What to you get when you mix a group of trust funders with a bunch of uneducated know if all welfare sucking parasites? PDD. Just think how much of your money is going to pay for some of these individuals housing, heating assistance, food, and unfortunately, because of our messed up system, money for drinking, drugs, and computers to spread their hate and anger.

PDD, if this is Duluth's arts culture, the city is in big trouble. It's a bunch of delinquent kids who are trying to show their parents how smart they are and failing miserably, I might add. They should go back home to mommy and daddy and enroll back in the schools they dropped out of and attend some counseling sessions to get some help with the issues that many clearly possess.

I found this on DCB. I think they're wrong. I'm probably the youngest, by far, on this website, and not even I act like ther description of PDD. Feedback?

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Posted by Samuellll :) at 01:40 PM | Permalink | 8 comments, last by Roger
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ICAN of the Northland meets this Sunday, 4/27, at 3:30 p.m.
Duluth Seventh-day Adventist Church
3210 Decker Road (just above Piedmont)
The topic is Birth Stories.

The mission of ICAN (the International Cesarean Awareness Network) is to improve maternal-child health by reducing unnecessary cesareans through education, providing support for cesarean recovery, and promoting VBAC.

Posted by doubledutch at 02:01 PM | Permalink | 0 comments
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Isn't this simply common sense?

Girl who says something we already know

Nothing wrong with spreading good will, but to be lofted up for it seems a little silly to me.

Posted by huitz at 05:16 PM | Permalink | 32 comments, last by funkenschutz
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Posted by Barrett at 04:39 PM | Permalink | 16 comments, last by Girl From the North Country
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At the end of your Budgeteer column this week you told a joke about a Scandinavian man falling out of a movie theater balcony. I would like you to know that that joke was outdated before I was even born. Movie theater balconies stopped being commonplace about 40 years ago.

Please adjust your ethnic humor to fit the current century.

Thank you.

Posted by Barrett at 11:07 PM | Permalink | 15 comments, last by tony
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I was walking my dog this morning and came across two beer bottles in someone's front lawn on Kent Rd. At first I assumed they were a couple of empties, which I don't mind picking up, but then noticed they had caps on. I kicked one and it was full! What's wrong with people that they can waste perfectly good premium beer like that? If I were ten years younger I would definitely drink them. They are pretty crusty with road salt and that makes me a little nervous. Another thing you should know is that today is my birthday. My wife says that it's a sign. If I were cleverer with this whole internet stuff I would post a survey but I need to know; are these beers drinkable?

Posted by chadp at 11:10 AM | Permalink | 25 comments, last by heysme
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This is a reminder to set your clocks ahead an hour tonight.

This is also a wake up call that daylight savings time actually wastes energy instead of conserving it, as we've been led to believe.

Posted by ironic1 at 02:16 PM | Permalink | 7 comments, last by ironic1
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In Barb Olson's column this week:

"'We support the vision of a Lakewalk for everyone,' Beacon Pointe Condos resident Judy Gordon tells the Council. 'But we don't consider it appropriate to have a Lakewalk right in front of everyone's patios.'"

(Apparently, the "everyone" she is referring to is "everyone" in Duluth who currently owns a million-dollar condo.)

Also, on page 5 is another blow-open-the-scandal article (actually, a letter) about the Red Plan. Seems Duluth Architect Robert Aho thinks Johnson Controls is trying to pull some shady, "possibly illegal" stuff with regards to bilking taxpayers. Or rather, the school board basically told him that's what they were doing. Read it and weep. Then get pissed and do something about it before it's too late.

Posted by rediguana at 09:52 PM | Permalink | 18 comments, last by The Big E
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It seems there is a new owner of the USAN Building, and if you park in the parking lot, even to check out a tux at Arthur's next door, you have a good chance of getting towed. Even if you work in the building with all the proper passes, you could get towed. One person was working over the weekend and came out to find her van gone with her dogs in it. One person was terrorized by this guy watching her and almost running her over with his car. You will recognize him as a fat white guy in his late 30s, button shirt and slacks with prominent bluetooth earpiece with a new dark teal Camry respectable, middle-aged man overseeing the towing process.

Posted by St.G at 08:03 AM | Permalink | 10 comments, last by Tomasz
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Continue reading "Orpheum - Duluth - this weekend" »

Posted by Wrekt at 12:29 PM | Permalink | 67 comments, last by tdee
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So, I've been an unabashed fan/lover/reader of Dan Savage's Savage Love since way back when his readers used to address him as "Hey Faggot," and he had a day job pulling shots at Cafe Paradisio...

ANYwhooo...back last month for his Valentine week column, he ran a letter concerning sex toys, and the proper etiquette of the proper disposal of such. Within his reply he made a suggestion that any and all old toys could be mailed to a Kandiss Crone, an "investigative" reporter from Jackson MS, who recently staged a raid on an adult book/video/toy store because, apparently Mississippi is one of a few sex-phobic states that has completely outlawed the sale of "three dimensional devices" intended for sexual gratification. The store had been busted a couple of times prior to Ms. Kandiss' story by the JPD, but to her shock and awe, the store had not ceased its immoral retail activity.

Apparently, Ms. Crone went incognito to the adult store, purchased a purple vibe, and then returned later with a camera crew to confront the store's employees. She even went as far as to try to solicit further involvement of the Jackson, MS police department, but they weren't interested. She was rebuffed with a statement from them saying that the citizens of Jackson would prefer the police be involved with rounding up criminals, drug addicts and prostitutes, and that pursuing a criminal investigation on an adult bookstore for selling sex toys wasn't very high on their list.

I wonder whatever became of the purple vibrator.

Posted by in.dog.neato at 06:06 AM | Permalink | 5 comments, last by Buttonhead
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If you are like me and don't watch television much you had no idea to what Starfire was referring. So here's the clip.

Posted by ironic1 at 01:37 PM | Permalink | 16 comments, last by Buttonhead
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Posted by Starfire at 01:55 PM | Permalink | 7 comments, last by Buttonhead
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I've got a favor to ask yas: How 'bout NOT electrocuting my damned arm with a
Thirteen Freaking Thousand Kilovolt shock each time I touch your metal handles this winter, mmm-KAY?!?! THAY-hanks!!!
Phuckerz.

Posted by -Berv at 07:16 PM | Permalink | 7 comments, last by ironic1
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Continue reading "Support Our Oops v.2.0" »

Posted by in.dog.neato at 07:58 PM | Permalink | 11 comments, last by ironic1
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Cloverfield...

Continue reading "I call "Shenanigans"! [Updated! Yea!]" »

Posted by JJLee at 10:36 AM | Permalink | 23 comments, last by zra.
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I love movies.

Posted by mayday at 08:52 PM | Permalink | 6 comments, last by tamara
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Left: Good Christmas card. Right: Bad Christmas card.

Dear friends of mine who have children and are sending me a Christmas Card,

I agree that your child is cute, but when you don't include yourself in the photo I feel let down. I love how stupid you look. It makes my whole Christmas.

It is cruel to deprive me of the hearty laugh I should be having at your expense. Christmas is not the time of year to flaunt how adorable your child is. It's time to announce what a square, grown-up dweeb you are. Put on that awful sweater and make my month. Christmas is a time of giving, damn it.

Seasons greetings,
Paul

Posted by Paul Lundgren at 04:11 PM | Permalink | 3 comments, last by asmentko
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Soldiers who've served in Iraq and are being released from duty due to serious injury are being asked to return their signing bonuses for their inability to fulfill their commitments.

IMO, the treatment that injured vets (or vets period) receive in this country is appalling...

Fortunately, Pennsylvania Representative Jason Altmire is introducing a bill that would prevent the D.O.D. from requiring seriously injured servicemembers to return their enlistment bonuses...

Posted by in.dog.neato at 09:24 AM | Permalink | 6 comments, last by Scribbler
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I've had this record player a long time. I think my brother bought it in the 1970s. Now, tragedy has struck.

Continue reading "I've got two turntables and a problem" »

Posted by Paul Lundgren at 09:35 AM | Permalink | 16 comments, last by zra...
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Assisant Homeland Security Secretary Julie Myers has applogized after awarding first prize in a holloween costume contest to a white man dressed as an african american in a prison outfit. Myers, who also heads the Imigration and Customs enforcement said she deeply regretes that this has happened. The winner was dressed in a stripped uniform, dreadlocks, and dark makeup.

is that a Oops, or a Whoops?

Continue reading "And the winner is......" »

Posted by Kitty Brand at 07:37 PM | Permalink | 5 comments, last by Girl From the North Country
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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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Posted by in.dog.neato at 06:55 AM | Permalink | 5 comments, last by Michael
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In a discussion about Al Gore winning the Nobel Peace Prize on KUWS yesterday Karl Spring, chief meteorologist for NBC affiliate KBJR, scoffed at Al Gore and said he wouldn't "pay a dime" to see "An Inconvenient Truth" because Al Gore is a "left wing nut job."

Don't you find it refreshing when scientists can put aside prejudice and examine issues based on cold, hard facts?

Seriously, if this guy as a meteorologist wanted to argue the science behind the movie, I'm all ears. If he just wants to cast aspersions and call people names, then maybe Fox is hiring.

Posted by ironic1 at 08:52 PM | Permalink | 151 comments, last by Lucie B.
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Posted by in.dog.neato at 08:25 PM | Permalink | 7 comments, last by Paul Lundgren
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Explosions in the Sky is going to be on Austin City Limits along with the Decemberists this Saturday night...unfortunately for me, I'll be at church.

Posted by in.dog.neato at 07:01 AM | Permalink | 2 comments, last by paja
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creepy, i don't know what is.

"Marry Our Daughter is an introduction service assisting those following the Biblical tradition of arranging marriages for their daughters"

I'm a little grossed out right now...and reading some of the testimonials, like this one from Jack M.:

"At first we were worried that Janine was too young to get married, but then her new husband bought her a house and a car and jewelry and the money we got let us buy a house for ourselves. Getting out of the trailer park at our age was the best thing that ever happened to us, and it’s all thanks to Marry Our Daughter!"

...makes me even more so.

Posted by in.dog.neato at 06:20 AM | Permalink | 9 comments, last by hotlilmama
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Posted by ohnoanotherputz at 11:24 PM | Permalink | 3 comments, last by Sherman
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Posted by Paul Lundgren at 09:57 PM | Permalink | 0 comments
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My next cat will be named after Mookie.

Posted by Xenolith at 09:52 PM | Permalink | 2 comments, last by B Cookie
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Posted by Paul Lundgren at 09:38 PM | Permalink | 0 comments
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I was going to wait until tomorrow to post this, but here goes: (commentary by Sherman)

I just love how he has the same face in two different cards.
I imagine his photo shoot went something like this:

Photographer, "Are you ready for your baseball card picture Rick?"

Rick, "I reckon I am."

Photographer, "Ok, on three, one..., two..."

Somebody else, "Hey Rick, isn't that someone stealing your car?"

Photographer, "Three." Click.

Posted by -Berv at 09:32 PM | Permalink | 0 comments
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I can go all night.

Posted by Paul Lundgren at 09:16 PM | Permalink | 0 comments
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But kudos for the "Bubble Gum" Bevacqua, Cookie B.

Posted by Paul Lundgren at 08:27 PM | Permalink | 0 comments
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Speaking of the Brew Crew, this is the all-time greatest card ever. May Kurt's reign never end.

Posted by Cookie B at 05:44 PM | Permalink | 0 comments
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Everyone wants to work in a Rowland Office!

Posted by -Berv at 10:12 PM | Permalink | 1 comment by Paul Lundgren
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Sherman/Berv, I see your Bill Greif and raise you two Cookie Rojas'.

Posted by Paul Lundgren at 10:10 PM | Permalink | 1 comment by -Berv
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Good grief!

Posted by -Berv at 10:09 PM | Permalink | 3 comments, last by Paul Lundgren
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According to Facebook, the top books in the Duluth, MN network are:

1. The Bible
2. Harry Potter
3. Angels and Demons
4. Lord of the Rings
5. Harry Potter Series

Good job people; way to make us like every other schmucktown in the country.

Posted by rediguana at 10:24 PM | Permalink | 11 comments, last by DLTBGYD
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As if the I-35 bridge collapse wasn't a bad enough tragedy, Shirley Roper-Phelps and her father-in-law's hatemongering crew from Westboro Baptist Church are going to grace the funeral of one of the victims of the tragedy to spread more of their hate.

(watch out...PDF alert! the link is to the pdf of their protest flier.)

Posted by in.dog.neato at 06:23 AM | Permalink | 19 comments, last by zra...
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I've been known to misplace my house keys and even my winter gloves, but they always seem to come back to me...unlike the U.S. Government who, in Iraq can't seem to locate about 190,000 AK47 Rifles and pistols that were supposed to be issued to the Iraqi police forces.

The article also gos on to say that over a quarter million (say it with me: "mmmmmmiiilllliiiooooooonnnn") pieces of body armor are also missing.

Any guesses as to where those rifles and kevlar vests are now?

Posted by in.dog.neato at 08:20 PM | Permalink | 8 comments, last by Bad Cat!
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let's see if we can come up with a list of potential names and qualifications.

let the sociological study begin.

Posted by sharksattack at 03:01 PM | Permalink | 12 comments, last by edgeways
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I ran across an interesting article on Middle East online, by way of cursor.org by Ismael Hossein-Zadeh, a professor of Economics at Drake University about the escalation of war and military spending. This economic info should be staggering (to say the least) to anyone on either side of the fence.

He makes some really grim comparisons on military budgets versus government spending in other areas, causing a dramatic shift in the distribution of wealth from the middle and lower income to the already wealthy by noting the impending permanence of tax cuts to the richest 1%, and then the plan to cut vital services and programs in order to make up the difference in money coming in.

For perspective, he quotes comparisons in the article made by William D. Hartung, Senior Fellow at the World Policy Institute in New York:

Proposed US military spending for FY 2008 is larger than military spending by all of the other nations in the world combined.

At $141.7 billion, this year's proposed spending on the Iraq war is larger than the military budgets of China and Russia combined. Total US military spending for FY2008 is roughly ten times the military budget of the second largest military spending country in the world, China.

Proposed US military spending is larger than the combined gross domestic products (GDP) of all 47 countries in sub-Saharan Africa.

The FY 2008 military budget proposal is more than 30 times higher than all spending on State Department operations and non-military foreign aid combined.

The FY 2008 military budget is over 120 times higher than the roughly $5 billion per year the US government spends on combating global warming.

Continue reading "By the numbers..." »

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