just not sure

Turn around and you are ten! Happy Birthday Blog For Iowa! As has been noted here before BFIA is one of the blogs that came from the start of the DFA or Democracy For America movement. DFA continues to go strong. Dr. Dean and brother Jim continue to go on strong being among the clearest beacons for where our country should be going. Let us wish all mentioned above many more years of activism in helping bring this great country back to its glory and moral leadership.

So today we will have a quiz for last week and ten years back.Crank up the brain cells on a Sunday morning. They need the exercise.

1) Let us start with something simple. What was the split on the McCutcheon decision announced by the Supreme Court this week?

2) Ten years ago on April 8th this then National Security Advisor was grilled by the 9/11 Commission. Who hemmed and hawed their way through this testimony?

3) Over in Iraq, the bumbling Coalition Provisional Authority has a big headache with what non-elected cleric who is head of a group known as the Mahdi Militia that threatens stability?

4) Last week, tsunami waves emanated from an earthquake with an epicenter in what country?

5) Earlier this week in Iowa, parents of epileptic children met with Gov. Branstad to seek his support for what?

6) March 15, 2004, Presidential election takes place in Russia. Who wins the Russian presidency by a large margin?

7) In March of 2004 John Allen Muhammad is sentenced to death in Virginia for his role in what scary D.C. series of events?

8) This week some information about activities that were going on during the Iraq war are beginning to be released. What activities and who was doing it?

9) March 11, 2004. This event in Spain during morning rush hour killed or wounded nearly 2000. What happened?

10) This week it came out that the fix for a faulty ignition switch that is linked to 13 deaths in GM cars would have cost how much?

11) In the NCAA basketball tournaments in 2004, we had one school winning both the Men’s and Women’s titles. What school was that?

12) Who was the head of the Coalition Provisional Authority in Iraq in April 2004?

13) This week Mozilla’s new CEO stepped down after less than 2 weeks due to controversy over his past political donations. What donation in particular were users upset with?

14) March 18,2004: Justice Antonin Scalia refuses to recuse himself from a case even though one of the parties in the suit is a close friend of his. Who is this close friend?

15) March 21,2004: The War in Iraq is vehemently denounced by what former US President?

Kind of fun bouncing down memory lane, wasn’t it. It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.

Well, here are some answers:

1) 5 to 4. 5 Republican appointees, 4 Dem appointees.

2) Condoleeza of course

3) Muqtada Al Sadr

4) Chile

5) medical cannibis.

6) Putin. You know that bare chested man the Republicans love.

7) The Beltway sniper attacks in D.C.

8) The CIA was the perp and torture was their game.

9) coordinated bombs set off in the Madrid subway system

10) 57 cents

11) Connecticut.

12) L. Paul Bremer

13) a $1,000 for prop 8(hate) in california in 2008.

14) former VP Dick Cheney

15) Jimmy Carter.

More next week? I think so