No Runny Eggs

The repository of one hard-boiled egg from the south suburbs of Milwaukee, Wisconsin (and the occassional guest-blogger). The ramblings within may or may not offend, shock and awe you, but they are what I (or my guest-bloggers) think.

Archive for March 1st, 2006

Attention, your attention please

by @ 19:20. Filed under Carnival of the Badger.

My watch says 19:20, which means there are 40 minutes left until the Carnival ticket window closes. Get them in; I have how below or in the Carnival of the Badger link on the left side of the page. The fastest way now is through e-mailing badgercarnival – at – gmail – dot – com.

So far, I have 6 participants, so it looks like it’s going to be a long night hunting the rest of you down. That’s all right; I’ve got my Mountain Dew and my Louisville Slugger :-)

Revisions/extensions – it is now 20:03, and while the ticket window is officially closed, it’s going to be a long night while I hunt down some of the regulars who seem to have lost their way this week.

Revisions/extensions part 2 – As of 21:06, I’m ALMOST done gathering the posts and a very basic idea of how I want to present them, including a few that came in after the window officially closed. I don’t think I’ll be forced to go through the previous Carnivals or the blogroll with my Louisville Slugger to beat loose some additional posts, but you never know. I still have to try to come up with a theme, so you REAL late stragglers do have a bit of time left.

Revisions/extensions 33 1/3rd – I got everything I’m getting, and am running the submissions through the wringer. I noticed a distinct lack of lefties this week; dunno why :-)

Just one more reason (or 2) to oppose corn-a-hole

by @ 15:23. Filed under Corn-a-hole.

(H/T for reason #1 – Jib) –

Reuters is reporting that despite a hefty tariff on foreign ethanol of 2.5% plus 54 cents per gallon, the Energy Information Administration is expecting that the US will import more ethanol this year (no solid numbers on the current amount of imports though, which makes a hard comparison a bit tough). They attribute it to oil companies switching from MTBE to ethanol as an additive, and expect the East Coast and parts of Texas to face tight gasoline supplies and higher prices.

Now, let’s run through some numbers. From the article, the US produces about 275,000 barrels of ethanol per day and imports an unknown amount of ethanol. If MTBE is fully-replaced by corn-a-hole, that will require roughly another 130,000 barrels of ethanol per day according to the EIA. Guess what? Every drop of that additional 130,000 barrels/day will have to come from foreign countries for the foreseeable. Fortunately, Brazil has a heavily-government-subsidized excess, and they have a friendly government unless and until Hugo Chavez manages to get his meat-hooks into them. The bad news; those tariffs apply to Brazilian ethanol, and there isn’t any political will to reduce them.

Remember, it’s not a shortage of corn that’s causing the US shortage of corn-a-hole, but a shortage of corn-a-hole production capacity (side note – Gee, where have I seen this before? The oil and natural gas markets ring alarm bells.). The corn’s going to be grown one way or the other, so an increase in corn-a-hole production will not cause the farmers to see any significantly-more (if any more) money. So, where’s the additional money that will be spent on corn-a-hole fuel going? ADM, a pittance to Brazil as long as we import ethanol, a massive tax windfall to the feds (who will simply spend said windfall) as long as we import ethanol, and ExxonMobil if we ramp up domestic production (remember, it takes more oil to create and use the amount of corn-a-hole required for E10 than is replaced by that amount of corn-a-hole).

Today’s sign the end of the world is nigh

by @ 14:25. Filed under Politics - Wisconsin.

Jenna points out that Owen and Xoff agree on something; Assembly Speaker and Congressional candidate John “Rear” Gard’s (ADM-Police Union) blocking of a bill to partially end the ridiculous practice of forcing the city of Milwaukee, and only the city of Milwaukee, to continue to pay police officers that have been fired until their appeals are exhausted is “outrageous”.

I agree, so get your end-of-the-world kit together. This place is going bye-bye very soon (but hopefully not before I get this week’s Carnival up).

I knew hosting the Carnival would expose me to more good blogs

by @ 14:12. Filed under The Blog.

It’s not 8 pm yet, so I can’t tell you the post that Mike sent in, but The Spring City Chronicle just got itself added to the roll. Once you get your Carnival submission in, head on over.

Can we get the ethanol madness to end tomorrow?

by @ 13:42. Filed under Corn-a-hole, Politics - Wisconsin.

The hot rumor (courtesy Owen originally) is that state senate majority “leader” Sgt. Dale Schultz (ADM-No Talk Radio Here) is going to try to ram through AB15, the bad-gas mandate, tomorrow (update as I prepped this; they’re not voting tomorrow, but with Sgt. Schultz, who knows?). This is despite the fact that we have now pulled even with ADM on James’ count at 11 apiece (assuming that Luther Olsen, whose family stands to profit handsomely, decides to end his self-imposed abstention and vote to enrich his brother). According to his handy chart, that leaves these 11 Senators on the fence, complete with their Madison office numbers –

  • Democrat Roger Breske of the 12th district (far northeast Wisconsin) – 608-266-2509
  • Democrat Tim Carpenter of the 3rd district (south side of Milwaukee and much of Greenfield) – 608-266-8535
  • Democrat Spencer Coggs of the 6th district (near north side of Milwaukee) – 608-266-2500
  • Republican Robert Cowles of the 2nd district (pretty much just north and west of Green Bay) – 608-266-8546
  • Republican Mike Ellis of the 19th district (Neenah, most of Menasha and Appleton, and points west through Winneconne) – 608-266-0718
  • Republican Scott Fitzgerald of the 13th district (Oconomowoc, Beaver Dam, Watertown, Lake Mills, Cambridge, and surrounding areas) – 608-266-5660 – James notes he’s on the fence, and I can see the Glorious Guards Shock Army straining at the leash
  • Democrat Robert Jauch of the 25th district (far northwest Wisconsin) – 608-266-3510
  • Democrat Julie Lassa of the 24th district (Stevens Point, Wisconsin Rapids, and surrounding areas) – 608-266-3123
  • Democrat Judith Robson of the 16th district (Beloit, Janesville and surrounding areas including Whitewater) – 608-266-2253, and James notes she’s on the fence
  • Republican Carol Roessler of the 18th district (Oshkosh, Fond du Lac, Waupun) – 608-266-5300
  • Democrat Lena Taylor of the 4th district (far north side of Milwaukee and the RiverWest area) – 608-266-5810

They may be voting tomorrow; they may not be. I prefer that Sgt. Schultz miscalculates in his count, has the vote, and we drive the stake through it tomorrow; but if we have to just keep it bottled up in committee through the end of the year, that’ll kill it just as surely. In any case, politely hammer these 11 so that AB15 never sees Jim “Craps” Doyle’s (WEAC/Potawatomi-For Sale) signature.

Speaking of blogrolls…

by @ 12:56. Filed under The Blog.

I would be remiss if I continued to ignore Chip and Dale’s Eyes on Wisconsin. Welcome to the party, guys.

Paging Mr. Sykes, paging Charlie Sykes

by @ 12:45. Filed under The Blog.

Please pick up the white courtesy phone. Thank you.

“Hello, Mr. Sykes. This is steveegg of No Runny Eggs. I noticed you updated your blogroll with a couple of worthy entries and fixed the link to my humble blog to reflect my new home. However, I seem to be missing a certain blog that goes by the name Spotted Horse. I know he dropped out of sight for a couple months, but he’s back with a vengeance and the Glorious Guards Shock Army.

“I seem to recall Chris doing a lot of blegging to get on your roll the first time, and I fear he’ll do something VERY rash if he has to go through that again. So, please, add him back to the roll. Thank you.”

Revisions/extensions (6:37 am 3/2) – “Hello again, Charlie. Thank you for putting Spotted Horse and Leaning Blue back on the roll. Now the Glorious Guards Shock Army can continue its drive for the Mississippi.”

Carnival of the Badger – 450-minute warning

by @ 12:31. Filed under Carnival of the Badger.

My watch says it’s 12:30, so you have less than a full workday to get your best post(s) of the past week into the Carnival. Remember, you do have 3 ways to get things squared away:

  • Send an email directly to badgercarnival – at – gmail – dot -com (you should know what to do with the anti-spam effort). Please be sure to include the direct link to your post, as well as the name of your blog, and a short summary of your post to help the carnival host.
  • Use the Blog Carnival Submission Form. You can also view a list of all previous editions of the Carnival of the Badger at the Blog Carnival Archive Page.
  • Use the Carnival Submit Form from Conservative Cat.

Don’t make me have to hunt down your blog; you might not like the results :-)

I didn’t know E. Michael McCan’t cloned himself

by @ 12:19. Filed under Law and order, Politics - Wisconsin.

Fred has all the sordid details on Jefferson County DA E. Michael McCan…er, David Wambach refusal to prosecute anybody at Voces de la Frontera for invading the Stepp property in an attempt to pressure state senator Cathy Stepp into support illegal invaders getting drivers’ licenses. He even dug up the letter that Wambach sent to Racine County DA E. Michael Mc…er, Michael Nieskes (there I go again), who punted the case over to him. Despite the admission that Christine Neumann-Ortiz did in fact commit a crime, disorderly conduct, Wambach refused to press even that charge.

Yep; Stepp was right when she said, “The reality is appearing to be that illegal immigrants certainly DO have rights in this country–rights that aren’t even extended to LEGALLY elected officials in this country. They have been passively granted the right to intimidate, harass, frighten and bully people into changing laws to suit their taste.” (also courtesy RDW).

You would think that at least one of the presstitutes would be interested in this, but Fred has all the exclusives.

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