Today’s question is: Can the MAGAs get a person in place in time to shut the government down in a month or will they screw that one up also? If you did your job as badly as they are would you get paid and how long do you think you would last? A week? A day? Or maybe a month if you worked for a real fool? 

So we don’t have to think about an internal party doing what the Nazis in WWII and the Communists during the Cold War couldn’t do – stop the US in its tracks  – let’s see if there are some Stella the leaf jumping dog videos. this is from a couple of years ago, but so fun (4 minutes)

Also try not to think how Tommy Tuberville is beating the military by himself  – oh maybe a little help from guys like Grassley.

If MAGAs in charge aren’t enough of a fright, here are Iowa’s top spooky spots on iowastartingline.com –  Hats off to the folks who did the research on this one.

A) So who is running to be Speaker of the House?

B) Much of the world’s attention has been focused on the Gaza Strip this week. About how big is the Gaza Strip?

C) Robert F. Kennedy, jr. has dropped from the Democratic race for president and has moved his campaign to what group?

D) This afternoon in Iowa City as many as 50,000 people may show up to watch what event?

E) Today is the end of Hispanic Heritage Month. What president established National Hispanic Heritage Week in 1968?

F) In a move to slow climate change Friday, President Biden establish seven hubs for what fuel across the US?

G) The tally is coming in. Kim Reynolds and Iowa’s MAGA legislature’s handout to private schools could take how much from Iowa’s public schools this year?

H) Iowa women’s basketball star Caitlin Clark signed an NIL contract with what insurance company to represent them last week?

I) Best Buy announced they would end sales of CDs and DVDs in early 2024 after the holidays. How long have DVDs been on the market in the US?

J) The UAW walked off the job Monday morning in a strike against what major truck manufacturer?

K) It looked like this person had the inside track to be Speaker of the House until he suddenly announced he was withdrawing his name from consideration Thursday night?

L) The family of what 1984 Olympic gymnastics star announced she had a rare pneumonia and no health insurance as they started a crowdfunding effort to pay her bills?

M) Thursday was the 25th anniversary of the death of what LGBTQ person in Wyoming where he was beaten and left tied to a post in the cold to die?

N) Approximately what percent of the US population is of Hispanic heritage in the 2020 census?

O) Reports claim the Social Prosecutor Jack Smith also has the motive for why who took Top Secret documents?

P) A provision in what state’s budget established a secret police to be run by a legislative committee that is currently run by MAGA Republicans last week?

Q) Indicted congress member George Santos had his indictments superseded to add how many new charges last week?

R) In California, what former athlete announced his bid to fill the senate seat Diane Feinstein held as a Republican?

S) In a decision that may lead to an outpouring of information a judge finalized orders that voided Donald Trump non-disclosure agreements with what group of people?

T)  What states did the US create out of land taken from Mexico at the end of the Mexican-American War in 1848?

Since Middle East, Gaza, Israel, Hamas and Iran are all trending……it’s a good time to remind everyone that putting extreme religious conservatives in power always leads to the opposites of what their religions teach. – John Fugelsang

Answers:

A) Last I heard Jim Jordon is back in and someone name Austin Scott threw their name in – update – looks like just Jordon left – pray for Biden’s and Harris’s health. 

B) 140.9 miles square (25 mi X 3.5 to 7 mi. wide)

C) Independent

D) The Iowa Women’s basketball team play Depaul in what is called the ‘crossover game in Kinninck stadium

E) Lyndon Johnson

F) Hydrogen

G) $144.2 million

H) State Farm insurance

I) since March of 1997

J) Mack truck (owned by Volvo)

K) Steve Scalise

L) Mary Lou Retton

M) Matthew Shepard

N) around 18%

O) Donald Trump

P) North Carolina

Q) 23 

R) Former Dodger Steve Garvey

S) Trump’s 2016 campaign workers

T) New Mexico, Texas, Arizona, and California.

Why is it so hard to believe Donald would provide damaging secret intel to a bad foreign actor?

He showed maps of North Korea to Kid Rock. – Mary L. Trump