Hilarious animation about global warming
l3wis I think I watched this 10 times in a row, my gutt hurts.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zyO8_as7k_0&feature=player_embedded[/youtube]
December 2009
Winter is here, I guess. Dumb.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n8v486aUYu0&feature=fvw[/youtube]
Mike ‘Jello Biafro’ Rounds solution to fixing the state budget; Kill the Poor
Ah, just kidding;
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sgpa7wEAz7I[/youtube]
Gov. Mike Rounds said Monday he will propose a state budget that focuses nearly all spending increases on providing medical services to residents who have lost their jobs during the recession.
The governor said he will ask the South Dakota Legislature to approve $52 million in additional spending in state general funds, with nearly all of it for the state-federal Medicaid program that pays the medical expenses of poor people.
What?! I thought Republican rule was bringing us all kinds of economic development to our state, how could people be struggling?
“We’re taking care of the very basic needs of people who really are down and out because of the national recession,” he said.
A recession that was caused by that jackass GW Dush and continued to get worse under Obama’s appointment of Geithner.
More than 22,000 people are now unemployed in South Dakota, while 110,000 people are in the Medicaid program, he said.
Rounds said since he became governor in 2003, 51 percent of increased spending has gone to Medicaid and other programs that care for the needy.
You heard right, almost 1 in 7 people in South Dakota are on Medicaid. Pathetic. This is the kind of leadership we have come to expect out of the Republicans, yet we continue to re-elect them to the Governor’s office. Unfcknblvable.
Stupid SF city council decision comes to fruition
I still think this was one of the dumbest city council decisions in a long time. In fact two councilors told me they were opposed to it, and still voted for it anyway;
The city of Sioux Falls is issuing $30.8 million in bonds to pay for higher levees and other flood-control measures along the Big Sioux River and Skunk Creek.
The bonds were to be issued earlier this year, but the offering was shelved because city officials thought the Army Corps of Engineers would get about $11 million in federal stimulus money to finish its share of the project. That money never materialized.
Sioux Falls officials decided to pay for the project after the Federal Emergency Management Agency expanded the flood plain in the city, meaning about 1,600 more properties had to have flood insurance.
The city is pledging sales tax revenue for the bonds but might eventually be repaid by the federal government.
First off, like I have said in the past, we shouldn’t be subsidizing the FEDS, and secondly, we should not be borrowing money to build bridges, it should be budgeted into our 2nd penny budget, but since that kitty is dry from buying rock and wood thingies at McKennan Park for Quen Be De’s favorite park it looks like we are behind the eight ball once again. I can’t wait for the insanity that will be caused by closing 41st street down to 2 lanes next summer.