Category: Health Care
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French Kiss-Off
What coulda been.
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Welcome To The Party, Pal
Hey, look! The guy who banned family Thanksgiving and Christmas gatherings, limited the Cathedral of Saint Paul to ten worshippers (and Kissin’ Cousins’ Sports Bar in Newfolden to 50) and tried to get you fired for not getting vaccinated…: …is suddenly a liberty hawk!
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Outbreak Of Reason
SCENE: Mitch BERG is pondering the tragedy that is his backyard garden when Avery LIBRELLE, riding a recumbent bike, rides up the alley, unbeknownst to BERG. LIBRELLE: Merg! BERG: Ohhhhhh fuuuuun seeing you Avery… LIBRELLE: Shut up. Robert F Kennedy is making Americans sick. There’s a huge measles outbreak. BERG: Huh. And that’s RFK’s fault?…
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Unforgiven
Today’s the anniversary of Minnesota’s Great Leap Backward. Me? I was on my way home from the office, listening the governor on MPR as he announced the most draconian set of emergency powers in Minnesota history. On the way, I stopped at a Total Wine. The store has eight checkout lines, of which two are…
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Complicated
A friend of the blog emails: Like Justine Bateman, I was thinking that I would see a flood of posts declaring that it wasn’t a host of other issues, but that it was the guns. Nope. Didn’t see a single post. Sort of like the parables about democracy, our justice system and the free market…
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For The Young Ignorant Lefty Bobbleheads In Your Life
You know who I’m talking about – the young humanities major at your job; the know-it-all lady witih ELCA hair in the PTA; the angry young relative who deigns to grace you with her presence at holiday dinners anyway. This one goes out to you. Use it wisely. Reasons American healthcare is expensive: 6. American…
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So Tired Of Winning
“Life is full of ironies – if you’re stupid” — PJ O’Rourke Remember 2010-2012? When Democrats snarled that there was no way, no how that there were “death panels” buried in Obamacare? And those of us with some experience in the healthcare industry responded “of course, there are, and have been ever since government poked its nose…
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Fun Facts For Modern People
Fun Fact #1: The people cheering the political murder of another citizen – Brian Thompson, CEO of a company who’s one of the modern left’s betes noire – are the same people who want to disarm you. Fun Fact #2: The people angry about that insurance companies – UHG today, but surely all the other…
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Never Forget
Since Tim “Mind Your Own Business” Walz and his phalanx of lies are on the ticket next week, let’s make sure people remember this: They warned us that if we voted GOP, fascism would erupt. And they were right.
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This Should Solve Giggles And Piglet’s Problem With Men
In a campaign full of cringe-y ads, this may be the dumbest: Treating husbands as the enemy seems like a bit of a tactical error.
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I Heard It On The NARN
Paul Gazelka’s book Lifting the Veil is available right here. Today’s music list:
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From The Upcoming Revision To The Oxford English Dictionary
“Frumming (Verb): To compare two radically different things as if they were the same, by leaving out dispositively vital context. Example: Variations: Frummery: (Noun): “It was pure frummery to compare the records of the two presidents by dishonestly leaving out the pandemic”.
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Perspective Needed
Former representative Ryan Winkler has led us down a twisty, turny path with some surprises over his legislative and extra-legislative careers. He’s swerved from the ridiculous to the, well, occasionally admirable, and back, and forth and back and forth, and backandforth… And, well…: Denying the industralized murder of 11 million people, versus Legitimate questions and…
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Lesson Learned
Israel has always had a paternalistic but pragmatic view of civilian firearms. As a general rule, they are opposed – but there’ve been exceptions. After a series of school massacres fifty years ago, they liberalized teacher carry in the kibbutzim – until they turned the job over to security (successfully, so far, where “success” doesn’t…
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Snail Mail
Joe Doakes, formerly of Como Park, emails: I turn 65 this Summer. I went online to apply for Medicare. Can’t, must apply for Social Security first. Okay, filled all the boxes, established a strong password, set up two-factor authentication, entered the confirmation code, received acknowledgement of the code, so are we done? No. They’ll send…
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That Smell
What is that smell? Why, it’s the sound of millions of peoples senses of self-righteous indignation, their mode of instant social sorting, their handy form of smug virtue-signaling, and that little knot of terror that they cultivated and nursed into their worldview, slowly smoldering into ash: A whole lot of Merriam Park harpies are feeling…
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No
Professor Galloway: I hear what you’re saying. I do. And on behalf of all the small businesses strangled by your mistake, all the parents who watched their kids slowly go crazy and stupid, and felt their personal, social and business relationships fraying and breaking? I reject it. Forgiveness without atonement is meaningless. Try again.
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Been Down This Road Before
The DFL wants “assisted suicide”: Further evidence of Big Left’s contempt for human life. Fearless predictions: 2024: “assisted suicide” for specific conditions. 2026: “Conditions” list expanded to include depression, fatigue. (Like Canada) 2030: List expanded again to include “state thinks you’re too expensive (Netherlands) 2033: List includes political undesirables.
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Ambiguous
So we’re reliably informed that Downtown Minneapolis is back. But that it desperately needs Target to force its workers back into the office. Reporter Brianna Kelly spent months talking to downtown Minneapolis businesses about the flexible hybrid approach of downtown’s largest employer, and the impact it is having on the local economy. “You know, everyone…
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Never Forget
Polls – and the current performance of the DeSantis campaign – shows that, whether from fatigue or bigger fish to fry, Covid just isn’t that big an issue for most people. That’s a shame. In the interest of making sure, to the best of my ability, that nobody forgets, here’s what Democrats were thinking… …not…
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Better Late Than Never
This is a great bit. Wish there’d been a lot more like it three years ago.
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There Are Too Many Potential Titles For This Post To Choose One, And I’m Trying To Be A Better Person Than That Anyway
Governor Walz is “turning power over” to Lt Governor Flanagan for a few hours while he has a colonoscopy. I don’t not expect DFL goons to roam the streets looking for wreckers while she’s in power. Fingers crossed, everyone. Smoke ’em if you got ’em. However, if all goes well, hopefully we’ll get word as…
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He Who Controls The Past, Controls The Future
Attention, “fact-checkers” – yet again, we were right and you were wrong. The lab leak theory – which for over half the pandemic was labeled a racist conspiracy theory, repeating which could get you kicked off of social media and drummed out of polite society – appears to be true. But if there’s one thing…
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Fearless Prediction
Big Left will flip the tables, declare that Trump’s push to develop a vaccine was a huge mistake.
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Downtown’s Back, Baybee!
If proclamations made with muted, Minnesotan gusto were correlated with economic results, Jacob Frey’s exhortations would have downtown Minneapolis humming along like Dallas. Alas, they do not. Some of downtown’s signature office towers are ailing financially: The 30-story LaSalle Plaza in downtown Minneapolis is scheduled to go to auction next week after the previous owner, the Teachers’…