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Greg Kapphahn

Alexandria, MN
Commenter for
2 years 48 weeks

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Posted on 03/14/13 at 10:09 am in response to 10 years after Iraq War: What do we have to show for it?

We spent $3 trillion dollars (off budget, back in the era when Republicans were in charge and proclaimed "deficits don't matter,"),...

killed a MILLION people,...

saw entire industrial pallets loaded with $100 bills vanish with NO accounting for who received them or how they were spent (welfare queens, indeed!?),...

went into a "cakewalk" war with NO plan and the completely stupid, ignorant "conservative" idea that no plan would be needed, for what we'd need to do...

Posted on 03/13/13 at 02:58 pm in response to Norm Coleman: 'Minnesotans are not anti-government'

Who have worked so continuously, for so long to convince the general public that the government, at every level, is simply FILLED with "waste, fraud, and abuse,"

never, ever seem to be able to find and cut those things when they have the power to do so.

Considering what poor money managers Republicans turn out to be when they have the opportunity to run the government I can't help but wonder if they're even capable of reading a spreadsheet. So many of them have CLAIMED to be...

Posted on 03/13/13 at 02:28 pm in response to Marriage bill advances after emotional day of hearings

Let us remember that our "conservative" friends regard it as religious liberty only when EVERY OTHER expression of religious faith is FORCED, by law, to live according to their own very tender sensitivities.

When they put their ill-fated constitutional amendment on last year's ballot, they never gave a second thought to the religious rights of their fellow Christians who, upon carefully and prayerfully examining the scriptures, disagree with them about what those scriptures say...

Posted on 03/12/13 at 06:13 pm in response to Gay marriage debate drawing all kinds

I'm speaking of Mr. Frey, of course.

But then ignorance and outright lying is not a sin to these folks, is it?

AIDS is caused by a virus, Mr. Frey, not by "enzymes" and it is only a "gay" disease because it came into the US through the Dominican Republic which was a gay vacation mecca, of sorts at the time.

In many other parts of the world, it is a disease primarily of straight people, especially women who catch just as easily from their infected partners as do gay men...

Posted on 03/12/13 at 09:30 am in response to Minnesota officials say TurboTax is fixed

Will do nothing to stop people like Kevin Peterson from choosing to pursue opposite-gender relationships after a time of finding same-gender relationships more attractive.

However, the likelihood that Mr. Peterson, despite being married and having children, for whom he is, quite likely, an excellent father,...

no longer feels stirrings of attraction for those of his own gender is slim to none;...

as we have seen from the multiple numbers of strident leaders of the ex-gay...

Posted on 03/12/13 at 09:43 am in response to Minnesota officials say TurboTax is fixed

I can't help but wonder whether this weekly rock concert worship of 7-11 songs (praise choruses with seven words that you sing 11 - or 111 - times) will do the typical things such churches do,...

give their congregations the standard message,...

"Yippy, skippy, yea God! Isn't wonderful to be a Christian like we all are," then send them out with the promise that if they just be good boys and girls (and give enough money to the church) God will reward them with the fulfillment...

Posted on 03/12/13 at 03:28 pm in response to Still waiting for real change from the DFL Legislature

I would think that most of us would know enough to realize that the legislature is populated with human politicians.

Of course we voters refuse to actually elect any other kind of person to office,...

these being the days when taking a clear position on any issue is going to invite your opponents to try to stretch and shred that position until they have transmogfrified it into rope sufficient to hang you with.

That being said, my Democratic friends should expect, and can...

Posted on 03/11/13 at 11:56 am in response to Dayton's sales tax reversal allows businesses to focus on defeating income tax hike

That increases in the state's income tax, especially for the highest earners, result in increases in employment for average Minnesota workers and an increase in the incomes of those employed.

Meanwhile, it would seem that Minnesota's "Chamber of Commerce," on the state level is populated with people who believe that, despite their own massively higher than average incomes, someone ELSE must pay for all the infrastructures that make Minnesota a good place to locate their businesses....

Posted on 03/11/13 at 09:02 am in response to PR is winning the Content War

Make me even more grateful for MPR and MinnPost: two reliable news sources that are less inclined to act as PR agents for big business and big-money conservative causes than most news sources.

Posted on 03/11/13 at 01:05 pm in response to Pay increases for governor, legislators?

We'd be running deficits at least ten times as large,...

every politician voted out of office would receive hundreds of millions as a parting gift,...

the larger the deficit grew, the higher would be their pay,...

and state politicians would make it to the top (US President) by buying up and cannibalizing the assets of other states.

Oh, wait, I guess the Republicans already did that last one,...

(and Gov. Walker, next door, is trying to do that to...