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Bill Schletzer

Plymouth, MN
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3 years 41 weeks

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Posted on 02/28/11 at 11:31 am in response to A Vikings stadium? Here's a plan to declare exactly what the public is willing to do

Jay,

How much did the Wilfs pay you to write this tripe? You talk about "sordid reality of modern sports business" but you are all to anxious to wallow in it and seem incapable of standing on any kind of priciple other than having your pleasure subsidized by me and the rest of the suckers. The team already controls the debate. You and the Wilfs and the NFL and Mondale don't want public input. That was proven when the referendum was avoided for the Twins Stadium. How much did...

Posted on 02/17/11 at 10:28 am in response to If you think Minnesota has a big budget mess, check out Wisconsin's financial (and political) woes

Further proof that the Republican party's main agenda is to make Rupert Murdoch and the rest of the million and billionaires richer while permanently destroying the rights of the middle and lower class. They throw lip service to the religious right so they can get their votes but their real agenda is domination of society by the rich, commonly called oligarchy.

Posted on 02/16/11 at 10:18 am in response to Minnesota's budget battle lines drawn: Fear vs. Fair

I fail to see how slashing the state budget and laying off workers will improve the unemployment. Of course it will improve the "business climate" because there will be more unemployed willing to accept lower pay because that's all they can get.

I pray that Dayton will follow the Pawlenty model of governing: veto veto veto until you get what you want.

What happens if the Repubs get their way and taxes aren't raised by the state. Then the state cuts LGA (I think that's the...

Posted on 02/15/11 at 12:31 pm in response to Picking science that fits politics: Rep. Mike Beard on climate change

Ever buy something with assembly instructions that were written by a Japanese person with poor English language skills and if you build exactly according to what is written it doesn't work? If only God had idiot proofed the Bible.

Posted on 02/15/11 at 11:07 am in response to Picking science that fits politics: Rep. Mike Beard on climate change

How is this guy different than the Unabomber? Christian psychosis is still psychosis.

Posted on 02/14/11 at 11:13 am in response to RIP, USA Today

I can now get the New York Times at home. Why bother with USA Today, which is one step above the front page of a news channel web site? Except for the local sports and the "crime page" and a little other local news, the Times makes the Star Trib look like USA Today, a pathetic shadow of its former self.

Posted on 02/09/11 at 12:20 pm in response to Get your guns: the politics of voting on the comment cesspool

I thought Mr Swift faded away after the election because he was a creation of some Republican campaign. How else could one person have believed and espoused so many lies and distortions.

Posted on 02/08/11 at 10:23 am in response to Keeping up with the Joneses: difficult but necessary

Hiram, why do stadium lovers insist that the vikings stadium question remains unanswered. There is an answer and the answer is no.

#14, the dome is totally adequate, even nice for the monster truck relays, high school football games, Twins fest and all the rest. The billion for a new stadium will benefit no one but the vikings/zigy/nfl.

#16, the conversation hasn't just started. That is the "clever" way stadium lovers describe it. A conversation requires listening, not just...

Posted on 02/07/11 at 03:05 pm in response to Keeping up with the Joneses: difficult but necessary

Good point, #10. Who would move here if our schools were #50 but our stadium was #1? Maybe #5 who thinks a billion dollars is a small price to pay for an engrossing water cooler ocnversation. When I was a kid I was a Green Bay fan before the Vikings came along. With no Vikings in the playoffs I didn't quit watching football or cheering for a team or BSing with the guys at work. But I got to cheer for a team that someone else had to foot the bill for.

My quality of life actually...

Posted on 02/07/11 at 11:12 am in response to Keeping up with the Joneses: difficult but necessary

I think Mr Berg overlooks a primary argument against a new stadium or against sports facilities in general. It isn't good arts/bad sports, his convenient simplification. First a new Guthrie costs far less than a new stadium. Second, the point of a new Guthrie isn't to cover getting Tom Cruise to come here and play Hamlet. I doubt many Guthrie actors are making over 100K let alone a million. I doubt some billionaire's net worth didn't double when he moved his acting company there.

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