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The Story of Mouseland As told by Tommy Douglas in 1944 It’s the story of a place called Mouseland. Mouseland was a place where all the little mice lived and played, were born and died. And they lived much the same as you and I do. They even had a Parliament. And every four years [...]

My daughter is a credentialing specialist for a major insurance company. She researches the past and present status of physicians and determines which ones are legally licensed and in which capacity. She also knows if there have been any actions against particular physicians, although she is not allowed to share this information with anyone outside [...]

A PASSING THAT GIVES US PAUSE TO REFLECT – Wednesday August 26, 2009  The main news this morning of course is that Ted Kennedy has died.  Regardless of what any of us think of the man as to his past personal life, I think it is very hard to argue that this was one of [...]

I read today that the government projects 40 to 60 percent of Americans will come down with the H1N1 swine flu this fall and that there will be 90,000 deaths. I suppose these are bean counter statistics dreamed up by some suits whose entire life meaning flows from actuarial tables devoid of any sense of [...]

It seems that others posting on MR’ have different tactics of telling the point they are hoping to bring home. Dan seems to have a better quality of doing that than some others who have posted here by keeping his paragraphs short. Of course, Dan is the webmaster and the boss, so I suppose it [...]

You’ve got fans paranoid about the Minnesota Vikings moving out of state, even though the Vikings are a constant annual source of State-wide anguish. But, it could be worse. They could have to go to work at Winter Park where a sports Shakespeare melodrama is taking place. Paranoia has to be rampant at Winter Park. [...]

Sometimes the poet says it all so well about it all: Everybody Knows lyrics By Leonard Cohen From the 1988 ‘I’M YOUR MAN’ album Everybody knows that the dice are loaded Everybody rolls with their fingers crossed Everybody knows that the war is over Everybody knows the good guys lost Everybody knows the fight was [...]

Damn these late summer gnats that fly around one’s head distracting attention from more important stuff like the health care debate. You just can’t swat him away because he’s still warm enough and fast enough to avoid a smack down and end his damned circling routine. I’d guess that Bud Grant, still alive too, is [...]

In my post back on July 28 I wrote that I had a dream that we would get universal health care when the Minnesota Vikings won the super bowl and then disparaged the whole idea for the fact that Brett Favre was not coming to play quarterback here…?  Well maybe dreams do come true?  Maybe [...]

History rolls on and frequently it shocks us.  Cases in point: 1.)  The fall of the Soviet Union in the 80s.  Those of us growing up during the cold war never believed the “Bear” would die. 2.)  The fall of the Berlin Wall.  This was an absolute symbol of the Iron Curtain and the sepearation [...]