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LIVE AT FIVE: 05.06.14

Posted on | May 6, 2014 | 4 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho


TOP NEWS
Boko Haram Claims Credit For Kidnapping Nigerian Schoolgirls

A demonstration calling on the Nigerian government to rescue the captured schoolgirls

Leader threatens to sell girls into slavery

Supremes Split 5-4 On Approval Of Prayer At Public Meetings
Even dissenters admit the public forum “need not become a religion-free zone.” (Kagan)

Ukraine Moves Forces To Odessa
Loses helicopter to rebels near Slavyansk



POLITICS
American Legion Calls For Resignation Of VA Chief Shinseki, Two Others

Legion National Commander Dellinger: “[Shinseki’s] record…is a story of poor oversight and failed leadership.”


Concerned Veterans for America joins call; VFW withholds judgment until IG’s investigation complete


Sen. Schumer Calls For FDA Ban On Powdered Alcohol



Obama Uses Cinco De Mayo To Push Immigration Bill

Supremes Reject Challenge To Nebraska Town’s Ban On Renting To Illegal Immigrants

Texas Judge Under Fire For Rape Sentence

Fairfax County Proposes Limit On Size Of Gatherings At Private Homes

Occupod Convicted Of Assault On NYPD Officer



THE ECONOMY, STUPID
Asian Crude Extends Losses In Thin Trading: NYMEX $99.43, Brent $107.64
Target Replaces CEO After Massive Data Breach
Apple Shares Top $600 For First Time Since 2012
US Service Firms Grow At Fastest Pace Since August
Tyson Earnings Fall On Bird Flu
Pepsi Joins Coke In Removing Brominated Vegetable Oils From Drinks
Sony Breaks Storage Capacity Record With 185-TB Cassette
AMD Emerges From Intel’s Shadow With Big Bet On Low-Power Chips
Microsoft Hints At Smaller Surface
Former Fugitive John McAfee Returns – With A Messaging App?
Pre-Orders Now Open For $500 High-End Aluminum NES



SPORTS
Kings Squash Ducks 3-1, Take 2-0 Series Lead

Ducks RW Corey Perry falls while the Kings’ Tyler Toffoli takes the puck

Quick makes 36 saves for LA, Gaborik scores his third goal in two games

Paul Scores 32 For Clippers In Rout Of Thunder

Fleury, Crosby Score For Pens As Rangers Fall In Shootout

Wizards Cruise Past Pacers In Opener

Giants Edge Pirates In 13th On Throwing Error

Raptors Re-Sign Coach Casey To Three-Year Deal

Semien Doubles In 12th, White Sox Beat Cubs

Nats Blank Dodgers After Over Three Hours Of Rain Delay, Take Lead In NL East



FAMOUS FOR BEING FAMOUS
Shailene Woodley: I’m Not A Feminist “Because I Love Men”

“I think the idea of ‘raise women to power, take the men away from the power’ is never going to work out because you need balance.”

“I don’t know how we as women expect men to respect us because we don’t even seem to respect each other.”

“The Comeback” Returns To HBO For Six Episodes This Fall

Kanye West – I’m The Simon Cowell Of The Streets

Demi Lovato To Rock Gay Pride Events In NYC, LA

Infamous Club Kids “Party Monster” Michael Alig Released From Jail

Rihanna No Longer With Def Jam

Katie Couric Eyed As Substitute Host For Today Show

Adam DeVine To Make More Treble In “Pitch Perfect 2”

Naya Rivera Rocks The Tiny Thong Bikini

Hayden Panettiere’s Wedding To Vladimir Klitschko Delayed By Ukraine Crisis



FOREIGNERS
Royal Bank Of Australia Keeps Rate On Hold Again
Egypt’s Al-Sisi Vows To Finish Off Muslim Brotherhood If Elected
Civilian Diver Dies In ROK Ferry Search
Thai PM Shinawatra Denies Abuse Of Power In Key Legal Challenge
Syrian Opposition Coalition Offices In US Given “Foreign Mission” Status
Libyan Parliament Confirms New PM
UN Torture Committee Grills Vatican On Sex Abuse
Human Rights Watch Accuses Venezuelan Government Of Rights Violations



BLOGS & STUFF
First Street Journal: Coming Full Circle
Michelle Malkin: GOSNELL – The Movie Hollywood Won’t Make, But You Can
Doug Powers: Imagine The MSM Headlines If Condoleeza Rice Were A Democrat
Twitchy: Progressives Of Pallor Alert! #DiversityWin For HuffPo’s So So So White Meeting In DC
American Power: Democrats Plan To Counter Criticism – By Outlawing It
American Thinker: The Veterans Administration Scandal Hits Home
Blackmailers Don’t Shoot: Joining The New Elite – A How-to Guide (Part 4)
Conservatives4Palin: Governor Palin Shares New Joni Ernst Campaign Video
Don Surber: Daily Scoreboard, May 5
Jammie Wearing Fools: Obstructionist Democrat Wants To Boycott Benghazi Committee
Joe For America: John Kerry Outdoes Himself In The Stupidity Department
JustOneMinute: Preemptive Props For Piketty
Pat Dollard: Americans Now Considered Racist For Waving The American Flag
Protein Wisdom: “Too Big To Audit?” Large Partnerships Avoid IRS Scrutiny, GAO Reports
Shot In The Dark: Rhetorical Questions
The Jawa Report: California Apartheid On Cinco De Mayo
The Lonely Conservative: We Still Don’t Know What Obama Was Doing During The Benghazi Attack
This Ain’t Hell: More About The Current Army Cutbacks
Megan McArdle: Rape On Campus Belongs In The Courts


Category: Live at Five

#NOAFW Kinder, Gentler Baby-Killing

Posted on | May 5, 2014 | 42 Comments

Cosmopolitan magazine celebrates the Sacrament of Liberalism: New Jersey abortion clinic counselor Emily Lett got pregnant and recorded a video of her abortion experience, telling her story to “inspire other women to stop the guilt.” Wesley Smith comments: “Ah. good times. Becoming irresponsibly pregnant and then having a birth-like experience of destroying a fetus — complete with pictures!”

You’re not a real feminist until you (a) kill your own baby and (b) become a lesbian. Of course, if you avoid heterosexuality altogether, this deprives you of the opportunity to get pregnant (and then kill your baby like a good feminist should), but lifelong lesbians can make up for skipping the otherwise necessary abortion experience by encouraging other women to kill their babies.

(Did I mention that this is National Offend a Feminist Week?)

 

Category: Abortion, Feminism, National Offend a Feminist Week

Gay Bishop’s Gay Divorce

Posted on | May 5, 2014 | 94 Comments

Oh, the heartache of homosexual matrimony on the rocks!

Episcopal Bishop V. Gene Robinson, now retired, nearly prompted a schism in the Anglican Communion in 2003 when the New Hampshire diocese consecrated him as their bishop, despite his open relationship with partner Mark Andrew. Robinson and Andrew were joined in civil union in 2008, then wed two years later, after New Hampshire approved same-sex marriage. On Sunday, Robinson announced that, after 25 years together, he and Andrew are getting a divorce.
This is Robinson’s second divorce — he was married to his wife from 1972 until 1986, when he came out as gay. . . . “My belief in marriage is undiminished by the reality of divorcing someone I have loved for a very long time, and will continue to love even as we separate,” Robinson wrote Sunday in The Daily Beast. “Love can endure, even if a marriage cannot.”

So, after he spent a dozen years deceiving some pathetic woman in a dishonest sham of a marriage, Bishop Robinson then spent two dozen years with his “true love,” until that went stale and became tedious. What next? Will Robinson declare that he has been living a lie, as a woman bishop trapped in a gay male bishop’s body?

Tune in for the next episode of Days of Our Gay Episcoplian Lives.

 

Category: Gays, Marriage

Benghazi: A Hole in the Tick-Tock

Posted on | May 5, 2014 | 32 Comments

Tick-tock: Journalism jargon for a story that recounts events in chronological order, as if accompanied by the soundtrack of a ticking clock.

Last summer, at the request of American Spectator editor R. Emmett Tyrrell Jr., I spent several days trying to get the White House Press Office to answer a simple question:

The President of the United States is not only the most powerful man in the world, but also the most public, his daily life chronicled to the minute by the national press, his every word and action reported and analyzed by journalists and commentators. What the American president says and does is always automatically newsworthy and therefore it is profoundly mysterious that a hushed silence surrounds one of the most disturbing events of Barack Obama’s presidency, the Sept. 11, 2012, terrorist attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya, that killed four Americans, including Ambassador Christopher Stevens.
Where was the president? This is a simple question, one to which the American people might reasonably expect an answer, but more than nine months after that deadly night, we still have not gotten a detailed answer and most in the media seem to have lost all interest in the question. . . .

You can read the rest. The point was, and is, that we never got the “tick-tock” version of the White House’s Benghazi story — we don’t have a timeline of where Obama was and what he was doing, during the tragic events of Sept. 11, 2012. Here we are, nearly a year later, and journalists still haven’t gotten the tick-tock. Patterico did some poking around over the weekend:

Here is an interesting tidbit from the White House Visitor Logs for 9/11/12: Obama met with three people, at an unknown time, for “debate prep.” . . .
Obama appears [from the official White House schedule] to have been gone from the White House for much of the early part of the day. He observed a moment of silence on the South Lawn; visited the Pentagon Memorial; visited veterans at Walter Reed in Bethesda; returned to the White House; and met with Leon Panetta at 5 p.m. There are not too many holes in his schedule during the day — increasing the chances that the “debate prep” took place in the evening, after the meeting with Panetta . . . in other words, when the Benghazi attack was unfolding.

Patterico makes clear we don’t know when that happened, because we never got that tick-tock, and thus the question:

“What difference, at this point, does it make?”

It makes a difference because everybody — including Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, the likely 2016 Democrat presidential nominee — spent weeks lying about what happened.

When the truth began to trickle out, the White House press corps was negligent in its duty, and let the Benghazi lies go unexamined during the weeks while President Obama got himself re-elected.

We still don’t have the whole truth, but Democrats are calling for a “boycott” of a congressional investigation trying to get the truth, many in the media are dismissive of the investigation, and thus actively participating in this partisan cover-up!

The questions must be answered, and those who participated in the cover-up — including the media — must be held to account.

 

Category: Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, Patterico

LIVE AT FIVE: 05.05.14

Posted on | May 5, 2014 | 2 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho


TOP NEWS
Pro-Russian Rebels Attack Odessa Police Station

Ukrainian soldiers stand at a former rebel checkpoint in Andreevka

67 prisoners freed by rebels


Sinn Fein’s Gerry Adams Urges Calm After Release
No charges against Adams in McConville murder case


Portugal To Make Clean Exit From Bailout
Buoyed by exports and benefiting from austerity budgets



POLITICS
NC Senate GOP Primary A Test Case For The Establishment’s War On The TEA Party

NC House Speaker Thom Tillis

Tillis is favored by Washington insiders, but can he really beat Brannon and Grant before taking on Kay Hagan?


Watchdog Finds EPA Paid Nearly $500K In Unauthorized Bonuses


Senator Manchin Signals Keystone Pipeline Bill Might Have The Votes

Rep. King Blasts Schiff’s Call For Dems To Boycott Benghazi Probe

Seattle City Council To Begin Debating $15 Minimum Wage

Lawmakers Step Up Fight To Overturn FDA Approval Of Painkiller Zohydro



THE ECONOMY, STUPID
Asian Crude Mixed On Ukraine Tension: NYMEX $99.82, Brent $108.46
Asia Stocks Slip As PRC Manufacturing Slips
Powerade Drops Controversial Ingredient
SAP CTO Vishall Sikka Steps Down In Cloud Overhaul
PayPal Exec Leaves Company After “Inappropriate” Tweets
SEC Probing Hedge Funds’ Bets On Herbalife
Foursquare Creates Swarm
Twitter May Soon Allow Users To Mute Annoying Friends
Comcast Nears Deal To Stream EA Games To TVs
Apple, Facebook And Google To Expand Transparency On Government Data
Amazon Discounts Samsung Pro Tablets



SPORTS
Pens Blank Rangers 3-0 In Game 2

Evgeny Malkin collides with the Rangers’ Dan Girardi in the second period of game 2

Letang, Fleury do the damage for the Penguins


Spurs Knock Out Mavericks In Game 7 Rout


Blackhawks Clip Wild, Take 2-0 Series Lead


Denny Hamlin Wins Crash-Marred Race At Talladega

Bruins Rally Late To Beat Habs, Even Series

Braves Slump Continues in 4-1 Loss To Giants

Mariners Hold Off Astros In Slugfest

Hernandez Outduels Gio As Phillies Blank Nats 1-0



FAMOUS FOR BEING FAMOUS
Lindsay Lohan Cites Miscarriage In Apology To Judge

Fleeced by Bebe?

Seeking reinstatement in lawsuit over demise of her 6126 clothes brand

Kerry Washington Welcomes Daughter Isabelle

Bryan Singer Facing Another Sexual Assault Suit

Ben Affleck Kicked Out Of Hard Rock Casino For Counting Cards

Britney Spears Dancer Says Brit Broke Her Nose And Didn’t Care

Angelina Jolie & Brad Pitt Teaming On New Project She Wrote

Jennifer Esposito Engaged To Louis Dowler

Adriana Lima And Marko Jaric Separate

Lorde Accuses Photographer Of Stalking

Boring Taylor Swift Dines On Bread And Water

Charlize Theron To Bring “Brain On Fire” To Film

Stephen Hawking Warns Us About AI Technology

Spidey Tops The Box Office

When Disney Stars Grow Up



FOREIGNERS
Panama’s VP Varela Pulls Off Upset To Win Presidential Election
Big Quake Rattles Tokyo, But No Tsunami
Nigerian President Bows To Pressure, Vows Rescue Of Kidnapped Girls
Three Killed, Sixty Injured In Kenya Bus Blasts
Libya Parliament Speaker Voids PM Vote
Passenger Train Derails In India, At Least 19 Dead
Death Toll From ROK Ferry Hits 259; President Park Visits Families Of The Missing
Hundreds Of Mourners Gather At Western Wall On Eve Of Remembrance Day
Pedophile Max Clifford Kept Damaging Evidence About Clients In His “Little Brown Book”



BLOGS & STUFF
American Power: #LiberalRacism – Condoleeza Rice Bullied Out Of Rutgers Commencement
American Thinker: The Suffocating Neo-Puritanism Of “Progressive” America
Blackfive: Come Run, Walk, Roll
Conservatives4Palin: Sarah Palin – Evil Reigns When Good Men Do Nothing
Don Surber: How Republicans Will Blow The Election In 2014
Jammie Wearing Fools: Trey Gowdy To Head House Select Committee Investigating Obama’s Benghazi Coverup
Joe For America: Mayweather Drops Fiance – “She Killed Our Twin Babies”
JustOneMinute: Tax Cut Denialism, With A Freudian Slip
Pat Dollard: Gwen Ifill – Benghazi A Distraction From Nigerian Girls School Kidnapping
Protein Wisdom: Democrats Make It Clear – Obama’s Political Reputation More Important Than American Lives
Shot In The Dark: Kill National Popular Vote With Greasy Fire Part II – An Experiment
STUMP: Public Pension Watch – The Fragility Of “Can’t Fail” Thinking
The Jawa Report: Blah, Blah, Blah
The Lonely Conservative: Pelosi Claims Dems Lost In 2010 Because Of Citizens United, Not Obamacare
This Ain’t Hell: The War Against Veterans
Megan McArdle: A Good Step Forward In A Long Recovery


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Category: Live at Five

Call It the ‘Post-DTF Stroll,’ Maybe?

Posted on | May 4, 2014 | 70 Comments

Feminism is, among other things, a totalitarian attempt to tell us what to think by controlling what we are allowed to say. For example, we cannot be permitted to disapprove of promiscuous women, and so the language of disapproval must be suppressed.

Which predictably brings us to the latest from Amanda Marcotte:

The “walk of shame” is a slang term that usually describes a person, usually a woman, who is making her way home from spending the night at someone else’s house for a sexual encounter.
The iconic image of a woman doing the walk of shame is disheveled hair and party-ready clothes that look sadly comical in the cold light of day. But it’s not her appearance that makes her trot home one of “shame.” No, as far as most people who use the phrase, her “shame” is that her appearance lets everyone know that she probably had sex, and for some reason, she is supposed to be ashamed of that.
“Walk of shame” is a phrase that’s widely understood to have originated on college campuses, since people who spent the night at a lover’s place often do have to walk on foot home to their own place, and usually in front of other people who recognize them and might recognize that their clubbing clothes don’t exactlymatch the casual wear that’s more common for mornings on campus. It’s expanded since then to encompass urban dwellers who often travel on foot or by public transportation and, in fact, has become so ubiquitous that you’ll often hear people who get to drive home say they were taking the walk of shame. (Drive of shame?)
But while the “walk” part of the phrase is understood flexibly, in many ways the “shame” part isn’t. . . .

You can read the whole absurdly censorious thing. Here we are, on the eve of sixth annual National Offend a Feminist Week, and Amanda Marcotte decides to give us a lecture on the need to remove “shame” from the dictionary insofar as it refers to sluts, tramps, hussies, floozies, man-traps, wenches, trollops and Women of Dubious Virtue?

Are we not to describe such women as “easy,” “cheap” or “loose”? Do the Enlightened Arbiters of Acceptable Discourse mean to banish from our lexicon every possible synonym for “promiscuous”? Can we no longer be allowed to remark that the dolled-up bimbo making goo-goo eyes at every man in the bar is hot to trot, on the prowl, looking for some quick action and down to fuck?

Well, it’s still more than four hours before midnight EDT, but I can wait no more: National Offend a Feminist Week begins early!

Take that, you dirty lowdown harlots!

 

Category: Feminism, National Offend a Feminist Week

Rule 5 Sunday: The Portland Double-Dip Edition

Posted on | May 4, 2014 | 11 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Welcome back once again to the weekly collection of links that provide welcome relief from the daily barrage of sickness, politics (but I repeat myself) and just plain weirdness that provides the bulk of our content here. As usual, some links are NSFW, so you should exercise some discretion in when and where you click.

Goodstuff leads off this week with Mary Anne and Ginger (also, Retro Madonna!),  followed by Randy’s Roundtable with Katrina Bowden  (also, Genevieve Morton helping celebrate his 5th blogiversary!), Fishersville Mike with some Big Bang Theory, and Ninety Miles From Tyranny featuring Morning Mistress, Hot Pick of the Late Night, Is This G-String Too Small?, Hot Cameltoe Pick, and Girls With Guns (encore!). Animal Magnetism chips in with Rule Five Friday (encore!), an Asian Invasion, and the Saturday Gingermageddon, Blackmailers Don’t Shoot serves up more Jennifer Lawrence, and First Street Journal brings the military-grade hotness From Norway. Subject To Change provides a view from the top, and The Dividist debuts with CNBC anchor Amanda Drury.

EBL as usual has a herd of links, this time including Sheryl Attkisson, corsets, Kirsten Dunst, Game of Thrones, Lesbian Big Love, Vintage Retro Playboy Bunny Costumes (via Instapundit), Postmodern Jukebox, Harsh Conditions/Pretty Faces, Baristas, Asa Akira,  and Lesbian Pulp Fiction.

Soylent Siberia submits the weekly coffee creamer, more whining about the lack of football, Overnighty Osmary, Mystery Monday Motivationer, Tuesday Titillation In Scarlet, Bodypaint Awesome, the Coxswain’s Report, Humpday Hawtness Elvish Magic, Evening Awesome Aglow, Falcosword Fursday Keisha, Fursday Overnighty Mariana, Corset Conflagration, T-GIF Friday, Weekender Mia, Header For Irish, and Bath Night. In Week 2, it was seconds on the coffee creamer, an Overnighty Auburn Awesome, Monday Motivationer Dani, Tuesday Titillation: Nice Beads!, Humpday Hawtness Luci, Fursday Super Hero Edition, Today In Fursday Furnishings, Corset Caliente, Happy Hour Hawtness, and Weekender Keisha Grey.

A View From The Beach contributes Caprice – Not Your Mommy’s Chevy, Context is Everything, Why Can’t We Go On as Three?, Bad Rap From the Russians, Special IRS Issue, It’s Not Porn!, It’s HBO!, About That “New Earth” (with space girls), Happy Easter!, Vida Guerra, Gratuitous Kate Upton, Giant Tsunami Destroyed Europe’s Lost Land (cave girls), Why Good People Should Have Guns, “Idiocracy” Turns History (cave girls), Cheerleading for the Minimum Wage, Best Campaign Ad Ever, My Eyes Are Up Here!, “Let it Out”, and Avril Puts Her Foot In It.

Proof Positive’s Friday Night Babe is Toni Garrn, his vintage babe is Vivian Austin, and the Sex in Advertising feature provides some uplifting reading about Wonderbra. Also, Jenny McCarthy, Colleen Townsend, and more Sex In Advertising. At Dustbury, it’s Gretchen Wyler, Tammi Terrell, Christina Hendricks, and Rihanna, while at The Camp of the Saints, it’s Sara Willis, the Rule 5 News, and Sarah McDonald.

The DaleyGator’s DaleyBabes included Emmanuelle Vaugier, Reika Miki, Fibi Love, Tia Carrere, Cyneitra Copeland, Nichelle D, Beverly Sade,
Vanessa Nina, Vanna Black, Baje Fletcher, Rachel Mullins, Jessica Marais, Rosemarie Calloway, Marina Victoria, Keiko Agena, Viantha Foxx, Wendy Calio, Dishad Vasaria; also, Ebony Hotness and
Babe in Bikini gets tasered for charity.

Thanks to everyone for their linkagery! Deadline to submit links to the Rule 5 Wombat mailbox is Saturday, May 10.

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Category: Rule 5

FMJRA 2.0: Jackson, Mississippi

Posted on | May 3, 2014 | 9 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Remember When @RaniaKhalek Played ‘Count the Jews at the Nation’?

Goldberg Misses His Own Punchline

It’s 2014: Why Aren’t You Racist Yet?

Lies, Errors, and Tendentious Mischaracterizations of Facts

Teen Killer ‘Just Wasn’t Right’

Brandeis Brownshirt Talia Lepson Hurls Crude Insults at Pro-Israel Student

25 Years, Sexy Lady!

Report: ‘No Regrets’ Sex Teacher Said She Had Sex Dreams About Teen Boy in 2008

A Typical ObamaCare Nightmare

Pedophile ‘Schemed to Elude Justice’

She Was Buried Alive

Barrett Brown Pleads Guilty

Thank God for the ‘Pay Gap’!

White Guilt Passes Its Expiration Date

Majoring in Minimum Wage

Wombs for Rent, Babies for Sale: TV Promotes Gay Surrogate Business

Tommy Vietor: Van Driver, NSC Spokesman, Hipster At Large

LIVE AT FIVE: 05.02.14

It’s Come to This


Top linkers this week:

  1. Batshit Crazy News (11)
  2. Regular Right Guy (6)

Thanks to everyone for their linkagery! Deadline to submit links for next week’s FMJRA is noon on Saturday, May 10.


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