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.
Thanks to JammieWearingFool and Just A Grunt for reminding me that, 232 years ago today, what would become the United States Army was formed when the Continental Congress adopted “the American continental army.
Thank you, Army, for 232 years of winning and securing our freedoms.
Tom McMahon has the killer pic.
Today is Flag Day, so fly those American flags high and proud. It’s also Thursday, so let’s get some chatter here.
So says the Guardian and the internet consulting firm Point Topic, even though the headline writer doesn’t know that 300 million (the number estimated to have broadband access to the Web) is not 20% of 6.6 billion. The 1.1 billion with internet access, however, is 1 in 5.
The writer of the article bemoans the fact that Africa is lagging. Honestly, I’m not surprised; unlike the murderous thugs that run Red China, the tin-horn dictators of Africa don’t have the pull to get various Web-based companies to self-censor for the locals who need to be kept in the dark to preserve the dictators’ power.
Other random observations:
– Even though Red China is poised to beat the US in total number of broadband users (60 million in the US, 53 million and growing rapidly in China), broadband penetration in China is still under 15% of households as opposed to 53% in the US.
– South Korea leads the pack, with 90% of the households wired for speed.
– Indonesia and Greece are leading the pack in growth; of course, they’re starting late and from a low base.
Fred Thompson has joined the blogosphere. Seeing I’m a Fred!-head (pretty much by default), and he and his campaign are using WordPress, I’ll give him some blog love.
I got late word that the folks that are putting on the tax rally in Pewaukee on Friday will be feeding the crowd some brats. Now, I’m in a quandry. Do I go back to my original plan and head there, or do I head to Sean Hackbarth’s Excellent Citizen Blogging Summit at Radio City? I’m quite conflicted, so I’m enlisting your help. Go, vote in the latest NRE poll.
Where should I be at 1 pm Friday, June 15?
Up to 1 answer(s) was/were allowed
Total Voters: 3
Loading ...– Tonight (actually, in about 20 minutes) at Drinking Right, Papa’s Social Club, 7718 W Burleigh in Milwaukee.
– Friday at Sean’s Most-Excellent Citizen’s Blogging Summit, Radio City (WTMJ-TV/DT studios), 720 E Capitol in Milwaukee.
If it weren’t for Charlie and Mary Katharine, I wouldn’t have known about this. First, I have to thank Charlie for carrying the speech by President Bush live (no audio yet the White House came through on the audio, but the White House has posted the transcript).
Next, I have to thank MKH for attending, and bringing her cameras. She’ll have the videos up later, but we can enjoy the stills now.
Now, we have to finish stamping out Communism.
Revisions/extensions (6:09 am 6/13/2007) – Added the audio
The ONLY media outlet that is carrying President Bush’s speech at the dedication of the Victims of Communism Monument is WTMJ-AM (it’s not too late to catch the tail end if you hurry and your feed reader just managed to catch this post as I type). No CNN, no MSNBC, no Fox News, no C-SPAN 1/2/3.
It is very powerful, and once somebody posts a copy, I’ll link to it.
Many thanks to Charlie for finding a link to The “Tear Down This Wall” Speech delivered by President Ronald Reagan at the Brandenburg Gate 20 years ago today. I was still in high school back in 1987, and I didn’t believe that, inside of 3 years, the Berlin Wall would be gone, at least without World War III taking place.
Sorry about not knowing that the Victims of Communism Memorial will be dedicated today. I hadn’t opened up my feed reader yet to find out Mary Katharine Ham will be there with her camera.
Video #1 comes to us from Ace. He dug up a clip of Algore Goracle ripping HW Bush for ignoring Saddam Hussein’s extensive terrorist connections and ongoing attempts to get nuclear weapons. Follow-up question for Algore, when did Saddam become an upstanding member of the international community? It certainly wasn’t immediately after the impeachment-delay bombing of 1998.
Video #2 is today’s Vent, in which Michelle Malkin presents the first annual Open Borders Oscar awards.
It’s not that I don’t have anything; it’s that I feel craptastic (with the emphasis on the first 4 letters).
Hopefully the Immodium kicks in.
“Borrowed” from Rob (who was so kind as to put it on Flopping Aces so I could find it)…
(Cross-posted from the TownHall version of NRE)
I’ve promised this for, what, 2 1/2 weeks? Every time I had something started, I’ve run into something that caused me to drop it. Not this time; not even a glitch that rejected my attempt to publish over there yesterday morning. Heck, I’m glad that I was delayed because some things happened that caused me to rethink my answer (at least my national answer; things just got even worse in Wisconsin). Now, on with the post….
If one were to simply look at what the Republican Party has put out there lately, from the anmesty bill to the three purported front-runners for the 2008 Presidential nomination, from the focus of tax cuts as not cutting the flow of money to and thus the size of government to the massive expansion of the federal government in areas that it has no business being, one could say that conservatism was not only out of gas, but dead and in the casket waiting to be buried. Indeed, in its push for the amnesty bill, the White House attempted to bury conservatives who opposed amnesty by using tired liberal name-calling. Those few announced candidates who can accurately be described as conservative aren’t getting any traction, at least according to the opinion polls.
However, we’re not quite dead yet. Sites like TownHall, Free Republic, Hot Air, Boots and Sabers, and even my little hole in the wall are thriving. Conservative talk radio is still so successful, the Democrats are scheming ways to shut it down. We’ve just defeated amnesty despite the wors…er, best efforts of the leadership of both parties. Even if they’re flaming liberals, Republicans still at least attempt to speak our language at election time. Heck, even the Democrats are so insecure in their liberalism that they’re once again trying to run to the right (from The Wall Street Journal).
On the Presidential nomination front, the two most-liberal of those three front-runners are skipping the historically-important Iowa straw poll in August, likely because their internal polls are showing something that the public opinion polls aren’t. We have the 6’5″ gorilla of a (more-or-less) conservative forming an exploratory committee in the wake of the third less-than-inspiring debate.
So, we’re not necessarily out of gas. Rather, we’re at a crossroads trying to decide which way to go while a tornado of bad liberal ideas is almost on top of us, indeed, so close that some of those bad ideas are raining down like so much debris. We need to find conservatives to run against the bipartisan members of the liberal Party-In-Government. We need to hold everybody’s feet to the fire. Now, I am not an expert, so I can’t tell you who to run against who; you’ll have to do your homework and figure that one yourselves. However, I do know that we have to get that done now or we will get swept up and spit out.
No, it’s not at Pajamas Media. It’s on Uncle Jimbo’s YouTube channel, with the comments over at BLACKFIVE
Good news – Kev’s back.
While making sure I didn’t have any mentions of a certain hotel heiress here (I still don’t; if you want that sort of news, everybody else has it), I rediscovered a link to Eminent Domain. Unlike so many blogs that I linked to back in the early days (specifically, my BlogSpot days), he’s still around, and still making sense.
(H/T – Katie)
Forbes.com reports that researchers at the University of Florida have discovered that bone marrow stem cells attracted to an area of cancerous growth take on at least the outward appearance of the cancer cells:
The bone marrow stem cells “have the same kind of surface proteins” as cancer cells, noted study author Dr. Chris Cogle, an assistant professor of medicine at UF’s College of Medicine Program in Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine.
But while the stem cells have the “same skin” as the surrounding cancer cells, the question is whether “they have the same guts,” Cogle said.
That’s the $64 trillion question, one that I don’t know how I want to see answered. If it does, it will definitely complicate the potential use of stem cell therapy in those with cancer because those stem cells will prove to be too-easily manipulated. At the same time, that ease of manipulation will give yet another lie to the claim that we need embryonic stem cells harvested from the unborn. There is another, more-immediate concern:
Cogle noted that about five percent of cancerous tissue contains marrow-derived cells that resemble surrounding cancer cells. This “developmental mimicry” could affect the results of tests of new drugs on malignant tissue grown in the laboratory.
“If there are bone marrow cells in this cancerous tissue, these (bone marrow stem) cells may actually contaminate our cancer studies and could make a difference as to whether or not investigational drugs we’re testing work or don’t work,” Cogle said.
“The significance of this is new treatments may work in the culture dish but may not translate to the clinic or the hospital room, and for many reasons. One of the reasons could be bone marrow contamination,” the expert said.
Quite interesting. On the other hand, the lack of presence of those bone marrow cells in the culture dish is more likely to result in the failure of that treatment in the real world.
I’ve been promising myself I would throw HamNation producer/camerawoman Katie Favazza’s blog, Elocutio, on the roll since just before I went on vacation. Time to pay up and do so.
Sorry, Scott and Newt. A better offer came along for next Friday afternoon; a Citizen Blogging Summit at Radio City. I’m more likely to find a bar afterwards, and there’s free food. The fun starts with lunch at 12:45, business at 1:30, and “officially” ends at 4:05.
Now, if I believed in cloning, I’d send the clone to Waukesha (or would I send myself; that’s the trouble with clones, you can’t keep them straight).
Revisions/extensions (4:03 pm 6/9/2007) – For those of you who don’t know where Radio City (aka WTMJ-AM/WKTI-FM/WTMJ-TV/DT studios) is, it’s at 720 E. Capitol Dr. barely in Milwaukee. Take I-43 to Capitol, then head east (I can’t stress that enough). Just before you hit the Milwaukee River, you’ll find it on your left. If you cross the river and enter Shorewood, you went too far.
Note to those that are coming from the northwest, I recommend taking Good Hope Rd. from 41/45 to I-43 rather than taking Capitol. There’s fewer stop lights, and the speed limit is 40 almost all the way. Do watch your speed east of Brown Deer Park; the North Shore police departments do not cut you much slack, and just before you hit the freeway, the speed limit drops to 30.
Sad to see the “Soporanos” going? Going to miss the opening drive that Tony takes through the Jersey shore? Mary Katharine Ham recreates that from the Beltway perspective in today’s HamNation. Nice touch including the stogie.
I promised that I would put that over at TownHall, and after some hemming (on my part) and hawing (on Townhall’s part; they’ve glitched up lately), that’s up. It’s a lot more positive than my Wisconsin-specific take.
(H/T – Ace)
John Hawkins at Right Wing News has the story of how the McShame-Swimmer-Bush Amnesty Bill got put out of our misery (I doubt it is out of its misery, however; there’s still a budget to get passed, and it’s not January 2009 yet). Short version – Harry Reid wanted unanimous consent to push through a bunch of pro-amnesty amendments to get past the 2nd failure of cloture, and DeMint refused go give it. Meanwhile, DeMint, Jeff Sessions and Tom Colbrun worked up a few “killer amendments” that the “Masters of the Universe” didn’t want to see the floor. The “Masters”, specifically Reid, didn’t want to have those amendments see the floor so badly that he pulled the plug rather than accept a vote on those amendments.
Bravo Zulo, Demint, Sessions and Colbrun.
I could’ve swore I had Fuzz Martin on the roll; after all, I did have him on my feed reader for quite a while, and I usually do both at the same time.
Don’t be like me and forget; put him on both.
Kate has taken the full-fledged WordPress plunge and moved An Ol’ Broad’s Ramblings to her own server. If you could correct your rolls and feeds to her new address – http://olbroad.com/WordPress/, we’ll all be golden.
First things first; I’m glad that the storms missed us. As for those that are complaining about the hype; take a look at central Wisconsin this morning. These storms typically are not extremely widespread, and we in southeast Wisconsin were at the extreme east edge of the second PDS tornado watch. Dunno if we had a violent tornado in that particular watch box (there was a 50% chance of one), but we definitely had more than 2 tornadoes in central/northeast Wisconsin.
One more thing; Tim Cuprisin is both right and wrong about the drop of HD programming. Yes, the local stations don’t have the ability to put up their fancy watch/warning graphics with HD programming, and yes, the FCC does require them to broadcast the watch/warning info, but the FCC does not, repeat NOT require them to have either the constant reminder or the fancy graphics. Dunno about last night (had some cable to watch), but in the past, Channels 18 and 24 sufficed with the occassional crawl reminder, and if there were any warnings in their assigned broadcast areas, they broke in with both the crawl and the NWS radio feed. Dunno whether channel 36 (the half of the local welfare TV duo that broadcasts in HD) managed to put its simple warning graphic into the HD feed (not only do I not watch welfare TV, but their digital signal doesn’t like my location).
4/6/12/58 (and the weak-sister 41, which piggybacks onto 58’s digital signal and thus never goes into HD) have been broadcasting in HD for several years. In just over a year and a half, they won’t be broadcasting analog anymore. So, when the hell are they going to pony up for the HD version of their useless fancy-schmanzy weather graphics, or even better, dump them onto a subchannel? After all, Channel 4 (which for reasons beyond my reckoning doesn’t send out the code required to display as Channel 4/4.1 versus RF 28/28.1) carries the NBC weather channel on its subchannel. 6 and 12 don’t use their subchannels at all (though it could be because they broadcast in 720p). Even 58 has room to put weather on a second subchannel before losing the ability to broadcast in HD.
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