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Beryl John-Knudson

Duluth, MN
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5 years 24 weeks

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Posted on 09/24/12 at 07:29 pm in response to Romney adviser Vin Weber worries about GOP turnout in Minnesota races

Vin Weber's position, and party loyalty needs to be maintained I suppose but Romney is going down the way of Bachmann I'm afraid... hopefully? .

Weber tells a delicate story but not too realistic and must be more definitive if he wants to be taken seriously?

Then again,think of a man trying to balance a tea cup with gloves on in order not to spill the contents ...not to worry Web,,,the cup is not even half full, it's empty

Posted on 09/21/12 at 08:22 am in response to We built it together: a hand up for Mitt Romney’s family, Paul Ryan’s family, and mine

...to tack on Romney's forehead; a reminder for Romney and those who support the idea of citizens as "givers and takers" or "winners and losers" or "deserving and undeserving"; or view most of the people some of the time as merely part of a percentile on a graph; or as people-commodities clinging desperately, still embracing the middle class...or just faces in the crowd?

There is a landfill of opportunity still out there maybe, if students and the jobless and the homeless and the...

Posted on 09/20/12 at 02:18 pm in response to Keith Ellison: 'I honestly don't believe most people in the Middle East hate America'

I really like Keith Ellison and I suppose it's because I trust him.That's hard to find in a politician nowadays.

I listen to him and have yet to find a point of view I disagree with. He brings a good deal of pride back to Minnesota. Minnesota can use a little more of that lately...congress too.

Posted on 09/20/12 at 07:23 am in response to Norm Coleman's anti-Rick Nolan ad deemed 'misleading'

Which would this reader rather view...a moose who essentially looks like a lumpy deer with a nose on steroids

...or native Minnesotans on Forbes list with their bank accounts on steroids?

I prefer viewing the bull moose out of his native habitat who would offer a more realistic image. Bullish indeed...

Posted on 09/20/12 at 10:40 am in response to Reaping the best treasure from our trash

I am reminded of the Hindu god with the many arms called Durga (other names too,yes), and after reading the many alternatives arrived at here in order to evaluate the highest and best design for good garbage collection...I need her arms to embrace all the suggested alternatives.

Thinking non-academically:
Probably if every family owned a cow, would erase the need for bottles and although cow dung is waste it has been recognized as dried and refueled energy for many, for...

Posted on 09/19/12 at 11:12 am in response to Commenters, MinnPost wants your views -- respectfully

..I assumed everyone did, eh? That's what keeps the debate cleaner, and keeps one more responsible for one's rhetoric and attitudes.

Certainly separates commentary here from merely a political chat room with gloves on. Possibly gives more dignity to the exchange of ideas?

As one with few certainties I do believe reading diverse points-of-view leads to a better understanding of the 'other'. And in reflection, if I may be a bit suggestive... reading attitudes of others - the...

Posted on 09/19/12 at 11:31 am in response to Commenters, MinnPost wants your views -- respectfully

Coming from a heritage of 'debaters', disagreeing at times merely for the sake of playing with another point of view...my mother's son-in-law would claim whenever, he was at a point of winning their political argument or otherwise, she would offer him a too-hot cup of coffee; enough to burn his tongue.

We keep a small bell on the kitchen table nowadays so no one monopolizes the dialogue or starts drumming on the table etc....it works at times.

Can't ring a bell or serve burnt...

Posted on 09/19/12 at 10:59 pm in response to Commenters, MinnPost wants your views -- respectfully

Just another thought:

In the banning of style and content, I did notice the frequent use of the term "Lefty" and "Leftist" used to label Progressives and appears to be acceptable to Minn Post establishment?

And assuming it is to be accepted as an alternate label...then shouldn't a second label be acceptable for right wing, t-party religious fundamentalists (since calling them "rightists" would be objectionable by those who find narrow to middling viewpoints not 'right' but...

Posted on 09/19/12 at 06:28 pm in response to Questions for Mitt Romney after his explanation of what he meant to say

I do wonder if the Cayman islands were annexed to the US, rather than under British rule...who would then be exempt from paying taxes...or tapped for failure to pay what is due?

Romney protects the few over the many, the rich over the poor which in a democratic society seems strangely consistent with more patriarchal societies which have, and still do dominate European societies?

The Romney doctrine should be listened to and hopefully he will expose his honest views and...

Posted on 09/14/12 at 07:04 am in response to Warrior Romney may have miscalculated voters' longings

Pepe Escobar ("Brother Obama, where art thou?"Asia Times.online) is a most astute and most cynical journalist who is never standing around waiting for our same old copy-cat media pollsters to tell us who's up, who's down...but sees Romney as a "foreign policy pigmy".

I like that, plus:
"The last thing Obama needs now is to gloat over his success in finishing off al-Qaeda, or to get embroiled in a messy Arab spring debate. If, as stellar Nate Silver attests Obama has 80% of...