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 December 11th, 2007

Drinking Right – T-minus 30 minutes

by @ 18:30. Filed under Miscellaneous.

Do allow yourself a few extra minutes on account of the weather, but the drinking starts at 7 over at Papa’s Social Club (7718 W Burleigh in Milwaukee).

Be there, or be nowhere.

Republicans debate tomorrow, Dems debate Thursday

by @ 17:29. Filed under Politics - National.

These debates, hosted by The Des Moines Register, will be the last debates before the Iowa caucuses. I cannot guarantee that I will be live-blogging either, mainly because I can’t guarantee I will be back in front of the computer by 1 pm. What will make these debates unusual, besides the odd start time and the fact that we’ll be going another 3 weeks without another before the selection process actually starts, is that it will be available over a multitude of networks; CNN, C-SPAN3, Fox News Channel, Fox News Radio, and C-SPAN Radio, as well as at DesMoinesRegister.com.

Since I wasn’t able to collate a look ahead to the Republican debate, which will feature not 8, but 9 candidates (including Alan Keyes), I’ll just point you in the general direction of Jim Geraghty’s preview. Besides, he put together something far better than I could with an unlimited amount of effort.

Thompson, Clinton on top in Wisconsin

(H/T – Mary Katharine Ham)

I have no idea how the December Badger Poll slipped through both the southeast Wisconsin media filter and my bloated blogroll for nearly 26 hours until MKH included it as a tossaway item in the piece linked to above, but it won’t be the exclusive province of the UW Survey Center and select outstate news sources any longer. I’ll cut straight to the take-home numbers on the poll taken between 11/27 and 12/5:

Republican Presidential Primary

(margin of error 7.4% – 174 respondents)

Fred Thompson – 30%
Rudy Giuliani – 25%
John McCain – 15%
Mike Huckabee – 8%
Mitt Romney – 5%
Don’t know – 5%
Ron Paul – 4%
Everybody else – under 1% each

Democratic Presidential Primary

(margin of error 6.0% – 260 respondents)

Hillary Clinton – 39%
Barack Obama – 26%
John Edwards – 16%
Don’t know – 6%
Bill Richardson – 4%
Dennis Kucinich – 3%
Joe Biden – 2%
Everybody else – under 1% each

Revisions/extensions (3:20 pm 12/11/2007) – It was briefly mentioned in this morning’s briefing at the Fred File. I apologize to Sean for missing it. Everybody else, you have no excuse.

New poll; which winter weather phenomenon do you hate more?

by @ 14:43. Filed under NRE Polls, Weather.

This is the Emergency Blogging System. Because of the snow/ice/sleet/rain (but unfortunately, not thunder), it has been activated.

We’ve now had both snow-covered ice and ice-covered snow this short month. I honestly can’t tell which one’s worse, so I’ll leave it up to you, the gentle (Ed: Who is the EBS kidding? This is a full-contact blog.) reader.

Which is worse?

Up to 1 answer(s) was/were allowed

  • Snow-covered ice (81%, 22 Vote(s))
  • Ice-covered snow (19%, 5 Vote(s))

Total Voters: 27

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WPRI – Wisconsin opposes illegal immigration

by @ 14:17. Filed under Immigration, Politics - Wisconsin.

The results of a poll conducted by the Wisconsin Policy Research Institute and Diversified Research early this month are probably coming as a shock to pro-North Mexico politicans on both sides of the aisle, both on a “total numbers” basis and a partisan basis.

Because I’m in a bit of a writer’s funk, and partly because there are only limited crosstabs available, I won’t go too far into the numbers, but there are a few that jump out (the questions, in italics, are the exact wording used in the poll):

Should the state of Wisconsin allow illegal immigrants to apply for Wisconsin driver’s licenses? – Statewide, 76% no, 19% yes. Only one subgroup showed a majority/plurality of support; those 18-24 years old (64%-36% in favor). Even among liberals, it was an even split (at 48%), while the Madison crowd barely opposed it (49%-48%). Of further note, Madison and the Eau Claire/La Crosse area (opposition led 65%-32%) are out of step with the rest of the state, a theme that repeated itself in the other two questions, while the city of Milwaukee (opposition led 80%-17%), which is most-affected by illegal immigration, showed a significant split with the conventional wisdom of liberals supporting illegal immigration.

Should the state of Wisconsin allow illegal immigrants to receive discounted in-state tuition at the
University of Wisconsin?
– Statewide, 86% no, 10% yes. No subgroup showed a majority/pluality of support, though again the splits mirror the results above.

Would you favor or oppose allowing illegal immigrant children to attend your local public schools? – Statewide, 46% yes, 46% no. The crosstabs don’t quite mirror either the above or the conventional wisdom that southeast Wisconsin has a monopoly on “conservatism”. While opposition led in the Green Bay area, 53%-32% (the biggest spread geographically), those in southeast Wisconsin (at least outside of Milwaukee and Waukesha Counties; those are broken out separately) supported this 50%-46%, while support in the Eau Claire/La Crosse area (72%-28%) actually outpaced that in Madison (61%-33%).

I guess it’s safe to say that, at least on the issue of illegal immigration, those of us in Talk Radio Land, and those in the Fox Valley, are more in touch with the state than the Dale Schultzes and the Mike Huebschs (or at least their constituents), and the Recess Supervisors of the world. Guess that’ll add some fuel to the fire of the battle for the Wisconsin Republican soul.

I do need to point out an extension that should be made to WPRI’s summary. The fact that there is so much opposition to giving a primary-school education to illegal immigrant children in the face of the lack of any real call to take it away is telling.

Freefly – Global Warming edition

by @ 13:32. Filed under Global "Warming".

I honestly don’t know what’s more delicious in the latest, too-infrequent Freefly from Uncle Jimbo and Kev; Kev in shorts and a tank top or the typical Madistan bike rider rolling through in the middle of the taping.

Thank you, Algore Goracle, High Priestess Cullen, and the rest of the Gorebal Warming disciples; this wouldn’t be nearly as funny without your pontifications that we’re heating up the planet beyond all recognition.

Break out your ice chippers, plus DR is ON!

by @ 11:50. Filed under Miscellaneous, Weather.

The good news, at least at the Command, Control & Conquer compound here in northwest Oak Creek, is that it is above freezing.

The bad news is, looking at the temps elsewhere, it isn’t above freezing. Be careful out there, and watch out for that ice. Even if it’s just above freezing, the most-slippery ice is water-covered ice.

The better news is that this is supposed to change to all snow by 3, with minimal accumulation. That means that, unlike the DOT and MPS, which have cancelled their evening activities, Drinking Right is ON! If you’re worried about the roads in Milwaukee, Burleigh is a main thoroughfare, and the freeways are handled by the county.

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