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 February 5th, 2009

AFP presents NoStimulus.com

by @ 20:31. Filed under Politics - National.

I’m way late to this party, but since the Senate will continue work on their version tomorrow, and it will be going to a conference committee, it’s not “never”. My friends at Americans for Prosperity set up a site opposing the Generational Theft Act of 2009 called No Stimulus! As part of this effort, they’re gathering signatures on a petition in opposition to the expansion of government. They’re at 53,288, but they could still use your help.

Need a Little Stiffening of Your Economic Prowess?

by @ 16:29. Filed under Miscellaneous.

H/T MK Ham

The Snuggie Stimulus

by @ 13:01. Tags:
Filed under Politics - National.

Mary Katharine Ham has done it again…

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mzkSFnh7lbQ[/youtube]

The Morning Scramble/Open Thread Thursday – 2/5/2009

by @ 11:21. Filed under Open Thread Thursday, The Morning Scramble.

I’m still down with a cold, but I need to throw something up here…

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

  • Tom McMahon explains why Wisconsin governor Jim “Craps” Doyle (WEAC/HoChunk-For Sale) hasn’t been offered a Cabinet post.
  • Elizabeth Crum wonders whether there are 10 good people to fill 15 Cabinet positions. Maybe a dose of fire and brimstone will warm DC up.
  • Nate Beeler channels Lt. Frank Drebin, Police Squad. “There is (BOOM!) nothing to see here. (BAM!) Please (WHOOSH!) disperse (KABLAM!).”
  • Elliot found the presstitutes are still doing their halo thing.
  • Bill Quick caught one of their number taking it a leap too far (literally).
  • Confederate Yankee reports The News Organization That Cannot Be Quoted (Or Photographed)™ wants its pound of flesh from the guy who Che-ified Barack Hussein Obama. I’ll bet they’re just mad that they didn’t think to do that themselves.
  • Dicentra caught High Priest Algore Goracle trying to recreate the Octoberists and Young Pioneers. I wonder how long before stukach becomes part of the American lexicon.
  • Jim Hoft caught the Obama administration kowtowing to OPEC by shutting down the spigots in Utah. Don’t forget, Obama was only dismayed that $4.50/gallon gas came so suddenly.
  • Ed Morrissey caught probably the last Kennedy to hold office threatening the future of edible pork. He can have my honey-baked ham sandwich if he can pry it from my cold, dead fingers (first, he’d have to figure out a way to make those fingers cold and dead).
  • On to the inedible pork – Michelle Malkin reports the next in line for the teat are auto parts suppliers to the tune of $20.5 billion.
  • Kristina Rasmussen runs the numbers on the pork-filled Generational Theft Act of 2009, and proves that we’re well above the 1% pork level. What’s left unsaid is it’s somewhere north of 50% liberal wish list.
  • Kevin Binversie finds some “blue-dog-on-red-diaper” violence going on in the House. That’s right; the Blue Dogs want the “regular” process of moving legislation restored. Maybe if they hadn’t caucused with SanFranNan,….
  • Yankee Sailor asks whether the economy is our #1 security problem.
  • Charles Johnson found former Vice President Dick Cheney worried that we will suffer a WMD terrorist attack in the next 4-8 years. Put money on it.
  • Lawhawk finds the UN shocked, SHOCKED that Hamas would be stealing its humanitarian supplies.
  • JihadGene penned a love song from SanFranNan to Krazy Kim.
  • Is NOTHING sacred in Hollywood?, Part I – Ace bleeds over the pending reboot of “Predator”. I believe Blain Cooper has the perfect description of the rewriters.
  • Is NOTHING sacred in Hollywood?, Part II – Ace reports the Three Stooges are going to be remade. Hey Moe, hey Larry. There’s going to be phoneys at the mike.

Yes, it is Open Thread Thursday, so in the spirit of all the bailouts, how about bailing a sick blogger out.

This Garbage Really Stinks!

by @ 5:21. Filed under Economy, Politics - National.

Those of us who live in the north know the benefits that cold and lack of sunlight have on garbage storage.   During the winter you never have to worry about garbage stinking or maggots growing in your garbage cans.   No, it’s not until heat and sunlight are applied that garbage begins to stink and you get nasty little things like really like garbage showing up to gorge on it.   A similar thing can be said about alleged, stimulus bills.

When kept in the dark and not allowed to be viewed because all around it are yelling that it will be an economic “catastrophe” if the bill isn’t passed NOW, stimulus bills don’t stink.   In fact, when kept in the dark, you can hardly tell that it’s garbage at all.   However, as light is allowed in and heat in the way of questions gets applied, even the prettiest packaged garbage begins to stink. The longer it’s in the light and heat, the more the stink increases.

Doubt me?

I wrote here  how Rasmussen had found a decline in approval rating of the stimulus bill of 8% in just one week! That change in approval was during the week in which the House passed their version of the stimulus with no Republican support. With an additional week of scrutiny and the beginning of debate on the Senate version, Rasmussen reports that support has dropped another 9% and now has more Americans against the bill than for it.

The longer the bill is exposed, the less the public supports it.   The less the public supports it, the more Senate Republicans seem to be getting the message that this is one battle worth fighting and finding a better solution for.   Even John McCain, the Senator voted “most likely to try and get a long with President Obama,” has decided that the stimulus as proposed, is unacceptable:

"’No bill’ is better than this bill," McCain told CNSNews.com just outside the Senate chamber.

It’s time to put this bill out to the curb for pickup.   McCain claims that he will reveal a new proposal on Thursday.   I don’t know if it will be any better but there’s no doubt it won’t be any worse than the current stinker.

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