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re Minneapolis Mayoral Runner-up Beaten by “Teenagers” in Mall of America

There was some grim satisfaction in seeing a high ranking dem fall victim to this type of behavior.

And yet, my hat is off to him for trying to recover his phone.

One wonders what lessons, if any, he will learn from the incident?

#3 feeblemind on 2013-12-31 10:10 (Reply)

feeb - It's an either/or question: a) none or b) become a conservative.

#3.1 BillH on 2013-12-31 10:49 (Reply)

If I may be so bold as to speculate, he may be (as evidenced by his pursuing the criminal) or may have become a closet conservative as a result of his experience.

However, if the article is accurate and he is indeed a party big wig, he would stand to lose power, prestige, influence, and most of all, access to the taxpayer funded gravy train administered and dispersed by his brethren. Renouncing liberalism may cost him dearly in the wallet. We all know how the left treats those who leave the reservation.

He would lose all that by defecting. What would he gain? So I would expect him to keep parroting the party line.

It is merely speculation on my part. I do not know his bio or if he is feeding at the government trough.

#3.1.1 feeblemind on 2013-12-31 11:55 (Reply)

Ruining art? Only by patronizing the incompetent and untalented praised the art "critics". I pays them no attention.

Workers' housing: Workers have options, like having options, and don't like "prescribed solutions" promoted by those who think they know what workers should have.

Minneapolis mayor: Clearly he was taunting those poor deprived children.

GLAAD: Proving the truth of "Liberal Fascism".

#4 Sam L. on 2013-12-31 11:44 (Reply)

Well, I was about to say - it may be "thus" now but maybe not always so. The rich used to have better taste - or better advisors, anyway. Motivations are different, too. For instance, way back the rich were "investing" in the condition of their souls, as it were; commissioning artworks to be placed in public religious spaces. You weren't likely to allow your humble offering to be garbage that might offend divinity and put you in a bad light with the commonfolk.

Nowadays its pure investment and ego - being thought of as aesthetically sophisticated by a narrow social clique which also contains potential future buyers. So after you've sunk money into some expensive garbage, you've invested yourself in perpetuating the scam so your investment keeps value. It's like a very elaborate and ritualistic ponzi scheme. Eventually somebody will be left holding the bag.

#4.1 T.K. Tortch on 2013-12-31 14:05 (Reply)

The mayor met a thief that could have been Obama's son and then got beat up by two of Obama's daughters. His great sin? Trying to interfere with the equal oportunity and civil liberties of a repressed yet protected class. His mistake? Unlike Zimmerman he was unarmed. It would be an interesting question to ask the mayor; "if you had a gun would you, while being beaten, draw it and shot your attacker to stop the attack on your life? I have wondered outloud on more then ne occasion if George Zimmerman didn't in fact save some poor soul's life down the road when Trayvon would have graduated from his thuggery to armed robery and killed his next victim. We will never know, and that's a good thing for somene.

#5 GoneWithTheWind on 2013-12-31 12:32 (Reply)

Interesting critique of Hayek's last book. If you only had the books by him, Friedman, and Sowell would make a very complete substantiation of Western Civilization and Liberalism.

#6 mudbug on 2013-12-31 13:28 (Reply)

I'm with you on Lucian. I always liked reproductions and prints I saw, and when I got to see the real things I was more impressed.

#7 T.K. Tortch on 2013-12-31 14:33 (Reply)

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Tuesday, December 31. 2013

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