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LIVE AT FIVE: 03.13.13

Posted on | March 13, 2013 | 3 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho


TOP NEWS
Papal Conclave Enters Second Day

Pretty much says it all.

Pretty much says it all.

Princes of the Church to get up today and do it again

Senate Democrats Propose Budget With $1 Trillion In New Taxes
Doesn’t eliminate deficit, but then that’s not what Obama wants anyway

NLRB To Appeal Recess Case To Supreme Court
Appeals Court ruled president’s “recess” appointments unconstitutional in January



POLITICS
IG Criticizes DOJ’s Voting Rights Division As Polarized, Partisan

Our lawyers hate white people, you say?

Our lawyers hate white people, you say?

Is Thomas Perez Worse Than Chuck Hagel?

L.A. Archdiocese. Cardinal Mahony, Accused Priest Settle Molestation Suits For $10 Million


L.A. School District To Pay $30 Million For Abuse Claims

Lt. Gov. Bolling Decides Against Independent Run For Virginia Governor

George P. Bush Files To Run For Texas Land Commissioner

Mass. Republicans Face Off In First Debate Of Senate Race

Bible Belt’s Gay Marriage Movement Splits

No Opposition For Mary Jo White At Senate Confirmation Hearing



THE ECONOMY, STUPID
WTI Trades Near Two-Week High, Brent Slumps On Decrease In U.S. Stockpiles: NYMEX $92.78, Brent $109.64
Google Pays Fine For Drive-By Data Collection
FAA Approves Dreamliner Battery Revision Plan
BBB Expels Southern California Chapter Caught Up In Pay-To-Play Scandal
Chase Bank Website Down After Cyberattack
Tax Glitch Delays Refunds, Angers Block Customers
Treasuries: Prices Gain As Higher Yields Lure Buyers
Stocks Pause After Week-Long Rally
How Samsung Broke Away From The Android Pack
Microsoft Adds Flash Back To IE10 – Is That A Good Thing?
Android Gains On Apple As Small Tablets Fuel Growth
FCC Approves T-Mobile Merger With Metro PCS
One In Four Teens Use Phones To Access Web
Defcad.com Creates Controversy At SXSW
What Lenovo Could Gain From Buying BlackBerry
Microsoft Shares Code For Kinect Device



SPORTS
Wright, Gonzalez Lead In Team USA’s 7-1 Demolition Of Puerto Rico

David Wright drives in five FTW

David Wright drives in five FTW

Gio goes scoreless for five; team will play unbeaten Dominican Republic tomorrow

Howard Dominates Magic As Lakers Roll In Orlando


Blue Jackets Fall To Canucks In Questionable Shootout

Robinson Cano Leads Dominicans’ Rally To Beat Italy

Jets Outhustle, Outmuscle Maple Leafs For 5-2 Win

53-Year-Old Musher Becomes Oldest Iditarod Champ

Oilers’ Dubnyk Shuts Out Avs In 4-0 Win

Henderson Scores Career Record 35 Points As Bobcats Rip Celtics 100-74



FAMOUS FOR BEING FAMOUS
Is Taylor Swift Mean To Her Fans?

Fan mail fumble?

Fan mail fumble?

Unopened fan mail found in dumpster

Kelly Osbourne Out Of The Hospital With “Clean Bill Of Health”

Miley Cyrus And Liam Hemsworth Split Up

Lady Gaga Rides Out Hip Injury In 24-Karat Wheelchair

Judge Judy Sued Over Used China, Flatware

Drew Barrymore, Adam Sandler Together Again For WB Romantic Comedy


Ed Norton’s Fiancee Shauna Robertson Is Preggers

Celebrity Hackers Not Just After Publicity

“Sherlock” Star Confirms A Fourth Season

Cate Blanchett To Star In HBO Adaptation Of “The Cancer Vixen”

James Spader To Star In NBC’s “Blacklist”

Michelle Williams Accused Of Racism

Antoine Fuqua Says “24” Movie Is Dead



FOREIGNERS
Obama Administration Warns Norks After Armistice Scrapped
Five Dead As Jihadis Hit Indian Paramilitary Post In Kashmir
With Official Wink And A Nod, Young Saudis Join Syrian Rebels
Argentine President Kirchner Refers To Falklanders As “Squatters”
NGO Says Children Being Recruited For Both Sides In Syrian War
Keeping Up Appearances: Why Chicom Leaders Dye Their Hair
France To Seek UN Force For Mali To Replace Its Own Coalition
EU Sweats Over How To Bring Hungary Into Line



BLOGS & STUFF
Michelle Malkin: Attention, Parents – Common Core Optout Form Now Available
National Review: Ryan Returns
Weasel Zippers: Obama Admits “My Goal Is Not A Balanced Budget”
The Foundry: First Look At The 2014 Ryan Budget
James Pethokoukis: Unleash Paul Ryan!
Ed Driscoll: The WaPo Continues To Devour Its Own
Hit & Run: The Trouble With Bob Woodward
The Truth About Guns: The NRA DOES NOT Support Universal Background Checks. Period.
NewsBusters: Koch Response To Tribune Company Purchase Rumors – “No Comment”
Volokh Conspiracy: NLRB Appeal Goes Straight To Supremes
NRO Corner: Mississippi Legislators Pass “Anti-Bloomberg” Bill
Power Line: Hate Speech, San Francisco Style
Protein Wisdom: In Ameritopia, Quoting Someone Accurately Is Now “Hate Speech”
Allahpundit: Trump Says Ashley Judd’s Going To Be A Great Candidate
Jammie Wearing Fools: Mostly Peaceful Brooklyn Youths Riot After Vigil For Gangbanger
Israel Matzav: Erin Burnett Thinks The Ends Justify The Means When Jews Are The Victims
Lonely Conservative: Even Signing Up For Obamacare Is Going To Be A Major Hassle


Category: Live at Five

Future Kentucky Sen. Puffy Face: Everything She Doesn’t Like Is Rape

Posted on | March 12, 2013 | 19 Comments

She’ll have fun running in Kentucky on this platform:

Using graphic language in an opinion piece about “conflict minerals,” potential U.S. Senate candidate Ashley Judd in 2010 accused those who buy Apple products of “financing mass rape.”
“Apple is known for the clean lines of their products, the alluring simplicity of their designs,” Judd wrote in the article. “Dare I . . . go so far . . . as to suggest…this signature cleanness is stained by the shit and urine of raped women’s leaking fistulas?”
Judd, the Hollywood actress and liberal activist considering a run as a Democrat for the U.S. Senate in Kentucky, made the comments in an article on her website, which is titled “Costs of Convenience.”
Judd wrote the piece while visiting the Congo in August 2010 in an attempt to draw attention to “conflict minerals” — resources mined in places where conflict or human rights abuses are prevalent.
In recent years, Apple has emphasized publicly and on its website that the company is “committed to using conflict-free minerals.”
But in 2010, Judd wrote that while she enjoys a variety of Apple products — iPhone, iPad, iPod and Mac Book Air — she is concerned about whether the minerals used to produce them are “conflict minerals.”
“My electronics, received as gifts or purchased, profit armed militias and support slavery,” Judd wrote. “I am financing mass rape as I enjoy these ridiculously Global North ultra-efficiencies and conveniences, for large scale rape is the preferred predation mining interests use to humiliate and terrify local populations, in order to control resource areas.”

Read the whole thing. I agree with Glenn Reynolds: Let’s wait until Puffy Face wins the Democrat nomination before we destroy her.

Category: Uncategorized

Godless Commie Cockroaches Want Gun Control, Just Like Zombies Want Brains

Posted on | March 12, 2013 | 12 Comments

by Smitty

What does not seem to have sunk in so much on the Right is that these Godless Commies are truly offended by the notion of individual liberty, personal sovereignty, and the Bill of Rights, right down to the bottoms of the Godless Little Commie Ponds they call hearts.

The Captain’s Journal warns that not all of those Godless Commies have a D after their names:

Ammoland has two extremely depressing reports. We already knew that Eric Cantor and Paul Ryan were pretend conservatives with plans to cave on universal background checks. This first report makes it sound even worse.

Whoops! There goes a Virginian. I want to leave open the possibility of a benefit of the doubt. That is, if there is some other goal afoot here (recall, the GOP is on defense until at least 2014) to explain why an apparent ‘caving’ may be afoot.

More worrisome is the Power Line post:

In an interview with Jason Mattera which was conducted last month but is just now hitting the news, Democratic Congresswoman Jan Schakowsky admitted that the Democrats’ effort to ban “assault weapons” is “just the beginning.”

One more piece brings us back to the Old Dominion, where Retire Jim Moran reports on Virginia’s poster child for completely jacked up Federal representation, ‘Gentleman’ Jim Moran:

Moran spent the last half hour answering questions from citizens – minus the “answering” part. He rushed people through their questions, then gave a non-answer, answered a strawman, or just blatantly moved to the next person without any response.


Update: here is a condensed version of the video above:

This blog must echo Darleen Click’s lament concerning the sheer mendouchous twatwafflery on display, and in the same context.

You know what we need to be at “just the beginning”? We need not only to oppose these Godless Commie creeps, but to help them understand that their Godless Commie creepery will have negative electoral consequences for them. Our Bill of Rights ought not to be a battleground, where Godless Commies are continually attacking, and slowly grinding down our liberty. We need to throw them back to Northern Elbonia, and start hammering them there.

Let’s make 2014 the year we went on offense against Godless Commies of all parties.

via Insta Pundit

Category: Constitution, Virginia

Cannibal Cop Convicted

Posted on | March 12, 2013 | 11 Comments

To protect and serve — and also, eat:

A New York City police officer was convicted Tuesday of charges he plotted to kidnap and cook women to dine on their “girl meat” — a macabre case that subjected jurors to often gory evidence and asked them to separate fantasy from reality.
The jury reached the verdict in federal court at the kidnapping conspiracy trial of Officer Gilberto Valle, a 28-year-old father with an admitted fetish for talking on the Internet about cannibalism.

So, in New York City, the cops want to eat people. But the Mayor of New York City is more worried about you drinking a Big Gulp.

Category: New York Times

Whittle Lays It Down On Voter Fraud

Posted on | March 12, 2013 | 2 Comments

by Smitty

About the only thing I’d add here is that we move Veteran’s Day to the first Tuesday in November:

Category: Uncategorized

Detroit: What Democrats Do

Posted on | March 12, 2013 | 28 Comments

If you want to see the long-term effect of Democrat policies, there is no better example than the sad fate of the Motor City:

DETROIT — This city was already sinking under hundreds of millions of dollars in bills that it could not pay when a municipal auditor brought in a veteran financial consultant to dig through the books. A seasoned turnaround man and former actuary with Ford Motor Co., he was stunned by what he found: an additional $7.2 billion in retiree health costs that had never been reported, or even tallied up.
“The city must take some drastic steps,” the consultant, John Boyle, warned the City Council in delivering his report at a public meeting in 2005. Among the options he suggested was filing for bankruptcy.
“I thought all hell would break loose — I thought the flag would finally be raised,” Mr. Boyle recalled in an interview last week. But his warning drew little notice. “It was utterly astounding,” he said.

The Democrats who have run Detroit into the ground don’t care about anything but how much more money they can loot from the city:

Some factors were out of the city’s control. As auto industry jobs moved elsewhere over the decades, for example, Detroit lost much of its affluent tax base. Lower than expected state revenue sharing did not help, nor did corruption allegations in the administration of Kwame M. Kilpatrick, a mayor who resigned in 2008 and was convicted on Monday of racketeering and other federal charges.
But recent findings from a state-appointed review team and interviews with past and present city officials also suggest a city that over the years was remarkably badly run.

What? Democrats don’t know how to run an effective government? Shades of Jimmy Carter! I never suspected such a thing!

 

Category: Corruption, Democrats

But … It’s Science!

Posted on | March 12, 2013 | 16 Comments

Every day, it seems, we read headlines about new research that “proves” this, that or the other thing. My favorite such research was a study that found larger-breasted women are more intelligent. Can we trust such research? Alas, a story on the front page of today’s Washington Post indicates we should be cautious consumers of science:

Last year, research published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences found that the percentage of scientific articles retracted because of fraud had increased tenfold since 1975.
The same analysis reviewed more than 2,000 retracted biomedical papers and found that 67 percent of the retractions were attributable to misconduct, mainly fraud or suspected fraud. . . .
[University of Washington research Ferric C.] Fang said retractions may be rising because it is simply easier to cheat in an era of digital images, which can be easily manipulated. But he said the increase is caused at least in part by the growing competition for publication and for NIH grant money. . . .

The article recounts a case of suspected fraud in cancer research at prestigious Johns Hopkins University, and quotes a blogger:

“The reader of scientific information is at the mercy of the scientific institution to investigate or not,” said Adam Marcus, who with Ivan Oransky founded the blog Retraction Watch in 2010. In this case, Marcus said, “if Hopkins doesn’t want to move, we may not find out what is happening for two or three years.”

Fake cancer research might fool federal officials signing off on NIH grants. Unfortunately, fake research won’t cure real cancer.

And breast implants won’t raise your IQ score.

 

Category: Scandal, Science

LIVE AT FIVE: 03.12.13

Posted on | March 12, 2013 | 3 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho


TOP NEWS
Falklands Vote To Stay British

Falklanders celebrate 98% "Yes" vote

Falklanders celebrate 98% “Yes” vote

Only three residents vote against maintaining overseas territory status; Kirchner dismissive

Cardinals Begin Conclave Today
Election of new pope could take as long as five days


Norks “Scrap” 1953 Armistice
“The time for final showdown has arrived,” Rodong Sinmun announces; U.S. unimpressed, imposes further sanctions



POLITICS
Former Detroit Mayor Convicted, Jailed Until Sentencing

Former Detroit mayor Kwame Kilpatrick

Former Detroit mayor Kwame Kilpatrick

U.S. Attorney McQuade: “Kwame Kilpatrick didn’t lead the city. He looted the city.”

White House Living Large Amid Small Sequester Cuts (Video)

Navy Deploys New Littoral Combat Ship To Singapore

This White House Tour Brought To You By…Donald Trump?

DSCC Having Second Thoughts About Ashley Judd?

Idaho Nixes Taxes On Girl Scout Cookies, Cloud Computing; Makes Gun Confiscation A Crime

Bloomberg Vows To Fight Judge’s Rejection Of Soda Ban

Congressman Seeks Restrictions On Free Cellphone Program After Smartphones Sent To Dead People

SEC Nails Illinois For Lying About Pensions In Muni Bond Offerings



THE ECONOMY, STUPID
Crude Oil Prices Mixed In Asia: NYMEX $92.21, Brent $110.18
Dow Ends With Record Again, S&P Posts Seventh Straight Gain
Asia Reverses Gains, Slips On Profit Taking
SEC Nominee White Faces Questions About Her Work For NFL, Major Banks
Carlos Slim’s America Movil Faces Breakup Pressure From New Mexican Bill
Fed Shifts Focus To Jobs From Inflation
Whole Foods To Require GMO Labels
Two Cheers For Sheryl Sandberg, Who Helped Give Us The Financial Crisis
Your Facebook Likes May Reveal More Than You Probably Like
PRC Officials Want Rules And Cooperation On International Hacking
Defense Distributed Founder Speaks Out At SXSW
The Hard Road To BlackBerry 10
Ouya MMORPG To Launch By End Of 2013
Necomimi Cat Ears’ Creators Branch Out Into Brain-Controlled Headphones
EA Promises “SimCity” Players A Free Game “For Their Trouble”
Xi3 Taking Preorders For Piston “Steam Box” Console
Colin Powell’s Facebook Page Hacked



SPORTS
Vikings Trade Harvin To Seahawks

Seattle's new WR

Seattle’s new WR

Minnesota gets three draft picks for stud receiver

#1 Gonzaga Crushes St. Mary’s 65-51 For WCC Title

Bruins Take Down Senators In Shootout


Spurs Stifle Durant, Thunder For 105-93 Win

Surging Kings Snuff Flames At Home, 3-1

Jets Pick Up David Garrard

Big East Tourney Marks End Of An Era

BU Coach Jack Parker Retires After 40 Years

Gio Gonzalez Excited For Home Town Start In WBC



FAMOUS FOR BEING FAMOUS
From Wholesome & Disney To Raunchy & Trashy

Vanessa Hudgens, Selena Gomez

Vanessa Hudgens, Selena Gomez

Starlets Gomez and Hudgens hitching their stars to more provocative fare

Olivia Wilde’s Streak

Dozens Of Celebs Hacked, Financial Info Made Public

Unspeakable Armenian Ticketed For Overly Dark Window Tints

Third Child On The Way For Mark-Paul Gosselaar


“Star Wars” On TV Headed In New Direction, Disney And Lucasfilm Say

Adrienne Maloof, Sean Stewart Split

Justin Bieber Scraps Portugal Concert After Ticket Sales Soft

Amanda Bynes Going Through Changes

Barbara Walters: Elizabeth Hasselbeck Not Being Fired From “The View”



FOREIGNERS
Cameron Tells Argentines To Respect “Yes” Vote In Falklands
Delhi Gang Rape Suspects Allege “Inhuman” Sexual Assaults In Tihar Jail
Japan’s Utilities To Hike Rates Amid Weak Yen
PM Singh: Italy’s Refusal To Extradite Marines Unacceptable
Syrian Rebels: Russia Should Cut Arms To Assad
Oscar Pistorius’ Family Denies “Suicidal” Claim
Queen Elizabeth II Withdraws From Public Event At Westminster
Hungary’s Controversial Constitutional Changes



BLOGS & STUFF
Neo-neocon: Bloomberg’s Big Soda Ban Banned For Now
Hit & Run: Judge Blocks Bloomberg;s Big Beverage Ban
Power Line: The War Against The Second Amendment Has Only Just Begun
Protein Wisdom: “Lawmakers Eye Nee Taxes On Guns, Ammo In Latest Wave Of Legislation”
Paul Ryan: The GOP Plan To Balance The Budget By 2023
Peter McArdle: What To Expect From This Week’s Dueling Budget Proposals
JustOneMinute: Eliminating The Middle Man, Or, Krugman Bankrupt Ethically
Jammie Wearing Fools: Boston Globe Falls For Satirical Paul Krugman Bankruptcy Story
AmSpecBlog: Wishing Krugman Story Were True
Allahpundit: Democrats Reconsidering Ashley Judd For Senate?
American Thinker: World’s First Nanoassault Rifle
Jihad Watch: “The Only Good Zionist Is A Dead Zionist” – US Army Vet Fights Alongside Syrian Rebels
Small Dead Animals: We Don’t Need No Stinking Sparky Cars
Stephen Kruiser: FL Senate Says No To Governor Scott, Medicaid Expansion
Jim Geraghty: A New GOP Challenger For Lindsay Graham?
Weasel Zippers: Congressional Black Caucus Disappointed In Obama For Picking Mostly White Cabinet
Jawa Report: Jewish Lawyer For Wannabe Taliban Wants Jew-Free Jury
Lonely Conservative: No Sequester For White House’s Six-Figure Staffers


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