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Bill Schmalfeldt: Sadism, Sodomy and Other Bizarre Mental Aberrations

Posted on | September 30, 2013 | 52 Comments

“It’s the ‘Butt Stuff.’ . . .
“Male conservatives are convinced that gay men want to put their ying yangs in THEIR BUTTS! This is a horrifying prospect to your average, stupid male. This is why a blanket recognition that being gay is a normal variant of human sexuality, to these small, frightened, uneducated men, means society is saying it’s OK for these gay men to put their willy-wallys in YOUR pooter hole!”
— Bill Schmalfeldt, “The REAL Conservative Case Against Gay Marriage,” Daily Kos, May 18, 2012

That was, of course, the post that got Schmalfeldt banned from Daily Kos, where the entire progressive community is pro-gay marriage and share his contempt for conservatives. Before getting to the question of exactly why what Schmalfeldt’s wrote about anal sodomy was so disturbingly offensive (“pooter hole”? who calls it that?),  let’s talk about his recurrent references to feces:

“Poop flakes”! That Feb. 22 Tweet, sent from Schmalfeldt’s since-deleted “Liberal Grouch” account to John Hoge, was one of the harassing messages that resulted in Schmalfeldt being slapped with a peace order at a Maryland circuit court hearing in a June. It refers to the “payment” Schmalfeldt imagines Hoge must have required to assist Lee Stranahan in pressing harassment charges against Schmalfeldt:

Bill Schmalfeldt spent months harassing Lee Stranahan and his family with disgustingly crude filth, including incessant and impertinent questions regarding the death of a child during childbirth. On Monday, 11 February, Lee came to Maryland from Texas to file a harassment charge against Schmalfeldt. I picked Lee up at BWI airport, took him to dinner, took him to the District Court Commissioner’s Office, put him up for the night at my house, and dropped him back at the airport on Tuesday morning. BWI is just off of one of the routes I take to work.

That is Hoge’s description of his own motives and actions in assisting Stranahan, but you see that Schmalfeldt imagines Hoge must have had some “payment” for this assistance. Schmalfeldt then describes Hoge as having excrement (“poop flakes”) in his beard because of some sort of degrading act of oral-anal contact. This theme — that people whom Schmalfeldt hates are unspeakable inferiors deserving of humiliation — is quite common in his discourse, as Ken White has remarked, “Schmalfeldt . . . is closest to his sweaty-palmed Happy Place when he is describing degradation of others.”

The word for this is sadism, and the very first post I wrote about Bill Schmalfeldt (in November 2012) called him a “sociopathic sadist“:

Once you know their motives and methods, these monsters aren’t nearly so scary as they’d like to be, and the real horror of their behavior is the soul-chilling realization of what sick pleasure they derive from it. Healthy minds do not delight in plotting evil against others, and wholesome spirits do not endlessly threaten others with harm they intend to inflict.

We are referring to a distinctly warped personality, a typical gesture of which is The Dire Warning of Terrible Consequences: “Dreadful things shall befall ye who offend me! Fear my wrath!”

Relishing their imagined vengeance, they seek to impress others by describing the humiliation they have in mind for their enemies:

“Just so you know, I am going to take great delight
in getting your personal identification and
punishing you to the full extent of the law.”

Schmalfeldt is “going to take great delight” in punishing @antvq16? For disputing Schmalfeldt’s account of why the Examiner fired him?

Bill,
I am yet again forced to discuss your column after you continued to (1) make your OBN articles personal, rather than talking about what such an organization is attempting to do and its potential implications, and (2) continued to reply in an antagonistic manner within the comments sections / Facebook.
Due to the continued disregard for projecting yourself in a professional manner, I am forced to suspend your access to our publishing platform again.
This was not how I hoped things would work out, but I’m no longer in a position to justify the amount of effort we as an organization have to put in to mitigate the complaints your work is constantly receiving. I wish you well on your blog.-
Best regards,
Kevin Staunton
Director, Northeast & Mid-Atlantic Regions

This December 2011 e-mail from an Examiner editor seems clear enough, eh? And Bill published this e-mail himself, so he can’t blame @antvq16 for merely describing it — “personal attacks and unprofessionalism” is an accurate synopsis — after Schmalfeldt claimed that his termination by the Examiner was because “stalkers” accused him of having “multiple accounts.”

But who cares? Bill does. He had challenged @antvq16: “Prove a lie I told.” The proof was offered, and the result was Schmalfeldt expressing his sadistic “delight” in punishing @antvq16!

Flashback to Feb. 18, a week after Stranahan had filed harassment charges against Schmalfeldt, and Schmalfeldt gloated:

It’s all horseshit. It’s all absolute horseshit. And I and my family have been put through pain and suffering because Lee Stranahan has a grudge. Because somebody, in my opinion, is paying Lee Stranahan to file these charges against me, in the hopes that I will either break or die.  I got some fucking news for you, Stranny [pause] Walker, Hoggy, Frey [pause] and Frey [pause] beware the Ides of March.

Notice, first, Schmalfeldt’s claim of “pain and suffering” inflicted by Stranahan, then go read Stranahan’s account of Schmalfeldt’s harassment. Then notice the diminutive putdowns — “Stranny” and “Hoggy” — and finally notice Schmalfeldt’s repetition of “Frey,” referring to Patrick “Patterico” Frey. Why? Frey had nothing to do with Stranahan filing harassment charges, so why does Schmalfeldt include Frey in this “beware the Ides of March” warning?

Isn’t the irrationality of Schmalfeldt’s reaction self-evident? Doesn’t this Dire Warning of Terrible Consequences seem to be coming from Schmalfeldt’s “sweaty-palmed Happy Place” where he imagines the degradation of others? And so we return full-circle to our previous consideration of that weird May 2012 article about anal sex that got Schmalfeldt banned from Daily Kos:

Most stupid men, married or otherwise, enjoy pornography.  They enjoy watching men with their throbbing, erect whatchamacallits do degrading thing to women with them.  Slapping them on the face with it.  Spanking them with it. There is no orifice on a woman’s body that is safe from the probing, pulsating prongs on the popular pornos.  And that includes the pooter hole.  There’s a whole SUBSET of pornography DEVOTED to anal sex.  They give an AWARD at the ADULT VIDEO AWARDS each year to the actress involved in the most erotic Anal Sex scene.
So, it’s not anal sex (as a practice) to which these small, frightened men object.
Heck, if you’re a man and you’re honest with yourself, you LIKE being on the “doling it out”end of anal sex.  How many heterosexual men reading this diary right now have never asked their wife or girlfriend to just take a deep breath, relax, “I’ll just put in the tip and we’ll see how it goes,” and then you ram it home like Captain Kidd jamming his sword back into his scabbard while she hollers “takeitouttakeitouttakeitout” and you tell her to just relax and it won’t hurt so bad and she starts kicking and screaming “takeitOUTtakeitOUTtakeitOUT youfuckingbastardpieceofshit“ and you finally do (because the walls are thin and your neighbors just LOVE calling the cops) and you tell her she should have at least given herself a chance to relax and enjoy it and she (if she’s your wife) doesn’t let you anywhere near her with “that thing” for weeks and if she’s your girlfriend she stops returning your calls?

Is this . . . objective journalism?

Or do you think that Bill Schmalfeldt’s commentary is personal, irrational, another product of his “sweaty-palmed Happy Place”?

Please, go read the rest of that Daily Kos item, including the comments, and tell me if you think Bill Schmalfeldt’s problem is what “stalkers” or “cybertrolls” are saying about Bill Schmalfeldt.

Or is the problem simply Bill Schmalfeldt himself?

 

Category: Bill Schmalfeldt

The Latest Bill Schmalfeldt Meltdown

Posted on | September 30, 2013 | 53 Comments

Bill Schmalfeldt ranting, 2011. (Image via Thomas Anderson at Vimeo)

An entire week has passed since Bill Schmalfeldt’s previous meltdown. He tried to sneak back into the Examiner (where he had been fired twice before) under the alias “Lester Klemper” and, when this ended badly, vowed vengeance on the enemies he blamed for his misfortune.

This blame-game mentality is essential to understanding the Schmalfeldtian worldview. No matter what Bill may have done wrong, when bad things happen to Bill, this cannot be Bill’s fault. No — scapegoats must bear the blame, which explains why Schmalfeldt sent a bizarre e-mail to the publisher of Digital Journal:

You can click to enlarge the image:

Hey there, David.
The people you didn’t want me to write about are likely going to be swarming you with reasons why should not have rehired me and why you should fire me instantly.
One of my stalkers just learned that my old profiles at DJ still exist, posted them on Twitter, and is accusing me of having “multiple accounts” which is how they got me fired at Examiner.
if they get to be too much for you, let me know and I will resign. I don’t want to, but neither do I want the fact that I am being stalked by cybertrolls (I have a case against their leader in the Maryland Supreme Court that will be decided on Oct . 17) be a source of bother for you.
I understand why you didn’t want me to write that story about my involvement with these people. But now, I fear, you are about to learn how they’ve made my life miserable since February, worsening my Parkinson’s symptoms, charging me with 18 crimes (all of which were dismissed) and getting a restaining order (after five failed attempts) that will be overturned by the court when it decided later this month.
Just a heads up. Let me know if you require my resignation.
Thanks again for the opportunity.
Bill

There are several falsehoods here, the most glaring of which is Schmalfeldt’s assertion that he is a victim of “cybertrolls” who have “made [his] life miserable since February.” In fact, what happened in February was that Lee Stranahan flew to Maryland and filed harassment charges against Schmalfeldt. (Stranahan has described the harassment here.) The state’s attorney decided against prosecuting that case. However, Schmalfeldt’s harassment of John Hoge (“leader” of the “cybertrolls”) resulted in Hoge’s request for a peace order being granted against Schmalfeldt by a circuit court judge in June.

Notice that Schmalfeldt’s email discloses how he wanted to use the Digital Journal as a platform to lash out at his enemies, a proposal that the publisher rejected for obvious reasons. Anyway, today Schmalfeldt went on a Twitter spree, accusing everyone of lying about him:

Notice what’s happening here: I remark that Schmalfeldt is “in my timeline” (i.e., sending messages to @rsmccain, so that I see them in my “mentions” queue), but in remarking this, I do not reply to Schmalfeldt: I don’t include his Twitter handle in my message. The only way he could be aware that I have mentioned his name is either (a) by constantly monitoring my timeline, or (b) by searching Twitter for his name. Either one is indicative of obsessive behavior.

Here, I quoted Lee Stranahan’s November 2012 article, “Bill Schmalfeldt: Too Disgusting For Daily Kos,” which is important to understanding what is so false about Schmalfeldt’s claim of victimhood. He was banned from the popular blog Daily Kos in May 2012 — before I ever heard of him — after writing an article about anal sex so grossly disturbing  that even his fellow progressives were shocked.

So this is the sterling reputation Bill alleges I “ruined.” But notice how Schmalfeldt reacted to my Tweet:

Schmalfeldt attacks Lee Stranahan, repeating a cruel falsehood, blaming Stranahan for the death of his own child. In February, Stranahan summarized this vicious pattern in an article entitled, “Bill Schmalfeldt: The Stranger Who Harassed My Family“:

  • Made repeated, direct contact with me and members of my family via email & Twitter, demanding I answer his questions about his ‘investigation’ in me and my family
  • Continued this direct contact after being asked not to ; sometimes directed over 100 messages a day directly at us with questions for his ‘investigation’
  • Posted our personal information, including making a video of our address after a rape threat had been made by an associate of Mr. Schmalfeldt’s
  • Made constant sexual references about both my wife and I, including frequent mentions of our genitalia and fantasies about selling my wife and raping me
  • Tormented us about the death of our newborn daughter Collette
  • Posted photos of our children and contacted child protective services
  • Contacted over half a dozen law enforcement agencies when I wouldn’t answer the bizarre personal questions he would ask for his ‘investigations’
  • Attempted to get me fired, arrested & have my children taken from me
  • Contacted friends, family, business associates and even total strangers who spoke to me online

Why would Bill Schmalfeldt do such horrible things? Can he explain, defend or justify this vicious activity? Of course not. It was just evil, sadistic madness. As with the offensive obscenity that got him banished from Daily Kos, whatever damage resulted to Bill Schmalfeldt’s reputation from this hateful harassment of Stranahan was entirely self-inflicted — and yet Bill can’t help himself. His habits of mind are such that, as soon as he saw me tweet that link to Lee Stranahan’s blog, Schmalfeldt started ranting about Stranahan’s dead child.

What the hell is this? Is it “defamation” to quote Bill Schmalfeldt? Or is it “defamation”  merely to describe Bill Schmalfeldt’s behavior? And notice, again: Bill is obsessively searching for his own name on Twitter and then jumping into other people’s conversations.

This is just the tip of this vile creep’s enormous iceberg of craziness, and Schmalfeldt’s attempts to blame other people for his problems will deceive no one who pays attention. As I’ve said before, “All that is necessary to discredit Bill Schmalfeldt is to quote Bill Schmalfeldt.”

Stay classy, Bill Schmalfeldt. Good luck explaining why it’s always somebody else’s fault when you do disgusting things, you sick freak.




 

 


Category: Bill Schmalfeldt

‘Essential’ or ‘Non-Essential’?

Posted on | September 30, 2013 | 29 Comments

Harry Reid says “no compromise” and, as of this hour, TV talking heads are acting as if a government shutdown is all but certain tonight, which would mean the temporary furlough of “non-essential” government employees, which naturally inspires a few questions:

If they’re not “essential” why did we hire them in the first place?

UPDATE: Don’t know why I didn’t think of this earlier:

Could we get the #FurloughJoe hashtag trending?

 

Category: Budget

Harry Reid Refuses to Compromise

Posted on | September 30, 2013 | 25 Comments

Explain to me again how this is the GOP’s fault?

Congress took another step toward a government shutdown Monday as the Senate voted 54-46 to strip language from a House funding bill that delayed ObamaCare by a year. . . .
Democrats also eliminated language allowing employers to opt out of providing insurance coverage of contraception if doing so violates their moral or religious principles.
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) needed only a simple majority vote to cut the House language delaying ObamaCare and repealing the medical device tax . . .
Monday’s vote was strictly on party lines.

We shall see whether House Republicans knuckle under. There are reports that they’re getting wobbly on Harry Reid’s shutdown threat.

 

Category: Budget, Harry Reid, Senate

It’s The End Of The World As We Know It

Posted on | September 30, 2013 | 22 Comments

— Wombat-socho

This week’s book post is going up early since when Thursday rolls around I’m going to be busier than a one-legged man in an ass-kicking contest and won’t have time to blog. So. Apocalyptic SF goes back practically to the beginning of the genre, with novels like Olaf Stapledon’s Last and First Men going hand in hand with Raymond Z. Gallun’s “Seeds of Dusk” (included in The Best of Raymond Z. Gallun) and John W. Campbell’s “Twilight” (in The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Vol. 1). However, with the advent of the Atomic Age and the Cold War standoff between the US and the Soviet Union, books about what life would be like after somebody pushed the button multiplied like rabbits.

Perhaps the best of these is Walter M. Miller’s A Canticle for Leibowitz, in which the Church once again preserves knowledge through a new Dark Age only to see humanity screw things up yet again. Other books dealing with nuclear war and its aftermath included Mordecai Roshwald’s Level 7, Pat Frank’s Alas, Babylon, and of course Nevil Shute’s On the Beach. More recently, David Brin’s The Postman revisited the topic in the context of normal survivors trying to cope with gene-engineered survivalists.

Poul Anderson set a number of his stories in a post-nuclear world: Maurai and Kith includes the stories of the aggressively Green Maurai, and Orion Shall Rise shows where that ends. Many of Anderson’s stories in The Psychotechnic League are also set on a post-nuclear Earth. Andre Norton set an Arthurian tale of discovery, Star Man’s Son (also known as Daybreak 2250) two centuries after an atomic war has destroyed civilization.

Somewhat related: novels in which World War III comes and goes, but it’s not the apocalypse – civilization holds together and the war goes on (Dean Ing’s Systemic Shock) or shudders to a halt (Kunetka & Strieber’s Warday) or the bombing wipes out all the advanced tech through EMP (Forstchen’s One Second After). When the collapse of technology is caused by non-human activity, you get Dies the Fire.

Authors didn’t neglect the biological apocalypse, either. Jack London laid waste to the planet with The Scarlet Plague, a path also followed by George Stewart’s Earth Abides, Stephen King’s The Stand, and of course Richard Matheson’s I Am Legend, which was made into the excellent The Omega Man with Charlton Heston and the not-so-great I Am Legend with Will Smith.

Ecological apocalypses didn’t start with the 1960s; John Christopher’s The Death of Grass(also known as No Blade of Grass) dates to 1956. Harry Harrison’s Make Room! Make Room! (better known as the movie Soylent Green) showed a world collapsing due to overpopulation, as did John Brummer’s Stand on Zanzibar. Brunner also looked at the issue of environmental damage in The Sheep Look Up, which struck me as being more dark and pessimistic than Stand On Zanzibar.

That’s enough depressing reading for one book post, I think. 😉



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Category: Books

E-Mail From America’s Vice President

Posted on | September 30, 2013 | 16 Comments

If you ever sign up for any Democrat mailing list, you will eventually be on all Democrat mailing lists, and receive e-mails like this:

Date: Mon, 30 Sep 2013 08:14:15 -0400
To: Robert McCain <[email protected]>
From: Joe Biden <[email protected]>

Robert —
If you’ve been watching what’s been happening here in Washington over the past couple of weeks, and you still think you need more reasons to support Democrats over Republicans, I’m not sure what to tell you.
The choice is pretty clear.
Chip in $3 or more and get Democrats’ backs before the fundraising deadline at midnight:

https://my.democrats.org/Deadline

Thanks,
Joe

 

See? That’s what responsible non-partisan leadership looks like.

 

Category: Joe Biden

Banjo Player Caught in Child-Sex Sting

Posted on | September 30, 2013 | 51 Comments

Abraham Spear: Banjo-playing pedophile

When someone told me about this story, my first thought was, “Well, of course he’s a banjo player.” IYKWIMAITYD:

A country musician has been sentenced to 17 years in prison after pleading guilty to trying to have sex with a woman’s seven and nine-year-old daughters.
Abraham Spear was arrested at a restaurant in Dallas on September 20, 2012, when he arranged to meet an undercover FBI agent, posing as the mother of the two young girls.
The 30-year-old Banjo player, who was set to perform with the Josh Thompson band at the time of the incident, was sentenced to 210 months in federal prison in Dallas, Texas.
Authorities began investigating Spear when he logged onto a website, using the screen name MUSICMAN30, and began communicating with a woman who was actually an undercover FBI agent . . .
[After he] was arrested by federal agents [he] broke down sobbing, insisting that he wasn’t going to actually do anything.
‘Spear also admitted that he had engaged in sexually explicit communications with other mothers of minor girls, including one in which he offered to pay $200 to engage in sexual acts with the mother’s minor daughter,’ according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office.

Watch out for those pedophile banjo players.

 

Category: Crime, Sex

Shutdown Monday: Blame Harry Reid

Posted on | September 30, 2013 | 69 Comments

The New York Times:

The Senate is expected to reject decisively a House bill that would delay the full effect of President Obama’s health care law as a condition for keeping the government running past Monday, as Senator Harry Reid, the Democratic majority leader, expressed confidence that he had public opinion on his side.

Why is Harry Reid so confident that he has “public opinion on his side”? Because he can rely on the media to confuse the people:

Democrats and their media allies have spent the past week labeling Republicans “anarchists,” “fanatics,” “radicals,” and “terrorists” who are wholly to blame for the situation that we are told will soon lead to a government shutdown. And if all you know about this situation is what you get from the media, you might actually believe that this is a crisis created by Texas Sen. Ted Cruz and his fellow conservatives who sought to use the vote on a short-term spending bill as a means of preventing implementation of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), otherwise known as Obamacare.
Here’s a simple question: Why are we currently funding the federal government through a series of short-term measures known as “continuing resolutions”?
The answer is that the budgeting process has completely broken down in recent years, and the two men most responsible for that breakdown are President Obama and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid. For three consecutive years — 2010, 2011, and 2012 — the Democrat-controlled Senate did not pass a budget bill because Reid knew that it would be a political liability to do so. Passing a budget that detailed the Democrats’ plans for spending and revenue as official policy would have exposed the “something for nothing” swindle that Reid and his colleagues are perpetrating on the American people. Republican challengers campaigning against Democrat senators could have cited their votes for the budget bill, saying that the incumbent voted for this, that, or the other unpopular component of the measure.
Reid and the Democrats knew this. They knew very well that the federal deficit was spiraling out of control, that there was not enough tax revenue to pay the mushrooming cost of entitlement programs (Medicare, Medicaid, food stamps, unemployment, et cetera), and certainly there wasn’t enough revenue to pay for all the boondoggles and giveaways the Democrats voted for in the name of “stimulus.” Adding to this, there was not enough revenue to pay the cost of Obamacare, which Democrats rammed through Congress in March 2010 on a party-line vote. Passing an actual budget would have made clear the unsustainable fiscal nightmare into which Democrat policies have plunged the nation during the Obama Age, and so Harry Reid simply didn’t pass a budget for three years. . . .

Please read the whole thing at The American Spectator.

UPDATE: Great minds think alike.

 


Category: Budget, Harry Reid, Senate
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