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January 7, 2009

The Morning Scramble – 1/7/2009

by @ 11:24. Filed under The Morning Scramble.

Danger, Will Robinson. It’s the first hump day of the year…

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mmALL-V74Po[/youtube]

There is one good thing about an overbloated feed reader; I never run out of reading material. For that, I thank everybody I read.

  • Amanda Carpenter wonders where the Charlie Rangel ethics report is. Shame on San Fran Nan for forgetting to get Amanda a wedding present (of course, I also forgot, so consider top billing in today’s Scramble a late one).
  • Nate Beeler has the carTOON of the day. I knew I saw the Hot Rod Blago hairstyle before, and it was on top of a clown.
  • Bill Richardson (D-NM) Taint Tentacles Part I – Wyatt Earp found that Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell (D) got $40,000 from David Rubin, the man who cost Richardson his Commerce Secretary-Designate spot.
  • Bill Richardson (D-NM) Taint Tentacles Part II – Rob reports that President-Elect Barack Obama (D) also got $3,300 in cash from Rubin.
  • King Banian runs the numbers on what Obama wants to spend, and finds that the Obama planned $1 trillion deficits-as-far-as-the-eye-can-see is over 6% of total GDP.
  • Michelle Malkin dubs it “The Generational Theft Act of 2009”. Subtle, and to the point.
  • Shoebox proves again and again the Jim Geraghty Maxim – All statements by Barack Obama have an expiration date. All. Of. Them.
  • Outgoing Flying Footballs, Part I – Charles Johnson is shocked, SHOCKED that Hamas would voilate the rules of war by putting ammunition dumps inside of UN-run schools, that the UN would look the other way while said schools are used as active fire bases by Hamas, and that the UN and the presstitutes would howl only after Israel exposes said sham explosively.
  • Outgoing Flying Footballs, Part II – Charles found more fauxtography from the French.
  • Outgoing Flying Footballs, Part III – Charles caught the Los Angeles Times becoming an official Hamas press organ, running a column by somebody so vile that the Clinton administration deported him.
  • Michael Totten delivers a backhand to the pressitutes doubling as Hamas’ press organs.
  • Stan is shocked, SHOCKED the Iranians shut down a paper for calling Hamas what it is.
  • Jim Hoft found the Danish forgetful of history. Who was the last Middle-European tyrant that denied education to Jews? Anybody?
  • Mark Tapscott declares the US, and specifically Minnesota, worse than the Roman Empire. After all, we’re about to have seated in the Senate the end of one of Caligula’s Senators opposite the traditional Mafia in-bed warning.
  • Lance Burri is having way too much fun with the Roland Burris (D-IL) kerfuffle.
  • Eddiebear is shocked, SHOCKED that “organic” food is a sham. After all, the creators of the modern envirowhacko movement, the Communists, would never deceive anybody </sarcasm>.
  • Donna Martinez timed the turn of Phoenix’ brand-new light-rail system from “hero” to zero – one weekend.
  • Jo Egelhoff identifies the one factor that could control health care costs. The only problem is, not only do most people not have any meaningful stake in costs, but everybody is conditioned to want to live forever on “somebody else’s” dime.
  • I can’t leave without some good news – CDR Salamander reports the Navy is starting to teach that history has practical day-to-day applications.

Roll bloat – adding some spunkiness edition

by @ 9:52. Filed under The Blog.

Or at least adding Moxie to the oversized roll. I still have to collate the feed of bloat, the roll of bloat, and the blogs of those I follow on Twitter and Facebook into a unified mess, so I’ll get there eventually.

Scott Walker – Man of Principle

by @ 9:14. Tags:
Filed under Politics - Milwaukee County, Politics - National, Politics - Wisconsin.

The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reports that, unlike Gov. Jim Doyle (looking for $3.7 billion) and Milwaukee mayor Tom Barrett (bellying up to the teat with a $599 million “wish list”, quoting the story), Milwaukee County Executive Scott Walker isn’t asking for any federal money despite some serious funding “dilemas”, including the unmentioned multi-hundred-million-dollar pension fuckup from prior years. Quoting Walker:

All we are asking for is “do no harm”. I’m not asking for any nrew projects or things to be done here.

The last thing you want to do is put money in the hands of government (in a recession).

That was in response to Doyle’s and the Wisconsin Counties Association’s request for all of Wisconsin’s 72 counties to belly up with their own wish lists. Of course, the County Board (the ones who gave us that pension fuckup) will likely send their own “wish list”, and thanks to the stupidity of the voters, the spend-and-tax-and-spend-some-more faction does have nearly a veto-proof majority.

January 6, 2009

Drill Here, Drill Now Tuesdays – 1/6/2009

by @ 12:15. Tags:
Filed under Energy.

This was started by Jessi Olson back when gas was over $4/gallon. Despite the fact that gas is currently under $2/gallon, I’ll continue to do this on a more-or-less regular basis until the underlying message sinks into the collective cement blocks that pass for heads amongst the members of the bipartisan Party-In-Government.

My price for gas – $1.899/gallon outside the bunker

Today, I will focus on a different aspect of oil – heating oil. As I type, heating oil is rocketing off the floor of about $1.20/gallon established last month, up to a current level of $1.64/gallon. Yes, that is below where it was this time last year (somewhere around $2.60/gallon), and well below the mid-summer spike of about $4.15/gallon, but that drop was a result of the temporary opening of places like the outer continental shelf to oil exploration. The Democrats are already sharpening their knives to slay that opening, and the current surge in oil and gas prices is proof we are still at the ragged-high edge of the demand/supply-price curve.

Worse, Ed Morrissey passes along a report that friend-to-the-Left Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez will no longer be sending his suitable-only-for-heavy-oils-like-heating-oil crude over here for “free”. The cynical side of me says that won’t return because he got what he wanted out of that “investment”; kindred spirits in charge of everything. Even if I weren’t cynical, the fact remains that CITGO isn’t in the charity business anymore at a time when costs are going up.

Do you really want to be dependent on the whims of a tyrant who can’t even keep his own country powered? If not, then I have three words for you – “Drill baby, drill!”

The Morning Scramble – 1/6/2009

by @ 11:23. Filed under The Morning Scramble.

It’s been a while since I had some voltage…

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uh9g2PVTc_s[/youtube]

  • Jason Pye has your random bank failure stat of the day – 99.65% of banks that started 2008 ended 2008 without FDIC intervention.
  • Donna Martinez has your random homeschooling stat of the day – homeschooling is up 36% between 2003 and 2007. Bonus item – there is a now 7th reason in the 2007 Department of Education’s survey – “an interest in a ‘non-traditional approach'”.
  • Flip warns us to not fall for the $300 billion Obama tax cut next step in the return to welfare.
  • Dan Kenitz explains anew the need for a flat tax.
  • Stephen Green discovered the secret behind creating a $2 million new media company. Hint; you need at least a higher order of magnitude in cash to start.
  • John McAdams found the inspiration behind Bernard Madoff. Hint; everybody is running to it for a bailout.
  • Francis Cianfrocca explains why Leon Panetta is the “perfect” fit for DCI. Hint; he has every qualification to run the CIA that Barack Obama has to run the country.
  • JammieWearingFool reports that QVC is having a fire sale of bus-tested merchandise to a gullible ObamiNation.
  • Tom McMahon delivers some good news; there have been but three times in history we have had back-to-back 2-term Presidents. The bad – the first and second times was back-to-back-to-back, and we’re coming off the third.
  • Jib talked to Joe Everyman, with predictable results. While you’re there, do congratulate him and Mrs. Jib on their coming addition.
  • Brian is shocked, SHOCKED that the top emitters of bovine excrement want to tax the second-in-line emitters all in the name of Gorebal “Warming” (and the imposition of a vegan lifestyle). They’ll pry my ribeye from my cold, broken steak knife.
  • Richard Minitier hacks apart the introduction of “third-hand smoke” into the lexicon.
  • J.R. Dunn offers yet another explanation on why the Nutroots are so successful – they drive the presstitute coverage.
  • Tom H. Sleeter explains how election fraud will beget census fraud, which will beget even more election, political and economic fraud. At least that’s the plan if 2010 turns into another repeat of 2006 and 2008.
  • Xbradtc explains the secondaries after Israel took out a Muslim mosque Hamas munitions bunker. It is nice to see the Israelis recognize the fact that one’s enemies are using “protected” structures (such as mosques) for “prohibited” activities (such as munitions storage) removes said “protected” structure from “protected” status.
  • Blackfive found the Special Forces build a pretty good bridge.

24 Season 7 liveblog – coming soon to a B4B near you

by @ 10:18. Tags:
Filed under Miscellaneous.

That’s right, “24” fans. Jack Bauer and gang (which will include me) will be liveblogging the season at Blogs 4 Bauer. Since Jack no longer has CTU, we’re going to be using CiL (that would be Cover It Live for those of you who don’t speak Acronym).

Be over at B4B at 7 pm Central Sunday, January 11, or Jack will be waiting around a corner for you…

January 5, 2009

Coulter banned from NBC, NBC banned from NRE – UPDATE – Ban might be lifted

by @ 18:04. Filed under Presstitute Follies.

(H/T – Mary, who has the back story including the marching orders from Media Matters)

The Drudge Report reports that NBC, at the last minute, pulled Ann Coulter from her scheduled appearance on tomorrow’s “Today” show in favor of Perez Hilton (he of the $1,000-to-pie-Coulter offer) and banned her “for life” from the NBC family of networks. In response, I am banning all future positive or neutral references to NBC, CNBC, MSNBC (both the website and the channel), The Weather Channel, USA, Sci-Fi, Bravo, Telemundo or any other entity NBC is involved with. They can choke on The Championship Game That Cannot Be Named™ and the Olympics. In short, FUCK THEM!

Revisions/extensions (7:04 am 1/6/2008) – With yet another tip of the hat to Mary, Politico is reporting that NBC has offered Coulter a spot on Wednesday’s edition of “Today”. I’ll believe it when Allahpundit puts up the clip.

Now contributing over at Blogs4Bauer

by @ 16:23. Tags:
Filed under The Blog.

If you haven’t seen my Gravatar, it’s a picture of Big Bad Bill Buchanan. There’s a reason for that; I’m a “24” fan. Because of that, and because of my participation in the B4B live threads, I’ve accepted a contributor’s spot over at Blogs4Bauer.

Season 7 starts Sunday at 7 pm Central on Fox (Channel 6/6.1 in Milwaukee; check your local listings for time and station) with a 2-night event. We have Zombie Tony showing up this year, but no CTU.

2008 Weblog Awards recommendations

by @ 16:17. Filed under Miscellaneous.

The 2008 Weblog Awards finalists are now being voted on, and a few of my friends are up in various categories. My recommendations are:

Best Blog – Hot Air
Best New Blog – The Black Sphere
Best Individual Blogger – Melissa Clouthier
Best Comic Strip – Day by Day (as if you couldn’t guess by looking at the top of this place)
Best Conservative Blogger (this one is VERY tough) – Right Wing Nut House (though you can’t go wrong with RedState, Ace of Spades HQ, Eject! Eject! Eject!, Michelle Malkin, American Thinker, Blue Collar Muse, Little Green Footballs or The Next Right)
Best Political Coverage – Thurber’s Thoughts (though Townhall is also in the mix; where’s The Campaign Spot, dammit?)
Best Military Blog – Blackfive (another tough one, with Michael Yon and This Ain’t Hell also in the mix)
Best Major Blog – Instapundit
Best Very Large Blog – Right Wing News
Best Large Blog – Sister Toldjah (another one that kills me because JammieWearingFool and Fausta’s Blog are also in the mix; I owe ST though)
Best Midsize Blog – Argghhh!
Best Small Blog – Nice Deb (another hard one because Pirate’s Cove and A Blog for All are also there, but I need to give the Morons something)
R&E (2:49 pm 1/6/2008) – Didn’t notice Michael Totten was up in the Best Middle East or Africa blog. Add him to the list.

You can vote once every 24 hours, and I do reserve the right to change the recommendations if the ones I’ve started voting for aren’t near the top and somebody else I like needs the push over the top.

The Morning Scramble – 1/5/2009

by @ 12:27. Filed under The Morning Scramble.

I have to thank Mary Katharine Ham for today’s song…

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DCfWmNJt4D4[/youtube]

Oh, heck with it; I may as well include the first HamNation mash-up of 2009 just because I can (and should)…

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T-DPJ063Iy8[/youtube]

  • Before I get to the meat of the Scramble, Jessi Olson would like you to remember a friend of hers who made the ultimate sacrifice a year ago today, PFC Jason Lemke.
  • Rick Moran wonders whether the Mad Mullahs are in trouble. Personally, I think all they have to do is survive the next 15 days.
  • Lowell E. McCoy explains the demands of the abortionists – a $4.6 billion bailout.
  • Why do they need a bailout? Sharon reports that an overwhelming majority of Americans, at least according to Harris Interactive, don’t like abortion on demand.
  • Paul Socha declares the Hyundai Assurance – Vehicle Return Program an Epic FAIL-In-Waiting. I’ll wager those cars will not come back in a usable condition.
  • Dan Kenitz explains what happens when “free money” starts raining down.
  • Uncle Jimbo found a sane denzien of the Huffington Post who used a bit of history to try to explain to his fellow inmates what’s going on in Israel and Gaza.
  • Brian plays catch-up after departing the blogosphere just as things were getting very interesting. Please do welcome Liberty Pundit back to the land of the blogging.
  • Crystal Clear Conservative is not happy over Barack Obama’s choice to run the DNC. There’s too many reasons to list here.
  • One of those reasons is ethical lapses, which just nailed New Mexico Gov. and former Commerce Secretary-designate Bill Richardson (D). Dad29 points out that the “fresh” allegations are already almost a month old.
  • David Kahane breaks out the clown cars for the ‘Rats. Again, just because I can, that calls for another song…

    [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dMUQ9QTuMY8[/youtube]

  • Running with the above, Bill Quick reminds us that the party of the Rat was also the party of Tammany Hall.
  • Ed Morrissey is shocked, SHOCKED that the next target is New York Senator and Secretary of State-designate Hillary Rodham Clinton (D).
  • Michelle Malkin proves once again that playing nice with the ‘Rats just gives us rabies – House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) is planning on completing the neutering of the House Republican minority. I hope the GOP (or its successor) remembers that when the worm turns.
  • Fausta caught Time trying to make the torching of cars by France’s suburban youth “a regular form of expression”, with New Year’s Eve becoming the Froggy equivalent of Detroit’s Devil’s Night. Left unmentioned is the fact that the “youth” tend to bow to the southeast 5 times daily.
  • Jim Hoft found a disturbing trend in Arctic sea ice – we’re right back where we were in 1979. Unfortunately, we’re also there politically and economically (well, there is one difference; instead of The Next Ice Age, the acolytes are now bleating about Gorebal “Warming”).
  • YoSAMite proves it isn’t easy being chees…er, green.
  • Charles Johnson has the coming killer app for Sony Ericsson phones – an RSS feed for Al-Jazeera (pun purely intentional).
  • Kevin Fischer launched the MJS Scorecard. He’s shocked, SHOCKED that the one “conservative” piece came from a left-of-center blogger who is running for a school board seat the ultra-liberal paint-catcher wants appointed.
  • Eddiebear discovered something called the Beer Pong Championship. Hey Christian; there’s $50,000 in it.

Oh well, at least it was still morning when I started this.

December 31, 2008

Happy New Year!

by @ 19:01. Filed under Miscellaneous.

Here’s to 2009 being better than 2008 (yeah, right).

December 30, 2008

Antivirus 360 trojan – VERY bad news

by @ 20:57. Filed under Miscellaneous.

I spent all day trying to eradicate a rather new trojan from the Soviet Union that drops a piece-of-shit malware program called Antivirus 360 off the younger sister’s and her husband’s computer, without complete success. Without going into the long, sordid details, I tried both manual removal suggested by various websites I semi-trust and a McAfee scan with the current definition, one that supposedly eradicates the fucking problem, both with very-limited success.

The “good” news – I did get rid of the end result (the Antivirus 360 install), and McAfee did (allegedly, at least) get rid of the initial downloader. Also, as long as IE isn’t opened, the computer is more-or-less stable.

The bad news – The intermediate program is still hooked into IE like a black lab pup on her favorite chew toy.

Round 2 is scheduled for tomorrow, and I’m bringing in some bigger artillery if the overnight “safe mode” scan doesn’t do the job. That may well mean no Scramble or any other posts (I sure as hell don’t want to log into anything on an infected system).

The Morning Scramble – 12/30/2008

by @ 7:43. Filed under The Morning Scramble.

News that the British pound has slipped below the euro (H/T – Oil Patch Plug) inspired me today…

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4hkjkTe5kZE[/youtube]

  • Crystal Clear Conservative is shocked, SHOCKED that the Federal Reserve is tripling its space. Well, when it is the primary instrument in the accelerated socialization of the economy, it’s no surprise that it will demand more space.
  • Dean has one more (un)intended consequence of the coming transition to digital TV; a forced change in the wireless microphone frequencies.
  • Glenn Reynolds wonders how a Texas legislator who never made more than $7,200 annually as part of the part-time Texas Legislator is walking out the dorr with a $92,704 annual pension. Can you say, “Party of Government?”
  • Jon Henke explores the power of decentralized campaigns.
  • Bill Smith has the bad news for the presstitutes; more people are getting their news from the web than from print, and even the all-powerful TV is slipping.
  • P.J. Gladnick offers Exhibit #2,897,416 why print media is dying – they’re starting to admit they are Big-S Socialists.
  • Darleen Click “applies” for a job as a graphic designer at your average teen “news” magazine. Actually, she didn’t apply, but I wouldn’t be surprised to see that on the cover of Time next week.
  • Mid-Scramble Palete Cleanser (necessary after that last item) – Sharon Kass explains the mutual benefits of Conservatism and good mental health.
  • Uncle Jimbo tells Barack Obama and Reuters to grow up.
  • Lance Burri proves that The Race Card is not about actual diversity but about raw, naked power.
  • RightwingSparkle wonders whether Hollywood will become pro-war because Obama wants to fight in Afghanistan. I wouldn’t hold my breath.
  • MataHarley has some bad news on the Pakistani front.
  • Jim Hoft found a brave, smart Palestinian girl who didn’t listen to the brainwashing. Hamas will almost certainly be sending her to join the rest of her family inside of 4 weeks for the “unforgivable crime” of blaming them for starting what Israel is desperately trying to finish before they lose the one friend they have on the UNSecurity Council (and yes, the lack of a space is intentional).
  • Jib offers some money-saving ways to welcome in 2009. Of course, the #1 advice won’t work in Milwaukee (audio courtesy Patrick) – “Fire a gun in the air at midnight. At least in prison, you’ll get three squares a day.”

December 29, 2008

I could say, “I told you so,”…

by @ 17:35. Tags:
Filed under Economy, Politics - National.

My Congresscritter, Paul Ryan, realized the Federal Reserve is playing a very dangerous game with the money printing press. While he still hasn’t quite made the connection to the bailout-palooza he supported, those smarter than I predicted the dire consequences, including flooding the economy with money (which is, by its nature, inflationary) and the potential for “monetizing” the federal debt, back when the original bailout was only being talked about.

$1 million government web FAIL

by @ 16:25. Filed under Politics - Wisconsin.

JSOnline’s DayWatch reports that the Wisconsin Campaign Finance Information System website, run by the Government “Accountability” Board, features Minneapolis’ skyline. Of note are some of the reactions:

– Tommy Winkler, an ethics specialist for the board, claims that the Connecticut-based designer was using Minneapolis’ skyline as a “placeholder” while it tries to find a copyright-free image of Madison’s skyline. What; the state doesn’t have any images of Madison or Milwaukee (or Eau Claire, or Green Bay, or Superior, or Wausau, or…you get the picture) available?
– Jonathan Becker, director of the board’s Ethics Division, wishes that was Madison’s skyline. Somehow I doubt the folks on the local Politburo of the People’s Republic of Madistan would allow a private building to rival the state Capitol in height.

While the Journal Sentinel chose to just grab the header image, I decided that the full-page screen cap is more appropriate (click for the full-size pic):

minneapolis-wi-cfis-homepage

The Morni…er, Afternoon Scramble – 12/29/2008

by @ 15:20. Filed under The Morning Scramble.

I’m a bit under the weather, so that’s why I’m late today. It’s been a while since I did an instrumental, so let’s start the week off with one…

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U-zjnVmuTzs[/youtube]

  • Lemur King wonders if things are truly as bad as the press says it is. He notes that if one takes out the excess of the later Clinton/early Bush years, the S&P Retail Index is right back in the 30-year wheelhouse.
  • Mark Pribonic hacks apart the Transportation Stimulus Act. Question of the week from Mark – “If $3.1 trillion dollars of government spending cannot keep the economy from going into the tank, then why would anyone think that an additional $500 billion to $1 trillion would do any better?”
  • Shoebox asks whether we can afford the payments on the Obama Stimulus Package. Stat of the day – if the 3 million jobs Obama wants to create do go 80/20 private/public, the increase in the government rolls would be 3 times that of the private rolls.
  • Phil delivers a message from Patrick Henry to Barack Obama. The Hot Rod Blago odds that he’ll listen – 1,000,000-1 (and no, I wouldn’t bet on it).
  • John McAdams found a cartoon on the Big Three UAW bailout that puts the crux of the problem in blazing orange.
  • Thomas Lifson found Hot Rod Blago the butt of advertisements.
  • Asian Badger offers a look into the bidding process that will become more widespread in the next Administration.
  • Sean M. cheers the scientific death of Gorebal “Warming”. I would too if we hadn’t lost the political war while we won the scientific battle.
  • Jib is disturbed that Iosif Vissarionovich Stalin came in third in a Sovie…er, Russian state television poll of historic Russ…er, Soviet historical figures. Ioseb Besarionis dze Jughashvili wasn’t even a Russian.
  • Steve S. found the Soviet Unio…er, Russia using natural gas as a weapon against Europe in an effort to neuter opposition to the restoration of the Soviet Empire.
  • Eddiebear is shocked, SHOCKED that following the whims of envirowhackos invariably makes for a worse environmental disaster, as Seattle doesn’t reap because it didn’t sow.
  • John Hawkins lists his favorite dozen quotes from 2008.
  • Clay Waters delivers the ten worst lowlights from the New York Times Sedition Slimes campaign coverage. I have no idea how he kept it to ten.
  • Ken laughs at the presstitute notion that we’ll miss them when they’re gone.
  • Stephen Green gives exhibit #1,023,246 of Presstitute Bias – Time’s lead Israeli/Hamas presstitute wishing for the death of Israel.
  • Eric explains why Israel needs to crush Gaza and Hamas now.
  • Bonus reason – Nice Deb caught the legalization of crucifixion by Hamas.
  • Glenn Reynolds reminds us that Obama once called for just the Israeli response to Hamas that’s being delivered now. If memory serves, that statement already passed its expiration date, the day after Obama made it.
  • Charles Johnson points out the “innocent” Gazans not only voted Hamas into power, but attended en masse a multitude of anti-Israeli demonstrations “glorifying” the rockets Hamas has been firing into Israel.
  • CDR Salamander reminds us of the savages we’re fighting in Afghanistan. I’m surprised the NYT and The News Organization That Cannot Be Quoted™ played this one straight.
  • John surmises this is because we beat the Islamists with the press release.
  • I do need to close this out with some holiday cheer – Bill Quick found a study that asserts that spiked eggnog is safe. Cheers!

December 27, 2008

Ad Photoshop of the Week

by @ 19:42. Tags:
Filed under Business, Economy.

William Smith took Chrysler’s $100,000 full-page ad thanking us for giving them $4 billion which ran in USA Today and The Wall Street Journal earlier this week, and made a few corrections…

I especially like how 74% of Chrysler’s workforce sucks down 78 percent of Chrysler’s spending.

December 26, 2008

The Morning Scramble – 12/26/2008

by @ 8:15. Filed under The Morning Scramble.

I couldn’t do blues yesterday, so between that and the freezing rain-to-rain that’s come down, it’s Blues Day Friday…

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fI0Ux3-JoBc[/youtube]

Some of you were actually busy blogging yesterday, so why not reward you with a Scramble.

  • Tom Blumer handicaps the race between Obama and the economy. Let me speak from experience; no matter what the economy does, CEBR and the presstitutes will declare the recession over at noon 1/20/2009, and not a minute earlier or later.
  • Oil Patch Plug found the Red Chinese beginning to unhitch their yuan from the dollar to make it an international currency. As someone who knows just a bit about the international currency market, all I can say is, “Just! Damn!”
  • Michelle Malkin discovered the next in line at the federal trough – the retail industry. Bonus item – GMAC, the finance arm of GM, is now a “bank holding company”, so whoever in my feed reader of bloat predicted that can now collect from his or her bookie while GM collects even more bailout money.
  • Righty says, “Go long on prisons.”
  • Jo Egelhoff found the ‘Rats and their allied groups outspent Pubbies and their allied groups 2-to-1. Yep; Campaign “Finance” Reform had its intended effects.
  • The Underground Conservative wonders how the Wisconsin Legislature could set up a system where it can’t stop an automatic pay raise at a time when the state is facing a multi-billion dollar shortfall in the next budget (and a several-hundred-million dollar shortfall in the current one). Short answer – it’s controlled by the bipartisan Party-In-Government. More on that later.
  • Rick Moran “thanks” the Minnesota DFL Secretary of State for conducting a master stroke in neutering the Minnesota Supreme Court and all-but-ensuring the theft of Seat #59 for the ‘Rats. I guess the only questions left are whether Shoebox was right when he said that there is essentially no difference between 59 and 60, and, if there is, which “Pubbie” will be peeled off by Barack Obama offering a plum administration job to deliver Seat #60.
  • Thomas Lifson dumps even more coal in the stocking of the Gorebal “Warming” acolytes.
  • Warner Todd Huston uses the New York Times to prove that Gorebal “Warming” is nothing more than a jealous religion.
  • Lawhawk is shocked, SHOCKED that “green” energy doesn’t work as well in the cold.
  • Jim Hoft is shocked, SHOCKED that the gatekeepers of the Connecticut Post are abusing their status to protect their boys Chris Dodd and Barney Frank. There is a reason why I call them presstitutes.
  • Tim Graham proves that ObamiNation Worship is alive and well in the LeftStream Media.
  • Nice Deb wonders why Michelle Obama, who the presstitutes have annointed as the new Jackie O, has had her law license listed as on “court ordered inactive status” since 1993.

I’m off to be the family tech support (again); I have a hard drive to install on the younger sister’s/her husband’s computer (after conducting another bug hunt first).

The NRE Wish List for 2009

by @ 6:10. Filed under The Blog.

With the new year just around the corner, it’s time to do some forward-looking navel gazing. No, I’m not going to shoot for the impossible, like hitting 200,000 readers (I haven’t had 100,000 since I put StatCounter up in April 2007), or getting celebrity guest-bloggers (I already have a very good cast that regularily bails me out, starting with Shoebox and going through Patrick, Fred, Aaron, Leslie, silent E and Big G, though if there are any celebrities that want to put up a post of two, I won’t turn you down). There are a couple of technical things that I really want to get done, though:

– Finally combine my feed reader, the blogs of those I follow on Twitter, the blogs of those I’m friends with on Facebook, and the Roll of Bloat into a synchronized mass of semi-organized chaos.
– Get the mobile version of this place WP2.7-compliant (i.e. allow one to reply to a particular comment)
– Figure out a way to allow people using the mobile version to vote on all the current polls without having to switch to the full-sized version.
– Get SOMETHING of my own up every day that I’m not on vacation. I’ve slacked way too much this year.

I’d also like to not have to rip both parties equally; of course, that depends mostly on whether the Pubbie half of the bipartisan Party-In-Government continues to control the GOP.

With that, I’ll throw it open to the rest of the crew and the 6 loyal readers of this place who actually pipe up. What do you want to see here in 2009?

December 25, 2008

Making a list, checking it twice – round 2

by @ 0:02. Tags:
Filed under Miscellaneous.

I have far too many people to wish a blessed Christmas, but that won’t stop me from trying like last year. First, we need some music…

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p09woi5xoQo[/youtube]

I’ll likely be updating this a couple times during the day. The initial list is good as of sometime Christmas Eve.

– Shoebox, my co-blogger
– Robert of American and Proud
– John of Argghhh!
– Patrick Dorwin of Badger Blogger (link now fixed as of 7:53 am; sorry about that)
– Paul Socha of Berry Laker
– Dan Kenitz of BipolarNation.com
– The Wolf of Blackfive
– Laughing_Wolf of Blackfive
– xbradtc of Bring the heat, Bring the Stupid
– Caledonia Unplugged
– Wisconsin State Sen. Mary Lazich of Conservatively Speaking
– Bill Quick of Daily Pundit
– Bill Whittle of Eject! Eject! Eject!
– Jo Egelhoff of Fox Politics
– HeatherRadish of Hasenpfeffer Incorporated
– The gang at Intellectual Conservative Politics and Philosophy
– Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal
– Katie Harbath
– Katy of Katy’s Conservative Corner
– Mike of Mike’s America
– Nice Deb
– No Compromises
– O Pechenga of Original Pechenga’s Blog
– John McKittrick of Closing Velocity
– Sean M. of doubleplusundead
– Fred of Real Debate Wisconsin
– S.E. Cupp
– Josh Painter of RedState
– Dan of Riehl World View
– Rick Moran of Right Wing Nut House
– Rob of Say Anything
– TexasFred
– The Asian Badger
– Jim Geraghty of The Campaign Spot
– Greg Gutfield of The Daily Gut
– Stable Hand of The Jawa Report
– Todd Lohenry of The Right Side of Wisconsin
– JeffN of The Right View Wisconsin
– The Underground Conservative
– Nick Schweitzer of The World According to Nick
– Paul of Thoughts of a Regular Guy
– USCitizen of Traction Control
– Andy Aplikowski of True North
– James Wigderson of Wigderson Library & Pub
– JackBoot of Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler
– Janet at SCSU Scholars
– Sister Toldjah
– Chris at MY Vast Right Wing Conspiracy
– Phelony Jones at The Confidentials
– Dan Collins at protein wisdom
– Slublog
Extensions part 1 (7:42 am 12/25/2008) –
– Brad V of Try 2 Focus
– Vinnie of Ace of Spades HQ
– Gabriel Malor of Ace of Spades HQ
– Kate of An Ol’ Broad’s Ramblings
– Uncle Jimbo of Blackfive
– Jim Lynch of bRight & Early
– Confederate Yankee
– alexthechick at doubleplusundead
– Fausta
– Mary of Freedom Eden
– Michael Caughill
– GayPatriotWest of Gay Patriot
– Bruce of Gay Patriot
– A second helping from HeatherRadish
– Ed Morrissey of Hot Air
– Glenn Reynolds
– Jason Pye
– Josh Schroeder
– Elizabeth Scalia of Pajamas Media/The Anchoress
– Warner Todd Huston of Publius’ Forum
– Erick Erickson of RedState
– RightwingSparkle
– silent E
– Wyatt Earp of Support Your Local Gunfighter
– Kathryn Jean Lopez of NRO’s The Corner
– Gravelle of the Daily Scoff
– Vinnie of The Jawa Report
– Jenn of The Political Jungle
– Amy Geiger-Hemmer of The Right View Wisconsin
– Kevin Fischer of This Just In…
– Hugh Hewitt
– Janet Beihoffer of True North
– Trail-Mix of Disgruntled Truck Driver
Extensions part 2 (11:14 am 12/25/2008) –
– Dave in Texas at Ace of Spades HQ
– Bill Smith at ARRA News Service
– Blackfive
– John Little of Blogs of War
– Gaius of Blue Crab Boulevard
– Fuzz Martin
– Jim Hoft of Gateway Pundit
– Michelle Malkin
– The gang at NewsBusters
– Darleen Click of protein wisdom
– King Banian at SCSU Scholars
– Rick Esenberg of Shark and Shepherd
– Ed Driscoll
– still Unreal of Reality Check
– John Ray of Stop The ACLU (even though he got the name wrong)
– Joey of Wide White
– A second helping from Kevin Fischer
– A second helping from Kate
Extensions part 3 (1:48 pm 12/25/2008; last one for a while) –
– Charles Johnson of Little Green Footballs
– Teresa of Terry Ann Online
– Lemur King
– Crystal Clear Conservative
– Deebow of Blackfive
– A second helping from Uncle Jimbo (literally a second helping, as he, his brother, and his niece made cinnamon rolls)
– Emperor Misha I of Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler
– Justin of GOP3
– Chris of On the BorderLine
– Aakash Raut of University Blog
Last extension of Christmas Day (9:03 pm 12/25/2008, with no guarantees of a further one for those that waited until the last minute) –
– Marcus Aurelius of Blogger Beer
– Owen of Boots and Sabers
– The Lady Logician of Ladies Logic
– Dad29
– Dean of Musings of a Thoughtful Conservative
– gopfolk of One Man’s Opinion
– Keith of ProductionNinja
– Serr8d of Protein Wisdom Pub
– Sean Hackbarth of The American Mind
– Jimi5150 of The Prozak Playground
– Maggie Thurber of Thurber’s Thoughts
– Drew of Weasel Zippers
– Phineas of Public Secrets
Last revision of the year to catch the last-second well-wishers (7:12 am 12/26/2008; the text below the list was added with the final Christmas Day update) –
– Anwyn of Anwyn’s Notes in the Margin
– Dana Pico of Common Sense Political Thought
– Alexander of A little off Main
– Ace of Ace of Spades HQ
– James T. Harris of The National Conversation

I would be remiss if I didn’t thank Brad V and Ed Driscoll for the linkage. This year, I tried to comment on as many of the blogs listed above as I could and not leave it up to chance, WordPress’ auto-pingback feature, Townhall’s very-fluky auto-trackback feature (which resulted in some double-ping/trackbacks), the suddenly-fluky Google Blog Search or Technorati to deliver my Christmas wishes. I know there’s still people I missed, so to them, and to those of you who missed my annual posting of St. Luke’s account of Jesus’ birth, I’ll direct your attention here.

I hope you had a very good Christmas, and have a happy new year.

Have a blessed Christmas

by @ 0:01. Tags:
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Once again, we celebrate Jesus Christ’s birth, with St. Luke’s account (Luke 2:1-12, NIV):

In those days Caesar Augustus issued a decree that a census should be taken of the entire Roman world. (This was the first census that took place while Quirinius was governor of Syria.) And everyone went to his own town to register.

So Joseph also went up from the town of Nazareth in Galilee to Judea, to Bethlehem, the town of David, because he belonged to the house and line of David. He went there to register with Mary, who was pledged to be married to him and was expecting a child. While they were there, the time came for the baby to be born, and she gave birth to her firstborn, a son. She wrapped him in cloths and placed him in a manger, because there was no room for them in the inn.

And there were shepherds living out in the fields nearby, keeping watch over their flocks at night. An angel of the Lord appeared to them, and the glory of the Lord shone around them, and they were terrified. But the angel said to them, "Do not be afraid. I bring you good news of great joy that will be for all the people. Today in the town of David a Savior has been born to you; he is Christ the Lord. This will be a sign to you: You will find a baby wrapped in cloths and lying in a manger."

December 24, 2008

The Christmas Eve Scramble – 2008

by @ 19:32. Filed under The Morning Scramble.

This one’s going to be a bit short, but it’s late on Christmas Eve already…

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=szLmAPW39uE[/youtube]

  • Noel Sheppard found some Aussies that would hate the above video. That’s right, the Gorebal Warming acolytes are going after Christmas lights.
  • William Teach discovered they’re also going after the Christmas feast. BAH HUMBUG!
  • Stix found the official carol of the Religion of Gorebal “Warming”.
  • Dad29 wonders why the EPA chose the time frame that included the demolition work associated with the Marquette Interchange to measure particle pollution in Milwaukee County. Simple; they wanted to put Milwaukee County in non-compliance. Bonus item from the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel story – because Milwaukee County is not in compliance, Racine and Waukesha Counties, which met the soon-to-be-implemented standards, is also in the “non-attainment zone” just because the EPA can declare that to be so.
  • Flip carries a telling exchange between Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin’s office and PETA. Which exhibit is this in the “Don’t bother to attempt to appease the Left becuase they’ll just lie about you anyway” series?
  • Fausta puts the serious hate on “It’s a Wonderful Lif…er, Bailout”. Life does imitate art, even if it’s 62 years late.
  • Fidothedog found that government waste in the midst of a deep recession isn’t limited to the US. That’s right, the EU spent €2,000 (that’s just under $2,800 at the current exchange rates) per employee on Christmas travel.
  • Randall Hoven has a plan to end this recession – “honest, responsible and predictable government budgeting.” Of course, putting the $57 trillion in unfunded Social Security/Medicare liabilities on the books is more likely to result in a revolution (which may not be such a bad idea).
  • Patrick McIlheran has the story of yet another set of businesses being run out of business by Red China and an unthinking federal government; small-toy manufacturers.
  • Gravelle hoists a cold one to a gang in Madison looking for some serious alcohol in their Reinheitsgebot-compliant beer. PROST!

Shoebox’s Christmas message is already up; mine will be up just after midnight, along with the start of the 2nd annual linkfest.

All aboard the FAIL train…

by @ 14:48. Filed under Politics - Wisconsin.

(H/T – Michael King’s Facebook page)

Here’s a problem that KRM won’t have…

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mKOEQVgONh0[/youtube]

December 23, 2008

The Morni…er, Evening Scramble – 12/23/2008

by @ 19:47. Filed under The Morning Scramble.

Let’s see if I can still remember how to do this…

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z2nQZPC2uTs[/youtube]

Yes, it’s evening, but it is morning someplace.

  • Jason Pye brings good news for music pirates – RIAA will no longer be going after you with lawsuits. The bad news – if your ISP isn’t using anti-bit-torrent software, it likely will in the near future.
  • Donna Martinez has sad news for VHS holdouts – the last shipment of movies and shows on tape are out the door.
  • JackBoot found Treasury Department Form EZ-CASH. Given Hank Paulson and company are handing out my cash like it’s, well, my cash in a politician’s hands, I’m not so sure that it is a parody.
  • Mark Pribonic shows a benefit of a classical education, quoting Cicero on the folly of depending on the government for a bailout.
  • Jib gives a word of wisdom to the potheads that want legal pot. If you think that taxes on alcohol and tobacco are high, wait until the government gets its hands on the weed.
  • Dean finds the ‘Rats not so trusting of the voters when things don’t go their way. I’m shocked, SHOCKED, especially since…
  • …Nice Deb outlined how they stole the Norm Coleman seat. Shoebox? Big G?
  • Earl Glynn wonders how the population of Kansas could go up steadily while the voter registrations show wild swings.
  • Bob Weeks bemoans the coming death of “newspaper journalism”. I only hope he wasn’t refering to outfits like the New York Times.
  • Why did I put that caveat in there? Exhibit #1 – Michelle Malkin caught them getting punked by fake Frogs.
  • Exhibit #2 – Bob Owens prints the op-ed piece rebutting Friend Of Barack (and admitted, yet untried terrorist) Bill Ayers they refused to print.
  • Dan Riehl says the news isn’t all bad – the NYT may go under next year.
  • The Game lists the top ten media blunders (so far) of 2008. To quote Bachman Turner Overweigh…er, Overdrive, “You ain’t seen nothing yet.” Guess it’s time for song #2…
    [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jnd8ArBkKtA[/youtube]
  • Tom Blumer proves that The News Organization That Cannot Be Quoted™ does not practice what Bob Weeks wants, as they strip the ‘Rat from local stories they crib. Bonus item – it is against the latest publicly-available AP Stylebook guidance, though that may have changed since 2000.
  • Gorebal “Warming” Acolyte Stupidity Watch, Part 1 – lawhawk reports Seattle refuses to use salt on the roads because it might get into the salty Puget Sound.
  • Gorebal “Warming” Acolyte Stupidity Watch, Part 2 – Dad29 reports the Wisconsin DNR prohibits the dumping of snow into the local rivers that feed into Lake Michigan, so Milwaukee stores the snow under the Hoan Bridge until it melts into Lake Michigan. Oh yeah; between today and tomorrow, there’s another foot of snow to go on top of the nearly-3 feet we’ve picked up so far this month.
  • Mary Katharine Ham wonders why the Obama Camp self-whitewash happened at 4:30 pm Christmas Eve eve.
  • Why, Part 1 – Michelle Malkin opened a red flag store on the 5-page whitewash.
  • Why, Part 2 – Charles Johnson found a media outlet unwilling to swallow the whitewash whole. In the interest of full disclosure, the parent company of the Los Angeles Times was driven into bankruptcy partially because of actions by Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich (D).
  • Rob Port found the denials from Team Obama a wee bit unconvincing.
  • Hugh Hewitt wonders what happened when US Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald, who is investigating Blagojevich, interviewed Barack Obama (D). Bonus wonder – why did Fitzgerald wait until after interviewing Obama to interview Obama chief-of-staff-designee Rahm Emanuel (D) when he already had Emanuel on tape?
  • J.D. Tuccille found the perfect present for the speed cameras in Arizona.
  • Mark Hemingway found high school students in Maryland using the power of the state and speed cameras to crush their enemies. They’re future bureaucrats, no doubt.
  • Speaking of presents, Owen found a DeWalt Rapid Fire Nail Gun. I wonder if that’s the weapon the boys at iD were thinking about when they made Quake.

Web news profitable? Not quite yet.

by @ 14:00. Filed under Business.

(H/T – Patrick McIlheran via Dad29)

Jeff Jarvis ran with a “throwaway” line from Los Angeles Times editor Russ Stanton stating that the LAT web revenue now exceeds its editorial payroll costs, and speculates that the LAT could switch to a web-only model. There’s a few problems with that:

– The editorial staff is a small part of the newsroom, even the local-only newsroom.
– The web server and technical support for a high-traffic website is not cheap.
– A major metropolitan daily cannot, despite claims to the contrary, focus solely on local and get away with it. Does anybody believe depending on, say, the Washington Post for DC news or the Sacramento Bee for Californai statehouse news is going to be cheaper than relying on The News Organization That Cannot Be Quoted™ (that would be AP), or Reuters?
– Fee-based content, as a rule, does not draw enough to cover the costs.

Maybe if they got rid of the editorial staff, which is the largest bit of aggravation, they could be profitable. I still doubt it, though.

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