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Once, by a mere accident
only believable as Machiavellian advance,
our beloved America matriculated an
old-school, benighted Alinsky-ite moron all
over better advice, mocking acumen.

(At the behest of Bill Quick.)

Category: Barack Obama

A Post Of Such Sublime Depth, Sweep, And Analytic Power That I Am Left To Stand In Awe Of The Blogging Talent On Display And Simply Say: Wow, I Wish I Had Written That.

Posted on | October 28, 2012 | 17 Comments

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Category: humor

Rule 5 Sunday: Half Your Age

Posted on | October 28, 2012 | 11 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Usual disclaimer applies; don’t click the links where (and when) you know you shouldn’t.

EBL leads off this week with a flashback to the 80s and The Nails; also, some Halloween Rule 5: celebrity, vintage, and NFL.

Laughing Conservative has the monochromatic but lovely Diane Kruger, The Rio Norte Line brings the hot girls in glasses (also Holly Willoughby!), and American By Birth gets back in the Rule 5 bidness. Grumpy Old Man brings us Lauren Cohan, Randy’s Roundtable Cameron Diaz, and Fishersville Mike has Smurfs. First Street Journal continues their salute to women in uniform with a post on the ladies of the Czech Republic.

Soylent Green has the Doublemint Twins, Monday Motivationer Natalia, Tuesday Titillation Rodilina, Humpday Hawt Karrie, Jaclyn Swedberg, something about the temperature, a salute to Poles, Corsetcare Again, Overnighty Ashley Brooke, and AM Awesome Rosana. Also, Monique Senna and Natalia Casassola!

El Opinador Compulsivo, in a Genesis mood, sends us Lais De Leon, Beverages of choice, At The Office, a recursive picture, and morning coffee in St. Peter’s Square with bonus joke.

American Power returns this week with Catarina Migliorini, Jessica Davies, Pamela Anderson, Natalie Portman, and Alessandra Ambrosio.

A View From The Beach chips in with the girls of “Once Upon A Time”, bikini fails, a reporter flipping over loose fish, parallel universe fail, Ever Feel Like This?, Washington State Playgirl Candidate, and Lesbian Koalas: A How-To. I don’t write ’em, folks, I just post ’em.

Proof Positive brings us Alyson Hannigan, vintage babe Dinah Shore, Sex In Advertising, and the obligatory 49ers cheerleader; Dustbury has Felicia Chin and Corinne Calvet; Three Beers Later offers Rule 5 News You Can Use.

The DaleyGator’s DaleyBabes this week were Mai Hakase, Sarah Carter, Chelsea Gilligan, Ashley Kimel-Freeman, Lisa Marcos, Leticia Farr, Kaylani Lei and a rule 5 tour. Also, women in bikinis demonstrating Obamanomics.

Thanks to everyone for their links! Deadline to have your links for next Sunday’s Rule 5 roundup in to the Rule 5 Wombat mailbox is Saturday, November 3.

Category: Rule 5

Questions To General Powell

Posted on | October 28, 2012 | 23 Comments

by Smitty

How was that Jamaican Independence gala in August?

More to the point, how does your recent endorsement of #OccupyResoluteDesk square with the idea of a commander abandoning his troops in their hour of need?
This bit from Hayward stretches credulity, emphasis mine:

But I appraised the genius of Powell’s endorsement when I saw Chris Matthews’ reaction to it: “Do we really want to go back to people who got us into war in Iraq?” I’m sure by this Matthews means that a President Romney would be Bush III, but might this not work even better on those lefty voters who see Obama as Bush III? If the person who sold the Iraq War at the UN is now selling us Obama, I can see another hundred thousand votes going to the Green and Libertarian Party candidates. It’s right out of the Rush Limbaugh “Operation Chaos” playbook. Powell may have just won Wisconsin for Romney.

That seems too clever by half, Steven. Whatever damage is done in one state (an maybe Wisconsin really is that loopy, harboring a TrogloPundit like it does) but various ethnic and military constituencies would more than outweigh the damage in cheese-land, I should think.

Except that, based upon the Benghazi rumors tumbling like skeleton bones out of that Libyan closet, nobody but said skeletons should be brain-dead enough to cast a ballot for #OccupyResoluteDesk.

Seriously. I can’t figure out why the ex-chairman of the Joint Chiefs, and also former Secretary of State, would endorse such a useless piece of work as Barack for any office. Nor is it fair to play any guilt-by-association card with Farrakhan. But that does add a certain interesting angle, doesn’t it?

via Riley on Twitter

Category: Barack Obama, Election 2012

FROM OHIO: ROMNEY GAINS IN STATE POLL, NOW TIED WITH OBAMA

Posted on | October 28, 2012 | 31 Comments

CAMBRIDGE, Ohio
Just pulled into a McDonald’s here on the way to a Romney-Ryan rally in Marion — two and a half hours away — to quickly note the latest news via the Columbus Dispatch:

Romney closes Obama’s lead to split Ohio
Boosted by a surge among male voters who think he’s the best candidate to fix the economy, Republican Mitt Romney has come back to tie President Barack Obama in battleground Ohio.
They are deadlocked at 49?percent in a new Dispatch/Ohio News Organization poll. Obama was ahead by 5 points in the same poll published on Sept. 16.
How does that tie get broken in the next nine days?
“In the final days before the election, both campaigns will focus on turning out their bases, appealing to independents and attracting the few undecided voters that remain,” said Eric Rademacher, co-director of the University of Cincinnati’s Institute for Policy Research, which conducted the poll for Ohio’s eight largest newspapers.
“Absent any more twists and turns, a remarkable presidential campaign may end with the campaign that executes the best ‘ground game,’ narrowly delivering Ohio for the next president of the United States.”
The Buckeye State, the nation’s top presidential bellwether since 1900, is always important in a presidential election. But this year might be giving Ohio voters an attention-surplus disorder, with more than 70 visits by presidential candidates or their running mates, unprecedented ad spending, and reporters from around the world fanning across the state. Last week, a New York Times statistical analysis called Ohio more important than the other 49 states combined. . . .

Read the whole thing. I’ve got to get back on the road quickly — the Marion rally starts at 6:30 — but if you needed any further omens of how this campaign is going, Andrew Sullivan has once again gone absolutely Looney Tunes, almost certainly a harbinger of Republican victory.

Category: Election 2012, Fear. Loathing., Ohio, Polls

FMJRA 2.0: Dwayne Johnson Tribute Edition

Posted on | October 28, 2012 | 13 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

RNC Trounces DNC in Fundraising as Democrat Party Goes Bankrupt

Signs and Omens: Obama’s Fading Hope and the Graveyard Whistling Choir

MORE THAN 5,000 ATTEND RALLY FOR COAL IN GRUNDY, VIRGINIA

FINAL 2012 DEBATE: ‘FOREIGNERS’

Neal Rauhauser, Who Drove Barrett Brown Off the Deep End, Continues Unrelenting Harassment of His Targets

Hogewash

Don’t Get Cocky, But Do Note The Aroma Of Fear Wafting From The Left

My Beer vs. Nate Silver’s Two Beers

EUSSR?

Democrat Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. Hospitalized Again for Mental Illness

FMJRA 2.0: Sunday Electronica Edition

Wisconsin Shooting Rampage: Suspected Gunman Reportedly Among 3 Dead UPDATE: Killer Radcliffe Houghton Signed Scott Walker Recall Petition

Rule 5 Sunday: Pulchritudinous Power Hour

LIVE AT FIVE: 10.22.12

The Democrat Graveyard Whistling Choir Ignores ‘Preference Cascade’ Scenario

VIDEO: New Romney Campaign Ad Practically Calls Obama ‘SCOAMF’

McKay Coppins, Concern Troll

That Mr. G Guy

Another Sad Installment in the Series: ‘Why the Hell Is Chris Matthews on TV?’

LIVE AT FIVE: 10.23.12

Obscure Ex-Starlet @SophiaBush Sticks Her #LadyParts Out on Twitter, With Hilariously Predictable Results

VIDEO: Romney Ad Highlights Debate

Da Tech Guy

Obama Hits MTV On Friday To Talk About His Second Term Agenda

Down-Ticket VA Races

Daily Pundit

LIVE AT FIVE: 10.24.12

Islam, Terrorism, and the Truth

Michelle Obama Used Partial-Birth Abortion as 2004 Fundraising Issue

Eternity Matters

‘There’s Not Much Time Left and the Future of Our Country Is at Stake’

Jackie Wellfonder

Crazy Uncle Joe Biden Campaigns in Ohio, Apparently Thinks He’s in Iowa

Son Of ‘Gentleman’ Jim Moran Strangely Comfortable With Possible Voter Fraud, But Not Staying On Dad’s Campaign

Col. Patrick Murray Responds To ‘Gentleman’ Jim’s Son’s Departure From Moran’s Staff

Andrew J. Patrick

Obama: ‘I’ve Got a Plan!’

LIVE AT ~~FIVE~~SIX: 10.25.12

Lower The Boom

Polls Continue to Show Trend Toward Romney — Nate Silver Notwithstanding

Neal Rauhauser, Fugitive?

Hogewash

Is Virginia Still a Battleground?

Blog de KingShamus

Prayers For Zilla And Riehl

Are You a ‘Nate Silver Truther’?

LIVE AT FIVE: 10.26.12

Lower The Boom

VIDEO: Obama Destroyed in RNC Ad

Jackie Wellfonder

Joe Biden: Obama’s Albatross

The Daley Gator

@DanRiehl Update

About That Creepy Obama ‘First Time’ Ad

Top linkers this week:

Daley Gator (10)
Lonely Conservative (9)
Daily Pundit (8)
Hogewash (7)
(tied) That Mr. G Guy, Grumpy Old Man, and Jackie Wellfonder (5)

Welcome back to the leaderboard, Jackie and Mr. G, and welcome to Grumpy Old Man, who linked early and often!

Thanks to everyone for their linkagery! Deadline for next week’s FMJRA will be Friday, November 2nd; if you are not already out knocking doors for Mitt Romney and your local Republican candidates, please consider doing so or at least doing some GOTV calling.

The Rock sums up how I feel about Nate Silver and the rest of the Lamestream Media.

Category: FMJRA Award

Judge Jeanine Rips BHO Over Benghazi, And There Is A Larger Problem

Posted on | October 28, 2012 | 53 Comments

by Smitty

I had never seen or heard of Justice with Judge Jeanine, but this clip, apparently from last night, is succinct, on point, and brutal:

Deeper than the specifics of #Benghaziquiddick* is the leadership problem afoot here. You can overtly cripple the U.S. military with budget cuts. You can covertly cripple the U.S. military by trashing its morale.

On my first WESPAC cruise in 1989, we spent several days which were supposed to be a port call in Singapore carving circles in the water not far from that port. Why? A young deck seaman on one of the Knox-class frigates had gone overboard. Such tragedies occur for all manner of reasons, savory and less so. However, every squid in that battle group knew that, if it was them, the battle group was going to do precisely the same thing: make every reasonable effort to recover you alive, or at least recover you.

This notion of “never leaving a buddy” is pounded into every military head at every rank. Should you hold the privilege of commanding a unit, I perceive it counts double: you neither want to see a buddy left dangling in the breeze, and you really don’t want the anguish of explaining to the world why there was a death within you command.

Which brings us to our current Commander-in-Chief, #OccupyResoluteDesk. I don’t believe the principle of “never leaving a buddy” eluded George W. Bush, say whatever else you will of his policies. In contrast, you have the Obama White House needing to dispute a story that it sends form letters to families of the fallen. Wow.

The idea of a cowardly POTUS, whose ‘gutsy calls’ come only after excessive amounts of Hamlet-esque hand-wringing is staggering. If you don’t grasp the basic notion of “never-leave-a-buddy”, then you are not fit for the role of Commander-in-Chief at all. I would muster measurably more respect for BHO if it turned out he was a Machiavellian scoundrel who was using U.S. lives as hostage bait. Let Ambassador Stevens become a useful crisis for October, to own the news cycle, and freeze out Romney. In such a scenario, he’d do some grand deal around Halloween, and then victory laps until the election. One wishes for certainty that this was not the intent of Benghazi.

Now we see how, BHO’s lack of loyalty down turns into a lack of loyalty up. There exists a category of no-talent clown who thinks that rank or office is what matters, and fundamentals like “never leave a buddy” do not. Au contraire, mon fine French frere. Sir Blames-a-lot may point a finger, but the information leaks are going to continue to point back at him. Obama really isn’t anyone’s buddy, and he’s not actually getting left behind. At least not in the same sense as Stevens, Smith, Woods, and Doherty. Yet the same callous indifference Obama offered Americans in a real-world crisis is being repaid him in spades.

Couldn’t happen to a more deserving piece of work.

via Mind-Numbed Robot

Update: linked at Obi’s Sister.

*Don’t “-gate” it when there is a death toll.

Category: Barack Obama, Libya, Military

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A Post Of Such Sublime Depth, Sweep, And Analytic Power That I Am Left To Stand In Awe Of The Blogging Talent On Display And Simply Say: Wow, I Wish I Had Written That.

Rule 5 Sunday: Half Your Age

Questions To General Powell

FROM OHIO: ROMNEY GAINS IN STATE POLL, NOW TIED WITH OBAMA

FMJRA 2.0: Dwayne Johnson Tribute Edition

Judge Jeanine Rips BHO Over Benghazi, And There Is A Larger Problem

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