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Rule 5 Sunday: Ton O’ Luv

Posted on | December 7, 2014 | 14 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

God’s in His Heaven, Alabama beat Missouri to stay #1, and all’s right with the world…well, no, it’s not, but you can’t talk about politics all the time, and that’s why there’s Rule 5. Because sometimes you just have to relax and enjoy the view.

Roll Tide!

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Average Bubba leads off with Rule 5 Friday: Kathyzworld Edition, followed by Goodstuff with inverted boobage,  and Ninety Miles from Tyranny with Hot Pick of the Late Night, Morning Mistress, and Girls With Guns.
Animal Magnetism chips in with Rule 5 Friday and the Saturday Gingermageddon, Loose Endz brings us Horror Film Hotties, and First Street Journal is his usual nonconformist self with American women in blue suits.

Postaldog returns with Miley Cyrus, Whitney Port and other bikini-clad ladies, a double scoop of Maitland Ward, Anna Faris, and Hilary Duff.

EBL’s thundering herd this week includes Inara Serra, Anna Benson, Girls Gone Fishing, a post pretending to be about Rosie O’Donnell (more like Elizabeth Hasselbeck), A WILD REESE SUDDENLY APPEARS!, and Ann Margret. Also, Seagals!

A View from the Beach exceeds expectations with this lineup: For a Swift Kick in the Butt, Jessica Hart, Wombat’s Friday News, “Wasted”, Wombat’s Thursday News, “Criminal”, Wednesday with the Wombat, Big Guns, Hot Shells, Now That’s Fast Food, Tuesday Travels with the Wombat, Stop Winding!, Around the World with the Wombat, From the Back of the Rack, Redskins Try to Kill Baby Horses, and Chinese Chicken Dance.

At Soylent Siberia, the horrible days with no coffee creamer are apparently over; also, there’s an Evening Awesome Header for Irish, Monday Motivationator With Linky Love and Fur: Andrea, Overnighty Anna Lynn, Tuesday Titillation, Evening Awesome With “Kyla–Queen Of Fur”, Humpday Hawtness Teriyaki, Overnighty Mary, Corset Friday: Latex, Leather & Lace, T-GIF Friday – Newtonian, Happy Hour, Weekender Underwonder, and Bath Night Bung.

Proof Positive’s Friday Night Babe is April Love Geary, his Vintage Babe  is Penny Edwards, and Sex in Advertising is covered this week by Julia Roberts. Also, the obligatory Niners cheerleader(s)! At Dustbury, it’s Sila Sahin and Wende Wagner.

Thanks to everyone for their linkagery! Deadline to submit links to the Rule 5 Wombat mailbox for next week’s Rule 5 roundup is midnight on Saturday, December 13. Because Friday the 13th falls on a Saturday this month.


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Category: Rule 5

The Index Is Up!

Posted on | December 7, 2014 | 9 Comments

— by Wombat-socho


Good heavens. I’ve been doing book posts since May of 2013. So many books, plus a few videogames, movies, and a Weird Al album.
Anyway, the index is up at Wombat’s Bookshelf. Feel free to look through the list, maybe click on the links and buy some books. Tis the season for giving, after all.


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Category: Books

FMJRA 2.0: Freedom Of Choice

Posted on | December 6, 2014 | 3 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Rule 5 Sunday: Thanksgiving Tryptophan Coma Edition
Batshit Crazy News
Average Bubba
Political Rift
Proof Positive
A View from the Beach
Ninety Miles from Tyranny

Shout Out To Princess Pelosi
The Pirate’s Cove

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

How About: “It Was A Godforsaken Lie”
Regular Right Guy

LIVE AT FIVESIX: 12.01.14
Batshit Crazy News
A View from the Beach

You’ve Got To Like Weigel
Regular Right Guy
Batshit Crazy News

Less-Than-Surprising Praise
Regular Right Guy
Dustbury
Batshit Crazy News

What #Feminism Hath Wrought
Political Rift
Dyspepsia Generation

LIVE AT FIVE: 12.02.14
Batshit Crazy News
A View from the Beach

Enjoying Buzzword-Free Masculinity
Batshit Crazy News
The Camp of the Saints
SimpleNewz

LIVE AT FIVE: 12.03.14
Batshit Crazy News
A View from the Beach

Democrats Implode in Louisiana
Political Rift
First Street Journal
Batshit Crazy News

LIVE AT FIVE: 12.04.14
Batshit Crazy News
Regular Right Guy
A View from the Beach

May Not Be True That We Have A 1-Party System, But The Theory Explains A Lot
Batshit Crazy News
Regular Right Guy

LIVE AT FIVE: 12.05.14
Batshit Crazy News
Proof Positive
A View from the Beach

Leftovers
Political Rift
Batshit Crazy News

Top linkers this week:

  1.  Batshit Crazy News (18)
  2.  Regular Right Guy (7)
  3.  View from the Beach (6)
  4.  Political Rift (5)

Thanks to everyone for their linkagery, especially the dedicated folks who put Rule 5 Sunday in the top spot this week, for the sixth straight week!


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Category: FMJRA Award

Hughes’s TNR Makeover Is The Obama Administration In Miniature

Posted on | December 6, 2014 | 60 Comments

by Smitty

Emphasis mine:

“Assuming Chris really does plan to dumb it down in the name of clicks, what’s maddening is the way he has betrayed the premise on which he bought it. It’s like buying a historic Victorian mansion with the promise of preserving it — and then carving it into condos two years later,” one former longtime TNR staffer told POLITICO.

“I hope Chris realizes how much intellectual firepower he’s losing here — and how hard it is to fake intellectual substance,” the former staffer said.

I just love it when these Progressives get all emotional about the destruction of institutions. Given that this has been their stock in trade since the Summer of Love, culminating in six years of #OccupyResoluteDesk making a total cock-up of the Presidency, one is left to wonder why the Lefties can’t just enjoy their liberation from “intellectual substance”. This is another suck-is-the-new-cool call from the manor house down to the the peasants working the fields. Dig it, lackeys.

Progressivism is not a creative movement. It is the combustion of traditional, positive, moral values in a propaganda machine for the production of political power. Once all of the moral values of the culture have been burned, Progress will generally collapse into the kind of thuggery most recently seen in Ferguson, MO.

via Hot Air

Category: Democrats

Landrieu’s Swan Song Has Got To Be “When the Levee Breaks”

Posted on | December 6, 2014 | 17 Comments

by Smitty

“Momma, you got to move.”

If I lived down in Louisiana, I would be requesting that on every rock station available.

Vote Cassidy!

Category: Democrats, Louisiana

Leftovers

Posted on | December 5, 2014 | 23 Comments

— by Wombat-socho


So, I packed a bunch of stuff off to the Shenandoah with me last week, and managed to get them all read – or at least enough so that I feel good about giving an informed opinion. First off, no love for Dan Abnett’s Horus Rising, a ponderous tome leaden with Warhammer 40K thud and blunder. I’m taking another stab at at, but I don’t think my second opinion’s going to be any better than the first.

Contrariwise, Drake & Flint’s Belisarius I: Thunder at Dawn is good stuff; Drake and Flint write well together (see The Reformer and The Tyrant from the Raj Whitehall series) and the books are full of swashes being buckled, derring-do in far-off lands, and skulduggery close to home. I’m looking forward to the other four books in the series.

Virginia Postrel’s The Substance of Style is a fascinating book about the importance of esthetics in modern American society and how it impacts not just our cars, appliances, houses, and other objects but our very concept of who we are and the kind of people we like to hang out with. She has convincing rebuttals to both Abraham Maslow and his pyramidal hierarchy of needs and the Frankfurt School with its “manufactured consent” and the argument that we’re all just puppets manipulated by advertising. Very, very solid work and worth having even though it’s no longer on sale.

Peter Grant’s War To The Knife was a good read, a cut above the average brain candy. It starts as a tale of guerrilla war against a repressive off-planet invader, but the unexpected success of the guerrillas’ desperate final attack forces a change in the invaders’ government even as the guerrillas get off-planet and begin to assemble a government in exile that might be able to carry the war to the enemy’s home. I’m going to be very interested in seeing where Grant goes with this story.

Considerably more fluffy, and nearly as violent (which is saying quite a bit) is The Many Deaths of Joe Buckley, an amusing collection of death scenes written by Larry Correia, David Weber, John Ringo, and other Baen authors, with some added poetry and songs by fans. Who is Joe Buckley, and why do so many Baen authors enjoy killing him off? Even if you already know the answer, you may still be amused, and the proceeds go to Operation Baen Bulk and ReadAssist, unquestioably worthy causes.

Finally, a couple of weeks ago K-Bob suggested in the comments that I should put up an index of the book posts. Anyone else think I should fire up a Blogger page and do this?


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Category: Books

LIVE AT FIVE: 12.05.14

Posted on | December 5, 2014 | 11 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho


TOP NEWS
Marchers Swarm NY, Minneapolis, Oakland, San Francisco For Second Night

Marchers protesting the grand jury decision in the death of Eric Garner block the West Side Highway in New York City

Attorney General Holder pledges full review of the case
Experts: Federal charges in Garner case need to clear high bar
Brown, Garner, Rice police cases collide, forcing debate on tactics
Protesters, police clash in New York City



House GOP Repudiates Obama’s Immigration Actions
Boehner treading carefully as he rounds up votes for the cromnibus

Putin’s State Of The Union Caps A Bad Year For Russia
From Olympic host to rogue state



POLITICS
DOJ: Cleveland Police Use Of Deadly Force Violates Rights

AG Holder holds a roundtable meeting with community leaders, law enforcement, and local officials

A “pattern or practice” of “excessive or deadly” force


Coal States Brace For Plant Closings Over EPA Rules

Defense Asks For Leniency In Gov. Rowland Sentencing


DHS On Hiring Spree To Carry Out Obama’s Immigration Orders

White House Dissatisfied With Number Of Students Opting To Ditch College

After Midterm Whipping, Senior Democrats Voice Regret Over Obamacare

Hagel Touts Sexual Assault Report As Sign Of Progress

Federal Judge Rules Indiana Abortion Clinic Law Unconstitutional



THE ECONOMY, STUPID
Asian Crude Set for Second Weekly Drop After Saudi Price Cut: WTI $66.46, Brent $69.21
Starbucks Goes Upscale With Fancy Coffee Emporium
Uber Valued At $40 Billion In $1.2 Billion Equity Funding
Amazon Now Serves Takeout – And Diapers
US Jobless Claims Fall Below 300K
Thirty-Year Mortgage Rates Fall For Fourth Week
Apple, Xiaomi Phones Found Violating Privacy Laws In Taiwan
Wozniak: No, Apple Was Not Founded In A Garage
Norks Still A Suspect In Sony Cyberattack Despite Denial
Deadline Extended In CBS-Dish Negotiations
IBM Partners With Docker, Launches Containers Service



SPORTS
Sputtering Bears Tamed By Cowboys 41-28

Bears RB Matt Forte brought to ground by Cowboys CB Orlando Scandrick

Cowboys run wild as Bears’ ground game stalls


Warriors Whip Pelicans, Streak Now At 11

Canucks Blank Pens, 3-0

Kyrie Irving Leads The Charge For Cavaliers

Texans Lose #1 Pick Clowney To IR For The Season

Devils Top Leafs, 5-3

Oregon State’s Mike Riley Heads For Nebraska


Islanders Win Record 11th Straight With 2-1 Edging Of Sens

Blazers Beat Pacers, 88-82

Blue Jackets Beat Panthers In OT, 4-3

Bad Day At The Office For Coyotes As Jones Shuts Them Out

Lightning Cruises To Shutout Of  Sabres

Sharks Win Third In A Row With 7-4 Drubbing Of Bruins

A.J. Foyt Released From Hospital

Royals Sign Reliever Hochevar To Two-Year Deal

Colby Lewis Signs One-Year/$4 Million Deal

Nationals Tender Contracts To Ten Players



FAMOUS FOR BEING FAMOUS
“Millionaire Matchmaker” Has Advice For Jennifer Lopez

Stanger: “I think I could help her, easily”

Patti Stanger’s first hint? “Don’t lead with the cooch.”

Miley Cyrus Smokes Weed On Stage At Art Basel

Ryan Reynolds In “Deadpool” Deal

“Biggest Loser” Alum Damien Gurganious Dies, 38

Krysten Ritter Nabs Lead In Marvel’s “Jessica Jones”

Tyler Perry, It’s A Boy!

Chris Rock Blames Hollywood’s Race Problem On White People

Chris Pratt In Early Talks For “Magnificent Seven”

Jennifer Lawrence Debuts On Billboard 100 At #12

“Homeland” Actor Engaged To Paralympic Sprinter



FOREIGNERS
Super Typhoon Strengthens As It Bears Down On Philippines
Pentagon Confirms Failed Attempt To Rescue Hostage In Yemen
Putin Tells Duma West Wants To Weaken Russia
New Violence In Chechnya Leaves At Least 20 Dead
Four Killed As Militants Storm Indian Fort On Kashmir’s Line Of Control
Bahrain Jails Shiite Activist For Insulting King
Thai King Cancels Appearance On 87th Birthday
Modi Refuses To Fire Minister For Derogatory Remark
Australia Toughens Immigration But Lets In More Refugees
Chicoms to Cease Harvesting Organs From Prisoners – Next Year



BLOGS & STUFF
First Street Journal: We Told You So!
Doug Powers: Obama’s 2011 Prediction Of A Million Electric Cars On The Road By 2015 “Barely” Missed
Twitchy: Occutard Claims Peter Pan “On The Side Of The Oppressors”
The Quinton Report: Maryland Man Lied About Being Vietnam POW
American Power: Foer, Weseltier Out At The New Republic
American Thinker: Profiling – Sin Or Survival Instinct
Conservatives4Palin: Poll – Cassidy Crushing Landrieu By 24 Points
Don Surber: Supremes To Baby Killer – Drop Dead
Jammie Wearing Fools: After Wasting Trillion Dollars On “Stimulus”, Obama Whines US Infrastructure Is “Embarrassing”
Joe For America: Girls Just Wanna Have Guns – Powerful New Documentary In The Works
JustOneMinute: The Most Astonishing And Disturbing Story Yet In Ferguson/NY/Cleveland
Pamela Geller: Muslims Of Switzerland Declare “Beginning Of The Islamic Revolution”
Protein Wisdom: Trey Gowdy Demonstrates How To Fold, Spindle, And Mutilate The Race Card
Shot In The Dark: Maybe Dog Whistles Just Jumped The Shark
The Gateway Pundit: Black Female Police Sergeant Supervised Eric Garner Arrest
The Jawa Report: AQAP Threatens To Murder US Citizen Luke Somers And Invade Israel
The Lonely Conservative: Why Are Parks, Museums And Wilderness Included In Defense Bill?
This Ain’t Hell: Purple Hearts For Ft. Hood Shooting Victims? Maybe
Weasel Zippers: MSNBC – We Must Retrain America On Racism “So White Tongues, White Brains Can Follow Suit”
Megan McArdle: What’s So Bad About Low Gas Prices?


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Category: Live at Five

May Not Be True That We Have A 1-Party System, But The Theory Explains A Lot

Posted on | December 4, 2014 | 33 Comments

by Smitty

Via Instapundit, “Poll: Americans reject Obama’s immigration order, want illegals out of schools, jobs”

Via Breitbart, emphasis mine:

“The Democratic Party is falling apart on this [Obamacare] and immigration because the numbers are very bad…something is going on. It’s called politics. They just got crushed in the election. Not that the Republican leadership has any idea that the American people just voted to stop Obama not to fall over and surrender, which seems to be their plan now.

Oh, I think the Republican leadership has plenty of ideas. I also think they fear oligarchs, bankers, and their lobbyist minions far more than the GOP fears the voters.

It’s almost as if there is really one Progressive Party, with Democrat and Republican wings, that are doing more jockeying for power than their job. Maybe these illegal immigrants are just shock troops to clear out the native peasantry.

Wouldn’t it be great if there were a document that could clarify the actual purpose of Congress to represent the will of the people, and help resolve such ambiguous matters as the immigration debate? It would have to be a clean, straightforward affair, though; perhaps even as short as the Constitution.

Category: Republicans
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