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Fleet Farm Road: Dogs and cats, living together, mass hysteria

Oh my goodness.

I've been listening to the hysterical scaremongering going on tonight over the proposed little road that would go behind Mills Fleet Farm in Brooklyn Park.

We've heard that building this road is going to:

- Decrease local property values 23% (further than has already occurred in recent years)
- Massive exhaust to the point neighbors wouldn't be able to enjoy their decks
- The loss of "wild life" - "we've spotted deer..." (Deer in a busy commercial area is good?)
- The noise will force people to abandon their homes
- We won't buy another house in Brooklyn Park
- It will cause our credit to suffer and damage us forever.
- This will damage us, it will "wipe us out".
- The quality of life will be destroyed.
- The water run off will flood our basements.
- The homes will be uninhabitable.
- Building roads can cause the loss of ozone and cause the destruction of the Earth

All that from building a half mile bypass road behind Fleet Farm.

With the building of the new Highway 81/Highway 169 "Devils triangle" bridges, southbound traffic has been using the Fleet Farm parking lot to get through instead of going through all the long highway lights and construction. The city, along with MNDOT and Fleet Farm, have proposed building a road where a road has been slated to go for years. I've seen maps with a road going here for at least ten years. It's not a suddenly proposed road.

I'm hearing one guy saying "we moved here without there being a road there". Well, so? What's the point? Conditions change and it's a big, open field.

I've got no problem with putting up some bushes or trees for screening, but this road is needed. Desperately. My guess is that every one of these people has used the Fleet Farm - private property - to cut through. Their alternative is driving out to W. Broadway, going to Brooklyn Blvd, and turning back up Jolly Lane. There's no way they've been doing that.

In essence, this is the biggest "NIMBY" effort we've seen in years. The road needs to be built, property values aren't going to go down because of any road (it's not going IN your yards), and the Earth really will not burn to a crisp because of a simple road.

Property values have gone down already. Homes are not selling. But people, this isn't because some road may be built, it's because of the stupid laws Democrats created making loans too easy.

The solution these people seem to want is to building the road down the middle aisle inside the store.

One of the most bizarre ideas was Councilmember Jeanette Meyer suggesting that all the eastern exits from Fleet Farm being closed, forcing all customers to enter and exit onto 85th Ave. She tried to defend her proposal by saying Menards "only has access to Hwy 81". Huh? Menards has one entrance on 81, and TWO on 79th Ave. She doesn't even know her own district.

The Fleet Farm representative, a person who knows his business, said that Meyer's proposal would "close the store". She didn't seem concerned and didn't believe him. Apparently now she's also a traffic engineer and marketing professional.

The fact is, the property behind Fleet Farm is zoned Business. This means there would be a road there anyway at some point. The city council has turned down several "down zoning" attempts for homes and churches.

A townhome development was proposed in 2005 with the exact same road alignment. No one objected then. Why? Because it's likely a couple of people decided this time to stir up neighbors with a lot of exaggerated non-sense like I've listed.

The fact is, Fleet Farm is willing to pay $125,000 for the safety of their employees and customers. I, for one, applaud them for it. So should you.

In the end, the council voted it down 4-3 (Crema, Lunde, Gates, Trepanier). With this vote they have decided that Fleet Farm employees and customers are not valued, their safety is not important, and that the false arguments used to scare people were valid. Leadership requires doing the right thing in the face of illogical opposition. Sadly four of our council members failed in their leadership roles tonight. If someone (more) should be hurt in the FF parking lot these people will be held partially responsible.

Deep Tater: I had forgotten about him....

Likely a flashback that causes some current, mostly past politicians sweat. :)

I had forgotten about this character we created years ago to represent numerous "inside" sources we had. Rarely did these people fail us as they offered up virtually always accurate information that some politicians and insiders did not want the public to know.

For the fun of it we've resurrected our old CafePress store featuring Deep Tater t-shirts.

If you'd like a piece of Brooklyn Park history, visit here.

Sprint Price on new Palm Pre: Major Disappointment

Sprint, the third place cell phone company, along with Palm, the company bleeding money like a fire hose, announced the release of the new phone I've been waiting months for. The date, June 6th (the date of my daughters graduation party) is the date but the price - please - is $299.

I know, they make the sales pitch that it's $199 "after a $100 rebate", but we all know that means it's $299 and then sometime in the future, 3-4 months later, you'll get some card worth $100.

This is a major screw up by Sprint given that there are iPhones and the Blackberry Storm available for $199 (and the Storm's available for $159 on Bestbuy.com).

This is a major disappointment for those of us who have been watching with "baited breath" for months while Sprint played with us with rumors and videos about the new phone. For two companies who are so desperate for a success, charging $300 for this unproven new phone (and new unproven OS), just days before the release of a new iPhone 3.0 software release, along with a plethora of new phones coming out in the next 30-60 days, this is just poor marketing, planning and thought. It's a complete disappointment.

My son has Sprint and loves them. Being a long time AT&T customer, but one who has to change because their coverage where my daughter will be going to college is awful, I have been looking at both Spring and Verizon. This announcement has me re-thinking my initial conclusion to wait for the Palm Pre and have to start re-looking at the Storm. $299, Sprint, is just too high a price for this customer.

Shame on our State Senate and Senator

This is your DFL-led Minnesota State Senate in action. Damn the minority, ram through the tax increase bill, completely ignore opposition taking away their RIGHT to speak. Worse, gagging their voice and the voice of the TAX PAYERS who elected them.

This is shameful. Our State Senator Linda Scheid sat by silently and allowed this to happen.

Is this America or is this the Soviet Union? It sure seems as though the DFL, the tolerant liberals who preach "diversity of ideas" sure don't practice it.

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Margaret Anderson Kelliher: Pawlenty owns you

One just has to love the childishness of the whiney DFL these days.



First they take several months before taking the state budget deficit seriously. Since January they have stalled, played around, ignored, put off and generally just procrastinated about this serious issue. Ultimately their goal was to attempt to force Gov. Pawlenty into raising taxes, thus breaking his pledge to voters to not do so.

Secondly, they decide they're going to go into hyper-speed mode, forcing through spending bill after spending bill, in a continued attempt to get the Gov. to raise taxes. At the very least they thought they could force a special session where they believed they could extract some sort of a tax increase.

Well, this morning we read that Pawlenty won't call a special session but will instead balance the budget by line item veto and unallotments. This has really ticked off the DFL legislative leaders.

Margaret Anderson Kelliher, the Speaker of the House, calls Pawlenty "Governor Go-it-alone". The DFL party calls his "King Tim". I'm sure behind the scenes they have many other names for him.

One just has to shake their head at how childish these people are when they don't get their way. It has been their goal in life to get Pawlenty to raise taxes. They so badly want to put out "told ya so" commercials and mailings and every time they think he's going to have to give in he turns the tables on them.

Pawlenty simply owns these guys.

Sprint Palm Pre: Running out of time

I know that Sprint people are reading online comments to see how people are handling their current marketing plan of leaking small amounts of information on their new upcoming phone, the Palm Pre. What don't seem to realize, or care about, are customers who've been putting off decisions on new phones as they wait for these clowns to release information.

Well Sprint, we've got a Plan B. When May 19th happens and my current contract is over, if you're not releasing (a full release, not a trickle release through Best Buy with just 350,000 units, because I'm too old to be camping in parking lots all night) by the rumored June 7th date, we're moving on.

The January promise of a release in the "first half of 2009" is coming to an end. By now companies that aren't having problems have released information about their new phones. To me this is no longer about building hype, it's become obvious that Palm must be having problems and no one wants to talk about it. Production problems? Programming problems (with the new WebOS)? Integration problems? Or simple problems like not being able to answer the phone while plugged into a USB port (a phone killer, in my opinion).

So you've got nine days, Sprint. Let's hear some news.

Where's my $13 a week "tax cut"?

The New Messiah promised us a tax cut. You remember the words - "95% of you will receive a tax cut". Well, I'm not seeing it.

The "cut" (which is actually just a reduction in withholding) was supposed to start about April 1. My checks are the same.

Lest you think I'm rich, I'm not. So it's not that.

Frankly, no one I know has seen this fantasy "tax cut" yet.

I could sure use a real tax cut but I don't expect we'll see that given the trillions this guy and his comrades are borrowing.

Palm Pre: Sprint is screwing up their one shot

I've had an iPhone for almost two years and absolutely love it. The fact is, I can't live without it as it's become a dependable tool for my personal and business life.

Yet AT&T's coverage is awful where my daughter goes to school. I've let them know about it and they just say "it shows as "normal" on our reports". Well, not one of our phones works in the school building while we watch people with Verizon and Sprint talking away.

So we've started to look elsewhere. Three of our four phone contracts will expire on May 18th and we'll be taking our business elsewhere. Since my daughter will be going to college this fall and AT&T has the same issues there, we've done a study between Sprint and Verizon.

At this point, and upon hands-on review, we've taken a liking to the yet-unreleased Palm Pre. Every day we watch the online news, the rumors, the forums and every day we're disappointed that Sprint has been taking so long.

Frankly, Sprint, I'm tired of waiting for an announcement. Every day you leak more tidbits but never tell us when it's coming out. It's time to stop yanking my chain and release the date. Your financial quarterly today would have been the perfect opportunity and you blew it, choosing instead to talk about old phones.

Friends have told me to just get the new iPhone, or go to the Blackberry Storm (which I've played with and would be a good alternative). But no, I have been loyal to a phone that doesn't yet exist.

That loyalty is fading, Sprint. As me for a date or I'm moving to the next pretty girl.

A warning to Jeanette Meyer and the rest of our City Council

This morning during breakfast at local fave Fat Nat's I saw this headline:

Cities may charge fees on emergency services

In short, the city of Coon Rapids is looking at charging their residents for the use of fire or police services.

A few years back our city council made this same bad decision, soon thereafter rescinded, to charge you for the "use of fire suppression". West District council member Jeanette Meyer defended the action by stating that "your tax dollars pay for the availability of fire suppression, not the use of it."

Hogwash. I thought so and so did thousands of other Brooklyn Park residents.

When presented with the facts, including the fact that many insurance companies do not reimburse for this (which is irrelevant to the issue) and that this would be a tax increase on their residents, especially those who can least afford it (you've just had your house go up in flames, here's your bill from the city...), the rest of the council changed their minds - wisely - and voted to rescind their previous decision.

Unfortunately, Meyer continued to defend her position and there's no evidence that I've seen where she's changed her opinion on it.

Given our city has been struggling with budget issues I fully expect this action by Coon Rapids to encourage her to bring it up again.

As residents we need to tell our council that we will not put up with this horrible, regressive, mean tax increase on their residents. We pay taxes for the USE of fire suppression and police protection, not just for the availability of it.

I retired from politics a few years ago and have been happy pretty much ignoring most of it, especially local city council issues. I have Direct TV now and can't watch council meetings, happily.

But if this issue comes up again not only will I un-retire, I will become their worst nightmare, especially Meyer's since she's up for re-election next year. It will become my personal mission in life to personally let every resident of our district know she attempted to bring this back.

If this issue comes up again we need to watch very closely who supports it. Will Rich Gates support this? He didn't support it the last time. How about the new guy from the East District? Where do you stand?

Watch this space for updates if any develop.

Way to go, Marty!

In the end, the Speaker was forced to re-consider her ways.

The microphone shut off and suddenly all went dead. Ten minutes later they had come to a compromise and the minority got their time. Ten whole minutes.

Marty Seifert, master of parlimentary rules.

Way to go, Marty.

Kelliher Shame Continues....

The Speaker of the People's Chamber, Margaret "Anderson" Kelliher today shamefully gagged all opposition to her precious transportation bill.

In fact, immediately after third reading was called - a place where EVERY Speaker before her has ALWAYS called for discussion - she rushed quickly to voting, not calling on several people who wanted to speak, shutting up anyone who dared to speak.

Kelliher is a dictator, not a Speaker. And Mike Nelson, Melissa Hortman and Deb Hillstrom are simply pawns allowing her to abuse her power.

Shame on all four of these people.

Shame on Margaret Anderson Kelliher - Speaker of the MN House

I'm sitting here at work this afternoon listening to the happenings at the State House. Apparently Margaret "Anderson" Kelliher believes she is the ruler and queen, not the Speaker of the Peoples House.

All I can say is "wow". DFL'ers this afternoon cut off debate, cut off amendments, and cut off the voice of the minority in a way that can only remind one of a government being run by Hugo Chavez and not Americans.

Today your voice was not allowed to be heard. The only voices that could be heard were those allowed by Kelliher and her cronies.

She did everything she could to not allow the minority to speak. She broke rules, she gavelled down opponents, she sped up her movements all in attempts to circumvent rules and shut down speech.

Shamefully your local Brooklyn Park representatives voted to allow all this. Every time a vote came up they all voted to allow this circus to continue.

Shame on Mike Nelson, Deb Hilstrom and Melissa Hortman for going along with gagging the people's voice.

I never once witnessed Republicans doing this to the then-minority DFL. Never once.

Minnesota Tea Party information

Are you tired of the spending? Are you afraid that your government is not only mortgaging your childens future but their childrens future? Then it's time to tell your government that you're not going to take it anymore.

It's not Republican, it's not Democratic, it's American. It's time for Americans to stand up and tell the politicians who can't seem to understand that we simply have to stop the spending that we're not going to take it anymore.

Join me tomorrow, April 15th, at the Tea Party. Information can be found here.

This movement is so dangerous to recipients of this over-spending that they're working to infiltrate Tea Party locations to attempt to marginalize you, the average citizen. I'll be taking pictures and posting them here.

If you care about your country, if you care about the future of our country for your children, you need to stand up and let your voice be heard.

Are you tired of the political non-sense, too?

I'm not one given to attending protests or lending my name to such things. Over the years I've worked to create a reputation of moderation, reason and that of a pragmatic but still principled conservative. I've always thought that, no matter the person or party we could find ways to get done what needs to get done.

When the $35m blank check proposal was put before the voters some years ago I worked with liberal apartment advocacy groups to defeat this proposal that was bad for the taxpayers of Brooklyn Park. In the end the voters agreed with me, saying "no" to this proposal 65-35%. People did not want this and had to bring it to a vote to get them to listen.

When our city council voted to enact the "cash for crash" proposal, the idea that you'd get a bill from the city for $300-500 if you dared to have a fire at your home or an accident on one of our streets, I led the battle to return us to sanity. In the end, our city council rescinded this silly idea (despite the leader of this idea still holding to the idea that your tax dollars "pay for the availability of fire suppression, not the use of it". This policy passed after this council member ran on the promise of being the people's representative.

In Washington, DC their mayor today is proposing a "street light user fee" of $4.25/month for their residents.

Our new President campaigned on the promises that:

1) He'd not hire lobbyists.
2) He'd never sign a bill until it had been online for several days first.
3) He'd never sign bills with earmarks.
4) He'd hire only ethical people.
5) He'd never go the way of George Bush with his "massive deficit spending".

And what did he do?

1) Virtually all of his staff come from the ranks of lobbyists.
2) Every bill he's signed so far was done without posting it online first.
3) Signed the largest bill full of earmarks in history, and defended it.
4) Appointed more tax cheats to his cabinet and other positions than the previous ten administrations combines.
5) Made Bush's deficit spending look like me going overboard at the grocery store, signing the largest spending bill in US history.

Politicians today have proven they cannot tell the truth, cannot be trusted and no longer care about what the people want and really need. They view us as a savings account, available to make withdrawals from any time "their" budget runs low on cash. Despite high unemployment, they think the rest of us have unlimited funds from which they can grab and fund their projects.

Most of them have never run a business or made a payroll. The President of the United States has never run an organization the size of Wasilla, Alaska. Many of our State Representatives list "legislator" as their full time occupation.

Despite their continual votes to spend more money and take more from you, YOU keep returning them to office. Yes, you.

You say "it's not me, it's the other guy". Well, someone's voting these clowns back into office.

After watching the events of the past two months, the massive spending, the MASSIVE SPENDING, and the massive take over by government of private industry (that is defined as "fascism", by the way - look it up), and the people who voted these clowns into office defending this - I'm not going to take it anymore. I can't do it. I can't sit back and fume, I have to do something.

For that reason I am attending the Tea Party event this Wednesday at the Capitol. I won't be holding signs or chanting, but I will be there. Where ever you are across our great country there's a Tea Party event you can attend. Here's their web site: http://www.teapartyday.com/

If you're tired of it, too, join me and thousands of others.

Lane's True Value Hardware: Our Neighborhood Hardware Store in Brooklyn Park

Where do you go when you need a key made, when you need a gallon of paint, when you need lawn fertilizer or when you have need some help with a part for your sink?

Let me recommend you go to our local True Value Hardware store. Lane's True Value Hardware store has been a fixture (no pun intended) in Brooklyn Park for as long as I can remember. On the corner of Zane Ave and Brooklyn Blvd, Tom Lane's store is the place to go when you need anything for your house. He's been part of our community for years, having been involved in volunteering as well as chamber of commerce activities. He not only knows our community he knows hardware.

In a day when we've got giants like Home Depot, Fleet Farm and Menards, Lane's has survived here to serve you when you need help. I think we all often forget the "little guy" when these others are so readily available. Yet which of these is going to offer real experience and help when you need it? Let me suggest it's Lane's.

Here's their web site: www.lanestruevalue.com



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Honest Car Salesman: Redux

Last October I told you about the honest car sales professional I'd uncovered, Scott Sutter of Tousley Ford. Well, he's done it again.

We had reason to buy another used car and Scott took great care of us. Honest car guys are hard to find and I think the reward of a public pat on the back is in order.

If you need a good value in a new or used car, Scott Sutter's your guy.

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Tell him I sent you.

Read this, it will change your life

I am not given to conspiracies or conspiracy theories. I have viewed politics as cyclical.

But things are different now. The election of an inexperienced petition collector whose sole campaign promise he's kept is that of "change", the definition of which he's never answered. He's lied over and over and has been breaking campaign promises at a record pace. Yet the Obama supporter with the car back full of lefty bumperstickers hangs with him because of their never-ending irrational hate for Bush, the guy who's sitting in a Dallas home with too much class to even publicly discuss his disagreements with the new guy in the White House.

Change is coming and it's very dangerous change.

I came across this below. I thought I was the only one who felt this way but I'm not. As I read it it has changed me and hope it changes you, too:

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This insightful commentary has been posted on dozens of websites. Often attributed to “Pam Geller,” it first appeared in the name of “TPS.” (It’s not surprising that a conservative college teacher would want to remain anonymous these days.) Since the message begins with a plea to spread the information (no copyright notice included), we are sharing it with you.

Friends,

I am a student of history. Professionally. I have written 15 books in six languages, and have studied it all my life. I think there is something monumentally large afoot, and I do not believe it is just a banking crisis, or a mortgage crisis, or a credit crisis. Yes these exist, but they are merely single facets on a very large gemstone that is only now coming into a sharper focus.

Something of historic proportions is happening. I can sense it because I know how it feels, smells, what it looks like, and how people react to it. Yes, a perfect storm may be brewing, but there is something happening within our country that has been evolving for about ten - fifteen years. The pace has dramatically quickened in the past two.

We demand and then codify into law the requirement that our banks make massive loans to people we know they can never pay back? Why?

We learn just days ago that the Federal Reserve, which has little or no real oversight by anyone, has “loaned” two trillion dollars (that is $2,000,000,000,000) over the past few months, but will not tell us to whom or why or disclose the terms. That is our money. Yours and mine. And that is three times the 700B we all argued about so strenuously just this past September. Who has this money? Why do they have it? Why are the terms unavailable to us? Who asked for it? Who authorized it? I thought this was a government of “we the people,” who loaned our powers to our elected leaders.

Apparently not.

We have spent two or more decades intentionally de-industrializing our economy. Why?

We have intentionally dumbed down our schools, ignored our history, and no longer teach our founding documents, why we are exceptional, and why we are worth preserving. Students by and large cannot write, think critically, read, or articulate. Parents are not revolting, teachers are not picketing, school boards continue to back mediocrity. Why?

We have now established the precedent of protesting every close election (now violently in California over a proposition that is so controversial that it wants marriage to remain between one man and one woman. Did you ever think such a thing possible just a decade ago?). We have corrupted our sacred political process by allowing unelected judges to write laws that radically change our way of life, and then mainstream Marxist groups like ACORN and others to turn our voting system into a banana republic.

To what purpose?

Now our mortgage industry is collapsing, housing prices are in free fall, major industries are failing, our banking system is on the verge of collapse, social security is nearly bankrupt, as is medicare and our entire government, our education system is worse than a joke (I teach college and know precisely what I am talking about)–the list is staggering in its length, breadth, and depth. It is potentially 1929 x ten. And we are at war with an enemy we cannot name for fear of offending people of the same religion, who cannot wait to slit the throats of your children if they have the opportunity to do so.

And now we have elected a man no one knows anything about, who has never run so much as a Dairy Queen, let alone a town as big as Wasilla, Alaska. All of his associations and alliances are with real radicals in their chosen fields of employment, and everything we learn about him, drip by drip, is unsettling if not downright scary (Surely you have heard him speak about his idea to create and fund a mandatory civilian defense force stronger than our military for use inside our borders? No? Oh of course. The media would never play that for you over and over and then demand he answer it. Sarah Palin’s pregnant daughter and $150,000 wardrobe is more imporant.)

Mr. Obama’s winning platform can be boiled down to one word: change.

Why?

I have never been so afraid for my country and for my children as I am now.

This man campaigned on bringing people together, something he has never, ever done in his professional life. In my assessment, Obama will divide us along philosophical lines, push us apart, and then try to realign the pieces into a new and different power structure. Change is indeed coming. And when it comes, you will never see the same nation again. And that is only the beginning.

And I thought I would never be able to experience what the ordinary, moral German felt in the mid-1930s. In those times, the savior was a former smooth-talking rabble-rouser from the streets, about whom the average German knew next to nothing. What they did know was that he was associated with groups that shouted, shoved, and pushed around people with whom they disagreed; he edged his way onto the political stage through great oratory and promises. Economic times were tough, people were losing jobs, and he was a great speaker. And he smiled and waved a lot. And people, even newspapers, were afraid to speak out for fear that his “brown shirts” would bully them into submission. And then, he was duly elected to office, a full-throttled economic crisis at hand [the Great Depression]. Slowly but surely he seized the controls of government power, department by department, person by person, bureaucracy by bureaucracy. The kids joined a Youth Movement in his name, where they were taught what to think.

How did he get the people on his side? He did it promising jobs to the jobless, money to the moneyless, and goodies for the military-industrial complex. He did it by indoctrinating the children, advocating gun control, health care for all, better wages, better jobs, and promising to re-instill pride once again in the country, across Europe, and across the world.

He did it with a compliant media–did you know that? And he did this all in the name of justice and . . . change. And the people surely got what they voted for.

(Look it up if you think I am exaggerating.)

Read your history books. Many people objected in 1933 and were shouted down, called names, laughed at, and made fun of. When Winston Churchill pointed out the obvious in the late 1930s while seated in the House of Lords in England (he was not yet Prime Minister), he was booed into his seat and called a crazy troublemaker.

He was right, though.

Don’t forget that Germany was the most educated, cultured country in Europe. It was full of music, art, museums, hospitals, laboratories, and universities. And in less than six years–a shorter time span than just two terms of the U. S. presidency–it was rounding up its own citizens, killing others, abrogating its laws, turning children against parents, and neighbors against neighbors. All with the best of intentions, of course. The road to Hell is paved with them.

As a practical thinker, one not overly prone to emotional decisions, I have a choice: I can either believe what the objective pieces of evidence tell me (even if they make me cringe with disgust); I can believe what history is shouting to me from across the chasm of seven decades; or I can hope I am wrong by closing my eyes, having another latte, and ignoring what is transpiring around me.

Some people scoff at me, others laugh, or think I am foolish, naive, or both. Perhaps I am. But I have never been afraid to look people in the eye and tell them exactly what I believe–and why I believe it.

I pray I am wrong. I do not think I am.

Best regards,

TPS