The day in funny, heartwarming cops stories: Mpls 4th precinct x-mas tree

I get it: these are ghetto culture things. The Newports I knew about. Can’t say I had ever heard of Taki’s or Steel Reserve. But you google Steel Reserve and its one of those malt liquors they sell individually in a great big can, like Colt .45. So, ghetto, get it?… Gehar, gehar.

http://www.startribune.com/mayor-frey-officer-will-be-fired-over-racist-christmas-tree-decorations/501646051/

Strong reaction from Frey, they are going to terminate him. Good. It’s the right response.

One, it is racist, the basket of symbolism that Officer Funnybones went into there. It’s racist for him to mine it for yuks within a public office space. And it also reflects the otherization of the citizenry there by the police within a challenged precinct. So yes, the cop has to go.  And can and should. I actually see this sticking at the end of the inevitable union arbitration by the same logic that the Richfield PD was able to finally fire that Somali kid thumper last year. To make it short, thumpers and racists on the force diminish the credibility of the force, so they got to go, can be fired, overrides these guys’ job rights.

Side benefit: there’s a very pernicious trend out there of cops thinking they should be wry and sardonic. I’m sure it comes from TV. Maybe this will encourage some of them to put a sock in it.

 

I find this curious: Mexican food

I think it was 15 years or so the little Acapulco chain of restaurants were making a splash in town because it was great Mexican food, and it was cheap. Authentic as well, ostensibly run by immigrants. We had / have one in Stillwater. The chain has become well established in the Twin Cities.

You wonder about that cheapness with a story like this. http://www.startribune.com/feds-4-restaurants-in-s-minnesota-iowa-cheated-113-workers-out-of-831k-in-pay/501549981/

Its like its a business model…. Immigrants underpaying / exploiting their immigrant staff, draw big crowds with cheap food = profit.

Guy who said we couldn’t drill our way to more oil and gas: “I drilled our way to more oil and gas, I built that”

Full. Circle.

https://hotair.com/archives/2018/11/28/obama-u-s-oil-production-youre-welcome-america/

See, and this is the thing… its not that I don’t know about the commodities bet and abundance. It’s that ten years ago we were smarmed with this BS wisdom by liberal Democrats and their apologists that we couldn’t drill our way to more production. And told that we were dumb for believing we could.

Neil Gorsuch was a helluva SCOTUS pick, about a bazillion times better than Garland under any criteria

He gave the AG of Indiana a very hard time at arguments for this, this morning. Told him outright IN would lose the case.

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2018/11/land-rover-indiana-neil-gorsuch-civil-forfeiture.html

But that’s different….

https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/nov/26/obama-administration-used-tear-gas-border-once-mon/

Ya know, its not like I like it. But borders are defended with force, and tear gas is about as appropriate a response as you can deploy to an unarmed mob that’s going to bridge your border. The other choices are stand down or repel with deadly force, and neither of those are in fact appropriate.

We’re either going to have borders or we’re not… and not is not a societal possibility right now.

Powerline’s point here is not invalidated by them being Powerline….

https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2018/11/why-we-hate-the-media-chapter-12-186.php

The outrage mob that went after Zimmern was right to go after him

He’s got no moral standing over anyone else that makes his chain restaurant Chinese food more gooder.

http://www.startribune.com/andrew-zimmern-responds-to-accusations-of-cultural-elitism-at-his-new-chinese-restaurant/501341412/

Its as if we drilled our way to lower gas prices, energy independence, rainbows, unicorns….

https://www.investors.com/politics/editorials/opec-fracking-oil-prices-falling/

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-11-21/opec-s-worst-nightmare-the-permian-is-about-to-pump-a-lot-more

Down the youtube rabbit hole: Catfish Hunter

In the last couple days I watched Trouble with the Curve, a Clint Eastwood movie from 5 years ago where he’s a baseball scout.

Might be the worst baseball movie ever made. It was at points set in rural North Carolina though, so I was moved to ponder that I had no idea why Catfish Hunter won all those games in early 1970s. He was from North Carolina.  See, the casual sportspeak wisdom out there is that he was a ‘command and control’ guy as a 6 ft, 190 lb righthander, and I don’t buy into that kind of line. I believe in ‘stuff’, so I wanted to know what kind of stuff he had.

And one of the interesting things I read was, Pete Rose didn’t think he had much ‘stuff’, thought Hunter threw as hard as say contemporary Phillie and Cardinal Rick Wise. Who was an OK pitcher no doubt, but not Jim Palmer or Nolan Ryan.

What do I see on the youtube clips? Hunter had a fastball with a lot of ride, a lot of arm side run. Then also, a real hard drop slider.

So, kind of a Corey Kluber type arsenal there, maybe Rick Porcello. That would have worked real good in the 70’s.

As a matter of logic, not calling the cops on your suicidal loved one absolutely works

Last night the Stillwater cops killed a ‘suicidal’ 21 year old holding a steak knife. This is all over my FB feed and even my close relatives are piping up about it (weighing in for proper sensibility I might add! Great job Mom!).

So, this happens often enough that we’re getting a piece of wisdom built into society about it…. don’t call the cops on your suicidal loved ones.

Much as the cop suckers always retort with yada yada yada well just hope you never have to call them for whatever….

…Its absolutely true as a piece of wisdom. You call the cops, and there’s some real good potentiality that as a matter of process they are going to shoot your loved one who is not right minded enough to be immediately and totally compliant.

You don’t call the cops, and that cant happen. Yeah, it would mean dealing with your unstable loved one on your own, if you’re in that situation.