I like Victor Davis Hanson's take on certain people's tax problems (written before Daschle bowed out, but it still makes valid points):
I like Victor Davis Hanson's take on certain people's tax problems (written before Daschle bowed out, but it still makes valid points):
After the White Lodging people explained to City Council last night that, sorry, they still haven't been able to get financing for the Harrison Square hotel, this observation was made:
Council President Tom Smith, R-1st, pointed out that the hotel's meeting rooms and meeting space planned for the Embassy Theatre will add to meeting space already available in Grand Wayne Center, the Allen County Public Library, even the Foellinger-Freimann Botanical Conservatory.
“Do we need to have some kind of a meeting-space summit?” Smith suggested.
You remember the old joke. What do you call someone who graduated last in the class from medical school? Answer: Doctor. The same principle applies to education:
A 1.33 GPA won't get you into grad school. It certainly won't be impressive to any future employers. And it may even result in loss of funding from dear old Mom and Dad.
Let's face it, a D+ average just isn't that great.
I understand the concept of "moral hero." You do the right thing, even if it creates a hardship for you (or "especially if," maybe), and it provides the right kind of example for those who might be wavering on the line between good and bad. But this example chosen by Gov. Daniels might be a reach:
Democrats in the Indiana House are just full of ideas lately. Let's divert $800 million from Major Moves for local projects:
Rep. Terri J. Austin, the Anderson Democrat who authored the package, which she admitted is "a work in progress," said the state can use that money to replace funds shifted to local government.
It's the job of government to protect citizens and keep essential services going. It is the role of business to provide the jobs that pay the money from which taxes are taken to provide those services. A tidy and workable arrangement. But people in government aren't happy with their limited duties, so they keep wanting to change the rules. Mayor Charles Henderson of Greenwood, for example, recently held a meeting with "business professionals" to talk about "breathing new life" into downtown:
Dust off those bats, girls. Baseball and softball aren't "comparable sports" -- the IHSAA has said so:
Faced with a lawsuit it sees little chance winning, the Indiana High School Athletic Association has ruled baseball and softball are not comparable sports and that girls may now try out for their school's baseball team.
One of the ways pranskers amuse themselves these days is to hack electronic road signs. One near the Univeristy of Texas was hacked with the messages "Caution! Zombines Ahead!" abd "Nazi Zombies! Run!!!" Now, one in Indiana has been hacked:
Even those who more or less ignore popular culture have to pay some attention to the Super Bowl if they want to stay in the conversation (the top three TV shows of all time for viewership are last year's Super Bowl, this year's Super Bowl and the "M*A*S*H" finale). The game was one of the more exciting ones, not decided until the waning minutes of the last quarter.
What Michael Phelps should have said -- I take my apology back because, guess what, it's none of your business:
I work my ass off 10 months a year. It's that hard work that gave you all those gooey feelings of patriotism last summer. If during my brief window of down time I want to relax, enjoy myself, and partake of a substance that's a hell of a lot less bad for me than alcohol, tobacco, or, frankly, most of the prescription drugs most of you are taking, well, you can spare me the lecture.
Add Richard Lugar to the list of those who think our gas taxes are too low:
I could have gone all year without reading this:
Not that it's anything we think the New York Times Company should do, but we thought it was worth pointing out that it costs the Times about twice as much money to print and deliver the newspaper over a year as it would cost to send each of its subscribers a brand new Amazon Kindle instead.
[. . .]
Mayor Henry is heading to Washington with other Indiana mayors to lobby (sorry, forgot that practice will be strictly forbidden by the president) plead for a piece of the stimulus pie. And all he wants is a measly $300 million out of all those hundreds of billions.
So, while Kentucky was hit with deadly ice storms and FEMA was slow to respond, President Obama was enertaining guests with steaks that cost $100 a pound, and where was the mainstream media that loved to hound President Bush over Katrina? Well, come on, we're waiting.
The man has 14 gold medals -- more than any other Olympian in history -- and he feels compelled to apologize to the U.S. Olympic Committee gnats who are "disappointed" in such behavior from a "role model"?
Michael Phelpts apologized for "regrettable" behavior and "bad judgment" after a photo of him smoking a marijuana pipe surfaced in British tabloid News of the World.
Here we go again with the stupid red-light cameras. At least in New York they're not going on and on with a lot of disingenuous drivel about "public safety":
Drivers beware: Big Brother could be watching you at every Big Apple intersection soon.
The mayor's preliminary budget released Friday proposes to amend state law to allow for traffic-light cameras at "unlimited locations" in the city and to raise the fine from $50 to $100.
The Indiana State University basketball team fell 61057 to the University of Northern Iowa, and this is the headline they put on the story:
Still close, still no cigar for ISU men against UNI
I know all of you must be just like me, can't get enough of the Katie Stam story. Some people are now saying the new Miss America is not just another pretty face:
The controversy: Does she or does she not have man hands? Here are some of the comments from the site, then go take a look and judge for yourself.
It's only Feb. 2, and already I've heard two candidates for euphemism of the year on the news. The first comes in conection with the story about the California octuplets -- "selective reduction." Isn't that a nice, clean term? Instead of planting just one embryo -- which really makes carrying the baby to term an iffy proposition, and who wants to be so old-fashioned as to just to deal with one baby a time -- plant multiple embryos.
A venerable Fort Wayne restaurant — the Acme Bar — is closing.
The gathering spot “Where Neighbors Meet” since 1941 — that slogan is painted on the wall — will close its doors for the last time Saturday night. The adjacent package store will close, too.
