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UPDATE: Noem attends Pride!

l3wis June 10, 2024 2Comments

UPDATE: Forgot to mention Pride being held at the Canaries stadium. Several wondered why there was no alcohol at the event. I always assumed they wanted to make it more family friendly, but that was NOT the case. Besides being charged an atrocious amount for rent of the facility they got NO staff from the Canaries. SF Pride had to staff the entire event and I guess the Canaries said NO ALCOHOL since they would NOT be providing staff to serve it. Now, SF Pride could have taken out a temporary license for the event, but that takes a little planning.

I was shocked to see Kristi during Pride festivities. Cricket didn’t look so good.

Drinking Liberally UPDATE

l3wis June 10, 2024 1Comments

I used to post these, and I am going to start again. It’s the weekly state of politics according to Sheldon, enjoy!

In politics: Nationally: Per polling to date, Trump’s felony conviction has had only a small effect on the Presidential election in November. It is hard to believe that only a small portion of the electorate is bothered by the thought of having a President with a finger on the nuclear button who is ineligible to purchase a firearm in most States.

In South Dakota: The main stream wing of the Republican Party suffered a solid defeat in the primary elections held last week. Fourteen incumbent Republican legislators were replaced by insurgent and, generally speaking, more conservative (MAGA-like) candidates. The South Dakota Democratic Party (SDDP) might have been able to take advantage of this rightward drift of the GOP if they had fielded a full slate of candidates. Unfortunately, the SDDP handicapped itself by running Legislative candidates in only 52 of South Dakota’s 105 legislative races, one of the SDDP’s poorer candidate recruitment efforts in recent memory. They will have to wait until next year as they say in sports, or the next election cycle, as they say in politics.

The SDDP will hold its State Convention next week and it is long past time form it to reflect on its current direction. Democratic registration continues to decline, breaking the support level of 144,000 as of June 4th, ending with 143,993 registered Democrats, down 250 since May 1st against a Republican registration gain of 1239. The is the 10th consecutive month Democratic voter registration has declined. Over this time period, which just happens to coincide with the current SDDP leadership’s recall of their State Chair, Jennifer Slaight-Hansen, the Republican plurality over Democratic registration in South Dakota increase by 10,096. As I often repeat, the voting public in South Dakota is not buying what the SDDP’s current leadership is selling.

I wish I had better news.

You have got to be kidding me!!!!

l3wis June 9, 2024 6Comments

So when the Proud Boys wanted to sponsor a street dance in Scotland a few years back, the city was like, “Come on down.” Until Frankie and the other towns folk said, “Get lost.”

So this garbage happened yesterday in the state capital. Should not surprise us. Our state government has ran on a racist agenda for decades, it’s just out and about and on display.

State Representative Will Mortenson commented on X, “Hearing reports about Nazis marching in Pierre. I don’t know that rock they crawled out from under, but they are not welcome here.”

Hey Will, it is the ROCK you and your fellow legislators have created over the past 60 years so don’t act all surprised when these A-Holes arrive in Pierre.

Cops on the Rec Trail

l3wis June 6, 2024 7Comments

The police have been patrolling the bike trails to check speeds and E-Bike classifications. Only E1s and E2s are allowed. E3s and any other electric mobility devices that are not for ADA use are NOT allowed.

Make sure your E-Bike classification sticker is visible for police if they stop you. If you don’t have a sticker the police WILL look up your bike online to see the classification.

They are also checking speeds! Which is great! Remember the speed is 15 MPH. I have settings on my bike so I set it at 13 MPH, I recommend everyone else does the same. Always use extreme caution when passing others.

We have to exhibit to the council over the next year that as citizens we can handle the responsibility of riding an electric bike on the rec trail. If you want to horse around or haul ass, take it to the streets!

The uninformed public

l3wis June 5, 2024 5Comments

Probably one of the main reasons peeps did not vote in the city election and recent primaries is because the government doesn’t engage them. They have no clue of what is going on so why vote?

I will give you an example. I like to ride around town at night and look at public/private partnerships. It is intriguing to me how some partners really take it one step further and some just cash the check and say, oh well.

So I was riding on the river greenway tonight by the Steel District project admiring the cheap exterior elements 🙁 and some random dude in a random car (not security) told me I needed to leave the PRIVATE property. I told him it was NOT private property and pointed to the greenway while I was sitting on a public street attached to a parking ramp that got a $25 million dollar TIF.

He wanted to argue, but I informed him I was sitting on public property and had every right to be there. He didn’t know what to say except, “This is private property.”

It just goes to show just how little the general public knows. We are paying for that patio, we are paying for the infrastructure, we own that damn project whether we like it or not yet some clown in a random car needed to somehow school me. Poor fella.