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Jeff Klein

Minneapolis, MN
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4 years 32 weeks

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Posted on 03/09/12 at 02:18 pm in response to Minnesota’s marriage amendment battle: Power of ‘messaging’ may be the key

Why do you get to define "dysfunctional", and why define it the way you do? To me, someone is "dysfunctional" if they operate in a way that causes problems for themselves or others. The only problems for homosexuals are the ones caused by the "family values" crowd - otherwise they would live their lives as they wished and not cause harm to anyone.

Moreover, you use the same line every time you talk about this. But upon examination, none of it stands up. "Science" and "human...

Posted on 03/09/12 at 03:41 pm in response to Minnesota’s marriage amendment battle: Power of ‘messaging’ may be the key

"If homosexuality was normal, it wouldn't result in the extinction of the species"

Is this something you're concerned about? Are we running out of people and nobody told me? By that definition, we should be treating as dysfunctional everyone that doesn't want to bear children for any reason, or can't for any reason. Oh, and "miniscule percentage of the population"? EVERYONE has some characteristic that only applies to a "miniscule percentage of the population." Like leftys? There...

Posted on 03/09/12 at 03:46 pm in response to Minnesota’s marriage amendment battle: Power of ‘messaging’ may be the key

You are demonstrably deeply interested with the sex lives of people who are not you, and by our upper-midwest standards that is indeed "weird".

Posted on 03/08/12 at 10:36 am in response to Another Minneapolis council member favors stadium referendum

From what I understand, it's more or less exactly what they want. So confusing!

Posted on 03/07/12 at 05:56 pm in response to A 'smoking gun' in Scott Walker's collective bargaining claim?

"They figure out how to make nifty technology work in the real world. What they don't do is long-term, big-picture science. This is the stuff that shapes our futures — and the futures of private corporations. "

As someone about to graduate from the U with a doctorate in physics, this is frustratingly true. There was a golden era - 30-60 years ago - when companies looked to the future by employing scientists to figure out what was coming 10, 20, 50 years down the road (think Bell Labs...

Posted on 03/06/12 at 06:35 pm in response to Anoka-Hennepin settlement: Healing has only just begun

The world contains homosexuals. If teaching that they exist makes a curriculum "homosexual", then teaching that Christians exist makes it Christian.

Posted on 03/01/12 at 03:10 pm in response to Obama's case for re-election

As you can see, people who oppose Obama don't care about your fancy-schmancy elitist "numbers" and "charts" and "data".

Posted on 03/01/12 at 03:53 pm in response to House approves St. Croix bridge legislation

But I have yet to hear one iota of explanation why this bridge is a good thing. Do you care about issues, or are you more interested in hoping for negative blowback for politicians you don't like? She's taken the fiscally conservative stance on this issue and you are still at odds with her. At this point, I'm convinced if McCollum started campaigning for corporate tax cuts you'd still oppose her.

Posted on 03/02/12 at 09:47 am in response to House approves St. Croix bridge legislation

Why does it matter? Isn't spending $700M for reasons I've yet to see you justify *not* fiscally conservative? As a fiscal conservative, can you explain why this bridge is necessary, given the existence of the bridge at 94? Can you explain how it's not a moronic subsidy of people dumb and wasteful enough to commute an hour to work?

What does "fiscal conservative" even mean if one supports this? Right now the only definition I can figure out is you can spend as much as you want so...

Posted on 03/02/12 at 10:37 am in response to House approves St. Croix bridge legislation

And I'll say this: I don't feel bad for anyone who feels the need to commute from Wisconsin to the Twin Cities. This is exactly the sort of wasteful behavior we should not be enabling with subsidies. You build a bigger bridge, more yahoos who think it's reasonable to commute that far will do it. More gas, more sprawl, more waste, more infrastructure with too little density to support it. An endless cycle.

I also know the 94 bridge is not at capacity. I go over it all the time....