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 April 11th, 2007

Since the Spotted One seems to be lost in this “Global Warming”…

by @ 16:57. Filed under Global "Warming", Weather.

…it falls on me to break out his poster.

Everyone to the fight with the blizzard, especially you Indians fans (since you guys have so much recent experience).

Thank God for the dome; see you at Miller Park.

Madison, we have a job problem

by @ 12:49. Filed under Business, Politics - Wisconsin.

Reading beyond the headlines of this DayWatch blurb that focuses too much on Milwaukee County’s piss-poor job-creation performance yields a very dark and bleak picture. The US Bureau of Labor Statistics ranked job growth in the 326 largest counties in the country, including the 6 largest counties in Wisconsin (in alphabetical, Brown, Dane, Milwaukee, Outagamie, Racine, Waukesha and Winnebago), between the third quarter of 2005 and the third quarter in 2006. The average job growth among employers subject to unemployment insurance laws was 1.5%. Waukesha County came in on top of the Wisconsin heap and slotted in at 213rd nationally with a 0.5% increase. Milwaukee County came in second with a 0.1% increase, “good” enough for 252nd nationally, Racine broke even statistically, and the other 4 all lost jobs.

I guess having a very hostile tax/legal/regulatory business climate does have consequences.

5 days and counting

by @ 10:28. Filed under Law and order, Lawgivers-In-Black, Politics, Politics - Wisconsin.

That is how long it’s been since the 3-person panel of Lawgivers-In-Black on the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals released Georgia Thompson from Club Fed, and there is still no opinion from them to back up their order. Inquiring minds from Madison to Chicago, both in politics and organized crime (or are they really one and the same?), want to know whether there is something specific about this case that caused a crash-stop reversal of Thompson’s conviction that they can exploit or whether the new standard is that, as long as the fixer remains clammed up, no conviction in the Great Lakes will remain upright.

We’re definitely doomed

by @ 6:37. Filed under Weather.

Jumpin’ Jim Cantore, he of the 30-foot storm surge, is in town. The snow is a bit late (just started flurrying here in Oak Creek), but we’re still in for 6-12 inches depending on where you are.

Ah heck, it worked when we had Mike Seidel here – let’s give Jim a warm welcome.

Revisions/extensions (10:00 am 4/11/2007) – The white death is starting to stick to the ground here in Oak Creek, but the pavement (even the untreated pavement) is still just wet (or perhaps frozen; my thermometer says it’s 31.3 degrees, though I trust that about a quarter as far as I could chuck it left-handed).

Revisions/extensions part 2 (12:50 pm 4/11/2007) – Demon Snow continues, as I can no longer tell the difference between asphalt and grass. I can, however, still see the tops of the tallest stalks of grass (I didn’t get a chance to mow before things got wet and white), and still tell the difference between concrete and grass.

Revisons/extensions part 3 (4:52 pm 4/11/2007) – Hey Newt; I’ve got 6 or so inches of Global “Warming” for you to shovel. Just jump out of the plane on its final approach to Runway 1L…oops, that Global “Warming” pretty much shut down Mitchell Field.

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