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Delusional

l3wis October 9, 2024 6Comments

I like how the debate started; Trump is a racist.

I was enjoying a beer with a friend the other day at a local watering hole and we overheard people talking about the presidential election, and my friend says to me, “I don’t have time for people who are still undecided.” I said, “Heck, I voted 2 weeks ago.”

Speaking of early voting, I have been doing it for around 15 years because I got tired of musical precincts and trying to figure out what polling place to go to. I vote in every election so the polling places change depending on the government entity. It is super annoying and something that needs to be fixed because I think it has contributed to low voter turnouts. Either way I had the (mis)fortune of getting our auditor to help me with my ballot envelope. If you early vote, you know the drill. You show up, you show them your ID (and your face 🙂 and sign the envelope. In 15 years NO ONE working the polls has questioned my ID or my signature, then walks in Ms. Conspiracy Theory herself. She looks at my ID and me, that should be enough, right? Not good enough for Leah, she says to me, “Your signature doesn’t match your driver’s license.” First off, Leah knows who I am, why would I FAKE my own signature, I’M STANDING RIGHT IN FRONT OF YOU!!!!! Secondly I informed her that the DMV encourages you to sign your name spelling it out legibly, but I told her, that is not how I really sign my name (though I sign the first letter of my name the same all the time). Now, I get it, if this was a mail in ballot, and they had to verify my signature by viewing my DL image that would be a problem, but I WAS STANDING RIGHT IN FRONT OF HER! If Leah got her drawers in a bind over this, I have a feeling election night in Minnehaha County is going to be a nightmare. Is it November 6th yet?

Sanford updates wellness patrons

l3wis September 19, 2024 6Comments

So Sanford sends out updates to patrons and this was their latest;

The City of Sioux Falls Parks & Recreation department continues to take necessary steps to finalize the purchase of this facility. We understand you may have seen news regarding the pause of the aquatics bond, which originally included the Tea-Ellis purchase agreement. The decision to pause that bond does not impact the sale, and we remain committed to working closely with Parks & Recreation to transition operations from Sanford to City of Sioux Falls no later than Jan. 1, 2025.

Yeah, this deal was inked over a year ago, but nice excuses.

UPDATE: Glad I could be of assistance

l3wis August 29, 2024 9Comments

UPDATE: It was brought to my attention yesterday that the main reason the city is nervous about the elimination of the food tax is it will affect their bond rating which will hamper the city’s ability to bond for play palaces. While this should be concerning to the citizens because it will also affect borrowing for stuff we need like sewer plants, it is really about the bonding companies, or should we say the ONLY bonding company in SD, losing revenue, and they are doing summer salts trying to stop this.

ALSO, a local seasoned journalist reached out to me after reading this post and AGREED that most of the supposed journalists in town are out to lunch.

One of my favorite things to do is to post something that I know the local media doesn’t have a clue about then wait about 12-24 hours while the media crafts a story around one of my blog posts. Which I updated yesterday at 2 PM but was originally posted late Tuesday night. My first comment was Wednesday morning at 8 AM, long before our local MSM even gets out of bed.

I do always check the local MSM sites to see if any of them have reported it, and if so, HOW? Half the time they beat me to the punch, but leave out important details.

I also ‘LIFT’ from the local media, but NOT to get the news story, just to editorialize it, so THANK YOU.

I want you to know, this ain’t hard hitting journalism, I am an editorial blogger and could care less who covers what. I simply dropped a text to a councilor and they told me what was going on, heck, I even sent the text while riding bike.

What I find ironic is our lazy butt journalists in this town will IGNORE my leads or go TATTLE TALE to the administration and help them cover something up, like perjured campaign forms at the School District, then wait for Detroit to post something then try to create their own BS story around my blog post. Just look at KELOLAND’s story, I might as well have wrote it for them!

Here are some more ‘LIFTS’.

ARGUS

PIGEON605

I think it is sad that three of the largest media groups in SF decided just to wait while that Toad at DaCola posts something. How do I know they are ‘lifting’? Because I have gotten texts within minutes of a post from some local journalists asking me questions.

So while I am a whiner, it also seems I am a pretty good source for your drivel.

Next time you want to ‘lift’ something from me, why not drop me a line and find out what I ‘really’ know. I often tell folks about 75% of my leads never get posted because I can’t get the local media to help me dig around.

Do you guys get paychecks? It makes me wonder sometime if these folks are volunteers because they ain’t working real hard.

Why do some British people not like Donald Trump? By Nate White

l3wis August 27, 2024 8Comments

This guy described DT in just a few paragraphs. Golden.

“A few things spring to mind. Trump lacks certain qualities which the British traditionally esteem. For instance, he has no class, no charm, no coolness, no credibility, no compassion, no wit, no warmth, no wisdom, no subtlety, no sensitivity, no self-awareness, no humility, no honour and no grace – all qualities, funnily enough, with which his predecessor Mr. Obama was generously blessed.”

It’s the little things

l3wis August 26, 2024 1Comments

I thought this was a clever way to manage E-Bikers;

“We needed to do something about it immediately,” said South Lake Police Chief Brian Tholen.

With very few statewide regulations on e-bikes, Tholen teamed up with city leaders to address concerns and draft a new ordinance that requires e-bike users to wear helmets. By requiring helmets, he said his officers have more authority to stop riders and address various safety concerns.

I always wear a helmet and recommend others do the same. This is similar to the seat belt law. In Washington state when they implemented the law, they made it so officers could pull you over for a seat belt violation.

While I am a big advocate for helmet use, it should only apply to the street riding.

Had a brief convo with a local journalist about this, and he thinks that the city and mostly state need more guidance on where to ride these things. While I agree it would be helpful to have actual e-bike rules and regs when it comes to road riding, I also don’t think we need to make laws that are trying to fix a problem that doesn’t exist. I also fear if licensing and registration is required it could be a detriment to low income peeps who use these bikes for work commuting. It’s bad enough we have a transit system with many options except any that actually make the riders lives better.