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 March 21st, 2007

Scum of the earth updates

by @ 16:02. Filed under Compassionate Lieberals, War on Terror.

I haven’t hopped in on the story of a bunch of thugs recreating Kristallnacht on the Army recruiting center near the UWM campus, but there’s a couple of updates that need to have a wider audience.

First, even though the thugs have, so far, only picked up municipal tickets, Jessica McBride is reporting that Milwaukee County DA John Chisholm isn’t ruling out additional charges, even if the Milwaukee Police Department doesn’t recommend any. The catch is, MPD had not refered anything to his office as of this morning (Oh Nan, what’s the delay?), so the DA’s office is in a holding pattern.

Similarily, the feds are in a holding pattern, even though the damage threshhold for a federal felony charge is only $1,000 compared to the state’s $2,500 threshhold. There hasn’t been any word out of the US Attorney’s office, but typically the US Attorney will let the state handle things. I strongly suspect that, if Chisholm starts channeling E. Michael McCan’t, Steve Biskupic will invite the punks for a stay at Club Fed.

Second, I do have to give props to my state Senator, Jeff Plale (D-South Milwaukee). Charlie Sykes has an e-mail from him condemning the punks.

And the cover-up continues

by @ 15:28. Filed under Politics - Wisconsin.

Good news – they’ve found Frankie Bag-O-Cash Busalacchi’s calendar for 2003 and 2004 on his Palm Pilot.

Bad news – Busalacchi had time to wipe any mention of Troha from it.

Exit question for those with Palm Pilots; is there enough memory on those things to keep contacts from 3 and 4 years ago? Something doesn’t smell right here.

Dammit, Chris – why did you pull that?

by @ 15:07. Filed under Politics - Wisconsin.

Revisions/extensions (4:28 pm 3/21/2007) – Chris pulled the post, dammit. I simply struck throught the no-longer-relevant portions and pulled the link. It was truly classic DY.

Further revisions/extensions (6:41 pm 3/21/2007) – If only he didn’t have to out himself before taking his current gig,….

I proudly present to you the single best take on the revelation in today’s Milwaukee Journal Sentinel that the Department of Transportation “accidentally” erased Secretary Frank Busalacchi’s calendar, as well as his top deputy’s calendar and nobody else’s, for 2003 and 2004. If Chris Schneider is right, that’s why the archived-for-all-time (no ‘Rats here to save me) Bouncing Mozzarella got bounced.

Seriously, there is no way in hell that calendar could have accidentally disappeared. EVERY last GUI I’ve ever dealt with has asked for confirmation before deleting, while almost every backup program I’ve ever done does not. Even if the state were still using command-line technology, “DEL” isn’t exactly easily-confused with “COPY” or “BACKUP”.

Now, what is next? Since there is no longer a direct link to any activity that happened in the Eastern District of Wisconsin, I don’t know if US Attorney for Eastern Wisconsin Steve Biskupic can find a hook into this. Dane County DA Brian Blanchard, who has primary responsibility for prosecuting crimes committed in Madison, is nothing more than a partisan hack doing the bidding of the Madistan branch of the DPW (not-coincidentally, the branch that continues to occupy the governor’s mansion). AG JB Van Hollen saw nothing wrong with Team Craps in the 3+ years he was US Attorney for Western Wisconsin (responsible for, among other things, Madison) while Jim “Craps” Doyle (WEAC/Potawatomi-For Sale) and Busalacchi were in the executive branch, and there’s nothing that suggests he sees anything wrong now. Van Hollen’s replacement in that office is so invisible I don’t even know who it is.

So, why did those two calendars and only those two calendars “accidentally” disappear? Could some of those entries contained evidence that Busalacchi illegally had the DOT provide indicted Doyle moneyman Dennis Troha with help settling tax bills with other states? If so, could those entries also contain evidence that Busalacchi was ordered to provide that help? Inquiring minds want to know, and not just mine.

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