Speaking Of Shots In The Dark: Welcome To the New Design!
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Nothing Good Happens After
Midnight6PMOne man stabbed to death in an incident on the Ventura Trolley (Blue LIne) by the Mall of America Wednesday night: tro Transit police and Bloomington police were called to a Park & Ride just north of the Mall of America station shortly before 1 a.m. Metro Transit spokesperson Howie Padilla said video shows a fight…
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Service Of Convenience
Pete Buttigieg – whose race for president this cycle may be distinguished by “lasting longer than A-Klo’s” and not much more – stood out from most of the rest of the Democrat field by being a veteran. This stands out among typical Democrats in more or less the same way a nun at a Mormon…
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Fake Reporting
The success of the Babylon Bee has apparently caused the mainstream media to try to horn in on the “Real-sounding fake news” thing, without quite getting what “satire” is. CNN “reporter” Joe Lockhart on Twitter yesterday (via Hugh Hewitt, who’s noted the “Retweets” the “Reporter” got. Moments later: You just know that TV stations, local…
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Fair Warning
I can listen to people scrape their fingernails on chalkboards (kids, ask your parents) all day long. But that doesn’t mean there aren’t sounds and words that make my teeth hurt and make me nauseous. My example I have always hated the word “Document”, and all its uses and derivatives. Document? Documentation? Documentary? All of…
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Every Day And In Every Way…
…the Babylon Bee is reinforcing itself as America’s news source of record. Because this.
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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,…
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Nothing. Is Everything.
Big Media and the left seem disappointed that yesterday’s gun rights rally at the Virginia state capitol in Richmond passed not only without incident, but in fact exactly as every *knowledgable* commentator on the subject predicted – utterly peacefully, nothing close to violence, and despite weeks of media gaslighting about “white supremacy”, a crowd that…
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Things I’m Dying To Force My “Progressive” Friends To Watch
There’s a significant part of me that thinks I said everything that needed to be said about the notion of “white privilege” with this bit here. But just in case there’s some rubble left unbounced out there:
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Now, Let’s Watch The Saint Cloud Times And Star/Tribune Hyperventilate
A proposal to make Sherburne County a “Second Amendment Sanctuary” has been floated. If you live in SherbCo, your mission is clear. The proposal, from State Rep. Shane Mekeland, from the “New House Republican Caucus”, would commit SherbCo and its law enforcement to defying any future oppressive gun restrictions: The Saint Cloud Times has Mekeland…
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The Steady Drip Drip Drip
Downtown Minneapolis mainstay Ike’s is shutting its doors. The owner doesn’t chalk it up to any single cause. Rather, it’s the slow drip drip drip of urban decay: According to Winstead, the negotiations were meant to “address restaurant and market conditions” impacting Ike’s bottom line, including “labor costs, operational costs, maintenance costs and taxes.”“There are…
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A Good Black Guy With A (Machine) Gun
An African-American sailor who received the Navy Cross for his actions during the Pearl Harbor attack is getting what may be, in recent years, the ultimate honor – getting an aircraft carrier named after him. Dorie Miller was a Mess Attendant Third Class – which, along with cook and wardroom steward (basically a butler for…
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Trial And Tribulation
Chief Justice Roberts, whom President Trump has taken no pains to avoid offending, now presides over the impeachment trial. The chickens are coming home to roost.This is an excellent opportunity for Roberts to prove how impartial and non-partisan the court system is. I doubt it will happen. My guess is he’ll be a Rino squish,…
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Gleiwitz, Virginia
On August 31 1939, a team of SS propaganda operators dressed as Polish soldiers “captured” a German radio station near the town of Gleiwitz (today the Polish town of Gliwice), close by the Polish border. They did a quick broadcast in Polish, and then fled – dumping the body of a local, loaded with sabotage…
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He’ll Never Do Lunch In Cambridge Again
I just knew that this wasn’t going to end well for Steven King.
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Further Proof, If Any Were Needed…
…that only does Democrat messaging make no logical or intellectual sense, but it isn’t intended for consumption by an audience that worries about moral and intellectual sensibility. The idea – presented here – that forcing Congress to stop abrogating its responsibility to write laws and stop slothfully fobbing the job off on the Executive Branch,…
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“New Urbanism”: Letting The Gini Out Of The Bottle
Everyone else is posting Jordan Peterson videos. Why not me? With Saint Paul experiencing a three-digit jump in homicides, and Minneapolis tripling down on pumping up high-density, high-income housing (with token “affordable” housing sprinkled hither and yon), I think this one is well worth a thoughtful couple of minutes: If you don’t have ten free…
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Just As Explanation
Democrats will frequently bristle when I say they frequently bet on “the other side”, usually whenever a Republican is in the White House. Can’t say as I blame them. But it’s a pattern that just keeps on going.
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DFL Doublespeak
The DFL, 2019: “Guns are out of control! Our cities are victims of “gun culture’s” love of guns over the children! Blood is running in the streets directly onto your hands!” The DFL, 2020 (in response to the Senate GOP’s recognition of the crime problem in the DFL-controlled Metro area): “Oh, quit being tribalist and…
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Selective Indignation
I was listening to NPR’s “Fresh Air”, with Teri Gross – the most overrated interviewer in the history of radio, by the way, but I digress – talking with the authors of a book, The Fixers: The Bottom-feeders, Crooked Lawyers , Gossipmongers, and Porn Stars Who Created the 45th President.’ The interview – and, one…
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Inorganic
Hard as this may be to believe, it appears Greta Thunberg = sixteen year old autistic Swedish child and professional climate scold – just may not be the mind behind her presence. “All it took to exploit the bug was opening a target page and checking the edit history of a post. Facebook mistakenly displayed…
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Elections Have Consequences
I say this apropos what’s happening in Virginia right now. After a chaotic morning at the state capitol in Richmond, and despite huge turnout from thousands of gun owners, Virginia Democrats approved a number of gun control bills in a key committee hearing Monday. Ten years ago, I’d have said “this kind of overreach is…
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Slipping
I got Amazon Prime for free 2-day delivery. Lately, it seems as if they’ve been missing a lot of deadlines.It’s usually not a big deal, nothing I order on-line is critical. But a Christmas gift came late, and now a book is delayed another week. December 28th to January 14th? Seems like a long time.…
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Order
David Brooks is one of those people I simultaneously enjoy very much, and dislike myself for liking. He’s a “conservative” in the northeastern sense of the term – and very, very much of the Northeastern media/political establishment. He’s the “conservative” that NPR will talk with. And being of the establishment, he shares a perspective on…
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Miss Compassion
“Protect“ Minnesota is planning to bring people to the senates hearings on “gun safety“ up in Hibbing next week. But… Only the right people… It would be so fun to get some film of The “Reverend” Nancy Norred Ben’s and her enforcers ensuring that no “gun rights advocates” – Or, for that matter, people who…
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