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#OccupyWallStreet Suggested Theme

Posted on | October 14, 2011 | 3 Comments

by Smitty

Chatting with @ExJon on Twitter brought this gem to mind:

Soundgarden took the music from “Into the Void” by Black Sabbath and substituted verbiage attributed to Chief Seattle, but not really.

Somehow the heavy equipment grinding of the music, the Noble Savage lyrical sentiments, and the apparently ‘fake but accurate’ status of the lyrics themselves just come together with the #OWS weenies somewhere around infinity. Magic.

Update: Russell Simmons offers to pay to clean up Zuccotti Park in NYC.

Sissypuss the Blog Kitty, our able field agent, was unable to confirm whether Simmons was trying to hire the #OWS protesters to pick up after themselves. Hiring talks may have broken down at the point that the wages reminded the protesters too much of their allowance from mum and dad, or, the protesters were simply too incompetent to perform basic janitorial tasks. Expect updates.

Category: Music, Progressivism, Video

LIVE AT FIVE – 10.14.11

Posted on | October 14, 2011 | 7 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho


TOP NEWS
Officials Say Evidence Points To Iran In Assassination Plot

House Intelligence Committee chair Mike Rogers (R-MI)

Wire transfers point to Iran’s Quds Force, Revolutionary Guards; Obama talking tough but no sign of action yet

Lobbyists Claim Cain’s 9-9-9 Plan Would Hurt Consumer Spending
Bloomberg cites business & trade groups who claim federal sales tax would depress consumer outlays


Steve Wozniak First In Line For New iPhone
Apple’s co-founder shows up early at Los Gatos Apple Store to snag 4S



POLITICS
Occupy Wall Street Finally Cleans Up After Itself

Workgroups gather trash in Zuccotti Park

Some protesters plan to resist police clearance of park for management’s cleaning tonight

Elizabeth Warren Talks Tough On Iran; Accused Of Plagiarism



Governor Asterisk Sticks UP For NH In Nevada Primary Challenge

NC Muslims Convicted Of Conspiracy To Aid Jihadi Attack On Quantico

Obama Campaign Raises $42 Million

Rick Perry To Lay Out Energy Jobs Proposals

House Passes Health Care Abortion Bill



THE ECONOMY, STUPID
Google Profits Jump In Third Quarter
Gap Contracts Locally, Expands Globally
Japanese Stocks Drop As Spanish Downgrade Stokes Europe Concerns
German Bankers Argue Against Capital Plans
Blue Shield To Return $450 Million In Credits
Brent Crude Hits $112 As PRC Inflation Cools
Blackberry Blackout: How It Happened
Dennis Ritchie, Creator of C and UNIX, Dies
Apple Faces iCloud, iOS5 Launch Troubles
Aussie Court Rejects Apple Push To Widen Samsung Ban
Samsung Avoids Galaxy Tab Ban In US, But Judge Rules Patents Infringed
Air Force Insists Drone Cockpit Virus Just A “Nuisance”



SPORTS
Tigers Top Rangers In Game 5 To Stave Off Elimination

Verlander comes through for embattled Detroit nine

Wily Wolf Blows Down House Of Cards To Level Series

Stern Warns NBA Could Shut Down Until Christmas

USC Beats Cal For Eighth Straight Time, 30-9

Ovechkin, Caps Still Own Penguins; Win 3-2

Tony Stewart Takes Pole At Charlotte

Nationals Prospects And Catchers Start Play In Venezuelan Winter League



FAMOUS FOR BEING FAMOUS
Lindsay Lohan Booted From Community Service Program

Lindsay Lohan, in trouble as usual

Shifted from Women’s Center to Red Cross, but not racking up the hours there either

Ashton Kutcher Concerned About “Two and A Half Men” Ratings Drop

Courtney Stodden Kicked Off Facebook For “Inappropriate Sexual Content”

Fred Durst Signs With CBS To Star In Comedy Project

Leal: I Would Never Have Slept With Him If I Thought He Was Happily Married

Bethenny Frenkel Sold Drink Company For $8 Million, Not $120 Million



FOREIGNERS
Behind The Scenes: How The Shalit Deal Was Done
UN Reduces Kenya Aid Operation After MSF Abductions
Drone Attack In Pak Kills Haq Commander
Former Ukraine PM Tymoshenko May Face New Charges
“Dragon King” Marries Commoner In Remote Bhutan
Egyptian Generals Say Soldiers’ Copt Killings Not Intentional



BLOGS & STUFF
WyBlog: NY Times Plans More Staff Reductions
Michelle Malkin: Costs Of The Occupiers
Atlas Shrugs: More Jew-Hatred At Occupy LA
Pirate’s Cove: #OWS Nuts Threaten Wall Street Bull
The Lonely Conservative: Trickle-Down Class Warfare
Allahpundit: Unusual – US Ambassador Confronts Iranians Over Terror Plot
Jihad Watch: Iran Fails At Space Monkey Launch
Neo-neocon: Is Romney Really A Big-Government Republican?
Weasel Zippers: Islamic Sex Guide Says Wives Can Only Satisfy 10% Of Their Husbands’ Desires
Gateway Pundit: Rush Limbaugh Says Mitt Romney Is Not A Conservative (Video)
NRO corner: Romney’s Been “Pre-Disastered”
Megan McArdle: Who Besides Solyndra Got Loan Guarantees?
Yid With Lid: Jesse Jackson Jr. Wants Obama To Suspend The Constitution


SOTD: ME262

Category: Live at Five

‘Money Is Fungible’: ObamaCare and the Fight to Defund Planned Parenthood

Posted on | October 13, 2011 | 33 Comments

Calling for Congress to pass the Protect Life Act — which would prevent Planned Parenthood from getting funded by ObamaCare — Charmaine Yoest of Americans United for Life said: ““Money is fungible. Taxpayers should not be involuntary donors to the abortion industry and health care workers’ conscience rights must be protected.” (Click here for full statement.)

Nancy Pelosi is going nuts:

“Under this bill, when the Republicans vote for this bill today, they will be voting to say that women can die on the floor and health care providers do not have to intervene if this bill is passed. It’s just appalling.”

And other Democrats are following Pelosi’s lead:

Rep. Jackie Speier (D-Calif.) on Thursday charged House Republicans of misogynous motives in bringing up a bill that seeks to limit federal funding for abortion.
“What my colleagues on the other side of the aisle are attempting to do is misogynist,” Speier said on the House floor. “It is absolutely misogynist.”
“This bill goes to the farthest extreme in trying to take women down, not just a peg, but to take in shackles to some cave somewhere,” Speier said.

Hey, remember when Democrats were demanding that we tone down the rhetoric? Remember “civility”? So now Democrats are calling Republicans misogynists who want women to die, or to put them “in shackles to a cave somewhere.”

Civility! If it weren’t for double-standards, Democrats would have no standards at all.

Category: Abortion, Democrats, Nancy Pelosi, Planned Parenthood

Paco Enterprises Gets Protest Management

Posted on | October 13, 2011 | 3 Comments

by Smitty

Paco strikes again:

“I regret to inform you, sir, that a mob of Bolsheviks and anarchists has foregathered in front of Paco Tower, under the auspices of the notorious “Occupy” movement. They seem to be clamoring for the overthrow of – forgive me for repeating something so vile, Mr. Paco – for the overthrow of capitalism. And in your own person, they apparently think they have found a highly symbolic target. The crowd is heaping obloquy on your head, and they are preparing to burn you in effigy. I sincerely fear pillage and mayhem.”

Come for the prose, stay for the punch line.

Category: humor, Uncategorized

A Short ‘Fear And Smitty In Lost Wages’ Training Film

Posted on | October 13, 2011 | 7 Comments

by Smitty

Most of these go without saying, but we are discussing a road trip with Stacy to cover the CNN debate in Las Vegas, so a glance at the basics may be in order:

via iOwnTheWorld

Category: Fear. Loathing., humor, Video

‘One of the Perks of Being a Guy’

Posted on | October 13, 2011 | 14 Comments

Having been busy lately planning for our trip to Vegas for Tuesday’s big debate, I confess to having fallen behind in my job of keeping readers up-to-date on other important developments unrelated to the GOP presidential primary campaign. Thanks to James Tararanto of the Wall Street Journal, however, we have this Breaking News Update from the Vancouver Sun:

“Being able to pee standing up is one of the perks of being a guy, perhaps even a rite of passage.”

In case you missed that banner headline at Drudge …

Also, in other vital news: The FBI has arrested the vicious criminal hacker who illegally obtained nude photos of Scarlett Johansson:

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If this guy was a New York Times reporter, the ACLU would be defending him under the First Amendment as a heroic crusader for “the people’s right to know” what Scarlett Johansson’s nipples look like. Meanwhile, in an entirely unrelated development, Megan McArdle brings us this shocking news from the world of scientific research:

The Declining Hotness of Flight Attendants

Indeed, I have myself noticed this phenomenon during my frequent travels on the campaign trail. Also, cocktail waitresses seem to be becoming increasingly skanky. Further research, however, will be required during our upcoming trip to Las Vegas.

Hit the freaking tip jar!

 

Category: Celebrities, Crime, Fear and Smitty in Vegas

#OccupyWallStreet Clears Shark In Substantial Jump

Posted on | October 13, 2011 | 6 Comments

by Smitty

Not only does it sound as though the inevitable Soros link has surfaced, but the real boost is that no less than St. Albert of Gore has showered it with his golden credibility:

From the economy to the climate crisis our leaders have pursued solutions that are not solving our problems, instead they propose policies that accomplish little. With democracy in crisis a true grassroots movement pointing out the flaws in our system is the first step in the right direction. Count me among those supporting and cheering on the Occupy Wall Street movement.

Get thee stuffed, sirrah. Now #OWS just needs a Sean Penn endorsement for the full Duhfecta.

Update: linked by That Mr. G Guy

Update II: Drudge says three out of three extremist political goobers agree: #OWS needs its nappy changed.

Update III: Steve Crowder weighs in:

Category: #Occupy, Progressivism

Top Rubio Staffer Reportedly Pushed for Early Florida Primary to Help Romney

Posted on | October 13, 2011 | 127 Comments

* * * UPDATE OCT. 14 * * *

Marco Rubio Denies His Office
Influenced Florida Primary Date

PREVIOUSLY (OCT. 13)
* * * EXCLUSIVE * * *

When Florida defied Republican National Committee rules to move the state’s 2012 presidential primary from an RNC-approved March date to Jan. 31, conservatives immediately suspected that state party insiders had orchestrated the move to help former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney thwart the momentum of Tea Party-backed candidate Herman Cain. Some Florida activists focused their suspicion on moderates in state party leadership — allies of Senate candidate George LeMieux and of former Gov. Charlie Crist — as orchestrating the change in the primary date. The move was seen as helping the centrist Romney, whose superior fund-raising resources would enable him to score an early knockout in the Sunshine State before Cain could fully leverage the boost he got from an upset victory in a Sept. 24 Florida GOP straw poll.

Yet while the moderate Republican faction in Tallahassee was immediately blamed for the primary date-switch, only insiders knew that a key factor was a push from inside the staff of the Tea Party’s own 2010 hero, Sen. Marco Rubio. GOP sources in Washington and Florida say that Rubio’s senatorial chief of staff, Cesar Conda, has been a major force in persuading Florida Republicans to move their primary to January.

“Cesar used to be with Romney’s campaign,” one informed source explained to me in an interview today, adding: “Conda used his contacts to push the primary to the 31st because they want Romney in.”

Conda’s loyalty to Romney was highlighted in a Politico story by Scott Wong last week: “At least six past and current Rubio Senate aides, including chief of staff Cesar Conda and his deputy, Terry Sullivan, worked for Romney’s 2008 presidential bid, establishing a direct link and a line of communication between the front-runner for the 2012 GOP nomination and the front-runner in the Republican veepstakes. There’s also a trail of fundraisers, donors and consultants who have overlapping relationships with Rubio and Romney.”

In a March 2010 column for National Review, Conda defended the so-called “RomneyCare” Massachusetts health insurance program. A former aide to Vice President Dick Cheney, Conda was originally an ally of Crist, as the St. Petersburg Times noted when Conda was picked as Rubio’s chief of chief in January 2011:

Like many Republicans, Conda once thought Charlie Crist would be the next senator but later distanced himself from the former Florida governor, saying he lacked conservative credentials.
Conda has worked as a lobbyist and analyst for the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and founded the Washington office of Navigators, a lobbying/consulting firm where another top Rubio adviser, Todd Harris, also worked.
The firm’s clients included GlaxoSmithKline, At&T, Visa and Citigroup, which got $45 billion under the bank bailout.

Some have speculated that, by delivering Florida for Romney, Conda would not only help Romney lock up the 2012 presidential nomination, but also secure the 2012 vice-presidential pick for Rubio.

It was Rubio’s underdog campaign that helped spark Tea Party activism in Florida and across the nation. Florida GOP chairman Jim Greer and National Senatorial Campaign Committee Chairman Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas) conspired to “fix” the 2010 Senate primary in Florida with a May 2009 endorsement of the moderate Crist. At that point leading Rubio by more than 30 points in polls, Crist was seen as the safe bet in Florida’s Senate race. But the Greer/Cornyn endorsement backfired, as conservatives pointed out Crist’s embrace of President Obama’s deficit-spending “stimulus” agenda and denounced the effort by party insiders to determine the Republican candidate 15 months ahead of the August 2010 primary. The newly aroused Tea Party movement made Rubio their hero. Crist, overwhelmed by the conservative rally for Rubio, quit the GOP to launch a doomed third-party Senate race. Crist’s ally Greer resigned in disgrace and is now under criminal indictment for corruption charges.

Reports that Rubio — or at least Rubio’s top aides — are working behind the scenes for Romney, who is seen as representing the RINO (“Republican In Name Only”) moderate wing of the party, will be a bitter disappointment for conservatives who supported Rubio’s insurgent campaign last year. Many Tea Party activists who backed Rubio against Crist in the 2010 primary are now supporting Cain, the conservative Atlanta businessman who has surged to the front of the the Republican presidential pack in the past three weeks.

Cain’s candidacy got a boost not only from his Sept. 24 straw-poll win, but also from former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin’s announcement last week that she would not seek the White House in 2012. In an appearance on  Greta Van Susteren’s Fox News Channel program to discuss her decision, Palin singled out Cain for praise, saying she was “intrigued” and “impressed” with Cain’s “business acumen” and “up by the bootstraps” success.

The latest Rasmussen poll shows Cain tied with Romney nationally. Recent polls by Public Policy Polling and NBC/Wall Street Journal show Cain now leading Romney, and within 3 points of the longtime GOP frontrunner in the influential Real Clear Politics poll average. Meanwhile, a new poll of likely Florida Republican primary voters shows Cain now at 34% to Romney’s 28%, with former frontrunner Texas Gov. Rick Perry falling to a distant fourth at 5%, behind former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, who was third with 11%.

— Robert Stacy McCain




 

UPDATE: Linked at Fire Andrea Mitchell — thanks!

UPDATE II: Michelle Malkin on Twitter:

UPDATE III: Headline from The Washington Post:

Mitt Romney attracts new support as donors
and elected officials coalesce behind him

Hmmm. Kinda like how the Establishment lined up behind Dede Scozzafava, isn’t it? And Herman Cain is Doug Hoffman in that analogy.

UPDATE IV: “Say it ain’t so, Marco.”

UPDATE V: “Rubio, Rubio! Wherefore art thou Rubio?”

UPDATE VI: Linked by Finrod at Red State — thanks! — and Bob Belvedere at Camp of the Saints, who wonders if Rubio is “crossing over to the Dark Side?”

UPDATE VII: Linked by Maggie’s Notebook — thanks! — and Da Tech Guy sees Team Romney replicating the errors of Team Coakley. Meanwhile, getting linked by Allahpundit at Hot Air inspired me to leave this comment:

If this, indeed, an effort to secure Rubio’s slot as running-mate for Romney, has anybody else noticed that (a) Herman Cain’s top campaign staffers are from Wisconsin and (b) Paul Ryan praised the 9-9-9 plan today?
IYKWIMAITYD.

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Category: Election 2012, Florida, Herman Cain, Marco Rubio, Mitt Romney, Sarah Palin, Tea Party
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