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I want to alert you guys to a couple of blogs up in Howard County that deserved your much coveted attention. First of all we have Mallot’s Blog. This guy hits the point, but is funny at the same time. Secondly, we have “Right Thinking“. He currently has a pretty interesting political quiz up on his blog right now. You’ll be surprised at some of the answers.

Also, since we’re promoting other conservative blogs from around the state, I want to encourage those of you who are on Facebook and haven’t signed up to sign up for the Official Hoosier Facebook Group. Good stuff going on there! Also, make sure to subscribe to our RSS feed, either by email or the traditional way.

And thanks for keeping on coming by to check Hoosier Access!

(If you want, use this as an open thread)

The MSM is reporting at about 5:40 this morning Indianapolis time an earthquake registering 5.2 on the Richter scale occurred along the New Madrid fault. I didn’t feel it myself, though Josh you know where I live and you would agree one could easily mistake an earthquake for a car’s subwoofer booming out the greats like 2Pac and rattling the windows.

So did any of you loyal Hoosier Access readers feel the quake this morning?

UPDATE: Aftershock felt on East side of Indianapolis at 11:15 AM. Didn’t rattle the windows but it did shake the vertical blinds. Definitely a weird feeling.

According to the USGS, the aftershock felt at 11:15 AM EDT was a 4.5 on the Richter scale.

Excuse me Representative, did you vote for this bill? No, I did not. Um, apparently you did.

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I know this probably happens in most states and in Congress, but it’s deplorable to see. Rules should be enforced!

I’m not much of a drinker. But when I do, gin and tonic is my beverage of choice (made with Bombay Sapphire…that’s the good stuff). But it looks like Absolut Vodka decided to stoke anti-American sentiment and is running the ad below in Mexico.

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Next to Easter and Christmas, baseball’s opening day is probably the most sacred day on my calendar.  (I know, I know, a baseball fan in Indiana doesn’t make much sense where basketball and the Colt rule.)  But no other sport has been able to capture my love of history, politics and sport.  So on this great day, I give you the clip below which mixes all of that with a bit of humor.  Oliver Stone and Zapruder would be proud.

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This post has nothing to do with Indiana except that I have family involved. The most spectacular thing happened this morning that my wife and I just found out about.

My in-laws live in the Northern Virginia area just a few minutes from the beltway that surrounds Washington D.C. An ant crawling on the Beltway will cause traffic to halt to a complete standstill. For those of you how doubt me, just ask someone who has lived in or around the District. So imagine what the below picture caused.

My father-in-law is the man talking to the police officer. By the way, he escaped unharmed. Praise God!

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We haven’t had one of these in a while.  How about a “Caption This” post.  To me, the boy Senator looks bored or Hillary just told him that no matter what happened, Obama was always her first choice for VP.

What we have here is Senator Bayh dragging Hillary around Indiana today.  It’s a picture taken from the Star’s front page.

I love to brag on my friends. I really do. In the past I’ve bragged about Jim Banks and his wife Amanda, and now I have the chance to brag on another Northern Indiana pal in Chris Faulkner and his family.

Via GOP Grunt where Chris is too humble to brag about his wife elsewhere.

South Bend Tribune: BUSINESS PEOPLE: “GRANGER — Angela Faulkner, president of Granger based Faulkner Strategies, has been selected to sit on the board of the newly formed Indiana Women Business Owners PAC. Established in 2007, the IWBO PAC’s goal is to support the economic development of women-owned businesses within the state.

The nonpartisan PAC committee will target and talk with state legislators about several initiatives, including the possible MBE/WBE designation of nonprofit organizations and affordable health care for small businesses.”

Congratulations Angela!

Rest in Peace Senator Ford.

(From the Indy Star)

Hundreds attend lawmaker’s funeral

MUNCIE, Ind. — Nearly 500 people, including lawmakers and Lt. Gov. Becky Skillman, attended the funeral today of state Sen. David Ford, who died Wednesday from pancreatic cancer.

Ford’s son, Jeff Ford, delivered a eulogy for his father in which he recalled him as a father, pilot, lawyer and lawmaker who was honest and had integrity.

“He lived his life the right way,” he told mourners at St. Mary Catholic Church in Muncie.

About 50 lawmakers and Skillman attended the funeral for Ford, 59, a Republican who was a former prosecutor and a leading legislator on technology issues.

Bishop William Higi described Ford as an “upright man” who used faith and reason to conduct his life.

Ford had been absent from the Senate since January, when his family confirmed he was critically ill with cancer. He spent the last several weeks with his family and was able to attend his son’s wedding.

Gov. Mitch Daniels ordered flags at the Statehouse to be flown at half-staff through Saturday.

Ford was the Blackford County prosecutor before being elected to the Senate in 1994. He represented District 19, which includes all or parts of Adams, Allen, Blackford, Grant and Wells counties in northeastern Indiana.

So the Democratic primary is coming to Indiana. HRC and Obama will come to the Hoosier state and learn all about us.

Part of our proud primary tradition is Dyngus Day.

Dynga-what?

“Dyngus Day, celebrated the day after Easter, will be March 24. Although it has its roots in Polish religious history, Dyngus Day has evolved into a political holiday locally. Solidarity Day is a more recent holiday started in the black community on the same day to celebrate black heritage and promote political activism.

One of the most noted Dyngus Day visits occurred in 1968, when presidential candidate Robert Kennedy stumped through the city (you can already hear the Obama comparisons).The primary election schedules were different then, without all of the early primaries and caucuses. Indiana was viewed as a key state in the contest for delegates.Kennedy was involved in a close race with Eugene McCarthy, and favorite son Gov. Roger D. Branigan also was on the ballot. All three visited South Bend at some point during the campaign.”

It has pretty much devolved into a political sausage/beer campaignapalooza. The highlight of the day will be when we all gather at the Westside Democratic and Civic Club for lunch. You pay $7 to get in and that entitles you to a plate of kraut, hard boiled egg, fresh sausage and a cold beverage of your choice.

Then the real fun starts.

By around 12:30PM the club chairman takes the stage and welcomes everyone (including the Republicans…even though they won’t let you touch the microphone). Then he introduces the candidates one by one. Inevitably at least one of the local ones will be half smashed and will slur insults at the President and Republicans in general. Good times.

Because of the tradition the media will ALL be there. Tradition? Oh yeah, it was actually a religious holiday at one time.

“Dyngus Day or Wet Monday (Polish ?migus-dyngus, Lany Poniedzia?ek, Polewanka or Oblewanka) is the name for Easter Monday in Poland. In the Czech Republic it is called Velikono?ní pond?lí or Pomlázka. Both countries practice a peculiar custom on this day.
In Poland, traditionally, early in the morning boys awake girls by pouring a bucket of water on their head and strike them about the legs with long thin twigs or switches made from willow, birch or decorated tree branches (palmy wielkanocne); however, the earliest documented[citation needed] records of Dyngus Day in Poland are from the 15th century, almost half a millennium after Poland adopted Christianity.”

If you are lucky you might still see a local Democrat chasing young girls with cold beer intent on, well something.

The last few mornings on my way to work I’ve heard a radio ad by Sierra Club begging Senator Lugar to take it to those evil businesses who actually dare to make an income and produce jobs. Maybe you’ve heard it too. That’s fine and dandy and they make it sound very flowery so you think to yourself as your driving “wow, you know, I really should give Senator Lugar a call about this.” And I really don’t mind the Sierra Club running those ads honestly. But the one thing that bugs me more than anything is that they refer the people who live in Indiana as…..wait for it….Indianans. Really? Indianans? Is is so hard for the tree huggers in California to know that we’re called Hoosiers (whether you went to I.U. or not)? Was it a cloudy day and the solar power was cut off to their computers? Maybe they didn’t have enough carbon offsets to keep their heads out of a foggy haze.

I know, I know, this isn’t anything serious or thought provoking, but it’s been bothering me a little lately. I’m sure “Indianans” passes muster when doing a radio ad, but it sounds dumb. I know I should just change the station if it bothers me that much. I guess, maybe next time I will. That’s all.

Since I don’t rant all that often this qualifies as my short rant for the day.

The Ryerson Rag brought forth an article of a Franklin Community Schools (are you listening Jacob Perry?) student that, along with the All Communists & Liberals United, is suing the school district for detention received for refusing to stand for the Pledge of Allegiance.

Regardless of whether or not it is legal to give detention or whatever for his anti-American behavior, this teenager is showing himself as extremely ungrateful little twerp. Future Democrat in training, I say. When visiting a friend in Bloomington, I stopped in at a fast-food joint. While in line a couple IU moonbat trainees were complaining about how this country sucks and talking about countries that were better than the United States. Spain, France, and Holland were mentioned as countries “better than the US”. I bit my tongue as long as I could and finally I said “If you think its so bad here, get the f**k out of the US and don’t bother coming back!” The moonbats just stood there in stunned silence.

Nobody is forced to live in the USA. You can leave at any time and once you get where you’re going just report to an Embassy or Consulate and renounce your United States citizenship and turn in your passport. Perhaps this student upon reaching age 18 should consider such if he thinks the United States is so bad he’d disrespect it by not standing for the Pledge, or the National Anthem for that matter.

UPDATE: The weenies of Franklin Community Schools, AGREE with this student. The student is free to be as un-American and disrespectful as he likes. The student, identified as “J.L.”, should realize there are people willing to swim 90 miles in shark infested water to get to this country. A daily issue we discuss is IMMIGRATION, not EMIGRATION. So lots of people are here because they WANT to be here, and are grateful for the chance to be here as opposed to this student.

Don’t give me “free speach” as a defense. Free Speech means expressing criticism of your nation’s leaders without fear of being carted off to a concentration camp. Criticize the President, Congress and other elected officials all you want but don’t disrespect the Nation. Don’t fly Old Glory upside down as a sign of distress because you disagree with an election result. Stand for the National Anthem and the Pledge. It’s like voting and jury duty it’s the very few things you are asked to do as a citizen for your nation.