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Bill Schletzer

Plymouth, MN
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3 years 41 weeks

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Posted on 08/03/10 at 10:07 am in response to Iowa GOP embraces bizarre constitutional-revisionist movement

I was looking for the knee jerk reaction to anything right wing no matter how nutty and there he is, Mr Swift. So you don't think it is "bizarre" to say that Obama should lose his citizenship because he won the nobel prize? What about all the other winners over the years? Them too? Instead of just whining everytime a liberal opens his mouth, give us your true opinion. Do you agree with this particular idea or do you just agree that any attack on our president is good no matter how weird...

Posted on 08/02/10 at 11:05 am in response to Tough ABM attack ad on Emmer, drunk driving arrests

I saw that ad last night and I was glad for it, not so much because it was honest but because it was a good attack along the lines that the Republicans have been using since the Newt Gingrich years. They've been pushing those types of distortions for years. Is this worse than the attacks on Kerry's war record or the recent video assualt on that black woman wrestling with her conscience? Or death panels or so much more? It stated facts and left out any modifying details that would have...

Posted on 07/21/10 at 07:45 am in response to Bachmann's Tea Party Caucus spurs big questions: Who's in? Who's out?

Willard, why is it that you think the "leftists" (meaning anyonne left of Pawlenty) have closed minds. Isn't it a fact that the Klan votes Republican? Not saying she's stupid but she's sure not what I would consider smart. Also importantly she is irresponsible, blasting out emotionally loaded half-truths to rile up her followers and get her face on tv. I believe people like her and Palin and alll those Fox News people hate democracy, would rather see our country go under that have a...

Posted on 07/20/10 at 03:56 pm in response to Bachmann's Tea Party Caucus spurs big questions: Who's in? Who's out?

Bachmann as the Tea Party leader, perfect. Just shows how anti-intellectual, anti-fact this group is. Stupid people and darn proud of it. The Republican party is playing with fire. Ten years from how being Republican will be reserved for 8th grade educated, mullet wearing, back woods trailer trash, proud to be 'mericans and telling all the nonwhites to go back where they came from.

Posted on 07/16/10 at 11:38 am in response to Twitter as a spin machine

Mr Swift's comment is too obscure for me to comment on. I'll just guess that like his right wing brethren, he assumes that all criminals vote Democrat. That would fall in the right wing/ tea party/ born again camp that says that it is immoral and unpatriotic to vote Democrat, so naturally a criminal would vote that way.

Posted on 07/07/10 at 03:38 pm in response to Emmer's minimum-wage fallout: Who makes $100,000 as a waiter or bartender?

Swift - Emmer, it's all the same, silly comments free of verifiable facts. Emmer says some servers make 100K, Swift says the average is 67K. Now Swift cries censorship, similar to how Emmer, Palin, et al, say "the American People" won't stand for this or that that Obama may be pushing despite the fact that "the American People" elected him president. I like having Swift here; he is so easy to refute and so fun to refute, especially when he congratulates himself on being some kind of...

Posted on 07/07/10 at 07:36 am in response to Emmer's minimum-wage fallout: Who makes $100,000 as a waiter or bartender?

If Emmer and his buddies see the price of restaurant food tied to high wages/tips for servers, why don't they see the high cost of health insurance tied to high wages/bonuses of health insurance CEOs? Maybe Swift would have a facile answer for that. We haven't heard from him on this thread since he put his foot in his mouth way back at comment #9.

Posted on 07/06/10 at 12:51 pm in response to Emmer's minimum-wage fallout: Who makes $100,000 as a waiter or bartender?

Leave it to Swift to sell his bull as real information. If bartenders really made 67K PLUS tips why would anyone bother with an engineering degree or any other degree. I imagine that 67K bartender must make pretty good tips and so earning over 100k. Maybe we need to rein in per diems for Minnesota legislators because Emmer is eating at places way beyond the means of this middle class tax payer. I get it, when people call him Swift, they are being sarcastic.

Posted on 06/23/10 at 02:15 pm in response to Lavender 'outs' Lutheran pastor -- by crashing confidential support group

Ah, Mr Swift, now I understand. When you said:

"A reporter writing for a publication serving the interests of a group of people who are dedicated to setting new lows for socially acceptable moral standards and decency"

your objections were based on science and biology and history. I think as science slowly unlocks the genetic motivation of much of our behavior it becomes more clear that at least for many gay people the attraction to members of their own sex is predetermined...

Posted on 06/23/10 at 11:41 am in response to Lavender 'outs' Lutheran pastor -- by crashing confidential support group

David Hanners, I guess I agree with most of your comments, however, you don't address the fundamental point of the Lavender article, which I haven't read. Do you agree or disagree with the idea of "outing" this guy. I think it was newsworthy that this bible thumping, opinionated guy with his own media forum is a closeted gay (or maybe he's hetero but the devil is bombarding him with gay impulses) and hypocrite. I'm glad he was exposed because if he ever gets back on local cable access,...