Archive for January 23rd, 2009
Friday, January 23rd, 2009
“You can eat all the meat, just leave me with the gristle.”
You know the cowboy hat trend? The Supersuckers started it, not a bunch of gay fashion designers in New York.
Forget everything you know about Rock & Roll. Forget about AC/DC, Sabbath, The Stooges, The Stones and Detroit rock gods The MC5. The Supersuckers embodied all of this in one single album.
I first heard this record [...]
No Comments » - Posted in Uncategorized by l3wis
Friday, January 23rd, 2009
SD is the Rushmore state . . . but what does that mean? We better advertise and let the rest of the country know.
I’m sure you noticed that Rounds didn’t make one single cut to tourism in his budget. His argument is tourism brings in $26 million to the state (I would like to know whose ass he pulled that number out of). For the sake of the argument, let’s suppose that’s true, but who’s to say if [...]
5 Comments » - Posted in Mt. Rushmore, Rounds, South Dakotans, State Funding, State Legislature, State Tourism by l3wis
Friday, January 23rd, 2009
BLUES BASHERS – TONIGHT!
No Comments » - Posted in Blues Bashers, Music by l3wis
Friday, January 23rd, 2009
Bickering? More like cussing and swearing!
Mike acts like he is the headmaster and the legislature is the students in detention;
“I feel good about having a legislative body that I think will want to work together to get things done,’ Rounds said. “I’m sure there will be some bickering.”
If I was them, I would throw your Shit Sandwich budget back in your [...]
No Comments » - Posted in Rounds, State Funding, State Legislature, Taxes by l3wis
Friday, January 23rd, 2009
How about cutting some no-bid contracts Mikey?
Not all of Mike Rounds cuts are a bad idea (though most of them are). The biggest disappointment is that he has cut only one FTE (and it was a good program). I broke down how I feel about them;
GOOD CUTS
- Catastrophic Correctional Health Care, $800,000.
Not sure how you budget for catastrophic health care. I [...]
10 Comments » - Posted in Rounds, State Funding, State Legislature, Taxes by l3wis
Friday, January 23rd, 2009
The Boston Globe has series on photos from 2008
See all of them here.
(ABOVE) A rescue helicopter prepares to hoist aboard surviving Japanese climber Hideaki Nara near the summit of Aoraki Mount Cook in New Zealand on December 5, 2008. A Japanese climber stranded for six days just below the summit had died just hours before rescuers reached him and a compatriot, local media [...]
