I’m not a good enough writer to enter, but James Ballou (aka Mormon Doc in the Hot Air commentaries) is running a contest to win a copy of his forthcoming book, Soul Survivor. Don’t waste too much time, because he’s leaving the contest open only until June 20.
No Runny Eggs
The repository of one hard-boiled egg from the south suburbs of Milwaukee, Wisconsin (and the occassional guest-blogger). The ramblings within may or may not offend, shock and awe you, but they are what I (or my guest-bloggers) think.
Archive for posts by steveegg.
June 1, 2008
Roll bloat – back in the States edition
There’s one I should’ve had on that ever-growing roll long before now, and one I picked up through Twitter.
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May 31, 2008
I’m back!
As the Twitter update says, Oly (the real fisherman of the bunch) and I limited out. We had to try some different presentations as every day was a bit different, but here’s a fish story until I get the pics on Monday:
Oly’s 41-inch muskie: For the first time in 13 years, we decided to rent a guide to show us some new spots on the lake Tuesday. We found one point on Osbourne where the slight wind was blowing in, and Jason said he had a 50-inch muskie. Oly throws his jig out there and WHAM, the muskie took it and ran. Since Jason was trying out a brand-new boat, nobody loaded the net. Now you’re probably thinking, buh-bye muskie. Guess again. That 4-lb test line he uses is very damn tough. Not only did it survive being in the muskie’s mouth and wrapped around, but it survived Jason’s first miss trying to grab it. We did get it in the boat, and there’s a couple good pics of it.
As for the weather, about the only thing missing was the 80-degrees that we had the first year up (in 1996; that week also saw snow up there). We had absolutely everything else – calm, sunny and warm; thunderboomers; snow; wicked wind (was a cast-iron bitch to dock the boat Thursday night; our usual boatman’s with the futsal team in Guatemala right now).
It’s good to be back in the land of cheese and beer (even though I brought back a 12-pack of Labatt Maximum Ice).
May 24, 2008
Can we try them for sedition?
Jim Hoft has the details of the AP (or if you prefer, crAP) getting caught outright lying about Ayatollah Ali Sistani issuing fatwas authorizing the use of force against Americans in Iraq. Words escape me, especially since the clock is ticking.
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The Morning Scramble – 5/24/2008
No, the weekend edition is not going to be a regular feature. I’ve got a couple hours to burn before I’m on the road and out of touch for a week, so I thought I’d pay homage to Mary Katharine Ham’s move to the Examiner…
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- A belated happy 2nd blogiversary to Kate at An Ol’ Broad’s Ramblings.
- Happy 3rd blogiversary Jim Lynch of bRight & Early (keeper of the Blogiversary Database).
- As a blogiversary present, he ReWrote™ the NOPEC Bill. If only we had a Senator with gumballs….
- Jim Hoft points out that American oil companies control less than 6% of the oil reserves. Once one remembers that BP and Shell are not American companies, it drops to something less than 3%.
- Ed Morrissey has the Post Title of the Day™ – “Where blogs are blogs and politicians are nervous”.
- CDR Salamander compares the warning alert levels of the various members of NATO.
- Michelle Malkin is keeping track of The Human Gaffe Machine, AKA Barack Hussein Obama.
- Sister Toldjah plays “Spot That Hypocrite!”
- Tee bee does some eclectic surfing from incandescent light bulbs to sterilizing water with ultraviolet LEDs.
- Jeff Wagner declares Wisconsin Attorney General J.B. Van Hollen, about the only “Republican” success story in 2006 (the only Republican pickup in either a statewide or Congressional election if memory serves), one-and-done. I wonder if Jeff’s lining up for a primary challenge.
See youse mugs next Saturday.
May 23, 2008
The Morning Scramble – 5/23/2008
There is but one reason for this song…
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I’m on vacation next week (hunting the great Canadian walleye, to be specific), so I’ll leave you in the tender care of Shoebox and the guest-bloggers. Before then, however, we’ve got one more Scramble:
- Matt reminds us of what Monday truly is for. Words cannot express enough my appreciation for those that gave all for the greatest country on Earth.
- Owen (my blogfather) and Jed are celebrating the fifth blogiversary of Boots and Sabers. I hope I don’t have to explain to anybody how it is the most-influential Wisconsin blog.
- Ace is shocked, SHOCKED that the ‘Rats would lie about Iraq. I wonder just how angry the DUmmies and KOmmies are after finding out that Paul Kanjorski rolled them right over.
- Ed Morrissey exposes the latest “Hide the Language” game being played by the ‘Rats. So much for “Most Ethical Congress EVAH!”
- HotAir commenter cannonball answered my plea on that thread for a Wile E. Pelosi, genius Photoshop…
Thank you, cannonball.
- Pete Fanning wonders where Steve Kagen (D-Green Bay) is on the SAVE Act now that it’s time to pull it out of committee. Funny thing is, Kagen is a co-sponsor.
- Allahpundit catches Maxine Waters admiring Hugo Chavez and socialism so much she doesn’t even know the right term for what she wants to do to the oil industry. I believe the proper verb is “destroy”.
- Shoebox finds a Flatlander pol that is happier than a pig in shit over high gas prices. Doyle (he of the $.40/gallon federal tax hike for “infrastructure” call, ironic considering he uses Wisconsin’s transportation fund as his personal slush fund) has to be envious of Blagojevich and his state’s imposition of sales taxes on gasoline.
Side note, that sales tax is what Barack Hussein Obama was once so opposed to, he wanted placards saying he was responsible for its temporary suspension back in 2000.
- Mike runs some numbers on Chuck Schumer’s claims of the value of Saudi oil versus ANWR oil. Guess we can put Chuckie into the Blood for Oil category.
- Silent E has the Obamanation Quote of the Day. Question to BHO – if you think we’re the greatest country in the world, what are you going to change it to?
- Trail-Mix collates a heap of toons hacking apart BHO, Gorebal Warming and the
FarmPork Bill. - John Hawkins is off the McCain
StraightDouble Talk Express. It took a lot to get Hawkins off the Express, but lying directly to his ear on immigration did it. - JammieWearingFool has news of one less difference between the two halves of the bipartisan Party-In-Government; a proposed FCC rule imposing “advisory boards” full of the aggrieved designed to bum-rush radio stations that are too conservative (specifically, anti-illegal-immigrant) off the air. The UN-Fairness Doctrine by any other name, and this one’s from a nominally-Pubbie FCC.
- Speaking of the aggrieved, Patrick McIlheran notes the professional complainers are mad over carbonated fruit. No, they’re not mad because carbonated fruit is any less healthy than non-carbonated fruit; they’re mad because they see it as a gateway to soda. News flash – it’s more of a gateway away from soda.
- Dean says, “Just blog to be healthy.”
- JackBoot found a very enterprising car dealer who is giving away a handgun with every purchase. If only I were in southwest Missouri instead of southeast Wisconsin,….
- Jib skewers the decision by the UN to send condoms to Burma as aid relief.
Blogging will be light on my end today and tomorrow; I still have some last-minute items to take care of. If I don’t make it back in here, see you next Saturday.
May 22, 2008
Happy Birthday Al Franken
Matt Lewis points us to a very-special birthday video from the NRSC…
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Hey Al, here’s to #58 seeing you back home in New York City.
The Morning Scramble/Open Thread Thursday – 5/22/2008
If I were smart, I would’ve done this one last week…
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- Jim Hoft has the terror stats you won’t see trumpeted in the media.
- Zip follows up on the Germans-let-Taliban-commander-walk story. Guess feeding the crocodiles is hazardous to one’s health.
- Mike asks, “Who is to blame for high gas prices?”
- Shoebox answers. Pay attention, Sen. McCain; he’s talking about you.
- Speaking of McCain, Michelle Malkin notes his campaign is sponsoring comment spam. A healthy chunk of my roll is on the hit list, but I’m not. Could I be THAT mercurial? (Yes.)
- Ace remembered the last candidate to do that. Guess the McCainiacs and the PaulNuts have more in common than I thought.
- Ed Morrissey caught the New York Times violating their ethics policy in trying to roll the McCain campaign. Note; this message, while it may seem to be paid for by the McCain campaign, most certainly isn’t.
- More Ed; he urges House Republicans to take the third and final chance to kill the
FarmPork Bill. - Still on pork, Kate catches Harry Reid giving a wet sloppy French kiss to Planned Parenthood while using the war supplemental bill as cover.
- Jon Ham has a multitude of reasons to eat popcorn while the oh-so-tolerant Left eats their own. UUUURRRPPP!!!!! (Excuse me.)
As a reminder, I’ll be gone for a week starting Saturday on my Great Canadian Walleye Hunt. Shoebox is back from his fishing trip, and I should have the usual guest-blogging crew in.
May 21, 2008
Introducing A Roadmap for America’s Future
Today, Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI, my Congresscritter) released a plan to deal with the looming financial crisis that is facing the federal government, “A Roadmap for America’s Future. Yesterday, I highlighted a Congressional Budget Office report on the long-term future of the federal government’s finances. To recap yesterday’s analysis; doing either nothing or attempting to match the required spending increases with tax increases was found by the CBO to be unsustainable.
They also did an analysis of a third scenario; the not-yet-released Roadmap. I chose not to discuss that at that time because the details of the plan weren’t out yesterday, and because the CBO limited its analysis to the overall numbers. The CBO found that the then-not-specific spending targets requested by Ryan and the minority on the House Budget Committee is ultimately sustainable, with debt as a percentage of GDP briefly peaking above 100% around 2040 and falling back to a slightly-more-manageable number as deficit spending is replaced by surpluses, and economic growth continuing at a pace not possible otherwise.
On to some of the specifics:
- “Discretionary” spending as a percentage of GDP is steadily cut from unspecified programs from 9.8% currently to 3.1% by 2082. This one is going to be the hardest to do, but it is absolutely vital to make the numbers work. I’m a bit troubled that there are no specifics mentioned, especially since eliminating pork, which is one of Ryan’s causes, won’t nearly be enough.
- Privatizing Medicare, with the government providing the amount spent per enrollee (with upward adjustments for inflation, health-care inflation and risk factors, and a downward adjustment for income) to purchase private insurance.
- Creating a tax credit for those not in Medicare to purchase health insurance, which would be portable and multi-state.
- Privatizing Social Security.
- Introduce a simplified income tax, with but 2 rates, a large personal deduction, and other than the health insurance deduction noted above, no other deductions.
- Replace the corporate income tax with a “business consumption tax” (i.e. VAT). I’m not exactly sold on this, though Ryan notes that unlike the income tax, it can be removed from exports and added to imports.
There’s a lot more than I’ve included here. It truly is a sweeping proposal.
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House guarantees higher gas prices – Language warning
(H/T – Jim Hoft)
No, I’m not going to apologize for the language. This is some seriously fucked-up repugnant shit.
By a vote of 324-84, including the entire Wisconsin delegation in the aye column, the House of Representatives passed a law designed to do two things that will do everything but reduce gas prices:
– Allow anti-trust suits against OPEC.
– Demand the 932nd investigation into price-fixing by Big Oil.
I’ll briefly take the second item first. Because of the jackasses in Congress, including the fucktards in the Senate that refused to open up the Colorado oil shale fields, we’re at the extreme high end of the supply-demand curve. OF COURSE there’s going to be massive speculation when demand outstrips supply, and said speculation is going to leverage prices beyond what it would if there was a better balance between demand and supply. I will point out the 931 previous investigations all found that there was no collusion between the traders to keep the price high; what the fuck is gong to be different with the 932nd?
Berry Laker pretty much predicted the response of the market to this piece of horseshit. I missed the intraday charts, but oil closed at $133.17/barrel and wholesale reformulated gas closed at $3.3965/gallon. I’d say that’s a shot across the bow.
Now to the suing OPEC item. There’s a slight problem with that; they’re sovereign nations not subject to territorial law. When the Justice Department comes a-knocking, what do you suppose the reaction of Venezuela, Iran, Saudi Arabia and the rest of OPEC is going to be? If you think they’ll boost production just because a couple lawyers threatened them, I’ll point out that Saudi Arabia brushed off a friendly request from President Bush a couple weeks ago. When some judge decides to try to seize those countries’ assets in the US, what’s more likely; a capitulation from OPEC or a complete shutoff of the spigot and a “FUCK YOU!”? I’ll remind you that we’re more-dependent on OPEC now than we were the previous two times they shut off the spigot, and they shut it off for more-trivial reasons than all of them having their assets seized.
Then there’s the whole question of enforcement. If we’re serious about forcing the OPEC spigots open, it’s going to take a military operation that makes both theaters of WWII look like a training exercise. Talk about your blood for oil. Oh yeah, that’s going to cost a lot.
I do have to take a moment to ask Paul Ryan and Jim Sensenbrenner, two Congresscritters who usually know better, “What the fuck are you thinking by signing onto this smelly piece of shit?” There is nothing, I repeat, nothing that could possibly make this worth voting for.
Taxation without representation, MATC edition
(H/T – Owen)
The Milwaukee Area Technical College district wants to jack up budgeted spending by 6.2% over last year’s budget to $333 million, supported by a 4.9% property tax levy increase. Let’s run some numbers:
– Last year, despite budgeting “only” $314 million, they actually spent $331 million because of various unbudgeted construction projects.
– The 4.9% property tax levy increase asked for is, according to the article, mostly for increases in salary and benefits. That would be an additional $1.5 million in wages/salary, $2+ million in health care and $2.5 million in current-year non-health-care fringe benefits (an additional $2 million in increased fringe benefits is related to a new requirement to put future retirement benefits on the books the year they’re accrued instead of the year they’re paid out). Who here outside of government has had a 4.9% increase in wages and benefits?
– Tuition (set by the state) is going up 5.5%.
Jeanette Bell (ex-mayor of West Allis and proven tax-and-spender) had the audacity to claim that MATC cut to the bone. Again, I ask, who outside of government is getting a 4.9% increase in their compensation packages? Say, maybe it’s time to take another look at the $600,000 public safety initiative as well.
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The Morning Scramble – 5/21/2008
Ever since I was a young boy…
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- Jib explores roadside economics and find the news grim. Given that the manufacturers of cars and personal recreational vehicles are resorting (once again) to very-low-interest long-term financing to get people in the door, I’d have to say the ripple effect is not done yet.
- Michelle Malkin cranks up the Obama Gaffe Machine.
- Curt asks whether the Iranian leader Barack Hussein Obama would meet with unconditionally is the puppet Ahmadinejad or head Mad Mullah™ Ayatollah Khamenei.
- Gopfolk has a two-for in the toon department, taking on both Indiana Obama and the “threatened” polar bear.
- S. Weasel unleases her latest Photoshops on BHO. I like the second.
- Eric ties together Hillary Clinton and the Kentucky Derby. Say, wasn’t the lone filly in the Derby put down on the track?
- Bill Quick says Clinton’s in it to win
itback her $11 million in loans. Given they’re almost at the tipping point in delegates, I’m at least somewhat inclined to agree. - Tom McMahon applies the 2004 standard to this election. Of course, he forgot to put the partisan spin that makes all the difference, but that’s the point.
- Ed Morrissey asks whether the split in the party of the Rat is racial or ideological. While it is ideological, the fact that they always go for the candidate that most-approaches 110% compliance (and, by 0.01 percentage points, it’s Obama over Clinton) means that despite the temptation for John McCain to tack even further left, there’s nothing to be gained by doing so.
- Second dose of the boss – Michelle issued a Shamnesty Alert for the Feinstein/Craig amendment to the GWOT supplemental bill.
- Speaking of the bill, it’s time for a second dose of Curt – he notes that shamnesty isn’t the only game being played on what was once touted as a “clean” supplemental.
- Headless Blogger outlines the eight main symptoms of Groupthink. ‘Rats, Islamokazis and Gorebal Warming acolytes (I do repeat myself, though) sure seem to meet the definitions.
- ChrisG has some fun ticking off some of the spam caught in the Flopping Aces filters. A mild content warning has been issued for the spam.
- Katie Favazza caught a rather interesting take on biofuels from the UN. The stopped clock that is the UN may not be quite right, but they’re not the 180-degrees wrong they usually are.
- Elliot asks the salient question after the local paintcatcher (the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel for those of you who don’t remember where I am) put out the online call for “victims” of “Big Oil”.
- Brian answers the question of whether conservatism is dead in the emphatically-negatory. I’ve long struggled with the answer to that question.
- Second dose of Jib – he tells Milwaukee Brewer manager Ned Yost to either take some heat like a man or get out of the dugout. I’ve made it no secret I’d prefer the latter.
- A less-than-healthy Kathy Carpenter summoned up the strength to point out one more thing (besides voting) that we need photo IDs for – prescription drugs.
May 20, 2008
Serious financial trouble on the horizon
(H/T – Greg Mankiw via Brian Faughnan via Charlie Sykes)
At the request of Rep. Paul Ryan, the ranking member on the House Budget Committee, the Congressional Budget Office prepared an analysis of the long-term economic effects of doing absolutely nothing to either spending or revenues (other than making the Bush tax cuts permanent and indexing the AMT), using a very-long-term plan to slow and ultimately eliminate deficit spending, and using tax increases to attempt to match the increases in spending.
Table 1, which outlines the projected changes in spending as a percentage of Gross Domestic Product (SocSecurity/Medicare/Medicaid operate under current law, “discretionary” spending essentially matches the growth in GDP, interest payments on debt increases to match the increased debt), has some scary numbers. By 2030, Medicare and Medicaid together will account for a larger percentage of GDP than Social Security. By 2050, they’ll account for a larger percentage of GDP than “discretionary” spending, interest payments will be the single largest item on the budget at 13.6% of GDP, and total government spending will account for 41.8% of GDP. By 2082, more than 75 cents of every dollar produced by the economy would go to the federal government, with 40 cents of that going to pay interest, and Medicare/Medicaid spending outstripping the rest of the budget.
Bear in mind, that is with no “universal health care”, no adjustments in the Social Security/Medicare/Medicaid formulae, and no adjustment other than the change in GDP in the remainder of government spending.
As for the debt, by (approximately) 2030, it would be more than 100% of GDP, a situation only experienced in and immediately after World War II. Shortly afterward, it will zoom past the all-time high of 110% of GDP, blowing past 290% of GDP by 2050 and 400% of GDP by 2060.
A textbook analysis of the effect of the exploding deficits on the real Gross National Product per person is similarily ugly. The CBO acknowledges that the textbook analysis is too rosy, but by the late 2040s, the GNP/person will begin to drop due to the effects of the deficits. By 2060, and a drop of 17% from the peak, the debt will be so large, the future effects are incalculable.
Regarding the thought that increased taxes would save us, the focus on the blogs I linked to was on the 88% top tax rate and 25% bottom tax rate required to support a non-interest spending rate of 35% of GDP (and the associated 40% of GDP spent on interest). The CBO notes the following regarding that more-than-doubling of the tax rate: “Such tax rates would significantly reduce economic activity and would create serious problems with tax avoidance and tax evasion. Revenues would probably fall significantly short of the amount needed to finance the growth of spending; therefore, tax rates at such levels would probably not be economically feasible.”
The CBO also ran some numbers on the assumption that non-interest government spending would somehow be held at 28% of GDP (the projections for 2050). Even that would necessitate a higher-than-90% increase in taxes; the lowest rate would go up from 10% to 19%, the current 25% rate would go up to 47%, and the top 35% rate (both individual and corporate) would go up to 66%. That tax increase is estimated to reduce real GNP per person by between 5% and 20% from what it would be if the 2007 levels of spending and taxation would be maintained.
The Morning Scramble – 5/20/2008
I hate the chopped, MTV-friendly version of this song, so enjoy the Matrixed version…
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- Find out who took one for the team in this week’s Blogs4Bauer Writers’ Strike Substitute episode.
- Aaron has a more-or-less good update on yesterday’s billing snafu.
- Ed Morrissey looks into the soul of Minnesota’s own madrassa and finds it a hateful, violent place. I’m shocked, SHOCKED that the Religion of Pieces would beat up a news crew in front of the chilrun.
- Jim Geraghty asks who can pull off going to Iran.
- Zip notes that if one is talking about the Nixonian version, it’s not going to be Barack Hussein Obama; the Iranians would see a victory for him as the “conquer(ing) of heart of American society.”
- Mike has the salient quote regarding BHO – “Talk softly and throw the stick away!”
- American Pundit explores the rather-sizable skeletons in the closet of one Greg Craig, a top foreign policy advisor for BHO. Do the names Pedro Miguel Gonzalez, John Hinckley and Kofi Annan ring a bell? If not, go read and refresh your memory.
- Plebian divides the states as the Obamas see them.
- Cam Edwards cannot believe the rules for the caterers at the DNC convention. No fried foods, no bottled drinks, and all food must be local and/or organic. Glad I didn’t try to cover the recreation of 1968.
- Ace cancels the coming recession. Presstitutes respond by changing the definition of recession to include 1.5% growth in the economy.
- Doubleplusundead declares flavored Dew an EPIC FAIL. Why, oh why couldn’t PepsiCo stick with regular Mountain Dew, the Not-Quite-Official Soft Drink of No Runny Eggs (okay, I’ll let your dieting types have Diet Dew).
- Sean Hackbarth smacks the Governator around for not even considering spending cuts to close California’s budget shortfall. Except for scattered outposts like Nevada and clarion calls from people like Rep. Jim Sensenbrenner, the idea of reducing the gubmint appetite is lost on both halves of the bipartisan Party-In-Government.
- Donna Martinez has the proof of the inevitable step government takes after conservation becomes too successful for the gubmint coffers.
- SteveF applies the Orwell Farm example to speed cameras. Care to guess who’s refusing to pay?
- Christian Schneider goes into the memory vault to explain why state Sen. Roger Breske (D) will be the next Commissioner of Railroads. He was the key vote that allowed Jim “Craps” Doyle (WEAC/Potawatomi-For Sale) to put the Potawatomi in my description.
- Owen channels his inner geek. After all, there are 10 types of people in the world; those who understand binary and those who don’t.
A programming note; the Scramble will not happen next week, at least not with my name attached to it. I will be out of the country on the great walleye hunt north of the border.
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May 19, 2008
German special forces let another one get away
(H/T – Zip)
Der Spiegel reports that the German KSK special forces assigned to capture a rather bloodthirsty Taliban commander simply let him walk away. The KSK and the Afghan troops they were working with conducted a brilliant surveillance, right down to the color of his turban. However, when it came time to take him down, they were spotted a couple hundred yards from their target. Because the KSK is under orders to not use lethal force unless fired upon, all the commander had to do was run, which he did.
The larger policy of not firing unless fired upon is causing some serious friction between the Germans and the remainder of the NATO force in Afghanistan. Quoting an unnamed British officer, “The Krauts are allowing the most dangerous people to get away and are in the process increasing the danger for the Afghans and for all foreign forces here.”
No wonder why most of the Taliban “resurgence” has happened in German-controlled areas. I wonder what the Germans would have done had the Soviets decided to charge through the Fulda Gap.
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The Morning Scramble – 5/19/2008
It is still morning, isn’t it?
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No fancy attempts at putting like items together today; too many and too little time…
- Attention Wisconsin conservatives. Wisconsin Institute for Leadership is now open for business.
- Jim Lynch has a baseline for bedrock conservative values. Looks good to me; good enough to use to try to drive him to 10,000 visitors this week.
- Ed Morrissey does the math on the entitlement liabilities. How many times more do America’s families owe in government debt than they do in personal debt? How does more than 4 sound?
- Fred Thompson (yes, that Fred Thompson) analyzes why activist judges are activist judges. He put too much thought into it; it’s because they’re lieberals.
- Second dose of Ed; he delivers a history lesson on why the Soviet Union collapsed to Barack Hussein Obama.
- Fausta goes a bit further back in her history lesson to BHO.
- Triple shot of Ed (which makes it a good day); he finds BHO trying to keep his and his wife’s stump speeches out of the political discussion. After all, it’s easier to snow-job the sheeple when they can’t be told how much of an idiot you are.
- CDR Salamander has today’s edition of Italian conservative hotties. I’m too lazy to dig out the link to the quote from the incoming PM, Silvio Berlusconi about how conservative women are hotter than liberal ones.
- Vivian Lee bemoans the decline and fall of Presidential politics, SNL edition.
- Mike forecasts a return to the late 1970s if BHO gets elected. Sweaters and short-shorts (depending on the season) not optional.
- Jon Ham finds 31,000 examples of (lack-of-)consensus on Gorebal Warming. Still want to call us “Flat Earthers”, Herr Goracle?
- Charles Johnson found an enemy of BHO’s; Fox News. That’s funny; they’re a semi-ally of mine.
- Curt delivers a history lesson to Tom Harkin. Say, wasn’t he a Rat Presidential candidate back in the day?
- Lawhawk notes the disembodied version of M-m-m-m-max bin Laden has effectively declared Iraq lost…for his side. Tell me again why the DhimmiRATs want to give up.
- Aaron just got a 14-month-old bill for the birth of his son.
- Just A Grunt has the latest example of why bipartisanship is a bunch of Bravo Sierra. After all, the ‘Rats demand 110% compliance.
- Second dip for Fausta; she laughs at Hugo “Mini-Castro” Chavez’s call for a Latin America oil-for-food program. It worked sooooo well last time. Say, if Chavez were serious, he would divert those “windfall oil profits” he’s using to help prop up FARC.
- Lance Burri says the UN is going to investigate racism in, wait for it…wait for it…the United States. Guess the various bands of Islamokazis, the Myamar government, the Serbs, the Tamil Tigers, the ChiComs, and a whole host of other groups are all done with their murderous hating </sarcasm>. Bonus coverage; Ann Althouse titled her post “Deep Doudou”.
- DrewM counts the ways the remake of “Red Dawn” will suck.
- Rick Moran breaks out the whine for BHO.
- Tom McMahon delivers the 4-Block SmackDown to the California Supreme Court.
- J. Gravelle invites Mike Rowe to do Wisconsin’s dirtiest job; be governor. He couldn’t be any worse than Craps.
- Uncle Jimbo says, “Don’t be a Dou’Che.” Good advice from a wise man.
- American Pundit answers why we can’t trust BHO.
- Bill Quick has a new game – How many times will the New York Times link McCain and Bush in a headline every week?
- JihadGene riffs with one of my pics from the RPW convention this weekend. Message to the Left; that van’s more road-worthy than your average Feingold/Kerry/Gore-festooned Volvo.
- Quad damage from Ed; he answers what the “bitter Rust Belt states” have in common; oppressive taxation and massive unions.
- Gaius has the barely-good landing of the day. That student pilot’s got some mad skillz, even though he has absolutely, positively no situational awareness.
- Doc notes the Gorebal Warming crowd is going after fat people. I knew it would come to this.
The Scramble is getting out of control. It is out of control and I’ll be lucky to live through it.
May 17, 2008
McCain’s message for the delegates
Sorry I don’t have video, but the county signs are in the way.
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Live-blogging the floor action
Since this portion promises to be quick-hitting, I’ll fire up the CoverItLive….
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Off to lunch
Because I burned much of the last hour catching up on the speakers to the convention-goers, I have but a half-hour before things start back up. Good thing there’s an Arby’s on the same property.
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Jim Sensenbrenner speaks to the floor
Of note, Rep. Sensenbrenner hit Assembly Speaker Mike Huebsch rather hard on the budget repair bill.
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Paul Ryan speaks to the floor
This is actually the second speech from the convention chair; I missed the first. Greg Bump didn’t.
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J.B. Van Hollen speaks to the floor
Time to burn the lunch hour catching up; once we got toward the end, I could not offload the audio fast enough…
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New name for Doyle
Because of all the potholes in Wisconsin and his continued raids on the transportation fund meant to fix those potholes, National Committeewoman Mary Buestrin is now calling the governor Pothole Doyle.
I like it.
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