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 18th, 2008

McCain’s so old,…

by @ 13:24. Filed under Politics - National.

(H/T – Jim Geraghty the indispensible)

If you’ve been hearing the meme flying around the Leftosphere, you know they’re trying to say John McCain is too old. David Benzion at the Lone Star Times has your retort. A couple that I like from there:

– John McCain is older than betraying national security secrets on the front page of the New York Times.
– John McCain is older than having to explain to your children why everyone on the TV is talking about the President’s penis.
– John McCain is older than politicized CIA agents distorting a National Intelligence Estimate on Iran’s nuclear program because they don’t like the President’s (i.e., their boss’) policies.

Jim chimed in with a few winners as well (I’ll “borrow” a couple of them):

– John McCain is so old that when he was born, Obama’s neighbor and donor William Ayers hadn’t tried to kill anyone with a bomb yet.
– John McCain was born in those long ago days when if you went into church, you could count on the pastor saying “God bless America!”
– When John McCain was a toddler, the national average tax on a gallon of gasoline was under four cents.

I’ll take Jim’s invitation to play:

– John McCain is so old, when he joined the Navy, the only federal health care was in the armed forces.
– John McCain is so old, he outlasted four dictatorial states that viewed America as its “class enemy”.
– John McCain is so old, he remembers a time when Wisconsin government was clean.
– John McCain is so old, he was born during a time when the Panama Canal Zone was American territory.
– In John McCain’s day, a high school diploma meant something.
– John McCain is older than Red China.
– John McCain is older than the UN.

Hooray beer, baseball and the USO

by @ 12:56. Filed under Sports.

(H/T – the head barkeep)

Per the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, the Milwaukee Brewers and pitcher Jeff Suppan will be announcing Monday that they, along with the USO, will give all active-duty military personnel and their families free admission to the rest of the home games. ‘Tis all good.

The Morning Scramble – 4/18/2008

by @ 8:07. Filed under The Morning Scramble.

Hope you enjoyed the rising sun, fellow Cheddarheads; we won’t see it for a while…

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tBGXwX-TdTY[/youtube]

Ace notes we’re about to be overrun by cats. Cat-lovers may not want to go to the comments, but there is a bit of good gunplay there (including an M-60 Mk 43 machine gun unloading 850 rounds with a single squeeze of the trigger).
Gaius found something that gets even some of the Dems to join the rest of society in condemning, namely, Jimmy Carter’s hand-holding with Hamas.
– Meanwhile, doubleplusundead asks Islamic Jihad for Carter, “Why can’t we be friends?”
– It must be Peanut Day here; RidesAPaleHorse dug up a few good pics of the Peanut Farmer. There is just a slight language warning for the last of the pics, so you may not want to scroll all the way down if you’re at work.
– That doesn’t mean I forgot about Barack Obama; Curt skewers Obama’s “Tax the rich, beat the poor, till there are no rich no more” capital gains tax plan.
Mike notes Obama still doesn’t get why character ultimately matters. I’ll ignore the 8 years between 1992 and 2000.
JihadGene channels Krazy Kim being Obama’s soulmate on the elitist front.
Jed is drooling over the latest in flat-panel technology. I don’t think we’ll be rolling it up anytime soon; there’s the fragility problem.
– Staying with technology, Jon Ham likes the forthcoming microcar from VW with a sub-liter engine. Cripes; my 1972 Yamaha R5C’s engine is almost as big as the engine in that (I need to get that thing restored).
Mary bemoans the death of headstones in “green” cemetaries. I don’t mind the lack of embalming (after all, it’s “ashes to ashes, dust to dust”), but I don’t want to depend on something off-site to find a loved one’s grave.
Owen found a couple familiar names in the Rezko trial. I knew there was a reason I list Gov. Jim Doyle’s party as “For Sale”. Another presstitute “oddity”; even though Owen’s source is the Journal Sentinel’s Cary Spiva, and the item appeared on both JSOnline’s DayWatch and their Watchdog blog yesterday, there is neither hide nor hair of it in today’s paper.
Wisconsin State Senator Mary Lazich (R-New Berlin) has your daily reminder that the Democrats do not care about high gas prices as long as government gets the increase. Yes, I know, I covered it in an earlier Scramble, but since I’ve seen one station at $3.699/gallon for regular self-serve unleaded this morning (BP, 13th and Rawson), it’s time to rinse and repeat.
Ed Driscoll reminds us that, protestations by the Left and the bamboozled Daniel Henninger notwithstanding, the culture wars are not over. I’ll maintain red alert.
Ed Morrissey asks whether Al Qaeda hired the Baghdad Bob Public Relations Agency. I’ll have to say yes.
IBD notes that one of the intermediate goals of the Gorebal Warming crowd has been met, even without the US on the Kyoto climate change economy killing diet, but having Red China be the #1 “Gorebal Warming gas” polluter isn’t enough for their fellow (former) Communists.
Michelle Malkin awards the MSM Poor Taste Award to one of those Gorebal Warming organizations.
Brian Fraley has a new sacrificial lamb from the left to skewer on his weekly WisPolitics/Capital Times podcast.

I’m confused

by @ 7:00. Filed under Miscellaneous.

I know that isn’t a real surprise but this time I’m really confused…..

What’s the criteria Barack Obama would like to use to determine who we negotiate with?

In a statement today regarding Carter’s trip to visit Hamas, Barack was quoted as saying:

“We must not negotiate with a terrorist group intent on Israel’s destruction,”

However, just recently as a part of his questioning of General Patraeus, Barack reiterated his desire to negotiate with Iran:

“We should be talking to them (Iran)  as well,” Obama told the top US General in Iraq David Petraeus and US ambassador to Baghdad Ryan Crocker.

I may have missed a recent news flash but isn’t Iran a country that is intent on Israel’s destruction?

Israel “is an illegitimate regime, there is no legal basis for its existence,”  Ahmadinejad said.

I guess the criteria for Barack comes down to who the audience is at the moment. OK, I get it now.

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