What's The Big Deal? Don't All State Employees Act This Way?

From the Cedar Rapids Gazette:

Three Iowa civil rights investigators have been fired after sending hundreds of gossipy emails calling co-workers derogatory nicknames like “Psycho,” ”Monster,” and “Roid Rage,” and forwarding pictures that made fun of fat people, Wal-Mart customers and others, according to public records and interviews.


Tiffanie Drayton, Michele Howard and Wendy Buenger repeatedly used mocking nicknames for many of their colleagues at the Iowa Civil Rights Commission in e-mails they sent throughout the workday, according to copies obtained by The Associated Press under the public records law.


They called their supervisor, Don Grove, “Teen Wolf” and the commission’s executive director Beth Townsend, “Night Ranger,” as they gossiped about their management styles. They criticized colleagues’ looks, social skills and mannerisms, quoted vulgar rap lyrics and received and sent offensive pictures — all while they were supposed to be investigating complaints of housing and employment discrimination.


Townsend, also called “Sarg” in some messages, discovered the trove of emails during an unrelated investigation into the alleged release of confidential information. She told AP she fired them after an internal investigation, which found Drayton alone sent an average of 75 personal emails per day from March 1 until June 3.


Meanwhile, Drayton finished only one civil rights investigation during the same timeframe — a pace of work seen as slower than usual but satisfactory, according to Grove’s testimony. Howard sent 1,600 emails during the same timeframe, almost none of them work-related.


“I discovered that she had been sending these profane, obscene, vulgar, inappropriate emails as well as emails between her and two other staff members that were harassing to their peers and their management,” Townsend testified Aug. 5 at Drayton’s hearing. “They had assigned nicknames for everybody in the agency that included ‘Monster,’ ‘Psycho,’ stoned intern, ‘Roid Rage,’ ‘Rainman,” ‘Extreme Makeover,’ ‘Homeless McGree,’ ‘albino.’

This is funny.  Doesn't everybody do this?

The only difference is that most people don't spend their time sending 1600 non-work related emails over a three month time span.

State Employees are so stupid.  Don't they know that everything their pound out in Outlook gets archived?

Former Governor Tom Vilsack at least had the sense to destroy emails during his term, or whatever his excuse was, back in 2003.  Yet just a couple years later Vilsack was a guy who could operate two Blackberries.

Remember Beverly Clark, who worked for Iowa Workforce Development?  She sued the State several years back because she was passed over for promotions a total of 56 times over 4 years.  What did she spend her days doing?  Applying for other jobs?

Not working is also something in the job description of university employees.  They don't stick around long these days.  They're all a bunch of money grubbing whores if you ask me.

Michael Hogan, former UI Provost, didn't do jack shit in his job except apply for other jobs.  Today he's the President of the University of Illinois and making over $600,000 a year.  He's probably still unhappy.

Then there was Meredith Hay, who was the UI Vice President for Research and who was applying for Provost positions all over the country.  She did get a job as the University of Arizona provost, where she was hated.  She later applied to be the President of UMass, but withdrew.  Now she's been kicked upstairs to the Board of Regents in Arizona.

Then there's Wallace Loh, another recent UI Provost.  A lot of money was spent wining and dining and 69ing this fucking clown.  His starting salary was $350,000 a year.  He didn't stick around long before applying for other jobs, which seems to be the job of the UI Provost other than cashing huge paychecks.  Now he's the President of the University of Maryland.

I'm surprised that Elizabeth Hoffman is still the ISU Provost.  She's been in that job for nearly 5 years.  Isn't it about time to move on?  No, she's damaged goods.  Does Elizabeth Hoffman really want to go through the show trial of having to defend the use of the word cunt as a term of endearment?

You look around our great state and you see all these State employees driving here and there.  Sitting at their computers.  Pounding out 1600 emails over 3 months to co-workers about Teen Wolf and Night Ranger.  And you can be certain that your tax dollars are being well spent.

So the next time that asshole Marxists at the Des Moines Register who love Big Government, like that dipshit Rekha Basu and everybody else, go on about budget cuts to state government, point them to this story.  I bet there's hundreds and thousands of government employees fucking around all day long.  Sleeping on the job.  Jerking off to porn.  Drinking.  Playing Farmville.  Apply for another job.  Whatever.  Gambling.  Too many of them are losers and they should all be fired.  Not all of them.  But you have to wonder how long Teen Wolf and Night Ranger didn't know what their employees did all damn day long.  Ya think?

Perry Beeman And The Des Moines Register Really Hate Terry Branstad

I'm not the biggest Terry Branstad fan, but you have to admit that this hit piece on Branstad and the DNR by that douchebag Perry Beeman and the idiots running the Des Moines Register is politically motivated sour grapes.

You know how I can tell it's a hit piece?  Beeman takes time out to quote David Goodner, the notorious Jew-hater and professional left-wing asshole activist.  Only lazy partisan leftist shills and tools would quote somebody like Goodner, which today means every dumbfuck Gannettoid who is left.

In typical Marxist language, Beeman tries to convey that it's a negative thing to have Branstad appointing farmers, those from the ag business community, and political donors to positions rather than a bunch of Socialist Activist and anti-growth environmental Nazis who are nothing more than Democrat patronage and taxpayer teet suckers.

Five years ago the Register wrote vague editorials on radical environmental suggestions by the DNR leftist hacks that would cost Iowa taxpayers nearly a billion dollars.  The Register reported on the paltry fines given to corporate hog farms during the Vilsack regime, but most of the time the Register carried the shit bucket for their guy.

You can also look back at the way the Register handled the Agriprocessors raid.  They were so upset that illegal aliens were caught and deported.  Boo hoo.  This, after years of politicians being paid off by the Rubashkins (Democrat and Republican), especially Democrat Lt Gov Patty Judge accepting and keeping $10,000 from them, something which even Ed Fallon called "influence peddling" and Tom Harkin getting $8 million in Federal pork to help the crooked Rubashkins build a new sewage system rather than illegally dumping their crap into the Postville sewer system.

And beyond wanting to keep all the radical environmentalist types around on the public payroll, statist types like Perry Beeman only think government budgets should go up.  Never down when we don't have the money.  We must only have more regulation.  More rules that nobody can figure out.  More bureaucrats to snoop around.  Instead of going after the truly evil in agriculture, like the Rubashkins and the DeCosters, rich people who donate to Perry Beeman's team, the Democrats, the State should try to find ways to nickel and dime every family farmer.  Right, Perry?  That's what you really believe, you tool.

Obama's Poll Numbers Suck Everywhere in August 2011

Obama's poll numbers suck everywhere.

Let's look around and see how President Downgrade is doing in most states while he parties it up with the millionaires and billionaires on Martha's Vineyard during his umpteenth vacation this year.

The last poll in Iowa, done in early August 2011 by Republican pollsters The Tarrance Group, said 52% of Iowans disapprove of his performance.  Only 43% approve.  Obama won Iowa by nearly 10 points.

In Pennsylvania, which Obama won in 2008 by more than 10 points.  He has a 35% approval rating according to the recently released Muhlenberg College poll.

In Oregon, which Obama won with 57% of the vote in 2008, he has a 44% approval rating.

In New York, which Obama won 63% to McCain's 36% in 2008, he only has a 45% approval rating and a 49% disapproval rating according to Quinnipiac.

Last month, in Wisconsin, Obama had a 50% approval rating.  That's a state where Obama beat McCain by 14 points in 2008.

Illinois seems to have had few polls out about Obama's approval rating there.  No wonder.  Here's a story about one from Democratic pollsters Public Policy Polling from September 2010 where he had 44% approval and 49% disapproval in Illinois.

Minnesota?  I can't find any polls done there in the past year.  I'm not going to spend all day paging through Google.  If it's been done recently, it should come up in the results.  In August 2010, the Strib had Obama at 44% approval.  Where do you think he is today?  Minnesota was another state Obama won by over 10 points in 2008.

Ohio, which Obama won by almost 5 points in 2008, had his job approval rating at 46%, with 50% disapproving in July according to Quinnipiac.

Back in 2008, Obama won the Electoral College by getting 365 votes compared to McCain's 173.

It takes 270 votes to win.

Let's subtract all the Electoral College votes in the states where Obama is underwater, meaning we'll leave out Wisconsin since he's at 50% there.

So far, Obama is losing in states where he got 118 Electoral votes in 2008 (IA, PA, OR, NY, IL, MN, and OH).

365 - 118 = 247

We haven't even gotten to Michigan, Florida, Virginia, North Carolina, and, oh my god, New Jersey.  He's underwater in polls in all of those states, and has been for a while.  Shave another 87 points off Obama's count.

247 -87 = 160

I don't really need to check polls in other states, do I?

You know, I read the comments at the Des Moines Register web site very rarely.  The deranged Obama voters have driven everybody away, plus that need to use a stupid Facebook account to comment.  It used to be that the Des Moines Register was mostly unreadable.  Now the comments on the online stories are mostly unreadable, or at least unreasonable.  Particularly when the subject is Obama or the economy.

The Obamabots are really unhinged, don't you think?  They are going down with the ship when Obama loses in a massive landslide in 2010, to whoever.  Does it matter who Obama is up against?  His supporters get crazier and crazier.  Madder and madder.  Pointing fingers at everybody but their guy.  It's insanity on parade.

Tom Vilsack: Food Stamps Are "Economic Stimulus"

Former Iowa Governor Tom Vilsack has told some big lies in the past, but perhaps none bigger than his suggestion recently that food stamps are "putting people to work."

Well, obviously, it’s putting people to work. Which is why we’re going to have some interesting things in the course of the forum this morning. Later this morning, we’re going have a press conference with Secretary Mavis and Secretary Chu to announce something that’s never happened in this country — something that we think is exciting in terms of job growth…

…I should point out, when you talk about the SNAP program or the food stamp program, you have to recognize that it’s also an economic stimulus. Every dollar of SNAP benefits generates $1.84 in the economy in terms of economic activity. If people are able to buy a little more in the grocery store, someone has to stock it, package it, shelve it, process it, ship it. All of those are jobs. It’s the most direct stimulus you can get in the economy during these tough times.


To many people just encountering Tom Vilsack around the country, they may be amazed that he's such an economic illiterate and a complete dunce.  But Iowans have had a lot of experience dealing with him over the years and we're still cleaning up the damage.

Let's remember the Legacy Of Tom Vilsack in the State of Iowa:

• Appointing Michael Gartner to state boards.
• Corporate welfare (Vision Iowa).
• Touchplay
• Ongoing polluting of Iowa's rivers and streams by factory farmers.
• An out of control deer population that is killing people and ruining livelihoods.
• The draining of the Senior Living Trust.
• Allowing the fraudulent spending of the tobacco shakedown money.
• Expansion of gambling.
• ISU tuition has gone up 87% from 2001 to 2006.
• CIETC
• Appointing Jonathan "I'm Gay" Wilson to legally whitewash the CIETC scandal.
• Trashing Wal-Mart after helping them out for so many years when it was politically expedient for him to do so.
• Teacher pay fell from 35th to 40th.
• Proposing budgets that went up nearly twice the rate of tax revenue.
• Appointing a bunch of rich and catty bitches to the Iowa Board of Parole who gave a rich female killer a break while trashing a poor and abused woman who killed her husband.
• Giving tax breaks to the rich for questionable projects.
• Believing that government should have the power take away your private property through eminent domain and give it to some out-of-state developer so they can build another strip mall.
• Gave sex offenders and other felons blanket citizenship rights, including the right to walk into an elementary school on election day and vote after rejecting 24% of applications between 1999 and 2005.
• Wanting to import 300,000 illegals to Iowa for slave labor and votes.
• Wanting to give illegals a driver's license (and a Motor Voter card, wink wink...)
• He destroyed public records by being supposedly ignorant about how to use email in the year 2003.
• But he can operate two Blackberry devices.
• Blamed the theft of his son's automobile at Terrace Hill on security staff rather than the fact that junior left the keys in the car.
• Offered a $95 million taxpayer-financed bribe to Whirlpool in order to keep Maytag in Newton.
• Signed the "English-only" bill in Iowa, but later publicly regretted it despite 81% of Iowans supporting it.
• Wants Iowan taxpayers to spend $180 million in corporate welfare in order to entice gas station owners to sell E85, a fuel that has so far been a complete failure.
• After a prison break at Fort Madison, Vilsack recommended tearing the place down and building a new one. Vilsack was way off on what a replacement prison would cost.
• Appointed a judge who was soft on drunk/drugged drivers who kill and appointed a Iowa Supreme Court justice who basically paid for his seat.
• Vilsack appointed three of the five State Board of Education members who thought that a student-athlete with four D-minuses and two F grades in classes should be able to continue to participate in sports.
• Despite no military experience whatsoever, Vilsack was theorizing how to conduct the war in Iraq in 2005.
• Vetoed legislation that would have raised fines for polluters.
• He is sort of in favor of bringing back the draft, or at least some kind of forced conscription.
• On the murder of 5 year old Evelyn Miller, Vilsack said (viaRadio Iowa):

  "...Vilsack reviewed five-years-worth of files kept by Department of Human Services social workers who investigated complaints about the child's welfare. On Monday, Vilsack said the complaints came from family members who had 'an ax to grind' and whose 'credibility' was 'a bit suspect.'"

With Vilsack, everything is political. What a slimy piece of shit.  That goes double for his racist dumbass wife, Christie Vilsack.

That Dumbass Christie Vilsack

Nothing could have been more fun than to see That Dumbass Christie Vilsack run for Congress against Steve King.

Although King's district got changed a bit due to reapportionment, there is absolutely no way he is going to lose to That Dumbass Christie Vilsack.

Look at King's recent numbers.  In 2008, King got 60% of the vote in his district.  In 2010, he got 66%.

Alex Isenstadt of the Politico has a story yesterday about the race.  Wow, That Dumbass Christie Vilsack has the endorsement of Norman Lear and George Soros's son.  Also that somewhat Hitler-looking David Assholerod guy.

The funniest bit of writing in the story, which likely wasn't ironic, was this bit:

During the run-up to the 2004 presidential caucuses, it was Christie Vilsack who delivered a crucial late endorsement to Massachusetts Sen. John Kerry.

What the hell?

Did That Dumbass Christie Vilsack's people really write that line for Isenstadt?

Luckily, Steve King won't have to work that hard against That Dumbass Christie Vilsack.  I'd love to see him nail her for all her husband's crimes against the state.  He won't have to work that hard, because she's a certifiable dumbshit.  Let's go back to that Boston Herald article from 2004 on Christie's newspaper columns in the Mount Pleasant newspaper from 1994:


Iowa First Lady Christie Vilsack, a key factor in John Kerry's primary sweep and the primetime convention speaker tomorrow, has derided blacks, southerners and easterners as bad speakers because she couldn't understand them. 


In inflammatory columns for her local newspaper obtained by the Herald, the normally soft-spoken Vilsack tore into several minority and ethnic groups while lampooning non-midwesterners for regional dialects. 


"I am fascinated at the way some African-Americans speak to each other in an English I struggle to understand, then switch to standard English when the situation requires," Vilsack wrote in a 1994 column in the Mount Pleasant News, while her husband, Tom, was a state senator.... 


Vilsack wrote that southerners seem to have "slurred speech," wrote that she'd rather learn Polish than try to speak like people from New Jersey, and wrote that a West Virginian waitress once offered her friend a "side saddle" instead of a "side salad."... 


Vilsack's Aug. 24, 1994, column was particularly critical of dialects from other regions of the country. In addition to the knock on African-Americans, Vilsack knocked residents of New Jersey and Pennsylvania. 


"Later, on the boardwalk, I heard mothers calling to their children, `I'll meet yoose here after the movie,' " she wrote. "The only way I can speak like residents of New Jersey and eastern Pennsylvania is to let my jaw drop an inch and talk with my lips in an `O' like a fish. I'd rather learn to speak Polish." 


Two years later, in a column about her trip to the Olympics in Atlanta, Vilsack said she had "language problems." 


"When I ask for directions, I can't understand the slurred speech of southern Americans, who are so polite and eager to please," Vilsack said.

Peosta?

What the hell is Obama doing in Iowa?

He's going to places like Peosta.

I don't even know where Peosta is.  Oh, it's near Dubuque.

Last I looked, Iowa didn't have a huge unemployment problem.  Not that it's all wine and roses out there, but why isn't he in states with high unemployment rates like Michigan, Nevada, or California?

The LA Times is reporting that Obama is going to offer some "jobs package" soon.  What?  Like the stimulus?  75% of people think the so-called stimulus was a waste.  And, as some of us know, the stimulus was used to jack up the baseline of the Federal budget, which is why we have deficits over $1.5 trillion a year now.

I like the fight brewing between Gov Rick Perry and Obama over Bernanke printing more money.  It's about time somebody called out Bernanke.  I like the me-too-isms of Michelle Bachmann and Ron Paul.  Ron Paul has been going on about this for years.

Does Obama really think he's going to win that fight?

52% of Iowans disapprove of the job Obama is doing, according to a recent poll.  I think Obama's lost Iowa.  Wasn't that evident when Bruce Braley nearly lost re-election in 2010?

Obama In Decorah

President Downgrade wafted through Iowa today, exciting the media but hardly anybody other than the tiny hand-picked audience full of bearded Marxists and other smelly leftist white people in Decorah.  I tried watching the TV news tonight but it just made me want to vomit.

Look at that photo.  He's kind of like Michael Jackson, you know, the dead perv.  I bet that photo's used in the campaign next year, if he isn't challenged by somebody in his own party and loses.  He'll be using lots of photos of him with white kids, don't you think?

What's Obama's plan now?  Lower the payroll tax 2 percent and extend unemployment another 99 weeks.  Hurrah!  Happy daze is hear again!

Another talking point was ending tax breaks for the wealthiest Americans.  This is the same dum Harvard-educated Marxist dingleberry who said in 2009 "You don't raise taxes in a recession."

According to Obama, he got us out of the recession, prevented a depression, but now it's just bad luck.

Nowhere does Obama ever say anything about cutting spending.

I give up with this guy.  He's useless.  He's a loser.  He's a liar.

Some guy confronted Obama about Joe Biden calling Tea Party members "terrorists" and of course Obama chickened out.

Maybe the guy should have confronted President Downgrade on his use of the gay slur "tea bagger" to describe Tea Party members last year.

Ah, don't worry.  There's time.

The worst is the media.  They feel the need to suck up at every opportunity.  Just watch these video clips from KCCI and KCRG as examples.  Slurp, slurp, slurp.  It's all they know.

Look at that stage.  The hay bales, with the photographers snapping photos the entire time on the other side.  The distance between Obama and his mostly-filtered audience.  You didn't see the Republicans miles away from the People in Ames.

It's all for show.  All a way to Obama the President to get some free TV time while on the taxpayer's dime.  All a way to cut into the Republican campaign in Iowa.

I don't think it's going to work.  He looks desperate.  This is a guy who packed over 10,000 on the Pentacrest in Iowa City 3 years ago.  Now he's stammering for 500 hand picks in Decorah?  Tomorrow he's going to Peosta?  Pathetic.  If he's the Democrat nominee he will lose in such a massive landslide.  He'll take down the rest of the party with him.

Michelle Bachmann "Winning" The Republican Straw Poll

That's one of the best political photos ever.  Almost as good as Elvis & Nixon.

The Iowa Republican Straw Poll doesn't really mean anything.  It's mostly a fund raiser, and a gamed one at that.

Ron Paul got a bunch of weed-smoking hippies and Democrats to turn out.  Good for him, but he's going nowhere again.

Pawlenty is already dropping out.  I liked a few of his speeches.  He said the right things, but ultimately he didn't seem enthused for the long haul.  Senator Pawlenty sounds pretty good.

The libs are going apeshit about Michelle Bachmann.  They get so upset about these sorts of things.  Really, to put it in perspective, Michelle Bachmann is this year's Pat Robertson.  She'll make a big splash amongst the social conservatives, but will peter out long before the convention.  She'll be third banana behind faux conservative Mitt Romney, who the country club Republicans all like for no discernible reason other than "he's in the lead right now", and Rick Perry, who will clean up.

It's good to have a Bachmann or a Palin as a lightning rod for the left.  The libs demonstrate their ongoing misogyny.  Hard leftists hate women, don't they?  They hated Hillary.  They hated Palin.  They hate Bachmann.  They just hate women in general.  Republican women, especially.  You almost never see this from the right or the conservatives.

Libs like to trash Bachmann for her views or her misstatements or her perceived misstatements.  But they never trash Obama for being a complete fucking retard over and over again.  Imagine if Bachmann always used a teleprompter or said shit like how she was visiting all 57 states.  It's not like Bachmann got us into more wars, passed legislation that the vast majority of Americans hate (Obamacare), or ran up $5 trillion in debt in the past 31 months.  It's not like once Bachmann got elected to office she went back on every single campaign promise, like ending earmarks, cutting the deficit in half, and fixing No Child Left Behind.

Unlike Obama.

Liberals can never openly trash their own.  They project onto the Right.

That's all I have to say for now.  Sorry for the long delay.