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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  • Democracy, what democracy?!?…… I present to you The Slaughter Solution

    Via Bookworm Room:  Pelosi is not sure she’s got the votes she needs to circumvent the will of the American people so it’s possible they are going to try another tact–just leave the House out of the equation on the monster health care bill since some of them are actually showing some backbone (or want… Continue reading

  • Back on my education soapbox

    Mr. B. over at Middle of the Right sent me this link that he got via Insty.  It’s an article from Inside Higher Ed (which I do try to read every couple of days) about how the Federal Department of Education sent out a ‘guidebook’ to accreditors that looks like it went above and beyond… Continue reading

  • Oh, I like this idea about the Census race question–pass it along

    Via Bookworm Room, Mark Krikorian over at The Corner has an answer to the race question on the Census form instead of lying or skipping the question altogether: Instead, we should answer Question 9 by checking the last option — “Some other race” — and writing in “American.” It’s a truthful answer but at the… Continue reading

  • Interesting article about Haiti and Voodoo

    In this Telegraph (UK) article, there are a couple of interesting tidbits regarding the budding war between the Evangelicals and the Voodoo practitioners in Haiti.  The first tidbit is that despite the writer trying to make the Voodoo folks look looney by describing the happenings of one of their rituals, the Voodoo folks make the… Continue reading

  • I suggest you put on a tie!

    I happened to catch part of the news last night and saw the video of Obama congratulating the Iraqi people on their courage to vote, despite the threats of being blown up (kind of like voting with the SEIU or Black Panthers standing there, but with high explosives) and basically trying to take the credit… Continue reading

  • Okay, this is REALLY funny!

    I’m all for clever, funny innuendo and I think this commercial for Axe has both. Via Say Uncle. Continue reading

  • Your afternoon Conan…..

    Having a complete brain block today so my fallback is below: Continue reading

  • For Thee but not for ME! Irony strikes again….

    Via Insty, there is an article detailing the arrest of a 45 year old woman for the murder of her 26 year old husband, with whom she had been in holy wedlock for a total of five days.  The irony comes in when the reader finds out that she’s employed by a quasi-legitimate organization that… Continue reading

  • Instead of throwing money at a problem, try actually solving it….

    I read an article via Insty that the Detroit Teachers Union would rather have every student fail than bring in the Teach for America program and actually provide those kids a chance to succeed in the world.  Just as in Chicago and Gary, the NEA would rather keep their stranglehold on the school systems and… Continue reading

  • How low can you go?? (Personal rant)

    Okay, as I posted before, a friend died last week.  His boss came in and said that my boss had volunteered me to write his obituary that would be sent out from the school.  I said that I hadn’t volunteered but would do it anyway.  So I did.  And it was pretty good…. And that… Continue reading