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Christine Richardson

Washington, DC
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4 years 26 weeks

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Posted on 01/18/11 at 07:34 pm in response to Doctor had strong financial motives for launching MMR-autism scare, investigative report finds

Please check out this responsible source.

http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/735439

It is breath-taking that you folks, Wakefield true-believers, more than likely are not immunologists, or PhD vaccine researchers or medical doctors, or for that matter, have much understanding at all in applying the scientific method, yet you have the great wisdom to defend his very poor...

Posted on 01/05/11 at 02:12 pm in response to Bachmann's office confirms she's interested in running for president

Ah........ Ha,ha,ha,ha,ha,ha,ha,ha,ha,ha.

Posted on 10/04/10 at 11:08 pm in response to Garrison Keillor calls 'Lake Wobegon's congresswoman,' 6th District Rep. Michele Bachmann, an embarrassment

(#s10,11) Disrespect for diversity of opinion has nothing to do with my comments. My comments relate to Ms. Bachmann's considerable lack of talent for the position she has been elected to serve (not that there is any shortage of this phenomenon in Congress). For Mr. Swift to blather on about the physical appearance of Mr. Keillor (a professional writer of the caliber that Mr. Swift will never ever be), makes absolutely no sense in the context. His need to comment on virtually everything...

Posted on 10/03/10 at 06:29 pm in response to Garrison Keillor calls 'Lake Wobegon's congresswoman,' 6th District Rep. Michele Bachmann, an embarrassment

Thank you Mr. Swift, for providing a good chuckle on your description of Mr. Keillor's appearance last time you saw him. I've had a few of these encounters myself...which have just endeared him to me even more.

The only brain freeze and papspew in this thread has to do with the drivel from a wannabe writer who overestimates his talent as iconoclast, living in a state that is foreign to his kind of sad rhetoric. Perhaps you might find another tact (or another state).

Ms....

Posted on 07/13/10 at 01:50 pm in response to New study shows why we should be wary in evaluating Internet health info

Pleasing visual cues are the bedrock of the advertising industry. The so-called 'dumbing down' of our society, is synonymous with increasingly dulled human analytic skills.

If only the average consumer of medical information would take these recommendations seriously, and understand the inherent bias (and potentially very wrong information they are bombarded with all the time, on all media sources), and apply the same level of smart scrutiny to our overwhelmingly commercial world, we...

Posted on 06/25/10 at 11:28 am in response to Poverty: A childhood disease with lifelong consequences?

Mr. Swift,

I am not an investigator on this study, but I do believe the independent variable (the primary one) is living below poverty level, and not parenting dysfunction, or low intelligence. You are making extremely provocative assumptions here.

I notice that you are predisposed to commenting on Minnpost articles with great frequency. Given this posting, I would suggest that you not always comment, just because you can.

Posted on 06/11/10 at 03:33 pm in response to Bachmann, on the radio, says Obama worst president ever

Intelligent women's interests are set back by miles ever time this person opens her mouth. I am ashamed that my great home state would give her a podium from which she spouts her unrelenting idiocy and hate.

Posted on 02/09/10 at 01:28 pm in response to Confession of a winter wimp

I appreciate how difficult it is for you to admit to winter wimpiness. I, too, left Minneapolis for Washington, 30 years ago. I have a great love and respect for that wintery state, and plenty of extreme stories. Yes, the extreme circumstances do build character.

Known by my neighbors here in Chevy Chase, DC as the one who smirks at all stories of hardships due to snow and cold, I have never understood the fear that strikes the hearts of Washingtonians when the temperature hits thirty...

Posted on 12/10/08 at 06:13 pm in response to Daily Glean: Norm asks for it, gets FBI probe

Regarding the end of the MPR Morning Show: As a college student in Mpls during the '70's, I woke up every morning to the show. The voices of Garrison and Jim Ed Poole became as familiar as family, the wonderful silly stories and ads had me chuckling, and the traditional and folk music was soothing and fun, altogether a great way to start the day. I learned to love so many of my still- favorite performers during this time, Stan Rogers, Mary Black, Greg Brown, the McGarrigles, Sally Rogers,...

Posted on 12/01/08 at 04:15 pm in response to Coleman-Franken Recount: five piles, Harry Reid, daily spats and what's next

I left Minnesota 26 years ago and hope to return someday soon. As a civic-minded individual, who has struggled with living in the nation's capital, Washington, DC, a city with a population greater than Wyoming, and whose citizens pay high taxes and fight wars, yet has NO representation in Congress, I know something painful about the value of the concept, "one person, one vote". How dare any of the Minnesota political partisans obstruct the counting of any and all lawful ballots in this...