Minnesota Biography (Chapter 2)

I was in Minnesota before at least 3800 times. I drove to Woodbury to obtain education at Rasmussen College . I worked at Circuit City in Woodbury. 

 I was in Minneapolis, and (Como zoo) St. Paul many times. In was at Mall of America every year (Bloomington) of the 21st century (6 times in 1990s). I went to Calvin Academy in 7 - 8^thh grade and 9-10^th grade where I met city kids. I was the guthery theater. I was at the Minneapolis Institutes of Arts 4 times, Science Museum of Minnesota 10 times, and History Museum 3 times. Minnesota Zoo 3 times. I was in Forest Lake once. 

I was in Stillwater a couple of times looking at Gamestop and Hi Score games. I worked at PC Network Services in Stillwater.

 I was in Mankato eight times in 2010s at Minneopa State park and visiting family. On Areavibes, Mankato has a little lower score then Roberts, Wisconsin due to property theft. The opportunities are larger then just Laptop Chips. There was nepotism of family businesses and age 30+ ageism in Roberts, Wisconsin. 

My Google searching Minnesota vs. Wisconsin, Minnesotans are healthier overall over Wisconsin even though the booze / DWI is actually worst in Minnesota in one county. Wisconsin is better for sports, has more population / lower state GDP, and lower taxes. Wisconsin has Wisconsinsucks.com. 

The night life is better in Minnesota. 

Minnesota has more government programs even though the Governor Waltz slashed spending the 3^rd month I was a resident. I’m a millennial, and I don’t have the baby boomers decades long work history at one job with only an associate degree vs. kinda hard to get by for a millennial. Baby boomers had the GI Bill for college degrees and multi-decades long money market mutual funds. The baby boomers even purchased a house.

The Democrats Hold the Nation Hostage

 As America's cities literally burn to ashes and violent crime spikes to its highest level in decades, Joe Biden, the Democratic Party and their media apologists have coalesced around their talking point. "This is happening in Donald Trump's America," they bellow in unison from the command posts of high society.

Let's be blunt: This is an offensively stupid talking point. The rubes and yokels in flyover America -- the river valley dwellers that the bicoastal elites love to hate -- may lack the hoity-toity social norms befitting SoHo or Haight-Ashbury, but they have their own pair of eyes intact. And they can see just as well as anyone else that the current scourge of anarchic savagery tearing asunder urban and suburban America seems to be the exclusive phenomena of leftist, Democratic Party-controlled jurisdictions.

They can see just as well as anyone else that the feckless leaders in charge of these jurisdictions often ruinously defy federal assistance, opting for the sort of banal "Orange Man Bad!" taunting better suited for echo-chamber Twitter plaudits than the type of selfless statesmanship required by a proper politics. And they can see just as well as anyone else that nary a single prominent elected Democratic official has unequivocally and forcefully condemned the insurrectionist antifa-Black Lives Matter coalition seeking to burn down the republic in one great act of civilizational arson.

They can see that these are, as Matthew Peterson of the Claremont Institute recently put, the Democratic Party's riots.

But Biden, Sen. Kamala Harris and the Democrats are not content with merely gaslighting the American people into questioning whether they can believe their own lying eyes. They are not content with merely abetting -- sometimes tacitly and sometimes actively -- the calamitous, murderous ruination of large swaths of America's urban corridors.

Rather, through the constant drumbeating of their farcical "this is happening in Trump's America" talking point, the Democrats -- the puppet masters of our present anarchy -- are offering a quid pro quo to the American people: This violence is happening because Trump is president, so vote for us and we will stop the violence. The unstated but remarkably clear implication is that the looting, rioting and violence will go on if Trump is reelected. If Trump is reelected, the puppet masters will permit the antifa and BLM puppets to continue their free rein, driving a riven nation ever closer to a lethal abyss.

This is a hostage situation. The Democrats are taking the American people hostage, holding a proverbial gun to their heads and issuing a thinly veiled threat to vote for them to make the bloodletting stop -- or else the carnage will continue apace.

This is extraordinarily immoral behavior completely unbecoming of a major political party. Alas, it is hardly the first time that leading Democrats have taken the nation hostage and threatened bloodshed if they do not get their way. Fort Sumter comes to mind.

The Democrats may think they can fool the American people, hoodwinking them into believing that those woebegone denizens mugging bystanders and vandalizing storefronts are MAGA hat-clad neofascists. But the Democrats are wrong. The American people are simply not that gullible, not that easily misled and not that easily duped. They know that the violence is happening in decades-long progressive bastions such as Portland, Oregon, and Seattle. They know that leading national Democrats, such as Biden and Harris, have utterly failed to condemn the antifa-BLM wellspring of the present barbarism. They know that these same Democrats could call off their street-thug jackals if they wanted to do so -- and that their failure to call them off belies their desire to see the mayhem continue.

The stakes this November are very, very high. The election is a referendum on many things. It is a referendum on whether America is a systemically racist and irredeemably flawed nation. It is a referendum on the goodness and justness of the American idea. And now we can add one more to the mix: It is a referendum on whether American voters are as offensively stupid as Democrats seem to believe they are.

Defunding the Police Is Dangerous and Foolish

 

I nominate Police Chief Brian Manley of Austin, Texas, for law enforcement officer of the year.

Police officers swear an oath to serve and protect the people of their community. It is a high calling that, lately, has been characterized by increasingly high risk and diminishing reward as Democrat-led cities across the country dance to the faint tune of their puppet masters on the radical left, slashing essential funds from police departments that go in harm’s way every day. In Austin, no one would likely blame Chief Manley for turning in his badge and seeking employment elsewhere, but, instead, he is standing in the gap for the community he has sworn to serve.

After the Austin City Council gutted the police budget to the tune of some $150 million dollars and canceled the next three cadet classes, Manley responded with a restructuring proposal that sent a clear message from an individual who not only understands public safety, but is willing to fight for the people he protects. As the Austin city council dreams of a socialist utopia where the biggest threat is exhaustion from tiptoeing through the tulips hand-in-hand with the “previously misunderstood” (aka “criminals”), Manley is making plans based on the reality of human nature, and the timeless need for guardians to protect the innocent.

Chief Manley, a veteran with decades of experience in “community policing” based on personal relationships between patrol officers and the neighborhoods they protect, understands that the most important member of the force is a beat cop. So, in his latest response to the social engineering happening in city hall, he called for the ranks of beat cops to be replenished with officers who have been sitting behind desks, running a special DWI interdiction unit or providing executive protection for the very mayor who has been calling for them to be defunded. (It would be appropriate for the reader to make the “chef’s kiss” gesture at this moment…) He also recommends pulling officers from a special task force that tracks gang members to fill the necessary patrols.

Without Manley’s moves, the impact of City Council’s reckless cuts would be felt for years in the form of depleted patrol officer ranks, further distancing police officers from the communities they serve. Manley knows that’s unacceptable, so he has done what any good guardian of the public trust would do and called for putting experienced bodies back on the street.

There is no doubt that there is some political theater being played out in Austin, but it’s clear that one character, Manley, has the best interests of the community in mind. His Democrat antagonists, Mayor Adler and the braying chorus of the City Council, are motivated only by the desire to win headlines and the approval of America’s socialist left, consequences be damned. Unfortunately, there are lives at stake in this drama. Thank goodness the hero of the narrative in our state’s capitol city is siding with the people he is sworn to protect.

I actually pity the people who live in Austin full time (as a citizen legislator, I get to live at home and run my business when the Legislature is not in session) and other Democrat-led cities like Portland, Chicago and Seattle, because they’re being used as bit characters in a show that’s no longer about them. Instead, they’re consigned to watch helplessly as their cities’ crime rates increase and the attractiveness of once-great towns is buried beneath litter from the burgeoning homeless communities and the damage left behind by rioters.

Before it’s too late, I hope those citizens will stand up, speak up and be heard on the topic of well-funded police forces and the non-negotiable importance of public safety. They would do well by holding up the example of Chief Manley and make it clear to their leftwing city leaders that public safety matters far more than their egos or national reputations.

Why DC Statehood Is a Suicidal Gamble

 When U.S. cities erupted after the death of George Floyd, D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser was in the vanguard of the protests, renaming a section of downtown Black Lives Matter Plaza, and painting the name in letters on the street so huge they could be seen from space.

Thursday, however, Bowser awoke to those same BLM protesters yelling outside her home, denouncing a "D.C. police murder of a Black Man," and demanding the mayor fire Police Chief Peter Newsham.

18-year-old Deon Kay had been shot and killed Wednesday afternoon in an encounter with cops. While this was the fifth shooting by D.C. cops this year, it was the first fatality.

There have been 130 other homicides in D.C. in 2020, mostly of Black folks that involved other Black folks, and not the cops.

"We believe the suspect had a gun at the time," Newsham told reporters. Witnesses challenged the chief's claim.

But this is only the latest problem bedeviling Bowser.

While she has been blaming "outside agitators" for the mayhem in the city, the Washington Times reports that 82 percent of the 541 people arrested for riot-related crimes were residents of D.C., Maryland or Virginia.

On Tuesday, the mayor's office made national news by releasing a list of monuments and memorials in Washington that should be "removed, replaced or contextualized." Among them are the Washington Monument, the Jefferson Memorial and Columbus' statue at Union Station.

The name of Alexander Graham Bell should be erased from Bell Multicultural High School, Bowser's working group said. Like Winston Churchill and Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, the inventor of the telephone believed in eugenics.
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Presidents James Madison, author of the Constitution, John Tyler, who annexed Texas, and Zachary Taylor, who led the U.S. army to victory in the Mexican-American War, are also candidates for having their memorials and monuments "replaced, removed or contextualized."

Woodrow Wilson's name should be removed from Wilson high, and the names of Founding Father Ben Franklin and author of the national anthem Francis Scott Key should be erased from buildings named in their honor.

Eleanor Holmes Norton, the D.C. nonvoting representative in Congress, explained that the working group formed by Bowers to look into monuments and memorials did not mean the statues were to be pulled down but that plaques should be added informing visitors that these sites are dedicated to men who had a perverted view of human rights.

Norton wants the Emancipation Proclamation statue featuring Abe Lincoln and an unshackled slave, unveiled at an 1876 ceremony attended by President Grant, at which Frederick Douglass spoke, removed. She also wants the statue of Andrew Jackson in Lafayette Square removed.

Yet, it was General Jackson who saved the Union from being torn apart at the 1815 Battle of New Orleans, while the defenders of Washington and the White House fled from the attacking British, letting the nation's capital be burned in August of 1814.

D.C. officials are today running away from the plans of the mayor's working group, but those plans testify powerfully to what an act of folly and a capitulation to political correctness it would be for the Congress to vote statehood for D.C., as Nancy Pelosi's House did this year.

D.C. is unrepresentative of America and undeserving in any way to be raised to statehood. Since given the franchise 60 years ago, it has never voted Republican for president. Its three electoral votes have gone to the Democrats in every election since LBJ in '64. Republican nominee Donald Trump got 4 percent of the D.C. vote. Hillary Clinton got 90 percent, a margin of 22-1.


Moreover, D.C. has a smaller population than 19 other American cities and is smaller in geographic size than 150 other U.S. cities. Rhode Island, our smallest state, is geographically 20 times the size of D.C.

The D.C. government has been in the headlines countless times for personal scandals and financial crises. One four-term mayor, Marion Barry, was sent to prison and returned to be reelected to office.

As for D.C. public schools, the problem is not that they are named for presidents but that they produce some of the lowest test scores in the nation.

More significant, as the protests, attended by riots since May, have shown, the D.C. government, a hostile province when a Republican is in the White House, is the domicile of a permanent regime of leftist and radical media, tens of thousands of federal and city bureaucrats, lawyers and lobbyists, all yoked to big government.

As the "peaceful protests" of June and July showed, with Georgetown sacked and statues demolished, D.C.'s government is an incompetent custodian of the nation's historic monuments and memorials, and incapable of protecting the White House.

What does Joe Biden, who approved of the removal of statues of Confederate soldiers, generals and statesmen, think of D.C.'s scheme to "remove, replace or contextualize" the statues of so many men who held the office he now seeks?

September market crash

 Every month of 2020 has brought a different disaster in extraordinary proportions. Many of us have been waiting to see what events would be unfolded in September, considering everything that has been piling up until now. The evidences are pointing to an imminent stock market crash, which is likely to be triggered by the end of the month. Even the most enthusiastic market supporters are now admitting that the proportions of the bubble that has been created throughout the summer are completely ground-breaking and it probably wouldn't be sustained for much longer without bursting. As we mentioned in previous videos, many signs are stressing that it is only a matter of time before a major stock market crash comes.In today's video, we're going to show you how these signs have developed over the past days, and - SPOILER ALERT- things have gotten even uglier. It's impossible to escape from a stock market crash at this point, so stay with us and enjoy your daily dose of gloominess. Over the last trading sessions, stock prices have dramatically plummeted. Analysts have been discussing that things can stabilize for a little while before everything starts to collapse again, as we know, it's the calm before the storm. Whether the crash will be triggered this month, the next, or towards the end of the year, it is happening and it will drag things down the rock bottom. Last Tuesday, some indicators already outlined a considerable decline in the markets. The Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped another 632 points, but that was just the tip of the iceberg. Much more alarming was the fact that the Nasdaq fell further 4.1 percent, meaning it has now shrunk over 10 percent since last week, when it had hit a brand new record high. This has only happened two times since 2001. It is very unusual for the Nasdaq to fall at such a fast pace over the course of three trading sessions, and the index is now officially in correction territory, with some pretty daunting losses. The six biggest tech stocks have been hit particularly hard, with losses adding up to 1 trillion dollars during a three-day stretch, right after coming off a huge rally that peaked last week. As reported on the news, "Apple, which hit a $2 trillion market cap on Aug. 19, is down about $325 billion in that time period. Microsoft’s down $219 billion, Amazon fell $191 billion, Alphabet cratered by $135 billion, and Tesla, which fell 21% on Tuesday to mark its worst single-day loss in its history, is down $109 billion in the last three days. Finally, Facebook is off by $89 billion." That is to say, in less than a week, one trillion dollars were gone and if you have trouble imagining how much would that be, we'll quote once again the clever and spot-on comparison Michael Snyder has made in the latest article of his blog: "A trillion dollars is a serious amount of money. If you had started spending a million dollars every single day when Jesus was born, you still wouldn’t have spent a trillion dollars by now. So we are talking about a giant pile of money that is almost unimaginable." If we analyze this data according to history, this is a marker for a downturn of at least two-thirds in stock prices in the long run. Also, historically, it is during the fall that the market faces the biggest waves of volatility. So, at the moment, all we can do is wait to see what will be the trigger that will push the stock markets over the edge, because there are so many determinants to this crisis that are stacking up that it won't take too long before everything finally collapses.