Dennis Stillings
Tuesday, May 29, 2012
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on May 29, 2012 at 07:58 am
Ex-Governor Ed Schafer and Lloyd Omdahl have recently teamed up to inflict a much-ballyhooed powerhouse dog-and-pony (fox and weasel?) anti-Measure 2 magic act on North Dakota voters. It is based…...
Monday, January 02, 2012
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on January 2, 2012 at 01:16 pm
Well folks, the notorious year 2012 A.D. has arrived—the year the world is supposed to end, according to several sources. Unlike many end-of-the-world predictions—and there have been many—this “end” has…...
Tuesday, May 17, 2011
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on May 17, 2011 at 08:25 am
Men are generally idle, and ready to satisfy themselves, and intimidate the industry of others, by calling that impossible which is only difficult. —Samuel Johnson Nearly 30,000 citizens of…...
Friday, April 15, 2011
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on April 15, 2011 at 10:45 am
"Property is surely a right of mankind as real as liberty." — John Adams I have great sympathy for Lloyd Omdahl. I too am getting old and set in my…...
Monday, April 04, 2011
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on April 4, 2011 at 12:21 pm
Over the years I have accumulated an impressive file containing evidence that California does not really exist—at least not in the normal sense of “exist.” California is an example of…...
Monday, October 11, 2010
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on October 11, 2010 at 09:58 am
“The lake it is said Never gives up her dead When the skies of November turn gloomy. ... … And every man knew And the captain did too…...
Thursday, September 30, 2010
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on September 30, 2010 at 10:53 am
What is below is like that which is above,and what is above is like that which is below,to accomplish the miracles of the one thing.— From the Emerald Tablet of…...
Friday, July 30, 2010
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on July 30, 2010 at 10:05 pm
“Harry, I have a gift.” —Barack Obama Some months ago a friend of mine proposed the notion that Obama was possessed of some physical and psychological quirks that might…...
Friday, May 07, 2010
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on May 7, 2010 at 08:55 am
It is my heart-warmed and world-embracing Christmas hope and aspiration that all of us, the high, the low, the rich, the poor, the admired, the despised, the loved, the hated,…...
Tuesday, May 04, 2010
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on May 4, 2010 at 10:40 am
“From error to error, one discovers the entire truth.”—Sigmund Freud “People believe what they want to believe.” This “very profound [sic] conclusion” is the theme of Lloyd Omdahl’s Tuesday,…...
Monday, April 12, 2010
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on April 12, 2010 at 04:28 pm
… [P]erhaps the day will come when a people, distinguished by wars and victories and by the highest development of a military order and intelligence, and accustomed to make the…...
Friday, January 01, 2010
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on January 1, 2010 at 02:38 pm
"There is no distinctly native American criminal class except Congress." —Mark Twain Senator Conrad has published a “Guest view” article on how “Health-care reform helps North Dakota.” This item…...
Thursday, November 19, 2009
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on November 19, 2009 at 03:01 pm
"There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why... I dream of things that never were, and ask why not?" — Robert Kennedy How is…...
Saturday, November 14, 2009
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on November 14, 2009 at 12:40 pm
If a wind turbine spins on the prairie, and your ears are stuffed with money, can you still smell pig manure? —Dennis Stillings Of Noise and NIMBYs…...
Thursday, October 01, 2009
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Steve Cates
on October 1, 2009 at 01:40 am
Wind farms are going up all over this area. Nearly 200 turbines are under construction north of Luverne right now, and another large phase of development, Ashtabula III, is scheduled…...
Sunday, September 20, 2009
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on September 20, 2009 at 08:47 am
Because of the potential to kill millions of birds from global warming emissions, we're going to kill millions of birds with wind turbines. — Bob DeGroot A short time ago…...
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