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Bill Schmalfeldt’s Poor Judgment

Posted on | January 1, 2014 | 36 Comments

Kimberlin Unmasked called attention to a bizarre recent post in which Bill Schmalfeldt indulged in a violent revenge fantasy:

If two shitheads like Aaron Walker and John Hoge did what they did to Tetyana Kimberlin, they would have been visited at their homes by the Schmalfeldt brothers. It would have been one on one, with fists, and it would not be pretty. The three brothers would have stood by while I gave the shithead the beating of his life. Then, we would go to the other shithead’s house and repeat, lather, rinse and repeat.

That snippet inspired me to investigate further, and I discovered this weird interpretation of events by Schmalfeldt (no link):

To come between a man and his wife, to work SO HARD to entice the wife into leaving her husband and run off with a PIZZA BOY! To EXCUSE his theft of a car. To PAY HER LEGAL FEES as long as she tells the lies they wanted her to tell. I thank God that she came to her senses.  . . .
You fucked with a man’s family, boys. You did it, and there’s no denying it. Tonya spilled the beans. And when you couldn’t have HER lie for you, you just went ahead and lied on your own.

It would appear that Bill Schmalfeldt is relying on Brett Kimberlin’s version of events for this counterfactual narrative, which can be disproven quite easily. No one had to “entice” Tetyana Kimberlin to “run off with a PIZZA BOY” — why all-caps, Bill? — because she did that before Aaron Walker or John Hoge ever met her. You can read this from the court documents filed by Brett Kimberlin, Tetyana Kimberlin and Tetyana’s boyfriend Jay Elliott:

B. Kimberlin v. Elliot Petition for Peace Order 7.9.13 (OCR) by AaronWorthing

Elliot v. B. Kimberlin Petition for Peace Order 7.9.13 (OCR) by AaronWorthing

T. Kimberlin v. B. Kimberlin Petition for Protective Order 7.9.13 (OCR) by AaronWorthing

All of these documents were filed by the parties themselves, without any influence by Walker, Hoge or anyone else.

Schmalfeldt’s belief in Brett Kimberlin’s assertions to the contrary — which are the burden of the million-dollar Maryland lawsuit Kimberlin v. Walker, et al. — evidences a foolish trust in Brett Kimberlin. And as to Schmalfeldt’s claim that Tetyana “spilled the beans,” what does Schmalfeldt mean by this? Does he mean (as I suspect) that he is relying on hearsay from Brett Kimberlin?

Does Bill Schmalfeldt even bother to paying attention to facts to determine the sequence of events? Look here:

  1. Brett Kimberlin v. Jay Elliot — filed July 6.
  2. Jay Elliott v. Brett Kimberlin — filed July 7.
  3. Tetyana Kimberlin v. Brett Kimberlin — filed July 7.

In other words, Brett Kimberlin himself started this, by filing a petition for a peace order against Tetyana’s boyfriend. It was Brett Kimberlin who decided to make his wife’s estrangement a matter of public record. Jay and Tetyana then responded the next day to Brett’s court action, and all of this took place July 6-7.

As to what happened after that, I suppose Bill Schmalfeldt is relying on the false allegations in Brett Kimberlin’s lawsuit and/or misrepresentations of Tetyana’s words and actions that Brett makes during “Team Kimberlin” conversations with Schmalfeldt.

Here’s a tiny little clue for Bill Schmalfeldt: I take notes.

Your ridiculous threats and phony expressions of chivalrous umbrage on behalf of Tetyana Kimberlin — a person whom you were quite willing to defame as mentally ill in July — neither deceive me nor intimidate me, Bill Schmalfeldt, and your poor judgment in trusting Brett Kimberlin is further proof that you are an utter fool.

As if further proof were needed . . .

 

Category: Bill Schmalfeldt, The Kimberlin Files

Holiday Tradition, Texas-Style

Posted on | January 1, 2014 | 5 Comments

Marcos Berrios was doing “mechanical work” in the backyard of his Conroe, Texas, home. On the front porch, he had a bunch of fireworks for the family’s New Year’s Eve celebration, and his 10-year-old daughter decided to start celebrating early by shooting roman candles.

And so in years to come, whenever the Berrios family gathers for the holidays, somebody is sure to say, “Hey, y’all, remember that year when Rebecca burned down the house?”

God bless Texas.

 

Category: Texas

In The Mailbox, 01.01.14

Posted on | January 1, 2014 | 7 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho


OVER THE TRANSOM
The Looking Spoon: Best Captions For “What Is This Little Girl Saying To Obama?”
Blackmailers Don’t Shoot: Camille Paglia And Her Problems
Dead Republican Party: The Greatest Enemy Of Collectivism
Michelle Malkin: The Gifts Of Jahi
Twitchy: “Disgusting” – NBC Viewers Not Amused By Actress Natasha Leggero’s Mockery Of Pearl Harbor Vets


RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Power: Terror Lawyer Lynne Stewart Released From Federal Prison
American Thinker: House Resolution Of No Confidence – Obama’s Conviction Without Eviction
The Necropolitan Sentinel: The Party Of Al Sharpton And Jesse Jackson Says I’m An Anti-Semite
Jammie Wearing Fools: It’s Come To This – Pro-Life Banners In San Francisco Attacked As Hate Speech
JustOneMinute: Leave It To The No Fun League
Pat Dollard: Radical Communist Bill De Blasio Sworn In As 109th Mayor Of NYC
Protein Wisdom: 2014 Begins Predictably
Shot In The Dark: It’s The 2013 Shootie Awards!
The Jawa Report: Yes, I Might Just Beat You To Death With Your Own Machine Gun
The Lonely Conservative: Crony Capitalism And The Light Bulb
This Ain’t Hell: Marine Pullup Controversy Continues
Megan McArdle: Signs That Obamacare Is Not Dead Yet?


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Category: Linkagery

Prediction: 2014 Will Be Even Crazier

Posted on | January 1, 2014 | 11 Comments

The spiraling descent into insanity continues:

Egyptian Astrologer Warns: In 2014, Saturn
Enters Sagittarius, Making Jews Stronger

You’re not really paranoid unless you fear your scapegoat — on whom you blame all your problems — is becoming more powerful. This is why Media Matters and Think Progress and MSNBC exist, to play upon the fears of leftists by telling them the dreaded right-wing conspiracy is secretly scheming against them (which, of course, we are).

The past year was crammed full of dangerous unpredictable craziness and never mind the fact that I’m getting sued for $1 million by a convicted bomber. A glance through the archive of my columns at The American Spectator reflects the widespread insanity:

That’s not even a complete list, but merely a few highlights of the escalating intensity of Fear and Loathing during 2013. That list doesn’t even include the cartoon vagina that aims to eradicate the “cultural stigma” against masturbation.

And, of course, 2013 was the year I got sued by a convicted bomber. My co-defendant John Hoge recaps the highlights of craziness from Team Kimberlin and, I should point out, Brett Kimberlin contends that it is defamation merely to assert the existence of Team Kimberlin because . . . Well, because he’s crazy.

My co-defendant Ali Akbar ended 2013 by apologizing for being mean:

I was forced to wonder why this odd group of folks, some friends, had assembled to come against me. Why even waste the time? Many of these people have directly benefitted from some of the charitable work I’ve done.
Two friends helped me come to the conclusion: I’m a mean person.

This is like rain apologizing for being wet. Ali wakes up in the morning and smites half a dozen enemies before breakfast. I’ve tried to warn him of the importance of keeping one’s Enemies List short.

You can’t declare war on People Who Merely Get On Your Nerves, because some of those people could be useful allies in your war against People Who Deliberately Fucked You Over. And even some of the People Who Deliberately Fucked You Over might be helpful in future conflicts with Worthless Scum Who Should Die.

Success in life does not consist in plotting revenge against an ever-lengthening list of enemies, but rather in being so helpful to your friends that everybody wants to be your friend — except Worthless Scum Who Should Die, and everybody hates them anyway.

 

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Category: Fear. Loathing.

‘The Central Prob. of Obamacare Will Not Yield to Technical or Rhetorical Solutions’

Posted on | January 1, 2014 | 13 Comments

by Smitty

Thus asserts Micheal Gerson in the WaPoo.

The central problem of Obamacare will not yield to technical or rhetorical solutions. President Obama sold it to Americans as a plan with no losers. But it is a redistribution program, creating both winners and losers. And many of the losers in Obamacare consider themselves middle class. This realization may eventually lead a number of elected Democrats to favor serious revisions.

Two challenges I have with the first sentence in this paragraph:

  1. That anybody thinks the federal government should have this task at all is nuts. The best defense of ObamaCare is that it was the final step in the lemming march off the cliff of Progress.
  2. That anybody thinks the government ‘solves’ anything, ever, is daft. Government maintains problems; the actual solutions are in the glove compartment of Godot’s car, which, regrettably, has been delayed.

Progressivism is an old man, stricken with Alzheimer’s, on the cusp of dementia, that cannot grasp the reality of his time having passed. ObamaCare’s swath of economic destruction is going to continue to claim victims. As the year drags on, the employer mandate is going to loom, the Democrats are going to lie, and the codpiece media is going to protect them. Wash, rinse, repeat. That old man isn’t going to the retirement home easily.

The central problem for the GOP is a split political personality. For congressional Republicans, ideological timidity is a reasonable, short-term electoral strategy. For Republicans concerned about retaking the presidency in 2016, it is wholly insufficient. There is an urgent need to reposition the party among minorities, women and the young. Pointing and laughing at the failures of Obamacare will not be a sufficient governing vision.

Gerson has the right of it. That old Progressive coot needs to be put out to pasture. It’s time for reform. The inability to offer something, anything, in the way of reform, I would argue, has been the real driver in depressing conservative turnout in the last two Presidential elections. We need this ObamaCare horse boiled down for glue; the suspicion was that Romney was going to get his veterinarian on.

Don’t stand there holding the coats while the IRS stones the Tea Party, GOP: either

  1. have your Road to Damascus moment, and get on the reform bandwagon, or
  2. stand by to join the ObamaCare horse at the glue factory.

Jake Tapper reports that 40k new laws are kicking in today. I know some incumbents needing kicked out in November if that death-by-red-tape situation isn’t improved.

Category: Health Care, Republicans

Because @Deanofcomedy Isn’t Funny

Posted on | January 1, 2014 | 16 Comments

A guy named Dean Obeidallah uses the Twitter handle @Deanofcomedy and was part of the MSNBC panel whose discussion of a Mitt Romney family photo led host Melissa Harris-Perry to apologize. Obeidallah evidently feels he got shortchanged, and that he didn’t get enough credit for his own “jokes” during that panel, because he’s written an entire column about it at the Daily Beast:

As a comedian and writer I have been called a lot of things—but up until yesterday no one had ever said I was a “baby bully.”
What did I do to deserve this new title? Have I been going around the neighborhood and shaking down babies for their lunch money? Have I been forcing babies to walk on the other side of the street when they see me? Nope.
I told a joke that many on the right — and even a few in the middle — didn’t like. This all happened Sunday when I was on MSNBC’s Melissa Harris Perry show with three other comedians for an episode called: “Look back on 2013 and Laugh.” . . .
One of the segments featured the panelists trying to come up with funny captions for various photos, including a photo of Mitt Romney’s extended family with their recently adopted African-American baby, “Kieran.” This photo had been tweeted out to the world by Romney on Christmas Eve.
Upon seeing the photo, I commented: “It really sums up the diversity of the Republican party, the RNC. At the convention, they find the one black person.” . . .

(If you were “trying to come up with funny captions,” this would be scored a failure. It simply is not funny.)

But on Monday apparently those on the right who monitor MSNBC were outraged. And by Monday night there were articles denouncing us as “baby bullies” in right-wing media outlets like The Blaze, Town Hall, The Daily Caller, Breitbart, et cetra. Fox News’ The Five covered the story with five its team of “racially diverse” co-hosts expressing outrage over racial insensitivity.
And, of course, my Twitter feed exploded with right-wing trolls attacking me. Leading the charge was conservative Dana Loesch who tweeted various comments to me such as: “You’re a baby-bullying bigot.”

Dean Obeidallah has a strange definition of “troll.” Generally speaking, people who use their online presence mainly to attack or harass others — which is a fair description of a troll — don’t have a lot of Twitter followers. Trolls are unpopular, by definition.

Dana Loesch has 173,633 Twitter followers.

Dean Obeidallah has 18,727 Twitter followers.

Who is the “troll” here?

Ace did a good take on the MHP controversy that included this:

The chronic snarkster isn’t snarking to communicate any particular idea, except for two very base, primitive ones:

1. We’re Superior to This Thing We’re Talking About, Whatever It Is, and
2. We Constitute a Tribe, You and I, Mutually Loyal To Each Other, Because We All Hoot and Grunt At the Same Things. . . .

In Hollywood fictions, as well as in alleged “news” stories recounted by the media, there are Designated Heroes and there are Designated Villains. Whatever the hero does is heroic not because of the intrinsic heroism of the action but simply because it is the Designated Hero doing it — and thus the action is heroic, simply because he performs it.
Likewise, everything the Designated Villain — here, the Romney family — does is villainous. Not because adopting a black orphan is villainous, but simply because the Villains are performing the action, and you know they must be up to no good. After all, they’re the Villains.

This is an apt summary not just of the calculus behind that particular segment, but of MSNBC as a network, and it reminds me of an observation I offered in November:

[I]n career fields where liberalism enjoys hegemonic dominance — including academia, the entertainment industry and especially journalism — being a liberal is an acceptable substitute for any virtue. In such environments, if a coward wishes to be praised for “courage” or a liar wants to be lauded for his “honesty,” he need merely be a dutiful outspoken liberal, and he will be showered with encomiums.

And if you are a tedious bore who wishes to be praised as “funny,” you become Dean Obeidallah, so that all your liberal friends are then obliged to play along with your pretenses to humor.

 

 


Category: MSNBC

REVEALED: Who Was On The Boat That Called The German Coast Guard?

Posted on | December 31, 2013 | 13 Comments

by Smitty

The mayday is clearly a joke:

But the joke is really the Obama Administration:

White House adviser Phil Schiliro said on Tuesday that the oft-cited seven million Obamacare enrollment target “was never our target number.”

Ah, yes. The target number for the enrollment is written on a balloon that keeps rotating as it deflates, hiding more zeros, as the crew of the S.S. Obama Minnow, on its three hour strategy session tour in the North Atlantic, radios in for help.

Wasn’t the Affordable Care Act supposed to be the insurance policy for the Progressive Project? That, hopefully, will prove the ultimate cancellation as this debacle moves onto its submarine phase. At the helm of the Obama Minnow, the ghost of Ted Kennedy was heard yelling “This is not what I meant when I said ‘Take me to the bridge!'”

Happy New Year everybody. Gird your loins, and keep your debt low. 2014 promises to be a doozy.

Category: Health Care, humor

Motions, Motions, Motions — Judge Grants Brett Kimberlin a Delay

Posted on | December 31, 2013 | 26 Comments

Rather than subject you to the tedium of every motion filed in Brett Kimberlin’s two lawsuits — the Maryland suit Kimberlin v. Walker, et al., and the federal RICO suit John Hoge has dubbed Kimberlin v. the Universe, et al. — I’ve opted for occasionally updating you on the process. Most recently (and quite hysterically) Kimberlin filed a motion in the federal case complaining that some of the defendants, in responding with motions to dismiss, were conspiring to ruin his holidays by filing motions to which the rules required him to respond in late December and early January. This was just an outrageous lie, and Kimberlin had the unspeakable effrontery, in making that claim, to name me as part of this non-existent conspiracy when (as he damned well knows) he hasn’t even served me yet in the federal case, and I have therefore not yet filed any motions at all in that case.

My co-defendants John Hoge, Aaron Walker and DB Capital Strategies all replied to Kimberlin’s preposterous claim for a two-month delay (until Feb. 28). However, it appears from a letter the judge in the case issued Monday that he didn’t see either Hoge’s or Walker’s replies. At any rate, this part of the judge’s letter granting an 18-day extension (until Jan. 17) seemed to me rather interesting:

The bloated buffoon Bill Schmalfedlt was huffing and puffing on Twitter about what a huge victory this is for Brett Kimberlin, when obviously it is nothing of the sort. The delay granted is 41 days less than Kimberlin sought, and the judge pretty much puts him on notice: “Cut out your shenanigans and get in line.”

Kimberlin has no plausible excuse for having served only a few of the defendants in his RICO suit against 20 different parties, and certainly he can’t claim that I have avoided service, as I showed up at a hearing in his Maryland lawsuit in November. All he would have had to do was to hand a copy of the federal suit to the Maryland bailiff and had the bailiff serve me. There will be another hearing Jan. 13 in the Maryland case that I also plan to attend, so I suppose Kimberlin can serve me then, if he wishes to save money on postage.

At some point (and I hope we reach this point sooner rather than later), Kimberlin’s litigation will collapse under the weight of its own demonstrable falsity, and everything that transpires between now and then is just prelude to the predictable finale.

 

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Category: The Kimberlin Files
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