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Today in the news 06.04.07
Lambert: Does anyone really care about the Strib staffers?
WCCO: Besides going back in time to 1984, when this sort of thing was cool, what does it take to be a Pac Man champion?
KARE11: Chaska police chief on gun control.
WCCO: Minnesota Republican Party misusing employees retirement funds?
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Minnesota Republicans not only steal from the citizenry, but now their own employees?
What happened to the Ole White Christian Party?
My favorite quote (regarding when deposits have to be credited to the employee's retirement account.):
"There seemed to be some gray areas as to what was the requirement," Carey said.
Poor kwatt will never be able to retire now!
What the hell happened to the Local Blog Aggregator? That was how I kept up on news during the day! Now it's like three blogs.
WTF, Max? Get with it here.
Hey, that's not my bag, baby. However, I do know that Matt is working on it.
""There seemed to be some gray areas as to what was the requirement," Carey said."
Oh, yeah, those regs are as vague and imprecise as the IRS regs dealing with depositing payroll tax withholdings.
So that's how it's going to be, huh, Max. Pass the buck. This has disaster written all over it.
Fine, I'll fix it.
(Fiddle fiddle.)
All right, it's fixed, but you displeased me, kwatt, so I have written in a greasemonkey code that will make it invisible to you.
Max fiddles while MNSpeak burns.
#1: No, no one really cares about the Strib employees.
Why are they any different than any other working stiff?
It's a third rate paper in a secondary market.
And #2, the Chaska police chief is a nut job.
Bud Jr -
Star Trib is the 12th largest newspaper in the US. And I hate to think of the Twin Cities as a secondary market.
Are you related to our 'beloved' Governor Pawlenty? He has been known to have his relatives come on this site and say stupid things.....
Lambert on why Ryback lost the media beat, and why CJ remains.
An especially juicy quote from Nick Coleman:
"Yeah, but one reason I walked away from it," he says today, "is because I could feel my editors pulling back their support for me. If you're doing it the way it is supposed to be done, [reporting and analyzing editorial decision-making in radio and TV], quite often what you're writing is also reflecting badly on them. Chickenshit is chickenshit. So what makes it worse is that at the same time this stuff is reflecting badly on them they're also taking shit from the people they think of as peers. There's a kind of class distinction issue involved."
(Fiddle fiddle.)
Is that like in Charlie Brown Christmas where they go stand around a tree and wave their arms around and then magically it's decorated?
Max fiddles while MNSpeak burns
I totally read that as "Max diddles while MNSpeak burns." That makes it totally different. Actually, no it doesn't.
I read it as "Max piddles on MnSpeak ferns," and did not feel a need to respond, because that accusation is true.
Rybak, rather.
Are you related to our 'beloved' Governor Pawlenty? He has been known to have his relatives come on this site and say stupid things.....
ORLY?
Star Trib is the 12th largest newspaper in the US. And I hate to think of the Twin Cities as a secondary market.
HI-larious!!!!
Chaska's police chief reminds me of that nazi sellout in Slaughterhouse five that they meet in the bomb-shelter during one of the air-raids. All red white and blue with eagles and swastikas, talking about how it's better to give in because the Nazis are gonna win anyway.
What a lunatic.
Funny, the Chaska police chief reminds me of a guy who would rather have his people not face a gun when they go out on a call. How crazy!
Sorry, but the 2nd Amendment trumps some uniformed bureaucrat's desire to pull an uneventful shift. Stay in the donut shop, chief, if you're so afraid of your citizenry.
I'm not even talking about second amendment issues in this case... just the uniform that jackass wears when he's on camera.
My god, what a stroker.
It seems to me that maybe Chaska has too many criminals on the streets.
THAT must be why this weenie "Chief" is so afraid.
Why would he be upset about law abiding gun owners?
THEY don't commit crime or threaten his officers now, do they?
Gun control is hitting where you aim.
If Chaska has a lot of criminals on the street, they're doing a pretty bad job, according to Chaska crime stats. The city is well below the average on the whole, except, strangely, in the category of forcible rape.
I keep running into police chiefs who want hand guns taken off the streets, including the former chief of police of Minneapolis, Tony Bouza. I suspect it is because they have to deal with so many handgun deaths.
I'll give up mine when Tony Bouza gives up his.
First, keep in mind what the Chaska COP is lobbying for:
"The mayors group is working to drum up opposition to the Tiahrt amendment, which prevents the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives from sharing certain information about gun sales with local police departments. "
Pretty basic stuff. Info-sharing. From the feds, to the locals. He's a local. No surprise.
And, he's employed by Chaska, which is sort of a schizophrenic place these days. For years, it was a very quiet little place, full of good ol' boys and farmers and mechanics and quite a large hispanic population. It was the kind of place where the locals all went to Shakopee for the big-city entertainment.
But now, the yuppie-ring has expanded to include all of Chaska, and all of the open land (which was extensive) is filling with big homes in dense neighborhoods. (The old locals decry the loss of the small-town feel.) The new residents - family types, moderately-to-fairly-well-off (think $250k-$550k homes) - are more citified, and less wild-west-pioneer-farmer-hunter attuned. So, their progressive (in a fairly realistic way) COP gives them the warm fuzzies.
He's not a no-gun-nut, by any means. He has more of a "can we be reasonable about this" appraoch.
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