Defend Patty Wetterling
The Repubs are attacking Patty Wetterling (Minnesota's 6th Congressional District candidate) mercilessly in negative advertising. This is a woman who is nationally known as a tireless advocate for...
View ArticleMinnesota victory
In Minnesota, the Republican party lost a lot of seats in State house races. Minnesota voter turnout was highest in the nation. In Minnesota, the Repubs have blocked public investment in roads. They...
View ArticleFake democrat Randy Kelly trails challenger
The mayor of Saint Paul is Randy Kelly. He calls himself a "lifelong democrat", yet in 2004 he actively campaigned for George W Bush and has supported Minnesota repub governor, Tim Pawlenty. He...
View ArticleOngoing, online, fundraising rummage sale?
If you could buy, sell or give away an item in a venue that would benefit a liberal cause or a liberal democratic canditate, would you give it a try? Liberals and progressives don't have the deep...
View ArticleGrover Norquist: ""The Democrats cannot be bribed, cajoled or...
We should not forget that Bush still is going to try to attack Social Security, Medicare and other "entitlement programs" after the election. However, Grover Norquist says the Democrats are too...
View ArticleFauxians: Iraqians, I mean Iranians, I mean umm...
In a journalistic scoop Faux News is reporting that somebody is shredding live rabbits. Always thorough in fact checking, the Great Fauxians report: Live Rabbit Torn to Pieces by Iranian Soldiers...
View ArticleListening to Iraqi Sami Rasouli
I originally posted this as a comment in another thread, but decided to make it a diary. On Sunday, I heard Sami Rasouli, an Iraqi American who has traveled to Iraq repeatedly since 2004 promoting...
View ArticleBreaking! ABCnews Shamelessy Slants an Online Poll
ABC News has on online poll. The Home page asks: "VOTE: Should Bush Agree to a Timeline for Withdrawal? " If you click on the link, you see three choices: O Yes, blah blah blah O No, blah blah...
View ArticleBush connects "killing fields" to vietnam
According to CNN, Bush will invoke Vietnam to demonstrate why we should stay in Iraq. http://www.cnn.com/... One of his references is to the "Killing Fields", implying that they occurred because the US...
View ArticleBig Gains in the Burger Market! Up 145 Points!
I am not an economist, so I have long wondered how the increase in market price of stocks relates to the value of the dollar. The two topics are rarely covered together. It often seems as if they...
View ArticleObama vs ClintonMcCain
Now that Clinton has developed the narrative that, because of experience, McCain and Clinton are both better than Obama. It follows naturally that McCain is better than Clinton, because he has more...
View ArticleDoes Obama respond to media requests? (w/poll)
As a tech business owner, I read Information Week magazine. There was a posting today titled: Obama's Tech Outreach Betrays Small Glitches See: http://www.informationweek.com/...
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Where does the pork go? A curious paradox.
This discussion of Pork and the Repubs supposed rejection of it sent me looking for some maps I have seen from time to time that compare the tax paying states with the tax receiving states. The...
View Article700 Billion to Invest ... In what??
If we have 700 billion ( or more ) to invest, wouldn't there be a lot better ways to pump it into the economy than buying up worthless paper? Why should we pump money into the losers and thieves that...
View ArticleDid Dave Durenberger just endorse Obama?
In a letter to our local paper, our moderate republican former senator from Minnesota ( http://en.wikipedia.org/... just wrote a letter to our local paper that sounds a lot like an Obama endorsement....
View ArticleI have lonely money ...(updated)
Proposal for Blue Action Fund I was one of the many people who supported Obama and other Dem candidates all over the country this year with small donations. Now that the elections are over, I have...
View ArticleREDSTATE WEBSITE VIRUS
The redstate website has a virus that is designed to trick you into installing fake antivirus software on your computer. If you visit the Redstate homepage, a window will pop up saying you have a...
View ArticleMN: Norm Coleman: Broke,Incompetent,Corruptable
A couple of shockers from todays StarTribune. Norm Coleman owes 3/4 Million dollars on a house that has a 2009 estimated market value of $615,000. He refinanced 12 times in 14 years....
View ArticlePraying terrorist drives truck into Planned Parenthood
Today, the anniversary of Rove V Wade, a praying man drove his SUV into a planned parenthood clinic in St Paul Minnesota. The man, who has refused to identify himself, was arrested and charged with...
View ArticleSay No to Mark Dayton, please
In 2000 Mark Dayton ran in the primary, spending his own money to defeat the DFL endorsed candidate for senate. He weaseled his way through six years as a Senator and decided not to run for...
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