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LIVE AT FIVE: 12.13.12

Posted on | December 13, 2012 | 5 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho


TOP NEWS
Syrian Loyalists Fire SCUD Missiles At Rebels

SCUD missile preparing for launch

Firing of Soviet-made ballistic missiles a sign of desperation by Assad regime?

Elections Begin In Gujarat State
Will Keshhubai help Congress beat back the BJP?

RTW May Put Michigan Back On Business Map
A game-changer for the Wolverine State?



POLITICS
Menendez Intern Was Illegal Alien, Sex Offender

Senator Robert Menendez (D-NJ)

DHS denies AP report that they stalled deportation proceedings until after the election


NBC Poll Claims 65% Want Compromise On Fiscal Cliff (Video)


Panetta Denies Medal Of Honor Upgrade To Marine

NY State AG Adds Rules For Non-Profits

Gun Sale Website Sued In Connection With Woman’s Death

Quinn, Emanuel Blast Court’s Right To Carry Decision

What’s Next For Hillary Clinton?

Boehner Warns House GOP Not To Make Christmas Plans

Mass. Cabinet Shakeup Coming Amidst Scandals



THE ECONOMY, STUPID
Oil Rises As Fed Commits To More Stimulus: NYMEX $86.77, Brent $109.50
Fed Ties Interest Rates To Unemployment
Abe, LDP Set To Inherit Worst Economic Gloom Since 2010
Berkshire Hathaway Repurchases $1.2 Billion In Stock
Tokyo Stocks Hit Eight-Month High On Weak Yen, US Stimulus
Why Investors Shrugged At Costco’s Solid Quarter
Google Bids To Retake iOS Mapping With New SDK
Juniper Buys SDN Startup Contrail For $176 Million
Sprint Reportedly Pitches Partnership To Dish
@Pontifex Sends First Tweet, Blessing Followers
Google Image Search: Now With Less Porn



SPORTS
NOW IS THE TIME ON THE WARRIORS WHEN WE DANCE

Golden State Warriors celebrate upset of Heat

Streaking Golden State stuns Miami for fifth straight win on rookie’s layup, 95-75

Celtics Escape With Win Against Mavericks Despite Miscues

Goodell’s Authority Takes A Hit

Clippers Extend Winning Streak To Eight Against Bobcats

Jazz Beat Spurs With Three-Pointer At Buzzer

Nyets End Skid Against Raptors With 94-88 Road Win

Davey Johnson Honored By DC Chamber Of Commerce, Still Hoping For LaRoche Deal By Christmas



FAMOUS FOR BEING FAMOUS
Gillian Anderson Returns To TV After Ten Years On “Hannibal”

Gillian Anderson

Will play Hannibal Lecter’s psychiatrist

Spice Girls Reunite For Opening Of Their Musical “Viva Forever”

Police: NM Men Plotted To Kill, Castrate Justin Bieber

Anne Hathaway On “Devastating” Wardrobe Malfunction: “They Saw Everything”

Drew Barrymore Introduces Daughter Olive

Lindsay Lohan’s Probation Revoked

Brooke Burke Cancer-Free After Thyroid Surgery

Paul McCartney To Replace Kurt Cobain In Nirvana Reunion

Amanda Seyfried Gets “Pretty Drunk” On Late Show With Letterman



FOREIGNERS
Japan’s Elections: A Guide To The Perplexed
Berlusconi Offers To Back Monti As PM
Sanctions, Further Isolation Likely Results Of Nork Missile Launch
Chavez’ Successor: Who Is Nicolas Maduro?
Japan Scrambles Fighters After PRC Violates Airspace Over Senkaku Islands
Abbas: Hamas Leader Approved Agreement Recognizing Two-State Solution
Putin Promises To Strengthen Russian Economy, Military In State Of The Nation Speech
De Silva Report On Finucane Assassination Turns Spotlight On MI5
Egyptian Opposition Rejects Boycott, Calls For Vote Against Charter
SecDef Panetta Holds Talks In Kandahar



BLOGS & STUFF
Valley Of The Shadow: Battle Of Michigan Echoes Milo v. Clodius
Forbes: Republicans Should Let Obama Take America Off The Cliff
Weasel Zippers: Obama Predicts GOP Will Cave On Tax Hikes
NRO Corner: Amash Warns Boehner – You’re Not Welcome In My District
American Glob: Left Responds To Michigan Union Violence By Blaming The Victim
Vodkapundit: Why Progs Are Inherently Vile, Reason #1,000,006
Althouse: Gawker Tells Stephen Crowder To “Stop Whining”
Ramesh Ponnuru: New Data On Republicans And Hispanics
Michelle Malkin: Shocked Face – DHS Delayed Arrest Of Menendez’ Illegal Alien Sex Offender Intern Until After Election
Bryan Preston: Exposing Joseph Stalin’s Media Apologist
Hit & Run: When RTW Is Wrong And Un-Libertarian

Category: Live at Five

Does Belafonte Think Conservatives Should Just ‘Smell The Glove’?

Posted on | December 12, 2012 | 13 Comments

by Smitty

Via Daley Gator, Harry Belafonte seems bent on disproving the notion that people mellow with age:

Tell us how you really feel, Harry: should conservatives just assume the position?

Category: Uncategorized

2022 Election Results

Posted on | December 12, 2012 | 8 Comments

by Smitty

NOVEMBER 2022–The dismal results pour in, adding to the dismay of the beleaguered conservatives. After Nancy Pelosi regained the Speaker’s gavel in 2016, she had had the power to ram through a rule for seniority in the House of Representatives to be hereditary, paving the way for her daughter, Christine to take the Pelosi seat in 2018. Harry Reid, who never saw a bad idea he could not embrace, adopted this for the Senate, allowing Rory Reid to carry on the family tradition of cretinism.

Also reporting for duty in January 2023 will be Pat Moran, who, despite a lengthy trail of female wreckage that some feminists were beginning to label ‘worrisome’, carried his district by the usual 2:1 margin. The Feminist bleatings were really about inoculating Moran, now that he was assuming office. The voters in Virginia’s 8th district had no affection whatsoever for the fop, but the Constitutional order was so demolished that, even were a resurrected George Washington to emerge from his crypt at Mount Vernon, he’d have fared no better at the ballot box than Tevin Kranor, the Republican candidate.

Truly, the fundamental change begun under Barack Obama had resulted in the final collapse into a single, United State was complete. Yet the country was only halfway through Michelle Obama’s second term. The two chambers of Congress chiefly differed on their election frequency, but the idea of hereditary positions in government was sufficiently ingrained that Sacha Obama was testing well in the focus groups to relieve her mother.

Orwell had nearly been correct. The point was not to control the past; plenty of valid history books remained to be purged. The more attainable goal was to bury the signal in noise.

Category: Uncategorized

AFL-CIO OMG WTF?

Posted on | December 12, 2012 | 19 Comments

Lee Stranahan returned my phone call today. He was in Lansing, Michigan, to cover this week’s union goonfest for Breitbart.com, and he told me the story of what happened to Clint Tarver.

Clint is a beloved local figure, his hot dog stand across from the Michigan state capitol being a sort of institution, a landmark. “This is not a guy who’s about politics,” Lee explained. “He’s about hot dogs.”

Americans for Prosperity hired Clint to serve hot dogs at their tent on the capitol grounds, where AFP officials were presenting the pro-freedom side of the right-to-work argument. And when the union goons decided to assault the AFP tent, Clint became a target.

Union Thugs Shouted Racial
Slurs At Hot Dog Vendor While
Trashing His Business

Good Lord. Of course, they have no sense of shame, but are they also completely lacking a sense of irony? I mean, the Left has spent nearly four years building their “Tea Party is racist” meme, and the AFL-CIO brutes — who were nearly all white, as Stranahan reports and video verifies — decide they’ll just waste all that liberal media propaganda in order to terrorize a guy whose only “crime” is serving hot dogs?

ABC, NBC, CBS, KKK — “civil rights” means whatever liberals say it means, and if you question their judgment, you’re the racist.

UPDATE: Those racist right-wing teabaggers have already raised more than $17,000 to help Clint Tarver.

UPDATE II: Well, I’d been planning a separate blog to comment on Patterico’s further explanation of the accuse-the-accusers strategy, but then a despicable progressive Michigan blogger did a “Marcy Wheeler” on Clint Tarver which can be briefly summarized: His wife is a Republican and he was selling hot dogs to wingnuts, so he deserved it and besides, Breitbot distraction!

Will the last honest liberal leaving Michigan please turn out the lights?

Category: Labor Unions, Michigan, Racism

#WarOnWomen Democrat Congressman’s Son Pleads Guilty to Assaulting Girlfriend

Posted on | December 12, 2012 | 8 Comments

Normally, it’s co-blogger Smitty who brings us news about his congressman, the Disgrace to Virginia’s Good Name That Is Jim Moran (D-Thug). But today Jeff Quinton informs us of this impressive example of hereditary influence, Patrick “Girl-Basher” Moran:

Moran and his girlfriend were fighting outside 14th St. bar The Getaway around 1:23 a.m. on Dec. 1, according to a police report, over Moran talking to another woman at the bar. Suddenly, Moran allegedly slammed his girlfriend’s head into the bar’s metal trash can cage.
After the attack, police described Moran’s girlfriend as “bleeding heavily from her nose nose and also observed that her nose and right eye were extremely swollen.” One of the ambulance technicians who transported her to Howard University Hospital told police that Moran appeared to have broken her nose and given her a skull fracture under her right eye.
Moran was arrested for felony domestic violence assault, but pleaded the charge down to simple assault today. He was sentenced to probation.

See, it’s just a misdemeanor when Democrats beat up women. Because (a) Democrats are so “progressive”and also (b) lady parts!

Michelle Malkin has much, much more about Moran.

Category: Uncategorized

Accuse the Accusers: @scrowder Gets the Left’s ‘Plate Glass Window’ Treatment

Posted on | December 12, 2012 | 90 Comments

After yesterday’s incident in which labor union activists tore down an Americans for Prosperity tent in Lansing and sucker-punched Stephen Crowder, this headline zoomed up the Memorandum aggregation:

Breitbart Folks Appear to Fake Violence in Lansing

Huh? This was a decidedly odd piece of blogging: The claim that somehow the union thug clobbering Crowder was part of a right-wing hoax, based on such “evidence” as the event having been reported by “James O’Keefe’s buddy” Lee Stranahan — because, hey, if anybody at Breitbart thinks it’s actually news, that means it must be phony, right?

Also, the video was edited. Anybody who edits a video is obviously engaged in some kind of evil conspiracy.

What the hell is this silly gibberish? Are these people crazy?

No, they’re engaged in a systematic effort to create confusion and discourage mainstream journalists from reporting on the incident.

“Accuse the accusers!” Re-arrange the narrative of events so that a story that obviously makes the Left look bad is, instead, a story about the Right unjustly trying to make the Left look bad.

This perversion of the narrative makes the teller of the tale (“Crowder works for Fox News! Stranahan works for Breitbart!”) the pre-demonized focus of the story, the villain whose tale can’t be trusted by any mainstream, legitimate journalist. And you can bet that any MSM reporter who does try to report honestly on what happened in Lansing will be brutally excoriated by Media Matters and others on the Left for taking this incident seriously as actual news.

Crowder is being smashed “through a plate glass window,” so to speak. If conservative New Media and citizen-journalists call attention to such an incident, that very fact — the involvement of conservatives, and their interest in the incident as news — will be leveraged by liberals as part of the counter-narrative to discredit and de-legitimize the story.

So it doesn’t matter to Marcy Wheeler at “Emptywheel” whether her bizarre version of what happened in Lansing is true or even rationally plausible. She has no interest in truth.

She only cares about “winning.”

In this case, “winning” means providing reporters with some flimsy pretext for ignoring what actually happened yesterday: Union thugs physically attacked their opponents in broad daylight.

This should frighten us. The Left has rejected any notion of objective truth. Instead, there is only political truth. And political truth is judged by the Marcusean axiom of “liberating tolerance.”

Look: Jim Hoft says the goon who punched Crowder is Tony Camargo of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, Local 876.

Does that fact check out? Is there actually such a person?

Was Camargo actually in Lansing as part of the labor union protests?

If so — if Camargo exists and is an actual IBEW member — then this is not a “hoax” or a “sting” or any other kind of right-wing artifice.

If the basic facts of the story check out, then does this not also prove that Marcy Wheeler at “Emptywheel” is a contemptible liar?

And, strange to say, when I did a Google search just now, it led me directly to a Pastebin file by . . . Ron Brynaert.

Maybe this is just a coincidence. Or maybe not.

UPDATE: Patterico blogged about Marcy Wheeler yesterday without, apparently, wondering where she learned the “accuse the accusers” trick.

UPDATE II: Welcome, Instapundit readers!

The question of whether to blame sloth, stupidity or liberal bias for media malfeasance is always a tough one.

Generally, I prefer to think of bad reporters as just being stupid and lazy. They might get angry if you accuse them of being biased liberals.

These varying explanations are not, of course, mutually exclusive.




 


Category: Labor Unions, Media Bias, Michigan

LIVE AT FIVE: 12.12.12

Posted on | December 12, 2012 | 1 Comment

— compiled by Wombat-socho


TOP NEWS
Union Thuggery Erupts In Lansing – Three Arrested

Steven Crowder gets punched by IBEW thug Tony Cummings

State police don riot gear against union members protesting Gov. Snyder’s signing right-to-work legislation


Nork Rocket Actually Reaches Orbit
Much handwaving and flaming from diplomats


Three Dead (Including Killer) In Oregon Mall Shooting
Gunman kills two before apparently committing suicide



POLITICS
Scott Considered Front-Runner Among Replacements For DeMint

Rep. Tim Scott (R-SC)

Reportedly favored by Washington GOP

No Deal: GOP, Democrats Trade Barbs As Clock Ticks Down To “Fiscal Cliff”

KIPP DC Wins $10 Million Grant Competition

Accused Terrorist Arrested In Georgia

Justice Scalia Defends “Anti-Gay” Legal Writings

Vietnamese Blame Hollywood For Making US Politics Scary

113th Congress: This Time, It’s Out With The New

Buffett Joins Calls For “Strong” Estate Tax



THE ECONOMY, STUPID
Oil Edges Up As Germany Seen Dodging Recession: NYMEX $85.56, Brent $108.20
SolarCity Postpones IPO As Solar Sector Struggles
Amazon To Begin Charging Sales Tax In Massachusetts
Us October Trade Deficit Up As Slowing Global Economy Cuts Demand For US Goods
Small Business Optimism Took Hit In November
Twinkie Madness Grips Chicago As Last Shipment From Hostess Hits Shelves
Staples Becomes First Retailer To Sell Microsoft Surface Tablet
Facebook Helps FBI Bust International Crime Ring
Microsoft Wants A Discount To Bring Office To The iPad
FCC Approves Dish Network’s Plan For High-Speed Wireless
Facebook Could Earn Up To $1 Billion From Gifts Now That Rollout Is Complete



SPORTS
Ancient Yankees Building For Yesterday

New Yankee Kevin Youkilis

Youkilis signs for one year, $12 million; Ichiro to re-sign?

Kobe Scores 42, Lakers Still Lose To Cavaliers

Saints’ Bounty Suspensions Vacated (Video)

Griffin Leads Streaking Clippers Past Bulls, 94-89

Indians Trade Shin-Soo Choo In Nine-Player, Three-Team Deal; Get Matt Stubbs From Reds And Three Pitchers

Nyets Unable To Maintain Hot Start, Fall To Knicks 100-97

Contract Impasse Darkens Dickey’s Mood

Dodgers Won’t Apologize For Spending Spree



FAMOUS FOR BEING FAMOUS
Sitar Master Ravi Shankar Dead, 92

Ravi Shankar, 1920-2012, RIP

Popularized Indian music in the West, pioneered rock benefits with the Concert for Bangladesh, father of singer Norah Jones

Anne Hathaway Flashes Photographers At “Les Mis” Premiere

Lindsay Lohan Facing Eight Months In Jail For Probation Violations

How “Storage Wars” Faked Show And Tried To Hide It

Amanda Seyfried: January’s InStyle Cover Girl

Lindsay Skips Court, Follows The Wanted To London

Jenna Bush Hager Expecting

Brooke Mueller’s Twins Left With Denise Richards

Charlie Sheen Drops $75K To Obliterate Little Girl’s Cancer



FOREIGNERS
US recognizes Syrian Opposition As Government
Hugo Chavez Emerges From Six Hours Of Surgery
ECOWAS Condemns Military For Forcing Mali PM’s Resignation
Israel To Withhold 1.6 Billion In PA Taxes To Recoup Advances
Nelson Mandela Responding To Treatment For Lung Infection
Cayman islands Premier Busted For Corruption
IKEA Monkey’s Owner Seeks His Return
C of E To Be Exempt From Gay Marriage Law



BLOGS & STUFF
Bryan Preston: ABC’s Devin Dwyer Lies In Fiscal Cliff Story
Hot Air: Boehner Asks “Can We Just Be Honest About This? We’re Broke”
Weasel Zippers: Teamsters Boss Jimmy Hoffa Threatens “Civil War” Over Michigan’s RTW Law
Patterico: Civility Now!
Gateway Pundit: Thug Who Punched Steven Crowder ID’d As Tony Camargo (Cummings?)
Legal Insurrection: Michigan RTW Protests And Vote Live
Conservatives4Palin: Politico Quotes Buffett – “Nobody Believes Obama’s Tax Hike Will Help The Economy”
Power Line: Democrats Admit ObamaCare Is A Job-Killer
The Jawa Report: MSNBC Claims AFP Sabotaged Own Tent

Category: Live at Five

Rule 5 Tuesday

Posted on | December 11, 2012 | 8 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho


Apologies for the delay in posting; in addition to the stress from moving, I evidently got some kind of cold/flu last week and spent most of yesterday asleep. At any rate, here’s your Rule 5 links for last weeks; don’t be clicking them out in the street and frightening the feminists and children.


Valley of the Shadow likewise has the health problems, but rattles the tip jar with the assistance of Lisbeth Salander. Laughing Conservative has the less Gothic (but still quite attractive) Kat Kelley, Fishersville Mike notices that iCarly is iContinuing, and Animal Magnetism debuts with their own Rule 5 Friday and the Saturday Gingermageddon. Reaganite Republican spotlights Michelle Malkin, Randy’s Roundtable tarts it up with Barbara Palvin, and A Trainwreck In Maxwell pays tribute to the A Girl And Her Gun blog. Grumpy Old Man shares some black & white goodness, Blessed Blasphemy offers Page 3 Girl Rosie Jones, First Street Journal looks at a different aspect of ladies in uniform: haute couture,  and the Rio Norte Line offers age-appropriate sexiness with Shania Twain (47? No way!).


EBL has some 1941-vintage Rule 5, the Marilyn Monroe Holiday Exercise Program, the Ultimate Fail Girls competition, and the best of Mae West.


A View From The Beach offers Miranda Kerr taking granny’s advice, a soft-core porn actress thinking about challenging Mitch McConnell, toasted marshmallows, women staring at boobs, a huge green spider, Crystal and Hef (again), and a vampire terrorizing a Serbian village.


El Opinador Compusivo has Sylwia Wojciech, Jessica Jane Clement (and an encore!), and Natalia Velez. Also covered: please tie your shoes (with bonus Bill Whittle video!) , Nighty Night, Biker, and nothing good on TV.


Soylent Green starts off with Sunday Snoochski, followed by Monday Motivationer Aureli, Overnighty Capri, Tuesday Titillation Gabriella, Humpday Hawt Chrissy, Peruvian Pulchritude Lourdes, Falconsword Friday on Thursday, Corsetcare oubliette, and AM Awesome Bella Cole.


Proof Positive’s Friday Night Babe is Courtney Henggeler, vintage babe is Amanda Donohoe, and in the Sex in Advertising department, it’s the Perfect Woman, followed by the obligatory 49ers cheerleader. Dustbury submits Raquel Welch and Felicity Huffman for our consideration, while Three Beers Later reassures us he’s all about taste. At The Camp of the Saints, it’s Anastasia Harris and the Rule 5 News.


The DaleyGator’s DaleyBabes this week included Wendy Gonzalez, Kimberly Guilfoyle and Andrea Tarantos from “Red Eye”, Karen Miyauchi, Natalie Eve Marie, Minami Haduki, Tatiana Harvey, Seifuku Kuzan, a salute to Hooters, and Erin Gray with a Rule 5 roundup!


Thanks to everyone for their linkagery! Links for next week’s Rule 5 Sunday (and it WILL be on Sunday) are due to the Rule 5 Wombat mailbox no later than Saturday, December 15.

 

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