Governor Walz (in office since January 2019 replacing the horrible neoliberal failure Mark Dayton) has removed Freeman from the case and put state AG Keith Ellison (Bernie's pick for DNC chair) in charge.
People googling Walz are not going to get this guy. Former high school teacher and coach, and early advocate for GLBTQ in prep athletics. Retired as the top sergeant in the MN Natl Guard (which has fewer scandals than most state units). His pick for Lt Gov was a Native American community organizer, Peggy Flanagan. It was a huge surprise to the MN left who were trying to put Walz in a rightwing box for the primary.
Calling out the Guard in MN was a smart move. The Mpls cops are truly frightening. I had some as clients and they told me stories about the thumpers that would curl your hair. The Mpls police and State Troopers were the most dangerous people in Minnesota this last week. The Guard quieted things down simply by being witnesses to what the cops were doing.
And yes, there were some out-of-state agitators from the libertarian and white supremacist ranks. I suspect they set most of the fires as most of what burned was a minority business district.
But keep updating yourself on the situation because this article is already out of date regarding some of what's happened in Minnesota where most of this should be laid at Amy Klobuchar's doorstep (and the DFLers who anointed her and Al Franken).
Last month my very small rural town just got fiber. Local ISP did not charge for installation and tripled my download speeds for $20/mo less than I'd been paying. My upload speeds increased 10x.
No one at the local office is pushing cable, and they tipped me off to YouTube TV having local sports after SlingTV got shafted by Fox on prices.
No controversy over any of this, mostly tax dollar subsidized. I can't see a downside for this community.
An anonymous blogger who goes back to early 2000s and has an excellent track record on calling BS on lies about foreign policy.
But if this post surprised you, you're missing a lot of major coverage on Russiagate. Whole thing has fallen apart and is now a laughingstock except among certain members of the media. Very surprised to see such a gullible take published here at Techdirt.
Strange how I posted the same link nine minutes later and did in a rude manner and yet was not flagged. There is no reason for your comment to be flagged, Moon of Alabama is a well regarded site.
Who knows what they were up to, but the notion that the Russians are behind the alleged Skripal poisoning is just flat out wrong.
Hard to know what May's Tory govt is doing, but if you read independent Russian experts you won't find anyone buying into a Russian plot, not involving the Skripals neither of whom have been allowed to speak with journalists.
My experience with restaurants and cops is that cops only eat at restaurants where they feel safe, i.e., can see their food being prepared or know and trust the owner/manager.
This is not an ill-founded paranoia. An incredibly high percentage of restaurant workers have been in jail/prison. Like prison rape, spitting on customer food is not a made up thing. It happens and it's not something to joke about.
Every senior cop I did a resume for had stories. It's a reality in their world. Not maybe in smaller towns but in big cities, yes cops do inspect their food when they eat in a new place. And, as most restaurant owners would tell you, uniformed cops either eat at their place frequently or never.
Would love feedback from others who've seen otherwise because I can only speak about two metro areas and this is a big country.
He just tweeted this update: "I wrote this story a week ago. It traveled around the Internet. Not only are they down to 45 names, people in the Netherlands who lost track of each other, rediscovered each other. The internet is cool."
Re: Re: Re: Re: An empty penalty is no different than no penalty
Then maybe try this angle: it's a local business with very ltd regional distribution, well paid workers and an otherwise good reputation.
I'd like to know more about this legal action because it is totally out of character with the brewery's reputation. Search through their many offerings, past and present. Show me the sexist names, the racist names. (There aren't any.)
Something doesn't add up here. Before I'd slime a small business, I'd need to know exactly what's going on.
Re: An empty penalty is no different than no penalty
I have yet to read anything that explains WHY Bell's did this. If I were to guess based on their long history of giving customers what they want (excellent beer), I would have to say that this seems very odd. Almost as if an idiot lawyer talked them into a foolish course of action.
I'm slow to defend companies, but how often do companies look stupid because they hired an idiot law firm?
I don't even drink beer anymore (a 22 oz bottle of 11% beer is like drinking a loaf of bread, weightwise), but I am going to need to see a quote from Larry Bell signing off on this idiocy before I condemn Bell's.
Re: greed n. excessive desire for getting or having -- Then "buy greedily" suggests that you're an alcoholic.
Larry Bell is a brilliant brewer. He single-handedly forced the City of Chicago to revise their antiquated beer distribution laws and he makes some truly fine ale.
Sorry to learn his brewery acted like an asshole, but unless you boycott Miles Davis' music and Woody Allen movies, let us enjoy his beer regardless of where his head is currently located.
Politically, Clinton's Nixonian DNC was more than willing to fake a false flag attack. They booted the election in unpardonable ways (ask any seasoned liberal activist if Clinton's campaign behaved rationally by ANY normal standards).
This is their excuse, and for 10 months they've stonewalled any attempt at autopsy in their dead on arrival campaign.
I was still writing resumes when TSA was started up. Several clients, some working for TSA, insisted the Mpls TSA was run by a religious nut who gave his parishioners first shot at new postings and promotions.
This sounds like the obvious outcome. Bush-Cheney, among many other horrible things, gutted all objectivity and professionalism from federal hiring. We're all the way back to hiring those who know (or blow) the boss.
Studies show they create a craving for real sweets. I saw this with an elderly gentleman I knew. He used artificial sweeteners and invariably after using them, he'd go hunting for real sugar. If he skipped the artificial sweeteners, the craving for real sugar just wasn't there.
I could care less about cancer. There are better reasons not to use fake sugar. Like fake pot, it's not even close to being good for you.
for a campaign office we just opened in WI. We have not made the number public yet, but each day for weeks now we have gotten 2-3 junk calls a day for ads in junk publications.
We need a Constitutional right to privacy. No one's land line is safe from these predators, not even when you're running for Congress!
In case any readers are unclear as to the concept, due to unique geography I get my internet from Verizon wireless. That costs $10/1 GB. Do your own math (hint: it's cheaper to buy DVDs of new movies than to stream them).
Chaffetz is from Utah and a ridiculously high percentage of SS and FBI agents are Mormons. Something happened ten years ago and I suspect we still don't know what that was about other than it was about a lot more than what we're reading.
What THIS is about is Chaffetz leaking this story all over the Beltway to bolster his credentials for a leadership role in the new, even more radicalized Republican Congress.
Chaffetz is playing the media like a violin. Techdirt should cover him very cautiously.
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Hennepin Co Prosecutor taken off case by Governor
Governor Walz (in office since January 2019 replacing the horrible neoliberal failure Mark Dayton) has removed Freeman from the case and put state AG Keith Ellison (Bernie's pick for DNC chair) in charge.
People googling Walz are not going to get this guy. Former high school teacher and coach, and early advocate for GLBTQ in prep athletics. Retired as the top sergeant in the MN Natl Guard (which has fewer scandals than most state units). His pick for Lt Gov was a Native American community organizer, Peggy Flanagan. It was a huge surprise to the MN left who were trying to put Walz in a rightwing box for the primary.
Calling out the Guard in MN was a smart move. The Mpls cops are truly frightening. I had some as clients and they told me stories about the thumpers that would curl your hair. The Mpls police and State Troopers were the most dangerous people in Minnesota this last week. The Guard quieted things down simply by being witnesses to what the cops were doing.
And yes, there were some out-of-state agitators from the libertarian and white supremacist ranks. I suspect they set most of the fires as most of what burned was a minority business district.
But keep updating yourself on the situation because this article is already out of date regarding some of what's happened in Minnesota where most of this should be laid at Amy Klobuchar's doorstep (and the DFLers who anointed her and Al Franken).
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living deep in the country now
Last month my very small rural town just got fiber. Local ISP did not charge for installation and tripled my download speeds for $20/mo less than I'd been paying. My upload speeds increased 10x.
No one at the local office is pushing cable, and they tipped me off to YouTube TV having local sports after SlingTV got shafted by Fox on prices.
No controversy over any of this, mostly tax dollar subsidized. I can't see a downside for this community.
On the post: Once Again, Russian Internet Propaganda Efforts Shown To Be Much Bigger Than Originally Believed
Re: Re: stunned
An anonymous blogger who goes back to early 2000s and has an excellent track record on calling BS on lies about foreign policy.
But if this post surprised you, you're missing a lot of major coverage on Russiagate. Whole thing has fallen apart and is now a laughingstock except among certain members of the media. Very surprised to see such a gullible take published here at Techdirt.
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Re: MOA link
Strange how I posted the same link nine minutes later and did in a rude manner and yet was not flagged. There is no reason for your comment to be flagged, Moon of Alabama is a well regarded site.
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stunned
to see such garbage published on this great site. Moon of Alabama has already debunked the YAHOO story in question.
https://www.moonofalabama.org/2019/07/isikoff-who-first-peddled-the-fake-steele-dossier-invents-new -russian-influence-story.html
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Salisbury Russians
Hard to know what May's Tory govt is doing, but if you read independent Russian experts you won't find anyone buying into a Russian plot, not involving the Skripals neither of whom have been allowed to speak with journalists.
Craig Murray has done a great job of blogging about this. https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2018/09/the-strange-russian-alibi/
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Call for restaurant owners to weigh in
This is not an ill-founded paranoia. An incredibly high percentage of restaurant workers have been in jail/prison. Like prison rape, spitting on customer food is not a made up thing. It happens and it's not something to joke about.
Every senior cop I did a resume for had stories. It's a reality in their world. Not maybe in smaller towns but in big cities, yes cops do inspect their food when they eat in a new place. And, as most restaurant owners would tell you, uniformed cops either eat at their place frequently or never.
Would love feedback from others who've seen otherwise because I can only speak about two metro areas and this is a big country.
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Good things from the Internet
https://blogs.mprnews.org/newscut/2018/03/as-wwii-memories-fade-a-town-in-the-netherlands-refus es-to-forget/
He just tweeted this update: "I wrote this story a week ago. It traveled around the Internet. Not only are they down to 45 names, people in the Netherlands who lost track of each other, rediscovered each other. The internet is cool."
On the post: Two Years Later, Bell's Brewery Finally Fails To Bully A Tiny Brewery Out Of Its Legitimate Trademark
Re: Re: Re: Re: An empty penalty is no different than no penalty
I'd like to know more about this legal action because it is totally out of character with the brewery's reputation. Search through their many offerings, past and present. Show me the sexist names, the racist names. (There aren't any.)
Something doesn't add up here. Before I'd slime a small business, I'd need to know exactly what's going on.
On the post: Two Years Later, Bell's Brewery Finally Fails To Bully A Tiny Brewery Out Of Its Legitimate Trademark
Re: An empty penalty is no different than no penalty
I'm slow to defend companies, but how often do companies look stupid because they hired an idiot law firm?
I don't even drink beer anymore (a 22 oz bottle of 11% beer is like drinking a loaf of bread, weightwise), but I am going to need to see a quote from Larry Bell signing off on this idiocy before I condemn Bell's.
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Re: greed n. excessive desire for getting or having -- Then "buy greedily" suggests that you're an alcoholic.
Sorry to learn his brewery acted like an asshole, but unless you boycott Miles Davis' music and Woody Allen movies, let us enjoy his beer regardless of where his head is currently located.
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Can't speak to tech side
This is their excuse, and for 10 months they've stonewalled any attempt at autopsy in their dead on arrival campaign.
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TSA hiring
This sounds like the obvious outcome. Bush-Cheney, among many other horrible things, gutted all objectivity and professionalism from federal hiring. We're all the way back to hiring those who know (or blow) the boss.
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Artificial sweeteners are bad
I could care less about cancer. There are better reasons not to use fake sugar. Like fake pot, it's not even close to being good for you.
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ATT provides the phone service
We need a Constitutional right to privacy. No one's land line is safe from these predators, not even when you're running for Congress!
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Wireless broadband
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In rural Wisconsin
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Exercise caution on this one
What THIS is about is Chaffetz leaking this story all over the Beltway to bolster his credentials for a leadership role in the new, even more radicalized Republican Congress.
Chaffetz is playing the media like a violin. Techdirt should cover him very cautiously.
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Re: Re: Re: Re: Nothing new
Not everyone can afford to order them from the factory with custom options.
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