Comments on: Politics in Minnesota 8.27.07

By: bobby_b

bobby_b — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 05:21:28 +0000

"The tilt-w-whirl symbols are all pictures of I35W."

I . . . . uh, I mean . . . . ummm .. . . . Nope. I got nothing.

(I'm pretty sure Big G just wanted a chance to use "pricks" and "rampant" in the same line.)

By: msparber

msparber — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 04:32:53 +0000

The tilt-w-whirl symbols are all pictures of I35W. That’s what’s wrong with them.

By: bobby_b

bobby_b — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 04:30:10 +0000

Exactly what’s wrong about Tilt-a-Whirl state symbols?

I mean, we’re not barbarians.

By: grote

grote — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 04:23:28 +0000

imagine how ashamed Minnesota is of you!

By: Big G

Big G — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 03:58:54 +0000

I can tell you why the bridge fall down on August 1st: we have too many spoil, snobbish, self-righteous, unsympathetic, emotionally-driven hacks known as state lawmakers that represent your local district. It’s their fucking fault for not keeping focus on the main priories of the state over the last several years! Fuck them! Both political parties! I resist any more public spending money that goes to extended K-12 education programs, sports stadiums, LGA, Light Rail Transit, Tilt-A-Whirl state symbols, condoms for kids, smoking bans, potluck dinners, performing arts funding, public radio and TV, gas taxes, county bench programs, increase self-pay raises, and other non-important issues.

People in this state are total pricks for allowing this behavior to become rampant in public office! Hence, I am ashamed to be a Minnesotan right now.

By: bobby_b

bobby_b — Mon, 27 Aug 2007 22:57:40 +0000

"I feel so dirty."

Don't. You've given me an implied permission, at least, to throw in "he's not dead yet" somewhere in the next few days, and so whatever crassness you think you've brought to our lives here today with this comment, just know that the promise of things to come brings you well into the positive.

(Of course, my assumption that "I feel so dirty" was a negative comment could well be considered to be . . . some sort of "ist" . . . . randyist? uninnocentist? . . . )

By: JC65

JC65 — Mon, 27 Aug 2007 22:29:20 +0000

mnblrmkr beat me to it by 20 minutes.

sorry

By: teucer

teucer — Mon, 27 Aug 2007 22:28:16 +0000

I hate myself for doing this. But I'd hate myself more for not doing it as it could hardly be any more relevant. But I'm all conflicted about it, and such like.

ARTHUR:
Then who is your lord?
WOMAN:
We don't have a lord.
ARTHUR:
What?
DENNIS:
I told you. We're an anarcho-syndicalist commune. We take it in turns to act as a sort of executive officer for the week,...
ARTHUR:
Yes.
DENNIS:
...but all the decisions of that officer have to be ratified at a special bi-weekly meeting...
ARTHUR:
Yes, I see.
DENNIS:
...by a simple majority in the case of purely internal affairs,...
ARTHUR:
Be quiet!
DENNIS:
...but by a two-thirds majority in the case of more major--
ARTHUR:
Be quiet! I order you to be quiet!
WOMAN:
Order, eh? Who does he think he is? Heh."

And so on.

I feel so dirty.

By: bobby_b

bobby_b — Mon, 27 Aug 2007 22:26:31 +0000

"It all adds up."

No doubt. I wouldn't disagree with any of that. My point wasn't "so what," though. It was more a sort of "when a "disaster" hits China or India, reporting starts when the deaths hit about 20,000-25,000, but they make the "repeated disasters!" news here at 20" contextual statement about how . . . . cushioned? . . . life has become for us.

By: JC65

JC65 — Mon, 27 Aug 2007 22:26:01 +0000

This is only relevant to politics in Minnesota because of the location of the arrest, but Senator Larry Craig (R-ID) was apparently arrested in the MSP Airport for allegedly lewd conduct. Sorry for the link to a blog with a link to a story, but this is "developing" as that hack drudge would say.