Is it any wonder winning was as difficult as it was?
Tuesday, July 7th, 2009*
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Archive for the 'Minnesota' Category
Wisconsin’s New Slogan Faces Some Pushback–AP headline, 3/17/2009
Friday, March 27th, 2009LIVE LIKE YOU MEAN IT
is the new tourism and business slogan.
Sadly, it sounds somewhat stilted–despite the intended meaning.
One would have expected to have found the slogan in the last century.
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While there are complaints about its meaning,
there are other, more problematic slogans.
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Images:(Buster Brown) via memoriesandnostalgia.com; (explosion) rosscairn.gnn.tv via blog.wired.com; (Ragnar) fearthegooberzilla.com via gooberzilla.wordpress.com (Missouri) […]
Projection: Franken to Win Recount by 27 Votes–FIVE THIRTY-EIGHT headline
Monday, November 24th, 2008Nate Silver’s ability to crunch numbers had sparkled during his years with BASEBALL PROSPECTUS and his inventions of research styles:
Pecota Qera and Secret Sauce.
If Franken doesn’t win by 27 votes, will it mean that
Reno Bertoia was the best third baseman in the history of baseball?
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Sunday, November 23, 2008
Projection: Franken to Win Recount […]
Damn…it comes down to this!
Monday, November 17th, 2008*
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Image: (Coleman/Franken) via washingtonpost.com (Rush L) via newsbusters.org; (pope) bp2.blogger.com via janetpain.blogspot.com; (others) cited elsewhere in blog
BACHMANN TURNED OVER LIE…
Monday, October 20th, 2008Bachmann tried to undo the damage. Appearing on WCCO (Minneapolis’ local CBS affiliate), Bachmann denied she ever called Barack Obama’s views “anti-American”:
HOST: You do feel his [Obama’s] views are anti-American?
BACHMANN: I feel his views are concerning. I’m calling on the media to investigate them. I’m not saying that his views are anti-American. That was a […]
Amazement is the only reaction possible when one realizes how many congresspersons are essentially ignorant of history.
Saturday, October 18th, 2008*
Represntative Michelle Bachmann and friend.
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Bachmann Calls For McCarthyite Investigation Into Anti-American Activities Of Liberals
Appearing on MSNBC’s Hardball today, Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN) attacked the patriotism of Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL), based on his alleged relationship to former Weather Underground member William Ayers and the values of Obama’s former pastor, Rev. Jeremiah Wright. “I’m very […]
Dubai & China battle for altitude. Paul Bunyan “gives ‘em what for.”
Monday, September 1st, 2008*
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Images: TOP: Paul–upload.wikimedia.org; tower–d.yimg.com; BOTTOM: toilet + toilet tissue–gogreenkekowna.com; newspaper–carlo.net; Paul–worldslargestthings.com; tower–i5.photbucket.com via urbanity.es;
Oklahoma: Sooners Tout their license to kill…
Wednesday, August 15th, 2007OK: Oklahoma license plate touts terror fight
For Sooners looking to show their terror-fighting pride while tearing up the asphalt, the Oklahoma Tax Commission has extended the deadline to order the global war on terrorism license plate (aka GWOT) pictured here.
It’s a great idea which will fire the imagination of other states’
departments of motor vehicles…
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Unlike baseball prognosticators or the hundreds of talking head political experts…
Sunday, July 8th, 2007I don’t conveniently forget about my forays into the crystal ball. The enclosed post was a response to the story about the New Seven Wonders poll in March.
I present for all to see that I failed to agree on even one of the winners. As it was an international poll, I can assuredly say […]
Do not read before having morning coffee.
Sunday, June 3rd, 2007June 3, 2007
New York Times
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After Sanctions, Doctors Get Drug Company Pay
By GARDINER HARRIS and JANET ROBERTS
A decade ago the Minnesota Board of Medical Practice accused Dr. Faruk Abuzzahab of a “reckless, if not willful, disregard” for the welfare of 46 patients, 5 of whom died in his care or shortly afterward. The board suspended his […]