In The Mailbox, 03.26.14

— compiled by Wombat-socho


OVER THE TRANSOM
Proof Positive: To Crush Your Enemies, To See Them Driven Before You, and To Hear the Lamentations of Their Women
First Street Journal: Jonathan Pollard Should Never Be Released
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Malkin: My Trip To The Pot Shop
Twitchy: White House Tries To Spin Latest Obamacare Non-Delay


RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Power: “I’m Joni Ernst. I Grew Up Castrating Hogs On An Iowa Farm…”
American Thinker: Michelle’s Hard-Knock Life Story Comes To China
Blackfive: Cybersecurity Employment
Conservatives4Palin: Palin – Mama Grizzlies Roaring Again!
Don Surber: Daily Scoreboard, March 25
Jammie Wearing Fools: Paul Krugman Calls The Koch Brothers “Perfect Villains” And “Serious Evildoers”
Joe For America: Walking Dead Spoiler For Rush Limbaugh
JustOneMinute: The Eternal Genius Of The Spotless Mind
Pat Dollard: White Heterosexual Students Banned From Public University’s Diversity Classes
Protein Wisdom: Jeb Bush Praises Illegals As “Risk Takers”, Finds A Common Core Ally In Hillary Clinton
Shot In The Dark: Open Letter To Every Single News Reporter In Minnesota
The Jawa Report: This Is What You Get For Thinking Outside The Box In Today’s Military
The Lonely Conservative: How The EPA Makes Bad News About Its Regulations Disappear
This Ain’t Hell: More “Help” For Members Of The Military
Megan McArdle: Silicon Valley’s Age Problem


Justices Impersonating Accountants

by Smitty

Kagan went on to say that other U.S. businesses are “voluntarily” dropping their health insurance coverage for employees.
“You know Hobby Lobby is paying something right now for the — for the coverage,” Kagan said. “It’s less than what Hobby Lobby is paying for the coverage. There are employers all over the United States that are doing this voluntarily.”
Chief Justice Roberts interjected that this was in opposition to what Hobby Lobby presented in its lawsuit.
“I thought — I thought that part of the religious commitment of the owners was to provide health care for its employees,” Roberts said and Clements agreed.
“Well, if they want to do that, they can just pay a greater salary and let the employees go in on the exchange,” Sotomayor said.

Listen Sotomayor and Kagan, you brace of bimbos: you can slap a “Constitutional” label on the homesick abortion that is ObamaCare, but you can’t stop it from making you look like clueless idiots. How Hobby Lobby does its accounting is irrelevant to the truth that the law you found Constitutional is a steaming crock.

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Train them to dig life on your Progressive Plantation. But will “elections have consequences” in November? Over time, are we allowed to repent of the abject foolishness that has allowed DC to accrue too much power over every aspect of life?

Or are you just going to ignore what happens, should the GOP retake Congress? Are we going to see more attacks on the Koch brothers and the Tea Parties, as our the Godless Commies who are our purported betters undertake “shaping operations” in order to train us to love Progress?

And do read the ObamaCare blog comment of the day. This thing is a virulent cancer. The GOP had better not harbor hope of making peace with it.

Related, via Hot Air Quotes of the Day:

“One religious group could opt out of this and one religious group could opt out of that, and everything would be piecemeal and nothing would be uniform,” Kagan warned. “Religious objectors would come out of the woodwork.”

In other words, kind of like the Amish, or Congress:

Along with eschewing cars and many other modern technologies, the descendants of 18th-Century German immigrants who practice the Amish and Old Order Mennonite religions, have effectively opted out of Obamacare, along with most federal safety net programs.
A little-known provision of the law with its roots in a 1950s battle over Social Security exempts these communities from the individual mandate, an element of the Affordable Care Act that requires most Americans to purchase health insurance in some form.

I guess Kagan’s point is to warn that our Balkanized system could get kinda fragmented, or something. WHY ARE WE PAYING THIS IDIOT?

This Is Not A Bolo Combat Unit. This Is Not The Concordiat.

— by Wombat-socho


Just about everybody familiar with the combat SF subgenre knows about Keith Laumer’s Bolos, which evolved over a number of short stories from moderately advanced main battle tanks into cybernetic war machines utterly loyal to their human commanders and their comrades of the Dinochrome Brigade. Whether in the era of the Concordiat or Jame Retief’s Corps Diplmatique Terrestrienne, Bolos could be found on the front line against any alien menace, cybernetic knights sans peur et sans reproche.


What if the Bolos had been created by a less worthy humanity, one that cared little for their AI-driven mercenaries and used them to commit atrocities not only against aliens, but also against humans of the wrong religion or political stripe? What if the commanders of these war machines had been unworthy of their charges, throwing them away in stupid and pointless actions, and treating them with the same lack of respect you or I might show the malfunctioning Mr. Coffee in our kitchen? Tom Kratman explores those questions in Big Boys Don’t Cry, a novella that sometimes seems nightmarish in its inversion of all the honorable and glorious tropes that made the Bolo stories what they were. Let Colonel Kratman introduce you to Maggie, a Ratha reviewing her long career shortly before its end…or a new beginning.


Big Boys Don’t Cry is on sale at $0.99 for the next twelve hours. It’s an outstanding deal. Go buy it and read it.


In Which Brett Kimberlin Presumes to Lecture U.S. Judge Paul Grimm

The Pro Se Pipsqueak’s astonishing arrogance:

ECF 113–BK Letter Insulting Judge Grimm

Now, there is a fairly complicated story behind all this — you can read my post last night to catch up on the latest in the perjuring bomber’s bizarre RICO lawsuit, which John Hoge has dubbed Kimberlin v. the Universe, et al. — but there was a lot of confusion after Judge Grimm issued his Feb. 21 letter order in the case. The judge clarified the situation in another letter order last week, and how does Brett Kimberlin react? He insults the judge, as Aaron Walker explains:

In any case, it was a trivial typo given that both dates had passed and it was dishonest of Brett to pretend that this was like a fabricated quote, or something.
And it was more than dishonest. It gave the judge a first-hand taste of how Brett twists facts. Often Brett will take something with a kernel of legitimacy and twist it into something it was not. For instance, Seth Allen really did write in an email “maybe I should murder him” (meaning Brett). That was legitimately wrong and Mandy Nagy was right to report him to the police. But Brett just twisted it first into a threat (it’s not a threat if you don’t communicate to the target) and then complaining that Patrick and I didn’t report it to the police even though Mandy told us she was going to do that, and then told us after she did it. Why would we need to call the police when we know someone else was doing it? So there is a kernel of legitimacy there, but it is all twisted around.
And now Judge Grimm is seeing first-hand how Brett does that.

Thanks to Stephen Sheiko for pointing out that Judge Grimm’s March 5 Case Management Order made the situation clear:

What Judge Grimm has witnessed is what we have been dealing with for months, namely Brett Kimberlin’s sociopathic dishonesty:

[A] plaintiff who was described in 1999 by Slate as “the convicted bomber, habitual liar, and all-around sociopath who claimed to have sold drugs to Dan Quayle.” . . .
Brett Kimberlin . . . was notorious as a liar before I ever wrote one word about him.

“. . . a world-class liar . . .”
— Amazon.com

“. . . a top-flight con man . . .”
— Publisher’s Weekly

“. . . a man whose idea of the truth is utterly malleable
. . . a dangerous smooth talker . . .”

— Kirkus Reviews

Kimberlin’s habitual dishonesty is arguably his most notable personality trait, as abundantly demonstrated in this case. Here are two paragraphs from his Second Amended Complaint:

What Brett Kimberlin is actually arguing here is that once he sues somebody, they’re supposed to shut up and not even mention that they have been sued by him. You cannot even publicly proclaim your innocence or offer evidence in your defense. As for the March 1 post cited by Kimberlin in Paragraph 138, go read it yourself: “Kevin Zeese, Neal Rauhauser and the ‘Occupy Infiltrator’ Frame-Up.” Is this a defamatory “attack” on Brett Kimberlin? Have I falsely “imputed” anything that is not reasonably construed from available evidence?

Of course I haven’t, and even if Judge Grimm doesn’t dismiss Kimberlin’s suit in its preliminary stages, there is zero chance that Kimberlin could prove I have “defamed” him, because I haven’t. This explains why I haven’t been bothering Judge Grimm with any filings in this case, other than a brief Motion to Dismiss. First, and most obviously, I believe that my co-defendants and their lawyers have already pointed out fatal flaws in Kimberlin’s suit, so that it is likely to be dismissed anyway. Second, I know I’m innocent — truth is the ultimate defense. And third, as a pro se defendant, I have hesitated to file anything for fear I’d make some rookie error that would cause Judge Grimm to strike my filing or deny my motion, and thus inadvertently provide Kimberlin’s admirers like Bill Schmalfeldt cause to gloat. Ultimately, of course, I know how this story ends: I win, and Kimberlin loses. But I won’t give Schmalfeldt & Co. even a moment of transitory satisfaction in the meantime.

John Hoge has filed his motion in opposition to Kimberlin’s Second Amended Complaint, pointing out a few of Kimberlin’s egregious violations of Local Rule 103.6.

UPDATE: Aaron Walker’s opposition to the motion to amend:

Opposition to Leave to Amend (SAC)02 Redacted

He cites more than two dozen violations of Local Rule 103.6, which Judge Grimm specifically admonished Kimberlin to observe.




 

@MiltonWolfMD Is All: “Virginia Has Three Senators”, And I’m All: “Wut?”

by Smitty

I mean, I’m used to checking the back of the milk carton to discover how long it’s been since anyone sighted Kane or Warner. Imagine my shock to see this tweet:


Wolf’s campaign ad explains that Roberts is really more of a Virginian by association than legal residence:

Dr. Milton Wolf for U.S. Senate

Let him kickstart the Senate’s heart

SHOCKING: Feds Raid Illinois Democrat in Child Pornography Investigation

Political observers were puzzled last week when, the day after he was re-nominated to office in the Illinois primary, Democrat state Rep. Keith Farnham announced his resignation, citing health issues. Now that mystery has been solved in a surprising way:

Federal agents sought evidence of child pornography last week when they seized computers from the Elgin district office of former state Rep. Keith Farnham, who resigned Wednesday, according to a search warrant released Friday.
In addition, a federal agent on Thursday took a laptop computer that Farnham used in the Illinois House chamber, and last week agents removed a computer from a legislative office building next to the Capitol, according to the documents and an interview with a state technology official. . . .
Farnham has not been accused of any wrongdoing. Randall Samborn, a spokesman for the U.S. attorney’s office in Chicago, said no charges have been filed and refused further comment.
Farnham handed in his resignation on Wednesday, saying he was “battling serious health issues for a number of years.” He had won the Democratic primary on [March 18], running unopposed. . . .
The federal investigation came to light last week when authorities acknowledged search warrants were executed at Farnham’s Elgin district office and home. Several computers and equipment were seized at Farnham’s district office, as well as a computer from his office near the Capitol, according to federal records . . .
An attachment to the March 7 warrant to search Farnham’s district office indicated agents were searching for “documents in any format and medium pertaining to the possession, receipt or distribution of child pornography” as well as computer files, copies and negatives of child pornography or any documents that depicted minors “engaged in sexually explicit conduct.”

Illinois Democrats said they were shocked by news of the investigation targeting the 66-year-old lawmaker. Eric Dondero at Libertarian Republican points out that Farnham had sponsored anti-child pornography legislation, so perhaps the legislator will try the “research” defense,” which no U.S. court has ever recognized. More at BizPacReview and Weasel Zippers.

 

In The Mailbox, 03.25.14

— compiled by Wombat-socho


OVER THE TRANSOM
Proof Positive: Luck of the Irish and Vladimir Then And Now
Blackmailers Don’t Shoot: American Hustle: Overdue Movie Review
Doug Powers: Maybe Flight 370 Hasn’t Been Found Because Of…Global Warming
Twitchy: Dupes Fall For Daily Currant’s Sarah Palin Satire


RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Power: Marine Le Pen’s Earthquake Rocks France
American Thinker: Don’t Kid Yourself About Ukraine
Blackfive: The Damn Few Visit The VA
Conservatives4Palin: Palin, Limbaugh, Drudge, Breitbart, Townhall Embarrass Old Media
Don Surber: Daily Scoreboard, March 24
Jammie Wearing Fools: Boston Globe Avoids Party ID Of Lobbyist Ex-Congressman As He Cashes In
Joe For America: Illinois Democrat Has Computers Seized In Child Porn Investigation
JustOneMinute: Forward To A Safer World
Pat Dollard: Rumsfeld Says “A Trained Ape” Could Have Accomplished Critical Task Obama Couldn’t In Iraq, Afghanistan
Protein Wisdom: The Rule Of Law Is Dead, And Yet Persecution By Law Is Alive, Well And Thriving In The Tyranny Of The New Normal
Shot In The Dark: One Way Of Fighting The Left…
Stump: Obamacare Watch – Playing With Timing
The Jawa Report: Prayers For Howie
The Lonely Conservative: Illegal Immigrant Mad He Has To Work And Pay For College Without DREAM Act
This Ain’t Hell: Dear Jodi Rives Meier – How Do You Like These Apples?
Megan McArdle: Dude, Where’s My Uber?


Repealing ObamaCare Is Scary To Gutless Progressives Fearing Reform

by Smitty

What is different about Republican calls for repeal today — as opposed to calls for repeal from 2010 to the end of 2013 — is that Obamacare is now in place. It exists. Exchanges are running — many of them badly, but running. subsidies are being paid. Insurance companies have changed the way they do business. Medicaid has been expanded. Special taxes are being collected.

Even though the system is new, millions of Americans have gone to a lot of trouble to adjust to it, and it would be disruptive to them to just stop cold. Halt subsidies? Undo Medicaid expansion? Just as last fall, when millions of Americans received coverage cancellation notices, millions more would face new burdens under the repeal of Obamacare.

Oh, so the camel’s nose is under the tent, the first dope hit was free, and the bint was asking for it?

These problems can melt away with the courage of honesty. Stand there and tell the truth that ObamaCare has been false at every stage of its misbegotten existence, from the prosecutorial lynching of Ted Stevens on. Just list the play-by-play of the shenanigans that occurred. Reiterate the economic damage. Build the case that ObamaCare is the Battle of the Progressive Bulge, and here is where we turn back the (inter)National Socialists.
Via Marshall Locke, we have Arthur Brooks:

I hear Brooks’s point: you have to care about people, both in an immediate sense, and in the long term sense. People, particularly the unreflective, live in the present tense. Pondering life in greater depth is something you do as you grow. However, Progressivism is your eternal bureaucratic diaper. Just vote for more Huggies.

The challenge for the conservatives is to goad the GOP into a national poddy training program, so that future generations can return to wearing big boy pants.

More specifically, the GOP needs to do this by

  • budgeting
  • driving toward a balanced budget
  • cutting the Progressive cord, and letting the states own their own safety net programs, as lean or as lavish as they care to pay for

The real requirement, though, is the leadership. The rejection of Progressive homo beaurocratus as an ideal. We could be deep in the hurt locker here.