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Okay, I just took a look at the videos of what happened to one Alex Pretti yesterday in Minneapolis.  Pretti being the latest person to perish in the chaos that’s happening there.

I won’t pretend to have all the evidence/facts of the case.  But what it seems to me, at this hour anyway, is that Pretti got himself involved in a bad situation and the Border Patrol direly over-reacted.  That over-reaction was exacerbated by the presence on Pretti of a loaded firearm.

I think there’re more than enough that went wrong in this incident to assign blame to practically everybody involved.  There are no clean hands or clean hearts in this matter.  No one can claim innocence.  This almost comes across as an event that was bound to occur and the buck happened to land on Alex Pretti.

As I’ve said on Facebook and elsewhere lately, too many times now, ...

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How is this not an example of racial preference in hiring?! Hell, this is explicitly a sexual preference too. Isn’t that what government isn’t supposed to be doing?!

Well anyway, it’s a tough job market out there but if you happen to be Native American, a man and a practitioner of sacred healing, you’re in luck! The Bureau of Prisons divison of the United States Department of Justice is hiring a “Native American Medicine Man” to work at the Federal Prison Camp in Duluth, Minnesota.

Here’s the official job description…

The Federal Bureau of Prisons, FPC Duluth, Duluth, MN, intends to make a single award to a responsible entity for providing the services of Native American Medicine man to the inmate population as outlined in the statement of work. The anticipated date of the award will be approximately October 1, 2010 subjected to funds availability for the next fiscal year.

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Constitutional rights are no longer applicable only to living citizens, but to the undead ones as well.

Here’s the story from Metro.co.uk…

US court rules ‘Zombies have free speech rights’

A court has allowed a group of protesters dressed as zombies to continue with a lawsuit against police who arrested them for disorderly conduct.

The appeal court overturned a previous finding that the group had correctly been arrested over a 2006 protest in a shopping centre.

The group had been wearing makeup designed to make them look like and extra in a horror flick, with white faces, fake blood and black circles round their eyes.

They then proceeded to stagger round the shops, urging consumers to “get your brains here”.

They also carried audio equipment, which police described as “simulated weapons of mass destruction”, even though they were mobile phones.

The appeals court ruled that the police had no

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Al Franken has been declared the winner of the U.S. Senate race in Minnesota.

You know, I’ve been known for pulling a stunt or two for sake of politics. But that picture of Franken is just wrong…

Think about it: this man is about to be granted the same esteemed privileges that in more enlightened times were only granted to great orators such as Daniel Webster, John Calhoun, and Henry Clay.

And it looks like Caroline Kennedy is going to become Senator from New York, based on nothing but her “royalty”.

Now do you people understand why I believe the Seventeenth Amendment was one of the most horrible things to ever happen to the United States Constitution, and should be repealed in favor of letting the individual state legislatures elect the senators?!?...

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