What Cynthia Said

by Smitty

OK, I don’t necessarily agree with the presumption that BHO attains re-election:

With regard to Gov. Palin, I do hope she sets her sights on running for president in 2016 to succeed Obama. When Gov. Palin spoke on Sept. 3 to a Tea Party audience in Indianola, Iowa, she laid out the most positive and practical path for restoring America to prosperity of any of the candidates. She has the ability to make people believe in themselves and their ability to overcome their greatest challenges, which is not only required for a nation to prosper but also is the most powerful cure for the pathological desire to depend on the government to solve every problem. If she does what she has to do to overcome the objections that establishment Republicans had to her candidacy this time around, she is exactly the person most capable of cleaning up the mess that Obama will leave.

However, the potential for BHO to retain power should be used freely to nudge the slackers into participation.

Herman Cain in D.C. Area Today

Two events:

This basement-office pundit game gets old after a while. It’s been more than three weeks since my last road trip (to cover the Sept. 12 Tampa debate) and the hunger to go out and do some actual shoe-leather work has been gnawing a hole in my soul.

It’s 146 miles round-trip — I’m going.

 

Pat Condell Offering Simple, Sad Truth

by Smitty

A pitch-perfect delivery, via Da Tech Guy.

UPDATE (RSM): The strongest sentence is when Condell says of the Palestinian leaders, “They don’t want peace, they want victory, and the won’t be happy until Israel is wiped from the map.”

Palestinian nationalism is a toxic legacy of an era young people don’t remember and which too many older folks never really understood, when the Soviet Union sponsored “movements of national liberation” throughout the Third World. Yasser Arafat was to Palestine what Ho Chi Minh was to Vietnam. Everything I need to know about Palestinian nationalism I learned as a boy in June 1968 when we turned on our TVs and learned that Robert Kennedy had been assassinated in Los Angeles. That’s why I refer to modern liberals as the Sirhan Sirhan wing of the Democratic Party.

LIVE AT FIVE – 10.07.11

— compiled by Wombat-socho


TOP NEWS
Obama Cites Europe’s Woes While Campaigning For Jobs Bill

President Obama addresses "emergency" news conference

Trying to get ahead of today’s jobs number, which are expected to stink. Again.

Who Will Win Nobel Peace Prize?
Hundreds nominated; Arab Spring & EU two strong possibilities

“Occupy Wall Street” Protesters Disgusted With Both Parties
Demonstrators equally unhappy with Bush, Obama



POLITICS
Chu Defends Embattled Energy Loan Program

Energy Secretary Steven Chu

President Obama also chimes in, supporting loans to Solyndra as “worthwhile”

Nevada’s January Caucuses Could Lead To December Campaigning

Sarah Palin: Not Retreating, Just Reloading

Case Clothed: Scott Brown Quip Hits Below Belt

Obama Defends Attorney General Prissy On Gunwalker

Senate Banking Committee Approves Cordray For Consumer Post

Giffords Returns To Washington For Husband’s Retirement Ceremony

Justice Scalia Criticizes Narcotics Laws

Caltech Edges Harvard As Top American University



THE ECONOMY, STUPID
Euro clings To Gains After ECB Action; Skepticism Lingers
Doubts Over Eurozone Trim Asian Gains
Gold, Copper, US Crude Set For Weekly Gains
Environmentalist Wackos Sue To Block Keystone XL Pipeline
Amazon To Collect TN Sales Tax In 2014, Add 2000 Jobs
Oracle Agrees To $199.5 Million Settlement With Feds
FCC Asks Court To Toss Verizon’s Net Neutrality Suit
HP Investigating Android TouchPads
FCC Seeks Revision Of Rural Phone Subsidy
Sony In Talks To Buy Ericsson Out Of Phone Venture
XBox 360 To Launch New TV, Film Services
Westboro Loonies Announce Protest Of Steve Jobs Funeral Via iPhone



SPORTS
Tigers Outgun Yankees, Prepare To Face Rangers For Pennant

Tigers celebrate after beating Yankees

Tiger bullpen hangs on for 3-2 win over Damn Yankees

No Experience Necessary: White Sox Sign Robin Ventura As Manager

Big 12 Adds TCU



Bruins Raise Banner, Fall To Flyers In Opener

Injured Manning Holding On To Hope

Are You Ready For Some Football? Hank Isn’t

Penguins Win Shootout To Beat Canucks 4-3

Riggleman To Mets As Bench Coach?



FAMOUS FOR BEING FAMOUS
Is This Leonardo DiCaprio’s New Leading Lady?

Alyce Crawford, Leonardo DiCaprio

Actor Picks Up Model To Replace Blake Lively As Arm Candy

Demi Still Wearing Wedding Ring Amid Cheating Allegations

Ali Fedotowsky, Fiance Roberto Martinez “Miserable In The Relationship”



Salma Hayek Shares Her Five Tricks For Busting A Bad Mood

“Young Adult”Trailer: Charlize Theron Is Whiskey-Swilling Bad

Behold! Julia Roberts As Evil Queen In “Snow White”

NBC Cancels New Comedy “Free Agents”

LeAnn Rimes Accepts Tabloid Fascination, For Now



FOREIGNERS
Libyan Rebels Launch Major Assault On Sirte
After A Decade, NATO Says Afghan Exit Plans Still On Track
PA Officials Allege IDF Cooperation In Settler Violence; IDF Calls Bullshit
Pakistani Doctor Alleged To Have Assisted In Bin Laden Raid May Face Treason Charges
Pakistan Downplays Afghan Pact With India
Tutu At 80: Technology To Trump (Lack Of) Diplomacy At Birthday Party; Dalai Lama To Speak Via Video Link
ROK Unification Minister Downplays Nork Food Shortage As Not Serious



BLOGS & STUFF
WyBlog: If Only We’d Put Steve Jobs In Charge Of Education
NRO Corner: Harry Reid Nukes The Senate
Legal Insurrection: Mark This Day In The Annals Of Senate Nuclear Warfare
Jawa Report: #OccupyWallStreet Turns To Dark Side
Lonely Conservative: #OccupyWallStreet Costs NYC Taxpayers $2 Million So Far; Sanitary Problems Cropping Up
100.7 WZLX: Scott Brown Calls In And Thanks Elizabeth Warren For Keeping Her Clothes On
Althouse: What Goes Around Comes Around
Allahpundit: House Dems Introduce Resolution Condemning Perry For Slur On Hunting Camp Rock

Weasel Zippers: Cain Says He’d Serve As VP For Anyone But Perry
Michelle Malkin: A Solyndra Head Rolls
Confederate Yankee: Could Administration Officials Face Life In Prison Or Death Penalty For Gunwalker?

Michael Walsh: Justice Department Panicked By Gunwalker Documents


SOTD: Suffragette City

INSANITY IS HEREDITARY

My 19-year-old son James bought himself a new Poulan chainsaw tonight and immediately decided he need to post a photo to his Facebook page. I’m not worried about his safety. But he if ever buys a laptop . . .

The Herman Cain Story

A new Pew Poll shows the astonishing surge for Herman Cain in the GOP field since the Sept. 22 debate in Orlando. Cain trailed Rick Perry by four points Sept. 22-25, but by Oct. 1-4 Cain led Perry 18-15, while front-runner Mitt Romney softened slightly, declining from 25% to 22% in the span of little more than a week. If this trend continues another two weeks — as the Republican candidates meet again in debates Oct. 11 in New Hampshire and Oct. 18 in Las Vegas — the contest may begin to be viewed nationally as a race between Romney and Cain.

Was this all a result of a single debate debacle for Perry and of Cain’s surprise win Sept. 24 in the Florida Straw Poll? Or is it the fact that Americans are learning more about Cain and liking what they see?

Moneyrunner got an e-mail today with a brief biography of Herman Cain that concludes this way:

He did all this starting from rock bottom (his father was a chauffeur and his mother was a maid). When you add up his accomplishments in his life—including reaching the top of three unrelated industries: information systems, business management, and banking—Herman Cain may have the most impressive resume of anyone that has run for the presidency in the last half century.

Go read the whole thing, and then ask yourself: Why do all the “experts” keep saying Herman Cain can’t possibly win?

UPDATE: Welcome, Instapundit readers! We will celebrate like the natives of Vanuatu when John Frum finally returns.

UPDATE II: You know what black America really needs? More self-righteous lectures from white liberals!


Major National Gathering of Conservative Bloggers Will Include Everyone But Me

Stephen Kruiser, Katie Harbath, Cord Blomquist, Peter List, Frank Keegan, Dana Loesch, Larry O’Connor, John Nolte, Meredith Dake, Matthias Shapiro, Will Franklin, Brandon Stewart, Bill Beutler, Michael Sandoval, Ari Armstrong, Todd Shepherd, T.L. James, Kelly Maher, Andrew Malcom, Melissa Clouthier, Michelle Malkin, Steven Crowder, Jim Pethokoukis, Dean Clancy, Max Pappas, Ed Morrissey, Deneen Borelli, Ace of Spades, Kristina Ribali, Russ Walker . . .

These are the announced speakers and panelists at BlogCon 2011, Nov. 11-12, at the luxurious Crowne Plaza Denver Downtown Hotel in Denver.

Discussions about my attendance concluded abruptly after Tabitha Hale rejected my suggestion that I moderate a panel entitled, “Suckage 2.0: How to Become Completely Irrelevant as the Universal Laughingstock of the Conservative Blogosphere.”

Maybe next year . . .

CPAC12: We’re So There

by Smitty

For bloggers like us, CPAC is the thing that even CINCHOUSE knows we cannot miss. (Sorry about the Herman Cain event tomorrow in Arlington, VA, Stacy). This event could also be called #OccupyMarriottWardmanPark, except that, to paraphrase Ann Coulter, conservatives tend to have jobs, showers, and a point.

This trailer makes CPAC look like an action flick:

There is indeed action, albeit of a more wonkish nature. I’m actually not a crowd person, so it really wipes me out, but that is what coffee is for. The World’s Youngest Blogger may put in an appearance,

but is not currently predicted to best Ron Paul in the straw poll.

CPAC12: get some. It’s February 9-11, 2012, so you’ve got plenty of time to form a green energy company, secure federal cash, pay your kickback to the Democrat party, go Tango Uniform, and still make CPAC. No, that’s not how we’re actually funding our appearance.