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NY Times: Hey, Everybody Throw a Pity Party for This Stupid Dopehead Kid!

Posted on | October 6, 2013 | 71 Comments

Maxwell Birnbaum: Dumber than an Alabama cop.

It’s so unfair that he got caught!

In March last year, a college freshman named Maxwell Birnbaum was riding in a van filled with friends from Austin, Tex., to a spring-break rental house in Gulf Shores, Ala. As they neared their destination, the police pulled the van over, citing a faulty taillight. When an officer asked if he could search the vehicle, the driver — a fraternity brother of Mr. Birnbaum’s who quickly regretted his decision — said yes.
Six Ecstasy pills were found in Mr. Birnbaum’s knapsack, and he was handcuffed and placed under arrest. Mr. Birnbaum later agreed to enter a multiyear, pretrial diversion program that has involved counseling and drug tests, as well as visits to Alabama every six months to update a judge on his progress. . . .
[T]he mug shot from his arrest is posted on a handful of for-profit Web sites . . . These companies routinely show up high in Google searches; a week ago, the top four results for “Maxwell Birnbaum” were mug-shot sites. . . .
[T]hese pictures can cause serious reputational damage, as Mr. Birnbaum learned in his sophomore year, when he applied to be an intern for a state representative in Austin. Mr. Birnbaum heard about the job through a friend.
“The assistant to this state rep called my friend back and said, ‘We’d like to hire him, but we Google every potential employee, and the first thing that came up when we searched for Maxwell was a mug shot for a drug arrest,’ ” Mr. Birnbaum said. “I know what I did was wrong, and I understand the punishment,” he continued. “But these Web sites are punishing me, and because I don’t have the money it would take to get my photo off them all, there is nothing I can do about it.”

Here’s your problem: You’re stupid, Maxwell.

Six measly tabs of Ecstasy?

Dude, back in the Seventies, I sold dope in felony-weight quantities and never once got busted. Because I was not stupid.

OK, I was a Democrat back then and that was intensely stupid, but at least I wasn’t stupid enough to get busted for dope.

It’s a Darwinian thing, Maxwell. You’re obviously inferior.

Despite my past as a long-haired adolescent dopehead, I am in favor of strict enforcement of Our Nation’s Laws Against Dangerous Drugs, because I don’t want people who are too stupid to out-smart a narc to be running around on the streets, clogging up traffic on the highways and, potentially, replicating their hopelessly stupid genes.

When the cops catch a stupid dopehead, I want that drug-addled idiot sentenced to the maximum extent of the law.

So, no, I don’t pity you for your “reputational damage,” Max, because if you’re dumber than a cop in Baldwin County, Alabama, you’re obviously so stupid we need to warned about your stupidity.

 

Category: Crime, Media Bias, New York Times

The #Shutdown, in Two Tweets

Posted on | October 6, 2013 | 26 Comments

 

Category: Barack Obama

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

Posted on | October 6, 2013 | 147 Comments

U.S. Secretary of War Jefferson Davis, 1853

“A question settled by violence, or in disregard of law, must remain unsettled forever.”
— Jefferson Davis

What’s up with this trend, huh? A week ago, James Fallows decided to drag John C. Calhoun into the current argument, and this week we have another liberal foray into bizarre counterfactual rhetoric:

The Washington Post’s Colby King took another stab Saturday at impugning and discrediting the Tea Party as a bunch of racists who are little more than an extension of the Confederacy. In a column titled “The rise of the New Confederacy,” King, a regular on Inside Washington, argued: “Today there is a New Confederacy, an insurgent political force that has captured the Republican Party and is taking up where the Old Confederacy left off in its efforts to bring down the federal government.”
The former deputy editorial page editor, whose column appears every Saturday, paid a back-handed compliment to House conservatives as he charged: “The New Confederacy, as churlish toward President Obama as the Old Confederacy was to Lincoln, has accomplished what its predecessor could not: It has shut down the federal government, and without even firing a weapon or taking 620,000 lives, as did the Old Confederacy’s instigated Civil War.” . . .
He asserted “they respond, however, to the label ‘tea party.’ By thought, word and deed, they must be making Jefferson Davis proud today.”

What is this even supposed to mean? It seems to be just a cheap way of making an accusation Colbert King cannot justify (remember, there are five A’s in “RAAAAACIST!”) and, although no liberal today knows this, Jefferson Davis was an American hero long before he became the unfairly demonized President of the Confederacy.

A native of Kentucky — born, ironically, not far from the birthplace of Abraham Lincoln — he was raised in Mississippi and, at age 16, appointed to the U.S. Military Academy at West Point. After graduation, Davis served as a young lieutenant at the frontier outpost Fort Crawford in present-day Wisconsin. There, Davis fell in love with Sarah Knox Taylor, daughter of the fort’s commander, Col. Zachary Taylor. So in love was Davis, in fact, that he resigned from the army in order to marry Sarah (whose father wished to spare his daughter the difficult life of an Army officer’s wife), but tragedy soon struck: The newlyweds fell victim to an outbreak of malaria in 1835. Sarah died and her grief-stricken husband fell so ill that his survival was in doubt.

After recovering his health, Davis eventually entered politics, and campaigned for James K. Polk’s election as president in 1844. Davis was later elected to Congress, but when the Mexican-American War broke out in 1846, the West Point graduate and veteran officer resigned his House seat, raised a volunteer regiment, and became colonel of the famed “Mississippi Rifles.” His bravery at the battles of Monterrey and Buena Vista won Davis national distinction.

His commanding general in Mexico was his former father-in-law, now General Zachary Taylor. Recalling how he had opposed his late daughter’s marriage to the young officer, Taylor told Davis, “My daughter, sir, was a better judge of men than I was.”

Davis was appointed to the Senate in 1847, filling the seat of a senator who had died in office. He resigned that seat to run unsuccessfully for governor of Mississippi but, in 1853, was appointed Secretary of War by President Franklin Pierce. As Secretary, Davis supervised key work that helped prepare for the construction of the Transcontinental Railroad. Davis was then re-elected to the Senate, where he served until resigning after Mississippi seceded from the Union.

In his farewell speech to the Senate, Davis recalled when he had defended the right of secession — for Massachusetts:

I well remember an occasion when Massachusetts was arraigned before the bar of the Senate, and when then the doctrine of coercion was rife and to be applied against her because of the rescue of a fugitive slave in Boston. My opinion then was the same that it is now. Not in a spirit of egotism, but to show that I am not influenced in my opinion because the case is my own, I refer to that time and that occasion as containing the opinion which I then entertained, and on which my present conduct is based. I then said, if Massachusetts, following her through a stated line of conduct, chooses to take the last step which separates her from the Union, it is her right to go, and I will neither vote one dollar nor one man to coerce her back; but will say to her, God speed, in memory of the kind associations which once existed between her and the other States.

Such was his firmness of principle and, although his critics then and since have found fault with Davis, no man ever doubted his honesty or his courage. The name of this heroic American — a soldier and statesman, who earned praise for his service in war and in peace — deserves more honor than to be slung around ignorantly as a political epithet more than a century after his death.

Ah, but this silliness brings back memories of the 1990s when, as a young newspaperman in Georgia, I occasionally went out to cover the historical re-enactments of Civil War battles. Bill Clinton was president then, and lots of Republicans had bumper stickers on their cars saying, “Don’t Blame Us, We Voted for Bush.” But at the re-enactor encampments, the stickers sometimes displayed a slightly different wording: “Don’t Blame Us, We Voted for Jefferson Davis.”

He was a Democrat, you know.

 

Category: History

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

Posted on | October 6, 2013 | 59 Comments

by Smitty

God bless you Ted Cruz. Worth savoring every moment:

via @rdbrewer4

Category: Health Care, Republicans

Obama Wins, America Loses

Posted on | October 6, 2013 | 40 Comments

To paraphrase Edmund Burke: All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is to elect more Democrats.

 

Category: Barack Obama

FMJRA 2.0: Woke Up This Morning

Posted on | October 5, 2013 | 24 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

‘Isolated Incident’ in D.C. Today
UPDATE: Connecticut Woman ‘Had a History of Mental Health Issues’

Rule 5 Sunday: Stardancer

Accused Sex Offender Kaitlyn Hunt ‘Expected to Accept’ Plea Deal: CNN

When ‘Balanced’ Journalism Is Bad

Fear and Loathing in Moocher Nation

A: Article 1, Section 7, Clause 1
Q: What’s Stuck In An Uncomfortable Location Of Harry Reid’s Anatomy?

James Fallows, Eminent Fool, and the Surprising Vindication of John C. Calhoun

‘Hvilken Stilling Skyder Du På’?

FMJRA 2.0: Stripped

Do The Democrats Think We’re Not Paying Attention?

Baby-Killer Dr. Susan Robinson Whines That Her Ghoulish Career Is ‘Stigmatized’

The Real Crisis the Media Ignores

 MoveOn.org Fundraiser Email Blends Stupid And Infuriating

Keep Your Patriot Hand Strong, @TedCruz

LIVE AT FIVE: 09.30.13

Shutdown Monday: Blame Harry Reid

Banjo Player Caught in Child-Sex Sting

Harry Reid Refuses to Compromise

‘Essential’ or ‘Non-Essential’?

The Latest Bill Schmalfeldt Meltdown

Bill Schmalfeldt: Sadism, Sodomy and Other Bizarre Mental Aberrations

LIVE AT FIVESIX: 10.01.13

It’s a Good Thing @GabrielMalor Isn’t Trying to Win Any Popularity Contests

Bad Causes Attract Bad People: Now That the ‘Free Kate’ Narrative Has Collapsed …

Kaitlyn Hunt Gets Another Plea Offer

LIVE AT FIVE: 10.02.13

Obama Makes Token Gesture, Because He’s Losing the Shutdown P.R. War

Gay Campus Group Hosts ‘Porn and Pizza’ Event at University of South Carolina

The Death of a Freak: Euthanasia for Belgium’s Botched Sex-Change ‘Monster’

Kaitlyn Hunt’s Mother on Plea Deal: ‘It?s Not Right, It?s Not Fair and It?s Not Just’

The Bill Schmalfeldt School of ‘Ethics’

LIVE AT FIVESIX: 10.03.13

Mark Levin Threatens March on D.C.

Canadian Muslim Arrested in Somalia After Reportedly Beheading His 4 Sons

Thug Family Values: Kaitlyn Hunt Plea Deal Prompts Bitter Rant by Her Father

Kaitlyn Hunt’s Father Threatens Violence: ‘F–king Beat Him Till He Can’t Function’

LIVE AT FIVETEN: 10.04.13

‘Retreating Into Masada Would Not Save The GOP Zealots From The Legion,’ Spake Senator Harry ‘Biggus Dickus’ Reid

‘Very, Very Bad, Doug!’ More Journalism Ethics Lessons From Bill Schmalfeldt

Top linkers this week:

  1. Regular Right Guy (29)
  2. Evil BloggerLady (19+5 Batshit Crazy News)
  3. The Lonely Conservative (5)

…and we had three other who fell just short of the cutoff. You know who you are. 😉
Additional thanks to those bloggers who helped put Rule 5 Sunday just one link away from the top spot this week. 🙂
Deadline to submit links for next weekend’s FMJRA is Friday, October 11.


Category: FMJRA Award

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

Posted on | October 5, 2013 | 45 Comments

One of the accusations in the Kimberlin v. Walker, et al., 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.

Let us note, and quickly leave aside, several questions: Who has “targeted” whom? Is not the existence of “Team Kimberlin” self-evident? It was evident to me as soon as I began writing about this story in May 2012. My first article about it, in fact, was headlined, “Is Democrat Operative Neal Rauhauser an ‘Associate’ of Convicted Terrorist Brett Kimberlin? (And Why It Matters).”

The association between Kimberlin and Rauhauser is a documented fact and, as soon as I began reporting on this story, my Twitter timeline filled up with harassing messages from two accounts, @OccupyRebellion (now defunct) and @BreitbartUnmask, whereupon I discovered that the latter account was associated with a Web site that had been compiling negative (and in some cases, it seemed, false and defamatory) material about various individuals targeted by Kimberlin and Rauhauser.

So between Rauhauser’s involvement, the “Breitbart Unmasked” site, and these two Twitter accounts, there was clearly an alliance that could fairly be called “Team Kimberlin.”

There was also much more than that, but I said I’d quickly leave such questions aside and I’ll not litigate this matter in the blogosphere.

The indictment Thursday of 13 members of the Anonymous hacker collective gave me the occasion to mention how Brett Kimberlin’s 501(c)4 non-proift Velvet Revolution had advocated on behalf of these hackers, and how Kimberlin’s associate Neal Rauhauser was also personally associated with the Anonymous movement.

This prompted a new smear by Team Kimberlin member “Xenophon”:

We have to wonder: is McCain looking to add a whole new defamation charge to the lawsuit he already faces by accusing two unindicted persons of taking part in a criminal conspiracy without proof? As we have said before, McCain and his friends actually believe their crazy notion that Kimberlin runs an international hacker ring through Rauhauser on behalf of Islamic terrorists. This would be delightful as a Tom Clancy novel, but as “journalism” it fails a basic sniff-test.
Let us recap the actual history here. After Anonymous attacked the websites of financial institutions that had cut off WikiLeaks from receiving contributions, HBGary Federal CEO (and friend of Andrew Breitbart) Aaron Barr bragged openly that he would reveal the “leadership” of Anonymous, a leaderless collective, and then got smacked around for being a tool who could not even secure his own company’s emails. The FBI made its arrests in that case more than a year ago, arresting neither Kimberlin nor Rauhauser or even naming them in any way.
McCain has connected two very different dots here, turning Kimberlin’s outspoken political support for the stated transparency mission of WikiLeaks into sinister control of Anonymous. McCain’s only “proof” is this lunatic screed by Jennifer Emick, McCain’s favorite source of information on all things Anonymous and all things Neal Rauhauser, which pigeonholes every obscure blogger who ever gave Seth Allen butthurt into a massive conspiracy.

OK, a few points: I have never said, nor do I believe, “that Kimberlin runs an international hacker ring through Rauhauser on behalf of Islamic terrorists.” This is something Neal Rauhauser has attributed to me, in the same way that he has routinely mischaracterized many other things, because Neal Rauhauser is a dishonest sociopath.

This is really a simple deception: “Xenophon” refutes accusations that were never made by me (nor by anyone else I know of), in an effort to discredit me. Did I say Kimberlin and Rauhauser were “taking part in a criminal conspiracy”? Did I accuse Kimberlin of “sinister control of Anonymous?” No, I wrote this:

I know that Rauhauser hates Jennifer Emick, and Neal’s association with Anonymous is something he boasted about. See, for example, his early intimations of familiarity in “Aspects Of Anonymous,” published under his “Stranded Wind” alias at Daily Kos in March 2011. As for this specific aspect of Anonymous, see Rauhauser’s May 2011 Daily Kos item, “Is Berico Sheltering Aaron Barr?”
Once you understand that it was the criminal “Operation Payback” hackings that led Hunton & Williams’s clients to seek the assistance of HB Gary Federal (of which Aaron Barr was CEO) to help protect their clients against such illegal activity, you see that both Brett Kimberlin’s Velvet Revolution and Neal Rauhauser were on the side of these criminal hackers. If you want to understand why that matters, I urge you to read my June 2012 article, “‘A Faint Whiff of Vigilante Hysteria’: Weinergate’s Kimberlin Connection.”
Remember: Former Anonymous spokesman Barrett Brown melted down and was arrested for threatening an FBI agent after Rauhauser (behind the alias “Carlito2000?) provoked Brown with a conspiracy theory involving Jen Emick and other of Neal’s personal enemies.
If you ask around, you’ll find that a lot of people suspect that the FBI “protects” Neal Rauhauser because he is a confidential informant.

All of this is fact. Read what I wrote, click the links there and see for yourself. You can do Google searches, research it as far as you’d care to go, and attempt to refute what I wrote.

For that matter, go read the “lunatic screed by Jennifer Emick” I cited and then do as much research as you’d care to do to ascertain whether her account is generally accurate. And, if you’re in an investigative mood, why not research the time when Kevin Zeese (an attorney with Kimberlin’s Velvet Revolution) falsely accused Mike Stack of instigating violence at an “Occupy” protest?

That was a defamatory smear invented by Neal Rauhauser, who has been harassing Stack since June 2011 when Stack was involved in exposing the “WeinerGate” scandal. Rauhauser was the most persistent of the so-called “Weiner Truthers” who believed (falsely, as everyone now knows) that Anthony Weiner was a victim of hackers, and Stack was only one target of Rauhauser’s harassment.

So, we ought to ask, why would Kevin Zeese of Velvet Revolution be repeating Neal Rauhauser’s discredited smear of Mike Stack, if there were no connection between Rauhauser’s “Weiner Truther” obsession and Kimberlin’s 501(c)4 organization? That is to say, why was it in the interest of Zeese to attack Mike Stack this way? But wait — let’s read Rosie Gray’s BuzzFeed article about “Weiner Truthers”:

A major locus of modern Weiner trutherism is BreitbartUnmasked.com . . .
One of its related Twitter accounts, @OccupyRebellion, regularly tweets about Weinergate and the alleged conspiracies therein. . . .

Ah, so the obsession with WeinerGate is connected to BreitbartUnmasked.com and the (now defunct) @OccupyRebellion account, and Mike Stack’s connection to WeinerGate made him the target of Brett Kimberlin associate Neal Rauhauser’s harassment, and Brett Kimberlin’s associate Kevin Zeese repeated Rauhauser’s smear of Stack. If you further know that BreitbartUnmasked.com has been hosted by the same secretive overseas Internet service providers which host several sites associated with Brett Kimberlin (including VelvetRevolution.us), isn’t the existence of “Team Kimberlin” a rather obvious common-sense surmise? And don’t these various connections furthermore, upon careful examination, form a pattern from which one might infer a motive for all this weird activity?

Here’s another interesting question: Why are Xenophon and BreitbartUnmasked.com obsessed with Patrick “Patterico” Frey?

Probably just a random coincidence, right?

 

Category: The Kimberlin Files

The ‘Optics’ of Tyranny

Posted on | October 5, 2013 | 79 Comments

With the mainstream media enthusiastically parroting Democrat “shutdown” propaganda, they think they can get away with anything:

In a stunning development, some military priests are facing arrest if they celebrate mass or practice their faith on military bases during the federal government shutdown.

Da Tech Guy soberly observes:

I suspect arrest of Catholic Priests for saying mass will be extremely popular with some the Democrat base, particularly those celebrating Wendy Davis.

Democrats: Killing Babies, Persecuting Christians.

 

Category: Catholics
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