Speaking Of Shots In The Dark: Welcome To the New Design!
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“So What, Precisely, Is 2+2?”
If you’ve got half an hour, watch this – a fascinating Australian broadcast with a Chinese government official (it’s in English – well, Australian – so don’t get put off by all the Chinese script on the Youtube vid), a couple dissidents, and a few journalists. And when I say journalists, I don’t mean the…
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Crime Prevention And Cardio
City council in the Finnish city of Oulu devises a radical new approach to the rape epidemic that is no-how, no way associated with migrants pouring into the area with no incentive or intent to assimilate: Sorry if you can’t un-think this. But it’s important; if someone in Scandinavia is doing this, it’ll be in…
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The Narrative Virus
There’s a reason Facebook and Amazon use algorithms to determine people’s reactions. Because people’s reactions are predictable.There has been a constant drumbeat of Coronavirus fear mongering in the media, so today CVS and Walgreens are reporting a shortage of hand sanitizer and toilet paper. Panic buying.Next up: allegations of price gouging, attorney general investigations, legislators…
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Be A Pain, To Fight Pain
Last session, the Minnesota State Legislature passed a law purporting to “fight the opioid epidemic”. They had three primary effects: Bringing down a suffocating wave of government scrutiny and legal peril for prescribing “too much” opioid pain relief – in the opinion of a committee that included nobody who suffered from chronic, incurable, intractable pain.…
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A Vibrant City
I stepped in a puddle of vibrancy on the Green Line this morning. Vibrancy claims one. West Saint Paul man pleads guilty to vibrancy. Vibrancy almost claimed someone over by the U of M the other night. Man vibrates into tent, rapes woman. Vibrant attacker finds bad vibes. Human vibrancy charges in the East Metro.
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Twin Cities Media, Then And Now
Twin Cities Media and Left (ptr), 2015: “Black Lives Matter were heroes for shutting down I94 during rush hour! Speak truth to power! Up next – Amanda Shapely at the Boat Show” Twin Cities Media and the Left (ptr) 2020: “Black Lives Matter are a bunch of hooligans! Why weren’t the police able to keep…
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Tuesday Night Plans
I’m pondering on what to do tomorrow. Voting in the GOP primary is relatively pointless – I’ve got my choice of President Trump or The Donald. Hardly worth a trip to the neighborhood high school gym, is it? On the other hand – paying a visit to the DFL primary it would give me a…
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Will Esme Murphy Call It A “Hate Crime?”
And it started as such a big day for A-Klo, who shocked the world by winning the endorsement of the Star Tribune’s editorial board, a group composed of people who used to get blackout drunk with her father. There are no words to describe our amazement that the Strib – a paper that’s served not…
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Water
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: Experts advise washing your hands to avoid Corona virus, at least 20 seconds, long enough to say the Alphabet or sing Happy Birthday. I can’t believe Democrats have missed this opportunity to expand the welfare state. “Because of the wealth gap and income disparity that has existed in America…
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Sandman’s Counterattack
Fresh from victory against CNN, Nick Sandman’s attorneys are widening their scope: Lawyers for Covington Catholic High School senior Nick Sandmann reportedly will file lawsuits against five additional media companies this week for smearing Sandmann last year. Sandmann’s lawyers submitted a status report with the U.S. District Court in Covington last week that showed that…
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I Heard It On The NARN
We had a couple calls to action on this week’s show. Opioid Law Reform Here’s the link to Rep. Munson’s fact page on opioid law reforms and his “intractable pain” bill, HF3746, which will reform the blunt-force abuses in MInnesota’s prescription opioid laws. The current law forces professionals – doctors, physician assistants, dentists, pharmacists and…
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Spitting In Your Soup And Calling It A “Dumpling”
As the Southwest News reports, city governments in the southwest metro are getting ready to try to deal with the plague that no DFL-dominated city government dare name; crime descending upon them via the light rail. The article explains the basics. I thought this bit here was particularly interesting (and I’ve added all emphasis): Metro…
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Berg’s Seventh Law: Locked And Loaded
Read this statement by the “executive director” and chief check-endorser of a major gun-grab group and see if you detect the same theme I do: “Gun makers are softening their image to ‘put a better face in front of people’ & ‘ramp up its appeal to women, children and members of minority groups,’” Igor Volsky,…
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Young Jerks
If there’s a figure anywhere in the liberal media that makes the likes of the late Ed Schultz, or Chris Matthews, or most of the host of “the view””, seem intelligent, rational and human, it’s Cenk Uygur, impresario of the “Young Turks” – sort of a “MinnesotaReformer” for loud, entitled people. They are, naturally, progressive…
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Idle Question
Joe Biden has a big lead in the South Carolina Democrat Primary polls. What on earth does this say about South Carolina Democrats?
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Not Wired Right
A friend of the blog writes : I often look at the responses of the liberals when they talk about the homeless and the addicted. They say, “if we can just get them a house, their life will change.” Or “if we just pay them more for menial work, they’ll turn themselves around.” Or, “we…
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Justice Must Be Served!
You know me. I”m an uncompromising proponent of 2nd Amendment rights. And so it was with horror that I saw the MNGOP last week attacking the Dorr Brothers – the purveyors of “Minnesota Gun Rights”, as well as a pro-life and pro-Trump group – last week. One could call it defamation – saying something untrue…
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Sobering Thought Of The Day
Joe Biden. With the nuclear “Football”. Sleep tight.
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It’s That Time Of Year Again
And now for some real gun rights news. The DFL’s two big gun grab bills – HF8 (Universal Gun Registration) and HF9 (Red Flag Confiscation Orders) are back for their second round in the biennium. And they’re already out on the House floor. The MN Gun Owners’ Caucus is asking people to turn out tomorrow…
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Let The Record Show
The party of James Hodgkinson, of “Anti”-Fa, of Eric “Nuke The Gun Owners” Swalwell, of “Fight in the Streets” (VP candidate Tim Kaine and Loretta Lynch ) and punching teenage girls (Woody Kaine) and grownup girls (Keith “Thumper” Ellison) and fantasies (Madonna, Snoop Dogg, Bow Wow, MN DFL operative William “Guillotine” Davis ) and dramatizations…
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Brevity
Now that’s funny, right there. I don’t care who you are. That there is funny. Joe Doakes Didn’t think The Donald could do “pithy”. That was a good one.
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Triple Down
I asked American progressivism “American “progressivism”, you couldn’t possibly out-do your myopia from 2016, could you?” And American progressivism – in this case Vox.com – said “hold my kombuchba“: The idea that identity politics is at odds with liberalism has become conventional wisdom in parts of the American political and intellectualelite. Harvard psychologist Steven Pinker has condemned contemporary identity…
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It’s Only Satire…
…if you’re not paying attention.
Got any book recommendations?