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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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January 22, 2009

The Morning Scramble/Open Thread Thursday – 1/22/2009

by @ 8:16. Filed under Open Thread Thursday, The Morning Scramble.

Every day is a blue day nowadays. Some are just more blue than others…

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GR9hk_Nflfo[/youtube]

This is a Faux News Alert. Barack Obama woke up. This has been a Faux News Alert.

  • Jon Sanders punches out an epic poem (no, not a DrewM. “epic”, so it’s safe for work, unless you’re a Moonbat without a sense of humor). (Revisions/extensions, 9:00 am 1/22/2009 – I’m missing my morning Dew ever since the parent company went all DopeyChangey on me; corrected Jon’s name)
  • The Wolf reports that, for the first time in the history of the Salute to Heroes Inaugural Ball, which features Medal of Honor winners, the incoming President skipped that ball. I’m shocked, SHOCKED that Barack Hussein Obama would blow off just about every living Medal of Honor winner able to make it out to an event.

This just in…Barack Obama took a dump. Film at 11.

  • Allahpundit caught the elder presstitute admitting the painfully obvious. Even though there’s film, I wouldn’t recommend looking directly at it.
  • James T. Harris reveals the first glimpse at the Book of Obama. The scary thing is, I can see reality following parody.
  • Hope, Change, and Indoctrination, Part I – Skip found a school district that wants to blacklist teachers who didn’t broadcast the Immaculation (© Rush Limbaugh).
  • Hope, Change, and Indoctrination, Part II – Speaking of Rush, he reports a teacher got her panties in a wad because the school she teaches indoctrinates at ran his feed of the Immaculation speech. NRE has issued a Crying River Flood Warning for Green Bay. Seriously, I expect that episode to be Exhibit #34 in the calls for the return of the (Un)Fairness Doctrine.
  • Paul Socha would like to see that episode turned into a proper Dan’s Bake Sale teaching moment. I won’t hold my breath.

Breaking hard, Bar…ENOUGH of the Obamination broken news; you can get that on ABCCNNNBCCBSPMSNBCNYTWaPoYourLocalPaintCatcher (which must be bucking hard for an ObamiNation BailOut). Back to your regularily-scheduled Scramble, already in progress.

  • Stephen Green (at his new Pajamas Media address; please make a note of it) finds our “friends” the Saudis looking into getting Pakistani nukes. Bold prediction – the Middle East will be a radioactive wasteland by the end of 2012.
  • Larrey Anderson asks the unthinkable question – should conservatives continue to be part of the GOP? To be honest, I’ve been tossing that around my head since the passage of the expansion of Medicare.
  • YoSAMite has also been tossing that around. Complicating that for the RPW is the fact that the party leadership has no control over the politicians.
  • AWR Hawkins provides another piece of evidence that a divorce is necessary – the slightly-less-liberal half of the bipartisan Party-In-Government is flocking toward the Obamination.
  • BrianR is shocked, SHOCKED that California is taking the inch they got on limiting cell phone use while driving and taking the mile to ban it entirely.
  • Dave explains as only a person who flies an Airbus A320 can what it was probably like in the cockpit of US Airways Flight 1549.

It IS Open Thread Thursday, so pipe up.

January 21, 2009

Emergency Roll Bloat – I heard he missed us edition

by @ 7:40. Filed under The Blog.

That’s right; the best blogger to come from East Central Wisconsin found his pencil and something to write on. Please give a warm welcome back to Kevin Binversie and Lakeshore Laments.

Since I won’t have time to do a Scramble this morning, I may as well burn the theme song of the day.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b_lio51Z1qc[/youtube]

Worst. Inauguration. Evah.

by @ 7:14. Filed under Business, Economy.

Or so say the equities markets; I stayed away from anything broadcasting news of the corona…er, inaugura…er, coronation. How bad did the markets take it? Let’s review some selected lowlights from Bloomberg’s story:

– The Dow Jones Industrial Average plunged 4%, the worst percentage drop on Inauguration Day in the history of the average.
– The S&P 500, off to its worst start of a year ever (11% over 12 trading days), plunged 5.3%.
– The S&P 500 Financials Index is at a near-14-year low, closing at its lowest level since March 1995, with all 81 companies lower at the close.
– One professor who saw the meltdown coming says that the US banking system is “effectively insolvent”, with capital of $1.4 trillion and possible losses of $3.6 trillion.

I wonder what will happen when (I no longer believe “if” applies) the Treasuries markets are no longer able to absorb all the debt being printed up and proposed to be printed up.

January 20, 2009

Announcing the Sammies

by @ 16:23. Filed under Miscellaneous.

My friends at the Sam Adams Alliance proudly announce the nominations for the 2nd Annual Sammies have begun. Yes, there is some cash for the best out there. Let’s take a look at the categories:

– Best Video: Produce a video (drama, satire, documentary, etc.) about economic and/or individual liberty in relation to an issue at the state or local level. Video must be under 5 minutes and already be uploaded to Youtube: $5,000 cash prize!
– Sunshine Award: Use your state’s open records laws to uncover government corruption, waste or malfeasance. Hint: FOIA is your best friend: $5,000 prize!
– Tea Party Award: Organize a grassroots event that makes a strong political point – that initiates a public discussion, that earns media attention – on an important state or local issue. Something like the Boston Tea Party: $5,000 cash prize!
– Best State or Local-Level Blogger: Post regularly on a blog that covers issues like government transparency, political corruption, property rights, etc., at the state or local level: $5,000 cash prize!
– Modern-Day Sam Adams: Lead a state political effort and achieve a major victory for liberty: $10,000 cash prize!!

New for 2009:
– Wikiteer: An award for contributors to Sam wikis – Ballotpedia, Judgepedia, and Sunshine Review – who has created and maintained the most accurate, comprehensive, and encyclopedic page or portal. $1,000 for each of the three.
– Microblogger of the Year: An award for someone who has used a free social networking and micro-blogging platform such as Twitter to effectively influence and engage others in local and state politics. How do you measure microblogging? Level of influence, social engagement, and number of stories broken. $2,000 cash prize!
– Blogivist of the Year: An award for the most influential, consistent, and popular blogger using Blogivists. $2,500 cash prize!
– Voter Watchdog: An award going to an individual or group who has helped prevent voter fraud come November. For guidance, please see the Voter Integrity Project (submissions made there will be automatically entered into Sammies and vice versa). $2,500 cash prize!

Do see the home page of the contest for important rules and entry information.

The Morning Scramble – 1/20/2009

by @ 8:29. Filed under The Morning Scramble.

Somewhere, it’s 5 o’clock. As Bluto says, “My advice to you is to start drinking heavily.”…

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ysXMAOgEIq4[/youtube]

  • Follow-Up To Yesterday, Part I – Tom McMahon has a drinking game for designated drivers. I think we can still get 3 drinks out of that card.
  • Follow-Up To Yesterday, Part II –Dan Riehl speculates that it was Al Qaeda trying to bring back the 12th Century that brought The Black Plague upon them.
  • Bill Quick has today’s dose of Islamokazi-induced Doom and Gloom from north of the border that looks suspiciously familiar. First Europe, then Canada, and we’re next.
  • Last direct Obamination Coronation mention – the Pheisty Joey has a very brave son, who is wearing a “HYPE” t-shirt to school today.
  • Tim Graham plays an advanced version of “Name That Party”. Not only did the presstitutes fail to mention the perp was a ‘Rat, they tried to tarnish the other half of the bipartisan Party-In-Government.
  • Brian reports that libraries across the country are about to be closed to children because of the past lead-based actions of the Red Chinese. The law of (un)intended consequences strikes again.
  • Gravelle is disturbed that we won’t get the Wii Gun, while Europe and Australia will.
  • Gabriel Malor finds that we’re winning the public opinion battle on Gorebal “Warming” to go along with the scientific victory. Again, I mourn the fact that we’ve already lost the political war.
  • Silent E found Gorebal “Warming” High Priest Algore Goracle carved in effigy in Alaska. Alaskans are already tempting frozen fate by having just the effigy; they’re really asking for it by inviting Algore up there.
  • Dad29 reports there will not be any more accountability to the second half of the TARP as there was for the first half. I’m shocked, SHOCKED!
  • Patrick McIlheran is shocked, SHOCKED that the d-word is no longer mentionable.
  • Kevin Jackson illustrates what is in our economic future – it starts with a “Z” and ends with “imbabwe”.
  • SER illustratres the economic bailout with farm animals (mildly NSFW).
  • Back to WMDs, Lex found the Persians were the first users of chemical weapons. Why do I get the sinking feeling they’ll also be the next users of WMDs?
  • Zip reports that Iran is going back to the drawing board with Hamas. Something tells me we won’t have to wait very long for the next phase in the World vs. Israel war.
  • Charles Johnson throws some cold scalding-hot water kim-chee on the noted sinking feeling; North Korea is now on a war footing. I guess Krazy Kim wants to beat the Mad Mullahs to the next mushroom cloud.

There’s more out there, but I need to be blotto by 11.

January 19, 2009

The Morning Scramble – 1/19/2009

by @ 12:46. Filed under The Morning Scramble.

Time to put you in the Iron Maiden…

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xx8HwFpxv54[/youtube]

  • NiceDeb proves again, and again, and again, and again, and again that Shoebox was right when he said there was no difference between 57 ‘Rats and 60 ‘Rats.
  • Skip is shocked, SHOCKED that the ‘Rat half of the bipartisan Party-In-Government is seizing another opportunity to expand the pork. News flash – both halves of the bipartisan P-I-G will seize every opportunity (see the above item).
  • Owen found the shine already coming off the HopenChange Express. No matter; the presstitutes will just continue to cover for the next 4-8 years.
  • Charles Johnson presents them with the 2008 Idiotarian Award for just that behavior.
  • Matt Spivey reports the teachers’ unions are also more than willing to participate in the propaganda.
  • SteveT adds the Leftosphere to the propaganda – they’re throwing the race card out at those of us who won’t partake of the Obamination Inauguration.
  • Tom McMahon has the only way to watch that. The staff of NRE is not responsible for alcohol poisoning if one chooses to use it for a drinking game instead of bingo (though I note alcohol poisoning is better than cyanide-laced Kool-Aid).
  • Fausta found that it’s “cool” to fly the flag again. Of course, the flag in question is either the old Soviet Union hammer-and-sickle or this one…
  • …Michelle Malkin is shocked, SHOCKED that the official flag of the Obama States of America (or is it Amerika) has been defaced (literally).
  • Jim Hoft declares the War On Terror the most-successful ever, at least in terms of casualties.
  • Dad29 lists some of those Islamokazis who have assumed room cave Hell temperature.
  • DrewM. found a side benefit of going back to the 12th Century – The Plague returns, Islamokazis hardest hit.
  • Thomas Lifson has Exhibit #513,213,592 of UN complicity in the war on Israel. Somehow, I doubt that Israel ending the offensive against Hamas a couple days before their shield in the UNSecurity Council evaporates will save them from having the UN compllicity become official UN policy.
  • John McAdams runs the numbers on the soon-to-be-reality-living-nightmare KRM. Of course, since there’s an additional 9 days of sick leave vacation, it’s “only” a subsidy of $12,000 per year for those who live in Kenosha.
  • Random10 proves Gorebal “Warming”, or at least mandates to combat it, have lethal consequences.
  • Martinra measures how many “a”s it takes to scream.
  • Adam cashes in on the collectible craze with Jack Bauer Commemorative Coins. I guess being out of work has caused Mike Novick to put on a few pounds.

If it’s Monday, and it’s between the Divisional Round and Memorial Day, it must be a “24” Monday. Unfortunately, I won’t be part of the Blogs.4Bauer liveblog tonight (prior committments, dammit), but don’t let that stop you from being part of it.

Another reason to read 4-Block World

by @ 11:02. Filed under Politics - National.

Tom McMahon came up with the definitive Barack Obama Inauguration Speech Bingo and Drinking Game card…

Please send all thanks and credit his way (I disabled comments, trackbacks and pingbacks for this post to help you on your way).

January 15, 2009

Eggs on the road – next couple days

by @ 16:40. Filed under Miscellaneous.

Tonight, 5:30 pm-8 pm – Conservative Young Professionals of Milwaukee’s January Happy Hour with Milwaukee County Executive Scott Walker, Karma, 600 E Ogden Ave in Milwaukee

Tomorrow, 10 am – Tom Rubin, the author of Reason’s study of the KRM, Milwaukee County Courthouse room 203B, 901 N. 9th St in Milwaukee.

The Morning Scramble/Open Thread Thursday – 1/15/2009

by @ 11:18. Filed under Open Thread Thursday, The Morning Scramble.

It’s too cold to come up with a pithy open, so I’ll let Lynyrd Skynyrd do the talking…

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LDTQ1aLlJ9c[/youtube]

  • John provides an example of the good that Project Valour-IT does. I am proud to support this cause.
  • Amanda Carpenter and Hugh Hewitt face off on the worthiness (or lack thereof) of Treasury Secretary-designate Timothy Geithner. I see Geithner as just another example of Chicago politics (yes, I know he’s actually from the Tammany Hall wing).
  • Josh Schroeder is shocked, SHOCKED that the U.S. Senate Bean Soup (yes, there is such a thing) has a bunch of pork in it.
  • Jim Geraghty reports that the $1 trillion $1.3 trillion “stimulus” has grown 30%.
  • King Banian marvels at the request from Duluth for $6 million for a snow-making machine. While the $83,000 per job is a “bargain” compared to the $230,000 per job in the overall “stimulus”, why would a city that averages over 80 inches of snow per year need a snow-making machine?
  • Shoebox proves his statement that there is no difference between 57, 58, 59 or 60 ‘Rats in the Senate once again – they’re about to roll over on releasing the other $350 billion in the original bailout.
  • Ace found yet another set of words from Barack Obama that have reached their expiration date – his vow to not rest until Osama bin Laden’s head was on a pike in the Oval Office. I wonder if he was worried that Ted “Swimmer” Kennedy and CNN would confuse the two of them again.
  • Charlie Sykes compares and contrasts the last and the next inaugurations. I’m shocked, SHOCKED that the presstitutes, especially The News Organization That Cannot Be Quoted™, are silent about the record cost of this one.
  • Dave in Texas found “Baby Come Back” on Venezuelan dictator Hugo Chavez’ iPod, as news that he is pulling back from the nationalization of Venezuela’s oil industry comes to light.
  • John Hawkins has reason #243,129 to militarize the southern border – Mexico is one of two countries that are on course for a “rapid and sudden collapse”.
  • Zip found the latest piece of evidence that the UN is at the least complicit in Hamas’ war against Israel.
  • Bill Quick asks the War College, “(I)f we can’t know our enemy, how can we defeat him?” That’s right, the next generation of warriors are not learning about radical Islam.
  • I can’t leave without some warm thoughts – Asian Badger cheers a double dose of goodness coming to southern Wisconsin from the premier aerobatics teams in the world. Mark down 5/30-5/31 and 7/25-7/26 on your calendars NOW!

Well, it is Open Thread Thursday, so take over already.

January 14, 2009

Carol Andrews comes to town, tone of press relations to plummet

by @ 14:42. Filed under Politics - Wisconsin.

WisPolitics has a press release from Jim Doyle’s office that says he hired Carol Andrews as Communications Director. In the interest of being the cloud in the sky, I present a couple of Andrews’ greatest hits:

– RedState illustrates just how negative the campaigns she is a part of are, specifically her last one (the Tom Allen-Susan Collins race last year).

– This short video from her 2006 work on Harold Ford’s Senatorial campaign shows what happens when the press doesn’t play ball like Maine’s media did last year…

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hlqe6EbSnuY[/youtube]

– How bad is Andrews’ reputation? Liz Garrigan of the Nashville Scene stated, ‘Among Tennessee media (and now Maine’s), she is perhaps the most reviled political communications operative in recent memory.”

The gubernatorial race next year is shaping up to be even slimier than either the 2006 one or the 1998 Senate race.

January 13, 2009

Talk Like Jack Bauer Day – 1/14/2009

by @ 11:21. Tags:
Filed under Miscellaneous.

If it’s the middle of January, it must be right about time for Talk Like Jack Bauer Day. If you forgot how to talk like Jack Bauer, here’s a FAQ for you, dammit!!!!!

The Morning Scramble – 1/13/2009

by @ 10:39. Filed under The Morning Scramble.

Metallica was in town last night. Unfortunately, I couldn’t go because “24” was on. In an unusual move, I’m offering two versions of “Master of Puppets”. If you need to avoid f-bombs, head on over to the Townhall version of this place for today’s song from the Alternica days; if you need the full-throated version from a time when Metallica kicked ass and kicked ass (and had plenty of kick-ass), here it is in all its glory…

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WEL6_SuQCu8[/youtube]

It’s time for the Alan Shepard’s prayer since I’m getting a Campaign Spot spike – “Please, Lord, don’t let me screw up.”

  • Kathy Carpenter compares and contrasts the attitudes toward the government bailout among the various current-governor GOP candidates for the 2012 nomination. There is a shocker there that Michelle Malkin picked up on; that’s all I’m going to say.
  • Now They Tell Us, Part I – Jim Geraghty found CNN admitting that Barack Obama is looking like a different President than the candidate he posed as.
  • Now They Tell Us, Part II – Amanda Carpenter is shocked, SHOCKED The News Organization That Cannot Be Quoted™ waited until just before Sen. Hillary Clinton’s (D-NY) Secretary of State confirmation hearing begins (or began, depending on how fast I can finish this up) to reveal her Chicago Way bona-fides.
  • Speaking of the Chicago Way, doubleplusundead found a couple of potential Mobsters/future Senators (what’s the difference?) practicing the Chicago version of the Good Samaritan (or at least the robbers who preceded the Samaritan).
  • Back to Obama – Jim Lynch “borrowed” an advance copy of his Inauguration speech. Trust me, it’s an instant classic.
  • Steve Hayward outlines my fears that Obama will be the 5th FDR term.
  • Shoebox wonders how the NAA(L)CP could be so economically blind. It’s either the pastels or the decided lack of red amongst the belles.
  • GayPatriotWest identifies a severe case of Jeff Gannon Disease among the Obama press corps organs.
  • Warner Todd Huston brings news that bloggers are now credentialed media in the eyes of the NYPD. I wonder whether it was the suit those bloggers brought against the NYPD or the possibility that the New York Times will fold this year that caused the change of heart.
  • V the K found another brilliant example of spelling and grammar from the anti-Semite crowd. A missing “s” not quite as classic as the “Juice” episode, but it is very illustrative of the current state of education.
  • Jim Hoft has Exhibit Number 1,432,243 in the decline and collapse of “Great” Britian – the police are being chased off by Islamists, who correctly call them “cowards”.
  • Shoebox exposes the reason why the Not-So-Big Three is now pushing for higher gas taxes. I’m reminded of how GM got the catalytic converter mandated while they had a stranglehold on the market.
  • The quote of the day comes from Doug Powers’s take on the call from Obama to delay the final step in the transition to digitial TV – “In this arena, the government has once again made the Three Stooges look like the U.S. Marine Corps Silent Drill Team.” Since I don’t want to disappoint the Marines, here’s the Marine Corps Silent Drill Platoon…

    [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y90UPLLo6nY[/youtube]

    What, you were expecting the Stooges? Okay.

    [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qwirWWnzJKM[/youtube]

  • The runner-up comes from doubleplusundead’s news of the latest RINO Senate cave – Orrin Hatch (“R”-UT) acceptance of Eric “Pardons For Sale” Holder as Attorney General – “Who needs enemies when you have friends like this?”
  • If only they would take AWR Hawkins’ advice and ignore the 3 ‘Rat Rules of Politics.
  • Lance Burri wants gridlock instead of bailouts. After the veto-proof approval of a $10 billion land grab that oh-so-“conveniently” restores a major portion of the drill ban and the item 2 spots above, I’m not hopeful.
  • Flip proves that the natural extension of gridlock, Congress not being in town, is far better for the economy. 43 years of history cannot be completely wrong, especially when the difference is better than an order of magnitude.
  • Kevin Jackson proves that being poor pays.
  • Nick Schweitzer found the true lesson of a “Green” stunt pulled by a freshman Congresscritter – alternate fuels are not ready for prime time.
  • JammieWearingFool found an early candidate for Worst Father of the Year. I guess all those involved were just doing business transactions that legal Americans refuse to do when the father sold his daughter off for marriage in exchange for a promise for money, beer and meat. Bonus chutzpah – Papi went to the police to get his daughter back when his son-in-law didn’t cough up all the dough.
  • Your Health Minute, Part I – Christian Schneider links corn subisides, poor health, and calls for socializing health care like we did farming.
  • Your Health Minute, Part II – Lance Burri links socialized health care and government-mandated diets. I guess my mantra of not wanting to live forever, much less living forever on somebody else’s dime is out of vogue.
  • Adam found a show “ripped off” by “24”.

January 12, 2009

“24” liveblog – over at Blogs.4Bauer

by @ 18:57. Tags:
Filed under Miscellaneous.

As usual, the gang is liveblogging. The fun and (hopefully) the kills begin in less than 4 minutes on your local Fox station (unless you’re on the Left Coast, in which case you’re behind by 3 hours).

The Morni…er, Afternoon Scramble – 1/12/2009

by @ 17:35. Filed under The Morning Scramble.

I’m a bit under the weather, which explains the lateness. How about some Jimmy Buffet to make up for that?

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hhiTsLr29XA[/youtube]

  • John Hawkins presents the 7th Annual Right Wing News Conservative Blogger Awards.
  • Moe Lane wonders what Sen. Bernie Sanders (Socialist-VT) will do to scratch his BDS itch when President Bush is gone.
  • Tom McMahon 4-blocks skills and intentions.
  • Jim Geraghty wonders who is left in the GOP who’s willing to fight. I believe the answer is, “Nobody.”
  • Allahpundit found the expiration dates of Barack Obama’s words have expiration dates – it seems he won’t even wait until the 21st to order Club Gitmo closed even if the order will be slow-played.
  • Ed Driscoll gives the presstitutes’ honeymoon with Obama 4-8 years. The only reason why it won’t be longer is because the “to 10 years” portion of Obama’s Presidency can’t happen.
  • Matthew Continetti finds Newsweek has lached onto Red China as the last, “best” hope of Communism to take over the world.
  • Kevin Fischer gets results – the 2-week “MJS Scorecard” is now all even at 4 pieces apiece. Money says they’ll slip back to their customary 3-1 liberal bias presently.
  • Jon Ham found the next bailout participants – NPR and PBS. Never mind they already get $400 million a year in tax money; they want it more than doubled. I’ll spell out the proper answer – November Oscar.
  • Jim Hoft found anti-Semitism very alive and well among the police in Duisburg, Germany. I’m surprised they, or the Islamokazis they were appeasing, didn’t leave a burning calling card.
  • John points out the fallacy of “cease fires in the name of peace”.
  • Back to bailouts for a second – Stephan Tawney is shocked, SHOCKED that Chrysler wants $3 billion more now (a 75% increase in what it got last month) and an unspecified amount for its finance arm.
  • Nick Schweitzer proves the difference between a private enterprise and a public venture on his and his girlfriend’s way back from Cancun. Those two have lousy timing – they’re back just in time for some serious cold.
  • Mark Tapscott has the latest bit of evidence that closed-door government is unhealthy for the taxpayers.
  • Rob reports the big screen TV ban is about to hit Not-So-Great Britain. For those that don’t think it can’t happen here, I seem to recall an item the other week about California wanting to ban big-screens.
  • Bill Quick offers the perfect solution for safety nannies.
  • Jib dug up the origin of the penalty flag. I can only wonder what would have happened to Orlando Brown if the flags were still weighted with lead.

A couple of housekeeping items that I’m a part of:

– If it’s Monday, the gang at Blogs.4Bauer is live-blogging.
– The January edition of Drinking Right is tomorrow, same place as always (Papa’s Social Club, 7718 W Burleigh in Milwaukee), same time as always (7 pm).

January 11, 2009

If you’re looking for me the next 2 hours…

by @ 18:50. Tags:
Filed under Miscellaneous.

I’ll be live-blogging the start of Season 7 over at Blogs.4Bauer.

Drill Here, Drill Now Tues…er, Sunday – 1/11/2009

by @ 17:52. Tags:
Filed under Energy, Envirowhackos, Politics - National.

(H/T for the new news – Amanda Carpenter, H/T for the DHDNT concept – Jessi Olson)

My gas price – $1.879 just outside the bunker

Why do I have a special Sunday edition of Drill Here, Drill Now? It’s because Senate Majority Leader Dingy Harry Reid (D-OPEC) and 65 of his fellow members of the bipartisan Party-In-Government used their first floor vote of the session to lock up the not-yet-developed energy-rich land to the tune of $10 billion. Even though that’s supposedly short of a veto (which I hope would happen if this shows up before noon Eastern 1/20), the fact that there were several ‘Rats missing in action means that my prediction in the Weekend Scramble that the pork would net a veto-proof majority came through.

There is one place left to stop this, and thanks to San Fran Nan’s (D-CA) machinations, it is likely that the House will join the Senate in not allowing any minority-written amendments.

The Weekend Scramble Brunch, Part 2 – 1/11/2009

by @ 16:11. Filed under The Morning Scramble.

As I type, the road teams have went 3-0 in the first 3 games of the NFL Divisional Playoff round…

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JRbPWcLode0[/youtube]

  • Speaking of drilling, Amanda Carpenter reveals the battle cry of Senate Majority Leader Dingy Harry Reid (D-OPEC) – “DRILL NOWHERE! DRILL NEVER!” Bonus item – the Dingy One is using pork to make it veto-proof, and is also extending the record of not allowing a single GOP-authored amendment.
  • One item I forgot to throw in the first part – elliot found another sign of the coming depression – a nearly-empty remodeling show.
  • Peter is shocked, SHOCKED that 2/3rds of the various transportation taxes, totaling $40.3 billion in 2005, go for something other than roads. Bonus item – a staggering 29.3% goes to “administration and overhead”.
  • MuscleDaddy found the Islamokazis being inspired by Barack Hussein Obama.
  • Glenn Reynolds found another statement from Obama reaching its expiration date – the quick closure of Club Gitmo. I wonder who will be more disappointed: the Islamokazis or the domestic Loony Left.
  • Josh Schroeder has the quote of the week on Obama’s request to delay the final implementation of the years-long transition to digital TV because there’s another program that needs a bailout.
  • The Oh-So-Tolerant Left Update, Part I – YoSAMite found an Obama website linked to a childish “Bush Shoe Toss” event.
  • The Oh-So-Tolerant Left Update, Part II – James Wigderson discovered the Unhinged Left making death threats against the majority. I’m not surprised; they’ve been raging since (barely) before I was born.
  • Marcus Aurelius points out an inconvenient fact for the Dingy One – there is NO Senate requirement that a state’s Secretary of State countersign a Certificate of Appointment (or Certificate of Election, for that matter). Of course, since the Illinois Secretary of State caved and did sign, that’s a moot point.
  • Ed Lasky explains why we’re about to have Senator Smalley (Soros-Soros) – it’s all about the personal payback.
  • Aakash put together the comprehensive Senate-Designate Roland Burris (D-IL) file.
  • Stephen Green has the best Illinois governor Hot Rod Bagojevich (D) impeachment headline.
  • John McAdams pictures the coming Illinois license plates.
  • Michael Yon throws the red flag at those questioning British-American relations in the foxhole.
  • SteveF explodes the idea of having somebody like the IAEA handle nuclear fuel production. Why, if the IAEA didn’t exist, North Korea would have nuclear weapons and Iran would about to have nuclear weapon…er, wait a minute, North Korea has nuclear weapons drawn from IAEA-“monitored” stocks and Iran is about to have nuclear weapons drawn from IAEA-“monitored” stocks.
  • Paul Socha proves that the Wisconsin DNR is what Dad29 calls “Damn Near Russia”. They want to be able to grab your guns anytime, anywhere. FUCK THEM!
  • Mrs. M-ITT, Imperial Sniper, will continue to have “sea kittens”. I only wish I could have found the “Walleye Song” on YouTube, but you’re going to have to go over to Indiana Walleye to download it.
  • William Teach has the latest cause of Gorebal “Warming” – the Internet. I’ll continue to do my part to try to prevent subzero temperatures by continuing to put up rambling rant…er, high-quality posts, but they’re due in the land of ice cream and frozen beer by Wednesday anyway.
  • Gregory Young busts the carbon component of Gorebal “Warming”. I’ve always maintained that blaming carbon was nothing more than a (post-)Communist plot to kill the Western economies; too bad this plot succeeded where the Soviets failed.
  • Noel Sheppard asserts we are right back where we were in 1977 in terms of climate – The Next Ice Age is back.
  • John blogs about eggs (that’s small-e). You know that was going to make a Scramble, especially the one from Big Bertha.

Let’s see if some snow can stop the last road team before Jack comes back.

The Weekend Scramble Brunch, Part 1 – 1/11/2009

by @ 14:55. Filed under The Morning Scramble.

Time to go deep into the archives for the weekend…

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7mD6YvuBIVA[/youtube]

We’ve got the 7th season of Jack starting tonight at 7 pm (Central; consult your local listings for other time zones) on Fox (Channel 6/6.1 in Milwaukee, 506 on the Milwaukee-area Time Warner Cable HD box, consult your local listings for the channel in your area). I’ll be helping live-blog over at Blogs4Bauer.

  • Stephen Kruiser calls Bravo Sierra on Barack Obama’s “FIRE!”
  • Owen reports Wisconsin governor Jim “Craps” Doyle (WEAC/HoChunk-For Sale, who is lucky that none of his pay-for-play schemes happened in northern Illinois) wants to overrule the wishes of the taxpayers who rejected Taj Mahal schools. I’m trying real hard to not let loose with a “Fuck him and the union that bought him” line (oops, too late).
  • Dave in Texas finds dissention in the ‘Rat camp. I wonder if the Congressional ‘Rats are merely pissed that Obama’s attempt to create a majority with a negative tax liability is being sold as a “tax cut” instead of a raw, naked extension of welfare.
  • Doug Powers is shocked, SHOCKED that the architect of the worst economy in the US, Michigan governor Jennifer Granholm, is part of Obama’s economic team. I’m not; after all, another, more-successful of his team members, Warren Buffet, advocates a 1% GDP growth.
  • Patrick McIlheran proves that the resurrection of the Civilian Conservation Corps and the Works Progress Administration, which is what Milwaukee County Board Chairman Lee Holloway wants, will be even less successful the second time around.
  • James T. Harris explains why it wasn’t successful the first time.
  • Uncle Jimbo finds the looters at the gates. Er, they’re in power.
  • Ace breaks out the dinosaur for the impending death of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer. I mourn the fact that so much fisking material will soon be going to waste.
  • HeatherRadish proves that if there is no safeguards against abuse of paid “sick days”, they will be abused. Bold prediction – a lot more businesses in Milwaukee will fold now that they have to give 9 additional days of sick leave vacation.
  • Shoebox auctions off the number of jobs that Obama will “create” out of whole cloth and unicorn horns.
  • Asian Badger sees nothing good about Red China reducing its appetite for US debt. Can you say, “Stagflation”? (and that’s if we’re lucky)
  • Christian Schneider proves the only place the ‘Rats want to drill is into the economy.

The second heaping will be up shortly.

January 8, 2009

Scott Walker – Man of Principle Part 2

by @ 18:47. Tags:
Filed under Politics - Milwaukee County, Politics - Wisconsin.

Yesterday, I had a brief piece on Milwaukee County Executive Scott Walker’s refusal to belly up to the bailout teat. Predictably, ALL the teat-suckers, from the usual suspects with Ds behind their name (or those that would have Ds there if the County Board were a partisan office) to the opportunistic “business leaders” who have become dependent on the teat, attempted to throw Walker under the bus. Let me put it this way; they don’t know Scott. He launched a two-front counterattack this morning with WTMJ-AM’s Charlie Sykes. While you listen to a poor-quality rip of the interview (the better-quality version starts at the 37:39 mark of Part 1 of the official podcast), you may as well read the e-mail (“borrowed” from Charlie):

How many people would take a gift of $1,000 and go out and buy a $60,000 sports car? While the gift is nice, it will not make the monthly car payments that are too large for the average budget. The same is true with the (so-called) stimulus package.

Federal money nearly always comes with strings attached. In fact, most federal transportation grants require a 20% (or greater) local match. "Free money" sounds nice but what happens when state and local governments cannot afford the match? If Milwaukee County receives $50 million for infrastructure projects under this formula, taxpayers in the county would have to come up with an extra $10 million. Does anyone think we have an extra $10 million in this budget climate?

A real economic stimulus will put money in the hands of consumers – and not the government. Tax cuts work. They did for Ronald Reagan in the 1980s and they are exactly what John F. Kennedy called for in the 1960s. Each time, our nation got out of a recession by putting more money back into the hands of the taxpayers. The choice is simple: do we bail out failed governments with budget deficits or do we stimulate the economy and put more people back to work with real tax cuts at the federal, state and local levels? I choose the program that truly puts people back to work!

For the “benefit” of the outstate critics (I’m looking directly at you, Recess Supervisor), I’ll twist the knife just a bit – if adding “infrastructure” for the sake of adding “infrastructure” or creating make-work jobs were the solution, northern Wisconsin would be the economic magnet of the world.

I do need to give a shout-out to my county supervisor, Paul Cesarz. At the end of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel story linked to above, he shows that he also gets the fact that resurrecting the Works Progress Administration will do no better the second time around.

The Morning Scramble/Open Thread Thursday – 1/8/2009

by @ 8:27. Filed under Open Thread Thursday, The Morning Scramble.

It’s time for a deep cut…

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  • Matt cheers the first blog-to-film project, “Taking Chance”. Before it airs on HBO February 21, do read the post over at BLACKFIVE In fact, go read it now, then come back for the rest of the Scramble/Open Thread Thursday.
  • What Could Possibly Go Wrong When We Tinker With Nature, Part I – Sean M. reports we’re a step closer to “Jurassic Park” with the decoding of the long-extinct wooly mammoth’s DNA.
  • What Could Possibly Go Wrong When We Tinker With Nature, Part II – McQ reports the
    Gorebal “Warming” acolytes are prepared to go all “Matrix” on the atmosphere to enforce their reality with an “emergency Plan B”. Where, oh where do I begin with this one?
  • Ed Morrissey laughs at the weakness of Not-So-Great Britain, which has started handing out heating subsidies for the first time in 10-year existence of the heating bailout program because they can’t handle 12-degree weather. I could offer the adivce of a former President….
  • Van Helsing found the North Sea freezing up in jolly old England. In light of that, I think will offer the Brits that advice – put some ice on it.
  • Fausta dubs Russian strongman Mad Vladmir Putin “Mr. Freeze” for shutting off the gas spigot to the Ukrane and the Balkans even as Europe freezes.
  • Bill Quick and Glenn Reynolds battle it out over the future of the price of oil. While I usually am a fan of history, I do have to note that in the aftermath of the 1979 OPEC shutdown, the threat of the US actually weaning itself off of OPEC was credible, while it is not credible now.
  • There are many places I could have gone for news of the adult entertainment industry’s bellying up to the bailout teat, but elliot’s headline/lede combo takes the cake.
  • Lance Burri is genuinely shocked that the ‘Rats in Madistan would reintroduce “Healthy” (and Depopulated) Wisconsin with thfe road to the federal version wide open. Of course, the fact that those clamoring for it snookered the populace into “supporting” it without mentioning that it was the $15 billion doubling $30 billion tripling of the total state tax take so vile that it was merely a budget negotiating point last year may have something to do with that.
  • Speaking of taxes, Mary Lazich compares the fastest-growing states to state/local tax rates. Other than California, Georgia and North Carolina (all of which have weather in their favor), the rest of the top ten have low taxes. Funny how that works.
  • Kathy Carpenter looks into the rather-substantial and -smelly relationship between stalled Senate-Designate Roland Burris (D-IL) and ethically-challenged Illinois governor Rod Blagojevich (D). I wonder if Harry Reid and company are going to up their asking price from Burris in response.
  • Flip found the #!@% ¿ Blagojevich Burger. While the guy who’s selling them won’t take less than $10, he’ll gladly take more because it is a “bleeping valuable thing…(only the bleeps aren’t really bleeps).”
  • Ken is struck by the similarities between murals of Barack Obama and murals of various despots (mostly Communists). Birds of a feather….
  • Fred asks, “What if Barack Obama was picking the Packers new Defensive Coordinator?” Don’t be afraid to answer, especially if you can beat my suggestion of Los Angeles Lakers coach Phil Jackson.
  • Jeff Wagner highlights the latest “victim” of the Culture of Badassery (©MKH). If only 70-year-old ladies couldn’t have handguns in the home, robbers could break in without worry of being held at gunpoint until the police arrive to arrest them </sarcasm_lefty>.

I WAS going to try to keep it under a baker’s dozen today, but there’s just too much goodness out there. I know I left more than a few bits out, so feed me.

January 7, 2009

First high-profile victim of the Milwaukee sick-leave ordinance – Heinemann’s

by @ 18:09. Filed under Business, Politics - Milwaukee.

The overpopulated restaurant market explains the closure of Heinemann’s Fox Point and Brookfield restaurants, but there is an interesting line in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel story that relates to its Milwaukee restuarant and commissary –

(Heinemann’s co-owner Peggy) Burns also blamed the new Milwaukee ordinance that requires employers in the city to provide sick days to their workers.

I’m shocked, SHOCKED that a business that operates at the margin would go under because it is being forced to pay for 9 days of paid sick leave vacation.

Revisions/extensions (8:30 pm 1/7/2009) – I need a copy editor.

Jack Kemp diagnosed with cancer

by @ 17:07. Filed under Miscellaneous.

Andy Barr at Politico brings the sad news. Jack Kemp, former Buffalo Bills quarterback, Representative, Secretary of HUD and GOP vice-presidential candidate, has cancer. My prayers go out to him and his family.

I feel so much better about the Panetta DCI appointment…NOT

by @ 16:04. Filed under Politics - National.

JammieWearingFool found former Clinton-era National Security Advisor Sandy Burgla…er, Burger giving DCI-Designate (and fellow Clintonista) Leon Panetta a rather dubious endorsement. From the Washington Post story:

Samuel R. “Sandy” Berger, Lake’s deputy before becoming national security adviser himself, said that Panetta “was part of the decision-making process for every single issue we were dealing with, whether this was in the Oval Office with the president or the Cabinet Room — the Middle East, Kosovo, China. He was a part of a small group of people who advised the president how to proceed on strategy and substance.”

That would be the Middle East where the USS Cole got all-but-blown out of the water and where Hamas and the PLO got rewarded for decades of terrorism with bases from which to conduct the next phase of the destruction of Israel, the Kosovo where an F-117 got shot down to prop up separatist Islamists, and a Red China that cemented its position as the low-price importer of goods to the US.

I was actually neutral on Panetta’s pending appointment until this came out. Allow me to borrow JWF’s words – “That alone is enough to disqualify him.”

Those who don’t remember history…

by @ 15:34. Filed under Politics - Minnesota, Politics - National.

(H/T – Lemur King)

I don’t know how everybody in my overstuffed feed reader missed this one when Politico’s The Scorecard reported this gem of a quote from Senate Majority Leader “Dingy” Harry Reid (D-NV) on Monday:

"Norm Coleman will never ever serve [again] in the Senate," Reid told Politico’s Manu Raju. "He lost the election. He can stall things, but he’ll never serve in the Senate."

News flash to Reid – your boy Stuart Small…er, Al Franken does not have his Certificate of Election yet, and it looks like nobody will get it until Franken’s carefully-engineered 1,000-vote gain from election night gets examined in the light of a courtroom. If the challenges are addressed in Coleman’s favor, Franken won’t even have a cancelled provisional certificate to wave in front of the Senate like John Durkin (D-NH) successfully did.

I wonder if the Dingy One really wants to go down that road, especially considering he’s up for re-election in 2010.

NRE ban on NBC lifted

by @ 12:32. Filed under Presstitute Follies.

Ed Morrissey has the oh-so-delicious video of Ann Coulter filleting Matt Lauer on the “Today” show. I know it’s not Allahpundit with the video, but Ed’s the next best thing (especially since they both blog at Hot Air), so the ban is over. That won’t stop me from ridiculing NBC at every opportunity though.

On a related note, I’m now taking odds on whether Ed gets Coulter on The Ed Morrissey Show before her next NBC family appearance.

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