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 September, 2006

September 21, 2006

Doylie Electons Board highway robbery becoming Grand Theft Courts

by @ 17:13. Filed under Grand Theft Courts, Law and order, Politics - Wisconsin.

You have to hand it to Team Craps for total chutzpah – JSOnline’s DayWatch is reporting that state Justice Department lawyers Michael Bauer, Christopher Blythe and Lara Sutherlin argued in court that the Green campaign should be forced to give back $1.26 million of the $1.3 million and be allowed to keep only the $43,128 they say state law allows any candidate committee to give a gubernatorial candidate.

For you budding (or recovering) lawyers out there, JSOnline happens to have the Team Craps brief, but not the Green Team’s ones. WisPolitics’ Courtwatch, however, comes through with the Green Team’s appeal as well as a supporting affadavit from the Green campaign treasurer. I don’t have the time at the moment to sift through all of that, but I will if anybody feels like commenting.

Ignoring the fact that, among other things, Tom Barrett transfered much more than $43,128 to his gubernatorial campaign from his congressional one without so much as a peep from the Doylies or anybody else, let’s see if Team Craps practices what they now preach.

Looking through the 2002 election cycle records at the Wisconsin Democracy Campaign, I seem to see donations totaling $190,000 from a “political/ideological” entity called the “Lawton Committee”. I can’t seem to find any information on this committee with either a Yahoo or Google search, but I do know that Barbara Lawton was his lieutenant governor running mate and in fact is the serving lt. gov. My best guess is that the “Lawton Committee” listed in the WDC report is the campaign committee of Barbara Lawton, and I don’t think the $43,128 limit just popped into state law in the last 4 years.

Golly; once again, it looks like Team Craps has stepped in it. Of course, they’re on friendly turf in Dane County, and they do have a Craps-stacked State Supreme Court (one that was left unchallenged by the “R”PW earlier this year).

Remember, I predicted the full monty grand theft back on September 6…

Here’s a bold prediction; whether the Craps strategy of trying to smear Green while starving his campaign of some funds works or not in the public arena, Craps will try to get his Doylie Elections Board to declare the other $800,000 Green transfered from his federal campaign "illegal" by early October, using the "justification" that federal law prohibits the transfer of state campaign funds.

I was slightly wrong on the timing (it’s only mid-September), the forum and the “justification”, but you have to give me credit for nailing the theft. As for the “remaining” $43,128, the Doylies will push to have that disappear in the form of “fines”.

Make this pic (borrowed from Patrick) happen; vote Mark Green Nov. 7

The blogroll taketh, so now it giveth

by @ 15:25. Filed under The Blog.

I whacked a few blogs on Sunday, so it’s time to add a few:

  • Like I said below, silent E speaks got added earlier today.
  • Gibbsville Unincorporated reincorporated with the react to the revalation the State Doylie Elections Board took its marching orders from Team Craps.
  • On the strength of Dan and Keith, the Early Spin Blog finally got noticed. Sorry about taking so long; you guys are up against Bob and Brian after all, and there’s a ball and chain who shall remain nameless (coughNicolecough) that had her lieberal pals rig the contest.

It’s good to wield the lupa.

Who’s running Team Craps and DEB, Riley Coyote? (and an addition to the roll)

by @ 13:57. Filed under Grand Theft Courts, Politics - Wisconsin, The Blog.

(H/T – Mike Huckleberry)

Mike Ellis, who I have little love for, noticed a little something about the State Doylie Elections Board’s kneecapping robbery of the Green campaign; namely, it happened in Waukesha County. Last I checked, Paul “The Marauder” Bucher was still DA there. Accordingly, Ellis has asked Bucher’s office to look into whether laws were broken by the Doylies. I don’t think the Doylies will come out in much better shape than Donovan “Vote twice like a ‘Rat” Riley.

For contributing “Riley Coyote” to the lexicon, silent E speaks just found its way onto the roll. Let’s make Doyle’s name mud-spelled backwards November 7.

Sorry about the semi-busted links

by @ 13:37. Filed under The Blog.

I’ve been trying a different permalink structure in an attempt to limit cleaning out my spam trackback box. Unfortunately, that structure also appeared to have killed all the trackbacks. I’ve gone back to the WordPress standard and am trusting (once again) my anti-spam defenses. That’s broken the links to posts done under the customized permalink structure. Sorry about the inconvenience.

Out of control spending, 2006 MMSD edition

by @ 12:54. Filed under MMSD - The Crap People, Taxes.

(H/T – Jessica)

Lost in the revelation that Jim “Craps” Doyle (WEAC/Potawatomi-For Sale) had his campaign lawyer instruct the State Doylie Elections Board on how to kneecap Mark Green via e-mail (and thus traceable), and the chutzpah of the Doylies to once again seek to retroactively change the rules to grab even more of Green’s money, is this little gem from the Journal Sentinel – MMSD proposes 30% budget increase. They’re looking at a 3% levy increase, and are proposing tapping $500,000 out of the $13.5 million user stabilization fund (no word on how much they’re sticking the non-Milwaukee County suburbs for in fees). Let’s take a look at the tax time bomb that is MMSD, the Crappy Water People™:

  • Total proposed budget for 2007 – $352.9 million (up 30.5% from 2006)
  • Capital improvements – $285.4 million (up 37.9% from 2006, even though the non-Milwaukee County portion of paying for that that is decreasing $1.4 million to $22.6 million – Houston, we have a consistency problem here)
  • “Low”-interest state loans in 2007 – $108.7 million (or 30.8% of the total budget)
  • Bonds and “expected” federal/state aid – $67.8 million (19.2% of the total budget; not broken down in the story)
  • The Milorganite market, which barely breaks even on good years, is drying up.
  • Despite being ordered to sink another $900 million (in addition to the billions spent on the almost-somewhat-not-quite-Deep-enough Tunnel, designed to make the suburbs pay for Milwaukee’s and Shorewood’s unwillingness to separate their combined sewers, the top cause of sewage dumping) on dumping mitigation, MMSD still faces lawsuits from both the state (which negotiated that $900 million settlement) and envirowhackos to spend even more.

When half of what you spend (math lesson of the day – 30.8 + 19.2 = 50.0) is borrowed or gifted from an uncertain source of aid, it’s no surprise when the acting comptroller warns that the butcher’s bill will come due in 2008. Gee, I wonder why the board is sort of holding the line this year; could it be because fellow ‘RAT Craps doesn’t need yet another massive increase in property taxes from MMSD (4.0% increase last year) and its kind like what happened last year?

While Jessica reminds you the not-so-gentle reader (you may be gentle if you read her blog, but you’re definitely not gentle if you’re here) that the Legislature killed a bill to make these non-elected taxing authorities elected instead of appointed, I’ll remind you once again that Craps specifically exempted non-elected taxing authorities from his Craps Anti-Freeze. They’re setting up for the mother of all sublimations next year.

Gov’s race – 9/21 update

by @ 8:30. Filed under Grand Theft Courts, Politics - Wisconsin.

Item #1 – The MJS reports Doyle campaign lawyer Michael S. Maistelman told the 3 ‘Rat members of the State Doylie Elections Board whose jobs aren’t directly tied to Jim “Craps” Doyle’s (WEAC/Potawatomi-For Sale) continued occupation of the governor’s mansion, “Even if this ends up in Court it is a PR victory for us since it makes Green spend money and have to defend the use of his Washington DC dirty money.” Further, they report that, contrary to earlier denials that Maistelman was working for the Doyle campaign, he was present at the August 30 meeting where the Doylies retroactively applied their rule to Mark Green to strip him of $486,000 that he had transfered to his state campaign from his federal campaign; and that Maistelman, in conjunction with Doyle campaign manager Dan Schooff, discussed possible penalties with the 3 “independent” ‘Rat members of the State Doylie Elections Board before they meted out their punishment revenge on Green.

I’m actually surprised that the Journal Sentinel took the time to dig this up and then reported it. Thank you, Team Craps, for proving just how sleazy you greedy, power-mad SOBs really are. If you doubt me, take a look at the copy of the Team Craps e-mails over at Boots and Sabers.
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Item #2 – Poll-a-copia time. Strategic Vision’s mid-September poll (9/15-9/17) (H/T – Kevin) shows some odd results; despite a 52% disapproval rating (up from 50% in August), Doyle stretches his lead from 45%-44% to 46%-42%. Meanwhile, Rasmussen (currently a “members-only” link) has some bad news for Team Craps (again, H/T – Kevin; his lead dropped from 49%-41% on August 10 to 47%-44% on September 17.

Could the Rasmussen/Zogby Interactive (I do not trust the self-identification method of that particular division of Zogby) trend of tightening be related to item #3?
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Item #3 – As predicted by me on September 6, Team Craps is going after some more of the money transfered from Green’s federal campaign. This time, they’re going after $48,000 that the Wisconsin Democracy claims violates the $10,000 limit. They claim that 30 donors who donated to Green’s federal campaign in 2003 and 2004, then later donated to Green’s gubernatorial campaign, illegally donated more than $10,000 to the Green gubernatorial campaign. Since the Journtinel doesn’t refresh your memory on what the SEB told Green when he transfered the money (again, I’ll point out he did so before they adopted the rule they later applied retroactively), I will – any money that entered the Green federal campaign on or after January 1, 2005, would be counted against that $10,000 limit.

I wonder if the Craps campaign will be suggesting punishments this time too.

September 19, 2006

Why a GOP majority still matters

by @ 15:08. Filed under Politics - National, Politics - Wisconsin.

For those of you who don’t subscribe to OpinionJournal’s Political Diary, you missed an outlining of some of the reasons why the ‘Rats cannot be allowed back in power by Rep. Paul Ryan. It deserves to be archived somewhere, and since for reasons beyond my comprehension the WSJ doesn’t archive any of the Political Diary, I may as well give you a reason to not miss tomorrow’s edition:

Wisconsin Republican Rep. Paul Ryan dropped by our offices yesterday with an answer to the question: Why not cheer for Republicans to go down to defeat this November? Maybe a period in the wilderness is exactly what the GOP needs to rediscover its soul as the party of conservative reform.

Mr. Ryan says it’s a seductive thought. A young conservative serving his fourth term, he hasn’t lost sight of the reason he’s in Washington in the first place — to reform the unsustainable federal entitlement programs and bring them to heel. His name is on the best-known plan to introduce private accounts into the Social Security system.

But Mr. Ryan says the GOP’s “brush with death” this year may be sufficient to slap some sense into it. Handing Members “walking around money” to spend on pork barrel projects for their districts “didn’t work,” he says. Republicans now find their majority threatened by voters irate over their excessive spending in pursuit of permanent incumbency. One hopeful sign is the earmark reform enacted by the House last week. Under pressure from Mr. Ryan and a handful of others, the Appropriations Committee accepted new rules that require Members to put their names next to earmarks they insert in spending bills.

Mr. Ryan didn’t spend a lot of time wargaming the GOP’s chances this year. His own seat is safe for now: Five liberal Democrats battled for the privilege of taking him on, but the winner — with a mere 25% of the vote — was the same 66-year-old retired orthopedic surgeon Mr. Ryan’s already beaten twice. But Mr. Ryan says conservatives should think twice before concluding there’s nothing at risk in locking the GOP out of power. The window of opportunity for serious entitlement reform will only be open until the baby boomers become entrenched in retirement. With the first wave of boomers now entering their 60s, time is running out, he says.

September 18, 2006

New sidebar feature

by @ 16:20. Filed under Sports, The Blog.

Back on Sept 1, Jeff Wagner wondered which number would be higher; the Brewers’ win total on the road for September (and presumably, October because they finish the season in St. Louis on Oct. 1) over 12 games, or the Packers’ win total for the season over 16. I took the Brewers (I said 4, which is turning out to be “slightly” optimistic). In any case, until the fat lady sings, a running total will be up in the left sidebar, even though Jeff never did get back to me on the friendly wager.

September 17, 2006

Packers’ autopsy – take two (of 16?)

by @ 23:10. Filed under Sports.

I waffled between the game and the race, with much the same result in both. A couple of quick thoughts of my own before we head to the Cheddarsphere for the rest of the autopsy:

  • The defense can play…for 15 minutes. Unfortunately, they need to play for 60.
  • If Holmgren were still here, the waiver wire would be filled with Ahman Green and various receivers who can’t hang onto the ball.
  • Reggie Bush hasn’t figured out yet that the NFL is much faster than the NCAA. Once he does, though, look out.
  • See below for my thoughts on Wile E. Thompson (mud spelled backwards) and E. Michael McCan’thy.

Now, the few brave souls that didn’t find something more fulfilling to do with a Sunday afternoon, like painting (last updated 6:30 am 9/18/2006):

  • Mike found some positives. I’m surprised he didn’t file this under “20 years of bad football”.
  • Kevin says, “Don’t do illegal things to get you through 20 years of bad football.”
  • In an early report, Mary marvelled that the Pack actually scored. She hasn’t been seen since. She finally got out of the stupor induced by quarters 2, 3 and 4 late last night.
  • Troy blames Jim Doyle for the 0-2 start.
  • Native Texan Kate gloats. Go ahead; I’m gloating over my 10-5 performance against the line.
  • The head barkeep lays odds on the #1 pick in the 2007 draft. I only hope that Wile E. isn’t in a position to blow that pick.
  • Jib got back home too late for the highlights, but arrived just in time for the lowlights.
  • Dennis York endured the ultimate torture; a trip from Madistan to Lambeau Field via the Marquette Interchange. Be thankful you didn’t have to go south; we South Siders don’t matter worth a damn to the Craps DOT (seriously, it’s kind of hard to connect temporary ramps to the High Rise).

Just in case I haven’t made myself clear on the Packers…

by @ 17:57. Filed under Sports.

Allow me to give it the Lazamataz “We’re all gonna die!!!!” treatment.

Fire Wile E. Thompson and E. Michael McCan’thy!!!!

Blogrolling with the changes

by @ 17:45. Filed under The Blog.

Change #1 – Rendezvous With Destiny finally popped up on my radar screen with enough intensity to show up on the roll. Troy’s another Waukesha County Stormtrooper who, among other things, came out of his holdout at an unfortunate time.

Change #2 – The Big Pilot decided to depart the Cheddarsphere. Damn it; he will be missed. At the same time, the Asian Badger has called a hiatus. At least he didn’t pull the plug like he did last time.

I’ve also done some culling of dead links and dead blogs.

Milwaukee turnout mixup computer’s fault

by @ 9:28. Filed under Politics - Wisconsin.

And you can’t blame this one on Diebold. The city did its own programming, and most of the battiest of the moonbats still lost.

After spending the last couple of days counting the number of ballots cast in Tuesday’s election, the Milwaukee Election Commission announced Saturday that 46,413 ballots were found, as opposed to initial claims that 80,064 ballots were cast. This more-or-less jives with the MEC explanation that ballots cast at polling places hosting multiple wards were counted multiple times in the total count but not in any individual race. The “more-or-less” comes in because 101 ballots that were counted at a North Side ward on election night disappeared and another 34 estimated by the explanation fell through the cracks someplace. I want an explanation because there should not have been a variance of a single ballot, much less 0.3% of them (which is roughly what President Bush lost Wisconsin by in 2004, and much higher than what he lost Wisconsin by in 2000).

While I don’t think that failed ‘Rat sheriff candidate Vince Bobot, the only guy not satisfied with the results, will see any movement in a recount of the ‘Rat sheriff primary, I invite him to have a full recount of that race. Maybe he and his fellow ‘Rats will finally see the light on election reform (yeah right; the only way that Bobot would have won is if the elections were even dirtier).

If at first you don’t succeed,…

by @ 8:25. Filed under Sports.

So I went 7-9 and only nailed 1 of my 2 over/unders. There’s still 16 weeks left, but let’s quickly review Weak 1 before moving on to Week 2 and redemption…

Miami 17 (+1) @ Pittsburgh 28 – I’m glad that Batch didn’t play for Duh Lions.
Denver 10 (-4) @ St. Louis 18 – Snakebit again.
NY Jets 23 @ Tennessee 16 (-2.5) – Damn it, damn it, damn iiiiit!
Atlanta 20 @ Carolina 6 (-5) – At least I was right about Vick not being a passer.
Cincinnati 23 (+1.5) @ Kansas City 10 – Who needs an offense when you have a defense?
Seattle 9 (-6.5-LOSS) @ Detroit 6 – And the Super Bowl Loser Slump™ begins early.
Philadelphia 24 (-6) @ Houston 10 – Lumber laid. You think the Texans could’ve used Bush?
Baltimore 27 @ Tampa Bay 0 (-3) – At least I told you to take the under, but who knew the OldBrowns had an offense?
New Orleans 19 @ Cleveland 14 (-3) – Bad news for this week; the Aint’s are on a roll.
Buffalo 17 (+9.5-WIN) @ New England 19 – Who knew neither team had an offense either?
Chicago 26 (-4) @ Green Bay 0 – Let the chants begin!
San Francisco 27 (+7.5-WIN) @ Arizona 34 – I’m glad I got the points.
Dallas 17 (+2) @ Jacksonville 24 – I knew that was a bad reason to take the Pokes.
Indianapolis 26 (-3.5) @ NY Giants 21 – To answer last week’s question, it’s because neither team has a defense.
Minnesota 19 @ Washington 16 (-4.5) – We really need something bad to happen to Brad Johnson; he just wins, baby.
San Diego 27 (-3) @ Oakland – Repeating – Two letters; LT.

With that out of the way, let’s head on over to bodog.com and grab this week’s smorgasbord of NFL action. As last week proved, you’re an idiot if you take my advice and gamble with Knock-Knees Tony, so be warned that I do not cover any broken knees, fingers, necks, taxes or lawyers’ fees –

New Orleans (-3) @ Green Bay – Until the Pack proves otherwise (or, more likely, until they get Duh Viqueens and Duh Lions outside in December), give the points.
Detroit (+8.5) @ Chicago – Special teams are rarely good for more than 5 points, so also take the under-32.
Oakland @ Baltimore (-13) – If you can’t score against the Bolts, you can’t score period.
Houston @ Indianapolis (-14) – This is turning into an all-lumber weekend. Start building your dream home.
Cleveland @ Cincinnati (-11) – The NewBrowns can’t win at home against the Aint’s, what makes anyone think they have a chance against the BENgals?
Buffalo (+6.5) @ Miami – Again, it’s a tale of no offenses. They’re already calling for Culpepper’s head in Miami, not realizing the absolute disaster waiting in the wings.
Carolina (+1.5) @ Minnesota – You may like the 1 1/2 points, you may want the 1 1/2 points, and by law, if you gamble legally, you’ll get the 1 1/2 points, but you’re not gonna need them. The Panther Super Bowl Express gets back on the train this week.
New York Giants @ Philadelphia (-3) – Philly has a bit of a defense, the G-men don’t.
Tampa Bay @ Atlanta (-6) – Chuckie, we have a problem. We have a complete defensive failure, a main offense undervolt, multiple caution and warning lights.
St Louis (-3) @ San Francisco – Take the over-43.5 as the main play here.
Arizona (+7) @ Seattle – It ain’t December yet, so Denny Green isn’t in full-choke mode yet.
New England (-6.5) @ NY Jets – I said it before, I’ll say it again, so I’ll spare you the chant this week.
Tennessee @ San Diego (-12) – Heck, Joan Rivers could start at QB and the Bolts would still cover.
Kansas City (+11) @ Denver – So I was wrong; it’s not a all-lumber weekend.
Washington @ Dallas (-7) – Any week TO and She can stay out of Tuna’s net is a good week to take the ‘Boys.
Pittsburgh (-3) @ Jacksonville – You heard it here first; Big Ben’s back, and the Jags are in trouble.

(Cross-posted at TheWisconsinSportsBar)

September 14, 2006

Tuesday election screw-ups

by @ 7:39. Filed under Politics - Wisconsin.

Item #1 from the Journal Sentinel –

The city of Milwaukee reports tens of thousands more voters than votes cast. ‘Tis extremely strange, but not exactly surprising considering that there were races in both parties. Question; did anybody consider counting up the spoiled ballots where there was not a “corrected” ballot cast? This bears watching.

More-troubling is the continuing existence of the “Philadelphia” factor – several wards with over 100% turnout in an election where there was an alleged citywide turnout of around 25%. Can someone tell me why we still let people register at the polls the day of the election?

Item #2 (also from the JS) –

Waukesha County all screwed up. The worst screw-ups were in the hotly-contested 97th Assembly District, where Chris Lufter was initially declared the winner, only to lose after the ballots from the city of Waukesha (home of Comrade Nelson) were recounted.

Other snafus included the complete failure of the new touch-screen machines in the city of Waukesha, and incompatibilities between the format of the results from touch-screen machines in 2 of the municipalities and those from touch-screen machines in the rest of the county resulting in no online results on the county’s web site.

A picture is worth 1,000 words

by @ 7:19. Filed under Politics - Wisconsin.

Found on the front page of the Metro section in this morning’s Journal Sentinel, as part of this story on the attorney general’s race….


Journal Sentinel photo by Benny Sieu (9/13/2006)

Remember, Jim “Craps” Doyle remains under investigation by both the US Attorney’s office (Eastern District of Wisconsin) and the state Department of Justice (headed by the state attorney general, an office Kathleen Falk is running for) for multiple “irregularities” involving campaign finances.

Expect more of these pictures, as the person who hopes to be the official Craps whitewasher signalled that she and Craps plan on many more joint appearances.

September 13, 2006

Quote of the day

by @ 11:08. Filed under War on Terror.

The Asian Badger – Russ, you ignorant slut.

That about sums up my reaction to Russ el-Slimeroad’s (Moonbat-Al Qaeda) call for a new term to replace “Islamic fascist”. May I suggest “Islamokazi”? It captures the nature of them so well; Islamic kamikaze Nazis.

Drinking Right and time to add to the roll

by @ 10:34. Filed under Miscellaneous.

I finally managed to be in town during a Drinking Right event. As the Asian Badger said, the usual suspects were there at Papa’s Social Club, along with special guest Jeff Wagner. Jeff had to bail very early because he was hosting WTMJ’s election coverage at 8 (no cushion because the Brewer game was rained out; otherwise, he could have stuck around until probably 8:15), but the rest of the gang stuck around, had some pizza and adult beverages (Patrick, Papa’s also serves Coke and they’re right up the road from you, so we’ll expect you next month), watched the returns come in, and generally had a good time.

Apparently I didn’t have enough non-Miller alcohol before last night; I somehow forgot triticale on the roll. That’s now fixed.

Primary election post-mortem

by @ 9:22. Filed under Politics - National, Politics - Wisconsin.

Selected short-takes from selected races (edited 6:20 pm 9/13/2006):

  • Attorney General – It will be JB Van Hollen (60%-40% over Paul Bucher thanks to a second mortgage, the Clarke Effect, and the outstate-vs-SE-Wis factor) versus Kathleen Falk (53%-47% over incumbent Peg Lautenschlager despite losing Dane County by roughly 10 points). Dennis York notes that it is now open season on Jim “Craps” Doyle at the Wisconsin Department of Justice. Keg best hurry to fill her license because the race is now between Craps’ handpicked candidate and somebody who saw nothing wrong with Craps in his 5 years as US Attorney for the part of Wisconsin that includes his residence.
  • US Senate (D) – There are 51,000 pothead non-basketball-fan moonbats in Wisconsin.
  • 8th Congressional – There’s going to be a LOT of money tossed at John Gard (who waxed Terri McCormich 68%-32% in the Pubbie primary) and Deaniac Steve Kagen (who got a plurality in a 3-way ‘Rat race). I do note that the Pubbie primary drew about 3,600 more voters (56,400 to 52,800), which would suggest a 51.6%-48.4% margin in favor of Gard in November.
  • 7th Senate (D) – No wonder why the ‘Rats drew the district the way they did, connecting Oak Creek to UWM via the Jones Island Sewage Plant (irony not intended by the ‘Rats, I’m sure), and why the ‘Rats oppose any efforts to either enforce existing vote-fraud laws or make them tougher – 3,208 out of 12,194 participants wanted a ‘Rat who votes twice like a ‘Rat despite the fact that said ‘Rat (Donovan Riley) withdrew from the race and faces disqualification from further consideration for public office if he’s convicted on charges he voted twice like a ‘Rat. What’s worse is that a solid number of those that voted for incumbent Jeff Plale did so because they crossed over to the ‘Rat primary as part of the Clarke Effect. I shudder to think what would have happened if Scott Walker had stayed in the governor’s race and Clarke had not decided to run as a “‘Rat”.
  • Milwaukee County Sheriff (D) – David Clarke can rest easy after his 2nd party-raiding gamble. Because Milwaukee County conservatives were pretty much happy with either Van Hollen or Bucher, and because Walker pulled out of the governor’s race, enough of them raided the ‘Rat primary to cause the Clarke Effect elsewhere on the ballot and hold off union toadie and multiple-time-loser Vince Bobot (I remembered his disastrous mayoral run; I didn’t know he also got aced out of a Milwaukee aldermanic run until last night’s Drinking Right).
  • Milwaukee County DA (D) – Without access to Milwaukee County-only numbers in the AG’s race, I can only speculate this is the reason why Falk won – the 20,000 (35%) that voted for Larraine McNamara-McGraw, the candidate that made E. Michael McCan’t look like a marauding prosecutor and ideological soulmate to Falk. Again, I shudder to think what this would have been without the Clarke Effect, not that I think that John Chisholm will be much better than Mac-Mac or any better than the guy who hand-picked him as his successor, E. Michael McCan’t.

    Update (6:20 pm 9/13/2006) – Brian Fraley dug up the county-by-county results, and Katty’s victory in Milwaukee County was only a shade over 8,000. Keg carried Dane County by 10,000.

  • 23rd Assembly (R) – Name recognition is almost everything; ex-WTMJ weatherman Jim Ott doubled up John Wirth
  • 29th Assembly (R) – The reason why I said “almost”; John Murtha took 61% in a 3-way race. Guess the voters didn’t confuse this Murtha with the traitor from Pennsylvania.
  • 97th Assembly (R) – Career pols usually beat career activists, and this was no different. Bill Kramer beat Chris Lufter 55%-45%.
  • 98th Assembly (R) – Career pol part 2 – Ex-Sensenbrenner aide Rich Zipperer took 55% in a 3-way race.
  • Connecticut Senate primary (“R”) – The “R”NC, “R”SCC, and President Bush decided to reinforce failure (see Jumpin’ Jim Jeffords-2000 and Arlen “Scottish Law” Specter-2004) by successfully backing lieberal Linc Chafee Dish over moderately-conservative Steve Laffey. The DNC celebrated as they don’t have to spend any money in Connecticut to get a lieberal, and with an expected Leaping Linc Leap should the Senate approach 50-50, they now only need to gain 4 seats to recreate power-“sharing” and 5 to deliver Majority Leader Dingy Harry Reid.

If I ignored your race, I apologize. I can only follow so many races.

September 11, 2006

9/11 tributes

by @ 7:18. Filed under War on Terror.

– I highly recommend that you read as many of the tributes to the 2,996 people murdered by Islamic terrorists on 9/11/2001 as your heart can take.

– Fox News has live streaming video of their 9/11/2001 coverage.

– 620 WTMJ has an excellent dedication site, which includes (or will include in real time as the case may be) audio and blog commentary from the staff (both current and former), a timeline podcast of coverage (which will appear as it aired on 9/11/2001).

September 10, 2006

Packer post-mortem

by @ 21:19. Filed under Sports.

I was 3/4ths-dead and completely unconscious by 3:15 (no, I didn’t play Jeff Wagner’s Drinking Game; I managed to reload the pseudophedrine, and that and my allergies did me in), so my contribution to the post-mortem of the 26-0 drubbing by Duh Bears is, “Fire Wile E. Thompson, mud spelled backwards!” Better takes from those with stouter sinuses:

I’m sure there’s plenty more out there, but my feed reader only has so much room. The Aints come to town next week, fresh off their 19-14 upset road victory over the NewBrowns.

Wisconsin’s history of disgraced Thompsons

by @ 19:46. Filed under Sports.

Inspiration – Dennis York’s “Wisconsin’s History of Disgraced McCarthys

edthompson.jpg tedthompson.JPG

“I’m no big time Charlie.”

September 9, 2006

A crAP reporter worked for Saddam

by @ 17:58. Filed under Presstitute Follies, War on Terror.

A FReeper named jveritas, who has been very busy translating various documents seized in Iraq, just translated a gem of a document that somebody in the (cr)AP had a second employer in Saddam Hussein’s Iraq. Since I don’t know Arabic, I’ll have to trust that the following translation is accurate:

Republic of Iraq

The Presidency of the Republic

The Intelligence Service

Date: 25/7/2000

Number: 6146

Secret

To: 5th / 4th / 13th Directorates

We were informed from one of our sources (the degree of trust in him is good) who works in the American Associated Press Agency that the agency broadcasted to through computer to its branches worldwide the following:

1. The new agency for inspecting the Iraqi weapons (UNMOVIC) started on 11/7/2000 a training program for 4 weeks which includes historical, legal, administrative, and political subjects that are related to the weapons inspection in Iraq.

2. The training include lectures about the ballistic missiles and the biological and chemical weapons and the import and export of weapons in addition to a session in security arrangements prepared by the American government.

3. Hans Blix who head the new team mentioned that he will send a smaller team to Iraq in late August 2000 and the inspections operations will focus on choosing the locations that was under the control of the UNSCOM committee

4. The agency adds that Iraq prevented the old committee from returning to Iraq and that high Iraq officials said they will not accept new inspectors from the new committee but some other left the possibility of negotiations open.

5. The agency ends its article by saying that the sanctions against Iraq will not be lifted unless Iraq cooperate with the new inspectors and after it is decided that Iraq is free from weapons of mass destructions.

Please review and benefit"¦ with regards

Signature

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M. SH.

24/7/2000

I’m shocked, SHOCKED that a presstitute would give aid and comfort to the enemies of the United States </sarcasm>. I wonder what else crAP was providing Saddam.

September 7, 2006

Ask Egg, Vol. 2

by @ 18:20. Filed under Ask Egg, Miscellaneous.

Lieberal politicians are not the only people who could have benefited from asking me what to do before doing something. As long as the histamines are kicking in (I’m down to my last dose of pseudophedrine, and I’m saving that for bedtime), let’s dive into the business world with a more-sarcastic tone than usual…

Letter #1 –

Dear Egg,

A bunch of illegal-immigration advocates started boycotting us after our PAC made a token donation to Jim Sensenbrenner. We realize that they’re the largest-growing demographic in America, and our operations on this side of the pond already have some experience marketing to Spanish-speaking individuals. We want to turn political, burn our bridges to Sensenbrenner and our traditional drinkers, and go after this emerging market, but we wanted your input first.

-Foggy in Londo…er, Milwaukee

Dear Foggy,

Do you really want to drive the Leinenkugel’s brand into oblivion? You might score with the pro-invasion crowd, but Drinking Right (and to a lesser extent, Drinking Liberally) notwithstanding, politics and alcohol don’t mix. Just ask Keg Goldschlager. Morever, if ex-Mexican beer drinkers are anything like American beer drinkers, they’ll drink up here what they drunk down there, and I doubt it was a SABMiller brand.

Prost!
-Egg

Letter #2 (unbelievably, this business actually did one thing that I would have recommended) –

Dear Egg,

My family business has been losing market share year after year. We’re also saddled with a bunch of recalcitrant unions who think it’s still 1966, not 2006. Our products, frankly, suck. HELP!

-Lost in Dearborn

Dear Lost,

Get someone in there who knows how to turn around a company, then get out of his (or her, as the case may be) way. I’m not going to recommend anybody specifically, but if you’re smart enough, I’m sure you can find a candidate or two.

Drive on,
-Egg

Letter #3 –

Dear Egg,

Our network is slated to run a 2-day 9/11 special based on the bipartisan 9/11 Commission report this weekend. In an unusual move for us, we plan on slamming everybody. However, our allies in politics got wind of this, and have threatened us. Considering who those allies are, we’re scared to death. Should we stick to our guns and risk a visit to Ft. Marcy Park, or should we hire Michael Moore to “edit” this special?

-Spineless in NYC

Dear Spineless,

Grow a spine. If I wanted the official DNC take on things, I’d watch “World News Tonight” (or any of your network competition, or CNN, or PMSNBC, or read the New York Slimes, or…you get the idea).

Heck, I think you never intended to have those things S(l)ick Willie and company objected to see the light of day, and that you put them in the “pre-edited” version just to raise the hopes of the majority of Americans who would rather watch The History Channel or Fox News for their 9/11 specials.

Too bad, so sad.
-Egg

One more for the roll

by @ 17:53. Filed under The Blog.

Whether you’re a pilot or a conservative, The Big Pilot is a great read. I’m just a bit slow in updating the roll.

Attention gambling degenerates – NFL 2006 Week 1

by @ 17:03. Filed under Sports.

The NFL season starts tonight (in less than 3 hours, in fact). With that, it’s time to crush your man again. The odds come to us from Bodog.com via Yahoo, and my early-season commentary should prove to be as inane as ever.

Sept. 7 –
Miami (+1) @ Pittsburgh – No Big Ben, no win for the Stillers.

Sept. 10 –
Denver (-4) @ St. Louis – AFC dominance continues unabated
NY Jets @ Tennessee (-2.5) – When in doubt, remember that the J-E-T-S S*CK SU*K SUC*!
Atlanta @ Carolina (-5) – Michael Vick STILL is not a passer, and Carolina is easily the class of the NFC
Cincinnati (+1.5) @ Kansas City – The BenGALS made a believer out of me last year.
Seattle (-6.5) @ Detroit – Somebody has to win this not-so-classic matchup of a Super Bowl loser and Duh Lions.
Philadelphia (-6) @ Houston – Layeth the lumber.
Baltimore @ Tampa Bay (-3) – Actually, the under 34 is a better bet than taking either team sans the half-point.
New Orleans @ Cleveland (-3) – See above. The NewBrowns could finish with 6 wins in any NFC division.
Buffalo (+9.5) @ New England – Neither team has a defense, so take the over 41 as well.
Chicago (-4) @ Green Bay – Over/under on calls for Mike McCarthy’s head – 10:22 left in the 3rd quarter (and put me down for the under, though my calls are for Wile E. Thompson’s head)
San Francisco (+7.5) @ Arizona – You may like the points, you may want the points, and if your man is honest, you’ll get the points, but you’re not gonna need them. Warner’s over the hill.
Dallas (+2) @ Jacksonville – I’m not taking Dallas just because I have She on my fantasy team; really, I’m not.
Indianapolis (-3.5) @ NY Giants – Why, oh why couldn’t the defenses just crush both Mannings?

Sept. 11 –
Minnesota @ Washington (-4.5) – It will be a 3-way battle for last in the NFC North.
San Diego (-3) @ Oakland – Two letters; LT

(Cross-posted at TheWisconsinSportsBar)

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