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 October 16th, 2007

No Christmas vacation for the Pubbies and probably the ‘Rats

by @ 20:33. Filed under Elections, Politics - National.

The Iowa Republican Party moved up their Iowa Presidential caucus to Thursday, January 3, 2008 from Monday, January 14, 2008. Meanwhile, the Dems are still vascilating between the 3rd and the 5th, which would be a Saturday. Guess they haven’t decided whether to meddle in the Pubbie caucus or keep the Pubbies from crashing their party.

Since New Hampshire and their insane “first-primary-in-the-nation” law is forcing them to hold their primary no later than January 8 (or so claims their Secretary of State, who is responsible for setting the date) and quite possibly earlier, and the corn-a-hole crowd in Iowa has an irrational desire to best even New Hampshire, we could still see things kick off in mid-December 2007.

Words, at least those that aren’t R-rated, fail me, and I’ve hit my weekly quota on vulgarity.

Photoshop of the day

by @ 16:50. Filed under Miscellaneous.

From Madison Conservative…

No, this does not, repeat NOT, mean I’m supporting Rudi. It’s just one great Photoshop offered for you Rudiites.

The enemy of my class enemy is my friend…

by @ 8:23. Filed under International relations.

Soviet Premi…er, Russian President Vladimir Putin, fresh from ignoring a “threat” on his life in Tehran, joined the Mad Mullahs and their sock puppets in reasserting Sovi…er (damn, there I go again) Russian control over its former empire by threatening Azerbaijan should it help the United States in any response to Iran’s attempt to get nuclear weapons, as well as any country that wants to get Caspian Sea oil and natural gas out of the area without going through either the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic (ah, tahellwitchit, if Pooty-Poot wants to go back to the Cold War, let’s bring back all the old Soviet terms) or Iran.

The Cold War’s back on the menu, boys.

Crying River Flood Warning keeps on getting expanded

by @ 7:40. Filed under Politics - Milwaukee, Politics - Milwaukee County, Politics - Wisconsin, Taxes.

Today, it’s the Wisconsin Center District, which (mis)manages the Midwest Airlines Center, making with the waterworks. Head flack Franklyn Gimbel is blaming the lack of a new state budget tax increases at the state level for his inability to beg for increased taxes at the local level to pay for a second expansion of the MAC. The MAC is currently subsidized by a 3% tax on car rentals in Milwaukee County, a 0.25% tax on “restaurant” food and beverage sales (actually applied to all taxable food and beverage sales) in Milwaukee County, a 2% tax on hotel rooms in Milwaukee County and another 7% tax on hotel rooms in the city of Milwaukee.

I have two things to say to Gimbel and company, beyond “No more taxes!”, that is:
– You idiots knew in 1999, before the first expansion was complete, the MAC was undersized and would be undersized after that first expansion.
– Instead of wasting something north of $45 million on turning the old Auditorium into an underutilized “theatre”, you morons could have used that money to complete that planned-for second expansion.

Down goes the latest Craps tax-raising budget

by @ 1:28. Filed under Politics - Wisconsin, Taxes.

(H/Ts – Owen and Peter)

The Assembly, on a bipartisan 54-45 vote, voted against the latest attempty by Jim “Craps” Doyle (WEAC/Potawatomi-For Sale) to jack up Wisconsin’s taxes. That was despite Craps’ best efforts to buy the vote. Nice to see some things aren’t for sale in Madison.

A special “Huzzah” goes out to the 3 Dems that crossed the aisle, Amy Sue Vruwink, Sheldon Wasserman, and Bob Ziegelbauer (who actually “paired” his nay with another’s aye).

A very-special “I hope you lose your next election” to RepubicRAT Brett Davis. May you not get that thirty pieces of silv…er, $4 million soybean crusher from Craps.

As for how the presstitutes are reporting this, Jessica points out the Journtinel pooh-poohed Ziegelbauer’s “pairing”.

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