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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 July 8th, 2008

Drinking Right – 1 Hour Warning

by @ 18:00. Filed under Miscellaneous.

This is the Emergency Blogging System. This is not a drill; drills go “Black-and-Decker Black-and-Decker Black-and-Decker.”

The July edition of Drinking Right begins in one hour over at Papa’s Social Club, 7718 W. Burleigh in Milwaukee. The usual crew will be there, along with James Wigderson and the lovely Doreen from Waukesha. So, if you’re not one of the lucky 42,000 or so who are headed to Miller Park to watch the debut of CC Sabathia (and if you’re reading this and aren’t in walking distance of the stadium, you’re already too late), head on down. Dickie’s got room for you.

A rare victory for business

by @ 15:36. Filed under Politics - Wisconsin, Taxes.

Honestly, the fact that the state Supreme Court was unanimous in handing down said victory (per JSOnline’s DayWatch) is even rarer. They ruled for Walgreen’s against a couple dozen high-tax communities, including Milwaukee, Madison, Cudahy, Hales Corners, Kenosha and Waukesha, that use rent payments instead of market value as the determinant of the value of the property various Walgreen’s stores are on. Walgreen’s has developers buy choice properties and build to Walgreen’s specs, and in exchange, they pay above-market rent to the developer, along with the property taxes. Those communities, up until today, were using the higher rent payments rather than what the developer could sell the property for.

Naturally, the communities are saying that they’ll have to increase taxes on everybody else. How about cutting spending for a change, like those of us in the non-government world have to do every time our disposable income drops?

Picturing the ‘Rat Energy policy

by @ 15:18. Filed under Energy, Politics - National.

Jett Atwood of T.G. Studios, known to us who inhabit the chat room at Ed Morrissey’s show as Sarjex, created an instant classic describing the ‘Rat energy “policy” of small cars and wind (H/T for the link – silent E)…

The Morning Scramble – 7/8/2008

by @ 8:53. Filed under The Morning Scramble.

Yes, I’m on time today. There are actually two reasons for the song today:

– Tonight is the July Drinking Right over at Papa’s Social Club (7718 W Burleigh in Milwaukee, at 7 pm). Be there.
– While I won’t be in the Twin Cities at the beginning of September, I figure between Sean Hackbarth (he’s still jobless, so get him some cash so he can be there), Owen Robinson, Todd Lohenry and gopfolk, they’ll have a DR-Twin Cities during the GOP Convention.

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  • John Hawkins sums up why the GOP is in trouble. If the RNC doesn’t think that what happened to the Whigs and Federalists can happen to them as a result of their leftward swing at the explicit shunning of the right, I’ve got 50 reasons why that’s fatally-flawed thinking in the poll on the left sidebar (which taken by itself is a plurality).
  • On the flip side, Stephan Tawney dips into the history to give John McCain a bit of a boost; it seems that in 6 of the last 9 hotly-contested elections (defined by Gallup as either a July lead or a November victory of 6 or fewer percentage points), the July leader lost the popular vote. Barack Obama currently leads McCain by 6 points according to Gallup. That’ll give a lot of comfort to the 109 people who told me that they believe McCain will win the election (which I note is a majority of those who answered the NRE poll as of early this morning).
  • Matt Lewis is running a Veepstakes. My money’s on list #1, specifically the estrogen portion.
  • Emperor Misha I is definitely part of the nihilist crowd, especially after the RNC’s ad for McCain endorsing his statist, acolyte answer for Gorebal “Warming”.
  • Speaking of Gorebal “Warming”, Ace found yet another thing that causes it – cement. No, not the fact that it makes it easier to drive cars on; the mere fact that it is made. I wonder if the Gorebal “Warming” acolytes considered that going back to the 16th Century (or the 8th Century the Islamokazis want to take us to; there really is little difference in the tech) is simply unsustainable on a 6-billion-people planet.
  • JammieWearingFool doesn’t want to hear the Obamas whine about their kids not having any privacy after they pimped them out to a tabloid TV show.
  • Jim Hoft found yet another set of Obama’s words past its expiration date; his prediction that the surge failed.
  • The Vintage One found another set of words just waiting for the curdling to begin; his use of the past tense to describe his ongoing time in the Senate. Where did I put the garbage can? I think I’m going to be sick.
  • Kathryn Jean Lopez wonders about the possibility of a pair of odd-couple tickets. For the record, I don’t think Obama will go with a “bitter Bible-thumping gun-clinger”.
  • Plebian reveals the ‘Rat Goodie Bag that was supposed to be handed out in Denver.
  • Good Lt. deems the ‘Rat Congress as an Epic FAIL. When those who have a either a great deal of or quite a lot of confidence in Congress is less than those who have a great deal of confidence in the Presidency, and the latter is deemed incredibly low, that’s an Epic FAIL with a capital L. Gee, I wonder why this isn’t gleefully reported by the presstitutes.
  • In the Know has just one of the reasons why there is no confidence in Congress – they’re about to pass a bill that will spend $50 million a year on federal inspections for bed bugs.
  • Gopfolk has another reason why there’s no confidence in government; the dead are getting the tax rebate welfare stimulus checks.
  • Mark Pribonic explodes the myth of fixed income. Who here working in the private, non-union sector has had over the last 3 years the 10% increase in wages that Social Security recipients had?
  • Dad29 notes that Detroit is just a little bit worse than Milwaukee; instead of a two-bit Alderthug trying to shake down the entire city for cash, they have the Common Council president and wife of a senior ‘Rat Congresscritter doing it.
  • Kat says that Heller was just the first salvo, as DC is trying to ban all semi-automatic handguns. They either believe that by the time Round 2 gets to the Supreme Court, Kennedy will have “grown” some more into a full-fledged Lawgiver-In-Black or one of the conservatives will have been replaced by a L-I-B.
  • Lance Burri calls Epic Health Systems an Epic FAIL for trying to put the squeeze on supporters of Wisconsin Manufacturers and Commerce because they defended their interests in the recent state Supreme Court race. Why am I not the least bit surprised that the CEO of Epic FAIL donated $24,000 to One Wisconsin Now, which didn’t exactly sit idly by, but tried to prop up soon-to-be-ex Lawgiver-In-Black Loophole Louis Butler?

What part of “Representative” Don’t They Understand?

by @ 5:43. Filed under Energy.

While many Americans believe our government form to be a Democracy, the proper definition of our government is a Constitutional Republic which is a form of a Representative Democracy. The details of the exact differences are unimportant for this post. My purpose was to ensure that folks aren’t confused that I’m confused about the whole Democracy/Representative/Republic issue as I get to this….

Amidst the clamor for lower gas prices from nearly all corners of America comes a Senator with a unique vision. Senator Robert Menendez from New Jersey has initiated a bill that would not only retain the off shore drilling moratorium but make it permanent so that we would never be able to drill off shore, anywhere, anytime. Menendez’s bill is named The COAST Act.

Menendez uses a number of worn, easily refuted and alarmist answers to why drilling is the wrong way to go.

SurveyUSA today released a poll  surveying people from the area, about their willingness to drill off shore of New Jersey. It’s bad news for Senator Menendez.

Amongst the findings of the poll are:

  • 66% of the respondents are ready to drill.   Even 62% of Dems are ready to drill.
  • People are realistic about the results, 60% say prices will not go down immediately but eventually
  • About 17% of the respondents say they would never, ever drill under any circumstances (cue PT Barnum)

The Dems are digging themselves a big hole!   Nancy, Harry and company have decided that the “Do Nothing Congress” was going to finish the session doing what they do best, nothing.   That means that barring any Obama flipflop, nothing will be done to address the need for additional drilling prior to the November election.   I know there are some people who vote party above all else but with poll after poll showing the fuel prices are one of the top two issues and the Dems unwilling to do anything to help and in fact, proposing legislation that would compound the problem, is it really possible that there are enough “party only” people that will vote to maintain and possibly expand a Dem Congress?

One of Menendez’s reasons for not drilling off the New Jersey coast was:

No state on the West Coast will ever allow drilling, and since the Gulf Coast is excluded from the plan, the GOP is banking on the East Coast for production.

Menendez put out his press release on June 18, 2008. Ten days prior, SurveyUSA released a poll showing that 59% Californian’s agree that drilling should be expanded off the coast of California.

Has “The Big One” hit? Isn’t California still a West Coast state?

As for the time machine….It’s Menendez and the rest of the Dems that are trying to use the time machine….to send us back to the 18th Century!

 

It’s Only Gouging if I’m Not Getting the Money

by @ 5:40. Filed under Miscellaneous.

No, this isn’t a joke, this is actually happening.   The Minneapolis Park and Rec. Board has raised their rent for a tent from $20-$60 in 2007 to $50 – $10,000 in 2008.   Oh, and the $10,000 level  gets implemented just in time for  the RNC convention.

I heard an interview with the Park Superintendent on TV this evening. If there is a silver lining to this story, it appears no one from the Republican Convention has contacted the Park and Rec. Board to book their lavish tent. Good! I hope they don’t book an event. It will be very interesting to see what the Board’s rates are next year for events like the Gay Pride Festival! I hope that canvas rots in a corner unused!

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