LIVE AT FIVE: 07.09.14
Posted on | July 9, 2014 | 2 Comments
— compiled by Wombat-socho
TOP NEWS
Israel Launches Gaza Offensive As Hamas Continues Rocket Barrage

An air strike in Rafah, one of fifty targets hit by the IDF
Despite reserve callup, Israel sees ground offensive as last resort
Ukraine Moves On Separatists While Russia Stands Aside
Ukrainian forces surround Donetsk, Lugansk; Russian FM Lavrov calls for cease-fire
Abdullah Abdullah Stops Short
Walks up to brink of forming parallel government in protest of election results, asks supporters for more time
POLITICS
President, Governor Perry To Discuss Border Crisis After Tarmac Snub
No photo-op handshake for YOU!
Gov. Perry refuses to greet Obama at Austin airport today; gets meeting instead
No Deportation Changes, But Crisis Funding Request Balloons to $3.7 Billion
Priebus Announces Cleveland As Site Of 2016 GOP Convention
Study: Oklahoma Spends Least In Nation On Prison Healthcare
Obama Gets Cold Shoulder In Colotado
Hundreds Line Up For Legal Weed In Washington State
Trial Lawyer Bruce Braley Slammed For Claiming He’s A Farmer In Iowa Senate Race
THE ECONOMY, STUPID
Brent Falls To Almost $110 In Asian Trade: WTI $103.56, Brent $110.10
Alcoa Crushes Q2 Earnings Targets, Stock Up 1.5%
Asian Stocks Slip, Dollar Slumps
Citigroup May Pay $7 Billion To Settle Mortgage Probe
Amazon Courts Hachette Authors, Offers 100% Of E-Book Revenue
Democrats Consider Linking Ex-Im Bank Funding To BUdget Reauthorization
“Weaponized” Exploit Can Steal Cookies On eBay, Tumblr, Other Sites
Larry Page’s Vision Of The Future Looks Strangely Like Lord Keynes’
With Passport Phone, BlackBerry Argues It’s Hip To Be Square
Scientists’ Finger Device Reads To The Blind In Real Time
Brazilian Bandits Hit Samsung Factory, Steal $6.3 Million Worth Of Mobile Devices
SPORTS
Rookie DeGrom K’s 11 As Mets Rout Braves

DeGrom leaves with a smile in the seventh
Braves’ Teheran knocked out in the fourth
Beatdown In Brazil: Germany Routs Brazil 7-1, Covers Spread And Over/Under
Longoria And The Rays Hold Off The Royals
Tigers Beat Down The Dodgers 14-5
Red Sox Skid Continues As Pale Hose Win 8-3
Home Run Derby Participants Announced
Wong Delivers For The Cards With Sayonara Homer
Tribe Scalps Tanaka, Yankees 5-3
Snoozing Yankees Fan Sues ESPN Announcers
Sterling Defiant In Trial Testimony
O’s, Nats Postponed By Rain, Makeup Day August 4
FAMOUS FOR BEING FAMOUS
Katie Holmes Topless For Glamour

Scorching hot at 35
Talks dating after Tom Cruise split, prioritizing being a mom
Pamela Anderson Files For Divorce From Rick Salomon – Again
Pixar, LucasFilm, Dreamworks In Alleged Wage-Fixing Cartel
Live-Action “Dumbo” In The Works
Sony Pictures Losing Its Faith-Based African-American Exec
Beyonce’s Dad Hit With Second Paternity Suit
J.K. Rowling Writes New Story About Adult Harry Potter
“Housewives” Star Apollo Nida’s Prison Sentence Shortened For Informing
Angelina Jolie Caught On Video In Drug Den
Joan Rivers Explains Her CNN Walkout
John Cleese To Star In “Baywatch” Movie Remake
Zooey Deschanel Shows Her “Fiery Feminist Side”
Sylvester Stallone To Star In Mob Tale “Scarpa”
Jennifer Lawrence: May The Bras Never Be In Your Favor
FOREIGNERS
Red China Inflation In Line, Unlikely To Affect Policy
Vatican Bank Chief To Step Down
Indonesians Head For The Polls In Tight Race
Weakened Typhoon Leaves Two Dead As It Heads From Okinawa To Japan
Great Successor Limping, But Nobody Knows Why
Jihadis Seize Iraqi Chemical Weapons Site
Eric Holder Urges EU Nations To Stop Flow Of Young Jihadis To Syria
Officials Claim Obama Didn’t Know Anything About Spying On Germany
Former Soviet FM, President Of Georgia Eduard Shevardnadze Dies, 86
Northern Ireland Bakery Refuses To Make Gay Bert & Ernie Cake
Former Indian Railway Ministers Slam Rail Budget
BLOGS & STUFF
First Street Journal: A Man For Whom The Gates Of Hell Await
Doug Powers: NOW’s Pitiful Attempt To Kick The Habit – Little Sisters Of The Poor Included On “Dirty 100” List
Twitchy: Laura Ingraham Has Housing Solution For Flood Of Illegals
Chicago Boyz: TWANLOC
American Power: Sarah Palin – It’s Time To Impeach President Obama
American Thinker: Is The Border Crisis Obama’s “Katrina Moment”?
BLACKFIVE: Free Kurdistan On The Radio
Conservatives4Palin: Obama To Skip Border Visit To Attend Fundraiser With Pro-Amnesty Filmmaker
Don Surber: Daily Scoreboard, July 8
Jammie Wearing Fools: Democrats Feign Outrage Over The Cost Of Investigating Obama’s Scandals
Joe For America: Jennifer Lopez Pushing Amnesty With “Los Jets” TV Show
JustOneMinute: Some Borderline Statistical Analysis
Pat Dollard: Border Doctor Says Previously-Deported Illegal With Active TB Ignored By Feds
Protein Wisdom: Violent MS-13 Gang Members Leave Graffiti On Bathroom Walls Of Nogales Processing Center
Shot In The Dark: How To Do Transit
The Jawa Report: War Pr0n – Baywatch IDF
The Lonely Conservative: How Bureaucracy Is Bleeding Us Dry
This Ain’t Hell: Why Not Costa Rica?
Weasel Zippers: Chicago Stuck With $1 Million Legal Tab After Losing Gun Store Lawsuit
Megan McArdle: Who’s The Real Hobby Lobby Bully?
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Crazy: #RadFem Announces ‘Major Shift or Breakthrough in My Feminism’
Posted on | July 8, 2014 | 59 Comments
Regular readers remember Witchwind, the radical feminist that commenters have nicknamed “Windy.” She’s a wacky man-hating disciple of Mary Daly and Dee Graham, and inspired worldwide laughter with her anti-intercourse rant: “PIV is always rape, OK?”
Last week, Witchwind made an announcement:
After a succession of intense and mind-blowing discussions with friends, recent events and several weeks of trying to get to the bottom of why I find radical lesbianism so misogynist, I’ve just experienced a major shift or breakthrough in my feminism. One thing led to another, and I realise that the essential problem i’m trying to talk about is much larger than radical lesbianism, and relates to separatist communitarianism as a liberation strategy — the idea we should form a small, elitist community separate from women as much as from men, rather than focus on our potential to bond with all women and on all women’s potential to wake up to our reality. . . .
I do have the impression of having having found a missing link which now helps me to see the whole picture with much more clarity and depth. Therefore my focus will no longer be on radical lesbianism and identity politics as such, but on the wider phenomenon of separatist communitarianism, whether it be radical lesbian, lesbian feminist, radical feminist, “intersectionalist”, etc.
When our bonding with women is based on the exclusion of other women, then we aren’t really bonding with women but erecting a fictitious shield of “us” vs “them” to protect ourselves from persecution (a threat in which we include women), but which prevents the spreading of feminism to other women by preventing our contact and bonding with such women. . . .
If that makes sense to you, seek psychiatric help immediately.
You can read the entire 2,500-word excursion into lunatic gibberish, but it doesn’t become any more coherent. Insofar as it is “about” anything, it is about Windy trying to find an anti-male ideology that, while understanding female heterosexuality as women’s brainwashed cooperation with their own oppression, does not have the effect of blaming/shaming women for their heterosexuality.
To-may-to, to-mah-to.
Having spent the past six months plowing through the radical feminist syllabus (“Fun With #RadFem: ‘You Magnificent Lesbians — I Read Your Books!’“), I could imagine an effective manifesto/agenda for their movement, and might even be worried about their potential for success — if they weren’t so hopelessly batshit crazy.
This has been an impediment to feminism for decades: It is a movement organized around the grievances of neurotic misfits, and has attracted to its banner every type of kook, weirdo and nutjob imaginable.
In this sense, a mentally ill Women’s Studies professor is simply following in the insane footsteps of Women’s Liberation pioneer Shulamith Firestone, who suffered a nervous breakdown after publishing the 1970 feminist classic The Dialectic of Sex and eventually died alone as a 67-year-old schizophrenic.
Majoring in Crazy Studies
One of the reasons that radical feminism is so influential on university campuses, but generally disdained outside academia, is that the campus environment is a consequence-free unreality. Tenured professors can (and do) preach all manner of impractical nonsense and, on campuses that are home to thousands or tens of thousands of impressionable young women, it is fairly easy for the tenured radicals to attract scores or hundreds of misfit followers.
For example, there are nearly 30,000 women enrolled at Ohio State University’s Columbus campus. How many of those students are majoring or minoring in Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies, or pursuing graduate degrees in that department? Suppose that the WGSS department enrolls just 2% — one in 50 — of women at OSU. That’s almost 600 students, a drop in the bucket relative to the total enrollment, but still a substantial force, if they can be organized and deployed as activist “shock troops” in protests, etc.
Anyone who questioned the legitimacy of Women’s Studies as an academic discipline would be shouted down as a misogynistic Neanderthal, and so this department is protected from outside criticism by a sort of force-field of political correctness. Within that protective cocoon, fanatical ideologues are permitted to promulgate the most astonishing radical nonsense. Consider, for example, the freshman-level course “Gender, Sex and Power” (WGSST 1110), which is the prerequisite to all other courses in Ohio State’s Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies department. A recent section of WGSST 1110, taught by Varsha Chitnis (a graduate student pursuing her Ph.D.) included in the course syllabus Andrea Smith’s article “Heteropatriarchy and the Three Pillars of White Supremacy”:
Heteropatriarchy is the building block of US empire. In fact, it is the building block of the nation-state form of governance. . . .
As I have argued elsewhere, in order to colonize peoples whose societies are not based on social hierarchy, colonizers must first naturalize hierarchy through instituting patriarchy. In turn, patriarchy rests on a gender binary system in which only two genders exist, one dominating the other. . . . Just as the patriarchs rule the family, the elites of the nation-state rule their citizens. Any liberation struggle that does not challenge heteronormativity cannot substantially challenge colonialism or white supremacy.
From there, Smith goes on to complain about “the family being conceived of in capitalist and heteropatriarchal terms,” so that rhetoric about protecting the family leads to “increased homophobia.” Smith argues for challenging “the concept of the family itself,” in order to “reconstitute alternative ways of living together.” In case you were wondering about Andrea Smith, she is on the faculty of the University of California-Riverside, having received a Ph.D. from the infamous “History of Consciousness” program at UC-Santa Cruz (“The Worst School in America”). So, through the content of this Women’s Studies course, the crackpot radicalism of a fringe figure (Smith was denied tenure at the University of Michigan) is imported from California to Ohio, at taxpayer expense.
Lest any reader think that I have cherry-picked an isolated and anomalous example, let’s look at the syllabus for another recent section of WGSST 1110, this one taught by graduate student Sonnet Gabbard, who awards 15% her course grade for students’ “Transgressive Digital Art Project,” whatever that means. Among the assigned readings is “Homophobia: A Weapon of Sexism” by lesbian activist Suzanne Pharr, and “Desire for the Future: Radical Hope in Passion and Pleasure,” by Amber Hollinbaugh, who is (I’m not kidding) Executive Director of Queers for Economic Justice.
Paying the Radical Tax
Keep in mind that we are discussing the freshman level introductory c0urse, taught to 17- and 18-year-olds, and required — a mandatory prerequisite — for any Ohio State student who wishes to major or minor in Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies. Examine the syllabus for any section of this OSU course, and you will find it crammed with the writings of radical lesbians, inspiring any outside observer to wonder if any heterosexual woman has ever gotten a Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies degree from OSU.
Yet within the force-field of political correctness that surrounds this academic cocoon, there is no one who finds this radicalism unusual. The lesbian inmates are running the feminist asylum, and the fact that taxpayers are footing the bill for all this is something that apparently no one at OSU — nor anyone in the Ohio state legislature — can be bothered to notice. So it is nearly everywhere. When the Women’s Studies program at a state university in South Carolina was abolished after hosting a conference that featured the performance of a one-woman play called “How to Be a Lesbian in 10 Days of Less,” everyone was shocked because this had never happened anywhere else before.
In case anyone wondered why Ohio State University was singled out for scrutiny, the answer is: My choice was entirely random. Pick any major university, look up their Women’s Studies program and look up the syllabus for the introductory course, and compare your findings. This kind of radicalism is ubiquitous in Women’s Studies curricula, and it is no surprise that the most popular anthology of feminist writings — Feminist Frontiers, widely used as a standard textbook — is edited by radical lesbians.
Inside their taxpayer-funded campus sinecures, then, Women’s Studies professors are handsomely rewarded for promoting an ideology that strikes most people as fringe extremism. Yet the supply of Women’s Studies majors vastly exceeds the demand and, outside the elite circle of tenured professors and celebrity feminist authors, those who have spent their collegiate careers soaking up “gender theory” nonsense find themselves marginally employable, even as they are confronted with a reality harshly at odds with the worldview into which they were propagandized as undergraduates.
From this clash between academic theory and the reality of ordinary life emerges the ranting lunacy of radicals like Witchwind. What kind of jobs can these intellectual cripples find outside academia, if they can’t find some non-profit “activist” group to hire them? One imagines such women, disheveled and ill-groomed, standing at intersections and holding up crudely lettered cardboard signs:
“Gender Studies Major: Will Criticize Patriarchy for Food”
The saddest part is that this miserable man-hating madness is funded by taxpayers who have no idea what is being taught inside the Crazy Factories of the Feminist-Industrial Complex.
If the heteronormative patriarchy were as all-powerful as feminists claim, then surely there would Republican legislators calling attention to how tax dollars are being used to subsidize this nonsense at state universities across the country. There would be hearings to investigate this and committee reports to expose the truth: What is cost and what are the benefits of Women’s Studies programs? For example, what is the annual cost to Texas taxpayers of The Center for Women’s & Gender Studies at the University of Texas at Austin? What is being taught in this program, and what kind of careers are pursued by alumni of the program? I’d be willing to bet the average Texan doesn’t have the slightest clue what’s going on in Austin.
When we see occasional eruptions of madness — not just insane pronouncements by bloggers, but radical feminists unleashing anarchy in state capitols — there is no need to wonder where this craziness originates: It is acquired in the classroom, where it is taught by academic kooks who would be locked up in insane asylums if they weren’t tenured university faculty members.
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RECENTLY:
- June 25: Your Feminist Future
- June 28: #Socialism2014 Marxist Gender Theory: Sexual Minorities of the World Unite!
- June 30: Women’s Studies, IYKWIMAITYD
- July 4: Gender Theory: Beyond Parody
Rule 5 Tuesday – Belated Independence Day Weekend Edition
Posted on | July 8, 2014 | 16 Comments
— compiled by Wombat-socho
Next time I get the urge to rack out early on Sunday night, I’ll have a mug of coffee and drive on instead.
As usual, this post contains links to numerous pics of pretty girls and lovely women, often scantily clad or entirely unclad; these may be NSFW or just irritating to the wife/girlfriend/whatever. Exercise discretion in your clicking, Loyal Readers.
Grumpy Patriot kicks off this week’s post with Christina Hendricks, followed by Valley of the Shadow who rattles the tip jar with Shannon Chromegirl (and appropriate quotes from the cyberpunk classic Neuromancer), Randy’s Roundtable with babes in star-spangled bikinis, and Animal Magnetism with Rule 5 Friday, the Saturday Gingermageddon, and some pre-posted totty this week whose link isn’t working. Go over there and stare anyway. Goodstuff is celebrating Independence Day with beer and babes, Brian Noggle returns with a goofy fashion model, and Ninety Miles from Tyranny presents Julianne Hough naked but for Old Glory, Hot Pick of the Late Night – American Style, and Girls With Guns. Blackmailers Don’t Shoot notices Demi Lovato Unfollows Selena Gomez On Twitter, and First Street Journal presents another collection of women in uniform with After Independence Day.
EBL’s herd this week includes Demi Lovato, Belgium, Megan Fox, Kendra Wilkinson, a comparison of plump pinups to bloated feminists, Katherine Heigl, 4th of July, an American girl in Italy, and Huntington Beach cuties.
Soylent Refuge contributes Gone Fishin’, Overnighty Auburn Awesome in the Tropics, Monday Motivationer Crimson Carumba, Evening Awesome Fur, Tuesday Titillation With Linky, DDouble DDip, Overnighty, Humpday Hawtness Sommeliess, Well Now That US Is Out, Overnighty You Make The Call, Fursday With Fishnet, Good To See My Research TA, Evening Awesome Extreme Cameltoe, Soylent Corset Friday, T-GIF Friday Motherf*cking Science, Fourth Floor Housewares Sundries And…, Weekender Alisa G, and Bath Night Ablaze.
A View from the Beach has Portuguese Princess – Sara Sampaio, Celebrity Fourth of July Quiz, A New Theory for the Origin of Yeti (cave girl), Slap Happy!, “Nobody to Love”, “Missing You”, Working Hard for the Money, Why I Like Brazil for the World Cup, and PSA: CPR Refresher Course
Proof Positive’s Friday Night Babes all have something in common. Can you guess what it is? Also: vintage babe Gloria DeHaven and Sex In Advertising! At Dustbury, Serenay Sarikaya and Tuba Büyüküstün. Because Turkish chicks are hot.
The DaleyGator’s DaleyBabes this week included Rhiannon Fish, Keiko Kitagawa, Joana Kerns, Christina Rosato, Biancha Kajlich, Lisa Marie Karuk, Alison Louder, Jessalyn Wamlin, Nozomi Takeuchi, Faune Chambers, Saryu Usui, Akemi Horiuchi, Cheryl Cole, Dilshad Vadsaria, Fiona Wade,Kristen Hager, and Ruka Kanae.
Thanks to everyone for their links! Deadline to submit links to the Rule 5 Wombat mailbox for next weekend’s Rule 5 roundup is midnight Saturday, July 12.
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The Devil in Oklahoma: Satanic Ritual Promoted by Registered Sex Offender
Posted on | July 8, 2014 | 72 Comments
Headline at the Daily Caller:
What Did Oklahoma Do To Incur
The Wrath Of Satan And His Minions?
The news is bizarre: The Oklahoma City Civic Center Music Hall will be the site of a Black Mass event in September, sponsored by the “Dakhma of Angra Mainyu,” a satanic cult led by Adam Daniel.
In an e-mail to Aleteia.com, Daniel said the Black Mass is planned as “a defiant act to show the Catholics that Satanism will stand up and fight for our religious rights.” Other than worship of Beelzebub, what “religious rights” does Daniel have in mind?
Dakhma of Angra Mainyu is about freedom from any religion that chooses to bind you to some type of dogma [that] forces you to restrain your natural animal instincts. . . .
Choose Angra Mainyu, and become a natural animal of flesh once again.
Hmmm. So it’s about becoming “a natural animal of flesh.” Would it surprise you to learn that, according to KWTV, Adam Daniel is a registered sex offender who reportedly had an “inappropriate relationship” with a female inmate when he worked as a prison guard?
If you’re waiting for feminists to denounce this satanic pervert for “rape culture,” you’ll be waiting until Hell freezes over.
The MSNBC Agenda
Posted on | July 8, 2014 | 25 Comments
This morning I woke up early and switched the TV onto MSNBC — I Watch MSNBC So You Don’t Have To™ — where the Morning Joe crew then proceeded to spend 10 minutes talking about New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie. You probably missed the minor bit of local news that was the “hook” for this otherwise pointless discussion:
Gov. Chris Christie said [Monday] that he declined to meet with parents of first graders who were killed in the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting last week because he had already decided to veto the controversial gun bill.
Christie defended his decision to recently veto the bill to reduce the permitted size of ammunition magazines from 15 rounds to 10 and said he declined to discuss the bill with parents of slain children because the conditional veto was already signed by the time they requested a meeting. . . .
The comments from the potential Republican presidential contender in 2016 came less than a week after two of the parents — Nicole Hockley and Mark Barden — visited Christie’s office in Trenton last week to present more than 55,000 petitions supporting the bill to limit the size of magazines.
The parents contended that more lives would have been saved during the mass shooting — 20 children and six adults were slain at the school in Newtown, Conn. — if the gunman had taken more time to reload his weapon.
After the parents left the New Jersey Statehouse, Christie’s office released the conditional veto, which was received with harsh criticism by the Democrat-controlled Legislature.
The parents sharply criticized Christie’s refusal to meet as “a cowardly political move.”
And that’s really all there was to it: Basically, the Newtown shooting is being exploited on a national basis to promote new laws infringing the rights of gun owners, with the parents being enlisted as celebrity spokespeople, flown around the country to show up and issue public statements denouncing Republicans who oppose this Bloomberg-funded left-wing anti-Second Amendment agenda.
Except this isn’t what Morning Joe viewers were told. Instead, Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinksi treated this transparent publicity stunt by the gun-control lobby as if it were legitimate news story of national consequence, as if this New Jersey legislation would have made any significant impact on violent crime, and as if Christie’s veto of the bill were evidence of politically motivated intransigence. Such a presentation is absurdly false.
As noted, New Jersey already has a law that limits magazine size to 15 rounds, making it one of the most restrictive states in the country, and the speculative value of further restricting magazine capacity is negligible. What percentage of homicides, attempted homicides or aggravated assault cases in New Jersey involve firearms with high-capacity magazines? Unless you can show that magazine capacity has some meaningful correlation to crime, discussion of new restrictions is just political posturing, and the people at MSNBC should be ashamed of themselves for wasting their viewers’ time on this idiocy. Here are the cable news ratings for July 1:
Fox & Friends ………….. 1,040,000 (56%)
MSNBC Morning Joe ……. 288,000 (15%)
CNN New Day …………….. 266,000 (14%)
HLN Morning Express …. 170,000 (9%)
CNBC Squawk Box …………. 99,000 (5%)
So, out of a combined cable news audience of 1.9 million for the morning shows, Fox & Friends gets more than half, while fewer than 1-in-6 watch Morning Joe, which barely outpaces CNN’s anemic ratings. Morning Joe is a failure in the ratings because its producers have made a choice: Rather than reporting and discussing actual news, their program is instead devoted to promoting the narrow partisan agenda — gun control, “climate change,” abortion, gay rights, etc. — of the Democrat Party.
But what else can we expect from a network that wastes valuable airtime on the notorious idiot Chris Matthews?
They’re Not Going Back
Posted on | July 8, 2014 | 31 Comments
Thanks to the New York Times, of all places, we now know (get ready) that 300,000 illegal aliens have come into our country just since April. Now, I want to put that number in perspective. It’s not the 65,000 we originally were told about in January in the onslaught of unaccompanied children. It’s them plus everybody else. . . .
All of them are poorly educated, all of them are low skilled, and all of them are poor. Obama, on July 4th, celebrating the ethnic diversity of America, said, “Don’t make it harder for the best and the brightest to come here.”
In other words, this invasion of 300,000 since April represents the best and the brightest — and if you oppose it, then you are, what? Well, racist and bigoted. Of course, we’re not supposed to call this an invasion. Maybe that’s right. I mean, maybe it isn’t an official invasion when the country’s leaders invite the invaders in. That’s what’s happening here. These people are being invited in.
These people are being transferred by us, in many cases. The New York Times also let another detail slip out in this story over the weekend. “More than 85% of the so-called accompanied alien children from Central America,” that’d be Guatemala, El Salvador, Ecuador, “have already been released to relatives in America.” More than 85% matches the 90% that we’ve been told by other sources.
So we got the New York Times saying 85% (other news agencies have used the figure of 90%) that have been released by ICE and Border Patrol to “relatives” in this country. So virtually none of these children have been sent back to their home countries, and they won’t be sent back.
(Via Memeorandum.)
LIVE AT FIVESIX: 07.08.14
Posted on | July 8, 2014 | 3 Comments
— compiled by Wombat-socho
TOP NEWS
Israel Steps Up Anti-Terrorist Ops Against Hamas In Gaza

Palestinians salvage belongings from a house destroyed by IDF air strikes in Gaza
Another ground invasion in the works?
Pope Francis Meets Abuse Victims, Vows Zero Tolerance
Bishops will be held accountable
Japan PM Shinzo Abe Addresses Australian Parliament In English
Apologizes for WWII, welcomes new era of free trade, security cooperation
POLITICS
McDaniel Vows Challenge As Mississippi GOP Certifies Cochran Victory

Chris McDaniel speaks to a town meeting in Ocean Springs
Questions remain on improper absentee and crossover votes
Why Nukes Keep Finding Trouble: They’re Really Old
Seattle Business Group Clears Hurdle In Push To Repeal $15 Minimum Wage
Chicago’s Weekend Body Count: 82 Shot, 14 Killed
White House Disputes Report That Obama’s Backing Off Border Policy Changes
Administration Wants $2 Billion From Congress For Border Crisis First, Then It’ll Decide On Policy
New York Becomes 23rd State To Legalize Medicinal Weed
THE ECONOMY, STUPID
Asian Crude Eases As Iraq Crisis Fades, Libya Expected To Resume Shipments: WTI $103.42, Brent $110.05
US Begins Settlement Talks With Commerzbank Over Iran Dealings
ROK Stocks Finish Flat After Samsung’s Grim Q2 Guidance
Dollar Falls Against Yen Most In A Week On Fed Rate View
How The Massive Crumbs Cupcake Empire Finally Fell
Corn Prices Near Lowest Since 2010 As Record US Crop Spurs Slump
Microsoft Windows To Aid PC Revival In 2015
Red China’s Hackers Switch Targets To US Experts On Iraq
Home Depot Expands Stock Of Smart Home Gadgets
Samsung, Broadcom, Intel Form Open Interconnect Consortium For Internet Of Things
The Most Expensive Video Games Ever Made
SPORTS
A’s Blank Punchless Giants, 5-0

Vogelsong sharp for Giants, but not sharp enough to overcome lack of offense
San Francisco can’t hit anybody
Angels Lose Weaver, Still Beat Jays
Mets Edge Braves In Extras, 4-3
Singleton Powers Astros Past Rangers In 12-7 Slugfest
Iwakuma, Mariners Blank Twins; John Buck DFA’d
Phillies Scrape Up Just Enough Runs To Edge Brewers
Headley, Kennedy Carry Padres Past Rockies
Pirates Waste Chances, Fall To Cards 2-0
Red Sox Fall To Pale Hose In Series Opener
Reds Lose Votto To DL, Crush Cubs 9-3 Anyway
As Clippers Trial Begins, Neurologist Says Sterling May Have Alzheimer’s
Could LeBron James Be Heading Back To Cleveland?
NASCAR’s Top Teams Form Race Team Alliance
Fletcher Strikes Half-Century As Windies Even Series With Black Caps
Chris Davis Leads 11th-Inning Uprising As O’s Crush Nats 8-2
FAMOUS FOR BEING FAMOUS
Mila Kunis On Her Wedding To Ashton Kutcher, Being A Full-Time Mom

“We all get movie star crushes. I’m marrying mine.”
W magazine’s cover girl for August
Joe Manganiello, Sofia Vergara Dating
For Taylor Swift, The Future Of Music Is A Love Story
Michelle Rodriguez: Goodbye Ladies, Hello Zac Efron’s Tongue
Jessica Simpson’s First Official Wedding Photo
Rebel, Rebel: Getting To Know The Real Solange
First Look At Don Cheadle As Miles Davis In Biopic “Miles Ahead”
Amal Alamuddin’s Mom On George Clooney: “She Can Do Better”
Disgusted Fans Boo Kanye West For Whining About How Photography Is Rape Or Something
Maksim Chmerkovskiy: Do I Look Like J-Lo’s Boyfriend?
Broke Tori Spelling Banking On Kids
Pregnancy Rumors Swirl Around Zoe Saldana
Peter Cook Ditched By Wife Over Skirt-Chasing Ways
Monaco Royals: “No Regrets” On Banning Businessman Over Brawl
FOREIGNERS
German Imports And Exports Fall In May
Powerful Typhoon Sweeps Across Okinawa
Kerry Warns About Power Grab In Afghanistan
Asylum Seekers Win Sri Lanka Reprieve
Indonesia Energized For Election
Pushed Out Of Slavyansk, Rebels Barricade Donetsk
Suicide Attack Kills 16 At Afghan Clinic
Bahrain Declares US Diplomat Persona Non Grata
India’s Supreme Court Declares Sharia Courts Have No Legal Authority
BLOGS & STUFF
Blackmailers Don’t Shoot: Ancient Rock Band To Record Another Dreadful Album
First Street Journal: Sacrificing Rational Concern To Political Correctness
Doug Powers: Hillary Clinton’s “Altruism” Sure Does Seem To Benefit The Clintons Quite A Bit
Twitchy: “Absolute Self-Parody” – Sally Kohn Likens Term “Illegals” To Racial, Anti-Gay Slurs
American Power: Murrieta Patriots Repulse Aztlan Open-Borders Brownshirts; Third Busful Of Illegals Rerouted To San Isidro
American Thinker: Hey! Doesn’t Barack Obama Care About Brown People?
BLACKFIVE: Free Kurdistan!
Conservatives4Palin: “Amazing America With Sarah Palin” Picks Up Second Season
Don Surber: Daily Scoreboard, July 7
Jammie Wearing Fools: Obama’s America – DREAMer Charged With Rape In Sanctuary City
Joe For America: Costco Removing Dinesh D’Souza’s “America” From Shelves
JustOneMinute: Cutting Through The Smokescreen In Obama’s War On Coal
Pat Dollard: Mexican-Flag-Waving La Raza Terrorists Arrive In Murrieta “To Protect The Children”
Protein Wisdom: A Citizen Journalist Takes Stock Of Obama’s America, This Time From His Front Porch
Shot In The Dark: Today’s News, Seven Years Ago
STUMP: Public Pensions Watch – Illinois Law Vs. Reality
The Jawa Report: Boko Haram #Winning
The Lonely Conservative: Democrats Go All In For Corporate Welfare
This Ain’t Hell: American Legion Steps Into The Breach
Weasel Zippers: Vulnerable Democrat Senator Mark Udall Refuses To Be Seen In Public With Obama During His Fundraiser
Megan McArdle: Die, Ex-Im Bank! Faster! Faster!
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Have A Koch And A. . .Hint Of Queasiness
Posted on | July 7, 2014 | 9 Comments
by Smitty
I can hear the Lefties arguing “If ObamaCare helps at least ONE person. . .”. Which is garbage. The rebuttal: “Cure worse than the disease” comes to mind.
Via Instapundit
Update: Via the YouTube comments, check out Right Wing Extremist Kurt Schlichter, bogarting all the jobs:
