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Down-Ticket VA Races

Posted on | October 24, 2012 | 13 Comments

by Smitty

Just because Northern Virginia is infested with Commies does not make it acceptable to roll over:

8th District: In their second matchup, we like Republican Patrick Murray over 11-term Democratic incumbent Rep. Jim Moran. Yes, this is the second-most Democratic congressional district in Virginia, and voters there have long overlooked Moran’s questionable ethics and legendary temper. But Murray — a 24-year Army veteran who served as a military attache to the United Nations Security Council and was on Gen. David Petraeus’ staff during the Iraq surge — is clearly the better choice. Murray has justly attacked Moran for doing “exactly nothing” about looming sequestration, which threatens to crush Northern Virginia’s local economy. The prospect of gutting our military — or adding to our $16 trillion national debt — should scare even die-hard Democrats to vote for a change.
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11th District: Democratic incumbent Rep. Gerry Connolly was instrumental in pushing through the $6 billion Silver Line boondoggle when he served as chairman of the Fairfax County board. He hasn’t changed his stripes. Connolly’s voting record in Congress earned him an “F” from the National Taxpayers Union. He has supported virtually all of President Obama’s domestic agenda. Former Green Beret Chris Perkins is a moderate Republican of the sort reminiscent of Tom Davis. He would undoubtedly be a much better steward of taxpayers’ money than this big-spending Democratic partisan.

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Chris Perkins VA-11

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Category: Virginia

LIVE AT FIVE: 10.24.12

Posted on | October 24, 2012 | 6 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho


TOP NEWS
Terrorists Rain Rockets, Mortar Bombs On Israel; Five Injured

House damaged by rocket

IDF counterstrikes into Gaza result in three jihadis KIA, three wounded

Press Goes Ape Over Mourdock Rape Pregnancy Opinion
Debate answer sets off predictable hue & cry

Costa Rica Rattled By Earthquake
6.6 on the Richter scale; no major damage or casualties



POLITICS
Supreme Court Upholds Stay Of Execution For Florida Mass Murderer

John Errol Ferguson

Lawyers file last-minute plea, argue Ferguson is mentally ill

Third-Party Candidates Rail Against Obama, Romney At Debate

Biden, Obama Unite In Ohio To Play The Role Of Auto Champions

Warren, Brown Begin Final Push With New Ads

USAir Baggage Handler Arrested For Theft Of Uncirculated Bills

Louisiana Woman Claiming Racist Fire Attack Made It All Up, Investigators Say

Mauled By Attack Ads, Incumbents Consider Tighter Rules

Inhofe: EPA Punting Economy-Crippling Regulations Until After Election



THE ECONOMY, STUPID
Oil Drops Again On Concerns About Economic Growth: NYMEX $86.67, Brent $108.25
Facebook Shares Up As Ad Sales Surge
Asian Stocks Decline Despite PRC PMI
TroubleVille: Zynga Lays Off 5% Of Workforce, Scraps 13 Games
CFPB Issues Rules For Debt Collectors
Weak Earnings Spark Selloff: Wall Street Loses $500 Billion In Three Days
DuPont Cites Weak Quarterly Revenue, Will Cut 1500 Jobs
Which Mini-Tablet Is Right For You?
Microsoft Surface RT: Impressive Piece Of Engineering
Revamped iMac Lineup Slick And Uber-Thin
Nintendo Cuts Forecast On Lower 3DS Demand, Stronger Yen
A Cure For Blackberry Owners Who Feel Like Black Sheep



SPORTS
Earnhardt Cleared For Return To Racing

Dale Earnhardt Jr.

Examined by neurosurgeon, Earnhardt deemed ready for Martinsville after sitting out two weeks to recover from concussions

NHL Rejects Union Bid To Restart Negotiations

Mark Cavendish: Lance Armstrong Must Confess For The Good Of Cycling

Bears Or Foreign Policy? In Chicago, It Was A Tie

Ozzie Guillen Fired As Manager Of Failed Fish After Just One Year

Towel Company Defends Chargers

Bobby V: David Ortiz Quit On The Red Sox

Closer Drew Storen Joins Nine Other Nationals As Arbitration-Eligible



FAMOUS FOR BEING FAMOUS
Eva Longoria Once Again A Free Agent

Mark Sanchez and Eva Longoria

Obama campaign co-chair splits up with Jets QB over “scheduling issues”. Uh-huh.

Leah Messer Of “Teen Mom 2” Pregnant With Third Child

Christina Applegate Reveals Total Emotional Collapse After Double Mastectomy

Donald Trump To Reveal Obama Divorce Papers?

Chris Brown Impostor Sues Rihanna For Giving Him Herpes

Stella Boonshoft Becomes Body-Image Hero After Posting Bikini Pic

Emma Watson Returning To Brown University In 2013

Barneys’ Decision To Make Minnie Mouse A Rail Thin Model Draws Outrage

Carlton Fisk Found Drunk And Asleep At The Wheel – In The Middle Of A Cornfield



FOREIGNERS
Jamaica Braces For Tropical Storm Sandy
BBC Staff Face Abuse Inquiry
Russian Activist Says He Signed “Confession” After Death Threats
Among Americans In Israel, More Support For Romney
Syria Is Test For Turkey’s Determination, Not Its Patience
PRC Reshuffles Top Military Leadership
France To Send Drones To Mali For Fight Against Al-Qaeda



BLOGS & STUFF
WyBlog: Obama & Romney Foreign Policy Debate Like Two Underwater Ships Passing In The Night
Valley of the Shadow: Has Obama Lost The Intel Community?
NRO Corner: Mourdock Isn’t Second Akin
Gateway Pundit: E-Mails Show Obama Knew Islamic Group Took Credit For Benghazi Slaughter Two Hours Into Attack
Atlas Shrugs: Obama Lied, Americans Died
Power Line: Obama Fails Bob Woodward’s Fact Check On Sequestration
Sense Of Events: Donald Trump Has Got To Be Kidding
Wizbang: Obama Media Supporters Attempt To Hide The Decline
Legal Insurrection: Romney’s Rovian BBBB Strategy
American Power: Nate Silver Calls It – Advantage Obama!
Riehl World View: Obama Speaks To Iowa Paper, But Only Off The Record
Volokh Conspiracy: More Bayonets, Fewer Horses
Lonely Conservative: Don’t Tell Obama, But The Military Still Uses Bayonets And Horses
GayPatriot: Obama’s Fingerprints All Over Gloria Allred’s Latest Stunt
NRO Media Blog: Syria IS Iran’s Route To The Sea
NewsBusters: Factcheck.Org Hits Obama For Inflated Jobs Claims (OVER 90004 MILLION!)
Protein Wisdom: A Declaration Of Independence…

Category: Live at Five

Signs and Omens: Obama’s Fading Hope and the Graveyard Whistling Choir

Posted on | October 23, 2012 | 59 Comments

Nate Silver continues to lead the Democrat Graveyard Whistling Choir, raising Obama to a 70.3% likelihood of victory based on . . . what?

I dunno. I’m not an expert with a New York Times column or anything, much less a Magical Forecasting Model™ that can divine future events with the precise scientific exactitude of 1/10 of one percent.

This morning, Silver told us that Ohio might be a crucial battleground, which may be news to a victim who just escaped from an underground rape-dungeon after nine months of being held hostage and tortured by a sociopathic sex offender. But to everyone else, it’s not news at all.

My apologies for the bizarre word-imagery. Debate-night aftermath, a shortage of sleep and other psychological stress sometimes have this effect on my prose. But don’t worry. After 24 debates in 16 months, I’m used to it by now. And speaking of bizarre word-imagery, Ace of Spades:

“It’s going to be a grim affair, grim and horrible and just sad, but there’ll be lots of alcohol.”

That’s in reaction to unmistakable evidence of doom and gloom in Obama’s increasingly desperate fundraising e-mails. The plural of “anecdote” is data, as they say, and you don’t need a Magical Forecasting Model™ to see the dots in this emerging gestalt pattern, including the Gloria Allred “October surprise” gambit. Never heard a peep about this until after Obama got his ass kicked in the first debate, did ya?

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Four new national polls — Gallup, Rasmussen, ABC and Monmouth — show Romney leading, compared to one (IBD) that shows Obama leading. If you average those five most recent polls, Romney’s lead is 2.2 points, while the RCP national average (which includes earlier results) has Romney ahead by a more slender 0.9 points.

In other words, while I haven’t yet seen any polling that reflects reaction to Monday’s debate, the trend going into that debate was steadily in Romney’s favor, which in turn would rather tend to contradict any thought that the pro-Obama shift in Nate’s Magical Forecasting Model™ is a function of actual data inputs. There is a growing suspicion that Nate’s just pulling his “data” out of his ass and wishcasting, and if that suspicion should prove true — if it becomes clear Romney is heading toward victory and Silver is forced to scramble his numbers — it might produce the biggest scandal since we learned that Jayson Blair was filing West Virginia datelines from his Brooklyn apartment.

However, I have no definite reason to accuse Nate Silver of deliberate fraud, and it’s entirely plausible that he’s just the victim of his own erroneous faith in statistical modeling. And when Team Obama starts talking about scenarios where they can win without Ohio, maybe you want to add a few extra grains of salt to Nate’s numbers.

The first rule of Losing Ohio Club is you don’t talk about Losing Ohio Club.

Damn, I love that Ewok. Read more

Category: Election 2012, Florida, New York Times, Ohio, Polls, Virginia

Obama Hits MTV On Friday To Talk About His Second Term Agenda

Posted on | October 23, 2012 | 20 Comments

by Smitty

Breitbart links Hollywood Reporter with an important message from Empty-Vee:

The network announced on Tuesday that the president will be featured in a live, 30-minute special to air on Friday, Oct. 26 at 5 p.m. ET. As part of MTV’s “Power of 12” election campaign, Obama will answer questions from the audience on ASK OBAMA LIVE: An MTV Interview with the President, with viewers submitting their questions and concerns via MTV’s Facebook page.

This blog’s intrepid investigative reporter, Sissypuss, has obtained an a secret advanced look at the second term agenda that #OccupyResoluteDesk intends to debut:

Update: linked at Jackie Wellfonder

Category: Election 2012, Farce

Is ‘Jailhouse Lawyer’ Brett Kimberlin Heading to Grief in Virginia Case?

Posted on | October 23, 2012 | 5 Comments

Those who have read Mark Singer’s 1994 book Citizen K: The Deeply Weird American Journey of Brett Kimberlin, know that while Kimberlin was imprisoned for his 1978 Indiana bombing spree, he became an adept “jailhouse lawyer,” who filed more than 100 legal actions on his own behalf, while also providing quasi-lawyerly assistance to some of his fellow inmates. But proceedings in the Virginia case of Walker v. Kimberlin, et al., indicate that Kimberlin is out of his league there.

William Hoge has obtained Kimberlin’s latest filing in the case and reports that it is “chock full of information that was under seal and that has been improperly incorporated into a public filing.”

The judge in the lawsuit brought by Aaron Walker will almost certainly learn of this impropriety, and it’s not likely the judge will be in a mood to do Kimberlin any favors when there is a key hearing in the case Friday in Manassas. A contempt of court finding is not out of the question.

UPDATE: A reminder that it was Walker’s May 17 post about how he said Kimberlin tried to “frame” him for a bogus assault charge that prompted renewed attention to Kimberlin’s activities. Eight days later, because of the concern about the threat to First Amendment rights, “Everybody Blog About Brett Kimberlin Day” made this saga the top 8 threads at the blog aggregator Memeorandum.

Obviously, everybody’s now gripped by the two-week run-up to Election Day, but I’d urge you to visit Aaron’s “Allergic to Bull” blog and hit the tip jar to help fund his legal fight for justice.

Category: The Kimberlin Files

VIDEO: Romney Ad Highlights Debate

Posted on | October 23, 2012 | 1 Comment

It’s called “Highest Responsibility“:

Joe Scarborough and Bill Kristol agree that the debate Monday night did nothing to alter the trajectory of the race, even while Jonathan Chait disgraces himself with a public tantrum over the decisive trend toward Romney that his ideogical blinders prevent him from seeing.

Category: Uncategorized

Obscure Ex-Starlet @SophiaBush Sticks Her #LadyParts Out on Twitter, With Hilariously Predictable Results

Posted on | October 23, 2012 | 43 Comments

Civility™ is getting so complicated, I just can’t keep up with all the new rules, in the same way I have trouble keeping track of which former starlets actually count as “celebrities.”

Last night, after I filed my American Spectator column about the debate — strategically, a win for Romney — I was kind of randomly browsing Twitter and saw Michelle Malkin having a war with someone named Sophia Bush:

It went on for a while, raising the obvious question: “Who is Sophia Bush?” I mean, Malkin’s a New York Times bestselling author, a syndicated columnist, New Media entrepreneur, Fox News contributor — a genuine somebody — so why is she arguing with this person I never heard of?

It began, evidently, when the actress read a satirical article mocking Ann Romney and Tweeted it out, apparently not recognizing that the stupid quotes attributed to Mrs. Romney were not anything the GOP candidate’s wife had actually ever said. Republican women then started arguing back at Ms. Bush on Twitter, causing her to get all huffy and defensive, finally issuing this intensely stupid retort:

Her idiocy earned Ms. Bush a post at Malkin’s Twitchy site, but she apparently failed to study the First Law of Holes, and began digging again Monday during the debate:

With that, I think, Sophia went from the ridiculous to the sublime. It’s like political haiku or something. Transcendent gibberish. And of course, Twitchy blew her up again.

Let us pause, readers, to contemplate the sequence: Sophia apparently cannot make any political statement without invoking her vagina, but if you object to argumentum ab vagina, this proves you’re some kind of insensitive misogynistic cretin. She just talks, talks, talks about her genitals, and we’re suppose to act like this is enlightened, sophisticated, praiseworthy, courageous.

Well, no, it’s weird and offensive.

Imagine you’re at the shopping mall and some woman you never met walks up to you and starts blabbering about her vagina.

Call 911, right? This woman’s either a crack whore or some kind of mental case, but either way, her behavior is so profoundly abnormal she must be a danger to herself or others.

Yet, thanks to Eve Ensler and the feminist movement, women like Sophia Bush have been persuaded that constantly talking about their vaginas in public is not only healthy and normal, but that anyone who is offended is a crazy right-wing extremist. The world has been turned upside down, so that the values are exactly reversed, and the crazy vagina-talkers think themselves fit to lecture others about “respect” and “civility.”

Although tempted to invoke my scrotum to settle the argument — “How dare you disrespect the First Amendment rights of my scrotum?” — this is unnecessary, as my point is simply this: The Left routinely defies all traditional norms and societal values, while reserving to themselves the right to be as indignant as a Victorian prude should anyone speak to them discourteously. It’s really just a crude totalitarian power-game, an expression of Marcusean radicalism, “liberating tolerance,” and it takes a strong mind to resist being lured into that Humpty-Dumpty alternative universe where words mean whatever the Left says they mean.

Well, to hell with the niceties, you see: Raw mockery is what they deserve, and I’ll make damned sure they get all they deserve. So I went right to work on Sophia Bush:

Let’s see here: Thirty years old, was queen of the 1999 Rose Bowl Parade, made her acting debut in 2002, best known for a cable TV show (One Tree Hill) you never heard of before, as well as a couple of movies John Tucker Must Die (2006) and The Hitcher (2007) you likewise never heard of before. Won a few “Teen Choice Awards” when she was, in fact, in her mid-20s.

Sophia can’t seem to keep a man. She was briefly married to her TV co-star Chad Michael Murray in 2005, but that didn’t last six months. She dated another co-star, James Lafferty, and then another, Austin Nichols, only to be returned to the reject pile each time. Basically, it looks like any male actor cast in One Tree Hill was contractually obligated to bang Sophia Bush for a while.

Is it cruel to mock her like this? Yes, purposefully so. Yet there’s nothing personal about it — heck, I never even heard of her until last night — and it’s not really political, either.

There are plenty of women every bit as liberal as Sophia Bush who don’t make themselves obnoxious by lashing out at Republicans, blabbering about their vaginas and acting as if they were courageous First Amendment heroes deserving of admiration and praise. If she’s going to get up in Michelle Malkin’s face with that kind of crude act, she’s practically handing us an engraved invitation to mock her politics, her miserable B-list career and her pathetic vagina, too.

Shut your pie-hole, woman, or I’ll start talking about my scrotum again.

Category: Celebrities, Election 2012, Feminism, Michelle Malkin, Twitchy

LIVE AT FIVE: 10.23.12

Posted on | October 23, 2012 | 6 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho


TOP NEWS
Beeb Notices Europe Left Out Of Foreign Policy Debate

Obama and Romney throw down on furriners

BBC thinks Romney had the best night; “pivoting to President Peaceful”

Wisconsin Shooting Brings New Call For Gun Control
Unexpectedly!

Early Storm Drops Two Feet Of Snow On Northern California Mountains
Storm brings badly needed rain to lower altitudes



POLITICS
Lawsuit Puts Texas School Finance System On Trial

Lawyers for Texas’ school districts

Attorneys for school districts claim state funding system “hopelessly broken”

Schieffer Gets High Marks For Debate Moderation

“Horses And Bayonets” Crack Goes Viral

Russell Means, American Indian Movement Activist, Dies At 72

Ohio’s Vote Fraud Billboards Come Down After Sponsor Insists On Anonymity

Funding Fight On If California’s Proposition 30 Fails

George McGovern’s Lasting Imprint On American Politics

Factcheck.Org Busts Obama’s Drilling Denials



THE ECONOMY, STUPID
Brent Hits Six-Week Low Despite Mideast Tensions: NYMEX $88.83, Brent $109.75
Yahoo Earnings Top Estimates
Asian Stocks Drop, Led By Utilities; Yen Briefly Hits 80 Before Falling Back
Temporaries Sue Walmart, Staffing Agencies
Gold Rebounds As Stocks Recover, Dollar Retreats
Treasuries Drift Lower Before Debate, Fed
DeMarco Shrinks Fannie & Freddie Without Any Help From Congress
Apple Responds To Android Threat With U-Turn On iPad Mini
Fault Encryption Leaves Some Android Apps Vulnerable, Report Says
Microsoft’s 32GB Surface Tablet Sells Out In UK
Remains Of Curt Schilling’s 38 Studios Go On Auction Block
Consumers Flock To Buy New $249 Google Chromebook



SPORTS
Giants Rout Cardinals 9-0 For NL Pennant

Tony Cruz strikes out

Third straight beating administered to St. Louis puts SanFran in World Series against well-rested Tigers


Lions Defense Keeps Bears In Check, But Not Enough To Avoid 13-7 Loss

UCI Agrees To Strip Armstrong’s Titles

Struggling Panthers Fire GM Marty Hurney

Power Rankings: Surviving Kansas Could Be Key For Keselowski

Packers’ Woodson Out For Six Weeks With Busted Collarbone

Mavericks’ Nowitzki Sidelined By Knee Surgery



FAMOUS FOR BEING FAMOUS
Michael Lohan Seeks Conservatorship For Lindsay

Lindsay and father Michael Lohan

Claims whole family needs therapy; kids unanimously want him to just go away

Justin Timberlake Calls Wedding Day “Magical”

The GQ&A: Emily Van Camp From “Revenge”

Kat Von D And Deadmau5: Hand-Holding Honeys

Heidi Montag And Spencer Pratt’s “Crazy” Night Out In Vegas

Taylor Swift Dishes On Her New Album “Red”, Among Other Things

The CW’s “Arrow” Gets Full-Season Pickup

Exclusive First Look At Ben Kingsley As “Iron Man 3” Villain The Mandarin

Chevy Chase Apologizes For Saying “N*gger” On “Community” Set As Series Remains At Standstill



FOREIGNERS
Syrian Civil War Spills Over Into Lebanon
BBC Takes Harsh Look At Its Jimmy Savile Sex Scandal
Emir Of Qatar’s Visit To Gaza Draws Protests From Palestinian Authority, Israel
Italian Court Holds Scientists Guilty Of Manslaughter In Earthquake Warning Case
ROK Fails To Block Activists From Sending Propaganda North
Japan’s Justice Minister To Resign Over Past Ties To Yakuza
Muslim/Buddhist Violence Erupts Again In Burma’s Rakhine State
Pussy Riot Members Sent To Gulags
Backbench Demand For EU Veto Thwarts Cameron’s Bid To Set The Agenda
UK’s Mirror Newspaper Group Also Tagged For Phone Hacking



BLOGS & STUFF
WyBlog: Newark Enacts “Union-Only” Construction Ordinance For All Projects, Public And Private
Hit & Run: CNN Post-Debate Poll Gives Slight Edge To Obama
American Power: “Horses And Bayonets”
Bill Kristol: President Romney
Power Line: CNN Poll Confirms That Romney Won By Not Losing
Breitbart: Wisconsin Senator’s Son Beaten To A Pulp By Anti-Romney Thugs
GayPatriot: Looks Like Wisconsin Democrats Got Some “Differentiating” To Do
National Review Online: Nate Silver’s Flawed Model
Lonely Conservative: Please Tell Me These Women Aren’t Teachers #FOWARD
Director Blue: It’s Magic! Biden’s Brother Wins $100 Million Federal Contract To Build Homes In Iraq
Atlas Shrugs: Nigerian Muslims Attacks Churches, Kill At Least 31

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