tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-71998892009-11-11T08:17:30.705-06:00Keeping Track Of All Those Iowa Scandals While Remaining Insightfully VulgarState 29noreply@blogger.comBlogger4824125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7199889.post-45432357416793342122009-04-12T13:15:00.003-05:002009-07-12T16:45:36.534-05:00

Twitter sux

State 29noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7199889.post-32911100395699605902008-12-29T19:09:00.000-06:002008-12-29T19:38:22.105-06:00

Tom Vilsack got his cabinet position, which was surprising because he was such a Hillary butt-kisser. Dept of Agriculture? What the hell does Vilsack know about agriculture? Oh, he's from Iowa, by way of Pittsburgh, and he's a lawyer, so he's obviously overqualified. That, and owning kneepads bought by the Iowa Farm Bureau. And these Democrat assholes thought Sarah Palin wasn't qualified,

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An important announcement is coming from the State 29 blog within the next week.This blog started looking at Iowa newspapers again once that sonofabitch Tom Vilsack got his cabinet appointment.It doesn't mean this blog is going back to regular production, but a year-end post will happen.Give it a few days to cook and you'll have something delicious.

State 29noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7199889.post-73475326561375786652008-07-06T12:48:00.001-05:002008-09-22T22:12:19.485-05:00

I've decided that it's really time to get rid of the State 29 blog.You know, I don't live in Iowa anymore. It's kind of gotten to the point where I just can't keep up with the politics anymore. I'm not coming back, so why bother?Sure, I've said goodbye before, when I left the state, but this time it's for real.There's a lot of you who email and comment and link. I figured I owed you one last

State 29noreply@blogger.com25tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7199889.post-85653857095134704572008-06-26T13:54:00.003-05:002008-06-26T14:02:09.685-05:00

From today's Prague Daily Monitor:The National Czech & Slovak Museum & Library in Cedar Rapids, Iowa is struggling to retrieve things lost in floods that hit the place two weeks ago. Various institutions have come up with an offer of help, including the Czech government.The Des Moines Register wrote on Tuesday the Czech government would announce a gift of USD 1 million, citing Cory Crowley,

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From the Cedar Rapids Gazette:The comedy of funnyman Jay Leno took on an air of poignancy Wednesday night at a special show in Las Vegas to benefit the flood rebuilding effort in Cedar Rapids...It wasn’t until the end of the show that Leno mentioned Iowa, when he thanked the audience for coming out so late. All proceeds from the 10 p.m. shows on Wednesday and Friday nights will go to the Greater

State 29noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7199889.post-12085849195247422572008-06-26T08:01:00.002-05:002008-06-26T08:16:03.551-05:00

From the Iowa State Daily by Nia Balvanz:June is Gay Pride Month. Millions of people across the globe get together to celebrate their sexual orientations......A crucial part of the merrymaking is a pride parade, a fabulous spectacle featuring leaders of the community, floats, drum corps, demonstrations for equal rights and - almost certainly - nudity.I have never participated in one of these

State 29noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7199889.post-91832079087885197022008-06-25T23:50:00.002-05:002008-06-25T23:57:24.614-05:00

Philadelphia Bulletin, story headlined on June 25th: "Arizona, Iowa To Turn Down Abstinence Education Funding"Cedar Rapids Gazette, story headlined on June 25th: "STDs reach all-time high in Iowa"

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I can't even begin to quote this Quad City Times story ("Local gay pride day proclamations hit snags") in enough places to demonstrate all the dysfunction, name-calling, backpedaling, and excuse-making that's going on.Don't these politicians have more important things to worry about there?

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From the Cedar Rapids Gazette, this is sick:CEDAR RAPIDS - Vandals stoned and beat to death about 50 ducks, including some that were just days old, at the Bever Park Children's Zoo overnight.A zoo employee discovered the dead birds around 7 a.m. this morning. Some were floating in a pond, and others were piled up near a broken rake.Dave Smith, the city parks superintendent, said whoever was

State 29noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7199889.post-76224933625558882862008-06-25T07:44:00.006-05:002008-06-27T07:33:40.993-05:00

I was wondering how many comments were going to appear on the Des Moines Register story about State Representative Wayne Ford's stupid rant about why there weren't many black people performing at the Iowa State Fair.As of this morning, there were 164 comments.No big deal, though. This is typical race hustler talk, and that's all Ford is. The DMR eats it up because they all believe that whitey

State 29noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7199889.post-22366339068879614092008-06-24T07:58:00.003-05:002008-06-24T08:17:59.609-05:00

GED recipient and former $368,000-a-year CIETC head Ramona Cunningham with Senator Tom Harkin at the dedication of the "Tom Harkin Learning Center" at CIETC offices in October 20, 2004.From the Des Moines Register:Former job-training executive Ramona Cunningham has struck a plea agreement with federal prosecutors on charges that she conspired with others to misuse $1.5 million in taxpayer

State 29noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7199889.post-83579030762221637872008-06-24T07:49:00.002-05:002008-06-24T07:56:13.225-05:00

GED recipient and former $368,000-a-year CIETC head Ramona Cunningham with Senator Tom Harkin at the dedication of the "Tom Harkin Learning Center" at CIETC offices in October 20, 2004.From the Des Moines Register:Archie Brooks may be facing up to 27 months in prison for misappropriating money in the scandal at the Central Iowa Employment and training Consortium, but he is still handling money

State 29noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7199889.post-6359186912294785912008-06-24T00:01:00.003-05:002008-06-24T07:41:42.769-05:00

Lee Enterprises (LEE) closed at $4.60 on Monday, another new low.Just a week ago it was $5.05!Down 10% in a week!!!Look at that long-term chart graphic!McClathchy, who owns my local (Kanasas City Star), says ad revenue is down 15% this year!And then there's this:The industry will not bottom out for another three or four years, analysts predict. The question, Mr. Appert of Goldman Sachs said, “is

State 29noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7199889.post-84112842611823909722008-06-23T18:48:00.004-05:002008-06-23T19:04:23.873-05:00

Former University of Iowa alum (B.A. in physics and mathematics '63, M.S. in astronomy '65, and Ph.D. in Physics in '67) and climate scare-ologist James Hansen has finally gone totally insane.This is from The Guardian:James Hansen, one of the world's leading climate scientists, will today call for the chief executives of large fossil fuel companies to be put on trial for high crimes against

State 29noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7199889.post-81604837258743349762008-06-23T07:47:00.003-05:002008-06-23T07:59:09.783-05:00

George Carlin died yesterday.He was a huge influence on this insightfully vulgar blog:"The Community College Heretic":"Social Engineering Instead Of Education In DSM":And my favorite, the "Seven Words You Can Never Say On TV":

State 29noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7199889.post-56587917898168245172008-06-22T10:44:00.007-05:002008-06-22T12:47:13.293-05:00

"Larry King's marriage, Ed McMahon's mortgage, and Barack Obama's campaign..."If you haven't read Nicholas Johnson's outstanding, detailed, and very lengthy blog post "Change We Can No Longer Believe In" published this morning, do it now.Why, it was just two months ago when I was ragging on Johnson for being uncritical towards Obama. Johnson replied to that one, and he had his reasons why Obama

State 29noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7199889.post-42808478573415025022008-06-21T23:26:00.002-05:002008-06-21T23:41:00.333-05:00

From the Des Moines Register:A grocery industry group says a program that allows welfare recipients to shop at Iowa farmers markets with food stamps has cost taxpayers nearly $1 million over three years for less than $60,000 worth of fresh food.State officials acknowledge the numbers, but they say the cost also reflects indirect efforts to promote the entire food stamp program used by more than

State 29noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7199889.post-57739766430605063812008-06-21T15:24:00.002-05:002008-06-21T15:58:41.961-05:00

From Reuters via Yahoo: "It is going to be very difficult for Republicans to run on their stewardship of the economy or their outstanding foreign policy," Obama told a fundraiser in Jacksonville, Florida. "We know what kind of campaign they're going to run. They're going to try to make you afraid."They're going to try to make you afraid of me. He's young and inexperienced and he's got a funny

State 29noreply@blogger.com24tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7199889.post-55611289946947753592008-06-21T10:36:00.004-05:002008-06-21T11:26:52.491-05:00

David in the comments on yesterday's post "Rebuilding It As Green Space" said:Just to clarify what a "500 year flood" is, as well as a "100 year flood", the odds are that any given year there is a 1% chance of a flood that affects locations in the "100 year flood plain" occurring, and any given year there is between a .2% and 1% chance of a flood that affects locations in the "500 year flood

State 29noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7199889.post-72225174609061437462008-06-20T20:38:00.000-05:002008-06-20T20:59:49.811-05:00

A reader to Nicholas Johnson's blog emailed him:It wasn't until this flood that I realized how many of [Iowa City's] critical resources are in flood areas:* The entire office complex for the Johnson County Administration Building* The pure water processing plant* The waste water processing plant* The central University of Iowa Computing Center* The Power Plant* The Hydraulics Lab* The entire

State 29noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7199889.post-61037638967163078862008-06-19T17:50:00.003-05:002008-06-19T18:07:17.348-05:00

This blog correctly predicted that Ed Fallon was going to lose in his attempt to wrestle the Democratic nomination away from Leonard Boswell. Funny how you don't hear any Democrats waxing on about how being against the war is a political advantage. After all, Fallon is against all wars and Boswell voted for the war in Iraq.Now, it seems, Fallon is begging other Democrats to bail him out of

State 29noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7199889.post-8504969012486796682008-06-19T07:53:00.004-05:002008-06-19T08:24:48.701-05:00

Buster at InMuscatine keeps up with the Lee Enterprises Death Watch. That stock is opening this morning at $4.81, yet another new low.I was wondering where Nicholas Johnson went.Side Notes shows a picture of Highway 1 south of Mount Vernon. Or what little is left of it.From the "You Don't Say?" department. Headline in the Quad City Times today: "Mosquito population expected to increase"From

State 29noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7199889.post-61417208061810275872008-06-18T20:03:00.004-05:002008-06-18T20:31:28.411-05:00

From the Mason City Glob-Gazette:A new statewide discount drug card program called the Iowa Drug Card is now available to all Iowa residents.The program, which is free to all Iowans, will provide savings of up to 75 percent on prescription drugs with average savings of around 30 percent. There are no restrictions to membership, no income restrictions, no age limit and no applications to fill

State 29noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7199889.post-32084389905260004102008-06-18T15:55:00.003-05:002008-06-18T16:01:37.197-05:00

From the Cedar Rapids Gazette:Top state government and business officials are requesting some employer forbearance as flood-plagued Iowans attempt to deal with emergency situations.Gov. Culver, the Iowa Association of Business and Industry, and Iowa Workforce Development Wednesday made a joint appeal for Iowa businesses to provide employees with the flexibility needed to deal with problems

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