Category: Your Papers Please
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Notes From The Soggy Zone
Last week, I ruffled some of the usual feathers by posting a link to this video by Ryan McBeth. McBeth is a former anti-tank grunt who now does open-source intelligence and systems work. His Youtube and Substack channels are interesting; he doesn’t get everything right (he is still claiming Mossad figured out how to remotely…
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Records
Joe Doakes from Como park emails: National Guard going to DC in anticipation of another mostly peaceful protest. I wonder, which President holds the record for “Days Under Martial Law During Peacetime” in Washington, D.C.? What with the inauguration, January 6, and now the upcoming truck parade, I’ve gotta believe Lesko Brandon takes the cake.…
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Scratch A “Progressive”, Find A Totalitarian
“So, Mitch – why do you say that the democratic party in United States is the party of authoritarianism? “ Because they tell us they are. Strong majority of Democrats approve of Justin Trudeaucescu‘s treatment of civil disobedience:treatment of civil civil disobedience: 35 percent overall approved of Trudeau’s crackdown, while 10 percent said they were…
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One Wonderw
A friend of the blog emails Love this: This is what sliding into authoritarianism looks like. During the American revolution, it’s pretty likely a thin majority of the population thought living under the British was juuuust fine.
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Let Them Eat Artisanal Wagyu
Last week, Minneapolis Mayor Frey Took to social media to declare his vaccine mandate – which he implemented as the Omicron wave had already peaked in Minnesota – a raging success, with his phone clogged, clogged, he told us, with photos of people at jam-packed restaurants. We must only conclude, then, that “Seven”, The long…
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“Welcome To Potemkin’s! I’m Chimera, I’ll Be Your Server”
I’ll meet Mayor Frey halfway. He’s supposed to be Minneapolis’s top cheerleader. It’s part of his job to blow smoke up the world’s collective nethers about the city. So when he went on social media after about a week of his bizarrely illogical and unscientific vaccine mandate to say everything was hunky dory: …it wasn’t…
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Imitation
In so many areas, the Twin Cites political class loves to affect an appreciation of Scandinavian governance. They love the interventionist social democracy, the often successful tinkering with utopian ideas (dependent, of course, on a small, wealthy society with social cohesion that doesn’t exist in American cities over 5,000), the communitarian ethos (see previous parenthetical),…
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#Resist
A group of restauranteurs and bar owners are taking the Frey regime to court over the city’s bizarre, unscientific vaxx mandate: Plaintiffs in the complaint filed in Hennepin County Fourth Judicial Court Thursday include Bright Red Group, LLC (owners of Smack Shack), 90’s Minneapolis, LLC (The Gay 90’s), PJ. Hafiz Club Management, Inc. (Sneaky Pete’s), Urban entertainment,…
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Rational Basis
Joe Doakes from Como park emails:Joe Doakes from Como park emails: Every government regulation restricts some individual’s freedom. It wouldn’t be a regulation if it didn’t. A government regulation which affects similarly situated individuals must treat them similarly. That’s what the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment is all about. To survive an Equal…
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Urban Progressive Privilege: Only The Right Kind Of Compliance!
A friend of the blog emails: Rise Bagel Company has decided to not have to make a choice of who they serve. They are now closed to indoor dining, open for take out. Their business, their choice. All customers treated equally. Shouldn’t be any controversy. But, yet there is- people who like the vaccine mandate…
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Somewhere, Mussolini’s Ghost Is Smiling
The Salt Lake Tribune calls for martial law to enforce a mask mandate: Were Utah a truly civilized place, the governor’s next move would be to find a way to mandate the kind of mass vaccination campaign we should have launched a year ago, going as far as to deploy the National Guard to ensure…
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Game On
The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals says — no mandate for you: A federal appeals court has upheld its stay on President Biden’s vaccine-or-test mandate for companies with at least 100 employees. In a 22-page ruling on Friday, the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said the mandate was “fatally flawed,” and barred the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA)…
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Shortage?
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: I’ve been following the debate on whether vaccine mandates will cause staffing shortages. Had a few tests done at the hospital this morning. Quietly asked the RN about the vaccine. She hasn’t gotten it, does not intend to. She’s with an “agency” which means she’s not part of the…
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Checked And Balanced
A state district judge has thrown out a lawsuit by a group of parents Who were seeking an order requiring the governor to issue a state wide mask mandate and to reinstate the state of emergency. Thankfully, the judge shot the request down: “While this court is gravely concerned about the public health consequences of…
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Never Waste A Crisis
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: Democrats seized on a flu virus to panic the public into accepting restrictions on civil liberties including ‘fortifying’ the election to defeat Bad Orange Man. Now they want storm troopers to go door-to-door, forcing people to take a counter-measure that doesn’t prevent you from catching the virus and won’t…
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Your Papers, Please
A federal judge has ruled that a law requiring a citizen to produce identification upon a police officer’s demand is unconstitutional under the Fourth Amendment.https://www.ca4.uscourts.gov/opinions/191700.P.pdf We have that law in Minnesota. This case is not from our district so it’s not controlling. But it’s certainly interesting. Joe Doakes Someone file a test case, already.
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Governor Klink: You Had One Job
Remember last spring? When Governor Klink told us we all had to sacrifice, while the state built up his heart hospital bed capacity (a commodity regulated by the executive branch he controls)? Either, apparently, does Governor Klink. The supply of hospital beds has dwindled since the spring:
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Memory
Memory is a survival trait. Squirrels remember where they buried the nut, so they can eat it laterto survive the winter. Those that don’t, die. Children remember burning their finger, so they treat firerespectfully. Those who don’t, burn to death. Conservatives remember past public policy disasters, so we can avoidrepeating them. We use monuments and…
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In Which The LA Times Goes Long On Freedom
I can not be the only one to have noted the jarring irony of the LA Times’ piece, almost two weeks ago, warning against gutting freedom over ugly, but rare, outrages – can I? The gruesome terror attack that left eight people dead on a New York City bicycle path Tuesday afternoon spotlighted a troubling…
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“The Government Is Not Coming For Your Guns”
Unless they want to. U.S. Virgin Islands Gov. Kenneth Mapp signed an emergency order allowing the seizure of private guns, ammunition, explosives and property the National Guard may need to respond to Hurricane Irma. Do You Think This Emergency Order Is Unconstitutional? Mapp signed the order Monday in preparation for Hurricane Irma. The order allows…
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Want To Make A Nation Of Fundamentally Law-Abiding, Pro-Police People Trust Cops Less Than Journalists Or Used Car Dealers?
To: Salt Lake City PD From: Mitch Berg, Irascible Peasant Re: Officer Himmler Dear SLCPD, If this piece of walking garbage with a badge…: …is still working for the SLCPD, you are flirting with forfeiting any legitimacy as a “law enforcement” organization. And don’t respond with “do you think you could do his job?” I,…
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Fair For The Gander
Briarwood Presbyterian Church in Birmingham, Alabama has just been granted authority by the Alabama legislature to form its own police department. The church says it needs its own police officers to keep its school as well as its more than 4,000 person congregation safe. Not sure how this differs from “hiring private security”, which plenty…
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Nullified (Not!)
We don’t know what happened in the jury room in Oregon yesterday – but as we noted last night, a jury acquitted all of Ammon Bundy’s group of all charges. The decision smells like jury nullification – the notion that a jury can invalidate bad law by not finding people guilty of it. Say what…
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A Matter Of Trust
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: This guy was sitting in the car reading a book, Tasered four times, then shot. Or he got out of the car with a gun and threatened the officers. Depends on who you believe. On the one hand, a certain group of people Whose Lives Matter have a history…
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Keystoned
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: Neither the Castile shooting nor the Miami shooting seem like racial incidents. They seem like Keystone Kops incidents: running in circles, nobody in charge, contradictory commands, misinterpreted actions, improper over-reaction. When a mass of cops arrive at the scene, who’s in charge? Who gives the orders? Who decides…