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 May 24th, 2006

Caption contest at Jenna’s

by @ 19:02. Filed under Miscellaneous.

Mash to enter

Out-of-control Congress protecting the most-corrupt of their own

by @ 10:25. Filed under Law and order, Politics - National.

It really shouldn’t be much of a surprise that the RepubicRAT half of the Party In Government is backing ethically-challenged Louisiana DemocRAT Representative William Jefferson in his battle to remain in office and free of corruption charges despite videotape evidence that he accepted a $100,000 bribe and convictions of his associates on charges of bribing him, going so far as to threaten a legal challenge to a search warrant execution on Jefferson’s Congressional office. After all, Congress exempts its members from just about every law they saddle the rest of America with.

Sensitive types need not click

by @ 8:17. Filed under The Blog.

The rest of you (which means the 2-3 readers I have), enjoy Clint’s brand of humor.

The exodus from Blogger continues unabated

by @ 6:48. Filed under The Blog.

First, Jessica McBride makes a sideways move to the 620 WTMJ corporate world, then Nick moves The World According to Nick to dasBlog and his own domain.

Craps tax anti-freeze-year 2 begins to sublimate again

by @ 6:21. Filed under Politics, Taxes.

Jim “Craps” Doyle (WEAC/Potawatomi-For Sale), on his wholesale rewriting of the tax freeze put into the budget by Legislative Republicans in July 2005 (a rewrite that specifically exempted unelected taxing authorities like technical college districts), as quoted by the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel“‘The result of the freeze that I will sign will be that the average property tax on the average home will not go up at all next year, and will actually go down $5’ in December 2006.”

The Milwaukee Area Technical College proposed 2006 tax levy increase, after a 6.3% levy increase in 2005 – 5% (or $6.3 million, with a minimum of $2.2 million and potentially as much as $4.4 million going to increased compensation for the already-overpaid teachers), which the Journtinel helpfully points out is well above the rate of inflation.

Tell me again why every single elected DemocRAT, and the RepublicRATs and RINOs in my Rogues Galleries believe that it isn’t necessary to restrain the taxing authority of unelected taxing bodies?

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