Dakota War College continues to offer brilliant demonstrations of Newspeak. First, the SDGOP press release machine celebrates Martin Luther King Day by offering the Republican definition of diversity, derived from the host list for a fundraiser for Rep. Kristi Noem:
...you have Congresswoman Noem’s regular & notable supporters, including Ted Hustead, Steve Kirby, Peggy & Steve Stout, & Matt McCaulley.
But then you’ve got a number of other people. Corey Brown, Tim Rave, Brian Gosch & Dave Lust from the legislature, the Rounds campaign team of Bob Gray, Rob Skjonsberg & Jason Glodt, and Governor Dennis Daugaard
I don’t recall when I’ve ever noticed such a diverse group of people throwing a shindig of this nature [Pat Powers, "Legislative Leaders, Governor Daugaard... Noem," Dakota War College, 2014.01.20].
Diverse: rich Republicans and powerful Republicans. Right.
Maybe all those diverse supporters can help Noem with her laundry. Powers runs a photo that shows Kristi's husband Bryon is falling behind on the housework and declares Noem is "no different than the rest of us."
- The rest of us don't have family businesses propped up by over three million dollars in federal welfare payments.
- Very few of the rest of us show up for work for 160 days, get very little done (still no farm bill!), and earn $174,000. That kind of productivity gets the rest of us fired.
- Different than makes no more sense than green than or rich than. Use different from.
Despite his nod to "diversity", Powers loathes party activists who would dare bring any political ideas different from the platform of his own preferred conservative patrons. He complains that Ron Paul activists have taken over the Iowa party and failed to pay proper homage to the people Powers wishes still ran the party. Darned diversity!
Powers represents a South Dakota Republican worldview that revolves around their own conformity. They want to look around and see a party and a government controlled by people just like their narrow, comfortable slice of the ideological and demographic pie. They want to keep the pluribus away from their comfortable unum.
The Beast at Tanagra. Chenza at court, the court of silence. Uzani, his army with fists open.
Good Star Trek New Generation reference Larry
Darmok and Jalad on the ocean. Mirab, with sails unfurled.
And what do we South Dakotans get from a government controlled by Republicans with that same narrow, idealogical, demographic world view? We get the corruption Powers and Gant brought to the Secretary of State's office. We get misappropriations of taxpayer's hard-earned money, wasted on a beef plant that never had a chance of being successful.We have minorities being denied polling access despite plenty of funding to make that possible; we have the poor being denied adequate health care, despite, again, the funding to make that possible. They are problems that the powerful, narrow-minded elite in this state fail to even recognize.
Wingnuts are light years ahead of the times. They have solutions for problems that haven't been found yet. Or,maybe not.
How's this for diversity. I posted the above comment on the article about free concealed weapons permits and look where it ended up. That takes diverse skills you prolly never heard of, yet.
Wingnuts are so diverse-disoriented,that w/o naming names,I can pick their next presidential candidate(2016) by describing HIM as very rich,very white and completely clueless as to how folks live on less than millions of dollars per year. And don't forget he will lean far right,too.
Republican diversity, isn't that kind of like a oxymoron or something?
So IP am I getting your meaning right here? In Tamarian, you would say,"Kira at Bashi" Steve Hickey, "The beast at Tanagra." "Kadir beneath Mo Moteh." "Kiteo his eyes closed."
"Shaka, when the walls fell." "Sokath, his eyes uncovered/opened."
The Blindman
"The river Temarc in winter"
Temba, his arms wide.
Wašté
There I go mixing my languages again.
The Blindman
Speaking of Republicannibalism: Nebraska's GOP Senate primary candidates are going to have a public debate. How novel.
http://www.starherald.com/news/local_news/neb-gop-candidates-for-us-senate-to-debate/article_2c10268b-45c8-59ff-b380-663bb7209e36.html
Hey, how come our Senate candidates haven't done that? The Nebraska GOP itself is sponsoring it, several radio stations are broadcasting it live. Stace Nelson would love to do something like this; why isn't the SDGOP obliging?