84472 - Thu Jul 15 11:49:32 2010 - [DFD has lots of "free" time] By: altruism |
| Bulletin: The DFD goes crying and whining to city council to get permission to collect for charity while on duty. It's much cheaper to give some of the people of Duluth the forty dollars and hour and they will do it. |
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84471 - Thu Jul 15 11:04:10 2010 - [What's Next for Ne$$?] By: superman s |
| when is the relection for mayor?is the currrent mayor running again or is he setting his sights for a higher postion? |
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84470 - Thu Jul 15 10:17:21 2010 - [Be Heard and Get Your Way] By: Missed the point |
"I can not believe some residents of Duluth would look at people living on Park Point different. Park Point has been part of Duluth, since Duluth started as a city. Just because many of the people living on Park Point did not want a hotel built on the point does not make us bad people. What if someone wanted to place a hotel on 4th and 26 ave east, zoning laws prohibit due to that neighborhood being zoned residental. The same as for Park Point. It is mainly residents living there. Park Point is a neighborhood like Chester Park, London Road and Woodland.
When it come down to it, we are like the rest of Duluthians. We care about our neighborhood."
Park Pinters missed the point of peoples annoyance. Red below:
"Every bleeping area in Duluth, from Hunters Park, to London Road, To Skyline Parkway, to Lakeside, to Kenwood, have been over run with commercial business, welfare housing, group homes, half-way houses etc, but it's always "hands off Park Point"?
When citizens in the above mentioned area's complain, the response from the City is, tough shit folks!
Usually, not always, but usually, when Park Pointers complain, they get their way!"
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84469 - Thu Jul 15 00:38:00 2010 - [Voter ID will reduce DFL voter fraud] By: JBBP |
Personally, I would not want to stay in a hotel on Park Point. I'm not even that nuts about going to the beach down there. I guess it's okay, but it's a long slow drive and having to stop for the bridge going up and down irritates me, especially when it's hot out. I'm only speaking for myself. The part where it's a neighborhood like any other or an environmental treasure doesn't make all that much difference, to my perspective...the one thing that would concern me about having a big hotel on the Point would be safety issues. It would probably need its own fire, police and ambulance service- even a clinic- because if you're trying to get into town or on the Point in a hurry, that bridge can be a real drag. I have enough problems.
The voter ID thing...some folks may not like this notion, BUT- it ought to be required. If you're a college kid who is only here in Duluth while going to college, get yourself an absentee ballot from wherever you're from and vote that way. Once you graduate, and if you actually decide to stay here(with proof- you have a job, a place to live, and you pay your bills), then go ahead and register yourself as a permanent resident of Duluth. After that, your ID will be acceptable for voting in our local elections. College kids from out of town should indeed have a right to vote- in the precinct they hail from. Not here. Not until they make it totally official that they will be staying here. It isn't fair to the people who actually live and work here to have people without a true and demonstrated investment(other than college tuition) casting votes that will have no real long-term effect on their own lives/livelihoods. If they want to campaign or whatever, fine- that's a freedom of speech issue. But vote in municipal elections when they aren't even from here and are here for their college education only? Nope. It's not right.
As far as other segments of the population having a tough time getting IDs...get real. If you can't land long enough to establish some sort of residency(unless you're in the military or have some other realy good reason- not an excuse), you are probably someone who needs to get your act together before you are granted the responsibility of voting, anyway.
By the way, most of the elderly people I know are very responsible about having IDs. Even those who are disabled make sure they have them because people can't even cash a check without one. So if you can't cash a check without your ID, then why in the hell should it be even remotely okay to vote in an election? Voting isn't just a right. It's a responsibility that should be undertaken only by those who can prove that they are... responsible.
Years ago, I found myself having to go on welfare to survive. I had kids to take care of. I was(and still am) thankful to the taxpayers for helping me through that very tough time, and I hope that I will eventually pay enough into the system to make up for the government's covering my back. But guess what I needed before I could get financial assistance?
You guessed it...an ID!!!!!
So welfare recipients need IDs and thus are able to vote, if they choose to do so.
Thank you. |
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84466 - Wed Jul 14 20:18:38 2010 - [NIMBY-No AFSCME jobs means no hotel] By: Park Pointers |
I can not believe some residents of Duluth would look at people living on Park Point different. Park Point has been part of Duluth, since Duluth started as a city. Just because many of the people living on Park Point did not want a hotel built on the point does not make us bad people. What if someone wanted to place a hotel on 4th and 26 ave east, zoning laws prohibit due to that neighborhood being zoned residental. The same as for Park Point. It is mainly residents living there. Park Point is a neighborhood like Chester Park, London Road and Woodland.
When it come down to it, we are like the rest of Duluthians. We care about our neighborhood. |
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84466 - Wed Jul 14 20:18:38 2010 - [Not In My Backyard] By: Park Pointers |
I can not believe some residents of Duluth would look at people living on Park Point different. Park Point has been part of Duluth, since Duluth started as a city. Just because many of the people living on Park Point did not want a hotel built on the point does not make us bad people. What if someone wanted to place a hotel on 4th and 26 ave east, zoning laws prohibit due to that neighborhood being zoned residental. The same as for Park Point. It is mainly residents living there. Park Point is a neighborhood like Chester Park, London Road and Woodland.
When it come down to it, we are like the rest of Duluthians. We care about our neighborhood. |
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84465 - Wed Jul 14 17:33:16 2010 - [Higher taxes & fees rule DFL Duluth] By: go-getter |
| I C RED PEOPLE do you really think that the chamber wouldn't be there pimping for a new hotel? Give me a break as the chamber is all about business and Duluth is growing places, just look at the Northshor! Duluth is going to bust at seems soon just watch and see! |
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84464 - Wed Jul 14 11:25:41 2010 - [Survey the monkeys the DFL will buy] By: Survey M |
This is a survey for the 2010 Elections in Duluth
http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/8LKCR2M |
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84463 - Wed Jul 14 10:51:51 2010 - [Park Pointers don't know real TRAFFIC] By: London Roar |
People on Park Point have no idea what real TRAFFIC is like.
They should try living on London Road!!
After 24 hours, they'd be in shock!! |
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84462 - Wed Jul 14 09:06:52 2010 - [Park Pointers-----Cut them off] By: Sick of em |
| If Park Pointers want to continue living as the "Republic of Park Point" then fine. Let them get their own snow plows in the winter, their own fire department, police department, utilities, etc, etc. Cut them off. |
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84461 - Tue Jul 13 19:28:11 2010 - [Park Point Arrogance] By: Chester Park |
I agree with the one poster that thinks Park Point people are special. I lived down there when I was young and the rent was high, the bridge was always up, and the girls dressed in a unsavory manner. The cost of living in a home on the lakeside was even scarier.
Now, 25 1/2 years later, I bet rent is high still, the bridge don't go up as much due to shipping traffic, and I miss those girls. Those dang residents also have to pay high taxes, haha. They are special and we should cut them off.
Let us start by selling the Lift Bridge to the city in Arizona that brought the famous London Bridge. Then let us give Park Pointers rations for one week, until Cheeseland takes them in as political refugees and builds a new bridge into their land. Then we rid the "we are better than you people".
Join Me
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84460 - Tue Jul 13 18:21:01 2010 - [DFD Tit for Tat] By: Big Iron |
| Nice to read some posts other than the juvenile whining about the DFD. |
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84459 - Tue Jul 13 16:05:51 2010 - [George was a winner, no DFL handouts] By: Yankee's Fan |
I'll bet the lefties are pissed in New York that George Steinbrenner died before the end of the year because if he'd lived one day into 2011 the death tax would have kicked in and the State would have several million more dollars.
George was a winner and he made sure that those who don't contribute and have the ability to, don't get any money.
RIP Boss. |
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84458 - Tue Jul 13 15:59:49 2010 - [Thank you for your service 60's warrior] By: Richard M. |
| 60's warrior, I get your point and actually agree with the majority of what you said. Thank you for your service |
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84457 - Tue Jul 13 15:36:59 2010 - [DFL Duluth Elitism rules Park Point] By: Aren't We Special |
Anybody else sick of Park Pointers expecting to be treated like they're "Special"?
Every bleeping area in Duluth, from Hunters Park, to London Road, To Skyline Parkway, to Lakeside, to Kenwood, have been ove run with commercial business, welfare housing, group homes, half-way houses etc, but it's always "hands off Park Point"?
When citizens in the above mentioned area's complain, the response from the City is, tough shit folks!
Usually, not always, but usually, when Park Pointers complain, they get their way!
It's getting really old! |
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84456 - Tue Jul 13 15:29:19 2010 - [Oberstar, Obomba progress poll] By: Lew fan |
Show Jim Oberstar what the confidence you have in the Oberstar-Obama agenda by voting on the poll at:
http://lewlatto.com/poll/index.php |
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84455 - Tue Jul 13 14:32:03 2010 - [Duluth replaces Labor Day w/Gabor Day?] By: Fruit Cake |
| Is that my boy Carrie Gauthier pictured in the lead story on http://dflduluthexposed.com/ |
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84454 - Tue Jul 13 14:12:49 2010 - [Ross earns 180K as anti business leader] By: Baby Daddy |
| Heck I'd be a ho to if I got paid $180,000 a year to promote the whoever's or what ever agenda. Can you really blame David Ross? He's got one of the best jobs in area. |
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84452 - Tue Jul 13 13:15:35 2010 - [Chamber is another Liberal Think Tank] By: Look at the Board make up |
Look at the Chamber Board make up, and you'll see why things are the way they are.
The days of Chamber Board of Directors and Chamber Staff who are actually looking our for Business, not non-profits, or wet house's, etc, are a thing of the past.
Half of the Board you'd think would be on the Zeppa Foundation Board, or something, not the Chamber of Commerce. It looks more like a liberal think tank! |
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84451 - Tue Jul 13 13:06:26 2010 - [Chamber of __________, you decide] By: Chamber of What |
If the project on Park Point was for some "Non-Profit" The Chamber would have gone to bat for that!!
Whatever happened to the Chamber that was for business's adding to our tax base here??? |
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84450 - Tue Jul 13 11:50:36 2010 - [Did Chamber Board Not Endorse Hotel?] By: I C RED PEOPLE |
| I heard that the Duluth Chamber of Commerce board of directors voted to not endorse the Park Point hotel project. Can anyone out there validate this? |
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84449 - Tue Jul 13 11:06:00 2010 - [Tired of DFD Juvenile Posts] By: Cynic |
| Nice to read some posts other than the usual juvenile "man-up" or "grow a pair". |
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84448 - Tue Jul 13 09:52:08 2010 - [ˈkä-(ˌ)mərs] By: Jake |
For all you chamber members, here's the definition of commerce:
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/commerceMain
Entry: 1com·merce
Pronunciation: \ˈkä-(ˌ)mərs\
Function: noun
Etymology: Middle French, from Latin commercium, from com- + merc-, merx merchandise
Date: 1537
1 : social intercourse : interchange of ideas, opinions, or sentiments
2 : the exchange or buying and selling of commodities on a large scale involving transportation from place to place
3 : sexual intercourse
synonyms see business |
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84447 - Tue Jul 13 09:19:51 2010 - [Where was the Chamber of Communism?] By: Dolla Bill |
Where was the Chamber of Communism there lobbying for private investment in Duluth? Another fricken black eye for DFL Duluth!
Duluth News Tribune
Published July 13 2010
Duluth City Council rejects Park Point hotel rezoning
By shooting down a rezoning request Monday, the Duluth City Council may have killed plans for a new four-story hotel on Minnesota Point.
http://www.duluthnewstribune.com/event/article/id/173603/ |
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84446 - Tue Jul 13 08:57:25 2010 - [Hit the nail on the head] By: Common Sns |
| "Fresh Duluth" pretty much hit the nail on the head!! |
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84445 - Mon Jul 12 22:35:25 2010 - [F#$@ed Trade Union Members Again] By: Carpenter |
The city council tonight just fucked the trade union members again. We put them bastards into office to keep good paying jobs in our city and they vote no on a hotel project. Millions into our economy.
Craig Olson should fire himself for not getting this done for us workers. Those commie councilors ought to be ashamed of themselves. They just took money out of our pockets, for what, a couple of crybaby's and tree huggers down on the point.
Thanks Craig for nothing. You 5 councilors that voted for it are going to have a hell of a time getting our endorsement again. All the conservatives on the council get it and supported the project. Wake the fuck up. |
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84444 - Mon Jul 12 22:27:10 2010 - [Blogging on Vacation Time] By: Big Iron |
| Sorry, little Denny. I'm on a 26 day vacation stretch. |
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84443 - Mon Jul 12 22:13:42 2010 - [More Saul Alinsky Racist Attacks] By: Tea Party Supporter |
Hang on folks, the charge or racism is heading this way. Remember Saul Alinsky said, "if you can't win the argument then attack them personally".
The NAACP will be attacking the Tea Party as racists tomorrow. Hang on...
Stay on message which is fiscal responsibility, limited government and the support and defense of our Constitution. |
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84442 - Mon Jul 12 21:56:37 2010 - [Night night & don't let the muffy bite] By: Dennis Miller |
I wonder if Big Irony, Krusty, or DFD-prophylactic got an invitation.
http://duluthnewstabloid.blogspot.com/2009/10/duluth-fire-fighter-view-making.html
The main event at this party doesn't like hoses. In fact they may have hose envy.
Have a good night of sleep boys. Night night and don’t let the muffy bite.
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84441 - Mon Jul 12 21:47:40 2010 - [DFL Duluth is becoming an urban dump] By: Fresh Duluth |
http://www.city-data.com/forum/minneapolis-st-paul/692675-twin-cities-vs-duluth-3.html
As someone who's spent most of my life bounced around between both downtowns, I have this to offer: Downtown Minneapolis, at least within the last decade, is for the rich, and especially rich people with no kids. There's plenty of panhandlers, street people, etc., but in Duluth, even though it's smaller, there is a much greater sense of poverty and urban blight - you are pretty much shielded from kids downtown in Minneapolis (living there) while in Duluth you have lots of poor people with kids living downtown. While many apartment buildings in downtown Minneapolis are well over $1000 a month, downtown Duluth high rises (Tri Towers, King Manor, Gateway Towers, San Marcos; it's all on bowmanproperties.com or center city housing) are almost all Section 8, which unfortunately has drawn people from cities like Minneapolis, Milwaukee, Kansas City; larger urban areas where the wait list for free housing is nearly 8-10 years; they get right in here and just spend one night listening to the police calls - the high rises that were intended for senior citizens on a fixed income have been taken over by drug dealers, pimps, just a real lowlife/predator element that was not here a decade ago. The main reason Duluth has become a destination is the FREE HOUSING that is not available in Minneapolis any more.
I love Duluth, but I do not see the same influx of very well educated professionals here that I would see in Minneapolis - this is no longer a place where we are getting a lot of wealth coming in, and our schools are reflecting that. In two years, Central High School will be gone, leaving us with only two high schools (East and Denfeld; boundary being the east-west split on 6th Ave E)...our problem downtown is that there was a real lack of proactive and forward thinking people like there has been in Minneapolis to create an artsy, fun, cultural and basically an energetic, clean downtown where you would feel okay with your mother/sister/wife/etc walking around alone. Duluth is becoming sketchy - and again its economics - we are getting all the people who can no longer afford Minneapolis or other large cities and will definitely say yes to Duluth so long as they get free housing, easy local women to live off of and drive her car around, and do anything except come here to work. The irony is that people still have a problem with the gay pride events (mainly people who have much higher levels of education, income and living standards than those who complain about them; they usually don't have kids nor do they cause any problems in the city) but these same complainers say nothing about our 'street pharmacists' and convicted felons who are here to get local women pregnant and stick them with the responsibility of raising (sometimes 5 different kids with 5 different baby daddys)...it's just sad to see this decline in Duluth because it almost cements the future here. Who wants to invest in a city like this? At least in Minneapolis you have a definite track of wealth coming in and things happening. Not so in Duluth. We are going from a quaint Great Lakes community to an urban dump and a place for Illinois felons to run away from 'three strikes' convictions.
Read more: http://www.city-data.com/forum/minneapolis-st-paul/692675-twin-cities-vs-duluth-3.html#ixzz0tWSxSx1E
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84440 - Mon Jul 12 20:18:32 2010 - [Ness is all talk, little action] By: K-Tool |
| Screwed Again you've been spending too much time on that insignificant DFL Duluth exposed site but will agree with you that Ness is all talk and little action. Ness is the most snarky union busting mayor this city has seen in a long time and it's going to cost him. Bergson turned on those that got him elected too and look where it go him. |
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84439 - Mon Jul 12 17:37:31 2010 - [Duluth is NOT a 100 best small city] By: Screwed Again |
What do ya know. Duluth fails to make the list.
Thanks Ne$$.
http://www.tonic.com/article/eden-prairie-mn-the-best-place-to-live-in-the-us-money-magazine/
http://money.cnn.com/magazines/moneymag/bplive/2010/top100/index.html |
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84438 - Mon Jul 12 17:35:36 2010 - [More DFL Corruption in Franken Election] By: DFL Criminal Syndicate |
"comedian Al Franken into a U.S. senator may have been decided by convicted felons who voted illegally in Minnesota's Twin Cities."
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/07/12/felons-voting-illegally-franken-minnesota-study-finds/ |
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84437 - Sun Jul 11 22:43:47 2010 - [Anyone else on the nipple like me?] By: Big Iron |
| Thanks for stepping up, Cyberslut. How about you, Starfire? Did you grow a pair today? |
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84436 - Sun Jul 11 19:08:12 2010 - [Unlike DFDers, I'm not on the nipple] By: Cyberslut Watch |
@ Big Iron. "Just out of curiosity, what does everyone else here do for a living? "
I'm a bar owner. |
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84435 - Sun Jul 11 15:34:09 2010 - [Is Duluth left or right?] By: Cynic |
| Duluth Driver, I was once sitting with my blinker on waiting for traffic to clear so I could make a left hand turn and some guy almost rear ends me. Then he gives me the finger because in his mind I was blocking the street. How dare you make a left hand turn in Duluth. Only right hand turns allowed. |
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84434 - Sun Jul 11 14:55:02 2010 - [All respect lost ] By: 60's Warrior |
Richard M., for a long time I believed "Labor World" Larry was a mand of character. I've known him for over 48 years as former neighbors.
It was recently that I learned he dodged the draft. For all these years in the Union I thought he was tough as nails and supported what was right. Only to find out when the country needed him, he pussed out. All along Larry was front and center at all the union rallies, all the pickets and all the negotiations standing tough and strong for us workers.
When I found out he dodged the draft I lost all respect for him. He fooled many by his actions. It is not hard to stand front and center and raise hell when you know the union brothers and sisters have your back. that is easy.
The hard part is answering the call to duty when your draft number comes up. Would you agree? |
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84432 - Sun Jul 11 02:09:14 2010 - [Big Iron rehashes Das Kapital once more] By: Big Iron |
DFL/DFD Assclowns of Duluth,.....Unite!
STARFIRE: Big Iron, did you get Krusty to help you with that one? It's so Leninesque! |
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84430 - Sun Jul 11 00:07:33 2010 - [DFDer asks how much to buy The DCB????] By: Big Iron |
How much do you want for this dump, Starfire?
STARFIRE: Big Iron, can't help you with that one. You will have to talk to Tony about that proposition. I believe that the last inquiry resulted in the asking price being in the neighborhood of $10,000 USD. That is peanuts for the big DFL DFD PAC machine that pumped over $130,000.00 into local elections awhile back to buy a handful of DFL DFD Assclowns. It does not surprise me that the DFD PAC would consider putting some of its extortion money to good use by trying to buy the DCB. After being exposed for the extortion racket that the DFD is for the past couple years, it is about time that one of you Assclowns had the brilliant idea to consider damage control. Doesn't matter to me as I have a life outside the DCB, folding lots of mom's underwear, but I would sure miss moderating all you DFD Assclowns crying and pissing and moaning each and every day and night here. |
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84429 - Sun Jul 11 00:05:54 2010 - [DFD still most expensive FD in USA] By: Big Iron |
So nobody wants to, or is able to man-up. At least woman-up. Maybe?
STARFIRE: Big Iron, because we have a ladies first policy here at DCB, that puts you in the very first group. |
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84428 - Sat Jul 10 21:53:42 2010 - [DFD still most expensive FD in USA] By: Big Iron |
Just out of curiosity, what does everyone else here do for a living?
STARFIRE: Big Iron, don't tell me that the DFD ladder truck had to race and park in the front row and forced the DPD to park askew because you were in need of more maxi pads. You should plan better. I am just a beloved moderator here at the DCB, where the action has been for the past half decade. And, on occasion, I fold mom's underwear too. Love ya BI, but not in the same way as the rest of your back door gang at the fire hall! |
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84427 - Sat Jul 10 21:24:01 2010 - [Let the Pink Pussy Larry serve unions] By: Richard M. |
I am sick and tired of the DCB blog allowing a Vietnam Veteran to bash a fellow union employee who has given much to protect us and the rights we have as workers.
I am a Vietnam Vet and support the rights of any citizen to disagree with his country and even protest. That is what I fought for also. 60's warrior give it up. Larry made a decision years ago which I am assuming he thought long and hard about. Get over it, that was over 40 years ago.
Larry is the protector of the working mans rights and has been for as long as I can remember.
Larry gets our union paper out to us in a timely manner so as to keep us informed and organized. It's the same paper both you and I get. I am asking you as a union brother not to continue on this subject. Your point is taken by others and enough is enough....now lets get Anderson and Oberstar elected...the working mans representatives |
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84426 - Sat Jul 10 19:36:13 2010 - [Thanks to DPD, real Duluth heroes] By: Me Again |
On Friday I saw a DPD squad car at Plaza Shopping Center parked in such a way that two handicapped parking spaces were being used. I could certainly understand this if there was an emergency situation. I saw the officer walk into Super One, maybe getting doughnuts, maybe going to process a shoplifter. I do not know why he was there, but blocking two spaces seemed wrong to me. In spite of this, I say thank you to the members of the DPD for their efforts on our behalf. Thank you.
STARFIRE: Me Again, the DPD probably had to park that way because the DFD had parked the ladder truck right in front as usual with a hungry crew with the munchies. The DFD crew way probably tired after all 7 had the grueling task of watching the one DFDer mow the lawn at the fire hall again. Poor guys! |
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84424 - Sat Jul 10 02:42:41 2010 - [Tougher enforcement of traffic laws] By: Duluth Driver |
To any police officers out there- Is passing on the right side of a vehicle that is stopped to make a left hand turn still illegal if the stopped vehicle does not have a turn lane? Did the law change since I took driver's ed some 20 years ago?
I was driving down Superior Street, and stopped to make a left turn. The area I was in did not have turn lanes. An older woman stopped in opposing traffic, opposite of me, to make a left hand turn. We were each about to make our turns when we were both passed by multiple cars on the right sides. If either of us had gone, we would have turned in front of passing cars which were blinded by the other car.
I was somewhat irritated by the situation, until I looked in the mirror after this mess cleared, and saw a DPD squad car. I pulled over after making my turn, and watched the police officer go on his merry way, not paying any attention to the situation, and not stopping any motorists that I believed were passing illegally and nearly causing traffic accidents.
There needs to be tougher enforcement of traffic laws in our city. People also need to follow the rules. Also, people should be required to relearn a few things, like what to do at a four way stop sign. We have some very poor drivers in our city, I am beginning to think that I am playing Russian Roullette my venturing out on our streets. It is disheartening to watch our paid enforcers of the rules turn a blind eye to these situations when they should be enforcing all of our laws. |
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84422 - Fri Jul 9 22:40:12 2010 - [Oberstar and Obama Nope, Nope, Nope!] By: Oberstar has to go |
New Updated Dr. Seuss book
I do not like this Uncle Sam,
I do not like his health care scam.
I do not like these dirty crooks,
or how they lie and cook the books.
I do not like when Congress steals,
I do not like their secret deals.
I do not like this speaker, Nan ,
I do not like this 'YES WE CAN.'
I do not like this spending spree,
I'm smart, I know that nothing's free.
I do not like your smug replies,
when I complain about your lies.
I do not like this kind of hope.
I do not like it, nope, nope, nope!
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84421 - Fri Jul 9 20:32:04 2010 - [Yellow Belly Son of a Bitch] By: 60's Warrior |
Larry, I read the article in the June 23rd edition. Your father was a great man and hard UNION worker. In the article you mention your father hated some of his bosses and wanted to call them, "sons of bitches".
Well "Labor World" Larry, your a yellow belly SON OF A BITCH for being a draft dodger. Myself and many others served with honor and fought for our freedoms and the freedoms of others. You ran when your draft number came up. You ran north.
When an American runs from the draft and then makes up shit to pretend to be mentally incompetent makes me sick.
Don't pretend to be a TRUE UNION worker because your not. My brothers and sisters in our UNION make the world go around.
Please do us all a favor and leave as the "spokesperson" writer of our paper. Your a disgrace. You wouldn't understand what the words WESTPAC mean, punk pussy. |
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84420 - Fri Jul 9 15:34:05 2010 - [Is that DFD Muff really that Tuff?] By: Muffin Top |
Thanks Pro-DFD. You make good sense on your answer, but I do disagree with you when you stated " mowing that dangerous hill". I grew up cutting grass on hills like that, as this is how I earned some spending money. You're right on the need for more business are needed to pay for city services. Yet I find it ironic that the DFD endorsed coulcilors are against this. The people you DFDers funded don't get it.
Not sure what's up with rusty and as far as calling me "muffy", rusty is looking like a big "muffy" for not answering the quetions. And moderators, you had better give rusty a little slack or you could hurt the muffy's feelings. |
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84419 - Fri Jul 9 07:43:47 2010 - [At Least One DFDer Gets It] By: Pro-DFD |
The proposed hotel on the point would be welcomed by us. We need to have more businesses in the city to make sure essential public safety is not compromised.
This hotel on the point would be another source of revenue for the city and keep the fire department operating as usual. A first class fire response needs money to operate. Put aside all the environmental garbage Slade is trying to bring up and do it. We have a beautiful city and lets not keep it to ourselves. Spread the wealth |
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84417 - Thu Jul 8 19:31:30 2010 - [No education required for $82,000 hosing] By: rusty aka DFD Rube |
Where does the dfd-rube handle thats been attached to my moniker come from? Also, when I post that dodge st. is a union guy and you change it, you seem to be the testy ones, can't face the truth? I am not afraid to tell you my background, work at dfd, live in the city, kids in the 709 district, what more,,you just keep telling everyone how to do it ,,I am doing it......
STARFIRE: Crusty, I understand you have been in a bad mood today. Regarding the handle, we like to keep everyone straight around here so that there is no confusion. So you are known in DCB circles as DFD Rube and we all think that the name is perfect for you. Don't you agree? If it acts like a rube, talks like a rube and is employed as a rube at DFD, well...... you get the picture don't you? Regarding modifications which you claim have occurred, the potty mouth that you use sometimes will not be tolerated. Secondly, it appears that your use of English language is at times, quite limited and thus, must be corrected so that a casual reader might have a chance to understand what you are actually trying to say. We here at DCB are always striving to help out our DFD heroes to get their message out as best as possible. I will say that your limitiations in written English language do help explain your employment at DFD, where no higher education is required to get in on the $82,000 hosing salary plus benefits. |
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84416 - Thu Jul 8 15:56:40 2010 - [DFD's very own Krusty the Clown ] By: rusty aka DFD Rube |
muffy: I would answer, but the leaders of the blog keep changing my posts to the way they like them, thanks..
MODERATOR: DFD Rube, LOL! Come on buddy, did you just crawl out of the rack? A little testy? Give it your best. By the way, muffy is your DFD's very own Beth O, but as far as I know, she is not a contributor here at DCB. I believe you were addressing Muffin Top. Wipe the sleepy seeds out of your eyes and sit down at that taxpayer paid computer and show us all the talent one needs to be a DFDer. I can't wait to hear from our very own Krusty! |
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84415 - Thu Jul 8 12:15:02 2010 - [Get out of bed DFD and answer question] By: Muffin Top |
Hey Pro-DFD, Rusty or Big Iron,
Are you for building a new hotel that pays for your existence or are you with this tree huger Slade? |
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84414 - Thu Jul 8 12:12:34 2010 - [DFL Duluthians counterfeiting Franklins] By: Locals Gone Wild |
DATE: 07/08/2010
NATURE OF INCIDENT: Counterfeit Money
CASE NO.: 10314091
INCIDENT DATE :07/01/2010
INCIDENT TIME: 6:26 PM
INCIDENT LOCATION: Duluth
SUBJECT: Police Advise of Counterfeit bills being passed
BY: Officer Brad Wick, Information Coordinator
The Duluth Police Department would like to alert area businesses and citizens of counterfeit $100 bills being passed locally. In the past week there have been a number of reports to police involving the counterfeit $100 bills. Police continue the investigation into these reports.
The counterfeit $100 bills passed are of good quality and actually made from real U.S. $5 bills. Because of this, the counterfeit bills look and feel like real $100 bills and can be easily mistaken without close examination. The counterfeit bill still has two recognizable security features from the $5 bill. If you hold up a real $100 bill to the light, you should see a watermark portrait of Benjamin Franklin to one side of the bill and "USA100" printed in the bill's security thread. The counterfeit $100 bills being passed still have security features from a $5 bill, a watermark portrait of Abraham Lincoln to one side and "USAFIVE" printed on the security thread.
A caution to area merchants, counterfeit detection pens are ineffective in recognizing these counterfeit bills. It is suggested that merchants check for the correct watermarks and embedded security threads. Police ask everyone to carefully examine all U.S. currency in denominations of at least twenty dollars or larger that they receive.
If you receive what you believe is a counterfeit $100 bill, please call 911. |
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84413 - Thu Jul 8 12:06:20 2010 - [Slade grasping for straws on that one] By: Cynic |
Andrew Slade in his letter to the editor said "How much extra policing would be required for a hotel off the beaten path?"
Gee give me a shot at that one.........how about NONE! I have stayed in a hotel or two and have never seen a police officer called to any of them. Is Slade saying this new hotel would be a real dive for prostitutes and drug dealers? |
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84412 - Thu Jul 8 09:55:00 2010 - [Economics of proposed hotel don't add up] By: Common Sns |
Duluth News Tribune
July 8, 2010
Reader's view: Park Point hotel economics don’t add up
"Plug the city’s deficit with a hotel? “It’s like bailing the Titanic with a teaspoon,” said a former city of Duluth department head. He was talking about property tax income from a new Park Point hotel. A developer wants to take over half a block of residential property three blocks past the Aerial Lift Bridge and build a 53-room hotel.
The developer claims the project would generate $120,000 every year for city coffers. But that doesn’t reflect the added costs the hotel could create for the city. How much extra policing would be required for a hotel off the beaten path? Would the project strain the sewer on Park Point to its breaking point? And what about revenue lost to the city as a result of the project? Few people would want to buy a home across the street from a busy hotel. What happens when the assessed value of neighboring homes drops and property tax revenues drop, too?
Building quality residences on the same lot could generate $60,000 in property taxes and improve the quality of the neighborhood.
The City Council will vote Monday whether to rezone this longtime residential block to suit the plans of one developer. Not only would a yes vote be bad public policy, the economics just don’t add up."
Andrew Slade
I see "Tree Hugger" Andrew Slade is back in the public eye. You remember Andrew, don't you? He was the guy who had a cushy job, thanks to contributions from Minnesota Power, at the Great Lakes Aquarium. He then turned on Minnesota Power by publicly attacking them for building a power line in Wisconsin. Talk about biting the hand that feeds you. Well, he ended up leaving the Aquarium under less than friendly terms.
What the hell did he expect, the little twerp!
Talk about "biting the hand that feeds you"!!!! |
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84411 - Thu Jul 8 07:10:33 2010 - [DFD risks lives mowing the hall lawn too] By: Pro-DFD |
Mr. Anonymous, When you observed the 8 firefighters at our headquarters firehall mowing the grass, you should have stayed longer then the redlight on Mesaba or 1st would allow. You would have seen us taking turns pulling the mower back up the hill.
We were sharing the duties of mowing that dangerous hill.
I'm starting to think that most on this BS blog have no idea of what firefighters do on a 24 hr shift. Your perception is tainted by what a few neo-cons on this blog write.
I don't know where you get your figures for our salary's posted on this site, but we don't make $82,000 per year thats for sure. Many of us are in the mid 70"s and earn ever bit. Look at most business owners salaries and we don't even come close. I'll bet most business owners make over $100,000 per year, and they don't even risk their lives every day.
So get off and stay the hell off our backs. |
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84410 - Thu Jul 8 07:02:38 2010 - [Commie clown & more DFL stupidNESS] By: Baby Daddy |
Who is the commie clown to question private investment? The property in question will not generate anything close to $60,000 in private investment.
With economic stupidness like this, more people should question the city tax monies that fund his wife at the Sister Cities and look at the expenses being written off in the organization.
Duluth News Tribune
July 8, 2010
Reader's view: Park Point hotel economics don’t add up
Plug the city’s deficit with a hotel? “It’s like bailing the Titanic with a teaspoon,” said a former city of Duluth department head. He was talking about property tax income from a new Park Point hotel. A developer wants to take over half a block of residential property three blocks past the Aerial Lift Bridge and build a 53-room hotel.
The developer claims the project would generate $120,000 every year for city coffers. But that doesn’t reflect the added costs the hotel could create for the city. How much extra policing would be required for a hotel off the beaten path? Would the project strain the sewer on Park Point to its breaking point? And what about revenue lost to the city as a result of the project? Few people would want to buy a home across the street from a busy hotel. What happens when the assessed value of neighboring homes drops and property tax revenues drop, too?
Building quality residences on the same lot could generate $60,000 in property taxes and improve the quality of the neighborhood.
The City Council will vote Monday whether to rezone this longtime residential block to suit the plans of one developer. Not only would a yes vote be bad public policy, the economics just don’t add up.
Andrew Slade
Duluth
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84409 - Wed Jul 7 22:25:44 2010 - [What firefighting means in DFL Duluth] By: Anonymous |
Q: How many DFDers does it take to cut grass at the downtown hall?
A: 8
Not sure why but I saw 2 groups of 4 standing with only 1 cutting grass by having a rope hooked to a lawn mower pulling it up and down the hill. At least they were sleeping as some here say but why are we paying them as kids looking for summer jobs would be a lot better as we would have to pay for 8 guys standing there.
STARFIRE: Anonymous, I can't believe it. One DFDer was actually doing something? The 7 doing nothing is no surprise, but 1 actually doing something is hard to believe. Someone needs to set this 1 DFDer straight about how things work at DFD. |
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84408 - Wed Jul 7 14:50:55 2010 - [The Red Phone Has Rung] By: Web Hound |
Be certain to listen to all of the video by Dr. James David Manning, PhD titled below. He also has a very interesting video listed just below “The Red Phone Has Rung” video.
http://atlah.org/atlahworldwide/?p=8408 |
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84407 - Wed Jul 7 11:23:55 2010 - [Surprised they didn't blame Dixon] By: Jeff R |
Watchdog,
Iim surprised they didn't blame Keith Dixon. |
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84405 - Wed Jul 7 10:23:13 2010 - [Time to start facing the reality ] By: Al Capone |
Sounds to me like Maywood, CA's problems weren't created as much by some outsiders, like that Roger Hedgecock article that mp was so gracious to share with us all would like us all to believe, but instead, from the same old inept government hiring practices, especially in their police department. This is at least the second city in California to fall due to government corruption. Right from Wikipedia and without all the spin:
In an unprecedented move among California cities, on July 1, 2010, the city laid off all its employees, including its entire Police Department. With a large budget deficit, and no longer able to obtain insurance, the Maywood City Council stated it was left with no other option but to adopt this plan. The City of Maywood lost its workers compensation and commercial insurance due to its claims history over the last five years as reflected in 2005-2010 Loss Summary Statements, especially given its history of lawsuits that mainly involved the Police Department. The Maywood Police Department had allegedly developed a reputation for hiring officers that had been terminated from other Police agencies for professional misconduct or other legal issues.
Though Maywood officials stopped short of filing for bankruptcy or even giving up the city's municipal status, the city still faces daunting problems. The City of Maywood is now unable to administer a traditional staff. From now on, the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department will patrol the streets, while the neighboring City of Bell, will be compensated to oversee other functions, such as staffing City Hall.
It is time to start facing the reality that corruption, especially government, has been bred right here in the U.S., right now and it is causing the system to implode. When one police officer in California can retire with a $200,000.00 annual pension worth over $4,000,000.00, we need look no further for corruption than right here. And some wonder why California is broke!
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84404 - Wed Jul 7 08:35:03 2010 - [More DFL Duluth homegrown corruption?] By: Muffin Top |
Doesn’t someone from the Zeppa group have some ownership in Secret Service Entertainment? Why is this being hidden?
This is what you get with a mayor whose business experience was a part-time clerk at a gas station and whose city council is a bunch of AFSCME & DFD union concubines.
Fourth Fest policy on food, drink under fire
Stephen Oertel arrived at this year’s Fourth Fest with plenty of water in hand, but security informed him that no food or beverages were allowed.
http://www.duluthnewstribune.com/event/article/id/173141
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84402 - Tue Jul 6 23:05:23 2010 - [Liberalism is a mental disorder] By: Watchdog |
I couldn't believe my ears the other day while listening to a national talk show. The caller doesn't blame Bush for the economy, the caller blamed Ronald Reagan. Unreal. Bush one, Clinton two terms, Bush two terms and this ignorant liberal blames Reagan.
Liberalism is a mental disorder, no doubt |
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84401 - Tue Jul 6 20:48:57 2010 - [Feel Good Now?] By: mp |
Here is the actual NASA/Muslim feel good/ Al Jeezra interview:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e857ZcuIfnI |
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84400 - Tue Jul 6 19:52:52 2010 - [Vintage DFL Duluth Nonsense] By: mp |
President Obama feels that NASA's role should be:
(pick the correct answer)
1. Go to the moon.
2. Go to Mars.
3. Develop new technology.
4. Study the earth from outer space.
5. Make Muslims feel good.
6. Launch spy satellites.
Correct answer is number 5. Make Muslims feel good about themselves.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/space/7875584/Barack-Obama-Nasa-must-try-to-make-Muslims-feel-good.html
The head of the Nasa has said Barack Obama told him to make "reaching out to the Muslim world" one of the space agency's top priorities.
Charles Bolden, a retired United States Marines Corps major-general and former astronaut, said in an interview with al-Jazeera that Nasa was not only a space exploration agency but also an "Earth improvement agency".
Mr Bolden said: "When I became the Nasa administrator, he "Mr Obama
charged me with three things.
"One, he wanted me to help reinspire children to want to get into science and math; he wanted me to expand our international relationships; and third, and perhaps foremost, he wanted me to find a way to reach out to the Muslim world and engage much more with dominantly Muslim nations to help them feel good about their historic contribution to science, math, and engineering."
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84399 - Tue Jul 6 18:40:06 2010 - [Is DFL Duluth next?] By: mp |
Here is the story of Maywood, Mexico, California or is it Duluth?
http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=37671
Boasting a population that is 97% Hispanic, more than half foreign born, and 40% illegal, the Los Angeles County, Calif., incorporated city of Maywood has achieved the Reconquista goal. It is now as lawless and chaotic as any place in Mexico. Maywood is a warning to every city and town in America.
The Maywood City Council announced this week that after years of radical policies, corruption and scandal, the city was broke and all city employees would be laid off and essential city services contracted out to neighboring cities or to L.A. County government.
How did this happen? Until recently, Maywood was the model for "brown power" politics.
Maywood was the first California city with an elected Hispanic City Council, one of the first "sanctuary" cities for illegal aliens, the first city to pass a resolution calling for a boycott of Arizona after that state passed a law to enforce federal immigration laws, the first California city to order its police department not to enforce state laws requiring drivers to have licenses to drive, the first American city to call on Congress to grant amnesty to all illegals.
Council meetings were conducted in Spanish. Maywood was the leader in the peaceful, democratic achievement of the La Raza goal to take power in the U.S.
The City of Maywood started out quite differently. Back after World War II, Maywood was a booming blue-collar town with good jobs, a multi-ethnic suburb of Los Angeles.
On the 25th anniversary in 1949 of Maywood's incorporation as a city, the town celebrated with a beard-growing contest, a rodeo, and wrestling matches in City Park. Chrysler operated an assembly plant there until 1971.
But the early 1970s saw these industrial jobs in aerospace, auto and furniture manufacturing, and food processing evaporate under the pressure of higher taxes, increased local and state regulation, and the attraction of cheaper land and cheaper labor elsewhere.
The multi-ethnic Maywood of the post-war years was transformed in the ’80s and ’90s by wave after wave of Hispanic immigrants, many of them illegal.
In August 2006, a "Save Our State" anti-illegal immigration rally in Maywood drew hundreds of protesters—but a larger number of defenders of illegal immigration. The pro-illegal protesters carried signs which read "We are Indigenous ! The ONLY owners of this Continent!" and "Racist Pilgrims Go Home" and "All Europeans are Illegal Here."
According to newspaper reports at the time, objectors to illegal aliens were subject to physical attacks. A 70-year-old man was "slashed," a woman attacked, and cars vandalized. Pro-illegal demonstrators raised the Mexican flag at the U.S. Post Office.
The illegal population and their sympathizers became increasingly radicalized. Elections to the City Council saw "assimilationist" incumbent Hispanic council members ousted by La Raza supporting radical challengers.
For years, the Maywood City Council authorized police checkpoints to stop drunk driving. Drivers without licenses had their cars impounded. Illegals in California cannot get drivers licenses. By 2005, the number of such impounds were in the hundreds. A community campaign was launched forcing the City Council to suspend the checkpoints.
Cars were still being impounded whenever a police traffic-violation stop resulted in a driver without a license. Felipe Aguirre, a community activist with Comite Pro-Uno, an "immigration service center," coordinated a new campaign against any impounds. He was elected in 2005 to the City Council. He is the mayor of Maywood today.
Aguirre and a new majority of the council dismantled the Traffic Department. Illegals were given overnight-parking permits and impounds stopped. You didn't need a license to drive in Maywood. The Los Angeles Times wrote glowingly of this "progress" in a story entitled "Welcome to Maywood, Where Roads Open Up For Immigrants".
The Maywood Police Department was restructured by the new council. A new chief and new officers were hired. Later it turned out that many of the new officers had previously been fired from other law enforcement agencies for a variety of infractions. The Maywood P.D. was known as the "Department of Second Chances."
Among those hired was a former L.A. Sheriff's deputy terminated for abusing jail inmates; a former LAPD officer fired for intimidating a witness; and an ex-Huntington Park officer charged with negligently discharging a handgun and driving drunk.
Even the L.A. Times called the Maywood Police Department a "haven for misfit cops." Their story alleged that a veteran officer was extorting sex from relatives of a criminal fugitive; that another officer tried to run over the president of the Maywood Police Commission; and that another officer has impregnated a teenage police-explorer scout.
Charges of corruption and favoritism led to one recall of city council members and threats of more recalls are heard to this day.
Maywood is represented in the state Senate by Democrat "One Bill" Gil Cedillo. He earned the nickname by introducing every year in the state legislature a bill to grant drivers licenses to illegals. Maywood is represented in Congress by Democrat Lucille Roybal-Allard, a staunch advocate of amnesty for illegals.
Today, Maywood is broke. Its police department dismantled along with all other city departments and personnel. Only the city council remains and a city manager to manage the contracts with other agencies for city services in Maywood.
Maywood is the warning of what happens when illegal immigrants, resisting assimilation as Americans, bring with their growing numbers the corruption and the radical politics of their home countries. Add the radical home-grown anti-Americanism of Hispanic "leaders" and groups like La Raza and you get schools where learning is replaced with indoctrination, business and jobs replaced by welfare and gangs, and a poisonous stew of entitlement politics.
In too many American communities, this sad tale is all too familiar.
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84398 - Tue Jul 6 17:37:34 2010 - [More DFD mocking] By: Big Iron |
| Are you just a little bitter because your new, favorite boutique sustained a little damage, Dolt Street? |
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84397 - Tue Jul 6 17:32:39 2010 - [DCB-911-BLOG] By: Blogster |
| DCB: The place DFD'ers call for help. |
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84396 - Tue Jul 6 17:31:28 2010 - [DCB only Duluth blog that lets all post] By: Blogster |
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84395 - Tue Jul 6 17:30:36 2010 - [DFL Fat Chicks to Dominate New Domain] By: Too hot in Duluth |
Hey Tony, are there plans for a www.duluthcitizensblog.xxx?
Which female blogger will be featured first?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/10412765.stm |
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84393 - Tue Jul 6 17:27:33 2010 - [DFL gubernatorial 3 BIG tax appetites] By: glutton |
Any of you watch Almanac? The DFL assclown gubernatorial trio was discussing what they listen to on their ipod's.
Margaret Anderson Kelleher, I have an album/song suggestion for you.
*Stay Hungry* by Twister Sister. |
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84392 - Tue Jul 6 17:21:48 2010 - [Duluth needs who? Who needs Duluth?] By: like a big pizza pie thats amore |
Darn! Looks like all the good women are taken. "C" and now Chelsea.
http://www.nydailynews.com/ny_local/2010/07/04/2010-07-04_in_the_grip_of_chelsea_fever_ex1st_daughter_to_wed_july_31_on_rural_estate.html
Speaking of "C", where has she been? "C" please cut your vacation short, Duluth needs you, we need you, Danny needs you and Big Iron needs you. |
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84390 - Tue Jul 6 15:32:38 2010 - [Not a peep from the usual suspects] By: Rekindled |
| Hey Dodge Street the Hermantown "volunteer" fire department had a house fire over the fourth and put it out confining the damage to one area of the home. Funny not a peep from the usual suspects. |
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84389 - Tue Jul 6 14:25:21 2010 - [Why the hesitation on parting the sea?] By: Dennis Miller |
| If Obama would just part the sea, BP workers could walk out there and cap the hole..... I do not understand his hesitation! |
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84388 - Tue Jul 6 13:43:33 2010 - [DFDer starting to get it?] By: rusty aka DFD Rube |
dodge st; don't forget the cops are union/city workers to!!! Even though they don't buy politicians like the DFD does by using their DFD PAC, they are still union workers.
MODERATOR: DFD Rube, Am I detecting that you might be starting to actually get it? Have you realized that DFD, the most expensive FD in the USA, should be "trimmed" down to say the least? I agree with you that 38 DFD sleepers each and every night on the taxpayer dime has got to end. I also agree with you that $82,000 a year per DFDer plus benefits is about 4 times what they should be getting. As long as DFD endorses and puts tons of money behind any candidate that will continue the DFD extortion racket, more and more people will demand change at DFD. Once DFD changed from being a fire department and took up politics, that was the sign that DFD had gone down the tubes. |
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84387 - Tue Jul 6 12:05:23 2010 - [Something going on?] By: Big Iron |
| The flapping gums of the Golden one have been strangely silent. He wouldn't be posting under various handles again, would he? Nawwwwwwwwwww. Did he find employment? Scratch that. What was I thinking?!!! He and the Beast from the East have something going on? One can hope. |
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84384 - Tue Jul 6 10:28:46 2010 - [DFL Duluth moving forward] By: Locals Gone Wild |
DATE: 07/06/2010
NATURE OF INCIDENT: Burglary Information Sought
CASE NO.:
INCIDENT DATE :07/06/2010
INCIDENT TIME:
INCIDENT LOCATION: Duluth Area
SUBJECT: Duluth Police Seek Publics help in Identifying Residential Burglars
BY: Lieutenant Kerry Kolodge, (218) 730-5639
The Duluth Police Department is asking for the public’s help in identifying residential burglars who may be removing stolen property from homes. Recent trends show that large flat screen televisions, personal computers, laptops, Play Station and X-Box video systems are being targeted by residential burglars. In late May, a London Road residence was entered and a 30-inch television, telescope and a vehicle were taken. On June 23rd, a Lincoln Park residence was burglarized, and a 42-inch television, Dell computer, X-Box and Sony stereo were taken. On June 25th, a Morgan Park residence was burglarized, and a 55-inch television, was taken.
The Police Department is asking residents to get to know their neighbors, and to keep a watchful eye not only on their own homes, but their neighbor’s homes as well. If someone they don’t recognize as their neighbor comes out of their neighbor’s home with a large television, computer or video game system, they are strongly encouraged to call 911 and report the incident. If a vehicle is involved, police ask the caller to get the license plate number, make and color of the vehicle.
If a person is seen carrying large items, such as a large flat screen television out of a residence, there is a chance that the home is being burglarized.
The Police Department encourages citizen involvement in preventing burglary and other property crimes, such as vehicle prowls. Recent citizen tips from across the City have resulted in several arrests. Residents are reminded to remove valuables from their cars, and lock the doors of their cars and homes to keep from being victimized by thieves. |
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84383 - Tue Jul 6 09:53:57 2010 - [Baboon set sights on lifetime of hosing] By: Tara |
| I see that the DFD not only hires chimps, but they hired a bumbling idiot baboon called Big Iron. He must have been looking in the mirror what the term "moronic" came to mind. I can never recall Big Baboon ever writing anything of substance or value. It’s always the same old quivering snipe out of the Big Baboon. What a loser! |
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84382 - Tue Jul 6 06:32:42 2010 - [DFL Duluth is a Total Loss] By: Dodge St. |
Just up from the secretary's house. If that Lakeside business had been just a little closer to our firehall out here there wouldn't have been as much damage.
Or if the garage fire out west would have been a little closer to the firehall it could have been a save rather than a complete loss.
The firehalls were 2 blocks away from each reported fire location and both the garage and the business destroyed.
Thats why we need more firehalls and firefighters on duty, if only the reported fires were, say, maybe a block from each reported fire the outcome would have been different.
My guess is the garage out west had faulty engineered trusses and not built with union labor which is the reason it was a total loss. |
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84381 - Mon Jul 5 12:54:46 2010 - [Sounds like Pickwick's staying unionized] By: rusty |
| pitt st, Sorry sounds like pickwick is staying unionized, I bet that new hotel being built by cub foods wishes they had good union labor builders, mighty cost a couple dollars more but not being open yet due to the great help they have now would have paid off soon enough, the hotel was to open in beginning of june, hows that going... |
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84380 - Mon Jul 5 10:28:18 2010 - [Redefining Elitist] By: Big Iron |
| I did receive "customer training". It was how to deal with the moronic public. |
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84379 - Sun Jul 4 15:03:45 2010 - [DFL Socialism, NE$$'$ & A$$ociate$] By: Of Politics and Prosperity |
| So all City of Duluth employees have recieved "customer" training? Obviously one has to wonder, after reading DFD blog team posts here. Duluth is not a successful business. One look at City of Duluth Budgetary hopelessNE$$ proves it. Look where the City of Duluth employee unions political control of hiring, overtime, productivity, and cost ineffectiveNE$$ has brought the City fiscally. We have witNE$$ed the continued City of Duluth "handoff" of the little available taxpayer dollar resource to skywalks, fish tanks, aircraft maintenance facilities, Renaissance Centres, Water gardens, Wethouses, "low income" housing projects, BID districts, and derelict rundown theater buildings, to pad the staus quo, while the infrastructure for it's average citizens slides down a E.P.A. condemed sewer system. What is enough to avail Duluths' status quo? What is enough to satisfy the typical DFL union "smoking screen transparency" of supportive corruptiveNE$$. It may have seemed to work great for the likes of Obama and their local campaign manager NE$$ and A$$ociate$ yesterday, but the world history of this kind of government corruptNE$$ has this taxpayer wondering if the DFL mafia majority rule politicians and the City of Duluth employees really don't quit badly need "public servant and recession employee survival training" instead of "courteous bullshit too customer training"!!!!!!! There is NO business, not even the DEDA Grant, TIF-TIT sucking ones, that can survive under the fooli$hNE$$ of corrupt rules and selfishNE$$ that the Donny DFL "Peoples Party" imposes on Duluth daily. It is obviously economically not feasible and morally doomed. Examples of DFL "leftNE$$" include the demise of our nations economic greatness from abuse of Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, and GM, to the many businesses that, due to DFL Duluth inspired abuse and dictatorial hopelessNE$$, have fried-n-died in or fled Duluth. Might be time for NE$$ and A$$ociate$, before the people demand their day in God's reconcilation court, to start listening and treating the "customer" like they are right, at least when it makes common sense. Our history as a nation proves that Democracy is right, not a DFL left voted largNE$$ by abuse of the public treausury and democracy fundementals! Donny and A$$ociate$ may wish to try this "customer approach" before DFL "leftwing" redistribution of wealth has Duluth, "you've earned enough", Obama honored, as the City with the highest cost, DFL, status quo mafia, union controled, government, and the largest number, per capita, of low income, economically starved, citizens in the nation. Possibly we are there already, just has to make you proud, Donny and A$$ociate$! I am so ashamed of my hometown, Duluth Minnesota, and it's disregard of honesty, integrity, accountability, liberty, and justice FOR ALL!!!!! Oh, that's it, it's Bushs' fault! NOT! Bush wasn't in the picture 30 plus years ago in Duluth or in the Bill Clinton "livin' the lie" years as the greed of the wealthy and the laziNE$$ of DFL Socialism joined hands to create our nations, and further Duluths', sad outlook and condition of today. Happy DFL DEPENDENCE DAY DONNY. |
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84377 - Sun Jul 4 08:55:51 2010 - [Continued Union Death Grip @ Pickwick?] By: Pitt Street Panther |
I’m happy to see the Pickwick reopening and hope the prices are more reasonable than before. Will the unions keep their death grip on the Pickwick? I don’t see where a union operated restaurant compete with all the other competition. Let’s hope the union thugs don’t give one of their infamous welcomes to new money being invested in DFL Duluth.
http://www.duluthnewstribune.com/event/article/id/172962/
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84374 - Sat Jul 3 01:28:53 2010 - [Can you feel the excitement?] By: Mr. Duluth |
I went on that Coaster at SMRA today. Yup.
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84373 - Fri Jul 2 23:16:52 2010 - [Where will the money come from?] By: Cynic |
Trouble is they will still have to pay all the government workers in California back pay at their regular pay once their budget is passed. Sounds like pure politics Calif style. Still like the sign used to say "The end is near".
PARROT: Cynic, you make a good point but I have to ask; where will the money come from to pay the workers back? |
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84372 - Fri Jul 2 22:45:15 2010 - [Is Ford moving too slow?] By: County |
"Just over one month ago Dash Johnson was beaten and left for dead on the lake walk near Lake Superior. The court is now moving forward, but has not set a sentence for 16-year-old Markus Lee St. Clair. He then described 17-year-old Myron Clark kicking Johnson in the head while he was on the ground. St. Clair" said this is when Isham proceeded to take Johnson's wallet.
I'm sure Melanie Ford is tearing her hair out trying to come up with some excuse to get these turds a "slap on the wrist"??
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84370 - Fri Jul 2 21:11:50 2010 - [DFL Duluth Donny Euphoria] By: Ms Nel |
Mr D. Ness stated on Almanac North that "every government employee" has taken 'customer service training.'
How wonderful is THAT? Does this mean that NOW an independent person will be able to earn a living in DFL DULUTH without all of the harassment and under cuts by employees being paid outrageous salaries? The common folk slave away at minimum wage while some take a ride on the Timber Twister. Gee if only the average folk living in Duluth could afford this ride.
Go Donny Go.....let's give REAL people a chance to survive!! |
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84369 - Fri Jul 2 15:36:09 2010 - [Want more change?] By: Joel S |
With all the spending the government is spending for the rich, you have to wonder if the government can at least give everyone that loses their job under the current regime a free t-shirt.
http://www.zazzle.com/dont_renig_2012_tshirt-235507840247231196 |
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84368 - Fri Jul 2 15:27:45 2010 - [Real wages for a real DFL Duluth economy] By: Truthism |
Muffin Top that's very interesting about California reducing the pay of state workers to the federal minimum wage. $7.25/hr would be justice for the DFL greedy that have been scamming and stealing for decades.
Here's another article from the Sacramento news paper.
http://www.sacbee.com/2010/07/02/2864614/governor-puts-200000-state-workers.html
Hopefully the DFD grubs day of reckoning comes very soon. |
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84367 - Fri Jul 2 11:30:19 2010 - [Blowing like the wind] By: Cynic |
| Now this Big Iron/Saginaw J/DRZ/John W of Saginaw/etc. etc. is claiming to be a Duluth fire fighter. This is after three years of saying she neither lives in nor works for the City of Duluth. I'm not making this up folks. Next year this liar and admitted liar will be a work for DPD and the next year they will be the Mayor of Duluth. Like someone once said don't believe everything you read on the internet. |
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84366 - Fri Jul 2 10:02:15 2010 - [Time to get DFD PAC back to reality] By: Big Iron |
Someone has a better job than me. Someone makes more money than me. Someone drives a better car than me. Someone has a better house than me. Cry me a freak'in river, DCB rubes. If whining paid money, the rubes would be very wealthy indeed.
MODERATOR: Big Iron, when you and your cohorts act like Bernie Madoff and fleece and steal from those that you are getting paid to represent, we can all only hope that your crimes will be stopped as well. The people deserve better than this kind of DFD rip off scheme which benefits only those at DFD PAC, the entity formerly known as the DFD. Don't you just love how the arrogant government workers in California, who used to be just as cocky as you, were told that they would be getting minimum wage from now on. You have got to love it. I can't wait till realistic wages come here to our wonderful DFD PAC team of extortionists, and they will or the city will be bankrupt. Either way, the people will prevail over this corrupt DFD PAC political gangsta group. |
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84364 - Fri Jul 2 09:14:05 2010 - [Like it or not, change is coming ] By: Muffin Top |
DFD it's coming your way.
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5gBqNO6Pkz2nduqexciT09DcZkfzgD9GMKL100 |
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84363 - Thu Jul 1 23:11:01 2010 - [Pickwick sale closes. Union future?] By: Jake |
| Let's change it up here. The Pickwick sale closed last night. Now the question is will it stay a union shop or not. May be the next deal will be the $50 fillet. |
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84362 - Thu Jul 1 22:15:21 2010 - [Why go to the zoo, head to the fire hall] By: big iron |
You're extra bitter tonight, Starjerk. What's the matter, little boy?
STARFIRE: big iron, I'm just having fun with certain mentally challenged DFD simpletons; in particular one who goes by the name big iron. Your posts are priceless. I know, you have a contract, you have a contract, you have a contract. Now that we know that a DFD chimp can say it three times, let's give the monkeys a shot. Hey Napolean, I bet you have a contract. LMAO! |
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84361 - Thu Jul 1 22:08:04 2010 - [Keep DFD most expensive FD in USA] By: Big Iron |
I might be an idiot, but I have a contract and I work for DFD. Iv'e been grabbing every hour of OT available instead of passing on it. I told you I was going to do that. Happy now? Good. Thanks for the 14 grand raise last year!!! Ka-Ching!!!
STARFIRE: Big Iron, why is it that when I think of a DFL Assclown, you seem to come to mind immediately? Keep up the good work Napolean! Bankruptcy won't come without the help of you magggots stealing all you can possibly get. |
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84360 - Thu Jul 1 21:51:33 2010 - [End the millions for DFD sleeping now!] By: Lou |
Haven't been on here in awhile. Nice to see the fire dept. argument is still in full swing. When will there be a winner in this loonnnggggg debate?
STARFIRE: Lou, it appears that as long as the DFD PAC continues to put themeselves ahead of those that pay their salaries, no end is in sight. When the DFD budget is in line with where it should be and not where the DFD PAC says it should be, the end may be near. Until then, exposing the DFD PAC for who they really are is the name of the game. No taxpayer in the world should be forced to pay for 38 slugs on the cot at the DFD each and every night. Let's get cutting and put this issue behind us and get our volunteers out there doing what a handful of parasites have been getting paid way to much to do for way too long. Now that is change we can all believe in. We can put these 38 back into the private sector and then they may come back to reality, maybe. At least in the private they will be doing something instead of nothing as they are now. |
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84359 - Thu Jul 1 20:48:43 2010 - [Volunteers are true American heroes] By: Cynic |
.....anyway like the article said good job and thanks to the volunteer fire fighters in all the communities throughout Minnesota, Wisconsin and the rest of the USA. I realize some people would know nothing about sacrifice for the sake of the community but these volunteers do and for that we all should be grateful. What a beautiful day. Life is good.
STARFIRE: Cynic, wouldn't it be nice to see some certain others in Duluth act in such unselfish ways? Giving to the community instead of taking and stealing as the DFD PAC does is such a breath of fresh air to hear about. Hint hint Big Iron and DFD Rube. I am talking to you clowns. Thou shall not steal, remember? Quit thinking about your new homes, pickups, boats, trips, etc and consider for once the people that you are paid to serve. |
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84358 - Thu Jul 1 20:40:03 2010 - [More Monkey see, monkey do at DFD] By: rusty aka DFD Rube |
starfish, dfd is looking into changing our schedule so we don't have to sleep at work,,but we will have to add more employees you fuckin idoit..but if thats what will make your dfd filled life better, then so be it.
STARFIRE: DFD Rube, LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Add more employees, LMFAO!!!!!! What's next for your clowns, a fire hall on every other street corner? LMAO!!!!! Thanks for the humor you uneducated DFD PAC chimp!!!! |
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84357 - Thu Jul 1 18:36:41 2010 - [DFD Rube proud of extortion tactics] By: rusty aka DFD Rube |
Take a look at the assessors web site and you will learn lot about who is making all the union wages. Police chiefs house value $522,000. Fire chiefs value of 167,000. WOW wonder where all that bar overtime goes...
STARFIRE: DFD Rube, yada yada yada. Go climb back in the rack with Big Iron, she is waiting for you. DFD PAC is the biggest bunch of money grubbing parasites in the USA. Many of you DFD PAC rubes live outside of Duluth just to avoid paying ridiculous property taxes for overpaid salaries like your own. How can you people not be ashamed of the hosing you are giving the hard working people who actually work in Duluth and ae forced to pay for your extorted obscene salaries? It is long overdue for big time cuts to the DFD PAC Rubes. |
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84356 - Thu Jul 1 15:50:21 2010 - [DFD, overworked, underpaid] By: AHJ |
Brother Big Iron as usual you are so very right! Even Starfire's boyfriend Bend Over came out of the submission last night. Birds of a feather DELETED together. Ben go back in your hole. The DFD is the best and envious are the rest! No one reads the DCB except the few wannabes dildos that post here. Not one of these DCB butt plugs could pass the test let alone do what one of the best trained FD does 24 - 7, all day, every day and night, no one of you.
STARFIRE: AHJ, glad to see another of the too many, the shameless, the DFD, showing us all what DFDers and monkeys have in common. The monkeys are a lot smarter, but the DFDers are better paid (overpaid by about $81,999) and enjoy the political activities that their organization has turned into, the mighty DFD PAC. Once they were proud and working for the citizens as the DFD, now they are shameless and working for themselves, the DFD PAC. |
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84355 - Thu Jul 1 11:35:26 2010 - [DFD-Monkey see, monkey do!] By: Big Iron |
| So we have Dodge Street's school of beating a ficticious dead horse...yawn. Or maybe one can enroll in Cynic's school of strawman responses! How about Starfire, the Dean of the DCB department of redundancy department? Perhaps the DBU would be interested in hiring you 3 as instructors. Oh wait!!! 34 months of "instucting" the fine citizens of duluth on the DFD and nothing has happened. Might be worth a shot, boys! Carry on...LOL!!! |
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84354 - Thu Jul 1 07:34:20 2010 - [DFD Intentionally Running Amok] By: Dodge St. |
Just up from the secretary's house. And another one, what about the house fire on Woodland Av a few years ago. The fire truck was actually driving by when the homeowner waved them into her driveway.
Turned out the response time couldn't have been faster, less than 30 seconds, and the whole fuckin house burns down. A total Loss.
The reason for the total loss, according to the fire union president, was because the house was built using a unusual type of floor joists. Fucking unreal.
The firehall near my house has gone on 3 emergencies this month. We pay these firefighters for what.....sleep, wash vehicles, work on personal projects, watch backdraft and other movies, strategize on how they will get more during their next negotiation session with the city, blog, strategize on how to elect liberal/progressive councilors, work on strategies on how to take over a private ambulance service and take away other union jobs, and the list goes on and on... oh, I forgot one more thing, strategize on how to kick other Duluth Firefighters out of the union if they volunteer in their respective communities as volunteer firefighters. Their union thinking is, "if no one volunteers then they'd have to hire full-time firefighters and we'd have more members in the IAFF.
Duluth Firefighters have a bunch of Thugs running their union. |
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84353 - Wed Jun 30 22:24:38 2010 - ["Oberstar, working you"] By: Ben Dover |
I was out in East Duluth on 43rd Ave a few days ago and saw a sign that read, "Oberstar, working for you." Good thing I was the passenger as I almost lost it! What a crock of bull! That Clown Oberstar represents only himself and his DFL team of Assclowns like Donny Boy Ness. Now if it had said, "Oberstar, working you", then I would buy it.
What kind of a jackass would have a sign like that up in their yard anyway? |
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84352 - Wed Jun 30 16:24:15 2010 - [Oberstar has to go] By: Libertarian |
I contacted Oberstar asking him to not vote for the Disclose Act. All of a sudden the dems are concerned with transparency. Turns out he is one of the authors...
Thank you for sharing with me your opposition to the DISCLOSE Act (H.R. 5175). I appreciate hearing from you.
On January 21, 2010, the U.S. Supreme Court, in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, struck down as unconstitutional significant campaign finance reform in the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act of 2002, commonly referred to as the McCain-Feingold Act. This decision struck down the prohibition on corporations (and unions) from using their general treasury funds to advertise for the election or defeat of a candidate. As a result, future elections are now open to unrestricted campaigning by special interests.
On June 24, 2010, with my support, the House of Representatives passed the DISCLOSE Act. This legislation would strengthen disclosure and transparency. For example, the top funder or leader of a corporation, union, or other special interest group would be required to appear on camera and announce that he or she approves an advertisement, just like current law requires candidates to do in political ads. Similar to the requirement that candidates disclose expenditures and who is funding their campaigns, corporations, unions, and other special interest groups would be required to provide full and timely disclosure of campaign-related expenditures and information on major donors. Additionally, this legislation would ban large government contractors, Troubled Asset Relief Program recipients, and corporations that are controlled by foreign interests from spending money on US elections.
While I understand that this bill is not perfect, I believe that every citizen has a right to know who is spending money to influence elections. Nothing in this legislation prohibits speech or First Amendment rights. The DISCLOSE Act would provide unprecedented transparency and accountability by ensuring that powerful special interests spending millions of dollars are not able to hide behind third party groups, sham organizations, and dummy corporations. It simply allows voters to follow the money and make informed decisions.
The legislation is awaiting consideration in the U.S. Senate.
With best wishes.
Sincerely,
James L. Oberstar, M.C.
JLO/jal
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84351 - Wed Jun 30 15:08:24 2010 - [Begging the question] By: Cynic |
| ...and the admitted liar begs the question. Lots of brain power. huh? |
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84349 - Wed Jun 30 10:29:43 2010 - [Proof that a DFDer & monkey are equals] By: Big Iron |
| AS USUAL, nothing but strawman responses from the "brains" on the DCB. TFF! |
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84348 - Wed Jun 30 08:31:32 2010 - [Money rules DFD and its actions always] By: Cynic |
| One thing we know for sure is Hermantown and Rice Lk Township will NOT get any help from Duluth firefighters even if they live in those communities. Ref. Duluth firefighters kicked out of union for helping their community of Hermantown. Anyone? Anyone? |
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84347 - Wed Jun 30 07:36:32 2010 - [More DFL Duluth Kool Aid] By: Elliot Q |
| Mayor, Council see boost in popularity. Thanks for participating in the survey Proctor and Hermantown. |
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84346 - Wed Jun 30 07:26:32 2010 - [Professionally trained bloggers, hosers] By: Pro-DFD |
Dodge St. and Starfire DELETED, the fire your referring to was a tradgedy. Our response time was less than 90 seconds from the time we got the call to the time we arrived on scene.
The structure had a smoldering fire and there was nothing anyone could do. Volunteer firfighters will never ever work in Duluth so keep up your same DELETED for entertainment.
Professionally trained full-time UNION firefighters!
MODERATOR: Pro DFD, don't forget professional pole dancers, professional personal car washers, professional extortionists, professional bloggers at DCB, professional sleepers for all 38 of you each and every night and some on and so forth. You all have more in common with Bernie Madoff than with any other fire department in the country. |
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84345 - Tue Jun 29 23:28:59 2010 - [Why DFD is most expensive FD in USA] By: Dodge St |
Just up from the Secretary's house. Big Iron, how about the structure fire in the West End killing 3 people awhile ago. anyone..anyone.. the house was 4 blocks from the fully staffed firehall. anyone.. your a union thug
STARFIRE: Dodge St, I can't wait to see the Big One's response to this one. The Big D-bag will show us all why he is only qualified to be a DFDer. |
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84344 - Tue Jun 29 23:03:39 2010 - [DFD only knows how to hose, hose & hose] By: Cynic |
| Now why would anyone answer an admitted pathological liar? |
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84343 - Tue Jun 29 20:16:05 2010 - [Keep DFD most expensive FD in USA!!!!!!] By: big Iron |
| Couldn't pry a peep out of anyone here regarding the deadly Rice Lake Twp fire a few months ago. Hey! How about the house that burned to the ground in Hermantown on father's day!??? Anyone??? |
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84342 - Tue Jun 29 20:01:29 2010 - [Did the agitator make a deal w/unions?] By: Jimmy D. |
| It only took the "community agitator" 70 days to solicit help from other countries in the Gulf. 70 days to act..Now that is executive experience, isn't it? |
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84341 - Tue Jun 29 19:46:14 2010 - [38 DFDers hosing mom & pop to sleep] By: Dodge St |
Just up from the secretary's house. The reason Mentor Minnesota has volunteer firefighters is because they don't have a long city and there are no "natural barriers" to overcome.
I'm sounding like a union thug from the Duluth fire department for the Christ sake.
Volunteer firefighters love their communities and that's whey they serve. BTW, close to 40% of the full-time Duluth firefighters live outside the city and are currently being served by volunteer departments. Go figure... |
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84340 - Tue Jun 29 11:59:42 2010 - [Powmore, Powless, or Pow-wow for Ford?] By: Birds of a Feather |
I see Robert, you people up here are all racists, Powless has endored Melanie Ford.
Who'd a thought? |
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84339 - Tue Jun 29 08:21:54 2010 - [Quick response volunteer fire department] By: Cynic |
From the daily rag:
Hours after Bruce Roed helped pull a woman from the rubble of the tornado damage, he realized she was a colleague.
In fact, Patricia Wilber of Grand Forks, N.D., was so seriously injured after a freezer collapsed on her in Mentor, Minn., that her husband of 40 years could barely recognize her in the hospital that night.
Her fate, though, could have been worse without the quick response of the volunteer fire department.
“We were very fortunate that they were there and they had the training and equipment to do the job,” said husband Russ Wilber.
When tornados ripped through rural Minnesota on June 17, it was volunteer firefighters like Roed who were first on the scene.
Accustomed to calls of grass fires or car accidents, they aren’t usually thrust into the center of such widespread disaster.
“It was the most serious, most difficult (situation) … that they’ve ever encountered or they ever will encounter,” said Roed, a 40-year firefighter and a coordinator for state fire training.
The volunteers receive about 140 hours of training, though many departments like Mentor’s also require training throughout the year. They work, though, for free.
“Nobody gets paid a nickel for anything,” he said. “There’s an awfully lot of training that goes on that … nobody knows about, especially in the volunteer ranks.”
About two weeks ago, it proved worthwhile.
After Roed followed the funnel cloud rolling by Mentor (pop. 149), he paged his 30 volunteers to the town about 50 miles east of Grand Forks.
At the town’s convenience store, which was obliterated by the tornado, firefighters pulled out Wes Michaels, who died after sheltering his daughter, Pat Wilber, and another woman in the store’s walk-in cooler.
They then used a jaws tool to lift a freezer that had trapped Wilber. She was treated until an ambulance arrived to take her to a hospital. She is expected to be released from the hospital on Wednesday.
It wasn’t until a police officer showed Roed her driver’s license hours later that he realized who she was.
Running into familiar faces on calls isn’t unusual for volunteer firefighters.
“Small towns, small communities are very vulnerable to that because you know everybody,” he said. “That can be very hard.”
Two hours southeast of there, Dean Uselman was being tested as Wadena’s fire chief of two months.
Despite the phone lines and pagers being down, his 20 volunteer firefighters quickly assembled, searching for victims and controlling gas leaks after a tornado whipped through west-central Minnesota.
“We were the only ones on the scene right away,” Uselman said. “This is by far the worst incident we’ve ever been involved in. You can’t prepare for something like this.”
Now, the Mentor and Wadena volunteer firefighters hope to settle back into routine — their full-time jobs and the 30 to 70 calls they receive a year.
They won’t return to routine without thanks.
Families like the Wilbers are showing their appreciation for the volunteers. After all, without them, the response time would have been much greater for tornado victims that day.
“The community thinks well of us, and that’s a good thing,” Roed said. “It’s one thing to do it for nothing when you’re appreciated.”
Kelly Smith is a reporter at The Forum of Fargo-Moorhead, which is owned by Forum Communications Co.
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84338 - Mon Jun 28 15:32:13 2010 - [If you need to ask] By: Paperboy A |
| Alfred, if you need to ask you will not like the answer. Check out Newsmax.com, FoxNews should help you, if you can read and are here legally of course... |
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84337 - Mon Jun 28 13:09:19 2010 - [Should OBAMA be re-elected?] By: Alfred |
| Should OBAMA be re-elected (when the times comes)? or why not??? |
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84336 - Sun Jun 27 19:42:06 2010 - [Obama & Oberstar Friends Over Enviroment] By: mp |
President Obama is doing the very best he can to remove BP oil. Not really. He refused foreign help at first due to the Jones Act. This would have involved foreign non union ship crews.
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=3e5_1277518993
Crucial offers to help clean up BP’s oil spill “have come from Belgian, Dutch, and Norwegian firms that . . . possess some of the world’s most advanced oil skimming ships.” But the Obama administration wouldn’t accept the help, because doing so would require it to do something past presidents have routinely done: waive rules imposed by the Jones Act, a law backed by unions.
“The BP clean-up effort in the Gulf of Mexico is hampered by the Jones Act. This is a piece of 1920s protectionist legislation, that requires all vessels working in U.S. waters to be American-built, and American-crewed. So . . . the U.S. Coast Guard . . . can’t accept, and therefore don’t ask for, the assistance of high-tech European vessels specifically designed for the task in hand.”
The law itself permits the president to waive these requirements, and such waivers were “granted, promptly, by the Bush administration,” in the aftermath of hurricanes and other emergencies. But Obama has refused to do so, notes David Warren in the Ottawa Citizen. Instead, Obama rejected a Dutch offer to help clean up the spill, noted Voice of America News:
“The Obama administration declined the Dutch offer partly because of the Jones Act, which restricts foreign ships from certain activities in U.S. waters. During the Hurricane Katrina crisis five years ago, the Bush administration waived the Jones Act in order to facilitate some foreign assistance, but such a waiver was not given in this case.”
“After the Obama administration refused help from the Netherlands, Geert Visser, the consul general for the Netherlands in Houston, told Loren Steffy: ‘Let’s forget about politics; let’s get it done.’” But for Obama, politics always comes first: “The explanation of Obama’s reluctance to seek this remedy is his cozy relationship with labor unions. . . ‘The unions see it "not waiving the act
as … protecting jobs. They hate when the Jones Act gets waived.’”
Ironically, even the staunchest supporters of the Jones Act are now distancing themselves from refusals to accept foreign help, saying they have “not and will not stand in the way of the use of these well-established waiver procedures to address this crisis.” Obama is being more intransigently pro-union than the unions themselves.
One can only hope Obama will change his mind now, given that “each day our European allies are prevented from helping us speed up the clean up is another day that Gulf fishing and tourism jobs die.”
(The Obama administration has belatedly accepted some foreign equipment for use in fighting the spill, although it still blocks ships with foreign crews. As Voice of America notes, although “the Netherlands offered help in April,” such as providing “sophisticated” oil “skimmers and dredging devices,” the Obama administration blocked their crews from working in U.S. waters, and as a result, this crucial “operation was delayed until U.S. crews could be trained” in June. “The Dutch also offered assistance with building sand berms (barriers) along the coast of Louisiana to protect sensitive marshlands, but that offer was also rejected, even though Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal had been requesting such protective barriers.”)
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84335 - Sun Jun 27 15:47:48 2010 - [DFL Civil Liberties Hypocrisy] By: Common Sns |
"Now the senate gives the "community organizer" the ability to stop the internet if he deems it a necessity. I wonder if the inventer of the internet, Al Gore, would approve of that."
Where are all the, "You're taking away our civil liberties", Liberals when the Obama administration does crap like this???
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84334 - Sun Jun 27 11:54:06 2010 - [What would the Sex Crazed Poodle Say?] By: Watchdog |
Now the senate gives the "community organizer" the ability to stop the internet if he deems it a necessity. I wonder if the inventer of the internet, Al Gore, would approve of that.
Can we all say, "Dictator". |
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84333 - Sun Jun 27 07:40:06 2010 - [Obama lack of experience shows] By: youtube dude |
Do your job Obama!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bzDlN7VLmXQ&feature=player_embedded |
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84332 - Sun Jun 27 07:18:35 2010 - [Oberstar an Obama Minion] By: Truthism |
| Oberstar in an Obama minion who's out of touch with reality and has to go. Major jobs losses are only beginning under the Oberstar/Obama regime. |
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84331 - Sat Jun 26 20:16:26 2010 - [Oberstar asleep at the helm] By: Dave |
Cravaack calls on Oberstar to resign as head of House Transportation Comittee
June 26, 2010
ST. PAUL — Congressional candidate Chip Cravaack today called on Rep. James Oberstar to resign as chairman of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee because he has failed to take any useful action in the two months since an oil well began to poison the Gulf of Mexico.
“During the worst environmental disaster in American history, Jim Oberstar has been asleep at the helm of the House Transportation committee,” Cravaack, a graduate of the United States Naval Academy, said. “No skipper has been so slow to act since Joe Hazelwood was sleeping it off in his bunk during the Exxon Valdez crash in 1989. It is time for Jim Oberstar to step down as chairman of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee.”
Oberstar is chair of the committee which oversees the Coast Guard and is responsible for federal management of emergencies and oil pollution of navigable waters, including inland, costal, and ocean waters.
“Not only has Congressman Oberstar failed to protect America’s coastline, he has obstructed cleanup efforts that could have saved hundreds of American jobs in the fishing and tourism industries. “
Cravaack called to light the fact that Oberstar has had two months to formulate a plan to deal with the cleanup of the spill. Not only have Oberstar and his committee failed to come up with a plan, they have made the situation worse by holding up vital equipment and machinery from getting to the affected areas.
Cravaack asks Americans share their ideas with him on a SPECIAL PAGE set up this morning.
“We need leadership, action and results now. It is time for new vision and a new work ethic in Congress,” Cravaack said. “It is time for Congressman Oberstar to step down and time for America to work together to find common sense solutions.
Click HERE to see the official document about the Jurisdiction of the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
http://chipcravaack.com/2010/06/cravaack-calls-on-oberstar-to-resign-as-head-of-house-transportation-comittee/
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84330 - Sat Jun 26 18:54:49 2010 - [Things must be slow at the DFD tonight] By: Big Iron |
| You're trying way too hard, Mr. Golden. |
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84329 - Fri Jun 25 20:50:06 2010 - [Is C Ben Dover?] By: Kevin |
Like a big pizza pie that's amore,
What about the Super Stud of the Blogosphere, Danny G? C is quiet and so is Danny G. Hmmm....
And what about Ben Dover? Maybe C is a republican plant you know like a double secret agent. No Ben Dover and no C....Something to think about for sure.
Big Iron and C have had a few cat fights on Stahlalinki's blogs a few time and as much as I don't like Big Iron, he's gotta have better taste in women, or men, than C. |
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84328 - Fri Jun 25 20:01:15 2010 - [Burglary] By: Locals Gone Wild |
DATE: 06/25/2010
NATURE OF INCIDENT: Burglary
CASE NO.: 10309527
INCIDENT DATE :06/25/2010
INCIDENT TIME: 1:57 a.m.
INCIDENT LOCATION: 300 Block of North 12 Avenue East
SUBJECT: Five Arrested in Burglary
BY: Officer Brad Wick, Information Coordinator
On Friday, June 25, 2010, at 1:57 a.m., Duluth Police responded to the 300 block of North 12th Avenue East on the report that a group of males had just broken into the residence, assaulted a male inside, and took an electronic gaming system from the residence when they left.
A description of the suspects and a vehicle involved was given to responding officers. Officers locate the vehicle, which is being driven by a female, when they arrive in the area. Officers stopped the vehicle and find one of the male suspects inside along with the stolen electronic gaming system. The vehicle occupants are taken into custody without incident.
A second male suspect was located immediately after the incident on foot in the area and taken into custody without incident. The final two suspects were located a short time later about six blocks from the scene. The last of these two was located and taken into custody with the help of a police canine.
The following have been lodged at the St. Louis County Jail:
* Don Lee Hoven, age 20 of Duluth, for First Degree Burglary
* Justin Lyle Cutbank, age 23 of Duluth, for First Degree Burglary and Fifth Degree Assault. Cutbank also had arrest warrants in St. Louis County for Robbery, along with a Felony arrest warrant in Mille Lacs County. He has numerous violent felony arrests and convictions on his record.
* Daniel Miguel Rush, age 35 of Duluth, for First Degree Burglary, Fifth Degree Assault, and Fleeing Police on Foot. Rush is currently on Federal Probation for Felon in possession of a firearm.
* Jessica Elizabeth Brochu, age 19 of Duluth, for Aiding and Abetting First Degree Burglary, Fifth Degree Controlled Substance Possession, and Receiving Stolen Property.
The fifth suspect, a 16 year old Duluth juvenile male, has been lodged at the Arrowhead Juvenile Center pending formal charges for First Degree Burglary and Theft from a person.
The investigation into the incident is ongoing. |
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84327 - Fri Jun 25 09:31:19 2010 - [More DFL votes with your money] By: mp |
Here is a chance for the population of Duluth to grow.
President Obama is considering giving "deferred action and parole" to all illegal immigrants in the USA, i.e blanket amnesty for the illegal immigrant. Illegal immigrant is a politically incorrect term I mean "undocumented worker". Think how many government assistance programs could become available.
Here is a Senate letter to President Obama on the subject:
http://www.numbersusa.com/content/files/Letter_to_President_Obama.pdf
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84324 - Thu Jun 24 19:24:14 2010 - [Where in the World is the Queen?] By: like a big pizza pie that's amore |
Inspector Clouseau I've been wondering the same thing. Where TF is our very own "queen of the blogosphere" "C"? I have some ideas.
-C is blogged out. After all, a woman like her can only put out so much.
-C was told by the DFL establishment to STFU. She was making Mels reelection campaign look bad. She was the proverbial "kiss of death". I doubt Mel's campaign can recover the damage done by the endorsement of "C".
-"C" has been exposed as a fraud. Her ideas have no merit. She has been exposed and deposed by local bloggers. Fini.
-It's possible "C" has been institutionalized and has no internet access.
-"C" may be on vacation in Europe. After all "C" has traveled all over the world. Ah the life of a uber-wealthy progressive activist.
-"C" has left her wacko progressive husband and is having an illicit affair with Big Iron. An adulterous affair at an Island Lake mansion. |
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84323 - Thu Jun 24 10:44:15 2010 - [Chester Pork Sighting] By: Muffin Top |
Inspector Clouseau this should help you with your investigation. This photo was taken near the Chester Park Cafe.
http://1funny.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/big-girl-small-bike.jpg |
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84322 - Thu Jun 24 08:13:44 2010 - [The organizer will be a 1 term disaster] By: Mike |
So now the Community Organizer is putting a different General in charge in Afghanistan. This seems strange to me but isn't the new General named Petraeus. The SAME General that President Bush chose to win in Iraq. How ironic!!!!
Can we all say, "no leadership and no executive experience"
The organizer will be a one-term disaster.. |
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84321 - Wed Jun 23 20:51:20 2010 - [A replacement for Churchill] By: mp |
The Obama White House sent a bust of Winston Churchill back to the Motherland. They didn't need it any more. But don't worry, a greater work of art replaced Mr. Winston Churchill bust. This man, perhaps the greatest living human being, Noble prize winner, humanitarian, business leader - give me $20 billion dollars or I will kick you ass, boyz in the hood, leader replaced Churchill.
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/washington/2010/06/obama-new-yorker-walk-on-water.html
http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1006/20/rs.01.html |
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84320 - Wed Jun 23 18:31:29 2010 - [DFL Queen of the Blogosphere MIA] By: Inspector Clouseau |
I have noticed the slowdown in the local blogosphere both here and the Buzz. Most notably is that the one and only C has been very quiet under her name and known aliases. The following is one of two of C’s latest posts.
I am seeking information on C has been so quiet?
http://www.areavoices.com/buzz/?page=comments&blog=80979
Ever since I got ticketed for expired tags the day after they expired, I've been more likely to park in ramps or just ride my bike downtown.
Posted by Claire on 6/16/2010 |
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84319 - Wed Jun 23 16:51:15 2010 - [DFL Duluth definition of "growing jobs" ] By: Locals Gone Wild |
DATE: 06/23/2010
NATURE OF INCIDENT: Marijuana Grow
CASE NO.: 10307780
INCIDENT DATE :06/22/2010
INCIDENT TIME: 2:02 p.m.
INCIDENT LOCATION: 1700 Block of Warren Avenue
SUBJECT: Police Arrest two in Marijuana Growing Operation
BY: Officer Brad Wick, Information Coordinator
On Tuesday, June 22, 2010, Investigators from the Lake Superior Drug and Gang Task Force, Duluth Police Department, and the United States Marshall's Service served a search warrant in the 1700 block of Warren Avenue. During the search, a sophisticated hydroponic marijuana growing operation was located.
Two suspects, a 65 year old Duluth Woman and her 35 year old son were arrested and lodged at the Saint Louis County Jail on charges of First Degree Controlled Substance Crime.
Through continued investigation and assistance from the East Metro Narcotics Task Force in Saint Paul, a second search was conducted at an address in the Twin Cities area where another grow operation was located. The investigation is on-going. |
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84318 - Wed Jun 23 12:35:05 2010 - [Keep paying millions for DFD sleeping] By: Big Iron |
| Someone makes more money than me. Someone drives a better car than me. Which one of you little boys needs a tissue??? |
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84317 - Wed Jun 23 09:17:14 2010 - [DFD Hosers need some exercise] By: Truthism |
| I see the DFD lost to the DPD 8 to 2 last night in the Guns N Hoses fund raiser. Three years in arrow the DPD has won. All that sitting around at the fire hall is taking its toll. Way to go boys in blue! |
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84316 - Wed Jun 23 07:52:17 2010 - [Haley has a backbone made of metal] By: MaMa Grizzley |
Nikki Haley will be the next Gov. of South Carolina. She is a conservative feminist with a backbone made of metal.
Nikki, you go girl. |
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84315 - Wed Jun 23 07:43:11 2010 - [More DFL Duluth fleecing at $180,000] By: Nick P. |
| Not much of an internet blogger but saw David Ross's salary and am pissed. Something is going to give on this issue and it won't be our locally owned private businesses that will hit the road, Ross will be gone as well he should be. $180,000 a year to gladhand people without bringing up our local businesses or bringing in new ones. |
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84313 - Tue Jun 22 18:24:54 2010 - [DFD spends 99.5% of time doing nothing] By: Dodge St. |
just up from the secretary's house. Pro-DFD, I am not nor will I ever say you don't earn every penny during a structure fire as you stated. My point is, what you do on the taxpayer dime the other 99.5% of the time.
$82,000 per firefighter which includes benefits is crazy. Your BLS (basic life support) trained and NOT paramedics. Go figure |
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84312 - Tue Jun 22 17:39:21 2010 - [An embarrassment to this nation] By: 60's Warrior |
So now we have a "Community Agitator" ordering a General to the White House. What a disgrace to this nation and to the men and women in uniform. ( not you Larry)
This president is an embarassment and the elections in November can't come soon enough. He's FXXXing clueless! |
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84310 - Tue Jun 22 01:15:16 2010 - [DFD Entertainer's Vehicle] By: Big Iron |
| Get it right, zra. One of the pole dancers owns that car. Boy are you dumb. |
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84309 - Mon Jun 21 18:51:22 2010 - [High Rolling at the DFD] By: zra |
| Which one of you DFD'ers own the Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution? I'm amazed by the vehicles that DFD'ers drive. While "average" citizens wallow in poverty riding the DTA, DFD'ers extort more and more and give back less and less to the community. |
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84308 - Mon Jun 21 14:44:32 2010 - [DFL Freeloaders Rights] By: Tax Payer |
"Is the internet big enough to publish at the DFL Duluth WIC recipients, residents supported by Section 8 Housing assistance, and people on welfare and other public-aid programs?"
I'm sure Steve O'Neil or the ACLU, or some other leftist group, would block this as a violation of "Freeloaders Rights" or something!
Wouldn't it be nice for the tax payers in Duluth & St. Louis County, who each year pay more & more taxes and have more & more services taken away, to see how much goes to every one who shows up here and asks for a handout?
Never seems to be a budget shortage when it comes to handing out welfare money? |
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84307 - Mon Jun 21 11:58:21 2010 - [Subsidies should be published] By: EMU |
Is the internet big enough to publish at the DFL Duluth WIC recipients, residents supported by Section 8 Housing assistance, and people on welfare and other public-aid programs?
http://www.duluthnewstribune.com/event/article/id/171906/group/Opinion/
If salaries are public, subsidies should be, too
If public employees’ salaries are going to be published, as the writer of a June 14 letter suggested, I would suggest, in the same article or listing, including by name and amount all those who draw taxpayer money. That would include WIC recipients, residents supported by Section 8 Housing assistance, and people on welfare and other public-aid programs.
The website transparentnevada.com lists all public employees in my state, by name and the amount of money drawn, but has no mention of others who draw state and federal tax dollars. Is that fair to dedicated state and local employees?
William Lescenski
Las Vegas
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84306 - Sat Jun 19 20:05:45 2010 - [Change is all you will have left] By: mp |
Good news for the train... you will need it. According to a Harvard Kennedy School's Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs study reducing carbon emmisions like Mr. Obama wants to do, a gallon of gas will cost $7.
Get used to spending $100 or more a tankful.
http://belfercenter.ksg.harvard.edu/publication/19951/reducing_cars_and_trucks_carbon_emissions_difficult_but_feasible_new_study_finds.html?breadcrumb=%2Fpress%2Freleases
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — A new study from current and former researchers at Harvard Kennedy School's Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs finds that reducing greenhouse gas emissions from transportation will be a much bigger challenge than conventional wisdom assumes — requiring substantially higher fuel prices combined with more stringent regulation.
The study finds that reducing carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from the transportation sector 14 percent below 2005 levels by 2020 may require gas prices greater than $7/gallon by 2020. It also finds that, while relying on subsidies for electric or hybrid vehicles is politically seductive, it is extremely expensive and an ineffective way to significantly reduce greenhouse gas emissions in the near term....
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84305 - Fri Jun 18 11:23:09 2010 - [38 DFDers getting paid to sleep tonight] By: Big Iron |
| Everything on the internet is true. Poor, gullible, Cynic. Try answering a question...just once. |
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84304 - Fri Jun 18 09:18:10 2010 - [You feel a little better now?] By: Cynic |
| Poor Big Iron/Saginaw J/John W of Saginaw/DRZ/huh? etc etc. Whats amatta your booze run out? For someone who continually said they neither work for nor live in the city of Duluth you sure whine a lot about Duluth and its citizens. OK now I gave you some of the attention you so crave. |
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84303 - Fri Jun 18 07:32:44 2010 - [$82,000/yr plus=reasonable pay to DFD] By: Pro-DFD |
Fortunately for the people of Duluth they have a professional fire dept. to respond to any emergency that may arise. We are very well trained. It costs money to have a fulltime professional fire dept. on duty every minute of every day. Risking our lives is something we take serious thus the reason to pay all of us a reasonable salary.
Trust me, during a structure fire we earn every penny. I understand there are people who just don't get it and will continue to take "cheap shots" at us. I am a proud union member of the Duluth Fire Department! |
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84302 - Fri Jun 18 01:08:07 2010 - [Keep DFD most expensive FD in USA] By: Big Iron |
Just 20 miles up from Dodge St. So we had the elitists in Lakeside whining enough to where they will get Glenwood St. rebuilt with the demanded fancy, little bicycle lanes. Then they whined AGAIN to where the city was filling potholes (for the 2nd time) a few weeks before it's torn up. Good use of the citizen's money, eh Dodge St.? Eh, Tourv? Eh, Cynic? Eh, Cerebral?...Eh, Starfire???
MODERATOR: Big Iron, lets see here. Pay to repair a street which is in terrible condition or pay 38 DFD slugs to sleep each and every night. Hmmm...., which is the best use of taxpayer money? Tough one for you to get Big Iron? |
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84301 - Thu Jun 17 23:27:42 2010 - [DFD gives new meaning to the word Hosing] By: Tourv |
The numbers you've given Dodge St are not accurate. You forgot to add benefits which equal 3,750 for the Lakeside station every two weeks because your staffing 24/7 with 3 shifts and 2 firefighters on at all times. So the total should be $31,750 to staff your local firehall.
Dodge St. your right on with the Duluth fire department but you don't know half the shit I know about that organization. Keep up the good work. |
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084300 - Thu Jun 17 22:40:37 2010 - [Danny plotting to infiltrate local radio] By: Kevin |
| What do you know? I thought Danny was down in the Gulf area cleaning the oil off of the birds. Instead, Danny has been plotting to infiltrate local radio. Carried to the heights of stardom by Ashley, Danny believes that this is his time and we are his people. |
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