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 4, 2008

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.

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  • 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.

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  • 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!

August 3, 2008

On the road again, and a new guest-blogger

by @ 15:39. Filed under The Blog.

I’m headed out to the wilds of the Boundary Waters on Wednesday, so this place will be in the capable hands of Shoebox and the plethora of guest-bloggers until the 15th.

On that note, I’ve added a new guest-blogger to join Aaron, Fred, Leslie and Patrick – silent E.

The Morning Scramble (Sunday brunch edition) – 8/3/2008

by @ 13:55. Filed under The Morning Scramble.

This one’s dedicated to Sean Hackbarth, who will be the online communications specialist for the Senate Republican Conference as of Monday. Just don’t ask me how Fausta got a hold of pics from the back-to-work celebration.

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So, it’s afternoon; brunch lasts until 3 on Sundays, and I did start this in the morning, so it’s all good.

  • William Smith highlights the difference between Barack Obama and John McCain in a non-scripted environment.
  • Purple Avenger tracks the latest in the Washington Pum…er, Post’s PUMA-like activities. Nothing like having a guy with a “tissue-thin” and “troubling” record (the WaPo’s words, not mine) being the presumptive nominee. I’m beginning to wonder whether the Obamination Express will make it to Invesco Field.
  • JammieWearingFool dug up a salient fact about Obama’s Hawaiian mentor that The News Organization That Cannot Be Quoted™ “missed”.
  • Amanda Carpenter sniffed out the non-change in Obama’s opposition to off-shore drilling before I did, and she even used the extended quote from Friday to do it (I went with the Saturday flop to Friday’s flip). Bonus coverage; the “Gang of 10’s” energy “plan” is a very costly one; $20 billion over 10 years and 85% of the cars illegal to run in 20.
  • Jim Hoft caught Obama dealing race card after race card from the bottom of the deck. To paraphrase AC/DC – I know what Obama’s dealing out, and I want him dealt back.
  • Owen proves it’s all about emotion for the Obama Nation.
  • Jeff Emanuel reports that Eric Cantor is officially on the short list for McCain VP choices, as the campaign requested “personal documents” from him. Flashback – Matt Wolking called it a couple weeks back (though he was a bit off on the timing).
  • The Vintage one likes that news. So do I, as long as McCain waits for Obama to name his VP nominee first.
  • Caledonia Unplugged reported from the balcony (side note – she gave up a reserved seat for that) on McCain’s townhall meeting in Racine. Yep, it was the peanut gallery (though not because of her).
  • Trail-Mix has a nice little diversion from the McCain campaign. Nothing like emulating a timeless arcade classic (yes, I spent many quarters in arcades back in the day).
  • Elliot asks the question the presstitutes and their fellow travellers on the Left are dreading – “What if McCain wins?” I’ll answer – Mass hysteria.
  • Of course, not all the McCain news is good – A.J. Sparxx asks McCain which side he’s on. It still is a very good question.
  • Sgt. Relic sings an ode of sorts for Nancy “Lights Out” Pelosi.
  • Jim Lynch took a picture of the House as Lights Out turned out the lights.
  • Jim Hoft notes the lifeboats are starting to fill over at the Party of the ‘Rat. I’m not surprised; the public portion of Operation Chaos/NRE Spring Hill Campaign is over, and there is no benefit to remaining a DINO for those that participated.
  • Michelle Malkin quotes Chesty Puller as advice for the House Pubbies. Do not miss the Photoshop from Jim Hoft.
  • Fausta found the real reason for Anheuser-Busch sold out to the Belgians; taxes. And yet Obama and the ‘Rats want ever-higher taxes, even as the Europeans cut theirs.
  • Bill Quick fisks the gripes of the presstitutes. Judging by the comments left by the professional gripers, it is a shame copy editing is a lost art.
  • Lawhawk proves that it’s not just the presstitutes that file the dispatches that need a copy editor; it’s headline writers as well. I didn’t know the Taliban had flying mines until The News Organization That Cannot Be Quoted™ told me so.
  • Tom McMahon charts the newspaper business model.
  • Bruce finds the next presstitute-driven health crisis – text messaging.
  • B.C. the Imperial Torturer hammers another nail into the coffin of the Great Glow Bull Worming Consensus Coffin™. The Great Gorebal Bravo Sierra Awakening has not quite hit NASA like a jet of solar plasma yet, but it’s starting.
  • Curt wraps up the Week in Gorebal “Warming”.
  • Aberman explains in change form (literally) how more future drilling reduces the price of oil today.
  • Mark Block explains the economic costs the Doyle Gorebal “Warming” Task Force Gorebal “Warming” acolytes at the World Resources Institute refused to take into consideration.
  • Matt Burden is shocked (no, not shocked, SHOCKED; that will come later) that members of the Coast Guard are now eligible to become SEALs. Fortunately, it doesn’t look like the requirements are being relaxed any.
  • Zip has some news sure to outrage just about everybody along the political spectrum. Tyson Foods, with the blessing of the leadership of the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union, is dropping Labor Day as a paid holiday at its Shelbyville, Tennessee plant so they can give employees a paid vacation for, wait for it, wait for it, wait…for…it…the Muslim holiday of Eid al-Fitr.
  • Fausta reports that the Iranians are giving missile technology to Venezuela. There are variants of the Shahab-3 missile that would reach southern Florida from Venezuela.
  • Rick Moran sees similarities between the 1936 Berlin Olympics and the 2008 Beijing Olympics. Hopefully history does not continue to repeat itself, though I wouldn’t mind another Olympic-sized smackdown of a “master race” to happen before the future begins to diverge significantly from the past.
  • Uncle Jimbo and Laughing Wolf are competing for your vote to be a co-host for a new Discovery Channel series called “Super Testing”. I can definitely see either guy having a blast (literally).
  • B.C. delivers the Sarcasm Smackdown™ to Philadelphia’s Department of Human Services, which stood by as a disabled 14-year-old girl wasted away from neglect before dying at 42 pounds. These are the same <expletive deleted> that want to ru(i)n everybody’s health care.
  • Bill Quick catches the Centers for Disease Control cooking the HIV books for political reasons. I’m shocked, SHOCKED that a lieberal-controlled gubmint agency would lie to make things seem worse than they are.
  • Jackboot has the Great 2008 Moonbat Test. I’m proud to state that I did not identify with any of the memes; I don’t want to get on the wrong side of the Imperial Torturer.

August 2, 2008

And here comes the flop on Obama and drilling

by @ 19:12. Filed under Energy, Politics - National.

(H/T – Owen)

Remember when Barack Obama said he would support the “Gang of 10″‘s plan to potentially open up drilling off of the coasts of Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina and Virginia? CNN reports the clock has just struck midnight on that statement:

“I made a general point about the fact that we need to provide the American people some relief and that there has been constructive conversations between Republicans and Democrats in the Senate on this issue,” he said during a press conference in Cape Canaveral.

“What I will not do, and this has always been my position, is to support a plan that suggests this drilling is the answer to our energy problems,” Obama added….

Just in case you don’t think this is a full flip-flop, CNN also included some previous comments on offshore drilling in the story:

“When I’m president, I intend to keep in place the moratorium here in Florida and around the country that prevents oil companies from drilling off Florida’s coasts,” Obama told reporters in Jacksonville in late June. “That’s how we can protect our coastline and still make the investments that will reduce our dependence on foreign oil and bring down gas prices for good.”

As the vacationing Jim Geraghty says, “All statements by Barack Obama come with an expiration date. All of them.”

Revisions/extensions (7:20 pm 8/2/2008) – I added some explanation to prove that it is a full flip-flop from Obama. I wonder what the Obamination Express runs on; I sure hope it isn’t a petrochemical, because it sure seems to be doing a lot of u-turns and back-ups.

The Morning Scramble – 8/2/2008

by @ 10:50. Filed under The Morning Scramble.

I wish I were already on vacation, but that’s not until Wednesday…

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This should be short, but it definitely won’t be sweet…

  • Matt Burden clarifies a few things about the abortive Barack Obama visit to Landstuhl.
  • Martin gives Obama a big, fat F in Economics 101 for his “Emergency Economic Plan”.
  • He does beat the folks at IBD; they provide further explanation for that failing grade.
  • The Vintage one laughs at the idiots at MoveOn.org for being caught flat-footed by Obama’s Barack-track on an absolute ban on off-shore drilling. Somebody, please remind me to fire a few salvos at that later today, starting with the fact that a single properly-placed hurricane would threaten almost all of what Obama is now reluctantly open to opening up.
  • American Pundit found some rather curious locations of donations to the Obamination campaign. I could’ve swore that foreign nationals were prohibited from donating to election campaigns.
  • The Vintage one reposts Sarah Palin’s view on the role of the Vice President, and then contrasts that to John McCain’s. Did I mention there are pictures involved (and not of McCain or the Vintage one)?
  • Bruce Walker outlines the Three Drills To Victory plan for McCain’s benefit.
  • Mark Tapscott bemoans the missed opportunity of the too-short House GOP energy revolution.
  • Kevin Fischer provides more evidence we are bass-ackwards here in the land of cheese and beer; while the Hugh Gubmint types are tripping over themselves to raise taxes (specifically, sales taxes), other states, and the District of Columbia are having sales-tax holidays. I guess they didn’t check with the Obamination.
  • Jon Ham praises WalMart for participating in politcs to the extent the unions are.
  • Glenn Reynolds declares NBC News a bigger joke than Jay Leno after Leno beat the NBC Nightly News in ratings.
  • James T. Harris exposes the hypocrisy of the local paint-catcher.
  • Proof the Left Wants Us in the 13th Century, Part 1 – lawhawk notes New Mexico governor (and former ‘Rat Presidential candidate) Bill Richardson continues to fight tooth and nail against a coal plant on Navajo land despite losing again and again.
  • Proof the Left Wants Us in the 13th Century, Part 2 – JammieWearingFool reports the Britanistan moonbats are trying to stop the first coal-fired power plant in the UK in 30 years.
  • Fausta found Hugo Chavez continuing down the road to Communism, as he attempts to nationalize Venezuela’s banks.
  • The Oh-So-Tolerant Left Watch – Jim Hoft mentions the animal rights moonbats want to decapitate the 11-year-old who bagged Hogzilla. I wonder if they got the idea from the Islamokazis, or the thug up in Canada noted in yesterday’s Scramble.
  • Headless Blogger breaks news of a $20 million offer to Ned Yost to leave the Brewers. I’m in for $20.

Enjoy your weekend, folks.

Big Trouble In Little Blogger

by @ 8:57. Filed under The Blog.

If the IE problems exposed by Sitemeter weren’t enough, Blogger is once again having a major malfunction. Over the last couple days, many blogs, from Badger Blog Alliance to Folkbum’s Rambles and Rants, have suffered the wrath of an out-of-control Blogger, and their members have been blocked by Google from putting up new posts as they have been dumped into the Google/Blogger “splog” file.

At first, I thought this was an extension of the war against the PUMAs that happened the other week, mainly because my feed reader is highly right-centric (self-preservation is an honorable goal, after all), and the that’s where I noted the problems. However, the reports are starting to come in that the left end of the blogosphere is also being heavily-affected. Once again, a technology I left behind (more or less; The Bar is still a Blogger/Sitemeter place) has demonstrated an Epic FAIL.

Hopefully everybody will get the splog lock lifted quickly.

The New Obama Dance..The Flip and Hedge

by @ 5:01. Filed under Energy.

After looking foolish attempting to explain that the surge didn’t cause the increased security in Iraq, Barack Obama has learned that when you have no core beliefs and are forced to change a position to get elected, you need to make sure that you hedge your changes to keep maintain plausible deniability on the issue with your radical base.

After telling us numerous times that he was against any increased oil drilling, today, Barack waffled on the topic.   When discussing  a new proposal put together by a bipartisan group of Congressmen Barack said:

“‘If, in order to get that passed, we have to compromise in terms of a careful, well thought-out drilling strategy that was carefully circumscribed to avoid significant environmental damage – I don’t want to be so rigid that we can’t get something done,’ Obama said.”

Obviously Barack has seen that McCain’s closing in the national polls is as much about McCain’s position on energy as it is people’s concern about the Obama “risk” factor, hence his change.

“Don’t want to be rigid?” He’s giving cooked spaghetti a bad name he’s so “flexible” on his positions.

As I mentioned, Barack hedged his flexibility with:

“‘I think it’s important for the American people to understand we’re not going to drill our way out of this problem,’ he said. ‘It’s also important to recognize if you start drilling now you won’t see a drop of oil for ten years, which means its not going to have a significant impact on short-term prices. Every expert agrees on that.'”

I think Barack’s hedge let the Dem’s cat out of the bag.

Barack and the Dems know that they are behind the eight ball with energy. They will be forced to accept some form of an energy compromise, prior to the election, to mollify the strong public sentiment on the issue. However, just because they agree to the bill, doesn’t mean that they will take the next step and clear the decks so that stupid, inane, time wasting and meant to intentionally block, lawsuits, from the Dem’s leftest compatriots, are prevented. Of course not.

Barack, Harry and Nancy will do what they consider politically expedient for the election and then conspire with the Envirowhacko portion of their base to ensure that not “a drop of oil for ten years.”

August 1, 2008

Roll bloat – grab the lithium

by @ 21:23. Filed under The Blog.

Metaphorically-speaking, at least. Please welcome BipolarNation to the roll. Yes, they’re local.

IE8 Beta 1 – Almost worth it

by @ 21:02. Filed under Miscellaneous.

I noticed this evening that a lot of the sites I have in my feed reader, like Hot Air and Townhall’s main blog (as well as the user blogs, including my little corner hole in the wall) have suddenly popped up with “Unable to load site – Operation Aborted” errors. That’s very annoying as both my feed readers use the IE API to open up websites that offer limited feeds. After a bit of searching, I found out that Microsoft threw up Internet Explorer 8 Beta 1.

There’s some good news and some bad news:

– It gets rid of the “Operation Aborted” errors that have plagued the last few versions of IE.
– A LOT of sites are going to look ugly in IE8. A very-quick example is Haloscan; the Gravatars pop outside the pop-up box.
– However, there’s good news; we can choose to emulate IE7’s look.

Normally, I wouldn’t recommend a beta. However, if you do run into the “Operation Aborted” problem and cannot for whatever reason completely supplant IE with Firefox, get it and activate the IE7 emulation.

Revisions/extensions (7:42 am 8/2/2008) – The Lizards tracked the trigger of Microsoft’s IE 5.5-7 (inclusive) fuck-up to a fuck-up by Sitemeter. Boy am I glad I dumped those bastiches.

R&E part 2 (10:14 am 8/2/2008) – IE8(B1) doesn’t quite squash the underlying bug, as Sitemeter’s site doesn’t render properly due to it. It does, however, ignore it if a third-party site causes the glitch.

Adult cells once again show more promise than embryonic stem cells

by @ 17:43. Filed under Health.

Today’s Milwaukee Journal Sentinel includes a story on how a group of scientists at Columbia and Harvard Universities expanded on some exploratory work at UW and Kyoto University and coaxed adult skin cells of a pair of elderly ALS patients first to embryonic-like cells, then to nerve cells. It still is considered too risky to actually use those cells as they’re re-enginered with viruses, but these cells can at the least be used to study whether they’ll be effective on genetic diseases, as the two women have a form of ALS that is linked to genetics.

As Jimi says, the score is now 7851 to 0.

“Thank” you, Sen. Salazar

by @ 16:54. Filed under Energy, Politics - National.

(H/T – Ed Morrissey)

On the floor of the Senate yesterday, Sen. Ken Salazar (D-CO) proved my maxim that, as long as government gets the money, the DhimmiRATs are happy with ever-increasing gas prices. Watch the video, folks; you wouldn’t believe it if I told you that Salazar and his fello DhimmiRATs want gas to be more than $10/gallon, at which point our roads become like the former Soviet Union’s….

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z0FcNNeuf0E[/youtube]

No fucking wonder why SanFranNan left town without any action taken on increasing production, the only action proven to reduce gas prices.

If you think that $10/gallon for gas is too cheap, vote for Barack Hussein Obama and his fellow ‘Rats. On second thought, go move your Communist ass to Europe; they’re almost to that $10/gallon point, and the political climate is already to your liking.

Where’s that property tax “freeze”?

by @ 16:45. Filed under Politics - Milwaukee, Politics - Milwaukee County, Politics - Oak Creek, Politics - Wisconsin, Taxes.

I could’ve swore that local governments were supposed to be capped to a 3.86% increase in property-tax levies last year. Imagine my surprise when the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reported that property tax levies actually increased by 6.1% in southeast Wisconsin last year, with municipalities increasing their levies by 5.2%. I don’t know what’s worse; the fact that they busted the cap by 33%, or the terming of that 33% busting as a “hold” by the presstitute who wrote the story, Mike Johnson. Hell, I wouldn’t even term the average county increase of 3.4% a “hold”.

Inflate What? part two

by @ 15:28. Filed under Energy.

I covered Obama’s Energy plan here. Inflate your tires and get a tune up, was Barack’s solutions. In my previous post I showed you that at best, the savings of Barack’s plan would be 6% or $.24 on a $4 gallon of gas. Of course with most of newer cars being largely unimpacted by traditional “tune-up” needs and that not all cars have underinflated cars, the 6% at top drops quickly to some number less than that…probably 1/2.

In an attempt to be generous, let’s assume that if we all ran out an implemented Barack’s “Energy Plan for America,” the average savings would be 4%. 4% of $4 gas is $.16/gallon. That’s Barack’s plan, saving $.16/gallon.

While I’m not for it because it doesn’t solve any long term needs, John McCain suggested removing the federal gas tax. Barack Obama dismissed that option in April by saying:

"We’re arguing over a gimmick that would save you half a tank of gas over the course of the entire summer so that everyone in Washington can pat themselves on the back and say they did something," said Obama.

Ummmmm, the Federal gas tax is $.184/gallon. Barack’s solution is $.16/gallon. According to Obama, McCain’s wasn’t worth considering because it “would save you half a tank of gas over the course of the entire summer.” If McCain’s was a gimmick, what does that make Barack’s solution?

Gimmick or Pander….you decide!

The Morning Scramble – 8/1/2008

by @ 11:29. Filed under The Morning Scramble.

I warned you way back when that this was not a daily feature. Sorry about missing the last 2 days; here’s some Def Leppard from when they kicked arse (instead of teaming up with Tim McGraw) to make up for that…

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aRSxAWcP7Fs[/youtube]

  • Headless Blogger finds Barack Obama’s gas “plan” of speed-limit enforcing (as if I’ll slow down barring repeated speed traps) and proper tire inflation (which I actually believe in; low-pressure tires are the #1 cause of BadYear blowouts in NASCAR) helpful, if a bit underwhelming.
  • Mary Katharine Ham says that it’s not the heat, it’s the vapidity.
  • Allahpundit caught the DNC ripping off the Leave Brittney Alone guy.
  • Bill Quick has the definitive answer to that.
  • Slublog joins the growing list of “racists” in style. If only I had thought to do a Photoshop of the local lefty “brain trust” as they missed the mark a while back,….
  • Kate plays “Know Your Candidate, Obamination Edition”.
  • Kyle-Anne Shiver thanks God for Obama’s inept candidacy. If only 45-55% of those that can be bothered to vote weren’t Kool-Aid drinkers,….
  • C. Edmund Wright found yet another new federal program supported by Obama – reparations. Welfare by any other name….
  • Elliot has some tech questions for Obama and Newsweek columnist Obamination campaign staffer Anna Quindlen.
  • Ed Morrissey has some sticker shock for those of you going to St. Paul to blog the GOP convention. Sean, you might want to fold that sticker shock into your fundraising blegs.
  • Geoff proves once again that, given removal of incentives to come and stay here, illegal aliens will stop coming and start self-deporting.
  • Doubleplusundead cheers Congress taking bipartisan steps to reassert its responsibility over the District of Columbia and enforce the 2nd Amendment. It is fitting that he gave the hat tip to a place called Snowflakes in Hell, because that’s precisely what is happening.
  • Michelle Malkin proves that “free” health care is all about the politics, as the ‘Rats are attacking Sen. Tom Coburn for not charging for baby deliveries. I’ll bet they wouldn’t care if he were performing free abortions, even though he is a Pubbie.
  • Nate Beeler pictures the Bridge to Nowhere.
  • Brent J highlights an interview John Gard (Pubbie candidate in the 8th Congressional here in Wisconsin) did with CQ Politics.
  • Bill Quick cheers a potential breakthrough in the production of hydrogen, using nothing but the sun, water, cobalt, phosphate, and an electrode. Faster, please!
  • Charles Krauthammer asserts that the ‘Rat no-drill policy is harming the planet, as countries that care less for proper drilling techniques than American oil companies increase their drilling.
  • B.C. the Imperial Torturer notes the ice keeps on building up around the Arctic Circle. In the hilarious tour de force, he sets a new record for uses of the ™ symbol, so go read it already.
  • Lady Logician asks which number was higher in the 2nd quarter of 2008 – ExxonMobil’s profits or ExxonMobil’s tax liability. I won’t quite spoil the answer, but one was nearly three times as high as the other.
  • John Hawkins notes that the Congressional ban on drilling will expire on 10/1. LET THERE BE GRIDLOCK!
  • XBradTC finds some troop-friendly uses for dirt. I didn’t know a properly-filled sandbag could stop an AK-47 round at point-blank range.
  • Kat found a Congresscritter who introduced a bill to house all the “guests” at Club Gitmo on Supreme Court grounds. I am serious, and don’t call me Shirley.
  • Just in case you missed it, Jim Hoft didn’t miss the fact that July 2008 was the least-deadly month for US troops in Iraq since February 2003 and for Iraqi civilians since December 2005. Paging Mr. Kagen. Paging Mr. Obama. Please pick up the reality check.
  • Geoff found another ‘Rat who has yet to have a dose of reality; the one that’s but 2 heartbeats from the Oval Office.
  • Heather Radish has the football quote of the day. I only wish it were a Packer who uttered it, but Wile E. Thompson (mud) has sucked the fun out of the team.
  • Dr. Melissa Clouthier breaks out the world’s smallest violin for the sexist whiners of the blogosphere. If the blogosphere were sexist, would I have Melissa, or Mary Katharine, or Kate, or Heather, or Lady Logician, or Katie Favazza, or Dagney Taggert, or (well, I think you get the idea) on the bloated roll, my feed reader, and in the Scramble on a regular basis?
  • James Wigderson wonders whether Hollywood’s leading actors and actresses will practice the liberal mantra it preaches. Since liberalism on the rich end is about shutting off access to the club for the nearly-rich, I’ll bet not.
  • Speaking of oh-so-compassionate liberals, Jib notes that the ones that tried to shut down the Badger Blog Alliance via the oft-abused Blogger “abuse” feature failed.
  • Brian summarizes some basic conservative beliefs. I’m going to miss him in the blogosphere as he announced his retirement from blogging.
  • Ed Driscoll chronicles the latest example of the decline and fall of Canada – 35 people stood by as a thug repeatedly stabbed, beheaded and gutted a human on a Greyhound bus (emphasis added for the benefit of the local lefty “brain trust”).

A Fisking Twofer

by @ 5:42. Filed under Energy.

I couldn’t decide which way to go with this so….Here’s the story:

Test Finds Gas Additive Doesn’t Improve Mileage

My first thought was:

Well, there goes Barack’s energy plan!

But than I thought better this:

Psssst, someone leak this to Obama’s campaign before he adds it to his energy plan.

Got some others?

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