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Tonight, in Minneapolis; bring your ideas and some money and we’ll make things happen! I’ve already put my One Good Shirt in the laundry and hope to have it dry in time. See you there?

Key women leaders celebrate Sharon Sund on International Women’s Day

To celebrate International Women’s Day, a large group of prominent women leaders in government, business and the community are co-hosting a fundraising event for Sharon Sund, candidate for congress in Minnesota’s Third District.

“I am honored that so many respected, talented, courageous women are standing up for me on a day when we need to stand up for all women,” said Sund. “International Women’s Day is a time for us to celebrate the achievements women have made–and are making–worldwide.”

The celebration taking place today in conjunction with International Women’s Day is being held at the home of former State Representative Betty Folliard. It is co-hosted by a large group of prominent and influential women who are supporting Sund. They include: State Senators Chris Eaton and Ann Rest, along with State Representatives Denise Dittrich, Rena Moran, Sandra Peterson and Linda Slocum.

Other prominent women activists co-hosting the event include: former State Representative Luanne Koskinen and long-time community activists: Dottie Gilkeson, Laurie Pryor, Rosemary Rocco, Ruth Usem and Deborah Watts.

Edina City Council Member Joni Bennett, one of the co-hosts of the event, talked about the need for women to be engaged in the political process. “It’s important for women to be involved at all levels of government,” said Bennett. “At a time when much of our discussion is about finding solutions to environmental problems, Sharon Sund’s training and work in science make her a strong candidate for congress.”

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In particular, what do you want to ask them pertaining to science? For instance, the following questions have recently been proposed:

• What organization(s) or individual(s) is/are your primary source(s) for scientific information?
• With the overwhelming body of evidence for both evolution and climate change, why do you still not believe that both are true?
• Why do you oppose drug decriminalization when science and practical experience in Portugal support it?
• How can we use research, science and technology to help reduce the costs and improve the quality of health care?

These and many other questions have been proposed here, at ScienceDebate.org. You can go to that site and vote on the questoins or propose your own.

The Top Science Questions Facing America: 2012 Edition

What do YOU think are the top science questions the candidates for president should answer? We’ve posted the original 14 from 2008, preceded by their question numbers, and users have added others. Vote for those you feel are most important, add comments, or add your own! Check back often to vote on the new questions.

A suggestion: look at the questions we asked the candidates in 2008 and craft your question in a similar way. We’re not interested in quizzing candidates on the 4th digit of pi or the particulars of cell mitosis. We want to know their positions on the big science and engineering policy questions that affect all our lives. The questions we will consider most successful will probe the candidates on the important issues of our day around science.

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Soon, we’ll know, but for now we can guess.

Primaries or caucuses will be hid in Alaska, Georgia, Idaho, Massachusetts, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Vermont, and Virginia, and there is a whopping big chunk of Superdelegates up for graps as well. Continue reading What will Super Tuesday bring to the Republican Primary Process? →

R.T. Rybak is the mayor of Minneapolis, and he’s one of the better mayors ever.

He is also the vice chair of the Democratic National Committee.

I love the way our local news covered this story. As soon as O’Really interrupted R.T. to shut down any actual discussion, the local news caster jumped in and interpreted O’Really.

UPDATE: Romney still wins in Maine, though his lead has dropped to 156,000 votes. Oh no, wait a sec … That’s 156 votes.

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As we speak Washington County’s caucus is happening, and the word on the street is that Ron Paul is favored there. The results will be available in about 40 minutes. If Ron Paul gets enough votes … 240 or more … he’ll beat Romney and there will be yet another case of Romney someoneelse Winning a Primary.

While we await the results, see:

• Wrongway Romney’s Maine Win To Be Reversed?
• The State of the Republican Primaries
• Romney Probably Won Maine Primary After All. No wait, probably not.

Apropos this, the Maine GOP seems to have released a spreadsheet with the updated Maine ‘primary’ without any explanation of what the spreadsheet is.

The spreadsheet still shows many precincts not reporting, but in Maine they are very small and nobody in Maine cares about this Republican primary anyway, so maybe nobody showed up. The thing is, many of the none-reporting areas are geographically adjoining, so there still may be simply missing results. The GOP in Maine has made a statement or two but mostly they are not bothering to clearly explain what is going on there. The entirety of Washington County is still blank, except one town.

Perhaps the election was rigged, they got caught, but Romney’s people are holding on to the data until after a couple of more contests are done so people will forget. I’m usually not a conspiracy theorist but in this case it may be wise to be suspicious.

This guy has a degree in religion so you better listen to him:

Did he just say we should not pay more taxes becuase we should pay more taxes? Did he say that Obama robbed from God? Or did he say that we should not pay taxes at all and only be tithed for our religion.

Well, OK then. I’m a Pastafarian, I can do that!

Hat Tip Right Wing Watch.

And he’s discriminated against because he’s rich:

Oh, and Rick Santorum never says anything divisive. Such as.