The Other McCain

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If Whores Are ‘Sex Workers’. . .

Posted on | August 2, 2012 | 2 Comments

by Smitty

. . .and Barack Obama’s policies screw us relentlessly, then: can he claim 0% unemployment?

Just a random thought triggered by this. Terms like ‘expert’, ‘industry’, ‘job’, and ‘worker’ really are watered down these days. Just ask Jeff Goldstein.

Category: Instapundit, Protein Wisdom

Massively Indebted, Budgetless Government Decides To Let The Taxes Ride With The Spending

Posted on | August 2, 2012 | 17 Comments

by Smitty

I’m not asking to have my taxes raised, or to watch the stake go through the heart of the economy. But Congress just kicked the fiscal can down the road again:

Yet, in a sign that Wednesday’s vote was more about message than substance, the House made no move to launch a formal House-Senate conference committee to resolve the differences between the bills, and there is little expectation that serious negotiations will take place before the election. The rates expire at the end of the year.

I don’t know how many senior GOP heads read this blog, but the message had better get through:

If the GOP holds Congress in January, the junk has got to stop.

If there is any GOP control, it shall have been a result of the Tea Parties. And if I have any feel at all for the pulse of the Tea Parties through blogging, &c, the Tea Parties are going to slice like a hammer on the GOP if the Ruling Class, beltway shenanigans continue. All the weight of the derision currently poured on #OccupyResoluteDesk and the rest in the blogs, on Twitter, at protests, and so forth is going to get trained on the GOP if there is not a total come-to-Beavis moment for the GOP. The GOP shall have played a populist fiddle to be returned to power. Said fiddle shall make a most ‘unexpected’ suppository if the people don’t see, as a going-in position:

  • Significant federal government agency amputations, and corresponding budget cuts. Two words: enumerated powers.
  • A budget.
  • A tax code that doesn’t make the complexity of the theory behind the Higgs Boson look like a haiku by comparison.
  • An admission that the entitlements really are only exceeded in sheer fantasy by the Global Warming crap, but not by much. Dust off the Bush reform plan for Social Security, and make it happen.
  • An amnesty plan for the Federal Reserve staff, followed by a thorough air-clearing. Let the thieves retain their lives, in exchange for the truth about what a wretched failure the Federal Reserve is. Then some sane reform.
  • In general, an honest, sober take on government.

It took a century to dig this hole, and there is no reasonable way out within a Congress; a Presidential term; a decade. But you guys are on notice that if we’re not at least on a different course, pronto, you’re toast.

Update: more at Reason via Insty.

Update II: linked at WyBlog.

Category: GOP

LIVE AT FIVE: 08.02.12 (MOUNTAIN TIME EDITION)

Posted on | August 2, 2012 | 13 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho


TOP NEWS
Chick-Fil-A Day

Folks stand up, line up across the country


Shocker – WaPo does balanced article on nationwide “eat-in” to support embattled fast-food chain

Obama Signs “Secret” Order To Support Syrian Rebels
News promptly leaks to media

Holmes’ Shrink Reported Him To Colleagues
BETA team did nothing since shooter was in process of dropping out of college



POLITICS
Berdoo Bankrupt

A boarded-up storefront on Fourth Street in San Bernardino


City seeks Chapter 9 protection with over $1 billion in liabilities, 25K creditors

House To Take Up Livestock Disaster Relief Bill

NJ’s MetLife Stadium Site Of Talmud Celebration

Profiling Lawsuit Against Sheriff Joe Arpaio Has High Bar To Clear, Experts Say

Internet Security Bill Supporters Scramble To Overcome GOP Opposition Before Congress Recesses

GOP: Obama Aides Evading Transparency Rules



THE ECONOMY, STUPID
Crude In Tight Range Ahead of ECB Meeting: NYMEX $88.95, Brent $106.00
Treasuries Extend Losses As Fed Defers Action
Illegals Big Business For Private Prison Firms
ADP Says US Companies Added 163,000 Jobs In July
ECB Has Reasons To Ease, Fed Has None
US Manufacturing Sector Shrinks For Second Month
FTC seeks Tighter Rules On Web Sites For Kids
More Zuckerbergs Work At Google Than Facebook
Google Wallet Now Supports All Major Credit, Debit Cards
Software Helps Print Videogame Characters In 3D
Microsoft Releases Windows 8 To PC Makers



SPORTS
Andrus Caps Big 10th Inning Rally For Rangers

Elvis Andrus celebrates with teammates after hitting the game-winning RBI single


Pujols’ twin dingers not enough to save Angels from 11-10 loss

Suspended Allmendinger Released By Penske

Flyers Extend Coach Laviolette’s Contract


Pence’s Debut Disappoints, Giants Lose To Mets Again, 2-1

Call-up Patrick Corbin Pitches Snakes To Sweep Of Dodgers, 4-0

Inconsistent Tigers Hoping To Repeat Last Year’s Strong Finish

…And Then Some Stuff Happened At The Olympics

Nationals Left Scratching Their Heads At Latest Loss To Phillies



FAMOUS FOR BEING FAMOUS
Macaulay Culkin A Smack Addict?

Macauley Culkin


Former child star allegedly blowing kilobucks on heroin, oxycodone…
…or maybe not.

J-Lo & Casper: Legal Threats Over Gay Sex Club Reports

Taylor Swift Gets Warm Welcome From Kennedy Family
🙁



Sources Say Adrienne Maloof’s Split From Husband Not A Surprise

Summer’s Studio Smackdown: Which Franchises Will Get Another Chapter?

Drew Barrymore Set To Direct “The End” For Warner Brothers

First Pictures Of Michael Douglas As Liberace In “Behind The Candelabra”



FOREIGNERS
Chen Guangcheng Enlists Congress As He Criticizes PRC
Netanyahu Publicly Challenges US On Iran
Top British Rockers Seek Release Of Pussy Riot As Putin Visits London
New Egyptian Cabinet Has Few Holdovers Or Islamists
Taiwan Downgrades Saola To Tropical Storm; 1 Dead
Pune Blasts probe Faces Hurdle; CCTV Cameras Found Nonfunctional
Somali Leaders Approve New Constitution As Suicide Bombers Stopped
Turkish Military Exercises On Syrian Border Seen As Warning To Kurds
Israeli Ultra-Orthodox Lose Draft Exemption



BLOGS & STUFF
WyBlog: The DNC Comes Out Of The Closet
Allahpundit: According To Rick Warren, Chick-Fil-A’s Owner Said Chain Set New World Record In Sales
Legal Insurrection: Chicagoans Hungry To Flip The Bird To Rahm, Nicely
Twitchy: Boycott Fail Redux – Citizens, Santa Unite For Chick-Fil-A Appreciation Day
Michelle Malkin: Chick-Fil-A Day – Massive Nationwide Protest For Free Enterprise, First Amendment
James Rosen: With Cruz Victory In Texas, is Tea Party The New Establishment?
Greta Van Susteren: Palin Fires Back At Cheney – “The Mistake Would Have Been Not Answering The Call” to Be VP
Washnigton Free Beacon: Senor 1, Mitchell 0
Lonely Conservative: Mitt Romney Says Culture Matters
Fire Andrea Mitchell: Warmonger Obama’s “Secret” Plan Revealed
Power Line: The Obama Campaign – Like Demagoguery, Only Dumber
Weasel Zippers: Media Slams Ann romney For $990 Blouse, Praises Michelle Obama For $6800 Jacket
Daily Caller: Michelle Bachmann Says Gore Vidal’s “Snotty, Mocking Attitude” Made Her A Conservative
Jihad Watch: Six Palestinians Arrested, Jailed For Eating In Public During Ramadan
Gateway Pundit: Zawahiri Says Arab Spring Byproduct Of Anti-US Jihad

Category: Live at Five

Just Another Random Coincidence: Bomb Threat Shuts Down W. Va. Chick-fil-A

Posted on | August 1, 2012 | 32 Comments

Maybe somebody just hates chicken sandwiches:

Police and fire crews closed down the Chick-fil-A on Foxcroft Avenue in Martinsburg for nearly three hours following a bomb threat that was called in just before 1 p.m. today.
The caller mentioned that a “device” had been placed within the restaurant. The building was evacuated, but was deemed safe at about 3:45 p.m. after no bomb or any other type of device was discovered.
Martinsburg City Police and the Martinsburg Fire Department personnel investigated the scene, along with Berkeley County Sheriff Kenny Lemaster. A National Park Ranger with a canine unit arrived at the scene at approximately 2:45 p.m. to assist, and a second from the West Virginia State Police arrived later as well.

Let me ask you: Of all the Chick-fil-A’s in America to be targeted with a bomb threat, why this one? Is Berkeley County, W.Va., the kind of place where you would expect such a thing?

UPDATE: Fire Andrea Mitchell is also blogging about this random coincidence. Here’s another news report:

MARTINSBURG, W.Va. — The Chick-Fil-A restaurant in Martinsburg was evacuated Wednesday after reportedly receiving a bomb threat, Berkeley County Sheriff Kenneth Lemaster Jr. confirmed.
Martinsburg Police Department officers were handling the threat and a U.S. National Park Service official was handling a K-9 that was inspecting the property Wednesday afternoon.
The reported threat happened while the restaurant was packed, customers said.

That’s from the Hagerstown (Md.) Herald-Mail. And remember that this is just another random coincidence.

UPDATE II: Coincidentally linked by The Lonely Conservative. Now a Memeorandum thread.

UPDATE III: Jeff Goldstein loves him some Chick-fil-A — because it’s homophobolicious!

UPDATE IV: Linked by Caught Him With a Corndog, Daley Gator and American Power — thanks!

Category: Terrorism, West Virginia

Question the Timing (and Sample): Poll Shows Obama Leading in Swing States

Posted on | August 1, 2012 | 15 Comments

You will remember that Democrats were panicking last month at the realization that Mitt Romney and the GOP outraised the DNC/Obama team in June, and that Obama’s unsustainable “burn rate” — pouring on a 2-to-1 ad blitz — had failed to move independent voters.

Everything the Dems had done was being sabotaged by Obama’s tone-deaf “you didn’t build that” gaffe, and so the mainstream media (eager to do their part to help undo Obama’s self-inflicted damage) decided to recycle their IRS mantra and turn everything Romney said during his foreign trip into a scandalous “controversy.”

Nevertheless, the needle didn’t really budge: It’s still basically neck-and-neck in the RCP national average. So what does the MSM do next? Come out with a poll showing (or at least claiming to show) that Obama is leading, with more than 50% support, in two key swing states — Ohio and Florida — plus Pennsylvania, which isn’t exactly a swing state (no Republican presidential candidate has carried it since 1988) but where Romney hopes to be competitive.

Can you say “f–ked-up sample,” boys and girls? The so called “internals” on the Quinnipiac/CBS/NY Times Florida poll show a partisan breakdown in the “weighted sample” of Democrat 36%, Republican 27%, Independent 32%. This is Florida, a state with a Republican governor, Republican control of both houses of the state legislature, and a House delegation that is 19 Republicans and 6 Democrats.

Despite such obvious facts, we are supposed to believe that Democrats enjoy a NINE POINT ADVANTAGE among “likely voters” in Florida?

NINE F–KING POINTS?

Less than six weeks ago, a Quinnipiac poll of Florida had a “weighted sample” of Democrat 31%, Republican 28%, Independent 35%. We are supposed to believe that, since late June, there has been 6-point net swing of partisan ID from D+3 to D+9  among likely voters in a state where, I repeat, the GOP dominates elected offices.

I’ll be back to expand and update this just as soon as I can get my blood pressure down below the apoplectic stroke level.

UPDATE: Ed Morrissey managed to avoid an apoplectic stroke this morning, which is encouraging. How can I describe this bizarre imbalance in the partisan ID of the “weighted sample”? How to put this improbable distortion in layman’s terms, as it were?

Let’s put it this way: According to a recent Quinnipiac survey, my penis is 15 inches long, with a 4-inch margin of error.

 


Category: Election 2012, Florida, Mitt Romney, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Polls

The Jennifer Stefano Summit Will Convene Thursday in Washington, D.C.

Posted on | August 1, 2012 | 11 Comments

Breeding victory: Jennifer Stefano, pregnant in 2010

It’s officially called the “Defending the American Dream” Summit, but I’ve decided to re-name the three-day event that begins Thursday because Jennifer Stefano, who leads the Pennsylvania chapter of Americans for Prosperity (along with her friend Katy Abram) is just so awesome. Here is Stefano on Sean Hannity’s show last week talking about the media’s rush to blame the Aurora massacre on the Tea Party:

“Well, obviously, this is such a lesser issue than the actual tragedy of the victims, which all of us — and I really think, for all the Tea Party, for all the Tea Party — we’re focused on, as every American was, thinking about the victims as we are, as mothers and fathers, what was happening there.
“But what it does, the effect of that kind of bias, that left-wing media bias has long-term effects on people on the center-right. We’re consistently — two things happen: Number One, when we are demonized as mass-murderers and racists, it undercuts our political voice. No one wants to listen to our legitimate points about debt reduction when they think we’re just a bunch of right-wing gun-toting monsters. . . .
“That media bias, that constant left-wing bias, it has an effect on people’s lives, as individuals. . . . We are treated poorly, our children are attacked, our family members.”

This is an important point: Why should one side of a political controversy be demonized this way? Who were the people at major news organizations who made that decision, to treat the Tea Party movement as a collection of dangerous extremists? Where did they get that idea? Was it from the bogus Department of Homeland Security report that was coincidentally released immediately before Tax Day 2009?

Why are major media institutions like ABC News — where George Stephanopoulos and Brian Ross falsely blamed an innocent 52-year-old Colorado Tea Party activist for the rampage committed by a deranged 24-year-old grad-school dropout — incapable of examining their own biases? Why is there never even a thought like, “Hey, maybe we should at least get a token right-winger on the news production team, to help us avoid such blatantly one-sided coverage”?

It is wrong, as I have previously explained, to look at the problem of liberal media bias with an attitude of hopeless pessimism. Journalists are human beings — they are individuals — and if we can get past the collective concept of “the media,” to focus on the individual decision-makers who are personally responsible for what Jennifer Stefano calls “constant left-wing bias,” then there is hope to make a difference.

There will be a lot of big names at this year’s AFP Defending the American Dream Summit — including Gov. Scott Walker, Rep. Paul Ryan, Mark Levin, Michelle Malkin, Anita Montcrief, Brent Bozell, Katie Pavlich, Jim Hoft, Tony Katz and Andrew Marcus — but I have just made an executive decision that this is The Jennifer Stefano Summit.

Because I am The Decider, that’s why.

Category: Celebrities, Colorado, Fear and Loathing at the Defending the American Dream Summit, Media Bias, Pennsylvania, Tea Party

I Love The Smell Of #ChickFilA At Noon. It Smells Like. . .Liberty

Posted on | August 1, 2012 | 29 Comments

by Smitty

I saw the Mike Huckabee support call, and, given I work a couple blocks from a store, was hungry, and cannot abide the Orwellian hijinks of these disgusting Lefty activist bozos, I trundled over for a bite:

So, take that, you degenerates who’d attack a restaurant for an opinion held by the company President! You’ve managed to unite Americans so much, this blog has to offer props to Lindsey Graham! Some in DC are enjoying the Chick-Fil-A to the point it blows their drawers off. (This blog reaffirms its commitment to safety consciousness while partaking of Chick-Fil-A.)

Speaking of events that could blow your knickers away, what the Left really needs to do is start planning. When Barack Obama has significantly more free time, commencing next January, he’d make a swell spokesman for “Dog-Fil-A”. Being head of his own private sector company would give Barack Obama his first chance in life to do something to earn his wage and #Occupy his time.

Think about it.

More at Legal Insurrection.

Update: Linked by Jackie Wellfonder.

Update II: Katz scratch fever=>

Update III: More at Nice Deb.

Update IV: Also partaking: Daria Anne.

Update V: The Lonely Conservative links. Ace is kinda shy.

Update VI: Linked at SWAC Girl, and Paco.

Category: Barack Obama, Culture

Meet Lana Wachowski

Posted on | August 1, 2012 | 28 Comments

Lana used to be Larry Wachowski, who married his college sweetheart Thea Bloom in 1993. Larry directed the 1999 box-office hit The Matrix. In 2002, Thea Bloom filed for divorce, alleging that Larry had “been extremely dishonest with me in our personal life” and that their separation was “based on very intimate circumstances concerning which I do not elaborate at this time for the reasons of his personal privacy.”

[Wachoswki’s] date at the [2003] Cannes Film Festival went on to tell British tabloids that Wachowski was a cross-dresser, and he raised eyebrows at L.A. premiere of The Matrix Reloaded by showing up with a woman who purportedly was a dominatrix who used to run an S&M Web site.

Yep. So now, on the eve of the release of his/her new film, Cloud Atlas, Larry has officially become Lana:

Lana Wachowski revealed she has transitioned while promoting her new film, the New York Post reported.
Lana has been transitioning for years now, the Post also reported. This new clip for “Cloud Atlas,” starring Tom Hanks and Halle Berry, appears to be her first public appearance since transitioning.
In the trailer, Lana introduces the film with her brother, Andy Wachowski, and director Tom Tykwer.
“Hi, I’m Lana,” she says with her hair styled in pink dreadlocks.

The New York Post headline, of course: “Director’s Cut.” Ouch.

Category: Hollywood
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