I hope you’ll indulge me a little “24” news, mostly because my Gravatar is Big Bad Bill Buchanan. He made the ultimate sacrifice so that President Allison Taylor would get rescued from General Juma and company.
Rest in peace, Bill.
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 9th, 2009
The first Back Story – definition of Morton’s Fork
For those of you who weren’t paying attention, Amanda Carpenter got snapped up by The Washington Times. She posted her first The Back Story video today (you may have to scroll around; there isn’t a separate link for TBS yet), and she explains the Morton’s Fork that was thrust at Alaska Governor Sarah Palin – appoint either an envirowhacko or a supporter of infanticide to Alaska’s Supreme Court.
While the Left loves it when a plan comes together, I’m sure they hate it when things blow up.
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Drinking Right – Tomorrow
If the 2nd Tuesday of the month is around the corner, it’s Drinking Right time. It’s at the usual time (7 pm, and that’s Daylight Slavings Time) and the usual place (Papa’s Social Club, 7718 W Burleigh in Milwaukee).
I should be completely sober by then, so be there or be nowhere.
24 Liveblog at Blogs.4Bauer – 3/9/2009
I will be there at 8 o’clock Central. Will you? Did you remember to move your clocks ahead so you won’t run out of time?
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Quickie NRE poll – When will this place break 100,000?
One last bit of narcissism from me…
When will this place get over 100,000 visitors?
Up to 1 answer(s) was/were allowed
- Between 9:00:01 pm CDT 3/9/2009 and 6:00:00 am CDT 3/10/2009 (50%, 1 Vote(s))
- After 7:00:00 pm CDT 3/10/2009 (50%, 1 Vote(s))
- Before 9:00:00 pm CDT 3/9/2009 (0%, 0 Vote(s))
- Between 6:00:01 am CDT 3/10/2009 and 12:00:00 pm CDT 3/10/2009 (0%, 0 Vote(s))
- Between 12:00:01 pm CDT 3/10/2009 and 7:00:00 pm CDT 3/10/2009 (0%, 0 Vote(s))
- Never! (0%, 0 Vote(s))
Total Voters: 2
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It’s all about the Green(backs, that is)
Conn Carroll of The Heritage Foundation runs the numbers on the cap-and-trade -tax scam that the Obama administration and the Spendocrats are pushing:
– $650 billion from carbon credit fees this year
– $150 billion of that going to “alternative energy production”
– $500 billion of that going to the return of welfare
Conn goes on to point out that it’s a low-ball figure. Under the less-expensive Lieberman-Warner scheme, the 8-year cost would be somewhere north of $1,622,848,000,000.
Don’t forget that both Barack Obama and Rahm Emanuel have admitted that cap-and-trade -tax is meant to cripple the energy market to the tune of $700-$1,400 per family per year.
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Warren Buffet on Card Check
I don’t know what happened to Shoebox’s post on this, so I best fix that…
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YFpU5KSI3TU[/youtube]
(via House Republican Leader John Boehner’s YouTube channel)
It’s important to note that the secret ballot for unionization elections was put in place to protect the union organizers from retaliation by business owners. If it weren’t so serious, it would be funny that it is now the anti-union forces are the ones that need the protection of the secret ballot.
The Morning Scramble (Part 2) – 3/9/2009
I wonder if the ObamiNation Economic Team has this as their theme song…
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wLBpLz5ELPI[/youtube]
- Paul Socha has some more pics from the Green Bay Tea Party. I wish I could have violated the time-space continuum to be there and at the Defending the American Dream-Wisconsin summit at the same time.
- Speaking of pictures, Tsiya made videos of a few of his wildlife collection photos. If that doesn’t make you think of spring (along with spring training baseball), I don’t know what will.
- Obi’s Sister wonders where her Conga line is after finding out that Freedom Watch wants to know how much in taxpayer dollars went to feed Obama’s party-animal side.
- James Lewis has today’s history lesson. It sure looks like we’re repeating the early 1930s.
- Brian uses the Useful Idiots of the Left to prove that assumptions cause asses to be outed.
- MataHarley wonders if the presstitutes will be covering the 2009 International Conference on Climate Change because its theme is “Global Warming: Was it ever really a crisis?”
- Gaius bestows cult status on the Gorebal “Warming” acolytes. I think that calls for another song…
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0QGjhP5fcEs[/youtube]
- Stephen Kruiser asks, “WHERE THE HELL ARE MY DROWNING POLAR BEARS?!?” The last time I saw them, they were asking Jon Carry for halp…
- McQ explodes the myth that cap-and-
trade-tax wouldn’t hurt the little guy. I hope you didn’t have that $13/week that you’re supposed to get later this year spent. - Jim Hoft caught Rahm Emanuel admitting that the plan is to get rid of cheap energy.
- Curt points out that majority of ‘Rats wanted Bush to fail back in the day. Well, I want Obama to have an Epic FAIL when it comes to creating a big-S Socialist state and surrendering to whatever entity demands it, so I guess we’re even.
- Lex lists the tests that former Obama foe and current Vice President Joe Biden predicted would happen – North Korea preparing for another ballistic missile launch, Iran threatening to spread radioactivity across the Middle East, and the Red Chinese harassing the Navy.
- Kevin Binversie found no sympathetic ear for Bernie Madoff’s victims among the revenuers. He may be correct about about the unofficial motto of the IRS for now, but it soon will be “We will take it all, and you will be happy.”
- James Lileks proves what’s old is new again. Bonus item – today is National Panic Day, and the markets are responding accordingly.
- Liberals Gone Wild (thanks to Sister Toldjah for naming this segment), Part I – Michelle Malkin posts video of Charlie Rangel, the tax cheat in charge of writing all tax bills, swearing at Jason Mattera. With all due respect (only because Rangel is a Congresscritter), Chuck, you and your kind taxing the hell out of me while you and your kind live high on the hog IS my business, you dumbass.
- Liberals Gone Wild, Part II – JammieWearingFool caught the most-radical of the homosex/child-molester crowd putting a bounty on the head of New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo (D) for daring to keep the streets of New York safe from proven sex predators. I do believe that qualifies as demanding 110% fealty.
- Brent Baker found an ex-CNN en Espanol correspondent running for President of El Salvador as a Communist. Bonus item – the Communists are tying themselves to Obama, despite pro-forma objections from the State Department; I guess Hillary Clinton is still miffed that she’s 4 heartbeats away from her lifelong goal.
- Mary Lazich has a better idea for Porkulus that would actually be good for the environment – separate the sewers in Milwaukee and Shorewood.
- Eric has some sage words of wisdom from the late Charles Schultz.
I almost forgot how long these things take.
The Morning Scramble (Part 1) – 3/9/2009
I figure today needs an epic…
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wZiDME3bajU[/youtube]
What’s better than an epic multi-part Scramble?
- Ace is tired of playing the ObamiNation Blame Each Other game.
- Patrick Ruffini is as well.
- The Lady Logician issued a challenge to the troika atop the GOP – listen.
- Lex isn’t exactly optimistic about the near-future. He does a better job of putting those thoughts onto the keyboard than I can.
- Steve Burri proves that the only change in Leftist orthodoxy is a letter.
- Buyers’ Remorse Watch, Part I – Zip inducts Jeremiah Wright into the Wall of Shame for decrying President Obama as just another politician.
- Buyers’ Remorse Watch, Part II – Mary Katharine Ham inducts the Washington Post for their three-part lament. I believe her assessment of “(o)uch, ouch and ouch” sums it up quite nicely.
- Buyers’ Remorse Watch, Part III – Slublog inducts Christopher Buckley in for his late recognition that Obama is a Stalinist.
- Jim Hoft wants Obama to wear that label proudly rather than snarl at those that see Che Obama for who he is.
- John Ray explains why Obama is a Stalinist.
- Randy Fardal links the recent bouts of buyers’ remorse to Yul Brynner’s “don’t smoke like I did, dummy” message from the grave. I like the warning Randy came up with – “Experts have determined that supporting Obama may be hazardous to your financial health and individual freedom. (also may cause fetal injury)
- Expiration Dates, Part I – Jim Geraghty caught Obama planning to loan $1 trillion (that’s “T” for “terrible”) to hedge funds a week after saying that not one thin red dime would go to them.
- Expiration Dates, Part II – Jim also spotted optimism in the wheel wells of the ObamiNation Express.
- Expiration Dates, Part III – ColoradoPatriot gives two cheers for Obama’s change of heart on court-ordered disclosure of surveilance programs. The Kossacks are deeply saddened (or is it soddened?).
- John Hawkins updated some Obama posters. Yes, we are back in the late ’70s…
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QVS3WNt7yRU[/youtube]
- Liz Mair explains why the Obama snubs of British Prime Minister Gordon Brown (that’s right; the Gift Gaffe wasn’t the only, or even most-serious one) matter.
- Dan Riehl explores the onset of Sudden Tiredness Syndrome, which is the official excuse of the aforementioned snubs.
- Chris from Racine found a more-likely reason – narcissism. While I have your attention, she is taking over An Ol’ Broad’s Ramblings from the semi-retiring Kate.
- B.C. has the Photoshop of the Day™…
- Flip is shocked, SHOCKED that Obama doesn’t read blogs. And here I was hoping that he’d be visitor number 100,000 </sarcasm>
- Jim Hoft found that while Obama doesn’t troll blogs, his minions are busy scrubbing Wikipedia of any criticism. Just file that as Exhibit #342,234 in the Obama = Stalinist case.
- Speaking of Dear Leaders, Doug Mataconis is somewhat relieved that the original Dear Leader “won re-election” with “100%” of the vote. I will force you over there to find out why.
Part two will be up shortly. I hope you left room for dessert.
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Finally, A Plan from Geithner
Geithner is finally going after the plan I suggested here. With the time stamp, perhaps I could get the $420 Billion?
H/T Greg Mankiw
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Confluence
First, from Rasmussen Reports:
Thirty-one percent (31%) Strongly Disapprove to give Obama a Presidential Approval Index rating of +8.
That’s the lowest approval rating yet for President Obama. Also noteworthy is that on the day of his inauguration, 40% of the population was “in the middle.” Today, that number has dropped to 30%. I can tell you that folks aren’t moving to the “Strongly Approve” category!
Then, there’s this, also from Rasmussen Reports:
Investor confidence has fallen to a new all-time low as expectations of future economic performance continue to decline.
while:
The assessment of current economic conditions fell 28 points between the collapse of Lehman Brothers and the inauguration (from 89.6 to 61.7). It has fallen another nine points since then to 52.3.
Seventy-five percent (75%) of investors now say the economy is getting worse. That’s an increase from 58% since Lehman Brothers collapsed last September to begin the financial industry meltdown. On the day that President Obama was inaugurated, 63% of investors thought the economy was getting worse.
So the current assessment has dropped by 9 points but the despondency over the look into the future has increased 12%. Somebody want to argue again how at least in investors eyes, President Obama isn’t making matters worse?
And finally, you know it’s bad when American Pravda begins to question who owns what part of the problem:
Although the administration likes to say it “inherited” the recession and trillion-dollar deficits, the economic wreckage has worsened on Obama’s still-young watch.
Every day, the economy is becoming more and more an Obama economy.
Yes, yes it is.
As Allan Sinai, chief global economist for Decision Economics, a Boston-area consulting firm notes in the AP article, we clearly have the right President and administration to handle our economic challenges:
At this stage, there is no easy answer, no easy way out. It’s a question of how we fumble through.
It would be hard to identify a single action the Obama administration has taken that has improved the lives of the people they were elected to serve. However, if excellence in fumbling will determine how we will come through the economic turmoil than I for one, will rest easy. Nobody knows how to run the fumblerooski better than Obama!
Update 9:08 AM – Hmmmm, I won’t take one day as a given however, President Obama’s approval rating acheived a new low in this mornings Rasmussen daily tracking poll. Any one day is subject to a myriad of issues. A high one day could be a low the next and vice versa. However, the trend is not PEBO’s friend at this time.
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