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Rule 5 Monday

Posted on | December 3, 2012 | 14 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho


Yesterday was bad. Saturday was spent finding out just how out of shape I am, and just how many books I’ve accumulated in forty-plus years. Sunday was spent enjoying painkillers and immobility. That having been said, here’s this week’s Rule 5 linkagery. Try not to follow the links where you shouldn’t.


Laughing Conservative kicks off with Lucinda Leong, Randy’s Roundtable offers Michaea Crawford, and Fishersville Mike salutes the Colts cheerleaders who got their heads shaved in support of coach Chuck Pagano. Reaganite Republican has a selection of rather weird women, Grumpy Old Man has girls eating ice cream, and First Street Journal offers women in uniform at training. A Trainwreck In Maxwell doubles up this week with Barbara Eden and Danielle Colby, a/k/a Danni Diesel.


EBL addresses a subject near and dear to my heart: women who love wombats. Also, Mary Woronov!


El Opinador Compulsivo brings back the black & white gallery, along with Kaley Cuoco, Michelle Waver, 80s hair, walking the dog Quebec-style, The Case of the Oxford Drug Mule (featuring Denise Milani), and Christmas-themed shots here and here.


A View From The Beach leads off with Carmen Electra, followed by the second blogversary, the BBC hiding the naked truth about cave girls, Gay Women Will Marry Your Boyfriends, ID That Tramp Stamp, Red, Blonde And Brunette Midnight Music, and a French girl singing like an angel.


Soylent Green’s Monday Motivationer is Aryane; then comes Overnighty Iryna, Tuesday Titillation Laura, Humpday Hawt Spassfabrik Solo Erica Ellyson, When All Else Fails Read The Directions, Overnighty preview, Corsetcare leftovers, Serbia Vampire Alert, Google Shoutout to Japan, Falconsword Friday, and AM Awesome Shannon.


Proof Positive’s Friday Night Babe is Alyssa Milano, his vintage babe is Mary Martin, and Sex in Advertising is all about the Look of Leather. Also, the obligatory 49ers cheerleader! Dustbury checks in with Cherie Currie and Janelle Monae, Three Beers Later offers medical advice, and at The Camp of the Saints, it’s Liz Asset and the Rule 5 News.


The DaleyGator’s DaleyBabes this week included Vanessa Minnillo, Christine Nguyen, Christina Applegate, Natassia Mahlte, Natsumi Abe, Gugu Mbatha Raw, and Nikki Reed with a Rule 5 roundup!


Thanks to everyone for their linkagery! Next week’s links will be due to the Rule 5 Wombat mailbox by Saturday, December 8.

Category: Rule 5

MeetYourDeath.com: Psychopathic Killers Now Have Internet Access, You Know

Posted on | December 3, 2012 | 14 Comments

Steven Michael Fabi (left) and Leigh Swanson (right)

Dan Riehl brings our attention to the case of 45-year-old Leigh Swanson, who went on a blind date Nov. 16 with a man she met online and whose body was found Wednesday in Michigan:

The Midland County sheriff’s department says 30-year-old Steven Michael Fabi was found dead Tuesday in a bedroom of a home in Edenville Township, in the Sanford area. Authorities say he apparently fatally shot himself as deputies were walking up to his house to investigate Swanson’s disappearance. . . .
Sheriff Jerry Nielsen has said Swanson called her mother from the man’s house on November 18th, two days after she left for the date.

Who was Steven Michael Fabi? We don’t know much about him yet, except that he was the prime suspect in the death of Swanson, whose body was found in woods near the house where Fabi lived with his family. A tip led police to Fabi’s house:

As two deputies arrived at the home, Nielsen said, they heard a loud “boom.”
A man came out of the house, according to the sheriff, and told deputies, “My son just shot himself.”

Swanson evidently had a premonition about Fabi:

“Leigh told me that she had a bad feeling about going on the date … I said, ‘don’t go,'” Swanson’s mother, Beverly Kane, explained.
“But when she got there … she called me … and said everything was OK,” her mother added.

You know when you get a spooky feeling about something? Trust that feeling. Maybe there’s not really anything to worry about, but it’s always better to be safe than to be a dead body in the woods. And let’s talk a bit about this online dating thing:

The social networking website where Leigh Swanson may have met the man who police believe killed her is working with authorities in the investigation.
“We are working closely with the Midland County Sheriff’s department to assist in their investigation of this tragic incident,” said Robin Shallow, MeetMe.com’s executive vice president of communications and public relations, in a statement.
Family told media Swanson met 30-year-old Steven Michael Fabi at MeetMe.com.

Obviously, it would be wrong to blame the proprietors of MeetMe.com for the death of Leigh Swanson, just as it would be wrong to suggest that every guy who uses the Internet to meet women is a potentially dangerous creepazoid. On the other hand, you have to ask yourself, “If Ted Bundy were alive today, how would he stalk his prey?”

 

Category: Crime

LIVE AT FIVENINE: 12.03.12

Posted on | December 3, 2012 | 11 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho


TOP NEWS
Fiscal Cliff Brinksmanship Goes To 11

TurboTax Timmy Explains It All

Speaker Boehner condemns White House plan as “non-serious”

PRC, Russia Press Norks To Scuttle Rocket Launch
Russians cite UNSC prohibition on missile launches

OK, France, Sweden Summon Israeli Ambassadors Over Settlement Expansion
UK may withdraw ambassador from Tel Aviv consulate



POLITICS
Obama Golfs With Bill Clinton While Economy Burns

Bill & Barack hit the links at Andrews

Third golf outing since winning re-election


Coast Guardsman Killed Off California Coast

40 Tennessee Schools Join Pilot Program For Longer School Hours


Doyline, Louisiana Evacuated After Six Million Pounds Of Gunpowder Found Improperly Stored

Schumer In Hot Pursuit Of $10 Million In Sandy Aid

Wikileaker’s Court-Martial Delayed

Finnish MP Defends “Jews Control US Media” Comment

Clashes Over Internet Regulation Erupt During UN Talks

AAA Weighs In Against E15 Mandate



THE ECONOMY, STUPID
Oil Continues Rise On Mideast Tension, Signs Of PRC Growth Revival: NYMEX $88.81, Brent $111.43
Greece Begins Buying Back Bonds
Delta Bids For Singapore Airlines’ 49% Stake In Virgin Atlantic
UK Lawmakers Seek End To Corporate Tax Avoidance
Michigan To Host Two Federally-Funded Battery Research Centers
Ford Rebranding Lincoln In Effort To Stand Out In Luxury Crowd
UN Internet Regulation Treaty Talks Begin In Dubai
Nokia Wants A Linux Expert For HERE Maps, Not An Android Phone
Among US Social Networks, Smartphone Use Trumps Mobile Web
Text Messaging Passes Its Peak As It Celebrates 20th Birthday
RIM: signs Of Life For Struggling Blackberry Maker?
“Bioshock Infinte” Box Art Released



SPORTS
Patriots Beat Dolphins, 23-17

Tom Brady hands off to Stephen Ridley

Victory clinches AFC East title for Patriots

Steelers Rally, Stop Skid With 23-20 Win Over Ravens

NHL Players Agree To Tuesday Meeting Without Bettman, Fehr

Texans Beat Titans 24-20 To Clinch Playoff Berth

McElroy Pilots Jets To 7-6 Victory After Rex Finally Pulls Plug On Sanchez

Colts Luck Out, Beat Lions 35-33

Nationals Non-Tender Lannan, Gorzelanny, Flores



FAMOUS FOR BEING FAMOUS
Shania Twain Kicks Off Two-Year Stint In Vegas

Shania Twain

In residence at Caesar’s Palace; 90-minute show apparently awesome

Hefner & Harris Getting Married – For Real This Time

Mario Lopez Weds Courtney Mazza

Lindsay Lohan – I DON’T Need Rehab!

Jovan Belcher – Girlfriend’s Family “Utterly Shocked” By Murder/Suicide

Dennis Quaid Files For Divorce

Chris Brown Quits Twitter

Ricky Gervais Acts All Atheist, Then Deletes Tweets

Sandra Lee Wants To “Educate The Uniformed” On “World Aides Day”

Alanis Morrissette Defies Boycott, Threats Over Israel Concert



FOREIGNERS
Egypt’s Top Judges Begin Strike As Anger Mounts Over Morsi’s Power Grab
Loyalists Pound Rebel Strongholds In Damascus
For Israel, Iron Dome Missile Defense System Represents Breakthrough
Pope Unveils @pontifex Twitter Handle
Former PM Pahor Defeats Incumbent For Slovenian Presidency
Boko Haram Suspected In Killings Of Christians In NE Nigeria
Clinton Warns Assad Against Use Of Chemical Weapons
Syrian Violence Spreads To Turkey, Lebanon
Former Communist Poised To Lead Italy



BLOGS & STUFF
Weasel Zippers: Obama Honors Rosa Parks Anniversary By Tweeting Pic Of Obama
Atlas Shrugs: Hillary Clinton Complains Holocaust Victims Lack “Empathy”, “Generosity” Toward Nazis
Israel Matzav: Obama’s Problem Is That Israel Supports The Right
Gateway Pundit: McCaskill Feels Sorry For Boehner For Not Wanting To Raise Taxes
Protein Wisdom: NBC Sports Hits A New Low
Ed Driscoll: Why Does Bob Costas Insist On Politicizing Cowboys-Eagles Games?
Jim Geraghty: A Presidency Of Perpetual Crisis
JustOneMinute: Sunday Morning

Category: Live at Five

Easy Progressive RINO Test

Posted on | December 3, 2012 | 11 Comments

by Smitty

Already we are told to blame the Tea Party movement for not taking back the Senate, even though more “moderate” Republicans lost their races than Tea Party supporters.

Two words in response to this tripe from the Establishment, the second of which is ‘You!’.

Here in Virginia, we had to watch George Allen, who is a Nice Guy, get his T. Coddington Van Voorhees VII schtick applied to him in the suppository fashion. Why was I subjected to televised debates of a brace of ex-Governors, one animated, the other not? Because Virginia’s open primaries permitted the Democrats to pick their poison, and that was the one they’d tossed under the bus in 2006.

Props to Tim Kaine; for a statist throne sniffer, he’s an excellent salesman. Door knocking for the GOP ticket, I encountered people happy enough to vote for Mitt, but planning to throw George under the bus. Perhaps Jaime Radtke would not have beaten Kaine in November, but she’d have been more than a 6’2″ wad of cotton candy in a suit, I reckon.

As I was saying on twitter the other day, the GOP has to articulate a non-Progressive course, rather than quibble with the Democrats over who gets the helm. The Tea Party is the solution for the GOP, not the problem.

Category: Virginia

Kim Kardashian, Alanis Morissette and the Creepiest Pop Trivia Fact Ever

Posted on | December 3, 2012 | 8 Comments

Kim Kardashian went to Bahrain to open a milkshake shop and police used tear gas to disperse a mob of Islamic extremists, one of whom held up a sign proclaiming “‘none of our customs and traditions allow us to receive stars of porn movies.”

Meanwhile, singer Alanis Morissette arrived in Israel for a concert in Tel Aviv, which sparked calls for a boycott from anti-Israel protesters.

On the subject of Alanis Morissette, Ben Howe informs us:

So I Googled it, and it’s true: When Morissette was a young singer in Hollywood, she dated Coulier, who is 15 years her senior and who was then starring as goofy “Uncle Joey” Gladstone on the family sitcom, Full House. And, yes, it seems her infamously angry song was about him:

When he first heard the song, “I said, ‘Wow, this girl is angry,’ “ he recalled. “And then I said, ‘Oh man, I think it’s Alanis.’ … I listened to the song over and over again, and I said, ‘I think I have really hurt this person.’ “

Let me remind you of a few choice lyrics from “You Oughta Know”:

An older version of me.
Is she perverted like me?
Would she go down on you in a theater? . . .
It was a slap in the face,
How quickly I was replaced.
Are you thinking of me when you f–k her? . . .
And every time I scratch my nails
Down someone else’s back, I hope you feel it.

Ouch. And she wrote that about the loveable clown from the wholesome TV comedy who did those silly Bullwinkle voices. Creepy.

 

I haven’t been this creeped out since I saw Mary-Kate Olsen’s boyfriend.

Category: Celebrities

Matthew Boyle Joins Breitbart.com

Posted on | December 3, 2012 | 2 Comments

After a little over two years at the Daily Caller, the 25-year-old investigative reporter explains why he’s switching jobs and includes the admission that he voted for Obama four years ago.

Give him a break. He’s just a kid.

Category: Journalism

This Week in Evil

Posted on | December 2, 2012 | 16 Comments

Most people underestimate the human capacity for evil, but it’s everywhere and claims new victims daily. A few examples from the past week:

That’s just one week. Evil keeps busy all year long.

Category: Crime

World’s Youngest Blogger Sports Owl Sweater, Conquers Hooters

Posted on | December 2, 2012 | 9 Comments

Dad was driving us back from Virginia Beach, and took a serendipity exit at Hampton Roads. He didn’t know, he claims, that there was a Hooters there, and who was I to argue? Who, indeed. Who! Who!

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Category: humor, World's Youngest Blogger
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