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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 June 11th, 2008

Oak Creek flooding update – 1 pm 6/11/2008

by @ 13:39. Filed under Weather.

Doug Seymour, the Director of Community Development, just released an update:

Oak Creek Storm Response Update

The state of emergency declared by Mayor Bolender, Saturday, June 7th remains in effect in response to flooding that has occurred in the City of Oak Creek.

As of Wednesday, June 11th at 12:30 p.m. the only road that remained closed due to flooding was South Pennsylvania Avenue from Oakwood Road to STH 100.

East Drexel Avenue between Clement Avenue and Quincy Avenue is closed until further notice because of road damage due to the flooding.

Future road closure information will be updated at the City of Oak Creek website. (www.oakcreekwi.org).

It is strongly advised that people, especially children should avoid creeks, flooded areas, ditches and areas of standing water, as they represent potentially dangerous situations.

Please contact the City of Oak Creek Emergency Operations non-emergency line at (414) 766-6600 if you have experienced flooding damage or if you have other, non-emergency questions relating to this event.

Additional information and resources are available on the City’s website at www.oakcreekwi.org

The City of Oak Creek Streets Department will be having a special curb-side pick-up for flood damaged items. Please contact (414) 570-5682 to request this service.

Flood clean up kits are available for pick up at Oak Creek Fire Station No. 1 (240 East Puetz Road) and at Fire Station No. 3 (7000 South 6th Street).

For more information please contact Doug Seymour, Public Information Officer for the City of Oak Creek, at (414) 768-6526 or dseymour@oakcreekwi.org.

News Release By Authority Of:

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Doug Seymour, Public Information Officer on behalf of Dick Bolender

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In addition, the recycling center at 720 W. Puetz Rd. will have extended hours on Friday, and will be open from 8 am until 8 pm.

Thanks for the fast response. Hopefully the rains in the forecast for tomorrow will hold off.

27th Street southbound now reopened

by @ 13:30. Filed under Weather.

Per JSOnline’s DayWatch, 27th Street between Elm Rd. and I-94 has been reopened. Earlier, I had noted that the barricades in the southbound lanes but not the northbound lanes just south of Elm had been moved aside, and that the “road closed ahead” signs at 27th and Ryan were still up.

However, the DOT still lists the off-ramp from north/westbound I-94 to 27th as closed. That ramp is, if memory serves, lower than the rest of the area, so it may well still be flooded.

I also have a request in to Oak Creek for an updated list of closures in the city. Their website hasn’t been updated yet today, but other than that bit of slowness, they’ve been quite good at providing information.

Hopefully the National Weather Service is going to be wrong about a fresh round of heavy-rainfall storms coming in tomorrow.

Roll bloat – guest-blogging edition

by @ 13:10. Filed under The Blog.

Mainly because I’m guest-blogging at E’s place, I finally remembered to add a couple of friends of E:

– American and Proud
– TexasFred’s

I really should have done this long before now, but better late than never.

The Morning Scramble – 6/11/2008

by @ 11:52. Filed under The Morning Scramble.

How long have I been doing this? Oh well; let’s continue flying…

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XWw0BXpGwu4[/youtube]

  • Ace caught Mad Vlad’s man in the oil business saying, “You ain’t seen nothin’ yet on these prices.” Tell me again how the Sovie…er, Russia is now our friend.
  • Lawhawk explores using the gas weapon on Iran. No, not the ones that Saddam Hussein used; the ones the lieberals are using against us (the lack of refining capacity).
  • Jim Lynch puts the ‘Rat energy policy in a nutshell (with the emphasis on “nut”).
  • Dad29 has a plan to get back to $2.10/gallon gas.
  • It isn’t through biodiesel; James Wigderson asks whether we taxpayers can get our $250,000 back after construction on the biodiesel plant planned for Evansville was stopped because of "rapidly rising commodity prices and the decision by a key lender to withdraw from its loan commitment."
  • Just because I can, Allahpundit has tape of Michelle Malkin offering the sane solution to the oil crisis. PSA time – Everybody, sign Newt Gingrich’s petition ; Wisconsinites, also sign Phil Williamson’s petition.
  • Slublog wishes John McCain wouldn’t go off the rails. Same here, Slu; I just don’t have the mad SluShop Skillz.
  • Ed Morrissey has news of a new “conservatives-only” PAC started up by Sen. Jim DeMint. Sounds interesting.
  • Plebian breaks out in song to Barack Obama. Trust me, it’s wicked good (besides, would I Rick-roll you?).
  • Dean has the dream ticket for Republicans. I will say this, an Obama/Hillary Clinton ticket would ensure that the Dems are not competitive in the “mushy middle”.
  • Bull Dog Pundit asks, “What makes a profit a ‘windfall’?” Answer; not enough cash kicked back to the party in power, specifically, the ‘Rats.
  • Anwyn lays the linguistic smackdown on “education”.
  • Speaking of education, Chris the head barkeep (or more-accurately, his oldest son) found out the hard way that grades bear little correlation to one’s accomplishments. I’ll remind everybody that Albert Einstein was considered a failure in mathematics.
  • Uncle Jimbo has unleashed the Dead Tangos: The Totally Unrated DVD. My birthday’s coming up soon (hint, hint).
  • Doubleplusundead has some Peeps video for those of you already jonesing for more HamNation. Air Peeps!
  • Paddy O’Furniture breaks out a laundry list of how stupid we’ve become over the last 50 years. I know Paddy usually doesn’t look for publicity, but this one’s just too good.
  • William Teach figures out which party is truly responsible for Gorebal “Warming”. Do note that it is a demonstrated fact that highly-urban areas are warmer than rural areas, and also note which party tends to dominate highly-urban areas.
  • Fred has the Drinking Right Quotes from last night. As always, they’re taken way out of context.
  • There are a bunch of places I could have taken this one from, but since Kevin Fischer asked whether the NBA has turned into the WWE, I’ll use him as the source. To answer the question it’s not a corinkidink that the most-obvious examples, as well as the one that’s the subject of the hot-and-heavy rumors, happened while the NBA was on NBC, and that NBC is the longtime home of what is now the WWE on network TV.

Let’s see if I can come up with some good stuff for Silent E while he’s on vacation. I’m one of those he left the keys of the blog to (I helped move his and Kate’s blogs to a more-reliable server).

Oak Creek flood closures winding down

by @ 7:36. Filed under Weather.

Most of the east-west routes are now open, but most of the north-south routes are still closed. What is still closed:

– E. County Line Rd. between 10th Ave and Nicholson Rd.
– S. Pennsylvania Ave. between Ryan Rd. and Oakwood Rd.
– S. Nicholson Rd. between County Line Rd. and Vista Dr. in Caledonia (the first barricade is now at Oakwood; no barricade at Elm halfway between Oakwood and County Line; I expect it to reopen once Caledonia cleans up the road just south of County Line)
– S. Howell Ave (STH 38) between Oakwood Rd. and Caddy Ln. in Caledonia
– S. 27th St (STH 241) between Elm Rd. and I-94 (includes the I-94-to-27th off-ramp and the west frontage road in Racine County, but not 8 Mile Rd./County Line Rd.; somebody moved the barricades from the southbound lanes but not the northbound lanes at Elm; I expect it to officially reopen sometime today)

Roads closed yesterday that are now open:

– E. Forest Hill Ave. between Pennsylvania Ave. and Shepard Ave.
– E. Ryan Rd. between Pennsylvania Ave. and Nicholson Rd.
– E. Oakwood Rd. between John Aron Dr. and Redwood Ln.
– E. Elm Rd. between 10th Ave. and Nicholson Rd.
– S. 13th St. between Oakwood Rd. and the Milwaukee/Racine county line.

It’s About Time!

by @ 5:05. Filed under Energy.

Yesterday the Republicans formally introduced a petition that would force immediate consideration of the No More Excuses Energy Act (H.R. 3089). The act has over 50 authors, representing at least 24 states. The act is brief and to the point with a focus on growing energy production in the US. The act reads:

No More Excuses Energy Act of 2007 – Requires the Secretary of the Treasury to prescribe regulations for the taxpayer election to expense the cost of certain refinery property not later than 60 days after the enactment of this Act.

Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) allow the issuance of tax exempt facility bonds for the financing of domestic use oil refinery facilities; (2) extend through 2018 the tax credit for producing electricity from wind facilities; and (3) allow tax credits for the production of electricity from nuclear energy, natural gas production, and carbon dioxide tertiary injectant processes.

Requires the President to designate at least 10 sites for oil or natural gas refineries on federal lands and make such sites available to the private sector for construction of refineries.

Prohibits the Nuclear Regulatory Commission from denying an application for nuclear waste disposal on the grounds of present or future insufficient capacity.

Terminates all existing federal laws prohibiting expenditures to conduct oil and natural gas leasing and preleasing activities in the Outer Continental Shelf.

American-Made Energy and Good Jobs Act – Directs the Secretary of the Interior to establish and implement a competitive oil and gas leasing program in the Coastal Plain of Alaska.

Repeals the prohibition against producing oil and gas from the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.

Sets forth requirements for the sale of oil and natural gas leases in the Coastal Plain, environmental protection, transportation easements, and royalty payments to Alaska.

Establishes in the Treasury the Coastal Plain Local Government Impact Aid Assistance Fund to assist Alaska jurisdictions that are directly impacted by oil and gas exploration and production in the Coastal Plain.

The act has been held up in committee since July of last year. It will require signatures of by two-thirds of the House members to move it to the floor.

I consider getting the required number of signatures a long shot but it should show who’s willing to “walk the walk” and not just “talk the talk!”

Make sure and ping your Representative, especially if they are a Dem and encourage, cajole, harass them until they sign the petition! If they don’t, this ought to be all the ammo required to put them in the unemployment line in November.

That’s it, I’m Done

by @ 5:00. Filed under Politics - Minnesota.

Yesterday the Senate had the “wind fall taxes” on oil companies bill before them.   In a 51-43 vote, the Republicans were able to kill this ignorant, patronizing and pandering bill.

Unfortunately,    6 Republicans voted in favor of the bill, they were:

  • Grassley, IA
  • Collins, ME
  • Snowe, ME
  • Smith, OR
  • Warner, VA
  • Coleman, MN

And it’s that last vote that makes me say I’m done.  

Coleman is a RINO in every bad connotation of that word.   He was a Democrat for years and became a Republican only because it was expedient for him to do so to further his political career.

Coleman believes in global warming, he believes in cap and trade, he won’t drill in ANWR, he has a lifetime Conservative voting record of 68.

I don’t like his position on many issues but I could give him some cover under the “we’ll agree to disagree” argument.   However, when a simple issue like artificially taxing a business because you don’t like them, comes up and he doesn’t have the courage of his convictions to vote NO, than I will show him how it’s done.

I will not vote for Coleman in November.   Neither will I vote for Franken.

I wonder if the Libertarians have a candidate for Senate?  

You Can’t Make This Stuff Up

by @ 4:25. Filed under Miscellaneous.

This article claims that Roger Clemens and other MLB players take Viagra to enhance their, ah, “game performance!”

No, really, the BALCO folks claim it’s better than other “nutritional” supplements players can take.

So I’ve got a couple of questions (pardon my Al Franken impression):

  • I know it’s strengthens wood but how does it work with Aluminum?
  • Would you need to wear a special cup during the game?
  • What would happen if the team had provocative cheerleaders?   Would the game get called?

The mind reels!

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