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Old 08-14-2011, 04:28 PM
 
Location: Southcentral Kansas
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This one is so telling about S & P that I just can't accept their downgrade of the US. Here they say that the people of Iowa just got a downgrade of their IQ and you know why. How in hell can we accept them rating our economic worth down and in less that a week they say something like this? I didn't even know they were in the business of rating the IQ of people in a state because 26% of the people who had $30 voted for Bachmann. It is pretty obvious to me that S & P just entered the political scene and, of course, against the Tea Party.

You can read this story on a whole lot of blogs but especially from HuffPo. I selected this source because so many of those blogs, even HuffPo, quoted this one.

S & P Downgrades Iowa (http://www.borowitzreport.com/2011/08/14/s-p-downgrades-iowas-iq/ - broken link)
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Old 08-14-2011, 04:37 PM
 
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Roy, the story is satire.
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Old 08-14-2011, 04:46 PM
 
Location: Dallas
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wow, apparently that story was completely lost on you. did you bother to read the whole story or are you truly that obtuse?
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Old 08-14-2011, 04:47 PM
 
Location: Southcentral Kansas
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Roy, the story is satire.
One would hope that is true, but if it was HuffPo was taken in also.
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Old 08-14-2011, 04:53 PM
 
Location: Chicagoland
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One would hope that is true, but if it was HuffPo was taken in also.
Look at the other articles on the side.
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Old 08-14-2011, 04:57 PM
 
Location: Philadelphia, PA
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One would hope that is true, but if it was HuffPo was taken in also.
HuffPo runs satire all the time, roy.
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Old 08-14-2011, 04:58 PM
 
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Roy, don't ever go to The Onion - America's Finest News Source.
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Old 08-14-2011, 04:59 PM
 
Location: Great Falls, Montana
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Not quite as good as the Onion, but funny, and well worth the read just the same
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Old 08-14-2011, 06:33 PM
 
Location: Fredericktown,Ohio
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The S&P is finally doing there jobs, the U S was deserving of a down grade and Iowa deserves theirs for picking Bachman. Did the S&P downgrade Iowa to junk status?
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Old 08-14-2011, 06:42 PM
 
Location: Houston, TX
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Maybe Roy is from Iowa?
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