**Heat plus corn, but no popping just bad jokes and old Republicans

Okay, I have stolen a joke from the newsletter South Dakota Magazine sends out now and then:

Feeling the Heat

This summer's scorching heat elicted some of the craziest "How hot is it?" jokes we've heard in years. The best was about three Swedes who settled on the Great Plains — one in South Dakota, one in North Dakota and the third in Canada. Many years later, all three happened to die on the same day, so their families decided to cremate them together. The Canadian became ashes in an hour. The North Dakotan was reduced to ashes in two hours. After three days in the fire, the South Dakotan poked his head out and said, "You know, another week of this heat and we won't have much of a corn crop."

—Excerpted from South Dakota's Best Stories

Reminds me of a story my father told about one of the really, really hardcore Republicans back in the days of  Franklin D. Roosevelt.  The Republican forever at whatever cost  lived in the Volin, South Dakota area..  The neighbor swore that even if he had to go to the corn crib for breakfast, he would never, ever vote for FDR, or any other Democrat ,  or ever support a "new deal" even if it would make him rich.

There might be a few fewer of that kind of South Dakota Republican left around, but I suppose that if there were none, we would be telling jokes about how cold it is in Hell.

***Stay tuned, a cooling front is said to be moving in by KELO weathermen, and we know they are never wrong.............about the temperature in Hell--- Doug Wiken