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LIVE AT FIVE: 09.06.12

Posted on | September 6, 2012 | 3 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho


TOP NEWS
Bill Clinton Speech Renews Talk Of Hillary 2016

Did Clinton pull a reverse Eastwood?

Masterful, meandering speech was Clinton at the top of his form

Under Fire, Democrats Revise Plank On Jerusalem
Smooth move there, Ex-Lax.


Costa Rica Escapes Serious Damage From Huge Quake
7.6 quake leaves only two dead, relatively minor damage



POLITICS
Elizabeth Warren Tells Middle Class “The System Is Rigged”

Elizabeth Warren, trans-Cherokee white girl, speaks to the DNC

“People feel like the system is rigged against them. And here’s the painful part: They’re right. The system is rigged.”

Judge Rules Arizona Police Can Check Immigration Status

Secret Service Investigates Alleged Theft Of Romney Tax Records

Emanuel Takes On New Role As SuperPAC Wrangler

Estranged Wife Of California State Treasurer Busted For Meth Use, Child Abuse

Biden To Make Obama’s Case To The Working Class

Gay Democrats Celebrate Newfound Visibility

The Tony Blair of US Politics?

…And Then Some Speeches Happened


THE ECONOMY, STUPID
Oil Mixed On ECB Expectations: NYMEX $95.86, Brent $113.61
All Eyes On Draghi’s Bond Rescue Plan For Europe
Ailing QANTAS Announces Alliance With Emirates
EU Launches Anti-Dumping Probe Into PRC Solar Panels
Gold Ends Down As ECB, Economy Sideline Buyers
Federal Court Protects Louboutin’s Red Soles
Bill Gross: The Cult Of Equity Is Still Dying
Auditors Slam Cal Teachers’ Pension Fund For Not Controlling Spiking
Amazon Teases Unannounced Kindles During NFL Opener
Lumia 920 Demo Looks Twice As Nice
ROK Antitrust Watchdog Probing Samsung
Should Failed Kickstarter Projects Issue Refunds?
Can “Farmville 2” Save Struggling Zynga?
HTC Going Big On WinPhone 8
NPD: Total Number Of US Videogame Players Drops



SPORTS
Cowboys Pass Gut Check With Opening Win Against Giants

Dallas TE Jason Witten

MENTAL TOUGHNESS
Related: No major blunders by replacement refs


Millwood Shows UP for M’s, Hands Staggering Red Sox Another Loss


Maybin Robs Kemp Of Homer As Padres Keep Dodgers At Bay

Yankees Top Rays, Reclaim First In AL East

Royals Can’t Hold On, Drop 7-6 Squeaker To Rangers

Dickey First To 18 Wins As Mets Beat Cards 6-2

Woeful Astros In A League Of Their Own

Nationals Offense Stays Hot To Steamroll Cubs 9-1



FAMOUS FOR BEING FAMOUS
LeAnn Rimes Feeling “Better, Stronger” In Treatment, Says Pal

LeAnn Rimes

Getting a handle on emotional issues

More Vileness From Unspeakable Armenian’s Rapper BF

Amanda Bynes Charged With Hit & Run

Britney Spears: The Brit Factor

Triple H Shaves His Head…

…And So Does Kellie Pickler

John Travolta’s Gay Pilot Lover Feels Bad For Kelly Preston


Jessica Simpson: “I’m Ten Pounds Away From My Pre-Baby Size”

Kennedy Family: We Love Taylor Swift! She’s Already Part Of The Family!
Doomed. 🙁

Emma Watson Gets Sexy For Glamour, Dishes On College Life



FOREIGNERS
Iraq Denies US Claims That Iran Resupplying Syria Through Their Air Space
IDF Blocks Two Gaza Attacks, Kills Six Jihadis
Putin: Russia Can Work With Romney
Indian Fireworks Factory Fire Toll Rises To 54
Turkey Ammo Depot Blast Kills 25
Defenders Of “The Chinese Way” Are Off The Mark
Quebec Attack An Assassination Attempt?
Bo Xilai’s Top Cop Charged In Case That Shook The CCP
PRC Firm Urges Beijing Not To Push Nork Investment



BLOGS & STUFF
Cobb: It’s The Stupid Economy
WyBlog: Cory Booker Channels Joe Biden In His DNC Speech
Washington Free Beacon: Debbie Downer Definitely Won’t Apologize To Examiner’s Klein After Being Caught Lying
Weasel Zippers: DWS Cancels Interviews After Denying Discord On DNC Floor Over Jerusalem Platform Plank
Joshuapundit: DNC Overrules Delegates, Rams God & Jerusalem Back Into Party Platform
Sacred Monkeys: Delegates Boo As DNC Forces God & Jerusalem Back Into Party Platform
Belmont Club: Three Strikes, And You’re Not Out
Riehl World News: DNC Not-So-Secretly Schedules Johansson, Kerry Washington And (Natalie) Portman To Speak
Jennifer Rubin: Bill Clinton’s Long, Long Speech About The Mean, Mean Republicans
Babalu: Fear Of Lightning Bolts?
Jawa Report: Empty Chair Moved Indoors
Rush Limbaugh: Obama Cancels Stadium Speech
Jammie Wearing Fools: Romney Campaign To Obama – How About Cooling It With The Hitler Nonsense?
Breitbart: First Lady’s False Fairy Tale Of Struggle
Wizbang: Mom-In-Chief
Frank J: Obama’s First Term Has Been A Failure – Of America

Category: Live at Five

I’d’ve Been All: ‘Speaking of ObamaCare, Estimate Its Half-Life If Romney Wins’

Posted on | September 5, 2012 | 15 Comments

by Smitty

Durbin, trying to downplay the recently God-less Democrat platform:

“I’m just telling you, you are harping on a trifle,” Durbin said, adding that the Democratic Party platform was “the most unread document in the history of American politics.”

I’ll bet a soda that, unless Durbin is personally sponsoring legislation, he reads, roughly none of what passes through the Senate.

via Instapundit

Category: Democrats, Instapundit

DNC Charlotte: Warming Up

Posted on | September 5, 2012 | 27 Comments

Arriving at the Democratic National Convention, Sept. 5, 2012

CHARLOTTE, North Carolina
Ali Akbar and I drove all night to get here, and the worst part of the drive was passing through the mountains on I-77 at 4 a.m. when the fog was so thick you couldn’t see 10 feet in front of the car. We pulled into a garage in downtown Charlotte at 7 a.m. and had to wait three hours until the media credentials office opened.

It is Ali’s impression that everything here at the DNC is smaller than at the RNC. He particularly noticed open space in the corridors of the arena that, at the Republican convention, would have been rented to vendors. His Tweets:

Of course, Ali is not a Neutral Objective Journalist like me, so it’s possible that he is prejudiced, but indeed we seem to be a long way from the Hope-mania that pervaded Denver in 2008. As soon as we walked into the Time Warner Arena today, I scored my first interview:

Here’s the video of Joe Trippi:

A little more news: President Obama will do a conference call with the 40,000 or so ticket-holders who got stiffed because they moved his Thursday speech has been moved indoors. Also, the Democratic National Convention is one of the few places on the planet where anybody recognizes MSNBC anchors.

Inside the Time-WArner Cable Arena

The National Affairs Desk, 12:30 p.m., Wednesday, Sept. 5, 2012

 

 


Category: Fear and Loathing at the Democratic National Convention

DNC Charlotte: Obama’s Thursday Apotheosis Gets Rained Out

Posted on | September 5, 2012 | 18 Comments

CHARLOTTE, North Carolina
While I was waiting to pick up my media credentials this morning, the official word came that Thursday’s final night of the convention will be moved indoor due to a severe weather forecast. CNN reports:

After days of bad weather, President Barack Obama’s re-election campaign and Democratic National Convention organizers have decided to change the venue of the president’s acceptance speech Thursday in Charlotte, North Carolina.
Instead of holding the final night at the Bank of America stadium as planned, the event will move indoors to the Time Warner Cable arena, where the first two days of the convention have taken place.

This means 21,000 seats inside the arena instead of 65,000 seats in the stadium and some Republicans on Twitter are suggesting the real reason for the move was that Democrats were afraid of having empty seats at the stadium. But even if the weather explanation is legit, it’s still kind of embarrassing for Obama, as Rocco Cavallo said on Twitter: “So the guy who slowed the rise of the oceans can’t stop the rain?”

Category: Barack Obama, Democrats, Election 2012, Fear and Loathing at the Democratic National Convention

Conservative Ad Claims #OccupyResoluteDesk Lacks Values

Posted on | September 5, 2012 | 1 Comment

by Smitty

The Campaign for American Values is way off here:
Obama totally values the votes of the alternative lifestyles crowd. Too bad those lifestyles don’t tend to beget more voters. But if the North American Man/Unicorn Love Association had some votes, then we can be sure Obama would get behind their efforts, which is his favorite position from which to lead.

Via American Power

Category: Barack Obama

@KatiePavlich Appreciation Post

Posted on | September 5, 2012 | 8 Comments

by Smitty

There aren’t many more powerful examples of how jacked up the Democrat party is than Ted Kennedy.


My one very close Democrat friend said of Ted: “He spoke after me once at a conference years ago. What a nice man.” Now, this friend of mine is older, so out of respect for the elderly, I don’t go thrashing her with pesky facts. When mentioned something about Mary Jo Kopechne maybe not agreeing with the assertion that “Das Boot” Kennedy wasn’t a nice guy, (I think this was before his Commie flirtations were public) she gave me a blank stare. I guess MJK is an unperson on the Left.

Perhaps, as the Left’s inability to change the conversation gives way to an endless flood of facts, these United States can enjoy a renaissance of history, and purge itself of the Lefty crapflooding that has gone on for too long.

Update: more at American Glob.

Update II: Is Daily Pundit a Philip K. Dick head? “The biggest disadvantage the left has in relation to objectivists like me is that when they stop believing in reality, it doesn’t go away.”

Category: Democrats

LIVE AT FIVESIX: 09.05.12

Posted on | September 5, 2012 | Comments Off on LIVE AT FIVESIX: 09.05.12

— compiled by Wombat-socho


TOP NEWS
Parti Quebecois Wins Minority In Provincial Elections

Pauline Maurois, leader of the PQ, soon to be premier of Quebec

Party’s victory over Liberals marred by murder outside campaign HQ


Lots Of Talk But No Agreement On Syria, South China Sea
Hillary Clinton’s Beijing summit comes up empty


McDonald’s To Open Its First Vegetarian Restaurants In India
40% of Indians don’t eat meat and McD’s wants to tap that market



POLITICS
Former Navy SEAL Chats With CBS As Administration Weighs Options

Not “Mark Owen” but a clever disguise

Author spurned by fellow SpecOps vets

Federal Judge Says Mass. Inmate Must Be Granted Sex Change

Penn State Reports Almost $17 Million In Sandusky Costs

Israeli Ambassador Calls DWS Liar, DNC Walks Back Comment

With Teacher’s Strike Looming, Emanuel Trims DNC Stay

Administration Moves To Settle Lawsuit Alleging “Frat House” Atmosphere At ICE

New York Supremes To Rule On Whether Lap Dances Are (Tax-Exempt) Art

…And Then A Bunch Of Speeches Happened



THE ECONOMY, STUPID
Oil Prices Slump On SPR Release, Lousy Global Economy: NYMEX $95.36, Brent $114
Stocks Mixed After Economic Reports, Facebook Hits New Low
Euro Slips But Support Seen Intact As ECB Awaited
Survey Finds US Competitiveness Sliding
Australian Economic Growth Slows To 0.6 In Second Quarter
Manufacturing Index, Construction Spending Weaken
3M Denies Dropping Avery Dennison Deal, Will Address DOJ Concerns
Campbell’s Q4 Leaves Rare Pleasant Taste
FBI Denies AntiSec Claims Regarding Apple Device IDs
As Windows Goes Touch, Norton Goes Social
Google’s Android OS Has Over Half The US Smartphone market
“Angry Birds” Swine Get To Shine In “Bad Piggies”
Oracle’s Java Patch Not Enough To Stop Hackers
Windows Server 2012 Embraces The Data Center
Oracle To Continue Itanium Support After Court Ruling
Internet Petition Brings Female Jarheads To “Alien: Colonial Marines”



SPORTS
Yankees Choke Again, Fall Into Tie For First Atop AL East

B.J. Upton celebrates with teammates after 5-2 win

Orioles crush Toronto 12-0, now tied with Bronx Bumblers; Rays only 1.5 games behind

Snakes Fell Giants 8-6 In 11 Innings…

…And The Padres Do The Same To The Dodgers

Cardinals Easily Handle Mets, Win 5-1

Mariners Can’t Hold Lead, Red Sox Rally To Snap Skid

Greinke Goes Seven In Angels’ 6-1 Win Against A’s

Twins Go Batty In 18-9 Rout Of White Sox

Homer-Happy Nationals Batter Lowly Cubs, 11-5



FAMOUS FOR BEING FAMOUS
Jessica Simpson Tackles Pregnancy Pounds

Jessica Simpson, taking it off

Down from 170 pounds in April Elle shoot, but won’t say how much

Michael Clarke Duncan Planned To Start Family With Omarosa After Wedding Next Year, Says Rep

Co$ Denies Everything In L’Affaire Naz

Has-Been Rocker Arrested After Drunken In-Flight Tussle With Stewardess

Snooki Introduces Baby Lorenzo

Jim Carrey Takes colonel Role In “Kick Ass 2”

Nicki Minaj A Republican Voting For Romney?



FOREIGNERS
“Godmother Of Cocaine” Gunned Down In Medellin
No Ceasefire, Drigs Nag At Colombian Peace Talks
Japan To Buy Disputed Senkaku Islands From Private Owners
Netanyahu Adjourns Security Cabinet Meeting Over Leaks
Syria Rejects Egypt’s Bid For Negotiated End To War
US Senators Concerned Iran Supplying Syria Via Iraq
Cameron Ends Rosy Days Of Coalition
Norks To Hold Rare Second Parliamentary Session This Month Amid Economic Concern
Leader Of Gulf Drug Cartel Captured By Mexican Marines



BLOGS & STUFF
WyBlog: Today’s DNC Theme – All Your Citizens Are Belong To The Government
The Looking Spoon: A Hollywood Opening Prayer For The DNC
1389 AD: Balkans For Dummies Part II – The Kosovo War
Weasel Zippers: Democrats Remove All References To God From Party Platform
Belmont Club: …Bless America
NRO: Waiting For Obama
Atlas Shrugs: DNC’s Anti-Israel Platform
Washington Free Beacon: AIPAC Not Consulted On Final Draft Of Democrat Platform?
Michelle Malkin: Creepy DNC Video Asserts We All Belong To Government
Babalu: Nutshells & Burning Sage
Sense Of Events” (Another) Dem Plays The Hitler Card
Scared Monkeys: Majority Of Americans Believe US Worse Off Than Four Years Ago
The Lid: Debbie Wasserman Schultz Gets Caught Lying About Lying
Ed Driscoll: Beware This Fully Operational Debt Star
Michael Barone: Day One Of The DNC
Riehl World News: Democrats Are So Smart Edition – Obama Underwater, Popularity Declines
AmSpecBlog: Cory Booker’s Nauseating Remarks
Fausta: No, He Didn’t Respect Them In The Morning

Category: Live at Five

Sociopaths and Democrats

Posted on | September 4, 2012 | 27 Comments

But I repeat myself. A sudden change of plans requires me to leave soon for Charlotte to cover the Democratic National Convention.

After the car trouble that turned my trip home from Tampa into a three-day ordeal, I had hoped to spend a few days at home before going back out on the campaign trail, but . . . well, a sudden change of plans.

Meanwhile, it appears that the ever-amusing Barrett Brown has decided to throw in with Neal Rauhauser. Yesterday, Brown popped up on Twitter threatening to sue me, demanding I call him, etc. Readers may recall that Brown made himself the public spokesman for the international criminal conspiracy known as “Anonymous,” and was subsequently raided by the FBI at the time of the LulzSec arrests. Brown himself, however, was not arrested, which led to the obvious suspicion that he was one of the “unindicted co-conspirators” cited in the charges against the hackers. In case you’ve forgotten why this matters, I’ll remind you of the headlines:

Barrett Brown evidently considers it libelous to suggest that he would actually co-operate with law enforcement to help apprehend and prosecute criminal hackers. Therefore, I will state for the record that Barrett Brown hates cops and, in fact, Barrett Brown wishes violent death on all law enforcement officials. He is a dangerous outlaw, a menace to society and Public Enemy Number One.

This probably won’t be accepted as a “retraction,” however — it’s damned if it you, damned if you don’t with this guy — so whether I describe Brown as a violent radical anarchist, a gutless snitch, or a laughably pompous douchebag, he’ll still threaten to sue me, which was the subject of my e-mail to him last night:

First of all, spare me your lawsuit threats. Ever the publicity-seeking opportunist, you chose to make yourself the spokesman for an international criminal conspiracy, and if the consequences of that foolish decision did not cross your mind, that’s not my fault.
It was blindingly obvious to me, the minute I heard of this, that you could not speak for Anonymous unless you were in communications with its members and privy to their plans. The FBI seems to have reached the same conclusion.
The references to an “unindicted co-conspirator” in the LulzSec indictments? Well, who else could that possibly refer to? If not you, then it must have been Gregg Housh, with whom you announced a six-figure book deal shortly before the LulzSec raid went down.
While I am not aware of exactly how the FBI solved the case, I assume it was pretty easy once you announced yourself as the Anonymous spokesman: All they had to do was get a wiretap warrant to monitor your communications and, eventually, you would lead them to members of Anonymous. Once other members were identified, they would in turn be put under surveillance, and so on.
This was a typical narcissistic error, and a typical narcissistic response: You think you’re such a fucking intellectual giant that all your schemes will succeed, and when they fail, you start hunting around for scapegoats to blame, because it’s impossible for you to accept responsibility or admit to yourself that you’re not as smart as you think you are.
Your narcissism and your anti-social resentments are thus inextricably intertwined: You consider yourself superior to others and blame society for not recognizing your superiority. In the last e-mail I had from you, in March 2011, you wrote: “Why should the states hold a monopoly on violence? As long as it’s directed towards the state and those who act with it, violence is quite appropriate. … [I]t’s hard for me to get upset about my fellow anarchists attacking armed riot cops for any reason they choose.” This hatred of authority is symptomatic of an anti-social personality and yet, in typical narcissistic fashion, you think of such an attitude as evidence of your superiority: “All smart people think like me. I hate cops. Therefore, anyone who doesn’t hate cops is stupid.”
Or consider, for example, your use of YouTube: Arrogant lectures, the basic theme of which is your own superiority and contempt for anyone you dislike. You bounce from one embarrassing failure to another, yet none of your failures ever convinces you that you’re on the wrong path, or that you have overestimated your own abilities. You have no real friends because, knowing your own inner worthlessness, you have a special contempt for anyone who admires you. You serially alienate would-be friends until eventually your enemies list encompasses the entire world, but the root of your problem is not other people — it’s you, hiding your emotional weakness behind a fragile façade of bravado.
You don’t need a lawyer, Barrett. You need a psychiatrist, or perhaps a priest to exorcise your demons. You are traveling a road to destruction, as harmful to yourself as to any of your chosen enemies. Get help.

Arrogant sociopathic punks think they can go around threatening people and if you dare say a word back to them, you’re the bad guy.

Speaking of punks, an obscure talentless assclown named Bill Schmalfeldt is threatening to sue Aaron Walker.

Patterico has important background and urges readers to go contribute to Aaron’s legal defense fund.

Category: Aaron Worthing, Barrett Brown
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