interested party

Snarking up The Right's tree: a blue view of red state failure

3/23/13

Kristi Noem=Sarah Palin



Put yourselves in concrete Republican galoshes.
Posted by larry kurtz at 7:37:00 PM
Email ThisBlogThis!Share to XShare to FacebookShare to Pinterest
piled in red state failure, sd politics

No comments:

Post a Comment

Newer Post Older Post Home
Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom)

addenda

Get this Recent Comments Widget

Total Pageviews

  • ►  2026 (150)
    • ►  June (11)
    • ►  May (20)
    • ►  April (30)
    • ►  March (26)
    • ►  February (23)
    • ►  January (40)
  • ►  2025 (336)
    • ►  December (36)
    • ►  November (33)
    • ►  October (37)
    • ►  September (36)
    • ►  August (25)
    • ►  July (25)
    • ►  June (32)
    • ►  May (48)
    • ►  April (25)
    • ►  March (11)
    • ►  February (12)
    • ►  January (16)
  • ►  2024 (257)
    • ►  December (22)
    • ►  November (21)
    • ►  October (18)
    • ►  September (22)
    • ►  August (18)
    • ►  July (20)
    • ►  June (20)
    • ►  May (21)
    • ►  April (23)
    • ►  March (20)
    • ►  February (26)
    • ►  January (26)
  • ►  2023 (239)
    • ►  December (25)
    • ►  November (24)
    • ►  October (23)
    • ►  September (23)
    • ►  August (17)
    • ►  July (19)
    • ►  June (10)
    • ►  May (19)
    • ►  April (19)
    • ►  March (21)
    • ►  February (17)
    • ►  January (22)
  • ►  2022 (196)
    • ►  December (16)
    • ►  November (22)
    • ►  October (19)
    • ►  September (19)
    • ►  August (14)
    • ►  July (13)
    • ►  June (15)
    • ►  May (13)
    • ►  April (14)
    • ►  March (19)
    • ►  February (13)
    • ►  January (19)
  • ►  2021 (234)
    • ►  December (11)
    • ►  November (18)
    • ►  October (23)
    • ►  September (20)
    • ►  August (16)
    • ►  July (12)
    • ►  June (18)
    • ►  May (23)
    • ►  April (23)
    • ►  March (22)
    • ►  February (27)
    • ►  January (21)
  • ►  2020 (255)
    • ►  December (25)
    • ►  November (20)
    • ►  October (15)
    • ►  September (17)
    • ►  August (12)
    • ►  July (13)
    • ►  June (16)
    • ►  May (26)
    • ►  April (23)
    • ►  March (25)
    • ►  February (29)
    • ►  January (34)
  • ►  2019 (205)
    • ►  December (27)
    • ►  November (21)
    • ►  October (18)
    • ►  September (24)
    • ►  August (17)
    • ►  July (19)
    • ►  June (17)
    • ►  May (20)
    • ►  April (11)
    • ►  March (16)
    • ►  February (6)
    • ►  January (9)
  • ►  2018 (414)
    • ►  December (11)
    • ►  November (15)
    • ►  October (24)
    • ►  September (17)
    • ►  August (24)
    • ►  July (38)
    • ►  June (31)
    • ►  May (42)
    • ►  April (62)
    • ►  March (46)
    • ►  February (32)
    • ►  January (72)
  • ►  2017 (486)
    • ►  December (148)
    • ►  November (219)
    • ►  October (13)
    • ►  September (21)
    • ►  August (22)
    • ►  July (13)
    • ►  June (16)
    • ►  May (8)
    • ►  April (8)
    • ►  March (6)
    • ►  February (5)
    • ►  January (7)
  • ►  2016 (278)
    • ►  December (6)
    • ►  November (7)
    • ►  October (8)
    • ►  September (14)
    • ►  August (27)
    • ►  July (16)
    • ►  June (14)
    • ►  May (16)
    • ►  April (21)
    • ►  March (56)
    • ►  February (51)
    • ►  January (42)
  • ►  2015 (685)
    • ►  December (36)
    • ►  November (24)
    • ►  October (20)
    • ►  September (32)
    • ►  August (33)
    • ►  July (65)
    • ►  June (92)
    • ►  May (105)
    • ►  April (94)
    • ►  March (85)
    • ►  February (56)
    • ►  January (43)
  • ►  2014 (289)
    • ►  December (38)
    • ►  November (21)
    • ►  October (14)
    • ►  September (16)
    • ►  August (20)
    • ►  July (16)
    • ►  June (17)
    • ►  May (25)
    • ►  April (24)
    • ►  March (36)
    • ►  February (29)
    • ►  January (33)
  • ▼  2013 (333)
    • ►  December (41)
    • ►  November (38)
    • ►  October (12)
    • ►  September (12)
    • ►  August (9)
    • ►  July (6)
    • ►  June (11)
    • ►  May (28)
    • ►  April (39)
    • ▼  March (66)
      • 420: how to starve South Dakota's police to death
      • Clay, LawCo support marriage equality
      • West River bracing for water shortages, wildfires;...
      • Hot Springs joins Brookings as socialist community
      • Noem ally subject of ethics probe
      • High court muzzles drug dogs; Thune ally: cannabis...
      • Rounds, Daugaard administrations received many mil...
      • Sen. Johnson leading conservation efforts; KXL div...
      • Brendan Johnson sweat lodge experience life-changi...
      • Ketamine back in the news
      • Kristi Noem=Sarah Palin
      • Brookings still financing research park, earth hatred
      • Noem House seat vulnerable in 2014
      • Black Hills aquifers in big trouble; Minnesota hon...
      • Black Hills cougar population threatened
      • Tribal nations suing DSS, rejecting catholic "disc...
      • Lee CEO compensated for supporting right wing; Red...
      • Lay in a course for the Badlands, old man
      • Rounds nepotism radioactive to candidate
      • Life is good; day trip to Ojo recreated
      • GOP, Thune, Noem panicking
      • Sibson: catholics r satan (but so is everyone else)
      • Rep. Hoffman: transparency bad for business
      • Swain on Dakota Midday; Catholics love ObamaCare
      • Jackley and red state failure: SD polizei get more...
      • Lalley: more coming on South Dakota's violations o...
      • Brendan Johnson honored for advocacy
      • Tribes eligible for EPA funding
      • Jackley aiding, abetting Holy Roman Kiddie Diddlers
      • Andrew Shiers=Julie Gross (NE)
      • Go burn today then rewild the West
      • More earth haters want legalization
      • Drones patrolling FLDS; Brendan Johnson appoints p...
      • Pope Francis will be served subpoena; Native abuse...
      • South Dakota home to the obese, mentally ill
      • Daugaard worried about 2014
      • GOP responsible for Rapid City's violent crime hike
      • South Dakota tribes would govern as separate state
      • Gabel: wilderness essential to biodiversity
      • South Dakota's forced birtherism and school guns e...
      • Thune: producers willing to forfeit direct payment...
      • Joy of sects: Munsterman member of extremist NRA, ...
      • Jenkinson: teevee is hell
      • Don't forget to spring ahead
      • Native voters will save South Dakota, Montana from...
      • Confidence in Obama leadership stokes markets; Dak...
      • Thune joins Senate teabaggers as GOP splinters
      • Ag group heralds death of ag
      • Petition: Hy-Vee supports racism, misogyny
      • Noem daughter crappy driver, too
      • Rand Paul: local control key to legal cannabis, up...
      • Indian Country had champion in Chavez
      • South Dakota's best days were before European sett...
      • Bidder 70 to screen on Earth Day
      • Joy of Sects: Jackley diddles as Custer chronicles...
      • Thune, Noem donor product Roundup® a "threat to hu...
      • Cato Institute focus of dark money probe
      • Pelosi calls on FCC to expose GOP dark money; Adel...
      • As a matter of fact it's all dark
      • Capitalism killing California cropland...continued
      • Brookings cheese to rely on antibiotics, GMOs, bov...
      • More West River prairie slated for devastation
      • Turkey's Erdogan tells it like it is: Israel a rog...
      • Montana could spend $2 million to preserve native ...
      • South Dakota's war on women making national headlines
      • Kent: South Dakota home to environmental disaster
    • ►  February (43)
    • ►  January (28)
  • ►  2012 (309)
    • ►  December (18)
    • ►  November (22)
    • ►  October (21)
    • ►  September (23)
    • ►  August (27)
    • ►  July (27)
    • ►  June (23)
    • ►  May (23)
    • ►  April (27)
    • ►  March (30)
    • ►  February (32)
    • ►  January (36)
  • ►  2011 (337)
    • ►  December (29)
    • ►  November (18)
    • ►  October (19)
    • ►  September (13)
    • ►  August (21)
    • ►  July (32)
    • ►  June (36)
    • ►  May (31)
    • ►  April (35)
    • ►  March (33)
    • ►  February (37)
    • ►  January (33)
  • ►  2010 (158)
    • ►  December (24)
    • ►  November (25)
    • ►  October (25)
    • ►  September (20)
    • ►  August (22)
    • ►  July (15)
    • ►  June (11)
    • ►  May (8)
    • ►  April (6)
    • ►  March (2)
Earth (2123) red state failure (2033) sd politics (1802) us politics (1521) tribes (1153) I-25 (725) manifesto (658) public radio (607) cannabis (600) montana politics (372) wyoming (363) catholics (351) pix (341) montana (330) ip (263) basin (53)
My photo
Earth: Santa Fe, Black Hills and Rocky Mountains
kurtz is a mostly-retired builder who grew up in Elkton, South Dakota, attended SDSU and SDSM&T, loved thirty years in the Black Hills partnering with clients in hospitality and real estate development and a decade in Montana creating art-of-fact now living grid-free southwest of Santa Fe covering cannabis and the politics of the environment in the Rocky Mountain West. lawrence.kurtz@yahoo.com
View my complete profile

Most popular posts last seven days

  • Kewa Pueblo threatening area residents with road closure
    The Galisteo Dam was completed in 1970 by the US Army Corps of Engineers and built solely for flood control and sediment impoundment on the ...
  • IYKYK
    Lifted from Faceberg and signed @blackmailillustrations image can seen at 1309 Arenal SW in Albuquerque.
  • Forest Service throws a bone to the Great Sioux Nation
    The Black Hills are broken  because the white race steals the ground, plunders the resources, pollutes waterways, depletes watersheds, and e...
  • Sunday morning rez erection
    After my gruesome execution and resurrection I return to heaven and continue to create new souls in a state of Original Sin which requires ...
  • Christianic white supremacist Earth hater Ismay popped for Class 6 felony
    With short, fat, white Travis Ismay stalking county commissioners and patrolling Butte County for aliens it’s a wonder whether Belle Fourche...
  • Tribal nation trapped in South Dakota growing cannabis industry
    Washington and Nevada are the best states for cooperating with tribal communities planting the seeds of cannabis economic development but So...
  • SDGOP not so civil war drawing blood, flinging feces, hurting women
    I am no fan of Earth hater, Lee Schoenbeck because he helped to cover up catholic crimes against children and vulnerable adults so when a l...
  • Herb walks on
    "If your eyes are on the front of your head you eat meat. If your eyes are on the side of your head you are meat." -- Herb Hai...
  • Pe'Sla meeting pits sovereign nations against state government
    It’s not really South nor even really Dakota. Nearly twenty years ago Congress passed the Tribal Forest Protection Act when this columnist w...
  • GMOs are Monsanto and Syngenta scams
    Genetically modified organisms are manufactured by industry not to stem hunger but to enrich stockholders . hipneck is on full tilt about it...

In other news

  • The Colorado Sun
    What’s Working: Why hamburgers cost more today - Consumers yearn for steaks at lower prices. But demand is outpacing a shrinking supply. Plus: $250 bonus for young Denver workers, quantum-tech grants and ...
  • MS NOW
    I’m an openly gay sportswriter. Allowing athletes to protest Pride has a big silver lining. - Don’t be mad that athletes are shunning Pride celebrations. Be glad they’re showing us their true colors. The post I’m an openly gay sportswriter. Allowi...
  • New Mexico In Focus
    Happy Juneteenth — and a Blast from the Past - Suffice it to say the nostalgia was flowing like sweet tea on a hot summer day in New Mexico in Focus Land this week. With this week’s show airing on Ju...
  • WyoFile
    Judge backs Gordon on property tax cap question — for now - Meanwhile, the legal battle over a 4% tax cap passed by lawmakers is far from over. The post Judge backs Gordon on property tax cap question — for now a...
  • Ralph Nader
    Fatalities from Israel’s Vast Gaza Genocide Deliberately Undercounted - By Ralph Nader June 19, 2026 The mainstream media has no problem guesstimating the deaths (500,000) from the Assad Dictatorship’s Civil War in Syria, nor t...
  • Wildfire Today
    Significant wildfire activity heading into Juneteenth weekend drives National Preparedness Level increase - The National Interagency Fire Center increased the National Preparedness Level to PL3 on Thursday, marking a shift toward needed national support as the U....
  • South Dakota Searchlight
    We should transform a state watching the technology race to a state where the race is won - America is in a race, one that will define global economic leadership for the next decade. China is aggressively positioning itself as a center for artific...
  • Montana Free Press
    A century-old family-owned paper stops its presses - The Daniels County Leader will close next month after no one stepped in to buy the century-old family newspaper based in northeastern Montana. The paper...
  • www.bozemandailychronicle.com - RSS Results in news/environment of type article
    Proposed court order establishes framework for Rock Creek water management - A nearly year-long dispute over water rights in the Shields River basin is one step closer to reaching a resolution. Lawyers representing Crazy Mountain Ra...
  • Los Alamos Reporter
    LANL Director Thom Mason To Host Virtual Public Town Hall June 23 - LANL NEWS RELEASE New Mexico newsmakers and community members are invited to tune in for Laboratory Director Thom Mason’s first virtual Town Hall of the ye...
  • NM Fire Info
    Bear Fire Update – June 19, 2026 - Due to Increased Containment, Set Status Lifted for Residences Near Bear Fire Acres: 7,769 acres Start Date: June 9, 2026 Location: 18 miles southeast of...
  • Daily Montanan
    State officials settle on Laurel for forensic psychiatric facility - Despite pushback from neighbors, state officials made a final decision to build the 32-bed hospital on the edge of Laurel’s city limits. The 114-acre parce...
  • Turtle Talk
    California Superior Court Bars City of Corona from Disturbing Pechanga/Rincon/Soboba Ancestral Remains - Here is the order in Pechanga Band of Indians v. City of Corona (Cal. Super. Ct.):
  • Source New Mexico
    New Hermits Peak-Calf Canyon Fire documentary examines centuries-old wounds - A new documentary from a Taos-based director examines New Mexico's largest wildfire: the catastrophic Hermits Peak-Calf Canyon fire.
  • Democracy Now!
    "Another Wasted Life": Rhiannon Giddens on How Death of Kalief Browder Inspired Her Song - “Another Wasted Life.” That’s the name of a remarkable new song by the Pulitzer Prize-winning, Grammy-winning artist Rhiannon Giddens. She released a video...
  • News
    Colorado wins federal approval to import prescription drugs from Canada - The list includes drugs for diabetes, HIV, prostate cancer, Leukemia, cystic fibrosis, and inflammatory conditions, among other things.
  • Minnesota Reformer
    Gallery show highlights Minnesotans’ myriad cultural backgrounds - Architect and photographer Patricia Mutebi uses her new gallery show to illustrate the rich tapestry of Minnesota’s immigrant and Indigenous communities. “...
  • 14ymedio - Portada
    Cafecito informativo del viernes 19 de junio de 2026 -
  • Nebraska Examiner
    Planned grocery store aims to not just feed but uplift historical heart of Omaha’s Black community - OMAHA — Carolyn Williamson’s thoughts rolled back to the glory days of the North Omaha historic business district, before the late 1960s riots when jazz cl...
  • High Country News
    If you can’t find a Utah peach this year, climate change may be to blame - Record-breaking spring heat followed by freezes led to 95% crop losses. The post If you can’t find a Utah peach this year, climate change may be to blam...
  • Environment – Mother Jones
    Grok Is More Important Than Clean Air, DOJ Says - The federal government intervened Monday in a Clean Air Act lawsuit in which people in Memphis, Tennessee, and Southaven, Mississippi, are suing Elon Musk’...
  • News : NPR
    In photos: The Knicks celebrate their first NBA championship in more than 50 years - The New York Knicks celebrate their NBA championship win with a ticker tape parade in Manhattan.
  • Arizona Mirror
    Arizona voters will decide 10 GOP-backed ballot measures in November on schools, elections, taxes - When Arizona voters go to the polls in November to decide who will be the next governor and hold the other statewide offices, they’ll also get to weigh in ...
  • Colorado Times Recorder
    New Guide Aims To Guard Against Deception by Petition Gatherers for Ballot Measures - With less than six months to go until the 2026 election, the forecast shows a high chance that Coloradans will have another long ballot this year. Hundre...
  • Colorado Newsline
    Affordability tax credit likely not available for Colorado families in next two years - A tax credit for low-income families could be turned off for the next two tax years, state economists announced Thursday. That’s because state revenue will...
  • The Hotshot Wake Up
    Nation Moves To A PL3: Human Remains Found After Washington Wildfire. Incendiary Devices Found At Wildfire In Colorado. Helicopter Cockpit Fire During Bucket Drops. - Full operational update.
  • The Pugilist with Alisa Valdes-Rodriguez
    SURVEILLANCE IN AMERICA IS ABOUT TO GET A WHOLE LOT WORSE - A defense contractor is selling technology that enables license plate reading cameras to also sense driver and passenger phones, laptops, and even pet micr...
  • The Revelator
    Amid National PFAS Frenzy, the ‘Maine Model’ Shows States How to Stop ‘Forever Chemicals’ at the Source - As the federal government continues to water down PFAS protections, states have an opportunity to help their residents — but only if they avoid certain p...
  • South Dakota News Watch
    Fact brief: Can Democrats change parties and vote in the SD Republican primary? - South Dakota is one of about 10 states that are in a partially closed primary system.
  • The New Lede
    Hog farmers reject push to undo state animal welfare standards - A coalition of family farmers, ranchers, and independent meat companies launched a campaign to pressure the Senate Agriculture Committee to drop the Save...
  • South Dakota Voices
    Elected Officials Ignoring Voters and Calling Them Names. Why? - Arrogance, distain, and disconnected seem to be the new norm.
  • Coyote Gulch
    The razorback sucker needed saving. The feds, high schoolers and a baseball team stepped in — #Colorado Public Radio - Click the link to read the article on the Colorado Public Radio website (Sten Sieg). Here’s an excerpt: June 12, 2026 On a recent warm night, a batter crac...
  • Stateline
    More Americans are hungry in the face of federal cuts, rising grocery prices - The days of ground beef and chicken legs are long gone at the Ritenour Co-Care Food Pantry just outside of St. Louis. The nonprofit has swapped out those s...
  • The 19th
    Many cancer survivors can’t breastfeed. Insurance often doesn’t cover alternatives. - Erika Nyhus thought she was done having children. The mother of two had required medical intervention to become pregnant in the past, and she’d been told t...
  • NDN COLLECTIVE
    All Nine South Dakota Tribes Pass Resolutions Supporting Developing Legislation To Return Federal Lands: Lakota Nation United in Effort for Black Hills Federal Lands Return - FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Tuesday, June 9, 2026 Rapid City, SD –All nine South Dakota Tribes have voted to move forward... The post All Nine South Dakota Tr...
  • South Dakota Democratic Party
    We Must Protect Our Water & Cultural Sites - Column by District 30 House candidate Bret Swanson
Show 10 Show All
Picture Window theme. Powered by Blogger.