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• ‘Bigoted, Religious [Zealots]‘: High School Senior Allegedly Expelled, Charged With Felonies Over Gay Relationship With ‘Consenting’ Fellow Student

  May 20, 2013 at 3:43pm

  I have to ask, if this had been an 18-year-old boy and a 15-year-old girl, would you support the cops going after the relationship in this case and ruining the case of the boy who had been 17 and celebrated his 18th birthday while dating the girl?

  This is why I do not like these kinds of laws. Giving people scarlet letters does not work. How about giving them community service instead? This is not a crime of violence; it is a crime of government bureaucracy run amok.

• The Possible Change to Drunk Driving Laws That Could Affect You

  May 15, 2013 at 9:55am

  In reply to ares338.

  I agree. The U.S. is not Europe. I live in a big city and our bus system is not great. It’s good if you need to get from the suburbs to downtown or vice versa, but not for traveling between the suburbs.

  For example, say I lived in Maple Grove, MN (I don’t) and wanted to go to Bloomington, MN (both are Minneapolis suburbs) to the Mall of America and eat at a restaurant there. Let’s also say that with my friends, I have a couple of drinks, which would make me at .05. The only bus option I would have goes straight to the park and ride. I would then have to drive home from the park and ride. There’s no real public transportation option for that scenario other than very overpriced taxis, which not everyone can afford.

  I don’t think the people writing this law are taking that into account. Or perhaps they just don’t care.

• The Possible Change to Drunk Driving Laws That Could Affect You

  May 15, 2013 at 9:49am

  Such a law will kill the restaurant industry and the bar industry. I don’t mean fast food places, obviously, but even family places like TGIF or Applebee’s also serve beer with their food. If people can’t go out and have one drink and then drive home, they are going to just dine at home to avoid the risk of getting a DUI. There will be thousands of people out of work due to loss of sales, I predict.

  There is a difference between being completely drunk and having one drink with your food. I think some people need to learn what the difference is. Obviously, if you cannot go out and stop at having one alcoholic drink with your food, then you probably should not order alcohol. But most people can do that.

  To criminalize people for celebrating something good that happened to them, or for going out on a date, is just ridiculous.

• The ‘Ice Tsunami’ Videos Out of Canada and Minnesota are Pretty Incredible

  May 14, 2013 at 10:03pm

  In reply to Apple Bite.

  Minnesota is the land of 10,000 lakes. Fishing is our state hobby. You cannot seriously think that people would be willing to abandon the lakes here. Good luck convincing all the retirees of that.

  This is not a common occurrence. It is a freak occurrence, something that happens maybe once or twice in a person’s entire lifetime. When purchasing property, one must think about the percentage of chances of things happening and then also prep accordingly, including buying appropriate insurance.

  It’s not even equatable with the people who move to places like the Florida coast and then are repeatedly surprised when hurricanes come through, or people who move to California, live on a fault line, and are surprised when earthquakes happen.

  I have lived in MN my whole life. This kind of thing does not happen on a regular basis here. There is a reason why people have taken photos and videos of it.

  Before you knock people for living somewhere, perhaps you should try it yourself and see what the reality is like, rather then believing in stereotypes.

• The ‘Ice Tsunami’ Videos Out of Canada and Minnesota are Pretty Incredible

  May 14, 2013 at 9:59pm

  In reply to kindling.

  That would pretty much defeat the purpose of living near a lake in the first place, which is being able to do things like swim and fish. People have docks on lakes and boats (although, not in the winter, you take them up first). But still, a year-round wall would prevent people from doing that which they bought the property for in the first place.

  IMHO if you don’t want to put up with the weather, live somewhere else. This is why I live in an urban area and not on lake. (Well, that and lake property isn’t cheap.)

• The ‘Ice Tsunami’ Videos Out of Canada and Minnesota are Pretty Incredible

  May 14, 2013 at 9:57pm

  In reply to starview.

  Not if the ice was really thick, and especially not if it was a cold day. Remember, it takes time to melt things, especially thick ice, and they had five minutes. Basic physics apply in this scenario.

• The ‘Ice Tsunami’ Videos Out of Canada and Minnesota are Pretty Incredible

  May 14, 2013 at 9:53pm

  In reply to azfelix.

  Spoken like someone who doesn’t live in Minnesota or Canada. Why don’t you try moving up here? I’m sure you’ll like the lutefisk and lefse. I don’t suppose you read the part about the family not having much time? Unless you’re Superman, you cannot go and purchase a plow or bulldozer in 5 minutes.

  “The Davis family on Ochre Beach heard the ice coming and within five minutes it rose from the lake and pushed into their home, moving furniture and bathroom fixtures from their place.”

  Reading comprehension skills are good to have.

• The ‘Ice Tsunami’ Videos Out of Canada and Minnesota are Pretty Incredible

  May 14, 2013 at 9:50pm

  In reply to azfelix.

  And yet, it hit 100 degrees in the southern part of the state today, and 98 degrees in the Twin Cities metro area.

• MSNBC Anchor’s ‘Easy’ Solution to Ending Poverty: ‘Giving People Money’

  May 13, 2013 at 5:58pm

  And what happens when the rich people run out of money to give?

• ‘This Is Tyranny’: MSNBC Hosts Lambaste Obama Admin, IRS Over ‘Unspeakable’ Targeting of Conservatives

  May 13, 2013 at 5:57pm

  Need to combat the liberal talking point “but it was just groups seeking tax exempt status.” My liberal friends on Facebook have been using that. We need to show that no, it was not all groups seeking tax exempt status because liberal groups seeking that status were not targeted.