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Lora Jones

Minneapolis, MN
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4 years 2 weeks

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Posted on 05/10/13 at 08:02 am in response to Rush-hour reality: Jobless Joe is one of the desperate begging at freeway exits

And don't forget that the biggest influx of homeless panhandlers came at the behest of the Republican "God" -- Saint Ronnie himself -- when he started closing down mental institutions and emphasized punishment over treatment for drug and alcohol problems. And, don't forget the joys of our thoroughly shredded safety net and the rise of and legal preference for multinational monopolies written into tax code and trade policies and stoked by union busting. This is the world Reaganomics has...

Posted on 05/03/13 at 10:12 am in response to Kathleen Hall Jamieson and the 'attack on fact'

as did Condy and everyone else associated with the fraud that was the Iraq War. "Everybody" did NOT believe that Iraq was developing WMDs. The UN didn't. Joe Wilson didn't. Remember Valarie Plame? No. Bush and Cheney and co. searched and searched until they found some disaffected Iraqi, with an agenda of his own and a made-up tale, and hung their march to war on it. Bush may have wanted to believe it, because he'd decided 10 years before that he would be the one to finish Daddy's war...

Posted on 05/01/13 at 01:21 pm in response to Reinhart-Rogoff economic study got it wrong, and so did the political reaction

Started OUT as a policy entrepreneurism. Both have strong ties to and positions with the Peterson Institute -- the right wing "think" tank formed by the man who's primary mission for the past twenty years has been to privatize social security. What better way to move that agenda forward than to try to convince the more reality-based, less academia-averse democrats that the safety net must be shredded than to cook the books with a Harvard Study! The sad part is that too many of them,...

Posted on 05/01/13 at 12:42 pm in response to Get ready for more White Bear Lakes: Two new looks at groundwater depletion

the reality is that it's probably going to be a tough sell. I'm a native Minnesotan, and at my dad's insistence and example, have tried to conserve water all my life/ But I've had more than one person tell me that I'm the only Minnesotan they've ever met who does so (though I'm sure there are more of us, we're not particularly thick on the ground it seems), and have gotten disbelieving looks from people when I've even mentioned the fact that our groundwater is being rapidly depleted, in...

Posted on 04/23/13 at 08:17 am in response to Why it’s increasingly likely Michele Bachmann will retire

keep Michele from running again is the offer of a plum lobbying or consulting job. So, if the GOP "Establishment" is serious about wanting her gone, they'd be well advised to talk the Koch Brothers or Shelley Adelson into offering her something with a degree of prominence, a team of "handlers" and a whopping big paycheck.

Posted on 04/02/13 at 01:15 pm in response to N. Dakota's anti-abortion moves growing, drawing backlash

Even without "personhood" designation, in the last 30 years 413 women have been jailed or charged or sued or arrested because someone decided she'd miscarried "on purpose" or otherwise risked the health of her fetus through her actions per a recent article in the Journal of Health, Law, Politics and Policy. Not a large number, perhaps, but pretty horrific when you consider the implications -- which is that the women involved have no rights at all and can be jailed, apparently, for something...

Posted on 03/29/13 at 09:40 am in response to Who will take on Dayton in 2014? Some GOP names surface

I can't see either Zellers or Thompson appealing very broadly. Having watched his appearances on KSTP's At Issue, I'm surprised Thompson got elected to the legislature. The man will need some serious coaching to overcome a sneering, superior and just plain mean demeanor. Some of the more rabid GOP rank and file may love that red meat "all government is evil we must cut social programs" cant, but most people won't swallow it if it's presented with as much gleeful malice as Thompson...

Posted on 03/29/13 at 06:45 pm in response to Who will take on Dayton in 2014? Some GOP names surface

but the caucus system hasn't worked very well for either party for awhile. Carlson -- primary winner and last minute sub for righter than right GOP endorsed Grunseth was the last 2 way race "winner" -- in a close race against a DFL endorsed Perpich. Dayton was also a primary winner, and not the endorsed candidate -- who squeaked through in a three way race as did Pawlenty and Ventura. Granted Pawlenty was endorsed, but the GOP drifted back into the righter than right Grunseth territory...

Posted on 03/14/13 at 03:54 pm in response to Stanley Hubbard to the Koch brothers, 'You can count on me'

Every day on KSTP. No surprise there. The only surprise would be that he actually admitted that his politics affected what his stations chose to broadcast. They're no more "fair and balanced" than Faux News is.

Posted on 03/14/13 at 03:49 pm in response to 10 years after Iraq War: What do we have to show for it?

Taxing and spending is the equivalent of We the People getting a job to pay for what we need. For a bunch of people who rail against "welfare fraud" -- what the heck do they think borrowing without any means to or thought of ever paying your debt is? Large-scale check kiting and ponzi scheming are the GOPs stock in trade. Add plain old criminal to the war criminal charge.