No Runny Eggs

Once again, I’m late, and this time, without video. Owen explains why. So much for the free lunch music…

• Lawhawk proves once again that Gorebal “Warming” is all about permanently reducing the quality of American life, as the acolytes attack flat-screen TVs.
• Ed Driscoll found all of the anti-Obama statements on the Hillary Clinton website and YouTube channel have fallen into the memory hole. They’ll be back.
• Nick Schweitzer has a not-so-random thought or two on election fraud.
• Mondoreb found a letter from OPEC to Congress thanking them for not doing anything substantive to reduce our dependence on them, like drilling now.
• S. Weasel defines torture.

It’s Summerfest time, so I’ll be dipping into that lineup the next 11 days (I’ll probably throw something together for the weekends, which ought to be fun this weekend since I’ll be at the Meeting of the Morons)…

• Don’t forget; the From the Frontlines webathon begins at 3 pm today over on Ustream, Michelle Malkin’s place and Hot Air. Michelle wants the MM.com/HA.com regulars to (collectively) match Sean Hannity’s $15,000 donation. Since I’m one, I chose the “Goodies From Home Squad Pack”.
• I’m trying not to do too much Obamination today. However, there’s a couple of items I do have to note. Jim Geraghty found yet another Barack Obama statement with an expiration date, this time on the constitutionality of DC’s gun ban.
• Emperor Misha I and Mrs. M-ITT, Imperial Sniper present another Obamination Express Photoshop. I know, Jim told me that it could get overused, but this one is sooooo good.
• Wordsmith provides the photographic evidence of past character of Obama and John McCain. I’ve always been a believer in the past being an indication of future perforance.
• Remember that approval of the Indiana BP refinery from yesterday’s Scramble? Ace notes Obama doesn’t want the Canadian oil. Of course, Obama also would like higher gas prices…as long as government gets the additional money, so it fits.
• Plebian presents the McCain Cabinet.
• William Teach points out Nancy Pelosi LOVES the UN-Fairness Doctrine (the pic that’s part of the post may or may not be safe for work, but I like it).
• The Vintage One says, “Buy Mopar; they’re offering mobile wireless internet.” Don’t let me catch you surfing here while driving (if you can prove you’re a passenger, it’s all good, though).
• Russ delivers the Top Ten Probable Findings In The Heller Decision.
• Moron Pundit has a SCOTUS Haiku contest. I must stress that this one is NSFW, so click at your own discretion.
• Back to oil; Jim Hoft tells what a willingness to produce and sell oil will do for a country.
• I knew I forgot somebody. The Focusing Brad V has an idea on what to sell grain to OPEC for.

Allergies have knocked me flat, so I’m not in Manitowoc.

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• Charlie Sykes points to the topic of discussion in Manitowoc and La Crosse today; “Healthy” (and Depopulated) Wisconsin. The money quote - “If (the assumption that health care costs can be brought closer to wages) cannot be accomplished, given the assumptions put forth by the plan’s supporters themselves, the program will face a shortfall of between $4.79 billion and $10 billion by 2017. The tax rate on businesses will have to increase to 13.51% and on employees to 4.62% in order to keep the program solvent in just nine years.”
• The Vintage One remembers a couple of Communist traitors who received their just reward 55 years ago today.
• Samantha Sault begins the wrap-up the reaction to the growing calls to nationalize the oil industry. Allow me to continue with a few that weren’t on that list.
• Rick Moran whacks the Left like a good Sicilian.
• Shoebox really lets the cat out of the bag. As Paul Socha points out, “Communism is alive and well in the United States.”
• Owen caught the BBC practicing some bias. Incredibly, as a result of letting that cat out of the bag, the BBC changed their picture from Knut to an old James Bond movie set (or so says James Wigderson in the comments).
• GOPgal lists the members of the House who support (or at least claim to support) the proper solution; more drilling. Somebody needs to explain to Rep. Jim Sensenbrenner that the introduction of ANWR oil to the world market, even if it doesn’t make it to Wisconsin, will reduce prices just as much as if it does make it to Wisconsin.

  One more thing; where’s Paul Ryan? He’s usually smart on items like this.

• Purple Avenger warns that because we’re driving less, the gas tax is going to go up. After all, government can never live with only what they had last year.
• Headless Blogger has the new slogan for the corn crop. One thing; our “friends” at ADM (and thus in the governor’s mansion) want but one of those three choices.

Even though this is late, I managed to avoid all mentions of the Obamination. Where’s my cookie from Mike Huckabee? Oops, guess I just lost the cookie; I have the same answer to the Huckster as Matt Lewis and Fred Thompson (courtesy Ed Morrissey).

I wish the weather weren’t going to be changing for the worse, but you know what they say about sticking one hand under the wish fountain and the other under a faucet…

• Dad29 has the latest piece of evidence that Red China is not our friend; they’re hacking into the federally-owned computers used by Representatives that see through the facade.
• Ace and Slublog proudly present the Obamination High Ground-Clearance Bus SluShop.
• Jim Hoft dips into the memory vault to catch what Jimmy Carter said about Barack Obama before the Peanut Farmer endorsed the Bus Driver.
• Josh Schroeder came up with the perfect slogan regarding Obama - “Chance We Can’t Afford To Take”.
• Stephan Tawney caught Obama with yet another flip-flop. I wonder what his Appeasment-At-All-Costs base will do once they catch wind of this one, especially since they rejected Hillary Clinton as a Joanie-Come-Lately.
• Plebian introduces Candidate GPS.
• Mary (and Mark Belling) catch Gov. Jim Doyle golfing at his personal annual fundraiser yesterday as towns wash away and freeways are threatened. Doyle essentially treated the flood as an inconvenience, starting his day at the outing, bailing for a short while to hold a press conference, and then returning. No wonder why his full title here at NRE is Jim “Craps” Doyle (WEAC/Potawatomi-For Sale).
• Bruce thanks the last ‘Rat President for $4/gallon gas. That’s right, even the USA Today admits that ANWR oil would be flowing now if Bill Clinton hadn’t vetoed the authorization to drill back in 1995.
• Second dose of the Gateway Pundit; he notes that the gas-price protests in Europe have turned deadly. And yet the ‘Rats want to emulate the European level of taxation.

  One more thought on that; I guess it isn’t all the collapsed dollar’s fault that gas prices are high here.

• JammieWearingFool has some good news for those headed south of the border. From the halls of Montezuma….
• James T. Harris runs the Chicago carnage during National Bike to Work Week. 2 dead so far this week, 5 since October. That allows me to break out my favorite movie question, “Is it safe?”

So it’s a bit longer than the usual bare-bones Thursday. Don’t let that stop you from contributing.

It’s looking more like midnight out the windows of the bunker than morning, but let’s roll with it. Thanks to OdieO for suggesting today’s artist….

• Tom McMahon spins the jukebox for the Disco Dems.
• Gabriel Malor catches Barack Hussein Obama plagiarizing himself on the conviction of his friend and fundraiser Tony Rezko. There’s also a couple governors running scared.
• Owen gives a raspberry to Wisconsin’s profiles in courage, Russ el-Slimeroad (Moonbat-Al Qaeda) and Nobody’s Senator Herb Kohl, for waiting until AFTER BHO clinched the nomination to endorse him.
• Lawhawk delivers a history lesson to the last failed ‘Rat candidate.
• Fred catches the Racine ‘Rats at it again. For the newer readers here, Fred’s the guy who got the former Racine County Democratic chair ousted.
• Sean Hackbarth had a nice sit-down with my congresscritter, Paul Ryan, about John McCain’s chances. I can’t say that I agree with Ryan on conservatives coming home to roost with McCain. While we agree that 2008 is a potentially-”transformative election”, McCain is hardly the person that’s going to transform things in a conservative direction.
• Little Miss Sunshine highlights a roadway pet peeve of mine - drivers who all-but-stop when they see a deputy on the side of the road running radar/lidar.
• Luke breaks out Carnac to prove that most of the voters in northwest Wisconsin are getting it on taxes. I guess the aftermath of some of their number passing the largest school referendum in the history of the state (New Richmond’s $91 million one) shook them back to reality.
• I apologize for missing this the first time around, but gopfolk has the Gorebal Warming When You Should Die game. I’m proud to say I’m way overstaying my “welcome”, though I note that the average Aussie wouldn’t make it to my age either.

I somehow made it through the storm without a loss of power, which is good because I’m doing this on the soon-to-be-replaced desktop, and I don’t have a UPS.

If I were smart, I would’ve done this one last week…

• Jim Hoft has the terror stats you won’t see trumpeted in the media.
• Zip follows up on the Germans-let-Taliban-commander-walk story. Guess feeding the crocodiles is hazardous to one’s health.
• Mike asks, “Who is to blame for high gas prices?”
• Shoebox answers. Pay attention, Sen. McCain; he’s talking about you.
• Speaking of McCain, Michelle Malkin notes his campaign is sponsoring comment spam. A healthy chunk of my roll is on the hit list, but I’m not. Could I be THAT mercurial? (Yes.)
• Ace remembered the last candidate to do that. Guess the McCainiacs and the PaulNuts have more in common than I thought.
• Ed Morrissey caught the New York Times violating their ethics policy in trying to roll the McCain campaign. Note; this message, while it may seem to be paid for by the McCain campaign, most certainly isn’t.
• More Ed; he urges House Republicans to take the third and final chance to kill the Farm Pork Bill.
• Still on pork, Kate catches Harry Reid giving a wet sloppy French kiss to Planned Parenthood while using the war supplemental bill as cover.
• Jon Ham has a multitude of reasons to eat popcorn while the oh-so-tolerant Left eats their own. UUUURRRPPP!!!!! (Excuse me.)

As a reminder, I’ll be gone for a week starting Saturday on my Great Canadian Walleye Hunt. Shoebox is back from his fishing trip, and I should have the usual guest-blogging crew in.

The forecast as I type this (Wednesday night) doesn’t look promising for the original plan for baseball-then-dinner. Worse, I’ve already paid for the ticket. At least there’s a bit of good news; Favazza’s has a lunch menu, and the hour-by-hour forecast suggests it should start breaking up by 6. With that, I’ll still take the Flatland driving tips from Max and friends…

• Slublog has an open letter to the national GOP; one that I’m likely going to be delivering on my own to the Wisconsin GOP.
• Jim Hoft has a link to a pretty good start to the platform for GOP 2.0. I wonder if I could sell that to the delegates Friday.
• Bonus Slu - he notes some of the Pubbie members of the bipartisan Party-In-Government are in denial. For a moment, I thought he was talking about Assembly Speaker Mike Huebsch and my formerly-reliable Leggie Mark Honadel.
• John Campbell is one Pubbie who gets it on the Farm Pork Bill. Incredibly, 5 of the 8 members of the Wisconsin delegation (all 3 Pubbies plus Ron Kind and Gwen Moore) also got it.
• Nick Schweitzer has good news for fans of fine food in Chicago; they’ve lifted the foie gras ban.
• Brian sums up the ‘Rat tax policy - “They won’t miss it.” After all, the Left believes that all money is government’s.
• JammieWearingFool proposes a code of conduct for the media. They won’t do it.

By the time you see this, I’ll be on the road. I may or may not update the Twitter, but that’ll be about the only way to get a hold of me (unless I decide different).

It’s Thursday; you know what that means…

- In case you missed doubleplusundead’s and Ace’s call, Stashiu needs your help to keep his adopted daughters. The lawyer he trusted to file the proper paperwork way back when didn’t exactly do so, and ICE is giving him a hard time.
- Sister Toldjah is looking for a new host. If you have any suggestions, please let her know (if her blog is down and you don’t have her e-mail, you can leave it here and I’ll make sure she gets it).
- Matt Lewis says, “Bloggers matter.” Allahpundit may disagree, but it’s kind of hard to argue with Matt Naugle and The Hammer.
- Speaking of AP, he’s yelling, “COBRAMA!”
- Jib has some timely advice for Brewer fans. It’s getting ugly, and June’s coming up real quick. I don’t have a link, but Jeff Wagner remembered that it wasn’t until June 1982 that Harvey Kuenn took over for the Brew Crew, and that team came within a game of winning a World Series. Hint to Doug Melvin - “Fire Yost now and beat the rush.”
- Tom McMahon takes up the cause of Minnie Minoso.
- Owen notes the motto in Jim “Craps” Doyle’s (WEAC/Potawatomi-For Sale) administration is, “Don’t worry about what we’re telling the presstitutes; take those junkets.”
- Ed Driscoll has the post title of the day - “Arise, Sir Loin of Beef!” Barack Obama does make a perfect Sheriff of Nottingham, but I don’t see a Bugs Bunny anywhere, much less in Rockefeller Center.
- Pejman Yousefzadeh has the runner-up - “Meet The New Boss”. Looks like the Sovi…er, Russians are getting fooled again.

If it’s Thursday,….

- Fausta remembers today is Holocaust Rememberance Day.
- S. Weasel delivers yet another stunning WeaselShop. Nice hat, Barack.
- Rick Esenberg, among others, asks whether Obama’s grandmother is next to go under the disowning bus. I do believe she was already run over once this campaign season.
- Allahpundit has Hillary Clinton’s GHWB Memorial Clueless About Technology Moment. Remember, while the current target is Obama, we do have to keep an eye on Clinton lest she slip into our six.
- Following up on something from yesterday’s Scramble, Dad29 cheers a rather unequivocable counterattack on corn-a-hole Jim Sensenbrenner is co-sponsoring. I’ll have to double-check the co-sponsors of that bill to see if my Congresscritter is on board; the list wasn’t updated beyond the 4 sponsors that signed on Tuesday as of Wednesday afternoon.
- Beth puts the hate on Google drive-by trolls. Hopefully this will bring her some higher-quality traffic (of course, in terms of steering power, I’m like a feather put behind the Queen Elizabeth II).
- Silent E delivers an eulogy for common sense.

It’s Open Thread Thursday, so this thread’s yours after some blues and a couple links:

- Allahpundit and Michelle Malkin offer up diverging predictions on the LeftStreamMedia reaction to one of their own getting pied. Those who know me already know which one I believe.
- Justin Higgins saw LeftStreamMedia bias up close and personal.
- James Wigderson highlights a blog fight between a professional political type and a neophyte. Normally, I wouldn’t note this because I am a neophyte myself, but it’s worth another couple bags of popcorn (besides, I know and trust the pro).
- In a show of bipartisanship, Greg Kowalski and Kevin Fischer whack the new name of the 27th Street Corridor redevelopment that the Oak Creek and Franklin Common Councils approved (in executive sessions at the request of the Zizzo Group) - BOOMGAARD. Question for the audience (especially the Moronbloggers); does that sound more like a tribute to the 3 apple orchards that used to be on 27th (that’s Dutch for “apple”) or an ordnance range? My little contribution to that (beyond the executive session); while it flew through the Franklin Common Council unopposed, it took Hizzoner Dick “Borrow-and-Spend” Bolender to break the tie in Oak Creek.

With that, I’m going to enjoy at least the morning and start praying The Winter That Won’t Die™ stays dead. The “S” word is in the forecast for Sunday night.

After last night’s debate, there is just one song that describes what I was drinking. Of course, there was a question of which version to use, so Shoebox chose it…

I’m still unloading the overloaded feed reader, but don’t let the size of the link list fool you. It’s Open Thread Thursday, so I’m counting on you, the not-so-gentle reader, to fill in the many blanks.

- Lawhawk notes wannabe ‘Rat candidate for Senate from Minnesota Al Franken neglected to file or pay California corporate income taxes for a corporation based in California he controls between 2003 and 2007. No wonder why the ‘Rats want to raise your taxes; you have to cover for their failures to pay them.
- Kate asks whether any of the three major candidates for President have a statement about plans to turn this into the United Commonwealth of Mexico. We know El Jefe Jorge approves of this.
- Jim Hoft has the obligatory bad-wig Leave Barack Alone video. Er, no; all of the Three Stooges provide too many targets to leave this environment.
- With a tip of the hat to Amanda Carpenter, Hawk delivers a near-doubling of Baskin Robbins flavors of Obama’s lies.
- Jon Ham notes it’s bloggers like Bob Owens of Confederate Yankee that are doing the jobs the media used to do. In this case, Owens discovered that the American Hunters and Shooters Association, which endorsed Obama, isn’t exactly supportive of the Second Amendment.
- On the media front, spiritofpublicus has a couple examples of ignorance in the press.
- Speaking of endorsements, American Pundit notes the Peanut Farmer-approved Hamas political party terrorist organization has made theirs. I’m shocked, SHOCKED they would endorse Barack Hussein Obama.
- J. Gravelle has the Obama/Swimmer Photoshop of the day.
- Jim Geraghty sees the same trend that happened in Ohio developing in Pennsylvania. As long as nobody cries “Uncle!” until Denver, we’re golden.
- PJ-Comix does a killer job skewering the DUmmies’ cry of foul after the silver spoon bullies discovered velvet gloves can also slap them upside the head.
- Kevin Fischer answers why Scott Walker took 79% of the vote in Franklin in the Milwaukee County Executive election (and 77%+ in Oak Creek). Somebody might want to clue the ‘Rats in (no seriously, if they’re going to be taking power, they may as well have a clue on what tax policy really means).
- Bruce asks, “What’s wrong with this picture?” Recent public school graduates need not attempt to answer; they’re likely to embarrass themselves about as much as the school district in question.
- Trail-Mix has a double-dose of toon action.
- Michael answers the burning question of each flu season, “Why does every flu epidemic start in Asia?” Of course, it doesn’t explain why it ends in South America.
- Mary Katharine Ham rolls a video on why both the flat-taxers and the fair-taxers hate the tax code, and asks that we all just get along.
- Peter is hurting, mostly because of the last round of Gorebal Warming here in southeast Wisconsin.
- In case you either stumbled directly here or got here on the TownHall version, Shoebox compares Disney World to life.

I don’t know what’s more unbelievable, the fact I remembered Open Thread Thursday 5 weeks in a row (don’t disappoint me now) or I didn’t take a shot at Old Crusty (oops, I guess I just did).

I probably should’ve declared an open thread yesterday since I was pretty much out of it all day. Oh well, it’s Thursday, so have at it.

- LCBrendan revisits the Battle of Trafalgar through the lens of 2008.
- SteveF notes I’m about to become a “protected class”. Guess it is time to go on that diet because I have a strict policy regarding “protected classes”.
- David Freddoso asks, “Worst economy evah?” Only in the world of the ‘Rat.
- Mondoreb does gas cartoons.
- James T. Harris says the O Effect should really be the ZerO Boomerang Effect.
- Jim Geraghty saw through the Obama doubletalk on campaign finances.
- Beware, DC; Slublog is coming to town. Yes, I really don’t have much left in the tank, and Shoebox is visiting the Mouse, so I’m counting on you to fill in the blanks.

I doubt I’ll be doing much blogging today because it already is a bad day. Good thing it’s Open Thread Thursday…

- Dagney Taggert is having second thoughts about propping up Hillary. I’m not; the popcorn concessions are through the roof.
- Plebian looks into the intelligence level of the average Moronblog.
- Fausta asks, “What would ‘Rats do without rats?”
- Jim Hoft discovers some Absolut Bravo Sierra. And who said Swedes are neutral?
- Just A Grunt notes Boeing is good enough for Iraq. But, but, but I thought Iraq was dysfunctional and Boeing was corrupt.
- Charlie Sykes, Dean Mundy, Paul Socha, and Brian Fraley (yes, that’s 4 posts from Brian) all note the temper tantrums from the Left because they couldn’t rig the elections this past Tuesday. It wasn’t for a lack of trying on the Left’s part.

It’s definitely the same old, same old.

Since I remembered it’s Thursday, I’m depending on you to catch what I missed. Some of what I didn’t miss:

- Allahpundit goes straight to the crapapult.
- Fausta thanks Venezuelan President Dictator Hugo Chavez for opening his pie hole.
- I know, Bud Selig decided to start the baseball season overseas before spring training was done, but Plebian previews the season in movies. I strongly object to his shock that we play baseball here in the land of ice cream and ice-brewed beer, but it’s a fine list anyway.
- Phelony Jones became the latest victim in the liberal scam of making the cost of energy unaffordable.
- Ace delivers a two-fer; very-raw (no, not the usual AoSHQ nor the usual press meaning) video of Hillary’s Bosnia junket and a Slu-shop. Neither is really recommended for those with weak stomachs.

I really need to thank Mary Katharine Ham for putting music in her linkage posts. Mea culpa maxima for not tipping my hat yesterday.

It’s spring, so it’s flood season (at least if you’re not in Wisconsin, where we’re getting more snow starting tonight). That means it’s time for some blues while you pop through the abbreviated linkage here and hopefully provide some things I miss on a regular basis in the comments.

- I’ll be on this one in more detail in a bit, but Jon Ham points out why the Kelo decision was so bad.
- Eric doesn’t care about CAIR.
- Todd Lohenry talks change.
- The Emperor has the Smackdown of the Day™.
- Jim Lynch reports there is some sanity left in Philadelphia. Hey AB, next time you and the Big Pilot decide to do a $100 lunch at Geno’s, let me know.
- Rusty says the latest M-m-m-m-m-max bin Laden audiotape is more evidence Osama is dead. Since M-m-m-m-max bitched about the Mohammed cartoons, it’s time to put them back up…

There’s a lot more out there, but it’s time to do some bracketology. That mozzarella doesn’t bounce by itself, you know.

Let’s see some chatter out there; Shoebox can’t do it all himself :-)

Who knew putting up a couple of videos would really drive up the traffic? According to StatCounter:

- Something over 200 of the last 400 or so visitors (they track the last 500 page hits) popped in from Boots and Sabers.
- 172 of you viewed my mini-album of the rally, even though for space’s sake I put it below the fold.
- UJ (or somebody else at the Isthmus) gave me some link love. Thank you.

However you got here, welcome to the party. I’ve got some things I’m working up, but until then, consider this your Open Thread Thursday thread.

Back from an exclusive 3-year tour of Europe, Scandinavia, and the Subcontinent, from Oak Creek, Wisconsin, it’s Open Thread Thursday. All the liquor got sucked up at Hot Air yesterday, but I’ll make a beer run by the afternoon.

Sorry I didn’t have anything yesterday; just didn’t have the energy.

So, have at it. I have some things in the hopper, but don’t let that stop you.

Well, at least it’s the first thing appearing here today. I do have a couple things in the hopper, but they can wait.

Before I forget, Fred’s opening up the Cheddarsphere fantasy football league. The silly rabbit thinks he’s going to repeat. He don’t know me or my history of fantasy leagues very well; I am the exception that proves the theory of the sophomore slump.

…it’s time for Open Thread Thursday. I do have some stuff I’m working on, but I haven’t been able to finish anything.

Yeah, today’s almost over, and yeah, I blew it last week, and yeah, nobody contributes, but don’t let that stop you.

Seeing I’ll be at the track today and tomorrow, I won’t be here. Post away; I don’t have enough comments ;-)

Today is Flag Day, so fly those American flags high and proud. It’s also Thursday, so let’s get some chatter here.

Still waiting for the first comment on one of these, but with more people and commenters, one of these weeks this thing will take off.

Don’t forget about Drinking Right. The intrepid founder, Casper, may have taken a sabbatical from blogging, but that isn’t stopping the drinking because that’s what it’s all about. Be at Papa’s Social Club (7718 W Burleigh in Milwaukee) on June 12th about 7.