Fri Jan 27 16:47:10 2012 - [The source of the whining parasites ] By: Futura F. |
Where Did All this "White Privilege" Stuff Come From, Anyway?
http://theopeningeye.blogspot.com/2012/01/white-privilege-genealogy-of-concept.html |
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Fri Jan 27 16:40:24 2012 - [LIST ALL DEPENDENTS] By: Dennis Miller |
They sent my Tax Return back AGAIN because of my response to the question:
• "LIST ALL DEPENDENTS"
I replied:
• 12 million illegal immigrants;
• 3 million crack heads;
• 42 million unemployable people on food stamps,
• 2 million criminals in over 243 prisons;
• Half of Mexico; and
• 535 Fools in the U.S. House and Senate.”
Apparently this was not an acceptable answer.
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Fri Jan 27 14:59:51 2012 - [NEW DULUTH RACISM VIDEO] By: Exposer |
NEW DULUTH RACISM VIDEO: White guilt or drunk on Kool-aid - What do you title this?
http://dflduluthexposed.com/
Email your suggested title to EXPOSER@DFLDULUTH.COM Thanks as you really can't make this SH!* up!
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Fri Jan 27 08:16:59 2012 - [Totally up to them] By: Cynic |
That would be .
LC M said: "Will they be a friend of inclusion or exclusion?" |
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Thu Jan 26 21:36:50 2012 - [Escape from DFL Duluth while you can] By: LC M |
As I have an upcoming relocation to Duluth I ran across this blog with a plethora of views. We will be adding to the diversity of this community (and yes we have very lucrative, respectful careers) but its the prejudice to encompass diversity topic that is prevailing from a strictly objective perspective. As I have to look at schools how will they embrace the diversity of my children, I am faced with the 'e-pinions' views are which are engraved at home.
So, from an outsider who is very diverse and frankly has prejudices of my own but chose to embrace and respect the differences of others, I have been left quite confused as to how I should prepare these young adults? Will they be a friend of inclusion or exclusion? The outlook deems a grim unknown. |
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Thu Jan 26 20:16:03 2012 - [Superior shines over DFL Duluth] By: p.f.f.f.f |
| Are'nt Superior city employees union? I thought they were. Just wondering. Also want to say good for Superior getting the jobs. |
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Thu Jan 26 20:04:54 2012 - [Why do they hate white people?] By: C S |
If you would like to express your displeasure with the Unfaircampaign, they can be reached at info@unfaircampaign.org
Here's a list of some of their upcoming events:
-Mirrors of Privilege, Making Whiteness Visible
-The Great Hurt
-Cracking the Shell of Whiteness
Again, this just makes me sick. I've worked hard to get where I am and it pisses me off to have a group of whiny losers insinuate that I am "over-privileged" and am only successful because of my "white privilege".
Here's some info from their web site:
This campaign is called the Un-Fair campaign because we feel it is unfair that some of the members of our community have privileges that are unearned just because of the color of their skin and others face barriers, discrimination and disadvantages because of the color of their skin. That’s unfair. We believe that an important part of creating a community that is equitable for all of us means looking at how those of us who are over advantaged can begin to change ourselves and the institutions and systems in our community that perpetuate white privilege.
The white people of this community should be pissed!!!! |
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Thu Jan 26 18:29:36 2012 - [White racism part of the DFL cluture] By: Judo j |
| As the paper reads Mary Cameron who works in human resources for the university of Minnesota Duluth. Why do we care where she works? They talked to Art Johnston ,Bill Westholm and others but did not tell us what they all do for a living. The university of Minnesota is using our tax money to fund a racist. A diverse candidate you mean a black candidate not one with experience???? This was a no brainer decision Bill Gronseth was 2nd runner up for this position. All who voted for bill i will support you, Mary Cameron in 2014 I will do all i can to see you are not elected to school board. Mary Cameron your a racist. |
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Thu Jan 26 14:22:48 2012 - [Libtards are smarter than all opponents] By: IQ |
This from http://news.yahoo.com/low-iq-conservative-beliefs-linked-prejudice-180403506.html
Low IQ & Conservative Beliefs Linked to Prejudice
There's no gentle way to put it: People who give in to racism and prejudice may simply be dumb, according to a new study that is bound to stir public controversy.
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Thu Jan 26 08:48:22 2012 - [Cameron believes in one way diversity] By: S.W.K. |
"To me, it was a really sloppy process, what happened last night,".."I thought it was inappropriate. A three-year contract is highly unusual when you appoint someone like that." .... School Board member Mary Cameron.
Highly unusual, inappropriate, sloppy? Gee Mary, those words never came out of your mouth before ol' no license I.V. Foster was run out of town never to be heard from again did they? Is it really the method of selection, or maybe there's something else about Bill Gronseth that makes you feel uncomfortable?
I mean Bill is a member of that evil privileged 90% we're now being advised to bash and despise up here with the new and improved "in your face" guilt campaign. No mention that Bill, a smart local boy, knows the the players in the education system here, knows the schools (whatever their names are now) knows the needs and wants of each and...get ready for it....and even has a LICENSE!
So let's really celebrate diversity Mary, Duluth is a City where the unqualified and non-licensed can coexist with the guy who bailed him out, and both can make a killing on the taxpayer's dime at the same time and nobody gets fired for it.
Oh yeah, and a big congrats again to our neighbor Superior, Wisc. 1,000 good paying jobs coming to town in the next few years were just announced this past week. All a future employer would have to do is read Duluth's local paper this week to understand why Superior is a good choice for industry and Business, and Duluth is a bad punch line.
http://www.duluthnewstribune.com/event/article/id/221042/ |
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Thu Jan 26 08:38:28 2012 - [The Opening Eye ] By: Futura F. |
| http://theopeningeye.blogspot.com/2012/01/un-fair-campaign-hate-yourself-whitey.html |
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Wed Jan 25 21:41:32 2012 - [A glimpse of the future] By: Matt L. |
For a glimpse of what our future holds take a look at the Land reform in Zimbabwe. Black peasants were allocated formerly white-owned farmland in the land reforms. Zimbabwe was once so rich in agricultural produce that it was dubbed the "bread basket" of Southern Africa, while it is now struggling to feed its own population. About 45 percent of the population is considered malnourished.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Land_reform_in_Zimbabwe
This has nothing to do with fairness. It is work ethics. |
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Wed Jan 25 18:51:20 2012 - [Living the DFL Duluth privileged life] By: Cynic |
It can't be can it. Was the women victim white? If so she had it coming because of here privileged life.
http://www.duluthmn.gov/downloads/100/20120125-100-1507.pdf |
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Wed Jan 25 17:04:14 2012 - [Playing into the hand of the pimps] By: Cynic |
| Now I understand why I have observed a black pimp slapping around his white whore down on first street. He was just getting even for her white privilege. They want to stop violence against women they better stop writing messages on their faces. It only plays into the hands of these pimps. |
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Wed Jan 25 16:55:59 2012 - [So rare in this white racist Duluth] By: Cynic |
| Then I see a picture of 4 black women at the mall wanted for felony theft. You would think this would be impossibly rare in this white racist community. |
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Wed Jan 25 16:49:35 2012 - [Chocolate C Fetish] By: Dennis Miller |
Is that "Chocolate C" I see on the dflduluthexposed.com ?
Either way is the usual liberal junk in the trunk, big on the ass and little on substance.
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Wed Jan 25 13:18:35 2012 - [Stop handouts and they will work or move] By: p.f.f.f.f |
| If people of color want racial equality, change your attitude, get a job, and cotribute to society instead of expecting everything to be handed to you on a gold platter. Funny, I have much more respect for an educated, down to earth person with his ass in the grass like the majority of the population. We do have a black president, doesn't that prove sucess can be anyones? |
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Wed Jan 25 10:48:26 2012 - [White men stay out of DFL Duluth] By: Cynic |
Why don't they just put a target on white men and say here is all your problems(well they just did). Take him out and life will be sweet. Hell how many white men are killed each year for no other reason than they are white. This latest campaign in Duluth also targets white women.
Why not white lettering across the faces of black people stating their message.
Who can someone call to state their displeasure with this crap?????? |
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Wed Jan 25 09:04:09 2012 - [DLF exploitation of losers = big dollars] By: Enough |
| As far as this "White's are Unfair" or whatever they call it, all this does is perpetuate losers in the minority community. Native Americans have wallowed in this for over 100 years. "It's somebody elses fault that I'm a loser" is a convenient excuse for their own failings. For being crap as a parent, for being crap as a student, for not speaking anything that resembles english, for committing crimes, etc, etc. Ever notice the monority person who has a decent job? They are the ones that did NOT sit around whining about how hard they have it, but rather went to school, and got a freaking job! |
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Tue Jan 24 19:11:10 2012 - [Sick of Duluth liberal bullshit] By: C S |
| I'm so sick of Duluth and all the liberal bullshit. I just saw the report on the Unfair Campaign and I almost threw up. Quit blaming the white man for all your problems. Seeing Ricky DeFoe talk about racism just makes me sick. He's has to be one of the most racist people I've ever known. Can't wait until I retire so I can get the hell out of here and move somewhere where they don't coddle every idiot who screams racism. |
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Tue Jan 24 17:18:45 2012 - [Why does she hate white people?] By: mp |
In the Zenith City News, Melanie Ford mentions we are a country for white people (men).
http://www.zenithcitynews.com/122711/colors.htm
....Hispanics are currently the largest minority group in the U.S., 15.8 percent of the population. In 1848, the U.S. annexed 55 percent of Mexico. The inhabitants of the region were largely Spanish–speaking, of mixed indigenous and European ancestry, suddenly forced to live in a country created for Whites.
...Today, about half our country’s immigrants come from Latin America, the majority from Mexico. States such as South Carolina have passed laws requiring police to ask for the visas of anyone they suspect is not a U.S. citizen.
A response to high Hispanic immigration, these laws encourage racial profiling and discrimination based on stereotyped characteristics, such as skin color or accent.
...According to Joe Feagin in The White Racial Frame (Routledge, 2010), at the time of the Mexican territorial annexation, U.S. leaders considered Mexicans non–White.
Mexican men became stereotyped as lazy and hypersexual (but willing to work for very low wages) by what Feagin calls a "racist frame"—a worldview that highlights the virtue and superiority of Whites compared to the vices and inferiority of non–Whites, creating oppression.
Feagin concluded that racism still exists because this framing became systemic in our culture. European immigrants were first considered non–White. Within a generation or so, they assimilated into American culture, adopted the White racial frame, lost their native languages, and blended into the "superior" White class. Hispanics still identify with their language and country of origin.
The only way to undo these frames is to learn the history of Hispanics and to voice objection to racism. Learn why people immigrate and how they are treated when they arrive. Get to know people of all colors and work to undo the racism that keeps the U.S. a country for White people.
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Tue Jan 24 16:02:52 2012 - [Mission Accomplished] By: Cyberslut Watch |
Dennis, I have not read anything from Phat "C" or her aliases. I think she has been effectively silenced for now. She simply cannot put out anymore, after several years of active and endless blogging, she is simply wore out. Loose in the lips as they say, her BS has been exposed and the beacon of truth has been cast upon her spin, lies and false handles.
Mission Accomplished, for now anyway, she may be back. We must be forever vigilant! |
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Tue Jan 24 13:13:39 2012 - [Anyone heard from ugly Phat "C] By: Dennis Miller |
This morning, the Muslim Brotherhood warned the United States that if the United States continued meddling in Egypt, Libya, and other potential hot spots in the Middle East, they intend to cut off America's supply of 7-11 and Motel 6 managers.
If this action does not yield sufficient results, cab drivers will be next, followed by Dell, AT&T, and AOL customer service reps.
Finally, if all else fails, they have threatened to not send us any more presidents.
It's gonna get ugly, people.
Hey! Speaking of ugly, anyone heard from Phat "C"?
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Tue Jan 24 07:59:43 2012 - [Obama won because of white guilt] By: S.W.K. |
This from today's Tribune article promoting...well, another reason to feel guilty:
'When Henderson (That's Allegra Henderson, an integration specialist with the Duluth school district.) has tried to talk about racism or white privilege with whites, she said she often meets with denial or people turning defensive.'
1. Ok, there go my arguments i guess. If I say it's b.s. (denial) or defend my stance (defensive) I loose. I'll just keep my pink mouth closed.
2. An integration specialist with the Duluth school district? And you wonder why we don't take you seriously? (and why we're broke?)
Another unanswerable statement/question presented in a workshop for Duluth's guilt ridden whites and downtrodden minorities was: "I can look at the paper or TV and see people of my race widely represented." Earlier in this article it was stated that 90% of Duluth's population is white.
How represented should the other 10% be? Just what number would be fair?
Let's not get defensive though.
http://www.duluthnewstribune.com/event/article/id/220815/
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Tue Jan 24 06:52:15 2012 - [Racism exists against all colors of skin] By: Jim |
I am very surprised at the comments posted about my experience as an educator here in Duluth for 33 years. I was called a "conservative", "racist" and so forth. Couldn't be further from the truth.
Do you all see what campaign has started. It is a campaign to end racism. The assumption is that a white person must be racist if they are white skinned. This is what is happening in our schools. Indoctrination of our kids. Racism exists, unfortunately, and both blacks and whites are at fault, not just white skinned people as portrayed in this campaign.
Politically correct has got to go and be substituted with the truth. Both blacks and whites are racist. You'll never see that written or hear that spoken in this campaign.
To my Democrat and Liberal friends in the teaching field, very soon merit pay will take over and don't try fighting it with your union any longer because it hurts the kids and this country's future. Tenure is outright fraudulent. We, as teachers along with our unions, have run this country right into the ground. (and most of us know it) |
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Mon Jan 23 20:32:58 2012 - [A slow boat to China] By: Too Nice Here |
| Kinda makes a guy want to get his boat ticket to China and live in a dorm with 8000 people. Gotta take care of "the man"! |
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Mon Jan 23 18:44:00 2012 - [How the U.S. Lost Out on iPhone Work] By: mp |
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/22/business/apple-america-and-a-squeezed-middle-class.html?_r=3&hp=&pagewanted=all
How the U.S. Lost Out on iPhone Work
...Apple has become one of the best-known, most admired and most imitated companies on earth, in part through an unrelenting mastery of global operations. Last year, it earned over $400,000 in profit per employee, more than Goldman Sachs, Exxon Mobil or Google.
...One former executive described how the company relied upon a Chinese factory to revamp iPhone manufacturing just weeks before the device was due on shelves. Apple had redesigned the iPhone’s screen at the last minute, forcing an assembly line overhaul. New screens began arriving at the plant near midnight.
A foreman immediately roused 8,000 workers inside the company’s dormitories, according to the executive. Each employee was given a biscuit and a cup of tea, guided to a workstation and within half an hour started a 12-hour shift fitting glass screens into beveled frames. Within 96 hours, the plant was producing over 10,000 iPhones a day.
“The speed and flexibility is breathtaking,” the executive said. “There’s no American plant that can match that.”
..For years, cellphone makers had avoided using glass because it required precision in cutting and grinding that was extremely difficult to achieve. Apple had already selected an American company, Corning Inc., to manufacture large panes of strengthened glass. But figuring out how to cut those panes into millions of iPhone screens required finding an empty cutting plant, hundreds of pieces of glass to use in experiments and an army of midlevel engineers. It would cost a fortune simply to prepare.
Then a bid for the work arrived from a Chinese factory.
When an Apple team visited, the Chinese plant’s owners were already constructing a new wing. “This is in case you give us the contract,” the manager said, according to a former Apple executive. The Chinese government had agreed to underwrite costs for numerous industries, and those subsidies had trickled down to the glass-cutting factory. It had a warehouse filled with glass samples available to Apple, free of charge. The owners made engineers available at almost no cost. They had built on-site dormitories so employees would be available 24 hours a day.
The Chinese plant got the job.
“The entire supply chain is in China now,” said another former high-ranking Apple executive. “You need a thousand rubber gaskets? That’s the factory next door. You need a million screws? That factory is a block away. You need that screw made a little bit different? It will take three hours.” |
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Mon Jan 23 18:23:31 2012 - [Liberal Madness Destroying USA Lives] By: mp |
Fortunately the Obama adminstration has halted most deportations of illegal immigrants.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2090532/Haitian-man-freed-Obama-halted-deportations-earthquake-went-murder-people.html
A Haitian immigrant, freed after the Obama Administration halted deportations to his native country, went on to kill three people before shooting himself, police say...
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Mon Jan 23 16:57:48 2012 - [DFL Inmates Financially Ruined Duluth] By: Love those public servants |
The City of Duluth’s financial dilemma being fueled by the City’s employee retirement benefit package liability. Simply defined, it is an unfunded, compounding debt that will soon come due. The retirement benefit package liability is the single greatest financial challenge confronting the City of Duluth.
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Mon Jan 23 16:55:02 2012 - [The DFL Unethical Way] By: Oh Please |
| Pay and health and benefit packages that bankrupt communities, and states, are nothing for public employees to be proud of. |
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Mon Jan 23 15:26:08 2012 - [Pro-Gun DFLer] By: p.f.f.f.f |
| I know you conservatives think all "liberals" are anti-gun. While I might be liberal on some issues, I am AGAINST gun laws. If people were allowed to carry guns you wouldn't have the high body count when some nut job opens up in mall somewhere and people don't have a weapon to protect themselves. If they did they could shoot the loon before he killed 20 or more. The way the world is going, I would feel much better if there were TRAINED people carrying weapons for their OWN protection and MINE. |
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Mon Jan 23 11:14:43 2012 - [Drug dealing is a dangerous career move] By: jdd |
S.W.K.YOU ARE RIGHT ON THE MONEY WITH YOU POSTING: EXCEPT OLD " SNAP" COOPER COULD NOT GET A CONCEALED CARRY PERMIT, WITH HIS MULTIPLY FELONY CONVICTIONS ON HIS RECORD. I DIDN'T HEAR THE REVEREND MENTION ALL THE VIOLENCE AND CRIME THAT GOES WITH DRUG DEALING/USING. IF YOU LOOK ON THE MINNESOTA TRIAL COURT PUBLIC ACCESS YOU WILL SEE HE WAS CONVICTED OF DOZENS OF CRIMES IN MN INCLUDING MULTIPLE FELONY ASSAULTS, AND THAT WAS JUST IN MINNESOTA. DID THE ANYONE HAVE A PUBLIC VIGIL FOR THE CRIME VICTIMS THAT COOPER ASSAULTED?
NOT TRYING TO SOUND INSENSITIVE BUT PEOPLE NEED TO LOOK AT THE BIGGER PICTURE. |
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Mon Jan 23 06:55:15 2012 - [Usual DFL anti-gun crapola] By: S.W.K. |
In Monday's Tribune (1-23) there is the obligatory follow-up article referencing the shooting and killing of a druggie in Superior last week, and of course the usual suspects come out of the woodwork, or from behind the pulpit, to spout their anti-gun rhetoric without giving an iota of rational thought to what they're saying. They'll go to any length to spew their message even if it means using a still warm dead guy as a platform.
"We can't let gun violence go unchallenged," said the Rev. Patrick Ziems of Zion Lutheran Church.
"I never want to stop being hopeful, but Wisconsin just passed a conceal-and-carry law that will put thousands more guns on the street," said Ziems of his mounting concerns.
Zeims, you're a moron if you think this was some sort of random shooting of "Snap" Cooper because of all the guns in Superior just tossed on the street here and there, and not some retaliation for an unpaid drug deal or stolen product. If I recall the original article correctly, "Snap" had been clean for 22 days, about enough time for some Milw. or Mpls. dealers to figure out they weren't going to get paid for earlier transactions, and send someone North to teach "Snap" and others a lesson.
And of course, with the help of the local paper and your bunch of 'head in the sand' alarmists that lesson is being blasted out for all to hear. "PAY UP SUCKERS!"
In my world view Rev. Ziems, If ol' "Snap" had taken a class, obtained a Wisc. conceal carry license and purchased a handgun for protection, well at least he'd have had a fighting chance against some gang hitman.
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Sun Jan 22 17:01:43 2012 - [Typical DFL Spin - False Bashing ] By: JR |
magnumpi,
Huh?
Again, cite my teacher "bashings." |
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Sun Jan 22 16:51:02 2012 - [What is wrong with that?] By: JR |
Oh Please,
I considered myself a public servant for my entire career (35 years). And yes, with union help, I received a decent salary, and including my contributions, health benefits and pension. What is wrong with that? Granted, I am fortunate to have these benefits, but I don't consider them extravagant. We'll have to disagree on if ( or when) I became over-compensated and controlling. I pay/paid taxes for education, police, fire, snowplowing, military, SS, Disability, Medicare, etc., etc., too. Thanks. |
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Sun Jan 22 10:54:44 2012 - [Non Kool-Aid Drinkers are Bashers] By: magnumpi |
| JR...you "bashed" teachers by posting criticism on a conservative blog. Way to go buddy...you are on your way to becoming a full fledged douchebag. Maybe you should have paid more attention to your Union when you were a "teacher." |
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Sun Jan 22 09:57:47 2012 - [The School Board of Libtardation] By: S.W.K. |
Interesting article on how Nettleton has finally! finally! become a segregated school. I'm sure it's a designation that the self loathing liberals in the 'education community' up here have been counting on for years. Now we can force these evil racists in Duluth to send their children into the city planned, by way of the Social Services dept., ghetto of the North.
A few telling quotes from the Tribune article Jan. 20th:
"A child who has two parents at home might sit next to one who has one parent," Mary Cameron. (what the...?? So one kid can look over at another kid's school work?)
"boundary changes, school mergers and reverting back to the magnet school format, would take lots of community discussion and are not being considered in the short-term unless the community wants it," said Bill Gronseth, Acting Superintendent. (yeah Bill, we're biting our nails waiting for it)
Also speaking of boundary changes: "I don’t know if we would want to do that right away." Tom Kasper. (and we all know we can trust Tommy at his word)
When these idiots start talking about future and pending actions you can bet it's in the works already and has been the subject of the school board's famous closed door talks for awhile now. By the time we the parents know what's going on....it's already settled in back rooms. Remember the red plan and I.V. Foster?
On a positive note, I'm certain the bus companies up here will be thrilled with the news.
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Sat Jan 21 16:50:38 2012 - [More proof of failing public education ] By: JJ Hardy |
magnumpi said "JR and Lakesider...you have done a wonderful job of bashing our teachers, you should be proud of yourselves. You are terrible human beings...while you are at it, why don't you bash our Police and Firefighters too? You folks are typical conservatives who don't care about public services until you need them. What a bunch of week people you all are....I have an idea, why don't you all move to Syria? They take care of people like you I hear!"
I say, if the teachers can't teach you the difference between "week" and "weak", then we are all in trouble. |
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Sat Jan 21 11:36:47 2012 - [Public servants to screwing the public] By: Oh Please |
"JR and Lakesider...you have done a wonderful job of bashing our teachers, you should be proud of yourselves. You are terrible human beings...while you are at it, why don't you bash our Police and Firefighters too? You folks are typical conservatives who don't care about public services until you need them. What a bunch of week people you all are....I have an idea, why don't you all move to Syria? They take care of people like you I hear!"
Maybe, just maybe, peoples attitudes changed when public employees went from being "public servants" to over paid, over benefitted, controlling the taxpayer, "Jerks"!! |
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Sat Jan 21 10:22:11 2012 - [Critical of the union, not teachers] By: JR |
Magnumpi,
Where in any of my posts do I "bash" teachers, students or parents? If anything I was a bit critical of our union. BTW,I am a life long Dem (although I'll admit I voted for Nixon once). Thanks. |
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Sat Jan 21 00:30:08 2012 - ["Why don't you all move to Syria?"] By: magnumpi |
| JR and Lakesider...you have done a wonderful job of bashing our teachers, you should be proud of yourselves. You are terrible human beings...while you are at it, why don't you bash our Police and Firefighters too? You folks are typical conservatives who don't care about public services until you need them. What a bunch of week people you all are....I have an idea, why don't you all move to Syria? They take care of people like you I hear! |
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Fri Jan 20 23:19:59 2012 - [What DFL Duluth will never do] By: Pitt Street Panther |
This is how Don Ness will get Duluth up to 90,000 residents.
Hooray for Florida!!
I-95 will be jammed for the next month or so........Druggies and deadbeats Heading North out of Florida. Florida is the first state requiring drug testing to receive welfare! In signing the new law, Gov. Rick Scott said, "If Floridians want welfare, they better make sure they are drug-free. Applicants who test positive for illicit substances won't be eligible for the funds for a year, or until they undergo treatment. Those who fail a second time would be banned from receiving funds for three years! Naturally, a few people are crying this is unconstitutional. How is this unconstitutional? It's completely legal that every other working people have to pass drug tests in order to get a J-O-B which supports those on welfare!
Forward if you agree!!
Let's get Welfare back to the ones who NEED it, not those who WON'T get a JOB.....
I AGREE!!! 100%.
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Fri Jan 20 18:15:34 2012 - [Youth don't value education ] By: Mr. Chip |
There is a big change in our youth today than yesterday. I employ many youth and their works skills are poor and they think using the phone on the job is okay. I even run into this at places I shop. Of course many adults too use that phone at any given minute.
Our youth don't value education I feel also, when most know that are older the value of the learning process. It seems most kids just want to get home from school and play video games and do other things that stimulate them, I.E. The same stuff we did when we were young, 150 cable channels, I-Pods, Facebook, and meth today for stimulants to name a few. School?
School is in the way for many of our youth and the teachers teach for the moment. Short term memory required for a diploma today.
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Fri Jan 20 09:46:09 2012 - [Dependent on union] By: JR |
| Jim and Nancy, could you give more details of unions, behind closed doors, destroying our schools? During my teaching career, the union helped me navigate lay-offs, stranding and displacements; but much more often, when I had an issue with the district or building administration, the union took the district's side or interpretation of contracts and policies. |
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Fri Jan 20 07:19:50 2012 - [The DFL redefines the word "local"] By: Section 8 is Free |
Another DFL imported "local" gone bad has some trouble. Imagine that!
http://www.duluthnewstribune.com/event/article/id/220483/ |
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Fri Jan 20 07:12:45 2012 - [Pee on American haters] By: Pitt Street Panther |
Pee on a Crucifix, you're an "artist"
Pee on The American Flag, you're a "Constitutionalist"
Pee on a Police Car, you're a "Freedom Loving 99%er"
But pee on the Taliban Piece Of Cockroach Crap That Just Tried To Kill You & Your Fellow Marines, and you're a Villain.
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Fri Jan 20 06:33:18 2012 - [Teachers union has wrecked education] By: Nancy |
Jim, thank-you for your years of service teaching our kids. Your post makes me think of what is actually going on behind those closed school doors during the day and just how bad the influence of public school teacher unions really is.
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Thu Jan 19 17:59:40 2012 - [Love Newt Republican style] By: mp |
Love Newt Republican style.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2088692/Newt-Gingrich-affair-Ex-wife-Marianne-reveals-wanted-open-marriage.html
'He wanted an open marriage and I refused': Newt Gingrich's ex-wife tries to torpedo his presidential hopes by revealing all about his six-year affairMarianne Gingrich claimed ex-husband conducted affair with Callista 'in my bedroom in our apartment in Washington'
GOP presidential hopeful told Marianne she would need to share him
'He wanted me to accept the fact he had somebody else in his life'
He filed for divorce 'soon after she was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis'
'Callista was going to help him become President,' says ex-wife Marianne
'Newt lacks moral character to be President'
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Thu Jan 19 06:42:31 2012 - [Knows Why Education is Failing] By: Jim |
For your information Lakesider, I went into the teaching profession for reasons you described. I lasted 33 years in the district but the entire teaching profession has changed and so have the kids as well as the parents.
I had new teachers asking me for my tests so they could use the tests I developed to evaluate their own students. Teachers today are literally bound by the union they are in and we see it every day. When I started the profession was looked upon as a true profession and was supported by almost everyone in our community. Now, we get support from the PTO's and PTA's and about half of the parents.
I accepted 13 student teachers in my tenure and over half stated they wanted to enter the profession because of the time off received throughout the year. (Christmas 2 weeks, Easter 1 week, and June, July and August). Somehow in their schooling someone put into their young heads that a good reason for entering the profession is the time off received. Not hardly a good reason.
I was teaching in 83' during the strike and we had teaching professionals contacting students to meet us at the administration building and picket with us. We were using the young kids to our advantage in order to garner public favor in improving our wages. Frank (and you know who he is) was a lousy union leader.
Lastly, I would ask this. The United states Spends more money per student than any other nation on earth and how do our students compare to others around the world. 14th and 15th place in most disciplines. Are we OK with that. I say that the reasons for entering the profession have caught up to us. We have too many selfish teachers and not enough of those true professionals. And if you don't think racism exists today in schools your sadly misguided. Just look at the last 10 years Central was open and what those administrators did and gave to the minority students which was not given to the non-minority students. ( Minority room, black advocates and no white advocates, race based tutoring etc.)
So Mr./Mrs. Lakesider, I lived the profession, loved the profession but know we are failing. If only we could get rid of those teachers who unduly influence our kids negatively we could then stand a chance. I felt I gave it my best shot for as long as I could but when politics, unions and adminstrators get in the way, we all lose.
I am enjoying a healthy retirement and praying our educational system gets its' act together before it is too late. God Speed to our TRUE professional teachers, we need them. |
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Wed Jan 18 16:22:46 2012 - [DFL Propaganda Called Out] By: lakesider |
To Jim-
You sound exactly like the type of teacher who gives teachers a bad name. Someone tenured who's just trying to milk out the end of their career without giving a crap about the students.
Its really too bad, because there are teachers out there who go into the profession to make a difference, work hard, and change their methods to engage students. There are many good, hard working teachers who put everything and more into their jobs, please don't further discredit their work with your ramblings. |
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Wed Jan 18 16:21:54 2012 - [Is WDSM Radio For Sale?] By: Joan |
| Is WDSM Radio For Sale? I 'd like to buy it with cash. |
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Wed Jan 18 13:37:52 2012 - [Anybody care about the Walker recall?] By: p.f.f.f.f. |
| Anybody care about the Walker recall goings-on? |
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Wed Jan 18 07:14:53 2012 - [DFL Duluth Bypassed Again!] By: S.W.K. |
Pretty great news for Superior: a new airplane manufacturing plant being built right in the heart of town, hundreds of good paying jobs being created, suppliers and transportation companies will be hiring and purchasing new equipment. Of course there will be new folks moving in to fill some of those new and good paying positions, and of course existing businesses looking at a new customer base. Not to mention the property and sales taxes that will be collected, all in all a great day for Soup town and good for them.
Oh yeah, and I see Duluth is bailing out the fish tank again.
I notice that when something positive happens in Duluth, it's always a great day for Duluth, but when something positive happens in Superior it's a great day for the 'twin Ports'. Must be propeller envy.
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Tue Jan 17 20:12:04 2012 - [Glad to see spirit mountain adding ] By: jump this |
| glad to see spirit mountain adding to the west side of duluth. those dang tourist rats downtown for a long time have got all the $$$. with the new chalet at the bottom for summer rec and winter fun, let us hope that area will grow like proctor's little gold mine on i35 and beyond because of our hill. |
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Tue Jan 17 18:58:07 2012 - [DFL Ho Train Mo Money Wasted] By: mp |
More proof why a train is needed. Not.
http://www.startribune.com/local/north/137455888.html
...Although the two-year-old, 41-mile Northstar line has struggled to meet ridership projections, city and business officials see signs a commuter line can flourish someday, even during high unemployment.
"In the midst of a very bad economy, these stations have attracted investment," said Hennepin County Commissioner Peter McLaughlin, a driving force behind Northstar and other rail lines. "The space and opportunities are there..."
Larsen and Leslie Dingham, Big Lake's economic development specialist, had just been hired by the city. Instead of pouncing on potential opportunities, they stepped back, reminding themselves this was a commuter train they were talking about -- a train to get people to work during an economy in which many were suddenly out of work.
"The difference between commuter and light rail is there isn't going to be anything happening around the station during the day," Larsen said.
"The train isn't going to be the driving force for retail development," she said. "It's an amenity."
Northstar's ridership last year from January through November was 2 percent lower than during the same 11 months in 2010, according to Metro Transit. |
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Tue Jan 17 07:25:08 2012 - [AFSCME Occupy Idiots Use Any Cause] By: S.W.K. |
Great photo in the on-line rag this morning of the MLK march through racially divided, deep in the heart of Dixie, Duluth, Minnesota.
So glad the photographer captured two signs of Kings' main priorities marching along with the downtrodden: afscme and the occupy idiots. As we all know, nothing says social injustice like overpaid government workers and spoiled brats that want me to pay their student loans. And of course, marching down the street where people at work can look out their windows and shake their heads makes it all the more surreal.
(yes children, most of us worked yesterday; I noticed my trash was collected but I didn't get any mail delivered, go figure?)
"I have a dream", at least I had one until the alarm woke me and I had to get up and head to work.
http://www.duluthnewstribune.com/event/image/id/77998/headline/Martin%20Luther%20King%20Jr.%20Day%20march/
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Tue Jan 17 06:24:44 2012 - [DFL Libtards Wrecking Education] By: Jim |
I taught at Central HS for the last 12 years of my teaching career. It was awful!! I couldn't wait to retire. The last 3 years I couldn't have cared less about the kids or what I was teaching. My goal was to make it to retirement and leave.
The administration at Central was terrible. They would never take on the minorities and their behavior. Did you know that at Central they had a "minority" room that any minority (no whites allowed) could go to to and just "hang out" in. This was the safe spot for the minorities. When I asked where is the room where "whites" could "just hang out" in I was told to keep my mouth shut.
The school administration at Central bent over backwards to ensure nobody could call them racists. In my opinion, they over did it and the minority population knew it and believed they could do no wrong.
Teaching at Central was not fun and I am glad I am retired. If only all the taxpayers knew what went on in our schools, reverse discrimination.
All you need to look at is the last hire as the school superintendent. A black man applies and everyone goes gaga over hiring him. Finds out he is not qualified and is an embarassment to the district. How did that politically correct hiring do for the taxpayers?
It goes on and on even today...TRUST ME |
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Mon Jan 16 19:47:16 2012 - [Liberalism Created Class of Victims] By: Alfonso R |
| JR, a few years ago I was talking to my daughters teacher who was retiring and asked, what was the difference between when he was my teacher (1968)and my daughters class (2000)and he gave me this eye opening comment. He said the kids were the same but the parents were different. He said in my day if he had to call the parent the parent believed the teacher, met with him and took action to correct the childs behavior and today if he made the same call the first thing the parent would do is defend the child and blame the teacher, school or the system. Seems like the problem has been identified. |
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Mon Jan 16 19:47:16 2012 - [Liberalism Created Class of Victims] By: Alfonso R |
| JR, a few years ago I was talking to my daughters teacher who was retiring and asked, what was the difference between when he was my teacher (1968)and my daughters class (2000)and he gave me this eye opening comment. He said the kids were the same but the parents were different. He said in my day if he had to call the parent the parent believed the teacher, met with him and took action to correct the childs behavior and today if he made the same call the first thing the parent would do is defend the child and blame the teacher, school or the system. Seems like the problem has been identified. |
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Mon Jan 16 19:32:46 2012 - [DFL IneptNe$$ - A Way of Life] By: Bed Time Story |
One day, Mayor Ness gets an idea after reading an article on the Internet about the longest bridge and longest tunnel, that being a road to China. Mayor Ness did go to school in Duluth and it is taught in the 4th grade that if you dig a hole in the ground deep enough, you could end up in China. After talking to his advisors - Johnson Controls - and getting the green light, Mayor Ness then starts to plan his big project, a tunnel to China.
Mayor Ness sells this project to the good people of Duluth saying that the construction phase alone will provide 15,000 jobs and once this project is completed, many Chinese will drive that 9000 or so miles to Duluth and spend money. One billion Chinese customers coming to Duluth is hard to pass up and the good people of Duluth know this. The referendum passes 79 percent for.
The golden shovel lifts the first or many tons of dirt, clay and rock that needs to be removed in order to build this road. Mayor Ness smiles as he holds the shovel for the cameras. Besides WDIO, KBJR, and KQDS being on hand, CNN and WCCO was here also in Duluth, so everyone knows this is big like Mayor Ness’ smile. Then the real work begins after all the required permits are filed.
It is quite a project removing 125 million tons of dirt, clay and rock. It is also quite a project finding a place for this material too. Mayor Ness did think of everything and had plan on adding elevation to SMRA hills for skiing. Truck, after truck rolled up I-35 dumping the loads as this hole started to get deep.
Once the road hit a certain point, the gravitational pull changes and the road flips. If the calculations are off, then a car could end up on its roof and people could die. Mayor Ness thought of that too and with Johnson Controls’ help, he figured that out using Hot Wheel tracks as a model. Mayor Ness also knows that the core of the Earth is a liquid and the road must detour 1900 to 2000 miles. Mayor Ness’ road is almost done after 10 years and being re-elected all those years.
The big day comes when Mayor Ness knows the next shovel that hits the dirt, will break through to China. The Chinese wait on their side, Mayor Ness, with that golden shovel in hand again gets ready to punch through to the other side. WDIO, KBJR, KQDS, WCCO and CNN all make that trip through the tunnel for that big moment. Mayor Ness jumps on that shovel and removes the dirt. The hole to the other side is big enough for him to stick his head through. Mayor Ness sticks his head in the hole and sees failure. Mayor Ness is in Greece.
Good night kids.
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Mon Jan 16 13:31:25 2012 - [Students pretty much the same] By: JR |
| BRAVESTAR C, I taught in Minnesota from 1972-2007 at elementary, middle, junior high and high schools (including East and Central). I found each school's students were, in some ways, different. Some would say test scores, home environment, $$$, etc., are related to zip codes. But, I found students (like any individual/group) to be pretty much the same; we had good days, bad days, indifferent days, great days. |
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Mon Jan 16 11:48:00 2012 - [How to be a Dumbass] By: Muffin Top |
12 REASONS TO VOTE DEMOCRAT
When your family or friends cannot explain why they voted Democrat, give them this list. Then they can then pick a reason from this "TOP 12"..
1. I voted Democrat because I believe oil companies' profits of 4% on a gallon of gas are obscene, but the government taxing the same gallon of gas at 15% isn't.
2. I voted Democrat because I believe the government will do a better job of spending the money I earn than I would.
3. I voted Democrat because Freedom of Speech is fine as long as nobody is offended by it.
4. I voted Democrat because I'm way too irresponsible to own a gun, and I know that my local police are all I need to protect me from murderers and thieves.
5. I voted Democrat because I believe that people who can't tell us if it will rain on Friday can tell us that the polar ice caps will melt away in ten years if I don't start driving a Prius.
6. I voted Democrat because I'm not concerned about millions of babies being aborted so long as we keep all death row inmates alive.
7. I voted Democrat because I think illegal aliens have a right to free health care, education, and Social Security benefits, and we should take away the social security from those who paid into it.
8. I voted Democrat because I believe that business should not be allowed to make profits for themselves. They need to break even and give the rest away to the government for redistribution as the Democrats see fit.
9. I voted Democrat because I believe liberal judges need to rewrite the Constitution every few days to suit some fringe kooks who would never get their agendas past the voters.
10.. I voted Democrat because I think that it's better to pay billions to people who hate us for their oil, but not drill our own because it might upset some endangered beetle, gopher or fish.
11. I voted Democrat because while we live in the greatest, most wonderful country in the world, I was promised "HOPE AND CHANGE".
12. I voted Democrat because my head is so firmly planted up my ass it's unlikely that I'll ever have another point of view.
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Mon Jan 16 05:55:42 2012 - [Notta Cake Eater] By: Sub-Teacher |
| I have sub taught in every school in the city, and in only one school I never had an issue. That school was EAST. I don't care for that 1%, and these kids are not part of this mentioned group before. Silver spoon, yes, yet they were great kids when walking into a strange classroom and hoping not to have issues. |
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Sun Jan 15 23:21:05 2012 - [DFL Tax Policy] By: Bob |
This is quite a long article, so I am only going to post the first few lines of it.
There are at least 14 reasons why the property taxes on my home change each year. They contribute to the fact that Minnesota is considered to have the most complex property tax system in the United States.
A number of years ago, the value of my home went up and my property taxes went down. A few years later, the value went up again and the taxes also rose. This year, my home value is down thousands of dollars, but my taxes went up $200.
A cynic might say that property taxes are "perfect." They are formulated by politicians, enacted by government bodies, implemented by bureaucrats -- and minimally understood by accountants and lawyers.
A citizen has a better chance of hitting a trifecta at the track than of understanding property taxes. Energy and effort have been put into property tax hows, whys and who pays by economists and public-policy analysts.
http://www.startribune.com/opinion/otherviews/137321553.html |
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Sun Jan 15 19:55:23 2012 - [Doesn't eat cake] By: BRAVESTAR C |
| closing east high school was an end of and era,that school had bad vibes through out the years...i remember east from the years 1987-1992,...the children were dressind like richie and pottsey from the show happy days,and had short hair parted from the side,with brill cream in there hair(very odd at first glance,for the time frame)the children were very bright(99 percent of them had perfect grades).but there was an underbelly to those students.they had tight clicks,if you didnt know them from kindergarden,your not there friend.there was a teen suicide every other month(i remember looking at my brother and saying whats wrong with these guys,mommy didnt buy them a corvette?)drug use was very common,and date rapes.those kids did what ever they wanted to do,as if it was there birth right.if they bully on a student,,and the student punched them,it was the student who got punished.east had a logo,duluth grey hounds,but they were called THE CAKE EATERS,(and east cakes) that term was coined in the 1950s.in the urban dictionary A cake eater is 1.rich people who think there better than everyone cause they are rich.another term they used during that time frame was,you cant have your cake and eat it to....but at east we can.i went to central high,and remember a few teachers you did a short stint at east,they described it as follows...i walked down the hallway,and there was complete silence,and all eyes on me,and everyone froze in there tracks as if they got big bussiness going on or something.the school grounds was very spooky too,only if the school grounds could talk.well..most of them students reached there peak in high school,and didnt make much of them selves today.rest in peace east,may the negatives of the past be gone with you. |
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Sun Jan 15 07:30:22 2012 - [Politicians rarely economic whizs] By: jeff T |
Nicole,
I would not call another Lawyer in politics a good thing. Chris is a good guy but not an economic whiz kid. |
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Fri Jan 13 20:39:02 2012 - [DFL Duluth a.k.a. Libtardia = High Taxes] By: Cynic |
| I wonder how many people who voted to raise homeowners property taxes for the city parks actually own their own home. If you rent yes you will still end up paying the higher tax through higher rent but in many rentals there are multiple renters so the pain is distributed among more people. Does anyone know how many homes in Duluth are owner occupied vs rental? |
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Fri Jan 13 13:05:54 2012 - [Need more business people on econ boards] By: Nicole K |
| I would just like to say that St. Louis County Commissioner Chris Dahlberg's recent appointment to the Duluth Seaway Port Authority was an excellent move toward economic development in our region. The State needs more business oriented people like Dahlberg in these types of positions and across the board. |
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Fri Jan 13 06:26:18 2012 - [Thanks for the input] By: 007 |
Thanks for the input. My one friend came up with BrainyACT. Because DR is just an ACT; i.e. hanging with Occupy Duluth, being too politcal, kissing ASFCME butts, and just being a figure head.
I guess let me wait to hear from the Queen for my orders, then I will use my license. |
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Thu Jan 12 17:25:31 2012 - [Does this need explaining?] By: Focker Watcher |
Does Dave Ross have a white cat? Anyone know?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7BT00WU7Iss |
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Thu Jan 12 17:24:30 2012 - [DFL Karma] By: Dennis Miller |
A woman from Los Angeles, who was a tree hugger, a liberal Democrat, and an anti-hunter, purchased timberland near Colville, WA .
There was a large tree on the highest point of the tract. She wanted a good view of the natural splendor of her land so she started to climb the big tree. As she neared the top she encountered a spotted owl that attacked her. In her haste to escape the owl, the woman slid down the tree to the ground and got many splinters in her crotch.
In considerable pain, she hurried to the local ER to see a doctor. She told him she was an environmentalist, a democrat, and an anti-hunter and how she had come to get all those splinters.
The doctor listened to her story with great patience and then told her to wait in the examining room and he would see if he could help her. She sat and waited three hours before the doctor reappeared. The angry woman demanded, "What took you so long?"
He smiled and then told her, "Well, I had to get permits from the Environmental Protection Agency, the Forest Service, and the Bureau of Land Management before I could remove old-growth timber from a "recreational area" so close to a waste treatment facility."
"I'm sorry, but due to Obama-Care they turned you down!" he said.
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Thu Jan 12 13:50:26 2012 - [Crystal-no-balls] By: p.f.f.f.f |
| How about Crystal-no-balls or chrome-dome? |
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Thu Jan 12 12:25:39 2012 - [The list is growning] By: More names |
007:
Daddy Long Legs or short D Double L or D2L
Rogain
The Sphere
D-Man
Daddy Warbucks, that has been said..
Smilely
All would make a foe of 007 worthy.
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Wed Jan 11 20:47:22 2012 - [Not trying to start trouble] By: p.f.f.f.f |
| Cynic/orange street, I'm not trying to start trouble, all I'm doing is comparing one to the other. I'm not against having a well and septic system. When I installed a well and septic years ago, the total cost was about 16000. |
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Wed Jan 11 20:12:05 2012 - [One more] By: victimized by scum |
@ 007, add one more name to that list.
Gold Focker
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Wed Jan 11 19:05:40 2012 - [Ross look a likes ] By: victimized by scum |
@ 007
False Face ?
Bald Focker ?
Ernst Stavro Blofeld ? |
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Wed Jan 11 19:00:47 2012 - [Wealth redistribution to Ross' pocket] By: Chamber of Fools |
Voter writes:
I just found out what the Chamber president makes and it shocked me. With benefits, David Ross makes $180,000 per year. I can't belive that. What new businesses, other than non-profits, has he helped bring her. He is a blowhard.
I just wonder if the other chamber members know this and just blindly renew their membership. If they watched the video where Ness interviews Ross about the Occupy movement and Ross states, "I do think we need to do something about wealth redistribution" they would leave the Chamber.
David Ross is a sad example of what a chamber president should be. Another reason why our city is failing.
All you have to look at, for an explanation as to why the Duluth Chamber turned into such a joke, is to look at the ages of the Chamber membership. It's turned into a bunch of 30 somethings enthralled with Ness Reinert, Anderson, Gardner, etc, and all the other people who belong to te ANTI BUISINESS PARTY. The DFL.
Yup, the new business men and women of Duluth ignorantly support local politicians that are anti them! They're totaly clueless!
They hung on the Mayor's every word at Tuesdays luncheon like a bunch of giddy school girls. He, as usual, promised them the moon and they cheered him on.
When all was said and done, what Ness will really do in 2012 is the same thing he, and his DFL friends, have been doing to Duluth for years. Raise our taxes, cut services to the people who pay taxes, while keeping the welfare gravy train going! |
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Wed Jan 11 18:36:56 2012 - [Double Dipper DFL Donny] By: Cynic |
| Insider, the mayor is given a sweet little car allowance. |
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Wed Jan 11 18:30:12 2012 - [Another DFL Duluth ripoff scheme] By: Cynic |
pfff/mike, There you go again. Don't you think anyone can do anything themselves. I install my own pumps in my own well.
When I talked to a guy on West Calvary Rd he told me it was costing him $25,000 to have city water and sewer run by his house. On top of that he had to hire someone to run the lines into his house. Then add to that he has to pay the cost for the usage every month.
I saw on the DNT site where another person on that same road said they always had water for the last 25 years with his well. Then after spending 10's of thousands of dollars to be hooked up to city water he was without water.
Once operating my sewer has cost me nothing because gravity takes care of it. Yes I have it pumped every now and then just for preventative maintenance. Getting onto a municipal water and sewer system is no panacea and can in many cases be more costly than staying with a private system. |
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Wed Jan 11 18:26:31 2012 - [Sewers backed up with DFL crap] By: can't you see the light |
| So P.f.f.f.f.f. says "the sewers were ignored for the last 30 years by the powers in charge" HMMMMM who again was in charge of duluth for at least the last 30 years.....lets think...oh yes...DFLer's have been in charge of duluth / northern MN forever!!! Pretty good one if you ask me. |
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Wed Jan 11 15:44:22 2012 - [WI workers fighting forced unionism] By: Cynic |
Quote: Workers ask court to uphold reform measure protecting most Badger State public workers from forced unionism
Madison, WI (January 9, 2012) – With free legal assistance from the National Right to Work Foundation and the Wisconsin Institute for Law & Liberty, two Wisconsin public employees have filed an amicus curiae brief in favor of Scott Walker's government-sector monopoly bargaining reform. The reform protects the Right to Work for most Wisconsin public workers and bans automatic forced-union-dues seizures from public employees' paychecks.
Christopher King, a social services specialist for Western Wisconsin Cares, and Carie Kendrick, a custodial lead at the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater, filed the brief with the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Wisconsin.
The workers, who are forced to accept the "representation" of union officials, want instead the freedom to represent themselves with their employers. The workers state in their brief that "they equate the 'services' provided by (union officials) to be akin to those of some itinerant street window washers who sling dirty water on your car windshield, smear it around, and then demand payment."
In their brief, the workers ask the judge to uphold the new law as constitutional and deny the unions' request to suspend the law. The workers rely on the Foundation-won U.S. Supreme Court Davenport v. WEA victory in which the Court unanimously held that union bosses enjoy an "extraordinary power" to force workers to pay union dues or fees as a condition of employment, but have no constitutional right to use government resources to deduct union dues or fees from workers' paychecks. |
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Wed Jan 11 13:49:11 2012 - [Your dining taxes pay for it all] By: insider |
| Lets look at Terry Mattson also he to also makes over a $100,000 with a tax payer paid car. What about our Mayor who makes less and drives his own car?? |
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Wed Jan 11 12:17:07 2012 - [Marx would be proud] By: ChaVmber |
| The Chamber of Commies stink. I am glad they will be gone some day. |
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Wed Jan 11 12:14:58 2012 - [Dr. Who Knows?] By: 007 |
| Does not David Ross look like a villain from a James Bond movie. What could his name be? |
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Wed Jan 11 12:08:28 2012 - [The DFL sky might fall] By: p.f.f.f.f |
| Cynic/pete, You tell me where the next water main is going to crack and I'll tell them to dig and put a clamp on it before that happens. Also the cost of the pump at Menards does'nt include installation, what would that run to have a plumber do it? Look, I have had a well and I liked it. I guess the point of the whole water thing is it's gonna cost money whether you pay all at once(cost of well, etc.) or if you pay monthly. Same goes for a septic system. They are'nt cheap either. |
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Wed Jan 11 09:00:43 2012 - [BIG city government wages & benefits] By: Cynic |
| Lastly being hooked to city water and sewer costs "BIG BUCKS". |
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Wed Jan 11 08:46:19 2012 - [Pump DFL BS for under $400] By: Cynic |
| BTW pfff/mike you can get a good submersible pump for under $400. I got mine at Menards on sale for under $400. They used to have it on sale every spring. Take a look at the Northern Tool web site and they also have a selection of pumps and not near the $1000 to $1500 you claim. Also, I prefer our water over municipal water. I know what our water comes through and I know things are up to date, clean and maintained. |
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Wed Jan 11 08:21:01 2012 - [Excuses] By: Cynic |
| pfff/mike just be who you are and we know who that is don't we. wink wink BTW I have a spare pump in the basement. You don't have to tell me the costs of equipment. Like I said unlike the city I keep up on maintenance. The only people that can keep up on maintenance are the workers. You can sit on your ass and let things fall apart or you can get out and do your job. Well you can also sit on the computer and make excuses. |
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Wed Jan 11 07:39:19 2012 - [Chamber redistributes wealth to self] By: Voter |
I just found out what the Chamber president makes and it shocked me. With benefits, David Ross makes $180,000 per year. I can't belive that. What new businesses, other than non-profits, has he helped bring her. He is a blowhard.
I just wonder if the other chamber members know this and just blindly renew their membership. If they watched the video where Ness interviews Ross about the Occupy movement and Ross states, "I do think we need to do something about wealth redistribution" they would leave the Chamber.
David Ross is a sad example of what a chamber president should be. Another reason why our city is failing. |
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Tue Jan 10 19:18:01 2012 - [Wannabe Claire!] By: p.f.f.f.f |
| Cynic, Drilling a well costs big bucks. I'm glad you hav'nt had any trouble. The cost of the well pump(half-horse power) costs between $1OOO and $1500 to replace now-a-days. Last time I got accused of being Jerry F. This time it's Mike. Should I just be p.f.f.f.f/Mike/Jerry F./Clair? |
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Tue Jan 10 18:39:24 2012 - [SV40] By: mp |
FYI - SV40 (simian/monkey virus #40) and cancer
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3092263/?tool=pubmed
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3092263/pdf/10.1177_1947601910395580.pdf
Abstract
SV40 has been detected prevalently in a limited panel of human tumors: mesothelioma, bone and brain tumors, and lymphoma. These are the same tumor types that are specifically induced by SV40 when injected into hamsters, a finding that has raised concerns about the possible pathogenic role of SV40 in humans.
Simian virus 40 (SV40) is a monkey virus that was isolated from polio vaccines in 19601 and later from adenovirus vaccines. 2,3 Soon after its identification, it was shown that SV40 was oncogenic in rodents, where it causes mesothelioma, brain and bone tumors, lymphomas, and undifferentiated sarcomas. |
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Tue Jan 10 17:13:42 2012 - [Spirit Mt. will hit taxpayers up again] By: mp |
Sewage and SMRA could go mutually solve some problems.
http://dsc.discovery.com/adventure/sewage-water-to-become-snow-in-arizona-ski-resort.html |
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Tue Jan 10 12:41:32 2012 - [I in ISD709 is for Incompetent] By: Tool Belt |
Just reading comments at the Lib about Foster getting canned, getting/keeping a ton of our money, what a bunch of total nincompoops the School Board is, how incompetent the school system is especially maintenance.
It is incredible how the Duluth school system NEVER keeps the current buldings up! After around 40 years the schools are a wreck. There are buildings 100 years old in this town that are in mint condition because the owners keep up on routine maintenance!
The schools systems solution when they let our schools rot away? Just build new ones! |
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Tue Jan 10 10:19:31 2012 - [Public info] By: Books and Records |
| I know anyone can look at the books and records concerning SMRA and Visit Duluth. I know the numbers MP gave in a post are correct when looking at sales and expenses concerning SMRA. |
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Tue Jan 10 09:14:52 2012 - [Running fine] By: Cynic |
| pffff/Mike My well continues to run fine because I keep up on the maintenance. |
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Tue Jan 10 08:32:44 2012 - [BARNEY FRANK JR. FOR HUNTING] By: Dave B |
BARNEY FRANK JR. FOR HUNTING
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cRtAyIxt0u8
Makes you really want to vote for Barney, right! |
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Tue Jan 10 08:05:34 2012 - [Another DEM liar and hypocrite] By: Truthism |
"The fact that we are here today to debate raising America's debt limit is a sign of leadership failure. It is a sign that the US Government can not pay its own bills. It is a sign that we now depend on ongoing financial assistance from foreign countries to finance our Government's reckless fiscal policies. Increasing America's debt weakens us domestically and internationally. Leadership means that 'the buck stops here.' Instead, Washington is shifting the burden of bad choices today onto the backs of our children and grandchildren. America has a debt problem and a failure of leadership. Americans deserve better."
-- Senator Barack H. Obama, March 2006
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Mon Jan 9 21:58:14 2012 - [DFL mess that can't be cleaned up] By: p.f.f.f.f |
| All this talk about SMRA and the others will seem trivial when the water and sewer system finally crash and burn because of being ignored by the powers in charge for 30 years. I doubt anybody with no water and unable to flush is going to care about SMRA. Besides, you can't make snow with no water anyway. |
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Mon Jan 9 21:01:20 2012 - [DFL Duluth tax money incest] By: insider |
We should see how much money Visit Duluth ( which is ran by Terry Mattson) gives Spirt Mountain (which is ran by his wife) Our tax dollars. Then look and see how much Visit Duluth gives bentlville a free show. We all know Visit Duluth and the Mountain are robbing us blind.
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Mon Jan 9 10:28:40 2012 - [The C Secret] By: Kevin P |
Now you'll all know how C's secret to getting something to marry her and do the nasty!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v06noJSBsCg |
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Mon Jan 9 10:28:30 2012 - [Ski business is going downhill] By: Down Turn |
| If the ski business is slowing down, why is SMRA planning a new chalet? Are they replacing the one they have now? |
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Mon Jan 9 08:46:01 2012 - [Wal-Mart vs. The Morons ] By: Truthism |
READ THIS TO THE END. IT IS VERY INTERESTING!!!
Wal-Mart vs. The Morons
1. Americans spend $36,000,000 at Wal-Mart Every hour of every day.
2. This works out to $20,928 profit every minute!
3. Wal-Mart will sell more from January 1 to St. Patrick's Day (March 17th) than Target sells all year.
4. Wal-Mart is bigger than Home Depot + Kroger + Target +Sears + Costco + K-Mart combined.
5. Wal-Mart employs 1.6 million people, is the world's largest private employer, and most speak English.
6. Wal-Mart is the largest company in the history of the world.
7. Wal-Mart now sells more food than Kroger and Safeway combined, and keep in mind they did this in only fifteen years.
8. During this same period, 31 big supermarket chains sought bankruptcy.
9. Wal-Mart now sells more food than any other store in the world.
10. Wal-Mart has approx 3,900 stores in the USA of which 1,906 are Super Centers; this is 1,000 more than it had five years ago.
11. This year 7.2 billion different purchasing experiences will occur at Wal-Mart stores. (Earth's population is approximately 6.5 Billion.)
12. 90% of all Americans live within fifteen miles of a Wal-Mart.
You may think that I am complaining, but I am really laying the ground work for suggesting that MAYBE we should hire the guys who run Wal-Mart to fix the economy.
This should be read and understood by all Americans Democrats, Republicans, EVERYONE!!
To President Obama and all 535 voting members of the Legislature
It is now official that the majority of you are corrupt morons:
a.. The U.S. Postal Service was established in 1775. You have had 234 years to get it right and it is broke.
b.. Social Security was established in 1935. You have had 74 years to get it right and it is broke. c.. Fannie Mae was established in 1938. You have had 71 years to get it right and it is broke.
d.. War on Poverty started in 1964. You have had 45 years to get it right; $1 trillion of our money is confiscated each year and transferred to "the poor" and they only want more..
e.. Medicare and Medicaid were established in 1965. You have had 44 years to get it right and they are broke.
f.. Freddie Mac was established in 1970. You have had 39 years to get it right and it is broke.
g.. The Department of Energy was created in 1977 to lessen our dependence on foreign oil. It has ballooned to 16,000 employees with a budget of $24 billion a year and we import more oil than ever before. You had 32 years to get it right and it is an abysmal failure.
You have FAILED in every "government service" you have shoved down our throats while overspending our tax dollars.
AND YOU WANT AMERICANS TO BELIEVE YOU CAN BE TRUSTED WITH A GOVERNMENT-RUN HEALTH CARE SYSTEM ?? Folks, keep this circulating.. It is very well stated. Maybe it will end up in the e-mails of some of our "duly elected' (they never read anything) and their staff will clue them in on how Americans feel.ANDI know what's wrong. We have lost our minds to "Political Correctness" !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Someone please tell me what the HELL's wrong with all the people that run this country!!!!!!We're "broke" & can't help our own Seniors, Veterans, Orphans, Homeless etc.,???????????In the last months we have provided aid to Haiti , Chile , and Turkey .. And now Pakistan ......previous home of bin Laden. Literally, BILLIONS of DOLLARS!!!
Our retired seniors living on a 'fixed income' receive no aid nor do they get any breaks while our government and religious organizations pour Hundreds of Billions of $$$$$$'s and Tons of Food to Foreign Countries! We have hundreds of adoptable children who are shoved aside to make room for the adoption of foreign orphans.
AMERICA: a country where we have homeless without shelter, children going to bed hungry, elderly going without 'needed' meds, and mentally ill without treatment -etc,etc.
YET......................They have a 'Benefit' for the people of Haiti on 12 TV stations, ships and planes lining up with food, water, tents clothes, bedding, doctors and medical supplies.
Imagine if the *GOVERNMENT* gave 'US' the same support they give to other countries. Sad isn't it?
99% of people won't have the guts to forward this. I'm one of the 1% -- I Just Did
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Sun Jan 8 19:46:38 2012 - [Chinese construction methods] By: mp |
An example of Chinese construction methods.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2083883/Theyre-super-fast-power-Chinese-world-construction-east-30-storey-hotel-built-just-15-days.html
They're a 21st century super power with super computers and a super economy that's the envy of the world.
Now China can claim another title - the fastest builders on the planet after putting up a 30-storey 183,000-square-foot hotel in just 15 days, or 360 hours.
A construction crew in the south-central Chinese city of Changsha completed this remarkable achievement with no injuries to any worker.
The Ark Hotel was built on Dongting lake, in the Hunan Province, by Broad Group, a Chinese construction company which specialises in sustainable architecture.
It was built to withstand a magnitude 9 earthquake, as tested by the China Academy of Building Research, who claim this is five times more quake-resistant than conventional buildings.
All the materials were prefabricated and sections built to specification off-site, so there was very little wastage. |
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Sat Jan 7 21:57:28 2012 - [Greenie weenie gases ripoff] By: mp |
New auto carbon dioxide regulations (Greenie weenie gases) from the EPA will save you!!!! And the cost of your car will go up by at least $2000. The required smaller cars will kill more people in accidents, but you are saving the polar bears, and they are more important, plus the government will make big cars and trucks smaller. And you will get used to not driving as far in you new electric car.
http://www.regulations.gov/#!documentDetail;D=EPA-HQ-OAR-2010-0799-0639
2017 and Later Model Year Light-Duty Vehicle Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Corporate Average Fuel Economy Standards
...EPA and NHTSA are each announcing proposed rules that call for strong and coordinated Federal greenhouse gas and fuel economy standards for passenger cars, light-duty trucks, and medium-duty passenger vehicles (hereafter light-duty vehicles or LDVs).
The agencies believe that advances in gasoline engines
and transmissions will continue for the foreseeable future, and that there will be continual improvement in other technologies, including vehicle weight reduction, lower tire rolling resistance, improvements in vehicle aerodynamics, diesel engines, and more efficient vehicle
accessories. The agencies also expect to see increased electrification of the fleet through the expanded production of stop/start, hybrid, plug-in hybrid and electric vehicles. Finally, the agencies expect that
vehicle air conditioners will continue to improve by becoming more efficient and by increasing the use of alternative refrigerants...
The principal findings of NHTSA's 2010 analysis were that mass reduction in lighter cars, even while holding footprint constant, would significantly increase societal fatality risk, whereas mass reduction in the heavier LTVs would significantly reduce net societal fatality risk, because it would reduce the fatality risk of occupants in lighter vehicles which collide with the heavier LTVs. NHTSA concluded that, as a result, any reasonable combination of mass reductions while holding footprint constant in MY 2012-2016 vehicles--concentrated, at least to some extent, in the heavier LTVs and limited in the lighter cars--would likely be approximately safety-neutral; it would not significantly increase fatalities and might well decrease them...
For electric vehicles, and perhaps for other advanced-technology vehicles, other vehicle attributes are not expected to be held constant. In particular, their ranges and modes of refueling will be different from those of conventional vehicles. From a social welfare perspective, the key question is whether the number of consumers who
will want to buy EVs at their private-market prices will exceed the number that auto makers are expected to produce to comply with the standards. If too few consumers are willing to buy them at their private-market prices, then auto makers will have to subsidize their prices. Though current research finds that consumers typically have a
high value for increasing the range of EVs (and thus would consider a shorter range a cost of an EV), current research also suggests that consumers may find ways to adapt to the shorter range.. |
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Fri Jan 6 19:54:01 2012 - [Can't sell Spirit Mt. ] By: DFL Dreamer |
| Concerning SMRA: As those who know anything about that property knows that it is one impossible task to sell it. Laws are in place to keep it public. |
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Fri Jan 6 11:51:24 2012 - [Look who's back] By: p.f.f.f.f |
| JS, is this another conspiracy theory created by the desperate right? It does'nt suprise me that a righty would want to sell SMRA, but I'm sure the money would go into the pockets of the wrong people. |
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Fri Jan 6 09:59:23 2012 - [More taxpayer funded toys for Spirit Mt.] By: lakesider |
How is it that some of you think SMRA is going nowhere? Have you been spending all of your time in Mama's basement?
If SMRA has gone nowhere, how then, do you explain the new zip line, the roller coaster, the mini-golf area, and now snow tubing? |
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Fri Jan 6 07:51:00 2012 - [We know who is who] By: JS |
| Isn't it interesting how P.F.F.F.F. and Jerry F and now real quiet. Looks like we know who is who. |
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Fri Jan 6 07:04:59 2012 - [AFSCME Lies - A Way of Life] By: Cynic |
| James I thought you said Spirit Mountain was making money. That doesn't jive with the figures mp showed. Do you have different figures and if so give your reference where you found them. |
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Fri Jan 6 05:50:58 2012 - [Sell Spirit Mt. for more now] By: Breaks Even |
| SMRA breaks even? The city should sell and reap the benefits of that place going np place. I bet if a private party own that place, it would be way in the black. |
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Fri Jan 6 04:48:35 2012 - [$100,000 plus benefits?] By: Money Man |
| I believe Renee Mattson makes $100,000 total or so. |
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Fri Jan 6 00:46:13 2012 - [Disability follow up needed] By: blogster |
| So Jerry F a.k.a. "Brokeback Jerry" has a back problem. I would like to see proof of that. As a taxpayer I have a right to know where my money is going. |
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Thu Jan 5 22:01:55 2012 - [How much does Spirit Mt. CEO make?] By: Muffin Top |
| MP, how much does Renee Mattson make in salary and benefit as the CEO at Spirit Mt.? |
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Thu Jan 5 21:11:08 2012 - [Spirit Mountain lost money on 2010] By: mp |
Spirit Mountain Recreation Area 2010 financial statement
archive.leg.state.mn.us/docs/2010/other/101643.pdf
Total Operating Revenues 2010 - $ 3,512,650
Total Operating Expenses 2010 - $ 3,759,361 |
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Thu Jan 5 17:10:10 2012 - [Greenie weenies can kill eagles] By: mp |
Greenie weenies can kill eagles, but you can't.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2082840/Wind-farm-company-given-permit-allowing-kill-legally-protected-golden-eagles.html
Wind farm company to be given permit allowing them to kill legally protected golden eagles |
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Thu Jan 5 15:39:10 2012 - [Spirit Mt. should pay taxes like you do] By: Franklin C. |
| I hope Ness considers selling SMRA. I bet the interest from the investment would be needed seeing the changes we are seeing now from the tax base. |
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Thu Jan 5 15:36:27 2012 - [Sell city subsidized ski hill resort] By: Boy -N- dA Hoz |
| The selling of SMRA would be great and to see that tax burden get off the city hands would also be a blessing. |
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Thu Jan 5 15:35:03 2012 - [Casino should pay taxes too] By: Pay. |
| I think all should pay the rate the Casino paid to the city in taxes. We all play, so we all need to pay. |
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Thu Jan 5 15:15:50 2012 - [Spirit Mt. could pay city debt off] By: Coffee Talk |
A few of us were talking and thought selling SMRA made good sense. The business itself would not go away and yet we as a city would gain a cash windfall that could be invested. It is a lot better plan than selling those stain glass windows.
Go Newt* |
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Thu Jan 5 13:33:37 2012 - [Fake the back injury "sleep apnea"] By: Dan |
Charlene, I am a retired city firefighter and your post is correct. There was a period of time where many city employees,to include Jerry, opted to retire early by appearing to have a back injury or some other ailment.
Back injuries and "sleep apnea" were used quite often until the city figured it out. Jerry and others who left because of alleged injuries fooled the system and it is because of them that the legimitate injuried employees had to go through hell to prove their own injuries.
I can tell you that Jerry and the others are not respected whatsoever for faking injuries and retiring. Because of the schedule we worked I was able to work two jobs to include another government job. Jerry opted to fake the back injury and get into other busineses in town and most have failed. Jerry is a failure by all measures in my opinion. He even dissed his own kid and that is another story. |
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Thu Jan 5 08:37:37 2012 - [Is there more than 1 Claire K out there?] By: S.W.K. |
I'm quite sure that the poster identified as Claire K. is an imposter, but as a Dylan fan (and taxpayer) I must respond.
The correct lyrics are "the answer is blowin' in the wind." Not a lot there about change, it's a song about awareness and seeing through the smoke and mirrors. And guess what? We're starting to see through a lot of it up here.
I don't think 'successful and charismatic' were part of the application process for Superintendent; however I'd bet you a copy of "freewheelin" that a valid license was. Many con men are charismatic and some are successful, I doubt if their skin color makes much of a difference to the people they bilk.
Finally: it's not a 'canard' that Foster doesn't have the proper credentials, it's a fact. You can play racy baity all day long and it does nothing to make up for the fact that he isn't qualified to be what we and this unbelievably incompetent School board are paying him to be.
The fact that he hasn't done one *legal* thing in his 6 months as Super and we are still paying his fat salary is as mind boggling as the fact that he was hired in the first place. |
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Thu Jan 5 08:36:12 2012 - [DFD Duluth Fake Disability] By: Charlene |
| Thank the Lord another Doomed For Life (DFL) dropped out of the race against Mr. Cravaak. At least he quit while he was behind. Jerry F, we all know you fake your back problems that "supposedly" happened while you worked on the DFD. However, you move pool tables for a living, or should I say "supposedly." I have nothing to get over, Jerry. BUT you sure do. You should probably change your license plate. It's a dead giveaway. |
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Thu Jan 5 04:47:12 2012 - [Sell Spirit Mt. while you can] By: Up Hill |
| Selling SMRA makes darn good sense. I don't think SMRA is making any money. Last I saw, it was in the red and the number of skiiers has dropped. Each year, SMRA has seen its number go down. I bet for sure, with the lack of snow this year, the numbers are down. |
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Wed Jan 4 21:53:37 2012 - [Barney Frank JRs Favorite Beef Cake] By: Dennis Miller |
Jeff "Barney Frank Jr." was so excite that Daniel Fanning quit to congress race today and was seen doing the Tinker Bell.
Barney invited Danny over for his favorite beef cake tonight, rump roast!
DFL Duluth The Greatest Show on Earth! |
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Wed Jan 4 21:19:23 2012 - [Doesn't want to lose those AFSCME jobs] By: James |
| Selling the Spirit Mountain Property doesn't make economic sense. Generally a good business person would sell their assets that are NOT making money. It appears that Spirit Mountain has been making money for many years now. So why on earth would we sell it??? It is making us money....sounds like idiotic privatization efforts to me. |
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Wed Jan 4 20:19:12 2012 - [Smoking Obama Weed] By: Jerry F |
| Charlene get over it you have no idea what you're talking about. You're another asshole right winger choked up about that crazy bitch Michelle Bachman losing. First Palin and now Bachman on the Republican dumb bitch dingbat team. Obama will smoke anyone you put up so worry about how you're going to handle your next big loss loser. |
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Wed Jan 4 19:59:14 2012 - [What is the big deal?] By: Principal Skinner |
| As most of you know that follow the Simpson's, Principal Skinner is not a trained educator, nor even a real Principal. So, what is the big deal having some guy playing the Superintendent role? He will fit in with a the Want-To-Be's. |
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Wed Jan 4 19:37:55 2012 - [No Contest - China Blows Bentlville Away] By: mp |
China's version of Bentlyville.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-2082312/Harbin-Ice-Snow-Festival-Spectacular-sculptures-spring-China.html |
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Wed Jan 4 19:10:59 2012 - [Not a Ski Bum] By: City worker. |
| they should sell spirit mountain i feel. i don't think many cities have such a property and one that could fetch a nice dollar. this money could fund many projects and like one poster said, still be here in the city. |
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Wed Jan 4 19:07:52 2012 - [License is needed] By: Nanana bobo |
| Foster the Imposter. It is not about race, it is about laws. License is needed, period. |
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Wed Jan 4 19:05:37 2012 - [Yen Yaun next DFLer not good with money] By: Snowed In |
I hope China buys SMRA. Then all 1 billion Chinese would come to Duluth with hand fulls of Yen and ski.
If all these Chinese do come, we can find the next Yao, or build a bridge, or a wall. |
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Wed Jan 4 18:52:10 2012 - [The imposter and billion dollar swindle] By: Cynic |
| Foster the imposter put in charge of the billion dollar swindle. |
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Wed Jan 4 17:02:34 2012 - [China sale] By: China |
| China will buy SMRA for 30 million easy. |
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Wed Jan 4 17:00:28 2012 - [What will the DFL try next?] By: Anti Red Plan Supporter |
| These people who control the flow of $$$$ have lost again. Foster? Okay, what is next? Sad to see what they will try next. |
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Wed Jan 4 16:21:00 2012 - [WASPy *white bread* community] By: Claire K |
| There is a great deal of latent racism involved in the vicious attacks against Superintendent Foster. You *righties* have a great deal of jealousy and contempt for a successful and charismatic man such as Foster. This canard of claiming that Foster does not have the correct credentials is just an attempt to maintain your WASPy *white bread* community. As Bob Dylan sang *change is blowing in the wind*! |
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Wed Jan 4 13:33:31 2012 - [Sell SMRA and fix taxpayer dwellings] By: Sewer Rat Rob |
Sell SMRA and fix my dwellings. New pipes and over all system improvements could come from the sale of SMRA.
Sell Ness, sell. |
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Wed Jan 4 08:40:25 2012 - [More ISD709 fraud in play ] By: S.W.K. |
"According to the state, Foster has been working since July 1 without a required Minnesota superintendent license. A license is stipulated by law and his contract." (DNT on-line today Jan. 4th)
How does something like this happen in an age of instant communication and information sharing?
How does a man who is holding office ILLEGALLY get placed on some sort of administrative leave WITH PAY after holding this office for 6 months without the very basic license for that position? It almost seems like a bit of fraud is in play here. In some professions he'd be required to pay that 6 months of illegally obtained money back to the taxpayers.
How is it that there is zero investigative reporting on how such a major screw up could happen by our local media. One would think a story of such obvious incompetence by a board of elected goofs would be ripe for the pickin'. i mean, look at the press a Republican babe got for having an affair with a staffer got last week.
And she was holding her office legally!
Than again, I suppose a board that was complacent in shoving the community dividing 'red plan' down our throats without so much as a vote can expect a pass from the media, and a nod and a wink from governing boards and law enforcement for such a neat feel good selection. |
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Wed Jan 4 06:30:15 2012 - [DFLer phony ailments a way of life] By: Charlene |
| The article by Jerry F. is quite hysterical. If anyone knows about "taking" money from the Government, it is he. Many "disabled" people in this city take money for phony ailments, and he leads the pack. Shame on you and the rest of your cronies!! |
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Tue Jan 3 22:02:47 2012 - [Good bye GM] By: mp |
Here is a Chinese designed car. Good bye GM.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2081671/Who-needs-road-Chinese-designer-creates-eco-friendly-terrain-car-land-water-ice.html |
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Tue Jan 3 20:25:21 2012 - [Grass hoppers rule!] By: Anon |
| Grass hoppers rule! Ants are commies, look at the make up of the hill, vs the grasshopper life of jumping and eating and jumping and eating, then robin. |
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Tue Jan 3 20:19:10 2012 - [SMRA = More money for Ne$$ to $pend] By: Sell to Spend |
Ne$$ would be smart to sell off SMRA. Can you imagine the benefits from interest from investing the proceeds. The best part, SMRA would go now place, it is here in Duluth. This sale would be a no brainer. Then Ne$$ could plan on $pending more and more, like he does best.
Oh, like the grey look now Ne$$. Age or the job? |
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Tue Jan 3 14:06:08 2012 - [DFL Modern Version in Full Play] By: Oberstar is Gone Obama is Next |
THE NEW ANT and the Grasshopper, Two Versions: The ANT AND THE GRASSHOPPER
This one is a little different....
Two Different Versions ...
Two Different Morals
OLD VERSION
The ant works hard in the withering heat all summer long, building his house and laying up supplies for the winter.
The grasshopper thinks the ant is a fool and laughs and dances and plays the summer away.
Come winter, the ant is warm and well fed.
The grasshopper has no food or shelter, so he dies out in the cold.
MORAL OF THE OLD STORY:
Be responsible for yourself!
MODERN VERSION
The ant works hard in the withering heat and the rain all summer long, building his house and laying up supplies for the winter.
The grasshopper thinks the ant is a fool and laughs and dances and plays the summer away.
Come winter, the shivering grasshopper calls a press conference and demands to know why the ant should be allowed to be warm and well fed while he is cold and starving.
CBS, NBC, PBS, CNN, and ABC show up to provide pictures of the shivering grasshopper next to a video of the ant in his comfortable home with a table filled with food. America is stunned by the sharp contrast.
How can this be, that in a country of such wealth, this poor grasshopper is allowed to suffer so?
Kermit the Frog appears on Oprah with the grasshopper and everybody cries when they sing, 'It's Not EasyBeing Green...'
Occupy the Anthill stages a demonstration in front of the ant's house where the news stations film the SEIU group singing, We shall overcome.
Then Rev. Jeremiah Wright has the group kneel down to pray for the grasshopper's sake, while he damns the ants.
President Obama condems the ant and blames President Bush 43, President Bush 41, President Reagan, Christopher Columbus, and the Pope for the grasshopper's plight..
Nancy Pelosi & Harry Reid exclaim in an interview with Larry King that the ant has gotten rich off the back of the grasshopper, and both call for an immediate tax hike on the ant to make him pay his fair share.
Finally, the EEOC drafts the Economic Equity & Anti-Grasshopper Act retroactive to the beginning of the summer.
The ant is fined for failing to hire a proportionate number of green bugs and, having nothing left to pay his retroactive taxes, his home is confiscated by the GovernmentGreenCzar and given to the grasshopper.
The story ends as we see the grasshopper and his free-loading friends finishing up the last bits of the ant's food while the government house he is in, which, as you recall, just happens to be the ant's old house, crumbles around them because the grasshopper doesn't maintain it.
The ant has disappeared in the snow, never to be seen again.
The grasshopper is found dead in a drug related incident, and the house, now abandoned, is taken over by a gang of spiders who terrorize the ramshackle, once prosperous and peaceful, neighborhood.
The entire Nation collapses bringing the rest of the free world with it.
MORAL OF THE STORY:
Be careful how you vote in 2012.
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