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Miscellaneous Local Links - 12/25/06

Posted December 25, 2006

Pharyngula: Atheist family Christmas
Fraters Libertas: Target pulls Che Guevara merch
Flickr: Twin Cities Christmas photos
Strib: ShotSpotter nabs first shooting suspect
Strib: Minneapolis lights shine too bright
Strib: Midtown Greenway's new Sabo bridge
MSP mag: Zimmern's top local food picks
WCCO: Lyn-Lake woman narrowly escapes abduction

» Categories: dailylinks | Author: chuck


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16 Comments:


RE: Streetlight article

Nizolek is an intolerable, self-righteous busy-body. The same person that decided that 331 was no longer acceptable now gets some press time telling us how he knew all along that the streetlights were terrible. He misses the glare of the spotlight now that he's no longer a City Councilor.

And Orfield is a notorious self-promoting BS artist. Do a quick google search and check out the press clippings he's managed to weasel himself into. Blech.

John Wertjes, on the other hand, is the very definition of a public servant. If you've never seen him speak at a neighborhood meeting, he does Minneapolis proud.

»» Submitted by MunsingW at 1:35 PM on December 25



This is already better than usual.

Merry Xmas, Chuck.
»» Submitted by »»» ericam at 4:24 PM on December 25



Between the Minneapolis street lights and the bicycle bridge I can't stop laughing! What a great Christmas treat!
»» Submitted by »»» kwatt at 6:54 PM on December 25



Sure glad Sabo found a way to make those suckers in North Dakota and Louisiana and Arizona and Mississippi pay money out of their paychecks to build us poor, starving Minnesotans a cool bridge for 45 or so pedestrians. He deserves having it named in his honor, for sure, given how hard he worked to make the big trade that sent a pile of our pay to Alaskans to build them billion-dollar bridges to deserted islands, and to Garrison Keillor to reward him for being a melodious asshat.

I'm sure those Dakotans and Louisianans and Arizonans and Mississippians look at their fed withholding and enthusiastically agree that sending their own paycheck money to us here to build all-important pedestrian bridges was far more worthwhile than keeping it themselves.

What a screwed-up system we have that accords Sabo honors for such self-serving theft from others.

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»» Submitted by »»» bobby_b at 10:12 PM on December 25



Welcome back, whitey.
»» Submitted by »»» kwatt at 11:07 PM on December 25



Wow, Uptown's getty dicey lately. There was a unsuccessful mugging last week on 22nd and then a mugging at 32nd a few days later. Now an aduction attempt...
Time to form a roving band of vigalantes.
»» Submitted by »»» MLH at 11:40 PM on December 25



I'm under the impression that muggings happen quite frequently around uptown.

But that sucks about the abduction stuff. Travel with a friend, I think, is the lesson.
»» Submitted by j at 12:11 AM on December 25



Does a licensed handgun qualify as a friend? Sure does in my book!
»» Submitted by »»» scoste at 1:30 AM on December 26



lol@uptown. I'm still feeling safe in the near nordost. I don't recall any recent muggings up my way.
»» Submitted by tmay at 1:28 AM on December 26



Muggings? No. Shootings? Yep.
»» Submitted by mike s at 1:43 AM on December 26



Get more Guardian Angels out on the streets in the various neighborhoods, deputize and arm them and let them have at the slimeballs! The cops can't do it alone!
»» Submitted by »»» scoste at 2:17 AM on December 26



Sabo = great man

Bobby_b = envious prick

Target = Fascism Merchant
»» Submitted by Bubba Hotep at 3:29 AM on December 26



I don't think the designers at these stores have the time to consider what sort of images they're using. For example: Wal-Mart was selling a shirt with a Nazi SS logo not too long ago. It's absurd to think that Target supports the Commies while Wal-Mart supports the Nazis; I think it's much more likely that they each crank out a lot of crap, and no one in their design departments really gives the images much thought.
»» Submitted by mike s at 10:48 AM on December 26



Neither do the people who wear faux-old, because they are for the most part thoughtless people.


»» Submitted by »»» kwatt at 11:16 AM on December 26



I gotta wonder about the thinking of anyone wearing a shirt that has something on it, ranging from "World's Best Dad" to Che Guevara's mug to "Silly faggot, dicks are for chicks!", which honestly stopped me dead in my tracks when I saw that shirt just this past year on some moron at the State Fair walking around with his girlfriend. For him, a bad choice in clothing, and for her, a bad choice in boyfriends.
»» Submitted by »»» scoste at 5:24 PM on December 26



mike, I said the "near" northeast. I don't hang out in dead president land.
»» Submitted by tmay at 5:26 AM on December 27



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