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, 2008

August 22, 2008

The Morni…er, Afternoon Scramble – 8/22/2008

by @ 16:01. Filed under The Morning Scramble.

This one goes out to the fans of the Obamination, as they wait for Barry O’s second…

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hXjJCbA5qc4[/youtube]

Since the semi-intentional delay didn’t yield a slip of the ‘Rat running mate to hammer, let’s roll with the regularily-scheduled Scramble –

  • Jerome J. Schmitt finds buyers’ remorse over the ‘Rat caucus system.
  • Dean Barnett wonders where all the Johnny-come-latelys on Barack Obama’s inability to speak without a Teleprompter came from.
  • Bill Quick remembers August is the Month of Doom™ for Dem Presidential candidates.
  • Hugh Hewitt caught Obama worshipping the efficiency of tyrrany.
  • J. Ewing puts some odds on the PUMA Revolution being successful. As an inveterate gambler, and a fan of CHAOS, I’ll take those odds.
  • Jim Geraghty has another reason for John McCain to not take Joe Lieberman; the latter’s view on the economy.
  • Ed Morrissey answers the question of how many houses John McCain owns – ZERO (his wife has them all, and because of a pre-nup, the finances are separated).
  • S. Weasel charts the effectiveness of negative campaigning.
  • Ragnar Danneskjold wonders where all the conservatives are on the RNC speaking schedule. Do remember the RNC has wanted conservatives out of the party power structure, if not all the way out of th party, for a long time.
  • ScarletPimpernel says, “Climb to the bowels of the Posideon.”
  • Sean Oxendine introduces the OxMethod of Electoral Vote estimating. While Obama had a slim lead when he introduced it, there are a couple of notes: it’s a result of older polls still included, and John “Flipper” Kerry had a much-more-substantial lead at this point in 2004.
  • William Teach runs the numbers on how much oil the US has. If only the ‘Rats and envirowhackos would allow us to get it,….
  • Dr. Rusty Shackleford brings bad news on an item Charles Johnson carried – that weapons complex in Pakistan the Islamokazis attacked with homicide bombers to the tune of 59 dead likely includes a uranium-enrichment plant. Charles also noted that the post-Musharraf coalition is collapsing.
  • Laughing Wolf continues to provide the best analysis of the Soviet retaki…er, Russian takeover of Georgia out there. God help us all if one of the dark horses for Obama’s VP, Wesley Clark, actually becomes VP.
  • Warner Todd Huston brings news of a union going back to its old totalitarian tricks. I’ll lay odds the New York City District Council of Carpenters will be endorsing Obama.
  • Jonathan V. Last points out Red China has a ticking population time bomb bust. That may come too late for the US, however, as the serious impacts aren’t expected until 2050.
  • The Borderline Chris ran some numbers on his phone bill. Take a guess how much of that phone bill doesn’t go to the phone company; I dare you.

One of the Cheddar expatriates in DC just had a bold prediction on the timing of the Obamination texting – 2 minutes before the joint appearance of Obama and his running mate. I’ll go with 2 hours before, only because I’m not quite as cruel as he is.

August 21, 2008

Don’t like the real choices for President? Pick a fake one.

by @ 16:33. Filed under Miscellaneous.

Michael King’s employer, 11alive.com, is having a multi-day poll on which fictitional President would be best. The primaries started today, with the A-D group.

I hereby endorse Thomas “Tug” Benson.

Football Mania!

by @ 10:43. Filed under Miscellaneous.

The NFL season is just around the bend, and I’ve got a few housekeeping items to take care of:

– First things first, I wil be back to defend my over-.500 regular season record against the spread from last year (123-120-2, with a 20-13-1 on the two-picks-weekly over/unders). As always, they’ll be cross-posted at The Wisconsin Sports Bar.
– Fred will once again be running at least 1 Cheddarsphere fantasy league, and possibly 2. The Spiraling Colby is already in the air.
– Ick has a pair of items lined up for us; a fantasy league and a pick-’em contest.

Roll bloat – ramble on

by @ 9:50. Filed under The Blog.

I know mhking from the days back at Free Republic, and was saddened when he had to give up the original Ramblings Journal. There is good news; it’s back, and though it isn’t updated as often as the old place, it is still a must-read.

The Morning Scramble/Open Thread Thursday – 8/21/2008

by @ 9:47. Filed under Open Thread Thursday, The Morning Scramble.

It’s Thursday; you know what that means (blues and Open Thread Thursday)…

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e1fT-J5WKbE[/youtube]

I was hoping to keep this small so as to not intimidate you into not playing along, but there’s too much good stuff out there. Oh well; let’s light this candle.

  • It’s Beginning to Look a Lot Like CHAOS, Part 1 – Bill Quick reminds us just how few superdelegates have to change their mind (some for a second time).
  • It’s Beginning to Look a Lot Like CHAOS, Part 2 – Gabriel Malor reports there is going to be a Hillary Clinton whip team on the floor. Exit quote from Gabriel – “Like a lamb to the slaughter.”
  • It’s Beginning to Look a Lot Like CHAOS, Part 3 – plebian delivers a second “shock to the nation” ‘Rat VP nominee. He may well be half-right there.
  • Doubleplusundead breaks out Mr. Rodgers to smack Barack Obama around over the lack of support he’s giving his poor brother stuck in Kenya. Guess it’s really true that liberals consider charity what they can force you to give.
  • Doc created a couple new posters for the failing Obamination Express.
  • Matt Lewis dug up a classic magazine cover. Now you don’t have to go into the memory hole to find a surprising friend of Big Oil – Barack Hussein Obama II.
  • James T. Harris terms the “Chocolate Jesus” the Left’s Affirmative Action candidate.
  • It’s Beginning to Look a Lot Like CHAOS, Part 4 – PJ-Comix laughs at the DUmmies who are panicking. I almost should’ve taken a Pink Floyd song in homage to all these parts.
  • It’s Beginning to Look a Lot Like CHAOS, Part 5 – Jim Geraghty thinks Hillary Clinton is on the very-short list.
  • Peter has the cure for the queasy feeling the ‘Rats are having.
  • Fausta found the perfect bumper CHANGE bumper sticker. After all, change is all we’ll have left if the Obamination Express rolls into the Oval Office.
  • John McCormack would have inspired a slightly-different song had this not been Thursday with news the gloves are off.
  • E.M. Zanotti and Ace warn Team McCain against making the D&D crowd mad.
  • Lady Logician says to expect one of several dark horses to ride alongside John McCain through November.
  • Plebian channels everybody’s favorite Mitt Romney cheerleader.
  • TexasFred launched the Write In Tancredo/Hunter campaign.
  • Steven Walters found a unique use for leftover campaign funds – retiring state Rep. Barbara Gronemus (D-Whitehall) is holding a “reverse fundraiser”/retirement party with those funds.
  • The Vintage one whacks a specific presstitute over the head for wishing a bipartisan ticket on McCain. I don’t know what’s worse; the fact the presstitute forgot what happened the last time the Pubbies reached across the aisle for the VP nominee, or the fact this particular presstitute works for the Washington Times? Bonus thought – the first (and last) time the ‘Rats had to reach across the aisle for the occupant of the VP office, they got the Constitution changed so it would be nigh impossible to have 2 different parties in the elected executive offices.
  • Dr. Melissa Clouthier declares bike lanes bad for the environment.
  • Nick Schweitzer discovered they tend to force bicyclists to violate state law.
  • J. Gravelle salutes a real man of genius, Brant Vogt, “Mr. Too Stupid for a Driver’s License”.
  • Wendy brings back one of my favorite things from mhking – Hold Throw Muh Beer And Watch This! That reminds me; now that I’ve found his new haunt, I need to bloat the roll again.
  • Peter has 34 more names for Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett, who infamously challenged Charlie Sykes to give him just one name of someone who committed vote fraud in Milwaukee.
  • Michelle Malkin delivers the Beijing Repression Olympics update of the day – the results of one of the 78 protest applications filed. No word on whether it was one of the 74 that had been “voluntarily withdrawn”, one of the 3 where a revision was requested, or the 1 that was rejected outright. Bonus – don’t miss the official logo of the Repression Olympics.
  • Speaking of Olympics (which I’m not watching), Little Miss Sunshine cheers the gold-medal-winning womens’ beach volleyball team of Kerri Walsh and Misty May for praising President Bush after winning the gold. BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!

I saw in my Twitter feed that doubleplusundead was complaining about having 200 unread items in his reader. I think I have something north of 200 unread items right now, and I know I’m still missing stuff.

Punished by a Baby (part 2.5)

by @ 8:29. Filed under Politics - National.

In case you missed Shoebox’s post below, go read it. There is an expansion or two based on what Ed Morrissey found, including a confirmation of the veracity of the YouTubed conversation Shoebox and Erick Erickson embedded:

Guy Benson not only tracked down the audio to the Chicago Tribune, but he came up with this little gem from the transcripts of the Illinois Legislature (specifically, pages 32-34, from the 4/22/2002 session):

[T]he only plausible rationale, to my mind, for this legislation would be if you had a suspicion that a doctor, the attending physician, who has made the assessment that this is a nonviable fetus and that, let’s say for the purposes of the mother’s health, is being "” that "” that labor is being induced, that that physician (a) is going to make the wrong assessment and (b) if the physician discovered, after the labor had been induced, that, in fact, he made an error, and in fact this was not a nonviable fetus but, in fact, a live child, that the physician, of his own accord or her own accord, would not try to exercise the sort of medical procedures and practices that would be involved in saving that child.

Now, if "” if you think that there are possibilities that doctors would not do that, then maybe this bill makes sense, but I "” I suspect and my impression is, is that the Medical Society suspects that doctors feel that they would already be under that obligation, that they would already be making these determinations, and that essentially adding a "” an additional doctor who the has to be called in an emergency situation to come in and make these assessments is really designed simply to burden the original decision of the woman and the physician to induce labor and perform an abortion.

Now, if that’s the case –and "” and I know some of us feel very strongly one way or the other on that issue "” that’s fine, but I think it’s important to understand that this issue ultimately is about abortion and not live births. Because if these children are being born alive, I, at least, have confidence that a doctor who is in that room is going to make sure they’re looked after.

Ed goes on to point out that the above statement came after it was revealed that the doctors at the mis-named Christ Hospital were allowing babies born alive during abortion procedures to die without any care.

To steal from another movie…

Denver, we have a problem. We have a main bus B undervolt. We’ve got a lot of thruster activity here, Denver. There’s another master alarm, Denver. We’ve got a computer restart. We’ve got a ping light. We’ve got multiple cautions and warnings, Denver. We’ve gotta reset and restart.

Punished by a Baby (part two)

by @ 5:55. Filed under Miscellaneous.

On March 30, 2008, at a townhall meeting in Johnstown, PA, Barck Obama made the following statement:

“When it comes specifically to HIV/AIDS, the most important prevention is education, which should include — which should include abstinence education and teaching the children — teaching children, you know, that sex is not something casual. But it should also include — it should also include other, you know, information about contraception because, look, I’ve got two daughters. 9 years old and 6 years old. I am going to teach them first of all about values and morals. But if they make a mistake, I don’t want them punished with a baby. I don’t want them punished with an STD at the age of 16. You know, so it doesn’t make sense to not give them information.”

At the time I wrote about the callousness Barack Obama had towards a life and how there was a difference between “punishment” and “consequences” of our actions and decisions.

Since the Saddleback Civil Forum, Barack Obama has had to reexplain his position on abortion, especially late term abortion. Since Saturday, I’ve counted at least 3 different explanations for Barack’s inability to support a bill in the Illinois legislature that would require doctors to provide medical care for babies who survived abortions. At different times I have heard:

  • The bill didn’t have the federal language that preempted this from impacting existing abortion law (it did)
  • His committee didn’t have time to act on it (they did and passed it out of his committee unanimously)
  • It was unnecessary as IL law already covered the issue (so why did other legislators pass it overwhelmingly?)

The Obama campaign has continued to try to obfuscate the issue, dancing from one excuse to the other.   All along Obama has claimed “as he has repeatedly said” that the claim that he supports infanticide is a lie and ridiculous to even consider.

Um, yeah.

I can’t vouch for this audio clip but it has been placed on Redstate and if it passes their muster, it works here.   Here is Barack Obama on the Illinois floor explaining why he is against the bill:

In the audio Obama claims that having two doctors help the baby after a botched abortion would be a “BURDEN!”

When Obama made his March comment about “punishment” his sycophants (of which a couple chimed in on my post) tried to argue that he wasn’t talking about the baby as punishment but the subsequent effort to raise and provide for it. Nice Try!

Anyone, subsequent to the corroboration of this audio, who wants to argue that Barack Obama does not advocate the most self centered, arrogant positions on the issue of infant life may as well be arguing that the Bigfoot recently “discovered” wasn’t really a rubber gorilla suit but a uniquely mummified specimen.

If this audio is corroborated, Obama is toast. In fact, if this audio is corroborated, keep a close eye on the Democrats convention. With my apologies to Mad Max:

Two Dems enter, One Dem leaves. Two Dems enter, One Dem leaves.

Be careful as to who you assume will be the one leaving!

H/T Erick

You’ve Got to Handle all 10 Hurdles!

by @ 5:52. Filed under Politics - National.

We Shoe’s have become Olympic junkies!   Mrs. Shoe and I like to see the skill required for each event, even the more arcane like trampoline or ping pong.   Thing 1 and Thing 2 have been taking in every minute they are allowed to watch.   This is really the first Olympics they’ve paid attention to.   They  are mesmerized by the sports that they’ve never seen before.

Monday night’s broadcast had an event that we, and many of you, will remember for a long time to come.   Lolo Jones ran in one of the 100 meter hurdle heats.   She was a heavy favorite, expected to take gold in the Event.   While slow out of the block, Jones quickly caught and passed the other competitors.   She was about to blow the field away when at the second to last hurdle, her foot hit the hurdle, she lost stride and finished seventh, out of the finals.

After the event, NBC stuck a camera in  Lolo Jones’  face and asked “How do you feel?”  

Jones was obviously numb from the event.    With her mind reeling, Jones managed a response that applies not only to an Olympic hurdler but to many, many situations in life:

“It’s the hurdles. If you can’t get over all 10, you can’t be the champion.”

Wednesday, Zogby released a poll showing John McCain with a 5 point lead amongst likely voters. The poll shows Barack Obama losing significant ground in all of his core groups; Democrats, under the age of 35, women and voters with incomes under $50K.

After taking body blows for the past two weeks over his response to the Russian invasion of Georgia and his performance at the Saddleback Civil Forum, Barack Obama seeked  maintain the Marquess of Queensberry rules and reassure his acolytes while warning McCain and said that McCain:

doesn’t know what he’s up against!

A month ago Barack Obama was ahead by 7 points and in Germany finishing his “World Tour.” He was the toast of Europe. Today, Barack Obama may need to look over his shoulder just to ensure he gets out of the Democrat convention with the nomination.

Rather than touring Europe as if he was already the President of the United States, Barack Obama could have benefited from Lolo Jones’ wisdom. From here on out Barack should remember:

“It’s the hurdles. If you can’t get over all 10, you can’t be the champion.”

Simple Does Not Equal Simpleton

by @ 5:17. Filed under Energy.

Nancy Pelosi and the rest of the Democrats have been telling us for weeks now that they don’t want to increase drilling because it won’t help reduce oil prices even if they did.   Amongst their favorite talking points is a US EIA report that stated that drilling in ANWR and generating 1,000,000 barrels of oil each day, would only reduce the price of a barrel of oil by $1.44.

At heart, I’m a very simple person.   While I will dig into the complex if necessary, I prefer to use the simpler answers to a problem.   I’ve had enough On the Job Training (OJT) for various life issues, that I think I can safely say that the answers to many issues lie right in front of my face if only I stop to look.   I think the same holds for oil pricing.

I won’t go into debunking how the Dems have used the EIA report, plenty of other folks have done so expertly so there’s no need to retread that ground.   Besides that, rebutting the EIA report requires a complex answer.   No, I found an explanation of oil pricing that is much simpler.

This morning, oil prices were headed north again anticipating that US inventories were going to increase about 1.7 million barrels.   Prices had moved from  just under  $115/barrel to over $116/barrel in anticipation of this report.   As has been happening a lot lately, the “Experts” were wrong in their estimates and inventories increased by 9.4 million barrels, a 7.7 million barrel difference.   Following the report, oil not only dropped below it’s opening price, it zipped right past it dropping $3 from its high.

The US uses about 20 million barrels of oil each day according to the EIA.   The “excess” inventory of 7.7 million barrels announced this morning, amounts to about 1/3 of a days need or .1% of the annual needs of the US.   If an increase in inventory of .1% of the annual US usage causes oil prices to drop by over $3 per barrel, does it make sense to you that producing the equivalent of 5% of the US needs (50 times more than the “excess” inventory)….OVER A LONG TIME, would only decrease the per barrel price by $1.44?

Nope, it doesn’t to me either.

August 20, 2008

No Embryos For Blood!

by @ 10:02. Filed under Health.

(H/T – lawhawk)

The Times of London reports a group of researchers in Massachusetts have finally found a use for embryonic stem cells – the “mass-production” of red blood cells. Yes, it’s actually useful:

– It eliminates the threat of bloodborne diseases for those that require only red blood cells versus whole blood or plasma.
– Depending on just how many cells are produced per embryo (not noted in the story), it could make economic sense.
– Adult red blood cells do not have nucleii, and thus do not carry the genetic material that typically goes haywire to cause cancer, and this procedure currently yields 66% adult blood cells.

Before you death-cultists start yipping that this is solely an embryonic stem cell breakthrough, do note that this technique has not been tried with adult stem cells.

The Morning Scramble – 8/20/2008

by @ 9:18. Filed under The Morning Scramble.

I need an extra shot of adrenaline to make it through Hump Day…

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IYRC4H64EFk[/youtube]

  • Let’s start with the McCainiac Watch today and something that is only semi-serious – Plebian has the results of the Intertubes conservatives’ VP wish list (or at least the Morons’ wish list). Item #8 looks like a good qualification. Did I mention that plebian’s middle name is “Surely”?
  • Rob Bluey isn’t counting out Eric Cantor. Whether he, or any other Congressional darkhorse, remains in play depends on who Barack Obama picks; if he goes with a governor, there’s no way John McCain could or should go with another Congresscritter, especially considering the historic low approval rating of Congress.
  • McCain/Loserman, Part 1 – Carol Platt Liebau thinks it’s brilliant strategery to keep Joe Lieberman in the mix. It’s more like stragedy; while I can’t speak for anybody else, I won’t be fooled into thinking McCain’s choice is more conservative just because he considered picking somebody who still caucuses with the ‘Rats in the Senate.
  • McCain/Loserman, Part 2 – Patrick Ruffini won’t be too upset if it is Lieberman. Thus is the difference between Washington Insider and somebody far away from the DC bubble (Sean Hackbarth’s description of me) made crystal-clear. It’s more like punting long on 3rd down.
  • McCain/Loserman, Part 3 – Michelle Malkin asks whether we could vote for a McCain/Lieberman ticket. I seem to have missed the “I’ll be writing in the boss and see-dubya” option.
  • McCain/Loserman, Part 4 – Ed Morrissey sums it up in one word – DISASTER. Actually, there’s a lot more words worth reading, including a suggestion if McCain really wants to blow up the GOP without blowing out all the conservatives.
  • Erick Erickson asks where the stories about a pro-abortion VP for McCain are coming from. While I took door #5 (the closest thing to the “R”NC that is out there), a shocking number of people made the McCain campaign #2 with a bullet.
  • Sean Oxendine points out the good and bad about McCain’s chances – he’s only getting (most of) those that don’t like Obama.
  • Thomas Lifson found the Obamination campaign handing out “street money”. I honestly don’t know what the difference is between that and voter bribery, but it’s par for the ‘Rat course.
  • Bill Quick is shocked, SHOCKED that the University of Illinois-Chicago is refusing to release records relating to service Barack Obama did for Bill Ayers’ group. He’s also wondering why the TV trucks aren’t camped out there (actually, he knows why, but I won’t spoil the surprise by repeating it).
  • Obamination Out Of Steam, Part 1 – Lady Logician notes that Obama’s Virginia strategy isn’t exactly flying. Bonus – RealClearPolitics gives McCain a 274-264 projected win once all the toss-ups are factored in.
  • Obamination Out Of Steam, Part 2 – Shoebox thinks Minnesota is now very-strongly in play for McCain. Minnesota has not gone for a Republican since 1972, the longest streak out there.
  • Obamination Out Of Steam, Part 3 – Jim Hoft reports Obama’s Jewish poll numbers are the worst showing by a ‘Rat since Jimmy Carter’s 1980 run.
  • McQ found the Obamination camp running scared in the wake of the Saturday Night Saddleback Slaughter. I have but 5 letters – CHAOS!
  • J.R. Dunn makes the case for calling Obama a flake.
  • Slublog wonders how, after 2 daughters, Obama could be so pro-abortion he supports after-birth murder like Russ el-Feingold. Oh, and before anybody goes and throws the 98-0 vote out there, that was on an amendment to a bill that never got out of the Senate. What did pass went through by unanimous consent without a roll call.
  • Attila Girl has a question for the PUMAs in the audience on what happens if Hillary Clinton doesn’t get the VP nod from Obama. Come on, say it with me – CHAOS!!!!
  • Flip wonders where Walter Mondale and Michael Dukakis are on the Epic FAIL speakers’ portion of the ‘Rat convention schedule. After all, the Peanut Farmer, Algore Goracle, and Flipper Kerry are all speaking.
  • Michelle Malkin found a hidden $oro$ $lu$h Fund in the DNC platform. Bonus for Fred – the opening line is MRQ-worthy – “The Democratic Party platform is like a bag of pork rinds. You never know what high-fat liberal government morsel you’re gonna get.”
  • Zip caught the BBC giving £20,000 to the 7/7 bombers, who promptly turned the cash into Jihadi videos. Guess the Beeb was outsourcing.
  • James T. Harris found some more scientists who say we’re headed to a mini-ice age, not of 10 years as previously thought, but of 60-80 years, and not of man’s doing, but of the sun’s lack of doing.
  • American Pundit found Russi…er, the Soviet Union (<expletive deleted> it; I’m going with the name Mad Vlad wants to restore) committing an act of war against the US.
  • Dr. Rusty Shackelford delivers a couple of history lessons on Russia, Georgia, the Europeans, and Iosif Stalin.
  • See-Dubya caught the Madhi Army back to its old torturous tricks. And here I thought that their “disarmament” meant they were peace-loving peaceniks who wouldn’t harm a fly, much less a fellow man <sarcasm_dripping>.
  • Sean M. declares the Dallas School District’s essential elimination of failing grades a “huge pile of FAIL”. Paging Mr. Sykes. Paging Charlie Sykes. Please pick up the white courtesy phone.
  • Walter E. Williams explodes various economic and economic-related myths.
  • Rhonda R. Shearer caught Google cooking the Google Earth/Google Map books. Semi-related; Shoebox pointed out to me while I was putting this together that Google’s Blogsearch is pulling up a bunch of splogs.

Updated to 2.6.1

by @ 7:09. Filed under The Blog.

It’s relatively-painless, and for non-power-users, unnecessary. It does require both a re-login and a database update, so hopefully you remembered your passwords.

The full list of fixes is over here.

Barack, Don’t Look Now but…..

by @ 5:09. Filed under Politics - National.

You’re on your way to losing in Minnesota.

A recent SurveyUSA poll shows Barack Obama with a 2% edge over John McCain amongst likely voters in Minnesota.   And that’s the good news for Obama, in the most recent poll.

The bad news, at least for Barack, is that the poll shows that nearly all Republicans and Democrats have made up their minds.  

The stat that should leave Obama concerned is that in early June, Independents broke for Obama 50% to 36%.   In the latest poll McCain has the lead amongst Independents 44% to 42%.   Obama is not just losing the vote of Independents, the Independent vote is running away from him.

The results and direction of movement isn’t particularly surprising to anyone outside of the MSM who wants to pay attention. I wrote waaaaaaay back here that Democrats in Minnesota had overreached and were causing a backlash within the state. What I didn’t guess at that time was that DC Democrats were also going to overreach and give the Republican candidate a “Motherhood and Apple Pie” issue like gas prices.

John McCain is slated to announce his VP pic on August 29th. Intrade  and other rumblings are calling for McCain to pick either Romney or Tim Pawlenty as his running mate. Pawlenty has obvious advantages for carrying McCain over the top in Minnesota. Less known is that Minnesota was one of the few states that Romney won in the primaries and we are a caucus state. None of Barack Obama’s rumored choices are likely to have any impact on his support in Minnesota.

With Independents breaking for McCain, a VP choice that will likely get him some added support and the Democrat party refusing to address any additional oil drilling, look for McCain to make Minnesota a swing state for the 2008 election.

Say it Ain’t So!!!!!

by @ 5:07. Filed under Miscellaneous, Politics - National.

This is news?

Bigfoot was just a rubber gorilla suit

Really? Who’d a thunk? I suppose the next headline will be:

Obama was just a Soros puppet

August 19, 2008

The Morni…er, Afternoon Scramble – 8/19/2008

by @ 17:58. Filed under The Morning Scramble.

I may be late, but there’s a reason for it; a lot of good stuff over the morning through mid-afternoon period today….

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tnAo4WOUG98[/youtube]

  • JammieWearingFool wonders which “god” Nancy Pelosi thinks sent Barack Obama. Baal comes to mind.
  • Bonus “blessing” – Jim Hoft found an apparition on a grilled cheese sandwich.
  • Patrick McIlheran has the 4-letter answer (yes, it is safe for work; after all, P-Mac is the token conservative at the local paint-catcher).
  • Mary is trying to marry off Russ el-Feingold (Moonbat-Al Qaeda) to the Obamination ticket. Please, Barry; take him off our hands.
  • Dad29 exposes yet another Obamination Lie – campaign ethics reform. I think I had this back in the day (I’m too lazy to go through the archives right now), but it’s a good day to bring this back.
  • Lance Burri sees some shenanigans in the plan to seat Michigan’s and Florida’s full delegations. CHAOS, baby!
  • Van Helsing is pondering what I’m pondering; a T-H100 invasion of Denver. I say again, CHAOS, baby!
  • Michelle Malkin puts Obama in the Cone of FAIL.
  • Curt takes a WSJ chainsaw to Obama’s tax plan.
  • Brian Faughnan goes into the memory hole to prove Obama is dreaming of CubaCare. There’s no word yet on what will be traded away for medical equipment in year 7 of an Obamination administration.
  • Jim Hoft details Obama’s appearance before the VFW Convention. Obama was right when he said he didn’t change on Iraq; he’s still four-score for retreat and defeat.
  • Trail-Mix boldly predicts an Epic FAIL for Obama come November.
  • Matt Lewis has early news of a poll surprise. Allow me to plant another CHAOS seed.
  • RightwingSparkle found the mate of T-H100 praising John McCain. Let the CHAOS grow.
  • David Limbaugh states the obvious; a pro-abortion VP will be suicide for McCain and the RNC. Given the actions of both entities, I have this sinking feeling that this will be the “one step back” to pair with the post-DNC VP announcement.
  • The Vintage one has some good news regarding Joe Lieberman’s chances at being McCain’s running mate; the clock ran out on him 7/5.
  • Zip caught the ‘Rats turning the flag upside down and backwards on their credentials.
  • Fausta reports Google will be courting bloggers at both conventions.
  • Christian Schneider found the “one nation” the ‘Rats were refering to as their Day 1 theme – the People’s Republic of Delusion.
  • Patrick Ruffini has a winning plan for the GOP.
  • Even more Jim Hoft goodness – he exposes what The News Organization That Cannot Be Quoted™ thinks about Algore Goracle’s running mate from 2000. No wonder why they don’t like to be quoted.
  • The Game summarizes the last few months of Name That Party.
  • Van Helsing blows out the candle of the latest envirowhacko “crisis” – oxygen depletion.
  • J. Gravelle exposes the utter hypocrisy of the windmill envirowhackos. Those ugly turbines don’t mean a thing if they’re not hooked up to the grid.
  • XBradTC presents the Cliff’s Notes version of combined arms.
  • Eric explores life after Pakistani ex-President Pervez Musharraf.
  • Duncan Hunter mourns the impending loss of Pakistan as a semi-ally, and offers what should happen now on the Afghan/Pakistan border.
  • Bill Quick rides the growing Russian bear, whose growth is approved by the Europeans.
  • Laughing Wolf offers the most-expansive view on the Georgian/Russian mess I’ve seen, including a righteous beatdown of SecDef Appeasment Gates.
  • Michelle Malkin offers today’s episode of the Culture of Badassery (™, MKH), 85-year-old grandma edition. There’s nothing like making the perp dial 911.
  • Christian Schneider wonders where all the statues to real people have gone. Well, I don’t mind a statue honoring a clown-crushing elephant.
  • Day-late history lesson – Tom McMahon proves that, even in a barbaric environment, public outcry sometimes gets limited results.
  • Grumps and Pete Fanning have a problem with the folks at the Governor’s Mansion flying the flag at night without lights.
  • Phelony Jones has a word of warning for the bikers headed into town for the 105th Reunion – watch out for the potholes. After all, the governments have been spending the money meant for the roads just about everywhere except on the roads.
  • John and Sanger explain the basic difference between Americans (at least a shrinking majority of Americans) and the rest of the world. It’s all about blood-based micro-ethnicity.
  • Since I tortured you with that T-H100 pic, I’ll throw this palete-cleanser in for free – Chris the head barkeep put up a file photo of T-CC100 Sabathia. Let’s see; 8-0 for the Crew, 5 complete games, .571 OPS at the plate (the Astros made the mistake of walking Jason Kendall to get to him last night) – yep, he’s a Terminator; and I hope Mark Attanasio has the money to sign him for next season.

It’s still afternoon, if only barely. Guess this means I’m really back.

Drill Here, Drill Now Tuesdays – 8/19/2008

by @ 16:49. Filed under Energy.

This idea was started by Jessi at Wake Up America. It will appear here every Tuesday (whether I’m here or not; the only difference is I won’t be able to update the current gas price while on vacation) until Congress wakes up and allows a lot more domestic drilling (I’m not talking about just ANWR, or just off the Florida coast where Cuba, Red China and Brazil are preparing to drink our milkshake, or just the shale fields in the Rockies).

My Gas Price (south suburban Milwaukee County, Wisconsin): $3.829 (same station as 2 weeks ago, only they gave up on the cash discount)

America needs to drill here drill now. America is having a energy crisis, and we need to do something now!

Urge Congress to pass a bill to drill in America, where the United States has vast oil and gas resources onshore and offshore that are currently illegal to develop and therefore inaccessible.

U.S. law prohibits the development of approximately 38 billion barrels of undeveloped oil resources (19 billion barrels onshore and 18.92 billion offshore).

U.S. law prohibits the development of approximately 180 trillion cubic feet of undeveloped natural gas resources (94.5 trillion cubic feet onshore and 85.7 trillion cubic feet offshore).

Also…

CONGRESS RECENTLY VOTED TO MAKE IT ILLEGAL TO DEVELOP U.S. OIL SHALE RESOURCES

With oil prices at an all-time high, Americans are facing escalating gas, diesel, and aircraft fuel increases. Oil prices are projected to increase further.

Congress, however, has made it illegal to develop vast domestic oil resources in large parts of the United States.

The most startling Congressional prohibition on domestic oil production concerns the recently enacted ban on the development of oil shale resources in parts of Colorado, Utah, and Wyoming in the Green River Formation. According to a Rand Study estimate, this reserve contains over one trillion barrels of oil, with 800 billion barrels fully recoverable, or three times the current oil reserves as Saudi Arabia.

If you haven’t already done so, first sign the petition to call for more drilling, then sign the one to get Congress back to DC so they can allow more drilling faster.

It’s All Fun and Games Until Someone Dies!

by @ 5:46. Filed under Energy.

Barack Obama and his ilk think the way to solve our energy problems are to increase the pressure in our tires and  demand higher fuel efficiency in cars.   Included in this strategy conserving our way to energy independence would be using vehicles that are smaller, lighter, maybe single passenger…..like a motorcycle.

Monday’s Star and Tribune  puts a bit of a wrinkle into Obama’s energy plan.   Just a few weeks back  the greenies were trumpeting that car deaths were down as a result of higher gas prices. Now we’re hearing that motorcycle deaths are up in Minnesota because….more people are riding them because of high gas prices!

Sales are GRRRRRRREAT!

“Ours [sales] will double from last year,” said Hedstrom, owner of Scooterville Minnesota, a small-bike dealership at Cedar Avenue and Interstate 94 in Minneapolis.

But the consequences aren’t

Motorcycle fatalities hit a low of 2,116 nationwide in 1997. Since, they have risen 128 percent. Their share of crash fatalities has jumped to almost 13 percent from 5 percent.

Admittedly, the information is only through 2007 and while gas prices did spike over $3 a couple of times last year, it didn’t take it’s permanent place until the spring. Additionally, the article is focused on us “lost youth” guys for the increase of motorcycles.

That all said, if “conserving our way to energy independence” is the strategy, you can bet there will  be more and more motorcyles being ridden by young and old alike. With deaths per 100 accidents nearly 8X that for motorcycles over all other vehicles, well, that’s a trend that’s going in the wrong direction.

How long before we’ll hear cries for increased crash survivability standards for motorcycles?

August 18, 2008

McCain to announce VP pick on the 29th

by @ 21:09. Filed under Politics - National.

(H/T – The Vintage one)

Politico is reporting that John McCain will give himself a birthday present and announce his VP nominee in Ohio one day after Barack Obama (probably) takes his victory lap around Invesco Field.

Given they’re talking about Tim Pawlenty and Mitt Romney as the “conservative” choices, I’m not very hopeful that the proper timing won’t prove to be the entirety of the “one step forward” half of the “one step forward/one step back” nature of the McCain campaign.

Roll bloat – sparkling edition

by @ 19:33. Filed under Miscellaneous.

It’s been a while since I added anybody, so I may as well add somebody I should have a long time ago – RightwingSparkle.

Reason #983 to not leave commuting up to government

by @ 9:38. Filed under Transportation.

(H/T – Fred)

The Racine Journal Times reports that the bus drivers’ union in Racine, who have been working without a contract since July 1, is conducting a no-notice strike.

The Morning Scramble – 8/18/2008

by @ 9:10. Filed under The Morning Scramble.

I’m tanned, rested, and ready to blog again (while I help keep an eye on Fay over at the Free Republic weather desk)…

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zX1N7RiqxZM[/youtube]

  • Tom McMahon charts the Mavericks.
  • Lawhawk caught NBC chilling their outdoor Olympic set. This is from the network that gave you the “dark, green” NFL set last year.
  • Gabriel Malor plotted yesterday’s temperatures. Guess what was stone cold yesterday?
  • Robert broke out the scorecards for that little event that John McCain and Barack Obama attended Saturday. There even is a variation of the old East German judge joke.
  • Emperor Misha I found Obama trading air-conditioned suites at his outdoors Denver worship session (Misha’s term that he didn’t strike out; you’ll have to head there for the struck-out portion) to union bosses for million-dollar donations. Do stay for what the sheeple have to do for their “free” tickets.
  • Gaius delivers good news on the technology of getting oil out of shale. It’s still in its infancy, but Shell Oil found a way to increase the recovery rate from 25% to 65%.
  • Bruce questions the wisdom of keeping an archaic Wisconsin law requiring bicyclists to stay at least 3 feet from parked cars when municipalities are placing bicycle lanes right next to the parking lane.
  • Uncle Jimbo assigns Obama a pay grade of E-0 for his non-answer on when an unborn child gets legal protection. Do remember that, like Russ Feingold, Obama couldn’t even answer what should happen if a child was “accidentally” live-born during an abortion.
  • XBradTC put up a future Scramble song featuring today’s artist and helicopters.
  • Vivian Lee proves that it doesn’t take a lot of brains to run a college. What do you suppose the one teaching job someone who was fired for misuse of funds should not get is?
  • Nick Schweitzer raises a glass to Reason for the right use of ethanol. PROST!
  • Eric interviewed Michele Bachmann.
  • James T. Harris calls out Obama for singling out Justice Clarence Thomas for non-nomination.
  • Slublog wonders if we’re ever going to see the “New Politics” out of Obama. Nope.
  • Fred smacks around Cris Collinsworth. I must add that I’ve gained a bit of respect for Kobe Bryant; not a lot, mind you, but a bit.
  • John Hawkins filmed a nice little commercial called “Hillary’s Hands”. Those of you in North Carolina ought to be able to see the similarities between that and the original Jesse Helms commercial.
  • Fausta reports Cuba’s health care system is in such great shape, they had to trade giraffes for medical equipment. Yes, this is the health care system the ‘Rats want to copy here.

Yes, it’s a scattershot, and it’s short, but my mind’s still in semi-vacation mode.

And the Winner Is?

by @ 5:13. Filed under Politics - National.

During the Saddleback Civil Forum on Saturday night, each candidate was asked

WHO ARE THE THREE WISEST PEOPLE YOU KNOW IN YOUR LIFE AND WHO ARE YOU GOING TO RELY ON HEAVILY IN YOUR ADMINISTRATION?

In characteristic fashion, John McCain gave a specific and to the point answer: General Petraeus, Civil rights leader John Lewis and Meg Whitman the CEO of EBay.

The presumptuous nominee of the Democrats first attempted the “All American” response by saying Angry Michelle and the Grandmother who resides under the Obamessiah’s bus. With the audience sitting on their hands, he tried another well used tactic: attempt an answer without specifics:

THERE ARE PEOPLE LIKE SAM DUNN A DEMOCRAT OR DICK LUKER A REPUBLICAN WHO I LISTENED TO ON POLICY ON DOMESTIC POLICY. I GOT FRIENDS RANGING FROM TED KENNEDY TO TOM COLBERT WHO DON’T NECESSARILY AGREE ON A LOT OF THINGS BUT WHO BOTH, I THINK, HAVE A SINCERE DESIRE TO SEE THIS COUNTRY IMPROVE. WHAT I FOUND IS VERY HELPFUL TO ME IS TO HAVE A TABLE WHERE A LOT OF DIFFERENT POINTS OF VIEW ARE REPRESENTED AND WHERE I CAN SIT AND POKE AND PROD AND ASK THEM QUESTIONS.

One of the last questions asked was:

DOES EVIL EXIST AND IF IT DOES DO WE IGNORE IT, DO WE NEGOTIATE WITH IT, DO WE CONTAIN IT OR DO WE DEFEAT IT?

As he’s wont to do, the presumptuous nominee couldn’t leave with a straight answer. Again he laid out his own country as having no greater moral perspective than the rest of the world:

EVIL DOES EXIST. I MEAN, WE SEE EVIL ALL THE TIME. WE SEE EVIL IN DARFUR. WE SEE EVIL SADLY ON THE STREETS OF OUR CITIES. WE SEE EVIL IN PARENTS WHO HAVE VICIOUSLY ABUSED THEIR CHILDREN AND I THINK IT HAS TO BE CONFRONTED. IT HAS TO BE CONFRONTED SQUARELY AND ONE OF THE THINGS THAT I STRONGLY BELIEVE IS THAT, YOU KNOW, WE ARE NOT GOING TO, AS INDIVIDUALS, BE ABLE TO ERASE EVIL FROM THE WORLD. THAT IS GOD’S TASK. BUT WE CAN BE SOLDERS IN THAT PROCESS AND WE CAN CONFRONT IT WHEN WE SEE IT. NOW, THE ONE THINK THAT I THINK IS VERY IMPORTANT IS FOR US TO HAVE SOME HUMILITY IN HOW WE APPROACH THE ISSUE OF CON FRONTING EVIL, BUT YOU KNOW A LOT OF EVIL HAS BEEN PERPETRATED BASED ON THE CLAIM THAT WE WERE TRYING TO CONFRONT EVIL.

I think I found someone who can help coach Barack on both of his answers next time they come up. I suggest Barack do some “poking and prodding” with Kobe Bryant:


Kobe
by burghnews

How can this answer be so easy for Kobe and so difficult for the Presumptuous Presidential nominee?

August 15, 2008

Suddenly, The World Comes into Focus!

by @ 17:39. Filed under Miscellaneous.

I never really understood how people who were at opposite ends of the beauty scale, could ever find themselves as a “couple.”   With the exception of my marriage to Mrs. Shoe which was of course, due to the fact that she felt an obligation to  man kind and sacrificed herself so that other women could live without fear of me stalking them, I never saw why attractive women would marry schlubs of a husband.  

Now however, through the wonders of modern science, we have the answer.   The results of two new studies:

The Pill may put you off smell of your man and ruin your relationship

with

Beer goggles really do work, new research suggests
 
suddenly provides all the information you need to understand even the most extreme of relationships.

Julia Roberts with Lyle Lovett used to really bother me. I’m looking forward to my first good night’s sleep in about 15 years!

Eggs is Back!

by @ 7:32. Filed under Miscellaneous.

And what was Silent E doing on his last night in charge?

Well, if he says it’s OK, it must be!

by @ 5:35. Filed under Miscellaneous.

You’ve probably heard about the Burger King employee in Xenia, Ohio who took a bath in the restaurant’s washing sink. He filmed the event to be used for a viral video. You may also have heard that he and other employees who watched this event have been fired.

What you may not have heard is that the bather refers to himself as “Mr. Unstable” and he insists that the Burger King where he bathed is a “totally a safe place to eat.”

I believe him!

What I’m trying to figure out is how it could have been a safe place to eat while he was working there?

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