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Hoffman Planned Heroin Binge?

Posted on | February 3, 2014 | 33 Comments

After Sunday’s deliberately unsympathetic notice of Philip Seymour Hoffman’s death — millionaire celebrity junkies  don’t qualify for my pity — I hadn’t expected to return to the topic.

Once a junkie’s dead, that’s it. Corpses don’t make much news.

However, Donald Douglas reports that police found 50 bags of heroin at Hoffman’s apartment, indicating he planned a long binge.

Possession of 50 bags of heroin? That’s a felony, last time I checked.

The wealthy felon’s final binge proved to be unexpectedly short.

End of story.

 

Category: Celebrities

Another IRS Stonewall

Posted on | February 3, 2014 | 7 Comments

The old “ongoing investigation” trick:

The Justice Department has rebuffed a House Republican’s plan to hold an oversight hearing this Thursday featuring a key criminal investigator from the team reviewing mishandling of tax-exempt status applications by the Internal Revenue Service.
Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, asked Justice attorney Barbara Bosserman on Jan. 28 to testify “due to the administration’s failure to provide necessary information about its IRS investigation.” Bosserman, who is a leader in the Justice investigation into the IRS controversy, has donated money to President Obama’s political campaigns, which GOP lawmakers including Jordan believe represents a conflict of interest. Bosserman is a career attorney; career employees are allowed to donate money to political candidates.
The Feb. 6 House Oversight and Government Reform Committee hearing is titled, “The IRS Targeting Investigation: What is the Administration Doing?”
But Bosserman will not appear, said Deputy Attorney General James Cole in a Jan. 30 reply to Jordan, as published in a tax-exempt organizations newsletter edited by attorney Paul Streckfus.
“The department’s longstanding policy, applied across administrations, is to decline to provide Congress with non-public information about ongoing criminal investigations,” Cole wrote.

(Hat-tip: Joe Schoffstall at Capitol City Project.)

This is predictable cover-up strategy:  Key witnesses plead the Fifth in congressional hearings and the “ongoing investigation” becomes an excuse for the administration to tell Congress nothing about the investigation which may or may not actually be “ongoing” in any meaningful sense. The administration is investigating itself, and if you think this kind of “investigation” will find any wrongdoing by anyone, you don’t understand how the game works.

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Category: Scandal, Taxes

Bill Schmalfeldt Continues His Insane Investment in Brett Kimberlin’s RICO Suit

Posted on | February 3, 2014 | 32 Comments

Bill Schmalfeldt ranting, 2011. (Image via Thomas Anderson at Vimeo)

Am I now or have I ever been engaged in an interstate racketeering conspiracy? No, and the allegations by Brett Kimberlin in his federal lawsuit (which John Hoge dubbed Kimberlin v. the Universe, et al.) are utterly absurd. Yet the manifest absurdity of Kimberlin’s conspiracy theory is no deterrent to the bizarre revenge fantasies of deranged cyberstalker Bill Schmalfeldt. And his enthusiasm for the RICO suit highlights Schmalfeldt’s role in “Team Kimberlin.”

Occasionally I am reminded of the multiple ironies of my circumstance as a civil defendant. Perjuring bomber Brett Kimberlin claims in his Maryland lawsuit, Kimberlin v. Walker, et al., that the five defendants have conspired to defame him, and that one of those defamations is to use the phrase “Team Kimberlin” to describe the various persons and online entities that have harassed Kimberlin’s Enemies List. If you are unfamiliar with the background, or have forgotten how this story developed, let me remind you:

  1. The initial cause of my interest in the Kimberlin case was the involvement of disgraced Democrat consultant Neal Rauhauser;
    and
  2. Rauhauser’s role in the story connected the Kimberlin saga directly  to the “WeinerGate” scandal of 2011.

The significance of this is that Rauhauser was evidently the first member of “Team Kimberlin,” and that it was the attempt at “brass knuckles reputation management” — the online harassment of Patrick Frey, Mandy Nagy, Andrew Breitbart, Aaron Walker and others, in which Rauhauser’s involvement was self-evident or strongly suspected — which made Brett Kimberlin an object of widespread attention in 2012. So while Kimberlin now claims in court that he has be wrongfully “harassed,” this is all ultimately a result of Kimberlin’s association with Neal Rauhauser, and yet anyone who mentions the harassment by “Team Kimberlin” (which Rauhauser seems to have coordinated) is accused of defamation.

Whether Bill Schmalfeldt was original a volunteer or a recruit in “Team Kimberlin” is irrelevant to the fact that he is now the most prominent advocate of Kimberlin’s cause. And the closeness of the connection between Kimberlin and Schmalfeldt is that less than 72 hours passed between the time I filed my motion to dismiss in the RICO case and the time Bill Schmalfeldt obtained a copy of that response and began ranting about it online this morning.

Neal Rauhauser was yammering about a RICO lawsuit — aimed at Andrew Breitbart and Patterico, among others — for months before I ever became aware of Brett Kimberlin, and as soon as Kimberlin’s lawsuit was filed in October, Rauhauser bragged online that he has been involved in “research” for that filing. Every lawyer who looked at Kimberlin’s complaint immediately spotted fatal errors, and so I chose to expend minimal effort in answering it. Why should I sweat it, when top-dollar lawyers for my fellow defendants had so clearly pointed out the legal and factual flaws? So my own motion to dismiss was pretty simple:

Motions to dismiss have been filed by other Defendants in the instant lawsuit . . . Defendant McCain incorporates all those motions herein by reference and adopts the reasoning contained therein in support of this motion.

Piece of cake. Let Bill Schmalfeldt rant himself into a frothing fury.




 

 


Category: Bill Schmalfeldt, Conspiracy Theories, The Kimberlin Files

Obama: ‘What IRS Scandal?’

Posted on | February 3, 2014 | 28 Comments

The big news out of Bill O’Reilly’s Sunday interview with President Obama was the latter’s claim that there wasn’t “a smidgen of corruption” in the IRS scandal. Just a bunch of inept bureaucrats accidentally targeting the president’s political enemies:

Rather, he said, IRS officials were confused about how to implement the law governing those kinds of tax-exempt groups.
“There were some bone-headed decisions,” Obama conceded.
But when asked whether corruption, or mass corruption, was at play, he responded: “Not even mass corruption — not even a smidgen of corruption.”
He acknowledged that then-IRS Commissioner Doug Shulman had been to the White House more than 100 times but said he couldn’t recall speaking to him on any of those occasions.

Nothing to see here. Move along.

 

Category: Barack Obama, Corruption, Scandal, Taxes, Tea Party

Illinois Taxpayers Lose Super Bowl

Posted on | February 3, 2014 | 5 Comments

If you thought the Broncos sucked — and, wow, they were atrocious Sunday — check out this stupid TV ad:

Illinois taxpayers spent $127,000 to air that idiotic ad on the Chicago Fox affiliate during the Super Bowl:

Things are not well in the Land of Lincoln.
Illinois taxpayers are burdened by $7 billion in unpaid bills and over $100 billion in pension debt.

But, hey, they now have the amusement of watching their former senator screwing up America in pretty much the same way.

And the Bears are even worse than the Broncos.

 

Category: Football

This Should Not Be Necessary

Posted on | February 2, 2014 | 19 Comments

Headline at Patterico:

No, Extending Unemployment Benefits
Does Not “Create Jobs”

The basic economics of this should be obvious — it’s simple common sense — but ignorance of basic economics is rampant and common sense is increasingly rare, and so Patterico feels obliged to rebut this fallacy promoted by You Know Who:

“Voting for extending unemployment insurance helps people and creates jobs,” Obama said. “Voting against it doesn’t.”
It’s about time we took on this silly notion that paying people not to work causes more people to work . . .

Read the whole thing. It makes my head hurt even to think that such fathomless stupidity is possible, and the fact that Obama got elected twice — because a majority of Americans are apparently brain-damaged — fills me with existential horror.

 

Category: Economics

#OccupyResoluteDesk Gives O’Reilly 10 Mins Of Variations On ‘Shut Up, Peasant’

Posted on | February 2, 2014 | 6 Comments

by Smitty

Breitbart embeds the video. Bill (love him or not) gives BHO the hardest 10 minutes of interviewing he’s had in 5 years of the running cock-up he calls his administration. Highly recommended.

Barack: you’re a no-talent rodeo clown. Hats off to your slick efforts to sell a pile of crap as competence. Nobody who’s sober, and has two brain cells, believes anything you say, irrespective of topic.

Category: Barack Obama

Rule 5 Sunday: All Hail The Superb Owl!

Posted on | February 2, 2014 | 13 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Well, are you?

As a fancier of the strigiformes family, especially Bubo scandiacus, I was glad to hear that there was going to be a huge national celebration…oh, wait, it’s the NFL championship? Football? Never mind. I’m sure there will be some linkagery of cheerleaders below, if you appreciate that sort of thing. Other links may not be safe for work, so exercise discretion in your clicking.

Laughing Conservative kicks off with Ariel Rebel, followed by Goodstuff who is celebrating the Year of the Horse by celebrating Ursula Andress. Speaking of cheerleaders, Fishersville Mike favors the Seattle Sea-gals. Ninety Miles From Tyranny serves up Morning Mistress, Hot Pick of the Late Night, and Girls With Guns. Animal Magnetism has Rule 5 Friday and something summery for Saturday, while Blackmailers Don’t Shoot tips us to Anastasia Ashley. First Street Journal sticks to the ladies in uniform; this week, it’s Russia’s militia* women of the MVD (Interior Ministry).

EBL’s herd of heifers this week includes Renee Ellmers, Zooey Deschanel, a guide to watering holes for Seattle & Denver fans in NYC with suitable (sic) cheerleader pix, Amanda Knox, Anna Kendricks, the Manning brothers’ backup dancers, and the Sea Gals’ Alicia Quaco.

Wine Women and Politics serves up red hotness, Babe Of The Day, Saturday Sweet Things, Blondes Are Beautiful, and the Friday Special, which comes with side orders of pulchritude and hotness.

A View From The Beach brings us Gal Gadot, I Take Back Everything Bad I Ever Said About Hollywood, Slackers!, Taylor Swift Attacked At Grammys, Breakfast With A Twist, Obamacare Schadenfreude – The Post-SOTU Whiteout Edition, A Bottle Bill For Maryland?, Science Solving The Great Mysteries One At A Time, “Baby Baby”, “Across The Great Divide”, Frog Prince Drops First Frogette, and Sweet 16/Never Been Kissed.

Soylent Siberia beings with Overnighty Jugs, Your Morning Coffee Creamer, Monday Motivationer Spassfabrik, I Think I Have A Winner, Tuesday Titillation, Afternooner Sideboob Awesome, Humpday Hawtness, And That’s Why I Failed Calculus, Falconsword Fursday Camila, Overnighty Linky Love, Corset Cantina, T-GIF Friday Awesome, Overnighty Fur, and Weekender Shoes.

Proof Positive’s Friday Night Babe is Olga Kent, his vintage babe is Janis Carter, Sex In Advertising is provided by Frederick’s of Hollywood,  and of course there’s the obligatory cheerleader, this time from the Pro Bowl. At Dustbury, it’s Zooey and Brooke Banker.

Thanks to everyone for their linkagery! Deadline to submit links to the Rule 5 Wombat mailbox for next Sunday’s Rule 5 roundup is midnight on Saturday, February 8.
*”Militia” in Russia translates to “police” in English.


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