No Runny Eggs

Yes, I know, technical colleges, as unelected taxing bodies, are exempt from the Craps anti-freeze, but that didn’t stop the Jeanette Bell-led Milwaukee Area Technical College board (yes, the same Jeanette Bell that complained that the 2.75% property tax levy increase that she shoved down West Allis taxpayers’ throats wasn’t big enough and the same Jeanette Bell that that made possible a 4% property tax levy increase from MMSD) from raising the MATC levy 6.6%.

The Journtinel claims that it actually is a victory for taxpayers because it could have been $1.4 million worse and have been a 7.8% levy increase; by a 6-3 vote, the board lowered the tax rate to keep the total tax take at what they approved back in June. It seems that property values in the district went up greater than expected, and if they kept the rate at that June level, they would have taken in $127.9 million instead of the already-bloated $126.5 million they planned on taking in. Left squealing are various spend-and-spenders like the teachers’ union and the 3 idiots who can’t seem to live within the 6.6% levy increase means they had approved not 5 months ago. Despite the whine, I don’t exactly feel victorious; it could be the empty wallet.

Revisions/extensions – removed the link to the racist Jentinel

How much higher would electricity be? It’s already going up 8%, and that is with the Oak Creek plant being replaced with another coal plant.

Revisions/extensions – hope you saved the link to the racist Jentinel story; it’s out of here.

Brian has an interesting picture of a very nervous Brian Burke at his plea-deal hearing, and he has invited his readers to caption it. Go, have fun (it’s why I disabled comments here).

More evidence of Miers’ political and judicial views comes to us from the Washington Post, and it casts serious doubt on the mushroom-eating crowd’s last defense that Miers would at least be better on the Roe issue than O’Connor. It also reveals her as a liberal who at times sees the courts as the agent of social change.

Meanwhile, the Journal Sentinel racist Jentinel reports on a meeting that Sen. Russ Feingold (D-WI) had with Miers yesterday where the question on the role she had on convincing President Bush to sign the patently un-Constitutional McShame-Slimeroad Liberal/DemonRAT Protection Act. I bet he was expecting an answer like this – “Yes, I did convince him to sign this, and no, I won’t recuse myself from Round 2 because I realize I’m the swing vote,” but instead…

“She said she couldn’t even tell me if she was involved,” Feingold said. “That is, to me, a fairly extreme blocking of our ability to examine her record in general.”

And this stealth Souter in a skirt is what we conservatives have to swallow? According to the Green Bay Press-Gazette, Feingold has no problem with her on a district court (bear in mind that he helped ramrod Lynn Adelman to the federal bench). Put me down in the “HELL no to Justice Miers!” camp.

Revisions/extensions – continuing expunging links to the racist Jentinel