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LIVE AT FIVE: 07.21.14

Posted on | July 21, 2014 | 7 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho


TOP NEWS
Bloody Sunday: 100 Palestinians, 13 Israeli Soldiers Killed

Pre-dawn assault on Shejaiya, near Gaza City

Most Palestinian casualties occur in Shejaiya, scene of a “blistering” Israeli assault
Thousands of Palestinians flee
Two American IDF soldiers killed in Gaza fighting



Ukrainian Rebel Leader Claims To Have Black Boxes In Donetsk
Kiev releases new intercepts indicating Moscow’s complicity in Malaysian airliner shootdown

Iran Eliminates Enriched Uranium
IAEA says Iranian stockpile now converted to reactor fuel, no longer weapons-grade



POLITICS
Georgia Senate Race Zeroes In On Metro Atlanta Ahead of Tuesday’s GOP Primary

David Perdue greets a voter in Gainesville

No natural advantage for Rep. Jack Kingston or Dollar General CEO Perdue

White House Reportedly Ignored Warnings On Border Crisis Last Year

McKinney Seeking Upset In CT GOP Governor Primary

No Welcome Mat In Moscow For Rep. Moran, Lynndie England

Quinn Signs Bill Permitting Weed For Seizures In Illinois

Hundreds Of Protests This Weekend Against Illegal Immigration, Obama’s Policies

DNC Raises $9 Million In June, Reduces Debt To $3 Million

Top Colorado Court Halts Denver Gay Marriages

10th Circuit Rules Oklahoma Gay Marriage Ban Unconstitutional



THE ECONOMY, STUPID
Asian Crude Slips: WTI $102.90, Brent $107.11
McDonald’s, Yum Halt Purchases From Shanghai Meat Supplier
Market Basket Workers Fired As Employees Rally For Ousted CEO
Euro Slips Below $1.35, Dollar Posts Broad Gains
Forbes Reportedly Valued At $475 Million In Sale To Hong Kong Group
EU Tells Apple & Google To Limit In-Game Purchases
Facebook To Challenge Amazon Next?
Verizon FiOS To Pump Up The Upstream
Microtransactions On The Rise In MMOs
Amazon Announces All-You-Can-Read Plan



SPORTS
Angels Rally Against Rodney, Sink Mariners

Shot down in flames for shooting prematurely?

Angels score in their last at-bat to pull out 6-5 win


Winston Circus Brings Drama To Usually Low-Key ACC Media Day



Despaigne Loses No-Hit Bid, Padres Beat Mets 2-1 Anyway

Chase Elliott Wins Third NNS Race Of Season At Chicagoland

Slumping Sparks Sack Ross

Dominguez Has 4 RBIs As Astros Win 11-7 Slugfest Against Pale Hose

A’s Rout O’s 10-2

Werth’s Double In Ninth Helps Nats Hold Off Brewers, 5-4



FAMOUS FOR BEING FAMOUS
James Garner Dies, 86

Good night, sweet prince

Star of “Maverick”, “The Rockford Files”

“The ultimate affable man of action”


Adam Levine, Behati Prinsloo Get Hitched In Mexico

Weekend Box Office: #1 “Apes” Hold, #2 “Purge” Surges, #3 “Planes” Meh, #4 “Sex Tape” Tanks

Ex-Destiny’s Child Singer Farrah Franklin Busted For Disorderly Conduct

Showtime’s “Homeland” Teaser

“Teen Wolf” Star Tyler Posey To Host Teen Choice Awards


Could This Be The End Of Beyonce And Jay-Z?

And Now, Your Long-Distance Mortification…

NPR Learns About New Media Accountability The Hard Way

TV Critics Award “The Good Wife”, “True Detective”, “RuPaul” And Give “Breaking Bad” A Big Sendoff

Beyonce Teases Sexy “Crazy In Love” Remix For “Fifty Shades Of Grey”

Andre Gregory Dishes On His Upcoming Memoir

Jake LaMotta Still “Raging” At 92



FOREIGNERS
UNSC Calls For Immediate Cease-Fire In Gaza
Former Indonesian Strongman Rejects Result Of Presidential Election
At Least Four Dead As Militias Fight Over Tripoli Airport
Typhoon Kills 17, Leaves 5 Missing In Southern China
Norks Flip-Flop Over Improving Relations With ROK, Asian Games
Lebanese Troops Kill Militant Linked To Beirut Bombing
South Sudan Rebels Break Truce, Retake Town Near Ethiopian Border
ISIS Jihadis Claim Credit For Deadly Baghdad Bombings
Nigerian Jihadis Kill More Than 40 In Northeast
Israel Reduces Embassy Staff In Ankara After Violent Pro-Palestinian Protests



BLOGS & STUFF
First Street Journal: Senator Bob Casey – Lying Through His Scummy Teeth
Dead Republican Party: Videos Of Importance
Michelle Malkin: Mrs. Obama’s Operation VA Scandal Distraction
Twitchy: Matt Yglesias Flogged With His Own Seven-Month Old Buffoonery
American Power: National Protests Against Amnesty
American Thinker: Of Horses, Politicians, And Fences
BLACKFIVE: Bring The Fun To National Review
Conservatives4Palin: Governor Palin’s Speech At The Western Conservative Summit
Jammie Wearing Fools: Pivot! Obama Back To Babbling About His Awesome Economy
Joe For America: Paul Arnold – A Man, A Truck, And An Idea To Stop Amnesty Goes Nationwide
JustOneMinute: Global Income Inequality Falling
Protein Wisdom: Mexicans Fire .50 Caliber Rounds At Border Patrol Across The Rio Grande
Shot In The Dark: Rose Colored Glasses
The Gateway Pundit: Oklahoma Governor – ICE Sent Us 1200 Illegal Immigrant Children, Including 90 From India
The Jawa Report: Hamas – “Don’t Worry, Our Missiles Only Hit Jews”
The Lonely Conservative: Michelle Obama Tells Kids “Folks In Congress” Want To Make Their Meals Unhealthy
This Ain’t Hell: Ventura Vs. Kyle Estate Not Going Well For Ventura
Weasel Zippers: Breaking – Governor Perry To Send 1000 National Guardsmen To The Border
Megan McArdle: A Mortgage That Feeds Your Piggy Bank


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Rule 5 Sunday: Electric Avenue

Posted on | July 20, 2014 | 9 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

As usual, the links in this post lead to pics of attractive (usually) women in little or no clothing (usually) which may not be well received by others who happen to view your computer’s monitor. Be wise, and exercise discretion when clicking.

Laughing Conservative kicks things off this week with Sophie Howard, followed by Goodstuff with the legendary Jayne Mansfield, Randy’d Roundtable with Helen Flanagan,  and of course Ninety Miles from Tyranny with Morning MistressHot Pick of the Late Night, and of course Girls with Guns. Animal Magnetism contributes Rule 5 Friday and the Saturday Gingermageddon, again with hi-rez bonus! We also heard from Blackmailers Don’t Shoot: Selena Gomez Posts Something On Instagram, People Flip Out.

EBL’s thundering herd is apparently suffering from a lack of heat: this week it’s just Dutch soccer fans, Too Fat for Forever 21, #thinspiration, and Emma Peel as played by Dame Diana Rigg in her delicious prime.

Fortunately, A View from the Beach steps up with Fat Chicks Never Forgive, Never Forget – Chrissy TeigenI Didn’t Even Know There Was OneKacy Up At BatGinger Tired of Being Treated Like a Redheaded StepchildThe First Race War? (has cavegirl content), Red Dress Makes Women Sexier, Annoys Other WomenWorld Cup Final, and Beautiful Woman Makes Ugly Post.

Also, Soylent Refuge with Sunday brunch, Overnighty, Monday Motivationer woodwork, Evening Awesome F**k Yeah Brazil, Tuesday Titillation Titanus, Overnighty Awesome, Humpday Hawtness Amber, Fursday Finery, Overnighty 17, Corset Comforts, T-GIF Friday Tit-Flash Fiesta, Evening Awesome Cinnamon Sugar, Weekender Ainsley, and Bath Night Bodacious.

Proof Positive’s Friday Night Babe is Chrissy Teigen, his Vintage Babe is Stella Stevens, and Sex in Advertising is covered by Jessica Simpson. At Dustbury, it’s Taylor Swift and Agnez Mo.

The DaleyGator’s DaleyBabes this week include Meisa Kuroki, Tinashe, Ryo Kashima, Tara Conner, Sienna Miller, Ali Cobrin, Alexis Naiomi, Renee Goldsberry, Kristal Marshal, Chiharu Mizuno, Michelle Jenneke, Errika Katagiri, Shoko Takasaki, Draya Michelle, and Anya Manzikova.


Thanks to everyone for their linkagery! Deadline to submit links to the Rule 5 Wombat mailbox for next week’s Rule 5 Sunday is midnight on Saturday, July 26.


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Commies in Anaheim?

Posted on | July 20, 2014 | 18 Comments

ANSWER (Act Now to Stop War and End Racism) is a front for the Marxist revolutionary Workers World Party. This is simply a fact, but a fact routinely omitted from media coverage of ANSWER protests. This was the case in California, where the local CBS affiliate deliberated ignored the communist orientation of this weekend’s “march against police brutality” in Anaheim:

Reporter Art Barron ignored the radical, anarcho-communist protesters, many of whom wore shirts and held signs calling for death to the Anaheim Police Department. Even worse, the back bloc anarchists are shown at the video without even a 10-second description or explanation of the real and violent ideological program.

That’s from Donald Douglas, who covered the protests and has compiled a series of reports on the event at American Power:

Cowardly #ANSWER Communists
Violently Harass ‘American Power’
at Anaheim Police Brutality Protest!

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Responses to ‘Cowardly #ANSWER Communists’

– – –

Hey, Leftists: You’re Gonna Need a Bigger
Collectivist Army to Shut Down ‘American Power’!

Notice the red flags? I became familiar with ANSWER when they organized “peace” protests in D.C. during the Iraq War. Of course, commies don’t want peace. They want to destroy America.

 

Tales of the Mission Gone Wrong

Posted on | July 20, 2014 | 18 Comments

Last night, my 12-year-old son Emerson got the DVD of Lone Survivor from Red Box. My wife can’t watch this movie — the true story of Marcus Luttrell and a squad of Navy SEALs that gets wiped out in Afghanistan — because Army son Bob is training to do this kind of special ops stuff, and his mother does not want to think about it.

After watching it, I realized Lone Survivor is like Black Hawk Down and We Were Soldiers — the Mission Gone Wrong.

The old military adage is that no battle plan survives the first contact with the enemy. The Bad Guys — whether they’re the NVA or Somali militia or the Taliban — have their own battle plan, and if our intelligence has underestimated the enemy’s numbers and capabilities (a common theme of the Mission Gone Wrong), a lot of Good Guys are going to die in the process of discovering the error.

We Were Soldiers Once . . . and Young, the 1992 book on which the 2002 movie was based, is the story of the November 1965 attack of the First Battalion, 7th Cavalry (Airmobile) against a regiment of the regular North Vietnamese army (NVA) in the Ia Drang valley. It was the largest such battle up to that point in the U.S. involvement in Vietnam. You can read Hal Moore’s after-action report.

What happened was this U.S. battalion at Landing Zone X-Ray — about 450 troops — had landed right next to the headquarters of a full regiment (about 1,600 troops) of NVA, which held the high ground on Chu Pong Mountain. The battle at Landing Zone X-Ray went on for two days, and the total U.S. losses (79 killed, 121 wounded) were more than 40% of the total battalion strength; NVA losses were 634 killed, by body count, which means that the U.S. inflicted casualties at about an 8-to-1 ratio — clearly an American victory. But the day after the two-day battle at LZ X-Ray, the Second Battalion, 7th Cavalry was overrun at Landing Zone Albany, suffering 155 killed and 124 wounded after they were ambushed by fresh NVA units. Both of these 7th Cav units were basically put out of action until they could replace their losses, and the unexpectedly high U.S. casualty rates in the Ia Drang were an omen of things to come.

Black Hawk Down — also a book before it became a movie — began as a mission (code-named “Gothic Serpent”) in October 1993 targeting Somali warlord Mohamed Farrah Aidid. The heavy losses to U.S. special forces in the resulting two-day Battle of Mogadishu were primarily caused by the discovery (oops!) that Somali militia could shoot down U.S. helicopters with rocket-propelled grenades (RPGs), and the lack of U.S. armored vehicles (which the Clinton administration had denied to the U.S. commander).

Lone Survivor continues this tradition of Mission Gone Wrong tales, beginning with a bestselling book. It is very similar to Black Hawk Down in that the mission (code-named “Red Wings”) began with a plan to target a local Islamic militia leader (Ahmad Shah) and involved the shoot-down of a helicopter (in this case, a CH-47 Chinook with 16 troops). There has been some dispute about the number of Afghan fighters faced by Luttrell and his three comrades. If Shah had only 20 militia, then the four SEALs were outnumbered 4-to-1 — worse odds than Hal Moore’s men faced at LZ X-Ray — and there have been some who say that Shah’s militia numbered 40, 50 or even as many as 200. The number of Bad Guys is tactically irrelevant to what went wrong in Operation Red Wings. The four SEALs were inserted on a remote mountain where communication proved difficult, without much consideration of what might happen if the Bad Guys found them. Evacuation or reinforcement would be equally difficult and, because of the comms problem, headquarters didn’t even know the mission had been compromised until the SEALs were already under attack.

U.S. troops are the best in the world, and Special Forces are the best of the best, but they are not bulletproof superheroes, and when the excrement hits the rotary ventilation device — the Mission Gone Wrong — bad thing happen to the Good Guys.

After watching Lone Survivor, I e-mailed my Army son: “Your career goal should be to have only missions so successful that nobody wants to make movies about them.” Can I get an amen?

 

Andrew ‘The Nailgun’ O’Hehir Calls Israel America’s Frankenstein Monster

Posted on | July 20, 2014 | 29 Comments

Andrew O’Hehir (@AndOHehir) is the all-purpose genius at Salon whose job includes (a) writing crappy movie reviews and (b) spouting off about any random thing that catches his fancy. Last year, O’Hehir got himself memorably owned by Ace of Spades:

Nailed it again. I’m gonna just call this guy “The Nailgun” because he nails everything in sight.

So, here’s the headline on O’Hehir’s latest opus at Salon:

Israel: America’s Frankenstein monster

In the interest of fairness, because I’m willing to give even the most obstinate left-wing doofus the benefit of the doubt, my first reaction was: “Well, that’s just the headline. Everybody knows that Salon.com is a troll operation that publishes click-bait headlines to attract traffic.” But then I read the article, which concludes thus:

From the American perspective Israel looks something like Frankenstein’s monster, a morally dubious and arguably unnatural creation that was stitched together with the noblest of intentions but not much foresight, and that produced a painful litany of unintended consequences. In that analogy we are Victor Frankenstein, who can never unmake his wayward creature, control it or untether himself from it. If I remember the story correctly, they destroy each other in the end.

This is so wrong in so many ways I don’t even know where to begin. I’m going to trust that Ace of Spades will dismantle it for us.

 

Sharia Schools in England

Posted on | July 19, 2014 | 32 Comments

This is simply astonishing:

Children were taught that all Christians are liars and attempts were made to introduce Sharia law in classrooms as part of an alleged ‘Trojan Horse’ takeover plot of Birmingham schools, an inquiry has found.
The inquiry commissioned by Birmingham City Council found evidence of religious extremism in 13 schools as school governors and teachers tried to promote and enforce radical Islamic values.
Schools put up posters warning children that if they didn’t pray they would “go to hell”, Christmas was cancelled and girls were taught that women who refused to have sex with their husbands would be “punished” by angels “from dusk to dawn”.
The report found that the extremism went unchecked because the council “disastrously” prioritised community cohesion over “doing what is right”. . . .
Sir Albert Bore, Birmingham’s leader, apologised for the council’s handling of the scandal.
He said: “The actions of a few, including some within the council, have undermined the reputation of our great city.
“We have previously shied away from tackling this problem out of a misguided fear of being accused of racism.”

Once you get over your “misguided fear of being accused of racism” — or sexism or homophobia — you start noticing facts.

(Via Memeorandum.)

 

FMJRA 2.0: Big Mess

Posted on | July 19, 2014 | 3 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

They Found Peggy Joseph!

Rule 5 Sunday: On The Beach

Massacre: Ronald Haskell Murders Six Members of Texas Mormon Family

An Omen of the ‘Mystifying Oracle’?

FMJRA 2.0: The Mission

The Precocious Feminist Replies

Good-Bye, Miami Beach? The Problem With Climate-Change Hysteria

How to Get Raped at College

The Lighter Side Of The Border Crisis

LIVE AT FIVE: 07.14.14

They Always Blame the Jews

Sex Trouble: Radical Feminism and the Long Shadow of the ‘Lavender Menace’

Obama’s Border Game, and Why Republicans Are Doomed to Lose It

Planned Perversion

Marion Zimmer Bradley’s Son Describes Abuse by Feminist Pagan Fiction Author

Books…And A Smittypalooza?

Demons of Left-Wing Paranoia

LIVE AT FIVE: 07.17.14

The War in Gaza

LIVE AT FIVE: 07.18.14

CNN Reporter: Israelis ‘Scum’

My Nobel Peace Prize Gaza Plan


Top linkers this week:

  1. Batshit Crazy News (11)
  2. (tie) Regular Right Guy and That Mr. G Guy (9)

…and a few folks who just missed the cutoff. Thanks to everyone for their linkagery!


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Progressives Cheer: Sterilizing Poor People Is Totally Awesome!

Posted on | July 19, 2014 | 72 Comments

Long-acting reversible contraception (LARC) was the primary weapon to prevent poor people — mainly black and Latino teenage girls — from reproducing in the Colorado Family Planning Initiative (CFPI). Funded by a “confidential private donor” and operated through the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment’s Title X Family Planning Program, CFPI not only paid for LARC — contraceptive implants and intra-uterine devices (IUDs) — but also paid up to $675 for each vasectomy and $2,600 for each tubal ligation (female sterilization) performed in Colorado’s Title X clinics since 2009.

Well, guess what they found out? You shove enough free contraception at poor teenage girls, and you get fewer babies:

Fertility rates among low-income women aged 15–24 were compared with expected trends. Abortion rates and births among high-risk women were tracked, and the numbers of infants receiving services through the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children (WIC) were examined. . . .
By 2011, caseloads had increased by 23%, and LARC use among 15–24-year-olds had grown from 5% to 19%. Cumulatively, one in 15 young, low-income women had received a LARC method, up from one in 170 in 2008. Compared with expected fertility rates in 2011, observed rates were 29% lower among low-income 15–19-year-olds and 14% lower among similar 20–24-year-olds. In CFPI counties, the proportion of births that were high-risk declined by 24% between 2009 and 2011; abortion rates fell 34% and 18%, respectively, among women aged 15–19 and 20–24. Statewide, infant enrollment in WIC declined 23% between 2010 and 2013.

Conclusion: Evil is more effective when it’s free — and the progressives at Daily Kos think this is totally awesome!

 

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