Don’t let the Roman numeral scare you, Brent pulls out a Hans Christian Anderson classic to wrap this week’s Carnival around.
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.
March 8, 2006
Re: Does Schultz Have a Clue…
Since our friends at Journal Interactive don’t feel the need to enable comments, I guess I have to answer Charlie’s rhetorical questions for Sgt. Schultz here:
(A) Yes he does know how bad the ethanol mandate will split the base, but not only in southeastern Wisconsin. As, charitably, a “country-club” Pubbie, he’s far more comfortable with, say, Jim “Craps” Doyle (WEAC/Potawatomi-For Sale) than Scott Walker. That also explains the visceral reaction from the RPW, especially those from the Green Bay area, to Scott Walker’s candidacy, and the abandonments by the RPW of the last 2 opponents to Russ el-Slimeroad.
(B) It will only hurt Mark Green up until the end of the primary. Unlike those country-club Pubbies, who tend to refuse to back conservative Pubbies, conservative Pubbies tend to back even moderates.
(C) Frankly, the GOP legislature had no backbone or principles before this, especially Sgt. Schultz’s Senate.
(D) He’s betting, much like Jim “Craps” Doyle (WEAC/Potawatomi-For Sale), that money solves everything. As an aside, we could stand to lose Kapanke and Brown, even if it costs the Pubbies those 2 seats; such are the benefits of a titular 3-seat majority.
In short, he does fully-understand this. As a RepublicRAT, he just doesn’t give a flying damn (I would use the f-bomb, but I don’t want Casper’s work filters declaring NRE a porn site again).
Just in time for a rainy spring…
More for the roll
If it’s Wednesday, March 8, it must be time to add some blogs to the roll:
- Billiam delivers the View from the cheap seats... That’s where I usually sit, so I definitely feel at home there. You should too, even if your tastes in sports arenas are a bit loftier.
- Simon Blue has just popped onto the scene with The Thoughts of Simon Blue. I really have to thank a lefty commenter on Ragnar’s blog for finding him for me.
This concludes today’s edification program.
It’s almost Carnival time again
It’s going to be at Milwaukee’s Layton Park Blogger. In case you forgot what it is, head on over to the creator’s page.
I can’t guarantee that Brent will be as patient as I was last week.
Sgt. Schultz – the dumbest Senator ADM could buy
Revisions/extensions (4:38 pm 3/8/2006) – Charlie is reporting that AB15 WILL be on the Senate calendar tomorrow. It’s show time.
Our anti-bad-gas whip, James, reports that despite losing a straw vote in the Republican caucus 13-5, and by James’ account, only having 11 of the 18 votes he needs to force corn-a-hole on everybody in Wisconsin make that 12 if his report that Senate Minority Leader Judy Robson (Chilrun will die!-Madistan) does the expected and rolls like the Sierra Club to make state gubmint ever larger, Senate Majority “Leader” Sgt. Dale Schultz (RepublicRAT-No talk radio here) is going to push AB15 to the floor tomorrow. The funny thing is, if the vote track is right, two of the drunk Pubbies had a moment of clarity because we had 7 big-gubmint, big-business Pubbies counted – Sgt. Schultz, Ron Brown, Shelia Harsdorf, Dan Kapanke, Alan Lasee, the no-longer-abstaining Luther Olsen (whose vote is apparently needed to enrich his family business) and Dave Zien.
This is it; I don’t care if you’ve already hammered your Senator or not, whether your Senator plans on voting against or for AB15, or if he or she still has the finger in the wind. Hammer them one more time to drive the stake into the cold heart of AB15. James has the Madison phone numbers on his vote chart, and if you don’t know who your Senator is, you can either head here to find your Senator and his or her contact info, or call the Legislative Hotline at 1-800-362-9472 (1-800-228-2115 for the hearing-impaired) and have the staff pass along the message (they’ll help you find out who your Senator is).
Revisions/extensions part 2 (8:15 pm 3/8/2006) – And the war against Sgt. Schultz is on. Patrick called for a coup, Charlie asks whether Sgt. Schultz has a clue, and Поле Ð’Ñ‹Ñтраивает Chris is mobilizing the Glorious Guards Shock Army for the drive to the Mississippi with an early stop in Richland Center. Since I’m about a quarter-mile behind enemy lines, I can’t do much more than promote this war, but promote it I will.
Part 3 of the Revisions/Extensions (10:48 pm 3/8/2006) – Chip uncorks the Mary Panzer award on Sgt. Schultz. Damn, but that’s appropriate.
What version of the R&E is this? (11:10 pm 3/8/2006) – Peter checks in with his official photo of Sgt. Schultz, wonders what kind of deal he cut with Robson, and calls for Schultz’s defeat, “even if it means putting a Democrat in the seat”. Note to Peter; there already is one there – Sgt. Schultz. Meanwhile, Owen explains everything that can still happen to AB15. I make it no secret I prefer it defeated on the floor, but if it’s sent back to committee, it’ll kill it for at least a month.
Show trial update
Here’s something you won’t see in the LeftStream Media, and something that the Mad Hatter (Dane County assistant DA Roy Korte) and the Queen of Hearts (judge Steven Ebert) won’t let the jury even consider, taken from roughly 60:30 to 62:30 of part 2 of WisPolitics’ webcast of Jensen’s testimony – Scott Jensen actually led the charge in the Legislature to get rid of the caucuses, even offering to the State Ethics and Elections Boards to get rid of the Assembly Republican Caucus before the rest of the Legislative leaders were prepared to get rid of the other 3. Morever, when it came time to vote to implement the eventual deal to get rid of the caucuses, some of the Assembly Democrats voted against the bill necessary to dissolve them.
The Mad Hatter and the Queen of Hearts were so fearful that their engineered guilty verdict might be in jeopardy that the jury was was specifically instructed to ignore these facts. Guess they counted the votes on the state Supreme Court and found that there is no way for Jensen to get 4 Justices to rule in his favor for the eventual appeal on prosecutorial and judicial misconduct grounds. Remember, David Prosser would have to recuse himself as a former Assembly Republican leader, and even before Pat Crooks grew into a lieberal on the bench, there were 3 lieberals on the court.
Blogger fatigue
As you can tell by the lack of posts lately, I haven’t done a lot of blogging. There hasn’t been all that much that has caught my eye, and the things that have were blogged half to death by the time they did. Sorry about that.
March 7, 2006
You would think this gov’t agency would know better
ABC News is reporting that the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey gave out ID cards that give all-areas access to their ports in the New York City and Newark areas with virtually no background checks. The Department of Homeland Security recently investigated the ports and found that, among 9,000 truckers investigated, nearly half had criminal records, including homicide, assault, weapons charges and drug dealing, and more than 500 used bogus driver’s licenses to obtain their Port Authority ID cards. The ABC story goes on to detail the presence of at least one MS-13 member and a recent incident involving “four cabs without containers (which) exited the terminal without stopping at the red light and ignored verbal commands to stop.”
While the DHS found similar problems at other ports nationwide, problems that expose “vulnerabilities that could be capitalized by terrorist organizations”, the focus on the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey should ring the irony bells. They owned the World Trade Center complex, which was completely destroyed on 9/11.
March 5, 2006
If I were more on the ball,…
…I would have beat Patrick to the commenting on the Journtinel story of many fired Milwaukee officers quitting just before their appeals are heard.
I really can’t beat his commentary, or the current portrait of Assembly Speaker John “Rear” Gard (why thank you very much for foisting him and Keg Goldschlager on us, Blanchard).
Re: Selective Prosecution? (“From Hell’s heart, I stab at thee.”)
Jenna has a very thought-provoking piece on the show trial of Scott Jensen that reads like a mix of Moby Dick and Alice In Wonderland. What set her off this time was Judge Queen of Hearts’, er, Ebert’s decision to not allow any evidence of what the Assembly Democratic Caucus did during the same time period as the crimes Jensen is accused of committing.
The second comment from an anonymous poster (thanks for the find, Charlie) has a wicked, if slightly flawed, explanation on why the Jensen prosecution is “selective prosecution”. About the only thing I can really see wrong with that poster’s line of thinking is that former Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Chvala was charged by E. Michael McCan’t because of the massive violations of the law. I don’t recall if I ever went all the way through my Caucus-gate charging theory here (or at the old Blogspot home, which was imported here), so better late than never:
– The four Legislative caucuses (one in each House for each party) all got nailed by the State Ethics Board for having state workers do campaign work on state time in 2001. Instead of refering the case to either the Dane County District Attorney, the aforementioned Brian Blanchard (D-Madison), or the Attorney General, Jim Doyle (D-Madison), for prosecution, the Ethics Board and the Legislature reach an agreement to stop the practice and disband the caucuses.
– Blanchard had a concurrent investigation into 3 of the caucuses, with the Senate Democratic Caucus refered to fellow DA E. Michael McCann (D-Milwaukee) because Blanchard and Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Chvala shared a campaign office (and because McCann had a long history of not prosecuting dirty ‘Rats). McCann kicked the participation of Senator Brian Burke, co-chair of the Joint Finance Committee, back to Blanchard because of McCann’s close ties to Burke.
– While the investigations were still ongoing, two things happened that would later become pivotal in “Caucus-gate”: Assembly Democratic Leader Shirley Krug (Milwaukee) gave up her position in favor of Spencer Black (Madison), and Burke announced he would run for attorney general to succeed Doyle, who was running for governor.
– Rather than accept the deal that the Ethics Board reached with the Legislature, Blanchard decided to go after the enemies of the Madison wing of the Democratic Party, both Republicans and the Milwaukee wing of the Democratic Party.
Because Krug handed over power so willingly in mid-2001, the Assembly Democratic Caucus was spared. Senate Republican “Leader” Mike Ellis was the best Pubbie the ‘Rats could ever hope for because he kept on giving back control of the Senate to them; so the Senate Republican Caucus was spared. Because Scott Jensen was successful in getting and growing a Republican majority, he was targeted for legal extermination.
– That leaves us with the Senate Democratic Caucus. It was already in the hands of the Madison ‘Rats, but it appears the word came down from on high in the DPW that Burke was not to be allowed to become attorney general (in fact, going back through the JSOnline archives, it appears I am right in that assertion). Since time was of the essence to get an AG candidate the DPW could live with (or at least they thought they could live with), Burke was the first one charged, with a laundry list.
– In a rare fit of rage, McCann didn’t take the charging of Burke lying down. He uncorked his laundry list on Chvala. Blanchard dilly-dallied a bit more, finally getting a couple of charges in on Jensen and company.
– Except for Jensen, everybody else left the Legislature pretty quickly, and Burke left the AG race. The legal system took its sweet-natured time in getting trial dates set up.
– Once things cooled down and the trials started to approach, the plea deals started to come in. First, Burke copped to a pair of charges – the felony charge of use of state workers on campaigns and a reduced misdemeanor charge of attempting to hide supoenaed documents – in exchange for the rest of the charges, including fraudulently receiving the $88-per-day per-diem, being dropped.
– Shortly afteward, in appreciation for his friend only getting 6 months of Huber law jail, McCann’s office cut a deal with Chvala in which he pled guilty to a pair of felonies – funneling money illegally to a campaign and, you guessed it, using state employees for campaigns. In exchange, multiple charges of extortion were dropped. Of course, Chvala couldn’t leave well enough alone, and earned himself 9 months of Huber law jail instead of the recommended 6.
– Earlier this year, former Pubbie Assembly members Steve Foti and Bonnie Ladwig saw that Blanchard would use the plea bargains that Chvala and Burke reached to sink them along with the intended target of Jensen and turned state’s evidence in exchange for misdemeanors.
So, we are where we are – a kangaroo court bound and determined to drive Jensen out of the Legislature. Never mind that the ‘Rats couldn’t capitalize on this, getting fewer seats in both 2002 and 2004. Never mind that Blanchard used the services of the ‘Rat caucuses to get himself re-elected. Never mind that, especially if someone is found to run against and defeat Pat Crooks for the Wisconsin Supreme Court, the kangaroo court will be slapped down on appeal. Captain Ahab, er, Brian Blanchard has his whale, oops, Assemblyman to hunt. Blanchard will get a harpoon in his whale, but the best he can hope for is that the rope breaks before the whale pulls him down.
March 2, 2006
Blogging might be a bit light today
I’m still a bit loopy from the late night of pouring out the Carnival, but James has the cure-all for the blogging hangover – his current Waukesha Freeman column on the WTPA. If that doesn’t perk you up, nothing will.
The 29th posting of the Carnival of the Badger
After hemming and hawing over trying to sort this wide-ranging crop of entries (well, at least wide-ranging in topics, some of the fine folks on the other side of the aisle seem to be MIA this week), I decided I don’t do announced themes. So, pull out your favorite beverage, and let’s begin with Brian Fraley and his take on the hyperventilating Milwaukee Journal Sentinel coverage of Martinifest.
Now that you’ve downed your first drink, grab another as Peter deconstructs the latest and most-ambitious moonbat flight; you’ll need it when you see what the folks at United for Peace & Justice want.
While the focus is on the anti-war crowd, James Wigderson has, within his free-form piece on Sen. Herb Kohl, Kohl’s reaction to a bunch of protestors that stormed the stage at one of his rallies. We’ll get back to the tactics of the Left in a bit.
Here’s some advice I really should take to heart before I break out Tony Montana’s little friend – Aaron and Belle give some lethal advice on how to get your posts noticed, at least those posts that aren’t a Carnival one :-)
We get a second dose of Belle as she almost banishes the Blogfather from her blogroll because she disappeared from his, only to discover that Charlie still likes her enough to give her a almost-world-famous Sykes Spike for hosting this week’s Point-Counterpoint on corporate blogging, co-authored by Fred. Well, upon further review, that’s a triple-shot, though 2 of those were with chasers.
Speaking of multiple entries, Fred starts his run by unloading on the Racine and Jefferson County DAs for not charging anybody from Voces de la Frontera for boisterously taking their case against AB69 to the home of state Senator Cathy Stepp. Gee; I wonder where the people that stormed the stage at the Kohl rally up above got the idea they could also get away with it.
He then finishes off his double-bubble by shamelessly plugging his upcoming appearance on Jessica McBride’s radio program Friday. Even though Jessica didn’t send the reason why I let Fred’s plug in, it’s actually the start of a recurring feature on her program to have conservative Wisconsin bloggers in the studio. Just a word of warning; you don’t want me anywhere near a mike connected to a 50,000-watt antenna. Stone-sober, I’m VERY boring, and rip-roaring drunk, I’m merely boring.
Staying with the multiple theme for a while, we have two bloggers, Chip and Patrick, comment on John Gard’s burying of a bill to allow the city of Milwaukee to stop paying some of the fired officers while their appeals are heard. Chip is hopeful that the Milwaukee Police Association will come to some sort of agreement, while Patrick includes a current pic of Gard in his savaging.
How appropriate that bars are where you find double-bubble drink specials; they’re among the places Milwaukee wants to ban smoking. Mike says “The smoking lamp is still lit, but it’s flickering.” as he exposes the push for a statewide ban on smoking, while Elliot reminds us that words have meaning, and says that while you can call Milwaukee many things, you can’t call them “nannies”.
Getting back to the Legislature’s attempt to limit drivers’ licenses to those in the country legally and be in compliance with federal law (which is waiting for Gov. Jim Doyle’s signature), Casper points out the hypocrisy of those that wanted to continue to give law-breaking non-citizens here illegally a privilege while they seek to continue to deny law-abiding citizens a right endorsed by the state Supreme Court.
Brent, next week’s host, has an interesting concept town being developed in Florida by the founder of Domino’s pizza where stores wouldn’t be allowed to sell pornographic magazines, pharmacies wouldn’t carry condoms or birth control pills, and the cable television system wouldn’t carry any X-rated channels. I’m not sure whether it was Thomas Monaghan’s statement that these bans were part of an attempt to create an overtly-traditional Roman Catholic community or the proposal of these bans that tripped the ACLU’s trigger, but they are promising to sue the pants off everybody involved. I bet all those dry counties down South are glad the ACLU wasn’t too active in the early 20th-century when they imposed bans on alcohol sales.
I guess I can forgive Jenna for being a bit late to the party; staying around the Capitol building long enough to catch Terri McCormick’s desperate attempt to differentiate herself from Gard in the 8th Congressional race by introducing an 11th-hour bill to mandate public hearings on every bill assigned to a committee is mentally draining.
Clint gives himself way too little credit; he has a cautionary tale of how those who don’t participate in government screw themselves and their fellow citizens over, especially when that government decides to play psychic.
If you’re wondering where Nick, our Carnival creator and ringmaster, is, he’s nursing various aches and pains after restarting his triathalon training.
Well, that’s it for this sloshed Carnival. As I said before, Brent, Milwaukee’s Layton Park Blogger has it next week, then it bounces to Casper and Cantankerous, the duo behind Ask Me Later and Matt at Know What I Mean?. Beyond that, it’s an open card. Seeing Nick let me host a Carnival, he’ll let you host one too. Just give him a holler over here.
March 1, 2006
Attention, your attention please
My watch says 19:20, which means there are 40 minutes left until the Carnival ticket window closes. Get them in; I have how below or in the Carnival of the Badger link on the left side of the page. The fastest way now is through e-mailing badgercarnival – at – gmail – dot – com.
So far, I have 6 participants, so it looks like it’s going to be a long night hunting the rest of you down. That’s all right; I’ve got my Mountain Dew and my Louisville Slugger :-)
Revisions/extensions – it is now 20:03, and while the ticket window is officially closed, it’s going to be a long night while I hunt down some of the regulars who seem to have lost their way this week.
Revisions/extensions part 2 – As of 21:06, I’m ALMOST done gathering the posts and a very basic idea of how I want to present them, including a few that came in after the window officially closed. I don’t think I’ll be forced to go through the previous Carnivals or the blogroll with my Louisville Slugger to beat loose some additional posts, but you never know. I still have to try to come up with a theme, so you REAL late stragglers do have a bit of time left.
Revisions/extensions 33 1/3rd – I got everything I’m getting, and am running the submissions through the wringer. I noticed a distinct lack of lefties this week; dunno why :-)
Just one more reason (or 2) to oppose corn-a-hole
(H/T for reason #1 – Jib) –
Reuters is reporting that despite a hefty tariff on foreign ethanol of 2.5% plus 54 cents per gallon, the Energy Information Administration is expecting that the US will import more ethanol this year (no solid numbers on the current amount of imports though, which makes a hard comparison a bit tough). They attribute it to oil companies switching from MTBE to ethanol as an additive, and expect the East Coast and parts of Texas to face tight gasoline supplies and higher prices.
Now, let’s run through some numbers. From the article, the US produces about 275,000 barrels of ethanol per day and imports an unknown amount of ethanol. If MTBE is fully-replaced by corn-a-hole, that will require roughly another 130,000 barrels of ethanol per day according to the EIA. Guess what? Every drop of that additional 130,000 barrels/day will have to come from foreign countries for the foreseeable. Fortunately, Brazil has a heavily-government-subsidized excess, and they have a friendly government unless and until Hugo Chavez manages to get his meat-hooks into them. The bad news; those tariffs apply to Brazilian ethanol, and there isn’t any political will to reduce them.
Remember, it’s not a shortage of corn that’s causing the US shortage of corn-a-hole, but a shortage of corn-a-hole production capacity (side note – Gee, where have I seen this before? The oil and natural gas markets ring alarm bells.). The corn’s going to be grown one way or the other, so an increase in corn-a-hole production will not cause the farmers to see any significantly-more (if any more) money. So, where’s the additional money that will be spent on corn-a-hole fuel going? ADM, a pittance to Brazil as long as we import ethanol, a massive tax windfall to the feds (who will simply spend said windfall) as long as we import ethanol, and ExxonMobil if we ramp up domestic production (remember, it takes more oil to create and use the amount of corn-a-hole required for E10 than is replaced by that amount of corn-a-hole).
Today’s sign the end of the world is nigh
Jenna points out that Owen and Xoff agree on something; Assembly Speaker and Congressional candidate John “Rear” Gard’s (ADM-Police Union) blocking of a bill to partially end the ridiculous practice of forcing the city of Milwaukee, and only the city of Milwaukee, to continue to pay police officers that have been fired until their appeals are exhausted is “outrageous”.
I agree, so get your end-of-the-world kit together. This place is going bye-bye very soon (but hopefully not before I get this week’s Carnival up).
I knew hosting the Carnival would expose me to more good blogs
It’s not 8 pm yet, so I can’t tell you the post that Mike sent in, but The Spring City Chronicle just got itself added to the roll. Once you get your Carnival submission in, head on over.
Can we get the ethanol madness to end tomorrow?
The hot rumor (courtesy Owen originally) is that state senate majority “leader” Sgt. Dale Schultz (ADM-No Talk Radio Here) is going to try to ram through AB15, the bad-gas mandate, tomorrow (update as I prepped this; they’re not voting tomorrow, but with Sgt. Schultz, who knows?). This is despite the fact that we have now pulled even with ADM on James’ count at 11 apiece (assuming that Luther Olsen, whose family stands to profit handsomely, decides to end his self-imposed abstention and vote to enrich his brother). According to his handy chart, that leaves these 11 Senators on the fence, complete with their Madison office numbers –
- Democrat Roger Breske of the 12th district (far northeast Wisconsin) – 608-266-2509
- Democrat Tim Carpenter of the 3rd district (south side of Milwaukee and much of Greenfield) – 608-266-8535
- Democrat Spencer Coggs of the 6th district (near north side of Milwaukee) – 608-266-2500
- Republican Robert Cowles of the 2nd district (pretty much just north and west of Green Bay) – 608-266-8546
- Republican Mike Ellis of the 19th district (Neenah, most of Menasha and Appleton, and points west through Winneconne) – 608-266-0718
- Republican Scott Fitzgerald of the 13th district (Oconomowoc, Beaver Dam, Watertown, Lake Mills, Cambridge, and surrounding areas) – 608-266-5660 – James notes he’s on the fence, and I can see the Glorious Guards Shock Army straining at the leash
- Democrat Robert Jauch of the 25th district (far northwest Wisconsin) – 608-266-3510
- Democrat Julie Lassa of the 24th district (Stevens Point, Wisconsin Rapids, and surrounding areas) – 608-266-3123
- Democrat Judith Robson of the 16th district (Beloit, Janesville and surrounding areas including Whitewater) – 608-266-2253, and James notes she’s on the fence
- Republican Carol Roessler of the 18th district (Oshkosh, Fond du Lac, Waupun) – 608-266-5300
- Democrat Lena Taylor of the 4th district (far north side of Milwaukee and the RiverWest area) – 608-266-5810
They may be voting tomorrow; they may not be. I prefer that Sgt. Schultz miscalculates in his count, has the vote, and we drive the stake through it tomorrow; but if we have to just keep it bottled up in committee through the end of the year, that’ll kill it just as surely. In any case, politely hammer these 11 so that AB15 never sees Jim “Craps” Doyle’s (WEAC/Potawatomi-For Sale) signature.
Speaking of blogrolls…
I would be remiss if I continued to ignore Chip and Dale’s Eyes on Wisconsin. Welcome to the party, guys.
Paging Mr. Sykes, paging Charlie Sykes
Please pick up the white courtesy phone. Thank you.
“Hello, Mr. Sykes. This is steveegg of No Runny Eggs. I noticed you updated your blogroll with a couple of worthy entries and fixed the link to my humble blog to reflect my new home. However, I seem to be missing a certain blog that goes by the name Spotted Horse. I know he dropped out of sight for a couple months, but he’s back with a vengeance and the Glorious Guards Shock Army.
“I seem to recall Chris doing a lot of blegging to get on your roll the first time, and I fear he’ll do something VERY rash if he has to go through that again. So, please, add him back to the roll. Thank you.”
Revisions/extensions (6:37 am 3/2) – “Hello again, Charlie. Thank you for putting Spotted Horse and Leaning Blue back on the roll. Now the Glorious Guards Shock Army can continue its drive for the Mississippi.”
Carnival of the Badger – 450-minute warning
My watch says it’s 12:30, so you have less than a full workday to get your best post(s) of the past week into the Carnival. Remember, you do have 3 ways to get things squared away:
- Send an email directly to badgercarnival – at – gmail – dot -com (you should know what to do with the anti-spam effort). Please be sure to include the direct link to your post, as well as the name of your blog, and a short summary of your post to help the carnival host.
- Use the Blog Carnival Submission Form. You can also view a list of all previous editions of the Carnival of the Badger at the Blog Carnival Archive Page.
- Use the Carnival Submit Form from Conservative Cat.
Don’t make me have to hunt down your blog; you might not like the results :-)
I didn’t know E. Michael McCan’t cloned himself
Fred has all the sordid details on Jefferson County DA E. Michael McCan…er, David Wambach refusal to prosecute anybody at Voces de la Frontera for invading the Stepp property in an attempt to pressure state senator Cathy Stepp into support illegal invaders getting drivers’ licenses. He even dug up the letter that Wambach sent to Racine County DA E. Michael Mc…er, Michael Nieskes (there I go again), who punted the case over to him. Despite the admission that Christine Neumann-Ortiz did in fact commit a crime, disorderly conduct, Wambach refused to press even that charge.
Yep; Stepp was right when she said, “The reality is appearing to be that illegal immigrants certainly DO have rights in this country–rights that aren’t even extended to LEGALLY elected officials in this country. They have been passively granted the right to intimidate, harass, frighten and bully people into changing laws to suit their taste.” (also courtesy RDW).
You would think that at least one of the presstitutes would be interested in this, but Fred has all the exclusives.
February 28, 2006
4-day weekend over; recap up
Sorry again about the non-existant blogging. A few items from the weekend plus Friday and Monday I didn’t get to –
- Embattled Milwaukee County Board chair Lee “Thug” Holloway has been exposed as a slumlord by the Journal Sentinel, complete with avoiding a court summons and having an arrest warrant for him. And THIS is the man that’s running the couny board? Let’s be thankful that we have Scott Walker as county exec, at least through the end of the year (when he heads to clean up the governor’s mansion).
- Single-game tickets for the Milwaukee Brewers (Hurray Beer!) went on sale Saturday with a “Take Back Miller Park” theme, and they went like hotcakes. It seems that Attanasio forgot the first rule of homerism last year; don’t invite more visiting-team fans than home-team fans, but he learned from his mistake.
- I missed the best revenge that Matt Kenseth could deliver from last week’s run-off by Tony “Stewie” Stewart and NA$¢AR’s non-punishment – he won the Auto Club 500 to head up to 3rd in the points. Meanwhile, Stewart done blew up his engine to finish 43rd. It just doesn’t get any better than that, and I guess I have to start paying attention again.
- Jim “Craps” Doyle (WEAC/Potawatomi-For Sale) sure seems to be quiet about promoting his “historic” school choice “deal” with Assembly Speaker John Gard (R-halfway out the door). All 4 ‘Rats on the Joint Finance Committee voted against it, but it’s going to the Legislature anyway thanks to 11 of 12 Pubbies voting for it.
- The show trial of former Assembly Speaker Scott Jensen (R-Brookfield) is going to the DPW’s plan. The same judge that refused to allow witnesses that would tend to help Jensen’s defense or allow Jensen to mount an “equal protection” defense – it seems that Brian Blanchard (D-Madistan) had even more goods on the Assembly ‘Rats but didn’t charge, for instance, former ‘Rat leader Shirley Krug (D-Milwaukee) – has limited the ability of Jensen’s attorneys to redirect witnesses. Expect Jensen to be a felon until this case is thrown out on appeal.
- We picked up another “NO!” vote on the bad-gas mandate, AB15 – Bob Wirch, ‘Rat out of Kenosha, where they also have the RFG requirement, listened to his constituents.
- The banner story in yesterday’s Journtinel, which had to have been written by Xoff, tries to tie both Walker and Mark Green to the show trial. They had to stretch a bit for Green and REALLY stretch for Walker. Never mind that Craps is for sale to the highest bidder.
- Milwaukee wants to leap on the smoking-ban-in-restaurants-and-bars bandwagon. It’s up for Council action on Thursday, and would ban smoking just about everywhere indoors (except homes not used as day-care centers and tobacco stores; and recently-added designated hotel/motel smoking rooms provided the rooms don’t make up more than 20% of the total number of rooms, family-owned businesses that do not have any non-family employees provided smoking takes place outside of public view, the stages of theaters if smoking is part of a particular production and a notice is in the program, and buildings that have a purification system that demonstrably reduces the exposure to that of second-hand smoke outside), as well as outside within 15 feet of a public entrance. But don’t accuse the anti-smoking Commies of trying Prohibition Version II. They’ll glower at you even as they plot their next move toward an outright ban on smoking indoors or outdoors.
Don’t forget, the Carnival of the Badger is here tomorrow night. Head here for how to get your submission in.
February 23, 2006
XXVII Olyimpiad of the Carnival of the Badger is up
Lisa of Territorial Pissings has the Carnivalympics up. The bar is set for my run at the Carnival next week.
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They’re due at 2000 hours CST (that’s 8 pm for those that don’t read 24-hour clocks too well) March 1. I hope to be very busy creating the 29th edition (somehow, Lisa lost an “I”; oops). I do have a couple ideas for a theme, but until I hit “Publish”, I reserve the right to change my mind on the theme to fit the (hopefully) numerous and varied entries Nick will be forwarding to me Wednesday night.
Free speech of a liberal suppressed by lieberals
(H/T – a FreeRepublic thread)
WorldNetDaily reports that Paul Trost, a 20-year-old self-described liberal student at Massasoit Community College in Brockton, Mass. who has protested against the Iraq front of the War on Terror, faces possible displinary action for shouting, “Remember Chappaquiddick!” during an on-campus speech by Sen. Ted “Swimmer” Kennedy.
Trost, who said he was upsety by an introduction of Kennedy given by Rep. Stephen Lynch (D-Mass.) in which Lynch noted how Kennedy overcame hardship on his way to success, shouted his famous words as he walked out of the room just as Kennedy began speaking. He was followed outside by a campus police officer and several state troopers, with the campus officer taking down his information and informing him that he would be hearing from school officials about disciplinary action.
Remember, kids; the moment you start to oppose the lieberal establishment, they will do everything in their power to silence you. It doesn’t matter that, before your unforgivable transgression, you were 110% in the lieberal camp.
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