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Shane Schmidt

Minneapolis, MN
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4 years 26 weeks

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Posted on 09/29/11 at 09:16 am in response to Stadium study: Will it address all of the right questions?

To squander the Arden Hills site on a stadium would be an enormous mistake, but that's less absurd than placing a stadium in a new site when infrastructure and business development already exists for this sort of facility elsewhere. Moreover the business that already caters to this sort of development already exists in our area. Existing hotels, restaurants, and parking facilities, for example, can benefit from additional stadium development. It is all there in Minneapolis.

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Posted on 02/15/11 at 02:25 am in response to Picking science that fits politics: Rep. Mike Beard on climate change

I don't know what troubles me more here. Is it cherry-picking science -- even junk science -- in support of politics or deferring to God as a kind of safety value that prevents humans from making mistakes...just so long as they believe?

I think it is deferring to god that troubles me.

I mean this idea that if you only follow God's will all works out for the best in the end is really at the base of Beard's thinking, isn't it? God is the provider, and among the things God...