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.
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, 2008
May 12, 2008
The Morning Scramble – 5/12/2008
I doubt that welfare radio station in central Illinois will be having a blues fest this time around…
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- 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.
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A Growing Image Problem
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.
May 11, 2008
Hooray Patti, America’s Favorite Mom
I missed “America’s Favorite Mom”, but Kat didn’t, and she delivers the good news, and the better news. The $250,000 that Patti Bader-Patton won for being America’s Favorite Mom is going to Soldiers’ Angels.
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Happy Birthday!
Sorry I’m late on this…..
What do the following have in common?
- The Pillsbury Doughboy
- Bob Dylan
- Spam
- Paul Bunyan and Babe the Blue Ox
- Whoopee John Wilfahrt
- Judy Garland
- The Jolly Green Giant
- Betty Crocker
- James Arness
- The Hamm’s Bear
- Terry Gilliam
- Post-it Notes
- Kensington Runestone
- The Andrews Sisters
- The Replacements
- Joe and Ethan Coen
- Jessica Lange
- Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis
- Mary Richards
- Prince
- The Mississippi River
Answer: They all began or are from the state celebrating its 150th birthday today, Minnesota!
Slight change in the Teatotaler lineup
Now playing the part of The Wisconsin Sports Bar, Fire Ned Yost Now. Good call on the name change, Chris. Hopefully Melvin will figure out who to replace Yost with before we get too far into the Yost hole.
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Call me a late-adopter
Just in case you didn’t notice that little item on the right sidebar, I’m probably one of the last bloggers on the planet to jump into the Twitter pool. Don’t expect a lot of stuff there, but why not give it a shot (I would’ve added “and a beer”, but it’s too early).
Eggs on the road – week of 5/11
I’m going on vacation at the end of the month, but first I’ve got some wanderlust to take care of :-)
– Tuesday, 5/13: Drinking Right, Papa’s Social Club, 7718 W Burleigh in Milwaukee, 7 pm
– Thursday, 5/15: Day trip to St. Louis for a ballgame at New Busch Stadium and dinner at Favazza’s (see, I’m combining my trips)
– Friday, 5/16 – Saturday, 5/17 (tentative) – Wisconsin GOP convention in Stevens Point for a liveblog
Oh, that question on the sidebar is for the national GOP convention. Stevens Point is close enough for me to drive back home Friday night.
May 10, 2008
Why it’s all or nothing for Clinton
I previously noted that in the modern era of Presidential politics, the Republicans have always gone for the person deemed to be “next in line”. One of the criteria used to determine the person who is next in line is the person who finished 2nd in the previous contested primary season.
There is no similar “next in line” in the Democratic Party. Indeed, 5 of the last 6 Democratic candidates, prior to their first nomination, had never sought the office of President, with the sixth (Al Gore) attempting to get a promotion from Vice President. Yes, Walter Mondale also had served as Vice President, but 1984 was his first and last attempt to become President.
The last person who won the nomination after failing to secure it in a previous attempt and without taking up residence at the Naval Observatory was George McGovern. He finished 3rd in 1968, and used the reforms he came up with to take away the nomination process from the party bosses to become the nominee in 1972. Before that, one has to go back to 1924 and John W. Davis and his nomination on the 103rd ballot after failing to get the nod in 1920. Needless to say, neither recycled candidate won the White House.
Revisions/extensions (1:58 pm 5/10/2008) – The news just gets worse for Clinton if she fails this time around. The Democrats have gone for a previous failure (either in the nomination process or in the general election) five times in the previous century (William Jennings Bryan for a third nomination in 1908, Davis in 1924, Adlai Stevenson for a second nomination in 1956, McGovern in 1972 and Gore in 2000), and lost all five times. Past performance is an indicator of future performance.
R&E part 2 (2:10 pm 5/10/2008) – I forgot to mention Lyndon Baines Johnson and his last-second attempt to get the nomination in 1960. In any case, he did serve as VP and President prior to 1964.
Are the Democrats Franchising?
Documented here, the Democrats have instituted yet another social program to garner votes for the upcoming election. In an unprecedented move, party leadership has taken to the streets in the area of targeted voting blocks, to personally hand government assistance to the desiring population. While the assistance was actually acquired by fleecing “Rich” citizens, the party leadership, while delivering it, was heard telling the assistance recipients how they personally felt their pain and were personally doing something to assist. Not only did they not point out that the assistance actually came from other concerned citizens but, during the distribution, the leaders denigrated the actual providers as uncaring, cold hearted and Conservative.
YANGON, Myanmar – Myanmar’s military regime distributed international aid Saturday but plastered the boxes with the names of top generals in an apparent effort to turn the relief effort for last week’s devastating cyclone into a propaganda exercise.
We have already seen regional commanders putting their names on the side of aid shipments from Asia, saying this was a gift from them and then distributing it in their region,
What? Huh?
I’ve just been told that this wasn’t the US Democrats handing out more government relief. It looks like this is an international franchise that has purchased and applied the Democrats patented “Voter Management Module.”
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May 9, 2008
The Morning Scramble – 5/9/2008
Time to dip back before I was born again…
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– PJ-Comix uses Operation Chaos to laugh at the HUffies.
– JammieWearingFool has exclusive video of the effects of Operation Downfall on Hillary Clinton. Warning; the video is most certainly NSFW.
– Slublog delivers yet another instant-classic SluShop to Clinton’s peg leg.
– Flip has some good news and some bad news for John McCain on the economic front. The good; 75% of economists that answered like him better than Clinton or Barack Obama on the economy. The bad; half of them asked took a pass on the question.
– Uncle Jimbo and Just A Grunt look at both sides of two things the House Rats are bound and determined to kill without making it look like they want them dead; funding for the War and a new GI Bill.
– Michelle Malkin is ready to go RINO-hunting with Pat Toomey. Mind if I bring a .308?
– John Hawkins answers why the GOP is fading fast. I don’t think it’s a coincidence I’m putting this item where I put it.
– Ed Morrissey highlights another reason why I didn’t support Mike Huckabee. Not coincidentally, Huckabee’s comparison of diabetes to terrorism also plays into the previous two items.
– Shoebox says the birds of Minnesota could’ve used some actual global warming; The Winter That Won’t Die™, 10,000 Lakes Edition killed off a heap of songbirds.
– Greg Kowalski says Boomgaard is going back to the drawing board.
– CDR Salamander has a must-read Fullbore Friday, featuring the most-decorated plane crew ever and Old 666.
– Stephen Green channeled Rammstein (the band, not the air base or town for which it is named) when he found out why NBC is going with Microsoft to distribute its shows online. To paraphrase their “biggest hit” on this side of the Atlantic… Sie. Sie hassen. Sie hassen uns.
– Wyatt Earp highlights the Stupid Criminals of the Day. Guess they rooted for Wile E. Coyote as children.
– Plebian has your daily mental exercises. The crooks in the last item failed to do them, and look what happened.
Not the Kind of Name Recognition He Wants
I chronicled here, Barack Obama’s confusion over whether and how much he will raise the Capital Gains tax. I also noted that the Rasmussen Report survey showed a majority of Americans thought it would be harmful if the tax rate was raised.
Rasmussen has done some follow up work.
In a new survey, 58% of those surveyed identified Barack Obama as the Presidential candidate who wants to increase the capital gains tax.
That kind of name recognition is not going to help Obama.
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A Tragedy That Surely Could Have Been Averted
The local fish wrapper, The Star and Sickle in Minneapolis is reporting that scores of songbirds were killed in the northern 2/3 of Minnesota over the past few weeks.
They apparently starved to death.
No this wasn’t due to the use of pesticides. It wasn’t due to excessive feral cats. No, the cause was an extended winter that climaxed 10 days ago with 15″ of snow. Bugs did not survive so neither did the birds.
Oh, if only we had kept our incandescent light bulbs and built a few less wind turbines and belched that final snow off our driveways with nasty fossil fuel burning snowblowers, we may have kept the winter to more normal temperatures and even now, we would be hearing the lyrical songs.
Al, Al Gore, have you no compassion for these helpless songbirds? At what temperature will you be satisfied?
May 8, 2008
Please, Please, Pretty Please
Political Office In Alec Baldwin’s Future?
Now That He’s 50, Actor Tells 60 Minutes Political Office Is Looking More Appealing
Let’s see, another empty headed, egomanical liberal with anger management issues.
Baldwin could make Franken look nearly mainstream.
Linking the Housing Bailout to FISA
House Democrats are working to pass a “Housing rescue package.” The main provisions of the bill are similar to those that have been reported for the past few months including:
- Giving the Federal Housing Administration $300 billion in new lending authority and the ability to relax its standards to rewrite existing loans.
- Permanently increase the size of loans the FHA, Freddie MAC and Fannie MAE can insure to $729,750 in high cost areas.
- An assortment of “money dumps” to local and state governments that ostensibly help them with low income, first time home buyers and blighted neighborhoods.
I won’t carry on about why this bill is bad policy except to refrain the words “bail out” and remind Nancy Pelosi that a majority Americans do not want this legislation. President Bush has said he will veto the bill.
No, I won’t carry on about BAIL OUT but there was one provision in the bill that I found particularly appalling coming from the Democrats (sorry for the redundancy):
To ensure that lenders participate and support the bill the Democrats have added a provision that creates a safe harbor from investor lawsuits for mortgage holders who modify loans to borrowers who are in default or about to default.
So the Dems want to grant immunity for legal issues to the companies that comply with the desires of Congress. Hey, wait a minute. That sounds a lot like granting of immunity for the telephone companies that comply with FISA! Isn’t that immunity issue the major sticking point with reenacting FISA?
Are Pelosi and company telling us that they believe it is more important to bail out people who made poor individual choices than to allow intelligence practices that have been essential in providing national security?
John McCain originally said that he opposed any housing bailout. I know he is strongly supportive of FISA. The blatant hypocrisy over corporate immunity would be a great opportunity for McCain to draw a bright line of separation so voters can see which party will actually do something about national security and which is just pandering.
The Morning Scramble/Open Thread Thursday – 5/8/2008
It’s Thursday; you know what that means…
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– In case you missed doubleplusundead’s and Ace’s call, Stashiu needs your help to keep his adopted daughters. The lawyer he trusted to file the proper paperwork way back when didn’t exactly do so, and ICE is giving him a hard time.
– Sister Toldjah is looking for a new host. If you have any suggestions, please let her know (if her blog is down and you don’t have her e-mail, you can leave it here and I’ll make sure she gets it).
– Matt Lewis says, “Bloggers matter.” Allahpundit may disagree, but it’s kind of hard to argue with Matt Naugle and The Hammer.
– Speaking of AP, he’s yelling, “COBRAMA!”
– Jib has some timely advice for Brewer fans. It’s getting ugly, and June’s coming up real quick. I don’t have a link, but Jeff Wagner remembered that it wasn’t until June 1982 that Harvey Kuenn took over for the Brew Crew, and that team came within a game of winning a World Series. Hint to Doug Melvin – “Fire Yost now and beat the rush.”
– Tom McMahon takes up the cause of Minnie Minoso.
– Owen notes the motto in Jim “Craps” Doyle’s (WEAC/Potawatomi-For Sale) administration is, “Don’t worry about what we’re telling the presstitutes; take those junkets.”
– Ed Driscoll has the post title of the day – “Arise, Sir Loin of Beef!” Barack Obama does make a perfect Sheriff of Nottingham, but I don’t see a Bugs Bunny anywhere, much less in Rockefeller Center.
– Pejman Yousefzadeh has the runner-up – “Meet The New Boss”. Looks like the Sovi…er, Russians are getting fooled again.
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“You Don’t Have a Right to Challenge It!”
It’s funny how some people are so easily offended.
Putting aside Mr. Kings errant understanding of the constitutional right to free speech, perhaps Mr. King was genuinely concerned about those who have had or were contemplating an abortion when he added: “Do not put this in front of all of us!”
Do you think Mr. King was as concerned for families who had lost loved ones in Iraq when Cindy Sheehan had her infamous campout in Crawford Texas?
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May 7, 2008
The Morning Scramble – 5/7/2008
Continuing the tradition of grabbing songs from Queen following a big election….
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– Michelle Malkin and Slublog (complete with a classic SluShop) say it’s, “Game over, man. Game over!”, for Hillary Clinton. Was it over when FALN bombed the Pentagon?
– Kathryn Jean Lopez notes that, suggestions that Clinton will use the pull-out from the morning talk show circuit to drop out notwithstanding, the NRE Spring Hill campaign will still have her to kick around prop up for the time being.
– I must note that this next item was posted before the results of last night, but Allahpundit exposed the true mind behind Operation Chaos…Wolf Blitzer! There is a reason why I call CNN the Clinton News Network.
– Remember that “crowded” Barack Obama rally last night? Mary Katharine Ham exposes the tricks used to make it seem more crowded than it was.
– JammieWearingFool asks, “Who do you trust?” Can I throw Nigerian terrorists farther than I can throw Obama?
– Michelle Malkin has the top 10 reasons John McCain should repudiate La Raza. There’s one overriding one he won’t; it’s another knife in the back.
– See-Dubya expounds on reason #10 by noting that New Mexico (home of what was once considered the “serious” ‘Rat candidate) is the hub of a national fake-ID ring thanks in no small part to said former candidate.
– Allahpundit asks how bad it’s going to get if Newt Gingrich’s grand plan to save the GOP is to institute GPS-based air traffic control. Asian Badger could fill him in on how useless that is, but that would likely trigger a THIRD LOOK AT RITUAL SUICIDE! (I triggered the second look with my answer).
– Owen found something Wisconsin governor Jim Doyle’s clinging to; corn-a-hole. Do read Kevin’s comment on why he’s clinging to corn-a-hole like Obama’s version of the disadvantaged clings to guns.
– Bill Quick has a succinct, not-quite-safe-for-work answer for Algore Goracle’s claim that the Burmese cyclone is all the fault of Gorebal Warming eeeeeeeeeeevil SUV-driving conservative Americans. I’ll add two words – “…and rotate”.
– Tom McMahon puts the 1-2 punch delivered to the print media into 4 blocks. Once again, those of you who do not have 4-Block World in your feed readers, correct that oversight now.
I’m up way too early after a long night last night.
Clinton channels Churchill
This comment from TheBigOldDog on Ed Morrissey’s post asking when Hillary Clinton will drop out has to be the Comment of the Week™…
"We shall not flag or fail. We shall go on to the end. We shall fight in Kentucky and West Virginia, we shall fight on the rally stages and in the dinners, we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength on the air. We shall defend our campaign, whatever the cost may be. We shall fight on the telephones, we shall fight on the Internet, we shall fight in the party backrooms and in the streets, we shall fight in the newspapers and magazines. We shall never surrender!"
As for when I think she’ll drop out, No Sleep Till Denver!
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Psssst, Mr. Populist, the Masses Don’t Like it!
During the last Democratic debate Barack Obama was asked to clarify his position on raising capital gains rates. He’s vacillated between various proposals but during the debate his position was:
Obama has included increasing capital gains rates as part of his populist message of taking from the rich and giving to the poor. Of course the Wall Street Journal quickly dispelled the myth that capital gains came only from the rich with this information:
In 2005, 47% of all tax returns reporting capital gains were from households with incomes below $50,000, and 79% came from households with incomes below $100,000.
Undaunted, Barack Obama continues to talk about increasing capital gains rates and usually wraps some story about evil hedge fund managers in to rally the population into gathering their torches and pitchforks.
Except they’re not.
Rasmussen Reportsasked the masses about increasing capital gains rates and found that 65% opposed an increase in capital gains rates. 85% of Republicans, 62% of unaffiliated and even 50% of Democrats said they did not want the tax increased.
Now Barack may try to enter the general election trying to explain to the masses that the capital gains taxes are just for evil rich people and he won’t raise taxes on the “everyday folks” but it looks like folks already see through that ploy. When asked by Rasmussen, 60% of the respondents said that if a candidate raises capital gains taxes, they would also raise other taxes. 41% of the respondents said their personal taxes would go up if the capital gains rates increased.
As it relates to his tax plans it looks like not only can’t Barack fool all of the people all of the time, he’s having a tough time fooling even some of the Democrats some of the time.
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May 6, 2008
Late-night Indiana live-blogging
Since I’m not running CoverItLive (it was too late to get it started), do scroll down and hit refresh for updates. The last one went up at 12:12 12:23 am 5/7/2008.
Guess I’m taking over for ST and Ed/Allahpundit. I don’t feel like firing up CoverItLive, but I’ve got my Mountain Dew, and a quick recap:
– With 86% in, Clinton’s up 560,720 to 521,415.
– They’re hand-counting about 11,000 ballots in Lake County (the county closest to Chicago), so no results from them yet.
– There’s also no results from Union County in east-central Indiana, which is Clinton country.
– Obama and CBS have conceded Indiana to Clinton, but nobody else is calling it.
10:09 pm – For those thinking that Lake could deliver the state for Obama, I’m estimating he’ll need about 38,000 votes. Ed noted in the Hot Air live thread that there were about 110,000 votes for Kerry in 2004, so if that’s the base, Obama would need about a 35-point win. The primary numbers are actually running about 30% higher than that statewide, so there’s likely about 143,000 votes out there. That would suggest he would need a 27-point win.
10:21 pm – Karl Rove just ripped Hillary for having a red-faced Bill out there. I guess it has to be said…”Rove you magnificent bastard! Hill should’ve read your book!”
Lead’s now 568,039-528,432, 87% in. Projected pre-Lake (and pre-Union County) lead still holding within a couple hundred.
10:39 pm – Lead’s down to 574,643-536,332, 88% reporting. The memes are already starting for Clinton to drop. I say, “No sleep ’till Denver!”
We’re down to 8 counties with partial or no results:
Lake – no results
Union – no results
Porter (81% in) – Clinton up approximately 16,900-12,300
Laporte (88% in) – Clinton up approximately 13,100-12,100
Hamilton (99% in) – Obama up approximately 25,300-16,500
Hancock (98% in) – Clinton up approximately 6,100-4,100
Marion (98% in) – Obama up approximately 121,900-60,200
Monroe (67% in) – Obama up approximately 8,900-4,600
10:50 pm – Statewide, with 91% in, it’s 587,973-566,988 Clinton. That’s Lake County’s Gary’s effect (that’s from CNN); with 28% in Lake County, it’s 27,991-9,470 in Obama’s favor. Porter’s also all in.
11:01 pm – It’s 588,106-567,104 Clinton. American Pundit is also burning the midnight oil (literally).
11:09 pm – Wolf Blitzer really laid into the Hammond mayor (Clinton supporter) for Lake County’s refusal to release partial results. Somehow I doubt CNN will be joining the Drop Hill meme.
Meanwhile, Laporte finished reporting, Clinton up statewide 588,823-568,156 (92% reporting). Still no results from Union County.
11:18 pm – No new numbers, but some back-of-the-envelope math of what’s still left to be picked up in the other counties reporting partial results:
– Hamilton (99% in) – Obama should pick up about 100 votes
– Hancock (97% in) – Clinton should pick up about 100 votes
– Marion (98% in) – Obama should pick up about 1,300 votes
– Monroe (67% in) – Obama should pick up about 2,100 votes
Union County, which still isn’t reporting, should get Clinton about 2,000 net. That would cut Clinton’s statewide lead to under 20,000, which would give the state to Obama if Lake matches Marion (Indianapolis). Lake is the second-most-populous county behind Marion, and is essentially a suburb of Chicago.
11:22 pm – Er, make that even approaches Marion. The rest of the county would need to go 60-40 Obama to put it in the margin of error.
American Pundit, who’s kept an eye on Fox, notes that 6,000 absentee ballots may not be counted tonight. Oh brother.
11:27 pm – Guess I better listen to Fox rather than the Clinton News Network (where a flack is trying to spin) – they’re reporting that Clinton has canceled her morning appearances (thanks again, AmerPundit).
11:37 pm – More numbers from both Lake and Monroe Counties. Clinton’s lead is now 606,497-589,888 with 95% reporting. Will be back with analysis shortly.
11:53 pm – Bear in mind that there are potentially 6,000 absentee ballots that won’t be counted tonight. The freshly-reporting portion of Lake County went 55-45 Obama, putting the county thus far at 65-35 Obama. If the rest of the county reports the way the fresh numbers came in, Clinton should have about a 10,000-vote win. If they report the way the county overall reports, it should be about a 2,000-vote win for Obama.
AmerPundit notes that it came from Merrilville and part of Munster along with the rest of Gary, so those more-familiar with the lay of the land can tell me which way the wind’s blowing.
11:54 pm – Make that 7,000 absentee ballots in Lake County (thanks again, AmerPundit). Also, Monroe County is 98% in.
12:02 am 5/7/2007 (assume the new date) – The Clinton News Network just got done grilling the mayor of Gary (an Obama superdelegate). Also, it’s all-but-official in North Carolina – Obama took it 56.7%-41.9% with 99% reporting.
12:06 am – This is just too rich; the Hammond mayor (Clinton supporter) accusing Lake County election officials of hanky-panky on CNN. Reap what you sow…. AP, you getting this?
12:12 am – Time’s almost out for Obama to declare a sweep. Almost all of Lake is in, and the statewide Clinton lead is now 637,389-615,370. Lake’s at 98% and Obama’s lead is 66,265-53,310.
CNN calling it for Clinton. So is Fox, ABC and NBC. Union County, which won’t report until 2 am, won’t matter.
Good night, good fight.
12:23 am – Meh; call me a pol. CNN got the numbers out of Union, which Clinton won 803-383 (everybody reporting). Statewide, it’s Clinton up 638,192-615,753.
NOW I’m history.
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More Bad News for Candidate Al Franken
I’ve documented Franken’s problems with obeying tax laws his accountant here and here.
Some folks have been skeptical that these issues would impact Franken’s bid for Senate. I however believe that while we from Minnesota are politically confused, our compasses point pretty much north regarding ethics and integrity. It appears my knowledge of Minnesotans is proving out.
In a new poll, SurveyUSA is showing that Franken’s tax issues are having a negative impact on his campaign. 59% of those surveyed say that Franken’s tax problems make them less likely to vote for him. Perhaps worse, 51% say he should step out of the race.
Obviously things can change but Franken is one of those guys who is difficult to find anything likable about. With 59% saying they are less likely to vote for Franken, I’m hoping it won’t be too long before he is referred to as “Former Senate candidate, Al Franken.”
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Barack Obama – Postpartisan with the Undead!
OK, this isn’t Bordello of Blood but still, this is pretty funny.
From the website:
Barackula is a short political horror rock musical about young Barack Obama having to stave off a secret society of vampires at Harvard when he was inducted into presidency at the Harvard Law Review in 1990.
If you have 10 minutes…take a look!
The real life parallels are amazing:
Barack leading blood suckers!
Barack negotiating with the undead!
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The Morning Scramble – 5/6/2008
Today is somebody’s last stand, though I hope it lasts another 3 months…
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– Blogs4Bauer has a reason for Dave Bauer to get off his duff and save DC; the Attorney General is an envirowhacko.
– Owen has the appropriate two-letter answer to Fed chair Ben Bernanke’s call for intervention in the mortgage market.
– William Teach notes Mad Vlad Putin wants Georgia as a going-“away” present. Looks like it truly is back to the USSR.
– That goes so well with this item; Slublog notes the Soviet Union Russia is going back to the old practice of marching weapons through Red Square. Maybe I shouldn’t have struck out the once-and-likely-future name of that country.
– Staying with the Communists, Lawhawk and Jim Hoft run through the contents of the computers that belonged to former (dead, actually) FARC head Raul Reyes. Did I mention that Interpol didn’t find Karl Rove’s fingerprints on some rather damning evidence against the ‘Rats and Barack Hussein Obama?
– The folks at Investor’s Business Daily dip into the memory hole to rescue Obama’s rather-lenghty and cozy relations with Marxists both past and present.
– Michelle Malkin took my first choice for today’s song in what should be her live-thread for today’s primaries.
– Mary Katharine Ham notes one bad side-effect of Operation Chaos/NRE Spring Hill campaign; S(l)ick Willie got his groove back.
– Slublog breaks out the Hulk for Hillary Clinton’s plans to “smash” OPEC. But, but, but I thought she wasn’t for blood-for-oil (or maybe she thinks they’ll listen to lawyers like they didn’t do in the 1970s).
– Meanwhile, Fausta found out Hillary didn’t “exactly” report $24 million of Bill’s income to the Senate. Then again, she’s a ‘Rat and a Clinton, so other than PMSNBC and the rest of the Obama Media focusing on this, expect nothing from the LeftStreamMedia.
– Jim Geraghty explodes the myth that it is one man, one vote in the party of the Rat.
– Allahpundit rolls the official DVR of the blogosphere on CNN’s smug announcement that they’re a Wright-free zone. My answer; this place is neither Wright-free nor Hussein-free.
– Staying with the media, Amanda Carpenter notes that a pair of sinking ships are tying the knot to tag-team against the person who used to be their favorite Pubbie. Grey Lady, meet the Leg Thrill.
– One more free shot at the presstitutes; Plebian stole AP’s new style book.
– Doubleplusundead has today’s McCain Photoshop.
– Shoebox has today’s lesson of supply and demand. The same thing that happened to oil is happening to the bipartisan Party-In-Government’s prefered substitute, corn.
– Random10 exposes yet another reason why the Gorons that run the Sierra Club are not conservationists but Marxist envirowhackos.
– Bill Quick notes even Jay Leno realizes that, had we started drilling in ANWR when Bill Clinton shot that down, we’d have that oil on-line now.
– Josh Schroeder says the Rats are preparing for the inevitable overturning of Roe v Wade as only they can. Now, who said that abortion was not an issue?
– JammieWearingFool asks, “You got change for a ZW$250,000,000 bill?” On the black market, that’ll get you about US$2.50.
– CDR Salamander has a couple of gripes about LCS (PCU) 2. Nothing like leaky aluminum on a ship designed to fight in close to shore.
– I missed out on the initial react to the proposed $10 county-wide wheel tax for the buses, but Donna Martinez sums up why it’s a bad idea, using Durham, North Carolina as the example to not follow.
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Ready for higher food prices?
On March 31st, the USDA released its crop estimates for the year. Included was an estimate that acres planted with corn were going to drop 8% from the 2007. Even with the reduction in acreage the overall crop yield should be about the same as 2007 which was 13.1 billion bushels.
So we’ve got lots of corn, that’s good news.
Here’s the bad news.
in 2007, approximately 6.5 billion gallons of ethanol was produced. The 2007 Energy Security Act requires that 9.0 billion gallons of ethanol be produced in 2008. 2.8 gallons of ethanol come from each bushel of corn. That means that nearly 1 billion additional bushels of corn will be required just for ethanol production this year.
What do you think will happen to food prices when overall corn production is flat but corn demand for ethanol increases by nearly 50%? They sure as heck aren’t going down!
In a recent Rasmussen poll, 54% of Americans finally understand that burning food is hurting their pocketbook.
Maybe we aren’t a nation of sheeple afterall.
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