Midwest Chick's Place

The wails and howls of those without electrical power have reached my ears.  We too were without power for several hours (not days), but because of proper preparation, it was merely an adventure and a chance to go to bed early. After the storm passed Thursday night, I figured it was safe to dive into… Continue reading

It’s truly interesting to watch the spin the press puts on it.  Their meme du jour is that because Congress passed it, it must be Constitutional (also Nancy Pelosi’s argument, coincidentally).  Hopefully the balance of powers (even the Founding Fathers didn’t think that all laws passed by Congress would be Constitutional) will make this abomination… Continue reading

Since a picture couldn’t possibly do the meal I had last night any justice, I will try my level best to describe and you can use your imagination. Finely chopped chicken (marinated for two hours), red and yellow and green peppers, some onion, and BACON sauteed in a hot skillet in a blessing of cayenne… Continue reading

So the US Olympic Committee feels that a bunch of knitting fans holding a ‘Ravelympics’ “may constitute trademark infringement, unfair competition and dilution of our famous trademarks,”.  Seriously.  Because they are having competitions called ‘the Afghan Marathon’.  I would think that a couple of thousand years after the original Olympics and more than 100 years… Continue reading

…. or this just reeks.  One public school employee union in Michigan is strong-arming its members to hand over credit card and bank account information to force dues out of them since the state is no longer acting as the enforcement arm of the union.  To me, this just says that the unions are losing… Continue reading

So the Chicago Police department is eating the cost of providing 100+ officers for security for Valerie Jarrett’s daughter’s wedding.  And the citizens of the Chicago are eating quite a bit of lead–46 injured and eight dead.  The murder rate is up by 35% year over year in the Windy City.  And the city of… Continue reading

The Taliban has said that they are going to start denying their children access to the polio vaccine if the US doesn’t stop sending drone strikes into Pakistan.  Am I the only one who thinks “so what, it just makes it a generation of suicide bombers that have to crawl to their victims.”? Continue reading

Standing at the train station waiting for my folks to emerge from their respective bathrooms, I was approached by a young man who said “Excuse me miss, may I borrow your cell phone?”  I looked at him and said “Yes I mind, and I’m sorry, but no you may not borrow it.”  I thought I… Continue reading

In this case my voyage of discovery was literal.  My sister and her new husband rented a tall ship for a both a cruise and B&B.  Unfortunately, while in the galley chatting after the cruise, I found that boats and my stomach do not agree.  It didn’t help when my sister set out the guacamole,… Continue reading

Via Bookworm Room:  As she says, this ad should get wide play.  I concur so I’m passing it along. Continue reading