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cynmac sez Whar Boxes's avatar

Stefanapolis was not there today and I can't stand Tweety.

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Hemp Dogbane's avatar

Excellent!

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cynmac sez Whar Boxes's avatar

Thune's fore fivehead appears to be at least 1 foot 3 inches of that.

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Hemp Dogbane's avatar

165 years ago the eastern half of SD was part of Minnesota Territory. The slaveholding states were concerned about too many new states.

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Dee Andee's avatar

I'm for it, and I live here. *shudder* South Dakota has Mount Rushmore, extreme weather, and no medicaid for the working poor who can't even afford ACA insurance, because fuck Republicans. Stick them all together into a big sticky mess...then...please...get me the HELL OUTTA HERE!

Thank you.

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cynmac sez Whar Boxes's avatar

*shudder* South Dakota Georgia has Mount Rushmore, Stone Mountain, extreme hot weather, and no medicaid for the working poor who can't even afford ACA insurance, because fuck Republicans.

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SullivanSt's avatar

The only other thing I happen to know about South Dakota is its super-shitty record of using the adoption system to anglicize (or maybe just monetize) Native American kids. Even today. That would probably have been more of an issue for last year's Gubernatorial race, seeing as how Gov. Daugaard used to be Executive Director of the foster home system the tribes cite as a major offender.

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wurman's avatar

Perfect.

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wurman's avatar

Actually ND is an elm of some kind and SD is a native spruce named after the state or somesuch.

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Zyxomma's avatar

My friends in SD have some really beautiful trees on their property, including box elder and cedar. I'm particularly attached to cottonwood because of a childhood thingy.

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wurman's avatar

In my region we have cottonwoods along almost all of the myriad creeks, streams, and rivers. For a week to 10 days in the Spring our skies are "fluffy." I just looked it up and there are 7 subspecies. Ours is the "black cottonwood."

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Vagenda and Pee-ara's avatar

It should be brought up EVERY day. Manocide is a serious crime.

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ETphonehome's avatar

I love that song. thanks for posting it!

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Beaumarchais?'s avatar

The tyranny of the empty states.

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Unforgotten's avatar

Don't forget his decades long friendship with DC Stephenson.

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Space Travel, Rock and Roll's avatar

I forgot. Are we for or against as an unruly vile snark mob?

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