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LIVE AT FIVENINE: 10.18.12

Posted on | October 18, 2012 | Comments Off on LIVE AT FIVENINE: 10.18.12

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TOP NEWS
Obama, Romney Hit Campaign Trail After Biting Debate

Candidates on the stump

Both candidates appealing to women after Tuesday’s debate

Lance Armstrong Gets Dumped
Nike, Radio Shack, others drop superstar cyclist after doping evidence surfaces

Bangladeshi National Busted For NY Fed Bomb Plot
Another wannabee jihadi gets suckered by FBI-NYPD Joint Terrorism Task Force



POLITICS
“Binders Full Of Women” Replaces Big Bird As Latest Seinfeld Moment For Obama Campaign

This may be the only man in America who can legitimately say this.

Bloggers, President completely miss the point again

Larry King To Moderate Third-Party Debate; Will Be Streamed On Internet

Obama Picks Chicago’s McCormick Plaza For Election Night Rally

Push To Speed Up $1 Billion In Infrastructure Repairs Could Save NYC $200 Million

Long, Gillibrand Clash On Fracking, Abortion

LA County Assessor Arrested In Corruption Probe

DNC Comes Up Short In Paying For Convention Despite Accepting Corporate Money

DOJ Says Violent Crime Spiked 17% Last Year



THE ECONOMY, STUPID
Oil Drops On Increased US Inventory: NYMEX $92.02, Brent $113.20
PRC Growth Continues Slide, But Retail Sales Up In Sign Of Recovery
Bank Of America Ekes Out $340 Million Profit
Housing Starts Surge 15% To Four-Year High
Dow Rises For Fourth Straight Day
Chances Of Going Over Fiscal Cliff May Be Higher Than Experts Think
Microsoft Sells Out Of $500 Surface RT Tablet Pre-Orders On First Day
Will Apple Acquired Troubled Startup Color Labs?
Amazon Pushes Kindles For Classrooms
Aereo Opens Its Streaming TV To Mac, Windows Web Browsers
Nokia Expected To Slide Further In Q3
Amazon Reportedly Looking To Buy TI Chipmaker At Heart Of Kindle Fire



SPORTS
Cardinals Take 2-1 Lead In NLCS, Win After Rain Delay

Motte and Molina celebrate after Cards’ win

Matt Carpenter slugs two-run homer, Motte gets two-inning save after 3.5 hour rain delay in 7th inning


ALCS Game 4 Postponed Due To Threat Of Rain

Kevin Love Breaks Hand, Timbermutts’ Woes Continue

Hockey Night In Canada: Time To Put Grudges Aside In NHL Lockout
Don Cherry Sympathizes With Both Sides

Lynx Shake Fever 83-71, Tie WNBA Finals

Syracuse, Pitt Hope To Turn Final Big East Season Into Victory Tour

Yankees Deny Rumors of Trade Sending A-Rod To The Fish



FAMOUS FOR BEING FAMOUS
It’s a Boy For Megan Fox And Austin Green

Megan and Brian spending quality time with the baby-to-be

Noah Shannon Green born September 27

Flavor Flav Busted For Assault, Domestic Violence In Vegas

Justin Timberlake, Jessica Biel To Wed In Italy This Week

Demi Moore “Frustrated, Annoyed” By Ashton Kutcher’s Dalliance With Mila Kunis

John Mayer And Katy Perry Celebrate His 35th Birthday In New York City

Just When You Thought The Hulk Hogan Sex Tape Story Couldn’t Get Any More Disgusting…

Courtney Stodden Certified 100% Natural After Examination

Mark Ballas: Bristol Palin Wouldn’t Step Out Of The Box On DWTS



FOREIGNERS
UN Envoy Says Syrian War Threatens To Set Region Ablaze
Accused 9/11 Mastermind Uses “NO U” Defense At Military Tribunal
Pakistanis Divided On Launching Army Offensive Into Jihadi Sanctuary
India, Australia To Discuss Nuclear Pact
Former Japanese PM Shinzo Abe Visits Yasukuni Shrine, PRC Predictably Butthurt
Israel Targeting Salafists In Gaza
Uganda Denies Backing Congolese Rebels
Russia Arrests Opposition Leader, Threatens Terror Charges
Sudan Approves Oil & Peace Deal With South Sudan
Iranian-American Cops To Assassination Plot Aimed At Saudi Ambassador
Blind Man Tasered By Scottish Cops; They Mistook His White Cane For Samurai Sword



BLOGS & STUFF
WyBlog: Your “Barack Obama Economic Illiteracy” Blog Post Of The Day
Twitchy: Obama Campaign Co-Chair Eva Longoria Deletes Tweet Calling Women And Minorities “Stupid” For Supporting Romney
Sarah Hoyt: Big Brother Reads Minority Report
Riehl World View: Obama Admits To Questioner After Debate He Did Mislead America
Conservative Commune: About The Benghazi “Terror” Statement In The Second Debate
Conservatives4Palin: Media Tries To Manufacture Momentum For Obama
Jammie Wearing Fools: On September 20, White House Denied Calling Benghazi A Terror Attack
Weasel Zippers: In Full-Page Newspaper Ad, 13 Iowa Voters Apologize For Supporting Obama In 2008
Allahpundit: Quotes Of The Day
Gateway Pundit: Karl Rove Says No Candidate Has Ever Lost With Numbers Like Mitt Romney’s Today
Jim Geraghty: Obama’s New Firewall? Ohio, Iowa, New Hampshire And Nevada
The DiploMad 2.0: An Aside On Those Unemployed College Grads
Althouse: Tommy 46%, Tammy 45%
Wall Street Journal: A President Without A Plan
Protein Wisdom: Happy Coincidence 2! The Unemployment Rate Is Collapsing!

Category: Live at Five

#ObamaLoveSongs This (Administration) Is Not A Love Song

Posted on | October 17, 2012 | 2 Comments

“Are When” #Duh

Category: humor

Military Endorsements Aren’t Decisive. That Said: WOW!

Posted on | October 17, 2012 | 61 Comments

by Smitty

In deference to #OccupyResoluteDesk, he has half a dozen military endorsements:

Name Note
Wesley Clark, four star General (Ret), former Supreme Allied Commander Europe of NATO, 2004 presidential candidate Tool.
Richard Danzig, former Secretary of the Navy Not a proper veteran, but we can’t get to ‘half a dozen’ without some sort of shenanigans. Also, really competent, would make a good SECDEF while the country sinks, should BHO achieve re-election.
Paul Eaton, Major General (Ret) Got nothin’.
Donald J. Gutter, retired U.S. Navy Rear Admiral, former Judge Advocate General of the Navy, current Dean, Duquesne University School of Law, Pittsburgh JAGs: whattayagonnado?
Michael D. Lumpkin Wikipedia page says: Commander, Captain (O-6) select. As he was a SEAL, we’ll omit the standard mockery for hedging the yes/no question: Did you get paid?
John B. Nathman, retired U.S. Navy Admiral, co-chair of the campaign THAT Nathman.

Just to avoid looking too, let us say, Crowley-esque in my bias, I drop Mitt’s endorsements below the fold:

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Category: Barack Obama, Election 2012, Mitt Romney

Find Her Binder

Posted on | October 17, 2012 | 7 Comments

by Smitty

Category: humor, Music, Video

America, Don’t Be Distracted!

Posted on | October 17, 2012 | 18 Comments

The next vice president of the United States wants Americans to keep focused on the important economic issues confronting our nation. So I felt kinda guilty when I was distracted by the smiling redhead standing behind Paul Ryan during his speech in Ohio:

“And look at where we are right now: 23 million Americans struggling to find work. You know, we had a discussion about how women are faring in this economy last night. Five-and-a-half million women are still struggling for work in this economy. A half-million women more are unemployed today than when President Obama was sworn in. Twenty-six million women are trapped in poverty today. That’s the highest rate in 17 years. We need to get people back to work. We need to get this economy turned around. The American idea is there. It hasn’t gone away. But we have the wrong people and the wrong policies in place, and if we clear the way and go forward with the proactive, pro-growth solutions in the agenda that Mitt Romney is talking about, we will get people back to work. We will get people out of poverty, back in the middle class, we’ll get back onto reaching their vision of the American dream.”
— Paul Ryan, Berea, Ohio, Oct. 17, 2012

You know Democrats must be discouraged: Republicans have the best economic policies and the pretty redheads? Winning!

Category: Economics, Election 2012, Ohio, Paul Ryan

@CrowleyCNN Targeted by Fat Jokes, Legitimate Criticism, But Mainly …

Posted on | October 17, 2012 | 38 Comments

. . . yeah, it’s the legitimate criticism:

If Tuesday night’s presidential debate proved nothing else, it demonstrated one thing: CNN’s Candy Crowley is definitely not an “uncommitted voter.” The moderator’s handling of the town-hall debate at Hofstra University was heavy-handed and one-sided throughout, not merely giving more time to President Obama, but repeatedly cutting off Mitt Romney when the Republican attempted to counter accusations from the president. . . .

That’s from my American Spectator column, and I’m glad Smitty was kind enough to do a roundup of Benghazi-related debate reaction, because I was up until the pre-dawn hours this morning, and woke up about 10 a.m. too frazzled to think about it.

John Nolte at Breitbart.com called Crowley’s performance “a scandal; a total and complete media scandal . . . Absolutely disgraceful.” Matthew Sheffield of Newsbusters said Crowley “disgraced herself . . . showing why many Americans were rightfully suspicious of her ability to moderate a presidential debate fairly.” Donald Douglas at American Power called it “the worst debate moderation in presidential debate history.”

Not one of them felt it necessary to point out that Candy Crowley is fat, and I’m happy for that, because too many people resort to such cheap insults when they’re angry, and it hurts the feelings of fat people everywhere. This kind of cruelty toward BBWs and plumpers also bothers “chubby chasers” like Dan Collins, whose appreciation of Rubenesque ladies is so often misunderstood.

This probably explains why Dan’s colleague Bruce McQuain at Conservative Commune tactfully avoided any reference to Ms. Crowley’s extra pounds when criticizing her moderation of the debate. Dan himself hasn’t, um, weighed in yet, perhaps because he was so traumatized by seeing his favorite journalist universally excoriated by the blogosphere. Paul Ryan also wisely refrained from making fat jokes on “Good Morning America”:

 “Look, growing the economy through energy, through better job training programs, for getting people back to work, getting the deficit – cutting the deficit, capping spending, getting small businesses growing again. This is our specific five-point plan. These are bipartisan ideas that have worked before. We’re going to do them again. And the specific ideas on how we get off the path that we are on right now, to get this economy growing and creating jobs, and that’s what people saw. They saw a leader with a proven track record of bringing people together, getting things done, creating jobs. And that is exactly why I think Mitt Romney, again, won this debate.”

Attaboy, Paul! Stay focused on the important issues that matter to Americans, including those ladies with “more to love,” many of whom are in fact staunchly Republican. And c’mon, guys, admit it: You don’t mind a gal with more cushion for the pushin’.

Wimpy liberal beta males are usually too insecure to admit their admiration for the plus-size ladies, but genuine red-blooded American guys are unintimidated. So none of us patriotic conservative fellows had a problem with Candy’s deluxe figure, but most of us did have a problem with this:

Crowley Interrupts Romney 28 Times, Obama Just 9

Shut your big fat mouth, Candy. And go make us a sammich.

Category: Uncategorized

Department of Unfortunate Quotations

Posted on | October 17, 2012 | 6 Comments

Suppose that a father wished to advise his son against taking liberties with young ladies, lest the boy be unfairly accused of a crime. Now, suppose that the boy grew up to be a Republican state legislator in Wisconsin, and decided that his dear old Dad’s advice would be worth sharing with the press. Prepare to be horrified and embarrassed, dear friends:

When a Chetek Alert reporter asked state Rep. Roger Rivard in December to comment on the case in which a 14-year-old girl accused a 17-year-old boy of sexually assaulting her, the Rice Lake lawmaker said his father told him: “Some girls, they rape so easy.” Rivard said last week the comment was his father’s way of warning him that a woman could agree to sex but then later claim the act wasn’t consensual.
He said later that same day that his comments could be misconstrued and that he viewed rape as a horrible crime.

Dear old Dad might have added, along with his words of wisdom, “You probably never want to have to explain this to the media.”

Perhaps the Republican Party should send out a memo to its officials and candidates: The minute a reporter says the word “rape,” terminate the interview immediately.

Category: Crime, Republicans, Wisconsin

Romney Debates Crowley And Obama On Benghazi, Wins

Posted on | October 17, 2012 | 30 Comments

by Smitty

Benghazi was the pivotal moment in the town hall debate, in my opinion, and that of some others:

 

Via BlueGrass pundit:

What a sad, pathetic joke that Obama has to have a woman attempt to stand up for him. Romney’s five sons were no doubt writhing at the raised eyebrows at 0:20 in the clip, recalling their own sad attempts at sliding one by dad, and getting thoroughly crushed by the Brows Of Doom.

The Administration’s pathetic attempt to walk back the 12 September Rose Garden speech is thoroughly debunked here. If Obama’s claim is true, that he properly labeled Benghazi terrorism initially, then shifted ‘narratives’ to call it a spontaneous riot due to Nakoula’s handiwork, then Obama’s sordid performance would be an example of postvarication, where the truth shifts to a lie upon the retelling, instead of the truth remaining in the forefront.

However, what we have here is a creep show Administration that owes Americans straight answers, but can’t even tell itself a straight story. Maybe Petraeus could offer such. Where is that guy? Stuffed under the bus behind Clapper?

Kudos to Mitt. You could see that hours of preparation that went into this debate on display. That the topic would come up was fairly obvious. But the delivery was polished, and Obama’s body language and shout to Crowley for a lifeline were sweet, sweet tells. Romney should have ended his exchange with Crowley by saying “Thank you, Madame President.” As graphically put:
And Crowley then walked back her shilling. Fortunately, these Lefty creeps no longer retain an iron grip on matters. While viewers at the time called it a draw or gave the edge to #OccupyResoluteDesk, further analysis is going to show that, as in the previous debates this season, the Republicans are holding their own despite having two opponents.

Say whatever else you want about the debate: seeing Romney have the sack to call out Obama for lying, to his face, was pure chewing satisfaction. As with the previous debate, I may have to trundle over to the Romney campaign site for a wee donation, I’m so pleased by this. And as for Candid Candy, I hope she doesn’t spend all 30 pieces of silver in one place.

Further linkage at Instapundit, but don’t miss Michelle, violating the rules, clapping in support of falsehood. I’m not ashamed of my country, in general, but the 2008 election sure was a hiccup. And, for those wondering what the debate would have looked like if you dropped some acid before viewing:

In the second presidential debate, President Obama stood up proudly for his record, offered a positive vision, called out Romney’s lies in a calm and cool way, and, most importantly, showed some real fire in the belly.

Update: Memeorandum thread, also linked at Protein Wisdom, Daily Pundit, WyBlog, and Obi’s Sister.

Category: Barack Obama, Debates, Election 2012, Mitt Romney
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