This effort to create a record for any changes attests to their weakness, which arises from the fear of someone "passing" and thereby demonstrating how pointless their whole enterprise is. It also reminds me of some foolishness on my Iowa birth certificate, which is at pains to specify that I am "white."
In the past I was so proud to be from a state that seemed to be progressive and a leader in education. Now I am concerned with how far we are going backwards. Our state government is attacking the rights of its citizens and killing our public education system. If they have their way, we won’t have public libraries to make up for the fact that they are banning books in schools. Another great article that really makes you think.
So happy this bill died. I will never understand this hatred against LGBTQ+ people and this need to introduce and pass anti-LGBTQ+ legislation. And adding those details to driver's licenses. Unbelievable. I recently stumbled upon this awhile back: https://www.holocaust.org.uk/news/homosexual-victims-of-nazi-persecution. Your friend Eric Palmer summed things up perfectly (and horrifically). Though perhaps pink triangles would be more appropriate, since the Nazis/Hitler actually did what Reynolds/Republicans seem to want. Thank you for another informative article, Bob.
Thank you for being at the capitol last week and creating a vivid account of the day. Never in all my years as an activist have I witnessed so many protests as I have since the trifecta has occupied the golden dome.
I read the comment about 'The Grapes of Wrath' being banned with interest. As a native of Oklahoma, I read the unabridged book in High School with interest. I'd been led to believe the State had banned it but no, just some Libraries. The reason was it portrayed the banking system as villians in foreclosing against Farmers during the Dust Bowl days that couldn't pay their loans and the banks taking down fence cutting down windbreak trees and removing roads, creating fields that were huge by that day's standards. Furrows miles long were created, ironically worsening the Dust Bowl. My parents moved from the State when I was quite young and came to Iowa, after a short stay in Missouri. Iowa was a different political climate back in the early 1950's and our family thrived. Iowa began to change after the Honorable Governor Robert Ray retired. It's now very much, to my dismay, like my native Oklahoma.
They annoy the heck out of me but I'm beginning to feel sorry for those who genuinely believe this especially if they wake up someday and realize how much misery they have caused with their desire to establish their views on the rest of us.
Among the many lecture series I have obtained from The Great Courses, my favorites recount the early history of Christianity by University of North Carolina’s Bart Ehrman. I learned that “Apocalypses” were a popular genre around 100 AD, similar in my mind to science fiction stories of today. There were many. Early Christians seemed to like the “Apocalypse of John,” or biblically labeled “Revelation.” Perhaps its clear allusion to the Roman Empire especially appealed when Christians felt attacked by the Empire. We don’t know why Athanasius, or whoever chose the specific documents for the Cannon, included this one rather than say the Apocalypse of Peter. Unfortunately, so many persons today want to believe The Apocalypse of John predicts the future and somehow sanctions their domination. It’s almost as if War of the Worlds was adopted as fact and was to be our guide.
Thank you for an enlightening, yet disturbing, explanation of the "curiouser and curiouser" motivations of Iowa Republican legislators after Bob Ray Republicans have disappeared. Sadly, Eric Palmer’s quip is spot on for so many actions they have proposed or passed onto the governor for approval.
It seems hard to stay current with all of the abominable coming out of governor’s office. Thank you Bob for keeping us so well informed.
Today we need to be at the Capitol at 2:00 to register our displeasure with their efforts to dismantle the library system. One day at a time.
This effort to create a record for any changes attests to their weakness, which arises from the fear of someone "passing" and thereby demonstrating how pointless their whole enterprise is. It also reminds me of some foolishness on my Iowa birth certificate, which is at pains to specify that I am "white."
In the past I was so proud to be from a state that seemed to be progressive and a leader in education. Now I am concerned with how far we are going backwards. Our state government is attacking the rights of its citizens and killing our public education system. If they have their way, we won’t have public libraries to make up for the fact that they are banning books in schools. Another great article that really makes you think.
So happy this bill died. I will never understand this hatred against LGBTQ+ people and this need to introduce and pass anti-LGBTQ+ legislation. And adding those details to driver's licenses. Unbelievable. I recently stumbled upon this awhile back: https://www.holocaust.org.uk/news/homosexual-victims-of-nazi-persecution. Your friend Eric Palmer summed things up perfectly (and horrifically). Though perhaps pink triangles would be more appropriate, since the Nazis/Hitler actually did what Reynolds/Republicans seem to want. Thank you for another informative article, Bob.
Thank you for being at the capitol last week and creating a vivid account of the day. Never in all my years as an activist have I witnessed so many protests as I have since the trifecta has occupied the golden dome.
I read the comment about 'The Grapes of Wrath' being banned with interest. As a native of Oklahoma, I read the unabridged book in High School with interest. I'd been led to believe the State had banned it but no, just some Libraries. The reason was it portrayed the banking system as villians in foreclosing against Farmers during the Dust Bowl days that couldn't pay their loans and the banks taking down fence cutting down windbreak trees and removing roads, creating fields that were huge by that day's standards. Furrows miles long were created, ironically worsening the Dust Bowl. My parents moved from the State when I was quite young and came to Iowa, after a short stay in Missouri. Iowa was a different political climate back in the early 1950's and our family thrived. Iowa began to change after the Honorable Governor Robert Ray retired. It's now very much, to my dismay, like my native Oklahoma.
They annoy the heck out of me but I'm beginning to feel sorry for those who genuinely believe this especially if they wake up someday and realize how much misery they have caused with their desire to establish their views on the rest of us.
Among the many lecture series I have obtained from The Great Courses, my favorites recount the early history of Christianity by University of North Carolina’s Bart Ehrman. I learned that “Apocalypses” were a popular genre around 100 AD, similar in my mind to science fiction stories of today. There were many. Early Christians seemed to like the “Apocalypse of John,” or biblically labeled “Revelation.” Perhaps its clear allusion to the Roman Empire especially appealed when Christians felt attacked by the Empire. We don’t know why Athanasius, or whoever chose the specific documents for the Cannon, included this one rather than say the Apocalypse of Peter. Unfortunately, so many persons today want to believe The Apocalypse of John predicts the future and somehow sanctions their domination. It’s almost as if War of the Worlds was adopted as fact and was to be our guide.
Always appreciate your coverage at the capitol.
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Thank you for an enlightening, yet disturbing, explanation of the "curiouser and curiouser" motivations of Iowa Republican legislators after Bob Ray Republicans have disappeared. Sadly, Eric Palmer’s quip is spot on for so many actions they have proposed or passed onto the governor for approval.