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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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November 3, 2007

Apple requiring credit cards for iPhones, limiting to 2 per person

by @ 19:57. Filed under Business.

(H/T – Bryan/Hot Air)

David Berlind, Executive Editor of ZDNet, figured out why Apple is requiring a credit card to purchase an iPhone. It is to track you to try and ensure you don’t try to purchase 3 of them.

Sounds like a noble goal, right? Slight problem with using credit card information for that purpose; it may well put Apple in breach of the voluntary credit-card-system security and privacy standard (PCI DSS), agreements with card issuers and credit card companies, and various privacy laws. Oops.

Between that, the iPod video-out controversy (highlighted by Pete Fanning), and the general stiffing of anybody who comes up with a better product for Apple technology than Jobs and company, there’s a reason why I haven’t bought anything from Apple in, oh, 2 decades.

Housekeeping item

by @ 13:24. Filed under The Blog.

I don’t know whether it was WP 2.3 or 2.3.1 that broke e-mail notification to me for new comments and registrations, but I’ve now got that straightened out with a (still slightly-buggy) plugin called WP Mail SMTP. I had to add my admin e-mail to the options for BlueHost’s PHP mail function to work properly, but it is now.

If you’ve legitimately registered in the last couple weeks, or you need a new password for said log-in, the mail function should also be working now.

The entity formerly known as CNI driving conservatives out?

by @ 0:22. Filed under Compassionate Lieberals, Presstitute Follies.

I admit that I’m coming in on the tail end of this, as I only have Kevin Fischer on the Franklin end of the feed reader, but there is one hell of a firestorm over the disappearance of Fred Keller’s FranklinNOW blog. It sure looks like NOW online editor Mark Maley is beginning to target the conservative end of the NOW bloggers.

November 2, 2007

Roll bloat – the oppressor and the oppressed version

by @ 9:20. Filed under Lawgivers-In-Black, Politics - Wisconsin, The Blog.

The Sheboygan city attorney, Stephen G. McLean, ignoring not only case law but Article I, Section 3 of the Wisconsin Constitution (which reads, for the dense, “Every person may freely speak, write and publish his sentiments on all subjects, being responsible for the abuse of that right, and no laws shall be passed to restrain or abridge the liberty of speech or of the press.”), ordered the proprietor of Sheboygan Shenanigans to pull links to the Sheboygan Police Department. After she complied, she became the subject part of a police investigation into the officer that maintains the Sheboygan Police site that was ordered by Sheboygan police chief David E. Kirk and Sheboygan mayor Juan Perez. Perez is still pissed that the private citizen led a recall effort against him, and is continuing to bully her.

Paging Mr. Van Hollen. Paging Mr. Biskupic. Something’s rotten in Sheboygan City Hall.

One more thing; Sheboygan Shenanigans is now on the blogroll, and the Sheboygan pols are part of a new section of that roll. Those pols will find I’m not a pushover.

Revisions/extensions (11:17 am 11/2/2007) – Jeni corrected who the police was conducting the mayoral witch-hunt against.

Roll bloat – it-only-looks-randomized edition

by @ 7:55. Filed under The Blog.

First, Mark McNally, the man behind Paindealer, does just that to Cleveland’s presstitutes.

Next, how can I not add a fan of Atlas Shrugged? So, please welcome Dagney’s Rant

Will run for beer

by @ 7:15. Filed under Miscellaneous.

(H/T – Michelle/HotAir Headlines)

The Daily Mail reports on a Granada University of Spain study that claims that quaffing a pint of beer after a good bit of exercise as part of one’s rehydration routine rehydrates one faster than just guzzling water.

Professor Manuel Garzon had a set of 25 student volunteers run on a treadmill in a room heated to 104 degrees until they were on the ragged edge of exhaustion. He and his staffers measured the participants’ hydration levels, ability to concentrate, and motor skills, then had half take in two half-pints of a Spanish lager before being allowed to drink as much water as they wanted, while the other half simply had to make do with as much water as they wanted.

Garzon said the rehydration effect in the students who were given beer was “slightly better” than among those given only water, and attributes that to the carbon dioxide quenching the thirst more quickly and the carbohydrates (presumably including the ethanol as that is a carb) replacing the calories expended.

They’re recommending a pint of beer a day for male athletes, and a shorty a day for female athletes. Prost!

Operation Exploitation – Day 1

by @ 4:14. Filed under The Blog.

The polls are now open. Remember, vote for these blogs once daily per computer or IP address:

Funniest blog – DUmmie FUnnies
Best blog – Michelle Malkin
Best new blog – Jammie Wearing Fool
Best individual blogger – Flip – Suitably Flip
Best comic strip – Day by Day – Chris Muir
Best conservative blog – Sister Toldjah
Best political coverage – The Campaign Spot
Best military blog – Blackfive
Best video blog – HamNation
Video of the year – HamNation – Sopranos DC Edition
Best LGBT blog – Gay Patriot
TTLB Best of the Top 250 – My Pet Jawa (aka The Jawa Report)
TTLB Best of the Top 251-500 – Fausta
TTLB Best of the Top 501-1000 – The American Mind
TTLB Best of the Top 1751-2500 – A Blog For All
TTLB Best of the Top 2501-3500 – Boots and Sabers
TTLB Best of the Top 6751-8500 – Wigderson Library and Pub
TTLB Best of the Rest – Slublog

November 1, 2007

Operation Exploitation – the preparation – UPDATE – final preps are being made

by @ 16:08. Filed under The Blog.

Revisions/extensions/bump to the top (4:08 pm 11/1/2007) – The TTLB blogs are now up, so I brought this back to the top, added the NRE recommended blogs there, and will have a reminder on the sidebar shortly.

Maury Sline always believed in proper exploitation. I may not be Elwood Blues, but I know a bit about that stuff.

Most of the The finalists for the 2007 Weblog Awards are set. First, the bad news; the Bar didn’t make it in the best sports blog category. DAMMIT! Guess I’ll have to break out the PJ-Comix mojo next year.

Meanwhile, some of my favorite blogs have shown up in the finalist positions, and I’m holding out hope for a few more have shown up in the TTLB ones. Remember, one vote per computer/IP combo per day is all you’re allowed; make maximum use of it, but only if you’re going to vote for the NRE recommended blogs. So, without further adieu, I present to you the blogs that I will be voting for, and you should be voting for as well:

Funniest blog – DUmmie FUnnies
Best blog – Michelle Malkin
Best new blog – Jammie Wearing Fool
Best individual blogger – Flip – Suitably Flip
Best comic strip – Day by Day – Chris Muir
Best conservative blog – Sister Toldjah
Best political coverage – The Campaign Spot
Best military blog – Blackfive
Best video blog – HamNation
Video of the year – HamNation – Sopranos DC Edition
Best LGBT blog (yes, there is one I can live with) – Gay Patriot
TTLB Best of the Top 250 – My Pet Jawa (aka The Jawa Report)
TTLB Best of the Top 251-500 – Fausta
TTLB Best of the Top 501-1000 – The American Mind
TTLB Best of the Top 1751-2500 – A Blog For All
TTLB Best of the Top 2501-3500 – Boots and Sabers
TTLB Best of the Top 6751-8500 – Wigderson Library and Pub
TTLB Best of the Rest – Slublog

Stand by to go out and put the word on the streets.

Paul Warfield Tibbets (1915-2007)

by @ 10:53. Filed under Miscellaneous.

We lost a fine pilot and warrior today. May the weather be CAVU, sir.

The FReeper Foxhole brings back a great profile of him from 2004.

Dhimm stragedy to lose WOT, African edition

by @ 9:56. Filed under International relations, Politics - National, War on Terror.

Patrick Poole over at PajamasMedia reports on the latest attempt by the DhimmiRATs in Congress to systematically kill this country’s relationship with every country that continues to help fight against Al Qaeda and its affiliated Islamokazi groups. This week’s target, Ethiopia.

Ostensibly, the proposed prohibition of the American arming of Ethiopia as well as travel to the US by Ethiopian leaders is a delayed reaction to intimidation after Ethiopia’s 2005 elections. This ignores significant steps undertaken by the Ethiopian government to atone for that.

I strongly suspect the real reason was because the Ethiopians liberated Somalia from the Al Qaeda-linked Islamic Courts Union with a bit of backing from American air power. Not only did they dare oppose the Islamokazis successfully, but they succeeded where their hero Bill Clinton failed spectacularily.

Back-door raise attempt by the Milwaukee County Board

by @ 9:32. Filed under Politics - Milwaukee County.

After Brian Fraley raised the red flag on Lee Holloway’s latest attempt to milk more money out of the system, I decided to ask my Supervisor, Paul Cesarz, what he plans to do. There should be no surprise as to the response:

Steve:

Thank you for both catching this item and writing to me about it.

I expected this type of maneuver either here in the budget process
at this eleventh hour or sometime between now and March 2008.

Since the raise amendment is before us on Monday, I expect the
following to occur. First, I will vote no. Second, they will have enough
votes to approve it. Finally, The County Executive will have to veto
the item, and importantly, since this is an election issue, the public
will have to call to persuade and encourage their supervisor to vote
to sustain the Veto.

With the publics’ help, there should be enough votes to accomplish this.

Thanks again for contacting me.

Best regards,

Paul

I knew there was a reason why I voted for him in 2004. That is it.

October 31, 2007

Time Warner/Charter vs Big Ten Network/NFL Network

by @ 20:27. Filed under Business, Politics - Wisconsin, Sports.

I’m as pissed as anybody else that Time Warner (and Charter) and the BTN/NFLN can’t pull their collective heads out of their asses. Both sides want something that is not part of the deal between the networks and the satellite companies; the networks want on basic cable (that’s channels 2-99 that just about any TV made in the last dozen years can get) for ESPN money, while the cable companies want not only to put it on digital cable, but to bundle it with the likes of Fox Soccer Channel and the Outdoor Channel at an additional cost. By way of comparison, you have to get the 100-channel package from either DirecTV or Dish (or AT&T U-verse IF you can get it) to get either network. Funny thing is, that’s precisely what the “standard” digital package is on cable. However, both sides are too greedy to take the compromise.

What’s worse is the bi-partisan Party-In-Government in Madistan, full of self-righteous anger over not being able to watch the Wisconsin-OverratedSU football game live on Saturday. They want to step in and create a binding arbitration system to force the cable companies to take channels they don’t want at a price they aren’t willing to pay. What would be better is to simply get rid of the franchising monopoly altogether so more upstarts like AT&T can waltz in with better deals without giving tribute to either the locals as is the case now or the state as is the proposed case.

Hey Keyboard Islamokazis, come get some

by @ 13:26. Filed under War on Terror.

Head Jawa Rusty has blown the lid off some games keyboard Islamists want to start on the 11th.

BWAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!

Buckingham Palace band equates King Abdullah to Darth Vader

by @ 13:16. Filed under International relations.

(H/T – Uncle Jimbo)

When Saudia Arabia’s King Abdullah stepped out of his limo on the first state visit by a Saudi king to Great Britain, the Buckingham Palace band broke out “Imperial March” from “Star Wars” (the first 35 seconds of the linked YouTube slice of Britain’s Channel 4 coverage).

Bravo Zulu.

Happy Reformation Day

by @ 13:03. Filed under Religion.

While the rest of the world celebrates Halloween, Lutherans and most other Protestants celebrate Reformation. On this date in 1517, Martin Luther nailed his 95 Theses, a call for a debate on the Catholic practice of selling indulgences for sins, on the door of the Castle Church in Wittenberg as well as other items of Catholic dogma, to the door of the Castle Church in Wittenberg, Saxony (modern-day Germany).

Is NOTHING safe from the tax man?

by @ 9:39. Filed under Taxes.

(H/T – Allahpundit/HotAir Headlines)

Iowa is taxing pumpkin purchases on the basis of their use as jack-o-lanterns. Those who are planning on making pumpkin pies can fill out a sales tax exemption certificate at the place of purchase stipulating to that.

Do notice that there is no checkbox for either “private citizen/end user” or “pumpkin for human consumption”. Indeed, the back of said form does not have that allowance on it. The Iowa Department of Revenue also “helpfully” points out that failure of the purchaser provide his/her telephone number or fill out any other portion of the form is grounds for prosecution for “fraudulent intent”.

Oh, and don’t plan on using the “dual-use” defense when the DOR agents start patrolling the neighborhood looking for Jack-O-Lanterns. This phrase on the back of that form has that covered – “If property or services purchased for resale or processing are used or disposed of by the purchaser in a nonexempt manner, the purchaser is then responsible for the tax.” So, when the DOR agents come a-knocking to take your pumpkins and cash away, don’t think that offering them a piece of pumpkin pie made from the innards of said pumpkins will save you; you’ll just lose the pie as well.

I’m only surprised that Doyle hasn’t thought of this first. Michelle put my thoughts into pictures…

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Revisions/extensions (6:53 pm 11/1/2007) – After Iowa squeezed all the juice they could out of the jack-o-lanterns, they reversed course (H/T – Heather Radish)

October 30, 2007

Sorry about the lack of posts

by @ 18:58. Filed under Miscellaneous.

I’ve been recoving from the Packer game all day, and the only thing of note is the Dhimm debate. I won’t be covering it because I don’t want to come off that high just yet, but Chris Roberts will (thanks for the find, Michelle).

October 29, 2007

The Favre OT TD

by @ 23:18. Filed under Sports.

(H/T and many thanks – Ian Schwartz)

Just in case you missed it live, or on the news, or on the 1,238 airings on ESPN,…

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_i5ssRj41Xs[/youtube]

I think Favre can still throw the deep ball.

Another happy week

by @ 23:07. Filed under Sports.

So I blew chunks again on the over/unders (down to 10-5-1 overall there); 9-4 against the spread made up for it. Let’s review the Man-crushing week that was:

Green Bay 19 (+3) @ Denver 13 – I knew Elway. Elway was an enemy of mine. Mr. Cutler, you are no Elway.
Detroit 16 @ Chicago 7 (-6) – I should’ve stuck with my initial thoughts.
Philadelphia 23 @ Minnesota 16 (+1.5) – Unhealthiest profession this year; Viqueens’ QB.
Cleveland 27 (-3) @ St. Louis 20 – It’s a dirty rotten shame that Duh Lambs and Duh Deadfins don’t meet </sarcasm>
Indianapolis 31 (-7) @ Carolina 7 – That’s how you go undefeated the “nice” way.
NY Giants 13 (-10-LOSS) "@" Miami 10 – The boo-birds made both the G-men and the Dolphins feel right at home.
Oakland 9 @ Tennessee 13 (-7-LOSS) – Too bad the Tennesseans are also a 1-AA school.
Pittsburgh 24 (-4) @ Cincinnati 13 – The trend is your friend.
Buffalo 13 (+3) @ NY Jets 3 – Come on, say it with me. J-E-T-S S*CK! SU*K! SUC*!
Houston 10 @ San Diego 35 (-9) – Vincent K. McMahon couldn’t script it better.
Jacksonville 24 (+4) @ Tampa Bay 23 – Not only did Garcia get picked (thrice), but the first pick was the margin.
New Orleans 31 (-3) @ San Francisco 10 – Algore must be playing for the Fourtiners.
Washington 7 @ New England 52 (-17) – Guess Belichick had the over.

I’m still 6 games under .500 and further out from break-even, but after the month from Hell, 51-57-8 is an accomplishment.

México Del Norte moment of the day

by @ 16:49. Filed under Business, Immigration.

Lao, the American Expat in SE Asia, recently tried to open up a bank account back in his hometown in Texas. First Bank and Trust East Texas wouldn’t take his United States passport, Social Security card or his birth certificate, so he couldn’t open up an account. The not-funny thing is, if he would have had the easy-to-forge Mexican matricula consular card, he could have opened up an account with them without any problems.

That is seriously, SERIOUSLY fucked up.

Project Valour-IT

by @ 16:14. Filed under Miscellaneous.

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Cartoon courtesy Cox and Forkum

I don’t have a dog in this fight, as the blogroll is full of people on all 4 teams, but I’d be remiss if I didn’t get some money in to this 4-way battle royale between the Army, Navy, Air Force and Marines. Soldiers’ Angels Project Valour-IT, which helps provide voice-controlled and adaptive laptop computers to wounded Soldiers, Sailors, Airmen and Marines recovering from hand wounds and other severe injuries at major military medical centers, is holding their annual fundraising competition, with many bloggers choosing between the 4 branches. This goes until Veterans’ Day, and your donations, regardless of which team you support, are tax-deductible as Soldiers’ Angels is a qualifying non-profit organization.

Since, unlike Blackfive, CDR Salamander, Michelle and Mary Katharine, I can’t choose just one, I’ll instead give you all 4 options. Choose one, choose some, choose all, but choose.

Revisions/extensions (10:40 am 10/30/2007) – Due to technical issues with ChipIt, the widgets have been replaced here, and will be very shortly on the sidebar.

Comments are now open at the Blogfather’s place

by @ 15:34. Filed under Miscellaneous.

True, they’re moderated, and there is no way to link back to your own blog, but the fine folks at WTMJ have enabled commenting over at Sykes Writes.

I won’t mention who got the first volley in :-)

October 28, 2007

NFL Week 8

by @ 9:50. Filed under Sports.

After last week’s 8-6 money-making performance, I’m now only 11 games under .500 (we won’t talk about those over/unders). Guess I’m peaking just in time for the 2007 Weblog Awards (we’ll know if the Bar is going to the finals later this week, and if it is, we really should have somebody lined up to go out to Vegas for Blogworld where the awards will be handed out Nov. 8-9). With that in mind, let’s start making serious bank with this week’s picks.

Green Bay (+3) @ Denver – Which Bronco team will show up, the one that stiffed the Steelers or the one that got shocked out of existence by the Chargers? Walker’s out, so take the latter. Oh, and take the over-42.5.
Detroit @ Chicago (-6) – I was SOOOO tempted to take the Lions until I remembered that this is on the road in the cold.
Philadelphia @ Minnesota (+1.5) – If it were just the Vikes D versus the Eagles, I would still take my one-and-a-half. In fact, that’s pretty much what it is, so take the under-37.5.
Cleveland (-3) @ St. Louis – We could have two teams go 0-16 this year. I see nothing that will stop the Lambs from sinking further towards that hole this week.
Indianapolis (-7) @ Carolina – CBS will let NOTHING happen to its dream matchup next week.
NY Giants (-10) “@” Miami – Can someone tell me why we’re playing an NFL regular-season game in Londonistan? Oh, that’s right, the Fins aren’t an NFL team.
Oakland @ Tennessee (-7) – It does not matter who’s starting for the Tennesseans; they’re playing a 1-AA school.
Pittsburgh (-4) @ Cincinnati – Stat of the week: Pittsburgh is 6-0 in their last 6 trips to Cincy.
Buffalo (+3) @ NY Jets – You may like the points, you may want the points, and by law, you will get the points, but you’re not gonna need them; the Bills are starting their squeaky-new QB, the Jets are stuck on stupid.
Houston @ San Diego (-9) – If a fire can’t stop the Bolts, what makes the Texans think they can?
Jacksonville (+4) @ Tampa Bay – It’s a MASH-unit mash. Stat that won’t survive the day – Jeff Garcia does not have a pick yet this year.
New Orleans (-3) @ San Francisco – Three weeks ago, that -3 would’ve been in the Niners’ corner. Now, they’re the disfunctional team, while the Saints got their “S” back.
Washington @ New England (-17) – Lesson of the day: Don’t bring Jason Campbell to a shootout.

Viva Las Vegas

by @ 9:10. Filed under Sports.

Hopefully I’ll be doing this from Vegas inside of 2 weeks after The Wisconsin Sports Bar wins the 2007 Weblog Awards Sports Blog of the Year, so it’s good that I’m reversing the losing trend. Let’s review how the nose picks did….

Chicago 19 @ Philadelphia 16 (-6) – In other news, Rocky got booed.
Tampa Bay 16 (+2.5) @ Detroit 23 – Turnover, turnover, turnover.
Minnesota 14 @ Dallas 24 (-9) – Where did my sense of the over-unders go?
Arizona 19 @ Washington 21 (-8.5-LOSS) – Please send the bill to Messrs. Fletcher and Landry.
Atlanta 16 (+8-WIN) @ New Orleans 22 – Guess we know why the Jags gave up on Leftwich; he’s no Favre.
Baltimore 14 (-3) @ Buffalo 19 – The OldBrowns did everything right except win, dammit.
New England 49 (-17) @ Miami 28 – Start building.
San Francisco 15 @ NY Giants 33 (-9.5) – So it was Dilfer who put on the cement overshoes.
Tennessee 38 (-1) @ Houston 36 – And I ran, I ran so far away. Couldn’t get away, but I got just enough points.
Kansas City 12 (+3) @ Oakland 10 – I was only 28 yards and 2 scores off.
NY Jets 31 (+6.5) @ Cincinnati 38 – Where did these offenses come from?
St. Louis 6 @ Seattle (-8.5) – I picked the right week to go with the Hags.
Pittsburgh 28 (-4) @ Denver 31 – I think it’s safe to say that Pittsburgh is not a road team.
Indianapolis 29 (-3.5) @ Jacksonville 7 – The CBS dream is still alive.

If you stayed away from the now-toxic over/unders, you made bank last week to the tune of 8-6, at least if your vig is only 10%. That pushes the record to 42-53-8 against the spread and 10-3-1 against the over/under.

October 26, 2007

Roll bloat – from the logs edition

by @ 14:38. Filed under The Blog.

Sometimes, it pays to check the logs. This is one of those times, as without the logs telling me where people come from, I probably wouldn’t have found Thinking Out Loud.

This one’s a special for the mayor and five aldermen not named Verhalen in Oak Creek – Menomonee Falls found a way to raise their levy only 1.3%. If they can hold the line in a massively-growing community, why can’t you?

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