48-Block State

When is a form of identification proof of nothing?

When the Madison Vote Fraudsters specify the form of identification (I'm Jim Doyle and I approve this message).

Paragraph 6.34, Proof of residence required, of the Wisconsin Statutes specifies the following documents as establishing eligibility to vote. None of the listed documents completely proves the eligibility of the document holder to vote in Wisconsin. And this is without consideration of the ease of creation of fraudulent documents in this age of scanners, Photoshop and color printers. And also without considering the ongoing organized efforts to register fraudulent voters, including non-citizens of the United States, in Wisconsin.

(3) (a) An identifying document used to establish proof of an elector’s residence under sub. (2) shall contain the information required under par. (b) and is limited to one of the following

Of the 11 specified documents, only 5 will prove one's identity, and a mere 2 are proof of a Wisconsin domicile and eligibility to vote (assuming proof of U.S. Citizenship). Not one of the 11 documents proves U.S. Citizenship for the would-be voter.

Within the last five years, I have personally obtained documents 4, 5, 6, 8, 9, 10 and 11 in other states without establishing my domicile in those states. Despite my legitimate possession of those documents, I was never eligible to vote in any state other than Wisconsin (see my discussion of Domicile, here). I am familiar with many individuals domiciled outside of Wisconsin who have legitimately obtained many of these "proof of residence" documents in Wisconsin. These documents are proof of nothing.

Furthermore, Clause 7 specifically extends Wisconsin voting rights to non-residents of the State. This contradicts other requirements of Chapter 6 of the Statutes and of the Wisconsin Tax Code. Every non-resident student at a Wisconsin college or university who registers and votes in Wisconsin using their dormitory as their domicile is committing vote fraud.

The Wisconsin voter eligibility requirements are set up to facilitate vote fraud. It is well past time to create effective rules to validate the eligibility to vote of every voter in the State of Wisconsin. Me included.

The Royal Bank of McCain

Scene: A bunch of business people are at lunch, and one of them starts choking on some food.

And all the rest of the businesspeople see him, and one says, "Is the economy tanking?" One other says, "I definitely say the economy is tanking." The first says, "I know exactly what to do."

Cut to Obama, “The times are too serious to put our campaign on hold or ignore the full range of issues the next president will face.”

And as the man is still choking, Obama says “You’re meeting at a time of great turmoil for the American economy. We are now confronted with a financial crisis as serious as any that we’ve faced since the Great Depression. Action must be taken to restore confidence in our economy. A failure to act would have grave consequences for jobs, for savings and for the American people."

And then John McCain, over at some other table sees the choking man and just walks right over and gives him the Heimlich maneuver and saves him. The first guy says, "Just like Obama told you."

ANNOUNCER: Less talk. Make it happen. The McCain-Palin Administration.

Johnny Mac: I'm John McCain and I approve this message.

Name that appliance

Thanks for all those guesses. The answer is:

A West Virginia Fire Alarm.

Its okay, I received this from a West Virginian.

Something you don't see every day

Government-sponsored enterprises Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac were able to obtain a monopoly position in the mortgage market, especially the mortgage-backed securities market, because of the advantages bestowed upon them by the federal government.

Laws passed by Congress such as the Community Reinvestment Act required banks to make loans to previously underserved segments of their communities, thus forcing banks to lend to people who normally would be rejected as bad credit risks.

These governmental measures, combined with the Federal Reserve’s loose monetary policy, led to an unsustainable housing boom. The key measure by which the Fed caused this boom was through the manipulation of interest rates, and the open market operations that accompany this lowering.

Ron Paul making good sense. Is it too late to vote him the Presidency?

Read the entire thing at Don Surber's blog.

The Pelosi-Obama-Reid-Kagen Drilling Plan

This will be the result if Team P-O-R-K's drilling ruse becomes law. Why do they insist on importing oil to the U.S. in lieu of drilling here now, or ever?

Watch carefully, they are going to attach this farce to the $700 billion bailout bill.

UPDATE - I am wrong, wrong, wrong. The ban is gone.

HT - The Chilling Effect

Liberal racism

I have read several excuses for this poll which concludes that one-third of liberal democrats may not vote for Obama because of racial prejudice. On it's face, the poll seems ridiculous in concluding a large percentage of supposedly enlightened Americans still hold these prejudices almost a half-century after the fight for black civil rights and following decades of continuing indoctrination in the religion of diversity. But another recent event sheds this in a different light.

Sandra Bernhard's deranged anti-Palin rant included a vicious racial slur on black men. This large mass of human excrement warned Palin not to come into Manhattan or she'd be gang-raped by the "big black brothers."

Nevermind the racist epitaph of "big black brothers," I am focued on the common liberal perception that "gangs" of African-American males routinely target white women for rape. Statistically that liberal stereotype is absurd and there is no evidence for this. The Black Political Thought blog opines on this matter.

In fact, the play wears its politically VERY correct heart on its sleeve with its indictment of America as "A Man’s World, It’s a White Man’s World, It’s a F–ked Up White Man’s Racist World" and can only be suggested to be racist in its content if one is hell-bent on protecting White Folk for Sandra’s blistering indictment. When Sandra warns Sarah Palin not to come into Manhattan lest she get gang-raped by some of Sandra’s big black brothers, she’s being provocative, combative, humorous, and yes, let’s allow, disgusting. Really? She's being disgusting.

Who in the world finds the suggestion of gang-rape humorous? Why did she have to make it racial by saying "big black brothers?" Isn't that an affront to blacks everywhere?

According to news reports, the D.C. Jewish Community Center is supposedly very happy with their Bernhard show, and partied with Bernhard on opening night. Evidently, according to News Busters, they’re in tune with her right-bashing rage:

We’re proud of our producing -- proud of Sandra’s sense of timing -- taking the fight out to the house and to the street beyond, channeling so much of our rage and frustration at the bizarre recent twists of fortune since Karl Rove trotted out Sarah Palin for John McCain to briefly meet and then get in bed with.Sandra’s face is hanging 10 feet tall in a banner over the DCJCC steps and we’re proud that she’s a new emblem and ambassador for our theater and our center. She’s not the only one who represents us. But her large heart, her generous talent, and her big mouth are all a big part of who we are.

I am not exaggerating by stereotyping of white liberal Democrats as scare-mongering racists and bigots. A google search revealed not one liberal blog or columnist in the first several result pages criticizing Bernhard for her remarks. I can only conclude that they see nothing out of the ordinary in what she said and wholeheartedly agree with her.

Being rooted in slavery and fertilized by a century of Klansman, there should be little surprise that the Democratic Party remains the home of racism into the 21st Century.

Brilliant.

Click the pic.

HT - Don Surber

Big Pig Gig

Be there. Noon tomorrow.

Details.

Call him a racist

Let's apply this same standard to all of the out-of-wedlock pregnancies in America's inner cities.

Never in history has a woman been under more pressure to keep an unwanted pregnancy than Bristol Palin. She is the teenage daughter of Alaska Governor & Vice-Presidential hopeful Sarah Palin - a conservative, Creationist Christian power-vampire and pro-life huckster who has put Bristol and her un-welcomed fetus at the center of a politico-religious crusade to stop her exercising her constitutional right to terminate the pregnancy.

Rather than sit back and impotently bemoan Bristol's tragic, lonely circumstance, it is time for us - the silent majority - to unite behind this poor, imprisoned woman and save her from both a tyrannical household as well as the horrible nightmare of a forced childbirth.

These are not empty words. I, Doug Stanhope, am offering you, Bristol Palin, the sum of 25,000 dollars so that you can abort your child and move out of that draconian home. I have also set up a PayPal link so that others around the world can help increase this amount to ease the burden of starting out on your own at such an early age.

Come 0n Doug, spread the wealth, kill them all. Oh. That is the point of your request for donations.

Step back folks, you will not see true evil like this every day.

Eugenics has not gone away, it just has a nicer name: Choice.

Integrity.

Voter registration - Unknown obligations

Van Hollen sued the state Government Accountability Board Wednesday, saying it must crosscheck voter names with driver’s license records for some voters who registered to vote or changed their addresses since Jan. 1, 2006.

If I read this correctly, voters in Wisconsin must be registered at the same address as is on their driver's license (NB - That being the case, doesn't that bogus driver's license argument against Voter ID become moot? But that's another episode). How can that be, when all you need to register to vote is someone to vouch for you?

Proof of residence in the ward is required, such as an official Wisconsin driver's license or identification card with your address. If you do not have written proof, a qualified voter from your municipality can serve as your witness to verify your address.

Where does this driver's license requirement come from? Perhaps the Help America Vote Act of 2002.

I tried to find the Wisconsin Statute on voter eligibility requirements but was unable to use the State's search engine without crashing my browser. I settled on this description from the left wing League of Women Voters website.

Determining Your Legal Residence
You must be a legal resident of the place where you vote. Your legal residence is the fixed place where you live without plans to move. This fixed place is your residence even when you are away (vacation, hospital, etc.) as long as you plan to return. Students with a permanent residence in one community and a temporary residence at school may choose to vote at either place, but not both.

That seems curious to me. You generally cannot make different claims about the same subject to different government entities in order to suit your own purposes.

I had personal experience with this when I worked in Pennsylvania. I received a letter from the PA municipality demanding payment of a school tax. I wrote back telling them that my domicile was in Wisconsin, therefore I did not owe the hundred dollar tax. I never heard from them again.

But this is a two-edged sword. When I filed my state income taxes I could not claim my domicile was in PA, and consequently had to pay thousands more in taxes to Wisconsin.

For tax purposes Wisconsin Department of Revenue Publication 122 defines domicile thusly.

Domicile - Your domicile is your true, fixed, and permanent home where you intend to remain permanently and indefinitely and to which, whenever absent, you intend to return. It is often referred to as “legal residence.” You can be physically present or residing in one state but maintain a domicile in another. You can have only one domicile at any time.

Your domicile, once established, is never changed unless all three of the following occur or exist:
• You specifically intend to abandon your old domicile and take actions consistent with such intent, and
• You intend to acquire a new domicile and take actions consistent with such intent, and
• You are physically present in the new domicile.

Your domicile does not change if:
• You leave your state of domicile for a brief rest or vacation, or
• You leave your state of domicile to complete a particular transaction, perform a particular contract, or fulfill a particular engagement, but you intend to return to your state of domicile whether or not you complete the transaction, contract, or engagement

(...)

Example 2: You graduated from high school in Minnesota where you lived with your parents. In August of 2007, you moved to Wisconsin to attend the University of Wisconsin. You do not plan to remain in Wisconsin after you complete your course of study at the university. You do not take any steps to abandon your Minnesota residence or to acquire a new residence in Wisconsin. You are a nonresident of Wisconsin for 2007.

IRS publication 555 provides this further guidance.

You have only one domicile even if you have more than one home. Your domicile is a permanent legal home that you intend to use for an indefinite or unlimited period, and to which, when absent, you intend to return. The question of your domicile is mainly a matter of your intention as indicated by your actions. You must be able to show with facts that you intend a given place or state to be your permanent home. If you move into or out of a community property state during the year, you may or may not have community income.

Factors considered in determining domicile include:

• Where you pay state income tax,

• Where you vote,

• Location of property you own,

• Your citizenship,

• Length of residence, and

• Business and social ties to the community.

What does this mean to the thousands of Illinois and Minnesota youths attending college and voting in Wisconsin? Contrary to my first thoughts on the matter, registering and voting in Wisconsin is legal for these students.

However, by registering to vote in Wisconsin, they have changed their domicile from those other states to Wisconsin. Several obligations come with that, including paying state income taxes to Wisconsin, registering their motor vehicle in Wisconsin, obtaining a Wisconsin driver's license, and being counted by the U.S. Census Bureau as residents of Wisconsin.

I am left with a couple questions.

• Are Wisconsin voter registration requirements in compliance with FAVA if proof of residence is not required to register to vote in Wisconsin?
  
• Can Wisconsin voter registration records be cross checked to find voters who have not filed Wisconsin income tax returns or obtained Wisconsin driver's licenses? There is a revenue source here that needs to be tapped.
  

The moral of the story: Setting up a voting system in order to facilitate vote fraud can have unintended consequences.

Follow-up on 5 reasons the CC trade is a disaster

The wildcard lead is gone tonight. A good time to reflect on this previous post.

1. Past performance is not indicative of future results. This isn't 2007 for CC Sabathia anymore.
UPDATE: I was dead wrong. CC is better than I could ever imagine.

2. Matt LaPorta will be a perennial All-Star and occasional MVP. Just not for the Brewers.
UPDATE: I was correct. The Brewers pissed away a prospect and will still not be in the playoffs.

3. No lead is safe with this bullpen. Unless he pitches complete games, Sabathia's success is dependent on names like Gagne and Mota.
UPDATE: That "complete game" thing - who would've guessed? But the bullpen has still blown enough leads this year that would have put the Brewers safely in post-season play.

4. Fielder is going, going, gone. And his replacement is playing in Cleveland.
UPDATE: Please go Prince. It can't happen soon enough.

5. These are the Brewers. Small market teams need to play the small market game. Stick with the plan and don't react to perceived circumstances. It is suicide to spend money and trade prospects like you are the Cubs, Yankees or BoSox.
UPDATE: That is the entire point. They went for it all without having the rest of the pieces in place. The team (and the Manager) cannot handle a pennant drive, why even think about the playoffs.

No playoffs in 2008. Therefore the Sabathia trade is a disaster.

More fraud from Madison

Madison - The lawsuit against the state's election authority could lead to a spike in provisional ballots, which an election expert said greatly increases the chances of a fight after Nov. 4 over who won the presidential race in Wisconsin.

Damn right! That's the whole effing point, you dumbass.

Republican Attorney General J.B. Van Hollen sued the state this week to require more checks of voter information against driver's license records - a move that critics say could force people off the voter rolls and require them to cast provisional ballots. Provisional ballots are counted only when voters provide proof of residence by the next day.

We are tired of bending over every four years as the corrupt Doyle political machine repeatably slams those thousands of fraudulent votes in our ... ballot box. If the votes aren't valid the Doyle crooks want them hidden in the ballot box, where they cannot be found and cannot be challenged.

Here is the choice: Convenience for Doyle's fraudsters versus stopping his voter fraud.

Start the cross-checks now. Do not wait for the lawsuit to be ruled. These premeditated delays are no excuse for not getting the job done.

Obama disrespects the FDNY and union steelworkers

Why not just flip them the bird or call them pigs, Barry?



Watch here as this asshole treats his tribute flower like a piece of dirty trash. In contrast, the elderly and disabled McCain lovingly places the flower with respect to the nearly 3,000 victims of September 11, 2001.

The Ultimate Hipster

Obama still has not retracted his mean spirited ad mocking John McCain's war disabilities. Of course the MSM has not paid notice to this. Obama get's every free cheap shot that he wants.

So do I.



They left out the part about Obama's habitual and continuing use of marijuana & cocaine, and dealing heroin.

If Obama wants to look back at 1982, let's look at the real choice in this election: Ronald Reagan's surrogates of McCain/Palin or Jimmy Carter's surrogates of Obama/Biden. That is a no-brainer (no I do not mean that the no-brained Obama & Biden are the right choice).

John McCain will not defend himself against these attacks. It is a matter of his sense of honor, make that Honor. He took that abuse in Hanoi to protect his comrades, he'll take it today.

Step up now, Swiftboat Veterans for Truth.


HT- Scrappleface

Team Hillary Strikes Again

Obama cannot possibly be this stupid. Team Hillary must have some moles on the Obama campaign. They are unloading a massive barrage of political sabotage to keep her viable in 2012.

Just Wondering [Jonah Goldberg]

Does anyone know why McCain doesn't use a computer or email? As a couple readers suggested to me, it might be because his injuries prevent it. I mean he can't lift his arms much higher than his chest and it looks like he has all sorts of other mobility problems with them. Maybe he can't type or use something like a blackberry. I don't know. But I hope the Obama campaign found out before they played the granpa Simpson card on McCain. I'd hate for Obama to be mocking a veteran's disability to score cheap points.

Next thing you know his vice presidential pick will be telling guys in wheelchairs to get up.

09/12 05:15 PM

Smokin' Right - Next Weekend

I'll be cooking with the One Arm Bandit next weekend at the Big Pig Gig in Menomonee Falls. All the cool kids will be there. Drop by on Saturday, Sept. 20, between Noon and 2:00 for samples. Bloggers first, just say the secret word - hint. The leftovers will be fed to the crowds.

We'll be set up on the football field to the left of the "A" marker, hopefully in the southwest corner of the field.


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The most successful voter registration drive ever

The Great Big Radio Brain missed the obvious in his lengthy discussion of this article today.

Madison - A state election official said today a lawsuit by Attorney General J.B. Van Hollen would affect more than 1 million voters, four times as many voters as the Department of Justice had estimated.

Also today, critics accused Van Hollen - a Republican serving as the state co-chair of John McCain's presidential campaign - of filing the suit for partisan gain and trying to purge legitimate voters from poll lists.

Van Hollen sued the state Government Accountability Board Wednesday, saying it must crosscheck voter names with driver's license records for voters who registered to vote or changed their addresses on or after Jan. 1, 2006.

Such checks were required under federal law as of that date, but the board didn't start performing them until last month because of technical problems.

More than one million new voter registrations in less than three years in a state with only 4.25 million adults is beyond belief.

Are we supposed to believe that one-fourth of the adult population of Wisconsin registered to vote for the first time or re-registered after moving since the start of 2006? This happening even after the huge new voter registration drives of the 2000 and 2004 presidential campaigns. No way is that possible. Frankly, I am beyond shocked.

If you examine the population data (do your own math, my source data is here) you'll find that less than 225,000 Wisconsin minors became of voting age since 01/01/2006. And less than 10,000 persons of voting age moved to the state since that date.

Here's your little sanity check, where did the more than 750,000 other new registered voters come from since the end of 2005?

The only answer that makes sense: Voter fraud on perhaps the most massive scale of all time.

Mr. Van Hollen, may we have that RICO investigation now?

Keep digging Barry

Sarah Palin's Mama drives a CTA bus.

He hasn't gone there yet. It is probably just a matter of time.

But he did say this.

"Keep in mind that, technically had I meant it this way –- she would be the lipstick!"

Well said Barack. You truly are the most articulate and intelligent man in America.

With malice aforethought: Lipstick on a pig

"But he didn't say Sarah Palin is a pig."

Sure. Just like this was an accident.



He builds up to these cheap shots. What a STATESMAN!

Lipstick on a pig. Is that like designer clothes on a cow?



He married the manliest woman he could find (Aunt Esther looks feminine by comparison). Little wonder Obama spends so much time at "the gym" ... he likes boys. This is quite understandable considering his whacked-out mother and the rejection he felt from his father and stepfather.

UPDATE:

I forgot this one.



What a jerk. M. Simon has his analysis here.

Something aboot Sarah

The Obama Campaign's Spread the Smears website has raised new questions about Republican V.P. candidate Sarah Palin's background.

We just went through a summer-long witch hunt by the Republican attack machine trying to smear Barack Obama. They said Barack's birth certificate is fake and that he is ineligible to become President. Now it is only fair that the press investigate these serious questions about Sarah Palin's place of birth.

So far, no proof has been offered that her parents were U.S. citizens when Sarah Palin was born. They also claim her birth was in Sandpoint, Idaho; conveniently just 50 miles from the Canadian border.

Let's get to the truth of this matter.

Furthering the Obama campaign's concerns are former-Mayor Palin's odd behaviors and speech patterns, which have never before been witnessed within the beltway of Washington or the social circles of New York City. These include.

• Guns and fishing
• Sounding Canadian (Ask her to say "About")
• Consuming moose
• Five kids by one father
• Hockey mom pride (Only in Canada, we have soccer mom's in the U.S.)
  

Spread the Smears concludes.

That is the meat of the matter, former PTA Leader Palin continues to this day to behave like a Canadian, not an American. She cannot be eligible for the Vice Presidency.

Elsewhere, on the stump in Green Bay, Democratic Vice Presidential candidate Joe Biden took an unprecedented shot at the Democratic led House and Senate.

Name me a single issue that affects your life - jobs, health care, education, energy - where you are better today than 2006. If you liked the last two years, you'll like the next four years of a Obama-Biden-Pelosi-Reid controlled government, because there is no change.

Dozens rally in Cedarburg

"(M)ore than a thousand" at the Cedarburg rally? The MSM, or more accurately, the OMP (Obama Ministry of Propaganda) can ignore the facts of Palin's popularity at their own peril.

Here we have a heroine from a small town in Alaska taking on a corrupt Chicago politician. It doesn't take Roger Ebert to figure out who the audience will be pulling for. By allying themselves with Obama's campaign, the press will become less and less relevant by the hour.

A Glass Ceiling does not exist for Sarah Palin

While in that long line in Cedarburg, I saw way too many little girls and young women to count. This crowd was not there for Sen. McCain, I'd guess that over 75% were there for Gov. Palin. The women in my life are thrilled to see a woman advance on her own merits, not her husband's popularity or daddy's political influence.

The broken glass-ceiling is more relevant than the press or Obama will ever imagine. These little girls and young women (and their moms and dads) have been inspired by Gov. Palin and her achievements (Note to Mr. Obama: Achievement, noun, something accomplished). My wife's girlfriends were jealous that we could be in Cedarburg, even her Obama supporting (until Wednesday) non-political friend.

Sarah Palin is very much like someone you know. She has a real life beyond politics and scrambling for political favor. Watch this TV report from 2006 (HT - Belling).

Sarah Palin's Skin

I'm entirely speculating, but this may be part of that fresh, youthful look.

Lets face a few facts, before the onset of science, shamans were shamans for a reason. Mostly because they were able to take the natural world around them and help the people within their tribe. We still have that ability today within ourselves.

With this product, I don’t guarantee anything other than it just MIGHT make you feel just a bit better. Not because of what it does to your face but what it does to your soul. It took thousand of years for the glaciers to bring the silt down to us so the soul of Alaska can be mixed with yours. Every grain carries a single memory about Alaska and with each use they will be brought to your minds eye.

A fine skincare product from Alaska.



Buy CP's Glacial Facial here.

Palin-McCain Rally in Cedarburg

After one hour in line, this is as close as I got to seeing Sarah Palin and her running mate in Cedarburg. Although one block from the speeches, we still had another hour and a half in line with 30 minutes until the candidates spoke. I'm still glad I went.

Sarah Hair



Lauren Beckham Falcone opines that Palin's hair is a disaster.

But must her hair suffer? With her long, straight, often pinned-up locks, Palin looks one humid day away from fronting a Kiss cover band.

“It’s about 20 years out of date,” said Boston stylist Mario Russo of the Alaska governor’s ’do. “Which goes to show how off she might be on current events.”

Frankly, Russo and other homosexual hairdressers have been trying to make women look like men for decades. Mr. Russo, please leave women's hair alone.

I also saw the following on the Althouse blog last week. It inspired me to look for pseudo-Palin hairstyles while in line for the Palin speech.

11:31: Here she is, in a dark, skirted suit. (No pantsuit.) Behind her, a daughter is holding the new baby. Palin is wearing a HUGE, glittering flag pin. She's got that trademark hairdo. (Want to wear that hairdo? I'm going to be looking around on campus to see if any of the young women are wearing their hair in the Palin style. If you see me, let me take your picture!)

Judge yourself if these women are doing their versions of the Sarah-doo. I am a straight male and my opinion is obviously of no value.











After Cedarburg I was on the UW-Milwaukee campus for a short time. While there I saw Sarah hair on two young women. Sorry, no photos.

Who said that?

The MN State Fair closes on the first day of the GOP Convention, 9/1. According to my friend, the Minnesota fair has the best food-on-a-stick of any state fair in the country. This could be a great opening for the Republicans.

Put together a commercial of McCain-Palin chowing on fried Twinkies on-a-stick and everything else that flyover America loves, and contrast that with Obama nibbling on his argula & sprouts.

Posted by Headless Blogger on June 27, 2008 at 1758 hrs

Good call (Comment posted at Boots & Sabers).

It is uncomfortable to pat one's self on the back like this, but doesn't especially hurt.

Poverty Pimp Parody Blog

Too funny. I think the people making comments at the Community Organizers Fight Back Blog think the blog is serious.

Poverty pimps, welfare leeches, community organizers - whatever. Just lipstick on a pig. They won't be missed when their tax sucking jobs are eliminated.

Don Surber found the job duties of a community organizer today. Remember, this is a paid job.

Duties and Responsibilities:
 Will work closely with the lead community organizer to:
o Assess and evaluate community assets and strengths
o Design and develop community participation processes
o Develop and support Neighborhood Action Councils (NAC)
o Assist communities in the implementation of participation processes and leadership development
o Create communication infrastructures ...

Read the rest of the job description and requirements here.

Here's what I said about Obama, the community organizer, in February.

The Girl Scout Leader comparison comes from watching Mrs. Headless serve as a GS Service Unit Manager for several years. When I read the US News & World Report article on Obama, I said to myself, "That's what Mrs. Headless did." Although she worked harder than Barack and was not paid. For those familiar with SDC and the Milwaukee Poverty Pimps, that's the kind of organization that was employing Obama.

I apologize to all current and former Girl Scout volunteers. To compare the work you do to Barack Obama's old job is an insult to you.

H/T - LGF

I'm guessing they play at Lambert Field

H/T - McCain-Palin Blog

Another Sarah Palin fact

Chuck Norris quietly leaves the country when Sarah Palin visits the lower 48.


http://www.palinfacts.com/

How big is that burg?

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I don't think that we are all going to fit.

More info here.

Checking resumes

In my line of work, most individuals have a resume in the can and ready to be tweaked when the next job opportunity comes along. My resume is nothing great, but contains enough information about my accomplishments for me to have been placed in my last four jobs with nothing more than reference checks and telephone interviews.

A google will find hundreds of sample resumes. They all include this common information just in different order and emphasis.

• Education
• Professional Experience
• Accomplishments
• References
  

After seeing this side-by-side comparison of Obama's and Palin's experience some questions are begged. Obama's education and professional experience are very impressive: Columbia & Harvard Law degrees; attorney, college lecturer, State & U.S. Senator. But a check of Obama's accomplishments and references comes up blank, not even his GPA from the two schools. What has he accomplished in the 25 years of his professional career?

Let's look.

• Law review editor - nope, that goes under experience, not accomplishments.
• Passing a law to provide a sweetheart deal to Rezko and receiving help with his mortgage in return - not sure that I'd list that.
• Holding up passage of the Born Alive Infant Protection Act - you gotta go with your strengths.
• Earmarks for his wife's employer, just in time for her to receive a massive raise - that's not much help.
  

Okee-doke. Let's check those references.

• Reverend Jeremiah Wright
• Bill Ayres
• Tony Rezko
• Khalid al-Mansour
  

Ruh-row.

Even Obama's acceptance speech, the equivalent of my job interview, was not about him. He recalled his grandfather's patriotism and recited the DNC platform from 1976, but did not give any reason to believe that he can implement this platform or accomplish anything at all.

With these accomplishments and references, it is beyond disturbing that anyone would consider offering Barack Obama any paying job, much less even consider him for the Presidency of the United States.


Is there a Human Resource professional in the house? Have I hit the mark on this?

Open season on candidate's daughters?

Are you sure you want to go there Obama?

I am fully capable of making up nasty shit about your two little girls.

Why not here?

She made three other promises: to end corruption in state government,
cut spending, and provide accountability. She's now redeeming those
promises.
Fightin' Bob would approve.

Is there anyone within the borders of our state who will take on this agenda?

Gov. Palin takes on Global Warming

How to cool the planet.

1. Make sulfur dioxide
A million tons of sulfur dioxide would be needed to begin the cooling process. Luckily SO2, a byproduct of coal-burning power plants, is a common industrial chemical.

2. Inject it into the stratosphere
Load the sulfur dioxide into aircraft — converted 747s, military fighters, or even large balloons — and carry it up to the stratosphere. This will cost about $1 billion a year.

3. Wait for the chemical reaction
In a series of reactions, sulfur dioxide combines with other molecules in the atmosphere, ultimately forming sulfuric acid. This H2SO4 binds to water to form aerosol droplets that absorb and reflect back into space 1 to 3 percent of the sun’s rays. (The particles also contribute to the depletion of the ozone layer, but scientists are researching alternate chemicals.)

4. Let the planet cool
Results will be quick, especially over the Arctic.

Al Gore just talks, Sarah Palin makes things happen.

“The August 7-8 eruption of Kasatochi volcano (Aleutian Islands) produced a very large stratospheric SO2 cloud - possibly the largest since the August 1991 eruption of Hudson (Chile). Preliminary SO2 mass calculations using Ozone Monitoring Instrument (OMI) data suggest a total SO2 burden of ~1.5 Tg. This figure will be revised in the coming weeks but is more likely to go up than down. The SO2 cloud has drifted over a large area of North America and is now (August 14) reaching Europe.“

Is there anything Sarah Palin cannot do?

Ready?

Leader? Check.

Moral courage? Check.

Sound judgment? Check.

Strong work ethic? Check.


Good choice Senator McCain. Gov. Palin meets my criteria for the Presidency.

I knew they'd be there

Yes, those are fasces along the top of the fake Roman structure.

Il Duce would be proud.

When will he be ready?

The answer is "Never!"

The question presumes that Obama only lacks experience and will be ready someday. I disagree. It takes special characteristics to be President, and Obama does not have them. Very few people do.

Obama is not a leader. If he was, he would have demonstrated it at some prior point in his 47 years of life. Furthermore, he has never demonstrated moral courage, sound judgment, or a strong work ethic at any point in his vaunted resume.

The only qualification he has for being President is being hand-picked by George Soros.


A Parting Shot. Obama-Biden, isn't the Democratic equivalent of Quayle-Bush.

Why even bother?

UPDATE: Mistakes won't disqualify voters

Madison - The Government Accountability Board this afternoon couldn't agree on what to do about voters whose information doesn't match other records, and so decided not to require voters to show ID at the polls if they don't correct that information.

The board voted 5-1 to continue to match voter information to driver's license records, but said mismatches won't disqualify people from voting.

The vote came just after a 3-3 vote on a proposal that would have required voters to show ID at the polls if they hadn't corrected any mismatched information.

Why do we waste time and money with voter registration? With or without registration, the cheaters will continue to cheat and honest folks will vote only once.

Just open the polls and let people vote. There will be no difference in the result of the vote.

On election day, I am going to tell this to the poll worker. "You don't need my name, just cross anyone off the list." It will all work out the same in the end.

The Obama-Rezko Estate

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Where does the Obama's property end, and Rezko's begin?

Previously posted here.

Interesting theory

From the NYTimes.

As a supporter of the nuclear revival, I certainly regret the Three Mile Island accident and the way it ended nuclear construction in this country. Yet I would also argue that, as a work of art, The China Syndrome was eerily prescient in anticipating the events at T.M.I. and played a positive role in making nuclear power a safer technology.

In the movie, a key moment occurs when the control room supervisor (Jack Lemmon) realizes a spring gauge is stuck, indicating the cooling water is too high when it is actually too low. The operators are trying to drain the coolant when the reactor is actually overheating. Only Lemmon’s alertness lets them avoid disaster.

...

After Three Mile Island, the industry founded I.N.P.O. — the Institute of Nuclear Power Operations — to upgrade operator training and pursue safety research. In the 1990’s a group of Navy veterans began asking why reactors couldn’t operate as efficiently on land as they do on submarines. After upgrading their operations, the utilities soon had their fleet of 104 reactors running at 90 percent of capacity — as opposed to the historical 60 percent.

Natural gas now constitutes 39 percent of our electrical capacity but delivers only 19 percent of our electricity because it’s so expensive. Meanwhile, nuclear — with 11 percent of capacity — generates 20 percent of our electricity because reactors are running so smoothly. Reactors generally close down only once every 18 months for refueling.

No, The China Syndrome didn’t kill nuclear power. Instead, it set off a series of innovations that have transformed the industry. As a result, nuclear power is ready today to shoulder a much larger portion of our electrical burden.

Sounds familiar. Where did I read this before?


H/T - NEI Nuclear Notes

Not a good likeness

Why is Henry Winkler standing by a statue of Chairman Bob?

What are they lying about now?

The entire mainstream press admitted this week that they were sitting on the John Edwards girlfriend story for over six months. Call it the VLWC (Vast Left Wing Cover-up).

Hmmmmm, what other stories is the VLWC ignoring?

Someone does spend more time away from Michelle than is necessary.

WARNING!!! MAN BOOB ALERT (not much definition for all those hours at the "gym").



Deny it all you want, Obama is an adulterer (no evidence yet whether he likes boys or girls).

The Edward's cover-up is all the proof I need.

I'll wait for the National Enquirer to print their scoop.

Oddly enough ...

After several months of gross speculation on Obama's citizenship, religion, and even his name; suddenly a telltale document is found on the Internet. Hillary operative, TexasDarlin, has been publishing some astonishingly baseless reports starting with Obama's birth certificate and concluding last week with a quasi-legal analysis by a pseudonymous layperson concluding that Obama's name is really Barry Soetoro (where the hell did that come from?).

Curiously, just today they found this image of Obama/Soetoro's Indonesian school registration that has been lurking unseen on the Internet for 18 months.



Something does not smell right with this.

Perhaps TexasDarlin's anonymous document "experts" should examine this image for authenticity. Probably not needed, since the source of the document is well known to the blog's authors.

A nice layer of plausible deniability for HRC and her campaign.

Hillary is making her case for the convention.

Brown Street at King Drive at 3:00 A.M.

This might not be the best place to be in the very early morning of August 30th.

The organizers of the Brew City's Best BBQ Competition have put a lot of thought into security, but another RiverSplash-like event will not surprise me.

I stand corrected. It is not really that unsafe, after all. There were only 3 murders within 4 blocks of this location in 2007.

Tire pressure

Before lecturing 300 millions Americans on proper tire maintenance, would it be too much to ask Obama to bend over and check his own tire pressure?

Yeah, its only a bike, but low tire pressure on a bicycle is definitely more noticeable than on an automobile. If he is unaware of this, I can only conclude that he is unaware of the condition of the tires on the gas-guzzlers in his garage.


P.S. Please tell me I don't look this dorky on my bike.

What a nice young man - UPDATED

John Edwards admitted to ABC News in an interview with Bob Woodruff Friday that he repeatedly lied about an extramarital affair with a 42-year old campaign employee, but strenuously denied being involved in paying the woman hush money or fathering her newborn child. The former Democratic U.S. senator from North Carolina said he would be willing to take a paternity test and divulge the results publicly.

Interesting parsing by Mr. Edwards. He is either:

A. Telling the truth and admitting to an affair with a total slut, or;

B. Lying and accusing his lover (and the mother of his child) of being a total slut.

Edwards had better be sure that it is A.

If it is B., any chance of any chance of a quiet and civil negotiation of child support is gone.


UPDATE, 8/9/08, 10:15 A.M.:

That didn't take long.

The family of John Edwards' former mistress, Rielle Hunter, is challenging the former senator to take a DNA paternity test after his claim that he did not father Hunter's six-month old child.

In the first reaction from Hunter's family, her younger sister Melissa told ABC News that Edwards should immediately follow through on his pledge to take a paternity test.

"I would challenge him to do so," the sister said. "Somebody must stand up and defend my sister," she said. "I wish that those involved would refrain from bad-mouthing my sister."

I'll put my money on Option B.

A Salute to the Big Zero

I can't blame this one on the Big Zero, as it is apparently a self promotion by some L.A. guy.



Too late L.A. Dude, you are already subject to complete ridicule by all inhabitants of this planet for your lame idea. The Big Zero Salute is not even original, having appeared in Star Trek some forty years ago (back when McCain was in a cage in Hanoi).



McCain needs to play catch up on this salute thing.

Since Star Trek has already been tapped for ideas, I think the obvious choice for McCain is the Vulcan Salute. After all, live long and prosper pretty much describes McCain's life.

Good luck Brett

We want that No. 2 pick, but will settle for No. 1.

A shrewd move by Ted Thompson. He ends up with at least another fourth round draft choice in 2009, when just over a month ago he was getting nothing for Favre leaving the Packers.

Maple Cured Bacon

This is a different type of pork than we are used to discussing.

This folks, is a pork belly. About 15 pounds of Berkshire hog side meat. It is too big for me to process whole, so I cut it into three pieces.



For piece number one I followed the Maple Cured Bacon recipe from Charcuterie by Michael Ruhlman and Brian Polcyn. The recipe calls for curing the pork in a mixture of kosher salt, maple syrup, maple sugar, and pink salt. Pink salt isn't that fancy Hawaiian stuff that a certain no-no food critic has protested. This pink salt is 93.75% salt and 6.25% nitrate, and is used for curing and preserving meat. The "pink" comes from dye that is added to avoid it's accidental use as a table salt. This stuff can be harmful in large quantities.

The Charcuterie Maple Cured Bacon in shown on the lower level of the next picture. Above it is another "Maple" Cured Bacon I made using a commercial mix. The bacon was smoked over maple wood to a temperature of 150 degrees.



After smoking the bacon was cooled then sliced. Vacuum sealed and frozen, it will be long gone before it goes bad.



Upon pan frying there was no comparison between the two Maple Cured Bacons. The scratch made, real-maple, Maple Cured Bacon was worth the extra cost and effort. It may be the best bacon I have ever eaten. Even better than my previous attempt at makin' bacon.

Coming soon, piece number three of that Berkshire belly.

The backdrop bonanza

Dan Bice at JSOnline reported earlier this week.

Randy Tylke, a former captain in the Milwaukee County Sheriff’s Department, received a lump-sum payment of $641,157 when he retired earlier this year, according to documents obtained recently. That amount comes on top of his annual pension of $59,007.

“I did what I had to do,” said Tylke, who retired after 34 years with the county.

His lump-sum payment appears to be the third-largest single payout by the county since the backdrop provision went into effect more than seven years ago. A former assistant administrator at the Mental Health Complex collected $684,000 when he exited, and veteran county prosecutor Bob Donohoo received a little more than $650,000 in 2006.

Out of curiosity, I calculated how much money someone would have to invest each year for 34 years to amass a retirement portfolio of $641,000. Based on differing rates of return, the annual investments are approximately as follows.

Percent Return	Annual Investment
6%	$6,100
8%	$4,000
10%	$2,600

These annual amounts are unrealistic for several reasons.

1. Taxes are not considered and IRA's & 401(k)'s were not around in 1974.
2. Payments in early years would have been substantially lower (we made less money then) and higher payments would be needed later on to make up for it. That's the reason the IRS has "catch-up" rules for older taxpayers.
3. It is hard to invest successfully. Too many people take too little risk or too much risk. We are inconsistent in our investment strategies and often in the wrong investments at the wrong times. Sales loads and other fees also eat up returns.
4. The first 6 years of Mr. Tylke's work life were during the Ford and Carter administrations. The stock market was stagnant during that period meaning he would have had an even slower start.
   

So $2600 to $6100 is the magnitude of the amount of money that people outside of government would of had to invest for 34 years in order to begin to think about retiring. But if you put your time in (work was obviously optional) on the payroll of Milwaukee County, you get this lump sum as well as a fully funded pension and benefits.

In fact, Mr. Tylke's $59,000 pension would require the current amount shown below to be invested for various constant rates of return assuming Mr. Tylke lives for 25 years of retirement.

Percent Return	Present Value
4%	$923,000
6%	$754,000
8%	$630,000

These current values do not include any provision for cost of living adjustments, so the actual amount required to fund Mr. Tylke is substantially more.

The entire idea behind the backdrop scheme was that the Milwaukee County Pension System was "over-funded" in the late 1990's due to the runaway stock market. The prudent thing to do was to leave this money in the pension fund for future periods of slower market returns. Instead, the "excess" funds were disbursed to county workers who made no investment in the system and took no risk. The people taking the risk, Milwaukee County taxpayers, have been forced to make up for the excess payments made to Mr. Tylke and other county employees.

We all know how difficult investing for our retirements can be in these turbulent markets. In Milwaukee County, the pot of gold is just handed to employees. Twice.

Elsewhere, also from Bice.

What’s more, Tylke joked that he deserved his pension dollars after his time working for Sheriff David A. Clarke Jr.

Applying the standard of The One, Tylke is clearly a racist and a hater. He is eager to take the money from poor black taxpayers of Milwaukee County, he just isn't willing to work for a black man.

Killing the healthy part of my portfolio

Barack Obama has proposed confiscating the profits from one of the few recent positive areas of my diversified retirement portfolio.

Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama called Friday for a windfall profits tax to fund $1,000 emergency rebate checks for consumers besieged by high energy costs, a counter to Republican rival John McCain's call for more offshore drilling in coastal states like Florida.

The pitch for putting some of the economic burden of $4-per-gallon gasoline on the oil industry served a dual purpose for Obama: It allowed him to talk up an economic issue, seen by many as a strength for Democrats and a weakness for Republicans, and at the same time respond to criticism from McCain that Obama's opposition to offshore drilling leads to higher prices at the pump.

Unlike Obama's government pensions, my retirement will not be paid with money confiscated from taxpayers under the threat of imprisonment. I have to fund it myself and choose investments to weather downturns in the broader market as we have seen this year.

In a period of obscene gasoline prices, it is not coincidental that the one area of my portfolio that is showing positively obscene returns is oil production and exploration. If Obama seizes my profits, my portfolio will see an even bigger loss for the year.

Frankly, what Obama is proposing to do is to break one of the tenants of Modern Portfolio Theory. That returns can be maximized and other benefits obtained through diversification, "chief among them, a reduction in the riskiness of the portfolio. MPT quantifies the benefits of diversification, also known as not putting all of your eggs in one basket."

Consider a portfolio that holds two risky stocks: one that pays off when it rains and another that pays off when it doesn't rain. A portfolio that contains both assets will always pay off, regardless of whether it rains or shines. Adding one risky asset to another can reduce the overall risk of an all-weather portfolio.

In other words, Markowitz showed that investment is not just about picking stocks, but about choosing the right combination of stocks among which to distribute one's nest eggs.

Obama is proposing to smash the one basket of eggs I own that is still intact.

All things considered, Obama's position is not too far from this.

We demand a division of profits of all heavy industries.

Do not elect this Socialist.

EXCLUSIVE: Yost offered $20 million to not manage Brewers

While Headless Blogger cannot independently confirm this, a source close to a group of broadcasters, sportswriters and fans says that the group is preparing to present Ned Yost with an offer of $2 million annually for 10 years if he agrees to not manage the Milwaukee Brewers.

Headless Blogger has also learned that unlike the $20 million deal being offered by the Green Bay Packers to estranged quarterback Brett Favre, the Yost deal will encourage him to manage another MLB team. The deal provides incentives for Yost to manage other NL Central teams, with a premium of up to double the base deal if Yost manages the rival Chicago Cubs.

In response to an inquiry on the matter, Brewers radio voice Bob Uecker (not my anonymous source) said "I was at Miller Park today and had a nice visit with Ned Yost. We discussed a number of topics not related to baseball, including Ned's long-term relationship with the Brewers. I consider our conversation to be confidential and am going to be respectful of Neddy and keep the details private." (I repeat, Uke is not my source.)

Yost apparently didn't think much of the offer, as his agent told reporters that his client wished to remain with the Brewers.

"Right now he's interested in staying in the Brewers' dugout," his agent said.

It was later reported that Yost provided comments to ESPN with a text messsage.

"There isn't a perfect solution to this, but these fans are at least trying," Yost told ESPN's Ed Werder via text message on Thursday night. "We know what they want and where I stand. This solution, although awkward and unsettling for most, may be the best in the end.''

Brewers owner Mark Attanasio and GM Doug Melvin were not available for comment.

Elsewhere, despite a summer of no 90 degree temperatures in Milwaukee, meteorologists explained that this is another sign of manmade global warming.

Meteorologists at the weather service say several factors could be keeping the temperature down, but part of it may be the ground's fault. So much rain fell in June that the soil is saturated, the forecasters say. When the temperature hits the 80s, that moisture evaporates relatively quickly and keeps the air from heating more.

Also, thunderstorms developed several times last month and cooled the air when the temperature threatened to break out of the upper 80s.

The heavy rains and thunderstorms were previously blamed as attributable to global warming. Hence, global warming causes local cooling.

Seriously, that I could not make up. Everything after the "Elsewhere" is from our local online mainstream meda source.

Elsewhere, hat tip to Andy Borowitz for my inspiration.

Obama is right?

Obama's gas plan is explained here.



Enough with those biofuel fantasies, Barry. Stop it, you're killing me.

But as bizarre as it sounds, there may be something to what Obama says.

Looking at various estimates, I think 3% is a conservative estimate of the fuel that can be saved by properly inflating tires. Let's say that one-third of vehicles are under inflated. This will equate to an annual savings of 1% of motor fuels.

I previously blogged that 2.3% of the nation's gasoline could be saved by enforcing existing speed limits. Throw in Obama's 1% from airing tires and we are up to 3.3% savings. That is 5 billion gallons of imported gasoline that would not be used.

Obama is wrong if he thinks this is the end of the story. But 5 billions gallons of gas saved annually will be a jump start towards lowering prices at the pump. Start drilling and we'll see real progress.

Obama's Landstuhl no-show: The Real Story

No one has come close to explaining why Obama blew off visiting the injured American servicemen at Landstuhl Medical Center. Ten versions of the story after first claiming that the Pentagon threw up last minute roadblocks, Obama's campaign now claims that Obama could not attend without retired Gen. Gratton holding his hand.

Everyone is buying this explanation, even McCain's campaign and conservative bloggers.

BULLSHIT!

The reason that Obama did not pay honor to these heroes at Landstuhl is because he decided he did not want to go there. As far back as you look, this has been the way Obama operates. He doesn't follow through, then conveniently finds someone else to blame.

Throughout his campaign, he has had his staffers and advisers take the blame for his mistakes. Why should his refusal to visit Landstuhl be any different? He was caught on the record looking for members of the Obama Ministry of Propaganda (aka, the MSM) to go clubbing around Berlin with him. Throw Gen. Gratton under the bus and be done with it.

This is nothing new. Even when Obama was teaching law at the University of Chicago in 1997, that's the way it worked.

First, let me apologize for the extreme tardiness in getting this memo to you. Due to a miscue between me and my secretary in Springfield, I thought it had been faxed to the registrar and distributed over two months ago.

Obama was two months late in grading final exams, so he conveniently blamed his secretary. Was Obama too sexist (or just too dumb) to run the fax machine himself? "Fax this to UofC for me, sweetie."

The Landstuhl incident points again to Obama's lack of interest in his duties and commitments. This time those of a U.S. Senator and of a make-believe President. Less than two weeks ago Obama found a way to bail on his family just days before his world tour by going to the gym three times. Today's NYTimes story contains the same theme - little interest in exploring the law with his colleagues in Chicago, but plenty of time to go out for a smoke.

Based on this history, I firmly believe that the decision to dishonor our troops was Obama's and his alone. He changed his mind, because he lost interest and found better things to do with his time.

This McCain ad may not be far from the mark.

Who is that young guy with McCain?

I never thought I'd see the Dalia Lama look younger than anyone.

Wisconsin Climate Report: I am missing their point

I was about halfway through my Dad29-ing of the Governor's Task Force on Global Warming Final Report when I lost the file. So I'll have to give my Readers Digest version.

Governor's Task Force on Global Warming tells you the problem in six words. This should be the Governor's Task Force on Wisconsin Warming.

The climate interests of every location on the Globe are not the same. Wisconsin's climate interests are different from the interests of California, France and China. The Governor's Task Force should have been commissioned to address what can be done to improve Wisconsin's climate.

The answer, of course, is to do anything in our power to warm things up. It is flipping cold here and it is getting colder. They should not be spending time and money searching for ways to make things worse. That is really stupid, even for Governor Jim Doyle.



The health, agricultural and economic benefits of a warmer Wisconsin are indisputable and immense. We cannot wait for another Ice Age before acting.

I call for a do-over. This time can we include Wisconsin's most famous and internationally lauded climatologist on the Governor's Task Force?

Did Braun call that shot?

Did you see Ryan Braun's 9th inning at-bat?

Before both the first and second pitches Braun held out his bat for an extended period pointing to left center field.

I compared this at-bat (it was on my DVR) to some YouTube clips of him hitting, and this is not his normal set-up before he swings. Now I suppose he could have been reacting to the pitcher's slow delivery from the stretch. But I like to think that he called his shot, I was thinking that even before he homered.

A Ruthian feat.

UPDATE: Braun did call that homer. In his first at-bat of Friday's game he didn't come close to pointing his bat at anything. Did anyone record Thursday's game?