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Richard Voorhees

Bayport, Minnesota
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1 year 9 weeks

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Posted on 05/03/13 at 03:30 pm in response to Gun-control advocates push Thissen for vote on 'doomed' background-check bill

Guns used for hunting are not an issue.

Guns and weapons being universally registered and otherwise confiscated, as in Australia, is not an issue--unfortunately.

Gun and weapon collecting, like stamp collecting, may be an issue. Perhaps it is not important that the collection be operable.

The background checks and registration of weapons, of guns to be used against invading persons, appears to be the issue.

This suggests a widespread unwarranted fear.

Posted on 03/13/13 at 05:37 pm in response to Norm Coleman: 'Minnesotans are not anti-government'

In 1980 a respected Minneapolis oncologist recommended marijuana if we had a source.

Posted on 03/13/13 at 09:18 am in response to Senate and House committees approve gay marriage bill

The Community College and State University system is also top-heavy in management. I watched it grown at a CC for 25 years. Roughly three years ago the Legislative Auditor noted that MNSCU administration needed attention.

Posted on 02/08/13 at 08:29 am in response to $1.60 more tax on cigarettes equals $220 million a year

A few years ago I was in Montreal visiting with a restaurant owner. We talked about the comparatively high taxes on alcoholic beverages and cigarettes. He said, "Well, we make ourselves sick with that stuff but when we go to the hospital we are taken care of." He regarded the taxes as the finance of Canadian medical services.

Posted on 01/23/13 at 05:44 pm in response to Return to the U: The Confession

I was an Instructor at a metro Community College for some 25 years. In my last five years the pressure was on folks to "Finish what you Start." That is to start and finish a degree in two years.

Finishing a degree in the stipulated years is frequently not in the interest of the student. I was aware of two who took more than ten years. Jerry took some time off to work for Dave Durrenberger, look after his profession and his kids. I don't recall the woman's name. Her self...

Posted on 12/19/12 at 05:19 pm in response to NRA-endorsed Walz says he's open to new gun laws

The constitution doesn't require everyone to have a gun. There sometimes seems to be a creeping recommendation that everyone be armed.

My parental in-laws spent their late adolescence 25 miles from where WWII stalled for six months in Holland. Towns were "liberated" in the morning and reoccupied in the afternoon repeatedly. The administrator of a mental hospital with 2,000 patients asked the American troops to please depart before they were caught in a cross fire.

Those who...

Posted on 12/15/12 at 04:58 pm in response to Gov. Dayton offers condolences after 'dastardly, cold-blooded murder of innocent children'

I'm 69 now. My mother began teaching school in Dearborn, Michigan in the early thirties. She was a slight person, a gymnast and no-nonsense in persona. She was positioned by the door to take weapons away from incoming students. I learned much of what I know about weapons while attending high school in northern New Mexico, from students and what they had in their lockers, as well as from faculty. I learned early on that weapons were a means of pasting over fear. I worked at a New Mexico...

Posted on 10/31/12 at 03:03 pm in response to Voter ID? Get the facts across with a story

See the current NEW YORKER for Jane Mayer's portrait of von Spakovsky.

Posted on 09/06/12 at 01:11 pm in response to Bill Clinton: Our arithmetic teacher

This morning I was in South St. Paul and St. Paul to visit my barber and buy groceries. I encountered several groups huddled together talking politics from varying viewpoints. It seems that Bill has got people talking to each other.

Posted on 06/21/12 at 07:35 am in response to Mondale and Carlson: Nix Voter ID

I have been a voter on the Lower East Side of New York, a village in northern New Mexico and locally in Bloomington, South Minneapolis, South St. Paul and Bayport. In all of those polling places I was recognized by the staff. For me it was frequently a meeting of neighbors for the first time. That is genuine voter identification.

In Bloomington the clerk didn't care for my signature and was intent on denying my vote despite the fact that I had a Minnesota driver's license with my...