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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  • Crossed wires at the Senate

    I was reading Gateway Pundit’s posting about the Tuesday Code Red Party at Claire McCaskill’s St. Louis office today and in the article it mentioned that it’s very difficult to get through to the Senator’s office in DC.  Now when I was called Senator Evan Bayh’s office in DC, I also ran into problems as… Continue reading

  • Just in time for Christmas

    The WTF blanket (Snuggy parody).  This is pretty funny.  For myself, I think the snuggy make everyone wearing it look like Spock in “The Voyage Home” or someone out of a 1970 horror flick. Continue reading

  • Algore thrown under the bus, or would that be the polar ice cap??

    Via Insty, there is an article in the London Times that I thought was particularly amusing.  First my disclaimer: I don’t like Algore, I don’t like his politics and his self-righteous attitude with his ‘green houseboat’ that runs on biodiesel at a lake that has no fueling stations with biodiesel or the fact that his… Continue reading

  • Media Misdirection

    Larry Anderson over at American Thinker has a fantastic piece on values, justice, and truth.  I like the article but I think that he’s missing a crucial piece in his ‘Values’ section.  He blames the American public for the media blitz about Tiger Woods because he says that this is what the public is buying,… Continue reading

  • Palin/Shatner Beat Poet Smackdown

    This  was pretty good (ht Insty).  I think that Palin is really enjoying herself.  Shatner, of course, has no ego–he seems to be pretty secure in himself and takes the joke well.  Well played, well played–especially to whoever thought it up.  Great move for Palin. eta:  Apparently Shatner’s latest schtick on the Tonight Show has… Continue reading

  • Suffering the death of one-hundred thousand papercuts….

    ….Just waiting for someone to bring the lemon juice and salt. Continue reading

  • The Day the Sleeping Giant was Awakened….

    Regardless if Yamamoto actually uttered those lines, it was the response to the attack on Pearl Harbor.  The United States, which had previously been steering clear of the war that began in Europe in 1939, woke up and began putting all of its resources into the war effort.  Those in my generation and after have… Continue reading

  • Apparently the AP hasn't gotten the news about Climategate yet….

    Found this article on the front page of my yahoo.  It seems that the AP science writer, Seth Borenstein didn’t get the memo (please see B’s site for much linky goodness on the issue) that the global warming data was cooked and all of that coastal flooding and such that was predicted for 2350 (not… Continue reading

  • Again, how liberals think

    Over at Ambulance Driver (one of my favorite, read-daily blogs) there’s quite the bruhaha going on, basically caused by one person.  AD posted some pics and narrative about taking his seven year old daughter shooting.  One of the pics showed her shooting her birthday present, a nice AR15 .22 caliber.  Someone called Nurse K, who… Continue reading

  • Alright, I'm finally going to blog about Climate-Gate from a researcher's point of view

    B was way ahead of the curve on this one–I think he beat out Reynolds at Instapundit by several hours.  I’m not going to blog about the science or anything but about my disgust at these people as a researcher.  I’ve been in academia as a researcher for almost fourteen years and was a researcher/analyst… Continue reading