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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.

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September 25, 2006

Cheddarsphere league wrapup Week 1

by @ 6:53. Filed under Miscellaneous.

Yeah, it’s a couple weeks late, so sue me, just leave my team (Spiraling Colby) alone :-)

– Spiraling Colby 113.28, teach3 91.49 – Behind game-breaking performances by Donovan McNabb (20.98), LaDanian Tomlinson (20.90 in an unnecesary pile-on), and Frank Gore (27.00), the Colby rolled over preseason favorite teach3. Carson Palmer, teach3’s starting quarterback, treated Week 1 like a preseason game, and despite the Bengals mauling the Chiefs 23-10, he only scored 3.69 points.

– Right Wing Wackos 116.67, No Bid Contracts 86.54 – Behind the strengths of top-scoring Kurt Warner (27.77) and the OldBrowns shutout of Tampa (25.00), the Wackos steamrolled the No Bid Contracts. D’onte Stallworth shined in his debuts for the No Bidders and the Eagles, getting 20.10 points. Chris Cooley piled up the only negative score of the week, costing the Contracts 0.30 points.

– TheDebateTeam 101.37, Vast Conspirator 55.44 – It was no contest as two of the Conspirators (Stevfe Smith, Mike Vanderjagt) sat out Week 1 with injuries. Jeff Wilkins whacked 6 field goals for 21.00 points for the Debaters, while Ronnie Brown gamely put up 18.20 for the Conspirators.

Sanders’ Sabers 82.74, Caledonia Bloggers 61.51 – The transplanted Texan used a balanced attack of Eli Manning (17.94), Steven Jackson (14.00) and Pittsburgh (14.00) to overwhelm the Caledonian in this one. Tom Brady ignored a bum shoulder to put up 14.31 for the Bloggers.

Warriors 76.06, Highway Runners 60.95 – The Warriors came out to play, with the Johnson Boys (Rudi-16.30 and Brad-14.36) leading the way in this mild upset. Terrell Owens’ 14.00 lead the Runners.

City Workers 97.77, Killer Boars 96.32 – The City Workers used a 5-player double-digit attack (Marvin Harrison-11.30, Tiki Barber-17.10, Heath Miller-16.10, Chester Taylor-19.10 and Buffalo-14.00) to score a comeback squeaker victory. Chicago’s 19.00 and Fred Taylor’s 17.50 helped the Boars to a Sunday night lead, but it wasn’t quite enough.

September 24, 2006

NFL Week 3

by @ 8:34. Filed under Sports.

The byes are starting this weekend, and the man can’t be happier because there’s 2 less games for him to give up money on. Let’s strive for a 14-0 blowout special to put the “d” in his depression. As always, the lines are fresh from bodog.com, and if you’re betting illegally, I never heard of you.

Green Bay (+7) @ Detroit – I know what I just said, but since everybody is taking last week’s advice, you need to switch it up to make money this week.
Chicago (-4.5) @ Minnesota – Grossman’s good for a few more weeks, then the Bears become a 1-dimensional team.
NY Jets @ Buffalo (-6) – And the New York Media goes apoplectic.
Cincinnati @ Pittsburgh (pick’em) – Damn, but this is a tough one. The coin said, “Stillers”.
Jacksonville @ Indianapolis (-7) – The Jags are real, but this is the very definition of a letdown game.
Tennessee @ Miami (-11) – The chant in Tennessee – “We want Vince Young”. Bad news for them; the coach doesn’t think he’s ready.
Washington (-4.5) @ Houston – Texans fans are wishing they had Vince Yooung (or Reggie Bush or Matt Leinart, or anybody that can help out on offense).
Carolina (-3.5) @ Tampa Bay – Who saw this being a Toilet Bowl-quality game at the beginning of the month? You liar! Take the under-34 for some extra teeth-smashing.
Baltimore (-7.5) @ Cleveland – Once again, the OldBrowns will get their revenge on the NFL.
St. Louis @ Arizona (-4.5) – Anyone think that Kurt Warner isn’t up for this game?
NY Giants (+3.5) @ Seattle – The Seahags finally run into a real team. Take the over-42.5.
Philadelphia (-6.5) @ San Francisco – The fairy tale is over.
Denver @ New England (-7) – The real Snake has slithered up, and it ain’t pretty in the mountains.
Atlanta @ New Orleans (+4) – The Dirty Birds are a 1-dimensional team, and the Saints are built to flatten that dimension. Throw in the emotion factor, and this dog’s bite will be worse than its loud bark.

NFL Week 2 Redemption Recap

by @ 8:11. Filed under Sports.

I wanted to get this done earlier than today considering I went 10-6 to get above .500 for the year (17-15), but one thing obviously led to another. Oh well, it’s time to recap the redemption:

New Orleans 34 (-3) @ Green Bay 27 – Time to ReWriteâ„¢ what I said last week; until Duh Pack gets Duh Lions outside in December, give the points.
Detroit 7 (+8.5) @ Chicago 34 – Over/under on Grossman’s season-ending injury – Week 8. Until then, don’t take the under.
Oakland 6 @ Baltimore 20 (-13) – The OldBrowns were feeling generous.
Houston 24 @ Indianapolis 43 (-14) – I don’t remember what the over/under was, but if you also took the over, you had enough lumber left for a deck.
Cleveland 17 @ Cincinnati 34 (-11) – The scary thing is Palmer isn’t playing that well.
Buffalo 16 (+6.5) @ Miami 6 – I should’ve specifically told you to take the under too. I thought the “tale of no offenses” was enough.
Carolina 13 (+1.5) @ Minnesota 16 – Paging Wile E. Thompson (mud spelled backwards), are you sticking by the “kickers are overrated too” line?
New York Giants 30 @ Philadelphia 24 (-3) – Too bad the Iggles’ D folded like a cheap card table in the 4th and OT. Damn that OT.
Tampa Bay 3 @ Atlanta 14 (-6) – And there’s no Jim Lovell to save the command module.
St Louis 13 (-3) @ San Francisco 20 – Where did the defenses come from?
Arizona 10 (+7) @ Seattle 21 – Somebody forgot to tell Green it’s not December.
New England 24 (-6.5) @ NY Jets 17 – J-E-T-S S*CK! SU*K! SUC*! Too bad they don’t play Duh Pack.
Tennessee 7 @ San Diego 40 (-12) – Joan Rivers went 25-35 in the blowout.
Kansas City 6 (+11-WIN) @ Denver 9 – Did I say I hate OT? Er, never mind.
Washington 10 @ Dallas 27 (-7) – Time to see if TO can heal fast again.
Pittsburgh 0 (-3) @ Jacksonville 9 – Big Ben was back, but the Stillers ran into trouble.

September 23, 2006

He’s baaaack!

by @ 6:37. Filed under The Blog.

The Asian Badger got most of the things that caused him to put a ground stop on his blogging taken care of much quicker than the 4 months he predicted. He’ll even have a special guest blogger from time to time (no, not me; you’ll have to read the post to find out who). In my best ’70s bad sitcom singing voice – Welcome back, welcome back, welcome baaaack!

September 22, 2006

Who’s running Team Craps and DEB, Riley Coyote? – part 2

by @ 20:33. Filed under Grand Theft Courts, Politics - Wisconsin.

(H/Ts – Aaron and Kathy)

Paul Bucher is proving himself to be every bit the bulldog, even to the last, as he announced that his office is launching an investigation into the coordination between Team Craps and the ‘Rat members of the State Doylie Elections Board that do not directly owe their continued state employment to Jim “Craps” Doyle (WEAC/Potawatomi-For Sale> in the latter’s highway robbery of Green’s election fund. Guess the DEB shouldn’t have done that meeting in Brookfield. As long-time Cheeseheads, they’re supposed to be smarter than Donovan “Vote twice like a ‘Rat” Riley; after all, Riley had the excuse of being a FIB at the time.

Equally not surprising, the other DA that Mike Ellis (RINO-useful in this case though) asked to look at this, Dane County DA Brian Blanchard, took a pass. I knew he would; he only persecutes enemies of the Madistan branch of the DPW.

Reaction from the Green Team:

GREEN BAY – Today Waukesha County District Attorney Paul Bucher announced that he would open an investigation into the collaboration between Governor Jim Doyle’s campaign and the state Elections Board prior to its decision to retroactively change campaign finance rules to bolster the governor’s campaign. In response to the news, Mark Graul, campaign manager for gubernatorial candidate Mark Green, issued the following statement:

"Yesterday, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reported what all of us have long suspected – that Jim Doyle manipulated the state Elections Board to try and strengthen his floundering re-election campaign. This desperate and outrageous display of corrupting a state agency for political gain showed that the governor will ignore the rules to keep a grasp on power.

"The good news is that we have an opportunity to turn things around in Madison. We can reject Jim Doyle’s brand of politics, and embrace Mark Green’s hopeful vision for the future of our state – a vision of lower taxes, good paying jobs, educational opportunities and honest government."

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Damn, but I wish I had thought of this

by @ 8:40. Filed under Politics - Wisconsin.

(H/T – The Blogfather)

The Coalition for America’s Families has launched a new web site documenting just how sleazy Jim “Craps” Doyle (WEAC/Potawatomi-For Sale) is –

DoyleForSale.com

And yet another seam bursts on the USS Jim Doyle…

Almost lost in the shuffle… – SENTENCING UPDATE

by @ 7:49. Filed under Law and order, Politics - Wisconsin.

Former state procurement official Georgia Thompson, convicted of rigging a state travel contract to award it to a travel agency who gave Jim Doyle’s campaign donations, is to be sentenced this morning. JSOnline’s DayWatch reports that the feds are seeking 27 months in Club Fed, while Thompson’s lawyers (wishing they had Lynn Adelman, brother of the head of the company who was at the center of Wisconsin’s Travelgate) want only probation.

Hang ‘er high, Judge Rudolph Randa.

Revisions/extensions (11:28 am and 11:36 am 9/22/2006) – WTMJ has just reported that Georgia Thompson received 18 months in prison. Further updates from JSOnline’s DayWatch includes a $4,000 fine and an unspecified length of supervised release. Thompson remains free for at least 2 weeks while Randa considers her request to remain out while she appeals her conviction.

The Team Craps fix continues

by @ 7:07. Filed under Grand Theft Courts, Law and order, Politics - Wisconsin.

(H/T – Elliot)

Somehow I don’t think that a “random” assignment of cases brought the Green challenge to the State Doylie Elections Board to Dane County Circuit Judge Richard Niess. After all, there’s this little tidbit in today’s Journal Sentinel story –

Doyle named Niess a judge in 2004.

No wonder why Team Craps is now going for the full-monty Grand Theft Courts.

On November 7, remember to say, “And all of Craps’ horseshit, and all of Craps’ men, couldn’t put the USS Jim Doyle back together again” as you vote for Mark Green, JB Van Hollen, and your local Legislative Pubbie.

Joke of the day

by @ 6:58. Filed under Politics - Wisconsin.

I won’t spoil silent E’s presentation, so go there, read it, and then add him to your blogrolls and feed readers if you haven’t already done so.

September 21, 2006

Doylie Electons Board highway robbery becoming Grand Theft Courts

by @ 17:13. Filed under Grand Theft Courts, Law and order, Politics - Wisconsin.

You have to hand it to Team Craps for total chutzpah – JSOnline’s DayWatch is reporting that state Justice Department lawyers Michael Bauer, Christopher Blythe and Lara Sutherlin argued in court that the Green campaign should be forced to give back $1.26 million of the $1.3 million and be allowed to keep only the $43,128 they say state law allows any candidate committee to give a gubernatorial candidate.

For you budding (or recovering) lawyers out there, JSOnline happens to have the Team Craps brief, but not the Green Team’s ones. WisPolitics’ Courtwatch, however, comes through with the Green Team’s appeal as well as a supporting affadavit from the Green campaign treasurer. I don’t have the time at the moment to sift through all of that, but I will if anybody feels like commenting.

Ignoring the fact that, among other things, Tom Barrett transfered much more than $43,128 to his gubernatorial campaign from his congressional one without so much as a peep from the Doylies or anybody else, let’s see if Team Craps practices what they now preach.

Looking through the 2002 election cycle records at the Wisconsin Democracy Campaign, I seem to see donations totaling $190,000 from a “political/ideological” entity called the “Lawton Committee”. I can’t seem to find any information on this committee with either a Yahoo or Google search, but I do know that Barbara Lawton was his lieutenant governor running mate and in fact is the serving lt. gov. My best guess is that the “Lawton Committee” listed in the WDC report is the campaign committee of Barbara Lawton, and I don’t think the $43,128 limit just popped into state law in the last 4 years.

Golly; once again, it looks like Team Craps has stepped in it. Of course, they’re on friendly turf in Dane County, and they do have a Craps-stacked State Supreme Court (one that was left unchallenged by the “R”PW earlier this year).

Remember, I predicted the full monty grand theft back on September 6…

Here’s a bold prediction; whether the Craps strategy of trying to smear Green while starving his campaign of some funds works or not in the public arena, Craps will try to get his Doylie Elections Board to declare the other $800,000 Green transfered from his federal campaign "illegal" by early October, using the "justification" that federal law prohibits the transfer of state campaign funds.

I was slightly wrong on the timing (it’s only mid-September), the forum and the “justification”, but you have to give me credit for nailing the theft. As for the “remaining” $43,128, the Doylies will push to have that disappear in the form of “fines”.

Make this pic (borrowed from Patrick) happen; vote Mark Green Nov. 7

The blogroll taketh, so now it giveth

by @ 15:25. Filed under The Blog.

I whacked a few blogs on Sunday, so it’s time to add a few:

  • Like I said below, silent E speaks got added earlier today.
  • Gibbsville Unincorporated reincorporated with the react to the revalation the State Doylie Elections Board took its marching orders from Team Craps.
  • On the strength of Dan and Keith, the Early Spin Blog finally got noticed. Sorry about taking so long; you guys are up against Bob and Brian after all, and there’s a ball and chain who shall remain nameless (coughNicolecough) that had her lieberal pals rig the contest.

It’s good to wield the lupa.

Who’s running Team Craps and DEB, Riley Coyote? (and an addition to the roll)

by @ 13:57. Filed under Grand Theft Courts, Politics - Wisconsin, The Blog.

(H/T – Mike Huckleberry)

Mike Ellis, who I have little love for, noticed a little something about the State Doylie Elections Board’s kneecapping robbery of the Green campaign; namely, it happened in Waukesha County. Last I checked, Paul “The Marauder” Bucher was still DA there. Accordingly, Ellis has asked Bucher’s office to look into whether laws were broken by the Doylies. I don’t think the Doylies will come out in much better shape than Donovan “Vote twice like a ‘Rat” Riley.

For contributing “Riley Coyote” to the lexicon, silent E speaks just found its way onto the roll. Let’s make Doyle’s name mud-spelled backwards November 7.

Sorry about the semi-busted links

by @ 13:37. Filed under The Blog.

I’ve been trying a different permalink structure in an attempt to limit cleaning out my spam trackback box. Unfortunately, that structure also appeared to have killed all the trackbacks. I’ve gone back to the WordPress standard and am trusting (once again) my anti-spam defenses. That’s broken the links to posts done under the customized permalink structure. Sorry about the inconvenience.

Out of control spending, 2006 MMSD edition

by @ 12:54. Filed under MMSD - The Crap People, Taxes.

(H/T – Jessica)

Lost in the revelation that Jim “Craps” Doyle (WEAC/Potawatomi-For Sale) had his campaign lawyer instruct the State Doylie Elections Board on how to kneecap Mark Green via e-mail (and thus traceable), and the chutzpah of the Doylies to once again seek to retroactively change the rules to grab even more of Green’s money, is this little gem from the Journal Sentinel – MMSD proposes 30% budget increase. They’re looking at a 3% levy increase, and are proposing tapping $500,000 out of the $13.5 million user stabilization fund (no word on how much they’re sticking the non-Milwaukee County suburbs for in fees). Let’s take a look at the tax time bomb that is MMSD, the Crappy Water People™:

  • Total proposed budget for 2007 – $352.9 million (up 30.5% from 2006)
  • Capital improvements – $285.4 million (up 37.9% from 2006, even though the non-Milwaukee County portion of paying for that that is decreasing $1.4 million to $22.6 million – Houston, we have a consistency problem here)
  • “Low”-interest state loans in 2007 – $108.7 million (or 30.8% of the total budget)
  • Bonds and “expected” federal/state aid – $67.8 million (19.2% of the total budget; not broken down in the story)
  • The Milorganite market, which barely breaks even on good years, is drying up.
  • Despite being ordered to sink another $900 million (in addition to the billions spent on the almost-somewhat-not-quite-Deep-enough Tunnel, designed to make the suburbs pay for Milwaukee’s and Shorewood’s unwillingness to separate their combined sewers, the top cause of sewage dumping) on dumping mitigation, MMSD still faces lawsuits from both the state (which negotiated that $900 million settlement) and envirowhackos to spend even more.

When half of what you spend (math lesson of the day – 30.8 + 19.2 = 50.0) is borrowed or gifted from an uncertain source of aid, it’s no surprise when the acting comptroller warns that the butcher’s bill will come due in 2008. Gee, I wonder why the board is sort of holding the line this year; could it be because fellow ‘RAT Craps doesn’t need yet another massive increase in property taxes from MMSD (4.0% increase last year) and its kind like what happened last year?

While Jessica reminds you the not-so-gentle reader (you may be gentle if you read her blog, but you’re definitely not gentle if you’re here) that the Legislature killed a bill to make these non-elected taxing authorities elected instead of appointed, I’ll remind you once again that Craps specifically exempted non-elected taxing authorities from his Craps Anti-Freeze. They’re setting up for the mother of all sublimations next year.

Gov’s race – 9/21 update

by @ 8:30. Filed under Grand Theft Courts, Politics - Wisconsin.

Item #1 – The MJS reports Doyle campaign lawyer Michael S. Maistelman told the 3 ‘Rat members of the State Doylie Elections Board whose jobs aren’t directly tied to Jim “Craps” Doyle’s (WEAC/Potawatomi-For Sale) continued occupation of the governor’s mansion, “Even if this ends up in Court it is a PR victory for us since it makes Green spend money and have to defend the use of his Washington DC dirty money.” Further, they report that, contrary to earlier denials that Maistelman was working for the Doyle campaign, he was present at the August 30 meeting where the Doylies retroactively applied their rule to Mark Green to strip him of $486,000 that he had transfered to his state campaign from his federal campaign; and that Maistelman, in conjunction with Doyle campaign manager Dan Schooff, discussed possible penalties with the 3 “independent” ‘Rat members of the State Doylie Elections Board before they meted out their punishment revenge on Green.

I’m actually surprised that the Journal Sentinel took the time to dig this up and then reported it. Thank you, Team Craps, for proving just how sleazy you greedy, power-mad SOBs really are. If you doubt me, take a look at the copy of the Team Craps e-mails over at Boots and Sabers.
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Item #2 – Poll-a-copia time. Strategic Vision’s mid-September poll (9/15-9/17) (H/T – Kevin) shows some odd results; despite a 52% disapproval rating (up from 50% in August), Doyle stretches his lead from 45%-44% to 46%-42%. Meanwhile, Rasmussen (currently a “members-only” link) has some bad news for Team Craps (again, H/T – Kevin; his lead dropped from 49%-41% on August 10 to 47%-44% on September 17.

Could the Rasmussen/Zogby Interactive (I do not trust the self-identification method of that particular division of Zogby) trend of tightening be related to item #3?
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Item #3 – As predicted by me on September 6, Team Craps is going after some more of the money transfered from Green’s federal campaign. This time, they’re going after $48,000 that the Wisconsin Democracy claims violates the $10,000 limit. They claim that 30 donors who donated to Green’s federal campaign in 2003 and 2004, then later donated to Green’s gubernatorial campaign, illegally donated more than $10,000 to the Green gubernatorial campaign. Since the Journtinel doesn’t refresh your memory on what the SEB told Green when he transfered the money (again, I’ll point out he did so before they adopted the rule they later applied retroactively), I will – any money that entered the Green federal campaign on or after January 1, 2005, would be counted against that $10,000 limit.

I wonder if the Craps campaign will be suggesting punishments this time too.

September 19, 2006

Why a GOP majority still matters

by @ 15:08. Filed under Politics - National, Politics - Wisconsin.

For those of you who don’t subscribe to OpinionJournal’s Political Diary, you missed an outlining of some of the reasons why the ‘Rats cannot be allowed back in power by Rep. Paul Ryan. It deserves to be archived somewhere, and since for reasons beyond my comprehension the WSJ doesn’t archive any of the Political Diary, I may as well give you a reason to not miss tomorrow’s edition:

Wisconsin Republican Rep. Paul Ryan dropped by our offices yesterday with an answer to the question: Why not cheer for Republicans to go down to defeat this November? Maybe a period in the wilderness is exactly what the GOP needs to rediscover its soul as the party of conservative reform.

Mr. Ryan says it’s a seductive thought. A young conservative serving his fourth term, he hasn’t lost sight of the reason he’s in Washington in the first place — to reform the unsustainable federal entitlement programs and bring them to heel. His name is on the best-known plan to introduce private accounts into the Social Security system.

But Mr. Ryan says the GOP’s “brush with death” this year may be sufficient to slap some sense into it. Handing Members “walking around money” to spend on pork barrel projects for their districts “didn’t work,” he says. Republicans now find their majority threatened by voters irate over their excessive spending in pursuit of permanent incumbency. One hopeful sign is the earmark reform enacted by the House last week. Under pressure from Mr. Ryan and a handful of others, the Appropriations Committee accepted new rules that require Members to put their names next to earmarks they insert in spending bills.

Mr. Ryan didn’t spend a lot of time wargaming the GOP’s chances this year. His own seat is safe for now: Five liberal Democrats battled for the privilege of taking him on, but the winner — with a mere 25% of the vote — was the same 66-year-old retired orthopedic surgeon Mr. Ryan’s already beaten twice. But Mr. Ryan says conservatives should think twice before concluding there’s nothing at risk in locking the GOP out of power. The window of opportunity for serious entitlement reform will only be open until the baby boomers become entrenched in retirement. With the first wave of boomers now entering their 60s, time is running out, he says.

September 18, 2006

New sidebar feature

by @ 16:20. Filed under Sports, The Blog.

Back on Sept 1, Jeff Wagner wondered which number would be higher; the Brewers’ win total on the road for September (and presumably, October because they finish the season in St. Louis on Oct. 1) over 12 games, or the Packers’ win total for the season over 16. I took the Brewers (I said 4, which is turning out to be “slightly” optimistic). In any case, until the fat lady sings, a running total will be up in the left sidebar, even though Jeff never did get back to me on the friendly wager.

September 17, 2006

Packers’ autopsy – take two (of 16?)

by @ 23:10. Filed under Sports.

I waffled between the game and the race, with much the same result in both. A couple of quick thoughts of my own before we head to the Cheddarsphere for the rest of the autopsy:

  • The defense can play…for 15 minutes. Unfortunately, they need to play for 60.
  • If Holmgren were still here, the waiver wire would be filled with Ahman Green and various receivers who can’t hang onto the ball.
  • Reggie Bush hasn’t figured out yet that the NFL is much faster than the NCAA. Once he does, though, look out.
  • See below for my thoughts on Wile E. Thompson (mud spelled backwards) and E. Michael McCan’thy.

Now, the few brave souls that didn’t find something more fulfilling to do with a Sunday afternoon, like painting (last updated 6:30 am 9/18/2006):

  • Mike found some positives. I’m surprised he didn’t file this under “20 years of bad football”.
  • Kevin says, “Don’t do illegal things to get you through 20 years of bad football.”
  • In an early report, Mary marvelled that the Pack actually scored. She hasn’t been seen since. She finally got out of the stupor induced by quarters 2, 3 and 4 late last night.
  • Troy blames Jim Doyle for the 0-2 start.
  • Native Texan Kate gloats. Go ahead; I’m gloating over my 10-5 performance against the line.
  • The head barkeep lays odds on the #1 pick in the 2007 draft. I only hope that Wile E. isn’t in a position to blow that pick.
  • Jib got back home too late for the highlights, but arrived just in time for the lowlights.
  • Dennis York endured the ultimate torture; a trip from Madistan to Lambeau Field via the Marquette Interchange. Be thankful you didn’t have to go south; we South Siders don’t matter worth a damn to the Craps DOT (seriously, it’s kind of hard to connect temporary ramps to the High Rise).

Just in case I haven’t made myself clear on the Packers…

by @ 17:57. Filed under Sports.

Allow me to give it the Lazamataz “We’re all gonna die!!!!” treatment.

Fire Wile E. Thompson and E. Michael McCan’thy!!!!

Blogrolling with the changes

by @ 17:45. Filed under The Blog.

Change #1 – Rendezvous With Destiny finally popped up on my radar screen with enough intensity to show up on the roll. Troy’s another Waukesha County Stormtrooper who, among other things, came out of his holdout at an unfortunate time.

Change #2 – The Big Pilot decided to depart the Cheddarsphere. Damn it; he will be missed. At the same time, the Asian Badger has called a hiatus. At least he didn’t pull the plug like he did last time.

I’ve also done some culling of dead links and dead blogs.

Milwaukee turnout mixup computer’s fault

by @ 9:28. Filed under Politics - Wisconsin.

And you can’t blame this one on Diebold. The city did its own programming, and most of the battiest of the moonbats still lost.

After spending the last couple of days counting the number of ballots cast in Tuesday’s election, the Milwaukee Election Commission announced Saturday that 46,413 ballots were found, as opposed to initial claims that 80,064 ballots were cast. This more-or-less jives with the MEC explanation that ballots cast at polling places hosting multiple wards were counted multiple times in the total count but not in any individual race. The “more-or-less” comes in because 101 ballots that were counted at a North Side ward on election night disappeared and another 34 estimated by the explanation fell through the cracks someplace. I want an explanation because there should not have been a variance of a single ballot, much less 0.3% of them (which is roughly what President Bush lost Wisconsin by in 2004, and much higher than what he lost Wisconsin by in 2000).

While I don’t think that failed ‘Rat sheriff candidate Vince Bobot, the only guy not satisfied with the results, will see any movement in a recount of the ‘Rat sheriff primary, I invite him to have a full recount of that race. Maybe he and his fellow ‘Rats will finally see the light on election reform (yeah right; the only way that Bobot would have won is if the elections were even dirtier).

If at first you don’t succeed,…

by @ 8:25. Filed under Sports.

So I went 7-9 and only nailed 1 of my 2 over/unders. There’s still 16 weeks left, but let’s quickly review Weak 1 before moving on to Week 2 and redemption…

Miami 17 (+1) @ Pittsburgh 28 – I’m glad that Batch didn’t play for Duh Lions.
Denver 10 (-4) @ St. Louis 18 – Snakebit again.
NY Jets 23 @ Tennessee 16 (-2.5) – Damn it, damn it, damn iiiiit!
Atlanta 20 @ Carolina 6 (-5) – At least I was right about Vick not being a passer.
Cincinnati 23 (+1.5) @ Kansas City 10 – Who needs an offense when you have a defense?
Seattle 9 (-6.5-LOSS) @ Detroit 6 – And the Super Bowl Loser Slump™ begins early.
Philadelphia 24 (-6) @ Houston 10 – Lumber laid. You think the Texans could’ve used Bush?
Baltimore 27 @ Tampa Bay 0 (-3) – At least I told you to take the under, but who knew the OldBrowns had an offense?
New Orleans 19 @ Cleveland 14 (-3) – Bad news for this week; the Aint’s are on a roll.
Buffalo 17 (+9.5-WIN) @ New England 19 – Who knew neither team had an offense either?
Chicago 26 (-4) @ Green Bay 0 – Let the chants begin!
San Francisco 27 (+7.5-WIN) @ Arizona 34 – I’m glad I got the points.
Dallas 17 (+2) @ Jacksonville 24 – I knew that was a bad reason to take the Pokes.
Indianapolis 26 (-3.5) @ NY Giants 21 – To answer last week’s question, it’s because neither team has a defense.
Minnesota 19 @ Washington 16 (-4.5) – We really need something bad to happen to Brad Johnson; he just wins, baby.
San Diego 27 (-3) @ Oakland – Repeating – Two letters; LT.

With that out of the way, let’s head on over to bodog.com and grab this week’s smorgasbord of NFL action. As last week proved, you’re an idiot if you take my advice and gamble with Knock-Knees Tony, so be warned that I do not cover any broken knees, fingers, necks, taxes or lawyers’ fees –

New Orleans (-3) @ Green Bay – Until the Pack proves otherwise (or, more likely, until they get Duh Viqueens and Duh Lions outside in December), give the points.
Detroit (+8.5) @ Chicago – Special teams are rarely good for more than 5 points, so also take the under-32.
Oakland @ Baltimore (-13) – If you can’t score against the Bolts, you can’t score period.
Houston @ Indianapolis (-14) – This is turning into an all-lumber weekend. Start building your dream home.
Cleveland @ Cincinnati (-11) – The NewBrowns can’t win at home against the Aint’s, what makes anyone think they have a chance against the BENgals?
Buffalo (+6.5) @ Miami – Again, it’s a tale of no offenses. They’re already calling for Culpepper’s head in Miami, not realizing the absolute disaster waiting in the wings.
Carolina (+1.5) @ Minnesota – You may like the 1 1/2 points, you may want the 1 1/2 points, and by law, if you gamble legally, you’ll get the 1 1/2 points, but you’re not gonna need them. The Panther Super Bowl Express gets back on the train this week.
New York Giants @ Philadelphia (-3) – Philly has a bit of a defense, the G-men don’t.
Tampa Bay @ Atlanta (-6) – Chuckie, we have a problem. We have a complete defensive failure, a main offense undervolt, multiple caution and warning lights.
St Louis (-3) @ San Francisco – Take the over-43.5 as the main play here.
Arizona (+7) @ Seattle – It ain’t December yet, so Denny Green isn’t in full-choke mode yet.
New England (-6.5) @ NY Jets – I said it before, I’ll say it again, so I’ll spare you the chant this week.
Tennessee @ San Diego (-12) – Heck, Joan Rivers could start at QB and the Bolts would still cover.
Kansas City (+11) @ Denver – So I was wrong; it’s not a all-lumber weekend.
Washington @ Dallas (-7) – Any week TO and She can stay out of Tuna’s net is a good week to take the ‘Boys.
Pittsburgh (-3) @ Jacksonville – You heard it here first; Big Ben’s back, and the Jags are in trouble.

(Cross-posted at TheWisconsinSportsBar)

September 14, 2006

Tuesday election screw-ups

by @ 7:39. Filed under Politics - Wisconsin.

Item #1 from the Journal Sentinel –

The city of Milwaukee reports tens of thousands more voters than votes cast. ‘Tis extremely strange, but not exactly surprising considering that there were races in both parties. Question; did anybody consider counting up the spoiled ballots where there was not a “corrected” ballot cast? This bears watching.

More-troubling is the continuing existence of the “Philadelphia” factor – several wards with over 100% turnout in an election where there was an alleged citywide turnout of around 25%. Can someone tell me why we still let people register at the polls the day of the election?

Item #2 (also from the JS) –

Waukesha County all screwed up. The worst screw-ups were in the hotly-contested 97th Assembly District, where Chris Lufter was initially declared the winner, only to lose after the ballots from the city of Waukesha (home of Comrade Nelson) were recounted.

Other snafus included the complete failure of the new touch-screen machines in the city of Waukesha, and incompatibilities between the format of the results from touch-screen machines in 2 of the municipalities and those from touch-screen machines in the rest of the county resulting in no online results on the county’s web site.

A picture is worth 1,000 words

by @ 7:19. Filed under Politics - Wisconsin.

Found on the front page of the Metro section in this morning’s Journal Sentinel, as part of this story on the attorney general’s race….


Journal Sentinel photo by Benny Sieu (9/13/2006)

Remember, Jim “Craps” Doyle remains under investigation by both the US Attorney’s office (Eastern District of Wisconsin) and the state Department of Justice (headed by the state attorney general, an office Kathleen Falk is running for) for multiple “irregularities” involving campaign finances.

Expect more of these pictures, as the person who hopes to be the official Craps whitewasher signalled that she and Craps plan on many more joint appearances.

September 13, 2006

Quote of the day

by @ 11:08. Filed under War on Terror.

The Asian Badger – Russ, you ignorant slut.

That about sums up my reaction to Russ el-Slimeroad’s (Moonbat-Al Qaeda) call for a new term to replace “Islamic fascist”. May I suggest “Islamokazi”? It captures the nature of them so well; Islamic kamikaze Nazis.

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