LIVE AT FIVE: 12.22.14

Posted on | December 22, 2014 | 4 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

TOP NEWS
Two NYPD Officers Ambushed, Killed

Mourners gather at a makeshift memorial near the murder site

Shot execution-style while sitting in parked patrol car
Officers’ slaying raises pressure on Mayor DiBlasio
Officers turn backs on mayor before press conference, sparks fly
Families mourn dead officers

GOP Critical Of Obama Response To Sony Hack
Rogers: Obama should already be responding instead of just vowing to respond

Florida Officer Killed In Weekend’s Third Murder Of Police
Officer Kondek shot, then run over by criminal attempting to avoid arrest

POLITICS
Rubio Rips Rand Paul For “Cheerleading” Obama’s Foreign Policy

Is Marco Rubio or Rand Paul the real isolationist?

Also expresses qualified support for Jeb Bush

Obama To Name Sally Yates As Deputy AG

Christie Tells Obama to Demand Return Of Cop-Killer Chesimard To Start Cuba Talks

Hillary Facing Headwinds From Liberals As Warren Rises

US Asking For Chicoms’ Help With Sony Hack?

Satanists Mount Holiday Display With Little Fanfare

Wisconsin Government Accountability Board Agents Continued Partisan Probe In Defiance Of Judges

THE ECONOMY, STUPID
Asian Crude On The Rise; Brent Back Over $60: WTI $57.82, Brent $62.04
Dolar matches Two-Year High against Euro; Rupiah Strengthens
Santa Comes Early As Gasoline Falls To Lowest Prices Since 2009
Pacific Northwest’s Haggen Chain Buys 146 Albertson’s, Safeway Stores In California
Gift Cards Remain Popular, And A Risk For Scams
Amazon Fire Phone Gets Major Updates
Intel Launches Easy Migration App
Microsoft Removes Third-Party Snapchat Apps From The Windows Phone Store
T-Mobile To Pay $90 Million For Cramming
“HALO: The Master Chief Collection” Adds Updated “HALO 3: ODST” For Free

SPORTS
Seahawks Dominate Cards To Close On NFC West Title

Seahawks DE Cliff Avril stands over Cardinals QB Ryan Lindley after a first-half hit

Seattle sets franchise record 596 yards of offense in 35-6 crushing of Arizona

Stars Edge Oilers 6-5 In Shootout

LeBron Scores 25 As Cavs Tame Grizzlies 105-91

Ravens’ Playoff Hopes Dim With 25-13 Loss To Texans

Zepp’s Debut With Flyers Good As Jets Fall 4-3 In OT

Kings Drop Lakers, Snap Skid

Pats Hang On, Beat Jets Again 17-16

Blackhawks Blank Leafs 4-0

Raptors Ready For The Road With Rout Of Knicks

Raiders Upset Bills 26-24, End Bills’ Playoff Hopes

Bruins Tip Sabres 4-3 In OT

The Nats, Trea Turner, And PTBNL Drama

FAMOUS FOR BEING FAMOUS
Could Idris Elba Be The Next James Bond?

If they can cast Samuel L. Jackson as Nick Fury, why not give Mr. Elba a license to kill?

Sony’s Pascal all for it according to leaked e-mails; no secret Daniel Craig wants out

Kristen Bell, It’s Another Girl!

TLC To Air “My Husband’s Not Gay” Special Next Month

Margaret Cho Divorcing Husband After 11 Years

USA’s Hacker Drama “Mr. Robot” Gets Series Order

Madonna’s “Early Christmas Gift”: Six Songs From New Album

Sondheim Takes In First Preview Of “Into The Woods”

J. Crew’s Jenna Lyons Told To Cut Back On Self-Promotion

FOREIGNERS
ROK Cuts Forecasts But Sees 2015 Improvements On Oil, Stimulus
Saudis Won’t Cut Oil Output
Chicoms Condemn Cyberattacks, But Don’t Mention Norks
Kurds, Yazidis Attack Sinjar With US Air Support
Anti-Islamist Claims Victory In Disputed Tunisian Runoff
Invoking Allah, Driver Runs Down 11 French Pedestrians
Egypt Allows Gazans In For First Time Since October
Pakistan Hangs Four More Jihadis In Faisalabad
Facebook Accused Of Bowing To Putin

BLOGS & STUFF
American Power: Vicious Hatemonger @CassandraRules “Spammed By Idiots” Calling Her Out For Violent Anti-Cop Agitation
American Thinker: Mirror-Imaging The Jihadis
BLACKFIVE: Wreaths Across America At Arlington
Conservatives4Palin: Former NYPD Commissioner Bernie Kerik – DiBlasio And Sharpton Have Blood On Their Hands
Don Surber: $21 Million Down The Education Rathole
Jammie Wearing Fools: Pennsylvania Democrats Indicted For Taking Bribes To Vote Against Voter ID Law
Joe For America: After Stoking Hate Between Blacks, Cops, Sharpton Backpedals
JustOneMinute: “Hands Up” – More Of The News Not Fit To Print
Pamela Geller: Brooklyn Cop-Killer’s FB Page Has Quran Quote
Protein Wisdom: “Lena Dunham, Al Sharpton, Eric Holder, And The New Barbarism”
Shot In The Dark: Why Atheists Piss Me Off
The Gateway Pundit: One Week Ago…Protesters Chanted “What Do We Want? Dead Cops!” At Sharpton’s NYC March
The Jawa Report: Nebraska Mom And Two Boys
The Lonely Conservative: Did Obama Stop Intel Community From Responding To Nork Hack Attack?
This Ain’t Hell: Pentagon – Move Retirees To Obamacare
Weasel Zippers: You Knew It Was Coming – Cop Killer Had “A Troubled Childhood”
Mark Steyn: He Would, Wouldn’t He?

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4 Responses to “LIVE AT FIVE: 12.22.14”

Fail Burton
December 22nd, 2014 @ 2:59 pm

Making a black James Bond is just another stupid PC move. What they could do is make a black ’60s spy and bounce that around to address racial issues in a way that could be witty, funny and clever ala In the Heat of the Night as the spy finds different meanings to be black from Cairo to Rio to London to New York in little background noises to the story.

But no, without imaginations, they’ll just plug a black guy in and leave him as nothing more than a Kiplingesque Hindu in a monocle who dreams of being a Scotsman. Somehow they think that’s a good role model, like the faithful Gunga Din maybe.
Wombat_socho
December 22nd, 2014 @ 4:13 pm

I’ve seen Idris Elba in a number of roles and I think he’d do a good job, regardless of whether the studio is doing it for PC reasons. I’m less enthused about SLJ playing Nick Fury because he’s really playing Samuel L. Jackson while wearing Nick Fury’s clothes.
Fail Burton
December 22nd, 2014 @ 6:15 pm

No one’s questioning his talent – it’s the casting that’s moronic. And how was black Nick Fury leading Howling Commandos in WW II? Omar Sharif can play Dr. Zhivago but lord don’t let a white Russian play Omar Sharif. Why not just make Tarzan black, and Jane Eyre? How about Popeye the Sailor and Hernan Cortes? Lord Jim could be a HIndu with an all white cast from Borneo and with King Kong thrown in.
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December 23rd, 2014 @ 6:13 pm

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