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 October, 2007

October 16, 2007

No Christmas vacation for the Pubbies and probably the ‘Rats

by @ 20:33. Filed under Elections, Politics - National.

The Iowa Republican Party moved up their Iowa Presidential caucus to Thursday, January 3, 2008 from Monday, January 14, 2008. Meanwhile, the Dems are still vascilating between the 3rd and the 5th, which would be a Saturday. Guess they haven’t decided whether to meddle in the Pubbie caucus or keep the Pubbies from crashing their party.

Since New Hampshire and their insane “first-primary-in-the-nation” law is forcing them to hold their primary no later than January 8 (or so claims their Secretary of State, who is responsible for setting the date) and quite possibly earlier, and the corn-a-hole crowd in Iowa has an irrational desire to best even New Hampshire, we could still see things kick off in mid-December 2007.

Words, at least those that aren’t R-rated, fail me, and I’ve hit my weekly quota on vulgarity.

Photoshop of the day

by @ 16:50. Filed under Miscellaneous.

From Madison Conservative…

No, this does not, repeat NOT, mean I’m supporting Rudi. It’s just one great Photoshop offered for you Rudiites.

The enemy of my class enemy is my friend…

by @ 8:23. Filed under International relations.

Soviet Premi…er, Russian President Vladimir Putin, fresh from ignoring a “threat” on his life in Tehran, joined the Mad Mullahs and their sock puppets in reasserting Sovi…er (damn, there I go again) Russian control over its former empire by threatening Azerbaijan should it help the United States in any response to Iran’s attempt to get nuclear weapons, as well as any country that wants to get Caspian Sea oil and natural gas out of the area without going through either the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic (ah, tahellwitchit, if Pooty-Poot wants to go back to the Cold War, let’s bring back all the old Soviet terms) or Iran.

The Cold War’s back on the menu, boys.

Crying River Flood Warning keeps on getting expanded

by @ 7:40. Filed under Politics - Milwaukee, Politics - Milwaukee County, Politics - Wisconsin, Taxes.

Today, it’s the Wisconsin Center District, which (mis)manages the Midwest Airlines Center, making with the waterworks. Head flack Franklyn Gimbel is blaming the lack of a new state budget tax increases at the state level for his inability to beg for increased taxes at the local level to pay for a second expansion of the MAC. The MAC is currently subsidized by a 3% tax on car rentals in Milwaukee County, a 0.25% tax on “restaurant” food and beverage sales (actually applied to all taxable food and beverage sales) in Milwaukee County, a 2% tax on hotel rooms in Milwaukee County and another 7% tax on hotel rooms in the city of Milwaukee.

I have two things to say to Gimbel and company, beyond “No more taxes!”, that is:
– You idiots knew in 1999, before the first expansion was complete, the MAC was undersized and would be undersized after that first expansion.
– Instead of wasting something north of $45 million on turning the old Auditorium into an underutilized “theatre”, you morons could have used that money to complete that planned-for second expansion.

Down goes the latest Craps tax-raising budget

by @ 1:28. Filed under Politics - Wisconsin, Taxes.

(H/Ts – Owen and Peter)

The Assembly, on a bipartisan 54-45 vote, voted against the latest attempty by Jim “Craps” Doyle (WEAC/Potawatomi-For Sale) to jack up Wisconsin’s taxes. That was despite Craps’ best efforts to buy the vote. Nice to see some things aren’t for sale in Madison.

A special “Huzzah” goes out to the 3 Dems that crossed the aisle, Amy Sue Vruwink, Sheldon Wasserman, and Bob Ziegelbauer (who actually “paired” his nay with another’s aye).

A very-special “I hope you lose your next election” to RepubicRAT Brett Davis. May you not get that thirty pieces of silv…er, $4 million soybean crusher from Craps.

As for how the presstitutes are reporting this, Jessica points out the Journtinel pooh-poohed Ziegelbauer’s “pairing”.

October 15, 2007

Roll bloat – the flipping edition

by @ 21:47. Filed under The Blog.

It may be called Suitably Flip, but it’s anything but flippant. The proprietor, Flip, has been tracking the Hsu money like a hound dog, and Tom Vilsack was one of those. He’s also anticipating finding $850,000 or so in Hsu refunds from the Hiliary campaign (which reminds me; time to check again; it’s 10:47 pm on the East Coast).

October 14, 2007

Help Blackfive win a scholarship

by @ 12:43. Filed under Miscellaneous.

An outfit called CollegeScholarships.org is having a contest to give a deserving collegiate blogger a $10,000 scholarship. Matthew Burden, who runs Blackfive, is one of the finalists.

Please, go here and vote for him. Voting runs until 2 am CDT 10/29/2007, but you can only vote once (legitimately, that is; I do not want to hear about you voting multiple times).

NFL Week 6

by @ 9:40. Filed under Sports.

I’m 14 games under .500 (28-42-6) and further from break-even against the spread, but since I’m 9-0-1 against the over/unders, and I found the new home of Bodog (degenerates, bookmark it), let’s roll on through Wea…er, Week 6.

Washington (+3) @ Green Bay – Bad news; it’s raining. Worse news; it’s not snow.
Minnesota @ Chicago (-5.5) – The rookie wall hits early and often. Go under the 37.
Cincinnati (-3) @ Kansas City – Resistable force, meet movable object.
Houston @ Jacksonville (-7) – I’m oh-so-tempted to jump on the over/under, but 37 is a wee bit low.
Miami @ Cleveland (-4.5) – Generalissimo Francisco Franco is still dead, and so are the Deadfins.
Philadelphia (-4) @ NY Jets – Stat of the week for the game of the weak – the Eaglets are 8-0 after a bye under Andy Reid.
St. Louis @ Baltimore (-9) – The last time Duh Lambs started 0-6, Kennedy was still President.
Tennessee (+3) @ Tampa Bay – You may want the points, but thanks to a MASH unit giving them, you won’t need them.
Carolina @ Arizona (-6) – Warner ain’t done yet (that’s next week), while I have a rational hatred of Vinnie Testaverte.
New England @ Dallas (+6.5) – This is your preview to the 42nd edition of the Game That Cannot Be Named Because Of The No Fun League. As such, take the over-53.
Oakland @ San Diego (-10) – The band is back together, and even NOOOO!!!!! Turner can’t fuck it up.
New Orleans @ Seattle (-6.5) – Odds of Reggie Bush making it out of Seattle healthy – 2-3. Go against it.
NY Giants (-3.5) @ Atlanta – Over/under on G-men sacks – 7.5. Go over.

Month from Hell recapped

by @ 9:14. Filed under Sports.

Knock Knees Tony found me, and in lieu of destroying my knuckles, he’s making me recap the month from Hell and give you the rest of the year for free:

Week 2 (5-11 ATS, 2-0 O/U)

Green Bay 35 @ NY Giants (-2.5) – I got my solace on game-day instead.
Buffalo 3 @ Pittsburgh 26 (-10) – Stat of the day – third/fourth-down efficiency – Pittsburgh 11-16, Buffalo 5-16.
Cincinnati 45 (-7.5) @ Cleveland 51 – The name is Neo.
Indianapolis 22 (-7.5-LOSS) @ Tennessee 20 – Fluke? Guess not. 141 yards on 34 carries isn’t flukish.
Houston 34 (+7) @ Carolina 21 – Ahman Green lasted just long enough.
San Francisco 17 (+3) @ St. Louis 16 – I can’t say enough about Frank “Don’t call me Al” Gore.
Atlanta 7 (+10.5-WIN) @ Jacksonville 13 – Did you put your 401k on Hotlanta? Good.
New Orleans 14 (-4.5) @ Tampa Bay 31 – Hope you were in a laughing instead of a daring mood.
Minnesota 17 (-3.5) @ Detroit 20 – Damned OT.
Kansas City 10 @ Chicago 20 (-13-LOSS) – If you can dodge a lead pipe, you can dodge a ball – THUNK! At least I told you to take the under
Dallas 37 (-4) @ Miami 20 – Repeating, the Deadfins are dead.
Seattle 20 (-3) @ Arizona 23 – I told you to take Leinart to not finish the game.
NY Jets 13 @ Baltimore 20 (-10-LOSS) – Now, I’m the one with no arms.
Oakland 20 @ Denver 23 (-10-LOSS) – The Rocky Mountain Lumber layeth me low. Once again, damned OT.
San Diego 14 (+3.5) @ New England 38 – Drop the “RV” and you get “NOOOOOOO!!!!!”
Washington 20 @ Philadelphia 12 (-7) – No oil for McNabb or me.

Week 3 (6-7-3 ATS, 2-0 O/U)

San Diego 24 @ Green Bay 31 (+6.5) – And I ain’t broke.
Detroit 21 (+5.5) @ Philadelphia 56 – As long as you took the over, you’re good to go.
Indianapolis 30 (-7-LOSS) @ Houston 24 – Sammy the Bull isn’t my friend.
Minnesota 10 (+3-TIE) @ Kansas City 13 – It’s topsy-turvy in the NFL.
Buffalo 7 @ New England 38 (-17) – I would like to thank Dick Jauron for my new house.
Miami 28 (+3-TIE) @ NY Jets 31 – Sheer luck on the part of the Jets.
San Francisco 16 (+10) @ Pittsburgh 37 – Only one of those defenses showed up, and boy did they show up.
Arizona 23 @ Baltimore 26 (-7.5-LOSS) – Had the OldBrowns defense scored, I would have been happy. Instead, it’s mac and cheese.
St. Louis 3 @ Tampa Bay 24 (-3.5) – SWEEP! SWEEP! SWEEP!
Jacksonville 23 @ Denver 14 (-3.5) – It wasn’t sooner.
Cincinnati 21 @ Seattle 24 (-3-TIE) – The house is just loving all these pushes.
Cleveland 24 (+3-WIN) @ Oakland 26 – Mr. Anderson, meet Mr. Smith Not Agent Smith, just Smith.
Carolina 27 (-4.5) @ Atlanta 20 – The only thing Joanie didn’t do right was win.
NY Giants 24 @ Washington 17 (-4) – How bad is my nose-picking? Does the fact that I took Duh Deadskins tell you anything?
Dallas 34 @ Chicago 10 (-3) – 3, 3.5, it didn’t matter. It was another GROSSman performance.
Tennessee 31 (+4) @ New Orleans 14 – Repeating, back to the Aints.

Week 4 (5-9 ATS, 1-0-1 O/U)

Green Bay 23 @ Minnesota 16 (+3) – I should’ve given the points.
Chicago 27 @ Detroit 37 (+3) – We didn’t need them.
Oakland 35 @ Miami 17 (-4) – Culpepper just won, baby. That sucks.
Houston 16 (-3) @ Atlanta 26 – The NFL ain’t that topsy-turvy.
Baltimore 13 @ Cleveland 27 (+4) – I don’t believe it; I blew (well, almost blew) an over/under.
St. Louis 7 @ Dallas 35 (-14) – Did Wiggy’s head blow up?
NY Jets 14 @ Buffalo 17 (+3.5) – Sanity returns to the AFC.
Tampa Bay 20 (+3) @ Carolina – It pays to take my over/unders.
Seattle 23 @ San Francisco 3 (+2.5) – The Fourtiners are officially a one-trick pony.
Pittsburgh 14 (-6.5) @ Arizona 21 – The bookies and the Cards sure took advantage of my mistake.
Kansas City 30 @ San Diego 16 (-12.5) – It didn’t matter, Duh Bolts had no passing defense.
Denver 20 (+10) @ Indianapolis 38 – It was a game until late.
Philadelphia 3 (-3) @ NY Giants 16 – Down goes McNabb! Down goes McNabb!
New England 34 @ Cincinnati 13 (+8) – Knees, meet lead pipe. Lead pipe, meet knees. Egg, meet X-ray machine.

Week 5 (5-8-1 ATS, 2-0 O/U)

Chicago 27 @ Green Bay 20 (-3.5) – No running game finally catches up to the Pack as Knock Knees Tony catches up to me.
Detroit 3 (+3.5) @ Washington 34 – And the reverse was sniffed out early and often.
Carolina 16 (+3.5) @ New Orleans 13 – Sanity returns to the NFC.
Jacksonville 17 (-2) @ Kansas City 7 – Good thing that cup was on.
Atlanta 13 (+8.5-WIN) @ Tennessee 20 – I knew the termites would get to that lumber.
Miami 19 @ Houston 22 (-6-LOSS) – You know you’re in trouble when your starting RB is Ron Dayne.
Seattle 0 (+6.5) @ Pittsburgh 21 – Najeh the Crapper got 2 TDs? What’s going on out there? At least there wasn’t enough scoring to threaten the under call.
Cleveland 17 @ New England 34 (-17-TIE) – The machines have called a truce.
Arizona 34 (-4-LOSS) @ St. Louis 31 – Make it one QB left in the desert.
New York Jets 24 "@" New York Giants 35 (-4) – Dead men tell no lies.
Tampa Bay 14 @ Indianapolis 33 (-10) – Once again, my over-unders are coming through.
San Diego 41 @ Denver 3 (+1) – Okay, who put the spark back in the Bolts?
Baltimore 9 (-3.5-LOSS) @ San Francisco 7 -Too bad the offensive woes continue for the OldBrowns.
Dallas 25 (-11-LOSS) @ Buffalo 24 – I blame Algore.

That leaves me at a bloody 28-42-6 against the spread, but a phenominal 9-0-1 against the over/unders.

October 13, 2007

More medical news

by @ 6:43. Filed under Miscellaneous.

First, thank you for your prayers. I’ll know more later today about the long-term situation. My sister was in good spirits last night.

Revisions/extensions (12:36 pm 10/13/2007) – She’s back home, still in good spirits, and still no real news on the long-term situation. That’s all I can really say about that.

Next, Ted Kennedy had a major scare yesterday, as doctors found and removed a major blockage in his left carotid artery (H/T – Jib). Get well soon, Senator.

October 12, 2007

Not in the mood right now

by @ 21:58. Filed under Miscellaneous.

To blog or take on the Paul supporters. My sister’s in the hospital right now.

If only I had the money,…

by @ 18:16. Filed under Miscellaneous.

(H/T – JammieWearingFool)

Rush Limbaugh is auctioning off the letter sent from Dingy Harry Reid and 40 of his closest moonbat friends to the CEO of Clear Channel Communications. The proceeds will be going to The Marine Corps – Law Enforcement Foundation, and the winning bid will receive the original letter, a Haliburton case being used to hold said letter, a letter of thanks from Rush, and a photo of Rush displaying the letter on stage in Philadelphia on October 11.

The auction closes October 19 at 8 am CDT, and the bid as of a few minutes ago was already at $6,600.

Roll bloat – anti-ACLU edition

by @ 17:54. Filed under The Blog.

It’s actually a double-dose of additions, as both Stop the ACLU and that blog’s and JammieWearingFool contributor Weasel Zippers get crammed onto the roll. I should’ve done that long before now.

So Algore Goracle won the Nobel Piec…er, “Peace” Prize

by @ 11:06. Filed under Global "Warming".

He joins miserable failures at peace such as Frank B. Kellogg (boy, that Kellogg-Briand Pact sure stopped WWII from happening), Nicholas Murray Butler (ditto), Arthur Henderson (was nobody paying attention to Nazi Germany’s and Japan’s rearmament in 1934?), Nansen International Office for Refugees (6 million Jews beg to differ with this 1938 pick), Ralph Bunche (how many wars have there been between the Israelis and the Arabs since 1950?), Henry Kissinger (ask the South Vietnamese how the Vietnam Peace Accords kept them around…oops, can’t ask them), the UN Peace-Keeping Forces (I never would have guessed rape is “peaceful”), Mikhail Gorbachev (this was before the Soviet Union entered the dustheap of history, and before Gorby decided to forment revolution in New Orleans), Yasser Arafat (self-explanatory), Kim Dae Jung (oops, the North Koreans now have nukes), Jimmy Carter (appeasing Islamokazis since 1977), and the IAEA and Mohammed elBaradei (Islamokazi Nukes-R-Us). Meanwhile, we’re struggling to get to the mid-50s in the land of Cheese and Beer. Algore’s timing just keeps on getting worse.

Tom McMahon sums up my thoughts with today’s 4-Block World.

Fred Thompson the biggest thing on the Net

by @ 10:07. Filed under Politics - National.

So says ClickZ. Bravo Zulo, Sean.

Meanwhile, in related news, basements across the country start stinking up as Paul-nuts soil themselves.

Since Ron Paul likes the private sector so much, help send him there

by @ 8:59. Filed under Politics.

Seek, and ye shall find. A fine gent by the name of Chris Peden is challenging Ron Paul-nut for the Republican nomination in Texas’ 14th Congressional district. While Peden is one of those that likes the “Fair”Tax, the rest of his views are quite good.

October 11, 2007

Pic of the day

by @ 19:44. Filed under War on Terror.

From militaryphotos.net via head Jawa Rusty…

Militaryphotos.net has it in full 2048×1536 glory. I don’t care to know whether that’s a Photoshop (though I suspect it is).

Say it ain’t so – UPDATE – it ain’t so

by @ 19:25. Filed under The Blog.

Billiam’s giving up the Cheap Seats view. Hopefully he’ll reconsider, but he’s pretty burnt out by the state of politics.

Revisions/extensions (7:33 am 10/12/2007) – Like the update says, he’s reconsidered. If you took him off your rolls and feed readers, please put him back.

Ron Paul – too f—ing ignorant to be in politics

by @ 18:50. Filed under Politics - National.

(H/T – HotAir Headlines)

Believe me when I tell you that this post will contain many expletives. Before I get to the foul-mouthed portion of this missive, I hereby invite the Texas Republican Party to find someone, ANYONE, to run for Ron Paul-nut’s seat in the next election. Those of you with sensitive eyes, don’t click the “more”, and if you got this off the feed, I apologize for the string of expletives. The rest of you, consider yourself warned.

(more…)

Roll bloat – the modern edition

by @ 12:14. Filed under The Blog.

How I forgot to add Modern Commentaries before now I’ll never know. That oversight is now corrected. Hopefully, you didn’t forget to add Amy and Dave to your blogrolls and feed readers like I did.

Design anti-MoveOn.org ads, get kicked off Google – update – $oro$ loses

by @ 10:40. Filed under Compassionate Lieberals.

(Major H/T – Michelle Malkin)

Lane Dutson, president of Maine Coast Designs, a firm working on Sen. Susan Collins’ re-election, tried to put up several ads that seek to rally Collins’ supporters against MoveOn.org up through Google AdWords. He got summarily rejected, and the money quotes are in an IM exchange he had with a Google employee.

Collins isn’t exactly a Pubbie (I’d put her somewhere between RINO and RepubicRAT), but the fact that $oro$ and company have even her targeted tells me everything I need to know about the current state of DhimmiRAT politics; they won’t leave any opposition unstifled.

Just as a reminder, Google owns Blogger, so my guess is you guys are next. As an aside, since they also own FeedBurner, I’m now looking at alternate ways to monitor my feed traffic.

Revisions/extensions (5:30 pm 10/15/2007) – Guess $oro$ isn’t all-powerful after all (once again, Michelle has the details).

Open Thread Thursday – The Return

by @ 5:00. Filed under Open Thread Thursday.

Back from an exclusive 3-year tour of Europe, Scandinavia, and the Subcontinent, from Oak Creek, Wisconsin, it’s Open Thread Thursday. All the liquor got sucked up at Hot Air yesterday, but I’ll make a beer run by the afternoon.

October 10, 2007

Wisconsin Taxpayer Rally – 10/17/2007

by @ 21:28. Filed under Politics - Wisconsin, Taxes.

My friends at AFP-Wisconsin are holding a Taxpayer Rally at the State Capitol on the 17th:

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE – October 9, 2007 Contact: Mark Block, (414) 475-2975

Americans for Prosperity to Hold -Defend Wisconsin-Taxpayer Rally- at State Capitol

Milwaukee -The free-market grassroots group Americans for Prosperity (AFP) will hold a citizen rally – Defend Wisconsin – Taxpayer Rally-

WHAT: Defend Wisconsin-Taxpayer Rally – to urge Wisconsin Legislators to pass a state budget with no tax increases.

WHO:

Mark Block, Wisconsin Director, Americans for Prosperity
Vicki McKenna, Radio Talk Show Host, WISN, Milwaukee and WIBA, Madison
Reince Priebus, Chairman, Republican Party of Wisconsin
Owen Robinson, Boots and Sabers
Pat Snyder, Radio Talk Show Host, WSAU, Wausau
Fred Dooley, The Real Debate

WHEN: 12:00 Noon; Wednesday, October 17, 2007

WHERE: Wisconsin State Capitol,
King Street Entrance,
Madison, WI

Transportation Provided: Register at afpwi.org
LaCrosse, Eau Claire, Wausau, Green Bay, Manitowoc, Racine, Waukesha and more.

Pre-Rally:

What: Meeting place prior to State Capitol Rally

Where: Kavanaugh’s Esquire Club, 1025 North Sherman Avenue, Madison, WI

When: 10:30 a.m., Wednesday, October 17, 2007

Transportation Provided: Register at www.afpwi.org

Eau Claire, Wausau, Green Bay, Manitowoc, Racine, Waukesha, La Crosse

Americans for Prosperity (AFP) is the nation’s premier grassroots organization committed to advancing every individual’s right to economic freedom and opportunity. AFP believes reducing the size and scope of government is the best safeguard to ensuring individual productivity and prosperity for all Americans. AFP educates and engages citizens in support of restraining state and federal government growth, and returning government to its constitutional limits. For more information, visit www.americansforprosperity.org

BE THERE!

Paul Ryan introduces Taxpayer Choice Act

by @ 18:59. Filed under Politics - National, Taxes.

My Congresscritter, seeing the writing on the wall of the Alternative Minimum Tax, introduced a bill that not only eliminates that, but offers a very simplified income tax. Ryan’s office sent along a couple of PDF files, one of which is basically the presser linked to above, with the other a slightly-more-expansive document with a couple of charts thrown in. The highlights, beyond killing the AMT:

  • Sets up a parallel system that offers the following:
    • Eliminates the current mess of standard and itemized deductions, replacing them all with a $12,500 single/$25,000 joint standard deduction and a $3,500-per-person personal exemption (both adjusted for inflation).
    • Uses two brackets; 10% for the first $50,000 of taxable income for single filers/$100,000 for joint filers, and 25% for amounts beyond that.
  • Makes the 2003 capital gains/dividend tax cuts permanent.
  • Allows one to choose which system to pay under, allows one additional “no-reasons” change, and allows additional changes for major life events (death, divorce and marriage are the 3 listed).

It’s a good start. I’d rather see a single rate (the lower, the better, and that also goes for the “Fair”Tax), and would much prefer that it replace the current system rather than operate alongside it.

2007 Weblog Awards nominations now open

by @ 16:12. Filed under The Blog.

The 2007 Weblog Awards

Mash the button above to start nominating worthy blogs (if you nominate me for anything, please let me know so I can hunt you down and ki…er, thank you). You’ll be able to do so until 10/15/2007.

One thing the organizers ask; please read the nominations before duplicating a nomination. If you like someone that’s already nominated, they do have a very informal way to register that; just click on the “+” sign next to the nominee.

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