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 March 9th, 2008

IL 14 a Harbinger?

by @ 22:30. Filed under Miscellaneous.

Today, the Illinois Congressional seat vacated by Dennis Hastert was turned over to the Democrats.   So the question is:   Is this a harbinger?   Does this portend poorly for Republicans in November?

I think the answer is both Yes and No.
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Housekeeping – sorry, NZBear

by @ 20:13. Filed under The Blog.

TTLB is slowing things down some at the moment, probably because the Bear threw on a whole heap of blogs, and that’s really messing up the whole works, from rankings (the widget had me as a rodent, the TTLB NRE homepage had me as a human, and the acutal rankings have me as a marsupial). I had to deactivate it for the moment.

Revisions/extensions (8:21 pm 3/9/2008) – A longer search gives the current problem as the embedded video, and it’s intermittent. Oh well; that’s the price of a multimedia blog.

Tell me again why Milwaukee is a sanctuary city/county

by @ 19:38. Filed under Immigration.

(H/T – Michelle)

Revisions/extensions (9:06 pm 3/9/2008) – Also on the case: Patrick, Peter, HeatherRadish and Jessica. Also, I agree wholeheartedly with Dad29 in the comments. I think the ammo will be coming in more-powerful calibers and grains than just the .40 S&W.

Jessica’s girls at Frontpage Milwaukee committed what Charlie would call a flagrant act of journalism. Elizabeth Bolin and Megan Schmidt found that 188 previously-deported felon illegal aliens went through Milwaukee County Jail on fresh charges over the last 4 years, that 9 of those went through a second time despite having federal detain holds placed on them (though it is not clear whether they were deported and returned yet again or whether they never left the US), and that at least 108 of them were not charged with illegal re-entry after deportation (80 people were charged with that federal crime over that period, though it is not known whether those 80 are part of the 188 FPM focused on, or how many of those 80 were actually re-deported).

That’s just the tip of the iceberg, because previously-deported felons are the only class of illegal aliens the county tracks. That pretty much mirrors the city of Milwaukee’s “don’t ask” policy. As a result, nobody knows how many illegal aliens have passed through either the county jail or through police custody.

Since I will undoubtedly trigger a pingback to Michelle’s site, and I’m pissed enough to unleash more than a few choice words, I’ll put the rest of the commentary on page 2.

Sunday reading – the fastest trip in the fastest jet

by @ 9:55. Filed under Miscellaneous.

(H/T – Gaius)

Major Brian Shul (ret.) talked about the fastest trip the SR-71 Blackbird ever took. Xformed over at Chaotic Synaptic Activity has an interesting sea story about that flight.

I’ve just put Shul’s book, Sled Driver, on my short birthday list. Of course, since it is $427, that is going to be a very short birthday list :-)

Why are the ‘Rats are against Voter ID?

by @ 8:22. Filed under Elections, Politics - Wisconsin.

A friend of Kathy Carpenter’s decided to put the question to all 18 ‘Rat State Senators. You can head to Kathy’s site to read all of the responses, but I’ll do some summarizing here (the numbers will not add up because some Senators fall into more than 1 category):

– Against voter ID on general principles: 7
– Following Doyle’s instructions: 3
– Unavailable for comment: 5
– Staff unaware of their bosses’ position: 4
– Claims there was no public hearing, but too chickenshit to call for a public hearing: 2
– Would rather have a law, but too chickenshit to author one: 2
– Admitted (s)he would rather have vote fraud: 1

It’s way too early for Daylight Savings

by @ 3:35. Filed under Miscellaneous.

That’s right; if you’re reading this this morning without the aid of electric lights and the clock says 6:30 am, you’re likely an hour behind everybody else (either that, or you’re in one of the places that doesn’t do Daylight Savings).

Tech note for those with WordPress blogs, you’ll want to check that time offset in the General Options. WordPress does not automatically correct for Daylight Savings, so if you’re in the Central Time Zone, you’ll want to change that offset to -5 hours.

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