No Runny Eggs

I’m in that kind of mood; I missed Van Halen in town last night…

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– Which city is next to get the B4B nuking? Tune in and find out.
– Ace channels Lt. Frank Drebin on Rev. Jeremiah Wright’s latest episode of foot-in-mouth disease.
– Brian says with regard to Barack Obama’s latest claim of “bipartisanship”, “Like preacher, like parishoner.”
– Amanda Carpenter has today’s number – $2.3 billion. That would be the cost of the earmarks requested by Hillary Clinton, easily the biggest porker in the Senate. I’ll be filing that for use after August.
– Zip is having vulgarity-filled second thoughts about Operation Chaos/NRE Spring Hill campaign. Hang tough, Zip. You too, Shoe.
– ZP gives Iran no chance against Barbie, Warrior Princess.
– Anwyn wonders if Mary Poppins will survive the PC movement.
– Katie Favazza is looking for whacked-out letters to the editor.
– Dad29 bemoans Rep. Jim Sensenbrenner’s lack of committment to kill the corn-a-hole mandate. Come on, Jim; if Kay Bailey Hutchison can do it, you can.
– Random10 has the anti-Gorebal Warming graphic of the day. But, but, but the acolytes told us that tropcial warming was real, and the ultimate proof of Gorebal Warming (oops, looks like that’s not happening).

No offense from the Brew Crew leaves me in Heartbreak Hotel…

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– Mary Katharine Ham brings back the Peeps. PEEPS!!!!
– Lawhawk notes the continuing lawfare going on at Club Gitmo. Since when is having 3 squares a day and world-class health care considered grounds for insanity? Oh, that’s right; we’re talking about the marriage of convenience between the Islamokazis and the Left Lawyers, both of whom want to go back to a time before the Industrial Revolution.
– Uncle Jimbo wants to take the COIN that’s been working in Iraq global.
– The gang at IraqStatusReport.com translated Ayman al-Zawahiri’s latest pronouncements, and to the surprise of nobody that’s actually paying attention, he called Iraq the “most important arena” in the Global War on Terror.
– Jim Hoft is puzzled at Barack Obama’s continued call for an immediate unconditional surrender to the Islamokazis in Iraq.
– He also catches Howard Dean uttering one of George Carlin’s famous seven words while describing the Algore/Pelosi plan to try to stop Operation Chaos. Fight on, HowDea.
– Professor Stephen Banbridge hopes we don’t repeat 80-year-old economic history. Unfortunately, economics and history are no longer taught in public schools.
– Jim Geraghty asks whether Obama is running for President or Supreme Court justice. Bonus question from Jim; what portions of the Constitution beyond the Second Amendment does Obama consider optional? Well, we know both Hillary Clinton and John McCain consider the First optional….
– Dr. Melissa Clouthier explains why Operation Chaos has taken root. Note to self; take John Hawkins’ advice and add her regular blog to the feed reader of bloat.
– Michelle Malkin popped some extra-butter popcorn while the Paul-Nuts “joined” with the McCainiacs to make a mockery of the Nevada GOP convention. If only I had a horse in that fight,….
– Doubleplusundead notes McCain is playing with fire in the South. Once again, the vitriol leveled at his “own side” wasn’t leveled at his “opposition”. Once again, if only we weren’t reduced to having to take a meager pleasure in Operation Chaos,….
– Purple Avenger asks how gubmint will tell the difference between a Pilatus Porter cargo plane and a Cessna Citation. Asian Badger, care to explain how they won’t be able to tell?
– Speaking of AB, he has some advice for Wesley Snipes. S. Weasel, you might want to consult him; he does have experience with earning an income overseas.
– Chris has the Gorebal Warming Buster chart of the week. Yes, the Winter That Won’t Die™ isn’t dead yet up in northwest Wisconsin.
– Kate asks, “Why Twitter?”
– Owen answers, “It can help you get out of an Egyptian prison.”

If this doesn’t make you at least tap your feet, I can’t help you…

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– Jo Egelhoff is running for the 57th Assembly seat being vacated by Steve Weickert. I’m not waiting until either September or November to do this endorsement – Jo Egelhoff for the 57th Assembly District.
– Madison Conservative comes back from an extended blogging break to let us know that Obama’s old friends are planning some shenanigans in the Twin Cities come September.
– Michelle Malkin says that they won’t be alone.
– Justin Higgins gives the business to one of his friends on Justice Antonin Scalia’s answer on abortion.
– JammieWearingFool has the line that will explode liberals’ heads everywhere. After all, it was the Goracle that wanted the 2000 election in the courts.
– Nick Schweitzer extends the “unintended consequences” theme to the true cost of ethanol subsidies.
– Mark Pribonic ties a personal story to the potential corn-a-hole-fueled food crisis (or is it already here?).
– John Adams goes back into history to defend anonymous speech.
– Dave in Texas has this week’s example of the Culture of Badassery; a legally-blind man whups up on a home invader who claimed he was just there for his cat. I normally would send you straight to the version with the comments, but the comments aren’t exactly safe for work because it is AoSHQ after all.
– John Hawkins assesses the state of the GOP. He’s a bit too kind to the Congressional leadership.
– Doubleplusundead plays Name! That! Party!
– Sister Toldjah smacks Howard Dean around like a pinata.
– Slublog uses an instant-classic Slushop to mock Harry Reid’s attempt to prevent Operation Chaos from reaching its conclusoin. I don’t see any reduction in popcorn sales.
– Uncle Jimbo delivers a well-placed TOT barrage on the media over their latest resurrection of Mookie Sadr.
– Jim Lynch did not misunderstand Nancy Pelosi’s claim of misunderstanding.
– CDR Salamander says, “Chavez, start worrying. The snake-driven 4th Fleet is coming back.”
– Michelle Malkin has pretty much my reaction to the NC GOP ad linking a couple of Dem candidates for governor to Obama and Wright. Dare I say she’s on my short list of people to write in for President come November?
– In the wake of a completely-meaningless and, for Mequon residents, annoying protest against “Big Oil” by a local gas station, J. Gravelle takes on Big Air. Breathe, J.

I really should either put down a later time for this to hit the Net when I do some legwork the previous night, or not answer e-mail while I’m putting the finishing touches on this :-)

There’s just one song to play after the combo Operation Chaos/NRE Spring Hill Campaign picked up an 8.6% win (wish I had a better-quality video, however)…

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– Before we start in earnest, I have a PSA from Michelle Malkin and S. Weasel – Go, buy a book from Mark Steyn today. The proceeds from the stuff that gets ordered today will be going to defend some good Canadian conservative sites against an attempt to use the power of gubmint to shut them down.
– Mary Katharine Ham relays the spin, the whole spin, and some commentary on the spin.
– PJ-Comix melts down the DUmmies. Well, when doesn’t he, but this one comes after he told them they were delusional.
– Jeff Wagner diagnoses Cheney Derangement Syndrome at West Allis Central High School.
– Tom McMahon explains why “they’re” angry.
– Jim Lynch remembers the first Earth Day. I wonder if that car his school buried is still salvageable. Oh, and he could use your hits; he’s looking to top 100k before his blogiversary May 24.
– Fred Keller wonders if the Academy will want their Oscar back from Algore Goracle after the revelation most of his footage was faked.
– The Goracle was simply following the lead of the Gorebal Warming “scientists”; Dad29 notes they didn’t do a proper peer-review process, rather going to those that would simply rubber-stamp their attempts to crush capitalism.
– Speaking of the Gorebal “Warming” science, Brian notes all four agencies in America that track the world’s temperature recorded the fastest year-over-year temperature drop in recorded history.
– Mondoreb remembers history and says that the selection of Vladimir Lenin’s birthday as Earth Day was no accident.
– Drach makes the case for me to relocate to Oklahoma; law enforcement willing to hold onto illegals until they’re deported.
– Chef Mojo wants to add to his arsenal with that welfare economic stimulus check. Buying American firearms is about the only way that it isn’t simply welfare (though it still is welfare).
– Dad29 returns to the DUmmies to answer why they keep on losing. PJ would award the DUmmie quoted a Kewpie Doll for having a moment of clarity on guns.
– Lance Burri asks, “Is it fair?” No, the tax structure in Wisconsin is anything but fair, especially when the top 0.1% (no, not 1%) in income pay more in state income taxes than the bottom 50%.
– Wyatt Earp has the catch of the day. No, I’m not talking sports, and no, there’s no video, but a postal worker caught a 1-year-old girl who fell out of a second-story window.

Enjoy the rest of hump day.

Sorry about the lack of links yesterday; by the time I got back to the keyboard, I was toast.

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– Jim Hoft has Hillary Clinton at her most Clintonesque. I need more popcorn.
– Curt notes Clinton will obliterate Iran. I wonder if her husband will be in the trenches.
– Mary Katharine Ham asks whether Barack Obama’s too nice to win. Er, MK, do I have to remind you of the clinging episode, or the fact that both you and I recognized early that we had to stop the Trotskyite?
– Charlie Sykes answers, “Nice? Obama? The folks across the pond don’t agree.”
– Lawhawk explains why Michael Moore the Hut thinks Obama is the perfect candidate.
– Back to Trotsky, Jim Hoft got an admission from the Bolivian President that the goal of the Gorebal “Warming” crowd is nothing less than the death of capitalism. Bonus bit; Evo Morales has the same sense of timing as High Priest Algore Goracle.
– Cuffy Meigs discovered the blog of an old friend of Obama’s. It’s explosive. </pun_bad>
– Brian Fraley details just how dysfunctional the Milwaukee County Board is. Side note; the 7 that voted against keeping Lee “Thug” Holloway as board chair had best watch their backs, there is a reason why I use that nickname.
– Kevin Fischer plays “Final Jeopardy” with the dumbest place to put sex offenders.
– Jo Egelhoff chastises Steve Kagen for not getting his facts straight (again).
– I was remiss in not pointing you to last week’s Blogs4Bauer strike replacement episode, but I won’t make that mistake again. Why? Dave Bauer considers torture a hobby.
– Jim Hoft has this week’s episode of the conversion of Britain to Britanistan to earn a triple shot.
– Michelle Malkin notes the coming of Sharia Standard Time.
– James T. Harris is raising his son right. He saw right through the Carter-Hamas charade.
– How much of a charade? Rusty Shackelford describes the hudna perfectly.
– Shoebox takes a well-aimed historical whack at the Peanut Farmer.
– Huckleberry Dumbbell has your Only Outside America headline of the week. Since when did the BBC not capitalize headlines?
– Charles Johnson has reason #452 why I tend not to have photographs of myself.

I’m out of time because I have to fly to Madison, and dummy me enjoyed the weekend instead of doing Scramble prep, so there won’t be links added until (likely) this afternoon. Hopefully I won’t suffer the same fate as the plane….

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Hope you enjoyed the rising sun, fellow Cheddarheads; we won’t see it for a while…

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– Ace notes we’re about to be overrun by cats. Cat-lovers may not want to go to the comments, but there is a bit of good gunplay there (including an M-60 Mk 43 machine gun unloading 850 rounds with a single squeeze of the trigger).
– Gaius found something that gets even some of the Dems to join the rest of society in condemning, namely, Jimmy Carter’s hand-holding with Hamas.
– Meanwhile, doubleplusundead asks Islamic Jihad for Carter, “Why can’t we be friends?”
– It must be Peanut Day here; RidesAPaleHorse dug up a few good pics of the Peanut Farmer. There is just a slight language warning for the last of the pics, so you may not want to scroll all the way down if you’re at work.
– That doesn’t mean I forgot about Barack Obama; Curt skewers Obama’s “Tax the rich, beat the poor, till there are no rich no more” capital gains tax plan.
– Mike notes Obama still doesn’t get why character ultimately matters. I’ll ignore the 8 years between 1992 and 2000.
– JihadGene channels Krazy Kim being Obama’s soulmate on the elitist front.
– Jed is drooling over the latest in flat-panel technology. I don’t think we’ll be rolling it up anytime soon; there’s the fragility problem.
– Staying with technology, Jon Ham likes the forthcoming microcar from VW with a sub-liter engine. Cripes; my 1972 Yamaha R5C’s engine is almost as big as the engine in that (I need to get that thing restored).
– Mary bemoans the death of headstones in “green” cemetaries. I don’t mind the lack of embalming (after all, it’s “ashes to ashes, dust to dust”), but I don’t want to depend on something off-site to find a loved one’s grave.
– Owen found a couple familiar names in the Rezko trial. I knew there was a reason I list Gov. Jim Doyle’s party as “For Sale”. Another presstitute “oddity”; even though Owen’s source is the Journal Sentinel’s Cary Spiva, and the item appeared on both JSOnline’s DayWatch and their Watchdog blog yesterday, there is neither hide nor hair of it in today’s paper.
– Wisconsin State Senator Mary Lazich (R-New Berlin) has your daily reminder that the Democrats do not care about high gas prices as long as government gets the increase. Yes, I know, I covered it in an earlier Scramble, but since I’ve seen one station at $3.699/gallon for regular self-serve unleaded this morning (BP, 13th and Rawson), it’s time to rinse and repeat.
– Ed Driscoll reminds us that, protestations by the Left and the bamboozled Daniel Henninger notwithstanding, the culture wars are not over. I’ll maintain red alert.
– Ed Morrissey asks whether Al Qaeda hired the Baghdad Bob Public Relations Agency. I’ll have to say yes.
– IBD notes that one of the intermediate goals of the Gorebal Warming crowd has been met, even without the US on the Kyoto climate change economy killing diet, but having Red China be the #1 “Gorebal Warming gas” polluter isn’t enough for their fellow (former) Communists.
– Michelle Malkin awards the MSM Poor Taste Award to one of those Gorebal Warming organizations.
– Brian Fraley has a new sacrificial lamb from the left to skewer on his weekly WisPolitics/Capital Times podcast.

Sorry about making it the Afternoon Scramble. I’m simply wiped out, so I’m glad Shoebox is back…

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– Todd Lohenry has some rather surprising numbers on the number of deaths in the military over the last 20 years, plus some sample numbers from 8 years prior. Care to guess which Presidency was deadlier for the military? As Captain Tenneal would say, “Well, you’re wrong (unless you’re a Vast Right Wing Co-Conspirator).”
– (Revision/extension – 2:26 pm 4/16/2008) There is a reason why those numbers were surprising; Fred did some fact-checking on those numbers, and they were too good to be true. Sorry about that.
– Tom McMahon has another pledge the Left would have a real problem with. Never mind they came up with that pledge back in FDR’s war (if those pinheads want to call the Global War On Terror “Bush’s war”, I’ll reserve the right to call WWII “FDR’s war”).
– You may now call Kathy Carpenter “Alderwoman”.
– Christian Schneider goes into a death spiral, following Dennis Pork (for those of you outside the Cheddarsphere, mash here for that story).
– Kevin Fischer discovered that border “fence” isn’t exactly effective at its stated goal. Of course, since nobody in DC with the exception of Reps. Hunter and Tancredo wanted it to actually stop illegal aliens, it’s not a surprise.
– Mary Katharine Ham has your Peanut Farmer quote of the week. Yes, I know Allahpundit had Jimmy Carter’s display of elitist snobism first, but it’s my Scramble, my rules (such as they are).
– Jimi says, “Fire up the DVR, NBC’s handing over the reins of the ‘Today’ show to the first lady.”
– James T. Harris notes yet another shot in the uncivil civil war on the left, especially among the civil rights generation. This time, it’s BET vs. Obama.
– John Hawkins delivers “Obama In Quotes”. Do be patient, his server’s just getting hammered because I’m hardly the first one on this.
– Jon Ham noticed a certain pin is back on Obama’s lapel. And here I thought Denver was the last refuge of the scoundrels.
– American Pundit has the irony of the day; John Murtha calling John McCain too old.
– Troy Fullerton wonders if Joe Lieberman will be the next Zell Miller. I don’t know whether that says more about the Dems or the Pubbies.
– Sean Hackbarth talked economics with one of the latest examples of the LeftStreamMedia’s black widow-like tendency to eat those they no longer have a propaganda use for, Carly Firoina. Those looking to fill a New Media position with somebody savvy, get a hold of Sean.
– Aaron issued an open invite to a certain candidate that happens to be running for President for the May Drinking Right (May 13, 7 pm CDT, Papa’s Social Club). Well, the motto is, “It’s not about being right, it’s about being drinking.”
– William Teach has a few tips for those bloggers either hacked or worried about getting hacked. Go, read.
– Kate has the corn-a-hole cartoon of the day.
– Ed Morrissey whacks the “ghettoized female blogger” meme.

There’s simply too much in the feed reader today, so if I want to get anything done, I better stop here.

It’s Tax Day and Buy A Gun Day (H/T – Beth). Coincidence? I think not. Since I can’t afford a real fancy gun, I may as well enjoy the blues while I finish off my taxes and try to figure out how much money I have left with which to buy a gun:

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– B.C. is displaying some serious gun pics. If only I could afford them,….
– Christian Schneider delivers your dose of Justice Scalia. That brings back good memories of his visit to Marquette many years ago.
– Grim has a couple of new ways to support the troops.
– Fred Keller remembered that this day 61 years ago, Jackie Robinson made his debut for the Brooklyn Dodgers.
– Mark Block delivers another history lesson, this one for the likes of Red Fred Kessler.
– Dad29 admonishes the bipartisan Party-In-Government in Madison to stop digging.
– Michelle and the Hot Air gang have a fresh episode of “Hot Air TV”, which is very timely. If only my dad were a Kennedy,….
– Staying with taxes, Clint answers the burning question of the Left – “Did the Bush tax cuts screw the poor and the working class?” (hint, it’s not a 3-letter answer, but it’s one that will blow the minds of the Left)
– William Teach has the WordPress 2.5 Media Center fix for those willing to tinker under the hood.
– Jim Geraghty notes John McCain wants a summerlong tax holiday. That doesn’t exactly jive with the official position of the executive branch of Wisconsin’s government, which is to raise it 40 cents.
– Katie Favazza dumps a horseshoe on Hillary Clinton’s almost-somewhat-not-quite-enough attempt to bamboozle pro-lifers.

I doubt I’ll be blogging much the rest of the day; I have some taxes to do.

I need something upbeat to get me back in the swing of things…

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– Plebian remakes a bunch of Charlton Heston classics.
– William Teach notes we’re one step closer to Solyent Green.
– Stephen Green rips those that initiate e-mail contact then don’t have the brains to automatically accept your reply.
– Emperor Misha I gives another reason to not vote for McCain (I do have to put a language warning on this one; follow at your own risk).
– Ace welcomes Hillary Rodham Clinton to the Vast Right Wing Conspiracy as only he can (again, I do have to put a language warning on this one).
– Michelle Malkin has the obligatory lush Hill caption contest.
– I can’t do better than Mondoreb, who has the not-necessarily safe for work Photoshop of the weekend.
– John has the safe-for-work Photoshop of the weekend, the Clinton model sniper rifle (though the post itself may not necessarily be safe for work).
– Jim Geraghty asks whether Barack Obama reads his own trade rhetoric.
– Matt Lewis figured Obama was channeling Jesse The Body. It’s more like Karl Marx.
– Flip has the perfect film for the Obama campaign.
– Jim Lynch discovered the medical name of the ‘Rat campaign.
– Speaking of campaigns, RedState has a roundtable on whether to donate to the RNC and its subsidiaries, the RNCC and RNSC. I’ll be back on this in a bit, but the two-letter answer is “NO!”
– The Investor’s Business Daily editorial page whacks those that want to burn our food.
– Sean Hackbarth notes the typical liberal “cure” to the problem largely of their creation (see above) is worse than the problem.
– Jim Hoft notes the Goracle is cashing in on Gorebal Warming. Who knew it was a Ponzi scheme </sarcasm>?
– Owen has some fighting words for the ninnies in California that want to radically jack up the tax on beer.
– Jib has the appropriate answer to another tax-hiking scheme from the land of earthquakes and wildfires. It’s a call to arms.
– Ace notes the introduction of the aptly-named “Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is” bill. Anybody care to guess how much that took in in Arkansas when Mike Huckabee got that through their legislature? Lowball it, then halve it.
– Dad29 has reason #142 to not appoint judges.
– Tom McMahon answers the “Why are fire engines red?” question.
– JammieWearingFool asks, “Is the woman 2 heartbeats away from the Presidency actively assisting America’s enemies?” I believe you can guess my answer.
– Fausta mourns the decline of the Royal Navy from a pirate-fighting unit to a pirate-coddling one.
– Stan has the bad news from DC; dancing in the streets is illegal. Of course, that’s only bad if you can dance, and I can’t.
– Uncle Jimbo has your “Blowed Up Real Good” video fix.
– Mondoreb has the stupid ad campaign of the weekend. I wonder how many accidents that caused.

I got some blogging to do.

I guess I need some new tennis shoes…

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– Attention, attention Morons! Ace will be on Fausta’s show at 10 am Central (11 am Eastern) today, if BlogTalkRadio doesn’t cough up another lung or Ace doesn’t confuse BTR with a hobo, that is.
– John Hawkins asked a bunch of bloggers, “Who do you want and don’t you want for VP?” Out of the list he gave them, I would take Michael Steele and definitely not take Christie Todd Whitman.
– Jim Hoft remembered the terrorist friends, both homegrown and Islamist, Barack Obama kept.
– Ed Morrissey adds up the bills Bill Clinton has been giving us the taxpayers despite his and his wife’s massive cash inflow. No wonder why they could give so much to their own “charity”.
– Allahpundit checked the Hiliary Lie Machine and proclaimed it running at 110%.
– Speaking of liars, Sister Toldjah has your liar of the week, and no, it’s not Clinton.
– Krakatoa finds a soon-to-be-ex-NYT reporter.
– Why? Because Bill Quick notes the latest example of groupthink there.
– Bruce notes all the ways ex-Alderman (and still thug) Michael McGee-Jackson Jr. will continue to soak cash from the city of Milwaukee.
– Conservative Belle notes, correctly, that criminals will pack and shoot no matter what the gun laws are.
– Somebody should’ve told that to Philly mayor Nutter; Wyatt Earp has the story on that.
– David St. Lawrence deprogrammed one of his Vista laptops to see how much faster it runs with XP.
– Pete Fanning has a PBS series you should watch starting April 27. Yes, he is serious, and don’t call him Shirley unless you want to be keelhauled.
– Jon Ham says, “Consensus? What consensus, Gore?”
– John McAdams notes the latest example of political correctness run amok on a formerly-religious college campus.
– Fred is shocked, SHOCKED that postage rates will be going up again after finding out USPS employees in Orlando had a $13,500 steak dinner on our dime.

Because I can’t stand the weather…

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– Doubleplusundead scoffs at John McCain’s “outreach” to evangelicals.
– Matt Lewis is already planning for 2010. I have some bad news; if we don’t take care of business in 2008, there definitely won’t be a home for conservatives in the GOP in 2010.
– Charlie Sykes notes that, at a time of historically-high gas prices (and climbing), the official position of the Doyle administration is to jack up the federal gas tax by 40 cents per gallon. You can bet I’ll have more to say on that once I finish sobering up (I did the legwork last night before Drinking Right, which unlike SAB Miller and Absolut Vodka, is a good call).
– Marshall Manson says, “Just fix it.”
– Sister Toldjah has your Obama quote of the week.
– Jon Ham has the outrageous headline-that-cost-somebody-her-job headline of the week, which in this case helped cause an Obama staffer to lose her job.
– I know Drinking Right was yesterday, but it’s a triple-shot weekday on Obama; Anwyn notes the campaign very-actively practices affirmative action.
– Make it quad damage; Carol Platt Liebau questions the objectivity of one Martha Raddatz of ABC News, who magically found “80% support” for Obama among the troops in Iraq.
– Jim Hoft spotlights the next likely Hiliary lie. You don’t take just 7 years off of bowling and do as bad as she did on Ellen Degeneres’ show (I should know; I’ve taken 7 years off and my game, such as it is, didn’t slip that bad).
– Speaking of that, Paddy O’Furniture has a word picture puzzle. Since he’s too shy chicken (I should know the difference, I’m shy) to ask Katie to jump in, I guess this will have to count as the invitation.
– Bill Quick continues to hammer the Scandi-owned Absolut.
– Ace goes straight to the lightly-blocked crapper.
– Tom McMahon pulls out a classic quote from a liberal icon to skewer the Left.
– Ed Morrissey reports a highly-placed politician (leader of his party, actually) had his wholly-owned subsidiary that controlls that locale’s elections declare it “dangerous” to release the results of the biggest election of that locale. Doyle’s kicking himself that it was Zimbabwe’s Robert Mugabe that thought of this particular method of vote suppression first, and that he didn’t think of it before April 1.
– CDR Salamander says, “Good, bad, the Osprey is about to be the chopper with the gun.” He also notes there isn’t exactly a sense of history among those who feel salt spray (F-4 sans gun, meet F-35 B/C sans gun).
– Lance Burri has some Blogging Healthy tips from the Badger Blog Alliance. My work here is done.

I don’t believe it; Kansas took the long way to the top, which put the final coup de grace on my brackets as some that were behind me had Kansas as the national champs…

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– Uncle Jimbo has the advance copy of Gen. David Petraeus’ testimony to Congress. May there be heartburn there for the retreat-and-defeat crowd.
– JihadGene channels the Obamas.
– Headless Blogger has a follow-up on yesterday’s corn-a-hole item. Before you click, guess how long it would take a typical American to eat the amount of corn burned up in a Suburban tankful of E-85 corn-a-hole gas, and double it.
– Keith asks, “What would we do without nuclear warfare experts?”
– James Wigderson thinks it’s Brookfield’s success that’s driving Waukesha’s push for a massive referendum. Considering that the school district is grossly incompetent, including not having a replacement superintendent in place, it’s more like Racine’s success driving that.

This one’s a bit late, but I’m a bit on the blue side….

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– Krakatoa says, “Vote for Ace, and turn it up to 11.” I wholeheartedly agree, especially since Time doesn’t know there’s other good conservative blogs out there.
– Owen goes all philosophical on the state of the Cheddarsphere, and the state isn’t good.
– Marcus Aurelius retorts that we’ve never been all that civil. Guess I should’ve tried a bit harder to find a good YouTube version of “Civil War”.
– Jim Lynch issued a “Hold muh beer” alert (I miss mhking around both the blogosphere and Free Republic).
– Jessica McBride sums up the presstitute template on elections (she ought to know, she teaches journalism at UWM).
– Brian Fraley encapsulates the Lefties’ reaction to going 0-4 in the last 4 contested Supreme Court elections.
– Kate lists a heap of things she hates, and Trail-Mix jumped in with both feet.
– Mondoreb channels Gen. George S. Patton (complete with language, so you might not want to click that in front of your kids or boss).
– Jim Hoft questions the Democratic Party of Washington’s patriotism.
– Headless Blogger figures out how many pounds of corn it takes to fill the gas tank of a Chevrolet Suburban one time. Hint for those of you who are still around, take your highest guess and triple it.
– JammieWearingFool notes the race card isn’t just for the ‘Rats in America.
– Billdanielson takes the GOP to task for shifting the rationale for tax-rate cuts from reducing taxes to increasing them.
– Remember when President Bush said we’d turn our enemies against one another? Zip has an exhibit of just that.

Now if you’ll excuse me, I’ve got a Drinking Right Warning to issue.

It’s Opening Day at Miller Park; hooray beer!

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– In case you didn’t have enough reading about the Left’s meltdown after the voters unpacked the Wisconsin Supreme Court, Mark Block notes The Wall Street Journal took it national.
– Speaking of unhinging the Left in the legal election field, Jo Egelhoff says that a difference in the letter behind Wisconsin’s Attorney General makes all the difference. I wonder if the ‘Rats will push for that being appointed-for-life by the governor if both A.G. J.B. Van Hollen and Governor Jim “Craps” Doyle (WEAC/Potawatomi-For Sale) hang onto their seats in 2010.
– Uncle Jimbo is having a blast on the National Heroes Tour.
– Conservative Belle is hosting “Clash of the Superdelegates”. Did somebody ask for popcorn?
– “John Adams” has a unique explanation of why he (at least I presume “John Adams” is a “he”) does not allow comments at Free Whitewater. For those of you not familiar with why I cannot say for certain whether Adams is a man (or if I knew, why I wouldn’t say for certain), Free Whitewater has kicked up enough dirt around Whitewater, Wisconsin, that the city has used some rather dubious tactics in trying to unmask “Mr. Adams” and shut down the blog.
– Jib gets to the heart of the problem of the Gorebal Warming acolytes.
– See-Dub the Super-Sub asks, “Is it safe?” Take it from a wanderer who turned pro at 8, it’s so safe, you wouldn’t believe it.
– Slublog asks, “How do you fit an electric guitar down your pants?”
– Alan Steinberg conducts last rites for common sense.
– Flip notes all the talking-down of the economy by the LeftStreamMedia. Say, weren’t they busy accusing Bush of talking down the economy in 2000? What’s good for the goose and all….

If I can score some tickets to Opening Day, I’ll be gone. I haven’t been to one of those since the Brewers moved to Miller Park, but before that, I was an Opening Day regular. Hooray stadiums with roofs.

Revisions/extensions (8:01 am 4/4/2008) – I knew I should’ve waited a bit longer; right after hit “Save”, another brilliant 4-Block World post on the recent history of Wisconsin Supreme Court Elections came across the feed reader.

R&E part 2 (8:06 am 4/4/2008) – I really need to refresh the feed reader just before posting this; Shoebox was also all over this.

This one’s dedicated to Justice-elect Mike Gableman, Milwaukee County Executive Scott Walker, Milwaukee County Supervisor Paul Cesarz, and Alderwoman-elect Kathy Carpenter…

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

– Tom McMahon distills judicial campaigns to 4 blocks.
– Brian Fraley peers into the Left’s fax machine for their post-election blues meme.
– Morons who missed Ace on C-SPAN accepting the Blogger of the Year award rejoice; Vinnie scored him for The Jawa Report: Radio Edition.
– Gaius exposes the rank hypocrisy of the Left on human rights.
– Speaking of hypocrisy; Sister Toldjah tells us what we already know about Ted “Swimmer” Kennedy and the environment and adds some more.
– Hypocrisy is running amok; Scott at Flopping Aces exposes Obama’s oil-donation problem.
– Mark McNally uncovered what Obama’s Secret Service nickname is. It fits.
– It definitely fits better than the Obama Mortal Kombat videos out there. However, Doc has some wicked-good fan art of Baraka Obama.
– I hope you didn’t have your breakfast yet; Jim Lynch has the scary Photoshop of the day (and since it’s Hillary’s head on Rocky’s shirtless body, it may or may not be safe for work).
– Speaking of stomach-turning images, Charlie Sykes says those with weak stomachs and any love for America should not watch Hamas TV.
– William Teach reports Elizabeth Edwards wants to be included in her husband’s Other America when it comes to goverment-funded health care.
– Elliot answers what taxes are for.
– Too bad Asian Badger didn’t win his write-in campaign for the 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals seat; he has typical Asian Badger humor commercial pilot sense in his vote summary.
– Paging the gang at B4B; Jim Geraghty scooped you guys on the latest McCain/”24″ news.
– Cover your ears; Dan notes the New Kids on the Block are making a comeback.
– I should’ve had this yesterday, but I was late and ran out of time. Christian Schneider cheers “negativity”.

Revisions/extensions (9:33 am 4/2/2008) – John also entered the Hillarocky Photoshop sweepstakes.

No foolin’, it’s time to vote here in the land of brats and beer (for Judge Mike Gableman, Yes on the state constitutional amendment, Scott Walker, Paul Cesarz, Kathy Carpenter, Lou D’Abbraccio, no on any spending referendum, and your favorite conservative candidate)…

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jACrmwTsi08[/youtube]

– Because it is April 1, Brian Fraley gets into the spirit of things.
– If only Congress were kidding; Mary Katharine Ham notes they’re calling “Big Oil” on the carpet again.
– The Asian Badger continues to ignore Algore Goracle. Good call.
– S Weasel laughs at Islamic Rage Boy.
– Dave Bauer gets a weak gastrointestinal system in this week’s Blogs4Bauer Writers’ Strike Substitute episode.

Sorry it’s a short, late list today; I’ve been busy doing surgery on Kate’s site trying to diagnose why the archives weren’t exactly available, which included putting 2.5 on and back off (the latter was not fun). That turned out to be a plugin meant to make certain posts sticky that is only WP 2.0.x compliant, which I eventually replaced with one that works in 2.3.3. Let’s just say I won’t be doing 2.5 this week.

Side note; I will be live-blogging the results tonight. I’ll be here about 7:45 for the party.

The Winter That Won’t Die™ is being dealt the death blow today. Unfortunately, it’s not sun that’s dealing it…

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K7YgP_383wM[/youtube]

– Gabriel Malor is all doom and gloom.
– Bill Quick channels the infamous Lazamataz after he read a “study” saying cell phones are deadlier than smoking or asbestos.
– Jim Lynch has a caption contest going on Barack Obama’s “bowling”, while doubleplusundead has the gory details on how it is like his chances in Pennsylvania.
– Owen goes into the Howard Dean memory hole.
– William Smith, the Liberty Brian and CDR Salamander are back in the saddle again.
– Conservative Belle notes the nannies are no longer satisfied with seizing real guns.
– Headless Blogger has the next no-drill zone for the envirowhackos; North Dakota.
– Jessica McBride has the salient question in former Milwaukee police chief Nannette Hegarty’s discrimination claim.
– Carol Platt Liebau has two very different reasons why the Goracle isn’t stepping in to save the Dems from themselves. I hope it’s the latter reason; there’s nothing quite like making the two largest constituencies mad.

I have to thank Ed Driscoll for picking today’s music to surf by….

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

– Random10 gives some love to the winningest driver in racing history.
– Doubleplusundead says, “Hawks have to eat too, even if it’s ankle-yappers.”
– Kate is so mad at StartLogic for slow site loads and less-than-responsive customer service, she’ll be moving the Ol’ Broad family of blogs (An Ol’ Broad’s Ramblings, silent E speaks, and Wales Wisconsin) off their servers soon. Disclosure, I’ve been trying to get things sped up for them without a lot of success; neither an optimization and repair of the various databases involved nor a significant reduction in the calls to the PHP engine have worked (though I did manage to hack the Silent One’s “non-WP-2.2/2.3-compatible” theme enough to get his local blogroll back with 2.3.3 and get Kate’s blog so that errors aren’t showing up if one goes straight to olbroad.com instead of throwing in the WordPress subdirectory).
– Uncle Jimbo heaps praise after praise on Missouri for the VIP treatment of the National Heroes Tour.
– Staying with UJ, he reminds us that, while wars continue until one side or the other suffers enough that the survivors would rather accept surrender than fight, lasting peace comes from convincing the children and grandchildren of those survivors the victors are not the enemy.
– John Hawkins and RNC Chair Mike Duncan discuss why conservatives shouldn’t sit out this election. I’ll probably have some further thoughts on that in a bit.
– Charlie Sykes cheers the Scorched Earth policy from our gal (of the spring, that is) Hill. Let there be chaos in Denver.
– Kathy Carpenter is shocked, SHOCKED WEAC (for those of you out of state, that’s the dominant public teachers’ union here in the land of cheese and beer) would mislead.
– A pair of Patricks (BadgerBlogger and McIlheran) take whacks at State Sen. (and Milwaukee County Executive candidate) Lena Taylor’s (D-Milw.) last gasp sliming of current County Executive Scott Walker. Before you question why I put the “D” behind Taylor’s name and didn’t put an “R” behind Walker’s (he was a Republican Assemblyman before becoming County Executive), the office of County Executive is nonpartisan, while the office Taylor currently holds is partisan.
– Holes in Apple’s armor, part 1 – E.M. Zanotti had her laptop die on her, then discovered Apple’s less-than-customer-friendly return policy.
– Holes in Apple’s armor, part 2 – Gaius reports it took a skilled Apple hacker all of 2 minutes of phishing to crush the Mac’s vaunted security and make it a zombie.
– Disgruntled Truck Triver delivers a trio of toons.
– JihadGene channels Kim Jong-Il busting out the tunes while launching rockets.
– Gateway Pundit notes Iranian-born Eshan Jami will really push the envelope with the jihadis (and just about everybody else).
– Wyatt Earp asks, “Who’s to blame when kids curse?” I would put a content warning on this particular link, but because there are multiple creative uses of characters, I’ll simply slap a PG rating on it.

Revisions/extensions (9:28 am 3/28/2008) – I usually don’t point back to here because, well, you’re here, but for those of you who somehow missed the post below this one, Shoebox explains “subprime” to those of us who didn’t know just how sub it really was. That includes the dolts that gave 75% of those loans a AAA rating.

There’s nothing quite like Southern-fried rock…

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

– I wish I could’ve found a good YouTube version of “Minnie the Moocher”; it’s appropriate for Charlie Sykes’ find of a 3-generation brood of teat-suckers pulling down something north of $65,000 while doing absolutely nothing.
– I could’ve also done “That Smell” from Lynyrd Skynyrd; Mary sniffed out a stinky-money bust.
– Eric explores why Iraq is improving while Detroit, DC and Chicago are getting worse. The same can be said for Milwaukee over the last few years; it remains to be seen whether almost-new police chief Ed Flynn can turn it around because he hasn’t been here for a summer of shootings.
– Gaius points to an eerie comparison between Gorebal Warming and Y2K.
– Paul Socha has what, but for the lack of beer, is the ultimate living will.
– The Morons ought to like this one; Plebian breaks a “world exclusive” on freshly-minted NY Governor David Paterson’s the freshly-minted NY Lieutenant Governor’s hobo-hunting habits. (Revisions/extensions, 2:59 pm 3/26/2008 – I should’ve read a bit more closely; it’s the incoming Lt. Gov. Plebian is exposing)
– PrivatePigg bemoans the addition to grilled chicken to KFC’s menu. I disagree slightly on KFC’s fried chicken being “so good”, but it’s Kentucky Fried Chicken, for crying out loud.
– Ed Morrissey lays the smackdown on Minnesota Monitor’s $oro$-funded candy-ass.
– Stephen Bainbridge pronounces Microsoft Office 2007 a piss-poor product. He doesn’t know the half of it; just wait until he tries to open Office 2007 documents in 2003.
– Neil Stevens at RedState believes NOW hates women who don’t have abortions. Yep, that pretty much sums them up.
– Spring will eventually be here, right? Just in case it doesn’t make it all the way to the land of ice cream and ice-brewed beer, Cabbage Hammock has a reminder of what spring is.
– Slublog has the Photoshop of the day, at least if you do not have a weak stomach.
– Walter E. Williams and Thomas Sowell deliver a double-barrel blast to Barack Obama.
– Flip says as long as you didn’t buy a house at the height of the bubble on a no-money-down ARM, you’re all right.