79529 - Mon Mar 16 12:44:57 2009 - [Compulsive SPIN continued ] By: Truthism |
Iron,
Looks like you need to add a "typical" beef to the list of DCB gripes: Those who choose to live one place and work in another. Again, a non-issue.
Tony,
What about the taxes you pay to the feds to fund the USPS carriers while you opt out by using some box at the UPS store?
MODERATOR: TruthSPINNER, Tony is gone today. |
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79528 - Mon Mar 16 12:24:49 2009 - [English is the SPINNERS second language] By: Truthism |
Hey Number Cruncher,
It seems the "death of the market" you've been crying about was short lived. We're pushing toward 7500 and up nearly 100 already this morning. Looks like you're out of a job on this topic so I have a challange for you and your number crunching ability. Figure out how this stupid blog has nearly 40,000 "unique" visitors in the past 2 months when there are only at most a few hundred posts where all but a few are unique. Good luck! Let the lies continue!!
MODERATOR: Lies TruthSPINNER? Is English your second language as Numbers Cruncher stated the following on March 11th and it's posted there. "I told you the exact day the DOW would close below 7,000. My next forewarning is the DOW will be down 12% to 15%, 6,300 to 6,000, by May 10th. There will be a few good weeks for now and then there will be another KABOOM. This is pschycologically needed but the numbers indicate this is a bear market rally. NC March 11, 2009"
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79527 - Mon Mar 16 11:53:15 2009 - [Extortion, DFD definition living wage] By: Big Iron |
JBBP, you should run for Dictator. Every one of the whiners here, doesn't have the nads to run for office and change things. Do you? Day after day after day they sit on this site just waiting for their next chance to complain. Get off your lazy butts and do something about it..........Bygones, you are correct. The high inflation years of the EARLY 80's is when the raises where given up. Somewhere around 20% inflation and no raises. Then comes along the 12% increase for 3 years. Those years had inflation also, though not as much. So, we are talking in general here about 30% inflation over a period of time with a 12% raise. And that's somehow unfair. Oh, OK..........Dear Perplexed MODERATOR, I'M vindictive and marginalize? LOL! Get a grip, son. So your whole beef is about someone maybe getting a few hours sleep, ONE incident that happened many, many years ago, and someone making a living wage. You're right. That's very sad.
MODERATOR: Big Iron, LOL!!!!!!! Living wage, give me a break. I think you are actually starting to believe your own BS!! One day, and it can't some soon enough, you will learn. |
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79526 - Mon Mar 16 11:47:44 2009 - [Why do you ask Big Iron?] By: Cynic |
| Bygones, Why do you ask Big Iron? As per his own words he neither lives in nor works for the city of Duluth. Perhaps you should ask Saginaw J/Big Iron/John W of Saginaw/DRZ/etc. about the workings in Saginaw not Duluth. |
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79525 - Mon Mar 16 09:19:59 2009 - [DFD continues to extort HUGH increases] By: Bygones |
From today's Duluth News Tribune, page B6, "Bygones" section:
"After 21 months of negotiations, Duluth firefighters last night ratified a three-year contract with the city. Firefighters voted by a 2-1 margin to accept the city's proposal of a 12 PERCENT wage increase over three years."
This entry brings up a couple of questions that, hopefully, Big Iron can help me with:
1) It took 21 months of negotiations to get down to a 12 percent increase over three years. What were the firefighters looking for? 20 percent?
2) We keep hearing about the retiree healthcare benefit, of which all city employees receive. Much of the argument goes along the lines of "we gave up raises in lieu of receiving this benefit", or something like that. I'm a bit confused, 12 percent in the late 1980's doesn't sound like giving up raises. The high inflation was late 70's/early 80's?
MODERATOR: Bygones, this is a perfect example of how the system, both locally and nationally, is unsustainable. One group, AFSCME and the like are buying politicians with their PACs and then these politicians allow hugh, obscene, and absolutely unsustainable pay and benefit increases. Ask yourself how the guy who has to pay for this will be able to do it. Many are either laid off or have had their pay cut 20% or more. Enjoy it while it lasts government employees. Expect national, state and local budget deficits to grow as they continue to find tax and fee increases to pay for this BS as well as saving their own political futures. Truly a sad state of affairs. |
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79524 - Sun Mar 15 23:06:37 2009 - [All of us need to make sacrifices] By: JBBP |
Meow, Big Iron.
I personally think that there are more than a few folks who are intimidated by this blog, which is why certain people try very hard to minimize it...
By the way, I happen to think the firefighters ROCK. I've had personal experience with them and their expertise. When they get called into action, they are truly the best. It's not their fault that they have alot of down time. Thank God- there isn't a home or business on fire somewhere at all times.
It isn't the vitality of the job at question here. Obviously, we'd all be hurting units without the services of the fire department. The problem is...we are being OVERTAXED. It isn't just the fault of the unions, it's the other special interests/pet projects that have been funded right under our noses, without us having any say in it. Why? Because we've all been collectively asleep, chewing our cuds like contented cattle, not concerned, as long as the fiscal branding iron hasn't stung our asses.
Our public employees have garnered wages and benefits that most of us in the private sector aren't priviledged to receive. As if that isn't bad enough, the number of private sector employees who could contribute to the tax base is shrinking, due to an exodus of workers from our fair city that can be largely attributed to NIMBYism, overregulation of business, and OVERTAXATION of businesses and home/property owners. Not to mention the mismanagement of the tax money the city actually does collect...it's not exactly a secret. It adds insult to injury.
We allowed the politicos to dump money into a glorified bait shop, we have a "plan"(scheme) for our schools being rammed down our throats by a district that serves its own interests-not the students, parents, or taxpayers in general, and we don't even make sure that roads, sewers, basic infrastructure is properly tended to before we do these and other frivolous things. These are just examples.
So obviously, SOMEBODY's pay/funding has got to be sacrificed...but who will be the first to get in line for that one? The firefighters? The cops? The street maintainance workers? Librarians? A city councilor? Who?
I think that cuts in pay need to be across the board. Every single city worker, I don't care if you're a janitor, a secretary, a firefighter, a cop, doesn't matter- should take about a 7% cut in pay until further notice in order to lessen the very real possibility of more layoffs. This should be implimented immediately.
Furthermore, in addition to the same pay cuts, the union employees should be required to take- and pass- a course on economics. They should also be forbidden to endorse or contribute financially to any political party or municipal candidate, concentrating solely on the job they are supposed to be doing: advocating for workers. When the unions enmesh themselves in politics, they are not operating in the best interests of workers- they are spending union dues to buy themselves a politician who will help them enrich their own coffers/agendas. Do you think it's so that their workers will get better pay/working conditions? That's a very small part of their true motives these days, I suspect...
Check out which insurance companies they deal with...which insurance companies/health networks are union members covered to use? Are they allowed to pick and choose whatever one they want?
Therein, you will likely find some answers...
Private sector workers are already taking pay cuts in the form of exhorbitant property taxes, which go towards paying the wages of the public sector workers who are being paid more than they(private sector) are.
And on "education"...
Although I'm not trying to minimize the vital role that teachers play, I have a hard time sympathizing with them about how they're compensated. Wouldn't it be nice if all of us could have 'tenure' as a job perk? Just think...hang out long enough without causing too many problems, and your compensation will just continue to rise and rise and rise...
They need to take an immediate 7% cut, too.
After all, don't ALL of us need to make some sacrifices...?
Thank you. |
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79523 - Sun Mar 15 22:41:26 2009 - [The facts of DFD speak volumes] By: Big Iron |
Dear perplexed as usual MODERATOR, that's not how I'm doing it. Ask him. I haven't mentioned a contract in months. You must mean stealing, sleeping, thieves, pole sliding, backdraft, grubs and obscene salaries that's mentioned ad nauseam from the graduates of Moderating 101 class of Thursday.
MODERATOR: Big Iron, I will ask DCB Starfire. It does seem that you fit the DFL profile of being vindictive and marginalizing those who may not agree with you. Hey, you're not that sharpshooter guy who popped that dog that belonged to the guy who wouldn't let the local DFL union thugs walk over him are you? The DFLers who shot his dog to send him a message. Sounds like the DFL is more like Hamas than most realize. Why can't we all just get along? As I read your listed items above, I am wondering which ones in your list you consider untrue. Sleeping is a fact at DFD at the taxpayers expense, no? Backdraft I am not sure about, but obscene salaries and grubs should actually be added to the DFD job description. The pole sliding is also a fact that many DFDers would like to hide, but as many Duluthians have recently learned here at DCB, including me, it is a sad testament to our DFD. I used to have respect for my DFD, but since I started seeing the truth of the DFD, I have very little respect for many of them. They have put themselves above those they are supposed to work for and that is very sad. |
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79522 - Sun Mar 15 22:01:25 2009 - [Obama is a Bush on steroids] By: Numbers Cruncher |
Thanks Mr. Duluth. The common person has been betrayed by both the REPUBLICANS and DEMOCRATS. Obama is a Bush on steroids when it comes to spending. Both are telling us how bad it is with no regard for the coming inflation and possible hyperinflation. Inflation is a hidden tax and we the people are going to be experiencing so big changes.
The “political class” I believe is owned or manipulated by the rich elite of the world. The Soros’s, Rockefell’s and so on. The two party system is a scam, social security makes Bernie Madoff look like a Saint and we are all brainwashed by the media and entertainment culture.
Look for yourself on: http://numberscruncher.blogspot.com/
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79521 - Sun Mar 15 21:10:51 2009 - [DFL preparing to buy more politicians] By: AFSCME SUX |
| I hear the unions, AFSCME, DFD PAC and the DFL are doubling the amount spent last go around. You had better be knocking on every door and raising some dollars to compete with the DFL media machine, paid union agents for poltics, TV commercials, direct mail, billboards and more. |
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79520 - Sun Mar 15 19:50:55 2009 - [Boyle just another DFL/AFSCME puppet] By: Yeah Right |
| I recall the local Unions and Progressive Action backing of Greg Gilbert during the last mayoral election. He didn't even make it through the primary! The Unions/AFSCME's stronghold in Duluth is slowly diminishing it seems. They are creating their own negativity within the community. I agree with Tabitha that Patrick Boyle is a puppet. Hopefully the district 2 voters will have more than Wagner and Boyle to choose from, & I don't even live in District 2!!! |
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79519 - Sun Mar 15 17:48:09 2009 - [DFD representative ignorant as usual] By: Big Iron |
Why do I continue?...1. To see how many dumbass responses I get. Thanks, JBBP & Cynic. And JBBP, everyone likes a cat fight...2. Because of his extremely biased moderating of me, my primary objective for quite some time now has been to stick it to Starfire's wallet. I always let him know when I do, but he never posts it. Which makes it all the more fun!
MODERATOR: Big Iron, your post, as usual, shows us all that the city has pathetic hiring standards for DFD. You are just one more reason for the city to cut the DFD blogging team down and put the money where it is needed, DPD. Your infatuation with DCB Starfire is understandable, yet I am quite perplexed at how you have come to actually believe that you are hitting him in the wallet somehow by continually spitting your "I have a contract" talk night and day. Tell it to Milosevich. You two seem to have live in the same part of outer space. |
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79518 - Sun Mar 15 14:34:22 2009 - [Not insignifigant to DFD and Big Iron] By: JBBP |
Big Iron...if the mods/blog are so "insignifigant," then why do you continue to read/post on it...?
Thank you. |
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79516 - Sun Mar 15 13:37:55 2009 - [Rich and big business] By: Mr. Duluth |
Number Cruncher: I agree, the political class is owned by who? The rich and big business. They need controls, not the common person.
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79515 - Sun Mar 15 13:02:37 2009 - [Big Insignificant Iron] By: Cynic |
| One can only wonder how insignificant Big Iron is following the insignificant for 18 months. LOL |
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79514 - Sun Mar 15 11:59:33 2009 - [Political Class Does Not Know More] By: Numbers Cruncher |
See the latest from ABC's 20/20, 6 minutes of how you are getting screwed by the political class.
The Political Class Does Not Know More than Econimst and Historians
Germany suffered through the same hyper inflation that the USA is headed for. Then the German people elected Adolph Hitler on the promise he would fix the economy. Are we headed down same path?
http://numberscruncher.blogspot.com/ |
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79513 - Sun Mar 15 11:24:22 2009 - [You're insignifigant compared to the DFD] By: Big Iron |
| Can't the moderators get a new schtick? Same old, same old, for 18 months now. Nothing has changed. Starfire suggests a small pay cut. A few months ago he wanted an all volunteer dept. Flip flop. Flip flop. Mention the DFD, and mods race drooling to their keyboards. When are you going to realize how insignifigant you really are??? |
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79512 - Sun Mar 15 09:44:18 2009 - [Police are earning their money] By: scannerland |
| Listening to the police scanner last night I can say our cops earned their money. Robbery, numerous fights, infant death, chase, motorcycle gangs tearing up the Northshore....I commend the cops. I don't understand why the fireman that blog here always first go for the cops... |
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79511 - Sun Mar 15 09:25:42 2009 - [Intresting comments about our city] By: Web Hound |
Some intresting comments about our city.
http://www.city-data.com/forum/minnesota/506200-duluth-needs-your-business-tax-free-2.html |
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79510 - Sun Mar 15 01:53:02 2009 - [Gals must not have showed at fire hall] By: Truthism |
Progressive, go ask the newest dozen cops just hired for help if you feel unsafe. I checked and the DFD hasn't hired in a LONG time. Ask the 150 cops for help. The DFD has 120 and 5 million less of a budget. Who cost's more??? FXXX you and your fake starfire/tony/dover, etc
STARFIRE: Truthism, time for you to get back in that cot with #225 and get back to what you two do best. LOL! Ouch, that hurts! Tell him to take the shades off so that they don't get broken. Hey numbnuts, how many more DFDers are sleeping on the taxpayer dime at this very moment than cops are on duty? Ouch, once again. You have the cops beat by a two to one margin. I say more cops, less sleeping DFDers, how about you? |
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79509 - Sun Mar 15 01:46:50 2009 - [The truth is a little to close to truth] By: Truthism |
Hey Progressive, just to let you know there is a REAL Duluth Progressive group and it's full of UNION DFL'ers. Nice name!! More cops? Go behind a building on Garfield Ave. RIGHT NOW and wake one up.
Starfire/Danny, fXXX you. Good luck with Wagner. My guess is he'll get 1 vote if the 10 DCB supporters get out to vote. 10 fake people under one poster.
STARFIRE: Truthism, now now Truthism. Let us not get our undies in a bundle. Sounds to me like you are quite sympathetic to those in our community who are at this very moment either watching Backdraft for the 95th time, pole sliding with the gals from Souptown, or sawing logs. You know, our DFD. The ones who now have an official member running the campaign for that millionaire guy, Patrick Boyle, for Duluth city council. Why would a millionaire want to be a city councilor in a dying community such as Duluth? Hmmmm......
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79508 - Sun Mar 15 00:57:10 2009 - [Danny G as the real Danny G] By: Danny G |
Well, well, well. It's been a while since I posted here (as myself at least). However, I would just like to take this opportunity to say:
FXXX BOYLE.
Thanks,
D
STARFIRE: Danny G, okey dokey.
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79507 - Sun Mar 15 00:01:12 2009 - [City $ must be allocated properly] By: Duluth Progressive |
| I was just downtown and let me tell you its getting bad. This city needs to prioritize and reallocate resources. The DFD's rein of political control needs to end now ! No more corruption, no more BS ! More resources need to be allocated to the police department. This community needs to take back its streets. The money is there it just needs to be properly allocated. I'm curious. How many police officers are on duty at any given time ? How many firemen are on duty at any give time ? OUR tax money needs to be properly used and allocated where the need is greatest. |
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79506 - Sat Mar 14 23:33:26 2009 - [The $$$ has nothing to do with it, LOL!] By: Smiley Care Bear |
Jimbo,
I am a DFD member and I would love if you helped anyone that needed it, if you are so equipped or trained. The reason I do my job, contrary to the opinion here, is to help folks. So Defib away. The thing I worry about is the false sense of security your three authorized Suburbans throw into the mix. The St. Louis Rescue Squad is second to none in their dedication and knowledge, and I for one am happy to know that they are there. But please don't make this an us against them issue.
STARFIRE: DFDer, funny that since you say that you are more concerned with your love of the job than the money that I haven't heard of any DFDer lately making a claim to be willing to take a slight pay cut to help save the city from bankruptcy. I guess the money has more to do with the job than you claim. Especially considering that 90% of your calls are non fire calls and you all seem unwilling to give up the obscene salaries you receive even though much of the time you get paid for is for sleeping, blogging, and watching tv. Get real! P.S. it doesn't help your DFD brothers and your image when one of your millionare DFDers is running the campaign for the millionaire Boyle. Don't lie, it is all about the money and keeping it coming to you and your Kronies at the expense of those who actually still work and live in Duluth. Where do you live, Lakewood, Rice Lake or Island Lake? You get the idea. |
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79505 - Sat Mar 14 22:31:11 2009 - [Boyle wants to run Duluth into ground] By: Truthism |
Hey Mod, I posted your bullshit response at the bottom as a reminder of how dumb you are. Would a person work 56 hours a week at a FD as a public servant if he had the kind of cash you claim he has?? You suck! Those people at the FD back people who work FOR people unlike you who backs druggies and wack jobs. I am DFL proud and plan to call my UNION pals at the FD to see if I can help get Boyle in. Fedora and Stauber are next to go!! Franken, Obama, local DFL, and soon a DFL gov. A DREAM COME TRUE!! Finally, money for the Northland!! Enough GOP stealing!!
MODERATOR: Yeah Right, all he needs is to get the trust funders of DFL Progressive Action behind him and he would be in. They would simply buy him the seat. Gardner, Anderson, Cuneo are all proof of this. Or, he could pull the Boyle and get a millionaire DFDer to run his campaign. Birds of a feather steal together. Your DFL, stealing your money faster than you can earn it!
STARFIRE: Truthism, first of all, getting paid for 56 hours has nothing to do with working 56 hours. The DFD is well known for their fleecing of the good citizens of Duluth. It is so fitting that a millionaire DFDer is running the campaign of the silver spooner millionaire DFL candidate Patrick Boyle. BTW, you are not a proud DFLer, you are a money grubbing thief. There is a big difference. Decades of DFL rule in Duluth and their only claim to fame is giving Duluth the highest poverty rate in the state and the lowest wages in the state. How can another millionaire DFLer like Boyle possibly do anything different than continue the theft of the fewer and fewer citizens that remain? What is the goal of the DFL and the millionaire DFDer who will run the Boyle campaign, to run the rest of those in the private sector out of town and leave the city in the hands of all the government welfare folk. You say, "more money for the Northland". Hey numbnuts, just exactly where does this money come from? Someone has to actually earn the money that you and your DFL money sucking buddies steal.
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79504 - Sat Mar 14 22:23:23 2009 - [Nurse Practitioner Millon $ Mansion] By: Truthism |
I'll be sure to ask Boyle how a nurse practitioner can afford his million dollar mansion. I bet it won't be from stealing as daddy did! Anyway, he's got my vote. He's better than the kid Wagner. At least Boyle has his shit together.
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79504 - Sat Mar 14 22:23:23 2009 - [Nurse Practitioner Millon $ Mansion] By: Truthism |
I'll be sure to ask Boyle how a nurse practitioner can afford his million dollar mansion. I bet it won't be from stealing as daddy did! Anyway, he's got my vote. He's better than the kid Wagner. At least Boyle has his shit together.
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79503 - Sat Mar 14 21:34:02 2009 - [What Progressives have brought to us all] By: Duluth Progessive |
Lesbians gone wild.
http://www.berkshireeagle.com/ci_11893799 |
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79502 - Sat Mar 14 20:53:25 2009 - [Council candidate for district 2] By: blah |
here is another myspace for Robert Wagner for council Dist. 2
http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewProfile&friendID=44140156
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79501 - Sat Mar 14 20:49:08 2009 - [Need I say more?] By: Danny D |
Need I say more about a much needed Duluth ordinance?
http://shop.cafepress.com/no-fat-chicks |
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79499 - Sat Mar 14 18:57:18 2009 - [Why you need a union] By: Union Boss |
Union fact number 101.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ONuKjZyZH_8
We couldn't live big without you.
http://www.unionfacts.com/ |
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79498 - Sat Mar 14 16:40:50 2009 - [Another council candidate?] By: Yeah Right |
Let me get this right.... The same Robert Wagner who got virtually no votes during the last mayoral election, the advocate & promoter of debauchery and mayhem - being a rave producer/drug pusher, the same one who goes under the alias of 'Doc Hyde' is now running for City Council? Wow. Good luck! See for yourself - www.myspace.com/wrekt666
MODERATOR: Yeah Right, all he needs is to get the trust funders of DFL Progressive Action behind him and he would be in. They would simply buy him the seat. Gardner, Anderson, Cuneo are all proof of this. Or, he could pull the Boyle and get a millionaire DFDer to run his campaign. Birds of a feather steal together. Your DFL, stealing your money faster than you can earn it! |
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79497 - Sat Mar 14 11:48:03 2009 - [Boyle raised with a silver DFL spoon] By: Tabitha T |
| Ouch. Patrick Boyle purchases a home for $850,000 in 2005. LOL. in todays housing market, it's probably worth $500,000 or even less. That's a loss of $300,000. Maybe not as intelligent as he is cracked up to be. And then talks about fiscal responsibility. ROFL. To me he seems like a puppet for some sort of hidden agenda. Is he really endorsed by the DFL? The Democratic Farmer Labor Party? I'm guessing he doesn't know what real labor is. Sounds like he was grew up w/ a silver spoon in his mouth. |
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79495 - Sat Mar 14 09:50:41 2009 - [Do you see the 800lb inflation gorrilla?] By: Numbers Cruncher |
Do you see the 800lb inflation gorrilla?
Watch and listen to "Today will seem like the good old days " on Numbers Crunching at:
http://numberscruncher.blogspot.com/ |
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79494 - Sat Mar 14 08:25:20 2009 - [Stauber has gone to the dogs] By: Web Hound Jr. |
“Having another dog park is a good idea,” City Councilor Jim Stauber said. “Having a very useful purpose to the sewer park, which I call it, is a good idea.”
http://www.duluthnewstribune.com/event/article/id/114932/ |
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79493 - Sat Mar 14 08:12:11 2009 - [GIRLY MAN a.k.a. Big Iron] By: jthyme |
| Just as I thought.....Small and soft is a GIRLY MAN!! |
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79492 - Sat Mar 14 00:33:39 2009 - [Big Iron takes an interest in undies] By: Big Iron |
I forgot all about Barney. Any new underwear stories, Barney?
STARFIRE: Big Iron, have you nothing else to occupy your time with than obsessing over undies? |
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79491 - Fri Mar 13 23:53:25 2009 - [Reach for the soap, a Dem is behind you] By: Andy J |
A DAY IN THE LIFE OF JOE REPUBLICAN
Joe gets up at 6 a.m. and fills his coffee pot with water to prepare his morning coffee. The water is clean and good because some tree-hugging liberal fought for minimum water-quality standards. With his first swallow of coffee, he takes his daily medication. His medications are safe to take because some stupid commie liberal fought to insure their safety and that they work as advertised. All but $10 of his medications are paid for by his employer's medical plan because some liberal union workers fought their employers for paid medical insurance--now Joe gets it too.
He prepares his morning breakfast, bacon and eggs. Joe's bacon is safe to eat because some girly-man liberal fought for laws to regulate the meat packing industry.
In the morning shower, Joe reaches for his shampoo. His bottle is properly labeled with each ingredient and its amount because somecrybaby liberal fought for his right to know what he was putting on his body and how much it contained.
Joe dresses, walks outside and takes a deep breath. The air he breathes is clean because some environmentalist wacko liberal fought for laws to stop industries from polluting our air.
He walks to the subway station for his government-subsidized ride to work. It saves him considerable money in parking and transportation fees because some fancy-pants liberal fought for affordable public transportation which gives everyone the opportunity to be a contributor.
Joe begins his work day. He has a good job with excellent pay, medical benefits, retirement, paid holidays and vacation because some lazy liberal union members fought and died for these working standards. Joe's employer pays these standards because Joe's employer doesn't want his employees to call the union. If Joe is hurt on the job or becomes unemployed, he'll get a workers compensation or unemployment check because some stupid liberal didn't think he should lose his home because of his temporary misfortune.
It's noon and Joe needs to make a bank deposit so he can pay some bills. Joe's deposit is federally insured by the FSLIC because some godless liberal wanted to protect Joe's money from unscrupulous bankers who ruined the banking system before the Great Depression. Joe has to pay his below-market federal student loan because some elitist liberal decided that Joe and the government would be better off if he was educated and earned more money over his lifetime.
Joe is home from work. He plans to visit his father this evening at his farm home in the country. He gets in his car for the drive. His car is among the safest in the world because some America-hating liberal fought for car safety standards. He arrives at his boyhood home. His was the third generation to live in the house financed by Farmers' Home Administration because bankers didn't want to make rural loans. The house didn't have electricity until some big-government liberal stuck his nose where it didn't belong and demanded rural electrification.
Joe is happy to see his father, who is now retired. His father lives on Social Security and a union pension because some wine-drinking, cheese-eating liberal made sure he could take care of himself so Joe wouldn't have to.
Joe gets back in his car for the ride home, and turns on a radio talk show. The radio host keeps saying that liberals are bad and conservatives are good. He doesn't mention that the beloved Republicans have fought against every protection and benefit Joe enjoys throughout his day. Joe agrees: We don't need those big-government liberals ruining our lives! After all, I'm a self-made man who believes everyone should take care of themselves, just like I have.
Enjoy all you self righteous conservatives!!!
STARFIRE: Andy, your April Fool's joke is a little bit early, but it is so good, we thought we would share it with others for a good laugh. |
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79490 - Fri Mar 13 22:04:40 2009 - [Boyle millionare status another DFD lie] By: Pitt Street Panther |
| Looks like the name "Truthism" is another DFD lie. |
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79489 - Fri Mar 13 21:54:24 2009 - [Hosed by understated tax value and DFD] By: Inspector Clouseau |
Is Boyle like Kron with a house on the tax rolls under value? Boyle paid $850,000 and it’s on the tax rolls for only $630,500.
I don’t want any more financial illiterates on the clowncil. This Boyle guy is obviously bad with money and he has over paid underworked DFDer running his campaign.
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79488 - Fri Mar 13 20:09:26 2009 - [DFL working man paid only $850,000] By: Truthism |
OK Bend over, a nurse who is wealthy and lives in a mansion. You are a liar! Go shop online again because you hate Duluth so much and get off the blogs. Better yet, move away!!
http://www.duluthmn.gov/assessor/search/details.cfm?ParcelID=010-3440-00520
Property Details: 010-3440-00520
Parcel ID: 010-3440-00520
Title Holder: BOYLE PATRICK F
Document Department: Abstract
Document Number: 986817
Document Date: 06/24/2005
Plat Name: New Endion Division of Duluth
Legal Description DetailsPlat Name: New Endion Division of Duluth
Section
0 Township
0 Range
0 Lot
0000 Block
9
Description: LOTS 15 AND 16
Taxpayer DetailsTaxpayer Name and Address: BOYLE PATRICK F & JENNIFER R
2201 E 1st St
Duluth Mn 55812
Parcel DetailsProperty Address: 2201 E 1ST ST
School District: 709
Tax Increment District: 0
Title Holder: Boyle Patrick F
Property/Homesteader: Boyle Patrick F & Jennifer R
Assessment DetailsClass Description: Res 1 Unit Homestead Description: Owner Occupied Homestead
Class
Code
(Legend) Land
EMV Bldg
EMV Total
EMV Def
Land
EMV Def
Bldg
EMV Net Tax
Capacity
201 $25,300 $605,200 $630,500 $0 $0 $6,631
Totals: $25,300 $605,200 $630,500 $0 $0 $6,631
Lot DetailsFront Feet: 100
Depth Feet: 140
Area Sq. Feet: 14,000
Zoning Code & Desc.: R2 - Two-Family Residential District
Water Front Feet: 0
Water Code & Desc.: P - Public
Gas Code & Desc.: P - Public
Sewer Code & Desc.: P - Public
Building 1 Details Building Type Year Built Main Floor Sq. Ft. Gross Area Sq. Ft. Style Code & Desc.
House 1912 1,404 3,510 2S - 2 Story
Segment Story Width Length Area Foundation
Base Segment 2.5 39 36 1,404 Basement
Open Porch 0 0 0 360
Bath Count Bedroom Count Room Count
3.25 Baths 5 Bedrooms
Building 2 Details Building Type Year Built Main Floor Sq. Ft. Gross Area Sq. Ft. Style Description
Garage 1912 484 484 Detached
Segment Story Width Length Area Foundation
Base Segment 0 22 22 484 Floating Slab
Sales Reported to the St. Louis County AuditorSale Date Purchase Price
06/2005 $850,000
04/2003 $557,500
10/2001 $500,000
06/1997 $250,000
02/1996 $238,500
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79487 - Fri Mar 13 20:05:24 2009 - [Nurse Practitioner and wife is a Doctor] By: Truthism |
Tabitha, Boyle lives in a mansion and is rich as others on this bull---- blog states? I guess I should have gone into nursing! Check out the link for the TRUTH (if you can handle it).
http://boyleforcouncil.com/ |
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79486 - Fri Mar 13 19:59:32 2009 - [DLF knows all] By: DCB master debater |
| Tabitha, Really? Wagner? Give ma a break. Not only is he 12 years old, he has no experience. ANY union DFL person would be better than a kid pretending to be a big person. |
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79485 - Fri Mar 13 18:42:30 2009 - [Barney the dinosaur MIA] By: Your Friend |
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79484 - Fri Mar 13 18:40:50 2009 - [A simple yes or no question] By: Jimbo |
| Roy N. (aka Big Iron) You didn't answer the question! If I "cherry Picked" the call in my hypothetical would you want me to respond to your heart attack as I described to you. That is a yes or no question. |
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79483 - Fri Mar 13 12:33:50 2009 - [Boyle not representative of U but AFSCME] By: Tabitha T |
| So this Boyle character, not even born in Minnesota, does not even work in Duluth, lives in a big mansion, and talks about responsible city spending? I bet his heat bill alone in that house of his is $2000 a month. He does not know a thing about responsible spending. Definately not representative of those who live in District 2, like myself. Vote Robert Wagner all the way!! www.wagnerforduluth.com |
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79482 - Fri Mar 13 11:52:29 2009 - [Let's rename the SLC rescue ] By: Former St. Louis Cty Resq member |
| I never remember making it past the mall area before being cancelled by the professional Duluth FD while responding to water emergencies. I also know those suburbans Jimbo mentions carried nothing but an AED and life jacket. What if there's a fire, diabetic, allergic reaction, need for oxygen, car wreck, confined space rescue, haz-mat run, rope rescue, etc? The ONE guy with a suburban is helpless. Even my volunteer FD beat you to ALL calls. Let's rename the SLC rescue to SLC recovery. Sad but true. Jimbo can beat the Duluth FD to his neighbors house but I bet they'll call 911 first and he'll be woke to the sounds of the professional firetruck pulling up the the neighbors home. |
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79481 - Fri Mar 13 08:02:59 2009 - [DFL only knows how to take from wallets] By: Syrus Q |
| If we are to pull out of this pile of shit, the Mayor has got to bring Jobs to our community.I see every day the in crowd with hat in hand receiving the few dollars the city has for their personal projects.These jobs feed only the special few union leaders,developers,and campaign contributors backing the current Administration.I am unaware of any Newly Created Jobs for Jon Q. Councilors, Mayor, Why do you insist on trying to fix your mistakes by taking from our wallets? If you spend your time creating jobs your budget woes would fix itself. It's not the economy stupid! It's your false campaign promise to create jobs if we elect you! |
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79480 - Fri Mar 13 00:12:30 2009 - [Do as I say not as I do to seek office] By: Ben Dover |
I just cleaned out the barf bag after hearing that millionaire Patrick Boyle is throwing his hat in the ring for Duluth city council. Do you think he has a chance? He has as much money as any other DFL trust funder who has moved to Duluth and called it home. He pretends to have some menial job but is the son of another lifelong DFL grub politician who has hosed Wisconsin taxpayers for decades. All he needs is the endorsement of Progressive Action. Oops! He has it already. How could he not. He is a millionaire in his early thirties who lives in a Dulluth mansion just like Chester Congdon once did. He must be a representative for the working man. LOL! He claimed on the news tonight that he is concerned about his daughter. What does he care. He is just another Duluth DFL millionaire.
Perfect fit for Duluth! Another DFL millionaire like Oberstar calling the shots and raising taxes that only he and his friends like Claire and other Progressive millionaires can afford. |
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79479 - Thu Mar 12 23:37:57 2009 - ["DCB, you complete me" says Stahl] By: Mini-Me |
Stahlaninski blog has 79 posted messages so far. I posted the one below and can see Stahlalinski posing as Dr. Evil. Check out the most action ever on Stahlalinski's blog, a new personal best for Stahlalinski.
http://www.areavoices.com/buzz/index.cfm?page=comments&blog=44969&comment_page=4
MY POST
So who won the bet? Brandon, the DCB completes you. Put your little pinky by your mouth and say
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79478 - Thu Mar 12 23:19:04 2009 - [No doubt about it] By: Could it be the C |
From the Buzz
http://www.areavoices.com/buzz/?page=comments&blog=44969&comment_page=4
So Lakeside exchanged a councilor considered beholden to the Unions, a Union stooge, for a councilor people are starting to consider beholden to DCB, a DCB stooge. Never thought I'd say this, but I'm starting to miss Laurie Johnson, I'd rather have a councilor pandering to the Unions rather than one pandering to the worst social misfits with tacky screen names like vulva and mons veneris who hate Duluth. Mr. Fedora, show us a little more class by refraining from catering to the lowest common denominator ok?
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79477 - Thu Mar 12 20:32:43 2009 - [One of our many rights "C"] By: Mr. Duluth |
JBBP writes about Todd and conservatives and Allah. I agree with JBBP on this Todd issue with the Duluth Citizen Blog. So, it is a right winged blog. I hate both parties and I’m here still at this blog writing and reading and believe ME, I do disagree with a lot of words here. I hope Todd writes here for that is one of our freedoms in that Bill of Rights! Right?
I’m glad people like JBBP can say who they are, like being a conservative. I would say I have conservative thoughts now and then, but keep them in the closet. The same about some of my liberal views can be said. The problem being in one of these TWO groups is there is TWO groups. Even with 3 or 4 more groups, I don’t know if that would help the common person trying to live, which both parties seem to be failing at now.
I think supreme beings, like a god, an allah, or even a Hail Bop the comet is one of the greatest problem we face to become civil towards each other. Sure, if one follows the same beliefs like everyone else, no problem. The problem is we have that freedom, and there are many religions out there. This conflict won’t go away because people can’t live with this freedom and others of different faiths or none at all like myself.
Yes, JBBP is right about the common person, who makes under $60,000 here in Duluth with a family getting RIPPED off from politics. It starts with clowns like Franken and Coleman showing their true colors during that campaign of 2008 we elect to DC land. They are awful people on this national level ripping us off with wars and bank bailouts. Then on the local level, you hear about those great benefits our city workers were getting and hate is the four-letter word that comes to my mind. Hate also for the fact this one nation under allah can’t take care of its own people too with medical care and letting the medical Mafia get out of control with costs. Don't get me started on the wage issue.
I’m not afraid, I’m standing up right now, now sitting, and count me in JBBP. I have my eyes open with my mouth open laughing at this world with my empty pocket book.
Please note*** Season 13 of South Park is starting soon.
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79476 - Thu Mar 12 18:55:26 2009 - [Numbers Cruncher next forewarning ] By: Numbers Cruncher |
We're on a roll now! NOT Can you say “bear market rally”? http://www.mysmp.com/stocks/bear-market-rally.html
I told you the exact day the DOW would close below 7,000. My next forewarning is the DOW will be down 12% to 15% more by May 10th. There will be a few good weeks for now and then there will be another KABOOM. This is pschycologically needed but the numbers indicate this is a bear market rally. Predicted Mach 11, 2009
Stay updated on the financial facts at and check out the construct halt in Dubai at the bottom of the page at:
http://numberscruncher.blogspot.com/
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79475 - Thu Mar 12 18:23:19 2009 - [DFL $2 billion tax hike no surprise] By: Web Hound Jr. |
http://www.duluthnewstribune.com/event/article/id/114790/group/home/
Duluth News Tribune
Published March 12 2009
Senate DFL proposes cuts, $2 billion tax hike
Senate leaders announced their budget-balancing plans this afternoon, cutting every segment for a total of $2.4 billion. They include a $1 billion education cut, compared to Republican Gov. Tim Pawlenty's proposal to spare public school education from budget cuts needed to fill a deficit.
By: Don Davis, Duluth News Tribune
ST. PAUL – Minnesota Senate Democrats want to chop state budgets 7 percent across the board and raise taxes $2 billion, mostly on the state's richest residents.
Senate leaders announced their budget-balancing plans this afternoon, cutting every segment for a total of $2.4 billion. They include a $1 billion education cut, compared to Republican Gov. Tim Pawlenty's proposal to spare public school education from budget cuts needed to fill a deficit.
While the Democratic leaders say they would take roughly equal amounts of new taxes and program cuts to balance the budget, they have yet to figure out where to put about $2 billion in federal economic stimulus money. Given that, Senate Majority Leader Larry Pogemiller, DFL-Minneapolis, said education cuts may end up being moderated once details of how the state can spend the federal money are unraveled.
The state's $33 billion two-year budget would be $6.4 billion short without cuts, new taxes and federal money. Pawlenty figures the federal money into his budget and calls the deficit $4.6 billion.
After weeks of speculation in the Capitol, Senate leaders revealed their target for tax increases will be top-income Minnesotans.
Senate Tax Chairman Tom Bakk, DFL-Cook, said that is where he plans to start as he crafts a tax bill. He said whatever comes from new taxes "a lion's share" will be assessed to the rich.
Bakk said he would like to freeze the amount of money the state gives local governments at a time when most policymakers are calling for a cut in local government aid.
Republican senators said they were not consulted about the proposal. They called tax increases job killers.
Senate committees are to begin taking up the budget plan in the coming days, putting details on the outline released today.
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79474 - Thu Mar 12 11:58:54 2009 - [Hypothetical cherry picking ] By: Roy N |
| Jim, now you've moved the goal posts and threw in hypotheticals. Are you going to provide a response to that situation out at 134th Ave W. or 95th Ave E. from work or at 3:00 a.m.? Does the Sheriff let you take that Suburban to work so you can respond from there? I seriously doubt all of the above. That leaves you cherry picking your runs. And that's what I thought? |
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79473 - Thu Mar 12 11:12:56 2009 - [Who would want to see tax savings????] By: fred f |
| I don't know Jim... it might save lives but there is a very real risk to the union finances if we let volunteers serve their community. Think about what you are saying. By allowing volunteers to fill a need you are blocking future union jobs. Who in their right mind would want the tax savings and community improvement that would come with your crazy idea!? |
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79472 - Thu Mar 12 11:12:37 2009 - [Will you be out at 3am helping piss bum?] By: dauber |
| JIMBO,will you be just helping your neighbor at say 11 in the morning when the your family isn't busy..Or will you go out at 3 am and help the piss bum with mental illness that doesn't have a pot to piss in complaining about shortness of breath for 2 days..... |
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79471 - Thu Mar 12 09:27:24 2009 - [Should I attempt to save your life?] By: Jimbo |
| I'll respond to Big Iron from my new name of Jimbo. Big Iron, what if I told you that I am one of 3 persons responsible for parking a St. Louis Co Rescue squad in my private driveway within the city of Duluth. Inside the Suburban there are a number of items including an AED. For those of you who don't know an AED resets the hearts rhythm to a normal rate if one is experiencing a cardiac arrest. For the sake of discussion Big Iron, I live one block from your house and the nearest Fire Station is 1.4 miles away from your house. You suddenly feel extreme chest pain and tell your significant other to call 911 as your having a heart attack. You fall to the floor in pain. 911 has been called and I (your neighbor) hear the call on my radio. I can get to you and get the AED on you in less than 2 minutes and our fire dept can do the same in 4 minutes because they are farther out. Assuming you are in cardiac arrest, would you want me to start working on you or would you rather wait for our fire dept. Keeping in mind that there will be more damage to your heart the longer this situation last and the future quality of your life may be decreased and you may not ever again collect your union pension which you worked so hard for. In this scenario, would you want me to put into action my EMS training to include using the AED to attempt to save your life or not? Your answer will probably be no but our Sheriff says we can respond and the city of Duluth allows us also to respond. Can I respond to help you or not and would you appreciate the faster response time in this scenario? After the call I will return home to my private life. By the way Big Iron(AKA Roy N.) have a great weekend! |
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79470 - Thu Mar 12 08:12:36 2009 - [Reinert & DFL stealing all they can ] By: LIB Reader Online |
How many of you could take time off for this DFL publicity stunt? Most of the 300 were from the public trough in one shape or form.
This shameless representive of the grubs is exactly what has crippled Duluth economic and tax base growth for decades. There will never be enough money for Big Ears and his regressive posse. Forget the lay offs and depression we are entering. Their DFL motto is not stealing another tax dollar from you is a terrible opportunity to waste.
Roger Reinert in today's reason you need to go green and read the LIB online for free saving money, energy and the trees.
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Duluth News Tribune
Published March 12 2009
Reader's view: Public input vital for Minnesota legislators
The more than 300 people who attended the state budget hearing at Duluth City Hall can be thanked (“Duluth City Hall crowd tells legislators what’s wrong with Pawlenty’s budget,” Feb. 21).
Representatives and senators, both Democratic and Republican, heard compelling testimony from nearly 100 Duluthians regarding the state’s multibillion-dollar budget shortfall. The concerns and constructive input were critical as we in the Legislature craft a solution to the state’s massive revenue gap.
State economist Tom Stinson has since provided a revised budget forecast. Due to steadily worsening economic conditions, the state deficit has grown to $6.4 billion. While there are new resources provided by the federal government in the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, this remains the most serious budget challenge our state has ever faced, requiring painful decisions in St. Paul.
In addition to Minnesota’s budget challenges, unemployment continues to rise. Recently, the Department of Employment and Economic Development reported Minnesota’s unemployment rate at 7.6 percent, the highest since 1983. Duluth’s unemployment rate reached 8.9 percent in February.
The problems facing Minnesotans are serious. But by working together, I am confident we can develop forward-thinking solutions that will balance the budget responsibly and put our economy back on track.
Continued input from the public will be critical in that effort. I strongly encourage everyone to contact me directly with questions, concerns and ideas. This problem is not yours or mine; we all own it together as Duluthians and Minnesotans.
Rep. Roger Reinert
Duluth
The writer represents District 7B in the Minnesota House of Representatives
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79469 - Thu Mar 12 00:04:24 2009 - [Fight back against the union grubs] By: AlreadyleftDuluth |
| I got out of town years ago. Duluth is a dying town thanks to the greedy unions and political thugs. Why don't you guys start a protest? I know that you hard working conservatives have jobs and can't be out with your signs all week but, pick a saturday. Get out there in force. Organize a tea party and protest higher and nonstop taxes. Fight back against the union grubs. Take your city back. This is a great place to organize at the DCB. Pick a time and place and go with it. |
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79468 - Wed Mar 11 23:57:34 2009 - [Take your dreamer hat off ] By: Big Iron |
| Well Jimbo, you're comparing a fire dept. and a fire dept. with a fire dept. and a non fire dept. You also forgot to mention that ALL of the other FD's dropped out because it was too expensive and/or not feasible. The Cloquet/Perch Lake deal is in it's infancy. Who really knows if it will work. Certainly not you. If it were true, that you have read my previous posts, you would have known, OR REMEMBERED, that service is up to the Sheriff, not me, not you. And that ain't gonna happen. So you think that you will be of help responding from work or home, to Pike Lake, change, find a rig and then respond? I don't think so. Take your dreamer hat off when answering this question and I'll await your answer. Good night! |
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79467 - Wed Mar 11 23:18:04 2009 - [Judge dismisses promoter's complaint] By: Web Hound Jr. |
Duluth News Tribune
Published March 11 2009
Judge dismisses promoter's complaint against The Bridge radio
Secret Service Concerts said it had to cancel a Lucinda Williams show because KDAL-FM 95.7 accidentally advertised the wrong artist.
By: Mark Stodghill, Duluth News Tribune
A judge has dismissed the claim of a Duluth promoter who blamed a local radio station for forcing him to cancel a Lucinda Williams concert last November.
Craig Samborski, president of Secret Service Concerts & Entertainment, filed a claim for $7,500 against Midwest Communications, parent company of KDAL-FM 95.7. Samborski said the decision to cancel the concert was made solely because the radio station, “through gross negligence,’’ failed to run any of the paid advertising he had placed with it.
The parties argued their cases before Judge Mark Munger in conciliation court on Friday.
Munger dismissed Samborski’s claim with prejudice, which means the plaintiff is barred from bringing an action on the same claim. The court also ruled that Samborski must pay Midwest Communications $1,090 for commercials the radio station said it ran for the promoter.
“We are extremely pleased with the court’s decision and we look forward to collecting the money we are owed,’’ Ron Stone, Market Manager for Midwest Communications Inc., in Duluth, wrote in an e-mail Wednesday to the News Tribune. “Regarding the missed spots, the court recognized that human error cannot be avoided and that we made every attempt to help Mr. Samborski with his event. Perhaps in the future Mr. Samborski will take responsibility for his business decisions and choose the events he wants to promote more carefully.”
Samborski couldn’t be reached for comment Wednesday. Steve Grazier, vice president of Secret Service Concerts & Entertainment, responded by e-mail. “On the bright side, we have a nearly sold out performance tonight and tomorrow night of ‘Mamma Mia’ at the DECC, with our promotional partners at Red Rock Radio, professionals who understand what it takes to sell tickets to events and fulfill their contracts.”
Stone and other Midwest executives told Munger last week that the station made a mistake when it ran commercials promoting Mason Jennings instead of Lucinda Williams. But he said the station tried to make it right by offering to run the 10 commercials Samborski ordered and schedule an additional 10 free spots.
Munger told the parties during the hearing that it would take a “leap over a very large cavern or hole’’ to reach a legal conclusion that the lack of radio advertising and lack of ticket sales were connected.
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79466 - Wed Mar 11 22:58:12 2009 - [Number Crunchers next forewarning] By: Numbers Cruncher |
We're on a roll now! NOT
I told you the exact day the DOW would close below 7,000. My next forewarning is the DOW will be down 12% to 15% more by May 10th. There will be a few good weeks for now and then there will be another KABOOM.
Stay updated on the financial facts at:
http://numberscruncher.blogspot.com/
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79465 - Wed Mar 11 22:56:28 2009 - [Take your Union Hat off ] By: Jim |
| This question is for "Big Iron". Would you support me as a member of the St. Louis Co Rescue Squad responding to calls for service within the city limits of Duluth other than "water emergencies". I could respond for medicals or fires as I have both Firefighting one and two and am a regirestered EMT. I currently have a very good job and do not wish to leave it but wish to serve my community as a volunteer as described above. You have been against the rescue squad responding inside Duluth for some time by how you've responded to other blog entries before. I ask this question of you because I have good information that the combination of the Perch Lake and Cloquet Fire Services will be a success. They got over their major hurdle which was politics and their coverage and service will be second to none. Take your Union Hat off when answering this question and I'll await your answer. Good Night! |
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79464 - Wed Mar 11 22:46:30 2009 - [No moderates in the Taliban] By: War-Eagle |
| Our president says he wants to,"reach out to the moderates in the Taliban". I've got some news for him, there are no moderates in the Taliban. Their mentality is the West is evil no matter what and if ANY member of the Taliban has a chance to kill you or any member of your family they would do it without hesitation. I can't belive that statement. This president is dangerous to our country as we know it, the country our fathers, mothers, brothers, sisters, uncles, aunts, and friends fought and died for. We all need to call our representatives and let them know our dissatisfication, we need to protest peacefully and let our neighbors know we're not happy. I did not vote for McCain but surely wasn't expecting this dictator type of leadership. God bless this country and the brave men and women who voluntarily serve to protect her!! |
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79463 - Wed Mar 11 22:30:34 2009 - [--Wide Load Haiku--] By: DCB Poet Laureate |
--Wide Load Haiku--
Big Mouth Big Mouth Spewing Tripe
Blogging Blogging Night and Day
Where does "it" find the time of day |
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79462 - Wed Mar 11 21:59:19 2009 - [“My Life Would Suck Without You”] By: Taliban Tom A |
Greetings from Florida DCBers aka Taliban Tom's Army!
I'm sitting around enjoying a Guinness watching American Idol and there's Kelly Clarkson’s performing “My Life Would Suck Without You” and oh how I miss my WIDELOAD. I'll be back next month to lead the charge and call a spade a spade.
Over and out.
TTA |
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79461 - Wed Mar 11 20:21:16 2009 - [Challenge by a red diaper doper baby] By: Screwed by Scum |
Confessions of a red diaper doper baby.
"I didn't know who Saul Alinsky was until I read "Back of the Yards: The Making of a Local Democracy." Alinsky and Joseph Meegan created the Back of the Yards Neighborhood Council. I would challenge anyone to read the book or just review the history of the BYNC and then tell me that Alinsky was wrong to organize the Chicago stock yard neighborhood. " |
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79460 - Wed Mar 11 17:32:40 2009 - [Connect Duluth need to get asses in gear] By: JBBP |
I hope Todd Fedora begins to post on this blog, just to show everybody that HE CAN POST WHEREVER THE HELL HE WANTS.
And I wish the folks at Connect Duluth would get their asses in gear and STAND UP FOR THE TAXPAYERS again.
Not only that- SO WHAT if ANYBODY is openly identified as a conservative, a liberal, what have you?
It isn't likely that I would ever run for public office, but I will say- I AM A CONSERVATIVE. And, I BELIEVE IN GOD, too.
If you are a conservative, or at least you think the taxpayers have been getting ripped off repeatedly by the liberal/leftist/union/DFL crones who have bought their collective ways into office for all of these years- in complete and purposefully strategic ignorance and "misinterpretation" of Duluth City Charter rules governing municipal elections:
QUIT BEING AFRAID. STAND UP AND BE COUNTED. OPEN YOUR EYES, then- OPEN YOUR MOUTHS and CLOSE YOUR POCKETBOOKS.
Thank you. |
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79459 - Wed Mar 11 15:46:40 2009 - [Lewinsky of the DNT?] By: Big Iron |
| Speaking of tiny BS Brandon. Garmoe gets laid off and Stahl is still there. He must fit well under Karwath's desk. |
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79458 - Wed Mar 11 12:45:31 2009 - [Duluth is good example for Alinsky] By: Organizer |
Here are Alinsky's Rules, for those of you who don't want to go to the website. Check and see if you think these tactics are in play in Duluth, on this blog, and the persecution of political leaders who don't agree with the fringe left:
Rules for Radicals
In 1971, Saul Alinsky wrote an entertaining classic on grassroots organizing titled Rules for Radicals. Those who prefer cooperative tactics describe the book as out-of-date. Nevertheless, it provides some of the best advice on confrontational tactics. Alinsky begins this way:
What follows is for those who want to change the world from what it is to what they believe it should be. The Prince was written by Machiavelli for the Haves on how to hold power. Rules for Radicals is written for the Have-Nots on how to take it away.
His “rules” derive from many successful campaigns where he helped poor people fighting power and privilege
For Alinsky, organizing is the process of highlighting what is wrong and convincing people they can actually do something about it. The two are linked. If people feel they don’t have the power to change a bad situation, they stop thinking about it.
According to Alinsky, the organizer — especially a paid organizer from outside — must first overcome suspicion and establish credibility. Next the organizer must begin the task of agitating: rubbing resentments, fanning hostilities, and searching out controversy. This is necessary to get people to participate. An organizer has to attack apathy and disturb the prevailing patterns of complacent community life where people have simply come to accept a bad situation. Alinsky would say, “The first step in community organization is community disorganization.”
Through a process combining hope and resentment, the organizer tries to create a “mass army” that brings in as many recruits as possible from local organizations, churches, services groups, labor unions, corner gangs, and individuals.
Alinsky provides a collection of rules to guide the process. But he emphasizes these rules must be translated into real-life tactics that are fluid and responsive to the situation at hand.
Rule 1: Power is not only what you have, but what an opponent thinks you have. If your organization is small, hide your numbers in the dark and raise a din that will make everyone think you have many more people than you do.
Rule 2: Never go outside the experience of your people.
The result is confusion, fear, and retreat.
Rule 3: Whenever possible, go outside the experience of an opponent. Here you want to cause confusion, fear, and retreat.
Rule 4: Make opponents live up to their own book of rules. “You can kill them with this, for they can no more obey their own rules than the Christian church can live up to Christianity.”
Rule 5: Ridicule is man’s most potent weapon. It’s hard to counterattack ridicule, and it infuriates the opposition, which then reacts to your advantage.
Rule 6: A good tactic is one your people enjoy. “If your people aren’t having a ball doing it, there is something very wrong with the tactic.”
Rule 7: A tactic that drags on for too long becomes a drag. Commitment may become ritualistic as people turn to other issues.
Rule 8: Keep the pressure on. Use different tactics and actions and use all events of the period for your purpose. “The major premise for tactics is the development of operations that will maintain a constant pressure upon the opposition. It is this that will cause the opposition to react to your advantage.”
Rule 9: The threat is more terrifying than the thing itself. When Alinsky leaked word that large numbers of poor people were going to tie up the washrooms of O’Hare Airport, Chicago city authorities quickly agreed to act on a longstanding commitment to a ghetto organization. They imagined the mayhem as thousands of passengers poured off airplanes to discover every washroom occupied. Then they imagined the international embarrassment and the damage to the city’s reputation.
Rule 10: The price of a successful attack is a constructive alternative. Avoid being trapped by an opponent or an interviewer who says, “Okay, what would you do?”
Rule 11: Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, polarize it. Don’t try to attack abstract corporations or bureaucracies. Identify a responsible individual. Ignore attempts to shift or spread the blame.
According to Alinsky, the main job of the organizer is to bait an opponent into reacting. “The enemy properly goaded and guided in his reaction will be your major strength.”
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79457 - Wed Mar 11 11:48:22 2009 - [Right out of Saul Alinsky's playbook] By: Not A DFLer |
In the event this is not posted on Stahlalinki's Buzz blog I thought I'd share it here and DCBer you too should get back to quality blogging.
Mu next post that may not get past Stahlalinski:
Actually this thread has been dominated by the usual suspect and her aliases. It amazes me Stahl that you let this DCB, followers and haters, discredit an otherwise decent blog. Their tactics are right out of Saul Alinsky's Rules for Radicals link following. http://www.vcn.bc.ca/citizens-handbook/rules.html Let’s get this back to some quality blogging. |
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79456 - Wed Mar 11 11:17:48 2009 - [Bear market rally is still a big downer] By: Cynic |
| I can tell you one thing about the market. If it get's anywhere near 10k or 11k again we will take out what little we have in there. It's not much but we need every penny. |
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79455 - Wed Mar 11 00:55:28 2009 - [Duluth on Al Jazeera ] By: Web Hound Jr. |
Duluth News Tribune
Published March 10 2009
Al Jazeera TV visits Duluth
A story about Duluth, northern Minnesota, the economic stimulus plan and mining appeared on Al Jazeera English TV on Feb. 23.
Al Jazeera English posted the piece on its YouTube channel.
Al Jazeera's Lucy Keating reported from Duluth.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cu5W4fzmdv0
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79453 - Tue Mar 10 23:54:34 2009 - [The enemy of all racism & the DFL] By: Former DFL Insider |
DFLers use minorites for their own gain and personal agendas. This is so obvious in Duluth. Libertarianism is the enemy of all racism and the DFL Progressives. Don't think so? Watch and learn-
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XnPnAJeVuvw&feature=related |
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79452 - Tue Mar 10 23:18:20 2009 - [Stahl's next Pulitzer for Tabloid Worth] By: Karnac |
Stahl's next breaking story. Councilor refuses to apoligize to (FILL IN THE BLANK).
a. WIDELOAD
b. KKK
c. Beaten by the Ugly Stick
d. "C"
e. Dweller from under a rock
f. It
g. Taliban Tom's girl
h. Paid DFL operative
i. Chester Porker |
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79451 - Tue Mar 10 22:50:42 2009 - [Obama economic destruction to continue] By: jthyme |
| Hey buzz head.....take one step forward and 3 steps back. That's how the Dow has been. Big whoop it went up today. I'd LOVE to see it continue to go up but let's see how it fares when the week is over. Will it be UP from last week or DOWN?? My guess is that it will be down (again). Let's not get too excited because the Dow had one good day. Let's see if a streak can follow. |
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79450 - Tue Mar 10 22:41:26 2009 - [No Fat Chicks] By: Buzz fan |
DELETED PARAGRAPH Kiss my ass.
PARROT: I don't do fat chicks C. |
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79449 - Tue Mar 10 22:18:21 2009 - [Stahlalinski and Carrboro censorship ] By: Not a DFLer |
I have had three posts not posted on Stahlalinski blog today. So I decided to post this one here as Stahlalinski's bias is easy to see. My question to Todd Fedora is; why were you talking to Stahlalinski about anything this juvenile? And Fedora, can you not see Stahl is one of them?
My next post that won't make it by Stahlalinski:
Claire it's nice to see your name instead of all of the aliases. I hope Fedora does NOT apoligze to you. Claire, you of all people do NOT deserve an apology. Go back to Carrboro. |
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79448 - Tue Mar 10 21:54:05 2009 - [Will the DOW be down 500 next week?] By: Buzz fan |
What? No Obama number crunchers update? Here you go DCB DELETED who won't post this anyway because freedom of speech only applies to the GOP:
Dow Jones Industrials Best Day of 2009
NEW YORK (AP) - Dow Jones industrials have their best day of 2009, soaring more than 360 points.
Wall Street is rallying on a dose of good news from Citigroup Inc. Financial stocks are leading stocks higher after the troubled bank said it had operated at a profit during the first two months of the year. The rally is the market's first big move in weeks following a collapse that has left the major indexes at their lowest point in more than a decade.
Still, analysts say this advance is likely a bear market rally rather than a turning point for stocks. They believe the financial industry and the overall economy are still too weak for Wall Street to sustain a big advance.
PARROT: Dumb Ass or BF, the Number Cruncher site is up to date. Is english your second language? http://numberscruncher.blogspot.com/
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79447 - Tue Mar 10 19:23:05 2009 - [What kind of name is Stahlalinski?] By: Soup Town Resident |
From where is this so called Stahlalinksi from ? (BTW, what the hell kind of name is that ?) I assume this "individual" is not a native Duluth resident.
STARFIRE: STR, it sounds kind of East Prussian to me. |
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79445 - Tue Mar 10 18:35:12 2009 - [Think global - buy local!] By: Jeff B. |
| The Duluth Menard's had good traffic during the construction of the Hermantown location, so at least we start on top. Now it's up to Duluthians and, what is it, Hermantownians..? to decide where to spend their bucks. Think global - buy local! |
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79444 - Tue Mar 10 18:19:41 2009 - [Will Ne$$ force citizens to pay again?] By: Anne F |
| Menards in Hermantown is open. Duluth's sales tax will sink badly with this news. Does anyone know what DFL Don Ness has planned to make up the difference or does he just plan to tax and fee the remaining citizens who were too dumb to get out of Duluth? |
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79443 - Tue Mar 10 17:47:34 2009 - ["C" is 33 of 52 on Stahlalinski's DCB II] By: I C RED PEOPLE |
I see "C" is 33 of the 52 posts with Stahlalinksi about the DCB.
As for Fedora, what a PUTZ with a captial "P" for opening up his affecton for the DCB and PDD. |
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79442 - Tue Mar 10 17:25:56 2009 - [Poverty and DFL go hand in hand] By: EMU |
LIB what a great letter you posted. This also says it all.
TOP 10 POVERTY CITIES AND DFL DULUTH:
This is one of the greatest American tragedies.
What do the top 10 cities and DFL Duluth with the highest poverty rate all have in common?
Detroit, MI (1st on the poverty rate list)...hasn’t elected a Republican mayor since 1961;
Buffalo, NY (2nd)...hasn't elected a Republican mayor since 1954;
Cincinnati, OH (3rd)...hasn't elected a Republican mayor since 1984;
Cleveland, OH (4th)...hasn't elected a Republican mayor since 1989;
Miami, FL (5th)...has never had a Republican mayor;
St. Louis, MO (6th)...hasn't elected a Republican mayor since 1949;
El Paso, TX (7th)...has never had a Republican mayor;
Milwaukee, WI (8th)...hasn't elected a Republican mayor since 1908;
Philadelphia, PA (9th)...hasn't elected a Republican mayor since 1952;
Newark, NJ (10th)...hasn't elected a Republican mayor since 1907.
DFL Duluth has a poverty rate twice the rate as the rest of the state.
Einstein once said, 'The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.'
It is the disadvantaged who habitually elect Democrats, DFLers --- YET THEY STAY DISADVANTAGED.
Opinion: The Disadvantaged remain disadvantaged because they are looking for a Liberal Democratic Government to give them something, when all they have to do is WORK for it.
How can a person be 5th generation & disadvantaged in this country?
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79441 - Tue Mar 10 16:26:15 2009 - [A million reasons why "Hope" remains] By: Adam R |
Ben Dover, you hit it right on the head. The only problem is that most people in Duluth are either doing the fleecing, as in DFLers, and lining their pockets or they are in the other group that is too naive to understand that it is the DFL who is fleecing them. They are easily manipulated through the local rag to believe that the Boogey Man is taking them to the cleaners.
Speaking of the rag, I see that Stahlalinski needs to be given a little credit. He knows that in order for his blog to get any real activity, he must mention the "DCB" and the activity appears like magic. Seems clear tht the DCB is still "Where the action is" and the talk of the town. Wherever it is mentioned the hits just keep coming.
Thanks Tony, I love this place. Without the internet I wouldn't have found it. So thanks Tony and thanks Al Gore. Keep getting the truth out there. I sent in a MO to you yesterday. This place is the only real action in Duluth as can be witnessed by a Loon from the left setting up a site just to watch this one and a reporter from the DNT trying to get the numbers up on his site by once again, using the DCB to do so. Good job DCB! I love when I read that the DCB is "irrevelant". This statement is clearly being made by someone who has been drinking way too much DFL Kool Aid for way too long!!! If it is so "irrevelant" then why spend so much time talking about it? Sounds to me like the DFL doesn't like the "Truth" to come out about how they have been screwing Duluthians for decades. The counter on top shows almost a million reasons why there is "Hope" yet for Duluthians to learn the "Truth". |
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79440 - Tue Mar 10 15:30:39 2009 - [Another hyped snowstorm?] By: Ralph M |
| Will this supposid snowstorm be another bust like the past ones they hyped up? I'll believe it when i see it. |
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79439 - Tue Mar 10 12:16:34 2009 - [Education not DFL indoctrination ] By: Erik H |
With schools closing all around us I wanted to point out to area parents that Duluth does have a great alternative in Lakeview Christian Academy.
If you send your kids there they definately won't be indoctrinated into any kind of socialist mentality.
It's a pre-k through 12 school with demonstrated academic success, in fact the test scores are above the state and local public schools and very near those of Marshall.
You think Lakeview is too expensive? You'd be suprised how reasonable it is.
Check them out at www.lakeviewchristianacademy.com |
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79438 - Tue Mar 10 12:12:53 2009 - [DFL diverts attention while raping city] By: Cyrus the Virus |
What a stunning post Lib Reader. The DFL hates the DCB and that's the big news on the areavoices site. The DFL wants to make the DCB the story while they rape and pillage Duluth.
Check out the DCB conversation at:
http://www.areavoices.com/buzz/?page=comments&blog=44969 |
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79436 - Tue Mar 10 11:43:13 2009 - [Duluth is a true failure of Socialism] By: LIB Reader Online |
WOW! "Duluth has become a laboratory for the failure of socialism." This writer is right on the money and made a lot more leaving Dultuh.
The socialist DFL in Duluth is why you have to go green and read the LIB online for free saving money, energy and the trees.
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http://www.duluthnewstribune.com/event/article/id/114506/
Duluth News Tribune
Published March 10 2009
Nostalgic view: Environmentalists, socialists and the DFL ruined Duluth
I write this on March 4, my 70th birthday. My mind travels back in time.
By: Bill Ames, Duluth News Tribune
I write this on March 4, my 70th birthday. My mind travels back in time.
I grew up in Duluth. I left in 1959 after spending the first 20 years of my life there. I said goodbye to a bustling, vibrant city of about 110,000 people. The thriving, resource-based economy of that time allowed working-class families to afford lake cabins where they could enjoy weekends together. Workers of that day had high-paying jobs at the steel plant in Morgan Park, at the paper mill in Cloquet or with any number of successful infrastructure businesses.
Today, as part of the environmentalists’ conversion of Duluth from an industrial to a tourist economy, too many of these workers’ grandkids live off government welfare or toil at minimum-wage jobs, whether it’s tending bar at Grandma’s or cleaning toilets at the Radisson. Or they leave Duluth.
As kids growing up in the 1950s, we went to matinee movies at the NorShor Theatre, our parents having no concern about letting us go downtown alone. After the movie, we walked along Superior Street, flush with our freedom and as safe downtown as in our own backyards at home. There is even a story about a few girls who were my high school classmates. Bored at a slumber party, they boarded a city bus and rode downtown — in their pajamas.
In 1989, there was a movie called “Back to the Future, Part II.” In it, Marty McFly learned that his once-idyllic Hill Valley had become an immoral living hell, a result of treachery by character-flawed Biff Tannen.
The idyllic 1950s Duluth of my youth, by 2009, has become “Back to the Future’s” Hill Valley. But rather than Biff Tannen, Duluth has been devastated by socialists and environmentalists who support the Democratic-Farmer-Labor party monopoly.
Duluth has changed.
Just this morning, during my daily scan of the online News Tribune, I saw a story about the NorShor. It seems the old family-entertainment theater has become a strip club. Right there in downtown Duluth. The NorShor recently had its liquor license suspended amid charges of “alleged drug sales, drug use and vulgar sex acts at the establishment,” according to the article. The NorShor continued to serve liquor anyway.
Downtown is no longer as safe. During a visit to Sammy’s Pizza not too long ago, I had to escort a lady to her car because there were drunks in the street.
Duluth’s vibrant economy of the 1950s has deteriorated into an anti-business, overly environmentally sensitive, all-but-bankrupt mess. The population has fallen to about 86,000. The property tax base has deteriorated to the point where the city can no longer afford social services, to repair its streets or to properly maintain its sewer system. Unemployment approaches 10 percent.
The Duluth School Board focuses too much on which schools to close next year, as tax revenue shrinks and population decreases.
Environmentalists, by severely limiting access to many of Northeastern Minnesota’s lakes, long ago put an end to tourist revenue-enhancing fly-in fishing enterprises. Now, visitors tend to be penny-pinching canoeists who drive straight through to the lakes from wherever they live, sleeping in their cars and avoiding restaurants. They stop in Duluth only for sandwiches and beer.
Socialist health care for Duluth’s city employees and their families built up an unfunded taxpayer debt of about $300 million over 30 years by 2007, an amount larger than the city budget.
The City Council even removed the Ten Commandments from city property.
Duluth has become a laboratory for the failure of socialism. Biff Tannen would be proud.
Before President Obama goes too far with his joint wars on capitalism and American values, perhaps he should look at the decades of devastation similar policies have created for the citizens of Duluth.
Bill Ames grew up in Duluth and now lives in Dallas. He has written commentary for the Dallas Morning News and other publications. He can be contacted at billames@prodigy.net.
MODERATOR: LRO, What a great read! Factual and based on real life experiences.
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79436 - Tue Mar 10 11:43:13 2009 - [How true it is in DFL Duluth] By: LIB Reader Online |
WOW! "Duluth has become a laboratory for the failure of socialism." This writer is right on the money and made a lot more leaving Dultuh.
The socialist DFL in Duluth is why you have to go green and read the LIB online for free saving money, energy and the trees.
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http://www.duluthnewstribune.com/event/article/id/114506/
Duluth News Tribune
Published March 10 2009
Nostalgic view: Environmentalists, socialists and the DFL ruined Duluth
I write this on March 4, my 70th birthday. My mind travels back in time.
By: Bill Ames, Duluth News Tribune
I write this on March 4, my 70th birthday. My mind travels back in time.
I grew up in Duluth. I left in 1959 after spending the first 20 years of my life there. I said goodbye to a bustling, vibrant city of about 110,000 people. The thriving, resource-based economy of that time allowed working-class families to afford lake cabins where they could enjoy weekends together. Workers of that day had high-paying jobs at the steel plant in Morgan Park, at the paper mill in Cloquet or with any number of successful infrastructure businesses.
Today, as part of the environmentalists’ conversion of Duluth from an industrial to a tourist economy, too many of these workers’ grandkids live off government welfare or toil at minimum-wage jobs, whether it’s tending bar at Grandma’s or cleaning toilets at the Radisson. Or they leave Duluth.
As kids growing up in the 1950s, we went to matinee movies at the NorShor Theatre, our parents having no concern about letting us go downtown alone. After the movie, we walked along Superior Street, flush with our freedom and as safe downtown as in our own backyards at home. There is even a story about a few girls who were my high school classmates. Bored at a slumber party, they boarded a city bus and rode downtown — in their pajamas.
In 1989, there was a movie called “Back to the Future, Part II.” In it, Marty McFly learned that his once-idyllic Hill Valley had become an immoral living hell, a result of treachery by character-flawed Biff Tannen.
The idyllic 1950s Duluth of my youth, by 2009, has become “Back to the Future’s” Hill Valley. But rather than Biff Tannen, Duluth has been devastated by socialists and environmentalists who support the Democratic-Farmer-Labor party monopoly.
Duluth has changed.
Just this morning, during my daily scan of the online News Tribune, I saw a story about the NorShor. It seems the old family-entertainment theater has become a strip club. Right there in downtown Duluth. The NorShor recently had its liquor license suspended amid charges of “alleged drug sales, drug use and vulgar sex acts at the establishment,” according to the article. The NorShor continued to serve liquor anyway.
Downtown is no longer as safe. During a visit to Sammy’s Pizza not too long ago, I had to escort a lady to her car because there were drunks in the street.
Duluth’s vibrant economy of the 1950s has deteriorated into an anti-business, overly environmentally sensitive, all-but-bankrupt mess. The population has fallen to about 86,000. The property tax base has deteriorated to the point where the city can no longer afford social services, to repair its streets or to properly maintain its sewer system. Unemployment approaches 10 percent.
The Duluth School Board focuses too much on which schools to close next year, as tax revenue shrinks and population decreases.
Environmentalists, by severely limiting access to many of Northeastern Minnesota’s lakes, long ago put an end to tourist revenue-enhancing fly-in fishing enterprises. Now, visitors tend to be penny-pinching canoeists who drive straight through to the lakes from wherever they live, sleeping in their cars and avoiding restaurants. They stop in Duluth only for sandwiches and beer.
Socialist health care for Duluth’s city employees and their families built up an unfunded taxpayer debt of about $300 million over 30 years by 2007, an amount larger than the city budget.
The City Council even removed the Ten Commandments from city property.
Duluth has become a laboratory for the failure of socialism. Biff Tannen would be proud.
Before President Obama goes too far with his joint wars on capitalism and American values, perhaps he should look at the decades of devastation similar policies have created for the citizens of Duluth.
Bill Ames grew up in Duluth and now lives in Dallas. He has written commentary for the Dallas Morning News and other publications. He can be contacted at billames@prodigy.net.
george w. Canyon, MN 03/10/2009 9:07 AM
Bill Ames is right on the money. Guess I should not use that term as that is , it seems, part of the problem with the city. It is a shame to watch and see how the city has gone down hill. I too grew up schooled and worked in Duluth most of my life. Where did all the industry go. The cement plant. steel plant. Kleerflax rugs, Coolerator Co ,Marshall Wells, Kelly How Thompson, at the time the two largest wholesale hardware stores in the country. And Diamond Tool, another one. It goes on and on. One lane traffic on the main street, out of costly bricks yet, contantly in need of replacement. But oh how pretty for the tourists. Thats what the city has become. a tourist town. So when the winter season in the north country comes the tourists are long gone. Now they talk about a train to the cities??? Another farce that has been tried time and again, It will be another LARGE expence that will never pay for itself. The DFL in charge of the city. Every city in the country run by the DFL is in debt to their eyebrows. Look it up!!! Detroit, New York, San Francisco, LA. and more. Now the country run by them too. So long America as we knew it. Your right Bill Ames. Your right. The blind just can't see it. George of Canyon
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79429 - Tue Mar 10 07:23:33 2009 - [This is Iraq right on the streets] By: Change U Can't Beleive |
25 dead and 508 shot in Chicago schools in last 16 months. The war on poverty isn't working folks. If this isn't a state of emergency what is? This is Iraq right on the streets.
http://cosmos.bcst.yahoo.com/up/player/popup/?rn=4226712&cl=12407287&src=news |
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79427 - Mon Mar 9 23:35:29 2009 - [Shaggy - Wasn't me] By: Danny G |
That last "Danny G" comment was not from me.
Thank you.
D |
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79426 - Mon Mar 9 23:34:09 2009 - [Darkside Danny?] By: The Great Cornholio |
Ben, great to see you back.
Danny G where have you been hiding for the past several weeks ?? I hope you have not been hanging out with Wideload and Subdouche , that duo better known as the "The Dark Side". |
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79423 - Mon Mar 9 23:14:11 2009 - [From the King of the Trolls] By: Danny G |
| Ben Dover it's nice to see you back on the DCB. I think highly of your consistent message. |
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79422 - Mon Mar 9 23:07:39 2009 - [Bedtime for the little boy] By: STARFIRE |
Stevie R,
Take your pink leotards off, pull out the butt plug and go to bed. You're an amateur boy in a man's game.
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79420 - Mon Mar 9 22:58:31 2009 - [We know it's all in the numbers] By: edie s |
Numbers mean something if you know how to use them. Check out the truth at:
http://numberscruncher.blogspot.com/ |
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79419 - Mon Mar 9 22:43:15 2009 - [Who are you warning?] By: stevie r |
Fair warning.
We've sourced your IP 74.61.153.215 and Clearwire server.
We're going to out you unless you do it yourself.
Four days. |
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79418 - Mon Mar 9 22:41:13 2009 - [Whom will you really be hurting?] By: larry |
Whom do you suppose you'll really be hurting if you direct all of your money elsewhere-- the DFL, or local business owners?
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79417 - Mon Mar 9 22:27:56 2009 - [BS Stahl working on his Pulitzer Prize] By: Big Iron |
| BS Stahl is working on his Pulitzer Prize exposing the DCB after his award winning Pulitzer Prize for Fiction story exposing locals. |
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79416 - Mon Mar 9 22:11:25 2009 - [DFL Dream of Distruction Continues] By: Ben Dover |
Stanley Labounty laid off 25% of its workforce today and the remaining employees had their pay reduced significantly. Then the local school board in Duluth is voting on cuts to its budget. If teachers care about kids, why don't they take pay cuts and leave the school day length where it is? Because it is about themselves, not kids. Who are they looking out for? Do you think that a reduction in pay for the teachers who are making $7,000 a month will be discussed? NO. Teachers are always crying about more money and it is long overdue that they give something back to the community. A 20% pay cut right across the board for all local, county, state and federal employees would be a great help to solving these economic challenges. But don't count on it. Expect the divide in the U.S. between the haves, the government employees, and the have nots, the rest of the society who are being forced to pay the obscene government salaries and benefits, to grow even wider. I read a story today about a janitorial position in a school in Ohio that pays $15 and hour and it had over 700 applicants just for the benefits alone. What is wrong with this picture people?
So while Donny Boy Ness gives in to the AFSCME union as usual and hires more people, thus putting even more tax burden on the remaining Duluthians, ask yourself whether or not he is making "hard choices". Spending money and raising taxes and fees is not hard, even for him. Obama's spending bill will not work either. This country will not improve until it comes to grip with the unchecked, obscene, extorted salaries of the government unions across this land.
Watch and see as these government grubs continue to cry for more money and as the private sector becomes more and more unable to pay for their demands, then and only then will real change come.
It sure is fun to watch all these politicians kissing the big unions asses while Rome burns. Too bad for the Republicats that until they solve the government greed problem, they will be just pissing in the wind.
If anybody bothered to check, they would find out that the U.S. is already 65 trillion in the shitter. Any idea who they think will pay for this? The U.S. in on a rapid decline right now and it is in the final stage called everyone for themselves. Don't believe me, just look at the raise that Congress gave itself in December while the economy was sliding further into the hole. Watch a politicians actions instead of their words. This will tell you a lot more about who they truly represent. Ness, Obama, it makes no differnece. They are in la la land and just don't get it.
One day they will......
What is the best way to fight against these DFL thieves? DO NOT spend any money locally. Shop in Wisconsin and save 2% right off the top. I learned this from the AFSCME leader Ken Leffler Kemp. I followed his lead and I shop online or anyplace but Duluth. Help the DFL realize their dream, don't support the DFL grubs. |
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79415 - Mon Mar 9 22:11:16 2009 - [Another Stahlalinski cover up?] By: Locals Gone Wild |
| There was some trouble in the hood tonight. Doesn't the DNT print the news any more? These fine outstand "local" young women started a mini-riot. Of course this may be sugar coated by Stahlalinski at the DNT. |
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79414 - Mon Mar 9 20:27:42 2009 - [Where's the Watch site] By: RP |
What is this "watch" site and how do I find it?
STARFIRE: Try 19th Ave. E and 9th Street in Duluth. |
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79414 - Mon Mar 9 20:27:42 2009 - [What is the "watch" site?] By: RP |
| What is this "watch" site and how do I find it? |
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79413 - Mon Mar 9 19:58:13 2009 - [Thanks for the good laugh!] By: JBBP |
Hey, Dennis Miller, that was a FUNNY one!
Thank you for giving me a laugh! |
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79413 - Mon Mar 9 19:58:13 2009 - [Thanks for the good laugh!] By: JBBP |
Hey, Dennis Miller, that was a FUNNY one!
Thank you for giving me a laugh! |
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79413 - Mon Mar 9 19:58:13 2009 - [Thanks for the good laugh!] By: JBBP |
Hey, Dennis Miller, that was a FUNNY one!
Thank you for giving me a laugh! |
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79412 - Mon Mar 9 17:24:38 2009 - [Kudos to Number Cruncher blog] By: Nick |
| Number Cruncher you had better update your blog as the Obama market headed south another 79.89 or 1.21% today. Kudos to a sad but decent blog with accurate information. |
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79411 - Mon Mar 9 14:03:10 2009 - [Obama makes Bush look smart] By: Dolla Bill |
| How can you say wonderful Javier? I knew what Obama was and didn't vote for him. No one gets something for nothing. What the hell, was this an Affirmative Action job or what? I thought Bush was the dumb one but Obama is making Bush look smart. Obama has done more damage the his first 6 weeks than any president in history. |
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79410 - Mon Mar 9 12:52:14 2009 - [Cramer's take on Obamanation] By: Javier |
Want Cramer's take on Obamanation? Read this wonderful article:
http://www.mainstreet.com/article/moneyinvesting/news/cramer-takes-white-house-frank-rich-and-jon-stewart?page=1 |
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79409 - Mon Mar 9 12:48:57 2009 - [Stimulus package or package stimulated?] By: Dennis Miller |
| Do you realize that President Obama signed his stimulus package, at the same desk where President Clinton got his package stimulated? |
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79408 - Mon Mar 9 12:46:25 2009 - [Hardly slanderous] By: Tara |
Jeff Fan,
The person wrote "I wonder what our openly gay councilor Jeff Anderson thinks about this article?" This is hardly slanderous.
Tony, weren't you a little harsh on this one?
TONY R: Tara, not too harsh at all. Sometimes these liberal whack jobs need a little reminder of who's in charge here.
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79407 - Mon Mar 9 10:52:56 2009 - [UMD hockey needs change] By: Web Hound |
| UMD men's hockey needs some "Change We Can Believe In". Please! |
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79406 - Mon Mar 9 10:13:52 2009 - [Diseased progressives damage Duluth] By: mons veneris |
| I think that the "watch" seriously damages Duluth's image. Most sane people realize that the "watch" is a joke, however people from out of town don't know what a farce Duluth has become with mentally diseased progressives at the "watch" leading the way. Those crazies at the "watch" -- in reality are a cancer which has spread and reached a terminal state here in the once great city of Duluth. |
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79405 - Mon Mar 9 08:53:13 2009 - [Obama socialist agenda continues] By: Former DFL'er |
| Barry Obama is a socialist--wants to "spread the wealth" and punish small busines owners. Barry also doesn't care for the military---didn't attend the "Medal of Honor Winners" Ball on innauguration night and would rather have our brave men and women in uniform be "negotiators" rather than warriors for the cause of freedom. Barry and friends are also trying to shut down those in the media who don't agree with their liberal and socialist agenda. Socialism.."from each according to his ability, to each according to his need". We must rally against Barry's agenda. The only thing I agree with Barry on is his support for charter schools. |
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79404 - Mon Mar 9 08:37:01 2009 - [Another Blow Hard Liberal - Not Slander] By: Jeff Fan |
Jeff Anderson openly gay??? This place should be shut down! How can people slander someone like this?? To say Jeff Anderson is openly gay is to say Rush Limbaugh is a Democrat. It just ain't true. How can you sleep at nights? I saw Jeff out the other night, making out with some chick at Pizza Luce.
If I am mistaken, please prove me wrong, otherwise I am going to contact a lawyer!
TONY R: Blow hard, here's your proof so STFU!
(Source) http://www.victoryfund.org/news/view/url:gay_candidates_victorious_across_the_u_s
"Jeffrey Anderson was elected to the Duluth City Council, becoming the first openly gay elected official in northern Minnesota."
Goole seach "jeff anderson victory gay" and read on.
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79403 - Mon Mar 9 08:29:46 2009 - [DFL rules at UMD including hockey] By: UMD Dog |
"UMD hockey is like the movie Ground Hog Day. It's the same day, day after day. I believe it was 2004 when we last saw a home playoff. This hockey natives are getting restless."
If Scott Sandelin was in the private sector, he would have been fired 3 years ago.
Over on the Penalty Box site there still saying "give him one more year". They've been saying that for 3 years now! |
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79401 - Sun Mar 8 18:18:46 2009 - [# of Homos in U.S. indicates decline] By: Anonymous |
I wonder what our openly gay councilor Jeff Anderson thinks about this article?
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090304/ap_on_re_eu/eu_russia_us_the_end_is_near |
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79400 - Sun Mar 8 18:00:45 2009 - [Protect selves from tyrannical regime] By: Eye4anEye |
The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government.
Thomas Jefferson |
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79399 - Sun Mar 8 17:33:25 2009 - [Tune out Dems rhetoric, get the facts] By: Numbers Cruncher |
Add Numbers Crunching to your favorites and keep informed so you can be aware and possibly prepared for the future.
http://numberscruncher.blogspot.com/
Check out Jim Rogers, The US Government is Ignoring Histroy.
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79398 - Sun Mar 8 17:29:20 2009 - [The Democratic Creed, sad but oh so true] By: Pitt Street Panther |
THE DEMOCRAT CREED
I'm a 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..
I'm a Democrat because I love the fact that I can now marry whatever I want.. I've decided to marry my horse.
I'm a 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.
I'm a Democrat because I believe the government will do a better job of spending the money I earn than I would.
I'm a Democrat because freedom of speech is fine as long as nobody is offended by it.
I'm a Democrat because when we pull out of Iraq I trust that the bad guys will stop what they're doing because they now think we're good people.
I'm a 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.
I'm a Democrat because I'm not concerned about the slaughter of millions of babies, so long as we keep all death row inmates alive.
I'm a 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 THEY see fit.
I'm a 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.
I'm a Democrat because my head is so firmly planted up my own rear, it's unlikely that I'll ever have another point of view.
"A Liberal is a person who will give away everything that they don't own."
---Author Unknown
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79397 - Sun Mar 8 15:49:34 2009 - [Welcome to USSA] By: I C RED PEOPLE |
Socialism is any form of government that takes control of various industries away from the private sector.
The DFL in Northern MN has accomplished this. Fish tanks, ski hills, tourism industry, the train for the Canal Park Cartel, and you name it.
Bush and Obama are doing it with the US banks and industry.
Welcome the the United Socialst States of America.
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79396 - Sun Mar 8 09:44:24 2009 - [DFL Duluth Tearjerk] By: LIB Reader Online |
Right out of the DFL Kool-Aid Playbook they are trying to make you feel bad for the kids as the city just keeps paying for the best wages, healthcare and benefit packages in the area. You can only wonder what tearjerk propaganda is next.
While the entire world is laying off millions and millions of people, DFL city of Duluth is adding employees and raising every tax and fee it can on everyone it can. The DLFers are either denying reality or the most ignorant people at the helm since Captain Edward Smith sunk the Titanic.
The DFL is why we must go green and read the LIB online for free saving our money, energy and the trees.
By the way, did anybody bother to mention how many fewer children there are in Duluth in the last 30 years? Not the DFL.
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Duluth News Tribune
Published March 08 2009
Duluth's budget crisis puts parks in peril
As the city of Duluth shifts direction, parks maintenance will suffer, city youth programs will end and recreation centers will sit dormant.
By: Candace Renalls, Duluth News Tribune
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Summer is the reason many of us live in Duluth.
But for many, summer 2009 won’t be the same with some closed community centers, the elimination of city youth programs and unkempt parks.
For decades, parents have counted on free programs at the city’s community recreation centers to provide safe, structured activities for kids during summer vacation. This year, the city will provide no summer youth programs — no arts and crafts, games or sports — at its community recreation centers.
“Without the program, a lot of people are going to be leaving their children more on their own,” said parent Erin Pike of Duluth. “Having nowhere for the kids to go could be very dangerous.”
Upkeep of city parks and playgrounds also will suffer, with about one-fifth of last year’s staff to mow, pick up trash and clean restrooms. However, Mayor Don Ness said more effort will go into the most-used parks.
Cuts last year to offset the city’s $6.5 million budget shortfall gutted the city’s Parks and Recreation Department, including the layoff of 53 temporary employees and five out of six full-time recreation specialists who managed the city’s community centers and ran youth programs.
“It’s not possible to do summer programming the way it was done, but certainly it’s possible to do it in a new way,” said Kathy Bergen, director of parks and recreation. “We’re working on that.”
Now, grappling with another $5 million deficit for 2009, the city has no plans to restore the recreation specialist jobs, nor increase its parks and recreation staff, Bergen said.
That means a tough summer for Pike, who for three summers has depended on the children’s activities at Portman Community Center to keep her two children occupied while she worked as a hairdresser.
“I used it every day they were open,” she said. “I dropped them off before work and picked them up afterwards, or they would walk to my mother’s house three blocks away. I used it for child care.”
She’s looking for another summer program for her children but is finding many are already full.
“I have to find somewhere for them to go that’s not too expensive,” she said.
Meanwhile, the city is seeking nonprofit organizations that work with children to offer summer youth programming at some community centers.
“We have many organizations that provide services for our youth, and they do it very well,” Ness said. ”Does it make sense to have city programs blocks away from a nonprofit that’s delivering essentially the same services?”
The YMCA is among the nonprofits the city is courting.
“We’ve been certainly talking about it,” Jeff Palmer, director of the YMCA of Duluth, said last week. “We already provide a lot of programs for kids, so at this point we’ve just talked about possibilities. That’s where we’re at. There’s nothing for sure.”
Meanwhile Grant Community School Collaborative, another nonprofit, already has filled the gap at Grant Community Center. It has offered programs at the center since last fall and will increase its offerings this summer.
Shift to volunteers
Last summer, 45 temporary employees worked in park maintenance.
This year, the city might not hire anyone.
Instead the city is seeking volunteers to fill the void. To that end, it has launched True North Volunteer Center, www.true northvolunteer.org, to connect volunteers with tasks to be done.
But even a large contingent of volunteers isn’t likely to replace the 45 summer workers the city employed last year to mow grass, pick up trash, plant flowers, clean up graffiti, repair trails and clean park restrooms.
“At this point, parks, playgrounds and trails will be available to people, but what condition they’re in is yet to be determined,” said Tom Kasper, the city’s lead parks maintenance worker.
Besides budgetary constraints, collective bargaining agreements prevent the city from hiring temporary summer workers, said Terry Groshong, city architect and facility manager.
“Because we’ve had layoffs, we have to bring them back before we can hire temps,” he said.
A staff of 12?
Without temporary, seasonal workers, 12 full-time employees will be left to maintain the city’s 107 parks, which span almost 12,000 acres, Kasper said.
“To what extent 12 can do it, that’s the question,” he said.
Kasper said some park areas will be mowed just twice or not at all. In the past, the city had 12 to 15 people mowing; this year they’ll have three or four.
The city’s parks maintenance division has long relied heavily on volunteer labor, from garden clubs tending to community gardens to the annual Clean and Green spring cleanup. Last year, volunteers put in a total of 14,000 hours, the equivalent of seven full-time employees, Kasper said.
But it would take a whole lot more to fill the staffing gap,
“If "volunteer time
was doubled in 2009, that would significantly help,” Kasper said. “It won’t replace experienced labor in all cases, but it will help.”
The city also is exploring getting some business districts to handle their own garbage and getting Duluth firefighters to help with park cleanup during their down times, Kasper said.
Changing direction
The greater reliance on volunteers and community partnerships isn’t just a temporary fix.
“It’s the direction we have taken, given the restraints we have today and will likely have five, 10 years down the road,” Ness said.
Signs of the city’s changing direction came last fall when the Chester Park Improvement Club stepped up to keep the winter ski program going at Chester Bowl. When the city reduced the number of outdoor pleasure skating rinks it maintains from 12 to the one at Bayfront Festival Park, volunteers stepped up to keep many of the playground rinks open.
City-run youth programs aren’t likely to be reinstated at community centers, Ness said. He plans to close a third of the community recreation centers and put the city’s priority on managing and maintaining its parks and facilities.
The city is working to determine which services to provide, what community partnerships are possible and each building’s condition.
“A lot of these buildings are old, antiquated and outlived their useful life,” Groshong said. “The plan is not to start shutting things down and force people to go from one bad building to another.”
So far, no community center has permanently closed, though some buildings are not being used and have been emptied out, Groshong said.
“The public shouldn’t be panic-stricken,” Groshong said. “We’re planning for the future. The actual closure, consolidation and replacement of any of the buildings is two years out.”
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79395 - Sun Mar 8 03:08:47 2009 - [Sad, pathetic, embarrassing, Sheez] By: mons veneris |
| Wideload , a.k.a "C", I know my name, Exercising my Big Mouth etc... why don't YOU give it up. Why would any business want to move to a city when a small % of its residents use multiple handles on a message board to talk trash about entrepreneurs, business men, philanthropists, veterans, the disabled, homeless people, minorities, and even private citizens? Oh yeah, the "watch" and other so called "progressives" really help Duluth attract new businesses and expand it tax base, doesn't it? NOT. Makes Duluthians look like a bunch of red brigade yahoos, who do nothing but sit at their computers at the cafe in their dirty pants, ranting and railing against everything b/c they have no real purpose in this city other than to spread their communist vitriol. Sad. Pathetic. Embarrassing. Sheez |
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79393 - Sat Mar 7 19:47:17 2009 - [Progressive Chavez Connections] By: Web Hound |
Mons V, I bet the Progressive DFLer's are looking forward to following the Venezuelan model. BTW, interesting name Mons.
READ
Chavez Urges Obama to Turn to Socialism
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez gleefully declared Friday that President Obama may have no choice but to turn to socialism because capitalism in America has "failed."
In a plea evoking Darth Vader's attempt to turn Luke Skywalker to the dark side, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez on Friday urged President Obama to join the socialist movement.
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/first100days/2009/03/07/chavez-urges-obama-adopt-socialism/ |
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79392 - Sat Mar 7 19:41:37 2009 - [Obama is Bush on Steroids] By: Numbers Cruncher |
Read the latest on the Numbers Cruncher and watch the video, With Obama we are getting Bush on Steroids (near the bottom).
http://numberscruncher.blogspot.com/ |
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79391 - Sat Mar 7 19:17:49 2009 - [DFL doesn't represent the working man] By: mons veneris |
Starfire you make some very good points. About that Boil candidate from across the bay. That Boil needs to be lanced. A Boil such as that if left untreated will fester, spread and eventually emit an unpleasant puss like smell much like other so called "progressive" DFL'ers. Minnesota supposedly has excellent health care, lets put it to good use.
It's a sad day in America when people like "C" represent the so called "working man" , the days of the Democratic party representing the working man are long gone. The DFL has been taken over by progreesive subversives and other so called "activists" who's main objective is to overturn this great country. Think about this, honorable individuals such as Hubert Humphrey once were the embodiment of the DFL. Look whats it's turned into, mentally diseased transients such as wideload now control and manipulate the party for their own narcisstic needs. People like that do nothing but blog away at cafes with their fat little fingers, writing nothing but blog after blog of literary tripe. So sad for Duluth, so sad for Minnesota, so sad for the United States. |
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79390 - Sat Mar 7 18:32:59 2009 - [Shut down Mariner Mall, its dead] By: jthyme |
| I just got back from Soup Town.....Had to get me one of them delicious Charcheez burgers at Aces but before I went there I stopped at the ghost town of a mall called Mariner. WOW....it's gotta be a couple of years since I've been there and I saw nothing but empty space! What a waste there! Hardly anybody shopping at all but what's there to shop for there anyway? I wonder why it's still open? Close it up, blow it up, and build a cool family attraction like they have near St. Cloud. Swimming pool, batting cages, and a mini go-cart track. I'd take my family there. We love stopping at the one near St. Cloud. |
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79389 - Sat Mar 7 17:11:26 2009 - [Hockey natives getting restless] By: Bob |
| UMD hockey is like the movie Ground Hog Day. It's the same day, day after day. I believe it was 2004 when we last saw a home playoff. This hockey natives are getting restless. |
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79388 - Sat Mar 7 15:19:21 2009 - [Sandelin to be canned at season's end?] By: jthyme |
| I'm in complete agreement, Happy Gilmore. In fact, I've been saying since December that I think Sandelin will be canned at the end of the season. I know some hardcore Dog fans who disagree with me and think he'll be around another year but once again I will be proven right and they will be proven wrong. |
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79387 - Sat Mar 7 14:58:52 2009 - [Beat by an Ugly Stick is new face of DFL] By: mons veneris |
It's sad, at the "watch" , best-written comments are the ones they've stolen from other blogs and altered. It's too bad the plagiarists at the "watch" don't have the imaginations to think up something clever and cutting themselves, so they have to steal other people's writings and alter them. Sad and pathetic. But, then, I guess imitation indeed is the sincerest form of flattery for wanna be writers who are so full of themselves that they have lost touch with reality. So sad. "It" is in serious need of political reprogramming.
STARFIRE: mons veneris, we should pay close attention to any candidate being pimped now and in the future by such whack jobs like "C". If I am not mistaken, Deb T was being pimped by "C" and I have to believe that she has come to understand that this endorsement sealed her fate. Lets see how many others "C" and her fringe group of nut jobs can manage to sink. Aren't they pimping that millionaire DFLer transient from across the bridge, Boil, too? He surely has enough shekels to buy himself an elected spot here in DFL Duluth. This group, The DFL Duluth millionaires club, is really too much. Isn't this the former party of the "working man"? Just imagine, "C" is now the face of the DFL party. |
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79386 - Sat Mar 7 12:26:34 2009 - [Time to go coach high school somewhere] By: Happy Gilmore |
Sorry, guys, but I gotta vent.
UMD Hockey has great talent. They were in a position to get home ice advantage in the WCHA for this first time in several years, six I think. They're ranked 13th in the hockey rankings which plays into a NCAA bid. They're playing the 9th place team (Anchorage) at home in the last series of the weekend.
And what do they do? Lay an absolute egg. If you cannot motivate your players to cover a 2 goal lead on the last series of the year against a 9th place team, there's only one place to look. And that's Sandelin. It's time for Sandelin to go. These are his recruits, this is his team, and it ain't working. Time to go coach high school somewhere, Sandelin. This is D1 hockey and it just ain't working. |
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79385 - Sat Mar 7 12:21:48 2009 - [DFL Duluth Retiree Ponzi Scheme] By: Cyrus the Virus |
| Numbers Cruncher speaking of ponzi schemes that's exactly what the City of Duluth retiree situation is. It's only a matter of time when there will not be the money to be everything to everybody. In the meantime the condition of DFL Duluth will continue to deteriorate. |
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79384 - Sat Mar 7 09:57:58 2009 - [A leap over a very large cavern or hole] By: NewsTribune |
http://www.duluthnewstribune.com/event/article/id/114290/
Published March 07 2009
Duluth News Tribune
A Duluth promoter took radio executives to conciliation court Friday claiming their dropping of his ordered commercials promoting a Lucinda Williams concert last November resulted in poor ticket sales and forced him to cancel the show, costing him thousands of dollars.
Craig Samborski, president of Secret Service Concerts & Entertainment, filed a claim for $7,500 against Midwest Communications, parent company of KDAL-FM 95.7. The station markets itself as “The Bridge.”
Samborski said the decision to cancel the concert was made solely because the radio station, “through gross negligence,’’ failed to run any of the paid advertising he had placed with it.
Ron Stone, market manager for Midwest Communications in Duluth, acknowledged to the court that the station made a mistake when it ran commercials promoting Mason Jennings instead of Lucinda Williams. But he said the station tried to make it right by offering to run the10 commercials Samborski ordered and schedule an additional 10 free spots. The station also ran more than 140 free promotional spots, radio executives said.
Samborski told Judge Mark Munger that he had sold only 306 tickets for Williams’ concert, which was to be held at the DECC Auditorium on Nov. 6. The venue holds 2,322.
Munger told the parties that he liked the artistry of Williams, named “America’s best songwriter” in 2002 by Time magazine.
Munger hinted that the court might have some difficulty believing that having 10 commercials dropped from radio was the reason for the sluggish ticket sales.
The judge said it would take a “leap over a very large cavern or hole’’ to reach a legal conclusion that the lack of radio advertising and lack of ticket sales were connected.
Samborski said the cancellation cost him between $14,000 and $15,000. He said he wrote a check to Williams for $10,000 for the cancellation.
Midwest Communications of Green Bay has filed a counter claim against Samborski. The broadcast group seeks $1,856.93 for radio spots it ran for the promoter in April, May, October and November of 2008.
Munger took the case under advisement and told the parties he would be issuing a written decision.
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79383 - Sat Mar 7 00:22:36 2009 - [World's largest ponzi scheme] By: Numbers Cruncher |
Listen to the world's largest ponzi scheme on the The Numbers Cruncher: Where the numbers don’t lie like politicians do.
http://numberscruncher.blogspot.com/ |
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79382 - Fri Mar 6 23:10:22 2009 - [Here you go Cynic] By: ronpaulguy |
Here you go Cynic
http://www.zazzle.com/nobama+bumperstickers?pg=2
You may find what you need here. I have a list a mile long of bumberstickers that I would like to put on my car. I already bought a couple from there. They come to you home in a few days.
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79381 - Fri Mar 6 21:06:43 2009 - [You get what you give] By: mikr e |
Marie K. perhaps you could look at the freedom of speech you are objecting to as the works of a universal law. This is the law that demands that sooner or later people everywhere have to experience what they dish out to others. The sayings: 'you get what you give,' 'what goes around comes around' and 'whatever you do comes back to you' illustrate this natural law.
There have been some questionable policies, practices and people running our city and local government for awhile now. Many citizens simply do not feel that they have been dealt a fair hand.
Eventually everything changes. In Duluth, it's about time regular citizens can hear and speak out about what's been happening. The First Amendment does not need to be modified, people need to know the truth. You are right about one thing though, this city's leadership should take a stand. They need to stand up for all of the citizens who work hard to live here. They need to stand up against any deception, corruption or unfairness they see in our city. Citizens deserve to be told the honest truth and then treated with justice and equality. After all, isn't that what America is supposed to be all about? |
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79380 - Fri Mar 6 20:05:08 2009 - [Once there, you never go back] By: Dead Inside |
| Once you go neocon you never go back. |
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79379 - Fri Mar 6 20:03:40 2009 - [Anyone from here have the NOBAMA?] By: Cynic |
Speaking of NOBAMA I saw a bumper sticker on a guys pickup back window that said exactly that. It had that red circle with a line through the O. I'm going to look for one of those for my truck. It was an older black truck.....anyone from here?
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79378 - Fri Mar 6 19:47:32 2009 - [No more...NOBAMA] By: Larry C. |
| I regret my support and vote for our current president. Please forgive me. I should have listened to the neocons who said this guy was a socialist. It has taken my personal portfolio down almost 37% since he took over as president. I will now go from a moderate to a conservative without question. It has only taken 45 days. Again, I'm sorry. Even at our local level I will now support conservatives. Changing from a moderate to a neocon feels good. No more...NOBAMA |
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79377 - Fri Mar 6 17:36:05 2009 - [Is Goodwill AFSCME?] By: Cynic |
| Gee the last two times I was in Goodwill there was Netland. The poor guy must be broke. |
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79376 - Fri Mar 6 17:15:51 2009 - [Good old days are over] By: Cynic |
| I've got an old add I found in the wall. At the Skyline drive-in you had James Stewart in "Guy With a Grin" and William Holden in "A Girl for Joe" and how about Humphrey Bogard in "The Caine Mutiny".........at the Doric you had Danny Kaye in "Knock on Wood".....at the West Robert Mitchum in "River of No Return".......at the Lyceum two hits "House of Wax" and Back to God's Country" Ahhhhh the good old days. |
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79375 - Fri Mar 6 16:23:37 2009 - [AFSCME dues pay for obscene salaries ] By: AFSCME Member |
| I don't blame that gal for being mad. All the money we pay and for what! In the end the dues go to $100,000 plus salaries of Netland, Lofler-Kemp and Lehto. It's just plain wrong and we don't have a say in the matter. |
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79374 - Fri Mar 6 15:41:40 2009 - [Claire attacks DNT, then pimps DDT] By: Marie K |
A number of Duluthians, including two outstanding Progressive women, Deb T and I have become increasingly concerned with the anti-Duluth, anti-Duluthian sentiments voiced ad nauseum on my Watch blog and how it's affecting perceptions of Duluth beyond the city limits. It's about time the DFL leadership in this city -- or even councilors Gardner, Cuneo, Anderson and Gilbert, who are Duluth's heroes -- took a public stand against this blog that has no agenda beyond trashing this city and its elected representatives, slandering local residents with vicious personal attacks, and advocating boycotts against local businesses for no good reason. Free speech is free speech, but with free speech comes with control and censorship. The First Amendment must be modified as we all have a responsibility to build up our community, not tear it down in front of the world that’s why I’m supporting Deb T in District 1 for council.
TONY R: “C”, what evidence of boycotts other than yours in a posted Progressive email thread regarding the Duluth News Tribune do you have? What evidence of anything do you have? Go back under your rock and please STFU.
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79373 - Fri Mar 6 13:09:47 2009 - [Norshor hardly empty before stripclub] By: larry |
It should be pointed out-- the Norshor was hardly empty for twenty years before it became a stripclub. When I moved here in 2002, it was a bar and music venue and occasional movie theatre. It stayed this way for the next five or six years (with occasional interruptions due to fire-code violations).
Eric Ringsred owns the Norshor. His thing is buying buildings and letting them fall into disrepair. The Norshor is a beautiful building and could be so much more than what it is... it's disgraceful, what he's let happen to it.
There's nothing to do about it, I guess. It's his building. He can turn it into a firetrap stripclub with homeless people living in tunnels if he likes. But I feel bitter every time I drive by it.
Oh well.
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79372 - Fri Mar 6 12:48:16 2009 - [Tears & Trouble in AFSCMEville] By: Me |
Are you sheddng tears for AFSCME. I'm not. From Stahlalinki's Buzz.
http://www.duluthnewstribune.com/pages/buzz
Another laid off employee speaks out
One of the interesting angles on the city settlement story is how some of the laid off employees aren't too happy with it. Former recreation specialist Erin Bates has already gone on record saying, among other things, that it's "awful" and told me that she yelled so much at union leader Ken Loeffler Kemp Tuesday night when he was sharing the news that he started crying.
Another unhappy laid-off employee is James Sauls, who started with the city 12 years ago as a library janitor and worked his way up to building maintenence before being laid off in September. He has since done odd-jobs as he's looked for permanent work and worries that he'll to leave Duluth to do so. He calls the settlement "ludicrous" and says he's absolutely livid with it.
Why? Because the deal would mean that he'd have to start at an entry level position and salary again, something he doesn't want to return to.
"I've already worked my way up," he said. "It's humiliating to be honest with you."
When he was laid off last year, he said his position -- which he called a jack-of-all-trades -- was eliminated. But it has since been re-opened so that one of the laid-off/cut zookeepers (who has more seniority) can fill that post.
Sauls says he reads the blogs and knows the union has a bad reputation, but said in this case, "the union isn't helping us."
"It's hurting us by not pursuing this lawsuit," he said.
That lawsuit was filed last year by the union claiming the city violated the contract by laying off all of the temp workers before axing the full-timers.
"It was a blatant breach our contract," he said.
Sauls said he's complained, but has been told by the union that he's no longer an employee and doesn't have rights. He counters by saying he has recall rights. He said he's been a loyal union member and city employee but didn't get the same loyalty and treatment in return.
"I was never called and given an update on the settlement," he said. "We were never informed of anything as far as the arbitration goes."
This post isn't meant to agree or disagree with his position, but simply to lay it out there and to provide the take one of the 20-or-so laid off employees on the layoffs.
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79371 - Fri Mar 6 12:45:09 2009 - [Build it, they will come, they are here] By: Cynic |
| The more free or next to free housing you provide the more they will come. |
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79370 - Fri Mar 6 11:54:31 2009 - [DFL Duluth unemployment higher yet] By: Web Hound |
How pathetic is DFL Duluth? Try about 20% WORSE than the national unemployment.
Check this out! When Big Government Attacks
http://freedomdogs.com/news-archive-mainmenu-2/budget/3657-when-big-government-attacks.html |
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79368 - Fri Mar 6 11:38:27 2009 - [Nice site to stick right in DFLers face] By: Tara |
| Nice site Numbers Cruncher. :) |
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79367 - Fri Mar 6 10:53:33 2009 - [Put the shoe on the other foot] By: I C RED PEOPLE |
| SSSHHH...T, there's never enough money for the DFL. Never! Do all you can to not support them but buying elsewhere, paying taxes elsewhere, and living elsewhere if you can. Start screwing the DFL who has screwed us all for way too long. |
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079366 - Fri Mar 6 09:07:33 2009 - [Citizens always get it shoved up or down] By: SSSHHH...T |
| Regarding the "Cellar Dwellers" Perhaps we should be wondering why in this day and age we have people living in crawl spaces of buildings.Deadbeats or not-With All the money we have thrown at homelessness this should not be happening.Mayor Ness should be asking why? Instead of giving the owner shit.Just another business man being persecuted by the Morality Police and Administration in this City. This building has been empty for 20 years and now it's on the tax roles.At least this guy isn't one of the 5 Developers asking the city for loans that will never be paid back.It pisses me off that we have spent millions of tax dollars on bullshit housing programs but continue to have the same problems we have always had.It doesn't matter if your Right or Left we citizens always get it shoved up or down, the middle! |
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