If it’s spring, my allergies are knocking me flat out. Let’s see what I missed by not blogging the last couple days:
– McGee/Jackson Sr. may have finally stepped in it by defaming Charlie Sykes over the tragic death of his mother on his WNOV-AM show (thanks much for recording this, Patrick). The story went national, with many thanks to both Patrick and Pete. John McAdams managed to get a few words out of WNOV President/CEO Jerrel Jones, who decided to air a laughing McGee/Jackson Jr in Sr’s spot today (per Fred). Sure looks like Mr. Jones thinks it’s yet another McGee/Jackson “laughing” matter; I wonder if he has deep-enough pockets for the hopefully-pending FCC action against WNOV-AM.
– The Pubbies had a debate on MSNBC yesterday that nobody (including me) watched. Thankfully, Sister Toldjah dug up the transcript. The big news is that the Tommy Thompson killed his campaign by “mishearing” a question on the right of employers to fire gay workers.
– The de-facto elimination of the Craps Tax Anti-Freeze (would allow a 4%+growth increase) and a doubling of the real-estate transfer fee placed on those trying to escape the Tax HELL known as WisTAXsin survived the Joint Finance Committee (H/T – Owen). With Mike Huebsch all-but-on-board with the massive gas tax increase (which is now worth more than 8 cents/gallon), I am not confident that the Assembly will pull these tax increases out either, or if they do pull them out, will keep them out when the inevitable conference committee puts together the final budget.
– Speaking of gas, we’re now over $3.20/gallon. Gee, when we’ve gone 30 years since a new refinery was built or a new domestic oil field was exploited, we still have 40-some boutique gases with our special blend of Algore/Whitman Memorial Crap Gas having both summer and winter blends, and a couple refinery problems pop up, is it any wonder that we’ve had a 60% increase since the winter sub-$2/gallon lows? Oh, and expect $3.45 by tomorrow courtesy the 9.18% minimum markup law.
– This week’s Friday Freefly takes aim at the new milblog rules and various House DhimmiRATs.
That’s all for today. AAAAA-CHOO!!!!!
