Category: I Told You So
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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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A Little Soggy
Governor Klink, Melissa Hortman and the Urban DFL clacque squandered a $19 billion surplus paying off the DFL’s special interests, and all we got was a broken dam. Unexpectedly? No. Not a bit. The century-old Rapidan Dam on the Blue Earth River – a tributary to the Minnesota, and eventually the Mississippi – has been…
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Engineering Matters
The missing submersible that went into the depths of the North Atlantic, taking tourists down to view the titanic, apparently had a design shortcoming or two, according to at least one whistleblower lawsuit: At the meeting Lochridge discovered why he had been denied access to the viewport information from the Engineering department—the viewport at the…
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Just Trying To Keep Track Of The Plagues
Joe Doakes from Como park emails: Giant spiders falling from the sky. My Exodus is a little rusty, which plague is this? And while we’re at it . . . Joe Doakes
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Creative Clash
Distort the economy of a sector, an industry or a city to benefit an industry, a policy or a class of people, and you’re going to cause unintended consequences – almost all of them bad, at least for someone. Fifteen years ago, the NPR-listening, Whole Foods-Shopping, Volvo-driving set nodded and snapped their fingers to the…
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Bob and Carol & Jane & Alice
A narrow national majority favors same-sex marriage. Will that majority favor a plurality? When it comes to debating social issues, the “slippery slope” argument often holds the least amount of traction. As Minnesota was racked by contentious debate surrounding last year’s marriage amendment, one of the litany of debate volleys was that opening the door…
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Fumble
The Monday Morning Quaterbacking over electronic gambling heats up. When breaking down the various back-up funding plans for the Vaseline Dome, one step was neglected – the finger pointing. For a funding mechanism that was originally billed to deliver $35 million in revenue per year, and continuously revised down to $17 million and then $1.7,…
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You Were Warned
A source at the Capitol – who was heavily involved in the battle against public funding for the Vikings stadium – emailed me with his first “I Told You So” moment of the new political epoch: I believe I said, all along the campaign for endorsement…the primary…and the general election: “The numbers that are being…
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Note To Whatever GOP Leadership Remains In The Legislature
To: The GOP Leadership In The Legislature, Whoever You End Up Being From: Mitch Berg, Schnook Peasant Re: Upcoming Session All, It’s two months ’til what is going to be a couple of very grueling sessions. Now, Governor Dayton is an addled bobblehead who is nothing but a marionette for Alida Messinger and the unions…
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Someday Sometimes Comes
It’s been a couple of years since elements of the regional left finally copped to the fact that key lefty propaganda institutions like the Center for “Independent” Media and the Minnesota “Independent” are funded by, among others, misery-profiteer George Soros. It’s catching; lefty Jewish lobby “J Street” is on the Soros gravy train as well:…
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Incongruous
I’ve been saying for close to twenty years that gun control is the debate that tips the hard left’s hand on civil liberties. While Democrats have claimed to be the party of the little guy for the past eighty years, gun control was always the debate where the Democrats lined up with the “elites” against…
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Bring On November, Baybee
So they’ve done it. The Obama Administration, speaking for about a third of the American people, jammed a nationalization of the Health Insurance industry down the American throat. On the one hand, American people, you were warned. If you voted for Barack Obama and are among the millions getting buyers remorse today as you confront…
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From The I Told You So Department
…SITD wasn’t the first to take notice, but we smelled this a mile away. A federal safety investigation of the Toyota Prius that was involved in a dramatic incident on a California highway last week found a particular pattern of wear on the car’s brakes that raises questions about the driver’s version of the event,…
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For Eva And Eva Afta
So Eva Ng lost the Mayor’s race on Tuesday. And she lost it by a big margin. I wrote my initial takeaways the other night; I think it’s huge that we actually got a Republican on the ballot at all; Eva is the first we’ve had in the 22 years I’ve lived in this city.…
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Governor Pawlenty Exonerated
So the veto of the gas tax didn’t result in the 35W bridge collapse? My esteemed overlord hates to say “I told you so.” Allow me. Mitch told you so. Number 1: When the engineers finally release their report about what actually caused the 35W Bridge Collapse, a lot of regional lefties – Elwyn Tinklenberg,…
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Better Late Than Fascist
21 years ago, Florida passed its once-controversial concealed-carry bill. At that point, less than ten states had “shall-issue” laws (the Dakotas among them, if memory serves); Florida was the first big state to adopt one. Florida state representative Ron Silver famously predicted that the state would turn into “Dodge City West”, with shootouts after fender-benders…
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Reinforcing Failure
One of the great legacies of the Bush Administration is further proof that tax cuts work. They stimulate the economy. They put people to work. They are a just-plain-good thing. Now, the Bush Administration screwed up, and badly, by not cutting domestic spending. Those of us who supported Steve Forbes up until the end of the 2000…