Midwest Chick's Place

Two firefighters were killed in action and fourteen others injured trying to save an abandoned building in Chicago today.  They were going through searching for homeless people that might have been squatting there.  My heart goes out to the families of those brave men. Continue reading

You may have seen the SNL parody of the ‘Shake Weight’ for women (which was frickin’ funny), but now there is a real product for men as well.  My goodness gracious, someone wasn’t thinking (or I guess wasn’t thinking pruriently) when they made this commercial.  Below is the men’s commercial (real thing) and then the… Continue reading

It’s kind of funny that I just made this connection, mainly thanks to Himself and his posting of the old Schoolhouse Rock “How a Bill Becomes a Law”.  The DREAM Act is not an act, it is a bill–those tricky Democrats and their labeling again–trying to make its passage a foregone conclusion.  I don’t have… Continue reading

This is a very small thing in world events and I’m almost embarrassed to be blogging about it, but I have to admit to a bit of schadenfreude about the whole thing.  Seems that Obama and Michelle, those classless, clueless clods, are not invited to William and Kate’s wedding this coming April.  Considering the way… Continue reading

For the Chicago Tea Party’s Christmas party, they got a bomb scare that closed down the venue for a while.  What’s interesting, is that we listen to Chicago news quite a bit and I don’t recall hearing anything about this.  The really, really interesting part is that the potential violence, according to graffiti left at… Continue reading

Obama’s fall-back line when talking to supporters seems to be “if X does/does not happen, then his legacy/Presidency will end.”  His latest is for the tax bill (I refuse to say tax cut since it’s a not-raising taxes bill).  Last time it was for healthcare where he was whining to various caucuses about the end… Continue reading

Okay, so I’m sitting in the drive thru at Micky D’s this morning and the car in front of me, which was driven by a woman about my age (let’s say above the 40 year old demographic and leave it at that), had some odd cursive-type writing on the rear window.  It said “Look after… Continue reading

Shamelessly copied from In Jennifer’s Head (a fantastic blog).  I’ve included a clip of the original too.  Gotta say the lightsaber version really shows how quickly these guys were moving.  IMO, one of the best fights scenes EVAH in a movie.  My favorite move is at 2:43 in the second video  where he changes from… Continue reading

SO, we’ve had quite a bit of snow in the last 24 hours.  Himself had to go into work last night at 8:00 pm and is still there 13 hours later–will probably be there all day and into the evening.  It took him 1 1/2 hours to drive 17 miles–he was turned back once and… Continue reading

Part of the reason that Chris Christie is so….  refreshing…  to listen to is that he is saying things that we hope others are thinking.  When he’s talking about the tenure system in New Jersey, all teachers in their K-12 system have to do is manage to not mess up bad enough to get fired… Continue reading