Shot in the Dark

Tag: Alondra Cano

  • The Cano Corollary To Berg’s 21st Law

    The Cano Corollary to Berg’s 21st Law is a new addition to the canon – and like all the Berg’s Laws, it is an observation that started as satire. To wit: In Blue city electoral politics, “blue” never gets “lighter” or less “progressive”.  There is only one electoral direction – more “progressive”. It’s named for the former…

  • This Is A Test

    Ever since the retirement of Phyllis Kahn for being too moderate for her crazy-left district in Minneapolis, it’s seemed fairly plain – no matter what happens in Minneapolis politics, the drift will be the left. So this post is both a test of my theory, and a prediction. Alondra Cano is leaving office. Now, you…

  • He’s Baaaaack

    Ryan Winkler, Minnesota’s House Majority Leader – let that thought rattle around in your head a bit – replies to Senate Majority Leader Gazelka yesterday: “Trump’s America is deadly!” But the Tim Walz and Peggy Flanagan’s Minnesota is the part that is rioting, burning, looting, shedding businesses and jobs, boarding up, moving to the burbs…

  • This Is A Job For The Counselor Squad

    Shot: Vandals of sorts “attack” Lisa Bender’s house: Chaser: And in response Bender filed a… …well, let’s look at the Channel 5 story: The Minneapolis Police Department told 5 EYEWITNESS NEWS there is an incident report filed concerning an act of vandalism that occurred at the home of Minneapolis City Council President Lisa Bender last week.…

  • Rounds Two And…Three?

    Like a lot of Twin Cities residents, I’m eyeing next spring – sometime after the scheduled March opening of the Derek Chauvin trial – nervously, remembering that the LA riots (at least the ones everyone remembers) began not with the pummeling of Rodney King, but with the acquittal of the four officers involved. And here’s…

  • These Are The Barricades

    The similarities in demographics in population between Virginia and Minnesota are inescapable. Both states are large, solid red expanses of land and people, surrounding small, densely populated democrat dominated Metropolitan areas. And of course, both states have Democratic parties prone to going wild on orgies of spending and power grabbing whenever they get unfettered power.…

  • Since All Of Minneapolis’s Problems Have Been Solved

    Minneapolis: fighting the battles that matter. Crime? Achievement gaps in terrible schools? Disposable bags? Gentrification and zoning causing housing to become unaffordable to the middle-class? Nope. Minneapolis is tackling the scourge of fur. The ban would not force any Minneapolis businesses to close. Instead, companies which currently sell animal fur will have a phase-in period,…

  • The Minneapolis Way

    https://pjmedia.com/davidsteinberg/ilhan-omars-husband-no-longer-works-for-minneapolis-councilwoman-sources-say-omar-asked-for-him-to-be-fired/ Ilhan Omar’s soon to be ex husband’s days of being part of the lifetime sinecure the DFL gives its “elite” are apparently at an end. His job as a bag man…er, community liaison for Alondra Cano apparently got terminated over the summer. David Steinberg – who hasn’t quite shamed the Strib or MPR to…

  • Four-Way Intersection(ality)

    THE WORLD: “Tide Pod Evita, Eric Swalwell and Ilhan Omar are the most toxic form of “progressive” there is.” ALONDRA CANO: Hold my kombucha: From somewhere in the great beyond, Tailgunner Joe is yelling “Dial it back, toots – you’re embarrassing John Birch and George Wallace”.

  • This Is Today’s DFL

    If it could be said the MInnesota DFL party has three intellectual standardbearers – the people who define the full depth and breadth of today’s DFL’s worldview, belief structure and moral parameters – they’d be Minneapolis Congressoman Ilhan Omar, Minneapolis city councilwoman Alondra Cano, and William “Robespierre” Davis. You might recall Mr. Davis from before…

  • The Convenient Victims

    2019: Congresswoman Ilhan Omar  thinks “gay conversion therapy” is torture. 2017: State representative Ilhan Omar thinks penalizing parents for allowing their daughters to be carved up and mutilated is a cultural imposition. Representative Omar – taking the convenient moral stands. You know the worst thing about the idea of replacing Rep. Omar? The 5th CD…

  • Orwell Was A Pollyanna

    Ben Shapiro challenged prog flavor of the month Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez to a debate – something she’s never had in her “political career”. Now, there’s no requirement that a pol debate anyone, ever – even their opponents for office, much less pundits.   Of course, it can be used against you – not that it matters in…

  • Power! Power! Power!

    I’ve been known to mock and taunt the likes of Sarah Jeong, Alondra Cano and Nekima Levy-Pounds for their comical take on “privilege” – including the implication that a guy driving a truck 70 hours a week out in Oil Country has “privilege” over people with elite educations and lifetime political / media sinecures. Some…

  • Wanna Feel Your Skin Crawl?

    Erin Murphy’s big campaign video. Unintended comedy:  Alondra Cano makes an appearance. I’m going to just love watching Erin&Erin trying to campaign outstate.

  • Dense

    The argument amongst Minneapolis’s self-appointed “elites” isn’t whether to make Minneapolis into a high-rise, high-density city full of condos for the well-to-do and poverty-warehouses for the poor – but just how dense to make things. Pun intended. But as Lincoln said, you can’t fool all the people all time.  Even people who vote for Alondra…

  • A Sign You’ve Solved All The Serious Crises

    Dogs at Los Angeles’ animal shelters may  be going vegan: The idea was proposed by Commissioner Roger Wolfson, a Hollywood screenwriter who cited research that he contended shows vegan diets “eliminate” many health problems in dogs, which are omnivores. But he said rethinking the dogs’ meals is about far more sweeping matters — the environmental effect of a meat industry that…

  • Of Goals And Means

    Two incumbent Minneapolis city councilbots, and five challengers with decent chances of winning, said they can see a future without a Minneapolis Police Department: Asked, “Do you believe that we could ever have a city without police?” two incumbents and five serious challengers running for City Council answered “yes.”…Those who did and said they believe…

  • The North Loop Is Burning!, Part III: Never Never Land

    Note:  it’s been a couple of crushingly busy days, and not really in a good way.    This same piece went out in raw-notes form yesterday.  I’m going to re-release it with, y’know, some actual writing.  In theran an editorial this past week proposing some solutions in the tony, hip North Loop last week, the…

  • The Ark

    I saw this story a few years ago, and put it aside until today – the fortieth anniversary of the dedication of the more unusual Catholic churches in the world, Kosciol Arka Pana in Novy Huta, Poland. Which is interesting in and of itself; Nowy Huta is a district in Krakow that was built as a “Socialist…

  • If I Were A Betting Man…

    …and I am not, but if I were, I’d bet good money that the headline at the Strib tomorrow will be something like: Minnesota Republicans Reject Black Chair Candidate I can honestly say that I’d have voted for anyone in the field – Rick Rice, Dave Hann or Chris FIelds (who I figured would be the final two in the…

  • Rebooted Morality!

    Remember when questioning the provenance of immigrant voters was a baaaad thing? Either does Alondra “The Brain” Cano, the “third world feminist” and Minneapolis City Council ward heeler: Minneapolis City Council candidate Mohamed Farah is accusing Council Member Alondra Cano of “Jim Crow tactics” after she questioned the credentials of many of the Somali-American delegates…

  • 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…

  • 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”…

  • Journalism Without Limits!

    Well, the title is a little misleading.  Where I wrote “without limits”, I guess I what I meant was “no bottom to the barrel”. Because in the arc of downfall for the City Pages, from its heady days in the eighties publishing James Lileks, and its journalistic peak in the nineties, where they ran a lot…

  • New Years Resolutions For MTV And Other Ofay Social Justice Warriors

    A week back, I linked to the fairly noxious MTV video showing a raft of millennials giving “white guys” a series of “new years resolutions”.  I’m not going to  display it again – once was plenty. But I figure, one good turn deserves another.  I’ve got some resolutions for Social Justice Warriors to observe for…