The Other McCain

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If The GOP Can’t Win On Mature Government In 2014. . .

Posted on | November 16, 2012 | 22 Comments

by Smitty

Head ‘splodes:

Sen. Patty Murray (D-Wash.) confirmed Thursday that she will seek the chairmanship of the Senate Budget Committee next year but told The Hill that she cannot commit to doing a budget.
This opens up the possibility that Senate Democrats will avoiding passing a budget resolution for the fourth year in a row.
The last time the Senate passed a standalone budget resolution was in 2009.

via Insty

Also, Ron Paul’s farewell speech is great. Yet I think I can state my problem with Ron Paul now. Paul makes a purely intellectual pitch. Foreign policy is not as clean as a chess game. Paul arrives at an idealism as ungrounded as that of the Socialists. Which is not to endorse the foreign policy adventurism, either. I’m after some (perhaps equally nebulous) mid-point between the two.

Category: Uncategorized

Israel Continues Kicking Ass in Gaza (With Another Awesome War Porn Video)

Posted on | November 16, 2012 | 9 Comments

It is important to keep in mind that Hamas, which rules Gaza, is sworn to the utter annihilation of Israel. So any claim that Israel is “overreacting” to the Hamas missile attacks — the implication that Israel’s actions are some kind of unwarranted aggression — must be viewed skeptically, especially when you consider that Hamas gets its missiles from Iran, which is similarly sworn to the annihilation of Israel. With these caveats, here is the “balanced” New York Times article:

Israel and Hamas brushed aside international calls for restraint on Thursday and escalated their lethal conflict over Gaza, where Palestinian militants launched hundreds of rockets into Israeli territory, targeting Tel Aviv for the first time, and Israel intensified its aerial assaults and sent armored vehicles rumbling toward the Gaza border for a possible invasion. . . .
[Israeli defense minister Ehud Barak] authorized the call-up of 30,000 army reservists if needed, another sign that Israel was preparing to invade Gaza for the second time in four years to crush what it considers an unacceptable security threat from smuggled rockets amassed by Hamas, the militant Islamist group that governs the isolated coastal enclave and does not recognize Israel’s right to exist. . . .
Health officials in Gaza said at least 19 people, including five children and a pregnant teenager, had been killed over two days of nearly nonstop aerial attacks by Israel, and dozens had been wounded. Three Israelis were killed on Thursday in Kiryat Malachi, this small southern Israeli town, when a rocket fired from Gaza struck their apartment house. . . .
Denunciations of Israel for what critics called a renewal of its aggressive and disproportionate attacks spread quickly on the second day of the aerial assaults. The biggest criticism came from the 120-nation Nonaligned Movement, the largest bloc at the United Nations. In a statement released by Iran, which holds the group’s rotating presidency and is one of Israel’s most ardent foes, the group said: “Israel, the occupying power, is, once more, escalating its military campaign against the Palestinian people, particularly in the Gaza Strip.” The group made no mention of the Palestinian rocket fire aimed at Israel but condemned “this act of aggression by the Israelis and their resort to force against the defenseless people” and demanded “decisive action by the U.N. Security Council.”

Remember: This started last week when Hamas fired more than 100 missiles into Israel. To call Israel’s response an “act of aggression by the Israelis” is simply a lie, the exact opposite of truth. Why does the New York Times feel obligated to publish Iran’s lies? I dunno.

The Iran-backed Jew-haters in Hamas are supported by freelance Jew-haters on Twitter — with warm approval from “Anonymous,” of course — and you have to ask yourself why Twitter permits this:

 

However, the hottest account on Twitter this week is @IDFSpokesperson, which provides 100% pure awesomeness:

Here is an IDF video showing a strike against a Hamas rocket warehouse. Keep an eye out for the secondary explosions:

 

Gosh, I love secondary explosions. That’s good war-porn, man.

 

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Category: Israel, Terrorism

LIVE AT FIVE: 11.16.12

Posted on | November 16, 2012 | 5 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho


TOP NEWS
Egyptian PM Arrives In Gaza For Talks With Hamas On Cease-Fire

Egypt’s Prime Minister Hisham Kandil speaks to Egypt’s President Mohamed Mursi and other government ministers at the Presidential Palace in Cairo

Netanyahu agrees to cease-fire so long as Hamas does the same
Israel mobilizes 30,000 reservists for possible Gaza invasion


Aung San Suu Kyi Explains Silence On Rohingyas
Wants to promote reconciliation

Bernanke Complains Tight Credit Hurting Economy
Poor, minorities hardest hit



POLITICS
Senators Call For Special Committee On Libya

General David Petraeus

General Petraeus agrees to testify; Reid rejects call for committee

President Obama: Disaster Tourist

Sixth Circuit Court Of Appeals Rules Michigan Affirmative Action Ban Unconstitutional

Online Initiative To Offer College Courses For Credit

Feds Extend Deadline For State Insurance Exchanges

Obama Whines About Criticism Of Susan Rice (Video)

Postal Service Reports $15.9 Billion Loss



THE ECONOMY, STUPID
Crude Oil Creeps Higher On Mideast Tension; NYMEX $86.82, Brent $110.96
BP Pleads Guilty, to Pay $4.5 Billion Fine For Gulf Disaster
Asian Stocks Advance, Led By Japan; Yen Trades Near April Low
Dow Falls For Fourth Straight Day On Jobless Claims Data, Walmart Earnings
Taxpayers On The Hook As FHA Runs Out Of Money
Dell Earnings Fall Hard As PC Sales Slide
LTE iPad Mini On Sale In Carrier Stores Today
PlayStation 3 Global Sales Hit 70 Million
Google TVs Get Gaming Service Via LG Deal
LTE Networks Vulnerable To Inexpensive Jamming Technique
Nokia Unveils HERE Maps For Multiple Mobile Platforms
Verizon, AT&T Say Wireless Networks Fully Restored After Sandy



SPORTS
Cabrera, Posey Easily Win MVP Awards

Cabrera got 22 of 28 first-place votes from baseball writers

Vote not even close as Trout passed over for AL MVP; Cabrera wins on strength of Triple Crown


Bills’ Defense Finally Shows Up In 19-14 Win Over Dolphins


Knicks Rally Late, Stay Undefeated With 104-100 Win Against Spurs

 LeBron James Leads Heat Past Nuggets In 98-93 Shocker

Bud Selig Reviewing Marlins Trade

Jets Owner Woody Johnson : Winning Games, Not PSLs, My Priority

NHL Proposes Two-Week Break In Labor Negotiations



FAMOUS FOR BEING FAMOUS
Ben Affleck: GQ’s Filmmaker Of The Year

Ben Affleck

The GQ interview

Selena Gomez Blocking Bieber Out Of Her Life

De Niro Scolds “Rude” Jay-Z

Lindsay Lohan Has a New (Half-)Sister

Heroin Charges Dropped Against Bon Jovi’s Daughter

Unspeakable Armenian To Attend Marine Corps Ball At Camp Lejeune

“American Horror Story” Renewed For Third Season

Rihanna Parties With Fans And Journalists On 777 Tour

Kelly Clarkson’s Life With BF Brendon Blackstock Is Like “A Cheesy Love Song”

NBC’s “Guys With Kids” Gets Order For Four More Episodes



FOREIGNERS
Egyptians Bid For Truce As Israel Mobilizes
As Noda Dissolves Diet, LDP and DPJ Stake Out Competing Economic Visions
Will PRC’s New Leaders Implement Bold Reforms?
Croatian Generals’ War Crimes Convictions Overturned
Obama’s Asian Tour Gets PRC’s Attention
Sri Lanka’s Army To Recruit Tamil Women
PRC Premier Wen Jiabao To Visit Cambodia, Thailand



BLOGS & STUFF
Breitbart: CNN Reports Petraeus To Amend Testimony; Knew Benghazi Attack Was Terrorism “Almost Immediately”
Kirsten Powers: Obama’s Silly, Sexist Defense Of Susan Rice
Power Line: DNI, Acting DCIA Can’t Answer Key Benghazi Questions; Perhaps Petraeus Will
NewsBusters: Bylined Democratic Party Operative Soledad O’Brien Grills GOP Congressman On Susan Rice, Lets Democrat Off The Hook
The Lid: Operation Pillar Of Defense – Day Two Blogger Briefing
Reason: Okalhoma Doctors Vs. Obamacare (Video)
NRO Corner: Did Romney Lose Because More Americans Blamed Bush For The Economy?
Karl Rove: The Lessons Of Defeat For the GOP
Lonely Conservative: Senate Democrats Won’t Commit To Passing A Budget
Jawa Report: Pallywood Returns To Gaza
Rush Limbaugh: A Post-Election Flood Of Economic Revisions
Daniel Henninger: Barack Obama’s Persuasion Army
Weasel Zippers: Jesse Jackson Jr. Won’t Resign From Congress Until He Gets Disability
Protein Wisdom: Progressive Tyranny

Category: Live at Five

Women’s Basketball Star Revealed as Lesbian, Also Violently Crazy

Posted on | November 15, 2012 | 21 Comments

Chamique Holdsclaw is 6-foot-2, 172 pounds. She was a three-time NCAA champion at the University of Tennessee and, during her 11 seasons of pro basketball, averaged nearly 17 points per game. And she is now wanted on an aggravated assault charge:

An arrest warrant was issued for former basketball star Chamique Holdsclaw on Thursday after a dispute with a woman allegedly turned violent, Atlanta police said.
Holdsclaw, 35, of Smyrna, was not in custody Thursday afternoon, according to jail records. The warrant is for aggravated assault, criminal damage to property and reckless conduct, police said. . . .
[Jennifer] Lacy, who is also a professional basketball player, said she drove to a friend’s house on Hemphill Avenue, at which time Holdsclaw got out of her car with a baseball bat and began smashing the windows in Lacy’s Range Rover, the report said.
After breaking the driver’s side window, a rear passenger’s window and the rear window, Holdsclaw produced a handgun, fired inside the SUV and fled the scene, the report said.

Holdsclaw’s Twitter profile describes her as a “mental health advocate,” and I suppose bashing in your ex-girlfriend’s car windows — with a few pistol shots thrown in for good measure — might be considered therapeutic in some sense. NTTAWWT.

I point this out because Amanda Marcotte says right-wingers have “a deep fear and loathing of female sexuality.” Yeah, if by “fear and loathing” you mean nightmares about a crazy 6-foot-2 lesbian chasing after me with a baseball bat and a pistol, I plead guilty.

UPDATE: Holdsclaw has turned herself into police and is being held in Fulton County Jail. So we’re safe. At least until she makes bail.

UPDATE II: Oh, my — this probably isn’t great publicity for the lesbian reality TV show Chamique Holdsclaw was co-producing:

Looking to capitalize on the reality TV craze while busting myths about lesbians, producers of “The Real Women of America” have cast a trailer with a diverse set of local women as its would-be stars.
With lofty goals to produce a “Real Housewives”-type franchise and expand into cities including New York, San Francisco, Miami and Dallas, among others, producers A.L. King, Tina Crittenden, India Alston and Chamique Holdsclaw are starting right here at home with a diverse group of locals.

Yeah, “busting myths about lesbians.” Also, busting out car windows.

Category: Crime, Gays, Sports

Thugs of a Feather: #Anonymous Supports Hamas Terrorists Against Israel

Posted on | November 15, 2012 | 152 Comments

Hamas terrorists in Gaza launched missile attacks against Israel, and now Israel is fighting back. From the comfort of their mothers’ basements, the cowardly “revolutionaries” of the Anonymous hacker conspiracy issued a manifesto accusing Israel of “barbaric, brutal and despicable treatment of the Palestinian people” and demand that the Israelis “cease and desist from your terror upon the innocent people of Palestine.”

Jessica Roy reports at the technology site BetaBeat:

Anonymous has already begun defacing multiple pro-Israel websites . . .
A Google doc, also being circulated by Anonymous, provides information about protests across the globe in response to the IDF’s military operations. A Facebook event for a protest at the New York Israeli Consulate on 42nd St. and 2nd Ave. already has over 1,000 people registered as attending.

More from Gerry Smith at the Huffington Post:

Beginning early Thursday morning, the hacker group announced a mission to crash and deface websites belonging to the Israeli Defense Forces, Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu and other Israeli websites belonging to security and financial corporations, according to Global Post.
On Twitter, an account linked to Anonymous called on followers to bring down more than 40 websites belonging to the Israeli government and military. The group is known for launching so-called “denial of service” attacks that overwhelm websites with traffic, causing them to crash. . . .
The hacker group posted a message on one website claiming to have taken down Israeli’s “top security and surveillance website.” The statement included a photo of what the group said were burning buildings in Gaza and said: “We Anonymous will not sit back and watch a cowardly Zionist State demolish innocent people’s lives.”

 So if you ever doubted that Anonymous was a terrorist organization, they have now removed all reason for doubt.

Category: Israel, Terrorism

To the Amazon Shopper Who Bought the 4,000-Watt 196cc Power Generator

Posted on | November 15, 2012 | 9 Comments

Thanks! You paid $429.99 for that Champion Power Equipment product via our Amazon Associates links, which provided me a $30.10 commission. Shopping at Amazon is a win-win, with low prices for readers and blog revenue to help keep things cranking here. Instapundit occasionally reminds his readers how this works:

InstaPundit is an Amazon affiliate. When you shop through the Amazon links on this page . . . you support this blog at no cost to yourself. It’s much appreciated when you do!

That pretty much sums it up, but from time to time I like to provide more specific examples — from the monthly sales report — of how this works: A reader bought a $179 Kindle, and I got a $12.53 commission. Another reader bought Adobe Premiere video-editing software for $84.99, and I got a $6.30 commission.

 

 

For more than a year, I’ve been trying to get some reader to buy a $20,000 diamond ring via Amazon, because if I could just sell one . . .

Well, no takers on that deal yet, but it’s coming up on the holidays, and so I’ll encourage you to shop our Amazon links for great bargains.

 

Category: Amazon

BREAKING NEWS: The Economy Sucks

Posted on | November 15, 2012 | 23 Comments

The Drudge Report featured this headline stack today:

JOBLESS…
INFLATION…
POVERTY…
RECESSION…

None of this is exactly news to anyone who was really paying attention. Unfortunately, about 62.6 million Americans weren’t paying attention Nov. 6, so that the cause of this non-news — the disastrous failure of Obamanomics — will now be extended by four years. Danielle Saul comments:

[W]e as a country have conceded to the entitlement mentality, and it is already beginning to destroy our country. Jobless claims have risen 78k since the election pushing unemployment to 439k, the highest level since April 2011.

Danielle provides an extensive list of announced layoffs. Looks like it’s going to be an un-Merry Christmas for lots of folks. And even the 1% will have a little less holiday cheer: The Dow Jones Industrial Average has lost more than 700 points since Obama was re-elected.

Maybe all those stupid young “Vagina Voters” can find some way to trade in their free contraceptives for cash.

UPDATE: The latest news:

Senate Democrats say deficit
package must include stimulus 

In other words, a deal to reduce the deficit must, according to Democrats, include more deficit spending. The Lonely Conservative writes:

Why would any sane people think that more of the same will produce a different result? Geez, we may as well go over the financial cliff now and get it over with.

Also:

If Every Food Stamp Recipient Voted For Obama,
It Would Account For 75% Of His Total

So, between food stamps and contraceptives for “Vagina Voters,” Obama bought re-election by giving away “free” stuff paid for with money taken from taxpayers who voted against him.

 

Category: Economics

Obama Administration’s Benghazi Gambit: Protect Rice, Scapegoat CIA

Posted on | November 15, 2012 | 12 Comments

A suspiciously timely scoop:

CBS News has obtained the CIA talking points given to U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice on Sept. 15 regarding the fatal attack on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya, four days earlier. CBS News correspondent Margaret Brennan says the talking points, which were also given to members of the House intelligence committee, make no reference to terrorism being a likely factor in the assault, which left U.S. Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans dead.
Rice . . . has been attacked by Republican lawmakers for saying . . . on Sept. 16 that all indications were the attack “began spontaneously” – suggesting it likely sprang from a protest against an anti-Muslim video found on the Internet. Protests of that nature had been seen in other Muslim nations in the days and weeks before the Benghazi attack.
“Available information suggests that the demonstrations in Benghazi were spontaneously inspired by the U.S. Embassy in Cairo and evolved into a direct assault… There are indications that extremists participated,” read the CIA’s talking points.

Ed Morrissey observes:

It seems interesting this CBS scoop comes shortly before both the current and former directors of the CIA will testify as to what they know about the terrorist attack on our consulate and CIA annex in Benghazi. Why, it’s almost as if someone at the White House or State Department wanted to follow up on Barack Obama’s defense of Susan Rice during yesterday’s press conference and pre-empt any potential fallout from whatever Mike Morell and David Petraeus have to say today and tomorrow.

Extreme naïveté is necessary to believe anything the Obama administration says and extreme cynicism is necessary to pretend that the Obama administration is telling the truth. So, are the pro-Obama media naive fools or cynical hacks? We report. You decide.

Meanwhile, Jill Kelley has lost her “honorary consul general” privileges, whatever the heck that means.

 

Category: Barack Obama, Libya, Scandal
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