Umm, are you reading manga that are depicting child porn?

So, obviously, Iowa has an aging population, brain drain, etc. It’s costly to run nursing homes anyhow so anything that hints at de-regulation is liked.

Being from Iowa, I can tell you that nursing homes pour money into politicians. See: former Governor Branstad.

OMG!!! I did not see this! My sister is a nursing home inspector and mostly she can compartmentalize. Usually, she just talks about the towns she went to but there are sometimes she just says ‘I can’t talk about work’ with tears in her eyes. And it’s just horrible to think about what she might have saw.

No. I’m from the Midwest and he grew up in Asia. But what you said totally makes sense too. 😉

Me too. And when my college boyfriend  was surprised by how little I knew about the war in Pacific I thought and realized that was about all of a page & a half in our textbooks.

OMG!!! My aunt voted re-elect GWB although she was so upset with the war in Iraq. She said to the effect of ‘if your kid makes a mess, you make them clean it up.’ And I was like ‘THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES IS NOT YOUR CHILD!!’

Meanwhile, Putin is like, ‘Did I do it? No, no, no. Of course not. I had someone else do it for me.’

I’m so sorry. My husband was also gutted when Ahok was jailed and the raid on the gay bath house. When we discussed it, he explained it as you feel like the world is finally becoming a bit fairer and then everything blows up and you realize it’s still crap. I don’t have any suggestions but I really empathize with you.

My husband is from the country with the largest Muslim population in the world. And when the travel ban first came out we were horrified despite it not applying to Indonesia. His SIL ardently supports it and thinks her husband has nothing to worry about. In a discussion about whether her husband should worry about…

This was actually the most terrifying thing in Barf Bag today.

Dude, I remember watching the news on Sandy Hook bawling my eyes out with my 1 year old. And turning it off because I thought ‘This is horrible, utterly horrible and it will change nothing.’

Broccoli, broccoli. I have, literally, never seen brussel sprouts in a Japanese grocery store. 😂

Thank you! Fat doesn’t equal you are about to die. There are other way more horrible things we could point out about Trump.

Well, happy surprise. I thought there was no way Iowa was on that list and we were!

But she actually says “I don’t know. I just feel like, over the years, there was Mean Girls, there was Clueless, over time we have had so many movies that have been female-driven,” she continued. “But we have also always had these pay issues, so it’s a few steps forward a few steps back.”

Yes. She is having a really hard time articulating her point but she seems to have a very valid point.

For me it was the constant feeling of ‘I’m going to pee my pants’, running to the bathroom and nada then two minutes later same thing happens again.

It’s not about her actually being blind to this but about maintaining the appearance of being dumb to all this. I’m sure she would sell it as a pure, pristine, unblemished sweetheart or some sh*t like that.

Honest to god. People love to say that on any Steve King article. But I’m from North Central Iowa (getting really close to Northwest) and I disagree. The two most backward racist Iowans I ever met were from Southeast Iowa. They are completely unrelated except their geographic origins. Which, anecdotally, leads to…