November 2011
42 posts
October 2011
32 posts
annicka:
Tonight I was riding down milwaukee ave and I saw a guy shielding a girl from the rain by holding a pizza box over her head. Call me old fashioned, but in my day, the girl protected the pizza, not the other way around.
“If you want to have a business in China today, if you want to build a building,...”
– GOP presidential candidate Michele Bachmann, getting the facts wrong in her attempt to compare U.S. regulations to those in other countries. According to a 2008 World Bank report, China is one of the most difficult countries in which to obtain construction permits, notes the Los Angeles Times. (via...
“Many of these guys are looking to pickup women. In MN to pickup women you must...”
– It’s tough being a professional athlete in MN?
“When I walk through Best Buy, which I try to do once every few months, it feels...”
– What’s Next for Apple — Matt Mullenweg
(digging the part on Apple TVs)
MN: Stop the Wilfare Queens | NICK COLEMAN →
To even consider heavy public subsidies of $700 million or more for a monopoly business worth $800 million that already occupies a publicly financed TV-friendly playground at a time of economic decline, deficits, budget cuts, unemployment and rising anger is insane.
Not to mention morally reprehensible.
Minnesota’s 99 percent — including the 80-percent that consistently tells the pollsters...
The 651ery: The TCAAP - From Rosie the Riveter to... →
the651ery:
(Photo used from the Minnesota Historical Society Collection)
The Arden Hills Army Ammunitions Plant is one of six Government Owned, Contractor Operated plants that were built out of necessity (America’s foray into WWII) during the early 1940’s. The Twin Cities area was chosen because of…
“He added that he was disappointed that members of Congress from New York,...”
– this, in a nutshell, is what is wrong with america
constituents are not the fatcats who give politicians the money
they are the everyone
In Private Conversation, Wall Street Is More Critical of Protesters - NYTimes.com
(via fred-wilson)
“My name is Justin Bieber and it has been for 50 years, I am not some punk ass...”
– Meet Justin John Bieber. (via jimray)
This guy really gets Facebook.
“Student-loan debt is “actually worse than a bad mortgage,” [Thiel] has said....”
– #pernicious
Megan on Thiel (via pegobry)
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“People lampoon the Occupy Wall Street movement as a bunch of marginal freaks,...”
– peggy got this right
Peggy Noonan: ‘They Won’t Care Till They’re Affected’ - WSJ.com
(via fred-wilson)
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