Survey reveals metro communities want trick-or-treating on Halloween night in 2025 For the first time since 1938, children in Des Moines were trick-or-treating on Halloween in 2024 after weather prevented the metro's typical Beggars' Night. 12/19/2024 - 12:10 pm | View Link
Urbandale moves beggars' night to Halloween, permanently Trick-or-treaters in Urbandale will hit the streets on a new night next year.Tuesday night, the Urbandale City Council voted to move trick-or treating from Beggars' Night, Oct. 30, to Halloween, Oct. 12/18/2024 - 3:33 pm | View Link
Urbandale moves trick-or-treating from Beggars' Night to Halloween. More cities may follow Urbandale is not the first city in the metro to make the change, but it's part of a trend after a weather interruption of this year's Beggars' Night. 12/17/2024 - 10:33 pm | View Link
Beggars' Night: When is it, where to trick-or-treat near Des Moines It's almost time for the spookiest Iowan tradition of all: Beggars' Night! The Halloween-themed festivities usually takes place during the evening hours of Oct. 30 in the Des Moines metro area ... 10/30/2024 - 3:39 am | View Link
In a first since 1938, Des Moines, Iowa, kids will trick-or-treat on Halloween Instead, Des Moines children don their costumes on Beggars' Night, typically the day before Halloween. And besides screaming, “Trick-or-Treat,” children are expected to tell a joke before ... 10/29/2024 - 1:01 pm | View Link
This is, in a word, insane. More anticipatory compliance, or is something larger going on? We already see signs of a bad flu season, and Louisiana just announced the first serious case of human bird flu. WTF? Via NPR:
A group of high-level managers at the Louisiana Department of Health walked into a Nov.
El Cheato's death grip on the Republican Party got a lot looser last night after 38 of his House minions voted to defy his command to support a spending and debt deal. Via the New York Times:
Writing on social media, Mr. Trump had told Republicans to “vote ‘YES’ for this Bill, TONIGHT!” He said it was vital to pass a bill that extended spending until early next year and suspended the nation’s debt limit until 2027, well into his next term.
For the better part of a decade, that kind of dictate has usually been enough for Mr.
Elon Musk, the likely illegal immigrant disqualified from being an elected president because he was not born in the U. S., has now found a way to become president anyway: Give Donald Trump and MAGA Republicans $277 million so that he can be the puppet master.
If the failed bipartisan bill to keep the government open past Friday is any indication, Musk’s plan to be President-Never-Elected is working.
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Unsurprisingly, a panel of GOP-appointed judges on Thursday stripped Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis and her office from the last remaining criminal case against incoming vice-president Donald Trump. Incoming President Leon Musk could not be reached for comment.
The panel concluded that Willis’ one-time romantic relationship with former special prosecutor Nathan Wade constituted a conflict of interest that merited her dismissal from the case.
NewsHounds - Senator Hagerty thinks RFK Jr. is great!
Progress Pond (BooMan) - Musk and Trump cannot count votes;
Slacktivist - 'evangelical' as opposed to what?
Strangely Blogged - lab-created bullshit;
The Brad Blog - Trump family corruption cometh!
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I'm so f*king tired of unelected President Elon Musk. I'm tired of him waltzing around Washington like he got one vote. I'm tired of the tool getting up on stages and jumping up in the air like an addled toddler with the self awareness of drywall. And I'm tired of this absolute tool making dangerous, callow, obtuse economic decisions he has no legal right to make.