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 May 1st, 2008

Drinking opportunities – May edition

by @ 21:00. Filed under Miscellaneous.

Attention. Attention bloggers. Attention Wisconsin bloggers. With the successful launch of the Blog n Grog, there are now two opportunities to drink with your favorite bloggers (and most of the time, me) each month:

Drinking Right – The second Tuesday of each month (this month, it’s the 13th), 7 pm, Papa’s Social Club, 7718 W Burleigh in Milwaukee
Blog n Grog – The last Tuesday of each month (this month, it’s the 27th), 7 pm, Neighbors Social Club, 260 W Main in Waukesha

Because I’ll be out of town the country the last week of May, I’ll unfortunately miss the Blog n Grog. Don’t let that stop you from attending one or both of these events, though.

Roll bloat – working on May Day edition

by @ 20:53. Filed under The Blog.

The Latinos, unions and Communists (I repeat myself) took the day off to pay homage to their hero Che, but I worked hard (or is it hardly worked; what’s the difference?). Guess it’s time to add once again to that overloaded roll:

Moron Pundit
Not So Friendly Fire
ScarletPimpernel

NRE Poll – Should I try to get blogger creds for the GOP convention?

by @ 18:19. Filed under NRE Polls, Politics - National, The Blog.

While the state GOP still hasn’t reached out to the blogosphere for the state convention (at least nobody has mentioned any outreach), the national GOP is looking for a few good bloggers. I know I’m a very long shot for various reasons (excessive expletives, a general dislike of McCain, a lack of knowledge of the difference between morons and Morons™ that would cause confusion about a large portion of my readership, not-nearly-Hot Air readership numbers), but it would be an excuse to head up to the Twin Cities.

Here’s where I ask for your help. I won’t promise to listen, but I will definitely take it under advisement.

Should I try to get blogger creds for the GOP convention?

Up to 1 answer(s) was/were allowed

  • Yes (85%, 11 Vote(s))
  • No (15%, 2 Vote(s))

Total Voters: 13

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We paid the Zizzo Group how much? UPDATE – $329,633?

by @ 17:53. Filed under Politics - Oak Creek.

Greg Kowalski not only recaps the list of other finalists for what’s now the Boomgaard District (DUCK!), but the other names the Zizzo Group came up with.

Citygate – Yeah, that worked real well in DC </sarcasm>
Twin Corridor – There is no trace of the old 41 Twin drive-in anymore. Other than that, and an otherwise-complete lack of originality, it actually isn’t too bad.
Metro South – Yeah, that’s going to go over real well with those that think the metro area ends at the Menomomee River valley or Oklahoma Ave.
27 South – Welcome to the jungle, fellow gangbangers.
Root River Junction – Honestly, I like it. However, do you really want a harsh focus on what most of those on either side of the Root River consider an impenetrable barrier?
Orchard Station – Station? STATION?
Orchard Six – Juuuuust a bit too cute by half (literally).
SouthCorr – Real attractive name…NOT!
SoCol – See Root River Junction and Metro South, and add in a dash of Orchard Six.
27 Stretch – I’m sure the On the Border guys love it. I’m not so sure about anything else.
Lower Six – There’s exactly one “Lower” that’s been successful, and we’re not in Manhattan.

I may not be creative, but I know butt-ugly names when I see them. The ad hoc committee and ultimately the Common Councils should’ve gone back to the drawing board.

Revisions/extensions (6:30 pm 5/1/2008) – $329,633 for this load?

Summarizing the Rats in 7 minutes

by @ 17:30. Filed under Politics - National.

(H/T – Mary Katharine Ham)

I’m as jaded as the next guy, but Slate has a killer video distilling the ‘Rat campaign to 7 wicked minutes…

If it’s May Day,….

by @ 16:14. Filed under War on Terror.

there’s a lot of Che Guevara sightings. Do notice where Jim Hoft got his first batch of pics from – I’m shocked, SHOCKED that the Islamokazis look up to a Communist murderer.

Preview of what’s to come with a closing of Club Gitmo

by @ 15:57. Filed under War on Terror.

(H/T – JammieWearingFool, though Allahpundit has a lengthier comments thread as usual)

Who here didn’t see this headline coming – Ex-Guantanamo inmate in Iraq suicide bombing? Abdullah Saleh al-Ajmi, late of Club Gitmo and released in 2005, recently blew himself up in a suicide bombing in Mosul. His cousin, Salem al-Ajmi, is missing only a single “shocked” in his reaction – “We were shocked by the painful news we received this afternoon … through a call from one of the friend’s of martyr Abdullah in Iraq.”

Allahpundit has a bit more of the story. Once again, I am left to surmise that “peace” is really “pieces”.

Hats off to the Wildcats!

by @ 13:58. Filed under Education.

Here’s an act that goes against the grain:

Northwestern rescinds honorary degree offer to Rev. Wright
It’s not often that you see one of the country’s institutes of higher learning turning their back on a CAH (Certified American Hater). Usually they reward them.

On a related note, I hear that the University of Colorado has indicated a desire to hire Jeremiah Wright as they are still one CAH short of a cabal since they terminated Ward Churchill.

The Morning Scramble/Open Thread Thursday – 5/1/2008

If it’s Thursday,….

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TCqEstr5H3o[/youtube]

Fausta remembers today is Holocaust Rememberance Day.
S. Weasel delivers yet another stunning WeaselShop. Nice hat, Barack.
Rick Esenberg, among others, asks whether Obama’s grandmother is next to go under the disowning bus. I do believe she was already run over once this campaign season.
Allahpundit has Hillary Clinton’s GHWB Memorial Clueless About Technology Moment. Remember, while the current target is Obama, we do have to keep an eye on Clinton lest she slip into our six.
– Following up on something from yesterday’s Scramble, Dad29 cheers a rather unequivocable counterattack on corn-a-hole Jim Sensenbrenner is co-sponsoring. I’ll have to double-check the co-sponsors of that bill to see if my Congresscritter is on board; the list wasn’t updated beyond the 4 sponsors that signed on Tuesday as of Wednesday afternoon.
Beth puts the hate on Google drive-by trolls. Hopefully this will bring her some higher-quality traffic (of course, in terms of steering power, I’m like a feather put behind the Queen Elizabeth II).
Silent E delivers an eulogy for common sense.

Random blog numbers

by @ 7:50. Filed under The Blog.

I usually don’t navel-gaze, and there isn’t any special occasion, but a couple of numbers really popped out at me while I was looking over the stats. Please permit me this indulgence…

– In the year and almost a month since I’ve been tracking how many of you come in here, StatCounter says I’ve had 42,975 of you (at least when I started this). I know that’s high because of how “unique visitors” are counted, but it’s the best numbers I have (and better than what your average mass-transit authority claims for ridership). I do thank each and every one of you who’ve come in here (except for the two yokels I had to throw out).
– Related to that, somehow I’m up to somewhere around 190 of you subscribing to the feed. You guys and gals are the real hard-core.
– Shoebox, Leslie, Fred, Aaron, Patrick, the Emergency Blogging System, and I have combined to put up 2,025 rants high-quality posts (well, everybody else’s material qualifies as high-quality posts; mine go into the rant category) since I started the Blogspot version in October 2005.
– To go with that, I’ve had 1,955 comments, trackbacks, and pingbacks that haven’t been eaten by my anti-spam suite going into the start of this post.
– Akismet tells me that it ate almost 107,000 pieces of spam since I jumped to WordPress, and I know there’s been a few I’ve knocked out of here.
– I’ve often joked that the blogroll is quite bloated. When I throw in the Blogs4Bauer and the Moronosphere rolls, I’m somewhere over 300.
– I wish I knew how many vulgarities I threw up, but that counter broke a long time ago.

They Still Don’t Get It

by @ 6:00. Filed under Miscellaneous.

A coal based electric plant was approved yesterday  for Marshalltown IA.

That’s the good news.

The bad news is that in order to satisfy their rabid global warming sycophants, the board required the power company to also increase their wind generation power 250% by the plant’s opening, use 10% biomass within 7 years of opening and pay for any costs that may be added through implementation of nonsense cap and trade regulations.

I’m guessing each of the commission members drove to the meeting. I’ll bet each of them paid close to $3.50/gallon for their gas when they last filled. I’ll be each of them have complained in the last couple of weeks about the increase in gas prices. Even with all of that knowledge, one of the commission mental midgets was thinking:

Darrell Hanson of Manchester, who cast the lone dissenting vote, said he favored setting aside the plant proposal for three or four years to see what carbon limits Congress passes and to analyze other market forces. "The safest and most reasonable course would be to delay for three or four years.

Yup, let’s wait.   Gee, that’s working so well for gas prices.   Gee, if we could magically say it was OK to start drilling or refining additional oil today, it would be 3-8 years before that effort would have any impact on gas availability.   Yeah, let’s not make a decision today.   It’s too hard and there are people sitting in the room who might not like me.

Chickenshit!

It’s people like this Commissioner who bitch about “Big oil’s profits” but won’t do a thing to change the equation.   They sit and hide, afraid of the Sierra club and militant “ecological” groups whose real purpose is to make sure that man curls up in a fetal position in some corner of the globe and leaves the animals to rule creation.

If the increase in energy prices of the last year don’t wake people up to the fact that we need to increase capacity and that the cost of dawdling is nearly crippling, I don’t know what will.   I do know it’s time for some folks to “grow a pair” because anything short of “ABSOLUTELY NOT” is going to be met by wails from the “ecological” groups.   Even with the ridiculous additional requirements put on this project the “ecology” groups weren’t satisfied:

Carrie La Seur, a lawyer for Plains Justice, which opposes the plant, said it is "most likely" the group will eventually sue to block construction of the plant. First, the group will join the Sierra Club, the Iowa Environmental Council and the Iowa Consumer Advocate’s office in fighting an air permit with the state and opposing the plant during before the utilities board this fall.

In the words of Thomas Paine it’s time to “Lead, follow or get out of the way.” Doing nothing is no longer acceptable. Doing nothing or cowering in the corner sniveling about “Global Warming” will only ensure that we leave a country for our children that is unable to meet the demands of the future; and we’d be the first generation in America to do that. That’s not a history book footnote that I’m interested in being a part of.

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