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Venezuela Dictator Chavez closes private TV

Posted by Rich from NW Indiana on Monday, May 28, 2007 3:24:53 PM
Venezuela Dictator Chavez closes private TV station.    Read about it here.     Does anybody still not believe me that Chavez is a  communist dictator?   He is showing all the signs of one.    The media sure doesn't care,    they are too busy complaining about how Bush is taking away freedom.     Nobody is noticing or doing anything about this guy.  Even Fox is still calling him President Chavez.    I wonder how long it will take before the media is forced to call him what he is.   All to long for Venezuelans I'm afraid.  
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Gas Tax Relief in Illinois Too?

Posted by Rich from NW Indiana on Sunday, May 27, 2007 4:22:32 AM
Looks like Illinois may get in on gas tax relief too.   It is long over due.   Read about it here.     Here in Northwest  Indiana near the border are the hugest gas stations you will ever see.   Some of the stations have 48 pumps.  Yes 48! (a typical station has 8-12)  Why is that when Indiana gas taxes are high?   Because Illinois gas taxes are even higher!  (Cook County and the City of Chicago have even more taxes tacked on)  Sometimes the saving are 30 cents a gallon!   Plus folks buy their smokes here too,  since the taxes are lower on that too. 

I guess we will see if either Indiana or Illinois does anything about this.   Neither governor seems to favor it so that's not good.   I'm not holding my breath.    I wish the media would spend half the time that they spend ripping on the oil companies ripping on the high gas taxes instead.  

And a warm welcome to the readers of the WIND Chicago radio blog.    I didn't know my blog was on the top ten list there.   Thanks for putting me there!  
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John Edwards: No global terror war on planet hair: Open Mouth, Insert Foot!

Posted by Rich from NW Indiana on Wednesday, May 23, 2007 10:26:46 PM
Boy,  this one takes the cake today!   John Edwards,  a candidate for Prez from the Democrat side says there is no war on terror.   Read about it here.   Life must be fun on Planet Hair,  because he must live there and they don't  have any  terrorists there (they must have banned them or something).  

He is today's winner of the Open Mouth,  Insert Foot award.   Its a very easy award to  win, all you have to do is say some thing dumb in front of a microphone.      Can't we do better then a ambulance chaser for a candidate.   Here in the real world there are more important things then a $400 haircut. 
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A little of this, a little of that.

Posted by Rich from NW Indiana on Wednesday, May 23, 2007 4:38:19 PM
All right, the blog is working again,  thanks to the techs at Townhall.  

A little catch all for today. 

I was going to write the other day about Jimmy Carter calling the Bush adminstration the worst one in history.   Well I guess Carter would know about failed presidencies more then anybody (outside of former prez Clinton).   Of course history (well fifty plus years from now, not the historians of today) will mostly likely say that Bush II was one of the better ones (Even better then his own dad's).    We already know how history will see Carter's.   The White House actually had a good rebuttal for this one,  but this rip was easy to bounce back at Carter.  

In Indiana,  a Democrat has actually proposed that we not collect the states part of the sales tax on gasoline, while prices are high.    After  my fainting spell (that a democrat would propose lowering taxes)  was over  I read the article in the NW Indiana Times.    As my regular readers know,  gas taxes are one of my pet peezes.     The "mainstream" media never reports on the very high gas taxes that we pay today.    They spend all their time ripping on the oil giants,  never mind the government is cashing in way more the oil companies.  Most folk just take it (the taxes that is),   saying that we could be paying the even higher taxes that Europeans pay on gas.    The way things are going,   we will be paying what Europeans pay for gas taxes. 

I wish Governor Daniels was for not collecting the tax but  he really isn't into this proposal.   Its too bad, this one should be done, if a Republican had proposed it he would be easier to go for it.   But I imagine he doesn't listen to Democrats very often since they talk mostly nonsense these days.  Daniels is disliked by Democrats here in Indiana almost as much as they hate Bush so it isn't surprising.   UPDATE  I just noticed that the online version of the article has been updated.   That person is going to run against Daniels,   go figure.  

Michael Medved has a great article today about the wording that the media uses to write articles,  in newscasts etc.    I wrote about this very subject last year so  read on to see that.   He of course explains it better then I did,  so if that post was confusing to you this is a good way to see what I meant by it.  

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Ok so I don't post much anymore!

Posted by Rich from NW Indiana on Thursday, May 17, 2007 2:16:58 AM
Ok,  so I don't  post much anymore.    Oh well.   Since the last time I posted back in March it seems like a lot has been going on politically.    The Democrat controlled Congress is doing the truly awful job I imaged it would do.   I can't wait until the Republicans can take charge there again (not that they were doing a super job, but their worst is still better then the demo's).   They are trying their very best to cut the funding to the military in a warped plan to "end"  the war.  Like that would end the war,  by bringing the military home.   So utterly dumb,  what are they thinking?

I was watching C-span the other day,   guess what John Kerry was up to.    An amendment   to order the Army Corp of Engineers to consider "climate change"  in all of it future water projects.   Not like we need more dumb things to be required in already overpriced government projects.   This global warming nonsense is gaining strength with congress and the uneducated part of the public recently.    Not good news for the economy if this keep up.   We are going to have to do dumb things in order to "solve"  this non-problem.   

Meanwhile in Illinois,  the politicos are working hard at driving all the business out of the state.   Hasn't any Democrat ever run a business?    I guess not,  because they wouldn't do what they do if they had.  

But in better news in the world of "entertainment".   Rosie will be off daily tv soon.   Hopefully she will be off of it for a long time.   Almost everything that comes out of her mouth is nasty.  

Hopefully my next post will not take three months to appear.  
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I'm still here, this blog isn't dead (and neither is Cheney) !

Posted by Rich from NW Indiana on Monday, March 05, 2007 4:28:00 PM
Well I haven't been here for a while!  My last post was in early December.   Just been busy.    I was also tired of writing this so I needed a break from it.   I think my last posts were getting a little whiny,   a crummy election can do that. 

I saw Bill Maher on Leno recently,  talk about a whiny person.   I did like his old show Politically Incorrect at the beginning of  its run (it got worse as it went along).  The thing is he is one of the many keeping political correctness alive and going these days. Just more and more of that tiring anti-Bush nonsense.   Bush is dumb,  the worst president ever etc.  Don't these folk ever tire of it?  

Well I guess he did because today he is ripping on Vice President Cheney.    That lives would be saved if Cheney were dead!   How do one response to something that insane!   Do we even bother to do so?   Read about it here.   Why does the media give people a place to promote this insanity?   It is just so stupid to say something like this!  

I guess Bill Maher is the first "winner" of 2007 of my "Open Mouth,  Insert Foot award".    I think I will be "awarding" alot of these this year!
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Lies of History: Holocaust Deniers Meet in Iran

Posted by Rich from NW Indiana on Tuesday, December 12, 2006 6:59:43 PM
David Duke joined with other Holocaust deniers in Iran today.   Read about it here.    The group was invited by Iran's President Ahmadinejad.   It is amazing how people like to rewrite history.    Of course many would rewrite 9-11 with all the goofy theories that you may have heard about.  
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Nitwits in Higher Ed: College Students Honor Cop Killer

Posted by Rich from NW Indiana on Tuesday, December 12, 2006 6:47:05 PM
Here we go again!   Some misguided college students in New York City are "honoring"  a cop killer.   This person is not in prison and is thought to be hiding in Cuba.   Read about it here.    They named a room on the campus of City College of New York.    At least with this case the chancellor doesn't like this dumb idea and is telling the groups to take down the signs (the school didn't name the room, just the students groups).   At least the college itself  isn't part of this stupidity.   All too often the school itself is behind the stupidity. 

Why do people support these very guilty people.   These groups have a history of helping criminals.  Seems very naive and dumb to me.   I guess they think that criminal justice system doesn't work for people.   Would you want to live near some of the people they want out of prison?  
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Cindy Sheehan convicted of Trespassing

Posted by Rich from NW Indiana on Monday, December 11, 2006 5:35:02 PM
The media's favorite war protester Cindy Seehan was today convicted of trespassing at of all places the U.N.   in New York City.   Read about it at Fox News.   I can't say I remember that she had been arrested for that since she gets sooooo much coverage for the many dumb things that she does.     She was fined $95 and if she manages to get arrested again in the next six months would have some other form of a penalty against her.   I guess we will see if she get cuffed again,  wasting the time of law enforcement and the courts.   

Of course for her in the media, it is noble to get arrested for her "cause".     Not the case for Right to Life activists when they get arrested and charged with breaking Rico "laws".  If you don't know what Rico laws are,  they were designed to get mobsters jailed.   But they were also used on Right to Lifers to stop the opposition to abortion.   Had some lefty group been jailed for rico the media would have been all over it.   Not in this case though. 

Oh well,  the looply media misses the real story.   That is not new news.     
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Kofi Annan: Open Mouth, Insert Foot

Posted by Rich from NW Indiana on Monday, December 11, 2006 5:06:22 PM
Ah,  I have never given the Open Mouth,  Insert Foot to outgoing U.N. secretary-general Kofi Annan.   So I better do it now since he is finally leaving the U.N. after "running" it for the last ten years.   After he leaves we will most likely never hear from this person anymore.   Thats a good thing,  he has been a particulary awful secretary-general with corruption being very bad for the last couple of years.

Annan joins the "elite"  slam President Bush crowd.   He is yet another one of the never let it go criticism about Bush's foreign policy (mostly the Iraq war part of it anyway).    President Bush,  who got stuck cleaning up yet another U.N. (and Clinton) mess get criticized by one of the ones responsible!   Bush, who knows that his job is to put the U.S. first (duh), has to put up with this endless harping that he puts the U.S. first.    What  other  country has to put  ifself  last in its  own foreign policy  besides the  U.S. ? (Ok  maybe  Israel  and  Britain)  No other nation on the planet has too!

Like nations with real human rights abuses!   Like Saudi Arabia,  Cuba,  North Korea,  China,  Iran, Russia and most of Africa .    No  words about those all to many places in the world.   Nope, just how we handle some war criminals. Who, if someone actally asked the average American,  how  we  handled them  would  say  that we handle them all too nice.    It just foolish,  the U.N. these days,  and Annan just makes it worse.   

I wonder how long the U.N. will last.     It  will  someday  join the  League of  Nations in the dustpan of history.    The U.S. at least had the sense to stay out of the League.    The reason the U.N.  still is here today is because the U.S.  keeps it around.  It doesn't do us any good.   The idea of "United" Nations will never work when you include the outlaw nations commited to destroying democratic nations.    And it will never work when you let people like Annan run it.  
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John Bolton leaves the UN

Posted by Rich from NW Indiana on Friday, December 08, 2006 6:22:29 PM
There is a good article about the resignation of John Bolton,  the U.S. Ambassador to the U.N.   I would think that the one year  in the U.N.  was most likely enough for anybody with all the bull that goes on there.    Bolton has been the only worthwhile ambassador in recent history.  

I think that President Bush shouldn't bother with replacing Bolton.   The U.N. is totally useless in its current form.   I also believe that the U.S. shouldn't bother paying its dues either.     The U.S.  should send a message to the U.N. by not being there.   Or paying its many bills either.  

The president is not going to be able to put anyone that would be good in the post.   He couldn't get Bolton the job permanently  when he had a Republican congress,  he has no chance with a Democrat one.    So leave it vacant. 
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Silly String Saves Lives

Posted by Rich from NW Indiana on Friday, December 08, 2006 6:03:57 PM
The U.S.  military is using Silly String to look for trip wires in Iraq.   Ingenious,  I would think the makers of Silly String never foresaw that use for its product.   Read about it here.    Once again the MSM is not reporting this,  go figure.   
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Left Wing Nitwits Continue to push for Impeachment

Posted by Rich from NW Indiana on Friday, December 08, 2006 5:42:24 PM
Where are these people coming from and why do they continue to push for impeachment of President Bush?   I just don't get it.   Read about it at CNS News.    Do they really believe that leaving Iraq is going to bring peace?   They can't be that naive can they?    Don't they understand the danger?   I guess not,  they get so focused on stupid things.   It just cannot be good for this country to have people this dumb. 
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A Little of Everything

Posted by Rich from NW Indiana on Thursday, November 30, 2006 11:19:01 PM
Well,  the last couple of days have been fun!   I have had the flu since Monday.   Nasty batch of it anyway.   Well my  temp has finally fallen below 100 for the first time in days.   Don't really know what to write about so it will just be a little of everything.
 
I guess I would have given an open mouth,  insert foot to Michael Richards for  that stupid  racist "comedy"  bit.    If you wonder where people get the idea that we need "speech" codes,  this is it.    The only surprise that Michael hasn't entered rehab for something.    I guess that being on Jesse Jackson's radio show is torture enough.   Not that anyone heard it.

The State of Illinois is hard at work at driving all the economic and business growth out of that state.    The bill to raise the minimum wage is working its way though the Illinois House.   It will pass,  making yet another reason not to do business in the state of Illinois.  Dumb move Illinois.   It will not help the poorest workers like they think it will.   People just ignore the evidence that a minimum wage increase decreases jobs.   

Kudo's to Indiana governor Mitch Daniels.   In spite of endless criticism of his plan to lease out and privatize the Indiana Tollway  (funny how none of it happened when Mayor Daley leased out the Skyway), he managed to outsource the states paperwork.   A government can't function without "creating" tons of paper.    But it will be outsourced to IBM and a few other companies.  And part of the deal IBM will open a new call center creating 1000 new jobs.   They say it will save the state $341.6 million.
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Media Malpractice: Christians are for Medical Advances

Posted by Rich from NW Indiana on Thursday, November 16, 2006 3:56:29 AM
Another myth that the "mainstream" media likes to repeat frequently.    Is that Christians are against medical advances and sciences in general.    It is becoming common "knowledge"  that Christians hate science since the scientific world rejects Creationism.    I do criticize the scientific community  for their  knee-jerk  rejection of  Creationism,  but I do realize that not all scientists reject it (even some non-Christian scientists don't).  

I think that many people don't even think that Christians are in the scientific world.    They  think that  our  objections to  embryonic stem cell research has absolutely no scientific bases.    That is wrong as well,  not only do many object to the moral problems with it,  the research so far has shown to be, NOT very promising.   At least in comparison with adult stem cell research which HAS already brought medical advances.  Adult stem cell research  which of course the media does not separate from the embryonic stem cell research. 

So people don't know there is a difference between the two.  Great job media nitwits.   So its "Stem Cell Research and that Christians oppose it".   Embryonic stem cell research should be opposed (and not just by Christians,  anyone with any ethics should as well).   Adult stem cell research should go forward,  it has already brought some advances to medicine and should in the future as well.  It doesn't have the moral and ethical problems that embryonic research has.   It isn't opposed by the Christian community and it shouldn't be. 

I am thankful for science and the advances in life that it can bring.   It needs the highest moral and ethical commitments from all that work in it.   And this is why!
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This cute little guy is my nephew Danny.   The only reason he is standing there in that photo at the age of 20 months is because of modern medical science.  He has Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome.  If you were born with this condition as recently as 30 years ago you had a lifespan of only about 4-5 days.   About 2000 newborns a year have this problem,  more infomation about HLHS can be found here.   He has had three open heart surgeries already and faces at least one more.   There are now people in their twenties that have now survived this condition all because of advances in medical technologies. 

Science is a gift just like just about everything else.  It can bring great things and can also be used for great evil.  How would you explain it to someone that they were saved because of some horror that someone committed for the greater "good".    Science is not a god,  and scientists need to remember that.   There is a lot that is at stake here.  Thats why it is important!

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