The Other McCain

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

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.

 

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Category: Bill Schmalfeldt, The Kimberlin Files

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.)

 


Category: Uncategorized

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.)

 

Category: Education, Michigan, Unions

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

Senators Crush Wings 6-1

Bruins Beat Sabres 5-2

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


Category: Live at Five

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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Category: Bill Schmalfeldt, The Kimberlin Files

Must Have Been Stabbed or Strangled

Posted on | October 23, 2013 | 39 Comments

Saw this headline at Memeorandum:

14-year-old student held without bail
in slaying of Danvers High teacher

The story doesn’t say how the teacher was killed, but the fact that MSNBC wasn’t running a gun-control telethon was a clue that she probably wasn’t shot to death. And Weasel Zippers ran this headline:

14 Year Old Black Student Murders
White 24 Year Old Teacher In Massachusetts

Yeah, dead teacher. But her civil rights weren’t violated, so don’t expect Al Sharpton to fly to Massachusetts for a protest rally.

 


Category: Crime, Media Bias

Contraceptive Culture: Normalizing the Abnormal and, Also, Vice-Versa

Posted on | October 23, 2013 | 103 Comments

Sex is about reproduction. This is the natural function of sex, biologically speaking, and it’s odd how the same liberal fanatics who enjoy endlessly lecturing us about Darwinism and global warming — “The science is settled!” — are so unscientific about sex. Instead, the sexual enthusiasms of liberals tend toward sterile non-procreative acts, while they react with horror at the idea that someone might engage in the normal act of reproduction with the expected result. If they can’t prevent pregnancy, liberals want to kill the resulting baby, apparently believing that motherhood itself is a weapon of patriarchal oppression.

This mentality is what I call “The Contraceptive Culture.” I’ve written about the subject occasionally for years (see “The Pill at 50: Unhappy Un-Birthday,” May 8, 2010) and my emphatic pro-life stance has sometimes led to readers mistaking me for Catholic.

Proudly Protestant, I nevertheless recognize that the encyclical Humane Vitae identified the fundamental problem with artificial contraception: It separates functions that naturally belong together. Whereas love, sex, marriage and parenthood are normally part of the same bundle, The Contraceptive Culture divides them up in a decidedly abnormal way, and once this strange way of thinking takes hold, it becomes difficult for people to understand what’s wrong with it.

My wife and I have six children, so we’ve heard all the anti-“breeder” jokes that are common to The Contraceptive Culture. Sometimes, however, you encounter truly hateful expressions of the anti-natal mindset, as when someone posted a photo of the Duggar family’s appearance at a Ken Cuccinelli gubernatorial campaign event in Virginia:

“Expansive meat tarp”? Such vicious and perverted comments are a product of the hostility to normal sex that has entrenched itself in liberal rhetoric. Democrats are now the party of sodomy and abortion, and outright hatred of normal people — especially, hatred toward Christian families — is considered entirely acceptable to so-called “progressives.” Consider a question Time magazine recently asked an NFL player:

Six kids? Regardless of your profession, it’s impossible to
be a good parent to six kids. Not enough hours in the day.

Really? Are you saying that my wife and I are bad parents? Do you have any idea how healthy, happy and successful our kids are? Molly Hemingway has an excellent take on this subject:

Since when did having kids become something that Americans irrationally fear and loathe?
The media remind us regularly that the most important cultural value relative to family life is what’s euphemistically called “choice.” The choice of whether to have kids or not is held so sacrosanct that our laws permit the decision to be made many months after a new human life begins. Some even advocate extending the choice to a period of time after birth. So why the weird reaction to people receiving children as a blessing instead of fighting them tooth and nail with hormones, chemicals, surgery and scissors? Do we need some remedial courses in how babies are made? It’s entirely natural, of course, for babies to be conceived when men and women have sex. Treating the entirely expected procreation of children as something to be avoided at all costs — and an unspeakable atrocity if one has, say, three children already — would be weird even if our culture weren’t obsessed with sex at all times, in all places, in every context, at every moment. . . .

Please read the whole thing.

 

 


Category: Abortion, Contraceptive Culture, Family, Marriage, Sex

Bad Causes Attract Bad People: @MRC_43 and Other #FreeKate Freaks

Posted on | October 23, 2013 | 78 Comments

Nearly three weeks after Florida sex offender Kaitlyn Hunt accepted a plea bargain for her crimes against a 14-year-old girl, most people have moved on and forgotten about the shabby scam whereby Hunt and her supporters raised more than $30,000 by portraying the tattoo-covered lesbian criminal as a victim of homophobia.

Alas, the “Free Kate” online movement endures, shamelessly arguing for the “right” to have sex with minors — as young as 13!

“See, Michigan has age of consent laws that I think are beyond sensible and respect the rights of individuals. If two people are in a relationship that develops a sexual component and one person is 18 or older, the relationship is perfectly legal . . . if the underage person is at least 13-16 and/or is no more than more than 5 years younger than than the “adult.” Why hasn’t the rest of the country adopted this policy yet?”

Because they don’t want people having sex with seventh-graders, maybe?

I’m fairly certain that Devan Clyde has misrepresented the specifics of Michigan’s age-of-consent laws, and that it is not “perfectly legal” for an 18-year-old to have sex with a 13-year-old there.

He is describing what is known as a “Romeo & Juliet” exemption, which typically reduces penalties for underage sex within certain age limits, without altogether legalizing such activity. Basically — and I’m sure any lawyer in any state would tell you this — an adult who is sexually involved with anyone under the age of 18 is vulnerable to prosecution, no matter what the age of consent laws may stipulate.

Suppose, for example, a 21-year-old is dating a 17-year-old in a state where the age of consent is 16. No problem, right? Don’t bet on it. Even if you can’t be charged with a sex crime, you could still get in trouble for “contributing to the delinquency of a minor” or “interference with parental custody,” if the minor or her parents get angry and decide to make a hassle. Also (and this is quite common) if drugs or alcohol are involved — you provided your underage girlfriend wine coolers, or a few joints — you might be surprised to discover how little leniency the courts show you. Even if your lawyer can get the charges dropped, or  you get off with a nolo contendre plea, probation and a small fine, the mere fact of your arrest on such charges could be a stigma that haunts you forever.

The claim that it’s “perfectly legal” to have sex with 13-year-olds in Michigan is clearly dubious, but is typical of how “Free Kate” supporters keep desperately grasping for some pretext to argue that what Kaitlyn Hunt did wasn’t really a crime. To all such arguments, it should be sufficient to reply, “Read the original arrest affidavit, and read the petition to have Kaitlyn’s bond revoked.”

Plain facts and common sense, however, are incapable of penetrating the obsessive minds of the “Free Kate” fanatics. From the time they began their online crusade in May, “Free Kate” supporters demonized anyone who sided with the prosecutors or defended the parents of Kaitlyn’s underage victim. This blog was one of their targets, as was Jeanette Runyon, who steadily exposed the madness inside the “Free Kate” movement by simply screen-capping comments made on the group’s Facebook page and posting those screen-caps to Twitter.

Runyon’s success in this regard made her an especial target of Rachael Carson-Zerbe, one of the most visibly disturbed “Free Kate” supporters. You don’t need a Ph.D. in psychology to say that Carson-Zerbe’s fanatical devotion to Kaitlyn Hunt looks crazy. And the fact that Carson-Zerbe continues to lash out at Runyon, accusing her of various crimes, is further evidence in that regard.

What’s going on here? Why does Carson-Zerbe think it is somehow wrong (or even illegal) to have her own words quoted? Why was I accused of “cyberstalking 2 teens” merely for covering this story?

The problem, as I see it, is that Carson-Zerbe developed unrealistic expectations and has been unable to cope with disappointment. When the “Free Kate” crusade launched on May 17, Hunt’s advocates had a five-day run of positive publicity that convinced them they were on the winning team. It was not until May 22 that people began noticing the first version of the story (in which it was falsely claimed the younger girl was 15, and Kaitlyn only 17, when the affair began) was a deliberate lie. On May 23, the victim’s parents gave their first TV interview, directly contradicting the “homophobia” narrative that the Hunt family had been spinning to sympathetic media. By the end of May, the “Free Kate” movement was in meltdown mode:

Matt Ross notices increasingly desperate attempts by #FreeKate fanatics to suppress negative information about Kaitlyn and her family, which is doomed predictably to fail. What is happening here is an attempt to decontextualize Kaitlyn’s crime: We are supposed to accept without question her mother’s testimony as to what a “model student” Kaitlyn is, and how this was just a harmless “romance” between two teenagers. But who is Kelley Hunt Smith to offer this testimony as a character witness?
Is Kate’s mother trustworthy? Is she a good judge of character?
As soon as you start asking questions like that — “Hater! Bigot!” — you’re going to start finding answers that weren’t what the Hunt family had in mind when they decided to make their daughter’s criminal case a nationwide crusade for “equality.” Your skepticism toward The Story Too Good to Be True, rather than being seen as an interest in knowing the full story before rendering judgment (which is what responsible people do), is to the #FreeKate mob evidence of your bad faith (mala fides), because True Believers must believe.
This exposes the real truth, namely that you are dealing with a religious phenomenon: Saint Kate of the Blessed Finger, whose rituals occur within the Shrine of the Sacred Toilet Stall.

That was on May 31 and rather than accept the reality of what had happened — Kaitlyn Hunt was guilty and her parents got caught spreading a lie — “Free Kate” supporters convinced themselves that the real problem was the “hate” of those who exposed the truth.

Once people start engaging in that kind of blame-shifting rationalization, they often find themselves unable to let it go, simply because they have a certain type of personality: Their self-pitying claims of victimhood, and excuse-making strategies to shift responsibility for their own failures, are symptomatic of underlying problems. Yet they cannot accept the fact that they are the cause of their own problems, and therefore require scapegoats to bear the blame.

My advice to anyone harassed by such a disturbed freak is to keep in mind the key point: It’s not about you, it’s about them.

Never let them get away with the typical sociopathic game of claiming that you are responsible for their problems. Clearly, they had problems before they ever heard of you, and they will continue to have problems long after the present argument ends.

“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)

Maintain your sanity by ignoring their attacks — don’t be defensive, don’t argue the details — until you catch them clearly lying or threatening you, Then turn the spotlight on them until they run away shrieking about what a victim they are. Lather, rinse, repeat.

Just tell the truth about these disturbed freaks. They hate that.

 

Category: Kaitlyn Hunt
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