LIVE AT FIVE: 03.25.13

Welcome once again to the weekly obeisance to Rule 5 here at The Other McCain! For those of you new to the site, discretion is advised in following the links below; while many of them are discreet and tasteful, others are most definitely NSFW.

Fishersville Mike leads off this week with a salute to the NCAA hoops tourney now underway, while Animal Magnetism presents Rule Five Friday and the Saturday Gingermageddon. Laughing Conservative checks in with Kelli Garner, Randy’s Roundtable has Hilary Rhoda, and Reaganite Republican presents the “pretty impressive” Miss Lithuania, Greta Mikalauskyte. Ninety Miles From Tyranny has Morning Mistress, Late Night Bikini Babes, and Hot Pick of the Late Night. First Street Journal continues to salute military women of the world; this week, it’s Cyprus. Lowering The Boom also notes March Madness, spotlighting spoiler Florida Gulf Coastal U’s Coach Enfield and his supermodel wife.

EBL brings Emmanuelle Chiriqui, Amanda Marcum, and a Tale of Two Amandas to the roundup this week.

A View From The Beach has Almudena Fernandez, Hot Naked Women For Blending Puppies (not a Dr. Helen reference), Take Me Out To The Ball Game, Our Inbred Ancestors (contains cavegirl content), Shocking!, The Wearin’ O’ The Green, and The Girlfriend. Also, Party Leaders Pan Puffy Ex-Porn Star’s Political Plans.

Soylent Green is now Soylent Siberia on Blogspot. Update your bookmarks accordingly, and be patient with regard to the blogroll. In the meantime, there’s Falconsword Fursday Fricassee, Alpha Proxima Day Warmup, Miss Carbon Come 2013, Corsetcare: A New Hope, Afternooner Heather, Evening Awesome Cara Wakelin, and Alpha Proxima Day.

Proof Positive’s Friday Night Babe is Zooey! His vintage babe is Anne Bancroft, Heidi Klum is in for Sex in Advertising, and there’s a blonde for St. Patrick’s Day. Dustbury has Tina Fey with Snow White and Markie Post. At The Camp of the Saints, it’s Kelly Brook, the Rule 5 News, and Tiffany Taylor.

The DaleyGator’s DaleyBabes this week included Mairead Nesbitt, assorted babes, Heidi Klum and a huge burger, Ciara, Carla Ossa, Jessica Sutton, Allie Laforce, Jamie Chung, Jessika Alaura, Marie Kai, Io Asuka, Kat Dennings, Heather Knox, Lisa Marie Scott, Elisha Cuthbert, Ebony Babe Sunday, and Bipasha Basu.

Thanks to everyone for the linkagery! Deadline to submit links to the Rule 5 Wombat mailbox for next week’s Rule 5 roundup is Saturday, March 29.

Category: Uncategorized

Mr. Nobel Peace Prize Works His Magic: Israel Now at War With Syria?

Posted on | March 24, 2013 | 17 Comments

All it took was an Obama trip to the Mideast, and suddenly everything seems to be flying completely sideways:

Reuters is reporting that Israel has fired upon and destroyed a machine gun position in the Golan Heights. It is unclear at this moment whether this is merely spillover from the Syrian civil war or whether this is a new front opening for Israel in the middle east.
Israeli Spokesman Ofir Gendelman stated on his Twitter page, Israeli forces “destroyed a Syrian machine gun nest that fired twice in the last 24 hours on Israeli patrols operating to safeguard the border.”

Meanwhile, there are confused and conflicting reports as to whether Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad has been shot by an Iranian bodyguard.

UPDATE: Erik Ortiz of the New York Daily News:

Online reports of Syrian President Bashar Assad’s death appeared greatly exaggerated Sunday.
Arab media said Assad was purportedly shot by one of his Iranian bodyguards Saturday night and was in serious condition.
He was supposedly taken to Al-Shami Hospital in Damascus, where surrounding roads were closed off.
Israel News One’s website even reported that Assad had been “assassinated.”
But online updates said the Syrian leader’s shooting was false and that he was alive and in high spirits. The conflicting reports highlight the chaos that continues to engulf the country, which has been mired in a bloody civil war for two years.

It’s impossible to know exactly what’s going on in this kind of situation unless you can independently confirm the reports, which I can’t.

Meanwhile, it’s hard not to notice that while Obama worked actively to encourage the overthrow of the regimes in Egypt and Libya, he’s been willing to let this situation in Syria — where Assad is essentially an Iranian puppet — linger for two years.

UPDATE II: Daniel Halper at the Weekly Standard:

On Friday, President Barack Obama left Israel, after spending a couple days with the leaders of America’s closest ally in the region.
Now today, two days later, Israel has acknowledged that it fired at a military position in Syria. . . .
The sequence of events leads one to ask, what did the two leaders, Obama and Netanyahu, discuss regarding Syria when they met multiple times this last week in Jerusalem? And what did they agree to do to deal with the Syria issue?

Just another wonderful coincidence for the Lightworker.

UPDATE III: Andrew O’Shea at ViralRead is still updating on whether or not Assad has been shot and is or is not dead.

Category: Barack Obama, Israel, Syria

FMJRA 2.0: March Madness

Posted on | March 24, 2013 | 3 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

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Rick’s Rants

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Pirates Cove

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A View From The Beach

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Rule 5 Monday

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Nice Deb

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Rick’s Rants

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Freedom Cocktail

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The Rush to Judgment: Is Torrington Destined to Be the Next Steubenville?

Rick’s Rants

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Under the New Pope’s Teaching, Should Pelosi and Biden Be Ex-Communicated?

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“A World Without Moral Judgments”?

Daily Pundit

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Narcissism and the Self-Esteem Cult

The Camp of the Saints

LIVE AT FIVE: 03.22.13

Slouching Toward Cougartown

This Will Not End Well for the Donald

‘You Better Back It Up’: Security Guard Tasers Aggressive Woman on Video

Posted on | March 24, 2013 | 26 Comments

What led to this dispute at an Atlanta mini-mall in January, I don’t know. This video went viral and already has more than 2 million views. By the time the security guard’s camera starts rolling, two obstreperous women are hurling the “n-word” and various obscene slurs at the guard, who repeatedly warns them to leave. Finally, after one of the women physically assaults the guard, he zaps her with the taser:

Via Donald Douglas at American Power (“Ghetto Mom Tasered“) and Big Fur Hat at I Own the World (“Meanwhile, The Left’s Enemy is Anyone Trying to Keep This Culture From Spreading“). As you watch the video, notice that the guard kept trying to go back inside the mall, but returned to the entrance because these women — and their ill-mannered children — continued causing a ruckus on the sidewalk. The guard was simply trying to keep the peace, and these women wouldn’t let him. From Christian Moore and Mike Morris of the Atlanta Constitution, the shocking sequel:

The security guard who became an internet sensation after posting videos of himself fighting crime at downtown’s Metro Mall was arrested late Thursday afternoon and charged with battery.
Atlanta police officers were called to the mall near the Five Points MARTA station after Darien Long, 45, allegedly tackled a patron to the ground unprovoked. . . .
It’s been a tough week for the vigilante guard, who, before his arrest, learned he was fired, effective at month’s end.
“The party line is that they can’t afford me,” said Long, the onsite manager of the mall who became a hero to many for his no-nonsense approach to dealing with criminals. “But it’s not like I make much money.” . . .
Long will be missed by merchants including Francisca Shokane, who owns a hair salon in the mall.
“Before they hired Darien, they used to rob our customers and snatch pursues,” Shokane told the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. “Now it is much better and safer. They don’t come in here and bother us anymore.”
Metro Mall management could not be reached for comment.

Darien Long ought to be a national hero for his one-man war against the Thug Culture. Where’s Bill Cosby when we need him?

Category: Crime, Culture

How Franklin Foer Fired Timothy Noah

Posted on | March 23, 2013 | 30 Comments

First, some idiot kid name Olga asks Nate Thayer to write for free. Then Matthew Yglesias buys himself a million-dollar D.C. townhouse. Now, an award-winning liberal journalist gets the ax:

On Thursday, New Republic columnist Timothy Noah received an email from editor Frank Foer asking him to meet at 2:30 pm on Friday. During the meeting, Foer told Noah that he was out of a job.
When Noah got to the New Republic’s lobby, on the way out the door, he decided to tweet the news himself: “I just got fired from @tnr. Don’t have a clue why. Anybody got a job?”
“All I got was your column isn’t a good fit for the direction the magazine is going in,” Noah told The Huffington Post shortly after.

Hmmm. “Your column isn’t a good fit.” Let’s imagine what Franklin Foer would have said if he had really been honest with Noah:

Dude, you’re 54 years old. Fifty f–king four, an aging Boomer with a loyal readership of aging Boomers, and that’s not where the action is these days, unless we want our advertising base to be mainly AARP, reverse mortages and Super Beta Prostate. Which we don’t, for obvious reasons. . . .
For crying out loud, Marty sold us to a 29-year-old multimillionaire. Think about that, OK?
Do you think Chris gives a damn about your Hillman Award? And so what, you wrote a book? About income inequality — as if Mister Facebook Wonder Boy is losing sleep over that.
What? . . . Well, yeah, but “quality” is in the eye of the beholder, really. Nowadays, it’s all about the clicks, Tim.
I’ve seen the analytics and, quite frankly, you’re not pulling your weight. Page-views, Facebook “likes,” re-Tweets — pick a metric, doesn’t matter. BuzzFeed gets more hits on a cute kitty video than most of your stuff gets.
Chris wants more hip, sexy content. He uses that word a lot, “sexy.” There’s basically two kinds of writing for him: “sexy” and “sucks.” And I’m not saying your stuff sucks, Tim, but it’s not sexy. I mean, when did you ever have a column go viral on Reddit, huh? When did any college kid ever re-Tweet you with an “LOL”? . . .
Sure, sure. I know you can try harder, Tim, but your salary is just too high for what we get in return, traffic-wise. I’ve got kids e-mailing me stuff every day, begging me to publish their stuff for free. These kids are desperate — liberal arts degrees from good schools, tens of thousands of dollars in student debt, working part-time at Starbucks and just trying to catch a break.
Why should I keep paying you big bucks for un-sexy columns when these kids write pretty good for free? Besides, you’ve got less than 6,000 Twitter followers, Tim, and some of these kids have 10,000 or more, so they can really drive the hits. And you’ve got, what? Fourteen hundred Facebook friends? There are high school kids with twice that.
It’s a business, Tim. Not personal. Chris doesn’t want to be the bad cop, so it’s my job to cut you loose. And trust me, you won’t be the last. There’s way too much un-sexy around here.

That’s what Franklin Foer would have said, if he were honest. But guys like that don’t get paid to be honest, do they?

Category: Journalism

The 1% Progressive Bloggers Club and the Bourgeois Dialectic of Comrade Yglesias

Posted on | March 23, 2013 | 55 Comments

Friend of the proletariat Matthew Yglesias (Photo: Matt Roth)

The news that left-wing ~~blogger~~ employee of Slate magazine Matthew Yglesias has purchased a $1.2-million townhouse in D.C.’s Logan Circle neighborhood has produced much chortling. Yglesias, after all, mocked property rights as the “myth of ownership.” Andy at AOSHQ says:

So, party at Matty’s this weekend? I mean, I’m sure he won’t mind if we crash the joint, what with that myth of owning private property and all.

Twitchy enjoys the rich irony, but before the “Occupy Yglesias” movement encamps on his patio — “a converted Victorian rowhouse, the unit has original exposed-brick walls and a private patio” — let’s observe a couple of key points:

Yglesias is entitled — He is, after all, a graduate of the Upper East Side’s prestigious Dalton School (annual tuition, $38,710) and a magna cum laude graduate of Harvard University (annual tuition, $54,496), so you don’t expect him to be hustling on the Internet for nickels and dimes, do you? No, he’s a fully-credentialed member of the meritocratic elite and therefore entitled to the prestigious positions he held at The American Prospect, The Atlantic Monthly and the Soros-funded Center for American Progress before landing at The Washington Post Co.’s online loss-leader, Slate.
He has his progressives defenders — Politics is a team sport, and one of Yglesias’s ideological comrades sniffs that critics are “playing ‘gotcha’ politics” (which thoughtful progressives never do, y’know) and defends the role of the intelligentsia in the struggles of the proletariat: “Yglesias can only be a hypocrite for purchasing an expensive home in a buyer’s market if you believe that class sympathies can only be extended to people in the same class as the sympathizer.”

What. Ever.

Journalism is a job, not a monastic order or a missionary crusade.

It’s ridiculous to expect writers to take a vow of poverty, even if their job requires them to pretend to believe in egalitarianism.

And certainly Yglesias isn’t stupid enough to believe that crap.

Wake the hell up, you people. Read more

Category: Blogging, Economics, Progressivism

The Other War on Women, or: It’s Not Harassment When Democrats Do It

Posted on | March 23, 2013 | 16 Comments

He “pulled a weiner”:

A state representative in Massachussetts is being investigated after allegedly sending pictures of his genitals to a government computer.
The investigation is ongoing and the committee has not formally reprimanded the individual in charge, but it is being widely reported that Democratic State Representative John Fresolo is the one behind the scandal.
He allegedly sent ‘lascivious photos of his privates’ to a computer at the State House, and an aide complained to the Ethics Committee to start the investigation.
House Speaker Robert DeLeo has not confirmed any accusations in the case except that he did say there was ‘sufficient cause’ for an investigation.
‘In order to protect the integrity of the Ethics Committee investigation, Speaker DeLeo will have no further comment on this matter,’ spokesman Seth Gitell said. . . .

(“You reporters need to stop asking so many questions! Can’t you see we’re busy orchestrating a cover-up here?”)

This is not [Fresolo’s] first scandal, as he has a history of violence towards his family members that has put him in trouble with social services.
In 2005 he reportedly physically abused his then-13-year-old daughter, and that came nearly a decade after he was arrested for beating his then-wife in 1996. She later dropped the charges.
Blogger Michele McPhee reports that he is now on paid administrative leave, which is allegedly angering his colleagues.
‘It’s bad enough that he pulled an Anthony Weiner and had pictures of his penis on State House computers, but then he tried to get his per diem pumped up. No one puts in for 220 days of commuting and with his commute that’s a lot of money,’ a state representative told her on the condition of anonymity.

Via Memeorandum, with more at Weasel Zippers, Gateway Pundit and The Daily Caller.

Category: Democrats, Massachusetts, Scandal, Sex

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