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Beryl John-Knudson

Duluth, MN
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Posted on 11/06/12 at 11:50 pm in response to Marriage, voting amendments defeated; DFL retakes Minnesota Senate, House

David Brooks in the middle of PBS campaign coverage just about an hour ago gave Amy Klobochar a pretty neat comment praising her generally non-sophisticated ; no uppity lady approach in her relationship to the Minnesota voters etc...maybe 'down home' was the word?

It is a night for some celebration and worth quoting Brooks as it was a rare compliment indeed... Maybe somebody could add the direct quote of Brooks?

As one from the farther left, I suppose this voter had hoped...

Posted on 11/07/12 at 11:06 am in response to Marriage, voting amendments defeated; DFL retakes Minnesota Senate, House

...so what happened to all that fundamentalist conservative momentum, tea party etc.... and their lead presidential candidate unable to suck in enough voter appeal in spite of the money sent; now all wasted?

All I can figure out is... in the beginning was the word and the word was with deception and Deception was the word....

Guess you can't fool all-of-the-people-some-of-the-time; or all of the time, somebody said some time ago.

Posted on 11/06/12 at 09:16 am in response to Watchdog groups, political partisans plan busy Election Day at Minnesota polls

...check out..."It boils down to Romney, his wife, son and brother being owners, a private equity fund which invested in H.I.G. Capital, the majority shareholder of Hart Intercivic. Hart is simply the U.S.'s third largest voting machine company. Their quite unreliable machines will be counting votes today in quite a number of swing states.", on the road with Pepe Escobar traveling Highway 66, "Down and out in the Romney Hotel" Asia Times online this rainy morning.

Get out and vote......

Posted on 11/04/12 at 08:06 am in response to Final hours of Cravaack-Nolan race: Big bucks, sharp attacks

One thing one learns here, is that elections can, probably, be bought ; a destructive, embedded belief this time around and any candidate supporting such non-democratic means to achieve election is a joke; a sick joke on the voter.

The media - print or radio, television etc - will benefit royally as candidate ads clog like a grand tsunami of lies and accusations...notoriously publicizing their own incredibility with back-to-back canvasing ads... every available white space in a...

Posted on 10/25/12 at 10:58 am in response to Independent groups spending record sums to win control of Legislature

Excerpts from "People tell me" speech from ON The Road with Paul Wellstone; newsletter, winter, 1998:

"People yearn for a politics that speaks to them and includes them; not politics dominated by big money"

"Let us begin a new century of citizenship. Let us begin a new century of American justice. Let us strive for another 100 years of social and economic progress."

"We need to renew the shared sense of community on which this country grew to greatness."

"When I...

Posted on 10/25/12 at 09:48 am in response to Ten years later: We still need the ‘Wellstone way’

"As a favor to the American People, we need more strong, authentic populist candidates to fight back against big money and their friends in Congress and focus on the kitchen table issues central to the lives of working families" "On The Road" newsletter, Senator Wellstone, Winter 1998

...and your friend Jeff Blodgett is here naming those so inspired...it's happening Paul so raise your fist in triumph still, ten years later, yes!

Posted on 10/25/12 at 10:29 am in response to Paul Wellstone: a leader who respected people — and was inspired by them

North Woods Benedictions 2002:

North Woods in Autumn carry a heavy burden now...moss and lichen thrive here, hidden under leaves where alien chips of metal and debris share this place as smoke rises; a grey steam-like fog above the tops of broken trees.

Fuel fumes do not blend well with natural perfumes of Cedar, Aspen, Birch...or is it Jack-Pine? These woods are no cathedral but one dark, dank place of shadows unresolved; where even the birds have flown away.

Yesterday...

Posted on 10/23/12 at 04:04 pm in response to Mondale talks candidly about Paul Wellstone’s death and legacy — and the tumultuous aftermath

My perspective a little different I suppose, but never considered Rick Kahn out of step with his "rant" as they say, for a lost friend who never gave up or spoke in moderated tones when he believed strongly for something.

I voted for Ventura and liked him most of the time but I do believe his initial public rant against Rick Kahn was beyond the pale.

... and, ever notice when one public figure, political celeb, says something dramatically controversial or otherwise..., media...

Posted on 10/22/12 at 08:21 am in response to Monday’s debate: Watch for what Romney says about Europe

Here's a question that will never be asked and the pic above certainly fortifies the vacuous nature of the face so exposed:

How many nuclear missiles does it take to destroy our 'enemies' or our perceived enemies?

Is Uncle Sam an old codger suffering from nuclear bulimia in some cockamamie attempt to defend himself...precariously trying to secure peace by intervention that is essentially exploitation...yet we store N weapons that could destroy this great globe a thousand times...

Posted on 10/18/12 at 01:23 pm in response to A solid debate ‘win’ for Obama

Can't get Romney's "Binder Women" out of my mind with memory so enchanced;
enthralled, appalled...by 47% at least?

Did Mitt snap them in a binder cell...where he kept them very well; and better than a pumpkin shell?

Until he needed one; maybe even choosing two or three, I presume?

Did he raise them out of binder-bound existence like characters in a children's pop-up book?

Did he call them by name; Mary, Jane...or Binder A or Binder B etc.?

Certainly...