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BOB MENENDEZ AND HOOKERS?

Posted on | October 31, 2012 | 77 Comments

Dominican hookers, to be specific. This is what we’re hearing about the sex scandal involving a “powerful senator” in a headline being touted by Drudge, with a story by the Daily Caller promised late tonight.

UPDATE: Shortly after the Drudge Report headline went up, my associate Ali Akbar got a tip that the story involved Sen. Menendez of New Jersey and at least one prostitute with whom he trysted on a taxpayer-funded trip to the Dominican Republic. Within one hour, Akbar had confirmed this with other sources, and we understand that numerous reporters in D.C. have heard similar reports.

UPDATE II: Some online sources are saying underaged Dominican hookers, but Ali’s sources cannot confirm the age of the alleged partner.

UPDATE III: Menendez’s Republican challenger is Joe Kyrillos who, unless I’m mistaken, suddenly became a serious contender.

UPDATE IV: The Daily Caller’s Matthew Boyle:

Two women from the Dominican Republic told The Daily Caller that Democratic New Jersey Sen. Bob Menendez paid them for sex earlier this year.
In interviews, the two women said they met Menendez around Easter at Casa de Campo, an expensive 7,000 acre resort in the Dominican Republic. They claimed Menendez agreed to pay them $500 for sex acts, but in the end they each received only $100.The women spoke through a translator in the company of their attorney, Melanio Figueroa. Both asked that their identities remain obscured for fear of reprisals in the Dominican Republic. . . .
Asked about the allegations, Menendez spokeswoman Tricia Enright refused to answer any questions on the subject. “We’re not going to respond to a completely false accusation,” she wrote by email.
It is known that Sen. Menendez has been a regular visitor to the Dominican Republic. On at least one occasion, according to a news account, Menendez has been a guest at the Casa de Campo home of a friend and campaign donor named Salomon Melgen, an ophthalmologist and owner of an eye clinic in Florida.

What would Lilly Ledbetter say?

UPDATE V (Smitty): Thank you to our linkers!

UPDATE VI: The story moves forward:

 

Category: Democrats, Election 2012, New Jersey, Scandal, Senate, Sex

Unborn People With An Interest In Life May Have A Conflict With Eric Holder

Posted on | October 31, 2012 | 6 Comments

by Smitty

Workin’ hard, tryin’ to muster some surprise:

Just cleared in the “Fast and Furious” gunrunning debacle, the nation’s top lawman now faces allegations that his connection to Dr. Tyrone Cecil Malloy is a conflict of interest that helps explain Holder’s failure to prosecute abortion providers who run afoul of federal law.
Critics say it also may explain why Holder has been eager to prosecute pro-life advocates who counsel women outside abortion clinics.

Read the whole sordid thing. Is Eric the kind of guy who’d withhold support if you were locked in a firefight that could cost you your life? Sure wish I could answer that in the negative.

Update: linked at Hogewash.

Category: Eric Holder

@bobby_knuckles Brings The Funny

Posted on | October 31, 2012 | 39 Comments

by Smitty

Some lefty weenie named ‘Bobby Knuckles’ (after that which he drags?) bethinks himself a comic:


(Click for full size–UPDATE: or, indeed, to view it, as somebody has their laundry in a bunch over what amounts to pure piffle.)


As a part of this blog’s relentless quest for clarity, combined with our tireless efforts to help Lefties liberate their heads from dark, confined locations, I will now aid @bobby_knuckles with a round of Sentence Completion:
Typical Liberal . . .completion
Embraces higher education and persons of learning . . .because if that radical feminist book doesn’t look like a teddy bear, you may not have dropped enough acid yet at your Noam Chomsky Gangnam party.
Aspires to finish graduate school and views life as continuous learning process . . .one of these years, when the school wearies of seeing her face and grants a degree in ‘Critical Trans-racial Trans-gender Transmission Theory Studies’.
Positions formed from facts, logic, study, reason, and careful analysis . . .for fact-free, non-Euclidian, sophomoric, un-serious, irrational and irresponsible values of ‘analysis’.
Willing to re-visit own positions or question conventional wisdom on the auspices that improvements can be uncovered . . .on her own time, while carefully explaining to adults: “SHUT UP!”
Respectful of the Golden Rule: “How would policy changes affect me if I was wearing the other guy’s shoes?” . . .because she’s too steeped in her Paganism to recall that the Golden Rule hasn’t got a thing to do with public policy, in the sense of ‘policy changes’.
Gathers information from sources that at the very least strive towards being objective or impartial . . .as defined by the New York Times, which, for example, had 93 front page articles on Valerie Plame, compared to a whopping ZERO (0) so far concerning Benghazi, as they wrap themselves in Nate Silver’s spare ‘Cloak of Impartiality’ (or is that a tattered Code Pink costume?).
Pragmatic and open minded; realizes that compromise is a necessary part of working with others and making progress . . .which is why she advocates that Zimbabwe Ben offer further Quantitative Easing to fund her psychological investment in enjoying a guilt-free affluence.

In summary, Bobby, the last four years of listening to pompous little twerps assert some superiority when they ain’t packin’ the gear has my tolerance worn a little thin. If you’re wanting some life lessons, (in a serious way), I’m happy to point you to the same old place that the good advice has always been located.

However, if checking your punk attitude at the door is too great a challenge, you are cordially invited to GET OFF MY LAWN!

This post has been brought to you by the hash tag: #Caring

Update:


My pimp hand is strong.

Category: Culture, humor

BREAKING NEWS FROM OHIO: REPUBLICAN WOMEN ARE HOT

Posted on | October 31, 2012 | 40 Comments

Ann Romney (center) with Jane Portman and Cindy McCain

HAMILTON, Ohio
At the Vinylmax window factory here, about 150 Republicans — mostly women — gathered for an event with Ann Romney, who was joined by Jane Portman (wife of Ohio Sen. Rob Portman) and Cindy McCain (about whose senator husband and celebrity daughter, we will politely say nothing). And as I was editing the photos, I couldn’t help but say to myself, “Wow. Ann Romney is seriously good-looking.”

Is this superficial? Is this . . . sexist?

Who cares? It’s simply a Neutral Objective Fact. Mitt married a total fox, and the fact that she’s the mother of five sons (and the grandmother of approximately a gazillion little Romneys) does nothing to diminish the importance of Mrs. Romney’s awesome babeness. So . . .

Now that we’ve got that out of the way, the news: Mrs. Romney began by demonstrating to the crowd how to donate to the Red Cross via their cellphones. And then she told stories.

Apparently, the campaign has decided that the candidate’s wife is very good at narrative, so while Mitt’s always talking issues, issues, issues, Ann’s job is to tell heart-warming, humanizing anecdotes about her husband (who, for the sake of journalistic “balance,” must be acknowledged as ruggedly handsome in an executive kind of way).

Mrs. Romney talked abut the process of deciding whether Mitt, who lost the GOP nomination to Cindy’s husband in 2008, would run again in 2012. “I asked Mitt, ‘Is it too late to save the country?'” She then said, “It will be too late if we have another four years of this,” before relating how she told Mitt: “You must run. You have to save the country.”

That may seem like political hyperbole to some, but I consider it a Neutral Objective Fact. America must elect Mitt Romney president, so that his extremely good-looking wife can be the next First Lady of the United States — and I can become the U.S. Ambassador to Vanuatu.

But first things first, eh? As Jane Portman told the crowd: “We’ve got six more days to avoid four more years.” And here are the photos:

Lilly Ann Baker, 7, is interviewed by the local ABC affiliate, while her mother Andrea Baker watches. Lilly Ann is a second-grader at Riverview Elementary, which is kind of young to begin a career as a TV political commentator, but she knows more about Ohio than does Nate Silver.

Ann Romney shakes hands with one of her adoring fans. Let me ask you: Have you seen any stories in the mainstream media about how enormously popular Ann Romney is? Do the TV networks report about how she’s always mobbed by autograph-seekers after her speeches? And if not, why not? My theory is, the biased liberal media are purposely suppressing this news, the same way they’re sitting on the Benghazi story.

Mrs. Romney hands back a child’s boot that she just autographed. This is my favorite photo from today and, by the way, you can click on any of these photos to see them full-sized.

This is a classic part of the campaign-trail experience: TV crews interviewing the locals. It happens at every event from the Iowa caucus campaign all the way to the White House: Some random person is grabbed by a TV reporter and presented to viewers as the “typical voter.” When I see this, I just thank God that none of Mitt’s supporters could possibly be as stupid as Peggy Joseph.

OK, so much for my own snarktastic response. I’m blogging this at Panera Bread — free WiFi! — where we had a working lunch with Ali Akbar, another conservative activist who shall remain nameless, and Ohio blogger Becca Lower, whose headline for today’s event is:

Ann Romney to Red-county Ohio
Families: Help is on the way. Soon.

UPDATE: The science is settled!

Study: Female GOP politicians are
better looking than liberal politicians

Hat-tip to Wright Shumate on Twitter.

UPDATE II: Welcome, Instapundit readers! And this seems like a good time to mention that bringing you the important news from Ohio is possible only because of our readers’ generous contributions to The Shoe Leather Fund. It’s not tax-deductible, nor is it charitable. I’m proud to be a Shameless Capitalist Blogger, and this is just a sort of online expense account that makes possible this bizarre experiment in reader-supported journalism: This has never been done before because nobody else would be crazy enough to try it.

We’ve already logged thousands of miles in campaign-trail travel this year and now, with just six days to go, I remind you once again of the Five Most Important Words in the English Language:

HIT THE FREAKING TIP JAR!




 

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Category: Election 2012, Fear. Loathing., Media Bias, Ohio, Republicans, Rule 5, Shoe Leather Fund

FROM OHIO: POLLS, POLLS, POLLS

Posted on | October 31, 2012 | 28 Comments

CINCINNATI, Ohio
Pete Da Tech guy disassembles a Quinnipiac Poll that has samples of D+7 in Florida and D+8 in both Florida and Ohio, so that while Mitt Romney handily wins independent voters in both states, he nonetheless trails Obama by 1 point in Florida, 2 points in Virginia and 5 points in Ohio. These numbers are a sort of statistical hallucination. Pete quotes Ed Morrissey at Hot Air:

In each of these three states, the CBS/NYT/Q-poll shows Republicans at a lower percentage level of turnout than in the 2008 election.  If one makes that assumption, it’s not too difficult to be guess that Obama might be ahead.  However, that’s exactly the opposite of what all other polls rating enthusiasm are telling us what the electorate will look like on Tuesday.  In fact, it’s not even what this poll shows, with Republican enthusiasm +16 over Democrats in Florida, +14 in Ohio, and +7 in Virginia.

You might think some reporter at the New York Times, which co-sponsored this poll, would think it worth his while to interview the people at Quinnipiac and ask where they’re getting these weird over-samples of Democrats. What is causing this? How is it that Republicans report greater voting enthusiasm by such large margins, and yet are underrepresented in the poll’s sample? It makes no sense.

Meanwhile, there is an actual campaign to cover here in Ohio. I’m going to see Ann Romney’s 11:30 a.m. event in Hamilton.

Category: Da Tech Guy, Ed Morrissey, Election 2012, Fear. Loathing., Ohio, Polls

Shorter Gingrich: ‘Benghazi Fertilizer On Collision Course With The Air Circulator’

Posted on | October 31, 2012 | 23 Comments

by Smitty

 

“There is a rumor — I want to be clear, it’s a rumor — that at least two networks have emails from the National Security Adviser’s office telling a counterterrorism group to stand down,” Gingrich said. “But they were a group in real-time trying to mobilize marines and C-130s and the fighter aircraft, and they were told explicitly by the White House stand down and do nothing. This is not a terrorist action. If that is true, and I’ve been told this by a fairly reliable U.S. senator, if that is true and comes out, I think it raises enormous questions about the president’s role, and Tom Donilon, the National Security Adviser’s role, the Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta, who has taken it on his own shoulders, that he said don’t go. And that is, I think, very dubious, given that the president said he had instructions they are supposed to do everything they could to secure American personnel.”

By next Tuesday, anybody still deciding to vote for #OccupyResoluteDesk shall have achieved ‘dishonorable chump’ status.

For a special twist, I hope there is an unveiling of the emails from a big manila envelope marked ‘Sealed Court Records’. This adds no value whatsoever to the information; it’s just that #OccupyResoluteDesk deserves to have all his perfidy rubbed in his smug face both now, and for decades to come.

More at Bluegrass Pundit.

via Daily Caller and Breitbart

Category: Barack Obama, Election 2012

LIVE AT FIVE: 10.31.12

Posted on | October 31, 2012 | 7 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho


TOP NEWS
East Coast Looks To Rebuild After Sandy

The aftermath

Millions without power, NYC flooded

Preference Cascade In Effect, Y’all: Romney Heads Into Democratic Strongholds
Minnesota, Michigan, Pennsylvania in play

Disney Buys LucasFilms For $4 Billion
Star Wars VII in production



POLITICS
Globe Poll: Dead Heat In Massachusetts Senate Race

Brown, Warren brief reporters from same spot in Westport

Brown leads 45-43, within margin of error

Federal Aid Okayed For NY, NJ

Christie Rips Atlantic City Mayor For Failure To Evacuate

Twitter Proves To Be Lifeline During Sandy, Despite Pranksters

Gay Marriage, Pot And Immigration Measures On Ballot In Many States

What You May Have Missed During Sandy


Will Mia Love Ride Romney’s Coattails Into The House?

Romney Outraises Obama By $21 Million In First Half Of October

Congressman Bob Turner (R-NY) Loses House In Breezy Point Fire



THE ECONOMY, STUPID
Oil Mixed In Aftermath Of Sandy; NYMEX $85.86, Brent $108.99
Wall Street Reopens After Two-Day Sandy Shutdown
Yen Off Highs, Euro Supported After Italian Debt Sale
Sandy’s Cost May Hit $50 Billion
Ford Profit Beats Forecast On North American Margins
Marchionne Maps Out Fiat Revamp
Kennedy, Newark Airports To Reopen After Storm Closures
Insurers, Property Owners Tally Sandy’s Damage
Amazon Pits Kindle Fire HD Against iPad Mini
One Benefit Of Sandy: Gawker, HuffPo Knocked Offline
“Grand Theft Auto V” Launching In Spring 2013
Sandy Takes Out 1 In 4 Cell Towers In Ten-State Area, FCC Says Outages Could Get Worse
California Cracks Down On App Developers Over Privacy
Google Upgrades GMail Interface To Something More Like Chat



SPORTS
Dallas Stuns Loaded Lakers In Opener, 99-91

Kobe Bryant goes for the basket in the first half

Mavericks show star-studded Lakers what this team thing is all about

Celtics Cool To Former Teammate Ray Allen, Get Burned By Heat Anyway

Orioles Lead Gold Glove Voting

Stoudemire Out 6-8 Weeks For Knee Surgery

White Sox Turn Down Youkilis’ $13 Million Option

Leyland To Return As Tigers’ Manager

Peavy, White Sox Sign Two Year/$29 Million Extension

Nationals’ LaRoche Wins Gold Glove At First Base



FAMOUS FOR BEING FAMOUS
Oh, The Embarrassment!

Katie Holmes

Revelers with “Free Katie”, “Save Suri” shirts seated next to Holmes & daughter

How Joe Simpson’s Wife Discovered His Affair With 21-Year-Old Boy Toy

Kelsey Grammer: We Took 3-Year-Old To Playboy Mansion Party Because We Couldn’t Find A Sitter

Unspeakable Armenian In New Sex Tape Scandal

Octomom Checks Into Rehab, Leaves Kids With Nannies

Tom Hardy’s Method Acting Driving Charlize Theron Crazy On Mad Max: Fury Road

Does Taylor Swift Already Have A New Boyfriend?



FOREIGNERS
Syrian Rebels Assassinate Loyalist Air Force Commander
Two Gurkhas Shot By Afghan Cop
Bahrain Bans All Opposition Rallies
US, EU Push For Better Relations Between Kosovo, Serbia
Cash-Strapped Scotland Yard May Sell HQ
Anti-Austerity Party Does Well In Sicily Elections
ROK Activists Send Leaflet Balloons North
Polish Investigators Find Explosive Traces In Wreckage Of President’s Plane
Sendai Airport Reopens With WW2 Bomb In Runway
South African Census Shows Big Disparities In Wealth Remain



BLOGS & STUFF
WyBlog: Oh, Goody – Barry Is Coming To New Jersey
Commentary: Obama’s Response To Sandy A Contrast To Benghazi
NewsBusters: MSNBC Ridicules Romney For Collecting Food, Supplies For Sandy’s Victims
Lonely Conservative: As The Storm Raged, Liberal Media Was Politicizing Hurricane Sandy
Conservatives4Palin: Al Gore Claims Sandy The Result Of Global Warming
Weekly Standard Blog: Liberals To Romney – Only We Can Politicize Hurricane Sandy
Allahpundit: Obama On BenghaziThe Hurricane – “We Leave Nobody Behind”
Jawa Report: Disney’s…Star Wars VII?
Weasel Zippers: Michelle Obama Says 10-Year-Olds Should Be Working Obama Phone Banks
Rich Lowry: The President’s Insulting Campaign
Power Line: Romney Launches Final Week Blitz
Investor’s Business Daily: A Department Of Business Is None Of Obama’s Business
Breitbart: Facebook Censors Navy SEALS To Protect Obama On Benghazi
Bret Stephens: Obama And Other Has-Beens

Category: Live at Five

FROM OHIO: GROUND GAME REPORT

Posted on | October 30, 2012 | 59 Comments

George and Rosemary Cullen of Clermont County, Ohio

CINCINNATI, Ohio
For the past two days, Ali Akbar and I have been talking to Americans for Prosperity about their grassroots organizing effort here in Ohio. We visited their Columbus office Monday night, talked today to AFP’s Ohio state policy director, Seth Morgan, and drove down here to Cincinnati where they hosted a jam-packed meeting — standing room only — at the Eastgate Holiday Inn. I saw a  post by Ace of Spades talking about the Ohio polls, which inspired me to send a few Tweets about what it looks like on the ground here:

 


 

Folks, there is going to be a turnout effort in Ohio like you’ve never seen. George Cullen has been canvassing door-to-door for the past five weeks. He usually hits about 50 doors a day, but only got 25 under the storm conditions yesterday. He’s a West Point graduate who served six years in the Army, and he says, “The conservatives are very energized.”

George is canvassing for the Republican Party. He was at the AFP meeting here with his wife, Rosemary, who will be volunteering on phone banks with AFP. Remember that the organizing push from AFP — which is actually what is known as “voter education” — is in addition to the official Republican get-out-the-vote operation.

This is my third trip to Ohio. I was here in August right after Paul Ryan was announced as the vice-presidential choice, and came back again in late September, when some polls claimed that Obama was leading by 10 points. With a week to go, I believe Romney’s momentum is still increasing, and I think the polls are substantially underestimating how much difference this fired-up grassroots effort can make.

UPDATE (Smitty): Welcome, Instapundit readers!

UPDATE II: Ann Romney is coming to town Wednesday morning for a Victory Rally in Hamilton.

AFP will bring Fred Thompson to Ohio for three events Thursday. You should follow AFP Ohio on Twitter for updates on their grassroots efforts in this crucial battleground state.

UPDATE III: Becca Lower has a report on the AFP event.




 

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Category: Election 2012, Fear. Loathing., Ohio
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