Victoria's Secret Model Lily Aldridge for Maxim

Stunning.

The Right Baits the Left to Turn Against Hillary Clinton

HRC's the only game in town for the left. The right can bait the left until Kingdom come and it won't mean jack --- that is, until Elizabeth Warren enters the race.

Now that would be interesting.

In any case, I don't put much credibility into this report, at the New York Times. But we'll see. Maybe Bernie Sanders will be able to knock her down a couple of pegs.

BONUS: Watch America Rising PAC's "Unethical" Hillary attack.

Base Jumper Dean Potter Killed at Yosemite

You can only defy the odds for so long.

At Outside, "Dean Potter Killed in BASE-Jumping Accident."

And at the Los Angeles Times, "Extreme athlete Dean Potter dies in BASE jumping accident in Yosemite."

Here's Potter in a National Geographic video from 2012:

The Attack on FrontPage Magazine from the Leftist Jewish Federation of Orange County

From the editors at FrontPage, "The Attack on Frontpage from the Jewish Federation of Orange County":

Unable to withstand criticism from their shameful attacks on Jewish students and pro-Israel activists exposed by Frontpage, the Jewish Federation of Orange County (JFOC) has taken to the media to slander our publication. These calumnies must not go unanswered.

On May 4th, Frontpage made public serious reports of misbehavior on the part of the JFOC at a student-run pro-Israel event held at the University of California, Irvine (UCI). One of the most notable revelations of the piece was a report that JFOC representative Lisa Armony was witnessed attempting to move pro-Israel activists waving Israeli flags away from anti-Israel protesters who ambushed the event.

Writing on behalf of the JFOC in the Jerusalem Post, Armony’s primary complaint was that Frontpage’s coverage was based on “unsubstantiated” information from “unnamed sources.”

In fact, the information directly related to Lisa Armony and the JFOC in this incident was based on a named eyewitness’ account of Armony’s activity. Gary Fouse, a lecturer at UCI and credible witness, confidently affirmed to Frontpage what he saw. We subsequently reported this eyewitness account, taking the utmost care with the accuracy of its presentation. As such, accusations that Frontpage’s coverage of this incident was flawed are simply false.

Of course, the JFOC’s reprehensible behavior as detailed in Frontpage’s May 4th report involves much more than just flags. Of note is what the JFOC did not deny in its article in the Post. JFOC President and CEO Shalom Elcott engaged in an unhinged verbal attack on the 21-year-old female student president of Anteaters For Israel (AFI), the student group that hosted the campus pro-Israel event at UCI. Numerous witnesses recounted to Frontpage Elcott screaming at this young pro-Israel leader, bringing her to tears in the middle of the public event. The student herself, Sharon Shaoulian, confirmed this to Frontpage.

The mistreatment of Shaoulian is deeply disturbing and warrants a public apology. While the JFOC decries Jews “turning against one another” in its Post article, the first place to start to remedy this is clearly at the federation itself.

Also conspicuously absent from the denials issued by the JFOC is the report, witnessed last year by Shaoulian, of a student being screamed at by another representative of the federation after she called police following her injury from anti-Israel protesters. Such behavior should only be expected from an organization that donated tens of thousands of dollars to a campus group, the Olive Tree Initiative, that arranged a secret meeting between students and a leader of the terrorist organization Hamas in 2009. This same campus organization exposes students to indoctrination by world leaders in the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement and the terrorism-supporting International Solidarity Movement (ISM). This, again, was neither denied nor explained by the JFOC in its attack on Frontpage in the Post.

Without a doubt the JFOC has much to answer for. The JFOC can be assured Frontpage will continue our no-holds-barred coverage of its brazen attacks on Jewish students and pro-Israel activists without apology.

Leftists are terrible people, but you knew that.

More from Gary Fouse, "UC Irvine Gets a Mention in the Jerusalem Post -- For All the Wrong Reasons." And, "Pro-Palestinians Mar I-Fest at UC Irvine."

Leftists just can't let anyone else be. They just can't. If they don't like you and your positions, they'll try to destroy you. That's what they do. That's who they are. Hateful, despicable ghouls.

Sunday Biker Gang Shootout in Waco Leaves Nine Dead

At KWTX-TV News 10 Waco, "Sunday Biker Gang Shooting Leaves Nine Dead, 16 Injured."

Nine dead, now that's a shoot out. https://t.co/RWe5nzu6S1

— DanRiehl (@DanRiehl) May 17, 2015

Sunday Cartoons

At Flopping Aces, "Sunday Funnies."



More at Randy's Roundtable, "Friday Nite Funnies," and Reaganite Republican, "Reaganite's SUNDAY FUNNIES."

Cartoon Credit: Legal Insurrection, "Branco Cartoon – In The Bag."

The Real Teens of Silicon Valley

Fascinating.

At the California Sunday Magazine, "Inside the almost-adult, insular lives of ambitious teenagers flooding into Silicon Valley to join tech startups":

As the demand for tech labor grows, ambitious teenagers are flooding into San Francisco. There’s no official tally of the number of teens who work in tech, but Fontenot estimates that there are as many as a hundred recent high school dropouts working on startups in the city. Some were too distracted by programming projects and weekend hackathons to go to class. Others couldn’t pay for college and questioned why they should go into debt when there is easy money to be made. Still others had already launched successful apps or businesses and didn’t see why they should wait at home for their lives to start. In Facebook groups for young technologists, they saw an alternative: teens lounging in sunny Dolores Park (dolo, as they call it), teens leasing expansive South of Market office space, teens throwing parties whenever they want. And so they moved to San Francisco, many of them landing in houses like Mission Control.

Their parents watch from afar, some more supportive than others. “We just miss him. We miss him a lot,” Tanya Latta, Zach’s mom, told me. “But the ultimate goal for us as parents is to have our kids be able to be self-sufficient and happy. So when we saw that he’s reached out a little early, we were really happy that he’s in his element. But it happened so fast.”

RTWT.

Islamic State Takes Ramadi

At CNN, "ISIS takes Ramadi as reinforcements surge into city."

Watch: "ISIS captures Ramadi."

Baby Disgusted with First Taste of Avocado in Priceless Video

Heh.

Priceless facial expressions. For a second there I thought she was going to hurl, heh.

At ABC 7 Los Angeles, "BABY ACTS DISGUSTED, HORRIFIED WITH FIRST AVOCADO EXPERIENCE."

FUNNY VIDEO: Too cute!! Baby does not like first avocado experience http://t.co/ea1mdgPwP1 pic.twitter.com/rwZYCauo2K

— Leanne Suter (@ABC7Leanne) May 16, 2015

Wreckage of Camp Pendleton Helicopter Found in Nepal

At the San Diego Union-Tribune, "After waiting, grief: All dead in helo crash: One Marine Corps pilot is a Fallbrook man, leaves behind pregnant wife."

Families were trying to hold out hope, but too late. At ABC 10 San Diego, "Families hold out hope after wreckage of missing Marine copter found in Nepal."

Democrat Loretta Sanchez Makes Racist Native American 'War Cry' at State Party Convention (VIDEO)

Sheesh.

She just announced her campaign on Thursday, and she's running against popular California Attorney General Kamala Harris. You'd think she'd be slightly more circumspect.

But you know, Democrats are America's longstanding party of racist hatred, so no one should be surprised here.

At the Sacramento Bee, "Senate candidate Loretta Sanchez appears to disparage American Indians."

And Kamala Harris wastes no time in pouncing on Sanchez's racist faux pas, at LAT, "Kamala Harris calls Loretta Sanchez's Native American 'war cry' shocking":

Some of the dynamics likely to animate the U.S. Senate campaign in the months ahead were evident at the state Democratic Party convention in Anaheim on Saturday.

Immediately after state Atty. Gen. Kamala Harris held an afternoon news conference, she was asked by reporters to respond to a joke that U.S. Rep. Loretta Sanchez had made about the difference between Indian Americans and Native Americans.

Sanchez had tapped her hand to her mouth in an imitation of a Native American "war cry," a reporter said, causing Harris' eyebrows to lift.

Outside, Sanchez's Mambos and Margaritas event was getting underway, but the festive mood was undercut somewhat when she was asked about the joke.

"I got a call from somebody ..., and he said I want to talk to you about having help from the Indian community, and I thought he meant the American Indian community, in the sense of the Native American Indian community," Sanchez explained.

One reporter asked her if the "war cry" gesture was appropriate.

"Well, I think Native Americans have an incredibly great history, and a great presence in our country, and many of them are supporting our election," Sanchez said before turning her back on him.

. More, "Loretta Sanchez's public image a factor in Senate race":

One of the first questions facing Rep. Loretta Sanchez in her newly announced U.S. Senate bid is whether the kind of attention she has won while in Congress could weigh down her campaign.

On occasion, the Orange County Democrat has made fellow party members wince.

In 2000, Sanchez embarrassed party leaders and presidential nominee Al Gore by scheduling a fundraiser at the Playboy Mansion during the Democratic National Convention in Los Angeles.

Joe Andrew, then party chairman, told Sanchez in a public letter that Democrats and women’s groups found the planned gathering at the Holmby Hills estate of Playboy magazine founder Hugh Hefner to be “neither appropriate nor reflective of our party’s values.”

At Gore’s behest, the party took away Sanchez’s convention speaking slot. Before long, Sanchez backed down and moved her sold-out event to B.B. King's Blues Club at Universal Studios' CityWalk.

Sanchez has also made headlines with cheeky Christmas cards. For years, they featured Gretzky, her white cat. One card showed Sanchez, wearing pink flannel pajamas, snuggling in bed with Gretzky. Another showed the congresswoman in a tank top on a motorcycle, with Gretzky perched on the handlebars.

Sanchez’s public image has left some party strategists skeptical of her prospects in a race against state Atty. Gen. Kamala Harris, the top Democrat in the contest so far.

“There’s a genuine hunger for a history-making Latino candidate in this race, but Loretta Sanchez is probably not the answer to that hunger,” said Democratic strategist Roy Behr, a former campaign advisor to Sen. Barbara Boxer.

“One could call her actions eccentric, or courageously charting her own path, or bad political judgment. But they’re not actions that enhance someone’s ability to run a credible Senate campaign. They won’t help with donors. They won’t help with other elected leaders,” Behr said.

Fernando Guerra, a political science professor at Loyola Marymount University, differed, suggesting that Sanchez fit California’s tradition of sometimes defying political conventions. He recalled the election of semanticist S.I. Hayakawa to the U.S. Senate in 1976 and of Hollywood dancer and actor George Murphy in 1964.

“You need to capture the public’s imagination, and I think her eccentricities will really help her,” said Guerra, who nonetheless described Harris as the favorite...

"Eccentricities."

Right. Racist eccentricities, which is standard for the racist Democrat Party.

Egyptian Court Sentences Mohammed Morsi to Death

Let the fucker burn, for all I care.

At Bare Naked Islam, "Barack Hussein Obama’s BFF, former Egyptian president Mohamed Morsi and more than 100 other Muslim Brotherhood operatives, sentenced to death."

And at London's Daily Mail:

Mohamed Morsi sentenced to DEATH over jail breaks. http://t.co/9DZdlXTJkf Now get the rest of the Muslim Brotherhood.

— Donald Douglas (@AmPowerBlog) May 16, 2015

'Mad Max: Fury Road' — Reviews

Here's Kenneth Turan, at LAT, "'Mad Max' kicks a post-apocalyptic extravaganza into overdrive":

"Mad Max: Fury Road" will leave you speechless, which couldn't be more appropriate. Words are not really the point when it comes to dealing with this barn-burner of a post-apocalyptic extravaganza in which sizzling, unsettling images are the order of the day...

More.

Also, "'Mad Max: Fury Road': Thrill ride scores near-flawless reviews."

At the New York Times, "Review: 'Mad Max: Fury Road,' Still Angry After All These Years."

And at WSJ, "‘Mad Max: Fury Road’ Review: Remodeled, Ravishing and Joyously Crazed."

BONUS: At Egotastic!, "One Word Movie Reviews: MAD MAX FURY ROAD," and "Charlize Theron Full-Frontal Highlights the Mr. Skin Minute (VIDEO)."

Now Our Schools Want to Teach Kids That there is No Such Thing as 'Gender'

From Warner Todd Huston, at RWN, "'Gender Fluidity'":

This is how bad our schools are getting. Now schools want to teach our children that there is no such thing as a human gender and that we are all open to “gender fluidity.”

Todd Starnes of Fox News is reporting that public schools in Virginia want to start teaching kids about “gender identity.” The school wants to teach that there is no such thing as gender except that which the individual decides.

Fairfax County Public Schools released a report recommending changes to their family life curriculum for grades 7 through 12. The changes, which critics call radical gender ideology, will be formally introduced next week.

“The larger picture is this is really an attack on nature itself – the created order,” said Peter Sprigg of the Family Research Council.

“Human beings are created male and female. But the current transgender ideology goes way beyond that. They’re telling us you can be both genders, you can be no gender, you can be a gender that you make up for yourself. And we’re supposed to affirm all of it.”

The plan calls for teaching seventh graders about transgenderism and tenth graders about the concept that sexuality is a broader spectrum — but it sure smells like unadulterated sex indoctrination.

I have said it a million times, we need to tear down our “schools,” eliminate liberals from them, and re-build them into something useful. Our schools are an international laughing stock and this story is yet another example of why.

Woman Finds Hissing Possum Living in Her Laundry Room

Now this is something else!

At KTLA Los Angeles.

Beverly Grove woman faces off with hissing opossum living in her laundry room http://t.co/Ol9iJydmQZ pic.twitter.com/RvEy0MfxTk

— KTLA (@KTLA) May 16, 2015

Video here: "Possum Closet Clutter."

U.S. Commandos Kill Top Leader of Islamic State in Syria

This is really cool.

Bummer for leftists though, since they cringe at actually killing our enemies. They'd rather kowtow to them, bathing themselves in their so-called moral superiority.

At WSJ, "U.S. Special Forces Kill Senior ISIS Leader in Syria, Capture His Wife."

And Barbara Starr reports for CNN, "U.S. troops kill ISIS leader."

Also at Memeorandum.

Rain in Southern California

Photos at the Los Angeles Times.

Clintons Received More Than $25 Million From Speeches Since January 2014

At WSJ, "Campaign official says Hillary Clinton received more than $5 million from book ‘Hard Choices’":

WASHINGTON—Hillary and Bill Clinton earned more than $25 million in the past year and a half delivering more than 100 paid speeches, and Mrs. Clinton, the front-runner for the Democratic presidential nomination, collected more than $5 million from her book “Hard Choices,” an official for the campaign said Friday.

The Clinton campaign released the figures on the same day it filed a personal financial disclosure statement going back to the beginning of 2014, which it said is required by the Federal Election Commission. The information provided by the campaign was a preview of the full financial disclosure, which had yet to be released, and didn’t include the Clinton family’s total assets and liabilities.

The Clintons’ disclosed income since the beginning of 2014 would place them among the highest earners in the top 1% of the population. That is likely to serve as a reminder of the couple’s wealth, at a time when she is positioning herself as a champion of struggling middle-class families.

Earlier in May, Mr. Clinton, the 42nd president, said he would continue to give paid speeches. “I gotta pay our bills,” he told NBC News. “I work hard at this. I spend hours a day just doing the research. People like to hear me speak.”

The Clintons paid an effective federal income-tax rate in 2014 of more than 30%, the campaign official said. They also since early 2014 opened up a Vanguard mutual fund linked to the S&P 500 stock index, the couple’s only investment during this period, the official said.

Mr. Clinton said in the NBC interview that he gives 10% of his speech revenue “off the top every year” to the family’s charitable foundation and that Mrs. Clinton in the time she was at the foundation gave 17% of her proceeds.

Mrs. Clinton left the foundation after she announced her candidacy in April...

They're in the top 1 percent, but they're virtuous one-percenters, because they have the correct ideology.

ABC News Shafts Washington Free Beacon

At Instapundit, "ERIK WEMPLE: Dear ABC News PR: Tell us you didn’t shaft the Washington Free Beacon."

And at AoSHQ, "Washington Post's Eric Wemple Blasts ABC For Shopping the Story to Politico While Lying to the Free Beacon That Comment Was On The Way," and "Woman Who Delayed Response to Free Beacon While George Stephanopoulos Scrambled to Plant His Story at Politco Used To Work As Press Contact For... HILLARY CLINTON."

PREVIOUSLY: "George Stephanopoulos Issues Pathetic Non-Apology for Donations to Corrupt Clinton Cash Foundation (VIDEO)."

Islamic State Seizes Government Headquarters in Ramadi, Iraq

Hey, we've got the terrorists on the run!

Oh wait. They're running the wrong way. Shoot!

At WSJ, "Islamic State Militants Make Gains in Key Iraq Province":

Islamic State fighters seized the government compound in the city of Ramadi on Friday and besieged hundreds of government forces nearby, coming closer to controlling the capital of Iraq’s largest province, officials said.

The compound’s capture marks a setback to the government’s offensive against the extremist group in Anbar, the Sunni province that borders Baghdad, and complicates the Shiite-led government’s ties with the province’s Sunni tribes as they cooperate to expel the militants.

Many of Anbar’s leaders have pleaded for more help from Baghdad to stave off recent Islamic State gains in their province, Iraq’s Sunni heartland. But Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi has calibrated his support, sending security forces and arms, but not the powerful Shiite militias that have in recent months helped to drive Islamic State out of central Iraq, including the city of Tikrit.

Anbar’s Sunni tribes are split on whether they need the Shiite militias, and some U.S. and Iraqi officials fear their participation would inflame sectarian tensions and undermine the government.

“The government response has been very weak,” said Rajeh Barakat, an Anbar tribal leader and member of the local provincial council.

Iraqi’s parliament speaker, Salim al-Jabouri, warned on Friday that Ramadi might fall to Islamic State, saying that its collapse “would have consequences on the national security level.”

U.S. officials played down the development, characterizing the Islamic State gains in Ramadi, as well as in the fight to control the oil refinery in Beiji, in Salahudeen province, as ephemeral victories that are likely to be reversed sooner or later. The difficult fights in both places haven’t yet sparked any high-level concern about the U.S. strategy, American military officials said on Friday...

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