Sarah Palin coming to Minnesota to campaign for Michele Bachmann. A new sidebar poll.

Only one vote per person. Voting on the new sidebar poll closes, one minute to midnight, All Fools Day, April 1, 2010.

The top thumbnail choice is "Photo 1."

The bottom, "Photo 2."

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Today is April 1, All Fools Day, with only hours remaining for you to vote on the Palin-Bachmann poll. Do it now.
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The poll closed. Photo 2 was the favored dog-and-pony Palin-Bachmann pic by six of ten voters. Check the comments. One sees Bachmann as a do-nothing. Another dislikes fairness and equitable distribution of wealth and well-being.

The GOP is already showing its attack mode theme against Tarryl Clark in MN 6. Interestingly, the Reed candidacy is being noticed.

Read the item and my comment at the original site, Gary Gross' Let Freedom Ring Blog, at this link. I am certain in my mind that Gary will counter my comment with a specific view, and that is what political views and counter-views are about. It is not a hostile adversarial situation, but adversarial nonetheless. I've not yet met Gary, but have spoken by phone and exchanged limited emailings, and I respect him as being a coherent and self-consistent right-of-center voice. Unlike Gary, I am not yet ready to presuppose a DFL primary outcome, something his post does in its ending.

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Please take time to look at the comments to the post. Add a thought if you'd like.

John Marty - Patricia Torres Ray announced as a Governor - Lt. Governor ticket.

Read the news as the Marty campaign website homepage feature, this link.

Contribute to the campaign, this link.
[Corporate, PAC, or lobbyist money not accepted]


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Ms. Torres Ray represents Senate District 62, in the Lake Hiawatha, Lake Nocomis region; this map. Her page on the legislative website is here. Please have a look. It is the quickest way I know of to get extensive info in one place when looking at anyone in either house of the Minnesota legislature (house members and districts, this link; senate members and districts, this link). The Marty campaign page on Ms. Torres Ray is this link,

http://www.johnmarty.org/About_Patricia

It is the source of this opening screenshot [click it to enlarge and read]:

It looks like one intelligent dedicated educated public servant picking a similarly credentialed person for the step away from the governor's office. (It is not a Molnau thing, to me a cynicism expressing a lot about who Pawlenty is and wants around him.) I like the decision however it sits with others.

It's basically the quality of decision making I expected, in supporting John Marty for governor.

More about taconite mining and cases of mesothelioma.

Two items, here and here. Each seems to say asbestos is the sole cause, not looking at the taconite dust itself, and its microstructure and effects in the particulate size range conparable to the airborne size range of asbestos associated with this rare cancer. One of the reports seems prone to pin the problem on work as "boilermakers" and asbestos exposure that way, vs. looking more carefully at the taconite airborne particulate. I have posted before about taconite and its use as paving aggregate, and the precationary principle regarding possibly hazardous materials, i.e., the wisdom of regarding them as problematic unless proven safe. It seems as if the officials have things backward, as if judges at a criminal's trial, innocent until proven guilty. That's foolhardy, not precautionary, with public health concern.

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More to read, this link. This link.

Hey you two, are you still millionaires leaving the working clinic staff uninsured?

Photo from Residual Forces, this link, where Andy has an interesting observation on product badging.

Jack Nelson Pallmeyer, will you run again? Against the Small Change man.

If SINGLE PAYER are two joined words outside of the Franken vocabulary, others don't duck as much. I cannot envision Jack Nelson Pallmeyer ever obfuscating over an industry-friendly bill where private property, money, is legislated to be taken, required not to be paid as a tax to government, but as a direct subsidy transfer payment to super-wealthy business ventures, where high profitability already is their favored preexisting condition.

Al, you were trusted.  Now this:

[as always click a screenshot to enlarge and read]

Symbiosis. The UnitedHealth Kennel Club - having been to obedience school they get inside the house. The hope being they will not pee on or chew the master's shoes. They are well fed, in exchange.

They can sense doing less well with a single payer. So they howl and do tricks for the current master with the generous hand. The one on the left of the group, Joe, is howling over, "... a big ... deal." Dogs in a pack, running down options.