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Jeff Klein

Minneapolis, MN
Commenter for
4 years 28 weeks

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Posted on 03/12/12 at 05:07 pm in response to In Tuesday's primary states, likely GOP voters way off on Obama's religion

Obama's religion is a matter of fact. Someone's opinion on whether or not homosexuals should be able to marry is, well, an opinion. It helps discourse if you at least make an attempt to understand the difference, but I won't hold my breath.

Posted on 03/12/12 at 05:09 pm in response to In Tuesday's primary states, likely GOP voters way off on Obama's religion

I don't see the connection. Obama's religion is a matter of fact. He is, indeed, a Christian, and it is incorrect to state otherwise.

This has nothing to do with whether or not someone's religion is above ridicule, and as much as you'd like to make it a "private" matter, when the nominees for president seem to be drawing most of their policy-related inspiration from their faith, their religion becomes an open issue.

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.