Speaking Of Shots In The Dark: Welcome To the New Design!
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Berg’s Seventh And Twentieth Laws Never Need To Fabricate Any Truths
Jussie Smolett was convicted of lying about being hate-crimed, three years ago, by a roaming band of Trump supporters. In downtown Chicago. Most of the lefty commentators who proclaimed the case a damning indictment of American society were – “unexpectedly” – silent over the weekend. And they may have been the smart ones. Ja’Han Jones…
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The Beatings Will Continue Until Morale Improves
Joe Doakes from Como park emails: A restaurant owner in Albert Lea has been convicted of violating Walz’ Executive Order to close. The judge gave her 90 days in jail. A restaurant owner in Lynd (near Marshall) had her restaurant license yanked by the Minnesota Department of Health because she stayed open in defiance of…
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Sheriff Hutchinson
My question isn’t whether Sheriff Hutchinson drove impaired last weekend – though it seems likelyl. It’s not why – cops are prone to drinking, and it’s been a rough couple years. It’s not whether he drove in a county vehicle. It’s not whether he got favorable treatment from the State Patrol – which didn’t post…
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Moving Forward
The House DFL’s redistricting plan couldn’t be more obviously gerrymandered to support the DFL if they re-did CD 6, 7 and 4 to spell out “DFL” in precincts on the state map. Rep. Jeremy Munson has what I think is the second-best proposal I’ve seen: Now, I thin the best plan I’ve seen (with all…
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This Is “Privilege” In Action
Remember: Yes, I hear that loud and clear from a lot of my neighbors…And I know — and myself, too, and I know that that [concern] comes from a place of privilege because for those of us for whom the system is working, Minneapolis City Council PResident Lisa Bender, June, 2020 It appears Minneapolis has…
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Imagine If You Will…
…that your credit card company overbilled your automatic payments, and you opened your statement to find that your credit card balance was -$1,000. You had literally paid them a thousand more than you needed to. Is that extra thousand dollars something the credit card company can – or should – then put into more coffee…
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Coffee
Apropos nothing all that much, but I really enjoyed this clip by Warren Zanes, the author of the definitive bio of Tom Petty. If you’re a petty fan, you likely will as well. If you’re a yuge fan, it might just close the deal on a copy of the biography.
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Vibrant
Home invaders in Minneapolis beat a woman and her daughter, film the whole thing. But remember – the real problem is mean tweets. That’s not true. The real problem is, when peoples taxes don’t buy law and order, they will get it for themselves. And that’s usually not done via the anarcho-capitalist fantasy of spontaneous…
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They Can’t Handle The Truth
I’m informed by a reliable source that Shot in the Dark is blocked at United Healthgroup! So – what do you suppose they’re afraid of?
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Everything’s A Wedge
According to Dana Milbank… …dissenting from Big Left/Big Media/the Brandon administration is “fascism”.. Not sure if they’re trying to foment a civil war. If they were, what would they be doing differently? (And how is the Brandon Administration “salvaging democratic norms?” Labeling everyone that disagrees a “white supremacist?”)
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Connect The Dots!
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: If I can see the sign, then I will know I can ask for a menu for the blind? If I can read the sign in English, then I can ask for a picture menu for people who cannot read English? I expect this is corporate HR’s attempt to…
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To The Shiny Happies
A friend of the blog and fellow Midway resident writes, in re last week’s piece on being shamed by the Shiny Happies for telling the truth about what’s going on in the city: Saw your blog today. In My neighborhood, we’ve felt like we’ve had ghetto tourists since they started building the stadium. They remind…
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Evolution
Theory: As mutation-prone viruses evolve, natural selection favors strains that are more contagious, and less lethal to their hosts. It’s basic natural selection. Dead hosts = viruses that reproduce less,. Evidence? While it’s early, there have so far been no confirmed deaths attributed to Omicron, according to those Anti-Vaxxer tools, the WHO and the Guardian.…
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“Gosh, Why Do People Distrust Our Public Health Messaging?”
Uh, because they routinely lie to you, and we know it, but they keep on trying to deny it? Whistle blown on Bloomington public health director, lying to school parents about the effectiveness of masks: Emphasis added: At an August 2 “Return to School” webinar on the district’s proposed COVID plan, Kelley urged parents to…
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Tony O and Kitty
Congratulations to Tony Oliva and Jim “Kitty” Kaat, who were elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame on Sunday: The National Baseball Hall of Fame will induct at least six new members in 2022. Sunday evening the Hall of Fame’s Early Baseball Era Committee announced Negro League legends Bud Fowler and Buck O’Neil have been…
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Just Another Night In Uptown
The Uptown McDonalds. In the eighties and early nineties, if was a great place to go to watch dissociatives dissociating. For most of the past 20 years? On a Saturday night, it’s the place to go if you wanted to watch college girls in cocktall dresses throwing up on the sidewalk on 30 degree nights.…
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There’s A Reason…
…the Babylon Bee has become America’s newspaper record in recent years This was the graph The Democratic Congressional campaign committee (DC cc ( released last week, purporting to credit President Branden with a drop, of sorts, in gas prices: These are the actual prices since the beginning of his regime. The blue graph above covers,…
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Travesty Most Fowl
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: I loved the Artemis Fowl books. I just saw the trailer for the movie and I feel like crying. Artemis is a teenaged boy, a genius and ruthless criminal mastermind, assisted by his hulking bodyguard, Butler. The scriptwriters dragged out all the tropes to make him a naive kid…
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The Real Usurper?
Joel Doakes from Como Park emails: For months, I’ve been saying Democrats stole the election with help from the media and RINO Never-Trumpers, all banding together to rid themselves of the Bad Orange Man. For months, it’s been obvious Biden and Harris weren’t smart enough to have engineered The Big Steal; they were merely the…
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The Odds
I live in the Midway. When people think of the Midway, they think urban blight – and they’re not wrong. . South of Thomas, anyway. So far. I’ve lived here a long, long time. I’ve been on the rollercoaster – the worst of the “Murderapolis” years (where Saint Paul was also beset with violent crime…
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TV
Joe Doakes from Como park emails: I don’t watch much TV, but a Sci-Fi series was recommended. It has commercials. They’re the same every break: out of four ads there will be one for childhood covid vaccine and one for Medicine for black homosexuals with HIV. Commercial ads are annoying enough, but relentless liberalism is…
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Not For Turning
It was a generation ago – when I was in high school – that Margaret Thatcher become Prime Minister. The media and popular culture were less tribalized then than they are today – but the drumbeat from the cultural authorities was this is a very bad thing. And it foreshadowed the great American resurgence that…
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