I saw this headline and naively thought the complaints had come from health-conscious fanatics, but it happened in Minnesota, so of course ....

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poor little thing, we won’t let anyone hurt you

Minnesota hospital apologizes for handing out free Chick-fil-A

Essentia Health in Duluth, Minnesota, thought it would be nice to treat their staff at St. Mary's Medical Center with a free lunch last Tuesday.

There was only one problem with that free lunch: It was Chick-fil-A.

Essentia Health's VP for Regional Operations, Tammy Kritzer, hastily apologized after staff outrage erupted:

We have received feedback from some colleagues who were concerned or offended by this occurrence, and we value colleagues feeling comfortable expressing their reservations …

We would like to thank our colleagues who had the courage to speak up to widen our lens of inclusivity, and we appreciate all colleagues continuing to live our values of respect and justice.

Stories like these are so common that they’re no longer news, and there’s no point reposting them except for their humor. Then again, I suppose laughing at these morons was always the point.

Just sayin'

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Shot:

Fairfax County proudly doesn't cooperate with federal immigration officials. 

"The Board of Supervisors passed the Trust Policy in 2021 to codify Fairfax County’s commitment to the safety and security of all immigrant residents. The Trust Policy contains specific standards to ensure that employees do not voluntarily cooperate with enforcement of federal civil immigration laws," the County website states. "The county has received several inquiries about federal changes in policies or procedures regarding immigrants. We’ve heard the concerns about the federal government and planned U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) raids in our area. Fairfax County does not and will not enforce civil federal immigration laws. The federal courts have determined that the enforcement of civil immigration laws is solely a federal responsibility under the exclusive authority of ICE."

Chaser:

Another Woman Has Been Raped on a Trail. An Illegal Alien Has Been Charged.

An illegal alien from Honduras has been charged with rape after attacking a woman in Fairfax County, Virginia on a popular running trail. The man has "no fixed address" and a long criminal record in the area dating back to 2022. The investigation is ongoing and police believe there are additional rape victims. 

"I am incredibly saddened and outraged that a crime like this could happen here in the town of Herndon. This is the only stranger rape we have had in the town in my more than 12 years as chief of police. This kind of case not only impacts the victim directly, but impacts our entire community, especially when it occurs in a very public area that we consider safe and that is used by all of our residents and visitors, and by our community on a daily basis. Our thoughts are with the victim as she copes with the events that happened," Herndon Police Chief Chief Maggie DeBoard said during a press conference Tuesday. 

"What is disturbing is the number of times this man has been arrested and released. He has continued to offend and his behavior has escalated to a rape in a very public area in our town," DeBoard continued. 

Lincoln Project's Dan Quisling still doesn't get it

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“What mandate? I don’t see no stinkin’ mandate!”

Since the election, the word “mandate” has been used by President-elect Trump and his supporters to describe his victory on November 5. In American political terms a mandate occurs when an election result reflects broad support for a candidate and his/her policy agenda.

With the exceptions of Maine and Nebraska, the electoral college votes in each state are winner take all. As a result, the country has experienced a number of elections where razor thin margins in the popular vote in a handful of battleground states have resulted in candidates winning those electoral votes, but not the overall popular vote. I would argue that, in a presidential election, a broad and decisive win in the popular vote should be the true measure of an election mandate.

The country decisively rejected the woke agenda Quisling and his confederates have been foisting on the public since 2008, but more important to the prospects of this poor has-been so desperate to regain a power position in the Greenwich Republican Party, the Old Guard GOP has been discarded into the dustbin of history. It’s not coming back, and its members will have slink back to their yacht clubs, order up their gin and tonics, and reflect on what was.

Good riddance.

Portland Maine gets what it demands and deserves, good and hard

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(Former sheriff) mayor Mark Dion is upset, but he has to deal with the City Council Portland’s citizenry also voted in, and they laud the “compassion” of these deranged individuals, exemplified by the one hobo holding a blanket up to shield his compatriot from view while she craps on a landlord’s steps.

Portland City Officials Respond to Disturbing Video Showing Drug Abuse, Fights, Crime in Bayside Neighborhood

Portland city officials on Tuesday responded to a disturbing video published this week by a Bayside neighborhood landlord showing rampant drug abuse, violence and public indecency outside of his building.

The video, shared on Monday by Portland landlord Ned Payne — viewed over 4,200 times on Youtube as of Wednesday — is a compilation of security camera footage recorded over a period of several months depicting the scene outside of 19 Portland St.

[RELATED: “Zombie Slasher” Machete and Loaded Shotgun Horrify Store Owners Across from Portland Homeless Encampment…]

Payne’s footage shows clips of young children having to step over homeless individuals sleeping on the stoop of the building, tent encampments, open drug use and apparent drug deals, public urination, fights and a man racking and showing off a handgun to a group of people.

City Councilor Kate Sykes, who was elected to represent District 5 last November and is the former co-chair of the Maine Democratic Socialists of America (Maine DSA), said the video is “really hard to watch,” but that it also contains “some kind of beautiful moments between human beings there.”

“As difficult as those interactions are, and the things that are happening, there’s kindness there,” Sykes said.

[RELATED: “It’s very real and very powerful”: Outgoing Portland Mayor Kate Snyder on the Influence of Maine Democratic Socialists of America…]

“And so I think this is one of those moments in a community where we can become really divided, and I think understanding that the suffering that we’re seeing there is all of our suffering,” Sykes added. “It’s the suffering of the people on the street, it’s the suffering of the people who have to live in that area and see that every day, it’s the suffering that gets compounded when videos like that go out to the rest of the community and, you know, reverberate.”

Committee Chair and At-Large City Councilor April Fournier expressed similar sentiments, saying “I think we feel compassion and sadness for the individuals who are the ones that are sleeping on the stairs, because I can only imagine having someone take a video of one of the lowest moments of my life and disseminate it to the public for everyone to see.”

[RELATED: Maine ACLU Says Failed Proposal to Legalize Portland Homeless Encampments with Frequent Overdoses, Assaults, and Rapes Would Have Been “Positive First Step”…]

Responding to the video Portland Mayor Mark Dion said that while he appreciates the Councilors’ “balanced approach,” he is “troubled” and that he has to “speak for the neighborhood.”

“You know, I can contemplate this is an abstract fashion, but they have to live with it, that’s their stoop, they walk that neighborhood,” Dion said. “I don’t know how I’d feel as a father having to traverse that space with my daughters having to go off to school — I don’t want to lose sight of that.”

“When they’re racking a handgun, I’m not sure outreach is the answer,” Dion said. “When they’re injecting somebody into a vein or artery in their throat, I’m not sure therapy is the appropriate answer at that point.”

“I don’t want the neighborhood to feel like we’re trying to create some equity balance here that everybody’s needs are being met as we approach it,” he added. “I think we have a responsibility to meet needs, but we have a responsibility to our residents and their safety, because it’s their home.”

District 1 City Councilor Anna Trevorrow responded to Dion saying she “felt the need to offer some rebuttal comments.”

“I don’t feel we should be setting up a dynamic we’re picking sides in this,” Trevorrow said.

Trevorrow said Payne’s video being publicized is “very divisive,” and “capitalizing on fear and stigma.”

“We need to be looking at global solutions to it that doesn’t pit one side against the other, and certainly not the people who are the most marginalized and have the least resources,” Trevorrow said.

“I appreciate the rebuttal Councilor,” Mayor Dion replied to Trevorrow. “I don’t have problems picking sides — I’ve spent a career picking sides to try to advance one proposition or another, and the side I took tonight is for the general public safety.”

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