Yar, mm, Allahu Akbar, y’know. [/Scandahoovian terrorist]
If the Scandahoovians actually wanted to become terrorists, they already have the weapon that beats all nuclear arsenals…
lutefisk!
So you thank your lucky stars they’re so goshdarn nice, ya betcha.
We’ve done it before and we’ll do it again. Same shit, different victims.
I almost forgot - Fox News is not news. I thought MOST people had already figured that out.
I thought it had been established that no news outlets are fair & balanced.
One perceive fairness when the outlet’s editorial views mostly reflects the views one holds.
I personally loathe all TV news outlets. It’s like picking my favorite scent - hot shit or cold diarrhea. What a choice!
Just out of curiosity, why did they choose to settle in Minnesota in the first place? Didn’t they know how cold it gets?
The current head of the PLO in St. Paul is Yassir Ubetcha.
Allahu-Uffdah!
The ones I’ve talked to have been sponsored in by the Luthern Church. Like our Hmong population in the 1970-80s. Then you get to have a community and others follow because they have a friend or relative here - or they just know they’ll have a community.
But, no, I don’t think they really could concieve how cold it gets here.
(I chat with taxi drivers and security guards who are overwhelmingly Somali - and the same thing occured to me - “You are from Somali - how did you end up in Minnesota!” So I ask. My mother in law also works with Somali women in a community outreach program.)
Probably true. Losing a few folks to the enemy abroad is a small price to pay to keep the enemy at home running scared. Anyway, we need a terrorist threat to keep putting the boot in on homefront dissenters.
Tried to talk you out of it, you wouldn’t listen…
Initially people came here because there were lots of jobs and a good social services network. Then after a core community was established, people started coming here because there was an established community, often with relatives or family already here.
We’ve got a few other communities up here that basically followed that same pattern. There’s a large Hmong community, for instance.
A fact for which I often raised grateful hands to whichever gods were listening on Thursdays, since I lived about four blocks north of the Nicollet Mall Farmer’s Market. I have no idea what the Hmong growers are actually doing wherever it is that they’re doing their thing, but they honestly had the most amazing-looking and -tasting produce I’d ever had.
They cross-bred opium poppies. You have a cabbage on your back.
So that’s why my shirts haven’t fit right since I lived up there…
I am sick to the bone of your endless bragging.
[beavis & butthead]
Heh-heh . . . heh-heh . . . He said “Hmong” . . .
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Damn bodice just ripped and winter’s comin’ on…
Whooooooooosh, I do believe. She’s knuckle-gnawingly envious of your easy access to such delights.
Duly whooshed, then. 
She shouldn’t be TOO envious…on shaking a few more details out of my memory (it was 10 years ago), it was more like 8 blocks and it involved Franklin and Nicollet, which is far too close to Lake Street than I’d care to live again, were I to move back.