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Greg Kapphahn

Alexandria, MN
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2 years 48 weeks

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Posted on 04/23/13 at 09:55 am in response to Catholic Church ramps up opposition to Minnesota anti-bullying bill

The unchangeable (by God or its members) local hierarchy of the Catholic church gives its members an ultimatum:

you MUST worship US; OUR ideas, beliefs and practices (even though they may be considerably different from our recent predecessors'), as if WE have a direct connection to God that you, yourselves can't possibly have,...

and IGNORE each and every way that the Holy Spirit is calling you, day-by-day, hour-by-hour, minute-by-minute to become more Christ-like in your...

Posted on 04/20/13 at 03:01 pm in response to Where Bachmann campaign probes stand after a busy week

Things which are done "in the open" and "above board," do not later need to "come to light," as all of this questionable skullduggery on the part of the Bachmann campaign continues to do.

It always seems as if people like Rep. Bachmann, who are so good at feigning outrage at what they regard to be the questionable actions of others,...

think that they, themselves, are INCAPABLE of wrongdoing because they're doing such important work and they're such notable and important people...

Posted on 04/19/13 at 04:53 pm in response to Testy times at the Capitol as angry Republicans walk out of committee meeting

Is the DFL's legislation is put together in committee rooms with members of the opposing party present (until they leave in a snit),...

whereas the GOP's legislation has lately been put together in the offices of ALEC, then proposed by GOP legislators who don't even know what's in the bill they're presenting,...

while those same legislators try to hide the nature of the proposed legislation behind completely dishonest "ministry of truth" doublespeak.

Personally I many...

Posted on 04/20/13 at 02:49 pm in response to Testy times at the Capitol as angry Republicans walk out of committee meeting

Because we've seen what a state run on the cheap,...

which, nevertheless managed to massively enrich the already wealthy,...

while the infrastructures the rest of us depend on crumbled to a disturbing state of disrepair,...

even while the wealthy CONTINUED to whine about a "bad business" climate and taxes that were too high.

It seems to me that, back a few years ago, many "conservatives" were convinced that our state benefit programs were attracting all sorts of...

Posted on 04/21/13 at 07:06 am in response to Testimony: Michele Bachmann knew of improper payouts

But somehow our Republican friends are so tax phobic and so math challenged, and so reasonable regulation phobic,...

as are their small base of followers,...

that they actually believe the general public will be upset over being required to contribute $1/year to help ensure their continuing supply of safe, fresh water.

Posted on 04/18/13 at 09:17 am in response to Breaking silence, former Bachmann aide wants ‘true facts to come to light’

is the Republican Party's re-branding efforts.

Ms. Bachmann has been one of the loudest, most dysfunction-based "conservative" voices in the Republican Party. Strident, fact phobic, right-wing radicals such as herself are the reason the general public doesn't want to have anything to do with anyone or anything claiming to be Republican these days.

For very understandable reasons, the leadership of the Republican Party is trying to pull the rug out from under Ms. Bachmann and...

Posted on 04/18/13 at 08:45 am in response to Top aide Andy Parrish to testify against Michele Bachmann

Has gone on to her eternal reward.

She now exists in the next life as a widow, living a meager existence on a miniscule pension. She suffers from a painful, but non-life threatening malady, for which she cannot afford treatment nor even the level of analgesics required to alleviate her pain.

She spends her days slowly rattling around her tiny flat, with the TV on, hearing people such as herself described as a worthless drain on society - as freeloaders who have no right to...

Posted on 04/17/13 at 09:43 am in response to Gun rights in the 1780s and today

Underlying this entire discussion of gun rights is the unacknowledged reality that some of our gun-loving friends are very, very afraid deep within their souls.

Oh, they talk tough, bully others, throw their weight around (figuratively), and act in generally threatening ways,...

ways which go far beyond what a healthy person would find useful or necessary under the routine circumstances of our lives,

but for many of these people, their firearms become an emotional/...

Posted on 04/17/13 at 02:25 pm in response to Gun rights in the 1780s and today

The obvious solution to the problem of too much damage (especially mass murders and far too many individual suicides and accidental shootings of family members),...

is completely unacceptable to our most gun-dependent friends and neighbors,...

because their need for their guns is NOT based on any rational consideration (despite their making pseudo-rational arguments),...

but based on their psychologically dysfunctional need to have one or more firearms in their...

Posted on 04/17/13 at 09:59 am in response to GOP accuses DEED of 'extravagant waste'

on alcohol i.e. the price and profits of companies that produce it,...

have gone up since 1987?

How much are the CEOs of alcohol-producing companies being paid now as compared to 1987?

How much are shareholders soaking up in dividends and other perks?

How much have alcohol-producing companies and their owners/managers benefited from tax cuts and tax breaks?

Unless we know how much the alcohol-producers have extracted from their customers in private tax...