Iowa means ” the beautiful land ” but beauty is in the eye of the beholder. If you like hog confinement buildings and sloughs full of shit then Iowa is gorgeous. If drained and dead lakes filled with green algae does it for you go to The Hawkeye State and get your fill. Iowa: As close to the State of Misery as you get without going north. Steve King for Emperor of Piglandia. That has a nice ring to it; beautiful, actually.

When the Catholic hierarchy cleans up it’s own house and confesses its’ sin; ya’ know, spend some time in the box and contemplates the future they can open their hostholes. Other than that happening they can have another hot cup of STFU. 14% is not a majority of anything as far I understand math. Let’s hear from the Unitarians on this contraception issue, too. Fair and balanced and all that b.s. Good on ya’.

I’m confused here. Are we to assume from the article that at the march on Tuesday it was Fuck the Police Mo? Or Fuck The Police Mo with Gloves, too? Could you make it clear as to how we can fuck the police mo’ even if we can’t find gloves? And is fucking the police mo’ with gloves considered practicing safe sex? Why not just let mo rest from fucking the police night and, while we’re at it, remove the gloves when we’re at fuck the police marches?

The Boregonian is sometimes a broken clock but nothing could be gooier in the realm of crap than the Milwaukee paper endorsing Walker. Running interference for the Koch Bros. and Carl Rove’s dirty work in the state that gave us Modern Progressivism is the primo example of how far we’ve sunk. ” We are all big-time turd farmers from Eastern Oregon, now. ” And don’t it stink. See ya’ in church. FMR

The Chicago III? Already with the bad, old hippie days of yore comparisons. Good grief, how weak. And, What’s Wrong With Florida will soon be a best seller. Read the book review before buying for only $4-5 bucks, too. Released right before trial, of course. Can’t these millionaire publishers do better than this? Meet The Depressed starring the usual bored, glib and skewed NYT writers who must feel like the folks on the Titanic after the announcement to take to the lifeboats. ” We really are important, smart and witty people. Why aren’t you listening anymore? ” Where’s everybody running? Why are they screaming? Did we miss something? The information evolution will not be televised, either.

Is this what the Southside has come to? The home to the machine which built Chicago is using the same tactics of Daley I in suppressing dissent. Then it was illegal an war in SE Asia. Now it is an illegal war in SE Chicago. And we all know how well that turned out for the Dems for a decade. Insanity defined remains doing the same thing over and over again expecting different results. The party is over for the status quo and the gov’t overlords of the police state. Obama will sink like a rock with his over preened pandering to the elites. 4-8 years of Mitt while a new majority is built sounds like hard work but it’s the only action left for progressives.

Nice mashup on the RomBama photo. I hope they both choke on their own bullshit, personally. Tired of turd farmers posing as citizen servants. They are junk and so are their banal ideas for the rest of us sorry saps who must put up with this rubbish.

The MSM in America has Tea Party drones, without a B.S. in anything close to an Economics Degree, talk about cuts to safety net middle class programs as if they’re a done deal, already. Not a mention of cuts to the 1%ers regarding estate, capital gains, or income tax rejiggering on these brain dead talking-head shows. Couldn’t do it, wouldn’t be prudent. The muddled middle is confused. And that is just where both parties want them. Meanwhile, back at the ranch, Europe takes a hard left turn and points the finger, correctly, at the problem. It’s the corrupt political class and Wall St. who should become a lot more austere. And, pronto. Will the birthplace of democracy point the way using the American practice of civil disobedience in the face of injustice? No taxation without representation ring a bell? While Americans sit on their hands, and take it in the shorts without a fight, Greek Irony is at play, again. What a Tragedy.

The State of Misery has once again been shown: it’s a great place to be from.

Ally seems to be profitable in the other areas of its’ businesses. Quite, actually. On the other hand: things that make you go… The rumor mill where I work says Ally is no longer accepting credit card payments of any type for down payments or 1 Pays even with people with excellent credit, gov’t pensions, own their home, etc. Was that a no-no before or has something changed with these guys since May 1st. Just wonderin’.

Peeling back the onion just reveals more onion. And the German peeling of Merkel just goes to show the regular person in Europe still prefers French Onion soup to boiled and bland veggies of all types. For myself, I’d like to have the Continental antipasto marinated, tossed and shipped to London and Wall Street. Then served buffet style to the 99% who are merely wait staff but who are paying for the 1%ers insane economic recipes. Maybe the rich deserve only ” pink slime ” for a couple of years. We can call it ” mad cow caviar ” if it makes them feel any better.

Happy Mother’s Day to all. Lost mine after 95.5 years this winter. Great lady, great ” gal pal ” and a Roosevelt Dem. Pro-choice Catholic and friends of Harold Hughes and N.W. Iowa Progressives for years. She was honored by many at the sendoff. My favorite bumper sticker, a gift from her when I was in college read, ” Custer Wore The First Arrow Shirt “. She and I thought he really deserved that honor, too. Vaya Con Dios, Mary Lillian.

Saddened to see that all the hoopla around Wisconsin recall and the unions came out on the short end of the vote, again. Even Dems are in the mood for beating up on the working class stiffs. Minimum wages and benefits should be re-badged under a bill entitled The Living Wage and Minimum Benefits Act of 2012. 5 year step increase from 7.25 to 10.50 federal and community based cost-of-living adjustments up to 14.00-15.00 plus 250-300 monthly health and dental with long-term disability ins. That’s what it takes to survive in America today if you’re single and 30. Anything less and you’re in the poverty zone. Where’s Democracy For America on this central issue? I don’t want to hear about the usual b.s. after 4 years of Dem rule. ” Sucking less means you still suck, Barack. “

The difference between the United States’ elections and France’s, in a nutshell, is there’s are run by a gov’t that fears it’s voters wrath and ours doesn’t. We accept the shit helpings as a main course and the food snobs send it back. With a flourish and a threat. Until this balance is restored we will be as the sheep. As Eli Wallach said to Yul Brynner in The Magnificent Seven, ” If God didn’t want them sheared he would not of made them sheep. “

The remakes of 2 movies I’d pay to see.” The Untouchables ” starring Murdoch and a cast of thousands of 1%ers. The ad blitz would cost billions, maybe trillions alone. ” They Were Expendable ” starring no one famous but including everyone you know making up the 99%. No ad campaign budget planned, whatsoever. Who do you think gets to sleep with Oscar? And who’s providing the security detail ensuring a restful, safe snooze? Hunter would say, ” the scum continues to rise. “

That agitator was probably from the Riverside Cty area. They’re so, so totally not cool down there. May Day is the time of Maybaskets which have tons of jelly bellies and fudge and candy treats in them; delivered to your neighbors, cousins, etc. My niece was run over on her own block while delivering her Maybaskets by a female police officer’s squad car. The female officer was en route to the scene of a possible sidewalk boundary violation during a peaceful and permitted protest. She wasn’t charged and no one ever found my niece’s Maybasket. We think the officer took it but we’re to polite to ask. Never question a wimmin’s actions, but especially, if she’s a cop. Never. As Mark Twain pointed out: ladies, as opposed to mere women, drown the excess kitties each spring in warm water because they’re being so thoughtful.

Hoping for a huge turnout on IWW Day in Portland. OWS-Portland needs to fire up and show the rest of the country how it’s done, yet again. Hope the weather cooperates. That’s about the only thing Ohbummer and his Chicago misanthropes can’t control at this stage of the UnDemocratic process.