A murky IRRRB; Ojibwe opposition to Wolf hunt; 'Intelligent Design' in Bemidji

Posted at 7:05 AM on April 4, 2012 by Michael Olson (1 Comments)
Filed under: Around MN

Ranger seeks IRRRB transparency
MPR News: "Three years after opponents of the Iron Range coal gasification plant had triggered a critical state report of Excelsior Energy with public documents, the Duluth News Tribune reported that the company still hadn't followed through on promises to build energy plants on the Iron Range. But despite tens of millions of dollars in state, federal and IRR investment in the company, the public still could not access their yearly audits or other financial documents because of the provision exempting IRR from public records requirements."

Diver crushes competition in Fond du Lac primary
Duluth News Tribune: "Incumbent Chairwoman Karen Diver enjoyed a commanding victory in the primary election Tuesday for leadership of the Fond du Lac Band."

Mitt Romney's Wisconsin win means the end of the end
Washington Post: "That sound you hear? It's the fat lady singing."

Duluth's Gauthier warns of Ojibwe court challenge over wolf hunting
Inforum: "Minnesota House members approved a bill Tuesday that moves next month's fishing opener up a week and establishes a wolf hunting and trapping season on the same dates as deer hunting season."

DFL has set its sights on Rep. John Kline's seat
Star Tribune: "When the new political maps came out, Democrats rejoiced that they had a better chance than ever to knock off Rep. John Kline, R-Minn. Just one problem: They lacked a Democratic candidate."

Institute of Creation Research: Intelligent Design concept presented at Bemidji seminar
Bemidji Pioneer: "The inclusion of Intelligent Design in schools' studies of life origins is overdue, said the superintendent of Bagley schools."

I-35E toll lanes get OK from Ramsey County Board
Pioneer Press: "Adding toll lanes to Interstate 35E north of downtown St. Paul has support from the Ramsey County Board of Commissioners."

To understand U.S.-Dakota conflict, historians resort to 'truth recovery'
Mankato Free Press: " Recent articles and letters to the editor in The Free Press demonstrate the raw emotions and conflict that surround the U.S.-Dakota War 150 years ago. Controversy over a poem on a proposed marker in Mankato, disputes over what artifacts to put on public display, and letters pointing out atrocities leading up to and during the war show the variety of views. So when the Minnesota Historical Society curators set out two years ago to begin planning their exhibits and activities surrounding the anniversary this summer, they used a 'truth recovery' process to sift through the facts and emotions in an attempt to portray events from all angles."

Brown County has high rate of obesity, drinking
New Ulm Journal: "Brown County has very few low birth-weight babies, low teen birth rates, and high clinical care but higher than average obesity and drinking rates, according to a 2012 County Health Rankings released by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and University of Wisconsin Population Health Institute."

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Comments (1)

Intelligent design theory is the most important challenger to the secularists' evolution-only dogma. Every sincere scientific questioning of Darwin's messiahship (in the minds of many, he did liberate them from the penalty for their misbehavior by rhetorically killing God's authority over His creation) is met with accusation of "religious" proselytizing and threats of lawsuits and/or firings. What part of science is censorship? Why the intensity of the thought Nazis?

The most important question youngsters answer is, Where ya from, ORIGINally? That's the big fork in the road of life and the cornerstone of one's worldview. The atheists know there can be no objective morality unless God creates, righteously rules, judges and disposes. As a Dostoyevsky character put it, Without GOD, everything's permissible.

Theology-trained Darwin certainly was not scientist, but a very competent fiction writer. Thomas Huxley was the key "bulldog" promoting this accidental tourist's whimsical product on Origins after the author's chance circumnavigation of the globe. This really tinged his yarn-spinning with authenticity--some proportion to one's miles traveled and believability operated in Victorian times. Huxley, a sharper mind technically, never was sucked in by Darwin's fable but saw it as a useful element in world changing: he simply hated Jesus and wanted to live by his own rules, be his own god.

Nothing's really changed but the control of 24/7 mass media with continual blitzing to brainwash huge numbers of the uncritical, mind-numbed populace.

Posted by D Bunker Monquis | April 4, 2012 3:00 PM

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