The MnSpeak phenomenon
Jul 11 2008 — 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 →
15 Reader Comments
11:26 am
My mom sent me that thing with my name in it.
Those kinds of things are dumb. There is no other explanation for why my mom knows about them.
11:27 am
If we’re coming up from behind, who’s at the top of our ticket?
11:31 am
Finally, a Trojan horse for my radical revolutionary Socialist views.
I’ll have this entire state wearing berets and reading Monocle magazine in six months.
It is OK if I use this as a Trojan horse, right, Max?
11:41 am
I’ve never seen one that well done before. Also, I’m totally voting for Speak. I like its position on bacon.
11:48 am
I want to be communications director for the MN Speak for President campain!
11:51 am
This is so brilliant.
11:52 am
This is so stupid.
11:52 am
Come on now: the tattoo on the old lady is pretty good stuff.
12:27 pm
I want to be communications director for the MN Speak for President campain!
You’ll have to settle for deputy.
12:35 pm
It’s so stupid that it’s brilliant. Yay for unity!
12:37 pm
Listen you hippies, this “MNSpeak for President” thing is my Trojan horse! No one does anything until I say, like Angela Landsbury in The Manchurian Candidate!
(Pending approval from MNSpeak facilitators, of course.)
12:39 pm
If by “dumb” you mean “hilarious” and “stupid” you mean “awesome” and “by coming from behind” you mean “screwing all the bastards in our wake,” then I totally agree!
12:42 pm
Max, why don’t you pass the time by playing some Solataire…
12:54 pm
For Andy.
7:38 am
The General Election itself produces enough comedy this time around.