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Baron Hill’s latest display of arrogance at a townhall in Bloomington is probably the best news Mike Sodrel has had all year (video here, if you haven’t seen it). Seriously, when a Democrat gets trashed for his arrogance in the IU college newspaper editorial page, it’s time to hang it up.

He hits is right out of the park. Courtesy of Frugal Hoosiers, Mitch gives the GOP National Address.

Rock star.

Thanks to Frugal Hoosiers, we have yet another reason to love Mitch, who said about Sewer Lake County:
You are entitled to all the lousy, crummy, graft-ridden government you want and are willing to pay for.
Speaking truth to power!

I found when I left for the airport yesterday evening that over the course of the day, that would be after we had gotten around four inches the night before, we got another two inches. We had not, by that time, anyway, gotten any sleet or freezing rain.
God knows what happened overnight. It’s still dark, […]

Mitch Daniels, the State of the State Speech, Jan 14. Can we say never-ending applause?

Frugal Hoosiers reports that State Senator Allen Paul wants to make Sugar Cream Pie the Official State Pie.
And you thought I was making it up.

Subtitled: This is what middle America looks like.
Some didn’t come out too well. They tend not to when you take them out of a car going 70 mph. Like the first two, taken in Indiana. The first was to document the limestone. Indiana has so much limestone they face roadworks and build partitions with it. […]

Pics and more later (I left the camera in the car, and the driveway is solid ice).

It’s 4:15 am, and it’s 62 degrees here. I’d like to leave at 7. Weather outlook is good today, and we could make it back by dark.

Clicky for biggy:
First, St John the Apostle, where I went years ago, and where I went to Midnight Mass (more on that later). They built a new church, in an entirely different place; it’s a good thing I went to the webpage to check the schedule, or I would have driven to the wrong place, […]

It’s a good thing I decided to search online to see if the parish had a webpage so I could check the schedule, or I would have driven to where the church used to be for Midnight Mass.
They moved.

Everything went smoothly. Snow everywhere in Pennsylvania, until you get to the westernmost part of the state, but dry, clear roads, and very little traffic. Surprisingly little. Ohio was fine, too.
Until Springfield.
That’s about 30 miles east of Dayton, and 70 east of the Indiana state line. Suddenly, it started to rain, and we didn’t need […]

From last year’s trip.
You can view the entire collection (when I’m done taking pics and uploading them) by clicking the pic below. You can see the full-size photos I’m posting here by clicking on them.

We’re staying right across from Steak and Shake — thank God! This pic is taken from the parking lot right outside […]

Trash collection will be a day late next week, and all schools in the county are closed Monday.
Why?
Monday after Thanksgiving is the first day of regular deer season. There will be a ticker scrolling across the screen tomorrow morning, listing school and business closings.
Not even Indiana does this. Seriously.
PETA would have a fit, if there […]

I got my sorghum at Applacres, just south of Bedford on 37. Here. They sell persimmon pulp, too, but they don’t sell online, or even have a website.

Mitch did better than even I thought he would:
Daniels not only won re-election but far outpaced his showing four years ago.
In fact, he won more votes — roughly 1.56 million — than any other candidate for any office in Indiana history.
Not by running away from conservatism, either.
As others debate the direction of the party, Daniels […]

Steak ‘n Shake!

IU beat Grand Lakes, 7-5.

here in about twenty minutes.

I have been commissioned to take two twelve-packs of birch beer to Indiana (there is no such thing there, thank God). I’m going to get the gas tank filled here in a minute, and I’ll pick up the (ugh) birch beer (ugh) on the way back.
There are a few other things I need to pick […]

I’ll be driving to Indiana this Friday; I plan to leave by 4 am, which means I’ll probably get out of here at 5. If I leave at 5 and take 22 instead of the Turnpike, that should put me at my destination around 2 pm, provided there aren’t Ohio cops all over I-70. I’ll […]

You remember the crap about the emissions test. The day after I drove out here, I took the Explorer to Midas for an overhaul. While waiting, a mechanic came to tell me, “This won’t pass the test,” as he pointed to a quarter-sized spot of rust on the running board.
“Test? What test?”
“The emissions test. See, […]

A long-time friend from Indiana sent me this, and I’m posting it with permission. It echoes some things I’ve been wanting to say but haven’t, because — frankly — I’m fairly disgusted. With the Democrats. With a faction in the GOP. With the nation at large. When I can calmly discuss it, I will.
Here it […]

especially Michigan, via Frugal Hoosiers, I found this about Mitch Daniels.
Between 2005 and 2006 - with a Republican legislature - deficit spending was wiped away with a balanced budget. A bipartisan effort on telecommunications reform in 2006 brought broadband services to more than 100 rural communities, creating more than 2,000 new jobs across and […]

This weekend was good for college football. For the first time in 30 years, Penn State defeated Ohio State 13-6 in Columbus, in Ohio State’s Homecoming game. That’s schadenfreude, ja sure. And in Memorial Stadium, IU beat Northwestern 21-19 in IU’s Homecoming game. Course, it remains to be seen what happens at Heinz Field when […]

This is the kind of ad that won Mitch the election. Giving credit where it’s due.

Clearly, the idiots at MSNBC failed geography (hat tip to Hube).

Well, I have now been inside the Centre County Corrections Center — barely. I didn’t even have to go through the metal check. The conference room is right off the front door.
The new machines are, to put it mildly, a pain in the ass, and I suspect voters are going to hate them and want […]

I volunteered to work the polls. In Indiana, the county parties get volunteers, but at the county level, parties in Indiana are grassroots organizations. Not here. Note that it wasn’t the county party, but the College Republicans who were nine-tenths of the work behind getting the McCain headquarters here, and staff it now.
No, the neighborhood […]

ACORN in Lake County, Indiana: All 2,100 of First 2,100 ACORN Registrations Fraudulent.
For those of you unfamiliar with the state, Lake County (Gary, etc.) is right across the state line from Chicago, and desperately wants to be Chicago — in just about every way, as you can see. It’s also one of the only two […]

For some reason, Indiana flies below everyone’s radar (except for Hoosiers, obviously). Other than Bayh and Lugar — Bayh because there was all that talk about putting him on the ticket, and Lugar because he’s been in the Senate longer than Methuselah and has had enough time to make a name for himself — Hoosier […]

but this story on Frugal Hoosiers is funny:
Last week, we told you that one-time Democrat gubernatorial candidate Jim Schellinger and his architecture firm CSO were partnering with Gov. Daniels and the state to rebuild the Moscow Covered Bridge. At the end of the post, we noted that “there’s still no word on whether the Schellinger […]

You can now buy beer at Wegman’s. (It’s Wegman’s. How much do you want to bet they don’t carry Budweiser?)
You might wonder why I care, given that I don’t drink, ever. Well, I don’t, but that doesn’t mean nobody who might be in the house does. But you really need to understand how idiotic Pennsylvania’s […]

Jeff feels dirty now that he’s voted.