The headline: OUR POLL SHOWS MINNESOTANS SUPPORT GUN CONTROL!
Carefully hidden: According to a little over 600 phone calls, of which nearly 2/3 were conducted in the Metro area.
My read: the Strib is switching into full-blown campaign mode, meaning “pimping the DFL’s line no matter what damage it does to what little credibility they may still have among their painstakingly ignorant base, and the DFL’s painstakingly ignorant base (pardon the redundancy”
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails:
Ban bullets so criminals can’t kill people with them.
Brilliant. And let’s ban ink and paper, so people can’t commit hate speech. Because ink and paper aren’t speech, so they’re not protected, right?
Liberals, endlessly rediscovering yesterday’s ideas.
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Of course, ink and paper are only speech when it’s a newspaper doing the writing.
No, that’s not habitual conservative kvetching. It’s a SCOM ruling. Which is finally up for appeal.
It’s entirely possible there has never been a better entertainment/media decision made in the history of entertainment/media then Roseanne Barr’s decision to reboot her classic, eponymous sitcom. After two decades, Roseanne is back, bigger (accounting for the shrinking TV audience, especially) and in many ways better than ever after deciding to swim against Hollywood’s oppressively leftist, bicoastal current and do the unthinkable – acknowledge the millions of people in this country who are in real life a lot like the TV show’s fictional family.
The show’s pro Trump attitude has made it a lightning rod among leftists in Hollywood – which is another way to say it’s made of a lightning rod in Hollywood. Its success, on the other hand, has pretty much immunize it for most of that criticism.
On a recent show, Rosanna and “Dan” – her long time husband, played by John Goodman ~ passed out on the couch and “missed all the shows about black and Asian families’ – Blackish and Just Off the Boat, about a couple of, wait for it, hard-working families who happen to be black-ish and asian-ish. Roseanne quips “They’re just like us. There, now you’re all caught up.”
Now, if you’re like me – well, you don’t watch Roseanne, or any other television, so you didn’t see it. But the quip strikes me as saying “there about other families dealing with the cards life has dealt them, same as us.”. Which is not a bad observation, near as I can tell.
But then, racism isn’t where I earn my living, either.
I’m not sure that it’s where Kelvin Yu earns his living, either. He is a comic, actor, and writer on the series Bob’s Burgers (which, for the record, I really don’t care for at all). He took umbrage at the quote, deeming it dismissive of the minority experience:
After a two-decade hiatus, “Roseanne” has suddenly returned in glorious HD for a reason. Its astronomical ratings — over 18 million viewers watched the series the night it had its premiere — proclaims not only the show’s enduring resonance, but also a restitution of something lost (or at least something passed). In this era of capital-D Diversity, numbers like that indicate an unequivocal hunger (dare I say nostalgia) for stories about families like the Conners, who live blue-collar, paycheck-to-paycheck lives; fighting, laughing, and loving in the earnest heartland (read: white working class) of America. Not unlike the results of the 2016 presidential election, the #MakeAmericaWatchRoseanneAgain movement is a beacon in the night, illuminating a once-abandoned subsection of the country with a spotlight of validation. As if it were saying: “I see you. You matter.”
Which is why it’s so galling that a show celebrating ostensibly marginalized Americans would consider shows about even more marginalized Americans a punch line, tossed off between two yawns and a meh, followed by a roomful of people laughing.
Mr Yu: From the perspective of people (of all races) who are focusing on what actually matters – economic survival, raising families, the kinds of things most of Hollywood either doesn’t worry about or has contempt for – I suspect the virtue-signaling is lost.
Dario Anselmo is the lone Republican representing Edina.
Now, considering the Democrats that run in Edina these days – Anselmo beat Ron Erhardt, after all – it might be fair to say that of the options available, Anselmo passes the Buckley test (the most conservative candidate who can win) under the circumstances.
But as we’ve noted in the past, Anselmo is a prominent turncoat on the gun issue. He’s one of few Republicans found at Moms Want Action events; the sole gloss of “bipartisanship” in the extreme-left gun control movement.
But if he’d hoped that his accomodationalism would buy him any favor from Big Gun Grab (a wholliy owned subsidiary of Big Left?)
Well, what do you think?
For Anselmo, a bitter lesson was learned this week when, after months of supporting limits to Second Amendment rights in order to curry favor with far left gun control advocates “Moms Demand Action,” his opponent, Heather Edelson, was effectively endorsed. Heather wears pearls; you can’t say she doesn’t know Edina. But this endorsement puts paid to the idea that if Republicans only find the illusory “common ground” with the other side, they will be rewarded for their efforts.
Moms Demand Action is part of “Everytown for Gun Safety,” a radical gun control group largely financed by Michael Bloomberg.
So he danced with the devil, and didn’t even get his thirteen pieces of silver, apparently.
Anselmo was frequently the lone Republican at Moms’ rallies at the State Capitol. This garnered him the approval of Democrats in the media like Lori Sturdevant but at the cost of discouraging his base, for which one could be forgiven in thinking Anselmo believes he doesn’t need.
Having contempt for the people who put you there – even if you don’t really know that – is a bad, bad plan.
Question: wonder if Lori Sturdevant will castigate the Action Moms for their lack of bipartisanship?
Yet another friend of the blog writes:
I read speculation that soon, all states will be divided into blue urban areas and red rural areas. But, I think the Democrats are losing more voters than that. Today on the 5, I heard a couple black passengers talking about “those damn liberals, who just take and take” and continued on, blaming liberals for the bad, expensive bus service we now have in the Twin Cities. I smiled. I can be an optimist at times.
Lincoln once said you can’t fool all of the people all of the time. I have to think at least some portion of the left’s big ethnic and social plantation is going to figure it out someday.
Planned parenthood is giving Disney some writing advice:
And if your goal is to indoctrinate children, that will be a perfectly fine idea.
Although if you want to sell tickets in the parts of the Merica where people actually have children, probably not so much.
I’ve got a few suggestions, though:
The possibilities are completely endless.
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Joe Doakes from Como Park emails:
What if the Center for Disease Control studied guns but the findings did not support The Narrative?
Suppress the data, of course.
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In meantime, another friend of the blog writes:
More of that pesky empirical evidence that progressives hate.
It’s Science, dammit!
Oh, you bet I’ll be going over this story later this week.
Pete Stauber’s website. Pete is running for Congress in the Eighth Congressional District – and he just might win. Let’s make it happen.
Here’s the link to Job Creators Network – I interviewed Jack Mozloom earlier.
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…who sees stories like this and immediately started looking for stories about the Minnesota Secretary of State’s office looking for new voting booths for Republican districts?
Probably. Probably.
Woman who saved the life of a cop who was losing a fight with a meth-head…
As the situation grew increasingly dire, Jaehnen, a concerned female neighbor, raced to the officer’s aid.
“It was at that time that a female… nearby saw what was taking place, and decided that she needed to take action to come to the assistance of that officer,” Sgt. Wheeles told WLWT.
“The female fired one shot from a personally owned firearm at Holland, striking him in the torso,” police said, according to the Cincinnati Enquirer.
Jaehnen and her mother, who had originally placed the 911 call, then began performing CPR on the wounded attacker, APD Sergeant William Halbig told Blue Lives Matter.
…is being sued by the meth-head’s family:
Despite the circumstances of the incident, Holland’s family filed a wrongful death lawsuit against Jaehnen, Officer Powell, and the DNR on Feb. 15.
If the woman – the hero – is so much as inconvenienced by this sham civil trial, legal heads should roll.
Tesla – intended originally to be a “disruptive” force in the automotive industry – is getting disrupted…
…by – what else? – the State of California.
New Yorker columnist applies the PC test to the new Chik-Fil-A outlets in New Orc City.
But the mere whiff of Jesus means that New York must cast out Chick-fil-A like a leper, and that those who refuse to do so have succumbed to the blasphemous entreaties of the Midianites. “When a location opened in a Queens mall, in 2016, Mayor Bill de Blasio proposed a boycott. No such controversy greeted the opening of this newest outpost. Chick-fil-A’s success here is a marketing coup. Its expansion raises questions about what we expect from our fast food, and to what extent a corporation can join a community,” Piepenring rants.
And insultingly, Chick-fil-A seeks to build community, using the word in its marketing, he complains. “This emphasis on community, especially in the misguided nod to 9/11, suggests an ulterior motive. The restaurant’s corporate purpose still begins with the words ‘to glorify God,’ and that proselytism thrums below the surface of the Fulton Street restaurant, which has the ersatz homespun ambiance of a megachurch.”
If you want to see proof positive of the irreconcilability of the differences between Blue State “elites” and actual humans, read the whole thing.
But you probably needn’t go that far.
To: Hollywood, the major media, the opinion-making classes, the educational/industrial complex
From: Mitch Berg, obstreporous peasant.
Re: Want to do some good?
Millennials know nothing about the Holocaust:
Twenty-two percent of millennials in the poll said they haven’t heard of the Holocaust or are not sure whether they’ve heard of it — twice the percentage of U.S. adults as a whole who said the same.
The study, conducted by the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany, interviewed 1,350 American adults in February and recruited by telephone and an online non-probability sample.
Asked to identify what Auschwitz is, 41 percent of respondents and 66 percent of millennials could not come up with a correct response identifying it as a concentration camp or extermination camp. The U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum says that at least 1.3 million people were deported to the camp, run by Nazi Germany in occupied Poland, from 1940 to 1945, and 1.1 million of them were killed. It was the largest concentration camp among many built by the Nazis during their campaign to wipe out the Jews and other groups.
But lest you think its just malfeasance and sloth:
Respondents indicated much more awareness of modern-day bias against Jews, with 68 percent saying anti-Semitism is present in America today, and 51 percent saying there are “many” or “a great deal of” neo-Nazis in the United States today.
So a majority “know” a non-existent factoid that is entirely a figment of propaganda intended to gull the hysterical, but a tiny fraction know why those people might conceivably matter.
So, media and entertainment industries – perhaps we could make with a little of the “never again” in between comic book remakes and endless FBI “investigations”?
Just a suggestion.
That is all.
Dick’s Sporting Goods has earned the ire of 2nd Amendment human rights activists, over and over.
In 2013, they publicly announced they were out of the “assault weapon” business after the Newtown shooting (where a deranged boy killed his mother to get her AR15).
They apparently slowly retrenched, because they publicly did it again after the Parkland shooting.
Nothing like conviction.
But now, they want to take it to the next level…
…of virtue-signaling stupidity:
After announcing policies that most gun owners saw as alienating, Dick’s Sporting Goods said it will go one step further and destroy its remaining inventory of firearms dubbed “assault weapons.”
A spokeswoman told the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette that the remaining inventory at the retailer’s Field & Streams stores will be destroyed and then recycled.
“We are in the process of destroying all firearms and accessories that are no longer for sale as a result of our February 28th policy change,” she said. “We are destroying the firearms in accordance with federal guidelines and regulations.”
I’m sure the shareholders will be thrilled.
It’s time to start calling the current wave of lilywhite, urban-progressive-privilege-sotted gun mania what it is.
Bigotry.
As Jon Caldara at the D-Post does:
Boulder City Council is on the verge of passing a sweeping anti-gun ordinance, laughably called an assault weapons ban. So loosely written, this ordinance would ban the first gun I ever owned, a simple .22 caliber rifle, the same type most farm boys get on their twelfth birthday. Its sin? It can be fitted with a pistol-grip or a folding stock.
I understand the fear and bigotry coming from City Council. I used to be like that myself. In younger days I was a proud member of Handgun Control Inc., now called the Brady Campaign Against Gun Violence…
The Anti-Defamation League and The Gay and Lesbian Fund sponsors a program plastered throughout Boulder schools call “No Place For Hate.” They ask students to make a resolution of respect: “I will seek to gain understanding of those who are different from myself.”
But Boulder’s council has done nothing to understand the culture and values of gun owners and little to understand much more than the cosmetic aspects of guns.
Boulder has become a place for hate.
Read the whole thing.
And then go forth and call a spade a spade.
A university student is under investigation for blowing the whistle on a hack “professor” who believes conservative students are “evil” – her words – and is acting on the belief:
Siena College student Zack Butler is currently under investigation for allegedly violating the school’s code of conduct and could face punishments as severe as expulsion.
His crime? Posting copies of an email sent March 20 by philosophy professor Jennifer McErlean to an alumnus expressing her resentment toward conservative students and a free speech event they’re set to host next week, a Turning Point USA conference called “Let Freedom Ring” that will feature a variety of prominent conservative movers and shakers.
In the email, McErlean decried conservative students as “evil,” noting she quit a civil discourse committee because working with conservative students was making her “miserable,” according to a copy of the email obtained by The College Fix.
She also let the alumnus know that her quitting this committee has freed her up to protest the “Let Freedom Ring” event.
Sounds like she could fit in at any college or university in the Twin Cities.
However, Mr. Butler is my hero for the day:
Two days after the email was sent, Butler and a friend posted around 600 copies of the email around campus.
“As a conservative student, I was bothered not only by the email but also the response, or lack there of, by the administration and felt something had to be done,” Butler said in a Facebook post. He added their goal wasn’t to offend anyone or to gain attention, but simply to “keep the dialogue going.”
Mr. Butler still has that idealism that comes with youth.
Of course, Big Left wants no “dialogue” – on academia any more than on guns, abortion, the welfare state, political correctness, or anything else. They want a monologue; they talk, and you sit, handcuffed to the chair, and listen. Gagged, if need be.
SCENE: The Metropolitan Council, meeting at their downtown office. It is 1996.
Members Rick Blickson, Sandra Tostenson, Mark Skjellerud, Andy Blotzer and Audrey Vreeland are in committee meeting with Edgar Folkenflick and Eliza Vanderprimp, representatives from “Transit Works”, a consulting company pushing rail mass transit with metro areas.
BLICKSON: We are meeting here today to discuss “Transit Works” proposal that the Twin Cities spend $700 million on a light rail line. Any questions or comments for the consultants?
TOSTENSON: Yes. So just to make sure – the proposed train would be able to run better than buses in the sort of inclement or icy weather that’s so common around here?
FOLKENFLICK: No – light rail trains are no more robust in their handling in snow and ice than a bus, and may in fact me more vulnerable to route blockage in snowy conditions than buses.
SKJELLERUD: OK. But the train is more reliable in general? It can react to stoppages and other irregularities better than buses?
FOLKENFLICK: That’s incorrect. While a bus can merely detour around an obstacle, a train is entirely at the mercy of whatever is on the track.
BLOTZER: Er…OK. But in terms of major incidents…
FOLKENFLICK: …any major incident will require hours to clear, and enough heavy equipment to widen the Panama Canal, maneuvering on busy city streets, thus taking hours to clear any mishaps.
VREELAND: So…er, Mr. Folkenflick, Ms. Vanderprimp – why would anyone buy something so seemingly ill-conceived?
VANDERPRIMP: New York. Boston. San Franciso. Washington DC…
BLICKSON: We’ll take two!
And SCENE
Laura Ingraham’s ratings at their highest point ever.
To the Jesse Ferguson – former campaing spokesbot for the Smartest Woman Ever – the Syria bombing is the fault of…
Former Hillary Clinton spokesman Jesse Ferguson blamed actress and political activist Susan Sarandon for Friday night’s strike on Syria.
Sarandon, who ultimately supported Jill Stein for president in 2016, was roundly criticized for helping “throw the election to Trump.” Clinton herself addressed the possibility in her book, “What Happened.”
And when I say “eat their own”, I mean “treat their own apostates like they treat their conservative enemies, when they are ordered to”:
Sarandon, who revealed that she had faced threats of death and rape from Clinton supporters following the 2016 election, said in a 2017 interview that she believed America would already be at war if Clinton had won the election. “I did think she was very, very dangerous. We would still be fracking, we would be at war [if she was president]. It wouldn’t be much smoother. Look what happened under Obama that we didn’t notice.”
I wouldn’t doubt it.
What is this world coming to, that I’m feeling sympathy for Susan Sarandon, who would no doubt cheer if people like me were eaten by wild dogs (after we’re disarmed)?
The Atlantic hired, and then fired, Kevin Williamson – perhaps America’s best political journalist, and one of the best interviewees I’ve ever had in a decade and a half of doing the NARN.
Andrew McCarthy has thoughts on the subject.
My thoughts?
I’ve observed for years that one of the greatest side-effects of Urban Progressive Privilege is a complete inability to “debate” anyone who’s not part of their club – because they have no concept of cognitive dissonance when it comes to politics or any area of life touched by politics (and politics touches every area of their life.
Differ with an blind date’s politics? Ghost ’em!
Differ with a fellow student’s politics? Shame them!
Disagree with a co-workers’s politics? Slander, ostracize and try to destroy them!
The CD8 DFL had a very long convention on Saturday, After ten ballots, everyone promised to go to the primary.
Nothing especially unusual htere.
The unusual thing? The DFL trucked a bunch of Latino activists from the Twin Cities to canvass for the Metro DFL’s chosen candidate.
Phifer, a college professor who previously worked at the Federal Bureau of Investigation and federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement, initially entered the race to challenge incumbent DFL Rep. Rick Nolan.
When Nolan announced his retirement in February, Phifer had the advantage of a five-month head start over the four candidates who jumped into the race afterward. It showed on Saturday: her blue-shirted supporters were a vocal presence in the convention hall, and she got the most votes of any candidate on each of the 10 ballots.
But Phifer’s background as an ICE employee revealed a deep rift on immigration: members of the Latino DFL Caucus protested her candidacy and urged delegates to reject her in a speech from the floor, one of the convention’s most dramatic moments.
Which leads us to the sort of unintended comedy that makes me love the Metro DFL so much. Alondra “The Brain” Cano, tweeting (what else) about a Duluth DFLer’s response to the fllood of – I”ll emphasize this – non-CD8 ringers – with the sort of club-footed fake victimization that’s become her trademark:
Don’t you just love it when elected members of a one-party autarchy with boundless political privilege and power unimaginable to regular schnooks start whining at other people with similar Urban Progressive Privilege about what victims they are?
R. Lee Ermey – “Gunnery Sergeant Hartmann” from the movie Full Metal Jacket, and a former USMC gunnery sergeant in real life – has passed away.
Maybe.
Ermey’s been the subject of numerous internet death hoaxes – but unless someone hacked his official Facebook page, this one may be legit.
When Representative Lewis (Lord, I love saying that) is right, he’s right.
And on the bombings in Syria – he’s right:
Whether Kosovo, Libya or now Syria, for far too long Presidents of both parties have acted unilaterally (perhaps for the best of intentions) in taking military action without congressional approval. Outdated authorizations (AUMFs) are no substitute for the clear Constitution requirement that Congress must, at the least, be consulted barring imminent danger to the homeland. Indeed, it is Congress who has the authority and responsibility to debate and vote on what we want to provide any administration in such affairs. Matters of war and peace are too important for politics.
When President Obama bombed Libya, Republicans were rightly outraged. Roscoe Bartlett, serving on the Armed Services Committee, even called the decision an ‘affront to our Constitution.’ That was true then as it is today—especially when so many of the facts and circumstances on the ground have yet to be investigated. The sad truth is America cannot prevent or remedy every tragedy around the world. Nor can we expend our precious blood and treasure unless it is in direct interest of national security.
Finally, let me add that it remains more than a bit troubling that so many who call for intervention seeking to protect the borders of foreign nations seem so cavalier about our own.
I think the Syria bombing may well be Trump’s first serious foreign-policy misstep, and possible his first demonstrable breach of the law.
…how “dropping bombs on countries that didn’t attack us first” is suddenly a bad thing again after all these years?