October 2009

So who are the 3,000 surveys being sent to? That's a mystery I guess.

Last time the city survey was done only about 900 people out of the 3,000 mailed back the surveys. Scientific? Ha!

A total of 3,000 scientific surveys will soon arrive in Sioux Falls mailboxes. They ask for information like how you rate the quality of life in the city, to how often you speak with neighbors and even if you feel like you get a good return on your tax money to the city. While that’s a wide range, city leaders hope it will narrow down their decisions for the future.

The 3,000 surveys are being sent out at random. But even if you don’t get one in the mail, you can still take the 2009 Sioux Falls Citizen Survey online. Those results won’t be scientific, but the mayor says both the e-survey and paper version will help shape the future of the city.

But who are the people getting these surveys? Good question.

Sioux Falls under 'General Distress'?

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“Let me clarify, the city is in poor financial shape, but we still have plenty of money for playgrounds and clubhouses.”

During the SF City Council informational meeting yesterday they were reviewing the levy bond sale (discussion occurs at the beginning of meeting). Supposedly the way they are written the city will get a huge discount (45% rebate?) through Federal Stimulus money if they consider the city in ‘General Distress’. While I am all for the discount (which I think should be 100% considering the levies are owned by the Feds not the city) I am a little concerned about the designation. You saw a complete Flip-Flop of the council in the discussion of the designation. Councilor Staggers questioned if the city was ‘distressed’ and if we wanted that designation. But councilor Costello claimed that our high unemployment rate and tax receipts down that we are trully distressed. I guess when we are building football fields and golf clubhouses our city isn’t ‘distressed’, huh Pat? But when we are getting discounts from the Feds we are distressed. You can’t have it both ways Pat. You are really starting to talk out of both sides of your mouth.

I personally think we are distressed, but I just find it hypocritical that our Mayor and his adminstration bragged all last year that SF was immune to the recession, and now that we are behind the eight ball and getting handouts from the Feds, all of a sudden we are distressed.

Give me a freaking break.

More proof that Karl Rove is a Big POS – The Max Cleland story

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Max Cleland  new book “How I Found The Courage To Survive Vietnam, Walter
Reed and Karl Rove.”

Listen to the story on Morning Edition:

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=113497762

He talks about how Bush — backed by Karl Rove’s political machine —
questioned his patriotism by airing attack ads that listed his votes on
homeland security bills that opposed President George W. Bush’s policies.

In the TV ads, those questions were accompanied by images of Osama bin Laden
and Saddam Hussein, followed by photos of Cleland that avoided depicting him
in his wheelchair — the visual and physical vestige of his service in
Vietnam.

“There are plenty of reasons to go after me, but my military service is not порно видео со зрелыми ogli порно
one of them,” Cleland says. “Especially when I was running against a guy
that had no service in Vietnam and got out of going to Vietnam with a trick
knee and multiple deferments. He somehow became the American patriot, and I
became somehow less than that.”