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 April 17th, 2008

Unborn officially subhuman according to the US Senate

by @ 16:15. Filed under Politics - National.

(H/T – Kate, so I’ll try not to swear)

Usually, resolutions to commemorate public figures fly through Congress. However, one Senator, Barbara Boxer (D-CA), is so deep in the pockets of what Rush Limbaugh calls the NAGs she could not abide the following words in the resolution honoring Pope Benedict XVI:

Whereas Pope Benedict XVI has spoken out for the weak and vulnerable, witnessing to the value of each and every human life;….

I honestly don’t know what’s worse; the fact she held up the resolution for a couple days, or the fact the RepubicRATs caved. Do note the pro-death-penalty crowd didn’t have a real problem with the language, even though the official position of the Catholics, at least the last time I checked, is there should be no death penalty.

The Morning Scramble/Open Thread Thursday – 4/17/2008

by @ 7:28. Filed under Open Thread Thursday, The Morning Scramble.

After last night’s debate, there is just one song that describes what I was drinking. Of course, there was a question of which version to use, so Shoebox chose it…

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BIvka3SSv9Y[/youtube]

I’m still unloading the overloaded feed reader, but don’t let the size of the link list fool you. It’s Open Thread Thursday, so I’m counting on you, the not-so-gentle reader, to fill in the many blanks.

– Lawhawk notes wannabe ‘Rat candidate for Senate from Minnesota Al Franken neglected to file or pay California corporate income taxes for a corporation based in California he controls between 2003 and 2007. No wonder why the ‘Rats want to raise your taxes; you have to cover for their failures to pay them.
– Kate asks whether any of the three major candidates for President have a statement about plans to turn this into the United Commonwealth of Mexico. We know El Jefe Jorge approves of this.
– Jim Hoft has the obligatory bad-wig Leave Barack Alone video. Er, no; all of the Three Stooges provide too many targets to leave this environment.
– With a tip of the hat to Amanda Carpenter, Hawk delivers a near-doubling of Baskin Robbins flavors of Obama’s lies.
– Jon Ham notes it’s bloggers like Bob Owens of Confederate Yankee that are doing the jobs the media used to do. In this case, Owens discovered that the American Hunters and Shooters Association, which endorsed Obama, isn’t exactly supportive of the Second Amendment.
– On the media front, spiritofpublicus has a couple examples of ignorance in the press.
– Speaking of endorsements, American Pundit notes the Peanut Farmer-approved Hamas political party terrorist organization has made theirs. I’m shocked, SHOCKED they would endorse Barack Hussein Obama.
– J. Gravelle has the Obama/Swimmer Photoshop of the day.
– Jim Geraghty sees the same trend that happened in Ohio developing in Pennsylvania. As long as nobody cries “Uncle!” until Denver, we’re golden.
– PJ-Comix does a killer job skewering the DUmmies’ cry of foul after the silver spoon bullies discovered velvet gloves can also slap them upside the head.
– Kevin Fischer answers why Scott Walker took 79% of the vote in Franklin in the Milwaukee County Executive election (and 77%+ in Oak Creek). Somebody might want to clue the ‘Rats in (no seriously, if they’re going to be taking power, they may as well have a clue on what tax policy really means).
– Bruce asks, “What’s wrong with this picture?” Recent public school graduates need not attempt to answer; they’re likely to embarrass themselves about as much as the school district in question.
– Trail–Mix has a double-dose of toon action.
– Michael answers the burning question of each flu season, “Why does every flu epidemic start in Asia?” Of course, it doesn’t explain why it ends in South America.
– Mary Katharine Ham rolls a video on why both the flat-taxers and the fair-taxers hate the tax code, and asks that we all just get along.
– Peter is hurting, mostly because of the last round of Gorebal Warming here in southeast Wisconsin.
– In case you either stumbled directly here or got here on the TownHall version, Shoebox compares Disney World to life.

I don’t know what’s more unbelievable, the fact I remembered Open Thread Thursday 5 weeks in a row (don’t disappoint me now) or I didn’t take a shot at Old Crusty (oops, I guess I just did).

Disney

by @ 7:00. Filed under Miscellaneous.

Mrs. Shoebox, the little Boxes and I made a trip to the Florida House of Mouse last week.   While going through the parks I realized that there are a lot of things at Disney that make for easy object lessons in life.   Here are a few of the things that I picked up during our trip.

  1. Economics:   If you’ve got a product that someone really wants, you can name the price.   If you have a product that someone really wants and you can restrict their ability to get it elsewhere, you can name a ridiculous price.   Ponchos that cost about the same as a large hefty bag…say $.07 each, when  sold outside of a “you will get very wet” raft ride, go for $7.50.  
  2. If you have a group of geese, they are a gaggle, cows are a herd, whales are a pod, a group of photographers gathered at the entrance to a park are called a nuisance.
  3. All a guy needs to know about relationships with females can be summed up by one line from Mary Poppins.   When asked to explain a particular commotion, Mary responded with “I never explain anything.”   That was the answer Mr. Banks received and it is THE answer as a male, that you should be satisfied with as well.
  4. A few years back, Disney instituted the Fastpass system.   With this system you can go to some of their more popular attractions, insert your entrance ticket and get a pass that will allow you to skip to the head of the line for that particular attraction at a  set time.     There are a number of rules around how the passes work so that you may be able to get 3 or so on any given day and then stand in the regular queues for the other attractions.   Here’s my object lesson:  in life you may get the occasional Fastpass.   It may come in the form of a scholarship, a particular job promotion, a great spouse  or some other plus.   Just like at Disney, life’s Fastpass will let you move ahead of your peers for a period of time.   However, also like Disney, you won’t get a Fastpass for every obstacle in your life.   Fastpasses should be looked at and used as a perk, novelty, gift.   Fastpasses are great and should be relished  but  we’re going to spend most of our lives standing in line with everyone else and that’s what life is mostly about.
  5. Recession:   Yes there are issues in the economy and I do believe that many people’s “wealth” has been taken down a few notches due to lowered housing equity and stock markets.   However, as I wandered through the Mouse’s kingdoms last week, you would never know that the word “recession” was contemplated by anyone.   The place was packed!   I can also tell you that it wasn’t just the “rich.”   If you want to see a cross section of America, spend sometime at the home of the Mouse.   Rich, poor, young, old, black, white, single, large families…you see it all at the Mouse and amazingly, we all enjoy the same things….maybe for different reasons but we enjoy the same things.   Which leads me to:
  6. Civility:   When visiting the Mouse, with rare exception, people are pleasant, helpful, polite and caring.   People who have never met and will never meet again will help get a stroller loaded on a bus (I’m not talking about the paid help), return a dropped item, give up a seat on the bus, make way for a small child to get a front row seat for a parade.   If we could somehow package the civility that occurs on the Mouse’s turf and spread it everywhere we’d have a much better chance of talking through challenging issues.

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