Author: Richard Nestoff (Page 1 of 127)

NPR makes me laugh.

NPR:  The ICE surge is fueling fear and anxiety among Twin Cities children

I like to listen to NPR when I wake up, and am still half-asleep.  The mellow reporter lulls be back to sleep, or there is a story so delightfully melodramatic, that I am awake and ready to join the world.

“Every single patient I saw yesterday, we had some discussion over the increased stress, trauma, worry, anxiety, depression that is stemming from the presence of ICE in our communities,” says Dr. Razaan Byrne, a Minneapolis-based pediatrician at Children’s Minnesota, a pediatric health system.

Governor Walz and Mayor Frey are encouraging the locals to resist and impede federal law enforcement, and the locals are dragging their children along as props to these little rebellions, and I’m supposed to be moved.  I can only laugh and wonder.

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Let’s rent Greenland.

Greenland must be good for something. 

It’s 50 times bigger than regular Denmark, so they need it to maintain a significant footprint on the globe.  If the US owns Greenland, Canada feels claustrophobic, but otherwise, who cares?

Whatever resources or strategic advantages there are in Greenland, the US can access with a long-term lease.  The US maintains Guantanamo Naval Base in Cuba, and we don’t even like them.  If an American thinks about Denmark, we think of those butter cookies in the blue cookie tin or we are thinking about the Netherlands by mistake.

Trump has a Greenland strategy that isn’t obvious, but we don’t need to be concerned.

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Sparky is checking out his sniper’s nest.

Sparky says this is a high-traffic pinch point because it’s the easiest way to get passed the highway fence.  If I can get him a Mosin–Nagant, he says the coyote problem will be resolved.

Karl may have one.  Hell, Karl may have Häyhä old rifle.  He collects all kinds of stuff, and has a good opinion of Sparky.  Karl could have a Suomi KP/-31, but he’d never let a dog use a submachine gun.

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