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Rule 5 Sunday: Insert Appropriate Song Title Here

Posted on | May 11, 2014 | 14 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Yep, it’s time once again to consider the merits of Rule 5 – Everybody Loves A Pretty Girl – and as usual, I feel it necessary to remind the Loyal Readers that some of the following links are to NSFW depictions of (at least) half-pretty girls (at most) half-dressed to show it, and that discretion is advised regarding where and when you click on the links.

First Street Journal takes us where the action is, and shows us women with weapons; Blackmailers Don’t Shoot brings us up to date on the adventures of Jennifer Lawrence, especially her relationship with Elvis, and Rotten To The Core chimes in with the “nonpartisan” Eva Longoria  and Shailene Woodley, Bane of the Feminists. Goodstuff goes Hawaiian and also has some hot stuff from the 1920s named Josephine Baker. Ninety Miles From Tyranny offers the Morning Mistress, Naked On The Beach, and Girls With Guns; Animal Magnetism steps it up this week with Leanna Decker, Rule Five Friday, and the Saturday Gingermageddon, while Laughing Conservative contributes Jenna Dewan.

EBL’s herd this week includes Feminist Pin-Ups, Shailene Woodley, Monica Lewinsky, Da Vinci’s Demons, Paula Patton, Dr. Monica Wehby, and more Paula Patton.

At Soylent Refuge, it’s your weekly coffee creamer, along with Flash Flash, Overnighty Stefanie, Monday Motivationer Sasha, Evening Ala Awesome,  Tuesday Titillation, Vintage Humpday Hawtness Nancie, Afternooner Underboob Awesome, Evening Awesome Linky-Love Contender, Fursday: Set The Snoochinator To 1990, Overnighty Fur, Corset Friday: Latent Lingerie, T-GIF Friday Snoochography, Mmmm Candy!, Weekender Hayden, and Bath Night In The Garden.

A View From The Beach supplies us with Jessica Biel – More Indian than Elizabeth Warren, Yep, Still There, A Little Child Shall Lead Them, “Black Wind Howlin”, He is the Walrus, Jimi Hendrix, Korean Style, Who Did the Hobbits?, “You Go Down Smooth”, “For Whom The Belle Tolls”, When Someone Calls You a Neanderthal. . . (with cave girls), and “Hiding Under Water”.

Proof Positive’s Babe of the Week is Kelly Reilly, his vintage Babe is Rosalind Russell, and Sex in Advertising is covered by Dita von Teese this week. At Dustbury, it’s Miranda Lambert and Shailene Woodley.

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, May 17.

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Category: Rule 5

FMJRA 2.0: Every Picture Tells A Story

Posted on | May 11, 2014 | 8 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho


‘Homo Rapiens’: Anti-PIV RadFem Goes Total Moonbat on Climate Change

Beltway Hypnosis Syndrome

A. Ejaculating on a Fat Girl

The Left’s Mob Rule on Campus

FMJRA 2.0: Jackson, Mississippi

Benghazi: A Hole in the Tick-Tock

Rule 5 Sunday: The Portland Double-Dip Edition

Call It the ‘Post-DTF Stroll,’ Maybe?

LIVE AT FIVE: 05.05.14

#NOAFW Kinder, Gentler Baby-Killing

LIVE AT FIVE: 05.06.14

When Lies Succeed

The #RapeCulture of Planned Parenthood

Feminism Is a Journey to Lesbianism

LIVE AT FIVE: 05.07.14

A Twitter-Length Play For Your Attention

Theory 2a: #Benghazi-Bimbo Connection

LIVE AT FIVE: 05.08.14

Contempt of Congress

LIVE AT FIVESIX: 05.09.14

The Farce of Sequester

Things Fall Apart

Under All That Spin & Whitewash, I Guess That Tammy Bruce Isn’t A Hillary! Fan

Top linkers this week:

  1. Batshit Crazy News (21)
  2. A View From The Beach (8)
  3. Regular Right Guy (7)

A couple of near misses this week by a couple of folks, too. Good to see the linkagery picking up – thanks to everyone who linked!


Category: FMJRA Award

GOP’s Angst Correlates To Progressivism

Posted on | May 10, 2014 | 30 Comments

by Smitty

Totally disagree with Dean Clancy at U.S. News:

And no matter how the GOP fares in November — even if it should somehow wipe the floor with the Democrats — President Obama’s veto pen will still be there, waiting to stop any plan they can manage to put on his desk. This will make the fainter-hearted among their ranks skittish about the whole “repeal” project. Why not work with the president to “get something done”? Why not — yes — “fix” Obamacare?

In short, Republicans appear to be damned if they do and damned if they don’t.

The damned thing in play at the moment is Progressivism. I’ve grown up hearing that Social Security and the other entitlements are out of control. And then we have this partisan cramdown of ObamaCare.

ObamaCare has been a river of lies from conception to delivery. Why, then, not simply articulate such to the American people: “You’ve been scammed. Here is the reform plan.”

#OccupyResoluteDesk’s veto pen isn’t a bug: it’s a feature. A potential GOP Congress, sworn in next January, would have two years to hone and refine substantial reform ideas. Republicans could lay out for the American people a comprehensive, frack-this-noise blueprint for the future of the country extending well past a 2016 rejection of Her Majesty, Empress Clinton.

Sure, #OccupyResoluteDesk is ideologically incapable of doing anything useful. I get that. His only real commitment seems to be dishonesty–how do you negotiate or compromise with a man bereft of honor? Don’t bother. If the American people have the truth and an alternative served up, then the energy of 2009 will likely return, and we’ll see a non-Progressive Republican candidate (not Jeb Bush, not John S. McCain) earn a hefty mandate.

Granted, Europe sure looks like it’s on a war trajectory. Obama’s general foreign policy impotence means that a significant portion of the GOP effort is going to have to be about foreign policy. Again, step up to the plate. Dude, I know it was more than two years ago, but the days of “support friends, oppose  foes” really should be considered again for a possible return.

Down the road, the GOP should support the Convention of States and an actual return to limited government. The more Progressive the Republican party the more it deserves to, and will, lose.

Category: Republicans

Boko Haram and the Jihad in Africa

Posted on | May 10, 2014 | 72 Comments

The #BringBackOurGirls Twitter hashtag — online activism about the plight of girls abducted by Boko Haram terrorists in Nigeria — has been embraced by numerous celebrities, including Alyssa Milano. This situation has gained worldwide attention and highlights a reality that American media have in recent years deliberately ignored: The persistent menace of violent Islamic jihad in sub-Saharan Africa.

If the news of the Boko Haram abductions was shocking, it was because the American media have been so busy promoting the Obama administration’s narrative that, since the death of Osama bin Laden, the threat of Islamic terrorism has essentially ended. This narrative is politically convenient for Democrats, but as with most such narratives, it’s a gigantic lie. There are still many millions of Muslims in the world who hate us and want us all dead, and many of them are willing to take up arms to accomplish that goal.

Today, First Lady Michelle Obama will highlight the Boko Haram abductions in the weekly White House radio address, and I guarantee you in advance that the words “Muslim” and “Islam” will not be part of her script. American news media are willing accomplices in this dishonest propaganda, habitually referring to Boko Haram as “militants” or “rebels” (not terrorists, you see) and, as to the religious orientation of Boko Haram, they might as well be rogue Episcopalians for what you could gather from most media reports. Meanwhile, in Nigeria . . .

Damning testimonies gathered by Amnesty International reveal that Nigerian security forces failed to act on advance warnings about Boko Haram’s armed raid on the state-run boarding school in Chibok which led to the abduction of more than 240 schoolgirls on April 14-15.
After independently verifying information based on multiple interviews with credible sources, the organization today revealed that the Nigerian security forces had more than four hours of advance warning about the attack but did not do enough to stop it.
“The fact that Nigerian security forces knew about Boko Haram’s impending raid, but failed to take the immediate action needed to stop it, will only amplify the national and international outcry at this horrific crime,” said Netsanet Belay, Amnesty International’s Africa Director, Research and Advocacy. . . .
Amnesty International has confirmed through various sources that Nigeria’s military headquarters in Maiduguri was aware of the impending attack soon after 7:00 p.m. on April 14, close to four hours before Boko Haram began their assault on the town.
But an inability to muster troops — due to poor resources and a reported fear of engaging with the often better-equipped armed groups — meant that reinforcements were not deployed to Chibok that night. The small contingent of security forces based in the town — 17 army personnel as well as local police — attempted to repel the Boko Haram assault but were overpowered and forced to retreat. . . .

Read the rest. When the terrorists — oops, I meant to say militants — are better armed than the army, you’ve got a problem.

But where are the feminists who made #WarOnWomen and #RapeCulture into such trendy phenomena? Why aren’t feminists sounding the alarm about the dangers Islamic jihad poses to girls and women worldwide? Because our so-called “feminists” in America are merely the handmaidens of the Democrat Party, promoting whatever phony “issues” will help elect more Democrats and, as such are part of the same propaganda operation where the Obama administration and its media enablers refuse to call Boko Haram what they really are: Islamic terrorists. And just in case anyone is naive about what doctrines of the Prophet these rapists with AK-47s are imposing on their young captives, Phyllis Chesler is here to enlighten you:

On April 14, 2014, Boko Haram . . . captured three hundred Christian and Muslim Nigerian schoolgirls to become their sex and domestic slaves. The Muslim fundamentalists swooped down upon them as they were learning in a “forbidden” government secular school. . . .
The world media calls this a “kidnapping” in Nigeria. It is not a “kidnapping.” It is the face of Jihad, the way of Jihad. Boko Haram are not holding these girls for ransom, they are not willing to return them for money. They already view the girls as their God-given booty, and as sale-able property. . . .
The Christian girls will be raped, converted to Islam, and then, like the Muslim girls, “married” to one of their captors. Some will be trafficked into the sex trade, which is pandemic throughout Africa and the Muslim Middle East. . . .
Please understand: Boko Haram are the Nigerian Taliban. Like their Pakistani and Afghan counterparts, they oppose education for girls and would rather marry and impregnate them instead — for Allah’s sake.

Schoolgirls are being raped in the name of Allah and Mohammed, and there was ample warning of the danger: I wrote about Boko Haram in December 2012 (“Islamists Target African Christians“) and in January 2014 (“Islam’s Terrorist African Caliphate“).

But the Democrat-dominated media won’t mention Islam and won’t call Boko Haram “terrorists” because, so far as our journalistic establishment is concerned, the real enemy are always Republicans.

UPDATE: Dana in the comments informs us that my prophecy was correct — no mention of Islam in Michelle Obama’s radio address about the Armed African Girl-Rapers of Unknown Motive.

 

Category: Islam, Nigeria, Terrorism

Under All That Spin & Whitewash, I Guess That Tammy Bruce Isn’t A Hillary! Fan

Posted on | May 9, 2014 | 31 Comments

by Smitty

Absolutely brutal assessment of Hillary!, brought on by the Monica Lewinsky resurgence:

…I, too, want a woman in the White House. But not just any woman. I want a president who loves this country more than herself. I want a president who genuinely views the American people as valuable, important and worthy of respect, who disables the predators in our midst who threaten our future, and actually understands the “difference it makes.”

Savor in full.

Via Ed Driscoll at Instapundit

Category: Hillary Clinton

Things Fall Apart

Posted on | May 9, 2014 | 32 Comments

— by Wombat-socho


Literally and figuratively, this is the plot of John Barnes’ Daybreak novels, which start with Directive 51 and continue on through Daybreak Zero and The Last President. These have a very weird feel to them; the basic plot, in which ecosaboteurs spread genetically engineered plastic- and gasoline-eating bacteria along with nanobots designed to wreck electronics, is very reminiscent of both S. M. Stirling’s Change novels (Dies the Fire) and Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six, while also containing elements of Barnes’ previous apocalyptic novel, the nightmarish Kaleidoscope Century. The Daybreak novels give you a front-row ringside seat for the collapse of global civilization as scattered, seemingly anarchic ecoterrorists, religious nutjobs, and hippie fruitcakes plunge the America into bloody chaos, exacerbated by a split of the Federal government into Provisional and Temporary factions over the issue of who’s in charge and whether Daybreak is a conventional enemy that needs to be crushed by military force or a memetic weapon that needs to be countered by other means. I’ve finished the first two novels, am going back for the third today, and can attest that these are some good -if occasionally squicky- reading. Barnes makes a powerful argument in these books for the power of ideas, and also recognizes that there’s times when nothing but brute force will do.
Recommended.


This is shaping up to be a busy year for John C. Wright. Not only has he (courteously and with cold logic) shaken the dust of the SFWA from his sandals, he is concluding the crazy, wildly inventive, millennium-spanning series of evolutionary novels started in Count to a Trillion with The Judge of Ages, not only has he had the massive cojones to write sequels to William Hodgson’s half-forgotten “The Night Land” (Awake in the Night Land) , he’s also put together a collection of essays: Transhuman and Subhuman: Essays on Science Fiction and Awful Truth which I have seen excerpts of. I don’t know if Mr. Wright is the best SF author out there, but in these sad times when it seems every competent tale slinger is surrounded by packs of dull-witted, unhousebroken PC puppies with not a tenth of his talent, he’s definitely in my top ten. Go read his stuff. You’ll thank me later.


Speaking of the whole SFWA and Hugos kerfluffle, Vox Day’s Hugo-nominated “Opera Vita Aeterna” is one of the three stories in The Last Witchking, which I snapped up when it was offered for free last month. All three stories are set in the universe of Day’s A Throne of Bones, and are definitely not your usual elf & dwarf crap. I thought they were all pretty good, with the nominee story the best, but they’ve accomplished their main goal, which is to get me to read -and maybe buy- more of Vox’s stuff.


I hardly need that prodding to read Sarah Hoyt’s writing. On the contrary, I was frustrated that it took me as long as it did to pick up A Few Good Men. However, I haven’t read much of her fantasy, so I thought I’d try out Where Horse And Hero Fell, a short story involving a computer geek suddenly thrust into a leadership role in a wizards’ guild. It was a fun read, but I’m not sure it’s worth $1.99; stories like this are a good reason to have Amazon Prime, so you can borrow them for free.


Finally, I have to admit the trailers for Edge of Tomorrow are looking very interesting, if for no other reason than the protagonist’s cycle of death/rebirth/combat/death/rebirth/etc. reminds me of the undeservedly obscure On My Way to Paradise by Dave Wolverton. I’m giving serious thought to picking up the movie’s source novel, All You Need Is Kill, though I may pick up the manga instead.


So…what’s on your summer reading list?


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Category: Books

The Farce of Sequester

Posted on | May 9, 2014 | 5 Comments

Alas, the cruel imposition of draconian right-wing austerity!

At the core of the dysfunction in Washington is this dilemma: Government must approve spending cuts, yet government has no interest in approving spending cuts. Federal employees are quite content with their lifestyles — 46 percent more in retirement benefits than the private sector, cozy job security — and don’t want to see them trimmed. Thus even spending reductions that make it through Congress rarely make a difference.
Look at what happened with the sequester.
By now just reading the word “sequester” should render the average reader cowering under his desk while “Flight of the Valkyries” thunders in his mind. Sequestration, after all, was supposed to hack apart the social order as we knew it. Chris Matthews called it a “doomsday machine.” President Obama warned that “people are going to be hurt.” The Congressional Budget Office predicted 750,000 jobs could be lost. Sequestration, as the trendy metaphor went, was a meat cleaver when what we really needed was a scalpel.
It now seems the cleaver had a rather dull edge. A recent Government Accountability Office found that the sequester resulted in exactly one government layoff. One. . . .
When Congress agreed to cut $37.8 billion in 2011, it was called “the largest annual spending cut in our history” by President Obama, and lethal austerity by many liberal economists. The bureaucracy responded with shell games and chicanery. The Census Bureau cut $6 billion by agreeing not to run the 2010 Census again in 2011. Congress killed $14.6 million for construction of the Capitol Visitor Center, which was finished in 2008. Not a single federal employee was laid off.
According to the Washington Post‘s David Fahrenthold, many conservatives embraced the sequester out of frustration with the 2011 non-cuts. Now we know that the sequester didn’t have a meaningful impact either. . . .

(Via Memeorandum; more at Hot Air.)

 

Category: Budget

LIVE AT FIVESIX: 05.09.14

Posted on | May 9, 2014 | 6 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho


TOP NEWS
Russian Victory Day Parade Buoyed By Crimea

Troops and hardware paraded in Red Square

Putin lauds “iron will of the Soviet people” who “saved Europe from slavery” in WW2

House Votes To Establish Select Committee On Benghazi
Seven Democrats join the GOP

Hillary Clinton’s State Department Resisted Labeling Boko Haram As Terror Group
Well, that’s ONE accomplishment…



POLITICS
Secretary Shinseki Subpoenaed by House VA Committee

Secretary of Veterans Affairs Shinseki testifying before a House committee in 2013

Also testifying before Senate committee next week on “dying in line” flap


Federal Judge Orders “John Doe” Probe Of Wisconsin Conservatives Shut Down Again


Rick Scott Blasts Crist’s Plan To Visit Cuba

Pennsylvania Won’t Appeal Overturned Voter ID Law, Gov Says

Obama In Full Campaign Mode

Report: Pentagon Paid $150/Gallon For “Green” Jet Fuel

Not Much Room Between Crisco, Aiken

Key Democrats Signal Opposition To Fannie/Freddie Overhaul



THE ECONOMY, STUPID
Asian Crude Up Slightly From US Close On Ukraine Crisis: NYMEX $100.46, Brent $108.08
Apple Close To Buying Beats Electronics For $3.2 Billion
Alibaba Expands Beyond E-Commerce
US Retailers Benefit From Warmer April As Sales Bounce Back
US Dollar Spikes Up Against Majors
Buy An “All-Natural” Product That Wasn’t? Line Up To Get Paid.
Snapchat Settles FTC Charges For Lying About Privacy
Objections From Inside, Outside Of FCC Shake Net Neutrality Proposal
Smartphone “Kill Switch” Bill Passes California Senate On Second Try
Subscription E-Book Service Oyster Passes 500,000 Titles
Sunset Overdrive Gets First Gameplay Trailer



SPORTS
Teemu Leads Ducks Past Kings 3-2, Back Into Series

Not Quick enough: The Ducks’ Teemu Selanne slips one past the Kings goalie in the second period

Anaheim bounces back from two close losses


Heat Easily Defeats Nyets 94-82

Frasier Lifts Bruins Past Habs In OT, Series Now Tied 2-2


Spurs Roll To 2-0 Lead Over Blazers

Clowney Picked #1 In NFL Draft, Manziel Falls To Cleveland

Offense Awakes, Cubs Rout Pale Hose 12-5

Iwakuma Shines As Mariners Blank Royals

Williams Pushing Strasburg To Be Nats’ Horse



FAMOUS FOR BEING FAMOUS
Spotlight: Paula Patton

A thinking man’s bombshell?

Breaking up with Robin Thicke is hard to do


Jada Pinkett-Smith Defends Daughter After Controversial Photo


Justin Theroux Begs Jennifer Aniston For A Wine-Free Wedding

Patrick Fabian, Rhea Seehorn, Michael Mando Cast In “Breaking Bad” Prequel “Better Call Saul”

Gwyneth Paltrow Defends Working Moms Comment, Wants To End “Mommy Wars”

Lee Marshall Dies At 64, Was Second Voice Of Tony The Tiger

“Clueless” Cast Reunites



FOREIGNERS
Police Fire Tear Gas As Protesters Mass To “Sweep Away” Thai Government
East Ukraine Rebels Ignore Putin’s Call To Delay Vote
Vatican Urges Israel To Secure Holy Sites Before Pope’s Visit
Syrian Rebels Claim Responsibility For Huge Blast In Aleppo
Berlusconi Begins Community Service for Tax Fraud
UN Report Details South Sudan Abuses
Veteran Chinese Journalist Gao Yu Detained
Japanese Man Arrested For Possession Of Guns Made With 3D Printer
Clashes Follow Venezuelan Police Raids On Protester Camps
Nork Defector: “Kim Jong Un Has No Real Power”



BLOGS & STUFF
Michelle Malkin: Good Riddance! Common Core Backlash Claims New Political Casualties
Doug Powers: Hilarious Video Montage – Al Sharpton Unhooked On Phonics
Twitchy: Next Up In The “Say Something Crass And Tasteless About Benghazi” Rotation – David Plouffe
American Power: Corona Del Mar HS Cracks Down On NFL-Style “Prom Draft”
American Thinker: National Security Dudes And Dudettes
BLACKFIVE: It’s Not Just Phoenix
Conservatives4Palin: Laura Ingraham – If There’s A #WarOnWomen, The Clintons Pioneered It
Don Surber: Daily Scoreboard, May 8
Jammie Wearing Fools: World Turned Upside Down – Gay New Yorkers Say Okay To Chick-Fil-A
Joe For America: Allen West Breaks His Silence About A Presidential Run
JustOneMinute: A Woman Of Infinite Jest
Pat Dollard: Criminal Trash Elijah Cummings Loses It – GOP Is Using “The Deaths Of Four Americans” For Politics
Protein Wisdom: “This Is What The Fourth Amendment Looks Like?”
Shot In The Dark: The No-Brainer
The Jawa Report: Free Speech For The Left Only
The Lonely Conservative: Good News! DNC Chair Says Dems Will Run On The Obama Economy
This Ain’t Hell: In The Time Of Chimpanzees I Was A Bernath
Weasel Zippers: Obama – Wrongheaded Americans Must Trust Government More
Megan McArdle: Dueling Numbers On Obamacare


Deadline for submitting links for the FMJRA is noon tomorrow.
DO IT.
Deadline for submitting links for Rule 5 Sunday is midnight Saturday.
DO THAT TOO.


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