I'm Done with the Dakotas
South Dakota Senator John Thune (R) avoided a political nightmare today, when a commission decided to keep the Ellsworth Air Force base open. As mentioned before, Thune road in to Senate power on the promise of keeping the base open, so he saved some face. Personally, I now wonder if the whole thing was a political game, orchestrated to make Thune look like a hero.
The base employed 4000 workers, which made it the second largest employer in the state. Two thoughts on that stat: a) 4000 workers makes it the 2nd biggest employer? b) I love it....a Republican state depending on the big-bad Government to maintain employment....just hypocritical right-wingers feeding at the hand of big government welfare.
Finally, in other news from perhaps the most useless part of the country, the (North) Dakota Wizards of the CBA named Dave Bliss its new basketball coach. Dave Bliss is the disgraced former head coach of Baylor. When he was coach of Baylor a player killed another player. Bliss encouraged his team to lie about the victim and falsely portray him as a drug addict. This man has absolutely no business ever coaching again, let alone young men trying to make the NBA.
The base employed 4000 workers, which made it the second largest employer in the state. Two thoughts on that stat: a) 4000 workers makes it the 2nd biggest employer? b) I love it....a Republican state depending on the big-bad Government to maintain employment....just hypocritical right-wingers feeding at the hand of big government welfare.
Finally, in other news from perhaps the most useless part of the country, the (North) Dakota Wizards of the CBA named Dave Bliss its new basketball coach. Dave Bliss is the disgraced former head coach of Baylor. When he was coach of Baylor a player killed another player. Bliss encouraged his team to lie about the victim and falsely portray him as a drug addict. This man has absolutely no business ever coaching again, let alone young men trying to make the NBA.
By Chuck - 8/26/2005
2 Comments:
thune is an idiot, crooke, and lying asshole - but i don't think BRAC is political. those people have nothing to gain or lose by voting either way...
tim
Thune was on This Week this morning. The premise of the discussion was that Thune was back in the good graces of the administration and that keeping the base open was a sign of good will from the White House.
My favorite thing about the Dakotas is the "Corn Palace."
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