I'm composing this note in Ah hooo ah hooo ah hoooo Viking Purple. My first question to the Vikings (and the NFL is) - HAVE YOU READ A NEWSPAPER lately? My second question is that even if you feel you deserve a new stadium - Have you earned it?  In most businesses/ways of life you need to be hard working and successful to have things given to you. (ummm you're on strike and have never won a superbowl.)

Our national deficit has reached its limit. The unemployment rate is crazy. And you think that since you're putting in $400 million that it's okay for the taxpayers to foot the rest?  Maybe during the 90's America was stupid enough to buy into your 30-60 deal, but you didn't seal the deal then. And I hope for the sakes of Minnesotans you don't this time either. Have you turned on the news today? It doesn't matter if you're a right-wing radio HTBTWTT  (have to be told what to think) entitlist or a lefty-NPR liberal EEIAI  (everyone else is an idiot) elitist.  Even the crazies on both sides understand cuts are being made all around. These are cuts so that people can eat for the Love of God.

Why don't we ask each player to contribute in order to keep their job?  Cuts are being made all over the place. Whether it be a furlough or shortened work week. NFL and Ziggy this is stupid. If I were the Governor of MN you wouldn't be seeing a cent. I love football more than most people. But I love rationality more. This is stupid. T'hell with the Queens and taxing people only for another losing season.



Below is the article from the Minneapolis/St. Paul Business Journal - Goodell: NFL to contribute toward Vikings stadiumMinneapolis / St. Paul Business Journal - by Ed Stych, Web ProducerDate: Tuesday, May 17, 2011, 10:43am CDTNFL Commissioner Roger Goodell, after meeting with Gov. Mark Dayton Tuesday, said the league will contribute financially toward a new Vikings stadium.Goodell, who was in town for court-ordered talks aimed at ending the league’s lockout, said he’ll reveal details in the next few days about what the NFL would contribute. Metropolitan Sports Facilities Chairman Ted Mondale said Goodell may take a more active role in the stadium debate, Minnesota Public Radio reported.

>Click here to read MPR's story.

An NFL contribution had been presumed by the Vikings, and the $407 million contribution the team has offered towards an Arden Hills stadium includes the NFL's money too.

Regarding possible NFL funding, Mondale said, "We presume it's something. How much? (I’m) not particularly sure, but a range would help all of us.”

Goodell said he toured the Arden Hills site where the Vikings want to build the new stadium on Monday, the Star Tribune reported.The Vikings feel “very strongly” about the Arden Hills location, the commissioner said.

>Click here to read the Star Tribune's story.

The Vikings would contribute $407 million to the building of the facility under a plan between the team and Ramsey County.  The county would raise $350 million through a sales tax, and the state would contribute $300 million.

Gov. Dayton said Tuesday that he was holding firm to $300 million as a maximum contribution from the state, and that figure needed to include road improvements that have been pegged at $175 million.

The Vikings think the road estimate is too high, and state Transportation Commissioner Tom Sorel said he was working on determining a final figure for the road costs, the Star Tribune reported.

While Minnesota overwhelmingly voted that brewers can serve pints at their establishments - Wisconsin is introducing a bill that will allow residents to conceal and carry perhaps without permit or gun safety training.

Is there a connection between the two issues? How can these proximal states have such very different agendas?

Is Minnesota behind the times? Breweries and home brewers bottle and sell their products without a blink of the eye. It's just the way it is.  Minneapolis has dropped further behind Milwaukee in the latest Daily Beast drunkest city poll. Maybe this is a way to inch back up to their prior #2 status. 

Is Wisconsin jealous? Minnesota already allows conceal and carry. Is Wisconsin upping the ante to conceal and carry without having a permit or gun safety training?  Are they trying to bury all rationality by trusting the "law abiding" citizens to harbor guns in their pants? YIKES!

Does it makes sense to me to allow people in the drunkest city in American where bars trump grocers - to pack the heat in the name of self-defense?
I live not far off the stumbling path of one of the main "bar streets" in Milwaukee and I wouldn't trust most of the people stumbling around after 9 p.m. to have a live weapon hidden in their trousers. It's not so much the self-defenders I'm worried about - it's the soon to be patriots and people who were mad because Fat (fill in the Name) looked at you wrong. I guess we should just try it and see? I'm sure after the first few accidental/misunderstanding shootings/deaths - we'll most likely get used to the notion and accept it like we do drunk driving. Or maybe all of a sudden drunk people will begin to act rationally. That'd be great PR for the drunkest city in America! 

My lastest Facebook status update may explain my feelings on the issue: "I'm thinking about buying a trench coat if the conceal and carry law goes through. I want everyone to wonder whether or not I'm packin' the heat - that's right "self-defense" is my middle name! Welcome to Wild Wild Westconsin! Biatchhhhhes. Should I get an AK47, M16, Glock, or maybe an old Remington... Decisions, decisions, decisions... I ♥ Wisconsin and it's progressive thinking :)"