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 January 18th, 2008

A wee bit of housekeeping

by @ 16:20. Filed under The Blog.

I figured it was time to do a proper About & FAQ page. If you have a question that I didn’t answer, pipe up, and I’ll consider answering it.

PCTs no longer mandatory

by @ 14:31. Filed under Global "Warming".

(H/T – Michelle)

There is some good news for those of you in California. The nannies that run your state have gone from requiring thermostats you wouldn’t be able to override in a power “emergency” to allowing you to override those new thermostats to now dropping the requirement entirely (technical issues prevented me from getting the link to the story as of the writing):

But the agency backed off even more this week by announcing that the proposed remote-controlled thermostats would be dropped entirely from the 2008 edition of the building-efficiency standards.

Of course, the voluntary plan to stick these PCTs will continue unabated.

Revisions/extensions (7:57 pm 1/18/2008) – Missing link found.

Darshan Dhaliwal, Pubbie-only donor?

by @ 12:53. Filed under Law and order, Politics - Wisconsin, Presstitute Follies.

That is exactly what Raquel Rutledge, Jennie Tunkieicz, Ben Poston, and their editors at the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel would want you to believe. In their story about how Dhaliwal sold unbranded gasoline as BP gasoline, they gleefully point out how closely he was tied to both Tommy Thompson and President Bush.

Just one sliiiiiiiiiiight problem; they never heard of Jessica McBride. Her very-quick search through the Wisconsin Democracy Campaign archives revealed a who’s-who of Democrats and liberals very-amply supported by Dhaliwal, including $17,000 to Jim Doyle (almost twice the amount given to both the Thompson state and federal campaigns combined) and a $500 donation to Louis Butler during his previous, failed run for the state Supreme Court.

I decided to run Dhaliwal’s various donations, both state and federal (the latter from the FEC), through the spreadsheet, and imagine my surprise to find the following over the last 16 years (14 on the federal side):

– $75,980 in donations to 58 Democrats and liberal-leaning candidates and committees overall
– $53,280 in donations to the Wisconsin (not federal) campaigns of 48 Democrats and liberal-leaning candidates and committees
– $21,800 in donations to 13 Republican candidates overall (no non-Republican conservative-leaning candidates or committees)
– $17,500 in donations to the Wisconsin (not federal) campaigns of 11 Republicans

Hmmm, why do you think the Fifth Column at Fourth and State only mentioned Thompson and Bush, and went out of their way to avoid any mention of Democrats or Loophole Louis? Could it be that the presstitute-‘Rat alliance has elections to ste…er, win?

Roll bloat – trolling through Blogrolling

by @ 10:45. Filed under The Blog.

Yes, I occassionally check through Blogrolling, but it isn’t nearly often enough. I probably have a couple of these on the Blogs 4 Bauer section of the roll, but since they have me on some version of their main rolls, and because I don’t have control over the B4B roll, it’s past time to return the favor (and also add them to the ever-growing feed reader):

– Death by 1000 Papercuts
– Making Ripples
– MY Vast Right Wing Conspiracy
– A Blog For All (Lawhawk is one of the B4B guys)
– SodaBoy.net
One of these years, I will prune that bloated roll some. I’m sure I have some dead links on there by now.

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