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Jeremy Powers

Fridley, MN
Commenter for
5 years 24 weeks

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Posted on 06/21/12 at 11:44 am in response to Mapping invasive species in Minnesota

I know that invasive species are a serious threat.

Two things, though. Not all of them are as harmful as others and it would be great to nail down the really awful ones, like milfoil and zebra mussels, or have the ability for the map to show one species at a time.

Also, not enough is written about buckthorn. At the rate it is taking over suburban forests, we should be more worried about it than 90 percent of the species you hear about often.

Posted on 06/15/12 at 11:20 am in response to Message from North Dakota voters on religion has national implications

North Dakotans saw this for what it really was - an effort to make the state a theocracy. It would have given organized religion the same status as a human being (talk about being "prolife" - "Let my church LIVE!")

I can't understand what part of American civics these people missed regarding the meaning of First Amendment's establishment clause. Or about the religious oppression in Europe that lead to the reformation and the First Amendment.

If you wonder why people are so...

Posted on 05/29/12 at 11:14 am in response to Six blighted Twin Cities locations — and what should be there instead

I am not disputing Marlys' selections, only that to me the largest single blot on the Twin Cities is the Twin Cities Army Ammunition Plant. It is the 800-pound gorilla of blights.

Posted on 05/22/12 at 11:26 am in response to Minneapolis DFL fails to endorse in hottest school board race

The underlying concept here is that there is something wrong with the endorsement process. Then the DFLers didn't endorse in one race and that too is somehow wrong?

Posted on 05/22/12 at 11:23 am in response to How the Ron Paul takeover could help the state GOP

OK, I read the headline. Then I read the story. How does a semi-hostile takeover by a bunch of narrow-minded extremists help a major party that, but definition, needs to have a big tent to attract all sorts of voters?

Posted on 05/23/12 at 12:36 pm in response to How the Ron Paul takeover could help the state GOP

Define freedom.

All I see from these so-called "freedomists" is a) freedom for the rich but a bunch of rules in the bedroom; b) freedom to tell other countries how to live; c) and freedom from community so they can live in misery.

What freedom?

Posted on 05/16/12 at 11:53 am in response to Social benefits of college education often get shortchanged in ‘cost discussion’

I guess additional income and ability to learn are "social" benefits, but when I saw the headline I was hoping to read more about the benefits to a college degree outside of dollars and cents.

College educated people tend to be have fewer problems with the law, have a longer life, live more healthy, are more likely to attend theater, more likely to vote, more likely to read a newspaper, more likely be volunteers and most importantly more likely to raise children who do all of those...

Posted on 05/09/12 at 11:46 am in response to What should Minnesotans make of the N.C. marriage vote?

This shouldn't surpirse anyone and is further proof to me that we should have never fought the Civil War. Look at the grief the Southern States have created for us ever since - the KKK, Jim Crow, George W. Bush.

Posted on 05/09/12 at 11:44 am in response to Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Switzerland)

If this was Barack Obama, she would go ballistic! She would be calling him anti-American and a communist and a one-worlder. But, because her children probably want to by expensive watches, then its OK.

Posted on 05/02/12 at 03:22 pm in response to Voter ID? We don't see the need

The Voter ID Amendment is a 21st Century Poll Tax on people who are not white, not middle-class, not between the ages of 30-70, not suburban, not employed and don't buy lots of stuff at malls.