No Runny Eggs

If you were stupid enough to put action on college basketball before March Madness, listen up. Here’s your chance to redeem the weekend. Let the Egg Roll work his magic on your Man, and get your money back with interest. Oh, sure, you’ll have to hit the pawn shop to come up with enough cash to make the plays work, but you’re going to be trading up Monday anyway. Hear me now, believe me at 9:50 or whenever they finally get the NFC championship game done because if you had listened to me last week, you would have crushed your man to the tune of 5-2-1. Here we go!!!

Pittsburgh (+3/over 41) @ Denver – I know what you’re saying. It probably sounds something like this; “You said it’s the altitude, not the attitude. Pittsburgh stinks it up against Denver in the championship. Heck; Pittsburgh under Cowler can’t win the big one.” Folks, that’s what makes this play so good. They’re essentially the same team, except in two crucial areas; Denver doesn’t have a pass defense, and Jake Plummer isn’t a winner. Take the Steelers, take the points, and for some extra sauce, take the short over.

Carolina @ Seattle (-3.5/under 44) – I know Steve Smith is all-but-unstoppable. But, has he played on a field where it’s rained the last 3 weeks? No. It’s going to be a muddy track, and we’re talking 3rd-string running back for the Panthers. Toss in the Holmgren Secret Sauce, and sleep through this game, knowing that the Seahags will have won their last game of the year. Take the Hags, lay the short lumber, and bet on General Mud being the 12th defender.

As noted below, a federal grand jury is now looking into whether donations to the Jim “Craps” Doyle (WEAC/ADM-Potawatomi) got Adelman Travel a $750,000 contract. There are a couple of noteworthy things here:

• This grand jury is being run by Milwaukee US Attorney Steve “Hang-Em” Biskupic.
• The US Attorney’s office is also looking at donations made by the former joint owners of the Kewaunee nuclear power plant around the time of its sale.

Both issues read like they’re straight from the Craps’ pay-to-play playbook used by groups such as Indian tribes seeking to expand gaming, and teachers’ unions seeking mo’ money, mo’ money, mo’ money – make massive donations to the campaign, and get a deal worth a lot more back from the governor.

I wonder what happens if Doyle’s convicted of a felony stemming from this between the primaries in September and the general election in November. Remember, we’re not talking about E. Michael McCan’t, or even the Western Wisconsin US Attorney’s office, which seems to have been MIA (bad news for JB Van Hollen; he was that attorney until a few months ago when he decided to run for Wisconsin attorney general). The state constitution prohibits felons from either holding office or seeking office. Of course, Craps doesn’t give a rat’s ass about the constitution; just take a look at the games being offered by the Potawatomi, Ho-Chunk and other tribes (say, are the Ho-Chunk making their payments yet?).

Sorry about the lack of blogging the last 2 days. I was pretty much out of it. There were a heap of things blog-worthy, so let’s start reviewing:

• The Milwaukee County DA’s office decided to cut deals with 4 of the defendants, with the 5th one being acquitted. Why am I not surpried that the end result would be essentially nothing happening?

  Let’s reverse the parties. First, the case would have been taken away from E. Michael McCan’t and company by Keg Goldschlager because neither the DPW nor the Journtinel would have stood for the standard operating procedure out of the DA’s office on election fraud cases. Next, this would have been pursued all the way back to DC, with everybody under the sun charged on the fast track. A change of venue to (conveniently) Dane County would have been sought and granted. Convictions would have been won all around, and the news Friday would not have been that Operation Elephant Takeover resulted in next to no consequences, but that the state Supreme Court denied the last appeals.

• Xoff continued to get his head handed to him. After being challenged by Brian Fraley, myself, and others to name the statute Charlie Sykes supposedly violated, he couldn’t come up with any. James Wigderson challenged Xoff to apologize for making false accusations, but in true lieberal fashion, Xoff refused, instead demanding an apology from Charlie for comparing Jim “Craps” Doyle (WEAC/ADM-Potawatomi) to George Wallace and Orval Faubus. At least those two had the chutzpah to physically stand in the schoolhouse door. Craps is too chicken to do that, prefering to veto stuff on the way out of the office on Friday afternoons.
• While we’re on Craps and school choice, Peter explodes the Xoff/Craps claims that they really care about school choice. Peter does a great job of explaining why the first party I list next to Craps’ name is the teachers’ union. They own him lock, stock, and barrel.
• I’ll go into this more in a bit, but I’ll continue the theme by noting that a federal grand jury put together by Milwaukee US Attorney Steve Biskupic is now looking into whether campaign contributions from Adelman Travel to Craps played a role in a travel contract going to the company.
• If two days ago was Friday, and there was a good bill before the governor, it was time for another Friday afternoon veto. This week’s victim was concealed carry (again). We’ll see if enough Stepford ‘Rats switch their votes to once again uphold a Craps veto.
• Either Osama bin Laden’s still (barely) alive, or someone spliced together another tape (say, when was the last time anybody actually saw him?). James Taranto, editor of OpinionJournal.com, noticed that the tape’s talking points dovetailed quite nicely with the DNC talking points.