RULE 5 SUNDAY SUNDAY SUNDAY!

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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.

FMJRA 2.0: Your Clumsy Propaganda Only Makes Us Laugh

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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.

Zombie Goes Kipling

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“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.)

The St. Pancake Flotilla: Commission Determines IHH Initiated Violence

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An official commission investigated the May incident where Israeli commandos were attacked when they boarded a vessel defying the Gaza blockade, and has determined that activists with the Turkish “humanitarian” agency IHH provoked the incident:

The commission concluded that on board the Mavi Marmara and the other flotilla vessels was a group of IHH and affiliated activists (the IHH activists) that violently opposed the Israelis boarding. The IHH activists who participated in that violence were civilians taking a direct part in hostilities.
“The force used against civilians on board the flotilla was governed by the principles of ‘necessity’ and use of ‘proportionate force’ associated with human rights based law enforcement norms. However, the IHH activists lost the protection of their civilian status for such time as they directly participated in the hostilities. The use of force against these direct participants in hostilities is governed by the applicable rules of international humanitarian law,” the report said.
The commission explained that the IHH activists carried out the violence on board the Mavi Marmara by arming themselves with a wide array of weapons, including iron bars, axes, clubs, slingshots, knives, and metal objects.
“Overall, the IDF personnel acted professionally in the faces of extensive and unanticipated violence. This included continuing to switch back and forth between less-lethal and lethal weapons in order to address the nature of the violence directed at them,” the commission said.

Friday, Pamela Geller highlighed a report by the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs on the jihadist connections of the IHH.

The 9/11 Memorial Rip-Off

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Schoolchildren “thought their penny jars and bake-sale proceeds would go toward building a 9/11 memorial at Ground Zero — not the six-figure salaries of nonprofit execs.”

Foundation President Joseph Daniels, 38, pocketed $371,307 after receiving hefty raises three years in a row — 28 percent in 2006, when he was promoted from acting president, followed by 12 percent and 6 percent.
Museum director Alice Greenwald made $351,000, and capital planning Vice President Joan Gerner soaked up $337,143 before leaving last spring. Development director Cathy Blaney raked in $322,292. The full-time foundation employee also worked last year as a fund-raiser for Gov. Cuomo’s election campaign.

Hat-tip: Kathleen McCaffrey at Legal Insurrection.

The Word Is ‘Reprehensible’

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Donald Douglas calls our attention to the latest cover of Newsweek, in which the gunman is wrapped in an American flag:

The cover story by Jonathan Alter is more than 2,000 words. And what one word does not appear in that article? Zeitgeist.

Remember when Newsweek used to do reporting?

UPDATE: Linked by Stephen Green at PJM’s Tatler blog. Thanks!

UPDATE II: Linked by Ed Driscoll. Thanks!

UPDATE III: Linked by the Lonely Conservative. Thanks!

UPDATE IV: Linked by the Rio Norte Line. Thanks!

The Pagan Caucus?

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“As a Pagan I can tell you that I, like many others, strongly support economic freedom, limited government, a strong nationals defense and law and order. Many Pagans are also pro-life, anti-drug and pro-traditional marriage. Should Pagans be turned away because they aren’t Christians?
“The Pagan Right is a vigorous defender of conservative values and classical liberalism in an arena that few other conservatives have access to. It is time the movements were linked together so that both are strengthened.”
— Rob Taylor, NewsRealBlog, “Top 5 Potential Allies Conservatives Ignore — at Our Peril”

Because, of course, the “Odinists for Obama” movement proved to be so crucial in 2008 — certainly more powerful than “Wiccans for Hillary.” Catholic blogger Lisa Graas points out the problems of political math:

Note to Rob: There are 67 million Catholics. Last I looked, 67 million was a lot bigger than 400,000. Adherents.com lists 69,776,000 Catholics (24.5% of the population in America) and 768,400 Neo-Pagans (0.28% of the population in America).

Mike Tuggle calls Taylor’s idea a “psychedelic version of conservatism,” expanding political inclusiveness to the point of philosophical universalism, so that anything and everything can be called “conservative.” It’s symptomatic of an age of political confusion that dates back to the end of the Cold War, but no one’s ever going to pay me to write that 70,000-word book, so I’ll desist from further analysis.