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LIVE AT FIVE – 05.04.12

Posted on | May 4, 2012 | 3 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

TOP NEWS
PRC Says Blind Activist Can Apply To Study Abroad

Possible solution to embarrassing diplomatic contretemps?

No Late Boost For Sarkozy
Centrist candidate Bayrou says he’ll vote for Hollande




Arizona Police Believe Neo-Nazi’s Murder/Suicide Was Domestic Violence
Ex-Marine Jason Todd Ready killed girlfriend, four others before killing himself



POLITICS
Former Edwards Aide Recounts Awkward Hotel Encounter

Describes how Rielle Hunter showed up at his room weeks after her work was done

AP Finally Apologizes For Firing Reporter Over WW2 Scoop



National Mall Getting $700 Million Redesign

Quinnipiac Poll: Obama’s Lead Vanishes In Ohio, Florida

Harvard Won’t Say If Liz Warren Listed As Minority

Issa Sends Out Draft Of Contempt Order Against Attorney General Holder



THE ECONOMY, STUPID
Oil Drops From Five-Week High As U.S. Production, Imports, Stockpiles Surge; NYMEX $105.22, Brent $118.20
Facebook IPO Values Company Between $85-95 Billion
Euro Bank Chief Draghi Warns Against Tax Hikes
Argentine Legislature Approves Nationalization Of YPF
US Business Startup Rate At Record Low
Stocks Close Mostly Lower Ahead Of Monthly Jobs Report
Japan Switches Off Last Nuclear Power Plant: Will They Cope?
Samsung Galaxy S3: The Latest Bid To Dominate The Android Market
Microsoft Kills Confusing “Windows Live” Brand
First “Elder Scrolls Online” Details Make It Sound Like Just Another Fantasy MMO
RIM Shares Drop To Eight-Year Low
Dolby audio To Be Integrated Into Windows 8 Tablets & PCs



SPORTS
Yankees Lose Closer Rivera For The Season With Torn ACL

Tears knee ligament while shagging flies in the outfield

Referees, LeBron James, And The Miami Heat Fail To Save Knicks In Game 3

Junior Seau’s Funeral Plans To Be Announced
GIVE ME THE BRAIN

Ponikarovsky Score OT Goal To Lift Devils Over Flyers 4-3

Mavericks Face Long Odds After Game Three Loss To Thunder

Rangers Outlast Caps In Triple OT, Squeak Out 2-1 Win

Bedard Gets Team-Reocrd 17 K’s, Bucs Avoid Sweep With 6-3 win Over Cardinals

Harper’s Move To #3 Spot Pays Off Immediately With 2-1 Win Over Snakes
Bryce Harper Has Been Sent Here To Destroy You



FAMOUS FOR BEING FAMOUS
Tanning Mom Slammed By Snooki

“That b!tch is crazy!”

“Bachelor” Host Chris Harrison Separating From Wife

Brandi Glanville’s “Real Housewife” Gig Over Before It Started

Joseph Gordon-Leavitt Developing “Little Shop Of Horrors” As Acting Vehicle

J-Lo Promotes Boyfriend Casper Smart To World Tour Choreographer

Samuel L. Jackson Launches Twitter War After NYT Slams “The Avengers”
I may have to see this movie now.

Kellan Lutz, Spencer Locke To Play Tarzan & Jane In Upcoming Motion-Capture Movie



FOREIGNERS
Final Polls Suggest Close Result, Win For Hollande
Russia Threatens Preemptive Strike On European Missile Defense
Ukraine’s EU Goal Wilts In Soccer Boycott Over Tymoshenko
Double Bombing In Dagestan Kills 13
White House Acknowledges Syria Ceasefire Not Working
Three Mexican Journalists Killed, Bodies Dumped In Veracruz Canal
Nigerian Cattle Market Raid Kills 56
Fringe Parties Could Win Big In Greek Elections
UK Local Elections: Beyond The Boris & Ken Show
Escaped Budgie Tells Japanese Police Its Address, Gets Lift Home



BLOGS & STUFF
David Harsanyi: Who The Hell Is Julia, And Why Am I Paying For Her Entire Life?
Power Line: To Be Julia Or Not to Be Julia?
Jim Geraghty: Undoing The Narrative Of “Dreams From My Father”
NRO Corner: The Chen Debacle
Via Meadia: China Syndrome – No Good Deed Goes Unpunished
Jawa Report: The Distractor In Chief
Weasel Zippers: More SEALS Coming Forward To Criticize Obama For Spiking The Football On Bin Laden
Legal Insurrection: “Stop Rush” Launches New Website To Pressure Advertisers
Volokh Conspiracy: Secondary Boycotts And The Breakdown Of Civil Society
Clayton Cramer: Third NBC “Journalist” Fired For Misleading Viewers
Washington Free Beacon: John Kerry – Smartest Guy In The Room?
Daniel Henninger: Memo To The Youth Vote

Category: Live at Five

Crowder In Tights

Posted on | May 3, 2012 | 2 Comments

by Smitty

I like the nugget of the idea at work here, but I think this needs more camp:

Crowder: get together with Chris Loesch again, and give us Batwonk and Reformin’. Give us the four-color sets of the Batman ’60s show, and take on evil hedge-trimming mastermind Jorge Sore-toes. Deflate the monster truck tires of the Union Overlord, Richard Tonka. Unlock the fulminating villainy of Wade Wrath-key. And so on.

Category: Uncategorized

Time for Some Zeppelin

Posted on | May 3, 2012 | 13 Comments

Of course, it’s ALWAYS time for some Zeppelin:

Category: Music, Video

It Never Happened, Nobody Saw It Happen, and I Was Never There

Posted on | May 3, 2012 | 108 Comments

Ben Howe, Moe Lane, Roger Simon, Bryan Preston, Paul Mirengoff, Gabriel Malor, Rob Bluey, Dan Riehl, Ace of Spades,  Mike Flynn, Philip Klein, Jim Antle, Michael Brendan Dougherty, Justin Hart, John Hawkins, Adam Tragone, Alana Goodman, Mary Katharine Ham, Katie Pavlich, Stephen Hayes, Alex Pappas, Byron York, Matt Lewis, Lachlan Markay, James Joyner, Amanda Carpenter, Jim Geraghty . . .

You may ask: “What do these people have in common?”

Answer: They are all notorious right-wing liars.

So if any of them claim they were all together at a “secret meeting” with a so-called VIP Wednesday afternoon in D.C., don’t believe a word of it.

If someone tries to tell you that my phone rang in the middle of the alleged “meeting” and that, while trying to turn off my phone, I knocked over my coffee cup, which spilled in Alana Goodman’s lap . . .?

Lies. All lies.

Also, the thing about Ace calling Dan Riehl a “kiss-ass”? Never happened.

Which isn’t to say that Dan is incapable of ass-kissing – “Oh, thank you and your lovely wife for favoring us with your gracious presence, Governor” – but I’m pretty sure that Ace would have described him as an “obsequious sycophant” rather than a mere ass-kisser, had they ever been sitting next to each other in a meeting with a VIP, which they so obviously weren’t.

Never trust those lying liars. Because they lie.

UPDATE: Thanks to Zilla of the Resistance who, via Twitter, offers this new hashtag: #NotGoodEnoughForRomCon — heh!

To make clear: I officially deny everything.

UPDATE II: The Lonely Conservative is hurt that she didn’t get invited to The Meeting That Never Happened. William Jacobson says: “I would not have gone, so it’s a good thing you didn’t invite me.” Except of course, there was no meeting!

The wild-eyed rumors that such a meeting happened are being spread by Lying Liars Who Lie, and you shouldn’t believe them.

UPDATE III: Bethany Mandel offers helpful encouragement:

I think you are mentally unbalanced. You need professional help.

Thanks! I needed that!

Category: Blogging, Election 2012, Mitt Romney

Touché

Posted on | May 3, 2012 | 8 Comments

by Smitty

Now and then, one gets trashed so hard that the best course of action is to join the audience in admiration of a good trashing:

When did Smitty turn into a Progressive? He seems to claim charisma is a zero sum game. He claims the charismatically rich Paul Ryan got that way from robbing the poor TrogloPundit. He doesn’t believe in trickle down charisma or the Laugher Curve of charismatic outflow elasticity.

All of this, of course, is unfair.

Category: Blogging

Rule 5 SundayThursday

Posted on | May 3, 2012 | 8 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho


Well, it was going to be Rule 5 Sunday, but then the internet died, and then three days of CPA exam madness got in the way, and the next thing I knew it was 0200 Thursday morning…


Laughing Conservative kicks off this week’s Rule 5 roundup with Lucy Pinder, while Fishersville Mike reminds us that the hockey season’s not over yet. Randy’s Roundtable takes a midweek break with Sonya Kraus, Eye of Polyphemus shows that Mila Kunis can be sexier with her clothes on than a lot of other women nekkid, and The POH Diaries continues that theme with Kate Upton and her Beach Bunny Casual collection. Zion’s Trumpet brings some Tumblr babes to our attention, the First Street Journal honors the WACs and other women in uniform, and the TrogloPundit gets not one but two posts about Valeriana Lukyanova, the “Human Barbie”. Elsewhere, Three Beers Later draws the line at Rule 5 1/2, while Dustbury has Lorianne Crook with Taylor Swift and Masiela Lusha.


Soylent Green starts the week early by studying gravity, then comes Monday Motivationer Malena, Tuesday Titillation with Shannon, Humpday Hawtness with Allie, Subterranean Snoochettes from Saturn, more Addie, Corset Friday – Have A Fit!, and finally some Overnight Awesome On The Rocks.


El Opinador Compulsivo distills two weeks’ snoochery into one set of links, and delivers with Christina Iannelli, Lisa Morales, Luisana Lopilato (with an unfortunate T-shirt), a high-res collection, and not one, not two, but three ladies to inspire pleasant dreams, followed by some morning exercise.


A View From The Beach has Claudia Schiffer, necrophilia in Egypt, Mila Kunis, a link between drinking and tattoos, and Carla Bruni.


The Camp of the Saints offers Diana Morales, the Rule 5 News, and Laura Prepon


The DaleyGator’s DaleyBabes were Kiara Asuka, Misaki Mori, Hayden Panettiere, Mayuko Iwasa, Kerry Washington, Minase Yashiro, Joelle Kayembe (with some Rule 5 linkagery), Momoka Kanou, Monica Artega, Salma Hayek’s new ad for Burger King, Amika Hattan, Crystal Bernard, Yoko Kumada, Denise Paglia, Yui Minami, Beyonce with additional Rule 5 linkagery; also, a post on offending feminists with Rule 5.


Thanks to everyone for their linkagery! Deadline for Sunday’s Rule 5 roundup will be Saturday, May 5.

Category: Rule 5

When Do We Say ‘Up The Left!’?

Posted on | May 3, 2012 | 12 Comments

by Smitty

Insty points to Treacher going on about the latest shenanigans at Wikipedia. It seems that it’s OK to have a page about Seamus the Dog, of Romney family fame, but no one need be bothered with talk of Obama’s dog consumption. Even though the dog munching is in one of Obama’s biographies, the dog may have been a composite of several species of small furry animals gathered together in a pot and grooving to world music. Wikipedia is great for scientific stuff, but goes high and to the left whenever a political topic emerges. This comes on the heels of Chris Loesch getting tooled on Twitter for offending the powers-that-delete.

In defense of these Lefty jackwagons, if you’re not paying the hosting fee for the service, you haven’t got much to say. Which brings me to my point. When are we going to shift emphasis from Wikipedia and Twitter to things like Conservapedia? While it makes sense to return to the usual sites to engage the Left, there needs to be some thought given to alternatives.

Maybe a Breitbart.com or a PJMedia could undertake such a project.

Category: Culture

Is Reboot Congress Senator Dick Lugar’s Biggest Booster?

Posted on | May 3, 2012 | 5 Comments

by Smitty

I’m looking at this rack of links from Reboot Congress, and I’m thinking: wow, DSM digs him some Lugar about as much as I enjoy cheering on ‘Gentleman’ Jim Moran, which is to say, not at all:

Category: Blogging, Indiana
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