The Other McCain

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Selling Out Early To Avoid The Rush

Posted on | July 1, 2013 | 25 Comments

— by Wombat-socho


If this looks like a Confederate Nazi to you, you might be a UCLA law professor.

If this looks like a Confederate Nazi to you, you might be a UCLA law professor.

Ripped from the pages of this morning’s Memeorandum, we have this piece of half-witted blogging by Professor Bainbridge, in which he masks a none-too-clever slam at Sarah Palin and Mark Levin with a reference to an entirely too long and (toward the end) insanely boring alternate history series by Harry Turtledove. Look, Professor, is it too much to ask that if you’re going to call people Nazis, you just come right out and say it? Has the law school business collapsed so quickly that even Distinguished Professors of Law are trying to land gigs on MSNBC? And if that wasn’t your motive, what the hell compelled you to post this?


Category: Blogging, Mark Levin, Sarah Palin, Vicious Backstabbing Crapweasels

LIVE AT FIVE: 07.01.13

Posted on | July 1, 2013 | 11 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho


TOP NEWS
Ten Dead In Rioting As Millions Join Anti-Morsi Protests

Tahrir Square in Cairo on Sunday

Hundreds attack Muslim Brotherhood offices in Cairo with Molotov cocktails, rocks

EU Confronts US Over Surveillance Reports
Explanation demanded for wiretap allegations in Der Spiegel

Nineteen Firefighters Killed, 200 Homes Burnt In Arizona Fire
“Hotshot” crew from Prescott killed eighty-five miles northwest of Phoenix near Yarnell



POLITICS
Buono Denied Two Shots At Taking On Christie – By Own Party

State Senator Mary Buono visits with participants in NYC’s Gay Pride parade

Democrats’ legislative leadership denies their candidate for governor opportunities to oppose Christie on state budget, gay marriage

BART Strike Imminent, No Service Today

Gay Pride Parades Draw Huge Crowds

Assange, Snowden Promise More NSA Secrets To Be Revealed

Pennsylvania State Budget Passes Without Corbett Priorities

Texas Capitol Now Center Of Larger Abortion Battle

House Leaders Vow To Overhaul, Replace Senate Immigration Bill

Student Loan Rates Double As New Month Begins



THE ECONOMY, STUPID
Oil Up From Friday’s Close On Weaker Dollar: NYMEX $96.79, Brent $102.37
Asia Stocks Fall On PRC Manufacturing Weakness
Nokia Buys Out Siemens From Equipment Joint Venture
Nikkei Climbs To One-Month High In Choppy Trade
ROK Exports Down In June
USDA Crop Reports Don’t Help Their Credibility Problem; Corn Planting Estimates “Unexpectedly” Higher
Feedly The Best Alternative To Google Reader?
Almost Half Of Smartphones Sold In Europe Are Samsung
Intel’s New CEO Focused On Mobile Chips, Cautious On TV
Sprint Pulls Plug On Nextel iDEN Network
Facebook Removes Ads From Controversial Pages To Avoid Boycott



SPORTS
Matt Kenseth Getting Used To That Winning Feeling

Jimmie Johnson led for most of the race, but…

Beats Jimmie Johnson on the restart at Quaker State 400

Dallas Restaurant Offers Dwight Howard Free Chicken For Life If He Signs With Mavs

Pirates Sweep Brewers, Maintain Baseball’s Best Record

ACC Commish Looking Forward To Stable Future

Hellickson Lets His Arm Do The Talking As Rays Get Last Word

Chris Paul To Sign Five-Year Deal With Clippers

MacKinnon Goes #1 In NHL Draft

Red Sox Win On Blue Jays Error In 9th

Mavericks, Celtics Talking About Rondo Trade

Tribe’s Masterson Tosses Third Shutout

Royals Hit Timely Homers To Top Twins

Hamilton Emerges From Slump, Helps Angels Beat Astros

Davis Homers Again As O’s Sweep Yanks

Donaldson Does It All As A’s Beat Cardinals

Nationals Rout Mets, Reach Halfway Point With A Bang



FAMOUS FOR BEING FAMOUS
Lindsay’s Off The Uppers – For Now

Not speeding away

Apparently drug not needed for ADHD after all?

Jessica Simpson: It’s A Boy!

Avril Lavigne Marries Nickelback Frontman Chad Kroeger

J-Lo Sings Happy Birthday To Turkmenistan’s Despot

Kristen Cavallari Shares Her Honeymoon Pictures

“Glee” Promotes Five To Series Regulars

UK Mirror Reports Michael Jackson Paid Out 23 Million Pounds To Silence Abused Boys

Cheryl Cole Planning Lavish LA Bash For 30th Birthday

Paula Deen Loses Five-Book Deal Despite Fan Support



FOREIGNERS
Egyptian Protest Group Gives Morsi Ultimatum
Croatia Officially Joins EU
Bomb Attacks Kill 43 In Pakistan
Thousands Still Missing In Aftermath Of Uttarakhand Flooding
Rudd Selects Cabinet, Tries To Narrow Labor’s Poll Deficit
Archbishop Tutu Welcomes Obama “Home”
Chile’s Bachelet Seen Winning Center-Left Primary, Favored To Beat Conservative Candidates
Putin Signs Anti-Gay Measures Into Law
Despite Failures, Kerry Still Optimistic On Mideast Peace Plan
Thousands Take To Streets In Hong Kong’s Annual Democracy March
Calm Returns To Burma After Religious Clashes
Syrian Opposition: 60,000 Shiite Foreigners Fighting For Assad



BLOGS & STUFF
The First Street Journal: Exercising Their Freedom Of Speech And Hypocrisy
American Power: Who Are The True Defenders Of The West?
Victor Davis Hanson: The Mood Of 1980
Vox Popoli: Datagate Goes International
Power Line: “Wake Up, America!”
Gateway Pundit: Vatican Confirms Catholic Priest Beheaded In Syria (Brutal Video)
Sense Of Events: Syrian Rebels Behead Catholic Priest, Post Video
Ed Driscoll: Partying Like It’s 1939
Allahpundit: Palin – If The House Sells Out On Immigration, It Might Be Time To Leave The GOP
Erika Johnsen: California School District Using Grant Money To Train Students As Obamacare “Messengers”
Lonely Conservative: Healthy Americans Facing Premiums That Could Double Or Triple This Year
Protein Wisdom: I Get Letters Redux Redux


Category: Live at Five

Rule 5 Sunday: Taylor Swift, We Hardly Knew Ye

Posted on | June 30, 2013 | 24 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho


It is beyond question that the Westboro “Baptist” “Church”, is perhaps the most successful band of trolls to walk the earth since Frank Zappa (God rest him) shuffled off this mortal coil. Still, as disgusting a collection of para-human filth as they are, up to this point they’ve had a certain twisted logic to their attention-whoring displays. Until Friday, when they picked one of the rare examples of young female celebrities NOT known for public exhibitionism, overindulgence in recreational chemicals, bizarre behavior, vile taste in clothes and/or music, and public drooling over certain half-bright half-Kenyan politicians to condemn in the same breath as homosexuals, shellfish, and bacon cheeseburgers. Yes, I am referring to this young lady.

Fornicating whore, or just misunderstood?

Fornicating whore, or just misunderstood?

Well, all I know about Taylor Swift is what I read on WeSmirch, but that’s enough to convince me that as usual, the WBC is full of crap.


Even if she was dating one of the Kennedy clan for a while.


With that out of the way, let me remind you: some of the following links are most definitely Not Safe For Work and could contribute to the pollution of your precious bodily fluids. Reader discretion is advised.


Laughing Conservative leads off with Candice Swanepoel, followed by 90 Miles From Tyranny with Late Night Ladies and Hot Pick of the Late Night. Reaganite Republican shows Athina Pikraki as proof that not everything in Greece is a disaster; Randy’s Roundtable offers Erica Redling, Fishersville Mike has Laura from the Blackhawks’ Ice Crew, and Blackmailers Don’t Shoot has Pretty Girls On A Friday: No Labels Edition. Wine Women and Politics dishes up Bonus Babes, Saturday Specials, and Friday Hotties; Animal Magnetism has Rule 5 Friday and the Saturday Gingermageddon. Meanwhile, at the First Street Journal, it’s the women of the IDF.


EBL serves up some nyotaimori, Hey Girl It’s Paul Ryan, Theresa May, and Alec Baldwin.


A View From The Beach offers Helena Bonham Carter, Dark Water Rising, Dolphin Cheerleaders doing “22”, Chicks Robots And Japanese Weirdness, No No No Silvio!, A Trick For The Dog, and How To Remove McAfee Antivirus.


American Power checks in with Carissa Rosario, Rule 5 Sunday (sic), Paulina Gretzky, Gwyneth Paltrow, Kelly Andrews, Emily Miller, and Lacey Banghard.


Soylent Green this week had Your AM Angel, Overnighty Christine, Monday Motivationer Brie, Tuesday Titillation Brea, Happy Hour Hawt Liz, Humpday Hawtness Alexis, Falconsword Fursday Classic Denise, A Soylent PSA, Corsetcare Return, Cameltoe Conundrum, T-GIF Friday Heather, Cream In Your Coffee, Your Saturday Sports Fix, and Evening Awesome Rebecca.


Proof Positive’s Friday Night Babe is Joanna Garcia – who also covers Sex In Advertising – while his Vintage Babe is Julie Christie. Dustbury offered Carly Simon and Danica McKellar, while at The Camp of the Saints, it’s Chloe Vevrier. Three Beers later presents the Pistol Annies, Kasey Musgraves, and Blake Shelton with the Pistol Annies.


The DaleyGator’s DaleyBabes this week included Irina Voronina, Sophie Hanan, Billie Piper, Emily Scott, Dana Davis, Paola Canas, Jessica Marie Claire, Nanis Ochoa, Melinda Bam, Tomika Skanes, Hwang Min Lee, Esther Baxter, Erica Hubbard, Elsa Pataky, Yuki Jin, and Megan Pinckney.


Thanks to everyone for their linkagery! Deadline for next week’s Belated Independence Day Weekend Fireworks & Fillies Edition will be Sunday, July 7; as usual, submit all links to the Rule 5 Wombat mailbox.


Category: Rule 5

When #CrackerQuotes Get Tuneful

Posted on | June 30, 2013 | 23 Comments

by Smitty

After Rachel Jeantel’s “creepy ass cracker” went legendary, Twitter swung into action. For reasons that refuse to make sense, like some of the Zimmerman trial testimony, this blogger felt the need to work ‘cracker’ into rock lyrics:
Some Tangled up in Blue:


My sponsor:


You’re in the mood for a king:


A favorite:

Category: humor

Evanescent Youth, Predatory Persistence

Posted on | June 29, 2013 | 152 Comments

“Now there is what appears to be a concerted effort to lower, or even obliterate, the age of consent; but I suspect the culprits engaged therein are less interested in long-term relationships — children eventually grow up, after all — than in simply getting their hands into some poor kid’s Garanimals.”
— Charles G. Hill, Dustbury.com

Our friend Mr. Hill has zeroed in on exactly the problem with this particular perversity. Pedophilia is the fetishization of youth, wherein a person is persistently obsessed with sexual objects of a certain age. This dehumanizes the object of the obsession, and is the opposite of the “one life, one wife” permanent pair-bonding that is the social ideal.

Because youth does not last, neither can the “relationship” between the pedophile and his prey. One may point to the unusual exception: After her release from prison in 2005, Mary Kay LeTourneau married Vili Fualaau, with whom she began her involvement when he was a 13-year-old middle schooler and she was his 34-year-old teacher.

Mary Kay LeTourneau in court, 1998.

But this merely highlights how such relationships transgress the lifelong pair-bonding norm: First, LeTourneau abandoned her husband and four children to pursue this relationship and, second, she is now 51 and her second husband (the father of her two youngest children) is 30. How much longer may we expect this fellow in the prime of life to remain a devoted husband to his elderly wife?

If the LeTourneau case is exceptional in many ways, nevertheless it is typical in others. The adult who pursues illegal sex with minors is always — invariably — a troubled personality, either (a) the maladapted misfit unable to find a satisfactory and enduring adult relationship, or else (b) a sort of sexual opportunist seeking a new thrill to relieve the boredom or soothe the disappointments of adult life.

Some who have been more sympathetic to LeTourneau have pointed to problems in her marriage to Steve LeTourneau, seeing her as the victim of domestic abuse. And while this background may to some extent explain LeTourneau’s problems, it cannot excuse her illegal actions because if we were to accept such an excuse even once, no student would be safe from the predatory sexual interest of any teacher discontented with the quality of their adult relationships.

“Your honor, my client ‘s wife is a nagging bitch, so you
can’t blame him for boning that 15-year-old.
And, hey, it was consensual.”

This commonly heard rationalization, that illegal sex with minors is not really a crime when it is “consensual,” is invalid because (a) it ignores every advantage that the older offender may employ to obtaining such illegal consent, and (b) it ignores the fact that young people are not competent judges of their own best interests.

Point (b) is something that every responsible parent understands. If I were to let my children do whatever pleases them, they would never do anything except watch TV and play video games. Some children are more mature and responsible than others, but their superior qualities cannot be used as evidence against them, as it were, to argue that they should be treated as sexual “fair game.”

“Your honor, the alleged victim is fully developed —
just look at the rack on her, will ya? — and she’s so
emotionally mature that it was only natural she
wanted to get naked with her sophomore gym teacher.
Like I said, it was consensual.”

All age-of-consent laws are to some extent arbitrary: One day a young person is jailbait — off-limits, taboo, the Forbidden Fruit — and then they hit the Magic Birthday where they can legally do anything they want (consensually) with any of their fellow adults. Police, prosecutors, judges and juries may in every case use their discretion in regard to the enforcement of these laws, considering all circumstances in determining how severely any specific infraction should be punished.

One summer day in 1974, I arrived at high school band camp to find all my hoodlum buddies in the trombone section abuzz with the excitement provoked by a certain freshman majorette. Tanned and brunette, with high cheekbones and the brilliant white smile of a carnivore, Sally on that hot Georgia day wore pink short-shorts tightly encasing a pelvis that was a casus belli — hips to kill or die for — and she had legs of perfection beyond the power of mere words to describe. Completing her ensemble of adolescent irresistibility, Sally wore a tight white midriff top, exposing her lean abdomen and emphasizing the pert firmness of her breasts.

Nearly four decades later, that splendid vision remains embedded in my neural cortex, and I doubt any other alumnus of the 1974 Douglas County High School Marching Tiger Band can say he’s ever forgotten what Sally looked like that August day. Her smile so bright, her body so temptingly lithe — oh, every male within eyesight of Sally the Freshman Majorette must have struggled to restrain his inner pirate: “Arggh, what a comely young wench you are! You will be mine!”

Sally was eventually wooed and won by our band’s drum major, a former trumpet section leader who was a senior that year, and the last I heard they were still married. I invoke the vision of Sally her first day at band camp — when all the guys were asking each other, “Who the hell is that chick in the pink hot pants?” — to say that there are entirely understandable urges which the law nonetheless requires us to resist.

Dude, the Pope would have hit that. Read more

Category: Crime, Culture, Kaitlyn Hunt, Sex

FMJRA 2.0: Diamonds And Rust

Posted on | June 29, 2013 | 16 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

The Face of Cowardice: Theresa May

Ben Smith Wants You to Ignore This

Perverts, Degenerates and Sociopaths

Rule 5 Monday

@TedCruz & The Broken Immigration Record: Heard This Bef–Heard This Bef–

Benghazi: The Unanswered Question

Crony Journalism at Think Progress?

FMJRA 2.0: Starface

Headline Round-Up: Snowden Flees

Real Life Is Not a Reality TV Audition

LIVE AT FIVE: 06.24.13

“It’s Tough To Be A Man, Baby!”

LIVE AT FIVE: 06.25.13

Your Morning OJ Reference

LIVE AT FIVE: 06.26.13

World’s Youngest Blogger: Get Your Motor Runnin’

Lost In (Divided) America

Just Like Mandela: Has Banging Jailbait Become the New Civil Disobedience?

LIVE AT FIVE: 06.27.13

#FreeKate’s Mom: ‘I Will NOT Have Anyone Ruin This for Family!!!!’

Speaking Of Kooks…

Glenn Greenwald Is A Ridiculous Joke (And Alas, The Internet Never Forgets)

Thursday Evening Silliness

LIVE AT FIVE: 06.28.30

Journalism Errors And Character Flaws

Worst. Cartoon. Vagina. EVER.

Taylor Swift: A Fornicating Whore?

Interesting that the top posts in terms of attracting links had the common themes of perverts, degenerates, sociopaths, Ben Smith, and Theresa May (BIRM), no?

Top linkers this week:

  1. Rick’s Rants (27 the hard way)
  2. EBL (22 the hard way; 3 disqualified links)
  3. DaleyGator (5)

As usual, a lot of folks came close but just missed the cutoff. I’ll be spending the Independence Day holiday off the internet, so there won’t be an FMJRA unless Smitty decides to pick up the slack, in which case send your links to him no later than Friday, July 5.


Category: FMJRA Award

Taylor Swift: A Fornicating Whore?

Posted on | June 28, 2013 | 80 Comments

For years, Westboro Baptist Church has been accused of homophobic hatred because of their infamous “God Hates Fags” protests. Finally, they’ve decided to get serious about heterosexual sin:

Yes, that’s right: THE WHORISH FACE OF DOOMED AMERICA, the pop-country star formerly known as Taylor Swift, has been guilty of “hopping from one young man to the next and strutting across the world stage like a proud whore,” according to the WBC press release. . . .

Read the whole thing, because I think we can all agree on this.

God: A uniter, not a divider, you fornicating whores.

 

Category: Celebrities, Sex

Worst. Cartoon. Vagina. EVER.

Posted on | June 28, 2013 | 61 Comments

Here’s the headline:

Cartoon Vagina Fights
‘Cultural Stigma’ of Masturbation

And I know your first question: “Is this NSFW?”

It’s probably OK, unless you start laughing so hard that Diet Pepsi comes out of your nose and gets all over your computer screen.

Your second question: “Stacy, how did you find that weird thing?”

Well, I was going to do a Kaitlyn Hunt update and wanted to see if there was any recent news I could use as a “hook” for the latest eruption of craziness from inside the “Free Kate” universe. So I did a Google search and turned up a link to FeministLawProfessors.com. Turns out their “Free Kate” item was more than a month old, but while scrolling down, I saw “Apps Can Teach You Anything: Yes, a Masturbation App,” and I was like, who really needs to learn that?

This has been one of my pet peeves for at least 15 years: Why is it that every single issue of Cosmo has a “how to masturbate” article or a “how to have better orgasms” article or some variation thereof? And why are these magazines in racks at the supermarket checkout line, so that the minute your kids learn to read, they’re confronted with cover-blurb headlines like “Super Sex Secrets to Drive Him Wild”?

Beyond the offensiveness of having this lurid smutty stuff thrust into my daughter’s face — to teach her the “empowering” lesson that the most important thing in life is driving men wild in bed — is the absurd redundancy of it. Stipulate the hypothetical that there are women:

A. Too stupid to figure this out without expert advice;
but
B. Sufficiently literate to read a magazine article.

Even with those stipulations, do they need to read endless reiterations of the same basic “lesson” — and face it, Cosmo has been recycling the same Drive-Him-Wild sex article since 1973 — every single month?

You don’t have to be a prude to be offended by these monthly magazine sex sermons. You just need the critical thinking capacity to realize that nobody really needs this kind of advice. Human beings were having sex successfully a long time before we had magazine articles by “experts” telling us we weren’t doing it right. (By the way, most sex-advice articles are actually written by underpaid 20-something recent college graduates breaking into the magazine business, who are mainly “experts” at eating Ramen noodles and shopping at thrift stores.)

The whole “Drive Him Wild” approach to the subject is wrongheaded, suggesting that happiness is a matter of technique. Here’s the best advice you’ll ever get, ladies: If you’re not happy with your sex life, you’re not going to find the answer in Cosmo.

Anybody can learn mere technique without benefit of magazine articles, simply by imagination and trial-and-error.

“Does that feel good?”
“Yeah, but maybe try it a little faster.”
“Better?”
“Oh. Oh. Ohhhhhh …”

Seriously, if you don’t know how to have sex without reading Cosmo, you don’t have a sex problem, you have a stupidity problem.

And while we’re at it: Why are taxpayers spending millions of dollars to have Professional Sex Educators teach this stuff, if everything kids need to know about sex is in Cosmo magazine every month?

Also, now that we have the Internet, can’t kids just look up whatever they need to know about sex with a Google search? According to some sources I’ve talked to, you can even find videos and pictures of that kind of stuff on the Internet. (Thanks, Al Gore!)

We have all these “experts” and “activists” and “educators” who want to teach us (and our kids) about sex, because we are apparently so stupid we can’t figure it out without their assistance. And just in case you didn’t click that link already: CREEPY PINK CARTOON VAGINA.

Because you need a cartoon teaching you how to diddle yourself.

UPDATE: In case you haven’t heard about Bert and Ernie . . . well, if they can finally confess this, why can’t Oscar the Grouch admit he’s a pedophile? Next on Sesame Street: “C Is for Cornhole.”

 

Category: Culture, Education, Feminism, Gays, Sex
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