Everything That Isn’t Mandatory Is Banned

Joel Doakes from Como Park emails:

The neighbors fought to keep Buffalo Wild Wings out of their neighborhood completely, and lost before the St. Paul City Council, which is quite an achievement given this city’s track record.

Now the neighbors are back, bitching because it smells like fried food. Well, yes, you live next door to a restaurant. I live across from a ball park. Everybody has problems. That’s part of living in a city, rubbing shoulders, celebrating diversity.

If you want your own private estate, move to North Oaks.

Joe Doakes

Hell Is Other People.

It reminds me of the people who teamed up to ban cruising on Snelling and University during hot rod shows. These people live in a major city, but want it to sound like an Iowa corn field after dark.

“Progressivism” is always about trying to build utopia with legislation.

12 thoughts on “Everything That Isn’t Mandatory Is Banned

  1. Kare11 had a story on airport noise last night in which a resident of Edina complained that his in-home recording studio was plagued by noise from jet planes. A home near the airport with a recording studio, and the owner wants the airport to re-route plane traffic to suite his needs.

  2. Growing up in White Bear I used to think North Oaks was just snooty rich people, you know…the limousine liberals.

    After a little research I found, they may have it right (even though I’m certain they have their share of liberals there). North Oaks was designed so that the property lines extend to the middle of the street(s) on which the property exists, essentially placing all roads into private ownership of their homeowners association. The result is, essentially, the entire village is completely free of the control of the Met Council (not the original intent since the development predated the Met Council).

    I would move there in a heartbeat…if it weren’t for that pesky not being able to afford to issue.

  3. My memory of this particular B-dubs story is that there was one or a series of failing dive bars in that space. It’s a great location for restaurant/bar given its location near the money sinkholes aka leftist liberal arts colleges yet no one could make a go of it. B-dubs jumped through all the hoops (hmm, million dollar idea for St Paul city government types – get into the hoop export industry with all your overcapacity) before them and apparently, based on the complaints about the smells, are making a go of it there. These people that live near the colleges want to get some of that ‘vibe’ that perpetually young people (there’s a new crop every year) throw off. They’re also the first to call the cops the moment anything other than an anti-war / pro-choice / anti-Republican gathering of three or more students happens off campus.
    @Dave Thul – But isn’t that pretty much what local news is? It used to be if you had a problem you complained to your spouse, neighbor or the guys at work. The common response to your complaint was ‘you can’t fight city hall’ or ‘ya dumb ass, what did you expect when you moved near the airport?”. Now you call KARE11 or ‘CCO and they send a camera crew to document your victimhood.

  4. Seflores, this location was formerly Cheapo records. But other than that, you are right on.

    A Q-doba wanted to build upon the vacant land that was the former Synder Drug store in Highland Park. They are getting resistance because their plans provide too much parking.

  5. I own property in N. Minneapolis and during the gay marching season it smells like ass; I want it stopped immediately.

    No justice; no peace!

  6. Cheapo records was put out of business by Amazon.
    That means this whole wing-thing issue is the fault of capitalism and republican policies. Koch bros. are in the mix, I’m sure.

  7. Although the “mother of them all” the Electric Fetus (record-shop) still manages to thrive in spite of Amazon.

  8. Although the “mother of them all” the Electric Fetus (record-shop) still manages to thrive in spite of Amazon.

    Yes, the Electric Fetus survives. There’s a reason for that — they have people working there who really know and love music and they’re always willing to take the time to explain what they have available. They also make recommendations that actually make sense, as opposed to whatever a logarithm spits out.

  9. I remember the Fetus as one of the first to stock and retail Ohaus triple-beam scales. That of course was prior to discovering Twin City Scales. Just saying……

  10. “I remember the Fetus as one of the first to stock and retail Ohaus triple-beam scales.”

    Don’t tell me; you used it to weigh your tiny lit-tle brain every morning after drinking your kool-aid, right? Am I right?

  11. Uncle Hugos is the used SciFi paperback equivalent of the Electric Fetus. The people working there are insanely knowledgable about SF and they have the good stuff, old books you can’t find even on E-Bay.

    Uncle Edgars Mystery Book Store might be good too, don’t know anything about them. But the SF side is the best in the upper Midwest, maybe the nation.

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