Many of us have been wondering throughout this long run-up to the Democratic presidential primaries: what’s not to like about Dennis Kucinich? There’s no doubt he’s the strongest peace candidate in the running. His health care platform cuts the rug out from under all the insurance companies. He pledges free medical care for everybody. Don’t like NAFTA? Under Dennis, it’s toast. Kucinich isn’t afraid of anybody, and he rips into his fellow candidates with vigor at every opportunity. He tells it like it is.
So when the Ohio Congressman was asked during a televised debate in Philadelphia Tuesday night if it was true that he’d seen a UFO, Kucinich said yes.
In the same “debate,” Barack Obama was asked what he was going to be for Halloween. He couldn’t come up with an answer. Hillary Clinton was unable to say whether she was for or against drivers licenses for illegal aliens in her home state of New York.
It’s easy to picture Kucinich dressed up like a President in the Oval Office, receiving space aliens on Halloween two years from now. Instead of saying “Trick or Treat,” they say “take me to your leader.”

Posted by Repur at 08:18 PM | Permalink | 5 comments, last by Brian
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Posted by Repur at 07:17 PM | Permalink | 4 comments, last by Zac Bentz
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Celebrate Day of the Dead

Posted by eclectic_poly_pair at 04:44 PM | Permalink | 2 comments, last by eclectic_poly_pair
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Posted by in.dog.neato at 04:00 PM | Permalink | 2 comments, last by d.mauling
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KIRSTEN DIERKING BOOK LAUNCH PARTY
Spout Press will celebrate the publication of St. Paul poet Kirsten Dierking's second collection of poems, Northern Oracle, with a launch party and reading at the Rogue Buddha art gallery, on Thursday, November 29, at 7 pm. The Rogue Buddha is located at 357 13th Avenue NE, Minneapolis. 55413.
Telephone: (612) 331-3889.

In Northern Oracle, Dierking draws upon her Finnish/Sami heritage to contemplate the connections between human beings, animals, and nature.

Kirsten Dierking is also the author of One Red Eye (Holy Cow! Press, 2001). She has contributed poems to such critically acclaimed anthologies as To Sing Along the Way: Minnesota Women Poets from Pre-Territorial Days to the Present (New Rivers Press) and Saunas: A Collection of Works Mostly in English by Finnish-Canadians, Finnish-Americans, and Finns (OTSA Press).

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You can make your own 18x24 painting at our November 10 Bob Ross Workshop. We'll get it "publisher-ready" and make it into a set of Xmas cards with your own custom message for the Holidays. See the details here

Posted by Duarde at 10:55 AM | Permalink | 3 comments, last by zra...
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The car is a 1959 Lincoln Mark IV, a 19 foot 2 ton behemoth,. He is converting it to battery power with biodeisel backup. He intends to drive it to it's birthplace in Detroit to demonstate the viability of electric cars.
Also Clipper Windpower of Carpteria Calif. announced today of plans to build the largest windfarm in the world in South Dakota. At a cost of six billion dollars it will have a capacity of 6000 megawatts, enough to power 1.6 millon homes.

Posted by Frank at 06:56 PM | Permalink | 4 comments, last by pistoffnick
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Pass me the Quisp and milk please.

Posted by Kitty Brand at 04:10 PM | Permalink | 1 comment by Bad Cat!
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censorship and fake press conferences.

(Still) Muzzling the Climate Scientists

"I Should Have Cancelled" Fake FEMA Press Briefing

Posted by d.mauling at 10:18 AM | Permalink | 6 comments, last by adam
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Posted by Starfire at 08:31 AM | Permalink | 39 comments, last by anarchy
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The Lake Avenue Cafe (in the Dewitt-Seitz Building in Canal Park) is having a great special tonight. Spaghetti & Meatballs for $14.95 soup or salad included.

The Lake Avenue Cafe has catered to duluthians for over 17 years.

All of the items on the menu are made from scratch. Turkeys are baked, Pesto pulverized, and all of the soups lovingly created.

Enjoy the myriad of entrees including many dishes for vegetarians (Ratatouille, Garden Salad, Spinach Salad, Greektown Salad, Black Bean Burrito, Vegetable Enchilada, Falafel Burger or Platter and many types of pastas featuring the vegan Red sauce or from-scratch Pesto).

Posted by mevdev at 10:50 AM | Permalink | 9 comments, last by edgeways
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I'm on the Interwebs! See me tell you why I like Donny Ness for Mayor.

Posted by Starfire at 08:46 AM | Permalink | 14 comments, last by adam
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...you know you want to...or at least discuss our organ. But really, as a benefit to humankind, and other interested parties, Tangier 57 is proud to announce it's new ORGAN FORUM. Always wanted to show off your organ? Have a great aunt who plays "In the shadow of your smile" on her organ? Well now is the time! HERE is the place.

Posted by baci at 07:54 PM | Permalink | 3 comments, last by HammondB3(the real thing)
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Posted by adam at 02:52 PM | Permalink | 2 comments, last by Shaun
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Fox Sports' coverage of the World Series is bad enough to make a lifelong baseball fan give up on the game. To begin with, Tim McCarver and Joe Buck suck. Oh, but they dress so well. They look like mannequins inn a department store window. You'd never know McCarver played in the major leagues. His analysis is so pathetic, and he never has an interesting anecdote from his playing days to share. He must not have had any friends as a ballplayer and it's easy to see why. He has this professorial, didactic air about him, talking down to the viewers as if he had insight instead of his Blinding Flash of the Obvious repeated over and over again. McCarver racks his simple brain to comd up with a pun, and then he hammers you over the head with it by using an affected voioce to emphasize his (dim) wit. His patronizing, lecturing tone is so annoying I can't stand it. His sidekick, Joe Buck, does not hold a candle to his father, Jack Buck, who was a genuinely fine play-by-play guy. It's clear to me that Joe pulled a lot of strings and dropped daddy's name to all the networks in order to get his mitts on a microphone. He is bland, blase, conceited, boring, supercilious, one dimensional and phony. Teamed with McCarver, they are truly the worst thing about the best sport. Don't get me started about Fox' tactic of using goofy sound affects to accompany their visual graphics and the way they cleverly show a slo-mo replay after EVERY SINGLE PITCH so McCarver can say he told us so. Does anyone else think this Fox baseball coverage is the worst ever?

Posted by Repur at 09:04 AM | Permalink | 15 comments, last by c-freak
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Renee had a photography class at the university. From time to time, we had to go around looking for things to take pictures of. If the natural scenery wasn’t enough, we would go get Barrett. He was always good for high jinks.

“How about we make a sign that says ‘No leapfrog,’ and then we leapfrog in front of it?” he would suggest. None of us had a computer, so what seemed like a simple idea required going to the store for a big black marker and spending a half hour on careful letter work.

Sometimes it was easy though. “Take this stick and climb up here with me. On guard!”

There’s no telling how many different photos from this set are in an attic somewhere or were thrown away long ago. There are only two I have copies of, so there are only two I remember — keepsakes from our staged fun.

Posted by Paul Lundgren at 03:32 PM | Permalink | 7 comments, last by Barrett
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A chunky, 50-ish woman at the Hammond:

"A few years ago I went to Kmart and got a white T-shirt. I brought it home, and then I cut off the sleeves and the collar, and I cropped the bottom of it up real high. Then I went on the internet and copied the Hooter's logo -- you know, the one with the owl? I made an iron-on out of that, but I made it so that it said 'retired' underneath."

"Then I got some of those nipples that go on baby bottles, and I glued them to my bra. My husband said I should have cut off some of my hair and glued it to my crotch area ... that way I'd be a real blonde!"

Posted by Barrett at 01:21 AM | Permalink | 2 comments, last by Girl From the North Country
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New canoe pack? Hiking Boots? Hennessey Hammock?

not.

Rumor has it that synthoclassical supergroup Mannheim Steamroller will be playing the DECC soon. (tix go on sale on the 7th of Dec.).

hell yeah.

Posted by in.dog.neato at 10:37 PM | Permalink | 7 comments, last by zra...
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Come buy some books and watch some sweet bands! This was listed in The Wave as being held at Kighle's House, but has been relocated!

Listen to The Wayward
Listen to Buildings
Listen to The Nina The Pinta

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Posted by adam at 03:36 PM | Permalink | 4 comments, last by jill
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTLj_3R0-2g&eurl

I'm particularly fond of pink nibbed guy, and his sweet words: Dear, use me while having in sex.

Posted by Girl From the North Country at 12:17 PM | Permalink | 2 comments, last by kyanize
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They played Luce last st. pattys day, they put on a high energy show, check it out.

...the Kissers, a young five-piece Irish band from, of all places, Madison, Wis., put across a set of dynamic Celtic-influenced rock. Led by singer-bassist Ken Fitzsimmons, whose lyrical earnestness (in keeping with Irish tradition he writes serious songs about love and war) couldn't dampen the fun of the music... (The Washington Post, Oct. 31, 2005
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They have some songs on their website, check it out...The Kissers

Posted by Bully at 11:47 AM | Permalink | 7 comments, last by d.mauling
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The mayoral forum at UMD last night proved three things...
1. Don Ness has an incredible grasp on his views and plans for the city of Duluth.
2. Charlie Bell is much less professional in his responses.
2 1/2. Charlie Bell used his response to the "What is your weakness as a politician?" response to save face for the "priority" remark made on Fox last month.
3. One UMD student seems to have way too much interest in the parking/housing issue, asking the same question to both the council and mayoral candidates, THEN asking the question a third time claiming that he hasn't heard an appropriate answer yet.

Ooooh, politics.

Posted by shoes at 10:29 AM | Permalink | 4 comments, last by pistoffnick
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I would like to thank the people who helped me with my request for information on cedit cards and what a http is. I went to my credit union and got a visa card from them at 9% with no annual fee and cash advance capibility at the same rate. Again thanks for the help. As far as learning how to post pictures, I'm still at a loss. I am on both photobucket and image shack but can't figure out how to attach the http to individual pictures . If any body out there would like to help I would trade one of my lift bridge pictures for a tutorial. You can get my phone number from Blaize or Hot Rod Or Rich Boo.

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with apologies to Laurie for using the clip from "America's Got Talent."

Posted by tamara at 09:06 PM | Permalink | 6 comments, last by codger
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Lake County DAC Fall Festival and Sale
Friday October 26th 1 - 6 pm
204 Central Avenue Knife River
Featuring Hand Woven rugs and homemade paper
Come for the fun: Music by local artists, door prizes, bake sale, silent auction, games
4th grade poster contest participants on "How I Recycle" on display
204 Central Avenue Knife River (old school house)

Posted by heysme at 07:04 PM | Permalink | 6 comments, last by heysme
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Live music tonight @ UMD:

Romantica
9pm-- UMD Rafters
That's the 3rd floor of the Kirby Student Center
(where the DTA busses usually load)

Free to UMD Students w/U-Card
$5 Everyone else

Come to this. They are fantastic.

www.romanticamusic.com

Posted by BWard at 01:50 PM | Permalink | 6 comments, last by Gwanto
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So, my mom had me look up some Powerball numbers for her this morning. Pretty stupid, right?

After obsessing over my awesome fantasy football team for an hour or so I got down to business.

Turns out that matching two numbers doesn't win you shit, but I got really interested in why the odds of winning the $3 prize (only matching the Powerball) are 1:68.96 instead of 1:42 and clicked on the handy little FAQ link.

The answers I got, to questions I never had and probably never will, kept me laughing for about 15 minutes. Not that the Powerball site's FAQ is all that funny, but it's just WAY more flippant and sarcastic than I was expecting (like, I think someone who might actually be fun to hang out with came up with this) .

A sample:

WHICH HAS THE BETTER CHANCE OF WINNING: COMPUTER PICKS OR PLAYER PICKS?

About 70% to 80% of purchases are computer picks. About 70% to 80% of winners are computer picks. Perhaps just one of those weird coincidences?

No, actually, fuck that. The Powerball site's FAQ is funny.

Here's another FAQ heading:

HOW COME THE ONLY JACKPOT WINNERS ARE FROM THE [EAST - WEST - NORTH - SOUTH - CITIES - RURAL AREAS]?
HOW COME ONLY [WHITE, BLACK, TALL, SKINNY, YOUNG, OLD] PEOPLE WIN?

I imagine the person who put the FAQ together got really annoyed by all the emails complaining about all the damn coloreds that keep winnin' the powerballs an' why in the heyll is this? Some damned northern cunspeersy, probly.

Old folks too. They're always winning this frickin' thing!

Here's the link.

Posted by Mark at 11:17 AM | Permalink | 4 comments, last by Mary
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I am looking for a free program that can edit MP3's. I basically just want to cut some parts of a song out and have a workable 30 second snippet. I thought that with all the music and tech savvy people on here, that someone might have some ideas. I realize I could probably Google it but would prefer to get some input on what works the best.

Posted by Chris at 08:16 PM | Permalink | 4 comments, last by prolix
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A recent survey in Travel and Leisure Magazine has named Philadelphia the "Least Attractive" city in the U.S.

According to the article, in addition to being the "Least Attractive," Philly is also among the least stylish, least active, least friendly and least worldly.

Ouch.

Posted by in.dog.neato at 05:01 PM | Permalink | 4 comments, last by tdm
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Mega Faun
w/
Canine Heart Sounds
Equal Xchange

This show is unparalleled in terms of artistic quality.
only 4$
At Beaners Central
8pm

Its a Tuesday, what else are you doing?

Posted by d.mauling at 02:33 PM | Permalink | 2 comments, last by Barrett
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The Program for Aid to Victims of Sexual Assault (PAVSA) will host the 27th Annual Art Auction this fall featuring all new, original artwork, fine foods, two cash bars, and live entertainment. All of the proceeds will directly help fund support services to victims of sexual assault and PAVSA’s mission to end sexual violence in the Northland.

Where: Holiday Inn Great Lakes Ballroom
When: Saturday, November 10, 2007

Doors Open at 5pm
Silent Auction 5:30-7pm
Dessert/Live Auction 7:30-8:30pm
Exquisite Gourmet Appetizers: All Evening

Live music performed by Sterling Waters

Admission Tickets: $45.00 ($22.50 tax deductible)
To Purchase Tickets: Call 218-726-1442

Visit www.pavsa.org for up to date auction items available

PAVSA has worked with and provided critical services to victims and survivors of sexual assault for over 31 years. PAVSA operates a 24-hour crisis line and maintains a full time staff as well as approximately 40 volunteer advocates who, together, guarantee support for victims any time of the day or night all year long. We serve more than 700 victims every year while also consistently training and educating community organizations, human service professionals, students, educators, mental health providers, medical professionals, law enforcement, prosecutors, and more.

A large portion of PAVSA’s mission is accomplished by funds obtained through the annual Art Auction. The generous support of businesses, artists, and auction attendees is crucial to victims of sexual assault across our community. The Art Auction provides a unique opportunity for the community to come together in an effort to end sexual violence with financial support to our services. The PAVSA Art Auction features both a live and silent auction with original paintings, watercolors, jewelry, photography, sculptures, quilting, gift certificates, and much more. Please join us for an evening of fun and contribute to services which work tirelessly towards the elimination of sexual violence in Southern St. Louis County.

Posted by pmanisto at 01:21 PM | Permalink | 1 comment by edgeways
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This Sunday we will have 6 homes for sale on tour. There are all new construction and all are gorgeous. It will be from 1-5. The addresses are 2809 Eco Home & 2830 Coho Cottage Snowy Owl Circle, 21 East 5th St duplex with the best view of the lake and downtown area in all of Duluth, 423-431 N. 50th Ave. W. 3 bdrm 1 1/2 bath homes developed by SVCNDA. They range from 180K-437k. COME!!!

Call 733.1451 or 590.6502 or visit the website to see great pictures at www.womenworking.org

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two girls looking at magazines while waiting in line.

girl 1: brad pitt is so hot.
girl 2: yeah. i used to think so until i realized he's only a year younger than my dad.
girl 1: so?
girl 2: gross.

Posted by christa at 01:58 AM | Permalink | 14 comments, last by adam
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This contented varmint settled in for a long winter's nap inside a cabin closed for the season near the Boundary Waters.

Posted by Repur at 07:42 PM | Permalink | 1 comment by Mel
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The Duluth Chamber has a candidate forum. Which… is a slight change in direction from their 2000 PAC ads.

Posted by adam at 04:42 PM | Permalink | 8 comments, last by adam
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From The New York Times:

Water levels in the Great Lakes are falling; Lake Ontario, for example, is about seven inches below where it was a year ago. And for every inch of water that the lakes lose, the ships that ferry bulk materials across them must lighten their loads by 270 tons — or 540,000 pounds — or risk running aground, according to the Lake Carriers’ Association, a trade group for United States-flag cargo companies.

As a result, more ships are needed, adding millions of dollars to shipping companies’ operating costs, experts in maritime commerce estimate.

Photo is of the Canadian Olympic at the Duluth Lift Bridge.

Posted by clairity at 07:33 AM | Permalink | 6 comments, last by BIF
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Albus Percival Wulfric Brian Dumbledore - Headmaster of Hogwarts,
vanquisher of the dark wizard Grindelwald,
discoverer of the 12 uses of dragon's blood,
famed alchemist...
and gay.

JK Rowling revealed this little know fact to an audience at Carnegie Hall this past Friday.

I can't wait until the religious right gets a hold of this. As if they needed more prodding.

*chuckles to himself*

Posted by ironic1 at 10:56 PM | Permalink | 2 comments, last by adam
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Our wise city fathers and mothers have a gorgeous opportunity now to redress many grievances, right wrongs and make sensible legislation. Let the denizens of the Kozy take their drinks outside, but don't let them smoke out there. Let the people remaining inside the bar smoke to their heart's content. If this idea caught on, it would do a lot to clean up our haze and air pollution. And it would restore some rights to that most oppressed of minorities -- nicotine addicts.

Posted by Repur at 10:15 AM | Permalink | 2 comments, last by maddam
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Posted by c-freak at 03:44 PM | Permalink | 12 comments, last by Kitty Brand
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Nambia and SouthAfrica leading in solar in Africa. SouthAfrica to build a 100 megawatt solar power plant. Nambia subsidizing the installation of solar systems for domestic use and also have a plan for solar heating program for all government buildings.
Impressive growth in U.S. solar energy. Total solar thermal collector shipments in (thousand square feet) . 1997- 8000 units. 2006- 20,000. Photovotaic cell and modular shipments in (peak kilowatts) 1997 50,000. 2006 -330,000. Solar thermal collector shipments led by Florida, California and Nevada.
Today's best young solar stocks. First Solar(FSLR), JASolar (JASO), Sun Power (SPUR) and Yingli Green Energy(YGE
German University, Technische Universitael Darmstadt winsa 2007 Internationl competition to design solar house. 2nd- University of Maryland, 3rd- Santa Claire University.. Held in Washington D. C. the criteria were a comfortable temperature, adequate lighting, sufficient power for all home electronics, hot water, and powering an electric vehicle. All powered by solar only
Also check out YouTube, the Hooverboard electric skateboard and the White Zombie all electric dragster

Posted by Frank at 07:36 AM | Permalink | 0 comments
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What's better than rummaging through other peoples decade old junk. Sons of Norway have cleaned through all their closets and are selling what is oudated, unnecessary and historically inaccurate. I think it will be cool. My best friend that lives in Indiana now is in love with his norwegian heritage, and I'm hoping I can pick him up some fun stuff. I'm goin' early.
Link to article, pictures & info: http://www.duluthnewstribune.com/articles/index.cfm?id=52377§ion=homepage

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The Kozy Bar will be the next to apply for outside drinking. If you didn't see this one coming, you're foolin' yourself.

Posted by adam at 12:58 PM | Permalink | 6 comments, last by Chris
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