Topic: albertleasucks.com
started by: Botto 82
Posted by Botto 82 on Jun. 07 2012,7:41 am
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Editorial: Who leaves their car running?
Published 10:16am Tuesday, April 24, 2012
There it was, like a reminder of the olden days: a beat up car outside a preschool with its engine running, as though gasoline was as cheap as pocket lint.
Yes, there was a time in America when people left their car running because they were going right in and right back out. In northern states, we still do it in the winter just so our cars stay warm and don’t encounter starting problems.
But in April, on a 50-degrees-and-sunny morning?
It wasn’t as though it was some brand-new SUV, where it seemed money was nothing to the owner. It was a two-door Chevy with dents in it, and the engine sounded like it needed maintenance. It didn’t appear as though the owner could afford to keep a car running like that.
We imagined it must be a habit leftover from the era of inexpensive gasoline. People would do that frequently, like when running into a store for one item.
Nowadays, people need to conserve every drop. Plus, law enforcement discourages leaving automobiles running because of security reasons. It is a sure sign that the doors are unlocked, too.
If you aren’t turning your car off when you are away from it, perhaps you ought to start changing your habits. Don’t be that gas waster who complains about gas prices, too.
Published 10:16am Tuesday, April 24, 2012
There it was, like a reminder of the olden days: a beat up car outside a preschool with its engine running, as though gasoline was as cheap as pocket lint.
Yes, there was a time in America when people left their car running because they were going right in and right back out. In northern states, we still do it in the winter just so our cars stay warm and don’t encounter starting problems.
But in April, on a 50-degrees-and-sunny morning?
It wasn’t as though it was some brand-new SUV, where it seemed money was nothing to the owner. It was a two-door Chevy with dents in it, and the engine sounded like it needed maintenance. It didn’t appear as though the owner could afford to keep a car running like that.
We imagined it must be a habit leftover from the era of inexpensive gasoline. People would do that frequently, like when running into a store for one item.
Nowadays, people need to conserve every drop. Plus, law enforcement discourages leaving automobiles running because of security reasons. It is a sure sign that the doors are unlocked, too.
If you aren’t turning your car off when you are away from it, perhaps you ought to start changing your habits. Don’t be that gas waster who complains about gas prices, too.
The Albert Lea Tribune is not one to shy away from taking a cheap shot at someone who doesn't have a lot of money. This is the perfect example of media elitism.
Can you imagine the sneer on the face of the person who wrote this? Can you imagine how small-town high and mighty one would have to feel about themselves to put this in the newspaper?
A car with dents in it? In Albert Lea? Oh, my goodness. And the person who owned it is too poor to keep it highly maintained? Heavens.
Instead of rushing to judgment, why not step back for a moment and consider that someone who has to rush into a preschool probably has some sort of emergency on their hands, something more important than worrying about being picked on by their hometown newspaper.
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Just when I was running out of humorous reading material...
Some of this stuff is just too funny. But be warned: The author is not too fond of this forum, either.
Posted by Botto 82 on Jun. 07 2012,7:59 am
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Pornography is a top issue today
Published 11:24am Monday, March 26, 2012
I commend Rick Santorum’s vow to end America’s “pandemic of pornography.”
One look around and one can see that we are no longer living in Bedford Falls but in Pottersville — that place so very far from “A Wonderful Life.” Temptations to sins of the flesh abound everywhere — from billboards, art and newspapers to television, music and the Internet. Even the law encourages sexual depravity by its legalization of contraceptives, prostitution, abortion, homosexuality and same-sex marriage.
Apart from abortion, pornography is perhaps the most pressing issue of our age. It is a big business that victimizes everyone including those who market and sell it. The Internet especially makes it possible for pornography to enter every home with the potential of corrupting whole families, including children. It is degrading, ruins family relations and leads to everything from incest, adultery, prostitution and violence to human trafficking and murder.
Let’s get America off the boulevard of broken dreams. Pick Rick!
Paul Kokoski
Hamilton, Ontario
Published 11:24am Monday, March 26, 2012
I commend Rick Santorum’s vow to end America’s “pandemic of pornography.”
One look around and one can see that we are no longer living in Bedford Falls but in Pottersville — that place so very far from “A Wonderful Life.” Temptations to sins of the flesh abound everywhere — from billboards, art and newspapers to television, music and the Internet. Even the law encourages sexual depravity by its legalization of contraceptives, prostitution, abortion, homosexuality and same-sex marriage.
Apart from abortion, pornography is perhaps the most pressing issue of our age. It is a big business that victimizes everyone including those who market and sell it. The Internet especially makes it possible for pornography to enter every home with the potential of corrupting whole families, including children. It is degrading, ruins family relations and leads to everything from incest, adultery, prostitution and violence to human trafficking and murder.
Let’s get America off the boulevard of broken dreams. Pick Rick!
Paul Kokoski
Hamilton, Ontario
Today marked the seventh or eighth time someone said to me, "why didn't you call your blog "The Albert Lea Tribune Sucks?"
Really, it's not about what sucks. It's about why things suck and what can be done about it. If the suckage along the way is identified, discussed, analyzed, and put in the proper context, people are, hopefully, more informed. More and better information leads to a society that knows more and can, hopefully, make better decisions.
Other times, people just like to laugh.
Why, in the name of all that is pure and holy, is the Albert Lea Tribune publishing a letter to the editor from some crank in Canada (isn't that where Hamilton, Ontario is?) about Rick Santorum's war against pornography? And, why does anyone care?
Rick Santorum's war against pornography is inherently un-American and hypocritical, pretty much all at the same time and wrapped in a brown piece of paper.
You see, Rick Santorum is a conservative who used to be a paid contributor to a little thing called Fox News, which is owned by News Corporation. News Corporation is a purveyor of pornography. News Corporation actually owns hardcore pornography channels and has never been shy about it. News Corps ties to hardcore pornography are so prevalent, it would be miraculous to search the Internet and find "safe for work" examples of how deeply embedded they are in this world. Do you have any idea how difficult it is to find links that don't take you to smut sites when you search for News Corporation's ties to the hardcore pornography industry?
Now, just so we're clear--you have a Canadian writing a letter to the editor to a small Minnesota newspaper about Rick Santorum and his campaign against pornography and nowhere is it mentioned that Rick Sanoturm used to accept money to give his commentary to Fox News, which is owned by one of the world's leading purveyors of hardcore pornography channels. One would think that even a Canadian or a small-town newspaper would see the irony in all of this.
Wait a minute--was it tongue in cheek? Those Canadians are sneaky that way.
How can you reconcile an American politician who calls for the end of pornography with who he was working for just last year? I don't get it. But, perhaps a better newspaper would be able to "connect the dots" and provide this sort of information to its readers. Perhaps.
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Yes, the FishWrap sucks, as does its sister publication, The Austin Daily Herald. And this is yet more proof. But this blog underscores a question we've had for a while now: How does this tripe get published, while the FishWrap refuses to dig into the whole Rhonda Moen controversy?
It probably has something to do with lawyers. Or it might simply be a case of journalistic laziness. Either way, one thing is certain: FishWrap is not a newspaper. It is simply a text-intensive wrapper for the weekly Hy-Vee flyer.
Posted by Botto 82 on Jun. 07 2012,8:08 am
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U.S. need to halt mass migration
Published 8:43am Monday, January 30, 2012
True immigration reform means ending mass immigration. This is not a negative agenda. The following are the benefits that a sensible immigration policy offers our country: harmony, freedom, general prosperity and sustainability.
Harmony is a great blessing to any society. It means that people can live and work together without strife. For this to happen, a common culture and common values are essential. Mass immigration, and the multiculturalism that follows in its wake, make harmony impossible.
Freedom, as our Founding Fathers understood, depends on a society united by common values, particularly those values necessary for the maintenance of liberty such as personal responsibility and respect for the rule of law. Today, thanks to mass immigration, we have a large and growing number of people from countries where our concept of freedom is little understood. And as more keep coming, the less likely it is they will assimilate to our viewpoints.
General prosperity, or our middle-class economy, is one of our country’s greatest achievements. But today mass immigration is undercutting our wage levels, particularly for low-income Americans. We should aim for a high-wage society, and reduction of immigration is essential to that aim.
Mike Gordon
Albert Lea
Published 8:43am Monday, January 30, 2012
True immigration reform means ending mass immigration. This is not a negative agenda. The following are the benefits that a sensible immigration policy offers our country: harmony, freedom, general prosperity and sustainability.
Harmony is a great blessing to any society. It means that people can live and work together without strife. For this to happen, a common culture and common values are essential. Mass immigration, and the multiculturalism that follows in its wake, make harmony impossible.
Freedom, as our Founding Fathers understood, depends on a society united by common values, particularly those values necessary for the maintenance of liberty such as personal responsibility and respect for the rule of law. Today, thanks to mass immigration, we have a large and growing number of people from countries where our concept of freedom is little understood. And as more keep coming, the less likely it is they will assimilate to our viewpoints.
General prosperity, or our middle-class economy, is one of our country’s greatest achievements. But today mass immigration is undercutting our wage levels, particularly for low-income Americans. We should aim for a high-wage society, and reduction of immigration is essential to that aim.
Mike Gordon
Albert Lea
Bless his poor heart, this man thinks he knows what he's talking about. The fact that this was published in a newspaper is a shame. I can understand the argument--letters to the editor should be published no matter how crazy they are. But, Lord. This one is cray-zeeeee.
What's not to like, though? It reads like a Fox News crawl. The writer thinks that if the Mexicans stop coming to this country, we will have a thing called "harmony." Really? I've seen how people in Albert Lea live, and, brother, the kind of harmony this man seeks comes from living in a place where people stay out of the business of other people. And that's most emphatically what does NOT happen in Albert Lea. Everyone knows everyone else's business and that doesn't lead to a whole lot of harmony.
Do you know what is a bigger threat to "harmony" and "prosperity" than the Mexicans? Crystal methamphetamine. Why don't we dedicate the same negative energy towards eliminating the problem of crystal meth? Nobody, and I mean, nobody, thinks we should legalize it except for the tweakers who stand to make another billion from the debris it causes across the American social landscape. And, you can say whatever you want about the Mexicans, but who does a better job of raising their kids? The meth head who burns up his house on a frenzied Monday night of cooking or the Mexican family that works hard, goes to church, and doesn't bother anyone?
You see, when someone starts cooking and selling meth, this has a definite impact on a community. And, when a Mexican family moves into a house, that has an impact as well. Family A starts dealing meth out of their home. Their kids end up being neglected. The chemicals cause the house to become a toxic waste dump. Nefarious people start coming around at all hours of the day. Guns, porn, and tweaking are the stew served up by this lifestyle. And when Family A starts seeing the money, and starts to consume goods conspicuously, well, all that's left is for the neighborhood busybody to tap into that feeling of "harmony" and drop a dime to the drug task force.
Meanwhile, Family B works, goes to school, tries to learn the language, and live a decent life. And, what confounds their detractors so much is the fact that they worship God, have healthy extended families, and eventually educate themselves and rise above their situation quickly. Quickly. What's not to hate about people who do well for themselves in a country founded on the principle of multicultural values?
I know what you're thinking--yes, there are people who come here from foreign lands to make and sell drugs. They're called Russians. And they're white, you know. So put that back in your pocket and hold on to it for another argument.
Seriously, though, this is the divide which people who are obsessed about illegal immigration cannot see--the class divide between the wealthy and the poor. The wealthy aren't creating jobs. They're hoarding their wealth. They use the media to tell the poor whites who vote for their white trash politicians that the reason why there aren't any good jobs out there is because the Mexicans took them all. And that's patently false.
Ask the vegetable growers in Alabama how this worked out for them. Alabama thought that, by driving out thousands of workers with brown skin, they would see unemployment for whites go down. Well, what it did was, it conspired greedily to satisfy the blood lust of a lot of politicians who don't care if they end up leaving a lot of farmers with no one willing to bend over all day and pick food by hand. Somehow, all of this "harmony" did not conspire to create a perfect nation full of white people who will work for peanuts in the cucumber harvesting industry. It's hard to keep your iPod working when there is sweat rolling in your ears from having to spend ten hours separating the food from the good Mother Earth, and white people are too cool to wear sweat bands, you see.
Next year, they're going to let a lot of their land lay fallow. What a great metaphor for hating and being ignorant, right?
So, to kind of wrap up what turned into another long-winded attempt at me saying "quit hating poor people, numbnuts," what got published was a fraud. An ignorant, misinformed piece of garbage.
This is a screed of pure, unadulterated racism. Saying that "multiculturalism" leads to the destruction of our common culture and values is another way of saying that anyone who comes here and doesn't look and sound like a small-town racist crackpot is plainly dumb. Pure, slack-jawed stupidity. It's the sound that the racist dog whistle makes when someone blows it often enough; a way of repeating, ad nauseum, what they are thinking in their pitiful little heads, over and over again: everything in my life sucks because of the people who aren't white.
And that's the fallacy of this whole argument. The people who think that their life sucks because of "mass immigration" have been tricked into not looking when plants close, when banks take their homes away, when wages stagnate, and when taxes on capital gains receive yet another cut. They've been sold the flim-flam of resenting poor people just like them, pure and simple.
A responsible newspaper would know when to file letters like this in the trash can.
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Posted by Botto 82 on Jun. 07 2012,8:18 am
And it's not just Albert Lea that sucks...QUOTE
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Worker fired over alleged porn
Published 9:59am Monday, December 26, 2011
AUSTIN — An Austin Housing and Redevelopment Authority worker who allegedly exposed himself to a female tenant has been fired.
Marv Repinski, chairman of the HRA board, said Ronald Heimer, of Adams, was let go after the board held a closed meeting in early December. Heimer is accused of watching a pornographic movie in a tenant’s bedroom and exposing himself to her as he walked out of the room zipping up his pants. He faces criminal charges in Mower County District Court.
Repinski said he made the choice to publicly announce that Heimer had been fired.
“I did not care to have him be released from his employment, but we were getting calls from the public after the newspaper articles,” Repinski said. “It’s kind of a gray zone of how to protect your residents.”
Repinski said the HRA continues its record of accountable performance the public can trust.
Letting Heimer go “was really to protect ourselves from scuttlebutt and people being fearful that our management was not appropriate or that they would also be subject to such an invasion of privacy,” Repinski said.
Heimer recently pleaded not guilty to the charges he is facing in Mower County District Court. He was charged with felony bribery, misconduct of a public employee, fourth-degree burglary and indecent exposure.
Published 9:59am Monday, December 26, 2011
AUSTIN — An Austin Housing and Redevelopment Authority worker who allegedly exposed himself to a female tenant has been fired.
Marv Repinski, chairman of the HRA board, said Ronald Heimer, of Adams, was let go after the board held a closed meeting in early December. Heimer is accused of watching a pornographic movie in a tenant’s bedroom and exposing himself to her as he walked out of the room zipping up his pants. He faces criminal charges in Mower County District Court.
Repinski said he made the choice to publicly announce that Heimer had been fired.
“I did not care to have him be released from his employment, but we were getting calls from the public after the newspaper articles,” Repinski said. “It’s kind of a gray zone of how to protect your residents.”
Repinski said the HRA continues its record of accountable performance the public can trust.
Letting Heimer go “was really to protect ourselves from scuttlebutt and people being fearful that our management was not appropriate or that they would also be subject to such an invasion of privacy,” Repinski said.
Heimer recently pleaded not guilty to the charges he is facing in Mower County District Court. He was charged with felony bribery, misconduct of a public employee, fourth-degree burglary and indecent exposure.
When someone has the gall to say "I did not care to have him be released," it means one of two things--either the manager didn't believe the woman's story or the manager didn't care what his employee did.
This happened in Austin. Hence, Austin sucks. Right?
Well, perhaps not. But it just goes to show you--this sort of nuttiness is universal.
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Posted by Botto 82 on Jun. 07 2012,9:57 am
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Posted by Glad I Left on Jun. 07 2012,11:06 am
I am not really sure of his point... but whatever makes him happy I guess..
Posted by Ajax on Jun. 08 2012,6:40 pm
Is this blog another one of shock jock Denevo? Peter B.
Posted by busybee on Jun. 08 2012,7:42 pm
I'm concluding that Botto is trying to say, "Hey, how stupid is all of this..." And I would agree...
Local newspapers tend to hide under "rocks" as if they have all the "good info" that ONLY the general public could ever handle tolerating...
Reality would suck for most people if local newspapers actually explained things as they are...
Posted by hymiebravo on Jun. 09 2012,8:38 am
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Do you know what is a bigger threat to "harmony" and "prosperity" than the Mexicans? Crystal methamphetamine. Why don't we dedicate the same negative energy towards eliminating the problem of crystal meth? Nobody, and I mean, nobody, thinks we should legalize it except for the tweakers who stand to make another billion from the debris it causes across the American social landscape. And, you can say whatever you want about the Mexicans, but who does a better job of raising their kids? The meth head who burns up his house on a frenzied Monday night of cooking or the Mexican family that works hard, goes to church, and doesn't bother anyone?
Yea just a bunch of hardworking church goers. Like going to church means you're beyond reproach. Nobody lies cheats or steals, or pick a commandment or similar metric to judge by, that goes to church.
And let's go off on an unrelated tangent about crystal meth.
I guess that guy hasn't seen that big hole on Main Street in Austin.
And he has the audacity to think he sees everything the true way.
Posted by stardust17 on Nov. 11 2013,1:38 am
Albert Lea Sucks.comFinally some good reading.
Posted by This is my real name on Nov. 11 2013,4:36 am
(stardust17 @ Nov. 11 2013,1:38 am)
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Albert Lea Sucks.com
Finally some good reading.
Finally some good reading.
Except that he only attacks letters from those on the far right. He'll print half a letter from people like Wayne Thorson, leaving out the off-the-wall parts.
Case in point, Wayne once wrote how Jane Fonda did great things for our veterans. Someone commented to that letter about how some of the things she was accused of in Vietnam were actually true (not all of them), and that that was not actually a great thing.
This guy only printed the comment and complained about how the right would always trot out Jane Fonda every time the left made a point—completely editing out the part where Wayne had been the one to bring up Jane Fonda in the first place.
He uses selective outrage about Albert Lea, ignoring that there are extremists on both sides. Some of his stuff is funny, but it's a little one-sided.
Posted by Grinning_Dragon on Nov. 11 2013,6:14 am
The guy is a leftist sheep of highest order.He would be the first to gladly walk into a rail box container all for the glory of the state.
Posted by Self-Banished on Nov. 11 2013,5:22 pm
^ I can get you a rail box container 
Posted by stardust17 on Nov. 14 2013,12:26 am
A bit brash, but then this forum is not all sugar & spice. It's the topics that are salt on the wounds:Local's obssessions---greasy food, booze, sex crimes, isolationism, tawdriness, lack of imagination, gossip, hillbilly entertainment, blame games, and themselves.
Sounds familiar.
How discussions of local/national/international events are used as camo to cover personal vindictiveness.
Just as some use Slavemart as poster child for human abuse, so AL has been chosen(out of the glorious cultural desert towns & cities of the midwest)as poster child for civic dysfunction. One man's point of view. And, as far as I know, he's not black. No need to panic.
His assessments of AL are less one-sided than some believe. A city wallowing in the past is not necessarily a political discussion. More like a "community consciousness"...or lack thereof. A Twilight Zone script.
We musn't blame the mirror for what we see.
At least AL proves that, in america, people are free to be what they want.
Posted by This is my real name on Nov. 14 2013,6:21 am
(stardust17 @ Nov. 14 2013,12:26 am)
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A bit brash, but then this forum is not all sugar & spice. It's the topics that are salt on the wounds:
Local's obssessions---greasy food, booze, sex crimes, isolationism, tawdriness, lack of imagination, gossip, hillbilly entertainment, blame games, and themselves.
Sounds familiar.
How discussions of local/national/international events are used as camo to cover personal vindictiveness.
Just as some use Slavemart as poster child for human abuse, so AL has been chosen(out of the glorious cultural desert towns & cities of the midwest)as poster child for civic dysfunction. One man's point of view. And, as far as I know, he's not black. No need to panic.
His assessments of AL are less one-sided than some believe. A city wallowing in the past is not necessarily a political discussion. More like a "community consciousness"...or lack thereof. A Twilight Zone script.
We musn't blame the mirror for what we see.
At least AL proves that, in america, people are free to be what they want.
Local's obssessions---greasy food, booze, sex crimes, isolationism, tawdriness, lack of imagination, gossip, hillbilly entertainment, blame games, and themselves.
Sounds familiar.
How discussions of local/national/international events are used as camo to cover personal vindictiveness.
Just as some use Slavemart as poster child for human abuse, so AL has been chosen(out of the glorious cultural desert towns & cities of the midwest)as poster child for civic dysfunction. One man's point of view. And, as far as I know, he's not black. No need to panic.
His assessments of AL are less one-sided than some believe. A city wallowing in the past is not necessarily a political discussion. More like a "community consciousness"...or lack thereof. A Twilight Zone script.
We musn't blame the mirror for what we see.
At least AL proves that, in america, people are free to be what they want.
I agree that Albert Lea wallows in the past and has been in a state of arrested development (at best) for decades. In some ways Albert Lea does indeed suck, and there are postings on that blog that make me laugh. I bet he can't wait to read the Tribune everyday, because it seems there is always something he can use.
What I meant was one-sided was his posting of half a letter from Wayne Thorson, then attacking the follow-up comment for mentioning something in the half of Wayne's letter that he left out. It made the comment look out of context. If someone on the right did the same thing, he would not hesitate to call them out.
I'm not looking for fair and balanced—it's only a blog. I just think that it's somewhat deceiving. If he's going to criticize a comment made, he should at least print the whole letter.
Posted by Liberal on Nov. 14 2013,9:46 am
He apparently doesn't like being mentioned on the forum. I wonder how he knew about the topic?I check his blog out every couple of weeks, I think he should have named it The Mayberry Sun.
Posted by This is my real name on Nov. 14 2013,9:52 am
(Liberal @ Nov. 14 2013,9:46 am)
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He apparently doesn't like being mentioned on the forum. I wonder how he knew about the topic?
I check his blog out every couple of weeks, I think he should have named it The Mayberry Sun.
I check his blog out every couple of weeks, I think he should have named it The Mayberry Sun.
I saw that, too. Yet he scoffed at the Tribune when they asked him not to repost their articles, since it was a copyright violation.
I am guessing this guy is someone in his early- to mid-20s who was bullied in high school and is still bitter about it. Something happened to him here and he can't let go of it. Who else moves away from somewhere (supposedly) and then dedicates a blog to how much the place he used to live sucks?
Just let it go, man. You made it out of here. Invest some energy into liking where you are now instead of hating where you've been.
Posted by Grinning_Dragon on Nov. 14 2013,10:16 am
Whaddya mean he doesn't like being mentioned here.He sure does like to take screen caps, then rail on perceived racist remarks, and the like. Being label a racist now days is a-kin to chicken little and the sky is falling, it is the only cop out a person has left, when an argument isn't going as planned.
Also, why not a link to his site, since he doesn't like it.
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Posted by Glad I Left on Nov. 14 2013,10:41 am
...< I can too >
I find it odd that that the same person comments on all his blogs. Most likely it is him doing it himself, but other than the hashtags I don't get the point.
Posted by This is my real name on Nov. 14 2013,10:46 am
If I had the time or the inclination, I would start a blog called "Albert Lea Sucks Sucks", linking to his posts and making fun of them.
Posted by stardust17 on Jan. 09 2014,4:00 am
Maybe his comments about racism and bigotry can be substantiated. Maybe he is old enough to remember Lea College. Maybe he saw local redneck thugs patrolling the streets and bars with pipes in hand searching for black students. But maybe he doesn't remember. I do.
Posted by Botto 82 on Jan. 09 2014,8:19 am
As long as the Fishwrap gleefully publishes every letter sent to them by bigoted kooks like Paul Westrum, the spirit of racial hatred will be alive and well, and Warren Jason Street will have plenty of material.
Posted by This is my real name on Jan. 09 2014,9:31 am
(Botto 82 @ Jan. 09 2014,8:19 am)
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As long as the Fishwrap gleefully publishes every letter sent to them by bigoted kooks like Paul Westrum, the spirit of racial hatred will be alive and well, and Warren Jason Street will have plenty of material.
I think they actually do publish every letter sent to them. I'm not defending that they do, but I'd hate to be the one to make the judgment call of whether to publish the letter and be accused of promoting racism, or not publishing the letter and being accused of censorship.
They should go back to limiting the number of letters from one author on one subject.
Posted by Expatriate on Jan. 20 2014,1:25 pm
Albert Lea Sucks is kaput, he gives up! guess Albert lea doesn't suck!
Posted by Self-Banished on Jan. 20 2014,2:15 pm
^ no, it really sucks.
Posted by twingroves on Jan. 20 2014,2:45 pm
albert lea sucks big time
Posted by Grinning_Dragon on Jan. 20 2014,3:29 pm
Umm, yeah, Albert Lea, does suck even more so now than before and will continue to suck and shrink until the people figure out the morons they keep electing are against them.
Posted by Botto 82 on Jan. 20 2014,4:23 pm
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Albert Lea has a fair number of cranks, old farts, Republicans, sex offenders and racists. Those people don't want government money to save the lake. They want tax cuts and pull tabs and wingnut bullcrap. ~ Warren Jason Street
Posted by This is my real name on Jan. 21 2014,6:09 am
I am guessing he'll be back after the next letter to the editor from Paul Westrum or Don Sorenson.
Posted by Expatriate on Jan. 21 2014,9:05 am
Will the real Warren Jason Street please standup!
Posted by MADDOG on Jan. 21 2014,10:08 am
(This is my real name @ Jan. 21 2014,6:09 am)
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I am guessing he'll be back after the next letter to the editor from Paul Westrum or Don Sorenson.
I am guessing you won't have to wait long.
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Posted by Expatriate on Feb. 02 2014,8:21 am
He's back up and running < http://www.albertleasucks.com/ >
Posted by Expatriate on Mar. 19 2014,1:02 pm
Jimmy's writing letters< http://www.albertleasucks.com/ >
Posted by Self-Banished on Mar. 19 2014,1:32 pm
Dumbassery???Yep, this guy is a real rocket scientist
Posted by MADDOG on Mar. 19 2014,1:36 pm
If you don't like it, get even. Write a letter supporting Wayne Thorson.
Posted by Liberal on Mar. 19 2014,5:51 pm
That is pretty funny, the guy loses his firearms license over problems with paperwork but wants to become a lawmaker.
Posted by Self-Banished on Mar. 19 2014,6:18 pm
Milan was once the highest volume dealer in mn. BATF came in, like a few other dealers I know, and the were hunting for even an undotted "i". From what I gathered from other dealers some went through the same. I've had dealings with Milan for years and if I lived in his district would have no hesitation of voting for him.
Posted by MADDOG on Mar. 19 2014,6:59 pm
Ditto. He'd have my vote too. Milan and Elaine are good people. They have two strikes against them with the likes of these libbies. They are good Christians and conservatives.
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That is pretty funny, the guy loses his firearms license over problems with paperwork but wants to become a lawmaker.
Pretty funny, the ATF pulls Hart Brothers FFL over lost or missing paperwork. Tell me again how many firearms the ATF lost during Fast and Furious?
Posted by Self-Banished on Mar. 19 2014,7:38 pm
(MADDOG @ Mar. 19 2014,6:59 pm)
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Pretty funny, the ATF pulls Hart Brothers FFL over lost or missing paperwork. Tell me again how many firearms the ATF lost during Fast and Furious?
Tell me again how many firearms the ATF lost during Fast and Furious?Excellent point.
Posted by grassman on Mar. 19 2014,8:56 pm
Hey, I love guns, I think we should all have some. Paper work is paper work. You have no idea how important paper work is for just about everything. Trust me, when paper work is not kept to par, bad stuff happens. I have nothing against Milan, I actually know him in a round about way. Paper work is key, in any transactions.
Posted by Liberal on Mar. 19 2014,9:13 pm
I hope he gets the rethuglican nomination, I'm sure nobody will hold the "paperwork" issue against him.
Posted by Liberal on Mar. 31 2014,2:37 pm
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GENEVA — Milan Hart isn’t done with politics.
At the House District 27A Republican convention in Geneva, he failed to gain the party endorsement to be the state representative for District 27A; however, he likes politics and intends to run again for elective office.
“I think there’s a place for me out there,” he said.
Hart said he wasn’t disappointed with the results of the convention in Geneva. He plans to support nominee Peggy Bennett, who won 65-20.
Posted by Liberal on Mar. 31 2014,2:39 pm
It looks like albertleasucks.com has closed up shop again.
Posted by This is my real name on Mar. 31 2014,8:31 pm
(Liberal @ Mar. 31 2014,2:39 pm)
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It looks like albertleasucks.com has closed up shop again.
What's the line on how many days before he posts again? My guess is under 5.
Posted by Liberal on Mar. 31 2014,9:16 pm
I think he might be serious this time, I'd guess 10 days at least.
Posted by This is my real name on Apr. 01 2014,6:59 am
He could be baited by a letter to the editor from Paul Westrum, Scott Bute, Dr. Lundstrom, or anybody writing in response to Wayne Thorson.
Posted by stardust17 on Apr. 06 2014,12:41 am
After denegrating and rejecting the Trib seems folks here are yet digesting it devoutly???