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FAMOUS FOR BEING FAMOUS
Lord Flashheart Dead; Britain Submerged By Womens’ Tears

Actually, it’s Rik Mayall – dead at 56, also starred in “Drop Dead Fred”

Rapper Lil’ Kim Spawns

Halle Berry Ordered To Pay $16k/Month Child Support

Beyonce & Jay-Z Land Back In New York Amid Rift Rumors

Anna Paquin Proud To Be “Happily Married Bisexual Mom”

Fox, James Cameron Set Sigourney Weaver For Three “Avatar” Sequels

Casper Smart Speaks Out Against Claims From Second Transsexual Model

FOREIGNERS
Assad Declares “General Amnesty” For Prisoners
Trial For Sewol Ferry Crew To Begin Today
After Failure Of Peace Talks, Israeli Government Deeply Divided On Way Forward
Merkel, Cameron In Battle Over European Commission
Education Secretary Gove Moves To Keep Extremist Ideology Out Of UK Schools
Thai Beauty Queen Steps Down After Incendiary Remarks On Red Shirts
Libyan Judges Rule Against Acting PM
Five Jailed For Murder Of Anti-Putin Journalist Anna Politovskaya
Clock Ticking As Abe Seeks To Loosen Constraints On Japanese Military
New Indian Government Reveals Plan For Jobs, Low Inflation
France’s National Front In Crisis As Le Pens Clash

BLOGS & STUFF
Michelle Malkin: What Happened To Marine Deserter Wassef Ali Hassoun?
Twitchy: Fight Like A Girl! Katie Pavlich Has A Question For “Self-Defense Is Icky” Cosmo Editor
American Power: Even MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell Not Buying Bergdahl Spin From State Department Flack
American Thinker: Could Benghazi Have Been A Bergdahl Deal That Went South?
BLACKFIVE: How The Taliban Wound Up With Stingers
Conservatives4Palin: McDaniel Leads Cochran In New Poll, Picks Up Support From Ron Paul
Don Surber: Daily Scoreboard, June 9
Jammie Wearing Fools: Culture Of Greed – Hillary Clinton Defends $200K Speaking Fees
Joe For America: Hollywood’s Hydrocarbon Hypocrisy
Pat Dollard: Eric Holder Refusing To Cooperate With VA Investigation
Protein Wisdom: EPA Pumps Up Benefits Of Proposed Carbon Regulation
Shot In The Dark: Open Letter To Target Corp.
The Jawa Report: Good News – Boko Haram Kidnaps Another 20 Women
The Lonely Conservative: EPA Backs Fracking While Using Tax Dollars To Block It
This Ain’t Hell: Special Counsel Office Investigates Whistleblower Retaliation At VA
Weasel Zippers: Feminists Outraged – Miss USA Enabling “Rape Culture” With Call For Womens’ Self-Defense

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The Politics of Blame

Posted on June 9, 2014June 9, 2014Comments

After five years of excuses, straw-man arguments and scapegoating, the Obama administration’s incompetence and irresponsibility have exhausted the patience of many Democrats, Ron Fournier reports:

The email hit my in-box at 9:41 p.m. last Wednesday. From one of the most powerful Democrats in Washington, a close adviser to the White House, the missive amounted to an electronic eye roll. “Even I have had enough.”
Another Democrat had quit on President Obama.
The tipping point for this person was the Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl case—not the soldier-for-Taliban swap itself as much as how the White House mishandled its obligation to communicate effectively and honestly to Congress and the public. More than that, Obama’s team had failed once again to acknowledge its mistakes, preferring to cast blame and seek cover behind talking points.
“DC is hard, and depressing,” the Democrat wrote. “I still believe good comes from government (e.g. 8 million in ACA). But that Politico story is a cautionary one: good reminder that you can’t go so in the bunker [and] no longer identify legitimate criticism.” That day, Politico had posted a story channeling the White House communications team’s response to the Bergdahl backlash. . . .

Read the whole thing.

FBI + IRS = S-C-A-N-D-A-L

Posted on June 9, 2014Comments

Ho-hum — another day, another Nixonian revelation:

The Internal Revenue Service may have been caught violating federal tax law: In October 2010, the agency sent a database on 501(c)(4) social-welfare groups containing confidential taxpayer information to the Federal Bureau of Investigation, according to documents obtained by a House panel.
The information was transmitted in advance of former IRS official Lois Lerner’s meeting the same month with Justice Department officials about the possibility of using campaign-finance laws to prosecute certain nonprofit groups. E-mails between Lerner and Richard Pilger, the director of the Justice Department’s election-crimes branch, obtained through a subpoena to Attorney General Eric Holder, show Lerner asking about the format in which the FBI preferred the data to be sent.
“This revelation that the IRS sent 1.1 million pages of nonprofit tax-return data — including confidential taxpayer information — to the FBI confirms suspicions that the IRS worked with the Justice Department to facilitate the potential investigation of nonprofit groups engaged in lawful political speech,” Oversight Committee chairman Darrell Issa, a California Republican, and subcommittee chairman Jim Jordan wrote in a letter to IRS commissioner John Koskinen. . . .

(Via Memeorandum.)

Craigslist Rapist Arrested

Posted on June 9, 2014Comments

Remember the “Craigslist Killer,” Philip Markoff, who was charged with killing a woman he met through a Craigslist ad and was suspected of having robbed two other women? More recently, a 19-year-old Pennsylvania woman, Miranda Barbour, has been called a “Craigslist killer” after police say she murdered a man.

Just in case Craigslist did not already have a scary enough reputation, however, we now have the Craigslist Rapist:

Upper Darby police have arrested a man on rape and human-trafficking charges, after he allegedly assaulted a woman who answered a job posting on Craigslist.
A 18-year-old woman says when she was hired by an Upper Darby man through a Craigslist ad, she was told it was for a home health aide but when she went to the man’s apartment to fill out paperwork, she found out that application was for an escort service.
She declined, and she tells police that’s when the man raped her.
Upper Darby Police arrested 42-year-old Kevin Cornish of Ferne Boulevard, on charges of rape, kidnapping, and human trafficking.
When they searched his apartment, Upper Darby police superintendent Michael Chitwood says they found about 50 other applications for the so-called escort service:
“Basically it’s a prostitution ring is what it is, just based on what’s contained in the application.”

Bottom line: Beware of people you meet online. I mean, for crying out loud, they might be a blogger or something.

Like Margaret Thatcher Said

Posted on June 9, 2014June 9, 2014Comments

“The problem with socialism is, sooner or later you run out of other people’s money.” Venezuela is learning that lesson the hard way.

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Virginia GOP Pulls a Fast One

Posted on June 9, 2014June 9, 2014Comments

A Democrat member of the Virginia state Senate has announced he will resign, a move that will likely prevent newly elected Democrat Gov. Terry McAuliffe from imposing ObamaCare on the state — and this appears to have been arranged by Virginia Republicans in a thoroughly Machiavellian maneuver that will give GOP control of the state Senate.

LIVE AT FIVE: 06.09.14

Posted on June 9, 2014June 9, 2014Comments

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TOP NEWS
Egypt’s New President Vows To “Correct Mistakes Of The Past”

Egypt “will witness a total rise on both internal and external fronts, to compensate what we have missed and correct the mistakes of the past…”

23 Dead After Jihadi Attack On Karachi Airport
Aside from the terrorists, most of the dead were airport security, a few workers

Administration Officials Claim Bergdahl Was Tortured
Told doctors and debriefers he was kept in a cage for extended periods

POLITICS
Ed Gillespie Wins GOP Nomination To Face Mark Warner For Virginia Senate Seat

Former RNC chair, adviser to Romney campaign

Beats out three little-known opponents

Sen. Feinstein Questions WH Statements On Bergdahl’s Health, Death Threats

Senator’s Resignation Leaves Virginia Democrats Scrambling

Justice Department, Americorps Join To Provide Legal Assistance For Underage Illegals

Gov. Brewer: Feds Say No End In Sight For “Dumping” Of Illegals In Arizona

THE ECONOMY, STUPID
Asian Crude Rises As PRC Exports Gain Steam: NYMEX $102.77, Brent $108.68
Japan GDP Revised Higher On Capital Spending Surge
Tyson Reportedly Wins Bidding For Hillshire Farms
Kraft Hikes Maxwell House, Yuban Prices 10%
Asian Shares Rally On Upbeat Data
US Gains 217K Non-Farm Jobs, But Official Unemployment Still 6.3%
Apple Maps Are Still Lost
Sony Overtakes Nintendo In Console Sales
Google Mobile Search Ad Dominance Threatened By Apps
Softbank Enters Robotic Market With Emotional Humanoid
Did Apple Merely Put Beats Out Of Its Misery?
Watching Big Brother

SPORTS
LeBron Mans Up, Leads Heat To Win In Game 2

Miami edges San Antonio 98-96

Dale Earnhardt Jr. Steals Win At Pocono From Keselowski

Frustrated O’s Blown Out By A’s 11-1

Hernandez K’s Career-High 15, M’s Beat Rays With Five-Run 9th

Giants Complete Sweep Of Mets With 6-4 Win

Two Grand Slams Highlight Astros’ 14-5 Rout Of Twins

Shields, Royals Nip Slumping Yankees

Jordan Zimmerman 2-Hits Padres, Nats Win 6-0

FAMOUS FOR BEING FAMOUS
L’Wren Scott’s Sister Rips Mick Jagger For Not Being Loyal To Dead Ex-GF

Mick and a gal pal on his hotel balcony in Zurich

It makes no sense to me either

Intruder Breaks Into Sandra Bullock’s Home While She Was There

Jennifer Lopez, Casper Smart Split

Justin Bieber Baptized In NYC Bathtub?

Tracy Morgan In Critical Condition After Six-Car Pileup On NJ Turnpike

Emily Maynard Marries Tyler Johnson

Melanie Griffith Divorcing Antonio Banderas

Casey Kasem Alert But In Critical Condition

FOREIGNERS
Pope Francis Hosts Evening Of Prayers With Israeli, Palestinian Leaders
Jihadis Target Kurds Amid Surge In Sectarian Killings
King Juan Carlos: “I Don’t Want My Son To Grow Old Waiting Like Prince Charles”
Three Men Escape From Canadian Prison Using Helicopter
The South China Sea: What Happens Now?
Kosovo’s Thaci Claims Victory In Election
Red China Reaches Out To Modi Government On Trade
Israeli Finance Minister Threatens To Quit Over West Bank Settlements
Jihadis Kill 23 Shia Pilgrims In Baluchistan
Thai Junta Pushes “Happiness” Project

BLOGS & STUFF
Doug Powers: Newest Spin – Maybe Bergdahl’s Platoon Was Full Of Psychopaths
Twitchy: Wil Wheaton Fails At Making A Joke About Republicans In The ER
American Power: Taliban Supreme Council Offers To Send 400 Battle-Hardened Peacekeepers To Chicago
American Thinker: The Obama Doctrine
BLACKFIVE: Retired LTC Tom Slear Raises The Bar On Blue Falconing
Blackmailers Don’t Shoot: Arguing With Social Justice Warriors Is Pointless
Conservatives4Palin: MS Senate – Good Old Boys Bromance Video Starring Thad Cochran And Harry Reid
Jammie Wearing Fools: NYT – Bergdahl’s Unit Is Responsible For His Desertion Or Something
Joe For America: Rand Paul Has Great Idea To Get Marine From Mexico
JustOneMinute: Bikram B-Ball
Pat Dollard: Obama Won’t Allow Bergdahl To Talk To Anyone Until He Agrees To Tell The Story Obama Wants Him To Tell
Protein Wisdom: The Clerisy – You Will Submit Or Else
Shot In The Dark: I Went To Rochester, And All I Got Was A Hotel Bill
The Jawa Report: France Commemorates D-Day With Slo-Mo Interpretive Dance
The Lonely Conservative: Cantor Really Wants To Make A Deal With Obama On Immigration
This Ain’t Hell: A “Black Heart” Medal For Bergdahl’s No-Show Officers
Weasel Zippers: Hillary Says She May Not Testify If Subpoenaed By Benghazi Committee

Rule 5 Sunday: The Fremont Street Experience

Posted on June 8, 2014June 8, 2014Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Dancers at the Golden Gate Casino’s street bar. Yup. It’s Vegas.

As the Loyal Readers are aware, I spent half of last week on a fact-finding/apartment-hunting visit to Las Vegas, sometimes referred to as Sin City, and for those of you who haven’t been there, I can assure you that the shuttle bus downtown from McCarran International takes you past a number of billboards for various casinos and strip clubs that would not be out of place in a Rule 5 Sunday post. Then of course, there’s the whole Fremont Street Experience, which occasionally verges on NSFW when it isn’t simply WTF? Speaking of which, this week as in every week, we feature links to pictures of (mostly) women (mostly) underdressed to exhibit their charms, except for those that are completely undressed. Please use discretion when clicking the links; the management is not responsible for the actions of irate wives, girlfriends, etc.

The Pagan Temple debuts with Maria Brink, followed by Rotten to the Core with Kate Upton and Karen Gillan, Malice McMunn shaking the tip jar for Valley of the Shadow, and Maria Sharapova at Randy’s Roundtable. Animal Magnetism has Rule 5 Friday and the Saturday Gingermageddon, of course. Ninety Miles from Tyranny has Morning Mistress, Hot Pick of the Late Night, and Girls with Guns; Laughing Conservative offers Petra Cubanova, Blackmailers Don’t Shoot informs us Farrah Abraham Insists That She’s Not a Porn Star, and in honor of D-Day, First Street Journal covers The Women of Normandy.

EBL’s thundering herd this week is led by a Game of Thrones link, followed by a Thomas Dolby shoutout, Nathalie Emmanuel, Molly Ball, Justine Harman, Alyssa Milano, and the “nurses” at the Heart Attack Grill, although the last one’s a ringer and some of the rest look like they were taken at the original Scottsdale location.

Soylent Refuge chips in with Sunday Coffee Creamer Jessi, Ice Cream Sunday, Overnighty Snoochathon, Monday Motivationer Helga, Tuesday Titillation Because Gisele, Evening Awesome Truth In Advertising, Humpday Hawtness Amelia, One for Mike at Ninety Miles From Tyranny, Overnighty Kayden, Falconsword Fursday Classic Peggy, Why I Volunteered To Bang Erasers, Corset Concerto, T-GIF Friday, Happy Hour Hawtness, Weekender Blair, and Bath Night Katie.

At A View From The Beach, it’s Tia Carrere, Femen Puts Voodoo on Putin, We Have Met The Enemy, and She is Us (cavegirls), Miss the Mammoths? (more cavegirls), Grace Potter, MD wind power update, Fresh Bait, “Far Beyond the Sun”, and The Vikings of Cheboygan?

Proof Positive’s Friday Night Babe is Amal Alamuddin, his vintage babe is Toby Wing, and of course there’s Sex In Advertising along with Women of PETA XXXIX. At Dustbury, it’s Gwendoline Christie and Blake Lively.

Thanks to everyone for their linkagery, especially those of you who linked back to last week’s post and made us number one in the FMJRA again!
Deadline to submit links for next week’s Rule 5 Sunday is midnight Saturday, June 14.

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