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@redheadranting This is excellent. Thank you for sharing. I agree and have similar experience.

I spent years fighting everything. My past. My circumstances. Other people. Turns out, that was the problem. The moment I stopped… everything changed. Not in a cheesy way – ok, maybe a little cheesy, but still – everything changed for the better. Sorry it's too long to post here and the articles feature gets less than zero views so it's on my blog. redheadranting.com/i-stopped-figh…

@caitlinmcgowan @kaohlyforstp I about spit my drink out seeing you of all people tweet this. :) Unfortunately, the day a DFLer lowers taxes will be the day the dead rise from the grave.

St. Paul has a serious tax problem and it's making our longtime citizens want to leave this city. @kaohlyforstp this needs to change.

@CheyCab Watch local dad ends up for the win. Pure entertainment value.

All but two reservations are off the books for tomorrow. One is for a bridge and groom who say their wedding is on with no contingencies planned. The other is a local dad who thinks his flight into MSP around 9pm will be fine. Maybe but likely no.

❄️ Powerful winter storm targets Minnesota this weekend. We are tracking heavy snow and strong winds that will make travel for Saturday night into Sunday difficult to impossible. #weatherloon

@jeff_gluck Yes. Now put more races on broadcast TV. I am not going to get a bazillion subscriptions to keep up. Will watch the replay later in the week on YouTube for free.

I've heard this from a few people. Does this resonate with any of you?

@SteveSubera @the_transit_guy They did. There was a webinar/public meeting on the topic last year. MNDot did extensive study on the issue. Getting rid of 94 would destroy the packed traffic grid. Also a dramatic increase in sidewalk deaths and accident deaths since freeways are safer transit then boulevards.

@the_transit_guy I live in Saint Paul and I think MnDot should absolutely explain the tradeoffs and problems associated with a boulevard. But that idyllic image with very little traffic is not realistic.

Minnesota’s DOT has the ability to fill in a sunken highway through the Twin Cities with a large boulevard and transit, yet to them it’s a nonstarter. When does this country start thinking big?

@6Shittalkerffs Epic 5 gallon bucket trash can.

LandSeal

@caitlinmcgowan That's because we are in MN. Go to Sioux Falls or other places and things are popping. Happy downtowns filled with people.

Uff da. Things feel BLEAK.

@caitlinmcgowan A good movement happens after coffee. Also after lunch is prime as well.

Turns out Jake Lang is banned from being within three blocks of the Minnesota Capitol now. Word is he’s scouting the old Sears lot for his next ‘movement.’

@redheadranting @GenTXer2 The Slide whistle is your friend.

@GenTXer2 Worst song ever.

@redheadranting Same here. Cooking more at home not just because its cheaper, but restaurant food is not as good as before and it's $$$

Why do so many brands like Hellman's/Best taste bad now? Maybe not bad, but not as good as they used to. Is it because I'm older and my tastes have changed or is it because the product is different? I've noticed this with most dressings, sauces, condiments. None of them taste as good as they used to.

Our Town Council keeps raising taxes. So I showed up with an English Lord’s wig to speak in *favor* of taxes. “If you can’t pay your taxes…don’t be poor.”

@redheadranting The really crappy part, is the people making the rules don't follow them either.

I really don't want to keep harping on the MN fraud but it's just so unfair. And I get it, the world isn't fair, but.... When I got divorced I was 28, I had an 8 month old child. I learned my ex was cheating while I took my mother, and my son, to Ohio to be with her mother who was dying. I would later learn, though I had suspected, it was not the first time. My ex made the divorce easy - it was his idea, I would have stayed with him because I didn't have a job and didn't know what I was going to do, and I had no self esteem - he wanted to move on so he said I could have whatever I wanted. He didn't have anything so there wasn't anything to get. What I got was full custody and half of the marital debt. My parents helped but the strings attached were brutal. After about a year my ex's business took off and he was able to pay me the judgment that he'd accepted when we got divorced. It was about $12k if memory serves me. It was one big payment - something that could make a difference rather than have it drip in $100 or $200 payments over time. I had just started a business and it would be hugely helpful. It would have covered daycare for a little over a year - something he was not required to pay since our child wasn't in daycare when we got divorced. I deposited the check and within 24 hours it had been seized by the IRS because my ex hadn't paid his taxes for the last year we were married. So he settled the judgement he had with me, and his debt to the IRS was satisfied. TBF, I don't think he had any idea that was going to happen, but it did and I was the one who had to suck it up. I'm sure there were things I could do - but I couldn't afford an attorney to help me wade through it all. Following the rules seems to be something only suckers do.

@redheadranting 'Or post long winded rants' whilst drinking. I sit back and await literary greatness

Ya'll might want to mute me, I've entered the Bah Humbug part of the holidays. It's either drink through the end of the year or post long winded and probably pedantic rants. You've been warned.

@redheadranting Fallout

I have the crud. Might be the new flu they're talking about - chills, muscle aches, headache, runny nose, chest congestion - basically feel like sh*t. What can I binge? I do not want to watch any news it's all too depressing.

@acaseofthegolf1 No reason is the best reason.

1. If someone had a subscription to the Athletic and missed a story I thought was really good. 2. To support Gabby who is a great writer 3. If fans of Charlie would like to read about another side of her and might want to buy a subscription 4. Someone might have a friend who can gift them an article. Besides that, no reason.

@CheyCab What's your Cylinder Index?

Observation: Garage Logic dads are some of the nicest people around.

🤣🤣🤣She doesn't like the possum, also there are two of them😬

Success! A second date has been scheduled.

He is listening attentively whilst she has been talking a lot. I think it's going ok.

There is a first date situation at a table near me in STP.