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LIVE AT FIVE: 05.15.15

Posted on | May 15, 2015 | 4 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho


TOP NEWS
Blues Legend BB King Dead At 89

Laying down the hot licks with Lucille

Felled by complications of diabetes at Las Vegas home


The defining blues man for generations


Images: BB King and Lucille



Amtrak CEO: Railroad Takes Full Responsibility For Crash
NTSB says train accelerated from 70 to 100 in last minutes before crash

Wreckage Of Marine Helicopter Found In Nepal
Nepal’s military has no other details; team being sent to recon wreckage



POLITICS
Boehner Wangs Reporter: Blaming GOP For Amtrak Accident “Stupid”

The Speaker is not amused by your partisan shenanigans

“It’s hard for me to imagine that people take the bait on some of the nonsense that gets spewed around here.”


Stephanopoulos Out As GOP Debate Moderator

House Scraps Illegals’ Path To Military Service


FL Gov. Scott Aids Craft Brewers, Ends “Growler War”

Gowdy Blames State Dept. For Holding Up Hillary’s Benghazi Testimony

Russ Feingold Looking For 2016 Rematch With Ron Johnson

House Passes Defense Bill, Obama Threatens Veto



THE ECONOMY, STUPID
Asian Crude Sinks As Production Spree Continues: WTI $59.73, Brent $66.64
The Avon Bid That Isn’t
Eurozone Bonds Rebound
Netflix In Talks To Take Content To China
Dairy Queen Taking Sodas Off Kids’ Menu
Digital First Media, Gannett May Swap Venture Properties
Reddit Would Appreciate It If You All Stopped Being Horrible To Each Other
Bing Follows Google With “Mobile-Friendly” Algorithm Change
GTA 5 Mods Angry Planes And No Clip Contain Malware
Gears Of War Leaks For XBox One
Zuckerberg Deletes Facebook Post With Incorrect Map Of India



SPORTS
LeBron Scores 38 As Cavs Put Down Bulls In Game 6

Wink’s as good as a nod to a suffering Scottie P

Cleveland moves on after 106-101 win

Astros Rally, Upset Blue Jays 6-4

Rockets Stun Clippers, Force Game 7

Rockies Snap Skid, Edge Dodgers 5-4

Newgarden Flips Car In Indy 500 Practice

Tigers Maul Twins 13-1

Pods Pound Nats 8-3 After Long Rain Delay



FAMOUS FOR BEING FAMOUS
Natalie Portman To Play Jackie Kennedy In New Biopic

From frumpy Justice Ginsburg to fashionable First Lady Jackie

Movie to cover four days of Jackie’s life after JFK’s assassination


George Clooney Quits Tom Ford’s New Movie


Sony Conjuring Remake Of The Craft


Sean Penn On The Sidelines As Charlize Shines At Cannes

Simpsons Stalwart Harry Shearer Hasn’t Left The Show…Yet

Victoria’s Secret Models Take Over Turks & Caicos

How Tinder Influenced Hilary Duff’s New Music Video

OITNB Star Reveals The Biggest Perk Of Prison

Blythe Danner Defends Daughter Gwyneth Paltrow

Spike Lee Defends “Chiraq” Title For Chicago Film



FOREIGNERS
Draghi Says EU Won’t Stop Short With QE
Burundi Coup Fails, Leaders Arrested
Cameron To Meet SNP Leader Sturgeon
China, India Pledge To Cool Border Dispute
Malaysia Says Illegals Will Be Turned Back
Al-Nusra Re-Emerging As Key Rebel Faction In Syria
US Navy Patrols May Force China To Clarify Claims To South China Sea Islands
ISIS Closing In On Ancient City Of Palmyra
60 Killed (Mostly Jihadis) As Nigerian Troops, Boko Haram Clash
World Vision Halts Relief Missions In South Sudan



BLOGS & STUFF
EBL: Stephanopoulos’ Conflict Of Interest
Michelle Malkin: The Return Of Obama’s Hoax-Spreading Bitter Half
Twitchy: No, Fox News Didn’t Censor Picasso’s “Women Of Algiers”
Shark Tank: The Failed Republican Hispanic Outreach In Florida
American Power: Hard Rain Hits Southern California
American Thinker: Forks, Washington And The Spotted Owl
Conservatives4Palin: Marco Rubio Reveals His Foreign Policy Doctrine
Don Surber: Name That Party – Child Porn Edition
Jammie Wearing Fools: “Hide Hillary” Strategy Backfiring
Joe For America: Female ISIS Recruiter Is A Journalism Student Living In Seattle
JustOneMinute: Obama Straw Men Are Like Sausages
Pamela Geller: BBC Compares Jihadi Imam Anjem Chaudhury to Gandhi, Mandela
Protein Wisdom: Friday Fiction – 100 Word Challenge
Shot In The Dark: Self-Defense
STUMP: Public Pensions Primer – Places to Start – The Public Plans Database
The Gateway Pundit: Record Antarctic Sea Ice May Force Scientists To Abandon Permanent Station
The Jawa Report: Ministry Of Boobies, Slacker Edition
The Lonely Conservative: CFPB Warns Lenders Not To Discriminate Against Welfare Recipients
This Ain’t Hell: Veterans Trading Company Fires Exec For Military Service
Weasel Zippers: James Taylor Slobbers Over Obama As Greatest President Ever
Megan McArdle: Save The Pensions – No Sudden Moves, Please
Mark Steyn: “Problem Populations”, Here And There


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Comments

4 Responses to “LIVE AT FIVE: 05.15.15”

  1. joethefatman
    May 15th, 2015 @ 6:31 am

    B.B. King may you Rest in Peace.

  2. Blues legend B.B. King dead at 89, RIP | Batshit Crazy News
    May 15th, 2015 @ 8:53 am

    […] Tonight Will Not Swing (it was seventeen years ago yesterday that Frank Sinatra passed away…) Wombat: B.B. King […]

  3. Daniel Freeman
    May 15th, 2015 @ 11:38 am

    Distributors said lifting the limits on craft brewery operations could open the way for large beer manufacturers to dominate the market by opening many small tasting rooms selling only their own beer.

    To prevent a large brewer from taking over the retail
    market, the bill limits breweries to selling their beer at eight locations. It also limits the amount of beer they may transfer from one brewery location to another.

    That’s stupid. So, good on Florida for lifting a couple of dumb regulations on craft brewers — but the distributors’ claim is false and self-serving, and the remaining restrictions have no purpose except to protect them from free and fair competition.

    I know. I’m an Oregonian. AFAIK there are exactly zero tasting rooms for the large manufacturers, because that market is already being served by (almost) every bar. It’s really just a way for the distributors to try and prevent the development of a Floridian equivalent of McMenamins, since they cut out the middlemen.

  4. RKae
    May 15th, 2015 @ 2:36 pm

    If you want a really good movie about the JFK assassination, check out “Parkland.”

    I loved the heck out of that movie!