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Rule 5 Sunday: Only God Knows Why

Posted on | August 26, 2012 | 8 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Standard disclaimer: some of the following links are to photographs liable to cause unfavorable reactions from wives, girlfriends, boyfriends, fellow workers, bosses, Gender Studies majors, and other people in a position to make your life miserable or otherwise pollute your purity of essence. Discretion is advised.

We welcome Senator Blutarsky  to Rule 5 Sunday; his inaugural post concerns how even Communist airlines have surpassed ours in comfort. Laughing Conservative checks in next with Tulisa Contostavlos, and A Fool’s Game has clearly developed a heroine addiction; see also here and here. The Rio Norte Line brings the vintage goodness with Liz Hurley, Randy’s Roundtable breaks with Rachel Stevens and Jennifer Ellison, and IMNSHO seems to be adopting the practice of Corset Fridays. Reaganite Republican is staying tuned to Fox News Channel’s Jenna Lee, and First Street Journal has their own take on Rule 5 in “A Weapon And A Smile“. Fishersville Mike is ready for the new TV season.

The Camp of the Saints checked in late last week, so we held Tamara Ecclestone and Mary Elizabeth Winstead over for this week. Three Beers Later goes country this week with Hillbilly Girl, Cotton-Eyed Joe, and Fine Looking Country Girl. Also, Les Miz. Proof Positive brings Alexis Bellino, vintage babe Morgan Fairchild, another reminder that football season looms, and Marisa Miller in the Sex In Advertising segment. Dustbury offers Sheree Murphy and Sela Ward this week.

A View From The Beach has Heather Graham, cupcakes as contraceptives, “Under The Bridge”, “Debt Bomb”, They Call Him Flipper, “Land Down Under” (starring Miranda Kerr), Sixty Years Of The Uneven Bars, Chicago Prepares For Zombie Outbreak, and “Bring Me Little Water Sylvie”. Zombies but no cave girls? The Wombat is not pleased.

El Opinador Compulsivo returns from the cutting edge of science to bring us a nanoprint of Lena Soderberg, along with some larger, more enjoyable pix. Also, Gemma Massey, Olivia Munn, a B&W gallery [Old school! :)], four reasons not to drive an ultra-compact car, and the new Carl’s Jr. BBQ ad starring Sara Jean Underwood and Emily Ratajkowski. Deme dos, indeed! Also, strategic body paint and some non-Rule 5 shots from the recent Dream Theater concert in Buenos Aires.

American Power leads off with Britney Spears and follows that up  with Nicole Kidman, Natalie Portman, Ashleigh Hughes, the aforementioned Memphis BBQ Burger ad, and Salma Hayek.

Soylent Green begins the week with this important health tip: don’t forget to floss. Monday Motivationer Rachelle follows, along with Tuesday Titillation, Humpday caliente Andrea, a link that’s actually SFW, nostalgia for Westerns, The Call of Corsetcare, a Twilight Tumblr, and something to commemorate post #2300.

The Daley Gator’s Daleybabes this week include Erina Mano, Salma Hayek, Ayaka Tomada, Leila Lopes, Naoho Ichihashi, Thais Concepcion, Kanon Hokawa, and Sivan Krispin with some hot links!

Thanks to everyone for their linkagery! Links for next week’s Rule 5 roundup are due to the Rule 5 Wombat mailbox by Saturday, September 1.

 

 

Category: Rule 5

Ybor City Scenes

Posted on | August 26, 2012 | 21 Comments

Chef cooks in the window of La Creperia Cafe
on 7th Avenue, Ybor City, Sunday, Aug. 26, 2012

TAMPA, Florida
Our accommodations for Convention Week are in the historic Ybor City neighborhood, walking distance from 7th Avenue, the major nightlife scene in Tampa. When I woke up this morning about 7:30 a.m., I decided to go get breakfast and eventually found La Creperia Cafe, which is a lot less la-dee-da than the name might suggest. A breakfast crepe and coffee was $11, with 77 cents tax and I tipped $3.25 for a $15 tab. (Hit the freaking tip jar!)

After breakfast, I took a stroll down 7th Avenue, which is sort like the French Quarter in New Orleans, in that it’s jumping all night and pretty quiet in the morning. All the local merchants are rolling out the welcome mat for the Republican National Convention.

A gay-themed welcome poster hangs in the window of an art gallery. As in other similar neighborhoods, a significant gay presence is part of the whole “gentrifying” yuppie vibe in Ybor City.

The Gonzalez Martinez Cigar Factor is also home to the famed Columbia Restaurant. Ybor City is historically known as the “Cigar Capital of the World,” and shops still feature hand-rolled cigars — quite literally, you can watch while they roll a cigar just for you.

A sign in the window of Gaspar’s Grotto advertises their award-winning Cuban sandwiches. Ali Akbar, his assistant Devon Wills and I went out for a midnight dinner Saturday night and I had the Cuban sandwich, which they serve with plantain chips. Gaspar’s Grotto calls itself a “Notorious Pirate Bar,” but the Saturday night crowd included more lesbians than pirates. NTTAWWT.

 





 

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Category: Fear and Loathing at the Republican National Convention, Florida

FMJRA 2.0: Stone Cold Crazy

Posted on | August 26, 2012 | 6 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

When the Truth Goes Viral

The Truth Goes Viral Again: Progressive Labor Leader Speaks Explicitly About Occupy Movement’s Communist Goals

Report: Republican Todd Akin Will Withdraw From Missouri Senate Race

Does Anybody Think @BillMaher Is Funny?

Reality TV Star Dies Surreal Death

‘A Daily Barrage of Sexually Based Comments and Unsuitable Conduct’

FMJRA 2.0: Halcyon

I Call A Bullish Hit

 

Rule 5 Sunday: A New England

Neal Rauhauser Again? Yet Another Conspiracy Theory Smear Emerges

Todd Akin And Amendment 2.5

LIVE AT FIVE: 08.20.12

Memo to Code Pink: Perhaps You Have Misunderstood the ‘Pussy Riot’ Concept

‘Because Truth Is an Absolute Defense’

Objectively, Todd Akin Is Doomed

Regulations Not The Problem: Complexity

Rove: Akin ‘Irreparably Damaged’; UPDATE: NRSC Turns Against Akin

Top Missouri Republicans Call for Akin to Quit Senate Race; He Says He’s Staying In

The Politics of Dumb

Separated At Birth: Kerry Gauthier / Gerry Connolly Edition

LIVE AT FIVE: 08.22.12

Twenty Thousand Muslims Expected to Attend Democrat Convention in Charlotte

Kids! What’s the Matter With Kids Today?

Is Elizabeth Warren Willing To Go Deeper Than ‘Diving Klaxon’ Kennedy’s ’67 Olds To Win Back ‘His’ Seat? Why, Yes.

Lowry to Climate-Change Zealot: Put Your Hockey Stick Where the Sun Don’t Shine

LIVE AT FIVESEVEN: 08.23.12

Like the New York Times, But Better

President of a Black Fear

We Are Once Again Reminded Why You Can’t Spell ‘Huckabee’ Without an ‘F’

Bouie In: ‘Off-Beat Tales Of Racism And The Master Baiter; Wax On, Wax Oft’

Tampa, Here I Come

Sean Bielat: On A MA-4 Mission

Top linkers this week:

  1. (tied) Hogewash and The Camp of the Saints (9)
  2. Daily Pundit (6)
  3. (tied) Jackie Wellfonder, Lonely Conservative, Nice Deb, Daley Gator (5)

Thanks to everyone for their linkagery! Links for next week’s FMJRA are due Friday,  August 29.

 

Category: FMJRA Award

First Arrest of RNC Protesters Reported

Posted on | August 26, 2012 | 26 Comments

TAMPA, Florida
Reported by Kameel Stanley of the St. Petersburg Times:

Two suspected protesters were arrested after they were found playing with a BB gun atop a downtown parking garage, authorities said.
They are the first arrests in the city tied to the Republican National Convention, which kicks off tonight with a huge welcome party at Tropicana Field.
St. Petersburg police spokesman Mike Puetz said the agency got a call late Thursday from a concerned citizen who saw people on the roof of a parking garage at 100 Second Ave. S.
“That unto itself is odd,” Puetz said.
The caller also claimed to have seen the people playing with a gun.
Officers found two men and a female teen runaway hanging out.
They also found several items indicating the people were protesters, including antigovernment T-shirts and a backpack stuffed with a large machete, a pocketknife, tin snips and a pry tool, Puetz said.
The backpack belonged to Trevor Swanson, 19, of St. Petersburg, who is prohibited from having weapons because of a domestic violence injunction.
Police said the other man on the roof, Kyle Shaw, 21, had a BB gun in his waistband.
Authorities also found bandanas, black gloves and a putty that Swanson admitted was for securing a mask, police said.
Shaw, listed as a transient from Largo, was arrested on a charge of carrying a concealed weapon. Swanson was arrested on charges of possessing burglary tools, violating an injunction and being a delinquent felon in possession of a weapon.

Hmmm. A 19-year-old with a domestic violence injunction? Burglary tools? Gloves? A machete? Weird stuff, and undoubtedly the tip of a very large iceberg of weirdness among the anarchists and “Occupy” scum expected to descend on Tampa this week.

UPDATE: Brandon Darby reports that the anti-RNC protesters have “a coms group that is trying to shut down the EMS communications structure for the city. That’s really happening. They’re trying to shut down the communications structure for the city for law enforcement and emergency medical personnel.”

Isn’t that wonderful? With a hurricane approaching Tampa — and as Bryan Preston notes, there are already trees down in Miami — the Left is trying to shut down 911!

Category: Fear and Loathing at the Republican National Convention

Unpopular Former Republican Governor Endorses Unpopular Democrat President

Posted on | August 26, 2012 | 12 Comments

TAMPA, Florida
Charlie Crist, who lost the 2010 Senate campaign to Marco Rubio, publishes his endorsement on the editorial page of today’s Tampa Bay Times:

As America prepares to pick our president for the next four years — and as Florida prepares once again to play a decisive role — I’m confident that President Barack Obama is the right leader for our state and the nation.

“Corrupt” wouldn’t fit in the headline, but it’s not like we’ve forgotten all the shenanigans alleged against former Florida Gov. Charlie Crist by his former handpicked state party chairman, who has since been indicted on federal corruption charges. More importantly, however, Crist represents no constituency other than himself.

In the 2010 Senate election, Crist ran as a sore-loser independent after it became obvious Rubio would win the GOP nomination. Exit polls showed that not only did Rubio overwhelmingly win the Republican vote (87% to 12% for Crist), but Rubio also won among independent voters (51% to 38%). Charlie is an “independent” who doesn’t appeal to independents, and actually got most of his votes from Democrats.

UPDATE: Da Tech Guy was reminded of another sore loser, Dede Scozzafava, while Glenn Reynolds was reminded that, in September 2009, Charlie Crist was predicting that Obama would be a one-term president.

Category: Barack Obama, Election 2012, Florida

New Romney Ad Quotes Obama

Posted on | August 26, 2012 | 8 Comments

TAMPA, Florida
Barack Obama became president by attacking what have since become his own policies. In 2008, candidate Obama accused John McCain of planning “drastic cuts in Medicare, $882 billion worth.” President Obama has cut $716 billion from MediCare to pay for ObamaCare, as the Mitt Romney campaign reminds voters in a new ad:

Category: Barack Obama, Election 2012, Health Care, Mitt Romney

Monday GOP Convention Schedule Postponed Due to Anticipated BlogBash Hangovers and Approaching Hurricane …

Posted on | August 25, 2012 | 15 Comments

. . . but mainly, yeah, it was the hurricane:

Republicans announced Saturday that they had effectively canceled the first day of its convention for safety concerns associated with an impending hurricane.
Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus said in a statement that “the Republican National Convention will convene on Monday August 27th and immediately recess until Tuesday afternoon, August 28th.”That move essentially postpones the activities of the first of four scheduled days of the convention. But Priebus said in a conference call with reporters that the details of the revised schedule were not yet settled, and could be announced as soon as Sunday.
“The Republican National Convention is going to take place. We know that we will officially nominate Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan,” he said.

Ali Akbar and I learned the news this evening while we were attending a reception at the fabulous mansion where Sunday night the National Bloggers Club will be hosting Blog Bash.

The political ramifications were immediately obvious: With no official convention business Monday, Republicans will be free to party all night Sunday, and so this will certainly be the most off-the-hook Blog Bash in the history of off-the-hook Blog Bashes.

A little bit of actual news: I called one of my sources with the Romney campaign and suggested we get together, but he explained that he was “in the candidate’s hotel,” which is under a draconian security lockdown for the duration of the convention. Basically, you’ve got to give the Secret Service a DNA sample to get anywhere near Mitt’s hotel.

Also, I had an interesting conversation — and by “interesting conversation,” of course, I mean dreadful embarrassment — at this evening’s reception while talking to the chairwoman of the convention’s Platform Committee, Rep. Marsha Blackburn of Tennessee. Someone at the reception had told me that the youngest member of the Platform Committee, a girl from Alabama, had gotten a lot of publicity, and so I asked Congresswoman Blackburn about this.

Eh . . . wrong question.

Exactly why this was the wrong question, I didn’t quite understand at the time, until I got back to our Ybor City condo and Googled the story:

[D]elegates to the Republican National Convention met [Thursday] in Tampa, Florida, to finalize the party’s platform on various controversial issues, including abortion, with the youngest member of the platform committee, Jackie Curtiss, 22, having the most to say.
Staunchly anti-abortion, Curtiss objected to an amendment to the platform banning medication “that terminates human life after conception.” The amendment aims to outlaw “abortion pills,” as they are sometimes called, which could, Curtiss worried, potentially include the “morning after pill.” Curtiss emphasized that platform needed to make it clear that the Republican party is welcoming to women, and that such extreme positions could be alienating. Curtiss was also the only person in attendance who referred to Rep. Todd Akin by name, despite the ongoing media attention devoted to his ignorant comments about “forcible rape” and incidences of pregnancy.
“I think it’s a huge issue. I think you can tell that by all the Republican candidates coming out in opposition to him,” she said. “We don’t need to get hung up on him, but we also don’t need to support policies that mirror his.”

My faux-pas in mentioning this to Congresswoman Blackburn was an error committed in honest ignorance, but my explanation won’t help me any more than Todd Akin’s explanations have helped him — which is to say, not at all. After embarrassing myself with this stupid gaffe, I sort of backed away apologetically and exited the room.

No point even trying to dig myself out of that hole, eh?

At any rate, let’s hope my dreadful blunder will be forgiven (if not forgotten) tomorrow afternoon when I cover the Her New View panel discussion at the Straz Performing Arts Center here in Tampa: Dana Loesch, Katie Pavlich, Rep. Blackburn, Rep. Renee Ellmers, Wisconsin Lt. Gov. Rebecca Kleefisch and South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley will participate in the 5 p.m. event, and afterwards we’ll depart to Blog Bash.

Hurricane? Who’s afraid of a hurricane?

Category: Fear and Loathing at the Republican National Convention

Salute To Neil Armstrong

Posted on | August 25, 2012 | 19 Comments

by Smitty

May Heaven rest Neil Armstrong. His secular immortality is assured. I’d just like to point out that, like the majority of astronauts, he was a Naval aviator. Navy: come for the service, stay for the chance to impact history. “I remain unvanquished,” indeed.


So, this November, remember: only one of the two candidates is likely to put America again on course to do something as sack-adelic as the Apollo program.

Neil Armstrong

Triumphantly treading titanium testicle territory ‘ternally

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