Midwest Chick's Place

My Heartfelt Thanks to those who serve and served in our Armed Forces, putting their lives, hearts, and minds on the line to keep the American Dream alive and to defend our Constitution.  My thanks to their families, who support them, comfort them, and love them enough to let them put themselves into harms way. … Continue reading

I’ve been slammed at work and my laptop screen took a powder on me so blogging has been slow.  That doesn’t mean that I haven’t been listening to and reading the news (although I’ve been avoiding NPR).  This week has been chock full of things that really make me step back and take a look… Continue reading

My thoughts and prayers are with the soldiers and families of Fort Hood. Continue reading

I was listening to NPR this morning (had a headache anyway and didn’t figure it could get any worse) and heard the chair of the National Endowment for the Arts, Rocco Landesman, a Broadway producer, was talking about his efforts to bring the NEA from the ‘East Wing to the West Wing’ in the White… Continue reading

I was reading more about the NY23 race since Scozzafava dropped out and it led me to a different track on my usual train of thought.  With the health care bill, everyone is talking about ‘sticking with the party’ and obeying party leadership.  Problem being that party affiliation has become more important to the supposed… Continue reading

The UAW membership voted against concessions with Ford.  These changes were designed to bring Ford’s costs in line with Government Motors and Chrysler.  To me this means that either the UAW is working with the Obama administration to bring the third US motor company into the government fold by backing them into a corner or… Continue reading

I happen to be a fan of Arnold Schwarzenegger.  I liked most of his movies (I’ll watch either Conan movie whenever they are on), I tend to like his politics (despite his being married to a Kennedy), I like the fact that he made his kids do their own laundry so they would learn self-sufficiency. … Continue reading

Sometimes, due to back problems, we sleep on the floor since even a Sleep Number Bed set to 1,000,000 is not firm enough all of the time.  This isn’t a problem and I generally sleep better–I put down several blankets and we’ve got some nice quilts so it’s actually quite cozy.  However, last night we… Continue reading

There have been a couple of discussions on the above topic over at Tam’s place with some related commentary at Shermlock Shomes.  The postings at Tam’s and Shomes’ have been about a total smoking ban in Marion county Indiana (I think that it did not pass, but was close). What gets me, and I’m really… Continue reading

Holy crap.  I don’t think I’ve EVAH read such drivel.  In the Washington Independent, there is a transcript of Burris’ “testimony” in the Senate Committee om Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.  As David Weigel notes, it’s stuff like this that will help Republicans in Illinois gain back at least one seat.  As a poli sci… Continue reading