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LIVE AT FIVE: 10.15.13

Posted on | October 15, 2013 | 8 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho


TOP NEWS
Senate Leaders Scramble To Iron Out New Budget Plan

Have the Senate Democrats overreached?

McConnell, Reid agree: progress has been made

Deadly Earthquake Hits Bohol, Cebu
At least 30 dead from magnitude 7.2 quake in Philippines


Nobel Prize For Eugene Fama Big Win For Chicago School
Free-market finance prof shares prize with colleague Lars Peter Hansen, Yale’s Robert Schiller



POLITICS
Michigan’s Attorney General Confident Supremes Will Uphold Affirmative Action Ban

Michigan AG Bill Scheuette, protesters

“The only thing we are discriminating against is discrimination itself.”

NSA Rooting Through Personal E-Mail Address Books Looking For Terrorism Links

Walmart, Xerox Trade Accusations After Glitch Strips Limits From EBT Cards

NC County Official To Accept Gay Marriage Applications

Former SecDef Panetta: Sequester Is Hurting Military Readiness

Veterans To Protest Government Shutdown



THE ECONOMY, STUPID
Brent Edges Below $111 Ahead Of Iran Talks: NYMEX $102.16, Brent $110.96
Poll Finds Half Of Older Workers Downsizing Retirement Plans
Macy’s To Break Tradition, Open At 8 PM On Thanksgiving
Stocks Jump On Hopes For Debt Deal
AstraZeneca Buys Oncology-Focused Spirogen; May Cost Up To $440 Million
Snowstorm To Complicate Recovery Efforts For Dakota Ranchers
How To Run Android 4.4 “KitKat” On Older Phones
WinPhone 8 Engorged My Microsoft To Phablet Size
Yandex Buys “Russia’s IMDB”
Cable Companies Not Sure They Trust Netflix
Google Readying “Mobile Meter” App, To Offer Rewards For Tracking Mobile Usage



SPORTS
Big Papi’s Blast Sparks BoSox Rally

Grand slam in 8th wipes out deficit

Gomes scores in the 9th to give Boston 6-5 win, even ALCS at a game apiece

Dodgers In Peril? Puig & Ryu To Rescue!

Rivers, Novak Lead Chargers Past Colts, 19-9

Wings Hold Off Bruins In Matinee

Tom Tremendous: Brady Rallies Pats Past Saints, 30-27

Wild Edge Winless Sabres 2-1

Caps Snap Skid With 4-2 Defeat Of Oilers

MLB Umpire Wally Bell Dead At 48

Michael Waltrip Racing Cutting Back To Two Full-time Teams

Busch Notches 11th Win At Charlotte

The Nationals’ Other In-House Option For Manager



FAMOUS FOR BEING FAMOUS
Jenny McCarthy To Lose Her Gig On “The View”?

Viewers tuning out

Even less popular than departed Elizabeth Hasselbeck

Madonna Banned From Cinema Chain After She Wouldn’t Stop Texting During Movie


Charlie Hunnam Leaves “Fifty Shades Of Grey” Movie

Is There Anything Sandra Bullock Can’t Do?

Jon Bon Jovi Walks Super-Fan Down The Aisle

Ty Simpkins Lands Lead In “Jurassic World”

Marvel Likes Joseph Gordon-Leavitt, Paul Rudd For “Ant-Man”

Unspeakable Armenian Reveals Atkins Diet For Baby Weight Loss

Jessica Simpson Returns To Weight Watchers



FOREIGNERS
Chicom State Press Calls For “De-Americanized World”
Irish Near Bailout Endgame With Less Austerity In Budget
Bomb Attack At Mosque Kills Influential Afghan Governor
Migrants Arrested In Moscow Raids
Syria Fighting Rages On Despite Muslim Holiday
Somali Pirate Leader Arrested In Belgian Sting
Pilgrims Stone The Devil In Final Hajj Ritual
PRC Jails Wheelchair-Bound Bomber
Japan’s PM Abe Opens Diet With Pledge Of Higher Wages



BLOGS & STUFF
First Street Journal: Why Isn’t This Considered Theft?
The Camp of the Saints: Re Paul Lemmen And My Critics
Blackmailers Don’t Shoot: This Stupid Week – Swipe Yo EBT Edition
Doug Powers: “Million Vet March” In DC Proves Again – Barricading Monuments An Exercise In Futility
Twitchy: Snit Fit Redux – Barrycades Ordered Back Up At WWII Memorial – A Simple Suggestion
American Power: Debt Ceiling Dirty Deal
American Thinker: It’s Not Just Failed Obamacare
The Necropolitan Sentinel: Obamacare Watch – More Sticker Shock
Don Surber: Daily Scoreboard, October 14 (Yes We Cone Edition)
Jammie Wearing Fools: Obama’s America – Disabled Mom Forced To Choose Between Food And Obamacare Premiums
JustOneMinute: ObamaCare Debacle Soon To Be The 24/7 Story
Pat Dollard: Texas Christian University Bans Everything Guns
Protein Wisdom: On Bob Costas’ Sudden, 30-Year-Late Pronouncement That “Redskin” Is A Slur
Shot In The Dark: From Hell
The Jawa Report: Female Suicide Bomber Responsible For Ranger Deaths In Afghanistan
The Lonely Conservative: Obama Wants Default And Ongoing Shutdown
Megan McArdle: ObamaCare Needs A Drop-Dead Date


Category: Live at Five

Brett Kimberlin Will Sue You, Too

Posted on | October 14, 2013 | 77 Comments

“I have filed over a hundred lawsuits and another one will be no sweat for me. On the other hand, it will cost you a lot of time and money . . .”
— Brett Kimberlin to Patrick Frey, Oct. 11. 2011

Really, I could just show you the link:

BomberSuesBloggers.com

It speaks for itself, doesn’t it? Isn’t that incredible news? A notorious criminal, the guy who claimed to have sold marijuana to Dan Quayle, the man Time magazine called “The Wizard of Odd,” has now sued four bloggers and the founder of the National Bloggers Club in an ill-considered attempt to silence them and intimidate others.

BomberSuesBloggers.com

Kimberlin’s progressive supporters have actually bragged online that anyone who writes about Kimberlin’s lawsuit against us might be sued, too. That’s right: Link my blog, quote my blog, and you could be added as a defendant in Kimberlin v. Walker, et al.

BomberSuesBloggers.com

Really. He thinks he is the victim. His deranged admirers . . .

Stop for a moment and ponder that thought: Brett Kimberlin has admirers and supporters, who have done all they can to harass anyone who has tried to tell the truth about Brett Kimberlin.

Donald Douglas at American Power includes a photo of Melissa Brewer, whose twisted history I described Sunday. The point I was trying to make is that the same people who want to shut down Rush Limbaugh, the same people who target conservatives for online harassment, are the same kind of dishonest jackals who have no problem defending a dangerous creep like Brett Kimberlin.

BomberSuesBloggers.com

Sign up for e-mail updates. Donate if you can. Help spread the word on Twitter and Facebook. Sooner or later, you have to take a stand.

There is no safety in timid silence, because evil never sleeps.

BomberSuesBloggers.com

If you’re lucky, maybe he’ll sue you, too.

And never doubt that God answers prayer.

UPDATE: Da Tech Guy: “Kimberlin & the Streisand effect.”

UDPATE II: Matt Ross at Conservative Hideout, “Why Does the Name Brett Kimberlin Keep Coming Up? The Podcast will Explain.”

Kimberlin Unmasked, “Speedway Bomber & Convicted Perjurer Brett Kimberlin Sues Bloggers.”

UPDATE III: W.J.J. Hoge, “Statement on Fund Raising.”

UPDATE IV: The Lonely Conservative: “Some People Have No Place In Polite Society.”

 

Category: The Kimberlin Files

Welfare Moochers Gone Wild

Posted on | October 14, 2013 | 40 Comments

Unlimited benefits? Isn’t this what they voted for last November?

Shelves at Walmart stores in Louisiana were cleared in a shopping frenzy over the weekend after a glitch in the Electronic Benefits Transfer system allowed government food stamp recipients to make purchases without spending limits.
For two hours Saturday night, customers rang up overflowing cartloads of food at stores in Springhill and Mansfield, La., after cashiers allowed them to use their EBT cards anyway despite not showing limits, KSLA-TV reported.
“It was worse than any Black Friday,” Springhill police Chief Will Lynd told KSLA. . . .
After the system came back online, customers abandoned their carts and left the store, leaving a huge mess behind.
“It was like a tornado had came through,” O.J Evans, who took cell phone video of the aftermath at the Mansfield Walmart, told KSLA.

More at Memeorandum with blog commentary by The Daily Caller, Weasel Zippers, The Lonely Conservative and PJ Tatler.

 

Category: Culture

In The Mailbox

Posted on | October 14, 2013 | 13 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho


No Live at Five this morning, since this is the day officially set aside to commemorate the conquest of the New World by Spain. There were some links sent to me in expectation of a Monday morning post, though, and I would be remiss if I didn’t share.


First Street Journal: What’s Going On Here?
Dead Republican Party: Qui Bono? Makers Or Takers
An Ex-Con’s View: Statement Regarding Past Posts
Blackmailers Don’t Shoot: Good Reads – The Book Of Matt
Michelle Malkin: 1-800-TOTALFAIL – One Man’s Obamawreck Nightmare


RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES AT FEEDLY!
American Power: Former EDL Leader Tommy Robinson Joins The Forces Of Global Jihad
American Thinker: Western Civilization Saved From Islam At The Battle Of Tours
The Necropolitan Sentinel: Obamacare Watch – Crappy Exchange Fatigue
Don Surber: In Defense Of Obama’s Hate Speech
Jammie Wearing Fools: Chutzpah – Obama Accuses GOP Of Manufacturing Crises
JustOneMinute: Overtaken By Events (After Being Mugged By Ignorance)
Pat Dollard: Monday Morning Eye Opener – B-1, B-2 And B-52 Doing Heavy Carpet Bombing
Protein Wisdom: GOP Capitulation Watch
Shot In The Dark: Level To Off
The Jawa Report: Obama’s Homeland Security Adviser Says Christian Copts Are Islamophobes
The Lonely Conservative: About That WSJ Poll
Megan McArdle: Ask The Blogger – Why Do Stores Give Receipts?


Live at Five will be back bright and early (or at least early) tomorrow morning.



(too early?)

Category: Linkagery

BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! Dead Pedophiles

Posted on | October 14, 2013 | 25 Comments

Yeah, I know what you’re thinking. But this isn’t about that.

CNN reports on this story that is almost as strange:

In a mystery straddling two states, three men and a woman were found dead of shotgun blasts in north Alabama after two of them were targeted in a Tennessee child pornography investigation, police say.
It’s being called a triple murder-suicide pact, as it appears the shooter killed his sister, former brother-in-law and friend before turning the 12-gauge on himself. . . .
Kristie Hunt Campbell Hamrick, 39; her ex-husband, Robert Samuel Hamrick, 30; her brother, Andy Hunt, 38; and family friend Kevin Carey, 30, who all listed the same Savannah, Tennessee, address as their home, were inside.
In an interview with CNN affiliate WBRC in Birmingham, Harris said it appears Hunt fired five shots from a Mossberg 500A pump shotgun, killing the other three before getting into the car and shooting himself. . . .
Campbell Hamrick and her ex-husband became targets of a pornography probe after a teenage girl made allegations in September to the Department of Children’s Services, which contacted the Hardin County, Tennessee, police, said Sheriff Samuel Davidson.
Deputies searched the four’s mobile home the next day and seized three computer towers, two flash drives, two cameras and two cell phones, Davidson said. . . .
Harris also told WBRC that Carey told a friend in Hamilton, Alabama, that he and the other three planned to kill themselves rather than go to prison on child pornography charges. . . .

Read the whole weird story at CNN.

 

Category: Crime

News Flash: @DonLemonCNN Hates You

Posted on | October 14, 2013 | 22 Comments

And by “you,” of course, I mean the 60 million extremist homophobic anti-choice teabagging racists who didn’t vote for Obama:

CNN anchor Don Lemon shouted down a conservative guest after pushing him to admit he should be “embarrassed” over certain protesters at Sunday’s Million Vet March. . . .
“Ben, you have to be embarrassed looking at that video. You’re not embarrassed for some members of your party?” he pushed conservative radio host Ben Ferguson, who cast aside the influence of the “small group.”
“Who initiated this protest? It was Tea Party republicans. Come on, Ben, cut the crap. Don’t give me that,” Lemon responded, refusing to let Ferguson distance himself from the group. When Ferguson blamed the government for trying to make the shutdown more “painful,” Lemon exploded.
“Oh, now you are going on to something else. Can you sit – listen – no, no, no, no, no!  Don’t finish unless – stop, Ben! Unless you are going to stick to what I said, don’t take this and then turn it into something else,” Lemon shouted.

 

You haters probably never watch that obscure cable channel.

Now you know what you’re missing.

Or not missing. Haters.

 

 


Category: CNN, Media Bias

Killer Pedophile

Posted on | October 14, 2013 | 22 Comments

Yeah, I know what you’re thinking. But this isn’t about that.

Pat Dollard shares Mustafa Kazemi’s account of this deadly atrocity:

The story came from a village in Khashrood district of Nimruz province in Afghanistan. . . .
The girl was one of the several daughters of a man in his late 30s. For an unknown reason he gave his daughter to the Mullah of their village for a big amount of money. It is also common in Afghanistan’s rural areas or 3rd level provinces/cities to marry young girls to old men, and trading their daughters for their debts or other items. . . .
The two families planned a wedding party, the wedding and Nekah (The religious process in which a woman is officially married to a man) took place and the 8-years-old bride became the 50-years-old Mullah’s 2nd wife. . . .

Read the whole grisly thing. (Spoiler: It doesn’t end “happily ever after.”)

 

Category: Aghanistan

‘No Place for the Middle Class’

Posted on | October 14, 2013 | 16 Comments

“New York is nice if you can afford it: If you are a wealthy liberal, or a recent college graduate rooming with three friends, if you are at the top of the world or setting out in the world, if you are Carrie Bradshaw or doing your best to impersonate her, the city cannot be beat. But it is hard to raise a family there. It is no place for the middle class.”
— Matthew Continetti, “Medieval Times,” Free Beacon

 

Category: Culture
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