As you know I have been attending 9/12 meetings in Providence. The objective of the group appears to be to get qualified people to run for political office at every level.
The group has been encouraged to read Skousan's "5000 Year Leap". On page 49 he says..."The natural tendency of all people is to encourage others to run for office, but not get involved themselves."
On May 22, 2009, Logan City placed an add in the Herald Journal, calling for applicants to fill the vacancy on the City Council created by the resignation of Steve Thompson.
So on May 27 I submitted my name a candidate to fill that vacancy. The appointment would only be till January 31, 2009. That means that there will be an election this fall to fill that seat and another seat which will be vacated by Tami Pyfer.
The City Council will meet on June 5 to make their decision. I know each of the council members except Lorraine Swenson. Apparently she thinks that whoever is appointed should not be permitted to run in the next election, because the experience gained in filling the interim seat would be an unfair advantage. Other council members think that the council has no business telling anyone what they may or may not do politically. I think I would agree with the majority position.
I sent an email to each of the council members. Jay Monson, Herm Olsen and Tammy Pyfer responded positively, but I have not had responses from Lorraine or Steve Thompson. Steve would support me to the other council members. He is a democrat, but interestingly to me he is extremely conservative...possibly the most conservative on the City Council. He and Tami supported our neighborhood on the power plant issue. None of the other council members were serving at that time.
We will let you know if Popa T is a politician soon. Of course it would be hard to be disappointed were I not selected.
Sunday, May 31, 2009
Wednesday, May 13, 2009
9/12: May 13, 2009
Wow! I attended another 9/12 meeting tonight. It was awesome. There are lots of things going on which should encourage even the most depressed conservative.
Independent Caucus: This is an independent movement to take our government back from the "Big Money" special interests. This group intends to send every Congressman/woman a Pink Slip...and a Tea Bag from thousands of people in their districts nation wide. And they intend to film the reaction at each Congressional office when the bag is delivered.
We watched a video presentation about why it is so hard to unseat an incumbent Congressional politician. Why do 94% of incumbents get re-elected when they have only a 10% approval rating? "Big Money" from lobbyists makes it almost impossible to fund a challenger adequately .
Montana: Two days ago, the Governor of Montana signed into law a bill which says that firearms, ammunition or associated equipment, manufactured in Montana are NOT under the control of the federal government. It is a state's rights issue and it will go to the Supreme Court. This is a big deal.
Patrick Henry Caucus: Carl Wimmer, a member of the Utah Legislature started the Patrick Henry Caucus in Utah. He was on Glenn Beck last week talking about the landmark Montana legislation. Utah is working on a similar, but more broad state's rights bill. Texas is moving forward with similar legislation. We watched this portion of the Glenn Beck program. It was inspiring. Utah intends to take back all state's rights bestowed by the Constitution.
Larry Bodily explained how the federal government usurped state's rights back in the 1930s. They did it over the issue of interstate commerce. Apparently a farmer, who owned a bakery, was growing his own wheat, making bread products and selling them all within his state...no interstate commerce. The federal government had no control over him or his products under the then current Constitutional law. They used him as a test case. They came up with the screwball argument, that because he was NOT engaging in interstate commerce he was actually affecting interstate commerce negatively... therefore he could be regulated and taxed. The supreme court upheld that action...following which anything and everything could be defined as falling under the definition of interstate commerce...controlled and taxed by the federal government.
Glenn Beck was beside himself when one of his guests, who was a retired judge, said that this would the biggest supreme court case since Roe vs Wade...and the current conservative court would reverse a 70 year old law. Glenn begged the supreme court members to "eat your vegies...stay healthy...don't any of you dare die on us". The whole audience applauded after that short video clip.
There is a Tea Party at the Utah State Capitol next Wednesday at noon to celebrate the formation of the Patrick Henry Caucus to take our States' Rights back. Think I may go. This is getting exciting!
Independent Caucus: This is an independent movement to take our government back from the "Big Money" special interests. This group intends to send every Congressman/woman a Pink Slip...and a Tea Bag from thousands of people in their districts nation wide. And they intend to film the reaction at each Congressional office when the bag is delivered.
We watched a video presentation about why it is so hard to unseat an incumbent Congressional politician. Why do 94% of incumbents get re-elected when they have only a 10% approval rating? "Big Money" from lobbyists makes it almost impossible to fund a challenger adequately .
Montana: Two days ago, the Governor of Montana signed into law a bill which says that firearms, ammunition or associated equipment, manufactured in Montana are NOT under the control of the federal government. It is a state's rights issue and it will go to the Supreme Court. This is a big deal.
Patrick Henry Caucus: Carl Wimmer, a member of the Utah Legislature started the Patrick Henry Caucus in Utah. He was on Glenn Beck last week talking about the landmark Montana legislation. Utah is working on a similar, but more broad state's rights bill. Texas is moving forward with similar legislation. We watched this portion of the Glenn Beck program. It was inspiring. Utah intends to take back all state's rights bestowed by the Constitution.
Larry Bodily explained how the federal government usurped state's rights back in the 1930s. They did it over the issue of interstate commerce. Apparently a farmer, who owned a bakery, was growing his own wheat, making bread products and selling them all within his state...no interstate commerce. The federal government had no control over him or his products under the then current Constitutional law. They used him as a test case. They came up with the screwball argument, that because he was NOT engaging in interstate commerce he was actually affecting interstate commerce negatively... therefore he could be regulated and taxed. The supreme court upheld that action...following which anything and everything could be defined as falling under the definition of interstate commerce...controlled and taxed by the federal government.
Glenn Beck was beside himself when one of his guests, who was a retired judge, said that this would the biggest supreme court case since Roe vs Wade...and the current conservative court would reverse a 70 year old law. Glenn begged the supreme court members to "eat your vegies...stay healthy...don't any of you dare die on us". The whole audience applauded after that short video clip.
There is a Tea Party at the Utah State Capitol next Wednesday at noon to celebrate the formation of the Patrick Henry Caucus to take our States' Rights back. Think I may go. This is getting exciting!
Thursday, May 7, 2009
9/12 Meeting
We here we go! I attended a 9/12 meeting in Providence last night. Last week was their first meeting, so everyone was still new to the concept of coming together in unity and love to effect political change. Larry Bodily seemed to be the ad hoc leader of the group. He was cool and calm. One young bloke stood up, distributed an organizational chart and announced that we needed to get organized, with heads over counties, cities and precincts. One woman asked "Why?" and she got a lecture on how organization was ncessary if we wanted to accomplish anything. One eloquent old bloke said "It would be better to talk without being organized, than to be organized before we talk". Even that did not deter the young fella. A few others complained, but he pressed on..."we must get organized now." Finally I said, "Excuse me...but you are not listening...people are telling you that we don't want to get organized until we understand what it is we want to accomplish by being organized." He pressed on...people threatened to leave...he shut up. So it was not a smooth beginning.
Larry Bodily reported that someone in SLC has actually taken it upon himself to get 9/12 groups organized across the USA and in Utah. Apparently there are dozens of groups meeting, but without any coordination. He also said something that got my attention. 9/12 representatives were meeting last night in SLC with conservative political parties...Republican, Constitutional and Libertarian, to try to forge some unified effort to replace current elected Congressional politicians with politicians who will live by 9/12 values. It is a strongly held "throw the bums out" mentality.
The reality at present is if a really well qualified candidate is put forward by the Constitutional party he/she will not get elected in Utah. So it is my opinion that unless people like me who feel that the Republican party left us behind want to eat crow and work within the Republican party, nothing will change. Larry promised to report on that meeting next week. We are meeting weekly.
Future meetings will include a little education. It was suggested that we each purchase Skousens "5000 Year Leap" and read it. There are also classes on the Constitution that we can attend.
The meeting became anecdotal...which was pleasant if not really productive. There was some dark talk about how threatening the government could really get...and about Glen Beck predicting that he would be silenced. I had not heard that. One fellow asked if we new why Glen Beck chose to call his effort 9/12. I had no idea. It was becasue 9/12 was the day after 9/11. On 9/12 the USA was humbled but united. He wants all who are like minded politically today to come together with that same awesome feeling of unity....which is real power.
I like to think of 9/12 as the day that evil hid its ugly head...there was not a word from the America haters...yet within six weeks evil emerged in the form of Michael Moore. It was the hate America croud which convinced me give up 36 years as a legal alien...permanent resident alien...to become a US citizen...to stand shoulder to shoulder with my American brothers and sisters in the fight against evil...which is now even more seriously threatening to destroy this great country.
So last night was ...one small step.
Larry Bodily reported that someone in SLC has actually taken it upon himself to get 9/12 groups organized across the USA and in Utah. Apparently there are dozens of groups meeting, but without any coordination. He also said something that got my attention. 9/12 representatives were meeting last night in SLC with conservative political parties...Republican, Constitutional and Libertarian, to try to forge some unified effort to replace current elected Congressional politicians with politicians who will live by 9/12 values. It is a strongly held "throw the bums out" mentality.
The reality at present is if a really well qualified candidate is put forward by the Constitutional party he/she will not get elected in Utah. So it is my opinion that unless people like me who feel that the Republican party left us behind want to eat crow and work within the Republican party, nothing will change. Larry promised to report on that meeting next week. We are meeting weekly.
Future meetings will include a little education. It was suggested that we each purchase Skousens "5000 Year Leap" and read it. There are also classes on the Constitution that we can attend.
The meeting became anecdotal...which was pleasant if not really productive. There was some dark talk about how threatening the government could really get...and about Glen Beck predicting that he would be silenced. I had not heard that. One fellow asked if we new why Glen Beck chose to call his effort 9/12. I had no idea. It was becasue 9/12 was the day after 9/11. On 9/12 the USA was humbled but united. He wants all who are like minded politically today to come together with that same awesome feeling of unity....which is real power.
I like to think of 9/12 as the day that evil hid its ugly head...there was not a word from the America haters...yet within six weeks evil emerged in the form of Michael Moore. It was the hate America croud which convinced me give up 36 years as a legal alien...permanent resident alien...to become a US citizen...to stand shoulder to shoulder with my American brothers and sisters in the fight against evil...which is now even more seriously threatening to destroy this great country.
So last night was ...one small step.
Saturday, May 2, 2009
Palm Springs Air Museum
Missy and Andy joined us at Marriott's Shadow Ridge Resort, in Palm Desert, for a few days. Andy and I left the ladies at the Resort yesterday and went to the Palm Springs Air Museum. Kathie and I had been there on a previous visit. We left the girls home, because I knew that they would be bored, but I was pretty sure that Andy would love it. He did! He wished that his friend Wallace, from Australia, could have been there. In fact, he said that the museum was a "must see" stop for Wallace one day.
The museum is privately owned and self supporting. They had a sponsor who died a couple of years ago. Half of the planes are owned by his estate, but on permanent display at the museum. There are six paid employees and about 350 volunteers...who talk to visitors, restore planes and fly planes. Most of the planes are operational; they used to fly one every Saturday. Recently they have only flown one monthly due to the high cost of insurance.
The museum has two separate indoor sections: 1. WWII in the Pacific. 2. WWII in Europe. Outdoors they have static displays of modern jets, and a few other planes yet to be restored in a yard. While we were there, about 30 privately owned WWII T-34 trainers arrived. That plane was a Beechcraft Bonanza without the V tail. They were a club making a weekend visit to the museum.
Most of the museum exhibits were immaculate...and they were all beautiful...not the least of which were the P-51, Spitfire and bent-wing Corsair. We even crawled through a B-47 "Flying Fortress" and marvelled at the primitive conditions which flight crews endured. 12000+ of these planes were built. 4,000+ were lost. 47,000 young men were lost in bombing raids over Europe. My dad once told me that 35% of the Australian pilots trained for WWII were killed in action. It was apparently about the same percentage for all Allied pilots and flight crews.
Andy and I agreed that the best part of the museum experience was the volunteers. They were WWII Air Force/Navy/Marine Corps veterans...mainly pilots. They are a dying breed, so it was a privilege to talk with them. We got to spend private time with about five of them. They were extremely knowledgeable, and they all had something special in common...they were all really humble men...with great pride in their country...and a profound respect for their comrades who did not come home. It was obvious that they had a message to leave with people.
The first volunteer we met was not a pilot. He proudly showed us his belt buckle, which had sea serpents around a submarine. He was in the Submarine Service. That gave me goose-bumps. I asked if he served in the Pacific. Turned out that he served his entire duty in the Pacific, out of a submarine base located in Fremantle, Western Australia. He did not know Commander Henry Sipple...because he was an "ordinary seaman" and did not associate with the "brass". But he said he loved Fremantle and Perth; everyone treated him and has fellow seamen wonderfully.
It was a great experience, but it will not be long before the best part of that experience will all be gone.
The museum is privately owned and self supporting. They had a sponsor who died a couple of years ago. Half of the planes are owned by his estate, but on permanent display at the museum. There are six paid employees and about 350 volunteers...who talk to visitors, restore planes and fly planes. Most of the planes are operational; they used to fly one every Saturday. Recently they have only flown one monthly due to the high cost of insurance.
The museum has two separate indoor sections: 1. WWII in the Pacific. 2. WWII in Europe. Outdoors they have static displays of modern jets, and a few other planes yet to be restored in a yard. While we were there, about 30 privately owned WWII T-34 trainers arrived. That plane was a Beechcraft Bonanza without the V tail. They were a club making a weekend visit to the museum.
Most of the museum exhibits were immaculate...and they were all beautiful...not the least of which were the P-51, Spitfire and bent-wing Corsair. We even crawled through a B-47 "Flying Fortress" and marvelled at the primitive conditions which flight crews endured. 12000+ of these planes were built. 4,000+ were lost. 47,000 young men were lost in bombing raids over Europe. My dad once told me that 35% of the Australian pilots trained for WWII were killed in action. It was apparently about the same percentage for all Allied pilots and flight crews.
Andy and I agreed that the best part of the museum experience was the volunteers. They were WWII Air Force/Navy/Marine Corps veterans...mainly pilots. They are a dying breed, so it was a privilege to talk with them. We got to spend private time with about five of them. They were extremely knowledgeable, and they all had something special in common...they were all really humble men...with great pride in their country...and a profound respect for their comrades who did not come home. It was obvious that they had a message to leave with people.
The first volunteer we met was not a pilot. He proudly showed us his belt buckle, which had sea serpents around a submarine. He was in the Submarine Service. That gave me goose-bumps. I asked if he served in the Pacific. Turned out that he served his entire duty in the Pacific, out of a submarine base located in Fremantle, Western Australia. He did not know Commander Henry Sipple...because he was an "ordinary seaman" and did not associate with the "brass". But he said he loved Fremantle and Perth; everyone treated him and has fellow seamen wonderfully.
It was a great experience, but it will not be long before the best part of that experience will all be gone.
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