Olson on Michelle Powers

Editor's note: the rotund wife of South Dakota's most hateful blogger laments the threats to Medicaid while her husband advocates for its demise. Shad Olson notices it, too.

In a recent series of screenshots shared to various facebook pages, folks are taking aim at Dr. Michelle Powers, wife of illiterate South Dakota TMZ-style gossip blogger, Pat Powers, criticizing Mrs. Powers' performance as Director of the Northern Hills Training Center in Spearfish.

In both anonymous and attributed comments, people with knowledge and experience of the organization's past and present deficiencies have accused Dr. Powers' of fostering a toxic work environment, degrading the overall performance standard of client services and most troublingly, fostering an environment that allegedly protects pedophiles and other sex offenders and witholds criminal evidence of child pornography and other sex related crimes from police.

Long the domain of far leftist social justice activism and far leftist anti-Christian bigotry, it's no surprise that social workers firmly attached to the state and federal teat are reflexively dedicated to protecting their money spigot, regardless of unfulfillment of intended services to the special needs community or alleged favoritism and defensive interference on behalf of people who are sexually attracted to children and consume imagery depicting the indulgence of pedophilic depravity.

Interested citizens are riveted to the story and are asking for a broader investigation both of working conditions at the NHTC and of the allegations of a staff track record of leniency for "clients" allegedly found in possession of pedophilia, including what could be South Dakota's own version of the "Laptop from Hell," said to contain child pornography, returned to an NHTC client, rather than local police, as required by mandatory reporting laws.

If proven true, these allegations should result in the swift and summary expulsion of the demonstrably dysfunctional leadership of Dr. Powers as NHTC Director. Simple and true.

Whether true or not, Dr. Michelle Powers' status as a suckling sow at the social services trough provides definitive context for the deluge of disparagement against fiscal and social conservatives offererd by the equally attached and equally porcine Pat Powers in his doxing, defamation, slander and other assorted attempts at character assassination of people he sees as existential threat to his wife's generous compensation package.

Context makes clear.

Pat isn't an instinctual leftist twit out of any ideological principal or policy preference. Pat is impersonating a Republican, posting on far leftist social platforms like Reddit and BlueSky, and rallying leftist social media flashmobs against South Dakota's MAGA thought leaders, because admitting he's a far leftist shill would relegate his constant smear attacks of the conservative brand to the irrelevant discard pile of the Trump deranged lunatic fringe where they rightly belong.

Pat's clear animus against outsider quantities like Aberdeen businessman and candidate for governor, Toby Doeden are not motivated by any real policy opposition or even political difference. A Trump-style South Dakota DOGE audit, long promised by the Doeden campaign could end Pat's personal gravy train with the stroke of a pen. Lips to God's ears.

With his incessantly shallow analysis that's forever light on substance, but odiferously heavy on the anal, Pat is just using his idiot mutterings and badly parsed articles as frontline protection of the household paycheck. Nothing more.

We should however, extend a compassionately congratulatory dose of sympathy in Pat's general direction for going at least five whole days without writing an article about his favorite legislative target, District 3 Representative Brandei Schaefbauer. Sources say that in the unlikely event that Pat can keep his understandable blonde obsession at bay for a successive week, Schaefbauer may once again feel comfortable removing the recently installed padlocks, logging chains and laser security system from her panty drawer.

In the wake of Pat's July publication of the Aberdeen legislator's home address, which came just five days before the tragic assassinations and attempt of same against mutliple Minnesota lawmakers, I still say Schaefbauer should have dusted for Pat's fingerprints just to be safe.

Sometimes installing security cameras just isn't enough.

Lynn KnappGood Neighbors of Spearfish

July 17 at 10:12 PM · 

Looking for people who have had experience with Northern Hills Traing Center disregarding state guardians and conservatorship court orders?? NhTC is showing some pretty shady colors and folks need to be aware of the goings on.

Christine Borninkhof Coolley

I'm going to jump on this post again and add some more interesting facts that have been occurring this week. Since this post seems to be getting under the skin of the administration for NHTC. 

The staffing are chosing to ignore history's of the folks they are helping, soliciting of sex,child porn off of social media, extortion, and exploitation. All have been heavily documented over the past 5 years,including police reports for verification. Staff, as of today has handed over a lap top computer with no supervision. All under the wording of "they have rights too". Last I checked none of those activities are even legal. And at what point do we prevent the protected people from harming them selves and the community around them?? Only if it doesn't directly effect you?? That seems to be the wrong answer for me. 

When does the madness stop?

Christine Borninkhof Coolley

I have had a protected person at NHTC for 7 plus years now.

How many horror stories would you like?? 

One the most wtf?? 

1. Sitting in a "team meeting" in a NHTC meeting room, the case manager, 2 department heads and myself, one of the department heads looks me right in the eye, and says "it's nice when we can pi$$ of the guardians enough to make them step back and not be a bother to us" then laughed. She was serious.

2. If you question anything that disagrees with their agenda, you will be labeled "difficult " "unprofessional" " vindictive ". 

3. NHTC has as of today violated a court order (State guardianship and conservator) twice in less then 30 days. 

4. Has put my protected person at risk of exploitation, extortion, there are safety issues,medical issues. 

I could go on and on.

Anna P. Marrs

It's a long shot, but nothing is impossible with God. Perhaps it's time for the NHTC, as an institution, be transfered to a church-based ministry. 

"Lukewarm Christianity has become so normal that Biblical Christianity seems radical."~Lon Solomon Ministry