Democrat Group Declares War on Koch: ‘Secretive Republican Billionaire Brothers’

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If you ever sign up for the e-mail lists on liberal Web sites, you’ll soon become accustomed to getting fundraising appeals keyed to the latest moonbat obsessions. Democracy for America — the “progressive” group started by Howard Dean after his 2004 presidential campaign meltdown — just sent me this one:

Robert –
The Wall Street Journal reports — “Conservatives in Wisconsin are getting nervous that three Republican state senators may defect on the collective-bargaining reform vote.”
NBC news in Wisconsin reports — “four moderate Republicans are wavering and could break with the GOP and vote against Walker’s budget repair bill.”
And Talking Points Memo reports on a brand new poll by a Republican leaning pollster — “Rasmussen Poll: Almost Six In Ten Wisconsin Voters Disapprove Of Gov. Walker.”
Our strategy is working. We can win this fight. Please contribute $25 to keep our T.V. ad playing statewide — and non-stop — until Republicans cave.
The New York Times reports — “Billionaire Brothers’ Money Plays Role in Wisconsin Dispute.”
The secretive Republican billionaire brothers Charles and David Koch bankroll the Americans for Prosperity Foundation, which had a budget of over 40 million dollars last year. They’ve spent millions backing Governor Walker and pushing an anti-worker agenda.
But now the Koch Brothers have met their match — and it’s you.
We’re united together with the people of Wisconsin and our partners at the Progressive Change Campaign Committee in fighting to stop the war on working families. Republicans and the Koch Brothers are on the run playing defense, but we can’t stop until we win.
Keep the pressure up on Wisconsin Senate Republicans to abandon Governor Walker and his anti-worker budget. Contribute right now to keep blanketing the state with our T.V. ad.
This isn’t just Wisconsin. We’re all in this together. Ohio, New Jersey, Indiana, all across America, Republicans are waging a war on working families.
It’s up to us to stop them.
Thank you for everything you’re doing to win.
-Charles
Charles Chamberlain, Political Director
Democracy for America

Let’s call this what it is, shall we? It’s a scam, intended to exploit (a) the MSM’s hyping of paranoia about the “secretive Republican billionaire brothers”; and (b) the gullibility of liberals who think giving $25 to DFA — “Contribute right now”! — is going to stop the alleged “war on working families.” Here is the one-minute ad that donations to DFA would supposedly “blanket” on Wisconsin TV:

Really? I mean, really? You have to appreciate the cleverness of this scam: Send a guy with a camera to a protest, turn it into a YouTube video, and then hustle the rubes for donations, claiming that this will put that video all over TV.

Of course, the overwhelming majority of people who get that e-mail don’t live in Wisconsin, and will have no way of verifying how often this ad actually runs. Nor will these moonbats bother to check next year’s disclosure forms for DFA, to try to figure out what percentage of their donations were actually spent on this project.

  • Fact: People who click the “donate” link in this e-mail are re-directed to an Act Blue donation page.
  • Fact: DFA spent $1.2 million on salaries and benefits during the 2009-2010 election cycle.
  • Fact: DFA paid $1.5 million to Integral Resources, a Massachusetts-based telemarketing firm during that two-year period.
  • Fact: During the same two-year period, DFA reported more than $7 million in revenue, and ended 2010 with $1.3 million cash on hand. ActBlue collected more than $61 million and ended with $4 million cash on hand. For both organizations, these totals represented the most they had ever collected in an election cycle.
  • Fact: During the 2010 elections, Democrats were on the receiving end of an ass-kicking of historic proportions.

Please, by all means, gullible moonbats: Give your money to these DFA/ActBlue scammers. And when the “secretive Republican billionaires” kick your asses again, remember who told you so.

Rule 5: The Science Is Settled

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It may not have been definitively proved by the medical community that the study of sweater puppies is good for guys, but one thing science HAS proved is the validity of Rule 5. As summed up most pithily by the eminent Gerard Van Der Leun earlier this week at chez Attila:

Tits gits hits.

Word.

So without further ado, let us begin the roundup of Rule 5 posts! In pride of place, Smitty refers us to the blog What Would Tyler Durden Do?, specifically to this Joanna Krupa post.

The Valley of the Shadow sends us this pic of the LA art scene, while the POH Diaries post a spring break advisory along with some Courtney Cox bikini pix. More like this, please. 🙂

The Rio Norte Line offers a suggestion for a British Invasion we can all appreciate, while Three Beers Later offers Charlie Sheen-related Rule 5 for our consideration. Also, Denise Milani!

Soylent Green offers underwear in lieu of corsets, a celebration of Public Sleeping Day (NSFW), and an equally – nay, MORE NSFW farewell to Steamboat McGoo whose post title is too long for me to copy here. Also also, Carbon Comeliness (NSFW)!

As a cool-down after all that cardiac stimulation, Fishersville Mike has some NCAA Rule 5. Or may I suggest this short video via In My Copious Free Time? More conventionally, Mind Numbed Robot returns to the Rule 5 lists with the luscious Larissa Riquelme. Elsewhere, Maggie’s Notebook combines tasteful Rule 5 with the vile game of golf to produce these pix of Anna Rawson.

Bob Belvedere does his part for heart health with this post of Marilyn Lange, and not content with that noble work, adds Tanya Song, a bevy of barely-clad lovelies, Terri Welles, and finally Jane Russell.

Mr. Hill from Dustbury offers some Lee Remick and Angie Harmon links; Proof Positive has Mimi Anden, Connie Stevens, and a helpful health tip.

Finally, from Pirate’s Cove comes amusing news about Miranda Kerr and some Rule 5 for Spring Break.

Thanks to all for their links! Please send in next week’s links by Saturday to Rule 5 Wombat

UPDATE: I am informed that I missed linking to GVDL’s exquisite collection of racks. Go forth and be HEALED!

Obama Demands That Taxpayers Fund Sexual Pleasure Training for Girl Scouts

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Planned Parenthood wants to teach Girl Scouts to be “Healthy, Happy and Hot,” and the president and Senate Democrats insist that U.S. taxpayers help them do it:

President Barack Obama would veto the House-approved long-term spending bill for the federal government that contains the Pence Amendment, a measure that would de-fund the Planned Parenthood abortion business. . . .
[T]he Washington Times indicates “Obama has issued a veto threat on that bill, saying House Republicans’ cuts are unacceptable.”
“Senate Democrats said the non-spending provisions of the bill — such as restrictions on Planned Parenthood and on Obama administration rules and regulations — will also have to be struck,” the Times continues.

Obama’s adamant insistence on funding Planned Parenthood contradicts his 2008 campaign statements about abortion, Jim Hoft at Gateway Pundit observes, calling Obama “the most radical pro-abortion and infanticide president in the last 35 years.” (Hat-tip: That Mr. G Guy.)

This isn’t just about abortion, even though Planned Parenthood is the largest abortion provider in America. Giving taxpayer dollars to Planned Parenthood puts the imprimatur of the U.S. government — an official endorsement — on everything the organization does, including its campaign to impose “comprehensive sexuality education” on children.

Money is fungible. Defenders of federal funding for Planned Parenthood claim that taxpayer dollars aren’t used for abortion, that tax money is only used for (supposedly benign) “family planning” services. But any accountant could see the bottom line,  where the stated purpose of taxpayer funding is irrelevant. A dollar is a dollar, it’s all going to the same place, and Planned Parenthood certainly isn’t hurting for cash:

PPFA’s income for fiscal year 2008-2009 was more than $1.1 billion (up six percent from 2007-2008), with nearly one-third coming from taxpayers. This “not-for-profit” entity ends virtually every fiscal year with tens of millions of dollars in “excess revenue over expenses” (known to most people as “profit”). The “excess” for 2008-2009 alone was $64.4 million.
On June 30, 2009, PPFA had net assets valued at $994.7 million, of which $396.3 million was unrestricted (essentially a savings account) and $179.9 million was temporarily restricted. Despite these huge sums, PPFA incessantly claims to need more taxpayer dollars.

Someone in the White House press corps needs to ask questions about President Obama’s priorities: At a time when federal deficits are out of control, why is the president threatening to veto legislation that doesn’t include funding for Planned Parenthood?

UPDATE: Thanks to frequent commenter Adobe Walls for pointing out that Kirsten Powers has seen through Planned Parenthood’s self-serving mythos:

Turns out, a 2009 study by the journal Contraception found, in a 10-year study of women in Spain, that as overall contraceptive use increased from around 49 percent to 80 percent, the elective abortion rate more than doubled. . . .
A January 2011 fact sheet by the pro-abortion rights Guttmacher Institute listed all the reasons that women who have had an abortion give for their unexpected pregnancy, and not one of them is lack of access to contraception. In fact, 54 percent of women who had abortions had used a contraceptive method, if incorrectly, in the month they got pregnant.

More contraception = more abortion. Pro-lifers have long sought to call attention to this fact, which seems so counterintuitive to those who’ve bought into the claims of the Contraceptive Culture. 

The reason why abortion rates rise as contraceptive use becomes more frequent is a matter of “complex causation,” as social scientists would say. Yet the fact is that every method of contraception has a failure rate. The more often people use contraceptives, the greater the number of failures — i.e., “unwanted pregnancies.” In a society that prescribes abortion as the best response to “unwanted pregnancy,” there will necessarily be an increased number of abortions in tandem with the increase in contraceptive use.

This can be seen simply as a function of the Law of Large Numbers, especially when people are indoctrinated with the idea that sex without the possibility of pregnancy is “normal,” which is what the Contraceptive Culture would have us believe.

For further thoughts on this topic, please see my March 2010 essay, “The Pill at 50: Unhappy Un-Birthday.” And just in case you didn’t click through the earlier link to learn about the sexual agenda Planned Parenthood is imposing on Girl Scouts, let me show you:


Click the images to see the whole 20-page “Healthy, Happy and Hot” pamphlet, which was distributed to Girl Scouts by Planned Parenthood. Because teaching Girl Scouts about “sexual pleasure” is obviously what U.S. taxpayers want, right?

FMJRA 2.0: Clampdown

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Lawyer for Ohio Police Union Tells Republican State Senator: ‘Funny Thing About Cops, They Hold Grudges’

The Global Orgasmatron for Kids

My Health Secret, Revealed!

Texas Terror Update

K-Lo Slams Contraceptive Culture

FMJRA 2.0: Dream Induction

Rule 5 Sunday: Pistolero

Oh, Noes! Moammar Qaddafi Abandoned by ‘Voluptuous Blonde’ Ukrainian Nurse

Charlie Sheen, Victim

Revealed: How Liberals Pretend to Be Doing ‘Investigative Journalism’

‘The Most Important Role of My Life’

‘We Don’t Have the Mortgage Problem That We Initially Thought’

LIVE AT FIVE – 03.01.11

Soap Operas Are Not Documentaries (and ‘Feminism’ Is a Word With a Definition)

Jane Russell, R.I.P.

Report: Obama Smashed the Tea Party Through a Plate-Glass Window

LIVE AT FIVE – 03.02.11

Sheila Jackson-Lee: Boss From Hell

Who Is John Galt?

Hey, Maybe Glenn Beck Was Right

Your Daily Charlie Sheen Update

Is Christina Aguilera On The Same Casey Jones Train As Charlie Sheen?

Obama: ‘Take Back America’ Is Racist for Tea Party, But Not for Progressives

Frank LaRose Denounces ‘Mean-Spirited Personal Attacks and Senseless Threats’

LIVE AT FIVE – 03.04.11

My Favorite Kardashian

BREAKING: Charlie Sheen To Be Northwestern U’s First Heidi Fleiss Chair Of Applied Public Debauchery Studies

The Blogger’s noinU Guild (BUG) Is Catching

Ohio Unions, Ohio Thugs, Ohio Police

Let’s Nationalize the Wealth!

Huckabee: ‘Hey, Maybe I Shouldn’t Have Trash-Talked Luke Skywalker’s Mom’

URGENT CHARLIE SHEEN UPDATE

Incompetent, Yes, But Also Stupid: How Carol Moseley Braun Lost the Black Vote

Forget the Thin Mints: Now Girl Scouts Learning to Be ‘Healthy, Happy and Hot’

Top linkers for this week:

1(tied): The Lonely Conservative/Maggie’s Notebook (12 links)

2: Da Tech Guy (5 links)

There were a bunch of folks who just missed mention with four links apiece. Thanks to everyone for linking; Blogspot linkers, please send your linkagery to Wombat-socho for the FMJRA linky-love.

‘Sheen’s Korner’: Not Winning

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Brutal reviews for Charlie Sheen’s Saturday night Webcast. Chris Nashawaty called it “a sloppy, self-indulgent bit of cringe theater” featuring “a posse of chuckleheads and enablers.”

About 115,000 people tuned in to watch the godawful disaster, according to USA Today. One of the viewers, Michael van Poppel said, “Wish I could get my 50 minutes back.” Another viewer, Sarah Rumpf, said: “I don’t have the expertise to diagnose Sheen as bipolar but somethin ain’t right with that boy.”

Kinda ironic: While Sheen was on the Internet making an even bigger fool of himself — if such a thing were possible — I was watching my 18-year-old son performing a lead part in the senior play at his high school.

Much more entertaining, if the critics are to be believed.

UPDATE: If you’d care to waste an hour of your life (unless, perhaps, you’re a grad student in abnormal psychology, in which case this might be worth a thesis) here’s the video:



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UPDATE II: Listing the show’s “most awkward moments” — apparently not content to say “from start to finish” and be done with it — Bryan Alexander of the Hollywood Reporter calls it “cable access at its worst”:

“Now what? We’re out of material,” [Sheen] admitted at one point.
That was obvious. Or to re-quote Sheen, “duh!”

The sound quality was atrocious, the lighting inadequate and the “guests” neither very bright nor attractive. But other than that . . .

UPDATE III: Holman Jenkins of the Wall Street Journal explains what CBS and Warner Brothers executives are thinking:

CBS got seven good years from Charlie Sheen playing Charlie Sheen, prolonging CBS’s run as the “hot network.” Warner has 177 episodes in the can, more than enough to bring in huge bucks for years . . .
All in all, our legal departments are probably right: A bullet has been dodged. Mr. Sheen could have flamed out in year two instead of year eight. He could have flamed out in a way that killed our investment altogether. Phew. . . .
We sewed ourselves into a corner and then, Charlie, you got us out. Thanks. You went on radio and maniacally slurred our highly valued colleague, Chuck Lorre, producer of “Men” and two other shows that arguably are even more important right now to our future. You crossed a line no self-respecting business in America could tolerate.
Even more, every time you open your mouth, the “$320 million” lawsuit you keep threatening to bring becomes more of a farfetched longshot.

Yeah, they got their money’s worth out of Charlie and he gave them an easy out at just the time when they needed an easy out.

Forget the Thin Mints: Now Girl Scouts Learning to Be ‘Healthy, Happy and Hot’

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Pundette was writing about the latest United Nations outrage — teaching kids masturbation and oral sex to combat “heterosexism” — and in the process linked to this U.N.-related story you might have missed:

The World Association of Girl Scouts and Girl Guides hosted a no-adults-welcome panel at the United Nations [in March 2010] where Planned Parenthood was allowed to distribute a brochure entitled “Healthy, Happy and Hot.” . . .
The brochure claims, “Many people think sex is just about vaginal or anal intercourse… But, there are lots of different ways to have sex and lots of different types of sex. There is no right or wrong way to have sex. Just have fun, explore and be yourself!” . . .
The Girl Scouts, along with the YWCA have been co-moderating a young women’s caucus that included an “Intergenerational Conversation” side event on “universal access” and “reproductive health.” One recent Girl Scout project “aims at securing the right of women, men and adolescents aged between ten and twenty-five, to better reproductive and sexual health.”

Here is the cover and just one of 20 pages of this Planned Parenthood “Healthy, Happy and Hot” pamphlet:


Those of you old enough to think of Girl Scouts in terms of crafts, camping and cooking are probably astonished by this, but it is becoming increasingly obvious that the national Girl Scouts organization has been hijacked by radical feminists.

Might as well send them camping with Charlie Sheen . . .

Losing My Blog Readership in Tripoli

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The Libyan regime has apparently shut down the Internet again, which means that no one there will be able to keep track of Charlie Sheen’s latest exploits. Meanwhile, Libyan rebels have announced formation of a republic. And here’s an update on the military situation:

Forces loyal to Muammar Gaddafi waged a second offensive against the western town of Zawiyah on Saturday after rebels drove them out in a morning of fierce fighting, while in the east, opponents of the Libyan strongman pushed toward his hometown.
In a second day of fierce fighting for control of Zawiyah, 50 km (30 miles) west of Tripoli, government forces retreated to the outskirts early in the day but later mounted a counter-offensive. Rebels said both attacks were repelled. The city bore the signs of heavy fighting, with one building completely burned and smoldering rubble littering the center. Other buildings around the main square, the stronghold of rebel resistance, were riddled with holes from large-caliber weapons.
Rebels in eastern Libya said they were pushing further west after driving forces loyal to Gaddafi from the oil town of Ras Lanuf on Friday. Opposition fighters said they had taken the town of Bin Jawad some 525 km east of Tripoli and were moving on toward Sirte, Gaddafi’s heavily guarded home town 160 km (100 miles) away.

The capture of Ras Lanuf is a major victory for the Libyan rebels. Here is a video report:

With gasoline now reportedly selling for more than $5 a gallon in Florida, Americans may wonder what the Obama administration is doing about the Libyan crisis. And the answer is, “Not a whole lot.”

While we have no more reason to support the Libyan rebels than we did to support the uprising in Egypt — an Islamic “republic” might be even worse than a dictatorship — it appears that a rebel victory would be the quickest way to end the current crisis. And ending the current crisis would be the quickest way to (a) lower gas prices and (b) letting Libyans back onto the Internet to check for Charlie Sheen updates.

There’s no point blogging if no one’s reading it. Research indicates that Libyan men really admire Charlie Sheen, so the Qaddafi regime’s Internet shutdown is hurting my traffic.

Such are my own personal foreign-policy priorities. Yeah, “human rights,” blah, blah, blah — but $5 a gallon for regular unleaded sucks.

Charlie Sheen’s Hollywood Bedlam

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“Bedlam,” final scene of William Hogarth’s series “A Rake’s Progress” (1735)

“”I’m tired of pretending I’m not special. I’m tired of pretending like I’m not bitchin’, a total freaking rock star from Mars.”
— Charlie Sheen, Feb. 28, 2011

Last night, the Trainwreck Called Charlie Tweeted that Rachel Oberlin — a/k/a, porn performer “Bree Olson,” the more attractive of the two not-very-attractive “goddesses” with whom Charlie has been shacking up — had split the scene:

People magazine reports that Oberlin/Olson may have returned, but trying to figure out the complicated erotic entanglements inside “Sober Valley Lodge” requires more effort than it probably deserves.

What is interesting, however, is that Oberlin’s mother is reportedly worried about her living with Charlie Sheen. One might have thought that Mrs. Oberlin had more reason to worry when, in 2008, her daughter won an award for “Best Anal Scene” in a porn video whose title we won’t repeat here. Let’s pause to contemplate the moral universe in which being sodomized on camera is OK, but living with a millionaire TV star is cause for concern.

Having stared momentarily into that abyss, let’s permit Craig Ferguson to put some historical perspective on what’s really happening here:

There was a mental hospital in London, it’s been there for a very long time. It started as a priory in I think the 12th or 13th century. Anyway, it’s called Bedlam. And what happened was, in the 18th century, people used to go along and pay money — they would pay a penny — and they would look through the peepholes of the cells. And they would look at the lunatics and they would laugh at them. …

In one of his several recent media interviews, Sheen referenced the fact that he starred in an Oscar-winner — Oliver Stone’s Platoon (Best Picture, 1986) — when he was just 20 years old. As with Hogarth’s tale of Tom Rakewell’s degeneracy in “A Rake’s Progress,” Sheen was a young man of almost infinite promise, and there is something of genuine tragedy in his having become the punchline of jokes like Sheen Wars:

Amusing enough for us as spectators, so long as we can ignore the tragic dimension, and forget the humanity of a man so obviously nearing the end of the road to complete self-destruction:

He is trying very hard to convey the impression that he’s having fun — “Winning!” – but I’ll bet it’s a lot less fun than it looks.

For all his arrogant ranting about “tiger blood” and “Adonis DNA,” Charlie Sheen must be desperately embarrassed by the mess he’s made of his life. He may yet be able to redeem himself, but in the meantime we are transfixed by his lunacy, like those 18th-century Englishmen paying a penny to peek through the peephole at the inmates of Bedlam.