The City Pages, that Minnesota throw-away and Village Voice wannabe, published cartoons by local “artists” in anticipation of the Republican National Convention this September.

In the print and on the web edition, this one libels evangelical Christians. The unrestrained, vile Christian hatred is appalling. By printing this trash John Backderf and Mark Bartel, the Publisher, states evangelical Christians will burn lesbians at the stake using biology texts while roasting hot dogs; leave miniature fake aborted fetuses in people’s food; carry large crosses everywhere; solicit prostitutes; engage in sadomasochism and devil worship using a hymnal; and engage in the mutilation of elementary school students by branding them.

This cartoon is the ad hominem trash I have come to expect from the the sociopathological left. Let’s see Mr. Blackderf try this with the Jews. Let’s see have dedicated he is his nihilism and hatred of the faithful and try this with the Muslims. See how far that gets you.

Of course they won’t. They know that Christians will “turn the other cheek”. The Jews, OTOH, would go to the courts and damage them financially. Blackderf will be discredited as an anti-Semite. Bartel and the City Pages will be known as Minneapolis’ answer to Julius Streicher and Der Sturmer.

The less understanding elements of Islam would issue a fatwa. John Backderf, Mark Bartel, Michael Weir, Brenda Clark, Jeff Shaw - as well as any one else involved in the defaming of Islam at the City Pages - will have to live as Salman Rushdie, Ayaan Ali, or the Danish cartoonists.

Don’t you guys want to suffer for your art? Be recognized by the Committee to Protect Journalists? Win a Pulitzer?

Steve McPherson, in Reveille Magazine, slobbers over crap:

With measured but relentless urgency, Minneapolis rapper Muja Messiah and guest MC I Self Devine [Rhymesayers] are burning this mutha down on “Patriot Act.” The track is from Muja’s new album, Thee Adventures of a B-Boy D-Boy, which is dropping on July 29 on the Black Corners label. This is the kind of politically-charged, ass-kicking hip-hop that makes it seem like the forces of good might just have a chance.

I Self Devine, if anyone remembers, released a recording about killing cops. More than likely, white cops. That’s white, as in Steve McPherson. Because he is a music critic, I don’t think he’ll lower himself to become a police officer - like us commoners - and actually do something constructive for society. Risking his life, saving people from harm, bringing criminals to justice. Stuff like that. He’ll just go on impressing us with his knowledge of black urban dialect and his praise of critics of the Patriot Act which - if Mr. McPherson had bothered to notice - has kept us from sustaining more attacks by Jihadists like the ones imprisoned in Guantanamo Bay.

There will be no need for music critics in the Khalifah, Steve. Get yourself a real trade, just in case.

Russ Hanson from the St. Paul e-Democracy list decided that St Paul and Minneapolis cops are…Nazis. This is the typical smears we have to put up with in Minnesota.

It’s amazing to me that all of you “informed citizens” look at this “leaflet” incident and don’t realize that cops violate and cheapen the civil and constitutional rights of citizens in this city ALL THE TIME and if it makes you feel any better, it’s done in Minneapolis too.

The old timey phase that comes to mind is a uniformed cop mentality, but that’s too old fashioned. The modern term is: “Pro-active Policing”. Don’t let the nomenclature fool ya as it’s just about the same tactics and attitudes used by the Gestapo of war time Germany. Only the terms used to describe it has been modernized.

No…they don’t say: “Papers, please.” Today they just demand your I.D. …then the questions that they have NO RIGHT to ask a United States Citizen… begin. If you think that you have the right to remain silent, you will in the back of squad car before you know it and then the fun REALLY begins.

Mr Hanson, you assert that:

1. The St. Paul and Minneapolis Police Departments engage in proactive policing;

2. Proactive policing is a euphemism for the “tactics and attitudes” used by the Geheime Staatspolizei (”Gestapo”) in Nazi Germany (1933), or the Sicherheitspolizei (”Sipo” - 1936), or the Reichssicherheitshauptamt (”RSHA” - 1939) branch of the Sicherheitsdienst (”SD”);

3. The Geheime Staatspolizei existed in name after the commencement of hostilities in 1939;

4. By using the “tactics and attitudes” of the Geheime Staatspolizei or its successor organizations, the St. Paul and Minneapolis Police:

A. Are members of the Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei or its American equivalent; or

B. Transports and detains political prisoners in concentration camps; or

C. Organizes pogroms against Jews; or

D. Arrests people based solely upon their religious belief; or

E. Arranges for the deportation and genocide of Jews; or

F. Infiltrates society in order to create a system of files to indicate what inhabitants should be placed under surveillance, deprived of passports, or murdered; or

G. Operate mobile killing squads; or

H. Murders Jews, Gypsies, and political opponents; or

I. Engages in widespread arrests of the civilian population; or

J. Imprisons many persons under inhumane conditions; or

K. Subjects prisoners to brutal third degree methods or torture; or

L. Is involved in the shooting of hostages, the imprisonment of relatives; or

M. Executes persons charged as terrorists and saboteurs without trial; or

N. Enforces “Night and Fog” decrees under which persons charged with an offense are either executed within a week or secretly transported without being permitted to communicate with their family and friends; or

O. Is involved in the administration of slave labor; and

P. Commits any of the foregoing singularly; or

Q. Commits any of the foregoing in combination.

It is the responsibility of you, Mr. Hanson, to either provide documented proof of your assertions, an explanation of your assertions, or offer a public retraction.

This doesn’t sit well with me. Heard the opera news this morning on WQXR’s audio stream.

Gérard Mortier, the incoming general manager and artistic director of the New York City Opera, has commissioned composer Charles Wuorinen to create an opera based on “Brokeback Mountain,” Annie Proulx’s short story, first published in the New Yorker magazine and later adapted into a celebrated movie by Ang Lee. The opera is currently scheduled to make its premiere during City Opera’s 2013 spring season.

Oh. Crap.

VOX program director Yuval Sharon said in the opening panel discussion, “All art is political. Making a work non-political is still a political statement.”

Where have I heard that before?

If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice.

The New York City Opera has either been invaded by social nihilists or they have identified another “market”.

New York City Opera is proud to open its doors for its inaugural Boys Night, a social event for gay men, on Friday, April 11,starting at 6:45 PM for an evening of cocktails, light fare and entertainment when Leonard Bernstein’s Candide takes over the stage at the New York State Theater

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These are the candidates for public office in the Democratic Party and the DFL.

Barack Obama: attended a black racialist and anti-Semitic church for 20 years.

Keith Ellison: involved with a black racialist and anti-Semitic organization; as an Officer of the Court, recklessly violated the law; currently associates with Islamic supremacist groups.

Al Franken: a comedy writer who, as a public figure, told rape and bestiality jokes.

This is depressing.