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Dan Gerber

Mpls, MN
Commenter for
3 years 42 weeks

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Posted on 10/28/09 at 02:28 am in response to Kiffmeyer relationship with bank not interesting enough?

What did Jesus do? He threw the money changers and
profiteers out of the temple. I'm guessing they'd
have been thrown out of Wall Street too.

Posted on 11/05/09 at 02:33 am in response to Among possible responses to GAMC problem: respite care for the homeless

"While GAMC is not going to be reinstated in its current form, the vast majority of people on GAMC are eligible for MinnesotaCare. Moving forward, we will be seeking to modernize and reform Minnesota's publicly subsidized health-care programs, which have been growing at unsustainable rates for years."

Governor Pawlenty and his administration and his party
are philosophically opposed to state programs such as GAMC
and MinnesotaCare. GAMC has been "modernized and reformed";...

Posted on 10/17/09 at 06:13 am in response to Famous 'moon footstep' optical illusion shows the trick our brain plays

Weird. I don't see it on the first photo, and
can't make it happen for me. But looking at the
flipped photo, it "jumps out" after a few moments,
and now I can't see the flipped one correctly. I
think the memory of having seen the correct one
so many times as an impression in the dust has
something to do with it for me.

Posted on 10/17/09 at 06:26 am in response to Famous 'moon footstep' optical illusion shows the trick our brain plays

If you look at the original (top) photo, the light
is coming from the right at an angle, casting a deep
shadow where the heel is. With the light coming from
the same direction and angle on the flipped version,
the heel seems to have broken off and fallen into the
shadow.

Posted on 09/19/09 at 12:40 am in response to A toned-down Bachmann speaks at Values Voter Summit

"You [would] own your health care just like you own car insurance or home insurance," Bachmann said.

I purchase insurance; whatever kind, it's not
something tangible that I "own" like a car or a house. I'm paying for a service to be part of a risk pool. The larger the pool, the lower the cost should be, right? 45 million people in the same large pool ought to be able to bring down costs considerably. I'd guess that the pool would grow larger, once the idea catches on! Saving...

Posted on 09/19/09 at 01:46 am in response to Where's the line between anger over policy differences and racist remarks?

I asked my daughter (20-something Boston University linguistics major) what conno-tation the word "uppity" had to her, with
or without another word. She wanted some context of the word used in a sentence,
and I sensed that her initial reaction was "racial," so I told her about having read this post and called it up.

Her reaction after having read the opening
section was along the line of "how can it
not be racial?"

I brought up that the 20-somethings...

Posted on 09/19/09 at 02:05 am in response to Minnesota lawmakers find plenty of faults in new health-care proposal

Insurance premiums, $5,000.00.

Hospitalization for your illness, $50,000.00.

Preventive medicine, treating you before it
gets out of hand as in Great Britain? Priceless!

Posted on 09/12/09 at 07:07 am in response to Pawlenty on MSNBC: Fear of death panels not irrational

I had to provide proof of citizenship for MinnesotaCare
a couple of years ago after that renewal requirement was
added to all the other proofs being asked for. Having been born in the formerly Belgian Congo, I didn't have a county courthouse to go to for a copy of a birth certificate. I couldn't find my passport I'd had in college in the '70's when I spent a study trimester in Haiti. My parents did
find a Belgian issued birth certificate, not one from a U.S. consulate, and...

Posted on 09/12/09 at 07:48 am in response to Open-source react to Best Buy, Windows training

Ubuntu Linux and Mozilla Firefox: Works great for me!

Posted on 08/27/09 at 04:07 pm in response to More evidence for U.S. overuse of CT scans and other medical imaging

There's a longer response of mine about recent medical history here, see #24:

http://www.minnpost.com/stories/2009/08/24/11049/individual_policies_the...

That said, a benign cyst was found that I've probably had
for some time; yet another pre-...