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 August 4th, 2008

DNS fix for RoadRunner Wisconsin customers

by @ 15:18. Filed under The Blog.

Over the last few days, I haven’t been able to access certain sites, such as Sheboygan Shenanigans and the #dontgo Twitter feed. What those sites have in common are domain servers from domaincontrol.com (specifically the NS47 and NS48 servers). The default RoadRunnerWI DNS servers lost connectivity with them sometime on July 31.

After a pair of web chat sessions, and a lengthy phone call with customer service, I finally got a fix from RR. If you are unable to access those sites (or others that have domain servers on ns47.domaincontrol.com/ns48.domaincontrol.com), you need to change your DNS servers manually to the following:

Primary – 4.2.2.2
Secondary – 4.2.2.3

Hopefully RoadRunner will have a more-permanent fix for their default DNS servers soon, now that they know something is hosed with them.

I have to thank silent E for finally waking me up out of my stupor; until he posted the early edition of this morning’s Scramble, I had assumed that Jeni’s site simply went dark.

Revisions/extensions (9:06 pm 8/4/2008) – Jim Lynch reports that he is unable to get to Call Congress Back down in Florida. Houston, we have a problem.

Update to the General Policies

by @ 12:05. Filed under The Blog.

Attention spam bots, splogs, and proprietors of same – you might want to take a look at the revised General Policies for this site, specifically the no-falsified-attribution requirement. Those who decide to misattribute works published here will be dealt with harshly.

The Morning Scramble (extended version) – 8/4/2008

by @ 10:51. Filed under The Morning Scramble.

The Silent one already put up an abbreviated Scramble that can’t be missed, but I don’t leave until o-light-hundred (6 am) Wednesday.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ToeY7MkCm0c[/youtube]

  • American Pundit reports the GOP is celebrating Barack Obama’s 47th birhtday with tire gauges.
  • James Wigderson has the perfect birthday song for Obama.
  • Geoff found a full Barack-track on NASA. That’ll get him the 8 Kookcinich votes.
  • PUMA Alert! – Ed Morrissey notes Bill Clinton isn’t exactly on board the Obamination Express.
  • William Teach discovered a very-special monogrammed seat on the flying version of the Obamination Express – Barack’s Presidential chair.
  • Kate nails Obama on his faux-Robin Hood scheme.
  • American Pundit fires the Big Oil stone back at the glass house that is Obama.
  • Stix does the economic two-step on Obamination Economics.
  • Jim Hoft delivers the news that John McCain and the PUMAs have been waiting for – Rasmussen has McCain up.
  • James T. Harris proves that reaching across the aisle, even to the co-author of one’s seminal work that was rejected by that person’s opponent, results in a missing hand.
  • Billiam has a message for the Left – they’ve overplayed their race-card-filled hand so much, he’s back. Welcome back, my friend, to the show that never ends.
  • Marshall Manson exposes the stupidity of the Senate “Ethics” Committee. Seriously, what’s up with trying to crucify Tom Coburn while giving Ted Stevens a pass?
  • USCitizen reports the House GOP will continue the Texas Tea Party.
  • Flip has more resources for following the Party, including…
  • …Amanda Carpenter’s live-blogging from the House.
  • Mark Tapscott is calling in the clans. I wish I could be there, but a pre-planned vacation intrudes. Of course, if the party continues into October and AFP’s Defending the American Dream Summit timeline, I’m there.
  • Gary Gross yells, “CHAAAAARRRRGGGGEEE!!!!!!”
  • Just A Grunt is paying attention to “Ice Road Truckers”. If the Canucks can move an oil rig in 40 days, how in the <expletive deleted> is it going to take 10 years to start drilling in ANWR?
  • Cindy Kilkenny finds yet another episode of Presstitute Bias. Not only did McCain join the offshore drilling brigade before Obama supposedly joined (see yesterday’s Scramble for why it’s “supposedly”), but McCain wants to drill more places than the “Gang of 10” that Obama supposedly copied.
  • Owen gets what the pressitutes don’t.
  • Fred Dooley notes the vast difference in presstitute coverage between a one-‘Rat protest over last year’s Wisconsin budget “gridlock” (never mind the state was continuing to spend the same amount as the previous budget while the new budget was being hammered out) and the lack of presstitute coverage of the Texas Tea Party.
  • Scott reports high-ranking Saddam-era Iraqi officials are admitting that the Iraqi WMD program went to Syria in the months leading up to Operation Iraqi Freedom.
  • Mike Pechar tells what the presstitutes won’t about the terrorist attack in China – the perps are Islamokazis.
  • Eddiebear bemoans Eurabia’s attempt to give bacon a shelf life of the average Obamination campaign quote (i.e. very short).
  • Donna Martinez proves that when push comes to shove, the change artists suddenly don’t like change too much. No, this is not an Obamination Update; instead, it’s basic self-preservation. On second thought, is there a difference?
  • Bill Quick reminds us that intelligence matters.
  • Tom McMahon pictures various sleeping arrangements.

The Morning Scramble (E’s still having a bad week edition) 8/4/2007

by @ 9:00. Filed under The Morning Scramble.

Hi all. I’m continuing last weeks bad week by continuing it this week. This probably should be a Friday song but what the hell, it made me laugh.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ulyPmFzzPt0[/youtube]

  • Michelle Malkin gives the pubbies some advice.
  • Jenni says enough to higher taxes and goes good with the song I posted.
  • Kate has todays daily Obamarama.
  • Texas is going to smoke an illegal alien and Texas Fred tells why this is a good idea. No arguments here.
  • Myths and Facts from Cindy
  • Barack-Tracking at Real Debate Wisconsin
  • Patrick has your Local On The 8’s.

This has been your Readers Digest version of The Morning Scramble

I Could ‘ve Been a Contender!

by @ 5:27. Filed under Call me Carnac.

Twice this weekend my sarcastic prognostications were confirmed by those who actually get paid for being political!

In my Saturday post, after chastising Obama for is drilling flip flop, I pointed out that his explanation left me skeptical of him actually implementing drilling even though he may vote for an initial bill.   Tim Pawlenty, who I didn’t know read Norunnyeggs, picked up on this theme while at a campaign office opening in Iowa:

“He’s put so many contingencies around it that I wonder – in fact I question – whether he would do it at all,” Pawlenty said in an interview. “It may be a way for him to gain favor during the election, and tube it later because all the contingencies weren’t met.”

After making yet another gaffe (I’ve quit counting how many because it’s more than all my fingers and toes in any given week) in which he mischaracterized “Presidents” that are on currency, I posted a memo to David Plouffe, Obama’s campaign manager last Thursday and suggested:

If you are interested in having Obama elected, make sure that he no longer gets put into situations where he has to speak extemporaneously, especially when he has his dander up. Fill his pocket with a bunch of note cards that say "Um," "Ah," or "I mean". That seems to qualify as great insight and news worthy for the MSM"¦He need say no more!

Again, I didn’t know David Plouffe was a reader of Norunnyeggs. Saturday afternoon he takes my advice and puts out a press release saying that Barry won’t be able to come out and play unless the playtime is very structured, supervised and previously scripted play days:

“Due to the late date of the two parties’ nominating conventions, and the relatively short period between the end of the conventions and the first proposed debate, it is likely that the four commission debates will be the sole series of debates in the fall campaign.”

I guess you could file all of this under:

“Even a blind squirrel finds a nut occasionally,” or
“Even a broken clock is right twice each day.”

but com’ ‘on….twice in the same weekend? I’m beginning to think this political thing isn’t as difficult as some folks might want to make us think it is!

The First Step is to Admit You Have a Problem

by @ 5:25. Filed under Politics - National.

Every 10, 11 or 12 step program realizes that the first step in any of them is to admit you have a problem.   Without that self realization, none of the remaining steps will be effective because you don’t believe there is any need for change.   That basic and obvious premise is completely missed by the McClatchy folks.

McClatchy  took a look at the McCain “Paris” ad and tried to evaluate whether the ad helped or hurt McCain or Obama.   After viewing the ad, McClatchy reports that viewers had varying responses:

The emotions most felt by Republicans while watching the ad were “disturbing” (35 percent), “skepticism” (16 percent) and “sadness” (10 percent); Democrats reported “skepticism” (44 percent), “anger” (24 percent) and “disturbing” (14 percent); Independents reported “skepticism” (41 percent), “disturbing” (18 percent) and “anger” (18 percent).

McClatchy positions to minimize any negative impact on Obama’s numbers by saying:

The study, of 320 Americans, found that a majority of Republicans were “disturbed, skeptical” and “saddened” after viewing the ad and that 61 percent of Republicans had a negative view of the ad.

Of course, they also position the “beware of the boogieman” by suggesting that the ads could back fire on McCain:

How successful the ads will be at turning what are widely perceived as Obama’s strengths into weaknesses won’t be known for some time. Experts have warned they could backfire on McCain, making him seem bitter and petty and emphasizing differences between him and Obama.

After allowing the CEO of the Research company to conclude that McCain received no benefit fromt he ad:

“We are not sure whether the negative emotions expressed by viewers were related to their feelings about either candidate or about the way in which the message was delivered,” said Glenn Kessler, president and CEO of HCD Research. “However, we do know that the ad did not move voters and they expressed negative emotions after viewing the ad.”

McCatchy walked right past the results that shows hope from these ads:

Before viewing the ad, 75 percent of the Democrats said they would vote for Obama. After viewing the ad, that percentage was 72, while undecideds rose from 13 to 15 percent and those favoring other candidates rose from 3 to 4 percent.

The number who said they would vote for McCain, however, remained unchanged at 9 percent.

Similar results were recorded for Republicans and Independents. Republican support for Obama dropped from 8 to 6 percent, while McCain’s percentage remained unchanged at 74 percent. Undecideds rose from 16 to 18 percent, however.

Only among independents did the drop in Obama’s percentage, from 44 to 43 percent, accrue to McCain, whose support went from 33 to 34 percent.

(emphasis mine)
Any multistep program, no matter how many steps they have, really boil down to 3 steps:

  1. Recognize you have a problem
  2. Determine/analyze why you have that problem
  3. Determine steps to fix the problem

The “Paris” and “Messiah” ads were never meant to address Steps 2 and 3, those will be handled by other ads.   The “Paris” and “Messiah” ads were solely focused on Step 1 and based on the results of this study, they did exactly what they were intended to do: sow a seed of doubt into the minds of people who believed the Messiah’s shtick.   In a race as close as this one is expected to be, you only need to remove small percentages to impact the end result.

As a side benefit, it never hurts to feed your base a bit of red meat now and again!

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