Friday the 13th Dispatches

I’m not superstitious but I believe I am not one blessed with good luck. So I guess I am superstitious, just not about numerology, astrology, phrenology or voodoo. Then again I wouldn’t mess with a Ouija board. Many things I do are out of an obsessive compulsive personality, not from superstition. I don’t throw salt over my shoulder or think a mirror breaking brings bad luck, but I do some things the same way all the time because not doing them makes me feel uncomfortable. I wonder where you draw the line?

• Let me tell you
  How it will be.
  There’s one for you,
  Nineteen for me,

  ‘Cause I’m the taxman.
  Yeah, I’m the taxman

• Diamond Jim Doyle’s immense budget is chock full of tax increases and fee increases even for things people can’t do yet, like elk hunt. Maybe he should continue on that track and start raising human cloning license fees or flying car registrations.
• Owen Robinson reminds us that fees are taxes, too.
• Owen talks specifically about the fee charged for enforcing the Real ID act. Doyle intends to steal the money collected from this fee  for other purposes because he doesn”t agree with the law. Wisconsin bloggers are all over this one. Christian Schneider catches a Democrat in a bald-faced lie via Real Debate and Badger Blogger.
• Now the fact that Diamond Jim is openly violating this federal law should be grounds for impeachment at most and recall at least.
• Which explains why almost all of the callers in today’s Sound Off think Doyle should be recalled.
• I am uncomfortable with this ruling. Not because of this case in particular, but that it basically says that anyone anytime can record any telephone conversation they want to with out regard for the privacy rights of the person on the other end of the line.
• Experts tell the unemployed not to be too hasty in drawing money from their 401(k) or 201(k) if it’s like mine.
• How could you not think, “Bruce Willis bought a skyscraper of his own,” when you saw this news?
• The Milwaukee Iron opens its home season tonight
• The attorney for John Walker Lindh (The American Taliban) is going to work for the Obama Justice Department. Does this mean that liberal bloggers and Democrats who use Randy Koschnick’s history of defending Ted Oswald against him need to change their tune? I know, dumb question. They’re rooting for the Taliban to kill more Americans.
• And finally: I’m thinking I probably won’t have a Sunday Scan this weekend, as basically I’ve run out of material, but it will be back from time to time. I have one in the works for Memorial Day and one for June or July because they will be more appropriate then than now. Other wise, have a good weekend, the weather’s supposed to be super.