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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  • I guess the Nobel Prize doesn't mean jack anymore

    Via B, the Nobel prize committee has given Obama the Nobel Peace Prize for something that he hasn’t even done. When the voting was completed, Obama had been in office for two whole weeks. So they based their criteria on campaign promises and pictures of him on a Hawaiian vacation (must have been his abs… Continue reading

  • Thought of the day….

    I was talking with a colleague at work (academia). He is a liberal and a Canadian and a very nice man. In any case, we got on the subject of term limits (agreed that they would be a good thing) and I said something along the lines that I felt the Founding Fathers didn’t want… Continue reading

  • Thought this deserved a link–re: Tea Party Protester stuff

    I’ve linked to an article by Stephen Green from April 18, 2009. In it he discusses the Saul Alinsky handbook and Anderson Cooper’s use of the derogatory term for Tea Party Protesters. What brought this particular article to mind was a story I was told yesterday by B. I’ll let him tell the whole thing… Continue reading

  • A does not necessarily equal B: Standardized test scores

    I got this peripherally from the story about the young man being beaten to death in Chicago. According to locals, the reason for the increase in gang violence in that area was caused by the closing of a high school (it was turned into a military school) and sending those kids to this other school.… Continue reading

  • A does not necessarily equal B: the Flu

    Again on NPR (see reasons for listening to it below) there are reports that reports of flu are up considerably at colleges and universities. The tone of this message is that we are on the burning edge of a pandemic since so many college students are reporting that they have the flu: something like 200… Continue reading

  • A does not necessarily equal B: Arizona Sheriff

    I was listening to NPR this morning (like the guys at Men Are Not Potatoes, I do this just to get my blood pressure up–better than a cup of coffee). I heard a few things that I was just pounding the steering wheel about and shouting ‘Duh’… And so I shall share now that I’ve… Continue reading

  • Conservatives in Academia…

    Being in academe myself, I read this article by Ron Lipsman on American Thinker and nodded like a bobble-head doll the whole time. Below is his final observation but you should read the whole thing if you want to gain some insight into the groupthink that is higher education culture in the United States. I… Continue reading

  • CNN and Yahoo FACT CHECK the Obama SNL skit

    Okay, in the ultimate stupidity (and one more reason why it’s a good thing that CNN is getting picketed next week), CNN actually FACT-CHECKED the Saturday Night Live skit spoofing Obama that contained a list of things he hasn’t done. For pity’s sake people!! Presidents from Ford to the present have been spoofed, skewered, and… Continue reading

  • Broad rules=selective prosecution

    The FTC has unveiled rules that would require bloggers to state any conflict of interest they might have when reviewing or endorsing products. Not withstanding the fact that, unlike many other communities, the blogosphere is pretty self-policing (think Wikipedia and how long incorrect information stays up before someone jumps on it) the Feds think it’ll… Continue reading

  • Screwing another ally… or Obama is a wuss….

    Via Gateway Pundit comes the news that Obama will not meet with the Dalai Lama when he visits DC. Let’s see here… The folks that Obama has kowtowed to, including his bow and scrape to a Saudi prince are the dictators and despots of the modern world–generally folks who stand against the type of freedom… Continue reading