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Bye Bye Lake Wobegon

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What used to come to mind when you thought of Minnesota?  Garrison Keillor's Prairie Home Companion and Lake Wobegon? People of Scandinavian descent who spoke with an accent like in the movie Fargo? Honest politicians like Hubert Humphrey and Fritz Mondale? People going to their local Church on Sunday and eating hot dish afterwards? If that's still your idea of Minnesota, think again! Gone is Lake Wobegon. It's been replaced by Little Mogadishu !  The Lutheran Church quit serving hot dish and began serving up tens of thousands of Somali refugees instead. Thank you Lutheran Social Services (LSS). It's brought with them stabbings at malls and arson at Colleges . But some did come here to earn money, unfortunately they did it by defrauding taxpayers with phony daycare scams and sending the money to terrorists in Somalia.  But at least Minnesotans' are still socially conscious. They used to join the Peace Corps, but now they join Isis and Al Shabab . ...

How the Grinch plans to steal Xmas

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Gus Froemke The economy is the best it's been in years. Tax cuts have resulted in the highest employment in 50 years, the first actual increase in worker pay (2.9%) for over a decade and less taxes being taken from workers checks. The mines are not only open, but expanding in Northern Minnesota and so many people are now buying houses that there's not enough! But lurking around the corner is Grinch! Governor elect Tim Walz is already proposing a tax hike! Minnesota has a $2 billion surplus, but Walz and his friends are proposing a tax increase on gasoline. He promised no middle class tax hike, but that is  exactly what a higher gas tax is. It will cost more not only at the pump, but at the store. The cost of shipping will increase, and those costs will be passed on to consumers in higher prices for food, clothes and anything shipped by truck. So who are Walz's backers? Well there's the usual suspects the Teamsters , AFSCME , and SEIU . It's funny tha...