Posts by Molly Priesmeyer

Hotter than Tiffany jewelry but not quite as hot at “Senator Stevens” or a “pumpkin seed recipe,” the nearly 150-year-old Marxism is finding a resurgence on Google, albeit through simple searches instead of a long-time-comin’ proletariat uprising.
Thanks to the McCain campaign of fear, the term “Marxism” is now at a white-hot “medium” on Google’s hotness [...]

The funniest part of this video isn’t the Palin makeover (mom jeans!), or the North Carolina Senator introducing her with this statement of the obvious, “Ladies and gentleman…this is not Joe Biden…” or Palin poorly lip-syncing to “Redneck Woman.” No, the best part comes at the very beginning, when Palin enters the auditorium to the [...]

Joe, Steve, Scott, Mario, Rodney, and Paul the Plumber are not only in recession-immune jobs, they’re making a career out of a collapsing economy. According to KAAL-TV in Rochester, Minnesota, a company called 1st Class Plumbing and Heating is getting most of its calls for service from banks and Realtors needing foreclosed and vacant homes [...]

Former Secretary of State Mary Kiffmeyer may not be in the business of supervising elections anymore, but it doesn’t mean she and her friends have abandoned their old habits.

The “traditional values” organization of which Kiffmeyer is the executive director, Minnesota Majority, has been poking around Minnesota’s voter-registration file, and in a pair of letters to Secretary of State Mark Ritchie’s office over the past week, MN Majority president Jeff Davis claims to have unearthed thousands of suspicious registrations in the state’s voter records.

Remember the good ol’ days, when there was a handful of Crisco in every cake and a layaway desk at every department store? Mom would drag you along once a week to that crummy counter you couldn’t see beyond, where she’d pay for a longed-for item bit by bit until that one fruitful day when [...]

A recent report by RealtyTrac reveals that Minnesota foreclosures rose 42 percent in September compared to foreclosure filings during the same period in 2007. Overall there were 2,144 foreclosure filings in Minnesota during September, placing Minnesota 26th in the nation for foreclosure filings that month. Hennepin County made up more than half of all foreclosure filings in the state.

A Clerks spoof, a John McCain/John Woo spoof, and what is a hilarious Wes Anderson spoof make up these new famous-director McCain “attack ads” from LandLine TV.

A new web site, Women4McCain, aims to set the record straight: They’re not, and neither is he. That is, they’re not for McCain and nor is McCain for women’s issues. In full-on Stephen Colbert-style irony, the web site at first blush looks pro-McCain, until you actually read the text, like this line scrolling across a [...]

There’s the old adage that things will get worse before they get better, or that something must hit rock bottom before bouncing back. And pundits and economists and analysts have been sounding the alarm bell for months: The economic downturn is only in Stage 1 collapse. On Tuesday, chief economist of the Mortgage Bankers Association Jay Brinkman warned industry folks that the mortgage crisis could last well beyond 2009, and added that the MBA is forecasting unemployment will rise to 7.8 percent by early 2010 before more jobs are added.

In a town hall meeting in Seattle Monday evening, Department of Housing and Urban Development secretary Steve Preston said John McCain’s mortgage proposal is an issue of “grave concern.” McCain’s plan for the housing decline includes the government possibly buying up troubled mortgages and paying the difference between principal balance and the home’s new lowered value as a result of the housing crash.

“I have a very grave concern about that,” Preston said, according to the Seattle Post-Intelligencer.