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LIVE AT FIVE: 08.16.12

Posted on | August 16, 2012 | 6 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho


TOP NEWS
Romney Campaign Grips Third Rail Of Medicare

The Mittstar - powerful enough to shatter an entire administration?


Intends to beat Obama campaign, Democrats senseless with MATH.

No Public Benefits For Illegals, Governor Brewer Orders
Arizona Governor orders state agencies to deny benefits to illegals whose deportations have been deferred under Obama executive orders

Dozens Of Cities To See Pussy Riot Rallies
Feel-good cause of the month unlikely to impress Putin



POLITICS
9/11 Cross Check

WTC construction workers pray at a July 23 ceremony for the cross


September 11 Memorial Museum fights atheists in court for right to display iconic cross

Nidal Hasan Court-martial On Hold Over Beard

Pennsylvania Judge Rejects Bid To Block Voter ID Law

AFRICOM General Under Investigation For Lavish Travel & Hotel Spending

Security Guard Shot At Family Research Council By Left-Wing Crazy

Has Tech For America Betrayed Its Mission?



THE ECONOMY, STUPID
Unexpected Drop In US Inventories Jacks Up Oil: NYMEX $94.33, Brent $116.25
Stocks Finish Wednesday Flat
John Deere Shares Drop As Earnings Forecast Missed
Great Lakes Harvest Off To Early Start
Warren Buffett: Merchant Banker Of Last Resort
Dollar Hits One-Month High Against Yen
PRC Stocks Fall To Two-Week Low After Foreign Investment Drops
Bankruptcy Judges Rules AMR Can’t Scrap Pilot Contracts
LA Restaurant Offers Discount To Diners Who Shut Off Their Smartphones And Eat
Nokia, Microsoft Aim To Steal Apple’s Thunder With Early WinPhone Launch
Samsung Starts Galaxy Noye 10.1 Sales In US, UK; Aims At Business, Educational Markets
Android Flash Player RIP: How To Get It Now That It’s Gone
HP Spins Off WebOS Into New Company: Gram
NaturalMotion’s iOS Racing Game Generates $12 Million Revenue In First Month



SPORTS
King Felix Is Perfect

Felix Hernandez reacts after his perfect game


Shuts down Rays 1-0; third perfect game in baseball this season, 23rd in baseball history

Giants’ Cabrera Suspended After Failing Drug Test

Tribe’s Hernandez (Formerly Carmona) Struggles In Return; Angels Win 8-4

Hamilton’s Homers Not Enough As Yankees Top Rangers Again

NHL Responds To Players’ Offer; Talks Continue

Reds Rough Up Dickey In 6-1 Loss


IndyCar Star Hornish Gets Second Chance To Shine In NASCAR

John Henry: No Red Sox Players Called For Replacement Of Bobby V

Nationals End Dominating Road Trip With 6-4 Win Over Giants



FAMOUS FOR BEING FAMOUS
Kate Hudson Will Make “Glee” Fans Hot For Teacher

Kate Hudson and some guy


Lea Michele gushes over Season 4 guest star

Kristen Stewart Not Dropped From “Snow White” Sequel; Jodie Foster Slams Breakup Spectacle In Supportive Essay

Mayim Bialik Injured In Car Accident

Porn Star James Deen: Lindsay Helped Me Climax

Jimmy Kimmel Engaged To GF Molly McNearney After Three-Year Relationship

Abby Elliott Not Returning To SNL


Shia LeBoeuf Regrets Spielberg Dig, Slams Studio System

Lady Gaga: Dead Animals Make BEAUTIFUL Coats

Elton John Band Member Dead In Apparent Suicide

He Whipped, She Snapped



FOREIGNERS
Ecuador Claims London Made Assange Threat
Gulf States Urge Citizens To Leave Lebanon As Syria Fighting Threatens To Spread
Suicide Bombers Storm Pakistan Air Base
World Muslim Body Suspends Syria’s Membership
Japan Poised To Deport PRC Protesters
Authorities Face Hard Choice In Pussy Riot Verdict
Merchanter Diverts To Australia, Fearing Rescued Asylum Seekers
UN: Religious Unrest In Western Burma Improving



BLOGS & STUFF
WyBlog: Chains, Trains, And Last Century’s Automobiles – A Day In The Life Of Joe Biden
Valley Of The Shadow: Post 1000
Riehl World View: “Chicks-For-Gays” – Democrat Politicians And Activists Now Have Blood On Their Hands
Protein Wisdom: Gunman Shoots Guard At Family Research Center
Power Line: Thoughts On The Family Research Council Shooting
American Power: Depraved Gays Blame FRC For “Culture Of Violence”
Legal Insurrection: HuffPo Attacks FRC Just Hours After Shooting
Weasel Zippers: Obama Defends Biden’s “Chains” Remark
NRO Corner: You Can’t Make This Stuff Up
Lonely conservative: Dumb Biden Doesn’t Even Know what Century He’s Living In
American Thinker: Who Really Unchained Wall Street?
Allahpundit: After Picking Ryan, Romney Now Leads In Ohio, Virginia – And Florida
Wake Up America: Judge Upholds Pennsylvania Voter ID Law (Ruling Embedded)
Gateway Pundit: Iowa Deli Owner Caters Obama Rally – Wearing Romney T-Shirt
Blackfive: Dishonorable Disclosures

Category: Live at Five

Dishonorable Disclosures: “The Politicians Just Don’t Get It”

Posted on | August 15, 2012 | 15 Comments

by Smitty

About the only criticism I can offer of this video is that the production is kinda flashy. In other words, it’s spot-on, and I’m scraping about to try to find anything at all to say other than: ‘Yep’.

This video is a must-see for everyone. #OccupyResoluteDesk, Uncle Choo-Choo, and the rest of the clown car have simply Got. To. Go.

via HotAir

Category: Barack Obama, Uncategorized

Sure Am Glad It Was The Saudis Who Objected To .gay Internet Domain

Posted on | August 15, 2012 | 19 Comments

by Smitty

The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia has objected to a variety of new generic top-level domains (gTLDs) ranging from .porn and .sexy to .wine and .bar and .bible, according to records of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN).

Can you imagine the barrage of shrill, tedious lectures on the need for tolerance if, say, Dan Cathy had had the mindless, medieval morality to express an opinion less than fully supportive of a gTLD for the LBGT crew? Instead, we won’t hear peep #1 from that ‘victim’ category.

F. Scott Fitzgerald famously noted:

The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function.

It’s one thing to note that two ideas are in tension, e.g. the individual vs. society, and resolve the friction in a mature way. It’s quite another to dive into the Postmodern cesspool, reject Truth, and be reduced to a hedonistic Lefty animal, for example, an #Occupy loser. Where is the nobility in childishly screaming for pleasure, unless silenced by some bully threatening violence?

For my part, I’m weighing in around libertarian on this one: I don’t care what others are doing. Though I hope what they do edifies.

Category: Culture, Saudi Arabia

I Blame Rachel Maddow!

Posted on | August 15, 2012 | 20 Comments

And why not? If you Google her name with Chick-fil-A and Family Research Council, you get more than 450,000 hits.

It therefore should be obvious that Maddow’s hateful rhetoric against Chick-fil-A and Family Research Council incited today’s shooting at FRC’s office in Washington, D.C.

Now that we have determined the shooter’s motive and found a scapegoat to blame — remember that I am a professional journalist like Brian Ross of ABC News — we can start worrying about, y’know, facts and stuff.

UPDATE: OK, we don’t actually know the named of the so-called “suspect” — and by “suspect,” I mean the guy who walked into FRC’s office and shot the security guard, as opposed to the person who is really responsible, MSNBC host Rachel Maddow.

For those of you who don’t want this Brian Ross-style professional journalism, check in with Michelle “Just a Blogger” Malkin.

UPDATE II: The so-called “suspect” — whose name we don’t know, but who was obviously president of the Rachel Maddow Fan Club — was carrying Chick-fil-A promotional materials and food as well as weapons, though the FBI has not yet confirmed.

I got that at Twitchy, which isn’t really professional journalism, since they haven’t joined my Brian Ross-style hunt for a scapegoat, which is what professional journalists do.

Category: Crime, Gays, MSNBC

Hey, Girl, It’s Paul Ryan — in Ohio!

Posted on | August 15, 2012 | 16 Comments

REYNOLDSBURG, Ohio
My previous plan to visit my sister-in-law today got scrambled by the news that the Future Vice President of the United States is returning this afternoon to his alma mater, Miami University of Ohio at Oxford, Ohio:

450 E. High Street, Oxford, OH 45056
Doors Open at 3:30 PM
Event Begins at 5:30 PM
To RSVP and get your ticket, click here http://mi.tt/MVqIH1
Parking will be available at John D. Millet Hall, located at 500 E. Sycamore in Oxford, Ohio 45056

Obviously, I’ve got to be there. It’s 130 miles away, so I’ll have to hit the road immediately, but first let’s talk about the guy I’ve said should have the Secret Service code-name “Dreamy”:

Before he was Mitt Romney’s running mate, Paul D. Ryan was a prominent congressman, an intellectual leader of the GOP and, of all things, a stand-in for actor Ryan Gosling in an Internet meme.
“Hey Girl, It’s Paul Ryan” takes the Wisconsin representative and, with a bit of wordplay, turns him into an Internet sex symbol. Take, for example, this photo of Ryan, with the caption, “Hey girl, you know I can’t inflate our love . . . and that would just devalue it anyways.”
The site started when Emily Zanotti, an account services director for a Chicago-based communications agency, and two friends, Lyndsey Fifield and Lindsey Dodge, drew a connection between Ryan’s stories of bare-handed “catfish noodling” (popularized by the New York Times) and the pre-existing “Hey Girl” meme featuring Gosling. After making a few images, they decided to start the site in May, never expecting it to be met with such popularity. . . .

Read the whole thing. And hit the freaking tip jar. I may not be an “Internet sex symbol,” but . . .

 

 


Category: Election 2012, Ohio, Paul Ryan

Bitterly Clinging … to Their Jobs!

Posted on | August 15, 2012 | 10 Comments

Mitt Romney speaks in Beallsville, Ohio, Aug. 14, 2012

REYNOLDSBURG, Ohio — Mitt Romney’s stop yesterday in Eastern Ohio’s “Coal Country” was an interesting event. Here was Romney — whom Democrats say is “out of touch” with working Americans — on stage with dozens of grimy-faced coal miners, and getting cheered by a crowd full of hardhat-wearing miners.

A miner’s wife sports a hardhat at the Beallsville rally

Many of the miners had brought their wives and kids to the rally. They got Cokes and hot dogs and it was like a late-summer picnic. There was nothing “astroturf” about this crowd of miners: Big muscular bearded guys with tattoos, and the warm-up music before the event featured lots of tunes of the modern country type, with rock guitars and lyrics about dirt roads and trucks. Frankly, I’m not sure what political message — if any — is sent by Luke Bryan’s “Country Girl (Shake It for Me),” but the crowd seemed to enjoy it, which was probably the point.

Romney senior advisor Kevin Madden talks to reporters at Beallsville.

A coal miner makes pretty good wages. It’s very much a man’s job, the kind of job that enables a guy with a high-school education and a strong back to be the bread-winner for his family and, as such, coal mining is a community institution in Eastern Ohio.

Why the hell would Obama want to diss these blue-collar guys to pander to a bunch of environmentalist weenies? I talked about the stakes in my American Spectator column today:

Romney began his Ohio tour Tuesday with a rally at a coal mine in Beallsville, highlighting the coal industry’s importance to the local economy — and the hostility of the president’s policies toward that industry. Hundreds of muscular miners in hardhats, wearing stickers with the slogan “Stop Obama’s War on Coal,” cheered and applauded Romney as he asked a rhetorical question, “We have 250 years of coal, why the heck wouldn’t we use it?” Near the West Virginia state line, Beallsville is in Monroe County, which Obama carried by nine points over Republican John McCain in 2008, but the Democratic administration’s energy and environmental policies have estranged many miners and their families. Even the United Mine Workers, the union once bossed by current AFL-CIO chief Richard Trumka, has hesitated to endorse Obama this year. Referring to the administration’s plans to limit coal-fired electrical power plants, the UMW’s spokesman told the Washington Times, “Our members aren’t stupid… they see what this means.” . . .

Please read the whole thing.

 


Category: Election 2012, Mitt Romney, Ohio

#GuessBidensNextGaffe : Claims His Administration ‘Was Really Just A Gerald Ford Impression’

Posted on | August 15, 2012 | 16 Comments

by Smitty

Pressured on the fact that he was actually Vice President under someone named Barack Obama, Biden waxes surly: “So what if I was one heartbeat, a few brain cells, and a lot less plagiarism away. I felt Presidential!”


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Category: humor, Joe Biden

LIVE AT FIVE: 08.15.12

Posted on | August 15, 2012 | 3 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho


TOP NEWS
Pentagon: Iran Training Pro-Assad Militias In Syria

SecDef Leon Panetta


US continues to supply non-lethal aid to rebels; working with Jordan, Turkey on no-fly zone

Thompson, Mica Turn Back Tea Party Challenges
Connie Mack also wins in Florida


Linda McMahon Defeats Chris Shays
Former WWF exec to face Dem Congressman Murphy in steel-cage match for Joe Lieberman’s seat



POLITICS
Romney Rips Biden For “Chains” Remark

VP Joe Biden blathers in Wytheville, Virginia


VP also confident Virginians will help win North Carolina for Obama

Fort Hood Shooter Expected To File Not Guilty Plea

Obama Ready To Sign Up Illegals


Penn State Receives Warning On Accreditation

Maryland General Assembly Signs Off On Casinos For Prince Georges County

Mennonite Preacher Found Guilty In Lesbian Custody Battle

Midwest Drought, Election Year Politics Lead To Pressures On Ethanol

Congressman Cardoza (D-CA) Retires, Cites Family Issues



THE ECONOMY, STUPID
Oil Continues To Rise On Higher US Sales; NYMEX $93.43, Brent $114.03
Standard Chartered Settles Iran Money-Laundering Charges With New York For $340 Million
US Stocks Lose Steam After Confusing Economic Reports
Retail Sales Up 0.8% In July, First Rise In Four Months
When Will The Euro Collapse? It’s Already Dead
Buffett’s Berkshire Cuts Stake In Kraft, P&G
Groupon Shares Drop On Earnings
PM Singh Says Economic Reform As Important As National Security For India
Pinterest Nudges Users Off Couch And Into The World With New Android, iPad Apps
Samsung Strikes Back
Obvious-Backed Branch Comes Out Of Public Beta To Foster Conversations Online
“Darksiders II” Provides Pulse For Publisher THQ
PlayStation Mobile Still Aims To Take On iOS, Android Games



SPORTS
Kuroda Tosses Two-Hitter As Yankees Beat Rangers Again

No no-no, but close


Teixeira, Swisher go yard in 3-0 win

NHL Owners Evaluating Players’ First Proposal In Toronto Talks

O’s Thrash Red Sox 7-1 As Beckett Phones It In Again



Quintana Snaps Five-Start Skid, Pale Hose Seize On Blue Jays’ Error To Win 3-2

Cabrera Reaches 100 RBI, Fister Goes 8 Innings As Tigers Maul Twins 9-3

Storen Struggles In Giant Blowout Of Nationals



FAMOUS FOR BEING FAMOUS
Evelyn Lozada Files For Divorce From Ex-Football Player Formerly Known As Ochocinco

Ochocinco and Evelyn in happier days


Johnson apologizes to s2bx, fans

Kristen Stewart Dropped From “Snow White” Sequel Plans?

Ron Palillo Dies, 63; Played Horshack On “Welcome Back Kotter”, Taught Acting To High School Students

Robert Pattinson To Play Lawrence of Arabia For Herzog?

90210 Scores Gold, Lands Ryan Lochte For Season 5 Guest Spot


Unspeakable Armenian Heads To Jail – Unfortunately, Not In Reality, Just Reality TV

Have You Accepted Tim Tebow As Your Quarterback?

Bobby Brown Enters Rehab To Dry Out

Kelly Clarkson’s In Love



FOREIGNERS
Wildlife Traffickers Profit From Rampant Corruption, Lax Laws In Asia
Ex-PM Says Assad Regime Is Crumbling
Saudis Use Summit To Isolate Iran, Syria
ROK President Lee Urges Japan To Settle Disputes
Hollande Promises Order After “Youths” Riot In Amiens
Egyptian Security Officials Claim Dismissal Of Army Generals Headed Off Coup Against Morsi
Australian Senate Set To Pass Asylum Bill After Bipartisan Support In House
Pussy Riot Reveals Rift In Russian Orthodox Church
Ecuador Official Says Assange Will Be Granted Asylum
PRC, Norks Move Ahead With Economic Zone Program
Japanese Cabinet Ministers Visit Yasukuni Shrine As Relations With ROK Fray
From Village Chief To Chief Minister: The Life Of Vilasrao Deshmukh



BLOGS & STUFF
Kevin Jackson: Romney Calls Out The Race Card With Paul Ryan
Shot In The Dark: Fifty Shades Of Biden
Weasel Zippers: Chutzpah! Obama Campaign Accuses Romney Of Being “Unhinged”
American Power: CNN’s John King Reports That Obama Campaign Admits Privately Biden’s Racist Remarks “Not Helpful”
Dennis Prager: Paul Ryan And The American Character
Power Line: Galston Makes A Good Call – Demonizing Paul Ryan A Bad Plan
William Kristol: The Unbearable Lightnes Of Being A “GOP Pro”
Lonely Conservative: Good News! GOP “Pros” Are Fretting About Ryan Pick
Forbes: Yes, Obamacare Cuts Medicare More Than President Romney Would
National Review: Obama’s $700 Million Medicare Problem
Washington Times: Sununu Tells Soledad O’Brien “Put An Obama Bumper Sticker On Your Forehead When You Do This”
Ramesh Ponnuru: Mother Jones Misinforms And Then Rationalizes It

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