as sovereign.

Local Cops Ready for War With Homeland Security-Funded Military Weapons

Local Cops Ready for War With Homeland Security-Funded Military Weapons

Daily Beast ^ | 12/21/2011 | Andrew Becker

Posted on Wednesday, December 21, 2011 10:16:20 AM by GlockThe Vote

A decade of billions in spending in the name of homeland security has armed local police departments with military-style equipment and a new commando mentality. But has it gone too far? Andrew Becker and G.W. Schulz of the Center for Investigative Reporting report.

Nestled amid plains so flat the locals joke you can watch your dog run away for miles, Fargo treasures its placid lifestyle, seldom pierced by the mayhem and violence common in other urban communities. North Dakota’s largest city has averaged fewer than two homicides a year since 2005, and there’s not been a single international terrorism prosecution in the last decade.

But that hasn’t stopped authorities in Fargo and its surrounding county from going on an $8 million buying spree to arm police officers with the sort of gear once reserved only for soldiers fighting foreign wars.

Prison Planet.com » Drones Officially Take Flight For Domestic Law Enforcement

Heralding a New Level of the Police State

Michael Edwards

Activist Post

December 12, 2011

It is a sign of just how fast the police state is advancing that drones in American skies have gone from conspiracy theory to admitted fact in about a year.

In a precedent-setting event, local law enforcement in North Dakota nabbed three suspected armed men with the help of a Predator B unmanned drone. It was only after the drone confirmed that the men were unarmed that police moved in to make the arrest.

It has now become clear that, as we have written and warned about for the past year, the drones that were supposedly commissioned strictly as tools for border control will now patrol inland for suspected criminals on American soil, heralding a new level of police state oppression.

Is HB 1505 a backdoor to shutting down the Bakken Range? « Coach is Right

By Suzanne Eovaldi, staff writer

The Queens and Kings in our Congress have shut off their employers’ ability to email them in their throne rooms to protest the proposed obscene land grab along our northern border region by the Division of Homeland Security!

What’s hard to understand is why House Bill 1505, now euphemistically called National Security and Federal Lands Protection Act, is even being allowed the light of day. What’s worse, we can’t even email our elected officials anymore but have to pay to contact them via fax or phone. Conservativeusa.org is reporting “Offices no longer use email addresses so there is no way to send a message.”

So let’s walk this issue back and look at what’s really going on. The DHS wants to lop off the top 1/3 of Montana, the top half of Washington and North Dakota as well as a similar take over of New York, Vermont, New Hampshire and Maine ostensibly to protect us from all of the drug cartels, crazed fast and furious gun runners and border jumpers coming in from peaceful Canada. What, you say? Why is the Obama administration so aggressively attempting to secure our peaceful northern border while continuing to allow our fast and furious wide open southern border to remain an open crime and drug door into our country?

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New Boom Reshapes Oil World, Rocks North Dakota

New Boom Reshapes Oil World, Rocks North Dakota

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New Boom Reshapes Oil World, Rocks North Dakota

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Two years ago, America was importing about two thirds of its oil. Today, according to the Energy Information Administration, it imports less than half.

And by 2017, investment bank Goldman Sachs predicts the US could be poised to pass Saudi Arabia and overtake Russia as the world’s largest oil producer.

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New Boom Reshapes Oil World, Rocks North Dakota

Two years ago, America was importing about two thirds of its oil. Today, according to the Energy Information Administration, it imports less than half. And by 2017, investment bank Goldman Sachs predicts the US could be poised to pass Saudi Arabia and overtake Russia as the world’s largest oil producer.

Places like Williston are the reason why.

“For many years, they knew that there was oil in that area, but the technology wasn’t available to get it out,” the town’s mayor, Ward Koeser, tells weekends on All Things Considered host Guy Raz.

But in the last few years, advances in such technologies as “fracking” and horizontal drilling have made, by some estimates, as much as 11 billion barrels of oil available in the Bakken formation under North Dakota and Montana.

“There’s oil companies coming from all over the country now.” Koeser says.

Williston has skipped the recession entirely. Unemployment there is less than 2 percent. The population, the mayor estimates, has grown from 12,000 to 20,000 in the last four years.

“We actually have probably between 2,000 and 3,000 job openings in Williston right now,” Koeser says.

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A US Oil Boom–Unless Greens Abort It. USA is on the Verge of a Golden Era in Oil Production.

Just a year after the BP oil spill, America is on the verge of a new golden era of oil exploration and production — unless President Obama and his environmentalist friends get their way.

This surge in domestic production would leave Iran, Kuwait and the Arab emirates combined in the rear-view mirror.

The US drilling boom rests on a technique called hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, to open shale-oil reserves. It’s why wells are springing up in places like North Dakota, California and Pennsylvania, with thousands of new jobs in their wake.

Fracking has also opened up supplies of natural gas, sending prices plummeting. Now, even New York’s regulators have recommended lifting the state’s ban on the fossil-fuel gold rush that’s pushed North Dakota’s unemployment rate to 3.2 percent — the lowest in the nation.

The irony is that Obama had hoped higher oil prices would make us all drive electric cars and install backyard windmills. Instead, they’re making it profitable for US companies to expand the hunt for new reserves and to use fracking to reopen old ones.

Just last month, Exxon-Mobil announced the discovery of a vast field in the Gulf of Mexico, with as many as 700 million barrels waiting to be tapped. Other companies are using fracking to return to the Texas basin, the center of US oil production in the 1930s — which will mean millions in investment and thousands of jobs for that state. Montana and North Dakota are sitting on a shale-oil formation that could yield nearly 4 billion barrels.

Not many Americans realize we are already the world’s No. 3 oil producer, at 7.5 million barrels a day. The coming boom should add another 1.5 million by 2015. That’s closing in on Saudi Arabia’s daily total.

And oil-shale rich Canada could surpass Iran’s barrel-per-day output in a few years — so we’re looking at a major shift in the geopolitics of oil.

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Illinois Gov. Quinn Signs Off on Internet Tax, Arkansas Senate Follows Lead [Illinois Fattens Gov.]

The so-called “Main Street Fairness Act” attempts to force online retailers that aren’t based in the state to collect sales tax if they use in-state advertisers or other affiliates. The measure is a legally dubious run-around of current U.S. Supreme Court law under Quill v. North Dakota, which only permits a state to force a company to collect tax if they have a physical presence.

via Illinois Gov. Quinn Signs Off on Internet Tax, Arkansas Senate Follows Lead [Illinois Fattens Gov.].

GARFIELD ON THE OIL CRISIS…

A lot of folks can’t understand how we came to have an oil shortage here in our country.~~~Well, there’s a very simple answer.~~~

Nobody bothered to check the oil.~~~

We just didn’t know we were getting low.~~~

The reason for that is purely geographical.~~~

Our OIL is located in:~~~

ALASKA~~~

California~~~

Coastal Florida~~~

Coastal Louisiana~~~

North Dakota~~~

Wyoming~~~

Colorado~~~

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Pennsylvania

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Our dipsticks are located in D.C.

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Judge Vinson’s Bittersweet ObamaCare Ruling

Free RepublicBrowse · Search Pings · Mail News/ActivismTopics · Post ArticleSkip to comments.Judge Vinson’s Bittersweet ObamaCare RulingThe American Thinker ^ | February 05, 2011 | Monte KuligowskiPosted on Saturday, February 05, 2011 6:39:52 AM by Scanian

 

Ruling that the ObamaCare insurance mandate is unconstitutional is like saying that water is wet. Of course it’s an unconstitutional abuse of federal power. If the feds can force people to buy health insurance there is virtually no limit to the reach of federal meddling into the affairs of life.In a sense, it’s fortunate that the unmitigated arrogance of Obama, Reid and Pelosi — as witnessed in the healthcare “reform” debacle — is pushing even postmodern constitutional jurisprudence to its very limits.Two federal district court judges have concluded that ObamaCare is constitutional. In doing so, they wandered into the red-herring inquiry of whether not having a fully insured populace would affect the goals of central-control healthcare reform. If that’s the question, then judges may also conclude that what federal subjects eat and how much they exercise are also areas within the reach of the federal reform scheme.

Judge C.R. Vinson’s recent district court ruling was issued out of Florida in the consolidated case against ObamaCare brought by 26 states — Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Louisiana, Maine, Michigan, Mississippi, Nebraska, Nevada, North Dakota, Ohio, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, South Dakota, Texas, Utah, Washington, Wisconsin and Wyoming.The media are reporting the ObamaCare court scorecard as two and two.

But including the Virginia ruling, it’s more accurate to say that 27 states have achieved the first round of victory over a misnomer; namely, the “Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.”Excerpt Read more at americanthinker.com …

Map: Where is it Legal to Own Gun Silencer in U.S.?

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Map: Where is it Legal to Own Gun Silencer in U.S.?
opposingviews.com ^ | 4 January, 2011 | Gun Trust Lawyer

Posted on Friday, January 07, 2011 7:26:40 AM by marktwain

Silencers are legal for civilian ownership in the following states Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, Colorado, Connecticut, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Mississippi, Missouri (C&R Required), Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Mexico, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, South Carolina , South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Virginia, Washington, West Virginia,