The Other McCain

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FMJRA 2.0: For Whom The Bell Tolls

Posted on | September 29, 2012 | 6 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

 

ROMNEY RALLY IN TOLEDO:
Huge Crowd Stands in Line in the Rain!

Classic: State Department Attacks CNN for Reporting Inconvenient Facts on Libya

GREETINGS FROM LIMA, OHIO

Fear and Loathing on the Road to Toledo

Neal Rauhauser’s Crazy-Evil Obsession

FMJRA 2.0: Classical Interlude

If The Sitting President Says Michelle Obama Is Qualified For POTUS, Then @SarahPalinUSA Surely Rates

I Blame Pat Condell For The Appropriation Of Obama’s Spine

Memo From the National Affairs Desk: Worldwide Headquarters of Crazy, Inc.

Oh, Say, You Can’t See, By The Hope Or The Change, What So Sadly We Beheld, Like Benghazi’s Last Blood Streaks

So, Other Than All That, Mr. Levin, What Did You Think Of Conor’s Article?

The Best Revenge: Ohio-Bound

LIVE AT FIVE: 09.24.12

Tres Equis

Scenes From Ryan Rally in Lima, Ohio

Samuelsohn: ‘President Barack Obama Is Trying Hard To Win Veterans. . .’

LIVE AT FIVE: 09.25.12

Cracking Under Pressure?

PAUL RYAN IN CINCINNATI

SCENES FROM ROMNEY-RYAN RALLY

Free @NiceDeb !!!

Adding To The Chorus Of Anti-Eric Posner Derision

Polls: Self-Fulfilling Prophecies?

The Most Biased Question, Ever

Get on the Bus! AFP Leads ‘Obama’s Failing Agenda Tour’ Across Ohio

E-Mail to a Troll

LIVE AT FIVEEIGHT: 09.28.12

The New O-Phone Is Here!

‘No True Principles or Loyalty’

Top linkers this week:

  1. Lonely Conservative (11)
  2. Hogewash (10)
  3. The Camp of the Saints (8)
  4. Daily Pundit (6)

Thanks to everyone for their linkagery! If you use Blogger, or some other platform WordPress hates, please e-mail me your links no later than Friday, October 5 so that I’ll be able to include them in next week’s FMJRA.

Category: FMJRA Award

Elbonese Lesbian Vegan Atheist Open Borders/Global Warming/Abortion Activist Wonders If She’s Too Moderate

Posted on | September 29, 2012 | 10 Comments

by Smitty

Leaning on her plug-in hybrid car of indeterminate make, under the tsunami of bumper stickers and hand painted flowers, Doremifasolatido If sipped her venti, triple-shot non-fat, sugar-free, cinnamon dolche latte with whip, and heaved a sigh. “I’ve got to keep finding new things to protest, or risk sliding into complacency. Moderation is for conservative losers.”

She tapped her iPod to life, screen light reflecting off of a face with more metal in it than shrapnel in that of a soldier in close proximity to an IUD burst. “Here’s this rumor that Mitt Romney was actually fathered by a Vulcan. Can we protest that, or would xenophobia contradict the call for open borders? It’s easy to be against everything when you’re small, but when you’re a big-time activist, you can find you’re protesting yourself.”

Things had been hard for If since splitting with Edina “Butch” MacTungsten. “We got in a tremendous fight over Rachel Maddow, and whether characterizing an obvious joke as a gaffe was a new form of stupid”, she said, running a tattooed hand across her shaved scalp, straightening her mohawk. “Oh, well. I’ve got to get on the road to my next paid protest. I’ll be glad for this election to get over, so that I can get back to serious work, like protesting Dick Cheney’s Pacific Ocean Trash Vortex.”

Update: linked by Hogewash.

Update II: linked at Daily Pundit.

Update III: more linky-love at The Camp of the Saints and Soylent Green.

Category: humor

First Task Of A Romney Administration Is Going To Be Restoring Integrity To Gov

Posted on | September 29, 2012 | 13 Comments

by Smitty

Nothing else the government tries to do really matters if no one believes a godforsaken thing escaping the Beltway orifice. The Lonely Conservative points to Hugh Hewitt pointing to the Bureau of Labor Statistics (which acronym seems more straightforward without the ‘L’) magically locating 386,000 jobs since March. Over six months, the number had slipped by a third of a million, in a way that unexpectedly, helps #OccupyResoluteDesk look better. How could anyone doubt this?

Then there is the official deflation of the inflation statistics. The following chart shows today’s inflation calculated with tree different methodologies. ShadowStats.com holds inflation at 9% via the 1980 methodology, 5% using that of 1990, vs. the 2% leg pull now offered. For a quick bit of spreadsheetery, the good news is that BLS might hit 0 sometime in a second Obama administration:

Plus, a free #ObamaPhone!

Add to the unemployment and inflation debacles the over three years now since there was a budget, and “Zimbabwe” Ben Bernanke’s QEternity demolition of the currency, and the message is clear: Romney needs to articulate to the American people just how thoroughly jacked up our entire government stands.

It’s a time for candor, not deceit. Resolve, not platitudes. During the debates, Romney should appeal to the intellect. When BHO tries to paint Romney as alarmist, Mitt should straight up play the “Bless your heart” card, and point out that the country cannot continue on this course. No need for rancor, reprisal, or recriminations: just a sane approach.

There is an amazing tendency for people to grow up and behave rationally when treated like adults and presented with facts. In contrast, our government increasingly has treated the people as children, and isn’t honest about the disastrous results.

Update: the economic downgrade is a case in point.

Category: Election 2012

“Two Men, A Country In Crisis: You Decide”

Posted on | September 28, 2012 | 10 Comments

by Smitty

The tagline works for both West’s race and the presidential one:

The entire Democrat party cold be seen as drunk and disorderly, after a fashion.

Via Hot Air

Category: Allen West, Florida, Hot Air

‘No True Principles or Loyalty’

Posted on | September 28, 2012 | 21 Comments

An article in Politico inspired this reaction from National Review‘s Jim Geraghty:

This is why the grassroots loathe most veteran GOP political consultants. Republican campaign staffers get a lot of undeserved grief as a bunch of grifters, charlatans, snake-oil salesmen, hired guns with no true principles or loyalty, and so on. But when you see (allegedly) high-level folks trashing their own candidate, six weeks before the election, to a publication like Politico… and doing so while hiding behind anonymity… well, every nasty stereotype is confirmed.

Jonathan Chait is in the Gloat Zone. This is not a good thing.

Category: Election 2012

SNL Thursday Night Takes A Swipe At #OccupyResoluteDesk

Posted on | September 28, 2012 | 3 Comments

by Smitty

Via The Blaze, this cold open makes, for SNL, a solid effort to mock BHO:

It isn’t everything a serious conservative hammering of the Worst President Evar could be, but we must give credit where due.

Category: Barack Obama

The New O-Phone Is Here!

Posted on | September 28, 2012 | 32 Comments

Many people are excited about Apple’s latest upgrade to the iPhone, but this Obama voter was even more excited about the free phone she got because (she says) of President Obama:

Rush Limbaugh says this is the “new model citizen,” and liberals have predictably rushed to condemn this as RAAAAACIST:

The Obama Phone video belongs to a genre popular on conservative blogs in which poor people, usually black, confirm conservatives’ worst 47-percent fears by saying they can get something for nothing because Obama’s in office. The message is, “Here’s what Obama’s supporters really look like.”

That item, by the way, is by Elspeth Reeve, whose career was launched in disgrace by the Scott Beauchamp scandal, and who has yet managed to fail her way upward to the Atlantic, proving once again that liberalism can excuse any sin committed on behalf of the liberal cause.

Fabricated stories and shabby ethics? No problem!

Exactly how Reeve got this gig as the expert mind-reader of conservative bigotry — The Racism Whisperer — I don’t know, but I agree with Patterico’s defense of the free-phone video:

Conservatives should not have to shy away from such amusing examples of entitlement mentality simply because the particular proponent of that mentality happens to be black.

By the way, I was waaay ahead of the curve on this free cellphone issue, having first reported about it in October 2008. That’s right — the free cellphone program pre-existed Obama’s election.

So the Democrats have their usual defense: Blame Bush!

UPDATE: Charlie Spierling of the Examiner provides background on the free phone program:

The program is called Lifeline, established in 1984, originally created to subsidize landline phone service for low income Americans, funded by government-collected telecommunication fees, paid by consumers.
In 2008, the program was expanded to support cell phones which quickly escalated the cost of the program. In 2008 the program cost $772 million, but by 2011 it cost $1.6 billion.
A 2011 audit found that 269,000 wireless Lifeline subscribers were receiving free phones and monthly service from two or more carriers. Several websites have been created to promote “free” government cell phones, including the”The Obama Cell Phone” website at Obamaphone.net.

Yes: Taxpayers are forced to pay $1.6 billion — billion, with a “B” — to provide free cellphones for Obama voters.

And if you don’t like it, you’re a racist!

 


Category: Barack Obama, Election 2012, Racism

LIVE AT FIVEEIGHT: 09.28.12

Posted on | September 28, 2012 | 3 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho


TOP NEWS
Netanyahu’s Bomb Explodes On The Internet

PM Netanyahu employs a visual aid at the UN

As Israeli PM schools the UN, internet argues: stroke of genius or cheap gimmick?

Kenya Attacks Last Stronghold Of Somali Jihadis
Amphibious assault puts troops ashore at port city of Kismayo

Goldman Sachs Coughs Up $14 Million In Pay-To-Play Fines
Hiring former Massachusetts deputy treasurer, supporting Cahill campaign costs brokerage heavily



POLITICS
Romney Campaigns In Pennsylvania As Debate Looms

Mitt campaigns at a Springfield, Va. American Legion post

Hitting the swing states

Anti-Muslim Filmmaker Nakoula Basseley Ordered Jailed

Supremes To Crack Down On Use Of Race In College Admissions?

Soros “Panicked”, Gives $1 Million To Obama SuperPAC

RNC Fires Firm Being Investigated For Voter Fraud

Brown Pushes Warren To Release Client List

Pennsylvania Judge May Order Provisional Ballots

Kit Bond To Endorse Akin, Priebus Hints At RNC Support

Tonight, West Branch Girl A Star, Not A Joke



THE ECONOMY, STUPID
Oil Jumps On Eurozone Optimism; NYMEX $92.11, Brent $112.57
Euro Climbs Against Dollar On Spain; Yuan Rises
GDP Revised Downward; Obama Attacked On Weak Economy
Slew Of Economic Reports Paints Mixed View Of Economy
Stocks Rally On Spanish Austerity News, S&P 500 Breaks Skid
Federal Agencies Lag In Paying Payroll Taxes
Gold Surges On Spanish Austerity Plan
Postal Service To Default On Second $5 Billion Payment To Treasury
RIM Earnings Beat Expectations Despite $235 Million Loss
Why Facebook Just Opened An Online Store
Dish Network In Talks With Viacom About Internet TV
Top Angry Birds Knockoffs To Avoid
Search.XXX Makes Its Debut
Microsoft Buys Influence For Bing With Klout Investment



SPORTS
Refs Cheered At First NFL Game After Lockout Ends

They’re back!

Browns still lose to Ravens, 23-16

White Sox On The Brink: Two Games Behind Tigers In AL Central

NHL Cancels Remaining Preseason Games Before Talks Open

Astros Hire Nationals’ Porter As New Manager

Breaking Down The NASCAR Sprint Cup AAA 400

Jays Blank Yanks 6-0, NY Lead In AL East Cut To One

R.A. Dickey Strikes Out 13 In Historic 20th Win

Morse’s Monster Homer Makes Gio 21-Game Winner As Nats Beat Phillies 7-3; Magic Number Now 3



FAMOUS FOR BEING FAMOUS
Reese Witherspoon, It’s A Boy!

New mom Reese Witherspoon

Tennessee James Toth is her third child

Happy Days Over For Erin Moran; Former Actress Homeless

Too Legit: Celebrating 25 Years Of Hammer Time

Amanda Bynes Pleads Not Guilty To Hit & Run

“Sons Of Anarchy” Actor Found Dead, Suspect In Bizarre Double Death

Olivia Munn To Do Arc On Fox’s  “New Girl”

Jay-Z Says Beyonce Isn’t Pregnant

Emma Watson Up For Sex & Bondage In “Fifty Shades Of Grey” Movie



FOREIGNERS
Bo Xilai Expelled From CCP, Faces Multiple Criminal Charges
Japan, PRC Trade Barbs Over Senkaku Islands At UN
SOD’s Steinbruck Tipped To Challenge Merkel In 2013
Abbas Pares His Statehood Aspirations At UN
Heavy Fighting In Aleppo As Rebels Mount New Push To Expel Loyalist Forces
SecDef Panetta Finally Admits Terrorists Carried Out Consulate Attack



BLOGS & STUFF
Israel Matzav: Romney & Obama Both Go Direct To Video
Weekly Standard Blog: Obama’s New Ad Not Running In NC
National Review Online: Out Of The Bushes
Lonely Conservative: How Will Romney Deal With Obama The Serial Liar In Debates?
Weasel Zippers: Oddly Enough, AP & Reuters Chose The Same Photo Of Netanyahu…
Gateway Pundit: Obama Had No Time To Meet Netanyahu, But Did Campaign Event In Morning And Took Afternoon Off – He’ll Call Him Today (Maybe)
Conservatives4Palin: “I’m Voting For Obama Because He Gave Me This Phone”
Rush Limbaugh: The 47% Speaks
Allahpundit: Feds Arrest Filmmaker On Probation Violation Charges
Power Line: Netanyahu Simplified
Jawa Report: Billionaire Dad To Pay 40 Million Pounds To Any Man Who Gets His Daughter To Switch Teams
Protein Wisdom: “Taxpayers Spent $1.4 Billion On Obama Family Last Year, Perks Questioned In New Book”


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