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New Kinds of Crazy

Posted on | November 15, 2010 | 2 Comments

When good old-fashioned lunacy seems a trifle boring — if traditional psychosis is just a tad on too ordinary for your taste — why not try a genuinely innovative form of insanity?

On the morning of April 13, a foul odor brought police to Apartment B.
It appeared that Gauthier had been the first to die, followed by her daughter, then Boli-Gbagra.
Investigators believe the deaths may have been spaced out over nearly two months.
Among the items found in the sparsely furnished apartment: several French magazines and books — including Let’s Welcome the Extraterrestrials and Yes to Human Cloning — connected with the Raelian movement. . . .

Read the whole thing. It’s truly weird. Thanks to Soylent Green, who compares it to global warming.

Category: Crime

Schadenfreude

Posted on | November 15, 2010 | 6 Comments

Their misery makes me happy:

After nearly two weeks of introspection, President Obama’s top advisers have concluded that the “shellacking” Democrats took on Election Day was caused in large part by their own failure to live up to expectations set during the 2008 campaign, not merely the typical political cycles and poor messaging they pointed to at first.
While the president has been on a trip to Asia for the past 10 days, all but a few of his top aides stayed behind to figure out what went so wrong and what to do about it. Wearing casual clothes and with the White House to themselves, they determined that the situation they face is serious and will take significant adjustments to reverse. . . .

The only thing that keeps this from being unmitigated joy for me is my knowledge that these “top advisers” moping around the White House are getting paid fat salaries at taxpayer expense.

Category: Barack Obama

What Causes Islamophobia

Posted on | November 15, 2010 | 19 Comments

Stuff like this:

Make no mistake: The reason that 3-year-old Mandy Simon had to be searched by TSA is Islam — and the politically-correct insistence that, in Ed Morrissey’s phrase, “everyone must suffer equally” in airport security.

UPDATE: Jeffrey Goldberg informs us that Nov. 24 is “National Opt-Out Day,” and urges people to (a) refuse the full-body scans and (b) fly “commando.”

Category: Uncategorized

LIVE AT FIVE – 11.15.10

Posted on | November 15, 2010 | 3 Comments

TOP NEWS

Seven Killed, 20 Injured In Mexico Hotel Explosion

Red Cross workers search a damaged area of the hotel

Five Canadians among the dead; natural gas pocket blamed

Netanyahu Backs U.S. Freeze Proposal
Multi-billion dollar incentive package helps

Rangel Ethics Hearing Begins Monday
First public ethics hearing since Traficant in 2002


GOP Spoiling For A Fight On Healthcare
But will control of the House translate into an effective counterattack on Obamacare?



POLITICS

Scott Brown Wants Immigration Reform To Focus On Economy, Not Fluff

Senator Brown: No fluff and no amnesty need apply

Calls DREAM Act “fluff”, but wants to talk to Reid and see what he has in mind

Murkowski Holds Lead In Write-Ins, Still About 9000 Votes Short

Obama Advisers Talk About Need To Reach Out To GOP And Get Things Done


Gains For GOP In Texas Mean More Women In Office



THE ECONOMY, STUPID

Japan GDP Growth 3.9% For The Year On Consumption Growth

Investments In Lawsuits Growing

PRC Now Has Fastest Supercomputer

Verizon Brings Microsoft Kin Back From The Dead



SPORTS

Left For Dead, Cowboys Rise To Slay Giants 33-20

Ramses Barden coughs up the ball in the second quarter

New Meadowlands suffers power failure, much like Giants’ players

Hail Yeah! Jags Beat Texans With Last-Minute Pass

Jets Win In OT For Second Week In A Row

Bears Maul Vikings, Take First Place In Division

TCU Holds Off Boise State For Third In BCS Rankings



FAMOUS FOR BEING FAMOUS

Bill Clinton Joins Cast of “Hangover 2”

Bill Clinton (like we had to tell you, right?)

Shot cameo appearance on Saturday while in Thailand for speech

Daniel Radcliffe Talks Tattoos, Going Shirtless, and Pattison Rivalry

Oksana Grigorieva Defies Judge, Makes Appearance On “Larry King”

Lohan Has Security Turn Away Dad

Britney Takes Son Out For Yogurt
Yeah, this is what passes for news *eyeroll*

Jessica Simpson Engaged



FOREIGNERS

APEC Leaders Commit To Free Trade, Regional Growth

NATO TO Annouce Transition Strategy In Afghanistan

Al-Qaeda Opposed To Attacks On Hajj Pilgrims

Omar Bakri Mohammed Captured In Lebanon



BLOGS & STUFF

Dennis The Peasant: Some Good Old-Fashioned Matty Gibberish

American Digest: The Open Sewer Of San Francisco

Michelle Malkin: Waiver Mania!

Newsbusters: DKos Says The American Dream Is A Virus Like AIDS


— compiled by Wombat-socho

Category: Live at Five

‘Aggregate Demand,’ Again

Posted on | November 15, 2010 | 1 Comment

What is it with this neo-Keynesian stuff? Back in July, Brad DeLong did his little paean to “aggregate demand.” At least DeLong is an economist. Matthew Yglesias, not so much:

So if for whatever reason businessmen or politicians or media figures or anyone else feels more comfortable expressing the situation as one caused by “uncertainty” that’s fine. But the name of the game is still fiscal and monetary expansion. But instead the proposed cure typically seems to be “shift public policy in a more rightwing direction.” That wouldn’t do anything about uncertainty or a shortfall in aggregate demand. It’s just a faux-sophisticated way of saying “I’m a rich businessman who wants politicians to cater to my interests more.”

Yglesias knows all about “faux-sophisticated” ways of saying things. What he doesn’t know is economics.

Category: Economics

What’s the Very Best Thing About Republicans Winning the Election?

Posted on | November 14, 2010 | 6 Comments

Britney’s got a new boyfriend. No, that’s not the best thing about the election. The best thing about the election is, now that Republicans have won a solid majority in the House of Representatives, it feels safe to blog about silly stuff like Britney Spears again.

For months, the approach of Nov. 2 seemed like such a do-or-die moment that the entire right-wing blogosphere was totally game faces, until we were on the verge of turning into Read more

Category: Blogging, Election

Kill the Rich!

Posted on | November 14, 2010 | 17 Comments

Frank Rich, I mean. Three weeks ago, I spent an hour or so debunking his claim that Obama cut your taxes. Being quite proud of the result, I immediately e-mailed it to Instapundit and . . . no linky-love.

So after about four or five hours, I e-mailed him again: “I don’t get it. Here we have Frank Rich using his New York Times column to push a bogus Democratic Party talking-point a week before the election, and I’ve expended the time and effort to dismantle it, and no linky-love? What gives?”

The answer came in the subsequent link:

“PICKING ON FRANK RICH IS SO EASY IT’S HARDLY WORTH IT, but some people enjoy the practice.”

Well, the election is over and Americans evidently weren’t swayed by that idiotic Obama-cut-your-taxes propaganda, so I suppose Professor Reynolds is right: Frank Rich can be ignored as harmless.

It is nevertheless enjoyable practice to dismantle the endless idiocy of the Worst Columnist in America the World All Human History.

Today, for example, Rich denounces those “wealthy Americans . . . who take far more from America than they give back.”

Rich’s editors permit him to go on in this vein for 1,538 words in a column that involves no original reporting. He interviewed no one. He didn’t pick up the phone and call any sources, nor did this column require him to set foot outside his apartment. He watches “60 Minutes,” reads Think Progress and throws in some “empirical evidence” from a “deservedly lauded new book” by two political science professors.

What is the journalistic purpose of such an effort? Where is the value to the New York Times?

One possible answer: Rich articulates the inner rationale by which the newspaper’s liberal readership justify their political prejudices. He lends his Harvard-educated eloquence to these prejudices, providing his readers with reassurance that they’re absolutely right and that anyone who disagrees with them is hopelessly ignorant. Read more

Category: Economics, New York Times, Taxes

LIVE AT FIVE – 11.14.10

Posted on | November 14, 2010 | 1 Comment

TOP NEWS

President Looks Good But Gets Nothing Done In Asia

President Obama listens to Russian President Medvedev at the APEC summit

No hard target forex agreement, no free trade deals with Japan or the ROK.

Karzai Calls For Reduction In Afghanistan Ops Intensity
“The time has come to reduce the presence of, you know, boots in Afghanistan . . . .”

Suu Kyi Urges Followers To Persist In Push For Democracy
“You have to stand up for what is right.”

POLITICS

Lawyers Start Leaving Alaska As Write-In Count Nears End

 

GOP Senate candidate Joe Miller visits the vote count site

Miller refuses to concede until absentee ballots counted

GOP Takes Tough Stand On Saving Bush Tax Rates

Pelosi Won’t Let Go

Dems Agree On Leadership Structure; Clyburn Settles For New #3 Post

Federal Offices Not The Only Ones Waiting For Resolution

Bennet Declines Offer To Lead DSCC

THE ECONOMY, STUPID

Ireland Urged To Seek Aid To Solve Debt Crisis

Auction Of Madoff Effects Raises $2 Million

Saudi Arabia Defriends, Refriends Facebook

Samsung Galaxy Tab Doesn’t Have To Be iPad Killer To Succeed

SPORTS

Bowl-Barred Trojans Grind On, Upset #18 Arizona

USC's Mark Tyler runs it in for a TD in the second quarter

USC on pace for a ten-win season

#3 TCU Dominates San Diego State 40-35

NBA’s Big Story So Far: Not The Heat But The Hornets

Spurrier’s Cocks Down Gators 36-14

Kopitar Scores Twice In Kings Win; Islanders Suffer Tenth Straight Loss

FAMOUS FOR BEING FAMOUS

Disney Reworks Demi Series

 

Demi Lovato

“So Random” show-within-a-show becomes main focus in star’s absence

Kanye West’s Media Trainer Quits After Disastrous “Today” Interview

Zsa Zsa Gabor Heading Home From Hospital

New Boyfriend For Britney?

FOREIGNERS

Burmese Democracy Activist Freed After Seven Years’ House Arrest

Obama Tells Medvedev New START Treaty Is Top Priority

Nationwide Strike Called In Bangladesh After Ex-PM Evicted

Iraqiya Bloc Returns From Walkout, Agrees To Role In Unity Government; Allawi Talking Withdrawal To Form New Bloc

BLOGS & STUFF

Sarah Palin: An Open Letter To GOP Congressional Freshmen

Jonathan Last: American Narcissus

Michelle Malkin: Obama Doesn’t Need An iPad, He’s Got a $102,000/Year iReggie

Verum Serum: Jon Stewart Is The Left’s Rally Monkey


— compiled by Wombat-socho

Category: Live at Five
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