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Rule 5 Sunday: Monica Ruiz

Posted on | December 8, 2019 | 2 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

The UCSB graduate has appeared in minor roles in a few movies and TV series, but what’s catapulted her to fame (or maybe infamy) is her role in the recent Peloton ad that apparently triggered a whole bunch of idjits on the intertubes. Well, if nothing else, she got an immediate role in an ad for Ryan Reynolds’ Aviation Gin. Here she is aggressively flaunting her navel in a red bikini.

Before Peloton and Aviation Gin. Doesn’t look like she needs an exercise bike to me…

Ninety Mils From Tyranny presents Hot Pick of the Late Night, The 90 Miles Mystery Box Episode #825, Morning Mistress, and Girls With Guns. At Animal Magnetism, it’s Rule Five Climate Apocalypse Friday and the Saturday Gingermageddon.

EBL brings us Vanessa Kirby, Kelly Loeffler, Neko Case, Shonen Knife, Rachel Brosnahan, WWII Pinup Girls, and Peloton Wife Monica Ruiz.

A View From The Beach nets Goliath Girl, Tania Raymonde, Eagle Attacks H&R Block Office, Fish Pic Friday – Black Drum, Tattoo Thursday, Water Bottles for Wednesday, I Didn’t Know We Had ‘Em, Tattoos for Tuesday, “Bring a Torch Janette Isabella”, Award Winning Journalist Loses Job to Severe Case of TDS and Another Palm Sunday.

Proof Positive’s Vintage Babe of the Week is Mamie Van Doren.

Thanks to everyone for the luscious linkagery!

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FMJRA 2.0: Snowing

Posted on | December 8, 2019 | Comments Off on FMJRA 2.0: Snowing

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Getting closer to having everything done on time…

Rule 5 Tuesday: D.C. Fontana
Bacon Time
Animal Magnetism
EBL
Ninety Miles From Tyranny
A View From The Beach
Proof Positive

FMJRA 2.0: Neuronengesang
A View From The Beach
EBL

There Is No Substitute for Victory
Dark Brightness
EBL

Young Climate Change Maniacs
Pushing Rubber Downhill
A View From The Beach
EBL

Barr Disputes IG Horowitz Report
A View From The Beach
EBL

Black Woman’s Presidential Campaign Rejected by Racist Sexist Democrats
Pushing Rubber Downhill
A View From The Beach
EBL

In The Mailbox: 12.03.19 (Leftovers)
357 Magnum
EBL
Proof Positive

Against Extremism
EBL

Pedophiles for Hillary: Mueller Source Indicted for Campaign Finance Fraud
357 Magnum
EBL
A View From The Beach

Professor Demands Censorship
357 Magnum
EBL

Attention Republicans: Stop Scapegoating Others for Your Own Personal Failures
357 Magnum
EBL

In The Mailbox: 12.04.19 (Afternoon Edition)
357 Magnum
A View From The Beach
EBL
Proof Positive

In The Mailbox: 12.05.19
A View From The Beach
EBL
Proof Positive

When the NPC Asks, One Must Deliver
EBL

Four Dead After Florida Jewelry-Store Robbery Leads to High-Speed Pursuit
EBL

The Total Florida Woman Story
EBL

Aniah Blanchard Murder Suspect Blames His Victim: Teenager ‘Went for the Gun’
EBL

His Name Was Mohammed Alshamrani
Dark Brightness
EBL

In The Mailbox: 12.06.19 (Afternoon Edition)
A View From The Beach
EBL
Proof Positive

In The Mailbox: 12.06.19 (Evening Edition)
A View From The Beach
EBLProof Positive

Top linkers for the week ending December 6:

  1.  EBL (20)
  2.  A View From The Beach (10)
  3. Proof Positive (6)
  4.  357 Magnum (5)

Thanks to everyone for all the links!

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Category: FMJRA Award

Pat Buchanan Nails It

Posted on | December 8, 2019 | Comments Off on Pat Buchanan Nails It

You just need to go read this column. Years ago (it was around the time of the Iraq War, as I recall), William F. Buckley Jr. wrote a column in which he declared that it was no longer possible to defend Patrick J. Buchanan against accusations of anti-Semitism. Buckley’s mastery of forensic method is not to be disputed, but the targeting of Buchanan is an example of the “urge to purge” that has so often damaged the conservative cause. Buchanan’s decades of loyal service to the Republican Party — he was a key adviser to both Nixon and Reagan — ought to have entitled him to a certain amount of deference, even from such an eminent figure as Buckley, and as I’ve often said, you cannot build a successful movement by a process of subtraction. When the conservative movement was on the upswing in the 1960s, it’s understandable why Buckley felt a need to repudiate the John Birch Society. Since the end of the Reagan presidency, however, we have seen the emergence of division between the leadership of the movement and the rank and file. Buchanan has always represented the populist side of conservatism and if, in channeling the spirit of the disgruntled masses, he has been guilty of playing footsie with Jew-haters, this is a grievous fault, and grievously hath Buchanan answered it. His value as an analyst and strategist is undiminished by his faults, however.

Buchanan has the old-fashioned idea that politics is about people — identify the key voter groups, determine what interests motivate them, and from this process you can find a way to engage and persuade them. Buchanan is credited with coining the phrase “Silent Majority” to describe the middle- and working-class Americans who were weary of the chaotic turmoil of the 1960s, and he offers similar insights in analyzing developments in the Democratic Party coalition leading up to 2020:

The “diversity is our strength!” party is starting to look rather monochromatic in its upper echelons these days.
The four leading candidates for its presidential nomination — Joe Biden, Elizabeth Warren, Bernie Sanders, and Pete Buttigieg — are all white.
The six candidates who have qualified for the December 19 debate—the front four, plus Amy Klobuchar and Tom Steyer—are all white.
Speaker Nancy Pelosi and House Democratic Majority Leader Steny Hoyer are both white, as are Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and Whip Dick Durbin.
The chairs of the House Intelligence and Judiciary Committees managing impeachment, Adam Schiff and Jerry Nadler, are both white. And as Congressman Al Green noted Wednesday, all three experts Nadler invited to make the Democrats’ case for impeachment were white law professors. How come?
Absent affirmative action by the DNC, neither Cory Booker, the leading black candidate for the nomination, nor Julian Castro, the leading Hispanic, will be on the stage December 19. . . .
African Americans are a bedrock constituency of the Democratic Party. In recent presidential elections, they have voted 90 percent for the party’s nominee, and even higher for Barack Obama.
How is Mayor Pete doing with this constituency?
While running first in some polls in Iowa, his share of the African-American vote in South Carolina, in a recent poll, was zero. Buttigieg had no black support in a state where African Americans constitute more than 60 percent of the Democratic vote. . . .

Read the whole thing. There is an obvious disconnect between what the Democrats say they stand for and what they actually do. If you were paying attention to Kamala Harris’s supporters the past couple of weeks, you know that (b) they feel she has been cheated by the process, and (b) they hate Pete Buttigieg with the heat of ten thousand suns. All the Hollywood money pouring into Buttigieg’s coffers is an ill omen for Democrats — their elite have lost touch with the party base, much like happened to the GOP in 2012, when the Republican establishment backed Mitt Romney over the protests of the Tea Party grassroots.

So now Democrats have the #PrimarySoWhite for a party whose most loyal constituents are “people of color,” and this does not bode well for their effort to defeat Trump next year.

(Hat-tip: Instapundit.)



 

Category: Democrats, Election

FBI Probes Belgian Terrorist Threat

Posted on | December 7, 2019 | Comments Off on FBI Probes Belgian Terrorist Threat

 

As I’ve previously explained, Charles Johnson of Little Green Footballs first alerted America to the danger of Belgian extremists, and whenever The Flemish Menace™ makes another terrorist attack, it’s important to give Charles credit. Consider the latest news from Pensacola:

The F.B.I. was investigating but did not confirm a report that the Saudi trainee had watched videos of mass shootings at a dinner party sometime this week, according to a senior American official who was briefed on the investigation but not authorized to speak publicly.
The gunman, who killed three people and injured eight others, did not have any apparent ties to international terrorist groups and appeared to have radicalized on his own, according to the official.
The gunman, identified as Second Lt. Mohammed Saeed Alshamrani, was killed by a sheriff’s deputy who responded to the attack. Lieutenant Alshamrani was training to become a pilot and initially entered the United States in 2018, according to the official. But at some point Lieutenant Alshamrani returned to Saudi Arabia and then re-entered the United States in February 2019, the official said. . . .

OK, they haven’t gotten to the part about the Belgian connection yet, but I’m sure if we keep reading, everything will become apparent:

Six other Saudi nationals were detained for questioning near the scene of the shooting, which took place over two floors in a classroom on the base. Three of the Saudis who were detained had been seen filming the entire incident, according to another person briefed on the investigation.
It was not known whether the six Saudis detained were students in the classroom building, and there was no immediate indication that those filming the incident were connected to the gunman, the person said. . . .

Seriously, there must be a Belgian angle to this, although the motive is apparently still mysterious to these New York Times reporters:

Investigators were trying to determine what motivated the gunman.
Senator Rick Scott, Republican of Florida, and Representative Matt Gaetz, a Republican whose district includes Pensacola, both described the shooting as an act of terrorism.

(Of course, these Republicans are RAAAAACIST!)

But federal law enforcement officials said it was too early to establish the gunman’s motive.
The SITE Intelligence Group, which monitors jihadist activity, cited a Twitter account with a name matching the gunman that had posted a “will” calling the United States a “nation of evil” and criticizing its support for Israel.

(Because we know how much Belgians hate the Jews.)

SITE said the account had also quoted Osama bin Laden, the former Qaeda leader, and was critical of United States foreign policy.
“I’m not against you for just being American,” the posts said. “I don’t hate you because your freedoms, I hate you because every day you supporting, funding and committing crimes not only against Muslims Belgians but also humanity.”

(Obviously a typographical error, which I’ve corrected.)

The account could not be independently verified, and law enforcement officials did not confirm that it was connected to the gunman.
The gunman was a member of the Saudi Air Force.
The lieutenant was a trainee with the Saudi Air Force. Saudi pilots have trained at the Pensacola base since 1995.
The gunman used a locally purchased Glock 45 9-millimeter handgun with an extended magazine and had four to six other magazines in his possession, according to one of the people briefed on the investigation.

Remember, you should always trust the FBI:

During a news conference Friday night, the FBI declined to release the shooter’s identity and wouldn’t comment on his possible motivations.
“There are many reports circulating, but the FBI deals only in facts,” said Rachel L. Rojas, the FBI’s special agent in charge of the Jacksonville Field Office.

Well, I think we’ve got enough information now to know the gunman’s motive, despite the reluctance of federal officials and the New York Times to jump to any hasty conclusions. Charles Johnson and his LGF readers all understand that Belgian crypto-Nazis are to blame.



 

Category: Belgium, Florida, Islam, Media Bias, New York Times, Saudi Arabia, Terrorism, The Flemish Menace

The Impeachment Circus Continues, But Does Any Sane Person Actually Care?

Posted on | December 7, 2019 | Comments Off on The Impeachment Circus Continues, But Does Any Sane Person Actually Care?

 

I’ve spent the past week ignoring the impeachment circus, but did you know that “the Trump campaign took in $15 million in small-dollar donations in the first three days after Pelosi announced the inquiry”? Did you know that Trump’s approval rating has gone up since the Shifty Schiff UkraineGate hearings began last month? Not to dismiss the seriousness of all this — the fact that Nancy Pelosi believes she has a mandate for impeachment is disturbing, even if you think it’s absurd — but it is difficult to see how this is going to be anything other than a political catastrophe for Democrats. And CNN, but I repeat myself:

If Democrats and their media allies thought that the impeachment of President Trump would be his undoing, I’ve got bad news for them: it’s actually undoing them. The Democrats’ favorite (fake) news channel CNN is suffering from a three-year low in ratings.
According to Disrn, CNN “reached a three-year low in ratings over the Thanksgiving holidays, averaging 643,000 primetime viewers. The news outlet also saw its worst week for viewers among the 25-43 demographic.” In that group, CNN only pulled 138,000 viewers. That’s pathetic.
Fox News, on the other hand, “posted higher ratings than CNN and MSNBC combined, averaging nearly 2.2 million viewers during primetime last week. The network also pulled in 303,000 viewers ages 25 to 54,” which is the most important target group for advertisers.
In other words, Fox News is utterly and completely destroying the competition. Now, there’s nothing new about that in itself, but what is new is CNN’s complete and utter irrelevance in the news world. If you’re thinking to yourself, “CNN? I never watch it!”, you’re not only talking for yourself but for just about every single American. There’s literally just about nobody watching any of its programs — let alone those scheduled outside of primetime.

(Hat-tip: Instapundit.) To have an audience of less than 700,000 viewers, in a nation of 325 million, in the midst of what the media keep calling a “historic” impeachment proceeding — well, look up the word “pathetic” in the dictionary and you’ll find it illustrated with a photo of Don Lemon.

Look, I hate to break it to King Creole‘s viewers — whoever they are, trapped in an airport somewhere — but most Americans don’t give a crap about U.S. policy toward Ukraine, and most Americans are also smart enough to figure out that Hunter Biden never would have gotten that Burisma gig if his name had been “Hunter Smith” or “Hunter Jones.”

With Cocaine Mitch running the Senate, there is no way this impeachment will result in President Trump’s removal from office, so that the American people will decide the issue next November, and who are the Democrats going to nominate against him? Not Kamala Harris — because Democrats are racist sexists who hate black women.

If I were asked to wager on the Democrat nomination, my money would be on Elizabeth Warren, the fake Cherokee Harvard professor, and if you think working-class voters in Wisconsin are going to dump Trump to elect Warren, you need to turn off MSNBC, sit down and contemplate how you’ve reached this nadir of bleak desperation.



 

Category: Democrats, Donald Trump, Media Bias, Ukraine

In The Mailbox: 12.06.19 (Evening Edition)

Posted on | December 6, 2019 | 1 Comment

— compiled by Wombat-socho

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: The Vatican’s Minecraft Server Gets Hacked
EBL: Marcus Tullius Cicero – The Catiline Oration
Twitchy: Watch As Comfortably Smug Calls Up The Minions To Go After MMFA – MMFA And The Media Blink
Louder With Crowder: Jeremy Clarkson Unloads On “Stupid Idiot” Greta Thunberg
According To Hoyt: Are You In The Path Of The Steamroller?
Monster Hunter Nation: Target Rich Environment 2 Out Today!
Vox Popoli: The Fake Billionaires, also, Corporate Cancer Is Everywhere

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: Friday Hawt Chicks & Links – We Care About Your Privacy Edition
American Greatness: Impeachment Is Trump’s Punishment For Questioning The Intelligence Committee
American Thinker: Democrats Are Pushing America Into Civil War
Animal Magnetism: Rule Five Climate Apocalypse Friday
Babalu Blog: Florida Democrats Distance Themselves From Candidate Who Openly Admires Castro Regime
BattleSwarm: LinkSwarm For December 6
Cafe Hayek: Reaping A Strong Dollar’s Benefits
CDR Salamander: Fullbore Friday
Da Tech Guy: Legal Scholars Bubble Life
Don Surber: Americans Defy Experts By Thriving
First Street Journal: Do The Left Have Anything In Their Hearts Besides Bitterness & Bile?
The Geller Report: Terror In Pensacola, also, PA Muslim Democrat Stole More Than $500,000 From Mental Illness Charity
Hogewash: Team Kimberlin Post Of The Day, also, Who’s Next
Hollywood In Toto: Taylor Swift’s Woke Journey Targeted For Netflix Doc
Joe For America: Watch Farmer Spray Poop On Emma Thompson For Protesting On His Property
JustOneMinute: Jobs, Jobs, Jobs, or, It’s The Economy, Stupid
Legal Insurrection: Dem Rep Tlaib Headlines “American Muslims For Palestine” Conference Devoted To Jihad Against Israel, also, Trump Won’t Participate In Monday’s Impeachment Hearing
The PanAm Post: Moral Depravity – FARC Blocks Bill To Punish Rapists
Power Line: Mandarin Media Not Even Trying To Hide Their Bias Anymore, also, The Obama Labor Department, Year 11
Shot In The Dark: Soft Targets
The Political Hat: Firing Line Friday – The Jesus Movement
This Ain’t Hell: Nancy Pelosi Plays The Catholic Card, also, Bad Day For The Navy
Victory Girls: Food Stamp Reform Triggers The Usual Leftist Lies
Volokh Conspiracy: New On Lawfare – Defining A Theory of “Bribery” For Impeachment
Weasel Zippers: Democratic Rep On Impeachment Rush – We Can’t “Wait For An Election” to Decide Who Is President, also, Biden – I Got My Education In The Black Church
Mark Steyn: Nancy With The Praying Face, also, Too Stupid To Survive (Continued)

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In The Mailbox: 12.06.19 (Afternoon Edition)

Posted on | December 6, 2019 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 12.06.19 (Afternoon Edition)

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OVER THE TRANSOM
Bacon Time: The Bongino Report, Because Drudge Sucks
EBL: Shonen Knife – Space Christmas
Twitchy: Dana Loesch Takes Down Mob Of Angry & Stupid, Including “Charlotte” Clymer & Andy Richter, In Gun Debate
Louder With Crowder: Voter Confronts Biden On Son’s Ukraine Involvement, Biden Flips Out

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Adam Piggott: Enact Our Carbon Emission Targets Or We’ll Invade You
American Greatness: Tranny Teen School Shooter To Be Tried As Adult
American Thinker: We Are All George Zimmerman Now
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Daily Prescription Spectacles News
Babalu Blog: Protest Banner Of The Day – The Hypocrisy Of Latin America’s Socialists
BattleSwarm: Peak Woke
Cafe Hayek: Who’d A-Thunk It?
CDR Salamander: A Design For Maintaining Maritime Superiority
Da Tech Guy: Democrats Weaponize FLOTUS Against Them, also, Angela Merkel v. Rob Schneider On Free Speech
Don Surber: Hospitals Sue The Administration To Hide Their Prices
First Street Journal: Black Friday Traffic Tieup As Tesla Drivers Have To Wait In Long Lines To Recharge Cars
The Geller Report: EU Council Head Seen Making Pointing Gun Gestures At Trump’s Back, also, Destroying The USA Is The Democrats’ Agenda
Hogewash: Team Kimberlin Post Of The Day, also, About Those Phone Records
Hollywood In Toto: Cage, Grammer Team For Underwhelming Grand Isle
Joe For America: Dem Rep Al Green Says Democrats Can Impeach Trump Repeatedly
JustOneMinute: On To Impeachment!
Legal Insurrection: Email Sent To GWU Law Deans Demands Jonathan Turley’s Removal, also, Math Prof At UC Davis Under Fire For Opposing “Diversity Statements”
The PanAm Post: AMLO & The “Fourth Transformation” In Mexico
Power Line: Democrats Gone Wild, also, Kaepernick Workout Leads To Redskins Job
Shot In The Dark: The Plan
STUMP: Visualizing U.S. Union Membership, 1983-2018
The Political Hat: Sexual Dimorphic – Brains, Testosterone, & AI
This Ain’t Hell: Thursdays Are For Cooking, also, MilitaryPhony Is Up!
Victory Girls: The Farce Continues – Pelosi Announces Articles Of Impeachment
Volokh Conspiracy: Can The House Impeach A Former President?
Weasel Zippers: The View Hag Complains Kamala Harris’ Failure The Result of “Unprecedented Racism & Sexism”, also,  Joe Biden Says He Won’t Voluntarily Testify If Called By Senate For Impeachment Trial
Megan McArdle: When Exciting Education Results Are In The News, Be Skeptical
Mark Steyn: Running The Number, also, The Men Who Walked Away

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His Name Was Mohammed Alshamrani

Posted on | December 6, 2019 | 1 Comment

 

If I had to guess, I’d say he’s probably from Belgium:

Four people are dead including the suspect after an active shooting incident at a naval base in Pensacola, Florida, police said.
The shooter was identified as Mohammed Alshamrani, a Saudi national [oops, I guessed wrong — RSM] and member of the country’s air force who was in the U.S. for flight training, law enforcement officials familiar with the investigation told ABC News. Investigators are trying to determine whether the shooting was terror-related, the officials said.
Authorities responded to reports of a shooting at Naval Air Station Pensacola at 6:51 a.m. on Friday, officials said. ATF and FBI also responded to the scene.
The shooting took place at one of the classroom buildings on the base, officials said. Officers with the Escambia County Sheriff’s Office arrived on the scene and fatally shot the suspect after exchanging gunfire.
Three people, including the shooter, were pronounced dead on scene, police said. One victim was taken to the hospital and died from injuries.
Eight others injured in the shooting were transported to Baptist Hospital, police said. . . .
During his roundtable on small business and red tape reduction accomplishments on Friday, President Donald Trump sent his condolences to families of the “warriors” killed and spoke about his call with the King of Saudi Arabia.
“I can tell you it’s a horrible thing that took place and we’re getting to the bottom on it,” Trump said. “All of the investigators are there now and they’re studying it very closely and terrible thing, and our condolences to the families.”

Y’know, if this shooter had been some kind of white nationalist alt-right extremist, CNN would be 24/7 on this story all weekend, and every liberal blog would be blaming Trump for this terrorist act. Instead what you will see is that the mainstream media and liberal bloggers will quickly bury this story, except perhaps to call out “right-wingers” as “racists” for daring to suggest that some Muslims might be dangerous.




 

Category: Florida, Islam, Military, Saudi Arabia, Terrorism, The Flemish Menace
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