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Former State Senator Lynne DiSanto pled No Contest in court today to allegations of falsely reporting a crime against her ex-husband. But it sounds like the prosecution is getting a “sorry-not sorry” vibe, and thinks it might be a good idea if the self-styled life coach would take a class:
“I don’t believe Ms. DiSanto understands the gravity” of what it means to falsely accuse someone of a Class 3 felony like aggravated assault, prosecutor Adam Shiffermiller said at the change-of-plea and sentencing hearing at the Pennington County court.
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Shiffermiller said the class would help her understand the seriousness of her actions while “working on herself and her future relationships.” He said another option would be Moral Reconation Therapy, which helps people make better decisions through enhanced reasoning.
Governor Noem Appoints Judge to Fifth Circuit Court
PIERRE, S.D. – Today, Governor Kristi Noem announced today that she will appoint Gregg Magera to serve as judge for the Fifth Judicial Circuit.
“Gregg has spent his life in the pursuit of justice, first in private practice and then as a magistrate judge,” said Governor Noem. “I appreciate his willingness to serve the public and I know he will be an excellent circuit judge.”
“I am humbled and honored for the opportunity to serve as a Circuit Court Judge,” said Judge Magera.
Magera currently serves as a magistrate judge in the Fifth Circuit. A Yankton native, Magera earned his bachelor’s degree and his law degree from the University of South Dakota. Following service as a law clerk, he joined Siegel, Barnett & Schultz in Aberdeen in 1991, where he became a partner and practiced until his appointment as magistrate judge in 2019.
Magera enjoys tennis, hunting, fishing, and playing violin in the Aberdeen University Civic Symphony. He and his wife, Barbara, have two daughters, Katie and Emily.
The Fifth Judicial Circuit Court is served by four circuit judges and one magistrate and covers Brown, Campbell, Day, Edmunds, Faulk, Marshall, McPherson, Roberts, Spink, and Walworth counties. Magera will succeed Scott P. Myren, who Governor Noem appointed to the South Dakota Supreme Court in January.
PIERRE, S.D. – Today, Governor Kristi Noem signed sixteen bills into law:
SB 4 revises certain provisions regarding the health professionals assistance program.
SB 10 revises the composition of the state trunk highway system.
SB 31 provides for the release of adult abuse case information to certain parties to assist in the provision of adult protective services.
SB 55 authorizes certain innovative insurance products and services through insurance innovation waivers.
SB 59 revises the allocation of fees collected by the obligation recovery center and revises certain venue, jurisdiction, and collection efforts regarding the co-owners of titled motor vehicles, motorcycles, and boats.
SB 72 revises notification requirements for listing and delisting species on the threatened and endangered species list.
SB 134 limits the required application of green building standards.
HB 1007 revises certain provisions regarding checks or bid bonds for publica improvements.
HB 1008 revises technical errors in statutory cross references relating to the Department of Executive Management.
HB 1055 authorizes certain children who are subject to a military relocation to be eligible for registration with a state-approved distance learning provider.
HB 1057 establishes resident tuition requirements for veterans and armed forces personnel and family members.
HB 1074 limits the liability regarding authorized boiler inspections.
HB 1098 authorizes the shipment of cigars to persons in this state under certain conditions.
HB 1113 revises certain reference to the International Building Code.
HB 1119 revises certain references to secondary elections.
HB 1125 defines adjournment for the counting of ballots.
Governor Noem has signed 121 bills into law this legislative session.
Senator John Thune was recently on Fox News’ “Your World With Neil Cavuto,” and you can’t help but to give him a “hell yeah” for his earlier comments about the election:
“It’s a free country, Neil, and he’s an individual that has a big following out there, obviously, politically, and continues to be a major force in the politics of our country. But, you know, I will do what I have to do in South Dakota. If getting primaried is the price for standing up, and speaking the truth, and standing up for the rule of law and the Constitution, then so be it,” Thune responded.
He went on to say the “main thing” going into the 2022 midterm elections is that Trump and Republicans in Congress “are going to be united” in working to win majorities in the House and Senate. He added that, in his view, the country is “heading into a left ditch” because “the Democratic Party is controlled by the Bernie Sanders wing of the party.”
It’s interesting because there had been this cabal of people who read too many facebook memes clucking about Thune accepting the results of the election as somehow being wrong.
Guess what? The cluckers are even more unorganized, still reading facebook memes, while Senator Thune is getting ready for the next election.
Could a primary happen? Sure. It could in the best of times.
But Thune stands strong, the entire delegation including Governor Noem stands behind him, and nothing is going to change that.
The South Dakota website Woki-leaks dropped some notes from a transcript from a December 10, 2020 Zoom meeting to discuss the University of South Dakota’s search for a new Associate VP of Diversity… A zoom meeting that USD appears to have taken off-line.
Why would it not be on-line any more? Well, at least according to what SD Woki-leaks notes as the transcript of the “Comments from the Zoom Call” – they claim that it appears USD professor Clayton Lehmann had some fairly pointed opinions about legislators.
00:44:16 Clayton Lehmann again. The problem of the conservative character of the legislature is not merely lack of understanding, which can be addressed by education and explanation, but active resistance to the desirability of diversity and some very active legislators who follow an evil agenda of advancing their racism and bigotry by shaping state law–here we need someone who can go beyond explanation to identifying and calling out evil.
I’m sure that will go over well. (Especially with you evil, racist and bigoted Legislators who will be voting on the appropriations bill this next week.)
As opposed to my COVID update from last week, I think I’ll manage to get through the weekend without a trip to the emergency room for some messed up COVID thing. I think people are thinking I’m more infirm than I actually am, as I had someone send me a get-well card this week (thanks MC). Okay… I do appreciate it, but I’m on the mend.
Being on the mend, I thought I’d give an update, and keep the COVID briefings going as part as a firsthand account of what I’m experiencing, and why wearing a mask/getting your COVID vaccination is a good voluntary idea to avoid what I’ve been going through, as some of these symptoms are just kind of messed up.
So, right after last week’s adventure in COVID messing up my blood clotting factors, leaving me as a compression sock consumer and being put on a blood thinner, I was treated to a term on the morning news that I’d heard earlier when I was in 2 weeks ago getting something for a lingering cough/chest irritation, when the CNA remarked to me that they want to avoid patients becoming “long haulers.”
What’s a long hauler? Well. When it comes to COVID, that’s a term you should pay significant attention to, as it’s a term they use for some of the lingering symptoms that people who had COVID are finding they’re left with:
About 33% of COVID-19 patients who were never sick enough to require hospitalization continue to complain months later of symptoms like fatigue, loss of smell or taste and “brain fog,” University of Washington (UW) researchers found.
“We were surprised to have one-third of people with mild illness still experiencing symptoms,” said lead researcher Jennifer Logue. She’s a research scientist with the UW department of medicine’s division of allergy and infectious diseases, in Seattle. “If you contract coronavirus, there’s a good chance you could experience a lingering effect.”
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“Because it has a direct effect on the nerves of our nose, we think that likely there is an effect on brain structure. We know that definitively there are changes in our lungs that occur from it,” Gut said of COVID-19. “It has far-reaching implications we’re just now beginning to understand since we’re just starting to categorize the syndrome.”
I had been given the monocyte treatment to prevent having to be in the hospital, but even with that experimental treatment, there are definitely some aftereffects. Luckily, I’m not suffering from a brain fog, and every day is pretty darned good, minding that I don’t overdo it, and get a good night’s sleep. Also pushing liquids, and working on deep breathing, per the doc’s office.
The prospect of symptoms such as fatigue lingering for months underscores that this is not last year’s flu season, so paying it some heed is probably in your best interest.
And I have to admit that I am experiencing some lingering… weirdness.
I seem to be a bit dehydrated, which might be because of some of the minor meds I’m on. But then there’s the other thing. In particular, my sense of taste. I have never been a big sweets person. Just never has been my thing. And that’s probably good, because in the last week or so, I’m discovering that my sense of taste when it comes to “sweet” is largely gone.
I began noticing it with Diet Coke the other day, where when I have a I DC out of the bottle, I don’t get a taste of sweet. I taste the bitter aftertaste of the artificial sweetener and the “water”, but not any “sweet” of the sweetener. If I try a strong sugar sweet.. like a Reese’s peanut butter cup, I can pick up the sweet somewhat. But I’m honestly not sure. And it’s honestly a little disconcerting to lose a swath of what gives things taste.
And speaking of taste.. when it comes to peanut butter, since I’ve gone through COVID, I’ve got an almost insatiable craving for it, mainly in the form of spicy asian peanut sauce. I suppose it’s because it has a savory/salty versus sweet profile, so my brain registers that I’m actually getting what I’m eating. So, think asian wraps with chicken/turkey, cilantro, lettuce, jalapeño slivers and peanut sauce more often than a person would normally have.
I’m guessing/hoping normal taste comes back in short order. Or at least my craving for peanut butter abates slightly.
And unless you’re big into peanut sauce, or other weirdness being introduced into your palate, it might be worth getting down and getting your COVID vaccination as soon as you qualify.
Thune Rejects Partisan and Wasteful Spending Package
“This is the first COVID bill to be done in an entirely partisan way, because it isn’t designed to end the pandemic – it is a blatant attempt from Democrats to jam through a partisan wish list.”
WASHINGTON – U.S. Sen. John Thune (R-S.D.) today released the following statement after voting against the partisan $1.9 trillion spending package:
“Despite President Biden’s promises for unity and bipartisan cooperation, the first major bill considered in his presidency is a partisan and wasteful spending bill disguised as ‘COVID relief.’ One trillion dollars from previous bipartisan COVID bills remains unspent, and much of the spending in this bill won’t be spent until long after we expect to be emerging from the pandemic. Less than 10 percent of the Democrats’ $1.9 trillion spending package goes directly to public health funding to end the COVID-19 pandemic, and just one percent is dedicated to getting vaccines to the American people.
“This is the first COVID bill to be done in an entirely partisan way, because it isn’t designed to end the pandemic – it is a blatant attempt from Democrats to jam through a partisan wish list.”
Rounds Opposes Democrats’ $1.9 Trillion Spending Bill
WASHINGTON—U.S. Sen. Mike Rounds (R-S.D.) today issued the following statement after voting against the $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief legislation which passed on a partisan basis without Republican support.
“Democrats used the guise of COVID-19 relief to further their left-wing agenda while putting our nation deeper into debt. I voted against this partisan $1.9 trillion spending bill that reads more like a liberal wish list than targeted pandemic relief.
“Up until this point, we have always found a way to work together on a bipartisan basis to provide COVID-19 relief for the American people. None of the previous five pandemic relief bills received fewer than 90 votes in the United States Senate. This is the first bill that did not pass either chamber with bipartisan support. In fact, it had bipartisan opposition in the House of Representatives.
“My colleagues and I offered a reasonable conservative alternative that targeted relief to those directly impacted by the pandemic and was one-third the price. Unfortunately, Democrats were unwilling to compromise. The legislation passed today is not targeted and is not specific, but rather includes many giveaways to left-wing causes.”
First, Marty Jackley is returning to advertiser’s row and publicizing his entrance into the Attorney General’s race in 2022.
