The Other McCain

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

An Interesting Admission: The Lies of Team Kimberlin and ‘The Gaped Crusader’

Posted on | October 12, 2013 | 124 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)

Patterico cites Paul Lemmen’s retraction of false accusations he made last year against Brett Kimberlin’s enemies:

Robert Stacy McCain
Patrick “Patterico” Frey
Ali A. Akbar
Blog Bash
National Bloggers Club
Lee Stranahan

Lemmen says the “friends” who fed him these lies were:

Brooks Bayne
Osborne Ink
Crooks and Liars
Alex Brant-Zawadzki
Bill Schmalfeldt

This admission is interesting, I say, and quite timely considering certain allegations in the Kimberlin v. Walker, et. al, lawsuit. Because I think anyone can see the purpose of these smears. I wonder which of Kimberlin’s unnamed associates might be implicated?

“Facts don’t matter, that’s the perception of the situation, and the world is going to act on that basis.”

Hi, Neal.

 

Category: The Kimberlin Files

Time Enough For…Anything

Posted on | October 12, 2013 | 78 Comments

— Wombat-socho


Time travel science fiction tends to come in two flavors: conventional time travel, in which the heroes journey into the future or the past, and the parallel worlds type of story where there are multiple alternate time lines which can be travelled to. Keith Laumer did both; in Dinosaur Beach, his hero is a member of the Timesweepers, a group trying to clean up the messes left by previous time travelers, while in Imperium, Brion Bayard fights an alternate version of himself who threatens the destruction of the Imperium. Larry Niven, on the other hand, treats time travel as an impossibility in Flight of the Horse to comic effect, while its sequel Rainbow Mars is considerably darker.


Authors don’t always explain the details of how their heroes wind up in the past or the future. We never do find out how Asimov’s retired tailor from Pebble in the Sky winds up in a post-nuclear Earth, or how the feckless protagonist of Ward Moore’s Bring the Jubilee fumbles his way back to the Battle of Gettysburg to cost the South the Battle of Gettysburg – and the war. In contrast, Dan Davis in Hainlein’s The Door into Summer uses cold-sleep twice and an experimental time machine to make his life turn out the way it should have after his unfaithful fiance shanghais him into the future. Elsewhen, Lazarus Long travels back to pre-WWI America to meet his family in Time Enough for Love with nearly fatal results, but as the filk song concludes, “Nothing wrecks this Oedipus!”


On the other hand, some authors rejected the very notion that you could change the past. Alfred Bester’s nearly-forgotten classic “The Men Who Murdered Mohammed” (collected in Virtual Unrealities: The Short Fiction of Alfred Bester) introduces what has come to be known as the concept of “quantum time” and its consequences for would-be meddlers. Fortunately, Poul Anderson and H. Beam Piper paid no attention to this and created separate law enforcement agencies to guard the time stream: Time Patrol and the previously mentioned Paracops of The Complete Paratime.


More recently, Harry Harrison and Harry Turtledove address the notion of present-time people going back to aid the Confederacy in A Rebel In Time and The Guns of the South, while Connie Willis’ considerably more depressing Doomsday Book sends a graduate student back to medieval England just in time for the Black Death. On a lighter note, there’s Leo Frankowski’s The Cross-Time Engineer, in which Conrad Schwartz winds up in 13th century Poland and resolves to save it from the Mongols. Its spiritual ancestor, of course, is L. Sprague DeCamp’s Lest Darkness Fall, in which Martin Padway takes it on himself to save the Western Roman Empire and its Gothic rulers from Justinian and Belisarius – and itself. Connie Willis can also do humorous time travel, as can be seen in To Say Nothing of the Dog.


Feel free to suggest your own favorites in the comments!


Category: Books

Is #VVS13 ‘Extremist’? Floyd Corkins Could Not Be Reached for Comment

Posted on | October 12, 2013 | 56 Comments

“This marked the first time that a defendant has been charged with and convicted of committing an act of terrorism under a provision of the District of Columbia’s Anti-Terrorism Act of 2002 . . .
“Corkins targeted the Family Research Council because of its views, including its advocacy against recognition of gay marriage. He entered the building with the intention of shooting and killing as many employees of the organization as he could.”
— U.S. Department of Justice

Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) spokesman Floyd Lee Corkins II did not issue a statement denouncing this weekend’s Family Research Council (FRC) Value Voter Summit, mainly because Corkins is in federal prison serving 25 years for his Chick-fil-A-inspired attempt to kill everybody at FRC with the guidance of an SPLC “hate map.”

With one murderous deviant lunatic safely behind bars, another flaky weirdo was authorized to speak for the SPLC terrorist gang:

Members of Congress urged to not legitimize
extremism by speaking at Values Voter Summit
A coalition of human rights groups is calling on members of Congress and other public officials not to speak at the upcoming Values Voter Summit in Washington, D.C., because the event host and its key co-sponsor — the Family Research Council (FRC) and the American Family Association (AFA) — have long records of vilifying the LGBT community and spreading other forms of bigotry.
“Public officials need to know the real ‘values’ they’re endorsing when they attend the Values Voter Summit,” said Heidi Beirich, director of the Southern Poverty Law Center’s Intelligence Project. “Offensive and bigoted lies are not magically transformed into the truth just because a group with the word ‘family’ in its name keeps repeating them.”

Translation: Don’t hang around people we call bigoted extremists, or one of our crazed gay killers might shoot you because . . . tolerance!

 


Category: Crime, Gays

FMJRA 2.0: Cold Rock The Mike

Posted on | October 12, 2013 | 12 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Pure Evil: Sherrod Sues Susie Breitbart; Wickedness in the Age of Dishonor

Rule 5 Sunday: Birthday Week

The Lee Harvey Oswald Democrats

The ‘Optics’ of Tyranny

Strange Craziness From @x3n0ph0n, Another Member of ‘Team Kimberlin’

FMJRA 2.0: Woke Up This Morning

@TedCruz Dribbles Dem. Party Proxy Candy Crowley In The Basketball Fashion

New Liberal Rule: When in Doubt, Invoke Distant History You Don’t Understand

The #Shutdown, in Two Tweets

Lee Stranahan: The Pigford II Settlement Is ‘The Atlas Shrugged Of Fraud’

LIVE AT FIVE: 10.07.13

Is This a Hate Crime? White Soldier Stabbed to Death in Washington State

Did Terrorists Defeat Navy SEALs?

10 Ideas RE #OccupyResoluteDesk’s Activities In Lieu Of Job

Dueling Meltdowns: Bill Schmalfeldt and #FreeKate’s Disgusting Supporters

LIVE AT FIVESIX: 10.08.13

Virtue by Proxy, and Thoughts About Books That Liberals Have Never Read

The Problem Is, You’re Losing

Why Is @Allahpundit Surprised?

The Science Is Settled!

LIVE AT FIVESIX: 10.09.13

LIVE AT FIVESIX: 10.10.13

The Weapon of Unlimited Victimhood: Pigford and Shirley Sherrod’s Vengeance

Hope and Change and Expensive Failure

The Sex Charge Against Brett Kimberlin @NealRauhauser Wanted You to See

LIVE AT FIVE: 10.11.13

WHY BRETT KIMBERLIN MATTERS

Top linkers this week:

  1. Regular Right Guy (19)
  2. The Lonely Conservative (5)

Thanks to everyone for their linkagery! Deadline for next week’s FMJRA is Friday, October 18.


Category: FMJRA Award

It’s Not Your Help to Give

Posted on | October 12, 2013 | 67 Comments

Nothing so infuriates me as when a person, entrusted with authority by an institution, becomes so arrogant as to imagine that the authority they wield — the perks of their office, their power to reward or punish others — is their own personal possession.

Anyone who has ever worked in a large organization knows the type: They play favorites, rewarding their pets, surrounding themselves with sycophants, claiming credit for work they did not do, backstabbing rivals and generally fostering a cliqueish mentality that sabotages morale and undermines overall effectiveness.

This is a common problem of organizational dynamics. The selfish attitudes of the Bad Boss tend to create a toxic environment where people spend more time playing “office politics” than actually doing the kind of work that advances the organizational mission.

It is unfortunate to read Rosie Gray’s account of the sorry state of affairs at FreedomWorks these days, which gives liberals a chance to gloat over the ruin of a once formidable institution, and to mock the Tea Party for having its leadership thus corrupted. Selah.

Yet I would turn your eye away from that squalid scene to something that should enrage you even more. Lee Stranahan has lately been unleashing a steady stream of stories about the Pigford scandal.

In the latest, “The Paranoid Racism Of Shirley Sherrod,” Lee cites the former U.S. Department of Agriculture official on her encounter with a white farmer who sought assistance:

During his first visit with me, Roger talked nervously about his service to his country. I didn’t perceive it as nervous talk because I didn’t know him at the time. I perceived it as a white man showing that he was asking me for help but at the same time showing me he was superior. He talked about having been on a submarine and his service to his country. Referring to the foreclosure, he said, “I don’t believe my country will do this to me.”

Did you catch that? The farmer “was asking me for help.”

No, ma’am. He was asking the U.S. government for help.

My libertarian soul abhors this, by the way. If it were up to me, the whole system of federal farm subsidies would be eliminated. If a farmer can’t make a living on the farm, let him find some other line of work.

Uncle Sam shouldn’t be picking winners and losers.

The story of the Pigford scandal is a perfect example of how such a system of government largesse can be wrongfully exploited, and the fact that race was the basis of apparent favoritism is in some ways incidental to the fundamental problem. Our universities, for example, have been corrupted by the provision of federal aid, including research grants that are often used to fund redundant or useless studies in the social sciences. The entire Higher Education Bubble which Professor Glenn Reynolds has described is a direct consequence of federal meddling, including the student-loan racket.

And it is the selfish arrogance of Shirley Sherrod, even more than any accusation of racism, that should enrage us most. Here she is, a public servant entrusted as a steward of taxpayer resources, permitting her resentment of a farmer’s perceived attitude of “superiority” to influence her decision to provide him whatever assistance to which the law may entitle him. Sherrod evidently regarded her government job as a personal possession, so that her exercise of official authority conferred upon her some special dignity, so that even a U.S. Navy veteran was required to approach her with an attitude of deference and supplication.

Was the white farmer racist? Was Shirley Sherrod racist? I don’t give a damn, but government officials are not a privileged caste, and we should not be required to kiss their ridiculously overpaid asses in order for them to do their taxpayer-funded jobs.

Now, go hit Lee Stranahan’s tip jar. He’s doing the Lord’s work.

 

 


Category: Racism

Ron Paul Endorses @KenCuccinelli, @DMataconis Hardest Hit

Posted on | October 12, 2013 | 31 Comments

by Smitty

Via email from the Cuccinelli campaign comes word of Ron Paul’s endorsement:

Ken Cuccinelli has always stood for smaller government and limited government, he has consistently and unapologetically worked with the Liberty movement in Virginia. His stand against ObamaCare shows he is willing to stand up toWashington’s continued abuses on our individual liberties. I am proud to endorse to Ken for Governor of Virginia.

Libertarian and Sarvis supporter Doug Mataconis seems resigned to the current trajectory of the polls:

At the moment, then, this is clearly Terry McAuliffe’s race and, absent some kind of major story that turns things around for Cuccinelli soon, it’s going to be difficult for him to keep the Governor’s mansion in Republican hands in November.

Doug, as far as I can tell, is content with anyone other than Cuccinelli winning next month.
This blogger couldn’t oppose McAuliffe much more without exceeding the bounds of good taste:


It’s baffling, given Cuccineeli’s grasp of actual policy issues and support of real Virginians, why anybody would support McAuliffe at all:

You know I have been hearing from folks about their interest in my position on freedom to farm, something I’m quite familiar with, and of course I’m a strong property rights person. I just wanted to let you all know, that I believe traditional pasture-based farms and the local economies they can help are part of a brighter future for Virginia—both for our people and the environment. I support local farmers being freed to process and sell their farm products locally – marked appropriately so consumers know what they are buying.

More at Breitbart.

Cuccinelli for Governor

McAuliffe brings the buffoonery of a Chris Farley flick,

but none of the guffaws.

Category: Election, Virginia

WHY BRETT KIMBERLIN MATTERS

Posted on | October 11, 2013 | 70 Comments

‘Speedway Bomber’ Brett Kimberlin was sentenced to 50 years in 1981

“Kimberlin seemed to be the only one with a possible motive — to distract police attention from the Scyphers murder and delay or halt their quiet investigation of him.”
— R. Joseph Gelarden, Indianapolis Star, “Kimberlin case a maze of murder, deceit,” Oct. 18, 1981

“It is very easy to decide ‘this isn’t any of my trouble’ and permit vicious behavior.
“Who wants to get involved? Easier, and surely safer, just to duck one’s head and hide, and hope the danger visits someone else. . . .
“And why should you stick your neck out?
“Hey, it’s not like the Conservative Media is supposed to cast a spotlight on injustice, stick up for the common man abused by bullies, or fight leftist outrages.
“It’s not as if we’re supposed to fight the fights that others shy away from, right?”
— Ace of Spades, May 22, 2012

Most people don’t understand this story.

Most people don’t follow all the links and read every story. Sure, I’ve sold a couple dozen copies of Mark Singer’s 1996 book, Citizen K: The Deeply Weird American Journey of Brett Kimberlin, and so that’s a couple dozen readers who know the background of Brett Kimberlin’s vicious lifelong career of dishonest criminality. He has never apologized for his crimes and has falsely blamed others — including the victims, the witnesses and the prosecutors — because he is a monster who delights in evil, who hates justice and truth. And he likes to believe that he can intimidate people who speak the truth about him.

Guess what? Brett Kimberlin got caught.

Guess what? Brett Kimberlin lied.

Guess what? We refuse to be intimidated by a lying criminal.

Did you know that Brett Kimberlin’s associate Neal Rauhauser has expended tremendous effort trying to “dox” Ace of Spades?

I’ve only mentioned that a couple of times along in the past 17 months, because Ace doesn’t like to make a big deal about it. Nor have I mentioned certain other targets on the “Team Kimberlin” list who have sought my assistance, and whom I helped by the simple expedient of slamming “Team Kimberlin” as hard as I could.

The innocent shall not suffer, if good people have courage.

Not that I am brave. Yet the greatest source of courage is God, the knowledge that God answers prayer, and that the Lord of Hosts can command ten thousand angels to do His will. Whom God would save, no man can destroy. Whom God would destroy, no man can save.

Brett Kimberlin is an atheist who has hated God since childhood.

Why does Brett Kimberlin matter? We’ll try to explain. Tonight, bloggers are invited to join @Ali Akbar and I on Blog Talk Radio:

 





 

Category: The Kimberlin Files

The Lee Harvey Oswald Democrats

Posted on | October 11, 2013 | 118 Comments

Lee Harvey Oswald, arrested after an August 1963 pro-Castro protest

“The alienated radical suffers from feelings of helplessness and insignificance and, unable to find satisfaction in ordinary life, seeks to vindicate himself — to prove that he is a person of historical importance — by grandiose gestures on behalf of fringe ideologies, savagely lashing out against ‘the system’ he rejects in a sort of sour-grapes rationalization: Feeling rejected by society, he rejects society in revenge.”
— Robert Stacy McCain, “Squeaky Fromme, Sara Jane Moore, Lee Harvey Oswald and the Radical Impulse,” Aug. 27

What happened to the Democrat Party? When and how did the psychological impulses of radical alienation seize control of a large segment of our society, infusing them with the anti-religious, anti-family, anti-capitalist, anti-American spirit that dominates the souls of Democrats today? George F. Will describes the pivotal turn:

The transformation of a murder by a marginal man into a killing by a sick culture began instantly — before Kennedy was buried. The afternoon of the assassination, Chief Justice Earl Warren ascribed Kennedy’s “martyrdom” to “the hatred and bitterness that has been injected into the life of our nation by bigots.” The next day, James Reston, the New York Times luminary, wrote in a front-page story that Kennedy was a victim of a “streak of violence in the American character,” noting especially “the violence of the extremists on the right.” . . .
A Soviet spokesman, too, assigned “moral responsibility” for Kennedy’s death to “Barry Goldwater and other extremists on the right.”
Three days after the assassination, a Times editorial, “Spiral of Hate,” identified Kennedy’s killer as a “spirit”: The Times deplored “the shame all America must bear for the spirit of madness and hate that struck down” Kennedy. The editorialists were, presumably, immune to this spirit. The new liberalism-as-paternalism would be about correcting other people’s defects.
Hitherto a doctrine of American celebration and optimism, liberalism would now become a scowling indictment: Kennedy was killed by America’s social climate, whose sickness required “punitive liberalism.” . . .

Read the whole thing. Hat-tip: My smart-ass friend Ali Akbar on Twitter.

 

 

Category: Culture, Democrats, History, Liberals
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