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.
Harvey Korman died this evening, reportedly of heart failure.
At the risk of sounding like my father, we’re losing the greats a day at a time. The older I get, the more I appreciate the comedic abilities of people like Korman and Tim Conway.
In tribute, a couple of Korman’s classic roles:
Hedley Lamarr in Blazing Saddles:
And Count de Monet from “History of the World, Part 1”
In October 2007, Barack Obama quit wearing a US flag lapel pin that he had been wearing since 9/11. Obama’s explanation at the time was:
I decided I won’t wear that pin on my chest. Instead I’m going to try to tell the American people what I believe what will make this country great and hopefully that will be a testimony to my patriotism.
While Barack has mostly held to not wearing his pin, it does show up from time to time. Interestingly, it seems to show up when he’s addressing groups who are generally known for their patriotism like a blue-collar group in West Virginia or Missouri or while touring a manufacturing plant in Michigan.
I’ll admit I’m a bit of a cynic. Maybe Barack’s flag wearing is just coincidence and not political pandering.
Then again, maybe not.
On Monday of this week John McCain criticized Obama for having been to Iraq only once during his term in office. McCain’s valid point was that he thought it was unfair for Obama to be making opinion about what was or wasn’t working in Iraq if he hadn’t been there since the surge, hadn’t visited with General Petraeus or with President Maliki. McCain, who has been to Iraq eight times, went so far as to offer to escort Obama should he choose to make the trip.
Barack’s response to McCain’s offer, given by his spokesman Bill Burton sounded vaguely familiar:
"John McCain’s proposal is nothing more than a political stunt. And we don’t need any more "˜Mission Accomplished’ banners or walks-through Baghdad markets to know that Iraq’s leaders have not made the political progress that was the stated purpose of the surge. The American people don’t want any more false promises of progress. They deserve a real debate about a war that has overstretched our military and cost the U.S. thousands of lives, hundreds of billions of dollars, without making us safer."
So, just like losing his flag lapel pin, Barack won’t go to Iraq because he believes it’s just another meaningless show. Well gee, the lapel pin didn’t stay off too long before Barack thought he needed to wear it again. Do you think he may change his mind on the Iraq trip?
WASHINGTON (AP)– Barack Obama is considering a visit to Iraq this summer, his first to the war zone since becoming a presidential candidate.
Obama revealed his plans to The New York Times. He has been under criticism from Republican rival John McCain for failing to visit Iraq since 2006. Obama also declined McCain’s invitation for a joint trip.“I just don’t want to be involved in a political stunt,” Obama said, according to a report on the newspaper’s Web site Wednesday.
I guess he just might!
I’ve got to hand it to McCain, he put BO in a corner that there was no way out of. If he didn’t go, McCain will pound him for making decisions without any first hand information. If Obama goes he’ll be drawn and quartered by his own moonbat base…it’s a no win situation for poor Barack.
In honor of Barack’s trip to Iraq (and with Steve gone, this is the first music we’ve had all week):
Yesterday out of the UK’s Daily Mail…
The influential Environmental Audit Committee says a personal carbon trading scheme is the best and fairest way of cutting Britain’s CO2 emissions without penalising the poor.
Under the scheme, everyone would be given an annual carbon allowance to use when buying oil, gas, electricity and flights.
What a bunch of pikers! If they were really serious about gorebal warming and truely concerned about the short timeframe we have to correct our horribly abused atmosphere, they would create and enforce carbon credits on food.
It’s a well known fact that between 10% and 30% of all flatulence is CO ². With the dramatic over population that the greenies claim is already on the world, we must surely be gassing ourselves out of existence. Even Mrs. Shoe is nodding her head in agreement!
Here’s what I propose:
Every person gets a carbon credit card with an allotment of credits. Older people will naturally get more credits each month because, well, our digestive systems need it.
Carbon charges will be assigned to all foods. I would envision a sliding scale with Jello at zero, baked beans and sauerkraut at 100 and everything else scaled in between.
When you go to purchase food, your card will have credits reduced based upon types and quantities of food. If your diet consists of lots of beef, beans and beer with ice cream for dessert, you’ll probably only be able to eat for a week each month. After that, you’ll need to either buy credits from the jello eaters or become a jello eater yourself for the rest of the month.
To ensure that no one is cheating on their card or getting black market credits, I propose we outfit vans with methane sniffers and have them comb the neighborhoods. With all the carbon food cards connected to a central data bank, it should be easy to determine which houses have depleted their carbon credits for the month. A whiff of methane from from any such house will result in an immediate SWAT engagement to remove any offending foods left in the house. A second offense will have your family eating nothing but brown rice for a month with aggregious offenders also requiring daily hycolonics.
Now if I could just figure out how to tax belching!
What kid, having played baseball or seen a major league game, hasn’t dreamed of being a member of the Cubs, Yankees, Cardinals or even the Twins or Royals?
As this article from 2004 describes, little league baseball has been losing popularity for some time. The ironic thing for MLB is that if people don’t play or follow the sport as kids, they don’t tend to pay attention to it as PAYING ADULTS!
I understand the value of a brand, copyright and all the legal stuff that goes with it, but wouldn’t you think MLB would be better served if they viewed this as “imitation being the sincerest form of flattery?” I’ve got to believe that the value in goodwill and awareness is worth far more than the few bucks the league gets from their licensing agreement with the “official” uniform provider.
McCain: GOP base needs to get energized
Senator McCain,
If you really believe that it is up to the GOP base to get energized, then this election is already lost.
Senator McCain,
Energized bases come from leaders or movements that speak to the hearts of their adherents. Energized bases come from people who see the leader’s vision and see how that vision helps them accomplish the goals achieve the values that they all believe in.
Senator McCain,
I certainly agree that indiscriminate spending is a significant issue and did hurt the Republicans in 2006 and will continue to hurt them in this election. However, if you believe that that is the ONLY issue that is out there, you are either naive, willfully ignorant or worse.
Senator McCain,
In case you fall into the naive/uniformed category, let me give you a short list of why many parts of the base are not energized by your candidacy:
Senator McCain,
The above list is not exhaustive. there are other issues where you have left many of us scratching our heads about where you are on the political spectrum. At least for myself, the above list will not keep me from voting for you. But, to suggest that I should be energized, when you support key policies that would negatively impact my family for years to come, well that’s not likely to happen.
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