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LIVE AT FIVE – 10.27.11

— compiled by Wombat-socho TOP NEWS #OWS Protesters Find Cities’ Patience Wearing Thin Neighbors, businesses, and police getting tired of filthy hippies disrupting business and otherwise being annoying; occupiers ejected in Atlanta, Oakland European Leaders Agree On Steps To Reduce Greek Debt 50% haircut coming for bondholders; $140B to be injected into banks Supercommittee Showing […]

James Carville Trashes Herman Cain

Herman Cain “is not going to be the president of anything,” says Corporal Cueball. “He’s just trying to get some attention. He’s not going to get the nomination.” Yeah. Tell it to the voters: Herman Cain takes the lead in the Republican presidential nomination contest as GOP voters continue to deny Mitt Romney clear front-runner […]

I Thought The “We Can’t Wait” Noise Was An Alcoa Reference

by Smitty Gateway Pundit is all on about “We Can’t Wait” being mooched from a Swedish party. Am I the only person in the country that thought of this when I first heard the slogan? Observation: calls to immediate action are, for the politician, as visual distractions are to the stage magician. That is, the […]

Major Democrat Donor Sajat Gupta Indicted on Insider Trading Charges

The Wall Street Journal: Rajat K. Gupta, the highest-ranking corporate executive to become embroiled in a push by the government to root out insider trading, pleaded not guilty Wednesday to charges of leaking confidential information while serving as a director at Goldman Sachs Group Inc. and Procter & Gamble Co. In a six-count indictment, federal […]

Wasted Away Again In My ObamaVille

by Smitty (via Insty) Sorry, Jimmy: Nibblin’ on coffee cake Watchin’ some bum take All of the handouts From some others’ toil Strummin’ my six phones Amidst all the chicken bones Smell those socks? They’re beginnin’ ta boil Wasted away again in my ObamaVille Chanting mic check near the Chase vault, Some people claim That […]

‘Get God Back in Our Culture’

“One of the reasons we have this moral crisis today is because too many people are trying to take God out of our culture, little by little. … The way we’re going to protect the unborn in this nation is to work on the right problem, get God back in our culture.” — Herman Cain, […]

Cain Leads New Ohio Poll; Close to Romney in Nevada; Perry Fading Away

The big headline today is the Ohio poll by Quinnipiac: Former Godfather’s Pizza CEO Herman Cain has jumped to the front of the line among GOP presidential contenders with 28 percent support among Ohio Republicans. Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney is second with 23 percent, while Texas Gov. Rick Perry is almost at the bottom […]

Lovely Contradictions

by Smitty Via Memeorandum, we have this report in the New York Times: With Election Day just over a year away, a deep sense of economic anxiety and doubt about the future hangs over the nation, according to the latest New York Times/CBS News poll, with Americans’ distrust of government at its highest level ever. […]

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