tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-112116392024-03-23T14:33:21.539-04:00Bats Left/Throws RightJames Briggs Stratton "Doghouse" Rileyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05378802364709433791noreply@blogger.comBlogger91125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11211639.post-50670853588379120532013-01-02T08:29:00.000-05:002013-01-02T08:29:50.058-05:00Didn't You Already Cover This?
Chris Sikich, "Mitch Daniels leaves Indiana the fiscal envy of the Midwest". December 31
LAST Saturday I spent thirty-six hours at a Catholic wedding. Which savvy readers understand means I was lucky it didn't include a Mass.
It was a 19th century working-class joint, with an excellent vaulted ceiling, middling stained glass, and statuary that might'a been passable if the place was a Macy'sJames Briggs Stratton "Doghouse" Rileyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05378802364709433791noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11211639.post-66951622832878332632012-12-14T13:05:00.004-05:002012-12-14T13:05:48.968-05:00Friday Olio: Excrement Retains Its Buoyancy Edition• Bonus Easterbrook:
Typical example: the gleaming new Lucas Oil Stadium, where the Colts perform, was funded by $615 million from Indiana taxpayers and $100 million from the NFL, yet all profits generated in the stadium are converted to the private luxury of the Irsay family, the Colts' owners.
If Indianapolis or California or other state taxpayers are, through their elected James Briggs Stratton "Doghouse" Rileyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05378802364709433791noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11211639.post-25267345319800804922012-12-01T11:19:00.000-05:002012-12-01T11:19:41.830-05:00Stand Up And Say That
THE real Mitch Daniels:
WASHINGTON -- Republican frustration over the election defeat of Superintendent of Public Instruction Tony Bennett boiled over into the public this week with Gov. Mitch Daniels claiming at an education reform conference here that teachers used illegal and improper methods to oust Bennett.
"If you're a fan of anything-goes politics, it was a creative use of illegalJames Briggs Stratton "Doghouse" Rileyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05378802364709433791noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11211639.post-81710740916094676432012-10-24T10:41:00.000-04:002012-10-24T10:41:47.759-04:00That's A Total Distortion Of What I Wish I Had Said
YESTERDAY evening, before Teabagger and Future U.S. Senator Richard Mourdock volunteered to do what local media has refused to get him to do, open his mouth and let the crazy pour out like nougat, the big local political news was that the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals had blocked the state from defunding Planned Parenthood.
Okay, that's a bit of an overstatement, since "7th Circuit Court of James Briggs Stratton "Doghouse" Rileyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05378802364709433791noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11211639.post-47357315936095617582012-10-10T16:43:00.002-04:002012-10-10T16:43:59.769-04:00Model CitizensIT seems depressingly familiar to anyone who lived through the Reagan administration--but then I've long urged future historians to dub the past thirty years The Era of Depressing Familiarity--to consider how Mitch Daniels became a budget hardliner, an economic genius, even, by massively increasing public indebtedness. It's also telling that he didn't get away with it during the first Bush James Briggs Stratton "Doghouse" Rileyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05378802364709433791noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11211639.post-76122063966588854942012-10-08T14:52:00.000-04:002012-10-08T14:52:01.647-04:00Yesterday's News TodaySO in the past week What's Left of the Indianapolis Star suddenly noticed, at the 7-3/4 year mark, what the Daniels administration has really been up to. Sunday brought the shocking news that Daniels will leave for Purdue in a couple months having spent the $3.8 billion dollars the "state" "received" for leasing the Indiana Toll Road for the next 75 years. And that money has managed to James Briggs Stratton "Doghouse" Rileyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05378802364709433791noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11211639.post-15310605122148264772012-09-06T12:21:00.000-04:002012-09-06T12:21:47.743-04:00Office PoliticsSEPTEMBER 3, 2012: The Indianapolis Star, you should pardon the expression, publishes a puffy little piece about how Purdue, the Ag college in West Lafayette, has upgraded the office of the President, about to be occupied by diminutive Indiana governor Mitch Daniels.
September 4, 2012: Diminutive Indiana governor Mitch Daniels announces, in his best PR petulance voice, that he's shocked, ShockedJames Briggs Stratton "Doghouse" Rileyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05378802364709433791noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11211639.post-8089812031792524312012-06-25T15:43:00.000-04:002012-06-25T15:43:15.289-04:00Inside Indiana Business: First You Need A ProctoscopeFIRST, news from the Moron Monon Trail (Motto: Return three unsupervised toddlers and the fourth one is yours to keep!), the wildly popular Rail-to-Trail "vertical park" that runs from downtown Indianapolis to suburban Whitedream. Or maybe that's "bizarrely popular", since it's the product of precisely the sort of government spending Hoosiers keep voting against.
I started riding the TrailJames Briggs Stratton "Doghouse" Rileyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05378802364709433791noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11211639.post-23131285319014619022012-06-20T14:23:00.000-04:002012-06-20T14:29:13.940-04:00Don't Let The Door Hit You In The Back Of The Head
Get to class, Hippie!
SO the once scintillating sputter, petty thievery, and massive PR flummery that was the political career of Mitch "Spud" Daniels, one-time Governor of Indiana, grinds to a much-needed halt tomorrow, as the Trustees of Purdue University, the majority of whom were appointed by Mitch Daniels, announce their choice for the next President of the state's largest Ag James Briggs Stratton "Doghouse" Rileyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05378802364709433791noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11211639.post-31428274287077657142012-06-01T15:27:00.001-04:002012-06-01T15:28:20.427-04:00His Lips Are Moving, Too, But It's Mitch Daniels, So You Didn't Need To Ask
RANDIAN Cultist, fifty-year Christian, and pint-sized paragon of Good Government Mitch "Flea" Daniels travelled to DC this week for the unveiling of the seriocomic portrait of seriocomic president George W. Bush and, naturally, was in big demand to speak to the sort of groups who want his advice on how to continue to fuck America over for their own benefit.
Mitch told a Reason Foundation James Briggs Stratton "Doghouse" Rileyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05378802364709433791noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11211639.post-29787991334173552512012-05-20T12:16:00.003-04:002012-05-22T14:11:08.476-04:00There, But For The Grace Of God, Goes God
CHANNEL 13 investigative reporter Sandra Chapman finds Indiana state agencies pay $1.8 million in late-payment fees for last year, up from $1 million the year before. Chapman asks worst-offending agencies for comment, is turned down. Chapman asks state audior for comment, is turned down, and directed to governor's office. She asks the governor's office for an interview, is turned down. Finds James Briggs Stratton "Doghouse" Rileyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05378802364709433791noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11211639.post-15873249261868290032012-04-12T13:27:00.002-04:002012-04-12T13:35:11.557-04:00Analysis Of Last Night's Lugar-Murdock Debate.THEY'RE both assholes. *___________* As I've said here at least since January, I have absolutely no idea what the Lugar campaign is doing, or thinks it's doing, but then, that's pretty much how I'd describe his century in the US Senate, too. Lugar reacted to last year's announcement that Philo T. Nobody was gonna challenge him in the primaries the way a teenager reacts to an enormous zit turning James Briggs Stratton "Doghouse" Rileyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05378802364709433791noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11211639.post-21338166686053522522012-01-30T12:14:00.002-05:002012-01-30T12:25:16.453-05:00Olio: May You Live In Interesting Times, And A Mid-Sized Market Hosting The Super Bowl Edition• A week or two ago I saw the most jaw-dislocatingly stupid thing I'd seen on local teevee "news", at least until the next time I turned it on: in reporting on the monthly state unemployment numbers, whichever useless shill I'd subjected myself to ignored until the end of the report the fact that Indiana's rate--9%, the neighborhood of which was, leading up to the 2008 gubernatorial elections, James Briggs Stratton "Doghouse" Rileyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05378802364709433791noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11211639.post-41257300179206439762012-01-11T11:43:00.003-05:002012-01-11T12:11:13.460-05:00Little Man, You've Had A Busy Day. You Lying Bastard.I HAVEN'T had much to say about Mitch "Booster Seat" Daniels since the day he announced that his wife wouldn't let him run for President, which, oddly, was the same excuse John Wayne gave for staying home and making movies in which he won WWII singlehandedly instead of, you know, actually winning it singlehandedly on the side of the Pacific where it was actually fought. Except Wayne was James Briggs Stratton "Doghouse" Rileyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05378802364709433791noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11211639.post-18186232829804253632011-11-25T12:10:00.003-05:002011-11-25T12:24:28.091-05:00Do I Have To Say It?FIRST, Cheers! to the young libertarian entrepreneurs locally who realized that a mallful of unattended vehicles in the middle of the night was a fine place to search for treasure. If this seems insensitive on my part to dozens of good folk who had merely gone in search of the illusive Unbelievable Deal on Some Consumer Crap Guaranteed To Make Their Miserable Lives Less Miserable, only to have James Briggs Stratton "Doghouse" Rileyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05378802364709433791noreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11211639.post-82810050118014543372011-10-13T13:12:00.002-04:002011-10-13T13:18:07.647-04:00Back Home AgainHAMILTON county, Indiana's wealthiest, sits like a creamy white rosette atop Indianapolis' mud pie, and is known for three things: 150 million dollars worth of roundabouts, the legal foundation for making Driving While Black a Felony (one which, in fairness, it now wishes to disown, at least during daylight hours), and a One Party system which nevertheless manages to cough up politicians James Briggs Stratton "Doghouse" Rileyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05378802364709433791noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11211639.post-55244960974379632912011-09-27T14:42:00.002-04:002011-09-27T14:57:52.854-04:00Tell Ya What, I'll Let You Have The Rust Coating For One-Twenty-Five. That's Below My Cost!Jon Stewart, The Mitch Daniels Interview. September 21OKAY, so there ain't much to be said for the Extended Mix over the broadcast version. Not a big surprise, because Daniels has one answer, and isn't used to hearing the question it goes with.That's his schtick, and that's the response to President Mitch Daniels? He's 62 years old, and he talks like a fairly bright high-school senior who thinksJames Briggs Stratton "Doghouse" Rileyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05378802364709433791noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11211639.post-55729610014829434442011-09-07T12:49:00.002-04:002011-09-07T13:00:50.720-04:00On The Role Of Deeply-Held Philosophical Beliefs In American Political Life, And Other Comedic ConceptsYOU may recall that late last month the roof and rigging of the outdoor stage at the Indiana State Fair collapsed in high winds, killing seven and injuring dozens more. You might also recall that by the next morning Mitch Daniels was on the scene, informing everyone within earshot, and especially potential litigants, that the whole thing was just one of those freakish acts of Nature, Nature beingJames Briggs Stratton "Doghouse" Rileyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05378802364709433791noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11211639.post-43993411765586389522011-05-13T13:12:00.002-04:002011-05-13T13:25:50.989-04:00Milk For FreeINTERESTING how this seems to be the week when Beltway insiders have decided to start the Republican Presidential campaign, with or without Republican Presidential candidates. Perhaps it was last week's GOP "Presidential" debate, dwarfish even by US Presidential campaign standards, which set them off. (The Villagers sure seem to take an almost proprietary interest in Republican national politics,James Briggs Stratton "Doghouse" Rileyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05378802364709433791noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11211639.post-21671253379626347842011-05-01T11:49:00.007-04:002011-05-01T12:37:23.570-04:00Does "Weepy Wimp" Suddenly Test Well With Republican Focus Groups Or Something?I DUNNO; near as I can figure some teacher at North Central High School pulled Young Mitch out of his locker on a regular basis. From Channel 8: [Note that this clip is giving me fits; I'm gonna post it now and try to get it working. If you can't see it here you can catch the full "report" at the link to 8, and forward to exactly 1:00 to catch the waterworks.]Because a) all that's happened here James Briggs Stratton "Doghouse" Rileyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05378802364709433791noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11211639.post-16332545655646378522011-04-30T09:57:00.002-04:002011-04-30T10:03:21.852-04:00Trucey To Sign Anti-Abortion BillINDIANA Governor Mitch "6'2" In Heels" Daniels announced yesterday that he will sign a bill which will make Indiana the first state in the nation to prohibit use of Medicaid funds at Planned Parenthood.The bill will reportedly cut $2 million out of the $3 million Planned Parenthood budget. None of which pays for abortions, since that is already prohibited.Of course the Daniels Magic Touch™, whichJames Briggs Stratton "Doghouse" Rileyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05378802364709433791noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11211639.post-8570461022985132512011-04-29T13:36:00.002-04:002011-04-29T13:46:31.631-04:00Four Flusher Inside StraightEd Kilgore, "The Mitch Daniels Dilemma". April 27Erin McPike, "The Campaign Waiting For Mitch Daniels". April 29EARLIER this week Jon Stewart "refuted" the notion of Donald Trump, Republican Front-Runner, by pointing out the leader board at this time four years ago.It's an easy laugh, assuming you don't mind cultivating an audience blissfully unaware of its surroundings; couldn't you name "RudyJames Briggs Stratton "Doghouse" Rileyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05378802364709433791noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11211639.post-17292050659202275382011-04-21T13:52:00.002-04:002011-04-21T14:03:14.277-04:00Let Me Know If Some Ayn Rand PJs, Boy's Size 14, Turn Up On eBayNEWS ITEM: Indiana State Police investigating Capitol Police officer assigned to guard duty at Governor's Mansion for going through underwear drawers, among other things.Now the one real interesting thing about this story is that a Daniels' spokeswoman was forced to come out an explain why the Guv, and his Missus, had any personal property to rifle when--contrary to Indiana state law, and at an James Briggs Stratton "Doghouse" Rileyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05378802364709433791noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11211639.post-76868655846479729042011-04-18T15:12:00.002-04:002011-04-18T15:24:33.610-04:00The Way Things Don't WorkSO it suddenly turned out, late last week, that the state of Indiana, Mitchell E, Daniels, Micro Manager, has suddenly discovered $150 million it didn't think it had. Or, more accurately, which is to say accurately, it suddenly discovered that it thinks it might have $150 million it didn't think it had.It should be noted that 99.9999% of Hoosiers did not actually discover the actual possible factJames Briggs Stratton "Doghouse" Rileyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05378802364709433791noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11211639.post-11829757032945912702011-03-17T06:41:00.002-04:002011-03-17T06:50:28.587-04:00Give The Money Back, Governor shown actual sizeTHE FEDS perp-walked Indiana Ponzi Schemer and Republican Money Spigot Tim Durham and two of his henchmen (sorry, alleged henchmen) yesterday, sixteen months after they raided Obsidian Financial, the Indianapolis-based center of his extensive car- yacht- and hooker-purchasing empire.They were charged on twelve counts of conspiracy, securities and wire fraud each, in James Briggs Stratton "Doghouse" Rileyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05378802364709433791noreply@blogger.com7