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Hillary Lied, Americans Died

Posted on | May 22, 2014 | 36 Comments

“This has been a difficult week for the State Department and for our country. We’ve seen the heavy assault on our post in Benghazi that took the lives of those brave men. We’ve seen rage and violence directed at American embassies over an awful internet video that we had nothing do to with. It’s hard for the American people to make sense of that, because it is senseless, and it is totally unacceptable.”
— Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Sept. 14, 2012, while standing over the caskets of the four Americans killed at the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya

We cannot forget how Hillary Clinton deliberately lied about the Benghazi attack, blaming it on “an awful internet video,” and spreading that lie everywhere in an attempt to conceal from American people the truth: This was an Islamic terrorist attack, there was advance warning of the danger, warnings which the State Department and the Obama administration failed to take seriously, so that when the attack came — on the 11th anniversary of 9/11 — they were unprepared to protect the lives of the Americans who died there.

We know this, and the American people deserve to know the truth, but Team Hillary doesn’t want them to learn the whole truth:

Hillary Clinton’s world was so worried about a Republican investigation of the Benghazi attacks, they sent a message to House Democrats: We need backup.
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) publicly considered boycotting the panel, an idea that Clinton supporters feared would leave the potential 2016 candidate exposed to the enemy fire of House Republicans.
So Clinton emissaries launched a back channel campaign, contacting several House Democratic lawmakers and aides to say they’d prefer Democrats participate, according to sources familiar with the conversations. Pelosi’s staff said they have not heard from Clinton’s camp.
On Wednesday, Pelosi appointed five Democrats to the committee, giving Democrats another crucial mission in the months ahead of what was already a tough election year: act as Clinton’s first line of defense.

“What difference, at this point, does it make?”

It makes a lot of difference, and we should not let Democrats — or Hillary’s hired liars in the media — convince us otherwise.

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Category: Hillary Clinton, Libya

You Had Me at ‘Mariel Hemingway’

Posted on | May 22, 2014 | 56 Comments

When I learned that Mariel Hemingway was among the celebrities caught in James O’Keefe’s latest video sting, politics briefly disappeared into a sort of fog of nostalgic imagination: Mariel Hemingway!

Oh, that was a name to conjure with, back in the day!

It wasn’t just her striking beauty, although Mariel’s face seemed as if it had been sculpted by an artist — such cheekbones! More than her mere beauty, there was a frisson of the taboo about Mariel Hemingway in the era of my youth. My senior year in high school, she made her film debut at age 15 (with her older sister Margaux) in the twisted psycho-thriller Lipstick. Then in 1979 — I was a sophomore in college — she played Woody Allen’s teenage lover in Manhattan (which, as weird as it seemed at the time, seems much creepier in retrospect). Then in 1982, at a time when lesbianism was still very much an exotic idea, she played a bisexual track star in Personal Best.

All of this is to explain why the name “Mariel Hemingway” pings a certain mental resonance, so to speak, even now that I’m middle-aged and she is, too. It’s strange how memory freezes an image, an idea, in the mind this way. When I was young, grown-ups would talk about Elizabeth Taylor as a famous beauty, and I just didn’t see it. Not until many years later, when I saw her in A Place in the Sun (1951) did I realize what all the fuss was about: Wow! Legendary hotness!

(The same factor operates with women’s memories of teen idols, by the way. My high-school Latin teacher, Miss Dismer, had a lifelong crush on Michael Landon, who had been starring in her dreams since she was a young girl watching “Little Joe” on Bonanza.)

Anyway, now you know why Mariel Hemingway’s name caught my attention when I learned about the latest Project Veritas video:

The video features an undercover journalist from Project Veritas posing as “Muhammad,” a member of a Middle Eastern oil family, offering $9 million in funding to American filmmakers to fund an anti-fracking movie. He was joined by a second undercover activist posing as an ad executive.
O’Keefe entraps actor Ed Begley Jr., actress Mariel Hemingway, and director Josh Tickell, who agree to the film while promising to hide the source of the funds.
The undercover activist tells the group that “if Washington, D.C., continues fracking, America will be energy-efficient, and then they won’t need my oil anymore.”
In a phone call to Tickell, the “ad executive” states, “My client’s interest is to end American energy independence; your interest is to end fracking. And you guys understand that?”
Tickell’s response: “Correct. Yes, super clear.”
The environmental team even submitted a video of Oscar-nominated actor Mark Ruffalo offering his unwavering support for the fictitious anti-fracking film project.

More at Powerline: James O’Keefe Punks Hollywood Greens.

It’s sad that Mariel Hemingway grew up to be an America-hating Commie environmentalist wacko, but we’ll always have Star 80, eh?

 

Category: Celebrities, Environmentalism, James O'Keefe

LIVE AT FIVE: 05.22.14

Posted on | May 22, 2014 | 10 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho


TOP NEWS
Devastating Nigeria Attacks Show Twisted Ambition Of Boko Haram

Boko Haram has Nigeria living in fear

Jihadis piling more pressure on Jonathan administration

Obama Defends Veteran Policies, Vows Accountability In Health Care
Yeah, suuuuuure.


India’s Anti-Corruption Party Leader Jailed After Refusing To Post Bail
Kejiriwal sued for defamation



POLITICS
Local Officials Blast Obama Move To Create National Monument In New Mexico

Organ Mountain Monument – nature preservation, or crime corridor?

Almost half a million acres set aside; most will be wilderness, barred to motor vehicles

Supreme Court Halts Missouri Execution

Pelosi Reluctantly Makes Picks For Benghazi Probe

Pennsylvania Judge Strikes Down Gay Marriage Ban

Wyoming Lawmakers Mull Firing Squad For Executions

Colorado Tightens Controls On Marijuana Edibles, Concentrates

Louisiana Plans New Abortion Restrictions Modeled On Texas Law



THE ECONOMY, STUPID
WTI Trades Near 4-Week High On PRC Factory Data, Brent Steady: NYMEX $104.02, Brent $110.59
Wall Street Ends Higher After Fed Minutes
Lorillard Hits Record On Reynolds Takeover Speculation
Less Oil In Monterey Shale Than Originally Estimated?
Google May Spend $30 Billion Buying Offshore Firms
Lowe’s Earning Miss Estimates, Stock Dips
EBay Urges Users To Change Passwords After Data Breach
Top Videogame Producer Files Suit Against Oculus
Facebook Launching Tagging Feature For Movies, TV
Hacker Says Apple’s Response To Security Flaw Is Too Late
Steam In-Home Streaming Now Available



SPORTS
Spurs Put Thunder In The Hole With Game 2 Rout

Tim Duncan: 14 points, 12 rebounds

OKC’s Durant, Westbrook effectively absent in 112-77 defeat

Kings Even It Up With 6-2 Win Against Hawks

Wendell Scott Elected To NASCAR Hall Of Fame

Royals Rally Past White Sox

Indians Refuse To Lose, Sweep Tigers

Pirates Earn Split With O’s

A’s Edge Rays 3-2


Ozuna Hits Grand Slam As Fish Pound Phillies

Encarnacion’s Double Dingers Doom BoSox

Lohse, Reynolds Lead Brewers Over Braves

Andrus, Choo Power Rangers Past Mariners

Astros Late Rally Not Enough; Angels Win 9-3

Nats Offense Comes Up Short In 2-1 Loss To Reds



FAMOUS FOR BEING FAMOUS
Molly Ringwald Joins “Jem And The Holograms”

(I got nothin’.)

It’s a movie about a 1980s cartoon. *shrug*

Maks & Meryl Talk “Dancing With The Stars” Win, Dating Rumors

It’s Got A Title Now: “Batman v. Superman: Dawn Of Justice”

No, Jessica Chastain Is Not Doing “True Detective” S2

Mark Wahlberg: The Modern Fatherhood Of A Street Kid

Robert Pattinson Has Some Advice For Bratty Child Stars

Mike Myers’ Comeback Is Groovy, Baby

Katy Perry And Madonna Pose For V Magazine – In Leather

Selena Gomez Bares Her Bikini Body, Is “Taking My Power Back”



FOREIGNERS
PRC, Russia Sign $400 Billion Natural Gas Deal
Thai Army Chief To Press Political Rivals For Compromise
Attack Hits Sinkiang Capital Urumchi
Iranian Youths In “Happy” Video Released, Director Still Detained
Seeking Balance On Mideast Visit, Pope Pleases Few
Libya On The Brink Of Civil War
Olive Branch: Modi Invites Nawaz To Inauguration
Egyptian Court Sentences Former President Mubarak To Three Years For Graft



BLOGS & STUFF
Doug Powers: Obama Addresses VA Scandal – Mad As Hell And Going To Take It Some More
Twitchy: “Spare Us” – Veteran Uses Obama’s Own Words To Pummel White House Over VA Scandal
American Power: “Whatever Happened To Vox And Five Thirty-Eight?”
American Thinker: The Age Of Academic Ruin
BLACKFIVE: Manning Gets Top Of The List, Vets Get Death List
Conservatives4Palin: Why The Left Doesn’t Care About Bad Economic News
Don Surber: Daily Scoreboard, May 21
Jammie Wearing Fools: VA Scandal Primarily The Fault Of The Partisan, Bureaucracy-Protecting Press
Joe For America: “Green” Hollywood Liberals Caught In Bed With Big Middle East Oil
JustOneMinute: Since It Is All About Hillary…
Pat Dollard: Dem Congressman Unloads On Obama, VA Officials – “They Told A Damn Lie!”
Protein Wisdom: Remember, Only “Peace Officers” Should Be Allowed To Carry Weapons
Shot In The Dark: Compare And Contrast
The Jawa Report: Sandcrawler PSA – This Is Your Brain On Fitna
The Lonely Conservative: No White House Hashtag For Marine Held In Mexico
This Ain’t Hell: Police And Their Irrational Fear Of Veterans
Weasel Zippers: FLASHBACK – Paul Krugman Gushes Over The VA’s “Huge Success Story”
Megan McArdle: Where Did The Obamacare Data Go?


Category: Live at Five

Dumb Songs of Classic Rock

Posted on | May 21, 2014 | 189 Comments

When I’m in the car, I like to listen to the “Classic Hits” radio station — basically, rock-and-roll from the 1970s, which was the pinnacle, as far as I’m concerned. Amid all the great music from that great era, however, there are some songs that make you scratch your head in mystification: “How did that lame crap ever become a hit?”

But hey, it was the ’70s and we were all high, y’know.

Nobody had more lame-crap hits than Steve Miller Band, and don’t get me wrong: I liked Steve Miller back in the day, and still enjoy listening to his hits, but from the standpoint of songcraft, the guy sucked. The closest he ever got to writing lyrics that made any sense at all was “Take the Money and Run,” but that song is a celebration of murder and robbery, so it kind of proves the point.

Here’s the way I figure Steve Miller operated as a songwriter: He would come up with a nifty little guitar riff, and then a catch-phrase to be repeated in the chorus. Once he had the guitar riff and the chorus, he would be like, “Yeah, OK, gotta write some verses now.”

This is where the whole thing always went to hell. You can go through the song catalog of the Steve Miller Band and good luck finding more than one or two songs where the lyrics of the verses have a damn thing to do with the chorus — or with anything else, really.

Even in his biggest hit, “The Joker,” the lyrics are total nonsense, and don’t even get me started on “Jungle Love.” The guy obviously wasn’t even trying to write lyrics. He just sang whatever the hell came into his head — any words that rhymed would do — and nobody seemed to care, because the albums kept selling.

While it’s hard to say that there was ever a worse song than “Jungle Love,” however, the prototypical stupid Steve Miller Band hit, which actually made it to No. 1 in 1976, was “Rock’n Me”:

Well I’ve been lookin’ real hard
And I’m tryin’ to find a job
But it just keeps gettin’ tougher every day
But I got to do my part cause I know in my heart
I got to please my sweet baby, yeah

Well, I ain’t superstitious
And I don’t get suspicious
But my woman is a friend of mine
And I know that it’s true that all the things that I do
Will come back to me in my sweet time

So keep on rockin’ me baby
Keep on a rockin’ me baby
Keep on a rockin’ me baby
Keep on a rockin’ me baby

I went from Phoenix, Arizona
All the way to Tacoma
Philadelphia, Atlanta, L.A.
Northern California where the girls are warm
So I could be with my sweet baby, yeah

Keep on a rockin’ me baby . . .

Et cetera. I mean, c’mon: “Northern California where the girls are warm”? What the hell does that even mean, Steve? But from such ridiculous nothingness, the man crafted a career!

And just in case you’re wondering, the B-side of the single of “Rock’n Me” was a song entitled, “Shu Ba Da Du Ma Ma Ma Ma.”

 

Category: Music

So What If The #VA Scandal Is Just #ObamaCare Meets #Benghazi?

Posted on | May 21, 2014 | 25 Comments

by Smitty

Americans in general and veterans in particular are far too spun up about the VA scandal. This has led to at least one scurrilous photo-bumming incident already. And why? What difference, at this point, do these veterans make? The WSJ gets it all wrong:

The recent revelations about the Department of Veterans Affairs point to serious problems. But the root of the scandal is not what self-serving bureaucrats failed to do or tried to cover up; it is a federal budget that prevents us from meeting even the national needs on which our polarized political parties can agree.
Whatever the disagreements about the long wars of the past decades, Democrats and Republicans agree that we must fully honor the debt we have incurred to the tiny fraction of the population that does the fighting for the rest of us. Yes, the budget for the VA has risen sharply since 2002. But the number of returning veterans has risen even faster. Many live with grievous wounds from which they would have succumbed in previous conflicts. Many others struggle with the multiple effects of repeated deployments. Aging Vietnam-era patients require more care, and new responsibilities such as coping with Agent Orange add to the VA’s burden.

Aw, c’mon: these veterans, in the main, don’t even vote correctly! And now that ObamaCare is sucking the lifeblood right out of the American healthcare system, these veterans are just a doubly useless load on a Constitutional system that has been fundamentally transformed since the 2008 election.

If these veterans aren’t given the the Doherty & Woods Special, then their block of votes could become an embarrassment for Her Majesty’s 2016 Coronation event.

Besides: American voters gave #OccupyResoluteDesk a pass in 2012. We knew him for an incompetent boob all four years leading up to Benghazi. We knew that ObamaCare was going to make the Titanic seem a minor bathtub incident by comparison.

We have begged to have our warriors treated dishonorably by a completely honor-free rodeo clown, and he hasn’t shown a smidgen of hesitation in delivering.

So. Just. Screw. Us. To. The. Wall.

Because history is going to wonder if we aren’t kind of into this stuff.

Category: Barack Obama, Democrats, Election, Health Care, Libya

Girl, 14, Met 27-Year-Old Man Online, Hid Him in Her Closet for Five Days

Posted on | May 21, 2014 | 36 Comments

Creepiest crime story of the week:

A North Carolina man has been arrested after police say he spent five days hiding in a 14-year-old girl’s closet and sexually assaulting her at night.
Jarred Ashley Workman, 27, of Iredell County, was charged with 11 counts of statutory rape and five counts of statutory sex offense, according to WCNC.
Authorities said Workman chatted with the teen on social media for about a month before deciding to meet up in the woods near the girl’s home.
The teen invited Workman to stay at her home, where she lived with her parents, on April 27, according to WTVR.
The suspect managed to stay there for five days, allegedly sexually assaulting the teen at night while her parents were asleep.

Here’s the really creepy part: The girl’s mother didn’t find him in the closet until the fifth day, so if Workman had been willing to leave after three or four nights with the girl, he might never have been caught. But of course, a perp like this isn’t the kind of person who calculates risk on any rational scale, so he had to push his luck.

Also, somebody’s 14-year-old daughter just got seriously grounded.

 

Category: Crime, Sex

Obama the Angry

Posted on | May 21, 2014 | 37 Comments

First it was Benghazi, then it was the IRS, and now it’s the VA. Ace of Spades describes the Obama Scandal Reaction Method:

Always he says the same things:
1. He’s “mad. Or “angry.” Or “madder than hell.” Or even “apopleptic.” Obama vows he’s much, much angrier than you are — “no one is angrier than I am” — despite having no appearances of actual anger. Rather like a very controlled, uptight WASP Hulk.
2. He vows to “get to the bottom of this.” He says this in a way to suggest that he, personally, will be getting to the bottom of this. Of course he doesn’t. Within a week he’s playing golf and parcheesi with the White House motor pool.
3. Despite pronouncing this newest scandal extraordinary, he then demands that we… allow the routine, ordinary Bureaucratic Process to fix everything.
“Putting something in the process” is standard Bureaucratic jargon meaning that “nothing is being done and go f*** yourself raw.”

Media sonambulism makes it possible for him to get away with this.

 

Category: Barack Obama, Scandal

In The Mailbox: 05.21.14

Posted on | May 21, 2014 | 11 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho


OVER THE TRANSOM
Dead Republican Party: Moneychangers In The Temple
Michelle Malkin: Michelle Obama’s Control-Freak Lunch Program
Doug Powers: Bang For Taxpayers’ Buck – GM Has Recalled More Cars This Year Than They Sold In The Last Five
Twitchy: White Leftist To Black Conservative – “My Pleasure, House Nigger”


RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Power: Veterans Administration Scandal Explodes
American Thinker: Unions Minus Coercion Equal Nothing
BLACKFIVE: Counterproductive 2nd Amendment Exercise
Blackmailers Don’t Shoot: Towson Debate Team Earns Its Participation Trophy
Conservatives4Palin: The Media Continue To Ignore Obama’s IRS Scandals
Don Surber: Daily Scoreboard, May 20
Jammie Wearing Fools: What Obama Will Read About Between Fundraisers – More VA Whistleblowers Coming Forward
Joe For America: Earwax-Eating Dem – “We’ve Proved That Communism Works”
JustOneMinute: When You’ve Lost The Times…
Pat Dollard: Aspiring Congressman Clay Aiken On The VA Scandal – “I Haven’t Paid Attention”
Protein Wisdom: The Narcissistic Creed
Shot In The Dark: Of Convenience, Part II
The Jawa Report: Everyone Wave Buh-Bye To Abu Hamza El-Masri
The Lonely Conservative: Remington Arms Moving Two Production Lines Out Of New York
This Ain’t Hell: Operation American Spring – Epic Fail
Weasel Zippers: Notre Dame Refuses Recognition To Pro-Traditional Marriage Student Group
Megan McArdle: Green Cars Won’t Save The Planet


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