South DaCola

Editorial Cartoonist from South Dakota

August 2009

Healthcare Healthcare reform Town Hall Meetings

Letter writer nails it on Town Hall meetings and our SD Washington Delegation

l3wis 0Comments

I couldn’t have said it better myself;

This is a note to all senators and representatives of all political persuasions: You work for us. We employ you. We pay your salaries. We have a right to meet with you in scheduled town hall meetings to voice our concerns directly to you. And you have a responsibility to meet with us and listen.

I have said this at council meetings several times, but they seem to think that once they are in office, their obligation to constituents is over with, hardly, once you are sworn in that is when your obligation starts.

I blame special interest money in this country for why politicians have gone astray, it runs rampant just in Sioux Falls alone, RAMPANT! Public funding of campaigns will solve a lot of problems.

C Street

More on the ‘C’ Street Mafia from Helga

l3wis 2Comments
The current Gov. of SC is still grist for the mill.  Now the story is that Maria of Argentina fame is in SC and he is off on a weekend with her while he does his weekend warrior duty.  I don’t know who fitsnews.com is but all of his other news stories are today’s news.  And then when one goes to the State newspaper, all the commenters are talking about the Gov and Maria.
And one last funny thing, the Christian Broadcasting Network is defending C Street House.  They have saved marriages we probably don’t know about.
Helga
Christian News Show Poses The Real Question On C St.: How Many Affairs Has It Thwarted?

By Zachary Roth – August 14, 2009, 1:33PM

Here’s some summer Friday fun.

The right-wing Christian Broadcasting Network does damage control for C Street, explaining that the real question isn’t, how many affairs were covered up, but rather, “how many affairs were thwarted.”

Where’s Maria?
“It’s three o’clock in the morning … do you know where your governor’s lover is?”

Obviously, that’s not how that expression goes, but Maria Belen Chapur – the Argentine beauty who made international headlines earlier this summer when S.C. Gov. Mark Sanford admitted to having an affair with her – could be closer than you think.

Much closer.

In fact, sources tell FITS that Chapur has been in South Carolina for “several days” now, first staying at a guest house on the governor’s Coosaw Plantation in Beaufort County and most recently staying at “a friend (of the governor)’s house in Columbia.”

That progression would certainly fit with what we know of the governor’s schedule over the past few days. Sanford spent last weekend on his plantation in Beaufort County before returning to Columbia on Monday evening for meetings with constituents.

On Wednesday, Sanford denied a report published here on FITS that he was “contemplating” moving Chapur into the Governor’s Mansion, which was vacated last Friday by S.C. First Lady Jenny Sanford and the couple’s four boys.

While issuing his denial, however, Sanford refused to give a straight answer as to whether or not he had been communicating with Chapur.

Could this be why?

According to his public schedule, Sanford leaves today for a weekend of Air Force Reserve duty in Panama City, Florida.

Best part: In a moment which gets at the, um, tensions inherent in a religious-based journalism enterprise, anchor Gordon Robertson applauds C Street for its secrecy, which, he says, allows it to minister more effectively to its members. Says Roberston: “God bless em!”

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Granny’s Wonderfully Beautifully Informative Email from Bush-Bunny

EggBert 1Comments

 Hi there:

My Granny Gumption got this just wonderful & factually forecastable & informative email from her half-cousin, Barbara Bush-Bunny Moulton from Walton’s Mountain MoleHill, SD:

This is a Great Picture from the future year of 2012 and the guy with his back to the camera seems to know what he is talking about.

So I said to him back in 2009, “Barack, I know U.S. Healthcare issues,

and you ain’t got know U.S. Healthcare issues!”

—- Signed, President John Randolph Tune, 2012

Needless to say, I laughed so hard at this inspiring email that my pre-hypertension blood pressure shot up a few feet – ha, ha, ha, urp, blort. Doesn’t this absolutely stunning painting of these God-fearing, Honest-to-Goodness, Heroic, Republican white men just make your loins light up?
Sincerely,
EggBert T. Justice & primary care provider, 1st Premium Big Penny Sanford & Son Farmicuticals, Inc.
shit found

Fire the Mutha Up! Bad inventions Part II

l3wis 0Comments

A few days ago, I told you about my neighbor who I called crazy.  I still think it’s nuts that he has taken a lawnmower deck and attached it to a trailer 50″ off the ground…  It’s what he calls a hedge trimmer.

But I met Ray today and asked him about his invention.  He told me that he is an old man an he needs to keep his hedges trimmed, but the old way was destined to kill him.  He lives next to a busy highway in Yankton and he thinks it’s important to have a buffer between the street and his house.  But because his hedges are so big, he was forced to stand on a trailer and have his daughter drive it ahead while he ran the hedge trimmers.  As he got older, he would lose his balance when his daughter accelerated.  He told me he almost broke his neck once and had to come up with a better solution.
He said he hasn’t really thought about how much time he’s put into the contraption.  He feels it’s very safe.  In the original pictures I shared ( http://hanten.posterous.com/a-sign-you-have-a-crazy-neighbor ) you probably noticed there is a little mesh grate at the bottom of the trailer.  I learned today that this actually attaches to the back of the riding lawn mower to protect his head from any branches.
I asked him about the sides of his hedges.  He said he’s been searching for an Old Lawn Boy mower that doesn’t have a separate fuel and oil tanks.  Then, he believes, it could be rotated to do all sides of the hedges.  He also looked at getting a sickle mower, but those were pushing $600.  “I could hire it done for that.”   His other memorable quote was, “This isn’t for everyone.  If you had somebody running it who wasn’t watching it every second, they’d probably kill themselves.”
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