Pastor Crazy Pants
Johnny Roastbeef This sermon is probably NSFW.
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2009
The speed of stupid? Fastidious.
l3wis I’ll have to admit, this is the longest rant about one of my posts. First off, I am satirical, so I use potty-words, especially when comes to people like Bob Ellis and ironic Johnny, and secondly, Thune’s testimony can be summed up very quickly; Him and the GOP have no plan for healthcare reform besides tax credits, which is not reform. Tax credits already exist, and if they worked, we would not need reform.
Have a chuckle on me;
We pay, now, the price for what is the best medical industry in the world.  And take this into consideration in its fullness:  our infrastructure, our research, and our treatments, together, all have a price tag that is far larger than that of other countries, to be sure.  But other countries pay $0 for the investment that is the research cost that we pay with our dollars and time.  They only pay the price of the new “treatment†as it is in the current system (excluding factors like tariffs, export taxes, government regulations, etc.), whereas each time we go to the doctor, in addition to paying for the services rendered, the cost of investing in the best health care system in the world is included in our bill.
BAHAHAHAHAHA! Yeah, we pay twice as much as other industrialized nations and rate 35th. Even Cuba who pays their doctors $30 a month has a less infant mortality rate then us. Keep spreading the bullshit, and you teabaggers will get your way. Thank goodness there is no Hell, because they would reserve a special room for you.
FIDDLESTICKS!
Go figure, the one year the SD Festival of Books is in the Black Hills instead of Sioux Falls, they get David Cross as a guest! Road trip anyone? Maybe Fleming will put me up for the night?
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3 days. 1 city. More than 50 top authors.
David Cross, Pete Dexter, Dan O’Brien, Gary Schmidt, Linda Hasselstrom, Ron Carlson, Robert W. Larson, Obert Skye, Rodes Fishburne, Quincy Troupe, Elizabeth Lynn-Cook, Craig Childs, Jill Esbaum, Don Montileaux, and many, many more.
UPDATED: Is the City of Sioux Falls using Home Rule once again to skirt state law? Not sure.
UPDATE: READ COMMENT #17 FOR CLARIFICATION
A downtown business owner told me an interesting story last night that is strangely not being covered in the local media. In fact this was the first I heard about it. I am a little short on the details, and I don’t have links to the state law code, but this is what I remember from the conversation;
According to state law you cannot sell alcohol on public property without a proper permit, some call it a ‘Tavern Permit’. But SOME downtown businesses have been breaking this law ever since the city started selling patio permits for places like Stogeez. As I understand it, it is okay for someone to drink alcohol on the patios if you are legal age, you just can’t purchase the alcohol on the patio. In other words, it is legal to go to someplace like Stogeez, go indoors, buy a drink and then sit on the patio and drink it, it becomes illegal when a server comes out on the patio and sells you the drink and brings it to you. Why? Because it is public property, not private, and according to state law the silly permits that the city sells, do not cover the tavern clause.
How did this all come about? The owner of Buffaloberries has a patio, and she follows the law, but she noticed that other bars and restaurants downtown do not. So she filed a complaint. But here’s the kicker; he city knows that it is illegal (or I suspect they do) because they are in the process of writing a tavern permit ordinance. But in the meantime, they are using the ‘Home Rule’ excuse that they do not need to follow state law. Okay, if that is the case, why are writing a new ordinance if you think you are exempt?
I want to be clear, I am not blaming the business owners, the city is the one who enabled DT business owners to break the law. Should the business owners know better? Sure. But the city shouldn’t be defending the practice when they know it is illegal.
The city needs to admit they made a mistake, fix it and move on. But as usual they make excuses for their mistakes.Â
I need a drink.