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LIVE AT FIVESEVEN: 11.27.12

Posted on | November 27, 2012 | 8 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho


TOP NEWS
Morsi Does Partial Backdown On Expanded Power

Egyptian protesters meet in a burned-out school

Spokesman says “only some acts” protected from judicial review


Investigators Dig Up Arafat’s Corpse
Death by polonium poisoning? Stroke? The JOOOOOS?


Much Talk Of Compromise, But Fiscal Deal Elusive
White House still adamant on increasing tax rates



POLITICS
Jeb Bush Pushes Contentious School Reforms

Bush addresses the National Association of Latino Elected and Appointed Officials Annual Conference in Lake Buena Vista

Former governor pushes vouchers, online schools
Rumors of 2016 run

Feds Seize 132 Websites For Selling Counterfeit Merchandise

Christie Concerned About Sandy Victims Falling Through The Cracks

Medicaid Costs To Rise Even Without Program Expansion

Feds Charge Teachers With Praxis Test Fraud

Cox & Archer: We Can’t Tax Our Way Out Of Debt

Supremes Take On Question Of Who’s The Boss In The Workplace



THE ECONOMY, STUPID
Oil Prices Rebound On Greek Debt Deal; NYMEX $88.09, Brent $111.17
Greek Bankruptcy Averted For Now
OECD Expects Weak Exports To Curb PRC Rebound
Dow, S&P 500 Stumble, NASDAQ Gains
ConocoPhillips Flees Kazakhstan With $5 Billion Sale
Warren Buffett Back To Complaining He’s Not Paying Enough Taxes
Union Fail: Walmart Survives Labor’s Intimidation Campaign
No, Google Didn’t Buy WiFi Provider ICOA
Galaxy S III Survives Extreme Stress Tests
Cellphones Becoming Go-To Device For Online Activities, Banking, And More
Microsoft To Release WinPhone 8 Apollo Plus Next Year
GM Bringing iPhone’s Siri To Your Car
Google Launches Campaign In Germany Against Proposed Link Tax
“Mass Effect 3” Takes The Flight To Omega



SPORTS
Newton Leads Panthers Past Eagles, 30-22

Panthers QB Cam Newton

Writing on the wall for Andy Reid as Eagles’ skid hits seven?


Nyets Grind Out 96-89 Win Over Knicks In OT

NHL, Players Association Turn To US Mediators

Rays, Longoria Agree To 10-Year/$136 Million Extension

Week 12: Bungles No More

Suh Avoids Suspension For Kick To Schaub’s Groin

Bucks Erase 27-Point Deficit, Stun Bulls

Nationals Cash In On Post-Season Payout



FAMOUS FOR BEING FAMOUS
“Two Toxic People Cannot Be Together”

Samantha Ronson and Lindsay Lohan

Lindsay talks about her relationship with Ronson, other matters in Us magazine interview
“Liz And Dick” Pulls In 3.5 Million Viewers

Angus T. Jones Says “Two And A Half Men” Is “Filth”: “Please Stop Watching”

Gabriel Aubry Gets Restraining Order Against Olivier Martinez After Getting Face Broken In Brawl

Ben Savage, Danielle Fishel Join “Girl Meets World” Pilot

Jessica Simpson’s “Super Secret” Weight Watchers Diet Plan

Dolly Parton: Sorry Ladies, I’m Not A Lesbian

Oprah At The Crossroads

Voice Of Elmo Hit With Third Underage Sex Accusation

Lenny Kravitz To Play Marvin Gaye In Julien Temple Film

Bieber: Why I Wore Overalls To Meet The Prime Minister



FOREIGNERS
Mursi Opponents Rally In Tahrir Square
M23 Rebels Say They Won’t Leave Goma
Norks Preparing For Another Missile Test
Bangladesh Says Second Factory Fire Caused By Sabotage
French Right Splits As Leadership Crisis Deepens
Pak Journalist Defiant After Taliban Botches Car Bomb Assassination
Secession Popular In Catalonia; Austerity, Not So Much
Fire Kills Fourteen At Workshop For Disabled In Germany
Aid Pours In After Debut of India’s New Aam Aadmi Party



BLOGS & STUFF
The Lid: We’re About To Be Bushwhacked
Jammie Wearing Fools: White House Claims GOP Is Going To Ruin Christmas Or Something
NRO Corner: White House Won’t Change Social Security To Make Fiscal Cliff Deal
Mediaite: Tom Ricks Booted From Fox Interview After Accusing Network Of Operating As Wing Of GOP
Weasel Zippers: McCain To Meet With Susan Rice, Explain Why He’s Not A Racist
Palm Beach Post: Crist Wing Of Florida GOP Says Voter Suppression Was Aim Of New Election Law
Weekly Standard Blog: Santorum Open To 2016 Run
Legal Insurrection: Epistemic Closure Of The Epistemic Closure Pundits
Israel Matzav: NYT Reporter Fooled By Hamas
Breitbart: Time Magazine Honors Sandra Fluke As “Person Of The Year” Finalist
Charles Murray: Why Aren’t Asians Republicans?
NewsBusters: AP Stylebook Now Discourages Reporters From Using “Homophobia”, “Islamophobia”
Power Line: The “Nuclear Option”, Then And Now
Professor Bainbridge: Warren Buffett, Tax Evader
Lonely Conservative: Obama Depicted As Christ On The Cross
Twitchy: Jamie Foxx Calls Obama “Our Lord And Savior” During Soul Train Awards, Backlash Erupts
Protein Wisdom: White House Taps Geithner To Run Fiscal Cliff Talks

Category: Live at Five

I Want To Agree With James Joyner, But I Fear He Shot Us Both Down

Posted on | November 27, 2012 | 30 Comments

by Smitty

Emphasis mine on James Joyner in The Atlantic:

The Republican Party needs a new message on foreign policy that is true to the conservative principles of the base and yet has a broad appeal to the American public. It so happens that one already exists, has a proven track record of electoral success, and is only slightly used: the “humble foreign policy” that candidate George W. Bush espoused during the 2000 campaign but abandoned with the Global War on Terror and the Iraq invasion.

I’ll be the first to agree that it would be cool if history allowed a fully Paulian ‘non-interventionist’ foreign policy. Joyner’s article, read the whole thing, figures that all would have been more swell if Bush had stayed the HFC course.

That’s a nice counter-factual, but how, given the hegemonic status of the United States, does one avoid the suction of history into events?

I submit that, if you haven’t told me how you’re deconstructing the Military-Industrial Complex, and offloading your hegemonic position to someone else (The UN? That outfit couldn’t lead water to flow downhill) you haven’t told me much. And I submit that the Dovish Democrat who bombed the Balkans and #OccupyResoluteDesk, who bracket Bush historically, are dealing from the same deck.

In review, the Democrats hopped in their gunboat and overtook GOP diplomacy. How progressive of the Dems. The bewildered GOP is going to have to pony up, put some deeds where its Constitutional bleatings are located, and deliver a return to Constitutional, balanced government, or remain indistinguishable from the Dems and keep right on losing elections.

Category: Uncategorized

Crowder Finds Truth In Weeeeed

Posted on | November 26, 2012 | 23 Comments

by Smitty


I submit that the interesting angle is the federalist one. If people are allowed to decided which plants they want to be when they grow up, after what other liberty could they grasp?

Category: Video

Hair Of The Dog, With Ken Burns Surprise

Posted on | November 26, 2012 | 23 Comments

by Smitty

I’m a little shocked at Ken Burns in this clip, claiming that the secessionist rumblings on WhiteHouse.gov are DNA-related. How in the world has he not glommed onto the idea that those petitions could be set up by Lefties wanting to drive the accusation that the people who’d petition for secession are raaaaaacist? It’s almost as though there was a coordinated 1-2. . .oh, wait. . .

What’s more interesting though, is how Ken Burns, known for his manipulation of old still photos, inserts himself into some black-and-white movie footage at the end of VodkaPundit’s clip.

Category: PJTV

People Are Not Paying Attention To What Obama Says

Posted on | November 26, 2012 | 12 Comments

by Smitty

She said she was honored to meet Obama, but she is also frustrated that she has yet to receive help from either her insurance companies or the government. “The president told me I would get immediate help,” she said.


In President Obama, you have a man who fetishes the power of his utterances themselves. If he says ‘immediate help’, then it has been granted. If he says ‘jobs’, then a million flowers of work bloom, unless mowed down by those pesky Republicans, of course.

They’ve slathered savior savor upon him, and he certainly delivers, in the fashion of Steven Wright’s subliminal advertising executive. You closed your eyes, only for a moment, but the moment’s gone. Hope that moment was worth the vote.

If you want help help, well, that gets back to old-fashioned concepts of thrift and neighborliness. Up that: Forward!

via Jammie Wearing Fool

Update: linked at Dailey Gator.

Category: Barack Obama, Kansas, Video

Retire #Taxby Chambliss

Posted on | November 26, 2012 | 32 Comments

Republican Sen. Saxby Chambliss can blame no one else for his self-destructive decision to repudiate his pledge to Georgia taxpayers. His foolish decision to demonize Grover Norquist of Americans for Tax Reform virtually guarantees that Chambliss would face a well-funded and well-organized primary challenge in 2014, if Chambliss were to choose to run for re-election in 2014.

But he won’t.

Mark my word, the handwriting on the wall will become clear enough pretty soon and, by mid-2013 at the latest, Chambliss will announce that he will retire rather than seek re-election.

Georgia is one of the most solidly Republican states in the country. Especially in a mid-term election, no Georgia Democrat can hope to win statewide office. Whoever gets the GOP nomination in 2014 will be the state’s next senator, and there are probably a dozen leading Republicans in Georgia craving an opportunity to take on Chambliss in the GOP primary. Nothing that Chambliss does now can save him from his inevitable fate.

He is doomed beyond all hope of redemption.

Here’s the point: A Republican in a purple state can go wobbly without much fear of reprisal. But if a Republican in a deep-red state like Georgia is permitted to get away with flaunting his “bipartisanship” on such a fundamental issue, then every GOP Senator might be tempted to join the RINO Caucus, becoming a bunch of treacherous self-serving sellouts like Arlen Specter and Lisa Murkowski.

A clear matter of principle is at stake, and no personal considerations should prevent conservatives from uniting in this crucial cause. It doesn’t matter whether you like Grover Norquist or not. This isn’t about Grover. This is about preserving the integrity of the Republican Party.

Just as it was necessary to prevent John Cornyn and Jim Greer from “anointing” Charlie Crist as the Florida GOP Senate nominee in 2010, so now it is necessary to retire Saxby Chambliss.

So let it be written. So let it be done.

FURTHER READING:

UPDATE: Linked by Bob Belvedere — thanks! — and the suggestion that Saxby Chambliss should be given a retirement party inspired this:

 

Category: Georgia, Republicans, Senate, Taxes

LIVE AT FIVENINE: 11.26.12

Posted on | November 26, 2012 | 6 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho


TOP NEWS
Obama Administration Warns Of Fiscal Cliff

President Obama and Speaker Boehner at the White House, November 16

Disagreeing with Obama could ruin Christmas!
Related: Fiscal cliff has lobbyists working to avoid budget ax

Egypt’s President Morsi To Meet With Senior Judiciary
Meet the new Pharaoh, same as the old Pharaoh

Gaza Jihadis Win Praise From Iran
Talks between Gaza and Israel, moderated by Egypt, to resume today



POLITICS
Rep. Shelley Capito To Run For Senate In 2014

Rep. Shelley Moore Capito, R-WV

No word yet from Senator Jay Rockefeller on whether he’ll run again


Wikileaker Whines About Pre-Trial Treatment


Disabled Parents Face Bias, Loss Of Kids

More Advice From Liberals For The GOP

Christie’s Response To Sandy Gives Bump To Approval Ratings

Graham & McCain Keep Pressure On Susan Rice

Former Congressman Debbie Halvorson Announces Run For Jesse Jackson Jr.’s Seat



THE ECONOMY, STUPID
Oil Prices Drop As Fighting Ends In Gaza; NYMEX $87.76, Brent $110.94
Walmart Protests Sparse, Included Few Actual Walmart Employees
Euro Weakens Against Yen Before EU Greek Aid Meeting
Canadian Firm Onex Buys USI From Goldman Sachs Fund
German Consumer Confidence Deteriorates
Fiat Industrial, CNH Approve Merger
Samsung Takes Measures To Protect PRC Workers
GSK Bids $941 Million To Increase Stake In Indian Subsidiary
Microsoft’s Retail Gamble
Samsung: 5 Million Galaxy Note II Sold In Two Months
Nokia Announces Asha 205 “Facebook Phone”
Insiders Say Google-Branded Touchscreen Chromebook Due This Year
UN Agency’s Leaked Playbook: Panic, Chaos Over Anti-Internet Treaty



SPORTS
Packers Stomped By Giants, 38-10

Packers QB Aaron Rodgers about to get sacked again

Giants excel in all departments as Packers slump


Carpenter Kicks Dolphins Past Seahawks, 24-21

Notre Dame Beats USC, Will Play For National Title

Ryan, Jones Hook Up For 80-Yard TD As Falcons Edge Bucs

Bears’ Patchwork Offensive Line Rebounds In Victory Over Vikings

Cal Poly Upsets #11 UCLA In College Hoops

Nyets, Knicks Meet Tonight In Battle Of New York

Nationals Announce 2013 Spring Training Schedule



FAMOUS FOR BEING FAMOUS
Larry Hagman Dead At 81

Larry Hagman, 1931-2012, RIP

Starred in Dallas, I Dream Of Jeannie; felled by complications from recent cancer

Rihanna Spends Thanksgiving With Chris Brown In Berlin

Dan Stevens Is Done With “Downton Abbey”

Halle Berry Goes To Court For Restraining Order After Thanksgiving Fight With Gabriel Aubry

Charlie Sheen Gives Lindsay Lohan $100K To Settle Tax Debts

“Breaking Dawn”, “Skyfall”, “Lincoln” Lead Thanksgiving Box Office

Hector “Macho” Camacho Dies Of Gunshot Wounds, 50

Beyonce, Amanda Seyfried Take On Fantasy Roles

Bieber Branded “White Trash Prince” After Wearing Overalls, Baseball Cap To Meet Canadian PM For Award

Tom Cruise Reunites With Suri For Thanksgiving



FOREIGNERS
Justice Minister Says Resolution To Egyptian Crisis “Imminent”
Loyalist Jet Hits Syrian Playground With Cluster Bomb; Ten Children Dead
Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak Resigns From Politics
Congo Rebel Chief In Uganda For Talks
Bangladesh Factory Fire Comes Amidst Preparations To Mourn Deaths In Another Such Fire
Catalonia Edges Closer To Secession
Berlusconi Mulling Return To Politics
India Returns PRC Serve, Sticks Own Maps On Visas
Eleven Killed In Nigeria As Bombers Hit Military Church



BLOGS & STUFF
Beltway Confidential: CNN Poll Says More Americans Would Blame GOP If Country Goes Off Fiscal Cliff
NRO Corner: On Not Cooperating With Obamacare
American Thinker: Morsi Facing Backlash Over Power Grab
UK Telegraph: UKIP Fostering Row – “We Want Our Children Back”
Atlas Shrugs: Iran Wasting No Time In Rearming Hamas
Weekly Standard Blog: Don’t Forget About The Payroll Tax
Legal Insurrection: Iron Dome’s Big Brother, Magic Wand
Power Line: Why Did Obama Broker A Victory For Hamas?
Ed Morrissey: Unrestricted Drones For Me But Not For Thee?
Protein Wisdom: When Leftists Use Twitter Without A Chaperone

Category: Live at Five

The Dishonesty of Bill Schmalfeldt

Posted on | November 25, 2012 | 21 Comments

His initials are B.S., which is about all anyone would need to know about him, if he weren’t obsessively cyberstalking people, including my wife. But he has persisted — sending me more than 200 Twitter messages in a 48-hour period from Friday through Sunday afternoon — and his continuing career of harassment means that you’re likely to be hearing more about Bill Schmalfeldt in the near future.

Like all trolls, Schmalfeldt is a compulsive bandwidth bandit. It is not enough for him to express his opinions in his own online space. He must impose himself in your space, too.

While writing as the “Liberal in Baltimore” for the Examiner, in April, Schmalfeldt decided to try to hijack the comments field in a column by conservative Examiner colunnist Joe Newby, about the obnoxious anti-Christian remarks made by Dan Savage. Apparently, Schmalfeldt’s comments have since been deleted, but you can tell by the responses from Newby’s supporters that Schmalfeldt was quite personal in his attacks.

That kind of behavior, I’m told, violated the contract terms for Examiner contributors and ultimately led to the end of Schmalfeldt’s tenure as Liberal in Baltimore” at the Examiner, although he shortly thereafter re-emerged at the Examiner as “Bill Matthews” of Wisconsin. Schmalfeldt claims that this alias was not used to deceive Examiner management, asserting that he perpetrated this pseudonymous deception with the full knowledge and permission of Examiner editors.

Either way, Schmalfeldt used his “Bill Matthews” persona dishonestly, as Lee Stranahan explains:

[Schmalfeldt] mocked Andrew Breitbart’s death and deliberately misled Examiner readers about a website and Twitter account that he made specifically to mock Andrew’s loss. This is a horrible person. And further, he defends Brett Kimberlin in the story. This is a sick, twisted person.
Here’s the article Schmalfeldt wrote under an assumed name where he says:

Yesterday, someone started a satirical website called “Big Damnation.” It is a swipe at the right wing blogosphere posing as the late Andrew Breitbart, blogging from hell, where his eternal punishment is to “tell the truth forever and ever” to make up for the lies he told in life. The name pokes fun at the “Big Government” and “Big Journalism” sites Breitbart operated before his “Big Heart Attack” on March 1. The blog had an accompanying Twitter account @DeadAndrew.

Someone? SOMEONE started a website? No, YOU did. YOU, the author of the article. So you’re covering that up.

By the time “Bill Matthews” wrote about “Big Damnation” and “@DeadAndrew,” Twitchy had already identitified its author as the “festering human pustule” that is @liberalgrouch, Schmalfeldt’s Twitter handle. This was discovered by Aaron Walker, but it took another three weeks before Examiner ceased publishing “Bill Matthews.”

During that time, Schmalfeldt/”Matthews” continue pushing predictable liberal smears:

Schmalfeldt/”Matthews” also produced a four-part series attacking GOP nominee Mitt Romney for being a Mormon, and took some more cheap shots at Andrew Breitbart’s legacy:

A few days later, the Examiner and “Matthews” parted ways. Was he fired or did he resign? Schmalfeldt says it was the latter, but if there is one thing we know for sure, it is this: Bill Schmalfeldt is a liar.

UPDATE: I find it difficult to believe that anyone at the Examiner would knowingly have re-hired Schmalfeldt/”Matthews” after what he wrote at Daily Kos on May 11, denouncing the Examiner as a “content generation algorithm disguising itself as a ‘legitimate news source.'”

Grant that the Examiner is wretchedly mismanaged — trust me, I’ve got friends who work there — but why would they re-hire Schmalfeldt? If the Anschutz empire would fire whoever was responsible for that idiotic decision, it would certainly be an improvement to their organization.

Meanwhile, Lee Stranahan points out that Schmalfeldt is “Too Disgusting For Daily Kos,” where he has evidently been persona non grata since May 20.

 


Category: Bill Schmalfeldt
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