2010

Mayor Munson fires Chief of Staff, Jodi Schwan . . .

“Who needs a sandwich?”

A city hall mole told me last night that Munson fired COS, Schwan yesterday. Which seems a bit odd, since she will probably be looking for a new job coming May anyway. I asked him if they could get any details as to why it happened so suddenly. He said that Dave told him;

“I just couldn’t figure out what she did. I know it was the end of my term and all, but it just kinda frustrated me. Besides going to lunch with me once in awhile and handing out sandwiches at the Event Center task force meetings, I was really couldn’t see what her purpose was. Heck, I even caught her on FACEBOOK one day chatting about Falls Park!”

Well, I hope Jodi got her resume in order by now.

BREAKING: Pat Costello pulls out of Mayoral race, donates his campaign money to bikini contest at his bar, Borrowed Bucks

In a bizarre twist of fate, a South DaCola foot soldier told me yesterday that Pat has pulled out of the race. He said, to my soldier;

After a 100 days, I really didn’t know what I was going to do, besides spending my inheritance and ordering hamburger buns, what do I know about running a city?”

Some of his big wheel donors seemed a little disappointed that he wasn’t giving there money back instead of handing it out as prize money. Dana Dykhouse said,

“Now if I could be the official photographer at the contest, I might not be so upset, but I bought Pat, and he owes me more then some trailer park queen in a bikini. How about a 79% interest rate credit card?”

Huether, his closest competitor was asked what he thought about Costello pulling out;

“Hey, wow, that’s a great question. You know, Pat pulling out, hmmm, wow. I know he is a candidate, and now he isn’t. I have been talking to the people of Sioux Falls, and now is the time for change.”

South DaCola Jewish post of the day (H/T – Rocco)

I would be curious how many Atheists and Christians have also won awards?

Nobel Prize Winners
The following are factual and verifiable statistics: The Global Islamic population is approximately 1,200,000,000, or 20% of the world population. They have received the following Nobel Prizes:

Literature:

1988 – Najib Mahfooz.

World Peace:

1978 – Mohamed Anwar El-Sadat • 1994 – Yasser Arafat

Physics:

1990 – Elias James Corey • 1999 – Ahmed Zewail

Medicine:

1960 – Peter Brian Medawar • 1998 – Ferid Mourad

The Global Jewish population is approximately 14,000,000 or about 0.02% of the world population. They have received the following Nobel Prizes:

Literature:

1910 – Paul Heyse • 1927 – Henri Bergson • 1958 – Boris Pasternak • 1966 – Shmuel Yosef Agnon •1966 – Nelly Sachs • 1976 – Saul Bellow • 1978 – Isaac Bashevis Singer • 1981 – Elias Canetti • 1987 – Joseph Brodsky • 1991 – Nadine Gordimer

World Peace:

1911 – Alfred Fried • 1911 – Tobias Michael Carel Asser • 1968 – Rene Cassin • 1973 – Henry Kissinger • 1978 – Menachem Begin • 1986 – Elie Wiesel • 1994 – Shimon Peres • 1994 – Yitzhak Rabin

Physics:

1905 – Adolph Von Baeyer  • 1906 – Henri Moissan • 1910 – Otto Wallach • 1915 – Richard Willstaetter • 1918 – Fritz Haber • 1943 – George Charles de Hevesy • 1961 – Melvin Calvin • 1962 – Max Ferdinand Perutz • 1972 – William Howard Stein • 1977 – Ilya Prigogine • 1979 – Herbert Charle s Brown • 1980 – Paul Berg • 1980 – Walter Gilbert • 1981 – Roald Hoffmann • 1982 – Aaron Klug • 1985 – Albert A. Hauptman • 1985 – Jerome Karle • 1986 – Dudley R. Herschbach • 1988 – Robert Huber • 1989 – Sidney Altman • 1992 – Rudolph Marcus • 2000 – Alan J. Heeger

Economics:

1970 – Paul Anthony Samuelson • 1971 – Simon Kuznets • 1972 – Kenneth Joseph Arrow • 1975 – Leonid Kantorovich • 1976 – Milton Friedman • 1978 – Herbert A. Simon • 1980 – Lawrence Robert Klein • 1985 – Franco Modigliani • 1987 – Robert M. Solow • 1990 – Harry Markowitz • 1990 – Merton Miller • 1992 – Gary Becker 1993 – Robert Fogel

Medicine:

1908 – Elie Metchnikoff • 1908 – Paul Erlich • 1914 – Robert Barany • 1922 – Otto Meyerhof • 1930 – Karl Landsteiner • 1931 – Otto Warburg • 1936 – Otto Loewi • 1944 – Joseph Erlanger • 1944 – Herbert Spencer Gasser • 1945 – Ernst Boris Chain • 1946 – Hermann Joseph Muller • 1950 – Tadeus Reichstein • 1952 – Selman Abraham Waksman • 1953 – Hans Krebs • 1953 – Fritz Albert Lipmann • 1958 – Joshua Lederberg • 1959 – Arthur Kornberg • 1964 – Konrad Bloch • 1965 – Francois Jacob • 1965 – Andre Lwoff • 1967 – George Wald • 1968 – Marshall W. Nirenberg • 1969 – Salvador Luria • 1970 – Julius Axelrod • 1970 – Sir Bernard Katz • 1972 – Gerald Maurice Edelman • 1975 – Howard Martin Temin • 1976 – Baruch S. Blumberg • 1977 – Roselyn Sussman Yalow • 1978 – Daniel Nathans • 1980 – Baruj Benacerraf • 1984 – Cesar Milstein • 1985 – Michael Stuart Brown • 1985 – Joseph L. Goldstein • 1986 – Stanley Cohen [& Rita Levi-Montalcini] • 1988 – Gertrude Elion • 1989 – Harold Varmus • 1991 – Erwin Neher • 1991 – Bert Sakmann • 1993 – Richard J. Roberts • 1993 – Phillip Sharp • 1994 – Alfred Gilman • 1995 – Edward B. Lewis

Solid Physics:

1907 – Albert Abraham Michelson • 1908 – Gabriel Lippmann • 1921 – Albert Einstein • 1922 – Niels Bohr • 1925 – James Franck • 1925 – Gustav Hertz • 1943 – Gustav Stern • 1944 – Isidor Issac Rabi • 1952 – Felix Bloch • 1954 – Max Born • 1958 – Igor Tamm • 1959 – Emilio Segre • 1960 – Donald A. Glaser • 1961 – Robert Hofstadter • 1962 – Lev Davidovich Landau • 1965 – Richard Phillips Feynman • 1965 – Julian Schwinger • 1969 – Murray Gell-Mann • 1971 – Dennis Gabor • 1973 – Brian David Josephson • 1975 – Benjamin Mottleson • 1976 – Burton Richter • 1978 – Arno Allan Penzias • 1978 – Peter L Kapitza • 1979 – Stephen Weinberg • 1979 – Sheldon Glashow • 1988 – Leon Lederman • 1988 – Melvin Schwartz • 1988 – Jack Steinberger • 1990 – Jerome Friedman • 1995 – Martin Perl