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Greg Kapphahn

Alexandria, MN
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2 years 48 weeks

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Posted on 12/23/10 at 09:03 am in response to Minnesota activist Jacob Reitan on hand for historic morning ceremony ending 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell'

No doubt some of the commentariat, here, followed the chickenhawk example of their heroes, Rubaugh, Rove and Cheney who, although they LOVED sending other people's children to war, NEVER considered putting themselves in harm's way and, indeed, avoided service (by hook or by crook) when their time came.

Or perhaps they followed in the footsteps of the CEO of Bushco and got their daddies to arrange for them to serve out of harm's way. Then when they got bored with being in the...

Posted on 12/22/10 at 02:12 pm in response to Blogger goes after Target's political donations and Strib

Somehow I can't help but come to the conclusion that using profits you've extracted from your customers' and your employees' pocketbooks to contribute to the campaigns of politicians who would like, not only to stand in the way of some of those customers gaining equal rights but take away some of the rights to "life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness" those same customers have already won is a bit more serious an offense...

than taking a few dollars from those who already have...

Posted on 12/21/10 at 06:34 pm in response to Almost no one pleased with FCC action on Internet

And yet, #1, that is precisely the future of the internet and what will drive the general public to pay for increased levels of service.

What's important is that the customers who pay for a particular level of service have access to the content THEY choose to view, rather than giving their internet provider the choice of what individual customers should be allowed to view (with a preference for their own products).

The fact is, internet access which arrives at your house...

Posted on 12/21/10 at 12:21 pm in response to Minneapolis violent crime drops to 1980s levels

Let's see, King Timmy was lying about something. The more relevant question is when WASN'T he lying (or at least manipulating the numbers and shading the truth so as to render them unrecognizable).

I suspect it's time to clean house at DHS and all other state departments. As we have long known from the workings of the DOT under King Timmy's appointed head, the royal court kept by King Timmy was not made up of the brightest lightbulbs in the case, but rather of a collection of those...

Posted on 12/20/10 at 10:33 am in response to Vikings stadium jobs: Gov. Dayton, beware! And have someone check those employment numbers

Let me see... at a time when we're likely going to be having to cut funding for nursing homes, home health care for the elderly and handicapped, schools at every level; while large numbers of our state's citizens struggle with unemployment and even homelessness,

A bunch of our states wealthiest citizens and their employees, who are also far wealthier than the rest of us, want us all to chip in to build them a new playground where they can spend a few hours a week messing around...

Posted on 12/21/10 at 01:20 am in response to Who’s minding the store? Billions in Minnesota contracts escape competitive bids, auditing

Just another tale of the "glories" of privatizing segments of the government (because these programs could have been done far more efficiently, with far less overhead going to pay bloated salaries to the management of HMO's if they had been "government" programs).

But just as we saw with Bushco, so with Pawlentco: lots of taxpayer money to wealthy friends under no-bid, totally opaque contracts - even while demanding that those friends not pay taxes at anything close to what the rest...

Posted on 12/17/10 at 11:37 pm in response to Bachmann gets seat on House Intelligence Committee

I realize it's a different kind of "intelligence" but it just seems to me that putting Mickey Bachmann on the House "Intelligence" committee is a perfect symbol of the incoming Republican House of Representatives.

It's a bit reminiscent the comments of "Mash's" "Hawkeye" regarding "military intelligence" (as I recall, he characterized the very term as oxymoronic).

Posted on 12/17/10 at 04:26 pm in response to Star Tribune cuts back Kersten's column - and likely, Coleman's

Too bad McCarthy didn't have the judgment to invest in fellowship in a different institution. If you think that Catholic University Education in this country is still allowed to present a broad range of ideas and be even-handed in it's perspective you haven't been paying attention to how much Pope Benedict and his minions have been ratcheting down the thumbscrews in order to force university professors and administrators to tow the company line.

Posted on 12/18/10 at 11:00 am in response to The Tuttle Strategy: The need for proxy plumbers (and other service providers), courtesy of the U.S.

I've heard it said that the highest (i.e. most selfless) form of giving, involves doing so in ways that prevent you from knowing who the ultimate recipient of the gift is and prevents them from knowing who it was that gave the gift.

But I'm not too hopeful that we will carry out Mr. Barich's ideas.

The US doesn't do that kind of gift giving. As a nation, we are like the distant relative who feels as if they should be thanked profusely and repeatedly for the next several months...

Posted on 12/17/10 at 04:08 pm in response to TCF unhappy with Fed Reserve plan for big cuts to its fees

I have no problem with TCF making as much money as they want to make if they do it the old fashioned way - by actually (and carefully and wisely) lending the "savings" they hold to others at sufficient interest to turn a REASONABLE profit.

But TCF gave up that model long ago.

Now their specialty is finding the most underhanded ways possible to extract money from their customers and from fellow business people - ways which take the most money from people who are the most...