tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-132468282025-06-13T08:41:10.687-05:00the Cucking StoolA cure for <i>communis rixator and communis rixatrix</i>, the common scoldSpothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04320639130804814361noreply@blogger.comBlogger3762125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13246828.post-25865532203763594802012-05-21T00:49:00.001-05:002012-05-21T23:07:05.359-05:00All things, even good things, must come to an endAll blogs are grass*
The Cucking Stool is going quiet, as of today.
The Cucking Stool has had a long run, longer than many Minnesota blogs. We've been lucky enough to collect a couple of awards along the way, including the recent one in the side bar from CBS Local - WCCO. Some people, anyway, will be sorry to see the Stool go.
But don't despair, boys and girls, or you either, grasshopper, Spothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04320639130804814361noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13246828.post-71015981439823214222012-05-19T20:47:00.002-05:002012-05-20T23:36:07.960-05:00Meet 13 of 13Michele Bachmann survives in a post-Borg world
The metamorphosis is complete. The MNGOP has been assimilated by the Borg — the Paulbots — and Michele Bachmann is left to become 13 of 13 or perish.
So, of course, she's 13 of 13.
Supporters of Texas Congressman Ron Paul have picked up all but five of the elected Minnesota delegate slots to the national Republican convention.
InSpothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04320639130804814361noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13246828.post-68257498382897305882012-05-17T06:00:00.000-05:002012-05-19T09:09:41.030-05:00Being the DeputyCan be hazardous to your health
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Since the election in 2010, there have been two Deputy Majority Leaders in the Minnesota Senate.
First, Geoff Michel, who was stripped of his epaulets and brass buttons over L'affaire Brodkorb, and who ultimately decided not to run again.
Now, the person designated to fill Michel's big floppy shoes, Julianne Ortman, was denied the MNGOP Spothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04320639130804814361noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13246828.post-37887329695990215382012-05-16T09:43:00.000-05:002012-05-16T15:02:49.942-05:00And in other newsAnother newsmaker moment with Tim Pawlenty
AP photo (2011) - MPR
It is reported that Timmy took himself out the veep stakes:
Looks like the shortlist just got shorter. The Minnesota Star Tribune reports, via Taegan Goddard‘s Political Wire, that former Minnesota Governor Tim Pawlenty has taken himself out of the running for Vice President on Spothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04320639130804814361noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13246828.post-24864599059035405852012-05-15T06:41:00.000-05:002012-05-15T23:05:16.788-05:00Jesus Christ: CEO
Jesus, give me some money
The Blind Leading the Blind - wikipedia.com
If that doesn't remind you of this, you aren't paying attention.
Northland CBMC advertising.
In a description of this event, CMBC Northland says:
Jesus had a great deal to say about the marketplace. After all, the marketplace is where He found his disciples, performed countless miracles, and encouraged the Spothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04320639130804814361noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13246828.post-40603461155855187512012-05-14T12:21:00.000-05:002012-05-15T22:40:33.817-05:00Not Almanac 5/14/12
Mark Dayton wins the legislative session!
This week we discuss the conclusion of the legislative session, including the Vikings stadium, retirements and a twitter spat between John Kriesel and everyone’s favorite Christian conservative banker, Mary Kiffmeyer.
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if (!(!!(Spothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04320639130804814361noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13246828.post-51999690613485614402012-05-12T11:13:00.002-05:002012-05-12T19:21:40.323-05:00They come to bury Kurt, not to praise himThe minor prophets have spoken
Kurt Zellers is a stinkin' kid, a stinkin' eighth-grader, a stinkin' clown. And besides that, they don't like him very much.
He's none of these things guys; he's the Prince of Maple Grove.
It would be difficult -- impossible, I think -- to write a better parody of right wing radio than these guys. They're geniuses. In their own way, of course.
It is Spothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04320639130804814361noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13246828.post-42554697975230258462012-05-11T11:13:00.001-05:002012-05-11T11:21:49.946-05:00Comparing R.T. to the bill as passedHe was a close as anybody
Rybak said he wanted to tie improvements to Target Center to the new stadium approval for the Vikings; that happened. You can hear the mayor in this video explain the implications of that for Minneapolis taxpayers; he appeared at Drinking Liberally in January.
This part of the agreement and the bill has received little attention recently in media discussion about Spothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04320639130804814361noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13246828.post-85537726882727375562012-05-09T20:29:00.003-05:002012-05-09T20:29:42.897-05:00All in the game, yuckLike everything else important at the State Capitol, the final version of the Vikings stadium bill was decided behind closed doors, outside of the view of the public. This should come as no surprise. At least they let people in the building this time. Last summer, they had the whole Capitol complex on lockdown. I guess we should count our blessings.
This time there's a trail of Twitter aaronklemzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09544556129039817104noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13246828.post-89171246605645459032012-05-09T19:52:00.000-05:002012-05-09T22:09:09.502-05:00The Pharaoh and the bill collectorsSome Pharaohs get no respect
driftglass.com - used with permission
Many of you have undoubtedly heard about the charming firm of Chicago bill collectors named Accretive Health, and the equally charming practice of its representatives to chat up patients in the Fairview Hospitals emergency rooms about their bills. While they are still being treated.
Be a real shame if that appendix Spothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04320639130804814361noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13246828.post-18743552713777695032012-05-09T16:37:00.001-05:002012-05-09T16:40:37.790-05:00Just as $330 is between $200 and $300
The Senate's first legal bill on the Brodkorb "matter" may be in the mail. So says Cal, whose powers of estimation are clearly just as good as Dave Senjem's.
The way these characters low ball things, it'll probably be hundred grand, easy. And all because Cal and the (then, mostly) leadership was itching to fire Brokdorb.
He's making goats of them all.Spothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04320639130804814361noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13246828.post-17376310674272736622012-05-09T15:00:00.005-05:002012-05-09T15:26:19.068-05:00Crocodile tearsEnough to swim in
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In the debate over the stadium bill the past couple of days, one of the funniest things to watch has been the faux concern of some of the anti-stadium Republicans over people, and things, for whom and for which they ordinarily don't give the smallest damn. Suddenly, education, bridges, and vulnerable people are on the lips of legislators who, as I heard Spothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04320639130804814361noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13246828.post-70291209263334105742012-05-08T16:17:00.000-05:002012-05-08T20:01:24.403-05:00It's an even bigger cookie jar than we thoughtTony could be good to his friends
Nearly lost in the hoo ha of the Vikings stadium noise is this story from Rachel Stassen-Berger about the Society of Tin Horns known as the Republican Party of Minnesota. The story includes a link to a report of the "new Executive Committee" of the RPM. It details, inter alia, payments to candidates for office and sitting office holders, including MarkSpothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04320639130804814361noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13246828.post-16305246253227315912012-05-08T11:39:00.001-05:002012-05-08T12:04:55.739-05:00Drinking Liberally trivia nightGrand Prize: 2 tickets to Stephanie Miller's Sexy Liberal Comedy Tour show
On Thursday, May 10th, we WILL be playing political trivia at Drinking Liberally.
First prize -- now listen up -- is a pair of tickets to Stephanie Miller's Sexy Liberal Comedy Tour show on Saturday night the 12th. (Second prize is a set of steak knifes. I jest; we'll also have some books as prizes.)
The tickets are Spothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04320639130804814361noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13246828.post-25176481776330348822012-05-08T11:13:00.000-05:002012-05-11T22:53:50.202-05:00I'm better than youAnd I can prove it!
City Pages
I don't know why I bother, really. I could be outside. Sitting in the cold rain.
Perhaps some of you read Katherine Kersten's latest school-yard taunt on Sunday. Perhaps not. According to Katie, conservatives are better informed, more tolerant, and more generous than liberals.
And better looking, too. So. There.
All right, she didn't say the last Spothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04320639130804814361noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13246828.post-19905847795397390032012-05-07T08:02:00.002-05:002012-05-07T08:02:36.143-05:00Not Almanac 5-7-2012
This week we discuss Kurt Zellers and his political courage, Pete Hegseth versus the Paulbots, and the DFL endorsement of Rick Nolan in the eighth congressional district.
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But something might, if you don't give us our business tax breaks, understand?
Sincerely,
Julianne Ortman
John Kriesel, et al.
This is the same crew that calls Michael Brodkorb a shake-down artist.
The governor burned his last bridge, says Tax Chair and Deputy Majority Leader Ortman. And Rep. Kriesel (one of the stadium bill's Spothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04320639130804814361noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13246828.post-63015138461124669282012-05-05T13:31:00.000-05:002012-05-05T13:33:39.089-05:00The Prince of Maple Grove . . . speaksWhether he said anything is a separate question
Here is an exchange between Kurt Zellers - the Dithering Prince of Maple Grove - and a couple of reporters trying to figure out what the Prince really thinks about a bill to build a new stadium for the Minnesota Vikings. The dialogue took place on Friday, May 4, 2012 and was reported in the blog Hot Dish Politics (Minneapolis Star Tribune). It Spothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04320639130804814361noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13246828.post-82511594980575296932012-05-04T17:37:00.001-05:002012-05-04T23:27:29.935-05:00The Prince of Maple GroveAlas, poor Morrie; I knew him well
Do you know how many Speakers of the Minnesota House have ever gone on to be governor? Well, the dithering Prince Kurt is out to make sure the line remains unbroken.
The drama of Conflicted Kurt transcends how you may feel about the stadium and plunges into the realm of tragedy and comedy -- or perhaps comedy alone -- never before seen in Minnesota politicsSpothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04320639130804814361noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13246828.post-3010024240668530692012-05-04T13:31:00.001-05:002012-05-04T16:10:01.918-05:00Stupid or craven?You be the judge
Peter Bartz Gallagher for Politics in Minnesota
Lori Sturdevant votes for stupid. She says it was not a political stunt to offer a new stadium financing plan using general obligation bonds to pay the state's share. As she puts it:
Roll out a radically new stadium funding scheme a day after the originally scheduled session adjournment date, as leaders of the Republican Spothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04320639130804814361noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13246828.post-20329766194981149392012-05-03T12:57:00.000-05:002012-05-15T09:26:54.732-05:00A straight line from Peter to Benedict
Minding the Deputy Jesus
The Strib's letter of the day for May 3rd:
I understand that political cartoons are supposed to be satire, but in order to be intellectually honest, this satire should at least be based in some semblance of truth. The implication of the April 30 anti-Catholic cartoon is that because Jesus did not "speak out" against homosexual acts, the pope is wrong in Spothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04320639130804814361noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13246828.post-81044438188490299742012-05-02T20:10:00.000-05:002012-05-03T13:53:45.404-05:00Counting to 34 is hardBut getting to 34 is apparently harder
It is especially difficult when this is your leader:
Does anybody know what Kurt the Silent thinks about a stadium deal? He's had some time to think about it now. I don't care whether he's for it or agin' it, but so far, he's just been a feckless boob.
Update: You really have to wonder what would have happened if Governor Dayton had proposed GO Spothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04320639130804814361noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13246828.post-60908490755856847872012-05-02T10:11:00.000-05:002012-05-03T12:24:59.542-05:00Do as we say! Do not as we do!
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If I had put these words into a Republican's mouth -- just for fun -- there would be people who would jump all over me. But here they are, delivered straight, with plenty of unintended irony, as a Letter of the Day in the Strib:
Joe Repya seems to miss the larger and more critical point concerning the future of the Republican Party of Minnesota ("Money, sex, Spothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04320639130804814361noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13246828.post-48568476343666577612012-05-01T22:17:00.000-05:002012-05-01T22:35:57.916-05:00If I were Governor Dayton....
Gov. Mark Dayton announcing his supplemental budget. Photo: Aaron Klemz
I would walk through the door that the Minnesota Republican leadership opened with their decision to propose using general obligation bonds to pay for the state share of a Vikings stadium. The offer made today could become the vehicle for a global agreement to end the session. This might be the best time to strike the aaronklemzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09544556129039817104noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13246828.post-84088484236036635282012-05-01T18:25:00.004-05:002012-05-01T18:25:50.231-05:00#allinthegameyo
Just a little fun with the horrendous meltdown press conference of the GOP leadership, MPR reporter Tom Scheck's #allinthegameyo hashtag, and quickmeme.
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