Iowa shares it’s southern border with Missouri..  There is an old joke, if you took the bottom two rows of counties in Iowa and gave them to Missouri, both states average IQ would rise sharply.

It appears the town of Black Jack, population just under 7,000 is trying to kick out a family of 5 because the parents are not married.

The brewing controversy in Black Jack, a town of 6,800 in the central state of Missouri, began unfolding earlier this year when Olivia Shelltrack and Fondray Loving were denied an occupancy permit after moving into a four-bedroom house they had purchased.

Local officials told the couple that the fact they were not married and had three children, one from Shelltrack’s previous relationship, did not fit the town’s definition of “family”.

A Black Jack ordinance prohibits more than three people from living together in a single family home unless they are related by “blood, marriage or adoption”.

So let me get this straight, a man and a chick, who have 3 kids, two of which actually came from said couple, are not the definition of “family?”  WTF?!?!? If parents and their childern are not a family then I don’t know what the hell is?

Everytime I get sick of the Iowa winter and want to move south all I have to do is drive a few hours south to figure out it’s probably best if I just stay up here… fricken weirdo’s.