Eating Iowa

[JackLuis]

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What do the candidates eat?

"Jeb blows his diet in Iowa"

Is that like a babysitter in Iowan? ​

 

[Boxlicker101]

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What do the candidates eat?

"Jeb blows his diet in Iowa"

Is that like a babysitter in Iowan? ​

No, it's the Japanese legislature.

 

[phrodeau]

It keeps them from talking.

 

[JackLuis]

Regardless, Clinton was mobbed during a brief excursion to the Iowa State Fair in Des Moines on Saturday. Secret service agents had to battle to allow Clinton to get a traditional photo op – eating a pork chop on a stick.

Yet, while Trump’s run for the White House has often seemed more like a national tour by an insult comedian than a presidential campaign – more Rodney Dangerfield than Robert Kennedy – his appearance was timed to the release of his first policy paper, on the topic of illegal immigration.

In sweltering heat, Sanders drew 1,000 to the Des Moines Register’s soapbox. The crowd had to be corralled at times to avoid stopping traffic. The attendees were diverse by any standard, let alone those of a state such as Iowa where 94% of residents are white. They cheered after almost every other sentence of Sanders’s stump speech as he attacked the “billionaire class” and called for single-payer healthcare and a $15 minimum wage.

The 2016 Presidential Election Is Getting Pretty Surreal

This was the weekend the primary election went full weird.

 

[JackLuis]

Sarah Palin's Newest Suckers

Thanks to the lovely Wonkette, which has kept up its subscription to the TriState Neighbor so I don't have to keep up mine, we discover that Princess Dumbass Of The Northwoods has found some more suckers who will pay her to come and make words perform unnatural acts upon each other. There was this big event where people came to look at living things nurtured largely by manure, and things that grow in the ground, too.

Palin said the "elitists on both coasts" call this area "flyover country." However, she said, she thinks of it instead as the heartland and the salt of the Earth. Using food metaphors, she likened this region's people to the beef patties inside a Big Mac or the good, creamy filling in the middle of an Oreo cookie. "You're the meat and the sweet stuff."

The event was held at Hefty Farms, so this may have been an appropriate metaphor.

She said Alaska holds the world record cabbage at 127 pounds. She also mentioned that state residents have grown a 96-pound kohlrabi, 82-pound rutabaga, 42-pound beet, 39-pound turnip, 35-pound broccoli and 18.9-pound carrot.

"When in the Corn Belt bring plenty of fertilizer" I guess?