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 January 4th, 2010

Is it Just me?

by @ 9:47. Filed under Miscellaneous.

My flight to MKE was unremarkable in everyway. I checked in on line, went through security without a hitch, had the same crabby flight attendants and voila, landed safely in MKE. This morning is a different issue.

So I leave DR last night and head to Chicago. I’ve got meetings in Louisville today and tomorrow and thought that was the best way to make the trip.  I stayed at a hotel and headed to ORD early this AM.

I get to ORD 2.5 hours before my flight. I go to the kiosk to get my ticket and get a message that I must see an agent! Well, at Ohare, seeing an agent is not an easy task. They are always understaffed and never seem to figure out what their big flying days are to get additional people lined up.

After an HOUR, I got to an agent. She promptly informed me that I had been place on the flight security watch list!

Huh?

Folks, many of you met me yesterday. For those who haven’t, I’m male, middle age, as caucasian as they come. My last name is of the most serious German heritage one could want. Either this is a big screw up by UAL or something has seriously changed in the past 24 hours.

I’m not a conspiracy theorist, although I did see a black helicopter at the airport this AM, but do you think the Obama administration is again finding ways to overreact so that “The One” isn’t made to look stupid again?

Stay tuned!

Update:  Saw this article in the USAtoday while on my flight….I wonder if this had anything to do with my new status?  I read another article that said the new rules went into effect at midnight…would at least explain why I was able to fly yesterday unmolested! USATODAY

NRE 2009 Awards – News Story of the Year

by @ 5:00. Filed under NRE 2009 Awards.

Welcome to Day 4 of the NRE 2009 Awards. Today, we focus on the biggest news story of the past year. As a review/preview, here’s the rest of the schedule:

Jackass of the Year, 1/1
Thank You for Existing, 1/2
Dumbest Thing Said, yesterday
– Person of the Year, tomorrow

And the nominees are…

Tea Party protesters rise up, Democrats double down (from steveegg) – It would be infinitely easier to focus on one half or the other, but it has been a year-long test of wills between those who generally like a small government and free enterprise and those who generally liked the Soviet Union. The first exchange came in February, when, even before Rick Santelli made his famous call for a little Tea Party on the shores of Lake Michigan in Chicago on July 4 on CNBC, grass-roots protests rose up against the prospect of Porkulus. It’s been an episode of escalation since, as every refusal to listen to the public by the Commun…er, Democrats has led not to the usual descent into disillusionment, but to ever-louder calls for small government and free enterprise.

Honorary mention goes to the demise of the daily home-delivered newspaper in Detroit, as Gannett Newspapers, owner of the Detroit Free Press and operator of the Detroit News, dropped the Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Saturday editions of their home-delivered products.

Climategate (from RealDebate) – Actual data that is hurtful to global warming claims are hidden, people with opposing views are shunned and ignored, those who are propagating this sham are making billions on it. The biggest crime of the news event of the year is that the US new media isn’t covering it yet.

The ACORN Stings (from Shoebox) – Simple and effective.  Has there ever been a story so completely ignored by the major media that had such a significant response by Congress?

George W. Bush is no longer the President (silent E) This is the story that the left so eagerly reported on, and leading up to, January 20th of 2009 but seemingly was forgotten shortly afterwards by news outlets and the Obama Administration.

Rep. Joe Wilson shouting “YOU LIE” to president Obama during a speach to a joint session of Congress (silent E) No truer words have ever been spoken in that room….. The look on Nancy’s face was priceless.

The administration’s attempt to turn the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) into a propaganda arm for Obama policies (from Phineas) – Big Hollywood covered this pretty thoroughly and FOX mentioned it in its list of news stories the MSM missed,  but that’s it. Yet the attempt of the Obama White House to turn the non-partisan NEA and the artists it supports into a megaphone for its policy preferences should worry anyone who thinks about it.

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