Midwest Chick's Place

I was talking with Mr. B on the way to work today and started off on a bit of a rant.  Over in the People’s Republic of Illinois at the University of Illinois, home of the politically-connected admissions system, they are having to furlough all faculty and staff a day a month for the next… Continue reading

I’ve been mulling this around for quite a few days, but this post at American Thinker helped me to crystalize it.  As Joel J. Sprayregen, points out, there were several attacks on Christians around Christmas by Muslims.  It seems that others’ holy days are specifically used as a type of attack calendar.  The thing that… Continue reading

I was listening to Don Wade and Roma this morning on WLS and they had former Governor (now talk show host and celebrity apprentice) Rod Blagojevich on.  Most of what he said was self-serving blather since he’s trying to kill any jury pool for his trial but something that he said was actually kind of… Continue reading

Just watched “White Nights” with Mikhail Baryshnikov and Gregory Hines for the umpteenth time.  Besides being a good reminder about the bad old days of Soviet Russia, watching Hines and Baryshnikov dance in their prime was mesmerizing.  Two styles that were so different–tap and ballet–but melded so well when performed by two artists at their… Continue reading

I still am listening to election ads from the People’s Republic of Illinois in the morning on my way to work (BTW, never got to work today due to weather but had a LOVELY two hour sojourn on our Indiana state highways).  But it did give me a lot more time to listen to the… Continue reading

Via Insty, SISU, in their article about Democrats leaving a sinking ship (Dodd and Co.), has a link to this video— America Rising.  Well done!  The almost subliminal graphics work very well.  Check it out! Continue reading

Today Mr. B called me from the road to clue me about Michael Steele speaking on WLS this morning (sorry I kept you on the phone so long darlin’-you got me on a roll and I get clueless when I’m on a roll).  In any case, Mr. Steele seems to suffer under the misconception that… Continue reading

Here’s a sign I have next to my desk–Author Unknown to me but if anyone knows, I’ll happily attribute it properly. Life is too short to wake up with regrets. So love the people who treat you right. Love the ones who don’t, just because you can. Believe everything happens for a reason. If you… Continue reading

I don’t have kids, but JayG at MArooned does.  Please check out his post about his run-in with a do-gooder type.  The article ends with an interesting thought: “…had she really believed I was some uncaring brute who would willingly torture a six year old girl for fun, I doubt she’d have opened her mouth.… Continue reading

CNN is reporting on a Tea Party economic protest/national strike on January 20, 2010.  At the end of the article is this sentence: CNN reached out to a number of national Tea Party organizations. While some were aware of the planned strike and some not informed, none said they were going to actively take part… Continue reading