Sioux City: Herman Cain Begins Iowa Bus Tour With Noon Speech to Jewish Group

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SIOUX CITY, Iowa
Herman Cain just arrived at Eldon’s Restaurant aboard his spiffy new tour bus:

This event is sponsored by the Sioux City Jewish Coaliton. I asked one of the staffers, “Do they have a significant Jewish population in Sioux City?” But the answer was a mystified shrug. Anyway, here is a video tour of the Cain “Common Sense Solutions” bus, inside and out:

I’ll have a report on Cain’s speech later. Right now, he’s meeting backstage with local supporters. Here are a few photos:

Dale Petersen, Cain’s agriculture issues adviser, and Larry Tuel, Cain’s Iowa state director, in the parking lot of the hotel before the start of the bus tour. The hotel was actually in South Sioux City, Nebraska, so you could say that Cain is the first 2012 Republican candidate to visit Nebraska.

Cain’s chief of staff Mark Block behind the scenes at the Sioux City event. I said, “Mark, you look worried.” He said, “The’s just my game face.”

Volunteers staff the welcome table at the Sioux City event.

The compelete schedule for the “Common Sense Solutions” Iowa bus tour is here.

UPDATE: Cain was greeted with a standing ovation by the 60-70 people in attendance. Discussing the tour schedule — which takes a day off Thursday for “debate prep” for the Fox News debate in Ames — Herman Cain said, “You know what I do when I prepare for a debate? I pray.”

You can support Herman Cain at “A Real Leader.”

UPDATE II: Some more photos:

The attendance at the Jewish Coalition luncheon was impressive.

Cain starts his speech. While he was discussing his opposition to the 2009 financial regulation legislation, sponsored by Sen. Chris Dodd and Rep. Barney Frank, Cain said: “Here’s two other problems I have with the Dodd-Frank bill — Dodd and Frank.”

Cain talks to an Iowa newspaper reporter while, at left, his campaign staffer Nathan Naidu waits. The speech ran long and dozens of people wanted to have their photo taken with the candidate, which had the staff slightly panicked about keeping on schedule to their next event in Denison.

Speaking of schedules, I’m running late myself, so that’s it from Sioux City. Hit the freaking tip jar!

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Fear and Loathing: From Sioux City to Council Bluffs With the Herman Cain Bus

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SIOUX CITY, Iowa
OK, no more messing around. Time to get seriously into gonzo as I hit the road following Herman Cain’s “Common Sense Solutions” bus tour across the state. Three stops today, covering 150 miles:

11 a.m. Eldon’s Restaurant
3322 Singing Hills Blvd., Sioux City, Iowa
Sioux City Jewish Coalition meeting

2:45 p.m. Cronk’s Cafe’
812 4th Ave. South, Denison, Iowa

5:15 p.m. Bayliss Park
530 1st Ave., Council Bluffs, Iowa

You can read the complete schedule here. My opportunities for Internet access may be limited, so just in case I don’t have the opportunity to say it again today: Hit the freaking tip jar!

Santorum’s Hope

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From my American Spectator column today:

SIOUX CITY, Iowa — Perhaps 50 voters showed up Saturday for a campaign event held in a barn on a dirt road amid cornfields near Roland, about 20 miles north of Ames. While a few dozen voters isn’t much of a crowd by Republican presidential campaign standards, the audience inside the barn was enlarged — and enlivened — by the presence of scores of children, the offspring of several Christian homeschooling families in attendance. One family brought eight kids, another brought nine, and the hosts, Scott and Susan Hurd, have seven of their own, as did the guest from Pennsylvania whose “Road to Ames Barn Bash” was the occasion of this gathering.
Rick Santorum has been campaigning across the state for months and, as he told the voters (and their numerous children) during his speech in the barn, he has visited 51 cities in Iowa by now. Despite his dogged persistence, however, Santorum’s candidacy has yet to strike the kind of sparks that garner major national attention — a problem the former Pennsylvania senator blames on the media. “The national media has done a very good job of ignoring Rick Santorum,” he said, lamenting the fact that polls show him as the only GOP candidate whose name-recognition hasn’t increased in recent months. “Everybody else was being covered and promoted by the national media, even people that are below me in the polls, even people who most people say have no chance of ever getting the nomination.” The reason for this, he explained, is that the liberal media knows he is a conservative who can win and have decided “maybe the best way to get rid of this guy is to simply suffocate him by making sure that nobody talks about him?” . . .

Please read the whole thing.

And you should also read today’s profile of Santorum in the Des Moines Register, which quotes one of Santorum’s longtime friends:

“Rick is a very devout Catholic guy, and he believes in the principles of the founding fathers of this country. . . He is not willing to compromise on that. He will stand for his beliefs and his principles above any political expediency.”

And he’s never embraced global warming theory, unlike some other Republicans I could name.

Hate to Say I Told You So, But …

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You should have listened to Glenn Beck!

Bullion strikes record above
$1,700 on S&P downgrade

By Lewa Pardomuen/REUTERS
Bullion roared to record highs above $1,700 an ounce on Monday as an unprecedented downgrade to the U.S. credit rating sent investors scrambling out of riskier assets, hammering equity markets and the dollar.
Both U.S. gold futures and cash gold could rise further if pledges by the Group of Seven nations to support battered financial markets fail to bear fruit as investors turn their attention to the Federal Reserve’s policy-setting committee, the FOMC, meeting on Tuesday.
The one notch downgrade by Standard & Poor’s of the U.S. long-term rating on Friday added to the threat of contagion from the euro debt crisis, fears over recession in the United States and even the possibility of a third round of U.S. quantitative easing.
Spot gold touched a lifetime high around $1,702 an ounce, its 11th record in 19 sessions — lifting the price of silver by more than 5 percent. The U.S. December gold contract earlier hit a record about $1,704 an ounce.

Remember: On May 20, 2010, the first time I mentioned Rep. Anthony Weiner’s attack on Glenn Beck for promoting gold sales, the price was $1,192.60 per ounce. Your investment in gold on that day would have yielded a 42% profit in less than 15 months.

Yet every time gold hits a new high and I say, “You should have listened to Glenn Beck,” somebody always says in the comments that the price has already peaked. But gold just keeps going up, up, up, doesn’t it?

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LIVE AT FIVE – 08.08.11

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TOP NEWS
Syrian Protests Leave At Least 100 Dead; Saudis Pull Ambassador

A deserted street in Deir Al-Zour, in the Sunni region of Syria

King Abdullah condemns Syrian government’s violent repression as “unacceptable”

S&P: US Ratings Downgrade Won’t Affect Asian Ratings For Now
Asian markets open lower in the wake of the US ratings downgrade

London Burns As Rioters Go On Rampage
26 police injured, 42 rioters arrested after suspect shot in Tottenham



POLITICS
John F’ing Kerry Parrots Latest DNC Meme

Senator John Kerry

Calls Friday’s action by S&P “Tea Party downgrade”

Jon Huntsman Tells Tea Party Town Hall He’s Conservative

Romney’s Shaky Front-Runner Perch

Bachmann Slams President  For Partying When The Market Dropped

Former NY Governor Hugh Carey Dies, 92

Former Oregon Senator Mark Hatfield Dies, 89

Duncan: States Will Get School Testing Waivers

Wisconsin Recall Elections Open Eyes, Wallets



THE ECONOMY, STUPID
ECB Move Soothes Markets
US Treasury Yields Fall Despite Downgrade
G-7, G-20 Pledge Steps To Calm Financial Markets
AIG To Sue Bank Of America Over Mortgage Bonds
AntiSec Hackers Dump Data After Cracking Police Websites
Facebook “Spam King” Surrenders To FBI
World Wide Web (Not The Internet) Turns 20 Today
HP Cuts Price On TouchPad One Month After Launch



SPORTS
Red Sox Rally For 10th Inning Win Over Yankees

Red Sox celebrate

Sox come through against Bombers’ bullpen, retake first place in AL East

Keselowski Wins At Pocono Despite Broken Ankle

NBA Hawks To Be Sold, Will Remain In Atlanta

Lincecum Stops Skid As Giants Beat Phillies

Ervin Santana Continues Domination With 2-1 Win Against M’s

Plaxico Burriss Sneaks Into Action With Jets

Standing Room Only In Hagerstown As Strasburg Pitches First Rehab Start

Nats Hang On For Win, Split Series With Rockies



FAMOUS FOR BEING FAMOUS
Big Boi Busted

Antwan Patton, a/k/a Big Boi

Outkast rapper arrested for drug possession in Miami

Taylor Swift, Selena Gomez Win Big At Teen Choice Awards

Rebecca Black Makes Appearance At Katy Perry’s LA Concert


Stars Full Of Glee For Show’s 3D Movie Premiere

Ethan Hawke Welcomes Fourth Child

“Desperate Housewives” Ending After Eight Seasons

Rihanna’s Styling Bill? $23,000 A Week



FOREIGNERS
London Riots Explode In Second Night Of Violence
Over 100,000 Evacuated In PRC As Tropical Storm Approaches
Israeli Stock Market Plunges In Reaction To US Debt Crisis
Rebel Blueprint For Libya Revealed
Turkish PM To Tighten Grip On Armed Forces
US Concerned At Tymoshenko Arrest; Hundreds Protest Detention Of Former PM



BLOGS & STUFF
The Sundries Shack: The Gospel Of Blame Meets The Poll That Could Resurrect Cut Cap & Balance
The Anchoress: “So, We Can’t Laugh At Canada Any More?”
Lonely Conservative: Tax Hikes We Can All Get Behind
Ed Morrissey: Opening On October 12 2010 – The Obama Is Totally Awesome Movie
NRO Corner: How About That ECB?
American Digest: Cokie Roberts Vs. The Constitution
Atlas Shrugs: Sharia Execution Urged For Mubarak
Gateway Pundit: S&P Responds to Treasury’s $2 Billion Error Accusation – “It’s Irrelevant”
Weasel Zippers: S&P Exec Says It Could Take 18 Years To Repair Damage Obama Has Done To US Economy

Late Night With Rule 5 Sunday: Hanging On The Telephone

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Not that I want to encourage this sort of thing, but Valley of the Shadow easily wins first mention this week for this collection of Asia Argento pix. Stop by, ogle the pics, and hit the tip jar! Stacy did; what’s your excuse?


Elsewhere in the wide world of Rule 5, Bring The Heat Bring The Stupid returns for another week, this time with Aussie actress Lisa McCune. Randy’s Roundtable offers Kara Tointon and Michelle Vawer, Eye of Polyphemus goes with the ever-popular Mila Kunis, A View From The Beach checks in with Cameron Diaz and Shannon Tweed, and the Rio Norte Line offers Rachel Nichols. Jake Finnegan’s Burkalesque Babe this week is Chrissa Carolyn, while That Mr. G Guy celebrates hit 25K with some anonymous tart on a bedsheet. Dustbury this week has cellist Alisa Weilerstein and Zooeypalooza 11. Fishersville Mike reminds us that it’s going to be football season soon, while Maggie’s Notebook has an Anne Hathaway portfolio to go with her Catwoman poll. American Power leads off with Lucy Pinder’s 2012 calendar, follows with Kate Upton swimsuit video, and wraps up with Karen Alloy.


Hookers & Booze comes back this week with another Poker Night pic, as well as Tera Patrick and another Asian lady. Proof Positive’s Vintage Babe this week is Dawn Adams; also, Alyssa Campanella, sex in advertising, and the object(s) of John Kerry’s fascination.


El Opinador Compulsivo offers high-resolution Rule 5 and some mid-resolution Rule 5 as well; furthermore, Marg Helgenberger, a girl with an iPad for a head, Lady Liberty, Laura Prepon, and a week’s worth of Charlotte Rampling in one easy-to-click post.


Soylent Green’s Monday Motivationer this week is a pulchritudinous pair of Poles, Dalene Kurtis in lieu of bacon, a tribute to his Aussie go(oglers), Slovenian lovely Olga Kaminska, some kind of Usual Suspects reference, the all-important Corset Friday, Saturday silliness with bonus snooch; finally, Debora and Danielle.


The Camp of the Saints this week features Pamela David, Patricia Farinelli, and of course the Rule 5 News. Three Beers Later continues his exploration of pinups with a link to Irina Davis’ site, which verges on alternative history, and some Rule 5 Economics, which unfortunately is all too real. Meanwhile, Daily Irony has Yao Chen being commercial and the weathergirls from NMA rapping. We recommend Daily Irony to those of you interested in pop culture, hot Asian babes, and suchlike things.


DalyGator’s DaleyBabes this week include Liza Lapira, Alison Brie, a celebration of bikinis, Ciara, Taylor Cole, Patricia Natividad, and last but not least Ninel Conde.


Thanks to all for their linkagery! To be included in next week’s Rule 5 Roundup, please send your links to Rule 5 Wombat, NOT my regular e-mail at the top of the post! Entries must be in by August 13; I will not guarantee that posts arriving on August 14th won’t be roundfiled or held over until the week following.

Liberals Spinning S&P Credit Downgrade: BLAME IT ON THE REPUBLICANS!

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Nothing is more amazing than the ability of liberals — both politicians and “journalists” — to synchronize their lies. In the wake of Standard & Poors downgrading of the U.S. credit rating Friday, the Democrat-Media Complex has now forged a consensus that this had nothing to do with massive two-year binge of deficit spending embarked on by President Obama, Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid. No, it’s because Republicans and their Tea Party supporters are against tax increases:

Hartmann’s column, especially, illustrates how these left-wing agitprop campaigns work: The “Mainstream Media” ignore a million and one things that conservatives wish they’d pay attention to, but when liberals accuse reporters of ignoring something, the reporters — who are, of course, nearly all liberal — will jump to correct the perceived omission and will, in fact, often harp on this “unreported” angle to the exclusion of everything else.

Let us stipulate that (a) U.S. fiscal health wasn’t exactly robust when Obama became president, and (b) in a time of fiscal crisis, a steadfast opposition to tax increases doesn’t soothe the worries of the bond market, yet still the fact remains that the immediate cause of the current crisis was the incredible two-year Obama/Pelosi/Reid deficit spending binge. And Obama’s response to the debt-ceiling impasse — tax the rich! millionaires and billionaires! corporate jets! Republicans are coming to steal Granny’s Social Security check! — was immature, selfish and harmful.

Democrats don’t want to fix the problem, they want to score political points against Republicans. And they expect their liberal friends in the media to help them do it — a perfectly realistic expectation, given the fact that Barack Obama could only have become president with the willing assistance of his liberal friends in the media, who more or less anoninted him as the Democratic nominee the day he beat Hillary in the Iowa caucuses.

I’d imagine even some liberal reporters are now experiencing buyer’s remorse and — despite their profound instinctive loathing of Republicans — are sick and tired of watching Obama scapegoat others for his own incompetence.

Liberals hate Republicans and most reporters don’t know jack shit about economics, but they know failure when they see it, and Obama has proven to be an outright failure as president. One of these days, and the day might come very soon, reporters will start ignoring the White House spin machine and start reporting the truth. And then liberals will bitch, bitch, bitch about the “right-wing bias” of the media.