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 November 14th, 2007

The usual performance

by @ 21:10. Filed under Miscellaneous.

There is a reason why, the few times I go to Vegas, I head straight to the sports books. I was the first one out of the hold’em tourney, lasting 1:11. My only highlight was taking the first pot with pocket 7’s.

Oh well, at least the proceeds (after the payouts) go to a good cause.

But, but, but I thought Craps got rid of all the planes

by @ 6:44. Filed under Politics - Wisconsin.

The Asian Badger has a nice little exclusive on not one, not two, but three state-owned Pilatus PC-12 executive turboprop aircraft (roughly $5 million apiece new) took a trip down to Muncie, Indiana yesterday. Two of them are still there this morning, at least according to Flight Aware, while the third came back to Madison yesterday afternoon.

I wonder what’s so important down there that 18-27 (depending on how they’re configured, the PC-12 seats 6 to 9) Doyle cronies needed to borrow the Wisconsin Air Force.

Revisions/extensions (2:25 pm 11/14/2007) – Apparently, that was the Wisconsin Skate Univ…er, UWM’s mens’ basketball team that went down there (H/T – John Foust). Time to open up another can of questions:

– Why did they need to fly an hour on a trip that takes 5 by bus?
– Considering that the PC-12 costs just over $500/hour to operate, will the state be reimbursed the full $3,000+ that it cost us?
– If the state is reimbursed, which of UWM’s funds will that be coming out of? If it’s any fund other than the mens’ basketball fund, I will not be a happy camper.

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