It's been a busy few weeks, but now that spring break's over, I'm hoping to get back in the swing of things. 

A couple of weeks ago, I was called to tape a "Citizen Endorsement" of Tom Emmer for Governor.  I taped it at the Emmer campaign HQ in St. Paul...great group guys working his campaign.  You could see a sneak-preview of Tom's general campaign at the office (should he win the endorsement on April 30th.)  It's a sentimental journey through a Minnesota life with blown up pictures of Tom and his family all around the office.  It's sort of a "Bringing Minnesota Back" feel (Reagan's "Bringing America Back" theme from 1980.)   I'm not a state delegate, but I'll be watching the fireworks at the Convention.  Truth be told, I don't have a feel for how it's going to go...but I obviously have my pick.

Around the same time I rattled off a letter to the editor re:  EP Schools and Melissa Krull's nonsense and sent it to the Sun Current and the EP News.   (The letter is here for those of you who like to follow the ongoing drama that IS the Eden Prairie school system.)  Bothpapers featured the piece and nobody issued a rebuttal the following week.  Hard to rebut the truth.  I'll wait to see if the local papers follow up on any of the facts I presented about the ongoing behind-closed-doors shenanigans of the Superintendent and her cronies.

The day after I sent that letter, I appeared on  "Fox and Friends" with my "Cool Conservative" business partner, Betsy.  We had been contacted a mere 4 days earlier and I spent those days desperately trying to get a little website ready for prime time (it didn't hold up very well.)  But, what a fun experience! 

I had done the now defunct  "Fox Dayside" show withmy sister back in 2006, with our book.  We were "live" in studio for that....we were in Minneapolis via satellite this time around.  Much harder withthe earpiece and the delay.   We were in the "holding room" with Governor Pawlenty!  He was going on MSNBC right after us.  We told him how we got on the show (Gretchen Carlson's sister heard about our shirts from a great friend and dear blog reader.)  I said, "Isn't Minnesota great?"  He said "It's the best."  (I did not debate the Governor on global warming....)  Here's the clip:  (LOVE Gretchen's dress...what a dream job, huh?)

We were immediately picked up by the Puffington Post., right back at you Ariana.  (Poor little local liberal bloggers who assail me...you have been replaced by a much larger notch in the lipstick case.)

Our website crashed once then crashed again, but it has been really fun hearing all of the feedback from the customers.  Caller after caller after caller said the same thing "I can't wait to wear this the next time I see my liberal (father, sister, uncle, co-worker, etc.)"  A message tee is a way to express yourself without having to say a word....Drawing the fire of the Huffington Post just shows that our product is already doing exactly what we want it to do. 

Then I headed down to Florida to meet my sister for spring break.  Had a great time with all of the kids.  At the hotel, we ran into my old next-door-neighbor (and good friend,) who is high-up in the world of computer security.  She consults the government and private companies and knows many of the players in the Homeland Security world and has met Janet Napolitano on several occasions.  She was even asked to work at Homeland Security, but she told me "not under this President, no way."  (I said she was my good friend.)   I asked her "are we just getting lucky right now?"  (not getting hit)  Her simple response, "Yep."

Todd and I were stopped briefly by the TSA on our way down to have our baby Tylenol "tested" and on the way back because I had a bottle of milk in the diaper bag.  A world gone completely mad, is it not?

Speaking of security and madness, I saw that the Eden Prairie High School website was hacked yesterday.  Does anybody know what the video said?  I'll assume the FBI was contacted-- or were they?  You wouldn't know reading any of the local news accounts.  I googled around a bit, I don't see any mention of other sites hacked by this same hack although the high school claims that 100 other sites were also hacked...strange.   

Another strange event at Eden Prairie High School?  The school-sponsored "Islam Awareness Week."  Oh- you weren't aware of Islam Awareness Week?  Don't worry, I'll fill you in.....soon.