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In The Mailbox – Veterans’ Day 2014

Posted on | November 11, 2014 | 2 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho


OVER THE TRANSOM
Michelle Malkin: Make DC Listen – Voters Reject Illegal Rewards
Doug Powers: Jonathan Gruber – Obamacare So Awesome It Was Necessary To Lie To Stupid Voters To Get It Passed
Twitchy: NYC Changes Pot Policy, But Who Won The Battle Of The Covers?


RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Power: Women In Academia Angered By Sexy PhD Costume
American Thinker: Behind The Don’t Shoot Coalition In Ferguson
BLACKFIVE: Happy Birthday, Marines! (NSFW)
Conservatives4Palin: Dingy Harry Leaves A Legacy Of Wreckage
Don Surber: Play Glenn’s Game Of Laws Thrown
Jammie Wearing Fools: Former Obamacare Navigator And Convicted Terrorist Found Guilty Of Immigration Fraud
Joe For America: Hey Speaker Boehner, You Are Lying About Needing Amnesty
JustOneMinute: Kings Of Comedy
Pamela Geller: Jihad Rampage In Israel
Protein Wisdom: “If You Like Your Internet Provider, You Can Keep Your Internet Provider”
Shot In The Dark: The Muted Celebration
STUMP: Public Pensions Watch – Tell The Actuaries What You Need To Know
The Gateway Pundit: Texas Teacher Fired Over Racist Ferguson Tweet
The Jawa Report: Nigerian Islamists Murder 50 Nigerian School Kids For Being The Wrong Kind Of School Kids
The Lonely Conservative: Obama Thinks Democrat Losses Were Due To Bad Salesmanship
This Ain’t Hell: Nuclear Scientists Killed On Morning Commute In Syria
Weasel Zippers: How Delusional Are Libs On Islam?
Megan McArdle: US Voters Looking For A Better Job Market


Category: Linkagery

Rush Limbaugh Will Rape the DCCC

Posted on | November 10, 2014 | 79 Comments

Those lying bastards finally told one too many lies:

Radio host Rush Limbaugh has threatened to sue the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) for defamation, The Daily Caller has learned.
Limbaugh retained the services of lawyer Patty Glaser and demanded that the DCCC “preserve all records in anticipation of a lawsuit for defamation and interference” after the Democratic Party group led a campaign against Limbaugh based on out-of-context statements the host made about sexual assault. Limbaugh’s legal team delivered a letter to DCCC representatives Monday informing them of the legal threat. Limbaugh has also demanded a public retraction and apology.
The Limbaugh team is currently proceeding from the standpoint of litigating and has not yet made a decision as to whether the DCCC could make any concessions at this point to prevent the lawsuit.
The DCCC “has intentionally disseminated demonstrably false statements concerning Rush Limbaugh in a concerted effort to harm Mr. Limbaugh, and with reckless disregard for the resulting impact to small businesses across America that choose to advertise on his radio program” according to the GlaserWeil law firm’s letter to the DCCC, which was obtained by TheDC. “Mr. Limbaugh clearly, unambiguously, and emphatically condemned the notion that ‘no’ means ‘yes.’”
“Let’s be clear: Rush Limbaugh is advocating for the tolerance of rape” the DCCC stated in a September fundraising email after Limbaugh mocked Ohio State’s new mandatory sexual consent guidelines.

If Democrats couldn’t lie, they could never win elections. Last time I checked, it was Hillary Clinton’s husband who was pro-rape.

“Better put some ice on that,” DCCC.

 

Category: Democrats, Rush Limbaugh

LIVE AT FIVE: 11.10.14

Posted on | November 10, 2014 | 6 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho


TOP NEWS
China, Japan Break The Ice At APEC

Shinzo Abe and Xi Jinping.
Don’t they look thrilled?

Meanwhile, Obama pivots to Asia again
Tony Abbott: China’s World Bank would spur competition
China, Russia sign natural gas deal at APEC summit

ISIS Leader Wounded
Not killed as originally claimed by Iraqi ministries

8000 Balloons Released To Commemorate Fall Of The Berlin Wall
Merkel: Berlin Wall’s fall an epic blow to tyranny



POLITICS
Scott Walker On 2016: “We’ll See What The Future Holds”

SKULLS FOR THE SKULL THRONE!

“Overall, I believe governors make much better presidents than members of Congress.”

Lame Ducks Return To Deal With Temporary Spending Bill, ISIS Fight Funding


Federal Government Struggling Against Cyberattacks

Obama: “I’m Going To Do What I Need To Do” On Immigration

W Talks About Dad, Jeb, And The Iraq War

DeMaio Concedes Defeat In CA-52

Sen. Thune Calls On Senate To Wait Until Next Year To Confirm Lynch

Former Illinois Congressman Phil Crane Dies, 84



THE ECONOMY, STUPID
Asian Crude Up On Ukraine Crisis Reheat, Libyan Chaos: WTI $78.97, Brent $83.85
Asian Shares Firm After Sound US Data
G20 Proposes Buffer To End “Too Big To Fail” Banks
Carlsberg Profit Hit By Weaker Currencies
Boeing Wins $8.5 Billion Order For 80 737s
Samsung To Build $3 Billion Smartphone Plant In Vietnam
Apple Releases Online Tool To Fix iMessage Problem
Unfollow, Don’t Unfriend On Facebook
Microsoft Offers Prorated Refunds For Office 365 Subscriptions
Twitter Teams With Womens’ Group On Anti-Harassment Tool
Microsoft Lumia 1320 Phone Leaked
Amazon Echo: A Siri-Like Home Assistant



SPORTS
Jets Get Four Turnovers, Stun Steelers 20-13

Jaiquawn Jarrett goes airborne to intercept a pass

Win snaps eight-game skid by Jets

Alabama Solves Tigers’ Defense, Wins 20-13 #rolltide

Lakers Beat Hornets 107-92 For First Win


Oilers Beat Rangers 3-1

Suns Stop Warriors Streak, 107-95

Leafs Top Sens 5-3

Bogdanovic Scores 22 To Lead Nyets Over Magic

Canucks Edge Ducks 2-1 In Shootout

2B Search Update: Does Jed Lowrie Make Sense For The Nats?



FAMOUS FOR BEING FAMOUS
Kate Middleton Hides Her Baby Bump On Wales Outing

What bump?

Returning from Scotland getaway


Andy Dick Arrested For Grand Theft


Matt Damon Confirms He’s Back As Bourne


Eva Longoria Visits “Brooklyn Nine Nine”


Ariana Grande, Jourdan Dunn On The MTV EMA Red Carpet

Aretha Franklin On Adele, Taylor Swift, And Divas

Angelina Jolie Buys Hemingway’s Typewriter For Brad Pitt

Jared Leto Eyed To Play The Joker In “Suicide Squad”

NBC Eyes Live Staging Of “A Few Good Men”

Robin Williams Autopsy Results: Suffered From Anxiety, Parkinson’s Prior To Death

Heidi Montag To Amanda Bynes: Come Stay With Us!

“Hunger Games” Stage Show Coming In 2016?

Jerry Seinfeld Tells Brian Williams “I Think I’m On The (Autism) Spectrum”

How Did Amazon Wind Up As Literary Enemy #1?

Natalie Morales Planning To Leave “Today” Amid Power Struggle



FOREIGNERS
US Faces Last Best Chance On Iran Nuke Deal
Suspect In HK Prostitute Murders Faces Psychiatric Tests
Egyptian Jihadis Pledge Allegiance To ISIS
China, ROK Reach Free Trade Deal At APEC
Taliban Bombs Kill Ten Police In Afghanistan
Putin Says Ruble Weakening Due To Speculation Should End Soon
Modi Expands Cabinet To 66 Before Reform Push
Spanish Yields Fall As Markets Shrug Off Cataloonies’ Symbolic Vote
“Rebel Reinforcements” In Ukraine Stoke Fears



BLOGS & STUFF
First Street Journal: The Self-Delusion Of President Obama
American Power: Salon Soils Itself With Far-Left Essay Attacking American Military
American Thinker: She Wore Pink Sneakers
BLACKFIVE: The SEAL Community And Fight Club
Conservatives4Palin: Sarah Palin – Hillary’s Bad Week
Don Surber: Why Ceramic Poppies
Jammie Wearing Fools: Deranged Obama Lies About Voter Desires In Midterms
Joe For America: Teachers Unions Dump $80 Million Into 2014 Midterms, Result Is An F+
JustOneMinute: Kennedyesque
Pamela Geller: Caliphate In Europe – Sweden Cedes Control Of Muslim Areas
Protein Wisdom: “We Should Stop Putting Women In Jail. For Anything.”
Shot In The Dark: Trulbert! Part XXI – A Drip In Time
STUMP: Elections Have Consequences – Phoenix Pensions
Gateway Pundit: Obama’s $1.6 Billion Ivanpah Solar Plant Can’t Pay Its Bills, Needs Bailout
The Jawa Report: Phoenix ISIS Supporter Begging For Hot Federal Pound Me In The A** Action
The Lonely Conservative: What A Shock – The Left Is Rewriting The History Of The Berlin Wall
This Ain’t Hell: David Masciotra – You Don’t Protect Me
Weasel Zippers: FEMA Asking Elderly, Disabled To Repay Hurricane Sandy Aid Received
Megan McArdle: Obamacare Courts Death Yet Again


Category: Live at Five

Rule 5 Sunday: Flowtation

Posted on | November 9, 2014 | 22 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Good God, y’all!

This week’s Rule 5 Friday is adorned with the lead pic from theCHIVE’s Internet Cleavage Hall of Fame, which was brought to my attention by the morons of the Ace of Spades HQ Facebook group, and illustrates the general run of pics here at Rule 5 Sunday. As you can see from the pics in the linked article, our links likewise depict attractive women partially (or sometimes) completely undressed, so exercise discretion in your clicking.

Average Bubba kicks off this week’s post with Rule 5: Summertime Flashback, Goodstuff checks in with Gong Yue Fei and Gan Lulu from the Shanghai Auto Show, Randy’s Roundtable returns with Jennifer England, and Ninety Miles from Tyranny adds Morning Mistress, Hot Pick of the Late Night, and Girls with Guns. Animal Magnetism adds the Post-Shellacking Rule 5 Friday and the Saturday Gingermageddon, Blackmailers Don’t Shoot returns with Post-Election Rule 5, and (perhaps predictably) First Street Journal’s focus this week is on LTC/Senator Jodi Ernst.

EBL’s thundering herd this week included Kate Middleton, Google Street Cleavage, Mia Love, more Republican women, Rose McGowan, some underboob tattoos, Amanda Bynes, Keira Knightley, Hilary Duff, and some cheese.

Soylent Siberia checks in this week with the Monday Motivationer, Set the Snoochinator to 1987, Tuesday Titillation, Humpday Hawt Lisa Wells, Falconsword Fursday Brazilian, Corset Friday Fanfest, T-GIF Friday Scissors, Weekender Furtabulous, and Cocktail Hour Bath Night Baubles.

A View from the Beach offers Yasmin Bleeth, Wombat’s Friday News, “Do You Remember the First Time?”, They Like ‘Em Young in West Virginia, Some Powerful Fiddling, Brazilian TV Pranks, Darn it, I Forgot, “Let it Out”, Skrælings Attack Vikings, and Sunday Morning Coming Down.

Proof Positive’s Friday Night Babe is Candice Swanepoel, his Vintage Babe is Betty Grable, and Sex in Advertising is covered by Babes for Viagra. Also, the obligatory 49ers cheerleader! At Dustbury, it’s Jayne Mansfield and Joanna Lumley.

Thanks to everyone for their linkagery! Deadline to submit links to the Rule 5 Wombat mailbox for next weekend’s Rule 5 roundup is midnight on Saturday, November 15.


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Category: Rule 5

FMJRA 2.0: Day Late & A Dollar Short, Pre-Veterans Day Edition

Posted on | November 9, 2014 | 4 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Rule 5 Sunday: Absolutely 100% Lena Dunham Free
Batshit Crazy News
Average Bubba
Blackmailers Don’t Shoot
Proof Positive
A View from the Beach
Ninety Miles from Tyranny

And @AlecMacGillis Misses the Bus
That Mr. G Guy
Enjoyment and Contemplation
Regular Right Guy
Batshit Crazy News
Conservative Hideout

LIVE AT FIVE: 11.07.14
Da Tech Guy
That Mr. G Guy
Batshit Crazy News
Proof Positive
A View from the Beach

Andrea Dworkin…
That Mr. G Guy
Regular Right Guy
Batshit Crazy News

FMJRA 2.0: Astradyne
Batshit Crazy News
The Pirate’s Cove

I’ll Go With “Troll Of The Century”
Regular Right Guy
Political Hat

Election 2014 BREAKING: GOP Wins Senate Majority, @AoSHQDD Says
Batshit Crazy News
That Mr. G Guy
The Lonely Conservative
A View from the Beach

LIVE AT FIVE: 11.03.14
Batshit Crazy News
Da Tech Guy

If Only We’d Smaller Political Units Than Congress. We’d Need A Lot, Though, Perhaps As Many As We’ve States.
Regular Right Guy
That Mr. G Guy

The #StreetHarassment Meme and #Feminism’s Kafkatrapping Tactics
Batshit Crazy News
Law of Markets
Regular Right Guy
Da Tech Guy

The Sweet Hangover of Victory
That Mr. G Guy
Batshit Crazy News
Regular Right Guy
The Pirate’s Cove

GOP #WarOnWomen Results In 100 Female Representatives: We Blame Rule 5
The Camp of the Saints
Batshit Crazy News
Conservative Hideout

LIVE AT FIVE: 11.06.14
That Mr. G Guy
Batshit Crazy News
A View from the Beach

Harvard #SexWeek Punch Lines
That Mr. G Guy
Regular Right Guy
Batshit Crazy News
A View from the Beach

‘Broken People,’ Cats and Prozac
Batshit Crazy News
That Mr. G Guy
The Revision Division

UPDATE: @AmandaBynes Is Crazy
That Mr. G Guy
Batshit Crazy News

Feminists: They’re Not About the ‘D’
Not Good News
That Mr. G Guy
Batshit Crazy News
Top linkers this week:

  1.  Batshit Crazy News (15)
  2.  That Mr. G Guy (11)
  3.  Regular Right Guy (8)
  4.  A View from the Beach (5)

Thanks to everyone for their linkagery, especially the folks who helped make Rule 5 Sunday the most linked post this past week!
Land of the Loops: Bundle of Joy

Category: FMJRA Award

Sum Ting Wong At CNN

Posted on | November 9, 2014 | 41 Comments

by Smitty

Via Zero Hedge, the CNN clown car is revved up to Full Tilt Boogie:

One has to wonder if this is an innocent typo, or a Freudian slip. There seems an interest in projecting violent acts onto conservatives and veterans. This blog doubles down on its hope that #OccupyResoluteDesk dies old, full of years, and acutely aware of what a no-talent rodeo clown he really is.

Category: Barack Obama

To Say the Very Least

Posted on | November 8, 2014 | 59 Comments

Ross Douthat on the Wendy Davis debacle for Texas Democrats:

It should be said, and many people are saying it, that Davis and her team ran a poorer-than-expected campaign overall, and that the allegedly-brilliant team running the Democrats’ new Texas ground game were not in fact so brilliant. But the more important issue, surely, is that the Democrats decided that it made sense to run, well, Wendy Davis as their “change-the-map” candidate in Texas. Nunn and Carter in Georgia were nominations that fit reasonably well with the facts on the ground, and while they obviously disappointed Nunn did at least outperform the last two Democratic Senate nominees in her state. Davis, on the other hand, actually underperformed the Democratic nominee’s totals in the last two head-to-head races against Rick Perry … which is, again, pretty much exactly what you’d expect when you nominate a figure who owed her prominence to a filibuster on late-term abortion to contest a statewide rate in Texas. . . .

Read the whole thing, but you could summarize the basic error of Democrats in Texas and elsewhere this cycle in one word: Hubris.

Republicans did much the same thing in 2005-2006 after Bush’s re-election convinced the Stupid Party that America had reached some kind of GOP utopia, “The Permanent Republican Majority.”

There were people (Hugh Hewitt comes instantly to mind) who actually believed that nonsense, who failed to realize how the betrayal of trust epitomized by John McCain’s “shamnesty” proposals in 2006 and 2007 were alienating grassroots conservatives.

Clearly, Republican leaders believed they could compromise on economic issues and split the difference on social issues. The devastating losses in the 2006 mid-terms and the crushing victory of Barack Obama did nothing to knock any sense into Karl Rove’s GOP Strategery Brain Trust. However, in 2010, conservatives finally told the GOP leadership to go to hell and the grassroots had their own damned revolution. (Fuck you, Charlie Crist. Rot in hell, Arlen Specter.)

The GOP Strategery Brain Trust managed to reassert itself after 2011, as John Boehner and other backstabbing crapweasels managed to fritter away whatever influence had been gained by the historic 2010 Republican landslide. Naturally, then, Mitt Romney got the 2012 GOP nomination and, naturally, lost to Barack Obama. So here we are at last, in 2014, when Mitch McConnell and his cronies have finally recaptured the GOP majority they fumbled away in 2005-2006.

What happened to Democrats in 2014, then, was a sort of natural consequence of political momentum in America’s two-party system. When a party re-elects their president to his second term, the winners always believe they have a complete mandate for their agenda, no matter how narrow the margin of their victory. Republican victories in the elections of 1980, 1984 and 1988 were all by margins that could be called legitimate mandates, larger than the margins of either of Obama’s victories in 2008 or 2012. Nancy Pelosi’s tenure as Speaker of the House lasted only four years, and Harry “The Alleged Pederast” Reid kept the Senate Majority Leader’s gavel for eight years.

Clearly, the Democrats who thought Wendy Davis could be elected governor of Texas were insane for believing it, but the incoming floodtide of Mexicans will sooner or later turn Texas into a Democrat state, and Democrats will turn Texas into an impoverished and corrupt ruin, as they are already doing in California. Unless the new Republican majority in Congress is absolutely dedicated to a no-more-bullshit border security policy — no amnesty now, no amnesty ever — their majority will prove short-lived, and Mitch McConnell will have the honor of being the Last Republican Senate Majority Leader, presiding over the end of the American republic.

Unless the idiots atop the GOP power ziggurat in Washington wake up, by 2030, the Republican Party will be a withered shadow of its former self, exiled to permanent minority status and political irrelevance. That is to say, if there still is a Republican Party in 2030. It’s not too hard to envision a scenario wherein Democrats win the White House in 2016, take back the Senate in 2018, re-elect Hillary Clinton and recapture the House in 2020, The consequences of such a scenario could lead to either (a) the final collapse of the Republican Party or (b) Texans voting to secede from the Union.

Honestly, I think Texas should have seceded last year, although next year or the year after that would be OK, too. But they need to do it soon, or eventually there won’t be anything left of Texas worth fighting to save, nor anything anywhere else in America, either. Democrats will preside over the Death of America, because the leaders of the Republican Party are all worthless, unprincipled, selfish cowards who care more for the prestige of their own offices than they do for the people who elected them. Any other questions?

America is hopelessly doomed. Nothing but a miracle can save us. But there is no reason we can’t laugh while it’s still legal to laugh.

 

Category: Election

Signs Of Pending Apocalypse: DewItos

Posted on | November 8, 2014 | 24 Comments

by Smitty

“That sounds like part of a balanced meal,” said no nutritionist. Ever.

Category: Uncategorized
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