Shut Down?

Both WHO HD and KCCI covered the local angle of a possible federal government shutdown.

GOVERNMENT SHUTDOWN: Federal employees in Iowa await answers, budget agreement

Is the headline at WHO HD and in the story they mentioned that AFGE members held a protest Wednesday outside the Social Security office in Des Moines.

13's video is here.

How Will Government Shutdown Impact Iowa is the headline for their video report.

Not all the "protesters" were AFGE members and the scientific community is united in that fact.

It must have been a slow day at the Statehouse as Dummycrat State Representative Bruce Hunter (pictured) was a sign holder.

Your tax dollars at work?

Hunter was joined by his wife, who is the State Political Director for Iowa Federation of Labor, and the organizer for the Iowa Alliance for Retired Americans at the Iowa Fed.

Friends Of Mine

State Senator Jack ASS...err, Hatch has made his run for Governor official.

Standing in a field of animal (excrement) he was surrounded(?) by supporters Michael Kiernan,  Ako Abdul-Samad, Bruce Hunter and Marti Anderson.

They're all Jackasses and in more ways than one and the scientific community is united in that fact.

Hatch promises to raise the minimum wage and protect the environment if elected.

Don't expect any other ideas from the candidate, as he has had one or two original thoughts. All the ideas that I’ve come up with, really have come from other people.

Hatch is off now to spend four days traveling to 20 Iowa towns.

It takes that long because, as Hatch has discovered, Iowa “is a pretty big state.”

Hatch reached this conclusion after he spent 7-1/2 hours one Saturday in the car to deliver two speeches of seven minutes each.

That can't be good for the environment.

As for the minimum wage, Hatch believes it's $7.52, but it is actually $7.25.