PSA

Have you successfully avoided foreclosure? The Journal Sentinel is looking to talk with consumers who have taken steps to keep their homes.

If you made a down payment, took out a conventional loan, only borrowed an amount you could repay with your actual income, read the "instrument" before signing it, or even just bothered to make your mortgage payments on time, give them a call. Heh.

(I'm successfully avoiding foreclosure by paying my rent on time. Yes, I'm a chump.)

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We're all citizens of the world now.

"It's a great pleasure to be here in Iowa - Ottawa."

I'll admit--it's a nice change to hear a whole new stupid remark instead of the same old Buckeye gaffe everyone makes.

P.S. Canadians, if you think he's so great, how's about you keep him?

Is someone dumping meth in the Capital water supply?

I applied for a job in Des Moines this morning--there's an airport in Des Moines, at least, and real pork tenderloin sammiches--and now I'm rethinking this whole "moving back to Iowa" thing. Apparently Iowans have gotten really stupid since I left.

The state senate wants to give Iowa's Electoral College votes to the "national winner"--whether or not that individual has the majority of the votes in Iowa.

It looks like a flat-out attempt to circumvent the U.S. Constitution:

"If states that represent a majority of electoral votes in the country pass this compact, we can get a national popular vote without Congress, without a constitutional amendment, without any of those folks," [Senate Majority Leader Michael Gronstal--who apparently has no party, or else the Register assumes anyone reading their paper from another part of the county automagically knows he's a Democrat] said.

Yeah, the organized fraud assures no one I vote for will ever win the state's electoral votes anyway, but at least there used to be a thin veneer of legitimacy about it. The state may not have gone to the guy the legal residents with U.S. citizenship wanted, but at least they had numbers to back it up.