Speaking Of Shots In The Dark: Welcome To the New Design!
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Asking The Questions That Need To Be Answered
I have a mission for you all. Read this article. Then vote below – is it satire, or is it straight. Satire or Straight? Satire! Terrell is brilliantly sending up the self-absorbed foppishness of millennial SJWs! Straight! The self-parody is so over the top, you think it HAS to be satire. But it’s not! …
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Good Thing I’m Not A Gambling Man…
…because I’d have just lost a lot of money on t his.
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Perverse Disincentives
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: Big headlines, Trump is bad for the industry, profits are way down from what they were under Obama, jobs threatened. Which industry? The gun industry. Obama was its greatest salesman. Under Trump, the gun industry is crashing. Fewer gun sales means fewer guns on the street which, as every…
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I Heard It On The NARN
Today’s music playlist.
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NARN Is The Answer
Today, the Northern Alliance Radio Network – America’s first grass-roots talk radio show – is on the air! Today on the show: Berg’s Seventh Law in the news! Jonathan Aanestad on next weekend’s protests against Ramsey County’s dilatory response to the attacks on the Trump rally two weeks ago. Don’t forget – King Banaian is on from 9-11AM on…
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Bullet The Cement Sky
If you remember my “Twenty Years Ago Today” series from way back when, you may recall that one of the things that drew me to the Twin Cities, 32 years ago this fall, was the music scene. While I had not the foggiest idea at age 22 what I wanted to do for a career…
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Starting Decade Five
It was a wet, cold, slushy March evening in Jamestown, ND. I was in the basement of the FIrst Presbyterian Church, at a church youth group meeting. Notable fact about the group: one of the group’s leaders, a student at Jamestown College, would eventually have a son named Jared, who’d become an all-star defensive tackle…
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Weekend Plans
In the not too distant future, This weekend, AD, my house will be all quiet, except for my TV. I’ll have MST3K on, and I won’t even turn the volume down. Won’t stop for rain or snow or hail and all your calls will roll to voice mail I’ll watch wretched movies, the worst of…
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Pivot
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: The H-1B visa program was started because Americas were such a bunch of dummies, we couldn’t supply the tech industry with enough qualified people not matter how much we offered to pay them. But according to this article, it’s now being used to bring in foreigners who can be…
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Flipping Big Bird
SCENE: Mitch BERG is walking through the streets of Lowertown when he encounters MyLyssa SILBERMAN, who covers the “Fake News” and “Diversity” beats for National Public Radio’s Twin Cities bureau. SILBERMAN steps out of a Taoist nail salon in Lowertown, and runs into BERG. SILBERMAN: Merg. BERG: Hey, MyLyssa. What’s new? SILBERMAN: On assignment, looking for…
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My Obamacare Debate With Nearly Every Democrat
SCENE: Mitch BERG is cutting brush with a sawzall. Avery LIBRELLE walks through the alley and catches BERG unawares. LIBRELLE: Hey, Merg! BERG: Er, hey, Avery. I’m kinda busy… LIBRELLE: The GOP’s Obamacare repeal will throw people off their insurance policies. BERG: Nah, that’s what the subsidy and tax cuts and medicaid are for…
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Oops
The Shakopee School District had a flub in their budget, to the tune of almost $5 million: According to Thompson’s email, the district found a $4.5 million discrepancy during a yearly financial review. Finance Director Mike Burlager mentioned the error during the school board’s Truth in Taxation meeting Dec. 12, but did not mention the…
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NPR On
Al Capone’s VaultTrump’s Tax ReturnOn “Morning Edition”. NPR Reporter: “…if it weren’t for the “Alternative Minimum Tax”, Trump would have paid a net tax rate of 3%”. NPR Anchor: “Right – but there was an alternative minimum tax, and he paid a net rate of about 25% – considerably higher than Barack Obama and double what Bernie Sanders paid. So why the pointless “what…
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Liberal Messaging
On issue after issue after issue, the left’s messaging strategery seems to have changed to “pummel the public with inflammatory, scaremongering lies; the votes of the gullible, the incurious, the demented and the un-bright count the same as the votes of smart people, and are easier to secure”. Focusing on the 2nd Amendment “debate” –…
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Look, Think, Act Like America
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: Diversity proponents say “We need an office that looks like America” meaning an office staffed by people who are Black, Hispanic, American Indian but all carefully toe the line chanting the same Liberal ideas. It’s especially annoying in federal agencies, where the “deep state” long-term bureaucrats are all committed…
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Lie First, Lie Always: Numbers
Last week at the hearings on the “Constitutional Carry” and “Self-Defense Reform” bill, the clown antics of Ross Derp (or whatever his name was) got the headlines. (Update: It was Ross Koon. I regret the error). But something even more indicative of the anti-gun, criminal safety movement was buried in the background But first, a…
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Priorities
Hide illegal aliens in Minneapolis? No problem. Parade down the freeway without a demonstration permit? Here – have a police escort! Sell a legal product on a day that isn’t “legal” today, but will be in four months? Incur the wrath of the All Powerful City!
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Paging Alanis Morisette, Part CLXXVII
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: I read a good quip the other day: “Obama policies kill Obama values: if you dither and appease while Russia turns Syria into a charnel house, your commitment to humane treatment of refugees will collapse under the human catastrophe resulting from your fecklessness.” Okay, technically it’s not true. Obama’s…
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I Am The Bandwagon
Last week, Kurt Schlichter discovered Berg’s Seventh Law. This week? Satirical dramatization. I should be getting royalties.
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Minnesota’s Bornholmer Strasse
In East Germany in 1991, all it took was one border guard commander to jump the queue and completely short-circuit his communist leaders’ plans to keep communism alive. Just one cop, opening one gate, and half a century of oppression deflated like a Vikings winning streak. In Minnesota, we’re not nearly that dramatic. Jim Surdyk,…
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The Meaning Of The Word “Is”
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: Former President Obama was furious that President Trump accused him of ordering a wiretap. A former Obama mouthpiece said: “A cardinal rule of the Obama administration was that no White House official ever interfered with any independent investigation led by the Department of Justice,” said Kevin Lewis. “As part…
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I Heard It On The NARN
Here’s the article I wrote about the history of protest violence being designed to beget violence in response. Be careful at any Republican events, and keep your head screwed on straight; they want you to react violently. That’ll cement the media’s narrative. Via Paul Seefeld, here’s some video from the riots last week at the…
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Great NARN Avenue
Today, the Northern Alliance Radio Network – America’s first grass-roots talk radio show – is on the air! Today on the show: The Gathering Storm: the many (smug, entitled, pampered) faces of the toxic left Of Walls and Visas. Don’t forget – King Banaian is on from 9-11AM on AM1440, and Brad Carlson is normally heard on “The Closer” edition of…
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All The Usual Caveats Apply
But Trump’s first month of employment numbers are pretty darn good. “GREAT AGAIN: +235,000,” Trump posted on his Twitter account in a retweet of a Drudge Report headline on Friday minutes after the Bureau of Labor Statistics released payrolls data for February showing the U.S. added a net 235,000 jobs during the month. Gary Cohn,…
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