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 March 7th, 2009

PSA – set your clocks ahead

by @ 19:04. Filed under Miscellaneous.

This is the Emergency Blogging System. It has been activated because Steve is decompressing from the Defending the American Dream-Wisconsin summit and is running out of time.

For those of you in the US (and not in those parts that don’t observe Daylight Savings), Daylight Savings Time starts at 2 am local time tomorrow. If you have a WordPress blog (whether it is on WordPress.com, a WordPress stand-alone, or WordPress MU – this includes Blogivists and Conservablogs), and you aren’t using UTC, you need to change it to Daylight Savings Time (Central UTC -5, Mountain UTC -6, Eastern UTC -4, Pacific UTC -7, and check your clock for other locales). To do so, go into your wp-admin panel, select "Settings", and under the "General Settings" page that pops up, select the right time zone. Don’t forget to hit "save" when you’re done.

You have been issued official news, instructions and information. For the next just-under-6-hours, this blog will be an hour into the future. This concludes this broadcast of the Emergency Blogging System.

The Green Bay Tea Party – FAR more successful than the unions

by @ 16:55. Tags:
Filed under Taxes.

Not only did Americans for Prosperity have a successful Defending the American Dream-Wisconsin summit, but somewhere around 500 (if you believe the Green Bay Press-Gazette-1,200 (if you believe the Green Bay Police Department; thanks Brad) people showed up in Green Bay for a little Chicago Tea Party. By my math, that’s somewhere north of 13 times as successful as the AFL-CIO/SEIU protest.

Revisions/extensions (7:48 am 3/8/2009) – David Troup wanted the link to go to the main Pork Revolution site.

R&E part 2 (6:57 pm 3/8/2009) – FReeper Monitor was also there, and fired off some photos.

R&E part 3 (10:27 am 3/9/2009) – I should have known better than to trust presstitutes to count. Thanks for the update on the crowd size from the Green Bay Police Department, Brad.

All Animals Are Created Equal

by @ 15:31. Filed under Economy, Politics - National.

At a graduation ceremony for police recruits in Columbus Ohio, President Obama reinforced his commitment to creating or saving jobs with his stimulus bill.   The 25 graduates are the first, and only jobs that Obama has connected to his stimulus spending.

In the midst of continuing, dramatic job losses there is a ray of hope.   Take a look at this information pulled from the Bureau of Labor Statistics site:

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Yup, that’s right.   While  jobs across the spectrum continue to shrink,  there are two groups that continue to break the trend.   Government employment along with Education and Health Services have increased their ranks in each and every month of the past 6.

While President Obama argued that less than 20% of his “job creation and saving” would occur in government, the 25 he has identified so far are all in government.   25 out of 25 looks like 100% to me.   The BLS statistics look to support that analysis.

All animals are created equal but some animals are more equal than others!

Midday pics

by @ 13:34. Filed under Defending the American Dream.

WISN/WIBA host Vicki McKenna, U.S. Rep. Paul Ryan, Herman Cain

Union protest FAIL

by @ 12:46. Filed under Defending the American Dream.

Despite issuing an action alert to come down to the Midwest Airlines Center to protest the Defending the American Dream-Wisconsin summit, the AFL-CIO and the SEIU could barely get a couple dozen to show up. After all, it’s not a workday.

(Pic from Fred’s camera; I had left the memory card for mine upstairs and his USB cable doesn’t fit my camera)

Revisions/extensions (12:58 pm 3/7/2009) – Fred ran with it…

R&E part 2 (5:39 pm 3/8/2009) – Kyle Maichle proved how big a FAIL that was by taking some video. Do note the drum that made it an official Leftist protest.

Round 4

by @ 12:38. Filed under Defending the American Dream.

State Rep. Leah Vukmir (presenter), Congressional Rep. Jim Sensenbrenner (national Defender of the American Dream winner), State Rep. Jim Ott (state Defender of the American Dream winner), WSAU host Jerry Bader Pat Snyder (media Defender of the American Dream winner; thanks for the catch, John), and Milwaukee County Sheriff David Clarke (last speaker before lunch)

Round 3 of pics

by @ 11:28. Filed under Defending the American Dream.

Apostle David King of the Milwaukee God Squad, Steve Moore from The Wall Street Journal and some booth pics before they get swamped…

Sign of the day

by @ 11:16. Filed under Defending the American Dream.

From my friends at Citizens for Responsible Government:

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Second round of pics

by @ 10:35. Filed under Defending the American Dream.

AFP national director Tim Phillips, Phil Williamson (the man behind Wisconsin’s Drill Here, Drill Now movement last summer), Joe Wurzelbacher (Joe the Plumber), Milwaukee County Executive Scott Walker

More DAD-WI live-blogging sources:

by @ 10:25. Filed under Miscellaneous.

I’m glad I’m not alone on Bloggers’ Row. Also on the case today:

– Fred Dooley, both on Real DebateWisconsin and his Twitter feed
– Kyle Maichle on North Shore Exponent
– Jessi Olson on both Wake Up America and her Twitter stream
– James Wigderson on Wigderson Library & Pub
– Josh Schroeder on his Twitter stream
– Brian Fraley on his Twitter stream

Also, Patrick Dorwin of Badger Blogger is here with his videocam.

First batch of pics

by @ 9:56. Filed under Defending the American Dream.

Mark Block, AFP-WI state director, and the standing-room-only crowd

Live from the Defending the American Dream – Wisconsin summit

by @ 9:34. Filed under Miscellaneous.

A lot of my stuff will be up on my Twitter stream, which you can find on either the right sidebar or here. I’m trying to get the others, like Fred, to use the #afpwi hashtag.

Busy Saturday

by @ 7:55. Tags:
Filed under Defending the American Dream, Taxes.

Whether you’re in southeast or northeast Wisconsin, there is something going on today:

– Green Bay Tea Party (which got a mention on the Green Bay Press-Gazette website – H/T Berry Laker) – 11 am-noon, Titletown Brewing Company, 200 Dousman St., Green Bay

– Defending the American Dream-Wisconsin Summit – 8:30 am-6:30 pm, Midwest Airlines Center, 400 W. Wisconsin Ave., Milwaukee (just noticed they “borrowed” my summary of the mid-week announcements)

I wish I could be in both places at once, but there isn’t time travel or cloning yet. I’ll be in Milwaukee because it’s closer, but I’m sure that the gang around Titletown will have plenty of coverage.

4-Blocking Lincoln and Obama

by @ 6:55. Filed under Politics - National.

Tom McMahon has yet another instant classic 4-Block World up…

As per the usual when I borrow Tom’s stuff, I’ve turned off the comments here.

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