LIVE AT FIVE – 05.17.12

Isn’t it weird how that ad completely ignores all the wonderful economic progress Obama has made? All the jobs he “saved or created” through the most reckless deficit-spending spree in history?

Category: Barack Obama, Election 2012, Mike Huckabee

Shaken, Distraught @MichelleMalkin On The End Of Dennis Kucinich’s Career

Posted on | May 16, 2012 | 19 Comments

by Smitty

Destiny,
Lamentably,
Trumps
Dramatic
Hearts
Yearning
Only
To
Warble
On

More at Twitchy.

Category: Democrats, Michelle Malkin

Fear and Loathing in Thurmont: G-8 Summit Will Be 15 Miles From My House

Posted on | May 16, 2012 | 27 Comments

Oh, I wouldn’t miss this for all the Euros in Athens!

Thurmont ready for G-8 Summit,
not worried about protests

THURMONT, Md. –
Eight leaders of the world’s largest economies will converge on Camp David this weekend for the 38th annual G-8 Summit, which will likely bring protesters from Baltimore and Washington, D.C.
Caught in the middle of all the hoopla nearby is the small town of Thurmont, where law enforcement have put the final touches on security plans for the G-8 Summit. Area merchants said they hope for a weekend spike in business.
As soon as the Secret Service informed Thurmont Police Chief Greg Eyler that the G-8 Summit would be held at nearby Camp David, Eyler immediately met with other local, state and federal law enforcement to come up with a plan.
“We’ve been meeting every week, and we’ve had special meetings to how we want to handle it and take into consideration crowd management, traffic congestion and so forth. We’ve got our plans together and we’re ready to deal with it,” Eyler said. . . .
Occupy protests are expected. In fact, Eyler has been in touch with a number of them, and the city has agreed they can protest at the Thurmont Community Park.
“They’re going to be peaceful. They just want to present their cause, walk the streets a little bit on the sidewalks and show the people what they are protesting. I don’t think it’s going to be a big issue,” Eyler said.
On Main Street, there didn’t seem to be many worries, for the most part.
“I think it’s going to go fine. It’s going to be really easy, and when they come in — the protestors — if they act up, we just sit back and watch them get arrested and laugh at them,” said Pamela Hamrick, of Hearts and Hands.

Dude. The Greek economy is melting down, threatening to take down the Eurozone with it. President Obama is locked into a dead-heat re-election campaign, trailing in two of the three most recent national polls.

The elite of the international press corps will be coming to Camp David for the G-8 summit and . . .

The Occupy movement is fighting to re-assert its relevance:

OWS has essentially fallen apart. It is not a significant presence on the streets; it is not a significant presence in Democratic Party politics; it is not a significant presence in the national conversation.

(Hat-tip: Instapundit.) OK, so if Occupy Wall Street is now being mocked as “not a significant presence” — a discredited joke, without any purpose or relevance — doesn’t it make sense that this weekend at the G-8, these demented nutjobs will engage in antics so bizarre as to exceed in degenerate criminal absurdity all the bizarre antics of their past?

Yeah, it makes sense that we are sure to witness a harmonic convergence of moonbat decadence this weekend in the tiny mountain town of Thurmont, with the elite of the international press corps on hand to witness whatever weirdness goes down. And I will be among them, covering the entire twisted carnival freak show. Hit the freaking tip jar!

UPDATE: Suppose that you were a farmer in Frederick County, Maryland, and a bunch of dangerous Marxist scum were coming to town. What would you do? Invite them to camp at your farm!

[Occupy Baltimore] was first invited to the town by a local farmer who lives about five miles from downtown Thurmont and offered space on his farm for up to 30 of them to camp, said Beth Emmerling, a group member.
Emmerling said she and another member of the group met with the farmer and local police and talked with local business owners May 2, to reassure them they don’t intend to cause trouble.
“We explained to them we’re completely non-violent, we’re very peaceful, we would have our signs, we would have our chants, and that we’re not even planning on any civil disobedience,” Emmerling said.
“Part of our goal here is to let people see that we’re good people who want good things for everybody, that we’re not looking to come in and cause trouble,” she said.
Emmerling said the farmer hosting the group wants to remain anonymous.
The group is inviting others to join them in their protests.

Yeah, they’re “good people.” Remember, I got caught in the middle of an attempt by Occupy DC to storm the AFP “Defending the Dream” Summit last fall. And I’ve been covering left-wing protests since the anti-IMF/WTO riots of the late 1990s. So they can talk all they want about how “non-violent” they are: Actions speak louder than words.

Every kind of lunatic commie and anarchist you can imagine is liable to show up in Thurmont this weekend, and here’s some news for everyone: Secret Service doesn’t f–k around.

If these Marxist freaks try their usual “civil disobedience” shenanigans, watch out for the guys with wires in their ears.

UPDATE II: From the Occupy Wall Street official Web site:

October2011/OccupyWashingtonDC.org has organized an Occupy G8 People’s Summit that will examine how to build a sustainable, democratized economy from the bottom up; the impact of the wealth divide on people’s well-being and on policy creation; and alternative economic structures that create a more democratic, sustainable economy. The event, which will be held in the Frederick Public Library from 10 to 2 on Friday, May 18th will feature the voices of the 99% along with experts on the Robin Hood Tax, food, water and energy issues, trade agreements, the wealth divide and a democratized economy. You can see the full schedule and details on the website of our partner organization, Its Our Economy.
Occupy Frederick is organizing events in Frederick, Maryland, fifteen minutes from Camp David. After the Summit people will march through downtown Frederick and will hold a “Counter-G8 Community Bloc Party” on Saturday, May 19th from 11 AM to 9 PM in Baker Park (band shell side) near 2nd and N. Bentz. The event is inclusive of all ages for radicals and residents alike and will include live music, workshops, speakers, face painting and a truly free market. You can see the details here.
Occupy Baltimore is organizing legal, non-violent protests on the public sidewalks in Thurmont, MD on Friday and Saturday (May 18th and 19th) from 8 AM until sundown on both days. People are urged to bring signs, banners, folding chairs, food and drink. Overnight camping is available nearby. Thurmont is located just a few minutes from Camp David off of Route 15. You can get details here.

Sounds like fun to me. Have you hit the tip jar yet?

Category: #Occupy, Barack Obama, Economics, Election 2012, Fear and Loathing at the G-8 Summit, Maryland, Shoe Leather Fund

Bank Run in Greece = DJIA Rises?

Posted on | May 16, 2012 | 25 Comments

Back in 2009, I started saying that U.S. economic policy was so far into uncharted waters that we’d reached that part of the medieval map where it says, “Here Be Dragons.” There was no precedent for what the Fed and the Treasury were doing, and any attempt to predict what came next was pure speculation because such bizarre conditions had never previously occurred in all human history.

Buy gold. Or maybe buy more ammunition. Maybe it didn’t matter, but the key point was that an awful lot of dung was being flung around, and sooner later, by the Law of Large Numbers, some of it would hit the fan. Anyway, today at Memeorandum I saw these headlines:

Greeks withdraw $894 million in a day:
Is this beginning of a run on banks?
— MSNBC

As Bank Withdrawals Surge,
Athens Relies More on ECB
— Wall Street Journal

Plug-pulling in Athens
— Financial Times

My first thought: What’s the Dow Jones Industrial Average doing? So I glanced over at the TV in my office and the Dow was . . . +25? WTF?

Evidence of a bank run in Greece, and investors aren’t pulling back? Or (alternate theory) European investors are buying U.S. stocks as a hedge?

Another theory: The zany inflationary policy at the Fed is so out of control that people are dumping dollars to buy stocks, figuring that at least stocks represent part of some tangible worth?

Who the helll knows anymore? “Here Be Dragons,” indeed!

UPDATE: Still watching the Dow. As of 2 p.m. ET, it was still around +13, defying what would seem to be normal economic logic. But again, I’m not any kind of expert. I just know a few common-sense basics. It would seem obvious that if Greece is on the verge of a final meltdown, with untold consequences for the rest of the Euro zone, there is at least a risk this could trigger a global financial crisis.

Given such a risk, one would think that investors would seek security, and nothing is more secure than gold. Perhaps the gold market has already calculated in that risk, however. Maybe investors are trying to snag the last few dollars of earnings before the crash hits.

Lots of possible explanations, but none of them make sense to me.

Category: Economics, Greece

Is @MaggiePolitico the Favorite Girl in David Axelrod’s Stenography Pool?

Posted on | May 16, 2012 | 7 Comments

Drew M. at AOSHQ catches Team Obama’s Pet pushing Democrat oppo research against a dude who appears in a new Romney campaign ad. Here’s the ad, and the dude Hagerman blows up is Jason “Jay” Clausen, who got laid off from his job in Iowa:

Permit me to say, from long experience, that political reporters get tips from all kinds of sources all the time. The identity and motives of the tipsters are often not known, just a voice on the phone or a pseudonymous email account. The facts are the facts, without regard to who reports them or why. But if this isn’t an oppo-dump, what is it?

The question is whether Maggie Haberman would protect the confidentiality of a Republican source who gave her such a cheap little piece of dirt about a Democrat, or whether her Opposition Research Stenography Service is only available to Team Obama.

Haberman has reported things that I have gladly linked in the past, and I’m sure I’ll link her again in the future.

She is a good reporter. But if, as I suspect, she’s pushed this tawdry cheap shot at the behest of PROFESSIONAL DEMOCRATIC PARTY POLITICAL OPERATIVES, perhaps next time they ship her a load of dirt, she would DO HER READERS THE FAVOR OF BEING HONEST ABOUT WHERE SHE GOT IT.

I’m sorry. Was I shouting? Kinda stressed out lately . . .

My point is that you don’t have to burn your sources in order to be honest with your readers. If Democrats were pushing dirt, you can give the reader a general sense of that without being specific. But I wasn’t born yesterday and I know an oppo-dump when I see one. I saw it done to both Herman Cain and Rick Santorum during the GOP primary campaign, and knew damned well that it came from rival Republican campaigns.

If Maggie Haberman wants to swear out an affidavit that she independently took it on herself to do a public-records search on Jay Clausen, then I will admit my suspicions were misplaced.

Prove me wrong, or I’ll take your silence as an admission I’m right.

Category: Election 2012, Media Bias, Mitt Romney

You Have To Admire A Broken Record That Can Skip For 3+ Years

Posted on | May 16, 2012 | 13 Comments

by Smitty

Younger readers may not understand that, historically, recordings were distributed on vinyl discs, with audio information transferred from the vinyl to amplification electronics via a needle. The information was laid out in a spiral on the disc. It was fragile, and slight damage could turn that spiral into an infinite loop.

Bush did i–Bush did i–Bush did i–Bush did i–Bush did i–Bush did i–Bush did i–Bush did i–. . .

Carney, I hope the money is worthwhile, because you’re pretty much never going to live down having worked for this administration.

Category: Barack Obama

Sarah Palin, Herman Cain Help Nebraska Underdog Deb Fischer Win Primary

Posted on | May 16, 2012 | 33 Comments

The first sentence of this story about the GOP Senate primary by Josh Lederman in the Hill absurdly portrays state Sen. Deb Fischer’s victory over Nebraska State Attorney General Jon Bruning as “dealing a blow to both the Republican establishment and the Tea Party.”

This is stupid. If the Republican establishment loses to a candidate backed by both Sarah Palin and Herman Cain, of course the Tea Party wins. What else could explain it?

Fischer, a rural rancher who has never held statewide office, had long been written off in the race to replace retiring Sen. Ben Nelson (D-Neb.). But Fischer turned the table on her two GOP opponents in the final week of the campaign despite being out-fundraised many times over. . . .
For months, Bruning had a clear double-digit lead over Fischer and [State Treasurer Don] Stenberg. Few Republicans saw a realistic opportunity for Fischer to overtake Stenberg, and even fewer thought Fischer could pull off a first-place finish.
But in the waning days of the primary, polls showed major movement in Fischer’s direction, and Fischer said her grassroots efforts and positive campaign had finally paid off. Former Gov. Sarah Palin (R-Alaska) and former presidential candidate Herman Cain waded into the race to back Fischer, and a super-PAC controlled by Chicago Cubs owner Joe Ricketts pumped $200,000 into the race to support Fischer and attack Bruning.
Stenberg’s third-place finish was a bruising defeat for fiscal-conservative groups who backed him, including Club for Growth and Sen. Jim DeMint’s (R-S.C.) Senate Conservatives Fund. The Club spent more than $700,000 to attack Bruning, and DeMint’s PAC dropped more than $1.1 million on ads promoting Stenberg.
Meanwhile, Tea Party Express, former Sen. Rick Santorum (R-Pa.) and former Gov. Mike Huckabee (R-Ark.) all backed Bruning, who was widely considered the establishment candidate.

Anyway, Fischer will now face former Democrat Sen. Bob Kerrey in the race to fill the Senate seat being vacated by the Democrat Nelson, considered an almost sure pickup for the GOP.

Exactly how so many people — including DeMint and the Tea Party Express — backed the wrong horses in this three-way primary, I don’t know. But for Lederman to interpret this miraculous win for Fischer as a defeat for the Tea Party is just flat wrong.

UPDATE: Instead of letting Josh Lederman tell us What It Means (in the first paragraph of the story, so you couldn’t miss it), let’s try this instead:

Congratulations to Deb Fischer
by Sarah Palin on Tuesday, May 15, 2012 at 9:35pm ·
As recently as a week ago, Deb Fischer was dismissed by the establishment. Why? Because she is not part of the good old boys’ permanent political class. The message from the people of Nebraska is simple and powerful: America is looking for real change in Washington, and commonsense conservatives like Deb Fischer represent that change. I applaud Moms like Deb Fischer who are bold enough to step up and run on a conservative platform to restore America and protect our children’s future. Congratulations to the people of Nebraska. As the Huskers’ fight song goes: “The eyes of the land, upon every hand, are looking at you. Fight on for victory!”
— Sarah Palin

And That’s the Way It Is.

Category: Election 2012, Nebraska, Republicans, Senate, Tea Party

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LIVE AT FIVE – 05.17.12

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Fear and Loathing in Thurmont: G-8 Summit Will Be 15 Miles From My House

Bank Run in Greece = DJIA Rises?

Is @MaggiePolitico the Favorite Girl in David Axelrod’s Stenography Pool?

You Have To Admire A Broken Record That Can Skip For 3+ Years

Sarah Palin, Herman Cain Help Nebraska Underdog Deb Fischer Win Primary

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