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Greg Kapphahn

Alexandria, MN
Commenter for
2 years 49 weeks

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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...

Posted on 03/08/13 at 02:10 pm in response to Political boomerang: GOP’s defeated amendment put same-sex marriage on fast track

The fact that "Minnesotans for (Straights-only) Marriage" folks can only come up with lies, misinformation and distortions, all long since proven to be false, to support their cause makes me sad.

I'm saddened that people who regard themselves to be sincere and sincerely religious, are so dominated by their doubts and fears about their own internal (and likely suppressed) sexual attractions, and those of their loved ones,...

and so insecure about their ability to honestly deal...

Posted on 03/07/13 at 03:42 pm in response to GOP plans to fire amendment barrage at health exchange bill

Have proven, beyond the shadow of a doubt that they can't lead (no ideas, nor any idea how to implement ideas),...

they REFUSE to follow,...

and it's going to take a lot of shoveling (and wasted legislative time and taxpayer $$$s) to get their B.S. amendments out of the way,...

Is there ANYONE left in the current leadership of the Republican Party in Minnesota who's NOT so dysfunctional as to feel the need to act like a petulant, spoiled child?

Posted on 03/05/13 at 09:19 am in response to Why Boehner is the weakest — and most powerful — speaker in recent times

That Speaker Boehner's periodic suspensions of the "Hastert rule" had anything to do with the pursuits of a healthy, highly-functional warrior: protecting those who cannot protect themselves, standing up for the needs/rights of the vulnerable, and making the world a better place for all his fellow citizens; by diplomacy, first and foremost, and battle only as a last resort,...

but, sadly, I fear what I'm seeing, instead, are the proclivities of the shadow form of warrior in play: the...

Posted on 03/05/13 at 10:02 am in response to $65 million spent lobbying Legislature

that young people go directly from innocence, purity and blessedness,...

to guilt, filthiness, and damnation,...

as soon as they have their first feelings of sexual attraction, the first stirring in their loins, let alone their first experience of sexual contact,

we would have a far easier time dealing with inappropriate sexual contact.

I'm convinced that the reaction of those around them to people who have been sexually abused, and the internalized response that...

Posted on 03/04/13 at 01:41 pm in response to You have a 5% chance of collecting on a pothole damage claim

is NOT a "strategy." It's the only approach their dysfunctions will allow them to consider. No OTHER possibilities are allowed to enter their awareness.

What they're doing, of course, is what people operating from the shadow side of their personalities always do: destroying themselves,...

while remaining completely blind to the reality that this is what they're doing, and completely convinced that they are absolutely correct in their approach.

I only hope that they...

Posted on 03/01/13 at 04:12 pm in response to Minnesota winters warming faster than in any other state

I suspect he's going to spend the rest of his life trying to get even with Rep. Keith Ellison for nailing him to the wall on his own TV show.

Of course that's what these whiny, pathetic, little "conservative" always do when someone calls them on their lies:

act like spoiled children who just CAN'T BELIEVE that anyone would DARE not let them have their way,...

and throw the equivalent of a tantrum.

Still, I hold out the hope that Hannity, Limbaugh, et al, will...

Posted on 03/01/13 at 10:25 am in response to Study: Minneapolis arts economy totals $700 million a year

It seems to me that Best Buy's challenges stem from obvious mistakes in several areas:

1) its failure to realize that, after it successfully defeated its big box electronics retailing competition, that it couldn't just rest on its laurels, indeed, that the market it had just conquered was morphing and evaporating,...

2) its failure, for several years, to enter into online retailing in any serious way - as Amazon and others grew exponentially, Best Buy continued to treat its own...

Posted on 03/01/13 at 03:58 pm in response to Study: Minneapolis arts economy totals $700 million a year

of abstract, complex thought,...

to understand even the idea of economic benefit provided to a community by any particular enterprise,...

especially non-commercial enterprises,...

let alone the value of art to those who ARE capable of appreciating it.

(Of course I always end up wondering what was done to some people, by those who raised them, to cause them to suppress any ability to pursue abstract, complex thought so completely that they feel the need to attack...