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Greg Kapphahn

Alexandria, MN
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Posted on 03/20/13 at 04:29 pm in response to And still four more Pinocchios for Bachmann

will believe her, no matter how far from the truth her rhetoric strays.

Meanwhile, Ms. Bachmann, being the self-professed devout Christians she is, nevertheless seems to believe she has a special dispensation which gets her out of the commandment, "You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor."

I suspect that she's wrong about that.

Posted on 03/19/13 at 05:07 pm in response to A voting statistic to terrify Republicans (even more than the Hispanic stuff)

those under-30 citizens who overwhelmingly voted against them.

But they won't because, if they did, they'd have an unbearably uncomfortable case of cognitive dissonance as these, bright, involved, educated "kids,"

explained how they aren't attracted by any of the strongest sales words the Republicans have been trying to use on them because, for them, those words only mean the bastardized version the Republicans mean when they use them,...

NOT the traditional things that...

Posted on 03/19/13 at 09:56 am in response to Bachmann's attack on lavish Obama lifestyle gets four Pinocchios

When Rep. Bachmann looks in the mirror, the difference between what she "truly believes" she sees,...

and the reality of who she REALLY is and what she's REALLY doing rates at LEAST four Pinocchios,...

or more likely a far larger collection of them.

Perhaps some of us could start sending her Pinocchio dolls (featuring extended noses) each time she invents a new whopper, in which she, of course ALSO "truly believes" to most certainly be true,...

in the hope that...

Posted on 03/18/13 at 03:42 pm in response to U.S. Supreme Court waves off Minnesota music downloader

By the poor, endangered, beleaguered, nearly-bankrupt fossil fuel industry are just an understandable effort to keep the filthy, "liberal" politicians from enacting namby-pamby policies,...

such as seeking to make sure ALL of grandchildren have a planet to live on that will allow them to survive,...

and the huge incentives and federal tax breaks that have been offered to the fossil fuels industry for the past many decades are not kickbacks for the political contributions that...

Posted on 03/18/13 at 01:21 pm in response to Franken still benefits from GOP disarray

So Michelle Bachmann claims, "‘This is our movement, the movement of love, the movement of care. We do this because we love each other and we love our nation!"

But as is clearly shown by her attitudes and actions, and those universally found ad CPAC, the "love" found in this movement is completely incestuous. These people only love members of their movement family,...

only love those who agree with them about what they want our "nation" to be like (a universally-applied,...

Posted on 03/15/13 at 07:00 pm in response to Dayton-Senate DFL 'switcheroo'? Lawmakers may consider some of his dropped sales-tax provisions

Our state's MOST financially comfortable citizens many of whom are in leadership at the state Chamber of Commerce decide that, indeed, as Gov. Dayton originally proposed,...

they would rather have the services they provide to other businesses taxed, and pay taxes on the service they hire, at least some of which is likely to be a business expense write off,...

or if they'd rather have their own personal incomes taxed.

The reality is, of course, they can afford either one...

Posted on 03/15/13 at 06:06 pm in response to Neocons and the Iraq War: Their view then and now 10 years later

Some basic lessons about the care and feeding of their own psyches. Those lessons included what they could expect of and how best to deal with grief.

I felt this was necessary since they were just entering the years when moving in and out of relationships and going through the massive changes that come at then end of their teenaged years meant they would go through more grief in a few months and years than they were ever likely to experience again in their lives.

In watching...

Posted on 03/15/13 at 09:10 am in response to Strib on 'tax the rich': 'Competitively uncomfortable'

That they bring out the best in our local populace, makes us all stronger, and "keep the riff-raff out."

I'm convinced that higher tax rates will do the same with those at the highest end of the income scale. The ways these folks have rearranged the ways the profits of our national economy are distributed so that, rather than being shared more equitably (as they were in the 50's 60s and 70s) those profits, created by all of our labor and ideas are now almost completely dropped into...

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...