Midweek Rule 5

Image via Theo Spark, "Wednesday Wenches..."

And on the same wavelength, Randy's Roundtable, "Midweek Rule 5 Break - Katie Green."

And check out Eye of Polyphemus, and just keep scrolling. Also, Bob Belvedere, "Rule 5 Saturday: Denise Van Outen."

More, at American Perspective, Maggie's Notebook and Zilla of the Resistance.

Don't miss: Astute Bloggers, Blazing Cat Fur, Bob Belvedere, CSPT, Dan Collins, Doug Ross, Gator Doug, Irish Cicero, Left Coast Rebel, Mind-Numbed Robot, Legal Insurrection, Lonely Conservative, PA Pundits International, PACNW Righty, Pirate's Cove, Proof Positive, Saberpoint, Snooper, WyBlog, The Western Experience, and Zion's Trumpet.

And my friends Marathon Pundit and Marooned in Marin.

Drop your links in the comments!

The Healthy Media for Youth Act

Tina Korbe reports, at Hot Air, "Government to the rescue: Saving young women from low self body image."

Sen. Kay Hagan (D-NC) and Rep. Tammy Baldwin (D-Wis.) have teamed with actress Geena Davis and the Girl Scouts of America to introduce and promote the Healthy Media for Youth Act, a bill to facilitate research on how the media affects women, create a grant program for youth empowerment groups and establish a National Taskforce on Women and Girls in the Media to set standards ”that promote healthy, balanced, and positive images of girls and women.”

The progressive utopia is to make women feel bad about looking good. And that's sick. See Stuart Schneiderman, "Feminists Against Beautiful Women" (via Maggie's Farm):

The feminist assault against femininity and female beauty has been going on for decades now. So much so that I suspect that feminism has caused women to suffer an unhealthy obsession with beauty because it has forbid them to be normally concerned with how they look?

It’s been twenty years since Naomi Wolf’s The Beauty Myth launched a full frontal attack on the fashion and beauty industries. After twenty years of Naomi Wolf and forty years of contemporary feminism, lo and behold, many young woman are obsessed with their looks.

To me it feels more like a backlash against feminist repression and tyranny than anything else.

RTWT for the context. An excellent essay.

RELATED: Caroline May, at Daily Caller, "So much for the obesity epidemic." Also, legislative background from Congressional Research Service (via GovTrack).

VIDEO: Israel's Female Combat Hummer Operators

From the IDF:

Izabel Goulart Sports Illustrated Swimsuit 2011

Brazilian model Izabel Goulart at Sports Illustrated.

Lovely.

Erin Andrews Tweets Kate Upton from MLB's Celebrity All-Star Softball Game

Looks like fun.

Erin Andrews' tweet is here. And one more, an Andrews solo pic, here.

Kate Upton responds here. Plus, a brief little video here.

And at Sports Illustrated: "Kate Upton at MLB's All-Star Celebrity Softball Game."

Bleacher Report is impressed: "Kate Upton Takes over the Sports Universe Once Again."

RELATED: At Arizona Republic, "Stars, pros share fun at All-Star Celebrity Softball Game."

Lucy Pinder 2012 Official Calendar

A follow-up to "'Isn't it funny the way lefties are, at bottom, puritanical about sex?'"

At V³ Magazine, "Lucy Pinder 2012 Calendar Photoshoot [NSFW]."

She's something else.

Congresswoman Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) Delivers Weekly Republican Address, 7/9/11

She's the highest ranking GOP woman Congress and House Republican Conference Vice Chair --- and she's a congressional mom. Her son Cole McMorris Rodgers was born in April 2007, prematurely and with Downs Syndrome:

The Republican representative is just the fifth woman to give birth while serving in Congress

More Kate Upton: Sports Illustrated

And encore:

Theo had the SoBe stare down posted before I did, so I promised more Kate Upton over there...

Kate Upton Rule 5 Bikini Stare Down

She's the model of the moment.

At AdWeek, "SoBe Gives Kate Upton's Cleavage Its Own Commercial."

And here's a Rule 5 roundup:

At Randy's Roundtable, "Thursday Nite Tart: Caitlin Manley."

And at Bob Belvedere's, "Rule 5 News: 09 July 2011 A.D."

And at Say Anything, "Saturday Linkaround."

More, at American Perspective, Maggie's Notebook and Zilla of the Resistance.

Don't miss: Astute Bloggers, Blazing Cat Fur, Bob Belvedere, CSPT, Dan Collins, Doug Ross, Gator Doug, Irish Cicero, Left Coast Rebel, Mind-Numbed Robot, Legal Insurrection, Lonely Conservative, PA Pundits International, PACNW Righty, Pirate's Cove, Proof Positive, Saberpoint, Snooper, WyBlog, The Western Experience, and Zion's Trumpet.

And my friends Marathon Pundit and Marooned in Marin.

Drop your links in the comments!

'She's Got Sex Appeal': Pawlenty Aide Apologizes for Calling Michele Bachmann Hot

I saw this at London's Daily Mail earlier, "Tim Pawlenty aide forced to apologise after making inappropriate remark about GOP rival Michele Bachmann."

And it's Vin Weber who made the faux pas, a former GOP House member himself. The original comments appeared in an interview at The Hill:

"It's going to be very hard to beat Michele in Iowa. Period," Weber said of both the Iowa caucuses and August's influential straw poll in Ames.

"She's got hometown appeal, she's got ideological appeal, and, I hate to say it, but she's got a little sex appeal too," he said in a phone interview.

Oops. Can't say that. The PC language cops will be all over you. Tim Pawlenty distanced himself from the comments immediately, and here's this at Fox News, "Pawlenty Aide Apologizes for Remark on Bachmann's 'Sex Appeal'."

And of course, Representive Bachmann handled it with class:

Are You Reading Theo Spark?

Lovely blogging over there.

Today's pic dump and news roundup, for example, and also some Tuesday totties and bonus babes.

And check out Maggie's Farm too! "Tuesday morning links - It's really summer now."

VIDEO: Kate Upton SoBe Bikini

The POH Diaries has this: "Sweet Lord. A Kate Upton Staring Contest."

And more Kate Upton, for SoBe:

Cindy Crawford Cover Photo Gallery

"Fast-loading, one page–no stupid, time-wasting slideshow," says economist Craig Newmark, "400 Classic Cindy Crawford Covers" (via Right Wing News).

VIDEO: Anne V Sports Illustrated Swimsuit 2011

Continuing Rule 5 weekend, Anne V at Sports Illustrated:

Plus, at Maggie's Notebook, "Rule 5 Saturday Night: Charlene Wittstock Princess of Monaco." And at Proof Positive, "Tonight's FNB* is Genevieve Morton!" Added: At Pirate's Cove, "Sorta Blogless Sunday Pinup."

VIDEO: Marisa Miller at Boston Common Magazine

See, "Marisa Miller Breaks the Mold."

Also at Marisa Milller's blog.

Lucy Pinder Lynx Effect

A new ad campaign, from The Lynx Effect:

Lynx is Axe in the U.S., which has been accused of "encouraging sexual promiscuity and sexism."

See also, Mirror UK, "Lucy Pinder takes over from Kelly Brook as new Lynx girl."

And here's a Rule 5 roundup:

At Randy's Roundtable, "Thursday Nite Tart: Emily Scott."

And at Bob Belvedere's, "A Little Hump Day Rule 5: Dorothy Mays And Valerie Lane."

Don't miss: Astute Bloggers, Blazing Cat Fur, Bob Belvedere, CSPT, Dan Collins, Doug Ross, Gator Doug, Irish Cicero, Left Coast Rebel, Mind-Numbed Robot, Legal Insurrection, Lonely Conservative, PA Pundits International, PACNW Righty, Pirate's Cove, Proof Positive, Saberpoint, Snooper, WyBlog, The Western Experience, and Zion's Trumpet.

And my friends Marathon Pundit and Marooned in Marin.

More, at American Perspective, Maggie's Notebook and Zilla of the Resistance.

Drop your links in the comments!

VIDEO: Hooters International Swimsuit Contestants 2011

It's Rule 5 weekend!

Via Viral Footage:

Plus, Eye of Polyphemus revs it up with Jennifer Aniston.

Also, at Randy's Roundtable, "Thursday Nite Tart - Emily Scott."

BONUS: Check The Other McCain for political updates.

Dr. Helen Smith — 'On Fire but Blacked Out: The Thomas Ball Story'

At Pajamas Media:

As one of my commenters pointed out in a post I put up on the case, when a woman burns her husband to death in his sleep, it’s seen as a major wake-up call regarding violence against women, and is immortalized in an award-winning movie starring Farah Fawcett titled The Burning Bed.

But somehow, when a man like Thomas Ball burns himself up, it is not seen as a wake-up call for how men are treated unjustly by the court system. Instead, some “compassionate souls” see his death as yet another wake-up call regarding the needs of women. Do men ever matter to these “feminists,” or do they get pleasure out of men’s pain? I am thinking the latter.

RTWT (via Dr. Helen on Bloggger). And then compare to Rob Taylor at Red State, "The Death of Morality and the End of America." Red State? Some people writing on the right are really on the left, although they they think they're more right than the conservative right. But to be honest, the dude's not right in the head. Seriously. Psychologically FUBAR, IMHO.

Stunning Gwyneth Paltrow Photoshoot in New Vanity Fair

She looks great.

At London's Daily Mail, "Lovely jewellery, Gwyneth! Actress shows the results of her healthy lifestyle in topless photoshoot."

Check Vanity Fair as well. Paltrow's feature isn't up yet, but there's some other interesting stuff to check out.

Plus, Rule 5 weekend starts later tonight, so check back

Fran Drescher on 'Happily Divorced'

Our television viewing is a little messed up, being at the Pechanga hotel and all. Normally I might watch some Fox News or "Nightline" while skimming the headlines around the web. But I'm holed up in the hotel room with my youngest son while my wife's out playing slots. My oldest boy's at a friends house (the resort's in Temecula). So, I'm watching Nick at Nite with my youngest, and the network's been running "The Nanny" reruns, which are a lot of fun. But they just broke up programming with a half-hour of "Happily Divorced," and it's pretty good. And Drescher looks great --- she's got one of the best smiles on television. No previews on YouTube, but TV Land has some videos. And here's this from "The View":

Fran Drescher is lovely, and that reminds me: It's almost time for weekend Rule 5.

Eye of Polyphemus is due for some linkage, and Zion's Trumpet's got some totties.

RELATED: At Los Angeles Times, "There's real drama behind the comedy 'Happily Divorced'."