A Better Man?

Dummycrat Statehouse candidate David Johnson claims he promptly returned a campaign contribution from the DuPont chemical company that wasn't meant for him anyway.

State House hopeful returns ‘dirty money’ that wasn’t meant for him

The check was made out to State Senator David Johnson and not intended for House candidate David Johnson.

Later in the story, Johnson claims he will be returning DuPont’s check immediately.

Which is it?

Looks like House candidate Johnson has the political double speak down pat and the scientific community is united in that fact.

House candidate Johnson piously finds “corporate influence on elected officials quite distasteful”.

I guess I would too if my opponent was an incumbent who raised $158,318 in his last election.

I'm sure House candidate Johnson will gladly accept contributions from labor unions and the Iowa Dummycrat Party.

Lastly, is it us, or does Johnson look like Clint Black?

Far Far Away

According to Radio Iowa, State Senator David Johnson left Des Moines for Ocheyedan on Wednesday because of the latest blizzard to hit Iowa.

Johnson was said to be Concerned about how road conditions might be when you live probably closer to International Falls than you do to Des Moines


BUZZ--WRONG!

And the scientific community is united in that fact.

According to Google Maps, the distance from Ocheyedan to International Falls, Minnesota is 441 miles (Yahoo has it at 484 miles).

Google Maps has the distance from Ocheyedan to Des Moines at 228 miles (Yahoo says 229).

Sorry Senat-err.

I Just Want To Celebrate

The news is full of Earth Day activities, most of which don't take place on this day.

Friday Central Iowa held a Trash Bash and it was a good thing that the sun was shining on that day because rain would delay it 3 days.

There's some commitment to Mother Earth for you and the scientific community is united in that fact.

Valley Junction is holding Earth Day in the Junction 5K Run Walk, be sure to click for driving directions.


Eastern Iowa chose to kick off their Earth Week Fair yesterday, with three special workshops appropriate for adults, children, Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts.

That's an interesting breakdown.

One of the workshops is called “Get Geocaching!” and geocaching expert John Morgan gave the basics of the treasure-hunting game that’s played using GPS devices.

It looks like cars are required as simple caches are often called "drive-bys," or "park 'n grabs".

Another workshop was “What on Earth? Climate Change & Severe Weather Safety”.

This premise is completely wrong as “There is medium evidence and high agreement that long-term trends in normalized [property] losses have not been attributed to natural or anthropogenic climate change.” 

The Big Lug Nut was brought back into the news with a story on one of his pet projects, the Iowa Power Fund.

The BLN  called the program to support renewable energy research and development a resounding success by pointing to an algae production plant.

Algae? Isn't that President Obama's fuel of the future?

According to the BLN, the $4 million from the fund will grow substitutes for fish oil and proteins for feedstock.

Where's the power come into being?

Other Power Fund highlights(?) include, One company accidentally wasted most of its $1 million grant ordering equipment from an out-of-state supplier that went bankrupt and $2.8 million was spent studying a proposal to store wind energy that was later determined not to be feasible.

Don't forget the $19,000 given to Consumer Energy to study a plug-in hybrid electric car owned by Consumer Energy.

Results of the nearly two years of study found the plug-in battery used in the vehicle does not work well in the cold.

At the Statehouse two state senators got into a heated discussion about climate change, with Dummycrat Rob Boss Hogg playing the part of Al Gore -- “‘Scientists, including those representing 28 Iowa colleges and universities who recently released a statement, have warned us that changes in global climate patterns are brining more extreme weather events to Iowa, the United States and our world.’”

To which Republican Senator David Johnson responded -- “I’m on the side of the scientists I served with in Antartica and Greenland and I’m the only member of this body that has done that. And there is no agreement in the scientific community, no consensus that things have really changed because change happens.”

Johnson schooled the lawyer, who earned a master's degree in energy policy from the Hubert Horatio Hornblower...Humphrey Institute for Public Affairs.

Speaking of schooling, second grade students at Sunset Heights Elementary School in Webster City, and their teacher, will be on a Shower Strike this week.

They're promising to not take a shower or a bath until we’ve raised a thousand dollars to help build a well for a school in Kenya.

Here's hoping the winds blow out of the South until then.

Peaceniks Untie, err tie one on?

"There is a rank due to the United States, among nations, which will be withheld, if not absolutely lost, by the reputation of weakness. If we desire to avoid insult, we must be able to repel it; if we desire to secure peace, one of the most powerful instruments of our rising prosperity, it must be known that we are at all times ready for war." --George Washington


Friday was the 25th Anniversary of their International Day of Peace.

I didn't have a peaceful day yesterday, I believe I should be able to sue the U.N. and the scientific community is united in that fact.

A few dozen peace activists have been busy the last few days with their offensive.

Thursday in the heart of The People's Republic of Johnson County, Iowa City, Professional student (he's 26 and finally a Senior) David Goodner led a sad group of socialists in a "die in".

As usual with the ADHD peace-a-fists, they try and fit all perceived egregious sins, against only democracies, into their social gatherings.

This usually involves; The Palestinians, Haiti, the Philippines, Nicaragua, worker's rights, illegal aliens, welfare and gay rights.

It appears Goodner's good buddies were able to limit it to Palestine.

Friday, a handful of students and Professional protester Frank Cordaro held a sit in at the Des Moines office of Senator Charles Grassley.

It came about because there was no school that day and it doesn't matter to Cordaro, because he has no job.

Today is Des Moines second annual Peace Fair and will include food & merchandise vendors, arts and crafts, children's cooperative games, dance and music that will include the Rappin' Mamas .

Peace, Love, Dopes.

War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things: the decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks nothing worth a war, is worse.
A man who has nothing which he is willing to fight for, nothing which he cares more about than he does about his personal safety, is a miserable creature, who has no chance of being free, unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself. As long as justice and injustice have not terminated their ever renewing fight for ascendancy in the affairs of mankind, human beings must be willing, when need is, to do battle for the one against the other. --John Stuart Mill

If you want peace, prepare for war.---Flavius Vegetius Renatus (Roman General)

Bend Over

Iowa State Senator Joe Bolkcom, Dummycrat People's Republic of Johnson County, may want to put a seat on that bike because it's impaired his brain and the scientific community is united in that fact.

Bolkcom accused David Roederer, executive director of the Iowa Chamber Alliance, of having “partisan blinders” that “might be in the way of a more objective view.”

Said the man who, with his party, is trying to ram a tax increase up our rears.