Comments on: Mo Rocca blues http://www.secretsofthecity.com/mnspeak/10645 Minneapolis + St. Paul Sun, 22 Nov 2009 08:23:37 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: wayne http://www.secretsofthecity.com/mnspeak/10645#comment-96240 wayne Wed, 11 Jul 2007 15:42:15 +0000 #comment-96240 they can ask me what I think about my local grocery store. they can ask me what I think about my local grocery store.

]]> By: gene http://www.secretsofthecity.com/mnspeak/10645#comment-96236 gene Wed, 11 Jul 2007 15:34:40 +0000 #comment-96236 the Red White and Fucking Blue Bar. the Red White and Fucking Blue Bar.

]]> By: Erica Campbell's Pimp http://www.secretsofthecity.com/mnspeak/10645#comment-96210 Erica Campbell's Pimp Wed, 11 Jul 2007 13:21:58 +0000 #comment-96210 I would suggest any of these events from Charley Underwod's Peace Calendar, or at least stop by the Wednesday evening vigil (5-6PM) on the Lake Street bridge and ask the activist/revolutionary class their thoughts on the RNC coming to town.<br /> <br /> Here are the cherries from that list for the rest of the week:<br /> <br /> Thursday, 7/12, 7 pm, Department of Peace host celebration of the DoP<br /> campaign, with Dot Maver and Lynn McMullen, music, food, more. House of<br /> Balls, 212 3rd Ave N, Mpls. Mary Jane at 651-261-6966.<br /> <br /> Saturday, 7/14, 8:30 to 4:30, Veterans for Peace chapter 115 (Red Wing)<br /> hosts annual summer event "Pigstock" at Pig Wisdom Farm, including speakers<br /> like former prosecutor Elizabeth de la Vega on criminal charges against<br /> Bush, bioethics prof Steven Miles on torture, whistleblower Coleen Rowley<br /> and former diplomat Ann Wright, plus music, a roasted pig and camping, all<br /> at Hager City, WI. $25. wadenhow@redwing.net or tuvecino@redwing.net or<br /> www.pigwisdomfarm.com or 715-592-5127.<br /> <br /> Sunday, 7/15, 3 to 6 pm, Peace in the Precincts potluck picnic, Dunning Rec<br /> Center, Marshall at Griggs, St. Paul. <a href="http://www.peaceintheprecincts.org">www.peaceintheprecincts.org</a> I would suggest any of these events from Charley Underwod’s Peace Calendar, or at least stop by the Wednesday evening vigil (5-6PM) on the Lake Street bridge and ask the activist/revolutionary class their thoughts on the RNC coming to town.

Here are the cherries from that list for the rest of the week:

Thursday, 7/12, 7 pm, Department of Peace host celebration of the DoP
campaign, with Dot Maver and Lynn McMullen, music, food, more. House of
Balls, 212 3rd Ave N, Mpls. Mary Jane at 651-261-6966.

Saturday, 7/14, 8:30 to 4:30, Veterans for Peace chapter 115 (Red Wing)
hosts annual summer event “Pigstock” at Pig Wisdom Farm, including speakers
like former prosecutor Elizabeth de la Vega on criminal charges against
Bush, bioethics prof Steven Miles on torture, whistleblower Coleen Rowley
and former diplomat Ann Wright, plus music, a roasted pig and camping, all
at Hager City, WI. $25. wadenhow@redwing.net or tuvecino@redwing.net or
http://www.pigwisdomfarm.com or 715-592-5127.

Sunday, 7/15, 3 to 6 pm, Peace in the Precincts potluck picnic, Dunning Rec
Center, Marshall at Griggs, St. Paul. http://www.peaceintheprecincts.org

]]> By: Garrison http://www.secretsofthecity.com/mnspeak/10645#comment-96200 Garrison Wed, 11 Jul 2007 06:43:52 +0000 #comment-96200 This will not be Minnesotas first major-party presidential convention, so the real man-on-the-street question is: "In what year did the Republican party hold its National Convention in Minneapolis?" Bonus points for knowing who was nominated as the Republican Presidential candidate! [Hint: he was already President (#23) but failed to win re-election - alas, one of our least remembered Presidents ...]. Minnesota also voted Republican that year but still somehow later managed to use the elected President's name for a Minneapolis neighborhood and a St. Paul Avenue.<br /> <br /> <br /> This will not be Minnesotas first major-party presidential convention, so the real man-on-the-street question is: “In what year did the Republican party hold its National Convention in Minneapolis?” Bonus points for knowing who was nominated as the Republican Presidential candidate! [Hint: he was already President (#23) but failed to win re-election - alas, one of our least remembered Presidents ...]. Minnesota also voted Republican that year but still somehow later managed to use the elected President’s name for a Minneapolis neighborhood and a St. Paul Avenue.

]]> By: chuck http://www.secretsofthecity.com/mnspeak/10645#comment-96199 chuck Wed, 11 Jul 2007 06:19:30 +0000 #comment-96199 Okay, I had to know who Minnesota's first governor was:<br /> <a href="http://www.mnhs.org/people/governors/gov/gov_04.htm" target=_blank>Henry H. Sibley</a> Okay, I had to know who Minnesota’s first governor was:
Henry H. Sibley

]]> By: Roger http://www.secretsofthecity.com/mnspeak/10645#comment-96190 Roger Wed, 11 Jul 2007 03:37:23 +0000 #comment-96190 IT is well known that Jay Leno has a soft spot for Minnesota. Who else would invite Marjorie Johnson as a guest - several times at that! He loved our former governor and all of the other characters, politico and otherwise, who emerge on the National scene from the North woods.<br /> <br /> He certainly could have sent a much more cynical emissary than Mo Rocca.<br /> <br /> And heck, every knows our first governor was Hubert Horatio Humphrey (DEMOCRAT!)<br /> <br /> IT is well known that Jay Leno has a soft spot for Minnesota. Who else would invite Marjorie Johnson as a guest – several times at that! He loved our former governor and all of the other characters, politico and otherwise, who emerge on the National scene from the North woods.

He certainly could have sent a much more cynical emissary than Mo Rocca.

And heck, every knows our first governor was Hubert Horatio Humphrey (DEMOCRAT!)

]]> By: Big G http://www.secretsofthecity.com/mnspeak/10645#comment-96188 Big G Wed, 11 Jul 2007 03:30:13 +0000 #comment-96188 Yeah. Here's a suggestion: NBC should do a jaywalking segment on the streets of Saint Paul and Minneapolis, and see how many liberal idiots would respond to basic trivia questions 101 by Leno himself. <br /> <br /> Wanna bet that Minnesotans, who feel passionately about the local public education system, are just as stupid as the folks from California?<br /> <br /> Jay: "Who was the first Governor of the state of Minnesota?<br /> <br /> Typical Minnesotan: "Uh...Kevin Garnett?" Yeah. Here’s a suggestion: NBC should do a jaywalking segment on the streets of Saint Paul and Minneapolis, and see how many liberal idiots would respond to basic trivia questions 101 by Leno himself.

Wanna bet that Minnesotans, who feel passionately about the local public education system, are just as stupid as the folks from California?

Jay: “Who was the first Governor of the state of Minnesota?

Typical Minnesotan: “Uh…Kevin Garnett?”

]]> By: justpbob http://www.secretsofthecity.com/mnspeak/10645#comment-96164 justpbob Wed, 11 Jul 2007 01:57:05 +0000 #comment-96164 "Don't me a Midwestern idiot"<br /> <br /> RT on a bike? Coleman in a kilt? The die is already cast, my friend. Hey, maybe we can punk THEM by convincing them that there really IS a rising star of Asian Rap in Saint Paul by the name of Vanila Wang. He's about to do his first album in English (He's HUGE in Japan), the buzz is he will be BIGGER THAN PRINCE!!!<br /> <br /> Then again, almost everyone is... “Don’t me a Midwestern idiot”

RT on a bike? Coleman in a kilt? The die is already cast, my friend. Hey, maybe we can punk THEM by convincing them that there really IS a rising star of Asian Rap in Saint Paul by the name of Vanila Wang. He’s about to do his first album in English (He’s HUGE in Japan), the buzz is he will be BIGGER THAN PRINCE!!!

Then again, almost everyone is…

]]> By: aeklund http://www.secretsofthecity.com/mnspeak/10645#comment-96161 aeklund Wed, 11 Jul 2007 01:54:52 +0000 #comment-96161 Don't me a Midwestern idiot, like they usually seek out. Don’t me a Midwestern idiot, like they usually seek out.

]]> By: justpbob http://www.secretsofthecity.com/mnspeak/10645#comment-96157 justpbob Wed, 11 Jul 2007 01:25:58 +0000 #comment-96157 Interview that up-and-coming rapper Vanilla Wang at his Frogtown residence/studio. Interview that up-and-coming rapper Vanilla Wang at his Frogtown residence/studio.

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