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 December 22nd, 2006

Irrational exuberance – the pre-Christmas edition

by @ 20:15. Filed under Sports.

This has been supplanted by the Christmas edition. A fixed pre-Christmas edition is still at TheWisconsinSportsBar.

Al Qaeda is stepping forth to claim victory

by @ 15:19. Filed under Politics - National, War on Terror.

(H/T – a pair of Free Republic posts)

ABC News is reporting via Brian Ross’ blog that Al Qaeda has contacted the Democrats to say they deserve credit for their victory in November. Quoting Al Qaeda spokesman Ayman al-Zawahiri (as translated by ABC News) – “The first is that you aren’t the ones who won the midterm elections, nor are the Republicans the ones who lost. Rather, the Mujahideen — the Muslim Ummah’s vanguard in Afghanistan and Iraq — are the ones who won, and the American forces and their Crusader allies are the ones who lost.” Well, thank fuck you presstitutes and retread hippie voters.

Meanwhile, al-Jazeera (left unlinked here) is reporting that their man in Iraq, Abu Omar al-Baghdadi, not only wants us out of Iraq inside of a month, but wants all our heavy weapons. Allow me to answer that – NUTS! For al-Baghdadi, el-Slimeroad and those of you with public school educations, let Charlie explain that answer, or read the account of the Army medic who handled the translations, Ernie Premetz (courtesy the St. Petersburg Times).

How evil is the NFL? (warning, strong language)

by @ 8:12. Filed under Sports.

Buried at the end of this Milwaukee Journal Sentinel article is this little gem:

Charter Communications was diligently trying to broadcast the game as part of its cable package and thought it was a done deal until Tuesday, when it received a letter from CBS Corp., owner of the Green Bay station airing the game. CBS said it didn’t have the necessary copyright clearance from the NFL Network to allow Charter to carry the game in the Antigo, Wausau, Stevens Point and Wisconsin Rapids areas, which get the Green Bay CBS station as part of their cable package. (emphasis added)

Let me get this right. Because those cities aren’t “close enough” to Green Bay for the NFL’s taste, they get fucked? Bull-fucking-shit! Let’s review the distances involved as the signal flies, and remember that Charter plucks these signals off the air:

Antigo to Green Bay – 70 miles
Wausau to Green Bay – 86 miles
Stevens Point to Green Bay – 76 miles
Wisconsin Rapids to Green Bay – 90 miles

Granted, they’re on the fringes of the signal from Green Bay for the average person, but Charter manages to pull them off the air with no problem. Let’s take a look at a pair of telling paragraphs from a story on the Green Bay CBS affiliate’s site:

“You could obviously do that, and you could put it on free television,” said (NFL Commissioner Roger) Goodell, who spoke to reporters at Lambeau Field before the Vikings-Packers game. “But then, how do you ever get the distribution?”

Goodell denied the league was using a high-profile game broadcast — it could be Brett Favre’s last appearance at Lambeau — as a bargaining chip to put public pressure on cable television operators to carry the channel.

What a bunch of fucking bullshit. The league is using high-profile game broadcasts, namely divison rivalries, to put public pressure on cable television operators to cough up $9/subscriber/year to put 8 NFL games and 2 college bowl games on a full basic cable, the asshat commish admits it, and then has the balls to deny he just admitted it.

Donovan Riley to remain eligible for future office

by @ 7:42. Filed under Law and order, Politics - Wisconsin.

Under the terms of a plea deal reached between outgoing Waukesha County DA Paul Bucher and former Democratic State Senate candidate Donovan Riley, the felony charge of vote fraud-voting more than once will be reduced to a misdemeanor. Even though he loses his law licenses in Wisconsin and Illinois, $10,000 and whatever campaign contributions are returned beyond what’s left in his campaign fund, the fact that the charge is reduced to a misdemeanor means that he can run again. Considering that he got 25% of the vote in the ‘Rat primary despite officially dropping out, he’ll be state Senator by 2011.

Thanks for nothing, Paul.

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