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Wow you are right. Those sneaky democrats, trying to fool people by having someone else do their attacking for them.  If there was only some obviously mundane way to connect the two so more than just “sherlock savvy” journalists could figure out the real truth.  If they only had the same last names or something…

Im confused though, does someone think WSI isn’t a train wreck?  Even the Attorney General (a republican mind you) came out today and said WSI broke laws.  Damn liberal attorney generals…

Wow you are right. Those sneaky democrats, trying to fool people by having someone else do their attacking for them.  If there was only some obviously mundane way to connect the two so more than just “sherlock savvy” journalists could figure out the real truth.  If they only had the same last names or something…

Schneider is a relatively common last name, and as shocking as it may be to certain smarmy internet trolls not everyone reading articles about WSI might know who Jasper Schneider is, or that he’s related to this yahoo comparing WSI’s treatment of injured workers to the way terrorists are treated.

As for WSI breaking laws, that’s neither here nor there.  If you want me to say that WSI needs reform i’ll say it.  WSI needs reform.

But that being said, the Democrats (who only want to turn WSI back into a gravy train for labor interests and people like the Schneiders) aren’t the ones to do it.

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The war against illegal plunder has been fought since the beginning of the world. But how is… legal plunder to be identified? Quite simply. See if the law takes from some persons what belongs to them, and gives it to other persons to whom it does not belong. See if the law benefits one citizen at the expense of another by doing what the citizen himself cannot do without committing a crime. Then abolish this law without delay … If such a law is not abolished immediately it will spread, multiply and develop into a system.

Frédéric Bastiat, The Law

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But that being said, the Democrats (who only want to turn WSI back into a gravy train for labor interests and people like the Schneiders) aren’t the ones to do it.

I’m confused.  If they are working to reform WSI so that more injured workers claims get accepted, wouldn’t that mean less work for lawyers?  One would think the “gravy train” is what is currently going on, unfairly denied claims means a lot more work for lawyers.  In second thought, it seems like you might be the confused on how the system works, don’t you think?

I’m confused.  If they are working to reform WSI so that more injured workers claims get accepted, wouldn’t that mean less work for lawyers?

They’re working to reform the system so that lawyers get paid by WSI for representing injured workers.

The Schneiders have made millions from WSI, and they’re looking to make millions more.

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The war against illegal plunder has been fought since the beginning of the world. But how is… legal plunder to be identified? Quite simply. See if the law takes from some persons what belongs to them, and gives it to other persons to whom it does not belong. See if the law benefits one citizen at the expense of another by doing what the citizen himself cannot do without committing a crime. Then abolish this law without delay … If such a law is not abolished immediately it will spread, multiply and develop into a system.

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One would think the “gravy train” is what is currently going on, unfairly denied claims means a lot more work for lawyers.

Actually, not at all.  The claims are denied (rightfully) and the worker’s lawyers don’t get paid.  At least not by the state.

The benefit is that state businesses don’t have to pay higher premiums to support benefits for all the malingerers.  Which is why ND has enjoyed some of the lowest premiums in the nation in the past.

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The war against illegal plunder has been fought since the beginning of the world. But how is… legal plunder to be identified? Quite simply. See if the law takes from some persons what belongs to them, and gives it to other persons to whom it does not belong. See if the law benefits one citizen at the expense of another by doing what the citizen himself cannot do without committing a crime. Then abolish this law without delay … If such a law is not abolished immediately it will spread, multiply and develop into a system.

Frédéric Bastiat, The Law

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I guess you can believe whatever you want.  But if you want some objective critism of your views, please consider this.  If someone is making a lot of money doing something, why would they spend so much time and effort to call for drastic changes to the system?  That doesnt seem to follow any logical line of thinking. 

Also, if there is a system currently where millions are being made, why arent more lawyers doing it?  And also, why would one lawyer leave potentially millions of dollars to run for a moderately paid government job?

I hope you can step back for a moment and consider these two things.  I don’t think whoever has been whispering in your ear is telling you the truth.

Less problems at WSI means less money for lawyers. It’s interesting to hear someone actually try to argue the other way, that doesnt make any sense.

Rob, The Schneider name is indeed well known throughout North Dakota. John Schneider(Jasper’s father) was a legislator from Fargo for a number of years and was later appointed U.S. Attorney by President Bill Clinton. 

That you don’t know this is simply your ignorance.  That you don’t think the folks involved in this issue don’t now this is again your ignorance.  The only people who don’t know this must be the people you deal with.

Like to prove that the Schneiders made millions off WSI?

Your problem is Rob, that you have insulted the press and then whine when they don’t pay any attention to what you have to say.  That other blog out there is getting all the press coverage and yours is getting no state press coverage. Jealous much?

If someone is making a lot of money doing something, why would they spend so much time and effort to call for drastic changes to the system?  That doesnt seem to follow any logical line of thinking.

Fact: Lawyers like the Schneiders used to get paid by the state for representing injured workers.

Fact: Lawyers like the Schneiders don’t get paid by the state any more for representing injured workers.

Fact: Lawyers like the Schneiders want their gravy train back.

Also, if there is a system currently where millions are being made, why arent more lawyers doing it?

There were more lawyers doing it.  Now there are fewer.  But really, even when the gravy train was in place, demand for lawyers is only so high.

And also, why would one lawyer leave potentially millions of dollars to run for a moderately paid government job?

So that his family can profit?

I hope you can step back for a moment and consider these two things.  I don’t think whoever has been whispering in your ear is telling you the truth.

Nobody is whispering in my ear.  I call things as I see them.

By the way, Jasper, if you want to comment you should just do so under your real name.

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The war against illegal plunder has been fought since the beginning of the world. But how is… legal plunder to be identified? Quite simply. See if the law takes from some persons what belongs to them, and gives it to other persons to whom it does not belong. See if the law benefits one citizen at the expense of another by doing what the citizen himself cannot do without committing a crime. Then abolish this law without delay … If such a law is not abolished immediately it will spread, multiply and develop into a system.

Frédéric Bastiat, The Law

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Rob, The Schneider name is indeed well known throughout North Dakota. John Schneider(Jasper’s father) was a legislator from Fargo for a number of years and was later appointed U.S. Attorney by President Bill Clinton.

That you don’t know this is simply your ignorance.

Again, it may shock smarmy liberal commenters, but not everyone in the public knows who the Schneiders are.

But even if they did, why shouldn’t MArk Schneider’s connection to Jasper be disclosed?  Are you guys saying you’re not in favor of transparency in the media?

What other possible reason could you have for opposing disclosing fully Mark Schneider’s political connections?  Other than the fact that you’re blind partisans for whom this is an inconvenient truth?

Your problem is Rob, that you have insulted the press and then whine when they don’t pay any attention to what you have to say.  That other blog out there is getting all the press coverage and yours is getting no state press coverage. Jealous much?

In the last week posts from this blog received 546,000 page views through syndication on sites like Reuters, USA Today, etc.  I was also quoted in the Sunday editorial for the Grand Forks Herald just yesterday.

So when you say that Noodlehead is getting attention in the state, you’re just plain wrong.  He’s a one-issue wonder who gets insider WSI information through an unethical and undisclosed tie to his wife who is legislative counsel for the WSI oversight committee.

Wake me up when Nodland gets more hits in a week than this site gets in an hour.

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The war against illegal plunder has been fought since the beginning of the world. But how is… legal plunder to be identified? Quite simply. See if the law takes from some persons what belongs to them, and gives it to other persons to whom it does not belong. See if the law benefits one citizen at the expense of another by doing what the citizen himself cannot do without committing a crime. Then abolish this law without delay … If such a law is not abolished immediately it will spread, multiply and develop into a system.

Frédéric Bastiat, The Law

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As I said, you can believe what you want. Just thought you might be open for a serious discussion on how to fix what is wrong, feel free to email me when you are.

Jasper/Nero, as far as I’m concerned we are having a serious discussion about this.  That we don’t agree doesn’t mean that I’m unserious, but nice try at dismissing my arguments instead of addressing them.

Here’s a thought, though: Maybe you could go down the hall to your uncle’s office and ask him to have his clients sign a release allowing WSI to tell us why their claims were denied.  The ones who have been in the media complaining about WSI, that is.

If you’re interested in accountability for WSI, shouldn’t we start there?

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The war against illegal plunder has been fought since the beginning of the world. But how is… legal plunder to be identified? Quite simply. See if the law takes from some persons what belongs to them, and gives it to other persons to whom it does not belong. See if the law benefits one citizen at the expense of another by doing what the citizen himself cannot do without committing a crime. Then abolish this law without delay … If such a law is not abolished immediately it will spread, multiply and develop into a system.

Frédéric Bastiat, The Law

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Sam Nero is not Jasper, sorry for saying otherwise.

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The war against illegal plunder has been fought since the beginning of the world. But how is… legal plunder to be identified? Quite simply. See if the law takes from some persons what belongs to them, and gives it to other persons to whom it does not belong. See if the law benefits one citizen at the expense of another by doing what the citizen himself cannot do without committing a crime. Then abolish this law without delay … If such a law is not abolished immediately it will spread, multiply and develop into a system.

Frédéric Bastiat, The Law

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who gets insider WSI information through an unethical and undisclosed tie to his wife who is legislative counsel for the WSI oversight committee.

I’ve noticed some hostility toward Nodland.  I don’t know the history but I don’t think it is right to make outright statements like this without proof.  The fact of the matter is morale at WSI stinks so bad the neighbors have complained.  When your workers dislike you to this extent they are going to leak like a sieve.  Look at the e-mails Chet posts.  His wife isn’t seeing them, Chet gets them before most employees read them.  He gets so many tips from pissed off employees he has to be sick of it.

If his wife was obtaining info from WSI, then it showed up on the Decoder, Armstrong would be screaming the details form the roof top.  So far nothing. 

This isn’t right Rob.  You can be critical of other things, but this is just dirty.

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“The monster was the best friend I ever had.”

Boris Karloff

All due respect, Joseph, but Nodland’s access to inside WSI information comes directly from his wife.  And if Jasper’s uncle can crow about conflicts of interests with Bjornson’s husband, I can talk about Noodlehead’s conflict of interests.

There’s nothing dirty about it.  Nodland wants to lionize crazy and dishonest people like Jim Long and insult anyone who dares disagree with him on WSI?  Then what’s good for the goose is good for the gander.

And I don’t have any respect for Nodland because he makes things up.  He’s posted lies about me on other issues (Dickie Scruggs), he’s deleted posts that turned out to be factually wrong instead of owning up to his mistakes (the Jim Poolman thing), and when people call him out on his site he deletes their comments.

If you want to disagree with me on WSI?  Go right ahead.  Tell me all the ways I’m wrong.  I won’t be like Nodland and delete your comments.  But don’t through that piece of garbage in my face.

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The war against illegal plunder has been fought since the beginning of the world. But how is… legal plunder to be identified? Quite simply. See if the law takes from some persons what belongs to them, and gives it to other persons to whom it does not belong. See if the law benefits one citizen at the expense of another by doing what the citizen himself cannot do without committing a crime. Then abolish this law without delay … If such a law is not abolished immediately it will spread, multiply and develop into a system.

Frédéric Bastiat, The Law

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By the way, notice how Nodland has never addressed his connection to his wife?  Telling, no?

Also notice how he’s never once addressed any of the problems with Jim Shaw’s reporting on WSI?

Telling as well.

If Nodland and his lawyer buddies didn’t want to turn WSI back into a gravy train for, well, lawyers they wouldn’t even care.

And yes, there are problems at WSI.  Yes, it does stink to high heaven.  But the Nodland/Schneider/Heitkamp connection isn’t the solution.

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The war against illegal plunder has been fought since the beginning of the world. But how is… legal plunder to be identified? Quite simply. See if the law takes from some persons what belongs to them, and gives it to other persons to whom it does not belong. See if the law benefits one citizen at the expense of another by doing what the citizen himself cannot do without committing a crime. Then abolish this law without delay … If such a law is not abolished immediately it will spread, multiply and develop into a system.

Frédéric Bastiat, The Law

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By the way, notice how Nodland has never addressed his connection to his wife?  Telling, no?

It would have been telling years ago when we were still learning the depths of this guy’s depravity.

By now, it is typical.

Rob writes:

but Nodland’s access to inside WSI information comes directly from his wife.

Rob,unless you can provide incontrovertible proof of this allegation you, sir, are an outright liar.  You have absolutely no proof that this guy’s wife has done anything. You have made allegations of this before and you have not provided one scintilla of proof.

You think the republicans are so dumb that they don’t know that this blogger is related to the LC employee.  And further, do you even know what a LC attorney does for a committee and where they get their information or even what kind of information they have access to? Do they have access to confidential WSI files? Do they have access to WSI documents? Please enlighten us all, Rob.

So please, unless you can provide absolute proof, quit lying.  You are the one making the allegation here, so you need to put up or shut up.  WSI is leaking like a sieve.

You, Rob, are just upset that you and your daddy’s business were thrown off the WSI gravy train and you are steadily beating the drum for WSI. You are jealous that this other blog is outscooping you and when you do get some press it’s because you are wrong on the issues.

Sour grapes Rob, not very becoming for you to be a liar.

The silence is deafening Rob.  I can only take your silence as an admission of your lying about this entire post.

andydakota,

Our host has a new born infant at home, another child, a wife, and a job to contend with.  I rather doubt you make it into his top one hundred things what need doing list.

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Persia delenda est.
Latin: “Persia (modern day Iran) should be destoyed”

Rob,unless you can provide incontrovertible proof of this allegation you, sir, are an outright liar.

Actually, Andy Shit-for-Brains, Rob doesn’t owe you the time of day or anything else.  Certainly he is under no obligation to prove anything whatsoever to your smarmy satisfaction.

But you, on the other hand, have labeled him a liar, without so much as a shred of supporting evidence that what he posted was false, that he knew it to be false, and that he posted it anyway with the deliberate and malicious intent to deceive.  Still, with nothing at all to support your accusation, you call your host a liar.

All of us here are well enough acquainted with your juvenile comments to understand that putting two cogent thoughts together in sequence would take an inordinate amount of effort on your part.  Being a leftwinger has some distinct disadvantages in the intellect department.

Still, if we can expect nothing intelligent from you, we can certainly be grateful for the amusement of watching you, of all people, calling someone else a liar.  High hypocrisy, indeed!

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“Poverty of goods is easily cured; poverty of the mind is irreparable.”

andydakota, Silence could also be a sign that you are not considered his or anyones number one priority. It is a well known fact that all of us here hold full time jobs that require us to actually do something other than respond within a few minutes of others.
If you’re real patient your importance may work it’s way up on someone list of things to do.. until then I suggest you find more constructive things to do other than being an ass.

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Andy, unlike some other North Dakota blogs you may be used to, this one can get over a thousand comments a day.  I simply do not have the time, nor the desire, to scan each and every post looking for comments I need to respond to.

As for this:

You, Rob, are just upset that you and your daddy’s business were thrown off the WSI gravy train and you are steadily beating the drum for WSI. You are jealous that this other blog is outscooping you and when you do get some press it’s because you are wrong on the issues.

Actually, my family’s business still gets a good deal of work from WSI although I haven’t been connected with it for some time now.  And to be perfectly honest, my speaking out on WSI isn’t doing our business any favors.  We’d actually probably be better off with WSI under the governor again, but even then my father is close to retirement so our financial interest in the agency is drawing to a close.

But I know that personal attacks on me are all you have, so feel free to keep bashing away if you must.  I’ll take pleasure in the fact that your labored insults just make my points stand out in stark contrast.

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The war against illegal plunder has been fought since the beginning of the world. But how is… legal plunder to be identified? Quite simply. See if the law takes from some persons what belongs to them, and gives it to other persons to whom it does not belong. See if the law benefits one citizen at the expense of another by doing what the citizen himself cannot do without committing a crime. Then abolish this law without delay … If such a law is not abolished immediately it will spread, multiply and develop into a system.

Frédéric Bastiat, The Law

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Just as you are bashing someone without one scintilla of evidence just baseless allegations, you now whine when it happens to you.

Batboy, I labeled him a liar and rightly so.  He has utterly failed to provide any evidence of wrongdoing by the wife of the blogger.  Nothing, zip, nada.  He has failed to respond to the call for proof.  It is customary when someone makes an allegation that they at least back it up with proof.  Hence me calling Rob a liar since he has failed to provide any evidence of wrongdoing on the part of the wife of the blogger. He doesn’t even know what the LC attorney does or what WSI information she may or may not have access to.  He also apparently believes that the republicans are a bunch of rubes since can’t figure out the relationship.  Rob has shown absolutely no integrity on this issue since he has failed miserably to provide any evidence that the LC has done anything wrong.

Andy:

He has utterly failed to provide any evidence of wrongdoing by the wife of the blogger.  Nothing, zip, nada.  He has failed to respond to the call for proof.  It is customary when someone makes an allegation that they at least back it up with proof.  Hence me calling Rob a liar since he has failed to provide any evidence of wrongdoing on the part of the wife of the blogger.

Just as a point of curiosity, do you even know what a liar is?  Saying something without absolute proof doesn’t mean you’re lying. 

In any case, if you want to accuse him of lying, it’s your responsibility to back up that claim with proof.

So where’s the proof that anything Rob said was false? Then the proof it was sadly falsely with malicious intent?

Absent either of these, you’re looking… kind of stupid here.

Andy,

As I have suggested to you some time in the past, however much, or little, you spent on those ESL classes, you should demand a refund.  Your acquaintance with the English language is marginal and barely serviceable.

The only one whining here is you.  And all you’ve established, in spite of all that whining, is that Rob is an accuser.  Whether he has evidence to back up his accusation or not, that makes him nothing more than an accuser.

To establish that someone has lied, you have to establish that what they’ve said, the purported lie, is not the truth.  You ain’t come close, kid.

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“Poverty of goods is easily cured; poverty of the mind is irreparable.”

Andy,

I don’t reside in South Dakota and I don’t have the faintest idea what WSI is...but I’ve read through these posts and what Bat and Carrick are saying is inescapable, in every regard, including their characterizations.

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“To love is not to stare steadfast at one another...it is to look forward, in the same direction.”
Saint-Exupéry

The silence is deafening Rob.  I can only take your silence as an admission of your lying about this entire post.

The flea jumping up and down on the back of the elephant, proclaiming himself to be “king of the Jungle”!

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Those who think the party or the country, will be “taught a lesson” by handing the levers of power over to the liberals will learn a lesson, but it will be at the expense of our country and her liberties. And there are no guarantees that the party or the country will come out stronger, more conservative or better positioned to win elections against the incumbent liberals.

ND Injured Worker Support Group Meeting.

We will be discussing ways to make changes to North Dakota’s Workforce Safety and Insurance and common problems obtaining benefits.

What: ND Injured Workers Support Group Meeting
When: Thursday March 27, 2008
Where: Hope Lutheran Church, 3636 25th St South, Fargo, ND 58104
Time: 6:00p.m. to 8:00p.m.

For more information contact: