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MONDAY DOOM WATCH: Europe Circling the Economic Drain

Posted on | November 28, 2011 | 26 Comments

Four headlines from Drudge:

Britain draws up emergency
plans for collapse of Euro …

IMF drafting $800 billion
bailout plan for Italy, Spain …

REPORT: FRANCE, GERMANY PREPARE
TO TAKE DRASTIC MEASURES …

NYT: Time runs short …

Remember, these are sophisticated Europeans. Liberals have always wanted America to be more like sophisticated Europe, where everybody has a mistress and six weeks of paid vacation.

Speaking of liberals, how does Paul Krugman explain the European economic crisis? Because I’m pretty sure Greece, Spain and Italy haven’t been governed by tax-cutting Republicans recently, and yet Krugman insists that all economic woe is caused by tax-cutting Republicans.

For example, when a city like Pontiac, Michigan, goes bankrupt:

The unemployment rate in Pontiac is pegged at 25 percent. In 2009, as GM restructured under a government bailout, it shuttered its plant in Pontiac and ceased production on the line of cars named after the city, calling it a “damaged brand.”

Read the whole thing and draw your own conclusion. My point is that, to Krugman, this problem must somehow be the fault of those evil tax-cutting Republicans, who are to blame for everything.

Exactly how Krugman will blame the Euro crisis on the GOP, I don’t know, but surely he’ll find a way. He’s got a Nobel Prize, you know.

Category: Economics, Greece, Italy, Spain

LIVE AT FIVE – 11.28.11

Posted on | November 28, 2011 | 3 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho


TOP NEWS
Arab League Sanctions Syria

Protesters demonstrate against Syrian dictator Bashar Assad near Homs

Economic sanctions intended to sever all banking & commerce connections with the rest of the Arab League

Black Friday Online Sales Jump 26%
$816 million in online sales

Eurodebt Crisis: Investors’ Confidence Shows Signs Of Crumbling
International investors holding back; interbank loans also slumping



POLITICS
Filthy Hippies No Longer Welcome In LA, Philly

Philadelphia ne'er-do-wells demonstrate against camp removal

Mayors Nutter, Villaraigrosa cite threats to public safety and city business

Gingrich Wins NH Backing As Romney Plugs Along

Paul’s Iowa Rise Faces Hurdle

Kyl: GOP May Not Support Extension Of Payroll Tax Holiday

New Herman Cain Letter To Iowans

Eight Arrested In Occupy Augusta (Me.) Protest

Medicare’s Drug Coverage Gap Shrinks

Go Big Or Go Backward? Earlier Deficit Plans Reprised After “Supercommittee” Failure



THE ECONOMY, STUPID
For A Weekend, At Least, Retailers See Record Numbers
Tax Deal To Retain Chicago Companies Scaled Back
US Stock Futures Climb On Europe Optimism, Holiday Sales
Ohio Shale Drilling Spurs Job Hopes In Rust Belt
Iraq Signs $17 Billion Gas Deal With Shell And Mitsubishi
The Tax Mess Deepens
AT&T Application To FCC For T-Mobile Merger Withdrawn
Switched On: HTC Goes Back To The Feature
GM’s Volt Woes Cast Shadow On E-Cars
Smartphone Loyalty Runs Deep, Especially Among The Apple Faithful



SPORTS
Syracuse Fires Fine Over Sex Abuse Flap

Former Syracuse U associate hoops coach Bernie Fine

Chancellor Nancy Cantor gives the accused coach his pink slip

Wolverines Turn To SEC For BCS Help

Matt Leinart’s Luck Is Consistent – All Bad

Tebow Leads Broncos To 16-13 Win Over Chargers

Hanie Holds Up In Bears’ Loss To Raiders

Eagles Fans Turn On Reid After 38-20 Loss To Pats

Astros Expected To Announce Major Changes Today

Spezza Reaches 200 Goals In Style As Sens Hold Off Hurricanes

Nationals’ Holiday Shopping About to Start In Earnest



FAMOUS FOR BEING FAMOUS
Lily Allen Welcomes A Baby Girl

New mum Lily Allen

Bundle of joy arrived Friday, no other details, but lots of tweets

Miley Cyrus Caught On Video Showing “One Love” For Pot

Chaz Bono Proposes To Longtime Girlfriend On “Being Chaz”

J.R. Martinez Gets Letter From SecDef Panetta

Tallulah Willis Attends Hotel Crillon’s Debutante Ball

Bale Talks About His Co-Stars On “Dark Knight Rising”

Bruce Willis And Girls Spend Thanksgiving In Paris

Tori Spelling Dresses Baby As Turkey For Thanksgiving

George Michael Axes Tour As Concerns Grow Over Health

Lindsay Lohan – Killing It On Morgue Duty



FOREIGNERS
German Police Clear Nuclear Waste Train Protest
Four Filipino Hackers Arrested For AT&T Crack; Terrorist Link Alleged
Egypt Set To Vote In First Post-Mubarak Elections
NATO Airstrike Widens Gulf With Pakistan
In Congo Election, Outcome Is All But Certain And Violence Is Likely
Islamist PJD Party Wins Morocco Poll



BLOGS & STUFF
Bob Owens: Newt Gets Union-Leader Endorsement In NH
Moe Lane: *Zounds*! Frum Threatens To Leave GOP
Don Sensing: What To Say To The Grieving
Marginal Revolution: Sentences To Ponder
Gateway Pundit: Newt Mocks The Thought Of Debating Obama
Jihad Watch: Lebanese Christian Heathrow Worker Files Suit After Being Harassed By Muslim Co-Workers, Fired Over Their Accusations
Weasel Zippers: Karzai Gives Former Taliban Commander Government Post
WSJ: The New Tammany Hall
Watts Up With That?: BBC In Cahoots With ClimateGate Scientists
PowerLine: Sunday Media Notes


SOTD: Tied To You

Category: Live at Five

Not Yet Available on Amazon

Posted on | November 27, 2011 | 24 Comments

Unfortunately for lonely environmentalist women:

Women get a buzz from eco-vibrator
Green fans are getting a buzz out of a new hand-cranked vibrator that makers say could help save the planet.
The eco-sex toy — dubbed the “Earth Angel” — uses a small wind-up handle to power up rechargeable batteries inside the casing.
It had originally been planned as a sex aid for the Third World where batteries and electricity supplies are unreliable.
But the Irish manufacturers Camden Enterprises have been swamped with interest from Green followers after displaying the vibrator at the Ars Electronica fair in Linz, Upper Austria, this week.

(Hat-tip: The Jersey Nut.) Although this item is not yet in stock at Amazon, they do offer a fine selection of . . . uh, personal care products.

Because this is a conservative blog, we discourage the use of such devices. Instead, if guys are shopping for Christmas gifts with the intention of producing . . . uh, erotic ecstasy for the ladies, we suggest traditional items: Chocolate, diamonds and mink coats.
 

 

High-tech is great for shopping — especially our Amazon “Cyber Monday” deals — but some things are just better the old-fashioned way. IYKWIMAITYD.

 

Category: Amazon

FMJRA 2.0: Four Days In The Valley

Posted on | November 27, 2011 | 2 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Shocker: Chicks Don’t Dig Camping Out With a Bunch of Smelly Losers

Incredible 10-Year-Old Mexican Singer Rocks the World With Music Video

We’ve All Gone Crazy

If Kathleen Parker Was Just A Bit Less Masculine, She Might Be David Brooks

Gillespie On Forgiving Student Loan Debt

Palate Cleanser: A Marriage Proposal

Ron Paul Still A Few Foreign Policy Briefs Behind, But Tempering His Rhetoric

Call Sign: ‘Nash One’

Massachusetts Wants Equality, But Not Equality Equality, As This Proves ‘Unfair’

LIVE AT FIVESEVEN – 11.21.11

He’s an Expert on ‘Fools and Clowns’

Israeli Women Nude = Feminist Solidarity

‘I Know It’s Not Much, But It’s the Best I Can Do …’

Mika Brzezinski Is Smarter Than You

Sen. Schumer’s Deed Shall Live In Infamy

Rule 5 Monday

LIVE AT FIVESEVEN – 11.22.11

Who Believes The Numbers Anymore?

Stupor Committee A Study In Farce.
Yet Mitt’s Ad ‘A Deceitful And Dishonest Attack’? Maybe Santorum Can Help

LIVE AT FIVE – 11.23.11

Santorum Claims Victory in CNN Debate UPDATE: Gingrich Goes Soft?

‘Key Social Conservatives’ in Iowa Plan Last-Ditch Effort to Discredit, Marginalize and Completely Embarrass Themselves

Born That Way: The Strange Sisterhood Of Meggie Mac And San Fran Nan

LIVE AT FIVE – 11.24.11

America’s Stupid Future

Ezra Klein: The Wetness At Your Ankle Is Progressive Flooding

#Occupy Black Friday?

An Article So Excellent You Use A Blog Post As A Sort Of Bookmark For It

Sen. ‘Name That’ Thune Names Romney

WOW! Latest Rasmussen Poll: Cain 26%, Romney 23%, Gingrich 14%
UPDATE: Wrong: Data From Nov. 3

‘Social Activist’? Really, Bob?

#OccupyFederalCommunications Fail

I’ve Said It Before: ‘Open Fire’

VIDEO: Utah Animal Rights Activist Shows ‘Solidarity With Occupy Wall Street’

UPDATED With The Video: ‘Sarah Palin Reconsider’ Ad In Iowa: Windmill Jousting, Doolittle Raid, Both?

Hippie Weeps for #OccupyToronto: ‘We Just Want to Try and Build a New World’

Vasquez Sounds: El Talento Musical de Mexicali Lanzó a la Fama por el Video

Villaraigosa to Occupy L.A.: ‘You’re Wonderful. Now Get Lost, Ya Bums.’

BOOM! Michele Bachmann Publishes Gingrich’s 2004 Pro-Amnesty Letter

He Should Have Shopped Amazon.com

Iowa Heats Up

Manchester (N.H.) Union Leader Endorses Newt Gingrich For President

Cain On CNN: “In Terms Of The Mechanics Of The Campaign, Nothing’s Gone Wrong”

Top linkers this week:

  1. The Pro From Poca (12)
  2. (tie) Da Tech Guy and Daily Pundit (6)
  3. (tie) Lonely Conservative, Nice Deb, The Camp Of The Saints and Pirate’s Cove (5)

Thanks to everyone for their linkagery! Links for next week should be sent in by Friday, December 3 for those of you on Blogspot or some other platform WordPress hates.

 

Category: FMJRA Award

Thanks, Secretary Powell, For That Mondo Bitchen Motivational Speech

Posted on | November 27, 2011 | 16 Comments

by Smitty

We actually TiVo’d Press the Meat, hoping that Norquist would deliver a comeuppance to Senator ‘Infamous’ Schumer over the Tea Party Debt Commission. Grover did not, which is interesting.

Secretary Powell has some fresh, distinctive convolutions to his logic here. The Founders compromised on slavery, and we got a Constitution that, eventually, and after a bloody civil war, did support liberty for all.

The last century of Progressivism has not been about compromise. Rather, it has been about the slow, illegitimate expansion of federal power, at the expense of Article V.

Now, because the Founders compromised to allow slavery, Tea Partiers, if I understand Powell correctly, are to accept the moral, intellectual, and Constitutional bankruptcy of Progressivism.

“The Tea Party point of view of ‘no compromise whatsoever’ is not a point of view that will eventually produce a presidential candidate who will win,” he said.

Hey: thanks, Secretary Powell. I have a head full of questions about the meaning of the various oaths you’ve sworn, but I’ll forego all that by way of saying thank you for the great service you had offered to the country.

via Alan Colmes

Update: the Daily Pundit is more blunt, but about the same wavelength.

Category: Progressivism

Gang-Raped for ‘Democracy’?

Posted on | November 27, 2011 | 18 Comments

Caroline Franz (left) shown amid a mob of Cairo protesters

“We were then assaulted by a crowd of men. I was beaten by a group of youngsters and adults who tore my clothes. . . [I was molested in a way that] would be considered rape. . . Some people tried to help me but failed. I was lynched. It lasted three quarters of an hour before I was taken out. I thought I was going to die.”
— Caroline Sinz, French TV reporter, describing how she was assaulted while covering protests in Cairo

“When I see the spirit of liberty in action, I see a strong principle at work; and this, for a while, is all I can possibly know of it. . . . I must be tolerably sure, before I venture publicly to congratulate men upon a blessing, that they have really received one. . . . The effect of liberty to individuals is that they may do what they please: we ought to see what it will please them to do, before we risk congratulations, which may be soon turned into complaints.”
— Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790)

Some people become so obsessed by intellectual abstractions — “liberty,” “equality,” “social justice,” “human rights,” etc. — that they can ignore or accept even the most catastrophic consequences of their good intentions. For too many people, ideas are like idols, to be worshipped without doubt, no matter how many corpses are piled up at the bloody altars of their fanatical cults.

“Democracy” is one such intellectual idol, and imposing this idea on the rest of the world has become a bipartisan pursuit of our political establishment, an idée fixe exercising such a dominant influence over our foreign policy that no matter how many wild-goose chases we make, or how often the will-o’-th’-wisp eludes our frantic grasp, we never tire of the effort. So it was that I thought of Burke’s sober caution when I saw Donald Douglas’s post “Sharia Revolution in Egypt,” with this video:

Democracy is, as Burke would say, “a strong principle” and we ought to observe the effects of democracy in Egypt before we risk offering congratulations to the Egyptians. The effects observed so far don’t exactly inspire confidence that the Egyptians have really received a blessing, and recent headlines are troubling:

Muslim medical students boycotting lectures
on evolution… because it ‘clashes with the Koran’
— Daily Mail

Arab League Approves Sanctions Against Syria
— New York Times

Suspected Islamists bomb police station, bank in Nigeria
— Agence France Presse

Taliban paid £100 a month to stop fighting
— Telegraph

Fond hopes about the “Arab Spring” seem likely to be as ill-founded as were the similar hopes of “Recovery Summer.”
 
 

Category: Crime, Egypt

Give Thanks to … Charles Johnson?

Posted on | November 27, 2011 | 89 Comments

The terminal stage of narcissistic personality order:

Happy Thanksgiving to all LGF readers.
On this day, I’d like to thank 2007 me, who woke up and realized that the “counter-jihad” bloggers were in truth a bunch of bigots and fascists. And I’d also like to thank the 2009 me, who realized that the Republican Party was dangerously off the rails, and publicly jumped off their runaway right wing train. . . .

Diary of Daedalus has more, for those readers whose reaction to such news is, “Oh, you mean Little Green Footballs is still online?”

If you didn’t discover the blogosphere until after 2007, of course, your reaction is probably, “Charles Who?”

He used to be somebody important, believe it or not.

 

Category: Charles Johnson

Newt Gingrich Wins Coveted GOP Primary Endorsement From … Bill Clinton?

Posted on | November 27, 2011 | 24 Comments

All the wrong people are saying nice things about Newt:

“He’s articulate and he tries to think of a conservative version of an idea that will solve a legitimate problem,” Clinton said, by way of explaining the Gingrich resurgence.

Jonah Goldberg sees “omens that World Historical Newt is returning to the scene.” Some people haven’t forgotten who Newt really is.

“I never met a single Tea Party activist that supported Newt Gingrich for president.”
— Brendan Steinhauser, FreedomWorks, May 17, 2011

Hat-tip to Doug Powers at MichelleMalkin.com; more at Memeorandum.

Category: Bill Clinton, Election 2012, Newt Gingrich
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