Kowabunga

Last night was the monthly gathering of the Minneapolis Townhall Meetup group, There were 22 in attendance, including several new faces, and our new-youngest member, Anna, all of five months old. We're getting em started young. Okay, so I brought my wife and daughter for the show-and-tell portion of the meeting. ?

Tracy, our ever fearful leader, and "dictator for life" (mainly because no one else want to run the thing) announced that we are currently the Number One Townhall group. Apparently, there were ome problems when Townhall discontinued its affiliation with Meetup (which is a liberal run company). The plan was that Townhall would replace the toolset provided by Meetup with their own in-house brand. Many of the Townhall Meetup groups dropped Meetup and went with Townsquare. Which never got off the ground. As our group, and a few others kept the Meetup side active, we were able to continue and flourish, while those that didn't, disappeared. Tracy went on to mention that Townhall is getting the Townsquare feature re-vitalized and hopefully will become a viable feature in the near future.

Discussions revolved around the hot-button issue of abortion, and the bill that South Dakota is pushing in their state that would ban all abortions. Let it suffice to say it was a heated discussion, and is generally thought that this total ban in SD is a bad idea for the pro-Life movement, as it is positioned to end up in the Supreme Court, where it may well fail to overturn Roe v. Wade. It is a good exercise in State's "Rights", where the central government (Federal) is supposed to be very limited, with more power being controlled at the state level.

Also on the agenda was the Dubai buy of the control of several U.S. ports. Lot's of discussion there. My point, which seemed to resonate with the group, is: "If Hillary is against this deal, I'm for it!" The reason so many Democrats are coming out against the deal is A) it's an election year, and B) they want to appear strong on defense, even though they would gladly have turned the whole country over to the likes of Pol Pot if given an chance.

The final main topic was judicial oversight in Minnesota, what can be done to rein in the liberal, activist justices, and why it is so difficult. The general feeling is that currently, it takes getting lawyers to go after activist judges, and few are willing to toss their careers in the dumpsters, which is what would happen if they tried it. Sad. Currently, the main recourse is to get the word out on activist judges and vote them out.