Kelly Saks. Fluent in Fashion. “The option to share on Google+ helps keep my fans up-to-date whenever I post something new,” says Kelly.

Google touts Google+ with a simply astounding story, this link.

No wonder there is such a groundswell of interest in using Google+.

I could use it. And be like Kelly Miss Earth Florida 2010. But, hey, I am stubborn, resistant, and I'd rather just be vapid by appealing to bimbos.

What happens in an Internet minute? Possibly of marginal interest to some readers, or of interest to some marginal readers.

This link. Check it out.

My critique, where's the slice of the pie chart for eighty gazillion NSA intercepts in each Internet minute?

Let's see, that's 80/60 = 1.333 gazillion intercepts per second. No wonder taxes are so high. (This link, count number of usages of words, "tax" or "taxes" for the one-trick pony watchdog).

So, Watchdog, answer this: How many tax dollars are required to pay for each gazillion intercepts by NSA?

A fair question? Yes, but ...

That information is classified.

So, we find ourselves on the horns of a dilemma. At least the courts will protect us:

As Justice Thurgood Marshall wrote at the time, “Privacy is not a discrete commodity, possessed absolutely or not at all.” In other words, you shouldn’t lose every last shred of privacy simply because you share information with your bank or your phone company.

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Perhaps that nice Mr. Krinkie will post something about cost per gazillion NSA intercepts in his regular Taxpayer League column at the Anoka County Record blog site. Republicans, hold your breath and wait. (Liberty Republicans exempted.)

Healthcare miracle? Or just good business, grown via lowered rapaciousness?

This link. Removing leeches from medical treatment.

But, would it work in Montana?

UPDATE: I find it strange that some of the more vocal critics of single payer turn out to be veterans satisfied with their VA healthcare. Strange, but not surprising. Such as Michele Bachmann getting elected, reelected. If dunce caps were in fashion among the deserving, that would be a booming industry as strong a trade as making American Flag lapel pins in China.

Roots.

click to enlarge and read. believers, this link

Not available in stores. Advertised on TV. First, if that good the lawnmower lobby would have bought them out already and kept it from market. Toro, John Deere, they want you riding your three acre lawn in Ramsey. Or hiring a landscaping firm.

Second, can you imagine it as a turf supplier's dilemma?

Readers are encouraged to give it a try and to post a comment about quality of the claims.

Third, that "guarantee," how does it work? What's to be returned to get your money back?

UPDATE: I have figured out how it could be a good hustle, even with a no-return-needed, no-questions-asked guarantee of satisfaction. Put regular seed in a bag, and if anyone bothers to test the guarantee, that shipping-and-handling fee of eight bucks, it flows in with each order, regardless. This is known as a business model. That or develop an unthinking Pavolian cult following, like Apple.

RAMSEY - Paul Levy posts briefly about Jill Johns' election to Ramsey's council. Feel the love.

This link, stating-

Jill Johns, who was elected by a wide margin to the Ramsey City Council last week, expects a quick and smooth transition to a council that is still in the early stages of establishing itself.

[...] “I very much support the direction the council is heading,” Johns said. “I think I can step right in and fit in nicely.

“This council has a strong vision with strong core values. I’m excited for the city.”

Got the songbook. Kumbaya.

Sack cartoon. Check it while it remains available online.

Here.

Nature sets the parameters, over millenia, not some BOHNhead. You take the characteristics of land as nature dictaded well before your birth, and before this nation existed. Yet simplicity can obscure just responses to social changing of rules and regulations.

Strib and the Savage fen; this link. This quote:

Laurie Karnes, a Maple Grove land broker, said the city should be wary of stepping in. She said it’s not unusual for a property owner to accept a lower sale price if it carries some type of burden. To think otherwise, she said, “would be like buying property next to the railroad tracks and complaining because there are trains there.”

But what about regulatory taking? It has not been such since caveman times; it evolves, and suggests some balancing is appropriate. Strib reporting carries that flavor and is non-conclusory, the item concluding:

Bohn, a former city parks commissioner, said he favors protecting the fen. In 2010 he donated land worth $490,000 as part of a $3 million deal that conveyed a 69-acre addition to the Savage Fen Scientific and Natural Area, a DNR property.

Bohn said he’s never used chemicals on his land near the fen where he grows hay. “I was organic when it wasn’t even fashionable,” he said. He also has spent his own money to build earthen dams to prevent runoff into the fen.

But Bohn believes there’s a limit to how much he shoulder.

“If the fen is such an amenity, everybody should have to take it on, not just me.”

Somehow, the notion everyone should carry my burdens while I should reap my benefits brings Dave Flaherty's adventurous Ramsey gamble to mind, for me, if not for you. A gamble involving city millions put to up-front risks, Flaherty to benefit if there is upside returns while the city may/may not be paid back.