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LIVE AT FIVE – 1.3.10

Posted on | January 3, 2011 | 2 Comments

TOP NEWS
Schwarzenegger Commutes Prison Term For Former Assembly Speaker’s Son

Gov. Schwatzenegger (L), former Speaker Fabian Nunez (R)

Esteban Nunez pleaded guilty to manslaughter in the fatal stabbing of Luis Dos Santos. Nunez’ father now works in a political consulting firm with Ahnuld’s former communications director.

Ohio Deputy Sheriff Mourned Following Her Death In Trailer Park Shootout
Deputy Suzanne Hopper, 40, leaves behind two children

Egypt Tries To Keep The Lid On After Copts Riot Following Latest Attack

“If this happened in a mosque, the government would be doing something. But this happens to us every year, and every day, and they do nothing.”

POLITICS
Cuomo Plans One-Year Freeze Of State Workers’ Pay

Andrew Cuomo takes the oath of office as his girlfriend and daughter look on

Ready to work with public employee unions a la Hugh Carey, but keeping a healthy war chest just in case

GOP Moves To Put Obamacare Repeal First
Navy To Investigate “Inappropriate” Videos Shown On USS Enterprise

NYC Investigators Looking Into Charges That Sanitation Bosses Hung Out & Drank Beer Instead of Doing Their Jobs

THE ECONOMY, STUPID
American Airlines, Delta Pull Flights From Online Travel Sites
PRC Manufacturing Slows Slightly In December
Asian Shares Kick Off 2011 With Healthy Gains
IPhone Alarm Glitch Leaves Some Users Asleep
Tablet Makers Looking Forward To “Honeycomb” Update For Android OS
Electronics Show Revives Vegas Glow

SPORTS
Falcons, Patriots Favored In Playoffs

Atlanta Falcons QB Matt Ryan

Atlanta and New England both end the season with league-best records

Pack Beats Bears, Who Already Have Post-Season Slot

Ravens, Jets, Packers & Saints Nail Down Wild Card Berths

Are Vick, Eagles Ready For Packers?

The Dakar Rally: Fear And Loathing In South America

FAMOUS FOR BEING FAMOUS
Valerie Bertinelli Gets Married

Valerie Bertinelli and new hubby Tom Vitale

Forget Cleveland, things got hot in Malibu Saturday night
Also, Shania Twain Ties The Knot
Robert Pattinson, Reese Witherspoon In “Water For Elephants”
Val Kilmer Owes $500,000 In Taxes
Fox Nixes “24” Movie Script
MJ Concert Tour Stress A Contributing Factor To His Death?
Jay-Z, Kanye West Do New Year’s Eve In Vegas
Oprah On Her OWN Now

FOREIGNERS
Queensland Starts Airlift, Recalls Cabinet To Deal With “Biblical” Floods
Desperate search underway to find Queenslander sober, literate enough to spell “flood”
UN Reports “Extrajudicial” Killings By Gbagbo Supporters
MQM Announces It’s Leaving Paki Government For Opposition, Fall Of Government, New Elections Almost Certain
7.1 Earthquake Rattles Chile; No Injuries Or Damage
Pope Condemns Attacks On Egyptian Copts

BLOGS & STUFF
American Power: Rep, Darrell Issa Slams “Most Corrupt” Obama Administration, Promises Investigative Hearings Into Wasted Money (Video)
Jammie Wearing Fool: Obama Advisor Says Not Raising Debt Ceiling Is Insanity Or Something
Protein Wisdom: “I Don’t Think Even The Soviets Were That Crazy” (Video)
Nice Deb: It Begins…An Attempt To Normalize Communism (Video)

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Category: Live at Five

Did President Obama Invent Muslim Victims of Egyptian Church Bombing?

Posted on | January 2, 2011 | 12 Comments

Jim Hoft at Gateway Pundit notes that although Obama issued a statement saying that the New Year’s Day bombing at a Coptic church in Alexandria caused “deaths and dozens of injured from both the Christian and Muslim communities,” news reports indicate all 21 killed were Christians, as were 71 of the 79 reported injured.

So even though the jihadi killers were clearly targeting Christians, the Equal-Opportunity Victimhood Principle requires that accidental injuries to eight Muslims be accorded equal status with the purposeful violence against 92 intended Christian victims.

But at least Obama is now on the record as being against terrorism.

Via Memeorandum, with additional commentary by Cold Fury, Jihad Watch, The Blog Prof and Nice Deb.

Category: Barack Obama, Egypt, Gateway Pundit, Terrorism

Rule 5 Sunday – Actually On Sunday This Week!

Posted on | January 2, 2011 | 4 Comments

Let’s welcome The Constitutional Crusader to the weekly Rule 5 Extravaganza, especially since he seems to be having a wretched holiday season, beset with woes both automotive and computer-related. Still, it’s not completely wretched, since in the Christmas spirit he provides these fine views of Gemma Atkinson, Lucy Pinder, and, well, Lucy Pinder again.

In Europe, Lady Gaga turns Nazi recruiting agent? I’m sure YankeePhil was as surprised as we were to see this in the Daily Kos.

Mind Numbed Robot submits Catherine Zeta Jones for our consideration. “Because she needs the attention, and I need the hits.” We appreciate honesty, and we also appreciate Ms. Zeta-Jones.

WyBlog, on the other hand, prefers Jenn Sterger.

Soylent Green, having difficulty finding a PG-13 submission, sends in this rendition of Gaia made flesh. Now that’s some global warming! He also submitted the New Year’s Eve Corset Friday post, but I dunno, looks a little risque for this family-oriented blog. Or maybe not. Maybe that’s the fabric I’m seeing in that one pic.

Also contributing to the warming trend is Juliana Moreira, brought to our attention by Richard McEnroe of Three Beers Later. Not content with this, he provides 3:41 of Denise Milani looking extremely sexy in glasses.

Proof Positive contributes Naomi Campbell (showing the importance of reading) , Penelope Cruz, and some vintage Rule 5 with Yvonne Craig, at one time known for playing  Batgirl/Barbara Gordon opposite Adam West’s Batman.

Mr. Charles Hill of Dustbury offers Maria Sharapova and a Zooeypalooza!

Finally, the Dividist provides much-needed illustration for the Italian Topless Beach Legal Kerfluffle.

Thanks to all for your submissions!
Send next week’s pinup possibilities to Rule5Wombat!

Category: Rule 5

FMJRA 2.0: I’ll Take That Egg Nog To Go, And Make It A Double

Posted on | January 2, 2011 | 1 Comment

Without further ado. your first FMJRA of the new year.

Natalie Portman: ‘Paint the Shotgun White, Pa! It’s Gonna Be Formal!’

Ready for the Best. CPAC. Evah?

OMFG: Katy Couric Says, ‘Maybe We Need a Muslim Version of ‘The Cosby Show’

Skepticism Is for ‘Rubes’

‘Unexpectedly’! Global Warming Continues to Bury East Coast in Blizzard

Worst. Congress. EVAH! Also Turns Out to Have Been Breathtakingly Unethical

Herman Cain: ‘We Have People on the Ground’ in Early Primary States

Rule 5 Sunday Falls On A Monday This Week

More Herman Cain Awesomeness

More Proof Exercise Is Bad for You

Media Headwinds, Media Tailwinds

Glenn Reynolds ‘Nuke the Norks’ Only 5th Place in Sully’s ‘Malkin Awards’ Finals?

Cousins for Cain?

Jonah Goldberg Is Wrong

‘I Feel Like I Just Found Out I’ve Been Living on the Moon’

Anatomy of an Online Hoax

Julian Assange, Libertarian ‘Reactionary’?

Christine O’Donnell’s Not a Witch, But They’re Gonna Burn Her Anyway

Foreclosures Rising, Home Prices Slumping: Can You Say ‘Double-Dip’?

Herman Cain Invited to Iowa Forum

My 2011 Prediction

Natalie Portman Explains Why Lesbian Scenes Are Like CGI Special Effects in 3-D

Late Entry in the ‘Stupidest Things Liberals Said in 2010’ Sweepstakes

Have They Blamed Global Warming Yet?

Why Do Public Schools Exist?
Because You Hate Your Children

‘Arthur Wolk, Notorious Sheep-F***ing Lawyer, Sues Bloggers Just for Spite’

‘Break into a Prevent Defense for the Second Half and Try to Preserve a Tie’

In Case You Missed It: Merry Revolutionary Christmas From CPUSA!

Category: FMJRA Award

$20 Says Eugene Volokh Had Sunday’s Most-Clicked Link on Instapundit

Posted on | January 2, 2011 | 1 Comment

This delivered at least 5,000 hits in the first four hours:

MORE ON THE CASE OF THAT SENSUOUS TOPLESS ITALIAN SUNBATHER. The Italian justice system seems to have delivered.

Some things are predictable. For instance, when the defendant’s attorney begins a sentence, “Let’s be clear my client is tall, brunette and has an ample breast and is therefore . . .,” the rest of that sentence is irrelevant. After that, the mind drifts, the eyes glaze over and it’s like Charlie Brown’s teacher talking: “Mwah mwah mwah mwahmwah mwah.”

Another blogger sent that to me, asking, “Eugene Volokh goes Rule 5?” Yeah, the cat’s out of the bag now. It’s only a matter of time before we start seeing blog headlines like this:

Supreme Court Delivers Ruling
on Health-Care Law – PLUS:
Shocking Demi Lovato Photos!

But perhaps you don’t keep up with the latest celebrity starlet scandals and hadn’t heard about those shocking photos. Like I said, some things are predictable . . .

Category: Instapundit, Rule 5

‘Few People Understand the Damage Boys Who Are Abused by Women Can Suffer’

Posted on | January 2, 2011 | 23 Comments

So says Dr. Helen Smith in regard to an Arizona case where an underaged boy (allegedly) had sex with both (a) 48-year-old Susan Brock, and (b) her 21-year-old daughter Rachel Katherine Brock:

Rachel Brock is accused of committing numerous sex acts with the teenage boy between February 2007 and August 2008, and sending him nude photos and a video of herself masturbating; none of the acts involved intercourse. The boy was 14 at the time, and Rachel Brock was 18, classifying the crimes as dangerous crimes against children.
Police said that between August 2007 and October of this year, the teen met Susan Brock for sexual trysts. Susan Brock reportedly provided the boy with cell phones, and police seized text messages reportedly recording sexual exchanges between the two.
Chandler police Sgt. Joe Favazzo said it appears that Susan and Rachel Brock didn’t know about each other’s relationship with the teen.

To summarize: Beginning in February 2007, 18-year-old Rachel was involved with the 14-year-old boy. Six months later, the boy began an affair with Rachel’s mother and continued his involvement with both of them for another year, after which he discontinued his affair with Rachel, but continued doing her mom for another two years. Read more

Category: Crime, Culture, Dr. Helen, Sex

Wisconsin Dem Bumper Sticker Shows ‘Bloody Crash’ into GOP Governor’s Head

Posted on | January 2, 2011 | 8 Comments

The Associated Press:

Robin Vos, a Racine Republican, is taking offense at a Democratic bumper sticker he claims shows a train slamming into Gov.-elect Scott Walker’s head in a bloody crash. He thinks Democrats should stop offering it.
The bumper sticker is available on the Wisconsin Democratic Party’s website. The sticker is emblazoned with the words “High Speed Fail.”

The Underground Conservative has the background:

It’s not enough that the Democrats in Wisconsin were kicked to the curb in November.
It’s clear that they still don’t have a clue as to what hit them and why. . . .
One of Scott Walker’s main issues in winning the governor’s race was his intent to cancel the half-fast, car-speed train projected to run between Milwaukee and Madison. The federal government was to provide the initial $810 million to construct the choo-choo, but the operating cost would have to be picked up by state taxpayers, already facing a $200 million budget deficit, thanks to a lousy economy and fiscal mismanagement by outgoing Gov. Jim Doyle and the recently defeated legislative Democrats.
Walker correctly realized that the state couldn’t afford this “gift” from the Obama Regime and announced plans to kill the train, whose average speed would have been about 55 mph, lower than the speed of the average car going between Milwaukee and Madison, plus the car actually takes you where you want to go. He also recognized there was neither the need nor the demand for the choo-choo, which, like all rail mass transit projects, low-balls cost and overestimates ridership.
Naturally, the choo-choo zealots went apoplectic. . . .

Read the whole thing.

Category: Wisconsin

‘Twentysomething Unwashed Creeps in Balaclavas Who Simultaneously Reek of Patchouli Oil and Rage Against the Machine’

Posted on | January 2, 2011 | 3 Comments

Moe Lane sure knows how to turn a phrase, doesn’t he?

Myself, I prefer the simple old-fashioned “godless Bolshevik scum,” but your mileage may vary.

(Hat-tip: Instapundit.)

Category: Moe Lane
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