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Jeremy Powers

Fridley, MN
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5 years 25 weeks

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Posted on 02/15/12 at 06:14 pm in response to GOP legislators shrug off rock-bottom poll numbers

The Republican leadership shrugs it off because there is no way to defend their actions. They hijacked the budget process with an "our way or the highway" attitude. Then the screwed the schools, shut down the state. Now their introducing ALEC-supplied bills that none of them wrote and few even understand. Then they have spent all of their time on divisive social conservative issues to appease the lowest common denominator in their base. They don't like government and they really didn't want...

Posted on 02/16/12 at 10:54 am in response to GOP legislators shrug off rock-bottom poll numbers

,Some examples of the Democrats acting selfishly please. Would that be in trying to increase funding for schools. Or roads,

If you ask me, considering what stubborn egotists the Republicans are it's amazing the Democrats can hold their temper.

Posted on 01/24/12 at 12:39 pm in response to Koch trying to put past behind her

Swiftee,

I find it hilarious that you regularly represent the party of science disbelief and denial, but when it comes to human relationships and sexuality, for which science is a little vague, all of a sudden conservatives are all for it.

Posted on 01/23/12 at 11:05 am in response to GOP legislative leaders promise to 'restore confidence'

If abortion is made Illegal in the United States it would be a boon to both foreign travel and American poverty.

Posted on 01/18/12 at 12:18 pm in response to Paula Deen's new anti-diabetes campaign is hard to swallow

Diet is a huge aspect of it. Type 2 diabetes is aggravated by fat surrounding the cell walls, making sugar harder to pass through.

I find her the completely wrong spokesperson. Her cooking is filled with fat. I mean just filled with fat, like cooking bacon in butter and adding whipped cream. Watching her cook almost makes me vomit.

Posted on 01/18/12 at 01:34 pm in response to New Senate aide Steve Sviggum says he'll fight to keep his regent post, too

In an era in which people SHOULD make every effort to avoid an semblance of a conflict of interest, Sviggum is going out of his way to make a fairly obvious conflict of interest seem less so. I guess if he can sell that idea he can sell the nonsense the Republican Senate is trying to spew.

I also find it ironic that a guy who has worked almost all of his life for some governmental entity - schools, legislature, university - will now work for the "less government" folks.

Posted on 01/12/12 at 02:58 pm in response to What legal issues might exist in Michael Brodkorb's termination?

I find it somewhat ironic that a person who regaled in publicly demeaning those he disagreed with snide comments, innuendo stretched-to-the-breaking point facts would the sue the state because it demeaned him.

Posted on 01/09/12 at 12:27 pm in response to GOP's firing/unfiring of Susan Thornton shows 'growing pains' of handling legislative power

Two comments: One - the headline portion "growing pains" really could be translated into "they have NO idea of what they are doing." Two - I'm not too sure how many of these right-wing ideologues care one whit about science. Based on some of their anti-climate change drivel and proclaimed expertise about things based on reading religious journals, I worry every day that the some of the legislators are just making this up. For instance, a few years ago the Republican legislators insisted that...

Posted on 01/06/12 at 01:54 pm in response to Archbishop Nienstedt to priests: Support marriage amendment or be quiet if you disagree

"the movement to protect and defend the definition of marriage as a union between one man and one woman we are faced with one of the greatest challenges of our times."

The biggest challenge facing the Roman Catholic Church is remaining relevant in the 21st Century when the churches structure is based on the 13th Centruy.

Posted on 01/06/12 at 01:35 pm in response to Can a good teacher change a student for life?

As the son of two teachers, I can tell you that people show up at teachers' funerals and tell the family that their parents made huge differences in their lives.

It almost makes up for the fact that you watch your mother grade English papers almost every night while you grew up rahter than shopping, playing bridge, volunteering at church or spending time with her family like other people's moms did. Oh, and for earning near the bottom of the ranks for educated professionals. Oh, and...