Speaking Of Shots In The Dark: Welcome To the New Design!
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Color Me Shocked
I’ve been obeying Berg‘s 18th law pretty religiously. I mean, it makes sense – I wrote it, right? So when I saw this case – of a Minneapolis homeowner who shot a burglar in her backyard, several weeks ago – I went quiet on the case for a bit. The story went a little like…
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Modern Journalism: Not Just Dead, But Rotting So Hard It’s Bubbling
The KARE Bears are “fact checking” people over, apparently, a run on iodine pills. No, iodine pills won’t protect you from most radiation effects in a nuclear attack Which is true as far as it goes… ..but they’re not intended to protect you from “most radiation”. They’re intended to protect you from one particular kind…
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Economic Waste
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: When central planners dictate what Must be sold, what May be sold, and what Must Not be sold, entire industries are forced to retool the factories and establish new supply lines to comply with the latest dictate, regardless of whether it makes economic sense. And when dictates change, chaos…
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Honor Among Bureaucrats
Report apparently leaked last week shows – to the surprise of nobody – that the City of Minneapolis just was n ot ready for the George Floyd riots – or much of anything else: An independent audit of Minneapolis’ handling of protests and riots following the police murder of George Floyd found city leaders and…
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I’m Old Enough To Remember…
…when Joe Biden was going to “restore the world’s faith in America.”
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Couldn’t Happen To A Nicer Movement
The price of oil is skyrocketing – It’s been rising since long before the war in Ukraine, although the war has certainly accelerated things (counter to Democrat propaganda): We could fix this, by moving the permitting process along to allow more wells in the United States to start drilling. But the environmentalist that help control…
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Counterintuitive
Problem: Oil prices spiking due to world events. 2008: Turn to domestic oil production, making parts of the US that hadn’t seen any unseemly prosperity, ever, like my native North Dakota, pretty darn well-off, bringing down fuel and natural gas prices, making the US functionally independent for energy, and spreading prosperity. 2020 Dumbass Solution: Keep…
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The First Law Of Leftist Governance…
…is always, always, always be looking for more ways to transfer taxpayer money to the political class. And that is exactly what they are doing.
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Destructive Destruction
The CVS store that has served for the past few decades as one of the anchors of the MIdway’s “main street”, at Snelling and University (but for seven months after the George Floyd riots, of course, where it stood boarded up, a monument to the perfidy of the metro DFL) is closing in a couple…
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Unmasked
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: No masks? Well crap, now what? Joe Doakes
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Appeal To Ridicule
Senate majority leader Gazelka called it: the various metro teachers unions are making a grab for a chunk of the “9 billion dollar surplus”. Erin Murphy – Senator from the mean streets of Highland Pari, and living proof that the DFL is the party of misogyny – decided to chirp: Yeah, those damn teachers… …who…
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For The Children
Less anyone wonder why the teachers unit in Minneapolis is out on strike – besides grabbing “their share“ of the “surplus“ – their union boss spells it out pretty clearly: At least she was honest-ish.
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What’s Ukrainian For Motti?
History is full of parallels. Trying to use them to predict the future is a fool’s errand. It almost never works. . Almost. But huimans instinctively seek out patterns; it’s evolved into our brain; it’s a survival mechanism. We see things that belong together. We find Waldo. And the historically parallels with Finland’s 1940 “Winter…
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Solidarity
On Sunday, Governor Walz declared “solidarity day“ with a population whose home was invaded, looted, pillaged and burned. No, not Lake Street or University Avenue. I know, I was confused, too. Anything to deflect away from the unrolling disaster that is the Metro… SIDE NOTE: Have you never noticed how the correlation between “People who…
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More, Faster
Ron DeSantis crushes a reporter for… …,well, doing what reporters do these days; omitting the parts of the story that need to be omitted to serve the progressives narrative about conservatives. In this case, saying that a proposed Florida bill forbade “teaching sex Ed to Florida schoolchildren“ – when it forbids it from ages pre-K…
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Attention Span
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: Two weeks. That’s all the longer the Virtue Signaling crowd can follow a story. After that, they lose interest in the story. And they never really care about the underlying causes or long-term consequences, only today’s headlines. That’s a terrible way to run a polity. Governor Walz suspended the…
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Lie First, Lie Always: John Marty Is Coming For Your Guns
After a few fairly quiet years, gun control is back in the MN Legislature. Alice “The Phantom” Hausman (who isn’t any better about being seen in 66A today than she was in 66B fifteen years ago, and whose upcoming retirement from office is greeted by many with “I thought she already was…“) has introduced the…
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“Great Time For A Strike, Denise…”
Minneapolis teachers will likely be walking off the job. The timing…doesn’t seem great, from their perspective: I think Majority Leader Gazelka got this one right:
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Bureaucratese Translated Into English While You Wait
The curiously omnipresent Lt. Governor Flanagan: Let’s translate: “Empowering communities to lead with state support” = “transferring public funds to ‘community’ non-profits who do nothing bout crime, but who do serve as the DFL’s farm team and ‘enforcers’ in the community’. “Be good partners” = keep transferring state money to that political class. Once you…
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Obvious + Impossible
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: This author suggests Ukraine should have adopted the Finland model: every citizen a citizen-soldier. Makes sense to me, and also aligns with the “well-regulated militia” concept of the Second Amendment. Point of order: the Finnish (And the very similar Swiss and Israeli) models presume that service in the military…
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Loss Of Faith
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: One thing I’ll say for Lesko Brandon, he’s been effective. I used to trust my doctor. Nowadays, he preaches the Vaccine Gospel that HMO management requires him to give, which parrots the CDC party line, which is based on partial and incomplete data (the rest is intentionally being withheld)…
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I Heard It On The NARN
Shawn Towle is pushing legislation to help house homeless vets. He’s the proprietor of Checks and Balances. Shukri Abdirahman is running for the GOP nomination to run against Ilhan Omar. Peggy Benicke is from the Robbinsdale Women’s Clinic. And here’s our song list for today’s show.
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Leave Bad Enough Alone
Our cities are a little like Charlie Brown. Every time Lucy puts the ball on the ground, Charlie remembers all the times she’s pulled the ball away. And yet, he has faith; maybe this will be the first time. Lucy’s back: Let’s make sure we’re clear on this – the only “fans” of this idea…
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