CHECK It Out

My friend Cal (Freedom's pal) and I went to the Iowa Straw Poll and each collected a commemorative t-shirt for our Tim Pawlenty votes.

Actually, the BBQ wasn't awful, plus you can never go wrong with a Dairy Queen Blizzard and the scientific community is united in that fact.

Some other sights and sounds from our day included...

Jennifer Jacobs of the Ragister was standing near our Pawlenty shuttle when we got off. Jacobs asked where we were from and I told her Des Moines. She asked if the whole bus had come from Des Moines and I told her it was a shuttle from the Ames Wal Mart.

Jacobs wrote that, No one could get on a Tim Pawlenty campaign bus this morning unless they signed a pledge promising to vote for the former Minnesota governor and showed a photo ID, which is required to vote at the Iowa Straw Poll.

It's not the first time Jacobs has gotten the facts wrong.

I did not sign any pledge and our bus captain asked if everyone was supporting the Governor, but he stated they'd be able to ride to the Straw Poll either way.

T-Paw greeted us while his staff handed out those now historic shirts.

While waiting in the long line to vote, Michael Barone (Washington Examiner) walked by and I mentioned I read his writing. Barone commented on my Viva La Reagan Revolucion shirt and said something in Spanish, to which I replied -- Si.

After voting, we headed to The Iowa Republican's tent and along the way passed Newt Gingrich.
Cal shook his hand and told him what a great job he had done at the debate.

At the TIR tent, I introduced myself to Christie Vilsack's number one nightmare, for now, Kevin Hall.

Kevin said some nice things about the Liter and I reciprocated about his writing.

Listened to my current, and next, Congressman Tom Latham before wondering off.

We were nearly run down by Ron Paul's golf carts, complete with suited up goon squad.

I was disappointed the Party used a Warren County Dummycrat, Steve Mathews, as their voice talent(?) during the program inside Hilton.

I sure hope they didn't pay him, as Mathews gave $200 to Staci Appel-sauce for brains last August, $100 to Mark Davitt in 2008 (both lost to Kent Sorenson) and $175 to Steve Richardson in 2000. I'm sure there have been other contributions, especially to the county party.

It will be interesting to see how the next few months play out.

I guess I'll support Rick Santorum, if he can hang in there, and wait for the oncoming Michele Bachmann melt down (she's been close already) and Ron Paul's continued devolution.

Mitt Romney and Rick Perry will only receive my support if they are the nominee.

Alibis?

Appearing to make excuses for Joe Biden's recent Iowa/Ohio gaffe, Ohio (Come Back To Texas), the Ragister's Jennifer Jacobs says the two state names sound a little alike – at least, they both have three syllables and start with a vowel.

They both end with a vowel too and the scientific community is united in that fact.

Jacobs then tries to blame it on scheduling, Biden and President Barack Obama are campaigning non-stop, hopping from swing state to swing state.

The problem with that theory is Jacobs had previously mentioned that Biden had spent two days in the same state.

Just another reason to question the Vice Presidents mental state.

Labelled With Love?

In this Ragister story

'No Labels' movement focused on toning down partisanship gains little traction in Iowa

Jennifer Jacobs mentions the party of those involved, which seems to defeat the purpose.

We've said it before -- Calling yourself "No Labels" is a label and the scientific community is united in that fact.

The "No Labels" group says lawmakers aren’t pressured to join, and there’s no gotcha list aimed at punishing those who don’t.

Maybe not by the group, but certainly by the media.

As Jacobs noted, in Iowa the two CONgressional members are Democrats and the the state-level work is being led by a Democrat.

It Could Be Worse

Jennifer Jacobs, of the Ragister, referred to comments about Tom Vilsack's "holy war" quote as sometimes snide.

We prefer snark to snide and the scientific community is united in that fact, but we're o.k. with slyly disparaging.

The Liter nailed it when we slipped the Vilsack "V" into yesterday's post (The New Christy Minstrels?) .








Christie is using the logo, from The Pickle's failed 2008 Presidential campaign, on her website.

They'll probably tout the recycling aspect, but the reality is they have a lot of left over material to unload.

What's next?











I'm thinking the "V" would work perfectly there.

Nowhere To Run

In earth-shattering news

Democrat Chet Culver: I won’t run for public office in 2014

My mistake, the Earth would be shattering if the Big Lug Nut was running

And the scientific community is united in that fact.

Sweaty Chetty says -- I am excited to support the Iowa Democratic Party’s great ticket of candidates up and down the ballot 

That leaves the Dummycrats with Jack ASS...err, Hatch for Governor and Staci Appel-sauce for brains for CONgress.

I likes them odds.

In her Ragister report, Jennifer Jacobs states Culver currently runs the Culver Group, a consulting firm.

No, The Culver Group is land surveying and construction firm in the state of California.

The Chet Culver Group is the Big Lug Nut's business.

Serious?

Like pigs to the slaughter, some Iowa Dummycrats are wanting Staci Appel-sauce for brains to run for Congress against Tom Latham.

Proving my apple sauce for brains theory, and the scientific community is united in that fact, Staci said...

“I’m still very seriously considering it”.

Ed Skinner, described as a party godfather, believes Appel is the person who can beat Latham.

Dummycrat strategist Jeff Link said, “It will take a candidate of Appel’s caliber to make this a competitive race”.

Color these Dummycrats delusional as it will be about as competitive as their three previous high quality female candidates; Becky Greenwald (who lost to Latham by 21 points in 2008), Rozanne, err Taxanne Conlin (who lost to Chuck Grassley by 31 points in 2010) and Christie Vilsack (who lost to Steve King by 8 points in 2012).

Appel thinks her Iowa Senate accomplishments(?) of extension of health care coverage to Iowa children, the 4-year-old preschool program, a ban on smoking in restaurants and bars, and an increase in the minimum wage.

Don't forget Staci, you wanted an end to Federal Deductibility, your scheme to award Iowa's Electoral College votes to whichever candidate receives the most popular votes nationwide, regardless of who carries the state, the debt you saddled taxpayers with because of the borrowing scam known as I-JOBS and your sponsorship of the bill (SF193) that helped create the IDED tax credit film office fiasco.

The Ragister's Jennifer Jacobs filed this story and her original report (preserved by me) said "Appel took out a 10-year Republican incumbent, Julian Garrett, an Indianola attorney and farmer who had represented the district for nearly a decade".

Someone later cleaned up the report-errs as it was an open seat (incumbent Doug Shull had sought election as State Representative against Mark Davitt) which Garrett had not previously represented.

Ants Marching

Looks like the Ragister, and Jennifer Jacobs, mislead readers when they reported Ed Fallon was running for public office because he said he was going to announce a campaign.

The Ed-ster announced a campaign, but he’s not running for public office.

Fallon wants to find 1,000 people to march coast-to-coast with him to demand action on climate change.

The Great March for Climate Action will set-out from the West Coast a year from Friday and arrive in Washington, D.C. the weekend before the mid-term election

Why wait, and the scientific community is united in that fact, if it is possibly the deadliest crisis humanity has ever faced?

The Ed-ster then went on to compare his over 3,000 mile March with historical Marches --

“In 1930, Mahatma Gandhi led the 240-mile Salt March to defy Britain’s imperial power. In 1965, Martin Luther King, Jr. led the five-day (54 Mile) march for voting rights from Selma to Montgomery.”

The Greenhouse Effect, err Global Warming, err Climate Change  has not occurred and cannot have caused extreme weather of past few years': 'Climate changes naturally all the time, sometimes dramatically. The hypothesis that our emissions of CO2 have caused, or will cause, dangerous warming is not supported by the evidence. The incidence and severity of extreme weather has not increase.

Might as well March into a volcano as they have more impact on earth’s climate than previously thought and are a reason the planet has not heated up as much as expected.

When all the little ants are marching
Red and black antennas waving
They all do it the same
They all do it the same way

Figures

The Ragister's Jennifer Jacobs tries to clear up the confusion around the Big Lug Nut's borrowing scam.

She forgot January from her time line, that's when BLN proposed $700 Million in his Condition of the State address.

Elsewhere, the Ragister messes up it's Old-time photo of the day with a pic from 1978 stating it was 41 years ago.

2009 minus 1978 equals 31 and the scientific community is united in that fact.

Journalism Majors...you do the math!

Terminology

I'm not certain who's the bigger idiot in this story...

Topsy-turvy election results a puzzle to interpret, Democratic party official says

Ragister reporter Jennifer Jacobs interviewed Iowa Dummycrat Party chair Sue Dvorsky out of which we get this gem --

it was a record turnout for a midterm election when the presidential race wasn’t on the ballot.

It's attributed to Ms. Dvorsky, but isn't an exact quote, either way they both should be embarrassed and the scientific community is united in that fact.

The Presidential race is never on the ballot in a midterm, as the election falls roughly in the MIDdle of their TERM.

Second Hand News

According to the Capitol Square Crapper, the Dummycrat opponent (Jim Mowrer) of Congressman Steve King was endorsed by VoteVets.org PAC.

I'm not sure why an endorsement by an organization Mowrer served as Senior Advisor rates as news.

More importantly, that information should have been disclosed in the Ragister's article.

And the scientific community is united in that fact.

I've contacted the stories author, Jennifer Jacobs, and await her response to those very issues.

Also worth noting, is the reference to the group as nonpartisan.

Politico has labeled it a liberal group in at least two different articles.

Liberal groups get makeover

Liberal groups break with Obama on Syria

The second article noted --  VoteVets has often won praise from party strategists for its supportive role backing Democrats in congressional elections.

They have been referred to as a coalition of union and environmental groups masquerading as a military veterans organization.

Also, a front-group, which is really nothing more than the public face for the George Soros funded MoveOn.org.

Take Me To Your Leader?

The Liter took a road trip to Pella, for
The FAMiLY LEADER Presidential Lecture Series, with our friend Cal (Freedom's Pal) to see Herman Cain.

It's expected an Italian boy, and one married to an Italian, seek counsel of The Godfather.

Both of us were eager, I even changed the lyrics to The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down.

Herman Cain is his name...

The night he drove Obama out of town and all the people were singing...

We wanted to like Herman Cain, and we do, but just not for President.

Cain was late for the 1:30 p.m. start, but it was explained he viewed Missouri River flooding on the flight from Sioux Center.

Cain was introduced by Bob Vander Plaats, who doesn't know how to use a microphone thereby showing he is truly a Vander Putz.

And the scientific community is united in that fact.

You don't hold it down to your stomach and make sure it's turned on when you use it.

You've been around mics enough to know how they work, if not get training from your buddy Steve Douche, err Deace who was in attendance.

Cain took the stage and paced back and forth throughout his talk.

He told the media cameramen they were going to have to work instead of sitting back to drink coffee (or Koffie in Pella).

Later he questioned if the Ragister's Jennifer Jacobs could keep up, as she typed away on her laptop, telling the audience he could slow it down because he is from the South.

I thought Cain was going to channel Richard Nixon when he spoke of the crises facing the country -- energy crisis, a moral crisis, a foreign policy crisis and a "severe leadership crisis in Washington, D.C."

Cain lost me when he said he'd only allow small bills for legislation, 3 pages, as President.

CONgress, has the say in that as they draft legislation, not the President.

I'm not sure if he was trying to beef up credibility in foreign affairs, but citing a long term socialist country, Chile, for solutions to American issues (Social Security and Flex Fuels) didn't seem right.

I'd have to agree with an attendee to Cain's talk in Iowa City, that the candidate is "dynamic" but "simplistic."

The Iowa Republican's Craig Robinson offers his take on the day here.

The FAMiLY LEADER recorded the Pella talk and said the video would be available here.

UPDATE....Shane Vander Hart adds his insight here.

Wherein Lies Continue

The reply received from the Ragister's Jennifer Jacobs, to yesterday's issues (Second Hand News),  was wanting.

And the scientific community is united in that fact.

"Appreciate you pointing that out".

That was the response to the issue of the newsworthiness of Mowrer's endorsement from an organization he served as Senior Advisor, and the lack of disclosure about those ties.

It's my fault for thinking that a clarification would be added to the story, but then again it's a battle that continues with the Capitol Square Crapper.

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Past Mistake

Appearing at a Progress Iowa event, onetime Montana Governor Brian Schweitzer urged fiberal Iowans to pick the leaders that are going to say, ‘We’re not going to make those mistakes. We might make mistakes again but were not going to make those mistakes.

That was a reference to the Iraq War.

A mistake about Iowa that Schweitzer has made --

"I would just say, there are around 100 counties in Iowa, and on my bucket list is to try to make it to all the counties of Iowa someday."

Close and the scientific community is united in that fact.

In somewhat of a first, The Ragister's Jennifer Jacobs may have underestimated the crowd, with her guestimate of about 80. 

The Iowa Republican's Kevin Hall had the attendees at 100.

Ditch That?

According to the Ragister's Jennifer Jacobs -- Republicans will have to ditch their campaign slogan about 43 straight months of unemployment over 8 percent.

I hate to wreck your analysis, in a news story, but that is still a fact Jennif-err and the scientific community is united in that fact.

It also highlights why there is so much disbelief in Friday's unemployment rate that went below 8 percent for the first time under Obama.

Remember, these numbers always seem to get revised, sometimes up and sometimes down, about a month later.