March 26, 2014

Wow: Iowa Democrat Senate Candidate Tells Room Full of Trial Lawyers They Have to Support Him Because He's a Trial Lawyer and You Sure Don't Want No Damn Farmer Heading Up the Judiciary Committee
— Ace

This is a major gaffe.

Sometimes things get hyped and blown out of proportion.

Well I don't think I'm overstating on this one. The headline really isn't juiced. The Democrats' candidate for Iowa Senate really says that he's one of You -- and he says this to a room full of trial lawyers, noting he's been "literally" fighting tort reform for 30 years.

He then disparages Chuck Grassley -- who would be the Senate Judiciary Chairman, were Republicans to take the Senate -- for having two fatal flaws:

1, "he never went to law school."

2, he's some "farmer from Iowa."

Note he's not content to just say Grassley is a farmer. (Though it's strange enough that he would disparage that occupation in Iowa, a state with a lot of farmers.)

He calls him a "farmer from Iowa," as if that last little fillip makes it all the worse.

Did I mention he's campaigning to be the Senator from Iowa?

Why this little dig at Iowa? Well, he was speaking to would-be donors from out of state. Specifically, Texas. So when he meets the trial lawyers from Texas, he has all sorts of dire warnings about "farmers from Iowa."

Not sophisticated, you know. They don't have the same "background," "experience," and "voice" that Braley and all his swell Texas Trial Lawyers do.

But now that his statement has been publicized, he wants you to know, he has the utmost respect for those corncob-smokin', cousin-pokin', chicken-chokin' inbred moronic Iowa farm-tards.

“I apologize to Senator Grassley and anyone I may have offended," he said. "I respect Senator Grassley and enjoy our working relationship, even though we disagree on some issues.

....

“My parents both grew up on Iowa farms during the Great Depression," Braley said. "It deeply influenced who they are and who I am, and gave me a profound appreciation for what farmers do for the world. One of my grandfathers was a charter member of the Iowa Farm Bureau. I grew up in rural Iowa, doing farm jobs and working a grain elevator.

"I have tremendous respect for Iowa farmers and appreciate how important they are to our state, and IÂ’m grateful to have the support of hundreds of farmers across Iowa," he continued.

Yes, he's happy these degenerate cornfolk, these dirty drooling Cob People, have found themselves a gainful trade that doesn't tax their limited capacity for higher thinking.

"IÂ’m grateful to have the support of hundreds of farmers across Iowa..."

Yup, hundreds sounds about right. Though that number may fall.

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Posted by: Ace at 06:41 AM | Comments (389)
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1 First thing we do......

Posted by: rickb223 at March 26, 2014 06:44 AM (b1/nQ)

2 This week, on Dumbass! The Musical! The Series...

Posted by: Brother Cavil at March 26, 2014 06:44 AM (naUcP)

3 First?

Posted by: fairweatherbill at March 26, 2014 06:44 AM (Naowb)

4

Man, Nate Silver is quite the prognosticator...

Posted by: MacGruber at March 26, 2014 06:44 AM (xvtYZ)

5 Well, I don't have many friends from Iowa, but all 4 of them have already mentioned this video. Not going to be that easy to walk back, even with his "apology" saying "farmer" every third word.

Posted by: AMDG at March 26, 2014 06:45 AM (eFytx)

6 God looked at the world, looked at the lawyers...and he made a farmer.

Posted by: @JohnTant at March 26, 2014 06:45 AM (eytER)

7 Thanks for the campaign ad, douche.

Posted by: Chuck Grassley at March 26, 2014 06:46 AM (Aif/5)

8

I don't think that this statement was poll-tested for the Iowa electorate.

Also, this somehow makes me hate lawyers even more. (Sorry ace and gabe)

Posted by: dan-O at March 26, 2014 06:46 AM (D0bIN)

9 Barack Obama is a stuttering clusterf*ck of a malignant traitor.

Posted by: AllenG (DedicatedTenther) Ah, F It. at March 26, 2014 06:46 AM (PYAXX)

10 Ha,he'll probably win.

Posted by: steevy at March 26, 2014 06:46 AM (zqvg6)

11 Is that top-shelf liquor on the table?

Wait, I see Mohawk Vodka.

Posted by: Sgt Hulka at March 26, 2014 06:46 AM (WVjzG)

12 you sure dont want no damn IOWA farmer

Posted by: Ronan at March 26, 2014 06:46 AM (bAXJL)

13 Murtha called his own constituents stupid and they voted him in.Proving him correct.

Posted by: steevy at March 26, 2014 06:46 AM (zqvg6)

14 Texas trial lawyers are a fertile pocket to pick their revenues are down thanks to Texas tort reform I am sure that will depress Amishdude

Posted by: thunderb at March 26, 2014 06:46 AM (zOTsN)

15 Wow.  What an arrogant, elitist douchenozzle.  His supporters will eat it up, no doubt.

Posted by: Insomniac at March 26, 2014 06:46 AM (DrWcr)

16 Farmers are known to be much dumber than slip and fall lawyers. That's why we entrust them to perform only the lowly function of feeding us.

Posted by: fairweatherbill at March 26, 2014 06:47 AM (Naowb)

17 Using the ball as a prop -- or using any object as a prop, like the goal post or cross bar -- that will come out and that will be a foul next season.

Posted by: Broadway Joe at March 26, 2014 06:47 AM (e8kgV)

18 Will the Democrat MFM harp on it 24/7 for months?



Hahahahahahaha

Posted by: Vic[/i] at March 26, 2014 06:47 AM (T2V/1)

19 Own goal.


Posted by: EC at March 26, 2014 06:47 AM (GQ8sn)

20 What a maroon.

Posted by: B. Bunny, Esq. at March 26, 2014 06:47 AM (BAS5M)

21 18 Down the memory hole it will go.

Posted by: steevy at March 26, 2014 06:48 AM (zqvg6)

22 Tonight on Smoking Gun's World's Dumbest Politicians in the #1 spot is Iowa!

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at March 26, 2014 06:48 AM (sLR/I)

23 He then disparages Chuck Grassley -- who would be the Senate Judiciary Chairman, were Republicans to take the Senate -- for having two fatal flaws:



And old Chuck Grassley is no real winner either. 

Posted by: Vic[/i] at March 26, 2014 06:48 AM (T2V/1)

24 Did I say 60% chance? Make that 75%.

Posted by: Nate Silver at March 26, 2014 06:48 AM (W7ffl)

25 "The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers."

 - Dick the Butcher

Sounds like a good start.

Posted by: Bill Shakespeare at March 26, 2014 06:48 AM (A0WON)

26 Yeah.... Texas doesn't like tort lawyers either.  That's why we've been working for years to limit the damage they do and why they're so gung ho to elect Wendy Davis.

Posted by: 2nd Amendment Mother at March 26, 2014 06:49 AM (L4CWX)

27 What's the big deal?  Everyone I know thinks only lawyers are qualified to rule over the great unwashed out there. 

Posted by: Barack Obama at March 26, 2014 06:49 AM (LISuA)

28 whoever wins the Rep nomination is going to have Grassley at every campaign stop announced as "the next chair of the judiciary committee" & "iowa farmer". It will never stop.

Posted by: Ronan at March 26, 2014 06:49 AM (bAXJL)

29 Joni Ernst the pig castrating Farm Bureau member might be his opponent in the Iowa Senate race. [Joni]Ernst—currently an Iowa state senator and Lt. Col. in the Iowa Army National Guard–is running to replace retiring Democrat Sen. Tom Harkin. Ernst is widely considered to be the establishment choice for the GOP nomination, according to Politico, but is trailing her likely Democratic nominee, Rep. Bruce Braley, by double digits in the latest polling from the Hawkeye State. Her campaign's $290,000 cash on hand likewise pales in comparison to the $2.6 million that was sitting in Braley's campaign bank account at the start of this year.

Posted by: tmitsss at March 26, 2014 06:49 AM (7Rx8v)

30 A superior outcome compared to winding up with a community organizer from Illinois as President.

Posted by: Mike Hammer at March 26, 2014 06:49 AM (aDwsi)

31 "...and he says this to a room full of trial lawyers, noting he's been "literally" fighting tort reform for 30 years" Tells me a lot about the guy.

Posted by: Seems legit at March 26, 2014 06:49 AM (A98Xu)

32 If the Ewok be rhyming,
his nose must've stopped sliming.

Posted by: Not really a poet[/i][/b][/s] at March 26, 2014 06:50 AM (DL2i+)

33 Â…And none of it's good.

Posted by: Seems legit at March 26, 2014 06:50 AM (A98Xu)

34 This is the guy that would be running against the republican female pig farmer/soldier should they both win their respective primaries. Ha!

Posted by: Jen at March 26, 2014 06:50 AM (IdGqX)

35 Posted by: Ronan at March 26, 2014 10:49 AM (bAXJL) I know I would.

Posted by: AllenG (DedicatedTenther) Ah, F It. at March 26, 2014 06:50 AM (PYAXX)

36 Fighting tort reform. There's theway to reach out to the common folk! "Hey, vote for me, I'll put more money in lawyers' pockets! And by the way, you don't want a guy who didn't go to law school, some common plebe, running things, do you??!!!!"

Posted by: DangerGirl and her Sanity Prod (tm) at March 26, 2014 06:50 AM (Os+6p)

37 What did that idiot say?

Posted by: Joey Choo-Choo Biden at March 26, 2014 06:50 AM (VndSC)

38 Yeah but I bet he loves some abortion, so he's all good.

Posted by: blaster` at March 26, 2014 06:51 AM (4+AaH)

39 What did that idiot say? Posted by: Joey Choo-Choo Biden at March 26, 2014 10:50 AM (VndSC) I know it's early, but that deserves at least a nomination for Thread Winner.

Posted by: AllenG (DedicatedTenther) Ah, F It. at March 26, 2014 06:51 AM (PYAXX)

40 Farmers are people, too. Even the ones in Iowa.

Posted by: garrett at March 26, 2014 06:51 AM (0GtXP)

41 21 18 Down the memory hole it will go. Posted by: steevy -------- Yup.

Posted by: Mike Hammer at March 26, 2014 06:51 AM (aDwsi)

42 At least he knows how to drink.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy, who did not vote for this shit [/i][/s][/b][/u] at March 26, 2014 06:51 AM (0HooB)

43 I'm waiting for the inevitable walkback/denial from the weasel/mouthpiece. I'm sure it will be nothing more than bile induced spittle.

Posted by: fairweatherbill at March 26, 2014 06:51 AM (Naowb)

44 "Ooopsie daisy, I didn't mean actual farmers from Iowa when I made super disparaging remarks about Iowa farmers. I am a cool smart lawyer dude who just mis-spoke." File under things never said by anyone wanting the Iowa FARM Vote.

Posted by: Sherry McEvil, Stiletto Corsettes C'est Magnifique at March 26, 2014 06:51 AM (cnRMW)

45 Sucks to be you, dude.

Posted by: Todd Akin at March 26, 2014 06:52 AM (VndSC)

46 Vote for me you cousin-humpin', inbred pig wranglers!

Posted by: Rejected campaign slogans at March 26, 2014 06:52 AM (RD7QR)

47 But how does he stand on corn ethanol subsidies?

Posted by: Iowa Eco-Nazi and corn farmer at March 26, 2014 06:52 AM (T2V/1)

48 “My parents both grew up on Iowa farms during the Great Depression," Braley said. "It deeply influenced who they are and who I am, and gave me a profound appreciation for what farmers do for the world. One of my grandfathers was a charter member of the Iowa Farm Bureau. I grew up in rural Iowa, doing farm jobs and working a grain elevator.
***

Yes, and you obviously hated every minute of it and got the hell out of there as soon as you could, you ungrateful jackass.

Posted by: B at March 26, 2014 06:52 AM (Pson9)

49 Joni Ernst, the pig castrator, is running for the same seat I think so the man who hate Iowa farmers against the woman who grew up castrating pigs too funny

Posted by: thunderb at March 26, 2014 06:52 AM (zOTsN)

50 Posted by: fairweatherbill at March 26, 2014 10:51 AM (Naowb) You didn't have to wait long.

Posted by: AllenG (DedicatedTenther) Ah, F It. at March 26, 2014 06:52 AM (PYAXX)

51 Feeling better, Ace?

Posted by: garrett at March 26, 2014 06:52 AM (0GtXP)

52 He will probably win in a landslide, iowa went for barack obsma twice. Proving ioawans, while pretty good farmers, love them some welfare.

Posted by: Kreplach at March 26, 2014 06:53 AM (gvWL9)

53 One irate farmer, one fertilizer truck, and this Democrat will be happier than a pig in slop...   or not.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at March 26, 2014 06:53 AM (sLR/I)

54 We could use a lot more farmers without law degrees in Congress. Literally.

Posted by: Citizen X at March 26, 2014 06:53 AM (7ObY1)

55

Oh that's priceless.  Here's your headline:

 

"Ambulance chaser trial lawyer stands in swank hotel in front of table of booze and promises other TEXAS trial lawyers that he will fight ambulance chaser reform and that Chuck Grassley is too stupid to serve in Congress because he's a farmer from Iowa."

 

This is their candidate??  Can we please have someone attend all of Kay Hagan's fundraisers.  And Shaheen's?

Posted by: prescient11 at March 26, 2014 06:53 AM (tVTLU)

56 Meanwhile, Grassley isn't even a farmer, is he? He's a career politician. So, an unneeded jab at the common folk of Iowa. What a dumbass.

Posted by: DangerGirl and her Sanity Prod (tm) at March 26, 2014 06:53 AM (Os+6p)

57 Anybody ever calculate what percentage of the economy is leeched away by lawyers?US has more lawyers than any other country of the world,maybe even as a percentage of population not just total number.

Posted by: steevy at March 26, 2014 06:53 AM (zqvg6)

58 50 Joni Ernst, the pig castrator, is running for the same seat I think *** There is a lot to be feared just in that sentence alone.

Posted by: Roy at March 26, 2014 06:53 AM (VndSC)

59 Joni Ernst, the pig castrator Hog nutter, please.

Posted by: garrett at March 26, 2014 06:54 AM (0GtXP)

60 'corncob smokin', cousin pokin', chicken chokin', inbred moronic Iowa farm-tards.'

Wow.

Just wow.

/tearing up a little. The words... they are so... so descriptive of what a dope smokin', intern pokin', chicken chokin' inbred hippie libtard would say and/or think...

Posted by: shibumi who is exceptionally cynical today at March 26, 2014 06:54 AM (25HWz)

61 He will probably win in a landslide, iowa went for barack obsma twice. Yeah, but TFG didn't insult Iowa Farmers.

Posted by: AllenG (DedicatedTenther) Ah, F It. at March 26, 2014 06:54 AM (PYAXX)

62 Joni Ernst, the pig castrator, is running for the same seat I think She's a slacker until she includes reindeer.

Posted by: rickb223 at March 26, 2014 06:55 AM (b1/nQ)

63 I know the morons-ettes like to disparage Iowa because of the caucus thingy, and I agree about that, but Iowa is a purple state, not a blue state. I grew up on an Iowa farm in the 50s and early 60s, back when we were as red as Wyoming. I've castrated my share of hogs and never have I known a trial lawyer and I'm voting for Joni Ernst because those piglets do squeal like a trial lawyer.

Posted by: Angel with a sword at March 26, 2014 06:55 AM (hpgw1)

64 >>>Feeling better, Ace? so-so. thanks for asking. to be honest I think I just need a break.

Posted by: ace at March 26, 2014 06:55 AM (/FnUH)

65 And isn't that "apology" basically "a lot of my friends are farmers?"

Posted by: AllenG (DedicatedTenther) Ah, F It. at March 26, 2014 06:55 AM (PYAXX)

66 So is Joni Ernst the opponent, or is there a GOP primary? If Braley wins after this comment, the GOP really should completely give up on Iowa.

Posted by: SH at March 26, 2014 06:55 AM (gmeXX)

67 So I'm stuck with either a trial lawyer or a farmer from Iowa to head the judiciary?  Fuck em both, I'm sure the stoned libertarians have a better candidate.

Posted by: SpongeBobSaget at March 26, 2014 06:55 AM (L02KD)

68 This is their candidate?? Can we please have someone attend all of Kay Hagan's fundraisers. And Shaheen's? Posted by: prescient ----------------- What astounds me re Hagan, is that she is genuinely dumb. I suppose it shouldn't, many (most?) Dems really are stupid. It is only the MSM running interference that gets them elected.

Posted by: Mike Hammer at March 26, 2014 06:55 AM (aDwsi)

69 Posted by: SH at March 26, 2014 10:55 AM (gmeXX) I think there's still a primary to be had.

Posted by: AllenG (DedicatedTenther) Ah, F It. at March 26, 2014 06:56 AM (PYAXX)

70 It's not a gaffe if you meant it

Posted by: Navycopjoe at March 26, 2014 06:56 AM (M3WNi)

71 What a slimy asshole.  Typical f'n ambulance chaser.  "I've been literally fighting tort reform for 30 years"  A quick poll here, if after watching this you wanted to curb stomp this clown, raise your hand.

Posted by: Timon at March 26, 2014 06:56 AM (kAniV)

72 Hog nutter, please. Posted by: garrett at March 26, 2014 10:54 AM (0GtXP) I don't think that means what you think it means.

Posted by: Wicket at March 26, 2014 06:56 AM (4+AaH)

73 Braley specialized in representing workers who had been injured on the job or were terminated unfairly. As an attorney, Braley served as president of the Iowa Trial Lawyers Association farmers love workers comp

Posted by: thunderb at March 26, 2014 06:56 AM (zOTsN)

74

Going OT because of special dispensation because I'm upside down here in OZ and it's almost 2am...

 

Goodnight all and have a wonderful yesterday!

Posted by: aussie at March 26, 2014 06:56 AM (7bNcL)

75 Joni Ernst, the pig castrator, is running for the same seat I think so the man who hate Iowa farmers against the woman who grew up castrating pigs too funny If I was her campaign manager, her posters would be her with a large knife and a grin.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy, who did not vote for this shit [/i][/s][/b][/u] at March 26, 2014 06:57 AM (0HooB)

76 A quick poll here, if after watching this you wanted to curb stomp this clown, raise your hand. Posted by: Timon at March 26, 2014 10:56 AM (kAniV) I raped Gaia in revenge.

Posted by: Citizen X at March 26, 2014 06:57 AM (7ObY1)

77 >>>You know how sometimes bloggers, such as myself, might overstate how bad something is, just to create some interest and hype? Go on....

Posted by: Caliban at March 26, 2014 06:57 AM (DrC22)

78 G'night aussie!

Posted by: EC at March 26, 2014 06:57 AM (GQ8sn)

79 Posted by: Timon at March 26, 2014 10:56 AM (kAniV) Dude. Who knew so many hands could break the sound-barrier all in unison?

Posted by: AllenG (DedicatedTenther) Ah, F It. at March 26, 2014 06:57 AM (PYAXX)

80

Anna, I brought this over from the last thread just for you:

 

 

That could be a story - The Case of the Purloined Milk.
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at March 26, 2014 10:20 AM (sLR/I)

 


"Can we recover the stolen milk, Holmes, do you think?" I asked.


"I am afraid not, my dear Watson," replied Holmes, lighting his pipe. "We are but too late in the game to be afoot. I fear the milk is now in a canal."


"But which, Holmes? Regent's? The Thames?"


"Alimentary, my dear Watson."

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at March 26, 2014 06:57 AM (zF6Iw)

81 You really get to know these dems when they're in a back room telling their wealthy out of state donors what they going to get out of the deal.

Posted by: Dang at March 26, 2014 06:57 AM (MNq6o)

82 Chuck Grassley's bio. He does own a farm. Biography Born: Sept. 17, 1933, New Hartford, Iowa Family: Married Barbara Speicher 1954; Five children, Lee, Wendy, Robin, Michele, Jay Occupation: Farmer (son, Robin, currently operates family farm); sheet metal shearer 1959-1961; assembly line worker 1961-1971; elected to Iowa Legislature 1958; U.S. House of Representatives 1974, U.S. Senate 1980 Education: B.A. 1955, M.A. 1956 Political Science, University of Northern Iowa; Ph.D. work, University of Iowa Memberships: Farm Bureau, the Butler County and State of Iowa Historical Societies, Pi Gamma Mu, Kappa Delta Pi, International Association of Machinists 1962-71, Masons, Eagles, Baptist Church Committees: Judiciary (Ranking Member), Finance, Budget, Agriculture, Joint Tax, Senate Caucus on International Narcotics Control (Co-Chairman), Senate Caucus on Foster Youth (Co-Chair)

Posted by: Jen at March 26, 2014 06:57 AM (IdGqX)

83 What astounds me re Hagan, is that she is genuinely dumb. I suppose it shouldn't, many (most?) Dems really are stupid. It is only the MSM running interference that gets them elected. Posted by: Mike Hammer That's Senator Stupid!

Posted by: Roy at March 26, 2014 06:57 AM (VndSC)

84 Backwards Boy and she could be introduced as "Here's Joni!!!!"

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at March 26, 2014 06:57 AM (sLR/I)

85 so-so. thanks for asking. to be honest I think I just need a break. Posted by: ace Come to Texas. Beer, bbq, broads & guns!

Posted by: rickb223 at March 26, 2014 06:57 AM (b1/nQ)

86 I think it's safe to say this guy shoved his foot so deep into his own mouth that he can legitimately kick his own ass from the inside.

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Bossy Assault Hobbit [/s][/u][/i][/b] at March 26, 2014 06:57 AM (CA2NO)

87 Well he insulted farmers, now if he threw in meth cookers he'd have insulted about 98% of the Iowa workforce.

Posted by: brak at March 26, 2014 06:58 AM (M2qTM)

88 Braley raised an approximate total of $2.46 million for his re-election campaign,[18] with nearly a third of this coming from lawyers and lobbyists.[19] The sectors following two and three behind the lawyers and lobbyists were labor groups, and health groups, raising approximately $223,000 and $157,000 respectively. Braley spent approximately $2.11 million of what he raised being spent during the course of the campaign.[18] Braley's single biggest contributor was the law firm of Williams Kherker, which donated $19,900 on its own to his campaign.[18] so trial lawyers have always paid for him

Posted by: thunderb at March 26, 2014 06:58 AM (zOTsN)

89

Joni Ernst?  Really?  A woman who shoots people on weekends  and  makes money  by hurting poor defenseless piggies?   On the other hand we are offering a very fine lawyer who has proven his ability to live off other peoples productivity for decades. 

Posted by: The Democrat Party at March 26, 2014 06:58 AM (LISuA)

90 Now, I read somewhere that the "morning after" pill, Mifepristone, is a known carcinogen.
So, how does it escape the "Delany Clause" ?

Posted by: Secretary Syphilis at March 26, 2014 06:58 AM (e8kgV)

91 Folks don't get that THIS is the way they think. This is Washington in a nutshell.... support me, because I'm like you... because I'll represent you... not those 'other' constituents that happen to live in my district. Corporatism is not Government by Corporations... like it sounds... its the breaking up of the people into groups, which can be bought off and 'managed'... at least that's how the game is played in America...

Posted by: Romeo13 at March 26, 2014 06:58 AM (84gbM)

92

What type of farmer would want to head the Judiciary Committee?

 

Sounds like the "uppity" type if you ask me.

Posted by: President Obama at March 26, 2014 06:59 AM (xvtYZ)

93 64  Posted by: Angel with a sword at March 26, 2014 10:55 AM (hpgw1)


A purple State goes back and forth in national elections.  Iowa hasn't gone for a Republican since RR in 1984.  That is 30 years of Democrats.  Trust me, Iowa is blue.

Posted by: Vic[/i] at March 26, 2014 06:59 AM (T2V/1)

94 to be honest I think I just need a break. Don't take this the wrong way, but I can tell. Get out there and do something. Anything. Go fishing. That's what I'd do.

Posted by: garrett at March 26, 2014 06:59 AM (0GtXP)

95 88 Well he insulted farmers, now if he threw in meth cookers he'd have insulted about 98% of the Iowa workforce. Shit. How did they find out I'm in Iowa? Bitches.

Posted by: Jesse Pinkman at March 26, 2014 06:59 AM (7ObY1)

96 Braley has received varied agricultural interest group ratings in his time in office. In 2007 he received a 90% rating from the National Association of Wheat Growers, as well as a 2007-08 91% rating from the American Farm Bureau Federation and a '07-08 100 Family Advocacy Score from the National Farmers Union.[30] His ratings were maintained for the most part in 2008 with an 86% from the National Association of Wheat Growers, and a 2009-2010 score of 100% from the National Farmers Union.[30] However he has recently fallen out of favor with the American Farm Bureau Federation, with his 2009-2010 rating being only 43% and his 2011 rating dropping a further ten points to 33%. On February 29, 2012, Braley voted against HR 1837 - Water Resources in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Valley[31] which has passed the House, and would require the Secretary of the Interior to reallocate water for irrigation purposes.[32] On August 2, 2012, he voted for HR 6233 - Agricultural Disaster Assistance Act of 2012[31] which has passed the house and would provide supplemental agricultural disaster financial assistance for the 2012 fiscal year.[33 they seem to be falling out of love with him, but can be bought with pork

Posted by: thunderb at March 26, 2014 06:59 AM (zOTsN)

97 Sabato has this as a leans D seat. It will be interesting to see where it is rated next time after this. But if this guy wins, the GOP should really just get rid of Iowa and its first run status. There is zero reason a blue state should have such importance in the GOP primary.

Posted by: SH at March 26, 2014 07:00 AM (gmeXX)

98 Heh, Grassley should send the dickhead a thank you note.

Posted by: maddogg at March 26, 2014 07:00 AM (xWW96)

99 he also loves him some Obamacare and cap and trade

Posted by: thunderb at March 26, 2014 07:00 AM (zOTsN)

100 to be honest I think I just need a break. Posted by: ace --------------------- Sometimes it requires a willed discipline to take time away from the crap. One has to force oneself to detach, I mean really detach from the stress. I've seen burn-out in the high tech industry multiple times.

Posted by: Mike Hammer at March 26, 2014 07:01 AM (aDwsi)

101 82 You really get to know these dems when they're in a back room telling their wealthy out of state donors what they going to get out of the deal.

Posted by: Dang at March 26, 2014 10:57 AM (MNq6o)


Yeah. Somebody would do their nation a great favor if they chose a subset of Democrats and clandestinely recorded everything they said to big donors behind closed doors. I'm thinking the pitches to the enviros would be especially good campaign fodder out West.

Posted by: joncelli at March 26, 2014 07:01 AM (RD7QR)

102 King Putt won PA twice after calling a good portion of the state "bitter clingers to their guns and religion"...Iowa, you're up.

Posted by: Timon at March 26, 2014 07:01 AM (kAniV)

103 Iowa senate race? Why the picture of Harry Reid's parents? (look closely and you can see young Harry in the window on the left, I think. Could be a venus fly trap.)

Posted by: mallfly at March 26, 2014 07:01 AM (bJm7W)

104 Texas trial lawyers are a fertile pocket to pick

their revenues are down thanks to Texas tort reform

I am sure that will depress Amishdude Posted by: thunderb


And what money they have left is going out of state because they know Wendy is a loser.

Posted by: Dang at March 26, 2014 07:01 AM (MNq6o)

105 so-so. thanks for asking.

to be honest I think I just need a break.

 

Posted by: ace at March 26, 2014 10:55 AM

 

So why don't you take one, Ace?  Do a secular sitting shiva.  Unplug from everything and just rest.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at March 26, 2014 07:01 AM (zF6Iw)

106

Of course, in Pennsylvania this would have no effect on the vote.

Posted by: maddogg at March 26, 2014 07:02 AM (xWW96)

107

Posted by: ace at March 26, 2014 10:55 AM (/FnUH)

========================================

 

Feel better Ace!  There  are  a  couple  of  openings  on  the  Presidents security  detail  over  in  Amsterdam,  if you're thinking of a vacay. 

 

Good looking women,  good beer, a little choom;  all the makings of  a  good vacation  (which, of course, is why President 19th Hole is over there). 

Posted by: The Democrat Party at March 26, 2014 07:02 AM (LISuA)

108 The importance of tort reform. Go after the economic infrastructure of the Left. Trial lawyers are mostly parasites that need to be destroyed.

Posted by: Flatbush Joe at March 26, 2014 07:02 AM (ZPrif)

109 Keep bashing Ernst, and you'll wind up with Jacobs, the CEO type with lots of money. Some of which he donated to Arlen Specter after he turned Democrat. And I KNOW he's in the bag for your magical fantasy Ethanol money. That stuff you like to bash Ernst for. Iowa has most of the population of 3 million in the cities. The farmers are very spread out, so there aren't many of them. In the rural areas, it's just as red as Wyoming or Utah. But don't let the facts influence your perceptions of Iowa. Stick with the ethanol club.

Posted by: Jay in Ames at March 26, 2014 07:02 AM (i2Lsf)

110 MPPPP that is awesome!

Moriarty smiles a satisfied milk mustache smile as he puts the glass done, "Oh yes my dear nemesis, it was alimentary after all."

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at March 26, 2014 07:02 AM (sLR/I)

111 She's a slacker until she includes reindeer.Posted by: rickb223 at March 26, 2014 10:55 AM (b1/nQ)
Run Rudolph run!

Posted by: Chuck Berry at March 26, 2014 07:02 AM (/0PJL)

112

This incident never happened.

 

 

If I have anything to do with it.

Posted by: Charlie Gibson at March 26, 2014 07:02 AM (/JKmj)

113 Hope you're feeling better AceÂ…. Take better care of yourself you nitwit, your distinctive take on pressing matters isn't replaceable. Â…Â…..maybe you should wear a sweater or hoodie for the Groove Chills.

Posted by: ontherocks at March 26, 2014 07:02 AM (datI4)

114 I wonder if this lawyer really realizes just how far he stepped in it? Any Iowa Horde with an eye on local papers? Is it even being reported on "back home"?

Posted by: rickb223 at March 26, 2014 07:03 AM (b1/nQ)

115 108  Sock fail.   Sorry.

Posted by: MTF at March 26, 2014 07:03 AM (LISuA)

116 Isn't Iowa full of Somalians now? Who cares about those people the left would soon die off when there's a super class of democrats being imported?

Posted by: joeindc44 at March 26, 2014 07:03 AM (FxO4a)

117 A purple State goes back and forth in national elections. Iowa hasn't gone for a Republican since RR in 1984. That is 30 years of Democrats. Trust me, Iowa is blue. Iowa went for Bush in 2004. Not disputing it's going blue though.

Posted by: brak at March 26, 2014 07:03 AM (M2qTM)

118 Anybody ever calculate what percentage of the economy is leeched away by lawyers?US has more lawyers than any other country of the world,maybe even as a percentage of population not just total number. I'd take a SWAG at around 15%. Most folks don't think about the added cost of frivolous lawsuits until they hear about a case like the McDonald's Coffee Fiasco. Even then, they don't understand that the cost ($8M,IIRC) isn't paid by the company, they just pass it along to the consumer, screwing us all.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy, who did not vote for this shit [/i][/s][/b][/u] at March 26, 2014 07:03 AM (0HooB)

119 to be honest I think I just need a break. Posted by: ace at March 26, 2014 10:55 AM (/FnUH) Ace, Watch this video Maet posted on an ONT about tortise pron. If this doesn't make you laugh, nothing will. http://tinyurl.com/m6mlkdk

Posted by: ExSnipe at March 26, 2014 07:03 AM (LKJt3)

120 Why can't people see what Democrats are from noting what they are against?Against tort reform,against any measures to prevent voter fraud,against the Second Amendment,against any restriction on abortion,against a strong national defense.I could go on.Not even going to get into what they are for.

Posted by: steevy at March 26, 2014 07:04 AM (zqvg6)

121 A purple State goes back and forth in national elections. Iowa hasn't gone for a Republican since RR in 1984. That is 30 years of Democrats. Trust me, Iowa is blue. Hey Vic, Iowa went for Bush in 2004. Don't let that fact get in your way, though. I'm sure you know better over there in Carolina. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/elections/2004/ia/

Posted by: Jay in Ames at March 26, 2014 07:04 AM (i2Lsf)

122 its been a long cold shitty winter on the east coast Ace can you get to someplace warm and sunny?

Posted by: thunderb at March 26, 2014 07:04 AM (zOTsN)

123 Isn't Iowa full of Somalians now? Who cares about those people the left would soon die off when there's a super class of democrats being imported?

Posted by: joeindc44 at March 26, 2014 11:03 AM (FxO4a)


I think that is Minnesota...at least all of the cab drivers.

Posted by: Timon at March 26, 2014 07:04 AM (kAniV)

124 I'm from WI, my wife's parents were originally from Iowa. She still has family in Iowa. Some of them are farmers, some are bankers. Maybe I'm not high enough on lifes totem pole to say what that egotistical asshole said. Good post ACE hope you are feeling better.

Posted by: Misanthopic Humanitarian at March 26, 2014 07:04 AM (HVff2)

125

New York is where I'd rather stay.

I get allergic smelling hay.

I just adore a penthouse view.

Dah-ling I love you but give me Park Avenue.

Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at March 26, 2014 07:05 AM (kdS6q)

126 "Anybody ever calculate what percentage of the economy is leeched away by lawyers?"

It's hard to calculate. All lawyers? Trial lawyers? Tax lawyers? Criminal defense?

Needless to say, in general, the figure is extremely high.

I have seen estimates on the top end of up to 10% of GDP.

Posted by: torquewrench at March 26, 2014 07:05 AM (noWW6)

127 Do a secular sitting shiva. Is that even legal?

Posted by: rickb223 at March 26, 2014 07:05 AM (b1/nQ)

128 ah yes, tort reform. Remember that? That was one of those "issues" things that the GOP used to use to differentiate themselves from the donks. It seems to me that the DNC didn't address tort reform ideas in their overhaul of the health system when TR would have saved $, unlike every other part of #404care.

Posted by: joeindc44 at March 26, 2014 07:05 AM (FxO4a)

129 Say what you want about Grassley, but thankfully he's no Tom Harkin.

Posted by: Mister Christopher at March 26, 2014 07:05 AM (uI7aJ)

130 Snap poll: Will Braley's statement get the Todd Akin heavy rotation, torpedoing his chances of election, or is AoSHQ one of just twenty blogs, plus Fox News that will cover it?

Posted by: Empire of Jeff at March 26, 2014 07:05 AM (CJjw5)

131 Watch this video Maet posted on an ONT about tortise pron. If this doesn't make you laugh, nothing will.

http://tinyurl.com/m6mlkdk

Posted by: ExSnipe at March 26, 2014 11:03 AM (LKJt3)


The expression on the male's face is especially hilarious. ("Holy crap, I'm gettin' laid! This is so cool!")

Posted by: joncelli at March 26, 2014 07:05 AM (RD7QR)

132

If you think this story is "news",  you are sadly mistaken. 

 

Down the memory hole!

Posted by: Chuck Todd at March 26, 2014 07:05 AM (LISuA)

133 Warm and Sunny is bad fishing weather. Best to head out West. Dry Fly fishing is excellent for the next 3 weeks or so.

Posted by: garrett at March 26, 2014 07:05 AM (0GtXP)

134 Hey Vic, Iowa went for Bush in 2004. Don't let that fact get in your way, though. I'm sure you know better over there in Carolina ---- I'd still classify Iowa as a purple state, but it is getting bluer. I think we should use this race a final test. If a Dem can insult the state economy and win, then blue. If GOP can steal this seat, then still has a chance to go red (so long as those subsidies stay in place of course).

Posted by: SH at March 26, 2014 07:06 AM (gmeXX)

135 he also used to love him some John Edwards big shock

Posted by: thunderb at March 26, 2014 07:06 AM (zOTsN)

136 I make a witty comment and it goes down some hole never to be recovered. Thanks Pixy.

Posted by: John F Not Kerry @jfd1965 at March 26, 2014 07:06 AM (HF2US)

137 Chuck Grassley isn't just a farmer. He's so badass that he castrates his cattle by personally chewing up their balls.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at March 26, 2014 07:06 AM (qbfs7)

138 Tortoises do everything slow baby,me love you long time. Male Tortoise

Posted by: steevy at March 26, 2014 07:06 AM (zqvg6)

139 I think that is Minnesota...at least all of the cab drivers. Posted by: Timon at March 26, 2014 11:04 AM (kAniV) Areas of Minneapolis between U of MN and Choo Choo train hub is known as Little Mogadishu

Posted by: Misanthopic Humanitarian at March 26, 2014 07:07 AM (HVff2)

140 I predict zero airplay of this quote    on the news stations       in Davenport

Posted by: Vashta Nerada at March 26, 2014 07:07 AM (/JKmj)

141 122 Posted by: Jay in Ames at March 26, 2014 11:04 AM (i2Lsf)

Once in 30 years then, still a blue State and your last post admitted it.


If everyone lives in the cities is blue and they constitute a large majority of the population, then it is obvious the State is blue.


As for Ernst, I'll let Iowans decide her fate.  It is a Senate race and thus a "local" campaign.  If I had my way election reform would not allow anyone from outside the voting district to contribute to candidates in that district.

Posted by: Vic[/i] at March 26, 2014 07:07 AM (T2V/1)

142 A Translation from Democratese: “My parents both grew up on Iowa farms during the Great Depression," Braley said. "It deeply influenced who they are and who I am scarred both them and myself, and gave me a profound appreciation disdain for what farmers do for the world. One of my grandfathers was a charter member of the Iowa Farm Bureau. I grew up in rural Iowa, doing farm jobs and working a grain elevator hating every minute of it, because I am clearly made for better things. "I have tremendous respect antipathy for Iowa farmers and appreciate cannot for the life of me figure out how why they are important they are to our state, and I’m grateful ambivalent to have the support of hundreds of farmers country bumpkins across Iowa," he continued.

Posted by: Sean Bannion [/i][/i][/u][/s] at March 26, 2014 07:07 AM (6T8Ay)

143 Please. Grassley has been in Congress since 1980. He is *not* a farmer. It's like saying I am a race car driver because I worked at a track as a kid. He has managed to funnel a cool million in subsidies to his kids though.

Posted by: DangerGirl and her Sanity Prod (tm) at March 26, 2014 07:07 AM (Os+6p)

Posted by: Sean Bannion [/i][/i][/u][/s] at March 26, 2014 07:07 AM (6T8Ay)

145 Bumfuck Iowa has always been one of my favorite places on Earth.

Posted by: Bruce Braley at March 26, 2014 07:08 AM (qbfs7)

146 Bannion to the barrel?

Posted by: joncelli at March 26, 2014 07:08 AM (RD7QR)

147 Ya gotta keep an eye on those secret societies like
The Grange
Masons
Eastern Star
Knights of Columbus
Elks

Ya wouldn't want any of them in government.

Posted by: DuBois, DuPont, uTube at March 26, 2014 07:08 AM (PkVib)

148 Dammit. But....fail safe tags to the rescue!

Posted by: Sean Bannion [/i][/i][/u][/s] at March 26, 2014 07:08 AM (6T8Ay)

149 Barrel?

Posted by: Vashta Nerada at March 26, 2014 07:08 AM (/JKmj)

150 Most Americans do not realize how evil tort attorneys are. I used to sit in rooms full of them during and after work and all they talked about was case manipulation, how to sue someone even if they were not responsible, how to get their fellow travelers the DemocratCorleones elected and how stupid the average juror/citizen/minority was for believing them. They bragged about their cars, their homes, their whores all the time pretending to be looking out for the downtrodden and lower classes. Scumbags all.

Posted by: IrishEd at March 26, 2014 07:08 AM (D0NZx)

151 If I had my way election reform would not allow anyone from outside the voting district to contribute to candidates in that district. ---- If I had my way, we would stop doing these types of election reforms and just let people give their money to whatever candidates they wanted. Free speech and all.

Posted by: SH at March 26, 2014 07:08 AM (gmeXX)

152 Areas of Minneapolis between U of MN and Choo Choo train hub is known as Little Mogadishu

Posted by: Misanthopic Humanitarian at March 26, 2014 11:07 AM (HVff2)


Yeah and the Somali imbecile driving me to a job interview got lost and I was almost late.  Got the job though.  Have to go back there Monday.

Posted by: Timon at March 26, 2014 07:08 AM (kAniV)

153 Obama replied, "And when I'm president, I will go line by line to make sure that we are not spending money unwisely."

Posted by: Harry Reid's lobotomy at March 26, 2014 07:08 AM (e8kgV)

154 I predict zero airplay of this quote on the news stations in Davenport It got plenty of airtime in Des Moines this morning. Bigger market.

Posted by: Jay in Ames at March 26, 2014 07:08 AM (i2Lsf)

155 But if this guy wins, the GOP should really just get rid of Iowa and its first run status. There is zero reason a blue state should have such importance in the GOP primary. I'd like the first run states be swing states. Naturally, they wouldn't be set. And yeah, I can't think of a good reason why Iowa should have that much power over something so important. Maybe regional elections, like playoffs, would help. Political brackets FTW!

Posted by: BackwardsBoy, who did not vote for this shit [/i][/s][/b][/u] at March 26, 2014 07:09 AM (0HooB)

156 well, the great unspoken wave of 21st century immigration includes putting a bunch of somalis in Iowa too. There was an article about it which I can't find, like what the fuck where did this crime wave come from? Remember, the left's just waiting for all you old white people to die off so they can achieve their perfect utopia vision.

Posted by: joeindc44 at March 26, 2014 07:09 AM (FxO4a)

157 Barrel? Posted by: Vashta Nerada at March 26, 2014 11:08 AM (/JKmj) No barrel. Didn't affect anyone else.

Posted by: Sean Bannion [/i][/i][/u][/s] at March 26, 2014 07:09 AM (6T8Ay)

158 but thankfully he's no Tom Harkin. Posted by: Mister Christopher at March 26, 2014 11:05 AM (uI7aJ) Hey man! I'm VietNam war hero! I flew dozens and dozens of combat aircraft from Japan to Nam. NAM Man!

Posted by: Tom "I is a war hero" Harkin at March 26, 2014 07:09 AM (LKJt3)

159 It deeply.................. WTF Bannion, finish your thoughts.

Posted by: Misanthopic Humanitarian at March 26, 2014 07:09 AM (HVff2)

160 Yeah and the Somali imbecile driving me to a job interview got lost and I was almost late. Got the job though. Have to go back there Monday.

Posted by: Timon at March 26, 2014 11:08 AM (kAniV)


Congrats!

Posted by: joncelli at March 26, 2014 07:09 AM (RD7QR)

161 you can own a farmer and technically be a farmer while paying other people to farm it for you my maternal grandfather owned a farm, but was a college professor. He leased the farm out for others to farm. Like being a landlord

Posted by: thunderb at March 26, 2014 07:09 AM (zOTsN)

162 Sean boyo, skated close to the edge of the Barrel there.  You and BCochran like to live dangerously.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at March 26, 2014 07:10 AM (sLR/I)

163 "And when I'm president, I will go line by line to make sure that we are not spending money unwisely." I think that was a mispoken promise

Posted by: joeindc44 at March 26, 2014 07:10 AM (FxO4a)

164 I predict zero airplay of this quote on the news stations in Davenport It got plenty of airtime in Des Moines this morning. Bigger market. Posted by: Jay in Ames Jay, did you hear of any feedback?

Posted by: rickb223 at March 26, 2014 07:10 AM (b1/nQ)

165 In the coming production of Trial Lawyers of the Corn, he'll be starring as He Who Walks Behind the Ambulances.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at March 26, 2014 07:10 AM (knoK7)

166 female tortoise, "sheesh get you tongue back in your mouth silly, you're drooling all over my back, ick ."

Posted by: willow at March 26, 2014 07:10 AM (nqBYe)

167 'Should' this destroy his political chances this cycle??? of course... Will it?... WE will decide...

Posted by: MSM at March 26, 2014 07:10 AM (84gbM)

168 162 you can own a farmer and technically be a farmer while paying other people to farm it for you

my maternal grandfather owned a farm, but was a college professor. He leased the farm out for others to farm. Like being a landlord

Posted by: thunderb at March 26, 2014 11:09 AM (zOTsN)


Why would I own a farmer? He'd just try to plow things.

Posted by: joncelli at March 26, 2014 07:10 AM (RD7QR)

169 Bannion - I don't know what closed the tag, but you are a lucky fellow.

Posted by: Mike Hammer at March 26, 2014 07:11 AM (aDwsi)

170 Sean boyo, skated close to the edge of the Barrel there. You and BCochran like to live dangerously. Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at March 26, 2014 11:10 AM (sLR/I) Aye, Lassie. It's how I learned to put tag closers in my sig.

Posted by: Sean Bannion [/i][/i][/u][/s] at March 26, 2014 07:11 AM (6T8Ay)

171 I have relatives who are farmers. If this dumbazz had any idea what it takes to be a successful farmer in this day and age, he would not have made such an ignorant statement. Not to mention the sneer at Iowa. Umm, farms in Iowa are major enterprises. Has he ever been to Iowa?

Posted by: nerdygirl at March 26, 2014 07:11 AM (h7iOB)

172 So the Left is discovering that the Right can secretly record "off the record" stuff too? Oh that fills the subcochal region of my being with warmth and glee.

Posted by: alexthechick - SMOD/Orion Death Star 2016 at March 26, 2014 07:11 AM (VtjlW)

173 Jay, did you hear of any feedback? I haven't yet. Lots of stuff not available at work, but I'll be checking it later.

Posted by: Jay in Ames at March 26, 2014 07:11 AM (i2Lsf)

174 Translation: Elect me and I'll move to DC and lord over all those stupid Iowans while never having to actually rub elbows with them except every 6 years.

Posted by: Lizzy at March 26, 2014 07:11 AM (udjuE)

175 164 "And when I'm president, I will go line by line to make sure that we are not spending money unwisely."

I think that was a mispoken promise
***

"That's just what we call pillow talk, baby. That's all..."

Posted by: Ash at March 26, 2014 07:12 AM (Pson9)

176 Air time in Des Moines?

Stick a fork in ya bub, you just shot your own foot.  And that scurrying you hear, is all those sweet greenbacks fleeing to a more conducive clime.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at March 26, 2014 07:12 AM (sLR/I)

177 sometimes. There's nothing left to say and you just sit back and watch.

Posted by: tangonine at March 26, 2014 07:12 AM (x3YFz)

178 "Governor Romney, what about the gaffe??"

Posted by: CJ at March 26, 2014 07:12 AM (9KqcB)

179 I think it's safe to say this guy shoved his foot so deep into his own mouth that he can legitimately kick his own ass from the inside.

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Bossy Assault Hobbit at March 26, 2014 10:57 AM (CA2NO)



SO STOLEN!!!


LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!



Posted by: EC at March 26, 2014 07:12 AM (GQ8sn)

180 ace take a couple of week break, hand the key's over to the most responsible cob. don't even look at a computer, ipod, or phone or any tech facilitator .

make pancakes.lots of pancakes.

Posted by: willow at March 26, 2014 07:12 AM (nqBYe)

181 Ask Hillary if you can borrow her reset button.

Posted by: Minnfidel at March 26, 2014 07:12 AM (igKtt)

182 Why would I own a farmer? He'd just try to plow things. Posted by: joncelli at March 26, 2014 11:10 AM (RD7QR) You wouldn't happen to have a phone number, would you? Asking for a friend.

Posted by: Sandra Fluke [/i][/i][/u][/s] at March 26, 2014 07:12 AM (6T8Ay)

183 Retweeted by Bryan McGrath Razor ‏@hale_razor Mar 24 Jan: Mrs Obama in Hawaii. Feb: Mrs Obama in Aspen. Mar: Mrs Obama in China. Next month: lecture on how we all need to make sacrifices.

Posted by: Flatbush Joe at March 26, 2014 07:12 AM (ZPrif)

184 Umm, farms in Iowa are major enterprises. Has he ever been to Iowa?


No but I've seen a crapload of Green Acres episodes.

Posted by: Bruce Braley at March 26, 2014 07:12 AM (qbfs7)

185 I'd like to own a farmer. Maybe get some nice fresh veggies instead of what passes as produce at my local stupidmarket.

Posted by: DangerGirl and her Sanity Prod (tm) at March 26, 2014 07:13 AM (Os+6p)

186 I'd like to own a farmer. Maybe get some nice fresh veggies instead of what passes as produce at my local stupidmarket.

Posted by: DangerGirl and her Sanity Prod (tm) at March 26, 2014 07:13 AM (Os+6p)

187 I've been laughing the last 10 mins!!!

Posted by: EC at March 26, 2014 07:13 AM (GQ8sn)

188 I've been laughing the last 10 mins!!!

Posted by: EC at March 26, 2014 07:13 AM (GQ8sn)

189 Sean, you okay? Stroke? What?

Posted by: Seems legit at March 26, 2014 07:13 AM (A98Xu)

190 I have relatives who are farmers. If this dumbazz had any idea what it takes to be a successful farmer in this day and age, he would not have made such an ignorant statement. Not to mention the sneer at Iowa. Umm, farms in Iowa are major enterprises. Has he ever been to Iowa? He is currently the congresscritter from eastern Iowa. So yes, he's been to Iowa.

Posted by: Jay in Ames at March 26, 2014 07:13 AM (i2Lsf)

191 Sean, you okay? Stroke? What?

Posted by: Seems legit at March 26, 2014 07:13 AM (A98Xu)

192 I have relatives who are farmers. If this dumbazz had any idea what it takes to be a successful farmer in this day and age, he would not have made such an ignorant statement. Not to mention the sneer at Iowa. Umm, farms in Iowa are major enterprises. Has he ever been to Iowa? He is currently the congresscritter from eastern Iowa. So yes, he's been to Iowa.

Posted by: Jay in Ames at March 26, 2014 07:13 AM (i2Lsf)

193 He has to be aware of large corporate farms. But he brings the pork so they prolly love him

Posted by: thunderb at March 26, 2014 07:13 AM (zOTsN)

194 He has to be aware of large corporate farms. But he brings the pork so they prolly love him

Posted by: thunderb at March 26, 2014 07:13 AM (zOTsN)

195 I hunger!

Posted by: The Barrel at March 26, 2014 07:13 AM (naUcP)

196 Ace, When you think about it, isn't that the democrat platform? Just tack on the words ...or do you want some farmer from Iowa to make those decisions? To every policy Democrats support.

Posted by: Mikeb at March 26, 2014 07:13 AM (ilbW4)

197 I hunger!

Posted by: The Barrel at March 26, 2014 07:13 AM (naUcP)

198 Ace, When you think about it, isn't that the democrat platform? Just tack on the words ...or do you want some farmer from Iowa to make those decisions? To every policy Democrats support.

Posted by: Mikeb at March 26, 2014 07:13 AM (ilbW4)

199
Hey Vic, Iowa went for Bush in 2004. Don't let that fact get in your way, though. I'm sure you know better over there in Carolina.
Posted by: Jay in Ames



Iowa used to be a pretty consistent Red state, up until the last couple of decades of Team Republican electoral incompetence.

"Between the Civil War and the late 1980s, Iowans supported Republican presidential candidate in all but five elections. However, in six of the last seven races, Iowans voted for the Democratic presidential nominee."

But that's history, and all old and stuff.

Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at March 26, 2014 07:13 AM (kdS6q)

200
Hey Vic, Iowa went for Bush in 2004. Don't let that fact get in your way, though. I'm sure you know better over there in Carolina.
Posted by: Jay in Ames



Iowa used to be a pretty consistent Red state, up until the last couple of decades of Team Republican electoral incompetence.

"Between the Civil War and the late 1980s, Iowans supported Republican presidential candidate in all but five elections. However, in six of the last seven races, Iowans voted for the Democratic presidential nominee."

But that's history, and all old and stuff.

Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at March 26, 2014 07:13 AM (kdS6q)

201 **So the Left is discovering that the Right can secretly record "off the record" stuff too? Oh that fills the subcochal region of my being with warmth and glee** I didn't get that part. If so, then the GOP is breaking the rules of the game: The donks have no rules and the GOP will have to abide by the strictist rules of decorum ever. I mean, come on, recording democrats insulting the traditional population* of a state is only driving moderates from the GOP. * the democrat game plan to overcome 1984 landslide was to import millions of new democrats into every close state in the nation.

Posted by: joeindc44 at March 26, 2014 07:14 AM (FxO4a)

202 **So the Left is discovering that the Right can secretly record "off the record" stuff too? Oh that fills the subcochal region of my being with warmth and glee** I didn't get that part. If so, then the GOP is breaking the rules of the game: The donks have no rules and the GOP will have to abide by the strictist rules of decorum ever. I mean, come on, recording democrats insulting the traditional population* of a state is only driving moderates from the GOP. * the democrat game plan to overcome 1984 landslide was to import millions of new democrats into every close state in the nation.

Posted by: joeindc44 at March 26, 2014 07:14 AM (FxO4a)

203 >>make pancakes.lots of pancakes.

Good advice - I like the way you think!

Posted by: Lizzy at March 26, 2014 07:14 AM (udjuE)

204 >>make pancakes.lots of pancakes.

Good advice - I like the way you think!

Posted by: Lizzy at March 26, 2014 07:14 AM (udjuE)

205 "chicken-chokin' inbred moronic Iowa farm-tards." and hold up there. I'm pretty sure that was an insult.

Posted by: tangonine at March 26, 2014 07:14 AM (x3YFz)

206 "chicken-chokin' inbred moronic Iowa farm-tards." and hold up there. I'm pretty sure that was an insult.

Posted by: tangonine at March 26, 2014 07:14 AM (x3YFz)

207 Goober trial lawyer from Iowa makes fun of farmers from Iowa to raise money from the shark tank of Texas. Imagine what he would say in DC to the really big crooks. And if his parents were farmers he is just proved that he is another adolescent, parent hating Democrat. I bet they made him do chores!

Posted by: Lester at March 26, 2014 07:14 AM (2UPXV)

208 Goober trial lawyer from Iowa makes fun of farmers from Iowa to raise money from the shark tank of Texas. Imagine what he would say in DC to the really big crooks. And if his parents were farmers he is just proved that he is another adolescent, parent hating Democrat. I bet they made him do chores!

Posted by: Lester at March 26, 2014 07:14 AM (2UPXV)

209 Oh that fills the subcochal region of my being with warmth and glee. Posted by: alexthechick - SMOD/Orion Death Star 2016 at March 26, 2014 11:11 AM (VtjlW) You wouldn't happen to have any video of that, would you?

Posted by: Sean Bannion [/i][/i][/u][/s] at March 26, 2014 07:14 AM (6T8Ay)

210 Oh that fills the subcochal region of my being with warmth and glee. Posted by: alexthechick - SMOD/Orion Death Star 2016 at March 26, 2014 11:11 AM (VtjlW) You wouldn't happen to have any video of that, would you?

Posted by: Sean Bannion [/i][/i][/u][/s] at March 26, 2014 07:14 AM (6T8Ay)

211 One of the more famous and sainted (ie. rich) pi lawyers in Chicago got his start ambulance chasing on tips from cop relatives. He would also call his attorneys in the middle of the night if an accident occurred to get to the hospital. Cash buys class, of course.

Posted by: ejo at March 26, 2014 07:14 AM (GXvSO)

212 One of the more famous and sainted (ie. rich) pi lawyers in Chicago got his start ambulance chasing on tips from cop relatives. He would also call his attorneys in the middle of the night if an accident occurred to get to the hospital. Cash buys class, of course.

Posted by: ejo at March 26, 2014 07:14 AM (GXvSO)

213 Good piece on Obama killing the Tomahawk missile Bryan McGrath ‏@ConsWahoo #Navy to end TLAM production line. This is what assuming risk looks like. #USN #Seapower http://goo.gl/Bnviix

Posted by: Flatbush Joe at March 26, 2014 07:14 AM (ZPrif)

214 Good piece on Obama killing the Tomahawk missile Bryan McGrath ‏@ConsWahoo #Navy to end TLAM production line. This is what assuming risk looks like. #USN #Seapower http://goo.gl/Bnviix

Posted by: Flatbush Joe at March 26, 2014 07:14 AM (ZPrif)

215 I wish T was a tort lawyer I'd be living in Milan drinking chivas for breakfast by now

Posted by: Navycopjoe at March 26, 2014 07:14 AM (M3WNi)

216 I wish T was a tort lawyer I'd be living in Milan drinking chivas for breakfast by now

Posted by: Navycopjoe at March 26, 2014 07:14 AM (M3WNi)

217 Ace can you get to someplace warm and sunny? I'm pretty sure there's an Ewok sanctuary down here somewhere.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy, who did not vote for this shit [/i][/s][/b][/u] at March 26, 2014 07:14 AM (0HooB)

218 Ace can you get to someplace warm and sunny? I'm pretty sure there's an Ewok sanctuary down here somewhere.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy, who did not vote for this shit [/i][/s][/b][/u] at March 26, 2014 07:14 AM (0HooB)

219 154 Obama replied, "And when I'm president, I will go line by line to make sure that we are not spending money unwisely." Posted by: Harry Reid's lobotomy at March 26, 2014 11:08 AM (e8kgV) 1.... 2....3.....4... OK... if we're cutting every 5th line of the defense budget... next up? Tomahawks... Well... that's an easy one... what do they need tomahawks for.... we already give them knives.... and besides... Tomahawks are RAAAAACIST....

Posted by: Susan Rice, National Security Advisor at March 26, 2014 07:14 AM (84gbM)

220 154 Obama replied, "And when I'm president, I will go line by line to make sure that we are not spending money unwisely." Posted by: Harry Reid's lobotomy at March 26, 2014 11:08 AM (e8kgV) 1.... 2....3.....4... OK... if we're cutting every 5th line of the defense budget... next up? Tomahawks... Well... that's an easy one... what do they need tomahawks for.... we already give them knives.... and besides... Tomahawks are RAAAAACIST....

Posted by: Susan Rice, National Security Advisor at March 26, 2014 07:14 AM (84gbM)

221 Oh that fills the subcochal region of my being with warmth and glee.


Posted by: alexthechick - SMOD/Orion Death Star 2016 at March 26, 2014 11:11 AM (VtjlW)



Wait. I thought only men had subcochal regions.

Posted by: Joe Biden at March 26, 2014 07:15 AM (qbfs7)

222 Oh that fills the subcochal region of my being with warmth and glee.


Posted by: alexthechick - SMOD/Orion Death Star 2016 at March 26, 2014 11:11 AM (VtjlW)



Wait. I thought only men had subcochal regions.

Posted by: Joe Biden at March 26, 2014 07:15 AM (qbfs7)

223

I'd like to own a farmer. Maybe get some nice fresh veggies instead of what passes as produce at my local stupidmarket.

 

I'd like to own a farmer's daughter.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at March 26, 2014 07:15 AM (zF6Iw)

224

I'd like to own a farmer. Maybe get some nice fresh veggies instead of what passes as produce at my local stupidmarket.

 

I'd like to own a farmer's daughter.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at March 26, 2014 07:15 AM (zF6Iw)

225 I think it's safe to say this guy shoved his foot so deep into his own mouth that he can legitimately kick his own ass from the inside. Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Bossy Assault Hobbit at March 26, 2014 10:57 AM (CA2NO) Funny line. Perhaps true if he had (R) after his name. Bad things never happen to folks with a (D) behind their name. People outside of Ames and the other "cities" are pretty nice. They have 1 red senator and 1 blue. I don't see how this fuck up will change it. City slickers despise country folk for the most part.

Posted by: Misanthopic Humanitarian at March 26, 2014 07:15 AM (HVff2)

226 I think it's safe to say this guy shoved his foot so deep into his own mouth that he can legitimately kick his own ass from the inside. Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Bossy Assault Hobbit at March 26, 2014 10:57 AM (CA2NO) Funny line. Perhaps true if he had (R) after his name. Bad things never happen to folks with a (D) behind their name. People outside of Ames and the other "cities" are pretty nice. They have 1 red senator and 1 blue. I don't see how this fuck up will change it. City slickers despise country folk for the most part.

Posted by: Misanthopic Humanitarian at March 26, 2014 07:15 AM (HVff2)

227 OTOH remember bitter clingers? remember electric bills skyrocketing? FSA don't care

Posted by: thunderb at March 26, 2014 07:15 AM (zOTsN)

228 OTOH remember bitter clingers? remember electric bills skyrocketing? FSA don't care

Posted by: thunderb at March 26, 2014 07:15 AM (zOTsN)

229 176 164 "And when I'm president, I will go line by line to make sure that we are not spending money unwisely." I think that was a mispoken promise *** "That's just what we call pillow talk, baby. That's all..." hmm, so where's my 100,000 teachers and finally getting the rich to pay taxes jobs bill?

Posted by: joeindc44 at March 26, 2014 07:15 AM (FxO4a)

230 176 164 "And when I'm president, I will go line by line to make sure that we are not spending money unwisely." I think that was a mispoken promise *** "That's just what we call pillow talk, baby. That's all..." hmm, so where's my 100,000 teachers and finally getting the rich to pay taxes jobs bill?

Posted by: joeindc44 at March 26, 2014 07:15 AM (FxO4a)

231 I'd like to own a farmer's daughter. Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at March 26, 2014 11:15 AM (zF6Iw) I do & its awesome!

Posted by: Misanthopic Humanitarian at March 26, 2014 07:15 AM (HVff2)

232 I hunger! Posted by: The Barrel at March 26, 2014 11:13 AM (naUcP) Lighten up, Francis. You needed to lose a couple or fifty pounds anyway.

Posted by: Sean Bannion [/i][/i][/u][/s] at March 26, 2014 07:16 AM (6T8Ay)

233 Bryan McGrath ‏@ConsWahoo
#Navy to end TLAM production line. This is what assuming risk looks like. #USN #Seapower http://goo.gl/Bnviix

Posted by: Flatbush Joe at March 26, 2014 11:14 AM (ZPrif)


So now they're going to use harsh language? Frackin' idjits.

Posted by: joncelli at March 26, 2014 07:16 AM (RD7QR)

234 Michelle thinks my European tractor's sexy.

Posted by: Downton Shabby at March 26, 2014 07:16 AM (wu/TK)

235 Big doggeh just caught and killed a mole in the front yard...ewww. I'm not cleaning that up....ok, so I have to but....ewwwww.

Posted by: Tami [/i][/b][/u][/s] at March 26, 2014 07:16 AM (bCEmE)

236 Vote for me, I'm a super smart lawyer who will fight to give other lawyers your hard earned money! People of Iowa, don't let some hick farmer run your lives!

Posted by: DangerGirl and her Sanity Prod (tm) at March 26, 2014 07:16 AM (Os+6p)

237 Nope, not juiced. Get out the meat hammer. Castrate them there pigs.

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at March 26, 2014 07:16 AM (IXrOn)

238 Sacrifices are for you plebes. Not for ME, silly.

Posted by: Moochelle Antoinette at March 26, 2014 07:17 AM (7ObY1)

239 Time Warner recently added channels, including Al Jazeera, to our tier of service, also re-ordered other channels. Anyway, all of a sudden I'm getting Al-Jazeera commercials whenever I wander up the dial. Shockingly, none of them feature any Arab-looking correspondents.

Posted by: Lincolntf at March 26, 2014 07:17 AM (ZshNr)

240 The Democrats found their Todd Akin.

Posted by: JEM at March 26, 2014 07:17 AM (o+SC1)

241 Bitter arugula clingers.

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at March 26, 2014 07:18 AM (IXrOn)

242 Last year Navy said it needed 1,000 Tomahawks in 2015. This year the Navy says it needs only 100, and no more after that. Ever. Defenders say, it will just be replaced by a next-gen weapon. No worries. And the Navy is launching a program, the Next Generation Land Attack Weapon (NGLAW). Which it hopes to have ready by 2024. So all the spending on the current missile is being zeroed out to find money to develop the next gen missile. Which isn't ready yet. But they hope will be ready by 2024. We just have to make sure we don't have any wars between now and 2024.

Posted by: Flatbush Joe at March 26, 2014 07:18 AM (ZPrif)

243 Cash buys class, of course. Posted by: ejo at March 26, 2014 11:14 AM (GXvSO) Class is the only thing cash can't buy. Amirite?

Posted by: Donald Trump [/i][/i][/u][/s] at March 26, 2014 07:18 AM (6T8Ay)

244 As far as I'm concerned "fighting tort reform for thirty years" ought to be grounds for mulching.

Posted by: JEM at March 26, 2014 07:18 AM (o+SC1)

245 Obama ,
The problem is, is that the way Bush has done it over the last eight years is to take out a credit card from the Bank of China in the name of our children, driving up the national debt from 5 trillion for the first 42 presidents — number 43 added 4 trillion dollars by his lonesome, so that we now have 9 trillion dollars of debt that we are going to have to pay back — $30,000 for every man, woman and child. That’s irresponsible. It’s unpatriotic.
july 3rd 2008

obama now, share your pie, your shirt, your home your bank acct .

Posted by: willow at March 26, 2014 07:18 AM (nqBYe)

246 Bryan McGrath ‏@ConsWahoo

#Navy to end TLAM production line. This is what assuming risk looks like. #USN #Seapower http://goo.gl/Bnviix

Posted by: Flatbush Joe at March 26, 2014 11:14 AM (ZPrif)

So now they're going to use harsh language? Frackin' idjits.

Posted by: joncelli at March 26, 2014 11:16 AM (RD7QR)



TLAM's will be replaced by Estes rockets in FY2016.


Tissue wadding and recovery parachutes will cost extra.



Posted by: EC at March 26, 2014 07:18 AM (GQ8sn)

247 Senators of the Korn.

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at March 26, 2014 07:18 AM (IXrOn)

248 Hahahahaha.... Dumb Fucker. Hey Pal! It cannot be unsaid.

Posted by: George Allen at March 26, 2014 07:19 AM (32Ze2)

249 We just have to make sure we don't have any wars between now and 2024. Posted by: Flatbush Joe at March 26, 2014 11:18 AM (ZPrif) What is it with you morons and your need for details?

Posted by: Misanthopic Humanitarian at March 26, 2014 07:19 AM (HVff2)

250 We just have to make sure we don't have any wars between now and 2024.

Posted by: Flatbush Joe at March 26, 2014 11:18 AM (ZPrif)



Da comrade.

Posted by: Putin at March 26, 2014 07:19 AM (GQ8sn)

251 We just have to make sure we don't have any wars between now and 2024. Posted by: Flatbush Joe at March 26, 2014 11:18 AM (ZPrif) No plobrem, lound eye!

Posted by: The People's Liberation Army [/i][/i][/u][/s] at March 26, 2014 07:19 AM (6T8Ay)

252 MPPPP - Here you go: Farmersonly.com

Posted by: Mike Hammer at March 26, 2014 07:20 AM (aDwsi)

253 Geez no more TLAMs and the USN stuck with 32 targets that can't fire TLAM or do anything offensive.  Plus plans to not refuel USS George Washington.

We have no credible big stick any more to guard the SLOC.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at March 26, 2014 07:20 AM (sLR/I)

254 When I was younger I knew some lawyers and even dated a couple of them. Here's the thing. A lot of lawyers think that they are at the top of the heap as far as status. But anyone who actually know lawyers knows that there are a few who are tremendously good at what they do. They make a ton of money, and if you need something legal done, they can do a great job. But the majority of them are mediocre minds with a law degree. Think your average hack with a teaching degree. It's the mediocre ones who run around making sure everyone knows they're lawyers. Sometimes it's the ones who aren't particularly good at practicing law who go into politics.

Posted by: nerdygirl at March 26, 2014 07:20 AM (h7iOB)

255 Fighting tort reform for decades!  I got yer back!

No, not you dumbass hicks from Iowa.. my trial lawyer buddies!

Posted by: Chi-Town Jerry at March 26, 2014 07:20 AM (Z7PrM)

256 >>>Sometimes it requires a willed discipline to take time away from the crap. One has to force oneself to detach, I mean really detach from the stress. hah, that's not my problem. I detach easily. I am born to detach. My problem is that it's hard to arrange and I always feel guilty about going on vacation. Not just because of the readers. But when I go off, the cobs feel the obligation to pick up for my slack. So my going on break is really just making them work harder. I mean, I don't *force* them to work harder, but apparently the cobs are good enough people that they feel an emotional obligation to cover for me, and that feeling is essentially forcing them. It's hard to justify that.

Posted by: ace at March 26, 2014 07:20 AM (/FnUH)

257 @220 - What is really being said here is that the current administration and its 'fancy Dans' think it's just peachy if we tell the Chinese that 2020 is the right time.

Posted by: JEM at March 26, 2014 07:20 AM (o+SC1)

258 Anybody ever calculate what percentage of the economy is leeched away by lawyers?US has more lawyers than any other country of the world,maybe even as a percentage of population not just total number.

I'd take a SWAG at around 15%.

Most folks don't think about the added cost of frivolous lawsuits until they hear about a case like the McDonald's Coffee Fiasco. Even then, they don't understand that the cost ($8M,IIRC) isn't paid by the company, they just pass it along to the consumer, screwing us all. Posted by: BackwardsBoy, who did not vote for this shit

Add to that the stupid crap lawyers in the legal department of corporations (and hospitals, and schools, and non-profits... ) make their employees do to try and avoid "legal problems".  These lawyers really start piling on the BS over the years in order to justify their getting a paycheck.  "See,  I'm doing stuff!"  And it's that crap they come up with and their sticking their noses in places and projects they don't understand that really gum up the cogs at every large corporation.

Posted by: Dang at March 26, 2014 07:20 AM (MNq6o)

259 Haha - Dems, the party of the people. Sink - but without illegals who will mow are lawns & be our housekeepers? Braley - you wouldnt want a dirty Iowan farmer to head the judiciary cmmttee would you? Whats next? Run the Duke brothers for Senate? You didnt think we'd let a run the family business - Mortimer Duke

Posted by: Ronan at March 26, 2014 07:21 AM (bAXJL)

260 And, of course, it's a rare new weapons program that actually finishes on time or on budget. So that 2024 is probably optimistic.

Posted by: Flatbush Joe at March 26, 2014 07:21 AM (ZPrif)

261 Steve King is the Congressman for Ames and northwest Iowa. Hardly a Democrat. Tom Latham, another Republican, is the Congressman for Des Moines and southwest Iowa. The East (democrats) is Braley (northeast Iowa, Cedar Rapids, Cedar Falls, Waterloo, etc.) and Loebsack (southeast Iowa, Iowa City, Quad Cities (I think)). We lost one seat in the last census. There is hope. King as the congressman for Ames really chaps the Dems hide. And our governor was brought out of a cushy university president gig to win the governor's seat after being out for 12 years. Culver and Vilsack (Ag Secretary for Obama, and chairman for Hillary!s campaign) spent Branstad's surplus the last time around.

Posted by: Jay in Ames at March 26, 2014 07:21 AM (i2Lsf)

262 223. obama now, share your pie, your shirt, your home your bank acct . No pie The baker got tired of mooch and quit

Posted by: Navycopjoe at March 26, 2014 07:21 AM (M3WNi)

263 Ace, you either go on vacation or burn out. Go. On. Vacation.

Posted by: DangerGirl and her Sanity Prod (tm) at March 26, 2014 07:22 AM (Os+6p)

264 Braley leads three of his most likely Republican challengers by at least 10 percentage points. Only businessman Mark Jacobs comes closer than 10 points, losing a hypothetical matchup, 40 percent-31 percent. real clear politics on March 13

Posted by: thunderb at March 26, 2014 07:22 AM (zOTsN)

265 @220 - They do have a point, though, in that the Tomahawk's been around so long that we have to assume that the Chinese have all the systems source code anyway...

Posted by: JEM at March 26, 2014 07:22 AM (o+SC1)

266 The problems with Climate Science swirl around the Nyquist–Shannon sampling theorem.
ItÂ’s really hard to interpolate a cycle that lasts longer than recorded history.

Posted by: Vladimir Kotelnikov at March 26, 2014 07:22 AM (e8kgV)

267 Not just because of the readers. But when I go off, the cobs feel the obligation to pick up for my slack. So my going on break is really just making them work harder. Yeah, but they get an extra Valu-Rite ration for that, don't they? Don't they?

Posted by: Sean Bannion [/i][/i][/u][/s] at March 26, 2014 07:22 AM (6T8Ay)

268 Not just because of the readers. But when I go off, the cobs feel the obligation to pick up for my slack. So my going on break is really just making them work harder. I mean, I don't *force* them to work harder, but apparently the cobs are good enough people that they feel an emotional obligation to cover for me, and that feeling is essentially forcing them. It's hard to justify that. Posted by: ace at March 26, 2014 11:20 AM (/FnUH) Who are you to deprive them of their emotional obligation!? j/k....let them be them....you detach.

Posted by: Tami [/i][/b][/u][/s] at March 26, 2014 07:22 AM (bCEmE)

269 Wait, wait..., it just came to me. Perhaps the time is ripe (heh) for a new match site: UkrainianFarmersDaughtersOnly.com Hot Ukrainian farmer's daughters seeking mates.

Posted by: Mike Hammer at March 26, 2014 07:23 AM (aDwsi)

270 Sometimes the mask slips, revealing Liberalism for the elitist, fascistic ideology that it is.

Posted by: Harrison Bergeron at March 26, 2014 07:23 AM (JQuNB)

271 ItÂ’s really hard to interpolate a cycle that lasts longer than recorded history. Posted by: Vladimir Kotelnikov at March 26, 2014 11:22 AM (e8kgV) I'm on it. Moar Red Bull!

Posted by: Michael Mann [/i][/i][/u][/s] at March 26, 2014 07:23 AM (6T8Ay)

272 We still have the current inventory of TLAMs. We just won't be replacing them when they are used, like Libya. So this is a bet that we'll be able to design, build, and mass produce the replacement before we run out of TLAM inventory. Do we have 10 years worth of TLAM inventory? Well, if we never fight anyone then yes.

Posted by: Flatbush Joe at March 26, 2014 07:24 AM (ZPrif)

273 Ace, Don't worry. We entertain ourselves and while this results in a few arrests and, to this point, one suspicious death--you can feel free to take a few days to visit Dollywood. Bring me a refrigerator magnet.

Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at March 26, 2014 07:24 AM (659DL)

274 Not just because of the readers. But when I go off, the cobs feel the obligation to pick up for my slack. So my going on break is really just making them work harder.


But ace, here's the thing:   they like to do it!!!


By taking off on vacation every now and then, the blog actually does very well because we have such good stewards.  There is no shortage of crowdsourced topics to talk about, and even when the cobs hit a brick wall in terms of content, there's always the "Open Thread w/ kitteh videos".


Posted by: EC at March 26, 2014 07:24 AM (GQ8sn)

275 Have some temp cobs to write some posts. Hell, we can manage.

Posted by: DangerGirl and her Sanity Prod (tm) at March 26, 2014 07:24 AM (Os+6p)

276 However, the contours of the Senate race could change drastically over the coming months. Forty-six percent of Iowa voters donÂ’t have an opinion about Braley, and between 77 and 85 percent of have no opinion of the various Republican candidates. again Real Clear Politics March 13

Posted by: thunderb at March 26, 2014 07:24 AM (zOTsN)

277 It's hard to justify that.

Posted by: ace at March 26, 2014 11:20 AM (/FnUH)

Try harder.

A happy Ace writes great stuff that makes more happy Morons (who click on more ads).

And getting the different perspective of some of the cobs is interesting.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at March 26, 2014 07:24 AM (QFxY5)

278 Ace if you need break, I can take over for a while, ..Â….where the hell is the gas pedal on this contraption?

Posted by: ontherocks at March 26, 2014 07:25 AM (datI4)

279 Safe to file this away under "If only a Republican said it"

Posted by: MSM at March 26, 2014 07:25 AM (M+evy)

280 >>> I detach easily. I am born to detach. Did you look in the medicine cabinet?

Posted by: King Missile at March 26, 2014 07:25 AM (Ua6T/)

281 Well Mike you could start here I guess.

http://www.worldfriends.com/member/home.jhtml?puid=3819060

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at March 26, 2014 07:25 AM (sLR/I)

282
Defending Braley, Mother Jones:

"Sure, Iowa politicians shouldn't talk smack about the farmers in their state. But the media shouldn't fool itself into thinking it's replicating Iowa nice when it falls back on lazy tropes."

http://tinyurl.com/l3vzk7o



So at least  people who use the term "tropes" without irony are cool with it.


Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at March 26, 2014 07:25 AM (kdS6q)

283 Wait, wait..., it just came to me. Perhaps the time is ripe (heh) for a new match site:

UkrainianFarmersDaughtersOnly.com

Hot Ukrainian farmer's daughters seeking mates.

Posted by: Mike Hammer at March 26, 2014 11:23 AM (aDwsi)



Shut up and take my money!


Posted by: EC at March 26, 2014 07:25 AM (GQ8sn)

284 ItÂ’s really hard to interpolate a cycle that lasts longer than recorded history. Posted by: Vladimir Kotelnikov ----------------- Obviously the man never played hockey.

Posted by: Mike Hammer at March 26, 2014 07:25 AM (aDwsi)

285 I mean, I don't *force* them to work harder, but apparently the cobs are good enough people that they feel an emotional obligation to cover for me, and that feeling is essentially forcing them.

It's hard to justify that.

Posted by: ace at March 26, 2014 11:20 AM (/FnUH)


just share  with them  your pancake recipe and your porn stash.

Posted by: willow at March 26, 2014 07:25 AM (nqBYe)

286 Most folks don't think about the added cost of frivolous lawsuits until they hear about a case like the McDonald's Coffee Fiasco ---- I realize this will not go well on this thread, but McDonald's was pretty much at fault in that coffee case. THis isn't to say that there are a lot of friviolous cases, but that is one where McDonald's was at fault and handled it poorly from the get-go.

Posted by: SH at March 26, 2014 07:25 AM (gmeXX)

287 And getting the different perspective of some of the cobs is interesting. Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at March 26, 2014 11:24 AM (QFxY5) Well, I could live without the gaming thread. But....yeah, what he said.

Posted by: Sean Bannion [/i][/i][/u][/s] at March 26, 2014 07:25 AM (6T8Ay)

288

Media memory hole?  Very likely.

 

Which is why, if there were an opposition party, they would take this vile idiot's gaffe and not just sear it into the consciousness of Iowans, but take it national.  Ya know, actually be an opposition party, stir up the shit, take megaton gaffes like this - which perfectly expose the idiocy and evil and arrogance of the Dem "elites" - and make it a non-stop theme.  Demonize the fuckers - shouldn't be hard, they have hardly any defensible qualities.

 

Oh sure - "but what if you get screwed by someone and need a trial lawyer?".  Easy.  All the meritorious tort actions in the universe can be adequately handled by a fraction of the tort lawyers practicing today, at rates of compensation a tiny fraction of what they are today (basically just an invisible shake-down:  extortion via "judicial" system and idiotic juries, paid by insurance companies as messengers, then passed along to the public in the form of huge cost burdens on the economy and don't forget the narrowing of freedom and liberty - activities banned, products banned, on and on and on).

 

Because the pernicious, predatory nature of most (yes, most) of what the tort industry does needs to be pounded into people's heads.  The trial lawyer's assoc. (ATLA) used to be the top Dem fund-raising outfit in the country.  Ahead even of the vile, parasitic and indefensible public employee "unions" (yes, every one of them, not a shred of a justification for any unionization for any public employee at any level, in any line of work).

 

People talk about "taking back the culture", and rescuing education from its disastrous state of indoctrination, etc.  Well those are pipe dreams, THIS is a doable thing, right here in front of us.  Any smarmy, arrogant, clueless GOP shills want to weigh in?  (not that such can be found around these parts)

Posted by: non-purist at March 26, 2014 07:26 AM (afQnV)

289 From McGrath at InfoDissem: -- So why am I writing about this. First, to make sure readers know the kinds of least bad decisions that people in the Pentagon have to make--on a daily basis. Many of you already know it, but perhaps some don't get to drill down like this. I know the people who work these issues--they are really smart and in most cases, they wish they had better options. Secondly, I think this is an unwise decision as a matter of strategy. I believe that the country needs to put additional energy toward deterring the war it cannot afford to fight, and that is a war with China, Russia, or China and Russia. In order to best deter such a war, it must be well-prepared to wage it. Calculations of risk that involve diminishing stocks of precision guided munitions without the industrial capacity to quickly replace them should be viewed with concern. It is not 1939. We do not have endless untapped industrial capacity that will build 50,000 airplanes and 6000 ships and boats. We have limited production lines in incredibly high-tech factories that rely on a precious supply of skilled workers who are not reproducible overnight. Any war with another major power will expend PGM's at a rate our industrial base will strain to replace. Steady peacetime procurement of these specialized weapons not only makes the US better prepared to wage war--should it come--but it sends powerful signals of readiness and will that serve to deter war in the first place. At some point we must recognize that the height of national strategy is NOT the pursuit of the most efficient allocation of resources. It is the advancement and sustainment of national interest. In taking on this additional near-term risk, the United States efficiently allocates resources while sending yet another message of quiescence in the face of an increasingly troubled world.

Posted by: Flatbush Joe at March 26, 2014 07:26 AM (ZPrif)

290 But ace, here's the thing: they like to do it!!! ---- How else are they going to get that Hot Air and Federalist gig?

Posted by: SH at March 26, 2014 07:26 AM (gmeXX)

291
'corncob smokin', cousin pokin', chicken chokin', inbred moronic Iowa farm-tards.'










Who you callin' "corncob-smokin'"????

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at March 26, 2014 07:26 AM (TIIx5)

292 There is few things better than eating ice cream on the fantail watching TLAMs launch ~~sniff~~ I miss those good times

Posted by: Navycopjoe at March 26, 2014 07:27 AM (M3WNi)

293 THis isn't to say that there are a lot of friviolous cases, but that is one where McDonald's was at fault and handled it poorly from the get-go. Posted by: SH at March 26, 2014 11:25 AM (gmeXX) Yes, because being personally clumsy with a hot beverage is always someone else's fault. Always.

Posted by: Sean Bannion [/i][/i][/u][/s] at March 26, 2014 07:27 AM (6T8Ay)

294
Don't worry. We entertain ourselves...
Posted by: Circa



Guess what we learned about Lappland!

Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at March 26, 2014 07:27 AM (kdS6q)

295 Corn Commercial: Arugula Bread Colorado High Country Boil Creamed Quinoa Chickpea Fritters Got Corn?

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at March 26, 2014 07:27 AM (IXrOn)

296 Well, thank goodness this country has never had a farmer for a President. I mean, as if...

Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at March 26, 2014 07:27 AM (659DL)

297 >186 I'd like to own a farmer. Maybe get some nice fresh veggies instead of what passes as produce at my local stupidmarket.

Posted by: DangerGirl and her Sanity Prod (tm) at March 26, 2014 11:13 AM (Os+6p)<



Not sure about the owning thing but I may let you rent me. 

Posted by: Muad'dib at March 26, 2014 07:28 AM (sjdRT)

298 Grassley is well-loved in Iowa because he owns a farm that he works when the Senate's not in session and for the fact that he tries to visit all 99 counties every year. Also, following him on Twitter is a lot of fun.

The first thing people ask you when you say you're from Iowa: "Do you live on a farm?"

What gets me is that Braley should know better. The people who sent him to Congress are Democratic farmers and people who rely on farmers.

Posted by: pookysgirl at March 26, 2014 07:28 AM (kMnHs)

299 ...those corncob-smokin', cousin-pokin', chicken-chokin' inbred moronic Iowa farm-tards.



I come here for the poetry.

Posted by: dogfish at March 26, 2014 07:28 AM (nsOJa)

300 OT.... but......


I have ONE request for Ace or the cobs today.

Can we get a thread on Massachusetts revoking custody of Justina Pelletier from her parents over disagreements between hospitals on diagnosis and treatments.

I seem to be stuck in perma-rage mode and am in dire need of some catharsis.

Posted by: fixerupper at March 26, 2014 07:28 AM (nELVU)

301 UkrainianFarmersDaughtersOnly.com Link is dead. WTF? Oh, wait...

Posted by: BackwardsBoy, who did not vote for this shit [/i][/s][/b][/u] at March 26, 2014 07:28 AM (0HooB)

302 This reminds me, I need to drive by my lawyer's office and see how that new wing on his building I bought him is going.

Posted by: DangerGirl and her Sanity Prod (tm) at March 26, 2014 07:29 AM (Os+6p)

303 What gets me is that Braley should know better. The people who sent him to Congress are Democratic farmers and people who rely on farmers. Posted by: pookysgirl yes but he is embarrassed by farmers self loathing its not just for teenagers anymore

Posted by: thunderb at March 26, 2014 07:29 AM (zOTsN)

304 278 Pelletiers That is & continues to be an outrage

Posted by: Ronan at March 26, 2014 07:29 AM (bAXJL)

305 Yes, because being personally clumsy with a hot beverage is always someone else's fault. --- I encourage you to read the facts of that case. It was not merely a hot beverage. As they say bad facts make bad law. That case had a lot of bad facts for McD.

Posted by: SH at March 26, 2014 07:29 AM (gmeXX)

306 OK but will Iowa media report it is the question. I'm sure it's full of leftists.

Posted by: SamIam at March 26, 2014 07:29 AM (Lh8u2)

307 "201 I wish T was a tort lawyer I'd be living in Milan drinking chivas for breakfast by now Posted by: Navycopjoe at March 26, 2014 11:14 AM (M3WNi) My family is Italian. People just show up missing.

Posted by: tangonine at March 26, 2014 07:29 AM (x3YFz)

308 he went to university in Iowa, and law school and seems to have an inferiority complex about his Iowa roots he wants to sit at the cool kid table

Posted by: thunderb at March 26, 2014 07:30 AM (zOTsN)

309 Time Warner recently added channels, including Al Jazeera, to our tier of service, also re-ordered other channels. Anyway, all of a sudden I'm getting Al-Jazeera commercials whenever I wander up the dial. Shockingly, none of them feature any Arab-looking correspondents. Posted by: Lincolntf at March 26, 2014 11:17 AM (ZshNr) I've been watching Al Jazeera in the early am to actually get some news with depth,not just a 15 second run on sentence from Brian Kilmeade. Followed by six commercials, then a cute baby video on youtube, then a visiting chef cooking outside in the plaza, then Rudy Guiliani discussing Obama's latest foreign policy gaffe, then six commercials, then the gal doing the jobs available segment-"X sandwich shoppes are exapanding and are in need of sandwich makers, night crews, etc. Fox and Friends has really, IMO, become Oprahfied, dumbed down, and a waste of time to watch. I won't even mention CNN, they are still 24/7 missing plane coverage. Rush joked the other day that CNN should scrap their tag line spoken by James Earl Jones,"This is CNN", and replace it with Herve' Villiachez yelling, Da Plane, Da Plane!

Posted by: Jen at March 26, 2014 07:30 AM (IdGqX)

310 58 >> Anybody ever calculate what percentage of the economy is leeched away by lawyers?US has more lawyers than any other country of the world,maybe even as a percentage of population not just total number.
 
steevy, Steyn wrote recently (quoting Conrad Black) that 10% of our GDP was/is invoiced by lawyers.
 
The US has 5 percent of the world's population, 25 percent of the world's incarcerated people, and 50 percent of the world's lawyers, who invoice almost 10 percent of US GDP (around $1.4 trillion annually).

Posted by: GnuBreed at March 26, 2014 07:30 AM (wNF3N)

311 But the media shouldn't fool itself into thinking it's replicating Iowa nice when it falls back on lazy tropes. I don't even know what the hell that is supposed to mean.

Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at March 26, 2014 07:30 AM (659DL)

312
Link is dead. WTF?

Oh, wait...

Posted by: BackwardsBoy, who did not vote for this shit at March 26, 2014 11:28 AM (0HooB)



One time, ace or a cob posted a link to a German farmer's daughters calendar photoshoot.  We're talking fine frauleins here!



Posted by: EC at March 26, 2014 07:30 AM (GQ8sn)

313 Vindicated once again!

Posted by: Freud at March 26, 2014 07:30 AM (1Rgee)

314 just another democrat displaying his personal demons from junior high

Posted by: thunderb at March 26, 2014 07:31 AM (zOTsN)

315 292 just another democrat displaying his personal demons from junior high

Posted by: thunderb at March 26, 2014 11:31 AM (zOTsN)

 

Did he get beat up by the kids from 4H or something?

Posted by: Insomniac at March 26, 2014 07:31 AM (DrWcr)

316

David Burge ‏@iowahawkblog 2h

<= son of an Iowa farmer without a law degree


Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at March 26, 2014 07:31 AM (kdS6q)

317 Did he get beat up by the kids from 4H or something?

Posted by: Insomniac at March 26, 2014 11:31 AM (DrWcr)


FFA.



"The defect in this one is bleach."



Posted by: EC at March 26, 2014 07:32 AM (GQ8sn)

318 A cynical take on the zeroed out TLAMs is the Navy is cutting something from the budget that it is confident will be added back in later, perhaps in another bill. So it uses the TLAM money to fund something else, then 6 months later goes back to Congress and says OMG, we have no TLAMs, we need to add an emergency production extension to Unrelated Bill Z. And Congress goes along with the charade. Not clear to me if that's the case here.

Posted by: Flatbush Joe at March 26, 2014 07:32 AM (ZPrif)

319 I'm definitely in it for the house, cars and whores. Mainly the whores.

Posted by: NCKate at March 26, 2014 07:32 AM (Z8UmJ)

320 285. My family is Italian. People just show up missing. So is mine from my dad's side And they all say they like T more (I think it's her boobs, Italians are total pigs)

Posted by: Navycopjoe at March 26, 2014 07:32 AM (M3WNi)

321 Mppp I liked your alimentary canal pun.

Posted by: ParanoidGirlinSeattle at March 26, 2014 07:32 AM (RZ8pf)

322 "The defect in this one is bleach."

Posted by: EC at March 26, 2014 11:32 AM (GQ8sn)

 

This one got into an onion patch.

Posted by: Insomniac at March 26, 2014 07:32 AM (DrWcr)

323 some of the cobs might enjoy the pure raw power of  holding the key to the blog.
look, they might get rid of some of us that drive you nuts.

they might expand the blog into how to's.

1 skate board on boulevards while avoiding the police.
2  be safe and  look like a lefty in a hostile environment.
3   load a dishwasher even with hostile cat takeovers of your home .
4 steal cut neighbors panties off line without being caught.

etc

Posted by: willow at March 26, 2014 07:32 AM (nqBYe)

324

My problem is that it's hard to arrange and I always feel guilty about going on vacation.


Not just because of the readers. But when I go off, the cobs feel the obligation to pick up for my slack. So my going on break is really just making them work harder.


I mean, I don't *force* them to work harder, but apparently the cobs are good enough people that they feel an emotional obligation to cover for me, and that feeling is essentially forcing them.


It's hard to justify that.

 

Then you need to break out of that pattern, Ace, or you'll never take a vacation.  And you'll drive yourself to an early grave.  My BP spikes just  reading the HQ - I can only imagine how much worse it is for someone whose business is politics.

 

You need a break, Ace.  And a physical checkup.  Don't screw around with your health, mental or physical.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at March 26, 2014 07:33 AM (zF6Iw)

325 "Your mama from Iowa had a little too much fun with the shucked corn".. I apologize to anyone I *may* have offended.

Posted by: Bruce Braley, prick with a law degree at March 26, 2014 07:33 AM (9eDbm)

326 And they all say they like T more (I think it's her boobs, Italians are total pigs) Posted by: Navycopjoe at March 26, 2014 11:32 AM (M3WNi) It's the hair.

Posted by: tangonine at March 26, 2014 07:34 AM (x3YFz)

327 297 I'm definitely in it for the house, cars and whores. Mainly the whores. Posted by: NCKate at March 26, 2014 11:32 AM (Z8UmJ) I LOL'd!

Posted by: Tami [/i][/b][/u][/s] at March 26, 2014 07:34 AM (bCEmE)

328 Add to that the stupid crap lawyers in the legal department of corporations (and hospitals, and schools, and non-profits... ) make their employees do to try and avoid "legal problems". These lawyers really start piling on the BS over the years in order to justify their getting a paycheck. "See, I'm doing stuff!" And it's that crap they come up with and their sticking their noses in places and projects they don't understand that really gum up the cogs at every large corporation. While impossible to measure, the fear of a lawsuit adds even more cost to a lot of stuff. Just ask a doctor.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy, who did not vote for this shit [/i][/s][/b][/u] at March 26, 2014 07:34 AM (0HooB)

329 Well UkrainianFarmersDaughtersOnly

The .com domain name is free, perhaps buy it and list on eBay.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at March 26, 2014 07:34 AM (sLR/I)

330 I'd like to own a farmer. Maybe get some nice fresh veggies instead of what passes as produce at my local stupidmarket.

Posted by: DangerGirl and her Sanity Prod (tm) at March 26, 2014 11:13 AM (Os+6p)<

Not sure about the owning thing but I may let you rent me.

Posted by: Muad'dib at March 26, 2014 11:28 AM (sjdRT)


for the low, low price of?

Posted by: willow at March 26, 2014 07:34 AM (nqBYe)

331 he went to some tort lawyer conferences, prolly in Vegas, and came away really impressed by the ones from the east coast. And they looked down in him. And he agrees with them

Posted by: thunderb at March 26, 2014 07:34 AM (zOTsN)

332 Ace, will the Federalist give the other COB time away to tend to duties at AoS while you are away?

Posted by: SH at March 26, 2014 07:35 AM (gmeXX)

333 I'd like to see the names of the trial lawyers in attendance made public too. perhaps on some type of registration list. could be useful in USA 2.0.

Posted by: X at March 26, 2014 07:35 AM (KHo8t)

334 >for the low, low price of?

Posted by: willow at March 26, 2014 11:34 AM (nqBYe)<



For you?  Nothing.

Posted by: Muad'dib at March 26, 2014 07:35 AM (sjdRT)

335 I just want to express my appreciation for this bit of wordplay:

"he has the utmost respect for those corncob-smokin', cousin-pokin', chicken-chokin' inbred moronic Iowa farm-tards."

Genius. And it rhymes!

Posted by: sauropod at March 26, 2014 07:35 AM (G/vW6)

336

Just read about that fixerupper.  I thought a few weeks ago a judge ruled in the families favor, or am I thinking about something else?  My brain is addled I will admit.

 

Ace.. take a week off and go lay on a beach and don't even go near a computer, phone or any other electronic device. It'll do ya good.

Posted by: jewells45 at March 26, 2014 07:35 AM (l/N7H)

337 i bet ace of spades is filled with those bizarre, creepy ass  farm types.

Posted by: willow at March 26, 2014 07:36 AM (nqBYe)

338 The US has 5 percent of the world's population, 25 percent of the
world's incarcerated people, and 50 percent of the world's lawyers, who
invoice almost 10 percent of US GDP (around $1.4 trillion annually).

Posted by: GnuBreed at March 26, 2014 11:30 AM (wNF3N)


I think that this calls for a 10% tax on all legal fees...FOR THE CHILDREN

Posted by: Timon at March 26, 2014 07:36 AM (kAniV)

339

This Braley guy clearly doesn't know much about the agriculture business, which seems strange for someone living in Iowa. Where I grew up, in rural Indiana, the farmers' kids were the rich kids in my school.  Many of those farmers where my family lived are/were highly educated, some with advanced degrees from Purdue. They cultivate hundreds of acres, along with hundreds of livestock of various kinds. For even medium-sized farms, it's a complex, often multimillion-dollar operation where a single, high-end combine can cost a hundred thousand dollars or more. Running a modern farm takes a wide array of skills, technological know-how, and business savvy. We're not talking about some sod-busting hick with a mule.

 

So no, it isn't that the guy was disparaging farmers. He was evincing a dangerous amount of ignorance regarding the central industry of his own state.

Posted by: troyriser at March 26, 2014 07:37 AM (gNlvW)

340 Posted by: BackwardsBoy, who did not vote for this shit at March 26, 2014 11:34 AM (0HooB) Absolutely. *Fear* of liability seems to be a driving factor in daily life any more. There's no way that doesn't drive up costs (as well as sucking all the fun out of life).

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at March 26, 2014 07:37 AM (GDulk)

341 For you? Nothing.
Posted by: Muad'dib at March 26, 2014 11:35 AM (sjdRT)

look at this.

who says we don't have the nicest , sharing, caring , Giving  people on the net!

Posted by: willow at March 26, 2014 07:37 AM (nqBYe)

342 Anybody ever calculate what percentage of the economy is leeched away by lawyers? I think Steyn just wrote that we consume the entire output of Australia in lawyering fees. Of course, that says nothing about the cost of compliance- you know, all the hoops we jump thru to avoid lawyering fees.

Posted by: t-bird at March 26, 2014 07:38 AM (FcR7P)

343 For you? Nothing.
Posted by: Muad'dib at March 26, 2014 11:35 AM (sjdRT)

look at this.

who says we don't have the nicest , sharing, caring , Giving people on the net!

Posted by: willow at March 26, 2014 11:37 AM (nqBYe)



Just don't be alarmed when Muad'dib shows up in assless chaps.



Posted by: EC at March 26, 2014 07:38 AM (GQ8sn)

344 315 i bet ace of spades is filled with those bizarre, creepy ass farm types.

Posted by: willow at March 26, 2014 11:36 AM (nqBYe)

 

As a bizarre, creepy ass suburbanite type, I resent that remark.

Posted by: Insomniac at March 26, 2014 07:38 AM (DrWcr)

345 This Braley guy clearly doesn't know much about the agriculture business, which seems strange for someone living in Iowa. Where I grew up, in rural Indiana, the farmers' kids were the rich kids in my school. Many of those farmers where my family lived are/were highly educated,some with advanced degrees from Purdue. They cultivate hundreds of acres, along with hundreds of livestock of various kinds. For even medium-sized farms, it's a complex, often multimillion-dollar operation where asingle, high-endcombine can cost a hundred thousand dollars or more. Running a modern farm takes a wide array of skills, technological know-how, and business savvy. We're not talking about some sod-busting hick with a mule. So no, it isn't that the guy was disparaging farmers. He was evincing a dangerous amount of ignorance regardingthe central industry of his own state. Posted by: troyriser this is so true. But he must know the truth about farming. So he denigrates and disparages to fund raise which is so many ways is like the story of Obama

Posted by: thunderb at March 26, 2014 07:39 AM (zOTsN)

346 Instead of following our sage advice, ace puts up another thread.....

Posted by: Tami [/i][/b][/u][/s] at March 26, 2014 07:39 AM (bCEmE)

347 315 i bet ace of spades is filled with those bizarre, creepy ass farm types. Posted by: willow at March 26, 2014 11:36 AM (nqBYe) It's hilarious because at first I read it as creep ASS FARM. And I was all "wuts an ass farm?" Then I reread and it was CREEPY ASS. Ya got me. Was funny tho.

Posted by: tangonine at March 26, 2014 07:39 AM (x3YFz)

348 Sarah Palin has endorsed Joni the Pig castrator

Posted by: tmitsss at March 26, 2014 07:40 AM (7Rx8v)

349 You need a break, Ace. And a physical checkup. Don't screw around with your health, mental or physical. Amen to that. Your work here is important, Ace, but you are not so indispensable that people couldn't cover for you so that you could actually GET WAY. I'm sure they care enough about you to see that you deal with illness a lot which is a sign of stress, and so they would be willing to take up the slack. And you may not like this, but to say that it's a burden on others and that you can't get away is probably a form of pride. :^)

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 26, 2014 07:40 AM (XyM/Y)

350 Yes, because being personally clumsy with a hot beverage is always someone else's fault. Always. Posted by: Sean ------------------- I cut myself once with knife. Obviously, I should blame someone else.

Posted by: Mike Hammer at March 26, 2014 07:40 AM (aDwsi)

351 >Just don't be alarmed when Muad'dib shows up in assless chaps.

Posted by: EC at March 26, 2014 11:38 AM (GQ8sn)<




Again, all chaps are assless.  And also, it was -2F here this morning so any chaps I wear are going over the Carhartts.

Posted by: Muad'dib at March 26, 2014 07:40 AM (sjdRT)

352 I think that this calls for a 10% tax on all legal fees...FOR THE CHILDREN Which, of course, will not be passed to the consumer because that does not happen. Even with a value added tax. Or something. I'll be over here counting the 3,000,000 jobs Obamacare created immediately.

Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at March 26, 2014 07:40 AM (659DL)

353
Well, thank goodness this country has never had a farmer for a President. I mean, as if...

Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at March 26, 2014 11:27 AM (659DL)









Then again, the last time we had a farmer as Prezy, he had lust in his heart, attacked a killer rabbit and almost lost us the Cold War.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at March 26, 2014 07:40 AM (TIIx5)

354 That's one smooth-talking son-of-a-bitch.  What's missing from that clip is the tumbler of Jack Daniels and the smouldering fag between his fingers.

Posted by: Fritz at March 26, 2014 07:42 AM (oJUxt)

355 Ace.. take a week off and go lay on a beach You need sunshine, and not just once every three years. Make it a habit.

Posted by: t-bird at March 26, 2014 07:42 AM (FcR7P)

356 Ace, I think you should look at at the cobs a bit differently. You give them a widely read platform to practice their writing skills, and many of them go on to actual paying writing gigs or develop their own websites for fun or profit.

Posted by: GnuBreed at March 26, 2014 07:42 AM (wNF3N)

357 Tip Jar hit, now hit the road for a while Ace. Â…..granted my contribution will probably only get you as far as the nearest Subway, but at least you won't be hungry at the Bus Station.

Posted by: ontherocks at March 26, 2014 07:43 AM (datI4)

358 Firstly, The last Corn Cob Pipe factory is here in Missouri. So, yeah. (I swapped the cob for a briar this year, but I'm still damned proud of that. Secondly as has been noted, Grassley isn't "just a farmer" anyway. He's a career politician. Having said that, even this dude is slimier than Grassley. So well played sir, well played. You win the dumbass of the election award (for now.)

Posted by: tsrblke, PhD(c) (No Really!) at March 26, 2014 07:43 AM (HDwDg)

359 334 Ace, I think you should look at at the cobs a bit differently. You give them a widely read platform to practice their writing skills, and many of them go on to actual paying writing gigs or develop their own websites for fun or profit.

Posted by: GnuBreed at March 26, 2014 11:42 AM (wNF3N)


Plus you've got the pictures, so the sky's the limit.

Posted by: joncelli at March 26, 2014 07:43 AM (RD7QR)

360 Again, all chaps are assless. And also, it was -2F here this morning so any chaps I wear are going over the Carhartts.

Posted by: Muad'dib at March 26, 2014 11:40 AM (sjdRT)



Damn that's cold!

Posted by: EC at March 26, 2014 07:44 AM (GQ8sn)

361 Just read about that fixerupper. I thought a few weeks ago a judge ruled in the families favor, or am I thinking about something else? My brain is addled I will admit.

Ace.. take a week off and go lay on a beach and don't even go near a computer, phone or any other electronic device. It'll do ya good.

Posted by: jewells45 at March 26, 2014 11:35 AM (l/N7H)


------


Yes its the same one.   Yesterdays ruling "permanently" awarded custody to the state..... 


I.am.so.fucking.raging on this.   I do not think I would have anywhere near the level of restraint the father has shown.  I would be in jail.

Posted by: fixerupper at March 26, 2014 07:45 AM (nELVU)

362 What an a-hole that Braley guy is! I especially like the optics of him being filmed next to the booze table.

Posted by: gp at March 26, 2014 07:46 AM (+Jpqc)

363 i bet ace of spades is filled with those bizarre, creepy ass farm types.
Posted by: willow at March 26, 2014 11:36 AM (nqBYe)

----

Guilty as charged.

Iowa farm boy.   4H.... FFA... 

"How YOU doin??"

**leers**

Posted by: fixerupper at March 26, 2014 07:48 AM (nELVU)

364 Â…..granted my contribution will probably only get you as far as the nearest Subway, but at least you won't be hungry at the Bus Station. Posted by: ontherocks at March 26, 2014 11:43 AM (datI4) Last time I hit the tip jar there were 3 incidents of indecent exposure, 2 kids had candy stolen from Halloween bags and a police report about a guy in a tree.

Posted by: tangonine at March 26, 2014 07:49 AM (x3YFz)

365 Oddly suitable musical selection for this post - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I1R8LEzJcjw

Posted by: BackwardsBoy, who did not vote for this shit [/i][/s][/b][/u] at March 26, 2014 07:50 AM (0HooB)

366 DO I trust God with all I am? God's presence is alive right now. Christian Radio call in show "Let's talk about Jesus" on now until 12:30 EST. Listen online http://www.wfil.com/

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 26, 2014 07:50 AM (XyM/Y)

367 317 Running a modern farm takes a wide array of skills, technological know-how, and business savvy. We're not talking about some sod-busting hick with a mule. Posted by: troyriser at March 26, 2014 11:37 AM (gNlvW) Fuck you! I work hard, dammit.

Posted by: Sod-Busting Hick with a Mule at March 26, 2014 07:51 AM (zoehZ)

368 Posted by: gp at March 26, 2014 11:46 AM (+Jpqc) Looks to me like he only sprung for the midshelf booze too. I mean I'd take it, but I 'm not asking trial lawyers for millions of dollars to fund a DOA campaign .

Posted by: tsrblke, PhD(c) (No Really!) at March 26, 2014 07:52 AM (HDwDg)

369 Dumb ass steelworkers.

Posted by: RWC running in Pittsburgh at March 26, 2014 07:52 AM (fWAjv)

370 Just link over to the H2 on Friday. I've got that covered with big giant boobs and really stupid links to people falling down and what not.

Posted by: MJ at March 26, 2014 07:56 AM (oari7)

371 Speaking of my continued relevance, I betcha those  corncob-smokin', cousin-pokin', chicken-chokin' inbred moronic Iowa farm-tards also cling to their guns and religion because they're all 'fraid of brown people.


Posted by: Freud at March 26, 2014 08:01 AM (1Rgee)

372 Braley was a fraternity brother of mine back in the late 70's at Iowa State. Even then he was an unctuous, arrogant, self-important piece of crap..... I've watched with horror his climb up the political ladder in Iowa politics, and am gleeful that this parasitic lawyer (is that redundant?) has cooked his own goose by running his mouth to a bunch of out-of-state trial lawyers. Don't let the door hit you in the ass on your way out, Bruce!!

Posted by: proudvastrightwingconspirator at March 26, 2014 08:07 AM (CPoFy)

373 Scumbags all.

Posted by: IrishEd at March 26, 2014 11:08 AM (D0NZx)

 

=================================

 

Well, uhhhhhhh

Posted by: Kettle, meet Pot at March 26, 2014 08:10 AM (LISuA)

374

Posted by: Flatbush Joe at March 26, 2014 11:18 AM (ZPrif)

=======================================

 

 Well, the big difference here and in the past is youÂ’ve got me.

Posted by: Barack The Magnificent at March 26, 2014 08:16 AM (LISuA)

375 Anyone with some time on their hands and need a good chuckle or two should google:

American Gothic

then click images. You will see hundreds of some funny photoshops of the iconic painting.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That (Waiting For SMODOT) at March 26, 2014 08:23 AM (JS0vr)

376 Finally Republicans get an ambush video to screw with a democrat.

Posted by: Nip Sip at March 26, 2014 08:27 AM (0FSuD)

377 Posted by: Timon at March 26, 2014 11:01 AM (kAniV He also promised to destroy the coal industry, which he did. Grifters vote to get the graft.

Posted by: Madamex at March 26, 2014 08:28 AM (vaWdD)

378 We voted for Obama twice, because we're not racisty or anything. My dead Philly relatives dd, too! Derp.

Posted by: Pennsylvnia Bitter Clinger at March 26, 2014 08:29 AM (YmPwQ)

379 See, I can't even spell Pennsylvania. Double Derp.

Posted by: Pennsylvania Bitter Clinger at March 26, 2014 08:30 AM (YmPwQ)

380 It's Texas trial lawyers who are ponying up much of the money to try to turn Texas blue. If this fundraiser of theirs results in the Iowa Repub winning the senate seat, the irony will be too rich for me to digest.

Posted by: stace at March 26, 2014 08:31 AM (9PXzx)

381 OK, but I still get my food stamps, right?

Posted by: Low Information Voter at March 26, 2014 08:56 AM (pmsMR)

382 This makes perfect sense; amusing you're looking for an elitist caste system pushing for government from the lawyers, by the lawyers, and for the lawyers. I suspect the left is agreeing with him, thinking they're the "elite" who will get power in this caste system. www.motherjones.com/politics/2014/03/bruce-braley-iowa-farmers-chuck-grassley Yep, the left loves this idea... as expected.

Posted by: gekkobear at March 26, 2014 09:16 AM (2zHxV)

383 toast

Posted by: m at March 26, 2014 10:33 AM (2AqeI)

384 ...and the last thing we do is......

Posted by: Dick the Butcher at March 26, 2014 11:41 AM (nbGZj)

385 "What gets me is that Braley should know better. The people who sent him to Congress are Democratic farmers and people who rely on farmers. Posted by: pookysgirl at March 26, 2014 11:28 AM (kMnHs)" If you want to know what a progressive really thinks, and what his/her attitudes are, just listen in on them when they're giving a private speech to a group of fellow travelers -and they think they aren't being recorded. Braley DOES know better than to let how he really thinks of a group slip out in a public forum. Unfortunately for him, he doesn't know better when it comes to realizing that you can easily be surreptitiously recorded in a private setting. He also doesn't know better when it comes to realizing that room full of potential political supporters can also contain a few opponents as well........

Posted by: Captain Glenn Quagmire at March 26, 2014 11:45 AM (1o4B5)

386 If you were ghost-writing a campaign bio for an Iowa Senate candidate, you probably couldn't write a better opening sentence than "I'm a farmer from Iowa who never went to law school."

Posted by: Houstonian at March 26, 2014 11:58 AM (9ypY/)

387 1 First thing we do...... ...castrate all the lawyers?

Posted by: I R A Darth Aggie © at March 26, 2014 12:05 PM (1hM1d)

388 Braley like Tom Harken, love to pee, with contempt, on those that were dumb enough to have voted for them.  Being an Iowan, it is shameful to see these elitist pull the wool over the eyes of what used to be the Bible belt people.  An indication as to how far from God they have fallen, drifted away.

Posted by: ron n. at March 26, 2014 01:35 PM (c7HxG)

389 341 i bet ace of spades is filled with those bizarre, creepy ass farm types.

Hey, we farm down here in TX, too.  It may be small, but we grow shit.

Uh...don't mention that to the Sheriff...

Posted by: Richard McEnroe at March 26, 2014 05:53 PM (XO6WW)

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