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Faced With Maxed-Out Race Card, Can Eric Holder Get A Rep. Allen West Bailout? Why, No; No, He Cannot!

Posted on | December 20, 2011 | 4 Comments

by Smitty

The blogs have been on about Eric “The Bolder” Holder’s NYT interview, where he few a Hail Jerry* and said that:

“This is a way to get at the president because of the way I can be identified with him,” he said, “both due to the nature of our relationship and, you know, the fact that we’re both African-American.”

The Daily Caller quotes Allen West, who:

. . .said Holder’s use of race as a way to attack his critics is “the most insidious thing I ever heard.”
“I grew up in the United States military and it’s not about your color, it’s about your competence, it’s about your abilities to execute a mission,” West said. “If your commanding officer turns heat on you, it’s because you have failed to achieve the mission and I think what we’re doing is we’re looking at something that was a very horrible program — this Operation Fast and Furious.”

Extensive research by this blog’s layers of fact checkers shows that neither the gross incompetence, nor the starkly ideological mindset, nor the generally peevish demeanor of the Attorney General or #OccupyResoluteDesk has any genetic component. They must have been nurtured to suck; nature is having none of it.

via Hot Air

*California Governor Jerry Brown, the Patron ‘Aint of used-up Lefties, who managed to run for office in a place sufficiently effed to elect him.

Category: Allen West, Barack Obama, Eric Holder, Hot Air, Uncategorized

LIVE AT FIVE7:30 – 12.20.11

Posted on | December 20, 2011 | 1 Comment

— compiled by Wombat-socho


TOP NEWS
ALLEN WEST, HOUSE GOP DRAW A LINE IN THE SAND

Eric Cantor, John Boehner, and Majority Whip Kevin McCarthy

House GOP holds out for full-year extension of payroll tax cut

ROK Gov’t Expresses Sympathy To Norks
NY consul states ROK priority “to avoid anything troublesome”

Deadly Blizzard Pushes Into Great Plains
Storm stretches from northern New Mexico through Texas and Oklahoma to Kansas



POLITICS
Newt Rips Opponents For Using Negative Ads

Newt talks to an eight-year-old in Iowa

Doesn’t name and shame, unfortunately

Brothers In NC Terror Ring To Be Sentenced Today

Power Plant Closures To Strip Small Towns Of Jobs

Wikileaker’s Defense Throwing Stuff At Wall, Hoping Something Will Stick

Perry Criscrossed Iowa In Search Of Road To Revival

Walsh Accuses Holder Of Playing Race Card At White House’s Order



THE ECONOMY, STUPID
Deutsche Telekom Silent On Plan B For T-Mobile
US Stock Futures Advance Before Housing Report
European Stocks Advance On German Confidence
Euro Climbs After Spanish Auction, German lfo
Winn-Dixie Stores Sold To Bi-Lo For $560 Million
Lockheed Wins Japan F-35 Contract Over Boeing, Eurofighter
EU Short On IMF Loans Target As Britain Refuses Aid
Gold Rises As Euro Rebounds
Apple Ruling Hits Android
IBM: Five Predictions For The Next Five Years
Siri Helps Santa In Apple’s Christmas Ad
US Gasoline Prices Continue To Fall



SPORTS
49ers Turn Out The Lights On Steelers, Win 20-3

Can beat Browns on one leg, but not the 49ers

Roethlisberger throws three interceptions as Steelers get crushed

Rangers Win Yu Darvish Sweepstakes



Bruins Beat Habs 3-2 For Fifth Win In A Row

Davidson Shocks #11 Kansas, 80-74

Arron Afflalo Returns To Denver?

Twins Lose Jason Kubel To Snakes: Two Years, $15 Million

Nats Add 38-Year-Old Mike Cameron



FAMOUS FOR BEING FAMOUS
Chaz Bono, Jennifer Elia Call Off Engagement

Chaz Bono, Jennifer Elia

Breaking up after six years together

Jessica Lange, Sam Shepard Split; Press Takes Two Years To Notice

Professor Claims He Was Canned By NYU After Giving James Franco A D



Teen Mom Amber Portwood Back In Prison For Second Straight Christmas

Amy Childs Opts For Garish Gown Alongside Royals At Millies

Patton, Pending

Hefner Says Lohan’s Playboy Issue Breaking Records



FOREIGNERS
Will Kim Jong Un’s Aunt & Uncle Be The Real Powers In North Korea?
Violence Continues In Egypt
Arab League Chief: Syria Conflict Too complex For Western Involvement
Iraqi President Criticizes Treatment Of Sunni VP
EU Presses Ukraine To Release Jailed Tymoshenko
Scores Missing After Sakhalin Rig Capsizes; Hopes Fading
South Sudan Seeks $763 Million From Donors In Humanitarian Aid
Guangdong Protests Spread To Haimen
Egypt’s Salafist Party Vows To Respect Treaty With Israel
Ukrainian Femen Activists Disappear After Topless Protest Near Belarus KGB Building
Saudi King Abdullah Calls For Gulf Council To Move From Cooperation To Unity



BLOGS & STUFF
Don Surber: FICA Deal FUBAR
Weasel Zippers: House Dems Unleash Gollum On Republicans Up For Reelection
Allahpundit: Ron Paul Now InTrade Favorite To Win Iowa
Michael Totten: Totalitarian Grief
Donald Sensing: What Do You Do When Your god Dies?
Peter Suderman: It’s So Ronery In The Dark, With Negative GDP Growth
Big Journalism: Progressive Media Meeting With Obama
American Spectator: Jeb Ex Machina?
Hit & Run: Why Would Consumers Object To A Policy That Forces Them To Buy Expensive Products They Don’t Want?
Power Line: Hayek Vindicated Again
Media Decoder: NYT Negotiating To Sell Regional Papers
Mark Krikorian: Enforcement Works – Unexpectedly!
Volokh Conspiracy: Is The Mandate Necessary?
The Ticker: Appeals Court Rejects Christian Student’s Bid To Reverse Expulsion
Jihad Watch: Biden – “Look, The Taliban Is Not Our Enemy”
Gateway Pundit: EPA Wants More Power In The Name Of Sustainable Development


SOTD: What’s Your Pleasure

Category: Live at Five

Perry Iowa TV Ad Attacks Newt Gingrich as ‘K Street,’ Mitt Romney as ‘Wall Street’

Posted on | December 20, 2011 | 17 Comments

Now that the debates are over and Rick Perry can’t be forced to defend his attacks, he goes negative on both Republican front-runners:

“He’ll overhaul Washington and toss out the corrupt insiders.”

Yeah, Rick Perry’s going to clean up the corruption:

Since 2001, more than a fifth of the $83 million that Mr. Perry has raised for his gubernatorial campaigns has come from people he appointed to state boards and commissions, according to a study by Texans for Public Justice, a watchdog group. Just 150 individuals and couples gave him $37 million of that total, and nearly half received substantial tax breaks, business contracts or appointments from Mr. Perry, The Los Angeles Times reported.
The governor set up two state funds, intended to promote business growth, that have given tens of millions to companies that returned the favor with political contributions. An analysis by The New York Times found that more than a quarter of the companies that have received grants from the Texas Enterprise Fund in the last year, or their executives, had made contributions to Mr. Perry’s campaigns dating back to 2001 or to the Republican Governors Association since 2008, when Mr. Perry became its chairman.
The Texas Emerging Technology Fund . . . has provided $200 million in seed money to high-tech start-ups since 2005 . . .
[Perry’s] office makes the decision on which companies should receive the money, according to The Dallas Morning News, which found that more than $16 million had gone to campaign donors.

You know, I remember attending a speech Labor Day weekend where somebody talked about the problem with “crony capitalism.” Looks like there’s a sort of Solyndra thing going on in the Lone Star State.

But never mind me: I’m just a “low-information” guy, not part of the AOSHQ/Red State Rick Perry Blog Bandwagon, and here’s the punishing kick-in-the-head Brutal Headline O’ Th’ Day:

Big Bloggers Fall in Line for Rick Perry

So this leaves us minor, inconsequential bloggers out in the cold. Further confirmation — as if more confirmation were needed — that everybody hates me, which is why I’m “Not Good Enough for BlogCon.”

Category: Election 2012, Iowa, Rick Perry, Video

Memo From the National Affairs Desk: Strange Rumblings in the Heartland

Posted on | December 19, 2011 | 15 Comments

By this time a week from today — Dec. 26, the day after Christmas — I’ll be in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, covering the final campaign leading up to the Jan. 3 caucuses, and I’m already getting advance vibes of serious Fear and Loathing in the Hawkeye State.

There is so much to do between now and my departure date that I’m beginning to worry that I’ll never get it all done in time. The chief task now is to say some long-overdue thanks for all the readers who have already contributed to the Shoe Leather Fund to help make this trip possible: Doug in Cincinnati, Mr. E in Alabama, Mike in Ardmore, Barry in Missouri, Maggie in Broken Arrow, Chris in Patterson, Mike in El Segundo, Philip in Lakeland, Jeff in Elizabethtown, Nathan in Illinois, Susan in Concord, Howard in Texas, Ross in Lakeland, Daniel in New Port Richey, Michael in New Hampshire, Joan in Georgia, Lisa in Clarkson, Bonnie in Utah, Stacy in Colonial Heights, John in Cambridge, Ronald in Oakland, Mike W. in Falls Church, Jeff in Walla Walla, and Charlie in Oregon.

It is not merely gratitude, of course, that causes me to recite this list of generous readers who’ve hit the tip jar since Thanksgiving, but also the hope that those of you who haven’t yet contributed will be inspired to emulate these excellent examples. Read more

Category: Election 2012, Fear and Loathing in Iowa, Iowa, Shoe Leather Fund

For Some Strange Reason, I Was Reminded of Lawrence v. Texas

Posted on | December 19, 2011 | 26 Comments

Or more precisely, a certain dissenting opinion:

“The Texas statute undeniably seeks to further the belief of its citizens that certain forms of sexual behavior are ‘immoral and unacceptable’ . . . the same interest furthered by criminal laws against fornication, bigamy, adultery, adult incest, bestiality, and obscenity. Bowers held that this was a legitimate state interest. The Court today reaches the opposite conclusion. The Texas statute, it says, ‘furthers no legitimate state interest which can justify its intrusion into the personal and private life of the individual’ . . . The Court embraces instead Justice Stevens’ declaration in his Bowers dissent, that ‘the fact that the governing majority in a State has traditionally viewed a particular practice as immoral is not a sufficient reason for upholding a law prohibiting the practice’ . . . This effectively decrees the end of all morals legislation. If, as the Court asserts, the promotion of majoritarian sexual morality is not even a legitimate state interest, none of the above-mentioned laws can survive rational-basis review.”

One of the problems with slippery-slope arguments is that, when confronted with a demand for radical change, you can never know in advance exactly what the results of some hypothetical “reform” will be. You may have an educated guess that bad things will happen, but the Law of Unintended Consquences always has a way of surprising us, so trying to predict specific outcomes is difficult. And I’m pretty sure that even the most prescient observer did not predict, in June 2003, that we’d so soon see simulated incest as pep-rally entertainment:

[A] recent winter sports pep rally at Rosemount (Minn.) High featured a comedy skit which took advantage of unknowing captains of the various winter varsity squads. After the team captains walked into the gym blindfolded, they were told that they were going to be kissed by a special someone, and then were asked to guess who it was that kissed them. . . .
It turns out that the person who kissed the athletes — in every circumstance — was their own opposite sex parent. While no one has questioned the comedic intentions of the prank, the stunt itself has still drawn plenty of criticism not for the student athletes, but for what the parents did in executing the practical joke. . . . [S]ome of the parents took their roles as “special someones” to a level that left many onlookers feeling uncomfortable and even queasy.

The story says there is video, which I don’t want to see and you probably don’t want to see, either. The normal reaction is:

What the hell is wrong with people? What the hell were these parents thinking? What was the school thinking? Is self-respect a concept utterly lost to this country?

So says the Anchoress, who was linked by Da Tech Guy, citing lots of other things going on nowadays which make normal people wonder the same thing: What the hell is wrong with people?

This rampant insanity — which is, er, waxing rather than waning — Da Tech Guy calls “the logical result of 50 years of secularism,” and I am not disposed to argue much against that conclusion. But why secularism?

What force or forces have led to increased secularism? I would contend that the problem can be summed up in a single word: Equality.

Once you adopt the egalitarian mindset, you view all established order — all traditional hierarchies — as unjust and illegitimate.

Basic categorical distinctions like husband and wife, parent and child, student and teacher, and indeed even man and woman, are delegitimized by the egalitarian worldview. Why, after all, do we find the liberal media so sympathetic with Occupy Wall Street protests against the wealth of the rich? Because it is supposedly “unfair” for one man to have a million dollars while others are deeply in debt.

The traditions of private property and free enterprise are, to the egalitarian mind, as illegitimate as the tradition that marriage is the union of exactly one man and one woman. The pursuit of “social justice” requires that these allegedly arbitrary distinctions be swept away as obsolete and oppressive legacies of the benighted past, so as to usher in an age of Progress and Enlightenment.

Among the elements of the established order which the egalitarians were most determined to destroy was the distinction between God and Man, thus to remove from consideration any deference to Divine Authority. Religion was mocked as unscientific superstition, the Bible subjected to scornful literary criticism, and the clergy exposed as hypocritical.

All of these anti-religious forces have been gathering momentum for far more than the 50 years Da Tech Guy ascribes to the secularist trend. Wasn’t this a basic complaint of Bill Buckley in God and Man at Yale, published in 1951? If eminent authorities at Yale were part of an observable trend six decades ago, certainly that trend had already been developing for many decades even then.

Buckley did not predict — for how could he have possibly imagined? — where that trend would lead, but by the time he sounded the alarm 60 years ago, America was already sliding down the slippery slope. And no sooner had I written that sentence than Smitty sent me this news:

Group sex is the latest trend for
teenagers, says disturbing new report

Average age of first group sex experience
among study participants is just 15.6 years old

A new study has found that one in 13 girls aged 14 to 20 have engaged in ‘multi-person sex’ (MPS).
A total of 328 girls who had visited health clinics in Boston, U.S, took part in the study and 7.3 per cent of them said they had had group sex.
Worryingly, among the girls in that group, 45 per cent said at least one male participant had not used a condom.
[R]esearchers at the Boston University School of Public Health said that the majority of the girls ‘reported being pressured, threatened, coerced, or forced to participate in MPS at least once.’
Although some of those participating in the study were adults, the average age of their first group-sex experience was just 15.6 years old.
A total of 54 per cent of those studied had multi-person sex for the first time when they were younger than 16.

Wonderful: The teenage orgy becomes a common rite of passage. Girls are having group sex even before they reach the legal age of consent. How long before the “emerging awareness” cited by the Supreme Court majority in Lawrence v. Texas emerges far enough to encompass this?

At this point, the safest prediction would be that America’s slide into degeneracy will continue, and we should not be too surprised by what strange things await us as we approach the bottom of that slippery slope, nearing that fabled destination of a road paved with good intention.

 

Category: Culture, Da Tech Guy, The Anchoress

Your Monthly Sarah Palin Wink

Posted on | December 19, 2011 | 34 Comments

by Smitty

Time says:

Palin: “It’s not too late for folks to jump in. Who knows what will happen in the future.”
Interview airs Monday at 10 pm ET.

This is via Ace, who posits:

As far as I know FoxNews hasn’t had this talk with Palin, or, if they did, she clarified her intention as wishing to continue as an analyst.
Although things could always change, I’m not sure where this idea springs from that Palin is actually interested in a run for President. It is odd that someone with a desire to be president would quit — um, resign from office for perfectly understandable, even noble, self-sacrificing reasons, I should say– the office which confers upon her the quality of presidential plausibility.

I’m dubious. Herman Cain’s abortive campaign is instructive. He had not done the homework, and tried to play in the champagne league with a kool-aid staff. Opposing campaigns and the media just lobbed allegation grenades at him until he was done.

In the case of Sarah, admirer though I am, the questions are:

  • Where is the staff?
  • Have you really done the homework?

The lady has the personal charisma of the rest of the GOP field combined. What I hope is that she is called, and answers up, as VP for whoever wins the GOP primary. Such a move capitalizes on her charisma, and is a good investment for eight years out, with the executive credentials to shut up everyone with the exception of Andrew ‘the Unsilenceable’ Sullivan about the Alaska governorship.

Update: linked at The POH Diaries.

Category: Ace of Spades, Sarah Palin

Rule 5 Monday

Posted on | December 19, 2011 | 7 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho


Bring The Heat, Bring The Stupid kicks off this week’s roundup with Salma Hayek. Postaldog returns with Eve Ellis, some aspiring models, and Jessica James Clement. The POH Diaries can’t get enough Kate Upton (or Christina Hendricks), while Fishersville Mike is all about the Christmas Spirit. The Rio Norte Line featured Anna Torv, Missy Peregrym, Pooja Misrra, and a first in bra advertising. The Daily Bayonet debuts with Amanda Righetti, and The Pegu Blog returns this week with this generation’s hostess with the mostest. Randy’s Roundtable’s midweek break babe is Diana Morales, followed by Kelly Brook. Eye of Polyphemus lights on Bar Rafaeli, while Laughing Conservative went with Emily Ratajkowski. Reaganite Republican has a revue of the best legs in the GOP, while Jake Finnegan’s Burkalesque Babe was the appropriately (un)wrapped Irina Shayk.


A View From The Beach last week featured Hilary Duff, a sudden appreciation of inertia, Surfin’ Safari, and Plan B, featuring an appropriate (sic) motivational poster.


Proof Positive served up Estella Warren, vintage babe Joan Collins, some sex in advertising, and the obligatory 49ers cheerleader.


Soylent Green went with Milla for his Monday Motivationer, followed by Jaclyn Swedberg, Melanie Meijer, a corset pic buried under some AGW shenanigans, tits & tats, a decade of Dalene, and a PSA for senior snoochers.


This past week at The Camp of the Saints, it was Randi Ingerman, the Rule 5 News, and Rossella Brescia. Dustbury has three lovelies this week: Anna Chlumsky, Chiquinquira Delgado, and Jennifer O’Neill. Maggie’s Notebook offers Daniela Pestova, while the Jerseynut returns with a link to some Santa Babes. Pirate’s Cove links with the Sunday Pin-up and a Gorbal Warmening PSA.


Last but not least, the DaleyGator’s DaleyBabes, who included random babes, lap dances for the needy, Bianca Beauchamp, Lisa Matthews, a Rule 5 Roundup, Anggun, and K.D. Aubert


Thanks to everyone for their links! Deadline for next week’s Boxing Day Rule 5 is Saturday, December 24.

Category: Uncategorized

This ‘Draft Hillary’ Thing Had Me Going Until The Third Paragraph

Posted on | December 19, 2011 | 17 Comments

by Smitty

Politico:

We argued in a recent Wall Street Journal op-ed piece that President Barack Obama should stand down and let Secretary of State Hillary Clinton run as the Democratic presidential nominee in 2012.
We are now calling on Democratic voters nationally — particularly in New Hampshire — to organize a write-in campaign for Clinton. This is something that New Hampshire voters have a long history of doing.
We advocate this Draft Hillary movement not because of the desire to make political mischief — but to put the country on the right course.

Sure: I hope it works, though I can’t imagine #OccupyResoluteDesk actually letting Hillary gain any traction.

The amusement is that anybody would think Hillary would be any better as POTUS. She’d probably play less golf, and take cheaper vacations, granted. Substantially, she seems to deliver from the same crypto-Marxist deck as BHO.

More at Hot Air, and also Memorandum.

via No Quarter

Category: Hillary Clinton, Uncategorized
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