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 August 19th, 2008

The Morni…er, Afternoon Scramble – 8/19/2008

by @ 17:58. Filed under The Morning Scramble.

I may be late, but there’s a reason for it; a lot of good stuff over the morning through mid-afternoon period today….

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  • JammieWearingFool wonders which “god” Nancy Pelosi thinks sent Barack Obama. Baal comes to mind.
  • Bonus “blessing” – Jim Hoft found an apparition on a grilled cheese sandwich.
  • Patrick McIlheran has the 4-letter answer (yes, it is safe for work; after all, P-Mac is the token conservative at the local paint-catcher).
  • Mary is trying to marry off Russ el-Feingold (Moonbat-Al Qaeda) to the Obamination ticket. Please, Barry; take him off our hands.
  • Dad29 exposes yet another Obamination Lie – campaign ethics reform. I think I had this back in the day (I’m too lazy to go through the archives right now), but it’s a good day to bring this back.
  • Lance Burri sees some shenanigans in the plan to seat Michigan’s and Florida’s full delegations. CHAOS, baby!
  • Van Helsing is pondering what I’m pondering; a T-H100 invasion of Denver. I say again, CHAOS, baby!
  • Michelle Malkin puts Obama in the Cone of FAIL.
  • Curt takes a WSJ chainsaw to Obama’s tax plan.
  • Brian Faughnan goes into the memory hole to prove Obama is dreaming of CubaCare. There’s no word yet on what will be traded away for medical equipment in year 7 of an Obamination administration.
  • Jim Hoft details Obama’s appearance before the VFW Convention. Obama was right when he said he didn’t change on Iraq; he’s still four-score for retreat and defeat.
  • Trail-Mix boldly predicts an Epic FAIL for Obama come November.
  • Matt Lewis has early news of a poll surprise. Allow me to plant another CHAOS seed.
  • RightwingSparkle found the mate of T-H100 praising John McCain. Let the CHAOS grow.
  • David Limbaugh states the obvious; a pro-abortion VP will be suicide for McCain and the RNC. Given the actions of both entities, I have this sinking feeling that this will be the “one step back” to pair with the post-DNC VP announcement.
  • The Vintage one has some good news regarding Joe Lieberman’s chances at being McCain’s running mate; the clock ran out on him 7/5.
  • Zip caught the ‘Rats turning the flag upside down and backwards on their credentials.
  • Fausta reports Google will be courting bloggers at both conventions.
  • Christian Schneider found the “one nation” the ‘Rats were refering to as their Day 1 theme – the People’s Republic of Delusion.
  • Patrick Ruffini has a winning plan for the GOP.
  • Even more Jim Hoft goodness – he exposes what The News Organization That Cannot Be Quoted™ thinks about Algore Goracle’s running mate from 2000. No wonder why they don’t like to be quoted.
  • The Game summarizes the last few months of Name That Party.
  • Van Helsing blows out the candle of the latest envirowhacko “crisis” – oxygen depletion.
  • J. Gravelle exposes the utter hypocrisy of the windmill envirowhackos. Those ugly turbines don’t mean a thing if they’re not hooked up to the grid.
  • XBradTC presents the Cliff’s Notes version of combined arms.
  • Eric explores life after Pakistani ex-President Pervez Musharraf.
  • Duncan Hunter mourns the impending loss of Pakistan as a semi-ally, and offers what should happen now on the Afghan/Pakistan border.
  • Bill Quick rides the growing Russian bear, whose growth is approved by the Europeans.
  • Laughing Wolf offers the most-expansive view on the Georgian/Russian mess I’ve seen, including a righteous beatdown of SecDef Appeasment Gates.
  • Michelle Malkin offers today’s episode of the Culture of Badassery (™, MKH), 85-year-old grandma edition. There’s nothing like making the perp dial 911.
  • Christian Schneider wonders where all the statues to real people have gone. Well, I don’t mind a statue honoring a clown-crushing elephant.
  • Day-late history lesson – Tom McMahon proves that, even in a barbaric environment, public outcry sometimes gets limited results.
  • Grumps and Pete Fanning have a problem with the folks at the Governor’s Mansion flying the flag at night without lights.
  • Phelony Jones has a word of warning for the bikers headed into town for the 105th Reunion – watch out for the potholes. After all, the governments have been spending the money meant for the roads just about everywhere except on the roads.
  • John and Sanger explain the basic difference between Americans (at least a shrinking majority of Americans) and the rest of the world. It’s all about blood-based micro-ethnicity.
  • Since I tortured you with that T-H100 pic, I’ll throw this palete-cleanser in for free – Chris the head barkeep put up a file photo of T-CC100 Sabathia. Let’s see; 8-0 for the Crew, 5 complete games, .571 OPS at the plate (the Astros made the mistake of walking Jason Kendall to get to him last night) – yep, he’s a Terminator; and I hope Mark Attanasio has the money to sign him for next season.

It’s still afternoon, if only barely. Guess this means I’m really back.

Drill Here, Drill Now Tuesdays – 8/19/2008

by @ 16:49. Filed under Energy.

This idea was started by Jessi at Wake Up America. It will appear here every Tuesday (whether I’m here or not; the only difference is I won’t be able to update the current gas price while on vacation) until Congress wakes up and allows a lot more domestic drilling (I’m not talking about just ANWR, or just off the Florida coast where Cuba, Red China and Brazil are preparing to drink our milkshake, or just the shale fields in the Rockies).

My Gas Price (south suburban Milwaukee County, Wisconsin): $3.829 (same station as 2 weeks ago, only they gave up on the cash discount)

America needs to drill here drill now. America is having a energy crisis, and we need to do something now!

Urge Congress to pass a bill to drill in America, where the United States has vast oil and gas resources onshore and offshore that are currently illegal to develop and therefore inaccessible.

U.S. law prohibits the development of approximately 38 billion barrels of undeveloped oil resources (19 billion barrels onshore and 18.92 billion offshore).

U.S. law prohibits the development of approximately 180 trillion cubic feet of undeveloped natural gas resources (94.5 trillion cubic feet onshore and 85.7 trillion cubic feet offshore).

Also…

CONGRESS RECENTLY VOTED TO MAKE IT ILLEGAL TO DEVELOP U.S. OIL SHALE RESOURCES

With oil prices at an all-time high, Americans are facing escalating gas, diesel, and aircraft fuel increases. Oil prices are projected to increase further.

Congress, however, has made it illegal to develop vast domestic oil resources in large parts of the United States.

The most startling Congressional prohibition on domestic oil production concerns the recently enacted ban on the development of oil shale resources in parts of Colorado, Utah, and Wyoming in the Green River Formation. According to a Rand Study estimate, this reserve contains over one trillion barrels of oil, with 800 billion barrels fully recoverable, or three times the current oil reserves as Saudi Arabia.

If you haven’t already done so, first sign the petition to call for more drilling, then sign the one to get Congress back to DC so they can allow more drilling faster.

It’s All Fun and Games Until Someone Dies!

by @ 5:46. Filed under Energy.

Barack Obama and his ilk think the way to solve our energy problems are to increase the pressure in our tires and  demand higher fuel efficiency in cars.   Included in this strategy conserving our way to energy independence would be using vehicles that are smaller, lighter, maybe single passenger…..like a motorcycle.

Monday’s Star and Tribune  puts a bit of a wrinkle into Obama’s energy plan.   Just a few weeks back  the greenies were trumpeting that car deaths were down as a result of higher gas prices. Now we’re hearing that motorcycle deaths are up in Minnesota because….more people are riding them because of high gas prices!

Sales are GRRRRRRREAT!

“Ours [sales] will double from last year,” said Hedstrom, owner of Scooterville Minnesota, a small-bike dealership at Cedar Avenue and Interstate 94 in Minneapolis.

But the consequences aren’t

Motorcycle fatalities hit a low of 2,116 nationwide in 1997. Since, they have risen 128 percent. Their share of crash fatalities has jumped to almost 13 percent from 5 percent.

Admittedly, the information is only through 2007 and while gas prices did spike over $3 a couple of times last year, it didn’t take it’s permanent place until the spring. Additionally, the article is focused on us “lost youth” guys for the increase of motorcycles.

That all said, if “conserving our way to energy independence” is the strategy, you can bet there will  be more and more motorcyles being ridden by young and old alike. With deaths per 100 accidents nearly 8X that for motorcycles over all other vehicles, well, that’s a trend that’s going in the wrong direction.

How long before we’ll hear cries for increased crash survivability standards for motorcycles?

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