The Other McCain

"One should either write ruthlessly what one believes to be the truth, or else shut up." — Arthur Koestler

LIVE AT FIVEEIGHT: 09.27.13

Posted on | September 27, 2013 | 7 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho


TOP NEWS
House GOP Cowboys Up For Debt Ceiling Fight

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and Sen. Chuck U. Schumer with a countdown clock for the anticipated Federal shutdown

Obama, Reid would still rather negotiate with Iran than the Republicans

UNSC Cuts A Deal, Passes Syrian Chem Weapon Resolution
Assad not worried; resolution has no penalties for non-compliance

Some Could See Rates Soar Under ObamaCare
Avik Roy: “They cherry-picked the data…middle class people will not [benefit].”



POLITICS
Obama Administration Committing $320 Million To Detroit

Abandoned mattresses in front of the former Fisher Body plant

$150 million for demolition, $140 million in transit aid


Senate Intel Committee Pushes To Keep But Change NSA Phone Surveillance


Wendy Davis Running For Texas Governor

Timber Industry Suffers; Loggers Blame Federal Regulations For Lost Jobs

Stimulus Funds Paid For Trees In Ritzy Denver Neighborhood

Justice Department Has Spent Nearly $5 Million On Drones

Sen. Ayotte Blocks Obama’s Nominee For AF Secretary Until She Gets Answers On The A-10



THE ECONOMY, STUPID
Crude Drops From NY Close On Syria Deal: NYMEX $102.71, Brent $109.05
McDonald’s To Offer Fruit, Salad As Side Orders
Faith In Eurozone Economy Hits Two-Year High In September
US Fixed Mortgage Rates Drop
JC Penney Shares Whipsaw On Stock Offering
Drop In Jobless Claims Boosts Americans’ Confidence In Economy
Candy Crush Saga Game Maker Files For IPO
Google Unveils Major Overhaul Of Search Engine
Apple’s iOS 7 Literally Makes Users Sick
Facebook Finally Allows You To Edit Posts – But Only On Web, Android For Now
Judge Says Google’s Keyword Scanning Of GMail Might Violate Wiretap Law
Intel Reportedly In Talks With Amazon, Samsung For Net TV Backing



SPORTS
Indians Hold Off Twins In Ninth To Keep Wildcard Berth

Yan Gomes watches his two-run dinger leave the park

6-5 win keeps Tribe one game ahead of Rangers for second wildcard spot
Related: Three-team tie for wildcard spots? The chaos would be great

Could Tigers’ Dombrowski Be Successor To The Prince Of Insufficient Light?

Exit Sandman: Rivera Bids Goodbye To The Bronx

EA Sports Settles Suit With Ex-College Players; Compensation Coming

Winless Jaguars Offer Free Beer To Thirsty Fans

Gomez, Johnson Get One-Game Suspensions For Brawl

WNBA Players Take Smack To New Levels, Collect Fouls

Mills Returns As Knicks GM

Royals Edge Pale Hose 3-2; 84th Win Is Most For KC Since 1993

Jesus Is Our Cleanup Hitter: Faith A Fundamental In Nats’ Clubhouse



FAMOUS FOR BEING FAMOUS
Kaley Cuoco Engaged To Ryan Sweeting After Ninety-Day Courtship

Ryan and Kaley

Preparing for another Big Bang

Amanda Bynes’ Headshrinking Could Last Until 2015

Michael B. Jordan Eyed For Role In “Independence Day” Sequel

Eva Longoria Doesn’t Want To Get Married Again, Indifferent To Having Kids

“Full House” Costars Reunite, Reminisce About Show

Katie Holmes Joins Meryl Streep In “The Giver”

Caroline Manzo Leaving “Real Housewives Of New Jersey” After Five Seasons

WB Eyes Christoph Waltz For Villain Role In “Tarzan”

Daryl Hannah: “I Was Terrified To Reveal My Autism”

Chef Mario Batali Talks Gwyneth Paltrow’s Two-Hour Daily Workout

Lindsay Lohan – Oprah Scared The Crap Out Of Her



FOREIGNERS
TEPCO Seeks To Restart World’s Largest Nuclear Power Plant
Tough Love: India’s New Central Bank Chief Raises Rates
Interpol Issues Alert For “White Widow” At Kenya’s Request
17 Killed, Dozens Injured In Peshawar Bus Blast
Muslim Converts Plead Not Guilty To Killing British Soldier
Obama, India’s PM Singh Seek To Reinvigorate Ties
Italian Pasta Baron’s Comment Sparks Butthurt Boycott By Gays
Why Angela Merkel Cannot Escape Margaret Thatcher’s Legacy
Horror, Heroism During Nairobi’s Westgate Mall Siege



BLOGS & STUFF
Twitchy: “It’s Personal” – Stacey Dash Calls Eric Holder’s War On School Vouchers “Immoral”
American Power: Obama Adviser Dan Pfeiffer – We’re Not For Negotiating With People With A “Bomb Strapped to Their Chest”
American Thinker: It Doesn’t Matter If The Obamacare Defunding Gambit Fails
The Necropolitan Sentinel: OBAMACARE DELENDA EST
Don Surber: Daily Scoreboard, September 26
Jammie Wearing Fools: Battle Of The Heavyweights – Chris Christie Takes On Meghan McCain
JustOneMinute: Self-Refuting Fact Check
Pat Dollard: “Not Business Friendly” – Doctors Fleeing Christie’s Failed New Jersey, State Expected To Be Short 3000 Primary Care Docs
Protein Wisdom: I’m Going To Say It Because Nobody Else Will – John McCain Is A Traitor
Shot In The Dark: Mission Fail
The Jawa Report: Terror Financier Arrested In Belgium
The Lonely Conservative: Spare Me The Outrage, But Please Pass The Barilla
Veronique De Rugy: On To The Debt Ceiling
Marginal Revolution: Americans Support Conditions On Debt Ceiling Increase
Weasel Zippers: RINO Rep. Peter King Whines “Cruz Supporters Are Being Mean To Me”
The Blaze: Allen West Out At PJTV?
Sister Toldjah: The Obamacare Chronicles – The Democrat Wall Begins To Crack
Ed Driscoll: Obamacare On The Bleeding Edge Of Advanced Technology
Legal Insurrection: False Narrative Of Trayvon Martin Shooting Embeds On Campuses
Gateway Pundit: NRA Breaks All-Time Funding Record, And It’s Only September
Megan McArdle: Detroit’s Pension Madness


Would you be interested in a later Live At Five that includes a longer Blogs & Stuff section, as we had this morning? Please leave answers in the comments or e-mail me directly if you feel shy. I’d like to know before I start hacking on Monday’s edition.


Deadline to submit links for tomorrow’s FMJRA is midnight tonight.
DO IT.



“Roll Tide”

Category: Live at Five

Allen West Places The #ObamaCare Stand In Historical Context

Posted on | September 27, 2013 | 14 Comments

by Smitty

Great essay, and well worth your time:

Strangely, while there is a Vietnam reference, it does not pertain to Senator Just-whose-side-are-you-on.

Category: Health Care

#ObamaCare: The Train Wreck You Know

Posted on | September 26, 2013 | 22 Comments

by Smitty

Not making it up:

Category: Health Care

Did You Know You Can Buy Delicious Barilla Pasta via Our Amazon Links?

Posted on | September 26, 2013 | 62 Comments

Barilla Mezze Penne, Barilla Farfalle, Barilla Tri-Color Rotini — yes, Amazon offers a wide variety of delicious Barilla pasta. Honestly, I don’t know why the subject came up, but Guido Barilla was on a radio program and explained why his company doesn’t use gay couples in their ads: “Ours is a classic family where the woman plays a fundamental role.” So now Ace of Spades reports there is a boycott campaign:

Yes, not clapping hard enough for the sexual choices of gays constitutes “homophobia” now. “Intolerance” now means “an uncivilized lack of moist enthusiasm.” . . .
I always dreamed of a world in which I was Free to be rentlessly henpecked, anklebitten, bullied & boycotted by well-funded leftist groups paid to harass citizens every waking moment of every single day. . . .
The gay lobby wants Barilla (and all other corporations) to affirmatively campaign for their political agenda. Ergo, Barilla’s statement that they won’t be doing that is now defined as “homophobia.”

Look, I know Ace. He’s not a homophobe. But like a lot of other non-homophobic people in the Obama Age, he’s sick and tired of being constantly lectured about how awfully oppressed gay people are, as if heterosexuals don’t have problems of their own to worry about, as if we’re all supposed to stop whatever we’re doing and jump in line to be outraged by whatever the Gay Lobby wants us to be outraged about, which seems to be damned near everything nowadays.

So, everybody buy some Barilla pasta, because hate is delicious.

 

 

UPDATE: The holidays are coming, so might as well stock up!

And how could I forget to mention delicious Barilla sauce?

 

 

Category: Ace of Spades, Amazon, Gays

Apparently, Hamilton College Girls Don’t Know How to Have Orgasms, Either

Posted on | September 26, 2013 | 68 Comments

Doug Hagin accused me of gratuitously invoking “Roll, Tide” yesterday when I pointed out that tuition at Hamilton College in Clinton, N.Y., is $45,620 a year, compared to $9,450 a year for in-state students ($23,950 for out-of-state) at the University of Alabama. My point was, why would anyone spend all that money to attend a snooty liberal arts college up north, when they could save money by attending the finest school in Dixie with the finest football team in the world?

In addition to bad weather, a sorry football team — Hamilton lost to 23-7 to Amherst — and not knowing the difference between segregation and “diversity,” it appears that Hamilton College’s problems also include coeds who don’t know how to have orgasms:

A small, prestigious liberal arts school in New York is set to host and fund a workshop on orgasms for undergrads on Monday.
Hamilton College will host an orgasm workshop on Monday.
The workshop, hosted by Hamilton College’s Womyn’s Center, will teach “everything from multiple orgasms to that mysterious G-spot,” according to its official description, and is is open to male and female students.
“Whether you want to learn how to have your first orgasm, how to have better ones, or how to help your girlfriend, Maggie and Marshall cover it all,” [says] the event description on the Womyn’s Center’s Facebook page.
“Maggie and Marshall,” Marshall Miller and Maggie Keenan-Bolger, are the two “sex educators” who teach the workshop.
The exact price that the school paid for the workshop is unknown, however, the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, paid $3,406 to host the same workshop earlier this year. . . .
The workshop is put on by Sex Discussed Here!, an organization that teaches sex education to college students.

Now, I’m tempted to suggest Hamilton girls are so stupid they can’t even find their own vaginas, but research indicates that Hamilton only admits undergraduates with high SAT scores. So maybe the problem is the inferior quality of male students at Hamilton.

Face it, ladies: Those nerdy wimps with straight-A averages don’t necessarily get your juices flowing and, if we can use the anemic record of Hamilton’s football team as a barometer of the general manliness of your student body . . . Well, there’s your problem, see?

Y’all head on down to Tuscaloosa, and they’ll fix you right up.

Roll, Tide!

 

Category: Education, Football, Sex

More Terrorism in Kenya; Interpol Alert for ‘White Widow’ Samantha Lewthwaite

Posted on | September 26, 2013 | 20 Comments

Britain’s terrorist ‘White Widow,’ Samantha Lewthwaite.

There were two new terrorist attacks in Kenya yesterday and today, and now there is an international search for a suspected leader:

An INTERPOL Red Notice, or internationally wanted persons alert, has been issued for UK national Samantha Lewthwaite at the request of authorities in Kenya.
Lewthwaite, aged 29, who is also believed to use the alias ‘Natalie Webb’, is wanted by Kenya on charges of being in possession of explosives and conspiracy to commit a felony dating back to December 2011.
Circulated to all 190 INTERPOL member countries, the Red Notice represents one of INTERPOL’s most powerful tools in tracking international fugitives.

Earlier this week I reported suspicion that Lewthwaite had led the attack on Nairobi’s Westgate mall, and now the New York Times reports:

Several witnesses said that one attacker was a Caucasian woman who slipped out of the mall after instructing other assailants whom to shoot. Kenyan officials said that a British woman, Samantha Lewthwaite, who converted to Islam and married a man who became a suicide bomber, might have been involved.
On Thursday, Interpol issued an international arrest notice for Ms. Lewthwaite. The notice, requested by the Kenyan government, did not mention the mall massacre and said that Ms. Lewthwaite has been wanted since 2011 on charges of possessing explosives and conspiracy to commit a felony. In Kenya and Britain, Ms. Lewthwaite is frequently referred to as the “white widow.”
Several Western officials said they had heard reports from the Kenyan military that some of the victims in the mall had been beheaded and butchered with knives. Kenyan officials declined to comment, but one Western security adviser, who was not authorized to speak publicly, said “I fully expect it.”

(Hat-tip: Memeorandum.)

 

Category: Kenya, Terrorism

Texas Democrat Student Group Leader Exposed as Convicted Sex Offender

Posted on | September 26, 2013 | 103 Comments

Convicted sex offender Billy Johnson

A convicted sex offender is the leader of a Democrat student group at a Texas university, Katherine Timpf of Campus Reform reports.

Billy Johnson, who is president of the Young Democrats chapter at the University of Texas-Pan American (UTPA) campus in Edinburg, Texas, was convicted in 2003 of “indecency” with an 8-year-old child, Timpf reported, citing state criminal records and a 2010 local news article about Johnson when he volunteered at an elementary school.

Earlier this month, Johnson’s work registering students at UTPA was praised on Twitter by Jenn Brown, executive director of the liberal activist group Battleground Texas:

Johnson spent three years in prison, according to records cited by Timpf, who said UTPA officials did not respond to request for comment.

 

Category: Crime, Democrats, Education, Sex

Miley Cyrus: Insult to Injury

Posted on | September 26, 2013 | 47 Comments

Alessandra gets angry about Miley Cyrus trying to use complaints about a “double standard” to defend her decadent behavior:

What few people have analyzed is how much liberals have normalized the worst of sexism in the name of liberation (sexual or for women). It’s exactly analogous to their claim that they are “liberating” homosexuals when the only thing they are doing is normalizing perverted and dysfunctional people in terms of sexuality. . . .
There was a time when Miley’s behavior would have been both frowned upon as being whorish and vulgar, because such attitudes and behaviors degrade women and sexuality . . . Then came feminism and criticized the sexual objectification of women, their exploitation, etc. And afterwards, as liberals pushed more and more to degrade women and sexuality, in a move that increasingly included women as protagonists, there wasn’t much of anyone in the liberal camp left to criticize this war on women (and sexuality), since the more liberals degrade, the more they claim they are normal and legitimate – all in the name of liberation. (Nothing like adding insult to injury!)
Basically the only people to call for respect of women and a wholesome sexuality today are social conservatives. Unfortunately, if taken as a whole, this is a group which has a serious public communication skills deficit.

You can read the whole thing. I will quibble with Alessandra’s criticism of the “public communications skills” of social conservatives. The real problem, as I see it, is two-fold:

  1. Social conservatives have allied themselves with the Republican Party in a way that makes them largely dependent on the GOP, which has shown itself willing to exploit social conservatives (when this is deemed beneficial to Republican political fortunes) or conversely to scapegoat social conservatives (when the GOP needs someone to blame for its defeats).
  2. Because academia, the news media and the entertainment industry are so dominated by liberals, it is very difficult for social conservatives to combat the Left’s harmful stereotypes about uptight puritanical right-wing “christofascists.” Furthermore, it is difficult even for social conservatives to locate their own natural leaders and spokesmen, when the liberal media focus their attention on the most idiotic kooks among social conservatives, and when various charlatans and hucksters are simply scamming for dollars, Elmer Gantry-style.

There are sane, intelligent and articulate social conservatives, but you’re never going to see them on the nightly network news, nor on the op-ed pages of the Washington Post or New York Times. But we must accept these disadvantages as inherent to the guerrilla struggle of the culture war, and find ways to overcome them.

 

Category: Celebrities, Culture, Sex
« go back — keep looking »

    About

    This is an area on your website where you can add text. This will serve as an informative location on your website, where you can talk about your site.

    Subscribe to our feed

    Search

    Admin