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Barbara Miller

Eagan, MN
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5 years 19 weeks

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Posted on 05/29/10 at 09:55 am in response to Can Democrats counter GOP's popular bumper-sticker message: 'Honk if you love Freedom'?

"I have wondered whether some genius in Lefty Message Central is working on a killer response."

I am very late to this post. But never too late to laugh out loud at the EB quote above. "Leadership" of the "Democrat Party" has been notably MIA for several years.

I just returned from time away from the Metro area to (re)discover that absolutely nothing has changed, and that nothing of substance is coming out of the DFL. I understand it is nigh unto heresy to speak this essential...

Posted on 04/13/10 at 11:06 am in response to Overwhelming consensus from fans and players: Twins did themselves proud with new ballpark

An excellent closing paragraph! I am a Punto fan, and it's an excellent quote! :)

Posted on 02/19/10 at 01:17 pm in response to A beautiful photo of a terrible fire

Yesterday, a friend and I visited the Russian Art Museum on Diamond Lake Road. I suggested we have lunch at the Malt Shop, since he'd never eaten there. Imagine my astonishment as I approached Lyndale Avenue from the east only to discover 50th Street blocked off and filled with squads, firetrucks, firefighters, equipment and the gnarly business of getting an out-of-control fire under control. Lots of smoke. Spiky flames. Uffdah.

I grew up in that 'hood. It's a nostalgic place that I...

Posted on 01/28/10 at 12:29 pm in response to One man's embarrassing reaction to Obama's SOTU message

"Being a self-hating liberal whose mind is so open my brains have fallen out, I usually do a lot of back-and-forthing."

Okay, I'm totally laughing out loud. Wish I'd said that. I can absolutely relate!

I thought it was a terrific speech. Whoever called it "flat" is practicing polarized grinching. Whatever else the far right, near right, far left and those who don't know where the hell they are might say about it, "flat" is just wrong. I sensed under the articulate...

Posted on 01/25/10 at 12:25 pm in response to The saga that has no end: Vikings lose again

Monday morning. Dreary day in Mudville. Even so, it was a great ride. We had so much fun (and so many jangled nerves) this season. The Vikes are incomparable with regard to generating belly butterflies, aren't they?

Could they have won? Really? We'll never know. And if they had . . . ? How many cardiac episodes would that have generated?

And then there's this. Got an email earlier this morning from the Vikes, offering discounted Brett Favre merchandise. Yesterday's hero....

Posted on 01/18/10 at 01:56 pm in response to Vikings head for Big Easy after making it look easy

Oh, man, what a delicious romp that was, up to and including the unnecessary, overkill TD. Bad form. Bad boys. Bwahahaha!

My mother was a Vikes charter season ticket holder. So my family has been in this from the get-go.

Earlier incarnations of the Vikes have played Lucy with our Charlie Brown hearts. Somehow, we have lived with the scorn (much of it our own, actually) and showed up to take another run at this.

It scares the billy hell out of me to take a public...

Posted on 01/13/10 at 08:16 pm in response to Degree of Obama's follow-through will make or break health reform, Durenberger says

As usual, I'm late to the MinnPost party. Mr. D., your wife is right. The Republican party of our yesteryears (yours and mine) is an almost laughable reincarnation.

Like you, I grew up and voted Republican. It was the family way of doing things.

Eventually, I figured out that Republican values were slanting off so far to the right and the ridiculous (at least some of the time) that I could not be part of that any longer.

And so I'm not.

Dems are a fractious lot...

Posted on 01/11/10 at 12:27 pm in response to For the Vikings and Cowboys, it's high noon at the Metrodome

Yeah, what Peter said. You make me laugh, Mr. K., even as you prep us for the upcoming battle o'the titans. I'm nervous about this. Does throwing up really help?

Posted on 01/08/10 at 12:15 pm in response to Is a third wave of H1N1 coming our way?

"...it's important to understand that pandemic criteria are defined by activity rates (how many people are infected simultaneously over a number of regions) and not by mortality rates. A pandemic virus by definition is highly infective but isn't necessarily lethal."

Key concept, not well understood by public. Including me. Thanks for clarity on this.

Posted on 01/06/10 at 02:26 pm in response to Mark Dayton: No one can guarantee sobriety

Thanks, Susan!! I so hoped he'd do just that! It is a measure of my current news preference that I go to MinnPost first and generally don't get to Strib until much later in the day, if at all. Sad, really. But there you have it. Rhetorical.