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 March 26th, 2008

Dissembling that would put a tear in Hillary’s eye!

by @ 20:25. Filed under Politics - National.

On last night’s “Hardball,”Chris Matthews took up the case of Hillary’s changing, fantastical recollections of her trip to Bosnia.   Sitting in to fend for Hillary was Pennsylvania Representative Joe Sestak.   Sestak dissembled responses in a way that made “It depends on what the meaning of the word ‘is’ is,” look  accurate and revealing.

In the matter of Hillary’s faulty recollection of her Bosnia trip, the ending exchange was:

MATTHEWS:   Are you defending lying?   Is that what you"˜re defending, or what are defending?   Tell me what you consider fair ball in the game, if you will, of getting elected president.   How big a fish can you claim to have caught, if you caught none?   That"˜s all I"˜m asking.

SESTAK:   Well, Chris, you know, I went to the Naval Academy.   There was an honor code there, but very few people read that honor code.   That honor code says, Hey, you won"˜t lie, steal or cheat.   But it also says if you see someone who does, you don"˜t, then report them.   You have a choice.   You report them or you counsel them because we recognize that we"˜re humans.   Whether it"˜s Teddy Roosevelt, Franklin Roosevelt, John F. Kennedy or Hillary Clinton or Senator Obama, we all have our faults.   The question is this.   Who"˜s ready on day one because of what she learned in Bosnia…

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Bolting fringe candidates

by @ 16:54. Filed under Politics - National.

Bolt #1 (H/T – Jim Geraghty) – Mike Gravel has bolted to the Libertarians.

Bolt #2 (H/T – Dad29) – Alan Keyes will be kissing off to the Constitution Party on Tax Day.

Which one doesn’t make sense, or do both of them smack of nonsense?

Same old tax-and-spend from the ‘Rats

by @ 13:49. Filed under Politics - Wisconsin.

Yesterday, the Senate ‘Rats voted to try to tax and spend their way out of a problem created by taxing and spending. What a fucking surprise; they’re ‘Rats after all. Higher taxes and higher gubmint spending is all they know.

Revisions/extensions (2:40 pm 3/26/2008) – This one’s too long to put in italics and keep XHTML validity because I have to put the tag before every single paragraph.

Oh, just for shits and grins, let’s do some math for the effects through June 2009 using the Journal Sentinel numbers (note; positive numbers are increases to the general fund, negative numbers are decreases from the general fund):

– Expected budget shortfall before Senate “action”: -$652 million (say, wasn’t that about the amount government grew?)
– Taxing out-of-state operations of multi-state companies: $130.5 million
– Reducing the corporate tax rate: -$5.2 million
– Taxing hospitals (at a rate of $416 million in exchange for $408 million in additional federal funds Medicaid taxes, not exactly a money-maker for the hospitals): $125 million to the general fund
– Playing with trains between Kenosha and Milwaukee: -$200 million (with the side “benefit” of increasing the car rental tax from $2 to $15 to pay for the “local contribution” to this boondoggle)
– School payment delay from June 2009 to July 2009: $125 million (do note that this bill comes due in the FY 2010-2011 budget)
– More child care subsidies: -$18.6 million
– Various spending cuts: $127 million (do note that this is not only the last item in the news story, but the one item that the Journtinel did not put a solid dollar amount on, noting that it was $40 million more than what Jim “Craps” Doyle wanted and $350 million less than what the Assembly wanted)
– Expected budget shortfall after “Senate” action: -$368.3 million

Not exactly a fix, sports fans. Do take special note of the actual effect of the hospital tax; the only entity making out in this is state government.

Silence of the Wolves

by @ 13:43. Filed under Politics - Wisconsin.

I find it rather interesting that some of the same actors attempting to silence Rick Esenberg and raising every specious “argument” against Judge Mike Gabelman are themselves silent about Justice Louis Butler’s very-cozy relationship with a Milwaukee law firm.

The Morning Scramble – 3/26/2008

by @ 7:25. Filed under The Morning Scramble.

There’s nothing quite like Southern-fried rock…

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sHQ_aTjXObs[/youtube]

– I wish I could’ve found a good YouTube version of “Minnie the Moocher”; it’s appropriate for Charlie Sykes’ find of a 3-generation brood of teat-suckers pulling down something north of $65,000 while doing absolutely nothing.
– I could’ve also done “That Smell” from Lynyrd Skynyrd; Mary sniffed out a stinky-money bust.
– Eric explores why Iraq is improving while Detroit, DC and Chicago are getting worse. The same can be said for Milwaukee over the last few years; it remains to be seen whether almost-new police chief Ed Flynn can turn it around because he hasn’t been here for a summer of shootings.
– Gaius points to an eerie comparison between Gorebal Warming and Y2K.
– Paul Socha has what, but for the lack of beer, is the ultimate living will.
– The Morons ought to like this one; Plebian breaks a “world exclusive” on freshly-minted NY Governor David Paterson’s the freshly-minted NY Lieutenant Governor’s hobo-hunting habits. (Revisions/extensions, 2:59 pm 3/26/2008 – I should’ve read a bit more closely; it’s the incoming Lt. Gov. Plebian is exposing)
– PrivatePigg bemoans the addition to grilled chicken to KFC’s menu. I disagree slightly on KFC’s fried chicken being “so good”, but it’s Kentucky Fried Chicken, for crying out loud.
– Ed Morrissey lays the smackdown on Minnesota Monitor’s $oro$-funded candy-ass.
– Stephen Bainbridge pronounces Microsoft Office 2007 a piss-poor product. He doesn’t know the half of it; just wait until he tries to open Office 2007 documents in 2003.
– Neil Stevens at RedState believes NOW hates women who don’t have abortions. Yep, that pretty much sums them up.
– Spring will eventually be here, right? Just in case it doesn’t make it all the way to the land of ice cream and ice-brewed beer, Cabbage Hammock has a reminder of what spring is.
– Slublog has the Photoshop of the day, at least if you do not have a weak stomach.
– Walter E. Williams and Thomas Sowell deliver a double-barrel blast to Barack Obama.
– Flip says as long as you didn’t buy a house at the height of the bubble on a no-money-down ARM, you’re all right.

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