Yeah, like conservative Republicans don’t do coke. LMAO! They are the only ones that can afford it.

This whole thing makes sense;

We should be amazed at the wisdom some of our people have acquired in just the last year or so.

Our Republican members of Congress, along with some of their followers, and the so-called conservative talk-show people now seem to know just what our nation needs and doesn’t need. If only this wisdom had been applied a few years ago when we had a Republican president and Republicans held a majority in congress, we should have a perfect or near-perfect nation.

Recently, after hearing some of the remarks made by these conservatives commentators, I decided to tune in to segments of the programs on Fox News and am appalled to hear such vanity, truth-twisting, lack of civility and petty, childish nitpicking. These people are seemingly devoid of conscience.

I have to question the patriotism of those who seek only to criticize and seem oblivious to the needs of our people. They seem to have one thing in mind, to direct anyone vulnerable to their way of thinking. These people of doom would like for us to believe that President Obama, after only one year in office, is responsible for all of our nation’s woes.

The poor economic condition of our nation is due, in large part, to greedy corporations outsourcing jobs to other countries to enhance their bottom lines and to the recklessness of the last administration that squandered a healthy budget surplus left by the Clinton administration and billions more by allowing and even encouraging the misuse of capitalism. This misuse is otherwise known as greed.

I would rather pay taxes to improve the infrastructure of our nation and needs of our people than donate to further enrich purveyors of greed.

Who has time for those rotten bloggers?

I had to chuckle while reading Yvonne Hawkins ‘column’ in the Gargoyle Leader yesterday, she couldn’t resist to take a cheap shot at bloggers (even though the story had to do with the AL’s poor editing skills). Kinda reminded me of Lalley’s column last week where he couldn’t resist to take a potshot at Staggers about the Event Center, even though, Kermit has been the least vocal person about the topic. I think he has pretty much only said this, “Don’t raise taxes to build it.”

Had Steward showed up solely in the world of the blogosphere, he would’ve been just another fanatic fighting for attention in the din of loud rhetoric.

Am I a fanatic, Hell yeah!

–noun

But without fanatic bloggers like myself, who would keep the MSM in check? Let’s take the Franken Amendment about rape protections for Federal contractors, Thune voted against it. There wasn’t one single story in the South Dakota MSM media besides a short mention in the Rapid City Journal and a couple of letters to the editor in the Gargoyle Leader (with a letter of defense from one of Thune’s unidentified staffers). The National blogosphere was on fire about the vote. Thune even fired back, blaming bloggers for his vote. (which, what he is really saying is, Damn, I’m busted). This is why bloggers are important. Like I said to mayoral candidate Mike Huether, “I make observations and expect my readers to do further digging.” Do I say crazy shit? Sure. But I do it in hopes you will take the time to look into yourself. I get proven wrong on this site everyday, I’m okay with that, it’s called interactive journalism.

I also find it ironic that Yvonne would show her disdain for bloggers. I have provided the AL with several leads on important stories, a few that are still cooking right now. That’s right Yvonne, me the ‘fanatic’ supplying you content. I could go into detail, but I would rather not, the din of self-flattery might be too loud.

I have often chuckled about this;

Of the places where I have lived in the United States, some larger and others smaller than Sioux Falls, never have I previously encountered a local population and a newspaper so hellbent on referencing scripture in its opinion pages.

Letters to the editor are supposed to serve as forums to discuss civic issues. Quoting of biblical passages and televangelist-style Bible thumping such as the letter “Jesus will come again” in the Jan. 11 Argus Leader do nothing to promote discourse and belong in sermons and Sunday school classes, not the Voices section of the area’s largest newspaper.

Sioux Falls leaders like to claim the city is a growing and progressive place to live and raise a family. Unfortunately, some citizens and the Argus Leader insist on giving visitors and potential new residents the impression that the region is a backwater, hillbilly enclave of intolerant zealots, which I know to be untrue.

The reason the Gargoyle prints those letters is because they got nothing else coming in. Think about it. If the only two things you read is the Bible and the Gargoyle you would be a little ‘intolerant’ yourself.

#12 is interesting

Karl Rove’s chief IT consultant, Mike Connell—who was facing subpoena in connection with 2004 Presidential election fraud in Ohio—mysteriously died in a private plane crash in 2008.  Connell was allegedly the central figure in a longstanding plot to electronically flip votes to Republicans.

Kinda wonder if he was using the same private airline that Wellstone was?

Top Censored Stories of 2009/2010

• 1. US Congress Sells Out to Wall Street
• 2. US Schools are More Segregated Today than in the 1950s
• 3. Toxic Waste Behind Somali Pirates
• 4. Nuclear Waste Pools in North Carolina
• 5. Europe Blocks US Toxic Products
• 6. Lobbyists Buy Congress
• 7. Obama’s Military Appointments Have Corrupt Past
• 8. Bailed out Banks and America’s Wealthiest Cheat IRS Out of Billions
• 9. US Arms Used for War Crimes in Gaza
• 10. Ecuador Declares Foreign Debt Illegitimate
• 11. Private Corporations Profit from the Occupation of Palestine
• 12. Mysterious Death of Mike Connell—Karl Rove’s Election Thief
• 13. Katrina’s Hidden Race War
• 14. Congress Invested in Defense Contracts
• 15. World Bank’s Carbon Trade Fiasco
• 16. US Repression of Haiti Continues
• 17. The ICC Facilitates US Covert War in Sudan
• 18. Ecuador’s Constitutional Rights of Nature
• 19. Bank Bailout Recipients Spent to Defeat Labor
• 20. Secret Control of the Presidential Debates
• 21. Recession Causes States to Cut Welfare
• 22. Obama’s Trilateral Commission Team
• 23. Activists Slam World Water Forum as a Corporate-Driven Fraud
• 24. Dollar Glut Finances US Military Expansion
• 25. Fast Track Oil Exploitation in Western Amazon

And Progressive on the Prairie has a great link about censoring a book about censorship. Very odd.

A cute face is all you need these days to be considered a good journalist I guess;

VERMILLION — The anchor of the “CBS Evening News,” Katie Couric, has been selected to receive the 2009 Al Neuharth Award for Excellence in the Media.

Her selection has been confirmed by Jack Marsh, executive director of the Al Neuharth Media Center and Freedom Forum in Vermillion. The Freedom Forum presents the award.

I have never cared much for her as a journalist, on top of it all, her producers write most of her questions. You know, the really tough ones like,”What magazines do you read?”

I have often thought that our MSM in SD doesn’t ask the tough questions, or holds back when it comes to our politicians.

I would love to see these 3 debates between blogger and politicians:

Me vs. Munson

Cory at Madville vs. Thune

Pat Powers vs. Herseth

I think these debates would obviously have to be pre-recorded and edited, because of F-bombs.

. . . Do we trust a satirist over a journalist to give us honest reporting. Gee, maybe that’s why my blog is the most read political blog in the state (BAHAHAHAHA!). Kidding aside, I have always felt it is good to have a sense of humor when dealing with politicians, it’s like they write the jokes for me!

Since Walter Cronkite’s passing, new focus has been put on the decline of legitimate news sources in America. The big three networks have fallen the way of the corporate cable news/propaganda networks and people are turning to alternate sources like The Daily Show to get a little truth with their news. That’s why it came as no surprise that Jon Stewart was voted Most Trusted Newscaster In America in a recent Time poll.

Here’s the breakdown of the results:

Jon Stewart – 44%
Brian Williams – 29%
Charles Gibson – 19%
Katie Couric – 7%

Anoher successful brainstorming session at the Gargoyle Leader

I had to chuckle on Sunday when I saw this story in the Gargoyle. Theresa Stehly went to Randell Beck a few months back and suggested that the Gargoyle has a page dedicated to city government once a week and have opposing views and opinions from regular citizens on that page. Stehly not only offered up herself to write a column, she also volunteered up me. Beck never really gave a green light nor did he give a red light to the idea, apparently he just passed it onto his Executive Editor. Obviously the AL’s concept is different then ours, because if anyone can take a good idea and turn it to crap, it would be them.