{"id":181941,"date":"2016-02-04T00:18:00","date_gmt":"2016-02-04T05:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2016\/02\/04\/it-aint-just-the-caucuses-that-are-fed-up-in-iowa\/"},"modified":"2016-02-04T00:18:00","modified_gmt":"2016-02-04T05:18:00","slug":"it-aint-just-the-caucuses-that-are-fed-up-in-iowa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2016\/02\/04\/it-aint-just-the-caucuses-that-are-fed-up-in-iowa\/","title":{"rendered":"It Ain&#8217;t just the Caucuses that are F%$#ed up In Iowa"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"border: 1px solid black; float: right; margin: 0px 10px; padding: 5px; text-align: center; width: 340px;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"186\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/TH9xedB1h2E?rel=0\" width=\"330\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>There is a bill being mooted in the Iowa Senate proposing that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.esquire.com\/news-politics\/politics\/news\/a41813\/iowa-law-standford-marching-band\/\">Stanford University be published because their marching band is too mean<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>There is something seriously wrong here, even without the whole &#8220;Bill of Attainder&#8221; thing:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">\u2026\u2026\u2026<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span> <span style=\"color: blue;\">Stanford&#8217;s football team defeated the University of Iowa 45-16 in the game. In addition, the Stanford band, which has a history of irreverent performances, poked fun during the halftime show with a dancing cow, a frowning farmer formation and other tongue-in-cheek gestures that upset some Iowans. ESPN, which televised the game, cut away from the band&#8217;s performance. State Sen. Mark Chelgren, R-Ottumwa, told The Des Moines Register at the Iowa Capitol on Wednesday that he introduced Senate File 2081 because he believes Stanford officials have condoned improper behavior by the marching band. &#8220;I think it&#8217;s unfortunate because here in Iowa we try to teach sportsmanship,&#8221; Chelgren said. &#8220;We try to teach courtesy, and when someone behaves in a way that is contrary to that, we need to point it out.&#8221;<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span> <span style=\"color: blue;\">Good thing we can all ignore Iowa again until the 2018 state fair.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Seriously, what the actual f%$#?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is a bill being mooted in the Iowa Senate proposing that Stanford University be published because their marching band is too mean. There is something seriously wrong here, even without the whole &#8220;Bill of Attainder&#8221; thing: \u2026\u2026\u2026 Stanford&#8217;s football team defeated the University of Iowa 45-16 in the game. In addition, the Stanford band, &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1020,1137,1057,982,1027,979],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-181941","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-legislation","category-music","category-sports","category-stupid","category-video","category-wanker"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181941"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=181941"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181941\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}