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 12th, 2008

Drinking Right – tomorrow night

by @ 20:36. Filed under Miscellaneous.

I’m not feeling particularily-witty, so it’s just a general announcement. The May edition of Drinking Right will be tomorrow, May 13, at 7 pm at Papa’s Social Club, 7718 W. Burleigh St. in Milwaukee.

I don’t feel like drinking alone.

The Morning Scramble – 5/12/2008

by @ 8:00. Filed under The Morning Scramble.

I doubt that welfare radio station in central Illinois will be having a blues fest this time around…

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NVF-0JKLnd4[/youtube]

  • Tom McMahon misses nougat. I also remember when Milky Way was a hefty candy bar.
  • Lawhawk says a couple of Al Qaeda types, including one returning from Iraq to Afghanistan, encountered Excedrin Heartache #223.
  • Kate delivers today’s history lesson on pork barrel politics.
  • Dusty drools over the (hopefully) coming supersonic business jet. I know a couple people who would like to get their hands on it (perhaps the next AB1 or BP1?)
  • Uncle Jimbo video break part 1 – cool cars (and a Pacer) on State St.
  • Gaius says, “Beware counterfeit Cisco routers.”
  • Owen doesn’t like the coming budget “repair” bill. If there’s a deal this week, it ought to make for some real interesting times in Stevens Point at the end of the week.
  • Trail-Mix toon break part 1 – Operation Chaos Edition
  • Mark Block asks the Department of Revenue, “What’s next?” After all, the appetite of the bipartisan Party-In-Government is insatiable. I wonder what the FairTaxers think about that.
  • Ed Driscoll found yet another example of the lack of math skills in the press corps.
  • Random10 exposes the world view of the worst SecState evah, and Barack Obama supporter, Zbigniew Brzezinski.
  • Jon Ham notes the violence veto is becoming commonplace. I’ll wager that most of those exercising this subscribe to the Brzezinski world view.
  • Jim Hoft notes something that, had it happened anywhere other than the home of the Religion of Pieces, would have got a lot of attention from the usual suspects. Maybe if they could find a way to have blamed Booooosh instead of the ROP,….
  • Flip has the official flag lapel of the BHO States 57 campaign. For those who believe in numerology, I wonder if Obama remembers what happened to the last candidate associated with the number 57.
  • Charles Johnson busts Obama and the Official Newspaper of the BHO States 57 campaign, the New York Times after they tried to rewrite history. I still don’t believe in numerology, but ask CBS, Dan Rather and John F. Kerry about tampering with the record with the Lizards patrolling right field.
  • Speaking of Rather, Ace notes with a SluShop that he claims to have been rejected by Fox.
  • Heather Radish breaks the Gorebal Warming code.
  • Headless Blogger lays the smackdown on biodiesel (aka The Next Corn-A-Hole).
  • Uncle Jimbo video break #2 – Duck surfing on Mendota. Unless you’re Steve Jobs, I apologize for UJ’s gratuitous use of colorful language directed at Apple and its murder of iMovie 08 in the first 39 seconds. Any Mac-o-philes know of a better A/V editing package for UJ and his HD camera?
  • William Teach marvels at the Leftists’ rank duplicity on use of military force.
  • Trail-Mix toon break part 2 – Burma and corn-a-hole edition.
  • Warner Todd Huston goes into the memory hole that Newsweek opened up on vote scaring. Something about stones and glass houses comes to mind.
  • Bonus Flip; he asks whether we want a third W term or a second Peanut Farmer term.
  • James Wigderson delivers education to a heap of pols.

A Growing Image Problem

by @ 5:00. Filed under Corn-a-hole.

It would certainly be easy to write a post with this title about Barack Obama and his Wright problem.   However, that’s not what I have in mind today.   The image problem today belongs to ethanol and its “Wright problem,” rising food prices.

I noted here  a Rasmussen Reports poll that showed 54% of those polled believed that the “push for alternative energy sources,” (read that: Ethanol) is impacting food prices. It appears that in spite of the impacts of public education the populace is beginning to figure out that 2+2 does in fact equal 4 and there is a growing unease with burning our food for fuel.

“Oh but that’s a national poll and barely over 50%,” you say. “It’s just some nasty group paying a polling company to get the desired results,” you say.

Wrong you are, “Increasing Cost of Tortillas Boy.”

In a story yesterday, the Star and Sickle picks up the story of increasing debate over ethanol and does something I rarely see them do on a topic that is loaded with Eco-sensitivities…they actually reported information!

Amongst other issues the author addresses:

  • The difference in energy efficiency between ethanol and oil based “gas.”
  • That many people wouldn’t buy ethanol if it wasn’t subsidized and priced $.50 a gallon below gas.
  • That the growth of ethanol is largely driven by subsidies from both Federal and State levels and not by any market demand.

OK, they did counter the above by finding a corn grower who claimed that corn’s doubling in price was not driven by an imbalance of supply and demand but rather due to increased fuel costs.   Really?   Corn is up 100% and fuel is up around 50% so this guy has figured out how a one  percent increase in fuel translates into a two percent increase in corn?   OK, it’s still the Star and Sickle.  

Minnesota is the fifth largest agricultural producing state.   It is the fourth largest corn producing state and the fourth largest ethanol producing state.   Suffice to say that corn is an important part of Minnesota’s economy and more than just farmers have ties to the success of corn in the state.

Attached to the online version of the Star and Sickle article was a poll.   The question was “Do you think ethanol is responsible for higher food prices?”   You could respond:

  • No
  • Maybe a little
  • Yes, very
  • It’s too soon to tell

Granted it’s an Internet poll but as of 9 PM last evening, 79% of the respondents said that ethanol had some effect on higher food prices.   63% said ethanol had a very large impact on rising food prices.

If you can get that kind of response in an eco-sensitive, corn economy state like Minnesota, it’s clear that ethanol has a serious and growing  image problem.  

 

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