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 June 8th, 2007

Blast-from-the-past roll bloat

by @ 18:30. Filed under The Blog.

While making sure I didn’t have any mentions of a certain hotel heiress here (I still don’t; if you want that sort of news, everybody else has it), I rediscovered a link to Eminent Domain. Unlike so many blogs that I linked to back in the early days (specifically, my BlogSpot days), he’s still around, and still making sense.

Stem cells – the dark side

by @ 17:36. Filed under Health.

(H/T – Katie)

Forbes.com reports that researchers at the University of Florida have discovered that bone marrow stem cells attracted to an area of cancerous growth take on at least the outward appearance of the cancer cells:

The bone marrow stem cells “have the same kind of surface proteins” as cancer cells, noted study author Dr. Chris Cogle, an assistant professor of medicine at UF’s College of Medicine Program in Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine.

But while the stem cells have the “same skin” as the surrounding cancer cells, the question is whether “they have the same guts,” Cogle said.

That’s the $64 trillion question, one that I don’t know how I want to see answered. If it does, it will definitely complicate the potential use of stem cell therapy in those with cancer because those stem cells will prove to be too-easily manipulated. At the same time, that ease of manipulation will give yet another lie to the claim that we need embryonic stem cells harvested from the unborn. There is another, more-immediate concern:

Cogle noted that about five percent of cancerous tissue contains marrow-derived cells that resemble surrounding cancer cells. This “developmental mimicry” could affect the results of tests of new drugs on malignant tissue grown in the laboratory.

“If there are bone marrow cells in this cancerous tissue, these (bone marrow stem) cells may actually contaminate our cancer studies and could make a difference as to whether or not investigational drugs we’re testing work or don’t work,” Cogle said.

“The significance of this is new treatments may work in the culture dish but may not translate to the clinic or the hospital room, and for many reasons. One of the reasons could be bone marrow contamination,” the expert said.

Quite interesting. On the other hand, the lack of presence of those bone marrow cells in the culture dish is more likely to result in the failure of that treatment in the real world.

Slow-mo roll bloat

by @ 17:13. Filed under The Blog.

I’ve been promising myself I would throw HamNation producer/camerawoman Katie Favazza’s blog, Elocutio, on the roll since just before I went on vacation. Time to pay up and do so.

Citizen Blogging Summit – 6/15/2007

by @ 16:58. Filed under Miscellaneous.

Sorry, Scott and Newt. A better offer came along for next Friday afternoon; a Citizen Blogging Summit at Radio City. I’m more likely to find a bar afterwards, and there’s free food. The fun starts with lunch at 12:45, business at 1:30, and “officially” ends at 4:05.

Now, if I believed in cloning, I’d send the clone to Waukesha (or would I send myself; that’s the trouble with clones, you can’t keep them straight).

Revisions/extensions (4:03 pm 6/9/2007) – For those of you who don’t know where Radio City (aka WTMJ-AM/WKTI-FM/WTMJ-TV/DT studios) is, it’s at 720 E. Capitol Dr. barely in Milwaukee. Take I-43 to Capitol, then head east (I can’t stress that enough). Just before you hit the Milwaukee River, you’ll find it on your left. If you cross the river and enter Shorewood, you went too far.

Note to those that are coming from the northwest, I recommend taking Good Hope Rd. from 41/45 to I-43 rather than taking Capitol. There’s fewer stop lights, and the speed limit is 40 almost all the way. Do watch your speed east of Brown Deer Park; the North Shore police departments do not cut you much slack, and just before you hit the freeway, the speed limit drops to 30.

Mary Katharine – HAMMER!

by @ 16:22. Filed under Miscellaneous.

Sad to see the “Soporanos” going? Going to miss the opening drive that Tony takes through the Jersey shore? Mary Katharine Ham recreates that from the Beltway perspective in today’s HamNation. Nice touch including the stogie.

“Is Conservatism Out of Gas” – the NRE national take

by @ 10:10. Filed under Politics - National.

I promised that I would put that over at TownHall, and after some hemming (on my part) and hawing (on Townhall’s part; they’ve glitched up lately), that’s up. It’s a lot more positive than my Wisconsin-specific take.

Thank you, Jim DeMint

by @ 8:20. Filed under Immigration, Politics - National.

(H/T – Ace)

John Hawkins at Right Wing News has the story of how the McShame-Swimmer-Bush Amnesty Bill got put out of our misery (I doubt it is out of its misery, however; there’s still a budget to get passed, and it’s not January 2009 yet). Short version – Harry Reid wanted unanimous consent to push through a bunch of pro-amnesty amendments to get past the 2nd failure of cloture, and DeMint refused go give it. Meanwhile, DeMint, Jeff Sessions and Tom Colbrun worked up a few “killer amendments” that the “Masters of the Universe” didn’t want to see the floor. The “Masters”, specifically Reid, didn’t want to have those amendments see the floor so badly that he pulled the plug rather than accept a vote on those amendments.

Bravo Zulo, Demint, Sessions and Colbrun.

Mea culpa maxima roll bloat

by @ 7:43. Filed under The Blog.

I could’ve swore I had Fuzz Martin on the roll; after all, I did have him on my feed reader for quite a while, and I usually do both at the same time.

Don’t be like me and forget; put him on both.

Rolling through a change

by @ 7:03. Filed under The Blog.

Kate has taken the full-fledged WordPress plunge and moved An Ol’ Broad’s Ramblings to her own server. If you could correct your rolls and feeds to her new address – http://olbroad.com/WordPress/, we’ll all be golden.

Stormpocalypse 2007

by @ 6:58. Filed under Weather.

First things first; I’m glad that the storms missed us. As for those that are complaining about the hype; take a look at central Wisconsin this morning. These storms typically are not extremely widespread, and we in southeast Wisconsin were at the extreme east edge of the second PDS tornado watch. Dunno if we had a violent tornado in that particular watch box (there was a 50% chance of one), but we definitely had more than 2 tornadoes in central/northeast Wisconsin.

One more thing; Tim Cuprisin is both right and wrong about the drop of HD programming. Yes, the local stations don’t have the ability to put up their fancy watch/warning graphics with HD programming, and yes, the FCC does require them to broadcast the watch/warning info, but the FCC does not, repeat NOT require them to have either the constant reminder or the fancy graphics. Dunno about last night (had some cable to watch), but in the past, Channels 18 and 24 sufficed with the occassional crawl reminder, and if there were any warnings in their assigned broadcast areas, they broke in with both the crawl and the NWS radio feed. Dunno whether channel 36 (the half of the local welfare TV duo that broadcasts in HD) managed to put its simple warning graphic into the HD feed (not only do I not watch welfare TV, but their digital signal doesn’t like my location).

4/6/12/58 (and the weak-sister 41, which piggybacks onto 58’s digital signal and thus never goes into HD) have been broadcasting in HD for several years. In just over a year and a half, they won’t be broadcasting analog anymore. So, when the hell are they going to pony up for the HD version of their useless fancy-schmanzy weather graphics, or even better, dump them onto a subchannel? After all, Channel 4 (which for reasons beyond my reckoning doesn’t send out the code required to display as Channel 4/4.1 versus RF 28/28.1) carries the NBC weather channel on its subchannel. 6 and 12 don’t use their subchannels at all (though it could be because they broadcast in 720p). Even 58 has room to put weather on a second subchannel before losing the ability to broadcast in HD.

Roll bloat – the student edition

by @ 6:39. Filed under The Blog.

Rebecca, who has been hanging around Peter’s blog of late, started up her own blog – Taking a Sharp Right. ‘Tis good to see some convervatism coming out of UWM.

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