February 2013

Get your ‘CHICKEN’ ON!

Poultry Crawl planned for Sioux Falls

The First Annual Poultry Crawl is set for February 25.  Participants will enjoy a progressive dinner where with a poultry appetizer, entrée, dessert and complementary wine at East Bank downtown restaurants K’s, Sanaa’s, and Josiah’s.  The event will start at K’s at 6:00p.m.  Tickets are $25 per person and must be purchased by Feb. 22.

Diners can mingle with farmers who can answer questions about how they raise and care for their poultry.   More details on the Poultry Crawl and to register, click here. Please contact Kelly Nelson at Ag United for South Dakota with questions at (605) 336-3622 or Kelly@agunited.org.

The Ugly Table #75

Passive Postcard

First you pull the PC out of your purse (promoting your new business) and lay it next to you on the table.

When I come back, I notice it is laying in the middle of the table.

When I come back a 3rd time, it is laying at the end in the corner (I still have said nothing about the PC, and neither has Ms. Passive).

I come back to give you your bill and the PC is now propped up against the salt & pepper shakers. You still say nothing about the PC or the business you are opening just a few doors down from our restaurant.

When I return you give me your credit card with your business name prominently on the card.

After you leave, still not saying anything about your business, the PC is in the check book with your CC slip and a $4 tip (dinner for two).

Way to promote your business! Good Luck!

Scott L. Ehrisman (c) 2/16/2013

Tea Party Was Created by Big Tobacco and Billionaire Koch Brothers (H/T – Ruf)

I know I have wrote about the formation of the Tea Party in the past and their connection to the Koch Brothers, but this is a new revelation. Birds of a feather, I guess;

A new academic study confirms that front groups with longstanding ties to the tobacco industry and the billionaire Koch brothers planned the formation of the Tea Partymovement more than a decade before it exploded onto the U.S. political scene.

Far from a genuine grassroots uprising, this astroturf effort was curated by wealthy industrialists years in advance. Many of the anti-science operatives who defended cigarettes are currently deploying their tobacco-inspired playbook internationally to evade accountability for the fossil fuel industry’s role in driving climate disruption.

The study, funded by the National Cancer Institute of the National Institute of Health, traces the roots of the Tea Party’s anti-tax movement back to the early 1980s when tobacco companies began to invest in third party groups to fight excise taxes on cigarettes, as well as health studies finding a link between cancer and secondhand cigarette smoke.