BTW, Brodkorb and the King Bunion are dicks.

Rent “who killed the electric car”…. we almost had a solution, but big oil and the automakers are having adulterous sex w/each other.

1) Ride her bike home with groceries for her family
2) Commute to her job via bicycle — most people work more than 5 miles from their home
3) Ride her bike consistently anywhere December through April.

and finally;

4) Learn grammar and spelling.

Wow MNbluestategal1: Does this mean I am not on your Christmas list? Oh wait liberals like you do not believe in God and you would not want to offend any others so Christmas should probably go away.

Mn I do use the bike trials and enjoy them very much. They are great but not as great as roads and bridges. I use the bike trails for fun activity not as an alternative for transportation. For that matter even if you drove the bus or train right to my front door and went right to where I wanted to go I would still not ride the bus or train! I do not care to share my day with liberals on a damn bus or train. I also do not care for what my Daughter learns from young democRats on the school bus so we drive her in as well. I take the long way if that helps, I burn all the gas I can and our daughter loves the great big tires on our great big SUV! I believe she will want an even bigger one than I have when the time comes.

Funny thing is my liberal friend is you really want others to pay for what you want.

I found this post funny as it seems the democRats are doing just this with the bridge collapse.

Quick, raise taxes and all will be well.

I like bike trails and my family does a lot of recreational cycling but paying for something that is 99.9% recreational with transportation funds is wrong. Take the money from county rec funds. Saying it is for commuting is a lie.

Twenty years ago I commuted on bike most every day from Richfield to Eden Prairie for three summers and you know what? I used existing streets! It never even occurred to me to demand a $25 million dollar bike trail. Being dirt poor at the time I’m sure the taxes to pay for it wouldn’t have affected me at all. Hell, the reason I started commuting on bike that first summer was because I couldn’t afford to fix my car! I was conservative then too so demanding the government spend other people’s money to make my life easier just wasn’t a concept I embraced, then or now.

I am currently working with my local township board to get walking-bike trails put in to connect the different neighborhood developments together and to the schools. Currently there is no way for anyone to go anywhere without a car because you have to go on the highway and we’re talking about easy walking distances! Now THAT is a good trail application and the Township is going to pay for it! No money taken from bridges. Imagine that!

I live a block off a parkway in Minneapolis. This morning, instead of riding on the new (2 years old) bike path, a woman on a bicycle chose to take the side street parallel to the parkway.

She blew through four stop sings in a matter of less than 5 minutes.

Another bicyclist riding the opposite direction ran at least one stop sign. Again, in the street and not on the new bike path.

Many bicyclists choose to ride on the parkway itself; never mind that there s a bike path less than 50 feet away, and that the parkways are more narrow than the average street.

If it were “roads for you and bike paths for us” as you claim, that would be fine. But the vast majority of these Lance Armstrong wanna-be bicyclists display a blatant and arrogant disregard for traffic laws. They’re pathetic.

Why develop new bike paths when the existing ones aren’t fully utilized as it is?

BTW — nobody asked you to do their research for them… they also didn’t ask you to to cite bullshit research from a bullshit site.

Again, liberals are the most ignorant, lazy and dishonest people on the planet. You can tell they’re lying because their lips are moving.

More businesses don’t have showers than do. So again, how would I get unstinky? How would I carry all the crap I must transport back and forth each day on a bike?

just what kind of fee are bikers paying for their paths and lanes?
Uh, taxes? Do you know how freaking cheap it is to build a bike path versus a freeway? What do you pay, gas tax? People who don’t even own cars pay taxes for roads. We’re not polluting, so let’s call it even.

Not that many people are going to bike to work, at least not to downtown Minneapolis from way out the suburbs. You forget that if you live a long way from work and your workplace doesn’t have a place for you to change and clean up. I’m really sure that my coworkers aren’t going to want me stinking like a race horse at work. We won’t even talk about the helmet hair. Oh, and just what do I do with my brief case and the other stuff I cart to work with me? I’m the designated baker for birthdays. I can just see trying to bike over 11 miles to work with a birthday cake. And you forget, during the winter, only the truly psychotic are going to bike to work. So again, you’re going to need those roads. We won’t even mention the idea of biking in thunderstorms, snow, and -26 degree weather.

And as a side note, just what kind of fee are bikers paying for their paths and lanes? NOTHING. Perhaps we need to put an odometer on bikes and charge them per mile pedaled for the upkeep of their trails and lanes.

Poverty by state

Teen pregnancy (note: pregnancy, not babies) by state.

In Red states, crime isn’t half the problem, and it is of foremost concern. But you’re right, Red states don’t dole out public welfare benefits and kill the children that result from liberal’s recreational sex.

Nobody is more stupid, lazy or dishonest than a Democrat.

2) People who think liberal politics are destroying Minnesota should probably consider the fact that in every imaginable measure, from public health to crime to unwanted pregnancies and beyond, the traditionally “red” states are always at the bottom of the barrel.

None of these people even knew what a computer was, much less anticipated that I would buy one. Moreover, they leveled the playing field for nobody. FDR created the infrastructure that enslaved generations, including millions of minorities, on government dependence… LBJ, extended that dependency and nearly completely destroyed the middle class doing it. Carter tried to finish the job… thank God we only had 4 years of that jackass.

If Minnesota is starting to look more like a Red state, then THANK GOD!!!!! In Red states, people have opportunities, government is held accountable, and unemployement is low. BRING IT ON!

I don’t have to vacation in a blue state. I lived in one for a few years. High taxes, high unemployment, high violent crime, awful roads, no services, bad government agencies, huge bureaucracies, shit education.

Take your blue states and shove them up your ass.

By the way “Lie teller” … Democrats controled both houses in Minnesota until 1998, when Republicans earned the House. If this state took a dive in the early 1990s, thank the assholes in the DFL… who continue to destroy education and every other facet of “public” life.

Now lets look at the laughable list you told us not to use.

public libraries: haven’t been in one in years, I buy the books I read, and I read at least one book at week.

public restrooms: I have’t seen one of these in years. Most restrooms I see are in buildings owned by a company. Even though they may be open to the public, if the building its in is owned by a business or an individual, then it isn’t public. Public would mean owned by thea government entity

public parks and beaches: I don’t swim and I don’t have kiddies to take to a park. By the way, if my taxes pay for these things, they aren’t because of democrats.

the post office: This isn’t a governmental agency. They are also pretty inefficient.

public transit: If MY tax dollars pay for it, it’s again not because of democrats. It’s also the shoving of millions of dollars of transportation money that has screwed up the roads and bridges. So can you dems keep your greedy paws off the transporation money and keep the damn buses off the roads.

police, firefighters: again, something MY tax dollars pays for. Not that I’ve ever needed the services of the police or of the fire department. Can I quit paying taxes for these two so perhaps all you dems in the high crime rate areas will darwin yourselves out of existence!

public schools: Gladly, considering how bad the dems have screwed up the schools. And while I’m at it, can I quit paying taxes for these too?Why should I have to pay for everybody else’s crotch gargoyles to get second rate educations!

do not eat the food we DEMS kept safe for you: Oh BS. The USDA keeps the food safe, and we all pay for this service. And a good portion of the services to keep the food safe are paid for by companies, as a fee for services and not a tax. The rest of us pay higher prices at the cash register because of it.

I think you would be much happier if you moved to a Socialist utopia like Cuba or something. You are one smug little witch to come on here and tell people they don’t represent our state. You are the worst kind of poison in politics. You’re probably married to that Nitro jackass who posts on MNPublius.

FDR was nothing but socialist policies, and we can see what a total mess those policies are if we take a good look a the Social Security system.

LBJ go us neck deep in the Vietnam war, a war I don’t think we should have been in. We won’t even talk about he screwing up the Social Security system even more.

Yep, it’s easy to despise the President’s who have delivered the strongest economies and lowest unemployement periods this country has ever seen.

You dumb cow. Do you really pine for the days of Jimmy Carter and Lindon Johnson… where opportunity was non-existent, and where national direction was no where to be found.

The DFL has done shit for building this state. Show me a deteriorated city, I’ll show you the corrupt DFL leadership. Show me high-unemployment, I’ll show you the DFL and its union thugs who made it uneconomical to do business here.

Minnesotans built this state, not your worthless party of leaches, whores and deadbeats.

While you’re on your trip MNBluestatecow, tear up your return ticket. Stay out.

The whole area — Yellow Medicine, Chippewa, Lac Qui Parle Counties — is historically liberal, largely because of the supposed connection between farming and the old Democrat party. A connection long gone. But it’s hard to teach old dogs new tricks.

The rotting urban core, and severely deteriorated rural economy is all owed to loyalty to the DFL Party of welfare, abortion and appeasement.

People like me built Minnesota. Deadbeats like you are destroying it… You damn ingrate.

In fact, it seems MNBlustategal1, that you’re so damn stupid as not to realize there’s a town in Minnesota called Madison. My guess is you’re unaware of anything outside of the 94 loop. … In fact, a commute from Madison, Wisconsin to WILMAR, MINNESOTA would be about 340 miles.

But even Elton were talking about Madison, Wisconsin, that town is taking a severe dive as liberal whores like you destroy it.

Liberalism is the politics of losers, deadbeats, liars, cowards and thieves. … and you.

Mass Transit is shit. That’s why 90 percent of us don’t use it.