February 2009

Dr.(?) Allen Unruh – Keep Digging that hole

Who says you can’t drink yourself to sobriety?

The guy who claims cracking backs makes him a ‘Medical Doctor’ is spreading more of his neo-con bullshit. Normally, this would upset me, but I see it as the Republicans just digging themselves a deeper hole. Keep it coming.

Let’s put this money in perspective. The average American earns almost $33,000 a year. To make a billion dollars, he or she would have to work 31,000 years.

Unless you run two bogus non-profits you earn about $250,000 a year.

A trillion dollars laid end to end would reach 96 million miles.

Have you been talking to John Thune?

If you are elderly, be afraid. Proponents of this socialized scheme are long on fear and short on facts. Hidden in this “must-pass” piece of legislation is a provision that rations health care and makes it likely that older people will be left to suffer or die.

Yup, spread more fear instead of offering solutions. That’s what you are good at. I think you are afraid because socialized medicine will not include the quackery you practice.

Health care decisions will not be made by doctors or patients. They will be made by bureaucrats with formulas based on your age and whether treatment will cure your problem.

Apparently Allen has a crystal ball. He knows how legislation is going to be written, before it is written. Well if it is the crystal ball he used to predict the outcome of the abortion vote, I wouldn’t worry too much about his warnings. In fact the only thing the Obama administration is suggesting is streamlining your medical records, something Gore suggested when he was running for office 8 years ago. Something that would save us billions in insurance costs every year.

Winston Churchill said, “Thinking we can spend our way out of debt is like thinking an alcoholic can drink himself into sobriety.”

Actually that’s possible, but with sobriety comes death. Ever seen ‘Leaving Las Vegas’?

Ben Franklin said, “He who would trade freedom for security will end up with neither.”

Funny you use that quote Allen, ever hear of ‘Freedom to choose’? Must have escaped you.

More government is the problem, not the solution.

I would have to agree, but the problem with the best 8 years there was NO government, and now we have to make up for lost time.

The solution, according to hundreds of top economists, is to allow all taxpaying Americans to keep more of what they work for. It’s that simple.

So are you saying Allen, you agree with Obama? He has given 90% of Americans a tax cut in the latest stimulus, and 98% of small businesses.

Allen, are you trying to trick us again like your wife did with all the mumbo jumbo she was spreading about abortion? You sneaky little devil.

Munson’s Golden Parachute?

The Plaintiff and I had lunch yesterday (he is the commenter on this site that has the due process lawsuit against the city). We were talking about Munson, and I said I find it interesting that he didn’t really answer the question on Sunday on KELO about his retirement or future after his term is up.

Plaintiff suggested he will get some kind of Golden Parachute job. Which is likely. Even though former city planner, Steve Metli, retired from the city with a hefty package I see he works for a bank now, and there is hardly a time I don’t see him either eating or drinking with developer Craig Lloyd in public. I think they are attached at the hip.

I suspect that Munson may become some kind of inner state lobbyist.

What do the rest of you think? Golden Parachute or Retirement?

No arts funding? Maybe.

Who are the 26 chicken-shit legislators who would vote against arts funding?

House Bill 1229 had a majority vote, 44-26, but was shy of the two-thirds it needed to pass.

 

But that doesn’t mean the bill is dead, said Pat Boyd, executive director of South Dakotans for the Arts, the state’s advocacy group that leads the effort to get arts funding back into the budget.

Like Pat said, we still have a way of getting it back, it is just disappointing that some legislators don’t give to shits about arts education. Sad, Sad, Sad. I wonder how many of them have children or grandchildren who took band and art classes in public school?

I thought the exact same thing

Although the constitutional amendment to allow large casinos in South Dakota has failed, I was telling someone yesterday that I suspected that either Heidepriem or Abdallah had an ‘outside’ force pushing them into it. Who knows if it was true, but apparently I wasn’t the only one putting 2-2 together. South Dakota’s very own Sarah Palin thought so to;

When the House State Affairs Committee rejected a proposed constitutional amendment on gambling sponsored by Senate Democratic Leader Scott Heidepriem of Sioux Falls, House Assistant Republican Leader Kristi Noem of Castlewood questioned Heidepriem’s motives.

 

Noem said Heidepriem’s law firm represents a client involved in gambling.

 

Heidepriem said he was stunned by the suggestion he would promote a measure out of personal interest.

I’m STUNNED a lawyer would think it unusual to question their motives. Give me a f’ing break.