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Looking Forward To GBTV

Posted on | September 13, 2011 | 3 Comments

by Smitty

Gabby Hoffman on Twitter tipped me to her Washington Times review of the Glenn Beck TV launch:

Do you miss Glenn Beck, his chalkboard, and his Fox News show? Want the latest from Beck and Mercury Radio Arts? Fear not: conservative commentator and radio talk show host Glenn Beck is coming to a computer near you! Launching GBTV on September 12, 2011 the show’s tagline is “The Truth Lives Here”.

Accordingly, the conservative commentator’s television network promises to be unlike any other and the first episode of “The Glenn Beck Show” under the GBTV banner was impressive.

Since leaving Fox News Channel in June, Beck has worked tirelessly to produce high-quality material to viewers and subscribers. The quality of production was impeccable, as there were no glitches or problems viewing the show.

Pay attention, conservatives who have brushed off Beck, due to his Boehner-esque commitment to facial flooding on Fox: Beck’s research is quality stuff, and his audience has reach.

For example, I had sent the link to GBTV to my father, who’s Luddism exceeds even the legendary aversion to technology embodied in Robert Stacy McCain, and father allowed that, if I spot him a subscription, he’ll watch. Father digs him some Beck. So, when I get back to reality later this month, I’ll be signing up.

If my dad is a representative sample, then Glenn Beck may be a gateway drug to Glenn Reynolds. And you know what they say: once you go Instapun’, there’s no end to the fun.

Also, a review of the first hour of GBTV at Bride of Rove.

Category: Glenn Beck

Cowardice Improves Nothing

Posted on | September 13, 2011 | 8 Comments

by Smitty

Just because you’ve become comfortable with the list on the ship of state does not justify inaction to correct the flooding problem.

Althouse references Ed Kilgore:

Every moment they spend sparring over the New Deal and Great Society is a boon to Barack Obama. Even if the incumbent cannot win a referendum on his own presidency, he can win a competition between the ghost of Barry Goldwater and the ghosts of FDR and LBJ.

Boo, hiss. I voted for Ross Perot in ’92, and I’m unafraid to support a non-GOP conservative with the integrity to face down our problems.

  • Quantitative Easing is theft.
  • Social Security, and all federal entitlements, really, are a Ponzi scheme.
  • Frivolously spending more than we can ever possibly repay is immoral.

I can moderate that slightly by allowing for some gradual righting of the ship of state: we don’t have to try to do things so rapidly that people are wildly tossed about. That’s a style point. Substantially, any candidate had better explain where they’re rigging pumps and doing some serious de-watering.

Trying to ‘make nice’ with our problems, in the name of appeal to moderates does nothing but ensure the ship of state will capsize. At that rate, shag it: just vote for BHO, and let’s flip this byotch soonest. I, for one, have good swimming skills.
Therein lies the rub: it’s not about me, it’s about caring enough not to let a ship driven by Progressive fools capsize without an extended struggle for liberty.

Category: Uncategorized

LIVE AT FIVE – 09.13.11

Posted on | September 13, 2011 | 4 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

TOP NEWS
Governor Perry: The Man In The Middle

Last night's lineup: (L to R) Huntsman, Cain, Bachmann, Romney, Perry, Paul, Gingrich and Santorum

Everyone gets their shots in at the presumptive front-runner

For Obama, Jobs Bill Most Personal Yet
Because if it flops, he’s going to be the one looking for a job next November

Angry Mob Turns On Journalists Reporting Embassy Attack
CNN, PBS, Egyptian state media all attacked by mob



POLITICS
Bachmann Roars Back To Life In Debate

Rep. Michelle Bachmann (R-MN) at last night's debate

Rips Perry on his credentials as a conservative, but is it enough to save her campaign?

“Most Electable”? Romney Stumps In SC

GOP Looking For An Upset In NY-9




Ia. GOP Chair: Arizona Defiance May Cause Caucus Move

Durkee May Be “Bernie Madoff Of Campaign Treasurers”

NC House Approves Gay Marriage Referendum

Clock Ticking To Override Quinn’s Veto Of Illinois Smart Grid Bill

Rumsfeld Cancels NYT Subscription Over Krugman 9/11 Column



THE ECONOMY, STUPID
US Stocks Finish With Gain On Volatile Trading
Asian Stocks, Euro Recover After Slide; Outlook Wary
Bank Of America Slashes 30,000 Jobs
Fears Rattle Big Banks In France
McGraw-Hill Chief Bows To Pressure, Breaks Up Family Business
Ten Reasons Windows 8 Threatens iOS, Android
Nintendo To Release Four Mario Games For 3DS
TechCrunch’s Arrington, AOL Part Ways
Sony, Acer, And NEC Announce New Tablets



SPORTS
Dolphins Flop In Opener Against Patriots

Patriots' Patrick Chung takes down Dolphins QB Chad Henne

Teams combine for over 900 yards of passing in 38-24 Pats win

Serena Williams Fined $2000 For Outburst

Former Slugger Manny Ramirez Arrested


NBA, Players Look To Make Progress Today

Pirates Rally In 8th To Stun Cards, 6-5

Yankees’ Cervelli Out Indefinitely With Concussion

Mets Distracted By 9/11 Hat Controversy, Lose 3-2 To Nats



FAMOUS FOR BEING FAMOUS
Megan Fox On Shia LeBeouf, Her Image, And Starting Over

Megan Fox in Toronto

The Moviefone interview

“The Voice” Producers Plan To Axe Aguilera?

Kat Von D Is Going Bald

Are J-Lo And Bradley Cooper Dating?

More Housewives In Crisis – Adrienne Maloof Has Money Problems

Entertainment’s Highest-Paid Men

“Top Gun” Coming To Theaters In 3D

Kate Gosselin Vows She’ll Be Back On TV



FOREIGNERS
Cracks Emerge Among Libyan Rebels
UN Count Of Syria Dead Now Up To 2600
Egyptians Cheer Erdogan As Turkey Seeks Strategic Partnership With Egypt
South Africa’s High Court Rules ANC Political Song Is Hate Speech
Last Survivor Of Yaroslavl Lokomotiv Team Dies Of Injuries From Crash
Australian PM Introduces Carbon Tax Legislation


BLOGS & STUFF
Rick Perry: I Am Going To Be Honest With The American People
Lonely Conservative: Obama Proposes Funding Jobs Bill With Tax Increases
Weasel Zippers: Krugman Doubles Down
Belmont Club: It Takes A Thief
Hot Air: Jon Meacham Leaps To Defend…George W. Bush
Jihad Watch: Rumsfeld Says Bush Failed At Identifying The Enemy, And Obama Is “Much Worse”
Marginal Revolution: Greece Leaving The Eurozone?
Megan McArdle: After 9/11
PJ Tatler: Obama’s EPA Blames Luminant For Regulation-Forced Layoffs
Elder Of Ziyon: Saudis Threaten US In NYT Op-Ed
Don Surber: Rich Get Richer, So Do The Poor


SOTD: We Are Not Going To Make It

Category: Live at Five

RULE 5 MONDAY

Posted on | September 13, 2011 | 2 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho


Because sometimes Sunday just has too much going on, you know?


Normally we wrap this post up with the Daley Gator, but since he was a bit late last week and we’re being all born-again about punctuality, you had to wait for Vanessa Minillo, Rosa Blazi, and the ever-fabulous Eliza Dushku, to say nothing of some gals promoting real estate, a random selection of hotness, and some questions about the SPCU.


Soylent Green’s leftovers include a cornea cleanser, some Greek Monday Motivationers, some Tuesday morning delight, Mariana Diarco, Striptease Fun, Olga and Axia, something about Australia, lingerie substituting for corsets, Carmen Berg, and some hints to the local paper on how not to fail. Now, for this week, he’s got Heidi the Monday Motivationer, Alessandra for Hump Day hotness, some news in brief (sic) about Catalina Robayo, and some more Friday ephemera.


Bring The Heat, Bring the Stupid purveys some leftover Daniela Ruah and also asks us to link Brea Canyon Monument for more Daniela. Certainly!


Fishersville Mike kicks off the new faces this week with Big Bang Theory‘s Katie Leclerc, and Randy’s Roundtable shows us what he was up to last Wednesday and Thursday with respect to Rule 5. Eye of Polyphemus gets back to SF babes with Heroes alumnus Hayden Panettiere, and Reaganite Republican continues his string of hot Romanians with Miss Universe. Elsewhere in the world of beauty pageants, the Rio Norte Line notes the exploits of Miss Commando – I mean, Miss Colombia! A View From The Beach profiles Kate Beckinsale and also has something about redheads plotting world domination.
Jake Finnegan’s Burkalesque Babe this week is Mila Kunis, and let us all remember Jake’s wisdom as it applies to Ms. Kunis: “There is no IQ test for cheesecake.” Amen, Jake. Amen.


El Opinador Compulsivo has a string of pictures for which words are not sufficient. Also, Laura Michelle Prestin! As an encore, someone you could introduce to your Jewish grandma, the weekly potpourri, and a selection of Argentinian Opiladies dedicated to Soylent Green.


This week Dustbury has Jessica Simpson and Freezepop lead singer/lyricist Liz Enthusiasm. Proof Positive offers Amanda Tapping, vintage babe Carroll Baker, and in the weekly Sex In Advertising feature, Cindy Crawford. At The Camp Of The Saints, it’s Kelly Monaco and India Allen bracketing the weekly Rule 5 News.


For once, we end as we began, with the DaleyGator and his bevy of DaleyBabes. This week, Logan Browning, Marie Blanchard, Jessica Simpson, Katherine McPhee, Alicia Keys, Carrie Underwood, and Alessandra Rosaldo. In addition, there’s a “Who’s Hotter” contest between Margot Robbie and Jennifer Morrison and a Rule 5 roundup!


Thanks to everyone for their links! To be included in next week’s Rule 5 linkagery, please send your links to Rule 5 Wombat by Saturday, September 17.

Category: Rule 5

CNN/TEA PARTY EXPRESS DEBATE

Posted on | September 12, 2011 | 35 Comments

TAMPA, Fla.
Greetings from the Florida State Fairgrounds where we’re about to get under way with the CNN/Tea Party Express debate.

UPDATE 9:52 p.m. ET: Herman Cain: “I’d bring a sense of humor to the White House, because America is too uptight.” And that’s it! LET THE SPIN BEGIN!

UPDATE 9:50 p.m. ET: Ron Paul just name-checked Austrian economics!

UPDATE 9:45 p.m. ET: Rick Perry: “I agree with Governor Huntsman.” Commercial.

UPDATE 9:44 p.m. ET: Woman from Afghanistan asks a question. Gets an answer from . . . Governor Asterisk, who advocates a cut-and-run.

UPDATE 9:42 p.m. ET: Rick Santorum slams Ron Paul: “You said that it was our actions” that caused 9/11. “That’s irresponsible.” Accuses Paul of “parroting Osama bin Laden.” Paul gets booed when he responds.

UPDATE 9:40 p.m. ET: Ron Paul wants to reduce “occupying” foreign countries.

Da Tech Guy is also blogging the debate.

UPDATE 9:39 p.m. ET: Newt talks national security.

UPDATE 9:38 p.m. ET: Herman Cain talks energy independence. Wants a “regulatory reduction commission.”

UPDATE 9:37 p.m. ET: Governor Asterisk. Again.

UPDATE 9:36 p.m. ET: Perry. Perry Perry Perry. Perry. I’ll be interested to see exactly how much time the Smilin’ Texan got tonight.

UPDATE 9:35 p.m. ET: Romney gets to Perry’s right on immigration, endorsing the border fence.

UPDATE 9:34 p.m. ET: Governor Asterisk accuses Perry of treason? Whoa!

UPDATE 9:33 p.m. ET: Perry. Perry Perry Perry. Perry Perry Perry.

UPDATE 9:32 p.m. ET: Bachmann gets cheers for criticizing Perry. “That’s the American way.”

UPDATE 9:31 p.m. ET: Perry defends in-state tuition for illegals. “That is the American way.” Some boos in the audience.

UPDATE 9:30 p.m. ET: Santorum slams Perry for giving in-state college tuition to illegals.

UPDATE 9:29 p.m. ET: Perry: “The idea that you’re going to build a wall from Brownsville to El Paso” is impractical.

UPDATE 9:27 p.m. ET: Rick Santorum talks immigration. Slams Perry. “Secure the border.” He’s pro-immigration.

UPDATE 9:21 p.m. ET: Michele Bachmann: “It’s unconstitutional!” (Talking about the individual mandate in ObamaCare or RomneyCare. Take your pick.) “I’m committed to repealing ObamaCare.” Commercial break.

UPDATE 9:18 p.m. ET: Ron Paul defends freedom. Gets applause.

UPDATE 9:16 p.m. ET: Rick Perry slams RomneyCare as the model for ObamaCare.

UPDATE 9:15 p.m. ET: Romney is asked about RomneyCare. He “absolutely” defends it.

UPDATE 9:13 p.m. ET: Herman Cain on how to fix health care: “First, repeal ObamaCare in its entirety.”

UPDATE 9:12 p.m. ET: Rick Santorum slams Perry on Gardisil. “No government purpose served” by the mandate: “Big government run amok.”

UPDATE 9:10 p.m. ET: Bachmann brings up the “big drug company” that profited from Perry’s Gardisil decision.

UPDATE 9:09 p.m. ET: Bachmann calls Perry’s Gardisil decision “flat-out wrong.” Turns it into a slam on ObamaCare.

UPDATE 9:07 p.m. ET: Rick Perry admits he made a mistake on Gardisil.

UPDATE 9:06 p.m. ET: Ron Paul talks about executive orders. Says, “The executive order should never be used to legislate.”

UPDATE 9:05 p.m. ET: Mitt criticizes the Fair Tax.

UPDATE 9:04 p.m. ET: Newt: “We have a problem of overspending. We don’t have a problem of undertaxing.” Name-checks “the Obama depression.”

UPDATE 9:02 p.m. ET: Newt gets in a shot at General Election — cheers! “Doesn’t [Obama] realize that every green tax credit is a loophole?”

UPDATE 9:01 p.m. ET: Governor Asterisk. He’s getting too much time. Any Huntsman is too much Huntsman.

UPDATE 9:00 p.m. ET: Mitt Romney is pro-Fed.

UPDATE 8:59 p.m. ET: Michele Bachmann refuses to criticize Perry on the Fed. Perry calls the Fed’s inflationary policy a “travesty.”

UPDATE 8:56 p.m. ET: Herman Cain wants to audit the Fed and fix the Fed. During the commercial break, I was in the smoking area with two Cain staffers who were pleased that the time is being “spread around” much better than during the NBC debate, when Cain got the least time of any candidate.

UPDATE 8:52 p.m. ET: Commercial break!

UPDATE 8:51 p.m. ET: Governor Asterisk.

UPDATE 8:50 p.m. ET: Herman Cain: “I was a worker before I was an executive and before a business owner. . . . Yes, I know how to be pro-worker. . . . I understand work, because that’s how I came up.”

UPDATE 8:48 p.m. ET: Newt Gingrich: “The American people create jobs, not government.” Invokes Ronald Reagan.

UPDATE 8:46 p.m. ET: Ron Paul is a Texan. Not a Rick Perry fan.

UPDATE 8:45 p.m. ET: Rick Perry: “Mitt, you were doing pretty good until you got to talkin’ poker.”

UPDATE 8:43 p.m. ET: Mitt Romney praises Texas. Not necessarily praising their governor, of course.

UPDATE 8:42 p.m. ET: Herman Cain: “We need a bold solution.” He talks up his “9-9-9” plan.

UPDATE 8:41 p.m. ET: Michele Bachmann says “it’s easy to turn around this economy.”

UPDATE 8:38 p.m. ET: Rick Perry: “He’s gonna pay for ’em all with raisin’ your taxes!” (Talking about Obama’s jobs plan.)

UPDATE 8:36 p.m. ET: Question from Portsmouth, Virginia: “What would you do to get the economy going forward?” Governor Asterisk gets the first shot.

UPDATE 8:33 p.m. ET: Michele Bachmann talks personal rresponsibility. And now . . . commercial!

UPDATE 8:32 p.m. ET: Ron Paul wants to cut money for foreign wars. Proposes elimination of Dept. of Educatioon and Dept. of Energy.

UPDATE 8:31 p.m. ET: Mitt Romney talks balanced budgets.

UPDATE 8:30 p.m. ET: Rick Perry will not repeal Medicare prescription drugs benefits.

UPDATE 8:29 p.m. ET: Rick Santorum talks Medicare. Also, they just showed Ali Akbar in a crowd reaction shot.

UPDATE 8:27 p.m. ET: Newt denounces the “Washington mythology” about balanced budgets. Gets all wonky about it.

UPDATE 8:25 p.m. ET: Rick Santorum talks about his 1994 campaign. “The people of Pennsylvania wanted someone who had the courage to tell them the truth.”

UPDATE 8:23 p.m. ET: Newt Gingrich gets cheers for slamming Obama.

UPDATE 8:21 p.m. ET: Governor Asterisk.

UPDATE 8:20 p.m. ET: Ron Paul’s turn and then Herman Cain. “I don’t care what you call it — it’s broken!”

UPDATE 8:18 p.m. ET: It’s gonna be the Romney-Perry show all night, isn’t it?

UPDATE 8:17 p.m. ET: Now Romney’s turn to talk about the Ponzi Scheme Monstrosity. And now Perry responds. “It’s time for us to get back to the Constitution.

UPDATE 8:15 p.m. ET: Rick Perry talks about Social Security the Ponzi Scheme Monstrosity. “We’re gonna fix it!”

UPDATE 8:14 p.m. ET: Michele Bachmann gets the first question about Social Security, and she says Obama “stole” Medicare money.

UPDATE 8:12 p.m. ET: Ready to RUMMMBBBBLE!

UPDATE 8:11 p.m. ET: Diana Nagy sang the national anthem. Now the candidates are introducing themselves.

EXPECT FURTHER UPDATES . . .

UPDATE: Protesters out front:

Bishop Tavis Grant of the Rainbow/PUSH Coalition.

SDS? They’re still around?

Category: Debates, Election 2012, Florida, Tea Party

VIDEO: Bobby Jindal Talks About His Endorsement of Rick Perry

Posted on | September 12, 2011 | 1 Comment

TAMPA, Fla.
These videos were recorded just moments ago:

Category: Republicans, Rick Perry

Wasserman-Schultz Says Republicans ‘Worship at the Altar of the Tea Party’

Posted on | September 12, 2011 | 10 Comments

TAMPA, Fla.
Debbie Wasserman-Schultz just gave a press conference here that I wrote up for the American Spectator blog:

Republicans are “desperate to appease the Tea Party,” Democratic National Committee chairwoman Debbie Wasserman-Schultz said, hours before GOP candidates were due to appear in a debate co-sponsored by the Tea Party Express.
“Tonight, I think we are likely to hear the Republican candidates for president continue to worship at the altar of the Tea Party,” Wasserman-Schultz told reporters here. Viewers “won’t find a candidate on stage tonight with a plan to do anything but return to the policies that we’re all so familiar with and that got us into this mess in the first place.”
Republicans “would shred the safety net” of Social Security and Medicare, Wasserman-Schultz said in her press conference at the Florida State Fairgrounds. “At least [Texas Gov.] Rick Perry was honest about his hostility toward Social Security, calling it a ‘Ponzi scheme.’ . . . But Mitt Romney was not straightforward about his support for privatizing Social Security, a scheme that would be as dangerous to the future of the program as Rick Perry’s attitude and rhetoric.”

Read the rest. Here’s the video:

UPDATE: Here’s a photo of the press conference:

That’s Norm Bungard, 74, of St. Petersburg, a volunteer for the National Committee to Preserve Social Security.

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Category: Debates, Democrats, Election 2012, Florida, Tea Party

So, Does This Mean Bono Should Be The Front Man For Rammstein?

Posted on | September 12, 2011 | 15 Comments

by Smitty (via Insty)

Surber ojects vigorously to rock stars ascribing American citizenship to themselves:

No, Bono, is not an American — one day a year or 365. Who in the heck does this pompous Irish think he is standing in Canada and presuming that he is an American? When did he stand in line to get the paperwork done so he could establish a residency? When did he take and pass the Citizenship Test? When did he raise that right hand and swear to God and everyone else his allegiance to the Greatest Land Of All?

He is not even a Bono. His name is Paul David Hewson. He does not even pronounce the name right. That is a long O as in Sonny Bono, who was a true American son of legal immigrants who worked his way up from nothing, learned the music business, built an entertainment empire and then became mayor of Palm Springs and a congressman.

In defense of Hewson, at least he was never romantically linked to Cher.

But Bono is not the first to make this claim. One predecessor was the German thrash outfit Rammstein:
Something about dudes in space suits rocking on the moon just strikes me as funny. Sharp-eyed Twitter users may recognize my avatar, mooched from this video. (Follow me, please: it’s embarrassing that RMS has four times the followers that I do.)

But, hey: if Rammstein is living in America, and Bono is an American, should Bono go ahead and front the band? Maybe they could go on a tour performing Grateful Dead material through a squishy-Christian/thrash filter. Is there a career for me managing musical acts?

Category: Uncategorized
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