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Big Senate, Little House

Posted on | October 17, 2013 | 34 Comments

by Smitty

A quaint notion I had in my youth was that wisdom and age were proportional. The older you got, the wiser you got, the further up the food chain you got. Thus (I was a young squid at the time) by the time one made Admiral, one must really Know. What’s. Up. The hard reality that I was wrong, and one must trust (but verify) one’s leadership dawned on me in my 20s. And the most ultimately wrong human being in American political history may have been Woodrow Wilson.

A century after that famous knob Woodrow, we have the spectacle of the Senate Majority/Minority leaders wheeling and dealing, passing legislation, and running it through the House in the crap-through-goose fashion (which metaphor holds on multiple levels) in order to prevent “default” and “reopen” government. How is that not a direct refutation of Article I, Section VII? The Senate, directly elected since the 17th Amendment, is a Little House, isn’t it? Read more

Category: Congress

LIVE AT FIVE: 10.17.13

Posted on | October 17, 2013 | 8 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho


TOP NEWS
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“Compromise” funds government through January 17, raises debt limit until February 7

Booker Wins NJ Senate Seat
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Jihadis Flooding Into Northern Syria Put Turks On Edge
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POLITICS
Tea Party Lawmakers Say Showdown Worth The Fight, Blast Senate Deal

Sen. Ted Cruz speaks to reporters

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House Stenographer Unleashes Bizarre Outburst During Shutdown Vote

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Austin Jackson drops to eighth in batting order, makes Jim Leyland look like genius

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Rockies Extend Walt Weiss For Three Years

Ducks Beat Flames 3-2 For Fifth Straight Win

So Just How Much Money Is The NFL Actually Raising For Cancer?

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Jamie Foxx: I’m Not Dating Katie Holmes



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Survey: Thirty Million Are Slaves, Half In India
CCP Investigators Arrest Mayor Of Nanjing On Corruption Charges
Imran Khan Condemns Murder Of Pakistan Minister
French Interior Minister Faces Outcry After Roma Girl’s Deportation
British PM Cameron Criticizes Guardian For Publishing Snowden Leaks
UK To Allow PRC Majority Stakes In Nuke Power Projects
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Canada Offers Malala Yousafzai Honorary Citizenship
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Don Surber: Daily Scoreboard, October 16
Jammie Wearing Fools: Reason Behind The Obama Shutdown In One Terrifying Image
JustOneMinute: I Believe It Is Funding For Our Time…
Pat Dollard: GOP-Controlled House Approves Deal To Raise Debt Limit, End Shutdown, Gets Less Than Nothing In Return
Protein Wisdom: Obamacare Shock – $12,600 Deductible, 40% Copay, No Competition
Shot In The Dark: The House Isn’t Burning, The Residents Are
The Jawa Report: Dear Government
The Lonely Conservative: New Jersey Elects New York’s Third Senator
Megan McArdle: Fight Over Default Is Fight Over New Normal


Category: Live at Five

Reply to Bill Schmalfeldt

Posted on | October 17, 2013 | 103 Comments

From: Bill Schmalfeldt <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, October 16, 2013 4:31 PM
Subject: Interview offer

Despite your opinion of me, I want to write a balanced story about Kimberlin’s RICO suit. If you are interested in telling your side of the story, i could submit a list of questions and will print your answers verbatim. This is a one time, take-it-or-leave-it offer. If you want your side told in my writing, let me know. If you do not want your side of the story, feel free to ignore me. Don’t bother writing back telling me not to contact you. That doesn’t work. Either agree or disagree to be interviewed, and leave it at that.
Thank you.

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From: Robert Stacy McCain
Sent: Thursday, October 17, 2013 12:26 AM
Subject: Re: Interview offer

Damn your “offer,” and damn your “interview.”
My opinion of you is of no consequence. What finally matters is the self-evident fact of your hateful dishonesty and cowardice, which is apparent to every intelligent person who has ever bothered to examine your words and actions.
Your assistance in “telling [my] side of the story” is neither welcome nor necessary. Of course, your offer is not made in good faith, as you have never acted on good faith in the entirety of the months that I have been forced to observe your constant lying and harassment. Further research has determined that this sort of disgraceful conduct has been your habit ever since you began your inept online attempts at impersonating a “progressive pundit” or whatever else you may choose to call that pathetic charade of yours.
What is astounding is that, after days of threatening the Impending Doom of myself and others — because of your advance notice of Kimberlin’s RICO suit — you have the unmitigated gall now to insult me by suggesting that you “want to write a balanced story” about the baseless and legally defective federal lawsuit your patron has filed against innocent people who have committed no wrong. You well know that the only “sin” of which the defendants are guilty is their failure to join you in your reverent worship at the Holy Shrine of Saint Brett of the Blessed Pipe Bomb.
Despite your knowledge of this truth, you pretend that Kimberlin’s litigation has some purpose beyond harassment. This pretense of yours fools no one. Your actions are entirely for the selfish and sadistic purpose of inflicting harm on people who are successful and happy, and your hate toward them is motivated by your envy, the ultimate cause of which is your inability to take responsibility for your incompetence and self-inflicted misfortunes.
Failure has attended your every step so far, and you have forfeited any claim you might ever have had on the courtesy of decent, honest and respectable people. Every person who knows you must regard you with thorough contempt, even such of your colleagues as may find you temporarily useful. Bad causes attract bad people, and the very fact that you are acceptable to Brett Kimberlin as an accomplice is conclusive proof of how desperate he has become.
You obviously have no shame, but you cannot be unconscious of the wrongs you have done, and I pity anyone so unfortunate as to have any reason to care what a laughingstock you have made of yourself. Cast your eye backward, look at the road you have traveled to reach your present humiliated position, and consider what destination you shall reach if you continue your current self-destructive trajectory.
I don’t have to tell you to go to Hell, because you are already in a frantic hurry to get there. All I can say now is, “Bon voyage.”
— RSM

 

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ADDENDUM: A reader suggests the addition of this link:

BomberSuesBloggers.com

What is it worth to you, to read the truth about these jackals?

 

Category: Bill Schmalfeldt, The Kimberlin Files

Alice In Chains Salute To Sen. McConnell

Posted on | October 16, 2013 | 56 Comments

by Smitty

The ritual, symbolic sacrifices of Tea Partiers to Cthulhu will continue for months, of course. However, this blog should note that there was a fine piece of bacon tucked into The Bill That Lifted The Tea Party Curse. Thanks, Mitch. We know you’re a mortal man, but it is good to know your price:

A proposal to end the government shutdown and avoid default orchestrated by Republican Leader Mitch McConnell and Democratic Leader Harry Reid includes a $2 billion earmark for a Kentucky project.
Language in a draft of the McConnell-Reid deal (see page 13, section 123) provided to WFPL News shows a provision that increases funding for the massive Olmsted Dam Lock in Louisville from $775 million to nearly $2. 9 billion.
The dam is considered an important project for the state and region in regards to water traffic along the Ohio River.

In defense of McConnell, this is actually the sort of multi-State infrastructure project that actually has some reasonable Constitutional merit. But let’s not kid ourselves: America is Alice, and she is in chains:

Oh, you couldn’t dam that river
And maybe I don’t give a damn anyway
So you couldn’t dam that river
And it washed me so far away

This cut captures the mood right now in so many ways.

Update: more at Catholic Bandita

Category: Kentucky, Republicans

DOCUMENT: Kimberlin Federal Lawsuit

Posted on | October 16, 2013 | 97 Comments

John Hoge was able to get the entire 48-page thing uploaded:

Kimberlin v NBC, Et Al by himself2462

 

Bear in mind that Brett Kimberlin is a sociopathic liar and convicted perjurer, so everything he alleges is to be presumed false.

 

BomberSuesBloggers.com

 

UPDATE: In a conversation with a source who (a) has extensive legal training and (b) has quickly skimmed over the complaint in the case of Kimberlin v. Everybody, I remarked rather vehemently that the case would be thrown out of court because the plaintiff is a “lying sociopathic menace,” or words to that effect.

My source replied, “The problem is, he’s told the wrong lies.”

However, the source cautioned me against specifying the multiple clumsy errors committed by the World’s Worst Pro Se Litigant™ because we do not want the perjuring bomber to benefit from any advance disclosure of our legal strategy. However, I can say that it will require lots of money, and also laughter at the plaintiff’s expense.

In all seriousness, however, please keep praying. It’s a comfort to the defendants to know that good people are praying for us.

 

BomberSuesBloggers.com

 


Category: The Kimberlin Files

Deranged Cyberstalker Bill Schmalfeldt Humiliates Himself in Maryland Court

Posted on | October 16, 2013 | 74 Comments

Bill Schmalfeldt: ‘Brain-Damaged Troll’ (Image via YouTube.com)

From today’s Viral Read report on the latest Brett Kimberlin news:

Kimberlin personally handed a copy of the 48-page complaint to blogger John Hoge this morning at a Maryland court hearing where Kimberlin’s associate Bill Schmalfeldt failed in his appeal of a court order forbidding Schmalfeldt to continue his online harassment of Hoge. Kimberlin filed his federal suit in U.S. District Court in Greenbelt, Maryland.

For the past couple of weeks, Bill Schmalfeldt — who has described himself as a “Brain Damaged Troll” — has been boasting on Twitter that he was going to devastate Hoge in today’s hearing. For some strange reason, reality refused to conform to Schmalfeldt’s delusions:

Bill Schmalfeldt called me as his witness. I was on the stand for about 25 minutes and answered fewer than 10 questions. Most of the time was spent either by my lawyer objecting (and the judge sustaining her objection) on matters of relevance or Judge Stansfield correcting Schmalfeldt’s misunderstandings of legal concepts. . . .
The judge also explained to Schmalfeldt that there is no exception to Maryland’s harassment statute for “journalism.”
None of Schmalfeldt’s exhibits were received into evidence.
When Schmalfeldt rested his case, the judge dismissed the petition on his own motion. My lawyer did not have to present my side of the case. . . .

Read the whole thing at Hogewash.com and be sure to hit his tip jar to repay John for providing us such delightful entertainment.

 

Category: Bill Schmalfeldt

Yes, the World’s Worst Pro Se Litigant™ Brett Kimberlin Now Suing EVERYBODY

Posted on | October 16, 2013 | 75 Comments

When I first heard the news this morning, my initial reaction was, “You’re kidding me. This has got to be a hoax.” But today at a Maryland courthouse — where Bill Schmalfeldt completely beclowned himself, BTW — the vicious creep actually delivered the news by hand:

Convicted bomber Brett Kimberlin filed a federal lawsuit Wednesday that names as defendants syndicated columnist Michelle Malkin, Red State editor Erick Erickson, talk radio host Glenn Beck, investigative journalist James O’Keefe and others, claiming they are part of a “criminal racketeering enterprise” under federal R.I.C.O. statutes. . . .
In addition to Malkin, Erickson, Beck, O’Keefe and others, Kimberlin’s federal complaint also names as defendants the late Andrew Breitbart‘s news site, two former Breitbart contributors, Lee Stranahan and Mandy Nagy, the non-profit watchdog group Franklin Center, O’Keefe’s publisher Simon & Schuster, Beck’s Web site TheBlaze.com and the award-winning conservative blogger known as “Ace of Spades.”
Also named as a defendant in Kimberlin’s federal complaint is Patrick Frey, the popular blogger known as “Patterico.” Kimberlin first threatened to sue Patterico in 2011 in an e-mail that included this warning: “I have filed over a hundred lawsuits and another one will be no sweat for me. On the other hand, it will cost you a lot of time and money …”

Please read the whole thing at Viral Read, and expect updates.

UPDATE: Kimberlin’s entire complaint will be posted online here soon. Meanwhile, I am issuing this Official Press Statement:

“Fuck you, Brett Kimberlin, you dishonest sociopathic creep.”

Please quote me on that.





 


Category: The Kimberlin Files

LIVE AT FIVE: 10.16.13

Posted on | October 16, 2013 | 12 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho


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Megan McArdle: Netflix Wants To Be HBO, Not Comcast


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