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Greg Kapphahn

Alexandria, MN
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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...

Posted on 12/17/10 at 10:39 am in response to TCF unhappy with Fed Reserve plan for big cuts to its fees

These Republican attackers who turn out to be incorrect in their knowledge of the issues involved or in their knowledge of the law of the land (for example Emmer, Pawlenty, and now Mr. Larson) are starting to remind me of "Emily Litella" from the good old days of Saturday Night Live, who always started her complaint section of the "news" by misunderstanding the issues she was addressing then, after the host(s) of the news segment corrected her mistaken impressions, ended with "never mind."...

Posted on 12/17/10 at 11:05 am in response to Quite the contrast: Depression-era America less whiney, more socialistic than today?

What we must recognize is that, since the days of that survey, there has been a concerted effort on the part of some of our wealthiest citizens to change the thinking of the average citizen in ways that make that citizen far more likely to watch out for the needs of the wealthy than their own needs.

The Cato Institute, the American Enterprise Institute (and others) were created precisely for that purpose. Weasel news, very popular in rural AND suburban areas, provides the outlet for...

Posted on 12/16/10 at 05:41 pm in response to Pawlenty gets 'Pants on Fire' award for public worker claims

Evidently King Timmy used the same "true believer" (facts be damned) research assistant in his investigation of private and government employment figures that Tom Emmer used in his research on the income levels of food service workers.

No doubt we will soon discover that Timmy's income figures for public workers are as accurate as Tommy's were for servers.

Not that it matters. Someone on the right said something the "true believers" desperately want to be true so no amount of...

Posted on 12/16/10 at 09:57 am in response to Republican senator promises stadium bill next month

Considering that Mickey Bachmann has demonstrated quite publicly that she doesn't know the difference between "net" and "gross" income, I can't think of anyone in congress LESS qualified to serve on the Ways and Means Committee.

As far as the new stadium... the rush to provide public financing at a time when we're going to be making deep cuts in other, far more necessary areas such as education funding and reimbursement for nursing homes, is akin to taking your elderly, infirm, can't-...

Posted on 12/15/10 at 05:55 pm in response to Diagnosis: Pain in the budgets, and pain in the streets

And the meaning of Mr. Post's comments is precisely tiddly squat. Same old Republican talking points taken from the tattered and barely-readable crib sheet from 20 years ago.

Same old lazy lack of creativity and inability to think broadly and deeply enough to engage in problem solving. Same old whining that more of what we've been getting from THEM at the state level for the past eight years will solve the problem...

any day now...

really it will...

just let...

Posted on 12/15/10 at 04:06 pm in response to Minnesota Supreme Court considers extending emergency funding for public defenders

The way the GOP paints public servants is strictly psychological projection. As they so LOVE to do, they're projecting their own most worrisome (and most self-ignored) shortcomings onto others, then criticizing those others for being what they, themselves, most accurately are.

You've seen it before: the person who talks all the time but criticizes others for talking too much, the person who's a bit portly but complains about "fat people," the person who's discovered a few gray hairs...