LIVE AT FIVE: 10.25.13
Posted on | October 25, 2013 | 8 Comments
— compiled by Wombat-socho
TOP NEWS
Contractors Expect Work Of Fixing Healthcare.Gov To Take Weeks

Not coders helping to fix the problem.
Up to five MILLION lines of code may have to be rewritten for site to work properly
Will “tech surge” throw good money after bad?
Euros Furious Over NSA Snooping
France, Germany call for talks
How Serious Is The US/Saudi Rift?
Conflicting messages from senior princes confuse situation
POLITICS
Cuccinelli Hits McAuliffe Hard In Final Va. Governor Debate
The really bad news is that the puppy isn’t for real, either.
Calls Democrat a liar and an empty suit
Gansler Admits He Should Have Checked Drinking At Teen Party
Rep. Scalise: Obamacare Website Was Set Up To Fail By HHS
Sen. Sessions Questions Vague NEH Grants
Former Speaker Tom Foley Dies, 84
Rep. Lance: Sebelius Refusing To Testify On ObamaCare Problems
Retired Marine Blasts Proposed Unisex Uniform Changes As “Appalling”
ObamaCare Lawsuits Could Reach Supreme Court
THE ECONOMY, STUPID
Oil Prices Fluctuate On The Way To Biggest Weekly Drop Since June: NYMEX $97.37, Brent $107.24
Twitter Sets Cautious Valuation For IPO
Jobless Claims Stay High, Manufacturing Slows
Southwest Airlines Profit Up On Higher Prices, Cheaper Fuel
US Mortgages Fall To Four-Month Low
ROK Economy Expands 3.3% In Third Quarter, Highest In Almost Two Years
Brisk Sales To Businesses At Microsoft; Devices Lag
Cover: An Android-Only Screen Lock That Shows You Apps When You Need Them
Vine Adds Video Editing, Mid-Session Saves for Six-Second Spielbergs
Pew: Reading News On Facebook Largely Incidental
Microsoft Exec Slags Apple’s Free iWork Software
SPORTS
Cardinals Take Game Two Of World Series
Cards answer Ortiz homer with three-run seventh
St. Louis evens series with 4-2 win
Panthers 31, Buccaneers 13; Tampa Bay Now 0-7
Rams Attempt To Lure Brett Favre Out Of Retirement
Canucks Edge Devils 3-2 In Shootout
WaPo’s Kilgore Claims Matt Williams Front-Runner For Nats Manager
FAMOUS FOR BEING FAMOUS
Lindsay Lohan – I’m Not Wining, Just Dining

Not reaching for the bottle
Says pic is an optical illusion
Lawrence Kasdan, JJ Abrams Assume Screenwriting Duties For Star Wars VII
Pauly D Calls Daughter “A Blessing”, Wants Full Custody
NBC to Reboot “Murder, She Wrote” With Octavia Spencer Starring
Katharine McPhee Separated From Husband Months Ago, Embarrassed By Director Affair Scandal
Kylie Jenner Throws World-Class Tantrum At LA Hotel
“High School Musical” Cast To Reunite After Five Years For Charity
Sean Hayes Blames NBC For His Show’s Lousy Ratings
Alec Baldwin Complains Movies Have Become Boring, Obsessed With Spider-Man
FOREIGNERS
Court Rejects Bo Xilai Appeal, Upholds Life Sentence
One Dead, 40 Hurt In Mexican Candy Factory Explosion
Secret Memos Show Pakistan Endorsed US Drone Strikes
Ukraine Boxer Klitschko To Challenge Yanukovich For Presidency
India PM Singh Calls For Quick Resolution To Border Dispute
Saudi Arabia Warns Women Against Defying Driving Ban
Head Of DC Russian Cultural Center Under Investigation As Possible Spy
BLOGS & STUFF
Blackmailers Don’t Shoot: Jerry Brown, Union Buster
Michelle Malkin: Cruz-bashing Obamacare Cheerleader Rep. Jared Polis (D-CO) Now Pushing Waivers For Ski Resorts
Twitchy: “Not Quite The Way They Sold It” Kirsten Powers’ Insurance Premiums Skyrocket
Todd Starnes: Army Halts Training Program That Labeled Christians As Extremists (h/t Sarah Palin on Facebook)
American Power: Wretched Joan Walsh Whines About How Everyone Hates Joan Walsh
American Thinker: Virginia Farmer Starts Property Rights Legal Revolution
The Necropolitan Sentinel: Obamacare Watch – More On Public Employees And Obamacare
Don Surber: Daily Scorecard, October 24
Jammie Wearing Fools: MN Democrat Tells Obama To Man Up, Start Firing People Over Obamacare Fiasco
Pat Dollard: Harry Reid Claims Every American Is “Willing To Pay More Taxes”
Protein Wisdom: Meanwhile, The DOJ’s War On School Vouchers Continues
Shot In The Dark: Watching The Astroturf Grow
The Jawa Report: Soldiers Being Told That TEA Party Is Threat To Nation
The Lonely Conservative: Obamacare Call Center Operator Fired For Talking To Sean Hannity
Megan McArdle: Obamacare Fiasco Isn’t A Single-Payer Conspiracy
Bill Schmalfeldt’s Dishonest Denials (and Where the Trail of Evidence Leads)
Posted on | October 24, 2013 | 59 Comments
“Especially important is the warning to avoid conversations with the demon. . . . He is a liar. The demon is a liar. He will lie to confuse us. But he will also mix lies with the truth to attack us. The attack is psychological, Damien, and powerful. So don’t listen to him. Remember that — do not listen.”
— The Exorcist (1973)
For reasons I still don’t understand, Ali Akbar decided to permit Bill Schmalfeldt to degrade himself as a “guest” on Ali’s podcast today. If you listened to it, you know that Bill proved conclusively (as if it were not already proven) what a twisted deranged freak he is.
Every time Ali referred to one of Schmalfeldt’s grossly obscene smears, Schmalfeldt would begin cackling with insane glee, evidently enjoying some kind of sadistic pleasure at his own perversity. Although I called in for a couple of segments, I did not enjoy it, preferring to avoid direct contact with such evil. At one point, Schmalfeldt was challenged about his repeated false claims that I still live in Maryland and dishonestly denied having made such claims.
“[W]e have no REAL proof that McCain ever moved ANYWHERE, that he STILL lives at his nice litle house . . . in Hagerstown, Maryland . . .”
— Bill Schmalfeldt, Nov. 23, 2012
“There is a large fraud being perpetrated on conservative Internet users. . . . [Robert Stacy McCain] raised money for this ‘flight from Maryland’ on his blog. If he did this and did not actually flee the state as he said, he raised money under false pretenses which is a felony under Maryland laws.”
— Bill Schmalfeldt, Nov. 25, 2012
Those are just two examples among scores — perhaps hundreds — of times Schmalfeldt has made this false accusation, and this is a motif with him: Accuse people of crime based upon his own baseless speculations, and then proceed to harass the target of his lies, claiming this is an “investigation,” demanding “proof” his lie is wrong.
“Tell the bomber where you live, Stacy! And while we’re
at it, let’s talk about your wife and children . . .”
Freak.
Anyway, while Ali Akbar said he plans to use the audio of Schmafeldt’s demented ravings as evidence in future legal action, I was uncomfortable with the cruelty of permitting this mentally ill man to further embarrass himself. At one point, Ali asked Schmalfeldt about his bizarre claim that Ali had a sexual affair with Karl Rove. And as might be expected, Schmalfeldt managed simultaneously to deny having made the accusation, while also suggesting it was true.
Now, I’d often heard this weird accusation mentioned in jest, but as it was obviously untrue, never bothered to see where it came from. And where it started was with an Alabama lawyer named Dana Jill Simpson, who made the claim in a letter she wrote on June 26, 2012. In that letter, Simpson said she got her information when she was “contacted by a political operative on the left.”
Hmmm.
So “a political operative on the left” dreamed up this Akbar-Rove smear, sent it to a lawyer in Alabama, who then repeated it in a letter to Bob Bauer, the top lawyer for Barack Obama’s re-election campaign (!), and from there it metastasized into a delusional rant on a blog called “Legal Schnauzer,” which got multiple comments by Schmalfeldt (as “Liberal Grouch”) and the ubiquitous Matt Osborne:
Matt Osborne said…
While I’m not about to go and say this report of a gay tryst is true, what IS definitely true is that Rove has been deeply connected to the National Bloggers Club since it started. Brett Kimberlin, the man they first tried to frame for their fake SWAT calls, embarrassed the hell out of Rove with one of his “merry prankster” performances back in 2004. I would not be surprised to find out that Rove has been using them for all manner of Nixonian ratfuckery. Anyone who’s been reading my blog lately knows I have been tangling with them over a hoax they tried to pull on me and other people in the #stoprush movement. There is no upper limit to their criminality, IMO, and Rove’s involvement shows that.
June 27, 2012 at 5:34 PM
This claim “that Rove has been deeply connected to the National Bloggers Club since it started” is just a flat-out lie. But because Bill Schmalfeldt is crazy, he can’t distinguish between reality and fantasy, between truth and lie. Therefore, in Schmalfeldt’s warped mind, Osborne’s assertion of a Rove connection to the National Bloggers Club became a “fact,” which Schmalfeldt subsequently undertook to “investigate,” and from there, as they say, hilarity ensued.
OK, so who is Dana Jill Simpson? A gadfly conspiracy theorist who, among other things, made unsubstantiated accusations that Karl Rove conspired against former Alabama Gov. Don Siegelman. She also co-authored a recent classic of paranoid kookery, “Black Hat Versus White Hat: The Other Side Of The Snowden/Hastings/Barret Brown Cases.” (Really gives me confidence in somebody’s work when there is a misspelled name in the headline.) Now, ask yourself: Who was the “political operative on the left” who got this kooky lady interested in the bogus Rove-Akbar sex smear?
Hi, Neal.
Somewhere off on the lunatic fringe, Neal Rauhauser is always trolling for gullible kooks like this Jill Simpson who will help publicize his conspiracy theories. And the fact that the Rove-Akbar smear got turned into an actual series of articles at Legal Schnauzer (one of the few places where anyone takes Jill Simpson seriously) tells you just how gullible some people are. And then you have weirdos like Bill Schmalfeldt and Matt Osborne, whose desperate quest for relevance inspires them to repeat stuff they know to be false — e.g., that I didn’t leave Maryland — simply because they know such lies will be applauded by the small circle of kooks who admire Brett Kimberlin.
“Facts don’t matter, that’s the perception of the situation, and the world is going to act on that basis.”
— Neal Rauhauser (“Gaped Crusader”), Nov. 26, 2011
See, Neal Rauhauser understands that many people are either indifferent to truth or too stupid to know truth from lies. Neal knows that if he can generate enough “smoke” of suspicion around one of his targets, intellectually lazy people (i.e., most people) will jump to the conclusion that “where there’s smoke, there must be fire.” And these people who assist Neal in his games — among them Matt Osborne and Bill Schmalfeldt and, evidently, Jill Simpson — either (a) enjoy helping disseminate falsehoods, or (b) don’t understand the game.
They lie gleefully, because they have no conscience.
They have no decency and they have no shame. Selah.
UPDATE: John Hoge replies to Matt Osborne:
I have been to Stacy McCain’s house. It is not in Maryland. Period.
But in Osborne’s depraved mind, this just proves the “conspiracy,” see?
Sexual Savagery and the New Abnormal
Posted on | October 24, 2013 | 42 Comments
Where did this sudden tsunami of sexual perversion come from? Months of dealing with the “Free Kate” freak show has opened my eyes to how pervasive the “Desire Is Destiny” concept has become: Whatever kinky weirdness you want is now defended as a “right,” and anyone who criticizes deviance is denounced for “hate” and “bigotry.” Normal sex — man and wife, making babies — is viewed as odd, because now everybody’s supposed to be doing it The San Francisco Way.
How about a childhood that includes intercourse at age 8 and massive amounts of porn-watching? That was how R&B singer Chris Brown developed his abusive predatory sexual worldview:
His parents divorced when he was seven, and before long he and his sister and mother were living with her new husband in a trailer park . . .
He lost his virginity when he was eight years old, to a local girl who was 14 or 15. Seriously? “Yeah, really. Uh-huh.” He grins and chuckles. “It’s different in the country.” Brown grew up with a great gang of boy cousins, and they watched so much porn that he was raring to go. “By that point, we were already kind of like hot to trot, you know what I’m saying? Like, girls, we weren’t afraid to talk to them; I wasn’t afraid. So, at eight, being able to do it, it kind of preps you for the long run, so you can be a beast at it. You can be the best at it.” (Now 24, he doesn’t want to say how many women he’s slept with: “But you know how Prince had a lot of girls back in the day? Prince was, like, the guy. I’m just that, today. But most women won’t have any complaints if they’ve been with me. They can’t really complain. It’s all good.”)
Where’s an FBI Task Force when you really need one, huh? Everybody involved in raising this twisted creep should be in prison. As it is, Ally Fogg can only lament the obvious facts:
The quoted paragraph is grimly fascinating. There is not the slightest suggestion that Brown considers himself a victim, not for a moment does he suggest he was anything but in control of the situation. First he makes a joke about it. Then he flaunts it as a badge of masculine achievement and slides quickly — far too quickly — into boasting of his sexual prowess. This is precisely how many abused boys rationalise and cope with their experiences in a culture where men can never admit to weakness, and particularly never admit to having been used and abused by a girl. By the end of the paragraph, the reader could easily forget that he was eight years old. Eight.
It’s important that the public education system do its part:
INDIANA – A high school chemistry teacher has been fired after being accused of taking his students to a strip club and allowing them to drink alcohol at his home.
According to a probable cause affidavit, 31-year-old Travis Lechien, a teacher at Hanover Central High School in Cedar Lake allowed students visit him at home “on four or five separate occasions.”
Meanwhile, Creeping Sharia offers this frightening news:
Two men training at Fort Leonard Wood are in custody after deputies say they tried to abduct a 12-year-old girl in Pulaski County Friday afternoon.
Mohammed Mahmoud Omar Mefleh, 34, and Antoine Clela, 31, were charged with enticement of a child and harassment.
The victim told police she was playing with a sibling in her yard when Mefleh and Clela approached her several times and tried to lure her into their vehicle. She told officers they kept asking for sexual favors.
The suspects are with a foreign military in a middle eastern country and are part of a training mission at Fort Leonard Wood, just a couple miles from where the attempted abduction took place.
You must be an Islamophobic racist if you think that’s newsworthy.
News of Brett Kimberlin’s RICO Suit Reaches a Certain Bunker in Berlin
Posted on | October 24, 2013 | 43 Comments
This was posted at John Hoge’s Hogewash blog and I don’t know who deserves credit for the production, but it is an excellent summary of the fundamental strategic error in Brett Kimberlin’s latest lawfare:
By the way, BomberSuesBloggers.com announced yesterday it met its first fundraising goal of $2,000 to assist the five defendants in the Maryland Kimberlin v. Walker, et al., lawsuit, and also has sent its first check to an attorney for one of the defendants. This is an important case for Internet free speech rights. Thanks to all who have given so far, and I urge everyone to do what they can to help keep up the momentum against Kimberlin and his “unsavory” operatives.
Yes, among other things he’s suing us for calling his operatives “unsavory.” While we expect that our lawyers can get the case dismissed in the preliminary stages, one smiles at the prospect of a trial, where Kimberlin’s “excellent friend” Bill Schmalfeldt is asked to read aloud his perverse “Butt Stuff” rantings that got him banned from Daily Kos.
Media Can’t Spin ObamaCare ‘Debacle’
Posted on | October 24, 2013 | 43 Comments
You know it’s a complete botch when even the Democrat-Media Complex — NBC, ABC, CBS — can’t ignore the failure:
(Hat-tip: Donald Douglas at American Power.)
Michigan Teachers Sue Corrupt Union
Posted on | October 24, 2013 | 21 Comments
The dishonest racket known as the Michigan Education Association (MEA) resorts to brass-knuckle extortion methods:
Michigan teachers are discovering that their union is determined to make it as hard as possible for them to take advantage of the state’s new right-to-work law, which prohibits workers from being forced to pay dues to a union. . . .
Eight teachers sued the MEA on Monday. They are being represented by the conservative Mackinac Center Legal Foundation. Their complaint alleges the union is violating the intent of the right-to-work law by only giving them a very brief period — the month of August — to drop their membership.
One of the eight, Coopersville teacher Miriam Chanski, told MEA in a May letter she was leaving the union. MEA denied her request because it was sent in too early.
She claims the union did not tell her this at the time. She only learned of the August opt-out window in September. That was when MEA informed her she would now have to pay another year’s dues.
“It surprised me that there would be more to the process — I had not heard anything else,” she told the local ABC affiliate.
It got worse for her when MEA said that if she didn’t continue to pay, they would report her to a collection agency, which would negatively affect her credit rating.
“My credit is very personal to me and it’s something I take pride in,” Chanski said.
(Hat-tip: Instapundit.)
LIVE AT FIVE: 10.24.13
Posted on | October 24, 2013 | 8 Comments
— compiled by Wombat-socho
TOP NEWS
White House Steps Up Damage Control On Obamacare Rollout

Just like an infomercial.
GOP increases the pressure to delay parts of PPACA
Chancellor Merkel’s Phone Frustration May Complicate US Relations
Carney denies everything, of course.
Jury Finds Bank Of America Liable For Countrywide Mortgage Fraud
Caused millions in losses at Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac
POLITICS
Heated Start To Detroit Bankruptcy Trial

Protesters supporting unions, retirees outside the federal courthouse
Lead attorney Bruce Bennett on negotiations with unions: “What we got was ‘no’.”
Obamacare Web Troubles: What’s Known So Far, And What Questions Remain
White House Fires Twitter Mole
Teachers Unions Fight Bill Barring Sex Offenders From Schools
Obama To Urge Congress To Pass Immigration Reform
Army: Only Two Brigades Combat-Ready
Rep. Grayson Blasted For Anti-Tea Party Fundraising Letter Showing Burning Cross
THE ECONOMY, STUPID
US Crude Sinks To Lowest Since July: NYMEX $96.47, Brent $108.74
PRC Manufacturing Beats Forecasts
Starbucks Getting Into The Tea Business
AT&T Reports Record Smartphone Sales, Higher Profits In Third Quarter
Icahn Launches Website To Push For Apple Changes
Unemployment Little Changed At 7.2% As Economy Remains Sluggish
LinkedIn Launches New Mobile Email App
Facebook Removes Gruesome Beheading Video, Reviews Content Policies
Yahoo Snaps Up LookFlow to Improve Flickr
New Surface Tablets Once Again Meaninglessly Dissed For Low Repairability
BlueStacks, Big Fish Deal To Bring Android Games To PCs And Macs
SPORTS
Lester, Red Sox Rout Sloppy Cardinals
Dustin Pedroia hugs David Ortiz after Ortiz’ seventh-inning homer
Boston wins 8-1, and it wasn’t even that close
Johnny Weir Hangs Up Skates, Takes Up Microphone For NBC
Lincecum Agrees To Two-Year, $35 Million Deal With Giants
Reds Promote Pitching Coach Price To Manager
Vatican Launches Cricket Team, Hopes To Play Anglican XI
Bloomberg Franchise Valuations: Nationals Worth $850 Million
FAMOUS FOR BEING FAMOUS
Danielle Fishel Slams The Haters

Former “Boy Meets World” actress throws down on Twitter
Fires back at criticisms of her weight, marriage to younger man
Lindsay Lohan Hitting Tough Notes At East Village Karaoke Bar
Jeremy Piven Pay At Center Of “Entourage” Movie Flap
Paul Feig Lands Animated “Peanuts” Flick For Fox
Minka Kelly, Chris Evans Split: What Went Wrong
“Basketball Wives” Reunion Show Shut Down
Clint Eastwood’s Wife Dina Files For Divorce
Rapper Ja Rule Wants To Write Cookbook Of Microwaveable Recipes
FOREIGNERS
Spain’s Recession Over – Cold Comfort For Jobless
Russia Drops Piracy Charges Against Greenpeace Group
Pakistan PM Sharif Urges Obama To Halt Drone Strikes
Pope Francis Suspends “Bishop Of Bling”
US Iran Policy Unites Israel, Saudi Arabia
After Stumbling In Syria, NSC Pushes Blame On Obama
Crews On Edge As NSW Blaze Flares Up
US/Russian Relations Thawing Over Syria?
Berlusconi Indicted In Corruption Case
BLOGS & STUFF
Dead Republican Party: Restoring America
First Street Journal: The Mark Of A Liar
Chicks On The Right: Alan Grayson Is The Worst Person In The World
Proof Positive: Obamboozle
Michelle Malkin: Don’t Forget Obamacare’s Electronic Medical Records Wreck; also, Glenn Beck And The GOP’s Grover Norquist Problem, Revisited
Twitchy: “You Let Them Die!” Hillary Heckled About Benghazi During Speech
American Power: Network Anchors Rip Obamacare Rollout – “Debacle”, “A Mess”, “A Complete Disaster”
American Thinker: Ted Cruz Spots A Tsunami
Blackmailers Don’t Shoot: Wonderful Wednesday – Homicide Hotel
Don Surber: Daily Scoreboard, October 23
Jammie Wearing Fools: It’s Come To This – Nigerians Now Complaining About Ted Cruz Joke
JustOneMinute: Obamafail – What Did The President Not Know, And When Did He Not Know It?
Pat Dollard: John McCain Kicks Man Out Of Town Hall For Asking Why He’s Aiding Al Qaeda
Protein Wisdom: SHOCKER – CBS Reports Healthcare.Gov Lies To Customers About Their Insurance Premiums
Shot In The Dark: Joe Biden, Security Consultant
The Jawa Report: Online Jihad + Healthcare.gov = Leno Funny
The Lonely Conservative: Now Democrats Want To Delay Obamacare Mandate For A Year
Megan McArdle: Why Obamacare Is Like Three Mile Island
Bill Schmalfeldt Proves Me Right
Posted on | October 23, 2013 | 98 Comments
After more than a month of Bill Schmalfeldt claiming I was “served” with the Kimberlin v. Walker, et al., lawsuit at a Maryland address, Schmalfeldt published the registered mail receipt reproduced below, which proves conclusively that I was not served. Schmalfeldt is now claiming that there is a “story” here, but what could that story be?
If you look closely — click on the image to enlarge — you see that Kimberlin did not check Box 4 (“Restricted Delivery”), and so anyone could sign for receipt. What we are likely to see, alas, is a repeat of the “Who is Jerry Fletcher?” act Schmalfeldt pulled last year:
“By 5 pm today, October 26, Eastern Time, you will write to me . . . and tell me everything you know . . . Is he Jerry Fletcher? WHO is Jerry Fletcher. I want it all, Doug.”
Right. Who is “Doug”? And who is “Jerry Fletcher”? Who is the woman who signed for this package? And why would anyone care?
What this proves is what I said all along: I have not been served in Maryland, because I don’t live in Maryland, and if Schmalfeldt thinks there is a “story” in why a woman in Maryland signed for a package — “WHO is Mrs. Ford? I want it all, Stacy!” — he’s insane.
But we already knew Bill Schmalfeldt is insane, eh?
However, Schmalfeldt has also proven me right in another way: Bill is working closely with his “excellent friend” Brett Kimberlin, and this is a crucial point in the lawsuit:
4. Defendants falsely wrote that other targets of theirs were part of “Team Kimberlin” and published that Plaintiff controlled, paid, and directed this vast network of “unsavory” operatives.
Hasn’t Bill Schmalfeldt just proven he is part of “Team Kimberlin”? I mean, he’s got privileged access to Kimberlin’s legal proceedings. And, meanwhile, Bill Schmalfeldt has also proven his Team Kimberlin colleague “Xenophon” a liar:
“Robert Stacy McCain never acknowledges errors or mistakes. For example, in May of 2012 he claimed to have left his home in Maryland for fear of Brett Kimberlin. But this week, Kimberlin’s process server found him at the same address where he lived last May.”
— “Xenophon,” BreitbartUnmasked.com, Sept. 20, 2013
Kimberlin didn’t hire a “process server.”
Nobody “found” me in Maryland.
They were lying all along, just as I said all along.
UPDATE: John Hoge explains:
Maryland Rule 2-121 requires that service via mail be “by certified mail requesting: “Restricted Delivery — show to whom, date, address of delivery.” The Restricted Delivery box on Line 4 is not checked, so the letter carrier gave the mail to whomever would sign for it. The mail was signed for by someone named Ford, so it was not delivered to Stacy McCain.
One of the lawyers discussing Brett Kimberlin’s performance in the raft of frivolous suits he has filed against my codefendants and me used the phrase “amateur hour.”
May God always grant us foolish enemies.
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