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Lance Groth

Apple Valley, MN
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4 years 16 weeks

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Posted on 09/23/11 at 01:47 pm in response to Rick Perry's days as the consensus frontrunner are ending

It seems the GOP is determined to rescue Mr. Obama from his public image problems and hand him the election by running his gaggle of clowns. All that's missing are the miniature cars and tossing candy to the audience.

Huntsman is the only serious candidate and like Mr. Schoch, if I had to vote repub, I'd pick him. But, the TP won't have him, so no danger there.

As for comment #3, Mr. Swift, your flippant comment remark dialog coming from the right these days. Thanks for...

Posted on 09/14/11 at 06:39 pm in response to The Jackie Kennedy recordings shouldn't really shock anyone

"Jackie Kennedy came across as a superficial airhead with no sense of humor."

Really.

I wonder how Mr. Michaels would come across if he gave an interview 4 months after his wife had her brains blown out all over his suit. I doubt we'd see a sense of humor.

Compassion is dead in this country. To judge by the internet, it's inhabited increasingly by mean-spirited, angry, nasty little trolls.

It's unfortunate that the web provides them the means to publicly express...

Posted on 09/13/11 at 12:36 pm in response to What Tea Party supporters think about global warming

The most troubling thing reported in this article is that more than half of TP'ers don't believe that warming is happening at all. I truly do not understand how anyone can say that as an honest opinion. It truly baffles me. If warming isn't happening, why is all the fraking ice melting? Don't these people have eyes? Don't they believe the evidence of their own senses? All you have to do is look at before/after photos of glaciers and arctic regions 100 years ago vs. today - or read...

Posted on 09/09/11 at 01:00 pm in response to Despite Bernanke's hopes, the path he suggests is just not in the cards

So, the long and short of Mr. Strom's position is that we're going to do the wrong thing at the worst possible moment, because government has no credibility and we don't trust them to do the right thing at the right time. Huh.

Consumers aren't spending for the reasons mentioned. Businesses aren't spending because they see no demand for their products because consumers aren't spending. That leaves only one leg holding up the stool - public sector spending - and we're kicking that...

Posted on 09/06/11 at 03:52 pm in response to Shawn Lawrence Otto fights against attacks on science in this country

This article makes an interesting juxtaposition with Eric Black's article on Mike Lofgren, the "alienated Republican professional". Both touch on an aspect of the modern GOP that I find to be repellent, and that did in fact push me, raised as an Eisenhower Republican, further and further away from the party, starting more than 25 years ago. That is a fundamental lack of respect for the truth in favor of a win-at-any-cost mindset; indeed, far beyond even a basic lack of respect for truth,...

Posted on 09/07/11 at 02:41 pm in response to Shawn Lawrence Otto fights against attacks on science in this country

@Dave #39 - most of the terms you find offensive were in my post (should I be flattered?), except "bible-thumpers", so I offer a minor correction, and a comment.

The correction is, "grumpy" referred to the victims of email theft in the "climate-gate" email episode, not to the denialist thieves who stole the email. Wouldn't want you to feel accused of something as egregious as grumpiness, after all.

More seriously, if my terminology is strong (I take exception to "grade...

Posted on 09/07/11 at 05:33 pm in response to Shawn Lawrence Otto fights against attacks on science in this country

@Steve #43 -

"Are you sure you want to say that? I've been ridiculed for such nonsense."

I'm sure I want to say it because it is there in the record of the rocks, and the ice, and what is being found under the ice as it melts. If you have said something similar in the past and been ridiculed, that's too bad, but it wasn't because it's "nonsense". Ridicule is part and parcel of the web experience, and irrelevant to the facts. One needs to grow a thick skin.

"What...

Posted on 09/03/11 at 11:47 am in response to How much is enough?

Great empires fall for one reason more than any other: imperial overstretch. As their span of control grows, so does their military, until the cost of the military exceeds the carrying capacity of the economy, and the economy and thus the empire implode.

The cold war has been over for a couple of decades. There is no current credible strategic threat. Russia is still willing to test us with a little chest-bumping, but they have no interest in launching a war. China naturally...

Posted on 08/26/11 at 01:12 pm in response to Media Minefield: Amber Alert -- room to improve

I was wondering more about the antiquated means of displaying the information. The voice-over played through once, followed by at least 2 minutes of silence with only the black screen and the slowly scrolling text feed.

All of the information could have been displayed on one screen. The information would be more easily and more rapidly comprehended by reading a paragraph on the screen, the same way we read everything else in life, perhaps with a map displayed to show the locations...

Posted on 08/22/11 at 11:54 am in response to The remake and the reboot: 'Fright Night' and 'Conan the Barbarian'

I enjoy Schwarzenegger's Conan films because they're rousing good fun. He certainly was born to play Conan. I'm not very interested in the reboot because, from what I've been able to glean from various reviews, they managed to suck the fun out of it. So, this weekend, rather than seeing the new Conan, I watched the Schwarzenegger films and thoroughly enjoyed them both.

But surely, no discussion of Schwarzenegger's Conan the Barbarian is complete without mention of James Earl Jones...