If I failed training for my job, I wouldn't get to keep it. Even more so if I constantly lost my temper with the people I worked for and with.
And I don't even carry a badge and a gun, like Brent Whan.
From the News-Sentinel report:
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The Allen County Right to Life sends out a questionnaire to candidates to gauge their stance on pro-life issues. Recently, 3 of the candidates for Indiana State Senate District 17 returned their questionnaires.
Mr. Wall’s answers should be troubling for anyone that is pro-life.
“We are certainly fortunate to have a candidate, [...]
What’s happening with Barry Real Estate and the failed condo/retail development at Harrison Square? Both the city and Barry have failed to really provide any substantive answers of late.
Down in Tennessee, Barry Real Estate doesn’t seem to have any problem developing property and spending money.
From the Tennessean.com.
Tower Investments and Barry [...]
Part of the fallout from the State [...]
(Title ruthlessly stolen with great amounts of CO2 and other harmful elements to mother earth being used, from Ace of Spades.)
HUGE Tip O’the Hat to Red State and Ace. Consider this your eco-friendly open thread.
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If you can’t understand the words over [...]
Here’s an interesting juxtaposition for you.
An unofficial lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender group is seeking official recognition from St. Francis University. The schools is using a double standard, the LGBT group says, since one of the school’s high-ranking staff members is a lesbian. (In a display of intellectual thuggery, the [...]
By Jim Sack
I was in Istanbul a year ago, a city of 10 to 17 million. They don’t really know how many live there, hundreds more arrive each hour, the city has become nearly unmanageable. In May of this year I visited Moscow, another huge city [...]
Garnishment is one of the tools available to a judgment creditor in Indiana for collecting on a judgment. The typical situation is for a judgment debtor to be employed and receive a fairly standard, weekly or bi-weekly paycheck. In that situation, a judgment creditor can usually get 25% of the [...]
A nominee for the best conspiracy theory ever, via hit & run:
In the opinion of Arlington [Tennessee] Mayor Russell Wiseman, President Barack Obama’s speech on Tuesday night on the war in Afghanistan was deliberately timed to block the Christian message of the “Peanuts” television Christmas special.
It’s a Charlie Brown [...]
I’m reading a history of the Middle Ages by Norman Cantor. He threw out a definition of “liberal” that seemed to work as well as any:
Liberals assume that men will be good if their environment and education are good, that improving men’s circumstances will improve their behavior.
This was the [...]
I haven’t seen a lot of zombie movies, but I still remember with fond dread the original “Night of the Living Dead” — an ever-dwindling band of heroic real people withstanding the relentless march of the undead. I swear, it feels more and more like that in the newspaper business these days. [...]
Challenge filmmaking is perverse. Take something that has to be done slowly and painstakingly, and add the element of speed and deadlines and kitchen-sink required elements to it, and you’re virtually assured of a substandard final product. Add creative people to the mix, who never met a job they were [...]
And now back to our regularly scheduled programming...John Blair, writing an opinion column in the Evansville Courier Press, adds an issue to the seemingly endless number about which I know too little to make an informed evaluation.
As I understand the allegations, the gas market has shifted. Where once making synthetic gas out of coal may [...]
From The Political CommentatorWith all the important news today about Afghanistan and health care and Tiger Woods, here’s a little story you might not have noticed:
PARIS - The Iraqi journalist who threw his shoes at former U.S. President George W. Bush has himself become the target of a shoe thrower.
While speaking at [...]
Niki Kelly has an article on yesterday’s Senate Tax and Fiscal Policy committee meeting. The committee met in a fairly rare December meeting. Typically House and Senate standing committees don’t meet until after the General Assembly reconvenes in January. Apparently odd scheduling didn’t work out too well in this [...]
Humpday Happenings...I’ve got some legal and teaching responsibilities to take care of, so today will pretty much be an open forum for you to discuss whatever is on your mind. Here are a few topics to start.
The President’s plan for Afghanistan. Good or bad? State Senate hears property tax caps. Speaker Pat [...]
