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Why Does Lesbian @SaraAlcid Want to Help More Women Kill Their Babies?

Posted on | August 12, 2013 | 439 Comments


It isn’t every day that a “Queer Feminist” with a diploma from Bryn Mawr (undergraduate tuition $42,870 a year) decides she needs my attention, but I’m so grateful for Miss Alcid’s encouragement to expand on what I said this morning:

“Professor Aptheker is exactly right: If you want to be a
true feminist, you must be a Communist lesbian.”

The inherent radicalism of the women’s movement — its theoretical foundation in Marxism, its implacable antagonism to traditional marriage and other institutions of bourgeois society — is not generally understood outside such campus cauldrons as Bryn Mawr.

Feminism is a totalitarian ideology. It cannot be co-opted or moderated. You cannot negotiate or compromise with feminism, because the ambitions of feminism are without limit. They can accept nothing short of the complete overthrow of “hitherto existing society” (Marx and Engels) resulting in their own dictatorial authority. Halfway “reform” (to which the bourgeoisie may agree in its attempt to stave off this upheaval) can never placate the revolutionary, because the radical does not seek reform, but rather destruction. And the problem that most conservatives have, in trying to cope with radical movements, is that the typical conservative cannot imagine how fanatical — how rigidly unreasonable, how full of passionate destructive hatefulness — the radical really is. Notice how Sara Alcid illustrated her Valentine’s Day article:

“Heteronormativity and gender roles also rear their ugly heads on Valentine’s Day. Gifts for ‘him’ or ‘her’ are clearly divided and marked and it’s almost impossible to find cards that represent queer couples. . . .
“It’s not hard to see why Valentine’s Day is problematic for many feminists. Celebrated traditionally, Valentine’s Day magnifies many of the very systems of domination that we work to critique and dismantle.”
— Sara Alcid, “Valentine’s Day: What’s A Feminist To Do?” EverydayFeminism.com, Feb. 14, 2013

What does Sara Alcid mean by “patriarchy”? Well, if you live in a normal family — husband, wife, children — she means you.

Sara Alcid wants to smash your family, smash your faith, smash your community. This is what she means in denouncing “heteronormativity and gender roles” and “systems of domination.”

Sara Alcid hates you, she hates every institution you cherish and respect, and she considers your love for these institutions to be hate.

Sara Alcid believes this because she has been taught this. The fact that you cannot afford $42,870 a year to learn to think like Sara Alcid thinks is further proof of your inferiority, and your inferiority in turn justifies Sara Alcid‘s fanatical determination to destroy everything you love — in the name of “liberation,” of course.

This is Sarah Alcid with her radical lesbian heroine, acclaimed “queer theory” feminist Judith Butler, a notorious enemy of Israel:

Butler has devoted much of her academic career to the struggle to eliminate the state of Israel.  . . .
Butler denounces Israel’s “arbitrary state violence” and “state racism.” She has been a leader in the campaign to impose a worldwide boycott against Israeli universities. . . .
In February 2010, Butler went to the West Bank to demonstrate against the alleged mistreatment of women by Zionist “occupiers.” She denounced Israel at length for its “mistreatment” of Arab women.

This is not coincidental: Israel is America’s ally and because Judith Butler hates America, she must hate Israel, too. Because feminism!

Why does Sara Alcid love Israel-hater Judith Butler? Because Bryn Mawr taught her to love Judith Butler:

Preeminent gender theorist and philosopher Judith Butler holds the 2011 Mary Flexner Lectureship at Bryn Mawr College, joining the ranks of some of the world’s most influential humanists in presenting significant new work at Bryn Mawr.
During her three-week residency in November, Butler is giving a series of three public lectures titled Bodies in Alliance, the first presentation of new work by Butler that is to be published by Harvard University Press. Bryn Mawr faculty members and graduate students join Butler to discuss each lecture after it is presented. Butler has also visited class meetings of five undergraduate courses that incorporate Butler’s work and are being offered in conjunction with the lecture series this fall. Other activities associated with the Flexner Lecture Series include a film series, several informal opportunities for students to meet and talk with Butler, and “Preoccupations: Looking at Pictures with Judith Butler,” a colloquium sponsored by the College’s Center for Visual Culture.

Sarah Alcid wrote 12 articles about Judith Butler’s lectureship, including one entitled, “Judith Butler: A Superstar at Bryn Mawr“:

A flurry of extended excitement could be detected at Bryn Mawr from the moment Judith Butler’s Mary Flexner Lectureship was announced until many students had their parting words with the scholar at the book signing on November 21st. I shared this excitement with my peers and think it is certainly a testament to the intellectual curiosity and passion that makes the Bryn Mawr student body so unique. . . .
As one of the student coordinators and attendees of the “Coffee Hour with Judith Butler” and “Conversations with Judith Butler” dinner events, I was fortunate enough to witness the humorous and down-to-earth sides of the scholar we mostly associate with lofty theory and sharp intellect. . . . In fact, she told me that remaining engaged with feminist theory will help fuel my activism and advocacy work; she sees academia and activism as collaborative and co-supportive.

Indeed, Judith Butler is a “superstar” in academia. Her books sell thousands of copies every year because they are assigned reading in Women’s Studies classes across the country.

Butler is part of what we may call the Feminist-Industrial Complex, a campus-based intellectual machinery that indoctrinates elite students in these ideas. Every important university in America endorses feminism and “queer theory.” These are part of the de facto official belief system of academia. Anyone on campus who dared speak against such ideas (no one does) would be condemned for hate.

Do you understand why Sara Alcid considers criticism of SlutWalk “disgusting”? She was indoctrinated to believe that being a “Queer Feminist” is a heroic calling, in an environment where the presence of Judith Butler on campus caused “extended excitement.”

And now Sarah Alcid works for a 501(c)3 pro-abortion group, the Reproductive Health Technologies Project:

Sara Alcid – Programs and Policy Associate
Sara is responsible for assisting with RHTP’s reproductive health program areas, including health and wellness and contraception and abortion technologies.
Sara graduated from Bryn Mawr College with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science and Gender and Sexuality Studies. During college, she founded and led a chapter of the Feminist Majority Leadership Alliance and interned at Women’s Medical Fund, NARAL Pro-Choice New York and Cancer Schmancer, Inc. Americans for UNFPA named Sara a finalist for the Student Award for the Health and Dignity of Women in 2011. She is also a guest writer for Everyday Feminism and the State Department’s Women in Public Service Project.

Here is Sara Alcid advocating for the cause:

Full implementation of ACA [the Affordable Care Act, i.e., “ObamaCare”] contraception benefits and affordable access to abortion are LGBT [lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender] issues.

Uh, how so, Sara Alcid? One might think that such people have no need for contraception and abortion benefits. But you see, it is vital to the LGBT agenda not merely to advance their own issues, but to do everything possible to subvert any possible opposition.

Every abortion is celebrated as a radical victory by “Queer Feminist” Sara Alcid: Kill more babies, because feminism.

UPDATE: See? Quoting feminists = HATE!

What you discover is that radicals have two discourses: The exoteric discourse, used when speaking to outsiders, is about “choice,” “equality,” “health,” etc. The esoteric discourse, used among fellow radicals, is an entirely different vocabulary: “Smash patriarchy,” destroy “heteronormativity and gender roles” and “systems of domination.”

And when you pull back the exoteric mask to reveal the esoteric truth of radicalism . . . well, that’s intimidation, you haters!

Sara Alcid’s parents spent more than $40,000 a year to have her trained as a “Queer Feminist.” Guess they got their money’s worth.

 

Category: Education, Feminism, Gays, Intellectuals

FMJRA 2.0: Immolation For The Lord

Posted on | August 12, 2013 | 9 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Posting was delayed thanks to a glitch in the data extraction thingummy, and because of a subsequent field truncation bug in the file a lot of these links will point to the linkers’ home pages instead of to the actual post where the linkagery took place.

Ooh! Another Atheist Sex Scandal?

Rule 5 Sunday: Jump They Say

Primary Politics: Can the Grassroots Defeat the GOP Establishment in 2014?

Sen. Lindsey Graham May Try Out New Look To Fend Off Tea Party Challenger

World’s Youngest Blogger: MUST-SEE @TedCruz On Defeating Obamacare

FMJRA 2.0: Mental Door

They Should Print It in Red Ink

The Big Benghazi Secret

Colin McGinn (D-Philosophy): The New York Times Wants A “Debate Over Sexism”

Brain Molesters Spend $40,000 to Assign Smutty Comics To College Freshmen

LIVE AT FIVE: 08.06.13

Meltdown Monday: Does Bill Schmalfeldt Need a Brief Vacation at Spring Grove?

No Justice on Campus at Vassar?

America Loves You, Sama Elmasry!

We’re All Working for Jeff Bezos Now

Congratulations to @AlecMacGillis, Hacktastic Douchebag of the Day

John Kerry’s State Department Celebrates Sodomy. Polygamy? Eh, Not So Much…

Real Fall Guy for a ‘Phony Scandal’

White House: “Al Qaeda Is Like This Big Ol’ Bagel, All Gone In The Middle, And Stuff”

LOL! @NealRauhauser’s Demand to @Twitter: ‘No More Fun of Any Kind!’ UPDATE: Neal Deletes His Plan (Lulz)

LIVE AT FIVE: 08.07.13

From Russia, With Hate: Sodomy Lobby Now Dictating U.S. Foreign Policy

‘Distributed Internet Reputational Attack’? Charles Carreon’s Self-Evident Absurdity

Diana West Dissed by David Horowitz?

LIVE AT FIVE: 08.08.13

Bill Nye the Science Guy: Harasser?

‘Science Falsely So Called’: How Can You Prove Your Innocence, Professor Krauss?

Losers on the Romantic Demand Side

Slut Walk: Dumbed-Down Feminism and the Politics of Mindless Protest Chic

Blame Joan of Arc

Top linkers for the week:

  1. Regular Right Guy (16)
  2. Free Canuckistan (9)

…and as usual, a bunch of folks who missed the cutoff by one or two links. Thanks to everyone for the linkagery! Deadline to submit links for next weekend’s FMJRA is Friday, August 16.


Category: FMJRA Award

Your Vagina Is Sudetenland, and Other Helpful Advice for Young Ladies

Posted on | August 12, 2013 | 102 Comments

Pete Da Tech Guy calls attention to my comment yesterday about the totalitarian impulse of the boner: Young women who think they can negotiate with the erect penis are in a situation very much like Neville Chamberlain trying to appease Hitler.

All wise young ladies understand this and, with thousands of young ladies about to head off to college as freshmen, there is no better time to remember this valuable lesson. That nice well-mannered college boy you just met? He may seem harmless, but his penis is an SS Panzer division, ready to conquer lebensraum for the volksreich.

Unless a woman is willing to cede her territorial sovereignty — sexual anschluss, as it were — she must strive to avoid diplomatic isolation: Don’t ever let yourself be maneuvered into being “alone together” with any guy you don’t plan to have sex with. If you’re attending a college with coed dorms, either insist on off-campus housing, or transfer to another school. Coed dorms are taxpayer-funded rape factories.

A college girl might as well cuddle up with a rattlesnake as to assume she can trust a 19-year-old-boy to respect her. Are there decent and trustworthy 19-year-old guys out there? Sure, but they look exactly like every other adolescent creep, and the minute you get one of them aroused, there isn’t much difference between (a) the mild-mannered “nice guy” and (b) every other teenage rapist on the planet.

Here’s my advice, ladies: Don’t just play hard to get, be hard to get.

Be as fiercely independent as Switzerland.

Did I ever mention that my eldest daughter got married about two months after she graduated college? You could ask her (or her husband) the entire story of how that happened, but one Christmas he gave her pearls when she had been expecting a diamond, so she broke up with him. As much as she cared for him, she was willing to walk away rather than to be kept dangling on a vague hope of a promise.

They were married about a year-and-half later.

Think about it,  and don’t let those Panzers near your border.

 

Category: Crime, Education, Feminism, Sex

Kimberlin v. Kimberlin: Tetyana’s Lawyer Defeats the Perjuring Criminal Sociopath

Posted on | August 12, 2013 | 88 Comments

John Hoge has a brief preliminary account of today’s Maryland court hearing in the dueling actions between Tetyana Kimberlin and her estranged husband, convicted felon Brett Kimberlin.

Full transcripts of the proceedings and relevant background will be published in due time, but the most important lesson of today’s hearing is this: Kimberlin, a cunning and manipulative amateur “jailhouse lawyer,” is often able to get his way in court, not matter how wrong he is, but is generally unsuccessful against any client represented by an attorney who has studied Kimberlin’s legal tactics.

Zoa Barnes has beaten Brett Kimberlin before. Today, while the hearing could be called a draw — neither plaintiff got the protective orders they sought against each other — it was really a defeat for Brett in his persecution of Tetyana, who managed to put this in the record:

Zoa Barnes presented Tetyana’s case by calling her to the stand and having her explain how she met Brett at age 14 in Ukraine and how their relationship and marriage had flowed over the succeeding years. . . . When Brett tried to cross examine her, he kept stumbling over the rules of evidence and proper procedure.

Brett was a 40-year-old federal parolee when he went to the Ukraine and met the 14-year-old girl who became his wife. This is now a matter of public record, uncontradicted sworn testimony. How do Brett Kimberlin’s few remaining supporters expect to justify and defend such behavior by a “progressive activist”? Or did I overlook the part of the progressive agenda that endorsed Ukrainian child brides?

Do you want to see Tetyana Kimberlin vindicated? Do you want her to have the best possible legal assistance against Brett Kimberlin?

TETYANA’S FUND

Yeah, I’m pretty sure you do.

 

Category: Crime, The Kimberlin Files

Taking Feminism Seriously

Posted on | August 12, 2013 | 67 Comments

 

In 2009, we began National Offend a Feminist Month, which always ends on Mother’s Day (because feminism is about killing babies, that’s why) and which is generally celebrated with cheerful good humor, mocking the hateful humorlessness of distaff Marxism.

The jokes are fun, but this doesn’t mean that feminism is not a deadly menace to everything good and decent in America — it is.

Some of my fiercest arguments over the years have been with Republican women who argue on behalf of an oxymoron, “conservative feminism,” a thing that is as ridiculous as it is impossible. Real feminism is entirely a left-wing phenomenon, and Republicans who think they can cherry-pick seemingly inoffensive items from feminism’s radical agenda are deluded. “Me, Too” Feminism will win no votes for the GOP, while assisting the Left in its destruction of America.

Trying to disabuse Republicans of this “conservative feminist” delusion doesn’t make me popular with certain feeble-minded superficial people, but that’s OK. I know what feminism is, I know what conservatism is, and the two things are fundamentally incompatible, no matter what anyone tries to tell you. For the sake of enlightening certain fools, let’s quote a little information about an actual feminist:

[University of California-Santa Cruz Women’s Studies] Professor Bettina Aptheker is the daughter of a famous American Communist, the late Herbert Aptheker . . .
Professor Bettina Aptheker is by her own proud admission both a Communist and a self-described “lesbian activist.” . . . Aptheker’s course syllabus describes lesbianism as the “highest state of feminism” . . . In other words, change in sexual orientation is an inevitable final stage in the development of the socially conscious individual.

And who can disagree? Professor Aptheker is exactly right: If you want to be a true feminist, you must be a Communist lesbian. This is by no means a fringe view among feminists:

Allison Jaggar is professor of philosophy and a former chair of the Women’s Studies Department at the University of Colorado, Boulder  . . . Integrating Marxism and feminist theory, Jaggar describes herself as a “socialist feminist” and “activist,” who seeks to combat “the male-dominant structure of everyday life.” . . .
“The political economy of socialist feminism,” writes Jaggar, “establishes that, in contemporary society, women suffer a special form of exploitation and expression. . . . The distinctive social experience of women generates insights that are incompatible with men’s interpretations of reality . . . The validity of these insights . . . must be tested in political struggle . . .”

In other words: ALL MEN EXPLOIT AND OPPRESS YOU! REVOLUTIONARY SOCIALISM IS THE ANSWER!

Feminism is socialism, and is also lesbianism. If you are not part of this revolutionary Marxist-lesbian “political struggle” against the “male-dominant structure,” then you are not a feminist.

Quod erat demonstrandum.

Understanding feminism as inherently radical, a phenomenon of the extreme Left, is necessary to understanding that there can be no such thing as “moderate feminism,” much less “conservative feminism.” Insofar as it is possible to speak of “mainstream feminism,” this is only because the social/political mainstream has become so radicalized in the past 20 years that actual feminists (i.e., radical Marxist lesbians) have been accepted as legitimately speaking on behalf of all women. And insofar as Republicans have failed in regard to this development, it has been either a failure of courage or a failure of understanding: The GOP is either too stupid to recognize feminism as dangerous, or too cowardly to speak the truth about feminism.

Stupidity or cowardice, but quite possibly both.

A cheerful good humor in opposing feminism’s radical menace, therefore, does not mean that we don’t take feminism seriously. I have quite likely read more feminist literature than your average Women’s Studies major, but unlike those deluded fanatics, I have also read a good deal of anti-feminist literature, including Carolyn F. Graglia’s Domestic Tranquility, Wendy Shalit’s A Return to Modesty, and Barbara Dafoe Whitehead’s The Divorce Culture. (I doubt Whitehead would call herself an “anti-feminist,” but her valuable historical insights directly contradict feminist claims about marriage.) Idiotic adherents of “conservative feminism” find me arrogantly opinionated on this subject, but there’s a reason: I actually know more about this subject than most feminist do.

There are some people who have read a few books or taken a few classes who think themselves fit to tutor me on this subject, failing to realize I have studied feminism in depth for decades. Feminism is nothing but a variant species of radical egalitarianism — “boutique Marxism” — and is no less deadly in its effects than any other such philosophy. If other people don’t understand this, their ignorance is not my fault. And with that, let’s take a look at SlutWalk DC 2013:

We had turned the corner at U Street and were marching up 14th Street when the woman with the megaphone leading SlutWalk DC started a new chant: “We love consensual sex! We love consensual sex!” Well, OK, but who doesn’t? Is there any actual opposition to this agenda? Is there an Anti-Consensual Sex Movement that someone forgot to tell us about? Oblivious to the absurdity, about 400 women joined in shouting this slogan, which was at least better than their previous chants: “Blame the system, not the victim!” and “One! Two! Three! Four! We won’t take it anymore! Five! Six! Seven! Eight! Stop the violence! Stop the hate!” The “violence” to which that chant referred is rape, and “hate” is any discussion of rape (or any other subject) that doesn’t conform to feminist ideology. To distill their rhetoric to its totalitarian essence: “Shut up, because rape.”
The SlutWalk movement is about rape in pretty much the same sense Nazism was about the Versailles Treaty — it’s the legitimate grievance that empowers a movement of irrational hatred. We may laugh at the carnival sideshow aspect of women stripping down to their underwear to march down the street in broad daylight, carrying deliberately provocative posters and shouting nonsensical slogans. But the leaders of the movement have a radical ideology they take very seriously, and that ideology is sufficiently influential that anyone who criticizes it risks condemnation as being anti-woman, or even pro-rape. . . .

Please read the whole thing at The American Spectator, and don’t ever try to tell me I don’t understand what “feminism” means.

 

Category: Education, Feminism, Intellectuals

LIVE AT FIVE: 08.12.13

Posted on | August 12, 2013 | 12 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho


TOP NEWS
Perseid Meteor Shower Peaks Tonight

Drive out to the country and get an eyeful of this.

NASA predicts best celestial light show of the year

Holder Seeks Limits On Mandatory Minimum Sentencing
Looking to get elderly, sick, and non-violent inmates out of prison

Abbott Stands Firm, Rudd Running Scared
Australian party leaders on display in TV debate



POLITICS
Former Reagan Aide William Clark Dies, 81

Secretary of the Interior Clark, second from left behind President Reagan

Served as national security adviser; key player in Reagan’s “Peace Through Strength” doctrine

Politicians, Missouri State Fair Officials Wig Out Over Rodeo Clown In Obama Mask

VP Biden To Speak At Iowa Fundraiser

US Embassies To Reopen Amid Still-Murky Threats

Low Turnout Expected For NJ Senate Primary

Package At JFK Airport Probed After Customs Inspectors Sickened

Lawmakers Say Administration Obstructed Oversight Of NSA Programs

Big Donor To OFA Launches Own Campaign To Promote ObamaCare



THE ECONOMY, STUPID
Asian Crude Prices Slip On Profit-Taking: NYMEX $105.90, Brent $107.97
Japanese Growth Slower Than Expected In 2Q
If You Think Europe Is Fine, Take A Look At Italy
Rockwell Collins To Buy Carlyle’s Arinc For $1.39 Billion
Icahn Seeks Fast-Track Status For Lawsuit To Stop Dell Buyout
Apple Restores Developer Site After Weeks-Long Outage
New Google Nexus 7 Vs. Amazon Kindle Fire HD: Specs Compared
Samsung Losses To Apple Give iPhone Maker Edge In Talks
Pirate Bay Ships PirateBrowser For Censorship-Free Search
“Splinter Cell: Blacklist” Specs Released



SPORTS
Kyle Busch Holds Off Brad Keselowski To Win At Watkins Glen

Kyle Busch celebrates his win

Keselowski finishes second for third straight year

Sox Trip Against Royals, Lose Game And Series

Tony Stewart Out Of Hospital, Resting At Home

King Felix Outduels Peralta

Ken Griffey Jr. Inducted Into Mariners’ Hall Of Fame

Gardner Rescues Yankees In 9th After Rivera Blows Third Straight Save

Former Sixers Coach Roy Rubin Dies, 87

Indians Snap Skid, Rally To Edge Angels 6-5

Homer-Happy O’s Pound Giants 10-2

Astros Ruin Perez Shutout Bid, Lose To Rangers 6-1

Strasburg Dominates As Nats Beat Phillies 6-0 For The Sweep



FAMOUS FOR BEING FAMOUS
Singing Legend Eydie Gorme Dies, 84

Can’t blame this on the Bossa Nova. 🙁

Survived by husband and partner Steve Lawrence, son David, and a granddaughter

Chris Brown: I Had A Seizure ‘Cause Everyone’s Mean To Me

Angelina Jolie’s Daugher Vivienne Was The Only 4-Year-Old Who Didn’t Scream At “Maleficent”

Leno’s Last “Tonight Show” Airs February 6; Staff Paid Until September

Christina Hendricks, Tom Hiddleston Join Latest Tinkerbell Movie, “The Pirate Fairy”

Usher Wins Custody Battle Against Tameka Foster

Katy Perry’s Promotional 18-Wheeler Hit By Drunk Driver

Bad Camo: Selena Gomez Hides In Blanket As Tawdry Details Emerge About Her Affair With Bieber

Lake Bell Wears Nothing But Body Paint For Cover Shoot

Approaching 40, A Curvier Kate Moss

Instagram Co-Founder Throws Instant Party

Wesley Clark Dating – But Not Divorced

Gloria Steinem Ends Up Cut From “Lovelace”



FOREIGNERS
Panama Ends Search Of Nork Ship Caught Smuggling Weapons From Cuba
ROK Warns Of Power Shortages Amid Nuke Shutdowns
Surveillance Program Casts Shadow Over Kerry’s Latin American Trip
Terror Victims Association Rips Netanyahu Government For “Caving To Terrorists” With Prisoner Release
23 Missing As Typhoon Utor Hits Philippines
Pro-Morsi Protesters Brace For Police Confrontation
Cambodia Election Crisis Deepens As Opposition Rejects Results
Eid Al Fitr Bombs In Iraq Kill Dozens
US Expresses Concern Over Mosque Attack In Sri Lanka
Pope Calls For Mutual Respect Between Moslems, Christians



BLOGS & STUFF
American Power: David Horowitz And Ron Radosh Attack Diana West And AMERICAN BETRAYAL
First Street Journal: From Around The Blogroll
Jawa Report: Liberal Journalist Defends “Double Standard” Against Those Who Mock Islam
The Necropolitan Sentinel:ObamaCare Watch, 11 August 2013
Jammie Wearing Fools: So Expert Is Bob Filner At Sexual Harassment, He Even Finished Sex Addiction Therapy Ahead Of Schedule
Don Surber: Daily Scoreboard, August 9 2013
Volokh Conspiracy: Still No Money In Budget For White House Tours
NRO Corner: Peter Singer Tells Us How To Give
Jonah Goldberg: The Real Helen Thomas
Mark Steyn: Obama’s Melting Wings
Gateway Pundit: Obama Warns Disabled Vets Sequestration Could Affect Their Benefits, Then Jets Off To Martha’s Vineyard
Power Line: Better Late Than Never – NPR Admits It Slandered South Dakota


FMJRA will be up later today. There were technical issues.


Category: Live at Five

Rule 5 Sunday: Stratoscape

Posted on | August 11, 2013 | 22 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

We begin this Rule 5 Sunday post, as we so often do, with some well-meant advice for the Loyal Readers: while many of the links below lead to wholesome photographs of good-looking women tastefully attired in swimsuits or more, some lead to similar photographs of attractive women attired in lingerie or less, thus rendering them NSFW.* Exercise proper discretion in clicking on the links.

Lowering The Boom leads off this month with some #sharkweek action: Tara Reid. Laughing Conservative has Abi Titmuss, Reaganite Republican imitates Iowahawk with Incarcerated Beauty (also, Sophia Loren!)and Subject To Change liked last week’s taste of Tommy Shaw so much, he too did a Girls with Guns post. Randy’s Roundtable checks in with Chrissy Teigen, and Fishersville Mike mourns the passing of CMT with Cassadee Pope. Animal Magnetism contributes Rule 5 Friday and the Saturday Gingermageddon, while 90 Miles From Tyranny has not one, but two Girls With Guns posts along with the Hot Pick of the Late Night. Blackmailers Don’t Shoot’s Pretty Girls On A Thursday leads off with Hell On Wheels and includes other goodies as well. Speaking of goodies, Goodstuff’s Cyber World has Hannah Minx and other things of interest, and First Street Journal pursues its own unique version of Rule 5 with Anchors Aweigh, My Girls!

EBL’s herd of cuties this week includes Retro Atomic Rocket Rule 5, some Helmut Newton pix, Tara Reid, Democrat Senator Sheep Abuse, the lawyer who traded sex for office supplies, and the Golden Age Of Travel.

A View From The Beach brings us Sinbad’s Sailor Women, Czech Please (Daniela Pestova), That’s It; I’m Going To Church (With Kate Upton), What If God Was A Lesbian?, I Am Warrior, Too Old to Die Young, Carla Bruni’s First Lady Prospects Looking Up, X-Ray Glasses, and Not All Gingers Are This Crazy.

Wine Women and Politics contributes Midnight Madness, Saturday Sweeties, Hotties Friday Fix, and Hotties Will Be Hot.

Postaldog updates his Sydney Leathers post (By Popular Demand!) and also brings it with Helen Hunt, Mischa Barton, Belinda Bauer, and Amanda Seyfried.

Soylent Green’s Monday Motivationer is Veronica, followed by Overnighty Random Tumblr Fur, Tuesday Titillation Steampunk, Humpday Hawtness Giuliana, Overnighty Hope, Falconsword Fursday Anita E, A Reply From The Complaint Department, Corset Confabuliarium, Bravo Brazil, T-GIF Friday With Leanna, ICYMI: Raquel Pomplun, and Afternooner Ginger Fur.

Proof Positive’s Friday Night Babe is Kyle Bisutti, his vintage babe is Beverly Garland, and of course, there’s Sex In Advertising. Also, Karen Black, RIP. Dustbury submits Rebecca Shoichet and Jodie Foster, while Three Beers Later has something for everybody with Shania Twain and Tim McGraw.

The DaleyGator’s DaleyBabes this week included Emily Osment, Atsumi Ishihara, Noelle Bellinghau, Gaby Ramirez, Yendi Phillips, Kayden Cross, Keisha Chante, Rali Ivanova, Carlee Ranger, Alyssa Milano, Amber Heard, Carly Baker, Mao Kotono, Jamie Lee Kirchner, Janina Gavankar, and Kerry Washington. Also, Faces To Fall In Love With and Random Beauty Sunday.


*And then there’s some of the stuff EBL sends in, which is just Wrong and Not Safe For Anywhere.


Thanks to everyone for their linkagery! Submissions for next weekend’s Rule 5 roundup are due to the Rule 5 Wombat mailbox no later than Saturday, August 17.


Category: Rule 5

Missing Teen Hannah Anderson Rescued After FBI Shoots and Kills Her Kidnapper

Posted on | August 11, 2013 | 36 Comments

Wrote about this case Thursday at Viral Read and Friday here, and now there’s good news in the case:

A massive manhunt that spanned 1,000 miles ended in gunfire in the Idaho wild late Saturday afternoon — shots that ended the life of the family friend who was suspected of abducting 16-year-old Hannah Anderson and killing her mother and brother.
The teenager was rescued near Morehead Lake, Idaho, where an FBI tactical agent killed her alleged kidnapper, James DiMaggio, around 5:20 p.m (7:20 p.m. ET), authorities said. . . .
Hannah Anderson had last been seen in San Diego County, California, at her cheerleading practice August 3. The bodies of her mother, Christina Anderson, and 8-year-old brother, Ethan, were found the next day about 45 miles east in DiMaggio’s Boulevard house; lab tests were needed to identify the boy because his remains were so badly charred.

Here’s the video report:

UPDATE: Statement by the FBI Special Agent in Charge:

Good evening. I am Mary Rook, special agent in charge of the FBI office in Salt Lake City.
I want to update you about the rescue operation that just concluded.
At approximately 5:20 local time, special agents with the FBI’s Hostage Rescue Team, along with the Salt Lake City Division of the FBI, observed Hannah and the suspect near Morehead Lake at a makeshift campsite. Agents moved in to rescue Hannah. The suspect is deceased.
As a matter of policy, the FBI automatically dispatches a shooting review team from Washington to review the circumstances surrounding any situation where an FBI agent discharges a firearm.
The team will interview witnesses and determine exactly what happened. For this reason, no other details can be released at this time.
When incidents like these occur, no one ever really knows where the investigation will lead. In this case, our team faced a very challenging situation.
Our team of FBI agents, Valley and Ada County Sheriff’s deputies, Idaho state troopers, U.S. marshals, the U.S. Border Patrol, and the rest of the entire team worked tirelessly to find Hannah.
Now that Hannah is safe and being evaluated in a medical facility, FBI victim specialists are working with Hannah and her family to get them the resources they may need to get through the next phase of this incident.
As grateful as we are that she was recovered safely, we also remember the other victims in this case who lost their lives.
Moving forward, the FBI Evidence Response Team, along with detectives from the San Diego County Sheriff’s Department, will process the crime scene at the site of the rescue. This will still take some time and require a great deal of logistical coordination.
As the Idaho portion of this case wraps up and transitions back to San Diego County, we will continue to work with our colleagues, both in Idaho and San Diego, and provide them any continuing support they might need.
It has been said that the greatest weapon against crime is the cooperation of all law enforcement, with the understanding of the public. This case has proven that.

 

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