Iowa State Fair Open Thread

Tuesday, August 18, 2009, 9:30
Krusty Konservative
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buttercow I have mixed feelings about the state fair. On one hand it’s an event that all Iowa should attend at least once in their lifetime. I’m always surprised by those who have never gone. I also can understand why some people don’t like it.

There are the people with enormous strollers who give you the evil eye you don’t get out of their way. Then there are all those people in motorized scooters who creep along at a slow pace. And finally there those who once they get a giant turkey leg in their hand they walk around like they are drunk.

It seems like every time I go to the fair I end up trying to navigate my way through a group like the one mentioned above. Now this year there is something new. There are these little kids with monkey back packs which their parents hook a dog leash to. That’s all we need, people walking at a slow pace with ropes to trip people with…

Why isn’t there a Des Moines Register Soap Box?

I know it’s not an election year, but why not have our elected officials and their opponents talk about health care? Talk about filling a need and creating some news. What am I thinking, that wouldn’t fit the Des Moines Register’s political agenda…

Constitutional Officeholders

I’m always disturbed by the huge set-ups that our statewide elected officials create at the fair. You know what I’m talking about, the State Treasurers huge set up that tries to tell people what he does. Funny thing is there was no mention about his mismanagement of the IPERS fund. Talk about the great Iowa treasure hunt!

The weirdest thing I saw was the huge scale at the Secretary of Ag display. Seriously, after eating all that fair food the last thing I want to do is weigh myself. Yikes. That said, I’ll give someone 100 bucks if you can get Culver on that thing. Maybe it’s not that bad of an idea after all.

So what do you think about the fair? What do you like to do?

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5 Comments on “Iowa State Fair Open Thread”

Polly Twocents wrote on 18 August, 2009, 10:07
Each year they try to offer something new on a stick, maybe they could call the Soap Box “politician-on-a-shtick.”
JB Johnson wrote on 18 August, 2009, 17:14
you will see more blacks at the fair than you see skinny people. We all could go weeks without food and still be ok. What does that say about us when we go to a fair to see a butter cow and fat pig. They ought to put a big mirror next to the big boar.
Conservative Demo wrote on 18 August, 2009, 18:36
Krustosis said:”I know it’s not an election year, but why not have our elected officials and their opponents talk about health care?”

Mmm yeah Krust, we’ve seen how productive that’s become.

Also said:
“Seriously, after eating all that fair food the last thing I want to do is weigh myself. Yikes. That said, I’ll give someone 100 bucks if you can get Culver on that thing”

That’d really be a hoot with Chet and two of the rethug gubernatorial sorta-candidates who’re carrying the whole farm hanging over their belts right up front.
Timmy wrote on 19 August, 2009, 16:07
I’d like to see deace on a stick. Better yet, I’d like to see somebody yank out that stick that he seems to have been sitting on!!!
bgunzy wrote on 19 August, 2009, 20:38
Wow, ConDemo, very insightful stuff there. Which two gubernatorial candidates are you thinking of? Hmmm?

Yeah, didn’t think so. Go back to watching Oprah.