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Neal Rovick

St Anthony, MN
Commenter for
3 years 2 weeks

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Posted on 05/15/13 at 03:07 pm in response to Obama’s three scandals: a closer look

The Bush appointee was in charge in the 2012 period when the issue was brought forward.

Shouldn't you be pillorying him?

Posted on 05/15/13 at 10:06 pm in response to Obama’s three scandals: a closer look

It makes it far more likely that the Bush-appointed Commissioner regarded it, as most, agent discretion applied perhaps too enthusiastically.

After all, do you regard the T party as a "political group" or a "general welfare" organization in which politics were only a minor part of its activities? It's the difference between having a tax-exempt status of that particular type or not.

I bet the great majority of Americans regarded the T party as a political organization at that...

Posted on 05/14/13 at 02:25 pm in response to Practical considerations aside, Vikings stadium design is impressive

If you want a small taste of this giant, go look at the Alumni Center at the U of MN.

http://www1.umn.edu/twincities/maps/McNamaraCt/

Gigantic scale-less walls, sloping slabs of stones, diagonal ribbons of windows. Pretty unfriendly and un-neighborly a building as is out there. Acres of bare, paved plaza result in unused spaces, also.

And the ETFE is...

Posted on 05/14/13 at 02:02 pm in response to Practical considerations aside, Vikings stadium design is impressive

Even better, "When burned ETFE releases hydrofluoric acid."

Posted on 05/13/13 at 04:29 pm in response to Should the U.S. get militarily involved in Syria?

You might be surprised how soon the US will get involved in the politics and subsequent military disputes when Syria's government falls and Israel has on it's borders the new Egypt, the new Syria, the tottering Jordan, a Hamas-dominated Palestine, and a Hezbollah-dominated southern Lebanon.

It's kind of the "inkspot" theory in action.

Do you suppose it is the collapse of a "Israel first" policy?

McCain's just early to the party--AIPAC speaks through the voice of a...

Posted on 05/06/13 at 11:00 am in response to GOP candidate Jeff Johnson on raising taxes, stricter gun control, gay marriage: He's opposed

....I have a very strong electoral base in Hennepin County....

Yes, there is no better indicator of partisan political support than the results of an unopposed run for a county commissioner seat in which political affiliation of the candidate is not listed on the ballot.

(Not!)

Posted on 05/02/13 at 01:10 pm in response to Kathleen Hall Jamieson and the 'attack on fact'

Poll released yesterday....

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Overall, the poll finds that 29 percent of Americans think that an armed revolution in order to protect liberties might be necessary in the next few years, with another five percent unsure. However, these beliefs are conditional on party. Just 18 percent of Democrats think an armed revolution may be necessary, as opposed to 44 percent of Republicans and 27 percent of independents

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Posted on 05/02/13 at 03:44 pm in response to Kathleen Hall Jamieson and the 'attack on fact'

Gee, I had never realized that there was big money behind gun control, pollution control, increased gas mileage, climate change, marriage equality, higher tax on the wealthy, etc.

I guess I had in wrong, all along.

Pro gun, anti-climate change, drill-baby-drill, "sanctity of marriage", don't tax the wealthy---all struggling, pre-bono causes of a forlorn GOP.

Thanks for setting that straight

One or the other of us proves some point made this article.

Posted on 05/03/13 at 09:08 am in response to Kathleen Hall Jamieson and the 'attack on fact'

Actually, you find a very apt situation:

The path to war in Iraq was an extremely clear case of confirmation bias--ignore all of the results of the manifold inspections that point to the contrary and then rest all of your beliefs on a single source in West Germany that had already been proven a liar. Have your respected tool, General Powell, present a lot of pretty but imaginative pictures and a little vial of white powder, and, voila!, 10 years in Iraq. Not al direct lie perhaps,...

Posted on 05/06/13 at 09:15 am in response to Kathleen Hall Jamieson and the 'attack on fact'

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Because of the gravity of the subject and the President’s unique access to
classified information, members of Congress and the public expect the President
and his senior officials to take special care to be balanced and accurate in
describing national security threats. It does not appear, however, that President
Bush, Vice President Cheney, Secretary Rumsfeld, Secretary Powell, and
National Security Advisor Rice met this standard in the case of...