Do they really? The Star’s piece Indiana interstate fatalities surge puts the lie to it’s own headline in the first sentence: Fewer people have died on Indiana roads in the year since the General Assembly raised speed limits, but deaths on the six main interstates with new 70-mph stretches rose by 40 percent. I see [...]
Indiana blog Taking Down Words is reporting two GOP state representitives are withdrawing from the November elections: Ralph Ayres in District 4 and Andrew Thomas in District 44. Andrew Thomas is my own state rep and for once I actually don’t have an opinion on whether this development is good or bad for Indiana, the [...]
“Now it doesn’t require expropriation or confiscation of private property or business to impose socialism upon a people. What does it mean whether you hold the deed or the title to your business or property if the government holds the power of life and death over that business or property? Such machinery already exists. The [...]
“Clearly, no one wishes to say anything that will [awaken] mass hysteria. We must never speak…about ‘the Day’ [of the Second Coming] without emphasizing again and again the utter impossibility of prediction. We must try to show them that that impossibility is an essential part of the doctrine. If you do not believe Our Lord’s [...]
“As nightfall does not come at once, neither does oppression. In both instances, there’s a twilight where everything remains seemingly unchanged, and it is in such twilight that we must be aware of change in the air, however slight, lest we become unwitting victims of the darkness.” Supreme Court Justice William Douglas
Just when I thought I’d seen it all… it looks like the little British MG will be built in Oklahoma, by the Chinese. Having once owned a British car I fully expect the Chinese version will be better built and more reliable.
In June the police warned British women they should drink less to avoid being raped. The messege must have not soaked in for now they’re trying a different tact – warning them to at least wear knickers to avoid exposing themselves when they fall down drunk on public streets. And getting raped. Looks like women’s [...]
Looks like Citgo is going to overhaul their distribution system and stop supplying gasoline to 1800 stores in the United States.That’s 1800 of 13,000 total units. Interestingly the states most effected are said to be Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma and South Dakota plus a limited number of stations in [...]
If ever there were an indicator that President Bush’s stance on immigration is wrong Bill Clinton praising it would be it.
Now isn’t this interesting… Ole Gorby says we have winners complex and shouldn’t force our style of Government on them. The Lefties have to be screaming that their favorite Commie just admitted in public America won the cold war. And Gorby, we’d be under a Soviet style communist dictatorship if you’d won so don’t giving [...]
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The masthead graphic "Road to Oakalla" was taken during a motorcycle ride to the Oakalla covered bridge on 23 May, 2007 with a Canon A85 digital camera (F5.6, 1/125 sec exposure). Additional images from the visit are in the Oakalla bridge gallery.
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