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Since I was young I have thought of the time from Memorial Day to July 4th as the Patriotic month. This is the time of celebrating and showing pride in our country. Juneteenth fits well in the patriotic month. This is the holiday that actually makes the ideal “all men are created equal” a reality. That reality is still coming, but you can feel it happening.

Throw Father’s Day and pride month into the mix this week as our nation wrestle’s with one of its ideals – that no man is above the law – and we have a very interesting confluence of competing concepts trying to get our attention. It is fitting that that indictments against a former president come during this patriotic time of year. Said former president has made it known how much he despises our people and our laws.

A)  What a surprise Friday morning when it was announced that the Iowa Supreme Court ruled how on abortion?

B) In another real shocker Thursday the SCOTUS ruled how in the case concerning the Indian Child Welfare Act of 1978?

C) Last Sunday – June 11th – was the 60th anniversary of whose “stand in the schoolhouse door”?

D) We have been at this Father’s Day thing for a while. What year was Father’s Day first celebrated in the US?

E) During what awards show last week was Ron DeSantis referred to as the “Grand Wizard of Florida” by an actor?

F) At their annual meeting in New Orleans the Southern Baptist Convention voted to expel two churches from their midst due to what sin by those churches?

G) Also Mail Carrier Awareness month. How many carriers are bitten by dogs in the US annually?

H) In what Texas city did the announcement that slaves had been emancipated years earlier take place on June 19th, 1865?

I) What cable newser ran a chyron under a video of President Biden speaking that said “WANNABE DICTATOR SPEAKS AT THE WHITE HOUSE AFTER HAVING HIS POLITICAL RIVAL ARRESTED”?

J) What known Trump supporting judge has been picked to hear the charges against Donald Trump?

K) The first state to recognize Juneteenth as a holiday was what state?

L) Another infamous cellmate died in custody last week. What criminal popularly called the Unabomber died in custody in North Carolina last week?

M) How many Iowans signed up for the Iowa voucher program for private schools so far? (Sign up goes through June 30th)

N) Maybe the most famous father & son in the movies were Star Wars Luke Skywalker and what father of Luke?

O) Spirit Lake, Iowa school district may lose insurance next year on June 30th due to what policy the school board enacted last year?

P) A now traditional dish at Juneteenth celebrations, a Marcus Garvey Salad is made of what 3 colors of beans? 

Q) Poor Rudy! As the Republican Party tries to create a scandal around President Biden, the informant that Giuliani claimed had the goods on Biden now seems to be what?

R) Donald Trump claims he did not return boxes of Top Secret documents because the boxes also had what in them?

S) The Iowa state legislature gave the Iowa University system no new money for the next year. Therefore state tuitions will be going p how much next semester?

T) In perhaps the strangest story of the week, the manager of the Harvard University morgue has been accused of what?

If you’re saying that Donald Trump blabbed secret military plans to “his golf buddies”, and that it’s “no big deal”, you gotta remember that his golf buddies are the goddamn Saudi royal family. – Liam Nissan tweet

Answers:

A) that the current 20 week access to abortion in Iowa still stands

B) That the Act is still law. Most observers expected radical right judges to overturn the law. The vote was 7 to 2 (Thomas and Alito)

C) Governor George Wallace of Alabama stopping the integration of the U of Alabama at Tuscaloosa

D) 1910

E) the Tony Awards (Denee Benton)

F) The churches had women pastors, against the Convention’s rules

G) 5,300

H) Galveston

I) Fox News. The responsible party (a tucker Carlson producer) has been fired.

J) Aileen Cannon

K)  Texas in 1980 – Iowa was 7th

L) Ted Kaczyński 

M) over 17,000

N) Darth Vader

O) a policy that allows staff to carry guns in school

P) Green, Red and Black. These colors are from the African Nationalist flag.

Q) dead. Their other informer is supposedly incarcerated somewhere in the world

R) his clothes. YUCK!

S) 3.5% – Happy inflation kids!

T) Stealing and selling body parts. Apparently a little sideline business

Your reminder that not one person has ever been willing to testify under oath that Donald Trump is innocent. not one person. ever. in any hearing or trial. – Jeff Tiedrich