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 February 12th, 2007

North Korrea supposedly to give up nukes…again

by @ 13:56. Filed under Politics, War on Terror.

(H/T – Sister Toldjah)

The North Koreans appear to have folded on the nuclear issue, tentatively agreeing to initial steps to nuclear disarmament, including what Assistant Secretary of State Christopher Hill termed specific committments for the North Koreans and a working group to begin meeting in a month.

For those of you that thought that unilateral engagement was the way to go, this was reached through the 6-party talks you poo-poohed.

Of course, the devil, as always with Krazy Kim and company, is not only in the unreleased details, but in the verification. We thought we had a deal with the Kims back in 1994, but a lack of verification and proper details let North Korea continue their parallel nuclear program before the ink was even dry, and ultimately let them reintegrate the supposedly-shut-down program into it.

Revisions/extensions (3:15 pm 2/12/2007) – A further update from the AP gives a rough timeline (North Korea demanded 2 gigawatts of electricity or 2 million barrels of heavy fuel oil; the sources of that energy, South Korea and Russia, balked; the US told North Korea to compromise or the talks were over; and after 16 marathon hours, the North Koreans cracked). Meanwhile, AFP said that it was the Red Chinese that offered that breakthrough and has circulated a “final draft” (unavailable on the wires when I started the update).

Revisions/extensions part 2 (5:04 pm 2/12/2007) – The Japanese Kyodo News Agency says that the NK demand was for both the electricity and oil, Fox News is reporting that the Communists at State bargained away the $25 million sanction slapped on North Korea for counterfeiting American currency, and the latest version of the AP story has both Russia and Japan throwing cold water on the whole works.

Craps thinks taxes in the rest of America are too low too

by @ 7:25. Filed under Corn-a-hole, Politics - Wisconsin, Taxes.

On top of massive increases in the cigarette tax, car registration tax and driver’s licenses taxes, his push to end the QEO, and plans to essentially end the “limits” of the Craps Tax Anti-Freeze by allowing municipalities to raise taxes 4% annually, Jim “Craps” Doyle (WEAC/Potawatomi-For Sale) now wants to pay for his $1.1 billion raid on the transportation fund to pay off WEAC by slapping a 2.5% tax on each barrel of oil used in Wisconsin (with corn-a-hole and “junk” diesel, of course, exempt because ADM has bought Craps) and forcing them to not pass the increased taxes on to Wisconsin residents pass it on to the rest of the country.

Economics 101 – Corporations ultimately do not pay taxes. Each and every penny eventually gets paid by the consumer. Even if Craps can con his packed State Supreme Court into saying he can “force” the oil companies to not pass it along to the Wisconsin consumers, they will pass it along to the rest of the country.

I wonder if KY Jelly is also exempt; as the Asian Badger has been saying, we’re going to need it.

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