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‘World’s Largest Natural Breasts’?

Posted on | June 26, 2011 | 24 Comments

Just minding my own business, scanning over the celebrity site WeSmirch.com, when I saw the headline:

‘Every day I am taunted by strangers’:
Woman with world’s largest natural breasts
on bullying she has suffered since childhood

And I thought to myself: “World’s largest natural breasts? How can they be so sure of this?” Well, never mind that now. This sentence in the article caught my attention:

Ms Hawkins-Turner, who today makes a living as a glamour model under the pseudonym Norma Stitz . . .

“Norma Stitz.” Har-de-har-har-har. And so when I Googled that name, I found a 2009 article with a photo.

Are you sure you want to see it? Permit me to warn you now: Once you’ve seen this picture, you cannot un-see it.

So consider yourself warned. Read more

Category: humor, Rule 5

Rule 5 Sunday: Just Another High

Posted on | June 26, 2011 | 6 Comments

This past week saw the coming of the Summer Solstice, and what better way to note the changing of the seasons than with some Spassfabrik from Soylent Green? Also, the Monday Motivationor, Humpday Caliente, Incidental Incendiaries, and the ever-popular Corset Friday. But wait! There’s more! How about some sonic serendipity, an artistic corset, and speaking of art, some NSFW Frazetta goodness we won’t be seeing in Disney’s version of ERB’s novels of Barsoom. Because as any anime fan will tell you, Disney sucks.

The POH Diaries bring us a J-Lo wardrobe malfunction to go with some Rule 5 links; Eye of Polyphemus brings back some pleasant memories with this shot of Charisma Carpenter; Randy’s Roundtable treats us to some Kim Clouthier and Vanessa Marcil; Maggie’s Notebook brings us the statuesque Ana Beatriz Barros and a bunch of Rule 5 linkagery besides.

WyBlog returns to the Rule 5 roundup this week, celebrating his 500,000th hit with some Padma Lakshmi and toasting three years of the DaleyGator. Over at A View From The Beach, we’re treated to lots of Katy Perry and some Rule 5 links; also, Hef’s rebound girl and the grunting girls of tennis. Speaking of grunting and tennis, Fishersville Mike has a pic of Sabine Lisicki for our consideration.

Proof Positive delivers this week with Kelli Hutcherson, vintage Valerie Leon, some illustrated advice to the ladies regarding maintenance of their bolt-ons, Miss California, and Sammie Spades, former Hillary Clinton intern turned porn star.

Our southern flank is in good hands with Opinador Compulsivo, who reports in this week with Angelina Jolie’s body double from Beowulf, a fine gallery of Rule 5 pix, and a wholly gratuitous shot of Mrs. Michael Buble, NTTAWWT.

At Dustbury, we are treated to Taylor Swift demonstrating proper pistol handling technique; Shania Twain, not so much. Petra Nemcova, on the other hand, is not dressed for the range, and I’m okay with that.

American Power makes its Rule 5 debut with Heidi Klum in the nude, Kate Upton & Jenna Leigh in lingerie, Esti Ginzburg in Sports Illustrated, Audrina Patridge in Shape, and Britney Spears in concert. Woof!

This week at The Camp of the Saints, it’s Caterina Murino, the Rule 5 News, Sally Sheffield, and ends with Sammie Spades.

As previously mentioned, the DaleyGator’s celebrating this third year on the Intertubes this week, but it seems that we’re the ones getting the presents. 🙂 Behold: Angie Harmon, Dasha Astafieva, Kenya Moore, Lee-Ann Liebenberg,
Alyssa Campenella, Michelle Huntziker, and Cecilia Wang.

Thanks to everyone for their links; to be included in next week’s Rule 5 roundup, please send yours to Rule 5 Wombat by July 2.

Category: Rule 5

Quit Picking On Bono!

Posted on | June 26, 2011 | 6 Comments

by Smitty (h/t Insty)

This insistance that Bono and U2 are somehow bad just because they are dodging Irish taxes on their music publishing is way offbase. Points to remember about about Holy Progress:

  • Hypocrisy is supposed to be an art form. Dodging taxes is a spiritual activity that should be undertaken from bloody Monday to Sunday Bloody Sunday.
  • Nihilism means that you’re not supposed to pay attention to individuals. Assimilation into the State, Umma, or both means that we now love our neighbor by State proxy; it’s no longer an individual requirement.
  • Bono was spot on in ‘The Wanderer‘ when he observed (and the Man in Black sang)

    I stopped outside a church-house
    Where the citizens like to sit
    They say they want the Kingdom
    But they don’t wat God in it.

    Blowing off taxes is totally in keeping with the commitment to depravity that must follow a rejection of individual responsibility.

I, for one, think that U2 has improved with age, starting with Achtung Baby. Bono is never better than when he’s answering the question “What if Solomon had been in a rock’n’roll band?” Give me that cynical burnout stuff, man. It helps one understand so much of the current world situation.

Category: Uncategorized

Our Criminal Media

Posted on | June 26, 2011 | 13 Comments

Michelle Malkin rips into them good here:

With great fanfare and elite media sympathy, Jose Antonio Vargas publicly declared himself an “undocumented immigrant” this week. . . . In the felony-friendly pages of The New York Crimes — er, Times — the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist turned illegal-alien activist spilled the beans on all the illegal IDs he amassed over the years. He had documents coming out of his ears.
The Times featured full-color photos of Vargas’ fake document trove — including a a fake passport with a fake name, a fake green card and a Social Security card his grandfather doctored for him at a Kinko’s. He committed perjury repeatedly on federal I-9 employment eligibility forms. In 2002, while pursuing his journalism career goals, an immigration lawyer told him he needed to accept the consequences of his law-breaking and return to his native Philippines.
Following the rules would have meant a 10-year bar to reentry into America. Making false claims of citizenship is a felony offense. Document fraud is a felony offense. . . .

You should read the whole thing. The decision by the New York Times to publish Vargas’s column is a disgrace to the profession of journalism. In what alternative universe does it make sense to celebrate a man for committing forgery and perjury — crimes involving dishonest falsification — when that man is supposed to be practicing a craft devoted to truth-telling?

Please note that Vargas is a native Filipino, just like Michelle Malkin’s parents. But her parents obeyed the law — which, by the perverse logic of liberalism, somehow entitles liberals to shout “RAAAAACIST!” at their daughter. And the New York Times publishes a column by the admitted felon Vargas, but would never publish anything by Malkin.


Category: Crime, Immigration, Media Bias, Michelle Malkin, New York Times

FMJRA 2.0: No One Driving

Posted on | June 26, 2011 | 10 Comments

Right Online: Herman Cain Gets Candid

If We Outlaw Martian Voting, Then The 2012 Election Will Be Swarmed By Disenfranchised Martian ‘Voters’

Democrats: The Warmonger Party

FMJRA 2.0: Multi-Family Garage Sale

Gateway Pundit Calls It Like He Sees It About The Media Vs. Michele Bachmann

On The CC Line

Fear and Loathing at Right Online

Rule 5 Sunday: Do It Again

LIVE AT FIVE – 06.20.11

‘The Problem … Is That Thomas Doesn’t Care What the New York Times Thinks’

Consider the Source

He’s Got His. Have You Got Yours?

WeinerGate: Who Is Starchild111?

Why Is David Epstein Still a Columbia University Professor After Incest Plea?

Wal-Mart Wins, Women Lose, Stocks Rise

Conservative PAC Asks Law Enforcement to Investigate DOS Attack on Web Site

LIVE AT FIVE – 06.21.11

Boeing and the Myth of ‘Skills’

Too Ugly for BeautifulPeople.com

Freeberg Nears A Breakthrough

Individual Compassion: Federal Task?

Disorderly Conduct at Right Online?

LIVE AT FIVE – 06.22.11

Ladd’s Ad Gets Results

Civil Rights and ‘Elevator Eyes’

A Christian Virgin in Hollywood?

Palin Parks Her Bus

IRS Strips CAIR of Charity Status

O.J. Confesses … to Oprah?

Al Gore, Population Control Expert

LIVE AT FIVE – 06.23.11

Say It Ain’t So, Alcee!

Obama’s Afghanistan Speech

You Stay Classy: Liberals Now Peddling Gay Smear on Texas Gov. Rick Perry

Geert Wilders Not Guilty of Hate Speech

Biden Debt-Ceiling Talks Collapse as Republicans Cantor, Kyl Walk Out

Teen Bride’s Mom: ‘Courtney Is Used to This Type of Reaction Towards Her’

LIVE AT FIVE – 06.24.11

Libya: Who, Whom?

Miracles Happen: Government Employee Unions Get Screwed Over in New Jersey

Viva, Californication?

Renee Ellmers vs. Tim Geithner

Want to Make My Wife Happy?

Equality Über Alles, New York

The Beast of Babylon Wears Bangs: Amanda Marcotte’s ‘Pure Feminist Evil’

Good News: College Democrats Succeed in Recruiting Stupid Ugly Losers! (Video)

Euro-Doom Looming?

Top linkers this week:

  1. The Pro From Poca (13)
  2. The Camp Of The Saints (12)
  3. Da Tech Guy (6)
  4. (tied) Conservative Commune, Haemet (5)

Honorable mentions go to Proof Positive and Rough Edges And Sharp Elbows for linking to older posts outside the scope of this week’s FMJRA.

Thanks to everyone for their linkagery! Blogspot bloggers, be aware that since you’re on a platform constructed from stone knives and bearskins, you’ll need to send me an e-mail at Wombat-socho by July 1 with “FMJRA” or “Shameless Blogwhoring” in the subject line so I can show you some of the good ol’ linky-love.

Category: FMJRA Award

KIA: Cars for Creeps? Company Claims Brazilian Agency’s Ad Was Unauthorized

Posted on | June 26, 2011 | 13 Comments

Ace of Spades headlined this: “Kia Motors: Our New Cars Are As Hot As Sex With Very Young Children!” — which obviously isn’t a message the Korean automaker intended to send.

Jim Edwards of CBS business news headlined the story, “Kia’s Pedophile Ad Campaign Illustrates Everything Wrong With the Ad Business.” You will perhaps not be surprised that this ad campaign won an industry award . . . in France.

See the whole ad here. And see a second “Sleeping Beauty” ad here.

Aaron Worthing asks, “Can Someone Give Me a Non-Creepy Explanation For These Kia Ads?” Good question. The actual theme of the ad is: “A Different Temperature on Each Side: KIA Sportage With Dual Zone Air Conditioning.” But surely there was a way to call attention to the dual-zone AC feature without resorting to this kind of weirdness.

KIA claims it never approved or published these ads, and that the ads were created by a Brazilian agency without KIA’s authorization. In other words, the agency created the ads as a sort of mock-up specifically for the French competition. Edwards publishes the KIA statement:

Kia Motors America (KMA) has become aware of an offensive piece of advertising material that was created by an ad agency in Brazil that KMA has no business relationship with and has never worked with. This ad was not created in the U.S. by Kia Motors America or any of its marketing partners and does not reflect the opinions or values of KMA or Kia Motors Corporation. The ad is undoubtedly inappropriate, and on behalf of Kia Motors we apologize to those who have been offended by it. We can guarantee this advertisement has never and will never be used in any form in the United States, and our global headquarters in Seoul, South Korea is addressing the issue with the independent Brazilian distributor.

The agency apparently violated the competition rules, Edwards says: “This is a the second recent occasion in which a Brazilian ad agency has been caught entering an ad at Cannes that was not fully approved by a client.”

So it would appear that KIA is actually the victim rather than the perpetrator of this outrage, which leads us to other questions: Why did the agency think that this fake ad would be suitable for competition? And did the judges at the French competition really mean to encourage such themes in advertising?

Category: Culture

Expecting the Unexpected

Posted on | June 26, 2011 | 23 Comments

The media have nearly warn out an adverb — “Unexpectedly!” — in describing bad economic news in the past two years. So what should we expect when we read a sentence that begins like this?

“Few economists are predicting an
out-and-out return to recession, but . . .”

Which prompts concerns for the Lonely Conservative:

Um, are these the same economists who are caught by surprise week, after week, after week, when the miserable reports come out on new jobless claims?
I can see the headlines now: “Economists Caught Off Guard By Second Dip Into Recession.”

Apparently, CNN gave up on their usual “experts,” and resorted to wizards, necromancers and witch doctors. (And no, I don’t mean Tim Geithner and Ben Bernanke.)

But we don’t need crystal balls and Ouija boards to predict the economic future. If Greece goes belly-up, it’s doom.

Category: Economics

Euro-Doom Looming?

Posted on | June 25, 2011 | 30 Comments

The Standard & Poor 500 this week suffered its seventh week of losses in the past eight weeks, and the Dow Jones Industrial Average again closed below 12,000 on Friday. The problem? In a word, Europe:

“Everybody is trying to digest how the European debt situation is going to shake out,” said Jason Pride, director of investment strategy at Glenmede in Philadelphia, which manages about $20 billion. “They’re playing an expensive game of chicken with Greece because the downside of not passing a bailout for that country is effectively a financial system meltdown.” . . .

The outlook in Greece? Not so good:

A knife-edge vote in the Greek parliament on a new package of [spending] cuts is expected on Wednesday, with [socialist prime minister George] Papandreou desperately needing to convince his reluctant backbench MPs to approve the measures.
If Greece refuses to accept more austerity measures, the consequences for Greece, the EU and indeed the global economy could be dire.

“The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people’s money,” Margaret Thatcher once observed, and for Greece, “eventually” is now.

Category: Economics, Europe, Greece
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