The Other McCain

"One should either write ruthlessly what one believes to be the truth, or else shut up." — Arthur Koestler

Barrett Brown Does Some Excellent Writing From Jail, Where He Belongs

Posted on | November 12, 2013 | 22 Comments

Barrett Brown in meltdown mode, Sept. 12, 2012

“Thinking himself a sort of one-man Woodward and Bernstein who would heroically expose the Hidden Secrets of the Surveillance State, Brown instead exposed himself as a blundering amateur who got himself in so far over his head that he couldn’t handle the catastrophic result.”
— Robert Stacy McCain, “The Kook Who Knew Too Much,” The American Spectator, June 27, 2013

Look, if you melt down on YouTube in a paranoid rage threatening to “destroy” an FBI agent and his family, you belong in jail.

Quod erat demonstrandum.

Some people have accused me of hating Barrett Brown, but that’s like saying I “hate” my 14-year-old when he gets a D on his report card.

No one could deny that Barrett is intelligent and humorous. However, neither can it be denied that Barrett was an arrogant punk, full of irrational resentments and overweening ambition, a narcissistic “famewhore” (thank you, Adrian Chen) who decided that being the public spokesman for an international criminal conspiracy would be his ticket to the wealth and glory he imagined himself to deserve.

Glory days: Barrett Brown interviewed by Michael Isikoff, 2011

So now, the Boy Genius once described by NBC’s Michael Isikoff as “an underground commander in a new kind of warfare” is sitting his ass in jail. Back in January, his lawyer waived Barrett’s right to a speedy trial, evidently with the idea that they could turn “Free Barrett Brown” into a lucrative fundraising franchise, portray the defendant as a First Amendment martyr and somehow score a political victory that would result in Barrett’s acquittal and vindication.

Can this legal equivalent of an Underpants Gnome scheme actually work? We can’t rule out that possibility, but in the meantime, Barrett has spent 14 months in jail — not actually in a federal facility, but in some sort of privately operated rent-a-jail.

There is a profound irony that the guy who spent a year and a half “investigating” the practices of government security contractors like HB Gary is now being held in a private jail run by government contractors. But profound irony isn’t something that Barrett has much opportunity to relish under the circumstances, and his lawyer provided Vice.com with a genuinely interesting article the erstwhile Boy Genius wrote about jail life and what inmates watch on TV:

There is little to be said about what the English-speaking inmates watch, with one exception. One particular program is viewed religiously not only in our 24-man tank, but also in the two others into which I can peer through windows connecting us across a hall. This particular show appears, oddly enough, on the Oxygen channel, which I seem to recall being Oprah Winfrey’s network for women. . . .
This program on the Oxygen network, though, being of the reality show genre, is called The Bad Girls Club. A flock of tacky twenty-something women are thrown together in a big fancy house in some American city where tacky twenty-something women can easily be assembled, like Miami or Atlanta. Episodes proceed more or less as follows: All of the women venture out together to a prominent local nightclub in a limo. The ride is punctuated by cheers to the effect that they are The Bad Girls. They get to the club, where they quite naturally sit in the VIP section and order bottle service. There follows a jump-cut montage of the girls drinking, dancing, and half-jokingly humping each other. Then a dispute invariably arises out of nothing. For this dispute to be resolved, there must first be performed a sort of ritualized catharsis. First, the woman who wrongly considers herself to be the offended party must address the other women as “y’all fake-ass bitches” on the limo ride home. Upon arrival, at least one or two women must flee crying into the house. Others must huddle together by the pool, smoking and airing their imaginary grievances. One will go back inside to get some more wine coolers and as she walks down the hall: BAM, SOME OTHER CHICK RUNS UP AND JUST FUCKING CLOCKS HER IN THE FACE AND THEN THEY GO DOWN SLAPPING THE SHIT OUT OF EACH OTHER! Until the security guards who are on hand for the purpose pull them apart. Thus the conflict is resolved. I’ve decided not to draw any wider conclusions from this.

Read the whole thing. It’s actually very good, and is the sort of observational cultural commentary that Barrett Brown is good at.

Too bad the arrogant punk couldn’t be content with that kind of work, and instead got himself into this miserable situation.

Well, at least his mom only got probation.

 

Category: Barrett Brown, Crime

James O’Keefe’s Project Veritas Team Exposes Fraud of ObamaCare ‘Navigators’

Posted on | November 12, 2013 | 42 Comments

John Fund at National Review:

James O’Keefe, the guerrilla videographer who helped bring down ACORN (the “community organizing” group that Barack Obama worked for as a lawyer and trainer) and got NPR’s president fired, is back.
This time, his undercover investigators focused on Obamacare’s “navigators,” the nearly 50,000 people who, in the words of the Department of Health and Human Services, “will serve as an in-person resource for Americans who want additional assistance in shopping for and enrolling in plans” on the Obamacare exchanges (at least when they’re finally working). The total value of grants doled out for nonprofits and community organizations to hire navigators has topped $67 million nationwide, and some of the money is going to a group run by ACORN’s highly controversial founder.

Mary Katharine Ham at Hot Air:

The navigator system— with grants given to plenty of left-leaning community organizers to lead citizens to the entitlement—was always fertile ground for mischief. It’s been made more problematic by the incompetence of the administration.
Navigators were originally required to go through 30 hours of training, but that requirement was later cut to 20 hours because the navigator program, like the rest of Obamacare, was falling on its face.  . . .
Obamacare is a system so complex, so incompetently administered that it doesn’t even require malice on the part of navigators or the bill’s allies to screw up people’s lives royally.

Da Tech Guy has an exclusive video interview with Project Veritas executive director Daniel Francisco. Permit me to suggest that this would be a good time to go make a contribution to Project Veritas.

 


Category: Health Care, James O'Keefe, Texas

LIVE AT FIVEEIGHT: 11.12.13

Posted on | November 12, 2013 | 11 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho


TOP NEWS
Deal Struck On Wider UN Inspections Of Iran Sites

SecState Kerry with Sheikh Al Nahyan, UAE foreign minister

Kerry claims allies have “unity” in talks


Concerns Grow Over Pace Of Aid To Philippines
US, UK sending warships to assist; Marines already on the ground


Obamacare Enrollment Falls Far Short Of Target
Only 50K enrollments in October vs. 500K projected



POLITICS
Longing On The Left: TNR Touts Fauxcahontas vs. Hillary!

Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA)

Lamestream media’s already in her corner

Obama Pays Tribute To Oldest Living WW2 Vet

Senator Jim Inhofe’s Son Dies In Plane Crash

Sea World Returns To Court In Killer Whale Safety Case

Carville Suggests Obama Take A Hit Off Rob Ford’s Crack Pipe

Moody’s Warns Of Bankruptcy In Scranton

Military, Vets Missing Out On Key Obamacare Provision

Annapolis City Council Debates Stripping Mayor’s Powers After Republican Elected



THE ECONOMY, STUPID
Asian Crude Falls As Iran Deal Remains Elusive: NYMEX $94.83, Brent $106.17
Walmart To Launch Black Friday Sales Earlier
Gold At 3.5 Week Low On Stronger Dollar, Fed Taper Talk
Dollar Gains Against All Rivals Except Euro
Vodafone Swings To Profit, Plans To Spend $11 Billion
IEA: Shale Boom Could Lead To US Energy Independence By 2035
Apple And Samsung Back In Court
Microsoft Says No Backward Compatibility For XBox One Through Cloud
Redesigned Roomba Is Quicker, Quieter, Hairball-Free
Big, Curvy New Apple Models To Be Excellent For Slap & Tickle
Chrome 32 Lets You Easily Find & Close Noisy Tabs



SPORTS
Jose Fernandez, Wil Myers Named Rookies Of The Year

Wil Myers, Jose Fernandez

Fernandez posted 12-6 record, 2.16 ERA on a team that lost 100 games; Myers posted 832 OPS with 13 homers and five steals in 88 games


Rockets Outlast Raptors 110-104 In Double OT


Lightning’s Stamkos Breaks Leg On Goalpost, Will Have Surgery

Nyets Show Problem With NBA Super Teams

Florida Panthers Fire Head Coach & Assistants After Seven Straight Losses

Clippers 109, Timbermutts 107

Brawl After Ohio State/Bemidji State Womens’ Hockey Game Shatters Record For Penalties

Rose Suffers “Minor” Injury In Bulls Win

India Set For Emotional Farewell To Sachin Tendulkar



FAMOUS FOR BEING FAMOUS
Is Katy Perry Engaged…

Check the ring!

…or isn’t she?

George Clooney’s Rules For Living

Jenna Jameson Doing Porn Again…For The Children

Natural Wonder: Julia Roberts

Miley At The MTV EMAs: Toking & Twerking

Jennifer Lawrence, “Catching Fire” Costars Talk About Wetsuit Worries

Joe Wright In Talks To Helm “Pan” For WB

Leonardo DiCaprio Turns 30

Kaley Cuoco Is “Not Effing Pregnant” With Fiance’s Child

Kate Middleton Beautiful In Black On Remembrance Day

“Sordid Attempt To Stay Relevant”: Kate Gosselin’s Cookbook Slammed

Jennifer Lawrence Reveals Repulsion At Miley Cyrus’ Antics



FOREIGNERS
UK Inflation Slows To 2.2%, Lowest In A Year
Thai PM Calls For End To Protests After Opposition Calls For Three-Day General Strike
Norks Publicly Execute 80 People
Congo Blames Mediator Uganda For Breakdown In Peace Talks
Shock Artist Nails His Genitals To Red Square In Protest
Woman Killed In Police Attack On Protesting Cambodian Garment Workers
Bus Collision On South Africa’s “Road Of Death” Leaves 29 Dead
WW2 Veteran’s Funeral Packed After Internet Appeal
Bangladesh Wage Protests Close 100 Factories
PRC Pledges Decisive Role For Markets After Policy Summit



BLOGS & STUFF
Blackmailers Don’t Shoot: Paul Waldman Is A Sniveling Obama Butt Sniffer
Proof Positive: Why Did Obamacare Pass? Because “Math Is Hard”
Michelle Malkin: Veterans Day 2013
Twitchy: “WTF Is Wrong With You?” Michael Moore Hits Disgusting New Low
Chicks On The Right: Military Chaplains Can’t Pray In The Name Of Jesus Or Invoke The Bible Now. Alrighty Then.
American Power: Sarah Palin Stuffs Matt Lauer’s Obamacare “Apology” Meme
American Thinker: A 2014 Senate Run For Ken Cuccinelli?
The Necropolitan Sentinel: Obamacare Watch – Comparing Costs/Age Effects
Don Surber: The “It’s Veterans Day And I Had To Work” Scoreboard
Jammie Wearing Fools: Heartless Obama Steals Food From Kids To Fund “Let’s Move”
JustOneMinute: We’ll Score This As “Not A Like”
Pat Dollard: Glenn Beck Says “I Will Not Vote For Another Republican Like Chris Christie Or Mitt Romney. I’ll Just Skip It.”
Protein Wisdom: Hard Sell – Inevitability Is Here Again, And It’s Being Rolled Our Way Like A Giant Human Flab Boulder
Shot In The Dark: The Policy That Dare Not Say Its Name
The Jawa Report: Disgusting Pig Is Disgusting
The Lonely Conservative: Delusional Debbie Still Thinks Obamacare Is A Winning Issue In 2014
Megan McArdle: Hope Is All Obamacare Has Left


Category: Live at Five

When Neal Rauhauser (@Kookpocalypse) Stalked My Army Son’s Facebook Page

Posted on | November 11, 2013 | 89 Comments

Regular readers of this blog need no introduction to Neal Rauhauser, the disgraced former Democrat campaign consultant and associate of bomber/progressive activist Brett Kimberlin. Most recently, Bullyville has vowed to put Neal Rauhauser in prison.

Last month, Rauhauser did something so astonishingly vicious even I was shocked, despite my familiarity with Neal’s evil dishonesty. But I put it aside until today — Veteran’s Day — when I saw Rauhauser using one of his (innumerable) Twitter sockpuppet accounts to talk about his admiration for the military, the lying wretch.

Everybody knows how proud I am of my children, and you know that it’s been more than two weeks since we’ve heard from our Army son, who is enduring an ordeal known as “Three Weeks in Hell.”

My wife has been praying constantly, and I’ve been trying to put it out of my mind, because there’s no point worrying about it. But exactly one month ago, on Oct. 11, this is what Neal Rauhauser did on Twitter:


Among other things, this was a deliberate lie. In June, my son made a sarcastic remark about the Supreme Court decision invalidating DOMA, and my response was to remind him to avoid such humor: “You are not allowed to joke about this, soldier!”

Well, we know Neal Rauhauser lies constantly, but what was his motive for this lie? Was he hoping to make my son a target of (mistaken) homophobic violence? Or was he hoping to generate some kind of reaction from me? Never mind that, however.

WHY WAS THIS FREAK NEAL RAUHAUSER
STALKING MY SON’S FACEBOOK PAGE?

Neal Rauhauser deleted those Tweets, like the gutless worm he is, and he is currently lying as @Kookpocalypse. But whatever he does, and wherever he goes, that filthy scoundrel will never escape the stain of dishonor attached to the contemptible name Neal Rauhauser.

P.S.: That tattoo on my son’s torso? A cross, and a few words from the Bible: “Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil . . .”




 

 

Category: The Kimberlin Files

Obama Administration Gets Its Benghazi On Over In Afghanistan

Posted on | November 11, 2013 | 36 Comments

by Smitty

This is just despicable:

KABUL — A growing number of Afghan interpreters who worked alongside American troops are being denied U.S. visas allotted by Congress because the State Department says there is no serious threat against their lives.
But the interpreters, many of whom served in Taliban havens for years, say U.S. officials are drastically underestimating the danger they face. Immigration attorneys and Afghan interpreters say the denials are occurring just as concerns about Taliban retribution are mounting due to the withdrawal of U.S. forces.

Not only is our rodeo clown administration laying a death sentence on everybody who ever provided any assistance to the U.S., it’s worse than that. Stand by, once these guys are certain that they’ve been sold out, we can expect some unexpected, tragic news. If you take a really bad inner-city gang warfare scene, throw in a religious twist and kitchen sink explosives, you have an idea of Afghanistan. It’s a land of highland Inigo Montoyas, and we’ll never live down this sort of backstabbing.

I guess if we didn’t have the travesty of Benghazi to reflect upon, this dishonorable idiocy might seem startling.

via Insty

Category: Aghanistan, Barack Obama, Instapundit

Some Kind of Twitter Thing in the Virginia Attorney General’s Race?

Posted on | November 11, 2013 | 17 Comments

This is probably one of those silly things everybody will forget about later, but liberals have been trying to steal the Virginia Attorney General’s election from Republican Mark Obenshain and were using Twitter to do it, or something. Virginia is just a damned shame and while there has been endless finger-pointing among Republicans, perhaps someone should start asking why a California billionaire dropped $8 million to help elect Terry McAuliffe governor.

The Environmental-Industrial Complex?

 

Category: Virginia

Go, @SarahPalinUSA, Go! Whacks Lauer, ObamaCare on ‘Today’ Show (VIDEO)

Posted on | November 11, 2013 | 41 Comments

Matt Lauer tried to steamroll Mama Grizzly — fail!

Lauer asked Palin about President Barack Obama’s apology at the end of last week after it was discovered that five percent of Americans can’t keep their existing policies because they don’t meet the standards of the new healthcare law.
“What apology?’’ Palin said. “He kind of acknowledged a bit that there’s a broken website. The broken website is the least of America’s worries. This broken website I think is symbolic of a broken administration. Take over one-sixth of our economy and the socialized medicine that’s being crammed down our throat, that’s what’s broken.
“Where do you get this five percent?’’ she said. “It’s not five percent. It’s most Americans will not be able to keep the healthcare policy and programs that they had desired. The new programs that are being forced down our throat are unaffordable. Some of them are still being told, ‘Well if you like that insurance policy and that coverage, you still will be able to keep it, it’s just going to cost you a little bit more.’ That’s the point. If it’s going to cost you more, then it’s not the same policy.”

(Via Gateway Pundit.)

 


Category: Health Care, NBC, Sarah Palin

Even in Deep-Blue California, ObamaCare Still Inspires Deep Doubts, Poll Finds

Posted on | November 11, 2013 | 30 Comments

Donald Douglas points out that President Obama got nearly 60 percent of the vote in California last year, but the president’s signature health-care program is still widely unpopular there:

Sixty-five percent of respondents said people wouldn’t be able to afford the health insurance they’ll be required to have under the law’s individual mandate. Forty percent think the program will have a negative effect on what they pay for coverage, compared with 21% who expect a positive outcome.
According to the survey, 46% of registered voters expect the Affordable Care Act to be a drag on the overall economy and 34% see an economic boost. Nearly 60% think the law’s new requirements will raise healthcare costs and keep businesses from hiring more workers.

Read the whole thing.

 

Category: American Power, Barack Obama, California, Health Care
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