Shot in the Dark

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  • Question For NPR/MPR, The Strib, Alondra Cano, Betsy Hodges And Every Other Minnesota Liberal Figurehead

    To:  NPR, the Strib,  Alondra Cano, and every other Twin Cities liberal that’s spent the lasdt six months romanticizing the NoDAPL “pipeline” protest From:  Mitch Berg, Ornery Peasant and actual North Dakota native Re:  Just Curious, Here All, You all – media and political figures alike – have spent the past six months romanticizing the…

  • To The Minneapolis And Saint Paul City Councils

    To:  Our Bobbleheaded Overlords From: Mitch Berg, Irascible Peasant Re:  “Fight For Fifteen!” All, From a friend of this blog, here’s where the $15/hour minimum wage leads, inevitably and inexorably: Let me just take a moment to say, I don’t think the “#FightFor15” has anything to do with raising worker wages, or taking any sort…

  • Up Next For California

    After drought and now flooding, my money is on toads.

  • When Mob Justice Isn’t Good Enough

    Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: Computer hackers got into the hotel’s electronic key system and locked guests out of their rooms until management paid a ransom.  It’s a variation on the ransom-ware scam being used with other computer users.  Pay up or you won’t get your system back.  This is modern-day piracy.  There should…

  • The Holy Alliance

    We’ve fallen a little behind on our World War I series.  Over the next few weeks/months, we’re going to work to get caught-up to the calendar. It was well after midnight on December 29th, 1916, but the staff of the Yusupov Palace in St. Petersburg was preparing for a party. The Palace’s wine cellar had…

  • More Hatred Of Muslims!

    40,000 Muslims deported, due to fear of terrorism. From Muslim Saudi Arabia. Obvious bigotry against the Religion of Peace by redneck deplorable…Sunni.

  • It’s Not The Cure, Or The Disease; It’s The Organism Itself

    Students at the University of California San Diego are protesting an appearance by the Dalai Lama, caling him “offensive” and “oppressive”. The students are, of course, from China, and are parroting the chanting points given to them by their Communist government back home. Ignorant students trying to shut down free speech by people that people…

  • I Heard It On The NARN

    How trashed is the NoDAPL “protest” site? The ongoing series of media mistakes, distortions and lies re: President Trump. And today’s ♫ music playlist.

  • Some People Wanna NARN, So They Can Be Free

    Today, the Northern Alliance Radio Network – America’s first grass-roots talk radio show – is on the air! Today on the show: MNGOP Chair candidate Chris Fields joins me. A challenge to MPR, the Strib, Alondra Cano, and other MInnesota liberals Don’t forget – King Banaian is on from 9-11AM on AM1440, and Brad Carlson is normally heard on “The Closer”…

  • It’s A Start

    Ted Mondale and Michelle Kelm-Helgen resigned from the Metro Sports Utilities Commission yesterday, after the corruption in the MSFC’s use of luxury skyboxes as a spiff for the Twin Cities’ DFL became to great for even the Metro old-boy-and-girl network to hush up. Mondale and Kelm-Helgen faced cascading criticism and scrutiny since the Star Tribune reported…

  • Fake News, Alternate Facts

    Over at the WashEx, a catalog of the ongoing reportorial flubs, context-manglings, bobbled facts, unreliable anonymous sources with the wrong story, and just plain made-up BS… …in the past not-quite-a-month. It’s not only helpful to view the MSM as Democrat operatives with bylines; it’s pretty much the only intellectdually honest approach.

  • Stuck On Stupid

    Sally “I Went To Harvard” Kohn believes “most recently-defeated presidential candidate” is on the presidential order of succession. Actually, the headline is misleading – Kohn believes that a successful impeachment leads to a special election. Which is, if anything, even dumber. Which is as good a nickname for Kohn as any.  

  • The Fix

    Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: Trump has only been President four weeks and already, inflation is out of control.  Higher than it’s been during the entire last term of President Obama’s administration.  That . . . or the Obama administration faked the numbers and only now are the true numbers coming out.  Nobody wants…

  • Hodges-To-English Translation

    Recently, a series of phony social media accounts, and a phony job posting, have appeared for a “Draft Jacob Frey for Congress” committee.   Frey is, of course, the extreme-extreme-liberal city councilman who is challenging extreme liberal mayor Betsy Hodges in the upcoming Minneapolis mayoral race. Turns out it all came from someone in her…

  • The Enemy Of My Enemy…Still Makes Me Feel Slimy

    Lena Dunham. On the one hand, she writes indulgent, entitle twaddle like Girls.  Including lines like: … and the other thing about me is I give zero f***s about anything, yet I have a strong opinion about everything, even topics I’m not informed on.” Which is simultaneously risibly vacuous and as perfect a sample of Urban Liberal Privilege as…

  • The Passive-Aggressive Dannell Malloy

    Connecticut’s governor Dannell Malloy is proposing quadrupling fees for carry permits, as well as raising fees for background checks by 50%: As part of his budget, Malloy is proposing to increase the state portion of the pistol permit fee from $70 to $300. He also is proposing the cost of the initial 5-year pistol permit fee…

  • Next Week’s Trivia

    Question:  Name a book that Trulbert may have outsold? Answer:  Chelsea Clinton’s debut tome. Almost no one is buying the Clinton title, co-authored by Devi Sridhar, a Global Public Health Professor at the University of Edinburgh.  It currently stands at No. 74,374 on the Amazon Bestsellers Chart. The book profiles global health organizations and the work they do.…

  • Decline

    Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: By 1963, before we had The Great Society, before we had Civil Rights, before we had a Department of Education, feminism, no-fault divorce, abortion on demand, unlimited immigration, the EPA, Clean Water Act, public employee unions the prevailing wage and transgender bathrooms, Americans had built Hoover Dam and the…

  • Focus

    You’d never know it from watching/reading the WaPo, the NYTimes, NPR and the big three – but the American public trusts used car salesmen more than journalists. Nope – not making it up:  According to an Emerson College, poll, the public trusts the Trump about a quarter more than the mainstream media: The Trump administration is…

  • Today’s Facts, A Year Ago: Fake News Edition

    The Daily Caller notes that the “database” used by the liberal media to try to create hysteria about mass shootings, overstates the number of such incidents by at least an order of magnitude: The website “Mass Shooting Tracker” (MST) has been regularly used by news outlets, like The Washington Post and PBS, to claim “mass…

  • Fake News, Fake Leadership

    Congress’s Democrat brain trust jumped on the news that former National Security Advisor Flynn had tweeted he was a scapegoat. They were obliging enough to do it on video: And who can blame ’em?  It was in the NYTimes and the WaPo. Of course, it was fake news.  When it’s political and it’s in the Times or…

  • A Modest Question

    Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: I was promised by every Liberal in the nation that if Betsy DeVos was confirmed as Secretary of Education, she would end public education.  She got confirmed earlier this week.  So why were there so many school busses on the road this morning, blocking up traffic?  Shouldn’t those kids…

  • Parallels

    I’ve been re-reading Modern Times:  The History of the World from the 1920s to the 1980s by the great historian (and former leftist intellectual) Paul Johnson. I highly recommend it for a sold re-grounding ni the history of the 20th century, including the century’s most noxious, toxic, and yes, evil impulses – the intertwined phenomena of…

  • Like Farmers

    When I was a kid, I’d go into the local bakery, whrere area farmers would be sitting and talking.  When they talked, there were two subjects: If it was raining out:  complaining that it was too wet. If it wasn’t raining about:  complaining about how dry it was. Over this past few months, watching California…

  • Heads We Win, Tails You Lose

    Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: We took very precise, very careful climate temperature measurements that did not show the result we wanted, then ran them through a black box that nobody understands and we cannot replicate.  And what do you know, now the results DO show the result we wanted.  You can’t deny science.…

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