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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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July 10, 2008

Roll bloat – summer clean-up edition

by @ 17:15. Filed under The Blog.

There’s too many changes, both additions and subtractions, to sum up. I’ve thrown in a few of the Chatizens of the Ed Morrissey Show, a few other new(er) blogs, and The Wisconsin Institute for Leadership, while taking out a few dead blogs. All I have to say is, “Let there be bloat!”

Revisions/extensions (6:50 pm 7/10/2008) – Let’s see if I can remember all the additions:

– The Wisconsin Institute for Leadership
– Righty Blog
– Iowahawk
– The Next Right
– Ladies Logic
– My World
– Perfunction
– Radio Blogger
– Anger Central
– The Savage Republican

I probably am still missing a few (or more than a few) good blogs.

R&E part 2 (7:34 pm 7/10/2008) – I knew there was somebody I forgot; Katie Harbath.

R&E part 3 (7:37 pm 7/10/2008) – Make it two; Instapundit (very bad Egg; forgetting everybody’s Blogfather, even though he never got an Instalanche).

R&E part 4 (7:45 pm 7/10/2008) – The quest for 300 continues unabated with Stix Blog.

R&E part 5 (8:00 pm 7/10/2008) – Growin’, growin’, growin’. Keep them roll’s a-bloatin’. Adding The American Thinker this time around.

President Bush needles the world

by @ 16:20. Filed under Global "Warming", Politics, Politics - National.

(H/T – Jon Ham)

I like the way President Bush left his last G8 meeting (relayed by The Daily Telegraph):

The American leader, who has been condemned throughout his presidency for failing to tackle climate change, ended a private meeting with the words: "Goodbye from the world’s biggest polluter."

He then punched the air while grinning widely, as the rest of those present including Gordon Brown and Nicolas Sarkozy looked on in shock.

Nothing quite like one last knife twist before we elect a Gorebal “Warming” acolyte. ‘Tis a shame that we’re about to lose the political battle even as the scientific one is being won.

Revisions/extensions (6:13 pm 7/10/2008) – Jim Hoft reminds us that Red China is now #1 in that department. I wonder where the entirety of the EU would be if it were treated as a single entity instead of more than a dozen.

Right Wing News – favorite elected Republicans

by @ 9:35. Filed under Politics - National, Politics - Wisconsin, The Blog.

John Hawkins sent an invitation this way to participate in his latest right-of-center bloggers poll, so Shoebox and I both submitted our lists of favorite gubernatorial/national elected Republicans. We could send between 1 and 10, and I chose 8. While I don’t know who Shoe voted for, here’s my list (in no particular order beyond what I typed in):

– Paul Ryan
– Marsha Blackburn
– Bobby Jindal
– Sarah Palin
– Jeff Flake
– Steve King
– Jim DeMint
– Tom Coburn

To see which ones (if any) made it into the top 20, as well as the complete top 20, you’ll have to head to Right Wing News.

We also submitted our least-favorite elected Republicans; that list will be out tomorrow.

The Morning Scramble/Open Thread Thursday – 7/10/2008

by @ 8:44. Filed under Open Thread Thursday, The Morning Scramble.

It’s Thursday; the Scramble might be longer than usual, but it’s still Open Thread Thursday (as if I get people to play)…

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  • Stephan Tawney has an update on the “shocking” news for flyers from yesterday; it’s an abandoned plan that never got past the contractor’s-thoughts stage.
  • Jim Lynch hired DW and Larry Mac to provide commentary on the race.
  • Kat dips into history even I didn’t quite fully remember to explain war powers.
  • DrewM raised some false hopes on John McCain actually turning right. Oops; McCain decided that the fewer differences between him and the ‘Rats on stuff like Gorebal “Warming” and a Hugh Gubmint “solution” to it, the better. EPIC FAIL!
  • Erick Erickson invites the Senatorial Pubbie half of the bipartisan Party-In-Government to have some Rocky Mountain Oysters after they reduce the number of differences between the two halves of the P-I-G by dropping ANWR drilling. I’ll bet they can’t even eat one.
  • Capt. Karl explains just what the portion of ANWR that would be drilled is, with lots of pictures for the literary-challenged.
  • Jim Hoft has the details of a bus collision between Barack Obama and Jesse Jackson. Let there be chaos!
  • James T. Harris told us this was going to happen.
  • Van Helsing brings news that an Obamination blogger is suing God for frowning on homosexuality. I smell brimstone.
  • Jim Geraghty found that Obama’s second book now contains words beyond their expiration date – his stance on English. That reminds me; there’s a new NRE Poll up on whether to continue the use of expiration dates or switch to something else.
  • Josh Schroeder discovered a new disease – Obama Messiah Complex.
  • More Geraghty – he’s wondering who Obama represented when he practiced law way back when.
  • Jamie Sneider thinks something is seriously wrong when even Europe thinks Obama is too weak on Iran.
  • Lemur King notes there is no parity in the Middle East, at least how NPR attempts to define it.
  • Zip declares the UN an Epic FAIL on yet another front – Hezbollah now has triple the number of rockets aimed at Israel as they did in the spring of 2006, all guarded by UN “peacekeepers”.
  • Jim Hoft invites the losers on Iraq to stand up and be recognized. I’ve got my rotten tomatoes ready for Obama, Nancy Pelosi, John Murtha and the rest of the DhimmiRATs.
  • Ed Morrissey detected a torpedo launch from the S.S. Hillary into the side of the Obamination Express on FISA. Mary Katharine Ham wonders whether that signals the resumption of the campaign.
  • Dupray dug up the ‘Rat tombstone.
  • Sister Toldjah observed a Breck Hair Flip on John Edwards’ willingness to be a very-visible part of the Obamination Express.
  • The Vintage one caught the latest menu for the DNC convention, and it contains deep-fried waffles.
  • Patrick McIlheran says former state Sen. Tom Reynolds is getting very even with a local version of Operation Chaos. Let me say it again – LET THERE BE CHAOS!
  • Stephen F. Hayes caught California Speaker Pro Tem Dom Perata trying to invoke World War II in his call for more and more taxes. I’ve got two words for Dom – Hell No!
  • Eric the Tygrrrr has a great interview with Ward Connerly. Go, read.
  • Gopfolk found the real reason for Gorebal “Warming” (besides more output from the Sun that’s now dropping again) – clean air.

    • Even though I read too many blogs, I know there’s stuff I miss. Go ahead, let me know about it. I dare you.

New NRE Poll – What should we call Obama’s future flip-flops?

by @ 8:11. Filed under NRE Polls, Politics - National.

Yesterday, Shoebox noted that some of Barack Obama’s newest flip-flops have come so quickly, that Jim Geraghty’s Maxim of all of Obama’s words having an expiration date is a bit dated. In the course of an e-mail discussion between Jim, Shoebox, and me, a couple of new catch-phrases came up. I went with “half-life”, while Shoebox went with “momentary considerations”. Guess it’s as good an excuse as any to fire up the NRE Poll machine…

What should we call Obama's future flip-flops?

Up to 1 answer(s) was/were allowed

  • Words thrown under the bus. (53%, 8 Vote(s))
  • Words past their half-life. (20%, 3 Vote(s))
  • Momentary reconsiderations. (13%, 2 Vote(s))
  • Just plain-old flip-flops. (7%, 1 Vote(s))
  • Something else (pipe up in the thread). (7%, 1 Vote(s))
  • Words that have reached their expiration date. (0%, 0 Vote(s))

Total Voters: 15

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This one will close the morning of July 24, so get your votes up quickly. If you do choose “other”, please let me know what you want.

July 9, 2008

Real Men of Genius, North Carolina edition

by @ 16:45. Filed under Compassionate Lieberals.

I was going to lead off tomorrow’s Scramble/Open Thread Thursday with this, but it’s just too good to keep you waiting until tomorrow.

Mary Katharine Ham gives the “Real Men of Genius” treatment to a gubmint drone who gave up his cushy government job rather than honor the request of North Carolina Governor Mike Easley (D) to fly the American and North Carolina flags at half-staff to honor the late Sen. Jesse Helms (R).

Name That Party – crAP edition

by @ 11:18. Filed under Presstitute Follies.

(H/T – Don Surber via Lawhawk)

Former Congressman Gary Condit’s (D-CA) lawsuit against author Dominic Dunne alleging slander over the death of government intern and paramour Chandra Levy was dismissed yesterday. While Reuters properly identified Condit’s party and McClatchy didn’t identify at all, the original crAP dispatch dispatch from Erica Werner slandered the Republican Party in the sixth paragraph (thanks to Google for keeping the original dispatch handy; I do have a screenshot ready just in case this goes into the memory hole):

Condit, a former Republican congressman from California’s Central Valley, has denied any involvement in or knowledge of Levy’s May 2001 disappearance at age 24, or her death….

I do have to note that the current dispatch has the correct party affiliation.

Considering the Condit/Levy affair was the biggest news item on September 10, 2001, I rather doubt that it was an honest mistake. No wonder why The News Organization That Cannot Be Quoted™ doesn’t want to be quoted.

The Morning Scramble – 7/9/2008

by @ 10:29. Filed under The Morning Scramble.

It’s nice to have a reason for the song. Mary Katharine Ham provided one with anotherwise-unnoteworthy story on a dog-on-dog attack in DC.

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  • Let’s start right off with the Obamination Express; there’s a lot of material today – Ed Morrissey caught Barack Obama tossing English under the bus.
  • Owen found fiscal responsibility stuck under the rear wheels of the Obamination Express.
  • Ed Driscoll has more Obama words well past their expiration date – his philosophy of campaigning.
  • Shoebox found even more curdled Obama words – his view of the danger posed by Iran.
  • The conspiratorial Chris (there are just too many Chrises in my feed reader) sings the Obamination Flip-Flop Song.
  • Silent E uses the opportunity of yet another Obamination Flip-Flop to unleash Barack HUSSEIN ObamaUrkel.
  • Jazz Shaw found a solution to the fuel crisis; use the “refined” Obama positions as high-test gasoline.
  • Geoff discovered Denial is a river in the aisle of the Obamination Express.
  • JammieWearingFool discovered the presstitute photogs are back to their Glowbama photographic tricks.
  • Jim Geraghty calls Strike Three on the third Obama ad’s accuracy. Too bad this isn’t baseball.
  • Jessi is a bit confused on what change the Jr. Senator (in whichever way it can be sliced, whether one talks about Illinois, the ‘Rat candidates for the nomination, or the presumptive nominees) is offering.
  • We’re finally done with the Obamination, so let’s hit the ‘Rats some more – Michelle Bachmann notes the House ‘Rats want to shut up their fellow Congresscritters on blogs.
  • Ed Morrissey (back for round 2) says it’s even worse in the World’s Most Deliberative Body.
  • Mary relays the John McCain smackdown of draft-doding Bill Clinton.
  • Brian explains the difference between an Iraqi-crafted withdrawal timetable and a ‘Rat-crafted one.
  • Janet Evans says, “Like terrorist father, like terrorist son.” My hope for the younger bin Laden’s immediate future (quoting Uncle Jimbo) – “Predator sends Hellfire, now it’s all bad (all bad). Remote sniping yeah, we’re cool like this.”
  • Gabriel Malor explains Authorizations for Use of Military Force.
  • Moron Pundit challenges lieberals (including the presumptive Pubbie nominee) to explain why covering thousands of square miles of land underneath solar panels is preferable to drilling on a copule thousand acres of Arctic wasteland.
  • Todd Lohenry asks, after hearing Joe Lieberman say that Red China’s thirst for gas is growing at 8 times ours, why the focus is not on drilling. He does answer his own question; it’s about the economic crippling.
  • The Unreal one asks whether any country taxed its way into prosperity. Yet half the country meets Albert Einstein’s definition of insanity.
  • We’re finally out of the ‘Rat end of the pool – Josh Schroeder is not happy about the RNC trying a bill collector trick.
  • Michelle Malkin has 15 things we should know about La Raza, which is being actively courted by both candidates and both parties.
  • Christian Schneider has a real way to go green that’s being blocked by a lot of locales; letting ones laundry dry in the sun.
  • More Moron Pundit – he has the Moron Food Pyramid. You’ll have to see it to understand why I put this item where I did.
  • JammieWearingFool notes black holes are going into the memory hole of Political Correctness.
  • Edward Christie observed that crime does pay, at least for British presstitutes.
  • Lawhawk has today’s dose of UN FAIL – once again, thugs walk into a UNprotected (note the lack of a hyphen) refugee camp to beat up on the refugees. This time, it’s in Zimbabwe.
  • Dad29 has shocking (literally) news for those of you who can still afford to fly; the DHS wants to put shock bracelets on you.

What is missing from this story?

by @ 7:12. Filed under Presstitute Follies.

The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel acted as a megaphone for a conglomerate of groups moaning that the poor economy and high oil prices are squeezing seasoned citizens. They run through the usual bogeymen of health care, mortgages, rent, food, and transportation, but miss the fat 15,000-pound elephant in the room – TAXES. Gee, I wonder why.

July 8, 2008

A rare victory for business

by @ 15:36. Filed under Politics - Wisconsin, Taxes.

Honestly, the fact that the state Supreme Court was unanimous in handing down said victory (per JSOnline’s DayWatch) is even rarer. They ruled for Walgreen’s against a couple dozen high-tax communities, including Milwaukee, Madison, Cudahy, Hales Corners, Kenosha and Waukesha, that use rent payments instead of market value as the determinant of the value of the property various Walgreen’s stores are on. Walgreen’s has developers buy choice properties and build to Walgreen’s specs, and in exchange, they pay above-market rent to the developer, along with the property taxes. Those communities, up until today, were using the higher rent payments rather than what the developer could sell the property for.

Naturally, the communities are saying that they’ll have to increase taxes on everybody else. How about cutting spending for a change, like those of us in the non-government world have to do every time our disposable income drops?

Picturing the ‘Rat Energy policy

by @ 15:18. Filed under Energy, Politics - National.

Jett Atwood of T.G. Studios, known to us who inhabit the chat room at Ed Morrissey’s show as Sarjex, created an instant classic describing the ‘Rat energy “policy” of small cars and wind (H/T for the link – silent E)…

The Morning Scramble – 7/8/2008

by @ 8:53. Filed under The Morning Scramble.

Yes, I’m on time today. There are actually two reasons for the song today:

– Tonight is the July Drinking Right over at Papa’s Social Club (7718 W Burleigh in Milwaukee, at 7 pm). Be there.
– While I won’t be in the Twin Cities at the beginning of September, I figure between Sean Hackbarth (he’s still jobless, so get him some cash so he can be there), Owen Robinson, Todd Lohenry and gopfolk, they’ll have a DR-Twin Cities during the GOP Convention.

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  • John Hawkins sums up why the GOP is in trouble. If the RNC doesn’t think that what happened to the Whigs and Federalists can happen to them as a result of their leftward swing at the explicit shunning of the right, I’ve got 50 reasons why that’s fatally-flawed thinking in the poll on the left sidebar (which taken by itself is a plurality).
  • On the flip side, Stephan Tawney dips into the history to give John McCain a bit of a boost; it seems that in 6 of the last 9 hotly-contested elections (defined by Gallup as either a July lead or a November victory of 6 or fewer percentage points), the July leader lost the popular vote. Barack Obama currently leads McCain by 6 points according to Gallup. That’ll give a lot of comfort to the 109 people who told me that they believe McCain will win the election (which I note is a majority of those who answered the NRE poll as of early this morning).
  • Matt Lewis is running a Veepstakes. My money’s on list #1, specifically the estrogen portion.
  • Emperor Misha I is definitely part of the nihilist crowd, especially after the RNC’s ad for McCain endorsing his statist, acolyte answer for Gorebal “Warming”.
  • Speaking of Gorebal “Warming”, Ace found yet another thing that causes it – cement. No, not the fact that it makes it easier to drive cars on; the mere fact that it is made. I wonder if the Gorebal “Warming” acolytes considered that going back to the 16th Century (or the 8th Century the Islamokazis want to take us to; there really is little difference in the tech) is simply unsustainable on a 6-billion-people planet.
  • JammieWearingFool doesn’t want to hear the Obamas whine about their kids not having any privacy after they pimped them out to a tabloid TV show.
  • Jim Hoft found yet another set of Obama’s words past its expiration date; his prediction that the surge failed.
  • The Vintage One found another set of words just waiting for the curdling to begin; his use of the past tense to describe his ongoing time in the Senate. Where did I put the garbage can? I think I’m going to be sick.
  • Kathryn Jean Lopez wonders about the possibility of a pair of odd-couple tickets. For the record, I don’t think Obama will go with a “bitter Bible-thumping gun-clinger”.
  • Plebian reveals the ‘Rat Goodie Bag that was supposed to be handed out in Denver.
  • Good Lt. deems the ‘Rat Congress as an Epic FAIL. When those who have a either a great deal of or quite a lot of confidence in Congress is less than those who have a great deal of confidence in the Presidency, and the latter is deemed incredibly low, that’s an Epic FAIL with a capital L. Gee, I wonder why this isn’t gleefully reported by the presstitutes.
  • In the Know has just one of the reasons why there is no confidence in Congress – they’re about to pass a bill that will spend $50 million a year on federal inspections for bed bugs.
  • Gopfolk has another reason why there’s no confidence in government; the dead are getting the tax rebate welfare stimulus checks.
  • Mark Pribonic explodes the myth of fixed income. Who here working in the private, non-union sector has had over the last 3 years the 10% increase in wages that Social Security recipients had?
  • Dad29 notes that Detroit is just a little bit worse than Milwaukee; instead of a two-bit Alderthug trying to shake down the entire city for cash, they have the Common Council president and wife of a senior ‘Rat Congresscritter doing it.
  • Kat says that Heller was just the first salvo, as DC is trying to ban all semi-automatic handguns. They either believe that by the time Round 2 gets to the Supreme Court, Kennedy will have “grown” some more into a full-fledged Lawgiver-In-Black or one of the conservatives will have been replaced by a L-I-B.
  • Lance Burri calls Epic Health Systems an Epic FAIL for trying to put the squeeze on supporters of Wisconsin Manufacturers and Commerce because they defended their interests in the recent state Supreme Court race. Why am I not the least bit surprised that the CEO of Epic FAIL donated $24,000 to One Wisconsin Now, which didn’t exactly sit idly by, but tried to prop up soon-to-be-ex Lawgiver-In-Black Loophole Louis Butler?

July 7, 2008

Midwest’s MD-80s – not good enough for you, but good enough for Obama

by @ 17:53. Filed under Business, Politics - National.

(H/T – JammieWearingFool)

Barack Obama’s chartered Midwest Airlines’ MD-80, en route from Chicago to Charlotte, North Carolina, made an unscheduled landing in St. Louis after what the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reported as the emergency slide in the tail cone of the plane deploying in flight. ABC News’ Sunlen Miller reported an abnormally large dip shortly after takeoff from Midway during bad weather.

I’m glad that everyone’s okay, but I have two questions:

– Why would an eastbound flight from Chicago divert to St. Louis?
– Considering that Midwest is grounding its MD-80s because they’re too fuel-inefficient, why did the Obama campaign decide to charter one?

The Morni…er, Afternoon Scramble – 7/7/2008

by @ 17:34. Filed under The Morning Scramble.

It’s just been one of those weekends…

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  • Jim Geraghty has today’s Obamination Theme wrapped up in one convenient post. You know what they say about history.
  • Gawfer pulls in a letter from the future. There’s definitely short-term pain, but I’m not as optimistic as he is on the long-term.
  • Jim Hoft is shocked, SHOCKED that the woman two heartbeats away from the Oval Office conducted her own private foreign policy for the benefit of Communists.
  • Lawhawk has video of the rescue that San Fran Nan couldn’t stop.
  • Chris the head barkeep has 90 million reasons to like Milwaukee Brewers’ owner Mark Attanasio. As he says, we’re now at the Adults table.
  • Christian Schneider lists the winners and losers of the big trade for C.C. Sabathia.
  • Legalbgl calls for the banning of another Barry Bonds legacy – maple bats.
  • Emperor Misha I has some news not fit to print on this side of the pond. That’s right; we have to go to Britain’s newspapers (or the conservative blogosphere) to find out that Al Qaeda in Iraq is about to be pushed out of their last stronghold.
  • Gabriel Malor is shocked, SHOCKED to find out that 1 in 100 Club Gitmo (and other assorted overseas detention centers) “guests” has an existing FBI record.
  • Charles Johnson caught the News Organization That Cannot Be Quoted displaying their anti-American bias loudly and proudly. No wonder why the presstitutes at crAP don’t want us memorializing their utterances.
  • JohnJayRay blows yet another hole in Gorebal Warming – that “fast-melting” Greenland ice is strictly a result of seasonal changes, not any climatic change.
  • While We’re Winning the Fight On the Scientific End, We’re Losing It On the Political, Part 1 – BrianR is saying, “No!”, to McCain because of his status as a Gorebal “Warming” acolyte.
  • Doubleplusundead highlights the coming platform fight in St. Paul.
  • While We’re Winning the Fight On the Scientific End, We’re Losing It On the Political, Part 2 – Ed Driscoll reports California is requiring Gorebal Warming Scores on all new cars.
  • Fred uses one lieberal screwball idea to mess with another.
  • Nanny Statism Part 1 (and also Stupid Labels Part 2) – Slublog passes along the Stupid Label of the Week.
  • Gaius has this week’s dose of Microsoft FAIL – their plan to have people rent Office.
  • Nanny Statism Part 2 (and Why I’m Glad We Beat the Brits Part 1) – Sister Toldjah passes along news that the Brits are now going to start labeling 3-year-olds who say, “Yuk,” to foreign food as “racists”.
  • Nanny Statism Part 3/Why I’m Glad We Beat the Brits Part 2) – Jon Ham notes the British government is going to use the “kids are starving in China” canard to get those “racist” kids to clean their plates.
  • Antitote to Nanny Statism – Mary Lazich reports that bans on cell-phone use while driving don’t work. Now if she could convince her fellow Legislators,….
  • Headless Blogger has today’s dose of history, commuter-train edition. Simply reversing the letters on the money-losing abomination that was MRK (which failed long before I-94 opened up) isn’t going to suddenly make it a success.

Sorry about being late (again). I didn’t feel well at all this weekend (a bit better now).

Now on the NRE menu – Crow with side of foot

by @ 15:50. Filed under War on Terror.

(H/T – Disgruntled Truck Driver)

Remember that uranium yellowcake reference in the 2003 State of the Union speech? Guess what – Iraq had a whole shitload of uranium yellowcake. Indeed, the US just got done transferring 550 metric tons found after the invasion to Canada in 110 shipping containers and 37 C-17 trips. That would be 550 metric tons not found properly disposed of by the Bumbling Twins, Hans Blix and Mohammed ElBaradei.

I seem to be out of barbecue sauce, so you liberals are going to just have to eat that crow and your feet dry.

Revisions/extensions (5:38 pm 7/7/2008) – Ed Morrissey notes that the IAEA knew about this for the last 13 years, yet all they did was put a seal (which a commenter on the Hot Air thread notes wasn’t exactly fool-proof) on it, which was left unmonitored between the tail end of 1998 and the arrival of American forces in 2003. There are also a couple of other discrepancies in the comments.

July 4, 2008

The Morning Scramble – Independence Day 2008

by @ 9:44. Filed under The Morning Scramble.

TexasFred found today’s music…

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NMjFW9sBw2I[/youtube]

Here we go again with a mega-linkfest. No politics in this one; just a heap of people remembering why today is special.

I may or may not update this yet today to throw even more linkage outbound. If I forgot you, kick me.

Have a happy 4th, everybody.

Revisions/extensions (10:02 am 7/4/2008) – Round 1 of the additions…

  • Phelony Jones stresses the word “Independence”. Since she is a fan of pinup art, I’m not surprised she and William Teach used the same picture.
  • Shoebox adds himself to the Red Skelton Pledge video as he urges us to celebrate.
  • Sister Toldjah woke up with an extra spring in her step.
  • Add Mark McNally to the list of those quoting from the Declaration.
  • See-dubya remembers going shooting (both fireworks and guns) on the Fourth as a child.

R&E part 2 (8:33 pm 7/4/2008) – More incoming…

July 3, 2008

Home invasion gear – man’s hat, woman’s coat, barbecue sauce

by @ 19:48. Filed under Miscellaneous.

(H/T – Mary)

This story of a man who was wearing the aforementioned items when he was confronted by the homeowner up in Appleton is just too rich. I wonder what part of the brilliant plan of hiding out from the FBI, who he claims was after him for giving secrets to terrorists, was the part that gave him away; the breaking-in, the whistling, the hat, the coat, or the barbecue sauce. Predictably, his defense attorney wants him loose on the streets of Appleton.

Jon Ham asked whether it was a tomato- or vinegar-based sauce. What, no mustard-based? Lemur King has a killer mustard sauce that goes great on pulled pork.

The Morni…er, Afternoon Scramble/Open Thread Thursday – 7/3/2008

by @ 14:29. Filed under Open Thread Thursday, The Morning Scramble.

Once again, I’m late, and this time, without video. Owen explains why. So much for the free lunch music…

  • Lawhawk proves once again that Gorebal “Warming” is all about permanently reducing the quality of American life, as the acolytes attack flat-screen TVs.
  • Ed Driscoll found all of the anti-Obama statements on the Hillary Clinton website and YouTube channel have fallen into the memory hole. They’ll be back.
  • Nick Schweitzer has a not-so-random thought or two on election fraud.
  • Mondoreb found a letter from OPEC to Congress thanking them for not doing anything substantive to reduce our dependence on them, like drilling now.
  • S. Weasel defines torture.

July 2, 2008

The Morni…er, Afternoon Scramble – 7/2/2008

by @ 17:49. Filed under The Morning Scramble.

I warned you today would be a recovery day. It’s a good thing too, because Mary came across the reason why I’m no longer featuring Summerfest acts; they pulled the US Army display.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RHsDa9_HSlA[/youtube]

  • Wyatt Earp remembers that it was this day 232 years ago that the Second Continental Congress voted to adopt the resolution for independence from Great Britain.
  • Frank Lasee expounds on the meaning of freedom.
  • Mary Lazich reprints a letter from Rep. Mark Gundrum, who is serving in Iraq. Bravo Zulu, sir, and see you when you get back.
  • Matt Burden remembers who thought The Surge wouldn’t work. Why am I not surprised to see both Barack Obama and Wesley Clark on that list (I’ll be back to them in a bit)?
  • How much progress? Warner Todd Huston caught the presstitutes including our allies’ casualty numbers to try to keep the anti-war American spin machine going.
  • Sean Hackbarth is keeping track of the benchmarks the ‘Rats suddenly forgot about because Iraq is better than 83% there.
  • Of course, not all the news from Iraq is good; Dr. Rusty Shackelford found Hezbollah setting up shop in Iraq. Say, isn’t that a 25-year itch that needs some extra-strength medication?
  • Uncle Jimbo says, “Character matters.” If only John McCain weren’t so stubborn in eviscerating the First Amendment, granting amnesty to Mexicans here illegally, and killing the economy on the altar of Gorebal “Warming”,….
  • Moron Pundit decodes the message of Hugh Gubmint – “You’re too stupid to live your lives.”
  • Dad29 caught soon-to-be-ex-Justice Loophole Louis Butler being the decisive vote on a case in which a party donated to him. Need I mention that it was a liberal group, and Loophole voted in their favor?
  • Headless Blogger dips into the dustbin of history to explain why we don’t have tracked trolleys anymore. No wonder why the liberals got history excised from the schools; it’s so much easier to repeat the failures if nobody remembers why they failed the first time.
  • Bryan Maersch explores why MATC taxes are going up 4.9% this year. If MATC president Darnell Cole got his most-recent raise while working in the private sector, especially with MATC’s (lack-of-)performance, the presstitutes would be having a 30-ton cow.
  • Moe Lane eviscerates Dingy Harry Reid on energy.
  • Speaking of the Dingy One, see-dubya caught him going to the Nazi attack. Now, what’s the principle that says the first one to the Nazi references loses?
  • Update on yesterday’s stupid union item; Lance Burri now reports Baraboo’s public employee union is going to drop their grievance about not being called first to fill sandbags.
  • Now, it’s Obamination Time. Heather Radish asks Obama why he wants to kill Canadians with his plan to nationalize American health care.
  • The Unreal One has the Obamination Demotivation Poster of the day.
  • Flip notes that the drive to 100% taxation will really take off with an Obamination Administration.
  • Jim Geraghty has today’s Expired Obamination Words – that 16-month withdrawal pledge isn’t a deadline.
  • Jonah Goldberg found a rather-interesting (in the Chinese, likely Red, sort of way) group organized on the Obama campaign site.
  • Duane Lester found another recipient of a sweetheart mortgage deal – your presumptive ‘Rat nominee for President.
  • Ed Morrissey isn’t buying the Obamination Excuse that it was competition for a hot new successful ‘Rat pol. Oh, I don’t know; buying pols is standard operating procedure in Chicago.
  • Zip does the math on Obama’s experience. If you took the over-150 days between swearing in and creating a Presidential Exploratory committee, rip up that ticket because it’s worthless.
  • Bus & Driver update, part 1 – Jim Geraghty found Obama pulling Clark up from under the front bumper of the Obamination Express.
  • Bus & Driver update, part 2 – Fred found George Soros and company under the wheels.
  • Bus & Driver update, part 3 – Charles Johnson found there is a bigger bus than the Obamination Express.

Hey, it’s still before 6 pm here in the land of cheese and beer, so it’s not Evening Scramble yet :-)

July 1, 2008

The Morning Scramble – 7/1/2008

by @ 7:33. Filed under The Morning Scramble.

Don’t confuse the size of this with normalcy; I won’t be back until tomorrow and that’s going to be a recovery day.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g4rPIjWqMRc[/youtube]

  • Jim Hoft relays the predictabe result of the attempt of the ‘Rats, led by Nobody’s Senator, Herb Kohl and the worst doctor around, Steve Kagen, to sue OPEC.
  • Peter questions southeast Wisconsin’s (and northeast Illinois’) very-own special blend of Algore-Whitman Memorial RFG. While it is 14 cents/gallon more than uncontaminated gas, thanks to the 8-year-old threat by Jim “Craps” Doyle (WEAC/Potawatomi-For Sale) to sue Big Oil if they passed that along to just those of us in SE Wisconsin, the entire state is paying 7 or so cents/gallon more than they should. Maybe I should just make stupid lawsuit threats the theme :-) .
  • Second dose of the Gateway Pundit on gas (sue me; I’m on vacation); he is sick of Dingy Harry Reid’s answer to energy. You want an energy crisis, give him a compliant President (wait, we are about to).
  • Lawhawk delivered Wesley Clark his own copy of Bus & Driver yesterday. Guess I was a bit off on the timing.
  • Jim Lynch isn’t letting the fact that Clark got tossed under the Obamination Express get in the way of his latest caption contest.
  • Laughing Wolf links Barack Obama, Clark and not-under-the-bus William Ayers.
  • Jim Geraghty applied some inflationary and non-inflationary math to Barack Obama’s claims that he only got $12,000 as a community organizer. Throw in the car, and Obama started out better than the median income; and he only got richer.
  • Brief break from the Obamination Express; James T. Harris confirms there is a lot of money in “charity work” in the black community.
  • Back to the Obamination Express; Emperor Misha I rips the Official Washington Paper Paint-Catcher of the Obamination, Washington Post™, over their dis of the part of “flyover country” I happen to be in (or at least the state).
  • James Wigderson found another curdled set of words from Obama past their expiration date; his former federalist stance on gay marriage.
  • I’m not done with the ‘Rats yet. Kathy Carpenter notes they skipped town without forestalling a 10% cut in Medicare rates scheduled because of a formula that requires fee cuts when spending exceeds established goals. (Un)fortunately, President Bush bailed them out.
  • William Teach confirms the ‘Rats are all about misery.
  • Sister Toldjah caught a ‘Rat pining for the glory days of the Great Patriotic War (no, not the American Revolution, or the Civil War, but the Soviet front of World War II).
  • Plebian has what the ‘Rats believe are the most-dangerous things in the world. Unlike Scrappleface, 90% of it’s true (it’s only missing Rush Limbaugh).
  • Paul Socha is rooting for chicken wire for the protesters at the ‘Rat convention.
  • JammieWearingFool notes that it would feel just like home to a couple of Durham ‘Rats who are part of a Satanic cult busted for kidnapping, rape and assault.
  • Okay; I’m done with the ‘Rats, but we’re not done with politics. Doubleplusundead (filling in on Conservative Grapevine this week) has this week’s dose of GOP Senate FAIL. Trent Cave-A-Lott taught Mitch McConnell well (relatively-speaking).
  • The letter-writing Brad V says that Bobby Jindal just saved his national political future by vetoing the 100% pay increase for Louisiana’s legislature.
  • Christian Schneider has women who are not his wife mad at him because he dared to question Wisconsin’s policy of giving the ‘Rats an 8-Assemby-seat and 2-Senate-seat head start in any given election. Guess it’s time to rename that organization League of Women DemocRATic Voters.
  • Josh Schroeder has an investment opportunity for you. Of course, Six Flags will first have to find a way to shut up the family of a youth who climbed a pair of well-marked fences and found himself on the fatal end of a roller coaster without losing a lot of money.
  • Michelle Malkin and See-Dubya tag-team the sad state of education today.
  • Let’s close off with some humor. Lemur King answers the question, “Why do we laugh at misfortune?”, with some potatoes.
  • Anwyn asks, “What is Christie Brinkley proliferating?”

June 30, 2008

The Morning Scramble – 6/30/2008

by @ 7:08. Filed under The Morning Scramble.

Let’s see if I can get this done quickly; I’m off to Cedar Point since I’m almost all the way down here…

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X4EPn1FacaQ[/youtube]

  • I would be remiss if I didn’t show you what I ate this weekend. The rest of you Morons just don’t know what you missed.
  • Crunchie0311 (or is it 0311 crunchie?) smacked down the Chicago Tribune’s editorial idiotorial board. That reminds me; I’ll have to restart the Idiotorial of the Day contest when I get back.
  • Kate has the cartoon of the day.
  • JammieWearingFool reports a French commando “accidentally” used live ammunition during an open day demonstration. Fortunately, nobody died (yet), though out of 16 wounded, 4 were in serious condition.
  • Fausta exposes Barack Obama’s New-Ageism. I wonder what the out-of-the-country Islamists will think about that.
  • Warner Todd Huston notes just how little respect the Cult of Obamination has for opposing viewpoints (pay attention, those of you using Blogger; if you haven’t been targeted yet, you likely will be).
  • William Teach predicts a bus-tossing for Wesley Clark. Put me down for high noon Tuesday.
  • Headless Blogger explores what happens when the tracks get flooded out. That’s right, AMTRAK is a government operation.
  • Bill Quick notes the presstitute follies are beginning with the reporting on the anti-Obama/anti-John McCain/pro-Hillary Clinton vandalizing of a bunch of cars in Florida.
  • Sister Toldjah runs through a couple more bogus attacks on McCain from the left.
  • Karl offers a sage piece of advice to McCain on the economy; less is more.
  • I doubt McCain will take it; after all, nocomme1 notes he isn’t exactly into us conservatives.
  • Shoebox coined a new term for the no-drill ‘Rats – DOPES. It definitely fits.
  • Tom McMahon delivers the 4-Block to hope and reality.
  • Uncle Jimbo and Kev launched a Freefly into professional journalist treasonist Seymour Hersh, the aforementioned Clark, and the aforementioned Frenchie (standard Freefly language rules apply).
  • Kevin Fischer notes Japan has gone to a very strict waist-measurement regime. If Healthy (and Depopulated) Wisconsin or the Obamination Health Care plan comes to fruition, this is our future.
  • Lance Burri has today’s useless public union news; the unionized Baraboo city workers have filed a grievance because the volunteer firefighters were filling sandbags during the height of the flooding. My solution; next time, sandbag everything except the union thugs’ homes.

June 29, 2008

The Morning Scramble – 6/29/2008

by @ 7:15. Filed under The Morning Scramble.

Yes, it’s Sunday. As usual, I’m conscious way too early, but not as usual, I’m running with a Scramble…

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bu6EnO2Jglw[/youtube]

  • James Wigderson found yet another place that requires photo ID.
  • Kevin Fischer issued a call to arms back at the home county (Milwaukee) over a board of supervisors’ 12-6 vote on running a referendum to raise the county sales tax from 0.5% to 1.5% (this on top of a 5.0% state sales tax, a 0.1% Miller Park tax shared with only 4 other counties, and a 0.25% food-and-soda tax for the white elephant known as the Midwest Airlines Center not levied in any other county. For the non-math geniuses, that’s just enough to override a Scott Walker veto (and yes, he will veto). Fortunately, they can’t raise the sales tax…yet.
  • Eric runs through the alphabet for examples of successful first-initial people.
  • Marshall Manson reviews the Newseum. Paging Ms. Favazza. Paging Katie Favazza. I do believe you owe us a review.
  • Jib has this weekend’s presstitute folly. I’m the king of the run-on sentence, but what The Capital Times put up is beyond belief. I guess all the copy editors were fired when they went essentially web-only.
  • Emperor Misha I shows what happens when there is no such thing as a Bill of Rights. I wonder if seeing the video will make American presstitutes not be in such a rush to become like their European counterparts…nah.
  • JammieWearingFool found a disturbing new trend; people who are adopting “Hussein” as their middle name. Why? They want to be like Barack Hussein Obama. Bad decision.
  • Owen discovered that the Jim Geraghty Maxim also applies to Obama’s words on taxes. Unfortunately, the curdling exposed an even more-liberal view. As I am fond of saying, the past is an indication of future performance.
  • Janet Evans marvels at the 52 Chinese who refused to leave a plane after the flight was cancelled. And we gave Beijing (the city where the plane was sitting) the Olympics this year?
  • Elliot (and commenters) explode the “War is not the answer” line of Bravo Sierra.
  • Vivian Lee saw the best bumper sticker ever.
  • Rich Horton has today’s European PC Death Watch episode. Kids no longer have control over who they invite to their birthday parties.
  • Patrick dips into the history well for a few choice quotes from the Founding Fathers regarding the 2nd Amendment.

Time for some biscuits and gravy. Hopefully when I get home, the bunker won’t have blown away.

June 28, 2008

The Morning Scramble – 6/28/2008

by @ 7:35. Filed under The Morning Scramble.

I have to tip my cap to Don Smiley; the Summerfest lineup looks soooo good on paper…

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OTVANp6Psd4[/youtube]

Yes, it’s the weekend. Normally that would stop me in my tracks, but let’s roll on:

  • Jim Hoft opens fire on Barack Obama. Remember what I said about past performance.
  • Jim Geraghty jumps all over Obama’s failed privatization of low-income housing. The trouble actually was hiring a bunch of contributor slumlords like property-purchase-partner Tony Rezko, not the privatization (Cabrini Green rings a warning bell).
  • Jed calls the food menu in Denver for the ‘Rat convention an “Epic FAIL!”
  • Lawhawk catches Matt Drudge diving into the tank on gas prices. I will note that Drudge doesn’t take his own pictures, but choosing one that has only racing fuels on it is, at the least, misleading.
  • E.M. Zanotti laughs at Michigan’s latest attempt to use government subsidies to try to bail itself out of a business crisis mostly of its own making; wood-chips-to-ethanol.

June 27, 2008

Meeting of the Morons – prelude

by @ 21:40. Filed under Miscellaneous.

Yep, tonight was just the prelude. Due to various issues, I was the only one to make it to eastern Michigan today, and to the abode of one Lemur King and family. LM and family are the prototypical family, great husband and wife, two wonderful young children, and one incredibly-friendly cat (which I’m surprisingly not allergic to). The food lineup changed just a bit from the Indonesian fried rice LM had planned, to a Korean dish called Jae Jaeng Myun. I wholeheartedly approve, but then again, I like spicy.

The trip in for me was horrid. The “fun” began right at the Wisconsin-Illinois border with the reconstruction and expansion of the Tri-State (note to the DOT; Illinois is not making it 8 lanes north of Rosecrans). The Edens was horrid close to the Junction (with the Kennedy). The Skyway, as always, sucked at the toll booth.

Then the real fun began once I rejoined I-94 in Indiana. The Indiana DOT and its contractors chose today to do the actual repaving of the inside lanes, so the left lane was narrowed for a bunch of miles. That helped create a rather long stretch of stop-and-go. Michigan had its share of construction as well, along with a lot of state police. The good news is they’ll basically let you do 10 over, and outside the construction zones, the speed limit’s 70.

I’m pretty much toast since it’s 10:38 here. Tomorrow’s BBQ day.

The Morning Scramble – 6/27/2008

by @ 0:01. Filed under The Morning Scramble.

The From the Frontlines webathon was a smashing success. They wanted $500,000; thanks to the likes of Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Michelle Malkin, and everybody who donated, they got $1,055,719 as they went off the air. Bravo Zulu! Just as a reminder, the donation window is open until July 2.

It’s fitting, yet sad that Rush is at Summerfest tonight; I’ve been looking for a good time to break this one out, and a trip out of Milwaukee is as good of time as any…

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xe_csQvx0go[/youtube]

This is going to be a bit abbreviated because I’m actually putting it together just before midnight, and I’m putting it up right at midnight.

  • Karl reminds us that another conservative victory came out of SCOTUS; the axing of the “Millionares’ Amendment”.
  • The Vintage One caught Reuters projecting their hatred of hunting on Justice Antonin Scalia. Score another point in the book for the Italian.
  • Curt found something disturbing in the Heller decision. Honestly, if the Lawgivers-In-Black ever get a solid majority on SCOTUS instead of relying on the coin flip that’s Anthony Kennedy, the presence or absence of that phrase won’t matter a bit; they just make it up anyway.
  • Marshall Manson and the other two denziens of On Tap say that it was actually Roberts’ majority.
  • Speaking of Jim Geraghty, he reports the NRA is going after Chicago’s handgun ban. Stay on target. Stay on target!
  • Uncle Jimbo smacks down the L-I-B.
  • Robert found a pic of the Justices that explains a lot.
  • Teresa notes how far Obama has moved since 2000 on foreign policy. Of course, I don’t necessarily consider adopting the Algore/Joe Lieberman standard a sign of maturity, but retreat-and-defeat is still worse.
  • Jessi has the Obamination cartoon of the day.
  • William Teach has half a cheer for Obama on the UN-Fairness Doctrine. Just remember Geraghty’s Maxim – every Obama statement has an expiration date.
  • Dad29 chalks up another cure for adult stem cells. Embryonic stem cells have yet to get on the board, but don’t expect the Culture of Death™ to stop trying killing.
  • Fred Keller has the top 10 reasons to support ANWR development. Paging Mr. McCain. Paging Mr. Sensenbrenner. Please pick up the diamond-tipped drill.

Unless I pop pack in here in the am, the next time you’ll hear from me, I’ll be on Michigan time.

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