The conservatives have been trying to change Minnesota for decades, now they have a shot. They want to make things to their liking, which is more like South Dakota and Wisconsin.
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The conservatives have been trying to change Minnesota for decades, now they have a shot. They want to make things to their liking, which is more like South Dakota and Wisconsin.
I had a political worker stop me the other day as I was leaving. She said the guys name and said he supports yadda yadda yadda. Then she said he supports lowering property taxes. I'd never heard of him. Then I asked what party he was with and she said DFL. Guess they want to turn is into South Dakotie too.
This shows the arrogance and smugness of Republican power writ large! Let's sow a little more division at the Great Minnesota Get Together.
Dump a historical figure from Minnesota because he dosn't jibe with the prvailing political power structure. Strike the names of the dessenters from every account. Do it while you can!
The two sides aren't polarized enough yet for David Strom of the Taxpayers League.
I've heard this Strom guy many times. He's a major-league asshole. And anyone here knows I don't throw that sort of terminology around.
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It started out innocently enough. I began to think at parties.
Now and then-- to loosen up.
Inevitably, though, one thought led to another, and soon I was more than just a social thinker.
I began to think alone -- "to relax," I told myself -- but I knew it wasn't true.
Thinking became more and more important to me, and finally I was thinking all the time.
That was when things began to sour at home. One evening I had turned off the TV and asked my wife about the meaning of life. She spent that night at her mother's.
I began to think on the job. I knew that thinking and employment don't mix, but I couldn't stop myself.
I began to avoid friends at lunchtime so I could read Thoreau and Kafka. I would return to the office dizzied and confused, asking, "What is it exactly we are doing here?"
One day the boss called me in. He said, "Listen, I like you, and it hu! rts me to say this, but your thinking has become a real problem. If you don't stop thinking on the job, you'll have to find another job." This gave me a lot to think about.
I came home early after my conversation with the boss. "Honey," I confessed, "I've been thinking ..." "I know you've been thinking," she said, "and I want a divorce!" "But honey, surely it's not that serious." "It is serious," she said, lower lip aquiver. "You think as much as college professors, and college professors don't make any money, so if you keep on thinking, we won't have any money!" "That's a faulty syllogism," I said impatiently.
She exploded in tears of rage and frustration, but I was in no mood to deal with the emotional drama. "I'm going to the library," I snarled as I stomped out the door. I headed for the library, in the mood for some Nietzsche.
I roared into the parking lot with NPR on the radio and ran up to the big glass doors... They didn't open. T! he library was closed. To this day, I believe that a Higher Power was looking out for me that night.
As I sank to the ground, clawing at the unfeeling glass, whimpering for Zarathustra, a poster caught my eye. "Friend, is heavy thinking ruining your life?" it asked. You probably recognize that line. It comes from the standard Thinker's Anonymous poster. Which is why I am what I am today: a recovering thinker.
I never miss a TA meeting. At each meeting we watch a non-educational video; last week it was "Porky's." Then we share experiences about how we avoided thinking. Since the last meeting. I still have my job, and things are a lot better at home.
Life just seemed... easier, somehow, as soon as I stopped thinking.
I think the road to recovery is nearly complete for me. Today, I registered to vote as a Democrat......
During the Depression, capitalism let a lot of people down. If there were socialist tendancies being touted (and I don't know enough about Olson to say) they came by it honestly. Who knows what it was like for workers and farmers.
As for Strom, I know where he can put his petition. Smug sonofabitch.
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Here's the tale of a conservative who took umbridge with a couple bumper stickers.
Swing back, Kelly
"As Mayor Randy Kelly found in the case of George W. Bush ("I hate Bush" bumper sticker), I can now attest that there also are Minnesotans who hate John Kerry.
"Recently my wife and I were in a parking lot in Minneapolis when a motorcyclist began circling slowly near us. Then he suddenly veered behind a parked car and unleashed a horrific splash of spittle onto the rear window of a humble, blue-collar sedan.
"He was clearly targeting the window's John Kerry and Paul Wellstone bumper stickers. My wide-eyed look of surprise and disgust was met with a prolonged stare as the spitter, with angry, intense demeanor, slowly eased his bike out of the lot.
"This was not my car, but I still felt deep sympathy for the public figures whose names had been completely blurred, and pity for the automobile's owner.
"I would share with Kelly that even if I were not already leaning toward supporting the Democratic candidate for president, this ugly incident was enough to turn the tide for me toward the Kerry-Edwards ticket.
"And I would ask Kelly if this does not also impress him as strong and compelling evidence on which to base another switch in his vote and his support, this time to the cause of these maligned Democrats. I might likewise appeal to Sen. Norm Coleman, who has also helped to redefine the term "swing voter," to review his options.
"There is enough time before the November election for several swings."
I was dropping off movies at Blockbuster early one Sunday morning. I parked in the spot near the door, got out, dropped my movies in the box, got back in the car, when this jackass pulls up behind me and parks his big ass SUV behind me to drop off his movies. I guess he thought he was so important he could just park wherever the hell he wanted.
No big deal, I had room to wiggle my way out so that's what I started to do. I backed up, turning the back of my car toward him because that's the way I needed to go to get out. By this time the dumbass gets back in his SUV and honks at me, like I'm gonna hit him or something. I ignored it and started pulling forward when he starts honking again and pulls forward himself so we're both next to each other. Then I'd had it. I said "I was fine you stupid shit, you're the dumbass that parked behind me".
Then the asshole freaks out like an idiot and peels out, pulling ahead of me, all the while honking at me and flipping me off. I just kept on driving behind him, hoping he'd give me a reason to get out and take my club to him. But he just keeps on driving, continuing to act a jackass and peels out of the lot and flips me off again.
So, what's my point to this story?
Well, this guy had Bush Cheney bumper stickers plastered all over his bumper and back window.
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We had a Wellstone sticker on the car too long. Awhile after the 2002 election. Didn't have the heart to tear it off. Bike rack, too on a forest green car. Unwise combination.
It's all gone, now. Except the car's still green.
"The Democrat was shipwrecked on a desert island for years and lived there alone and finally he was rescued and he showed the rescue party around the island. He said, "See there, I built myself a house over there. And over there is my barn. And that building over there is my church. And the rescue party said, "And what is that building over there?"
"Oh," he said. "That. That's the church I used to go to."
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He's fed up that things aren't to HIS liking.
Someone need to tell him Lake Wobegon is a fictional place that never existed.
"He's fed up that things aren't to HIS liking."
Of course.
The conservatives have been trying to change Minnesota for decades, now they have a shot. They want to make things to their liking, which is more like South Dakota and Wisconsin.
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Maybe MN is simply changing.
The conservatives have been trying to change Minnesota for decades, now they have a shot. They want to make things to their liking, which is more like South Dakota and Wisconsin.
How so ?
It doesn't do it on its own.
How so ?
Starts with taxes, ends with taxes.
It doesn't do it on its own.
I'm not even going to bother.
Starts with taxes, ends with taxes.
Probably. I spend more in taxes than any other expense. It's a big issue with most people. Not just Republicans.
I had a political worker stop me the other day as I was leaving. She said the guys name and said he supports yadda yadda yadda. Then she said he supports lowering property taxes. I'd never heard of him. Then I asked what party he was with and she said DFL. Guess they want to turn is into South Dakotie too.
The conservatives have been trying to change Minnesota for decades, now they have a shot.
We can hope so. We see what a horrible mess liberals have made of the state.
What areas would you describe as a horrible mess, jethro?
Taxes.
Education.
No Twins stadium.
:-)
Let's say a massive budget deficit.
As public education goes, it's certainly not Mississippi.
Minnesota has always compared favorably with the rest of the country.
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the kids heads are filled with things. too bad they aren't taught how to actually think.
"the kids heads are filled with things."
You mean like objects?
With the exception of the inner cities of MPLS/St Paul, MN schools are probably pretty good.
I heard that the list of failing schools is supposed to come out again, and that just about every public school in MPLS & St Paul is on the list.
You mean like objects?
Dump Olson, rename highway after Reagan
This shows the arrogance and smugness of Republican power writ large! Let's sow a little more division at the Great Minnesota Get Together.
Dump a historical figure from Minnesota because he dosn't jibe with the prvailing political power structure. Strike the names of the dessenters from every account. Do it while you can!
The two sides aren't polarized enough yet for David Strom of the Taxpayers League.
I've heard this Strom guy many times. He's a major-league asshole. And anyone here knows I don't throw that sort of terminology around.
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LOL
I like Strom and the taxpayers league.
Olson was a Communist, Reagan was a Communist slayer.
Makes sense to me.
Subject: Thinking Problem
It started out innocently enough. I began to think at parties.
Now and then-- to loosen up.
Inevitably, though, one thought led to another, and soon I was more than just a social thinker.
I began to think alone -- "to relax," I told myself -- but I knew it wasn't true.
Thinking became more and more important to me, and finally I was thinking all the time.
That was when things began to sour at home. One evening I had turned off the TV and asked my wife about the meaning of life. She spent that night at her mother's.
I began to think on the job. I knew that thinking and employment don't mix, but I couldn't stop myself.
I began to avoid friends at lunchtime so I could read Thoreau and Kafka. I would return to the office dizzied and confused, asking, "What is it exactly we are doing here?"
One day the boss called me in. He said, "Listen, I like you, and it hu! rts me to say this, but your thinking has become a real problem. If you don't stop thinking on the job, you'll have to find another job." This gave me a lot to think about.
I came home early after my conversation with the boss. "Honey," I confessed, "I've been thinking ..." "I know you've been thinking," she said, "and I want a divorce!" "But honey, surely it's not that serious." "It is serious," she said, lower lip aquiver. "You think as much as college professors, and college professors don't make any money, so if you keep on thinking, we won't have any money!" "That's a faulty syllogism," I said impatiently.
She exploded in tears of rage and frustration, but I was in no mood to deal with the emotional drama. "I'm going to the library," I snarled as I stomped out the door. I headed for the library, in the mood for some Nietzsche.
I roared into the parking lot with NPR on the radio and ran up to the big glass doors... They didn't open. T! he library was closed. To this day, I believe that a Higher Power was looking out for me that night.
As I sank to the ground, clawing at the unfeeling glass, whimpering for Zarathustra, a poster caught my eye. "Friend, is heavy thinking ruining your life?" it asked. You probably recognize that line. It comes from the standard Thinker's Anonymous poster. Which is why I am what I am today: a recovering thinker.
I never miss a TA meeting. At each meeting we watch a non-educational video; last week it was "Porky's." Then we share experiences about how we avoided thinking. Since the last meeting. I still have my job, and things are a lot better at home.
Life just seemed... easier, somehow, as soon as I stopped thinking.
I think the road to recovery is nearly complete for me. Today, I registered to vote as a Democrat......
"Olson was a Communist.."
During the Depression, capitalism let a lot of people down. If there were socialist tendancies being touted (and I don't know enough about Olson to say) they came by it honestly. Who knows what it was like for workers and farmers.
As for Strom, I know where he can put his petition. Smug sonofabitch.
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Can't be any worse than re-naming roads and highways for Gov. Goofy Perpich.
Here's the tale of a conservative who took umbridge with a couple bumper stickers.
Swing back, Kelly
"As Mayor Randy Kelly found in the case of George W. Bush ("I hate Bush" bumper sticker), I can now attest that there also are Minnesotans who hate John Kerry.
"Recently my wife and I were in a parking lot in Minneapolis when a motorcyclist began circling slowly near us. Then he suddenly veered behind a parked car and unleashed a horrific splash of spittle onto the rear window of a humble, blue-collar sedan.
"He was clearly targeting the window's John Kerry and Paul Wellstone bumper stickers. My wide-eyed look of surprise and disgust was met with a prolonged stare as the spitter, with angry, intense demeanor, slowly eased his bike out of the lot.
"This was not my car, but I still felt deep sympathy for the public figures whose names had been completely blurred, and pity for the automobile's owner.
"I would share with Kelly that even if I were not already leaning toward supporting the Democratic candidate for president, this ugly incident was enough to turn the tide for me toward the Kerry-Edwards ticket.
"And I would ask Kelly if this does not also impress him as strong and compelling evidence on which to base another switch in his vote and his support, this time to the cause of these maligned Democrats. I might likewise appeal to Sen. Norm Coleman, who has also helped to redefine the term "swing voter," to review his options.
"There is enough time before the November election for several swings."
Richard Ugland, Frederic, Wis.
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Worry about your own, Rick.
Start with the nutjob protestors in NY.
I worry about putting a bumper sticker on my car, now. Maybe a biker will hock a lougie on it.
One of those big, yellowish ones.
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We've got the same problem on our side of the aisle. That, and defacing lawn signs.
It's stupidity from both sides.
Maybe he'd get really mad and hock a lougie on me.
Or throw acid based paint on your Subaru.
Gotta watch who you give your opinions to these days. Someone who doesn't agree with you might mess you up.
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I was dropping off movies at Blockbuster early one Sunday morning. I parked in the spot near the door, got out, dropped my movies in the box, got back in the car, when this jackass pulls up behind me and parks his big ass SUV behind me to drop off his movies. I guess he thought he was so important he could just park wherever the hell he wanted.
No big deal, I had room to wiggle my way out so that's what I started to do. I backed up, turning the back of my car toward him because that's the way I needed to go to get out. By this time the dumbass gets back in his SUV and honks at me, like I'm gonna hit him or something. I ignored it and started pulling forward when he starts honking again and pulls forward himself so we're both next to each other. Then I'd had it. I said "I was fine you stupid shit, you're the dumbass that parked behind me".
Then the asshole freaks out like an idiot and peels out, pulling ahead of me, all the while honking at me and flipping me off. I just kept on driving behind him, hoping he'd give me a reason to get out and take my club to him. But he just keeps on driving, continuing to act a jackass and peels out of the lot and flips me off again.
So, what's my point to this story?
Well, this guy had Bush Cheney bumper stickers plastered all over his bumper and back window.
[Edited 2 times. Most recently by on Aug 30, 2004 at 06:52pm.]
We had a Wellstone sticker on the car too long. Awhile after the 2002 election. Didn't have the heart to tear it off. Bike rack, too on a forest green car. Unwise combination.
It's all gone, now. Except the car's still green.
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[Edited by on Aug 30, 2004 at 07:06pm.]
Bill,
What are you talking about ?
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And all within view of the news-cameras, I might add. I like that part of the combination...
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/08/31/entertainment/main639678.shtml
Look what Mike Moore does in view of the cameras
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well, McCain IS a loser... he lost to Bush in the primaries in 2000... victim of the same type of dirty tricks Kerry is now being subjected to.
[Edited by molegrass on Aug 31, 2004 at 10:12am.]
Kerry isn't being subjected to dirty tricks he is being subjected to his past.
well, McCain IS a loser... he lost to Bush in the primaries in 2000... victim of the same type of dirty tricks Kerry is now being subjected to.
Deflect, deflect, deflect.
deflect from what?
You pointing out that Moore called McCain a loser?
I don't think so
Dishonest, dishonest, dishonest
Just like McCain was being subjected to his past experiences making him mentally unbalanced...right.
[Edited by molegrass on Aug 31, 2004 at 10:24am.]
you are just being subjected to your posts.
So I can presume you approve of Mike Moore's action at the convention?
It's called freedom of speech
Approving of free speech is not the same as approving of what is being said.
If I didn't approve of free speech, I wouldn't allow you to post here, because I certianly don't approve of what you have to say.
Do I think McCain is a loser?
No.
I think he is a hypocrite.
and Micheal Moore is a liar.
A little humor for Garrison Keillor:
"The Democrat was shipwrecked on a desert island for years and lived there alone and finally he was rescued and he showed the rescue party around the island. He said, "See there, I built myself a house over there. And over there is my barn. And that building over there is my church. And the rescue party said, "And what is that building over there?"
"Oh," he said. "That. That's the church I used to go to."
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LOL!
That was a good one.
Read the article, meathead.
Have you lost your mind?
I did post the link!