Shot in the Dark

Category: 2020 Riots

  • Terrorists

    Portland cop (who happens to be black) – the leftist protest mob, especially those organizing them, are the actual racists: You’re be hard-pressed to show that the “protesters” rioting in Minneapolis weren’t the same pack of over-schooled, under-educated, entitled upper-middle-class honkies. More later today.

  • If It’s A Spurious Correlation, It Leads

    Correlation doesn’t equal causation. Every kid with a decent junior high science teacher knew that by, well, the end of junior high. But Millennials didn’t have good science teachers. Seriously – how did medical schools find students, much less graduate doctors, over this past 15 years? But I digress. It also seems to be what…

  • Uncanny

    Remember the Indians who tore down the Columbus statue on the capitol grounds, as Capitol Police stood by and did nothing? Governor Walz promised there would be “consequences.”  Haven’t noticed any news articles about charges being filed. Did they get a time out? Double secret probation? What exactly are the consequences for destroying government property?…

  • Rounds Two And…Three?

    Like a lot of Twin Cities residents, I’m eyeing next spring – sometime after the scheduled March opening of the Derek Chauvin trial – nervously, remembering that the LA riots (at least the ones everyone remembers) began not with the pummeling of Rodney King, but with the acquittal of the four officers involved. And here’s…

  • Fortuitous

    A friend of the blog emails in re the Taco Bell at Snelling and Edmund in the Midway: Hmmm, are we positive that the city council didn’t pay people to riot in St Paul? Now I just read that the Taco Bell on Snelling can’t reopen until a conditional use permit for drive thru is…

  • Dear DFL: You Own This Town

    The feds turn down Governor Klink’s disaster funding request: The federal government has denied Gov. Tim Walz’s request for aid to help rebuild and repair Twin Cities structures that were damaged in the unrest following George Floyd’s death. Walz asked President Donald Trump to declare a “major disaster” for the state of Minnesota in his…

  • Casualties Of “Woke”. Or…

    A few weeks ago, I joked – well, “joked” – that you could that most of the destructive rioters were upper middle class white kids, closely linked to the Twin Cities’ political class. How could I tell this? Because Allianz Field, home of “Minnesota United” soccer club, and a mere block from stores that were…

  • Open Letter To President Trump

    To: President TrumpFrom: Mitch Berg, Irasicble Peasant and Scott Walker supporterRe: Disaster Request Mr. President, This past week, Governor-For-Life Walz asked you to declare Minneapolis and Saint Paul “disaster areas”. Make no mistake – they are. But they are a disaster entirely due to generations of DFL policy, decades of mismanagement, and a week of…

  • Accountability

    The Senate GOP – the only real bit of power the opposition has in Minnesota – is finally going to ask the question that it seems nearly nobody in our media will. Why didi the DFL politiclal “chain of command”, from Mayors Carter and McDreamy up through Governor Klink, allow two of the Twin Cities…

  • Two Minnesotas

    We don’t like the statue of Columbus on the Capitol Grounds. We tried to get it removed through official channels. We lost. We announced we were going to tear it down ourselves. We heard the Governor tell us not to, that the police would stop us. We didn’t care. We tore it down ourselves. We weren’t…

  • Too Far

    The stupidity of the mob that is seizing headlines and rewriting/erasing history is on daily display. But now, they’ve gone far, far beyond too far: It’s a statue of legendary confederate general, slave trader and blues guitarist Stevie Ray Vaughan. Wait – he was never a confederate general, never owned a slave, and was born…

  • On The One Hand…

    I’m rooting for the guy in this video who, attacked by small mob of “Anti”-Fa sympathizers in Albuquerque, including one who tried to beat him over the head with a skateboard, came up shooting: Another video shows the man certainly tried to retreat: So let’s go over the elements of a self-defense case (as best…

  • Must Be The “White Supremacist” They’ve Been Looking For

    22 year old Dylan Robinson was arrested earlier this week in Breckenridge, Colorado, on suspicion of torching the Third Precinct. Well, with a name like “Dylan”, he’s certainly not immigrant or black. But what about “White Supremacist”? Is he one of the crowd that the Governor and both Mayors blamed for all the violence and…

  • False Equivalence

    SCENE: Mitch BERG is looking for almond flour at a Cub Foods, when Cat SCAT, designated “fact checker” at the (possibly fictional) progressive blog “”MinnesotaLiberalAlliance.Blogspot.com“, and the office manager at a small phrenology practice, glomphs up from behind. SCAT: Hah hah, Merg! People are removing racist statues from the Capitol grounds! That’s gotta make all you…

  • Not Ready For Prime Time

    Looking at the SF article on armed citizens again –  “As the car fills with the acrid scent of burning chemicals, Ellison tells his friend in the driver’s seat to pull over. Before they come to a stop, Ellison, 30, flings open the door and jumps out with a pistol in one hand and a small fire extinguisher in…

  • Cultural Appropriation For Ye, But Not For We

    This was the House Democratic leadership, doing their (nothing but) symbolic photo-op before the George Floyd funeral: They’re wearing “Kente” cloths – apparently Ghanaian in this case, but there are similar adornments all through Africa. They have cultural significance. And to Pelosi and her little claque, they are nothing but costumes. Some actual Africans were…

  • Transcripts From Minneapolis City Council Meeting, 2024, Brought To You Today Courtesy Of The City Of Chicago

    The Daily Caller published transcripts from the Chicago City Council’s “meltdown” during the riots. And it’s not pretty. It’s the sound of modern “progressive” urban government getting its ass smacked by reality. A couple of the excerpts are of particular interest (emphasis added by me): “A war zone.”Lopez said his district had turned into a…

  • Open Question For “The Party Of Science”

    To: Governor Walz and the Minnesota DFLFrom: Mitch Berg, Irascible Peasant who passed College BiologyRe: Help me underdstand this Governor Walz So let me get this straight. According to you; Covid19 is a lethal epidemic. Attending protests to seek the re-opening of the state during the middle of the pandemic threatens grandma and, since “essential…

  • Sheer Brilliance

    SCENE: Mitch BERG is walking along University Avenue, looking unsuccessfully for “white supremacist” graffiti. Distracted, he misses Avery LIBRELLE, who is roaming the streets with a cell phone, reporting people who aren’t socially-distanced enough to the governor’s snitch line. They nearly run into each other. LIBRELLE: Merg! BERG: Uh, hey, Avery… LIBRELLE: It’s time for…

  • Probably An Academic Question

    Watching Mayor Trudeau crying with all the convincing grace of a rented mourner over the casket of George Floyd, at the not-remotely-socially-distanced funeral (violating the Mayor’s own directives, after a week during which he abandoned a fifth of the city to looters, reigned over press conferences that looked like outtakes from “Reno 911”, got caught…

  • Privatization

    A friend of the blog emails: The Walker Art Center is just one of several venues and school systems that are just now discovering the benefits of privately funded security. They can hire their own private security, do background checks, control unwanted behavior a little better. Wonder if there will be more support for private…

  • Privilege

    Children of Tim Walz and Ilhan Omar made their sympathies known bright and early last week. Isra Hirsi, daughter of Rep. Omar, tweeted out calls for ‘supplies’ for rioters. Called on it by Andy Ngo, she reverted to virtue-signaling: Now, I can possibly cut Hope Walz a little slack. Make no mistake, she annoyed the…

  • Off Boat Pushed

    St. Paul Mayor Melvin Carter’s dad was a cop.  I wonder what he thinks, seeing what his son has let the city come to.Businesses at the intersection of Como, Front, and Dale Street, a mile or so from Mitch’s house. Sign says: “RIP George Floyd, BLM, minority-owned.” Hoping to be eaten last is not a…

  • Follow The Hidden Money

    It has become obvious there were two groups reacting to George Floyd’s death.  His family/friends/supporters who wanted wanted answers from government and were exercising their First Amendment right to peaceably assemble and petition for redress of grievances; and the Antifa, looking to cause trouble.Antifa has been very careful – there have been no homes destroyed,…

  • The Fifth Killer

    Police and Emergency Medical Services (EMS) deal with a lot of people in crisis – including various medical crises, exacerbated or caused by drugs, alcohol, mental illness, or physical pathologies. Combining the stress of a contact with police, the medical episode and other contributing factors can cause all sorts of problems, some of them potentially…