I hope you’ll indulge me a little “24” news, mostly because my Gravatar is Big Bad Bill Buchanan. He made the ultimate sacrifice so that President Allison Taylor would get rescued from General Juma and company.
Rest in peace, Bill.
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.
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March 9, 2009
The first Back Story – definition of Morton’s Fork
For those of you who weren’t paying attention, Amanda Carpenter got snapped up by The Washington Times. She posted her first The Back Story video today (you may have to scroll around; there isn’t a separate link for TBS yet), and she explains the Morton’s Fork that was thrust at Alaska Governor Sarah Palin – appoint either an envirowhacko or a supporter of infanticide to Alaska’s Supreme Court.
While the Left loves it when a plan comes together, I’m sure they hate it when things blow up.
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Drinking Right – Tomorrow
If the 2nd Tuesday of the month is around the corner, it’s Drinking Right time. It’s at the usual time (7 pm, and that’s Daylight Slavings Time) and the usual place (Papa’s Social Club, 7718 W Burleigh in Milwaukee).
I should be completely sober by then, so be there or be nowhere.
24 Liveblog at Blogs.4Bauer – 3/9/2009
I will be there at 8 o’clock Central. Will you? Did you remember to move your clocks ahead so you won’t run out of time?
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Quickie NRE poll – When will this place break 100,000?
One last bit of narcissism from me…
When will this place get over 100,000 visitors?
Up to 1 answer(s) was/were allowed
- Between 9:00:01 pm CDT 3/9/2009 and 6:00:00 am CDT 3/10/2009 (50%, 1 Vote(s))
- After 7:00:00 pm CDT 3/10/2009 (50%, 1 Vote(s))
- Before 9:00:00 pm CDT 3/9/2009 (0%, 0 Vote(s))
- Between 6:00:01 am CDT 3/10/2009 and 12:00:00 pm CDT 3/10/2009 (0%, 0 Vote(s))
- Between 12:00:01 pm CDT 3/10/2009 and 7:00:00 pm CDT 3/10/2009 (0%, 0 Vote(s))
- Never! (0%, 0 Vote(s))
Total Voters: 2
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It’s all about the Green(backs, that is)
Conn Carroll of The Heritage Foundation runs the numbers on the cap-and-trade -tax scam that the Obama administration and the Spendocrats are pushing:
– $650 billion from carbon credit fees this year
– $150 billion of that going to “alternative energy production”
– $500 billion of that going to the return of welfare
Conn goes on to point out that it’s a low-ball figure. Under the less-expensive Lieberman-Warner scheme, the 8-year cost would be somewhere north of $1,622,848,000,000.
Don’t forget that both Barack Obama and Rahm Emanuel have admitted that cap-and-trade -tax is meant to cripple the energy market to the tune of $700-$1,400 per family per year.
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Warren Buffet on Card Check
I don’t know what happened to Shoebox’s post on this, so I best fix that…
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YFpU5KSI3TU[/youtube]
(via House Republican Leader John Boehner’s YouTube channel)
It’s important to note that the secret ballot for unionization elections was put in place to protect the union organizers from retaliation by business owners. If it weren’t so serious, it would be funny that it is now the anti-union forces are the ones that need the protection of the secret ballot.
The Morning Scramble (Part 2) – 3/9/2009
I wonder if the ObamiNation Economic Team has this as their theme song…
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wLBpLz5ELPI[/youtube]
- Paul Socha has some more pics from the Green Bay Tea Party. I wish I could have violated the time-space continuum to be there and at the Defending the American Dream-Wisconsin summit at the same time.
- Speaking of pictures, Tsiya made videos of a few of his wildlife collection photos. If that doesn’t make you think of spring (along with spring training baseball), I don’t know what will.
- Obi’s Sister wonders where her Conga line is after finding out that Freedom Watch wants to know how much in taxpayer dollars went to feed Obama’s party-animal side.
- James Lewis has today’s history lesson. It sure looks like we’re repeating the early 1930s.
- Brian uses the Useful Idiots of the Left to prove that assumptions cause asses to be outed.
- MataHarley wonders if the presstitutes will be covering the 2009 International Conference on Climate Change because its theme is “Global Warming: Was it ever really a crisis?”
- Gaius bestows cult status on the Gorebal “Warming” acolytes. I think that calls for another song…
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0QGjhP5fcEs[/youtube]
- Stephen Kruiser asks, “WHERE THE HELL ARE MY DROWNING POLAR BEARS?!?” The last time I saw them, they were asking Jon Carry for halp…
- McQ explodes the myth that cap-and-
trade-tax wouldn’t hurt the little guy. I hope you didn’t have that $13/week that you’re supposed to get later this year spent. - Jim Hoft caught Rahm Emanuel admitting that the plan is to get rid of cheap energy.
- Curt points out that majority of ‘Rats wanted Bush to fail back in the day. Well, I want Obama to have an Epic FAIL when it comes to creating a big-S Socialist state and surrendering to whatever entity demands it, so I guess we’re even.
- Lex lists the tests that former Obama foe and current Vice President Joe Biden predicted would happen – North Korea preparing for another ballistic missile launch, Iran threatening to spread radioactivity across the Middle East, and the Red Chinese harassing the Navy.
- Kevin Binversie found no sympathetic ear for Bernie Madoff’s victims among the revenuers. He may be correct about about the unofficial motto of the IRS for now, but it soon will be “We will take it all, and you will be happy.”
- James Lileks proves what’s old is new again. Bonus item – today is National Panic Day, and the markets are responding accordingly.
- Liberals Gone Wild (thanks to Sister Toldjah for naming this segment), Part I – Michelle Malkin posts video of Charlie Rangel, the tax cheat in charge of writing all tax bills, swearing at Jason Mattera. With all due respect (only because Rangel is a Congresscritter), Chuck, you and your kind taxing the hell out of me while you and your kind live high on the hog IS my business, you dumbass.
- Liberals Gone Wild, Part II – JammieWearingFool caught the most-radical of the homosex/child-molester crowd putting a bounty on the head of New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo (D) for daring to keep the streets of New York safe from proven sex predators. I do believe that qualifies as demanding 110% fealty.
- Brent Baker found an ex-CNN en Espanol correspondent running for President of El Salvador as a Communist. Bonus item – the Communists are tying themselves to Obama, despite pro-forma objections from the State Department; I guess Hillary Clinton is still miffed that she’s 4 heartbeats away from her lifelong goal.
- Mary Lazich has a better idea for Porkulus that would actually be good for the environment – separate the sewers in Milwaukee and Shorewood.
- Eric has some sage words of wisdom from the late Charles Schultz.
I almost forgot how long these things take.
The Morning Scramble (Part 1) – 3/9/2009
I figure today needs an epic…
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wZiDME3bajU[/youtube]
What’s better than an epic multi-part Scramble?
- Ace is tired of playing the ObamiNation Blame Each Other game.
- Patrick Ruffini is as well.
- The Lady Logician issued a challenge to the troika atop the GOP – listen.
- Lex isn’t exactly optimistic about the near-future. He does a better job of putting those thoughts onto the keyboard than I can.
- Steve Burri proves that the only change in Leftist orthodoxy is a letter.
- Buyers’ Remorse Watch, Part I – Zip inducts Jeremiah Wright into the Wall of Shame for decrying President Obama as just another politician.
- Buyers’ Remorse Watch, Part II – Mary Katharine Ham inducts the Washington Post for their three-part lament. I believe her assessment of “(o)uch, ouch and ouch” sums it up quite nicely.
- Buyers’ Remorse Watch, Part III – Slublog inducts Christopher Buckley in for his late recognition that Obama is a Stalinist.
- Jim Hoft wants Obama to wear that label proudly rather than snarl at those that see Che Obama for who he is.
- John Ray explains why Obama is a Stalinist.
- Randy Fardal links the recent bouts of buyers’ remorse to Yul Brynner’s “don’t smoke like I did, dummy” message from the grave. I like the warning Randy came up with – “Experts have determined that supporting Obama may be hazardous to your financial health and individual freedom. (also may cause fetal injury)
- Expiration Dates, Part I – Jim Geraghty caught Obama planning to loan $1 trillion (that’s “T” for “terrible”) to hedge funds a week after saying that not one thin red dime would go to them.
- Expiration Dates, Part II – Jim also spotted optimism in the wheel wells of the ObamiNation Express.
- Expiration Dates, Part III – ColoradoPatriot gives two cheers for Obama’s change of heart on court-ordered disclosure of surveilance programs. The Kossacks are deeply saddened (or is it soddened?).
- John Hawkins updated some Obama posters. Yes, we are back in the late ’70s…
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QVS3WNt7yRU[/youtube]
- Liz Mair explains why the Obama snubs of British Prime Minister Gordon Brown (that’s right; the Gift Gaffe wasn’t the only, or even most-serious one) matter.
- Dan Riehl explores the onset of Sudden Tiredness Syndrome, which is the official excuse of the aforementioned snubs.
- Chris from Racine found a more-likely reason – narcissism. While I have your attention, she is taking over An Ol’ Broad’s Ramblings from the semi-retiring Kate.
- B.C. has the Photoshop of the Day™…
- Flip is shocked, SHOCKED that Obama doesn’t read blogs. And here I was hoping that he’d be visitor number 100,000 </sarcasm>
- Jim Hoft found that while Obama doesn’t troll blogs, his minions are busy scrubbing Wikipedia of any criticism. Just file that as Exhibit #342,234 in the Obama = Stalinist case.
- Speaking of Dear Leaders, Doug Mataconis is somewhat relieved that the original Dear Leader “won re-election” with “100%” of the vote. I will force you over there to find out why.
Part two will be up shortly. I hope you left room for dessert.
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March 8, 2009
The warranty on this blog is just about up
Back on April 6, 2007, I started tracking those of you who stumbled in here. At that time, I got the standard 2-year/100,000 visitor warranty package, never thinking I’d hit the 100K mark before the 2-year mark. Little did I know that since then, some influential people, from John Hawkins to Bill Quick, from Ed Driscoll to Ed Morrissey, from Stephen Green to Jim Geraghty, from E.M. Zanotti to the gang at doubleplusundead and a lot of others I don’t have room to thank, would consider Shoebox and me worthy of some of their traffic. That is on top of those sent over by people who I’ve known since before then, bloggers like, Patrick, Dad29, Fred, Sister Toldjah, Jim Lynch, Owen, Kevin, Sean Hackbarth, Kate, and too many more to mention.
I also didn’t think I’d get a co-blogger as good as Shoebox to up the quality of this place. I’m eternally grateful for him wandering in on a couple of my debate liveblogs from the end of 2007/beginning of 2008 and eventually accepting an invite to start blogging.
I would also be remiss if I didn’t mention the contributions of my various guest-bloggers: Fred, Aaron, Patrick, Leslie, silent E and Big G. When I needed time off of this place, they stepped up and kept things rolling.
Here I am on the threshhold of having 100,000 unique visitors (if I cared about hits, that number is somewhere north of that), and uncharacteristically, I’m actually in awe of a number. Actually, I’m in awe of all of you who have dropped in. Whether you came here for Shoebox’s great early-morning prose, stopped in for the Scrambles that ultimately became too hard to distill (because there are that many good posts out there on a daily basis), or stumbled into one of my rants, I thank you.
Now, let’s break this place.
March 7, 2009
The Green Bay Tea Party – FAR more successful than the unions
Not only did Americans for Prosperity have a successful Defending the American Dream-Wisconsin summit, but somewhere around 500 (if you believe the Green Bay Press-Gazette-1,200 (if you believe the Green Bay Police Department; thanks Brad) people showed up in Green Bay for a little Chicago Tea Party. By my math, that’s somewhere north of 13 times as successful as the AFL-CIO/SEIU protest.
Revisions/extensions (7:48 am 3/8/2009) – David Troup wanted the link to go to the main Pork Revolution site.
R&E part 2 (6:57 pm 3/8/2009) – FReeper Monitor was also there, and fired off some photos.
R&E part 3 (10:27 am 3/9/2009) – I should have known better than to trust presstitutes to count. Thanks for the update on the crowd size from the Green Bay Police Department, Brad.
Midday pics
WISN/WIBA host Vicki McKenna, U.S. Rep. Paul Ryan, Herman Cain
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Union protest FAIL
Despite issuing an action alert to come down to the Midwest Airlines Center to protest the Defending the American Dream-Wisconsin summit, the AFL-CIO and the SEIU could barely get a couple dozen to show up. After all, it’s not a workday.
(Pic from Fred’s camera; I had left the memory card for mine upstairs and his USB cable doesn’t fit my camera)
Revisions/extensions (12:58 pm 3/7/2009) – Fred ran with it…
R&E part 2 (5:39 pm 3/8/2009) – Kyle Maichle proved how big a FAIL that was by taking some video. Do note the drum that made it an official Leftist protest.
Round 4
State Rep. Leah Vukmir (presenter), Congressional Rep. Jim Sensenbrenner (national Defender of the American Dream winner), State Rep. Jim Ott (state Defender of the American Dream winner), WSAU host Jerry Bader Pat Snyder (media Defender of the American Dream winner; thanks for the catch, John), and Milwaukee County Sheriff David Clarke (last speaker before lunch)
Round 3 of pics
Apostle David King of the Milwaukee God Squad, Steve Moore from The Wall Street Journal and some booth pics before they get swamped…
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Sign of the day
From my friends at Citizens for Responsible Government:
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Second round of pics
AFP national director Tim Phillips, Phil Williamson (the man behind Wisconsin’s Drill Here, Drill Now movement last summer), Joe Wurzelbacher (Joe the Plumber), Milwaukee County Executive Scott Walker
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More DAD-WI live-blogging sources:
I’m glad I’m not alone on Bloggers’ Row. Also on the case today:
– Fred Dooley, both on Real DebateWisconsin and his Twitter feed
– Kyle Maichle on North Shore Exponent
– Jessi Olson on both Wake Up America and her Twitter stream
– James Wigderson on Wigderson Library & Pub
– Josh Schroeder on his Twitter stream
– Brian Fraley on his Twitter stream
Also, Patrick Dorwin of Badger Blogger is here with his videocam.
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First batch of pics
Mark Block, AFP-WI state director, and the standing-room-only crowd
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Live from the Defending the American Dream – Wisconsin summit
A lot of my stuff will be up on my Twitter stream, which you can find on either the right sidebar or here. I’m trying to get the others, like Fred, to use the #afpwi hashtag.
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Busy Saturday
Whether you’re in southeast or northeast Wisconsin, there is something going on today:
– Green Bay Tea Party (which got a mention on the Green Bay Press-Gazette website – H/T Berry Laker) – 11 am-noon, Titletown Brewing Company, 200 Dousman St., Green Bay
– Defending the American Dream-Wisconsin Summit – 8:30 am-6:30 pm, Midwest Airlines Center, 400 W. Wisconsin Ave., Milwaukee (just noticed they “borrowed” my summary of the mid-week announcements)
I wish I could be in both places at once, but there isn’t time travel or cloning yet. I’ll be in Milwaukee because it’s closer, but I’m sure that the gang around Titletown will have plenty of coverage.
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4-Blocking Lincoln and Obama
Tom McMahon has yet another instant classic 4-Block World up…
As per the usual when I borrow Tom’s stuff, I’ve turned off the comments here.
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March 6, 2009
I actually feel sorry for the Gorebal “Warming” acolytes
I’m sure they’re warming up their voices to start chanting, “It’s all your fault!” right about now because we had a real nice day yesterday and will have another one today. They just can’t seem to accept that sometimes the weather gets far nicer than we deserve this time of year in the land of cheese and beer.
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March 5, 2009
Way-late mention – One-man Chicago Tea Party – Waukesha edition
Alexander just could not let Wisconsin not be represented in last Friday’s Chicago Tea Party. Wherever there is out-of-control government growth/spending/taxation, there will be resistance.
Roll change and bloat – Bag full of Burris….
If you haven’t met the Burri clan, they’re more fun than a barrel of cash wheeled around by prospective Senate candidates. Let’s open up the bags, shall we?
Bag #1 – Lance Burri has decided to flee the confines of Blogger, at least for himself (he’s still part of the Badger Blog Alliance), and open up The TrogloPundit. Do adjust your rolls and feeders accordingly.
Bag #2 – I seem to have forgot to add Grandpa John’s to that oversized roll to your right. That’s where the rest of the Burris are, with the occassional dose of “sanity” from Lance.
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