Speaking Of Shots In The Dark: Welcome To the New Design!
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False Equivalence
SCENE: Mitch BERG is looking for almond flour at a Cub Foods, when Cat SCAT, designated “fact checker” at the (possibly fictional) progressive blog “”MinnesotaLiberalAlliance.Blogspot.com“, and the office manager at a small phrenology practice, glomphs up from behind. SCAT: Hah hah, Merg! People are removing racist statues from the Capitol grounds! That’s gotta make all you…
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Institutional Racism
A friend of the blog writes: I don’t know who re-worded this Villager article, but it was a white woman who thought she was pretty clever on Twitter. I haven’t actually looked at the Villager article yet, but did have fun making the “clever” woman’s edits more real- A man died while in police custody…
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Who’s Got Two Thumbs…
… And is scheduled to appear on the Joe Piscopo show, on AM970 The Answer in New York City at 7:25 central time/825 Eastern today? Um… OK, you can’t actually see me pointing my thumbs at myself, so the joke doesn’t make much sense. Anyway, as this is written I am scheduled to appear on…
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Not Ready For Prime Time
Looking at the SF article on armed citizens again – “As the car fills with the acrid scent of burning chemicals, Ellison tells his friend in the driver’s seat to pull over. Before they come to a stop, Ellison, 30, flings open the door and jumps out with a pistol in one hand and a small fire extinguisher in…
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I Heard It On The NARN
Recall Governor Walz – help with money, time, and with a little luck petition signatures before too long. Sia Lo is running for Congress in MNCD4. Website here.
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Rule Of Law, Rule Of Man
This is one for my friends to the left of center. I don’t care much for Christopher Columbus, one way or the other. He wasn’t even the first European to reach North America – that was Leif Ericsson, 500 years earlier. You can make a case that Columbus was an awful person, and I might…
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Ken Martin And The Legion Of Smug
May 14: Ken Martin, chair of the DFL, makes a bold prediction and a really dumb statement: Fast forward nearly a month: as of June 12, Wisconsin’s death rate per million is half that of Minnesota. Its active cases are a solid 40% lower than Minnesota’s. And that was after Wisconsin started out “leading” Minnesota…
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Cultural Appropriation For Ye, But Not For We
This was the House Democratic leadership, doing their (nothing but) symbolic photo-op before the George Floyd funeral: They’re wearing “Kente” cloths – apparently Ghanaian in this case, but there are similar adornments all through Africa. They have cultural significance. And to Pelosi and her little claque, they are nothing but costumes. Some actual Africans were…
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Ready For An Apology
The Washington Post, which endlessly editorializes in favor of stricter gun control laws and bans, writes approvingly of armed citizens carrying assault rifles, shotguns and pistols in the streets of Minneapolis. NAACP, which advocates strict gun control laws and bans, is organizing the armed citizen patrols. Neither of these organizations come right out and say it, but by…
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If You’re Not A Cynic, You’re Not Paying Attention
In the wake of – or perhaps as a next chapter of the George Floyd riots, “Anti”-Fa are setting up an “Autonomous” enclave in Seattle. They are extorting businesses in that enclave for protection money. And unlike Minneapolis, where President Trump steamrollered Governor Walz into sending a more-than-token National Guard force with threats of invoking…
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Transcripts From Minneapolis City Council Meeting, 2024, Brought To You Today Courtesy Of The City Of Chicago
The Daily Caller published transcripts from the Chicago City Council’s “meltdown” during the riots. And it’s not pretty. It’s the sound of modern “progressive” urban government getting its ass smacked by reality. A couple of the excerpts are of particular interest (emphasis added by me): “A war zone.”Lopez said his district had turned into a…
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Spectrum
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: Political scientists love to talk about the Spectrum, left-wing parties versus right-wing parties.I look at it more from the point of view of government control. Anarchists are on one end, no government control it all. Totalitarians are on the other end, government control of everything.Pure Liberty is pure license.…
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Items For The “Cancel” Agenda
SCENE: Mitch BERG is walking out of the local Korean joint with a container of Galbi. As he’s committing to going out the door, MyLyssa SILBERMAN, reporter for National Public Radio’s Saint Paul bureau, covering the “Fake News” and “Diversity” beats. SILBERMAN: Mister Berg. BERG: Er, hi, Ms. Silberman. What’s new? SILBERMAN: Not much time…
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I Wonder…
… if anyone has asked Minneapolis’s various city council members if this applies to them?
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Count Down ‘Til The Moving Goalposts
Remember when the Wisconsin Supreme Court struck down Governor “Nanny” Evers’ lockdown? And cheeseheads swarmed into bars, sans masks and social distancing, et avec about two months worth of socializing to catch up on? Remember the carnage the Twin Cities’ media and Karen class predicted? EIther will they, if they have anything to say about…
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The Road To Serfdom
Our “elites” lecture us about climate change, then fly home in private jets. They “order” us to stay indoors even as the actual evidence starts to show that the “models” they used, if they were put out by the private sector, would be considered frauds. As parts of the “elite” get wealthier beyond belief, the…
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In The Past Week…
…I have gotten more furtive, almost samizdat, questions from liberal/progressive friends of mine about buying and carrying firearms than ever before. Other “out” shooters (or in my case, gun rights activists, since all my guns fell into Mille Lacs in 2018 and I’m terrified of them anyway) have reported the same. And on Saturday, the…
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When The Strib Goes For The Cliche, It’s Time To Throw Away The Record Book
Republicans have the temerity to point out where DFLers are completely screwing the pooch. Damn those Republicans: I, myself, prefer “curb-stomp”.
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When Government Imitates “The Onion”, The People Will Imitate “Babylon Bee”
North Carolina speedway declares its stock car race a “peaceful protest”: A North Carolina speedway drew a crowd of more than 2,000 spectators in defiance of the state’s coronavirus restrictions after declaring the race a “protest.” The governor’s office had warned Ace Speedway in Elon earlier this week that a crowd of more than 25…
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Some Citizens Are More Equal Than Others
Minneapolis CIty Council president Lisa Bender thinks having something worth protecting is… …well, you know how this goes by now: Minneapolis is Maoist. There’s really nothing else to be said.
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Some Memorials Are More Equal Than Others
My brother died one month ago today. No funeral – they were illegal. Covid. It was SCIENCE! Then the Covid rules changed: we could have a 10-people funeral. That wasn’t enough for both our side and the widow’s side of the family to attend. No funeral. SCIENCE! Then the Covid rules changed again: we could…
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These Are Our “Elites”
NPR’s Mara Liasson, over the weekend, observing the anniversary of D-Day. Or, more accurately, “observing” the anniversary of “D-Day”, really. When talking with progs about “Anti”-Fa – a group whose origins were as the Communist version of the Nazi “Brownshirts”, and nothing else – I’ve found “progs” (and “elite” media types like Liasson fall out…
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Open Question For “The Party Of Science”
To: Governor Walz and the Minnesota DFLFrom: Mitch Berg, Irascible Peasant who passed College BiologyRe: Help me underdstand this Governor Walz So let me get this straight. According to you; Covid19 is a lethal epidemic. Attending protests to seek the re-opening of the state during the middle of the pandemic threatens grandma and, since “essential…
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Questions Nobody Is Asking
Business gurus are excited that working from home will become The New Normal, everyone will embrace it, and it’ll be great.I wonder about weird things like the Americans with Disabilities Act.If I were in the office, I would have a sit-stand desk and ergonomically correct chair, with my keyboard positioned at the proper height to…
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Sheer Brilliance
SCENE: Mitch BERG is walking along University Avenue, looking unsuccessfully for “white supremacist” graffiti. Distracted, he misses Avery LIBRELLE, who is roaming the streets with a cell phone, reporting people who aren’t socially-distanced enough to the governor’s snitch line. They nearly run into each other. LIBRELLE: Merg! BERG: Uh, hey, Avery… LIBRELLE: It’s time for…
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