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LIVE AT FIVE: 06.19.13

Posted on | June 19, 2013 | 4 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho


TOP NEWS
US Set For Talks With Taliban As Afghan Military Takes Lead

Taliban fighters attend a surrender ceremony

Taliban looking to cut a deal or just run out the clock?

Former USC Prof/Child Rapist Busted In Mexico
Former gender & sexuality studies professor taken down one day after being added to FBI’s Ten Most Wanted list

Former Buzzfeed/Rolling Stone Scribbler Michael Hastings Dies, 33
Notable mainly for writing article that led to Gen. McChrystal’s resignation, killed in LA car accident



POLITICS
NSA Director Claims Over 50 Plots Uncovered By Phone Record Snooping

Deputy FBI director tag-teams Congressional panel with General Alexander

IRS Scandal’s Origins Become Clearer Amid Other Questions

CBO Gives Boost To Immigration Bill

House Votes To Ban Abortions After 20 Weeks

Testy Debate In Massachusetts Senate Race Over Term Limits

Biden Warns Of “Political Price” For Politicians Opposing Gun Control

Sen. McCaskill Endorses Hillary Clinton For President In 2016



THE ECONOMY, STUPID
Oil Rises Ahead Of Fed, Drops Slightly In Asian Trade: NYMEX $98.31, Brent $106.04
Asian Markets Tense Before Fed; Nikkei Outperforms
US Consumer Prices Edge Higher In May
Choice Of Health Plans To Vary Widely From State To State
Could Rising Mortgage Rates Hurt The Housing Recovery
Dell Committee Says Icahn’s New Proposal “Not Actionable”
As Once-Mighty Symbian Enters Hospice, Will It Be Missed?
FCC Suggests Congress Legalize Unlocking Cell Phones
Nvidia CEO Announces Plans To License Graphics Technology
AT&T’s Street Charge Provides Free Power For Your Cell Phone
Nintendo Going Free To Play This Year With New “Steel Diver” Game



SPORTS
Ray Allen’s Late Three Saves The Heat’s Season

Ray Allen makes his shot with 5.2 seconds left in the game

Heat beat Spurs 103-100, force Game 7

Dominguez Backs Up Lyles With 5 RBI (Including A Grand Slam) As Astros Rout Brewers 10-1

Mets Future Is Matt Harvey And Zack Wheeler

A’s: Yu Can’t Touch This – Rangers Fall To Oakland 6-2

Mets Trade Collin McHugh To Rockies For Eric Young

San Jose Sues MLB Over Stalled A’s Move

Mauer, Doumit Lead Twins Past Chisox 7-5


Celtics, Clippers Call Off Deal Involving Rivers, Garnett

Red Sox Beat Rays After Rain Delays, 5-1

Tribe Edges Royals Thanks To KC Baserunning Gaffe

Orioles Tee Off On Verlander, Skin Tigers 5-2

Hope For The Hopeless: Cubs Beat Cards 4-2

Nationals Having An Identity Crisis? More Like Weak Bats In Second Loss To Phillies



FAMOUS FOR BEING FAMOUS
What’s On: Olivia Munn

I’d help her learn Spanish.

Her favorite – and not so favorite – things

Miley Cyrus Talks About Drugs And Alcohol

Melissa Etheridge Talks Smack About Angelina Jolie’s Double Mastectomy

Rhianna Passes Justin Bieber As Most Viewed On YouTube

Katy Perry: Russell Brand Announced His Divorce Plans With A Text Message

Mary J. Blige Sued Over Cancelled Concert

“Bioshock” Creator Ken Levine Takes On “Logan’s Run” Script For Warner Brothers

Amanda Bynes Has A Blonde Moment In Atlantic City Jacuzzi

Nick Stahl Placed On 5150, Taken To Hospital

Kristen Stewart Hits Memphis, Plays Pool, Poses Atop Bar At Coyote Ugly Saloon

“Frozen” Defrosts Kristen Bell’s Disney Dreams



FOREIGNERS
Brazil Sends In The Army To Quell Continuing Riots
Turks Embrace Silent Protests
Suicide Bomber Kills 30 At Pakistan Funeral
West Encouraging Coup Against Assad?
Italy’s Top Court Faults Amanda Knox Acquittal, Cites “Erotic Game” Hypothesis
UN: Refugee Numbers At 20-Year High
Palestinians Aim Rockets At Israel, Hit Own Territory
Russian MPs Back Adoption Ban For Foreign Gay Couples
Egyptian Tourism Minister Offers Resignation After Islamist Appointed Governor Of Luxor
Montreal’s Mayor Resigns After Arrest On Fraud Charges



BLOGS & STUFF
First Street Journal: Three Presidents – Putin, Assad, And Obama
Weasel Zippers: Rep. Louise Slaughter (D-NY) Claims Republicans Think Rape’s Not So Bad
NRO Corner: Unfazed By Inhumanity
Hit & Run: Google Fighting To Lift FISA Court Gag Orders
The Blaze: Was Justice Roberts Intimidated Into Voting For Obamacare? Mike Lee Presents The Evidence
Gateway Pundit: Latest Lie – CBO Says Immigration Will Slash The Deficit
Rush Limbaugh: Money At The Root Of GOP’s Amnesty Push
Lonely Conservative: Senate Says No To Border Fence
James Taranto: General Helms And The Senator’s Hold
Professor Bainbridge: Nuking The Filibuster – Can MAD Save It?
AmSpecBlog: Thank You, Bobby Jindal
Washington Free Beacon: US Military Aid To Syrian Rebels Likely To Boost Al-Qaeda


Category: Live at Five

Speaking of (Alleged) Perverts …

Posted on | June 18, 2013 | 55 Comments

Some of these creepazoids were as young as 18, the same age as Kaitlyn Hunt when she fingered a 14-year-old in a school toilet stall, so maybe the ACLU will launch a “Free the Polk County 41” campaign or something. Here’s an interesting perp caught in the dragnet:

One of the suspects, James Walker, 46, a costumer’s assistant at Disney World, believed he was going to hookup with a 15-year-old boy. The Davenport man told undercover officers that he had to be careful what he said because he knew he was breaking the law, according to the Sheriff’s Office.

Just like Kaitlyn Hunt. But … it was consensual!

UPDATE: The mother of America’s Most Famous Sex Offender™ has the right to remain silent, but refuses to exercise that right:

UPDATE II: The Hunt family and other admirers of The Rosa Parks of Jailbait™ say it’s unfair — haters! bigots! — to remind people that Kaitlyn’s “first date” with her 14-year-old girlfriend was to meet in the school restroom for sex in the toilet stall. No, they insist, this was a consensual relationship — a “high school romance,” as Kaitlyn’s father said in his petition full of lies — and it is wrong of anyone to describe what exactly that relationship involved.

You’re just a bigoted hater if you mention sex in a toilet, see? And so I think it’s important, in the interest of fairness, to describe the young couple’s Big Special Romantic Evening:

[On Jan. 4] the freshman ran away from home to spend the night in Kaitlyn’s bedroom where, to quote the affidavit by Sheriff’s Office Detective Jeremy Shepherd, the two girls “put their fingers inside of each other’s vaginas, put their mouths on each other’s vaginas, and both of them used a vibrator on each other to insert it in each other’s vaginas.”

See? The Hunt family and their friends believe every young girl’s first time (with a dildo-wielding tattooed lesbian) should be so special.

And if a 14-year-old’s parents disagree? Obviously, they’re “despicable assholes that won’t listen to reason”:

Happy 14th Birthday! (Batteries not included.)

 

Category: Crime, Florida, Kaitlyn Hunt, Sex

Raped and Killed by the Sequester?

Posted on | June 18, 2013 | 41 Comments

After more than 27 years in the news business, I’m used to reading about frightful events — war, terrorism, catastrophic floods and earthquakes — but every once in a while even I can be stunned into horrified silence when I encounter a sentence like this:

The girl later required surgery, Fitzpatrick said.

Oh. My. God.

Exactly how painfully horrifying that sentence is, you can’t really understand outside the context of the headline:

Lori Bresnahan died trying to save
10-year-old, Onondaga County DA says

The conventions that prohibit journalists from identifying the victims of sexual assault inhibit the Syracuse Post-Standard from saying that the 10-year-old whose life Lori Bresnahan saved was her own daughter. And similar inhibitions — the presumption of innocence, yadda, yadda — require journalists to say that the evil monster who raped that little girl and stabbed her mother to death is merely a “suspect.”

Bresnahan put up a fight and told the girl to run. The girl opened the back door and ran.
As the girl ran away, she noticed Bresnahan was able to break free from the car. She saw Renz chasing Bresnahan around the car, but did not witness the murder.
Two citizens driving on Verplank Road saw the girl running and stopped. They helped her and called 911 at 8:58 p.m. They did not see Renz, who had run into the woods. . . .
State police officers began tracking Renz on foot and with K-9 units. They were helped by the Sheriff’s Office and the Air One Helicopter. At 9:53 p.m., an officer saw a person matching a description of the suspect, stopped his car and tackled David Renz.
Renz had Bresnahan’s keys in his pocket and blood on his clothes, said Fitzpatrick. DNA testing matched the blood to the little girl . . .

He had the little girl’s blood on his clothes. She “later required surgery.”

David Senz is merely accused of this, you see.

The conventions of journalism require us to refer to him as a “suspect” or a “defendant,” and the same was true in January — two months before this brutal atrocity — when 29-year-old David Renz was arrested on a federal child pornography charge.

According to authorities (another one of those journalistic conventions, the attribution necessary to make the libel lawyers happy) David Renz had more than 500 illegal videos and more than 3,000 illegal images stored in encrypted files on his computer.

You might think that if the feds nabbed this kind of pervert criminal accused suspect, they would never turn him loose. But you’re not a Harvard Law graduate like U.S. Magistrate Andrew T. Baxter:

When Renz appeared in U.S. District Court Jan. 11 for a hearing about whether he should be detained over the child pornography charges he was facing, Magistrate Judge Andrew Baxter mentioned that he knew Renz had a juvenile record . . .

What? A juvenile record? Yeah: In 1999, when David Renz was 15, he molested a 9-year-old girl. And then the FBI busts him in January with thousands of child pornography files and, despite knowing that Benz also had a juvenile record, U.S. Magistrate Andrew T. Baxter (J.D., Harvard Law, 1981) turned him loose two days after his Jan. 9 arrest.

Oops.

Sorry about your vagina, little girl.  Read more

Category: Crime, Democrats

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
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