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Places I Arguably Should Not Go, #OccupyResoluteDesk Edition

Posted on | July 19, 2012 | 1 Comment

by Smitty

I've got the finger right on you

If you’ve been successful, you didn’t get there on your own.

Obama’s attacks against the right continue:

Yeah, I'm guessing God isn't too worried about BHO.

Should even the Almighty render props?

As American Power points out, “Despite Months of Negative Ads, Voters Not Buying Obama’s Dishonest Attacks on Mitt Romney”

If someone else (the government) did it for Romney,

  • How does Romney manage to be a diabolical capitalist, then?
  • How is the government both the cause and the cure of all this economic injustice?
  • Was the author of Obama’s biographies also a composite character provided from elsewhere?

Via Insty, for anybody who misunderstands the Left’s whole bogus Postmodern attempt to contradict your lying ears, your attention is drawn to this lengthy but worthwhile outing.

Because somebody else put that broom and dustpan there:

Category: Barack Obama, humor

Poison Pen E-Mail and the Harassment of the Lonely Conservative

Posted on | July 19, 2012 | 14 Comments

Go read The Lonely Conservative’s account of the fake e-mail in which an evil person impersonated Wombat and defamed me.

Read Wombat’s account: “Game On.” Read my reaction: “How’s Your Gaelic, Neal Rauhauser?”

Wombat and I are big boys who can defend ourselves.

The Lonely Conservatives is a woman who has been sadistically harassed by the Left. You should go hit her tip jar.

Category: The Lonely Conservative

Defending The American Dream Summit 2-4 Aug 2012

Posted on | July 19, 2012 | 6 Comments

by Smitty

I just signed up for DTADS next month. Gov. Scott Walker, Michelle Malkin, Paul Ryan, Mark Levin. The list goes on. Hopefully I’ll catch up with Stacy McCain’s chum Tabitha Hale. She’s actually pretty cool, despite the chip collection on Stacy’s shoulder.

The Axis of Fedora, of course, will be on the prowl for enrollees. So sign up and get yourself here for some good times.

Category: CPAC

LIVE AT FIVE: 07.19.12 (MOUNTAIN STATES EDITION)

Posted on | July 19, 2012 | Comments Off on LIVE AT FIVE: 07.19.12 (MOUNTAIN STATES EDITION)

— compiled by Wombat-socho


TOP NEWS
Rebel Bomb A Decisive Blow To Assad Regime?

Smoke from the fighting hangs over Damascus

Deaths of three senior regime officials in bombing costly

Seven Dead In Bus Suicide Bombing
Bulgarian bus had Israeli tourists aboard

Judge Orders County To Complete Mosque Inspections
Strikes down lower court injunction that held insufficient notice given



POLITICS
Obama Heads For Florida To Keep Heat On Romney

The President greets the NCAA champion Baylor Bears at the White House

Continues calls for Romney to release returns, pursues military and seniors

Lawyers Argue Over Damage Done By Wikileaker

Scalia: No “Falling Out” With Chief Justice

Stacy’s Crazy Cousin John Defends Clinton Aide From Muslim Brotherhood Questions

Congress Preserves Military Sports Sponsorships

Key Figures In Sheriff Joe Profiling Lawsuit

Texas Congressman: Report On Fort Hood Massacre Accuses FBI Of Political Correctness, Failure To Report Maj. Hasan To Army



THE ECONOMY, STUPID
Oil Rises For Seventh Day As US Gasoline Stockpiles Drop: NYMEX $90.96, Brent $106.17
US Stocks Rise As Intel, Techs Rally
$8 Corn Joins $16 Beans
Spain Confronts Bond Market Access Threats As Protests Loom
Ag Secretary Tells White House Drought Worsening
GM Pension Fund To Sell Private Equity Assets To Chicoms
The LIBOR Scandal Explained: What Rate-Rigging Means To You
Explaining The Complex Data Plans Of AT&T, Verizon
Judge Orders Apple To Make Public Climbdown On Galaxy Tab Claims
EU Microsoft Fine Could Reach $7.3 Billion
World’s #3 Botnet Shut Down, Global Spam Estimated To Drop By 20%
Facebook Users In India, ROK And Japan Increasing



SPORTS
Ross, Gonzo Provide Muscle For 10-1 Thrashing Of White Sox In Boston

Bobby V and Cody enjoy the victory

Ross hits two 3-run dingers, Doubront pitches six, Gonzo adds solo homer to pick up slack as Big Papi hits the DL
Blockbuster trade proposed by Marlins

Lin: Honestly, I Preferred New York



Flyers Sign Weber To 14-Year Offer Sheet

Grant Hill Follows Steve Nash To LA But Signs With Clippers

A’s Beat Rangers 4-3 On Hicks’ Sayonara Homer

Fister Restrains Angels For 8 As Tigers Batter Wilson

Just Another Night At The Office For Jordan Zimmerman As Nats Edge Mets  4-3



FAMOUS FOR BEING FAMOUS
Sofia Vergara Is TV’s Top-Earning Woman

Sofia Vergara

$19 million for “Modern Family”, ads, endorsements

Has The Co$ Already Chosen The Next Mrs. Cruise?

Janet Jackson Furious Over Niece Paris’ Film Role

Lindsay Lohan Poses With Her Lawyer

Harper Beckham Takes Her First Steps

Is Penelope Cruz Pregnant With Baby #2?

Jessica Biel Is Off “The Wolverine”

Sarah Michelle Gellar Expecting A Boy

Heidi Klum Calls Runaway “Project Runway” Contestants Cowards

White Powder Found In Sage Stallone’s Bedroom



FOREIGNERS
Peres, Netanyahu Vow Vengeance For Bulgarian Attack
Former Egyptian VP Omar Suleiman Dies In US
UNSC To Vote Today On Syria
PM Cameron Visits Troops In Afghanistan
PRC Pledges $20 Billion In Credit To Africa



BLOGS & STUFF
Marc Thiessen: Romney’s Self-Inflicted Tax Wound
Riehl World View: CBS/NYT Survey Shows Obama Attacks Ineffective; Romney 47%, Obama 46%
Jihad Watch: Senator McCain Ignoring Extensive Evidence On Clinton Aide’s Muslim Brotherhood Connections
Robert Bryce: Inside The Strange World Of Green Energy Politics And How It’s Ruining America
Lonely Conservative: So How Much Money Did Obama Raise From Bain, And Who Was In Charge During All That Outsourcing?
Weasel Zippers: Another Obama-funded “Green Energy” Company Bites The Dust – Amonix Solar Closes After Getting $15.6 Million DOE Grant
PJ Tatler: WI Judge Who Signed Walker Recall Petition Tosses Voter ID Law
Rush Limbaugh: World On Fire Over Batman And El Rushbo
Reihan Salam: Quick Thought On Privacy
Washington Free Beacon: Cronyism Built That
Atlas Shrugs: Former SEAL Team Six Commander Launches Anti-Obama Offensive
Jammie Wearing Fools: UK Police End Climategate Inquiry

Category: Live at Five

How to Become Irrelevant

Posted on | July 19, 2012 | 32 Comments

The key to becoming irrelevant is to develop an irrational obsession — an idée fixe — and ride that hobby horse without regard for changes in circumstances or public interest. Become tedious by ranting against obscure scapegoats and obsolete controversies that have no signficance except to you and whatever tiny clique of like-minded kooks share your fanatical fixation.

About a half-hour ago, I learned that Edward “Crawfish” Sebesta is still online raving about the neo-Confederate menace. He’s got an entire blog devoted to the topic, and has been tilting at that particular windmill for more than 15 years now.

To make a long story short: Ed Sebesta is a guy from Up North who moved Down South, and immediately commenced to make himself obnoxious to his new neighbors, beginning in Dallas, Texas, where he lives. Like most towns in the South, Dallas has a Confederate monument. Sebesta decided this monument was a symbol of evil and petitioned the city to remove this awful blight.

His request was declined, and Sebesta’s resulting mad rage turned him into a one-man Permanent Committee of Vengeance, a bizarre single-issue derangement that endeared him to the Southern Poverty Law Center and to no one else. The controversies that consume Sebesta’s demented mind haven’t gotten any widespread attention since about 2006, when the absurd accusation that George Allen was a “neo-Confederate” got all tangled up in the “macaca” nonsense. (Fact: Jim Webb is a lot more neo-Confederate than Allen ever was, and the Sons of Confederate Veterans in Virginia supported Webb over Allen in 2006.)

Without regard for his irrelevance, Sebesta still toils away, evidently convinced that sooner or later this will matter to somebody again. And who know? Maybe he’s right. But it’s 2012 now, and most people are worried about issues like economics and deficit spending. However, the dim prospects for a revival of the “neo-Confederate” scare haven’t deterred Sebesta from carrying on in the same way he’s been carrying on since he declared a jihad against that monument in Dallas.

Sebesta reminds me of nothing so much as diehard 9/11 Truther kooks — “Fire can’t melt steel! Inside job! Bush lied!” — or perhaps a better analogy would be JFK assassination conspiracy theorists endlessly replaying the Zapruder film and muttering about the “grassy knoll.”

Sixteen years after I first encountered Sebesta doing his Chicken Little act, the sky still has not fallen, and the dreaded neo-Confederate menace still has not staged a bloody coup or whatever ever other evil clandestine activity he claimed they were up to.

That Confederate monument still stands 60 feet tall in downtown Dallas.

It’s a conspiracy!

Category: Conspiracy Theories, Texas

The Democrat Agenda 2012

Posted on | July 18, 2012 | 34 Comments

Far be it from me to be intolerant or judgmental, you understand, but when I check Memeorandum and see a story like this . . .

Web campaign targets Romney’s
‘extreme anti-LGBT agenda’
A pair of liberal super PACs are teaming up on a new Web campaign that accuses Mitt Romney of advancing an “extreme anti-LGBT agenda” that would make life worse for gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender Americans.

. . . I can’t help but think of this:

Is it just me? Is there anyone else who has a hard time imagining Harry Truman doing a 1948 whistle-stop tour, proclaiming that Tom Dewey was hostile to “transgender Americans”?

Has the Democratic Party given up on winning over blue-collar workers and small farmers, and decided that its most important constituency now is the cast of the Rocky Horror Picture Show?

 

Category: Democrats, Election 2012, Gays

Race Conditions

Posted on | July 18, 2012 | 11 Comments

by Smitty

Let’s face it: “the idea of two signals racing each other to influence the output first” is a real challenge we face in trying to dig our way to the top of the debt pit.

For example, consider the efforts of the Nobel Committee and #OccupyResoluteDesksince 2009, as captured in this simple graphic:

brilliant!

Racism is an ugly thing. How about meritocracy instead?

via Twitchy

Category: Barack Obama, humor

O’Keefe Moves From Planned Parenthood Abortions To Economic Abortions

Posted on | July 18, 2012 | 7 Comments

by Smitty

How to abort an economy, as a hole. Glad to see that James O’Keefe is staying busy.

Category: Andrew Breitbart
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