[StPaul] re: booya ....booya ...booya....

2003-12-18 Thread popman
St. Paul E-Democracy Links http://www.e-democracy.org/stpaul/links.html _ Food? Did somebody mention food? Booya?? Yummm!!! The only thing that ruins a good lunch is… when I has to (ugh) …PAY FOR IT ! But so, it is. Let's get down to business.

[StPaul] Re: Downtown...Downtown....Downtown....

2004-01-03 Thread popman
St. Paul E-Democracy Links http://www.e-democracy.org/stpaul/links.html _ How many big box stores is this area going to support? It's no wonder why this city, like so many others, put themselves at the mercy of these retailers, et al, and wind up giving

[StPaul] Re: Downtown..Revisited.

2004-01-04 Thread popman
St. Paul E-Democracy Links http://www.e-democracy.org/stpaul/links.html _ He? I assume that you mean me. If people want growth in their cities, they have to have the guts to accept it. Growth comes in many shapes and forms and we may not always like

[StPaul] RE: What we want in St. Paul .

2004-01-07 Thread popman
Remember - Only 2 Posts Per Day _ What I would like to see: 1. For people to stop being hypocrites and allow gaming and gambling in downtown. Gaming and gambling is what Capitalism is all about. It's the essence of capitalism! As a bastion of capitalism,

[StPaul] Re: The Stadium ...this time: The Truth!

2004-01-16 Thread popman
St. Paul E-Democracy Links http://www.e-democracy.org/stpaul/links.html _ I have to laugh when I see people claim that we live in a democracy. How come they never reveal the other side of the coin? We live in a Dollar Democracy. We sell our democracy

[StPaul] re: city loan for a bookstore? ...you betcha!

2004-01-26 Thread popman
St. Paul E-Democracy Links http://www.e-democracy.org/stpaul/links.html _ A risky loan for the bookstore? Sure. Why not? You, that are against this idea, seem to forget that by default, we are all greedy capitalists here. You don't vote for somebody

[StPaul] Re: Bookstore loan ...the opinion that ya wanted...is here.

2004-01-27 Thread popman
St. Paul E-Democracy Links http://www.e-democracy.org/stpaul/links.html _ So, You would like a 2nd opinion? What do ya need that for when you have the Truth? …that is: if You can handle it…LOL… My responses are bracketed. Message: 4 Date: Mon, 26

[StPaul] Re: downtown visions ....

2004-01-28 Thread popman
St. Paul E-Democracy Links http://www.e-democracy.org/stpaul/links.html _ The people like the idea of gambling. According to the recent Mn. Poll. 62% of the people liked the idea. Just remember that you heard it here first! It's always conservatives

[StPaul] the gse flap ...and ....

2004-02-06 Thread popman
Post news and information from your neighborhood: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] _ I guess that the chickens have come home to roost! What Mr. B has discovered is NOT the problem with GSE, instead, what he has discovered is: MY POSTS! He, and others are

[StPaul] The real snow job in st paul .....

2004-02-07 Thread popman
Post news and information from your neighborhood: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] _ Leave it to a rethuglican st. paul mayor to implement the insidious practice of job-spreading. It's not bad enough that the city employees can't catch a break with a decent

[StPaul] Corruption ? Government ? ...what???

2004-02-10 Thread popman
Post news and information from your neighborhood: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] _ If you can't trust your government, who can you trust? Answer: Your party! Corruption in government is just another very long winded conversation that always goes to the

[StPaul] re: the Thune proposal

2004-02-20 Thread popman
Post news and information from your neighborhood: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] _ I simply enjoy any attempt at slappin' a tax on the billfold of anybody making $10 mil. I would also say that our Mr. Thune didn't include enough progressivity in his tongue in

[StPaul] Re: No public funding for the stadium...

2004-02-22 Thread popman
Post news and information from your neighborhood: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] _ I see that Mr. Birrenback is getting the right idea, as this whole stadium situation is the wealthy exercising their favorite american capitalistic past time of screwing the

[StPaul] what's causing the budget woes?

2004-02-25 Thread popman
NEAT - info about SPPS budget: http://tinyurl.com/3gt66 _ The same people who are causing the transit strike. When ones looks long enough and deep enough into the bowels of human misery and despair, one always finds a republican feasting on the feces

[StPaul] Re: Smoking Ban? You Betcha!

2004-05-12 Thread popman
-- REMINDER: Only 2 Posts Per Day Per Person -- Smoking Ban? You Betcha! Long have I argued against the word: Freedom or any of it's variants, i.e.: free speech. Simply because it doesn't

[StPaul] re: more amhine2 ...

2004-05-17 Thread popman
Message: 3 Date: Fri, 14 May 2004 09:36:47 -0700 (PDT) From: John Harris [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [StPaul] re: amhine2 response. To: popman [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Even a small garden produces more

[StPaul] Re: The Baker Response.

2004-05-17 Thread popman
I have double bracketed yours. Message: 4 Date: Fri, 14 May 2004 14:16:10 -0500 From: Mary Baker [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [StPaul] Living off the land To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed I have bracketed your responses too. [I

[StPaul] re: gas prices!

2004-05-18 Thread popman
I wish that Dave Thune would start to get tough. With his proposed smoking ban on everybody's mind, how about following it up with another ban that’s been needed for a long, long time. What I would suggest would not only alleviate traffic congestion and lower the cost of street maintenance, it

[StPaul] re: gas prices!

2004-05-19 Thread popman
Message: 1 Date: Wed, 19 May 2004 15:22:00 -0500 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [StPaul] re: gas prices! To: popman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 My response are bracketed. Hanson

[StPaul] Re: Suv ban and gas prices.

2004-05-22 Thread popman
About the mentioned ban on SUVs - I disagree and think people should be able to drive an SUV if they want to. If the point is low fuel economy, then there are better ways to approach this than banning certain classes of vehicles. Such as simply raising the tax on gasoline - those with

[StPaul] Re: SPPS....Who should pay for it ?

2004-05-26 Thread popman
Community Forum on Job Shadowing in St. Paul High Schools May 17 - 28 http://www.stpauljobshadow.org The way to pay for education is so simple, I don't know why any of you

[StPaul] re: The O'Franken Factor.

2004-06-03 Thread popman
Anybody know when this show is on the radio? I used to get it on 1330 am in the morning and now it's gone. Has the time or the station changed or is this another one of those right wing conspiricies that I hear about? R. Hanson. St. Paul.

[StPaul] City Smoking Ban Vetoed - GEE THAT'S A BIG...

2004-09-15 Thread popman
Message: 3 Date: Mon, 13 Sep 2004 20:53:07 -0500 From: Dennis Tester [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [StPaul] City Smoking Ban Vetoed - GEE THAT'S A BIG SURPRIZE ! To: Dan Dobson [EMAIL PROTECTED], St. Paul Issues Forum [EMAIL PROTECTED] Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[StPaul] Smoking Ban Status.

2004-09-15 Thread popman
Status of the Smoking Ban: Bungled! Or …Hey Dave, got a light ? I posted before on this issue and Andy Driscoll went totally ballistic on me for posting it. I made my point loud and I made it clear that this so-called bar and restaurant ban is about to be bungled and his buddy Dave Thune

[StPaul] Re: Smoking ban ...al la : Mr. Repke.

2005-03-09 Thread popman
I just had to make some observations in Mr. Repke's post. You will find them bracketed. I know that we stray from the City focus on this but again you are absolutely correct on the conservative philosophy. If I run a bar and water down the drinks, to bad let the buyer beware. If I

Re: [StPaul] Re: Smoking ban ...al la : Mr. Repke.

2005-03-10 Thread popman
of hindsight in effect, a much better document could be written and enjoyed by all. Rowdy Russ Hanson. The Truth in St. Paul. --- Dennis Tester [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: popman wrote: I suspect that the rights issues are just another republican distraction. Yup, those civil rights sure

[StPaul] Re: Re: Banning tobacco won't work ? Yes ! it will.....

2005-03-10 Thread popman
Banning tobacco will work. We ban a lot of things. We ban: fireworks, R12 freon, child porn, and even felons from the voting booth…and this is just the start of a very long list of things that are banned for the sale/use to the general public. May I remind you that calling groups and people

[StPaul] Re: Re: Banning tobacco won't work? Yes ! it will....response.

2005-03-11 Thread popman
My responses are bracketed. Message: 6 Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2005 14:45:23 GMT From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [StPaul] Re: Re: Banning tobacco won't work ? Yes ! it will. To: popman [EMAIL PROTECTED], stpaul@mnforum.org Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] It appears

[StPaul] Re: Re: cops....etc....resp: B. Parker.

2005-03-11 Thread popman
Hanson. The Truth in St. Paul. On Mar 10, 2005, at 8:13 AM, popman wrote: Dann points out that the cops are over-worked. Huh? Being a cop in St. Paul is the most ridiculous job that one can get paid a whopping $50k / year for! They're not worth half that amount and Kelly wants to hire

[StPaul] Re: The Cops and Me...setting the record straight.

2005-03-12 Thread popman
It's amazing to me how people would find my questioning of what we pay almost offensive for our policing services in St. Paul. Some say that I have a vendetta. They're right. My vendetta is not directed towards the police. I do have a vendetta against over-paying for service levels that I don't

[StPaul] Re: Res: Mr Parker and Swope and others ....

2005-03-12 Thread popman
My responses are bracketed. Message: 2 Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2005 08:56:01 -0800 (PST) From: M Charles Swope [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [StPaul] Re: Re: copsetcresp: B. Parker. To: popman [EMAIL PROTECTED], stpaul@mnforum.org Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content-Type: text/plain

[StPaul] Re: St. Paul vs. NYC. Crime figures.

2005-03-15 Thread popman
: Re: [StPaul] Re: Res: Mr Parker and Swope and others To: popman [EMAIL PROTECTED], stpaul@mnforum.org Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Mr. Hanson's self-proclaimed common sense tells him that crime on a proportional basis must be far, far worse in NYC

[StPaul] Re: Support you local police force....resp.

2005-03-15 Thread popman
My response in brackets. Message: 3 Date: Sat, 12 Mar 2005 19:18:12 -0600 From: Bob Parker [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [StPaul] Support your local police force. To: stpaul@mnforum.org Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed I just wanted

Re: [StPaul] Re: Res: Mr Parker and Swope and others ....

2005-03-17 Thread popman
I must have originally missed this post on-list. It was posted on-list and I will respond in kind. Statistics aside, Charlie's logic is a little suspect because the his precious statistics are not based on how many cars there are but how many CAR THEFTS per 100,000 units of population

[StPaul] Where's my newspaper? Dude...

2005-03-29 Thread popman
I see in the newspapers that the bar owners are, again, bemoaning their fate as the so-called smoking ban goes into effect in Ramsey County. It's the same old goofy argument that government shouldn't be intruding on people's personal lives. The newspapers are going along with it lock, stock

[StPaul] Re: Randy Kelly for all of us?

2005-04-03 Thread popman
Gee... Isn't it amazing that I was the only poster that correctly identified Kelly as a DINO, way back when Mr. Birrenback was having his problems with the W.7th street plant? I suspected this guy right off the bat and all I needed was the evidence. Now, we have the evidence and I'm glad that

[StPaul] Re: Future of St. Paul? ....

2005-04-23 Thread popman
Want to know the future of St. Paul? Here are 2 stories within you can easily see what's coming down the road. Rowdy Russ Hanson. The Truth in St. Paul. http://www.alternet.org/story/21820/ Conservatives run around singing the praises of Wal-Mart, proclaiming it an

[StPaul] RE: Gambling coming to the Twin Cities?

2005-04-25 Thread popman
Gambling coming to the Twin Cities? Yep! It's about time that we put some real meaning into the phrase: You betcha! It's seems that the powers that be are starting to realize that money must be raised to pay for essential city / state services and taxing the population isn't the way it's

[StPaul] RE: Stadiums and such....

2005-04-26 Thread popman
It's seems that the fatcats are going to have their way and get their stadium built over the peoples objections. Most people I know don't want gambling in the cities either but their going to have it rammed down their throats anyway. To add insult to injury I understand that Minneapolis is

[StPaul] Re: Demise of Bound To Be Read

2005-04-30 Thread popman
--- Dennis Tester [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It's ironic that the people who love small indy bookstores are also the people who love public libraries, the primary competitors of those bookstores. There's no constitutional provision for free reading material. Mr. Tester is absolutely correct!