Midwest Chick's Place

So the Campaigner-in-Chief on his ‘listening tour’ just dismisses a farmer’s concerns about over regulation.  “Don’t always believe what you hear”, Obama says.  Okay, how about some specific stuff that would have caused some concerns:  DOT floating a proposal about requiring ranchers to get commercial driver’s licenses (abandoned for now); EPA farm dust rules (due… Continue reading

If you don’t know who Jason Momoa is (and I didn’t until about three minutes ago), he’s the star of the remake of Conan the Barbarian.  *yawn*  What I did not need to hear is Conan talking about calling his wife and kids and “having a nice little cry” because his horse went ass over… Continue reading

From the NWI Times today.  Police have caught three kids who were breaking into cars in a pretty tony subdivision in Porter County, Indiana.  The thing that got me though is this part of the article:  LaFlower said residents need to get in the habit of always locking their cars and keeping things like MP3… Continue reading

But, in the course of discussing ‘music to not get lucky by’ with Brigid and Himself this weekend, William Shatner was mentioned.  So here’s an excerpt of him doing ‘Free Bird’. It was a great weekend all the way around. Himself cooked a fantastic dinner and breakfast. There was gopher dancing, dogs, some favorite tunes.… Continue reading

So I get a text from my sister last night.  It says “I was bored so I went and ran a half marathon.  I’m either awesome or sad.”  For myself, if someone just decides to run a half marathon and finishes, I’d vote that totally awesome. Continue reading

On August 3, 2011, NPR was nattering on about a new White House plan to fight terrorists within the United States.  Part of that plan was “Empowering Local Partners” (please note that I had to search for it since the original links were broken), which could also be known as “snitch on your neighbor” or… Continue reading

So they have a pretty wide field for the possible Republican presidential candidate next year.  Right now, according to polls, ANY Republican has a chance to beat Obama.  However, I don’t want to settle this time or choose the lesser of two evils.  I want someone who will genuinely do their best to cut spending,… Continue reading

So Dick Lugar says that the American economy is strong.  Says pretty much the same thing as Dick Durbin, as a matter of fact.  Both are about as wrong as you can get.   Guess the longer you’re in Washington, the more in lockstep you are.  Or Lugar is in fact Durbin or vice versa.  Hmmm…… Continue reading

Nineteen of the thirty families requested absolutely no pictures of the returning soldiers killed recently in Afghanistan at Dover AFB.  The Pentagon, bucking the trend of allowing the media to have their way, absolutely forbid them to be there and to take pictures.  Instead, the White House decides to post a picture of Obama at… Continue reading

Well, since Obama is an academic, I can see where he gets his penchant for blaming everyone but himself for problems.  I was sent a file a couple of months ago and used it in a pretty important report.  Turns out that the file wasn’t actually the right one although it went out to quite… Continue reading