Comments on: Political Spew 04.25.08 http://www.secretsofthecity.com/mnspeak/12257 Minneapolis + St. Paul Tue, 24 Nov 2009 20:41:02 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: justpbob http://www.secretsofthecity.com/mnspeak/12257#comment-159582 justpbob Mon, 28 Apr 2008 14:58:30 +0000 #comment-159582 Heh. Perhaps the rest of you have seen this, but one of my co-workers just sent me a copy of "<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WcU4t6zRAKg" target="_blank">the front fell off</a>." It's a scream from Down Under, and more than a little connected with the Minnesota biodiesel story. Heh. Perhaps the rest of you have seen this, but one of my co-workers just sent me a copy of “the front fell off.” It’s a scream from Down Under, and more than a little connected with the Minnesota biodiesel story.

]]> By: justpbob http://www.secretsofthecity.com/mnspeak/12257#comment-159504 justpbob Sun, 27 Apr 2008 23:20:02 +0000 #comment-159504 While the biodiesel mandate is far from being law, its chances look pretty good this session. If it passes, it could really make a sizable dent in particulate pollution once we gear up to using a B20 blend in the summer.<br /> <br /> I ran some numbers for WCCO-TV when they were doing their school bus pollution story. Switching to B20 biodiesel is the fastest and cheapest way to make a statewide reduction in emmisions from schoolbuses. We have more than enough biodiesel produced in MN right now to fill every schoolbus with B20 tommorow. There will plenty of soy left for Tofurkey, too. Minnesota farmers are expected to plant more soy and less corn this year.<br /> <br /> As older buses are taken out of service and newer buses come online, the emission levels will drop sharply. Older buses can (and are being) retrofitted with the newer emission control devices required on new buses.<br /> <br /> While the biodiesel mandate is far from being law, its chances look pretty good this session. If it passes, it could really make a sizable dent in particulate pollution once we gear up to using a B20 blend in the summer.

I ran some numbers for WCCO-TV when they were doing their school bus pollution story. Switching to B20 biodiesel is the fastest and cheapest way to make a statewide reduction in emmisions from schoolbuses. We have more than enough biodiesel produced in MN right now to fill every schoolbus with B20 tommorow. There will plenty of soy left for Tofurkey, too. Minnesota farmers are expected to plant more soy and less corn this year.

As older buses are taken out of service and newer buses come online, the emission levels will drop sharply. Older buses can (and are being) retrofitted with the newer emission control devices required on new buses.

]]> By: mnblrmkr http://www.secretsofthecity.com/mnspeak/12257#comment-159439 mnblrmkr Sat, 26 Apr 2008 15:46:18 +0000 #comment-159439 The funniest part was when he tried to explain that they weren't really Nazis, but the National Socialist Workers Party. The funniest part was when he tried to explain that they weren’t really Nazis, but the National Socialist Workers Party.

]]> By: justpbob http://www.secretsofthecity.com/mnspeak/12257#comment-159435 justpbob Sat, 26 Apr 2008 12:15:38 +0000 #comment-159435 Crazy and stupid knows no geographic boundaries, my Boilermaker friend. Click on the candidate's website and you'll see he why felt right at home with his little costumed friends, and saw nothing wrong with speaking at that event.<br /> <br /> BTW, note how he pictures himself in a US Naval Academy uniform in the "about Tony" section, yet if you look at bottom of his cv, he was only there for two years. Medical discharge. My money is on "section 8."<br /> <br /> Crazy and stupid knows no geographic boundaries, my Boilermaker friend. Click on the candidate’s website and you’ll see he why felt right at home with his little costumed friends, and saw nothing wrong with speaking at that event.

BTW, note how he pictures himself in a US Naval Academy uniform in the “about Tony” section, yet if you look at bottom of his cv, he was only there for two years. Medical discharge. My money is on “section 8.”

]]> By: mnblrmkr http://www.secretsofthecity.com/mnspeak/12257#comment-159429 mnblrmkr Sat, 26 Apr 2008 05:21:16 +0000 #comment-159429 Hey Bob,<br /> <br /> Not really local, but from my time at Purdue, I was under the impression that <a href="http://scienceblogs.com/insolence/2008/04/stupid_is_as_stupid_does.php" target="_blank">these guys</a> were in Southern Indiana. Hey Bob,

Not really local, but from my time at Purdue, I was under the impression that these guys were in Southern Indiana.

]]> By: justpbob http://www.secretsofthecity.com/mnspeak/12257#comment-159379 justpbob Fri, 25 Apr 2008 21:08:43 +0000 #comment-159379 The battle with Canada has already begun. <a href="http://www.minnesotamonitor.com/showDiary.do?diaryId=3810" target="_blank">Local hip-hop group denied entry to Canada</a>.<br /> <br /> To arms, citizens, to arms! The battle with Canada has already begun. Local hip-hop group denied entry to Canada.

To arms, citizens, to arms!

]]> By: richg http://www.secretsofthecity.com/mnspeak/12257#comment-159292 richg Fri, 25 Apr 2008 19:11:09 +0000 #comment-159292 It is manifest destiny. Manitoba must extend to the Gulf of Mexico. It is manifest destiny. Manitoba must extend to the Gulf of Mexico.

]]> By: Lunch! http://www.secretsofthecity.com/mnspeak/12257#comment-159280 Lunch! Fri, 25 Apr 2008 18:57:29 +0000 #comment-159280 And we will again if those Canucks don't stop eyeballin' me land. And we will again if those Canucks don’t stop eyeballin’ me land.

]]> By: justpbob http://www.secretsofthecity.com/mnspeak/12257#comment-159275 justpbob Fri, 25 Apr 2008 18:54:19 +0000 #comment-159275 <em>People would fight wars over land this good.</em><br /> <br /> <a href="http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/dakota/dak_chrono.html" target="_blank">They have</a>. People would fight wars over land this good.

They have.

]]> By: Lunch! http://www.secretsofthecity.com/mnspeak/12257#comment-159267 Lunch! Fri, 25 Apr 2008 18:39:59 +0000 #comment-159267 But biggest of all, from my point of view, is land. Adding more and more lanes might work in less developed parts of the country with crappier farmland. But here the soil is amazing. People would fight wars over land this good. But biggest of all, from my point of view, is land. Adding more and more lanes might work in less developed parts of the country with crappier farmland. But here the soil is amazing. People would fight wars over land this good.

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