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 30th, 2007

LAST CALL FOR THOSE OF YOU WHO HAVEN’T UPDATED YOUR BLOGROLLS!!!

by @ 23:03. Filed under Miscellaneous.

I hate to shout, but my search through Technorati for places that still actively link to the norunnyeggs.eggstor.com version doesn’t quite cover all the Blogspot blogs. I managed to catch a couple of you in a desperate search through your blogrolls (you know who you are; I left an e-mail for you), but I doubt I caught all of you. Sometime before May 15, I will be moving eggstor.com off of its current server, which will break the norunnyeggs.eggstor.com subdomain and the redirect I have set up to get you to norunnyeggs.com.

Now, get your rolls updated – https://norunnyeggs.com

Let’s go shooting

by @ 22:41. Filed under Miscellaneous.

The BBA Spring Shoot is set for Saturday, May 19, at McMiller’s Sports Center. We will commence firing approximately 10:00 in the morning. Chris will bring some of his arsenal, from a .44 Magnum to several scoped rifles to an “eeeeeevil” assault rifle (you’ll find out that it isn’t exactly evil) to (if he remember it this time) a 12-gauge for some clay-pigeon practice. I will probably have something to bring to the party as well (guess it’s time to go shopping).

The Pelosi Surrender Tour marches on

by @ 19:52. Filed under Politics - National, War on Terror.

The American Spectator reveals that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, acting more and more like she and her fellow harpies have already managed to remove both President Bush and Vice President Cheney every day, has told her staff to pack their bags for trips to another pair of self-declared enemies of America, Venezuela and Iran. The interesting item is that some of the ‘Rats are starting to have buyer’s remorse…

“She is getting bad advice from people back home in San Francisco,” says a leadership aide, who is working for one Pelosi’s colleagues. “She is not getting it from members of her leadership team. That’s all anyone here is willing to say.”

I smell cat-fight between Pelosi and Clinton. I’m popping the corn as I type.

There’s something familiar about that mask

by @ 19:24. Filed under Miscellaneous.

There’s a “new” Masked Blogger in town, and while there’s something very familiar about the mask, I can’t quite place it </employer_protection>

File this under “The Islamokazis really want to kill ALL of us”

by @ 17:28. Filed under War on Terror.

(H/T – Weasel Zippers via JammieWearingFool)

One of the claims by George Tenet in his kiss-and-tell book that isn’t getting a whole lot of media-web attention outside of MSNBC (I have no idea about any of the networks’ on-air efforts; sorry) is that Al Qaeda tried to assassinate then-Vice President Al Gore back in 1998 with the tacit assistance and approval of some in the government of Saudi Arabia. I’ll let MSNBC explain…

Tenet discloses that in 1998, Saudi officials foiled a plot by Abdel Rahim al-Nashiri to smuggle four Sagger anti-tank missiles from Yemen into Saudi Arabia a week or so before Gore was scheduled to visit the kingdom. But their reluctance to let the United States know what was going on created significant tension between the two nations.

Tenet writes that it was reasonable to have expected the Saudis to pass the information along as soon as possible, but they did not.

After low-level discussions failed to produce a sense of urgency among the Saudis, Tenet flew to Riyadh to meet with Prince Naif, the interior minister and the man in charge of the Saudi secret police.

The rest of the article is also an interesting (in the Chinese sense of the word) read. Of particular note is the 9-year-long attempt by Al Qaeda to acquire nuclear weapons and explode them on American soil. I guess this would be a good time to point out that it was Tenet’s personal assessment that, if absolutely nothing changed from January 2003 (that means, Hans Blix was continuing to run around Saddam Hussein’s Iraq, and the joke of sanctions that were in place remained in place), Iraq would be a nuclear power anytime between now and 2009.

Uncle Jimbo fires for effect

by @ 9:46. Filed under Presstitute Follies, War on Terror.

CNN couldn’t get rid of Uncle Jimbo fast enough on this weekend’s “This Week At War”. Not only did he explode the left’s Jessica Lynch meme, with the surprise endorsement of CNN’s senior Pentagon correspondent, Jamie McIntyre (lefties take heart; UJ agrees that the Pentagon f’ed up on the Tillman issue), but he got in a parting shot on CNN’s collaboration with insurgent snipers.

Now, go watch (since I presume most of you were like me and didn’t catch it on CNN itself).

Texas Legislature – Bloggers are not “media”

by @ 8:06. Filed under Law and order, Politics, The Blog.

(H/T – Paleo Conservative at Free Republic)

In an attempt to shield reporters from having to disclose their confidential sources, Texas Senator Rodney Ellis (D-Houston) very pointedly sought to exclude bloggers from this protection. The Houston Chronicle has the money quote – “It does not cover the garden-variety blogger sitting in their pajamas at home ranting and raving on the computer.” Houston, we have a problem, and it’s not just this politico’s derision for his constituents.

There is a back-door method to gain this protection, however. From the text of the bill (which is poised to pass the Texas Senate):

Sec. 22.021. DEFINITIONS. In this subchapter:
….
(2) “Journalist” means a person who for financial
gain, for a substantial portion of the person’s livelihood, or for
subscription purposes gathers, compiles, prepares, collects,
photographs, records, writes, edits, reports, investigates,
processes, or publishes news or information that is disseminated by
a news medium or communication service provider and includes:
(A) a person who supervises or assists in
gathering, preparing, and disseminating the news or information;
(B) a person who is or has been a journalist,
scholar, or researcher employed by an institution of higher
education; or
(C) a person who is on a professional track to
earn a significant portion of the person’s livelihood by obtaining
or preparing information for dissemination by a news medium or an
agent, assistant, employee, or supervisor of that person.
(3) “News medium” means a newspaper, magazine or
periodical, book publisher, news agency, wire service, radio or
television station or network, cable, satellite, or other
transmission system or carrier or channel, or a channel or
programming service for a station, network, system, or carrier, or
an audio or audiovisual production company or Internet company or
provider, or the parent, subsidiary, division, or affiliate of that
entity, that disseminates news or information to the public by any
means, including:
(A) print;
(B) television;
(C) radio;
(D) photographic;
(E) mechanical;
(F) electronic; and
(G) other means, known or unknown, that are
accessible to the public.

Revisons/extensions (8:14 am 4/30/2007) – Get me more caffeine; I completely forgot to add the ironic title of this piece of rotted sausage – “The Free Flow of Information Act”.

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