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LIVE AT FIVE: 09.12.12

Posted on | September 12, 2012 | 3 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho


TOP NEWS
State Department Officer Killed In Jihadi Trashing Of Benghazi Consulate

Egyptian scumbags storm the Cairo embassy

Attack allegedly due to “anti-Islamic” movie

Obama, Netanyahu Discuss Iran Threat Amid Tensions
Phone conversation follows snub of Israeli PM

Obama, Romney Focus On Military Issues
Mitt criticizes proposed defense cuts while Obama reminds us who killed Osama for the five zillionth time



POLITICS
Chicago Teachers Remain On Strike

CTU strikers and supporters march in Chicago

Union head denies reports that city and union are close to agreement; even the New York Times thinks the strike’s a loser

Second-Worst President Ever Rants About “Financial Corruption” And Elections

Author Claims 9-11 Intel Ignored By Bush Administration
In other news, FDR ignored intel on Pearl Harbor attack, moon landings faked

Report Calls For Strengthened Missile Defense System

First Group Of Deportee Delays Approved



THE ECONOMY, STUPID
Oil Up Sharply Ahead Of German Court Ruling, Fed Stimulus Hopes: NYMEX $97.18, Brent $115.60
Gold Adds To Gains As Traders Wait On Fed
Moody’s Says US Faces Downgrade If No Budget Deal In 2013
Dollar Drops To Four-Month Low Against Euro
Zuckerberg: Facebook Future Is Mobile
Health Plan Costs Continue Climb, Outpacing Pay Raises
Judge Tells Twitter To Produce Tweets Or Face Contempt Charges
Kindle Fire HD Gives Nexus 7 Stiff Competition
Paul Krugman Trolls America Regarding The iPhone 5
Google Adds Pirate Bay To Censorship List
Foxconn Denies Using Forced Student Labor On iPhone 5 Production Lines
Microsoft Promises To Patch Flash For Windows 8 “Shortly”



SPORTS
A’s Hang On To Beat Angels, 6-5

Yoenis Cespedes greets Josh Reddick after going yard in the second inning

Oakland remains atop the wild card hunt, pushes Anaheim 7.5 back in the AL West

Red Sox Play Spoiler, Drop Yankees Into Tie for First With 6-5 Win

More Player Unity Means Longer NHL Lockout

Snakes Slip Past Dodgers With Unearned Run, Beat Kershaw 1-0

Tigers Rekindle Offense, Stoke Hopes Of Catching White Sox

 Harper, Werth Figure Out The Knuckler As Nats Beat Mets 5-3: Magic Number Now 13



FAMOUS FOR BEING FAMOUS
“Today” Show Skips 9/11 Moment Of Silence For Interview with Unspeakable Armenians’ Mom

One of these things is not like the others…

Way to counter-program there, NBC.

Chris Brown: Neck Tattoo Is Not Rihanna

Anna Paquin And Stephen Moyer Welcome Twins

Tara Reid Takes A Tumble In St. Tropez

Simon Cowell’s Pick For “X Factor” Judge Is…

Rachel Bilson Sells LA Home, Hayden Christenson Moves Out



FOREIGNERS
MI6 Boss Visits Netanyahu To Urge Against Iran Strike
Pakistan Factory Fires Kill 125
Dutch Voters Shun Euro-Radicals In Parliamentary Elections
PRC Silence On Xi Jinping Fuels Speculation
Indian Anti-Corruption Cartoonist To Be Released
White House Denies Rift With Israel Over Iranian Nukes
Thousands Turn Out To Demand Catalan Autonomy



BLOGS & STUFF
The POH Diaries: Pure Awesome
WyBlog: President Downgrade, The Sequel
NRO Corner: US Embassy Favors Religious Feelings Over Free Speech, Gets Attacked Anyway
Jawa Report: White House Throws Itself Under Bus, Disavows Cairo Embassy Apology For Mohammed Film
American Thinker: The Wrong Response In Cairo
Pat Dollard: Scarborough Refutes Vanity Fair Article, “No Plans To Run” In 2016
Breitbart: Obama Announces Letterman Appearance On Day He Snubbed Netanyahu
Navy Times: Russian Black Sea Fleet Ships Displayed During DNC Tribute To Veterans
The Right Scoop: Glenn Beck Brings Blaze TV To Dish Network
Power Line: Obama Has No Time For Israel, Plenty Of Time For Pimps

Category: Live at Five

@BarackObama Campaign Running Low On Cash, #WarOnWomen Hyperbole

Posted on | September 11, 2012 | 7 Comments

by Smitty

Stacy has been covering the questions about the Obama campaign’s cash. Tonight, though, Dan Riehl’s tweet alerted me that this hysterically hysterical ad running in Virginia is now online.



The Hill:

“We can’t afford to let him take away our choices, to take away basic healthcare,” the woman in the ad continues. “I don’t think that women’s health issues have faced a crises like this in decades.”

Helpy-helperblog that we are, our sacred honor compels us to lend a hand with a few augmented completions to “I don’t think that women’s health issues have faced a crises like this since. . .”

Category: Barack Obama, Election 2012

Tres Fedoras

Posted on | September 11, 2012 | 10 Comments

by Smitty

Unrelated:

Category: Blogging, Music, Video

We Are Prepared to Come Kill You UPDATE: One American Killed, Another Wounded in Libyan Attack

Posted on | September 11, 2012 | 52 Comments

The other day I asked my wife where our 19-year-old son Bob was.

The answer: Hiking up a mountain with an 85-pound pack.

He recently enlisted in the Army, having scored a near-maximum on the ASVAB test, and will report to boot camp in a few months — some kind of delayed-entry deal — as an aspiring candidate for the elite Special Forces. Already a Red Cross certified lifeguard, he is so fired-up that he’s voluntarily doing PT (physical training) in advance, which is why he hiked up the mountain with an 85-pound pack.

Because he is preparing to kill our nation’s enemies.

My wife is concerned for our son’s safety. No, dear — let our nation’s enemies worry about their own safety. Because he’s coming to kill them.

Do you want to be America’s enemy? Really?

Egyptian protesters scaled the walls of the U.S. embassy on Tuesday, tore down the American flag and burned it during a protest over what they said was a film being produced in the United States that insulted Prophet Mohammad. . . .
Once the U.S. flag was hauled down, some protesters tore it up and showed off pieces to television cameras. Others burned the remains outside the fortress-like embassy building in central Cairo. . . .
“This movie must be banned immediately and an apology should be made,” said 19-year-old Ismail Mahmoud, a member of the so-called “ultras” soccer supporters who played a big role in the uprising that brought down Hosni Mubarak last year.

Hey, Ismail: Do you think this flag-burning stuff is smart? You want to turn this into war? You want my son to come kill you?

I don’t know anything about this movie you and your “ultra” mob are all excited about, Ismail, but attacking a U.S. embassy isn’t the kind of thing that Americans take lightly, no matter what gutless apologies you get from the pussies at the State Department. And the same goes for that mob of violent savages in Benghazi:

Gunmen and security forces clashed at the U.S. consulate office in the eastern Libyan city of Benghazi on Tuesday as the armed group protested over a film being produced in the United States, a security official said. . . .
“There are fierce clashes between the Libyan army and an armed militia outside the U.S. consulate,” Abdel-Monen Al-Hurr, spokesman for Libya’s Supreme Security Committee, said.
“The U.S. consulate’s security guards inside the building fired at the militia as it was trying to enter and attack it.”

See, I’ve got skin in the game, so to speak, and this is what enrages me about the folly of appeasement, which only invites such attacks.

This administration’s idiotic policy blunders — and not some movie — are to blame for the signals of weakness that make these thugs think they can attack us with impunity.

Weakness inspires aggression, and war arises not from the power of our enemies, but from the foolishness of our leaders.

America would not be attacked if we were respected. We are not respected because our enemies believe we are weak and cowardly, and they believe this because our leaders don’t often enough remind them that our sons are strong and do not fear them.

The American people will be safer — and the entire world will be safer — when we have leaders who deserve the confidence of a nation willing to send its sons to war if need be, but who yet pray for peace. America’s strength is the best hope for peace.

The enemies of America are the enemies of peace, and they should be warned: My strong son — like the sons of so many thousands more Americans — is prepared to come kill you.

UPDATE: Dana Loesch at Breitbart.com:

An American has been killed on the 11th anniversary of 9/11 as Islamist mobs attacked and burned the U.S. consulate in Libya. . . .
It is so far the only death from mob attacks in Libya and Egypt over Islamist anger at an alleged film in production by Coptic Christians focusing on Islam. The United States spent 9/11 apologizing for hurting Islamists feelings in Egypt which caused them to desecrate our flag and storm the walls of the U.S. embassy and our Libyan consulate.

Annihilate these savages. Hunt them down and kill them, and kill any of those other vicious fanatical bastards who try to stop us.

Category: Egypt, Libya, Military

Domino ‘Wardrobe Failure’: Carbon ‘Quantitatively Eased’ Out Of Sugar

Posted on | September 11, 2012 | 12 Comments

by Smitty

Now, for a quick glance at carbohydrates at Wikipedia, with the Hispanic carb- lost (Car’los’), the remaining Irish O’Hydrate piece of, for example, lactose C12H22O11, is all wet (H20).

Why is everyone intolerant of my lactose joke? Is there anything I can do to sweeten it?

via Volokh

Category: humor

9/11

Posted on | September 11, 2012 | 2 Comments

by Smitty

Forgiveness is liberty
And thus I can find a way
To loose evil bin Laden.

On a sad and mournful day
From where he still lives rent-free
In the hearts of those hatin’.

For looking back, there’s no play
To effect resurrection
For those we’d love to see.

And it’s a contradiction
For the spirit to be gray
In mere static self-pity.

When the mind must drive action
Seeing justice properly
Given to all in the fray.

But emotions are dodgy
Given to vengeance and sin
Keeping problems underway.

Let us deal rationally
And continually pray
Lest we be evil as him.

Last year’s post is here.
On a brighter note, welcome, my 6,000th Twitter follower.

Category: Blogging

Obama’s ‘Bounce’ That Wasn’t

Posted on | September 11, 2012 | 15 Comments

“To put it as bluntly as possible, the economy sucks, and the attempt by Democrats to exculpate Obama for this situation — to place the blame on Republicans, or to say that the economy would suck even worse if Romney were elected — is perhaps more difficult than Nate Silver’s statistics suggest.”
— Robert Stacy McCain, “Omens of Doom,” The American Spectator, Sept. 10, 2012

The media’s effort to manufacture the appearance of a decisive shift toward President Obama — not merely a predictable post-convention “bounce” in the polls — dismayed, discouraged and enraged Republicans who were not psychologically braced for it.

When people are attempting to manipulate your perceptions, your awareness of their effort is your first defense. Your second defense is your knowledge of the underlying reality. Long experience in following campaigns and polls would forewarn you that (a) all presidential campaigns get a poll “bounce” from their conventions, (b) the liberal media’s enthusiasm for Obama would make his “bounce” larger, and (c) none of this changes the underlying reality that the economy sucks.

Americans are not as stupid and gullible as the liberal media would like to think, and so the coordinated effort to turn Obama’s “bounce” into a decisive shift in the campaign has predictably failed:

Last week’s Democratic National Convention helped President Obama improve his standing against Republican Mitt Romney, according to a new Washington Post-ABC News poll, but did little to reduce voter concern about his handling of the economy.
The survey shows that the race remains close among likely voters, with Obama at 49 percent and Romney at 48 percent, virtually unchanged from a poll taken just before the conventions.
But among a wider sample of all registered voters, Obama holds an apparent edge, topping Romney at 50 percent to 44 percent, and has clear advantages on important issues in the campaign when compared with his rival.

What does this tell you? Even after a week of the media’s giggly schoolgirl gushing during the Democrat convention, the most active and engaged citizens — “likely voters” — harbor such profound doubts about Obama’s economic policies that it is still a dead heat. Whatever actual edge Obama has over Romney occurs among the “low-information voters” who aren’t even sure they’ll vote.

Yesterday’s CNN poll that produced such indignation — showing Obama leading 52-46 — was a  statistical outlier, a dot far outside the main cluster of the scatter chart.

The idea that the electorate shifted a full six points in the span of a week (the same CNN poll had the race tied at 48% a week earlier) is absurd. People do not suddenly change their minds that way, merely because of speeches at a convention — especially a convention where the incumbent seeking re-election is less popular than President Blowjob.

This is not to say that media manipulation is irrelevant or harmless. John Nolte rips Politico today for its transparent effort to create an “Inevitability Narrative” for Obama:

[Politico editors John] Harris and [Jim] VandeHei and their team of shameless JournOlisters don’t give a damn about the jobless or the poor or the middle class or the concept of objective and honest reporting — all Harris and VandeHei and their team of shameless JournOlisters care about is dragging Their Precious One over the finish line.
Obama-hugger gets more attention than 368,000 people dropping out of the workforce.
Romney not mentioning the troops in his speech gets more attention that Obama blowing his speech entirely.
Democrats booing God and Israel at their convention gets 1/50th the attention Clint Eastwood received.
Ryan’s marathon brag gets more attention than middle class incomes falling.
Romney’s tax returns get more attention than the increase in poverty.
Ryan being branded a liar for telling the truth about that GM plant in Janesville gets more attention than manufacturing contracting three months in a row.
And over the next 57 days, the dishonest, corrupt Politico will only get worse.

The “news” at Politico is all about gloomy clouds for Romney, while the sun is always shining in Obamaville.

Do not be deceived, and do not be discouraged.

The economy still sucks.

 

 

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Category: Barack Obama, Election 2012, Media Bias, Mitt Romney, Polls

Speaking of Terrorists …

Posted on | September 11, 2012 | 9 Comments

. . . it’s the 11th anniversary of 9/11, and the Truthers are blaming Bush again. Jimmie Bise Jr. says he’ll take the Truthers to the woodshed tonight on his award-winning podcast, The Delivery:

While you’re eagerly anticipating that epic ass-whupping, let’s talk about another terrorist, a guy named Brett Kimberlin.

Maybe you’ve heard of him.

William J. Hoge has posted a link to attorney Dan Backer’s Aug. 16 “Motion to Compel Discovery of Defendant Kimberlin” in Aaron Walker’s lawsuit against Kimberlin, Neal Rauhauser and Ron Brynaert, and it’s a doozy, folks. I’m not generally a legal-document fanboy, but Backer really rips Kimberlin apart in this one.

Kimberlin is attempting to evade discovery — i.e., the process by which evidence and testimony are obtained in civil proceedings — and Backer notes one tactic on Page 6 of his motion (click here to read it on Scribd):

Defendant Kimberlin has arbitrarily selected a date [Dec. 15] approximately four months away in which he has stated he will answer the discovery with various defensive motions including sanctions against Counsel.
Defendant Kimberlin has stated he selected this date because: “I am cooperating with the FBI and other law enforcement officials regarding several issues involving your client and I believe that the resolution of those matters will have a bearing on this case.” . . .
Given Defendant Kimberlin’s history, Counsel takes him at his word that he has in fact contacted the various law enforcement agencies he asserts. His complaining of harassment to law enforcement, however, is unremarkable. Defendant Kimberlin has repeatedly attempted to have Plaintiff arrested . . .
Yet, absent an independent request by a law enforcement agency, Defendant Kimberlin’s complaining to law enforcement about Plaintiff is insufficient to delay discover in this case, which is already eight months old. The reasoning put forth by Defendant Kimberlin appears simply to be another delaying tactic to thwart discovery and, by extension, justice in this case.

What Backer is describing here is Kimberlin’s typical “accuse the accusers” tactics: Kimberlin has always — always — attempted to discredit his antagonists by accusing them of criminal wrongdoing. If you’ve read Mark Singer’s 1996 book Citizen K: The Deeply Weird American Journey of Brett Kimberlin, you know that Kimberlin has never — never — admitted guilt for the crimes of which he was convicted and sent to prison. Instead, he blames others, defaming the police, prosecutors, witnesses and judge in his 1981 trial. While in jail awaiting trial in the Speedway Bombing case, Brett Kimberlin plotted the murders of the prosecutor and a key witness against him:

Brett C. Kimberlin schemed to elude justice with a series of bizarre plots designed to murder, maim and rob his enemies, create havoc . . . and discredit the chief government prosecutor. . . .
On sheets of yellow legal pad, Kimberlin asked another inmate in the Marion County Jail to arrange for the murder of Bernard L. (Buddy) Pylitt, the former first assistant U.S. attorney who coordinated his prosecution.
The offer contained a list of 10 names, including a potential prosecution witness, Robert Scott Bixler. Some names had crosses next to them. These indicated those marked for murder, it was learned. . . .

Kimberlin remains unrepentant for his crimes, and the dishonesty of his denials has turned his entire existence into one vast lie, including his false accusations against Aaron Walker. And now, in his attempt to evade discovery in Walker’s lawsuit, Kimberlin claims that he is “cooperating with the FBI and other law enforcement officials”!

Hey, FBI: Why don’t you ask Brett about Julia Scyphers?

Julia Scyphers was the grandmother of a pre-teen girl Kimberlin was said to be “grooming.” She was shot dead at her home in 1978. Authorities told Joe Gelarden of the Indianapolis Star they believed the Speedway Bombings were a misguided effort by Kimberlin to distract police investigating the Scyphers murder. Her murder is still an open case, although an eyewitness identified a member of Kimberlin’s drug-smuggling gang as the trigger man.

Kimberlin is an inveterate and shameless liar, who was convicted of perjury before he graduated high school and who has been called a “top-flight con man.” It is an injustice and a disgrace that an infamous criminal like Kimberlin should be permitted to continue harassing such an innocent and honorable citizen of Virginia as Aaron Walker.

Pray that the courts of the Commonwealth will rectify that injustice.

UPDATE: Linked by Dan Collins at The Conservatory — thanks!

UPDATE II: Linked by Bill Quick at Daily Pundit who laments “that 9/11 itself has become a sort of degraded political dog whistle used to ‘expose anti-Muslim bigots.'” Indeed, I was watching MSNBC today — I watch, so you don’t have to — where Jonathan Capehart of the Washington Post seemed to be arguing that the worst consequence of 9/11 was that it unjustly cast suspicion on Muslims. The resemblance between this idiotic attitude and the “anti-anti-Communist” posture of some liberals during the Cold War is, I think, not entirely accidental.

Category: Aaron Worthing, Terrorism, The Kimberlin Files
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