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 June 24th, 2008

I-94 soon to be back to 2 lanes each direction at the Rock/Crawfish Rivers

by @ 16:15. Filed under Miscellaneous.

JSOnline’s DayWatch reports the potentially-good news. The water levels on the Rock and Crawfish Rivers are dropping, and the DOT will be able to examine the closed westbound bridges for damage. If there is none, the crossovers built to get westbound traffic onto one of the eastbound lanes and avoid the very-lengthy detour on Hwy. 83, I-43 and I-39/90 will be shut down and traffic will get to use both lanes each way.

DOT spokesman Dennis Shook (my Waukesha readers can tell you stories about him) had a, shall we say, interesting quote on the crossover: “Even though they are going slow, people are happy they are able to travel westbound at all. Five or 10 miles an hour on the crossover is better than getting detoured all the way down to Beloit.” It is a matter of perspective and timing. If one avoids the Hwy. 83 portion of the old detour, I’d rather be doing 70 or so down 43 and 90 than doing 5-10 mph on the 5-mile crossover and the couple miles leading up to the crossover. That said, if I don’t have to be there during the crunch times, I’d rather have that crossover.

Now in Bus & Driver – using donors as wheel grease

by @ 15:38. Filed under Politics - National.


Photoshop from Geepers of LGF via lawhawk

Jim Geraghty found an ancient bus-tossing incident in Barack Obama’s second book, The Audacity of Hope. Quoting from the book:

Increasingly, I found myself spending time with people of means – law firm partners and investment bankers, hedge fund managers and venture capitalists. As a rule, they were smart,interesting people, knowledgeable about public policy, liberal in their politics, expecting nothing more than a hearing of their opinions in exchange for checks. But they reflected, almost uniformly, the perspectives of their class; the top 1 percent or so of the income scale that can afford to write a $2,000 check to a political candidate. They believed in the free market and an educational meritocracy; they found it hard to imagine that there might be any social ill that could not be cured with a high SAT score. They had no patience with protectionism, found unions troublesome, and were not particularly sympathetic to those whose lives were upended by movements of global capital. Most were adamantly prochoice and were vaguely suspicious of deep religious sentiment…

I know that as a consequence of my fund-raising I became more like the wealthy donors I met, in the very particular sense that I spent more and more of my time above the fray, outside the world of immediate hunger, disappointment, fear, irrationality, and frequent hardship of the other 99 percent of the population – that is, the people I’d entered public life to serve.

While Jim focuses on what Obama thinks of those donors, I’ll point out that they’re using Obama and his friends to keep the numbers of those that can afford the $2,000 (now adjusted for inflation) donations to the absolute minimum. After all, some animals are more equal than others, even though the grease is the same.

Blog ‘N Grog – tonight

by @ 12:00. Filed under Miscellaneous.

This is the Emergency Blogging System. It has been activated because Blog ‘N Grog over at Neighbor’s Bistro and Pub (260 W Main St in Waukesha – Google Map for those who need help to find their way in) will begin at 7 pm tonight.

Don’t be afraid of Downtown Waukesha; it’s actually easy to get around.

Roll bloat – Groggy edition

by @ 11:57. Filed under Miscellaneous.

Sancho, the man behind the Blog ‘N Grogs (there’s one tonight), put up a new blog, A little off Main. Hence, it got added to the ever-bloated roll.

Jim Geraghty – All Obama Promises Expire

by @ 11:05. Filed under Politics - National.

The latest proof of the Jim Geraghty Maxim – Obama flip-flops on filibustering any bill that gives the telecoms retroactive immunity.

Folks, remember the words of The Indispensible One – “All Barack Obama statements come with an expiration date. All of them.” It’s just a matter of figuring out when a particular utterance curdles and sours.

“Snagged”? More like “Caught Not Teaching Properly”.

by @ 10:55. Filed under Education, Presstitute Follies.

The former word is the lede in this JSOnline DayWatch article on the growing number of schools and school districts that simply refuse to teach to a minimum standard, including Milwaukee Public Schools and Racine Unified. It’s a word that one would expect from WEAC and MTA, not a news organization that supposedly is interested in proper education.

I do have issues with the federal government having to lay down the law, but it’s painfully obvious that nobody in Wisconsin has the balls to hold MPS and RUSD accountable for creating uneducated dolts.

The Morning Scramble – 6/24/2008

by @ 10:09. Filed under The Morning Scramble.

I have to thank Kevin Fischer for picking today’s song…

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zPBRu210aKU[/youtube]

  • Slublog and his wife just had a daughter. Congratulations.
  • Ace notes even most of Californians support more off-shore drilling. I wonder if the bipartisan Party-In-Government in DC is listening.
  • McQ explains why there are “inactive” oil leases.
  • Uncle Jimbo summarized the letter that Alaska Governor Sarah Palin wrote to Dingy Harry Reid.
  • Trail-Mix asks a pertinent question; “Is America willing to pay an additional $3,333 for every man, woman and child in the country for Barack Obama’s spending?” I can sum up my personal answer in two letters – NO!
  • Bill Quick asks, “Who is in charge of the Obamination Campaign, Obama or Keith Ellison, the first openly-Islamic Congresscritter?”
  • Jim Lynch is running a Obamination Seal caption contest. Do drive him over 100,000 visitors today.
  • Headless Blogger found an apt comparison between Obama and a Groucho Marx character. Hello, Rufus T. Obama.
  • Plebian takes a cartoonish look at an Obamination Cabinet. I do say that it’s probably more truthful than any analysis the presstitutes would offer.
  • William Teach is shocked, SHOCKED that the liberals who profess to love direct democracy so much feel so strongly about denying the will of the people, they’re headed to court to preserve California’s court-ordered homosex marriages against a constitutional amendment proposition.
  • Ed Morrissey found a no-talent hack whose sole qualification for editorial cartoonist is that he is a moonbat in full moonbat flight.
  • Sean M. provides today’s example of why The News Organization That Cannot Be Quoted™ doesn’t want to be quoted. Well, somebody has to be the copy editor, and with all the cutbacks at crAP and elsewhere, we bloggers are willing to do it. Of course, we’ll probably be sarcastic about it, but that’s our style.
  • Second dose of Ed; he eviscerates the Useless Nitwit…er, United Nations over their failure to do anything substantive regarding Zimbabwe. Those of you who remember yesterday’s Scramble remember lawhawk noted that the UN failed the opposition after said opposition put their faith in them.
  • Speaking of lawhawk, he notes it didn’t take long for Hamas to break its hudna.
  • Deebow was part of an op that snagged a Taliban honcho (#11 on the most-wanted list, to be exact). Bravo Zulu, and thank you.
  • Jim Hoft notes that Iraq will take control of two more provinces on Saturday, including Anbar. Still think we’re losing, Rats?
  • Scott found confirmation that a pre-war Al Qaeda camp in Iraq had biological weapons courtesy the government of Iraq (i.e. Saddam Hussein).
  • In the bad news department, Zip says the fallout from Boumediene is beginning with an Appeals Court demand that a Chinese Muslim guest of Club Gitmo be released or transfered. I say, return him to Red China.
  • JammieWearingFool found the Malay Muslims aren’t as “moderate” as they claim. They want no lipstick or high heels for the women.
  • Owen questions another no-bid flood-related contract, this one to repair Lake Delton.
  • Josh Schroeder has another reason to drive stick; it’s harder to steal. I wonder if he noticed the vast majority of those I asked about their stick-driving skills a while back claimed they could.
  • James Wigderson issued an Air Quality Index alert for dangerously-high levels of mosquitoes.

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