Watching our “Best and Brightest” in action…:

…I’m reminded of a coach we had in college.

A famously blunt man, he would have likely looked at kids like this best/brightest and said “You’ve got a kind face. The kind of face I’d like to throw shit at”.

Let’s just say it resonates.

By the way – is it just me, or is “Best and Brightest” joining “Vibrant!” as a new sarcastic antonym?

As the Minnesota state legislature, led by the no-way, no-how insane Nicole Mitchell, meanders toward passing a “safe storage” bill, I went out to try to take the community’s temperature on the issue.

I started out at a Menards. There was a line of people in various gang colors, lined up waiting for new safes to be rolled out of the back room. The attendant, Lars “Schmidty” Schmidt, said they were down to just a couple left, and the truck with more wasn’t due until Tuesday.

Things were getting a little edgy, so I went to a Cabela’s.

It’d be a little threadbare to say “I was shocked”…

…but I was.

I kid you not, the line of gang members trying to buy gun safes to comply with the “safe storage” law ran out the door.

This is where the story gets a little dicey – honestly, i can hardly believe I saw this.

One guy was driving away with his new safe when two youths walked up to him in the parking lot, stuck a gun in his face, and jacked the pickup

And then as they were driving away with the new gun safe, another car blocked them in, and three guys got out and carjacked them. They drove off with the safe, leaving three other gang members outraged, perplexed, and with no way to keep their firearms safely locked up.

All of this is as true as I can make it.

A friend of the blog sends this email:

Saw this article this morning & thought you might have fun with it. I
could see a headline like “White colonialists invade Native American
land and destroy culturally sensitive structures”. The article
mentions that the land belongs to the Leech Lake band and the
structures involved belonged to Native Americans

The friend was right.

Not only was it a story of cultural oppression, but…:

Foresters for the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources used dynamite to blow up two enclosed wooden deer stands state officials say were permanently left on state land against state law.

Neighbors in the area say the demolition was unsafe and unnecessary. Agency officials on Wednesday said the action didn’t follow “DNR policy or reflect good judgment” and that follow-up measures are likely.

…dynamiting deer stands can not be good for the environment.

Go here to find out more about United We Transform.

And don’t forget Clarence Henderson – of the Woolworth Lunch Counter sit-in – will be keynoting the “Justice For Our Generations” event at Shiloh Baptist in North Minneapolis tomorrow.

And here’s today’s music:

This year is the fiftieth anniversary of one of the best albums you’ve never heard – I Want To See The Bright Lights Tonight by Richard and Linda Thompson.

How do describe the record? Let’s take a run at it: Eccentric Celtic folk-rock via the Byrds?

Their marital breakup was inadvertently chronicled eight years later on Shoot Out the Lights – but this was their breakthrough, creatively if not commercially.

Anyway – for those who are in the know, here are the Thompsons (their daughter does the talking for Linda, who’s suffered from dysphonia for quite a while now – a serious tragedy for one of the best singers of her era) talking about the making of the record:

If you’ve never heard the album? You’re not alone. Do yourself a favor.

Today’s DFL:

1. They nominate a convicted stalker to run against his alleged (by his own video) victim.
2. They trot Nichole Mitchell’s animated political corpse into the Senate chamber to vote for their idiotic “safe storage”, which will get tossed in court, and which will literally create a presumption of guilt against a homeowner whose firearms are stolen via any means.
3. And then, when Rep Franson brings up an emendment to exempt current victims of active stalkers, tell the little ladies they shouldn’t worry their pretty little heads and leave the guns to the menfolk.

What? You thought I was kidding?

This would be called “mansplaining” anywhere else.

Which brings us to the female face of misogyny, Jamie Becker-Finn:

They are treating their moment in absolute power as a way to say “nya nya” to people they hate. No more.

…from our younger generation.

Almost 80 years ago, this was what a group of 18-22 year olds did:

Today?

Well, this may be the modern generation’s analog:

A bunch of guys (lefties call them “frat boys” which I suspect means “any college student that doesn’t have blue hair or non-intuitive pronouns).

We don’t expect much – but by golly, someone delivered!

Everything that needs to be said about you – those who deny the use of the institution for which the majority of the students, and the taxpayers, pay (and pay, and pay and pay and pay) was said almost six decades ago…

…by the best president of my lifetime (and yours, if you’re over 37 years old, whether you’re smart enough to know it or not).

Answer: Show them you exist and aren’t going away:

The comments on this tweet are the tip of the rhetorical iceberg, and bespeak a crowd who treat violations of their ‘Urban Progressive Privilege’ like getting jabbed in the yarbles with a knitting needle.

It’s high time we stopped calling Ivy Leaguers like this Columbia spokesbeing:

…as “our best and brightest”.

By the way – at “Mitch Berg University”, students who infringe other students rights – Jewish, conservative, liberal, communist, I don’t care – by depriving them of the use of the campus they pay to attend will be blockaded into their “autonomous zones”; no water or food go in, no sewage comes out.

Only way out is through a checkpoint where they either make a videotaped apology and commit to pay restitution to the students they’ve adversely affected, or sign the acknowledgement on their expulsion paperwork.

…that Ilhan Omar is a truly reprehensible person:

But hey, if you live in CD5 [1], feel free to vote for her, whether you are pro-corruption, graft and antisemitism, or against it.

[1] Or are buried within the borders of CD5