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 May 7th, 2007

Substitute “24” Live Thread

by @ 20:01. Filed under Miscellaneous.

Since the boys at Blogs4Bauer seem to have been overcome with Sentox (but not before bRight & Early got this week’s Kill CounterChallenge up, I guess I’m going to have to pick up the slack. I won’t have any eye candy, mainly because Russet Potato Face hacked her way into the Miss Blogs4Bauer contest at the expense of the Michelle Dessler.

Viewer discretion is advised (as well as reader discretion). Patsy Ramsey and Jack Jr are back?

Revisions/extensions (8:03 pm 5/7/2007) – B4B is in play, so I’m shutting down.

Fixing the Forums4Bauer link

by @ 17:45. Filed under The Blog.

Forums4Bauer is the first of the 4Bauer family to move to 4bauer.com.

Start Jack Bauer Appreciation Day (May 9) a bit early; join the discussions. Otherwise, a segment of Season 7 will be dedicated to your demise.

Reason #538 to not introduce socialized medicine

by @ 17:30. Filed under Lawsuit madness, Politics.

I missed where Jeff Wagner (who needs to go through the 12-step lawyer-recovery program again) got this story, but I knew Allahpundit would come through as he always does. Sky News relays the story of one John Brandrick from Newquay, Cornwall, England. Two years ago, Royal Cornwall Hospital in Treliske diagnosed him with terminal pancreatic cancer with a 6- to 12-month life expectancy. So, he did what any self-worshiping moron would do in that situation; he quit his job, stopped paying his rent, and spent all his money.

Needless to say, they screwed up the diagnosis, and eventually determined (after he survived past a year) non-fatal pancreatitis. Now, like any good lieberal, he wants his many Pounds of flesh (side note; God bless the Brits for not signing onto the Euro). The money quote – “But if you haven’t got any money – it was my fault, I spent it all – they should pay something back.”

Unlike Jeff (and like Charlie’s producer, Joe Scialfa), I have absolutely, positively no sympathy for this idiot. Take a look at the money quote. Mr. Brandrick admitted that his current financial condition is all his fault. If I were a judge, I would read that part of the quote back to him as I dismissed the suit. It definitely is true that a fool and his money are soon parted.

That having been said, this illustrates a pair of big problems with socialized medicine. First, where would Mr. Brandrick have gone for a second (or third, or fourth) opinion, like any self-respecting American would? Another gubmint-run hospital, staffed with gubmint-employed doctors that would have made the same 3rd-rate “diagnosis”. Second, just how did they make that diagnosis? Geez, you would think they would have been bright enough to perform a biopsy after finding the tumor, but I’ll bet that step was taken out in the interests of gubmint-ordered “cost control”.

Reparations – the Guam gambit

by @ 16:50. Filed under Politics - National.

There are so many things wrong with House Resolution 1595. Let’s start with the premise that the United States is under any current obligation to pay off the residents of Guam for atrocities committed by Imperial Japan during WWII, especially since we did so in 1945-1946 (link to the text of the Guam Meritorious Claims Act of 1945). Indeed, there is no provision in the current resolution against double-dipping.

Second, we’re talking about $126 million for this double-dip. Here I thought the Feds were in a budget crunch.

Item #3 in the failure of this smell test – what in the hell is Guam’s observer doing introducing legislation? Last I checked, Guam was not a state.

Finally, with a hat-tip to Fred (I would have got to this on my own, but Fred got to it before I clicked on the co-sponsors), why in the hell is F. James Sensenbrenner co-sponsoring this money-wasting abortion? I noticed that not even Gwen Moore is sponsoring it.

Revisions/extensions (7:55 am 5/8/2007) – More people blogging on this:
Jeff Emanuel at RedState (I really should’ve given him the big H/T yesterday, but I got this from my e-mail before my feed reader got up to speed)
Curt at Flopping Aces
Gateway Pundit
Michelle Malkin
Leo at Blogs for Bush
Rob at Say Anything
Emperor Misha at Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler

It don’t mean a thing if I ain’t got that swing

by @ 16:05. Filed under Miscellaneous.

And I definitely don’t have that swing right now. I’m going on 3 weeks of a seriously-bum ankle, allergies are in full bloom, and I’m plum out of ideas. Let’s see…

– The French elected a conservative and the lieberals rioted. I have to wonder what percentage of that was the Islamokazi component; after all, they’re only a generation or two from being able to turn France into part of the Caliphate via the ballot box if they stick together, even if the rest of France don’t do what the French usually do when faced with a threat and simply surrender.

The May edition of Drinking Right is tomorrow. Same time, same place. See you at Papa’s Social Club at 7.

– The family that robs together sticks together – a father/son bank-robbing team was busted in Wauwatosa. I guess Pappy needed some more cash so he could be a “good Samaritan”. And people wonder why I’ve always hated “Robin Hood”.

– The mob lives on in Vegas; some wise guy used explosives on top of a car parked in the Luxor hotel parking garage to conduct a near-perfect surgical hit at 4 am this morning, killing one and injuring another. At least that’s what the police are saying. Say, how’s the OU bombing investigation going, you know, the one where Joel Hinrichs blew himself up outside the crowded football stadium back in 2005?

There’s one more item that I want to give the full-blown NRE treatment to, so like the Terminator, I’ll be back.

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