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Doug Seitz

Stillwater, MN
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Posted on 03/22/12 at 12:20 pm in response to Spring comes to Stillwater

Beautiful, indeed, ruined only by the roar of muffler-less motorcycles bouncing off the bluffs and buildings. It can get so loud it's difficult to talk unless you are in a building. Why the riders feel it is their privilege to make so much noise or why the city allows it is beyond me. Incidentally, this is not a problem not just in Stillwater but in similar towns up and down the river.

Posted on 09/13/11 at 01:32 pm in response to Minnesotans know Obama 'is not one of them,' says GOP Chairman Priebus, predicting state will go red

"Obama is not one of them" reminds me of another favorite GOP/Tea Party line, "We need to take our country back." Back from whom? There's always that racial insinuation.

Posted on 06/14/11 at 12:09 pm in response to Bachmann's in, makes it official

Bachmann has no future in the House or hopes for a state-wide office, much less the presidency. But she has set herself up to make big bucks as a Fox-type "news commentator," and that's what it's all about. She's a Palin wanna-be.

Posted on 06/14/11 at 07:24 pm in response to Bachmann's in, makes it official

With all due respect, Mr. Groth, Bachmann uses religion. She is more interested in the money and fame.

Posted on 06/01/11 at 12:19 pm in response to Bachmann tells all or nothing

I agree totally with Mr. Cage. Someone needs to investigate the accuracy of Bachmann's claims. She may have had 20-some foster children, but was it for love of children or the money she was paid? And did the children find it such a wonderful experience, also?

And as for being a tax attorney, where and when was this and why did she stop?

I'm from Stillwater, and she suddenly appeared here. Why, and from where did she come?

There is very little documentation of...

Posted on 05/12/11 at 12:21 pm in response to Same-sex marriage in Minnesota: Your turn to speak up

We have a gay son. He works hard, is smart, cares deeply, pays his taxes without complaint, votes, and would be a great partner and father, if and when that happens. He's a good person in every sense of the word. And yet the GOP does not want him to have the most basic right of all, the right to marry the person of his choosing.

If he has sex, the GOP would rather he have it outside the sanctity of marriage. Aren't they the party that advocates family values?

But we...

Posted on 05/05/11 at 11:53 am in response to Fuss over Stillwater bridge mystifies U.S. House Republicans

I was amused when I recently received a letter from our Congressional Representative, Michelle Bachmann, coming out in support of the freeway style bridge option across the St. Croix River.

The freeway style bridge from bluff to bluff is by far the more expensive of the two choices, and Bachmann is, or at least says she is, doing everything she can to hold down the size of the federal deficit. Yet she wants to spend the better part of a billion dollars, or more, on a bridge to, well...

Posted on 04/26/11 at 12:16 pm in response to Dayton says Vikes should pay half the cost of a stadium

When the previous Vikings owner, the Texas car dealer Red McCombs, walked away with a profit of some $600 million after selling the team, it struck me as absurd that the state would eventually have to kick in a huge amount for a new stadium. That $600 million could have built a new stadium. There was something very wrong there. The state should share in any increased market value a stadium will bring to the team.

The thought that spending that kind of money on a stadium for 8-9...

Posted on 01/18/11 at 07:55 pm in response to Why Gabrielle Giffords shooting hasn't boosted gun control

So we're back to guns don't kill people, people do. Maybe it's people with guns.

Of course, more and more guns are the answer. Dumb me.

Posted on 01/18/11 at 01:10 pm in response to Why Gabrielle Giffords shooting hasn't boosted gun control

Pure insanity. When everyone has a gun, then some will get bigger guns, prompting, you guessed it, a citizens arms race. Where will it end?

Even Old West towns eventually learned to have weapons checked in at the sheriff's office when entering town. But here we are, once again arming everyone.

I suspect the arms manufacturers are the principal supporter of the NRA, so the pro-gun push from it is a sales technique for them. If so, it should be known, so that the gun...