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LIVE AT FIVE – 06.20.11

Posted on | June 20, 2011 | 9 Comments

TOP NEWS
House To Vote This Week On Libya Funding

Secretary Gates defends strategy and legality of Libya operation

House strikes back against President’s violation of War Powers
Act, aims to cut funds; unlikely alliances form for, against measure
McCain chides GOP for isolationism



Winds Challenge Crews Struggling To Contain Arizona/New Mexico Fires
Over half a million acres burned in Arizona alone

Alyssa Campanella Wins Miss USA Competition
Wary contestants avoid controversy in wake of Prejean kerfluffle; outgoing Miss USA Rima Fakih parties down in last five days of reign



POLITICS
Obama Wants Re-Run Of Fifty-State Strategy

Banking on demographics

Will increased minority vote trump a shattered economy?

Gay Marriage Goes Down To The Wire In NY

DiMasi’s Appeal To Test High Court Ruling




President Declares Missouri, Nebraska Flood Zones Disaster Areas

Jerry Brown’s Burden Of Consistency

Ethanol Support Waning?

Schumer Questions GOP Sincerity On Job Creation



THE ECONOMY, STUPID
European Stocks Seen Opening Lower; Euro Weakens On Greece Concerns
Eurozone Delay Over Greek Rescue Spooks Markets
Boeing To Decide This Year On Revamp Or Replacement of 737
US Charitable Giving Rebounds In 2010
With PRC Shorts At Record High, RBS Bets On Stock Surge
Oil Futures Sink Below $92/Barrel As Dollar Gains
Hacker Group Offers To Help Sega
New Web Naming Rules To Change Internet Browsing
Apple Holding Back New MacBook Airs For Finalized Lion OS
Thanks For Nothing, Google: Father’s Day Doodle A Necktie



SPORTS
Edwin Rodriguez Quits As Marlins Manager

Rodriguez resigns after less than a year as manager

Rookie manager out of answers for struggling young team; Jack McKeon to serve as interim manager

Serena Williams Eager To Put Injuries Behind Her At Wimbledon

Offense At Full Blast As Red Sox Rout Brewers

Yankees, Cubs Play To Type At Wrigley This Weekend

Denny Hamlin Owns MIS

South Carolina Opens CWS Defense With Win

A-Rod: Shoulder Is A-OK

Card’s Pujols Dealing With Royals Pain

Pirates Waste Karstens’ Effort, Get Swept By Indians

Birds Salvage Win In Third Game, End Nats’ Win Streak At Eight



FAMOUS FOR BEING FAMOUS
Tone Loc Busted For Domestic Violence

Rapper Tone Loc

Held on $50,000 bail for getting violent with baby mama

Amy Winehouse Cancels Part Of European Tour

Megan Fox Fired For Hitler Comment


E Street Band’s Big Man, Clarence Clemons, Dead At 69 Of Stroke Complications

Rosanna Arquette Gets Engaged

J-Lo Wardrobe Malfunction On Live TV

Mel Gibson Dating Goth Chick



FOREIGNERS
NATO Acknowledges Civilian Casualties In Tripoli Raids
Baby Assad To Address Syria As Bloody Crackdowns Continue
Flooded Areas Of PRC Brace For More Rain
Gates Confirms Preliminary US/Taliban Talks
Spanish May 15 Movement Calls For Economic Reform
ROK Marines Mistakenly Fire On Civilian Airliner; No Damage Or Casualties
Yelena Bonner Dies, Aged 88



BLOGS & STUFF
Althouse: The NYT Goes After Clarence Thomas
Boris Johnson: Let The Greeks Go It Alone
Maggie’s Notebook: Weiner Married To The MobMuslim Brotherhood?
Atlas Shrugs: Medvedev Wants Obama Re-Elected To Avoid America’s “Conservative Wing”
Outside The Beltway: Democracy Fail In Virginia
Weasel Zippers: Hijab-Wearing Flash Mob Led By Gays Invades Right Online
JustOneMinute: Evolution As A Matter Of (Political) Survival

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Category: Live at Five

Rule 5 Sunday: Do It Again

Posted on | June 19, 2011 | 8 Comments

New this week to Rule 5 Sunday is the Argentinian blogger Opinador Compulsivo, who dedicates this NSFW Rule 5 Gallery to Soylent Green and Stacy McCain. All hail the spread of Rule 5 to America del Sur!

Randy’s Roundtable has two links for us this week, one for Thursday and one for Wednesday. Eye of Polyphemus offers Scarlett Johansson, sadly without SF content; Three Beers Later has a Pamela Anderson video, Gretchen Wilson’s “California Girls” video, and some Trace Adkins for the ladies.

Speaking of Soylent Green, he kicks off the week with Justyna Paszkiewicz, continues with cuties for a curious day, some redheaded humpday hawtness, a babe to celebrate hitting 900K hits (only 100K to go!), and a corset Friday with actual corsets this week! Bonus: Sunday Sermonette! All NSFW, or darn close to it, of course.

Fishersville Mike brings us Natsuki from Tokyo, one of the dancers for the World Champion Dallas Mavericks. Reporting from England, the Rio Norte Line brings BBC Radio 1 DJ Fearne Cotton to our attention; A View From The Beach, on the other hand, goes with Shannon Tweed. Proof Positive offers vintage Veronica Hamel and contemporary Ali Sonoma.

This week at The Camp Of The Saints, it’s Eva Wyrwal, Friday’s Rule 5 News, Marianne Gaba, and Pippa Middleton in a see-through dress.

Over at Dustbury, we see Gao Yuanyuan. the anti-Lady Gaga, Kirsten Vangsness, and Zooey Deschanel with a link to Go Fug Yourself. O_o

This week’s parade of DaleyBabes begins with Kim Kardashian, Stacey Dash, and Brianna Evigan; continues with Dana Davis, Shay Mitchell, and Maria Venus before winding up with Ashanti.

Thanks to all for their Rule 5 links! To be included in next week’s roundup, e-mail your submissions to me at Rule 5 Wombat by June 25.

SOTD: The Kinks, not Steely Dan

Category: Rule 5

On The CC Line

Posted on | June 19, 2011 | 14 Comments

by Smitty

Check out the new collaboration of two of my favorite bloggers, Little Miss Attila and POWIP.
They call it Conservative Commune. I admit the second word has more appeal as an imperative verb than as a noun, but I admire the two so much as writers that I’ll just blogroll them and subscribe to their feed in any case.
Now, get over there and get your doggone blog on, readers!

Category: Uncategorized

Fear and Loathing at Right Online

Posted on | June 19, 2011 | 25 Comments

MINNEAPOLIS
Three obese women are sitting on the other side of the cocktail table in the lobby of the Hilton Hotel where I’m writing this. They are not only obese, they also have iPhones, and are checking their messages while chatting about nonsense of no relevance to the serious political events that have transpired during the last three days at the fourth annual Right Online conference.

It’s the iPhones that annoy me most. My cheap Samsung cell phone died yesterday. I’m a professional journalist who, by all rights, ought to have the latest 4G mobile communications technology. Instead, I’ve got nothing, while this trio of fat women, just arrived in Minneapolis for a conference of government employees, can afford top-of-the-line stuff. It’s a whole different kind of “social justice” issue, you see: Those who feast on taxpayer largesse have wealth and leisure — to say nothing of ample grocery budgets, as is so apparent — while those in the private sector are lean and hungry, with no time to lounge around hotel lobbies exchanging idle gossip.

But there’s no time thinking about that stuff now because, as usual, I’m short on time. In 30 minutes, Erik Telford’s going to have a taxi at the front door to get us to the airport for the flight home and I’ve got to have this post finished by then, with my laptop packed and ready to go. No time to distill the Final Wisdom of the past three days. Just to quickly note:

I’ve got no time to upload video, nor time to write captions for all these photos I took. Just enough time to say, “Hit the freaking tip jar” and then — whoosh! — off to the airport I go. It might be nice to have a government job so I could get fat and carry an iPhone, but that ain’t my life, and it can’t be helped.












Category: Right Online

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

Posted on | June 19, 2011 | 19 Comments

by Smitty

Thanks, Jim Hoft:

The media has yet to uncover Barack Obama’s college transcripts, but they are already questioning Michele Bachmann’s record as a foster parent.

It’s all about speaking truth to power, where ‘truth’ is drivel and ‘power’ means whoever the owner of the media dogs has directed these rabid bitches to attack, in this case Representative Bachmann.
This blog means no disrespect to the honest female dogs of the world by comparing reporters to them; merely a figure of speech.

Category: Uncategorized

Right Online: Herman Cain Gets Candid

Posted on | June 19, 2011 | 26 Comments

MINNEAPOLIS — About 15 bloggers got a rare glimpse at an angry Herman Cain, when the Republican presidential candidate’s temper flared briefly during an informal press conference Saturday.

The normally genial Atlanta businessman became angry when Evan McMorris-Santoro, a writer for the liberal blog Talking Points Memo, asked whether Cain would apply “special precautions” in hiring Muslims.

“If you’re trying to make me lose my cool, you’re almost succeeding,” Cain said, after McMorris-Santoro raised the question — one Cain had addressed at some length to begin the press conference — and when the TMP writer attempted to reiterate the question, Cain roared back: “I never said I would use any special precautions!”

Cain then apologized for having raised his voice. The exchange between Cain and McMorris-Santoro comes at the 13:15 mark of this video provided by conservative blogger Nice Deb:

For three months, liberals have criticized Cain for remarks he made at a March event in Iowa in response to a question from Scott Keyes of the Think Progress blog:

KEYES: You came under a bit of controversy this week for some of the comments made about Muslims in general. Would you be comfortable appointing a Muslim, either in your cabinet or as a federal judge?
CAIN: No, I will not. And here’s why. There is this creeping attempt, there is this attempt to gradually ease Sharia law and the Muslim faith into our government. It does not belong in our government. This is what happened in Europe. And little by little, to try and be politically correct, they made this little change, they made this little change. And now they’ve got a social problem that they don’t know what to do with hardly.
The question that was asked that “raised some questions” and, as my grandfather said, “I does not care, I feel the way I feel.” I was asked, “what is the role of Islam in America?” I thought it was an odd question. I said the role of Islam in America is for those that believe in Islam to practice it and leave us alone. Just like Christianity. We have a First Amendment. And I get upset when the Muslims in this country, some of them, try to force their Sharia law onto the rest of us.

The question about Muslims was one of three points that Cain sought to clarify in his remarks at the beginning of his press conference. He also explained why he had been unwilling to sign a pledge offered by a pro-life group, saying that he is strongly pro-life, but had issues with the wording of the pledge; and he repeated his strong support for gun rights, which had been questioned by some Second Amendment activists. Taking questions from bloggers, Cain also discussed his disagreements with another 2012 GOP candidate, Texas Rep. Ron Paul, about the Federal Reserve system.

The press conference — with the candidate in shirtsleeves, sitting on a chair turned backward — followed Cain’s well-received speech at the fourth annual Right Online conference, hosted by Americans for Prosperity.

America is suffering “a severe deficiency of leaderships,” Cain said during the speech, which was interrupted several times by standing ovations.

“Small businesses . . . are hanging on for dear life,” Cain told the RightOnline crowd, assuring those struggling with the current recession: “Hold on . . . help is on the way.”


Category: Herman Cain, Islam, Right Online

FMJRA 2.0: Multi-Family Garage Sale

Posted on | June 19, 2011 | 2 Comments

Pointing Out the Obvious: They Don’t Teach Economics at Harvard Law School

BREAKING: Weiner to Resign

VIDEO: Breitbart Talks WeinerGate

Democrat Janice Hahn Stars in the New Viral Video Smash Hit of the Summer!

On the Internet, Nobody Knows You’re a Dog (or a Make-Believe Syrian Lesbian)

World’s Youngest Blogger Reacts To News Of Ridiculous, Irresponsible Government That Molests His Future

Report: Weiner Sent Woman Photos of Himself Posing in Congressional Gym

VIDEO: Wasserman-Schultz Discusses Weiner Scandal on ‘Meet the Press’

FMJRA 2.0: Eurotrash Girl

Rule 5 Sunday: Lend The Devil A Hand

LIVE AT FIVE – 06.13.11

Herman Cain Scheduled to Win Another GOP Debate Tonight in Manchester, N.H.

VIDEO: ABC’s Jake Tapper Reports on Calista and the Newt 2012 Implosion

Barack Obama Has Got as Many NBA Championship Rings as Lebron James

Joe Scarborough to Mika Brzezinski: ‘It’s Just Stupid. Seriously, Just Shut Up.’

That’s Good to Know

OUT: Real Gays. IN: Fake Lesbians.

The CNN Debate: Tokyo Survived

LIVE AT FIVE – 06.14.11

New York Times: ‘Media Colonoscopy’ of Palin E-Mails Was ‘Not a Witch Hunt’

BREAKING: David Brooks Is a Douchebag

BREAKING: Democrats Call on GOP Candidate to Denounce PAC Video

Wisconsin State Supreme Court Angers Big Labor by Upholding Walker’s Law

LIVE AT FIVE – 06.15.11

Health Care or Aircraft Carriers?

Weiner’s Teen Tweeter

CA-36: Hahn’s Bad Rap?

“LIVE AT FIVE – 06.16.11“

‘Moving On’ to Right Online!

LIVE AT FIVE – 06.17.11

‘Was That a Denial, Governor?’

Thanks, Rush!

VIDEO: Stephen Bannon, Director of Palin Documentary ‘The Undefeated’

Top linkers this week:

  1. The Pro From Poca (14)!
  2. The Camp Of The Saints (9)
  3. Da Tech Guy (6)

Thanks to all for the linky-love! Still using Blogger or some other platform that WordPress hates? Send your links to Wombat-socho by June 25 with “FMJRA” or “Shameless Blogwhoring” in the subject line, and you too can be included among the worthy!

Category: FMJRA Award

The Boundless Jealousies Of Deployment

Posted on | June 19, 2011 | 8 Comments

by Smitty

Not only can I not attend Right Online, I can’t even upload the picture of BlogProf looking like he’s about to pick up Stacy McCain and shotput him across a hotel lobby.
Not that he would actually do that, mind you: I was merely engaging in a bit of hyperbole to tease you into following the link.

Category: Uncategorized
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