80051 - Thu Apr 23 16:08:30 2009 - [I see, we see] By: craig n |
| so I have been seeing spring cleaning in duluth well they have the city street sweepers out well actually they have come by my street a couple of times by now and in fact I seen a couple cleaning at night that was odd Ive never seen them cleaning at night this was on woodland avenue about 2 weeks ago Now I have seen theyve had the water truck in front of him pouring water on the streets then coming by and street sweeping but the other times I watched them they had just the sweeper with no water my question is how many times do they do this I have seen them quite often now and wondering when do they stop I mean gosh I thought they only did it like once a week but seems more than that...off topic for a bit here The city sirens??? did they go off on thursday I thought it was the first wedesday of the month they did that oh maybe thats in the other towns who knows it is severe weather awareness week as my weather scanner stated oooh better watch out for those tornados yeah....that never come to duluth which is a good thing but we do get some pretty nasty storms with baseball size hail here and there seems the beltline is from fargo to duluth and from fargo area by grantsburg wisconsin then usually goes to turtle lake eau claire area we have had a couple come to us straight from hibbing I remember grand rapids had a tornado warning a couple of times...MY thing is I was standing in my apartments garage on today thursday and could barely hear the sirens seems like the white ones are even as quiet as those old yellow ones I mean I could barely hear them and to think that there is one right outside where I live again these white ones brand new thats weird I can barely hear them though.. I see that city council had turned down the dog park well ness wasn't really for it and beacon point residents weren't up for it I figured it would get turned down...supposively keene creek dog park is worn out they said that it is often muddy area never been down there just heard from word of mouth I see that 4th street market ma and pops closed down don't go down there much but when I did there prices were outrageous this is because limited space and you think that piggly was expensive of course piggly is run by super one foods but they can set there own prices because they run as a piggly wiggly which is seldom around anyhow ma and pa's only good thing that I liked was there deli and chicken freshly made but when you walk in and have to look at the people not allowed in the store you wonder to yourself how much crime really exists in this area central hillside just nasty and when you live in quiet neighborhoods like me morely heights fairly quiet a little bit a ways from downtown duluth..its one of those neighborhoods where you feel like your out in the country but you live in the city and you have city water and everything like that but u feel like your so far away from town kind of like jean duluth road and snively and glenwood street all are in town but they feel like they are far away out of town I guess duluth is big 42 miles wide or something like that.. well I think thats it for me no really complaining this time just that those darn sirens still are not loud maybe they have adjustments that they can make or something. im 23 yrs old and I know my hearing isn't bad yet.bye for now duluth citizens blog |
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80050 - Thu Apr 23 13:00:13 2009 - [Arrest - Hennepin County to Duluth] By: Locals Gone Wild |
DATE: April 23, 2009
CASE #:09259101
INCIDENT DATE: April 17, 2009
INCIDENT TIME:0055 hours
INCIDENT LOCATION: 500 Block North Lake Avenue
NATURE OF INCIDENT: Arrest of burglary suspect-Habitual Offender
BY (Officer): Lt. Steve Stracek
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On April 17, 2009 at approximately 0055 hours, Duluth police officers responded to the report of a burglary that had occurred at a nearby occupied residence. The suspect was reported to have broken into a residence and was confronted by the resident before departing. A description of the suspect was broadcast and the suspect was detained and eventually arrested a short distance from the residence.
Through subsequent investigation, the suspect was also linked to another residential burglary that had occurred on April 15, 2009 in the 700 block of North 1st Avenue East. The suspect was lodged at the Saint Louis County Jail on charges of 1st and 2nd degree burglary. The suspect was identified as Ronald James Fairbanks, date of birth 07/05/1971.
Fairbanks is a habitual offender and has several prior arrests and felony convictions. In May of 1991, Fairbanks was convicted of aid and abet 2nd degree burglary in Hennepin County. At the time of the April 17, 2009 arrest, Fairbanks had been released on bail for another residential burglary that had occurred in October 2008 in Duluth, Minnesota.
Fairbanks is currently being held at the Saint Louis county Jail on $50,000.00 bail.
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80049 - Thu Apr 23 12:21:51 2009 - [Climate up here blows ] By: Bluto |
| Minnesota keeps taxing us with more crap, no one will be left to live here. The climate up here blows goats and jobs are few and far between with decent wages. Enough of the high taxes already. |
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80048 - Thu Apr 23 12:14:01 2009 - [How does the city advertise?] By: Jackson |
I have a question. When the city advitezes it's self were does it do that and how? We spend all this money advertizing Duluth but how is that spend?
Any ideas anyone? |
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80047 - Thu Apr 23 12:07:46 2009 - [Prosperity] By: Chicken Hammer |
| Without the DFL we would have prosperity. |
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80046 - Thu Apr 23 07:46:40 2009 - [Secret society running City Hall] By: Edgar |
| There is a secret society (SS) running City Hall. This open administration has more closed doors than the old jail. Councilors look the part of the fool as information filters through the media 9 months later. Welcome to the New and Improved City Hall... |
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80044 - Wed Apr 22 15:47:00 2009 - [Duluth is in a big DFL Ne$$] By: Dolla Bill |
| Whats it Worth, the city protion of property tax goes to too many handouts from the fish tank to social programs to corporate welfare. Duluth is in a big fricken DFL Ne$$. |
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80042 - Wed Apr 22 11:56:00 2009 - [DFL Spin Un-spun] By: jthyme |
I get police officers that patrol my streets (and that's about all they do...that and look for free donuts)-
a fire hall a block from my house (with firemen that sit on the computer 24/7 bitching about people who don't appreciate them plus entertain pole dancers)-
plowed streets (after the neighbors already plowed them)-
libraries (that are barely open)-
parks like Harley (we have a biker park?)-
Sounds like a bargin to me. (yup, and it's a bargain, too)
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80041 - Wed Apr 22 10:18:41 2009 - [City tax goes to FREE retiree healthcare] By: Whats it Worth |
My tax bill for next year is $2200 less than $500 go to the city. So for all of that I get police officers that patrol my streets, a fire hall a block from my house, plowed streets, libraries, parks like Harley and the Lakewalk. Sounds like a bargin to me. Have any of you actually looked at what goes to the city vs. the county vs. schools. The city is the best deal on there.
A lot of you complain about how much the city costs you, but I don't think you realize what you get for the money. |
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80040 - Wed Apr 22 07:45:29 2009 - [Trying to your DFL Duluth house?] By: I C RED PEOPLE |
http://realestate.yahoo.com/promo/how-low-will-real-estate-go.html;_ylc=X3oDMTFuc2lqbWltBF9TAzI3MTYxNDkEX3MDOTc2MjA0NjUEc2VjA2ZwLXRvZGF5BHNsawNsb3ctcmVhbC1lc3RhdGU-
DFL Duluth did not make the fastest cities to sell a house. I wonder why? |
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80039 - Wed Apr 22 05:49:45 2009 - [More $$$ dysfunction at city hall] By: LIB Reader Online |
Only in DFL Duluth!
Peter M, this is no longer a liberal vs. conservative thing. This is personal, very personal! This is a PUBLIC EMPLOYEES VS. THE REST OF US THING!
Who has the best benefits and unreasonable contracts that allow for unregulated overtime? City of Duluth staffers!
AFSCME and the DFD PAC are why you don't have as much money as you use to and the reason to go GREEN and read the LIB online for free saving money, energy and the trees.
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Duluth News Tribune
Published April 22 2009
Duluth illegally managed its employees' health-care fund
The Minnesota Department of Commerce has determined that the city of Duluth’s group health-care fund — which pays the health-care claims of active and retired employees — has been managed illegally since its inception.
By: Brandon Stahl, Duluth News Tribune
Fire union's letter sparked investigation into city's insurance fund
The Minnesota Department of Commerce has determined that the city of Duluth’s group health-care fund — which pays the health-care claims of active and retired employees — has been managed illegally since its inception, the Duluth News Tribune has learned.
Though the city could have made the information public a month ago, it’s only now coming to light because of a News Tribune investigation.
The decision could mean a change in the way the fund is managed and regulated, taking it out of the city’s hands.
It also might force the city to transfer $500,000 from an investment account, where the city had hoped to earn higher interest, back to the group health-care fund.
A senior city manager argues that, if fund managers had followed Department of Commerce rules all along, the city wouldn’t be strapped with a nearly $300 million unfunded retiree health-care burden.
“If we had run things by the book, I don’t think we’d be in the mess we’re in,” John Grandson, the city’s director of maintenance, said when told of the Department of Commerce decision.
“There would have been retiree health care, but it would have been at a different level. We wouldn’t have this giant unfunded liability.”
In October 2000, when Gary Doty was mayor, Grandson said he was assigned by then-chief administrator Mark Winson to study the retiree health-care issue. Grandson said he implored the health insurance committee to explore following the Department of Commerce regulations.
He said one of his failings was not getting the appropriate city personnel to listen.
“There’s a reason why there are rules and regulations for governing health insurance,” Grandson said, “and there are a lot of mistakes the city of Duluth has made in the past that wouldn’t have been made had we followed the rules and statutes we had been required to follow.”
The city is self-insured, meaning it pays for its own health-care claims. It oversees the group health fund through a committee made up of city managers and union representatives.
The fund also pays the health-care claims of employees with the Duluth Housing and Redevelopment Authority, the Duluth Airport Authority and the Duluth Entertainment Convention Center — though those entities do not have say in how the fund is managed.
The commerce department ruled that those agencies should have had a say and be treated as a “pool,” meaning the commerce department must oversee the fund to ensure compliance with state regulations.
Under state regulations, a board of trustees would have to be set up to oversee the fund, a certified public accountant must audit the pool annually, and any investment of money from the fund has to be done by an outside investor with no ties to the city or pool participants.
CAO: CITY WILL COMPLY
The city has not yet complied with an order to treat the fund as a pool, said Duluth Chief Administrative Officer Mark Winson, but attempts to do so have begun.
Winson sent an e-mail to senior city staff Friday afternoon informing them about the Department of Commerce determination.
The city also sent a letter to the three authorities that receive health care from the city, and the city is complying with a data and information request made by the department. “We will come into compliance with the state statute that regulates this,” Winson said.
He said no attempt has been made to conceal information about the Department of Commerce decision. Brent Bordelon, a commerce department attorney, said the city correctly kept the information private until an internal investigation conducted by the department was completed.
Winson acknowledged that if the city followed the department of commerce regulations, the unfunded health-care liability wouldn’t be what it is today, but disagreed that it would be significantly smaller.
“The benefit for retiree health care is based on future payments through contracts,” he said. “Had there been a board of trustees in place, there might have been movement toward addressing the unfunded liability quicker.”
However, Winson said that the federal rule that forced the city to calculate the retiree health-care burden wasn’t in place until 2003.
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80038 - Wed Apr 22 01:14:33 2009 - [Get out, help out and run for office] By: Peter M |
Since there have been several liberal candidates already out there, Does anyone have a list of the conservative candidates that are running. We need to get on the ball, talk is good, but at some point we need to get out there and work to see the left defeated. I hope to bring an end to the defeatist mentality a lot of conservatives in Duluth have. I believe that the time is ripe to finally win a majority in the city council, but we need to get the word out. I find it funny that they think the city is too right leaning. I suppose that if your are an extremest then the dfl is too right. I also want to say "way to go" to all the people that showed up for the TEA party, even the media could not ignore the people screaming for economic liberty, stop trying to tell us what companies can be in Duluth. I say as long as you are a legal company, then our response should be, "we will do whatever is necessary to bring you to Duluth"
So there's my rant for the day, get out, help out and run for office. |
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80037 - Tue Apr 21 20:30:21 2009 - [DFL=Tax tax tax, spend spend spend] By: Web Hound |
Taxpayers League of Minnesota eUpdate
1. DFL’s Tax, Tax, Tax Plan
2. Tax Cut Rally – Let Us Know You’ll be There!
3. The Spend, Spend, Spend Plan
4. Don’t Just Sit There – Do Something!
1. DFL’s Tax, Tax, Tax Plan
With one month left to balance the state’s budget (which is currently running a $6 billion deficit), you can imagine that the tax increase proposals are popping up. After all, for tax-and-spenders it’s an easy cop out.
Here’s a run down of the House DFL’s $1.8 billion tax bill just proposed Monday.
New 4th Tier Income Tax Bracket: Joint filers who make $300,000 or more would pay 9%, which is one of the highest tax rates in the country.
Sin Taxes: Because they are “easier” to justify, the House DFL proposed tax increases on cigarettes and alcohol. After cigarettes just got slapped with a 61 cent per pack tax increase at the federal level, this bill would increase it another 54 cents. And alcoholic drinks would have a sales tax increase bringing the rate from 12.1% to 15.7% depending on where it is purchased.
Digital Downloads: Currently if you go to a local store to buy music you will pay sales tax on it. However, if download music digitally online you don’t have to pay taxes on it. The House DFL is proposing to expand the sales tax to digitally downloaded music purchases. This would hurt Minnesota businesses because it’s so easy to purchase digital music from businesses not based in Minnesota (who don’t have sales tax) on the internet.
Eliminating Tax Deductions: The House DFL also hopes to raise $275 million by eliminating several tax deductions including the popular home mortgage interest, charitable contributions, property taxes and others.
The Senate DFL has also proposed their own tax bill – to the tune of $2.2 billion:
New 4th Tier Income Tax Bracket: The Senate bill goes further than the House and creates a new tier for joint filers who make $250,000 or more. The rate is 9.25%.
Across the Board Income Tax Increases: The Senate DFL not only increases taxes on the highest wage-earners, but increases every single income tax rate.
Both House and Senate Democrats insist the only way to resolve the state’s budget shortfall is billions of dollars in new taxes. In order to solve budget deficit for the long term, legislators must reform government spending. Please contact your legislator today and tell them to read “Real State Budget Reform” which is a proposal to solve the budget deficit without raising taxes.
2. Tax Cut Rally – Let Us Know You’ll be There!
Join the Taxpayers League and Jason Lewis at the 2009 Tax Cut Rally! On Saturday, May 2nd, from 11am-4pm thousands of Minnesotans will converge upon the state capitol grounds to tell legislators that their tax-and-spend ways have got to go. This year the Tax Cut Rally is a full fun-filled and family-friendly day with many activities, including:
Food
Exhibitors
Emailing Legislators about not raising taxes to balance the budget!
American Freedom Display
Borders Books
Remembering Our Troops Tour
Tax Cut Rally T-Shirts
And best of all….a great line up of speakers including Governor “Veto Pen” Pawlenty and “America’s Mr. Right” Jason Lewis.
You won’t want to miss this! Visit our website for the latest news and to help.
3. The Spend, Spend, Spend Plan
The first major finance bill to pass the state House and Senate this year does nothing to help balance the state’s $6 billion budget deficit.
In fact, it is another multi-million spending package in the form of a bonding bill. The Senate’s version is $329 million and the House’s is slightly smaller. Although even years are when the state legislature usually passes bonding bills, the state legislature decided to use the wavering economy as a justification for spending more taxpayer dollars this year.
But does the state of Minnesota really need $11 million for gorilla and polar bear exhibits, $6.5 million for a women’s hockey exposition center, and $4 million for a volleyball facility?
Just like in Washington, legislators in St. Paul are creating more debt for taxpayers and their children and their tax-and-spend ways must be exposed. What a great reason to join us at the Tax Cut Rally on May 2nd!
Read more about the bonding bills in Phil Krinkie’s column “There They Go Again” here.
4. Don’t Just Sit There – Do Something!
It’s great to see thousands of you across Minnesota out voicing your opinion on government spending and taxes at the Tax Day Tea Party held on April 15th. Maybe you feel you need to get involved in doing your part to hold government accountable but don’t know quite how. We’ve got an answer for you!
Become a watchdog on your own local government! Join the Taxpayers League and the Freedom Foundation of Minnesota as we kick off our local watchdog campaign! On Saturday, May 9th we’re hosting a training day on starting a local watchdog group. Now is the time to get involved, so don’t miss this event!
The local watchdog training will be at the Taxpayers League office on May 9th from 9am-1:30pm. Our address is 2050 Old Highway 8 NW in New Brighton. Email Brad for more info and to reserve your spot.
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Taxpayers League of Minnesota
PO Box 120444
St. Paul, MN 55112
Phone: 651-294-3590 |
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80036 - Tue Apr 21 19:40:14 2009 - [DFL The thief that just keeps on taking ] By: LIB Reader Online |
The DFL, the thief that just keeps on taking and the number one reason we all need to go green and read the LIB online for free saving money, energy and the trees.
***NEWS FLASH***
BIG GOVERNMENT = MORE TAXES AND FEES TAKEN FROM YOU
The DFL Progressives are anything but progressive. Like the kiss of death, the Progressive endorsement is another hand in your pocket via higher taxes, new taxes and fees.
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Duluth News Tribune
Published April 21 2009
Senate plan would raise all income taxes
The Minnesota Senate will consider raising all state income taxes, with married couples earning more than $250,000 annually being taxed at a new, higher 9.25 percent rate. Photo: Senate staffer JoAnne Zoff explains a tax proposal as Sen. Tom Bakk of Cook looks on Tuesday. Don Davis/Forum State Capitol Bureau
By: Don Davis ddavis@forumcomm.com, Forum Communications State Capitol Bureau
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The Minnesota Senate will consider raising all state income taxes, with married couples earning more than $250,000 annually being taxed at a new, higher 9.25 percent rate.
Higher income taxes are the key to the Democratic-Farmer-Labor controlled Senate plan that raises taxes $2 billion all told.
Today's announcement sets up a three-way tax battle with the House and Gov. Tim Pawlenty.
The DFL-controlled House on Monday begin looking at a plan that keeps all income taxes the same except for couples who earn more than $300,000. They would pay 9 percent of their income in taxes. The House bill also would raise tobacco and alcohol taxes.
"It's bad enough that Democrats propose giving Minnesota one of the highest income tax rates in the nation and raising taxes on someone having a beer or a glass of wine," Pawlenty spokesman Brian McClung said. "But they really go over the cliff when they propose to increase taxes for child care or for donating an organ."
Republican Pawlenty continues to say he will not accept a state tax increase. However, he does add revenue to his budget proposal by borrowing $1 billion.
The Senate plan raises the lowest income tax rate from 5.3 percent to 6 percent. Middle-income Minnesotans now pay 7.05 percent of their income in taxes, but under the Senate plan it would rise to 7.7 percent. The former upper bracket taxpayers' rates rise from 7.85 percent to 8.5 percent.
The Senate's proposed tax increases would run through 2013.
It also allows Cook County to use its existing local sales tax for more uses than one community center and allows the Seaway Port Authority of Duluth to levy a property tax up to 0.01813 percent. It also allows Cloquet and Perch Lake Township to levy a property tax up to 0.2835 percent of taxable market value.
Also, the bill eliminates truth in taxation hearings that local governments now are required to hold, giving the public a chance to comment on budget decisions.
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80035 - Tue Apr 21 14:04:50 2009 - [How to check assessed value] By: Cynic |
| Dave D., You go to the city of duluth web site and then take that to the assessors office. Once there you go to property search. I search the properties either by name or address. Once the property comes up you click on it and it gives you all the info like size, year built, value of land, value of home, owner, last sale and for how much, and also how much the property is assessed at. The site is not 100 percent up to date but it gives you a good idea. |
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80034 - Tue Apr 21 13:16:17 2009 - [Wagner already has signs out & about] By: Jon D |
| I see the left-winged nut district 2 candidate Rob DELETED Wagner already has lawn signs out & about, also already handing out campaign materials? Oh my god what has Duluth become? Drum roll please.................... |
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80033 - Tue Apr 21 08:44:07 2009 - [Obama authorized a TAX on pirates] By: Fox |
| The White House announced today that BHO did not authorize ATTACKS on the Pirates, he authorized A TAX on the pirates" |
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80032 - Tue Apr 21 08:40:18 2009 - [From City of Duluth's website] By: Dead Inside |
Right here, chief. The link is from the city of duluth's website...
http://www.duluthmn.gov/assessor/search/index.cfm |
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80031 - Tue Apr 21 07:50:12 2009 - [DFL candidates already "hand picked"] By: Patty Duke |
Gotta read this one folks, from Kim Johnson's blog at:
http://www.wdio.com/article/11479/
It was the who's who of Duluth's progressive community at the dinner. All the left-leaning city councilors and council candidates addressed the room, some making bolder statements than others. Councilor Sharla Gardner said the dialouge on the council needs to be shifted to the left. "A lot of the dialogue on the council is dominated to the right," she said. "We have some great progressive candidates who will shift dialogue."
Councilor Jeff Anderson agreed and said an example of the "right dialouge" was at last week's DEDA meeting when Commissioner Jay Fosle opposed sending a represenative to Sweden for a sister cities trip to learn about green initiatives. Fosle didn't think spending $1,500 was wise and asked if it could be "looked up on the web" instead.
Keep in mind, the Progressive have already rolled out many of their candidates. Elizabeth Olson, Patrick Boyle, Kerry Gauthier. Hartmann's already announced but I don't know how "progressive" he is. DFL endorsing convention is mid-May. Why so early? There could be other DFL candidates out there that haven't made the decision yet. Why? Because their slate has already been decided.
I, for one, don't want more left-leaning conversations on the city council. Look where that's got us the last few decades or so. |
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80030 - Tue Apr 21 07:44:42 2009 - [Democrat Soros is making billions ] By: Javier |
Mr. Duluth, winners during this economic meltdown? Google search George Soros and you'll learn about the billions he made short-selling.
Remember Soros? Yeah, he's the money behind MoveOn.org |
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80029 - Tue Apr 21 07:37:57 2009 - [CFO's resume is in bankruptcy, hint hint] By: Ed N |
| Is Duluth on the verge of bankruptcy? And is the new CFO here to walk us through it? Why else do you bring someone in who's background was walking a major newspaper through Bankruptcy. |
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80028 - Tue Apr 21 01:22:05 2009 - [Where can assessed value be found?] By: Dave D |
Cynic,
Do you have the link for where to find those Duluth property transactions? I know they list some on the DNT website, but where do you find the assessed value of a property?
Thanks |
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80027 - Tue Apr 21 00:34:35 2009 - [Councilor Anderson is a hugh failure] By: Erik H |
Doesn't the city have big enough problems for the city council to consider? I think Councilor Anderson should be worried about solving Duluth's huge financial problems, fixing our horrible streets, or working to save some of our few remaining jobs rather than ignoring that to try to pass a hugely controversial proposal that is none of the city's business anyway.
I really did give Councilor Anderson a chance but he's turned into a huge failure. |
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80026 - Tue Apr 21 00:02:27 2009 - [Will homo agenda replace council agenda?] By: John |
| What's next, THE HOMOSEXUAL AGENDA in place of the Council Agenda? It was only a matter of time before THE HOMOSEXUAL AGENDA reared its ugly head with Jeff Anderson on the council. |
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80025 - Mon Apr 20 23:40:08 2009 - [Special rights for gays is the law in MN] By: Big Iron |
| You do not have it "straight", Bend Over. There isn't a city or county in MN. that allows benefits for unmarried partners. It's the law. |
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80024 - Mon Apr 20 22:52:13 2009 - [Marriage should be between a man & woman] By: fair and balanced |
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,517137,00.html
Apparently gays don't like honest answers. |
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80023 - Mon Apr 20 22:19:12 2009 - [DFL mafia to "Bury the weinie" again] By: Ben Dover |
Let me get this straight. DFL Duluth mayor Donny Boy Ness has no idea what to do with the $300,000,000.00 health care obligation for city workers yet DFL Duluth city councilor Jeffrey Anderson wants the taxpayers to pick up the health care costs for anyone who wants to sign up and register as partners, either normal sexual orientation or homos. So the answer to the city's health care costs is to pay for those unmarried people as well who want the rest of us to pay for them to play, "Bury the weinie"? What a farce this DFL mafia led city has become. DFL Special Interests at work.
DFL Duluth, looking out for themselves for decades at your expense! Jeff Anderson is trying to once again make Duluth the laughingstock of the U.S. just like Donny Boy did a few months back. What an embarrassment these clowns are. |
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80022 - Mon Apr 20 21:29:37 2009 - [Forget about the Wide Load and move on] By: Casual Observer D |
What is happening with this blog? It used to be about local issues. Now it's just insane people blabbering about nothing. Get back to local issues.
STARFIRE: COD, we agree and although we have tried to limit Claire's postings here to a minimum due to the level of insanity, we like to put a few out just for shits and giggles. |
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80021 - Mon Apr 20 20:30:08 2009 - [Growth forecast a joke and a lie] By: Mr. Duluth |
I hope that Tea Party was fun for those of you who went. I do believe we need to question government spending and the wars we get into as seen in the past. It seems spending money on this current war and now trying to fix an economy without new growth in the forecast is a joke. Our Capitalistic society is about losing too. Sorry, some fail in this game. I think the question is what is the true worth of these stocks and the homes we live in. It seems that faith is to strong a factor in setting a worth as seen by falling prices in the housing market and in stocks during these times.
There are winners during our troubling economic melt down; they are nameless to me, yet they do exist. Perhaps the Trump types or a step below are who these people might be. They are the winners in this game of money. Joe Kennedy, the father of those dead or dying famous sons once blasted this rich elite during the Great Depression saying they are not investing in our country now. Kennedy perhaps was one too. Maybe the same could be said now.
I think the Tea Party was a good thing, yet my concerns are on those making under $40,000 with kids, or single and making under $25,000 in this city. Yes, taxes and this government spending eats up a chunk, but after rent, these other costs keep out pacing many incomes. I see my income go up maybe 2% a year while other costs are going up at a higher percent. My $40,000 is not covering the same costs I had in 2002. I have less today. It is not just the government doing this to me, my taxes have more or less stay the same over the years.
I’m sorry we do need to question worth and those with it and come to terms the others in this game of economics need respect. We can question this government spending now, but where does this BUCK stop folks?
Don’t say China.
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80020 - Mon Apr 20 15:54:50 2009 - [Full of metal & pants down around knees ] By: Cynic |
Ha Ha Ha this was taken out of a piece on the DNT site. The labor force hasn't grown it is people coming here for the free lunch. You do have to act like you are looking for work and sign up at the workforce center(or whatever they call it today). I've run into a few of those in this new labor pool of late. One had so much metal stuck into his body you would think he would come down with blood poisoning. He also walked a little funny because his pants were down around his knees. Ya gotta love the new "workers" coming into the area. Ya they'll stick around all right. he he he he
"...Although jobs remain in short supply, there has been no exodus of people from the Twin Ports. In fact, the labor force in the Duluth-Superior metropolitan statistical area has grown by 917 people between March of this year and last.
“More people are sticking around because they probably think their chances of finding work are better here than elsewhere,” Digby said...." |
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80019 - Mon Apr 20 12:39:17 2009 - [The truth behind Obama's failure to act] By: Paul H. |
A Navy Rear Admiral's take on Obama's decision making concerning the hostages and pirates
Having spoken to some SEAL pals here in Virginia Beach yesterday and asking why this thing dragged out for 4 days, I got the following:
1. BHO wouldn't authorize the DEVGRU/NSWC SEAL teams to the scene for 36 hours going against OSC (on scene commander) recommendation.
2. Once they arrived, BHO imposed restrictions on their ROE that they couldn't do anything unless the hostage's life was in "imminent" danger
3. The first time the hostage jumped, the SEALS had the raggies all sighted in, but could not fire due to ROE restriction
4. When the navy RIB came under fire as it approached with supplies, no fire was returned due to ROE restrictions. As the raggies were shooting at the RIB, they were exposed and the SEALS had them all dialed in.
5. BHO specifically denied two rescue plans developed by the Bainbridge CPN and SEAL teams
6. Bainbridge CPN and SEAL team CDR finally decide they have the OpArea and OSC authority to solely determine risk to hostage. 4 hours later, 3 dead raggies
7. BHO immediately claims credit for his "daring and decisive" behavior. As usual with him, it's BS.
So per our last email thread, I'm downgrading Oohbaby's performance to D-. Only reason it's not an F is that the hostage survived.
Read the following accurate account:
Philips’ first leap into the warm, dark water of the Indian Ocean hadn’t worked out as well. With the Bainbridge in range and a rescue by his country’s Navy possible, Philips threw himself off of his lifeboat prison, enabling Navy shooters onboard the destroyer a clear shot at his captors — and none was taken.
The guidance from National Command Authority — the president of the United States, Barack Obama — had been clear: a peaceful solution was the only acceptable outcome to this standoff unless the hostage’s life was in clear, extreme danger.
The next day, a small Navy boat approaching the floating raft was fired on by the Somali pirates — and again no fire was returned and no pirates killed. This was again due to the cautious stance assumed by Navy personnel thanks to the combination of a lack of clear guidance from Washington and a mandate from the commander in chief’s staff not to act until Obama, a man with no background of dealing with such issues and no track record of decisiveness, decided that any outcome other than a “peaceful
solution” would be acceptable.
After taking fire from the Somali kidnappers again Saturday night, the on scene commander decided he’d had enough.
Keeping his authority to act in the case of a clear and present danger to the hostage’s life and having heard nothing from Washington since yet another request to mount a rescue operation had been denied the day before, the Navy officer — unnamed in all media reports to date — decided the AK47 one captor had leveled at Philips’ back was a threat to the hostage’s life and ordered the NSWC team to take their shots.
Three rounds downrange later, all three brigands became enemy KIA and Philips was safe.
There is upside, downside, and spinside to the series of events over the last week that culminated in yesterday’s dramatic rescue of an American hostage.
Almost immediately following word of the rescue, the Obama administration and its supporters claimed victory against pirates in the Indian Ocean and "1
declared that the dramatic end to the standoff put paid to questions of the inexperienced president’s toughness and decisiveness.
Despite the Obama administration’s (and its sycophants’) attempt to spin yesterday’s success as a result of bold, decisive leadership by the inexperienced president, the reality is nothing of the sort.
What should have been a standoff lasting only hours — as long as it took the USS Bainbridge and its team of NSWC operators to steam to the location — became an embarrassing four day and counting standoff between a ragtag handful of criminals with rifles and a U.S. Navy warship.
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80018 - Mon Apr 20 12:28:50 2009 - [Islamic sharia law in U.S.] By: Paul R. |
Minnesota state agency and Chicago bank abet Islamic sharia law in U.S.
http://creepingsharia.wordpress.com/2009/03/02/minnesota-state-agency-and-chicago-bank-abet-islamic-sharia-law-in-us/ |
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80017 - Mon Apr 20 10:16:06 2009 - [Looney Tune "C" talking to self again] By: Chicken Hammer |
| Subduck at the DCBWank cracks me up. He makes a post titled "DCB Watch Killed The DCB" and in the same post talks about making his blog private, or in other words, killing it. |
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80016 - Mon Apr 20 10:00:05 2009 - [More DFL tax ripoff proof] By: Cynic |
Look up three more property transactions for shits and grins.
1. 5319 Colorado St. sold for $68,000 Assessed at $155,200
2. 4717 Gladstone St sold for $100,000 Assessed at $154,000
3. The other one I checked sold for slightly less than assessed value and the one on Colorado mentioned some kind of trustee.
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80015 - Mon Apr 20 09:38:24 2009 - [Over assessed in Duluth] By: Cynic |
I've only randomly looked up three of the Duluth property transactions so far today and these are the results.
1. 2225 W Arrowhead Road sold for $129.900 Assessed $116,500
2. 2501 Chambersburg ave sold for $105,000 Assessed $145,000
3. 230 W Mankato St sold for $147,000 Assessed $202,700 |
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80014 - Mon Apr 20 00:57:57 2009 - [The true definition of a *Donkey*] By: Big Iron |
| STARFIRE: Small Soft, aren't DFD contracts up in about 6 months or so? I can't wait. How about no raises and staff reductions? Sound good to you? LOL. You jackasses are too much. All mouth, no brain, and greedy as hell. Now if that isn't DFL to the core, I don't know what is. |
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80012 - Sun Apr 19 23:15:00 2009 - [DFL rape tactics taken from Jim Jones?] By: Peoples Temple Leader Rev. Jim Jones |
Mr. Dover. Ben. Don't be so negative. Remember. The DFL. The "progressives". Your "elected" "leaders". They are doing it for you. Yes, Ben. They are doing it for YOU. Drink your kool-aid Ben. Dont ask any questions Ben. Just drink that DFL kool-aid. Yes, Ben, drink that kool-aid, everyone else is. When you drink the DFL kool-aid, you'll see that what they are doing is for you.
STARFIRE: PTL, you should tell the Jim Jones story about when he asked the young girl to the back of the his bus to wait for him at the rest stop on the highway. He then showed up and pulled down his pants and proceeded to rape her and in doing so kept telling her that he way doing it for her sake. This behavior on his part leads me to conclude that Jim Jones was indeed a DFLer. Anyone who rapes another and during the course of the rape tells the victim that the rape is being done just for the benefit of the victim is right out of the DFL playbook. |
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80011 - Sun Apr 19 22:06:45 2009 - [Don't you just love da DFL crack whores ] By: Ben Dover |
Having just returned to Novosibirsk, aka Duluth, MN, and catching up on all things DFL in Duluth as usual, I couldn't help laughing at this one by the Donny Boy Ness in the Budgeteer.
"We are eligible for these funds, and we are worthy of these funds."
He sounds like a DFL crack whore to me. How is Duluth eligible for these funds? Or worthy? By leading the state in low income jobs and having the highest priced fire department in the state as well as the highest poverty rate? How can this bought and paid for DFL Duluth mayor have no shame as all?
Is this what he means by "partnering" with the feds? Is that kinda like partnering with the state, which is, give DFL Duluth more money to keep things afloat while the rest of the state picks up the tab for us?
And what is this about this latest DFL candidate running for council, Kerry Gauthier? I looked up the name on Gaywatch, buit it wasn't there. Maybe they are a little behind right now if you know what I mean. If Kerry gets elected in DFL Duluth we can all expect him and Jeff to do some Packing and ramming this homo rights crap on our tax statement next. That is the ordinance that allows someone to claim that they are in a relationship with another, just people for now, but I expect animals to come next, and then have the taxpayers pick up the medical bills for this special needs, I mean special interest group, all in the name of justice. Don't you just love DFL Duluth? |
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80010 - Sun Apr 19 20:20:45 2009 - ['Obama Deception' on PACT TV] By: PACT Viewer |
| Catch the 'Obama Deception' on PACT TV. Last weekend I seen it on 4 differnt occasions. So look for it on PACT or call down to their office ask when it will be on again. |
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80009 - Sun Apr 19 17:17:23 2009 - [Is it too late for people to wake up?] By: Tara |
NC,
I agree with 911 being an inside job. The people need to wake up before it’s too late. First moves should be peaceful ones. Boycott their mainstream media, Hollywood and actors, and a lot of their advertisers. Devastate their pocketbooks and their power at the same time. The right and left infighting has allowed all this to go on and both fringes are completely blind to the loss of their civil liberties or part of the coup.
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80008 - Sun Apr 19 15:42:09 2009 - [Fetzer may not be way out there] By: Numbers Cruncher |
Rainy, thanks for the heads up. I just viewed your post and now have it on the Numbers Cruncher,
http://numberscruncher.blogspot.com/
The Obama Deception opened up my eyes to Bush being a total fraud and 911 most likely being and inside job. If it could be worse, it looks like what's a head could even be much worse. After viewing this, Jim Fetzer may not be way out there.
This is a must see if you want a chance of control of your destiny.
NC |
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80007 - Sun Apr 19 15:00:43 2009 - [Political allegiance is blinding] By: JBBP |
Don't worry, folks.
It's so typical of the left to try to portray organized acts of protest against any aspects of their various agendas as 'right-wing' or 'Republican.' It doesn't matter what the issue is, really, be it taxation, abortion, gay marriage, property rights, education, whatever.
Don't miss the point of all of this. It isn't only about taxation. I think all of us are aware of the fact that we need to pay taxes in order to support a military/infrastructure, etc. that will benefit the citizens and protect the nation.
What we are acknowledging, and challenging, is the corruption that has infected the entire system, which is being used to extort hard-earned money from the citizens to be diverted to things that are anything but in the interests of the citizens. This network of political crones have hijacked the Constitution by warping and misusing its words to suit their own agendas, counting on the masses to swallow their slanted interpretations without the masses' bothering to actually READ the document.
We have collectively trusted these elected officials like contented cattle, who don't even realize who or what is supplying their(our) feed because it's always been there, without taking into account the reasons they(we) are being fed and provided for. They(we) will be used for something, guaranteed...but they(we) live in the moment.
We can no longer afford to 'live in the moment.' We can no longer have the attitude that says well, if it's good for me, it must be good. We can no longer overlook or otherwise ignore who and what stands to benefit from the government through inflated wages, imposed regulations, mandates, campaign donations, and out-and-out bailouts...nor can we ignore the reasons/individuals behind these schemes.
Incidentally, former city councilor Russ Stewart was at the tea party event, and he even gave a speech. He isn't by any stretch a 'right wing/conservative/Republican,' so that obviously isn't why HE was there, is it? People whose politics hail from the entire political spectrum were there.
It scares the hell out of the left when their propoganda methods are failing to divide the people by political party or economic/racial/gender/religious status. They like to invoke class warfare in order to create the distractions necessary to divert the battle/attention away from themselves.
That's been relatively easy for them to accomplish...but not anymore. The awakening of this sleeping giant, this beast of burden that has carried them with broken back for all these years...is proving to be much to their thinly-veiled chagrin.
Thank you. |
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80006 - Sun Apr 19 13:05:02 2009 - [Obama is only an agenda tool like Bush ] By: Rainy Day Viewing |
The Obama Deception Full Length
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7535755025025800195
The Obama Deception is a hard-hitting film that completely destroys the myth that Barack Obama is working for the best interests of the American people. The Obama phenomenon is a hoax carefully crafted by the captains of the New World Order. He is being pushed as savior in an attempt to con the American people into accepting global slavery. We have reached a critical juncture in the New World Orders plans. Its not about Left or Right: its about a One World Government. The international banks plan to loot the people of the United States and turn them into slaves on a Global Plantation. Covered in this film: who Obama works for, what lies he has told, and his real agenda. If you want to know the facts and cut through all the hype, this is the film for you. Watch the Obama Deception and learn how: * Obama is continuing the process of transforming America into something that resembles Nazi Germany, with forced National Service, domestic civilian spies, warrantless wiretaps, the destruction of the Second Amendment, FEMA camps and Martial Law. * Obamas handlers are openly announcing the creation of a new Bank of the World that will dominate every nation on earth through carbon taxes and military force. * International bankers purposefully engineered the worldwide financial meltdown to bankrupt the nations of the planet and bring in World Government. * Obama plans to loot the middle class, destroy pensions and federalize the states so that the population is completely dependent on the Central Government. * The Elite are using Obama to pacify the public so they can usher in the North American Union by stealth, launch a new Cold War and continue the occupation of Iraq and Afghanistan. The information contained in this film is vital to the future of the Republic and to freedom worldwide. President Barack Obama is only the tool of a larger agenda. Until all are made aware, humanity will remain captive to the masters of the New World Order. |
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80005 - Sun Apr 19 10:27:45 2009 - [The troll living beneath rocks] By: Clairism |
Here's another piece against our own Claire who claimed that the tea party crowd was only 100-150, only to be refuted by one of her own:
http://www.duluthnewstribune.com/event/article/id/118076/group/home/
Excerpt:
We do know that crowd counts, especially for political events, can be incendiary. So three of our staffers got involved in trying to get the Duluth number right. Multimedia Editor Jimmy Bellamy, who was shooting video footage, counted out about 100 people in the crowd and then went through the rest of the pack, section by section. He counted seven roughly 100-person sections.
Separately, Photo Editor Bob King found the right vantage point and snapped a shot of the entire crowd. Without counting every head, he did a rough assessment similar to Bellamy’s and arrived at about 700 people. He showed the photo to reporter Andy Greder and asked him to do the same, without telling him his result. Greder also came up with about 700.
Claire is the troll, living beneath rocks. Keep it up, you're providing great entertainment. Feel free to cut and past this on your blog. This one is UNALTERED. |
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80004 - Sun Apr 19 08:01:04 2009 - [Self-loathing liberal D-baggers scared] By: Dennis Miller |
My morning thought for the day:
It's better to be an independent minded tea bagger the scared self-loathing narcissistic liberal D-bagger DFLer.
http://www.freedomdogs.com/news-archive-mainmenu-2/105-far-left-madness/3749-comeuppance.html
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80003 - Sat Apr 18 18:26:21 2009 - [Why DNT staff need to look 4 new jobs] By: Joel Syphilis |
THIS IS WHY THE DULUTH BUDGETEER IS GOING OUT OF BUSINESS. SINCE WHEN DID A CREDIBLE NEWS SOURCE USE A UNKNOWN RUMP RUNNER BLOGGER NAMED PATSY AND FAKE GRASSROOTS, A.K.A. CLAIRE "C OF THE LOCAL BLOGOSPHERE" AS A SOURCE. THIS IS AMATEUR AT BEST AND DEMONSTRATES HOW OUT OF TOUCH JANA IS WITH THE REAL WORLD AND WHY SHE WILL SOON BE ANOTHER NEWSPAPER STATISTIC.
Published April 17 2009
Our View: Tea Parties not exactly non-partisan
Duluth’s Tax Day Tea Party drew an estimated crowd of 700 tax-weary Northlanders. Photo by Bob King/News TribuneRELATED CONTENT
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On the surface, Wednesday’s Tax Day Tea Parties from coast to coast seemed like somewhat spontaneous events.
After all, they were heralded as nonpartisan, grassroots and hastily organized demonstrations over federal spending.
But then another side of the story emerged.
Reality is, these “nonpartisan” events were organized by conservative advocacy groups such as Americans for Prosperity and Freedom Works.
Speaking with AFP’s Tim Phillips, CNN’s Rick Sanchez asked, “Why didn’t we see these during the Bush administration, who, by the way, has been accused, by the right and the left, of being a bit of a spendthrift himself?”
It was an observation that resonated locally.
“The sad part about the whole "protest
,” Patsy wrote on Perfect Duluth Day, “is that the right-wing locals who promoted this as an anti-government spending rally don’t seem to realize it was a national effort to protest the Obama administration’s attempt to fix what the "Bush
administration left behind.”
On that, while many attended the Tea Party protests held across the nation, a USA Today/Gallup Poll released Wednesday found that 52 percent of those polled approve of the government “expanding its role to deal with the economic crisis.”
And, as for the extent of the events’ “grassroots” nature, a blogger on CommonDreams.org hit the nail on the head when he/she called the Tea Parties “Astroturf.”
“Fake grassroots,” wrote $ave the Rich. “It’s what you get when big business and rich zealots hire pricey consultants to manufacture public outrage.”
This is all a shame, because, had these Tea Parties actually been non-partisan — instead of a GOP tactic to get its members fired up again — they could have sent a much stronger message.
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80002 - Sat Apr 18 11:23:19 2009 - [DFL Duluth Crime Continues] By: Locals Gone Wild |
DATE:April 18, 2009
SUBJECT: Officer involved shooting
CASE #:09259929
INCIDENT DATE:April 18, 2009
INCIDENT TIME:0356 hrs
INCIDENT LOCATION:11th Ave. West and 5 St. W.
NATURE OF INCIDENT:Officer Involved Shooting
BY:Lt. Leigh Wright
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Description:
On April 18, 2009, at approximately 0356hrs, Duluth Police Officers responded to the area of 7th Ave. West and 2nd street, reference a hit and run. A uhaul vehicle was reported to have struck a number of vehicles in a parking lot at that location. The uhaul left this area and was noted to be in the area of 11th Ave. West and 5th Street. Officers engaged the suspect vehicle, which resulted in the discharge of an officers firearm. Two squad cars sustained damage, as well as the uhaul vehicle.
At this time it is unknown how the suspect, who has been identified as a white male, age 24, obtained the uhaul vehicle. Alcohol may have been a factor. A St. Louis County Deputy was involved and treated at the hospital. The suspect is in the St. Louis County Jail pending charges. The Bureau of Criminal Apprehension, along with the State Patrol is conducting the investigation.
Questions will be answered in a press conference at 4:00 pm today at the West Duluth Police Station, 5315 Grand Ave. |
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80001 - Sat Apr 18 09:36:29 2009 - [WIDELOAD's mentor is on You Tube] By: Tom A |
My WIDELOAD's mentor is on You Tube. Don't they look a like? Hot hot hot!
WIDELOAD mentor declares Tea Party attendees racist and Keith Olbermann agrees
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jAAHMDpk7Ik |
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80000 - Sat Apr 18 07:28:35 2009 - [C's can't count] By: Clairism |
Seems the examples of Democrats having trouble counting like Claire keep coming from underneath the rocks. Seems Franken ain't paying his lawyers:
http://www.startribune.com/politics/national/senate/43205717.html?elr=KArksLckD8EQDUoaEyqyP4O:DW3ckUiD3aPc:_Yyc:aUUT |
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79999 - Fri Apr 17 23:03:09 2009 - [Another name for Ne$$ is "easy money"] By: Dolla Bill |
"Money for nothing and your chicks for free....."
Ne$$ outline$ $50 million in Duluth $timulu$ project$
Duluth Mayor Don Ne$$ credited the city’$ teamwork in lining up an approximate $50 million $hare of the $500 billion $timulu$ package allocated for $tate and local program$.
By: Andy Greder, Duluth News Tribune
http://www.duluthnewstribune.com/event/article/id/117960/ |
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79998 - Fri Apr 17 22:00:57 2009 - [Cabinet of Corruption Czars Continues] By: Hugo |
Obama is a fool. Read this latest one.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124000437105430225.html |
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79995 - Fri Apr 17 15:57:58 2009 - [Duluth to be named in petition] By: Inspector Clouseau |
We are planning a petition in St. Paul and Duluth , both Home Rule Charter Cities, to require photo I.D. at the polls, in accordance with MS 410.21.
http://www.mnvoters.org/ |
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79994 - Fri Apr 17 14:15:07 2009 - [Fetzer black helicopter PA theory] By: Lisa M |
| Cornholio, yesterday I was kicked off Progressive Action's email listserve and a comment I posted on DNT's website was also taken down because I'd reposted comments other people had written elsehwhere and altered them. I'm really worried that someone on PA's steering committee or at the DNT is going to look at my name and figure out who I am married to. Believe me, this would be a *total* embarrassment -- and not just for me. I'm going to stop spying on and harassing those people, before my name starts getting bandied about, two and two are put together, and my husband has some explaining to do -- like why his wife is using her maiden name to join a progressive blog and then reposting and altering its members' comments elsewhere. |
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79993 - Fri Apr 17 12:36:40 2009 - [Abort Obamas' DFL Socialist Stimulus] By: Barrack ain't Abe |
A tea party sign not seen, ABORT OBAMAS' DFL SOCIALIST STIMULUS NOT BABIES!!!!!
It is comforting to see the level of interest and fear three and a half short months of DFL domination in the White House is bringing too Americans. Now if organized labor can see the writting, i.e. GM, on the wall and know their work and their vote stand theatened by their own party! Russ Stewart can explain this. Socialism is nurtured by corrupt greed, democracy is nurtured by earned honest need. Duluth's socialist political tendencies and corrupt greed laiden history, which were bought with the economic health of our City by the likes of Don Ne$$, Gilbert, Cueno, Gardner, Bergson, Lori Johnson and so many more should be enough example that no one need explain the results of socialism with it's illegal pandering and greed. |
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79992 - Fri Apr 17 10:01:16 2009 - [Economic crisis driven by sub prime mess] By: Historian |
I think a lot of folks will admit that the sub-prime mortgage mess, and all the shenanigans tied to sub-prime mortgages, are a large driver for this economic crisis that we’re in. Here is a wonderful article from the NY Times in 1999 that I would recommend that everyone read:
http://www.nytimes.com/1999/09/30/business/fannie-mae-eases-credit-to-aid-mortgage-lending.html?sec=&spon=&&scp=2&sq=franklin%20d.%20raines&st=cse
Here is an excerpt, again, from 9-30-1999 New York Times:
In moving, even tentatively, in this new area of lending, Fannie Mae is taking on significantly more risk, which may not pose any difficulties during flush economic times. But the government-subsidized corporation may run into trouble in an economic downturn, PROMPTING A GOVERNMENT RESCUE SIMILAR TO THAT OF THE SAVINGS AND LOAN INDUSTRY IN THE 1980’S.
Read this article and then ask yourself who is predominantly responsible for what we’re going through right now. By the way, 1999 was during the Clinton administration.
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79991 - Fri Apr 17 07:54:28 2009 - [34% more in taxes here we go] By: Morning J |
34% more in taxes for Fire,Police and Bullshit developers who can walk away from their debts. Let's build a dog park on top of a shit tank, How about we bond 2 million for another parking lot and give it to the Hospital.Maybe we need to by more For Sale signs for the empty buildings downtown. I guess it's our fault because we didn't give enough of our money to the state who in return did not give it back to the city. No wonder Winson quit.I don't think anyone with an once of sense, could sell this kind of end around bullshit. Would all of our State, County, City and School board politico's Please just stop trying to fix what you created? At least until we can VOTE YOU OUT of Office. Thank You
p.s. Maybe we should charge You a Fee for every bad idea you pass while in office? |
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79990 - Fri Apr 17 06:18:44 2009 - [DFL tax suckers till death PR machine] By: LIB Reader Online |
You have to wonder is this just another bogus part of the Reinert PR machine or anything of substance, not the usual suspect DFL smoke and mirrors. Either way, it is going from one DFL tax sucking for life entity to another.
The DFL tax suckers till death is today's reason to go green and read the LIB online for free saving money, energy and the trees.
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Duluth News Tribune
Published April 17 2009
Reader's view: City trying to unload aquarium on UMD
I was alarmed, but not shocked, that state Rep. Roger Reinert, a former Duluth city councilor, was pushing for legislation in St. Paul allowing the University of Minnesota Duluth to take over the Great Lakes Aquarium. I shouldn’t have to remind Duluthians about the facility’s history, given all the unfavorable financial publicity it has had since day one.
Reinert, after spending years on the City Council, learned from the inside the shortcomings and problems the city has had all these years to keep the aquarium afloat. Now, as a member of the Legislature, armed with information he received from City Hall, Reinert wants UMD to take over.
I suspect there is an ulterior motive playing here: transferring the facility from the city to UMD would cause less controversy than any other agency of government because the educational process seems to be insulated from public opinion. The university and state eventually would swallow all costs, allowing a slam dunk for the city.
City Hall would be ecstatic to learn it could unload this burden. The city has way too much on its plate to not encourage such a plan. Poli-tics as usual.
Aquarium Director Jack LaVoy, no stranger to politics as an ex-legislative member from Duluth, should be in position to offer the finest advice to all parties concerned.
C. Fred Anderson
Duluth
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79989 - Thu Apr 16 23:04:47 2009 - [Progressive problem solved] By: The Great Cornholio |
| Hey, thanks for the information Muff ! I'll contact them and make some inquiries. |
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79988 - Thu Apr 16 22:43:04 2009 - [Duluth/Superior Tea Party on You Tube] By: Web Hound |
Another You Tube - The Duluth/Superior Tea Parties with a nice tune.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_EEoYozM_no |
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79987 - Thu Apr 16 22:16:08 2009 - [Progressive leadership can help] By: Muff Iver |
http://www.prog-action.org/commitee.htm
Great corn maybe one of the progressive steerers can help you join progresive action. |
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79986 - Thu Apr 16 22:02:48 2009 - [It's fun to stay at the Y-M-C-A] By: Gay Watch |
| I wonder if Pig Iron in his firefigher outfit was at the tea party yesterday. I didn't see the Village People dancing with Councilor Jeff Anderson or www.VictoryFund.org candadate Kerry Gauthier. |
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79985 - Thu Apr 16 21:50:09 2009 - [Progressive help sought] By: The Great Cornholio |
Question for you all. How does one subscribe to progressive actions "email discussion group" ?
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79984 - Thu Apr 16 21:48:44 2009 - [Obama Becomes a Ch-Ch-Chia Pet] By: Jive Talkin Honky |
The special edition Obama Chia Pet is now available for purchase. Stimulate the economy, go buy one now.
These are Progressive Action approved and recommended.
http://www.vibe.com/news/news_headlines/2009/01/obama_chia_pet/ |
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79983 - Thu Apr 16 21:46:50 2009 - [From C to shining C] By: Joel Syphilis |
| The Clair, "C", is one hot progressive babe and her husband must be the C-Man. |
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79982 - Thu Apr 16 19:57:11 2009 - [Guess who has a stinky Tea bag?] By: Out of the know |
| I read on this blog about a female (assumption) that has the name of Claire. Can someone tell me who she is and why the fuss about her. She has been mentioned several times and one blogger told her to change her "tea bag" because it is starting to stink. If this Clair Blogger is a female I think it is not appropriate to talk about her "cycle" like that. Keep the conversation about the issues and not personal. As a female, lets keep this Blog on the up and up. |
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79981 - Thu Apr 16 19:51:37 2009 - [Russ, welcome home my friend] By: Business Owner |
| The speakers at the Tea Party were awesome. Russ Stewart, welcome home my friend. You are truly an American. To change your thinking from where you began is truly amazing. The movement begins and I'll be part of it. Great Job organizers. |
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79980 - Thu Apr 16 11:57:38 2009 - [A few belts and funny as hell] By: jthyme |
| I found this quote from Alan Canton's blog " And when Claire has a few belts in her, she is funny as hell." And yes, he is talking about OUR Claire. |
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79979 - Thu Apr 16 11:54:32 2009 - [Duluth Tea Party on youtube] By: Web Hound |
Nice job Duluth Tea Party
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pm8E0e2l9mI |
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79978 - Thu Apr 16 11:50:37 2009 - [Check it out here] By: jthyme |
Or you could just check it out here:
http://www.prog-action.org/
but I had more fun posting my last message. |
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79977 - Thu Apr 16 11:47:51 2009 - [None of this is private stuff ] By: jthyme |
| Well, she claims she's a writer, so I just googled her name and the first 5 things that came up are about her publishing/writing info. The 6th item that came up was how she was elected to the Progressive Action's steering committee. Then I hit IMAGES on google and there she is! None of this is private stuff either....it's all public info so it's not like anybody is invading her privacy. If she doesn't want people to see her then she shouldn't have her picture taken with "famous" people like Dave Barry. Just make sure you spell her name right....DELETED. I'm sure she will get all pissy that I actually put her full name on here but if you're going to be a writer/publisher, you want people to know you and talk about you, right? I'm just doing my part. |
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79976 - Thu Apr 16 11:08:39 2009 - [Say No to the Drunken Spending Frenzy] By: Cynic |
I would like to say thanks to all those who showed up at the tea party for the people of Duluth and the surrounding area. I wish I could have been there but a doctors appointment kept me away. Hopefully there will be more and I will be there with bells on. We have a government out of control and it can only be changed by we the people.
The people who protested in Superior were said to be something like drunks who protest against detox by their elected official. It is the elected officials who are the drunks buying round after round for the whole bar with other peoples money. They cannot see straight with their lust for power and payoffs. They are drunk with their frenzy of spending funny money. They care not who they take down with them as long as they get their pay off.
Funny how the protest in Duluth took place behind the DECC where they now spending 57 million of taxpayers dollars. Watching Donny Ness and all the paid off politicians and union officials with shovels in their hands made me sick to my stomach. Hell I don't think one of them has ever worked hard enough to have a blood blister pop while working a shovel and you just keep going. |
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79975 - Thu Apr 16 10:30:36 2009 - [New weight loss program?] By: Sue |
| Please share jthyme, where can I see this picture? Maybe it will be an incentive to lose weight. |
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79972 - Thu Apr 16 08:31:23 2009 - [DFL mafia pull puppet strings at meeting] By: Gen. Grant |
Westender:
You caught it too. The labor guy walked right up to Cuneo and told him in no uncertain terms how "labor is a friend of Cuneo, and don't forget it". Maybe they should learn to turn off their mikes as not to be overheard. I wonder how many other people heard the orders at the Council Meeting???? |
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79971 - Thu Apr 16 08:28:32 2009 - [It's time to clean house. Let it roll.] By: Dead Inside |
| The tea party means nothing if not backed by action. I hope some good comes out of it. If people are fed up enough and the start of a civil revolution does begin, it will be a great historic time in america. All of america's people as one bullet against the government and big business will do much to getting america on the right track once again. It's time to clean house. Let it roll. |
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79970 - Thu Apr 16 07:55:14 2009 - [I almost lost my breakfast!] By: jthyme |
| Holy sh*t! I just saw a photo of what C looks like and I almost lost my breakfast! HEE HAW!!!!!!!!!!!!! |
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79969 - Thu Apr 16 07:08:41 2009 - [Tea party site news video links tell all] By: Cyrus the Virus |
| Claire is nothing more than a progressive political hack and her day of being outted is coming. I was on the www.duluthteaparty.com site watching the news videos and there where a lot of people there. The revolution is beginning. |
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79968 - Thu Apr 16 06:54:51 2009 - ["C" stands for CAN'T COUNT] By: Web Hound Jr. |
Denny Anderson from WDIO doesn't recall a protest this big in the 40 years he's been in Duluth. Obviously "C" stands for CAN'T COUNT.
See the story at: http://www.wdio.com/article/stories/S881465.shtml?cat=10335 |
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79967 - Thu Apr 16 00:48:12 2009 - [Earth to Claire, where are you??????] By: JBBP |
Claire claims, according to her post, that she was at the tea party taking 'panoramic pictures' at 1 PM, with a question mark in parenthesis after...
Maybe she didn't realize that the party started at 12:15. If she showed up 'around 1 PM,' it was probably closer to around 1:30 or so. Or later than that, when people were leaving because the event was over.
I suppose she figured that all those people and all the traffic must have been tourists who are so smitten with DFL Duluth. After all, it was so nice out.
The newspaper and the local TV stations took pictures, too. Claire can show her panoramic pictures to anybody she wants. It won't jive with the truth, anyway, which isn't much of a surprise....I'm pretty sure that, if she used a digital camera, the date/time are displayed.
Ya gotta figure...if they can't get the time right, they more than likely aren't very good at math, either. Numbers seem to pose a problem for the Claires, especially when they align with anything having to do with reality.
What a goofball.
Thank you. |
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79965 - Wed Apr 15 23:56:26 2009 - [10,000 at Tea Party in St. Paul] By: RonPaulGuy |
| I just returned from the Tea Party in St. Paul. 10,000 people showed up. I have video and pictures to prove the size of the crown. Incredible!! Now we just need to keep the momentum going and take our country back before we are all send the gulag for our "radical" behavior. There were no instances of violence or rage like the animals that showed up to protest the RNC. Seems we have a new breed of protestor in this country. We are intelligent, educated, and know how to behave like human beings. We haven't been seen in the past because we are busy being productive citizens. We are coming out now because we are fed up with providing for the parisites in this society that our government seems to encourage and enable. We have had enough!! |
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79964 - Wed Apr 15 22:56:51 2009 - [Uglystick hit hard again by own comrades] By: Pinocchio |
Amazing, the one beat with the "ugly stick" is even refuted by one of her own from the Progressive Action listserv.
Claire Kirch:
Did anyone venture behind the DECC to the Tea Bag Party? The DNT report has blatantly inflated the numbers. I say it looked to me from my vantage point at 1 pm?like 100 people, maybe 150 MAX. DNT is reporting 700, which is such an outrageous lie, it makes me want to puke. I took a few pics, I should send them to the DNT and ask where 600 people went. The DNT has totally sold out to its right-wing corporate owners in Fargo -- now they're falsifying crowd counts in their reporting. Shame on them.
Next post:
I think Mr. Greder the reporter must have asked organizers how many people and they told him "Oh, 700." And he BELIEVED them. I think, after zooming in on the panorama pic I took, there's more than 100 people -- maybe 200.
Definitely nothing near 700, no way.
Claire
Naomi Yaeger:
I was there taking photos. There were easily 700 people there.
Next post:
Where you there Claire????
I go to lots and lots of events.
There was almost no parking ...and it isn't even tourist season.
Pinocchio's add:
This is impressive Claire. You don't even have credibility within your circle of friends. I go back to the saying "With friends like that, who need enemies".
What a Kook.
Thanks Naomi, for at least speaking the truth, whether or not you agree with the folks who attended. I respect that A LOT more than "the one with many handles"
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79963 - Wed Apr 15 22:35:42 2009 - [Obama govt. says right wing is a threat] By: MP |
Here is the actual text of the Department of Homeland Security memo on right wing extremist groups.
http://www.fas.org/irp/eprint/rightwing.pdf
* (U) Rightwing extremism in the United States can be broadly divided into those groups, movements, and adherents that are primarily hate-oriented (based on hatred of particular religious, racial or ethnic groups), and those that are mainly antigovernment, rejecting federal authority in favor of state or local authority, or
rejecting government authority entirely. It may include groups and individuals that are dedicated to a single issue, such as opposition to abortion or immigration. |
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79962 - Wed Apr 15 22:33:21 2009 - [Claire & wife should keep abicus at home] By: Oliver Hardy |
Claire and her fat a$$, along with her sniveling female dominated husband, should keep their abicus at home. 100-150? I wonder what brand of vodka she was in. There was at least 100 signs there.
Or maybe she was counting all the dissatisfied customers from overpriced omelettes at the Chester Creak Coffee Shop when she made the observation.
It's also interesting to see the wide load, with her 50-some aliases, posting on the Duluth News Tribune website. Heh, Claire, we've read Saul Alinksy too. Don't give yourself too much credit, we've figured you and your aliases out. |
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79960 - Wed Apr 15 22:14:50 2009 - [Silent majority appears to be waking up] By: Ben Dover |
The Tea party event today was a thing of beauty. A lot of signs and a sea of people and all I can say is that I only recognized a handful of them. The silent majority appears to be waking up.
Adam R: The Ugly Stick, aka Claire, may have a new gig going. I heard that they are planning on using Claire look alikes on the merchant ships as "Clairecrows" instead of scarecrows to keep away the fine upstanding folks she loves so much who are pirating innocent people just like their second cousins are doing right here in Duluth.
As usual, the leftist media tried all it could to diminish the size of this event both locally and throughout the country. But try as they will to silence the people, let us hope that real change is on the way. You can put all the anti war homos in this city together and all their lame events of the past several years and you still don't have the same number of people who came out today to express themselves.
Congratulations to all those who are starting to get it that the enemy is right here among us. If you don't know who they are, ask yourself how many DFL parasites you saw in the crowd. I would bet none as they are too busy on the taxpayer nipple sucking the life right out of us. Why would Donny Boy show up when he is pulling down $100,000 a year just smiling and acting like he knows what the hell is happening. It sure beats his minimum wage part time job he had though doesn't it. I can't wait to see the day when the people send the whole works of criminals down the road.
Funny how Donny Boy makes an appearance at all the BS shit like Gay Days and all those special interest events, yet where was he when people from all walks of life came out to express their displeasures with the criminals running our government? You can bet that a politician like him would change tunes in a heartbeat if the tide really starts to change and he would probably pull a Gore and take credit for organizing the event. |
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79959 - Wed Apr 15 21:55:22 2009 - [The movement begins NOW] By: Kenneth J. |
| I participated in the tea party behind the DECC and I came away impressed and engerized. The movement begins NOW |
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79958 - Wed Apr 15 21:06:34 2009 - [1,216 people counted by organizers] By: Doug |
| There were 1,216 people counted before counting was done according to event organizers that had people counting. Regarding this Claire saying 20 people would show up, what do you expect from the far left, fiscal skills? Their inept mathematic abilities are why these protests are happening nation wide. It was an great turnout and I look forward to bigger and louder. |
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79957 - Wed Apr 15 21:04:29 2009 - [Did anyone tape the Tea Party today?] By: Peter |
| Did anyone tape the Tea party today? I'd love to air it on Public Access TV if someone did. |
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79956 - Wed Apr 15 19:27:22 2009 - [Unprecedented success for Duluth] By: JBBP |
The tea party turnout was an unprecedented success for Duluth.
It was great to see that there are so many people in this area who are willing to take action against extortive taxation,ridiculous government spending, and debt that will strapple taxpayers for generations. There were at least 700 people there behind the DECC, and it was all accomplished via the internet, word of mouth, and a couple of blurbs on the radio.
The people are waking up. Watch out, politicians!
I can't wait to go attend another event like this one!
Thank you. |
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79955 - Wed Apr 15 17:35:29 2009 - [Things are heating up] By: Nathan H. |
Things are heating up. According to our current government our founding fathers were EXTREMISTS! Heaven help us.
Federal agency warns of radicals on right
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/apr/14/federal-agency-warns-of-radicals-on-right/print/ |
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79953 - Wed Apr 15 15:30:48 2009 - [Wide Load was a no show?] By: Adam R |
A buddy just phoned me and said that the Duluth Tea Party was outstanding and had a great turnout. He said that there was nothing "ugly" there so I took this to mean that Claire was a no show. Well, it sounds like she was right on about the 20 people she predicted would show up though. LOL, how many hundred were really there?
For anyone else who has been keeping up on the readings of Regressive Action and their attacks on Russ Stewart, it is all pretty sad isn't it. These clowns call Russ "mean spirited" and many other things yet not a one of them even tried to refute his math on the outrageous Obama spending. Same old lefty rhetoric with no substance, just "feelings". Why is it that Dave B, Joel, Claire, and the other 3 or 4 bozos who continually go in circles blabbing like they know everything about anything, yet in reality, know nothing?
So who was there at the Party? Thoughts? |
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79952 - Wed Apr 15 12:02:26 2009 - [A link for Claire if she can read] By: Javier |
Here you go, Claire. I don’t know if you can read or not, but here’s a link for you to try to decipher:
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123975867505519363.html
Today American taxpayers in more than 300 locations in all 50 states will hold rallies -- dubbed "tea parties" -- to protest higher taxes and out-of-control government spending. There is no political party behind these rallies, no grand right-wing conspiracy, not even a 501(c) group like MoveOn.org.
So who's behind the Tax Day tea parties? Ordinary folks who are using the power of the Internet to organize. For a number of years, techno-geeks have been organizing "flash crowds" -- groups of people, coordinated by text or cellphone, who converge on a particular location and then do something silly, like the pillow fights that popped up in 50 cities earlier this month. This is part of a general phenomenon dubbed "Smart Mobs" by Howard Rheingold, author of a book by the same title, in which modern communications and social-networking technologies allow quick coordination among large numbers of people who don't know each other.
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79951 - Wed Apr 15 08:04:51 2009 - [Cuneo is just a Sell-out] By: westender |
| Cuneo and others strong-armed by labor into voting for development. While sitting in the audience Monday night I saw a labor person had Tony's ear before the meeting talking to him about voting yes on the reclassification of land up by the mall. Although he claimed to be unsure of his vote, he did waver just enough to make his painful decision look justified. A Sell-out is just a Sell-out. Be an Individual and grow a pair. |
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79949 - Tue Apr 14 23:00:26 2009 - ["Pride goeth before the fall"] By: JBBP |
Claire K refers to this area as a "proud Democratic stronghold," or words to that efect.
Remember this old proverb: "Pride goeth before the fall."
Politicians- and their crones- who have been breaking the fiscal backs of taxpayers everywhere, not just in the Northland, will soon be on their knees begging those same taxpayers for a job.
Sending teabags to our elected officials is/was a good idea. Next time, how about we send them kneepads...maybe then they'll start to get the message.
Thank you.
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79948 - Tue Apr 14 22:06:08 2009 - [Winson bailed because of...] By: Cyrus the Virus |
| Oh what a Ne$$ this city is in. Winson bailed because of a very big nucking fe$$. |
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79947 - Tue Apr 14 21:46:18 2009 - [New tea bag needed] By: Barry |
| Claire K. Change your tea bag, the old one stinks, we'll see you tomorrow girlfriend. |
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79946 - Tue Apr 14 21:25:38 2009 - [Where your Federal tax dollar goes] By: mp |
A chart of where your Federal tax dollar goes. Look at jpg file at actual size to read the chart.
http://www.wallstats.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/WallStatsDATlarge.jpg |
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79945 - Tue Apr 14 20:22:53 2009 - [Taxing yourself into prosperity] By: Pitt Street Panther |
| I contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle.—-Winston Churchill |
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79944 - Tue Apr 14 18:34:20 2009 - [Arrest of car prowler] By: Locals Gone Wild |
DATE: April 14, 2009
CASE #: 09257236
INCIDENT DATE: April 14, 2009
INCIDENT TIME:. 0214 hours
INCIDENT LOCATION: 300 block East 6th alley
NATURE OF INCIDENT: Arrest of car prowler
BY (Officer): Lt. Steve Stracek
On 041409, at approximately 0214 hours, Duluth police officers responded to the report of a male breaking into vehicles in the area of 523 North 4th Avenue East. During the investigation, officers located a male in the 300 block of East #6 alley. The male was subsequently arrested for breaking into several cars in the area. During the arrest, the suspect became violent and assaulted one of the arresting officers by spitting on him.
The suspect, Jacob David Hanninen DOB/072283 was lodged at the Saint Louis County Jail for 4th degree assault (felony), obstructing legal process with force (gross misdemeanor), disorderly conduct (misdemeanor), and tampering with a motor vehicle (gross misdemeanor). A check of prior arrests and convictions revealed that Hanninen appears to be a habitual offender and has two prior convictions for tampering with a motor vehicle. |
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79943 - Tue Apr 14 16:45:03 2009 - [Progressives want to make it political] By: go back in the kitchen |
http://www.duluthnewstribune.com/event/comments/id/117636/
Claire K.
Duluth, MN 04/14/2009 11:02 AM
During the election season, the DNT was one of a handful of newspapers (I believe the exact number is 57 out of hundreds) in the entire United States of America to endorse John McCain over Barack Obama. Word is that orders came from Fargo's Forum Communications to endorse McCain -- despite Duluth being a proud Democratic stronghold, despite Obama whomping in all local opinion polls, despite it being obvious that Minny would be a blue state once again. And now the DNT has endorsed an event conceived by the extreme right wing of the Republican Party, who seemed to have no problem with the billions of dollars thrown left and right by the Bush administration -- but object to a newly-elected President who's trying to right the economy, by increasing taxes on the rich and cutting taxes for average Americans. This is something I am sure the majority of Duluthians would support. Why is the DNT once again going against the prevailing sentiments of the majority of residents of this region? Were there orders once again from Fargo to endorse the Tea Party? Why do I think the DNT is probably one of a handful of newspapers in the entire US of A to endorse an event that is so clearly meant to incite and to divide our citizenry, and seems in reality, to be an anti-Obama rally? I am increasingly embarrassed by our DNT's right-wing editorial stances, especially b/c they do not accurately reflect the opinions of most Duluthians, as can be determined by voting patterns. |
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79942 - Tue Apr 14 16:12:03 2009 - [Who will show up at the tea party?] By: DFL09 |
No one will show up as seen on your Right Wing Propaganda Channel! Stay home losers and give President Obama a chance.
http://www.foxnews.com/video-search/m/22099629/tea-party-protests.htm#q=tea+party
PARROT: DFL09, we will all know tomorrow. |
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79941 - Tue Apr 14 14:27:36 2009 - [DFL DULUTH IS NO DIFFERENT] By: Muffin Top |
DULUTH IS NO DIFFERENT.
Interesting Data on Poverty and percent of People Below the Poverty Level
1. Detroit, MI 32.5%
2. Buffalo, NY 29.9%
3. Cincinnati, OH 27.8%
4. Cleveland, OH 27.0%
5. Miami, FL 26.9%
6. St. Louis, MO 26.8%
7. El Paso, TX 26.4%
8. Milwaukee, WI 26.2%
9. Philadelphia, PA 25.1%
10. Newark, NJ 24.2%
U.S. Census Bureau, 2006 American Community Survey, August 2007
What do the top ten cities (over 250,000) with the highest poverty rate all have in common?
Detroit, MI (1st on the poverty rate list) hasn't elected a Republican mayor since 1961;
Buffalo, NY (2nd) hasn't elected one since 1954;
Cincinnati, OH (3rd)...since 1984;
Cleveland, OH (4th)...since 1989;
Miami, FL (5th) has never had a Republican mayor;
St. Louis, MO (6th)....since 1949;
El Paso, TX (7th) has never had a Republican mayor;
Milwaukee, WI (8th)...since 1908;
Philadelphia, PA (9th)...since 1952;
Newark , NJ (10th)...since 1907.
Einstein once said, 'The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.'
It is the poor who habitually elect Democrats---yet they are still poor...
You cannot help the poor by destroying the rich. You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong. You cannot bring about prosperity by discouraging thrift. You cannot lift the wage earner up by pulling the wage payer down. You cannot further the brotherhood of man by inciting class hatred. You cannot build character and courage by taking away people's initiative and independence. You cannot help people permanently by doing for them, what they could and should do for themselves.
Abraham Lincoln
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79940 - Tue Apr 14 11:53:08 2009 - [Winson resigns from the city] By: Web Hound |
Winson's resignation letter
"I wanted you all to know that later today I will be announcing my resignation from the position of Chief Administrative Officer and returning to my former position at Lake Superior College."
http://www.areavoices.com/buzz/
http://www.duluthnewstribune.com/event/article/id/117688/ |
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79939 - Tue Apr 14 11:34:07 2009 - [Protest out-of-control gov spending] By: Javier |
http://www.startribune.com/politics/state/42958107.html?elr=KArksLckD8EQDUoaEyqyP4O:DW3ckUiD3aPc:_Yyc:aUUr
In 1773, the Boston Tea Party lit a spark that blossomed into the American Revolution. In 2009, organizers of the Bemidji -- ? --Tea Party would like to do something comparable.
On Wednesday, angry Americans in 16 Minnesota cities and as many as 600 nationwide will hold "tea parties" to protest what they consider to be out-of-control government spending.
Click to link to read more
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79937 - Tue Apr 14 07:34:39 2009 - [Sign the petition if you agree] By: Anonymous |
Sign the petition if you agree
http://stopspendingourfuture.org/ |
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79936 - Tue Apr 14 07:16:09 2009 - [Another $48,000 down the Duluth drain] By: LIB Reader Online |
DFL Duluth you are so screwed as you have people giving money away to scam artists for grocery stores, moving into the Technology Center and much more.
Incompetent politicians are why you have to go green and read the LIB online for free saving money, energy and the trees.
BTW, the name of the person may be Richard “Dick” Smith who use to own Connecting Point in Duluth.
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City writes off ‘scam artist’s’ debt
By: Brandon Stahl, Duluth News Tribune
A man described by Duluth Mayor Don Ness as a scam artist won’t have to worry about paying back the city $48,306.
The Duluth City Council voted unanimously tonight to forgive a loan the city gave in 2002 to a man who ran a business called “Connecting Point” and who promised to relocate his business to the Duluth Technology Village and add ten jobs in exchange for the money. However, shortly after getting the money, the owner of the business left town, according to the city. A collection agency was hired to find him, but the city said it was unsuccessful and recommended the write-off.
In remarks to the City Council, Ness said he spent time as a councilor trying to track the man down — he said he couldn’t remember his name — and recalls that the man also scammed Duluth residents.
“We still don’t to this day know what happened to him,” he said. “It’s a good example of the due diligence required "when giving loans
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79935 - Tue Apr 14 06:36:41 2009 - [City council doing a great job as usual] By: Major Confused |
| Cant have a dog park by the lake walk. Concerned about noise problem. Never mind the freeway 50 yards or less away nor the sounds of the crashing waves 50 yards the other way. Chicken S... city council doing a great job as usual. |
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79934 - Mon Apr 13 22:33:53 2009 - [DFL & Obama not the real heros] By: JBBP |
DFL09, we think it's great when people of your political stripe organize and protest against whatever you think is important, and we don't care if it snows on you or not. You are exercising your right to freedom of speech, which is what we promote for everyone, not just people who think like we do. Besides, we find your antics rather amusing, for the most part, and quite enlightening to all who observe you. We love it when you feel compelled to reveal your true agendas, i.e., who you REALLY are. Comedy and tragedy are cultural cousins. You are masters in the art of parody, as you parodize yourselves better than even we can, usually. That's why a lot of people write about leftist/liberal/DFL/union stuff on this blog, without even having to make it up...it's so preponderous to witness, it's actually kind of funny.
As far as Obama's role in the pirate gig...let's say he told the Navy they couldn't fire on the dingy...what do you think would happen? The real heroes are the captain of the ship that was infected by pirates and the Navy Seals who used their great skills to wipe out the infection. Bravo!
Now I understand that the other pirates are pissed and are threatening retaliation, and I thought I heard something about how we're going to try to 'talk' with them about it.
Talk? Hah! They must be kidding. We know where most of them are based. How about we just give them the same sort of antidote that we just used to rescue the captain? We need to stop this international malignancy.
Please, DFL09, feel free to stop by the tea party. No one will mind. It's for everybody. We all could use a good laugh.
Thank you. |
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79933 - Mon Apr 13 22:16:44 2009 - [Another piece of dogshit to deal with] By: jthyme |
| Look out Minnesota.......here comes Al "Stuart Smalley" Franken. Things are going to get even worse now.... |
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79932 - Mon Apr 13 21:58:16 2009 - [DFL hosing and fleecing will continue ] By: Ben Dover |
Having just returned to DFL Duluth from some great vacation time in a place where none of the DFL Kool-Aid exists, I see not much ever changes here. Spend a few weeks away and return and DFL Duluth looks more and more like a one party city where all the local crooks steal for themselves and their friends and call it justice. Did I hear correctly that Donny Boy Ness, after just over a year as the local messiah is leaving the "core neighborhood" of the hillside and moving about as far away from there as he possibly can? Not bad for a guy who never worked an honest day in his life. No wonder he is never interested in leading by example and taking a pay cut as he needs the money for the new Donny Mcmansion, which, of course he feels entitled to as a lifelong DFLer who has pledged loyalty to anything and everything DFL Duluth wants. Afterall, he can now shed his "regular Joe" image now that he has been annointed and can just say piss on those low class folk now that he is "Moving on up". I can't get the Jeffersons music out of my head when I think of Donny Boy.
Donny Boy is not alone in his pompous, arrogant, attitude toward the working people. He just feels special now that he is part of the "Good Ol' Boys DFL Duluth Mafia." How pathetic he really is though. He wants the taxpayers to pay another $100,000 a year salary for a guy to do the job that he should have been able to do in order to be qualified to run for the position he now holds thanks to DFL Duluth buying it for him. Now Duluthians have to spend $200,000 a year instead of the $100,000 that would have had to spend if Bell had been elected. Just more DFL Duluth finances. The hosing and fleecing will continue on as the country and the city crumble under piss poor politics and corruption as usual. Taxes and fees will be given out to those who remain to pay for Donny Boy and his extravagant new lifestyle as the newest local DFL chosen one. Bend Over taxpayers, Ness has something to give you.
I said it long ago and I will say it again. The wheels are coming off the cart and when they come off it ain't gonna be pretty. In the meantime, enjoy the hosing from the local DFL and when your back can no longer take being in that position, you might want to start paying attention to the change that is just beginning to come upon us. The day when the "haves", the government grubs, including politicians and the "have nots", the taxpaying citizens of every walk of life who, when they understand that they make about half the wages of those in the government are going to be pissed off big time! I just can't wait for the wheels to come off the cart. That is the only way this corrupt nation will ever be able to unravel the decades of corruption that have brought us to where we are heading.
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79931 - Mon Apr 13 21:39:43 2009 - [Duluth is a utopia like no other] By: DFL09 |
| Tom A take your walker and hike back to Florida where you don't pay taxes. You're just another right wing circle jerk of 30 going to your Tea Old Bag Party. I hope it snows on all of you sockpuppets. Did you not notice that our Commander in Chief, President Obama, handled with the ultimate confidence the first of many military situations like a true American hero he will prove to all you doubters to be. Your guns are next radicals. A million hits what a farce as you sit and bitch behind your keyboards there’s little you can do as this is DFL country. Read it and weep losers. |
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79930 - Mon Apr 13 21:22:14 2009 - [Who are you trying to fool?] By: Big Iron |
| ..."not hunting rifles, of course"...Screw you, Doty. Who are you and your anti gun butt buddies trying to fool? |
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79929 - Mon Apr 13 20:47:57 2009 - [Ralph Doty "Stop this madness"] By: I C RED PEOPLE |
Ralph Doty says:
"Now, to the heart of the matter: It is time for this country to clamp down on firearms. Not hunting rifles, of course, but there is absolutely no place in a civilized society for, say, assault weapons. "
This ballass and his commentary needs comment on the blog. He needs a big dose of STFU !
Ralph Doty says: First, the obligatory disclaimer: I own a shotgun. I SAY: DOES HE KNOW HOW TO USE IT?
Second, a clarification: I shot it only twice, in 1974, and missed a partridge both times. I SAY: TYPICAL MISGUIDED LIBERAL PUTZ.
DON'T RALPH AFTER READING RALPH:
Now, to the heart of the matter: It is time for this country to clamp down on firearms. Not hunting rifles, of course, but there is absolutely no place in a civilized society for, say, assault weapons. You know, the kind of weapon that, two years ago, discharged nearly 200 rounds of ammunition at Virginia Tech within a few minutes. Twenty-seven people, mostly students, were murdered that day.
Why does the National Rifle Association insist that almost all firearms should be legal? Why did they wage a successful campaign to let the assault-weapons ban lapse a few years ago? I don’t know the answers. You’ll have to ask them, because I can’t think of one good reason.
On Monday, a Florida newspaper, in one day, carried three stories about Americans murdered by firearms that weekend, mostly by assault weapons. The victims included three police officers in Pittsburgh, 14 people in Binghamton, N.Y., and a father who killed his five children and then himself in Graham, Wash.
That’s 21 people murdered in cold blood and two suicides by cowards who committed the dastardly crimes — in less than two days. If America had lost 23 soldiers in one day in Afghanistan or Iraq, we would rise up in righteous anger. But kill 21 private citizens in the United States — folks living their own private lives — and somehow the NRA has persuaded us that death by gunfire is okay.
And puh-leeze, don’t bother me with the argument that “guns don’t kill people, people kill people.” It’s a bogus, specious and nonsensical argument.
Somehow, we need to stop this madness.
I SAY: DO YOU WANT PEOPLE LIKE RALPH DOTY PROTECTING YOU? I DON'T AND I WON'T! |
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79928 - Mon Apr 13 20:19:29 2009 - [Back 150 miles north of the USA] By: Tom A |
Oh cloudy day a hundred fifty miles north of the USA. Got back Saturday DCB and it’s good to be back cleaning up some loose ends and speaking of cleaning up I’m glad to see the WIDELOAD wood pile has gone away.
I’ll be at that tea party freezing my ass off after spending the past couple of months in FLA. Help me out DCB. What hat should I wear NRA or Semper Fi? And God bless the Navy seals it made my day.
The old blogger counter is closing in on a 1,000,000 less than 9,000 away and I’m back to call out the destructive elements loitering in a once good city. From an Army wimps like one named Dave the Buzzard to Bald Headed Chicken Fockers to a wannabe sub vet named Subdude and gay -Taliban Tom is no longer MIA.
Here loud and hear me clear, my 2nd Amendment rights will never be taken away, not even here 150 miles north of the USA.
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79926 - Mon Apr 13 17:10:47 2009 - [Wives night out with the DFD] By: Thanks from the DFD |
Two women friends had gone for a girl's night out.
Both were faithful and loving wives, however, they had gotten over-enthusiastic on the Bacardi Breezers.
Incredibly drunk and walking home they needed to pee, so
they stopped in the cemetery.
One of them had nothing to wipe with so she thought she
would take off her panties and use them.
Her friend however was wearing a rather expensive pair of
panties and did not want to do that.
She was lucky enough to squat down next to a grave that had
a wreath with a ribbon on it, so she proceeded to wipe with
that.
After the girls did their business they proceeded to go
home.
The next day one of the women's husbands was concerned
that his normally sweet and Innocent wife was still in bed
hung over, so he phoned the other husband and said,
'These girl nights have got to stop! I'm starting to suspect the worst, my wife came home with no panties!!'
That's nothing' said the other husband, 'Mine came back with
a card stuck to her ass that said....
'From all of us at the Fire Station. We'll never forget you.'
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79925 - Mon Apr 13 12:09:59 2009 - [Danny Does Duluth Tea Party] By: D G |
DDD-122-A Conversation With Bob Hansen
This Wednesday across the nation we will be seeing Tea Parties as protests over the over-taxing that we are all continuing to be subject to. Here in Duluth we are no different. Today's show features a conversation with one of the organizers of the Duluth Tea Party, local business man Bob Hansen. We talk about the party itself, the reasons for it, and even dive into a bit Hansen's prior involvement with that local blog for "citizens". It's a good conversation and we here at Danny Does Duluth encourage all to attend this Wednesday's Tea Party behind the DECC starting at 12:15pm. For more information go to www.duluthteaparty.com
www.dannydoesduluth.com |
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79924 - Mon Apr 13 10:03:37 2009 - [All in the name of Free Speech] By: Dennis Miller |
| Russ Stewart called Michelle Malkin a Claire in the Transistor, LMAO. Now that's an insult. |
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79923 - Mon Apr 13 09:53:40 2009 - [Failed wannabe book pimps] By: progressives my ass |
| People, I don't think the "watch" *has* an agenda. I do think that it's one or two demented progressive wannabes, who know if they post tripe, the few people left who actually read the "watch" will react to it and get their organic cotton knickers all in a twist in a common hostility towards freedom of speech and the right to dissent. And then the demented progressives sit back and have a good laugh at the suckers who still don't get it: the "watch" is a joke. The most outrageous and inflammatory comments posted are made up, primarily for the enjoyment of one sad feminist , who truly gets her DELETED off by setting up her multiple personalities, making herself look like failed wannabe book pimp. It just makes me shake my head. You never know it maybe a republican plot after all. |
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79921 - Sun Apr 12 20:01:11 2009 - [Do the fricking math] By: Boy Wonder |
Holy Curmudgeon's Cornor Batman!
Check out the last page.
http://www.transistormag.com/ |
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79920 - Sun Apr 12 12:07:41 2009 - [DFL Duluth's Sister City News] By: Web Hound |
DFL Duluth's Sister City, Vallejo, CA is one of the higest risk citys to buy a house. DFL Duluth is not far behind.
Seven of the 25 highest-risk areas--Vallejo, CA. To determine America's riskiest housing markets, Forbes teamed up with Moody's Economy.com to survey the nation's 200 largest metropolitan statistical areas, as defined by the
U.S. Office of Management and Budget.
Read the whole story at:
http://realestate.yahoo.com/promo/riskiest-places-for-us-homeowners.html
I'm not sure DFL Duluth is in the top 200 as people have been moving out of here for about three decades. |
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79919 - Sun Apr 12 09:35:13 2009 - [Feeling stimulated?] By: Here is the Scoop |
Baskin-Robbins Ice CreamIn honor of the 44th President of the United States,Baskin-Robbins Ice Cream has introduced a new flavor: "Barocky Road."
Barocky Road is a blend of half vanilla, half chocolate,
and surrounded by nuts and flakes.
The vanilla portion of the mix is not openly advertised and
usually denied as an ingredient.
The nuts and flakes are all very bitter and hard to swallow.
The cost is $100.00 per scoop.
When purchased it will be presented to you in a large
beautiful cone, but then the ice cream is taken away and
given to the person in line behind you.
Thus you are left with an empty wallet, no change, holding
an empty cone, with no hope of getting any ice cream.
Are you feeling stimulated? |
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79916 - Sat Apr 11 23:17:54 2009 - [Can't reason with the pirates] By: JBBP |
The Somali pirate situation makes me feel like I could spit nails.
If we shoot at the bastards, we could kill the American captain. What could we do...
Four helicopters, each holding the end of a giant net, could fly in tandem over the dingy...then just drop it on top of them. A heavy, steel-reinforced net. With weights on its edges.
Submarines below. Boats waiting to reel the bastards in.
They are going to kill the captain, regardless. The only reason they're letting him live at the moment is because he's useful as colatteral.
We can't let these thugs get away with this. No negotiating. You can't reason with these people. Some of them have already lost their lives during similar escapades, and it doesn't seem to deter their criminal activities. They think they're heroes, much like the gangster goons infecting this nation.
They need to be shown beyond any doubt that America will crush them without hesitation. Period. That's the only type of negotiating that will be effective in preventing them from attacking American ships. They will be guaranteed to lose life, loot, and if they survive- their liberty. We need to make it so it's just not worth the risk.
America the kind, the benevolent, the understanding...absolutely. But mess with our people, and we need to become America the dangerous. Strike us, and we will, without any doubt, strike back a whole hell of alot harder than anyone else can. We will render you so afraid that you will never, ever be tempted to try it again. And then we will leave you in peace.
Yes. Peace. And we might even try to help you back up, as long as you behave nicely.
Thank you. |
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79914 - Sat Apr 11 21:45:42 2009 - [Seems a bit absurd] By: Cyeber Detective |
| Have another beer Beer 30 and go to http://www.snopes.com/business/bank/deadcard.asp and read about this urban legand. |
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79913 - Sat Apr 11 18:38:27 2009 - [Wondered why CITI Bank was going broke ] By: Beer 30 |
Cancel your credit card before you die
Now some people are really stupid!!!!
Be sure and cancel your credit cards before you die.
This is so priceless, and so, so easy to see happening, customer service being what it is today.
A lady died this past January, and CITI bank billed her for February and March20for their annual service charges on her credit card, and added late fees and interest on the monthly charge. The balance had been $0.00 when she died, but now somewhere around $60.00. A family member placed a call to CITI Bank.
Here is the exchange :
Family Member: 'I am calling to tell you she died back in January.'
CITI Bank: 'The account was never closed and the late fees and charges still apply.'
Family Member: 'Maybe, you should turn it over to collections.'
CITI Bank: 'Since it is two months past due, it already has been.'
Family Member: So, what will they do when they find out she is dead?'
CITI Bank: 'Either report her account to frauds division or report her to the credit bureau, maybe both!'
Family Member: 'Do you think God will be mad at her?'
CITI Bank: 'Excuse me?'
Family Member: 'Did you just get what I was telling you - the part about her being dead?'
CITI Bank : 'Sir, you'll have to speak to my supervisor.'
Supervisor gets on the phone:
Family Member: 'I'm calling to tell you, she died back in January with a $0 balance. '
CITI Bank: 'The account was never closed and late fees and charges still apply.'
Family Member: 'You mean you want to collect from her estate?'
CITI Bank : (Stammer) 'Are you her lawyer?'
Family Member: 'No, I'm her great nephew.' (Lawyer info was given)
CITI Bank: 'Could you fax us a certificate of death?'
Family Member: 'Sure.' (Fax number was given )
After they get the fax :
CITI Bank : 'Our system just isn't setup for death. I don't know what more I can do to help.'
Family Member: 'Well, if you figure it out, great! If not, you could just keep billing her. She won't care.'
CITI Bank: 'Well, the late fees and charges will still apply.'
(What is wrong with these people?!?)
Family Member: 'Would you like her new billing address?'
CITI Bank: 'That might help...'
Family Member: ' Odessa Memorial=2 0Cemetery , Highway 129, Plot Number 69.'
CITI Bank: 'Sir, that's a cemetery!'
Family Member: 'And what do you do with dead people on your planet???'
(Priceless!!)
You wondered why CITI Bank was going broke and needed the feds to bail them out??? |
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79912 - Sat Apr 11 16:43:58 2009 - [What would we do with out Herb?] By: Roy Bean |
Quote of the month from the buzzblog regarding Herb.
"But, he served his term and deserves to hang with the rest of them."
Could not have said it better myself. |
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79911 - Fri Apr 10 19:11:42 2009 - [Claire's been whispering sweet nothings] By: Blue Duck |
| DFL09 states "While you little people sit around your computers on this joke of a blog degrading women of the news media". Huh ? What the hell do you mean? Looks like "C" has been whispering sweet nothings into your ear again. |
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79910 - Fri Apr 10 18:44:38 2009 - [Outlandish DFL rhetoric ] By: DFL09 |
While you little people sit around your computers on this joke of a blog degrading women of the news media the nation under the leadership of President Obama is experiencing destiny great economic recovery is just a few short months of be taking charge. There’s no reason for the 30 of you or so including your sockpuppets to have your little tea party as you should be working partaking in this great recovery of a nation almost mortally wounded over the last 8 years. The smart people know that no tea merrymaking is going to do anything but hold the recovery back. Stop wasting your time at an outlandish public objection of a couple of dozen of circle jerks. Your futile efforts are in total vain as the new America with justice for all is here to stay.
PARROT: DFL09, you can't actually believe your rhetoric, can you? Irrevocable debt placed on the current population and those not born is hardly justice for all. |
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79909 - Fri Apr 10 17:45:13 2009 - [His taxes went down] By: Mr. Duluth |
I got two yellow letters in the mail from that county auditor saying my taxes are going down for both of my properties.
Hum, okay. |
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79908 - Fri Apr 10 15:44:47 2009 - [Who's Hot and Who's Not?] By: Tony R |
Check out the Duluth News Tabloids Hottie View: Local News Babes
http://duluthnewstabloid.blogspot.com
And don't forget to vote on, which local news station has the best looking news babes?
Ciao!
The " REAL" Tony Ramone
ramoneanthony@gmail.com
http://www.duluthcitizensblog.com
http://duluthnewstabloid.blogspot.com
http://www.facebook.com/people/Tony_Ramone/1497522456
http://www.youtube.com/DCBtony
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79907 - Fri Apr 10 11:25:20 2009 - [Cash reward for armed robbery info] By: Cynic |
Quote: "The Superior Police Department needs help to identify two suspects in the armed robbery last week of the Payday USA Loan Co., 1808 Tower Ave.
Police say the robber pointed a gun at the clerk and ordered the employee to get down on the floor during the April 3 robbery. The suspect is described as a black male with a small to medium build, wearing a dark-colored sweat jacket, blue jeans and light-colored sneakers.
With him was another black male with a small to medium build, taller than the suspect, wearing a light-colored sweat jacket with a checkered pattern. He was wearing blue jeans and dark-colored shoes.
An undetermined amount of money was taken. After the robbery the suspects are believed to have stolen the clerk’s car, located a short time later abandoned within the city. The victim was not injured during the robbery.
Anyone with any information concerning this robbery or anyone who can identify the suspects in the surveillance photo is asked to call the Superior Police Department at (715) 395-7234 or the tip line at (715) 395-7468, or simply dial 911. A cash reward is offered for any information leading to the arrest of the suspects" |
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79906 - Fri Apr 10 10:52:09 2009 - [No Mugshot on City Hall Wall] By: ZZ T |
Herbie has declined to have his portrait hung at city hall. http://www.duluthnewstribune.com/pages/buzz
That's OK, we can all still envision his mugshot. |
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79905 - Fri Apr 10 10:47:30 2009 - [Why not fill our own pot holes?] By: JBBP |
What a cool story...business owners and residents on an island in Hawaii pooled their time, talent, and resources to fix a road that had been washed out. The road leads to a park which is a focal point for tourists. Without the road, several businesses wouldn't be getting enough tourist traffic to stay in business.
The state just didn't seem to have enough money in the budget to get it done, at least not now.
The work was completed in EIGHT DAYS, and they are waiting for it to be certified. The work and materials were donated by VOLUNTEERS. Had they waited for the government to take on the task, it would have taken TWO YEARS at a cost of about FOUR MILLION DOLLARS. The unemployment rate in that area is hovering around 9%, up from 2% in 2008. Being able to stay in business will probably help to keep that number at bay.
So why can't the citizens of this neck of the woods do something like that in order to fix our deplorable streets?
I think I know the answer to that one...but I'd like to hear what you have to say about it.
Thank you. |
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79904 - Fri Apr 10 07:33:04 2009 - [DEMS caused global economic crisis] By: LIB Reader Online |
How true it is!
This letter writer has his facts 100% correct but the same old entitlement mentality keeps on voting for broke DFL promises.
The DFL is why you need to go green and read the LIB online for free saving money, energy and the trees.
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Duluth News Tribune
Published April 09 2009
Reader's view: Democrats to blame for global economic crisis
I believe the global economic crisis is the fault of the Democratic Party of the U.S.
President Carter started the ball rolling by requiring banks to take on loans for many who could not qualify for mortgages. In the late 1980s, Clinton’s Community Investment Act forced banks under penalty of fines to make prescribed numbers of sub-prime mortgages. Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, government-backed mortgage underwriters, bought the sub-prime mortgages, mixed them with a few prime mortgages and sold them on world credit markets as bundled securities.
In 2003, the Bush administration warned that Fannie Mae was in danger of collapse unless it was reined in fast. Barney Frank, ranking Democrat on the Financial Services Committee, said Fannie Mae was perfectly sound. Nothing was done. Subsequently, house prices fell and the whole Ponzi scheme disintegrated. The toxic securities couldn’t even be traced or priced.
The main culprits in Congress, as I see them, are Barney Frank, D-Mass., who discouraged oversight; Christopher Dodd, D-Conn., the highest paid senator associated with the AIG and CountryWide scandal; and Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., who caused the run on the IndyMac Land Bank in Los Angeles. Their partners on Wall Street were Franklin Raines with a $240 million golden parachute; Tim Howard, $20 million; and Jim Johnson, $28 million. Barney Frank is still head of the Financial Services committee, doling out stimulus money to solve the crisis he helped create. Franklin Raines and Tim Howard are economic advisers to Barack Obama, and Jim Johnson served on the vice-presidential search committee.
Despite almost $2 trillion in stimulus money to date, the stock market falls steadily. It has dropped 20 percent since Obama took office and 40 percent since the Democrats took over Congress in 2006. My retirement fund also dropped
40 percent. Thanks, Democrats!
Joe Poellinger
Cloquet
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79902 - Thu Apr 9 22:39:57 2009 - [Nuthin for a DFDer when it's not their $] By: Big Iron |
| That's it for expenses? That's nuthin. |
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79901 - Thu Apr 9 22:11:24 2009 - [Drunken DFL spending ] By: Web Hound Jr. |
Stahl has the DFL councilor expense statement abuse posted again at -
http://www.areavoices.com/buzz
Also check out the city is losing tax revenues but just keep spending like drunken DFL idiots. |
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79900 - Thu Apr 9 20:56:51 2009 - [Asscoiations and spending] By: Biff S. |
| Obama has spent more $$ in the past 3 months than Bush did in 8 years. It will be interesting how Obama continues to keep this USA headed to a New World Order. He is also a member of the Bilderberg group. |
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79899 - Thu Apr 9 19:50:01 2009 - [Respect each others right to protest] By: Jeremy S. |
| I have been involved in several anti-war protests in our area and believe in the cause. Not once did anyone call me anyone verbally or physically assault me which makes this nation great. Mr./Mrs. DFL09, to call the tea party attendees a bunch of jerks is plain wrong. They have a right to protest as I do, just cause' you don't agree with them don't insult and belittle their cause. I'm attending the rally because I believe in their cause. As a young man, I see the debt. clock ticking and am concerned about my future. I don't have any kids but if I did I'd be scared as hell. Thank God for our First Amendment |
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79898 - Thu Apr 9 19:40:56 2009 - [Spending "Danger to the Rangers"] By: Iron Ranger |
| DFL09, I'll be the one at the Duluth Tea pary with the sign that says, "Danger to the Rangers". This spending is out of control. The president I voted for, President Obama, is spending almost twice as much as the village idiot from Texas. Don't make this a Democratic vs Republican vs Independent thing. By your name you and I have probably voted for the same elected officials in the past. I will have my sign and will be holding it high for all to see at the Tea Party. Come and introduce yourself to me, my name is Mike K. and I have been a proud miner for almost 17 years. This out of control spending cuts across all party lines and we can't afford it anymore!! |
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79897 - Thu Apr 9 18:22:49 2009 - [No turd tea party] By: Cynic |
| DFL09, If you had anything on your shoulders besides a big turd you would be there for the tea party. |
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79896 - Thu Apr 9 17:46:38 2009 - [Keep the change] By: Patrick |
| hey fool DFL09 "I'll keep my guns, freedom, and money. You can keep the "change!" |
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79895 - Thu Apr 9 17:25:48 2009 - [GO SAINTS!] By: Mr. Duluth |
When going back in time, a few months ago, the DFD was the target at this blog.
Then, a year or so before that, Spirit Mountain Rec was the target.
It seems when some here get board picking on the DFD, let go stir up SMRA. I don't think there is a secret budget, because their budgets are the same each year. I knew of a board member who said it was boring sitting on the board for SMRA. They try new things, yet skiing is what they make cash at he said. I don't know if they have paintball still. If any of you people were around in the early 1970s, SMRA was a gift then with no one complaining. Duluth was a dead town then.
AS far as Pizza Luce is concern, I like it. I think debating and ripping on pizzas here is a waste of TIME.
I still see Dixon in town. Does this guy think when coming up with million dollar dreams?
How about CSS baseball, John would have loved this start for the Saints. GO SAINTS!
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79894 - Thu Apr 9 17:16:26 2009 - [Style, hyperboles and rabble-raising] By: E.T. |
We are not alone DFL09.
Ahh, the British have such a wonderful command of the English language. I do hope so, they invented it you know? I don't know how many pages it would take one of our best Yank writers to say so much,
in so few words. Jolly good work here Mate. Enjoy!
Whether you agree with this article or not, you have to agree that it
is very cleverly written.
The Daily Mail ( UK ) wrote this editorial about Obama .
(confirmation, Google " London Daily Mail Obama's Victory")
Obama's Victory--A British view
A victory for the hysteric al Oprah Winfrey, the mad racist preacher
Jeremiah Wright, the US mainstream media who abandoned any sense of
objectivity long ago, Europeans who despise America largely because
they depend on her, comics who claim to be dangerous and fearless but
would not dare attack genuinely powerful special interest groups. A
victory for Obama-worshippers everywhere. A victory for the cult of
the cult. A man who has done little with his life but has written
about his achievements as if he had found the cure for cancer in
between winning a marathon and building a nuclear reactor with his
teeth. Victory for style over substance, hyperbole over history,
rabble-raising over reality.
A victory for Hollywood, the most dysfunctional community in the
world. Victory for Streisand, Spielberg, Soros, Moore, and Sarandon.
Victory for those who prefer welfare to will and interference to
independence. For those who settle for group think and herd mentality
rather than those who fight for individual initiative and the right to
be out of step with meager political fashion.
Victory for a man who is no friend of freedom. He and his people have
already stated that media has to be controlled so as to be balanced,
without realizing the extraordinary irony within that statement. Like
most liberal zealots, the Obama worshippers constantly speak of the
Fox News Network and Rush Limbaugh, when the vast bulk of television
stations and newspapers are drastically liberal and anti-conservative.
Senior Democrat Chuck Schumer said that just as pornography should be
censored, so should talk radio. In other words, one of the few free
and open means of popular expression may well be cornered and beaten
by bullies who even in triumph cannot tolerate any criticism and
opposition.
A victory for those who believe the state is better qualified to raise
children than the family, for those who prefer teachers' unions to
teaching and for those who are naively convinced that if the West is
sufficiently weak to wards its enemies, war and terror will dissolve
as quickly as the tears on the face of a leftist celebrity.
A victory for social democracy even after most of Europe has come to
the painful conclusion that social democracy leads to mediocrity,
failure, unemployment, inflation, higher taxes and economic
stagnation. A victory for intrusive lawyers, banal sentimentalists,
social extremists and urban snobs.
Congratulations America! Your funeral will be sooner than you think!
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79893 - Thu Apr 9 15:52:00 2009 - [Assessed value is just a pipe dream] By: Cynic |
| I see more Brandon Stahl propaganda for the city from the April 8 DNT. He says in his article "City home sales fall, prices up" how Duluth home prices are up 9 percent. Sure they are that's why the city assessors office is dropping assessed values by 3 percent. If the prices were actually up 9 percent the city assessors office would be raising property values. Just more smoke and mirrors from the house of lies called city hall and the DNT repeaters. I can only hope our home will sell. We've now come to the conclusion that we are willing to take much less than the assessed value. The assessed value was only a pipe dream dreamed up by the city of Duluth assessors office. |
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79892 - Thu Apr 9 14:39:07 2009 - [Obama is bringing much needed change] By: DFL09 |
| President Obama is bringing the much needed change he promised. The tea party is just a bunch of pissing and moaning and should be renamed a PEE PARTY. 30 jerks pissing and moaning over change. |
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79891 - Thu Apr 9 14:11:13 2009 - [I'm coming to the Tea Party] By: Iron Ranger |
| I'm from the Iron Range and I'm coming to the Tea Party. I've had it with my taxes going sky high and getting nothing in return. The mines up here are struggling to keep us working but we still have the "environmentalists" trying to stop every project we start. The spending in Washington is beyond imagination.. See you soon and thanks for giving me an outlet for my frustrations. |
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79890 - Thu Apr 9 12:31:40 2009 - [Spirit Mountain’s Secret Budget?] By: Web Hound |
Seems that Duluth's best investigative reporter not owned by the Tourism Cartel has hit a nerve on his blog with the following story:
Spirit Mountain’s Secret Budget
http://shiningreputation.com/blog/?p=302
Even Claire is sounding conservative on Stahlanlinski’s Buzz blog:
Council agenda time!
http://www.areavoices.com/buzz/
Claire’s Comments “OUR tax dollars” from the Buzz:
I too find the Spirit Mtn's exec director's behavior disturbing. Even though Ramos broke this story, I too would like some more information in the DNT about this. It's just no way to run a city-owned operation which is funded by OUR tax dollars.
Posted by: Claire on 4/08/2009
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79889 - Wed Apr 8 16:00:31 2009 - [Simple solution for country's problems] By: jthyme |
Article from the Arizona Republic on Friday, April 3, 2009.
The solution: Patriotic Retirement
Dear President Obama,
Here is a simple solution to most of the country's problems. Vice President, Joe Biden, should be pushing patriotic retirement.
There are about 40 million people older then 50 in the workforce today. Let's pay them all $1 million severance with three stipulations:
1) They each leave their jobs immediately. Unemployment problem fixed.
2) They each must buy a new American made car. Forty million cars would be back ordered. Auto industry woes fixed.
3) they each either buy a house or pay off their mortgage. Housing crisis fixed.
4) They each invest the rest in stocks and bonds and bank savings. Wall Street and banks get good start back in business.
Overall effect-all national financial problems fixed!
Now what could be simpler and cheaper than anything you have done so far with little or no effect on the economy?
-Bruce Emeson, Chandler, AZ
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79887 - Wed Apr 8 13:14:10 2009 - [Support our mayor] By: scoobydont c |
| we all need to support our mayor,the honorable donny ness,and support his climb in politics,duluth is small pottatos,compared to where he will be in the future,congress,senate,the white house,so help him climb up the stepping stones,which is duluth.duluth is a great place to cut your teeth in to politics.hes got a great carreer ahead of him.when hes old (like a donald rumsfeld)he will think of duluth fondly |
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79884 - Wed Apr 8 10:18:06 2009 - [DFL mocking at its finest] By: Truthism |
Post the date and place of the teabag party often so the world can tear you apart!! See you on the 15th. I'll be one of many with a video camera and link to you tube at hand. Can't wait to see some phony-tony Americans at work!!
Remember to pay your taxes before you teabag each other behind the DECC.
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79882 - Wed Apr 8 10:13:10 2009 - [PDD bans those they don't agree with] By: John D |
I have been blocked from PDD for posting comments that the site didn't agree with. Mostly for calling Geek Prom elitest Geekism! Then I tried to voice my honest opinion about Pizza Luce and Fitgers and then they banned my IPAddress. I just want to say that PDD is a censored Nazi site that only allows people to say things that they agree with.
I tried to post this and it was removed 10 times:
Transistor voted worst comics to ever appear in a magazine! Craig from LocalM.com was just hired to write for the mag to increase the "tool" factor.
Pizza Luce is for townies who can't afford to move to Uptown!
Fitger's has the worst wait staff in the Twin Ports. The waitresses at The Anchor Bar could serve 10 people in the time it takes a Fitger's server to serve one person. |
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79880 - Wed Apr 8 07:37:22 2009 - [Could it be Obama lied?] By: LIB Reader Online |
Can you smell a bunch of lies by another politician? This writer can and you have to blind if you think things are really changing.
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Duluth News Tribune
Published April 08 2009
Reader's view: Obama not fulfilling promises of change
When Barack Obama was campaigning for president, he spoke of change and a can-do attitude: change such as taking measures to end the war in Iraq reasonably soon and a White House that’s not a bedfellow with the wealthy, influential, right-wing Republican elite. He had us believe he would be a champion for the poor, the un-influential, the hardworking and the middle class.
However, if there has been much in the way of troop withdrawals from Iraq I haven’t read of it in the media. He says it will take a year and a half to withdraw American soldiers, and even then plans are to leave about 50,000 American troops behind.
America is the world’s only superpower. By a wide margin we have more battleships, aircraft carriers, helicopters, airplanes, trucks, troop carriers, etc., than any other country in the world. With a genuine can-do attitude, we could probably get every American soldier out of Iraq in a couple of weeks. And while the president talks about ending the war in Iraq but not actually doing it, he is escalating the war in Afghanistan.
Is his White House truly a champion for the poor as a change of pace? No. He gets in office and takes measures to give corporations about $1 trillion dollars — or more! This is not change but the same old story — even worse!
You know what would be a real change? Instead of giving corporations a trillion bucks, give every American $3,000 (less than a trillion) and hope for a trickle-up effect.
JOSEPH PANYON
SUPERIOR
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079879 - Wed Apr 8 07:19:59 2009 - [Another "local" goes bad] By: I C RED PEOPLE |
According to court records, Richey has had 17 criminal cases filed against him in five Minnesota counties.
http://www.duluthnewstribune.com/event/article/id/117148/
Check out the mug on this "local" gone bad.
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