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Al-Jazeera America: Worst Deal Ever

Posted on | November 19, 2013 | 52 Comments

If this blog post gets linked by @Instapundit, it might be seen by more people than will watch Al-Jazeera America today:

In the deal of the century, Al Jazeera paid $500 Million dollars for a liberal cable channel no one watched and then lost half its viewers. How much did that half a billion bucks, plus whatever Qatar paid Time Warner to carry it, buy?
13,000 viewers a day. . . .
The ratings are so low, they are considered a “scratch” and aren’t reported by Nielsen. . . .
By comparison, 31,000 viewers tuned into Current TV a year ago.

Nobody has offered $500 million for my blog. Yet.

 

Category: Media Bias

Also, This Is Covered by ObamaCare

Posted on | November 19, 2013 | 40 Comments

 


Category: Chicago

The #TexasWomenForever Baby-Killer Democrat Online Fund-Raising Flop

Posted on | November 19, 2013 | 163 Comments

Last night, I noticed Amy Kremer of Tea Party Express having this discussion with someone on the #TexasWomenForever hashtag:

At the time, I didn’t realize what was happening: Sarah Silverman and Lizz Winstead were headlining a show in New York that was promoted (at the Web site LadyPartsJustice.com) as an online fundraiser for “The Lilith Fund for Reproductive Equity, Texas Equal Access Fund, Whole Woman’s Health, and Fund Texas Women.”

Alison Turkos, one of the chairs for the New York Abortion Access Fund’s board of directors, explained to ThinkProgress that there’s much more work to be done to ensure that women of all income levels can access the abortion care they need. Federal and state laws restricting taxpayer funding for abortion currently prevent millions of women from using their own insurance coverage to pay for these procedures.
“In an ideal world, we wouldn’t need abortion funds because everyone would have health insurance that includes abortion coverage. Unfortunately, we don’t yet live in that world,” Turkos noted. “Abortion funds are critical resources — the right to abortion is meaningless if it is impossible to afford the actual procedure.”
The telethon, which will be hosted in front of a live audience in New York City, will be streamed on Lady Parts Justice between 7:00 and 10:00 pm EST. The four organizations that will be benefiting from the donations — The Lilith Fund for Reproductive Equity, Texas Equal Access Fund, Whole Woman’s Health, and Fund Texas Women — will also be hosting the video feed on their own sites.

Translation: “Give money to kill Texas babies!”

Twitchy was all over this Skanky Liberal Baby-Killer Show:

Liberal comics, giant vulva
raise money for abortions in Texas

Sarah Silverman auctions off #VagNapkin

No, they are not making this up:

What’s going on here is simple: Texas passed pro-life legislation this summer limiting late-term abortion and Democrats (who are fanatically devoted to killing Texas babies) decided to make the most prominent pro-abortion Democrat in the state, Wendy Davis, the poster girl for their 2014 mid-term election campaign.

Seeking to replicate the “War on Women” theme of Obama’s 2012 campaign, and likely previewing Hillary Clinton’s 2016 campaign message, Democrats nationwide are pumping money into Texas and hyping the rhetoric of “women’s health” — a theme coordinated with the “community organizing” groups getting millions of federal tax dollars as “Navigators” to sign up people for ObamaCare. That may seem crazy to you or me, but I remember a few months ago it seemed crazy that Terry McAuliffe could beat Ken Cuccinelli in Virginia this way.

As fun as it is to laugh at left-wing kooks, it’s not funny at all when the kooks win elections. Texas Republicans — and especially pro-life Texas Republican women — need to get active, get loud, get organized, and make sure they beat these baby-killing Democrats next fall.

 

Category: Abortion, Celebrities, Democrats, Texas

Remember Those Official Unemployment Numbers? They Just Made ‘Em Up!

Posted on | November 19, 2013 | 35 Comments

Ace of Spades pointed this out last night: Last year, when we were told that unemployment statistics indicated that the economy was improving, the people in charge of doing the counting were simply making up numbers, according to the New York Post.

But what difference, at this point, does it make?

 


Category: Economics

LIVE AT FIVESEVEN: 11.19.13

Posted on | November 19, 2013 | 8 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho


TOP NEWS
Car Bomb Kills 25 Near Iranian Embassy In Beirut

A Lebanese man tries to pull a corpse from a burning car

Cultural attache killed; over 150 wounded

Toronto Council Strips Power From Rob Ford
Mayor vows “outright war”

UN Disaster Chief Stresses Long-Term Needs For Philippines



POLITICS
Students Suffer Obamacare Sticker Shock

Obama greets supporters at Bowie State University

Premiums soar, coverage cut

NSA Vowed Repeatedly To Fix Collection “Errors”

Methodist Jury Convicts Pennsylvania Pastor Of Conducting Gay Wedding

Albuquerque Votes On Late-Term Abortion Ban

Arne Duncan Catches Heat For Pro-Common Core Racism

Governor Dayton Says No Minnesota Insurance Extensions Despite Obamacare “Fix”

Speaker Howell Warns Governor McAuliffe On Executive Orders



THE ECONOMY, STUPID
Crude Slips In Asian Trade As Global Supplies Rise: NYMEX $92.90, Brent $108.00
OECD Cuts Global Forecasts On Emerging-Market Slowdown
Most Stocks Fall After Dow Hits 16,000
JPMorgan, DOJ Near Agreement On $13B Settlement
Dollar Falls On Fed View, Euro Up
Government Finds Merit In Labor Claims Against Walmart
Sony Responds To PS4 Glitch Reports
Google Fined $17M For Circumventing Safari Privacy Settings
Google, Microsoft Modify Searches To Exclude More Child Porn
Slingbox Can Now Stream TV Onto Roku Players
PRISM Forces Yahoo To Add Encryption



SPORTS
Panthers, Refs Top Patriots

Cam Newton after his game-winning 4Q pass

Refs’ pass interference flag waived, Panthers win 24-20

Grizzlies Outmuscle Clippers

Giants Land Tim Hudson With Two-Year Deal

LaMarcus Aldridge Scores 27 As Blazers Top Nyets

Flames Edge Jets In Shootout

LeBron James Interested In Joining Beckham’s Miami MLS Bid

NHL, CBC Team Up For Another All-Access Series

Robinson Cano Not Budging Off Ten-Year, $310M Demand

Penguins Beat Ducks 3-1

Phillies Sign Catcher Ruiz For Three Years, $26M

Hurricanes Get Cam Ward Back In The Net, But Bruins Get The Win

British Parliament Honors Sachin Tendulkar

Nationals About To Learn The Price Of Preserving Their Core



FAMOUS FOR BEING FAMOUS
CNBC Loses “Money Honey” Bartiromo To Murdoch’s Fox

Maria Bartiromo

Former “Closing Bell” hostess jumps ship after twenty-year stint at CNBC


“It’s A Wonderful Life” Sequel In The Works

Justin Bieber Party Features Naked Girls Everywhere


Brandi Glanville Gets Hammered, Talks More Trash About Vaginas

Taylor Swift Hints Jake Gyllenhaal Spoke To Her About Songs On “Red”

Dakota Johnson On “Fifty Shades Of Grey” Love Story: “The Sex Makes It Perfect”

CW’s “The Flash” To Get Standalone Pilot

Lindsay Lohan – Drugs & Booze & Rehab?

“Mob Wives” Star Linked To Kidnap, Robbery

Tenants Of Burned Hollywood High-Rise Sue Ashley Greene

Rita Ora Collapses During Photo Shoot



FOREIGNERS
The New Tone In The Iran Nuke Talks
Sardinia Hit By Deadly Cyclone, Flooding
Russia To Release Greenpeace Activist
Abbott Vows No Apology Over Indonesian Spying
Ukraine Parliament Holds Crunch Session On Tymoshenko Question
Nepal Holds Vote Amid Scattered Violence
PRC On Path To Further Reform One-Child Policy
CAroline Kennedy Draws Crowds In Tokyo As First Woman Ambassador
Narendra Modi Rips PM, Rahul, Digvijaya



BLOGS & STUFF
First Street Journal: Why It’s Absolutely NOT The Time To Go All Caspar Milquetoast With Iran
Proof Positive: Canadian Bakin’
Michelle Malkin: A Brown-Skinned Suburban Mom Responds To Common Core Bigot Arne Duncan
Twitchy: Liberal Comics, Giant Vulva Raise Money For Abortions In Texas
American Power: Doris Lessing, 1919-2013
American Thinker: What The Know-Nothings Know
The Necropolitan Sentinel: A Bad Contract And A Criminal Conspiracy
Don Surber: Daily Scoreboard, November 18
Jammie Wearing Fools: Obamacare’s Oregon Exchange Signs Up Zero People In Seven Weeks
JustOneMinute: Management For Dummies
Pat Dollard: Mark Levin – “If This Is Not An Impeachable Offense, What Is?”
Protein Wisdom: President Asterisk
Shot In The Dark: Post-Shakeout Reading
The Jawa Report: German Rapper Who Once Toured With DMX Now A Jihadi In Syria
The Lonely Conservative: Lowering Expectations – Obama Administration Now Hopes For Only 20% Failure Rate On Healthcare.gov
Megan McArdle: Obamacare’s New Metrics Clear As Mud


Category: Live at Five

Rule 5 Monday: Palate Cleanser

Posted on | November 18, 2013 | 15 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

I don’t think there’s any question but that after the last post, you probably want something to get the Amanda Marcotte off your mind. Fortunately, this was delayed from yesterday for reasons. Enjoy.

Yankee Phil kicks off this week’s roundup with some plus-size model theft and a PSA regarding cold & flu season. Randy’s Roundtable follows with Nell McAndrew, Goodstuff introduces Elly Tran Ha, and Reaganite Republican goes with Miss Bikini Universe 2013. Ninety Miles From Tyranny checks in with Morning Mistress, Hot Pick of the Late Night, and Girls With Guns;Blackmailers Don’t Shoot focuses on Rima Fakih, and First Street Journal has Basic Training at Fort Jackson.

EBL’s herd of heifers this week includes a salute to the Marine Corps on their 238th birthday, Lara Logan, Adriana from healthcare.gov, Britain’s Horniest Student, and the Daughters of Alec Baldwin.

A View From The Beach offers Advertising Women, Dinosaur Seas Found Under The Chesapeake (has cavegirl content), Georgia Cavemen (ditto), Lesbians Cool To “Blue Is The Warmest Color”, What Do “Stakeholders” Do With Stakes?, Second Amendment Porn, Yes It’s Good Living On A Farm, and Gross In A Cute Way.

At Soylent Siberia, set the Snoochinator to 1983! Also, your morning coffee creamer and muffins, Overnighty Ali Rose, Monday Motivationer Andrea, the Soylent Veterans Day Salute, Overnighty Katie Fey, Tuesday Titillation Auburn Awesome, Favorite Forgotten 60s TV Shows, Humpday Hawtness Shannon Stewart, Falconsword Fursday Francesca B., A New Header For Irish, Corset Calliope, T-GIF Friday, and Weekender Andressa.

Proof Positive’s babe of the week was Alison Brie, his vintage babe was Greer Garson, Victoria’s Secret covers the Sex in Advertising beat, and of course there’s the obligatory 49ers cheerleader. Dustbury offers Rooney Mara and Daisy Fuentes.

The DaleyGator’s DaleyBabes this week included Miss Haiti Mondiana Pierre, Yaritza Reyes, Marisa Ramirez, Famke Janssen, Moyoko Sasaki, Jacinta Rokich, Stefanie Guillen Evangelista (Miss Aruba), Adwoa Yamaoah (Miss Canada), and Michelle Lewin. Also, Friday and Saturday Beauty!

Thanks to everyone for their linkagery! Deadline to submit links to the Rule 5 Wombat mailbox is Saturday, November 23.


Category: Rule 5

Never Doubt @AmandaMarcotte’s Commitment to Baby-Killing

Posted on | November 18, 2013 | 57 Comments

For some reason, the world’s most fanatical feminist decided to follow her own logic to the absolute nadir of absurdity:

Catching cold is the “consequence” of being around
other people. I assume you refuse antibiotics, correct?

Taking antibiotics terminates more life than an abortion.
One organism < the billions you kill with antibiotics.

So, babies are bacteria and abortion is like antibiotics. This nonsense conclusion is where the syllogism leads, which tells you there must be at least one flawed premise to the pro-choice argument.

BTW, bacteria don’t cause colds and antibiotics don’t cure colds.

Amanda Marcotte hates babies and wants to kill them.

 


Category: Abortion, Feminism

The Douchebag Manifesto

Posted on | November 18, 2013 | 50 Comments

Portrait of the hacker as a young douchebag.

“The hypocrisy of ‘law and order’ and the injustices caused by capitalism cannot be cured by institutional reform but through civil disobedience and direct action.”
— Jeremy Hammond, Nov. 15, 2013

“I gotta be me, as the douchebag credo goes.”
— Ace of Spades, Nov. 20, 2012

Where do they come from, these douchebags? Suburbia, mainly. You can read a thousand articles telling you Jeremy Hammond was from Chicago, but in point of fact he was from Glendale Heights, a DuPage County suburb about 30 miles west of Chicago.

It won’t surprise you to learn that Jeremy Hammond’s parents were divorced. Nearly all of these left-wing fringe types come from what used to be called “broken homes” back in the old days, before we were taught politically correct euphemisms for social dysfunction.

They’re angry, see, and their anger becomes the organizing principle of their lives, so they must act out in some way. Lashing out at scapegoats, they externalize their inner pain, believing that whatever object they make a target of their anger deserves to be hated.

Costuming their personal grievances in the rhetorical wardrobe of politics, the seek out others like themselves as a sort of support group, engaging in protests as performance with history as the imagined audience, basking in the warm glow of the admiration they strive to deserve by acting on behalf of “social justice” or some other cause.

Lee Harvey Oswald, Jeremy Hammond — they differed in method more than they did in basic personality structure.

Ace has been on a riff lately against “millennials” — following on Kurt Schlicter’s sarcastic #caring attitude — and talking about the entitled narcissism of the Special Snowflake™ generation. Of course, narcissism isn’t anything new, but what is new (or, at least recent) is the relative ease with which these cravers of admiration can find an audience in the Information Age. Kids turn on the TV and watch “reality” shows where pseudo-celebrities with no talent play-act their scripted dramas. Then they switch on their video game systems for some competitive play-acting in multi-player environments. Then they hop on the Internet where everybody’s got a YouTube channel and a social-media presence. Everything is play-acting and everyone is (potentially) a star.

We’re about 20 years into the World Wide Web era, and no one under 30 really has any useful memory of the world that existed before the Internet, Playstation and 140 channels on cable TV. Are we therefore actually surprised that young people have become self-absorbed and have trouble understanding politics as something different from other media-generated celebrity image-making?

So when I saw Anonymous hacker Jeremy Hammond’s courtroom statement, my reaction was a shrug of resignation: Of course he blames Bush. Of course his “political” rationalizations are a bunch of empty clichés about “racism” and “imperialism.”

As an aside, do none of these punks bother reading books? Do they not realize that their protest dramas are just re-enactments of previous protest dramas, all of which ended in disappointment (and sometimes death) for the deluded idealists?

More than six decades ago, Eric Hoffer published The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements. The copy on my desk is 177 pages, including endnotes. Any reasonably literate person could finish reading this book in a single day and be forever inoculated against the True Believer delusion. Why, then, do young kooks continue replicating the errors Hoffer so clearly described?

Or how about Peter Collier and David Horowitz’s Destructive Generation: Second Thoughts on the Sixties? It would be impossible, I think, for anyone who had read that book to sign on for the whole hippy-dippy peace-and-love bullshit agenda. So why isn’t that book on the syllabus in high-school advance placement civics classes?

Oh, wait . . . Never mind. It just dawned on me that our public education system is dominated by leftists who very much want kids to sign up for the whole hippy-dippy peace-and-love bullshit agenda.

Few of these kids, thank God, take up the radical cause with the kind of dramatic seriousness that leads them to federal prison:

Jeremy Hammond was sentenced to 10 years in federal prison Friday for his role in the December 2011 hacking of Strategic Forecasting (StratFor) and a number of other websites targeted by members of the so-called “hacktivist” group known as Anonymous. The feds had more than enough evidence to convict Hammond. He had a prior conviction on a similar crime and was potentially facing more than 30 years this time, so the best he could do was cop a plea deal. Before he was sentenced Friday by U.S. District Judge Loretta A. Preska, however, the 28-year-old hacker once known as “Anarchaos” had a political statement to share with the world, a statement that could be summarized in two words: Blame Bush.
Although he was only 15 when George W. Bush was elected president, Hammond declared in federal court in Manhattan, this was a traumatizing experience for him. “My introduction to politics was when George W. Bush stole the Presidential election in 2000, then took advantage of the waves of racism and patriotism after 9/11 to launch unprovoked imperialist wars against Iraq and Afghanistan,” Hammond declared in his manifesto. “I took to the streets in protest naively believing our voices would be heard in Washington and we could stop the war. Instead, we were labeled as traitors, beaten, and arrested.” Hammond added that he had “been arrested for numerous acts of civil disobedience on the streets of Chicago.”
Ah, yes, “civil disobedience,” otherwise known as crime. . . .

Read the whole thing at The American Spectator and, please, you stupid kids: How about reading a book once in a while?

 

 

Category: Crime, Culture, History, Intellectuals
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