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Located in: Zumbro Falls, Mn

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• Motorist helps deliver baby in car in downtown Rochester

  nice story, nice family, Midwest farmgirl can-do-it-ness, and a cute baby.

  this puts in perspective
  Sarah Palin’s unbelievable birth story @ 8 mos too w/a special needs baby:
  - in Texas giving afternoon speech
  - Sarah told Alaska reporter she had amniotic fluid leakage & contractions that morning

  w/consent of her doctor,
  waited hours to give the speech,
  then boarded a jet to fly over 2000 miles back to Alaska w/ stopover in Seattle.

  giving birth to son Trig hours later Fri morning and back to work Monday.

  03/12/2010 10:30 PM
• Be assertive when government infringes on property rights

  “The facts and circumstances of these lawsuits are long and complicated. Ultimately, they do not really matter now.”

  maybe not to you, but facts and circumstances are important and serve to educate the general public…
  since tax-payer money was spent ie. in defending and settlement,
  tax-payers should see transparency and education on law(s) and policies of gov’t expenditures.
  

  03/04/2010 12:55 PM
• Leonard Pitts Jr.: On race and the tea party

  msge: “The original Tea Party people started back when Bush was president.  Last I checked, he was white.”

  ’Oh what a tangled web we weave when first we practice to deceive.’

  The Tea Party was started Feb 15-16 in Seattle after Obama took office, initially to complain about spending money saving banking from collapse.

  It has been co-opted by rightwing interests to attack momentum for this President and to expand the GOP’s tent after the Bush debacle.

  There are many clever local rightwingers from the limerick gimmick guy, to the smooth talking pretentious, manipulative, and condescending salesmen believing in repetition and indoctrination via rhetoric.

  Know who they are, what they are doing and don’t become a naive teabagger who, as a group believe taxes have increased under Obama despite the tax cuts for 95% of Americans.

  This whole movement is suspect
  and includes many well-intentioned people who don’t see the hidden agenda.

  03/03/2010 1:34 PM
• Political correctness runs amok

  “How have we become so politically correct that we have taken the majority and reduced it to the once-hushed minority?”

  ans: knowledge, education

  is “once-hushed minority” a Freudian slip?
  ie. those inconvenient minorities in a free republic keep throwing diversity into the mix? 

  this NEWSWEEK article shows importance of religion in man’s ancient history:
  http://www.newsweek.com/id/233844

  social groupings still might be useful,
  but not done relying on ignorance as easily any more. 

  03/01/2010 9:13 PM
• Oama in excellent health, doctor says, but he should quit smoking

  “Who gets told to “moderate” their drinking anyway?”

  a doctor would say this to anyone who drinks

  also left out Doctor’s other recommendations:
  - to eat healthy
  - get daily exercise

  leave it to the PB’s most prolific rightwing partisan hack for manipulative negative slant on such basic advice.

  and no thanks for reminding us of George Bush’s alcoholism
  

  03/01/2010 4:24 PM

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