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Suicide Bomb at Moscow Airport

Posted on | January 24, 2011 | 30 Comments

Reuters:

At least 31 people were killed and more than 100 injured on Monday in a suicide bombing at Russia’s biggest airport, Russian news agencies reported.

Ace of Spades:

Security is oriented towards keeping bombs off planes, but almost none at all is directed at keeping bombs out of the airports themselves, where all those people are bunched up together.

UPDATE: Reuters via CNBC:

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev vowed to track down and punish those behind a suicide bomb attack which killed at least 31 people and injured over 100 others at Russia’s biggest airport.
“Security will be strengthened at large transport hubs,” Medvedev wrote on Twitter.
“We mourn the victims of the terrorist attack at Domodedovo airport. The organizers will be tracked down and punished,” he said.

Michelle Malkin:

The NYTimes report doesn’t even bother to mention how Russia has been plagued by Islamic jihadist attacks.

This attack may be yet more terrorism by the jihadis waging war against Russia in Chechnya.

UPDATE II: Ed Morrissey is following the story and has this from Asssociated Press:

Domodedovo is generally regarded as Moscow’s most up-to-date airport, but its security procedures have been called into question.
In 2004, two suicide bombers were able to board planes at Domodedovo by buying tickets illegally from airport personnel. The bombers blew themselves up in mid-air, killing all 90 people aboard the two flights.

BTW, at this point, it isn’t certain whether this was a suicide bomber or whether the bomb was hidden in luggage.

Category: Russia, Terrorism

VIDEO: British Girl, 13, Says Rape Threats Are ‘Happening to Lots of Girls’ at School

Posted on | January 24, 2011 | 16 Comments

In November, we reported on the shocking story of Muslim rape gangs terrorizing girls in Great Britain Now, Eric Dondero at Libertarian Republican has this video interview with a 13-year-old girl — whose accent indicates she’s from northern England — talking about the intimidation she faces at school:

When she reports threats from fellw students to school officials, she says, the boys get no worse punishment than 15 days’ suspension. And, she says, young men are hanging around outside school “every day” trying to pick up girls. Recent headlines in England have been full of similarly lurid tales:

As you can see — and I’ve only sampled a few headlines from the past three weeks — the situation seems to be quite alarming. It’s hard to tell how much of this is media sensationalism, but it certainly doesn’t portend a hopeful prospect for multiculturalism in the U.K.

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Category: Crime, Culture, Great Britain, Sex

Obama’s State of the Union Preview

Posted on | January 24, 2011 | 5 Comments

Because I signed up for the Obama mailing list in 2008, this was actually e-mailed to me Saturday night but — I’m not kidding — it went to my “spam” folder:

From the presidential e-mail:

Two years ago, when I first addressed a joint session of Congress, this country faced a crisis unlike anything since the Great Depression — an economy that had spiraled out of control, putting millions out of work.
Today, we’re in a different place. An economy that was shrinking is now growing again. But across the country, millions are struggling every day — to find work, to pay their bills, to provide for their families.
It is clear that the moment we now face demands a vision for how we as a people will win the future.
And that vision — that agenda — will be the topic of my State of the Union address.
As the messengers, volunteers, and organizers of this movement, you will play a critical role in carrying out that agenda. Because of that, I want you to have an advance look at what I’ll ask of Congress on Tuesday. . . .
I will talk to the nation about how we can win the future by out-innovating, out-educating, and out-building the rest of the world. By dealing with our deficits and our debt in a responsible way, and reforming government so that it’s leaner and smarter for the 21st century. How we continue to keep America safe and advance our interests around the world.
But we can do it only if we all work together.

George Will has dismissed the State of the Union as a “pep rally.” Meanwhiile, the president’s predictable call for “investments” — nudge, nudge — got an equally predictable Republican response:

With Mr. Obama planning to call for “investments” of tax dollars in specific areas like education, infrastructure and technology, Republicans insisted that “investment” was just another name for spending that the nation can ill afford.
“With all due respect to our Democratic friends, any time they want to spend, they call it investment, so I think you will hear the president talk about investing a lot Tuesday night,” Senator Mitch McConnell, the Republican leader, said on “Fox News Sunday.” “This is not a time to be looking at pumping up government spending in very many areas.”
Mr. McConnell’s House counterpart, Representative Eric Cantor, said that his party would demand “deep spending cuts” in all areas and that the military, an area of the budget that Republicans ordinarily view as sacrosanct, would not be exempt. “Every dollar should be on the table,” Mr. Cantor said in an appearance on “Meet the Press” on NBC.

It’s kind of hard to get excited about such a predictable political show.

Category: Barack Obama

IT’S ALIVE!

Posted on | January 24, 2011 | 8 Comments

The dreaded scourge of “liberaltarianism” — the heinous Cato Institute monster that first terrorized America in the waning years of the Bush era — has been revived, at least in the dope-addled mind of Will Wilkinson, who sees in the enthusiasms of Timothy B. Lee the spark to resurrect that nightmare.

It was Brink Lindsey who created that monster, evidently thinking that the No-Blood-for-Oil crowd might embrace it, and Wilkinson became entranced with “liberaltarianism,” no doubt in one of his cannabis-induced reveries. In 2009, Michael Moynihan declared the death of “liberaltarianism,” and last September there was a “purge” at Cato.

Wilkinson’s efforts to bring the monster back to life, however, got a sharp rebuke from Kevin Drum of Mother Jones. With a Democrat in the White House, the Left no longer has any need to play nice with the Cato types. Yet we see how persistent bad ideas can be, and these intellectual Mad Scientists won’t repent of their folly. Beware!

Category: Uncategorized

LIVE AT FIVE – 1.24.11

Posted on | January 24, 2011 | 1 Comment

TOP NEWS
Chuck U. Schumer Issues Warning To Senate GOP On Obamacare Repeal

Sen. Charles Schumer, D-NY

Threatens to make GOP vote separately on “popular” provisions of monster healthcare “reform” act

Palestinian Negotiators Offered To Cede All Of East Jerusalem To Israel
Leaked documents confirmed by Wikileaks

Woman Surrenders Over Baby Kidnapping In New York
Police hunt for “mother” ends after Carlina White finds her true parents



Fitness Guru Jack LaLanne Dies At 96
Succumbed to pneumonia.

Walmart Shooting Leaves Two Dead, Two Injured
Two sheriff’s deputies shot, both survive; one bystander not so lucky



POLITICS
Obama’s State of the Union Speech Previews 2012 Race

Head-fake, or actually moving to the middle?

Lots of platitudes, few specifics expected

Loughner Trial May Move To Tucson

Villaraigosa Staffer, Husband On Leave After Attacking Cop


Lefty Bloggers’ Car Towed During Attempted Visit To Wikileaker Manning



THE ECONOMY, STUPID
RockTenn To Buy Smurfit-Stone in $3.5 Billion Deal
New Push At Fed To Set Official Inflation Goal
Apple’s More Corporate Future
Anticipation Runs High For Rockstar Games’ “LA Noire”



SPORTS
Packers Turn Solid O Into Ultimate Indignity For Bears

Pack tackle B.J. Raji scores on a 4th-quarter interception

Bears’ failure to knock out Packers in the regular season comes back to haunt them

Steelers Go Old School, Grind Up Jets On The Ground

Flyers Dominate Hawks In Stanley Cup Rematch

Anthony Erupts For 36 As Nuggets Pound Pacers

Predators Beat Oilers In Shootout



FAMOUS FOR BEING FAMOUS
Kelly Osbourne: The New Face Of Madonna’s Clothing Line

Kelly Osbourne, size 8!

Has the Queen of Pop’s teenage daughter Lourdes to thank.

Baby Spice Announces Engagement On Twitter

Judd Apatow Rips Gervais At Producers’ Guild Awards

Octomom’s Neighbors: Every Day Is Hell

Regis Philbin Quit Over Pay Cut



FOREIGNERS
Palestinian Leaks Pour Cold Water On Peace
Liberation March In Tunis Wants Interim PM Out (Video)
U.S. May Sever Economic Ties With Lebanon If Hezbollah PM Chosen
Ireland’s Greens Pull Out Of Government, Demand Early Elections



BLOGS & STUFF
Moe Lane: PRC Mocks POTUS
Atlas Shrugs: A New Twist In The Obama Birth Certificate Mystery
Doug Powers: SOTU Prom Night Update
Weasel Zippers: Durbin Admits The Obvious – Obama’s New Spending Plan A New Stimulus Bill
Jammie Wearing Fool: Olbermann Notoriously Difficult To Work With
Moonbattery: Bwahahaha!


— compiled by Wombat-socho

Category: Live at Five

RULE 5 SUNDAY SUNDAY SUNDAY!

Posted on | January 23, 2011 | 8 Comments

Well – welcome back to another Rule 5 roundup. We must of course begin with Soylent Green’s Corset Friday, because the Wombat likes to admire the scantily clad women in the corsets.

We welcome Doug of the Pegu Blog to the ways of Rule 5, and he starts off strong with a two-fisted look at Nikki Heat off “Castle” and for the ladies, some Nathan Fillion. Perhaps less tasteful is his examination of Ron Jeremy and his rum.

Mind-Numbed Robot peels himself away from his Sisyphean labors long enough to spot us some delectable Cheryl Cole Tweedy as well as a plethora of further Rule 5 linkagery. Go thence, drool, and click!

Washington Rebel brings back fond memories with this pic of Diana Rigg in her luscious prime, and follows Dame Diana up with Amber Heard and Anne Hathaway. Not to be outdone in the vintage department, Dustbury gives us Susanna Hoffs of the Bangles.

Appropriately enough, Boom3 brings us international femmes fatales Gwen Cooper and Xun Zhou. One with a gun, one without.

From The Camp of the Saints comes this link to Fran Gerard, more rule 5 linkagery, Dawn Richard, and June Blair.

In a first for Rule 5, DaleyGator offers us a slideshow of DaleyBabes.

Maggie’s Notebook shares some nice pix of Dana Perino, some of them with hunky soldier types.

Gahrie offers us a blast from the past with Tiffani-Amber Thiessen, who is clearly still smokin’ at 37.

Last but not least, Proof Positive brings us Stacy Keebler, Hedy Lamarr, and the Steampunk Palin cover. Ooookay.

Rule 5 submissions for next week should be sent to Rule 5 Wombat, preferably by Saturday.

Category: Rule 5

FMJRA 2.0: Your Clumsy Propaganda Only Makes Us Laugh

Posted on | January 23, 2011 | Comments Off on FMJRA 2.0: Your Clumsy Propaganda Only Makes Us Laugh

Jared Loughner’s Zeitgeist Obsession:
‘He Wanted to Watch It All the Time’

Professor on Aborted Babies: ‘I Look at Them Unflinchingly and See Meat’

Abortion Is Murder, and Sometimes We Are Brutally Reminded of That Fact

Olbermann Out at MSNBC

ObamaCare Repeal Bill Gets 245 Votes; ObamaCare Passage Only Got 219 Votes

Herman Cain Tops Santorum, Christie, Daniels, Pence, Huckabee in N.H.

Teasing 2.0

Liberals Cheer as Lawyers Attempt to Destroy the Housing Market in Maryland

FMJRA 2.0: This Space Intentionally Left Blank

Rule 5 Sunday: Wait, what?

I’d Never Heard of Amber Heard …

‘The End of It Is Wicked Madness’

OMFG: Zeitgeist Is ‘Right-Wing’?

Zeitgeist: 9/11 ‘Was an Inside Job’ Also: It Won a ‘Progressive’ Film Award and Is Based on ‘New Age’ Sources

LIVE AT FIVE – 1.18.11

Blame Tucker Carlson!

‘The Pack of Right-Wing Polemicists Who Make Big Bucks Spewing Rage . . .’

Jared Loughner: Reefer Madness?

John B. Judis: Just Makin’ Stuff Up

The MSM’s Peculiar Silence on Zeitgeist (Guess Which Network the Progressive Award-Winning New Age 9/11 ‘Truther’ Film Suggests Is ‘Manipulating’ News)

Ricky Gervais Is Right!

Celebrity News So Sadly Weird I Can’t Even Think Up a Clever Headline for It

VIDEO: Herman Cain vs. Clinton, 1994

ObamaCare: Bad for Your Health

Rush Limbaugh on Zeitgeist

Natalie Portman and Ashton Kutcher Star in Pre-Marital Divorce Training Video

Packers Fans: ‘New Tone?’ Bite Me!

‘The Sterile Laboratories of Their Minds’

Senators: Repeal ObamaCare Now!

Dear God, Not Huckabee, Please

Fear of a Republican Uterus

Remember When MTV Played Music?

LIVE AT FIVE – 1.21.11

Patterico: ‘Charles Johnson Doesn’t Care About Context or Truth Any More’

You’re Not Disgusted Enough Yet

VIDEO: Herman Cain on Sean Hannity Show: ‘The Sleeping Giant Has Awakened’

The Governor California Deserves

Bin Laden Tells France to Surrender

The Economics of Love

The Decline and Fall of Lizardopolis

Blame America First!

‘Man Was Born Free, And He Is Everywhere In Chains. . .’

Religious Left Infiltrates Catholic Agency?

Democrat Attacked After Vitriolic Rhetoric From Sarah Palin … No? Never Mind.

You Knew This Was Coming

The Word Is Reprehensible

And as a reward for reading down this far, the top linkers this week were:

  1. The Lonely Conservative (11 links)
  2. (tie) Da Tech Guy and Nice Deb (6 links)
  3. Katy Pundit (5 links)

Thanks for linking! Blogspot bloggers, please remember to submit your links to me, Wombat-socho, by Friday, on the off-chance that I actually have enough energy to do this on Saturday after a long day in the tax mines.

Category: FMJRA Award

Zombie Goes Kipling

Posted on | January 23, 2011 | 21 Comments

“Yes, part of me still would like to see Potemkin Villages, or perhaps ‘It’s a Small World’ living dioramas, of each and every ethnic culture on Earth, so as to preserve our species’ amazing diversity. But I also know that there is cruelty in such a fantasy; because real human beings will be compelled to live in these ethnographic exhibits, and must thereby endure real hardships for our intellectual amusement and to alleviate our Western guilt.”
— Zombie, “Human Rights Imperialism: Leftist Satire or Moral Collapse?”

Thus says the influential (and anonymous) documenter of left-wing insanity in response to a column in the Guardian by “former New York Times Bureau Chief and current anti-imperialist professor-activist Stephen Kinzer.”

The Guardian column is truly an amazing prodigy of intellectual contortionism. In response, Zombie quotes Kipling’s poem “The White Man’s Burden,” and examines the complex intellectual maneuvers by which the Left justifies its hatred of Western civilization, multiculturalism being one such maneuver.

We cannot remake the Third World in our own image. We cannot impose Jeffersonian democracy at the point of a bayonet, or suppose that Kabul can be converted overnight into Athens in the age of Pericles. Nevertheless, we cannot renounce our own civilization because others are unwilling to emulate it.

Liberals are embarrassed by the West’s superiority, which is why they embrace anything and everything that will drag us down into the mire.

(Hat-tip: Dan Collins at Piece of Work in Progress.)

Category: Culture, Foreigners
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