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Jim Camery

River Falls, WI
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5 years 11 weeks

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Posted on 05/04/12 at 12:36 pm in response to Colin Powell discusses the WMD 'blot' on his record

This WMD/no-WMD thing still gets tossed around like it was a question of what the best tax or transportation policy should be. This monumental scam has produced thousands of funerals in the US and who-knows-how-many in Iraq. Here's 10 real tragedies from Minnesota that came out of some guys sitting around a conference room's table "decision" - there's 58 more and counting.

Chad Allen Maple Lake
Joshua Anderson Jordan
Levi Angell Cloquet
Brett Angus St....

Posted on 04/17/12 at 10:10 am in response to Vikings stadium bill will need a ‘miracle’ after committee defeat, sponsor says

Been back and forth through the LA Times site this morning. Saw no evidence that a stadium had been built overnight. Did see an article about a stadium being piggybacked onto Staples Center had been scuttled.

Posted on 04/17/12 at 09:20 am in response to Vikes stadium gets rough reception at Capitol hearing

The stadium went down because it was a real crappy deal. In between the NFL subsidy and loan, the Wilfs were contributing just about nothing and being guaranteed a cash flow (with no real estate taxes). What was interesting to me is how the Pelissero/Rand/Charchian/Kriesel types on twitter spun this as a defeat for Dayton because he only got 1 Dem vote, when it was Zeillers calling all the shots. This would have been done months ago if Zeillers was behind it and will never be done if he...

Posted on 04/16/12 at 03:04 pm in response to Gallup daily tracking Poll: Romney, 47; Obama, 45

Why do (or report on) a poll that doesn't account for the electoral college?

Posted on 04/13/12 at 09:51 am in response to Minnesota businesses push for Internet sales tax

Are there even 78 communists left in all of America?

Posted on 03/30/12 at 03:58 pm in response to Health-care case illustrates problem of life-time Supreme Court appointments

The life tenure seems to amplify how "different" these men and women are. I probably know hundreds of people fairly well and only about a dozen of them are as extreme as any of the 9 justices. I understand that we need skilled law professionals to parse through conflicting decisions by lower courts, but these people are just another group of political hacks when they get involved with Bush v Gore and ACA.

Posted on 03/20/12 at 03:04 pm in response to GOP leaders keep pushing for 'right to work' vote

Coming down pretty hard on sugar, are we?

Posted on 03/16/12 at 11:50 am in response to Michael Brodkorb raises the stakes for GOP

The question of if he was appointed or a civil servant is a canard.

Its tough for me to feel sorry for her, but the person who got screwed in this whole deal is Koch. A man in the same spot would have been admonished and done a presser with the wife talking about "challenges," but she becomes persona non grata and is shunned.

Posted on 03/15/12 at 11:03 am in response to Funding questions quickly sideline Vikings stadium bill

The projections about the uptake of video pulltabs (now expanded to video bingo/pulltabs in the bill) are just hooey. It's an absolutely new product that's never been exposed to the market, right up there with the electric car and New Coke. They're rolling the dice on a $1 billion decision based on "research," while no one is allowed to see the studies or talk to the researchers. The return on gizmo-gambling is all just speculation, especially in light of the market being absolutely...

Posted on 03/07/12 at 04:21 pm in response to Can electronic pull-tabs pull in enough stadium revenue?

I'd work it a different way, from a new product introduction model. Start with having to produce $21 million a year. Minnesota's current population is 5.3 million, of which 4.1 is over age 18. Department of Human Services says 80% have gambled in some form in the last year (from a survey), so that leaves 3.2 million. I can't find any statistics, but I'd wager only 25% of them used pulltabs (810k), and the rest were weekend poker games with the guys, office pools, Vegas, lottery, etc....