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 14th, 2010

You Are Not Alone!

by @ 14:00. Filed under Free Shoebox.

Well, at least I’m not.  Get this:

NJ Boy, 8, On Terrorism Watch List

 

Cub Scout Mikey Hicks Shares Same Name Of Person Who Has Drawn Suspicion Of Homeland Security Department

Oh, you’ll love this part:

His mother tells The New York Times she sensed trouble when her son was a baby and she couldn’t get a seat for him at a Florida airport. She says airline officials explained his name “was on the list.”

He was patted down as a 2-years-old at Newark Liberty International Airport.

Can someone explain to me how anything at the TSA qualifies as “intelligence services” when time and again they prove to use no “intelligence” in how they apply their rules?

The article does provide some good news:

Transportation Security Administration spokesman James Fotenos says in the coming months, the agency will cross-check names with birth dates and gender.

WARNING:  Next segment NOT SAFE FOR WORK!

Are you F$#*&ing kidding me?  These morons haven’t been able to cross reference their list to something as simple as a birth date and gender?????  Shit, Disney knows my birth date, sex, the age of my children, my preferences in lodging.  Google is able to gather more information on me than the largest domestic security organization ever known to the United States!

The government who is unable to match my name, birth date and sex (Hello, state department?  Yeah, have you issued a passport for this dude in Minnesota?  You have?  Great, could I verify the birth date and sex we have for him?  Huh, that’s what we had too!) is telling us that keeping track of the voluminous mountain of health care records for every single American and determining mandates for precise, successful treatments for every variation of malady is as easy as snapping their fingers!

In the words of H/T Chrisfromracine:  Whiskey, Tango, Foxtrot!

There’s no way out of TARP, part 243,129

by @ 12:51. Tags:
Filed under Business, Politics - National, Taxes.

I’ve done so many of these that I’ve lost count. Fox Business has the dirty details on a brand-new attax…er, attack…er, tax on the cream of the American financial sector:

President Obama will announce today a new “financial crisis responsibility fee” on the top 50 financial firms that is designed to recoup at least $90 billion in projected losses in the government’s bank bailout program, a senior Administration official said….

The official said the fee would be set at 0.15% and, if approved by Congress, would be assessed starting in June for at least a decade on firms with assets of more than $50 billion, including U.S. subsidiaries of foreign banks and large insurance companies with bank or thrift subsidiaries.

If you thought that the biggest vacuums of TARP, specifically the now-government-owned companies which will never repay the money, were going to be part of this, or that those institutions that managed to not get strong-armed into TARP will escape this, think again:

The fee would be paid not just by some firms that received investment capital from the government’s $700 billion Trouble Asset Relief Program (TARP) and by many banks that have already repaid their TARP funds, but also by some firms that did not take TARP money. “All of them have benefitted both from the stabilization (measures), as well as the exceptional, extraordinary Federal Reserve actions,” the official said.

But the two auto companies that the government bailed out last year, General Motors and Chrysler, would not pay the fee, the official said, and neither would mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, which the government also took over in 2008. He said the fee “does not and cannot work for a more industrial company like an auto company” and that charging Fannie and Freddie would amount to moving taxpayer money “from one pocket to another.”

That’s right; this is another wealth transfer from responsible companies to the most-irresponsible, government-subsidized companies. But wait, there’s more. Do note the “at least a decade”. If the TARP losses are less than the $90 billion that it’s “likely” going to be, where’s the rest of that money going?

Backhand smashes – not quite in the groove edition

by @ 9:35. Filed under Miscellaneous.

I’ve been out of it all week, and I’ve still got the remnants of a major overnight sinus headache, but there’s a few items that need to be explored:

  • Sen. Russ Slim…er, Feingold has been running into a wee bit of Tea in his recent listening sessions over his support of PlaceboCare.
  • Robert Stacy McCain is not letting either a shoestring budget or an ugly knockdown of a credentialed journalist deter him from wearing out the shoe leather to bring reports from the “unexpectedly-hot” special election to fill the Senate seat held for ages by Ted “The Swimmer” Kennedy. Related, the shenanigans are beginning, with the Democratic Secretary of State saying that, if Republican Scott Brown completes the upset, he won’t certify the election for 32 days, and the Democratic-controlled Legislature looking to change the certification laws again to delay it even more.
  • The White House has doubled tripled down on Porkulus after getting smacked by just about every semi-reputable news organization over its 600K “created/sved” number, now claiming every job at an entity that received so much as a dime of Porkulus money as “saved” to get to the 2 million number touted.
  • There will be new TARP fees on banks to make up for what the government spent to save seize AIG, GM and Chrysler (which will be exempt from said fees).

The Democrat Metaphor

by @ 5:20. Filed under Politics - National.

By now, you’ve all heard about the incident involving an “aide” of Democrat Senate candidate Martha Coakely, pushing a reporter. After having pushed the reporter to the ground,the “aide” thug offered to help the reporter back to his feet and then went into a blocking effort to keep the reporter away from Coakley.  If you haven’t heard/seen about it, go here and catch up.

As I read the various accounts of the incident and heard various talk shows discuss the incident, it dawned on me that this incident was a perfect metaphor for the Democrat’s approach to policy.

Think of all the ways that Democrats claim to help African Americans.  Hiring quotas, increasing welfare and the creation of “hate crimes” are just some of the ways that Democrats purport to aide African Americans.  However, in areas where African Americans could really benefit; school vouchers and welfare reform, the Democrats kick them to the curb.

Throughout the debate for placebocare, Democrats have been telling us how essential the legislation is and how American families would be unable to afford healthcare without this plan.  At the same time, their legislation kicks Seniors to the curb by reducing Medicare payments, kicks union members to the curb by taxing their cadillac plan and kicks the poor it purports to help to the curb by passing huge unfunded Medicaid increases to states that already have budget challenges.

The argument for a cap and trade tax is that we must reduce global warming.  If global warming is allowed to continue, increasing temperatures will cause food shortages, rising water levels will displace millions of people and more mega storms will occur which will have a devastating effect on people and property.  Of course, the Democrats seem to pass right by the fact that if cap and trade is implemented, energy costs will dramatically rise which will increase the cost of all food, all shelter, not to mention the cost of just getting to your job.  Once again, welcome to the curb America!

I could cite example after example where Democrats, under the guise of “I’m here to help,” offer us something with one hand while they punch us in the gut with the other.  This is exactly the behavior that Coakley’s aide exhibited and that Coakley herself didn’t even notice even though she was standing right next to the altercation.

I guess the moral to this story is that if you ever hear, “Hi, I’m a Democrat and I’m here to make your life better,” you should immediately protect yourself because the gut punch is on its way.

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