Blogs4Borders' weekly video blogburst features coverage from a rally in Postville, Iowa. The town has been transformed, culturally and demographically, by the influx of illegal immigrants in recent years.
The presidential candidates, politicians that they both are, were all over Iowa in January, when there were votes to be had. Now, it seems to take a rally by townspeople to get their ears 7 months later on a nagging concern.
The federal government's refusal to enforce the laws of the land.
by Mondoreb
Source: Blogs4Borders! 072808
THE ANTI-THESIS OF KATRINA
Babba Zee's Brain
KID ROCK: AMEN (hat tip to Miss m)
And this comes to me via Lucius Septimius - author unknown
THE ANTI-THESIS OF KATRINA:
The people of Iowa have suffered greatly in the past week as their rivers have over-flowed their banks, and as town after town after town has been put under historically deep, stinking, brown water.
And the people of Iowa will smile; they will shrug their shoulders; they will not complain that the government has abandoned them; the will not rush to the over-passes of highways and hold screaming press conferences decrying the Bush Administration; they will not wonder where the National Guard is, for they do not want the national guard there.
They will instead shoulder their burden; wait for the waters to recede; pick up their brooms, their shovels, their hoses and buckets and rags and get to work cleaning up after the nation's "attack."
They will not rant; they will work. They won't scream; they will work. They won't call down the heavens upon the government. They will work. They won't look to Washington, or even much toward Des Moines; rather they will look to each other and they will work. God Bless these people, for this is America at its best. This is the Midwest where we grew up, and our friends grew up, and our (children) go to school. This is not Katrina. This is Katrina's anti-thesis.
Iowa Floods 2008 - Sunset in Saylorville
Iowans aren't complaining; they're dealing
by Babba Zee
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Source: THE ANTI-THESIS OF KATRINA
images: Outraged Spleen of Zion
Any candidate that is the media's darling ought to start looking over his shoulder.
Mike Huckabee has joined the ranks of such early campaign 'Media Next Big Things' as John Dean and John McCain. Both fascinated the media in early campaigning.
They fascinated the voters to a lesser extent.
Candidates should beware when journalists trot out that Pre-Primary Label of Doom--"groundswell". As in what reporters think they'd hear, if they had put their ears to the grounds anywhere other than the in press tent.
Also, unlike Iraqi War strategy, this is one "surge" they can get behind.
Huckabee is the latest groundsweller. The word usually signifies the support a candidate suddenly receives from press regulars tired of writing about nothing.
At least the NY Times' ADAM NAGOURNEY had the good sense to dampen some of the recent enthusiasm showered on the former Arkansas governor in the press.
Nagourney started out upbeat.“We’ve been waiting a long time for this to happen,” Mr. Huckabee, a former governor of Arkansas, said by telephone Sunday as he prepared to board an airplane here. “It’s everything we’ve been working for.”
The article showcases some concerns of the Huckabee campaign.
The biggest concern should be the one that journalists point to while touting Huck as the Next Big Thing.The Des Moines Register’s poll found that support for Mr. Huckabee had gone from 12 percent in October to 29 percent now. That and other recent polls suggest that Mr. Huckabee and Mr. Romney are in an extremely tight contest. That showing came despite the fact that Mr. Huckabee has been hugely outspent by Mr. Romney on television and has not campaigned in Iowa since Nov. 8.
All the breathless reporting of Huckabee centers around the fact that his poll numbers are up to--29%?
In Iowa.
In December.
This Huckabee press spin is nice; be reminded though, the attention showered today can quickly disappear when another candidate starts looking "sexier".
Still, one can't begrudge the attention Mike Huckabee's been getting lately: he's a likable fellow and the news people do need something to write about. It's really harmless fun when you think about it. Still, Mike Huckabee might want to cast a backwards glance over his shoulder.
Just to see if anybody other than the press is back there.
Source:
New York Times - Mike Huckabee, Lonely No More
by Mondoreb
[image: New York Times]
Death by 1000 Papercuts Front Page.
In a scene straight out of an agricultural horror film an Iowa family barely escaped with their lives after a massive tidal wave of corn destroyed their home.
DES MOINES, Iowa---- A grain bin collapsed and sent a tidal wave of corn into a home, sweeping it off its foundation, trapping a family of four and shaking the ground for miles.
One man was taken to a hospital after being buried for hours in grain and debris in Hillsboro in southeast Iowa.
The bin -- about 100 feet in diameter, 90 feet high and containing more than 500,000 bushels of corn -- collapsed Monday evening. The force of the grain broke the walls of Jesse and Jennifer Kellett's home and sent the roof crashing down.
''The force actually took the house with the corn and shoved it and crushed it,'' Dan Wesely, Henry County chief sheriff's deputy, said Tuesday.
Source - Chicago Sun-Times - Iowa grain bin collapse floods home with corn, traps family
By LBG
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Death by 1000 Papercuts Front Page.
Inspired by this incident, captured on video:
[graphics: RidesAPaleHorse]
Death by 1000 Papercuts Front Page.
