Minnesota Republicans (and Democrats) resist Fiscal TAR

MN GOP CD6 Chair David FitzSimmons

As if it were not bad enough that members of this writer’s Republican Party voted for NDAA, this past weekend rank and file Republicans suffered another betrayal at the hands of our party elite.

This Past Saturday, April 14, 2012, this writer served as a delegate at Minnesota CD6 Republican Convention at the Mounds Views Community Center in Mounds View, Minnesota.
As this writer’s regular readers know, for the past 3+ years this writer has submitted articles regarding the failure of various Government institutions to provide citizens with financial information which is supposed to be a matter of public record:

July 8,2009
Write a letter to your City and County: Where’s the money?
http://exm.nr/HNBoUh

August 2,2009

Wright County MN Massive Financial Cover Up Continues

http://exm.nr/ITBzcY

August 11,2009 Wright County MN Massive Financial Cover up Continues 2

http://exm.nr/nEgOuE

September 8, 2009

Apology to the Little Old Ladies of Wright County Minnesota

http://exm.nr/IzEKVg

And for these past 3 years, Wright County has not provided, nor have any of my state elected officials been able to force Wright County to give me all of the information this author has requested. Not my State Senator or Representative, Not the State Auditor nor the State Attorney General.

The State IPAD agreed that this writer was entitled to the information and said they would prepare a legal brief to that affect. However, this writer would have to hire and attorney and sue the County for the
information in Court.

We can thank all of our duplicitous elected State officials, Republican and Democrat alike, for providing all municipal entities with a way to avoid giving citizens information which is supposed to be a matter public record.

To defeat the duplicity of our elected officials, In 2010 this writer submitted approximately this TAR (Transparency, Accountability and Reform) resolution to his local precinct. It passed but somehow got lost

in the process to be added to the Republican Platform.

“Requiring all Minnesota Municipalities (Cities, Counties,

Schools, etc) to post their budgets and actual revenues and spending on

the internet in layman’s terms with no aggregates over one hundred

dollars.”

Tooth Fairy, Easter Bunny, Santa Claus, TV Pro-Wresting, Reality TV and the US 2 Major Party Political System Part 1 of 2

6:51 pm in Uncategorized by Don Mashak

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STOP ALLOWING YOURSELF TO BE TAKEN ADVANTAGE OF

BY THE 2 MAJOR POLITICAL PARTIES

OPEN YOUR MIND AND PREPARE YOURSELF FOR A NEW, TRUER

PERCEPTION OF REALITY

CHILDHOOD MYTHS AND FANTASIES

“We have a tradition in America of imparting to our children seemingly harmless, fanciful perceptions of reality. The Tooth Fairy, the Easter Bunny and Santa Claus are all fanciful myths aka manufactured false perceptions of reality. Almost all of us Americans fervently believed at least one of these fantasies in our early lives.
Our Parents and teachers and other people in our lives imparted to us a belief in these myths as being true.
And, we believe these stories basically for 4 different reasons:

At that age, we are less sophisticated and less able to discern truth from fiction.
And, regardless of our age, more likely believe something we are told when it told to us by people we trust and/or love.
Circumstantial evidence – Money replacing the teeth. Easter Baskets on Easter Morning. Easter egg hunts at Church. The cookies and milk we set out for Santa were gone the next morning. Jingle bells outside of the house at the appropriate time. Children’s Books dedicated to the subject. TV ads and programs espousing the existence of said Santa Claus, etc.
The fictional perception of reality is more desirable than the alternative. In short, we want to believe because we benefit or perceive benefit from going along with the myth. e.g. money, candy, gifts. And these myths also give us a nebulous, warm fuzzy feeling and sense of security. They made the world seem less harsh and friendlier.

If we are honest with ourselves, we will acknowledge that our youthful “perception of reality” incorporated unquestioning and absolute belief in the Tooth Fairy, the Easter Bunny and/or Santa Claus. Regardless of how easily we can disprove that reality now, and how ridiculous our belief in them seems on retrospection, we believed in these myths at one point in our lives. We accepted these myths as the truth and they were our Reality. Through these myths, almost all Americans share the experience of believing in a perception of reality that was never real, despite our once fervent belief that they were.

And we did not easily give up our beliefs in these myths. Even when harsh reality was brought to our attention some of desperately clung to the fantasy… I can remember some kids in the school yard fighting their peers who were the bearer of bad news. Others were more restrained in their responses, waiting to go home and check with a trusted and reliable source, their parents. I did not want to believe that my parents would believe me. And for those that clung to the myth, there was the peer pressure of being ridiculed and being called immature.

But once the individual overcame their desire for their false perception of reality to be true, they very quickly came to realize the discrepancies in the myth. For example, the impossibility of one single person such as Santa Claus delivering gifts to every household in one night… Or the impossibility of reindeer and a sleigh defying the law of gravity. They all seem so obvious in retrospect.

However, other myths and mysteries of life don’t offer the same absolute proof and closure as the false perceptions of reality involving Tooth Fairy, the Easter Bunny and Santa Claus. And these myths, fantasies, deceptions, delusions and duplicities are far more injurious than our childhood fantasies.

PERCEPTION IS REALITY

Essentially, each person’s perception of reality comes only from their daily interactions and cumulative inputs to their senses of sight, sound, smell, taste and touch. http://bit.ly/8c3u and http://bit.ly/aUAj3s

With that in mind, I ask you each to go back to that period of your life when you fervently believed in the Tooth Fairy, the Easter Bunny and Santa Claus….”

To Read the rest of the story for free continue reading on Examiner.com Tooth Fairy, Easter Bunny, Santa Claus, Pro-Wresting & the US 2 Party System 1/2 – Minneapolis Independent | Examiner.com http://www.examiner.com/independent-in-minneapolis/tooth-fairy-easter-bunny-santa-claus-pro-wresting-the-us-2-party-system-1-2#ixzz1Pj1Wm6b1

I write this article with the same intentions as Thomas Paine

http://ushistory.org/paine. I seek no leadership role. I seek only to help the American People find their own way using their own “Common Sense” http://amzn.to/kbRuar

Thank you for Taking the Time to Read this.

Those were my thoughts.

In Liberty,
Don Mashak
The Cynical Patriot

http://twitter.com/dmashak

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