Lies, Lies, Lies, and the Liars that tell them
l3wis This is one of my favorite Trump political cartoons;
By Dan Piraro, 2016.
Sioux Falls Ding Dong Foundation
While looking thru my ‘Dacola Files’ (I have several boxes of notes, letters, postcards, email printouts, etc.) I found this letter sent to me. Pretty funny.
Mayor MisTaken monitors your FB comments
One reason I try to avoid political convos on Facebook is because the comments are a cesspool of crap. Mike Zitterich got this friendly email from the mayor about one of his comments;
Mike, I have always been nothing but cordial to you over the years, responding to your emails and never attaching your positions, but your comments online can be quite disrespectful toward me at times. Let’s do better than this. – Paul TenHaken, Mayor of the City of Sioux Falls, S.D
Mike made this comment (which I felt was harmless):
It’s pretty thin skinned to be monitoring peeps comments and emailing that your feelings are hurt. Mike did apologize and feels remorse, but I told him;
He’s not progressive, and that is why the comment pissed him off. He just put out a letter today saying he is not running for office after leaving as mayor. Pretty thin-skinned to be sending you emails about his hurt feelings. I would have left it. He is a politician, it was a political statement, and you are NOT family or close friends, so not sure why he got so worked up about it. He struggles with his responsibilities as a public servant, the main job is LISTENING to your constituents not sending them emails about hurt feelings.
Speaking of the Mayor getting out of politics and going into the private sector I think he will do political consulting and marketing. First off, I would like to THANK HIM for not running at this time for political office, you ARE not cut out for it. Secondly, Poops is really good at one thing, winning elections (mostly with lots of money) he just doesn’t know what to do when they win. I think he will have a very successful campaign marketing business.
As for Poops marching out the door, I guess quite a few directors are going with him, the rumor is that Cotter (Public works director) Thum (Police Chief) Bill Da’Toole (Human Resources) and Kearney (Parks and Rec) are retiring after Poops term. I guess it would explain why they don’t care about all the nepotism at city hall* There are also many others leaving. This is actually a good thing because the next mayor will be able to appoint his team. Not sure if the city attorney will resign or try to keep a job with the next administration? Either way, I think the next mayor should fire him 30 minutes after inauguration. It’s time to clean the Fiddle out of the Faddle at city hall. And don’t let the door . . .
*(Besides Cotter’s son getting the contract to install sculptures at the Pavilion he also got something else from taxpayers. It caused quite a stir in fleet. I guess if the city hires you to work in Fleet and you don’t have your CDL the city will train you for a Class B for FREE as long as you work for them. Cotter’s son took a short job with fleet so he could get his CDL for FREE, but it gets better, they trained him for FREE on a Class A CDL. If you want a class A with the city, you have to pay for that training on your own. And we used to think Councilor Erpenbach’s kid picking up branches for the parks department was a conflict.)
It’s time to end the miserable war in Gaza
First off, it is NOT a war. It’s a small group of terrorists getting pummeled by Israel. Some say this is about territory, and it partially is (Israel wants the whole peninsula) but let’s call a spade a spade, this is a RELIGIOUS WAR, it has been for decades. It thoroughly disgusts and angers me we continue to fund this war, whether that’s bombs for Israel or food aid for Palestinians, I don’t want my tax dollars going to this travesty and obviously a fight over how to spell GOD. I haven’t taken sides on this, because I believe both groups have committed heinous war crimes though Israel has piled up much more, and I think when this is over you will see multiple arrests by the international courts of both Hamas and Israeli leadership. Some say this may be the last chance Israel will have to take over the peninsula. But what comes of displaced Palestinians? This isn’t going to be over, they have been throwing bombs at each other for thousands of years and they will continue until they are both wiped from the face of the earth. I think America and the International community needs to walk away from this war and stop making me PAY to KILL and STARVE CHILDREN with my tax money. The irony of what Israel is doing to Palestinians kinda reminds of what a certain guy did to the Jews. So disgusting it just makes me nauseated.
More Public Art, another critique
My first critique of the sculptures is something everybody has been saying that have seen it ‘There is too much crap in that space and it just looks like the lawn sculpture garden on Cleveland Avenue’. Besides the overcrowding I would have done one of two things with the sculptures. The pieces themselves are beautiful and I think they will withstand the rigors of SD weather (I have a wait an see on that one, glass doesn’t do well in hail and subzero temps). I would have either spaced out the existing sculptures more or I would have made the bases narrower to make more space between the pieces. It goes back to the overcrowding in that space and it looks like the space between the pieces was compromised. But hey when you hire Mark Cotter’s kid with a lawnmower to prepare the site, what do you expect? I even saw them hauling in a bunch of trees today.
Speaking of city projects, looks like the ice ribbon is finally getting poured.
