Jump to content

GopherRock

Legacy Members
  • Posts

    1618
  • Joined

  • Last visited

Everything posted by GopherRock

  1. Could Minnesota go for a Republican? Sure. Will they have to burn the party down, flush out anything that has to do with Trump, and start over from scratch before they do? Yes. Tim Walz has built up a lot of support during the COVID-19 pandemic. Last Monday he was in the upper 60s for approval. I will be very interested to see what happens to that after there riots. For a data point, the last Republican statewide win was Tim Pawlenty's second election in 2006. He got 1.028M votes, which was 46.7% of votes cast. There was also a 3rd party candidate in the race that drew 6% and change, mostly from the Dem column.
  2. In an avalanche of shit, occasionally there's a pearl.
  3. Calling Bob Kroll shit is an insult to shit. For those of you who don't know of his long and sordid history, City Pages has gladly put it all together for you.
  4. Bob Kroll and the MPD union finally break a week of radio silence. File this under T for tone deaf.
  5. Many reports of staged accelerants in alleys, garbage cans, even abandoned snowblowers.
  6. For a road that had been closed for almost an hour before this, how the fuck did this truck get anywhere near the protest?
  7. Curfews tonight in both Minneapolis and St. Paul, 8 PM to 6 AM.
  8. In Minnesota 1st degree murder has to come from the grand jury. I'm not a lawyer, but looking at the statue it's a long way to get to murder 1. https://www.revisor.mn.gov/statutes/cite/609.185 Second degree murder statute: https://www.revisor.mn.gov/statutes/cite/609.19
  9. I only heard in the presser that the killer was in custody, and the investigation is ongoing on the other 3.
  10. That's an MPD squad pepper spraying everyone.
  11. A very strange part of this is that no one has heard so much as a peep from Bob Kroll and the police union. Normally he's out in front of the camera, talking trash and trying to negotiate through the media.
  12. One of my professors from the U of M is doing research on that here in Minnesota. I agree, this is good stuff.
  13. The latest entry into the "Play stupid games, win stupid prizes" file. The owner vowed to open this morning, and was rather braggadocio about it.
  14. Also, the cutoff for a special election in North Carolina is September 3. If Burr is forced to resign prior to that, that seat will have a special election on the November ballot. If not, his replacement serves out the rest of the term.
  15. He kept knocking, and St Peter finally let him in
  16. Nope, this is RFK's grandson. The crazy anti-vaxxer is from Louisiana.
  17. TPC, maybe FLR? Most big construction outfits that I know of are privately held.
  18. If you're buying what that video is selling, I've got some oceanfront property in Arizona for you.
  19. And fully 1/4 of the state's cases are tied directly to the packing plants.
  20. The inability of the meatpackers to keep their employees healthy will have a much larger effect on the restart of the economy than any reopening attempt. Speaking of which, Nobles County (Worthington) has turned into a full blown hot spot. 1,100 confirmed cases in a county with a population of ~20K, with JBS at the source of most of those.
  21. https://www.mprnews.org/story/2020/05/01/minnesota-familys-illnesses-suggest-coronavirus-may-have-been-here-longer-than-thought One family thinks that COVID-19 has been in Minnesota a lot earlier than mid-March. I'm inclined to believe them.
  22. News and Guts has a discussion about South Carolina. https://www.newsandguts.com/is-lindsey-graham-in-trouble/ IMHO if the blue wave is makes Leningrad Lindsey sweat out a photo finish, the GOP has already lost control of the chamber.
×
×
  • Create New...