It looks like I’m a regular! Patrick Lalley invited me on to his KSOO Radio program for another Tuesday afternoon conversation about South Dakota politics. This week’s topics: Kristi Noem’s accurate attack on Marty Jackley’s claim to have “created” the Internet Crimes Against Children task force and G. Mark Mickelson’s apparent out-steppage from the District 13 House race to spend even more time making money on CAFOs (which, incredibly, we managed to discuss without any jokes about cow poop).
Our two-segment conversation starts at 27:30:
Stick around after our talk for Lalley’s conversation with Jolene Loetscher, the coolest candidate in the Sioux Falls mayoral race!
Speaking only for myself, I’m thinking was I Jackley and had his record of not going out of his way to protect Native American kids from being placed or kept in white foster homes, I would probably be careful about bringing up children in any conversation. Even if it is just the Mette case.
Sounds like there needs to be some more coördination in efforts for reëlection. I would deëmphasize what they actually say, and focus on what they actually do.
If Mickelson isn’t running, someone needs ask him if he has bent Cafo rules far enough in his favor. It would only seem appropriate to mfi.
Meanwhile, on the national stage, Congress is debating the Fair Agricultural Reporting Method Act, which would exempt CAFOs from reporting air emissions. And Rep. Steve King, an Iowa Republican, recently introduced a bill that would facilitate the repeal of 10 years of local agricultural regulations.
https://www.motherjones.com/environment/2018/03/large-scale-animal-agriculture-is-threatening-rural-communities-congress-is-about-to-make-it-worse/
Kristi and Marty are regurgitating the Benghazi-like tempest republicans created slime-ing Al Gore over his supposed claim to have created the internet. https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/internet-of-lies/
he didn’t of course. marty did kinda, and Kristi is kinda right. much ado about idiocy right wing matters, and if Kristi winds up governor, or marty, instead of Billie Sutton, well then it will be like electing trump in SD. Misery and more of the same right wing red neck corrupt Koch bowing policy. Billie will bring us an opportunity to expand Medicaid, which Kristi is sharply against. HEALTH CARE.
Marty is all about guns, god and taking credit for not enforcing $30M Tobacco settlement on his watch after 18 years, and met with Trump, Vice President Mike Pence and U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions to discuss addressing violent crime, human trafficking and drugs from the country’s southern borders (IMMIGRATION).
By failing to elect HRC we are on the road to more war with Trump. The United States careered into one of the most cataclysmic, expensive and idiotic blunders of the last half-century: We invaded Iraq.
The financial cost alone to the United States will top $3 trillion, according to the estimates of the economists Joseph Stiglitz and Linda Bilmes, or about $24,000 per American household. Some 4,400 American soldiers died in Iraq, along with approximately 500,000 Iraqis, according to a survey and academic study.
The war helped trigger the Syria war, the genocide against the Yazidi and Middle East Christians, the rise of the Islamic State, the strengthening of Iran and a broader Sunni-Shiite conflict in the Middle East that will claim lives for years to come. WAR. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/21/opinion/iraq-war-north-korea-iran.html
Putting Pruitt at EPA, he denies global temperatures are now warming 20 to 50 times faster than during Earth’s fastest natural climate changes. Surface temperatures have warmed about 0.35°C during that time. satellite data estimates that the lower atmosphere has warmed 0.15–0.3°C over the past 20 years 2014, 2015, and 2016 each broke the record, and 2017 was the hottest year on record at Earth’s surface without an El Niño event. …oceans have continued to break heat records and natural thermometers like melting ice and earlier seasons have also continued to show signs of rapid global warming. CLIMATE CATASTROPHE. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-consensus-97-per-cent/2018/mar/19/john-kelly-shut-down-pruitts-climate-denial-red-team-but-they-have-a-plan-b
These three or four reasons ought to be enough to see the big picture between incompetent @RepKristiNoem (Feb 7 Best compliment ever: “It seems like this tax reform package was written by a farmer.” It was! (pic.twitter.com/Gt6RP9sZiJ)); and the Marty/Trump show– and liberal, progressive, Democrats leading the nation politically after 2018 elections.