South DaCola

Editorial Cartoonist from South Dakota

2011

Poetry The Ugly Table

The Ugly Table #43 (H/T – MH)

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CHEESECAKE LADY AND TOILET JESUS.

Lady: I will have a cheesecake and a cup of coffee, black.

Me: A piece of cheesecake?

Lady: No. A whole cheesecake.

Me: The whole thing?

Lady: Yes. And keep the coffee coming.

Shortly after she finished the whole cheesecake and six cups of coffee, she proceeded to the restroom with her large purse. I expected to hear an explosion of caffeine and dairy product. Not at all. She could be heard screaming muttered obscenities like ‘Fucking Bastard’ and ‘I fucking hate you.’

I can understand how that much sugar and coffee can affect you, but I was a bit concerned, so the (female) owner of the restaurant knocked on the door and asked if the lady was okay. When she opened the door she found cheesecake lady cursing an icon of Jesus placed in the toilet.

She was asked to leave.

(I know what your thinking, but this shit is true. I laughed about this for weeks.)

S. L. Ehrisman (c) 5/27/11

 

abortion Roger Hunt South Dakotans

What’s a life worth to Anti-Choicers in the state? About $20,000.

l3wis 10Comments

Doesn’t anyone find it ironic they have only raised $20,000 to combat HB 1217 lawsuits against the state?

Bill sponsor Roger Hunt, R-Brandon, has said private donors will step forward to cover legal expenses through the Life Protection Fund, which was set up in 2006 to help the state pay to defend previous abortion laws.

“I don’t think it’s a surprise to anyone that they’ve filed a lawsuit,” Hunt said. “We’ve been expecting this and preparing for it.”

In late March, the fund had a balance of just under $20,000.

About the same amount the average single mother makes in a year in SD, if that. They of course know that the state will have to pony up the money, which is mostly from sales tax revenue, on things like food, from these same mothers. If the anti-choicers were so concerned about LIFE they would be concerned about these children after they are born and the mother’s who have to raise them by themselves, through education and worker training programs. Nope, the same clowns who vote for this crap slash education, slash medicade, and vote against ending a food tax. I’m starting to believe more and more that the neo-cons never want abortion to be illegal, because they couldn’t use it as an issue anymore.

Kristi Noem

Snooki Noem is becoming quite the porker! (H/T – Helga)

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Open wide for your vittles!

After Promising To End Earmarks, Tea Party Freshmen Hog Defense Pork

This betrayal of Tea Party principles isn’t new for the freshmen members, who seemed to have discovered the benefits of cozying up to lobbyists the second they set foot in Washington. According to The Washington Post, GOP freshman Kristi Noem (SD) is just one of at least 13 new Republican lawmakers who hired lobbyists to run their offices. During her campaign, Noem railed against special interest groups for “throwing money at the feet of a member of Congress,” and made a big issue of her opponent’s marriage to a lobbyist. In their first few weeks in office, dozens of freshman lawmakers “had fundraisers to collect millions of dollars from lobbyists and other deep-pocketed interests.”

Dana Milbank noted that it was probably inevitable the Tea Party base would be betrayed, “but the speed with which congressional Republicans have reverted to business-as-usual has been impressive.” Hartzler’s novel justification — that the earmark moratorium doesn’t apply to defense spending — is revealing. Apparently pork isn’t pork if it’s for big hairy weapons systems. The unspoken reasoning is that the freshmen are confident they won’t get tagged for violating their pledge if they can spin it as being “tough on defense.”

They shouldn’t bet on it. A recent Reuters/Ipsos poll found that 51 percent of Americans support cutting defense spending to reduce the deficit. Nevertheless, the Tea Party freshmen’s rapid turnaround illustrates an unfortunate political truth: it’s only pork when your opponent does it


Event Center Sioux Falls

Skin in the Game

l3wis 10Comments

I sent this letter to the Argue Endorser, they rejected as I suspected with their usual excuse, TOO LONG;

I have watched the events center debate from the beginning, and city government in the same amount of time. I could tell you things that would make your head spin and your hair stand on your back. But since this is being printed in a newspaper that would rather hide controversy, I won’t go there.

There is many topics about the events center that have not been addressed or addressed too much but I will skip over the daily drum beat.

One topic that has not been addressed is funding. Sure, we throw ideas out there like horseshoes at the family picnic, but no one really cares where uncle Bob’s shoe lands. We can discuss bonds, higher entertainment taxes or even parking fees, but it really comes down to private donations if voters are willing to approve it.

As a citizen said at the Mayor’s ‘Listening and Learning’ session on March 26, 2011,

“in order to have any chance at all on a bond issue, you gotta have a wider community effort, the people that profit from this proposed events center should get some skin in the game.”

I think most regular Joes are like me, willing to sacrifice a bit if the big wheels are willing to give a little to.

Cricket, Cricket, Chirp, Chirp.

That’s the sound you hear from them.

It amazes me that they are the first to be in line in their freshly pressed suits to beg and plea for taxpayer bailouts at council meetings, while cracking jokes about Joe Six-Pack in the Carnegie Hall public bathroom (remember the 2nd penny getting raised to the full 2% to build roads for developers? One of the main supporters was making fun of Joe six-pack in the restroom, that night, and I heard it all).

They love it when the hardworking people of Sioux Falls supplement their incomes, but where are they when a big project like an Events Center needs their support? Hiding under a rock with their hands on their wallets like a bunch of cheap, greedy, cowards.

Do I support a new events center? Sure, on two conditions; the majority votes to support it and the elites open their checkbooks. Otherwise the whole plan can go to Hell.

 

South Dakotans

Imagine that, the Chamber of Commerce is spewing their typical crap over the corporate welfare law

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Imagine that, the President of the SD Chamber of Commerce is defending corporate welfare? Say it ain’t so!

The South Dakota Chamber of Commerce thinks the effort to repeal the new law is misguided, said President David Owen.

“Some of the rhetoric I’ve heard kind of lacks a fundamental regard for accuracy,” he said.

Huh? Sounds like a load of crap to me David. Let’s review;

The South Dakota Farmers Union announced its support of the Democrats’ petition drive last week.

“We need to be investing in our children and in agriculture, not giving away our hard-earned tax dollars to business. True economic development comes through education, not corporate welfare,” South Dakota Farmers Union President Doug Sombke said.

Yeah, what a bunch of rhetoric.

“In a budget year when we are slashing funding to education and Medicaid, a new slush fund for out-of-state corporations sends a horrible message,” said Ben Nesselhuf, chairman of the South Dakota Democratic Party.

Yup, more rhetoric.

Here’s the deal. The Chamber of Commerce represents businesses, not taxpayers or citizen workers. The only RHETORIC (bullshit) is coming from your mouth David.

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