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 7th, 2010

Roll bloat – yet another Rule 2 addition

by @ 19:45. Filed under The Blog.

Since The Anchoress was kind enough to link to yesterday’s Social Security post, and since she has the gift of prolific prose, it’s definitely time to put The Anchoress on that gigantic roll to your right.

New Years’ Resolution from Rebecca Kleefisch to state government

by @ 17:39. Filed under Politics - Wisconsin.

Given that the GAAP deficit for FY2009 was larger than the amount of Porkulus used to try to plug the sucking chest wound black hole that is the Wisconsin state budget, Rebecca Kleefisch has a short message for the politicians in Madison, both now and those that will arrive next year…

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-3pcMvb0SRk[/youtube]

Somebody has to be responsible around here.

Well Duh!

by @ 11:42. Filed under Miscellaneous.

I’m scanning the various websites that I regularly peruse and am beginning to wonder if I have had some kind of a Rip VanWinkle episode and have just awoken on April 1st.  The other option might be that the MSM has finally collapsed and The Onion is now writing all “news” stories.  Can any of this stuff be real?

Nelson: We should have waited on health care:Senator Nelson is in full CYA mode as he sees the public outcry increase over his support of placebocare.  Following the selling of his vote, he tried the “no, I didn’t get anything special.  Everyone will get the Medicaid support,” approach.  That didn’t stem the pitch forks and torches streaming towards his office.  Now, he’s trying a twist on the Obama approach claiming “this isn’t the health care bill you thought you knew!”  Along with, “I wish we could have focused on other things!”

Um, Senator Nelson, your vote is what caused the legislation to move forward.  If you had really thought that other things should have been focused on, the withholding of your vote could have caused that to happen.

Or, how about this:

National security adviser: Airline bomber report to ‘shock’– A simple response, “Ah, NO!”  The only thing “shocking” about what we will read in this report is that several bus loads of inept, uber politically correct politicos still have their jobs and haven’t been shipped to some Arctic outpost!  The only person in America who will be “shocked” by this report will be Janet Napolitano whose eyes will be opened for the first time, to the fact that they system DID NOT work as planned!

And finally:

TSA Agent Arrested at LAX – What’s not in the headline is that he was arrested after acting erratically and shouting:

“I am god, I’m in charge.” 

The article goes on to imply that his shouts were drug induced.  Drug induced?  Like hell!  If every TSA employee who had a god complex was arrested and fired we’d have a far smaller TSA with absolutely no decrease in air safety!

Shoebox held hostage by the TSA – Day 4

by @ 10:35. Filed under Miscellaneous.

I got a copy of my passport, a copy of my driver’s license and a signed copy of some useless form bundled up and sent to the TSA today. I asked Mrs. Shoe whether on the envelope, I should address it to:

Moron – TSA

I thought it would get my envelope to the top of the stack. She didn’t think being at the top of the stack would be a good thing.

When they find their inner Denny Green and realize that “I was who I thought I was,” or something like that, will they actually send me a note and say “just kidding!” Or, will I just magically be able to use the kiosks again just like I magically ceased to have the ability to use the kiosks on Monday?

ChickenS*!?

by @ 5:17. Filed under Elections, Health Care Reform, Politics - National.

I hate to say “I told you so!” But, “I told you so!”

A week ago I told youabout the debate that Birdman and I were having about placebocare.  In a nutshell, Birdman believes that eventually, self preservation will rule and some portion of the Democrats will jump from the placebocare express.  My argument has been that this train was not going to stop.  Democrats who got in the way would be rolled over and those who voted for it and got nailed by their constituents, would have cushy administration jobs promised to them.

I told you so!

You’ve heard the news, Byron Dorgan of ND and Chris Dodds of CT have both announced they will not run next year.  The reasons for not running are obvious.

For Dorgan, he represents one of the most conservative states in the nation.  He has ignored polling that made Ben Nelson look wise in his placebocare vote and flipped his constituents the bird by voting for placebocare.  Numerous polls are out showing that if the current Republican Governor of ND ran, Dorgan would pine for the level of support that Walter Mondale received in his race against Ronald Reagan.

Dodd’s the same but different.  Placebocare isn’t his undoing, the financial debacle of last year was.  Turns out Chris was getting some special favors from the folks he was supposed to be policing.  Even the normally reliable Democrat voters of Connecticut couldn’t stand the level of corruption and hypocrisy that Dodd portrayed.  All recent polls showed Dodd losing to everyone and anyone in a Senate rebid.

There have been several Democrat Representatives that have announced their retirement.  However, none of those have the visibility of either of the two Senators who recently announced their retirement.  Rumors and most prognostication, say that we are no where near the end of the announced retirements.  I expect we may well hear similar announcements from Blanche Lincoln, Arlen Specter and (get ready, here’s my big bet) Harry Reid.

The latest generic Congressional ballot poll by Rasmussen shows the Republicans now leading by 9 points.  The most notable part of this astounding lead is that it is not so much that the Republicans are getting more support as it is that the Democrats are losing support on each and every front.

As they do every time they get power, the Democrats have over reached and tried to foist their vision of remaking the country not in the mold of Europe, but Eastern, Soviet Bloc, Europe, upon all of us.  Fortunately, they are being resisted on all sides and will surely lose their stranglehold on both Houses this year if not their leadership altogether.

While I’m obviously happy about what is happening to the Democrats I am disappointed by one thing.  The people who think Marxism is such a great thing that they are voting to have it implemented against the people’s will should have to stand for another election and get the final verdict of their constituents.  If they did, I have no doubt they would hear, loudly, clearly and in a snarky British accent:

“YOU are the weakest link.  Goodbye!”

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