A Romp Around the News with Wombat-socho

The Wombat is back in news business with the recent resumption of his more or less regular "Live at Five" post. An interesting collection of news you might not run into in your daily paper or your chosen network, and I'll focus on the things I find interesting or amusing. From today's "LIVE AT FIVE: 12.30.15":

MISSOURI ASKS RIVERBANK RESIDENTS TO MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND AS FLOODING CONTINUES - Residents of several states have paid an extremely high price for the warm, wet weather we've been enjoying.

Carrier Harry S. Truman Has Close Call With Iranian Rockets - In my world, the Iranians would just have had a close call with an American aircraft carrier.

Elodie Yung

ELODIE YUNG HEATS UP DAREDEVIL‘S SEASON 2 AS ELEKTRA - Might have to binge watch this one.

Norks’ Top Official In Charge Of ROK Relations Dies In Car Crash - I suppose it's remotely possible for a top North Korean official to die "accidentally", but I wouldn't want to put real money on it.

Texas asks Supreme Court not to review immigration case - I guess they don't feel confident of Justice Kennedy's opinion.

Former NY Governor Pataki Drops Out Of GOP Race - Who?

O’Malley’s Iowa Event Draws One Voter - Why so many?

Homeland Security Push Could Make Some IDs Invalid For Flying - Ready for internal passports?

Crude Slumps Towards $37 As Weak Outlook Prevails: - Yep, and gas is under $2 a gallon here. The Saudies are trying to kill fracking, and only partly succeeding. In the meantime, the rest of us are saving money.

Home Prices In Twenty U.S. Cities Rose In November - Mostly on the left coast.

Buffett Subsidiary Faces Renewed Misconduct Claims - Noted rich guy and democrat accused of taking advantage of minorities in "manufactured homes" sales.

Sonni Pacheco, the ex-Mrs. Renner.

Jeremy Renner Finalizes Divorce, Will Pay $13K+/Month In Child Support - Avengers star has revenge taken for poor marriage choice.

Whole Foods Pays $500K To Settle Pricing Dispute - With gross profits of about $5 billion (with a "b") in 2015, that's around 20 minutes work.

DuPont To Cut 1700 Jobs In January - Uncle Dupy has been a solid supporter of environmental science in the past few years, mostly as a result of their pollution in the previous 50.

Jobs to be cut include 80 percent of the 250 scientific professional positions in DuPont's Central Research and Development unit, though some of the Ph.D. principal investigators and their associate investigators may escape layoffs and be reassigned to product groups where most DuPont scientists now work. The scientists expect to learn their fate Jan. 4.

Rocco Says Madonna Treated Him As A Trophy, Not A Son - She's so sweet! But then, he's a teenager and presumptively a jerk.

Thousands In Scotland Without Power As Storm Strikes - How's that wind power working now?

Al-Qaeda Training Camps Reappearing In Afghanistan? - Remember how Obama said that Afghanistan was the "right war" that we were ignoring? Statement expired.

Burkina Faso’s First New President In Decades Sworn In - A small, and rare victory for representative government. I had to look this up to remind myself that it used to be called "Upper Volta".

Russia Names Chechen As Mastermind Behind Nemtsov Assassination; Cover-up Suspected - Suspected?

Diane Lane

Bloggy Stuff

EBL: Nature Vs. Nurture - Starring Diane Lane

American Irony: Fourteen New Year’s Resolutions For Liberals

3. Be more open-minded to only ideas I agree with.

Proof Positive: In Defense Of Samuel L. Jackson - Just saying what all the liberals were thinking.

Twitchy: Baltimore Leads 2015 With Highest Murder Rate Per Capita; 23 Were Children - To quote Insty quoting someone else:

"What I love about the Obama era is all the racial healing"

"Sara Winter"

American Power: Radical Founder Of Femen Brazil Renounces Feminism, Declares Herself Pro-Life, And Apologizes To Christians - Sara Winter, so soon old, so late smart.

American Thinker: Clinton’s Bimbo Eruptions Vs. Trump’s “Sexism” - No comparison. See Katherine Timpf (that goofy girl on the Greg Gutfeld show) ‘I will not stop talking about this’

Conservatives4Palin: The Democrats’ Theme For 2016 Is Totalitarianism - The rush to repeal the first and second amendments this year has been unprecedented.

Pamela Geller: Mob Rips Apart Woman Falsely Accused Of Burning Koran - ROP

The Gateway Pundit: Breaking Poll – 40% Of Blacks Back Trump, 45% Of Hispanics - Somehow I'm not shocked. They aren't any smarter than most people.

The almost always sensible Megan McArdle: The Force Awakens Has A Perfection Problem - Of course Rey is a Mary-Sue. Almost all women characters are Mary-Sues. Only men have flaws.

Abrams has replicated the structure of that story, but he has forgotten to give the other two main characters any actual reason to be there. Ten minutes of rewrite could have removed them entirely without significantly damaging the plot.

The Lonely Conservative: Video – 2015, The Year Students Went Completely Insane 

Grabien put together this video montage showing how US college students went completely insane in the year 2015. Hopefully none of those appearing here are going to be future US leaders, if so the country is doomed.

To be fair, the same thing happened back in the 60's. Maybe it's a solar cycle or something.

Wombat-socho has the ginormous "Rule 5 Sunday: Happy New Year!" ready for browsing at The Other McCain.

Wombat's Tuesday Ruminations

Time to run through Wombat-socho's "Live at FiveSix: 05.19.15" for some news. Better late than never.

Islamic State Claims Full Control Of Ramadi, Capitol of Anbar Province opens the way to Baghdad - The fruits of the Obama/Clinton/Kerry foreign policies ripen like Durian, or even a rotten fish left too long in a bilge.

No Help From State Department For Americans Stuck In Yemen - My guess is that they're mostly Christian missionaries, or businessmen not giving Clinton.com their baksheesh. Compare to: Burundi President Fires Ministers After Coup Attempt, Defense, Foreign ministers sacked; no reason given, US Helping To Evacuate Foreigners - So we'll help foreigners in Burundi, but not Americans in Yemen? I've heard it said "A liberal is a man too broad-minded to  take his own side in a quarrel", but it's never been quite this obvious before.

Taylor Swift Tops Maxim’s 2015 Hot 100 - While I have to give her credit for a hell of a publicity machine, she's not even close, despite her lovely legs.

State Department Won’t Release Clinton E-Mails Until 2016 - Gee, I wonder why. . .  Uh, not really.

Oregon Governor Kitzhaber Scrapped Functional Obamacare Exchange For Political Advantage - Perfectly explicable. It was all about politics from the beginning anyway.

Brent Bozell Suggests Conservative Journalists Boycott ABC - Throw in CBS, NBC, NPR and PBS and we have a deal. Why should we allow the democrats to pick the battle site?

Iggy Azalea

Did Iggy Azalea Get Plastic Surgery On Her Face? Butterface. . .

“She definitely had some work done on her nose and chin. She already had so much done, I hope she’s not going for the Lil Kim look,” one said.

“The boob job was tasteful because it fit her body but the chin injections/implant looks incredibly fake and she got a cookie cutter nose job,” said one fan.

Supreme Court Rules Against Maryland On Income Tax Credits - But, but, but, taxing twice or even three times is the Maryland way! Sadly this one won't benefit us.

Leighton Meester

Another Hollywood star for Social Security stability Leighton Meester Pregnant, Expecting First Child With Adam Brody - Who names their kid Leighton?

Gov. Jindal Forms Presidential Exploratory Committee - Sure, why not, the more the merrier I always say. But I think he's running for VP.

Tighter Regulation Of Medical Weed Heads For Oregon Senate - Good luck with that. The whole southwest corner of the state runs on pot. The lumberjacks who used to cut trees now cut bud, and the whole of Portlandia is their market. It's about the only thing they have in common.

Cate Blanchett: I’ve Never Had Sex With Women - What? They couldn't find a lesbian as talented as you to play a lesbian?

Administration Seeks To End Immigration Enforcement By State, Local Police - Can't let the local yokels interfere in the plan to stack the voter roles for 2016, can we?

Staff Quit Clinton Foundation Over Chelsea - A boulder off the old Hill, eh?

Nikki Finke Sets Up New Site For Hollywood Fiction: HollywoodDementia.com - There should be no lack of material.

Former Thai PM Banned From Foreign Travel As Her Trial Begins - You mean other countries try their corrupt officials? What a novel approach.

Juncker Denies New Greece Rescue Plan As Negotiations Near End - Is it time to trade stocks for guns and gold?

Eleven Afghan Cops Get Prison For Not Protecting Woman Killed By Mob - Yes, all feminists need a stint in Afghanistan to learn the real truth about human nature.

Thanks, EBL!

Is George Stephanopoulos Future -And $105 Million Contract- In Danger? - He should be gone, but given his Clintonian connections, he could probably have blend a litter of kittens on live TV and not be fired.

EU Plans Military Response To Migrant Crisis - Another rotten fruit of the failed Obama/Clinton/Kerry Libya policy.

Saudi Arabia Advertises For Eight New Executioners To Handle Rise In Beheadings - They could a TV show and call it something like "So You Think You Can Execute?" And now, due to the failed Obama/Clinton/Kerry foreign policy, they're shopping for a bomb from Pakistan. And the one thing they do have is enough money.

President-Elect Buhari Credits South African Mercenaries With Crushing Boko Haram - Bringing in the mean white bigots to do the heavy lifting?

Bloggy Stuff:
The Jawa Report: ISIS Are Slow Learners
Michelle Malkin: Obamacare Exchanges On Life Support - It doesn't matter, in fact it's the point. Cloward-Piven.
Twitchy: Judicial Watch – Administration Knew About Benghazi Attacks Ten Days In Advance - So, did Defense and State not trust the administration with the information?
Michelle Obama’s Mirror: The Opposite Of Diversity Is University – So Shut Up! - The academic bubble can't burst soon enough.
American Power: Ceding Civilization To Barbarism - Sometimes the barbarians are better thinkers.
Blackmailers Don’t Shoot: They’re Baaaa-aaaack - SJWs declare unwar.
This Ain’t Hell: Saudis Cure Jihadism

The Christian Science Monitor writes about a kind of rehab center founded by the Saudis to cure jihadists with art therapy, water aerobics classes, ping-pong, Jacuzzis, and gourmet chefs at the Mohammad bin Naif Counseling and Care Center. The article claims that they have an 88% success rate and that they’re treating 250 reformed terrorists;

Joe For America: Oregon Gun Owners Reject Strict New Gun Bans, Will Not Comply - Portlandia declares war on the provinces, The provinces shrug and ignore them. They have all the guns.
Pamela Geller: Dennis Prager – “Why Pamela Geller May Be The Most Hated Person In America Right Now” - Because she speaks truth to power.
Protein Wisdom: What Happens In Vegas… - What the. . . ?

The Lonely Conservative: Jay-Z Posted Bail For Protesters - But not their damages.
Weasel Zippers: Ferguson Protesters Protest Not Getting Their Checks For Protesting - Bwahahaha!

On May 14, protesters, upset with not being paid their promised checks for protesting, protested outside MORE, Missourians Organizing For Reform and Empowerment, an ACORN organization which had received funding through George Soros to fund the protests.

Megan McArdle: Verily I Say Unto You – Christians Care About The Poor - Dammit Megan, stop being so sensible!
Mark Steyn: Nothing Another 42,000 Airstrikes Can’t Fix - As the administration thows away all progress in Iraq.

Wombat-socho  managed to get "Rule 5 Sunday: The Road To Sin City" done after all.

Wombat's Friday Fodder

Nuggets of news from Wombat-socho's "Live at Five: 05.15.15." Hey, that's a pretty good poker hand.

Amtrak CEO: Railroad Takes Full Responsibility For Crash, NTSB says train accelerated from 70 to 100 in last minutes before crash - No doubt on secret orders from the Koch brothers.

Wreckage Of Marine Helicopter Found In Nepal, Nepal’s military has no other details; team being sent to recon wreckage - 8 heroes presumed dead, 6 American Marines, and 2 Nepalese soldiers on a rescue mission.

Natalie Portman To Play Jackie Kennedy In New Biopic - I don't seen it, but then I'm not in the target demographic.

Boehner Wangs Reporter: Blaming GOP For Amtrak Accident “Stupid” - But that's their job, to be stupid shills for the Democrats; but it is good to the them being called on it publicly.

House Scraps Illegals’ Path To Military Service - What part of illegal don't they understand?

FL Gov. Scott Aids Craft Brewers, Ends “Growler War” - Good, government getting out of the way

Sean Penn On The Sidelines As Charlize Shines At Cannes - As he should be, for all things. TANJ.

Gowdy Blames State Dept. For Holding Up Hillary’s Benghazi Testimony - Yes, but why is this news?

Russ Feingold Looking For 2016 Rematch With Ron Johnson - He should be disqualified for McCain-Feingold alone.

House Passes Defense Bill, Obama Threatens Veto  - Increases defense spending, hold sequester on domestic. What's $612 billion among friends?

How Tinder Influenced Hilary Duff’s New Music Video - I don't really care, but she is a former Rule 5 winner subject. . .

Netflix In Talks To Take Content To China - I'm sure they'll appreciate Mr. Wu from Deadwood.

Dairy Queen Taking Sodas Off Kids’ Menu - But just off the listing. They can still get a soda. Appearances are everything.

Reddit Would Appreciate It If You All Stopped Being Horrible To Each Other - But what's the fun in that?

Victoria’s Secret Models Take Over Turks & Caicos - Could they do any worse than run-of-the-mill politicians?

Dascha Polanco

OITNB Star Reveals The Biggest Perk Of Prison - Dascha Polanco - "You don’t have to wear Spanx" but she probably should.

China, India Pledge To Cool Border Dispute - Oh goody, a fight between the world's two largest powers? What could go wrong?

Al-Nusra Re-Emerging As Key Rebel Faction In Syria - That Obama/Clinton/Kerry foreign policy sure is paying big dividends, eh?

US Navy Patrols May Force China To Clarify Claims To South China Sea Islands - May being the operative word. Do we really think Obama and/or Kerry have the balls?

Gwenyth Paltrow

At least her mother loves her. - Blythe Danner Defends Daughter Gwyneth Paltrow

ISIS Closing In On Ancient City Of Palmyra - And they took over Ramadi, too. Remember when Obama and Biden claimed the war in Iraq was won?  Good times!

60 Killed (Mostly Jihadis) As Nigerian Troops, Boko Haram Clash - The Nigerians take it seriously. The US sends hash tags.

Bloggy Stuff:

Look, Boobies!

Twitchy: No, Fox News Didn’t Censor Picasso’s “Women Of Algiers” - Too good to check.

American Power: Hard Rain Hits Southern California - Hey, it rained a few times when I lived there, too.

American Thinker: Forks, Washington And The Spotted Owl - Tastes just like Dodo, trust me.

Don Surber: Name That Party – Child Porn Edition - Yep, same old game.

He was trying to copy this.

Jammie Wearing Fools: “Hide Hillary” Strategy Backfiring - I hope this isn't just wishful thinking.

JustOneMinute: Obama Straw Men Are Like Sausages

The Gateway Pundit: Record Antarctic Sea Ice May Force Scientists To Abandon Permanent Station - Global warming irony.

The Jawa Report: Ministry Of Boobies, Slacker Edition - Workman like job, Howie!

The Lonely Conservative: CFPB Warns Lenders Not To Discriminate Against Welfare Recipients - I mean, why wouldn't you want to lend money to people who can't afford to pay rent or buy their own food?

Weasel Zippers: James Taylor Slobbers Over Obama As Greatest President Ever - Former heroin addicts are not noted for their good judgement.

Megan McArdle: Save The Pensions – No Sudden Moves, Please - Stop being so damned sensible, Megan.

Mark Steyn: “Problem Populations”, Here And There - Hate speech in the Academy. From the left, the only side allowed.

Wombat-socho puts up "Rule 5 Sunday: Last Dance In Washington" on time and within budget.

Wombat's Thursday News Feed

A quick run through the early morning news from Wombat-socho's "Live at FiveSix: 05.14.15"

EU Proposes Quota System To Address Migration Crisis, UK, Hungary, Czech Republic signal opposition to proposal - We need to hurry the destruction of Europe at the hand of outsiders as an object lesson to what could happen here.

Leighton Meester

Leighton Meester: Never Been Dumped - Why have I never heard of her? "Gossip Girl?" Oh yeah.

AP Estimates Train In Deadly Philadelphia Crash Was Going 107 MPH
Engineer “has absolutely no recollection” of crash, says lawyer - Meanwhile Democrats arguments that it's all the fault of Republicans for not spending enough money on Amtrak are getting increasingly strained.

Homeland Security Doesn’t Know WTF, DHS IG John Roth reveals sinister ineptitude of ICE, Can’t say how many illegals being released under Obama policies, sometimes turns illegals loose without knowing criminal history - Why it's almost like they would prefer not to know "Don't turn on the lights 'cause I don't wanna see".

Martin O’Malley To Announce May 30 - If his assignment is too make Hillary look moderate, he's likely to succeed.

Duke Energy Pleads Guilty To Clean Water Act Violations, Fined $102 Million - Under the new EPA water rules, this will be the fate of all corporations that do not support the regime.

Bigot

Lindsay Lohan Finally On The Job  - Had to dodge the paparazzi to get to her community service job. I do have some sympathy.

Global Gold Demand Plateaus In Q1 As Chinese Buying Falls It's pretty cheap now anyhow; maybe it's time to buy?

Feds Open Inquiry On Student Loan Services - Create the problem, and then sue everyone in sight for following your lead.

Microsoft Rolling Out Nine Kinds Of Windows 10? - Aaargh; my computer spent over a half hour updating Windows this morning. I don't want to even think about Windows 10.

Pink To Body-Shamers: “I Don’t Take Well To Bullying”
America’s Supply Of IP Addresses About To Run Out - How can you run out of arbitrary numbers? I sense another "Millennium Bug."

Chinese Soldiers Banned From Wearing Smartwatches - So they know how to track them all and assume we do to.

The Last Days Of North Korea’s Defense Chief - Why, oh why doesn't the military take out Kim Jong-Un? Can't they find anybody better

Vatican Recognizes Palestinian State In New Treaty - Sorry Catholics; Your new Pope is a flake. Better luck next time around.

Portia De Rossi Opens Up About Early Struggles With Bulimia - Was that pun intended? If so, good job. It made me wanna barf.

Iraq Releases Video Of Airstrike Said To Have Killed Deputy ISIS Commander - Nothing like a little war porn in the morning.

Kerry To Get Tough With Chinese Over South China Sea - I'm sure he will. Probably have Jen Psaki tweet something awesome.

Ten Arrested In China For Poaching Giant Panda - I just want to know how they taste.

Martha Stewart and Blake Lively

Martha Stewart Assesses Blake Lively, Gwyneth Paltrow, And Jessica Alba’s Businesses - Do their business plans include staying out of jail? Not that I don't think Martha was railroaded.

Lots's of bloggy stuff, too. A taste:

EBL: Fauxcahontas Is Off The Reservation

Doug Powers: Obama Contributes To Less Opportunity For Kids

Twitchy: “Does The White House Even Know How Obamacare Works?” All Signs Point To Nope!

Dan Bongino: The Thinning Skin Of America (h/t Loyal Reader Brian E.)

American Power: This Is Elizabeth Warren’s Party Now

Conservatives4Palin: University Of Illinois Says A Room Full Of White People Is “A Microaggression”

Don Surber: Presley O’Bannon And The Shores Of Tripoli

Jammie Wearing Fools: Finally – Austria Unveils Gay And Straight Traffic Lights

Pamela Geller: GWU Law Prof Sues Catholic University – All Your Crosses Make Muslim Students Uncomfortable

Shot In The Dark: What A Century Of Democrat Governance Gets You

The Gateway Pundit: Baltimore Officials Report “Peaceful Protesters” Torched 61 Buildings, Damaged 350 Buildings, Injured 113 Officers

The Lonely Conservative: It Didn’t Take Long For Liberals To Use Train Derailment To Score Political Points

Megan McArdle: Pollsters Are Worse Than Ever

Wombat-socho puts up "Rule 5 Sunday: Last Dance In Washington" on time and within budget.

Thursday with the Wombat

News and other interesting bits recycled from Wombat-socho's "Live at Five: 05.07.15"

Tornadoes Rip Central & Western Oklahoma, No reported deaths; 12 injured in trailer park - Tornado season got off to a slow start this year, but it's in the swing now. Don't believe the garbage you hear about it being caused by global whatever they're calling it this week. In recent years, tornadoes are actually down.

Emily Van Camp

Emily Van Camp Returning As Agent 13 In Captain America: Civil War - Captain America was never my favorite Marvel hero; he probably didn't even make the top ten, but she couldn't hurt.

Chicago Approves $5.5 Million In Restitution For Torture Victims, Payout will go to victims of police abuse in the 1970s, 1980s - Remember that democrats have been in charge of Chicago since time began.

IRS Audit Finds Agency Promoted Tax Cheats - At least they understand the rules well enough to game them. We should "promote" them all to the help lines.

Jennifer Aniston

Jennifer Aniston Considering Mean Girls Spinoff Mean Moms - Ah, the crises of aging actresses.

Clinton’s Bold Immigration Promises Stun Advocates, Baffle White House - Mickey Kaus has a great article: Call it the Caudillo Test: 

It’s no longer enough for a Democratic presidential candidate to pledge to reform immigration laws. You have to pledge to end-run the nation’s elected legislature if it doesn’t go along. Good to know! … P.S.: Hillary appears to have passed the Caudillo Test. Luckily, there is nobody general election voters trust more with unchecked power. Am I right? … P.P.S.: Immigration activists now want Hillary to talk about amnesty as “part of her stump speech” to non-Latino audiences. In early 2015, or late 2016? I wouldn’t bet on the latter. …

Natalie Portman

Natalie Portman Has Opinions - Well yes, don't we all? But just because you are mildly cute and stand in front of a camera for a living doesn't mean your's are worth the electrons to transmit.

Boston Bomber’s Defense Wants Anti-Death Penalty Nun To Testify - Wrap him in bacon and fry him in pig fat.

Disgraced Former House Speaker Jim Wright Dies, 92 - His level of corruption seems almost quaint in light of the billion dollar scale of Clinton.com

Asian Crude Falls On Profit-Taking, Ample Inventories: WTI $60.44, Brent $67.31 - Try harder, Saudies; prices are rising here and my boat is thirsty.

The Mindy Project Cancelled On Fox, May Move To Hulu - A show I've never watched featuring a woman I find mildly distasteful, but hey, to each his or her own. It kind of good that options keep proliferating.

The “Keurig For Cocktails” Among Futuristic Startups At TC Disrupt - A mediocre cocktail at 10 times the price made by a robot? I can't contain my excitement.

Whole Foods Plan To Court Millenials - Who has been buying their over-priced food up until now? Oh that's right. Stupid baby boomers.

Prince Harry Gets A Proposal And A Kiss Outside Sydney’s Royal Opera House - It's good to be the King, or even just 5th in line. Stupid job anyway.

Iran Releases Seized Marshall Islands Vessel - But we should have gone in and seized it back, just to make the point.

Bloggy Stuff:

EBL: Cultural Cowardice - Yes it is, and it may kill us,

Shark Tank: Crazy Cousin John Ripe For The Picking? - Could Stacy become "The McCain"?
American Power: Pamela Geller – “This Is A War.” - Will she be our Joan of Arc?
American Thinker: LGBT Undermining Of The Constitution, Culture, And Conservatives - Yes, that's always been the "Underpants Gnome" theory: 1) Destroy civilization, 2) ???????, 3) Nirvana on earth.
Conservatives4Palin: Obama, Soros Group Stategize About Getting Illegals Naturalized Before 2016 - If you didn't know this already, you haven't been paying attention.
Don Surber: Carly Avenges Sarah Palin In Couric Interview - Give 'em hell, Carly.
Jammie Wearing Fools: Clinton Criminal Foundation Accused Of Taking Money From Controversial Group Accused Of “Serious Human Rights Violations” - The only think they saw was "Money;"

Joe For America: Michelle Obama Says “Museums Are Only For White People” - To visit or be exhibited in?

JustOneMinute: I Think Hillary Has Found A Running Mate - Tom Brady? Nope, too honest.
Protein Wisdom: CA AG Kamala Harris’s Aide Arrested For Running Fake Police Force - This story is bizarre beyond the usual California weirdness.
The Gateway Pundit: Shock Video – Radical Imam Tells Pamela Geller On Live TV She Should Be Slaughtered - Religion of Peace, indeed.
Weasel Zippers: VA Employee Steals $150K, Spends It On Hookers And Strippers - At least he didn't waste it.

Linked at Proof Positive in the weekly "Best of the Web." Wombat-socho has "Rule 5 Sunday: Station To Station" ready at The Other McCain.

Wombat's Tales of Tuesday

Bits of news ripped from Wombat-sochos "Live at FiveSeven: 05.05.14" That's the way to do it; sleep in a little.

Grandma Calls Wannabe Terrorist “A Good Boy” - Yes, Hitler liked dogs and Stalin probably enjoyed a good beer. Kill a few people (or even try), and they call you a terrorist forever. It's just not fair.

ISIS claims responsibility for attack - Probably a false claim, but a good enough excuse to kill a bunch more of them.

Amy Adams

Amy Adams Gets Married After Seven-Year Engagement - Georgia thought I was bad, and it only took 3 years.

Carly Fiorina Throws Her Hat In The Ring - I'm at a more the merrier stage. As long as they don't do any serious damage to the final contender. Let's see some ideas beyond who is the best fund raiser.

Justice Department Refused Funding For Baltimore Police Training, Money went to company that produced “Mister Rogers Neighborhood” for PBS - I don't think $200 k more in training would have made the difference in undoing Mayor O'Malley's bad choices.

Rosie-Huntington Whitley

Rihanna Best Dressed Diva At Met’s Great Ball Of China - I beg to differ. I think that was over the top, I prefer Rosie-Huntington Whitley's "less is best" approach.

House Veterans Committee Chair Blasts Secretary McDonald, Department’s “Rampant Lack Of Accountability” - The VA is virtually the iconic proof that government paid health care becomes less about health care and more about job security. It needs to be destroyed to be saved.

Rachel Uchitel

Rachel Uchitel Leaving Door Open For Tiger – If He Grovels - Don't fall for it, Tiger. She'll continue to treat you like shit. Find a new girl with big tits who loves you for your money, and make a fresh start.

SCOTUS Asks Solicitor General For Opinion On Interstate Pot Case - Dudes (and dudettes) just pass a couple doobies around the table and scribble something, It has to be better than the current system.

"On the one hand, this is concerning since it could be a sign that the Court is taking the case more seriously than I think is actually merited," Tom Angell, chairman of the Marijuana Majority, said in a statement.

"On the other hand, this could be a good opportunity for the Obama administration to further and more clearly articulate the president's position that states should be able to legalize marijuana if that's what their voters want," he added.

But heaven forbid giving border states more freedom to eject illegal aliens is out of the question.

Lauryn Hill

Laureyn Hill Cancels Israel Show - American Jews who vote for democrats are idiots.

Meerkat Dumps Twitter For Facebook - And why should we care if a small cute mongoose changes favorite social media? I don't understand. . .

Quake Hits Papua New guinea, No Damage Reported - And this is news why?

Jean-Marie and Marine Le Pen 

National Front Founder Strikes Back At Daughter After Suspension From Party - I don't know what's worse, the young, or the French.

Boko Haram In Disarray After Nigerian Forces Advance - Yes, but dissarry implies not yet dead; keep trying.

Italy Demands EU Partners Stump Up For Rescued Migrants - Just march them all across the border to France.

Bloggy Stuff:

EBL: Blaming The Victim - As long as the victim is Jewish

Doug Powers: Bernie Sanders’ Challenging Vision for America – No Car In Every Garage - Only socialist party members so fortunate.
Twitchy: CNN’s Alisyn Camarota Gets Schooled By Pamela Geller - Geller is making all the right enemies.
American Power: The Only Thing Better Than Dessert - But you can have dessert and Nina Agdal.
American Thinker: The Obama Deceit Doctrine
BLACKFIVE: Iran Deal Ad – Why Are The Mullahs Laughing? - Because they're beating the US like a rented mule, with Obama's agreement.
Conservatives4Palin: Weekly Standard Succumbs To Liberal Rhetoric On Governor Palin -It's easy to fall into something you've heard over and over.
Don Surber: CNN Likes Riots, Opposes Drawing Pictures - Yes
Jammie Wearing Fools: NYT Reporter Confused About This Whole “Free Speech” Thing - What's new?
JustOneMinute: Politicizing The CIA - This administration has politicized the whole government.
Protein Wisdom: Punch Back Twice As Hard
Weasel Zippers: Obama Has No Comment On Garland – But It’s Time To Go On Letterman! - He can't find a way to say anything without using the words "Muslim" or "terrorist."
Megan McArdle: What The Clintons Haven’t Learned - No, they've learned that no one holds them accountable.

Wombat's Friday Fodder

A quick run through the interesting points of new in "Live at Five: 04.24.15"

EU Agrees To Send More Ships To Stem Migrant Crisis - CBC manages To blame PM Harper for migrant deaths - Could increased patrols actually draw more migrants to sea? A civilized society has a large but finite capacity to assimilate foreigners from other countries without itself being consumed. Europe is farther down that road than the US, and one hope for the US is that Europe will be the bad example that sets us back on course.

Taylor Swift Doesn’t Appreciate Having Her Love Life Mocked At Awards Shows

“What else is it when you have two boyfriends in one year and everyone’s calling you boy crazy, making jokes about you at awards shows? That’s public humiliation. And I don’t think it’s fair.”

Who told you life was fair? I hope you didn't pay for that advice.

Hillary Collected Millions While Approving Russian Uranium Deal

On the take, says NYT, Bill cashes in for $500M from Russians, too

Mitt Romney: “Every Appearance That Hillary Was Bribed” - The Clintons are America's (excuse me, 'Muricas") best loved criminal couple. A real political Bonny and Clyde. Compare and contrast to: Petraeus Gets Two Years, $100K Fine For Classified Leak - Who do you think exposed more secrets; Patreaus telling his girlfriend a few, or Hillary's unprotected server?

Mila Kunis Laughs Off Chicken Theft Lawsuit

On Wednesday, it came out that Karo, a struggling pop star, is suing Kunis for allegedly stealing her pet chicken while the two were young girls living in Ukraine.

The new mother also facetiously noted that she has not yet been physically served with a lawsuit from Karo, which she hinted might be because the suit serves no other purpose than to promote Karo’s over-the-top new music video.

Kristina Karo - wants a Green Card

Confusingly, throughout the video Kutcher repeatedly stresses that Karo was only a month old — and able to speak English — when the chicken was supposedly stolen, even though the lawsuit claims both girls were in first grade at the time of the alleged theft.

Obama Blames “Fog Of War” For Hostage Deaths In Drone Strike - Weinstein’s widow lashes out on captive policy - We should give Obama a bit of pass on this; yes bad shit happens in wars, but if the shoe was on a Republican foot you know they'd be saying "Romney lied, Weinstein died" over an intelligence failure.

Chinese Funeral Stripper

China Says Please Stop Hiring Funeral Strippers - Another interesting bit of Chinese culture we should look at. At least it's not sad. . .

ACLU Sues To Force Catholic Charities To Fund Illegals’ Abortions - Of course they do; what else would you expect? The ACLU to pay for it and provide it? Not on their dime!

Lea Michele

Lea Michele Gets Dramatic Transformation For “Scream Queens” - I'm trying to find a reason to care.

Bloggy Stuff:

Doug Powers: Doomsday Is Nye - Nye is an ass.

American Power: “Many human beings apparently never quite get over an innate totalitarian impulse.” - No, it's quite a human instinct, and few can train themselves not to indulge it when the chance arises.

BLACKFIVE: Adam Gadahn Dead? - Couldn't happen to a nicer guy. But we've been lied to fooled before.

Twitchy: Jewel Staite Politely Asks Preachy Vegetarians “Kindly Can It With That” - You go girl.

Jammie Wearing Fools: Amazing Coincidence! Multiple Clinton Charity Donors Got State Department Awards Under Hillary - A lot of coincidences surrounding the Clintons.

Joe For America: Michael Brown’s “Parents” Sue Ferguson - See suits I want to fail.

This Ain’t Hell: VA’s Fudged Numbers Continue - The VA is so full of garbage administrators they don't know how to do it right. This is an institution that needs to be destroyed to be saved.

Pamela Geller: Denmark – Muslims Who Whipped Woman In Face With Iron Chains Laugh In Court - See my remarks on immigration above; it might be too late for Europe.

The Gateway Pundit: Brooklyn College Students Praise The Rise Of ISIS - Kids don't have their heads screwed on straight and college isn't helping.

The Jawa Report: The Real Reason Behind The Mediterranean Refugee Crisis - Muslim oppression of Christians. Instead of giving them refuge, give them guns to fight back.

Weasel Zippers: NBC Nightly News Says The Younger The Better for Transgender Kids - Have you noticed that transgender is the new gay? We need to totally remake society, and make ourselves uncomfortable, so that 0.01% of people who can't figure out what they are can be? 

Megan McArdle: When Deadbeat Dads Can’t Catch A Break - It's the only form of debtors prison left in the United States.

Linked at Proof Positive in this week's "Best of the Web." Wombat-socho at the Other McCain snuck in late Sunday Night with "Late Night Reprise With Rule 5."