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LIVE AT FIVE: 09.24.13

Posted on | September 24, 2013 | 10 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho


TOP NEWS
Kenyan Army Says Most Hostages Rescued, Mall Mostly Secure

A soldier guides Kenyans to safety at Nairobi’s Westgate Mall

President Kenyatta: “Let me make it clear. We shall hunt down the perpetrators wherever they run to. We shall get them. We shall punish them for this heinous crime.”

Senator Cruz Vows To Use “All Means Available” To Block Obamacare
Majority Leader Reid tees up budget bill

Pakistani Christians Mourn 85 Killed In Church Bombing
Protests break out all over Pakistan against Peshawar attack



POLITICS
Lois Lerner, IRS Official At Center Of Tea Party Targeting, Forced To Retire

Lois Lerner

Cited for “neglect of duties”; IRS review board found no evidence of political bias

Bruce Schneier: NSA Snooping Making Us Less Secure

Virginia Congressman Griffith Rails Against Proposed EPA Coal Guidelines


Boston Marathon Bomber’s Lawyers Complain Trial Moving Too Quickly

Maryland Police To Review Arrest Of Parent Who Objected To Common Core

Former FBI Agent Pleads Guilty To Press Leak, Child Porn Charges

“Baby Veronica” Handed Over To Adoptive Parents

McAuliffe Leads Cuccinelli In Virginia Governor’s Race

Hagel Orders Security Review After Navy Yard Shooting



THE ECONOMY, STUPID
Crude Oil Continues Fall As Syrian Crisis Eases: NYMEX $103.53, Brent $108.31
Fiat Rethinks Alliance With Chrysler After IPO Filing
ADM Considers Move From Decatur
Stocks Fall On Budget Fight Fears; Apple Jumps
JPMorgan Reportedly To Face More Securities Charges
Retailers Expected To Hire Less Holiday Help
BlackBerry Gets Tentative $4.7 Million Deal To Go Private
New Surface Tablets Make Typing Easy
Valve Fires Up SteamOS, Its Bid For Living Room PC Gaming
Does “Grand Theft Auto V” Mean The End Of Hollywood?
Judge Boosts Google’s “Fair Use” Defense Of Digital Books



SPORTS
Pirates Clinch First Playoff Berth In 21 Years

Pirates reliever Jason Grilli picks up catcher Russell Martin as the Bucs celebrate

Beat Cubs 2-1 as Nationals fall to Cardinals

Reds In Playoffs After Edging Mets 3-2 In Extras


Peyton Manning Carves Up Raiders As Broncos Dominate


Powerful Oracle Moves A Step Closer To Keeping America’s Cup

Rios Hits For The Cycle As Rangers Rout Astros

Deflated, Battered Orioles Face Cruel End To Season

Verlander Untouchable, But Tigers Blow Lead And Game As Twins Win In 11th

Royals Edge Mariners 6-5 In 12

College Football’s Best Cheerleaders From Week 4

Cardinals Knock Nationals Out Of Postseason With 4-3 Win



FAMOUS FOR BEING FAMOUS
Jessica Alba Used To Be Self-Conscious About Her Body

Cover girl – “making living healthy fun”!

Babies fixed that

Weinstein Co. Moves Nicole Kidman’s “Grace Of Monaco” Out Of 2013 Contention

Matt Leinart’s Baby Mama Strikes Again

CBS Preparing “NCIS” Spinoff Produced By Mark Harmon, Gary Glasberg

Baltimore Ravens Brawl In DC, Jacoby Jones Injured By Stripper On Party Bus


Ellen Pompeo Slams Emmys As “Dated”, Calls Dance Number “Embarrassing”

Gabrielle Union Shows Off Incredible Bikini Body At The Beach

Showtime’s “Dexter” Finale And “Ray Donovan” Season Ender Hit New Highs

Wes Chapman, Elden Hensen Join “Mockingjay” Cast

“We Can Fictionalize The Footage!” How Reality Shows Are Really Made

Stevie Wonder Tells Marvin Gaye’s Family: You Got Crap Legal Advice

Kendra Wilkinson Will Appear On Season 2 Of “The Mindy Project”

Rihanna’s Instagram Photo Leads To Arrests In Thailand

Paul Dano, Travis Fimmel, Anson Mount, Anton Yelchin On “Warcraft” Short List

Sofia Vergara Shows What $7 Million Of Jewels Looks Like At The Emmys



FOREIGNERS
PRC To Lift Facebook, Twitter Bans In Free Trade Zone
Experts: Norks Can Likely Build Own Nuke Parts
Israel Bleak About US/Iran Rapprochement At UN Summit
Egypt Reinstates Ban On Muslim Brotherhood
Was British “White Widow” Samantha Lewthwaite Among Nairobi Mall Jihadis Killed In Siege?
Jailed Pussy Riot Member Goes On Hunger Strike
High Court Reviews Death Penalty In Delhi Gang Rape
Rolf Harris To Appear In Court Over Sex Abuse Charges
PRC Sets Teenager Free After Internet Outcry
Mexican Storms’ Death Toll Rises To 110



BLOGS & STUFF
Michelle Malkin: “Parents, You Need To Question These People!”
Twitchy: Kenya Dig It? Professor Toure Serves Up A Geography Lesson; Mockery Ensues
American Power: The Evil Of Global Jihad
American Thinker: Media Imbalance On The Nairobi And Peshawar Massacres
Blackmailers Don’t Shoot: This Stupid Week – No Rest For The Wicked Edition
The Necropolitan Sentinel: Obamacare Watch – Inevitable Fraud
Don Surber: Daily Scoreboard, September 23
Jammie Wearing Fools: Obama’s America – Vandals Torch Reagan Statue
JustOneMinute: NYT On ObamaCare – Pay Less To Get Less
Pat Dollard: Ted Cruz Reacts To GOP Leaders Giving Chris Matthews Oppo Research To Attack Him
Protein Wisdom: Jim Geraghty Asks A Question, I Offer An Answer
Shot In The Dark: 2004 Rant, 2013 Slant?
The Jawa Report: Al Qaeda Beheads 40 FSA Rebels
The Lonely Conservative: Now The US Is Exporting Terrorists
Megan McArdle: How The GOP Justifies Cutting Food Stamps While Boosting Farm Subsidies


Category: Live at Five

Bill Schmalfeldt Axed by Examiner (Again) Vows Retaliation on His Enemies

Posted on | September 23, 2013 | 81 Comments

Bill Schmalfeldt ranting, 2011. (Image via Thomas Anderson at Vimeo)

“Bill Schmalfeldt doesn’t have principles. Bill Schmalfeldt doesn’t have values. Bill Schmalfeldt doesn’t have beliefs. Bill Schmalfeldt has enemies, and then nothing, a black and dank and empty void of sullenness.”
— Ken White, Popehat, Aug. 6

Sunday, I reported that Bill Schmalfeldt was bragging that he had been re-hired by the Examiner, where he’d already been fired twice. I predicted this would be short-lived, given his past history. Turns out, the Examiner kiboshed his plan to write as “Lester Klemper”:

I got an e-mail telling me they were withdrawing their invitation to re-hire me.

Notice it was “their invitation,” according to Bill Schmalfeldt, as opposed to his attempting to weasel back in under a pseudonym. Predictably, Schmalfeldt reacts by externalizing blame:

“Just wait until you see what an angry Bill Schmalfeldt is capable of” — as if the guy who has been harassing Brett Kimberlin’s targets since last June has never before been angry. Fantasizing the violent death of Patrick Frey and Ken White? That was just fun and games.

So he wrote a blog post about this:

Blah, blah, blah. Bill Schmalfeldt is always entirely innocent when his schemes fail, and everyone else is always to blame. Remember that the first time Schmalfeldt was banned from the Examiner was in December 2011, fully six months before I’d ever heard of him. At that time, the editor who banned him (Kevin Staunton) said it was because of “personal” nature of Schmalfeldt’s attacks on his targets (Wisconsin supporters of Gov. Scott Walker) and Schmalfeldt’s “continued disregard for projecting yourself in a professional manner.”

He was subsequently fired again by the Examiner after perpetrating the “Dead Breitbart” smear, about which he lied, because dishonesty is just intrinsic to his warped personality. And despite the obvious fact that his latest hope of reincarnating himself as “Lester Klemper” at the Examiner was doomed to fail from the start, notice how Schmalfeldt threatens vengeance on those he insists are responsible for his failure:

I said, you’re not going to like what happens if you continue.
They continued.
Therefore, I am not responsible for what is going to happen next.
Aaron Walker? Ali Akbar? R. Stacy McCain? WJJ Hoge?
You won’t know when. You won’t know where. You won’t know how.
But you sure as FUCK will know why.

Typical Bill Schamfleldt: The Dire Warning of Terrible Consequences. Notice that the targets of this threat are four of the five defendants in the Kimberlin v. Walker, et. al., lawsuit. This is not an accident:

Bill Schmalfeldt long ago made clear the purpose of his trolling of Kimberlin’s “Enemies List,” and he cannot deny it now.

As for his Dire Warning of Terrible Consequences, how can Schmalfeldt claim he is “not responsible for what is going to happen next,” seeing as how he asserts advance knowledge of these Terrible Consequences?

Bad things are going to happen to us — Bill says he knows this — but he is “not responsible” for it? Of course, there are those who believe Bill Schmalfeldt is quite literally insane, so in a sense, he isn’t responsible. But I don’t think he meant it that way.




 

Category: Bill Schmalfeldt

Women’s Empowerment

Posted on | September 23, 2013 | 37 Comments

“Trying not to over-think it, I raised the gun, located the target, and pulled the trigger of the .22. The gun barked, kicking in my hands. I hadn’t hit the black square in the center, but I wasn’t far from it. Roe kept coaching me, I kept firing, and 45 minutes later, when we switched to the 9-mm, which recoiled so markedly that I swore in surprise, I wasn’t half bad at it. In fact, I discovered, I liked it. . . .
“Equalizer. The word stuck in my mind. A handgun makes the short woman tall, the anxious woman less afraid. Right now, guns are a lightning rod topic, reviled and defended with equal passion. You can’t fire a gun without stepping into a war, without getting into the politics of it. Of course, that doesn’t change the fact that firing a gun made me feel powerful, if only for an afternoon.”
— Susannah Breslin, “A Girl And A .22,” Forbes

Category: Feminism

Pennsylvania School Officials Resign After Bizarre Racist Text-Message Scandal

Posted on | September 23, 2013 | 38 Comments

Superintendent Richard Como has retired and Director of Athletics and Activities Jim Donato has resigned after the school officials in Coatesville, Pennsylvania, were caught exchanging grossly obscene and racist text-messages on their school-provided cell phones.

Transcripts of the exchanges between Como and Donato obtained by the local newspaper are shocking beyond description.

Honestly, you don’t want me to transcribe those messages. And keep in mind, these are public school officials — government-licensed, taxpayer-employed educational specialists.

Why aren’t you home-schooling yet?

 

Category: Education

The Enemy Within: American, Canadian and British Jihadis in Kenya Attack

Posted on | September 23, 2013 | 38 Comments

Britain’s terrorist ‘White Widow,’ Samantha Lewthwaite.

At least 62 people were killed and 170 reported injured in the Islamic terrorist attack on a shopping mall in Nairobi, Kenya.

Shots Heard as Kenya Presses
Assault Against Mall Attackers
— New York Times

Smoke pours from Kenya mall as forces ‘close in’
— Reuters

Nairobi attack: Kenya forces
storm Westgate centre
— BBC

Meanwhile, as Bridget Johnson reports at PJ Tatler, the al-Qaeda-allied Somali terrorist group al-Shabaab claims that Americans are among the gunmen who committed the attack in Kenya. And a notorious British woman may have played a key role in this atrocity:

In messages sent via Twitter, the Islamic militant group al-Shabaab named five young Americans, a Canadian and a British man among the terrorists who perpetrated the Westgate massacre. Two of the men — Ahmed Mohamed Isse, 22, and Abdifatah Osman Keenadiid, 24 — were reportedly from Minnesota; Mustafe Noorudiin. 27, is reportedly from Kansas City; Shafie Die 25, is reportedly from Tucson, Arizona; Dagestan Abdelkarem Ali Mohamed, 21, is reportedly from Illinois; Abdirizak Mouled, 24, is reportedly from Ontario, Canada; and Qasim Said Musa, 22, is reportedly from London, England. . . .
A British official told Andrew Malone of the London Daily Mail that a British woman known as the “White Widow” was suspected to be among the terrorists involved in the Kenya attack. Samantha Lewthwaite, 29, converted to Islam and married a Muslim man, Jermaine Lindsay, she met through an online chat room when she was 17. Lindsay killed himself in a suicide bombing that was one of the so-called “7/7? attacks on July 7, 2005, that killed 52 people in bombings on subways and buses in London. . . .

Read the whole thing at Viral Read. It’s shocking to think that some people are so alienated from their own culture that they would embrace the deadly ideology of terrorist enemies.

 

 


Category: Kenya, Terrorism

Rule 5 Monday

Posted on | September 23, 2013 | 20 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

If I have to tell you not to read this at work, or around people who get wrapped around the axle by scantily-clad (or nekkid) women, there’s probably no hope for you.

Randy’s Roundtable starts this week’s parade of pulchritude with Rozanna Purcell, followed by Fishersville Mike with Kaley Cuoco, and Blackmailers Don’t Shoot’s Pretty Girls On A Thursday: End Of Summer Edition. Laughing Conservative has Adrianne Pulacki, Reaganite Republican goes with Miss Sweden, and The Pegu Blog reminds us that last Thursday was Talk Like A Pirate Day. Animal Magnetism changes it up this week with Rule 5 Bikini Friday and a Saturday Brunettenarok. Goodstuff alerts us to this Thai push-up bra ad, and also tips us to Ana Hickman and Sydney Leathers in Issue 115 of his blogging magazine. First Street Journal is starting over with some pics of the brave women who volunteer for the Afghan National Police.

EBL’s herd of heifers and oddities this week includes Creepy Uncle Sam, older women keeping up appearances, Angie Dickinson, Star Trek: Into Darkness, and a well-endowed bovine beauty.

A View From The Beach offers A Royal Pain, Ginger Halestorm, Two Drunk Irish Critique “Wrecking Ball”, Hotshots 2014 Preview, Economic Good News, Awesome!, A Modest Proposal, and Don’t Let Me Die In Florida.

Wine Women and Politics winds up his week with Hot Sunday Sweeties, preceded by Saturday Sweeties, TGIF: Some Fine Fillies, Thursday Delights, and Hump Day Hotness.

Soylent Green performs atonement before posting Requestkitteh, and kicking off the week with Monday Motivationer Lightning Rod, naturally followed by Tuesday Titillation, Humpday Hotness: Flowers For Sung Hi Lee, Falconsword Fursday Sushi, Evening Awesome Alexis, Corset Awesome, T-GIF Friday, Overnighty Mosh, Weekender Bare Rug, Afternooner, and Overnighty Destiny.

Proof Positive’s Babe of the Week is Kellie Pickler; his vintage babe is Ann Miller. Sex in Advertising is covered by Julia Roberts this week, and of course, there’s the obligatory 49ers cheerleader. At Dustbury, it’s Mallika Sherawat and Sherlyn Chopra.

The DaleyGator returns with Chelsea Gilligan, and continues his Hot 100 list with Sarah Shahi, Daphne Joy, Minka Kelly, Diane Lane, Ali Landry, Monica Bellucci, Halle Berry, Salma Hayek, Lisa Marie Scott, and Emma Samms. Other DaleyBabes included Rio Ogawa, Avonte Wright, Kersti Richards, Calanthe Gregory, Britt Bliss, Angela Henderson, Christa Elise, Brittany Alexis, Paula Marciniak, Claudia Sampedro, Alesha Dixon, Dejana Zivkovic, and Nathalia Bodemuller. Also, Why Does PETA Hate Katy Perry’s Breasts?

Thanks to everyone for their linkagery! Links for next week’s Rule 5 roundup are due to the Rule 5 Wombat mailbox no later than Saturday, September 28.


 

Category: Rule 5

Liberalism, a Job-Killing Machine

Posted on | September 23, 2013 | 25 Comments

“The problem isn’t just ObamaCare, though. It’s the entire regulatory assault on employers coming out of Washington — everything from the EEOC” — the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission hits companies hard when employees claim age, race or sex discrimination — ”to the Dodd-Frank monstrosity. Employers are living in a state of fear.”
— Bob Funk, Express Employment Services

 

Category: Economics

Perhaps Everyone in America Wants to Read About @ScottMuska’s Erection

Posted on | September 23, 2013 | 111 Comments

Scott Muska’s Twitter profile describes him as “Copywriter // Journalist // Lefty // Unselfish Lover,” and he elsewhere reveals that he is a 2010 graduate of Penn State University.

Do you want to read about Scott Muska’s erection? Because Scott Muska wants you to know he had one:

Dear Woman Who Was Sitting Next to Me
on The Plane When I Developed An Erection

That’s the headline at a site which seems to be share Scott Muska’s belief that this is “funny stuff.” Your mileage may vary:

In the interest of honesty and transparency, I acknowledge that your aesthetics probably factored into the whole erection thing. Because, well, you’re pretty.
Anyway, I first noticed you in Pittsburgh International, while we were sitting in the terminal waiting to board the flight. . . .
I momentarily lost my composure when I saw you — probably due your wardrobe choice of Lululemmon yoga pants that went very nicely with your butt, which looked like two crescent moons facing opposite each other?. . .

(Oh, you charming rogue.)

I boarded the plane and upon realizing I was assigned the seat next to you (what a treat!), I also noticed you were carrying a Kindle (women who read are hot) and that you smelled vaguely of suntan lotion (which always makes me think of kissing the first girl I ever loved at the public pool one summer day, something I won’t say is hot, really, because it’s weird to think back on making out with a 14-year-old, but yeah — that scent does it for me for whatever reason). . . .

(An earlier generation paid psychiatrists to listen to such things. Nowadays, these weirdos just spew it out on the Internet.)

I woke up when the flight attendant announced we had begun our descent. You woke up shortly after, rubbed your eyes, and glanced around. I was attempting to lock eyes with you as you surveyed your surroundings, thinking it might lead to a brief conversation about how crazy it was that we’d both conked out during the flight, and whether you also live in New York, and if so, would you like to eat street meat with me sometime?
But instead your eyes locked on my crotch. I gasped. (It should be noted that this was the first time a woman had spied my junk and I’ve gasped a negative gasp. I think.) Your sleepy expression turned into one that seemed like unpleasant surprise and thinly veiled anger. It was like you had never seen a pitched tent before.
It’s also possible that you were angry re: the lack of length. If so, I assure you that I make up for it in girth. . . .

(Dude, you just published that on the Internet, where everybody in the world can read about your stubby chubby, not to mention your erotic associations involving suntan lotion and 14-year-old girls.)

In hindsight, I probably should not have been traveling in basketball shorts.

(In hindsight, you should seek counseling.)

Eventually, you made eye contact, not really making an effort (or a successful one, anyway) to hide your revulsion. I blushed, shrugged, opened my notebook, and began drafting this letter to you.
Look: these things happen. I get random boners all the time. Especially when I’m in the proximity of a good-looking woman. It’s natural. And most of the time, I have zero control over when and how often boners happen. I’m virile, and for that I will not apologize.

So there you have it: Scott Muska gets “random boners all the time” whenever he is “in the proximity of a good-looking woman,” which we must assume is rather a rare experience for Scott Muska, perhaps in part because of his “lack of length,” but also because Scott Muska is the kind of creep who wears basketball shorts on airplanes and gets erections while fantasizing about 14-year-olds who smell like suntan lotion.

And for that, Scott Muska “will not apologize.”

Did we mention Scott Muska is a “Lefty” and an “Unselfish Lover”? Because that’s what Scott Muska says on his Twitter profile.

 

Category: Sex
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