Fred has the details. I wonder what the conflict of interest is. Smart money (the one that just won on the under in Super Bowl XL) says that the conflict of interest is with Voces de la Frontera (the invaders).
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 posts by steveegg.
February 5, 2006
The “Do Not Disturb” sign is lit
High-def – check
Beer – check
Halftime food – check
Betting slip with the under 47 and Steelers -$110 (which does not support the unbettable Steelers -4) – check
See you after the game.
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If Ragnar’s going to be added to the Fatwa, I may as well be added too
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Sunday pre-brunch smashes
– From Fox News, adherents of Islam, the Religion of “Peace”, stormed and torched the Danish Embassy in Syria as part of ongoing protests over a cartoon. Grow up, Muslims; the presstitutes have been doing that sort of schtick to us Christians for decades.
– The Journal Sentinel crows about how Wisconsin is the King of the Throne – yes, that throne (so if you have just eaten or are about to eat, please skip to the next segment). It seems that between Kohler-#1 in toilets, Bemis Manufacturing-#1 in toilet seats, the thickest concentraion of toilet paper manufacturers around in the Fox Valley, and SC Johnson’s Glade-#1 air freshener, we’re the king of all that is crappy. So next time you see #2 floating in Lake Michigan, take pride that not only did a Wisconsinite (probably) squeeze that particular piece out, and not only that MMSD-The Crappy Water People decided to once again showcase Wisconsin’s competence by displaying their incompetence, but that Wisconsinites had a hand in almost every other step of that process as well. Don’t say I didn’t warn you
– In the “blind squirrel finds nut” category, Eugene Kane gets something right. History is history, so it’s time to stop patronizing blacks by setting aside the shortest month of the year as “Black” History Month. Teach those milestones on the anniversaries of the dates they happened (and find a suitable time for those that happened during the summer).
– The Minister of Defense, Reggie White, is headed to the Football Hall of Fame. Despite his passing away last year, fellow inductees Troy Aikman and Warren Moon will be looking over their shoulders hearing the footsteps and their blockers flying through the air, and I’ll be hearing Reggie’s gravel voice.
– Fred gives “Badcast” a unique definition. No, it’s not a putrid podcast (though if I tried it, it sure would be); it’s a Badger-centric one. Tips of the hat to Aaron and Jenna, and Sean for having the courage to do this.
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No Runny Eggs – version 2.0
Unless you’ve been in a cave the last two days, you know that BlogSpot/Blogger(/Google) has had a very bad couple of days. Between that and my host, Yahoo Small Business, offering a few incentives to make me blog at a more-or-less dormant domain I had just sitting out there (namely, private domain information and one-button WordPress/Movable Type setup), I took the plunge away from BlogSpot.
For those of you that want to do the same, WordPress does offer a free service (WordPress.com), and they do make it more-or-less easy to move both your posts and Blogger comments over to WordPress (whether it’s the free one at WordPress.com or the host-your-own, full-featured one at WordPress.org). For those with the paid version of HaloScan, you can import your old comments too – check here for directions before starting importing your BlogSpot blog. A couple words of caution:
- If you have links back to previous Blogger posts, you’ll want to convert them to links to WordPress posts after the conversion.
- If you had pics on Blogger itself (the pic says it’s from, say, photo1.blogger.com), you’ll need to move the pic to a new server and change the link and source; some of that small print on the TOS is that pics hosted by blogger.com are only visible from blogger.com.
- If (really, when) the import feature stalls out (it’ll go blank, and you’ll no longer get “new” posts at your blog), do NOT refresh the page it was running on, do NOT close it, and do NOT use the “reset” link. Instead, open up a new browser window and rerun the import; that SHOULD get things restarted where they froze up without the possibility of repeated posts.
Well, let’s see if we can break this thing :-)
First poll over
For those that don’t remember it, it asked:
Should Jessica reinstate the McBride’s Media Matters Mini-Poll?
- Yes, but not with Bravenet.
- Yes, I didn’t mind the ads blocking her site from time to time.
- No, I didn’t like it anyway.
The final numbers were 7 for choice 1, 0 for choice 2, and 4 for choice 3. Guess the people have spoken.
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February 4, 2006
Check 1, 2, check
With BlogSpot down for the count, time to hit the lifeboat. Hmm, this seems a bit fancier than the old ship :-)
Still frigid, and BlogSpot is unreliable but the Super Bowl calls
I see not nearly enough people decided to help me out with the line, so it’s time to shat or get off the pot (side note, I’m finally having some solid ones). I see we’ve got some spread between the traditional books and the on-line books, with the traditional books sticking an extra half-point on those wanting the Steelers. You’ve got two evenly-matched teams in almost every respect. The difference is going to come down to special teams; Antwaan Randle El is a superior punt returner, so Pittsburgh will have a shorter field to work with. I’m looking at a final score of 24-20 Pittsburgh, so right now, I’m actually taking Seattle plus the 4 1/2 that the traditional books (as well as one of the on-line books) have (while avoiding the action where the line is 4 like the plague), and going heavy on the under 47 (though two of my ten book sources are under that, one at 46 1/2, one at 46).
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February 2, 2006
More non-existent blogging
Still suffering through what I picked up over the weekend. That’s just left me too weak to comment much on the last 2 days’ worth of news. Hopefully I’ll get back in the swing of things momentarily; there’s a few items that bear commenting on.
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January 31, 2006
Which version of “Adding to the roll” is this?
I lost count, but Deb Jordahl certainly deserves to have Above the Belt added, especially after whacking Brian Blanchard and the Assembly Democratic Caucus.
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Stepford ‘Rats strike yet again
This time, Terry Van Akkeren (‘Rat-Sheboygan) and John Steinbrink (‘Rat-Kenosha) drank the Craps Kool Aid to uphold Jim “Craps” Doyle’s (WEAC/ADM-For Sale) veto of concealed carry. Never mind that these two Assemblymen voted twice for the very bill that Craps vetoed. Never mind that the state Supreme Court has all-but-ordered the Legislature to come up with a systematic way to implement concealed carry or face an outright voiding of the current concealed-carry ban in a future case (of course, this was before Patrick Crooks became a lieberal). Never mind that, come November when they lose their re-election bids because of their betrayal, Craps likely won’t be in a position to offer them state jobs. Never mind that, in a moment of clarity, Snarlin’ Marlin Schneider voted to override the veto.
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Mission accomplished
Justice Alito has been confirmed 58-42. Dems putting principle above politics – Byrd, Conrad, Johnson, and Nebraska’s Nelson. RINO who just wrote himself out of the party – Leaping Linc Chafee Dish.
BWAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!
January 30, 2006
Alito cloture invoked 72-25
I’ll have the link to the roll once it’s available. While Russ Feingold blindly listened to the Kerry/NY Times siren call, Herb Kohl somehow didn’t hear it and voted for cloture.
Revisions/extensions (5:10 pm 1/30) – The roll call is now up. Dems voting conscience over party and moonbats – Akaka, Baucus, Bingaman, Byrd, Cantwell, Carper, Conrad, Dorgan, Inouye, Kohl, Landrieu, Lieberman, Lincoln, both Nelsons, Pryor, Rockefeller, and Salazar. The thinking half of the country thanks you.And for these 25 moonbats – Bayh, Biden, Boxer, Clinton, Dayton, Dodd, Durbin, Feingold, Feinstein, Jeffords, Kennedy, Kerry, Lautenberg, Leahy, Levin, Menendez, Mikulski, Murray, Obama, Reed, Reid, Sarbanes, Schumer, Stabenow and Wyden – we have something else to say to you – SUCK ON IT!
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Doyle to Adelman Travel – too bad you got caught, but thanks for the dough
That’s the sum of the Journal Sentinel story that details the cancellation of the Adelman contract. Of course, if you only read the first six paragraphs, you would think that Jim “Craps” Doyle (WEAC-Potawatomi/For Sale) was a pious person. However, let’s start with paragraph #7 –
But (Jim) Doyle’s campaign will not refund $10,000 campaign gifts each from Adelman Travel founder Craig Adelman and Adelman Travel board member Mitch Fromstein – the maximum gifts allowed by law to candidates for governor. Until giving Doyle’s campaign $10,000, Adelman had never given more than $1,000 to a candidate for governor.
(Dan) Leistikow (communications director for the governor) said the donations were legal, publicly disclosed as required by state law. He said that indictment of Thompson, a $77,341-a-year civil servant, did not question or suggest anything improper with the donations by Adelman and Fromstein to the governor’s campaign.
"I looked at the charges from the U.S. attorney very closely, and there was nothing to suggest Craig Adelman or Mitchell Fromstein did anything wrong," Doyle said.
Well, then, why did Craps feel compelled to yank the contract? Why did Adelman suddenly feel compelled to increase his contribution level an order of magnitude? Can we get the “unconstitutional-games-forever-for-a-song” Indian compacts voided if we can get a prosecutor to link all the casino money to them?
Revisions/extensions (6:25 am 1/31) – either somebody at the MJS is reading this (yeah, right), or they had a slight change of heart in being Craps’ shill. The “will not refund” paragraph is now the second.
January 29, 2006
If Jenna were a lieberal, this would be a felony
Some “oh-so-tolerant” lieberal decided that, for the “crime” of being conservative, Jenna deserved having her car vandalized and conservative stickers pulled off her car, house, and backpack. I won’t hold my breath for the Madison police to pursue these thugs or Brian Blanchard to charge the thugs if they’re caught, much less with hate-crime felonies, like 4 UW students charged with ripping a poster from a dorm wall and making nusiances of themselves.
Light blogging
You don’t want what I picked up. I have chills and diarreah, and I am completely drained.
January 27, 2006
Breaking – tire-slashing jury was at 9-3 convict when McCan’t pulled the plug
Mark Belling will have had the details in the 4-o’clock hour. For those who can’t pick up the WISN-AM signal, they stream on the Net, and I hope that Patrick got the warning message to turn on the recorder in time (I do have a horrid, static-filled copy of Mark reading the letter, but no way to get it on the computer).
Here is the text of the letter by one of the jurors sent to McCan’t and copied to Belling:
Dear E. Michael McCann,
My name is (BLANK). I was one of the 12 jurors on the tire-slashing case. After just turning 18 this past summer, I was very honored to be summoned for jury duty on such a high-profile case. I feel that serving on a jury is one of my fundamental rights as a U.S. citizen. The experience has left me totally disgusted with our justice system in Milwaukee. I endured a lot of personal sacrifice to serve on this jury as the spring semester of college started in the middle of the case, so now I’m behind in my classes.
I was shocked that after only 7 1/2 hours of deliberation, the case was taken out of our hands by you and plea-bargained away. When we began deliberation, it was 7-5 favoring not guilty; but by the time we handed the judge the note stating that we were hung, the vote was 9-3 favoring guilty to being party to a crime.
What ever happened to sequestering a jury? I feel you never gave us the chance to deliberate properly. I feel the plea bargain you gave these individuals is a total travesty of justice, and I hope you have trouble sleeping at night thinking what crimes these individuals will do next.
McCan’t can’t let the hot cocoa go cold at the DA’s office fast enough.
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Joe Wineke attempts to emulate all 3 “no evil” monkeys
The Democratic Party of Wisconsin put out this press release (courtesy The Wheelen Report). It’s so bad that the Journal Sentinel’s DayWatch has this quote from Dane County DA Brian Blanchard (D-Madison, who knows a thing or two about partisan prosecutorial witchhunts) – “I am very disappointed in the unwarranted personal attack on U.S. Attorney Biskupic, who is an experienced prosecutor with a reputation for integrity.”
Ah heck, let’s pile on Joe Whinerke (or is it Loserke) anyway.
Led by a prosecutor with GOP ties, Republicans are doing their best to smear Governor Doyle, a man of utmost integrity and honesty who does not tolerate any ethical lapses in his Administration.
That explains why Georgia Thompson is still on the job. I guess the millions of dollars from the Indian tribes had NOTHING to do with the unconstitutional “forever” giveaway compacts they got from Craps or the follow-on unconstitutional “almost-forever” giveaway compacts they got; I guess the millions from the trial lawyers had nothing to do with the veto of tort reform bills; and I guess that the millions from WEAC had nothing to do with the attempts to kill school choice.
"From everything we have seen, there is not one single shred of evidence that any of the assertions in the indictment of Georgia Thompson are true.
Note the phrase “one single shred”. It’s technically accurate because there’s a lot more than “one single shred” of evidence to back up the indictment.
I could go on, but the likes of Brian Fraley and Kevin are already on the case.
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Starting spots for sale in NASCAR – GASP!
Ray Dunlap over at Speed bemoans the 2-year trend of new teams buying little more than the number of a team guaranteed to start the first few races of the new season. For those not familiar with the situation, last year, NASCAR radically changed how the field is set for its races, going from mainly the fastest cars (in Nextel Cup, it was the fastest 38 in qualifying, plus 4 “general” provisionals using arcane and nearly-incomprehensible rules I won’t go into (if you’re interested, Jayski has the 2004 provisional rules) and a “champ’s” provisional that almost always went unused and turned into a 5th provisional), to mainly the cars that run modestly-well week in and week out (in Cup, the top 35 in owners’ points plus the 7 fastest “field-fillers” in the first 42 spots, plus either the most-recent champ or the 8th-fastest “field-filler”). The other two national series, Busch and Craftsman Truck, have similar rules (top 30 among the every-week teams, next-fastest 12 plus the most-recent champ/13th-fastest “field-filler” in Busch, top 30 among the every-week teams, next-fastest 5 plus the most-recent champ/6th-fastest “field-filler” in CTS).
So far, so good. The trick, however, is what happens at the beginning of the season. You just don’t have enough points (or any points before the Daytona 500) to do this properly, so NASCAR uses the previous season’s owners’ points for the first 5 races (4 races in CTS). While the old provisional system also penalized new teams (they didn’t get provisionals until after the 4th race they attempted), it didn’t put them in so deep a hole that almost nobody dug themselves out because slow-qualifying teams only got so many provisionals to use. That nearly-insurmoutable hole was the effect of the new rules. Taking a look at the Cup standings, there was only one team (the Gibbs Racing #11) that was outside the top 35 at the end of 2004 that wound up in the top 35 at the end of 2005, and only one team that was outside the top 35 after the 5th race and the switchover to the 2005 owners’ points (the Wood Brothers #21; the #11 was in the top 35 after the 5th race) that raced their way back into the top 35 by the end of the year.
So, what’s a new team to do? The smart ones buy a team that went out of business the previous year. The really-smart ones (like the aforementioned #11 when it slipped back under the top 35 mid-season and the Hall-of-Fame Racing #96 this year) go and hire a past champ for a few races (in both cases, Terry Labonte, 1996 Winston Cup champ). Dunlap outlines and bemoans several examples, from the more-or-less benign (like Ray Evernham actually buying a bunch of assets along with the 12th-place 2005 CTS finish from the folded James Smith Ultra #2 team), to the completely outrageous (Mighty Motorsports buying nothing more than the 8th-place 2004 CTS finish from the defunct BANG Racing and stinking up the joint), to the item that really set him off, Michael Waltrip Racing becoming Doug Bawel’s partner in the newly-formed Michael Waltrip-Jasper team (running the #55 “Dodge” provided by Bill Davis this year, and Toyotas starting next year) after Roger Penske pulled the plug on the Penske-Jasper #77 Cup team. I won’t defend the Mighty Motorsports deal, but I’ll defend the other 3 (including the MWR-FitzBradshaw Busch deal).
In the Evernham/Ultra deal, Evernham did buy a heap of assets from Smith to go along with the points. Further, Evernham has demonstrated a measure of success in the other two national series, and the driver he’s putting in the ride (Erin Crocker) has already shown some promise in the Busch Series.
Michael Waltrip’s Busch deal was more of him providing a driver (himself) and a sponsor (Aaron’s) to an existing team that would otherwise had been shuttered (the FitzBradshaw #40). In fact, MWR’s Busch operations moved into the FitzBradshaw building. Even though MWR had a big problem with qualifying in the latter part of 2005, I can’t knock a team that actually moves into the “old” team’s shop and uses their equipment.
The Cup deal is a special case. Waltrip was originally signed to run a second car for Bill Davis Racing, only that second car (#23) was nowhere near 35th place. Meanwhile, Roger Penske folded the 34th-place #77 Penske-Jasper team he jointly owned with Doug Bawel since 2004 (before then, the team was Bawel’s and known as Jasper Racing). I guess Bawel didn’t take things lying down, and entered into a 3-way deal with Waltrip and Davis. The team is a joint venture between Waltrip (which already had a part-time Cup operation) and Bawel (who will handle business management and relations with NASCAR), with Bill Davis providing the “Dodges” this year and Toyotas starting next year (no factory support from Dodge because Davis was instrumental in bringing Toyota into CTS; that one’s in the courts).
To be fair to Dunlap’s point, I’ll toss out another outrageous example from the 2005 CTS season he didn’t bring up; the Bobby Hamilton Racing deal. Bobby Hamilton Sr. was the CTS champ in 2004 driving the #4 BHR truck (which also finished 1st in the owners’ points). Hamilton wanted to expand the operation to 3 full-time teams, but only 2 of them would have been eligible for the guaranteed spot. He put himself in the #04 team (which had 1 start in 2004), knowing that he would start every race no matter what because, as defending CTS champ, he would always be first in line for the champion’s provisional. Then, he put a rotating series of drivers in his old #4 ride (guaranteed to start the first 4 races because it finished in the top 30 in owners’ points and attempted every race in 2004). That worked out pretty well, even though he had to take the champ’s provisional once (officially, 2 times, but one of those was in a race with only 36 entries); his new truck finished 7th and his old truck finished 24th in the 2005 owners’ points.
One last thought; because of the major abuse of the past-champ’s provisional in the Busch Series by 1993 champ Steve Grissom (who used the provisional 16 times, sending a faster car home more than half the time according to Dunlap), and because of a large number of ex-Busch-champ “Buschwhackers” (Cup drivers who use a companion Busch series race for additional seat time on the track; a side result of the abortive “impound” setup and likely to continue with rigidly-scheduled testing), BGNRacing.com has a hot rumor that the past champ’s provisional in the Busch Series will only be available once every 8 races.
January 26, 2006
Potential replacements for Doyle in the 2006 election
Mark Belling pointed out that there is a slim possibility that Jim “Craps” Doyle (WEAC/Potawatomi-For Sale) will either be convicted of a felony before November 7 (and thus ineligible to appear on the ballot) or be so tainted from Wisconsin’s own Travelgate and daughter scandals that the DPW dumps him. He mentioned Ron Kind and Tom Barrett as possible replacements. Kind has the benefit of being a complete blank slate and having a nice-sounding name, while Barrett came closest to beating Doyle in the 2002 ‘Rat primary.
Of course, neither of them are Madistan ‘Rats, and that’s the group controlling the DPW. If that eventuality happens, they’ll likely advance Lt. Gov. Barbara Lawton (another blank slate, and conveniently a Madistan ‘Rat).
Unfortunately, the wheels of justice won’t act that fast (indeed, the Milwaukee aldermen convicted by Steve Biskupic hung onto their seats after conviction until the US Marshalls physically hauled them off to prison), and Doyle’s ego won’t allow him to accept the inevitability of his defeat. Well, maybe, it’s not so unfortunate; I have this sinking feeling that Lawton would be even worse.
Ketchup Boy answers the NY Slimes siren call
CNN is reporting that Sen. John F. Kerry* has answered the siren call of an Alito filibuster from the New York Times idiotorial board. The funny thing is, Mr. Theresa Heinz-Kerry** did so from Switzerland.
Hey, Ketchup Boy. Don’t sing it, bring it. We’ll just nuke your ass back to the pre-filibuster days.
* The haughty, French-looking Massachusetts ‘Rat who seems to have forgotten he LOST the 2004 Presidential election.
** Aren’t you glad this gin-soaked woman isn’t First Lady?
Revisions/extensions – I forgot to mention the specific siren call from the Slimes.
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January 24, 2006
Here we grow again
Please welcome Rick’s Shark and Shepherd to the blogroll. Yeah, Rick’s an attorney and an adjunct professor over at Marquette, but don’t hold that against him. He’s the 1% of both groups defiled by the other 99%.
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Blogger/BlogSpot will be down tomorrow evening
From the Blogger status page –
We’ll be taking Blogger down on Wednesday the 25th at 4pm PST to fix a bit of a switch that’s gone wonky on us. The outage should last about 15 minutes. Blogger.com and Blog*Spot blogs will be inaccessible during this time.
This repair will fix the problem that caused the brief outage last Friday night. We’re also using this down time as an opportunity to tune our databases for more efficient spam catching and deletion.
So, don’t be surprised when your favorite BlogSpot blog is out of commission for a while right around the end of Mark Belling’s show. Hopefully it will be just the 15 minutes they predict (any bets on that? :-)
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More ethanol madness
(H/T – Patrick)
WISN-AM afternoon host Mark Belling decided that, because nobody else had asked the Republican candidates for governor how they would vote on AB15, the bad-gas bill, he would. Before revealing exactly how Mark Green and Scott Walker answered the question, he ran a little quiz with 10 callers. He told the callers that one candidate opposed AB15 because he opposes mandates and the other candidate opposes AB15 in its current form but would support it if an amendment calling for a study that would determine whether Wisconsin would be subject to stricter environmental laws because of the mandate were included, then asked the callers who said what. All 10 callers correctly identified Scott Walker with the first position and Mark Green with the second.
Patrick has a good start to the English Translation to Green’s position, but it does need to be added to – Mark Green would vote to force everyone in Wisconsin to use an inferior fuel that will decrease the MPG, increase pollution and cost taxpayers millions of dollars in added fuel cost…and waste millions of tax dollars to come up with a bogus study to ‘justify’ the mandate (never mind that there are studies out there that say just the opposite).
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