Starting with Indiana where all the results are in for the races we are watching. The very expensive three-way GOP feud for the GOP nomination goes to wealthy businessman and former state Rep. Mike Braun who handily trounced his squabbling two opponents, Reps. Luke Messer and Tod Rokita with 42.2% of the vote to their …
Tag: Indiana
May 08 2018
2018 Elections: Let The Primaries Begin
There are major primaries if three states, West Virginia, Ohio, and Indiana . Here are the more important races to watch. West Virginia: Races to watch: U.S. Senate; 3rd Congressional District; Polls close: 7:30 p.m. Eastern. We discussed this here yesterday how the fringe has become the new normal. There are three candidates for the …
May 03 2016
2016 Primary : Back Home In Indiana
Tonight is Indiana’s turn to vote form the Republican and Democratic nominees for president.Immediately after the polls closed at 6 PM CT the race was called for the Republicans which billionaire Donald Trump. With 34% of the counties reporting, Trump is winning with 54%, Ted Cruz a distant second with 36% and John Kasich a …
Mar 31 2015
TBC: Morning Musing 3.31.15
I have 4 articles for your perusal this morning!
First, on the big bigoted stupid in Indiana:
The Big Lie The Media Tells About Indiana’s New ‘Religious Freedom’ Law
It’s not true.
The Indiana law differs substantially from the federal Religious Freedom Restoration Act, signed by President Clinton in 1993, and all other state RFRAs.
There are several important differences in the Indiana bill but the most striking is Section 9. Under that section, a “person” (which under the law includes not only an individual but also any organization, partnership, LLC, corporation, company, firm, church, religious society, or other entity) whose “exercise of religion has been substantially burdened, or is likely to be substantially burdened” can use the law as “a claim or defense… regardless of whether the state or any other governmental entity is a party to the proceeding.”
Jump!
Dec 28 2013
One more legal ruling on same-sex marriageā¦this time from Indiana
I am sure you have seen the stories about the recent legal rulings about same-sex marriage in New Mexico, Utah and Ohio.
But there has been one case that has so far snuck beneath the radar. I was planning on covering it last Tuesday, but came down sick with the flu. I’m still sick, but a bit better.
This case comes out of southern Indiana. David Paul Summers and Angela Summers married in Brown County, IN on October 30, 1999. During the marriage Mr. Summers was diagnosed with gender dysphoria. Mr. Summers then decided to transition and legally changed his name to Melanie Davis in 2005. A Marion County judge ordered the gender on Davis’ birth certificate changed from “male” to “female” in 2008 to conform with her gender identity, legal name and appearance.
May 15 2011
Indiana Court: No right to resist illegal cop entry into home
Just in case you haven’t read about it…
http://www.nwitimes.com/news/l…
Don’t be worried. It’s only the natural progression of the national security state. And guess what? Mitch Daniels, Indiana’s governator, wants to run for President, and apparently he has money to back him (don’t worry about pharma buying him out, he used to be head of Eli Lily, so he’s already sold himself).
Coming to state near you, if its not already there.
Mar 06 2011
Yesterday, and Tomorrow
The extraordinary events in Tunisia, Egypt and Libya are the initial high tides of an eventual tsunami that will impact the world that globalists have so fervently promoted for decades, in ways not necessarily to their liking. The first wave has struck and is now retreating from the shore, but will shortly return with redoubled force, and what and who will be swept away and what will be left standing is anyone’s guess.
[snip]In the United States, 48 years after Dr. Martin Luther King delivered his stirring “I have a dream” speech at the base of the Lincoln Memorial, 45 percent of young African-Americans have no jobs and the top hedge fund managers are paid, on average, $1 billion a year, a thoughtful American can only expect the mass protests against cuts in services and jobs in Wisconsin to spread.
And America’s propensity for eventual chaos is far higher than the Middle East, demonized in the press as a violent region, when one considers that America’s 300 million citizens have between 238 million and 276 million privately owned firearms.
As a prescient 23-year old from Hibbing, Minnesota, Bob Dylan warned an earlier generation 47 years ago about to embark on its misguided mission to safeguard and democratize in Vietnam, “There’s a battle outside and it is raging, It’ll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls, For the times they are a-changin’.”
America has older prophets on the current situation – as Thomas Jefferson observed, “A wise and frugal government, which shall leave men free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned – this is the sum of good government.”
Take heed, Governor Walker of Wisconsin and all the rest of you political leaders in Washington DC – or fuel up your learjets and head for the Cayman Islands.
The Extraordinary Events in the Middle East and the Coming Global Tsunami
By John C.K. Daly for the Global Intelligence Report
Mar 29 2010
‘Tea Party’ Now Owns the Hutaree Militia Group, “you betcha’ ” {UpDated}
And apparently claiming rights to any and all militia groups in the U.S., as it hadn’t been reported at first which group the Authorities were searching for the members of.
Yesterday morning, as word started coming out about the FBI and Homeland Security raids in lower Michigan, Indiana and Ohio as to Militia Groups in that area, now understood it’s some end of time christian? militia, this site link was top of the list in a google search for more news on the raids. The ‘Tea Party Patriots’ website on a chat page. They took ownership of the why the FBI raids, the militia groups members being sought!!
Feb 15 2010
Bye, Bayh, Missed American Pie, Took My Donor to the Levee
Bye, Bayh, Missed American Pie
Took My Donor to the Levee, but the Levee was Dry
Them Good Ol Boys of WellPointe were drinkin’ whiskey and rye
Singing “this’ll be the day that they die
This’ll be the day that they die !”
Did you write the book of gov
And do you have faith in God above
If the Gruber tells you so
Do you believe in Rock n Roll
Can an excise tax save your mortal soul
Can you teach Max Baucus how to dance, real slow ?
Well, I know that you’re in cahoots with him
’cause we saw you dancing in the Finance Cominn
You both kicked off your shoes
Man, we hate those Anthem Blue Cross Blues
There was a lonely teenage sickly buck
with a pink Korman ribbon but no pickup truck
With no insurance she ran out of luck
The day, the patient died
I started singing
Bye, Bayh, Missed American Pie
Drove my donation to the levee
But the legislation was dry
Them Bad Ol Dems were drinkin’ whiskey and rye
And singin,’ “this be the day that it dies
this will be the day that it dies”
Now for 10 years, WE’VE BEEN ON OUR OWN
And profits grow green on a rolling bone
But that’s not how it used to be
When the Candidate sang for the king and queen
In a coat he borrowed from Howard Dean
and in a voice, that came from you and me
Oh, and while the WellPointe CEO was lookin’ down
The Cigna stole his thorny crown
The courtroom was adjourned
No verdict was returned
And while Obama read Sunstein’s book
The Gang of 4 practiced in throwing hooks
And we sang dirges in the dark
The day, the health reform died.
And we were singing
(those of us still alive)
Bye, Bayh, Missed American Pie
Drove my donor to the levee but the water’s too high
Them Bad Ol Dems were making bills for nigh
And singing “This will be the day that it dies
This’ll be the day that it dies”
Helter skelter winter in a summer swelter
The birds & fish flew away without ESA shelter
Eight miles high, and falling fast
The rain fell mercury tainted on the grass
The Feinstein tried for a forward pass
With the Pombo on the sidelines about to cast
Now the half time air was sweet perfume
while Billy Tauzin played a marching tune
We all got up to dance
Oh, but we never got the chance
’cause the Insurance execs tried to take the field
The lobbyists refused to yield
DO YOU RECALL WHAT WAS REVEALED ?
The day, the music died
We started singing
Bye, Bayh, Missed American Pie
Drove Our Constitution to the Levee
But the Levee was Dry
The Supreme Court Boys were drinking Money and Lies
And singin’ “this will be the day that they die
this will be the day that they die.”
Oh, and there we were all in one place
NASA’s been outsourced, no more lost in space
with no time left to start again
So come on, Evan, make yourself nimble, make yourself quick
Call those industry donors, light your candlestick
‘Cause your Senate Seat’s the Devil’s only friend
Oh, and as I watched him on the stage
My hands were clenched in fists of sage
No Creator born of ocean’s shell
Could break that spirit’s spell
As the smoke wafted high into the night
To light cleansing smoke in a clear blue site
I saw Satan frown in stymied might
The day the Donations Died
We are singing
Bye, Bayh, Missed American Pie
Drove my warrior to the levee
And the levees were high
The good old boys are running faster and high
Singin’ this will be the day that I ride
This will be the day that We Ride
I met a girl who sang the blues
And I asked her for some Happy News
She said Evan Bayh quit and turned away
I went down to the sacred bores
Where I’d heard like music years before
But the lobbyists cried the music wouldn’t play
And in the streets, the children screamed
The lovers cried, the poets dreamed
Not a word by Wellpointe spoken
The Insurance Industry might be broken
And the 3 Senators that we admire the most
(and it’s not Collins, Holy Joe, and Olympia- they’re toast)
They caught the last train for the coast
The day, that Bayh went bye
And we are singing
Bye, Bayh, Missed American Pie
Drove our hopes to the levees and heaved a big sigh
Those lobbyist boys, are feeding ’em whiskey and rye
Singing “this will be the day WellPointe dies
This could be the day WellPointe dies.”
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http://motherjones.com/kevin-d…
So why did he quit so suddenly? His official statement says he’s frustrated with the Senate because there is “too much partisanship and not enough progress – too much narrow ideology and not enough practical problem-solving……
that’s pretty much Marc Ambinder’s take: “He wanted to be POTUS and came to hate the Senate and liberal activists. He wanted no mas.”
Oct 22 2009
Secretary of “Education” Arne Duncan: Dumbf***
Duncan to call for change in teachers’ education
WASHINGTON (CNN) — Secretary of Education Arne Duncan is expected to push for reforms in how teachers are taught when he speaks at Teachers College at Columbia University in New York on Thursday.
According to advanced quotes released by the U.S. Department of Education, he will say that “schools, colleges and departments of education are doing a mediocre job of preparing teachers for the realities of the 21st-century classroom.” He will call for a “revolutionary” change in teacher preparation programs.
Duncan estimates that about 200,000 new teachers will enter U.S. school systems annually.”
Nov 01 2008
I was there . . .!! Obama Rally!
Learned yesterday morning that Obama was going to be in Highland, Indiana, last night, so I planned on going. The rally was to begin at 7:30 p.m., at Wicker Memorial Park.
It was a beautiful, perfect evening!
Arriving, there was no allotted parking left, shopping mall across the street was packed and we were instructed by police to go to K-Mart (nothing being said about it not being there anymore). Kept driving until I saw more police, who told me where the lot was. Parked and got on a shuttle bus (free) to go back to the Park. Got off, walked to entrance, where police awaited, but, amazingly, no one’s purse or pockets were even searched. Walked to the Park, where all of the standing room possible in front of the platform was filled to capacity. Security everywhere. Interestingly, the group in front of the platform were “gated” off behind them, then there was a goodly amount of space, then more “gating” and people behind that, myself included.
There’s more!
May 06 2008
A Katrina-level hurricane may ravage Indiana today
A Katrina-level hurricane may ravage Indiana today; we have to be ready to report on its path of destruction through the state. We have to make the real imaginable to those who are not there, just as we did in 2005. This hurricane will pound at the pillars of democracy, blowing countless voters out of their polling places — because they do not have the proper state-sanctioned photo identification.
Low-income voters, the elderly, and young students would be affected the most. They are the ones who may not have needed to get proper identification in the past, or who may not have maintained it as current into the present. The first two groups are those least able to take time away to work their way through the bureaucratic requirements needed for them to be able to exercise their most basic democratic right: an equal opportunity to vote on who will lead their nation.
A terrible lesson in voter suppression may be taught today. We need to collect individual stories and make sure that people see it for what it is: the political equivalent of Katrina, in which the legitimate demand of the less privileged for protection is intentionally ignored, to widespread shock and outrage.
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