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Rule 5 Sunday: Chrome Angel

Posted on | January 20, 2013 | 12 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho


The following links are sometimes to material considered NSFW. Reader discretion in opening links is advised.


Subject To Change makes its Rule 5 debut with a post full of awesome, as does Lowering The Boom, and Laughing Conservative has Jessica Clement. Animal Magnetism brings Rule 5 Friday and the Saturday Gingermageddon, while Fishersville Mike wonders if the Ravens (and their cheerleaders) are ready for the big game. Reaganite Republican has Miss Croatia, Elizabeta Burg, and First Street Journal continues their tributes to women in uniform with “M*A*S*H Was Real”. Randy’s Roudtable offers Kelly Weekers.


EBL leads off with a TMI tweet, followed by Jessica Chastain, Lena Dunham, Scarlett Johanson, and Anna Kendrick – with suitably appropriate accompaniment by the  Divinyls.


A View From The Beach leads off its Rule 5 linkagery with Abi Titmuss, followed by Ooops, Wrong Girl!, Hot Chicks For Tuna, Brazilians Against Biodiversity, Would Ya?, Topless Vatican Protest, and a Saturday Night PSA. Due to the lack of cave girls in these posts, the management opts to include this link to something suitable by Fastner & Larson.


El Opinador Compulsivo checks in this week with Emmy Rossum, Sofia Vergara for Pepsi, Marina Calabro – model, journalist and free-market advocate! Also, Vikki Blows, a report on George Clooney’s testicles, plus the music of David Garrett and Orianthi!


Soylent Green has your Sunday Sanja, a football post, Monday Motivationer Gracie, Tuesday Titillation Christine, a Humpday Hawt Czechmate, Evening Awesome Domino, Falconsword Fursday Gracyanne, Overnighty Adrienne Friend, Corsetcare: Revolution, Go(Ogler) Chum, and Afternooner Alexa.


Proof Positive’s Friday Night Babe was Laetitia Casta, his vintage babe was Karin Dor, and Sex In Advertising is covered this week by the Unspeakable Armenian. Also, cheerleaders from the 49er’s, Falcons, Texans and Broncos! At Dustbury, it’s Emmy Rossum and Annaliese Braakensiek; at The Camp of the Saints, it’s Emmanuelle Chriqui and the Rule 5 News.


The Daley Gator’s DaleyBabes this week were Yukiko Watanabe, Leslie Bibb (with a Rule 5 roundup), Diane Mizota, Elizabeth Christian, Amerie, Moran Atias, and Paola Andrea Rey.


Thanks to everyone for their linkagery! Deadline to submit links to the Rule 5 Wombat mailbox for next week’s Rule 5 Sunday is Saturday, January 26.

Category: Rule 5

Democrats: The Party of Criminals

Posted on | January 20, 2013 | 21 Comments

The Filthy Rotten Party of Corruption, Treason, Fraud, Sodomy and Abortion is represented in Congress by such vicious specimens as Harry Reid, Charlie Rangel, Robert Menendez and Jim Moran.

But the party elects thieves and thugs at every level, which explains why suburban Richmond is represented in the Virginia House of Delegates by a disbarred, disgraced and divorced ex-lawyer who wants to disarm law-abiding citizens:

A Virginia lawmaker who drew gasps from his colleagues when he brandished a borrowed AK-47 during an anti-gun speech Thursday was found guilty in 2002 of committing a vicious 1999 assault, was sanctioned for legal misconduct while prosecuting a rape case, spent six months in jail for contempt of a federal court, and saw his law license revoked in 2003. . . .
Morrissey paid a man $500,000 in 2007 to settle a 2002 court judgment against him, related to a 1999 physical assault.
According to legal brief filed by the victim’s attorneys, Morrissey shouted, “I’m going to kill you. I’m going to beat your head in,” before beating the victim and “smash[ing] his head into the corner of a brick wall.”

Clearly, Joseph Morrissey is a menace to society, which is why he could only be elected to office as a Democrat, indicating that the 74th District is a wretched hive of scum and villainy.

No decent, honest and intelligent person would associate themselves with the vile creatures elected to office as Democrats, who believe in a government of the criminals, by the criminals, for the criminals.

Somebody ought to write a book about this . . .

Category: Corruption, Crime, Democrats, Scandal, Virginia

When the Good Guys Win

Posted on | January 20, 2013 | 25 Comments

“She was very brave, she stayed on the phone with the dispatcher the whole time — talked all the way through it and was still on the phone with dispatch when we got into the house.”
— Ken Golden, Bryan County (Okla.) Sheriff’s Department

“I had to do what I had to do. I was scared out of my mind.”
— Kendra St. Clair

“The perversity I want to understand starts in the ’60s. What happened? This: intellectuals took over the elite.”
— David Gelernter, Drawing Life: Surviving the Unabomber

When Instpundit linked the story yesterday and I Tweeted it as the “feel-good story of the year,” some people evidently got the mistaken idea that I was being sarcastic, which I wasn’t. When a 12-year-old girl shoots a burglar, that’s good news:

BRYAN COUNTY, Okla. — A 12-year-old girl did what she had to do to protect herself from an intruder in her home on the Texas border.
She hid in a closet and shot him when he tried to open the door.

Here’s the 911 call Kendra made:

The suspect, 32-year-old Stacey Adam Jones, was apparently a very bad guy. He had been a suspect in the case of a missing girl a year earlier.

What I had in mind, in calling this the “feel-good story of the year,” was something that David Gelernter observed in his 1997 book, Drawing Life: Surviving the Unabomber. While doing some historical research, Gelernter came across a photo caption in a magazine from the 1930s, showing police with the bodies of two robbers the cops had shot dead in an ambush, a feat that the caption writer called a “neat trick.”

Cops shoot two bad guys — neat trick.

We don’t see that attitude much among journalists nowadays, Gelernter remarked, because journalism is a profession that has been taken over by intellectuals, and intellectuals have had their heads stuffed so full of ACLU rhetoric about police brutality and the “rights” of criminals that it’s impossible for them to believe that (a) criminals are bad people and therefore (b) it’s a good thing for criminals to get shot.

A few years ago, my younger brother shot a knife-wielding crackhead who broke into his house. The intruder was undeterred by the barking dog and failed to heed my brother’s warning, so he was dispatched with a blast of 12-gauge buckshot. My kids still laugh at the laconic matter-of-fact way my brother described the incident. What happened? “I shot him.” Did you kill him? “Yep.”

Crackhead with knife. Homeowner with shotgun. Neat trick.

Americans used to think that way, and the intellectuals who have tried to teach us to think otherwise — to view criminals as “victims of society” — should be regarded as accomplices to crime.

Law-abiding citizens have the right to armed self-defense, and anyone who advocates the infringement of that right is a bad person.

My friend Robert Waters wrote two books I highly recommend: The Best Defense: True Stories of Intended Victims Who Defended Themselves with a Firearm and Guns Save Lives: True Stories of Americans Defending Their Lives With Firearms. You have to wonder why nobody in Hollywood has thought to turn those true stories into a movie, or at least a cable TV series, but of course the intellectuals have taken over Hollywood, too. That’s the only possible explanation for why you haven’t heard more about the story of Kendra St. Clair.

Twelve-year-old girl shoots intruder. Neat trick.

 

 

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Category: Constitution, Crime, Intellectuals, Oklahoma

Should @TedNugent And The NRA Just Morph Into A Political Party?

Posted on | January 19, 2013 | 51 Comments

by Smitty

His Tedness remains quintessentially American:

My point here is:

  1. The GOP seems kinda feckless.
  2. Political parties ain’t beanbag.
  3. The NRA offers great depth, if not breadth.
  4. The threat of an under-bussing might get a bit of notice from the GOP elite, once Boehner’s tear tank runs low.

The NRA has succeeded by focusing on just the one amendment. However, the collapse of the other nine in the Bill of Rights is truly worrisome.

via Fox and Bunker91

Category: Celebrities

FMJRA 2.0: Disco Boy

Posted on | January 19, 2013 | 4 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Eighteen Severed Human Heads Stopped En Route to Chicago ‘Research Facility’

FMJRA 2.0: Modern Love

Nobody Really Likes @LenaDunham, and Deep Down Inside She Knows It, Too

What Depression Is, and Isn’t

Michael Moore’s Politics of Prejudice

WaPo’s Cillizza Says Political Party Power Dying for GOP, But What Does it Mean?

Ed Said Nix Flick: Odd ‘Squad’ Cop Flop, Mugs Thugs With Lame Gang Bang-Bang

‘Anonymous’ and Steubenville: Online Lynch Mob Complicates Rape Case

Neal Rauhauser: FBI Informant?

Rule 5 Sunday: Body Love

LIVE AT FIVE: 01.14.13

Marxism by Any Other Name

Obama’s Festival of Lies

LIVE AT FIVE: 01.15.13

Transsexual Bullies Successfully Censor Feminist Writers Who Criticized Them

The Problem With ‘Sponsored Content’: Atlantic Unpublishes Scientology Article

Why Doesn’t President Obama Support ‘Citizens Against Senseless Violence’?

Steubenville ‘Rape Crew’? Non-Facts Smear the Innocent in an Ohio Town

LIVE AT FIVE: 01.16.13

‘Just Another Elitist Hypocrite’

Slow-Mo Walkback Beginning? Sheepish Silence From Anti-Steubenville Media

The Iranian Navy On A Med Cruise?

LIVE AT FIVE: 01.17.13

Dear Texas: Please Secede Now

Jonah Goldberg, Professional Loser?

Crisis in Algeria: More ‘Arab Spring’ Consequences; U.S. Hostages Seized

The Filthy Rotten Party of Corruption, Treason, Fraud, Sodomy and Abortion

Five Years Ago Today …

LIVE AT FIVE:  01.18.13

#LennayKekuaFacts: What You Don’t Know About Manti Te’o’s Fake Girlfriend

The Country’s Going Straight to Hell, But at Least We’ve Got a ‘Likeable’ President

National Review Institute Summit: Will This Controversial Event Make Headlines?

Top linkers this week:

  1. Rick’s Rants (13 the hard way)
  2. (tied) Hogewash and Daley Gator

Couple of folks just missed clearing the bar; I prescribe a daily link to Live At Five. 🙂

Deadline to submit links for next week’s FMJRA is Friday, January 25. Thanks to everyone for their linkagery!

 

Category: FMJRA Award

‘Arab Spring’ Update: Hostages Killed in Algeria; French Fight Islamists in Mali

Posted on | January 19, 2013 | 14 Comments

“The International Society for the Suppression of Savage Customs had entrusted him with the making of a report, for its future guidance. And he had written it, too. I’ve seen it. I’ve read it. It was eloquent, vibrating with eloquence, but too high-strung, I think. Seventeen pages of close writing he had found time for! . . . But it was a beautiful piece of writing. . . . It was very simple, and at the end of that moving appeal to every altruistic sentiment it blazed at you, luminous and terrifying, like a flash of lightning in a serene sky: ‘Exterminate all the brutes!’”
— Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness

If you have been troubled recently by the thought that Mr. Kurtz may have been onto something, certainly you aren’t alone. We haven’t been doing too well in the Suppression of Savage Customs lately:

In a bloody finale, Algerian special forces stormed a natural gas complex in the Sahara desert on Saturday to end a standoff with Islamist extremists that left at least 23 hostages dead and killed all 32 militants involved, the Algerian government said. . . .
The siege at Ain Amenas transfixed the world after radical Islamists linked to al-Qaida stormed the complex, which contained hundreds of plant workers from all over the world, then held them hostage surrounded by the Algerian military and its attack helicopters for four tense days that were punctuated with gun battles and dramatic tales of escape. . . .

The Obama administration remains clueless:

U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said much remains “sketchy” about what  happened at the remote Ain Amenas gas field.
“We know that lives have been lost,” he said.
Asked how many Americans were in danger and what happened to them, Panetta  said he knew Americans were still being held hostage earlier Saturday. On what  happened to them, he said, “we need to get better information.”

Meanwhile, the New York Times reports on events in neighboring Mali:

With French officials saying confidently on Saturday that an advance by Islamist militants on Bamako, Mali’s capital, had been halted, France’s foreign minister told African leaders that “our African friends need to take the lead” in a multilateral military intervention in Mali. . . .
The French defense minister, Jean-Yves Le Drian, said Saturday that France now had 2,000 troops in Mali, with more in the region, and that France was likely to add to its forces there. . . .
Residents have told local news agencies that the Islamists have left Diabaly, which they seized as an important way station on the road to the administrative capital, Ségou, north of Bamako.
French airstrikes have halted the Islamist advance toward Mopti and nearby Sévaré, French officials said, while they confirmed that the village of Konna, north of Mopti, was now back in the hands of Mali’s government. The French have also sent troops along with Malian forces to secure a bridge over the Niger River at Markala, north of Ségou.

Mitt Romney was mocked for mentioning Mali in his final debate with President Obama. Professor Stephen Clark observed this week that the connection between “the Islamist takeover of northern Mali with the NATO-led overthrow of the Gaddafi” in Libya was overlooked by the media:

Mali is a knock-on consequence of a failed north-African policy. Just such consequences were the fear expressed by some with US interventions in Iraq and Afghanistan. Those failed to materialize. Now that they have materialized as a consequence of Obama’s policies the grand-high poobahs and their courtiers are as silent as church mice.

William Wallis in the Financial Times described the uprising in Mali as a “boomerang” of U.S. anti-terror policy, and this inspires bitter Kurtz-like reflections from Ed Morrissey:

The boomerang in this case came from our extremely ill-advised and reckless intervention in Libya, which turned that nation into a failed state and sent tentacles of radicalism throughout the Sahel. And what did we gain from the Libyan adventure and the revolution we blessed in Egypt by tossing a 30-year ally to the wolves? In the latter, we now have leadership that feels entirely comfortable using eliminationist rhetoric against Israel; in the former, we have a burned-out consulate, four dead Americans, and a central government whose writ won’t run in half the country. Our policies in the last two years in this region have emboldened our enemies and disillusioned our allies, and in this case we didn’t get anything at all in trade for the unintended consequences we have reaped.

Don’t worry, Ed: The President’s a Nobel Peace Prize winner! And I’m sure the International Society for the Suppression of Savage Customs is eagerly awaiting your final report.

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Category: Algeria, Barack Obama, Ed Morrissey, France, Mali, Military, Terrorism

From the NTTAWWT Files: Feds Arrest Transvestite Priest for Dealing Meth

Posted on | January 19, 2013 | 12 Comments

Not That There’s Anything Wrong With That:

The Catholic priest busted for allegedly dealing crystal meth was suspended after church officials discovered he was a cross-dresser who was having sex in the rectory at Bridgeport’s St. Augustine Cathedral. . . .
Monsignor Kevin Wallin was relieved of his duties in May, but the Roman Catholic Diocese of Bridgeport had continued to pay him a stipend until his Jan. 3 arrest — a day he was planning to fly to London on vacation. . . .
At one point, Wallin was selling upwards of $9,000 of meth a week, according to his indictment.
In his post-priesthood, Wallin, 61, bought an adult specialty and video store in North Haven called Land of Oz that sells sex toys and X-rated DVDs. Investigators believe the shop helped him launder thousands of dollars in weekly profits. . . .
“We had no indication he had a drug problem and never had complaints regarding him and drugs,” said Diocese Spokesman Brian Wallace.
Instead, Wallace said they became concerned in the spring of 2011 when they began receiving complaints from parishioners regarding Wallin’s appearance and erratic behavior.
“We approached him and he admitted he was struggling a bit and shortly after that he resigned (July 2011) and the bishop granted him a sabbatical,” Wallace said. . . .
While pastor of St. Augustine’s, sources said he often disappeared for days at a time; and rectory personnel became concerned and notified diocese officials when Wallin, sometimes dressed as a woman, would entertain odd-looking men, some who were also dressed in women’s clothing and engaging in sex acts.
In addition, diocese officials found bizarre sex toys in Wallin’s residence, the sources said.

So, “he admitted he was struggling a bit,” did he? This character just set a world land-speed record for going from “struggling a bit” to a federal drug felony indictment in roughly 18 months. And I’m certain Monsignor Wallin’s behavior with altar boys was impeccable, eh?

Category: Catholics, Crime, Gays, Scandal

Scientology ‘Advertorial’ Scandal Exposes Atlantic Executive as Truthless Swine

Posted on | January 19, 2013 | 15 Comments

If nothing else, the past week has made clear that The Atlantic‘s president, M. Scott Havens, is an unethical scoundrel who cannot be trusted in the vicinity of anything purporting to be “journalism.”

Monday, The Atlantic embarrassed itself by publishing a glowing “sponsored content” article that heaped praise on the leadership of the Scientology cult. This ludicrous “advertorial” got yanked within 12 hours, after exposing the once-reputable Atlantic to vicious (and inarguably well deserved) ridicule, including a dead-on parody by The Onion: “The Taliban Is A Vibrant And Thriving Political Movement.”

The motives of the Scientology cultists were clear enough: A shocking exposé was coming out (Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, and the Prison of Belief, by Lawrence Wright), so they were buying some public-relations damage control with this “article” at a prestigious journal.

Unfortunately for the Scientology swindlers, that backfired disastrously and the “sponsored content” scandal led to a “Streisand Effect” that actually increased scrutiny of the ripoff science fiction cult. Going Clear is now the No. 1 bestseller among religion books at Amazon, and No. 5 overall. The surge of media attention has also boosted sales of Janet Reitman’s 2011 book Inside Scientology: The Story of America’s Most Secretive Religion, as well as advance sales of the soon-to-be-released Beyond Belief: My Secret Life Inside Scientology and My Harrowing Escape, a tell-all memoir by Jenna Miscavige Hill, niece of Church of Scientology leader David Miscavige.

This negative publicity backlash has also damaged The Atlantic‘s upscale brand, and that damage is likely to be made worse by the attempt of the magazine’s top executive to talk his way out of this humiliation. Late Friday, M. Scott Havens sent out a company-wide memo that was immediately leaked to media watchdog Jim Romenesko. The memo was crammed with dishonest doubletalk like this:

We ran a “native advertising” campaign for a new advertiser that, while properly labeled as Sponsor Content, was in my opinion inconsistent with the strategy and philosophy for which this program is intended. In this case, we did not adequately work with the advertiser to create a content program that was in line with our brand. In addition, because we had not fully thought through the issues around commenting on Sponsor Content, we made some mistakes trying to moderate the commenting thread. The general media climate also played a role here.
Once these issues came to light and I had the opportunity to assess the campaign, I made the decision to suspend it pending further review. To be clear, our decision to pull the campaign should not be interpreted as passing judgment on the advertiser as an organization. Where I believe we erred was in the execution of the campaign.

Upon reading that self-serving heap of bullshit, one hopes, the entire staff of The Atlantic replied by e-mail with two weeks’ notice.

Havens is a lying pimp who treats his employees like dishonest whores.

(Via MediaGazer.)

 

 

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