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LIVE AT FIVE: 10.11.12

Posted on | October 11, 2012 | 3 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho


TOP NEWS
LTC Wood Testifies Benghazi Consulate Never Had Adequate Security

Ambassador Stevens: betrayed by the Administration?

Former head of security for Libya undercuts Deputy Assistant Secretary Lamb’s testimony
Terrorist attack was “a matter of time”
Can the White House be believed? What’s the truth? (Ambassador Bolton interview)


NBC/WSJ/Marist Poll: Romney Gains In Key States
48-47 Romney in Virginia, 48-47 Obama in Florida; Ohio 51-45 Obama – With 11-point Voting Edge To Dems

Joe Biden Bids To Stem GOP Charge
Can “Joltin’ Joe” revive Democrats’ sagging morale?



POLITICS
Federal Court Approves SC Voter ID Law, Delays Implementation Until 2013

Voting stickers at SC poll site

Panel finds law doesn’t discriminate against minorities, but not enough time remains to educate voters

Joe Biden’s Swipe At The Middle Class

Supremes Divided Over Affirmative Action In College Admissions

Brown, Warren Tangle Over Jobs, Health Care In Third Debate

Obama Tries To Revive War On Women Charge Against Romney

Dying Cancer Patient Gets TSA Escort On Return Trip After Intrusive Search On Flight Out

Flake, Carmona Trade Accusations In AZ Senate Debate

Oakland Sues Feds Over Pot Dispensary



THE ECONOMY, STUPID
Oil Rises As Syro-Turkish Tensions Escalate; NYMEX $91.25, Brent $113.75
Asian Stocks, Euro Drop As S&P Cuts Spain’s Rating
Toyota Recall Derails Automaker’s Recovery Efforts
Drop In Job Openings Signals Limited US Job Growth
ROK Matches Brazil Rate Cut As World Economy Stumbles
IMF Chief Says Greece Needs Two More Years For Budget
Huawei Corruption Allegations Turned Over To FBI
RockMelt Browser Launches For iPad
HP Calls Out Gartner On PC Sales, Says IDC Is Right
Meet The “New eBay”
FCC Okays Amazon To Sell Kindle Fire HD 4G
PC Sales To Decline In 2012 For First Time In 11 Years
Samsung To Launch “Mini” Galaxy S III With Four-Inch Screen



SPORTS
No Joy In Natsville As Cardinals Rout Washington 8-0

St. Louis Cardinals’ Chris Carpenter reacts after hitting a doubleduring the fifth inning in Game 3 of the NLDS

Cardinals now up 2-1 in NLDS, predictable whining about Strasburg ensues

A’s Rally In Ninth, Force Game 5 Against Tigers

O’s Once-Flawless Bullpen Opens Door For Yankees

Lincecum Stars As Giants Blast Reds 8-3

Longtime Detroit Lion, Actor Alex Karras Dies, 77

US Anti-Doping Agency Releases Small Mountain Of Evidence Against Lance Armstrong

NHL, Union Resume Talks

Roger Goodell Keeps Fumbling Away The Bounty Ball

Six Cricket Umpires Implicated In Fixing Sting Suspended



FAMOUS FOR BEING FAMOUS
Beyonce Out Of Eastwood’s “A Star Is Born” Remake

Clint & Beyonce

Not politics; schedules didn’t sync and the singer hopes to work with Eastwood in the future

Miley Cyrus Flees Bonnie & Clyde Mini-series

“Dad, Mom’s On Cocaine!”

THR Cover: Confessions Of Ben Affleck

Neve Campbell Joins “Grey’s Anatomy” Season 9 Cast

Shailene Woodley In Talks For “Spiderman 2”

Taylor Swift Denies Kidnapping Conor Kennedy From School

Justin Bieber Latest Victim Of SWATting



FOREIGNERS
Turks Force Syrian Plane To Land, Confiscate “Objectionable Cargo”
Malala Yousafzai’s Taliban Attackers Identified
One Member Of Pussy Riot Freed, Remaining Two Off To Siberia
Ten Years On, Bali Bombing Victims Seek Closure
Amnesty Internationals Says Violent Forced Evictions Increasing In PRC
Israelis Hit Gaza With Air Strike After Taking Rocket Fire
US Special Ops Forces, Planners Deploy To Jordan With Eyes On Syrian Chemical Weapons
Aussie Liberal Front-Bencher Bronwyn Bishop Calls Gillard’s Speech “Pathetic”
Canadian Naval Intel Officer Pleads Guilty To Spying For Russia
PM Cameron Bids To Reboot “Caring Conservatism”



BLOGS & STUFF
The Looking Spoon: Big Bird Is In The Eye Of The Beholder
Michelle Malkin: James O’Keefe Strikes Again, Exposes Obama Campaign/DNC Vote Fraud Enablers
WyBlog: I Guess They Don’t Call ABC The “All Barack Channel” For Nothing
Weekly standard Blog: Sean Smith’s Mother Tired Of Being Stonewalled, Lied To By Administration
Weasel Zippers: Widow Of Army Sniper Killed In Afghanistan Overjoyed To Hear Romney Talk About Her Husband – “One Of The Last Things He Said Was ‘I Need A New President'”
Paul Bedard: Biden’s Favorables Worse Than Ryan’s – Or Palin’s
Moe Lane: President Obama Promises To Be Incompetently Nasty At Next Debate
AmSpecBlog: Obama Thinks He Was Just Too Polite With Romney
Power Line: ABC News’ Version of A Proper Debate Moderator
Ed Morrissey: WaPo Wonders, Where’s Hillary?
NewsBusters: Martin Bashir Whines That Press Not Buying WH Spin On Libya
Babalu: Shattered Lies – “You’d Have To Be Helen Keller Not To See This Was A Full-Fledged Coverup”
Maggie’s Farm: Affirmative Action, Politics, And The Supremes
Pirate’s Cove: Scumsucker Elijah Woods (D) Can’t Remember Name Of Murdered Ambassador
Riehl World News: Aww, Randy Andy’s Bad Week Gets Worse
Protein Wisdom: Nine Things The MSM Will Rediscover Should Romney Win The Presidency


Mass hysteria. But in a GOOD way.

Category: Live at Five

Sex and Sammiches

Posted on | October 11, 2012 | 22 Comments

These are the two great arguments for marriage, but young folks don’t seem to understand what it’s all about:

Anyhow, if a woman is unwilling to commit to having sex on some sort of regular basis, then how on Earth can any man be reasonably expected to commit to never having sex with anyone else?  If 104 times per year is too much and justifies a refusal to commit to it, then how much is a reasonable average expectation?

Son, you start talking like that, you’re displaying a fatal weakness. And if there’s anything a woman hates in a man, it’s weakness.

This is why I strongly support abstinence education: If a fellow doesn’t learn to do without sex before he gets married . . . Read more

Category: Marriage, Sex

Administration ‘Completely Wrong’ About Libya, Debbie Wasserman-Schultz Admits, But ‘That Doesn’t Mean It Was False’

Posted on | October 11, 2012 | 20 Comments

Ladies and gentlemen, The Queen of Unintentional Comedy:

PIERS MORGAN: “It is pretty un-American to be putting out completely false statements before you know the facts. Isn’t it?”
DEBBIE WASSERMAN SCHULTZ: “Piers, it is not okay for you to be saying that the administration was putting out completely false statements. They put out information that they had at the time based on the intelligence they were given…”
MORGAN: “That turned out to be completely wrong–”
WASSERMAN SCHULTZ: “Well, that doesn’t mean it was false.”
MORGAN: “What?”

Hat-tip: Marooned in Marin on Twitter.

Category: Uncategorized

World’s Youngest Blogger Dances To Muse

Posted on | October 10, 2012 | 3 Comments

by Smitty

He’s really not ready to hit the floor with Bristol Palin yet:

Here is the full cut that he was watching on the computer. Not a bad little piece of electronica:

Category: Video, World's Youngest Blogger

The ‘Dilbert’ Factor in Libya

Posted on | October 10, 2012 | 13 Comments

“Mother, do not wonder that my loyalty is growing weak. . . . I am sick and tired of the disaster and the fools that bring disaster upon us.”
— soldier in the 79th New York Infantry regiment, 1863

The cartoon strip “Dilbert” is popular because it relates an experience common to nearly everyone who has ever worked inside a dysfunctional workplace: A clueless boss, backstabbing colleagues, and the plight of the competent, hard-working guy who is just trying to do his job.

What we call “office politics” is a constant hindrance to effective teamwork. It is unfortunate that so often people are both incompetent and ambitious, that such creatures seek positions of authority for which they are not qualified, and that once they obtain these positions, the incompetents “bring disaster upon” the loyal subordinates whose valuable advice they habitually ignore.

Thus I was reminded of that New York soldier’s letter home to his mother, complaining about the incompetence of Union army commanders, when I saw the video in which former State Department security official Eric Nordstrom complained about the unhelpfulness of his superiors:

On the one hand, there is this specific situation and the disaster in Benghazi, but on the other hand, Nordstrom’s complaints about his bosses reflect an all-too-common experience, something with which many people can empathize. Too bad that this “Dilbert” situation took place under circumstances where human lives — and, indeed, the national security of the United States — were at stake.

“One of the last things my husband said to me before he was killed, when I would ask him, ‘Chris, what do you need over there? What can I send you?’ he said, ‘I need a new president.’”
— Jane Horton, whose husband was killed in Afghanistan

Amen, Mrs. Horton!

 


Category: Election 2012, Libya

The Libya Question: What Did Obama Know and When Did He Know It?

Posted on | October 10, 2012 | 25 Comments

We seem to be looking at a classic Washington cover-up scandal:

The State Department is now telling a new story about the attack on our consulate in Benghazi, Libya on September 11. It’s completely different than what we heard from President Obama and other officials in the days after the terrorist attack.

It’s amazing the things you can learn when you start issuing subpoenas and requiring people to testify under oath under penalty of perjury.

UPDATE: Hard-hitting new ad on the Libyan scandal:

UPDATE II: If you’ve seen a few cover-up scandals like this over the years, you know that the next thing that happens — once it becomes obvious that the liars won’t get away with it — is that the administration finds a Designated Scapegoat to take the fall.

Whose résumé will get updated with the unfortunate “resigned in disgrace” entry? I nominate the odious disgrace that is Susan Rice.

Trust me: Hillary is waaayy too powerful to take the fall for this.

UPDATE III: The pattern of such scandals makes the course of events fairly predictable. First of all, the people who did the right thing — the honest, competent professionals — have an inherent interest in establishing the fact that they weren’t the ones who screwed up. Take, for example, former State Department security officer Eric Nordstrom:

[N]ot only did Nordstrom repeatedly request more security for the diplomatic mission, the State Department didn’t even bother to respond to his last two requests

UPDATE IV: Joel Engel at Legal Insurrection:

In yet another story that you won’t find in the New York Times, Charlie Spiering in the Washington Examiner reported that Hillary Clinton was scheduled to meet President Obama at the White House today “as more damaging details about the terrorist attack against a United States consulate in Libya emerge.” . . .
Their story is unraveling, and only the acquiescence of the mainstream press has kept it from becoming a full-blown scandal.  So what did the president and his secretary of state discuss today?  Foreign affairs?  Or better lies?  My guess is better lies.
Clinton’s State Department, and therefore in all probability the White House, had forewarning of at least a growing danger when“foreign fighters” began flooding over the Egyptian border prior to the attacks.  And, worse than doing nothing, they actually prevented security from being beefed up, though they had been warned that the level was “inappropriately low.”

Don’t expect this story to go away. There is a limit to the media’s ability to ignore such a scandal, when people like CNN’s Anderson Cooper and ABC’s Jake Tapper are so clearly fed-up with the administration’s routine incompetence and brazen dishonesty.

UPDATE V: Despite months of constant practice, Jay Carney still isn’t very effective in his capacity as Official White House Liar:

 

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Category: Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, Libya, Scandal

Citizens Must Help Fight Crime!

Posted on | October 10, 2012 | 9 Comments

Ignored by the mainstream media, a horrible crime wave is terrorizing America, as vandals are defacing the automobiles of innocent motorists. Fortunately, citizen-journalist Richard Vail has helped expose this shocking nationwide vandalism spree, and has captured photographic proof of how Americans are warning their fellow citizens about these criminals.

God bless you, Good Samaritans!

Category: Crime, Election 2012, humor

Obama Official on Vote-Fraud Scheme: ‘This Is So Funny. It’s Cool Though.’

Posted on | October 10, 2012 | 13 Comments

What if you’re registered to vote in a swing state, but you’ve moved to a state that’s not in play for the presidential election? No problem, according to Stephanie Caballero, a DNC employee who is also a regional field director in Texas for Obama’s Organizing For  America:

“So I spent some time in Florida, and I got my voter registration card for Florida. So and I know that we have you know it’s a battleground state there,” the Project Veritas reporter said to Caballero.
“Keep it, keep it… so you’re going to vote by ballot?” Caballero responded. . . .
The videographer responded: “Yeah, I don’t want to get in trouble. But like I said, if no one’s going to know I don’t have a problem with it, yeah. So anyway, but…”
Caballero then said: “Oh, my God. This is so funny. It’s cool though.” . . .
After Caballero sets the videographer up to vote in Florida, she asked the Project Veritas investigator: “Are you going to do what I think you’re going do?”
The videographer responded: “Well, I mean, if no one’s gonna know…”
Caballero audibly laughed, then said: “You’re so hilarious!”

Watch the video:

(Hat tip: Memeorandum.) Darn that James O’Keefe and his crafty hidden cameras! How dare they catch Democrats telling the truth about their indifference to vote fraud. What kind of evil person would link O’Keefe’s Project Veritas and urge you to hit their tip jar for $100?

 

Category: Corruption, Crime, Election 2012, James O'Keefe, Video
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