LIVE AT FIVEEIGHT: 11.11.13
Posted on | November 11, 2013 | 11 Comments
— compiled by Wombat-socho
TOP NEWS
Iran Nuclear Deal Collapses

SecState Kerry says Iran walked away
Iranians say agreement in place for “cooperation roadmap”
Rescuers Race To Philippines As Typhoon Death Toll Climbs
As many as 10,000 may be dead
America Says Thanks To Veterans
Free stuff ranging from doughnuts to massages
POLITICS
NYC Asks Appeals Court To Vacate Judge’s “Stop & Frisk” Order

Judge Shira Schiendlin held stop & frisk tactic was RAAAAACIST
Court previously removed judge from case for misconduct
More Students Going Overseas For College
Obama Would Fix Healthcare.gov Himself, “But I Don’t Write Code”
GOP Seizes On Obamacare’s Growing Problems To Slam Democrats
Two Admirals Face Probe In Navy Bribery Scandal
Christie Advises GOP Lawmakers To Follow His Lead, “Get The Job Done”
Hagel Sends Troops To The Philippines To Help With Rescue Efforts
Sen. Graham Remains Firm On Obama Nominee Holds
THE ECONOMY, STUPID
Crude Oil Prices Rise After Iran Nuke Talks Stall: NYMEX $94.67, Brent $105.50
EU & US To Resume Trade Deal Talks
Amazon Teams With Postal Service For Sunday Deliveries
Online Shopping Marathon Zooms Off The Blocks In PRC
German Bonds Climb Before Growth Report As Yield Curve Steepens
Toys R Us Joins Stores Opening On Thanksgiving
Sony Offers PS4 Freebies Ahead Of Launch
Smartphones Seen Tripling To 5.6 Billion By 2019
iPad Air Explodes In Aussie Phone Shop
Microsoft Starts Taking Office On The Web Seriously
Smartphones Destroying High-End Camera Sales
World Of Warcraft Gets Fifth Expansion
SPORTS
Alabama, FSU Lead BCS Rankings

Stanford rises to #5 after beating Oregon at home
Ohio State up to #3, Oregon falls to #6
Saints Look Super In Demolition Of Cowboys
Timbermutts End 22-Game Skid Against Lakers, 113-90
Jimmie Johnson Opens Sprint Cup Lead After Kenseth’s Bad Day At Advocare 500
Ugly Giants Keep Season Alive Against Raiders
Celtics Beat Heat With Miracle Shot, 111-110
Broncos’ Manning Hurt In Closing Minutes Of Win Against Chargers
Could The Nats Deal Denard Span?
FAMOUS FOR BEING FAMOUS
Jessica Simpson Returns To Weight Watchers

Ready to get back into her Daisy Dukes
Working to shed her baby weight
Bieber PNG With Buenos Aires Hotels Thanks To Rowdy Fans
Anthony Mackie Stopped For Tinted Windows, Busted For DWI
Scott Eastwood “Didn’t Really Pay Attention” To The Buzz About His Looks
Tom Cruise: My Job’s As Hard As Fighting In Afghanistan
Kenya Moore From “Real Housewives” Talks Taking On NeNe Leakes: “I’m Not Afraid Of The Big Bad Wolf”
“Blacklist” Casting Exclusive: Alan Alda Ready To Cause Trouble For Red
“Fast And Furious” Helmer Justin Lin To Direct Next “Bourne” Film
Natalie Portman Injures Leg While “Being Awkward”
Kendall And Kylie Jenner: It’s Hard Growing Up In The Spotlight
Adrienne Maloof Injured In Explosion
FOREIGNERS
Senior Haqqani Leader Shot Dead In Pakistan
UN Climate Talks Open In Warsaw
Iranian Deputy Industry Minister Killed By Gunmen In Teheran
ICJ Backs Cambodia’s Claim To Border Temple
Malala’s Book Banned In Pakistan Schools
Syrian Opposition Agrees To Geneva Talks
Escalating Amnesty Bill Protests Raise Fears Of Clashes
Domodedovo Bombers Get Life Sentences
Modi Given More NSG Commandos, No Additional SPG Protection
Greek PM Survives No-Confidence Vote
BLOGS & STUFF
The Looking Spoon: What Obama Really Means When He Says “Sorry”
Blackmailers Don’t Shoot: Tim Donnelly For Governor
Dead Republican Party: The Freedom To Fail
American Power: ObamaCare In California – 65% Say People Won’t Be Able To Afford Insurance
American Thinker: My Fellow Blacks, Can I Criticize Dear Leader Now?
The Necropolitan Sentinel: Obamacare Watch – Stand By For An Available Operator
Don Surber: Daily Scoreboard, November 8
Jammie Wearing Fools: Debbie Duncecap Says “I Think Democrats Will Be Able To Run On Obamacare As An Advantage”
JustOneMinute: Great Moments In Oratory
Pat Dollard: John Kerry Says There’s No Fear That Iran Is Just Playing For Time
Protein Wisdom: Hope Starts In Texas
Shot In The Dark: This Is What Incompetence Looks Like
The Jawa Report: Veterans Day 2013
The Lonely Conservative: After Signing Up For Obamacare, Woman’s Info Given To Three Different People
Megan McArdle: The Rise Of The Obamacare Scams
Reply To Bill In Kentucky
Posted on | November 11, 2013 | 16 Comments
by Smitty
Brett Baier reads the following:
“Putting things in perspective: March 21st 2010 to October 1 2013 is 3 years, 6 months, 10 days. December 7, 1941 to May 8, 1945 is 3 years, 5 months, 1 day. What this means is that in the time we were attacked at Pearl Harbor to the day Germany surrendered is not enough time for this progressive federal government to build a working webpage. Mobilization of millions, building tens of thousands of tanks, planes, jeeps, subs, cruisers, destroyers, torpedoes, millions upon millions of guns, bombs, ammo, etc. Turning the tide in North Africa, Invading Italy, D-Day, Battle of the Bulge, Race to Berlin – all while we were also fighting the Japanese in the Pacific!! And in that amount of time – this administration can’t build a working webpage.”
All you’re really saying is that the Tea Party-Bush-Cheney Axis is worse than Imperial Japan, Nazi Germany & Fascist Italy combined.
via Instapundit & Michelle Malkin
Maryland: The Crazy State
Posted on | November 10, 2013 | 25 Comments
Thursday, I asked that you go hit Jeff Quinton’s tip jar after he was the target of a crazy act of retaliation by disgruntled Maryland Republicans. Jeff has a wife and baby at home and, believe it or not, things got even crazier Friday — and I mean, criminally crazy.
Rule 5 Sunday: Double-Stuf Veterans Day Weekend Edition
Posted on | November 10, 2013 | 27 Comments
— compiled by Wombat-socho
Because things just got completely out of hand last weekend…
For the benefit of those reading Rule 5 compilations for the first time, or who have forgotten since last time: some of the links below are most definitely Not Safe For Work and could contribute to the pollution of your precious bodily fluids. Don’t say you weren’t warned; the rest of us will just point and laugh.
We take you now to the long-ago days of October, when Laughing Conservative submitted Jordan Carver for our consideration. Unfortunately, that’s expired, so you get to enjoy Charisma Carpenter instead. YankeePhil contributed some Photoshopped ladies and zombies, while at Randy’s Roundtable we had Kathy Eusse – and Stevie Lynn Clark. Animal Magnetism chipped in with Rule 5 Friday and Ginger Solo Saturday, Goodstuff contributed Miranda Kerr (and naked pawn star Olivia Black) and Reaganite Republican had Miss Vietnam, Dang Thu Thao. Also, Miss Aerobik 2013! 90 Miles From Tyranny sent in Morning Mistress, (week 2), Hot Pick of the Late Night, (week 2), SteamPunk Girls With Guns, and Women with Weapons. Fishersville Mike featured a Big Bang Theory/Disney Princess crossover and some Kellie Pickler, Blackmailers Don’t Shoot’s Pretty Girls on a Thursday was all about the Halloween Hotties, (and then We Love Geeks) while First Street Journal featured Fort Jackson and the Wooden Shoes edition.
EBL’s herd of interesting heifers included Selena Gomez and tattooed sluts, a study on staring at breasts, Retro Rule 5 with Dorothy Lamour, Day of the Dead, Rule 5 Failure, Oklahoma Bigfoot, Wendy Davis, Heidi Montag, bad dolphins, Margot Robbie, and a Pussy Riot update.
A View From The Beach offered Covert Coyote Piper Perabo, Trick or Treat, Halloween Music, Hush Katy!, Britney & The Pirates, Tell Me Sweet Little Lies, Some Downhill Biking, Great Moments In False Modesty, Drunken Sluts Have Rights Too, White House Stiffs Smithsonian Over Unspeakable Armenian Rug, Dancing With Brooke Burke, Car Detailing In Brazil, “Stella Blue”, Coming To A Boat Near You, Let’s Hear It For The Cheerleaders, “Touch Me”, and Last Neanderthals Found On Jersey Shore? This week’s lot included Ana Hickmann, a naive actress, “A Soft Place To Fall”, The Cheerleader Effect, Science Confirms People Are Pigs, Is This Typecasting Or What?, Body Image In The Photoshop Era, and Nope They Don’t.
Wine Women and Politics had TGIF babes, Sexy In Fur, Great Balls Of Fire, Smug Seduction, It’s That Day Again, Kitty Lea, and Tuesday Titillations.
Soylent Green’s first installment included Magic Mirror, Morning Coffee, Evening Awesome Ashley, Monday Motivationer Barbara Rossi, Overnighty Leather Sweat, Tuesday Titillation Sandy, Humpday Hawtness Bailey Rose, Halloween Overnighty In The Kitchen with Fur & Lace, Corset Casabas, TGIF Friday Twofer, and Weekender Clam Sisters. This week, Coffee Creamer, Hey There Little Red Riding Hood, Monday Motivationer Shallana, Tuesday Titillation Cali, Linky Love Contender Marisa, Overnighty, Vintage Humpday Hawtness Kelly, So You Want To Play Wonder Woman, Evening Awesome Jade, Falconsword Fursday Sushi Mana, Click To Embiggenify, Corset Friday, T-GIF Friday Bodice Ripper, One Last Thing, and Weekender Crimson Carumba.
Postaldog gets in under the wire with Olivia Sprauer (a/k/a Victoria V. James), a Demi Moore/Jennifer Aniston stripper comparison, Ana Braga, Hilary Duff, and Anastasia Christen.
Proof Positive had Alyssa Milano and Helen Lindes, vintage babes Ramsay Ames and Adele Jurgens, vintage underwear ads and Christina Hendricks in the Sex In Advertising segment, and the obligatory 49ers cheerleader (take two). Dustbury offered Gabrielle Union, Lulu, Paris Hilton, and Susan Tedeschi; and at The Camp of the Saints, Sophie Mei and the Rule 5 News.
The DaleyGator’s DaleyBabes for this past fortnight included Kanon Hokawa, Piper Perabo, Vanessa Mae, Tianna Gregory, Dakota Johnson, Stephanie Cook, Kitty Lea, Iyrna Ivanova, Tatiana Ramos, Livia Brito, Lindsey Strutt, Yolanthe Cabou, Minase Yashiro, a second helping of Miss Yashiro, Sade, Ayaka Arima, Kim Lee, Madison Riley, Miss Gabon Jennifer Ondo, Emma Rose, Marina Saito, and Miyouu Suzumura; also Wrestling Fake?, The War On Hooters, and Saturday Beauty.
Thanks to everyone for their linkagery! Deadline to submit links to the Rule 5 Wombat mailbox for next week’s Rule 5 Roundup is Saturday, November 16. Also, don’t forget Pinups For Vets!
Unspeakable Evil: Planned Parenthood Obstructs Child Rape Investigation
Posted on | November 10, 2013 | 91 Comments
When I first heard this, I couldn’t believe it, but it’s true. Last year, a 31-year-old illegal immigrant named Luis Gonzalez-Jose raped an 11-year-old girl who became pregnant. The man took the girl to a Planned Parenthood clinic where he pretended to be her father and told the staff the girl had been impregnated by her 14-year-old boyfriend.
The clinic performed the abortion and when the police began investigating the rape, the clinic refused to cooperate with the detective, insisting that he get a court order. This is insane.
Furthermore, the girl’s family refused to cooperate with prosecutors and, as the result of a plea bargain, the monster who raped this little girl will serve only six years in prison. Words fail.
The Schmalfeldtian Fantasy
Posted on | November 10, 2013 | 33 Comments
After John Hoge asked the Court to enforce its peace order against deranged cyberstalker Bill Schmalfeldt, the latter decided he had not yet shown sufficient contempt of court, as Hoge explains:
He began tweeting to me within an hour-and-a-half of the judge’s ruling on the 16th, and he’s kept it up. . . .
So how has the Cabin Boy responded? He’s begun tweeting to me at an even greater rate.
Potential penalties are mounting, and why? Most likely because Schmalfeldt believes no judge would actually order him arrested.
Every time bad things happen to Bill Schmalfeldt, he starts whining about what a helpless pitiful dying invalid he is and, having played the Pity Card over and over for so long, he seems to think he’s holding the trump card in the deck. Maybe he’s right.
On the other hand, the Maryland Court of Appeals rejected Schmalfeldt’s appeal of the peace order, didn’t it? And sympathy has its limits. Schmalfeldt tried to solicit advice from Ken White, and the Popehat proprietor’s reply was memorable for its arid acidity:
Moreover, I think my ability to be an effective advocate for Mr. Schmalfeldt is compromised, and could be questioned, because he has posted a fantasy about me being murdered, apparently because he is angry that I offered pro bono assistance to Patrick Frey in a First Amendment suit. Though I think his murder fantasy ultimately did not constitute a true threat that could be subject to criminal or civil sanction, I think his intent was to threaten me over my pro bono work on behalf of someone he doesn’t like, and that he would have been very happy if someone had murdered me in reaction to him encouraging them to do so and posting my office address. That may not have been a likely result of his post, given his limited (in every sense of the word) readership, but it was a possibility, and one I suspect he relished. That would make it unreasonably difficult for me to be effective on his behalf.
Let’s remember what Popehat said in in August: “Schmalfeldt . . . is closest to his sweaty-palmed Happy Place when he is describing degradation of others.” And why is that? My supposition has always been that Schmalfeldt has a sadistic personality, that he gets a sick thrill out of inflicting harm on others, and that he especially cherishes the fantasy of being able to inspire fear.
Specialists in abnormal psychology could probably tell us much about the causes of Schmalfeldt’s bizarre behavior, but what will the Carroll County Circuit Court do about it? Schmalfeldt seems to believe that the judge will do nothing and that, instead, terrible harm will befall John Hoge for asking the court to enforce its own order.
Kimberlin Unmasked has turned Schmalfeldt’s idiocy into a comic strip, which would be funnier, if Bill weren’t so sadly pathetic.
The Sicilian Blog Mob
Posted on | November 10, 2013 | 9 Comments
In January 2010, I arrived in Boston to cover the Scott Brown Senate campaign and Pete Da Tech Guy picked me up at the train station.
Now he’s got his own radio show and just announced the addition of seven new co-bloggers to his growing New Media empire.
You should hit Pete’s tip jar. I did.
Iran: No Deal Is a Good Deal
Posted on | November 10, 2013 | 28 Comments
Our anti-American president and our abominable Secretary of State were willing to bargain with Iran’s totalitarian death cult. Strange as it may seem, however, the French showed a bit of backbone:
Talks on curbing Iran’s nuclear program ended with no deal early Sunday after France objected that proposed measures didn’t go far enough. U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said “significant progress” had been made on the remaining differences.
Six world powers and Iran agreed to resume talks Nov. 20.
Both sides badly wanted agreement. The U.S. and its five partners were looking for initial caps on Iran’s ability to make an atomic bomb, while Tehran sought some easing of sanctions stifling its economy.
But France would not soften its concerns over Iran’s plutonium project and the level of its uranium enrichment program.
This is like Munich and Chamberlain all over again, isn’t it? Even to think of negotiating with the Tehran regime is a disgrace.
Obama to Iran: If you like your nuclear program, you can keep your nuclear program.
— Philip Klein (@philipaklein) November 7, 2013