Minnesota

Was out of town yesterday and returned about 9:00 p.m. As I like to do, I turned on the computer and checked my favorite websites: DRUDGEREPORT.com and HOTAIR.com to see what was happening.

First, drudgereport had a headline that a university was going to bestow an honory doctorate degree on Al Gore for his work on global warming. The university had not been identified. Then I went to hotair and sure enough, they had it posted too and the commentators were a little upset, to say the least. Went back to drudgereport and read the article. Didn't identify the U but did mention the U president's name; Robert H. Bruininks. The name looked familiar. So I did a google search on him and lo and behold, the University of Minnesota came up. What can I say? Living in a blue state is very hard on a person's mental health. The article is gone from Drudgereport but is still on at Hotair.

Minnesota. Look at the natural resources and natural beauty of this state. Iron ore mining. Forestry and forestry products. Agriculture. Manufacturing. This is one of the few states that has it all. Look at some of the people that have come out of here. Sears of Sears, Roebuck, and Co. Curt Carlson of Gold Bond Stamps and then hotels and restaraunts. Mayo brothers of the Mayo Clinic in Rochester and now in the Phoenix, AZ area. Bert Gamble and Phil Skogmo of the Gamble-Skogomo hardware stores that were all over the midwest. General Mill - Cheerios. Medical devices firms Medtronic and St. Jude. 3M - scotch tape and many other products. I could go on and on about this. Like I said a unique state that has many talents.

Then the natural beauty of the north country. North shore of Lake Superior. The forests and the many lakes. These are not scum laden and green algea growing lakes. The water is so clean and clear that loons live on them. Yeah, that is another thing; the wildlife that thrives here. Then moving to the northwest and the Red River Valley (shared by ND). Fertile farmland that grows sugar beets. Then moving south of there you run into more farmland that is quite productive and then to southern MN where the rich black soil runs feet deep, not inches. Left from the glaciers. I need to mention the Lake Agizziz area of northern MN. Again, this is very fertile farmland. This is the very northern part up by Rouseau and Warroad.

But, the people in this state are so.... so.... insane. Is that the word? Look at the politicians that have come from here. Hubert Humphrey. Eugene McCarthy. Remember this guy, Wendell Anderson. These people were highly respected and put on the national stage. Mark Dayton. These guys? What state do you think that Taxachusetts used as their role model?

Now the U of MN wants to give an "honorary degree for his work in climatology" to Al Gore. How about our republican senator Norm Coleman voting with the democrats for this resolution condemning the president and the troops. That's what it is folks. Anyway, we won't have Norm Coleman to worry about after the next election cycle. We are going to have Senator Al Franken. Oh, and we already have congressman Keith Ellingson.

Montana, Wyoming, Idaho, and South Dakota are beginning to look pretty good.