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Amazon Mother’s Day Jewelry Sale

Posted on | April 24, 2012 | 7 Comments

You can shop Amazon for great Mother’s Day jewelry specials, with savings up to 60% off regular prices, and kick me back a little commission at no extra cost to you. Just a small sample of some great jewelry items at Amazon:

What? You don’t love your mother enough to spend big money like that? No problem. Amazon offers great jewelry deals in every price range: Under $50, $50-99, $100-$199. If your mom has raised an unloving cheapskate, that’s between you and her. I’m just trying to hustle up some Amazon commissions here. Our readers get all kinds of bargains by shopping our Amazon links: Just click the link and shop around until you find what you want, and I still get the commission. We are grateful to the readers who recently bought these items at Amazon:

So you’re transporting your kayak, barbecuing on your grill, and watching the ballgame on your new HDTV, but you can’t buy your mom some nice jewelry for Mother’s Day?

Like I said, that’s between you and her . . . I mean, it’s not like your dear loving mother would want you to feel guilty or anything.

 

Category: Amazon

Closet-Case Democratic Party Official Infected Ex-Girlfriend With AIDS Virus?

Posted on | April 24, 2012 | 20 Comments

Jay Parmley and Rebecca Burgin

Last week, we noted that Jay Parmley, who was forced to resign as executive director of the North Carolina Democratic Party after being accused of sexually harassing a 26-year-old male staffer, had claimed to be the victim of “right-wing political enemies.”

Alas, it appears that the real victim was a young Oklahoma woman who says Parmley infected her with the AIDS virus:

Parmley’s ex-girlfriend Rebecca Burgin told TheDC that Parmley forever changed her life by making her HIV-positive. She’s worried, she said, that Parmley may have done to someone else what he did to her.
“My motivation for talking to you was that I have read the articles, I have read the letter [that Ortega sent to Parmley detailing sexual harassment allegations] and everything like that,” Burgin said.
“And after Jay and I broke up, the biggest concern that I had was, ‘what if this happened to somebody else? Would he do this to someone else?’ … My biggest concern is for anybody else that has had a relationship with him that he did not tell.” . . .
“When Jay and I met, I was 20 and he was 32,” she said. “To me, it seems to be a pattern, potentially… The unnerving thing to me is that it looks like he uses his position of authority to prey on younger adults.” . . .
Parmley served as national president of the Young Democrats of America from 1999 to 2001, then becoming executive director and chairman of the Oklahoma Democratic Party until 2005. . . .
In 2005 he left Oklahoma to become a Mississippi state liaison to the Democratic National Committee under chairman Howard Dean, during the former Vermont governor’s 50-state strategy campaign. He took a similar role in South Carolina in 2007, and became executive director of the South Carolina Democratic Party in 2009. In May 2011, the North Carolina Democratic Party hired him as its executive director. . . .
“I met him — I was a student in college and he was my American Government professor,” she told TheDC in a phone interview. “Upon completing that class, we started dating. We dated for a little over three years.” . . .
Around October 2006, after more than 14 months of a long-distance relationship, Parmley became “debilitating[ly] sick” in Mississippi, she said.
Former Mississippi Democratic Party chairman Rickey Cole told TheDC that he and his wife took Parmley to the hospital “because he had lost a great deal of weight and couldn’t keep anything in his stomach.”
And then came Thanksgiving, when Burgin said she was hit with the news that would change her life forever.
“He had called my parents and asked them that they call me and have me come over,” Burgin said, “and that I needed to call him. And so I called him, and it was at that point that he told me the doctors had tested him for HIV. And that he was HIV positive. And that I needed to be tested.” . . .

Read the whole thing, a great story by Matthew Boyle at the Daily Caller.

Notice that Parmley was employed at the top levels of the Democratic Party — as national director of Young Democrats, in Oklahoma, Mississippi, South Carolina and North Carolina — for more than a dozen years before his sexual predations were publicly exposed.

Indeed, according to Burgin’s account, top Democratic officials knew Parmley was HIV-positive more than five years ago, which might have been seen as a huge clue that Parmley was up to no good.

Of course, such an interpretation — that AIDS infection might be evidence of dangerous proclivities — could be seen as “discrimination,” and Democrats consider discrimination a greater danger than an incurable sexually-transmitted disease. And remember that when Parmley was accused of sexually harassing a 26-year-old male aide, North Carolina Democratic Party officials tried to cover it up with a financial settlement, even though Parmley’s high-risk behavior had already victimized at least one other young person. Also remember, as Ed Morrissey says, to keep Rebecca Burgin in your prayers.

 

Category: Corruption, Democrats, Gays, Mississippi, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Scandal, Sex, South Carolina

Two Cheers for Katy Conrad!

Posted on | April 24, 2012 | 6 Comments

John Hindraker thought it was “insane” for Katy Conrad of CBS News to contact Koch Industries, inquiring about the claim by MSNBC and other liberals that the Koch brothers were paying for George Zimmerman’s legal defense in the Trayvon Martin case.

Pete Da Tech Guy comes to Katy Conrad’s defense, saying that at least she checked it out and didn’t run the story, and I agree.

Katy Conrad did her job. If Ed Schultz is going to permit Karen Finney and Van Jones to lie about the Koch brothers on MSNBC, other news organizations are obligated to check out the facts, which Conrad did, to her credit. While Koch Industries lawyer Mark Holden asked that CBS “not mention Koch in any way in your broadcast,” perhaps it would have been even better if CBS had re-focused its story on how MSNBC abets left-wing liars engaging in politically motivated slander against Koch.

Related: NPR employed a “reporter” who formerly worked for the liberal activist group Common Cause, and the reporter, Peter Overby, helped abet the left-wing demonization campaign against the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC). Among the left-wingers pushing that demonization campaign is — surprise! — Van Jones.

Common Cause has also been part of the anti-Koch campaign.

It’s almost as if there were a vast conspiracy at work here . . .

Category: CBS, Da Tech Guy, MSNBC, Power Line

Obama’s One Success

Posted on | April 24, 2012 | 21 Comments

He has singlehandedly solved our immigration problem!

For first time since Depression,
more Mexicans leave U.S. than enter

Turns out, all you have to do is to destroy the potential for economic growth, and illegal aliens go home. If they were happy living in a corrupt Third World pesthole, why bother leaving Mexico?

UPDATE: Ed Morrissey at Hot Air:

At the time Mitt Romney made a reference to “self-deportation” through tougher employer and immigration enforcement in a January debate, he got roundly criticized for believing that illegals would choose to leave the US. Today, National Journal says Romney has been vindicated by a new study of immigration from and to Mexico.

MSNBC will denounce this as an attempt by the Romney campaign to deny the Obama administration credit for its success.

And really, if Democrats want to pander to xenophobic bigotry, why shouldn’t they get credit for it, huh?

 

Category: Barack Obama, Economics, Immigration, Mexico

Newt’s Delaware Delusion

Posted on | April 24, 2012 | 26 Comments

When the FEC reports were released Friday, showing that Newt Gingrich ended March with $4.3 million in campaign debt, I noted talk of a comeback in today’s Delaware primary:

Alex Moe of NBC News reports that Gingrich has been spending most of his time in Delaware, which holds its primary Tuesday, and quotes “a source close to the Gingrich campaign” as saying: “Tuesday is a big day. … Newt is just waiting to see what happens on Tuesday.”
What will happen Tuesday is, Newt will lose.

Ed Morrissey devoted an entire post Monday to the theme of “Hey, maybe Newt can win Delaware,” only to conclude: Eh, so what?

Even if Gingrich managed a win, though, he would add 17 delegates to his total, thanks to the all-or-nothing allocation of the state primary. Romney will win most or all of the other 214 delegates at stake in the other primaries taking place tomorrow; Delaware is the smallest state at stake. That would move Gingrich from 140 t0 157 delegates, while Romney will easily top 800 and have perhaps as many as 870 by the end of the day tomorrow.

Newt managed to fool a lot of people into thinking his Georgia primary victory on “Super Tuesday,” March 6 was meaningful — his speech that night was all about how he was still in the hunt — so that he was still able to collect $1.7 million in contributions in March. After he lost Mississippi and Alabama on March 13, that illusion fell apart. However, Gingrich continued to pretend he was a contender up through the March 24 Louisiana primary, which was an expensive pretense that left him millions of dollars in debt by the end of the month.

The idea that a win in tiny Delaware would actually mean anything for Newt is something that I doubt even Newt himself believes. Yet Politico feels the need to cover its bases, although I remain confident that Gingrich will lose Delaware and finish no better than third anywhere else. Alex Moe of NBC is still on Newt death-watch duty:

Newt Gingrich hinted he may withdraw from the presidential race if he has a poor showing in the Delaware primary Tuesday – a state where he has been actively campaigning for several weeks.
“I think we need to take a deep look at what we are doing,” Gingrich told NBC News in an exclusive interview on Monday. “We will be in North Carolina tomorrow night and we will look and see what the results are.”
He acknowledged that he would have to “reassess” his campaign depending on how he fares in Delaware, a winner-take-all state with 17 delegates at stake.

“I think we need to take a deep look at what we are doing”? Perhaps he should have done that before he was $4 million in the hole.

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Category: Delaware, Election 2012, Newt Gingrich

RNC Dogs BHO

Posted on | April 24, 2012 | 11 Comments

by Smitty

Nothing unexpected here, just another litany of how unserious #OccupyResoluteDesk is:

via Red Alexandria

Category: Barack Obama, GOP

LIVE AT FIVE – 04.24.12

Posted on | April 24, 2012 | 8 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho


TOP NEWS
Immigration From Mexico Grinds To A Halt

Border Patrol Officer Jesus Robles looks across the Rio Grande

Pew Hispanic Center survey lists horrible US economy among causes

Le Pen Urges National Front Voters To Reject Sarkozy
Calls on supporters to concentrate on June’s legislative elections

Zimmerman Makes Bail, Goes Into Hiding
Lawyer waives Zimmerman’s right to appear at arraignment due to death threats



POLITICS
Giuliani Endorses Romney

Romney and Giuliani spar during the 2008 GOP primary debates

““I think he has an understanding of the economy that’s far deeper than the president…”

Romney Noncommittal On Rubio’s DREAM Act

California Referendum On Death Penalty Makes The Ballot

Boehner: One In Three Chance GOP Could Lose House

Some Actor Busted At Medicare Protest

Defense Reorganizes Intelligence Efforts

Gingrich Could Drop From Race This Week

RNC Trio Gets Boot From Romney Campaign

Trustees Report Social Security Outlook Worsening



THE ECONOMY, STUPID
Oil Prices Continue To Slide On Weak Demand; NYMEX $103.11, Brent $118.71
Wal-Mart Shaken By Bribery Probe
Netflix Spooks Street With Sputtering User Growth
Facebook 1Q Profit Drops As Costs Double
Asian Shares Inch Higher, Restrained By European Political Uncertainty
Ex-CEO Of Calpers Accused Of Fraud
Jana Partners Buys 12% Of B&N, Stock Jumps
Australian Inflation Slows, Giving Rate Cut Hopes A Lift
Did Facebook Just Pay $83 Million For That Big Pile Of IBM Patents?
The Slow Decay Of The Microsoft Consumer
The Internet Gets A Hall Of Fame (Including Algore!)
Google On Track To Outspend Banks, Tobacco Firms In Lobbying
Google Wanted Java “Partnership” With Sun



SPORTS
Rangers Live To Fight Another Day

Rookie Chris Kreider (center) scores first goal - and it's a game winner

3-2 win over Ottawa forces Game 7 at Madison Square Garden

Lakers, Metta World “Chaos” Wait For The Hammer To Fall

Sixers Clinch Playoffs, Ruin Nyets’ Final Game In Jersey

Jeter Gets Four Hits In Yankees’ 7-4 Win Over Texas

Saints Deny ESPN Eavesdropping Allegations

Giants Flummox Mets For Doubleheader Sweep

Spurs Clinch #1 Seed In West With 124-89 Blowout Of Trailblazers

Virginia Tech Fires Greenberg After Nine Seasons



FAMOUS FOR BEING FAMOUS
It’s Official: Lindsay Lohan To Star As Liz Taylor

LiLo and Liz

Will star in Lifetime original movie “Liz & Dick”

Rep: Jennifer Aniston Is Not Marrying Justin Theroux In Crete

Drew Barrymore, Will Kopelman Celebrate At Couples Shower

Justin Bieber Mocks Alleged Baby Mama On Twitter

“Haywire” Star Gina Carano In Talks To Join “Fast & Furious 6”

Jessica Chastain Back In “Iron Man 3” Talks

Megan Fox Is Preggers!

Britney To Become “Queen Of Hard Rock”?
Egad. What’s next, an acoustic album by Dimmu Borgir?
😉



FOREIGNERS
South Sudan’s President Seeks Help From PRC As War Approaches
Aung San Suu Kyi’s Party Postpones Entry To Burma Parliament Over Oath Row
Syrians Report Deadly Reprisal After UN Visit To Hama
Jerusalem, Cairo Play Down Significance Of Gas Crisis
Dutch Governing Coalition Resigns After Failing To Pass Austerity Budget
PRC, Norks Reaffirm Ties After Rocket Test
Former Icelandic PM Haarde Found Not Guilty On Most Charges; No Punishment To Follow Minor Charges
Joint Vietnam/US Naval Exercises Stir Troubled Waters In South China Sea
Chavez Calls Home To Squash Death Rumors
As Bo Xilai Rose, His Family Wealth Grew



BLOGS & STUFF
Breitbart TV: SNL’s Jon Lovitz Slams Obama, Taxes, Fake 99%-ers
An Ex-Con’s View: The LCWR and Satan
The Conservatory: Stupidest Reason Yet To Do Away With The All-Volunteer Military
Power Line: Could Newt Pull Off A Delaware Upset?
Hit & Run: Arizona Immigration Law Arguments Come After The Damage Is Done
Allahpundit: Hmmm – Marco Rubio Schedules Major Speech On Foreign Policy
Weasel Zippers: Obama Announces New “Atrocities Prevention Board”, Appoints Woman Who Wanted Military Invasion Of Israel As Its Head
Marginal Revolution: Does Not Compute
NewsBusters: Don’t Believe It – The Media Aren’t Beating Up On Barack Obama
Michelle Malkin: ALEC-Bashing NPR Reporter Fails To Disclose Ties To Lead Anti-ALEC Group
Fox Nation: Gorbachev Endorses Obama
Legal Insurrection: Who Exactly Is Being Deprived Of The Same Chance Obama Had To Get An Education?
Weekly Standard: “The War On Terror Is Over”
Israel Matzav: Freedom Of The Press, Palestinian Style
NRO Corner: True To Form

Category: Live at Five

Metaphor Alert

Posted on | April 24, 2012 | 2 Comments

by Smitty

It says something about Progress, I think. Or maybe how having the clock way off on your computer, and pulling an April Fools joke 3.5 weeks late can make you the single biggest chump on the planet:

Company Accidentally Fires Entire Staff Via Email

Category: humor
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