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Aside from the previously posted screenshot link of the Obama campaign website that shows an image of graffiti "Obama is God", this would be an short example of my best:

A messiah in our midst?
By Jonah Goldberg

Obama's Satyagraha: Or, Did Obama Swallow the Mahatma?
June 27, 2008. (Dinesh Sharma is a marketing science consultant with a PhD in Psychology from Harvard).

Miami Herald March 28, 2006.

Okello Oculi, Daily Monitor
AllAfrica.com. February 20, 2008.

Obama Draws Throngs To Target Center
WCCO.com. February 2, 2008

There you go, 5 non-right-wing articles.

Bryant-Lake Bowl, Decemebr 16 at 9pm. Bring a toy for priority seating. http://wcco.com/local/star.wars.holiday.2.1356544.html

Target's in the process of installing license-plate scanning systems in all of their store parking lots.

Do you have a source for this? If true, Target will lose a customer.

http://wcco.com/local/target.license.plate.2.676861.html

The recording companies accused Thomas-Rasset of offering 1,700 songs on Kazaa as of February 2005, before the company became a legal music subscription service following a settlement with entertainment companies. For simplicity's sake the music industry tried to prove only 24 infringements.

He said MediaSentry downloaded a sample of them from the shared directory on her computer. That's an important point, given Davis' new instructions to jurors.

IMO she was guilty- but still don't agree with how they categorized her infraction as "willful infringement". The punishment was ludicrously excessive and she probably will not be able to escape it through bankruptcy. Jury Rules Against Minn. Womain in Download Case

So what's the difference between the crowd making a mistale and the police making a mistake?

DNA Testing Clears Virginia Man Of 1984 Rape
Chicago man sues Chicago, police over wrongful conviction
Milwaukee DA Drops Charge In 1995 Murder Case
Tests prove innocence of 23-year prisoner in Texas
New arson analysis may free convicted murderer
Texas Enacts 'Innocence Committee' Over Excessive Wrongful Convictions

minnesota is actually involved in a similar case with the same company: http://wcco.com/crime/breathalyzer.lawsuit.minnesota.2.669505.html. the only difference is that in our case, the state dept of public safety claims that its part of the contract that the source code be made available to the state and cmi is still refusing to provide source.

Yeah, and you can thank the "Union" for that.

Bullshit. Ain't the "Union" handing out awards for shooting up the wrong house.

While it's excellent when police DO apologize for mistakes,and work for restitution to the victims, we must not forget that the opposite also happens:

http://wcco.com/iteam/swat.team.honored.2.783216.html : SWAT team raids the wrong house, engage in a gunfight with a homeowner. They receive medals for "courage under fire" and for how they handled the situation. I wonder how things would have turned out if the homeowner had killed one of them in the process of defending his family.

The idea that the government should be exempt from criminal or civil punishment for wrongdoings is an abomination, IMO.

In Minnesota the Stillwater Lift bridge spans the St. Croix between MN and WI. It was stuck open recently due to a computer malfunction. I did some digging to try to find why back then and it turns out they had just upgraded to Vista and the console locked up for about four hours. I don't think it crashed or froze because of Vista, just because the bridge is old and Vista choked on data it wasn't expecting. Can't find much about it now, though.

If you visit this site

http://wcco.com/local/facebook.drinking.pictures.2.626080.html

The pictures were left anonymously at the administration office. Either by a student or a parent of a student more than likely. I went to this high school and the admin has more than enough things on their plates than to surf Facebook looking for underage drinking.

The students who were suspended from sporting events because they made a commitment to the Minnesota State High School League stating they would not smoke, drink, or use drugs. They did not honor that, so they're being punished.

While you were asleep w/ your head up your own... The citizens of the US gave up control of our country to the businesses... The US hasn't been Of the People, for the People and by the People in ages... It's now of the Corporations, for the Corporations and by the Corporations. Haliburton, Diebold, the entire Insurance industry currently rapeing US homeowners... (Their excuse to FL home owners is "You shouldn't live there then.." OK, I'll move to Minnesota... http://wcco.com/topstories/local_story_231080417.h tml ... Opps...) I could go on... Business is the government and the government is business. Time to wake up and smell the napalm.

I have a method of Minnesota infrastructure maintenance that can assure sound bridges. My technique involves billing the Twins owner for the $392 million of government revenue (collected via a sale tax hike) being used to fund the new $522 million baseball stadium. My technique also involves continuing to dash the hopes of Minnesota football fans for a new government funded $0.5 billion football stadium. Instead, let the team owners rely on sports geek revenue to fund their stadiums, and misappropriate the tax revenue into infrastructure.

On the other hand, perhaps it isn't necessary to piss off all the Minnesota sports geeks (read: voters) and instead utilize the $2 billion dollar state surplus to deal with the states bridges. But alas, there are voters to buy with that money.

This is about the priorities of the citizens of a staggeringly wealthy nation being focused on everything but the infrastructure.

You are shamefully uninformed. Gasoline taxes have not been raised in many years and contribute a minority of the funding for roads at this time in most states. Here is an example from Minnesota, where property taxes pay the MAJORITY of road funding. Every property owner pays for roads whether or not they use them.

I don't know what state you live in, but I will bet you a gallon of hi-test that your state pays a large share if not a majority for roads using non-fuel/license/registration tax dollars.

I think the fuel tax should be indexed against construction costs, which have been skyrocketing in most areas for 20 years. The fuel tax has not been raised nearly as much in this time, leading to the current budget crunch and funding from inappropriate sources. I also think developers (which effectively means the buyers in the development) should pay the entire cost of new roads and road expansion instead of burdening people who don't use the new development.

Dude. You haven't lived until you've lived within smelling distance of an ethanol plant. Here in St. Paul, we had a (now defunct) brewery that was so desperate for cash that it conned the city into letting it turn most of its production over to ethanol.

It was barely a mile from downtown -- and upwind of it, too! I can't imagine how awful it must have been for them; I lived up a hill and two miles away from the joint (and away from the prevailing air currents), and I still smelled them half the time ... imagine a jillion bakery ovens, all cooking the sickliest-smelling, yeastiest bread ever, and you'll get an idea of what St. Paul smelled like for the few years it was operational.

But, ya know, the thing's gone now. And the whole town's lousy with ethanol pumps; I'm well within walking distance of more than one of 'em. So as long as the plant is properly NIMBY'ed (say ... Fargo, or thereabouts), ethanol ain't such a bad deal for the Average Midwesterner.

No no, the spam goes to Korea. They eat it. Yum.

It is not really a security issue but it is a real fire hazard problem. Dell batteries have a documented history (some with pictures or videos) of bursting into flames, and I would not want to be on an airplane at 40,000 feet when somebody's Dell bursts into flame. I know that the recall is only for certain models but it would be too onerous for the flightcrew to sort out which Dells or Apples could become airborn flambeaus.

http://wcco.com/consumer/local_story_148150249.htm l
http://www.gizmodo.com/gadgets/laptops/dell-laptop -explodes-in-flames-182257.php
http://www.consumeraffairs.com/news04/2006/08/dell _fire.html

No, just burst into flames when you leave the room.

http://wcco.com/consumer/local_story_148150249.htm l

Apple has already implemented that feature in their older ibook line of lapt...I mean notebooks ;)

How is it possible that even images of their own device on fire could look so boring. They're so devoid of composition, of sensitivity.

In this other example, the victim has taken time to place the burning device against a backdrop of roughly hewn rock, and has done so at a time of day deserving of the generous tones cast by the flames as they lash, even swagger about the white plastic..

Dell, here this: even in death, one should look positively gorgeous.

Warning: Do not place your iBook G4 on a pillow or other soft material when it is on,
as the material may block the airflow vents, in particular the rear vents, and cause the
computer to overheat. -Apple iBook manual (Page 70)

This one of course :)

http://wcco.com/consumer/local_story_148150249.htm l

Because if a frog had side pockets, he'd carry a handgun, and those coconuts are gonna get scored like a butterfly ballot made of beef jerky and left to cure an alligator-infested Florida swamp.

Seriously, Dan, we never knew you had a Slashdot account! How's the turnip soup? I love biscuits with gravy.

Snowball Fight Sparks Drive-by Shooting

Video Game May Be Used In Snowball Rage Defense

This proves that hamburgers and Snowballs are just as dangerous as videogames.

Democrats were only accused of doing this by the Republicans and only laptops (the easiest and most valuable hardware to steal) were taken, quickly from an office where they were plainly visible from the street.

Engaging in vandalism against Bush offices by teenagers is not quite as bad as tearing up valid registrations.

Criminally negligent op-ed pieces do not facts make.

Accusing a group of committing illegal activities with no evidence is a typical Republican tactic.

Press releases aimed at creating a non-existant scandal and failing are pretty weak as a source.

Finally, defrauding a company by making up fake voter registrations to earn more money in a $9 per hour job is not making people think they are registered when they are not.

Take off your DNC-issue blinders, and maybe you'll see that both sides engage in all sorts of nefarious activities to make sure their side wins. Nothing to see here, move along.

Billboards in Minneapolis have sprung up recently, saying "Don't Vote".

Some people are concerned because some of the billboards are in areas with high minority concentrations.

Clear Channel, the owners of the billboards, say that it is a teaser for a "non-product" ad campaign that will be revealed October 11th.

My guess: this is actually part of a pro-vote campaign. Get people riled up by telling them not to vote, then post new billboards with some consequences of what happens if you don't vote. (Like the prov-vote ad on the radio where the guy gets his car painted lilac by a body shop who "made the decision for him".)

Skyscrapers kill more.

O.J. Simpson might be able to get away with murder, but once he steals cable, hes gone too far...
http://wcco.com/national/DirecTV-OJSimpson-aa/reso urces_news_html

According to this report, the teen was from Minnesota and will be making a court appearance in St. Paul today.

WCCO also has a RealVideo clip that it looks like they stole from some channel in LA..

http://www.wcco.com/news/s tories/news-990311-201025.html