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There’s a story in todays Glob on the Clear Lake Lions baseball team. It mentions Cooper Merrill and Ethan McHenry who played for Mason City last year. No mention by the author Jarred Patterson as to WHY they’re playing for Clear Lake this year. Their transfers were approved by both Boards of Education.
And the Glob wonders why they have so few subscribers. Who is in charge over there when it comes to school stories; Anita Micich, Skippy, other? Or is Patterson just simply that…
bad of a reporter?
They switched schools because Mason City’s sports programs aren’t as good as other schools. Micich has destroyed the sports programs in Mason City.
Altho I am not a fan of Micich, I believe the problem lies deeper into the teachers and athletic’s coaches. The AD is a bone head and Rood is a suck a$$. Just go to a game sometime and listen to how he treats his players. Yea I know, he won a Championship one year, it wasn’t because of his awesome coaching abilities it was by luck of the talented athletes he had that year.
@Anonymous-I sure agree with you on this. I have been told by people who are in sports that the problem lies with the parents and cowardly coaches that play the favorites instead of the best athlete’s. I has been that way a long, long, long time. Micich is only part of the problem. The coaches will not stand up and do what is needed.
I don’t think Rood ever won a championship, but lost it due to a bone head move late in the game.
Troy Rood should resign or be fired. He not in it for the kids. He doesn’t give a crap about them and is a bully and very demeaning to his players. When it comes to favoritism, he is the king. He has ran very good players out of the system. Many kids could further their education by getting scholarships playing baseball but not while they are on one of his teams. Sad it continues to hurt the kids and he gets to continue abusing them and the system.
This is a surprising statement. I’ve known Troy a long time, and never known him to act this way, and this is the first I’ve heard of these kind of accusations. His baseball teams seem to be winning a lot of games. Could you give some more detail on this, please, or examples? Thank you.
Anonymous, you are spot on with that statement. NIT, go to a game or practice and sit in the shadows. You’ll find out yourself!
I cannot take it anymore. I’m sick of this site being taken over by Philly. His whole gimme, gimme, gimme, and it’s all about me attitude. Why don’t you leave like you keep saying you’re going to do loser?????
Amen….
There’s an interesting article on the yahoo news site titled, Don Lemon: Baltimore Crime Is Off The Charts. Guess Who Is To Blame?
The NRA and their cockamameey plan to arm the entire nation to assist their weapons manufacturer clients?
No, bleeding heart liberals who want to take away the only way we can protect ourselves. If you don’t want any guns peter then you just go to baltimore unarmed for all I care, coward.
I think I’m not getting my point across to you. It’s not that I’m against guns and ownership of them by people who understand the Golden Rule and values of peace and civility. It’s that by and large I have little to no faith in the mental makeup of the general population of humans, and arming them will only continue to bring about more carnage. Not everyone is as reserved and thoughtful as you or I. Many are full of pride, macho, and possess jealousy and anger and these are the types…
When I bring up the NRA, it’s because ultimately their vision is that every American, felon or not, should have access to and rights to possess firearms by virtue of our Constitutional 2nd Amendment. This is evidence of the antiquity and simplicity of our founding document, and its general irrelevance in today’s modern times. My solution is to focus on designing a society where the need to use a weapon itself in defense or offense becomes unnecessary. That’s the primary goal.
And this goal can only be achieved when the masses of uneducated, base and vile humans receive ethical training, and the training in virtue, compassion, and possess the desire to strive for personal knowledge and innovation of our society. Presently we have hordes of nihilist, sex addicted, alcohol and drug addicted hedonists who don’t believe in anything, and were trained that might makes right, and money and a big cock are the solutions to all life’s problems.
35 killed there this month, I read.
i find it hard to believe that its not profitable. If its not how does lehigh keep producing and paying a great wage?
It depends what you think is a great wage for working in a hot, hazardous, filthy workplace.
I thought Philly was wanting to get off NIT sooooo badly. Couldn’t tell that by today with all his posts. Just another boring day with his drugged up rhetoric filling up this site. “Give me land, give me a house, blah, blah, blah.”. Same whining, different day. Get a job Philly.
X Holcim Worker
LVS thinks that he he is an expert on everything.
He complains about current low wages then says that you got paid too much.
Think the city should give Holcim cement company some kind of incentive to open back up
To make a product that isn’t profitable? Brilliant idea! I can see that liberal arts education is really paying off. What else do you “feel”?
Forget your “profitable”…and concentrate on making a useful product for people in the area to use. You going to let china incapacitate you into doing nothing for yourselves because they provide you cheap cement? Think of the world as preparation for catastrophe. Would it be strategic to have cement producing nearby? Yes. You capitalists aren’t as smart as you think. That’s why China is taking over
ok. I’ll bite. how do you stay in business without being profitable? I await the high school econ wisdom to spew forth… oh wait that’s right, you didn’t finish high school. You got a GED. I still am quite curious how you do the math on this one? I am betting it involves some sort of hand out.
Who says you need profitability to stay in business? The Chinese think strategically and resources are used for their advantage and security. Their homogeneity works to their advantage, and the state would think nothing of keeping a business open if it served some strategic purpose. Making cement insures contractors in our region have product to build and repair. It’s in Mason city’s interest to make it work, for themselves and others
And while they’re at it, get some cement over to clear lake to repair all those cracked and uneven sidewalks and roads. Vegas is immaculate when it comes to sidewalks and roads.
So you think that complete government control (as in China) is the solution? Now the government is supposed to take care of the free market?
This government already ceded to China…and it began with NIxon. Switch your mind to think like the Chinese…not the so-called “Global Capitalists” who are just a bunch of Illuminati 1%ers and care little for National Boundaries. RESOURCES are the name of the game when building up nations, and having a cement plant in your backyard is a strong resource. Utilize it. Make it work. Think Globally, but ACT LOCALLY. Protect yourselves. Every region should possess its own capabilities.
And all this can be traced back to Bankers, Mortgage Companies, and Expensive contractors who inflate the cost of living by attaching exorbitant prices to construction, thereby indebting every human being to a slave 30 day payment which threatens to evict them onto the street. By eliminating or vastly reducing shelter costs, workers can be paid less, and the focus can shift to building up society, not trying to survive it. Idiots don’t understand the golden years were golden because of the…
Real Estate companies are also part of the devil when it comes to the reasons why no one likes society anymore. They are the scabs of the scabs…and their interest is in inflating sales to make their % commission. They have been behind the steady increase of shelter costs because they keep driving the price up. C’mon people. This isn’t that hard to figure out. Doing something about it is the difficult part. At least acknowledge the problem and sources.
Think logically not theoretically. If money coming in is less than money going out, how does a business keep going? Try to explain that without spinning the conversation off into some unrelated topic like real estate, loud pipes, or legalizing drugs. STAY ON TOPIC.
One cannot have a discussion about profitability of companies without first analyzing the community circumstances the company is located in. Part of making a company profitable is keeping the payments to workers as low as possible while remaining fair and inviting. If the workers have high costs to live due to high real estate and rent prices, those become part of the equation.
My National plan is to implement a housing freeze, and outlaw mortgage interest schemes by banks…and to cap real estate commissions…basically cutting off the capitalists from profiting over housing. Land owned by the government is to be distributed at the rate of 1 acre or 1/2 acre per human over the age of 18. Development is up to the humans, but the land is theirs to camp on if they choose until they can procure funds to build.
Of course what to do with all the existing dinosaur houses already built? That’s the dilemma and that’s why contractors need to QUIT BUILDING the stick built 90 degree angle worthless pieces of wood and drywall they build at inflated costs. Anyone who has paid over 50% of their mortgage bank note would be given their home, and those below 50% would pay up to that point to the government and their home would be theirs. Essentially shelter needs to be eliminated from the capitalist scheme.
When shelter costs are no longer a problem, society can return to building up innovations and technologies as well as promote the beautification and betterment of their communities. People are so locked into surviving they have very little time to get to know each other, or to enjoy the communities they live in. That’s due to shelter costs. I want them eliminated almost in their entirety. Capitalists need to concentrate on other venues to make their money.
“Who says you need profitability to stay in business?” Math and logic dictate that simple fact that continues to elude you.
The will of the mind is a concept that continues to elude you. Money is just paper. Resources and land are physical fixtures. A region can decide to do with its resources and land whatever it chooses. With a keystroke or wave of pen all debt can disappear. Prison sentences can be overturned with executive pardons and orders. We live in a self imposed prison until collectively we wake up.
If you would elect or appoint me to power I would wipe away the sources of misery that enslave men to a life of bondage. I would free people by going straight to the heart of the matter. Most cannot see clearly, or personally profit…but I am plagued by neither hindrances. My objectives are global freedom, and elimination of all sources of violence and bondage. Buddhists are the only ones capable to deliver the world from itself
Elect or appoint you to WHAT? King of Narnia? Grand duke of ItDontExistville?
It’s not a shelter Philly. People in the United States live in houses. We make them our homes. Whether they are rented house or owned houses. Shelters are places for displaced people or homeless people or people in crisis. Here’s your problem. You are just too damn lazy to get a job and rent or buy a house. You think you should have everything handed to you. Get off your ass and get a job and while your at it, try staying off this site like you keep saying your going to do.
Those houses were constructed for large families where everyone lived within the home and paid it off quickly. They are leftover vestiges of another era. They do not represent the modern new world man and his present needs. Land has been zoned to accommodate these dinosaurs and it should be freed up for a cheaper, more sleek and sophisticated incarnation. Why I considered running for Supervisors was to topple the existing restrictions.
@Anonymous-Holcim is dead and gone. That plant can not be started up. All the electrics have deteriorated and the plant is falling apart. They would have to tear it down and rebuild to make it work and the labor was to high. They moved where it was cheaper and won’t be back.
LVS? Did you work at Holcim?
I worked there years ago and had relatives and friends that worked there.
Labor was high? I beg to differ. We worked in some pretty extreme conditions with all the dust and dirt. Our wages were what we bargained, earned, and deserved.
@”X” Holcim-O.K. let me rephrase that. The wages and cost of running the plant were higher than the company wanted to pay so the shut it down and built a new plant in the south where they paid $8 to $10 instead of $25 to $30. Also, I believe the new plant is Non-Union. Not saying the guys didn’t deserve it. Just saying they wouldn’t pay it.
I drove around Mason City and Clear Lake today and seen at least 10 business’s with help wanted signs out. They may not be jobs a person would want to keep for
ever but its work. There should be no excuse why someone is on assistance right now unless they are just plain lazy.
What in the hell’s ur problem with people on assistance? That’s all I hear from a few of you jerkoids. If it bothers you so much, why don’t you go down to Mohawk Square and protest on the sidewalk?
The people on assistance that bother me are the ones that can afford cigarettes, or drugs. That have lots of tattos, which are expensive. My tax dollars are paying for those habits. I have no issue with the so gle mom who is on assistance. And I have no problem with the single mom that works at least part time and still gets assistance. It shows she’s trying.
I meant single. And also, people need to be accountable. If your going to have children, then at least make an effort to help pay to raise them. And it sets a good example to kids that you don’t grow up to do nothing and leach off others and the government to live.
I agree about having 2nd, 3rd, or subsequent children. If you have one and are on welfare you need Norplant or Vasectomy. But if you’re single person, and struggling,,,then at the minimal ur rent should be paid. This idea of putting people into homelessness is characteristic of the law of the jungle…and if we claim to have ascended the laws of nature, we need to demonstrate that by insuring shelter is provided for.
If your single and have no children, there’s no excuse for not having a job unless you are physically incapable of being able to work. There’s plenty of jobs out there and if you have to work more than one, then that’s what you do. Stop being so lazy Philly and whining that you want everything for free. Get a job.
I have a job, and I work hard every single day. But you’re evading the point I’m making is that shelter should be a given. Humanity needs to prove itself humane by removing shelter from the capitalist/money equation WE don’t need computers, cellphones, cars or Netflix….but we do shelter. And at the minimal a space needs to be Constitutionally protected. I refuse to pledge allegiance to any flag until that is so.
It shows she’s trying? Trying to do what? Make Ed Kent, Jay Lala, or Russ Hardy some money? The fact that between them they own over a thousand properties, shows how sick and controlled your society really is. I’m still waiting for the government to teach people how to fish.
“I’m still waiting for the government to teach people how to fish.”….I’m sure you are. Then you’ll bitch and moan about how its not fair that you didn’t get a free boat and motor from the government too. Then you’ll bitch because the government doesn’t have a free program where someone cleans your fish.
See, it never stops with you. Why not try and be responsible for yourself and your own actions for once? You might surprise yourself and find out that you will actually start to take…
Finish your sentences Buzz. I was somewhat interested in where you were going with it.
…..pride in yourself.
Nope, Philly just wants everything for nothing. I don’t understand where this idea of entitlement comes from. He must have been a spoiled brat of a kid. Now as an adult all we hear from him is gimme, gimme, gimme. You never hear from him about how to work hard and EARN anything.
Philly wants all his comments removed……one question. Why does he keep creating more of them?????? Just goes to show he’s not a man of his word. He’s never going to leave.
The sense of entitlement is more a sense of reality. Why would I want to patronize and follow systems that make no sense? Just because everyone does it we all should? Jump off the cliff and so should I? I’m challenging the world to think about itself, instead of just accepting everything as set in stone. I realize it’s a monumental task, but I’ve really deduced there is no other way…if a person is going to lead an examined life.
Collectively humans need to mature through capitalism’s gyrations. In short people need to GROW UP. You call me immature for not wanting to follow the scheme, but in reality, i’m highly evolved, and waiting for the rest of humanity to take the challenge…to develop this planet in a way that sets our course for the stars.
Why does it take a World War to motivate you lazy bums? Only when you’re threatened, or get the chance to pick up your weapons do you feel the urgency to work and develop new products and ideas? Most of the time you sleepwalk through your unawake existence in your tiny little sleepy hamlet. Why don’t you people set down your grilled stuffed burritos from Taco Bell, set out to meet one another and decide to do something dramatic.
Oh right, you can’t meet with one another, because you’re not free. You have no time…you’re too busy paying off your bills…paying off your house payment, car payment…all ur insurances…the schemes of 1% men who figured out a way to set an agenda for you…for the rest of your life…to keep you busy and controlled…to keep you outta trouble…to babysit you…like the little babies you really are.
Babies deficate themselves without shame and expect others to take care of them. Not responsible adults.
Babies also explore their genitals until their caregivers swat their hands away teaching them shame…what’s your point?
And ultimately what you call responsibility, I call a contrived plan.
We wont have jobs if we protest about lazy jerks freeloading off of us.
My problem with people on assistance is this. If they are physically able and can get a job, even a part time job but they refuse and are willing to live on assistance they are the ones that need to be dropped from the program. If they are physically able but cannot get a job and are trying or are not physically able that is what the program is for.
Sources from inside the Globe Gazette are telling NIT that several very, very long-tenured employees are leaving that newspaper within the next couple of weeks. Some of the employees have decades of time-served there. Deals for retirement were reached. How – or if – these employees would be replaced is a mystery.
My guess is they either won’t be replaced or they will be replaced with college interns, and entry level positions. I won’t even bother to buy a globe. I buy the Des Moines register on Sundays simply for the coupons.
The Register had a photographer up here shooting pictures of the Band Fest parade. The Globe is on life support.
I think it’s time for closure. NIT should accept what was raised, delete my entire presence, and ban all my IP’s. I patently disagree with letting people “report comments” leading to their immediate disappearance. That implies “guilty until proven innocent” and it should be the other way around. 2 bobos shouldn’t have that much power. Just delete me and get it over with. Enough’s enough. NIT makes me miserable.
I finally bumped up to fresh pineapple over the canned-what a difference! Pineapple is awesome anti inflammatory. Sorry you had the runs from it. Incidentally, I engaged in a 20 minute chat with a veteran lady of air force 20 years who was collecting money for vets this Memorial Day, and I told her about getting rejected from service over a drug charge and she agreed with me! She also smoked pot while in service. So these haters on NIT are all hot air.
Be the real woman you are and just leave if that’s what you want to do. Why would you insist your comments have to be deleted before you can leave? Even for you, that doesn’t make any sense. Once you leave (we know you won’t ) sooner or later, your comments will fade away the same as all your family members and friends have. Even a person like you should be able to understand that.
I agree with Buzz. Why can’t you just leave. No one gives a hoot about what you’ve said anyway. Most people don’t take the time to read your garbage. Just do us all a favor and LEAVE! And stop posting with your multiple personalties. We know your 8 seconds also. Are you seriously that obsessed with the shit coming out of your ass? Good riddance loser.
I feel like you now me Buzz….like you know of me. You say things that are close to true, and that makes me wonder who you talk to , to learn as much as you do about me and my life. No matter. It’s a fair point about friends and family fading away…I remember distinctly in 91 – 92 when that process began. It needed to occur. I had to shed my former self to find my true self. I was molded by family and friends, and that wasn’t going to do. Yoga saved me.
And actually my viewpoints aren’t really all that different or strange if you break them down. 1. I believe all humans are entitled to a square of land, and what you do after that is up to you and the free market system. 2. I believe in the concept of freedom through liability…meaning you can do whatever you want provided it doesn’t harm another. 3. All are entitled to serve their nation
I would like to thank all the veterans, past and present, for their service to this country on this Memorial day.
Thank you for fighting for our freedom and our democracy.
Thank you for your sacrifices and for the sacrifices your families had to endure.
May God Bless.
Excellent comment.
No Band Fest coverage?
Hurry up with that fundraising people. I’m ready to be blasted into the outer reaches of the internet.
I gained “insight” into my “condition” last night as I had switched the polarities on a jimmy rigged tail light assembly I picked up from the scrap yard (in yesterday’s earthquake). A mechanic wiz happened to be at auto zone and helped wire it up right. I felt like a tool for awhile and wondered if that’s truly what I am: a tool.
Very difficult to get people to come to the circus without a dancing monkey (or one that soils itself). The show must go on!
“” for you. I mean what does it take for you lazy gonadal toads to type in a name for yourselves? I type my moniker, website and email for each comment I make using my non-cookie setting iPhone. Nearly every time…but you bums can’t even deviate from anonymous or anon. No wonder you’re part of the herd
Will you be using a working link to a website anytime soon or do you insist on using that broken link for some reason?
Yeah, I’ve been distracted working on other people’s stuff: that’s what capitalism does:distracts you and detours you. I’m almost done with the nanny gig and my car. Then I’ll setup the emancipation/extrication website so genuine seekers can get off the wheel and walk a forward purposeful direction.
Anon is right…… you are being sold Philly
Apparently you have til may 31 to determine whether the dancing defecating monkey stays or goes.
Matt won’t kick Philly off his site. He needs an ant to torture when he’s not poking sticks at Robin and Bookmeyer. It’s like a snack for his ego building needs.
Get the $250. Then he is gone. Guaranteed. You are too broke to raise the rest?
He wants off NIT. Grant him his wish.
He doesn’t want off. He just wants attention. He thinks he’s funny talking about crapping his pants, when in reality he just makes himself look more like the homeless, jobless fool that he is. Philly thinks he’s smart. But how smart can someone be who cannot live in the real world? How smart is someone who never finished school and hid away in their mommy’s basement for years? How smart is someone that has fried their brains with drugs for years? He’s not smart, he’s just an ass.
Your server crashed because of high traffic?
Pffft..that’s hilarious.
Your server crashed because you use NetFronts, the poor mans choice in web hosting.
Any & all analytics run on this site and it reads very low in almost all areas.
And the graphics?
This site looks like something from the late 1990’s.
You need to find a good web developer, because whoever designed this site, it looks like a middle school project.
Free advice from a troll? Wow I won the lottery tonight. Never mind what I need. You need to find your daddy and slap the taste out of his mouth for creating you and giving you your miserable existence on this planet.
@Matt-Are you sure this Anonymous jerk isn’t Philly? The writing is similar and so is the mentality. Ban the jerk and be done with it. You should not have to put up with that on your own site.
Trust me, I’ll consider it a blessing when all comments are deleted and I’m permanently banned. It’ll be like placing myself on a “Do not admit to Casinos list”.
I’d say that qualifies. Welcome brother!
Is anyone else concerned over the number of people in our jail? What makes these people think they can break the law and get away with it? What makes people think they can just take (steal) something that ?someone else has worked for? Liberals think the law is for everyone else but them. They learned that from Holder and Obama and of course Clinton is the biggest criminal of all. Democrats should be so ashamed.
Most people who commit crimes don’t think. I am most ashamed of W.
So you’ve resorted to raising money through donations to kick a contributor off? Matt Marquardt is the lowest of the low human scum. He’s a bottom feeding piece of human garbage. This site is exhibit A and his Iowa Courts Online search is exhibit B. Matt and his circle jerk of crazies represent all that is wrong with MC.
My complaint is that he doesn’t give me a simple ” Should Philly Stay or Go?” poll alongside the donate button. I’m merely playing along with my original request to delete all my contributions and disappear without a trace. Matt attached a price to the request, and Voila’ here we are. Poll Matt ! I provided you with a lot of entertainment. NIT owes me a popularity exit poll.
Don’t distort reality. Philo wants his entire presence erased from NIT. A vocal minority of our readers want him to leave. He’s agreed to leave once all his comments are fully erased. I don’t work for free. As soon as the cost to cover my time is covered, Philo’s comments will be erased, and he will be gone from NIT. What part of that don’t you get?
By the way, you’re name-calling only A) emboldens me and B) exposes you for the troll you are and C) shows you have no guts whatsoever. Let’s meet up, on camera, and debate any of this. Name the time and place.
What in don’t understand is why can’t he just be banned without deleting his comments? Then he says it will be a blessing when he’s kicked off. If that’s truly the way he feels, he should be a man FOR ONCE and just leave instead of playing these childish games.
And a few people wonder why this website is the laughingstock of North Iowa.
Mention this place to North Iowans and 99.999% either roll their eyes and chuckle or laugh hysterically.
That’s because Matt has allowed philly to take over his site. It’s not a news site anymore. It’s phillys site to do and say what he pleases.
Not so. If I don’t like a particular comment, I delete it. If it meets our guidelines, it stays. It’s as simple as that. Report the comments you don’t like.
@Anonymous-You sure talk to different people than I do. But as a establishment stooge I guess that is all that will talk to you. Why don’t you just get off the site if you don’t like it?
Yikes, LVS, what the heck? I’ve never said a mean word to you ever. Maybe other people by the poster name anonymous, but me, never. Also, it’s a really low down dirty thing to do to go digging around on court sites and dig up people’s pasts. Whoever is doing it needs to stop. This is why I keep myself anonymous.
@Anonymous-My apology. It is hard to tell which Anonymous I am talking to. There have been other people using that name and trolling and sniping for two days. Pick out a name (not your real one) and use it when you post. Anonymous is the name used by non-subscribers and trolls just looking to cause trouble.
We all have skeletons, some people have gone through nasty divorces. Others have made stupid mistakes. That kind of information needs to stay private.
Not quite, my troll friend. Hundreds of paid subscribers, plenty of advertisers and more coming. Who’s winning? As they say, just because you anonymously type a lie, does’t make it so. You have zero credibility until you come forth with your real identity and show proof of your claims. Show me the “eye-rollers”. What do you think people say about the Globe and KIMT? They are laughingstocks! In reality, NIT has thousands of visitors EVERYDAY. In fact, our server is crashing from the traffic. I’m delivering over 400 GIGABYTES of data a month JUST from NorthIowaToday.com. Face me and let’s hash it out verbally on camera. Really, why even come here if NIT is a “laughingstock” as you say? Why waste your time? You’re proving yourself to be a liar.
Matt, I think you (or someone like you) could serve a legitimate purpose in MC. Someone has to hold elected officials accountable for their actions. Someone has to investigate and dig to find the truth behind hidden and/or unethical actions taken by them. Someone has to ask the hard questions, make them squirm a little and let them know that someone is watching. That is the traditional job of the press. Unfortunately, the vast majority of the press has forgotten or abandoned this duty. The…
… Globe certainly has forgotten.
I think that, in general, your efforts are in the right place, but I strongly disagree with how you go about it. You have the right instincts and undeniable talent for digging and finding the truth. Your efforts are all for naught because of HOW you do it. When you resort to things like calling the Mayor and City Council by childish nicknames, use “informal” language, insist on using purposefully unflattering pictures of them, etc your message gets…
completely LOST.
If you want to be the person fighting for the common man, the muckraker, the champion for truth, etc, you must clean up your act. Use proper language, report using only facts, be objective… in short be a “true journalist.” Mason City needs someone like you but not you. I hope I have been clear, if I haven’t, let me know and I will be willing to be more specific. Thanks.
Also, I have not seen you at a single council meeting this year. How come?
Fair enough. I get your point, and I’ve heard it before. When you deal with utter morons on a daily basis, the quest gets boring. It get tiresome. Throw in threats against my life, my family, attempts to destroy me and my business, we arrive at where we are today. I won’t be backing down, and I’ll be doing it the way I want. I do it with flare. I pursue buffoons in an attempt to make them reveal themselves as the tools they are. They do all the work for me. I just need to convince them to do it. And I have fun doing it. That’s the difference. You think Bobbi Fisher has fun at his job? Sure, he loves staring during girls volleyball games, but that’s only a couple months a year. What about Skipper? It’s fun trudging down to Bookee’s office everyday to play hide the ghost? Please. I love my job, I love NIT, I don’t care a dam bit what anybody says.
You agree that the way you present your stories destroys your credibility, readability, and your message. You also say you have no intention of changing the way you do it. Thank you for clarifying. The message is that you are NOT here to be a journalist or to do a public service. You are here to make money and enjoy yourself. Got it. Seriously, that’s fine. More power to you. Disappointing.
I am a content-maker. An entertainer. An informer. An educator. A businessman. What’s a journalist? We don’t have any in North Iowa. The New York Times has journalists. NIT does provide a public service by INFORMING and EDUCATING and EXPOSING the dirty deeds in North Iowa. NIT doesn’t shy away from trolls, such as yourself. It relishes the “challenge” idiots such as yourself present.
Furthermore, my troll friend, just by you coming to NIT everyday and engaging me PROVES my credibility. You know, I do not lie. That in itself gives me credibility. The fact NIT has survived and thrived for 5 years gives me credibility. Paid subscribers and advertisers give me credibility. The fact that I post real news EVERYDAY that people WANT to read and DO read gives me credibility. What credibility do you have? Can’t even type the name your mom gave you. That’s sad and pathetic.
We all use the toilet everyday too. It doesn’t give it credibility, it just defines it’s purpose. Get over yourself and maybe you will get your house in order. Good luck.
who is looking forward to bandfest? I know im not, it will be really lame like it is every other year. Why is it a town this size cant have anything decent? If you want anything worth while you hafta go to all the smaller towns. pathetic really
MC can’t have anything nice because of people like the NIT publisher and the group of nutjobs that reside here. Naysayers, all of them. No one wants to see MC fail more than MM and his crew. I’ve never read one thing supportive of MC here.
You’re misguided, angry, and a troll. Enjoy your day, and come back when you want to have a face to face debate.
Mason City is failing because of people like you who do not want an open debate on the issues. If someone disagrees with the establishment they are labeled anti Mason City or they don’t want Mason City to prosper and nothing can be further from the truth> Open discussion and different opinions is what is needed to see this City prosper.
@Anonymous-Most of the people I have talked to are going to Forest City. There just doesn’t seem to be a lot of interest in our Band Festival any more. Even our local T.V. Station has regulated it to the 2nd string by putting it to 3.2 which anyone with satelight can not get. It is a shame and just shows how bad our city has gotten. Everyone in tow used to go to BandFest. Now, only the people with kids in the parade go. And, of course the thieves and drunks.
“Our” Bandfest?! It’s NOT Mason City’s Bandfest. It’s all the “North Iowa High Scool Band KIds ” Bandfest. MC just hyjacked it to make money for MC. PATHETIC! GET IT RIGHT! It needs to go back to the HIGH SCHOOL BAND KIDS! Anyone who doesn’t like the bandfest can feel quite free to NOT attend. It’s for the kids anyway. Go to FC and get drunk with the rest of the pigs.
I’m not interested in it, outside of shooting a few pics to fill in one news story for Saturday. I hope everyone has a good time, but I find it boring. A lot of the floats are just commercials with chamber buffoons standing on them. Kinda makes me ill.
@Matt-It is a darn shame. Back in the day when I marched in the parade there were 100 bands from all over. It was a huge deal and went on for two days. We used to have the battle of the bands at Roosevelt Field and the place was packed. They have destroyed it now.
@NIT….How much money was raised? Also, if I remember correctly, that last time you removed all of Philo’s comments, didn’t he pay $75 for the service.
I think I paid more than that. Buzz face it. I was meant for NIT. I represent a part of the consciousness that cannot be denied. The Yang to your Yin. The Black to your White. The Skeksis to the uRus. I tried to leave but destiny turned on the radio.
Ugh. You are such an egotistical,.narcissistic asshole. Even if the money would have been raised, you wouldn’t have left. It was all just a big scam to get more attention. Maybe we will all get lucky and you will drop dead, very soon. You are toxic to this site, to everything and everyone you touch.
Philly was kicked off the GG. I know that for a fact! But they are a legit new site. This place is Matt’s playground. But those he targets don’t give a shit. So he’s only a legend in his own mind. Matt & Philly are sorta like twins……Precious isn’t it. The MC “Bobsy Twins”. Twit & Twat. Ying & Yawn. Dumb & Dumber…
You know why I come onto NIT and tell stories of farkling in my pants? Because you’re all boring as dirt to me. Talking about the mall, or what do with this, or what hotel that…it’s as boring and mundane as taking a piss…or a dump. So I make my own fun. I’ve been waiting to engage in a conversation that interests me since day 1. MY entire tenure on NIT was spent in endless combat.
I mean NIT, and the GGDB were guarded by what I call “Status Quo Sentinels”…these are LVS, Buzz, Observer etc. These sentinels basically guard the Status quo like it’s 1950…and any suggestions or thoughts on how to do things differently gets met with staunch stonewalling, and belittlement. There’s like ZERO imagination and creativity in the Sentinels’ minds. They only look for people not following their 1950 rules.
They want your mind locked down…and your body tired. So when you lay down to sleep at night, you’re thinking everything is perfect as it should be…in its place…in order. They want you following what your boss says, and your mind surrendered to the process. They can’t describe what the process is…they only know that a person needs to be supplicated to it, and following its mysterious morays. Disobedience in any form is considered mental illness and heresy to them. People MUST have a…
Hey, don’t steal my “Dumb & Dumber” line, that’s reserved for Bobbie the Twinkie Murderer and Skippy the Trudger.
@Buzz-As i remember it the number was $100.00. I think that was the 2nd time he had his comments removed.
Okay you turd lovers. You had your shot. You couldn’t put your money where your mouth is. You wanted Philo gone, and didn’t do it. You had your chance. Now, if you don’t like him, don’t comment on his posts. Its real simple. 250 bucks was a measly fee to pay to rid yourselves of a so called cockroach, but you couldn’t pull it off. You guys say he is all talk, but you LVS (which I thinks stands for LOVESVALSSCHLONG) and BUZZBUTTBLUGGER are nothing more than a whole bunch of talk…
Pizza Ranch is a crock of shit. I came in and asked to see a menu to buy some lunch and listen to Rick Santorum who may run for President of the United States.
Then the guy behind the counter got all piss’y with me and said I had to buy the buffet for 10 dollars if I wanted to come in. I didn’t mind buying lunch but the attitude of the Pizza Ranch employee or owner cooked his own goose with me. I will not patronize the Pizza Ranch in the future.
Personally I believe that the website owner gets some perverse thrill out of all this.
He kicks back and smiles as his click count goes up, then probably gets a woody just thinking about it.
He likes to foster a culture of confrontation, thereby satisfying his need for attention and getting his jollies at the same time.
There are some dark things buried within this guy.
Another seriously disturbed guy is this LVS character.
Here we have the pot calling the kettle black.
Just another TROLL. As a matter of fact, you write just like Philly. Are there two imbecile’s like that in this world. Silly question wasn’t it? There are a lot of liberals on here and they are all alike. Just like Philly.
Well, looks like Philo is in the clear. The cash wasn’t getting raised. Just a few bucks trickled in. I’ll put the “donate button” somewhere on the site, and if the $250 comes in, I’ll grant his request and delete all his comments and banish him from NIT. Seems like the poll turned out to be not enough motivation to really see him go.
He wouldn’t have left anyway. And you probably wouldn’t have made him.
Cry, cry, cry-grow a pair you sissy. Did you really think Matt would let you dictate his business? What a dunce.
Brown nose
Exactly Anon, this is the only kind of thing that MM can dream up to generate interest in his gossip blog. He’s getting more clicks out of this crap than any of the garbage he “writes”
Replying to yourself doesn’t make your idiotic comment more plausible. You’re misguided, angry, and a troll. Enjoy your day, and come back when you want to have a face to face debate.
@Matt-If anyone should be run off N.I.T. it is these “Anonymous” trolls who come on here and don’t pay it. They serve no purpose except to stir up hatred and dissent. Lets take up a collection to get rid of them.
@LVS, I go by anonymous, but I have a paid subscription. I even kicked in a whopping ten bucks to get philly off here. Sure it’s only ten bucks, but I figured that NIT would let him come back anyway. Matt can put that towards my renewal if I choose to renew. I will have to wait and see, because I truly cannot stomach philly.
@Anonymous-There is one of you that isn’t a bad guy. The problem is you get confused with the TROLLS. I wish you could find another way to identify yourself so we know who we are talking to.
LVS is the biggest troll here. He only seeks to incite with his comments and name calling. He deserves to be slapped like one of Matt Marquardt’s former female relations. Right Matt!?! By the way, take a moment and check out Matt’s Iowa Courts Online page. Actually, it will take you more than a moment. SCARY
A civil matter, as the court clearly says. I have NEVER been accused of a crime in my life, as I have said before. Look it up, troll. Keep reaching, you’ll find nothing.
I mean I get the deleting my comments thing, but there’s something about the way you say “banish” that seems harsh. I think the price should be much higher for a permanent banishment. Your original idea for one year seems much more fair. Down inside, I know many subscribers will begin to miss me after only a few weeks, if not days.
I don’t care if your comments were deleted. I just didn’t want to see any future comments. And YES I wanted you banned permanently..forever. Go find someone in Vegas to annoy. You don’t live here anymore, but you insist on leaving your skidmarks.
Ok seriously. Can I ask you why do you hate me so much? Can you at least write it down? Maybe it will be therapeutic to both me and you. Clearly there’s something about me that tears you up inside. If I can tolerate seeing Carrot Top’s strange face in a grocery store, I can handle hearing your truth.
You couldn’t handle a paper route. There is very little you CAN handle.
What a disappointment. I was hoping to log on today and see philly gone! And by the way, he keeps asking for a poll. Give it to him, Give him the dose of reality that he needs. That no one can stand him on here, or stand him period. You would think that his failed campaign attempt would have proved that to him.
Louis C.K. Monologue – Saturday Night Live. Did he go too far?
I watched it and took it to be comedy. I guess some of today’s liberals might take offense, but it was meant to be funny. Being somewhat older I took it the way it was meant.
Im a liberal and I liked it.
That doesn’t surprise me in the least. You are certainly dumb enough.
LVS-All the guy said was he is liberal and he liked it and you have to call him names and put him down. He did nothing to you and you still have to stoop to name calling. They should throw you off this site too and we could get back to debating the issues instead of name calling. Grow up!!!
And yes I am a paid subscriber……..
Name calling isnt necessary.
Pretty mild, really. And funny.
Sorry Maybe. I was hoping you would not take it as you. I would like to think you are the #4 poster.
🙂
And actually, the vast majority think of LVS as #2
Oh now that would really hurt if I cared one bit about your opinion troll.
If you are talking to me, I have no hate in me for peter at all, just frustration.
This is an open comment to the top 3 posters: Doesn’t it get exhausting going to sleep with such hate and then again waking up with such hate?
Do your spouses/partners also have to take what you dish out all day long?
LVS keeps his Hispanic wife in a closet all day until he lets her out periodically to clean around his internet station. But he paid for a remote control lock and electric dog collar system to keep her within the perimeter of his home. He basically sits in his Lazy Boy Recliner with a TV tray and his Windows 95 Desktop computer off to one side. It’s why his comments are never more than a few sentences, because he’s basically staring at the screen from a cock eyed angle.
He eats those cheap 98 cent Banquet TV dinners which his wife puts in the microwave for him. She tried cooking him an authentic Mexican meal once, but he beat her senseless and said she was being “unpatriotic”. His Wood grain Zenith television console sits on the same shaggy yellow carpet from 1971 when he purchased his home. His cupboards are bare, and he only gets up to piss and mow the lawn.
He still sleeps with his .44 Magnum Revolver in the recliner, but his bullets were taken away long ago by his children who periodically check in to make sure his wife is still alive. They replaced his hollow points with blanks, but left him one bullet in case he’d help speed up the inheritance process for them. It’s placed 2nd in the chamber order, because they figured he’d shoot at the wife first before turning the gun on himself.
Better watch what you’re saying there philly. You don’t like people bringing up your child.
Geez, I’m just kidding. It’s satire…humor. At least an attempt at it. I figured the lead in was too irresistible to pass up.
andy-Go play in your kitchen if you don’t like what you read. No one forces you to look at the posts.
LVS-Quick Question, Why are you always such a jerk to people? Have you been that way your whole life? I feel sorry for you as you life must just suck having that much hate running through your veins.
@Anonymous Too-I don’t hate anyone. But, I also don’t let jerks like you who are looking for a fight push me around. Now, go away tough guy, you bother me.
Hey guy. Lighten up and you will be better because of it. No one is looking for a “fight” when they post here, just some interesting and fun dialogue. Many comments that object to your posts are on target.
Hey LVS, looks like you’re next on the chopping block. Too bad you weren’t escorted out of here first, cuz the reason I became bitter was because of your non stop bitter attitude towards me
@PHILLY-This is the last time I respond to your phsco post. Bull Sh##. You are a A-Hole, born bred and true and I had nothing to do with it. Now, shut up child killer.
If Phili REALLY wanted to leave, he would have. Truth is he CAN’T. He has no self control, never has. He has to be banned to get off NIT. So the ball is in NIT’s court. I would like to see (if possible) a running total of what has been raised. That could be his “popularity poll”.
That would be interesting.
Not much has been raised. Not nearly enough. I said I would take up the task of deleting all Philo’s comments and ban him for good IF the cash is raised to cover my time in doing so. I’m waiting for those so adamantly opposed to his presence here to step up and cover the cost.
You know I’m liking where this is going….I guess the drive to see me banned wasn’t as strong as some would have made it out to be. I’m still thinking the poll is in order…because why in the hell should Buzz be able to reach into his wallet and pay the entire amount just to see me go? Let the poll numbers decide…accompanied with the cash. Democracy? Remember that word?
Why SHOULDN’T one person be able to pony up the full amount? You seem to have no qualms about monopolizing and derailing anything you wish on NIT?
I think NIT smells money to be made in all this. $250 to axe me, then supposedly more subscriptions when I’m gone. And just so assholes understand: this is what I WANTED, not you. I’m the one who put this in motion because NIT was becoming a bad habit, like cigarettes. Personally, I think you’re all punks who can’t compare in intellect and analysis.
And C’mon look at how Matt operates. Fair? Hardly. I’m on the verge of leaving permanently and he won’t even put up a popularity poll to accurately gauge how many readers despise me and how many like me. Is he afraid to know the results? I know how cliquish and small minded regions like NI are, and I’m sure many who like me are scared to publicly admit such for fear of reprisal. A poll would allow an anonymous registration.
Have you ever considered that he just doesn’t care. You are just a bad dream to most of us and he is probably included.
Vice Versa. You’ve been a nightmare to me. North Iowa was a nightmare to me. My upbringing in that abusive shithole, my so-called “education”, the stacking of criminal charges by your corrupt police, and the killing of my family member by a quintessential Catholic boy gone bad. I hope you all rot in hell. I hate you immensely…enough to want to haunt you.
And if I could, and he was standing right there….you better believe I’d do it. And as I’ve said…were I the pilot of Enola Gay with the ability to fly over and drop my payload…you better believe I would. absolutely. So just know that LVS…know how much some people love you and your region you old curmudgeon son of a bitch. Without second thought.
I think you have just crossed the line with your threats. I will turn this over to the police as you have become a treat to everyone. I am not worried because I know you for the coward you are.
I am a treat…a delicious mental treat. Please do turn me in to those fabulous internet police. And if your dumbass was referring to a threat…well that would be one hell of an incident report…”So let me get this straight…you say this blogger named Philly is going to pilot the Enola Gay and drop a hydrogen bomb over Mason City?” Go for it grandpa.
Maybe if I’m lucky, you can get Jason Hugi to call me up on the phone and tell me to play nice on the internet or else he’ll get his father to pass resolution 2447 forbidding the dropping of imaginary hydrogen bombs over regions that provided nasty misery to children based on myopia, religious chains, and general ignorance and good old fashioned dog kicking abuse.
Your poor mother should have pinched your head off at birth, you damn freak. I sure wish you would have followed through with you threats and showed up at my door. You Coward.
Peter, do you normally have these fantasies of mass murder?
I don’t consider them dreams of mass murder #maybe…more like mass cleansing…or mass purification.
@LVS…report him to the police in Vegas. He should be easy to find. A piece of shit car, with cerro gordo county plates and a foul smelling man sleeping in it.
And what’s this shit about “sending Philo packing?” “Blast him into the outer reaches of the internet”? I made him a special request for me to leave NIT in return for him to delete all my comments, and he attached a sum to that request. Then he put it to the NIT vermin who couldn’t wait to pull out their wallets. Then he wouldn’t even grant me a poll so that it looks like it’s all negative. What a mistake NIT was….like picking up that first cigarette.
NEWSFLASH! You aren’t the only one talking here. There was a proposal for a fund to get you off this site as you seem unable to exhibit any self control to do what you say you are going to do. You won’t do what you say you will? OK. We will help you with that then. You’re welcome.
Just wondering. How much is the bounty to banish the name calling old buzzard LVS? He and Philo are birds of a feather. Neither contributes much to the quality of the conversation.
you’re delusional if you think I’m anything like LVS. Are you the same one who calls himself Iowa Sucks or LeftMC? Geez what a traiterous punk you are, when we seem to align so much on philosophy. I think you’re jealous of me. You wanted all the lime light, and you just can’t compete.
What’s the matter TROLL? Can’t you handle it. I was here long before you and I will be here long after.
LVS, get a clue
The comments are not about subscriptions, but about collecting money to get rid of someone.
As has been said, many, many more would subscribe were it not for the likes of Philosophus and to a lesser degree a certain old coot.
As to your comments, you need this:
http://www.trendhunter.com/trends/gumvertising-too-shy-to-say-it-say-it-with-gum
Buzz Crumcutter
This attempt to fleece money from readers is something only sneaks would do.
Don’t buy into it….. it’s a scam, pure & simple.
It’s no fleece. We all work for a living. Both sides have proposed a solution to an on-going problem. I’m attempting to solve it to everyone’s benefit. You jealous you’re not earning any cash today, bro?
I hope you update everyone on the number of comments you delete from me. I’m curious to know the totals.
So let me get this straight…is this a one year ban or a permanent one? I need to know the specifics of the execution before I agree to it.
It appears, in all fairness, that it would be a permanent ban because that’s how all the discussion started between you and the others.
That’s what I wanted in the first place. And just so you know, those who stand to profit from this the most are right of center fascists who will delight in having my insurmountable voice removed. When I’m finished with NIT, I will consider it a center right publication. It will return to the boring banter state that I found it in.
You can’t even stay gone for 24 hours. No one on here is the least bit interested in anything you say. We consider you a Pain in the A## and that is all.
And who the hell are you? A north end nobody. You think just because you keep your comments to a few sentences that you’re somehow more tolerable. People despise you LVS. You’re a curmudgeon and a bully. The kind of family member no one wants.
@Philly-Now I would be hurt and sad if I cared one bit about a crazy persons opinion of me. The same goes for “Anonymous” poster who can’t stand the heat. You mean nothing and you just ca’t get that through you thick skull. You are a waste and contribute nothing to society. You are a leech on the rest of us and always will be. Even your own mother can’t stand to have you around. What a embarrassment you are tyo your family.
A sneak is someone who comes on a subscription ite and trolls around for nothing. He is offering a service for a price. If you don’t like the service don’t buy it, but shut up if you don’t like the results.
This is beyond pathetic.
Website owner ignores the vast majority of readers input to get rid of someone for months.
However it appears that the website owner can be bought.
If everyone is willing to pay him, he will delete the information.
Talk about bribery & scamming people.
Marquardt, you give weasels a bad name.
Even the mayor could take lessons from you.
You are obviously jealous, and lack imagination. Are you asserting that I should work for free? I should spend my time babysitting this feud for nothing? I am providing a service, a service that shall be rendered upon payment of a minimum of $250. Pretty simple; do you believe in capitalism?
Let me clarify as I was the last person to propose a slush fund to get phili to finally leave. This is merely feedback from the reading public. I don’t subscribe to NIT because of phili. I won’t subscribe if he and his blithering kind are allowed to verbal vomit their causes over and over and over again on NIT. I am not alone in not subscribing for these reasons. The proposition is a simple one. Keep letting phili and his kind post and hope it gets more readership than it drives off or allow…
I kicked in ten bucks. We all know that Philly won’t be going anywhere. He will just post under a different name. He like a bad virus. I’m curious to see where and how this goes. I figure Matt can out that towards my renewal if this jackass Philly doesn’t really leave. That’s if I decide to renew. I can’t stomach philly, so if he’s still here, then I get my ten bucks back.
He won’t be able to post under a fake name, and if he does, NIT readers and/or myself will report and delete the comment.
So I have noticed that there were a number of bloody altercations last night in Mason City. We have the photos to prove it. Out patrolling the streets last night, I got approached at least twice by dudes that thought they are Clubber Lang. There was definitely something in the air. The masses are stirring, and it won’t be pretty for long.
It seems that’s another chapter of what’s going on in Mason City. Lots of news lately about the north end, and the owners of properties, and landlords. News of drugs and drug dealers in the community. It’s spring and people are out more. Going out to the bars, (not my choice of things to do)and some people have no business drinking. Much less hanging out in the bars.
OK everyone. You asked for it, you got it. You want Philo out of NIT? See the “donate” button on the NIT home page. Use it.
Can you create a poll alongside it for people to vote on whether they want me to stay or go? I’d like to at least see how many closet fans there are out there…if any. Also, it’d be nice to see progress updates as to the amount raised…but I’m sure you’ll want to keep that secret. Have fun with it….you get one shot to exploit an execution for all it’s worth.
How much do you want???? I will gladly participate!
We have our first donations already. Who is next?
C’mon man…it’s the condemned’s final meal. Put the poll up. Let me see how many were fans of mine before the blade comes swinging down. That’s cruel to deny me the knowledge of my supporters. Either way, I’m gone for one year. It won’t affect my request for execution.
@ Matt…Please let me know when others start to contribute money towards the deletion of Philo.
Call the event by its proper name: The Execution of Philosophus. Why don’t you just pony up all the money Buzz? Then when people start feeling that Philly deficit, they can remember his arch rival Buzz was responsible for the removal. Nah, I suppose like a firing squad, you want others to join in on the killing.
Maybe I’ll start a paypal drive to raise the cash… post that to NIT. Then, anyone can contribute.
I want it called : The Execution of Philosophus. That’s the proper name for the event.
You can call it what you’d like if you put the money up, you cheap slug. Until then, remain silent for once. I’ll honor my word about pledging $50.00. BUT…..if the entire amount of the $250.00 isn’t raised, I want my money back. AND….if you come on this site again and post ANYTHING, I want my $50.00 back. That’s the deal, take it or leave it.
I agree, any money put on there needs to refunded if he comes back.
Since this was all his idea, if the $ is raised, I’ll erase all his comments. Then for 1 year, I will delete every single comment he tries to leave on NIT. After a year, I’m stepping back out. He’s still supposed to stay away, but if he comes back, it’s up to all of you to chastise him about why he came back and broke the agreement. Deal?
Ok, but how about that poll? I think I should at least be entitled to know how many fans I may have out there who are sad to see me go.
I could create a poll later and ask people if they want you to be allowed to come back.
That wouldn’t do the people who paid for my removal any good now would it? C’mon…the moment is now. The executioner’s sword is being sharpened. Put the poll up alongside raising the money, and let’s see how people vote.
@NIT….There was NO MENTION of a 1 year absence in any of these posts until you brought it up. Here is his 5-17-15 at 9:07 am post; ” Wipe me out completely and I’ll stay gone. That’s my word to you.”
I’ll go out on a limb here and make these predictions; The money won’t be raised so Philo will continue to post. The money will be raised and Philo will continue to post.
Like I said before, if the entire amount of the $250.00 isn’t raised, I want my money back. AND….if he comes on…
@ NIT….
Like I said before, if the entire amount of the $250.00 isn’t raised, I want my money back. AND….if he comes on this site again and posts ANYTHING, I want my $50.00 back. Do we have a deal?
Fair enough by me. Philo, can you agree to this?
I was watching Season 7 Sons of Anarchy on Netflix. Yeah, I said I wouldn’t return to NIT if everything I’ve ever posted is deleted including articles I’ve submitted…and a permanent ban on my real last name.
I still want a popularity poll though. I think I deserve one after all the contributions I’ve made. Some people out there like me, and I want to know who. A poll up or down will let me know.
Pbully, sorry but you have zilch, zero, none. No followers at all. Anyone that would appreciate your posts is probably locked up because they are clinically insane. Or high on drugs. You should know you have no followers after your campaign attempt. That was a joke! You as a councilman. Ha ha.
Ok, never mind my request for transcript. I’ll save everything from WhIners and Think Tank and call it a done deal. But I do insist on having every comment deleted. I like the idea of Zen Nothingness…building a mandala, and wiping it clean. It’d really be cool if NIT wiped out their entire data banks and started over…as a gesture to impermanence. But I realize Matt has things he needs to keep up against the current administration in Mason City.
@Philly-where I normally just ignore your post unless you are talking about me, I have to ask what difference does it make. Don’t you think we make copies of your comments? Go ahead and delete them if you think it rally makes any difference.
It tells a long story, and chronicles history. I have transcripts from back in the Globe Discussion Board days, and it’s fascinating to read back, especially after you’ve long forgotten about them. I was profound then, and I’m profound now. Actually then I was even more profound, because I had an optimism that was unsullied. Over the years of facing off with bullies and tyrants like yourselves, it begins to wear one away…which of course has been your goal. Nice to know your ogre…
Ok. I have Think Tank saved. Now I move onto Whiners Den which may be longer yet. I’ll let you know when I’m done. It’s too bad the archives don’t seem to go back to the very beginning. They cut off. Let’s see how far Whiner’s goes back.
Ok, I’ve got Whiner’s saved all the way back to someone saying “Hi Petey!” which is as far back as it goes. If there’s a way to go back farther thru archives let me know. So basically that’s it….have at it. When they send you the money…delete me. And if you do find a way to download every comment specifically from me through WP plugin…let me have the transcript. you know my emails. Go ahead and delete Think Tank also…might as well. I’ll just wait for the gallow floor to…
And if you’re going to remove my head…I ask that you do it in a clean and complete way. No dull knives. I want that sucker to come off. Drive a stake through my heart as well, and burn my body. No chance for resurrection. Rope won’t do it. Holy water only sizzles off.
It probably should be a Pay Per View Event. “The Execution of Philosophus”. Might as well fill as many seats as possible. 🙂
C’mon NIT. Seriously, Philly has posted over 50 comments in 24 hours. This is not what I paid a subscription for. He called your site a saloon for bafoons. Every time he gets ticked off he rants about how horrible you and your site it. Then the next day he’s right back on here with his hundreds of comments. Please consider your paid subscribers and advertisers. This isn’t what we paid for.
You’re in luck. I’m gonna set it down for awhile to look for land. Sorry you were so turned off by me. Maybe had I not been so bullied and berated I wouldn’t have launched a full scale counterattack. But you don’t care about that do ya? You just want ur loud pipes and child murderers to continue on as they were.
You’re still posting, about shitting your pants of all.things. can’t even be gone for an hour. Liar!!!!!! You have no integrity at all. Can’t keep promises, you just keep telling more and more lies.
Here’s my special request to Matt: if you really want me gone…delete every comment I’ve ever written off your site, from whatever source I wrote it from: cell phone, laptop etc. i may have a few transitory names like ghost writer etc but u can find them by ip match. I did change laptops and phones a few times. Wipe me out completely and I’ll stay gone. That’s my word to you.
I’ll do it for $250. That should cover my time.
If you were to also block him from the site forever, plus remove all of his posts, I’ll help pay to have all his comments removed. I doubt it would take much time and others would help chip in to see him and his rants removed.
I want a PDF transcript of everything though Buzz. I’ll accept a massive Word file if it can be printed off and converted. .txt etc. whatever is usable and formatted. Just my comments. No one else’s. I like to analyze my wisdom, because often when it comes out, it’s a whirlwind. I just turn on the spigot….and it flows.
There you have it NIT peoples. Matt has named the price: $250. If you really all want me gone that bad raise the money and pay it to Matt. For that price I’m gonna ask for a downloadable transcript of every comment I’ve made. There should be some form of a script plugin to allow for that? I’m not sure. I’d say assign LVS or Buzz the job of going through every comment I’ve made and saving it to PDF but I think they barely know how to login.
“There you have it NIT peoples. Matt has named the price: $250. If you really all want me gone that bad raise the money and pay it to Matt. For that price I’m gonna ask for a downloadable transcript of every comment I’ve made.”
Guess what genius? IF others pay to have you blocked and deleted from NIT, I really doubt you have any chips to bargain with. Even you should be able to figure that out. Well…..maybe you might be able to.
Matt’s doing this at MY REQUEST…not yours. And I want a permanent ban on my last name and all related configurations. And I want a transcript of every comment. That’s fair…if Matt has to UP the price for the downloadable transcript…so be it. You all can pay to have me gone, since you want it so bad…it should cost you.
And I want a permanent ban on my real last name…forever…in all the former configurations. If you wipe me clean from NIT, I’ll consider North Iowa a blasted out nuclear hole and never return to your site again. Block Philosophus in all it’s configured possibilities a well. I don’t want people talking shit on me while I’m gone. That’s the offer. I’ll await your reply.
Actually I don’t care about Philosophus…let that name be discussed for ages to come. And I may check back periodically to read what’s going on, but I’ll never comment again under any moniker. That’s the Sunday morning offer.
You won’t leave. You never do. You’ve promised many times that you were and you dont.
You aren’t even a man of your own word. Promises mean nothing to you. You just want attention. You have no life, so you make everyone else’s miserable with your presence. You are nothing but a liar ohilly, plain and simple. And yes I did see the post you made about Matt. So you lied about that also.
I have no choice but to refer to you as Cretin (my sincere apologies to persons afflicted with cretinism). You’d never know if I posted a comment because you have no access to my ip information; Matt does. You keep rambling on about some bs accusation someone leveled against Matt claiming he has a domestic assault charge against him…which is false. What a shady world full of anonymous quacks NIT is plagued with.
You’re still here. Thought you were leaving.
“Actually I don’t care about Philosophus…” Well guess what??? Neither do the rest of us. Everyone is sick and tired of your CONSTANT manic rants.
Don’t let the door hit ya where the good Lord split ya.
Actually I’d like if Matt could give me a downloaded transcript of every comment I’ve made first before he deletes them. The last few times we did a zen purge the number was around 20,000 I believe. I really wish I would have transcript end all those first. Actually Matt could make money by releasing coffee table books of the NIT EXPERIENCE were he able to figure out how to transcript comments into usable PDF
Yep, just as I figured, there’s always a catch with you. Maybe Matt should stand on one leg while eating a piece of toast while he deletes your comments. Would that help? Why can’t you just try being a man for once and honor your word???
I love toast. I cooked up a big batch of french toast for my girlfriend and her daughter this morning. I didn’t have any though, I’m trying to shed about 5-8 lbs. It’s the maple syrup that I can’t resist.
It was a massive amount of comments, under several different names. We did get them all, tho.
Philo, these people really want you gone. I’ve never really fully understood where the animosity comes from. I know they hate your rants… but what is the real genesis of the hate? I’m wondering if it’s from the 1993 court case.
Yes they do Matt…and we did get them all last time…at Coffee Cat. LOL. You know, I think it’s a combination of several factors. 1. My mission against loud tailpipes in residential neighborhoods. 2. My disapproval of the war against drugs (war against personal liberty and consumer choices) 3. My disapproval of the military’s enlistment / hiring policies 4. My general analysis of many hypocritical and faulty rules/ practices/ procedures. 5. My belief in the sanctity of the human home 6…
And yes, the 1993 court case in which a man was tried for 1st degree murder of my child and acquitted by a jury of his peers (mason city residents). You’ve stood for free speech as long as you could on my behalf, and I appreciate that. But the pitchforked masses are at your Castle. Let them kill me. My spirit lives on, and the truth I wrote will always resound in their minds, whether it’s printed or not.
I offered to accept $250 from him to delete all his comments – that’s from his request. Ya’ll raise the cash and it’s a done deal.
I’ll gladly send you $50.00 to see him blocked forever and removed forever. BUT…I’d think if he isn’t the one paying to have this much needed service done, then he shouldn’t get anything in return. Why enable him to run the whip when he hasn’t contributed anything?
@Matt-You don’t seem to understand. What we hate is his constant lying and babbling on and on about his philosophy which no one cares about. His hogging the site is another thing and his comments about our military really piss me off. Because of this he has been hated and despised. Where I would like to see him gone it is not my wish to see him banned. I would like to see him controlled.
OK, sure. That is good to know. We need to find a solution to this feud, so more constructive banter and debate can take place. I created the “Think Tank” pretty much just for him, and he does use it, but he is elsewhere in the site too. Maybe once all his comments are deleted, he can agree to ONLY post in there? Would that solve the problem for you, at least, LVS? Thanks
I don’t mind peter being on the site, he just has alot of time on his hands and posts alot. The context of his postings seem to be around his vision of what he wants the world to be and he just won’t stop no matter how ludicrous it is.
@maybe, I do mind him being on here. I am totally against legalization of drugs. The whole marijuana issue is one thing. The use of that drug helped her through her chemo and pain issues when she was dying. But the legalization of cocaine, lsd, meth is just pure insanity. Also I get tired of him talking down our military. I come from a family of veterans that fought for his freedom and he has no appreciation of it at all. He is constantly putting down America. Also, nothing is free. He thinks…
…..that someone should just bend over and give him a house for free. He thinks everyone should just hand him whatever he wants. He has no motivation to get a job and contribute to society. He hasn’t even ponied up the cash for a subscription to this site! YES I mind him being here!
to clarify, a good friend of mine died from cancer and used marijuana on occasion. She suffered for a long time with a horrible illness that took her life. I felt she was entitled to do whatever helped the pain.
Yeah, and there are people suffering from other types of pain besides cancer, including psychological pain, so why shouldn’t they be entitled to medicate with what they see fit?
More heated bullshit fueled by a forty something out of Vegas. This is one of the main reasons you will only have readers and not subscribers. Clean your house.
Clean house? There’s a very simple solution for cleaning house: lock up murderers when they commit murder. Leaving it to the population only causes these kinds of persistent embarrassing problems. The bible talks about an eye for an eye. Most have accepted a lifetime in prison as a substitute for that very strict rule. Sodom and Gomorrah were punished for letting murderers run free. You’re being punished.
Don’t believe in the Bible you say? There’s another simple solution: it’s called the 9mm bullet…also known as “self-help”…or “the law of the jungle”. That’s where one animal overpowers another animal and kills it for territory, breeding, or food. Problem is the government switches back and forth between civil rule and the jungle depending on who’s in control.
Since the law of the jungle was acted upon me by an animal for breeding purposes (lion kills cubs of other male lion) the government would need to suspend its rules (impose a moratorium) to allow me the chance to counterattack the attacking lion. You see at the time I was under the false impression that government’s rules of civility were in effect. Had I known otherwise, I could have attacked the principal lion violently and decisively, to prevent it from killing my cub.
Knowing the general population of Mason City and how they think, I would never subject myself to their discretion or judgment. Therefore the ONLY thing protecting the principal lion is the uncertain and illogical thinking processes of the other animals in the region. Now, should I ever tire of living…that’s a different story. But as if yet, I’m still interested and entertained. But I’ve also stated that before, so there’s no need to be redundant…or is there?
And of course there is a slice of mercy and compassion that exists within me as homage to my fondness for peace, the Buddha, and JC.
There’s rope and a tree, as Judas Iscariot discovered…and I’m praying the lion believes…so that he may ascend the laws of the jungle, meet the spirit of the deceased, and ask for forgiveness. He has that option, and I’m hoping he does the correct thing…the thing a real believer would do…and go to the next world..,thru the portal of God’s forgiveness. Here on earth there is nothing for him, just me nudging him along to his destiny.
Matt could make him honor his promise, since he seems incapable and unwilling. Hell we should start a fund to cover the loss of his subscription and some maintenance to keep him out of here. I could get behind that. Who’s with me?
Deprivation beckons deprivation. If you deny someone their voice, their life…so too shall yours be deprived. You fight what’s inevitable. You fight destiny. You fight so you may draw a few more breaths, see a few more sunsets, sit under a few more trees. But you’re living on borrowed time. You deprived, and the price for that is to be deprived.
An unwholesome vile act has been performed, and the villain lives among you. Your complicity is registered by your hostility to me. Your silence speaks of your longing to be free.
Remember this comment??? “The last thing I’m going to say to you fooches before I permanently delete NIT from my life and computer altogether….”
Please honor your word and leave (for the 30th time) as you promised. You’ve had your say, now move along. Its bad enough you constantly crap yourself and people think you’re an idiot. But to continually post your non-stop rants as you do, only proves to people you really are an idiot.
I share those crap stories because they are funny, true, and pervasive…meaning everyone has been struck with an urgent need to rapidly expel the Burger King McDonalds they just ingested. I’m just honest and relaxed on how I deal with the stress of it. Shitting one’a drawers isn’t a pleasant experience, but neither is the stress of holding it in. I try my best, but if it needs to come out, I prefer to mitigate the damage.
The longest I’ve gone with a load in my pants was 5 days, but that was after my child was murdered and I was severely depressed: 1994. Recently I went 4 hours while driving around Vegas with no where to go. It was funny too cuz I went driving thru these million dollar neighborhoods near the foothills in this crappy finished car with a full smelly load in my drawers. It took me weeks to get the smell out of my clothes and the seat
Attentive NIT fans will remember the “Live Fecal Blogging” I attempted to do from the JC Penny parking lot I was parked in, until Matt deemed it too much and deleted my comments. I was giving a ‘play by play’ of the experience as it was happening. I didn’t have Bob Fisher calling the plays but would have liked to.
Pretty much right up Bobbi’s alley there. If he can put down the Twinkies and skip a girl’s volleyball match maybe he could take you up on it.
Yep, and his posts don’t get deleted. But God forbid if you say anything against Matt’s precious Philly. Matt deletes anything that’s said against him. Why? What does he have on you Matt? We know he’s searched you out on the courts site as he posted a comment about a charge you had at one time? What else does he have on you that you keep protecting him?
I’ve never searched Matt out on Courts Online and I’ve never posted anything about his personal life. Matt knows this because he knows my IP address. He knows that I post under ONE NAME ONLY which is Philosophus. Morons like you don’t understand that WP moderators like Matt and myself can spot any IP address region that a person is posting from, unless they take elaborate steps to go through an IP masker. Why would I do that? Unlike you cowards, I’m proud of the comments I make and want…
Matt wants to foster entertainment first and foremost. Secondly I believe he mostly believes in delivering free speech the best he can. Thirdly, I think when it comes to unpunished child murderers, he has a genuine interest in seeing some kind of justice come about. As Matt is the same age as Donahoo, I’m sure he remembers the case (unless he was in college at the time?) Matt gives voices to the voiceless, and he’s gotten better at that in the past few years.
Seek help now.
I’ve never, ever in my life been charged with a crime. You better look again, and look real close.
I have never even bothered to look. The point I’m making is when you pulled Philly comments when he was promoting his Web site, his response was to say there was something about you on Iowa courts. And yes the poster was philosophous. I reported that post and it was removed. I just cannot understand why you have let him take over your site.
When I see 75% of the postings with his name on it, there is a whole lot less to read then.
That’s a bullshit lie. Matt knows you’re lying because he sees the region my posts originate from. You’re still at it huh?
@Maybe-When I see his name on a post I don’t even read it. And, when I sign in and see all of his post I don’t look at anything, I just sign off.
That’s the point I’ve been trying to make to NIT. when he’s all over the site it turns people away. It turns subscribers away. And also possible subscribers. It’s sickening that he is allowed to rule the site.
I just have a sneaky suspicion that ole John Skipper is perched in his Glob cubicle, with NIT on his computer monitor, hitting the “refresh” button over and over to see what we will do next. Yes, it feels good to lead the Glob newsroom by the nose.
Yes, the Globe sank to a new low today. Earlier on their web of the say “top stories” they sold out to Pritchards. I have no problem with Pritchards but so sell a spot of “top stories” seems desperate?
In a poll conducted by Public Policy Polling, 34% of people surveyed believe that Michael Jordan would beat LeBron James in a game of one-on-one today. That’s 52-year-old, retired for 12 years MJ vs. the guy who just dropped 38 on the Bulls. Who do you think would win?
Even if you took both players at their absolute prime, Jordan would certainly still have a major tussle on his hands & would be giving away about 3 inches and 50 pounds.
But today?
Fuhgeddaboudit, Jordan’s only chance would be to take the showdown onto a golf course.
Not a fan of LeBron. So, I would like to see Jordan win this one. I agree with the other post. Maybe they should take the challenge to the golf course.
Hey Matt, any thoughts on putting your hat in the council race again? Would love to see you on the ballot again.
Anything is possible. However, I am becoming more of a fan of Alex Kuhn as time passes. His seat would be the only one I’d be eligible for. I think in two years, there would be three seats I’d like better: 4th ward… At-Large… or… MAYOR.
True, I have always liked Alex Kuhn. He’s cut from a totally different cloth than Solberg and Hickey.
Hey Buzz-I won, I won, I won. I told you old poopy pants would be back in less than 48 hours and here he is. He has no one who will have anything to do with him and his new venture as a web designer is another abject failure like everything else he does. Here’s betting he is back in his momma’s basement before fall.
I knew he would be back. Just like a bad case of herpes. He’s just a pathetic leach. I threw up in my mouth when I saw him on here AGAIN. Why can’t he just go away????????
Why can’t he just go away and STAY away is the million dollar question.
@Anonymous-It is like I said. He has nothing else. We are a captive audience for his rambling B.S. He has no friend or family that wants anything to do with him. He was such a embarrassment to his mother she just wants him out of her life. It is a sign of metal illness and excessive illegal drugs.
@LVS. . It was nice the 24 hours he was gone. I don’t like to think badly of people. But I have to say I just cannot stomach seeing his name on posts. I absolutely despise this guy. Last week ,he was stalking Matt on Iowa courts, now has the audicity to come back. He has redefined what a POS is. Someone needs to just kick him in the nads and punch him in the face. In fact if he shows his ugly mug around North Iowa that might just happen. Lord knows he has pissed off ALOT of people.
I know a few guys that ride with the Hells Angels that live in vegas and have loud pipes.
@anon: you don’t want to think badly of people? What a crock of sh**…Of course you do. That’s PRECISELY what you want, so you can “kick someone in the nads and punch them in the face”. You ain’t fooling anyone home slice.
@maybe: solicitation to commit violence is a felonious offense. U better just take care of those grand kids and hush up.
First of all butt munch I never said anything about violence, all I said was that I know some people. Secondly, DID YOU JUST THREATEN MY GRANDKIDS???
“Hell’s Angels in Vegas?” and directly in response to a post by someone who says I should be “kicked in the nads and punched in the face?” Save the stupid-routine…We all know what you meant by that… And I’ll say it again Bubba…calling on known violent biker gang members to intimidate or commit violence against someone is a FELONY, so watch yourself Bub.
@maybe, I have Philly license plate number and make of car. You can relay those to your biker friends. Although pretty easy to spot that car with cerro gordo plates and the smell that radiates from it.
To LVS, Buzz, maybe and every other poster and subscriber on here. PLEASE email at and voice your opinions of what is going on here with Philly. This is ridiculous. It’s not fair to the paid subscribers, or to the advertisers. These rants have gotten out of control. Philly is monopolizing this site. He is driving people away and the advertisers are wasting their money when people don’t even want to come to the site because of Philly. Please all do this! Philly needs to go.
@LVS….It’s too bad you didn’t get up some sort of a pool. You could have walked away a big winner on your prediction!!!
The sad thing is, everyone else loses when he comes back.
@Buzz-Yes, I know. I am surprised that Matt didn’t ban him after his comments and all the disruption he causes. He hogs the site with his meaninless rambling that is certainly a sign of mental illness. In other words he is crazy as a loon.
I see where the “Shrine” Circus is coming to town next week. Get this, you can watch them beat Elephants with a barbed stick for the mere cost of $17.50 general admission if you order on line. And for a real treat you can walk around “back stage” and witness inhumane animal care. Where can I get more information about joining others to protest this barbarism? Looking forward to NIT coverage of this event.
Your attempt at connecting to facebook was a good idea but the problem that I saw was there was no place to respond to the postings, no reply button. I have no problem with using my real name as long as everybody else has to do the same.
Actually it was working except for one major issue: The software was slowing the site down way too much. So right now, looks like we can’t do it.
not suitable for use is an interesting way to describe something as “working”.
Well, well, well, Petey. Couldn’t stay away could you? Do you think we wouldn’t recognize a new poster?
Hi Petey!
And I don’t think this is LVS who is posting this about Matt and NIT. Nice try phili. You’ve sunk pretty low this time.
I see that the band concert schedule is out. Isn’t it something that thousands of dollars were spent on the band shell, but the Mason City Municipal Band isn’t doing any concerts there.
This morning, Tuesday, they’re repainting the sharrows on east state st. I figured it out, it’s a dog and pony show for band fest. I can feel my savings account shrinking.
$200K to paint the roads/concrete in MC now. Just a few years back it was under $100K.
If I remember right, last year they were $200 thousand over budget on painting the streets.
Not so many years ago City employees did this job for far less and they had other responsibilities too. Last years paint job was a joke by the private contractor and whoever authorized payment should be ran out of town.
That would be our mayor.
Couldn’t they just have been touched up?
Bush stock market at 7000 obama stock market 18000 bush 2 wars not payed for 3 trillion dollars obama health care for the people anybody who bitches about the aca i hope isn’t on medicare or ss people are just plain idiots when it comes to the gov dolling out money. Its just what side of the line you are on.
The last thing I’m going to say to you fooches before I permanently delete NIT from my life and computer altogether….
Anonymous = Cowards
Any website moderator that allows a bunch of anonymous users to snipe and attack without any accountability is running a bafoon saloon. That’s what NIT is basically…a saloon for bafoons.
And sorry Matt, but Jesus didn’t give you anything. You’re a product of genetics and science.
You’re leaving? permanently? Again? Who’s the buffoon?
Oh NO, not again? The biggest B.S. Artist I have ever seen is threatening to leave us for about the 100th time. The other thing he is besides being a B.S. Artist is a damn coward and a liar. Good Bye, Bad luck and good riddance.
In all fairness, Philo, you’ve made by far the most comments on NIT, even surpassing me. You’ve drank from the NIT trough for a long time. Maybe the well’s run dry. I think your new site allows comments, you should give that a shot.
Crappy trails Captain Crap-o-rama. Let the farts be with you.
But….we all know, like diarrhea, you’ll be back.
@Buzz-Do you want to take any bets on how long old crap in his pants is gone this time? I am betting less than 48 hours. He has tried this before and like everything he does it failed. He has no one else to talk to and like a little child negative attention is better than no attention.
@LVS… He will be back just as you say. In fact, he’s probably on here now just slinking around. I know we haven’t heard the last of him either.
This will be; “I’m Philly and I’m leaving for ever” version 28.0
Poor phili. He’s all mad because Matt did the right thing and deleted his posts promoting his own site. You want to promote your so called business? Well then pony up the money to pay for the advertising. Good riddance phili. Hope you really stay gone this time.
You won’t leave, you will just post under a different name.
@anonymous-He probably already is posting under a different name. there are sever new names on here since he said he left.
@LVS, you are correct. I’ve noticed a couple new posters also. There’s one by the name Webster. His lingo is too much like Peteys. And since he thinks he’s a web master now, the name kind of fits. We will NEVER be free of him.
Philly is like Herpes, when it will infect the host…… nobody knows.
@Sandy-Very True.
Hmm mm genetics and science? Not Jesus? Pretty strange thing to say from a self proclaimed minister.
Hmmmmm genetics and science? Not Jesus? Pretty strange thing to say from a self proclaimed minister.
Vice President Biden said today that when taking office in 2009, the President & VP made tough but necessary decisions:
✓ Recovery Act
✓ TARP
✓ Dodd Frank
✓ Auto Rescue
✓ ACA
Which program is your favorite, which was the worst for America?
All of them were terrible for America. I would say the Auto Rescue ranks right up there.
The Dodd Frank act was what caused the economy to collapse in 2008. You would never guess that they are democrats.
The auto bail out was a smart move. We got our money back with interest. The biggest mistake was that no banking officials who caused the near collapse of our economy was sent to jail for a very long time. Just goes to show you corporate greed is forgiven but your a thief if you work for a living and want a decent wage and some health care coverage for you and your family.
Monday May 11 @ 1:00 PM I just saw a company called QSI, removing the sharrow signs in the 1400 block of east state st. What a waste of tax payers money, the city last year had them painted on at the cost of several thousand dollars. I wonder what it’s costing us to have them removed, and what it’s going to cost to replace them, $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ It’s time for a revolution….
I saw them too. I drove down state street. It seems they covered some and kept the ones that weren’t very faded. Stupid. They could have left them alone and they would fade on their own. What a waste of money.
@anonymous-I think they have to take them up before they can put down new ones. Watch your wallet. They are getting ready to stick it to you again.
Matt, I don’t think it’s fair to the businesses on your site that actually pay for their advertising, and you’re allowing phili to put his business for free! You need to get his comments with his Web site off here.
No once cares about your site. Matt should be charging you for advertising.other people with legitimate businesses pay for their advertising on his site. Just goes to show what a leach and loser you truly are. Go away phili. It was nice when you were gone for the last couple days.
Entering this website into the URL crashed my iPhone’s Safari all 3 times I tried it.
A wordpress site using a theme created by someone else. *yawn*
Do you think anyone really cares?
No one on here gives a flip. Our one hope is that it will keep him off this site. I am sure Matt noticed there were a lot more comments by other people without him hogging the site. Hopefully, once he is gone people will come back.
Anyone know what is being built West of the Iowa State Patrol office on the North side of the road?
Iowa DOT building
and on the south side down the road they are building a alliant energy building
With building an Alliant building. Will they still be occupying their building downtown.
Anyone have any idea when is the final date that we will find out Mason City don’t get the state money to build that dumb hockey rink in the mall???
It will be fun to watch the disappointment wash over all the dreamers and I don’t want to miss it…
Later this summer. I’m not so sure MC won’t be awarded the money. It’s a better bet to think Marriott wants no part of MC, since we can’t fill up the hotel rooms we already have and will have.
Thanks for the update… No matter how it shakes out, they don’t get the money, or Marriott tells them to pack sand, or they get the money…
It will just be fun to watch it all fail….
Because if it fails, that will help the City out?
Has the “decision” already been made?
I see that the sports memorabilia store is moving to the Younkers wing.
Is that a positive or a negative? If the $ is coming, the memorabilia store should stay where it is. I think the city is getting the $. Not sure that guarantees that the whole deal is gonna happen, tho.
If they end up renovating the penny’s store I to the sports complex, wouldn’t that pretty much take up that whole wing? I’m just guessing. But the only thing left on that wing is the eye glass store and younkers home store. At least the memorabilia store isn’t leaving all together. Maybe they know something we don’t.
I don’t know what it is with the state of Wisconsin. A shooting on a wilderness trail occurred. Remember the Mung shooting skirmish between local hunters and the Asian Mung man who alleged they were uttering racist language towards him? Jeffrey Dahmer? Wisconsin is a strange state. Makes me think the more wild an area is, the more crazy stuff happens.
So more charges filed against police by state prosecutors (Baltimore this time) yet NIT declines to feature any coverage. Sometimes NIT seems anti-police, and other times pro-police. Most of the time, pro police, unless the police or prosecutors decline to act in accordance with NIT’s wishes. Regardless, nationwide reform is arriving, and the militarization of the police is finally drawing to a close. Long Overdue.
shut up
If you hate America so bad, then get the eff out! Tired of your rants against my country Philly.
“Your” country is only one manifestation of it, and based on the expense and exploitation of others. MY COUNTRY is based on fairness and equality for all. MY COUNTRY allows freedom and personal liberty. MY COUNTRY obeys golden rule maxims. YOUR country hurts and bigots against people.
In your mind your country runs rampid with people high on drugs causing chaos. In your country, people don’t work for a living and have everything given to them including a house. In your country people contribute nothing to society.
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I can’t wait for the day that NIT is anti you and they refuse to publish anything associated with you.
I pop in every once in a great while now, that is until he leaves then I will probably come back. I suspect the liberals are all glad that I am not here as much.
Buzz, I must have really gotten you good. I can tell you’re hurting. These National stories about police getting arrested and charged with murder is tearing you up inside. I’m just sorry that all the murderous cops in Iowa and Minnesota didn’t get brought up on charges. I spoke out on NIT early on. Now the killings can no longer be ignored. Murder Inc. (aka The police in America) are going to be overhauled. It’s coming, and much of my policy vision will come true.
You are a true psychic, idiot savant, with diarrhea of the mouth and constipation of the brain.
Yep, you’re an injured lion. At the mercy of the hyenas.
You need to grow up Marquardt
This is not only funny it has a lot of truth about it too.
You really need to grow up Marquardt
Doubt it. Will be making lots, lots more of these awesome memes for your viewing entertainment. They will most certainly be drawing you back to NIT everyday, and then you will go and tell your friends (if you have any) about them. You will be hooked like a heroin addict.
You really should sue the University of Iowa and get your tuition back.
The education didn’t work.
Matt:
I read an interesting article in the globe the other day about how the mayor of Swaledale asked the county BOS for support in getting rid of run down houses and Jay’s response was to incorporate! I find it interesting he would want the taxpayers of the county to take on city’s massive sewer debt. Dig into it!!!
Im not a prejudice person and with all of this riot shit going on lets turn the tables, white people have been getting killed by the police for years and we don’t riot. Looks to me like the rioters are mostly young unemployed youths that want to blame someone else for the losers they are. To me its not right for the police to just shoot or kill anyone but the focus is on the black community but cop killing whites and blacks have been going on for years. Our world is doomed and in a sad way.
Mason City project gets past the first step in funding for Marriott/convention center. NIT get on the ball
Yep I see that. Getting more info now.
According to the DM Register: “Approved applications include ones from Grinnell, Coralville, Mason City, Sioux City and Davenport. The board has not guaranteed funding to the five cities that are moving ahead. It will hear presentations from each on May 21. Combined, the five cities are looking for more than $65.5 million in funding, but the state can only hand out about $41.5 million.”
In other words, it means nothing yet.
Right, yet it does mean MC just might get some or all of the $9.8 million. Which could be big trouble for taxpayers. $36 million project minus $9.8 million (of our money) equals a lot of millions left… how does that get covered? Fuzzy math and bake sales? A grant from the Chamber of Commerce? Nah. Taxpayers will be holding the bag long after Eric’s wife takes a job in Des Moines and he follows her south. I’m telling ya’ll, watch out for this one.
@N.I.T.-we have gotten shafted so many times by our city we have come to expect it. It does no good to warn anyone as they seem to be to stupid to understand for the most part. They look at the little portion they want and think it is O.K.
The Indonesian government today used firing squads to execute 8 prisoners from Australia, Brazil and Nigeria, along with one Indonesian – for drug charges. Too harsh?
Depends on what the drug charges were. If it were for marijuana possession, yes, too harsh. Heroin possession – too harsh. Heroin distribution yes.
@bodacious-I read that it was distribution of 8 grams of heroin. They were dealers. It was a old charge as they had been on death row for ten years.
Putting something into your body is YOUR choice. This Indonesian government, like any other murderous government is guilty of murder. I don’t care what the laws say. Unless those drug mules were forcing people to take their products, the government has zero justification for what they did. They get power happy, until a coup overthrows them, and they find themselves in the firing line. I sincerely hope whomever is in that regime gets a bullet to their heads soon.
There are people rooting for you to put something into your body…. Heh.
I’ll give you the benefit of the doubt and assume you meant “psyche meds”. Polio couldn’t be that callous could he?
As far as drugs it’s quite simple: Liability towards others is the only concern someone using drugs should be concerned with.
If someone presented to the hospital sickened from huffing paint fumes, they wouldn’t be charged with a crime would they? No…maybe they’d be admitted to a psyche ward but no criminal charges would ensue. Same should apply for any substance
Drug or substance use should be classified as a medical issue. In a court of law, if someone deliberately huffed paint fumes, became crazed and maliciously attacked someone resulting in injury, I’d expect the judge to hold that substance user criminally liable with an enhanced punishment due to their substance use resulting in a criminal act. Traditionally defense attorneys argue for acquittal based on substance use, but I’d say the opposite should occur.
Suppose a government formed comprised of ultra strict Vegan Organic Zealots, and they punished by death anyone who dealt with High Fructose Corn Syrup or GMO’s. Would people find it reasonable to allow this ‘extremist’ government to execute violators of their laws? No, of course not. The same logic should apply for the world’s governments and their ridiculously hypocritical drug policies.
Suppose society expected a person to work if they were able, not if they wanted to or could find the right suitable line of work? Man I wished you lived in a society like that. Oh wait, I do. You just choose to ignore it. Keep us up to date when your horny auto body buddies kick you out. We are dying to know what is wrong with them when they shun such a genius as yourself.
I’ll tell you what is wrong with ‘them’, as I’ve already detected ‘their’ faults. 1. Ultra narcissistic womanizer who thinks women worship him and people should hang on his every word and wish (even when he’s illogical or doing things wrong). 2. Messy, dirty workspace, filled with procrastination and tit for tat power struggle games. 3. Backbiting, slander, and general pettiness. Yeah, this guy is a real tool, and despite building him a nice website, he hasn’t honored his end.
But make no mistakes, the A team in auto body in Las Vegas have already kicked this guy to the curb. In fact I had to go pick him up from the ’57 Fairlane job because the owner fired him due to bickering and backtalking. He was fired from Count’s Kustoms, and Horny Mike only hangs on as a friend to pick his brain and steal ideas from him. I tried to work with him because I understand the idea of being an outcast, but he correctly fills his reputation: impossible.
BTW…while we were out prospecting shop space, we pulled into one of numerous auto shops so he could bid a frame setting job (smashed car) and I noticed a very nice lowrider truck with Iowa plates from Greene County. He airbrushed the dragons on the side. The guy is good, but like some artists, he’s an ego maniac and impossible to develop a relationship with. I used the shop’s bathroom and narrowly avoided shitting myself in the car. It’s the soda not the fast food that does it.
I’ll tell you what is wrong with ‘you, Philo’, as we’ve already detected ‘your’ faults. 1. Ultra narcissistic fool who thinks we should worship you and people should hang on your every word and wish (even when you’re illogical or doing things wrong). 2. Messy, dirty, pants filled with shit, procrastination and tit for tat power struggle games. 3. Backbiting, slander, and general pettiness. Yeah, you are a real tool, and despite building a guy a nice website, he still thinks you’re a slug.
@Anonymous-That pretty well covers it. You could have just said he is a leach on society and gotten there.
One of these days Philly will o.d. on his drugs, or piss someone off in Vegas and they beat him senseless. He just can’t keep his mouth shut, and his day will come and bite him in the ass.
“You don’t care what the law says”, no kidding?
An interesting question, posed by the Blue Zones:
“Longevity vs Compassion? The longest-lived people eat mostly plants and plant products—about 90% of dietary intake. Meat is consumed but only 5 times per month. We’re not sure if they live longer because of the meat of DESPITE the meat. In fact, according to the Adventist Health Study, the longest-lived Americans eat no meat at all. At any rate, I see images like this and realize that a living breathing, creature, one that feels pain exactly as humans do, had to give its life for one meal. I’ll stick with beans. What do you think?”
Matt, I didn’t know you were a vegetarian. That’s awesome. Your assessment is so true. We kill these creatures to satisfy ONE meal. We shit out the chicken, and our hunger comes back…and so ANOTHER creature must die. It’s a sick cycle. You’ve inspired me to get back to my dark red kidney beans I used to consume as my main protein source.
I’m not a vegetarian, but I avoid meat as much as I can. That being said, I ate a delicious burger this weekend and plan to make more. I feel like meat -especially red meat – is not so healthy.
More trashed and unread MC Shoppers at 200 block of 14th Street SE. Photo sent by an NIT subscriber.
“Here is a house in my neighborhood that no one has lived in for months, wouldn’t you think the shopper people would figure it out that no one lives there and stop delivering!!”
LOL, The shopper was the only job I was ever fired from. When I was a kid in the late 60″s I had a shopper route that also covered south shore drive in Clear Lake. Practically every house south of the outlet creek along south shore were summer cottages at that time. I kept telling my boss to remove 40 papers from my route because these people were gone for the winter and they kept giving them to me. Back in that day, the shady beach had a burn bin and I burnt the extras.I got reported and…
Now happening in Baltimore, Maryland:
They should go after each and every one of these criminals and prosecute them to the fullest.
I will never understand this mob mentality. Why these people think that this appropriate action. It just shows the ignorance of some in this country.
They should tear gas these mobs and get all of them apprehended. This is sickening.
Unless soros is funding it like he did ferguson.
Wow whats with all the women being posted on here for breaking the law?? Times sure have changed.
What went on at Kraft Foods last night about 8:30 PM? There were so many police cars you couldn’t count them all and all with their lights on.
There was a horse involved. I think it got loose, so the cops were trying to catch it. They were making jokes about it over the radio waves (scanner).
Thanks Matt-They sure had a lot of police for a horse. They kind of left the rest of town unprotected.
I remember when a half knocked cow broke through a window at the old IBP plant on 12th street. It ran all the way down Pierce to where Kum & Go is on 122 before it stopped. It took the cops about 15 shots before they killed it, nobody could hit it.