Comments on: “Radicalized in Minnesota”

By: Bill K.

Bill K. — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 20:01:57 +0000

I have a simpler explanation – that pre-med student just found out he’ll be working for Obama-care… and well… “can’t take much more, Captain!“

By: Byron

Byron — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 15:42:24 +0000

Forgot dis not, me, just don’ won’ ‘barass you.

Trying to teach your grandpere how to pinch tails, Virgil?

By: Zane

Zane — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 13:53:36 +0000

Worse, Minnesota brought us Garrison Keillor. No wonder its newest guests want to kill themselves.

And as for that part about the kids being “innocent victims” in Somalia, it ain’t true. Ain’t true at all. ‘Nuff said.

By: virgil xenophon

virgil xenophon — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 11:10:36 +0000

Byron/

How could you “forgot” (to use the Cajun phrasing) to throw in the Black Panthers and the SLA-Symbionese Liberation Army–for good measure? You’re slipping, my good man.

By: Byron Audler

Byron Audler — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 08:14:13 +0000

It’s easy to forget that America has been raising it’s own radicals for a long time now. Just in my lifetime, there’s the Puerto Ricans who planned to bomb Congress, the Students for a Democratic Society, and the skin head types that managed to bring down a Federal building right here. Oh, and let’s not forget POTUSs mentor, Mr. Ayers.

And you guys have a hard time believing this story?

By: MaxDamage

MaxDamage — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 05:51:20 +0000

I have many fond memories of Minnesota, ranging from art shows My Good Wife has attended to that time back in college where I met the most pretty young Norwegian valkrie who taught me a lot about myself, most notably that a guy could get hurt chasing impossible dreams… And I cannot rule out the occassional beer run to New Ulm, where Schell brewery is only to happy to load a couple of kegs into the pickup and toss in a T-shirt or pitcher for my trouble. Nice town, clean, heavily German in both populace and attitude. It’s clean, tidy, organized. Police are there but are largely unneeded. It’s a little bit of Bavaria in the northern Midwest. And they do know how to make great beer.

Good riddance. Minnesota is presently saddled with Al Franken as their voice in congress, it is best that such buffoonery remain in the political and immigrant populations, where it can more easily be seen as the anomaly rather than the rule.

I was rather suprised to note in college that the old adage that birds of a feather stick together was the rule. Black students congregated with other black students, but judging from the accents the black students from Chicago and those from Africa were two different groups. Likewise, those students from Mesopotamia and Arabic lands tended towards others with similar histories. White students didn’t seem to carry much baggage as to who they befriended, but I noticed that there was a decided rural/urban split among the groups.

Perhaps this isn’t a problem with the melting pot idea and rather a problem with humanity. If your history means that much to you, a melting pot might not seem such a great idea.

– Max