You might think you are the only person on your block that is pro 2nd Amendment, but when you go to the MN Gun Owners Caucus Rally Day you’ll find out you aren’t the only one. You’ll be in a sea of pro 2A gun owners and State Legislators. You might actually see one of your neighbors who goes all “Gray Man” in public and is a huge 2A Supporter.
It’s a great Networking Event.
For more information on this event please visit the Event Notice on the MN Gun Owners Caucus website link here.
This post is a courtesy to the MN Gun Owners Caucus. 2A is the law of the land and if Congress can’t create gun laws then no one should be able to. MN Gun Owners Caucus is a nonpartisan non-profit organization and none of the donations you give them come to this website. ~~ Publius Jr.
People don’t like being lied to. Democrats in House District 40B are listening to Paul Wikstrom when he knocks on their door and offers to chat with them about the Special Election on Tuesday March 11th.
When they went to the polls on November 5th 2024, they saw their candidate was Curtis Johnson and they voted him not knowing that he had lied to them, and also to the MN Secretary of State Steve Simon, another Democrat.
The Secretary of State’s Office isn’t required by Minnesota State Law to verify if candidates for office in the district in which they are filing for actually live there. No kidding. In fact they’ve known of candidates filing for office in districts other than where they live for a long time but they said they couldn’t do anything about it. Going back to the days when the former Secretary of State Mark Ritchie was in office he knew that Sharon Anderson who filed as a Republican in Senate District 64 didn’t live there. She has long stated her house in Senate District 64 was taken from her. She felt she still lived there when her residence was elsewhere, most recently in Dayton’s Bluff which is in Senate District 67. Last year was the first time she filed for the House District she lived in and beat the endorsed Republican Candidate in HD 67B by about a dozen votes because Republicans who supported the endorsed candidate didn’t show up at the Primary in August last year.
David Gottfried KNEW at the Endorsing Convention that Curtis Johnson was Ineligible
In House District 40B the DFL Party endorsed a candidate that didn’t live in their district on April 13, 2024 at the SD 40 DFL Convention. Usually officers of a local political party unit will do a basic background check on the candidates or question them before they endorse anyone, and also require 60% of delegates to endorse a candidate. At the time David Gottfried was running against Curtis Johnson for the endorsement. Mr. Gottfried knew Mr. Johnson didn’t live in the District but didn’t say anything about it at the time of the endorsement.
Curtis Johnson’s campaign Treasurer had to know he was ineligible too, Clare Sorman, yet she declares on her MN CFB End of Year Report that everything is accurate.
IF David Gottfried KNEW Curtis Johnson was ineligible to run for office in HD 40B and didn’t bother to tell anyone in his party unit, nor did he tell fellow DFLer MN Secretary of State Steve Simon that Curtis Johnson was breaking election laws. Why should he be allowed to run in the Special Election? He withheld evidence of a law being broken and he didn’t tell anyone. He even helped Curtis Johnson campaign for office for just under 7 months prior to the November Election knowing Mr. Johnson didn’t live in the District.
If you look at David Gottfried’s MN Campaign Finance 2/25/25 Report for the Special Election, there are a lot of lawyers on it. It’s understandable as he works to coordinate pro bono cases for Stinson LLP. He works for lawyers. As a person who helps to arrange pro bono cases for those that need legal help he should know right from wrong.
You might notice that there isn’t a listing of a lot of Gottfried’s donors’ employment status. People who don’t mention where they are employed are dropping hundreds and up to a thousand dollars for some donors. Unemployed people don’t have that kind of money to give away usually. You’d think the LGN Lawyers, namely Charles Nauen the top DFL attorney, the “N” of LGN would have suggested an amendment to write in the employment of some of the donors.
Gottfried’s inaction of not alerting the Chair of the HD 40B DFL Endorsing Convention, nor the MN Secretary of State that Curtis Johnson was ineligible to run for office in a district he does not live in is clearly wrong. The Minnesota State Legislature requires people to serve in the most Ethical manner. David Gottfried currently has no sense of Right & Wrong.
VOTE PAUL WIKSTROM FOR HOUSE 40B
This post was not authorized by any candidate, or candidate’s committee, nor any Republican organization in the State of Minnesota nor at the national level. Saintpaulrepublicans.us is not the SPRCC. If Paul wins he’ll be the closest we have to a State Representative in the St Paul area who is a Republican. ~~ Publius Jr.
Preparatory Training Session for Legislative Meetings that day
Updates from the MN Gunowners Caucus Leaders and allies
Update There is a Pro Gun Hearing at 3 pm
If you can’t make it to the Lobby Day Event there is a Pro Gun Hearing at 3 pm. See image below for more details.
this post was not directed by MN Gun Owners Caucus, but I, Publius Jr, get their newsletter and I wanted to do this post. Unfortunately due VA-Mpls appointments this week, I’m unable to attend this and later the Rally Day on March 29th. Though I encourage others to attend both events if they can. ~~ Publius Jr.
Jennifer McPherson, the First Female Wrestler in St Paul Public Schools, at Harding High School
I am the first female wrestler for SPPS I also played baseball and football. I am immensely proud of my accomplishments and thankful I can say that however, in a way, it hurts to say it. I think about the females before me who wanted to wrestle or play football and were denied. Those females either took that no or tried to fight back without success. I had a mother who believed that everyone, regardless of race or gender, is equal. We may have distinct gender roles, but neither is greater than the other. The day I wrestled for the first time I was in the fourth grade I did not have any training I watched my brother’s matches and said I can do that. I won a lot of matches and trophies.
1994-1995 school year a 7th grade 12 year female student joins the wrestling team at Hazel Park Academy she practices with the boys, she does everything to prove herself lifting weights, running the hall, competing for a spot and one day the school paper takes team photos for the sports teams and the school admin gets together and decide that is not okay. This young female student is pulled out of class to meet with the principal to be told because of her gender she could not be on the wrestling team. The principal gives her the handbook and she notices that it says females 12 and under may compete on the boys’ teams. The principal is enraged snatches the handbook and says, “you’re in 7th grade you cannot wrestle.” The tears rolling off her face because the wrestling mat was her freedom she worked hard to develop her technique and talents. She believed she was able to do and be anything she wanted to be. She was raised in the era when military commercials aired on the television and the most heard slogan was, “be all you can be in the Army” little did this 12-year old little girl know that freedom and dreams were limited to the military. The next two weeks she did media interviews and was sidelined with no practice at all. Her mother went to the school district to meet with the board and superintendent her classmates protested and walked out of school in support. After her story gained support from people all over, she could compete, winning her first match.
I am Jennifer my story makes me who I am today it makes me fight harder because I don’t know who has my back so I can’t stand still and allow people to be treated unfairly I ran for school board twice drawing my motivation from my mother and the community leaders from the 80’s who had a hand in raising me through Inner City Youth League. I am currently in my first year in Criminal Justice and plan to make a career in politics to help my community and country.
–Jennifer McPherson
Jennifer McPherson wrote the above narrative when I asked her to write about her fight to be able to wrestle as a girl at Harding High School. She also shared the photo above as well. She said she knew local Civil Rights leaders when she was growing up: Kwame McDonald, Bobby Hickman, Bill Wilson, William “Corky” Finney.
Jennifer is a conservative and she ran for the St Paul Public School Board in 2019 and 2021. She ran as a nonpartisan candidate as it was a nonpartisan election. Upon reading the candidate articles in the Star & Tribune by Tony Lonetree, as well as the Pioneer Press Newspapers, plus watching the SPNN LWV Forum Saintpaulrepublicans.us suggested to Republican Voters to vote for Jennifer in both years. I, Publius Jr, might add without telling her when I made the suggestion.
Jennifer is a mother who is concerned about the world her children are growing up in. She follows the example her mother set when her mother fought for Jennifer to be able to compete on boys wrestling, baseball, and football teams.
I sometimes catch myself mispronouncing her name as Jennifer “McFearsome,” but upon reflection, Jennifer is exactly that, she’s Fearsome when she sets her mind to achieving a goal.
Black History Month is really a nod toward Republican Heroes who were the foundations of the Civil Rights Era of the 1860s and beyond; Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass. Lincoln was born on February 12th 1809, and Douglass was born on February 14th 1818. It was started in 1926 by Carter Woodson, a historian. It was Negro History Week up until 1969 when Kent State University Students and Faculty suggested it should be an entire month. The first Black History Month was February 1970. In 1976 President Gerald Ford recognized it for the first time.
With this in mind I thought I’d find a local resident to write about. It was a mere coincidence that I contacted Jennifer McPherson about a Minnesota Parents Alliance project. Then I just asked if I could post something about her. ~~ Publius Jr.
We often hear the United States is a “Nation of Laws.” I disagree. We are a Nation of People who enjoy Freedom and Liberty without Government Intrusion. When we let a Government decide on what Liberties and Freedoms we can enjoy because it is more convenient for them to control us; it’s time to bring them back to the Document they signed they promised not to infringe upon our Right to Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness: the US Constitution.
They even took an oath to defend it. I remember my oath of office when I enlisted in the United States Army. We didn’t protect the people, we defend the US Constitution from Enemies Foreign and Domestic. When I served I couldn’t imagine what a Domestic Enemy was because my Commander in Chief was the greatest President of my lifetime in my opinion, no not Trump, but President Ronald Reagan. Now State & Federal Government Elected Officers seem to be breaking their oath and ignoring the Supreme Law of the Land, the US Constitution and it’s Amendments. They’ve become Domestic Enemies.
Keep this in mind while I introduce you to Dexter Taylor a Political Prisoner of the State of New York. ~~ Publius Jr.
Meet Dexter Taylor
This is Dexter Taylor. He’s many things, but he isn’t a law breaker. Here is a run down of his accomplishments.
A New York native and a Dad
a Data Engineer with almost 30 years in the software industry
A carpenter; a metalworker; an old-school analog electronics geek
See his friend Carl’s glowing description of Dexter at his X Account click here
Here’s a good brief description of what happened in Dexter Taylor’s Case by Mr Colion Noir who is a Self Defense Attorney (the video was originally posted on Mr Colion Noir’s YouTube Channel on May 14, 2024).
A Brief Description of the Case of Dexter Taylor
Since I started to do the background work on my post about the only Classroom CCW Training inside the City called St Paul, (I need to update that post as there are more than one now) I’ve been interested in building an AR-15 rifle, and maybe modifying a Kentucky Long Rifle to shoot the Federal Firestick for Muzzleloaders. I’ve a Bachelor of Science in Aerospace Engineering and I have a few other ideas on how to make truly 21st Century firearms. As I’ve gained knowledge on how one would put together a semiautomatic rifle I heard about the case of Dexter Taylor.
I thought I’d post something about it as there are probably millions of people around the planet who have constructed a rifle, muzzleloader, or what is called a Polymer 80 handgun. By the way it’s perfectly legal to build your own firearm and has been for hundreds of years. Daniel Boone a Patriot and Frontiersman used to do it.
I’m not the first person to report about this case about Dexter Taylor, and this is a good sign that people do care about him. I also notice that I’ve picked some of the same videos to explain this case as this website freedextertaylor.org has picked as well without my knowledge beforehand…even the term I made the Hashtag into. Here is Dexter talking about his background and how he was arrested (the video is from his YT Channel Carbon Mike first posted when he was still a free man on April 7, 2024. Jesse Kelly is a Marine Vet who has a Syndicated Conservative Talk Radio Show called The Jesse Kelly Show).
Yes, Dexter truly has a great voice for radio and future podcasts when someone who defends the US Constitution releases him from prison and tosses out his conviction. Just before the NY AG, Governor, the Judge in the case go to prison, their pensions and life savings need to be handed over to Dexter Taylor as compensation for interrupting his law abiding life.
In the meantime if you want to help Dexter with his Legal fees you can go to his GiveSendGo Account and toss in some donation. As of this writing he’s $139,000 short of his $400,000 goal. Surely there are some Patriots out there with deep pockets…Patriots with small pockets are are okay too.
My awareness of the case came about from some of the people I follow on X. The most well known is Rev Tim Christopher who is a Baptist Pastor from North Minneapolis, a high violent crime neighborhood of Minneapolis. He’s a huge 2A Supporter and has even testified at the Minnesota State Legislature at hearings about firearms and Second Amendment rights. In fact on Sunday nights starting around 6 pm Central Time, Rev Tim will have THE Dexter Taylor on a phone conversation on his Restream on his X account. Dexter Taylor is calling in from prison in the state of New York. Every so often he has to hang up and then call in some minutes later.
The State of New York is defying a few US Supreme Court Opinions that have supported the 2nd Amendment that allows citizens to keep and bear arms. One famous case that forced New York and other States that had a “May Issue” option to give citizens a permit to carry concealed. Most states like Minnesota are “Shall Issue” states that give permits out to law abiding citizens if they’ve met the training requirement to get the permit. The specific case, The New York State Rifle & Pistol Association v Bruen Opinion said a similar law has to be on the books at the time of the passage of the 2nd Amendment in 1791 AD that allows the State of New York to keep the May Issue Permitting they had on the books–there wasn’t one. Read theBruen opinion here. Tom Grieve in the next video goes over what the State of New York has done to get their way in jailing Dexter Taylor. He even explains how rare it is to get a concealed carry permit in the State of New York–4% of applicants who have to wait 8 months to find out if they were lucky.
Here’s Tom Grieve Explaining How the State of New York Violated Dexter’s Civil Rights to Put him in Prison.
Tom Grieve is a former Criminal Prosecutor in Wisconsin and is a current Criminal Defense Attorney there as well. He currently does 2A Legal Tips on the USCCA YouTube Channel as well as part of their training videos on their website. This video is for his own channel Atty Tom Grieve, posted on April 29, 2024.
His Credit Card Snitched to the NY Police on his Legal Gun Purchases
The worst part of this nightmare is that without someone telling the NY Police and the ATF about the legal gun part purchases Dexter Taylor was making then he would still be practicing his hobby in his basement. Instead the credit card company he used to pay for the gun parts and tools to build them sent a note to the Police and then one day as Dexter was listening to an audiobook, the ATF broke down his door and the NY Police served a search warrant. They took his firearms, his tools, and his computer, phone and whatever they could steal out of his home and his hobby room in his basement.
He didn’t deserve this treatment. He isn’t a violent felon. None of his firearms have been outside of his home. Yet the way the State of New York portrayed him while violating his Civil Rights is very disrespectful and dishonorable. There are Foreign Invaders who are committing violent crimes without any punishment.
I would like to know what Credit Card Company he used, because I think they deserve the Bud Light Treatment. They acted very much like how the Central Bank Digital Currency would act. It would flag purchases that are deemed wrong or politically incorrect. In some cases you wouldn’t be able to purchase anything, forcing one to accept whatever in order to survive another day.
A few weeks back I asked Rev Tim to ask Dexter Taylor what credit card company it was and he said it was AMERICAN EXPRESS CARD.
#FreeDexterTaylor Call to Action
I really would like to meet Dexter Taylor sometime in the future. He seems like the kind of fellow I would find interesting. Perhaps he might have some ideas on my Kentucky Long Rifle Firestick idea. When it’s legal I’d like to build a modern version of the M16A1 with the Triangular hand guards, fully auto with a selector switch, and no 3 round burst nonsense. I see these guys holding AR-15s wrong and all sorts of gadgets on them that are very unnecessary except maybe a light or an optic on them. I miss the M16A1 I had when I served in the US Army under Reagan & Bush 41.
With Trump in office I had expected him to send troops to the State of New York to arrest the characters that have destroyed that state, yet that hasn’t happened yet. Businesses and people have left seeking a better life and finding States that recognize the supremacy of the US Constitution. Dexter says in his interview with Jesse Kelly that Conservatives need to wake up and realize that our Civil Rights are worth fighting for. That’s the real message of the 2nd Amendment. If you are not willing to stand up for your rights then you won’t be able to complain when those rights become a thing of the past.
We need to stand up to the Domestic Enemies of the US Constitution and Defend it.
Call on President Trump to release all the political prisoners of the State of New York. Dexter Taylor’s case wasn’t the first time they violated someone’s Civil Rights. Their act was very polished and they didn’t show remorse for trampling on his 2nd Amendment Rights. The Conviction needs to be tossed out and set Dexter Free.
#FreeDexterTaylor
The YouTube Channel creators in this post, Tom Grieve, Mr Colion Noir, Jesse Kelly, nor Carbon Mike (aka Dexter Taylor) are not associated with this website. I thought they accurately told the story of this case. Some people like listening to videos more than reading what I write. Rev Tim Christopher is not associated either with this website either. He tends to be an apolitical person but tends to have Conservative values. His sermons on his X Account some Sunday mornings are gold. He makes me smile which is often his goal every day to make people smile. I sincerely hope Dexter Taylor can be freed soon as I’d like to have him help me build my first AR. ~~ Publius Jr.
It’s been said if you want an influx of refugees from some country overseas the US Military needs to start a war there. Afghanistan is one of those places.
Most American school kids can’t find it on a map, let alone their own State Capitol’s location even when they live a couple of blocks from it. Ask them why the US Military dabbled in foreign aid to the country of Afghanistan in the 1980s or why more recently why we fought there for over 20 years before President Trump decided to pull out the Troops from there a year by negotiating with the Terrorists known as the Taliban in 2020, then pulling out a year later. More than likely they’ll blame Biden for the withdrawal in August 2021. Do you really think Biden was capable of negotiating an exit? C’mon Man! Nope it’s Trump’s fault, or that he listened to Generals who didn’t have allegiance to the nation like General Milley.
My New Neighbors from Afghanistan
Wednesday is my Yoga Day at the VA-Minneapolis. They have a department called the Center for Integrative Health & Healing. To get there I need to catch the 3A bus going westbound, then at Snelling Ave I have to catch the A-Line rapid transit bus to the 46th St Station in Minneapolis to travel 2 stops on the Blue Line Light Rail. The VA-MPLS is technically in Bloomington Minnesota which is either the 3rd or 4th largest city in the state.
Though the first leg of this journey is from my low income apartment building on Maryland Avenue to Como & Snelling. Early Fall roughly September 2024, there was a new group of people waiting at the bus stop, a husband, wife, and a small boy. I don’t know their names and even if I could spell them I wouldn’t use them here, I respect them too much. Let’s call the husband Arman and the wife Maryam.
Each Wednesday I see them at the bus stop. Their destination is the International Institute of Minnesota it is just across the street from the MN State Fairgrounds, about a block west of the Fairgrounds Business Office. There they join other Afghanis to learn to speak English. Arman I’ve learned was a lawyer in Afghanistan. I’m not sure to what capacity if that was part of their Sharia Law or Civil Law. I’m thinking the latter, though there’s probably a lot of Muslim faith culture mixed in there.
They seem like a nice couple. Maryam does wear a head scarf but she isn’t draped in a Burka where you can only see her eyes. I’ve noticed she has had different colored head scarves. Mostly I talk to Arman. Their boy & girl 4, and 6 respectively are like regular kids everywhere who can’t wait to play and enjoy life. Hopefully they have the chance to visit a free Afghanistan in the future.
From knowing Muslims in Minnesota they are a very family based conservative group of people. There are always some fringe who have abused their freedoms offered to citizens here, but the most part they aren’t fanatical as one stereotype of Muslims are. Those who supported our troops and hoped for a Free Afghanistan deserve our respect and honor.
The Lion of Afghanistan
He is the stuff of legends, and even a fictional novel by Ken Follett “Lie Down with Lions,” Ahmad Shah Massoud. He unified factions in Afghanistan during the war they had against the Soviet Union and with the CIA’s help to push the Soviets out of the country. He also fought against the Taliban as well. Ahmad Shah Massoud was the equivalent of their George Washington, a leader on the battlefield and a leader who was able to unite people politically.
Unfortunately on September 9th, 2001 in a coordinated attack at many places Ahmad Shah Massoud was assassinated by an Al Qaeda suicide team posing as reporters.
His son Ahmad Massoud has taken up his mantle of leadership. He has written a book about his vision for a Free Afghanistan. Here is the Barnes & Noble Link to it. In the Name of My Father, by Ahmad Massoud.
The USA Has been Funding the Taliban Every Week
The interview above has chapters on different parts of the interview when different subjects are discussed. The most disgusting part of the Interview with Commander Massoud is at Time Stamp: 1:40:13. This is when he tells about how the US Government is funding the Taliban.
According to Sarah Adams, an Intelligence Analyst and a Terrorist Targeter for the CIA, who has been on the Shawn Ryan Show, says the US Taxpayers are funding the Taliban to the tune of $40 million a week.
With the attacks on US Citizens and our Allies around the world, we need to stop funding current and future terrorism aimed at the USA.
The interview by the Shawn Ryan Show was published on July 16, 2024. I’ve been busy otherwise I would have posted it sooner. Yet I looked at the Petition Shawn Ryan created and they are about 94,000 signatures short off their goal. The warnings from Commander Massoud, Sarah Adams and others are coming home now that we are seeing terrorism take place in New Orleans and other places. It’s seems like a self-inflicted wound as we are funding this nonsense ourselves. Please sign the petition above. I’m not getting compensated for posting this. I am US Army Veteran, Reagan Era, and I have new Afghani neighbors who would rather live in Free Afghanistan. Commander Massoud wants that too. ~~ Publius Jr.
The University of Minnesota Twin Cities Campus has a big grassy area bordered by hedges south of Northrop Auditorium and North of Coffman Memorial Union and it is known as Northrop Mall, or simply The Mall.
Northrop Mall – University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN – Photo by Barrett Doherty, 2021, from the Cultural Landscape Foundation website www.tclf.org/northrop-mall-university-minnesota
When I, Publius Jr, was a student in the late 90’s there I would pop out of Walter Library on the way to Akerman Hall where the vast majority of my Aerospace Engineering classes were at. On the way to Akerman, or toward Walter Library to study, I would sometimes see what became known as Mall Preachers. Often they would be made fun of by passing students yet most of the time they would gather a handful of students who would sit on the grass and listen to their testimonies for Jesus Christ.
Photo by Barrett Doherty, 2021, looking from Northrop Auditorium towards Walter Library. From the www.tclf.org/northrop-mall-university-minnesota website. The Mall Preachers would give their Christian Testimonies here.
When I would dither along the walkway across The Mall while listening to whomever was preaching there I thought it was madness to even be addressing others without some motivator. It took some real guts to stand up and talk about some belief one holds dearly only to be laughed at by ignorant people who pretend to be tolerant and having great wisdom.
Fast Forward to now while I’m writing articles about politics, events and such, I usually have something on in the background to listen to. Sometimes it’s an audiobook, sometimes it is Christian Rock, a podcast of Shawn Ryan Show, David Paulides, or Steve Isdahl, and lately it is Joe Kirby of Off the Kirb Ministries on YouTube.
What is Off the Kirb Ministries?
Saturdays at 8:30 Central Time a new video of Joe Kirby comes out and he usually has a “hook,” that pulls one in, then there is an explanation, then a Gospel Message. He never asks for money and mostly he just asks like all the other channel content creators to like & subscribe. I believe he also does not monetize his videos either. Very thought provoking videos like the one below.
Joe Kirby mentions the pyramid video in the video above. I know you’re curious about it so here it is.
You might be asking why I led with the Mall Preachers trip down memory lane. Well it’s because Joe Kirby’s best videos I think that shows the strength and courage is in his Street Preaching videos on the streets of Lancashire England. When I see videos like the one below I think of the Mall Preachers at the University of Minnesota.
Then there are some people who try all sorts of addictions that find no rest or peace in them. Then a man in the following video says his life was turned around by Jesus Christ…not the first guy dressed as Jesus on Halloween.
Speaking of Addictions…
Joe Kirby admits he had a pornography addiction. At least he was honest. He has some videos that addresses this addiction. He also has a specially written devotional that helps to wean people off this addiction plus others.
He says that addictions like pornography release dopamine in your brain and what this does is makes you feel good. When your brain gets used to this it needs more of it, so the addiction gets rooted. His devotional is called, “100 Pure Thoughts.” Each day you read the Pure Thought of the day. Eventually you wean yourself off of the addiction and replace it with a feel good message and a hit of dopamine centered upon truths from the Bible.
I actually bought it. I have a few addictions that are unhealthy. One is research. I love to research things so I tend to stay up too late because of it and don’t get enough sleep. Another is social media, I have several X accounts, 2 FB accounts, a couple Truth Social Accounts, 4 GETTR accounts though most are not mine, I just admin them for either the websites I do content for, or organizations I’m the guy who is the second person on them.
Here’s a good closing video of his that sums up his messages pretty well.
Joe Kirby’s ministry is based in Lancashire, England and is a full time Evangelist. He says on his “About” section of his YT Channel, his evangelistic outreach consists of open air preaching, church outreach events, pulpit preaching, youth ministry and of Christian YouTube videos.
As of this writing on Christmas 2024, Joe has 2.51 million subscribers on Youtube and he doesn’t monetize his videos.
If Joe, is reading this I hope you can come to the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis some time when the Mall Preachers come out in the spring and do some Mall Preaching there. I might reluctantly join you. ~~ Publius Jr. University of Minnesota Institute of Technology alumni, Class of 2000.
Almost daily there is some message from the St Paul Fire Department about digging out the Fire Hydrants in your neighborhood. In fact we have an article that never seems to get old called, “Help St Paul Fire Department Keep Fire Hydrants Free of Snow,” aka “Dig Me Out.”
Here’s the video again.
Well we have another plea this Winter.
Help Dig Out Bus Stops of Metro Transit
We’ve seen the winter scenes of the following:
This is a terrible sight especially if you don’t have a traditional or a collapsible shovel.
Or this
This stretch of sidewalk is the responsibility of either St Paul Public Works or Ramsey County to clear.
But if you have to take a bus you might be looking at this…
Why St Paul Bus Stops don’t have Winter proof bus shelters is a good question. The bench is not usable.
If you have a bus stop in your neighborhood and you’ve already have dug out the fire hydrant, please dig or snow-blow out the bus stop area wide enough for two people to stand next to each other.
This looks really good. Your Bus Riding Neighbors will thank you.
Thanks
I originally posted this on January 14, 2022. I’m currently a bus rider and most bus stops in St Paul & Mpls are covered in snow and ice. It doesn’t have to be this way. If I had a shovel I would go out and do this. ~~ Publius Jr
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Minnesota Assistance Council for Veterans (MACV) has a mission to end Veteran Homelessness in the whole state of Minnesota. They also try to help Veterans find employment.
I, Publius Jr, was helped by MACV to get on a homeless program for Veterans called HUD VASH. It is essentially Section 8 for Vets. So many Veterans qualify for this program and yet most people have no idea it exists. Even elected leaders are ignorant of the program. It started some time ago. I’ll write an article about this separately. So I have soft spot for MACV and I’ll promote them whenever I can.
At last year’s event, Reg Chapman of WCCO spoke. He is a 82nd Airborne Veteran. Bert Blyleven spoke about a relative of his who served in the US Air Force.
Saintpaulrepublicans.us is posting this event as a courtesy to MACV. We are not compensated in any way. Though I am a US Army Veteran and I’ve used their services over the years. Also contrary to what some believe, I do not get a salary for being the administrator of this website nor doing the social media on X/Twitter, FB, GETTR, and Truth Social. ~~ Publius Jr.
Since the founding of the Republican Party in 1854, Christian Values have been a cornerstone of the Party. Many think the party is all about the financial worldview but it isn’t. It was founded on the Christian Worldview and a desire to bring back the freedom and liberty of conscience and the pursuit of happiness that the Founding Fathers of the United States of America had listed in the Declaration of Independence. Members of the party today who wish to strip the party of Christianity are not welcome and we at SaintPaulRepublicans.us will work to evangelize those people to accept Jesus Christ as their Lord and personal savior. If they resist and reject Jesus we will work to remove them from the party and their ability to influence or intimidate others to feeling small and powerless without their leadership. Putting self ahead of Jesus Christ is the recipe for disaster and misery. Jesus is an excellent master who takes excellent care of all who believe in Him and do his work on Earth until He returns to rule. We believe in putting Jesus Christ First in our lives. Happy is the Nation who Jesus is Lord. ~~ Publius Jr.
This Christmas Card is for all the people who are friends, and potential friends of ours that we don’t have enough physical Christmas Cards to send out. Feel free to send it to others that you know.
We Wish you a Merry Christmas and a Peaceful New Year
God sent his only Son to redeem us from our sins and to teach us how to live, love, pray, and to serve others in His Kingdom. Jesus traded his spirit-only nature to become fully a man, fully God, and fully the Holy Spirit. To save us from our sins there needed to be a blood sacrifice of an innocent being. Jesus Bar Joseph of Nazareth was this sacrifice.
He knows what it is like to live a human life in all it’s triumphs, and it’s miseries. He asked his Father to take away his plight hours before he was arrested. Jesus enjoyed being a human, living a sinless life, but he knew he was to take on others’ sins and take the punishment that all of us deserve for living a sinful life. That punishment is death. No sin is too small to deserve this punishment. When one violates one commandment no matter how small or intentional in thought or deed you are condemned of them all. This is why we sinners need a savior to give us a new life.
God made it easy for us to do this. He sent his only Son to live and die for us, and resurrect from the dead for us, so that we can be redeemed of all the things we have ever did, or will do (you will sin again, but because you believe in Jesus, all God sees is the finished work of Jesus’ sacrifice, and God will forget your sin).
Jesus was born of a virgin and the Holy Spirit. It was necessary that he would not have a man of Adam’s disease of spiritual sin to be his father. Mary was from the lineage of King David. This was so Jesus could live a sinless unblemished life. He was Mary’s first son which gives him the characteristics of a sacrificial lamb that was used to atone for ones sins. In the Temple of God these lambs would be risen up for all to see after their execution on Passover.
Jesus didn’t come to set up a church that only perfect people can belong to. He didn’t come here to set up a holiday season that demands more and more of our money to celebrate traditions that usually get in the way of what God planned for us.
Jesus came to have a personal relationship with you. Ask yourself if you can have a fulfilling loving relationship with someone who regiments the time you spend with them with rites, brow-beating, demands that you wear special clothes, eat special foods, for only 1-2 hours (or < 1 hour during the NFL season) out of the 168 hours in a week. Do you think that relationship could last?
Jesus wants you. He doesn’t want to wait until you go through all the other things on your agenda. He wants to be first in your life and the other things a far distant second. He paid the ultimate price for you and he can wait until you come around to him…don’t wait too long, once you die you can’t change your mind. Only God knows when you will lose this life, you need to take the first step toward Jesus.
Here is the Sinner’s Prayer from the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association website:
Dear God, I’m a sinner. I’m sorry for my sins. I want to turn from my sins. I believe Jesus Christ is your Son. I believe He died for my sin and that You raised Him to life. I want to trust Him as my Savior and follow Him as Lord from this day forward. Jesus, I put my trust in You and I surrender my life to You. Please come into my life and fill me with Your Holy Spirit. I pray this in the name of Jesus. Amen.
That’s what Christmas is all about, the start of a new life in Christ.
