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 August, 2007

August 17, 2007

I’m BAAAAAACK!!!

by @ 0:51. Filed under Miscellaneous.

So, what did I miss besides a Brewer collapse only exceeded by a Flubs collapse and a dropout by The Other Thompson (nicely covered by Charlie) (besides a combined Sykes/P-Mac Spike; funny how that happens on my way out the door :-)

Revisions/extensions (1:42 am 8/17/2007) – I found a couple, First, the WTMJ/WKTI blogs do not have an archive system (or comments or pingback generation). Without going through my logs, the only reason I know I had a Sykes Spike is Peter found it when Charlie posted it. Not only do the Journtinel blogs have an archive system, and not only do they generate pingbacks, but Technorati picks them up as well. Now only if Technorati would recognize that the norunnyeggs.eggstor.com version is dead and stop saying that’s being updated,….
Speaking of Technorati, they did pick up SVC Alumnus Blogger’s catch of an old post of mine while outlining the trail of found WMDs in Iraq. Hmmm, I seem to have left off a comment exchange with Jay by saying that it’s his witness.

August 15, 2007

iBill

by @ 23:42. Filed under Business.

I’m not quite sure how much a 300 page phone bill costs, but I’m sure the iPhone is the perfect tool for finding out.

Think about how many line items are on a 300 page bill, then consider the minimum time each one must take to complete. The girl in that video can’t possibly have a boyfriend, unless he’s made of iPhones. She’s also obviously malnourished because she’s too busy playing with her iPhone to eat.

August 13, 2007

Extreme Canoeing

by @ 18:58. Filed under Miscellaneous.

Uncle Steve is up in the boundary waters, where I hear the canoeing is excellent.

I wonder if his trip is as much fun as this looks:

Revisions/extensions (Steve – 1:48 am 8/17/2007) – For some reason, Viper’s Video Quicktags Aaron used for this keeps on resetting the “updated” flag in my reader, so I stuffed the original embed code in. So I break the validation; oh well.

August 12, 2007

Freeeeeeeeeeud

by @ 23:48. Filed under Miscellaneous.

Revisions/extensions (5:02 pm 1/3/2008 – steveegg) – I don’t know how Curt got this post from Fred Dooley (who is also supporting Thompson) instead of my own Thompson endorsement, but as long as it’s on the list, I’ll take it)

 Fred, Fred, Fred: Thompson’s Challenge Has a Name
By Monica Hesse
Washington Post Staff Writer
Sunday, August 12, 2007; D01

In the swampy soup of hopefuls for the 2008 presidential election, there is a man with a funny name. (No, not that one.)

We’re thinking of the one named Fred (Thompson).

Say it out loud. Do it. Fred. Fred. In the South, Fray-ud.

Fur-red-duh.

It has the tonal quality of something being dropped on the floor, something heavy and damp-ish.

Waterlogged paper towel.

Fred.

The phonetics of the name seem integral to its image problem: On Urbandictionary.com, a “Fred” is defined as “a person who does stupid, annoying, or idiotic things” (Fred Flintstone, Fred Mertz). The best-case descriptors a Fred can hope for are terms like well-intentioned, predictable, benign (Fred Rogers).

There has never before been a major presidential candidate named Fred. There were two Alfreds, in 1928 and 1936. But Alfred, being all British and Batman-y, is not the same.

Then, out of almost nowhere, came Thompson, who is transcending the notion of Fred.

Some of the regular readers on No Runny Eggs may not know my name is not actually Real Debate, it is Fred.   The Washington Post can kiss my fanny.

Fred is a fine name, worthy of Presidential stature.   Ever heard of Frederick the Great?    How about the brilliant Fred Astaire?    Fred Savage, come on now, The Wonder Years.    

Need I say Frederick Mellinger, inventer of the pushup bra and founder of Fredericks of Hollywood?  

What of sausage genius Fred Usinger, or beer pioneer Frederick Pabst?  

 Need I remind you of Fred Jones?   Come on he drove The Mystery Machine for cryin’ out loud.

Frederick Banting   co-discovered insulin and won a nobel prize!

 How about some Fred’s of Royalty?

  • Frederick I, Duke of Austria (Babenberg), Duke of Austria from 1195-1198
  • Frederick II, Duke of Austria (1219-1246), last Duke of Austria from the Babenberg dynasty
  • Frederick I of Austria (Habsburg) (1286-1330), Duke of Austria and King of the Romans
  • Frederick III, Elector of Saxony
  • Frederick I of Denmark (1471-1533), King of Denmark and Norway
  • Frederick II of Denmark (1534-1588), King of Denmark and Norway
  • Frederick III of Denmark (1609-1670), King of Denmark and Norway
  • Frederick IV of Denmark (1671-1730), King of Denmark and Norway
  • Frederick V of Denmark (1723-1766), King of Denmark and Norway
  • Frederick VI of Denmark (1768-1839), King of Denmark and Norway
  • Frederick VII of Denmark (, King of Denmark
  • Frederick IX of Denmark (1899-1972), King of Denmark
  • Frederik, Crown Prince of Denmark (1968-), Crown Prince of Denmark
  • Frederick I, Holy Roman Emperor (1125-1190), king & emperor
  • Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor (1196-1250), king & emperor
  • Frederick III, Holy Roman Emperor (1415-1493), German ruler
  • Frederick IV, Elector Palatine (1574-1610), German aristocrat
  • Frederick V, Elector Palatine (1619-1620), Bohemian aristocrat
  • Frederick II, Elector of Brandenburg (1413-1470), margrave of Brandenburg
  • Frederick William, Elector of Brandenburg (1620-1688), Duke of Prussia
  • Frederick I of Prussia (1657-1713), Elector of Brandenburg
  • Frederick II of Prussia (1712-1786), King of Prussia, Frederick the Great
  • Frederick William I of Prussia (1688-1740), King of Prussia
  • Frederick William II of Prussia (1744-1797), King of Prussia
  • Frederick William III of Prussia (1770-1840), King of Prussia
  • Frederick William IV of Prussia (1795-1861), King of Prussia
  • Frederick, Prince of Wales (1707-1751), the eldest son of King George II
  • Frederick Augustus I of Saxony (1750-1827), Elector and King of Saxony
  • Frederick Augustus II of Saxony (1797-1854), King of Saxony
  • Frederick Augustus III of Saxony (1865-1932), King of Saxony
  • Frederick I of Sweden (1676-1751), King of Sweden
  • Frederick I of Württemberg (1754-1816), Duke, Elector, and King of Württemberg
  • Frederick, Archbishop of Tyre (died 1173), the sixth Latin archbishop of Tyre
  • Frederick III, German Emperor (1831-1888), German Emperor
  • I think I have made my case.

    Fred for President is a fine idea.   He looks  quite Presidential doesn’t he?

    Fred Thompson

    August 8, 2007

    Two post Bonds thoughts.

    by @ 13:31. Filed under Miscellaneous.

    In the wake of Mr Steroid hitting his 756th home run two reactions stand out…

    Bud Selig missed the game to go to a meeting with George Mitchell about steroids in baseball.   Classic.

    I thought by doing a prepared video Hank Aaron showed the ultimate amount of class.   To me that gesture said I am man enough to congratulate you, but by not being there in person I do not acknowledge you.   Aaron has always been a class act.

    To those who wish to apply race into this.   No one did not want Bonds to set this record because he is black.   People dislike him because he is a cheater and more than anything just because he is  a monumental jerk.

    8th Supervisory District to the rest of Milwaukee County – we want your taxes raised

    by @ 0:22. Filed under Politics - Milwaukee County, Taxes.

    (H/T – a pissed-off Croc)

    Unofficial vote totals:

    Patricia Jursik: 3,104 votes (54.1%)
    Christopher Kujawa: 2,622 votes (45.7%)
    Write-in: 14 votes (0.3%)

    And yes, this is a bad omen, not only for Scott Walker, not only for Milwaukee County, and not only for Pubbies, but for the entirety of Wisconsin. Cudahy was the flashpoint of the never-quite-realized 2002 Clean Up County Government movement, and South Milwaukee was (a bit less than) half the nascient tax-freeze movement. This 9+-point failure, especially with another pension grab in the news, has the distinct feel of the final shovel of dirt being dumped on the graves of those movements. I might just have to keep packing.

    Now, I REALLY need a vacation. Patrick, Fred and Aaron, take it away.

    August 7, 2007

    Congrats Sean

    by @ 15:49. Filed under Politics - National.

    The Cheddar invasion of DC continues with Sean Hackbarth’s acceptance of a job on Team Fred. Outstanding.

    Between him and Kevin (formerly of Lakeshore Laments), we’ll clean up DC yet.

    CNN desperately seeking Tet in Afghanistan

    by @ 15:22. Filed under Presstitute Follies, War on Terror.

    (H/T – Ace)

    Notice this headline on an AP dispatch – Taliban stages brazen attack on U.S. base

    AP is a little better in the actual story –

    A group of 75 Taliban militants tried to overrun a U.S.-led coalition base in southern Afghanistan on Tuesday, a rare frontal attack that left more than 20 militants dead, the coalition said in a statement.

    The insurgents attacked Firebase Anaconda from three sides, using gunfire, grenades and 107 mm rockets, the coalition said. A joint Afghan-U.S. force repelled the attack with mortars, machine guns and air support.

    “Almost two dozen insurgents were confirmed killed in the attack,” the statement said. Two girls and two Afghan soldiers were wounded during the fight in Uruzgan province, it said…..

    “The inability of the insurgent forces to inflict any severe damage on Firebase Anaconda, while being simultaneously decimated in the process, should be a clear indication of the ineffectiveness of their fighters,” said Army Capt. Vanessa R. Bowman, a coalition spokeswoman.

    Sure looks like we have to drop everything in Iraq to beat back the vaunted Taliban Tet “offensive” </sarcasm_explosive>.

    On vacation (almost)

    by @ 13:12. Filed under The Blog.

    Dunno if I’ll have anything up before I leave just after dawn tomorrow, so I hope my trio of guest-bloggers have some stuff. If you don’t hear from me before then, see you around the 18th.

    And yes, I’ll be eating plenty of walleye and drinking directly out of various Minnesota/Ontario lakes (don’t try that in Wisconsin).

    Testing 1-2-3

    by @ 12:34. Filed under Miscellaneous.

    This is a test of the Steve is almost on vacation blogger fill-in system.

    If this were an actual vacation emergency this post might  have been filled with some useless bit of information or a provocative thought to ponder.

     In the event of an actual vacation hopefully a suitable replacement will be found.

     We  will now  return to our regularly scheduled blogging.

    This was only a test.

    August 5, 2007

    New versions of WordPress out

    by @ 19:16. Filed under The Blog.

    Whether you’re on the 2.1/2.2 development track (like me) or the 2.0 one (like Hot Air), there’s a new version of WordPress out there. Head here for the newest 2.2.2 version or here for the 2.0.11 legacy version. There’s a couple of security fixes (more for the old version).

    Co-rinkidink or dry runs?

    by @ 9:00. Filed under Miscellaneous.

    (H/T – See-dubya Geoff at JunkYardBlog – that’ll learn me to try to pound this out on a tight time schedule) –

    Somehow, I don’t think that this series of 4 “questionable” incidents over the last 36 hours is a coincidence:

    Somebody has been shining lasers into the cockpits of airplanes landing at Daytona Beach Airport.

    2 passengers were pulled off a flight in Miami after someone overheard them talking about hijacking the plane (’tis good we’re about to have the John Doe law go into effect; otherwise, CAIR and their lawyers would be swarming down to Miami)

    Two live anti-vehicle mines on timers were detonated in rural Canada.

    A pair of Middle Eastern people driving what appeared to be a car bomb were stopped in Goose Creek, South Carolina.

    That last one is quite “interesting”, especially since Michelle Malkin points out that Goose Creek is home to a Naval Weapons Station that hosts a floating drydock used to drydock nuclear submarines as well as U.S. Naval Consolidated Brig, where various enemy combatants have been held.

    Pubbie ABC News debate from Iowa – almost live thread

    Or at least I had hoped to make it live. WISN is the worst ABC affiliate in the nation, as they’re blathering on local crap for a second hour.

    8:17 – Forgot to mention that Free Republic, as always, has a rolling live thread. Meanwhile, Jim of bRight & Early has an equally-sucky affiliate.

    9:00 – Missed the current ABC/WaPo poll, but The Other Thompson is a dead duck.

    9:01 – We start with the Brownback robo-call pointing out that Romney wasn’t always pro-life. Brownback sticking by it. Romney trying to say it’s untrue, and Steffie trying to draw out what is untrue about it. Romney ducking and shucking.

    9:03 – Brownback ain’t afraid of no YouTube. Next hit piece aired; Romney slamming Rudi for being essentially a ‘Rat. Romney soft-pedaling, and Rudi pushes the pro-abort line.

    9:06 – Next hit piece – The Other Thompson on Rudi for stating the obvious; a pro-abort candidate will put the Pubbies against the Catholics (specifically). Tommy trying to get this out of the abortion gutter that Steffi drove it into.

    9:08 – To McShame from Steffi – Shouldn’t we de-emphasize abortion in favor of national security? No, but the transcendent issue is defeating Islamokazis.

    9:10 – YouTuber – “What would be your strategy for ending the war in Iraq?” Paul – “Just march home; this is an illegal, undeclared war” (I guess that authorization of use of force never happened </sarcasm>. Hunter – “I was here when the Rooskies threatened Central Europe, and when the Sandanistas threatened Central America…. The Marines have turned around Al Anbar… and the ‘Rats to a person didn’t pause in their rush to the exits to thank them.”

    9:13 – Steffi – Is there a middle ground? Huckabee – Yes. Let’s become energy independent. “If we can feed ourselves, fuel ourselves and manufacture for ourselves, we’ll stay free.” Brownback – The problem is political (say, isn’t Congress taking most of the month off?), and make it 3 states.

    9:15 – McCain – “We are winning. We must win. If we lose,… we will be back…. The morale is high.” To Rudi – Is there any difference between you and McCain. Rudi – “I noticed that no ‘Rat has mentioned the words ‘Islamic terrorism.'”

    9:18 – To the Romney third of Rudi McRomney – Are you all of the same mind on Iraq? Romney – Yes. On Obama – “He’s gone from Jane Fonda to Dr. Strangelove in one week.” “It’s time to give the troops a surge of support.”

    9:19 – Immediately to the Tanc to find differences – “Can we win? Yes.” Review the rules of engagement and let loose the dogs of war without the muzzle. “Iraq has got to take control of Iraq”

    9:21 – To The Other Thompson – I’ve got a plan, and that’s to demand payment from Iraq and state elections.

    9:22 – To the Toofer Paul – “I’m in the wrong primary.”

    9:24 – To McCain – “The war was mismanaged for 4 years, but now it’s being managed right…. I’m going to be judged by history and not by public polls.”

    9:25 – Steffi and company pushing CubaCare for the kids by raising taxes – “Do you side with Grassley or Bush?” Huckabee – “Either give America the same kind of health care Congress has or Congress the same kind of health care America has.” We’re not going to fix it until this country focuses on wellness and prevention. TOT – Neither. Huckabee is right. Don’t raise taxes.

    9:28 – To Tanc – “It’s not the responsibilty of government to provide womb-to-tomb health care to America.” Let’s expand HSAs (good), reimport drugs (bad), and boot the illegals.

    9:29 – Steffi – “Are you in favor of expanding CubaCare for Kids?” TOT – Not the way they did it. Tanc – No. Romney – We have to make “private” health insurance mandatory. Rudi – Points out that this is a step toward full-blown CubaCare.

    9:32 – Hunter – Allow interstate commerce for health insurance.

    9:33 – Stupid question of the day – “How do you provide health care without raising taxes?” Brownback whacks it out of the park – “Keep it private.”

    9:34 – Barack Strangelove comments up now. Debate between Rudi and Romney on this. Rudi (who would keep the option open) – Obama had diarreah of the mouth. Steffi brings up Rudi’s diarreah, and he backs off somewhat. Romney (who was portrayed as he wouldn’t do it) – Points out the paradox of Obama. Steffi tries to draw out what Romney would do if Pakistan tries to block an extraction of Osama bin Laden. He’ll keep the option on the table.

    9:37 – Hunter pointing to what Pakistan has done (er, it isn’t much).

    9:38 – Free elections in Iran? That’s funny; the Mad Mullahs banned just about everybody except their boy Ahmaddhimmijob. Brownback Huckabee – We can’t force everybody to accept our way of life (well, we managed in Germany and Japan; of course, we killed just about everybody who waged war on us first). Let’s spread it by example To Toofer – “I’m definitely in the wrong primary.”

    9:41 – To Rudi – Democracy also requires the rule of law. Question from Steffi – Did we go to elections too quickly in Gaza? Rudy – Perhaps. First, we have to build respect of rights and security. McCain – Rule of law is starting to happen in Iraq. It’s naiive to say we’re going to attack Pakistan without thinking it through. Brings up that Kennedy said essentially the same thing regarding democracy as Bush.

    9:44 – Romney – Reach out with all our capabilities. Steffi tries to draw out a cheap shot at Bush, Romney declines. Hey Toofer, they attacked us on 9/11.

    9:46 – Steffi to Tanc – Foggy Bottom called your plan to nuke Mecca/Medina “reckless”. Tanc – That’s why they’re called Foggy Bottom. To TOT – It would unify 1 billion Islamokazis against us (true, but there are already 800 or so million unified against us; what’s another 200 million, give or take whoever’s there during the nuclear Hajj).

    9:49 – Brownback – If you push democracy in certain parts of the Islamic world now, you’re going to get more Islamokazi gubmints.

    9:50 – YouTuber #2 – “Should we raise taxes for infrastructure?” Huckabee – “No on taxes, but we do need to rebuild.”

    9:50 part 2 – “Rudy, how can the Pubbies rebuild without raising taxes?” (me – cut the damn spending on the welfare state) Rudy – You don’t have to increase tax rates to increase revenues. And here’s a special for Breck Girl – the last time we raised the capital gains tax, we reduced revenue.

    9:52 – Romney – Economic growth is how you grow revenue. Back in Taxachusetts, I said, “Fix it first.”

    9:53 – McCain – Everything in that latest transportation bill has been pork, and nothing for fixing.

    9:54 – To commercial.

    9:59 – BoobTube part 3 – “Would you restrict the role of the VP and put it in the Constitution?” (I think this left tilt is the reason why the Pubbies aren’t warm to the CNN/YouTube debate) McCain – “There’s only 2 roles…be president of the Senate and check on the health of the President daily.” TOT – “Vice President Cheney’s criticized for a lot of things he doesn’t do.” Rudy – The VP has to be capable to take over the office on a moment’s notice, and then the division is something to discuss. Steffi pushes on whether Rudy would take Cheney. You can’t keep the VP in the dark like Truman was.

    10:03 – Romney – “They have kept us safe the last 6 years.” Brownback – I wouldn’t delegate, but I would involve. Bush overrelied on Cheney. Toofer – “I belong in the DhimmiRAT primary.” Hunter – Depends on the credentials of the President. I’m a vet, my son’s a vet, and I wouldn’t share the role of CinC with a VP.

    10:05 – “Fair”Tax time (23% sales tax) Huckabee – I like a 23% sales tax because “it ends the underground economy” (no; it moves it to the black market). Romney – It’s not that good. One thing; as it is proposed, it would kill the new home construction industry. Rudy – Kill the death tax. Simplify the tax code, and the flat-“fair” tax is intriguing if we were starting at the beginning. Question from Rudy – who would administer it and those exempt from it (guess the IRS isn’t going away).

    10:09 – McCain – Get rid of the AMT. Tanc – I’m a co-sponsor (pushes a Boortz book). The power of taxation is that it manipulates behavior (and a 23% sales tax wouldn’t manipulate behavior into a lack of consumption outside of the black market?) Brownback – Flat tax, not a 23% sales tax.

    10:12 – E-mailed Q – “What is the defining mistake of your life and why?” Hunter – “I considered running as a ‘Rat my first time.” Paul – “Not speaking out on the Constitution” (not running as a ‘Rat?). Huckabee – “Not taking better care of myself the first half of my life.” Romney – “Taking a pro-abort position when I first ran.” Rudi – “30 seconds isn’t enough time. I’ll explain it to your pappy priest.” McCain – “Moving off the Forestal after nearly getting blown off. (missed the other one). Brownback – “Not telling my wife and kids I love them often enough. TOT – “Not being supportive enough when my mother-in-law died of breast cancer.” Tanc – “It took me 30 years to accept Christ.”

    10:15 – Steffi – “What will you restore to the Oval Office?” Tanc – Hope. TOT – Be bi-partisan and un-PC in the war on jihad. Brownback – Rebuilding the family, and providing Justice #5 to reverse Roe v Wade McCain – Fight Islamokazis and never surrender. Rudy – Hope part deux, oh and the top 3 ‘Rats didn’t run anything. Romney – Strengthen the military, strengthen the economy and strengthen the family. Huckabee – Put a frame that says “Boss” in the Oval Office and put ordinary Americans’ mugs in it like I did in Arkansas. Toofer – Openness. Tell Congress everything (which would tell everyone everything including our enemies). Hunter – Economic patriotism.

    10:22 – And we’re out of here.

    10:38 – I see that Matt Lewis also has a sucky ABC affiliate. He’s declared Rudi the winner almost by default. I’ll decide later.

    August 3, 2007

    HamNation – Better Living Through Bathroom Etiquette

    by @ 23:25. Filed under Law and order, War on Terror.

    Just in case you missed the news that flushing the Koran is a felony hate crime, Mary Katharine Ham has a new “instructional” video.

    The Koran makes excellent kindling as well as an outstanding skeet target.

    Printing posts should be a lot less wasteful now

    by @ 10:57. Filed under The Blog.

    I wanted to print out a post for somebody, so I went to print. Imagine my shock when the printer started to churn out 15 pages. OUCH!

    So, I went and did some digging around WordPress’s site, and I came up with a very handy page to alter a theme so it would print rather neatly. After a bit of trial and error, I do believe I got it. Now, you won’t get my sidebars, and you’ll get something that looks at least a bit like my main page (a bit more so if you use Firefox; Internet Explorer does not honor background colors when printing).

    MJS 5th Column to residents of the 8th Supervisor District – raise taxes

    Charlie beat me to this by bringing up the special election of the 21st Assembly District back in 2003, but since he’s stuck in the technological hell that’s the State Fair Fish Bowl, I’ve got the ability to fisk the idiotorial of the day endorsing free-spending and tax-hiking advocate Patricia Jursik in the special election on Tuesday, August 7 to fill the County Board seat vacated by Ryan McCue –

    Holding an election in the dog days of summer is not the best way to choose elected representatives for reasons so obvious we don’t need to list them here.

    I’m sure they would rather have Lee “Thug” Holloway appoint free-spenders to fill vacancies created by those leaving office, or alternatively, have some schmoe like McCue double-dip into the trough. Unfortunately for them, Lee and Ryan, that’s not how things work.

    But voters in Milwaukee County’s 8th Supervisory District don’t have a choice. The special election is Tuesday to fill the County Board vacancy prompted by the spring election of Ryan McCue as Cudahy mayor. The district includes Cudahy, South Milwaukee, St. Francis and part of Oak Creek.

    ATTENTION! YOUR ATTENTION PLEASE! This includes those of you in Oak Creek east of Quincy Avenue between Rawson and Drexel, or north of Carrolton/Maderia between 15th Ave and Chicago. The election is on Tuesday, August 7, 2007 between 7 am and 8 pm.

    Patricia Jursik, an attorney in Cudahy in private practice, gets our strong recommendation.

    And hopefully the Journtinel idiotorial board kiss of death.

    Her opponent, Chris Kujawa of South Milwaukee, clearly has business skills and experience to offer; he is vice president of his family’s landscape business, Kujawa Enterprises Inc. But Jursik is the better bet for a variety of reasons, including her past experience on numerous public boards and commissions, her sense of independence and her deeply felt belief that the county cannot continue to cut spending and stubbornly hold the line on taxes without sacrificing such things as parks, transit and services to the elderly that people in her district care so much about.

    The irony here is that the elderly in the district won’t be able to afford the higher taxes that the Journtinel wants so desperately, so they won’t be around to use said services.

    She is much more open than Kujawa to new sources of county revenue, including tapping into existing sales taxes, to relieve the burden on the property tax.

    Charlie said it best in this week’s CNI column – “We’ve been here before. In 1991, the last time we had a big county tax increase, county pols promised that the windfall would go for property tax relief, parks and transit. In the next decade property taxes went up, support for the parks dropped, and transit is still a mess.

    “Instead, the pols spent the money and stole the rest.”

    Say, wasn’t 1991 the year that the floodgates really opened up on the pension grab that just came to light this week?

    Jursik says Kujawa is County Executive Scott Walker’s hand-picked candidate. That’s overstating it. But we know what she’s getting at. Walker endorsed Kujawa even before the six-person primary, and, in turn, Kujawa says he philosophically agrees with Walker most of the time.

    Here we go again. Can we question the 5th Column’s claims to fairness now? For the record, Kujawa was the only candidate that recognizes that taxes are too damn high.

    There’s nothing wrong with that per se, but as Jursik points out, electing a supervisor with a more independent voice is the best way to assure checks and balances.

    Allow me to ReWrite™ that to reflect the actual thinking (such as it is) – “There’s nothing everything wrong with that per se, but as Jursik points out, electing a supervisor with a more independent liberal, free-spending, tax-hiking voice is the best way to assure checks and balances a 2/3rds majority ready, willing and able to jack up taxes and spending to levels not seen outside of the Soviet Union in its prime.”

    Kujawa says supervisors are overpaid and promises to give back $20,000 of his salary. And he does offer some good ideas, including putting the House of Correction under the sheriff’s authority. But Kujawa seems too willing to embrace privatization to help solve the county’s fiscal problems, including having the county turning over mental health services to private providers.

    Hell, the private sector cannot possibly do a worse job of that than the county, which did such a poor job that the Journtinel ran a series on just how poor a job the county did.

    We’re also troubled by his opposition to the Kenosha-Racine-Milwaukee commuter rail proposal, which even Walker supports.

    That’s not the kind of “independence” the Journtinel wants. Of course, I’m heartened by Kujawa’s opposition to that boondoggle.

    Jursik finished first in the primary, and 8th District voters would be wise to put her in the winner’s column on Tuesday.

    No, they would be monumentally-stupid.

    Vote Chris Kujawa on Tuesday, August 7, 2007.

    August 2, 2007

    Hiliary flip-flops on Pakistan

    by @ 10:48. Filed under Politics - National, War on Terror.

    (H/T – Mary Katharine Ham)

    Jim Geraghty at NRO discovers a Hiliarious flip-flop on Pakistan:
    Flip

    July 27 : US Democratic presidential candidate and New York Senator Hillary Clinton has rejected suggestions of a unilateral US strike in Pakistan’s tribal region, American troops should accompany Pakistan troops.

    Addressing a fund-raising dinner organised by the National Association of Pakistani-Americans, Hillary said a unilateral US strike would not produce the desired results, but would create fresh problems.

    Only a combined effort could destroy militant hideouts in the area, she added.

    Flop (yesterday) –

    But she did not rule out U.S. attacks inside Pakistan, citing the missile attacks her husband, then-President Bill Clinton, ordered against Osama bin Laden in Afghanistan in 1998.

    “If we had actionable intelligence that Osama bin Laden or other high-value targets were in Pakistan I would ensure that they were targeted and killed or captured,” she said.


    Nice example, Hiliary. That empty-tent strike wasn’t even successful in its primary mission, much less the secondary mission of doing anything to Al Qaeda or Osama bin Laden.

    I know she doesn’t have the balls to do the job right, especially if it can’t be done quickly.

    What the hell is wrong with these judges?

    by @ 10:29. Filed under Law and order.

    WTMJ-AM just reported that Brendan Dassey, convicted of 1st degree intentional homicide, mutiliation of the corpse, and 2nd-degree sexual assault in the murder of Theresa Halbach, will be getting regular parole hearings starting in 41 years. His uncle, Steven Avery, who was actually acquitted in the mutilation of a corpse charge but was convicted of the other two, identical charges, will never be walking out of a Wisconsin prison.

    Revisions/extensions (10:59 am 8/2/2007, with a H/T to Mary) – the Lawgiver-In-Black who gave this ridiculous sentence, Jerome Fox, speaks:

    “The court believes there is a moral need for substantial punishment for these crimes,” Judge Jerome Fox said.

    Fox said during his ruling that this was the most serious crime the court had ever had before it.

    “(Dassey) knew the difference between right and wrong, good and evil,” the judge said.

    Then why did you give only 47 years? If I were a defense attorney, I would hope I end up in his courtroom. I would be arguing that my client should get even less because of the ridiculously-weak sentence given Dassey.

    Obama and Pakistan

    by @ 10:01. Filed under Miscellaneous.

    By now, you’ve heard Dem Presidential candidate and Senator Barak Hussein Obama (IL) advocating an invasion of Pakistan if Pakistani “President” General Pervez Musharraf doesn’t do more to battle Al Qaeda and Taliban forces taking refuge in his country. Welcome to the Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy, Barak. Too bad you don’t seem to recall the host of reasons why we went to war in Iraq (one of which was to keep Iraq from acquiring the same WMDs that Pakistan has, another of which was because of ties between Saddam Hussein and elements of Al Qaeda).

    Question; considering Musharraf can charitably be described as walking a tightrope now between the Islamokazi forces he nurtured pre-9/11 and the US, has Obama considered the ramifications of conducting a large-scale invasion of a putative ally (as opposed to a “plausably deniable” small-scale operation, several of which appear to have happened already)? I hope you’ll have a plan to secure Pakistan’s 40-50 nuclear weapons (thanks, Clinton) before they’re used against us by either Musharraf in defending Pakistani territory or by the Islamokazis that will seize power in the wake of said invasion in revenge. I doubt you would, however, and I doubt that, when Pakistan turns into Iraq Part Deux, you’ll have the stomach to tough it out.

    That’s not to say that I am opposed to a large-scale invasion of Pakistan; I believe it absolutely necessary. I’m just advocating it with eyes wide open to the likely consequences.

    Now, why did Obama suddenly join the Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy, especially since Dick Morris said that he was “brilliant” in saying that he would meet with America’s mortal enemies? Simple; despite 55% of the Dhimm base agreeing with him, and only 22% agreeing with Hillary Clinton that Obama was “naiive”, that display of neck wasn’t flying.

    So, will the real Barak Hussein Obama please stand up.

    Open Thread Thursday – 8/2/2007

    by @ 9:27. Filed under Open Thread Thursday.

    Sorry I didn’t have anything yesterday; just didn’t have the energy.

    So, have at it. I have some things in the hopper, but don’t let that stop you.

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