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Kiss and Tell at the Revolving Door

Posted on | May 13, 2011 | 4 Comments

When Joe Biden’s press secretary, former Time magazine reporter Jay Carney, was promoted to White House press secretary, Washington Post reporter Shailagh Murray was hired as Carney’s replacement. Now, New York magazine reports:

Murray was not the first journalist considered to handle Biden’s press. Both CBS News White House correspondent Chip Reid and Slate’s chief political correspondent John Dickerson were possible candidates before Murray was tapped. (Before he got into journalism, Reid served as an adviser to Biden on the Senate Judiciary Committee; before Slate, Dickerson worked alongside Carney at Time.) Both now say they turned the invitations down.

Really? Reporters are now publicly bragging about being offered government jobs they turned down?

Category: Journalism

LIVE AT FIVE – 05.13.11

Posted on | May 13, 2011 | 5 Comments

TOP NEWS
Pakistan Army Chief Alleged To Resist US Demands

Pakistani CinC, General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani - hunkering down

More proof that Pakistan isn’t a country with its own army, it’s an army with a country attached

Suicide Bombers Kill 70 Outside Pakistani Paramilitary Base
Recruits for Frontier Constabulary targeted

Levee Inspectors Hunt For Stealthy Leaks Along Mississippi
Inspectors keeping a wary eye out for seepage, barges, and idiots, not necessarily in that order

Tripoli Hit By Airstrikes Overnight (Video)
Also, leader of rebel coalition meets with British PM David Cameron



POLITICS
Ensign May Face Renewed DOJ Probe After Senate Report

Former Senator John Ensign

Violations of FEC regulations, lobbying laws alleged; no comment from DOJ or FEC, which had previously dropped probes

Romney Unrepentant

Early Iron Bowl For Tornado Relief?

House Approves Bill To Accelerate Offshore Drilling

States Move To End TSA Groping

White House Reveals Cybersecurity Plan

Obama Seeks Extension For FBI Director Mueller

Oil Executives Defend Tax Breaks

IRS Moves To Tax Gifts To Political Groups



THE ECONOMY, STUPID
Mississippi Flooding Threatens Louisiana Gas & Oil Production
Facebook-Google Rivalry Intensifies After Facebook’s PR Gaffe
Stocks Finish Higher As Commodities Rise On Weak Dollar
LimeWire Settles With Record Labels
Asian Stocks, Oil Decline On PRC Tightening
SEC’s Revolving Door To Wall Street Draws Fresh Scrutiny
Google Chromebooks Seek Enterprise Blessing
Microsoft, Phone Makers Join Amazon In Fight To Repeal Apple’s EU Patent On “App Store”



SPORTS
It’s Heat Versus Bulls In East Final, Starting Sunday

The Bulls' Luoi Deng drives past the Hawks' Al Horford in the first period

Bulls finish off Hawks 93-73, prepare to receive Heat

Sharks Avoid Choking, Finish Off Red Wings 3-2

Hosmer Homers Again As Royals Thump Yankees 11-5

Beltran Goes Yard Thrice To Lift Mets Over Rockies

Braves Rally To Beat Nationals In 10th, Avoid Sweep



FAMOUS FOR BEING FAMOUS
It’s Kutcher In For Sheen On “Two And A Half Men”

Not Charlie Sheen

“Sources” “confirm” deal; Kutcher neither confirms nor denies.

Matthew Perry Returning To Rehab

DiCaprio, Rafaeli Split

Lady Gaga’s Heels NSFW Or For “American Idol” Either, Apparently

Panettiere, Klitschko End Romance
Now free to sleep with people their own size

Marlee Matlin Paying $50K In Back Taxes

Celebrity Herpes Lawsuit Triggers Sex Tape Frenzy

NBC Rejects “Wonder Woman” Reboot

Mary Tyler Moore Set For Brain Surgery



FOREIGNERS
Death Camp Guard Demjanjuk Released After Being Found Guilty
Qatar Quits Gulf Plan For Yemen, Cites Delays
Muslim Brotherhood Leader Pursues Egypt’s Presidency
EU Moves To Scrap Schengen, Return To Border Controls
West Bengal’s Communist Government Behind In Polls, Likely To Fall
Indian PM Singh To Visit Afghanistan Amid Regional Uncertainty
Russia’s Medvedev Takes Aim At New Putin Movement



BLOGS & STUFF
Gateway Pundit: Osama Told Al-Qaeda Not To Bother Assassinating Joe Biden
Confederate Yankee: Professional Idiot Ron Paul Would Not Have Authorized Bin Laden Mission
NRO’s Critical Condition: Mitt Romney’s Illogical, Terrible Health-Care Address
Sister Toldjah: President Obama’s Big Government Philosophy Explained – By President Obama
AmSpecBlog: McCain Against “Interrogation Methods I Believe Are Torture”
Da Tech Guy: CBS & AP vs. Bloggers
Don Surber: Obamanomics

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Category: Live at Five

CSI: Sonoma, California

Posted on | May 12, 2011 | 29 Comments

Supply your own punchline:

Blind man confused over ‘mystery enema’
Veteran police officers have been left dumfounded after a partially-sighted man claimed a woman entered his apartment, gave him an enema, and promptly left.
.The 53-year-old Californian man answered the door to a woman who claimed she was there to give him an enema.
As the man had recently undergone intestinal surgery, he assumed the visit was part of his rehabilitation and allowed the woman into his home to perform the procedure.
The woman took him into the bedroom, had him drop his trousers and lie face down on his bed, before performing the enema in less than two minutes.
A day later, the man began wondering about his experience and contacted the Sonoma Police Department to report the incident.
The investigating officer contacted the man’s doctor and was told that an enema had not been prescribed, ordered or approved.
Due to the condition of the man’s eyesight, he was unable to offer police a description of the mystery woman and she left no clues of her identity at the scene.
Sonoma police have now turned the case over to the domestic and sexual assault unit of the Sonoma Sheriff’s Office, who have yet to make sense of the incident.

(Via Allahpundit on Twitter.)

Category: California, Crime

The Lutheran Menace!

Posted on | May 12, 2011 | 15 Comments

Radical Lutheran fundamentalists strike again:

Two men arrested in relation to an alleged terror plot in New York City were of Moroccan and Algerian descent, FOX News reported Thursday.
Moroccan Mohammad Mamdouh and Algerian Ahmed Serhani were arrested late Wednesday and were expected to be charged under the state’s terrorism laws

Category: Terrorism

Another Bad Liberal Idea That Failed

Posted on | May 12, 2011 | 35 Comments

“Seven years of college down the drain. Might as well join the f–ing Peace Corps.”
— Joseph “Bluto” Blutarsky, upon learning he and the other members of Delta Tau Chi are being expelled from Faber College, in Animal House (1978)

The Peace Corps was created by President John F. Kennedy as a haven for draft-dodgers and also to provide a government job for his useless brother-in-law, Sargent Shriver, who was the agency’s first director. To give you an idea of what kind of losers got involved: Jimmy Carter’s mother was once a Peace Corps volunteer. It’s a complete waste of time and money, which explains why during the 2008 presidential campaign, Barack Obama promised to double the size of the Peace Corps.

It has since been learned that hundreds of women were raped during their Peace Corps service and yesterday on C-SPAN I watched the victims testify to the House Foreign Affairs Committee:

The women’s harrowing experiences in developing countries arose in different circumstances at different times. But the witnesses’ themes were the same: They said the Peace Corps did little to train its workers and volunteers in strategies to avoid or deal with violent attacks. And in the aftermath, they said, the message from top officials was clear: The victim was to blame.
“Apologies without action are useless,” said Carol Marie Clark of North Carolina, who accepted a posting in Nepal shortly after graduating from Wake Forest University in 1984, only to be told by her local program director that female volunteers would have to have sex with him to receive their living expenses. Three months later, he raped her and got her pregnant, she testified. . . .
Jessica Smochek joined the Peace Corps in 2004 as a volunteer in Bangladesh, where she was gang raped by local men after months of harassment, she testified. When she returned to Washington to debrief with Peace Corps staff about what happened to her, “Rather than feeling safe and supported, I felt belittled and blamed,” she said. The country director in Bangladesh told other volunteers about her rape and blamed Smochek for being out alone after 5 p.m., she said. . . .
From 2000 to 2009, more than 1,000 volunteers reported sexual assaults, including 221 rapes or attempted rapes, according to agency statistics.

In the immortal words of JFK: “Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what your country can do to your daughter.”

Rick at Wizbang wonders when “Slutwalk” will target the Peace Corps.

UPDATE: Former Peace Corps volunteer Wendy Lee gets violent urges when people question the efficacy of the program. From her blog “about” page:

After graduating from Saint Louis University in 2008, I abandoned Corporate America in search for a different kind of life – one without running water, but with the Internet. In that very different life, I found myself fostering culture exchange among Cameroonian, Chinese, French and the American people. Two incredible, and dare I pull the cliché – life changing – years later, I am pursuing graduate degree in Master of Public Administration. I have the fortune to study international development at the London School of Economics and Political Science, and will complete my degree in New York at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs, where I will focus on international finance policy.

Yeah, she “abandoned Corporate America in search for a different kind of life” before going to grad school at the LSE and Columbia. Beats working for a living, I suppose . . .

Category: Foreigners

NY-26 Update: Fake ‘Tea Party’ Candidate Davis Skips Debate, Attacks Cameraman

Posted on | May 12, 2011 | 7 Comments

This video of Crazy Jack Davis is making the rounds today:

For reasons unknown, Crazy Jack pulled out of today’s debate in Rochester with Republican Jane Corwin and Democrat Kathy Hochul. The cameraman, a GOP volunteer, was trying to ask Davis why he canceled his debate appearance less than two weeks before the May 24 special election in New York’s 26th congressional district.

(Hat-tip: Omega6 on Twitter.)

UPDATE: Moe Lane at Red State: “I believe that we have finally established, once and for all, that this guy is a Democrat.” (Hat-tip: The Right Scoop.)

Professor William Jacobson: “The Davis campaign . . . are claiming Davis was harassed and provoked.”

UPDATE II: The National Republican Congressional Committee’s new TV ad points highlights Davis’s track record as a Democrat:

Via Jim Geraghty at National Review. NRCC press release headline:

Hochul & Davis Agree: Pelosi Has “Done a Great Job!”

Yeah, that’s gonna leave a mark.

UPDATE III: Davis campaign claims they’re victims of a “set-up.”

Now a Memeorandum thread.

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Category: Congress, Election 2012, New York, Republicans, Tea Party

‘This Defies Any Further Explanation’

Posted on | May 12, 2011 | 4 Comments

That’s the caption Larry O’Connor of Breitbart TV supplies for this video of ACORN CEO Bertha Lewis singing “Wal-Mart Sucks” at a mocking “church” event in New York City:

(Via Memeorandum.) Well, you may ask, who is Bertha Lewis? What does Bertha Lewis believe? She spoke during a March meeting of the Young Democratic Socialists:

“Any group that says, ‘I’m young, I’m Democratic, and I’m a socialist,’ is all right with me. You know that’s no light thing to do — to actually say, I’m a socialist — because you guys know right now we are living in a time which is going to dwarf the McCarthy era. It is going to dwarf the internment during World War II. We are right now in a time that is going to dwarf the era of Jim Crow and segregation,” Lewis said.
Lewis went on to explain that she wasn’t exaggerating — just look at the Tea Parties, she reasoned.
“This is not rhetoric or hyperbole — this is real,” Lewis said. “This rise of this Tea Party so-called movement — bowel movement in my estimation — and this blatant uncovering and ripping off the mask of racism.”

So now you know who Bertha Lewis is. Why does the head of ACORN hate Wal-Mart? Matthew Vadum explains at Human Events:

ACORN has always had a special, visceral contempt for Walmart because it is not unionized and hasn’t given money to the in-your-face protest group to make it go away.

Category: Video

LIVE AT FIVE – 05.12.11

Posted on | May 12, 2011 | 2 Comments

TOP NEWS
Whose Side Is Pakistan’s ISI On?

Osama's secret lair, cleverly concealed in a Pakistani military retirement community

A good look into the murky, sometimes two-faced Pakistani intelligence agency

Jury Scuttle “Jolly Raj-er”
Galleon Group founder  convicted of insider trading




Flood’s Crest Delivers Fresh Misery In Mississippi
Nine of the eleven counties affected in Mississippi have poverty rates of 27% or more



POLITICS
Gingrich Courts Social Conservatives In White House Bid

The former speaker throws his hat in the ring

God has doubtless forgiven him, but have evangelicals and his fellow Catholics?

Can Romney Inoculate Himself On Healthcare?




Trump Slams Rove, Blames Him For W, Obama

Cuomo: NY Legislature Doesn’t Want Ethics Reform

Indiana 1, Planned Parenthood 0 (Bottom of 1st)

Wisconsin Assembly Passes Voter ID Bill

House Armed Services Committee Approves Defense Budget Delaying Repeal Of DADT, Restricting Obama’s Nuclear Cutbacks; 60-1 Bipartisan Vote



THE ECONOMY, STUPID
Commodity Weakness Drives Fall In US Stocks
Nissan Beats Profit Estimates After Earthquake
Cisco Edges Past Street Estimates
“Widowmaker” Oil Trade Lives Up To Its Name
Gasoline Futures Plummet As Americans Drive Less
Corn, Wheat, Soybean Futures Decline On USDA Supply Outlook Tops Forecast; Lower Corn Prices Could Ease Food Inflation
Hands On With The Samsung Chromebook
Senators Say AT&T/T-Mobile Merger May Hurt Competition
For Smartphones, Does Size Matter?



SPORTS
Heat Ousts Celtics, Moves On To Finals

Dwayne Wade leads the Heat to victory with 34 points

Miami comes back to score 16 points in the final four minutes, win 97-87

Angels’ Morales Needs More Surgery, Out For Season

Fiesta Bowl Fined $1 Million, Stays In BCS

Thunder Crushes Grizzlies 99-72 (Video)

Lakers Showed No Class

Rays’ Price Slams Door On Streaking Tribe

Astros Sink Reds With Walk-Off Double In Ninth

Boxer Bernard Hopkins Rips McNabb, Plays Race Card

Lackey Unable To Deliver For Frustrated Sox



FAMOUS FOR BEING FAMOUS

Lohan Pleads No Contest To Theft

Judge declines to order rehab, says actress has deeper problems

Lindsay to get 120 days home confinement for parole violation; probation extended to three years

Bristol Palin: Why I Changed My Face

The Stunning Death Of “Road Trip” Actress & Model Mia Amber Davis

Bethenny Frankel Sued By Ex-Manager For $100 Million

Hugh Grant Almost Replaced Charlie Sheen On “Two And A Half Men”

Princess Beatrice To Auction Ugliest Hat In World On EBay


How Much Did Pippa Middleton’s “Friends: Make On Her Racy Pics?

Taylor Swift Rips Celebs Who Complain About Paparazzi As “Obnoxious”



FOREIGNERS
Libyan Rebels Win Major Victory In Misurata; Main Loyalist Base At Airport Captured, Weapons & Ammo Seized
Eight Dead In Spanish Quake
Deadly Crackdown As Yemen Protests Continue (Video)
Uganda’s Museveni To Be Sworn In As Besigye Returns



BLOGS & STUFF
Wall Street Journal: Obama’s Running Mate
Harry’s Place: Wikileaks Jumps The Shark
Fr. Robert Sirico: Boehner’s Catholic Critics Rush To Protect Welfare State
Big Hollywood: Despite Outrage, Common Performs At The White House
Lonely Conservative: Providers Say They Won’t Participate In Obamacare Networks
Allahpundit: Legal Authorization For Libyan Mission Set To Expire In Ten Days
Jihad Watch: Hamas Says They’ll Accept 1967 Borders But Will Never Recognize Israel
Sarah Palin: Removing The Boot From The Throat Of American Businesses
Tigerhawk: The Rich Fat Kid
PJ Tatler: Website Of Jihadi WaPo Editorialist Proclaims “Barack Obama Is Dead”

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Category: Live at Five
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