…this little blurb from Stephen Green’s liveblog would be on it:
Also, it’s true: Guys named Steve do the best liveblogging.
No Runny Eggs
The repository of one hard-boiled egg from the south suburbs of Milwaukee, Wisconsin (and the occassional guest-blogger). The ramblings within may or may not offend, shock and awe you, but they are what I (or my guest-bloggers) think.
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January 30, 2008
If I had an ego wall,…
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New voting places in Oak Creek
Heads up, Oak Creek readers (if I have any, that is). Starting with the February 19 primaries, there are new polling places for those of us in the 1st, 2nd and 6th Aldermanic districts. Also, there is still a temporary relocation of the polling place for those in the 3rd Aldermanic district. You can either go to the city’s website to view, or move your eyes down just a bit…
1st Aldermanic District (Wards 1, 2, 3) – Oak Creek-Franklin School Administration Building, 7630 S. 10th St. (just south of the divided roadway portion between Rawson and Drexel)
2nd Aldermanic District (Wards 4, 5, 6) – Oak Creek West Middle School, 8401 S. 13th St. (between Drexel and Puetz)
3rd Aldermanic District (Wards 7, 8, 9) – Temporarily at the Oak Creek Community Center, 8580 S. Howell Ave. (between the library and the National Guard depot). Do note that beginning with the fall primary election on September 9, 2008, this polling place will be back at its regular place at Oak Creek East Middle School, 9330 S. Shepard Ave. (between Puetz and Ryan, though in the new building)
4th Aldermanic District (Wards 10, 11, 12) – Carollton Elementary School, 8965 S. Carollton Dr. (no change)
5th Aldermanic District (Wards 13, 14, 15) – Meadowview Elementary School, 10420 S. McGraw Dr. (no change)
6th Aldermanic District (Wards 16, 17, 18) – Oak Creek Community Center, 8580 S. Howell Ave. (just north of the previous polling place at City Hall)
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The 20th and probably last Republican debate
CNN goes live in 15 minutes. I go live now.
Others live-blogging:
– Michelle Malkin
– Hot Air
– Free Republic
– Stephen Green
– Heading Right
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Edwards, Giuliani gone
John “Breck Girl” Edwards made it official earlier today, and offered the quote of the day (spotted by Jon Sanders) – “It’s time for me to step aside so that history can blaze its path.”
Meanwhile, we’re still waiting on watching live Rudy Giuliani to officially ending what at one time was the all-but-official campaign of the Republican National Committee and endorse the man who will finish the job of excising conservatives from the GOP. The RNC may not have gotten their man, but they will have their result. I hope they’re satisfied with those results. </sarcasm>
For the record, there is no partisan registration in Wisconsin, and I’m not a member of the RPW, so I can’t honestly say that this will drive me out of the Republican Party. However, I’m starting to compile a short list of people to write in.
Revisions/extensions (5:14 pm 1/30/2008) – It’s official. DAMMIT!
NRE Poll – Interest in the 42nd Game That Cannot Be Named
The head barkeep threw it open, so I’m polling until about 1 pm this Sunday. I think I covered every eventuality, and that includes my choice of “same as the other conference (AFC in my case) game”.
What is your level of interest in the 42nd NFL Championship Game That Cannot Be Named?
Up to 1 answer(s) was/were allowed
- Football was once alive, but it's now dead to me. (27%, 7 Vote(s))
- I'm here for the commercials. (19%, 5 Vote(s))
- It's the biggest game of the year; let's party! (15%, 4 Vote(s))
- The same as the average game for two teams in the other conference. (12%, 3 Vote(s))
- I'm a fan of one of the two teams in it. (8%, 2 Vote(s))
- Football? What's football? (8%, 2 Vote(s))
- The same as the average game for my team (do NOT check if you're a Pats or Giants fan). (4%, 1 Vote(s))
- The same as the average game for two other teams in my division. (4%, 1 Vote(s))
- The same as the average game for two other teams in my conference. (4%, 1 Vote(s))
Total Voters: 26
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Blogging will be light, but I will live-blog the debate tonight
I’m still busy drinking trying to forget this month ever happened (and failing miserably), and trying to cobble a semi-intelligent answer to a question I had been putting off answering (which is driving me to continue drinking). The good news is I never started with smoking, amphetamines or glue-sniffing, so I don’t have to say, “I picked the wrong week to quit those things.”
Oh wel, partly because there is nothing good on TV Wednesday nights that doesn’t repeat itself a couple hours later (and there probably wouldn’t be even if there weren’t a writers’ strike), and partly because I’m a masochist, I will be live-blogging perhaps the last Republican debate tonight.
January 29, 2008
McCain, Mexico win the Florida primary
The Alphabet Soup has long ago declared it for the team of John McCain, Mexico, and DhimmiRATs. With 64% of the precincts reporting, McCain’s up by just over 61,000 votes out of approximately 1.5 million. I’m too tired to unleash the required number of expletives, so instead, I’ll take the overnight to toss over just how I want to write American conservatism’s epitaph. I really could and should have done that the moment Fred Thompson was bounced from the race, but with the inevitability of spit-in-the-eye-of-conservatives McCain and the flop back to liberalist populism by Mitt Romney in his last gasp, it’s now well past time to start writing.
Don’t like the weather? Wait an hour
Conditions at Waukesha County’s Crites Field at 2:45 pm – 43 degrees, heavy drizzle, winds out of the west at 3 mph.
Conditions at Waukesha County’s Crites Field at 3:45 pm – 30 degrees, fog and mist, winds out of the northwest at 17 mph gusting to 26 mph.
If you have to drive in this, be ready for ice. I’m seeing it forming at the bunker as I type.
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Borrowing Mike’s America coverage again – Florida primary
This thing will kick off at 6:45, 15 minutes before the Panhandle polls close. Mike is the CiL master, and because he’s anticipating a lot of people, he’ll have Curt from Flopping Aces doing the comment moderation.
I don’t know how long I’ll be in, but I’ll let them handle the work. Thanks, guys.
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MKH? Worst person in the world?
Of course, you’ll need to consider the source, Keith Olberdouche. In case you missed the blogosphere reaction to it (if you’re here, you almost certainly missed the Douche live or on tape delay), start with MKH herself, jump to Allahpundit, the blogosphere’s personal DVR, and start surfing. Considering he has about a dozen viewers, I don’t know whether to fire up the literary minigun on his rotted carcass or let the jackals dine in peace on it.
January 28, 2008
I am not in a good mood right about now
My January from Hell continued unabated tonight. Not only did I miss the SOTU, but my sister and I went 1-7 in cribbage tonight while giving up a pair of skunks.
FUCK! FUCK! FUCK! FUCK-A-DA-FUCK!!!!! (guess that cash is going to a new TV)
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State of the Blog – 2008
Good afternoon. I know, I’m a bit early, but I’m playing cribbage tonight and I won’t be here or anywhere else on-line for the real thing. The state of the blog is pretty good. I’m holding rather steady at about 80 people subscribing to the feed, and, spikes notwithstanding, about 125 of you showing up here on a daily basis. True, some of them show up for the polar bear/Gorebal Warming pic and don’t stick around, but that counts as traffic according to advertisers. Of course, I don’t run ads here, but that’s neither here nor there. The point is I’ve somehow managed to create a nice, not-too-small cadre of readers, some of whom actually comment. For that, I’m grateful.
I’m also grateful for my guest-bloggers, Fred, Aaron, Leslie and Patrick. They all bring fresh perspectives to this place, especially when I’m not around. They know the door is always open here.
I’m blessed by all of the people I’ve met because I blog. There are simply too many to name, and that would be true even if I am horrible about remembering names. First of all, there is the Drinking Right crew; Fred, Aaron, Nick, Dave before he retired from drinking, Asian Badger, Sean Hackbarth before he went to DC, the Unreal one, Dean, James, Dickie, and more that don’t show up on a regular basis. There’s also the gang at the Center-Right Coalition meetings; Mark Block, Brenda Baas, Brian Schimming, the guys in Rich Zipperer’s office, Chris Schneider, everybody in Madison. There are also those I ran into on various road trips; silent E, Chris from OTB, Uncle Jimbo, Owen, Patrick, Dad29, Chris the head barkeep at WSB, Mary Katharine Ham, Katie Favazza, John from Argghhh, Jo Egelhoff, Dean Barnett, Fausta Wertz, Eric from Tygrrrr Express, Jim Geraghty, Swint, Bruce, Scott Feldstein, Tom McMahon and I’m sure I’ve forgotten more than a few. If somehow I did, hit me with a frying pan so I remember.
On a semi-related note, the blogroll has bloated quite nicely. Yes, there are some dead links I’ll have to eventually whack, but that will be for another day.
Over the last year, I’ve implemented a captcha system and a trackback-checking system that has greatly reduced the spam I have had to deal with. Shortly after the creater of that captcha system, Peter Keung, implemented a method for the sight-impared to leave comments, I enabled that with less-than-spectacular results. Fortunately, he’s gone back to the drawing board and implemented a more-robust version, one that will once again allow me to open up registration once I install it right after I finish with the SOTB.
I’ve also cobbled together a widget-friendly form of the template I’ve been using. Except for the tags, which I don’t use anyway, it sure seems to work with the latest versions of WordPress, including WordPress MU, what the WordPress.com blogs run on. I have made it available to a couple of people I know, though I do not particularily want to release it publicly as mine. After all, most of the work was done by Mike Little.
I’ve also implemented “pretty” permalinks. They work rather well, allowing links to the old “?p=xxx” as well as the new “pretty” ones to go through. However, I discovered a problem when I changed the date of one of my posts to a different month. It seems that breaks the incoming links to it that pointed to the “older” version. Fortunately, a bit of messing around with htaccess allowed me to redirect that incoming to the right post.
Late last year, I was invited to start using Cover It Live for my liveblogs. That is a nice little piece of software, one that a lot of others have picked up on. So many people picked up on it that we’ve crashed its servers twice in a weekend. Oh well; that happens. One of my early suggestions, that the creators of said liveblogs get to edit the liveblog, has now been implemented. Graci, Keith.
I’ve been mostly happy with my webhost, BlueHost. The price is right ($6.95/month if you lock in for 2 years in advance), they offer Apache hosts which allows the redirection noted above, and for the most part they’ve managed to stay up. The biggest problem, which still vexes me, is a CPU Load Exceeded error I occassionally get. I can’t quite get that squashed, though I hope the new version of the captcha that is set to be installed will help in squashing it.
Another bit I’ve managed to finally implement is the splitting of a post with the use of WordPress’ “more” tag in the feed. That means the feed is a bit safer for work now that most of the expletives are contained below the fold. It also means I probably will drop more expletives into posts.
The inveterate gambler in me had an almost-successful NFL season, even though I completely missed on the Packer prediction. Unfortunately, that degenerated into a complete collapse in the playoffs. Oh well; easy come, easy go, and I’m not stupid enough to put actual money or other things of value on this.
So, what’s incoming for 2008? Pretty much what you have seen is what you’re going to get. I’m not going to bullshit you into thinking I’m going to do some massive change. I’m going to keep pressing for shifts toward federalist, small-government conservatism even though it is an uphill battle; I see that as the only way for this country to continue to survive. I’ll probably keep on swearing. I’ll probably do a NCAA pool or two, and the inveterate gambler will be back in September for the NFL season. Beyond the Drinking Rights, the Center-Right Coalition meetings and Defending the American Dream – Wisconsin summit, I don’t know my blog-related travel plans yet, though I do hope to meet more of my fellow bloggers. As for the navel-gazing, don’t expect another one this year, suckers.
The folks formerly from MadTown still fragging have it
(H/T – Allahpundit/HotAir Headlines)
If you don’t bust a gut after reading The Onion‘s candidate profiles, please contact your favorite undertaker. It’s nice to see that some of the humor survived the years away from the looniest city on the planet, and that all of it got used on this.
Since they missed Tommy “The Other” Thompson, let me see if I can channel their energy….
Reason for Presidential bid:
Wanted to find new ways to “stick it to them.”
Reason for dropping Presidential bid:
Found out Secret Service wouldn’t let him ride their Harleys.
Stance on pig races:
Strongly for
Campaign accomplishments:
Beat Fred Thompson to both the entrance and the exit.
Key Issues:
Health Care:
Listen to my wife, Sue Ann.
Iraq War:
Was heard to say to Sam Brownback, “I’ll see your 3 Iraqs and raise you sextuple.”
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That isn’t a stimulus package; THIS is a stimulus package
(H/T – MKH)
Sen. Jim DeMint (R-SC) reminds us that the last one-time “rebate” scheme didn’t work out so well. Instead, he’s pushing a “get government out of the way” package of tax and spending cuts, pointing out that the tax-cut half of that adopted in 2003 lasted for close to 5 years.
Sen. DeMint didn’t explain very well why the 2001 “rebate” package didn’t work, and why the 2008 “rebate” package will also fail spectacularily, so I’ll have to stick my finger in the dike. Not only is it temporary (one-time, actually), and not only does it represent a return to the welfare state (RepubicRAT version), but that money will not find its way to American manufacturers. Those Americans in debt and caring about it will send that cash to finance companies to reduce (in most cases, not eliminate) their debt. Those not in debt or not caring how much debt they’re carrying will spend it on goods mostly made overseas. Neither item will do jack shit to the American economy; specifically, virtually no new jobs will be created in America.
Revisions/extensions (12:38 pm 1/28/2008) – This will learn me to read the feeds in reverse order. Tom McMahon has the perfect Venn diagram in today’s 4-Block World…
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I won’t be here tonight
Well, you bastiches have spoken; I won’t be live-blogging the SOTU. Instead, American Princess will be throwing a drinking game party over at her place, and unless I’ve been thrown out, I plan on being there.
Revisions/extensions (3:26 pm 1/28/2008) – I won’t be there either. No, I didn’t get thrown out, but I will be filling in for my dad at cribbage tonight, and I won’t be back until all the speechifying is done. I still recommend you folks head over there; E.M. hosts a wicked-good party.
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January 27, 2008
Mitt(Hill)Care set to rival The Big Dig
(H/T – Dad29)
CNS is running with a report that the cost of Mitt(Hill)Care will go up 85%, or $400 million, in 2009, as a lot more people than expected take the government subsidies for the mandated health insurance. Taxes, both Massachusetts’ and federal, are expected to go up to pay for this.
I’m shocked, SHOCKED that CubaCare Lite is a boondoggle that is being treated as a gateway to CubaCare Heavy. It’s yet another reason why I haven’t joined the FredHeads for Mitt exodus. I still don’t know what I’ll do, either on February 19 or November 4, but I’m beginning to prepare my short list of write-ins.
January 26, 2008
Should I live-blog the SOTU?
I don’t know if I’m feeling it this year. You, the gentler-than-me readers, will help me decide. Go, vote in the current NRE poll; it will be open until high noon Monday.
Should I live-blog the State of the Union Monday night?
Up to 1 answer(s) was/were allowed
- No (50%, 4 Vote(s))
- Yes (38%, 3 Vote(s))
- Glom onto somebody else's live-blog (13%, 1 Vote(s))
Total Voters: 8
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January 25, 2008
Roll bloat – I need more “I”s, dammit!
You probably could call this one the Moron Commenters’ Blog, and you wouldn’t be too far off. Oh well, since I’m a Moron and a frequent commenter (hell, that’s how I got my start, just not on AoSHQ), I may as well jump into the Innocent Bystanders breach.
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Uncle Jimbo and Blackfive TV strike again
…and again, my friends. First up on the Global Domination and World Peace video tour is a look at what Al Qaeda in Iraq does with those that can’t fight back, and what happens to them when they encounter those with superior firepower. Since UJ has asked the video to be broadcast far and wide, far be it from me to defy him….
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dco8waoe9-4[/youtube]
Do note that no US troops were harmed in the making of this video, though the Jihadi quotient got decreased by a couple, which is just the way it should be. Bravo Zulu.
Next, the gang at Blackfive ask Ayman Zawahiri just what is up with the 72 goats they get when on the receiving end of various American arms like the two dead tangos ventilated above. Since there is a content warning on that, you can go to Blackfive to watch that one.
The DemonRATs’ favorite RepubicRAT (video of the day)
(H/T – Emperor Misha I)
I’m not about to endorse Mitt Romney (partly because he re-endorsed gun control just like the current Administration did last night in such a way as to, if accepted by SCOTUS, render the 2nd Amendment completely moot), but his campaign has a devastating video about John McShame (Amnesty-Media) on the same day the New Sedition Slimes (dammit, there I go again), er, New York Times gives him their unqualified “We’re endorsing him because he’s basically a ‘Rat, but we wish he’d adopt the Paul-Nut surrender line of Bravo Sierra” endorsement…
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uGrWt-XICHc[/youtube]
The Emperor has it exactly right regarding holding my nose and voting for him (below the fold only because I don’t have enough separation between this and the latest roll bloat, which is also why I used the phonetic alphabet rather than the actual words I wanted to use)….
(more…)
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Roll bloat – continuing to beautify the roll
I keep on forgetting to add people that make sense when I first notice them, but I usually do eventually. That time has come for Anwyn’s Notes in the Margin. Now that I brought her to your attention, don’t wait as long as I did.
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From McCain to $oro$ in 6 steps or less
Michelle Malkin has the bouncing ball. Tell me again how the f*ck (since this is going to generate a trackback to Michelle’s site, I won’t add the vowel, but rest assured it isn’t ‘a’, ‘e’, ‘i’ or ‘o’) John S. McShame (Amnesty-Media) is the presumptive front-runner in the “Republican” Presidential primary.
That brings me to a Photoshop from Slublog, unleased onto the world by Ace….
I think Slu nailed this one.
Revisions/extensions (7:37 pm 1/25/2008) – I knew I should’ve refreshed the feed reader; Slu has his own post up on this. I think the Devil is a smoother operator than $oro$.
If some fool wanted to give me $800,000 for this place…
…I’d buy the fastest car on the planet, the Shelby Supercars Ultimate Aero, which has set a new Guiness Book of World Records speed record for a street-legal vehicle at a two-way average of 256.18 mph. (H/Ts – Ace and Allahpundit/HotAir Headlines).
No, that will not be the vehicle I’d use to see if you guys can drive a stick like a race car.
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The decline and fall of “Old Media”
I guess I could say that this is a Ham family affair, because the hat tips for both halves come from them. First, let’s take the Newsbusters way-back machine back 20 years (H/T – Mary Katharine Ham), back before blogs, back to the dawn of conservative media, and back to the time when “alternative” media meant “Communist”. CBS Evening News anchor Dan Rather was spoiling for a fight with then-Vice President George H.W. Bush, and, along with politics producer Richard Cohen, decided to ambush Bush on live TV over Iran-Contra with the 12th and last in a series of candidate profiles. Needless to say, that sort of backfired (transcript courtesy RatherBiased.com). The actions of Rather were so egregious that the Media Research Center quoted Sam Donaldson (a hack in his own right) as saying, “Rather went too far….I don’t think we can get to a situation where we make — on our own authority — accusations.”
We all know what happened in the succeeding 20 years; the “Old Media” turned even farther to the left and the remainder all-but-abandoned the pretense of impartiality, the New Media (talk radio, blogs, and conservative forums) rose up to fill that void, and as a result, the readership, profitability and ultimately the stock prices of “Old Media” companies collapsed.
That brings us to the World Economic Forum in Davros, Switzerland. Yesterday, Columbia University (yes, that Columbia University, home of the Columbia School of Journalism) President Lee Bollinger announced his support for government subsidies for “Old Media” (H/T – Jon Ham).
If you were wondering about the position of the Columbia School of Journalism’s dean, Nick Lemann, Forbes’ Carl Lavin has that disappointment. The upshot: “Right now the mismatch between the social mission of journalism and the market support for that mission seems to be growing, so I think we should explore other means of support for serious journalism. Per the above, these can be, and generally have been in the US, policy interventions that amount to indirect rather than direct government subsidies. But I’m not against subsidies per se, if we can establish BBC-like safeguards of editorial independence.”
I guess they learned nothing over the last 20 years.
Cross-posted at the TownHall version of this place.
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Today’s example of no difference in the two halves of the P-I-G
(H/T – Conservative Belle)
The “economic stimulus package” (otherwise known as the RepubicRAT version of the welfare state) just keeps on getting worse. First, it was a one-time “refund”, with no permanent reduction in the 20%+ of GDP take by the federal government. Now, after the “grand compromise” not only is it a targeted transfer of funds from those that pay most of those taxes to those that pay only a small bit of those taxes (the “refund” cuts out for those earning more than $75,000/$150,000 for couples), but $300 checks are going to go to 35 million families who don’t even pay income taxes. What was that line about the Republic lasting only up to the point where a majority figure out how to get the minority to pay for their lifestyles? It sure feels like we’ve hit that point.
But wait, it’s going to get even worse. The ‘Rats are still agitating for a return to their version of the welfare state, with more unemployment benefits (never mind that, until about 8 years ago, 5% unemployment was considered “full employment”) and more food stamps.
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