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E-Mail From America’s Vice President

Posted on | September 30, 2013 | 16 Comments

If you ever sign up for any Democrat mailing list, you will eventually be on all Democrat mailing lists, and receive e-mails like this:

Date: Mon, 30 Sep 2013 08:14:15 -0400
To: Robert McCain <[email protected]>
From: Joe Biden <[email protected]>

Robert —
If you’ve been watching what’s been happening here in Washington over the past couple of weeks, and you still think you need more reasons to support Democrats over Republicans, I’m not sure what to tell you.
The choice is pretty clear.
Chip in $3 or more and get Democrats’ backs before the fundraising deadline at midnight:

https://my.democrats.org/Deadline

Thanks,
Joe

 

See? That’s what responsible non-partisan leadership looks like.

 

Category: Joe Biden

Banjo Player Caught in Child-Sex Sting

Posted on | September 30, 2013 | 51 Comments

Abraham Spear: Banjo-playing pedophile

When someone told me about this story, my first thought was, “Well, of course he’s a banjo player.” IYKWIMAITYD:

A country musician has been sentenced to 17 years in prison after pleading guilty to trying to have sex with a woman’s seven and nine-year-old daughters.
Abraham Spear was arrested at a restaurant in Dallas on September 20, 2012, when he arranged to meet an undercover FBI agent, posing as the mother of the two young girls.
The 30-year-old Banjo player, who was set to perform with the Josh Thompson band at the time of the incident, was sentenced to 210 months in federal prison in Dallas, Texas.
Authorities began investigating Spear when he logged onto a website, using the screen name MUSICMAN30, and began communicating with a woman who was actually an undercover FBI agent . . .
[After he] was arrested by federal agents [he] broke down sobbing, insisting that he wasn’t going to actually do anything.
‘Spear also admitted that he had engaged in sexually explicit communications with other mothers of minor girls, including one in which he offered to pay $200 to engage in sexual acts with the mother’s minor daughter,’ according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office.

Watch out for those pedophile banjo players.

 

Category: Crime, Sex

Shutdown Monday: Blame Harry Reid

Posted on | September 30, 2013 | 69 Comments

The New York Times:

The Senate is expected to reject decisively a House bill that would delay the full effect of President Obama’s health care law as a condition for keeping the government running past Monday, as Senator Harry Reid, the Democratic majority leader, expressed confidence that he had public opinion on his side.

Why is Harry Reid so confident that he has “public opinion on his side”? Because he can rely on the media to confuse the people:

Democrats and their media allies have spent the past week labeling Republicans “anarchists,” “fanatics,” “radicals,” and “terrorists” who are wholly to blame for the situation that we are told will soon lead to a government shutdown. And if all you know about this situation is what you get from the media, you might actually believe that this is a crisis created by Texas Sen. Ted Cruz and his fellow conservatives who sought to use the vote on a short-term spending bill as a means of preventing implementation of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), otherwise known as Obamacare.
Here’s a simple question: Why are we currently funding the federal government through a series of short-term measures known as “continuing resolutions”?
The answer is that the budgeting process has completely broken down in recent years, and the two men most responsible for that breakdown are President Obama and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid. For three consecutive years — 2010, 2011, and 2012 — the Democrat-controlled Senate did not pass a budget bill because Reid knew that it would be a political liability to do so. Passing a budget that detailed the Democrats’ plans for spending and revenue as official policy would have exposed the “something for nothing” swindle that Reid and his colleagues are perpetrating on the American people. Republican challengers campaigning against Democrat senators could have cited their votes for the budget bill, saying that the incumbent voted for this, that, or the other unpopular component of the measure.
Reid and the Democrats knew this. They knew very well that the federal deficit was spiraling out of control, that there was not enough tax revenue to pay the mushrooming cost of entitlement programs (Medicare, Medicaid, food stamps, unemployment, et cetera), and certainly there wasn’t enough revenue to pay for all the boondoggles and giveaways the Democrats voted for in the name of “stimulus.” Adding to this, there was not enough revenue to pay the cost of Obamacare, which Democrats rammed through Congress in March 2010 on a party-line vote. Passing an actual budget would have made clear the unsustainable fiscal nightmare into which Democrat policies have plunged the nation during the Obama Age, and so Harry Reid simply didn’t pass a budget for three years. . . .

Please read the whole thing at The American Spectator.

UPDATE: Great minds think alike.

 


Category: Budget, Harry Reid, Senate

Keep Your Patriot Hand Strong, @TedCruz

Posted on | September 30, 2013 | 19 Comments

by Smitty

Absolutely masterful rhetorical command on display here as the Cruzado dribbles the hapless dope David Gregory like a basketball, shooting three-pointer after three-pointer:

God bless Senator Cruz. And may God send a bit of sense to the codpiece media in general, and David Gregory in particular.

via Weasel Zippers and Dr. Melissa

Category: GOP, Health Care

LIVE AT FIVE: 09.30.13

Posted on | September 30, 2013 | 3 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho


TOP NEWS
Shutdown Showdown

Speaker of the House John Boehner

Hours before deadline, neither GOP nor Democrats are budging


Justice Department To Sue North Carolina Over Voter Law
DOJ cites alleged racial discrimination


Rahul Gandhi Slams Move To Shield Convicted Politicians
Slams ordinance allowing convicted lawmakers to hold office, stand for election



POLITICS
ObamaCare’s Scope, Rocky Intro Signals Problems For Tuesday Start

A Tea Party member picks up brochures on the impact of ObamaCare at a meeting in New Hampshire

Administration claims it’s ready, even as more delays crop up

NSA Gathers Data On Us Citizens’ Social Connections

GOP Candidate For NYC Mayor Lhota Wants To Cut Taxes


Planned Parenthood Sues Texas Over Abortion Restrictions

Senator Coburn Calls Out Congress For Blowing Money On “Fruity” Grants

Wendy Davis Calls For More Spending

Stacy’s Crazy Cousin John Hires Syria Analyst Who Lied About Her Credentials

#2 US Nuke Commander Suspended Amid Gambling Probe



THE ECONOMY, STUPID
Crude Oil Tumbles On US Budget Impasse: NYMEX $101.71; Brent $107.81
PRC Manufacturing Growth Slower Than Expected
Stock Futures, Dollar Jolted BY Politics In US, Italy
Candy Crush Creator King Files For IPO
Apple Passes Coca-Cola As Most Valuable Brand
Siemens Cuts 15,000 Jobs
Goodbye Thumbsticks: Valve Unveils Steam Controller With PC-Like Trackpads
Intel Invests In Wearable Device Maker Recon
Poll: Sony’s PS4 Tops XBox One On Gamers’ Wish Lists
The Coolest Projects At The World Maker Faire
Why You Can’t Compare “Grand Theft Auto V” To The Movie Industry



SPORTS
Indians Await Winner Of Wildcard Tiebreaker

The Tribe celebrates at Target Field

5-1 victory over Twins clinches #1 slot in wildcard; #2 slot goes to winner of today’s Rangers/Rays game

Kipsang Breaks Marathon World Record In Berlin

Henderson Alvarez Closes Marlins Season With No-Hitter

Johnson Makes His Chase Case With Record Win At Dover

Rangers Beat Angels 6-2, Force Wildcard Tiebreaker

Patriots Hold Off Falcons, Now 4-0

Pirates Beat Reds 4-2, Get Home Field Advantage For Wildcard

Astros Lose To Yanks 5-1, Set Franchise Record For Losses; Worst Season-Ending Skid Since 1899

A’s Shut Out M’s 9-0 In Finale

Jags Support QB Gabbert Despite 37-3 Stomping By Colts; Tebow Time Yet?

Davey Johnson’s Return Ends With 3-2 Loss To Snakes



FAMOUS FOR BEING FAMOUS
Check Out Kaley Cuoco’s Engagement Ring!

Because Jennifer Lawrence looked like she was on Thorazine

Sportin’ a 2.5-karat diamond

Heather Morris Gives Birth To Baby Boy Elijah

Neil Patrick Harris Directing Magic Show “Nothing To Hide”

Liam Hemsworth Takes A Break From “The Hunger Games” For Breakfast

Real Housewives’ Melissa Gorga: It’s “Disgusting” That People Think I’m Promoting Marital Rape

Lisa Marie D’Amato Gives Birth To Baby Boy Dax

Zac Efron Breaks Post-Rehab Silence, Shares Photo Of Peru Trip


CBS’ “Unforgettable” Renewed For Third Season

Fox Nabs Damon Wayans Jr. Comedy Show

ABC Eyes “Modern Family” Spinoff

“Blind Billy” Returns In “Dumb And Dumber To” After Writers Track Former Child Star Down On Facebook

Christina Hendricks Covers Her Curves In Strawberries And Cherries At Charity Brunch

Reese Witherspoon Shows Her Support For Jessica Alba With Honest Company Bag



FOREIGNERS
Car Bomb Rips Through Peshawar Market, Kills 40
Boko Haram Slaughters Dozens Of Students
Netanyahu To Press Obama Not To Ease Sanctions Despite Rouhani’s Sweet Talk
Amanda Knox Retrial Begins Today In Italy
Modi Rips India’s Gandhi Dyanasty As Delhi Crowd Tops 100K
Italian Politics In Crisis After Berlusconi’s Latest Move
Early Poll Results Give Austria’s Grand Coalition A Second Term
Dozens Missing After Boats Caught In South China Sea Typhoon
Shin Bet Arrests Iranian Spy



BLOGS & STUFF
Aewl’s Abode: Thoughts On Ted Cruz
Blackmailers Don’t Shoot: Is Bill Maher The Stupidest Man On The Planet?
Dead Republican Party: Full Text Of Richard Nixon’s Acceptance Speech At The DeRP Convention In St. Petersburg, Florida
Rotten Chestnuts: Is Jesus A Liberal Or A Conservative?
Chicks On The Right: If You Thought Crack Was Wack, Just Wait
American Power: Boehner Attacks Senate “Arrogance” As Deadline Approaches #MakeDCListen
American Thinker: Separating The Kafirs From The Muslims
The Necropolitan Sentinel: Obamacare Watch – The Problem With Delaying
Don Surber: Weekend Scoreboard, September 27-29
Jammie Wearing Fools: Hide The Decline – Obama Approval Plummets To 39% In D+10 Reuters/Ipsos Poll
JustOneMinute: OK, So There Is Crying In Baseball
Pat Dollard: Shutdown Won’t Harm Republicans – “We Won Seats”, Tom DeLay Recalls
Protein Wisdom: “Carney ‘Would Totally Enroll In ObamaCare’ (Except He Won’t)”
Shot In The Dark: The Plan! The Plan! The Plan Is On Fire!
The Jawa Report: Twitter Officially Doing Business With Al Qaeda
The Lonely Conservative: The Syria News You Won’t Hear From The Mainstream Media
Megan McArdle: 11 Pieces Of ObamaCare Wisdom That Shouldn’t Be So Conventional


Category: Live at Five

Rule 5 Sunday: Stardancer

Posted on | September 29, 2013 | 18 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Actually being posted on Sunday, for once! Please be advised, many of the following links are to pictures of “half pretty women half dressed to show it”, in the immortal words of Niven and Pournelle. Others are to pix of completely nekkid women. Either way, be advised that clicking on these links in the wrong place or in the wrong company could cost you your job, your relationship, or worst of all, the purity of your essential bodily fluids. Don’t say I didn’t warn you.

Animal Magnetism leads off this week with Bonus Oktoberfest Rule 5, Rule 5 Friday, and the Saturday Gingermageddon. Next up, Randy’s Roundtable with Nichole Boerner, Fishersville Mike with more Kaley Cuoco, and Laughing Conservative with an “unusually discreet” Jenna Jameson. Yankee Phil is back with something for Smitty and Stacy, Emergency Gas Masks, and My Eyes Are Up Here. Blackmailers Don’t Shoot’s Pretty Girls On A Thursday is all about the snow bunnies, the Rio Norte Line returns with a scrumptious Carl’s Jr. ad featuring Katherine Webb, 90 Miles From Tyranny checks in with Hot Pick of the Late Night and Girls With Guns,  while Goodstuff returns with more Sherlyn Chopra. Also, First Street Journal features Blondes with Bullets!

EBL expands her herd this week to include Rule 5 Chickens, Poultry Porn, DC Dating, The Most Wonderful Time Of The Year, and CPAP Rule 5.

A View From The Beach brings us Fernanda Tavares, Do You Have To Be Brain Damaged To Oppose Fracking?, You Don’t Tug On Superman’s Cape, Monkey Dacker Sex Offenders, One Reason I’ll Miss Summer, So Much For My Modest Proposal, PSA: Time For A Checkup, Man Saves Girlfriend By Killing Cougar With Spear, The Roots Of “Roar”, Volume Up!, and Gingers: Designed For The Dark.

Wine, Women and Politics has Saturday Sweeties, Bonus Hotties For Friday, TGIF Hot Stuff, Thursday Hot Totties, and Hump Day Whoo Whoo.

Soylent Green has The Early Years, A Soylent Solstice, Monday Motivationer Kristen, Tuesday Titillation Eva, Go(ogler) Shoutout To Nassau, Humpday Hawtness Bethanie, Fursday: Set The Snoochinator To 1982, That’ll Warm Up Your Stethoscope, Evening Awesome Alyssa, Friday Corset Comeuppance, T-GIF Friday, Overnighty Bobbi, and Weekender: Gone Fishin’.

Proof Positive’s Friday Night Babe is Kirsten Haglund, his Vintage Babe is Anne Baxter, and Sela Ward has the Sex In Advertising beat. Also, not one, but two 49ers cheerleaders! Dustbury offers Diahann Carroll and Kerry Washington along with Gül Gölge. The Camp of the Saints returns with Satinee Capona.

The DaleyGator’s DaleyBabes this week included Zhao Yu Fei, Sharri Jones, Ebony Tuesday, Mao Kurota, Danielle Lo, Erica Ocampo, Genevieve Chanelle, Ashley Doris, Tatiana Jaye, Katherine Webb inducing burger cravings, and Sunday Beauty.

Thanks to everyone for their linkagery! Links for next week’s Live at Five will be due to the Rule 5 Wombat mailbox no later than Saturday, October 5.


Category: Rule 5

MoveOn.org Fundraiser Email Blends Stupid And Infuriating

Posted on | September 29, 2013 | 34 Comments

by Smitty

(emphasis original throughout)

MoveOn.org Smitty
Dear MoveOn member, I’m not, but this was forwarded by a recipient.
Big news: Republicans just announced that they will only allow the federal government to stay open if President Obama agrees to delay implementation of Obamacare. The actual votes were bi-partisan for and against, interestingly enough.
The New York Times says the announcement “all but assured that large parts of the government would be shuttered as of 12:01 a.m. on Tuesday.”1 Only if Harry ‘the Cadaver’ and #OccupyResoluteDesk, the Priapismic Pair, insist on putting politics ahead of sanity. I’m sure they understand that ObamaCare needs far more than 48 more hours to exceed ‘risible train wreck’ on launch. But why should reality affect them?
This is not a drill. After years of threats, Speaker John Boehner and the Tea Party are about to shut down the government for real, with millions of Americans losing access to vital services, hundreds of thousands of public servants unpaid, and a big blow to our economic recovery.2 It’s me. I am the Tea Party. I realize this e-mail went to a lot of inboxes, but here it is: I am THAT guy. You can just drop all the H8 down in the comments. I’ll bring all the best ones up to Cryin’ Johnny next time he’s by for an orange zest treatment. Because #Efficiency.
We can’t stop the Tea Party from trying to push America’s economy off a cliff, but we can make sure they pay a steep political price like they did in 1995 so that they finally stop this nonsense. Our plan is to start by putting targeted web ads on Facebook and other websites targeting the most vulnerable Republicans facing reelection next year and then keep up the pressure till the Republicans give up on these outrageous demands. This blog in no way wishest to stop the endless stream of nonsense that is MoveOn.org. Couple reasons.
First, First Amendment. Not only do I fetish legally using the same word twice in a row, I actually subscribe to the notion that, when you’re correct, you don’t have to waste time attemting to squelch others. Educate them, instead.
Second, MoveOn.org really is a hoot of the highest order. Yes, it’s a Sad Thing that some aren’t yet savvy enough to see through the cheap propaganda, but we should laugh and then take up the challenge of making a smarter society.
The Tea Party’s popularity has already sunk to near-record lows, and if the shutdown backfires, it could send the entire Republican Party into a tailspin. 3 But time is of the essence—we need to raise $200,000 in the next 24 hours to power our rapid response campaigning and give us the ad budget we need to hold the Republicans accountable. Can you chip in $3 today? It’s true. If the Tea Party was any less popular, it would be the Semi-Conscious Liberation Army. The Tea Party is, at best, a movement within the Republican Party, currently being crushed by an all-knowing elite headed by Stacy’s cousin John. Together the Tea Party and Senator McCain are still trying to get over Macho Grande.
Yes, I’ll chip in $3 right away to hold Tea Party Republicans accountable. SWIDT?
The GOP has descended into chaos and infighting—literally yelling at each other on the Senate floor. 4The shutdown—while terrible for America—is a big opportunity to go on offense and send the Tea Party into permanent decline. In your wildest dreams, MoveOn.org. The good nature of Americans has been sufficiently abused. You’re only going to see more conservatives elected, more showing up at CPAC, and more opposition to the godless Commie agenda as time goes on. The sleeping giant is awake, and he’s just a tiny bit hacked off at you. Go find a banana republic somewhere else to subvert, ye pointy-beared pencil necks!
MoveOn has launched an ambitious campaign to discredit Tea Party Republicans and expose their 1% backers—to hold them accountable for threatening to sabotage our economy and trying to subvert our democracy. We’ll keep them on the defensive in the short term and ensure that no one forgets their reckless hijinks as elections approach next year. The sight of George Soros’s MoveOn.org playing the class warfare card is, well, rich. Also, silly.The Tea Party might have some well-heeled backers somewhere, but this blog sure doesn’t know about it. Rather, the Tea Party is very much honest people interested in self-government. Which is why MoveOn.org is wetting itself.
After four straight years in which Tea Party Republicans have forced a job-killing austerity agenda down our throats, their reckless decision to risk a government shutdown finally has them on their heels. If they follow through, we’ll have a historic opportunity to expose just how extreme they are. Oh, those zany Tea Party Republicans, blocking Keystone XL! And setting the EPA against business! And triggering Sequestration! Wait, those were all Democrat-caused. Still, get your H8 on for the Emmanuel Goldsteins! I did it!
We’ll need to move quickly and speak forcefully to win the debate and bring about a repeat of 1995. That was the year Newt Gingrich and House Republicans shut down the government because they refused to negotiate with President Clinton. They paid for it dearly. 5 Now, it’s on us to ensure this time is no different. If we play our cards right, 2013 could become known as the year the Tea Party relegated itself to the dustbin of history. It’s also worth noting that Newt Gingrich lacked an internet, and thus could not get past the propaganda wing of the Democrat party. Responses like this, in response to the codpiece media’s propaganda, just weren’t as feasible.Also, Bill Clinton hadn’t recently demonstrated himself a complete, no-talent rodeo clown on the international stage, a la #OccupyResoluteDesk.If the half the electorate that backed this weak horse realize how utterly useless he is, then even Harry Reid’s brass knuckles will be of no avail.
Our campaign includes rapid response ads and press outreach, as well as long-term strategies to discredit the Tea Party and take away its power, including pushing PBS stations to air “Citizen Koch,” the thus-far-censored documentary exposing the Koch Brothers as the Tea Party’s 1% financiers. We’ll also shine a spotlight on positive alternatives to the Tea Party’s agenda, including a higher minimum wage to tackle income inequality. And we’re amassing a war chest to ensure that this week is one everyone will remember well into next year. But first things first—the next few hours and days are crucial, and to win this fight, we all need to pitch in. Couple paragraphs back, the Tea Party was at a Nader nadir, and now it’s got some kind of power?And the proven job-destroyer, raising the minimum wage, is some kind of threat?Should the Tea Party just give MoveOn.org all the Drano it can snort?
Click here to donate $3 to help take advantage of this historic opportunity. (Go, Cuccinelli!)
Together, MoveOn’s 8 million members have tremendous people power. Let’s go all in together to seize this opportunity and send the Tea Party packing. That’s an awful lot of sock puppets and low information voters, one must concede. But who has time for fear?
Thanks for all you do. Fall off the planet, you lying Commies.
–Anna, Carinne, Bobby, Alejandro, and the rest of the team May the Amighty have mercy on you.
Category: Barack Obama

The Real Crisis the Media Ignores

Posted on | September 29, 2013 | 51 Comments

Headlines about the danger of a “government shutdown” are misleading, and this is not an accident. Democrats are playing politics, and their media allies are talking about a “crisis” for which they blame Republicans. The noise is intended to distract from what this is really about: It’s not about Ted Cruz and it’s not about ObamaCare.

The deadline to pass a continuing resolution ( which is not a “budget,” although some in the media keep calling it that) is required by the fact that the federal government is nearly $17 trillion in debt, and Democrats don’t want to do anything about that problem. The government is spending more money than it takes in, and this addiction to deficit spending — about $1.86 billion a day — is the underlying reality that the media don’t want you to think about. To put this into perspective, I stated three basic facts on Twitter:

Have you seen anything about this in the mainstream media? Do you remember any reporter asking President Obama, Harry Reid or Nancy Pelosi any questions about this problem? Why is President Obama sending out Dan Pfeiffer to compare Republicans to terrorists? Why is Harry Reid ranting about “tea party anarchists“? Why are Republicans being portrayed as if they were the cause of this crisis, while the media ignore the fundamental problem of deficit spending? And why aren’t more Americans demanding answers to these questions?

 

Category: Budget, Media Bias
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