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Geo. Greene

Brooklyn Park, MN
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2 years 48 weeks

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Posted on 05/29/13 at 03:50 pm in response to Michele Bachmann’s legacy: prototype of today’s post-fact politician

For someone who grew up in the Space Age, back when science and reason were held in high regard, it is sad to see so many "post-fact" (love that) politicians like Bachmann paid attention to at all.

Evolution, the most settled theory in science, is opposed with trumped up junk science promoted by preachers. Scientists must be wrong about global warming, but oil companies must be right. Bachmann and her party like science when it makes them money and hate it if it might cost a company...

Posted on 11/29/12 at 02:26 pm in response to Klobuchar, Franken cheer potential filibuster reform

When I was a sprat a filibuster was so rare it made the news. It was intended to let a minor viewpoint have it's day to try to change the majority's opinion.

Now it's effectively changed the Constitution. The Constitution says 51 votes but the filibuster -when it's used routinely as a partisan tool to prevent anything the other side wants- now makes it 60 votes. This childish behavior by the GOP -I want my way and if I can't have it you can't have yours- is responsible fort the...

Posted on 11/26/12 at 12:56 pm in response to Wary business community appears ready to work with DFL Legislature

The historically monumental failure of trickle down to actually trickle down and the tragic result of deregulation resulting in our deep recession should be enough to convince anyone that Republican economics has been, as George Bush Sr. called it, voodoo economics.

It has long been a fable that business groups must necessarily support Republicans. Many business leaders believe that the public investment in schools, science, roads, courts, as well as expense deductions for building...

Posted on 11/26/12 at 05:18 pm in response to Wary business community appears ready to work with DFL Legislature

And perhaps a good first step towards solving our state's problems is for not only the legislature but also the press to understand what you said and stop thinking that the business groups with the most PAC money represent most businesses.

Posted on 11/12/12 at 01:36 pm in response to The self-blinding brilliance of Jason Lewis

Mr. Lewis and other right wing message dispensers have created a monster -the Tea Party- and it is coming back to haunt them. Fed a constant stream of hate, half truths, outright lies and a narrow and intellectually dishonest worldview, is it any wonder they've begun to believe their own spin?

Even the folks at the top of the GOP are not immune to self delusion: Mr. Romney was "shellshocked" at his loss. Romney relied on right slanted pollsters rather than more honest polling (termed...

Posted on 11/12/12 at 06:30 pm in response to The self-blinding brilliance of Jason Lewis

So it's a bad thing when two governors "mislead" but just fine for ID proponents to lie outright about there even being any voter fraud an ID would fix and hiding their real intentions: the addition of voter ID to purging of voter rolls and caging and poll challengers and robo calls for the wrong day for voting and voter registration where they throw out registrations of people saying they'd vote Democratic and, in Ohio, fewer voting machines in Democratic precincts, and, and, and....

Posted on 05/21/12 at 02:26 pm in response to Fear and loathing at the state GOP convention

The only surprise is that it wasn't the Tea Party that took over. Otherwise the GOP created their own Frankenstein monster by encouraging rabid extremism in their party and throwing out rational Republicans like Arne Carlson (who was way more adult about things, just sayin').

Posted on 11/15/11 at 01:46 pm in response to Jason Lewis' wrong and exaggerated arguments about freedom

It's always seemed to me that there are two GOP positions -the real agenda and the public agenda -a setup that can works like a "bait and switch". The real agenda is protecting wealth even if it means the middle class in America evaporates (or maybe that's the plan). That, of course, won't play well with people who are not already wealthy so a public agenda is consciously engineered to deceive voters by distracting them with emotional social issues and a vague hint that when they too just...

Posted on 08/08/11 at 03:58 pm in response to 'What Happened to Obama?' Provocative NYT essay offers skewed view

Sigh. Why is it that things always have to be one OR the other? Broadly, both Chait and Weston are right.

Yes, Weston is coming on a bit strong and should not ignore the President's accomplishments or very strong talk of the dangerous GOP policies, but by the same token, Chait's dismissal of an entire branch of science is just silly.

Cognitive science has been used successfully in marketing for many decades so it's not some new, esoteric concept dreamed up by Lakoff and Luntz...

Posted on 08/09/11 at 08:12 am in response to 'What Happened to Obama?' Provocative NYT essay offers skewed view

Mr Willard's little outburst includes two of my pet peeves. One, the assumption by right wingers that only they have ever had to meet payroll or run a business and therefore only they can understand the economy. Young man, there is no incompatibility between progressive values and business. In fact encouraging a healthy community with educated workers, good roads, enforceable contracts and the like guarantees healthy businesses over the long term.

The other fun assumption is that...