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Posted by Speed Gibson:
Moron Mail
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   Browsing today's Letters to the Editor in the Minneapolis Star Tribune
   reminded me how much I miss the "Moron Mail" posts at the [1]Kool Aid
   Report. Oh, the anatomical fun Learned Foot would have had with a
   couple of the names!
   We have a week left in the Legislative Session, GM and Chrysler are
   going down the tubes, Swine Flu is everywhere, but the Letter of the
   Day fusses over Patrick Reusse's assessment of Frisbee golf.
   Another writer reminds us in the GOP that the DFL exists and, like,
   has valuable ideas! Prime Minister Pawlenty is just posturing when he
   should be [DEL: capitulating :DEL] compromising. Like, it's so unfair!
   But the next letter tops this easily, contending that global warming
   and Pawlenty will bring Mississippi's climate and austere level of
   government services here before long.
   But the howler is about my favorite boondoggle, Light Rail:

     "Bringing clean, quiet, and efficient LRT to University Avenue will
     give people an appealing alternative to driving. This has the
     potential to make University Avenue a much more economically
     vibrant and attractive place than it is today."

   I've been at the Lake Street / Midtown LRT station several times this
   year, and I still haven't found that art supply store then Mayor
   Sharon Sayles-Belton envisioned.
   Don't these moonbats remember that we have at least four months of
   winter here? Residents are going to walk four blocks or more to the
   LRT come rain or come shine? Carrying packages? And how the
   neighborhood will love those quiet trains every 10 minutes. Stand by
   the Metrodome sometime and listen to the Hiawatha come screeching and
   squealing around the bend. Efficient? Imagine spending the same money
   just sprucing up University Avenue itself, including bus lanes if you
   like.
   In fact, how about some nicer buses, too, providing a much more
   comfortable ride. But our letter writer no doubt prefers sitting on
   hard plastic facing backwards in a drafty trolley car.
   Hey, moonbat! There was a reason, several actually, why Minneapolis
   and other cities tore up those streetcar tracks decades ago. Come join
   us in the 21st century!

References

   1. http://koolaidreport.blogspot.com/