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Rule 5 Sunday: Thanksgiving Tryptophan Coma Edition

Posted on | November 30, 2014 | 16 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Miss Alabama 2012, Katherine Webb
#rolltide

Between the ongoing Sex Trouble slog (which is starting to bear a strong resemblance to Napoleon’s invasion of Russia) and the Crimson Tide’s big comeback in the Iron Bowl Saturday (which is why I posed AJ McCarron’s main squeeze), it may be a while before we hear from Stacy again. Smitty and I will do our best to provide an erratic but daily flow of content – and speaking of which, I have just enough gas in the tank after a weekend in the Shenandoah to get this here Rule 5 post done. As usual, exercise discretion in clicking the links, because some of the pictures linked are most definitely NSFW.

Goodstuff leads off this week with everything you always wanted to know about Catwoman but were afraid to ask. Ninety Miles from Tyranny has Girls with Guns, Hot Pick of the Late Night, and Morning Mistress; Loose Endz submits Denise Crosby in one of the worst ST: Next Generation episodes ever, Animal Magnetism chips in with Rule 5 Friday and the Saturday Gingermageddon, and Brian Noggle spices up a review of Tiger at the Gates with some of the actresses who were in the stage version of this Trojan War novel. As usual, First Street Journal has a different spin on Rule 5 and this week is all about American girls in uniform. Also, Average Bubba sent Rule 5 Friday: Hannah Ferguson Edition.

This week, EBL’s herd includes Sea Gals (not actually present at the 49ers’ humiliation), Interstellar Rule 5, Kendall Jenner, and Hollywood Vintage Christmas.

Soylent Siberia found the coffee creamer this week, as well as Overnighty Diamonds, Monday Motivationer Jazmin, Evening Awesome Boots, Tuesday Titillation Twofer With Fur, Perils of Pygmalion, Humpday Hawtness Leona Rajacic, Overnighty Roxana, Soylent Thanksgiving, Evening Encore Leona, Corset Friday: Lascivious Lingerie, T-GIF Friday WeekEnder Foreplay: The Rockettes, Weekender Minion Submission: Clambake Buffet, and Bath Night A La Bond.

A View from the Beach submits Lily Aldridge and the Gap, Three Cups a Day Keeps Dementia Away, Happy Thanksgiving!, Nice Rack!, “I’m Only Happy When it Rains!”, Another Moment of Desperation, I Don’t Care What They Do, As Long As They Don’t Scare the Horses, “Wade in the Water”, Redskins Attack Gold Miners, and Celebrities Stuck in Traffic.

Proof Positive’s Friday Night Babe is Stephanie Szostak, his Vintage Babe is Thanksgiving, Sex in Advertising asks Got Milk? and the obligatory 49ers cheerleader comes with a friend this week. At Dustbury, it’s Noel Neill and Jennifer Batten.

Thanks to everyone for their linkagery! Deadline to submit links to the Rule 5 Wombat mailbox is midnight on Sunday, December 6.


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FMJRA 2.0: Day Late And A Dollar Short Thanksgiving Weekend Edition

Posted on | November 30, 2014 | 1 Comment

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Rule 5 Sunday: Wax Ecstatic
Batshit Crazy News
Average Bubba
Regular Right Guy
A View from the Beach
Proof Positive
Ninety Miles from Tyranny

Is Salon Saying That Rep. Paul Ryan Is A Time Traveller?
The Pirate’s Cove
A View from the Beach

Report: Two Black Panther Terrorists Arrested in Ferguson Bomb Plot
Batshit Crazy News
A View from the Beach

FMJRA 2.0: Sold Me Down The River
The Pirate’s Cove
Batshit Crazy News

Why Ferguson?
Batshit Crazy News
Minority Report Blog
Regular Right Guy
Hogewash

In The Mailbox, 11.24.14
Regular Right Guy

LIVE AT FIVE: 11.25.14
Batshit Crazy News

He Stands There Appealing His Fruit
Batshit Crazy News
Regular Right Guy

LIVE AT FIVE: 11.26.14
Batshit Crazy News
Proof Positive

Weekend Reading
Batshit Crazy News

Ferguson Seen As Reverend Al Sharpton’s Racism Industrial Complex Checking In
Batshit Crazy News

Landrieu Would Do Anything For Love Of A Senate Seat. That, Too. With Gusto.
First Street Journal
Batshit Crazy News

Top linker this week: Batshit Crazy News (10)

Thanks to everyone for their linkagery this week!


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Shout Out To Princess Pelosi

Posted on | November 29, 2014 | 24 Comments

by Smitty

Poor Princess Pelosi; once so regal. Now another beagle.
To the tune of “I’m a Little Teapot“:

I’m a bitter clinger, hear me roar.
Once I had power,
For now, it’s no more.
When I get all Beamed up,
Hear me shout!
Elections are over
Soon they’ll throw me out.

I’m a bitter clinger, yes it’s true.
Staying past my sell date’s what I do.
Scheming on my comeback; foes I’ll rout:
Tea Partiers Will. Pay. Have. No. Doubt.

Category: Democrats, Nancy Pelosi

Landrieu Would Do Anything For Love Of A Senate Seat. That, Too. With Gusto.

Posted on | November 28, 2014 | 28 Comments

by Smitty

 

Full clip:


The #FunnyNotFunny thing about Landrieu is that not only are the wages of her political sin going to be death in the runoff next month, but the way she’d so cheerfully promise to prostitute herself and her state in order to stay in office.

We can say, “Well, that’s politics” and shrug, but at some point one has to hope Mary gets to recover a bit of dignity.

Vote Bill Cassidy

An incumbent who has been reduced to a Meatloaf reference is not worth keeping.

via BCF

Category: Democrats, Louisiana

Ferguson Seen As Reverend Al Sharpton’s Racism Industrial Complex Checking In

Posted on | November 26, 2014 | 50 Comments

by Smitty

Saint Louis resident Kevin Jackson weighs in:

Instapundit offers some further analysis:

It’s about the base. And it’s not about the Democratic Party’s base, but about certain leaders’ base within the Democratic Party. This may be best understood as an intra-party struggle. Obama is the champion of the urban-black wing of the party, and because of him that wing has been on top. But his star is fading, black voters are beginning to realize that they haven’t benefited economically, and the next Dem nominee — whether it’s Hillary Clinton, Jim Webb, or Elizabeth Warren — will be from the white gentry-liberal wing of the Democratic Party. The riots, the marches, the traffic-blocking are a way of telling them that the Sharpton wing is still a force to be reckoned with, and to improve its bargaining power between now and 2016.

As usual, Insty’s analysis is more plausible than my own theory: that #OccupyResoluteDesk wants to foment chaos in order to move toward martial law.


The need to manage the competing bases within the Democrat Party adds a new angle to Missiouri Lt. Governor (and Republican) Peter Kinder’s claim about the National Guard getting a stand-down order from Democrat Governor Nixon, rather than do the logical thing and protect private property in Ferguson. Going in and calibrating the Racism Industrial Complex shock troops would be seen as the gentry “plantation owner” wing of the Democrat Party going after the plantation inhabitants so crucial at election time.


Niger Innis also sees Ferguson as a backfiring strategy:

“What happens when the circus, and I define the circus as the paid protesters, the anarchists, the activists, the card-carrying zealots that are out there, the Occupy Wall Street crowd that has come into Ferguson. what happens when they leave town…what will be left is an economic wasteland, and the very frustration, legitimate frustration that the people of Ferguson have, the young people of Ferguson have, jobs, economic opportunity, education choices, and education and economic uplift, their situation is going to be worse off, not better off because of this” he stated.

“Burn baby, burn: voter inferno”


So there was Trayvon Martin ahead of 2012; Ferguson after 2014. This seems to indicate that, prior to the 2016 election, there will be Yet Another Tragedy involving The Oppressor and The Victim, replete with presstitutes, rabble rousers, rightfully grieving family, and a whole lotta violence.
The property destruction will continue until the rabble rousers are rejected whenever they arrive to stir the pot.

Update: Ann Coulter is typically conciliatory, but which I mean she drops a Daisy Cutter on the Left.

Category: Democrats

Weekend Reading

Posted on | November 26, 2014 | 13 Comments

— by Wombat-socho


I am heading off into the Shenandoah Valley this weekend to spend Thanksgiving Day weekend with the family of an old friend, but before I grab my bags and head out into the rain, I need to stuff a few books into my range bag since I’ll be avoiding the Internet this weekend. I’m in the middle of re-reading Larry Correia’s Hard Magic, so that’s going, and from the library I have Dan Abnett’s Horus Rising, the first in a series of novels set in the Warhammer 40K universe.* Abnett comes highly recommended by my friends who are into WH40K, and I did like the hilarious (and horrifying) Ciaphas Cain: Hero of the Imperium by Sandy Mitchell, so we’ll see how this first novel in the Horus Heresy cycle sits with me. Also recommended was Peter Grant’s War To The Knife, the first volume of a trilogy; it is free through the Amazon Prime Lending Library, if you’re hooked up with that.

I’m also finally getting around to David Drake and Eric Flint’s Belisarius I: Thunder at Dawn, which combines the first two novels of the Belisarius series (An Oblique Approach and In The Heart Of Darkness) in one volume. This is essentially an alternate history series with a similar premise to Drake & Stirling’s Raj Whitehall novels (see Hope Reborn) but unlike Center in the Raj Whitehall novels, the entity aiding Belisarius has opposition from a parallel world, which has its own plans for humanity. It looks interesting, and I think I may actually have read the second novel before after mistaking it for Drake’s horror collection From the Heart of Darkness** so we’ll see how I feel about the rest of it.

Also on the Kindle is some non-fiction, Virginia Postrel’s The Substance of Style, currently on sale for the insanely cheap price of $1.99 (normal list price is $13.99). Postrel argues in this book that appearance counts and esthetic value is real. Postrel is an entertaining writer; her 1998 book The Future and Its Enemies is an excellent examination of the social and political tensions between “dynamists” and “stasists” that cuts across party lines.

For your amusement: a very short story wherein a Delta Green operative considers some relevant literature. 🙂
Happy Thanksgiving! See you Sunday for the FMJRA!

*Since I’m still pissed at Games Workshop over the way they treated Maggie Hogarth over Spots the Space Marine: Defense of the Fiddler, here’s an unsolicited plug for that book, which unusually for combat SF can actually be read by your children.
**Has Cthulhu Mythos content and other creepiness.


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LIVE AT FIVE: 11.26.14

Posted on | November 26, 2014 | 3 Comments

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TOP NEWS
More National Guardsmen Deployed In Ferguson To Head Off Fresh Riots

Missouri National Guard troops in Ferguson

Ferguson mayor blasts Gov. Nixon for delayed deployment
Police car set ablaze, arrests made in Ferguson protests
Protests continue across the nation




VP Biden Reportedly Ticked Off By Obama’s Handling Of Hagel Resignation
Flournoy Bows Out Of SecDef Competition

Modi Seeks To Boost Regional Influence At SAARC Summit
Pakistan rivalry casts a shadow



POLITICS
Obama Touts Immigration Action In Chicago Speech

Trying to quiet the hecklers

Speech frequently interrupted by hecklers in crowd


Federal Judges Strike Down Gay Marriage Bans In Arkansas, Mississippi


Gruber Set To Testify At December House Hearing

Schumer Calls Obamacare A Mistake For Democrats

EPA Reportedly To Propose Stricter Smog Standard

Obama Bundler Facing Sex Abuse Charges

Supreme Court To Review EPA Mercury Limits

IRS Workers To Get 1% Bonuses



THE ECONOMY, STUPID
Asian Crude Extends Losses Ahead Of OPEC Meeting: WTI $73.85, Brent $78.16
Wall Street Ends Little Changed After Mixed Data
Consumers Wary Despite “Strengthening” Economy
Samsung Sells Shares In Chemical, Defense Divisions For $1.7 Billion
Apple Market Value Hits $700 Billion
HP Earnings Show Continued Struggle
Sony To Offer Partial Refunds For PS Vita
iPad Slump Marks “Massive Deceleration” In Tablet Shipments
Samsung “Eye Mouse” Helps Paralyzed Use PCs, Will Be Made Open Source
How Much Do You Know About How The Internet Works?
T-Mobile Agrees With FCC To Be More Upfront About Data-Throttling



SPORTS
College Football Playoff Rankings Unchanged: Alabama Still #1 #rolltide

Alabama’s Tyren Jones celebrates after scoring against Western Carolina on Saturday

Oregon, Mississippi State, Florida State round out top four

Jets Beat Blue Jackets 4-2 On Power Play

Seahawks Richard Sherman, Doug Baldwin Mock NFL Policies In News Conference


Lawson Leads Nuggets Past Bulls For Fifth Straight Win

Stars Edge Oilers, 3-2

Shorthanded Heat Fall To Warriors

Sens 3, Blues 2 (SO)

Bucks Beat Pistons On The Boards

Soviet Hockey Coach Viktor Tikhonov Dies, 84

Does Yoan Moncada Make Sense For The Nationals?



FAMOUS FOR BEING FAMOUS
Kate Hudson Admits To Working Her “Ass Off” To Get In Shape

No other “secret” to looking good

“Everybody wants some sort of secret and there just isn’t, it’s just you have to work out.”

Demi Lovato: “Nothing In Common” With Former Gal Pal Miley Cyrus

Angelina Jolie: I’m Going To Get This Wife Thing Down

Dax Shepard Helps Pregnant Kristen Bell In Adorable Samsung Holiday Commercial

Joni Mitchell Squelched Proposed Biopic Starring Taylor Swift

Michelle McLaren Signs To Develop, Direct “Wonder Woman” Movie

Judge Gives Shia LeBeouf High Five For Alcohol Rehab

Girlfriend Dumped With Restraining Order After “Girls’ Weekend” Trip

Pine Bros. Wacka Flocka Flame Ad Banned By CBS, NBC



FOREIGNERS
Student Leaders Of Hong Kong Protests Reportedly Arrested
Pope Francis Seeks To Inspire “Haggard” Europe
Facebook Could Have Prevented Murder Of Trooper Lee Rigby By Jihadis
Khamenei: Iran Won’t Be Brought To Its Knees On Nuke Issue
Yemeni Forces Rescue Eight Hostages From Al-Qaeda
Two Female Suicide Bombers Kill 45 In Nigeria
Ukraine Says More Russian Military In Eastern Regions
Syrian Air Strikes On IS “Capital” Of Raqqa Kill 63
Santa’s Little Helpers Break World Record In Bangkok
FARC Rebels Free Two Soldiers



BLOGS & STUFF
Proof Positive: Mr. President, There Is No “Shot Clock” In The Constitution
Michelle Malkin: The Truth About Obama’s “Temporary” Ebola Amnesty
Twitchy: Celebs And Others Compare Ferguson Riots To Boston Tea Party
American Power: Senator Sessions – Congress Should Not Fund Imperial Amnesty
American Thinker: Islamism, Islamofascism, And Islam
BLACKFIVE: Book Review – Woman With A Gun
Conservatives4Palin: Twenty Ways Media Completely Misread Congress’ Weaksauce Benghazi Report
Don Surber: The System Worked In Ferguson
Jammie Wearing Fools: Shock Poll – Lawless President Falls Below 40% Approval
Joe For America: Ted Nugent Chimes In On Ferguson
Pamela Geller: Imam At Al-Aqsa Mosque “May Allah Annihilate America…”
Protein Wisdom: Ferguson – Vox Sniffs “Grand Jury Had Too Much Evidence”
Shot In The Dark: The Real Crime Last Night
STUMP: Public Pensions – What’s So Bad About 80%? (And Coming Attractions)
The Gateway Pundit: Armed Guards With AR-15s Save N. St. Louis Strip Mall From Looters
The Jawa Report: Meanwhile In Kazakhstan
The Lonely Conservative: NYT Publishes Street Address Of Officer Darren Wilson
This Ain’t Hell: An Update On Rear Admiral Giardina
Weasel Zippers: Most Of The Businesses Destroyed In Ferguson Last Night Were Owned By Minorities
Megan McArdle: What The UVA Rape Cases Teach Us


Reminder: no Live At Five Thursday or Friday; FMJRA will be on Sunday.


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Why Ferguson?

Posted on | November 25, 2014 | 123 Comments

Riot police on the streets of Ferguson, Missouri.

“Fox and CNN viewers witnessed a police car, a car dealership and the local Little Caesar’s Pizza set ablaze, a beauticians’ store looted, a McDonald’s with its windows smashed — and ‘Full circle: Liquor store Michael Brown accused of robbing being looted.'”
— Ed Driscoll, Nov. 24, 2014

The grand jury in Ferguson, Missouri, returned a “no bill” against police officer Darren Wilson, and devotees of the slain Saint Michael Brown — a martyr to the Holy Cause, in the eyes of idolators who worship at the Civil Rights altar — engaged in a ritual riot, while the High Priest of Social Justice, Barack Obama, gave a ceremonial press statement.

Why?

That question goes unasked in the wall-to-wall cable TV news coverage. Because I’m up to my eyeballs in a book project, I don’t have time to pay attention to every Major National News Story that comes along, but I’ve spent the past three months wondering, “Why Ferguson?”

It’s like Trayvon Martin. The basic idea of that drama was, a black teenager got shot by a white man and this was an injustice.

Of course, black teenagers are shot to death on a daily basis in America, but because they are usually killed by other black teenagers, there is nothing in the death of a young hoodlum of interest to the Civil Rights cult unless the shooter is white (or at least half-white, as it turned out that George Zimmerman’s mother is Hispanic).  This cultural phenomenon is so obvious, one hesitates to state it so explicitly: “Civil Rights” has been re-defined to mean “whatever gives black people an excuse to hate white people more than they already do,” and the journalistic establishment is committed to inciting such hatred.

A white person has to be pretty goddamned privileged, if I may borrow that phrase from the social-justice theorists, to pander to professional grievance-mongers in such a blatantly irresponsible manner. You need a degree from an elite college, and a job in media or academia that pays you a handsome salary, in order to be the kind of white person who believes that stoking black anger is beneficial to society, and yet it is clear that many white liberals do believe this.

“In the hands of a skillful indoctrinator, the average student not only thinks what the indoctrinator wants him to think . . . but is altogether positive that he has arrived at his position by independent intellectual exertion. This man is outraged by the suggestion that he is the flesh-and-blood tribute to the success of his indoctrinators.”
– William F. Buckley Jr., Up From Liberalism (1959)

Excuse me for re-using that Buckley quote, but we cannot understand liberalism without recognizing it as an effect of indoctrination.

Why do liberals “think” the way they do? In fact, they don’t actually think at all. Our elite are utterly irrational, like the monkey in the psych lab experiment, pushing the button in the Skinner box to get another hit of cocaine, heedless of the consequences. Our current system of education does not teach facts and skills, it teaches attitudes, and one of the prescribed attitudes is: Black, good; white, bad.

Liberalism involves a crude Manichean worldview:

Women, good; men, bad.
Youth, good; adults, bad.
Atheists, good; Christians, bad.
Hedonism, good; responsibility, bad.
Abortion, good; motherhood, bad.
Sodomy, good; normal sex, bad.
Wilderness, good; carbon energy, bad.
Labor unions, good; entrepreneurs, bad.
Government, good; corporations, bad.
Foreigners, good; Americans, bad.
Democrats, good; Republicans, bad.

It is this last distinction — blind loyalty to the Democrat Party — which is the ultimate goal of the attitudinal training we now call “education.” Our government school system annually hands diplomas to teenagers who can barely even read their diplomas, and the bureaucratic mediocrities who run the system don’t care that their “education” teaches kids nothing useful, so long as the student learns to vote Democrat.

What did public schools teach Michael Brown? That it is entirely acceptable to get high on dope, steal from a local convenience store and, when apprehended by a police officer, to resist a lawful arrest:

“The witness’s account of the unarmed Brown
charging Wilson — even after he had been shot in the
hand during a struggle at the cop’s patrol car —
supports the officer’s contention that he fired
a series of shots as Brown bore down on him.”

The governor of Missouri is a Democrat. The mayor of Ferguson is a Democrat. The prosecuting attorney in the case is a Democrat. I’m not sure there were any Republicans on the grand jury that returned a no-bill against Officer Wilson. Yet the media manipulators who are stoking racial rage over this story are doing so with the certain knowledge that, by fomenting anti-white resentments, they are serving the political interests of the Democrat Party.

That’s all it is, nothing more.  They should be ashamed of themselves, but if liberals had any sense of shame they would not be liberals.





 

 

 

Category: Crime, Liberals, Media Bias, Missouri, Racism
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