The Other McCain

"One should either write ruthlessly what one believes to be the truth, or else shut up." — Arthur Koestler

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

Rule 5 Sunday: Palate Cleanser

Posted on | November 25, 2012 | 11 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho


…aaaand I’m back. Sometimes, it’s good to get away from the Intertubes for a few days, you know? Insert the usual disclaimer here.


Three Beers Later leads off this week with a unique Rule 5 GOP Commemorative post, while A Trainwreck In Maxwell debuts with some S.E. Cupp goodness. Fishersville Mike is serving some flashback with Rice, Laughing Conservative has Rachel Cordingly, and Randy’s Roundtable has some Thanksgiving football cheerleader pix. Grumpy Old Man, on the other hand, apparently prefers women with cats. Blessed Blasphemy has a Rule 5 Thanksgiving; also, Danica McKellar!


EBL has some Kate Upton Holiday Travel Rule 5, contemporary and vintage Turkey Day Rule 5, and an episode of I Dream of Jeannie in honor of the late Larry Hagman.


Soylent Green opens with some NFL counter-programming, Monday Motivationer Jordan, Overnighty Valentina, Tuesday Titillation Phoenix, Humpday Hawt Featurette Brandi, a pubic health message, a Happy Soylent Thanksgiving, Corsetcare Paint, and Happy Hour Hawt Kellie. Also, the Blog Traffic Suckage Counter-offensive, Overnighty Holly, AM Awesome Mary Elisha, Afternooner Bethanie, and Evening Awesome Michelle.


A View From The Beach offers Swedish Meatball Victoria Silvstedt, snakes, foreign beer commercials, Thanksgiving pinups, a trick shot, obligatory cavegirls, and Zooey singing “Baby It’s Cold Outside” with Will Ferrell.


El Opinador Compulsivo reminds us that Rule 5 also means no poofters! By way of illustration: Vanessa Hessler, Rhian Sugden, ladies of the IDF, a nerd trap, Kate Upton, Summer of ’84 in Argentina, a knitting experiment gone wild, and a visitor from Ramallah.


Proof Positive’s Friday Night Babe is Veena Malik, vintage babe is omitted this week in favor of Thanksgiving pinups, Sex (and maybe love) in Advertising, the obligatory 49ers cheerleader, and five naked gals in a NSFW Penn & Teller video. Dustbury offers Victoria Justice, Jill Hennessy, and some bonus Angie Dickinson. At The Camp of the Saints, it’s Hailee Rain, the Mammary Murder Plot, and the Rule 5 News.


The DaleyGator’s DaleyBabes for this week include Paola Garicia, Satomi Suzuki, Jazsmine Lewis, Maggie Grace, Nana Ninomiya, Lesley Ann Brandt, and Katrina Law.


Thanks to everyone for their linkagery! Links for next week’s Rule 5 roundup will be due to the Rule 5 Wombat mailbox by Saturday, December 1.

Category: Rule 5

BHO, Theoretically Best President EVAR!

Posted on | November 25, 2012 | 16 Comments

by Smitty

Of course, as I’m wont to say, “The difference between theory and practice is greater in practice than in theory.” The Right Scoop, and Radio Equalizer  point to Al “Not so” Sharpton, who seemingly cannot differentiate between public and private sector:

One of the reasons that I think people do not understand that unemployment has gone down and in some cases black unemployment and Latino’s has remained stagnant, is over the last thirty two months Dr. Hutchinson, they’ve increased jobs and found jobs – unemployment has gone down in the private sector. What has not gone down is [unemployment] in the public sector and blacks in particular are disproportionately in the public sector.
One of the reasons those jobs have gone down or have remained down is one, the Republicans are cutting a lot of the agencies where we are the employees of government jobs – government employees, and a lot of those jobs go to governors and mayors who also have had cutbacks. So what we’ve got to do – and we addressed this to the President – is take on these governors and mayors as well as the private sector on why the private sector is getting all these contracts and bailouts and not hiring and correcting the disproportionate amount of their employment does not touch our community and have the President and them support us in that.

The overt racism in Sharpton’s point, which seems to be that governments exist to employ people of a certain racial background, is astounding.

The hilarity atop that, though is “Republicans are cutting a lot of the agencies where we are the employees of government jobs”. Past the garbled “employees of government jobs” diction, one would sure like to know when the last time any government agency, itself, was cut. Maybe Sharpton looked here and blames the GOP for the lack of any agencies beginning with K, Q, X, Y, or Z. How do you spell racist dog-whistle? Possibly ‘KQYXZ’, if you went to the Sharpton School of Illogic.

But what the gag ultimately gets at, in my mind, is the notion that the country elected some über-cerebral chap who gonna pay my mortgage, and run around fixing things. This administration running Paradox of the Incompetent Wunderkind is, for me, the crowning achievement. Never, in the history of mankind, has so much sunshine been blown up so many bottoms, by such egregious media nitwits, at such vast national expense.

Taxation without representation? Suck it, great7 grandkids!

via Mind Numbed Robot

Category: Barack Obama
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