North Dakota
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Business As UsualCome home last night wishin I could unwind Turned on the news ya know it blew my mind Current affairs got me in a spin People everywhere doin' each other in Fussin' and fightin' from dusk till dawn Lyin', stealin, wheelin', dealin', it just keeps rollin' on Nothin but bad news and it's wearin' kind of thin With every news situation sems to be a ...
NorthDecoder.com - Sun 10:21 a.m.
A sad note from Keith Olbermann:Theodore C. Olbermann, 1929-2010 (http://keitholbermann.mlblogs.com/archives/2010/03/theodore father died, in the city of his birth, New York, at 3:50 EST this afternoon.Though the financial constraints of his youth made college infeasible, he accomplished the near-impossible, becoming an architect licensed in 40 states. Much of his wor...
NorthDecoder.com - Sat 8:44 p.m.
(Crossposted with permission from The Prairie Blog. (http://theprairieblog.blogspot.com/2010/03/tale-of-two-coup headline across the top of the front page of the Bismarck Tribune this morning reads “Legislator arrested again for domestic assault.” It was above the story about Bismarck Representative David Weiler being charged with assaulting his wife for the second ti...
NorthDecoder.com - Sat 11:43 a.m. - 3 clicks 
When North Dakota Governor John Hoeven (R) learned, today, that Representative David Weiler (R-Bismarck) had been charged with assaulting his (Weiler's) wife -- an employee in Hoeven's office -- for the second time in one year, Hoeven drew the line in the sand.Nicole Weiler is an aide in Gov. John Hoeven’s office. Hoeven believes if David Weiler is convicted of the second assault cha...
NorthDecoder.com - Fri 11:41 p.m. - 6 clicks
UPDATED at the bottom of this post... Developing...Representative Dave Weiler (R-Bismarck) is in jail this morning (http://www.kfgo.com/KFGO_Top_Story_News_Headlines.php?ID=00 Again.Weiler was arrested about a year ago (index.php/Bismarck-Legislator-Dave-Weiler-Arrested.html), after assaulting his wife. He entered a guilty plea (index.php/Why-is-Dave-Weiler-Still-a-Legislator.html) a...
NorthDecoder.com - Fri 9:48 a.m. - 4 clicks
We're going to try a new series here. It's just going to be a simple question I'd ask a candidate for office if I ever got an exclusive interview. Our first question would be for Kevin Cramer, a Republican candidate for the U.S. House of Representatives. It's a pretty straight-forward question. If Cramer or any of his campaign staff reads this (and they do, FYI), they should fe...
NorthDecoder.com - Thu 1:09 p.m.
Yesterday's big North Dakota news -- so big it made page 3B of today's Bismarck Tribune -- is that Dakota Grower's Pasta Company is being sold to a Canadian company for $240 million. Viterra Inc. is offering to buy Dakota Growers Pasta Co. for $240 million, which would put the Canadian food processing and grain handling company into the pasta business.Viterra's board of directors e...
NorthDecoder.com - Thu 10:08 a.m. - 5 clicks
If you read nothing else about America's economic problems over the past couple years, read Matt Taibbi's piece in the Rolling Stone about the banksters and their assault on the American taxpayer.On January 21st, Lloyd Blankfein left a peculiar voicemail message on the work phones of his employees at Goldman Sachs. Fast becoming America's pre-eminent Marvel Comics supervillain, the CEO...
NorthDecoder.com - Wed 7:22 a.m. - 2 clicks
A lot of argument is swirling around right now about budget reconciliation(not to be confused with plain old reconciliation, which is what the House and Senate do in conference committee to merge a bill that has passed each house in different forms) and if it should be used to pass healthcare. A lot of it is misinformation and I want to take some time to explain the process, the reason that ...
NorthDecoder.com - Tue 1:22 p.m. - 2 clicks
[UPDATED X 2] I'm not going to write this blog post. It's not that I'm too lazy or that I don't understand it. I'm just not going to write it. The commenters should write this blog post.I will tell you just a little about what this is: This is a single page from the working papers of the audit that was done of the North Dakota Department of Commerce by the State Auditor'...
NorthDecoder.com - Tue 12:29 p.m. - 9 clicks
In its feature story this morning, 'Very angry' Democrat sounds alarm, the website Politico is reporting that a "very angry" Rep. ...
Common Sense Has A Voice - Jan 15 - 2 clicks
If someone is trying to burn your house down, you certainly wouldn’t grab a knife and slash the tires on the fire trucks rushing to the scene to put that fire out. ...
Common Sense Has A Voice - Jan 5
