Expect an announcement soon from Minneapolis and Hennepin County on their use of alternative fuels. Also from the Air National Guard Wing near the airport.

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We’re not a socialist state yet, bub. There is no all-inclusive, group-thinking, collective “The Lung.” We’re made up of many discrete, individual lungs, each with its own set of hopes and dreams and ambitions, and you don’t speak for all of them. (cough . . ) Don’t tread on my lung!

Maybe I should put this in my calendar so I can hold you to you your promise.

And I was just trying to use some lame-ass humor to indicate that there are other legitimate reasons to object to these transcript-less links. Oh well.

“Trust us, you really didn’t miss anything.”

But these are supposed to be captioned. Regardless whether someone else feels they were useful or not, that’s something I prefer to decide for myself. One of the points of the debate broadcasts is to allow people to see/hear the candidates unfiltered through a reporter’s writing. When I have to wait for a write up in the paper, or on-line, I’m denied the opportunity to develop my own unfilitered impression. Mot to mention that the reports are summaries, and there might be something that was said, or an issue that was raised that “I” might find important or interesting to myself that gets left out.

Trust us, you really didn’t miss anything.

Although I’ve yet to figure out why the political debates last fall that Don Shelby moderated weren’t captioned for broadcast.