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 3rd, 2010

Number of the day – $100,005

by @ 17:29. Filed under Education, Politics - Milwaukee.

The MacIver News Service reports on the average compensation at Milwaukee Public Schools:

2009-2010 school year (aka FY2010) – $56,500 in salary, $95,316 including benefits
2010-2011 school year – $56,500 in salary, $100,005 including benefits (or a 4.92% increase overall)

Meanwhile, according to the Census Bureau, the median per-capita income between 2006 and 2008 in the city was $19,092, with the median family income $42,950. I doubt the average resident in the private sector had $40,000 in benefits to boost their total compensation, or the equivalent of 12 weeks of vacation.

Californication of the House continues – Stark in for Rangel – UPDATE – Levin in for Stark

by @ 13:30. Filed under Politics - National.

Fox News is reporting that while Rep. Charlie Rangel (D-NY) takes a “leave of absence” from his House Ways and Means Committee chairmanship to rehab his image (actually, wait for the ethics clock to run out), Pete Stark (D-CA), who was “cleared” by the same “Ethics” Committee for essentially the same charges, will take over for him.

Fox notes that places Californians at the head of all three of the committees that will deal with PlaceboCare 4.1 (the aforementioned Stark “temporarily” heading Ways and Means, Henry Waxman running Energy and Commerce, and George Miller running Education and Labor), as well as a fourth major committee (Howard Berman running Foreign Affairs), and said “Ethics” Committee (Zoe Lofgren).

Guess it’s time to to dip into the video vault…

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

Revisions/extensions (7:37 pm 3/3/2010) – Roger L. Simon lists just some of the lowlights of Stark’s raving madness. As Simon says, “Do these Democrats have a death wish? Have they gone completely bonkers? Or did Nancy Pelosi’s plastic surgeon misfire and accidentally inject the Botox into her brain?”

R&E part 2 (2:35 pm 3/5/2010) – It’s now Rangel ally Sander Levin “in charge”. As Ed notes, it’s actually SanFranNan and Chris Van Hollen that run Ways and Means.

First partisan endorsement of 2010 – Dave Thompson for MN-36

by @ 11:47. Filed under Politics - Minnesota.

For those of you around the Twin Cities who don’t know who Dave Thompson is, I’ll point you to the bio page for his State Senate campaign. Dave won the Republican endorsement for District 36, where Sen. Pat Pariseau is retiring, last week. He is solid on the issues, from taxes to school choice.

I’m sure Shoebox can, and will, provide a better rundown than I can. Good luck Dave, and may we be calling you Sen. Thompson this time next year.

Sorry about the lack of posts (again)

by @ 11:22. Filed under The Blog.

I’ve been under the weather the last couple days, and Shoebox is doing a rather long commute. Guess we should’ve called in the clans, especially since Erick Erickson decided to make the latest Obama video one of his must-reads of yesterday over at RedState.

Let’s see if I can get back in the swing of things. After all, we have the Doomsday Device being readied for detonation to pass PlaceboCare version 4.1, news that the federal entitlement spending has exceeded the total individual tax take, an attempt to extend unemployment another 9 or so months on top of the 18 months it’s already been extended, a call for $7/gallon gas, and a host of other items in my feed reader.

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