Speaking Of Shots In The Dark: Welcome To the New Design!
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Why Trump Won
Vegan cafe owners – “feminists”, natch – charge men an 18% penalty, seat them after women. Owner Alex O’Brien told Broadsheet website: “I do want people to think about it, because we’ve had this (pay discrepancy) for decades and decades and we’re bringing it to the forefront of people’s minds. I’ve thought about it, Ms.…
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Death (Hard) Wish
Vigilante justice civil order blah blah blah. Just take my money.
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Felonious Sematics
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: Minnesota Court of Appeals decides that having a loaded pistol in the center console of the car is not “carrying a pistol.” The word “carrying” requires a connection between the pistol and your clothes or some part of your body. Except . . . that means a person doesn’t…
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NARN Or Glory Becomes Just Another Story
Today, the Northern Alliance Radio Network – America’s first grass-roots talk radio show – is on the air! Today on the show: What’s the matter with the DFL’s candidates? Just Not Compatible With Democracy Heroic Self-Defense Don’t forget – King Banaian is on from 9-11AM on AM1440, and Brad Carlson is on “The Closer” edition of the NARN Sundays from 2-3PM.…
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Princess Pander
It’s almost a year until the convention, but Saint Paul DFL gubernatorial candidate Erin Murphy’s campaign is already doomed. Perhaps with that in mind, she’s swinging for the (Metrocrat) fences, calling for single payer helathcare: Murphy criticizes capitalist models of health care, saying that a for-profit model of any part of the health care system…
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A Good Guy With A Gun: “Heroic Actions Of Self-Defense”
Henco has affirmed that a Minnetonka man shot an attacker / stalker in self defense, and all but carried him down Excelsior Boulevard on their shouders: Following the strong recommendation of investigators, the Hennepin County attorney’s office said this week that 65-year-old James LaCount, of Minnetonka, will not be prosecuted for fatally shooting Thomas Luetzow…
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For The Gander
SCENE: Mitch BERG is sitting in the tire shop, waiting for a patch on a slow leak. Just as BERG thinks the phrase “slow leak”, Avery LIBRELLE enters the lobby, distracted, and sits. Then, LIBRELLE notices BERG. LIBRELLE: Merg! BERG: Er, hey, Avery. LIBRELLE: Donald Drumpf and the Senate are proposing racist immigration laws. BERG:…
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When I Think Back On All The Crap…
Joe Doeakes from Como Park emails: A Wisconsin legislator wants schools to offer an elective class on safety. Liberals are losing their minds. Schools already offer classes in how to safely have sex, take drugs, drink alcohol, interact with Strangers. This bill expands the list to firearms. What’s the problem? I cannot recall the last…
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Slip
LIBERAL: “Why do you conservatives argue about ‘slippery slopes’ so much?” CONSERVATIVE: “Because some issues are, indeed, slippery slopes: Parents should be allowed to have their newborn babies killed because they are “morally irrelevant” and ending their lives is no different to abortion, a group of medical ethicists linked to Oxford University has argued The…
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It’s Fiction.
But only barely.
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Conundrum
Being of mostly Caucasian descent makes me a beneficiary of “white privilege”. So I’m told. However, the terms of that “privilege” are entirely defined by those who purportedly don’t have it; indeed, we are told as people who “have” the “privilege” that we can’t possibly understand it. Apparently we benefit from something we can not…
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Projection
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: New York Times headline: Republicans are worried White House disarray undermines Trump. But read the article and you find Republicans are placing the blame squarely on Congress where it belongs, except John Kasich who hates Trump and a lobbyist for immigration amnesty who hates Trump’s immigration stance. The rest…
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Zero Sum
I caught the movie Dunkirk the Saturday before last. I’ll be reviewing it in a separate piece later this week or early next. In the meantime – this “Feminist” review of the movie is enough to make you wonder if we really saved western civilization at the end of WW2, or merely delayed its demise. It’s…
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The Man Without A Party
Saint Paul representative and attorney general candidate John Lesch has been given a $25,000 fine for irregularities in handling his campaign finances. One little smidgen of emphasis is added: After working with Lesch, his treasurers — one of whom is the representative’s wife — and investigating the situation for more than three years, the campaign…
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R E S P E C T. Find Out What It Means To Me.
2/3 of Ameirca’s firearm fatalities involve suicide. Half of America’s suicides involve firearms. Suicide is generally a matter of available means – and so gun suicides tend to be concentrated in rural areas. The victims are generally older, frequently socially isolated, often depressed, frequently ill. In short, they’re the sort of people a lot of…
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Pointlessly Enigmatic
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: Senator Amy Klobuchar is withholding a blue slip to block the Senate from taking up consideration of President Trump’s nomination of Minnesota Supreme Court Justice David Stras to the 8th Circuit Court of Appeals. Why? Yes, yes, Class Clown Al Franken is withholding his too, but we all know…
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15,000
I’ve been seeing it all over the place; “Progressives” objecting to President Trump’s new policy on transgender servicepeople by claiming that there is a veritable swarm of transgender servicepeople. One study that ban opponents are bruiting about, from UCLA (or, rather, from a GLBT group whose data a UCLA GLBT-law focus group accepted – claims that…
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Open Letter To Mayor Hodges
To: Betsy Hodges, Mayor, Minneapolis From: Mitch Berg, Irascible Peasant Re: Problem-Solving Your Highness, This is a problem that calls for decisive action. Like banning plastic bags, building “green roofs” and banning idling cars. I know we can count on you. That is all.
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Heartbreaking Work Of Staggering Genius
Guy writes to Village Voice advice columnist “Andrew W.K” complaining his father is a “right wing a****le”. Mr W., K’ answer is both the last thing I expected and one of the best I’ve ever seen, and worth reading in its entirety. One of several potential pullquotes: When we lump people into groups, quickly label…
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Numbours
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: Canadian Mormon convicted of polygamy, faces 5 years in prison. Isn’t having 25 wives punishment enough? It’s Canada, so American law doesn’t apply; but I wonder how this case would come out using the principles of law explained by Justice Kennedy in the gay marriage decision, Obergefell v.…
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We, The People
To: “David Smalley” From: Mitch Berg, irascible peasant Re: Your article on, ahem, “Patheos”. Mr. Smalley, I”m not going to bother dispensing with the bulk of your “seminar caller”-stule, utterly and intensely illogical assault on “gun culture”. But there is one line that I want to call out, by way of accelerating its demise from…
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Sources
The Times uses Chelsea Manning as a spokesperson for transgenders in the military. Up Next: NYTimes runs op-ed by Martin Bormann on all the reasons to take your next vacation in Germany.
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And Now From The “It’s Only News If You Haven’t Been Paying Attention For The Past Eighty Years” Department
Pew study shows Democrats get more stressed out over cognitive dissonance over politics than Republicans: Democrats feel more negatively about talking politics with people who have a different opinion of the president than do Republicans. A large majority of Democrats and Democratic-leaning independents – nearly seven-in-ten (68%) – say they find it to be stressful…
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Common Core Math?
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: I’d love to lose weight on this new breakfast diet but I can’t make the math work. 6 plus 6 plus 18? That’s a 30-hour day. Where do these people live? Joe Doakes And do they get paid by the hour?
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NARN Today
Today, the Northern Alliance Radio Network – America’s first grass-roots talk radio show – is on the air! Today on show – I’m off on assignment, so Brad Carlson is hosting both today and his regular Sunday show. Don’t forget – King Banaian is on from 9-11AM on AM1440, and Brad Carlson is on “The Closer” edition of the NARN Sundays from 2-3PM. So tune…
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