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NPR makes me laugh.

January 22, 2026 / / 0 Comments

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.

January 21, 2026 / / 0 Comments

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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Congress makes life a little better.

January 14, 2026 / / 0 Comments

NBC News:  House passes bill to codify Trump order to rinse away showerhead regulations

The US is not even one of the top 20 happiest countries in the world.  Trump, Biden, ICE and Woke Hollywood pisses off some people, but they like being vexed.   It’s the little things that people use every day, but that just don’t work very well.  Dishwashers and washing machines that do a poor job, toilets that don’t ‘move the mail’, and low-flow showers irritate people every day, and wear them down.

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What do blue states want?

January 13, 2026 / / 2 Comments

ICE arrests in Minnesota surge include numerous convicted child rapists, killers

Governor Walz needs to explain why he is fighting so hard to keep violent foreign criminals walking free in Minnesota.  ICE released a list of some of the worst criminals that have been picked up in Minnesota. 

Of these 18 people, a dozen are killers, while 5 have raped, sodomized or sexually assaulted children.  They have all been tried, convicted and have deportation orders.

If Governor Walz worked with ICE, foreign criminals could be picked up in a safer and more orderly manner.  Instead, blue states and cities actively oppose federal immigration enforcement, resulting in these chaotic confrontations in order to keep citizens in danger. 

It makes no sense.

This is what you do when you don’t care about kids.

January 10, 2026 / / 0 Comments

Minneapolis Public Schools offering E-learning through Feb. 12 due to ICE shooting

MINNEAPOLIS (FOX 9) – School district officials announced Wednesday night they were canceling classes for the rest of the week out of an abundance of caution due to safety concerns around the city in the aftermath of Good’s death.

Why would school district officials openly admit that students are less safe in school, then they are anywhere else?

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Eat Real Food

January 8, 2026 / / 0 Comments

Eat Real Food

New federal guidelines insist that we should “Eat real food.”  I could not agree more.

A couple of months ago, I stopped at a beverage store to pick up some beer for a social event.  I was in a hurry, and picked up non-alcoholic beer by mistake.  Fortunately, there was a recovering alcoholic in the group, so it didn’t go to waste, but that stuff should come with an obvious warning label.

I am a recent convert to the coffee club.  I keep it simple, but understand why the more sophisticated might grind their own beans or use a more exotic brewing method.  I don’t understand the point of decaffeinated coffee.  That’s like having chocolate without cocoa.

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Operation Absolute Resolve is serious business.

January 6, 2026 / / 0 Comments

Advice to Democrats Regarding Maduro Arrest: Resist Reflexive Opposition

Knee-jerk opposition to anything Trump does, puts Progressives in awkward positions.  In this case, they sound like they support a dictator or prefer a prolonged war.  Many Progressives have made statements encouraging action against Maduro, and now sound like hypocrites.

Advanced notification to Congress would have been leaked, and gotten Americans killed.

The “Donroe Doctrine”, a play on the Monroe Doctrine, sounds stupid. This is serious business.

Bombing the Iranian nuclear facility and this operation, were bold and complex.  Conservatives have to be prepared for one of these swift and decisive operations to fail catastrophically. 

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