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LIVE AT FIVE – 06.05.12

Posted on | June 5, 2012 | 4 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho


TOP NEWS
Wisconsin Voters Head To The Polls

Mayor Barrett confronts Governor Walker

Also, primaries in New Jersey, California

Pak Intel Claims Al-Qaeda #2 Killed By Drones
Waziristan militants deny report


Romney Looking For Upset In Pennsylvania
Obama campaign banks on soccer moms’ loyalty



POLITICS
US Observes 70th Anniversary Of Midway Victory

Veterans Bill Roy and Henry Kudzik are escorted from a commemorative ceremony in DC

Cryptology and carrier forces combined for pivotal victory over Japan

Next Word In Prop 8 Challenge Case Due Today

Dems’ Proposed Paycheck Fairness Act Expected To Fail


Bloomberg, Cuomo Agree On Decrminalizing Pot

While Most Eyes On Wisconsin’s Recall, Major House Races On Ballot Today As Well

Neil Boortz Gives Six Months’ Notice; Will Be Replaced By Herman Cain

Kids To Be Honored At 9/11 Memorial For $50,000 Gift



THE ECONOMY, STUPID
Crude Edges Higher In Asian Trading: NYMEX $84.80, Brent $99.50
Europe Stocks Start Higher In Anticipation Of G-7 Finance Ministers Meeting
Starbucks Buys Bay Bread For $100 Million To Improve Food
Germany Open To Pooling Debt – With Conditions
Chesapeake Energy To Replace Four Directors In Nod To Icahn
Facebook Faces New Lawsuit Over IPO Disclosures
Gold Ends Lower On Global Growth Concerns
Wall Street Looking At Another Round Of Layoffs
Sony Announces Host Of Features Linking Vita, PS3
Microsoft Adds Football, Tablet App To Expand XBox Service
HP, Oracle Face Off Over Itanium “Partnership”
Samsung Shows Off Windows 8 Tablets, Convertible Laptop
Google Buys Meebo
Ubisoft Announces Assassins Creed III: Liberation For PS Vita



SPORTS
Thunder Push Spurs To The Brink

Oklahoma City's coach Scott Brooks

Nasty not enough as Spurs fall in third straight game, 108-103

Kings Rout Devils 4-0, Now One Win Away From The Cup

Houston, We Have A Shortstop

Parker Carries No-Hitter Into 8th As A’s Rip Rangers 12-1

Morneau, Willingham Go Deep As DeVries Gets First Win For Twins



Kurt Busch Suspended From Pocono After Tirade

Dodgers Rough Up Papelbon, Beat Phillies 4-3 In 9th

Mariners Rub Salt In Santana’s Pitching Wounds, Outlast Angels For 8-6 Win

Money Matters Could Drive Florida State From ACC To Big 12

Washington Selects High School Power Pitcher With First-Round Pick



FAMOUS FOR BEING FAMOUS
First Look at Lohan Playing Liz

Lindsay Lohan as Elizabeth Taylor

Looking pretty convincing there

O NOES! White Girl Gwyneth Paltrow Tweeted The N-Word, Everybody Freak Out

Three Things To Know About The New Miss USA

Joe Jonas, Nelly Board CW’s Music Competition As Mentors

Paris Hilton: Sleeping With The Enemy

“Before Watchmen”: EW Boasts Exclusive Trailer

Nicki Minaj To Hot 97 – Count Me Out Next Year Too

Lady Gaga And Taylor Kinney Back On

Marine Le Pen Is Not Amused By Madonna’s Swastika Stunt, Has Lawyers Waiting



FOREIGNERS
Diamond Jubilee Celebration Live
PRC Denies Protecting Syria’s Assad
Heavy Rains Slow Search In Nigeria Plane Crash
Libyan Government Retakes Tripoli Airport From Disgruntled Militia
Record Crowds Attend HK Tienanmen Vigil
Canada Seeks Swift Extradition Of Murder Suspect
NATO Announces Deals To Leave Afghanistan Via Central Asia
President: Corrupt Officials Have Stolen $4 Billion From South Sudan
Suu Kyi Visits Karen Refugees In Thailand
Terror Suspects Found Guilty In Jyllands-Posten Cartoon Case



BLOGS & STUFF
Via Meadia: Intrade Has Walker’s Chances Over 90%, NYT In Panic Mode
WyBlog: JC Penney Markets Father’s Day To The 2%
Valley Of The Shadow: Endorsements For LA County Primaries
Pirate’s Cove: Obama Basically Phones It In On Wisconsin Recall
NewsBusters: Ed Schultz Lurches From Panic To Incoherence Over Wisconsin Recall
Allahpundit: Is Romney The Keynesian Choice In November?
Lonely Conservative: Obama Attends BBQ At Some Guy In The Neighborhood’s House After Getting Elected To The US Senate
Washington Free Beacon: NYC, Where Stoners Are Welcome But Sodas Are Verboten
Michelle Malkin: Contempt – Free Speech Trampling Judge Exposed
NRO Corner: Romney Campaign Punches Back On Obama Attack Ad – “We’ve Heard It All Before”
Power Line: A Speech I’s Like To Hear Obama Deliver
Weekly Standard Blog: Warren Was For Brown’s Approach To Regulatory Reform Before She Was Against It
Jim Geraghty: Messina – We’re Doing Great! And We May Lose Wisconsin!
American Power: Thuggery At The Louisiana GOP Convention
Weasel Zippers: Axelrod Claims Rubio Pick As VP Would Be Insult To Hispanics
Gateway Pundit: Cardinal Dolan Slams NYT – “Does Not Have Reputation Of Fair & Accurate Reporting Regarding The Church
Hit & Run: Colleges Cease Offering Student Health Plans Thanks To ObamaCare
Jim Pethokoukis: No, It’s Not Time For Another Trillion-Dollar Stimulus

Category: Live at Five

Gauntlet Thrown Down @ali
UPDATE: An SMS From RSM

Posted on | June 4, 2012 | 92 Comments

by Smitty

 

Ace of Spades: National Day of Blogger Silence — This Friday

On Friday, this site will be absolutely dead-silent, which is what Brett Kimberlin and his stalker crew seeks, and what the media and our supposed Representatives in Congress would permit.
The only post on Friday will be a bold-faced Open Letter to Congress, urging them to act and not attempt to pass the buck to others.
They are our representatives; we would like some representation.
They vowed to defend and protect the Constitution; they can honor that vow now.
I will post links of Congressmen’s and Senator’s email addresses and offices and phone numbers, and urge every concerned American citizen to let them know, in no uncertain terms, that a crime in progress against the First Amendment (and people’s safety) is occurring, and we humbly request they take this seriously.
They are literally going to get someone killed. That is their endgame here.
Will the media and Congress pretend “we didn’t know” when this happens?
ABCNews knows.
The Weekly Standard knows.
The Daily Caller knows.
And many, but not yet all, Congressmen and Senators know.

This blog will (likely) follow Ace’s lead. I’m sure my Congressman will listen to a polite petition. He could surprise me and take action, too. That hope exists.

Update: linked at The Daley Gator

Update II: More at American Power. Furthermore, Stacy spoke to Ali and got this quote:

“World War Three.”

The nature of the offense is that the allegedly Brett Kimberlin-linked site “Breitbart Unmasked” (no linky love for these clowns) apparently thought it was cool to post photos of the location of some family members of Ali.

Now, I have not ever seen Ali in an other-than-gentlemanly mode. I shall strive to keep it that way.

Update III: linked at The Camp of the Saints

Update IV: linked at The Conservatory, Da Tech Guy, and The Lonely Conservative. Plus reporting at Twitchy.

Update V: linkage from The Fellowship of the Perpetually Aggrieved, hogewash, Ameryx le Gallois, Conservative Hideout, and The Rio Norte Line.

Category: The Kimberlin Files

Intrade May Indicate BHO Glide Slope; But Let’s Not Get Cocky, Eh?

Posted on | June 4, 2012 | 7 Comments

by Smitty

As you look at the Intrade market for “Barack Obama to be re-elected President in 2012” it looks like #OccupyResoluteDesk could have some challenges ahead of his request for a 4-year occupation extension from the American people. Clearly that little thing happening in Wisconsin tomorrow can’t have anything to do with the rats jumping ship. The volume, in green, seems to have spiked in the market, even as the price appears to be doing a FaceBookPlant.Not Don Meredith time yet; still another five more months of President Hangnail to endure.
For all that, it’s not over until it’s over. Furthermore, it’s not over when

the election is done. Listening to David Limbaugh on Hannity on the drive home, flogging his new tome, tempts one to think that maybe Obama’s administration is kind of a variation on Oppenheimer.

Obama:
“I am Shiva–git, destroyer of America.”
Category: Barack Obama

‘A Faint Whiff of Vigilante Hysteria’: Weinergate’s Kimberlin Connection

Posted on | June 4, 2012 | 50 Comments

FROM AN UNDISCLOSED LOCATION
The phrase quoted in the title is from a Firedoglake diarist who accurately calls the Brett Kimberlin story a “complex saga, as densely peopled and subplotted as a 19th century Russian novel.” While I resent the suggestion that I’m involved in any sort of “hysteria” — vigilante or otherwise — I’m linking the FDL diary because it offers a rather concise summary of how this story connects to the WeinerGate scandal.

As explained in a previous post, Neal Rauhauser’s involvement with Brett Kimberlin apparently began in 2011. In February of this year, Rauhauser published a bizarre eight-page document (“Andrew Breitbart’s ISR Cell?”) expressing the belief that he and Kimberlin were targets of a conspiracy involving Andrew Breitbart and many others, including Mike Stack, who played a key role in exposing Democrat Rep. Anthony Weiner’s online sexcapades.

Rauhauser is a fanatical “Weiner Truther,” believing in a conspiracy theory version of the WeinerGate scandal in which the congressman was the victim of a “set up” hoax perpetrated by Andrew Breitbart and/or shadowy Republican operatives. This left-wing tinfoil-hat stuff doesn’t really interest me, but it explains Rauhauser’s apparent obsession with Mike Stack, who is believed to be the only person who knows the true identity of “Dan Wolfe,” the guy who first spotted the incriminating Twitter message from Weiner. It also explains some other things, as reported by Rosie Gray at BuzzFeed in her story on the “Weiner Truthers”:

A major locus of modern Weiner trutherism is BreitbartUnmasked.com, a site “dedicated to unmasking the underbelly of Andrew Breitbart and his crew of rogues, criminals, wannabe journalists, various right wing extremists and the religious intolerant,” per its “About Us” section. Breitbart Unmasked features a large GIF of Breitbart’s face morphing into a mask, and lists the name of everyone in Breitbartworld, from editors of Breitbart.com to people only tangentially related.
One of its related Twitter accounts, @OccupyRebellion, regularly tweets about Weinergate and the alleged conspiracies therein. . . .
[Joseph Cannon observes:] These twilight warriors are obsessed with hacking and related matters. Some of them claim to have worked with Anonymous and LulzSec and allied organizations.

There is widespread suspicion that Brett Kimberlin is behind the “BreitbartUnmasked” site, which has access to information that could only have come from Kimberlin, and which is fixated on Kimberlin’s enemies to the exclusion of nearly everything else. Read more

Category: The Kimberlin Files

I Keep Saying: “People Don’t Scale”

Posted on | June 4, 2012 | 11 Comments

by Smitty

Da Tech Guy catches up on Brett Kimberlin and Wisconsin, and makes the following observation:

With Wisconsin looking horrible and the National election starting to show signs of the cracks that have been obvious for a year the party has to go all in to keep 2012 from being a rout that shatters them on both a national and a state level.
The problem You can’t go “all in ” without the activists, and with the party as far left as it now is the activists are the people doing the very things that make the democrats unelectable.

You might be tempted to think that by having a representative government, we aggregate our individual wisdom and, as a society, make decisions that are orders of magnitude wiser than we would as individuals.

The behavior of the Left, and our government as a whole, seems to put that idea to rest. Instead, we’ve arrived at a place where even passing a budget, much less balancing the legislative joke that the budget had become, is “like, way too hahrd, dude”.

I submit that government idiocy is like a sine wave. We’re (hopefully) bottoming out now. If we learn anything from all this, a good lesson may be that secular organizations, political parties, and governments are simply not the places to go looking for human redemption. At best, these entities can minimize and stabilize the corruption present in every human heart. Hopefully, the current crop of Lefties represent the worst.

Let’s hear it for the Constitution and enumerated powers, shall we?

Update: Ace offers “People Don’t Scale, EU edition”.

Category: Da Tech Guy

Elizabeth Warren Inspired Ken Kesey #WorldsMostInterestingCandidate

Posted on | June 4, 2012 | 11 Comments

by Smitty

A look at her family photo album might give you that impression there with the Ratched look:

This blog continues its relentless quest to help Elizabeth overcome her shrinking violet reputation, and buff up her public profile with further claims as outlandish as her grasping after Cherokee heritage to enhance her employability in academia:

 

 

And a hat tip to His Teachness:

If anything good comes of Warren, she will be the fork stuck into the rotten corpse of affirmative action, permitting our country to become a no-kidding meritocracy.

Also, I couldn’t resist digging into the #WiUnionDesperation game, where the jape was all about helping the Unions find new nines of attack against that bad, bad Scott Walker:

 

 

 

 

Much love to Political Clown Parade.

Category: Massachusetts

LIVE AT FIVE – 06.04.12

Posted on | June 4, 2012 | Comments Off on LIVE AT FIVE – 06.04.12

— compiled by Wombat-socho


TOP NEWS
153 Dead In Lagos Plane Crash

No survivors from Dana Air flight

The latest in a deadly series of problems with Nigeria’s aviation industry

With Boos And Solyndra, Mitt Romney Plays Offense
Putting the Obama team on the defensive and keeping it there

Boston’s Black Ministers Skeptical Of Fauxcahontas
Reverend Eugene Rivers: “It is within bounds to raise the question of whether or not a white woman used the minority card for her professional advantage…Ancestry is not the issue; did you tell the truth?”



POLITICS
Thad McCotter Hangs It Up

Soon to be former Congressman Thad McCotter (R-MI)

Cancels abortive write-in campaign; “One can’t clean up a mess multitasking.”

Air Tanker Crash Kills Two At Utah Wildfire Site

Ceremonies Arise To Honor Military-Bound Graduates

Republicans See Opening With Hispanic Voters Over Jobs Data

Connecticut House Speaker Donovan: “No One Bought…My Position Or My Influence”

Louisiana House Approves Senate Changes To Budget

New Farm Bill Would End Direct Payments To Farmers



THE ECONOMY, STUPID
Oil Plunges To Eight-Month Low On Weak US Jobs Report; NYMEX $82.14, Brent $97.36
Euro Falls, Crisis Clash Boosts Global Growth Fears
Hong Kong, PRC Shares Slide; Hang Seng Hits 2012 Low
Former Golden West CEO Marion Sandler Dies, 81
Tokyo Stocks Hit 28-Year Low As Investors Flee
Treasury Bears Give Up As Low Yields Seen Through Election
Europe Mulls Major Step Toward “Fiscal Union”
Banks Cut Cross-Border Lending By Most Since Lehman Brothers Collapse
Oil Output Soars As Iraq Retools
Asus To Bring Android To Windows With BlueStacks
Acer Aspire S7 Ultrabooks With Touchscreens, Windows 8 Revealed
Microsoft To Debut “Smart Glass” Streaming App At E3?
Prepaid Smartphones: Not For Everyone
Facebook Suffers Downtime, Anonymous Takes Credit
Microsoft Angers Advertisers With IE10’s Default “Do not Track” Setting



SPORTS
Celtics Recover Blown Lead, Tie Series At Two Games Apiece With 93-91 OT Win

Rajon Rondo stars in The Comeback Kid

Rondo “…delivers the trash talk at halftime and the big plays in overtime.”

Niese Fans 10 As Mets Move Into Tie Atop NL East
Somewhat related: Another reason to despise the Mets

Kings Return Home Halfway To The Cup After Two Wins In Jersey

Jimmie Johnson Cruises To Win FedEx400 At Dover

Rays Pound Orioles 8-4, Leap Into AL East Lead

Gymnast Shawn Johnson Announces Retirement, Ends Olmpics Bid

Lackluster Offense An Ongoing Problem; Nats Lose 3-2 To Braves



FAMOUS FOR BEING FAMOUS
Drew Barrymore Weds Will Kopelman

Will Kopelman and Drew Barrymore

Hitched by rabbi in “simple” ceremony at her place Saturday

God Rest Ye, Corporal Newkirk: Richard Dawson Dead Of Cancer At 79

“Snow White” Fairest Of Them All With $56.3 Million In North America
Related: Howard Tayler is not impressed.

Mary J. Blige’s Charity Stiffs Scholarship Winners

Kathyrn Joosten Of “Desperate Housewives” Dies Of Cancer, 72

Terrell Owens Tells Wranglers “I Want An Apology And A Lot Of Money!”



FOREIGNERS
EU Leaders To Push Putin On Syria At Summit
A Joyful Celebration Of Queen And Country (Video)
Reality Check: A Diamond Jubilee For Israel?
US Drone Strike Kills 15 In Pakistan
After Mubarak Trial Verdicts, Parliament Opens Fire On Judiciary
PRC Censors Act To Silence Discussion Of Tienanmen Anniversary
Courting Opposition Support For Tax Bill, Noda Reshuffles Cabinet
Norks Threaten ROK Media With Missile Strikes
Arvind Kejriwal Contradicts Ramdev On Naming MPs Involved In Graft Cases
In Lebanon, A Worrying Sectarian Spillover From Syria
Nerve Gas Attack Fugitive Arrested In Kanagawa
Der Spiegel: Israel Deploys Nukes On German-Built Submarines



BLOGS & STUFF
Twitchy: Last Minute Smear Job – Dems Claim Scott Walker Fathered “Love Child” (Debunked)
Legal Insurrection: Desperation Wearing A Cheesehead Hat
NRO Corner: Walker Blasts Democrats’ “Crap” Attacks
Atlas Shrugs: Muslim Mob Beats Three French Jews With Hammers, Iron Bars
Gateway Pundit: Axelrod & Holder Nearly Came To Blows In White House Meeting?
Ed Driscoll: When You’ve Lost Maureen Dowd
JustOneMinute: Taubes On Salt
GayPatriot: Obama Democrats’ Enthusiasm Gap
Volokh Conspiracy: Most Folks Like The NRA
Dave Winer: The New York Times Is More Than Sexist

Category: Live at Five

Inside Neal Rauhauser’s Twisted Mind

Posted on | June 3, 2012 | 45 Comments

FROM AN UNDISCLOSED LOCATION
I’m about 1,200 words into a long follow-up post — trying to connect more of the scattered dots in the Brett Kimberlin orbit — but meanwhile I see Patterico has added important background on the Neal Rauhauser “Kookpocalypse” drama:

After Aaron Walker went to court to get a peace order based on the [“Kookpocalypse”] site, Rauhauser sent me and others an email titled “Aaron Walker murder/suicide risk” that said, among other things:

Given Walker’s state of mind I would say his wife might find him hanging in the garage tonight when she gets home from work. Another possible outcome would be a two digit body count from some mosque in Virginia after Aaron goes full tilt Jared Loughner on the congregation. Someone who knows his wife or real world associates in Virginia should take steps to get him hospitalized before something grim happens.

My emphasis. Note the reference to Aaron’s wife. Bringing spouses into the harassment is a common tactic with this crowd.

Read the whole thing at Patterico. Rauhauser (who has boasted of being armed with a Glock 9-mm pistol) was making ominous threats online, Kimberlin was pursuing a ruthlessly vindictive strategy of legal and workplace harassment against Walker, and when Walker tried to put a stop to it, Rauhauser suggested that Walker was contemplating some act of desperate violence.

Keep in mind that the “Kookpocalypse” that Rauhauser kept hyping turned out to be his release of an instant classic of paranoid literature — “Andrew Breitbart’s ISR Cell?” — as part of a 530-megabyte package of “data” that Rauhauser delivered to the FBI and New Jersey police who, if they bothered to take one look at it, could have drawn only one conclusion: Neal Rauhauser is a demented crackpot.

Patterico points out that Rauhauser’s attempt to conjure up a conspiratorial connection between Mike Stack and others in his “Kookpocalypse” scenario is a drastic failure: Mike Stack had nothing to do with Seth Allen, Mandy Nagy, Aaron Walker or Patterico. Stack seems to feature prominently in Rauhauser’s weird tale only because Stack was involved in the WeinerGate saga. That incident was unrelated to Brett Kimberlin, but Rauhauser is obsessed with what he calls the “Weiner smear” and so these things are all connected inside Rauhauser’s feverish brain.

– Robert Stacy McCain, Whereabouts Unknown

Category: The Kimberlin Files
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