Minnesota/Minnesotans C or D

saves on the wear and tear on our state snowplow and herb the guy who drives it

inspired one of the best prince songs tho

(april snow, i mean, not herb the snowplow driver)

"Scarlet Pussy" is about Herb.

"Sometimes It Snows in April" always makes me cry ;_;

Pissed that the "Sometime in April they would add another hour" line in "Celebrated Summer" is obsolete.

yeah that's the best lyric, i love it

Hello, May. Have you met freezing temperatures? I think snow is somewhere around here somewhere, too.

fuck this noise

it is snowing btw. welp time to stand around in someones yard for May Day

somehow wasted over an hour today reading about the central/southwest corridors and (never gonna happen) high-speed rail to duluth and city improvements in general and am just full of civic pride

i guess this is what happens when the weather is nice

Have a co-worker/friend who was raised in upstate NY and has been bashing MN hardcore for, well, the entire time I've known him, but it really ramped up this last winter/spring.

Never before "broke up" with a friend, but I'm giving it heavy consideration.

Upstate NY is a shithole. Next!

guys did you know that neil gaiman lives here??

^^Sometimes.^^

well yeah, i guess he's traipsing around all over the dang place, but i had no idea he had any mpls connection

also he stole 45k from the hardworking taxpayers of minnesota!!!!

lol

Hey guys, Tim Pawlenty was speaking and touring around my workplace earlier this week.

I didn't go see him because I had a meeting or didn't feel it was worth my time, but hey man, thanks for dropping by.

a week in the Twin Cities listening to The Current made me:

- remember why I hate Boston radio so much
- realize why people hate The Decemberists

http://www.kare11.com/news/article/923829/14/Lake-Calhoun-getting-a-name-change

well how about that

Wow.

normally i can be like "oh well god it's just a dumb old name who cares anyway" but, like i'm totally ok not lionizing a pro-slavery dude with the lake i live next to

huh i never even really thought about the name lake calhoun

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_C._Calhoun

dude looks ~nuts~

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5b/John_C_Calhoun-.jpg/495px-John_C_Calhoun-.jpg

yikes

normally i can be like "oh well god it's just a dumb old name who cares anyway" but, like i'm totally ok not lionizing a pro-slavery dude with the lake i live next to

So Lake Washington is out then, too, right?

That said, Calhoun was an asshole. Maybe they can name it after some other Calhoun.

lake killebrew

http://i.imgur.com/mD8Pd.png

what the

is that real?????

Looks like it:

http://news.google.com/news/more?q=tony+cornish&oe=utf-8&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a&um=1&hl=en&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.&ie=UTF-8&ncl=doFoBrpE9DeM9KM6VM-fnra_rJTRM&ei=2InaTeGuI4y8sQOXpsSODA&sa=X&oi=news_result&ct=more-results&resnum=1&ved=0CCwQqgIwAA

http://twitter.com/#!/llynn20ff/status/72456481164902400

dunno if it's been verified or not

Oh yeah, he's been at it for a while:

http://www.minnpost.com/politicalagenda/2011/05/22/28516/rep_cornishs_email_response_irks_human_rights_campaign_advocate

a tangent: http://minnesotaindependent.com/81774/bipartisan-outrage-erupts-over-gops-invite-to-bradlee-dean-to-give-house-prayer

is that... a track suit????

btw fellow MNans, i think i've asked before: but what are the best local news blogs/websites/rags/whatever. like aside from the trib and PP

i never know whats going on and i would like to be more ~involved with my community~

That mnpost one I linked above is generally good. It's run by quite a few ex-Strib folks.

xp I'm not a MNan, but my gf <3s http://www.perfectduluthday.com/

cool man, thx

guys we need more food carts

really sad about the north minneapolis :(

(xpost) Oh jeez, Dan, the track suit isn't even the beginning of it:

http://www.dangerousminds.net/images/uploads/Bradlee-Dean.jpg

is that... Sebastian Bach?

how on Earth is that person taken seriously

oh man i hadn't even realized :(

xp about n mpls but i guess that too

http://motherjones.com/politics/2011/05/michele-bachmann-bradlee-dean

bradlee dean has been a "TPM star" for a little while. i think they caught wind of him during some bachmann bs a year or so ago (or maybe the recount?) and now they cover him! so it was a little weird to hear of him in like real media since he's never been mentioned there before, haha.

and north, yeah, damn.

Can I just vent about this for a second here?

The state's Legacy Amendment that uses a 3/8ths of 1 percent sales tax to raise hundreds of millions of dollars for the outdoors and the arts was passed in 2008, but now some groups would like to see it repealed.

"I think the voters were hoodwinked," said Andy Cilek, president of the Minnesota Voters Alliance, which is joining forces with the North Star Tea Party Patriots and the Northern Liberty Alliance on a repeal campaign. "Most people didn't even know it was a tax," he said, and were misled into believing they were simply voting to support programs for the outdoors and the arts.

Most people didn't even know it was a tax?! The actual wording on the referendum here:

"Shall the Minnesota Constitution be amended to dedicate funding to protect our drinking water sources; to protect, enhance, and restore our wetlands, prairies, forests, and fish, game, and wildlife habitat; to preserve our arts and cultural heritage; to support our parks and trails; and to protect, enhance, and restore our lakes, rivers, streams, and groundwater by increasing the sales and use tax rate beginning July 1, 2009, by three-eighths of one percent on taxable sales until the year 2034?"

How stupid are you, exactly?

hahahahahahahahahaha

hate these idiots so much

will be in northfield again ca. july 20th

recommendations on kayaking your fair state?