When there’s flooding republicans get together and (with help) fill a single sandbag.  The problem at Pierre is an opportunity for media  time.  DoorStop (Daurguard) gets his face on the news.  So that’s what the default governor looks like.  Thune shows up with a bomber jacket and every hair in place.  Ever notice how the camera shoots him from chest high so he looks taller and less skinny.  There’s video of the state welfare mom (Noem) flying around in a helicopter.  The last time I flew with a token PR woman was to Deer Mtn. (12,000′) near Steamboat CO.  She nearly got us killed because the pilot was showing off with a full load at high elevation.  Helicopters struggle above 10,000′.
Here’s an idea.  It’s complicated for republicans so s-l-o-w and say PORK (aka diverted federal tax dollars) often.   BUILD ANOTHER DAM; somewhere between Fort Thompson and Pickstown, somewhere to put more water, and somewhere that’s rural but mostly flood plain.
‘DO A DAMN DAM WITH PORK FROM BILLS OBAMA WANTS PASSED’
It’s common sense like PORK for breakfast.  How about hydroelectric so it’ll pay for itself and so we don’t have to raise food or ship coal for energy.  Next year could be drought.  Maybe some irrigation to raise PORK feed.  The Missouri River through South Dakota has more shoreline (both sides) than the west coast of the US.  Add more and build parks with tourist trap stores where they sell PORK rinds.  Jobs during construction and created thereafter!  What do jobs have to do with PORK?
I only cussed once and I got in some politician PORK roast.  SouthDaCola is the only site where there’s freedom of speech and circulation outside from sewing circles.  The Argus screens all but canned or properly biased material.  How do you get into the KELO web site?  PORK is better digested with some COLA.
Dan Daily
I scratch my head about some of these ‘Poor little rich people’ on Stormland TV crying that their McMansion might flood and they didn’t buy flood insurance. Huh? You built a home on the shores of a river and didn’t buy flood insurance? It is kinda hard for me to feel sorry for you. I have always noticed that about the rich in SD, they are always on the cheap because they like the ‘appearance’ of being rich. When I lived in Washington state it was popular to have a lake cabin, well guess what, everyone who build a lake cabin built a bulkhead. Some people would spend twice as much on the bulkhead then they would on the cabin itself. Why? Because they didn’t wanna clean water and mold out of their cabin every spring. What a concept? Huh? The other day at work they were collecting money for Joplin residents. I didn’t give any money. I said, “I feel really bad for these people, but when you build your trailer in tornado alley, these things happen.”
Nice work, Kristi!
http://www.argusleader.com/article/20110525/VOICES09/105250319/Noem-cannot-have-it-both-ways?odyssey=tab|mostpopular|text|FRONTPAGE
I thought the same way last night while watching the extended story of the family sandbagging their half-million dollar mansion near Yankton.
Are people really that dumb, cheap or both?
I hope they can save the golf course. That was designed by Arnold Palmer, you know.
That’s my favorite non-alcholic beverage.
Every home they have showed on the news has looked like higher end homes. It isn’t just people that build on a river, I think the same about people that have lake homes. Then there are the “poor” people down at Dakota Dunes.
Oh yes, the first time I heard on the news that Mike Rounds and his wife were concerned about their new home in Fort Pierre, I sat here thinking get busy and start sandbagging like other people are doing. Then the next night they showed all kinds of people there, helping the Rounds family sandbag. Poor people!
nice letter!
I hope all them flood victims are Repubs! Serves Rounds and the rest of them people that live in nice houses right!
Lemming – Trust me, I don’t wish ill harm on anyone, even the rich. I just think that the ignorant deserve what is handed to them. If you build a house on a pile of icecubes in July you get what you deserve.
I’m sure Rounds sold himself some flood insurance on the old place.
One young man was whining on the Yankton site I created on Facebook about how “Lake residents have to fend for themselves!!”
OR
Lake/river residents benefit from their neighbors busting their asses all day and night to fill sandbags for your pompous “it won’t happen to me/look at my house on the river/it’s your fault God is punishing all of Yankton due to your entitled ass voting against the opt out” asses.
Shane Gerlach
Exactly, Shane. KELO needs to stop treating these people like they’re heroes. Take the camera crews back up to Pierre and Ft. Pierre and cover those who potentially will lose everything they own. I don’t care about those who may have a tax write-off for next year.
Governor Rounds asked everyone to pray for rain back when South Dakota was in a drought. He forgot to ask everyone to stop praying, like he was the Sorcerer’s Apprentice.
last night kelo showed a bunch of high school girls from yankton sandbagging a $200,000+ river front house of their gym teacher, while she sat in her car and watched. i can see why that opt out failed.
That is some truly Janklovian oversight.
Then there are the Blackhawk helicopters dropping sandbags down at Dakota Dunes.
“He forgot to ask everyone to stop praying, like he was the Sorcerer’s Apprentice.”
🙂
I was watching KTIV from Sioux City tonight. Their coverage of the flood is serious and professional. None of this Precious Moments bullshit like we have to suffer here in “KELO-LAND!”.
Maybe they could make a figurine of Doogard and Rounds holding a sandbag.
You also wonder if the National Guard would be dropping sandbags to protect a trailer park?
Flood projections from the USACE:
http://www.nwo.usace.army.mil/html/op-e/maps.html
The thing that the normal citizen voter isn’t seeing is all the back stabbing and lying that is probably going on between, State, Federal, CORPS and military. I can about imagine what these back door meetings are like.
As someone said to me moments ago, a mini-disaster is about to happen.