11 thoughts on “Mayor Munson's LMAO quote of the day”
One point mayor dave and the argus fail to explain to anybody. The reason Congress had to do something about this is places like First Premier Bankcard Sevices are completely out of control. I would like the Argus to just ONCE explain their fee harvesting operation and how it works. It can’t be that tough a job, yet they fail repeatedly to tell the story. I’ve had it with the place. The ONLY reason my dog goes down to the end of driveway and lifts the argus off the hook of the mailbox is so my wife gets her daily fix of “funnies”, because there obviously is very little within those ad riddled pages worth reading.
So here it is. What the argus finds as a real tough nut to crack. I wonder why?
Credit limit $250
Program Fee -$95
Account Setup Fee -$29
Participation Fee -$6 per month
Annual Fee -$48 per year
Total Usable Credit $72, before first purchase is made. It’s called FEE HARVESTING. Google it sometime. Good reading.
Needless to say, this FEE HARVESTING is hidden deep within the contract in size 1 font written in lawyerspeak. So automatically, most, if not all of the young, elderly, and questionable are drawn into the endless cycle of over the limit fees and hiked interst rates after the first month.
Predatory? You betcha. The argus has an obligation to expose this kind of shit, yet does nothing but praise sanford. KELO? The same. Of course there fancy weather radar system comes compliments of the fees they get for doing their three local newscasts… otherwise known as sanford infomercials.
And did you catch the argus story on sanford booting Sioux Falls Federal Credit Union, a reputable local bank, out of Sioux Valley Hospital so he could bring in First Premier? What a joke.
Sorry l3wis, I’m om on a roll here. Got no personal stake in what first premier or any of the credit card predators choose to do. I just know something bad when I see it, and this is certainly at the top of my list.
The media in this town are cheerleaders. That’s it. It is like the $18.5 million dollar bonds. NO ONE did a front page or major story about the bonds until they passed, THEN it was a front page story. There should have been a detailed story on the Sunday before on what the bonds were for and that there was a chance for public testimony. The Media has an agenda in this town. But Hey, KELO’s company, Young Broadcasting is going bankrupt and GANNET is gonna start bailing on newspaper’s real soon. Then finally, they will get it.
I read somewhere that the argus had until the end of this year to get their shit in a group. Of course, that will never happen. Then what I wonder?
They could stop putting free newspapers on my driveway once a week… that should save them a few bucks.
Then they can fire any food critic who uses the term “yummy” in their review, or a music reviewer who uses the phrase “best band to come out of Sioux Falls in a long time”. The third step is to stop editorializing and just report the friggin’ news. I do not need nor want opinion from the very people who are printing the paper. I don’t care that every other paper does it or that is the way it has always been done.
Then maybe they can get back to their policy of only printing one letter to the editor from a person per year. It seems like the same 20 people write in on a monthly basis to the point I’ve started recognizing them by name.
If they want to survive, they need to evolve.
I agree. I think if the Argus got rid of it’s ED Board editorials they would probably sell more papers. Their opinion is wrong 95% of the time, and secondly, no one give a fuck anyway.
I wonder how many newspapers have more than one food critic. When I read these reviews, it seems like almost every week a different one of their employees is the critic. I wonder just how much expertise these different employees have.
In journalism or eating?
They might be trying to find one who is a little more adventurous than Farley or Weinstein – maybe someone who won’t walk into a Vietnamese restaurant and order the most basic, americanized CHINESE-ish dish on the menu.
“The chicken alfredo was bland and tasteless”- Jana Farley
Yeah, it’s fricking Tomacelli’s, what were you expecting? A flavor party in your mouth?
Rule of thumb: when you go to a pizza place, order a f*cking pizza. If you go to a seafood place, order f*cking seafood. If a restaurant is known for really good burgers, order a f*cking burger.
And chicken alfredo is supposed to be bland. Unless they dumped a metric assload of salt in the sauce or used really good ingredients, that’s the way it is.
It’s like people who come to the Touch of Europe and order Walleye or Steak. Yeah, its on the menu, but really? You can get those two dishes in any restaurant in town.
One point mayor dave and the argus fail to explain to anybody. The reason Congress had to do something about this is places like First Premier Bankcard Sevices are completely out of control. I would like the Argus to just ONCE explain their fee harvesting operation and how it works. It can’t be that tough a job, yet they fail repeatedly to tell the story. I’ve had it with the place. The ONLY reason my dog goes down to the end of driveway and lifts the argus off the hook of the mailbox is so my wife gets her daily fix of “funnies”, because there obviously is very little within those ad riddled pages worth reading.
So here it is. What the argus finds as a real tough nut to crack. I wonder why?
Credit limit $250
Program Fee -$95
Account Setup Fee -$29
Participation Fee -$6 per month
Annual Fee -$48 per year
Total Usable Credit $72, before first purchase is made. It’s called FEE HARVESTING. Google it sometime. Good reading.
Needless to say, this FEE HARVESTING is hidden deep within the contract in size 1 font written in lawyerspeak. So automatically, most, if not all of the young, elderly, and questionable are drawn into the endless cycle of over the limit fees and hiked interst rates after the first month.
Predatory? You betcha. The argus has an obligation to expose this kind of shit, yet does nothing but praise sanford. KELO? The same. Of course there fancy weather radar system comes compliments of the fees they get for doing their three local newscasts… otherwise known as sanford infomercials.
And did you catch the argus story on sanford booting Sioux Falls Federal Credit Union, a reputable local bank, out of Sioux Valley Hospital so he could bring in First Premier? What a joke.
Sorry l3wis, I’m om on a roll here. Got no personal stake in what first premier or any of the credit card predators choose to do. I just know something bad when I see it, and this is certainly at the top of my list.
The media in this town are cheerleaders. That’s it. It is like the $18.5 million dollar bonds. NO ONE did a front page or major story about the bonds until they passed, THEN it was a front page story. There should have been a detailed story on the Sunday before on what the bonds were for and that there was a chance for public testimony. The Media has an agenda in this town. But Hey, KELO’s company, Young Broadcasting is going bankrupt and GANNET is gonna start bailing on newspaper’s real soon. Then finally, they will get it.
I read somewhere that the argus had until the end of this year to get their shit in a group. Of course, that will never happen. Then what I wonder?
They could stop putting free newspapers on my driveway once a week… that should save them a few bucks.
Then they can fire any food critic who uses the term “yummy” in their review, or a music reviewer who uses the phrase “best band to come out of Sioux Falls in a long time”. The third step is to stop editorializing and just report the friggin’ news. I do not need nor want opinion from the very people who are printing the paper. I don’t care that every other paper does it or that is the way it has always been done.
Then maybe they can get back to their policy of only printing one letter to the editor from a person per year. It seems like the same 20 people write in on a monthly basis to the point I’ve started recognizing them by name.
If they want to survive, they need to evolve.
I agree. I think if the Argus got rid of it’s ED Board editorials they would probably sell more papers. Their opinion is wrong 95% of the time, and secondly, no one give a fuck anyway.
I wonder how many newspapers have more than one food critic. When I read these reviews, it seems like almost every week a different one of their employees is the critic. I wonder just how much expertise these different employees have.
In journalism or eating?
They might be trying to find one who is a little more adventurous than Farley or Weinstein – maybe someone who won’t walk into a Vietnamese restaurant and order the most basic, americanized CHINESE-ish dish on the menu.
“The chicken alfredo was bland and tasteless”- Jana Farley
Yeah, it’s fricking Tomacelli’s, what were you expecting? A flavor party in your mouth?
Rule of thumb: when you go to a pizza place, order a f*cking pizza. If you go to a seafood place, order f*cking seafood. If a restaurant is known for really good burgers, order a f*cking burger.
And chicken alfredo is supposed to be bland. Unless they dumped a metric assload of salt in the sauce or used really good ingredients, that’s the way it is.
It’s like people who come to the Touch of Europe and order Walleye or Steak. Yeah, its on the menu, but really? You can get those two dishes in any restaurant in town.