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It’s Black Friday Deals Week!

Posted on | November 19, 2012 | 5 Comments

 

Yes, that’s right — it’s the best week of the year to shop our Amazon Associates links, get great bargains and also help provide a small commission for the blog at no extra cost to you!

Why fight the crowds at the mall, when there are new specials every day during Black Friday Deals Week right here at your favorite blog? Amazon provides free shipping for most purchases over $25 and, when you shop our Amazon Associates links, I get paid. Which is kinda cool.

 

Category: Amazon

LIVE AT FIVE: 11.19.12

Posted on | November 19, 2012 | 2 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho


TOP NEWS
Latest Israel-Hamas Clash More Risky In Changed Mideast

A Palestinian mourns a dead relative in a Gaza morgue

Will Morsi’s Egypt and Erdogan’s Turkey aid Hamas?

Obama Arrives In Burma
Says trip not an endorsement of government

Biden: Sandy Victims Have A Homeboy In The Whitehouse
Practically family! Just like George Obama!



POLITICS
Democrat Leads But West Still Fighting As Reporting Deadline Passes In FL-18

Congressman Allen West

House, NRCC, unions deploy lawyers to observe recount

Obama Speaks With Business Leaders In Weekend Followup

Public Nudity Ban Up For Vote Tuesday In Fed-Up San Francisco

Is Mark Warner Thinking About Running For Governor Again?

Marco Rubio Goes To Iowa, Takes Early Step Towards 2016

Bobby Jindal’s Advice To The GOP

Congress To Investigate Benghazi “Talking Points”



THE ECONOMY, STUPID
Oil Prices Drop On Weak Demand; NYMEX $85.41, Brent $108.14
Yen Hits Seven-Month Low On Possible Calls For Easing
Walmart Fights Back Against Black Friday Strike Threats
Investors Rush To Beat Threat Of Higher Taxes
Asia Stocks Up Over Optimism On US Budget
EU Bids To Keep Lid On Greek Crisis As IMF Criticizes Debt Extension
EPA Refuses To Waive Ethanol Mandate For Gasoline
Nintendo Shakes Up Playing Field With Wii U Game Pad
Anonymous Attacks Israeli Websites
Google Fined $22.5 Million Over Safari Privacy Issue
“Black Ops II” Hits $500 Million In First-Day Sales
Google App Bug Cancels Christmas, December
“Hitman: Absolution” Aims High But Misses The Mark



SPORTS
Ravens Shut Down Steelers 13-10

Ravens RB Bernard Pierce

Baltimore now two games ahead of Pittsburgh in AFC North


Colts Get Crushed By Patriots 59-24

Brad Keselowski Wins Sprint Cup At Homestead-Miami

Irish, Crimson Tide 1-2 In BCS Rankings

Manning Throws 3 TDs, Broncos Beat Chargers 30-24

Jets, Ryan Save Season With 27-13 Win Against Rams

Cowboys Squeak By Browns In OT

Eagles Players See End Near For Coach Reid After 31-6 Loss To Redskins



FAMOUS FOR BEING FAMOUS
Selena Gomez, Taylor Swift Meet For Dinner

Swift and Gomez

Meeting for giggly dinner at LA’s Osteria La Buca

Lindsay Lohan Wants Nothing To Do With Her Half-Sister

“Breaking Dawn Part II” Bites Off $340.2 Million Opening Weekend

“Basketball Wives” To VH1: Pay Up Or We Walk

Christina Aguilera And Nicki Minaj Go Blonde And Bold At AMAs

ABC Cancels “Last Resort” And “666 Park Avenue”

Missouri Man Charged With Planning Midnight “Twilight” Shooting



FOREIGNERS
Glum Spain Hosts Summit For Booming Latin American Countires
Israel Blows Up Gaza Police HQ On Sixth Day Of Operation
ASEAN To Press PRC For Talks On South China Sea
Mumbai Crawls Back To Its Feet After Bal Thackeray Funeral
French Right Descends Into Farce With Bitter Battle To Become Sarkozy’s Heir
Incoming PRC President Xi Jinping Warns CCP To Fight Corruption Or Face National Disaster
Congolese Rebels Advance On Goma
MEPs Sign Letter Calling For Irish Abortion Legislation



BLOGS & STUFF
JPost: A Decisive Conclusion Is Necessary
Legal Insurrection: All Hail Obama!
NewsBusters: Sunday Hype – Reuters Claims a “Romney Drubbing”
Lonely Conservative: The Fine Parsing Of Denial
Althouse: Lindsey Graham On Fire On “Meet The Press”
Astute Bloggers: The Money Angle Of The Petraeus Affair Is Finally Breaking Through To The MSM
Breitbart: Bloggers Spot More Dead Child Fakery By Hamas; CNN Fooled
Gateway Pundit: Dead Child Used For Propaganda Pix was Killed By Hamas, Not IDF
Chicago Boyz: Reports Of The Economy’s Demise Are Premature, But Not By Much
Marginal Revolution: Don’t Mess With The Mouse
Conservatives4Palin: Charlotte Allen Suggests GOP Take The Palin Cure
Protein Wisdom: Eco-Tyranny – Obama’s Second Term

Category: Live at Five

‘Another Person Known to the Grand Jury’ in the Barrett Brown Indictment?

Posted on | November 18, 2012 | 16 Comments

Barrett Brown calmly explains why he’s going to ‘destroy’ an FBI agent

On Sept. 12, former Anonymous spokesman Barrett Brown was arrested in Texas after he posted a bizarre YouTube video rant in which he threatened to “destroy” an FBI Special Agent.

In March, Brown had been raided, but not arrested, by the FBI at the time that the feds busted the “LulzSec” hackers, a splinter of Anonymous.

About a week before Brown’s meltdown, on Sept. 3, he had accosted me on Twitter, threatening to sue me for having reported the widespread suspicion that he was cooperating with the federal investigation of Anonymous. I laughed off Brown’s absurd threat, telling him he needed a psychiatrist more than he needed a lawyer. His subsequent video freakout and arrest tended to confirm my judgment. On Oct. 3, Brown was indicted on three federal felony charges:

A federal grand jury in Dallas returned a three-count indictment . . . charging Barrett Lancaster Brown in Count One with making an Internet threat; in Count Two with conspiring to make restricted personal information of an employee of the United States publically available, and in Count Three with retaliation against a federal law enforcement officer.  Brown, 31, a resident of Dallas, was taken into federal custody last month for the conduct described in the indictment.

Click here to see a PDF of the federal indictment against Brown. While it is customary to make the disclaimer that Brown is presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law, I think anyone reading the indictment will conclude that the feds have got an open-and-shut case.

What I found intriguing, however, was Page Eight of the indictment, which describes Count Two against Brown for conspiring to publish “restricted information” about the FBI Special Agent and the agent’s family, “with the intent to threaaten and intimidate the Special Agent and to incite the commoission of a crime of violence against the Special Agent.” The indictment alleges that in September 2012, Brown “requested another person known to the grand jury to assist him find on the Internet restricted information” about the agent and the agent’s family “and that the other person agreed to do so, and furthermore, the other person did conduct a search on the Internet for the restricted information.”

Hmmm. Who is “another person known to the grand jury”? If Barrett Brown is facing federal prison time for conspiring to do this, why haven’t charges been filed against “another person known to the grand jury,” with whom Brown (allegedly) conspired?

This intrigues me because I know that Barrett Brown was in communication with Neal Rauhauser prior to Brown’s arrest. And we know that Rauhauser is rather notorious for his online research. If Barrett Brown wanted to “dox” an FBI agent, wouldn’t Neal Rauhauser be the sort of person whose assistance he might solicit?

Well, this is mere speculation, but whether or not Rauhauser was “another person known to the grand jury,” the question remains: Why hasn’t Barrett Brown’s unnamed co-conspirator been charged?

Category: Barrett Brown, Crime

LGF New Tune: Hurray for Pallywood!

Posted on | November 18, 2012 | 21 Comments

It may be necessary to explain that, once upon a time, Little Green Footballs was one of the most influential blogs, linked and cited by everyone from Rush Limbaugh to Matt Drudge.

Since 2007, however, LGF has imploded, following the apparent mental breakdown of its operator, Charles Johnson, who went psycho on Pamela Geller, embraced global warming, began attacking climate-change “denialists,” declared war on the Tea Party and presided over months of frenzied purges during which he and his henchmen banned thousands of the site’s former commenters, eventually banning even some of the LGF henchmen who had led the original wave of purges.

One thing the old LGF used to do was to debunk anti-U.S. or anti-Israel propaganda, including the staged or manipulated photos and videos known as “Pallywood.” For a recent example of “Pallywood,” consider the BBC News video showing an “injured” Palestinian man, allegedly a victim of Israeli air strikes in Gaza, being carried away from the scene, only to re-appear later walking and apparently uninjured:

Little Green Footballs used to devote entire threads to debunking that stuff but now? Ythey’re making elaborate defenses of Palestinian propaganda, doing frame-by-frame analysis, classifying skeptics as “far-right” and motivated by “bigotry,” and generally doing the exact opposite of what LGF did back in its glory days.

UPDATE: Diary of Daedalus chronicles the ongoing autobeclownment of Charles Johnson and Little Green Footballs.

Category: Charles Johnson, Israel

Rule 5 Sunday

Posted on | November 18, 2012 | 11 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho


As usual, don’t follow the links if you’re at work or someplace else not appropriate for the viewing of nude women.


Blessed Blasphemy leads off with Jennifer Love Hewitt, Randy’s Roundtable follows with Evan Rachel Wood, and Reaganite Republican has “the REAL Miss America,” Vanessa Dobos. Laughing Conservative presents Vanessa Union, First Street Journal has a timely portfolio of IDF women, and the Jerseynut puts in a good word (and not a few pix) for the Unspeakable Armenian. Elsewhere, the Grumpy Old Man takes notice of Yvonne Strahovski.


EBL mourns the passing of Twinkie The Kid with this portfolio of girls eating Twinkies, some more tastefully than others. Also, Paula Broadwell reads from her magnum opus!


El Opinador Compulsivo returns after feverish work on the new telenovela, Real Housewives of El Opinador. Also, Holly Michaels, the ladies of “How I Met Your Mother”, neck exercises, on the balcony, having coffee, remembering last night, poetry, and girls with cameras.


A View From The Beach kicks off with Anne Hathaway’s Les Miserables diet, reasons for not learning Italian, midnight music with Joss Stone, Rio (which is always its won excuse), an ad for Zom-Be-Gone from Lollipop Chainsaw, useful how-to videos, and a Veterans’ Day pinup post.


Soylent Green begins with Great Moments In Advertising (comments are a must-read), then come Monday Motivationer Natasha, Tuesday Titillation Mia, a gross failure of comment stoicism, Humpday Hawt Jenni Lee, hidden treasure, Aussie Ugg peddlers, Overnighty Christine, Corsetcare Again, AM Awesome Amber, a nice afternoon for a ride, and Evening Awesome Katie.


At The Camp of the Saints, it’s Kelly Andrews, Lebanese Loreleis, and the Rule 5 News; Dustbury checks in with Laura San Giacomo and an appreciation of Petula Clark on her 80th birthday.


The Daley Gator’s DaleyBabes this week include Barbara Mori (with more Rule 5 linkagery!), Tiffany Hynes, Rosie Roff, Julia Ling, Stephanie Jacobson, Hitomi Kaikawa, and Sakura Sato.


Thanks to everyone for their linkagery! Deadline for next week’s Rule 5 Sunday is Saturday, November 24; all e-mail should go to the Rule 5 Wombat mailbox.

Category: Rule 5

Justice Delayed in Girl’s Murder

Posted on | November 18, 2012 | 6 Comments

In 1970, 9-year-old Donna Willing was kidnapped, raped and strangled in Milwaukee. The investigation of her murder failed to solve the crime, but in 2007, Donna’s younger sister persuaded detectives to re-open the case. The cold-case investigation soon identified a suspect: Convicted sex offender Robert Hill, who had lived next door to Donna’s family at the time of the murder. Hill was serving a prison sentence for his sexual assaults on four children between 1995 and 2002. Hill made two separate confessions:

Hill first told police he sexually assaulted Donna after she got into his car that night, according to court documents. She began to squirm and slapped him. He became angry, afraid she would tell on him. He strangled her and dumped her body in a garage. It all took about 10 minutes, he said.
In another account outlined in court documents, Hill said he molested Donna for years, and that night picked her up in his car and raped her. After she screamed, he put his hand over her mouth and strangled her.
Hill, who is now being in held a supervised facility, has since recanted both statements. But Balash said Hill’s statements contained specifics of Donna’s injuries that hadn’t been released publicly. . . .

Read the whole thing. Unfortunately, physical evidence in the Donna Willing was thrown away by police years ago, so there is no DNA or other forensic evidence available, but prosecutors are seeking the death penalty against Hill, who is now 73 years old. It is sad that he was not apprehended immediately for that 1970 crime, which would have spared Hill’s other victims.

Category: Crime, Wisconsin

Will Israel Invade Gaza Again?

Posted on | November 18, 2012 | 10 Comments

Israeli air attacks now are, in the words of IDF Capt. Eytan Buchman, “part of our overarching goal of toppling Hama’s command and control capabilities.” That is to say, degrading the organizational infrastructure, which would hinder a concerted resistance to an Israel invasion on the ground in Gaza. The IDF has mobilized reserves and is clearly prepared to make such an invasion, but U.S. officials are worried:

The Obama administration is increasingly concerned about the escalating violence in Gaza, believing that a ground incursion by Israel there could lead to increased civilian casualties, play into the hands of the militant Palestinian group Hamas and inflict further damage to Israel’s standing in the region at an already tumultuous time.
Though President Obama uttered immediate and firm public and private assurances that Israel has a right to defend itself from rocket attacks emanating from Gaza, administration officials have been privately urging Israeli officials not to extend the conflict, a move that many American officials believe could benefit Hamas.

Frankly, I doubt Bibi Netanyahu will let his military options be dictated by worry-warts in Washington — or London, for that matter. Melanie Phillips notes that British Foreign Secretary William Hague is making concern-troll noises about the “international support” Israel might lose if it sends troops into Gaza:

So according to these leaders, Israel absolutely has the right to defend itself — but not actually to take the action that will defeat its attackers! And just whose international support might Israel lose by such a casualty toll? Why, the support of leaders like Hague and Obama!  What hypocrisy, furthermore, from those who have been bombing the living daylights out of Afghanistan but impose a totally different standard on Israel.

Western leaders who reserve to themselves the right to use military power as they see fit, evidently wish to apply a special standard to Israel, and if Netanyahu ignores them, perhaps it will disabuse Israel’s enemies of the idea that Israel is a tool of Western imperalism.

It was on the occasion of the three-week Israeli invasion of Gaza in January 2009 that I invoked Sonny Corleone’s famous warning to Carlo: “If you touch my sister again, I’ll kill you.”

Some people never learn . . .

UPDATE: In the aftermath of the 2009 Gaza War, the eminent hysteric Glenn Greenwald emitted some of his inimitable idiocy about “America’s ongoing, one-sided support for Israel generally and for Israel’s attack on Gaza specifically.” This prompted me to write one of the acknowledged classic entries in the category, “Gee, Stacy, Why Don’t You Tell Us What You Really Think?”

 Swear to God, if they ever want a Gentile prime minister, my first order would be to deploy the IDF in a north-south line, facing east. My second order would be “forward march” and the order to halt would not be given until it was time for the troops to rinse their bayonets in the Jordan. After a brief rest halt, the order “about face” would be given, and the next halt would be at the Mediterranean coast.
That’s my “Middle East peace plan,” and until it’s carried out, there will be no peace.

That post inspired Andrew Sullivan to nominate me for a “Malkin Award” and, in the final voting, I placed second to Glenn Beck that year.

 

 

Category: Israel

Geopolitics and ‘Amateur Assclowns’

Posted on | November 18, 2012 | 91 Comments

Daily Caller tech editor Josh Peterson quotes me accurately about the Anonymous hacker war against Israel:

“These people who engage in these attacks don’t know me from Adam, and all they know is ‘Oh, TheOtherMcCain.com has criticized Anonymous,” he said.
He is also critical of the severity of the impact that Anonymous’ activities have on geopolitics, stating that “we may be on the verge of Armageddon” in the Middle East.
“This is serious stuff. This is global geopolitics involved here, and for these amateur ass-clowns, the laptop brigades, to be fucking around here,” said McCain.
“Are they insane?” he said.

Read the rest. Excuse the blunt language, but if these Anonymous hackers think they can side with Hamas against Israel without consequence, they’ve got another think coming. Dude, if the FBI gets you, that’s one thing. If the Mossad ever gets you? Hey, accidents happen:

The Israel Air force struck Hamas leader Ismael Haniyeh’s headquarters in the northern Gaza Strip early Saturday morning, according to the IDF Spokesman’s Office.

Oops. Here’s video from the guided missile camera:

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Category: Israel, Terrorism
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