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 the 'Law and order' Category

December 17, 2007

The ghost of E. Michael McCan’t lives

Kevin Fischer has the details of how the Milwaukee County DA’s office declined to pursue any case against the Franklin School District for holding a mandatory indoctrination session for high school students of voting age the Friday before they attempted the 3rd-largest referendum increase in state history. I could’ve swore Paul Bucher filed charges against a Waukesha County school district for similar actions (again, if memory serves, that was settled without a trial).

December 13, 2007

If you missed yesterday’s Center-Right Coalition meeting…

by @ 8:10. Filed under Law and order.

…you missed a very good discussion of the State Supreme Court with Rick Esenberg. Fortunately, you don’t have to rely on me to do the summarizing; he’s got a good one up, specifically on the One Wisconsin Now attempt to muzzle Judge Mike Gabelman and several of his supporters for talking about some of the same decided cases that Justice Louis Butler talked about not too long ago.

Interestingly, on my way home from that (after a stop at the Matt Kenseth Fan Club HQ/museum to see the last car to win a “Car of Yesterday” race in NASCAR’s top series), Vicki McKenna and Judge Gabelman talked about just that. WISN holds McKenna’s archives a bit longer than Mark Belling’s, but I don’t know how long this link to that half-hour will last.

December 1, 2007

I don’t think I can stress saying, “Watch what you say in the comments,” enough

by @ 7:18. Filed under Law and order, The Blog.

I may not get the traffic Owen and Jed do over at Boots and Sabers, but the warning still holds. Various law-enforcement agencies do read their blog, and I do get a generous amount of traffic, which may well include some of those agencies, that originates over there. One of those agencies twigged onto a comment left on one of Owen’s posts, and took very decisive action against that commenter. While I believe the authorities overreacted in this case by arresting that individual, it does go to prove that you are not anonymous on the Internet.

Related to that, I have updated the General Policies page.

November 30, 2007

Hostage situation at Clinton New Hampshire headquarters

by @ 16:30. Filed under Law and order.

I was away from the computers much of the afternoon, so I’m behind the curve. I’m following this on Fox News. Those of you who have a visceral hate for that network can follow along on CNN or MSNBC.

Prayers that all the campaign workers, other innocents, and police come out of this safe and unharmed post haste, and that the perp with what has now been described as road flares strapped to him doesn’t do anything stupid that would cause him harm.

November 20, 2007

SCOTUS will rule on D.C. gun ban

by @ 15:41. Filed under Guns, Law and order, Politics - National.

The news has been flying around the Net all day, so I’m a bit late to this party. The SCOTUS Blog has the best legal summary I’ve seen:

– The Supreme Court has accepted Washington, DC’s appeal in the case District of Columbia v. Heller. Specifcally, they worded the granted issue this way: "Whether the following provisions "” D.C. Code secs. 7-2502.02(a)(4), 22-4504(a), and 7-2507.02 "” violate the Second Amendment rights of individuals who are not affiliated with any state-regulated militia, but who wish to keep handguns and other firearms for private use in their homes?"

– They did not act on a cross-petition of five District residents seeking to join the case. SCOTUS Blog cautions that this is not necessarily a rejection of that cross-petition.

– Left unmentioned by the Court are a whole host of issues that may or may not be decided in this case, including whether the Second Amendment would apply to state and local governments (D.C. is a federal enclave, and that was the reasoning in the D.C. Circuit’s voiding of those three gun laws).

Jim Geraghty wonders whether this would affect the 2008 election. Given the likely timeframe of a March hearing (strongly suggested by SCOTUS Blog) and a June ruling, I would have to say that any ruling would not affect the primaries, specifically the Republican primary, at all, as I expect things to be settled before Wisconsin’s scheduled turn in the “limelight” February 19.

The fact that the Supreme Court has taken the case, however, does have the potential to influence the Republican primaries. Rudy Giuliani, who would be gravely conflicted should the Supreme Court hold the Second Amendment trumps local gun bans, will face a very difficult choice between his lifelong desire to grab guns and his late public professions of support of Constitutionalist Justices. While the side he decides to come down on probably would not cement the nomination if he chooses wisely, it would likely have the effect of ending his chances should he choose poorly.

Similarily, the ruling has the potential to have a major influence on the general election. It will energize both sides of the gun-laws debate, especially whichever side loses. There is a caveat; if Giuliani is the Republican nominee and the Supreme Court sides with the District, that additional energy on the pro-gun side will likely gravitate to a third-party candidate.

November 8, 2007

Jensen to get a new trial

by @ 15:12. Filed under Law and order, Politics - Wisconsin.

Just because I’m in Vegas (I’ll just say that the Unreal one would be in 7th heaven) and I left the headphones at the hotel doesn’t mean I can’t follow along with at least some of the news. I’ll even try to follow the first lessons in not taking gratuitous cheap shots at people like Dane County pers…er, DA Brian Blanchard.

Unless Dane County DA Brian Blanchard manages to convince AG J.B. Van Hollen to appeal the decision of the District 4 Court of Appeals to the state Supreme Court, former Assembly Speaker Scott Jensen (R) will get a new trial. Hopefully, it won’t be before a kangaroo court this time. The court found that not only were the instructions given to the jury by Dane County Circuit Judge Steven Ebert to convict were improper, but that his prohibition of Jensen’s defense team to introduce evidence that the former Assembly Democratic Caucus was doing the exact same thing without reason was improper.

Well, have to go. Next conference starts in about 15 minutes, and I have to finish my final votes. Remember, vote that slate on the right sidebar one last time before 4 pm Central.

October 7, 2007

Doyle uses confidential student information to gin up props

by @ 8:21. Filed under Law and order, Politics - Wisconsin.

I’m late to this party (I never dumped the WTMJ feeds onto the laptop, had issues with my e-mail most of the day Friday, and didn’t want to bury the DAD stuff), but Charlie found out that Jim “Craps” Doyle (WEAC/Potawatomi-For Sale) or one of his political minions obtained the names of those who received a Wisconsin Higher Education Grant for the 2006-07 school year but were “wait-listed” for the 2007-08 school year in apparent violation of federal privacy laws, and then instructed Michelle Curtis, associate director of Student Financial Services at UW, to send out a blast e-mail to invite them to a Craps dog-and-pony show on the WHEG. Jessica McBride, who works in the UW system at UWM, points out that it is further a violation of state law for a UW employee to engage in political activities while at work, and points to a UW memo that states the prohibition includes use of campus e-mail and equipment.

One tidbit I can add thanks to my presence in DC; that federal law is so restrictive, Vicki McKenna was told by somebody back at WIBA that the e-mail addresses of those who received this coercive e-mail would not be obtainable through an open records request.

September 14, 2007

Secluded? SECLUDED?!?!?!?

by @ 13:44. Filed under Law and order, Lawgivers-In-Black.

Revisions/extensions (10:58 pm 9/14/2007) – For those of you who can’t get the WMV embed to play, here’s the YouTube version. I do not as a rule embed YouTube videos as I can’t get the sound to work with either Internet Explorer or Firefox.

R&E part 2 (11:40 am 9/17/2007) – Patrick has a better video.

If you haven’t heard by now, Sheboygan County Circuit Judge Timothy M. Van Akkeren overturned a guilty verdict on a child enticement charge rendered by a jury against a slimeball serial sex offender by the name of Mitchell D. Pask. The Journal Sentinel has a quick, yet exhaustive, history on Pask, including his past and present history with Van Akkeren (which includes the charge he is still in jail for at the moment, indecent touching of a woman at a Sheboygan store), and Patrick over at Badger Blogger has a good starter’s list of other cases that Van Akkeren took the perp’s side, but let’s focus on this one.

In Van Akkeren’s instructions to the jury, he defined “secluded area”, a necessary condition for child enticement, as “a place screened or hidden from view or remote from others.” With that in mind, I took a little trip to Workers’ Water Street Park…

I seem to have found three spots that would meet the above definition of “secluded area”, one right at the picnic shelter itself, and two within easy walking distance. Then again, considering the Lawgiver-In-Black loves to let perps walk, I don’t suppose he thought of that.

I hope the fine folks in Sheboygan County act on this about the end of April, 2008, when Van Akkeren becomes eligible for recall.

August 24, 2007

Replacement Deep Tunnel Awards

With Charlie taking the day off to celebrate the release of 50 Rules Kids Won’t Learn in School, and a bunch of crap floating around (both figuratively and literally), I just couldn’t let another week go by without some noting of it. I have a voice for blogging, so you won’t have the multimedia presentation that the Blogfather usually does every Friday right after the 11:35 traffic, but let’s roll with it anyway. It’s time for the weekly Deep Tunnel Awards, handed out every week Charlie’s on the air Friday plus this week to the person, politician or institution who, like MMSD’s somewhat-almost-not-quite-deep-enough tunnel, was the most full of it.

Third runner-up this week – The Chicago Tribune and various pantywaist envirowhackos, who are about to derail an expansion of BP’s refinery in northern Indiana over a miniscule increase in the amount of crap they would be allowed to dump into Lake Michigan, up to 5,000 pounds per day from 3,500 pounds per day. BP has now promised to not increase their dumpings, even if it means they won’t expand production. Because that BP facility is one of only two that produces our very special blend of Algore/Whitman Memorial RFG, I hope the envirowhackos choke on $5/gallon gas (after I move out of here, that is) while braying the $2/gallon increase for a lake that is 0.000014% cleaner is worth it. Oh, and remember that number; I’ll get back to it.

Second runner-up this week – Michael Vick, who is set to plead guilty to a charge stemming from dogfights he and others participated in. May you try to escape and get an up-close-and-personal visit from a police German Shepherd.

First runner-up this week, in second place – The idiot who rammed Milwaukee County Deputy Kevin Johnson’s squad car as Johnson was cleaning up an accident scene on US-45. Kevin’s younger brother, Tim, was nearly killed doing the same thing back in January. Thankfully, Kevin was still in his squad car and escaped injury. Message to motorists – if you see flashing lights, don’t aim for them.

But the winner this week – Chicago’s Metropolitan Water Reclamation District, which, instead of sending its 243,000 pounds of crap daily down to the Mississippi like it usually does, is sending something north of that into Lake Michigan. Meanwhile, MMSD claims it can dump an average of 11,000 pounds of crap a day. And yet the envirowhackos continue to ignore that and bitch about an additional 1,500 pounds in exchange for something that’s absolutely needed, and about someone who takes a whiz over the side of a fishing boat.

What a load of crappy-crap-crap.

August 20, 2007

Bravo Zulu, Shark

by @ 9:05. Filed under Law and order.

I’ll admit, I didn’t follow the case of In re M.R.N.. I should have. Rick Esenberg, who was one of the attorneys that got a victory for life, has a good primer of what the issues were. To wit:

– M.R.N., who reportedly suffers from violent dementia, was placed under sedation.
– She did not leave an advance directive of whether or when to end basic life support (water and feeding tube).
– Her “guardian”, along with Milwaukee attorney Robin Shapiro, decided to try to end said support, with the preference that the proceding be closed (i.e. secret).
– Of particular note, they neither claimed that M.R.N. was in a persistive vegitative state nor claimed that anybody knew M.R.N.’s wishes. That is key because under the current state of Wisconsin law (including a 1997 State Supreme Court decision), barring either the ward being in a persistive vegitative state or the ward giving a clear expression of preference, life support cannot be withdrawn at the request of a guardian.

On Friday, Shapiro and the “guardian” withdrew their request without prejudice. Ignoring the fact that they can bring it back, it is a major victory. If those murderers had succeeded, it would have made euthanasia a simple two-step of knocking somebody out and then finding somebody to say, “Kill ’em.”

August 3, 2007

HamNation – Better Living Through Bathroom Etiquette

by @ 23:25. Filed under Law and order, War on Terror.

Just in case you missed the news that flushing the Koran is a felony hate crime, Mary Katharine Ham has a new “instructional” video.

The Koran makes excellent kindling as well as an outstanding skeet target.

August 2, 2007

What the hell is wrong with these judges?

by @ 10:29. Filed under Law and order.

WTMJ-AM just reported that Brendan Dassey, convicted of 1st degree intentional homicide, mutiliation of the corpse, and 2nd-degree sexual assault in the murder of Theresa Halbach, will be getting regular parole hearings starting in 41 years. His uncle, Steven Avery, who was actually acquitted in the mutilation of a corpse charge but was convicted of the other two, identical charges, will never be walking out of a Wisconsin prison.

Revisions/extensions (10:59 am 8/2/2007, with a H/T to Mary) – the Lawgiver-In-Black who gave this ridiculous sentence, Jerome Fox, speaks:

“The court believes there is a moral need for substantial punishment for these crimes,” Judge Jerome Fox said.

Fox said during his ruling that this was the most serious crime the court had ever had before it.

“(Dassey) knew the difference between right and wrong, good and evil,” the judge said.

Then why did you give only 47 years? If I were a defense attorney, I would hope I end up in his courtroom. I would be arguing that my client should get even less because of the ridiculously-weak sentence given Dassey.

July 23, 2007

Meet the new DA. Same as the old DA. – Check last; it’s the city attorney

Revisions/extensions (4:33 pm 7/23/2007) – My apologies, for the moment at least, to John Chisholm. However, 4+ months is a long time to still be investigating, and given that the city issued and, in most cases, dismissed the disorderly-conduct tickets, it’s not encouraging.

Do you remember the 21 protesters thugs that smashed up the UWM-area Army recruitment center? Rebecca does, and she has some bad news. DA E. Michael McCan…er, John Chisholm Milwaukee City Attorney Grant Langley is set to drop all the charges against the thugs. Rebecca also dug up the history of the 12 “adults” who were given municipal tickets for disorderly conduct – 3 who pled no contest were found guilty, 6 who either pled not gulity or didn’t plea at all had their cases dismissed without prejudice, and 3 who pled not guilty are waiting final disposition.

Paging Mr. Biskupic.

June 22, 2007

Troha cuts a deal, multiple heads of executive branches sweating

WTMJ-AM just reported that Dennis Troha has reached a plea deal with US Attorney Steve Biskupic to plead guilty to a pair of misdemeanor charges of conspiring to violate federal campaign laws, admit to also violating state election laws, and cooperate with the FBI in exchange for the dropping of pending federal mail fraud and federal false statement charges and the non-pursuance of potential state charges against Troha. WisPolitics put up statements from both Biskupic’s office and Troha.

This brings up a few interesting questions:

– Why would Troha cut a deal when a quarter of the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals is handing out “get out of jail free” cards to those engaged in political corruption?
– We know one of the potential targets now sweating; Jim “Craps” Doyle (WEAC/Potawatomi-For Sale). What we didn’t know until today is the other potential target; George Bush. You think that’s why the White House wanted Biskupic out? Oh, where’s the apologies for Biskupic being “partisan”?
– Related to that, how nice that the presstitutes have shown up to that party late, and are now loudly pronouncing their presence by putting Bush before Doyle.

June 15, 2007

You wouldn’t know this one from the media

by @ 12:25. Filed under Law and order, Politics - Wisconsin.

But you would from somebody like Jessica McBride. She’s not letting her tombstoning from the radio stop her from digging for the real story. You didn’t read this in the local paint-catcher’s lionization of one Kimberly Prude, but the unanimous 7th Circuit decision upholding her conviction on charges of voting in the 2004 fall general election while under state supervision for a felony found that she knew from multiple sources that she could not vote while still on probation, including signs at the polls that informed felons still under state supervision they could not vote.

One of the things that came out in the original trial was that she was working the polls that election, and that she engaged in activities that were less than above-board. Why did I have to wait for the decision to find that one out? Oh, and one more question (also asked by Jessica); why in the hell was she working the polls?

April 30, 2007

Texas Legislature – Bloggers are not “media”

by @ 8:06. Filed under Law and order, Politics, The Blog.

(H/T – Paleo Conservative at Free Republic)

In an attempt to shield reporters from having to disclose their confidential sources, Texas Senator Rodney Ellis (D-Houston) very pointedly sought to exclude bloggers from this protection. The Houston Chronicle has the money quote – “It does not cover the garden-variety blogger sitting in their pajamas at home ranting and raving on the computer.” Houston, we have a problem, and it’s not just this politico’s derision for his constituents.

There is a back-door method to gain this protection, however. From the text of the bill (which is poised to pass the Texas Senate):

Sec. 22.021. DEFINITIONS. In this subchapter:
….
(2) “Journalist” means a person who for financial
gain, for a substantial portion of the person’s livelihood, or for
subscription purposes gathers, compiles, prepares, collects,
photographs, records, writes, edits, reports, investigates,
processes, or publishes news or information that is disseminated by
a news medium or communication service provider and includes:
(A) a person who supervises or assists in
gathering, preparing, and disseminating the news or information;
(B) a person who is or has been a journalist,
scholar, or researcher employed by an institution of higher
education; or
(C) a person who is on a professional track to
earn a significant portion of the person’s livelihood by obtaining
or preparing information for dissemination by a news medium or an
agent, assistant, employee, or supervisor of that person.
(3) “News medium” means a newspaper, magazine or
periodical, book publisher, news agency, wire service, radio or
television station or network, cable, satellite, or other
transmission system or carrier or channel, or a channel or
programming service for a station, network, system, or carrier, or
an audio or audiovisual production company or Internet company or
provider, or the parent, subsidiary, division, or affiliate of that
entity, that disseminates news or information to the public by any
means, including:
(A) print;
(B) television;
(C) radio;
(D) photographic;
(E) mechanical;
(F) electronic; and
(G) other means, known or unknown, that are
accessible to the public.

Revisons/extensions (8:14 am 4/30/2007) – Get me more caffeine; I completely forgot to add the ironic title of this piece of rotted sausage – “The Free Flow of Information Act”.

April 21, 2007

Virginia Tech thoughts

by @ 19:42. Filed under Law and order.

Aaron pretty much summed up my immediate thoughts down below. For those screaming for new gun grabs, it was a lack of communication about Cho’s mental instability that let him semi-legally get his weaponry, and Cho violated the ban on guns on campus to carry out his murderous rage. More laws wouldn’t have stopped him.

April 11, 2007

5 days and counting

That is how long it’s been since the 3-person panel of Lawgivers-In-Black on the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals released Georgia Thompson from Club Fed, and there is still no opinion from them to back up their order. Inquiring minds from Madison to Chicago, both in politics and organized crime (or are they really one and the same?), want to know whether there is something specific about this case that caused a crash-stop reversal of Thompson’s conviction that they can exploit or whether the new standard is that, as long as the fixer remains clammed up, no conviction in the Great Lakes will remain upright.

March 23, 2007

James Harris says it so much better than I can

by @ 18:23. Filed under Law and order, Politics - Wisconsin.

Go, read his take on the crisis that is Milwaukee, then if you’re in any position to do anything about solving that crisis, whether you’re a politico or “merely” a citizen, DO IT!

Latest evidence that Milwaukee is “not in a crisis”

by @ 11:38. Filed under Law and order, Politics - Wisconsin.

From today’s JSOnline’s DayWatch

  • A 16-year-old boy was shot and killed about about 1:50 a.m. this morning in a yard in the 2100 block of N. 38th St. – I could’ve swore that today was a school day at MPS.
  • A 23-year-old man was ejected from a car and died about 2:40 this morning after a crash he apparently initiated on S. Layton Blvd., police said. According to police reports, the man started attacking the 23-year-old woman who was driving the car southbound. – Two words, and only two words can describe this one; “Just damn”.
  • An 18-year-old student at Pulaski High School was arrested after a gun was found in his locker Thursday, Milwaukee police said today The gun was not loaded, said police spokeswoman Anne E. Schwartz. She said the boy dropped the gun from his pocket during a class Thursday…. – Not only is MPS failing to teach kids to any sort of standard, they can’t even teach basic stay-out-of-jail skills. The FIRST place the cops are going to start looking for a gun after you drop it in a classroom (where you shouldn’t be armed in the first place) is your locker.

Nope, this is not a crisis, at least according to Mayor Tom “Milk Carton” Barrett. If it weren’t so tragic, I might laugh at that proposition, because it definitely IS a crisis.

Speaking of DayWatch, is anybody else having issues with the HTML in their RSS feed (I won’t mention that they don’t provide hotlinks to individual posts)? Sometimes, the closing “>” will show up as “>” (the HTML code for that all-important symbol), sometimes it will properly trigger the display of the enclosed HTML, and those changes on that same post throughout the day will trigger the “update” feature in SharpReader. Also, any links that do show up will not open properly.

March 19, 2007

The future of Milwaukee?

by @ 19:10. Filed under Law and order, Politics - Wisconsin.

(H/T – Jib over at the BBA)

Due to decades of high crime, high taxes, and high unemployment colliding with rising interest rates, Reuters is reporting houses in Detroit are routinely selling at auction for less than the average price of a new car. Realtor Ron Walraven, who had a house in a suburb of Detroit he listed at $525,000 go for $130,000 at auction, has the money quote at the end of the article – “Once we’ve seen the last person leave Michigan, then I think we’ll be able to say we’ve seen the bottom.

For those that haven’t been paying attention, Milwaukee has suffered through decades of high taxes and high unemployment. Now, we’re suffering through historically-high crime. With everybody in government other than Milwaukee County Executive Scott Walker thinking that taxes aren’t high enough, there will only not be a reduction in the growth of taxes, but there will not be any solution to the unemployment crisis. Thanks to Milwaukee Mayor Tom “Milk Carton” Barrett’s refusal to acknowledge there is a crisis of crime, even those few who long for the days of the USSR won’t move in. It’s only a matter of time before Milwaukee follows the death spiral that Detroit is going through.

Revisions/extensions (7:50 pm 3/19/2007) – Bob Dohnal expands on the failure of leadership in Milwaukee. Go, read.

March 18, 2007

Steven Avery is … GUILTY!/NOT GUILTY!/GUILTY! (updated)

by @ 17:34. Filed under Law and order.

Revisions/extensions part 2 (6:05 pm 3/18/2007) – Guilty of 1st degree intentional homicide, not guilty of mutiliation of a corpse and guilty of being a felon in possession of a firearm. May you get Jeffrey Dahmer’s and Jesse Anderson’s fate, Avery.

Revisions/extensions part 1 (5:50 pm 3/18/2007) – Channels 4, 6 and 12 are all streaming the verdict on their sites. Channels 4 and 12 are using the straight pool feed from the courtroom, while 6 is running their on-air feed. The Worst Station In The Nation™ (CBS 58) can’t be bothered.

…the verdict is due in any moment. We were supposed to find out if the scum of the earth got a lifetime residence in some of Wisconsin’s not-finest accomodations or walked at 5:30, but not everybody got there yet.

Kevin has been following this daily, so if you haven’t been following this (like me), go read.

March 2, 2007

Damned if you do, damned if you don’t – the gambling edition

by @ 11:28. Filed under Law and order, Politics - Wisconsin.

If you try to compete with Potawatomi’s exclusivity on gambling in Southeast Wisconsin by lavishing Jim “Craps” Doyle (WEAC/Potawatomi-For Sale) with hundreds of thousands of dollars in campaign donations, you have the feds string you up on fraud charges.

If you try to compete with Potawatomi’s exclusivity on gambling in Southeast Wisconsin without paying off Craps, you get shut down by the Department of Administration’s Division of Gaming.

January 23, 2007

Stupid criminal of the day

by @ 13:06. Filed under Law and order.

JSOnline’s DayWatch has today’s winner loser – Benjamin R. Stibbe, Grafton’s worst resident, who is up on federal heroin trafficking charges, had his lawyer try to get certain statements he made to local officers thrown out because he was…wait for it…

…wait for it…

…not yet…

…almost time…

NOW!

high on the heroin he was busted with.

Never mind that, in this specific case, he first agreed to get some heroin from Milwaukee for an undercover officer. Never mind that he has been convicted of one case of providing lethal amounts of heroin to Grafton-area addicts, and that charges are pending in three others.

Maybe if Keg Goldschlager had hired his scumbag attorney, Anthony Cotton, she would still be driving a state-owned vehicle.

January 5, 2007

Catching up (take 2)

Had this ready to go when my router crapped out on me and I lost this. Let’s see if I can catch up again:

  • John Washburn is still trying to find out exactly what happened in Milwaukee on 11/2/2004. Despite claims from the retiring Milwaukee Police Department chief Nan Heggarty that the investigation into the 2004 election was over on 11/27/2006, there is still no final report forthcoming. After weeks of getting the runaround, John finally got the US Attorney’s office to say that the report will be available in the next month. So, where’s the election records? The FBI says the Milwaukee County DA’s office has them, the DA’s office says they don’t have them. Bear in mind that this investigation was used by the State Doylie Elections Board to not process John’s election complaint.
  • The Dems learned no sense of humility in their dozen years in the political wilderness. Bela Pelosi and company are planning on ramrodding their agenda through the House without so much as a committee hearing or an amendment. Worse, President Bush is set to confirm again and again my fears from 1999 that he wasn’t a conservative. The Asian Badger was right when he predicted a shortage of KY Jelly.
  • Speaking of not-conservative Republicans, Tommy Thompson appears to be serious about running for President in 2008. Not only does he have a website up (once again, I’ll state for the record I will not knowingly link to campaign websites, so you can find it yourself), but he threatened promised Iowans with weekly visits.
  • With a hat tip due Jib, it seems that Taliban head Muhammed Omar has e-mail access. One of his intermediaries has been in contact with Reuters, and Omar says he hasn’t seen Osama Bin Laden since the end of 2001. Hey One-Eye, come on out of hiding so we can confirm you said that (and then confirm your death).
  • Another hat tip, this time to Allahpundit and Owen – a bunch of gunmen overran a National Guard listening post in Arizona. Can we declare war on Mexico, or at least properly militarize the border now, Jefe?
  • Speaking of gunplay, this is how New Years is celebrated on the North Side of Milwaukee. Patrick, I hope you kept your head down when you recorded the audio.

I hope that catches me up through midnight.

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