tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-71998892012-01-24T22:49:36.764-06:00Keeping Track Of All Those Iowa Scandals While Remaining Insightfully VulgarState 29noreply@blogger.comBlogger50331100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7199889.post-32390255088856716022012-01-22T11:38:00.002-06:002012-01-22T11:38:54.011-06:00

I know, there's been little activity with this blog as of late, especially during the silly season of the Iowa Caucuses.  I've moved out of Iowa for work again, and I'm not paying attention to any of the Iowa newspaper web sites.

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I don't know who reporter Tara Bannow is, some blonde broad from Minnesota according to Twitturd, but she's got to be the biggest tool of a reporter on the planet, and she's working for the Iowa City Press-Citizen. In this story, "Local man pushing for more black education in the schools", she talks about how somebody by the name of Kenneth Longdon is upset that his nephew's school in Coralville

State 29noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7199889.post-55378990599146691872011-08-22T17:49:00.001-05:002011-08-22T17:49:43.568-05:00

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

State 29noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7199889.post-58243301052275953952011-08-21T14:01:00.002-05:002011-08-21T14:04:45.249-05:00

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

State 29noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7199889.post-69619010008088019402011-08-20T16:18:00.000-05:002011-08-20T16:18:52.403-05:00

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.

State 29noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7199889.post-44918280460116085792011-08-17T11:49:00.003-05:002011-08-17T11:55:48.772-05:00

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

State 29noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7199889.post-13200154020125451882011-08-16T22:56:00.000-05:002011-08-16T22:56:46.272-05:00

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

State 29noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7199889.post-45511390560936176922011-08-16T22:31:00.000-05:002011-08-16T22:31:37.313-05:00

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 "

State 29noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7199889.post-83078034152012086532011-08-15T22:41:00.001-05:002011-08-15T22:42:57.202-05:00

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

State 29noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7199889.post-48190286143626088822011-08-14T14:06:00.000-05:002011-08-14T14:06:48.304-05:00

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

State 29noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7199889.post-62645134082924860522011-05-16T13:24:00.000-05:002011-05-16T13:24:05.566-05:00

The Des Moines Register is reporting that Donald Trump has announced that he's not running for President as a Republican in 2012. Good decision, especially since Donald Trump isn't really a Republican, and has given more money to crooked Democrat Congressman Charlie Rangel than any other in the past 20 years, and has donated to Weiner, Schumer, and Rahm Emanuel in the past year.  What sort of "

State 29noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7199889.post-28691680677304406582011-05-16T12:53:00.000-05:002011-05-16T12:53:58.613-05:00

Could there be a more detestable Republican in 2011 than Newt Gingrich?  Yes, there could be.  I can think of some:  Mitt Romneycare, Mike Hucksterbee, John Resign, Ru Paul, Donald Trump, Mitch Daniels, and so on. Newt wasn't always hate-able, unless you were a rabid partisan Democrat in 1995 in which case you hated every Republican.  But that's par for the course. Newt had some good ideas with

State 29noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7199889.post-47593828968699260622011-05-16T12:33:00.000-05:002011-05-16T12:33:02.866-05:00

The millions of people who read this blog on a daily basis will be happy to know that the hiatus is over and the State 29 ship is finally righted, and just in time for President picking and kicking season. I wish I could say my return from Kansas last year went smooth, but that wasn't the case. The job that brought me back to Iowa was not what I thought it was going to be, which was 40 hours,

State 29noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7199889.post-37930454105973553272011-04-20T17:08:00.000-05:002011-04-20T17:08:26.866-05:00

It sure was nice to take a break from blogging and recharge the batteries. What better way to return than to have a couple of stories of DEMOCRAT SHEER INSANITY ON DISPLAY appear in your inbox from friends, enemies, and co-workers? Of course, I'm talking about that idiot Christie Vilsack and her quixotic "exploratory" campaign against Republican Congressman Steve King. Wait, hold on now. 

State 29noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7199889.post-48236138136111962152011-04-04T22:40:00.001-05:002011-04-04T22:41:25.703-05:00

I'm just taking some time off from the news, which has been unrelentingly awful.  I expect to focus more on all these idiots trying to run for President in the coming months.  First we need some Democrats to primary this bastard Obama, the World President Ever. Yes I know that Iowa has a caucus rather than a primary.  Democrats need to rock out with their caucus out and dump that loser.

State 29noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7199889.post-14140788422331073362011-01-17T15:02:00.000-06:002011-01-17T15:02:27.347-06:00

The Des Moines Register's Editorial Broad have hit a new low with today's editorial titled "Is That A Constitution In Your Pocket?"  Here's an excerpt: Carrying a small copy of the Constitution is the new thing in Washington, according to a recent article in the Wall Street Journal. It may well be a response to tea party accusations that Congress has forgotten about the document. A bulge in a

State 29noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7199889.post-92143510388807439342011-01-16T10:25:00.000-06:002011-01-16T10:25:02.665-06:00

The latest Des Moines Register editor, Rick Green, has a long and boring "Hello" column in the paper today. Does anybody give a crap about Rick Green after reading that?  Can you even make it through without falling asleep? Michael Gartner, a person who this blog has never liked, wrote a brutally honest column in Cityview the other day about the arrival of Green.  Here's a taste: why does

State 29noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7199889.post-42243125665411084582011-01-14T07:58:00.000-06:002011-01-14T07:58:07.735-06:00

From yesterday's Iowa City Press-Citizen ("Law dean: Bar could've done more on retention vote"): Leaders of Iowa's legal community were surprised by the successful campaign to oust three Supreme Court justices who backed a ruling to legalize gay marriage, and didn't do enough to counter it, the new dean of the University of Iowa law school said. ``We have not done as much as we could have and

State 29noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7199889.post-52134325035830966312011-01-10T19:47:00.002-06:002011-01-10T19:50:13.161-06:00

Des Moines Register Editor Carolyn Washburn is leaving to ruin the Cincinnati Enquirer and gave readers a farewell note that almost nobody commented on. Washburn was known mostly for her lousy ass performance as a grumpy "Nurse Ratched" moderator at the Republican (pre-caucus) Presidential Debate in December 2007. Washburn also led the Register to further layoffs, staff reductions, rearranging

State 29noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7199889.post-40659984496615817022011-01-09T19:33:00.000-06:002011-01-09T19:33:24.305-06:00

From the Iowa City Press-Citizen under the headline New program aims to help at-risk youth: Jaron Varner said growing up in Detroit, he could have found himself in a lot of trouble with gangs. Instead, thanks to an aunt who lived in Iowa, he spent his summers in Iowa City, attending sports and theater camps at the University of Iowa. He also was ushered into sports leagues through the Detroit

State 29noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7199889.post-30549621751718963022011-01-09T12:58:00.001-06:002011-01-09T13:03:50.844-06:00

It's been an eye-opener watching the far left descend into depths of insanity following the shooting in Tucson yesterday. Why, it seemed to be Sarah Palin's fault that Congresswoman Giffords was shot because some web site Palin was involved with "targeted" a number of races around the country.  Nevermind the fact that the shooter has turned out to be a young liberal who is obviously mentally ill

State 29noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7199889.post-21641168845640720292011-01-08T11:52:00.000-06:002011-01-08T11:52:46.962-06:00

Jason Clayworth (far left), the "business" reporter for the Des Moines Register, has a story today ("Budget Surplus Under Scrutiny") which signals full-on war between the Register and the Branstad administration: Average Iowans will see massive cuts to education and human services so Gov.-elect Terry Branstad can offer tax breaks to corporations, speakers said Friday during a public budget

State 29noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7199889.post-75542015736327742552010-12-27T19:57:00.000-06:002010-12-27T19:57:23.893-06:00

According to the Des Moines Register, Iowa Supreme Court Justice David Wiggins is going to be the chairman of the 15 member "non-partisan" commission (The Register's words, not mine) which will search for three new potential justices for the court. Grant Schulte, the "reporter" for the Register who wrote the story, takes 12 paragraphs to mention this enormous conflict of interest: Wiggins, a

State 29noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7199889.post-88036989131656005552010-12-26T14:29:00.000-06:002010-12-26T14:29:19.611-06:00

From the Sioux City Journal in 1910: PRINCESS RINK TO REOPEN: Councilman Jonathan W. Brown would bar all women from the roller skating rinks. Mr. Brown signified his belief yesterday morning that “females” should be kept out of the halls after 6 o'clock p.m. when the request for renewal of the rinks came up to the council. Councilman Brown was opposed to the renewal of the license. He said

State 29noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7199889.post-57308737447175374222010-12-26T13:51:00.003-06:002010-12-27T00:30:24.901-06:00

I don't really care for Bob Vander Plaats, but as a lightning rod for the far right he's really adorable in the way that he makes liberals go absolutely crazy by merely opening his mouth.  Look at the tolerance of the Left when it comes to dealing with BVP.  They don't want to ignore this one trick pony.  Instead, they express over-the-top outrage at somebody who used the system to legally get

State 29noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7199889.post-44430575772714578322010-12-26T13:11:00.000-06:002010-12-26T13:11:46.335-06:00

From the Iowa City Press-Citizen: A University of Iowa official said the university still must find money to make a new three-year plan for curbing alcohol abuse that might help UI shed its party school reputation a reality. The Alcohol Harm Reduction Plan, which was announced earlier this month, has only four goals, including reducing binge drinking. But completing the goals and the 39-point

State 29noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7199889.post-45130537553153492712010-12-24T13:16:00.000-06:002010-12-24T13:16:38.668-06:00

From WGEM: It's Christmas caroling with a message. Wednesday night, locked out workers from Roquette America in Keokuk staged a very unique protest. They took a break from the picket lines to go caroling outside the homes of top Roquette executives who live in Quincy. The union workers have been off the job for almost three months now. Roquette locked them out on September 28th, and contract

State 29noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7199889.post-51372576803622751852010-12-22T23:05:00.000-06:002010-12-22T23:05:37.401-06:00

The Des Moines Register printed a letter by Senator Tom "The Crook" Harkin on Wednesday, something about how if the Obamacare mandate isn't allowed then premiums will skyrocket, or some bullshit lie.  I don't really care because as far as I'm concerned Tom Harkin needs to be kicked out of the Senate and thrown in a "Fuck Me In The Ass Federal Prison" for wasting billions and being involved in

State 29noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7199889.post-82480437264037430922010-12-22T13:00:00.000-06:002010-12-22T13:00:26.104-06:00

Todd Dorman offers a roundup of opinion on the news that Iowa is going to lose a House seat following the 2010 Census. The funniest comment had to be from leftist bootlicker Nate Silver at 538/NY Slimes who airs some sort of insane fantasy about Steve King being vulnerable.  The same sort of stupidity appears in the comments of the Gazette's story about the issue.  You've got to be mentally ill

State 29noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7199889.post-75071274952561078352010-12-20T19:18:00.000-06:002010-12-20T19:18:57.290-06:00

Mike G-Lover of the Associated Press has a story in Business Week about how some mortgage fraud group is being formed in Iowa: A new task force to combat mortgage fraud that combines state and federal forces to impose civil and criminal charges adds teeth to the fight against a problem at the heart of the nation's economic system, prosecutors said Monday. "Mortgage fraud is a very serious crime,

State 29noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7199889.post-54027499983039206442010-12-20T18:57:00.002-06:002010-12-20T19:01:21.949-06:00

From the Dead Moines Register: Bob Vander Plaats was defeated in the last two gubernatorial primaries. The citizens of Iowa have spoken, Vander Plaats. You need to listen to the will of the people, and voluntarily leave the state. — Mary Howell-Williams, Des Moines Yes, this is what the left calls "tolerance", isn't it? Lose a couple of gubernatorial primaries and you should be forcibly exiled

State 29noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7199889.post-30887011735534988382010-12-19T19:38:00.001-06:002010-12-19T19:39:22.918-06:00

From the Quad City Times: Evidence of drugs found when police searched a Davenport parolee’s motel room in 2007 cannot be used against him after the Iowa Supreme Court ruled Friday to uphold a district court judgment. James Maximiliano Ochoa, 40, was arrested Oct. 15, 2007, on suspicion of drug possession, unlawful possession of prescription drugs and possession of drug paraphernalia at the

State 29noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7199889.post-89674503130926507212010-12-19T19:21:00.000-06:002010-12-19T19:21:21.485-06:00

While this blog was on hiatus, the Iowa Association of School Boards scandal hit.  There was a post in early April about Tom Harkin's association with funding overpaid crooks like the IASB's Maxine Kilcrease, just like Harkin was involved with funding overpaid CIETC head and convicted criminal Ramona Cunningham and others a few years back. In today's update by Clark Kauffman in the DMR, I was

State 29noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7199889.post-69048891855814001142010-12-19T13:31:00.000-06:002010-12-19T13:31:20.321-06:00

The Cedar Rapids Gazette has a story about a guy who is behind on his mortgage and is desperately seeking a loan modification due to unemployment. There are a number of things about this story that trouble me, mostly because it's written from a "What Is The Government Going To Do For Me?" angle.  Don't you know that can't rely on the government for anything?  Obama's Home Affordable Modification

State 29noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7199889.post-14139174982012715522010-12-18T20:59:00.003-06:002010-12-18T21:01:54.608-06:00

You're never going to believe this shit.  The Des Moines Register continues to obsess on Sarah Palin.  Give it up liberal bitches, she ain't runnin'. Old fart Leonard Boswell said keeping tax rates the same for the very productive members of society amounts to "a multibillion-dollar ransom in the form of tax cuts for the wealthiest 2 percent", you should talk Boswell.  How much did Congress

State 29noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7199889.post-8625113050029922062010-12-18T15:07:00.000-06:002010-12-18T15:07:09.823-06:00

The Iowa City Press-Citizen has a story on Friday about how a small number of people there want Iowa City to become a "sanctuary city" for illegal aliens. Look who gets quoted in the story!  Katy Hansen, the United Nations apologist. The Cedar Rapids Gazette has a larger story on this and quotes some asshole Socialist who claims to be "Haitian-American" (which is it?) and who wants Cedar Rapids

State 29noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7199889.post-79631777394354967942010-12-18T14:03:00.000-06:002010-12-18T14:03:14.504-06:00

From the Register's Editorial Board: Today's vote scheduled in the U.S. Senate on the Dream Act is an opportunity to break the gridlock over immigration reform. Passage would recognize young illegal immigrants brought here by their parents have much to offer this country. The bill could be a model for reaching consensus on sensible immigration policy in other areas as well.The DREAM Act did not

State 29noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7199889.post-63439888349942424632010-12-15T12:32:00.000-06:002010-12-15T12:32:10.417-06:00

From the Register's Editorial Bored ("Iowa's judge-picking process is on trial"): Iowa's court system suffered a grievous blow with the removal of three members of the Iowa Supreme Court in the November judicial retention election. That apparently was not the end of it, however. Iowa's judicial-selection process is now under assault from critics who contend it is politically unbalanced and

State 29noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7199889.post-52916737968420208952010-12-15T12:17:00.001-06:002010-12-15T12:18:10.581-06:00

From Jennifer Jacobs in the Des Moines Ragister: Preschool doesn’t give children much of a boost and the state should pare back spending, a Republican legislative leader said today. But a Democratic leader countered that preschool is critical and that’s one area that should definitely be protected. “It’s very, very questionable where there is any benefit,” Senate Minority Leader Paul McKinley,

State 29noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7199889.post-2588484518213448512010-12-08T19:30:00.003-06:002010-12-08T19:32:53.589-06:00

A reader clued me in to this Rekha Basu column on Sunday ("For civility, add names to opinions") in which she was going on about anonymous comments on the Des Moines Register's web site: Goodbye, Manitoba Snowplow. So long, Blowtorch. Later, grandkidsrock. If those pseudonyms ring a bell, it's because you've read this paper, or this column, online, along with responses from people using those

State 29noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7199889.post-24344301566808195602010-12-08T18:57:00.000-06:002010-12-08T18:57:58.607-06:00

From the Iowa City Press-Citizen: According to police documents, Iowa City Police Street Crimes investigators were conducting a drug investigation on Johnson-Koulianos' roommate, 21-year-old Brady C. Johnson. Police served a search warrant at the residence they shared at 1128 E. Washington St. at 1:50 p.m. Inside, officers allegedly found marijuana, more than $3,000 cash, a digital scale and

State 29noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7199889.post-26827815787553509882010-12-08T16:44:00.000-06:002010-12-08T16:44:26.250-06:00

There are no articles in the Des Moines Register as of today concerning the Pigford settlement. This, despite recent criticism of the case by Steve King and talk from Agriculture Secretary and former Iowa Governor Tom Vilsack about not going after employees who allegedly discriminated against black farmers. Here's some info on the case from Human Events: The original plaintiffs in the Pigford

State 29noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7199889.post-4066129355343530762010-12-07T23:59:00.002-06:002010-12-08T00:00:17.171-06:00

Everybody's talking about how Branstad called Mike "Kiss My Ass!!! Fuck You!!! Gronstal a "dictator" for never wanting to allow some pointless gay marriage vote thing in the Iowa Senate where Gronstal is the Democrats' barely-majority leader. Dorman's talked about it at the Gazette. Jennifer Jacobs of the Register.  The Iowa City Press-Citizen.  That Mike Glover AP story sure has made the rounds

State 29noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7199889.post-25642049284807969872010-12-07T23:39:00.000-06:002010-12-07T23:39:40.698-06:00

The Cedar Rapids Gazette is running a story about the University of Iowa poll (when did they start doing polls?) that shows, on a nationwide basis, support for medical marijuana at 65%, with 69% of Democrats, 57% of Republicans and 77% of Independents favoring its use.

State 29noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7199889.post-76618408778786580622010-12-07T16:44:00.000-06:002010-12-07T16:44:23.751-06:00

Elizabeth Edwards has died of cancer.  I can't wait for the media to whitewash what Elizabeth Edwards was really like, along with attempting to bury what a piece of shit her philandering husband John Edwards was.  Oh, look, the Des Moines Register has already started. Let's remember Elizabeth Edwards as she was, left alone to battle incurable cancer while John Edwards was speaking at the 2007

State 29noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7199889.post-83606434945777643332010-12-06T13:22:00.003-06:002010-12-06T13:31:06.253-06:00

Nobody has followed the Iowa Film Office tax credits scandal better than the Tax Update Blog and today's post ("Economic Development, One Lawsuit At A Time") is no exception.  It's a must-read. The only thing negative I'll say about Joe's coverage was that when the tax credits were passed by the Iowa Legislature he had no idea what an enormous scandal this would turn into.  Oh sure, he knew it

State 29noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7199889.post-25862735861684691312010-12-06T12:06:00.001-06:002010-12-06T12:42:43.423-06:00

Nathan Tucker, writing in the Iowa Republican web site yesterday: Iowa’s lack of a marriage residency requirement has caused Iowa to become, in the words of Representative Steve King, a “gay Mecca” ever since the Iowa Supreme Court legalized same-sex marriage in April of last year. To date, those out-of-state gay couples who come to Iowa to be married return to states that do not recognize such

State 29noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7199889.post-49401358030164052022010-12-06T11:51:00.000-06:002010-12-06T11:51:09.746-06:00

Yesterday this blog asked the question: 'How much revenue are you going to extract out of "the rich" if the tax rates expire?' because partisan whack jobs and economic illiterates like ISU Economics "Professor" Sue Ravenscroft never mention it in their defense of class warfare. Here's the alleged answer.  Ezra Klein, a lefty, says in his November 30th Washington Post column: the tax cuts for

State 29noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7199889.post-10760747968716816342010-12-05T22:29:00.000-06:002010-12-05T22:29:20.712-06:00

From the Council Bluffs Daily Nonpareil: In yet another highly partisan vote, the U.S. House of Representatives on Thursday passed the bill requiring schools to provide more nutritious school meals and vending machine offerings. The bill now goes to President Obama for his signature... ...Sen. Tom Harkin, D-Iowa, was among those who voted for – and spoke favorable of – passage of the bill. “For

State 29noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7199889.post-75459061399539325852010-12-05T13:47:00.000-06:002010-12-05T13:47:58.962-06:00

Dan Piller has a must-read piece in the Des Moines Register today on the amount of speculation going on with farmland in certain parts of Iowa.  Some tracts of land have been selling above $8000 and $9000 an acre in Central Iowa, and there's a mention of the auction last month in Sioux County where land sold for nearly $14,000 an acre. What's good about this lengthy article is that Piller

State 29noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7199889.post-46615281776753583202010-12-05T11:58:00.001-06:002010-12-05T12:08:31.425-06:00

Here's another Democrat partisan / history revisionist getting a letter printed in the Des Moines Register: People who support continuing the Bush tax cuts on taxable income beyond $250,000 usually give two basic reasons. They say the tax cuts on the wealthy help in job creation; and, second, because of this alleged positive effect on jobs, they say the economy grows and the deficit shrinks.

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I'm on a goddamn high horse about this "raise taxes on the rich" crap and the extremely high unemployment rate.  Aren't I?  I'm bitchy, grumpy, and just not willing to put up with any more bullshit by stupid libs and feckless RINOs who think a bastardization of Keynesianism is the way to move forward. Case in point today is this post in the Blog For Iowa by some Vitamin B12 deficient looking

State 29noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7199889.post-63816373793031374562010-12-03T20:28:00.003-06:002010-12-03T20:39:06.415-06:00

The Cedar Rapids Gazette had an online poll question:  Should unemployment benefits be extended?  Naturally, the newspaper doesn't bother to explain any of the details here.  Are we talking beyond 99 weeks?  How about extending them forever?  Who knows. Does the Gazette explain that as of May 20, 2010, 32 states and the Virgin Islands have borrowed from the Federal Government to make

State 29noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7199889.post-45827390907147238762010-12-03T16:32:00.000-06:002010-12-03T16:32:56.493-06:00

From WHO-TV: Ames High School has removed a “winter tree” from the school's cafeteria after complaints were made. The tree was donated by local businesses and district spokesperson Valerie Terando told WHO, "The school had put up a winter tree, as a decoration for the winter dance.” The tree was decorated in ISU Cardinal and Gold colors. Terando says, from the beginning, the tree was called a "

State 29noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7199889.post-39314733890434651032010-12-03T16:10:00.000-06:002010-12-03T16:10:45.497-06:00

The Des Moines Register continues to be in a manic and obsessive state over whether Sarah Palin is going to run for President in 2012 as witnessed by this Thomas Beaumont piece covering a Palin book signing at a Wal-Mart in Spirit Lake on Thursday. Kathie Obamadovich was also obsessing over a possible Palin run just the other day, although it was more of a cranky, finger-waving exercise as to

State 29noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7199889.post-5064465982614816012010-12-02T17:15:00.000-06:002010-12-02T17:15:21.381-06:00

Donald Kaul used to have a column decades ago in the Des Moines Register called Over The Coffee.  He is now writing a column for the Mason City Glob Gazette that ought to be called Over The Thorazine. In his latest column, Kaul goes on about the deficits and how Bush Jr and Obama saved the planet from bankruptcy by borrowing and bailing out crooked companies run by crony capitalists, businesses

State 29noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7199889.post-90120847015562660942010-12-02T11:40:00.001-06:002010-12-02T11:45:35.786-06:00

From the Iowa Independent: Congress has no more urgent priority right now than preserving emergency unemployment benefits for the long-term unemployed. That’s the message U.S. Sen. Tom Harkin (D-Iowa) served to reporters on his Thursday morning conference call, along with a harsh side-dish critique of Senate Republicans. “The Republican leadership in the Senate is demanding that we permanently —

State 29noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7199889.post-48526347749039451592010-12-01T17:12:00.000-06:002010-12-01T17:12:41.902-06:00

Todd Dorman has excellent analysis of the Iowa Chamber Alliance's wish list for the 2011 legislative session, particularly past wish lists and how they've failed.  I'd love to hear the Tax Update Blog's take on this. How about the Food Safety Bill that the Senate voted on recently and how dumbass Harry Reid blew it by adding crap that is going to cause the House to "blue slip" it.  Remember,

State 29noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7199889.post-77912062241475535032010-12-01T16:28:00.001-06:002010-12-01T16:29:24.502-06:00

The Iowa City Press-Citizen has a story today ("GOP plan targets sabbaticals for Iowa professors") about how Incoming House speaker Kraig Paulsen and GOP members want to eliminate paid sabbaticals for tenured professors at Iowa's public universities. You know, like at the University of Iowa, where 8% of faculty are registered Republicans. The headline is a bit of a cheap shot towards the GOP,

State 29noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7199889.post-4464265149860511002010-12-01T11:44:00.001-06:002010-12-01T11:48:06.088-06:00

Remember the Valerie Plame kerfuffle?  If you ever read the Des Moines Register during the mid 2000's, you heard about it all the time on the Opinion page.  Rekha Basu, in particular, wrote often about it, despite ignoring the fact that Valerie Plame's name had been listed in Who's Who next to her husband's since 1999.  The point was that Register was obsessed with finding a way to take out VP

State 29noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7199889.post-7145888063731879062010-11-30T16:43:00.000-06:002010-11-30T16:43:50.411-06:00

From the Council Bluff Daily Nonpareil: Stephens Media Iowa LLC on Monday acquired the Ames Tribune, Boone News-Republican, Dallas County News, Nevada Journal, Ames About People & Advertiser, Tri-County Times and Algona Upper Des Moines from Midlands Newspapers Inc, a subsidiary of the Omaha World-Herald Company. A purchase price was not disclosed. Stephens Media Iowa is a subsidiary of Stephens

State 29noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7199889.post-60147161349251098472010-11-30T16:24:00.000-06:002010-11-30T16:24:09.808-06:00

The Mason City Glob Gazette is reporting that the FDA is now allowing Wright County Egg, owned by Peter DeCoster, to once again sell eggs. This was after Wright County Egg and Hillandale Farms were linked to more than 1600 cases of salmonella poisoning. I wonder how much Peter DeCoster paid off Democratic Party operatives this time to keep his business going? Remember that DeCoster donated

State 29noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7199889.post-35502772257095464252010-11-29T18:22:00.033-06:002010-11-29T19:04:58.649-06:00

According to the Iowa City Press-Citizen it doesn't look like anybody is going to be charged in the 2004 break-in by ALF members who caused $450,000 in damage at Spence Labs on the University of Iowa campus. Isn't it interesting how nothing ever happened to animal rights wacko Leana Stormont, the then-President of the so-called "Iowa Law Student Animal Legal Defense Fund", who taunted Iowa City

State 29noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7199889.post-34624094914149112182010-11-29T16:43:00.000-06:002010-11-29T16:43:17.972-06:00

A longtime reader forwarded an email from Ed Fallon concerning his radio show this week, it starts out: Dear Friends, The Democratic Party has a problem. A HUGE problem. Having sold its soul to corporate backers and special interests, it has ceased to function as the voice of the people, abdicating its historic mission as the Party of hope, change, innovation and progress. This was the primary

State 29noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7199889.post-37087740893307456842010-11-29T16:24:00.001-06:002010-11-29T16:26:41.093-06:00

This may be the funniest letter to the editor the Des Moines Register has ever published: As a liberal, I've been very supportive of President Barack Obama. I canvassed door-to-door for him in 2008. I hailed Obamacare as the third step in progressive legislation following Social Security and Medicare. I overlooked his not closing Guantanamo Bay, not ending the war in Iraq, continuing Bush-style

State 29noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7199889.post-25254007628025068602010-11-28T23:38:00.002-06:002010-11-28T23:40:11.863-06:00

I don't know where to begin with this article in the Des Moines Register ("Political uncertainty hampers biodiesel industry"). The article starts off complaining about how those evil capitalist pig oil companies have a lawsuit against a biodiesel mandate by the EPA, and: Meanwhile, the biodiesel industry's $1-a-gallon subsidy expired at the end of 2009 because of an unrelated disagreement in the

State 29noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7199889.post-34847961231673453782010-11-28T16:09:00.004-06:002010-11-28T16:16:29.659-06:00

I'm curious why the Des Moines Register was afraid to allow comments on their race and sexuality-obsessed article on the new president of Grinnell College. ("Small-town Iowa embraces Grinnell's gay, black president") Most people don't care who the president of Grinnell College is, much less whether he's black, gay, married, or has kids.  The guy's got an impressive educational history and

State 29noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7199889.post-64679513905132045342010-11-28T11:03:00.001-06:002010-11-28T16:29:22.043-06:00

By Erin Jordan of the Cedar Rapids Gazette: Cedar Rapids police have used Tasers on black people disproportionately in 2010, causing members of the African-American community to call for better cultural training for officers. Of the 30 people Tasers where used on through August of this year, nine, or 30 percent, were black — far exceeding the 3.7 percent black people comprise of the Cedar Rapids

State 29noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7199889.post-19816404819758955892010-11-27T12:12:00.001-06:002010-11-27T12:12:51.022-06:00

From the Cedar Rapids Gazette: A rosy outlook for holiday online sales won’t do much to improve the bottom line for struggling state and local governments because of lagging tax collections.Online sales have been increasing ever since businesses started selling stuff over the internet.  This is a trend that will continue for probably most of our lifetimes. As for the notion that state and local

State 29noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7199889.post-7657497732383048192010-11-27T10:56:00.000-06:002010-11-27T10:56:39.356-06:00

From the Iowa City Press-Citizen's editorial board: In one of the UI cases, an assistant professor was charged with sexual abuse and assault in 2008 of a lab assistant and convicted last month on two serious misdemeanor assault counts. A jury deadlocked on a felony sexual abuse charge, and prosecutors plan to retry the assistant professor. According to the AP, Moore would not say whether UI now

State 29noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7199889.post-50905152126621620452010-11-26T10:00:00.000-06:002010-11-26T10:00:18.419-06:00

The Des Moines Register has a guest column on the Iowa Supreme Court Justice ousters by some lawyer from Florida named Stephen N. Zack.  He's the president of the Liberal American Bar Assocation.  He has lots of suggestions for you stupid Iowans and how lawyers ought to suppress your free speech and right to petition the government: Some who object to that ruling might applaud the results of the

State 29noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7199889.post-53650190277588813542010-11-24T16:14:00.000-06:002010-11-24T16:14:47.960-06:00

The Des Moines Register is reporting that Minnesota filmmaker Matthias Saunders plead guilty to felony theft in exchange for ratting on others.  He faces a maximum of 10 years in prison, which you can bet with Fifth District judges in charge will be suspended, but Saunders likely faces more charges down the road which will be reduced, suspended, or which will be successfully appealed down to

State 29noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7199889.post-70317569539324748542010-11-23T19:34:00.001-06:002010-11-23T19:35:56.242-06:00

Unlike the Des Moines Register blogs, which almost nobody reads because they're boring, people actually read the State 29 blog. Even when the blog was dormant there was still a hell of a lot of people coming in. That's what happens when you write about stuff people are interested in, like Playboy Playmate and Denison native Emily "Jordan Monroe" Ranheim, dead porn stars like Fort Madison-raised

State 29noreply@blogger.com13tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7199889.post-88946226125528859322010-11-23T12:03:00.000-06:002010-11-23T12:03:29.473-06:00

Everybody's been talking about how Al Gore admits he supported ethanol subsidies and protective tariffs in order to gain an advantage during the Iowa caucuses in 2000 rather than actually believing they were a good idea. Stop the presses!  You mean to say an opportunistic politician lied about something he didn't really believe in?  Who ever heard of that before?  The media really needs to Take

State 29noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7199889.post-26474833827688363572010-11-21T14:46:00.000-06:002010-11-21T14:46:39.744-06:00

From the Ames Tribune: The Ames City Council may be getting out of the business of Section 8 administration. A recommendation from city staff encourages the council to return local administration duties for the subsidized housing program to the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development to be assigned to another agency. “It is important to note that the city’s relinquishment of the

State 29noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7199889.post-50965546756654973152010-11-21T14:28:00.000-06:002010-11-21T14:28:54.346-06:00

From the Cedar Rapids Gazette: City officials are slated to hold a news conference on Monday to announce the city’s purchase of the downtown’s Crowne Plaza Five Seasons Hotel from its creditor, Mayor Ron Corbett said Saturday. The announcement has been expected for weeks. Corbett first announced in June that the city intended to buy the long-struggling hotel from CWCapital LLC, which took

State 29noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7199889.post-24409957756765071722010-11-21T12:46:00.000-06:002010-11-21T12:46:05.781-06:00

Let's be honest here, the Des Moines Register loves criminals.  Their hearts bleed for criminals.  They're disgusted by the idea of the death penalty, and yet they think mass murderers like 17 year old Michael Richard Swanson can be rehabilitated.  This won't be admitted by anybody there, but a life sentence doesn't really mean a "life sentence" in their book.  If Michael Richard Swanson was 37

State 29noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7199889.post-74843304823622284612010-11-20T23:16:00.000-06:002010-11-20T23:16:14.609-06:00

Here's the first five paragraphs of the Sioux City Journal's rant about Governor Chet Culver's bye bye payoff to the largest state employee union: The only thing we might find “historic” about the tentative two-year deal reached Friday between the state's largest employee union and the Culver administration is the level of contempt it demonstrates for Iowa taxpayers and the brazen, cynical

State 29noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7199889.post-71519038025060044462010-11-20T15:37:00.037-06:002010-11-20T16:29:08.171-06:00

Grant Schulte, a "reporter" for the Democrat bootlickers running the Des Moines Register, has a story in Saturday's paper ("How will ousters affect pool of justice applicants?") that almost entirely ignores the fact that the Iowa Judicial Nominating Commission is comprised of something like 86% registered Democrats.  Here's how close Grant gets to the problem, starting on the 19th paragraph of

State 29noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7199889.post-72291497161601164422010-11-20T11:50:00.001-06:002010-11-20T11:51:47.078-06:00

I guess I didn't notice that Ken Fuson is now a former Des Moines Register columnist, and has been for over two years after leaving Gannett voluntarily, at least according to Ron Maly.  Shows you how much I noticed. I also missed Fuson's fairly recent piece in the DMR where he admits he's been a problem gambler all of his life.  That's what happens when you're a loser, I guess.  I'm not sure why

State 29noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7199889.post-38634567945717034482010-11-20T11:13:00.001-06:002010-11-20T11:16:27.119-06:00

Kristle Harris of Iowa City was recently arrested for breaking her 15 month old daughter's arm, and then was busted for exposing her children to marijuana and cocaine. Kristle has been in trouble with the law before, being busted for drugs, having a gun and a bulletproof vest in 2009. The interesting aspect of this story is what newspapers initially report and then add in later editions.  The

State 29noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7199889.post-1280670282968821022010-11-19T20:54:00.000-06:002010-11-19T20:54:53.701-06:00

From the Council Bluffs Daily Nonpareil: Unlike Iowa’s other U.S. senator, Republican Charles Grassley, Sen. Tom Harkin, D-Iowa, is no fan of the so-called Bush tax cuts that are set to expire on Dec. 31. “With the deficit we’re in and with people possibly losing their unemployment benefits, there should be no extension of the Bush tax cuts for the wealthy,” he said during his weekly telephone

State 29noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7199889.post-12289980117293388832010-11-19T11:04:00.000-06:002010-11-19T11:04:25.512-06:00

From the Des Moines Register: A warrant has been issued for a material witness sought in connection to a homicide this week on Des Moines’ north side. Police want to speak with Renard Eugene Andrews, also known as “Nana,” about the death of LaCarlton Dewan Henderson, 36. Henderson was found motionless at 7:22 a.m. Thursday behind the wheel of a parked, black Chevrolet sport utility vehicle

State 29noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7199889.post-75475161413911221572010-11-18T22:51:00.001-06:002010-11-18T22:56:50.459-06:00

John Deeth does a great job (from an obvious but not obnoxious leftward bias) of picking Winners and Losers for the recent elections in Iowa. I was out of state and involved in other matters while most of this election season was going on, but this final section is the best part: Losers - Johnson County Republicans. This was a target-rich year for Republicans, and my party's soft white

State 29noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7199889.post-77579047131636253022010-11-17T18:50:00.002-06:002010-11-17T18:53:00.055-06:00

I wonder what Governor Chet Culver is going to say about the two murders in northern Iowa? Anything? Big Lug, you said you were in favor of the death penalty! From the Des Moines Register: Michael Richard Swanson, 17, was smirking and laughing as he walked from the Kossuth County Jail across the street to the courthouse for his initial appearance. Asked why he was smiling, Swanson shook his

State 29noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7199889.post-83476581701413482122010-11-17T18:37:00.000-06:002010-11-17T18:37:16.367-06:00

So there had been a proposal made by occasionally combative Councilman (and future Santa Claus lookalike) Max Weaver in Mason City about possibly locating strip clubs in the downtown area, but in the end the council voted against the idea 6-0, including Weaver. Mason City does have areas zoned where strip clubs could be located, but Weaver floated the idea specifically as a way to spur downtown

State 29noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7199889.post-77881185947717930012010-11-17T18:13:00.000-06:002010-11-17T18:13:58.130-06:00

David Goodner, the Jew-hater and professional trouble maker, got a letter published in the Des Moines Register today: Remember when we had a budget surplus during the Bill Clinton years? Well, that was before those small government Republicans invaded Iraq and Afghanistan, cut taxes on the rich, privatized most government agencies, and before a deregulated Wall Street crashed the economy. The

State 29noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7199889.post-29567534572258158182010-11-17T17:25:00.000-06:002010-11-17T17:25:13.318-06:00

Steffen Schmidt is a water carrier for the loony liberal left, but that doesn't stop him from dabbling occasionally as a political science "professor" at Iowa State University and earning over $112,000 a year while letting the TA's do most of the heavy lifting. Today, in a guest opinion piece of crap in the Des Moines Register, Steffen takes a stab at snark, irony, lame humor, profound ignorance

State 29noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7199889.post-78678781722695681552010-11-16T16:39:00.000-06:002010-11-16T16:39:14.217-06:00

Remember when Chet Culver lied about wanting the death penalty in Iowa again?  We didn't hear jack about it in the Iowa Legislature when the Democrats were running the asylum, so it was convenient for Culver to appear "tough on crime" while not actually doing anything about it. And look where we are today, with two women murdered in cold blood in convenience store robberies in northern Iowa

State 29noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7199889.post-72111849639616308252010-11-15T17:59:00.001-06:002010-11-15T18:25:09.635-06:00

Mike Gronstal, who once told a group of senior citizens to "Kiss My Ass!!!" and then bellowed "Fuck You!!!" so loud that school children touring the Capitol building could hear his tantrum, was re-elected by the slim majority of Democrats as their leader in the Iowa Senate, according to the Des Moines Register. Also retained in a leadership position was Jack Kibbie, an old fossilized Democrat

State 29noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7199889.post-78641397356422127932010-11-14T14:34:00.003-06:002010-11-14T14:42:00.767-06:00

From the Cedar Rapids Gazette: Iowa will be getting more than $7 million to expand broadband internet access in rural communities. Sen. Tom Harkin announced the funding on Friday. He says the expansion is necessary for rural Iowa businesses to stay competitive and for rural residents to stay connected. The loan will go to the Interstate 35 Telephone Company, a small rural telephone company

State 29noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7199889.post-91977372343768594442010-11-14T13:53:00.000-06:002010-11-14T15:02:03.612-06:00

The Cedar Rapids Gazette is reporting that Terry Branstad will get to pick who the three new Iowa Supreme Court Justices will be following the non-retention vote of three judges at the recent election. What's missing from the Associated Press story that the Gazette printed is any mention of the political makeup of the Iowa Judicial Nominating Commission, which as we all know is a 15 member panel

State 29noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7199889.post-19203685695450269552010-11-13T16:35:00.000-06:002010-11-13T16:35:41.560-06:00

From the Iowa City Press-Citizen: With rain in the forecast for Friday night's Homeless Awareness Sleep Out at Hope United Methodist Church, organizer Jenny Seylar said she got e-mails from parents all asking the same question: Are we canceling? Seylar's answer: absolutely not. "People can't choose to be homeless," said Seylar, the assistant pastor and youth minister at Coralville's United

State 29noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7199889.post-76010320131363897802010-11-13T13:37:00.000-06:002010-11-13T15:38:08.732-06:00

The first one comes from the Des Moines Register: We, the People, have spoken in removing the justices who dared disagree with us. We, the People, have spoken against intrusive government in our voting. We, the People, have spoken before, in Shay's rebellion in Massachusetts in 1786 against intrusive government. We, the People, have spoken against intrusive government in the Whisky Rebellion

State 29noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7199889.post-18405389381676215852010-11-12T14:03:00.000-06:002010-11-12T14:03:08.835-06:00

Does anybody really trust what Deficit-Reduction Panel leader Erskine Bowles has to say about anything?  Look at those glasses.  Who wears glasses like those in 2010? 1979 called.  The Buggles want their glasses back. Bowels has an Iowa connection that I'll get to in a minute. Now you have Irksome Bowels going around saying that such insanely stupid ideas as ending the mortgage interest

State 29noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7199889.post-57700641155503548452010-11-12T11:08:00.000-06:002010-11-12T11:08:42.643-06:00

From the Iowa City Press-Citizen: The Iowa state Board of Regents could have a new look in a few months with three new members, but Gov.-elect Terry Branstad will be bound by state code in who he can appoint... ...Regents Michael Gartner, Bonnie Campbell and Rose Vasquez have terms expiring April 30, 2011. The kicker is they are all Democrats, and given the current makeup of the nine-member

State 29noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7199889.post-49349672890209374392010-11-11T19:04:00.000-06:002010-11-11T19:04:12.862-06:00

Chad Nation of the Council Bluffs Daily Nonpareil has a crabby and sanctimonious column about the 3 Iowa Supreme Court Justices who lost their retention vote and how the retention vote almost filtered down to the District Court level: Fourth District Court judges’ retention rates were among the lowest in the state and Chief Judge Jeffrey Larson can’t help but assume that local judges were caught

State 29noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7199889.post-59596944660177084322010-11-11T12:03:00.003-06:002010-11-11T12:05:37.714-06:00

Senator Tom Harkin's statement on Veteran's Day: Every year on Veterans Day, I'm always reminded of those statements I made in the late 70s and well into the 1980s where I recalled that one year when was in Vietnam. I was flying F-4s and F-8s on combat air patrols and photo-reconnaissance support missions. It was only when that asshole Barry Goldwater and the right-wingers at the Wall Street

State 29noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7199889.post-74064300051128688892010-11-11T11:41:00.000-06:002010-11-11T11:41:45.631-06:00

They just keep getting insaner and insaner, don't they? This is from today's Des Moines Register: In times of economic strife, citizens hope to attract stable, well-paying and long-lasting jobs to Iowa. For my generation, many people do not want to live in, relocate a business to, or start a new business in a state where so-called social issues cause the ouster of Supreme Court justices. Do

State 29noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7199889.post-6713564752013816582010-11-10T19:41:00.006-06:002010-11-10T23:08:54.601-06:00

Obviously, the fact that Republicans fell 71 votes short in one State Senate election and thus giving the Democrats a 26-24 majority is the fault of those damn teabaggers, Sarah Palin, that witch from New Jersey, Rand Paul, and other Faux News watchers. Never mind the fact that Iowa Democrats lost Terrace Hill, turned their 56 seat House majority into a 40 seat minority, had 3 State Supreme

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