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Cutest. Kitten. Video. EVAH!

Posted on | May 27, 2011 | 20 Comments

And you don’t have to take my word for it:

She’s right. Watch the whole thing, and you can’t argue. Trust me: It’s the Citizen Kane of cute kitten videos.

Category: Video

LIVE AT FIVE – 05.27.11

Posted on | May 27, 2011 | 2 Comments

TOP NEWS
Serbian General Radko Mladic Appears In Serbian Court

Radko Mladic reassures a Serbian Muslim boy in Srebenica

Hearing will determine whether conditions for extradition to Hague War Crimes Tribunal have been met for general accused of massacre at Srebenica



House Votes To Approve Patriot Act Extension
Bill heads for White House, where the President is expected to sign it. Hope and change!

Libya’s PM Calls For Cease-Fire
White House immediately rejects offer as “not credible”



POLITICS
Romney Makes First Stop In Iowa After Huckabee Withdrawal

Can Romney win Iowa's socially conservative Republicans?

With Huckabee out, Romney could win the Iowa caucuses, where he was second in 2008

Supremes Uphold Arizona Sanctions Against Employers Hiring Illegals



Sarah Palin To Tour East Coast, Cause Furious Speculation On Whether She’s In Or Out

Wisconsin DOJ Accuses Judge Sumi Of Bias In Striking Down Collective Bargaining Act

Census Bureau: Hispanics Account For Half Of US Population Growth



THE ECONOMY, STUPID
Dollar Declines To Record Low Against Swiss Franc; 10-Year Treasuries Fall To Six-Month Low
US Markets Finish Slightly Higher Led By Telecom, Consumer Stocks
Gas Prices Ease A Bit, Still Up $1.15 Over Last Year
Former Nasdaq Manager Pleads Guilty To Insider Trading Scheme
Nikkei Edges Lower On Stronger Yen, Sony Earnings Fail
California PUC To Investigate AT&T/T-Mobile Merger
Russian, Ukrainian Wheat Exports Not Enough To Halt Rally
Google Wallet Mobile Payments To Debut In NYC, SanFran
PRC Prisoners Forced To Farm Gold In Online Games
Macs’ Supposed Immunity To Malware Threats Gone Forever



SPORTS
Heat Burns Out Bulls In Last-Quarter Rally

LeBron James drives to the basket

Heat will face Dallas in the finals

Buster Posey Injured In Home Plate Collision, May Be Out For Season

Ohio State Players Strike Back At Accuser Ray Small





NFL Coaches Side With Players, Urge Court To End Lockout

Mets Gain New Investor, Lose R.A. Dickey And The Game

Snakebit Rockies Lose Again To Arizona

Angels Sign Branyan, Place Kendrick On The DL



FAMOUS FOR BEING FAMOUS
What House Arrest Really Means For Lindsay

Gets house arrest due to good behavior, overcrowded prisons

For one thing, it means four weeks off from community service.

Jeff Conaway To Be Taken Off Life Support

January Jones Rocks The Lingerie As Emma Frost In “X-Men”

Child Protection Gestapo Visits Mariah Carey

Ex-WWE Star Chyna: I’m Getting Back Into Porn

John Cho Signs On For “Total Recall”

Zach Braff Joins “Oz The Great And Powerful”


Oprah Finale Draws Highest Ratings In 17 Years

Charlie Sheen Selling His Beverly Hills Mansion

Baena’s Daughter: All The Fuss Is Because Mom’s Hispanic



FOREIGNERS
CIA Teams Gain Access To Bin Laden’s Pakistan Compound
Japan PM Kan Faces No-Confidence Vote
Norks More Dependent On PRC As Sanctions Bite Harder
De-Baathification Official Assassinated In Baghdad
Two Die As Police Break Up Georgia Protest



BLOGS & STUFF
Lonely Conservative: DNC Chair Bashes GOP For Opposing GM/Chrysler Bailout – But Drives A Foreign Car, Herself
Pat Dollard: Game On?
Transterrestrial Musings: Barack Obama’s Middle East Mess
Jihad Watch: PMSH’s Renegade Middle East Views – He Supports Israel, Rejects Return To ’67 Borders
PJ Tatler: Congress Not Officially Adjourning For Weekend, Denies Obama More Recess Appointments
Don Surber: King Canute’s Kindergarten
AmSpecBlog: Pawlenty Says He’d Sign Ryan Budget
Weasel Zippers: Think Progress Commenters Call For Lynching Of Allen West And Family
Betsy’s Page: Using The NY-26 Election As A Salutary Lesson


— compiled by Wombat-socho

Category: Live at Five

Holy Freaking Crap! High School Seniors Suspended, Accused of ‘White Supremacy’ for Wearing White T-Shirts to School

Posted on | May 26, 2011 | 33 Comments

Stogie at Saberpoint calls attention to this bizarre example of political correctness run amok in California:

Students banned from a Central Coast school for wearing a white t-shirt. On Wednesday, Soquel High School suspended at least two students. The students say it’s because of allegations, they’re part of a white supremacist group. . . .
Soquel High Senior Mikey Donnelly wore a white t-shirt for his senior class photo Tuesday. About 10 of his friends did the same. That decision may seem harmless. But Soquel High suspended Donnelly for three days because of it. . . .
Soquel High Principal Ken Lawrence-Emanuel was very tight-lipped about it, saying students’ punishments are confidential. But told me the school got several complaints about a white pride group on campus.

Read the whole thing. This is insane. And the fact that one of the accused students is Asian sort of argues against that suspicion.

Category: California, Education

Lawyers: We Could ‘Gravely Undermine the Credibility’ of Strauss-Kahn Accuser

Posted on | May 26, 2011 | 64 Comments

Accusing the prosecution of trying the case in the media, the defense takes its own shot at trying the case in the media:

Lawyers for Dominique Strauss-Kahn have contended that they possess information that they believe will undermine the credibility of the hotel housekeeper who has accused their client of sexual assault.
The suggestion, contained in a three-page letter from the lawyers to Cyrus R. Vance Jr., the Manhattan district attorney, was almost entirely devoted to the lawyers’ complaints about unauthorized disclosures of the case to the press. But it included a reference to unspecified information that they said would hurt the prosecution’s case.
In the letter, sent Wednesday and made public Thursday, the lawyers, William W. Taylor III and Benjamin Brafman, complained “that our client’s right to a fair trial is being compromised by the public disclosure of prejudicial material even before these materials have been disclosed to his counsel.”
“Indeed,” they added, “were we intent on improperly feeding the media frenzy, we could now release substantial information that in our view would seriously undermine the quality of this prosecution and also gravely undermine the credibility of the complainant in this case.”
The letter seemed to serve as a form of legal gamesmanship — allowing Mr. Strauss-Kahn’s lawyers to hint at damaging information about the housekeeper without revealing it.

That a wealthy and powerful French socialist could be brought to ruin by a Guinean immigrant hotel maid is one of those priceless ironies, isn’t it? Speaking of priceless ironies, how about this September 2009 photo of Strauss-Kahn leering at Michelle Obama?

“Some pictures say a thousand words. This one just says two: No Touching.”

BTW, when this photo was posted at AOSHQ, the Morons™ got so out of control that Ace deleted the post and took the night off.

UPDATE: Seriously, at comment #67, Ace says, “Last post ever on Michelle Obama. I don’t care if she murders someone.” Not sure exactly what the commenters said to inspire the deletion, but it seems that some people don’t find the First Lady attractive, and therefore made derogatory statements about her.

Category: Crime

Good-Bye, Global Population Control!

Posted on | May 26, 2011 | 5 Comments

And it’s certainly about time!

Spurred on by a public vote in which pro-life advocates said cutting funding for the pro-abortion UNFPA agency was their top desire, Congressional Republicans have filed legislation to yank millions from the UN organization. . . .
The vote at the popular YouCut web site makes it so the public will be able to track the progress of the legislation as it moves through the legislative process.
Rep. Renee Ellmers, of North Carolina, will be introducing legislation soon.
“This is going to save American taxpayers $400 million dollars over a 10 year period and it’s just another part of what we’re doing here in Washington to cut wasteful spending that we see happening,” she said in a new video introducing the bill. “And I am very excited to be part of this program and each week we will have more cuts coming forward.”

Here’s video of Rep. Ellmers making the announcement:

Rep. Ellmers’ Facebook page is here.

Category: Abortion, Renee Ellmers, United Nations

Why Does Eric Alterman Hate Pioneering Gay NY Times Columnist Frank Bruni?

Posted on | May 26, 2011 | 4 Comments

If you want a perfect example of how the Left pushes for more liberal press coverage, this is it: Eric Alterman accuses new-minted New York Times columnist Frank Bruni of being too soft on Bush.

It is not good enough for Alterman that Bruni is, and always has been, a reliably liberal member of the press corps. No, in Alterman’s universe, the job of reporters is to act as partisan attack dogs against Republicans. And so if Frank Bruni doesn’t fulfill that Alterman-approved role, he will be treated as the enemy.

There is something vaguely totalitarian in this attitude, and I think it is not an accident that the target of Alterman’s bullying is The First Gay Columnist in the Whole Dadgum History of the New York Times™.

Category: Media Bias, New York Times, Uncategorized

Dave Weigel: ‘Hey, You Know Who’s Doing Pretty Good? Herman Cain.’

Posted on | May 26, 2011 | 20 Comments

Our boy Dave takes a look at the Gallup numbers and notices that the Hermanator has zoomed up in the GOP 2012 pack without benefit of much previous national media exposure, and despite the generally dismissive attitudes of such pundits as Karl Rove, Charles Krauthammer and Michael Barone. Here are the numbers:

Mitt Romney . . . . . . . . 17%
Sarah Palin . . . . . . . . . 15%
Ron Paul . . . . . . . . . . . 10%
Newt Gingrich . . . . . . . 9%
Herman Cain . . . . . . . . 8%
Tim Pawlenty . . . . . . . . 6%
Michele Bachmann . . . . 5%
Jon Huntsman . . . . . . . . 2%
Gary Johnson . . . . . . . . 2%
Rick Santorum . . . . . . . 2%

A couple of caveats about this poll: First, it’s nationwide, and there is no such thing as a nationwide primary. Secondly, they polled Republicans and “Republican-leaning independents,” whatever that means.

All caveats considered, however, this poll is the latest indication that pundits who have been dismissive of Herman Cain are making a serious mistake. If Tim Pawlenty is a “first-tier” candidate, you cannot now deny Cain is “first-tier,” too.

Dick Morris says Herman Cain “blew me away” at a Wisconsin Tea Party rally and, even though Morris doesn’t think Cain can win, he admits that he’s got “magic” and says he can’t be counted out.

Isn’t it time you joined the online grassroots army at Citizens for Cain?

ADDENDUM: Permit me to remind you exactly how early I foresaw the potential of Cain’s campaign. It was less than two weeks after the election last year and, at the end of a very long post on November 13, I included the clip of Herman Cain’s June speech at the SRLC in New Orleans. He ended that speech by making a plug for a possible “dark horse” campaign in 2012, and I wrote:

Say what you will about Mitt Romney, at least he’s got some meaningful private-sector experience. But if you want a successful businessman for the 2012 GOP nomination, how about a dark horse? . . .
Yeah: Herman Cain. Having backed a few can’t-possibly-win underdogs in the past couple of years — I went all-in for Rubio when he was 35 points down — I’m taking a long, hard look at that dark horse. It might not be the “pragmatic” thing to do, but I’m thinking a few “blogospheric demagogues” might be in a mood to really bust some balls for 2012.

Perhaps some analysts have overlooked the extent to which the Cain campaign is an anti-establishment ball-busting operation. There are a lot of grassroots conservatives who are sick and tired of having the GOP establishment and the elite pundits pick their candidates. If Cain could somehow win the nomination, he would owe the Republican establishment exactly nothing.

Heh. Heh. Heh.


Category: Dave Weigel, Election 2012, Herman Cain, Polls

Is Governor Palin Running in 2012?

Posted on | May 26, 2011 | 26 Comments

Earlier this month, Fox News ended its contracts with GOP presidential candidates Newt Gingrich and Rick Santorum. The network also reportedly delivered an ultimatum to Mike Huckabee that he, too, must decide: Either give up his Fox show or disavow a 2012 presidential run.

When Sarah Palin chose then to continue her contract with Fox, I deduced that she had decided not to be a candidate in 2012. Three weeks later, however, observers have started chattering over several signals that Palin may decide to jump into the race soon. Jim Rutenberg and Jeff Zeleny of the New York Times summarize the developments:

Sarah Palin is fortifying her small staff of advisers, buying a house in Arizona — where associates have said she could base a national campaign — and reviving her schedule of public appearances. The moves are the most concrete signals yet that Ms. Palin, the former governor of Alaska, is seriously weighing a Republican presidential bid.
While it is by no means clear that she would be willing to give up her lucrative speaking career and her perch as an analyst on Fox News to face the scrutiny and combat that would come with her entrance into the race, she is being pressed by supporters for a decision and has acknowledged that time is running out.

The biggest news is the forthcoming pro-Palin documentary, The Undefeated, and the news that the movie will premiere in Iowa — well, well, well.

NBC’s team analyzes the question of who would be helped or hurt by a Palin candidacy. Their conclusion that it would spark a rally to Mitt Romney by the GOP Establishment, desperate to stop Palin at any cost, is probably sound. The original “Palin Twibe” activist, Lisa Graas has her own analysis of the impact.

The latest polls show Romney and Palin virtually neck-and-neck among GOP voters. The problem for Palin now is that Romney has been virtually running since 2008, and that the primary field is now crowded by other candidates who’ve spent the past seven months lining up staff and volunteers in Iowa, New Hampshire, South Carolina and other states. The longer she waits, the slimmer the pickings would be when she finally does get in (if she does). Scott Conroy of Real Clear Politics appeared on CBS to discuss the possible Palin campaign:

Doug Brady notes the dismissive attitude of CBS’s Jan Crawford, “a now-familiar mainstream media narrative that’s as predictable as it is delusional.” This narrative — that Palin is damaged goods who would be a certain loser against Obama in 2012 — can only be disproven in one way: By Palin getting into the campaign, winning the GOP nomination, and getting elected in November 2012.

The question, then: How badly does Palin want to disprove that narrative?

Category: Election 2012, Fox News, Sarah Palin
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