2011

NO TAX SUBSIDIES TO THE HOMOS!

This is what a bigot looks like

Public input at last night’s council meeting couldn’t be hotter. Mr. Hartman (sp?) wanted to know why our tax dollars were funding cross-dressing AIDS spreaders at the Pavilion (FF 12:30). Bob Kolbe wants to buy silver dollars out of the city limits, and as usual, Tim Stenga has been ‘Talkin’ to a lot of people’ about zoos and dirt track racin’

ON a side note: I knew the drag show at the Pavilion would be controversial, and after I got off the floor from laughing at Mr. Hartman’s bigoted diatribe and misconceptions about homosexuals, I found a part of me asking the same questions. Why is the Pavilion putting on drag shows? Shouldn’t the Pavilion be exposing the community to the arts? Well believe it or not, I will defend the Pavilion on this one. Drag shows may not be your cup of tea when it comes to the high arts, but it is art, and I commend them for putting on the show.

As for Hartman’s assumptions about AIDs – grow a fucking brain – seriously. My great aunt and uncle died of complications due to AIDS. My uncle contracted the virus after a blood transfusion during heart surgery, and passed it to my aunt, through, I assume, hetersexual sex. He got the virus because this was before they were testing the blood for HIV, we can thank (probably Hartman’s hero) Ronnie Reagan for that. I have said some pretty assanine things in public, but Mr. Hartman, your comments take the cake.

“Impacting the Budget for Hungry People: Why? What to do? And How to do it?”

Thursday, Sept. 15, First Lutheran Church (Dakota Ave @ 12th St.). A training session led by Bread for the World staffer Tammy Walhof for all who want to help end hunger in the U.S. and around the world. 6:30pm optional soup & bread supper; 7:00-8:30 pm Training.  No fee. Free-will donations welcome. Local contacts: Nancy Olson 332-4350, Cathy Brechtelsbauer 335-6222.

Another State of Mind

I was watching this documentary the other day and came across this album tonight in my CD selection (some of his best work).

The two videos remind me of how (young) and old I am.

Mike Ness as a confused punk

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=92AoGbP8K9Q&feature=related[/youtube]

Mike Ness as a Rockabilly recovering drunk

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Qp80yiXQNE&feature=related[/youtube]

Slow news day? Stormland TV’s Lovefest w/ Mayor Huether continues

Don’t cry for Argentina Mike.

I guess there was no antenna tower elevators to climb or clouds to chase today. Stormland dedicated two stories to everyone’s favorite mayor. The first one is about his love affair with couches and predatory credit cards;

“When you’re in corporate America, there are days or weeks or even months where you’re being challenged to a level that you cannot believe. I reached a point in 1999 where if I didn’t do something, something really bad would happen to me in my health,” Huether said.”When you wake up on the couch and all of a sudden your wife comes in and says, ‘Honey, you got to go to bed,’ or we got to find a way for you to release this stress and anxiety. That was the wakeup call that I needed.”

Well if your wife is asking you to come to bed . . .

The other story is about his pipe dream of a profit making Events Center.

The mayor says the building will make the city money.

“I’ll look at you with a straight face and say, you bet it will. And who will reap the rewards? The people of Sioux Falls will,” Huether said.

I wonder if Mike used to sell ocean front property in Nebraska?

“Yeah, I just got in an amazing hang-ten surf ride in North Platte the other day! Cowabunga!”