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Gregory Stricherz

Minneapolis, MN
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5 years 2 weeks

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Posted on 11/09/09 at 07:23 pm in response to The search for the real Brad Childress: some insights into the Vikings' enigmatic coach

Maybe my English isn't the goodest isn't he world, but saying "bracketed with Indianapolis and New Orleans as the best in pro football"—both 8 and 0—doesn't apply to a team that is 7 and 1.

Posted on 11/05/09 at 01:04 pm in response to Germany's health system brings 'a-ha moments'

How does this statement about the US healthcare system

Our health information technology is so much more mature.

correlate with these statements?

They don't have any medical debt.
The way we pay is skewing us toward more expensive care.
Most of us know we need more primary care physicians.
18 office visits per patient per year and 15-day stays in hospitals.
You don't hear a lot about cost-shifting.
'This is what we're going to pay you and if...

Posted on 10/30/09 at 03:49 pm in response to MPR's Minnesota Today: Minnesota taxpayer funded

Betty, I hope you are not shocked that $400,000 might cover just two salaries. In 2004 Bill Kling, MPR president, earned $326,700 from MPR and another $218,000 from American Public Media Group, parent company of MPR. I quit donating to MPR years ago when I realized how many donors were needed just to pay Bill Kling’s salary.

Posted on 10/09/09 at 01:52 pm in response to Obama's prize, what think?

Tom Lehrer said that the awarding of the Nobel Peace Prize to Henry Kissinger made political satire obsolete.

He doubtless would not phrase an opinion on the Obama prize quite as strongly, but he would be speaking in the same way.

Posted on 10/05/09 at 12:03 pm in response to Broadband connectivity is a big issue in rural and remote parts of Minnesota

Diane Wells of the Minnesota Department of Commerce is quoted "Still, we are one of only about seven or eight states that have any data at all."

I’m not sure exactly what that means. Speed Matters provides information on every state in the Union. You can even find average speeds for your own ZIP Code.

http://www.speedmatters.org/content/2009report

Posted on 09/29/09 at 11:57 am in response to Teamsters' early endorsement of Rybak unusual boost for 'unofficial' guv candidate

I don't understand why "taxing the rich" could not be a DFL platform. "Not taxing the rich" was certainly a successful platform for our current office holder.

Posted on 09/28/09 at 03:08 pm in response to Bad times for moose; worse for a suburban black bear

Quote: Ron Paul for instance, spoke vociferously against the war, as Karla Hult of KARE11 reports, noting dryly that this is "a position not shared by Bachmann."

Name two more major differences between Paul and Bachman. He supports the fence along the Mexican border. He supports ending constitutionally guaranteed citizenship for anyone born in the US. He’s basically anti-union and against increasing the minimum wage. He’s anti-choice. He’s anti-gay. Karla Hult can gloss over the...

Posted on 09/25/09 at 01:04 pm in response to A nuke-free world some day? Color me skeptically blue

It's interesting to keep seeing all the blather about Iran with nukes. Especially from a country that dominates the nuclear weapon scene and is the only country to ever use one. It would be great to see in such articles a statement like this:

The U.S. intelligence community’s National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) on Iran's nuclear intentions and capabilities states that Tehran halted its nuclear weapons program in the fall of 2003.

Posted on 09/22/09 at 08:19 pm in response to Chuck Hagel on Iraq and what needs to be done with Iran

I really like Vonnegut too.

Posted on 09/22/09 at 11:27 am in response to Chuck Hagel on Iraq and what needs to be done with Iran

I can’t believe how much mileage Senator Chuck Hagel is getting out of his stance on Iraq. Hagel is a conservative Republican from a conservative state. It’s great he turned against the war. But Hagel voted for the war on Afghanistan, for the war on Iraq, for continued funding of those wars, for the PATRIOT Act. He voted in 2006 against stronger oversight of the CIA, for the Mexico fence, for the Military Commissions Act. He supports privatizing Social Security, is against a woman’s right...