Lest you’ve forgotten. Found at YouTube from InfectedTube.
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Last week, Minneapolis mayor R.T. Rybak blamed white, middle-class, pot-smoking Minnesotans for murders in his city. He told MPR’s Cathy Wurzer:
This assertion is, of course, ridiculous on its face and smacks of a politician grasping at straws, looking for a someone to blame. He’s not the first politician to take the easy excuse rather than having the guts to admit the obvious: The War on Drugs is a miserable failure that creates more problems than it solves.
The first thing you have to come to terms with is that you will never eliminate human beings’ desire to alter their consciousness. We’ve been doing that throughout our history and we will continue to do so (see Prohibition). Then you need to look at who has won during our decades-long effort to fight drug use.
Jim Gray, a conservative judge in conservative Orange County, California, has changed his mind with regard to the War on Drugs. In 1992, he held a press conference during which he recommended that we rethink our drug laws. He is the author of Why Our Drug Laws Have Failed & What We Can Do About It: A Judicial Indictment of the War on Drugs
. In this interview, he discusses the six groups who benefit from drug prohibition. Found at YouTube from ReasonTV.
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Anyone who knows me knows I’ve been in favor of and advocated for sports stadia; both for the Minnesota Twins (and, gawd…look at that beautiful Target Field!!) and for the Minnesota Vikings. It’s also no secret that my rooting interest in getting a new stadium for our pro sports teams is my very own love of sports.
I’d be happy to argue all day with you the merits of pro sports for our state and our community but in the end it comes down to this: Building a stadium now will be less expensive. It is not a matter of if we will build a new football stadium, it’s a matter of when. We’ve seen this movie before in Cleveland; if we let the Vikings leave, we’ll see its sequel here in Minnesota. This state will inevitably build a new stadium to attract a pro football franchise back to Minnesota and the only difference will be a few years of an NFLless state and a significantly higher cost for the stadium.
We should pass this bill this year. The Strib compiled footage from the press conference:
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Dave Foley, the comedian famous from Kids in the Hall and NewsRadio, appeared on Keith Olbermann‘s show last night and, after being shocked at how old he looks, I was even more dumbstruck when it dawned on me that he looks exactly like conservative South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham. Ironic, huh? One’s a funny liberal and the other is a sourpuss conservative.
The following is a photo of Lindsay Graham; in the subsequent video clip from Olbermann’s show, modern-day Foley appears about half-way through.
Found at YouTube from PoliticsNewsNews.
Just sayin…
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The Uptake recently covered a panel at William Mitchell Law School in St. Paul, featuring the Justices and Judges who were part of the historic recount and election contest talk about their role. Found at YouTube from UpTakeVideo.
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This should come as no surprise but I’m all for a new Vikings stadium. I like stadiums. I LOVE stadiums. I want opulent stadiums. My paper trail is long on this topic; I’ve been in the yea column since, what? 1997 when the Twins first started talking about a new ballpark.
Senate Tax Chair Tom Bakk, DFL-Cook, talks with Capitol Report host Julie Bartkey about the framework for funding a news Minnesota Vikings Stadium. Senator Bakk’s interview was taped earlier today, and the entire Capitol Report program, including comments from officials from the Minnesota Vikings, will air Sunday, April 18th, on the Minnesota Channel and local PBS stations. Found at YouTube from UpTakeVideo.
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This is breathtaking. Form Saturday Night Live star Victoria Jackson is so crazy even Fox News is uncomfortable with her rantings.
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Richard Nixon? Seriously? Find out who’s first: nerve.com. Posted via web from David Erickson’s Posterous.
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Here is one of the smartest things Bill Maher has ever said on the subject, and it’s worth recalling as we go through another mass conniption and as Cheney pulls another stunt in defense of his record of presiding over 9/11 and then trashing the rule of law:
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I’m warning you, this is pretty bad. Senator Al Franken‘s professional acting debut came in the 1976 movie, Tunnel Vision.
Wonder why the Coleman campaign didn’t use this clip in an attack ad? Voice over: “Minnesotans, do you really want to suffer six years of this?“
Here’s a clip featuring Franken and his comic sidekick at the time Tom Davis. Found at YouTube from KGBRAND.
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