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Minnesota Conservatives: Please Share This Important Video

Sun, 06 Dec 2009 18:35:00 -0500

MC previously wondered about the suddenly short hair. Now we know.

Grizzly Groundswell: Term Limits! Are we really that lazy?

Sun, 06 Dec 2009 18:28:54 -0500

Seriously, Are we really that lazy of a Republic that we need to set term limits for our elected officials? A term limit is a legal restriction that limits the number of terms a person may serve in a particular elected office. Term limits are found usually in presidential and [...]

the cucking stool: Jeebus Christmas, Luke

Sun, 06 Dec 2009 18:28:00 -0500

Is that all you’ve got? Somebody called this to Spot’s attention this afternoon, because heaven knows, he never would have gone over to MDE without prompting. Luke Hellier or Michael Brodkorb — or whoever is actually writing Minnesota Democrats Exposed these days — posted a bit of video from R.T. [...]

Silenced Majority Portal: Palin's First Speech for Cleric-in-Chief 2012

Sun, 06 Dec 2009 18:01:00 -0500

Forget about separation of Church and State!! nice Communist hat .. Morans waited out in snow for hours in Missouri, Sioux City (in county with 2000 Democrats and 13,000 Republicans) and Sioux Falls, SD [...]

Silenced Majority Portal: Marilyn Monroe Smoking Pot?

Sun, 06 Dec 2009 17:42:00 -0500

Marilyn Monroe Smoking Marijuana (Allegedly) In Home Movie (VIDEO)CTV News | Does a home movie show Marilyn Monroe smoking pot? [...]

Silenced Majority Portal: Republicans of Today Evoke the "Know Nothing Party" of the 1800's

Sun, 06 Dec 2009 17:39:00 -0500

This is from Glenda, who wrote: I think a movement could be started with the CONS. They seem to be in complete sync with the "Know Nothing" party back in the 1800's. They could also be the "Do Nothing" party....' [...]

Mercury Rising: Honduras Coup, Act VI, Day 7

Sun, 06 Dec 2009 17:25:27 -0500

Arturo Cano of La Jornada of Mexico has an article for you Opus Dei fans, explaining their role in the coup. Four thousand (our of 45 thousand) of the “actas” (voting documents) show irregularities, according to Tiempo. These include erasures, blots, a lack of signatures, etc. In one voting center [...]

Blog of the Moderate Left: “The Christmas Shoes” Explained

Sun, 06 Dec 2009 17:00:06 -0500

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Patton Oswalt on the worst Christmas song ever recorded. NSFW, but completely accurate.

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Mr. Dilettante: Bjorn Again

Sun, 06 Dec 2009 16:37:00 -0500

One of the smarter voices in the AGW debate is Bjorn Lomborg, author of the Skeptical Environmentalist. He makes some valuable points in this essay for Time. First, of all, he's a realist.

For years, we have been spinning our wheels on what I call the Rio-Kyoto-Copenhagen road [...]

Engage Minnesota: The Kool-Aid Syndrome and Somalia’s Fading Hope

Sun, 06 Dec 2009 13:39:14 -0500

Naari meel qabow ma leh. –A Somali adage that says there are no cool corners in hell By Sadia Ali Aden Approximately nine months ago, the UN-sponsored peace conference in Djibouti produced the current president of the Transitional Federal Government (TFG) in Somalia, Sheikh Sharif Sheikh Ahmed. President Ahmed’s internationally supported unity government continues [...]

MN Progressive Project: RT Rybak for Governor Kickoff

Sun, 06 Dec 2009 13:35:12 -0500

I'm here at the kickoff for RT Rybak's campaign for governor. RT just announced that he will be running for governor. Updates will be coming. The MNGOP is here, scared much?

You can follow along on Twitter here

1:34: We showed that you can be progressive and have strong management. [...]

Norwegianity: So how did those tax cuts work for you?

Sun, 06 Dec 2009 13:25:18 -0500

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MinnesotaBrown: COLUMN: "How rude our world really is"

Sun, 06 Dec 2009 12:48:00 -0500

This is my weekly column for the Sunday, Dec. 6, 2009 edition of the Hibbing Daily Tribune. A version of this piece aired on a recent "How Rude"-themed episode of "Between You and Me" on KAXE. ‘How Rude’ our world really is
By Aaron J. [...]

mnpACT!: Current GOP Guv Field -- Norm Coleman is Smiling

Sun, 06 Dec 2009 11:49:37 -0500

by Dave Mindeman

The GOP Governor field is in a state of stasis. Seifert is still the clear front runner....Pat Anderson and Tom Emmer are jockeying for second fiddle....and David Hann is in a distant dark horse position. The rest of the field (Leslie Davis, Phil Herwig, and Bill [...]

Anti-Strib: An indepth explaination of the MMGW lie

Sun, 06 Dec 2009 11:25:07 -0500

Truth be told -- even reasonably reliable instrumental readings are a relatively modern convenience, limiting CRU’s global measured temperature database to a start date somewhere in the mid-19th century. That’s why global temperature charts based on actual readings typically use a base year of 1850 or somewhere thereabouts.

They [...]

RS Paxton: Burn ‘em at the Stake, All of ‘em.

Sun, 06 Dec 2009 11:03:49 -0500

While there are those ready to burn the scientists at East Anglia at the stake, I’m not ready to light the match, at least not yet. I have a little problem with accusing and burning Academia at the stake and that’s what’s going to happen, regardless of what the facts [...]

Silenced Majority Portal: Kucinich on O'Reilly Factor: War Is Not Good For Our National Security

Sun, 06 Dec 2009 11:02:00 -0500

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Across the Great Divide: DFL Candidates for Governor: Desperately Seeking Country Cred.

Sun, 06 Dec 2009 10:51:14 -0500

Thank goodness I'm only a blogger instead of a candidate for Governor. Otherwise, my About page would have to read more like this:

Charlie Quimby was born in Rifle, Colorado, a town of about 2,000 known as the Trout Hatchery Capital of the World. Growing [...]

Mr. Dilettante: New Adventures in the Age of Enlightenment

Sun, 06 Dec 2009 10:50:00 -0500

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The Times of London reports that the British Meteorological Office is going to re-examine 160 years of climate data:

The new analysis of the data will take three years, meaning that the Met Office will not be able to state with absolute confidence the extent of the warming [...]

Silenced Majority Portal: Jesse Ventura Says MSNBC Nixed His Show for Not Supporting Iraq WAR

Sun, 06 Dec 2009 10:40:00 -0500

According to Star Tribune's blog recently, Ventura says MSNBC nixed his show for not supporting the Iraq War . He said the network "in essence" paid him to be silent, which allowed him to purchase a house in Mexico. What... [...]

Silenced Majority Portal: NOLA 9th Ward: Musicians' Village & Brad Pitt projects

Sun, 06 Dec 2009 10:14:00 -0500

When we were there recently, we didn't really get time to take the 9th ward tour and rental cars were gone, but here is some information about some things that are going on there. It's pretty easy to see the...' [...]

Silenced Majority Portal: SCIENCE: Mapping of the Amnesiac Brain

Sun, 06 Dec 2009 10:09:00 -0500

It's kind of exciting how the brain of an amnesiac was mapped! I've worked with people like this and they're fascinating because they can be unaware of their affliction. I've seen it mostly after the anoxia caused by cardiac arrest...' [...]

MN Progressive Project: Stay Committed, Stay Strong, Stay True

Sun, 06 Dec 2009 09:57:22 -0500

A couple of years, I caused a room of indrawn breaths when I said that the commitment to being a peacemaker was a lifelong commitment. People hoped that a year or two of activism would bring peace then life would get back to normal. After the news of permanent climate [...]

Let Freedom Ring: Copenhagen Compromised

Sun, 06 Dec 2009 09:49:13 -0500

George Will’s column on climate change is the best explanation of what went wrong with the science supposedly supporting climate change. Here’s a blast that’s certain to leave a mark:

The Financial Times’ peculiar response to the CRU materials is: The scientific case for alarm about global warming “is growing [...]

True North: Copenhagen Compromised

Sun, 06 Dec 2009 09:45:08 -0500

George Will's column on climate change is the best explanation of what went wrong with the science supposedly supporting climate change. Here's a blast that's certain to leave a mark:

The Financial Times' peculiar response to the CRU materials is: The scientific case for alarm about global warming "is growing'" [...]

Norwegianity: Daring to choose small govt, big war and the patriarchy

Sun, 06 Dec 2009 09:26:50 -0500

Another very special column from Katherine Kersten this morning. Keywords include: oil oozing glare with disgust sticky handprints shill But that’s just Kersten’s description of some nasty ad running against Michele Bachmann. Here are the words Katherine uses to describe Bachmann’s enemies: smear machine (fueled by huge sums of cash) Public Enemy No. 1 cabal of Democratic activists the [...]

Let Freedom Ring: Forget the Bonding Bill, Fix the Economy

Sun, 06 Dec 2009 08:44:54 -0500

DFL leadership is salivating thinking about passing a $1,000,000,000 bonding bill when they should be prioritizing fixing Minnesota’s economy:

House Speaker and 2010 gubernatorial candidate Margaret Anderson Kelliher, DFL-Minneapolis, said during one of the flurry of press conferences following Wednesday’s release of the November economic forecast that she would like [...]

True North: Shut Up, He Explained

Sun, 06 Dec 2009 08:44:52 -0500

In its battle to nationalize health care the Obama administration has done its best to buy off or silence big business. Taking a lesson from the defeat of Hillarycare, the Obama administration has sought to preempt the return of Harry and Louise. This time around, Harry and Louise [...]

Minnesota Democrats Exposed: RYBAK APPLAUDS OBSCENE T-SHIRT

Sun, 06 Dec 2009 08:41:55 -0500

Thursday night Minneapolis Mayor RT Rybak was at a Drinking Liberally event in Minneapolis. During his address to the crowd he told an attendee, “I like your shirt.” The shirt in question says F*CK COLEMAN. As in former United States Senator Norm Coleman. The video from the event is [...]

True North: Forget the Bonding Bill, Fix the Economy

Sun, 06 Dec 2009 08:41:50 -0500

DFL leadership is salivating thinking about passing a $1,000,000,000 bonding bill when they should be prioritizing fixing Minnesota's economy:

House Speaker and 2010 gubernatorial candidate Margaret Anderson Kelliher, DFL-Minneapolis, said during one of the flurry of press conferences following Wednesday's release of the November economic forecast that she would like [...]

Grizzly Groundswell: Big Tobacco pays blood money for lung cancer research

Sun, 06 Dec 2009 07:20:23 -0500

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Every one knows that cigarettes eventually kill you. I don’t smoke but if I could get away with it, I would still be smoking because I loved every drag I took! I smoked 3 1/2 packs a day until it dawned on me that I was digging my own grave. [...]

Grizzly Groundswell: Missouri and States Sovereignty

Sun, 06 Dec 2009 07:00:47 -0500

It is time to stress the importance of the rights and protections to be exercised by the several sovereign States afforded to these United States of America under the Tenth Amendment. [...]

Let Freedom Ring: The Woman With a Bullseye On Her Back

Sun, 06 Dec 2009 03:01:58 -0500

Saturday afternoon, I attended Michele Bachmann’s Christmas party in St. Cloud. There she revealed what I already knew: that Speaker Pelosi has painted a big bullseye on Michele’s back. I think that’s because Speaker Pelosi hates Michele’s principled opposition to Speaker Pelosi’s radical agenda.

Michele’s principled opposition to Speaker Pelosi’s agenda [...]

True North: The Woman With a Bullseye On Her Back

Sun, 06 Dec 2009 02:53:50 -0500

Saturday afternoon, I attended Michele Bachmann's Christmas party in St. Cloud. There she revealed what I already knew: that Speaker Pelosi has painted a big bullseye on Michele's back. I think that's because Speaker Pelosi hates Michele's principled opposition to Speaker Pelosi's radical agenda.

Michele's principled opposition to Speaker Pelosi's agenda [...]

Martin Andrade Blogs: Christmas Gift Guide 2009

Sun, 06 Dec 2009 01:42:30 -0500

For Teens (and others) A College Education You could do this the right way, send your budding mush-brain off to some pricey ivy-league school and throw 30,000 dollars down the drain a year for four years only to get some liberal arts degree that will do them no good whatsoever. Or you can [...]

MN Progressive Project: Timmy's Happy Trails 12/6/09

Sat, 05 Dec 2009 23:31:58 -0500

- There is a huge irony in a fatuous free-market fundamentalist like MN Gov. Tim Pawlenty taking his imbecile talking points to South America, which is where he's scheduled to be until Friday. That continent, especially Chile, the location of much of Gov. Gutshot's itinerary, provides a good deal of [...]

Twin Cities Daily Planet: Home, for now, in Minnesota

Sat, 05 Dec 2009 23:23:23 -0500

News Story

This Thanksgiving Sara Avendano, an undocumented immigrant from Mexico who was facing deportation, had something to be thankful for. Avendano had just received a last-minute reprieve from the Department of Homeland Security. She was granted a humanitarian parole that will allow her to [...]

MN Progressive Project: Mud Soup 12/6/09

Sat, 05 Dec 2009 22:58:24 -0500

- Gavin Sullivan on the CD3 (Paulsen) race. His eclectic list of favorite blogs is also worth some clicks.

- A climate talks primer ('Copenhagen 101') from grist. 'A Beacon in the Smog,' indeed.

Update

- Norwegianity's Sunday post is a righteous way to occupy oneself on a cold quiet' [...]