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Local blogging 08.07.07
Aug 7 2007 — 2:00am
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17 comments in past 24 hours
It is the point when defense contractors also suck off the public teat. Corporate welfare. Puts dollars in Dick Cheney's pockets.
noodleman
Nov 22 2009 - 1:11 am →
Fuck weapons of war also noodleman I don't want to pay for that either. Can you say red hearing. Pull out of every base around the globe is my ho...
swandog
Nov 22 2009 - 12:28 am →
Well, gosh, swandog. Let's make churches responsible for the behavior of all their congregations. But then who would be financially responsible for...
noodleman
Nov 22 2009 - 12:07 am →
Assurance Process The American resettlement organization must "assure" the Department of State that it is prepared to receive each matched refugee...
swandog
Nov 21 2009 - 11:45 pm →
Here's a short summary of the refugee resettlement process in the US: http://www.refugees.org/article.aspx?id=1082&subm=40&ssm=47&a...
mnblrmkr
Nov 21 2009 - 9:31 pm →
Just did a quick search, and it appears that for 2009, the refugee quota was set at 80,000 again. Usually, fewer refugees are actually admitted th...
mnblrmkr
Nov 21 2009 - 9:15 pm →
"So your premise is that the churches have nothing to do with importing refugee populations into the state." No ,they are involved, but the refu...
mnblrmkr
Nov 21 2009 - 9:13 pm →
http://www.mnchurches.org/programs/directservices/refugeservices.html Our Partnerships: Refugee Services became a program of the Minnesota Counc...
swandog
Nov 21 2009 - 8:00 pm →
Noodleman - I do NOT think that Somalians commit more welfare fraud than other groups of people. People are people they will always maximize a giv...
swandog
Nov 21 2009 - 7:43 pm →
"It is the churches that are the catalyst for bringing in refugee populations and showing them to the door of the welfare office." Uhm, no it's ...
mnblrmkr
Nov 21 2009 - 7:09 pm →
4 Reader Comments
11:03 am
Instrestring: Former Strib publisher Joel Kramer is starting an online news site and has nabbed Corey Anderson from City Pages and Roger Buoen from Minnesota Monitor. Sounds serious.
11:05 am
When I first heard about Joel Kramer’s idea, I was thrilled. Now with every single piece of news I read about it and every time someone tells me the latest of what they’ve heard about the project I get less and less excited.
11:35 am
Not excited.
7:02 pm
The only problem with my cat is she’s too fat for me to lift her. And when I do, she growls.