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 January 16th, 2008

If at first you don’t succeed,…

by @ 18:45. Filed under Politics - Wisconsin, WTPA.

…try, try again to get a handle on taxes and spending (H/T – Kevin Fischer).

I wish I could believe that this would make it through the Senate, but I have my doubts that it will even make it out of the Assembly.

The prediction of the week

by @ 18:37. Filed under Politics - National.

Hear MKH now, believe her Saturday night…

“Fred wins South Carolina because, the way this race is going, a prediction now is as good as a prediction Saturday morning, and the more seemingly unlikely, the better.”

The corn-a-hole whores are back

by @ 15:26. Filed under Corn-a-hole, Politics - Wisconsin.

(H/T – Mark Belling)

As the title says, they’re back, and they’re worse than ever. Not only will Senate Bill 380 require that a significant portion of fuel sold in Wisconsin be made from overpriced corn, which has already started to ripple price increases through the entire food chain, but starting in 2015, permanently park most of the vehicles currently on the road by mandating that percentage of corn-a-hole be higher than what the fuel systems in those vehicles can handle.

Especially egregious is the role that Luther Olsen (RepubicRAT), whose brother is in the process of making his fortune in the ethanol business, is playing.

I’ll just hit “publish” now before I start unleasing an AoS-worthy string of expletives.

Revisions/extensions (2:49 pm 1/17/2008) – Allow me to continue with a further rant brought up from the comments….

(Current engines) “can” (be modified to run on E25, E85, E100, et al), but how much is that going to run me? $500? $1000? Why should I have to pay to retrofit my 2004 Subaru (or 2009 non-flex-fuel Chevy, or 2002 Saturn, or…you get the idea) just so I can keep my car on the road while burning more fuel?

Why should I be forced to buy a new lawn mower, or a new snow blower, or a new chainsaw, or a new boat engine (assuming, of course, they’ll be able to handle E25; many of those already have problems handling E10)?

I’m (barely) able to afford this “upgrade”. What about those that can’t? Are we going to tell them, “Tough luck. Hop on that bus so we can throw more money down that rat hole. Oh, and relearn the ‘joys’ of push mowers and shoveling.”? Are we going to force those that can pay for the “upgrade” to pay twice, thrice, and even more so the poor can stay in the 21st Century? Oh hell no.

Miss my roll, miss a lot

by @ 14:28. Filed under Miscellaneous.

There is a reason why that roll on the right side is as bloated as it is; there is a lot of good stuff from the people on it. Just in case you’ve missed some of the recent brilliance, I’ll point you in the right direction…

4-Block World has the Packers’ offensive flow chart for the NFC Championship Game.
silent E speaks has started awarding something called the “Farting RINO Award” (complete with lit fart)
An Ol’ Broad’s Ramblings delivers a pair of wicked-good cartoons.
Blue Crab Boulevard has yet another reason to keep up on security updates, specifically Microsoft Excel 2003.
Boots and Sabers goes behind the scenes with Katie Couric, while Ed Driscoll channels Don Henley with that same clip.
Caledonia Unplugged brings news that an outstate RINO wants convicted sex predators to live wherever they please upon release.
Daily Dollop matches up the candidates to various games.
Atomic Trousers has some sage advice for the NIGA.
Fred File (that would be the Thompson campaign’s blog) delivers the 2-year smackdown on Paul D. Clement’s overlawyering candy-ass. (disclosure; I’m a Marbleheader Fredhead)
Hot Air notes the race war between Obama and Clinton is ON!
JunkYardBlog found out that the Party of the Sheeple isn’t exactly having grilled cheese sandwiches on the Hill.
Right Angles (specifically, Jon Ham) wonders whether Mountain Dew and MoonPies are next on Pelosi’s ban list. (they can pry my Dew from my cold, dead right hand)
Michelle Malkin and her readers pimp up Mao. (I’m sort of partial to Gene Simmons KISSifying Mao).
RealDebateWisconsin wonders whether 6 teens sitting together at lunch too busy texting to actually talk to each other is progress.
Sister Toldjah and James Wigderson are both running caption contests using the same Breck-on-a-chair pic. (mine – “When 5-inch stilettos just won’t do….”)
Slublog notes that only ‘Rats and Huckabee (who may as well be a ‘Rat) can get away with having pastors harangue the faithful for political gain.
Charlie Sykes takes a peek into the egalitarian future by going to some old fiction.
The American Pundit takes a look across the pond to see the cavity-ridden dental future under HillaryCare by any name (even Romney’s).
The Autopsy dissects why there is no Republican front-runner.
The Jawa Report puts 2 and 2 together on Huckabee and push-polling. (I knew I saw that playbook before, specifically from Russ “I’ll take the high road” Slimeroad and friends in 1998).
Tom McMahon points out that the more things change, the more they stay the same.
VodkaPundit lets us know the father of TABOR punted a presstitute who had no respect during morning prayer during his first session as a member of Colorado’s legislature.
Weasel Zippers relays a warning from Michael Chertoff that Europe is rapidly turning into a security threat to the US because of Islamokazis (well, a stopped clock is right twice a day, so why can’t Lettuce-Head occassionally be right?)

Now, go read.

The fraud-enablers in Madistan know no bounds

by @ 12:02. Filed under Politics - Wisconsin.

You do remember the exposing of hundreds of thousands of Social Security numbers on tax booklets by the Department of Revenue last year, right? The “good news” is they only exposed about 5,000 S.S. numbers this time around.

The bad – The Department of Health and Family Services jumped on the bandwagon, with 260,000 Senior Care recipients having their S.S. numbers printed on the outside of a brochure.

The ugly – The University of Wisconsin-Madison left 205 employees’ S.S. IDs hanging out in the ether. Worse, unlike the DOR, the DHFS and the contractors involved, UW is not going to offer credit-monitoring assistance despite the greater and continuing likelyhood of those numbers falling into the wrong hands.

Buh-bye, Skyway Airlines and 400 jobs

by @ 11:48. Filed under Business.

The first major bit of fallout from the privatization of Midwest Air Group is falling now, with the completion of the shift of the operation of Midwest Connect flights from Midwest Air Group subsidiary Skyway Airlines to Utah-based SkyWest and the attendant reduction of the highest-paying 7/20ths of Skyway jobs. For the moment, Skyway will live on as the official ramp and caterer of Midwest, as well as the customer service reps for Midwest Connect outside of Milwaukee, thus temporarily saving the jobs of 750 Skyway employees.

I wonder whether the lower business tax and less-suffocating regulatory climate in the mountains had anything to do with that. If that’s the case, instead of a minor expansion of those support services to cover other airlines allegedly planned, expect another 750 pink slips to come flying out of Minneapo…er, Texa…er, Oak Creek.

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