Here are a few interesting bits of news for you to piece together and see if a big picture reveals itself.
According to this KX News article, Earl Pomeroy is once again being considered for a cushy job for a life insurance lobbying group. He was in the running several years ago as well, presumably with contacts he made while ND Insurance Commissioner. It's called ACLI, for American Council of Life Insurers.
This insurance industry publication article talks about the loss of Democrats in the Senate. It points out that "Sen. Dorgan’s wife, Kim Dorgan, is senior executive vice president for public policy at the American Council of Life Insurers, its top lobbying position." I find it remarkably convenient that the wife of one of these "Senate allies" holds a cushy lobbying position with the group. Something smell fishy here? I thought so, too.
According to opensecrets.org, The number one contributor to Earl Pomeroy's election campaigns is a life insurance company. In fact, there are several insurance companies kicking in big dollars to Earl, along with labor unions, of course. In fact, there isn't a single North Dakota entity listed in his list of top contributors! Let's not forget, he gets ninety percent of his money from out of state donors!
Back to Kim Dorgan for a second. Her husband is a United States Senator. She holds the "top lobbying position" for a big lobbying firm...yet we're supposed to believe that she lives here?
Once this news broke, this article was released, claiming that Pomeroy is not interested in the job. That may or may not be true, but it brings to light an important point.
North Dakotans have caught on to Dorgan, Conrad, and Pomeroy. We know our Senators live in ND on paper, not really occupying the apartment building owned by Senator Conrad's LLC. We know how these jokers vote, and where their money is coming from. We even know that Congressman Pomeroy's on a short list for a cushy lobbyist position alongside the wife of another North Dakota career politician.
While the mainstream media wouldn't take the twenty minutes required to track this stuff and write about it, an average guy can put the pieces together in no time and let 'em go viral on the Internet. The "new media" is a force these politicians can't stop yet, although I'm sure they'd like to try. Now that the people can arm themselves with information, we're a far greater threat to these politicians than they could ever imagine. Now...let's set about giving Earl Pomeroy the opportunity to explore other career options this November!
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If I had a penny for every time I found myself out in the middle of a field and suddenly noticed a pyramid of old bowling balls...well, let's just say my financial status would feel no significant impact. I was out east of Bismarck with my camera last weekend and picked up this shot. I'm sure there's an interesting story behind this pile, but I don't know it. Yet.
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It's been a neat couple of days, weather wise...especially for a photographer. Sadly, I have not been able to get out and explore all the frosted goodness in our area. I'm not complaining; I took a long photo trip on Saturday morning. Yet I still would like to go out and see what unique sights I can find with all the ice in the air lately!
Last night I stopped at the capitol on the way home from the Wizards game. I had been craving some nice salty Sta-Mart popcorn all day, so it all worked out quite handily.
You know it's frosty out when your chain link fence frosts shut! The chain link canopies of the walkways on local overpass bridges were turned into tunnels as well. I imagine there are lots of neat old tractors and that kind of thing around our area that look really neat in a blanket of thick, jagged frost! I don't foresee an opportunity to find out, at least not this time.
Now comes news of an impending snow storm. Cool. Finally, some North Dakota winters the way I remember them as a kid!
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Sorry, Martin Luther King Jr.: you failed. It is with great regret that I note, on the day marking the remembrance of your life and accomplishments, that we're the antithesis of that famous speech back in August of 1963:
"I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character."
Where are we now, almost fifty years later? Prominent black Americans such as Justice Clarence Thomas and Condoleeza Rice are treated as outcasts by "compassionate liberals" simply because they realized the American dream, and they did it without a nanny state providing it to them. It was even deemed perfectly fine by liberals to draw racial, hateful, despicable cartoons about Ms. Rice simply because she worked for the Bush administration...yet one more liberal double standard.
Colin Powell got the same treatment until he decided it was more fruitful for his personal gain to vilify Republicans and conservatives as well, and it worked to ingratiate himself with those same "compassionate liberals."
Had Barack Obama been judged by his character and not hyped by the historic nature of his half-blackness, he wouldn't have made it out of Chicago. Well, the cult of personality, propped up by the house organ media, actually got this fella elected. Now we're all dealing with the Hopey-Changey result. This isn't sour grapes, folks: the President's policies, and the agendas of the people who have surrounded him his entire life, spell the end of the United States of America if allowed to come to fruition.
When Justice Sonia Sotomayor was going through the confirmation process, it highlighted another way in which the American left has let down Dr. King and minorities everywhere. In the Ricci v. Stefano case, firefighters were given or denied promotions based on their race and not the proficiency scores of those taking a qualification test. Liberals DO, after all, want to judge people solely on the color of their skin. Justice Sotomayor was overturned by the US Supreme Court in this matter. Sadly, this racist was later confirmed to the SCOTUS.
The "compassionate left" uses race as a way to divide people, foment anger, and then rally them toward an agenda that means none of them well. When someone like Bill Cosby comes along and appeals for the importance of character among people of color (or whatever the "politically correct" term is), they throw him under the bus and try to discredit him. How is that serving the minority community?
Rather, race has been turned into an industry, a rather lucrative one for the likes of Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton, and their ilk. These charlatans are two of the last people who would ever want racial tension to subside, since it's racial tension that writes their rather sizeable paychecks. It's people like them that have hijacked and usurped Martin Luther King Junior's movement and have turned it into a perversion and a racket. I say again, the last thing people like this want is for true racial harmony, regardless of anything they may say otherwise.
Martin Luther King, Junior had a remarkable dream. I think it would be a reality for most Americans if it wasn't for leftist opportunists trying to attach minority labels to people of various races for the sole purpose of polarization and victimization. Look at their ideals, their policies, and their end results. As long as the "compassionate left" drives the debate about where we stand on racial issues in this country, Dr. King's dream is not even a distant reality.
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I set out before sunrise with my camera today, logging about 150 miles of rural roads and a LOT of trudging through the snow with my gear. I got a lot of great shots, but this actually came from my cell phone late in the day. Upon my return home early this afternoon, I ditched the camera bag and took my little boy outside to build a snow fort. Once that was satisfactory, we went to Tom O'Leary hill for some sledding. One last stop at the airport to watch a jet take off, and we were set for home. That's when I noticed the really cool sunset. All I had was my cell phone, so I did the best I could and headed for home base. I've got both toddlers bathed and in their pajamas, and they get to watch a Thomas the Train movie tonight. What a satisfactory day, and I haven't even had a chance to look at the photos I took earlier!
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