The Other McCain

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LIVE AT SIX: 04.10.13

Posted on | April 10, 2013 | 1 Comment

— compiled by Wombat-socho


TOP NEWS
FBI Investigating Bugging Of McConnell Campaign

Was Senate Minority Leader’s campaign office wiretapped?

Student Arrested In Lone Star College Stabbings
Fourteen injured by knife-wielding wacko

And Then There Were Eight
Councilman Felix Arroyo enters Boston mayoral race



POLITICS
Biden Calls GOP Filibuster Threat “Mindboggling”

Knife hand!

Knife hand!

Hopes GOP will come around, allow vote on Reid’s gun control bill
Related: Police say Obama’s gun-control proposals would make things worse

Robin Kelly Wins IL-2 Special Election, Vows To Take On NRA

Air Combat Command Stands Down Units Due To Budget Cuts

NYC To Pay Occupods For Damaged Property

National Science Standards Likely To Be Controversial

Convicted Amish Leader Loses Bid For Release

Teenage Recruit, Recruiter Dead In Murder-Suicide



THE ECONOMY, STUPID
Oil Up Slightly On Weaker Dollar: NYMEX $93.96, Brent $106.11
“Absurd” PRC Trade Data Confounds Analysts
Cargo Piles Up As Two-Week Hong Kong Port Strike Drags On
Soros Tells Germans To Bank Eurobonds Or Get Out Of Euro
Europe Risks “Endless Depression” In Pursuit Of Austerity
Obama Nominee Pledges Case-By-Case Review Of Gas Exports
Job Openings At Highest Level In Five Years, But Hiring Lags
Virgin’s Branson Stands Up To United, Smisek
Oshkosh To Cut 900 Jobs As Army Reins In Spending
T-Mobile Touts Tradein Program Ahead Of iPhone 5 Launch
Google Faces Complaint To European Regulators Over Predatory Pricing
Hacker Pleads Guilty To Attacks On Sony, News International
Google Unveils Redesigned Play Store Android App; Rollout Begins Today
Foursquare Puts Search First In Update Of iOS App
Google Sells Back Travel Guide Frommer’s, Keeps All Social Media Data
“Batman: Arkham Origins: Arrives October 25



SPORTS
Eight Is Great

UConn's Kelly Faris holds aloft the trophy as she and her teammates celebrate their victory

UConn’s Kelly Faris holds aloft the trophy as she and her teammates celebrate their victory

UConn routs Louisville 93-60 for eighth womens’ hoops championship

Suns Fall To Rockets On Buzzer-Beating Goaltending Call

Angels’ Jered Weaver Goes To DL With Broken Elbow

Ovechkin Scores 26th Goal As Caps Top Canadiens 3-2

Durant’s Double-Double Leads Thunder To Victory

Cliff Lee And The Phillies Take Down The Mets

Blue Jackets Back On Fast Track With Shutout Of Sharks

No Love: Timbermutts’ Forward Out For Rest Of Season

Homer-Happy Nationals Beat White Sox 8-7



FAMOUS FOR BEING FAMOUS
Tom Cruise Breaks Silence On Katie Holmes Divorce

Didn't see split coming

Didn’t see split coming

Remainder of article filled with platitudes, bromides

MTV Cancels “Buckwild” After Star’s Death

James Deen:  Farrah Abraham Concocted Sex Tape Plot

Alec Baldwin In Talks To Join NBC’s Late Night Lineup

Anne Hathaway To Star In Christopher Nolan’s “Interstellar”

AMC Eyes “Breaking Bad” Spinoff Toplined By Bob Odenkirk

Rihanna Talks Heartache On Stage Amid Chris Brown Breakup Rumors

Mick Fleetwood Tells Wife: You Can Go Your Own Way



FOREIGNERS
In Bitter Irony For PRC, Norks Further U.S. Strategic Goals
Quake Hits Near Iran’s Nuclear City Bushehr, 37 Dead
Malaysia Sets General Election For May 5
Saudi Arabia Says Paralysis Sentence Report Is False
G8 Ministers To Meet With Syrian Opposition In London
Twelve Dead After Convoy Ambush In South Sudan
PRC Charges Former Railway Chief In Corruption Crackdown
Nova Scotia Girl Suicides After Rape, Cyberbullying



BLOGS & STUFF
First Street Journal: Once Again, A Second-Term President Jumps Into The Middle East Non-Peace Non-Process
Valley Of The Shadow: Democrats Going Full Nixon
Michelle Malkin: More Celebrities SWATted; Meanwhile, Anti-Kimberlin Bloggers Still Under Fire
Jennifer Rubin: The Gun Control Vote And Harry Reid’s Problem
Power Line: What Does Obama Think He’s Doing On Guns
Allahpundit: MSNBC Host Not Backing Off Claim That Children Belong To The Community
Legal Insurrection: It’s Melissa Harris-Perry’s Children’s Story, And She’s Sticking To It
Hit & Run: MSNBC Host Elaborates On Her Claim That Children Don’t Belong To Their Parents
Kevin Williamson: Ashley Judd’s Batty Beliefs Are Fair Game
Gateway Pundit: Obama Announces National Equal Pay Day While Democrats Continue To Ignore Lilly Act
Sense Of Events: What The Police Think About Gun Control
JustOneMinute: The Thin Blue Line Looks Pretty Red On Gun Control
Ed Morrissey: Oops – OFA Loses Fight Over Organizing For Action Domains
Patterico: Lawmaker – NYC Costume Wearers Must Register Costumes
Clayton Cramer: Like A Really Bad “X-Files” Episode, But Not Fiction
Israel Matzav: Controvery Over Carter The Story, Not The Award
Mark Krikorian: For The Open-Borders Right, Heritage Delenda Est


Category: Live at Five

Shout-Out to My Home-Girls

Posted on | April 9, 2013 | 3 Comments

They’re not yet in Evan Sayet’s league — but who is? Still, it’s nice to see Gabby Hoffman and Liz Thatcher getting their book thing happening. You should buy it.

 

Category: Books

What ‘Choice’ Really Means

Posted on | April 9, 2013 | 19 Comments

OK, this has already been blogged at Gateway Pundit, Weasel Zippers and Clayton Cramer’s Blog, but if you haven’t seen it yet, two words: CONTENT WARNING!

In one particularly graphic description, she spoke about a time when she was handed a 18- to 24-inch-long newborn in a glass pan by an assistant who asked for her help.
‘I saw it, and I thought, “What do you expect me to do?”‘ she said. ‘It didn’t have eyes or a mouth but it was like screeching, making this noise. It was weird. It sounded like a little alien.’
She said she was so ‘freaked out’ that she left the room and did not know what happened to the baby. . . .
Other employees have described how they saw about 100 babies born alive and then ‘snipped’ with surgical scissors in the back of the neck, to ensure their ‘demise’ . . .
Disturbingly, the report alleged that fetal remains were stuffed into: ‘cabinets, in the basement, in a freezer, in jars and bags and plastic jugs’.
‘It would rain fetuses. Fetuses and blood all over the place. It is literally a beheading. It is separating the brain from the body,’ one former employee Stephen Massof told NBC.

Here’s a simple question: How do you sleep at night?

 

Category: Abortion

My Wife: Scientific Proof

Posted on | April 9, 2013 | 16 Comments

Just in case I’ve never mentioned it before — but I’m pretty sure I have — Mrs. Other McCain is one smokin’ hot babe:

Ah, back in the day, my friends — of course, I wasn’t too shabby myself back in the day. This isn’t just nostalgia, or a gimmick to make you hit the freaking tip jar — although, please do — but is instead a matter of science, based on a headline I saw today at Memeorandum, which tends to confirm my own extensive research in this area.

Ladies like a man with a big tip jar.





 

 

Category: humor, Rule 5, Science, Sex

Holy Crap — I Was Right! Republicans Considered Craziness Issue With Judd

Posted on | April 9, 2013 | 8 Comments

Headline on the very first news article I wrote for ViralRead after becoming editor-in-chief on March 13:

Will Ashley Judd’s Mental Illness Impact Her Senate Bid?

Top of Memeorandum today, David Corn, Mother Jones:

Secret Tape: McConnell and Aides Weighed
Using Judd’s Mental Health and
Religion as Political Ammo

Certainly my news report about Ashley Judd’s admitted history of mental illness did not reflect any knowledge of private discussions by the Senate Minority Leader and his staff. This information about Judd was an obvious enough vulnerability to anyone who bothered to Google.

But . . . damn. It’s just spooky sometimes.

Read more about this story by Oliver Barie at ViralRead.

 


Category: Kentucky, Mitch McConnell

A Great First Sentence

Posted on | April 9, 2013 | 11 Comments

One basic thing you learn as a journalist is that, once you’ve got the lead right, the rest of the story almost writes itself:

If the news media hadn’t told you how brilliant Barack Obama was every day for  the last six years, you might have your doubts.

Read the whole thing.

Category: Barack Obama, Journalism

Homophobic Bigotry Update

Posted on | April 9, 2013 | 51 Comments

Why is there so much anti-gay prejudice nowadays? For example, Dave Blount at Moonbattery says only “a sick, demented society” would “facilitate” adoption by same-sex couples. I can’t imagine why anyone would say that, can you?

George Harasz and Douglas Wirth, a married couple from Glastonbury, Conn., were arrested in November 2011 following allegations by two of their nine adopted children of sexual abuse.

But these are merely allegations! It’s not as if these two guys have shown any unusual interest in young boys, right?

The case of a same-sex Connecticut couple accused of repeatedly raping and abusing two of their nine adopted boys is headed for trial. . . .
Harasz and Wirth adopted nine children — three sets of male siblings — beginning in 2000 . . .

Yes, but this doesn’t prove anything, does it? Just because two gay men adopted nine boys . . .

“They took turns raping me over and over,” one of the boys said at a hearing Friday in Hartford Superior Court, testifying that the abuse began when he was only 6 years old.

Stop that, you haters! Obviously, this is just a cheap homophobic smear-job created by right-wingers on Fox News!

Oh, “facts.” Facts are just so . . . unfair.

 

Category: Connecticut, Crime, Gays, Sex

LIVE AT SIX: 04.09.13

Posted on | April 9, 2013 | 8 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho


TOP NEWS
Baroness Thatcher Dies, 87

Good night, sweet Baroness

Margaret Thatcher, 1925-2013 RIP

Prime Minister of UK 1979-1990, leader of the Conservative Party 1975-1990
World leaders pay tribute to iconic “Iron Lady”

The Future Is Now: Navy Deploys Laser Prototype In Persian Gulf
USS Ponce to carry high-energy laser capable of destroying drones, small boats

Patriot Anti-Ballistic Missiles Deployed As Norks Threaten Launch
Japan deploys ABM batteries to supplement Aegis destroyers in Sea of Japan



POLITICS
Mary Jo White Confirmed As Head Of SEC

Mary Jo White

Mary Jo White

Former prosecutor approved by Senate with unanimous consent

Abortionist On Trial In Philly Gets Zero National Media Attention

Senator Tim Johnson Evolves

NY/NJ Port Authority Fined $3.5 Million For Lapses In Safety Training

Coup Against Silver? Cuomo’s The One Feeling The Heat

Chelsea Clinton Interview Adds To Speculation About Hillary’s Plans

Treasury Secretary Jack Lew Travels To Europe

Vitriol Infests Reactions To Warren Family’s Grief

IRS Tells Silicon Valley: “No Free Lunch” (Video)

Florida Senate Advances Bill To Put Cap On Nuclear Fees



THE ECONOMY, STUPID
Crude Oil Extends Gains In Asian Trade: NYMEX $93.65, Brent $105.17
Asian Development Bank Forecasts Fragile 2013 Recovery
Study: Oil-Eating Bacteria Mitigated Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill
PRC Buys One Billion Tons Of U.S. Wheat After Price Drop
J.C. Penney Jumps After Report CEO Ousted
Alcoa Earnings, PRC Inflation Info Lifts Euro Markets
Ford Focus Grabs Global Sales Crown As World Turns To Smaller Cars
New Caribou Coffee Owner Shuts 80 Stores, Rebrands 88 Others
Google Now Faces Antitrust Scrutiny In Europe Over Android
HTC Posts Record-Low Profit After Latest Smartphone Delayed
HP Rolls Out Moonshot Servers For Big Data, Cloud Workloads
EE Doubles 4G Speeds
Microsoft Tempts XP Laggards With $84 Upgrade Discount
WhatsApp Denies Billion Dollar Google Buyout
Apple Pulls Discovery Service AppGratis From App Store
U.S. Air Force Designates Six Cyber Tools As Weapons



SPORTS
For Injured Kevin Ware, Nothing But Net

Kevin Ware finishes the job

Kevin Ware finishes the job

Louisville teammates deliver storybook ending, beating Michigan 82-76 for national championship

Mets Hand Phillies’ Halladay Another Rough Outing

Rangers Can’t Hold On, Fall To Leafs 4-3

Pronk Goes The Opener: Hafner Returns To Ruin Tribe’s Home Debut

Ron Burkle Not Able To Play Role In Keeping Kings In Sacramento; Conflict Of Interest Cited

Questionable Call Gives Joe Nathan 300th Career Save As Rangers Edge Rays

Little Jack Hoffman An Inspiration To Nebraska Football

Kesler Shows Coyotes He’s Top Dog As Canucks Blank Phoenix

Braves Blank Marlins 2-0

Span’s Skills Have Immediate Impact On Nationals’ Defense



FAMOUS FOR BEING FAMOUS
America’s Most Beloved Mouseketeer Dies

Good night, sweet princess

Annette Funicello, 1942-2013 RIP

Actress dies at 70 after two-year battle with multiple sclerosis

Halle Berry On Second Pregnancy: “Biggest Surprise Of My Life”

“Teen Mom” Farrah Abraham Sex Tape For Sale – With James Deen?

Rihanna And Chris Brown Call It Quits

Bizarre Bynes Hits Gym In Fishnets, Wig

LeAnn Rimes Says Brandi Glanville’s Kids Call Her “Mom”, Vows Not To Back  Down

Taylor Swift: “I Have No Idea Whether I’m Going To Get Married Or Be Single Forever”

FearNet Picks Up Off-Net Rights To Cult Dramedy “Reaper”, Sets Reunion Special

Brad Paisley Talks About His Duet With LL Cool J “Accidental Racist”

Matt Damon, Michael Douglas Sizzle In “Behind The Candelabra” Trailer

Ray J Downplays “I Hit It First”: “People Are Going Way Too Deep. We’re Just Making Music.”

Scarlett Johansson: Scarlett’s Web



FOREIGNERS
Police Injured, Arrests Made As Hundreds “Celebrated” Death Of Lady Thatcher
Thatcher Confusion: Cher Is Not Dead (And Neither Is Teri Hatcher)
Norks Tell Foreigners To Evacuate ROK
Putin Warns Korean Conflict Could Be Worse Than Chernobyl
Thirteen Killed In Serbian Shooting Spree
Syria Rejects “Broadening” Of UN Chemical Weapons Probe
Modi: UPA Government On “Borrowed Time”
Congress Party Slams WikiLeaks Revelations Linking Rajiv Gandhi To Swedish Fighter-Jet Deal
French Forces In Mali Launch Offensive Against Jihadis
Guatemala War Trial Brings Past Closer To Present



BLOGS & STUFF
The Hope For America: Consrvatives Should Learn From These Great Moments In Margaret Thatcher’s Life
Michelle Malkin: The Iron Lady Passes
PJ Tatler: Glenn Greenwald, Pseudo-Dissident
Toby Young: The Trendy Leftist Gadflies Celebrating Her Death Would Probably Be Rotting In The Gulag If Not For Margaret Thatcher
Jerusalem Post: Netanyahu – Thatcher A True Friend Of The Jewish People And Israel
Sarah Palin: The Grocer’s Daughter
Weasel Zippers: Mitch McConnell To Join Gun Control Bill Filibuster
Allahpundit: Emotional Newtown Dad Says More Gun Control Not The Answer
NewsBusters: Fox News Reporter Faces Jail For Protecting Source, Lamestream Media Silent
NRO Corner: Matt Salmon Says Piers Morgan, Lawrence O’Donnell Cancelled Interviews After He Refused To Bash Republican Congressman Father
Power Line: A Futile Protest
Elder Of Ziyon: Carter At YU/Cardozo Media Update
Hot Air: Liz Cheney Seriously Considering Run For Senate In Wyoming
Protein Wisdom: “You Don’t Know What Freedom is Because You Never Lost It!”
James Pethokoukis: Here’s One Problem With The Schultz-Becker Carbon Tax Idea
Glenn Reynolds: We Need An IQ Test For Politicians
Clayton Cramer: Not Straining Their Necks
Ed Driscoll: “Horrible Jolt This Morning: How Awful Current Leaders Are”
Lonely Conservative: Despite What The Media Tell You, Obama’s Budget Doesn’t Really Cut The Budget


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