CONTINUE THE COUNT! Count the electoral votes from the bunker if necessary.
This should have taken about an hour or so.The longer the counting of the electoral votes goes on, the more potential for violence there is. Finishing the count takes away incentive for further...
View ArticleWe need to change the Electoral Count Act of 1873
The Electoral Count Act of 1887 allows the Congress to reject a state’s electors if both the House and Senate vote to reject them. This means that if a party controls both the House and Senate they can...
View ArticleAliens in science fiction: Beings equal to us or Bug Eyed Monsters?
WARNING: Spoilers for The Mandalorian Follow.In science fiction, you often see two perspectives on aliens. One is that aliens are people who have their own perspectives, motivations and interests and...
View ArticleStars and Stripes - National veterans groups plan to purge members found...
Stars and Stripes - National veterans groups plan to purge members found guilty in Capitol attackThe Disabled Veterans of America, along with AMVETS announced that they will remove members who...
View ArticleArticle I Militia
People talk about “Second Amendment Militias”, but the Second Amendment doesn’t establish the militia. That’s in Article I, Section 8, which establishes the powers of Congress.To provide for calling...
View ArticleThe Fall of the Trump Regime: A Tragedy
In Greek tragedy, the protagonist is brought own by who they are: to have escaped their downfall, they would have had to be someone else. It is in this sense that I call the fall of Trump a tragedy.It...
View ArticleHappy VT Day!!! Victory over Trump!
On March 8th, 1945, the world celebrated V-E day — Victory in Europe.On August 15th, 1945, the world celebrated V-J Day — Victory over japan.Today, the reign of a would-be dictator ended because of the...
View ArticleMultiple people shot at Buffalo, MN Clinic. UPDATE: Press Conference 3PM Central
Multiple people shot at Buffalo, MN clinicDetails still coming in.BUFFALO, Minn. (AP) — Authorities say someone has shot multiple people at a clinic in Buffalo, Minnesota.The shooting happened Tuesday...
View ArticleOut with a cold in the age of COVID-19
I called in sick today with a cold. Just the usual: sniffles, sinus pressure and some grogginess. I called into the clinic, and they didn’t seem very concerned, it didn’t seem like COVID. But I’m...
View ArticleForgotten pioneers of aviation: Octave Chanute
The only reason I know anything at all about Octave Chanute is that I was stationed at Chanute Air Force Base for technical training in 1985. Chanute AFB opened as Chanute Field in 2017 and was closed...
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Adventures in Retrocomputing: Jupiter Ace
Not to be confused with the Franklin ACE, which is an Apple knockoff. I’ve never even seen a Jupiter Ace, but I remember seeing ads for it in the early 80s. The Jupiter Ace is an unusual microcomputer....
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Got my COVID-19 appointment!
It’s really frustrating to search for vaccines. I found a Facebook group Minneapolis Vaccine Hunters and I got a tip that there was a vaccine clinic in Winona (a couple hours out of Minneapolis) that...
View ArticleMinneapolis Star Tribune - Second degree manslaughter charges for Brooklyn...
Star Tribune - Officer who shot Daunte Wright will face second-degree manslaughter chargeSecond Degree Manslaughter as a sentence of up to 10 years.609.205 MANSLAUGHTER IN THE SECOND DEGREE.A person...
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A brief introduction to Scandinavian Americans
Who are these people? Where did they come from? Where did they go?Organized immigration from Scandinavia is generally considered to have begun with the arrival of the Restauration, a ship from Norway...
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Happy 130th Birthday, Itasca State Park!
Itasca State Park, founded this day in 1891, is Minnesota’s oldest state park, and the second oldest state park in the country, second only to New York’s Niagara Falls State Park. The park is the...
View ArticleDOJ to probe whether Minneapolis police have 'pattern and practice' of...
Star Tribune - DOJ to probe whether Minneapolis police have 'pattern and practice' of misconductThe U.S. Department of Justice will conduct a sweeping investigation into whether the Minneapolis Police...
View ArticleUS health panel urges restarting J&J COVID-19 vaccinations
Star Tribune: US health panel urges restarting J&J COVID-19 vaccinationA U.S. health panel says it's time to resume use of Johnson & Johnson's COVID-19 vaccine, despite a very rare risk of...
View ArticleFlorida bill would allow students to record professors to show political bias
Guardian: Florida bill would allow students to record professors to show political biasRepublicans in Florida have stepped up their assault on what they call “Marxist professors and students” in the...
View ArticleLet's normalize proper hand washing even after the pandemic.
How many times have you been in a public bathroom and someone barely dipped their hands in the water, just a formality to avoid people thinking they’re a barbarian who doesn’t wash their hands. That’s...
View ArticleJim Klobuchar, Star-Tribune Columnist and father of Senator Amy Klobuchar,...
Minneapolis Star Tribune - Jim Klobuchar, longtime Star Tribune columnist and adventurer, dies at 93 Condolences to Senator Amy KlobucharJim Klobuchar, an intrepid son of the Iron Range who with grace...
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