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LIVE AT FIVEEIGHT – 04.19.12

Posted on | April 19, 2012 | 7 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho


TOP NEWS
Were Those Colombian Prostitutes Spies?

A Secret Service agent stands by during Obama's speech in Norfolk, Va.

Three agents given bum’s rush; separate inquiries by Congress, Defense, Treasury Departments underway

India Tests Agni V ICBM
Nuke-capable missile can hit anywhere in PRC



UN Secretary-General Says Syria Failing At Peace
Assad hasn’t pulled back troops or allowed humanitarian aid



POLITICS
Mitt Gets Mitch Daniels Endorsement

"I represent a different path"

“(Obama) has failed by the measurements he set,” said Romney. “You won’t hear that at this convention, but you’re going to hear it at ours, I’ll tell you that.”


Small Business Tax Cut Bill Points Up Partisan Divide On Economy

Will A Stronger Michigan Economy Hurt Romney’s Chances?

In Ohio, Hurdles For Both Candidates

House Votes Again To Approve Keystone XL Pipeline



THE ECONOMY, STUPID
Oil Prices Fall On Growing US Supply: NYMEX $102.67, Brent $117.97
Nokia Suffers $1.76 Billion Loss, Lumia Sales Mixed
US Stocks Set To Open Higher After Spanish Bond Auction
American Express Profit Up 7%
EBay Earnings, Revenue Top Estimates, Stock Rises
Intel’s First Smartphone Coming Soon: Xolo X900 Gets April Release Date
Facebook IPO Expected May 17
Oracle V. Google: Who Owns The Java APIs?
Zynga’s “Draw Something” Adds Comments, Social Updates
How RIM Can Save The Blackberry Brand In Three Easy Steps



SPORTS
A Legend Leaves The Bench

Retiring Tennessee Lady Vols' coach Pat Summitt

Tennessee womens’ hoops coach Pat Summitt retires after 38 years due to early-onset Alzheimer’s

Canucks Stave Off Elimination, Beat Kings 3-1

Lee Posts Ten Zeroes, Phillies Lose Anyway

Rangers Win Sixth Straight As Napoli Batters Red Sox

Anthony Scores 33 As Knicks Beat Nyets On Last Trip To Jersey

Harden Scores 40 As Thunder Eclipse Suns

Nats Rally Late To Beat Astros, But Jordan Zimmerman Still Starved For Runs



FAMOUS FOR BEING FAMOUS
America’s Oldest Teenager Dies, 82

Dick Clark, 1929-2012, RIP

Legendary host of “American Bandstand” dies of massive heart attack

Brad Pitt, Angelina Jolie Celebrate Engagement With Family Trip To Galapagos Islands

Sheree Whitfield Fired From “Real Housewives Of Atlanta” For Being A Diva

Baby #5 On The Way For Taylor Hanson

Pippa Middleton’s Party Host Apologizes For Gun Flap

Madonna On Being A Single Mom

Demi Moore Makes First Post-Rehab Appearance

Early Intel On “Homeland” Season 2: Will Carrie Go Rogue?

Kelly Osbourne Needs To Call The Fashion Police

Disney Plots A “Mr. Toad’s Wild Ride” Movie



FOREIGNERS
PRC Plays Double Game: Media Slams India While Government Talks Softly
Images Of GI’s Defiling Remains Fuel Fears Of Ebbing Discipline
Sudan’s Al-Bashir Vows To Topple South Sudanese Government
French Voters Lack Conviction Ahead Of Presidential Election
At Least 36 Killed By Multiple Bomb Attacks In Iraq
ROKs Confirm Deployment Of Cruise Missile
Pakistan: No Change In Siachen Issue
Spanish Ruling Party Rejects Criticism Of King’s Hunting Trip



BLOGS & STUFF
The Looking Spoon: Barry & Hillary Bury The Hatchet
Pat Dollard: Whore Recounts Argument With Coked-Out Secret Service Agent (NSFW)
Wake Up America: Audio Of Nugent/Loesch Interview
Gateway Pundit: Jim Webb – Health Care Law Is Obama Leadership Failure
Weasel Zippers: African American Help Wanted – Team Obama Tries To Diversify
Fausta’s Blog: Obama Chowed On Dog
Jawa Report: Advocating Murder Of Every Single Jew On Earth Not Anti-Israel Enough For Media Matters’ Eric Boehlert
Hit & Run: The Mirage Of Blooming “Food Deserts”
Power Line: The Democrats’ Rank Ignorance, Exposed
Washington Free Beacon: Mo’ Money, Mo’ Problems – MSNBC’s Al Sharpton Reeling From Debt, Taxes
Kathryn Lopez: Maybe Time Didn’t Notice The Birth Dearth
Clayton Cramer: Reid Says “Seniors Love Getting Junk Mail”
Just One Minute: Drug Testing And Public Assistance In Florida


SOTD: A Complete History Of The USSR, Arranged To The Melody of Tetris

Category: Live at Five

OPRA: Only Problematic in
Republican Administrations

Posted on | April 19, 2012 | 3 Comments

by Smitty

We need a good tag for situations like the following, in which we have a DOE flunky getting to look like a organ grinder’s pet in front of a Congressman, confessing that, well, they just couldn’t manage the flood o’ cash adequately:

A mere 300-350 investigations. So at least it’s not in the thousands. Yet. If this had happened in a McCain administration. . .
They punish the monkey, and let the organ grinder occupy the Resolute Desk.

via Breitbart

Update: more at The Blaze

Category: OPRA, Politics

The 1866 Civil Rights Act

Posted on | April 18, 2012 | 24 Comments

by Smitty

Thanks to Republicans beginning to appreciate the heritage of our Grand Old Party, it has become better known that Republicans in Congress supported the 1964 Civil Rights Act much more than did the Democrats. Indeed, the legislator most responsible for breaking the Democrat filibuster was a Republican senator, Everett Dirksen.
And now, the question that should be before us: How did that landmark legislation come to be? The answer to that is a source of pride for all Republicans today.
The origin of the 1964 Civil Rights Act can be traced back to the Reconstruction era. That was when the Republican Party enacted the first civil rights act ever, the 1866 Civil Rights Act. Never heard of it? Democrat history professors would rather you didn’t. With that law, Republicans took a big step toward making Abraham Lincoln’s vision for “a new birth of freedom” a reality.

It was a ‘whoa’ moment while reading Rumsfeld’s book to discover that he’s a goat so old as to have voted in favor of the Civil Rights Act. The 1964 one. Michale Zak is a historian who is working diligently to recover American History in general, and that of the GOP in particular, from decades of Commie airbrushing.
Read his entire Human Events article on the 1866 Civil Rights Act.

Update: linked by The Lonely Conservative

Category: Republicans

What I Needed Today …

Posted on | April 18, 2012 | 16 Comments

. . . was a plausible excuse to run a picture of smokin’ hot Israeli supermodel Bar Rafaeli taking off her bikini top. Read more

Category: Celebrities, Rule 5

‘We’re Here! We’re Queer! And Now, Unfortunately, We’re Unemployed!’

Posted on | April 18, 2012 | 18 Comments

Bend over and take it, influential gay journalists!

The editorial staff of the influential gay lifestyle magazine Out is being laid off with one month’s severance as of Friday, Capital has learned.
But according to Out editor-in-chief Aaron Hicklin, it’s more complicated than that.
Hicklin said he will hire back an unspecified number of editors on a contract basis into a new company he is founding called Grand Editorial. It will operate the magazine as a contractor for Here Media, sister company of Regent Entertainment Inc., which acquired Out in 2008.
Hicklin told Capital there will be no reduction in the frequency of the magazine or other major changes to the content.
“This was not a cost-cutting measure,” he said.

“Not a cost-cutting measure”? Could it be — just throwing this out there as a possibility — that Hicklin’s “complicated” scheme to replace a salaried staff with freelance contractors is an attempt to avoid providing health insurance coverage and other benefits?

Would I be correct in guessing that Out‘s offices are located in New York City, a jurisdiction notorious for its onerous regulations? Would I also be correct in guessing that Out has a lot of middle-aged staffers whose existing health problems and potential future risk for such problems have made the cost of insurance coverage extremely expensive?

Just askin’ questions . . .

Category: Gays, Journalism

The Year I Was Born: 1959

Posted on | April 18, 2012 | 38 Comments

Buddy Holly died in a plane crash, Fidel Castro staged a communist revolution in Cuba, Marilyn Monroe starred in Some Like it Hot, and the British embassy was worried about Kenyan students:

A memo from a British diplomat in Washington to Whitehall — released today by the National Archives in West London — sets out their concerns about the young Kenyans.
Dated September 1, 1959, it says: ‘I have discussed with the State Department. They are as disturbed about these developments as we are. They point out that Kenya students have a bad reputation over here for falling into the wrong hands and for becoming both anti-American and anti-white.’
In one of the Foreign Office files, the future president’s father appears on a list of Kenyan students as ‘OBAMA, Barack H’ — they shared the same name.
At the age of 23, he enrolled at the University of Hawaii in Honolulu to study economics with classmates including Ann Dunham, a 17-year-old white American from Kansas. The couple had a short marriage that led to the birth in 1961 of the future president, Barack Obama II.
Mr Obama Snr was among 100 or so Kenyan students brought to America by the African American Students Foundation.
U.S. and British officials were deeply suspicious of this outfit, observing that the AASF — though backed by singer Harry Belafonte and actor Sidney Poitier — had links to a Kenyan nationalist leader.
‘The motives behind this enterprise, therefore, seem more political than educational,’ warned a letter from the British Embassy in Washington.
It added: ‘The arrival here of these students, many of them of indifferent academic calibre and ill-prepared for the venture, is likely to give rise to difficult problems.’

Nothing to see here, folks. Move along.

UPDATE: Like an exclamation point: Dick Clark just died.

Category: Barack Obama, Great Britain, History

Aww, Shucks, Ma’am, ‘Tweren’t Nothin’ …

Posted on | April 18, 2012 | 15 Comments

After yesterday’s post about Jennifer Stefano, Bob Beckel’s F-bomb and Neal Boortz’s “rabid shrew” comments, the ladies at AFP Pennsylvania hail me as a “BeckelGate Hero.”

If a blog could blush . . .

UPDATE: She shares her side of the story:

What I want people to take away
from my exchange with Bob Beckel

UPDATE II: The video, in case you missed it:

No kidding: Despite his ideological liberalism and Democratic partisanship, Bob Beckel is beloved by (almost) everyone who knows him. Beckel is a recovering alcoholic who has helped counsel many others with similar problems. And being the token Democrat on Fox News has got to be a tough job.

Also, you should be sure to follow Jennifer Stefano, Katy Abrams and AFP Pennsylvania on Twitter.

Category: Celebrities, Fox News, Pennsylvania, Tea Party

House Republicans Head Off Obama Administration’s Threat to Hunting

Posted on | April 18, 2012 | 31 Comments

Audrey Hudson at Human Events reports:

The House on Tuesday passed legislation giving hunters and fishing enthusiasts access to certain public lands to pursue their sport and also blocked the Environmental Protection Agency from banning lead for use in ammunition and fishing tackle.

This is one of those laws that people with common sense might think would be unnecessary. Why would anyone want to prohibit hunters from having access to public land? After all, hunting is an essential (and cheap) method of wildlife managment, to prevent herds from breeding out of control, as has happened with whitetail deer in many parts of the country. But the Obama administration isn’t staffed by people with common sense:

[Sponsors of the House bill] cited an article in U.S. News and World Report stating the proposal to ban hunting on BLM land was in response to urbanites that “freak out” when they hear gunfire, and that the decision was an effort to reduce “social conflict.”

This is not a joke, as Paul Bedard reported in November:

Gun owners who have historically been able to use public lands for target practice would be barred from potentially millions of acres under new rules drafted by the Interior Department, the first major move by the Obama administration to impose limits on firearms.
Officials say the administration is concerned about the potential clash between gun owners and encroaching urban populations who like to use same land for hiking and dog walking.
“It’s not so much a safety issue. It’s a social conflict issue,” said Frank Jenks, a natural resource specialist with Interior’s Bureau of Land Management, which oversees 245 million acres. He adds that urbanites “freak out” when they hear shooting on public lands.

If the Interior Department would consider prohibiting firearms from public land for such absurd reasons, what could be next?

Federal law already bans the EPA from regulating lead ammunition, however, more than 100 environmental groups petitioned the agency last month to ban it claiming the lead can poison those who eat wild game shot with the ammunition, or other animals that accidentally ingest the metal in dead carcasses.
“There is no scientific evidence for their position,” [Republican Rep. Doc] Hastings said. “So this (bill) makes it crystal clear Congress has primacy on this issue and it should be respected.”

Read the whole thing. Ask yourself: What economically feasible alternative is there to lead ammunition? Answer: There is none.

Category: Congress, Environmentalism
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