No Runny Eggs

I’m still down with a cold, but I need to throw something up here…

• Tom McMahon explains why Wisconsin governor Jim “Craps” Doyle (WEAC/HoChunk-For Sale) hasn’t been offered a Cabinet post.
• Elizabeth Crum wonders whether there are 10 good people to fill 15 Cabinet positions. Maybe a dose of fire and brimstone will warm DC up.
• Nate Beeler channels Lt. Frank Drebin, Police Squad. “There is (BOOM!) nothing to see here. (BAM!) Please (WHOOSH!) disperse (KABLAM!).”
• Elliot found the presstitutes are still doing their halo thing.
• Bill Quick caught one of their number taking it a leap too far (literally).
• Confederate Yankee reports The News Organization That Cannot Be Quoted (Or Photographed)™ wants its pound of flesh from the guy who Che-ified Barack Hussein Obama. I’ll bet they’re just mad that they didn’t think to do that themselves.
• Dicentra caught High Priest Algore Goracle trying to recreate the Octoberists and Young Pioneers. I wonder how long before stukach becomes part of the American lexicon.
• Jim Hoft caught the Obama administration kowtowing to OPEC by shutting down the spigots in Utah. Don’t forget, Obama was only dismayed that $4.50/gallon gas came so suddenly.
• Ed Morrissey caught probably the last Kennedy to hold office threatening the future of edible pork. He can have my honey-baked ham sandwich if he can pry it from my cold, dead fingers (first, he’d have to figure out a way to make those fingers cold and dead).
• On to the inedible pork – Michelle Malkin reports the next in line for the teat are auto parts suppliers to the tune of $20.5 billion.
• Kristina Rasmussen runs the numbers on the pork-filled Generational Theft Act of 2009, and proves that we’re well above the 1% pork level. What’s left unsaid is it’s somewhere north of 50% liberal wish list.
• Kevin Binversie finds some “blue-dog-on-red-diaper” violence going on in the House. That’s right; the Blue Dogs want the “regular” process of moving legislation restored. Maybe if they hadn’t caucused with SanFranNan,….
• Yankee Sailor asks whether the economy is our #1 security problem.
• Charles Johnson found former Vice President Dick Cheney worried that we will suffer a WMD terrorist attack in the next 4-8 years. Put money on it.
• Lawhawk finds the UN shocked, SHOCKED that Hamas would be stealing its humanitarian supplies.
• JihadGene penned a love song from SanFranNan to Krazy Kim.
• Is NOTHING sacred in Hollywood?, Part I – Ace bleeds over the pending reboot of “Predator”. I believe Blain Cooper has the perfect description of the rewriters.
• Is NOTHING sacred in Hollywood?, Part II – Ace reports the Three Stooges are going to be remade. Hey Moe, hey Larry. There’s going to be phoneys at the mike.

Yes, it is Open Thread Thursday, so in the spirit of all the bailouts, how about bailing a sick blogger out.

Every day is a blue day nowadays. Some are just more blue than others…

• James Wigderson asks, “Is it over yet?” Let me put it this way…

This is a Faux News Alert. Barack Obama woke up. This has been a Faux News Alert.

• Jon Sanders punches out an epic poem (no, not a DrewM. “epic”, so it’s safe for work, unless you’re a Moonbat without a sense of humor). (Revisions/extensions, 9:00 am 1/22/2009 – I’m missing my morning Dew ever since the parent company went all DopeyChangey on me; corrected Jon’s name)
• The Wolf reports that, for the first time in the history of the Salute to Heroes Inaugural Ball, which features Medal of Honor winners, the incoming President skipped that ball. I’m shocked, SHOCKED that Barack Hussein Obama would blow off just about every living Medal of Honor winner able to make it out to an event.

This just in…Barack Obama took a dump. Film at 11.

• Allahpundit caught the elder presstitute admitting the painfully obvious. Even though there’s film, I wouldn’t recommend looking directly at it.
• James T. Harris reveals the first glimpse at the Book of Obama. The scary thing is, I can see reality following parody.
• Hope, Change, and Indoctrination, Part I – Skip found a school district that wants to blacklist teachers who didn’t broadcast the Immaculation (© Rush Limbaugh).
• Hope, Change, and Indoctrination, Part II – Speaking of Rush, he reports a teacher got her panties in a wad because the school she teaches indoctrinates at ran his feed of the Immaculation speech. NRE has issued a Crying River Flood Warning for Green Bay. Seriously, I expect that episode to be Exhibit #34 in the calls for the return of the (Un)Fairness Doctrine.
• Paul Socha would like to see that episode turned into a proper Dan’s Bake Sale teaching moment. I won’t hold my breath.

Breaking hard, Bar…ENOUGH of the Obamination broken news; you can get that on ABCCNNNBCCBSPMSNBCNYTWaPoYourLocalPaintCatcher (which must be bucking hard for an ObamiNation BailOut). Back to your regularily-scheduled Scramble, already in progress.

• Stephen Green (at his new Pajamas Media address; please make a note of it) finds our “friends” the Saudis looking into getting Pakistani nukes. Bold prediction – the Middle East will be a radioactive wasteland by the end of 2012.
• Larrey Anderson asks the unthinkable question – should conservatives continue to be part of the GOP? To be honest, I’ve been tossing that around my head since the passage of the expansion of Medicare.
• YoSAMite has also been tossing that around. Complicating that for the RPW is the fact that the party leadership has no control over the politicians.
• AWR Hawkins provides another piece of evidence that a divorce is necessary – the slightly-less-liberal half of the bipartisan Party-In-Government is flocking toward the Obamination.
• BrianR is shocked, SHOCKED that California is taking the inch they got on limiting cell phone use while driving and taking the mile to ban it entirely.
• Dave explains as only a person who flies an Airbus A320 can what it was probably like in the cockpit of US Airways Flight 1549.

It IS Open Thread Thursday, so pipe up.

It’s too cold to come up with a pithy open, so I’ll let Lynyrd Skynyrd do the talking…

• John provides an example of the good that Project Valour-IT does. I am proud to support this cause.
• Amanda Carpenter and Hugh Hewitt face off on the worthiness (or lack thereof) of Treasury Secretary-designate Timothy Geithner. I see Geithner as just another example of Chicago politics (yes, I know he’s actually from the Tammany Hall wing).
• Josh Schroeder is shocked, SHOCKED that the U.S. Senate Bean Soup (yes, there is such a thing) has a bunch of pork in it.
• Jim Geraghty reports that the $1 trillion $1.3 trillion “stimulus” has grown 30%.
• King Banian marvels at the request from Duluth for $6 million for a snow-making machine. While the $83,000 per job is a “bargain” compared to the $230,000 per job in the overall “stimulus”, why would a city that averages over 80 inches of snow per year need a snow-making machine?
• Shoebox proves his statement that there is no difference between 57, 58, 59 or 60 ‘Rats in the Senate once again – they’re about to roll over on releasing the other $350 billion in the original bailout.
• Ace found yet another set of words from Barack Obama that have reached their expiration date – his vow to not rest until Osama bin Laden’s head was on a pike in the Oval Office. I wonder if he was worried that Ted “Swimmer” Kennedy and CNN would confuse the two of them again.
• Charlie Sykes compares and contrasts the last and the next inaugurations. I’m shocked, SHOCKED that the presstitutes, especially The News Organization That Cannot Be Quoted™, are silent about the record cost of this one.
• Dave in Texas found “Baby Come Back” on Venezuelan dictator Hugo Chavez’ iPod, as news that he is pulling back from the nationalization of Venezuela’s oil industry comes to light.
• John Hawkins has reason #243,129 to militarize the southern border – Mexico is one of two countries that are on course for a “rapid and sudden collapse”.
• Zip found the latest piece of evidence that the UN is at the least complicit in Hamas’ war against Israel.
• Bill Quick asks the War College, “(I)f we can’t know our enemy, how can we defeat him?” That’s right, the next generation of warriors are not learning about radical Islam.
• I can’t leave without some warm thoughts – Asian Badger cheers a double dose of goodness coming to southern Wisconsin from the premier aerobatics teams in the world. Mark down 5/30-5/31 and 7/25-7/26 on your calendars NOW!

Well, it is Open Thread Thursday, so take over already.

It’s time for a deep cut…

• Matt cheers the first blog-to-film project, “Taking Chance”. Before it airs on HBO February 21, do read the post over at BLACKFIVE In fact, go read it now, then come back for the rest of the Scramble/Open Thread Thursday.
• What Could Possibly Go Wrong When We Tinker With Nature, Part I – Sean M. reports we’re a step closer to “Jurassic Park” with the decoding of the long-extinct wooly mammoth’s DNA.
• What Could Possibly Go Wrong When We Tinker With Nature, Part II – McQ reports the
  Gorebal “Warming” acolytes are prepared to go all “Matrix” on the atmosphere to enforce their reality with an “emergency Plan B”. Where, oh where do I begin with this one?
• Ed Morrissey laughs at the weakness of Not-So-Great Britain, which has started handing out heating subsidies for the first time in 10-year existence of the heating bailout program because they can’t handle 12-degree weather. I could offer the adivce of a former President….
• Van Helsing found the North Sea freezing up in jolly old England. In light of that, I think will offer the Brits that advice – put some ice on it.
• Fausta dubs Russian strongman Mad Vladmir Putin “Mr. Freeze” for shutting off the gas spigot to the Ukrane and the Balkans even as Europe freezes.
• Bill Quick and Glenn Reynolds battle it out over the future of the price of oil. While I usually am a fan of history, I do have to note that in the aftermath of the 1979 OPEC shutdown, the threat of the US actually weaning itself off of OPEC was credible, while it is not credible now.
• There are many places I could have gone for news of the adult entertainment industry’s bellying up to the bailout teat, but elliot’s headline/lede combo takes the cake.
• Lance Burri is genuinely shocked that the ‘Rats in Madistan would reintroduce “Healthy” (and Depopulated) Wisconsin with thfe road to the federal version wide open. Of course, the fact that those clamoring for it snookered the populace into “supporting” it without mentioning that it was the $15 billion doubling $30 billion tripling of the total state tax take so vile that it was merely a budget negotiating point last year may have something to do with that.
• Speaking of taxes, Mary Lazich compares the fastest-growing states to state/local tax rates. Other than California, Georgia and North Carolina (all of which have weather in their favor), the rest of the top ten have low taxes. Funny how that works.
• Kathy Carpenter looks into the rather-substantial and -smelly relationship between stalled Senate-Designate Roland Burris (D-IL) and ethically-challenged Illinois governor Rod Blagojevich (D). I wonder if Harry Reid and company are going to up their asking price from Burris in response.
• Flip found the #!@% ¿ Blagojevich Burger. While the guy who’s selling them won’t take less than $10, he’ll gladly take more because it is a “bleeping valuable thing…(only the bleeps aren’t really bleeps).”
• Ken is struck by the similarities between murals of Barack Obama and murals of various despots (mostly Communists). Birds of a feather….
• Fred asks, “What if Barack Obama was picking the Packers new Defensive Coordinator?” Don’t be afraid to answer, especially if you can beat my suggestion of Los Angeles Lakers coach Phil Jackson.
• Jeff Wagner highlights the latest “victim” of the Culture of Badassery (©MKH). If only 70-year-old ladies couldn’t have handguns in the home, robbers could break in without worry of being held at gunpoint until the police arrive to arrest them </sarcasm_lefty>.

I WAS going to try to keep it under a baker’s dozen today, but there’s just too much goodness out there. I know I left more than a few bits out, so feed me.

I was going to go with the usual Thursday blues, but Shoebox’s take on the Big Thr…er, UAW bailout shifted the musical focus just a little bit….

Before I get to the heart of the Scramble, I must pass along a “clarification” from KHQA denouncing its 11/5 story (dumped into the ether) stating that Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich (D-Corrupt) and President-elect Barack Obama were to meet later that day. Of course, it doesn’t exactly address its 11/8 story from a different reporter that stated that a meeting did take place (which also got dumped into the ether).

• Speaking of corrections, I need to correct a major oversight missing from yesterday’s Blago Scramble Special – Kate dug up a bunch of Blago toons.
• Jeff Dufour and Patrick Gavin run the Lexis-Nexis numbers on Blago mentions by the presstitutes. Care to guess which is higher; mentions in the last 48 hours or mentions in all of November? Hell, I’ll wager there were more mentions in the last 48 hours than there were in any of the first 11 months.
• Nate Beeler can’t put a price on the criminal complaint against Blago. I believe I can say with some confidence that “@$&*!’N” doesn’t really stand for “@$&*!’N”.
• Gabriel Malor believes his lying eyes over Obama’s greasy assurances. I will note that it is only a pic, so we can’t even read lips on whether they discussed Obama’s replacement in the Senate.
• Jim W. Ainsworth channels Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson and various members of Congress answering some bailout questions.
• Lance Burri found immigration wasn’t exactly a deal-breaker in November. Of course, there was no substantive difference between Obama and John McCain on shamnesty.
• Mark Tapscott explains why there is a credibility problem in the DC power structure. Of note, Joe the Plumber wanted off the Straight Double-Talk Express after McCain tried to explain why he was in favor of the $700 billion $850 billion $8 trillion bailout of October.
• Doug Mataconis points out that the current-year deficit is on pace to hit $1 trillion. The truly-scary thing is, other than the bailouts and the on-autopilot increasing welfare programs, the federal government is running on continuing resolutions until sometime after Obama is sworn in, and both he and the Congressional Democrats have a boatload of additional spending plans.
• Uncle Jimbo lays the smackdown on Jimmy Carter’s candy-ass.
• Jo Egelhoff has the proper solution for Wisconsin’s budget crunch – freeze and prune. It’s far better than increasing spending by nearly 10%, with over half of that increase coming from Wisconsin’s own bailout.
• Tom Blumer plays Name That Party, ABC edition. In their montage of 14 political crooks (evenly divided between Republicans and Democrats), they named the GOP crook as such 5 of 7 times (4 in the first sentence, the 5th in the 3rd), but named the ‘Rat crook as such only 2 of 7 times (both in the first sentence).
• Okie Campaigns found 650 scientists, many former Gorbebal “Warming” acolytes, committing heresy against the Religion of Gorebal “Warming”.
• William Teach caught the UN cardinal of Gorebal “Warming” admitting that “(t)here is no clear evidence that global warming is an imminent danger to the world.”
• Tracy Coenen reports Milwaukee County Board Chairman Lee Holloway wants to let others get away with the type of fraud he got away with. I wonder if he’ll try to bend any of his fellow supervisors over their desks this time; he does have a history of that.
• Jim Geraghty wonders why the FBI is asking about Obama’s home purchase (with convicted briber Tony Rezko’s wife also involved).

That’s it; the thread’s yours.

There’s finally enough snow on the ground outside the bunker to drive back the foot that’s slow.

• JammieWearingFool reports that the next Congress will be known as Teh Most (Un)Ethical Congress Evah Ver. 2.0™, partly because Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) told Charlie Rangel (D-NY) that he will continue to write tax laws as long as he wants despite an ongoing House ethics investigation into his failure to pay taxes on various money-making schemes.
• Rick Moran finds history about to repeat itself in Chicago. Of course, back in the day, Michael Bilandic blamed The Next Ice Age for the unremoved snow and consequently lost his mayoral office, while Richard M. Daley’s blaming Gorebal “Warming” and doesn’t face a challenge.
• William Teach answers the question why a significant number of meteorologists (as opposed to climatologists, who are the altar boys and girls in the Church of Gorebal “Warming”) are not buying Gorebal “Warming” hook, line and stink..er, sinker – there is but one constant – back-and-forth change in the weather.
• Lady Logician has a couple more nails in the coffin of the climatic truth Gorebal “Warming”, including the inveterate gamblers in Britain breaking The Man on a white Christmas.
• Stephen Kruiser issued his Envirodork of the Day award to the LeftStreamMedia for applying their election template to the Gorebal “Warming” debate battle.
• RadicalRon found a new hero for those of us who haven’t consumed the Gorebal “Warming” Kool-Aid – Czech President (and soon-to-be EU President) Vaclav Klaus.
• Kat has a lesson from the Massacre of Mumbai – “Do not act as the terrorist expect. Do not be terrified into inaction. Expect no mercy and shrink their window of opportunity to act at every turn.”
• Speaking of the Massacre of Mumbai, Stephen Green wonders how one says “DEFCON 2″ in Hindi.
• Dad29 found some serious respect for the US military from their French counterparts.
• Rick Moran dubs Barack Obama “The Promise Breaker”. As Jim Geraghty said way back when, all statements by Barack Obama have an expiration date. All of them.
• Jim Hoft reports the payoffs are starting to come in for the Missouri Obama “Truth Squad”, with one of their number the favorite to become eastern Missouri US Attorney. My advice to Jim is to get across the Mississippi STAT (and probably move south across the Ohio because Illinois isn’t exactly the best place to be – sorry Rick and my other readers south of the toll booths).
• Jon Ham recycles a classic “Mad Magazine” cover for the incoming Obama administration. While he believes things are darkest just before the dawn, I tend to take the “darkest just before things go to pitch black” approach.
• Allahpundit found a CNN poll that says 61% are now “dead set” against bailing out The Big Three automakers the United Auto Workers union.
• Mark Pribonic takes us on a fabulous journey from Henry Ford’s “Let everybody fail, including me” attitude during the Great Depression to the Not-So-Big Three’s tin cups. Do read all the way to the end for Mark’s predictions of what will happen when they burn through their cash.
• Speaking of tin cups, Nate Beeler pictures that as only he can.
• Matt Lewis has a pair of frightening predictions from John Fund. While I agree that Dingy Harry and company will refuse to seat Norm Coleman, nationwide same-day registration will wait until abortion-on-demand is part of the United States Code.

The dogs of doom are howling as well because I have to go to the younger sister’s place for more tech support on their wireless network. Since it’s Thursday, that means the thread’s yours. I know there’s a bunch of stuff I haven’t touched on; I had to deep-six some very good items just to get this out before 10 so I can do said tech support.

I’m still too blue to do anything but morose posts. Since I’m don’t like to do those, let’s open things up.

• Michelle Malkin set up a petition site to thank Sarah Palin.
• Kat-Mo compares the Pubbie debacle to a family BBQ. Yes, it is on Ace’s place, so there’s plenty of vulgarity.
• John Hawkins has some post-election thoughts that, had I been able to get beyond 50% formulation, I may well have put up.
• Shoebox asks what we all learned. My money is, at least on the GOP end, the same thing they learned after 2006 – NOTHING!
• Tom McMahon puts the year in review. Actually, there was some overlap; a couple of stations started with the Christmas music before Halloween.
• Rick Moran holds out hope that Barack Obama will resist the far-left radicals in Congress. Rick, I know you know Chicago politics like few others, but quite frankly, Obama IS one of them.
• Lao breaks out some classic “Planet of the Apes” as his response.
• Emperor Misha I reports Hamas and the Soviet Unio…er, Russia didn’t even wait until Obama was sworn in to issue their first tests.
• Lance Burri discovered James Madison called the last 2 elections 220 years ago.
• Dad29 notes that social conservatism still succeeds. That fact makes me sad that the Republican Party has pushed away the social conservatives (and indeed, still are), and that they responded by bringing in Christian Socialist Mike Huckabee.
• Josh Schroeder proves that when one plays in the middle of the road, one gets run over by both sides.
• Caleb offers some suggestions for surviving the Barackolypse. Do add to it, but do not click the Rickroll.

Well, at least it was morning when I started. I had to leave a few comments on a few blogs that may or may not necessarily be part of this. I’m also still running at about quarter-speed (dunno what part the post-election blues has in that versus an oncoming chest cold).

That’s it; the thread is yours.

You can thank Jonah Goldberg’s discovery of Aerosmith guitarist Joe Perry’s endorsement of John McCain for the lack of blues today.

I’ll try to remember today is Open Thread Thursday and only give you a launching point to feed me with links (for a change). Even though I now have something north of 280 feeds in the Feed Reader of Bloat, I know I’m missing some good stuff out there on a daily basis.

• In keeping with the good news theme, RightwingSparkle reports that the PUMAs are not yet dead in Florida.
• Stephen Green wonders whether the hope in the McCain camp that the polls are hosed is misplaced. Do not, repeat, NOT miss Ed Driscoll’s Cheech & Chong response.
• Nick Schweitzer applies statistical analysis to the hosed polls.
• Laura reports that Texas is done being messed with by Mexico’s druglords.
• Soren Dayton runs the numbers on the jobs that will be lost in states that will be disproportionately affected by Barney Frank’s (Religion of) Peace Dividend. Why do I call it that? Simple; a 25% cut in defense spending in the middle of a war smells like a surrender in that war, and the opponents do call themselves the “Religion of Peace”.
• Those cuts mean we likely won’t see stories like this – Zip reports Marine snipers are so precise that even Islamists in Afghanistan using children as human shields while emplacing IEDs aren’t safe, but those children are.
• RFW has today’s history lesson – this is the 10-year anniversary of the signing of the Iraq Liberation Act. Hey moonbats; care to guess who was President when it became official US policy to remove Saddam Hussein from power?
• I was going to skip the Obamination Update entirely today because you’re probably tired after the Obamacommercial, but Mark Steyn dragged me back in. He reports that donations to the Obama campaign are now being cited by the city of Boston as evidence of US citizenship. Mark notes (sarcastically) that it should “(clear) up any question marks over those donations by ‘A Hitler’ and ‘S Hussein’”.
• Kevin Fischer lists the growing number of communities that do trick-or-treating right – on Halloween night. Notably, and regrettably, absent from the list are any communities in Milwaukee County, including Oak Creek.
• Moron Pundit has today’s PSA – if you get caught drunk driving, do not immediately go back to your house, grab your spare keys, and drive to the police station to complain.

That’s it; the thread is yours.

As Shoebox said, “Never forget!”

Since I’m on the road (specifically at the State Policy Network 16th Annual Meeting in Scottsdale, Arizona), I won’t have the ability to keep up with the list of tributes. Fortunately, silent E started the list (don’t forget to read his tribute, and he’ll keep up. I’ll dispense with the usual summaries today, and just point you to the tributes, rememberances, and thoughts he didn’t catch yet (I’ll warn the sensitive that some may be on the firebrand side; honestly, I believe they have a place as well because this is a war of survival that was driven here 7 years ago today).

• Lawhawk
• Ace
• Robert
• Walid Phares
• Bull Dog Pundit
• JackBoot
• Paul Socha
• Laughing Wolf
• Owen
• Caledonia Unplugged
• CDR Salamander
• Mary Lazich
• Jim Hoft
• Gawfer
• Bruce
• Janet Evans
• Glenn Reynolds
• JammieWearingFool
• Katie Favazza
• Kevin McCullough
• Mike
• Newsbusters
• Michelle Catalano
• William Teach
• Spies, Brigands, and Pirates
• Pejman Yousefzadeh
• RightwingSparkle
• Sister Toldjah
• Huckleberry Dumbell
• Stix
• Charlie Sykes
• RAG
• Jim Geraghty
• Phelony Jones
• Kathryn Jean Lopez
• Viniie
• Eric
• Kevin Fischer
• Hugh Hewitt
• USCitizen
• Updated 12:48 pm 9/11/2008 – Emperor Misha I
• Lance Burri
• Dan Kenitz
• William Smith
• Dad29
• Bill Quick
• Mondoreb
• Doubleplusundead
• Curt
• Wisdom
• Wordsmith
• Elliot
• JihadGene
• Allahpundit
• Just A Grunt
• Katie Harbath
• Lady Logician
• Charles Johnson
• Little Miss Sunshine
• Beth
• Patrick McIlheran
• Serr8d
• The Unreal one
• Dan McLaughlin
• Haystack
• Slublog
• Kathy Carpenter
• S. Weasel
• Peter (just scroll through today’s multiple updates)
• Dr. Rusty Shackelford
• James T. Harris
• Nick Schweitzer
• John Campbell
• Zip

Do read as many of the tributes of the 2,996 that died at the World Trade Center as you can.