Minnesota National Guard to get 8 TVs bought for sex offenders

frank wrote:

what the heck were flat screens doing in a treatment place for pervert sick freaks. why should these criminals get what most of us working people cant afford.

sheila wrote:

There he does again-- predictably carrying the torch for the wingnut Repugnuts. It's the same old irrational Pawlenty formula. His comments on social problems really should be the subject of a one-man show and, in fact, I'm tempted to write it. It would be so easy. Instead of dealing with serious issues, he makes Groucho Marx gestures that the right adore and which either don't address problems or make them worse. Take the issue of the TVs for the repeat sex offenders who are committed for life as incurable. He doesn't address this as an area of inquiry-- how they arise in society and how to keep our kids and ourselves safe from them. He comes out with the "grand gesture" of removing new TVs and scapegoating the person who approved this purchase. The man is simply **** backwards.
Did you remember his solution to the growing number of high school students who couldn't pass the senior math test to graduate? His solution was to give them the test another time and if they failed it again, then they would graduate. Duh! That solution is a great way to recruit companies to come to MN because we have such a highly educated work force. How about his solution for the increased cost of health care in the state. His solution was to
remove the indigent from insurance; therefore, they wouldn't have access to clinics when they became ill and, in the end, will end up in emergency rooms with more extreme medical problems and at greater cost to the taxpayer, to say nothing of the moral decay of the state that his decision represents.
How about his solution to the state budget crisis. He reduced the amount of money the state gives to the cities to run their programs so now the cities just have to raise property taxes on its citizens or reduce police and fire and library and school services. And yet, in his own anachronistic way, he still refuses to raise taxes.
How he ever got voted in, I'll never know nor do I want to know.
Has something in the drinking water debilitated the intellect of the people of MN who once had the very highest caliber of elected officials-- Hubert Humphrey and Walter Mondale, both of whom should have been President?
I've just finished reading an article about Charles Darwin in the NYT, "Darwin, Ahead of His Time, Is Still Influential" by Nicholas Wade. As Mr. Wade states, "He (Darwin) had the objectivity to put aside criteria with powerful emotional resonance, like the conviction that evolution should be purposeful."
In other words evolution does not always progress upwards towards a higher evolutionary plane. Gov. Tim Pawlenty certainly is a fine example of Darwin's scientific observation.

Nice wrote:

And still GW Bush, the world's biggest terrorist and war criminal, is on the loose. Go figure.

sheila wrote:

There he does again-- predictably carrying the torch for the wingnut Repugnuts. It's the same old irrational Pawlenty formula. His comments on social problems really should be the subject of a one-man show and, in fact, I'm tempted to write it. It would be so easy. Instead of dealing with serious issues, he makes Groucho Marx gestures that the right adore and which either don't address problems or make them worse. Take the issue of the TVs for the repeat sex offenders who are committed for life as incurable. He doesn't address this as an area of inquiry-- how they arise in society and how to keep our kids and ourselves safe from them. He comes out with the "grand gesture" of removing new TVs and scapegoating the person who approved this purchase. The man is simply **** backwards.
Did you remember his solution to the growing number of high school students who couldn't pass the senior math test to graduate? His solution was to give them the test another time and if they failed it again, then they would graduate. Duh! That solution is a great way to recruit companies to come to MN because we have such a highly educated work force. How about his solution for the increased cost of health care in the state. His solution was to
remove the indigent from insurance; therefore, they wouldn't have access to clinics when they became ill and, in the end, will end up in emergency rooms with more extreme medical problems and at greater cost to the taxpayer, to say nothing of the moral decay of the state that his decision represents.
How about his solution to the state budget crisis. He reduced the amount of money the state gives to the cities to run their programs so now the cities just have to raise property taxes on its citizens or reduce police and fire and library and school services. And yet, in his own anachronistic way, he still refuses to raise taxes.
How he ever got voted in, I'll never know nor do I want to know.
Has something in the drinking water debilitated the intellect of the people of MN who once had the very highest caliber of elected officials-- Hubert Humphrey and Walter Mondale, both of whom should have been President?
I've just finished reading an article about Charles Darwin in the NYT, "Darwin, Ahead of His Time, Is Still Influential" by Nicholas Wade. As Mr. Wade states, "He (Darwin) had the objectivity to put aside criteria with powerful emotional resonance, like the conviction that evolution should be purposeful."
In other words evolution does not always progress upwards towards a higher evolutionary plane. Gov. Tim Pawlenty certainly is a fine example of Darwin's scientific observation.

Your mom wrote:

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Shut it you little shite stain.

BRuTaL BRuNeTTE wrote:

That is AWESOME!!! GO TIM~~~~~~The WAR VETS get treated like ****.

BRuTaL BRuNeTTE wrote:

That is AWESOME!!! GO TIM~~~~~~The WAR VETS get treated like shit. I CANNOT believe someone would authorize PERVERTS to get 26 FLATSCREENS@$2,200 each??? What a FLIPPEN JOKE!!!! Who ok'd that? One person? Whoever it was, NEEDS TO BE FIRED!!!!