LIVE AT FIVE: 08.22.14

Posted on | August 22, 2014 | 20 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

TOP NEWS
Rick Perry’s Mugshot Goes Viral

Art by SABO. h/t Don Surber

Former PIU investigator quashes CPRIT allegations
Perry: It’s possible ISIS has crossed the southern border
Rick Perry rounds up the media herd

Pakistani Opposition Leader Imran Khan Ends Talks With PM Sharif
No further talks with government until Sharif resigns

Americans Recovering From Ebola Released From Hospital
Doctor says patients pose no public health risk

POLITICS
GAO: Bergdahl Exchange Violated Law, Used Improper Funds

SGT Bowe Bergdahl

DoD failed to give Congress 30 days notice, illegally switched money between accounts

Jodi Ernst Takes On Military Sexual Assaults

Romney: Hillary Can’t Distance Herself From Obama

California To Appeal Federal Court’s Decision Banning State’s Death Penalty

OK Catholic Bishop Drops Suit Over Satanic Black Mass After Consecrated Host Returned

Federal Judge Strikes Down Florida’s Gay Marriage Ban

McDonnell Details Marital Woes In Corruption Trial

Team Obama Leaks News Of Failed Raid In Attempt To Shore Up Image

THE ECONOMY, STUPID
Asian Crude Falls From US Uptick On Poor PRC Economic Data: WTI $93.85, Brent $102.53
S&P 500 Sets Record, Dow Regains 17,000
Asian Shares Inch Up, All Eyes On Jackson Hole
Family Dollar Rejects Dollar General Bid On Antitrust Concerns
Soybeans Face Second Week Of Decline On Supply Pressure
eBay Considering PayPal Spinoff
Google’s Search App Now Truly Multilingual
Windows 9 Unveiling Set For September 30
European Class Action Suit Against Facebook Attracts 60,000
Chrome, Chrome Everywhere: Acer Unveils New Chromebook, Desktop Chromebox
“Flappy Bird” Creator Dong Nguyen Unveils “Swing Copter”

SPORTS
The Curly W Is For Walkoffs, Wins, And Washington Nationals

Denard Span scores the winning run in the bottom of the ninth

Nats’ streak reaches ten with another walkoff win

Reds Skid Reaches Six With 8-0 Drubbing By Braves

Yanks Blank Astros In A Hurry

Giants Get Split With Cubs

Angels Complete Sweep With 2-0 Win In Boston

Rays’ Cobb Outduels Price, Tigers

Twins Top Tribe 4-1

Run Ends For Mo’ne Davis And Philadelphia As Chicago Advances In LLWS

Dodgers Edge Padres 2-1

Pete Rose, 25 Years After Ban: I Want A Second Chance

FAMOUS FOR BEING FAMOUS
Pamela Anderson, Carey Hart Slam ALS Ice Bucket Challenge In Online Rants

Not down with the struggle

Anderson slams ALS for animal testing, Hart says just donate already

Carson Daly, It’s a Girl!

Dave Grohl: You Too Get A Baby Girl!

Pete Wentz: It’s A Boy

Scott Weiland Arrested For Stealing Razors And Meth

Nick Cannon And Mariah Carey Living Apart, Marriage On The Rocks

Chris Pratt Visits LA Childrens’ Hospital In Costume As Star Lord From “Guardians Of The Galaxy”

Beyonce’s Mom Says Breakup Rumors Are BS

Columbus Short Arrested

Miley Cyrus To Perform On Live Season Finale Of “Chelsea Lately”

FOREIGNERS
Malaysia Receives Bodies From Flight 17 Crash
Hamas Finally Admits To Kidnapping And Killing Israeli Teens
Venezuela To Fight Food Smugglers With Supermarket Fingerprinting
Indonesian Court Upholds Widodo’s Election Victory
At Least 33 Dead In Sinai From Egyptian Bus Crash
Turkish Foreign Minister Tapped To Succeed Erdogan As PM
Death Toll Could Double In Japan Landslide
Irish Peacemaker, Former Taoiseach Albert Reynolds Dead At 81
Feisty Exchange As Aussie Immigration Minister Defends Detention Of Illegal Immigrant Children
Riot Police Deployed As South African MPs Protest Zuma’s Expenses
Russian Military Vehicles Seized In Ukraine

BLOGS & STUFF
First Street Journal: Why Obama Will Never Beat ISIS – He Won’t Even Try.
Michelle Malkin: The Ferguson Feeding Frenzy
Twitchy: “About eight people here almost raging” – #DayOfRage Sparsely Attended Nationwide
American Power: Pamela Geller – “Obama Has Consistently Denied The Jihad Threat”
BLACKFIVE: Leaking The Raid That Failed To Find Foley In Syria
Conservatives4Palin: Gov. Palin On Richard Dawkins’ Disgusting “Abort” Comment
Don Surber: Daily Scoreboard, August 21
Jammie Wearing Fools: Nine-Year-Old Boy Shot To Death In Chicago, Obaam, Holder, Sharpton Unavailable For Comment
Joe For America: When A Black Cop Killed An Innocent Dillon Taylor In Utah, The Press Was Silent
Protein Wisdom: Banana Republicanism
Shot In The Dark: Trulbert! Part VII – In Hoc Slogan Vinces
STUMP: Public Pensions Watch – Dallas Pension Learns About Concentration Risk
The Gateway Pundit: Liberal Media Pulls Out Of Ferguson After Reports Off Officer Wilson’s Injuries Surface
The Jawa Report: Striking Terror Into The Hearts Of Muslims
The Lonely Conservative: Nancy Pelosi’s District Exempt From Water Restrictions
This Ain’t Hell: Meanwhile, In The “Government Transparency” Department
Weasel Zippers: NJ “Devout Muslim” Says He Gunned Down Teenager As “Act Of Vengeance” For IS Military Action In Islamic Countries
Megan McArdle: Legalize Drugs, Deal With The Downsides

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20 Responses to “LIVE AT FIVE: 08.22.14”

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August 22nd, 2014 @ 12:58 pm

No trigger warning on the Windows 9 story? You know I’m on heart meds! No coverage for the Bali suitcase murder? The Golfer in Chief will get involved. The killer is the biracial daughter of a Chicago socialite, she’s pregnant (though we see pictures of her smoking ), she’s been molested in jail and those racist bastards offered her KFC! http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2728791/Revealed-The-case-against-teenager-killed-U-S-socialite-mother-Bali-help-boyfriend.html
Wombat_socho
August 22nd, 2014 @ 1:31 pm

I’ve seen articles on it, but I generally leave the Police Gazette stuff to Stacy since it doesn’t really fir the format of Live at Five.
DeadMessenger
August 22nd, 2014 @ 6:32 pm

Partially quoted from link: “Whenever Threshold makes an appearance, it’s expected to come with a wide range of improvements, including a “mini” Smart Menu, separate windows for Metro-style applications running on the desktop, …support for virtual desktops”, as well as NSA-friendly access, keyloggers and Microsoft’s new MSInventory privacy-enhancing tool, which backs up the contents of internal harddrives and external USB devices across your entire home network to an undisclosed server location.
K-Bob
August 22nd, 2014 @ 7:17 pm

re: #PerryMugshot, I liked this one…

http://a.disquscdn.com/get?url=https%3A%2F%2Fpbs.twimg.com%2Fmedia%2FBvin9e_CYAASh5v.jpg
Bob Belvedere
August 22nd, 2014 @ 7:21 pm

Not only doesn’t it fir the format, but it also, as a bonus, doesn’t fit it, either.
Bob Belvedere
August 22nd, 2014 @ 7:22 pm

I’m getting a ‘403 Forbidden’ when I click on the image, K-Bob.
K-Bob
August 22nd, 2014 @ 7:24 pm

All I know is that I finally moved from XP on an old 32-bit, single-core computer to WIN8.1 and Office 2013, running on a quad-core, 64bit, modern processor with ten times the RAM of my XP machine…

And I feel like I’m back in 1995, trying to get Word 5 to load a document with over fifteen pages.

It’s…..sooooo….freaking………sloowwwww

It boots up reeel fast, though! Just don’t try to get any work done.
K-Bob
August 22nd, 2014 @ 7:34 pm

Interesting. Looks like a new behavior of Disqus.

I right clicked on the image from a comment to save the URL, and instead of the source URL, it gave me the Disqus CDN link, which is blocked if you ain’t usin’ it rite.

So now to use an image inside a Disqus comment, you have to click on the image to get taken to the proper URL.

This will stay in effect for ohh, the next six or eight days, till they change it all again.

Thanks for that. Now I know!
Zohydro
August 22nd, 2014 @ 7:40 pm

I miss the old Pluck Forums…
K-Bob
August 22nd, 2014 @ 7:49 pm

Huh.

When I was your age, we had to copy pixels by mapping the color levels one bit at a time.

With a breakout box.

In a dark room so we could read the cancer-causing CRT display.

But we could smoke and drink coffee right there in the lab.

*wet-sounding cough*
Wombat_socho
August 22nd, 2014 @ 8:26 pm

Ugh, I hate typos. Fixed.
Wombat_socho
August 22nd, 2014 @ 8:27 pm

Office 2013? There’s your problem right there. Office XP runs just fine under Windows 8; it’s what I use on the Satellite of Love (my Toshiba laptop) when I’m on the road or my Gateway Desktop is on the fritz.
Wombat_socho
August 22nd, 2014 @ 8:28 pm

This is why if I want to share a pic I’ll either download it or stick a copy in Picasa.
K-Bob
August 23rd, 2014 @ 1:05 am

Oh. Well you probably want it to work, then. Me, I like to wrestle with the imaginary interface in whatever passes for a “platform” these days.

I’m the guy who spends hours figuring out that you have to run the extra grounding wire that the now-dead product engineer left behind as an exercise for the reader.
K-Bob
August 23rd, 2014 @ 1:12 am

Yeah, it still runs great on my XP box. Trouble is, I no longer have the time to keep dealing with people who send me new versions of Excel files.

I managed to make it livable by turning off every form of animation in the thing, and staying the hell away from the “backstage” view. When you open that up (which is the default for all file operations) it’s so damn slow it loses typeahead.

It’s a disaster, frankly. But I’ve been here before with each jump up in levels of these products. It always takes two years to make them bearable.
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