The Colts keep saying "no," but Indianapolis keeps asking the question in different ways in hopes of getting a different answer:
Rather than try to reopen its 30-year contract with the Indianapolis Colts, the city might ask the team to donate money to area arts and culture groups now supported by the struggling Capital Improvement Board.
Best visual of the bone-headed "photo op" staged in New York, from the Perfunction blog. At left is the photo op, at right the real thing on Sept. 11, 2001:
An important swine flu update as a valuable public service for readers of this blog!!!!
1. If you're the least bit suggestible, this is probably a bad time to read "The Stand."
2. Wash your hands a lot, and don't go to Mexico.
You're welcome.
Today's quiz: How many people die in the United States each year from flu and flu-related causes? Answer later.
Hoosiers continue to suffer from both the economy and the ravings of the carpetbagging national press. Here, The New York Times dissects the good folks of Anderson, Ind., and discover that, by gosh, they not only love President Obama's stimulus package, they're staying up nights making sure some other place doesn't screw them out of their fair share. Naturally, they'll be quick to turn on the president if they don't get every last morsel of what they've been promised:
Mike Pence, who is considered by some to be one of the new voices of the Republican Party, demonstrates why he deserves to be:
Ah, man. My car's gonna be an orphan:
One down, three to go on the free-trade front:
Three cheers for President Obama's decision, announced quietly on Monday, to repudiate a campaign promise and not press for new labor and environmental regulations in the North American Free Trade Agreement. The last thing the Western Hemisphere needs are more trade barriers that would snarl supply chains and damage commerce.
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The Terre Haute Tribune-Star has dropped its appeal of a $1.5 million jury award to Clay County sheriff's deputy Jeff Maynard, who contended that two stories about alleged misconduct defamed him. Nobody at the newspaper is talking, so the natural speculation is that a settlement might have been reached among the interested parties for something less than the awarded amount, which was the largest libel award against a news media defendant in Indiana's history.
The Indianapolis Colts, 2001, in an Associated Press story:
Three years after signing a lease to play in the RCA Dome, the Indianapolis Colts are looking for a new stadium.
Colts owner Jim Irsay intends to commission two studies by spring or summer to examine prospects for a new stadium in Indianapolis.
This seems to be about the right sentence to me. Any gun-rights advocates object?
The father of a young boy who police said shot and killed his 4-year-old sister with a gun he found in the family's home was sentenced Thursday.
James Booher, 27, pleaded guilty to one count of felony neglect of a dependent and was sentenced to 10 years in prison, with two years suspended, 6News' Derrik Thomas reported.
A different perspective on gay marriage:
If you put something out with the trash, the police can search it without a warrant. Anyone walking by can take it. Although it's still on your property, it's not really yours anymore; you've relinquished your claim to it. And that's exactly what done with marriage. We might as well let gays have it. We're not using it.
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The Indiana Department of Agriculture and the Indiana Farm Bureau are on the wrong side of this issue, and any members involved in the behind-the-scenes efforts to smear the Human Society of the United States should be ashamed of themselves.
Indiana Department of Agriculture officials have been working behind the scenes to defeat legislation that would crack down on abusive dog breeders by trying to discredit one of the bill's leading supporters.
I had a Plan A. I was going to be a great American novelist or a rich and famous standup comedian or a songwriter admired and respected by recording artists even if Unknown To The Great Unwashed. I had a Plan B, too, of course, which is, well, my Real Life as it Actually Played Out. Most people have Plan A's and end up going with Plan B, which is reality's wakeup call for good intentions, as in: OOPS! According to the Food and Drug Aministration, the age limit on saying OOPS!
Dahlia Lithwick, writing in Newsweek, says it's about time we had more females on the bench, because men are too fond of "rigid rules and clear lines" while the women tend to favor an "ethic of care" over and "ethic of rights." ("Women: Truly the Fairer Sex" says the headline. Ha, ha; cute pun.)
Being "persecuted as a Christian" doesn't seem to be quite the hazard it was in earlier times:
Dyker Neyland says she fought for her daughter's right to attend Irving's Thomas Haley Elementary School wearing an untucked shirt because of her religious beliefs as a Christian.
Nick Gillespie at reason.com seems to get even madder about overreaching government than I do. Here, he takes on Barack Obama's addled notion of government service, the $5.7 billion Serve America Act, which will spend $5.7 billion more of our tax money to "boost volunteerism" through AmeriCorps and other avenues:
I was shocked (still am a little) when Fort Wayne lost both its MCL cafeterias and the company apparently decided it didn't need to worry about a future location here. What, we don't have enough senior citizens in Fort Wayne looking for a good meal value? I still love the place and visit one in Indianapolis close to my sister's house occasionally.
This news is shocking in the same kind of way:
The shopping selection at Jefferson Pointe will soon be a little less sweet. The Krispy Kreme Doughnut store off Illinois Road will close on April 26.
Our "Rant" telephone line serves at least one useful purpose -- it provides a quick look at what people in town are collectively outraged over at any given moment. Right now, a lot of people calling in -- especially the women -- are beside themselves over Bobby Joe Flores, the molester who gave a 1-year-old an STD.
Devil, I command you to . . . whoops!
A man who says he tried to cast demons from a 14-year-old autistic boy from southern Indiana has been convicted on charges that he injured the teen during the exorcism.
A Monroe County jury on Tuesday found 24-year-old Eddie Uyesugi guilty of felony charges of battery and criminal confinement.
You wanna make an omelet, right? I think this counts as inflicting your religion on someone.
