Dakota Today

**South Dakota ..Ins and outs going anywhere

Apparently even Black Hills cougars or mountain lions have heard about the SD GOP policies of garbage in and graduates out. A cougar decided apparently after some kind of advanced cougar degree in the mountain school of hard knocks took off for what seemed like something better...only to be shot in Chicago.

The story from Chicago and a photo of the "crime scene". Not sure how long this link will be any good however.
NWL to Black Hills Cougar travels 900 Miles?

Searching for Black Hills Cougar via Google turned up a site with a big pdf file from SD Game Fish and Parks and SDSU. I borrowed part of a good image there. You might want to look at the original and the information there as well.
NWL to Easter Cougars SDSU/SDGFP PDF

Below is some Dakota Today editorial use of the good image.

On the other hand, the Omaha World Herald today April 17, 2008 has an article titled "Tax Scofflaws--14,000 Nebraska cars registered in Iowa, S. Dakota". Hmmm? Build a crappy license and tax system and they will come. Be nice if they also paid sales tax on those "South Dakota" cars.

Actually, there are crappy laws in Nebraska and South Dakota...both in one way or another exploiting the poor for the benefit of the very rich...but then, graduates for South Dakota colleges and universities just like Mountain Lions, can go anywhere from here...and cars can come here from anywhere.

Now, I gotta go outside and shiver since as indicated in a previous post, I had my ears lowered a couple of inches.

***Stay tuned for more of the South Dakota ins and outs sooner or later, taters--- Doug Wiken

**Dakota Today--Mountain man, Mountain goat

With the weather in South Dakota on a roller coaster of warm to frigid for the past weeks and months, I have delayed on getting a haircut and neglected shaving. We might say it is a winter hair situation. But, even the Jackrabbits are loosing their white winter hair, and I will have to get a new drivers license from the great state of South Dakota. My wife didn't think forcing viewers of the photo ID to decide if the image was a mountain man or a mountain goat was a really good idea. So, you can see the before and after image below.

Unfortunately, unlike the jack rabbit, my winter hair and summer hair stays the same conspicuous old geezer white. Looked like the barber was sweeping up flour. They did recognize me even if it had been months since I darkened their door however.

I do hope the temperatures don't drop precipitously.

***Stay tuned for something more important

**New software use by trials and terrors system

I have been spending more time than I ever guessed would be required to do something which seemed as if it would be relatively simple before I got into the middle of using some new software.

Over the years, I have found a lot of good shareware and freeware software mixed in with a lot of trash on some computer magazine CDs and some sites. I am trying to put the best (at least in my estimation) of them onto a CD with a simple menu system for installation, etc. That requires some software and in searching I did not find any actual freeware that would do that. I purchased software which seems to be working, but not nearly as easily as is portrayed on the software developer's site. "Big surprise NOT" I would guess most readers might say.

Anyway, if I can continue to make some progress on this, perhaps in a week or so, I will have such a software CD put together. If something like that for around five dollars interests you, let me know. That might provide a bit more inspiration. Categories now include video tools and viewers, graphics tools and viewers, file and file directory tools, word and text editors, anti-spyware, browsers, e-mail, blog tools, and some links, etc. Not everything is locked down in concrete bytes yet however. Below is an image I was unable to incorporate well.

So, the posts might be a bit on the short side here for a few days...and I don't want to hear any ..."ah, blessed relief" remarks.

**Stay tuned. Patience really is a virtue--- Doug Wiken

**Actual image reflected in Dick Cheney's Glasses

You saw it on TV, you've seen it in blogs, but you really didn't know what was reflected in Dick Cheney's glasses until now. See the real deal in THE DICK's glasses straight from Ludefisk Images compliments of Ole and Lena, award winning photographers.

Meanwhile, the rightwing, Hillary, and McAncient are trying to pin an "elitist" label on B. Obama for noting that some voters are "bitter" about the consequences of NAFTA and war costs on their jobs and taxes. Imagine that. I guess Hillary and McCain are so insulated from the real world that they just can't imagine we might be just a tad bit pissed off at their blunders, lies, and incompetence.

**Stay tuned, I may get around to noting the lunacy being spewed by RR (not Ronald Reagan) at the remnants of Mt. Blogmore--- Doug Wiken