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 25th, 2008

Scott Walker and Paul Cesarz talk about county government

by @ 21:19. Filed under Miscellaneous.

Oak Creek Citizens Action welcomes Milwaukee County Executive Scott Walker and 9th District Supervisor Paul Cesarz to the Oak Creek Community Center, 8580 S. Howell Ave., tomorrow night (March 26) at 6:30 pm.

If I were as smart as Kevin Fischer…

by @ 19:17. Filed under Politics - Oak Creek.

…I would have offered this place up to the various candidates in Oak Creek like he did for Franklin’s candidates.

I guess that’s the difference between Oak Creek and Franklin; the latter has a very vibrant local blogosphere, while the concept never really took off in Oak Creek. I probably deserve a heap of blame for that; I declined an early offer to be one of the “Community Bloggers”, and I don’t do a lot of local focus here (I think that’s related).

Re: Does Unity Trump Policy?

Carol Platt Liebau asks the question after Robin Toner of the New York Times openly wishes the populace has moved far enough to the left that Barack Obama could claim to be a “uniter” without abandoning any of his ultra-liberal roots. Short answer, “Hell no!”

I would be remiss if I didn’t take a whack or two at the pinata that is Toner’s screed. First, she places all the blame on Republicans. I have to question whether she doesn’t remember the mock funerals the House ‘Rats gave each and every Reagan budget or whether she considers that “good, clean, bipartisan fun”. How about the judicial filibusters, Toner?

Second, while she notes Bill Clinton claimed to be a uniter in 1992, I notice absolutely no reference to George W. Bush’s “I’m a uniter, not a divider” line in the 2000 campaign. I guess nothing short of unconditional surrender from Republicans is good enough for Toner, especially since Bush came pretty close to that and he got nothing but hate from the oh-so-tolerant Left.

And now, some good news (at least if you don’t live in Kenosha)

by @ 17:38. Filed under Politics - Wisconsin.

(H/T – Brian Fraley)

Assembly Minority Leader James Kreuser (D-Kenosha) will run for Kenosha County Executive in a special June election, and said that, if he wins, he will run for re-election to that office instead of his Assembly seat. Since he was the odds-on favorite to become the third-most-powerful non-judicial politician in Wisconsin (Assembly speaker) if the ‘Rats get a net of at least 3 seats in November, Brian says it’s safe to say that the Democratic Party of Wisconsin isn’t confident that Hillbama will have coattails that extend all the way down to Assembly races. One can dream that there is not any coattails, but that the 3-year-old conventional wisdom is completely wet.

“Sacrifice” says Obama – Do as I say, not as I don’t!

by @ 17:32. Filed under Miscellaneous.

Toledo Blade:

"The question is at what point are we willing to get together and understand that doing many of these things are hard, that it’s going to require sacrifice from those of us who are lucky in this society to pay a little more in taxes, or to, if we’re going to drive a Suburban, then you know there may be a disincentive to doing it, and that’s where leadership comes in,"   Barack Obama February, 2008

Barack Obama wants us to sacrifice. His vision will “require” sacrifice. How long do you suppose Barck has had this vision for sacrifice?

Bloomberg reports information from Obama’s 2000 to 2006 tax returns.

March 25 (Bloomberg) — Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama and his wife Michelle gave $10,772 of the $1.2 million they earned from 2000 through 2004 to charities, or less than 1 percent, according to tax returns for those years released today by his campaign.

The Obamas increased the amount they gave to charity when their income rose in 2005 and 2006 after the Illinois senator published a bestselling book. The $137,622 they gave over those two years amounted to more than 5 percent of their $2.6 million income.

Let me see if I have this right……Obama, the man who calls us to “sacrifice,” and his wife, earned an average of $240,000 each year for the first 5 year period. During that same period, according to their spokesman: …”giving $10,000 to charity was as generous as they could be at the time.”

Let’s break this down:

$240,000/year earned, 2,154/year donated
$20,000/month earned, $180/month donated
$657/day earned, $6/day donated.

Do you think you could manage donating more than the value of 2 cups of Starbucks each day if you made $240,000 each year?

Don’t give me garbage saying either, “he’s up to 5% now,” or, “the national average is only 2.2%.”

Crap!

Obama is willing to be charitable with my income and expect my family’s “sacrifice” but not his own!  

Another situation where Obama’s words are “just words” as his own actions don’t bear out his own expectation!

Now that’s Audacity of Hope!

Here we go again

by @ 17:24. Filed under Weather.

The Winter That Won’t Die™ is taking aim at us here in the land of cheese and beer again. Yes, we dodged a bullet overnight, when it was a bit warmer than anticipated and the moisture for the most part missed the bunker and the measuring sticks at Mitchell, but the National Weather Service is calling for at least 6 inches of snow Thursday (note; the link is highly dynamic, and the forecast is valid at the time listed at the bottom of this post), with an unspecified higher amount near the lake. The bad news; the bunker and the measuring sticks are in the traditional lake-effect belt, and we only need 11.8 inches to bust the record. The ugly; it’s going to be another wet, heavy snow.

I suppose the good news, such as it is, is I’m seeing bare spots outside the bunker. Of course, that isn’t good news for those along rivers. Further (and actual) react is banished to Page 2 for the reason of excessive vulgarities.

“Thank” you, Envirowhackos

by @ 17:12. Filed under Envirowhackos.

(H/T – Kate)

Investor’s Business Daily nails the reason for out-of-control fuel prices ($3.20+/gallon for unleaded, $4/gallon for diesel here in the land of cheese and beer):

With demand rising, prices must move up. If they don’t, shortages will follow. Unless, of course, supply is increased.

In the case of oil, though, this isn’t happening.

Naturally, the oil industry is blamed. The popular complaint is that it is holding back because of greed. But the problem is due to government policy, both here and abroad….

As we have noted before, nine of every 10 barrels of crude reserves are either owned by a government or are under the authority of state-controlled companies. Poor policy decisions have made sure that supply has not been able to keep pace with demand.

In the U.S., a Congress cowed by hysterical special interests has refused to allow the development of a rich oil field in Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. It has similarly forbidden the harvesting of crude from fertile fields off of our coasts.

We watch helplessly while prices at the pump reach $4 point in the priciest U.S. markets and as much as 131 billion barrels of oil remain off-limits beneath our soil and our waters. Even the prospect of that oil hitting the world market would hit crude prices hard. Imagine what its actual arrival on the market would do.

But as long as the governments that run OPEC can be sure there are no plans for the U.S. to allow development in those fields, they can continue to limit production and keep prices high.

Roy Innis testified about this last week, and really blasted the envirowhackos. Thank you for bringing him to Wisconsin, Mark.

Oops!

by @ 15:51. Filed under Miscellaneous.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. military mistakenly shipped four fuses for nuclear missiles to Taiwan in 2006 and never caught the error, the Pentagon said on Tuesday, acknowledging an incident likely to rile China.The military was supposed to ship helicopter batteries to Taiwan, but instead sent fuses used as part of the trigger mechanism on Minuteman missiles. Taiwan returned the parts to U.S. custody last week.

I’ve got so many questions on this…

Do you think Taiwan had to call ahead to get a return authorization request for the fuses?

2 years. Do they still get a refund? Did they still have the receipt?

Based on the information now known, the four fuses, which do not resemble helicopter batteries,

Really? They don’t look alike? Who’d a thunk?

How long did they tried to install the the part labeled “battery” before they realized it didn’t look like the one they took out?

I’ve gotten plenty of stuff made in Taiwan that had instructions that, well…. let’s just say I can see how they could have confused a fuse for a battery.

Do you think the US military stores nuclear missile fuses in the same warehouse as helicopter batteries? I suppose it’s that whole hazardous waste thing.

The fuses, which send an electronic signal to the device that starts the nuclear weapon’s trigger process, are among a class of sensitive equipment that must be accounted for on a quarterly basis.

Walmart has figured out how to do their inventory accounting more frequently than once a quarter. Can someone send the area code for Bentonville, Arkansas to the Pentagon?

When Taiwan realized it had received the incorrect shipment, it notified the U.S. military. …But U.S. military officials did not understand the nature of the problem until last week.

What part of “Wrong part” do you think they were having trouble understanding?

Henry said there was no indication Taiwan tampered with the fuses before returning them.

Riiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiight!   Has anyone checked Ebay to see if the schematics are available yet?

Egg’s mandatory reads

by @ 11:29. Filed under Miscellaneous.

Since John Hawkins asked nicely, I may as well share my “must reads, even if hung over, sicker than a dog, and have but 5 minutes to catch up on the reading” blogs, in no particular order. For those I don’t list; don’t fret. I usually am not hung over, sicker than a dog, or short of time, so I’m reading all of those blogs that are on my bloated roll to your right:

Boots and Sabers – Owen is one of the elders of the Cheddarsphere. He and Jed have one of the most-active comment sections around; in fact, that’s where I really got introduced to the blogosphere.

DUmmie FUnnies – Let me put it this way; PJ-Comix and sometime contributor and parody writer extraordinaire Charles Henrickson got robbed in last year’s Weblog Awards. I usually catch this over on Free Republic, where most of the follow-on comments happen.

Mary Katharine Ham at TownHall – What can I say? HamNations, insightful commentary; in short, everything a blogger can aspire for. The bonus; she is as nice as can be.

RealDebateWisconsin – Fred has become a good friend. The establishment in Racine fears him.

Hot Air – If you need first-rate sarcasm (as opposed to the bulk-rate my best is), Allahpundit is your man. He delivers it all, including video everybody else misses (I’ve called him the blogosphere’s DVR more than once). Throw in Ed Morrissey, a few appearances here and there by the boss (Michelle Malkin), and the three-person site is better than most overloaded staffs around.

Sykes Writes – Charlie Sykes is the Blogfather of the Cheddarsphere. It helps he has a 50,000-watt microphone.

Sister Toldjah – Take out the video, add in love of the NFL, and see the summary for MKH.

Badger Blogger – Patrick is a relentless news hound whose header tag (“Covering Wisconsin the way the media won’t. Covering the media, the way they fear!”) rings true.

Ace of Spades HQ – I said it before, I’ll probably say it again; we morons are legion. Besides, what’s a run through the blogosphere without a few expletives?

The Campaign Spot – Jim Geraghty is a one-man political blogging machine. ‘Nuff said.

Blackfive – Even if it were just Uncle Jimbo there, I would be reading it every day. Matt (Blackfive Actual), Deebow, Laughing Wolf, and the rest just make it that much more compelling.

Michelle Malkin – There is a reason why she is a “who’s who”. She’s THAT GOOD.

Tom McMahon and 4-Block World – If you’re looking for it, Tom probably has it.

The American Mind – Sean Hackbarth is one of the originals, going all the way back to 1999.

The Asian Badger – Pilot, venture capitalist, man of adventure; men want to be him, women want to be with him.

TheWisconsinSportsBar – Yes, I’m a contributor to The Bar, but I don’t quite consider it self-promotion because I’m far from the best writer there, even on my supposed sport of expertise (NFL football). There are some serious baseball sharks there, and Badger hockey gets some well-deserved love.

It’s not quite John’s 40, but like I said, I’m usually not reduced to 5 minutes of reading while sick and hung over, so I’m reading a lot more than just this.

Crapweasel of the day

by @ 10:22. Filed under Compassionate Lieberals, War on Terror.

Uncle Jimbo, who is on the National Heroes Tour, has found some crapweasels in the greater Twin Cities area. The oh-so-tolerant left couldn’t abide a few veterans giving the youth at Forest Lake High School some positive words about the media, so they got linguini-spined principal Steve Massey to cancel the event because it was “too political”.

Too political, Massey? As Uncle Jimbo pointed out, the only ones making this political are the Gorons who cannot abide any positive message about the military being told to the skulls full of mush. Peter notes that The Corner found out it it was the DUmmies behind this. I’m shocked, SHOCKED.

One of the commenters on Michelle Malkin’s thread notes there are schools giving students extra credit if they go to anti-war rallies. It would be very interesting to find out if Forest Lake High School is one of those; something tells me it is.

Revisions/extensions (4:30 pm 3/25/2008) – A couple of extensions. First, a tip of the cap to Cory down in the comments for Dan Riehl’s little expose on Mr. Massey’s past. While it doesn’t definitely answer my suspicions on whether the school offered extra credit for protesting the war, it does reinforce my suspicions that he is a liberal crapweasel.

Related to that, one Eric Langless, a school board member there, has promised in Dan’s comments that he will look into this.

Finally, a bit of good old-fashioned student protest against the administration, conservative edition, comes to us from Powerline via Michelle Malkindozens of students walked out of school to see the rescheduled speech at the American Legion. Student Elijah Miller summed up the actions of the school, “My brother’s in the armed forces…it’s a slap in the face for people with family members in the armed forces.”

Roll bloat – Wocketing edition

by @ 9:59. Filed under The Blog.

No, that’s not a typo on my end, that’s JihadGene channeling Krazy Kim over at Great Reader. If you’re not going to be reading that, I have but one bit of adivce for you – When somebody gets the Uncle Jimbo Stamp of Approval, you best recognize. He (and I) don’t care if your rolls and readers are so overloaded it takes 3 hours to go through.

The Morning Scramble – 3/25/2008

by @ 6:47. Filed under The Morning Scramble.

I have to thank B4B for the inspiration for today’s song…

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DwqYsoDqbCQ[/youtube]

Blogs4Bauer has nuked Detroit.
– Staying in Detroit, Lawhawk (a B4B contributor), William Teach, Ed Morrissey, JammieWearingFool, Jon Ham, and Jim Hoft all play “Name That Politician’s Affiliation”.
Mesablue cooks. Mmmmmm, lamb.
– Crank up that CO2 machine; Ace says the ChiComs are the first to go in the event of out-of-control Gorebal Warming.
The Emperor answers a registered sex offender’s attempt to become mayor (I must put a content warning on this one).
Allahpundit notes DC is trying to grab all the guns it can before they’re slapped down by SCOTUS.
Fausta puts the hate on Skype phish.
Chris delivers an economics lesson.
James T. Harris compares a pair of preachers and finds a lot of changes in 13 years’ age difference.
Michelle Malkin is running a photo caption/PhotoShop contest.

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