Last Stop on the Straight Talk Express

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Sunday November 02, 2008 · 8:12 PM PST

2008/11/02 · 20:12

.. is New Hampshire! (At least before the campaign does the obligatory return to the home state for photo-op vote and Election night party.)

Cross-posted at The Degausser, Minnesota's newest site for in-depth analysis and colorful maps.

As the Presidential Campaign winds down into its final 48, this bit of news struck me:

Tomorrow, McCain spends part of the day in Pennsylvania before heading to New Hampshire, where he’ll hold his final town hall of the campaign in Peterborough, a place that McCain regards as something of a lucky charm. He held his first town hall meeting there during his 2000 campaign and wound up there on the eve of his comeback primary victory earlier this year. It’s “where our campaign has been rescued and resurrected many times before,” Rick Davis, McCain’s campaign manager, told reporters yesterday.

Ah yes ... you know they call it the comeback.

Q: Will it work?

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Saturday November 01, 2008 · 8:51 AM PDT

2008/11/01 · 08:51

I have recognize a great article a friend wrote about an icon of contemporary American culture, literature, history, activism, etc., etc. Louis “Studs” Terkel died yesterday at the ripe age of 96.

Cross-posted at The Degausser, Minnesota's newest site for in-depth analysis and colorful maps.

Terkel will largely be remembered for writing contemporary accounts of historical events through the use of oral histories or interviews with actual participants. Such a style offers a refreshing contrast to historical interpretation offered by more academic or pop authors. Indeed, I was drawn to Terkel’s works by their ability to rip much of the romanticism and nostalgia from mainstream versions of historical events and recognizes events by how they affected, and were affected by, the many people that lived them. It also reduced the tendency to see individual participants as heros or otherwise to aggrandize the acts of an individual when reality, and legitimate historical analysis, begs for more context.

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Thursday October 26, 2006 · 8:13 AM PDT

2006/10/26 · 08:13

I live in Minnesota and am glad that the DFL in our legislature has turned aside attempts to write discrimination into our state constitution, but I was thinking about the efforts in Wisconsin to do exactly that this fall.

I was thinking of Wisconsin because that ban has the slimmest chance of all the other states pushing bans this fall. Since I'm otherwise quite busy with school/work, I wasn't sure what I could really do to help out this cause in Wisconsin.

I e-mailed an Aunt of mine who lives with her husband in suburban Madison, Wisconsin. This is a relatively rich suburb, and relatively conservative. They are both.

But I was thinking about the amendment to ban gay marriage in Wisconsin that is on the ballot this fall, and while they know that I'm a lefty and we usually disagree on politics, I brought up the subject of the marriage amendment. To my surprise, this was their response: Read More

MN-GOV: Hatch (DFL) leads Pawlenty (R) by 9!!!!

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Friday October 13, 2006 · 8:12 PM PDT

2006/10/13 · 20:12

According to the most recent Star Tribune poll, Democrat Mike Hatch leads incumbent Republican Tim Pawlenty by 9, 46 to 37.

http://www.startribune.com/...

Appears that National Republican woes are having coattail effect downballot in MN. It had appeared earlier this summer that Pawlenty would cruise to a relatively easy election. However, over the last month Hatch and Pawlenty were within a couple points of each other. But this is the first one to show Hatch with such a substantial lead.

Support Striking Workers Tomorrow!!!

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Thursday May 25, 2006 · 7:24 PM PDT

2006/05/25 · 19:24

Tomorrow members of the striking Aircraft Mechanics Fraternal Association will be holding a nationwide day of support for aircraft mechanics still on strike against Northwest Airlines.

Interested folks will be able to support striking workers by bringing items to be donated to be sold on eBay. The proceeds will go towards helping fund the documentary film project
Red Tail Movie. You can check out the trailer at the link.

Also, the MN Democratic-Farmer-Labor (DFL) Party is calling on DFLers to support the striking mechanics, as they did in an e-mail sent out today. Read More

Mess W/GOP HATE Petition

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Tuesday March 21, 2006 · 5:16 PM PST

2006/03/21 · 17:16

Recently the MN GOP has been having a brouhaha over MN Senate Majority Leader Dean Johnson's (DFL) statements about the current state of the DOMA law. They even setup a crappy smear website to bash him.

Yesterday (Monday) the Senate DFL turned back two attempts to bring the Marriage Amendment to the floor for a vote. In response, the MN GOP has started a petition on the Johnson Smear site urging a vote. I just submitted my name to the petition, but not my real name of course. My assumed name. THat is, the name I would assume a Rethug would call me for opposing the hate amendment.

Lets fill this petition with crap and make a mockery out of it.

Hate Petition

I know this is sophomoric, but lets have some fun with this.

Union Head who Sparred with Northwest to Run for Minnesota Senate

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Tuesday February 28, 2006 · 2:11 PM PST

2006/02/28 · 14:11

Ted Ludwig, the President of the Mechanic's Union at Northwest Airlines is running for State Senate in Minnesota.

He's been leading the strike by the mechanics against Northwest's blatant power grab. Time for a change.

Union Head who Sparred with Northwest Airlines to run for State Senate

Here's his website.
Ted Ludwig for State Senate

I'll probably drop him $50. Gotta love living in Minnesota where the state subsidizes campaigns. The state will refund you up to $50 contributed to State candidates.

Goin Home for T-Givin; Gotta Write a Letter to the Editor

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Wednesday November 23, 2005 · 9:19 AM PST

2005/11/23 · 09:19

So, I'm heading back to my hometown, which is on the border of a Red State. I just read the hometown paper and noticed a family friend of the GOP persuasion had written a diatribe against Dems, and I just gotta respond. Here's the problem though, I have to travel today, and I'm in law school so I've got class all day and then a trip ahead of me. Thus, no time to write. If I could ask the dKos community for some help in deconstructing this guy's argument, and putting together some snippets I can use in a Letter to the Editor, I'd truly appreciate it, and we'd be better for it

I've got the letter to the editor from the Rethug in the body of this post. Read More

MN SEN. '06 - Kennedy Edits the Truth

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Wednesday August 10, 2005 · 7:45 AM PDT

2005/08/10 · 07:45

Congressman Mark Kennedy, the leading Republican candidate for the US Senate seat being vacated by Democrat Mark Dayton, has been busted by the local press. Apparently he includes several press releases on his website developed by his staff that portray him in a favorable light. That's not the issue though. He also includes articles from the Associated Press that have been carefully edited to remove any hint of negativity towards positions Congressman Kennedy has taken during his career in the House. Check it out...
Kennedy Website Edits Clippings
Here's an example.
Typical crud from this guy.

NWA Scared, Employs Violence Against Elderly

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Tuesday August 02, 2005 · 7:10 AM PDT

2005/08/02 · 07:10

Ok, well maybe not the elderly. But Northwest Airlines recently hired on Vance International, Ltd to do union-security for them in the event of a strike between NWA and AMFA, the aircraft mechanics union.

NWA Scared by Union, Employs Strike-busters against 53 year-olds
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Northwest Airlines Signs Up Strikebreakers

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Monday August 01, 2005 · 10:04 AM PDT

2005/08/01 · 10:04

NWA is preparing for a strike with its Mechanics union, however it is clearly attempting to break the union. They will be hiring replacement workers if at all possible and try to run AMFA into the ground.

Last week they signed up a team from Vance International, Ltd. (http://www.freep.com/money/business/tension30e_20050730.htm) as reported by the Detroit Free Press.

Does anyone know anything about this company?

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MN-GOV: Hatch (DFL) leads Pawlenty (R) by 9!!!!

Support Striking Workers Tomorrow!!!

Mess W/GOP HATE Petition

Union Head who Sparred with Northwest to Run for Minnesota Senate

Goin Home for T-Givin; Gotta Write a Letter to the Editor

MN SEN. '06 - Kennedy Edits the Truth

NWA Scared, Employs Violence Against Elderly

Northwest Airlines Signs Up Strikebreakers