{"id":74623,"date":"2020-07-09T05:55:05","date_gmt":"2020-07-09T10:55:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=74623"},"modified":"2020-07-09T05:55:05","modified_gmt":"2020-07-09T10:55:05","slug":"explosive-allegations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=74623","title":{"rendered":"Explosive Allegations"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n

Every year, I scan the news for stories of blind, fingerless, homeless Wisconsinites crossing the border into Minnesota.\u00a0 Still haven’t found any.\u00a0<\/p>

Fireworks that fly or explode are illegal in Minnesota.\u00a0\u00a0Governor Walz vetoed<\/a>\u00a0a bill to legalize them.\u00a0 But they’re legal to buy in Wisconsin and the Dakotas, so in a massive act of civil disobedience, Minnesotans cross the border to bring fun home.\u00a0 The Twin Cities really did transform into Mogadishu for a couple of hours on Saturday night; sounded like it, at least.<\/p>

DFL Karens\u00a0insist fun fireworks are too dangerous for Minnesotans.\u00a0 Firecrackers could blow your fingers off.\u00a0 Bottle rockets could shoot someone’s\u00a0eye out.\u00a0 Your aerial display\u00a0mortar could set the roof on fire.\u00a0 You’re simply too stupid to follow the instructions printed on every package of Black Cats since I was a kid: “Lay on ground. Light fuse.\u00a0 Get away.”\u00a0<\/p>

If that were true, you’d think the news media would show the hordes of maimed and homeless refugees from neighboring states coming here for medical treatment, food, shelter, generous welfare benefits, solicitous churches . . . but no, there are no refugee stories.\u00a0 I see only two possibilities: the news media is hiding the story, or there are no refugees which means Karen is lying.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

And yet fireworks are banned.\u00a0 There were 59 injuries from fireworks in Minnesota last year, half of them kids burned by sparklers\u00a0which are completely\u00a0legal<\/a>.\u00a0 For this, we ban fireworks in the entire state?\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>

The risk is negligible but the ban is permanent.\u00a0 I see only one possibility:\u00a0 DFLers believe Cheeseheads are so much smarter than Minnesotans,\u00a0they can be trusted with freedom.\u00a0 We cannot.\u00a0 So they won’t give us any.<\/p>

Actually, that explains a lot.\u00a0<\/p>

Joe Doakes<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

And not just about fireworks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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