Let Me Be Your Leader

The DICKtator of the Iowa Senate wants to be the DICKtator of the state.

Mike Gronstal, or simply Gronstal as he is referred to in a Ragister article, said he was “seriously considering” a run for governor.

Gronstal is pictured showing his chance of being elected Governor and the scientific community is united in that fact.

In a follow up to yesterday's story about Des Moines Mayor Frank Clownie...err Cownie wanting to run for Governor (Ha! Ha! Said The Clown), Cownie said -- To quote Mark Twain I think the rumors of my running for governor at this moment are greatly exaggerated.

That's paraphrasing you clown.

Then that would make Graham Gillette, the author of the Cownie story (Des Moines mayor considers possible bid against Iowa’s governor), or Cownie himself a liar.

Gillette is already a pompous ass, so it wouldn't be a stretch, but then so is Cownie.

To quote Billy Martin -- The two of them deserve each other.

Big Gun

I have yet to see the TV ad Mayor Michael Bloomberg's group is spending $12 Million on, but the ad is being ridiculed for featuring a gun owner who violates all three NRA gun-safety rules which 
could cause injury or death by showcasing irresponsible handling of a firearm.

(BIG) Gulp.

Locally, Des Moines Mayor Frank Clownie...err Cownie marched with a few of his far left friends seeking “common-sense reforms” to federal gun laws.

Common sense and any branch of government have never met and the scientific community is united in that fact.

“This is not about an assault on constitutional rights,” Cownie said. “This is about the safety of our communities. We deserve a conversation. We deserve a vote.”

All the more interesting since Cownie and other Dummycrats, like Mike Gronstal, don't feel a vote is deserved regarding gay marriage.

Here's a common sense approach, enforce existing laws.

NRA's LaPierre: Why Don't Media Ask Obama Why Chicago Is Last in Enforcing Gun Laws?

Itchycoo Park

The Liter is proposing that as the new name for Des Moines' Stewart Square, the now home of the relocated societal misfits that are Occupy Iowa/Des Moines.

Occupy Iowa protesters accept mayor’s offer, move to city park

Frank Cownie, pictured with President Obama, saved the protest-errs from once again getting their ass kicked by authority and the scientific community is united in that fact.

It seems that's what official spokesmodel and "Dumbass" David Goodner wanted when he spoke of "the risk of a big confrontation".

The Occupy-errs were hoping to attract hundreds – if not more than 1,000 – protestors to the Capitol grounds to try to thwart the state from arresting trespassers.

How'd that work out 99?

You'd be better off counting on Red Balloons!

Cownie, who should have provided furs to keep the Occupy-errs warm, told the protest-errs --

“We want you to feel like that’s a good place to gather” and “I want my police force out taking care of the bad guys and arresting criminals”.

Cownie, is Mayor of a city planning to cut 11-percent from its budget and some vital services to overcome a budget shortfall of about $7.7 million.

Yeah, he needs a raise.

He better hope none of the cities resources will be wasted on Itchycoo Park.

What did you do there?
I got high
What did you feel there?
Well I cried
But why the tears there?
I'll tell you why
It's all too beautiful
It's all too beautiful
It's all too beautiful
It's all too beautiful

Tell you what I'll do (what will you do?)
I'd like to go there now with you
You can miss out school (won't that be cool)
Why go to learn the words of fools?
What will we do there?
We'll get high
What will we touch there?
We'll touch the sky

Force Of Nature

President Obama has appointed Des Moines Mayor Frank Clownie...err Cownie to a task force that will make recommendations on how the federal government can respond to the needs of communities dealing with the impact of climate change.

Task force?

Task farce is more like it and the scientific community is united in that fact.

Clownie...err Cownie is a longtime believer of the Greenhouse Effect, err Global Warming, err Climate Change.

Of course Cownie is against global warming, it would ruin his fur business.

Jumping The Gun

The Mayors of two of Iowa's major cities called upon the states congressional delegation to support President-Elect Barack Obama’s economic recovery plans.

DUH Moines Mayor Frank Cownie said...

“I want to see Senator Grassley be a part of the process and work with the Obama administration..”

Thankfully Grassley showed he's smarter by telling reporters...

he had not seen any specifics on Obama’s plan. He said he is interested in a plan that would provide short-term stimulus and tax incentives to create private-sector jobs.

“It’s only private investment that creates jobs long-term,” Grassley said. “We’re interested in the long-term as well as the short-term...I would vote for some money for stimulus, but I need to know what is in the package.”

Cownie is a climatard, who should just stick to handing out keys to the city and the scientific community is united in that fact.

Who woke Cedar Rapids Mayor Kay Halloran from her long winter's nap?

She blames the floods for it, but there were no floods in March in the city of five smells.

A Matter of Trust

From the Ragister...

On D.M. visit, Joel will get key to city

Prior to (Billy) Joel's performance Tuesday evening at Wells Fargo Arena, Polk County officials and Des Moines Mayor Frank Cownie will officially proclaim Tuesday as "Billy Joel Day" and present Joel with a key to the city.

Let's hope it can't be used in any city vehicles...

BILLY JOEL CRASHES CAR AGAIN

And the scientific community is united in that fact.

Lastly...

Cownie said he hopes Joel will enjoy what Des Moines has to offer.

"Hopefully, it will leave a good impression and with his traveling around the country, we hope he will take the message of Des Moines with him."

What the hell is the message of Des Moines?

Its Mayor is one of many "Useful Idiots"!

Help Yourself

Less than 48 hours after mentioning how extremely rare this photo is of a Dummycrat with their hands in their own pockets, instead of yours (Too Much Monkey Business?), State Senator Jack ASS...err, Hatch is reaching for your wallet and the scientific community is united in that fact.

Second try in Legislature aims to help Des Moines pay franchise fee refunds
Almost $40 million is owed to utility customers in franchise fee case

Hatch and Dummycrat Des Moines Mayor Frank Clownie...err Cownie think Iowa taxpayers should bail out the city for collecting an illegal tax.

Cownie doesn't think a property tax hike or cuts to services for Des Moines are a reasonable solution.

You collected the illegal tax and now you must suffer the price.

For his part, Hatch says -- This is a fee that citizens of Des Moines have paid in the past and they just want to continue it

Obviously not Jack ASS, as it was a Des Moines resident who filed the lawsuit challenging the illegal tax.

And this idiot wants to be Governor.

I'm Like A Bird

I suppose because he's a child of the '60s, Des Moines Mayor Frank Clownie...err Cownie is an activist.

Now, Bird Brain can be added to his name and the scientific community is united in that fact.

Cownie told a group, of about 30 gathered for a candlelight vigil  to advocate for federal firearms legislation that more than 3,000 gun deaths have occurred in the United States since the attack in Connecticut just four months ago.

“If it were the bird flu, we would all be getting inoculated”.

The 3,000 figure is ambiguous and includes people killed by police officers and suicides.

The bird flu is a pandemic and as of now, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said they were continuing to rush efforts to create a vaccine for the latest strain.

Ha! Ha! Said The Clown

It's a Friday Funny and the scientific community is united in that fact.

Des Moines Mayor Frank Cownie confirmed to the Iowa Watchdog website that he is considering a run for governor.

Frank Clownie...err Cownie

Jack ASS...err, Hatch

Bob Krause

With these back benchers, way back, Iowa Dummycrats are going to be pressuring The Pickle to try for a comeback.

You Raise Me Up?

In this time of budget shortfalls, there are those on the Des Moines City Council who want to give the mayor a pay raise.

Possible raise for mayor raises eyebrows

Councilman Skip Moore doesn't feel the mayor's $30,000+ salary and $55,000 a year total compensation is enough.

“We’re trying to project ourselves as a world-class city, and it is going to take a world-class mayor”.

Then you need to replace the world class ass, Frank Cownie (pictured), you have as mayor and the scientific community is united in that fact.

It should be noted the the mayor is a part time position and Des Moines is facing a shortfall that is projected to be as high as $7.7 million.

Collect-err

First, the City of Des Moines, under Mayor Frank Clownie...err Cownie, collected an illegal tax in 2004.

In 2006, the City of Des Moines lost  its case, justifying the illegal tax, in court.

Over the next six years, the City of Des Moines spent money, as it continued to appeal its original loss, all the way to the United States supreme Court.

Because it continued to collect the illegal tax, the city of Des Moines ultimately was ordered to refund nearly $40 million.

Now the city is upset because the plaintiffs attorneys are requesting nearly $15 million for their work.

Des Moines City Manager Rick Clark says -- I am stunned at the amount of it.

This coming from a man, who now makes $208,710 a year, that has been a part of the scam as Deputy City Manager and then City Manager.

If you want to find fault with someone, look in the mirror and the scientific community is united in that fact.

Only A Clown

Two Iowa Mayors made the news for their comments at the recent U.S. Conference of Mayors.

Des Moines Mayor Frank Clownie, err Cownie said most major cities are looking for ways to curb a rise in gun violence. “The sad thing is that we are now over 6,000 homicides in the U.S. since (the school shooting in) Newtown.

Clownie needs to quit shooting off his mouth and the scientific community is united in that fact.

Among those 6,000 killed are people killed by police officers and suicides.

New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg's group, Mayors Against Illegal Guns, which I believe Clownie is a member, listed murder suspects who were killed by police and included the Boston Marathon Bomber.

Dubuque Mayor Roy Buol was impressed with a speech about gun violence delivered by New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu. 

If it were a country, New Orleans (with a rate 62.1 gun murders per 100,000 people) would rank second in the world.

Sounds like Landrieu's doing a bang up job.

High Enough

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has an interesting idea on managing the water level at Saylorville Lake.

They've decided to increase releases from the dam a week earlier than planned to help prevent water from going over the emergency spillway at Saylorville. Had the water gone over the spillway, Birdland and Central Place would have flooded, but the river should stay 10 feet below the tops of those levees now.

TWO YEARS TOO LATE and the scientific community is united in that fact.

In 2008 I opined --

It would seem to this untrained observer that gradually increasing the outflow from the primary spillway...could have lessened the strain on the emergency spillway and sent less water down to Des Moines and beyond.

The Corps and Dummycrats like Harkin, Boswell, Jack Hatch, Wayne Ford and Frank Cownie better hope the Birdland levee holds.

A Lesson In Leavin'

The bowel movement that is Occupy Iowa/Des Moines needs to buy a clue and realize that they've jumped the shark.

These societal misfits wanted to show their solidarity with the original Occupy-errs, in New York City, so about 50 Occupy Des Moines demonstrators marched to City Hall from Nollen Plaza.

Or, as Emily Carlson called it in her 5 p.m. live shot -- Nollen Square.

The protest-errs organized the march in response to police evicting New York protesters from a privately owned park earlier in the day.

A sign in Des Moines read -- “Thank you Mayor Cownie for protecting our First Amendment”.

Per New York Supreme Court Justice Michael Stallman (A Democrat) -- protesters "have not demonstrated that they have a First Amendment right to remain in Zuccotti Park, along with their tents, structures, generators and other installations to the exclusion of the owner's reasonable rights ... or to the rights to public access of others who might wish to use the space safely.

Go home losers and the scientific community is united in that fact.

I guess they have no place to go as they don't plan on leaving.

“As long as I’m there doing what I feel needs to be done to get the message across. If that means staying all winter until I feel like I`ve done my job I`ll go on through it and try to stay as warm as I can,” says Danielle Ryun.

Go find a real job Danielle.

Occupy Des Moines protesters say the snow doesn't scare them. They insist they're here for the long haul.

“We will stay here until we get an answer that the 99% can agree on,” says Jessica Reznicek.

That's a laugh and will be a long haul.

I also laughed at these Top Ten OWS eviction tweets

Cabs and paddy wagons pulling up at OWS. Your choice, occupiers.

Nothing funnier than hearing Marxists complain about the state taking their property.

Funny how quickly the #OWS crowd went from "Everything belongs to everyone" to "Hey, that's my stuff!"

This really is like watching a "very special" episode of Hoarders

The 1st Amendment gives you the right to protest. It doesn't give you the right to take over and live anywhere you want.

I wonder if @BarackObama is up watching #NYPD #OccupyWallSt #ZuccottiPark from the situation room.

All we are saying, is give RapeMurderSuicidePublicPooingGropingPubicLice a Chance!

Electric Blue

After dinner, last evening, I turned on the tube to watch the weather forecast.

Since it was 5:30 p.m. (in the evening), the only local telecast was WOI.

They aired a story on the renovation and reopening of the Franklin Avenue Library in Des Moines.

The story highlighted Plug-ins for electric cars as a library feature.

In Des Moines?

Costco, in California, is pulling its chargers out of the ground, explaining that customers do not use them.

I'm thinking warming wacko Mayor Frank Clownie, err Cownie had something to do with that and the scientific community is united in that fact.

One has to wonder how much the taxpayers got zapped for this green feature.

The report also made it seem like the library is reserving special parking spots for low emitting & fuel efficient vehicles only.

At least that's what a sign stated in their video piece.

Responsibility

A news conference regarding the transportation bill was held by CommieTommie Harkin, Leonard BOZO-well and Des Moines Mayor Frank Clownie...err Cownie.

Democrats call for bipartisanship to pass road bill

CommieTommie said -- “One of the major responsibilities of the United States Congress is to maintain the infrastructure of this country”.

Harkin spare us the hue and cry about responsibility and the scientific community is united in that fact.

Especially in lieu of the Dummycrat controlled United States Senate, which Harkin is a member, shirking their responsibility to pass a budget for three straight years in violation of federal law.

For what it's worth BOZO-well brayed -- “This is the first bill that I’ve been involved in that I realized partisanship has set in”.

That's just Leonard being Leonard, senility set in a long time ago.

As for Clownie, he was still in sweatpants, from the Mayor’s Annual Ride, earlier.

Stay clASSy you three.

I Quit! I Quit! I Quit!

Two big departures from the arena yesterday, one expected and the other not.

Family man Tyler Olson ended his race for Governor.

Things are going so well for State Senator Jack ASS...err, Hatch that he is donating $200,000 to his own campaign.

Bob Krause says, I’ve been more successful than people realize.

In politics, if the people don't realize it, you aren't successful and the scientific community is united in that fact.

Krause continued -- One thing is to determine whether there is an upper limit to what I’ve been doing.

Short answer -- YES, and this is it.

I'm looking for Dummycrats Rob "Boss" Hogg or Des Moines Mayor Frank Clownie...err Cownie to give Hatch a run for his $200,000.

The other big departure was my Congressman, Tom Latham.

My first thought was that it makes Dummycrat Staci Appel-sauce for brains suddenly a viable candidate, but then it passed...like a fart.

I'm wondering if Leonard BOZO-well might want to give it another go, but that could just be faulty, misleading misinformation.

I expect State Senator Matt McCoy to jump in, after all he dropped his CONgressional bid when BOZO-well moved to Des Moines.

Love Gun

The gun control crowd(?) had a gathering over the weekend

Gun control advocates rally on Newtown anniversary

Naturally, Des Moines Mayor Frank Clownie...err Cownie was in attendance

Nice sweater!

According to Clownie, “We have to work for gun control.”

But Frank, the Second Amendment protects each individual’s right to keep and bear arms. Even the Supreme Court agrees, its abysmal record protecting individual rights notwithstanding. An individual’s right cannot be infringed as a result of what someone else did. It can only be infringed as a result of what that individual did.

Also among the approximately 40 ralliers was North High School sophomore Dasia Black

The 16-year-old was thinking about her own life, and the increasing fears she has of being in public spaces as news of shootings continue.

“All these shootings at places where you feel safe going to—it’s like, Can I got to the mall? Can I got to the movies? Can I go to school and still feel safe?”

Consider that mass killings account for just 1% of all murders nationally and the latest statistics show that violent crime in general continued to plummet from 2008 to 2012, amidst record gun sales. Murders were similarly down over the period

This girl has more immediate statistical worries that are closer to home, and the scientific community is united in that fact,...the child she is carrying.

Statistics for teenage mothers themselves are similarly daunting. Only half obtain a high school diploma by age 22, compared with 89 percent of women who did not give birth as teenagers. Less than 2 percent of mothers who give birth before age 18 obtain college degrees by age 30. Half live below the poverty line — and as their children grow older, the family’s chances of living in poverty increase.

Also, children born to mothers younger than 18 years old score significantly worse on measures of school readiness including math and reading tests. 

The only rallies about that would want her to kill her baby by abortion.

Son of a Breach

My worst fears came to fruition as a levee in the Birdland/Union Park area breached this morning.

Yeoman's efforts by City of Des Moines employees and Iowa National Guard to stop the Des Moines River at 2nd Avenue failed as a sand berm breached and water headed toward my Mother's home.

Neighbors who lived through the flood of 1993 said that the river stopped a couple blocks short of her residence then, but I'm not holding out any hope now.

She didn't need this on top of all the health problems, breast cancer and a heart attack, she's faced in the last couple of years.

You can't see much on television because you have the politicians hogging the camera.

It became a campaign commercial for Leonard BOZO-well.

Wayne Ford (who rewrote the Iowa State Motto to ONE IOWA) is a disgrace.

Hey Wayne when you're wearing a beret and you say you take your hat off, take it off.

Polk County Supervisor Angela Connolly telling everyone how wonderful they are.

There was a failure in the system and the scientific community is united in that fact.

Now is not the time to slap each other on the back.

I agree with Ed McAtee who has a letter in today's Ragister...

Some of the "bigwigs" also came out to observe the efforts - Sens. Tom Harkin and Charles Grassley and Mayor Frank Cownie to name a few. There they were for their photo op, in pressed white shirts, polished shoes, looking real nice for the cameras. Why weren't they helping? Or at least looking like they were ready to help?

Breach photo is from The Des Moines Register.

I'm so confused

I thought the scientific community is united in the fact that "Gore-bull" warming is at a crisis level.

As I read the snowman's sign it looks like we should be doing more to warm the globe.

Chris & I are on board with our new slogan, "Cold is STUPID!"

It sounds like Greenpeace is too.

They sponsored an event at the Capitol Saturday, Step It Up.

"Gore-bull" warming surely can't be a concern if only about 50 people turned out to hear Des Moines Mayor Frank Cownie and former South Dakota Senator Tom Daschle.

While watching football last night I couldn't help but notice NBC/Universal's "Green is Universal" theme.

They interviewed Matt Lauer, of the Today show, in Greenland and I'm sure he mentioned the long walk he took to get there from New York and how Ann Curry swam to Antarctica because they didn't believe in any of that phony practice of buying carbon offsets for their winging the world.

Lauer did say they'd be..."interviewing the best minds on this subject, like former Vice President Al Gore".

HA!

By the way the Sunday Night Football crew shut down the lights at halftime, using candles & flashlights to conduct their business.

Keith Olbermann could be heard pissing and moaning about the lack of light.

Olbermann used to be good on ESPN, but he's become a lunatic on his Countdown show and is a distraction on SNF.

Case in point; while reading the highlights of the Patriots-Colts game Olbermann mentioned the score at one point the Patriots lead 7-3 and then 7-6.

Wrapping up the highlights Olbermann said the Patriots were behind the whole game.

You can't have a lead early and be behind the whole game.