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World Leaders Pondering Hospitals

Posted on | June 18, 2013 | 37 Comments

by Smitty

Photo via Drudge

Category: Barack Obama, humor, Russia

LIVE AT FIVE: 06.18.13

Posted on | June 18, 2013 | 7 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho


TOP NEWS
New Iranian President Talks Moderation, Maintains Nuclear Goal

Why is this man smiling?

Iranian President-Elect Hasan Rowhani

Has no real differences with the Ayatollah Khomeini

Obama Claims Americans Not Getting Complete Story On NSA Programs


Vladimir Putin Denies Stealing Robert Kraft’s Super Bowl Ring
Spokesman says he saw Kraft give the ring to Putin as a gift



POLITICS
Supremes Uphold Oklahoma Voter Registration Law, Strike Down Arizona’s

Preemption!

Preemption!

Oklahoma law also requires oath, but not documented proof of citizenship
Related: Kansas AG says Arizona ruling won’t affect similar Kansas law

Daddy DIRNSA To Testify On Classified Leaks In Rare Public Hearing

ICE Director Stepping Down

IRS Official In Washington Involved In TEA Party Scrutiny Contradicts Earlier Claims

Indiana Democratic Party Official Sentenced To Prison For Vote Fraud

White House Threatens Farm Bill Veto

Military Plans To Open Combat Units To Women; Ranger Training Goes Coed In 2015, SEAL Training In 2016



THE ECONOMY, STUPID
Oil Prices Rise Ahead Of Inventory Data: NYMEX $98.01, Brent $105.49
Hedge Fund Says Chinese Bid For Smithfield Is Too Low
Sprint Sues Dish To Block Clearwire Acquisition
Pennsylvania McDonald’s Sued Over Payroll Debit Cards
Yen Drops As Asian Stocks Slide Before Fed; Grains Gain
Heavy Equipment Maker Terex Cuts Forecast, Shares Tumble
Instagram To Get Video On June 20?
AMD Lifts Veil On Opteron, ARM Chip Plans For 2014
Steve Jobs, Winnie The Pooh, And The iBook Launch
Chicoms Take Supercomputing Crown From US
Feedly Starts Moving Users To Homespun RSS Service As Google Reader’s Death Looms



SPORTS
Bruins Blank Blackhawks, Take 2-1 Lead For Stanley Cup

Bruins Bergeron and Seguin high-five after scoring in the second period

Rask gets third shutout in seven games as Bruins’ home win streak continues

Tigers’ Scherzer Improves To 10-0 After Raking O’s 5-1

Lolo Jones Irritates US Bobsledders With Video Poking Fun At Paycheck

Ex-WNBA Head Wants To Fix Women’s College Hoops

Could Manny Machado Become The New Earl Of Doublin’?

Saints, Dolphins Cheerleaders Cover Taylor Swift’s “22” (Videos)

Royals Edge Tribe 2-1

White Sox Avoid Sweep, Beat Astros 4-2

Late Heroics Not Enough As Nats Fall To Phillies In Ninth



FAMOUS FOR BEING FAMOUS
Disney Channel’s “Girl Meets World” Gets Series Order

Cory and Topanga are coming back to TV

Ben Savage, Danielle Fishel return for follow-on to their series “Boy Meets World”


Real Housewives, Fake Scenes



Charlie Sheen At War With Selma Blair

Kate Moss To Pose Naked For Playboy

Ed Hardy: That Inking Feeling

Jennifer Lopez To Star In Chilean Miner Drama “The 33”

Prince William, Prince Harry Make Royal Fan’s Day

Courtney Cox Celebrates Her 49th Birthday

Vivid CEO Buys, Returns Joe Francis Sex Tape



FOREIGNERS
Protests Show Brazilian Dream Fading As Rousseff’s Popularity Ebbs
Afghan Lawmaker Escapes Kabul Suicide Attack
Pope Francis Blesses 35,000 Harley Riders In Vatican City
Heavy Rains Lash Northern India, 50 Killed
Labor Unions Support Turkish Protests With Strikes
Putin, Obama Agree To Keep Pushing Syrians To Negotiate
Jerusalem Post: Iran Sending 4,000 Troops To Support Assad
Venezuela’s Prelate: Pope Should Urge Maduro Toward Coexistence
Airborne Laser Reveals Buried Cambodian City
Mayor’s Arrest Deepens Corruption Scandal In Montreal



BLOGS & STUFF
First Street Journal: What Could Possibly Go Wrong?
Michele Malkin: Barack Obama’s “Social Innovation” Slush Fund
AmSpecBlog: Snowden’s Online Q&A Leaves Many Qs Un-A’d
Blogs Of War: Initial Thoughts On Snowden’s Q&A
Mary Katherine Ham: Good News! Obama Says NSA Spying Is “Transparent”
Glenn Reynolds: Government Compromises Our Trust
Pat Dollard: Ted Cruz To Introduce Voter ID Amendment To Counteract Supreme Court Ruling
Jammie Wearing Fools: Scandal-Drenched Obama’s Popularity Plummets In CNN Poll
American Thinker: Congress Watch – A Summer Of Bipartisan Love?
Israel Matzav: Pew Poll Shows More Americans Than Ever Oppose Arming Syrian Rebels – “Let Allah Sort It Out”
Victor Davis Hanson: Intervention In Syria Is A Very Bad Idea
Weasel Zippers: Salon’s Raving Lib Joan Walsh Calls Sarah Palin “White Far-Right’s Hero”
Michael J. Totten: Iran’s New President Is Lipstick On A Pig
Gateway Pundit: Senior Washington IRS Official, Obama Donor, Admits Scrutinizing Tea Party Applications
Hot Air: IRS Supervisor In DC “Personally Involved” In Scrutinizing Conservative Groups’ Early Cases
Bryan Preston: This Rubio Aide Really Isn’t A “Star Performer”
Rich Lowry: The Rubio Quote In Context
Power Line: The Immigration Reform Endgame


Category: Live at Five

The World’s Youngest Blogger Gets His Mac Daddy On

Posted on | June 17, 2013 | 16 Comments

Category: World's Youngest Blogger

Now, Your Liberal Friend’s Problem May Not Be Quite This Obvious. . .

Posted on | June 17, 2013 | 19 Comments

by Smitty

. . .but this clip captures the level of effort required to help them recognize

what is in front of their faces!

Category: humor

Has Bill Schmalfeldt Forgotten?

Posted on | June 17, 2013 | 30 Comments

Aaron Walker points out something about Bill Schmalfeldt’s harassment that had escaped my notice: When Schmalfeldt first began cyberstalking Walker, on June 3, 2012, it was only four days after Brett Kimberlin had gotten Walker arrested at a Maryland court hearing.

The judge at that Maryland hearing had ordered Walker not to write anything about Brett Kimberlin, and yet here was Schmalfeldt on Twitter, interrogating Walker about Kimberlin — as if attempting to bait Walker into violating the (soon-to-be-overturned) court order.

Maybe that was just a coincidence, eh?

Aaron also quotes at length some of Schmalfeldt’s symptomatic ravings. Any psychologist would note Schmalfedlt’s inability to accept responsibility for his own failures, and his habit of blaming all his problems on demonized scapegoats. Persistently ignoring the wrongs he has committed, he makes accusations of wrongdoing against others as justifying further sadistic harassment of his chosen enemies.

The clear evidence of Schmalfeldt’s madness, however, does not rule out the possibility that he has also been manipulated into joining an orchestrated campaign to harass Aaron Walker and other of Brett Kimberlin’s enemies. But at this late point in his descent into abject lunacy, I’m not sure that Schmalfeldt still retains enough of his mental faculties to remember what he has done or why he did it.

Read more at Aaron Walker’s “Allergic to Bull” blog.

 

Category: Bill Schmalfeldt, The Kimberlin Files

Edward Snowden: Paranoid Goofball or America-Hating Douchebag?

Posted on | June 17, 2013 | 23 Comments

Stephen Kruiser is right: The “hero-or-traitor” debate is becoming tedious. At this point, let’s move on the question of exactly how the hell a flaky weirdo like Ed Snowden got top-secret clearance:

During an online discussion Monday, the man who leaked hundreds of pages of classified documents about the National Security Agency‘s surveillance program accused the U.S. government of “nakedly, aggressively criminal acts” and said he fled to Hong Kong because American authorities would prevent him from getting a fair trial.
Edward Snowden, who came forward June 9 to identify him as the source of the NSA leaks, also denounced President Obama for preventing investigations of “systemic violations of law,” and suggested the U.S. government might try “to cover this up by jailing or murdering me.” …
In his online Q-and-A hosted by the British Guardian newspaper, Snowden said U.S. officials are lying about government surveillance programs. ”Seeing someone in the position of James Clapper — the Director of National Intelligence — baldly lying to the public without repercussion is the evidence of a subverted democracy,” Snowden said. “The consent of the governed is not consent if it is not informed.”

Right: Don’t trust the president. Don’t trust Gen. Clapper.

Don’t trust America’s “subverted democracy.”

Let’s trust “Wolfking Awesomefox” instead.

 

Category: Crime

If We ‘Create Education Better,’ People Might Learn the Wage Gap Is a Myth

Posted on | June 17, 2013 | 14 Comments

Everybody is laughing at Miss Utah, Marissa Powell, for her stumbling answer to a Miss USA pageant question, but no one seems to have pointed out that the question, asked by reality-TV personality NeNe Leakes, was based on a persistent feminist fallacy:

“A recent report shows that in 40 percent of American families with children, women are the primary earners, yet they continue to earn less than men. What does it say about society?”

Well, for that matter, I “continue to earn less than” reality-TV stars, but the claim that this says anything “about society” — i.e., the feminist myth that the so-called “wage gap” is a product of sexist discrimination — falls apart under critical scrutiny. In fact, when you control for such factors as time on the job and educational background, so that you’re comparing apples to apples, practically the entire earning differential between men and women disappears. As economist Andrew Biggs of the American Enterprise Institute observed last year, “common perceptions of the gender pay gap” are ” vastly exaggerated”:

The fault lies mainly with the press, who irresponsibly assert massive gender pay discrimination that doesn’t truly exist.

As for the now famous answer by Marissa Powell:

You haters can go “create education better” if you want. We’re just going to look at Miss Utah in her bikini.

IYKWIMAITYD.

 


Category: Feminism, Rule 5

A Few Words About The FMJRA

Posted on | June 17, 2013 | 34 Comments

— by Wombat-socho


People get confused and angry about how the FMJRA works now and again, so I thought I’d take a couple minutes here and explain how I do this, for the benefit of people who haven’t figured it out on their own and/or want to know more so they can get whatever ego boost and additional traffic come from being the A-Number One Top Linker for the week here at The Other McCain.


I. Except on rare occasions when I’m too sick/distracted/deranged to handle it*, the FMJRA is my bailiwick. Whining to Stacy or Smitty will get you nowhere. Don’t whine to me either. I hate whining.


Secondly, the FMJRA is driven by a couple of reports that WordPress generates. Unfortunately, WordPress occasionally misses links from other WP and TypePad blogs, and completely ignores Blogger. So if you’re linking up a storm but not seeing your links in the FMJRA, you may want to keep track of your links in a text file and send them to me by midnight Friday so I can include you in the Great List of Links. I refer to this approach as “doing it the hard way”, because it requires some effort, as opposed to letting WordPress do all the work for you.


2A. No links to Tweets, Facebook posts, LJ entries or anything else that doesn’t have theothermccain.com in its URL. None of these will be counted. No exceptions.


2B. As a corollary to Rule 2, no links to posts before the previous Saturday will be counted. For example, if you send in your links this Friday with some links to posts from last week (ending June 14) those links will not be counted.


C. Please do not confuse Rule 5 links with the FMJRA. Sending your links to the wrong mailbox makes the wombat sad.


C(2). If you are going to submit FMJRA links via e-mail, for the love of Christ PLEASE do not mail-bomb me with a separate e-mail for each link or post; collect them into one big e-mail instead. Mailbombing makes the wombat angry and prone to deprive you of your linkagery, as EBL can attest.


IV. Click on the Amazon ads at the bottom of the FMJRA and buy stuff. Help keep the Gruel Fund stocked and the Diet Coke Keg well filled! Also, hit the freaking tip jar! Only with your help can we beat back the Godless Commie Hordes and preserve our purity of essence, only to ruin it again every week with Soylent Green‘s Rule 5 links.


I hope this clears up some of the confusion and makes your job of submitting links easier. Remember, more links = more traffic = happy bloggers.
DO IT.


*On those rare occasions, the FMJRA returns to the capable hands of the Admiral of the Afghan Seas, whose duty it once was to compile this mess before the arrival of the World’s Youngest Blogger.


Category: Blogging, FMJRA Award
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