Archive for June 17th, 2009

Wednesday, June 17th, 2009

South DaCola Followup; Family Park

Without little fanfare the city council and mayor accepted another white elephant gift (see below). I have covered the progress of this park before, and before that. Sure the park will be wonderful, but not only will it be very expensive to maintain (I’m guessing over a million a year), it takes 51 acres of [...]

19 Comments » - Posted in SF City Council, Sioux Falls, Sioux Falls Parks and Rec by l3wis

Wednesday, June 17th, 2009

Quick Sketches

No Comments » - Posted in Cartoon, Cheney by l3wis

Wednesday, June 17th, 2009

When sick pigs fly

No Comments » - Posted in Biden, Cartoon, obama by l3wis

Wednesday, June 17th, 2009

Come check out Rocco’s car at Automania tonight!

This is Jesse’s (Blues Bashers guitarist) 1970 Dodge Coronet RT 440. It is similiar to the Super Bee, without the wing in back. They are kind of rare. He bought the car about 12 years ago here in SD and took the motor apart about 8 years ago to get more horsepower (it’s up to [...]

7 Comments » - Posted in Autos by l3wis

Wednesday, June 17th, 2009

Why are the NEO-CONS so afraid of Obama-san?

Because he’s a god damned NINJA, that’s why!
I guess PETA is furious too… making it even more AWESOME!

1 Comment » - Posted in You Tube, anger, obama by Angry Guy

Wednesday, June 17th, 2009

Oh the irony . . .

After Angry Guy posted a link to the above picture today, it got me thinking about a post Dakotawomen did a few days back about the media’s obsession with Beth Ditto’s weight instead of her talent;
On NPR’s website, former Sleater-Kinney guitarist/singer Carrie Brownstein discusses press coverage of The Gossip and their lead singer Beth Ditto, which focuses [...]

6 Comments » - Posted in Irony, Women's health, shit found by l3wis

Wednesday, June 17th, 2009

Freedom’s strongest front in Iran: Twitter?!?!?

 
Ever since Iran’s presidential election a few days ago, there have been massive protests in the country’s urban centers. While the government has been successful in shutting down most communications coming out of the country, they have thusfar been unable to quash the thousands of tweets coming from the protestors.
Helping the twitterers out by setting [...]

7 Comments » - Posted in Censorship, Civil Rights, Internet, Iran, Mideast, Twitter, You Tube by Ghost of Dude

Wednesday, June 17th, 2009

Finally, a Republican that knows the difference between tang and twink

2 Comments » - Posted in Cartoon, Ensign, Sex by l3wis

Wednesday, June 17th, 2009

The only thing 'asinine' is how the city enforces code violations

City Attorney, Shawn Tornow, puts the ‘ASS’ in ‘ASININE’.
Dan Daily FINALLY got his day in court after spending thousands of dollars of his own money and the city probably spending well over $100,000 to fight a $300 dollar violation;
In a daylong hearing, Dan Daily’s lawyer tried to paint a picture of the city’s record-keeping on [...]

6 Comments » - Posted in Sioux Falls by l3wis

Wednesday, June 17th, 2009

Fire Dave Letterman

This is funnier than the tea-bagging in April.

At the ‘Fire David Letterman’ Rally

Posted to New York Magazine by jgreen on June 16, 2009

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38 Comments » - Posted in Palin by Comoprozac