Last updated on 2019-04-18
Governor Kristi Noem wouldn’t recognize government waste if it happened right outside her window:
Pssst, Kristi! All that white stuff you’re watering? It’s water!
Maybe watering the snow is meant to flush the predators out to the traps Kristi had young Booker set up across the street so he can make some extra money for college.
Does Kristi do the lawn mowing? Fertilizing? Or is this just a simple blog post of anti-Kristi?
Wow….
Govt waste? Have you looked at the Federal Govt? Or is that just Republican’s fault?
Geez, Steve, if she can’t handle the small stuff, like watering the snow, how will she handle the big stuff, like who should be able to use which bathroom, or how to create more pheasants, or who can be trusted to grow hemp, or… She’s gem, all right!
So, Steve, you really don’t have any rebuttal, do you? Or do you really think that the person in charge of the government bears no responsibility for errors of the government?
But come on, Loren, maybe we should cut Steve some slack. After all, I’m sure Steve Pearson doesn’t hold Benghazi against Hillary Clinton or Barack Obama….
One Pierre observer indicates that the Capitol grounds crew was just blowing out the lines to get them ready for actual watering later. They’ve got to learn to do that stuff when we aren’t walking around with our cameras. ;-)
What does Benghazi have to do with this? Really? We’re gonna go with this post about watering and say it’s legit? WOW
Steve…democrats are unable to have a conversation with hard core right wingers without being beat down with falsehoods of “HRC is a crook” or “emails” or “Benghazi” for many years now, and we feel none of this chaos, climate crisis and nuclear crises with both NK and Iran, and now Saudi Arabia, would exist if HRC was president. Steal enough presidencies (Carter, Gore, impeachment of Bill Clinton, Russian hacking and propagandizing HRC) and SCOTUS seats (Thomas, Garland, Gorsuch and Kavanaugh) and scorched earth obstruction of the 1st Obama term during the Great Recession he inherited, and then attempt to destroy the ACA in every way possible though ineffectual, and start enough wars (Iraq I, Iraq II, Afghanistan, Syria/Iran), and you will get stiff blowback from Dems. Like Trump, Palin and now Noem, insert foot in mouth over and over invites criticism like this. Hip shooters are shallow thinkers and awful models for our future leaders. Awful. That’s what deplorable means. Your president is an absolute and ignorant bigot in everyway hiding behind the enormous power of the office. Noem is taking his lead. Worst of all, you, and your politicians sing the chorus “no collusion-witch hunt” or are too afraid to say the emporer has no clothes.
The extraordinary cost to the nation and world is a direct result. So watering the snow is par for the course where Trump, Noem and the rest cheat at golf and at government, lie because they are incompetent, gerrymander, wall-off, distort law enfocement and the judicial system, change congressional rules, abuse congressional power, take hostage, kidnap, aid murder, all to grace the billionaire class. Your guy shouts “you lie”. Then you cry about bringing up Benghazi and critique of your nepotistic governor. That you don’t understand, or are ignorant of the political past, but then insist WE are the “mob”, the “spys”, the radicals, the anarchists, the anti-patriots, ect. When you figure out our democracy is based upon compromise, and not scorched earth politics and manipulative devious messeging, then we will have a civilized society.
Cory writes:
*you’re
(I still make this mistake sometimes too.)
Oh, that made me laugh.
Thank you!
After Leslie’s scorched earth, but accurate, comment, some watering is probably necessary.
Lawn irrigation lines are blown out in the fall so they won’t freeze. I was unaware they are also blown out in the spring. Why? If anything is getting into the lines there must be some leaks that need repaired.
Sorry about that, Kurt! Thanks for the proofing—I have corrected the grammar!
Hey, I’m sorry, don’t blame Noem. This is a decades long issue. When I lived in Pierre in the 1980s this waste of water was a problem that rankled me. It might rain two inches at night, but the sprinklers would come on at 8:10 am no matter what. There are “smart” irrigation systems now that take into consideration how much soil moisture there is and calculates how much extra water is needed.
Right, Don. And there is also the “kinda smart” or “less dumb” systems that simply use a gutter-mounted rain gauge to do the same. It’s become a pretty standard and common add-on for even the cheapest residential set-ups. It isn’t expensive at all.
Irrigation in general is actually pretty wasteful, as it relates to water use. Especially treated and chlorinated water. It accounts for a large majority of our water use, both Ag and Urban. Small changes in irrigation efficiency will make a huge impact in water conservation, if anyone still cares about such things.
Drought cycles and now climate change will clamp down seriously on water waste. Flood irrigation lowered Pactola 55’ in 1989 and a 30 year water plan was established. 30 years ago. That institutional knowledge exists still at West Dakota Water Developement District, but private engineers RESPEC and SDSMT are interalia recreating the wheel studying piped MNI WICONI water under various annual professional, unending contracts while city sprinklers still comeone during spring/summer/fall downpours.
As your next Governor, I promise to xeriscape the Capitol grounds and reduce groundskeeping water usage by all state agencies by 50%.
Helenium, sedum, grasses, joe pye weed, amsonia, pentsemon, butterfly weed, black-eyed susan, firebird coneflower.
Maybe you could put in some geothermal heating and cooling for state buildings while you are at it.
Great Idea! Hell, while you’re at it, create some pheasant habitat on the capitol grounds as a demonstration of the state’s commitment to keeping its title of “pheasant hunting capitol of the world”… I’m sure the state employs plenty of experts on creating and maintaining said habitat.
I never heard what happened to the Hilger’s Gulch native plant plans Daugaard had, but that gulch is close to the Capitol Building. My plan would extend that native plant landscaping down to the Capitol grounds.