Midwest Chick's Place

(A.K.A. Non-Original Rants)

–Co-opting good stuff from all over the ‘Net and maybe some original thoughts—ΜΟΛΩΝ ΛΑΒE

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  • Applicable phrase in so many conversations…..

    But sometimes preceded by this (especially in the last two years): Followed by this: Continue reading

  • Groundhog Day, Part Deux… the Obama version.

    Okay, so in June 2010, Obama asked for $50 billion to:  fend off “massive layoffs of teachers, police and firefighters” and to prevent a possible double-dip recession. In September 2011, Obama is asking for $447 billion.  In a Monday press conference:  “He will be joined at the Rose Garden event by people from across the… Continue reading

  • Groundhog's Day….. the more things change, the more they stay the same.

    So in 2006, NBC tried to find support for its meme that those redneck NASCAR fans just can’t quite control themselves when faced with a fully-bearded dude dressed in muslim garb.  NASCAR fans didn’t bother the guys and NBC decided not to continue their ‘investigation’ at the next race. In 2010, ABC sent a reporter… Continue reading

  • The ultimate crisis not wasted….

    I was in Boston on September 11, 2001.  I had been at my new job for just over two months.  I remember watching the TV in the conference room and seeing the second tower just seem to melt away.  I had one friend who was a defense department contractor who worked at the Pentagon periodically… Continue reading

  • Unions looking like idiots by jumping the gun…

    So a bunch of ne’er do wells aka union members, along with the Rev. Jesse Jackson held a rally/protest in Chicago today calling on Congress to pass Obama’s job plan.  The only problem is there is no plan, there is no bill (I’m really getting tired of him calling things an Act, before they actually… Continue reading

  • Argh…

    Let’s just say that it’s a good thing that if I had a superpower, it’s not making people burst into flames. That is all. Continue reading

  • Well this could be fun to watch–CEO of Gibson Guitars to attend Obama's Job Speech

    Via Breitbart’s Big Hollywood, Gibson CEO Henry Juszkiewicz will be attending Obama’s speech before the joint session of Congress tomorrow night as the guest of Rep. Marsha Blackburn (it might be that he will actually sit in the Speaker’s Box).  As you probably know, Gibson Guitars was raided recently and he estimates that this probably… Continue reading

  • Quote of the Day from my sister

    To preface this:  Usually I’m on my headset/phone when I walk into my building in the morning.  This morning as I’m walking in, my sister is telling me about a friend of hers who actually located camouflage ballet shoes to go with her camo tutu.  So she says, and I repeated out loud: “Ya know,… Continue reading

  • Let us rise…..

    A French revolutionary named Camille Desmoulins (1760-1794) said:  “The great only appear great because we are on our knees.  Let us rise.”  The words of this man ring truer today in the United States than they ever have before.  We have a government who regularly violates the Constitution and who is ruling through executive fiat… Continue reading

  • Calling it like it is…..

    Amy Alkon had to fly a few months back and in the course of her TSA ‘patdown’ had her vagina probed four times by the TSA agent, Thedala Magee.  Ms. Alkon (who I read daily) was upset at this and called it like it is–sexual assault and rape (which is what everyone else would also… Continue reading