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 May 10th, 2007

Why was the Egg in Madtown last night?

by @ 18:58. Filed under Miscellaneous.

I finally got to meet Uncle Jimbo and (briefly) Kev, the brains behind the Friday Freefly, and throw back a few Bacardi and cokes with a great guy at Wando’s. Random tidbits (I really should’ve done this this morning, but I simply ran out of time):

– Land Warrior is an interesting concept. The only problem with it is that it adds yet another 16 pounds to the load of the average trooper, who’s already lugging somewhere north of 80 pounds into battle, and that tends to make the grunts unhappy.

– To be President, you have to be a good manager and “look” Presidential. The current field lacks that.

– For those of you who are looking for Fred, he doesn’t have to come in just yet. The ideal time, assuming that things don’t fall apart in Iraq, would be in the early fall.

– A special to the accounting grad students that were next to us – if you order the Wando’s Fish Bowl, shut up and drink. Don’t try to dicker over the bill because no matter what the bartender throws in, it’s going to cost you the same because you’ll get the same amount of alcohol.

– It’s far better to actually source the material than to follow the crowd.

It was great to take that road trip. For the rest of you, put Blackfive on your blogrolls and subscribe to Uncle J’s YouTube channel (just in case I forget to point you to a Freefly or In The Crosshairs).

Roll bloat – the Miracle-Gro edition

by @ 9:00. Filed under Miscellaneous.

It’s spring and the grass, or at least the weeds, are growing. Guess it’s time to feed the blogroll with the following:

  • Eject! Eject! Eject! – Bill Whittle comes highly recommended by Uncle Jimbo. Now that I’ve been pointed in the right direction, I’m highly recommending him too.
  • Ace of Spades HQ – How I didn’t link to Ace before now I will never know.
  • JSOnline – Partly because I link to P-Mac, and partly because they’re my best source of material, it’s time to put them back on the Media Links.
  • Madison’s Isthmus – Yeah, they’re mostly nuts, but anybody who carries Charlie and has Uncle J dragging them into the 21st Century can’t be all bad.

They’re dropping like flies

by @ 8:45. Filed under Politics - National.

First, Tommy (The Other) Thompson turned a minor gaffe in the MSNBC South Carolina debate when answering a question on whether a small business could fire a homosexual (a trap question if there ever was one) into a big one by apologizing again and again and again and again and again and again after first blaming his hearing aid. Memo for Tommy; unless you are the most-liberal Pubbie in a primary or a ‘Rat, apologizing again and again and again and again after inserting your foot in your mouth is only going to encourage the presstitutes to keep going after you. Last I checked, while you’re no conservative, there are at least 2 candidates more liberal than you in the Pubbie primary.

Then, ABC News tries to make a big deal over a donation that Ann Romney, Mitt’s wife made to Planned Parenthood back when both Romneys were pro-abortion (H/T – Matt Lewis). Do note that there is no evidence that Mitt, the Republican version of Flipper Kerry, donated to Planned Parenthood.

Now, mere hours after that meltdown, The New York Times is reporting Rudy Giuliani, who actually did donate to Planned Parenthood in the past, is planning on reaffirming his pro-abortion creds in a bid to use the large liberal states of Super Duper Tuesday to get him the nomination (H/T – Allahpundit and Jim Robinson). I don’t think I can put it better than AP – “Or, to put it slightly differently, ignore the deep red states he needs to win in November in favor of blue states he has little chance of stealing from the Democrats. Sounds like a plan.” (emphasis in the original).

And this one is a special for Nick. Ace dug up a few video and audio clips of Ron Paul channeling Rosie O’Donnell on Iran, 9/11, and the Fed. OOPS!

I think Uncle Jimbo is right when he said that Fred Thompson doesn’t need to get in just yet. By the time September rolls around, I expect nobody will be left on the Republican side to oppose him.

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