Bad New York cop plus a guy on a bicycle make for a tightly wound, radically fresh slice of street action in the film starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Michael Shannon.
Saturday, August 25, 2012
'Premium Rush'
The previews are wild, and Betsy Sharkey gave it two thumbs up, at the Los Angeles Times, "Review: 'Premium Rush' a thrilling bike ride
Obama Campaign's Outrage Over Romney 'Birther' Joke is 'Most Absurd Example of Fake Umbrage in the History of Fake Umbrage'
Charles Krauthammer nails the left's hypocrisy as only Charles Krauthammer can:
RELATED: As promised, here's Adam Serwer tossing out the race card:
Romney took a knife to the progressives with that birther joke. As I said earlier, it was f-king brilliant. Way to shift the outrage immediately. CNN was playing the clip all day yesterday afternoon. That took up hella lot of airtime. And remember, what's especially good is how Romney's closing the gap on likability, and if he's able to get a zinger in there to rile up the base at the same time, what a bonus. It's a dead heat election at this point. The Dems will try mercilessly to destroy the GOP bounce coming out of Tampa. I mentioned earlier that Tropical Storm Isaac might be an act of God, and maybe so --- it's sucking the wind out of MSM attacks on Republicans on the eve of the convention. Interesting how things work like that. Progressives are such hypocrite hacks. They've been playing "tax return birtherism" for months, but when the shoe's on the other foot it's RAAAAACISM!!
We have a party of idiots to defeat. God, these people are so bad it's unmentionable. Man. At this point it really is about saving the country, sad to say.
RELATED: As promised, here's Adam Serwer tossing out the race card:
Romney is not himself a birther. He was engaging in ironic post-birtherism—showing solidarity with birthers by making a humorous remark that can be plausibly denied as a joke later. This is a necessary device for a Republican politician who wants to rile up the base without seeming like a lunatic, because the belief that President Barack Obama was not born in the United States is still held by nearly half of self-identified Republicans even after the very public release of the president's birth certificate. Birtherism remains the most frank and widespread evidence of racial animus among some of the president's critics. As Ta-Nehisi Coates writes in The Atlantic this month, the birthers, strapped in their waxen wings, aim for nothing less than the sun: "If Obama is not truly American, then America has still never had a black president."And interestingly, it's the smell of fear at No More Mister Nice Blog.
Romney took a knife to the progressives with that birther joke. As I said earlier, it was f-king brilliant. Way to shift the outrage immediately. CNN was playing the clip all day yesterday afternoon. That took up hella lot of airtime. And remember, what's especially good is how Romney's closing the gap on likability, and if he's able to get a zinger in there to rile up the base at the same time, what a bonus. It's a dead heat election at this point. The Dems will try mercilessly to destroy the GOP bounce coming out of Tampa. I mentioned earlier that Tropical Storm Isaac might be an act of God, and maybe so --- it's sucking the wind out of MSM attacks on Republicans on the eve of the convention. Interesting how things work like that. Progressives are such hypocrite hacks. They've been playing "tax return birtherism" for months, but when the shoe's on the other foot it's RAAAAACISM!!
We have a party of idiots to defeat. God, these people are so bad it's unmentionable. Man. At this point it really is about saving the country, sad to say.
Barack Obama's Joyless Slog Towards Reelection
Joyless --- and ruthlessly dishonest.
From Toby Harnden, at London's Daily Mail, "Low blows, lower turnouts and low expectations: Four years after he was swept to victory, how Obama's election campaign is a joyless slog" (via Instapundit):
From Toby Harnden, at London's Daily Mail, "Low blows, lower turnouts and low expectations: Four years after he was swept to victory, how Obama's election campaign is a joyless slog" (via Instapundit):
Barack Obama was swept to the White House in 2008 by a wave of idealism and inspirational campaigning in which he encapsulated the mood of the nation with his slogans of ‘Hope’, ‘Change’ and ‘Yes we can’.Continue reading.
Then, his message was a fundamentally positive one. Americans wanted an end to the Bush era but that almost went without saying. Obama pointed to his own vision of the country; a post-partisan, post-racial America in which gridlock in Washington was ended and common-sense centrist solutions were adopted.
What a difference four years makes. Obama is campaigning ferociously for a second term – and he is a candidate who would have probably have been disdained by the Obama of 2008.
Obama is waging a relentlessly negative campaign of changing the subject from the one that, overwhelmingly, most Americans care about – the economy. Every week there is a new issue his campaign seizes on, preferring to talk about something, anything other than jobs and 8.3 per cent unemployment.
While Obama is still drawing sizable crowds, they are nothing like the size of those who flocked to see him in 2008. In Las Vegas, Obama held a rally in a high school before more than 2,000 people but there was space for plenty more.
Apple Wins $1 Billion in Samsung Patent Trial
A billion dollars ain't no chump change either.
At the Wall Street Journal, "Apple Wins Big in Patent Case: Jury Finds Samsung Mobile Devices Infringed Six Apple Patents, Awards $1.05 Billion in Damages":
And a bunch of commentary at Techmeme.
At the Wall Street Journal, "Apple Wins Big in Patent Case: Jury Finds Samsung Mobile Devices Infringed Six Apple Patents, Awards $1.05 Billion in Damages":
SAN JOSE, Calif.—Nine jurors delivered a sweeping victory to Apple Inc. in a high-stakes court battle against Samsung Electronics Co., awarding the Silicon Valley company $1.05 billion in damages and providing ammunition for more legal attacks on its mobile-device rivals.More at that top link.
Jurors Friday found that Samsung infringed all but one of the seven patents at issue in the case—a patent covering the physical design of the iPad. They found all seven of Apple's patents valid—despite Samsung's attempts to have them thrown out. They also decided Apple didn't violate any of the five patents Samsung asserted in the case.
The damage award is shy of Apple's request for more than $2.5 billion, but much larger than Samsung's estimates and still ranking among the largest intellectual-property awards on record.
"Today's verdict should not be viewed as a win for Apple, but as a loss for the American consumer," Samsung said. "It will lead to fewer choices, less innovation, and potentially higher prices."
An Apple spokeswoman said, "The mountain of evidence presented during the trial showed that Samsung's copying went far deeper than even we knew."
And a bunch of commentary at Techmeme.
Jeffrey T. Johnson, Empire State Building Shooter, Nursed Grudges Before Killing Co-Worker
I can't escape the idea that part of this was copycat, considering all the recent gun violence.
See the New York Times, "Long Before Carnage, an Office Grudge Festered":
This Johnson dude was a loser.
That said, my wife has repeatedly mentioned her worries about the crazed progressives who've attempted to have me fired at my work. You never know what some people may do. The LBPD even said to take extra precaution, saying that even New York City is just a few hours away by plane. I was told to report any suspicious activity to officers right away. Again, you never know with crazy people like this.
RELATED: "Carl Salonen Libelous Workplace Allegations of Child Pornography and Sexual Harassment at Long Beach City College," and "The Lies of Scott Eric Kaufman — Leftist Hate-Blogger Sought to Silence Criticism With Libelous Campaign of Workplace Harassment."
See the New York Times, "Long Before Carnage, an Office Grudge Festered":
The two men at the center of a fatal shooting outside the Empire State Building on Friday had brushed shoulders for years — often literally, two large egos stuffed into a small office — and yet could hardly have been less alike.Continue reading.
Neighbors and co-workers described them: Jeffrey T. Johnson, 58, a slight, meticulous artist, the first one to work in the morning and the last one out, without so much as a look outside for fresh air in between; Steven Ercolino, 41, a well-built, confident salesman used to getting what he wanted when he wanted it. The artist chafed at what he saw as the salesman’s casual bossiness, they said, and the two never got along.
Years passed this way at the company, Hazan Imports, which sold handbags and belts, until Mr. Johnson was laid off almost two years ago.
And yet, the casual observer would not have known it, to look at him. He put on the same suit every morning: the Upper East Side’s own Willy Loman, dressing for a job he no longer had. He picked up his newspaper on the front stoop and walked two blocks to McDonald’s for breakfast. Months after his dismissal, he showed up at the building where he once worked, across West 33rd Street from the famous skyscraper, and confronted the salesman, a much larger man, in an elevator. The two came close enough to blows — Mr. Johnson throwing an elbow, Mr. Ercolino grabbing his throat and threatening him — that it was reported to the police.
The feud ended Friday. Mr. Johnson left his East 82nd Street walk-up in his suit, as he did every other day. And Mr. Ercolino took the PATH train from Hoboken, N.J., where he lived with his girlfriend, to the West 33rd Street building near Fifth Avenue. A co-worker saw him and shouted for him to wait, then they walked toward the entrance together. They were almost there when the co-worker, Irene Timan, 35, saw Mr. Johnson lurking behind a white van.
This Johnson dude was a loser.
That said, my wife has repeatedly mentioned her worries about the crazed progressives who've attempted to have me fired at my work. You never know what some people may do. The LBPD even said to take extra precaution, saying that even New York City is just a few hours away by plane. I was told to report any suspicious activity to officers right away. Again, you never know with crazy people like this.
RELATED: "Carl Salonen Libelous Workplace Allegations of Child Pornography and Sexual Harassment at Long Beach City College," and "The Lies of Scott Eric Kaufman — Leftist Hate-Blogger Sought to Silence Criticism With Libelous Campaign of Workplace Harassment."
Farmers Feed Candy to Cows Amid High Corn Prices, Outrage Over Ethanol Quotas
At the Los Angeles Times, "Farmer feeds candy to cows to cope with high corn prices":
Plus, "As drought widens, 50.3% of U.S. counties declared disaster areas."
PHOTO: "Rancher Gary Wollert inspects a dead cow on dry grasslands near Eads, Colo. He speculated that it ate a poisonous weed in search of food," c/o the Los Angeles Times.
The worst drought in decades has destroyed more than half the U.S. corn crop, pushing prices to record levels and squeezing livestock owners as they struggle to feed their herds.And see, "Calls to lower ethanol quota rise as U.S. corn crop withers,' and "U.S. drought pushing corn prices toward record highs."
To cope, one Kentucky cattle farmer has turned to a child-tested way to fatten his 1,400 cows: candy.
"It's so hard to make any money when corn is eight or nine dollars a bushel," said Nick Smith, co-owner of United Livestock Commodities in Mayfield, Ky.
The chocolate and other sweet stuff was rejected by retailers. It makes up 5% to 8% of the cattle's feed ration, Smith said. The rest includes roughage and distillers grain, an ethanol byproduct.
The candy's high caloric content is fattening up the cows nicely, Smith said.
Paul Cameron, who heads a California Cattlemen's Assn. feed committee, said Smith's candy strategy is "awfully creative" but also extremely unusual.
"There are people that feed vegetables and potatoes and stuff like that … to offset the high price of grains, but I've never heard of that," said Cameron, managing partner of Mesquite Cattle Feeders, an operation that feeds up to 35,000 head of cattle in Brawley, Calif. "He's probably at an advantage by doing that."
Plus, "As drought widens, 50.3% of U.S. counties declared disaster areas."
PHOTO: "Rancher Gary Wollert inspects a dead cow on dry grasslands near Eads, Colo. He speculated that it ate a poisonous weed in search of food," c/o the Los Angeles Times.
Obama's America
Everyone's talking about this film, even Nikki Finke, "Anti-Obama Docu Expands To #3 Friday; Other Newcomers & Holdovers Weak B.O.; Only ‘The Expendables 2′ Can Break $10M." (At Memeorandum.)
VIDEO CREDIT: Nice Deb.
VIDEO CREDIT: Nice Deb.
Friday, August 24, 2012
Snap Decision: Questions Emerge After Police Gun Down Shooting Suspect on Crowded City Street
There's a lot of questions, frankly. One concerns the decision of police to open fire with so many people in close proximity. The New York Times has that, "Decision by 2 Officers to Open Fire in Busy Midtown Leaves Bystanders Wounded."
By the looks of the security-camera video above, it was an easy call, frankly. Self defense. The suspect stopped, pulled out a gun, and appears about to fire on the officers.
But another question emerging tonight deals with the graphic media coverage of the shooting. The New York Post has all these graphic videos, for example, and the New York Times posted an image of the shooter's victim, in what looks like a pool of blood. Poynter reports on the reaction, "New York Times explains graphic photo from Empire State Building shooting." The photo appears at that link and can still be seen at the front page of the paper as this post goes live. It's the 5th shot in this slideshow, "Steve Ercolino lies dead on West 33rd Street on Friday morning after being shot by Jeffrey T. Johnson, a former coworker."
See also, "How the media handled graphic images of Empire State Building shooting."
There's a less a question on the police opening fire, unless the public expects officers to take bullets, offering no defense, any time there are civilian presents. I wouldn't make that call. Why would anyone expect police to take a bullet in that kind of situation. It goes against human nature. Moreover, had officers stood down (possibly getting shot), the suspect might have gotten away, which could have endangered the lives of others.
As for the media coverage, I'm actually a little surprised with all the graphic imagery, especially in the video clips. Although I don't think the New York Times' photo is inappropriate.
As the two officers confronted a gunman in front of the Empire State Building on a busy Friday morning, they had to make a snap decision: Do they open fire in the middle of Midtown?Keep reading.
From a distance of less than 10 feet, the officers, Craig Matthews and Robert Sinishtaj, answered in unison; one shot nine times and the other seven.
Investigators believe at least 7 of those 16 bullets struck the gunman, said Paul J. Browne, the Police Department’s chief spokesman. But the officers also struck some, if not all, of the nine bystanders who were wounded. This was the second time in two weeks that the police were
By the looks of the security-camera video above, it was an easy call, frankly. Self defense. The suspect stopped, pulled out a gun, and appears about to fire on the officers.
But another question emerging tonight deals with the graphic media coverage of the shooting. The New York Post has all these graphic videos, for example, and the New York Times posted an image of the shooter's victim, in what looks like a pool of blood. Poynter reports on the reaction, "New York Times explains graphic photo from Empire State Building shooting." The photo appears at that link and can still be seen at the front page of the paper as this post goes live. It's the 5th shot in this slideshow, "Steve Ercolino lies dead on West 33rd Street on Friday morning after being shot by Jeffrey T. Johnson, a former coworker."
See also, "How the media handled graphic images of Empire State Building shooting."
There's a less a question on the police opening fire, unless the public expects officers to take bullets, offering no defense, any time there are civilian presents. I wouldn't make that call. Why would anyone expect police to take a bullet in that kind of situation. It goes against human nature. Moreover, had officers stood down (possibly getting shot), the suspect might have gotten away, which could have endangered the lives of others.
As for the media coverage, I'm actually a little surprised with all the graphic imagery, especially in the video clips. Although I don't think the New York Times' photo is inappropriate.
Oh My! New CNN Poll Shows Romney Topping Obama 48-to-45 Among Likely Independent Voters!
Shoot, this is getting to be "Oh My!" Friday.
Here's this from CNN, "CNN Poll: Obama 49%-Romney 47% among likely voters." And the survey sampled likely voters:
In recent polling, some analysts have stressed how Romney needed to close the likability gap. He's done that now, but then analysts --- Ronald Brownstein this afternoon, in this case --- said that Romney needed to appeal to suburban women voters, with the implication that today's "birther" joke was simply preaching to the choir. The joke was meant for the media, not the conservative base. Romney was looking to throw a monkey wrench into the Democrat-Media-Complex meme-machine before the RNC kicks off over the weekend. In any event, Romney's on the tall side of the margin of error with those independents, and the convention might help draw a few more over to the GOP --- even a few women, come to think of it. Wait until they hear Mrs. Romney speak. She's a knockout.
And AoSHQ has some queries and conjectures, "CNN Poll of Likely Voters: Obama's Ahead (Huh?) 49-47 (MoE); But Romney's Favorables at 50%":
Oh, and the poll found that 83 percent thought that abortion should be legal in the case of rape, incest, or to protect the life of the mother --- which is another way of saying there's a massive pro-life majority out there willing to make exceptions. Meanwhile, the Democrats dropped the "rare" standard from their party's previous doctrine of "safe, legal, and rare." The pro-infanticide progressives simply don't give a f-ck about the lives of unborn children:
More at Memeorandum.
Here's this from CNN, "CNN Poll: Obama 49%-Romney 47% among likely voters." And the survey sampled likely voters:
With three days to go until the start of the Republican convention, President Barack Obama and GOP challenger Mitt Romney remain deadlocked in the race for the White House, according to a new national survey.More at the link.
A CNN/ORC International poll released Friday also indicates Romney's favorable rating among those likely to vote in the presidential election is in the same ballpark as the president's, and the survey also points to a slightly higher level of enthusiasm for Republicans than Democrats.
According to the poll, 49% of likely voters say they're backing Obama, with 47% supporting Romney. The two point margin is within the survey's sampling error, meaning the race is a statistical tie....
In the horserace, 48% of likely voters who are independents say they support Romney, with 45% backing Obama. The gender gap and generational divides seen in polling so far this cycle continue, with the president holding a 54%-42% lead among female likely votes and Romney holding a 53%-43% lead among male likely voters. Obama has a 55%-43% advantage among those under 50, with Romney holding a 50%-45% margin among likely voters 50 and older.
In recent polling, some analysts have stressed how Romney needed to close the likability gap. He's done that now, but then analysts --- Ronald Brownstein this afternoon, in this case --- said that Romney needed to appeal to suburban women voters, with the implication that today's "birther" joke was simply preaching to the choir. The joke was meant for the media, not the conservative base. Romney was looking to throw a monkey wrench into the Democrat-Media-Complex meme-machine before the RNC kicks off over the weekend. In any event, Romney's on the tall side of the margin of error with those independents, and the convention might help draw a few more over to the GOP --- even a few women, come to think of it. Wait until they hear Mrs. Romney speak. She's a knockout.
And AoSHQ has some queries and conjectures, "CNN Poll of Likely Voters: Obama's Ahead (Huh?) 49-47 (MoE); But Romney's Favorables at 50%":
John King said that Romney "stepped on" this good news with his Birth Certificate joke.Keep reading.
I wonder if Romney didn't do that on purpose. Since our unserious, unprofessional, unintelligent, partisan press is determined to talk about distractions (given that all substance favors Romney), why not give them a distraction of your own choosing?
If the choice is between Rape!!! and Birth Certificate, isn't it better to talk about Obama's Birth Certificate? Neither is what Romney wants to talk about, but the press is determined to only report on irrelevancies; so give them one that doesn't much hurt you.
Anyway, the poll. It's a deadlock, the 2% lead statistically meaningless. Romney leads independents 48-45 (which itself is statistically meaningless).
Oh, and the poll found that 83 percent thought that abortion should be legal in the case of rape, incest, or to protect the life of the mother --- which is another way of saying there's a massive pro-life majority out there willing to make exceptions. Meanwhile, the Democrats dropped the "rare" standard from their party's previous doctrine of "safe, legal, and rare." The pro-infanticide progressives simply don't give a f-ck about the lives of unborn children:
The DNC platform supports all abortion and does not contain any language opposing partial-birth abortion, nor does it distinguish that practice from first-trimester abortion. It is the official position of the Democratic Party to not only be able to shove the scissors into the skulls of newborns and suck out their brains — they don't even pretend to harbor the expectation that the practice be "rare."Baby-killing progressives --- the party of President Infanticide. It's like a f-king holocaust with these ghouls.
More at Memeorandum.
Fired Employee Shoots Former Co-Worker at Empire State Building — GRAPHIC VIDEO
At the New York Post, "Fired worker kills ex-colleague at Empire State Building, 9 others injured before cop shoots him."
More at Memeorandum.
And see the New York Times, "Fatal Shooting at Empire State Building - One Victim Killed; Gunman, Who Had Lost His Job, Dies."
Plus, see Ed Morrissey at Hot Air, "Empire State Building shooting leaves several wounded, two dead, including suspect."
A fired worker gunned down a former coworkers on a busy Midtown street and then turned his weapon on police officers right in front of the Empire State Building — and in the ensuing gun battle he was killed and nine pedestrians were struck, some by cop bullets, Mayor Bloomberg and Police Commissioner Ray Kelly said today.Continue reading.
The 9 a.m. mayhem sent commuters and tourists in a panicked scramble from the jam-packed intersection of 34th Street and Fifth Avenue.
Bloomberg identified the shooter as Jeffrey Johnson, 53, who had been fired two years ago from Hazan Imports at 10 W. 33rd Street, around the corner from the scene.
More at Memeorandum.
And see the New York Times, "Fatal Shooting at Empire State Building - One Victim Killed; Gunman, Who Had Lost His Job, Dies."
Plus, see Ed Morrissey at Hot Air, "Empire State Building shooting leaves several wounded, two dead, including suspect."
Rachel McAdams 'Passion' Trailer — Hot Lesbian Lovemaking, Oh My!
Ooh, this is sexy.
Off the porn mags and onto the big screen, I guess. And with newcomer Noomi Rapace. I'm not familiar with her, which adds a nice touch — of freshness.
At London's Daily Mail, "Blindfolded Rachel McAdams shares lesbian tryst with masked Noomi Rapace in trailer for erotic thriller Passion."
And the guys over at Egotastic are in heaven, "Our Favorite Lezzy Love Scenes Safe Enough to Watch on YouTube."
Off the porn mags and onto the big screen, I guess. And with newcomer Noomi Rapace. I'm not familiar with her, which adds a nice touch — of freshness.
At London's Daily Mail, "Blindfolded Rachel McAdams shares lesbian tryst with masked Noomi Rapace in trailer for erotic thriller Passion."
And the guys over at Egotastic are in heaven, "Our Favorite Lezzy Love Scenes Safe Enough to Watch on YouTube."
Oh My! Mitt Romney Revives 'Birther' Controversy — 'No One's Ever Asked to See My Birth Certificate' (VIDEO)
I personally wasn't expecting this, but since Team Obama's campaigning for reelection on the dirtiest platform in American history, it makes perfect sense. Indeed, joking about O's birth certificate is a brilliant burst of spontaneity on the eve of the Republican National Convention. Progressives can get all bent out of shape that Mitt dared even question --- even jokingly --- Barack Hussein's eligibility for the Oval Office. Meanwhile, O's media lapdogs will eat it up, looking to smear the GOP ticket as extremists and "birthers," which nicely takes the focus off the left's abortion obsession. The trick, however, is not to let "birtherism" really take hold again. The convention starts Monday. Get the focus on the economy.
In any case, see William Jacobson, at Legal Insurrection, "Barack Obama again jokes about his birth certificate, outrage ensues …. oh, wait":
I'm gonna check around for some of that nutroots outrage and see if I can come up with some knee-slappers. Check back.
In any case, see William Jacobson, at Legal Insurrection, "Barack Obama again jokes about his birth certificate, outrage ensues …. oh, wait":
Oooooh, Mitt Romney made a joke about his own birth certificate, and the MSM and nutroots go wild!More at that link, and also at Memeorandum. And at Twitchy, "Romney: ‘No one has ever asked to see my birth certificate’; Update: Team Obama feigns outrage" (at Memeorandum).
I'm gonna check around for some of that nutroots outrage and see if I can come up with some knee-slappers. Check back.
Teachers, Unions, and Students
From the letters to the editor, at the Los Angeles Times, "Re 'A good teacher is hard to keep,' Opinion, Aug. 19":
Anyway, here's the original essay, from Sujata Bhatt, "A good teacher is hard to keep." It's no wonder why teacher retention is so bad, and it's not likely to get a whole lot better anytime soon.
Bhatt scapegoats teachers. She cites a report that says it takes 11 hires by a district to yield one truly great teacher, and no doubt is confident that she is one of those rare ones.I'll disagree only so much as, yeah, there are some shitty teachers --- and the unions themselves are hopelessly warped by social justice ideology --- but it's true that students are disastrously unprepared for the rigors of academic life. I'm always pleased when I get some really motivated students, but sadly, that's generally a small minority of the students who come through the doors at my college. They may think otherwise, having been pumped up by touchy-feely pedagogy for their entire K-12 careers, but it's a culture shock when they're confronted with the university-level curriculum that I present in my classes. Sad, kinda. And it's a struggle for dedicated faculty to get the support of the administration for a rigorous program. All a student has to do these days is cry about some civil rights violation or another, and poof! They'll be pushed right through as the administrative talking heads browbeat the faculty into compliance.
The problem is that students aren't responsible for anything anymore. And a system that doesn't make students responsible allows low-performing students to slow everyone down. The students who are failing are, for whatever reason, just not dialed in. Show me a student who reads outside of school and I'll show you a successful student. Show me a student that does his or her homework, and I'll show you a successful student.
It's time to stop blaming teachers and realize that we have a societal problem that is aggravated by a lack of rewards or consequences for students. Too many of our students learn the importance of their education years after high school.
Stan Brown
Victorville
Anyway, here's the original essay, from Sujata Bhatt, "A good teacher is hard to keep." It's no wonder why teacher retention is so bad, and it's not likely to get a whole lot better anytime soon.
Anders Behring Breivik Gets Maximum Sentence in Norway Mass Murder Trial
At the New York Times, "Norway Killer Is Ruled Sane and Given 21 Years in Prison."
Only 21 years. And no death penalty in Norway?
That dude deserves it. Look at him smirking at the clip.
Only 21 years. And no death penalty in Norway?
That dude deserves it. Look at him smirking at the clip.
New Quinnipiac University/New York Times/CBS Poll
It's pretty much in line with other current polling. See, "In Poll, Obama Is Given Trust Over Medicare."
At the clip, CBS News political analyst Leigh Ann Caldwell breaks it down:
The raw data is here.
And here's the new Fox News poll, from Dana Blanton, "Fox News poll: Race for the White House tightens." Mitt Romney leads Barack Obama 45-44 percent among likely voters, the first time this season that Fox has polled likely/registered voters. The findings are the first Fox poll to also assess the selection of Paul Ryan as running mate.
See also the Los Angeles Times, which has Obama up by 3 nationally, "Obama has slight lead over Romney in new nationwide poll."
And yet more at USA Today, "Poll: As conventions open, a more negative view of politics":
At the clip, CBS News political analyst Leigh Ann Caldwell breaks it down:
And here's the new Fox News poll, from Dana Blanton, "Fox News poll: Race for the White House tightens." Mitt Romney leads Barack Obama 45-44 percent among likely voters, the first time this season that Fox has polled likely/registered voters. The findings are the first Fox poll to also assess the selection of Paul Ryan as running mate.
See also the Los Angeles Times, which has Obama up by 3 nationally, "Obama has slight lead over Romney in new nationwide poll."
And yet more at USA Today, "Poll: As conventions open, a more negative view of politics":
* The enthusiasm gap that boosted Obama in 2008 has turned around this year. Now 53% of Republicans and those who lean Republican say they are more enthusiastic than usual about voting this year, compared with 46% of Democrats and Democratic leaners.
* Obama gets more blame for negative attacks than he did in 2008. Then, 30% accused him of attacking his Republican opponent unfairly; now 44% do. In contrast, 40% say Romney is attacking Obama unfairly, compared with 48% who said that of McCain four years ago.
Two Women Electrocuted While Trying to Help at Crash Scene in Los Angeles
This is an unbelievably sad story, at the Los Angeles Times, "Two women fatally electrocuted trying to help at crash scene":
Irma Zamora's husband urged her not to get out of the car as they approached the scene of a spectacular traffic crash in Los Angeles' Valley Village neighborhood. But as he pulled over to call 911, she rushed out anyway, eager to help.A second woman died while trying to help Ms. Zamora. There's also a video report at NBC Los Angeles, "Councilman: Valley Village Electrocution Was Moment of 'Tragedy, Heroism'."
A sport utility vehicle had just careened through the intersection of Magnolia Boulevard and Ben Avenue, shearing off a concrete light standard and knocking over a fire hydrant before coming to rest on a front lawn. Water spewed skyward from the broken hydrant and quickly pooled in the intersection.
Zamora ran toward the wrecked SUV and stepped into an electrified pool of water. She was immediately –- and fatally — electrocuted, struck by what firefighters estimate was 48,000 volts of electricity.
Anderson Cooper Destroys Debbie Wasserman Schultz on DNC's Despicable Lies Attacking Mitt Romney on Abortion
She's morally-repugnant, personally and politically. Between her and Stephanie Cutter, it's been lies and libel 24/7, all with the backing Baracky.
They just lie, and lie again. Cooper calls her out brutally. Notice Wasserman Schultz saying, "It doesn't matter," when pushed on the accuracy of the DNC's email. These people will do anything, anything! They're totally discredited freak-ball liars.
Here's the email, published at BarackObama.com/truthteam:
And here's the Los Angeles Times piece in question, "Ron Paul delegates taking aim at Republican Party platform":
The piece isn't even talking about abortion. And as everyone's been highlighting for days, the GOP's abortion plank has been in place for the past couple of election cycles. Indeed, folks have been making hay about how it's possible for a nominee to disagree with a substantive policy position approved by the delegates.
The Democrats are lying. They're distorting the issue, attempting to smear the Romney campaign as abortion extremists. All this demonstrates once again how bankrupt these people are. That's not to say they'll dial it back. The attacks, at minimum, work to keep discussion of the economy off the table. The GOP's biggest challenge next week is to force the national debate back to economic issues. This prospects scares the living shit out of the Democrats, which explains why they'll stop at nothing to sabotage the Republicans, using dirtbag methods so repugnant they're literally unprecedented in American politics.
BONUS: Lighten things up a bit with AP's hilarious post, at Hot Air, "Anderson Cooper grills Debbie Wasserman-Schultz: Why are you lying about Romney’s position on abortion?"
They just lie, and lie again. Cooper calls her out brutally. Notice Wasserman Schultz saying, "It doesn't matter," when pushed on the accuracy of the DNC's email. These people will do anything, anything! They're totally discredited freak-ball liars.
Here's the email, published at BarackObama.com/truthteam:
In a recent statement that was both factually inaccurate and horribly offensive, Republican Missouri Senate candidate Rep. Todd Akin said that victims of “legitimate rape” don’t get pregnant because “the female body has ways to try to shut that whole thing down.”More at that link.
Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan tried to distance themselves from the remark—but the fact is they’re in lockstep with Akin on the major women’s health issues of our time. Just this morning, the Republican Party voted to include the “Human Life Amendment” in their platform, calling for a constitutional ban on abortions nationwide, even for rape victims. Several Romney supporters and advisers stood silently by while this vote took place, and the Los Angeles Times reports that the platform “was written at the direction of Romney’s campaign.”
And here's the Los Angeles Times piece in question, "Ron Paul delegates taking aim at Republican Party platform":
TAMPA, Fla. _ It didn't take long for strains within the Republican Party to surface Monday as national delegates got down to work on a final draft of the party platform, one week before the nominating convention opens.Wow.
Ron Paul delegates are making a diligent effort to wedge the defeated presidential candidate's libertarian ideas into the party document. Among them: curbing the power of the Federal Reserve, enhancing the constitutional rights of individuals and opposing the overseas role of U.S. military forces.
There is no doubt about who is in charge, of course. Delegates for presumptive nominee Mitt Romney are voting down substantive changes to the platform language that was written at the direction of Romney's campaign. The biggest question is whether the tone remains polite, as it was at the outset of two days of deliberations, or whether dissenters spoil the image of harmony that the Romney campaign is working hard to produce.
The piece isn't even talking about abortion. And as everyone's been highlighting for days, the GOP's abortion plank has been in place for the past couple of election cycles. Indeed, folks have been making hay about how it's possible for a nominee to disagree with a substantive policy position approved by the delegates.
The Democrats are lying. They're distorting the issue, attempting to smear the Romney campaign as abortion extremists. All this demonstrates once again how bankrupt these people are. That's not to say they'll dial it back. The attacks, at minimum, work to keep discussion of the economy off the table. The GOP's biggest challenge next week is to force the national debate back to economic issues. This prospects scares the living shit out of the Democrats, which explains why they'll stop at nothing to sabotage the Republicans, using dirtbag methods so repugnant they're literally unprecedented in American politics.
BONUS: Lighten things up a bit with AP's hilarious post, at Hot Air, "Anderson Cooper grills Debbie Wasserman-Schultz: Why are you lying about Romney’s position on abortion?"
Thursday, August 23, 2012
Shooting Suspect James Holmes Failed Oral Examination, Made Threats, Prosecution Reveals
This is what I expected.
Suspect James Holmes failed his oral exams in the Ph.D. neuroscience program and was advised by his department to find a new line of work. He was getting booted from the program pretty much as I laid out in my essay, "Suspect James Holmes' Rapid Descent":
The Los Angeles Times has the latest, "Colorado theater shooting: New details emerge on James E. Holmes":
The department will usually not advance to candidacy those who've been struggling.I posted more on that, along with the video from the university's press conference, here: "Suspect James Holmes No Easy Fit for Mass Murderer Profile."
The Los Angeles Times has the latest, "Colorado theater shooting: New details emerge on James E. Holmes":
CENTENNIAL, Colo. – The first glimpse of a once-promising career beginning to unravel emerged Thursday during a hearing in the case against James E. Holmes, accused of killing 12 and injuring 58 in a packed movie theater last month.
Assistant Dist. Atty. Karen Pearson revealed that 24-year-old Holmes, once a doctoral student in an elite neuroscience program at the University of Colorado Denver, had failed oral exams on June 7, made unspecified threats serious enough for campus police to be notified, and had his access to university buildings on the Anschutz Medical Campus revoked. He withdrew from the university June 10....
“What is going on in the defendant’s life is extremely relevant to the case,” Pearson argued as she sought to review all of Holmes’ academic records – including grades, course schedules and admission application -- as well as emails to professors during the time he attended.
She speculated about how disappointed Holmes must have been about his deteriorating university career and said faculty had asked him to leave the program.
The prosecution had subpoenaed the university records, which were turned over to the judge last week. They remain sealed, and the defense wants to keep it that way.
Defense attorney Daniel King rejected Pearson’s rationale and the validity of the scenario she sketched out on Thursday, strongly opposing the release of information about his client’s time at the university. He said that it was irrelevant to the case and that the prosecution was on a “fishing expedition that needs to be stopped.”
Claire McCaskill Pulls Out Ten Point Lead in New Rasmussen Poll #MOSen
I'm not sure "pulls out" is the appropriate political terminology here, considering, but hey, it's big news.
Legal Insurrection reports, "McCaskill up 10 pts in non-troll poll."
And at Ace of Spades HQ, "BREAKING: McCaskill up 10 pts over Akin in Missouri Poll."
And also at AoSHQ, "Akin Camp: You Should Ask Claire McCaskill to Drop Out":
Here's the statement from the Akin campaign: "Akin Campaign Response to Rasmussen Poll" (at Memeorandum).
Legal Insurrection reports, "McCaskill up 10 pts in non-troll poll."
And at Ace of Spades HQ, "BREAKING: McCaskill up 10 pts over Akin in Missouri Poll."
And also at AoSHQ, "Akin Camp: You Should Ask Claire McCaskill to Drop Out":
That'll work.He's joking, of course.
Another winner from the House of Ideas.
Here's the statement from the Akin campaign: "Akin Campaign Response to Rasmussen Poll" (at Memeorandum).
Salma Hayek in Germany's Vogue
Beautiful photos here, "TOP LOOKS VON SALMA HAYEK."
And I don't read German, so I would have missed this, at the Hollywood Reporter, "Salma Hayek Clarifies Remarks About Mexico That Were 'Lost in Translation'":
And I don't read German, so I would have missed this, at the Hollywood Reporter, "Salma Hayek Clarifies Remarks About Mexico That Were 'Lost in Translation'":
Also at E! Online, "Salma Hayek's Controversial Comment Regarding Her Mexican Roots Spurs Backlash."
The "Savages" star was saddened that her thoughts about her native country were misinterpreted.
Salma Hayek wants the world to know she is proud of her Mexican roots.
The Savages star, 45, has issued a statement in response to a new interview in German Vogue magazine in which she is quoted as saying that she hardly has "any memories of what it is to be Mexican. My life is completely different now."
The comments ruffled some feathers, particularly in Mexico, where Hayek is adored as a national treasure.
Pat Caddell Slams Barack Obama: 'Most Negative Personal Campaigner in the Oval Office Ever...'
I was watching Hannity last night, and this exchange was freakin' amazing, via RCP, "Caddell: Obama "Most Negative Personal Campaigner In The Oval Office Ever":
Caddell is a Democrat pollster and former key advisor to President Jimmy Carter. He spoke at the David Horowitz West Coast Retreat in 2001. He's got an uncanny take on politics, extremely perceptive and completely confident of his opinions. While he's been attacked as a Democrat turncoat, his inside credentials add some powerful gravitas to the attack on Team Obama's unprecedented politics of destruction.
More at The Hill, "Team Obama breaks precedent to try to spoil Romney’s convention in Tampa." (At Memeorandum.) And see Mark Hemingway, at the Weekly Standard, "Obama's Risky Convention Gambit."
PHOTO CREDIT: Wikipedia.
"Let me tell you what's really bad, Sean. The president is running the real risk, every time you keep lowering the standard, breaking tradition -- this is Chicago politics. We don't care, we are going to disrupt your convention. For all the times we have had conventions, we have honored the idea in politics, you have yours, we have ours; then we engage a campaign. They're taking down all of this, just like the president's campaign; he has been the most negative personal campaigner in the oval office -- ever, ever," former Democratic pollster Pat Caddell said on FOX News' Hannity" tonight.Watch it at the link.
"You know what?" Caddell asked. "Winning matters more and that's what he is risking."
Caddell is a Democrat pollster and former key advisor to President Jimmy Carter. He spoke at the David Horowitz West Coast Retreat in 2001. He's got an uncanny take on politics, extremely perceptive and completely confident of his opinions. While he's been attacked as a Democrat turncoat, his inside credentials add some powerful gravitas to the attack on Team Obama's unprecedented politics of destruction.
More at The Hill, "Team Obama breaks precedent to try to spoil Romney’s convention in Tampa." (At Memeorandum.) And see Mark Hemingway, at the Weekly Standard, "Obama's Risky Convention Gambit."
PHOTO CREDIT: Wikipedia.
Ta-Nehisi Coates Screams RAAAAACISM to Silence the Opposition!
You gotta love Ta-Nehisi. He sho' loves him some race card politics.
See "Fear of a Black President" (via Memeorandum):
More at The Other McCain, "President of a Black Fear":Show of hands:
IMAGE CREDIT: The People's Cube.
See "Fear of a Black President" (via Memeorandum):
The irony of President Barack Obama is best captured in his comments on the death of Trayvon Martin, and the ensuing fray. Obama has pitched his presidency as a monument to moderation. He peppers his speeches with nods to ideas originally held by conservatives. He routinely cites Ronald Reagan. He effusively praises the enduring wisdom of the American people, and believes that the height of insight lies in the town square. Despite his sloganeering for change and progress, Obama is a conservative revolutionary, and nowhere is his conservative character revealed more than in the very sphere where he holds singular gravity—race.Keep reading --- and remember, when your entire existence revolves around race and racism, any disagreement --- and hesitation to speak out on tough issues --- can be blamed on white supremacy, the enduring legacy of slavery, or whatever other RAAAAACISM! slogan-of-the-day of the shuck-and-jive grievance hustlers.
More at The Other McCain, "President of a Black Fear":Show of hands:
Nearly four years into the Age of Obama, is there anybody — anybody – interested in reading a 9,582-word “What It Means” essay about the racial significance of Obama’s presidency?Keep reading.
Would you be more interested if I told you that Ta-Nehisi Coates uses the Trayvon Martin shooting as the contextual prism through which he seeks this wisdom? Would your interest be whetted if I told you that Coates name-checks a list of right-wing villains — Newt Gingrich, Glenn Beck, Rush Limbaugh, etc. — en route to a rather nebulous conclusion about the persistence of white racism as the dominant and defining reality of America’s past, present and future?
Admit it, honky: You don’t want to read it.
IMAGE CREDIT: The People's Cube.
VIDEO: Senator Infanticide Said He Was 'Pro-Choice' on Third-Trimester Abortions in 2003
What a find!
At the Weekly Standard, "Video: Obama Says He's 'Pro-Choice' on Third-Trimester Abortions."
Well, it's good timing, that's for sure. See, "Democrat National Convention Shaping Up as Unprecedented Celebration of Infanticide."
FLASHBACK: "The Secret Life of Senator Infanticide."
At the Weekly Standard, "Video: Obama Says He's 'Pro-Choice' on Third-Trimester Abortions."
Well, it's good timing, that's for sure. See, "Democrat National Convention Shaping Up as Unprecedented Celebration of Infanticide."
FLASHBACK: "The Secret Life of Senator Infanticide."
Anaheim's Canyon High School 'Seniores' and 'Señoritas' Events Cancelled After Complaints Alleging Racism
What's really interesting is that the school's been having these events for years. Check the photos at the report. Some just awful denigrating stereotypes. And Canyon High used to be a really elite school in the area. It's Anaheim Hills, where the big money neighborhoods are.
At the Los Angeles Times, "Anaheim high school cancels events found to be demeaning":
At the Los Angeles Times, "Anaheim high school cancels events found to be demeaning":
"Seniores" and "Señoritas" events held at an Anaheim high school — in which students dressed as gang members and a pregnant woman pushing a baby stroller — have been canceled after officials concluded the activities were demeaning toward Latinos and their culture.RTWT.
The events, which have been held for at least three years at Canyon High School, took place during senior activity week in June and were approved by campus administrators, according to school district officials.
'A Lost Part of History' — Man Discovers Forgotten Martin Luther King Audiotape in Attic
What a wonderful thing.
At USA Today, "Unreleased Martin Luther King audiotape found in attic."
At USA Today, "Unreleased Martin Luther King audiotape found in attic."
I am convinced that when the history books are written in future years, historians will have to record this movement as one of the greatest epics of our heritage. It represents struggle on the highest level of dignity and discipline.And the progressives today are so undignified and undisciplined ... I don't think MLK would recognize what's happened to the so-called forces of "tolerance."
$timulus $hocker
Here's Michelle on Hannity's last night, discussing the Obama administration's mind-bogging MSNBC stimulus corruption:
And from earlier, "'The President's Utility' — Chicago Energy Behemoth Exelon Corporation Scored $200 Million in Stimulus Funds, and Holder's Justice Dept. Approved Exelon's $7.9 Billion Utility Merger With Constellation Energy of Maryland."
And from earlier, "'The President's Utility' — Chicago Energy Behemoth Exelon Corporation Scored $200 Million in Stimulus Funds, and Holder's Justice Dept. Approved Exelon's $7.9 Billion Utility Merger With Constellation Energy of Maryland."
Paul Ryan, Fundraising Powerhouse
I didn't know this about Ryan, and it says more about scaling the heights inside the Congress than anything else. Although the major corporate backing for the GOP ticket is a huge plus.
At the Los Angeles Times, "Paul Ryan runs well-oiled fundraising machine":
VIDEO CREDIT: The Other McCain, "Paul Ryan in Roanoke, Virginia: ‘This is President Obama’s Imaginary Recovery’."
At the Los Angeles Times, "Paul Ryan runs well-oiled fundraising machine":
WASHINGTON — Rep. Paul D. Ryan has cultivated his "affable wonk" persona into an effective moneymaker, winning over CEOs and K Street lobbyists to build a fundraising machine that has boosted his standing on Capitol Hill and helped make him one of the GOP's most influential figures.RTWT.
In 2002, the Wisconsin congressman established a so-called leadership PAC, a fund that allows him to raise money to give to other lawmakers, but the fund did little until 2006, when he began his rapid rise in the House Republican hierarchy. That year, Ryan's PAC distributed $322,000 to Republicans, a 607% increase in giving from the cycle before, according to the nonpartisan campaign finance group Center for Responsive Politics.
After the 2006 election, Ryan, who is now the GOP vice presidential candidate, became the top Republican on the House Budget Committee.
"Part of what you do when you're a member of Congress who has ambitions and wants to become committee chair is you start raising money and you start giving money to your colleagues," said Steve Northrup, a Republican healthcare lobbyist who has hosted several Ryan fundraisers.
"You can't divorce that from his personality and his smarts," Northrup added.
The high-profile post and the exposure it has brought has helped Ryan raise even more, which, in turn, has allowed him to cement ties to his congressional allies. In this election cycle, he has brought in $8.5 million to his campaign account and political action committee combined. Of that, Ryan still has more than $6 million in the bank, a notably high reserve compared with his congressional colleagues.
The PAC so far has given more than $539,000 to Republican candidates and lawmakers, a figure that ranks among the top 10 leadership PACs in contributions to federal candidates, alongside prolific congressional fundraisers Reps. Eric Cantor (R-Va.) and Nancy Pelosi (D-San Francisco).
"Even the most idealistic members of Congress realize that the way to power is to raise money and to spread it around to your colleagues," said David Donnelly, executive director of Public Campaign Action Fund, a campaign finance reform group. Ryan "certainly learned that early on."
Ryan has become one of the most requested fundraising surrogates for House Republicans. And he has invested in a multimillion-dollar direct mail campaign that has bolstered his name recognition and given his finance network a national scope.
VIDEO CREDIT: The Other McCain, "Paul Ryan in Roanoke, Virginia: ‘This is President Obama’s Imaginary Recovery’."
Business as Usual: Obama Spokeswoman Stephanie Cutter Lies and Prevaricates Her Way to Election Day
The video is gold, and Lonely Conservative has the lies.
See: "Wow! That Stephanie Cutter Sure is a Liar!"
See: "Wow! That Stephanie Cutter Sure is a Liar!"
Democrat National Convention Shaping Up as Unprecedented Celebration of Infanticide
From Paul Bedard, at the Washington Examiner, "Dem Convention becomes anti-Akin affair" (via Instapundit):
Wow!
That's apocalyptic. Let's capitalize that: "THE DARK AGES!"
The infant-killers ought to get major distraction mileage out of that. Whoo!
Bring it on, I say. Let's get the Democrat abortion extremism out in to the open.
FLASHBACK: "The Secret Life of Senator Infanticide."
More at Lonely Conservative, "Democrats Finally Come Up With Convention Theme – It’s An Abortion Festival!" (via Memeorandum).
With an eye on Rep. Todd Akin's "legitimate rape" comments and the GOP's mad dash away from the sinking Missouri Senate candidate, the Democrats are turning their upcoming presidential convention into a pro-choice assault on the Republicans with the help of major abortion supporters.
Just as the Akin crisis was reaching a crescendo, the Democrats on Wednesday announced that three starlets of the pro-choice movement will be featured at the convention, an event that will now drive the liberal charge that the Republicans are anti-women.
Democrats said that they will feature Cecile Richards, president of the Planned Parent Action Fund, Nancy Keenan, president of the NARAL Pro-Choice America and Sandra Fluke, the Georgetown University student whose plea for federal birth control funding drew the ire--and a subsequent apology--from Rush Limbaugh.
What's more, the Democrats are expanding their list of women ready to assail the GOP on women's issue, adding Maryland Sen. Barbara Mikulski and actress Eva Longoria to the list that already includes Sen. John Kerry and Massachusetts Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren.
Democrats led by party chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz believe that the Akin controversy--and his refusal to leave the Missouri Senate race--has revived their chances of winning a majority of women in the presidential race, key to re-electing President Obama. On Wednesday, for example, the party turned their homepage over to the affair with the headline: "The GOP is dangerously wrong for women." And with a devilish move, they included pictures of Mitt Romney, running mate Paul Ryan and Akin.
"Romney, Ryan, Akin and the GOP want to take women back to the dark ages," the Democrats add.
Wow!
That's apocalyptic. Let's capitalize that: "THE DARK AGES!"
The infant-killers ought to get major distraction mileage out of that. Whoo!
Bring it on, I say. Let's get the Democrat abortion extremism out in to the open.
FLASHBACK: "The Secret Life of Senator Infanticide."
More at Lonely Conservative, "Democrats Finally Come Up With Convention Theme – It’s An Abortion Festival!" (via Memeorandum).
Tropical Storm Isaac Heads Toward Florida Ahead of GOP Convention
That'd be a freak of nature --- or an act of God --- if the storm hit Tampa just in time for the convention. A cancellation is possible, astonishingly.
At the Wall Street Journal, "Republican Convention Threatened by Storm."
At the Wall Street Journal, "Republican Convention Threatened by Storm."
'Progressive labor is a revolutionary communist organization. Its objective is to make revolution in the United States, overthrow the capitalist system and build communism...'
Well, yeah.
At Left of the Mark, "Mike Golash: 'Goal is to Overthrow Capitalist System and Build Communism'" (via Linkiest).
At Left of the Mark, "Mike Golash: 'Goal is to Overthrow Capitalist System and Build Communism'" (via Linkiest).
Tony Nicklinson, British Assisted Suicide Activist and 'Locked-In' Patient, Has Died
This is an interesting story, at the New York Times, "Briton Who Fought for Assisted Suicide Is Dead":
And also at Telegraph UK, "Right-to-die campaigner Tony Nicklinson dies of pneumonia after refusing food."
LONDON — A 58-year-old British man suffering from so-called locked-in syndrome died Wednesday, six days after a panel of High Court judges rejected his request for help in ending his life. His death is certain to galvanize the already contentious debate about assisted suicide in Britain.More at the link.
The man, Tony Nicklinson, a former rugby player and sky diver who suffered a stroke in 2005, died at his home in Melksham, 80 miles west of London, at 10 a.m., according to a statement issued by the law firm that represented him.
Mr. Nicklinson’s family used his Twitter account to say that he died of natural causes. At a news conference, Saimo Chahai, the family lawyer, said Mr. Nicklinson had been refusing food since the court ruling and had declined rapidly over the weekend after contracting pneumonia. “The fight seemed to go out of him,” she said.
After having a stroke while on a business trip to Athens, Mr. Nicklinson, a civil engineer, developed locked-in syndrome, an incurable condition in which a patient loses all motor functions but remains awake and aware, with all cognitive abilities. He had spent the last seven years paralyzed from the neck down and unable to speak, feed himself or even clean his own teeth, communicating through a system that allowed him to write messages on a computer screen by blinking his eyes.
He had argued in court that he would be physically unable to administer a lethal drug to himself, and that his only path to release from his “living nightmare” would be permission from the court to have somebody else — in his suggestion, a doctor — administer the necessary dose without fear of prosecution.
Under British law, anybody, including a doctor, who knowingly helps a terminally ill person to die faces possible criminal prosecution and a lengthy jail term if convicted.
In an essay he wrote before the court case, Mr. Nicklinson said, “It cannot be acceptable in 21st-century Britain that I am denied the right to take my own life just because I am physically handicapped.” He added, “It is astonishing that in 1969 we could put a man on the moon, yet in 2012 we still cannot devise adequate rules for government-assisted dying.”
And also at Telegraph UK, "Right-to-die campaigner Tony Nicklinson dies of pneumonia after refusing food."
'Now, you're on notice that making distinctions between types of rape could utterly destroy you. Don't talk about it...'
That's from Ann Althouse, who's got a very informative --- and fascinating --- discussion of rape, and the politics of rape. See, "Big UK lefty George Galloway fired for saying something about rape."
Althouse's discussion is breezier than that of Louise Mensch, who also compared Galloway to Todd Akin in an essay the other day, at Telegraph UK, "George Galloway, Todd Akin and other male politicians still getting it wrong on rape."
I guess that piece went over pretty well; there's a write-up on Mensch at the paper, "Louise Mensch: male politicians diminish rape."
Good advice, in any case, not to talk about rape. It's not good for your career, obviously.
Althouse's discussion is breezier than that of Louise Mensch, who also compared Galloway to Todd Akin in an essay the other day, at Telegraph UK, "George Galloway, Todd Akin and other male politicians still getting it wrong on rape."
I guess that piece went over pretty well; there's a write-up on Mensch at the paper, "Louise Mensch: male politicians diminish rape."
Good advice, in any case, not to talk about rape. It's not good for your career, obviously.
'The President's Utility' — Chicago Energy Behemoth Exelon Corporation Scored $200 Million in Stimulus Funds, and Holder's Justice Dept. Approved Exelon's $7.9 Billion Utility Merger With Constellation Energy of Maryland
I'm surprised this piece is even running at the New York Times. It's falling way outside of the approved narrative. See, "Ties to Obama Aided in Access for Big Utility":
This company is the administration's mother load for green energy crony capitalism.
My gosh. They've got open access to the White House.
My first thought at reading this was how Michelle Malkin could have a field day here, and lo and behold, she already has. See, "Obama’s Green Robber Barons":
"Very deep ties" indeed.
Heading back over to the New York Times' piece, here's this:
This is frankly just a pay-out racket, since there's not been a single green energy company so far that's created a successful new renewable program.
There's still more at the Times. It's just one big exposé on the Obama administration's pay-to-play cronyism. We'll see how much play this gets among the MSM types today, however, the same people Jake Tapper claimed had tipped the scales for O in 2008.
Who knows? Maybe the Niall Ferguson piece at Newsweek was a bellwether.
PHOTO CREDIT: Wikimedia Commons.
UPDATE: Now a Memeorandum thread. And linked at Jawa Report and iOWNTHEWORLD. Thanks!
More at The Lonely Conservative. Thanks!
WASHINGTON — Early in the Obama administration, a lobbyist for the Illinois-based energy producer Exelon Corporation proudly called it “the president’s utility.” And it was not just because it delivers power to Barack Obama’s Hyde Park neighborhood in Chicago.Continue reading.
Exelon’s top executives were early and frequent supporters of Mr. Obama as he rose from the Illinois State Senate to the White House. John W. Rogers Jr., a friend of the president’s and one of his top fund-raisers, is an Exelon board member. David Axelrod, Mr. Obama’s longtime political strategist, once worked as an Exelon consultant, and Rahm Emanuel, the Chicago mayor and Mr. Obama’s former chief of staff, helped create the company through a corporate merger in 2000 while working as an investment banker.
With energy an increasingly pivotal issue for the Obama White House, a review of Exelon’s relationship with the administration shows how familiarity has helped foster access at the upper reaches of government and how, in some cases, the outcome has been favorable for Exelon.
White House records show that Exelon executives were able to secure an unusually large number of meetings with top administration officials at key moments in the consideration of environmental regulations that have been drafted in a way that hurt Exelon’s competitors, but curb the high cost of compliance for Exelon and its industry allies.
In addition, Exelon, which provides power to more than 6.6 million customers in at least 16 states and the District of Columbia, was chosen as one of only six electric utilities nationwide for the maximum $200 million stimulus grant from the Energy Department. And when the Treasury Department granted loans for renewable energy projects, Exelon landed a commitment for up to $646 million allowing it, on extremely generous financial terms, to finance one of the world’s largest photovoltaic solar projects.
Exelon’s seemingly easy access to top administration officials has hardly gone unnoticed among competitors.
“I would like to get some treatment in Washington like that,” said Ken Anderson, general manager at Tri-State G&T, a Colorado-based power supplier that has been at odds with Exelon over environmental regulations. “But Exelon seems to get deference that I can’t get.”
This company is the administration's mother load for green energy crony capitalism.
My gosh. They've got open access to the White House.
My first thought at reading this was how Michelle Malkin could have a field day here, and lo and behold, she already has. See, "Obama’s Green Robber Barons":
Had enough of fat cat Barack Obama, his jet-setting wife and his multi-millionaire Chicago consigliere/real-estate mogul Valerie Jarrett attacking the “rich”? Well, brace yourselves. You’ll be hearing much more from the White House about the “wealthy few” who aren’t paying their “fair share” as Obama’s re-election campaign doubles down on class-war demagoguery.Right.
As usual, there’s always a set of immunity charms for the privileged friends and family of the ruling class. When it comes to all the Green Robber Barons who’ve reaped an obscenely unfair share of billions of tax dollars from the Obama administration, the envy trumpeteers will be quieter than a nest of mute church mice.
Obama’s State of the Union address defiantly pitched a new round of clean energy spending orgies to help the “middle class.” But how have the serial bankruptcies and near-bankruptcies of several federally subsidized solar companies — all under Obama’s watch — helped anyone but an upper-crust elite of eco-crats and their lobbyists and consultants?
*****
My scouring of White House visitor logs shows nine visits from another Green Robber Baron, Illinois-based Exelon’s CEO John Rowe, who met with the president and former chief of staff Rahm Emanuel multiple times. As Forbes magazine reported: The clean energy company “has very deep ties to the Obama Administration. Frank M. Clark, who runs ComEd, helped advise Obama before he ran for president and is one of Obama’s largest fundraisers. Obama’s chief political strategist, David Axelrod, worked as a consultant to Exelon. Obama’s chief of staff, Rahm Emanuel, helped create Exelon” — where he raked in more than $16 million over two years.
"Very deep ties" indeed.
Heading back over to the New York Times' piece, here's this:
... one person who met with Exelon representatives as a federal official, and requested anonymity because the discussions were confidential, said that while the company’s connections did not guide specific decisions, federal officials knew to handle Exelon carefully.Oh brother.
“It is not necessarily unethical or immoral,” he said, “it is just a fact of life that Exelon has more relations with senior administration officials than others, which means Exelon has a direct line to fairly high places in the White House if they need to.”
Even without any political connection, as a nuclear energy producer Exelon was well positioned to take advantage of the administration’s drive to reduce reliance on fossil fuels.
The administration’s tightening of clean air rules was a particular boon, since it took aim at Exelon’s main competitors — coal-burning power plants in the Midwest and mid-Atlantic regions. In 2010, Exelon estimated it would earn an extra $400 million annually because the regulations would force dozens of coal-burning plants to close.
“We were the hyena looking for the dead stuff on the road,” John W. Rowe, Exelon’s recently departed chief executive, told Wall Street analysts this year.
While other nuclear and natural-gas-focused energy producers also stood to benefit, Exelon stands out for its size. Last December, the Justice Department approved its $7.9 billion merger with Constellation Energy of Maryland, despite objections from Maryland’s consumer advocate. Although Exelon agreed to sell three Maryland power plants, among other concessions, it still emerged as the nation’s largest unregulated electricity generator, meaning that in many of the states its rates are not set by government officials but by what customers will pay.
This is frankly just a pay-out racket, since there's not been a single green energy company so far that's created a successful new renewable program.
There's still more at the Times. It's just one big exposé on the Obama administration's pay-to-play cronyism. We'll see how much play this gets among the MSM types today, however, the same people Jake Tapper claimed had tipped the scales for O in 2008.
Who knows? Maybe the Niall Ferguson piece at Newsweek was a bellwether.
PHOTO CREDIT: Wikimedia Commons.
UPDATE: Now a Memeorandum thread. And linked at Jawa Report and iOWNTHEWORLD. Thanks!
More at The Lonely Conservative. Thanks!
Wednesday, August 22, 2012
Chicago Teachers Union Attacks 'Hating Breitbart' Filmmaker Andrew Marcus
This is amazing, at Legal Insurrection, "Teachers Union releases hit piece video against director of Hating Breitbart":
According to Discover the Networks, Fithian "Served as a human shield in actions conducted by the International Solidarity Movement in the Palestinian cities of Jenin and Nablus," and "Has accused Israel of “slaughter[ing] Palestinians every single day in Gaza and the Occupied territories”." Plus, Fithian "Is the top street-level organizer of the Occupy Wall Street movement..."
Boy, that's a huge surprise.
See also, FrontPage Magazine, "Occupy Wall Street: The Communist Movement Reborn."
The Teachers Union may ... have been upset about Marcus’s coverage of some of their protest marches, particularly the documentation of their collaboration with Occupy and Anarchist organizer Lisa Fithian...More at "Hating Breitbart" on Twitter.
According to Discover the Networks, Fithian "Served as a human shield in actions conducted by the International Solidarity Movement in the Palestinian cities of Jenin and Nablus," and "Has accused Israel of “slaughter[ing] Palestinians every single day in Gaza and the Occupied territories”." Plus, Fithian "Is the top street-level organizer of the Occupy Wall Street movement..."
Boy, that's a huge surprise.
See also, FrontPage Magazine, "Occupy Wall Street: The Communist Movement Reborn."
Prince Harry Nude Photo Scandal
At the Mirror UK, "Back to face the music? Prince Harry flies home after Las Vegas naked photos scandal" (via Twitter):
The U.S. website is TMZ, "PRINCE HARRY: NAKED PHOTOS - During Vegas Rager" (via WeSmirch).
CBS News has a video report, "Do we love Prince Harry for his flubs?"
He's a cool chap.
The 27-year-old flew into the UK today amid a storm surrounding the saucy snaps published on a US website.
The U.S. website is TMZ, "PRINCE HARRY: NAKED PHOTOS - During Vegas Rager" (via WeSmirch).
CBS News has a video report, "Do we love Prince Harry for his flubs?"
He's a cool chap.
Rose Mayr and Elizabeth Nass, Both 19-Years-Old, Killed in Maryland Train Derailment
This CNN report is abrasive in its constant reference to the two women as "girls." They were both 19-years-old, actually --- old enough to serve in combat.
See: "Two Maryland teenagers killed when train derails, spills coal."
The Los Angeles Times does better, "Train derails, tumbles from bridge near Baltimore; 2 women killed":
Tweet CNN here and CNN Breaking News here.
These two women were attending university. And CNN's calling them "girls." If they'd been deployed and killed in combat would the network still be calling them "teenage girls."
All this talk about how the left --- and by extension the MSM --- is so "tolerant" toward women is about to make my hurl.
See: "Two Maryland teenagers killed when train derails, spills coal."
The Los Angeles Times does better, "Train derails, tumbles from bridge near Baltimore; 2 women killed":
A coal train derailed and tumbled from a bridge in Maryland early Tuesday morning, crushing cars in a nearby parking lot and killing two women who were on the tracks, officials said.More at the link.
Just after midnight Tuesday, 21 of the train’s 80 cars flipped over on a bridge in Ellicott City, about 12 miles west of Baltimore. Some cars spilled coal across the town’s Main Street, and seven cars fell onto vehicles in a county-owned parking lot nearby, Howard County Police Department spokeswoman Sherry Llewellyn told The Los Angeles Times.
"All you could see was train cars tumbled every which way and coal everywhere,” Benjamin Noppenberger, a chef at restaurant on Main Street, told the Baltimore Sun. “Cars were on the road and parking lot and everything in the lot was crushed.”
As officials cleared the scene Tuesday, using cranes to pry the train cars from the wreckage, they found the bodies of two young women, Llewellyn said.
The victims have been identified as Elizabeth Conway Nass and Rose Mayr, both 19 from Ellicott City. Nass was studying at James Madison University in Virginia and Mayr attended the University of Delaware, police said.
Two train operators were not harmed in the accident, officials said. The cause of the crash is not yet known.
Howard County officials declined to comment further, saying the National Transportation Safety Board had taken charge of the investigation.
Tweet CNN here and CNN Breaking News here.
These two women were attending university. And CNN's calling them "girls." If they'd been deployed and killed in combat would the network still be calling them "teenage girls."
All this talk about how the left --- and by extension the MSM --- is so "tolerant" toward women is about to make my hurl.
'Dug In, Defiant, and Going Rogue'
I'm watching CNN, and the caption on their Akin coverage is, "Dug In, Defiant, and Going Rogue."
I doubt Sarah Palin appreciates the similarities (she wants Akin to quit), but the slogan pretty much sums it up. Akin gave some hints at withdrawing this morning, apparently, but it's prime-time on the East Coast now, and there's no word yet.
Here's this at Hot Air, "Akin: “I don’t know the future”."
My previous coverage is here.
More at Memeorandum. And see especially, William Kristol, "Advice Regarding Akin."
I doubt Sarah Palin appreciates the similarities (she wants Akin to quit), but the slogan pretty much sums it up. Akin gave some hints at withdrawing this morning, apparently, but it's prime-time on the East Coast now, and there's no word yet.
Here's this at Hot Air, "Akin: “I don’t know the future”."
My previous coverage is here.
More at Memeorandum. And see especially, William Kristol, "Advice Regarding Akin."
#ObamaSpellingBee — Epic Lulz From Baracky's 'O-I-H-O' Moment
Seriously.
This isn't supposed to happen to a sitting president --- you DON'T make these kind of mistakes, period.
But of course, we've been saddled with Baracky "57 States" Obama for almost four years now, and that's to say nothing of the corrupt Democrat-Media-Complex that's been covering for the administration's world-historical stupidity.
November 6th can't come soon enough.
At Twitchy, "H-I-L-A-R-I-T-Y: Obama’s Dan Quayle moment inspires #ObamaSpellingBee," and "Bias: WaPo ‘real reporters’ falsely claim Obama ‘O-I-H-O’ pic was photoshopped."
More at Instapundit.
This isn't supposed to happen to a sitting president --- you DON'T make these kind of mistakes, period.
But of course, we've been saddled with Baracky "57 States" Obama for almost four years now, and that's to say nothing of the corrupt Democrat-Media-Complex that's been covering for the administration's world-historical stupidity.
November 6th can't come soon enough.
At Twitchy, "H-I-L-A-R-I-T-Y: Obama’s Dan Quayle moment inspires #ObamaSpellingBee," and "Bias: WaPo ‘real reporters’ falsely claim Obama ‘O-I-H-O’ pic was photoshopped."
More at Instapundit.
Sino-Japanese Conflict Over Senkaku Islands
The conflict has a long history.
There's video here, "Japan-China island row opens diplomatic wounds."
And at the New York Times, "Dispute Over Islands Reflects Japanese Fear of China’s Rise":
There's video here, "Japan-China island row opens diplomatic wounds."
And at the New York Times, "Dispute Over Islands Reflects Japanese Fear of China’s Rise":
ISHIGAKI, Japan — When the flotilla of 21 fishing boats arrived at an island chain at the center of a growing territorial dispute with China, the captains warned the dozens of activists and politicians aboard not to attempt a landing.I personally welcome the dispute --- one, because neither China nor Japan has the slightest interest or inclination toward military conflict; but second, in the case of Japan, a forceful and independent stand will allow it to make the case for its geographic interests independent of the United States. It's time to cut the cord. The U.S. will need Japan to stand up as China's regional balancer in the Pacific. The balance of power is changing, but Japan's a powerful country. Let those two East Asian giants work things out on their own.
Ten of the activists jumped into the shark-infested waters anyway, swimming ashore on Sunday and planting the rising sun flag that evokes painful memories of Imperial Japan’s 20th-century march across Asia.
“We feel that they dragged us into an international incident,” said Masanori Tamashiro, one of the boat captains.
That feeling is widely shared in Japan, where a small number of nationalists has pushed the country to assert itself more boldly to counter China’s and South Korea’s economic rise and China’s quickly evolving territorial ambitions. The conflict with China has raised the specter that the United States, Japan’s longtime defender, could be pulled into the fight.
The nationalists have gained traction for their cause in recent months by taking advantage of the government’s political weakness, forcing the governing party to take a tougher stand on the islands west of here, known as the Senkakus in Japan and the Diaoyu in China.
But the activists are also tapping into a widespread anxiety over China, which intensified two years ago during the last major flare-up over the Senkakus. China retaliated then for Japan’s arrest of a fishing captain by starving Japan of the rare earths needed for its already struggling electronics industry. That anxiety became more pronounced in recent months as China expanded its claims in the nearby South China Sea, challenging Vietnam, the Philippines and others over more than 40 islands in a vast area, and backing its statements with aggressive moves that included sending larger patrol boats to disputed waters.
There is still little appetite in pacifist Japan for a full-blown confrontation with China. But analysts say consensus is growing on the need to stand up to China as power in the region appears to slip further from economically fading Japan and the United States.
“We are all gearing up for an international tug of war in this region,” said Narushige Michishita, an expert on security issues at the National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies in Tokyo. “Whenever the distribution of power changes in a dramatic way, people start to redraw lines.”
'Keith Lemon: The Film' — World Premiere
Time flies when you're having fun, so enjoy Kelly Brook while she's still lovely.
Obscene Undercover Video of Inhumane Killing at Central Valley Meat Co. in Hanford, California
It's hard to defend such treatment of animals. I don't like it. Millions of cows are killed annually, I imagine, for meat consumption in the U.S. Technically, by definition, the slaughter is inhumane --- you simply wouldn't kill the animals at all, for meat production or any other reason. So, the only purpose of videos like this is to get people to stop eating meat altogether, which is an agenda item of environmental extremism. I can't stand those idiots.
The video is here. Viewer discretion is advised.
And at the Los Angeles Times, "Central Valley slaughterhouse closed over inhumane treatment."
This quote is good, but again, how do we know all the animals really killed "humanely"?
The video is here. Viewer discretion is advised.
And at the Los Angeles Times, "Central Valley slaughterhouse closed over inhumane treatment."
This quote is good, but again, how do we know all the animals really killed "humanely"?
Fallout from the video was swift, with Irvine-based In-N-Out Burger announcing Tuesday it had severed its relationship with Central Valley Meat, one of its suppliers.You make a choice when you eat meat. You have to kill the animals. They're going to puke up bile and gunk, their eyes are going to bulge out, they're going to go down ugly, no matter how it's done. So, make a choice. If animals were blessed with "human" rights, then we wouldn't eat them. They're not. But environmentalists are anti-human, so it goes without saying they'll put the welfare of animals over that of humans.
"In-N-Out Burger would never condone the inhumane treatment of animals and all of our suppliers must agree to abide by our strict standards for the humane treatment of cattle," Mark Taylor, In-N-Out's chief operating officer, said in a statement.
Labor Department Spent $100s of Thousands in Obama Stimulus Funds for Ads on Keith Olbermann and Rachel Maddow's
Because progressives really are all about corruption.
The Lonely Conservative Reports, "Stimulus Funds Went to Advertising Obama Policies on MSNBC."
The Lonely Conservative Reports, "Stimulus Funds Went to Advertising Obama Policies on MSNBC."
Misogynist Hatebag Tom Boggioni of Firedoglake Attacks Dana Loesch as Just 'Like Herpes'
Longtime readers are quite familiar with the racist misogynist Christian-bashing hatebag TBogg of Firedoglake. His latest putrid attack is routine for this asshole:
@jesseltaylor@dloesch When you've lost Dana Loesch ... well, she's like herpes. So actually she'll probably be back.
— TBogg (@tbogg) August 21, 2012
Republican Abortion Platform Rejects Exceptions for Rape and Incest
The Fox News panel discusses the Todd Akin scandal, and the discussion inevitably moves toward the GOP's "extreme" position on abortion. Krauthammer notes that the rejection of exceptions for rape and incest have always been in recent Republican platforms, but Democrat demagoguing on social issues has heightened the focus this time around. And the Akin scandal is the gift the keeps on giving.
At the New York Times, "G.O.P. Approves Strict Anti-abortion Language in Party Platform":
At the New York Times, "G.O.P. Approves Strict Anti-abortion Language in Party Platform":
Even as the Republican establishment continued to call for Representative Todd Akin of Missouri to drop out of his Senate race because of his comments on rape and abortion, Republicans approved platform language on Tuesday calling for a constitutional amendment outlawing abortion with no explicit exceptions for cases of rape or incest.RELATED: At the Los Angeles Times, "Todd Akin touts support from crusader who espoused theories on rape" (via Memeorandum).
The anti-abortion plank, approved by the Republican platform committee Tuesday morning in Tampa, Fla., was similar to the planks Republicans have included in their recent party platforms, which also called for a constitutional ban on abortions. The full convention is set to vote on the party’s platform on Monday.
While Republican officials stressed that the plank did not go into granular details, saying that they were better left to the states, the language of the plank seems to leave little room for exceptions to the abortion ban. It states that “the unborn child has a fundamental individual right to life which cannot be infringed.”
“Faithful to the ‘self-evident’ truths enshrined in the Declaration of Independence, we assert the sanctity of human life and affirm that the unborn child has a fundamental individual right to life which cannot be infringed,” said the draft platform language approved Tuesday, which was first reported by CNN. “We support a human life amendment to the Constitution and endorse legislation to make clear that the Fourteenth Amendment’s protections apply to unborn children.”
The timing of the approval of the Republican anti-abortion plank was awkward for Mitt Romney, who has denounced Mr. Akin’s comments about rape and abortion and who has said that he supports exceptions to allow abortions in cases of rape. And it comes as his selection of his running mate, Representative Paul D. Ryan of Wisconsin, was already drawing scrutiny for his support for a more absolute ban on abortions, even in cases of rape or incest.
Tuesday, August 21, 2012
NBC/Wall Street Journal Poll: Romney Faces Hurdles Heading Into Conventions
At MSNBC, "NBC/WSJ poll: Heading into conventions, Obama has four-point lead" (via Memeorandum).
Here's the Wall Street Journal's report, "In Tight Race, Romney Faces Hurdles" (via Memeorandum):
This race is too close to call.
More at Hot Air, "Bounce: New polls show Romney leading in Michigan, Wisconsin after Ryan pick."
Here's the Wall Street Journal's report, "In Tight Race, Romney Faces Hurdles" (via Memeorandum):
Heading into next week's Republican convention, Mitt Romney remains within striking distance of President Barack Obama but faces steep challenges in inducing voters to warm up to him as a candidate, a new Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll has found.The full results are here. Looks like a good sample, although it's a little heavy on Democrat respondents (34 percent). That said, the findings are in line with what we know already, and swing state polling shows Romney very competitive.
Mr. Romney's choice of Rep. Paul Ryan as his running mate has stirred excitement within the GOP that he can defeat the president. But the poll found little evidence the pick will affect the election, beyond helping unify Mr. Romney's conservative base.
Mr. Obama's lead over Mr. Romney was 48% to 44% in the new poll, about the same as a month earlier and within the poll's margin of error of plus or minus 3 points.
The survey of 1,000 registered voters, taken Aug. 16-20, showed that significant swaths of the electorate harbor reservations about the former Massachusetts governor, concerns that have budged little since the general-election fight began in earnest four months ago.
At the same time, Mr. Obama continues to receive low marks for his handling of the economy, particularly among undecided voters, who are more pessimistic than are voters overall about the country's economic future. The dour outlook among undecided voters could hamper Mr. Obama's ability to turn his current lead into a winning majority.
Mr. Romney outscored the president on leadership qualities. He polled higher when those participating were asked which man has better executive skills, ideas to improve the economy and ability to change "business as usual'' in Washington.
But since the spring, Mr. Romney has made scant headway in persuading the public that he understands the concerns of average Americans.
Barely a third of those polled gave him better marks than the president on caring about average people, dealing with the concerns of women or seniors, or being a calm and steady leader.
More than half said Mr. Romney was "out of step with most Americans' thinking," compared with 44% who said that of Mr. Obama.
"Mitt Romney heads into his convention with a lot of repair work to do with his image," said Democratic pollster Peter Hart, who conducted the poll along with Republican Bill McInturff.
This race is too close to call.
More at Hot Air, "Bounce: New polls show Romney leading in Michigan, Wisconsin after Ryan pick."
Kelly Brook Afternoon Rule 5
Via Tumblr.
And see London's Daily Mail, "Hello, boys! Kelly Brook strips off (again) in sexy photos to launch her second New Look lingerie line for women with curves." Lots of photos at the link.
BONUS: At AceofSpadesHQ, "In Which, Depressed and Bored, I Post An Article About Christina Hendricks, Hoping To Get An "I'd Hit That" Thread Going."
And see London's Daily Mail, "Hello, boys! Kelly Brook strips off (again) in sexy photos to launch her second New Look lingerie line for women with curves." Lots of photos at the link.
BONUS: At AceofSpadesHQ, "In Which, Depressed and Bored, I Post An Article About Christina Hendricks, Hoping To Get An "I'd Hit That" Thread Going."
Reince Priebus: Akin 'Ought to Do the Right Thing for the Country and Get Out of the Race...' (VIDEO)
I mentioned how abortion has moved to the center of the debate on the GOP. The Republican Convention is gearing up in Tampa, and I'll have more on that. Meanwhile, here's the RNC Chair putting the pressure on Akin::
PREVIOUSLY:
* "Progressives Call for Rape of Missouri Rep. Todd Akin."
* "Conservatives Push for Todd Akin to Quit Missouri Senate Race."
* "'I Would Be Thinking About What's In the Best Interest of the Party' — Sean Hannity Interview With Embattled Missouri Senate Candidate Todd Akin."
* "Social Conservatives Stand Up for Todd Akin."
* "Obama Emerges From the Bunker to Declare 'Rape is Rape'."
* "Missouri's Todd Akin Asks for 'Forgiveness'."
* "'Rush to the Gunfire': Embattled Todd Akin Vows to Stay in the Race."
* "Dana Loesch Withdraws Support for Todd Akin."
PREVIOUSLY:
* "Progressives Call for Rape of Missouri Rep. Todd Akin."
* "Conservatives Push for Todd Akin to Quit Missouri Senate Race."
* "'I Would Be Thinking About What's In the Best Interest of the Party' — Sean Hannity Interview With Embattled Missouri Senate Candidate Todd Akin."
* "Social Conservatives Stand Up for Todd Akin."
* "Obama Emerges From the Bunker to Declare 'Rape is Rape'."
* "Missouri's Todd Akin Asks for 'Forgiveness'."
* "'Rush to the Gunfire': Embattled Todd Akin Vows to Stay in the Race."
* "Dana Loesch Withdraws Support for Todd Akin."
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