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#FreeKate Mom Kelley Hunt Smith’s Alternative Morality Lecture

Posted on | August 27, 2013 | 52 Comments

If your kid grows up to be a notorious criminal pervert, what do you do? Invent for yourself some alternative system of morality whereby you can praise your child (and congratulate yourself as a parent) while condemning others as “ignorant mean vile people.”

So, despite everything, Kelley says she “raised sweet, loving, accepting, kind” children who “are kindhearted”? Really?

“Beat her f**king ass, Emily! Beat her ass! Get that bitch!”

And there’s also this:

Local Teen Says Kaitlyn Hunt Was
‘Bully … Calling Me an Ugly Dyke’

Her kids are rancid trash, and Kelley Hunt Smith doesn’t want to admit, not even to herself that, she has been a truly terrible mother.




 


 

Category: Kaitlyn Hunt

Is Neal Rauhauser Trying to Scheme His Way Back Into Political Consulting?

Posted on | August 27, 2013 | 46 Comments

Three years ago, in August 2010, Democrat political consultant Neal Rauhauser published two articles under his “Stranded Wind” alias:

Claiming that there was a “centrally initiated effort” to harass him and other progressives on Twitter, Rauhauser described a plan for “hauling [a stalker] into court is a gateway to identifying the source of the strategy,” to “get up inside their network and collect actionable information.” Rauhauser solicited assistance in his plan of attack against conservatives online, to “force them into expensive, long distance, lengthy, discovery laden litigation” in order “to make a very visible example of at least one of them.”

The result of that plan, apparently, was the debacle known as “TwitterGate.” in which Rauhauser was accused of having “organized a group of E-Thugs meant to harass, threaten, provoke, disparage, intimidate, verbally assault, berate & employ hate-speech.”

Now, it seems, Rauhauser wants to get back into the politics game and has posted a weird conspiracy theory that involves me:

Nine months ago I swore off domestic politics and started paying attention to foreign policy issues. A large part of my disgust stemmed from the hate groups that have hijacked the GOP, in particular a drunken hillbilly named Robert Stacy McCain, who provided a forum for a paranoid, delusional mall cop in New Jersey to ruin my reputation with her obsessive promotion of a conspiracy theory known as Twittergate.
Groundswell: A Secret Tape Reveals How It Lobbied Boehner & Issa on Benghazi was both a delight and something of a shock. I was forced to take back all the bad things I had said about playing gotcha with wire taps earlier in 2013, and I was surprised to find that the same people who fabricate all sorts of ‘news’ about me are also directly connected to this group . . .
Other happenings in Maryland include an assault outside a courtroom, threats to judges and prosecutors, a courthouse cleared with a bomb threat, and some other things which are not public, but which all add up to a textbook definition of hate group tactics. Law enforcement has cause to act at the state level in Maryland and I strongly suspect there is already something in the federal pipeline. The smear machine behind this derpy ‘war’ on the Obama administration is under fire from GOP strategist Karl Rove and it’s literally one indictment short of tearing itself to pieces.
Nothing is going to stop that flow of Groundswell articles. The leak was handled correctly, given to an investigative journalism outlet with enough reach to make something of it rather than being spammed across the whole internet with bittorrent. I expect Akbar, McCain, and their toadies are all going to get swatted like the annoying little insects that they are — if the Maryland Democratic machine doesn’t do that job the Republican national machine certainly will.

When somebody told me last week that Rauhauser had posted this, my immediate reaction was, “Neal’s trolling for clients,” probably hoping he can get hired by the Maryland Democrat Party.

Neal is nuts. His assertion that “Groundswell” has anything to do with him is, so far as I know, based entirely on someone forwarding an e-mail from Ali Akbar to a Google group. Also, while we’re at it, “TwitterGate” was not a conspiracy theory, I’m not a drunken hillbilly, I don’t live in Maryland, and I don’t have any “toadies.”

Basically, everything Neal Rauhauser says is the exact opposite of truth, and by the way, he’s taking credit for killing Andrew Breitbart:

This undated tweet from @AndrewBreitbart is from either right before the 2010 election or shortly thereafter. The attention from he and his toadies chased me off LinkedIn, but it sent me on a two year mission which included him dropping dead in the midst of a battle of words with me and two anonymous Twitter commenters.

I checked. The date of that Breitbart tweet (at the top of this post) was Oct. 7, 2010. It’s true that on the day Andrew died, he was in a Twitter battle with Neal and some of Neal’s friends.

In the days immediately following Andrew’s death, Neal was actually bragging that his harassment had caused Breitbart’s heart attack, but he deleted that. Neal deletes a lot of his crap, once he gets called out on it. This was why he now thinks he can get away with dismissing TwitterGate as a “conspiracy theory,” because when he got caught by Tea Party activists, he deleted a lot of stuff — including his “WingNutWatch” Twitter account that was central to that fiasco — and got his “beandog” buddies to tell Adrian Chen that it was all a silly prank.

Bullshit, Neal. You can try to play that off as the imaginings of “a paranoid, delusional mall cop in New Jersey” (and oh, how you’ve been obsessed with “Zapem” for three years), but there were plenty of witnesses, and anybody can go read Patrick Read’s account complete with numerous screenshots showing communications between your “Stranded Wind” account and the “beandogs” who participated in the harassment of Tea Party activists.

You were guilty as hell and you know it and, to repeat, you provided the game plan for that little escapade in advance:

See, Neal, we not only know what you did in 2010, we know why you did it. You failed. You got caught. And your long campaign of revenge — your blame-shifting “Accuse the Accusers” tactics, to smear and demonize your enemies — has similarly failed.

Now, if the historical pattern holds true, Neal Rauhauser will go delete some more of his lies, pretend he never wrote it, claim victimhood, and accuse me of cyberstalking him.

And, oh yeah, Andrew was totally right about you, Neal.

UPDATE: Just in case you’ve never seen it before, this is part of the Twitter conversation between Neal Rauhauser and Andrew Breitbart on Feb. 29, 2012, just before Andrew’s death:

You see him taunting Breitbart, calling him a coward, suggesting that “my lawyers” were going to sue Breitbart. What I believe they were talking about was charges filed against Neal by Mike Stack who, you see, Neal accuses of “stalking” Anthony Weiner. Of course, as everybody now knows, there was never any stalking or hacking or “conspiracy” against Anthony Weiner — he was guilty as hell.

Just another busted lie from Neal Rauhauser . . .

 

Category: Andrew Breitbart

Rule 5 Tuesday

Posted on | August 27, 2013 | 20 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

For those who are new to the Rule 5 posts, be advised that while many of the following links are to pictures of attractively (if skimpily) clad young ladies, some of them are to young ladies wearing little or nothing, and these are NSFW in most places. Exercise discretion when you click, please.

Laughing Conservative prefers blondes – like, for example, Adrianne Palicki. Randy’s Roundtable also likes the blondes but prefers Kate Upton. Animal Magnetism contributes a Japanese Rule 5 Friday and of course, the Saturday Gingermageddon. Blackmailers Don’t Shoot’s Pretty Girls On A Thursday is all about Bikini Girls With Machine Guns, while Fishersville Mike’s interest in tennis is explained by Sloane Stephens. Reaganite Republican spotlights Miss Dominican Republic, Yaritza Reyes, and Lowering The Boom brings the Super Girls. Ninety Miles From Tyranny offers the Morning Mistress, Hot Pick of the Late Night, and Hooters Girls With Guns; Hoverbored has Christina Masterson,   and the First Street Journal draws our attention to Portugal’s female troops this week.

EBL’s thundering herd of heifers this week includes Peaches & Cream, Raquel Welch doing the Space Girl Dance, the Subway Dance, and The Last Of Sheila. There’s also “Chelsea” Manning, a Rule 5 Fakeout, Kate Upton, Sydney Leathers, and a Law & Order SVU mashup to commemorate that show’s jumping the shark.

A View From The Beach has Bar Rafaeli Walking On (Roger) Waters, Here’s To Never Growing Up, Alligator Ugly, Tattooed Temptress Tied To Hernandez Homicide, Slip N’ Slide, Fun With The TSA, and Arcata Market Morning.

Wine, Women and Politics brings a Saturday Super Smorgasbord, Great Women And A Great Weekend, Friday Babe Buffet, Fine Friday Babes, Fine Wine And Women, and a reminder: You Can Never Have Too Many Babes.

American Power’s contributions include Britney Spears, Imogen Thomas, Jessica Davies, Gisele Bundchen, Bryiana Noelle, Gwyneth Paltrow, and Phoebe Cates.

Soylent Green warms up with Sunday Snoochita Dani and Natalie Wood before kicking off the week with Monday Motivationer Shannon, Overnighty Wax On…, Tuesday Titillation Mithral, Evening Awesome Lucia, Humpday Hawtness: Fly United With Nicole, Overnighty Luba, Falconsword Fursday: Dogs Are Stupid, Overnighty Val, Corset Morsels, T-GIF Friday: Son of Hoola-Hoop Awesome, Overnighty Roxanna, Now That’s Breakfast, Afternooner Random Redness, and Evening Awesome With Lens Flare May.

Proof Positive’s Friday Night Babe is Elle Liberachi, his vintage babe is Angela Greene, and in addition to Sex In Advertising there’s Women of PETA XXXVII! Dustbury this week has Sara Evans and the women of Firefly.

The DaleyGator’s DaleyBabes this week included Teresa Palmer, Kiyume Chigara, Haruna Yabuki, Rosie Bulan, and Random Beauty; the top 100 hottest women list gets a serious dent with Tika Sumpter, Maria Ozawa, Megan Fox, Lorrie Morgan, Janine Turner, Cheryl Ladd, Phoebe Cates, Catherine Bach, Sanaa Lathan, Tamron Hall, Kathleen Turner, Jessica Alba, Jessica Simpson, Shania Twain, Constance Marie, Amerie, Kristin Kreuk, Vivica A Fox,  Crystal Bernard, Ciara, Nia Peeples, Gong Li, Shakira, Michelle Malkin, S.E. Cupp, Robin Meade, Jessica Biel, Emmanuelle Chriqui, Kana Yume, and Brooke Baldwin.

Thanks to everyone for their linkagery! Deadline to submit links to the Rule 5 Wombat mailbox for next week’s Rule 5 roundup is Saturday, August 31.

Category: Rule 5

Squeaky Fromme, Sara Jane Moore, Lee Harvey Oswald and the Radical Impulse

Posted on | August 27, 2013 | 105 Comments

Lynnette “Squeaky” Fromme, 1975

President Gerald Ford’s video testimony about Lynnette “Squeaky” Fromme’s 1975 assassination attempt has been released, and if you read through the story, you encounter this:

At times during the trial, [Fromme] was ordered removed from court because of her tantrums and bizarre ramblings about the environment, saving the redwoods and other topics. . . .
Seventeen days after his encounter with Fromme in Capitol Park, Ford was the target of a second assassination attempt, this time outside the St. Francis Hotel in San Francisco, where Sara Jane Moore fired a shot at him.
Moore had been associated with radical groups, including the Symbionese Liberation Army, and later would say she regretted firing the shot. Like Fromme, Moore was sentenced to life in prison. She was eventually released in 2007.

“Squeaky” Fromme was a former member of Charles Manson’s murderous hippie cult (whose story is told in Helter Skelter by Vincent Bugliosi), and the Symbionese Liberation Army was the bizarre terrorist faction that became notorious for kidnapping heiress Patty Hearst. The SLA’s motto was, “Death to the Fascist Insect That Preys on the Life of the People.” (See the 2004 documentary, Guerrilla.)

All these people were crazy, but they took themselves quite seriously — as crazy people usually do — and the criminal havoc they caused was the frothing foam of the gigantic tsunami wave of political radicalism that crashed through America in the 1960s.

That wave was unleashed by the act of radical madman Lee Harvey Oswald, whose Nov. 22, 1963, assassination of President John F. Kennedy is generally remembered as a turning point, after which many idealistic young people lost faith in the political system. Recently, I’ve been re-reading Edward Jay Epstein’s remarkable 1978 book, Legend: The Secret World of Lee Harvey Oswald. In February 1963, Oswald met a young German immigrant, an engineer named Volkmar Schmidt who had studied psychology and was interested in political ideology:

When the conversation turned to the subject of the Kennedy administration, Schmidt expected that Oswald would express the usual liberal sentiments about the President’s attempting to bring about constructive reforms. Instead, Oswald launched into a violent attack on the President’s foreign policy, citing both the Bay of Pigs invasion in April 1961 and the Cuban Missile Crisis of October 1962 as examples of “imperialism” and “interventions.” He suggested that Kennedy’s actions against Cuba had set the stage for a nuclear holocaust . . .
As he listened to Oswald define more closely his political ideas, [Schmidt] began to work out his “psychological profile,” as he called it. Oswald seemed to be a “totally alienated individual,” obsessed with political ideology and bent on self-destruction. Even then, he reminded Schmidt of a Doestoevskian character impelled by his own reasoning toward a “logical suicide.”

Profound psychological alienation, which often manifests itself as a resentment of authority and a rejection of social norms, is the driving impulse of radicalism. Although radicals are typically, like Oswald, “obsessed with political ideology” and quick to cite government policies as the grievances that justify their radicalism, their alienation leads them to reject conventional politics. The radical lacks the kind of patience needed to work steadily to persuade voters and mobilize support for reform policies, because the radical’s real grievance is not political, but rather psychological, in nature.

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.

Because his true motives are profoundly irrational, rooted in his own psychological resentments, the radical’s political involvement makes no sense when closely scrutinized, as Schmidt quickly realized during his conversation with Oswald.

His burning hatred of Kennedy and his fanatical support of Castro’s Cuban revolution weren’t merely extreme in a political sense (others on the Left held similar views) but were symptomatic of a self-destructive impulse. Oswald embraced unpopular fringe beliefs for  the very reason that they were unpopular. His extremism enabled Oswald to rationalize his own obscure and marginal status in society as heroic: “Corrupt society rejects me because I courageously speak the radical truth.”

The Symbionese Liberation Army, circa 1973

Such alienated radicals exist in every age, but their ideas and behavior are influenced by trends in the mainstream society they reject. And, just as Symbionese Liberation Army sympathizer Sarah Jane Moore and Manson follower Squeaky Fromme carried forward the radical impulses of the 1960s into the 1970s, so too have we seen the radicalism of Bush-era anti-war activists carry over into the Obama age.

Social Destruction as Personal Revenge

Because their motives were basically psychological rather than political, the anti-Bush moonbats have kept up their radical craziness long after the original grievance has passed. The U.S. has pulled out of Iraq and is withdrawing from Afghanistan, but the radicals have not been placated by the policy changes they demanded, because policy changes are not really what radicals seek. Rather, the radical desires to destroy the society from which he is alienated.

Consider, for example, Adam Kokesh. Everyone familiar with the anti-Iraq War movement remembers how Kokesh zoomed to prominence in 2007 as a member of Iraq Veterans Against the War, and everybody who paid attention knew Kokesh was crazy.

In 2007, fringe nutjob Adam Kokesh was arrested on Capitol Hill.

In May of this year, Michelle Malkin warned conservatives against embracing Kokesh in his new guise as a libertarian gun-rights activist and, predictably, Kokesh soon proved her right. Last month, Kokesh was arrested on drug charges, at which time I explained:

[T]hose of us who first became aware of Kokesh as the poster boy for “Iraq Veterans Against the War” are unlikely to forget him: A self-righteous half-educated egomaniac strutting for the cameras and insulting people with ridiculous “chickenhawk” and “neocon” slurs. The first time I ever saw Kokesh in person was when he showed up to heckle David Horowitz at an event at George Washington University, FWIW.
His narcissistic camera-hogging and anti-social personality made Kokesh an unwelcome crazy even within the far-left millieu of Bush-era antiwar protests, where mental health was by no means a prerequisite for membership. (Hint: “Sociopath” is not a political philosophy.) Like a few other antiwar oddballs — including the dangerous kook Alex Jones — Kokesh drifted into the Ron Paul orbit, speaking at a Paulista rally during the 2008 GOP convention and then getting himself arrested for heckling John McCain during his acceptance speech.

Why have fringe kooks like this — who raged against Bush when all the cool kids were doing it — not been placated by Obama’s policies? For the same reason that Oswald, who embraced Marxism during the Eisenhower era, was not placated by John F. Kennedy’s liberalism: It’s not really about politics for these kooks.

As alienated as they are from mainstream of politics, however, this doesn’t mean radicals are not influenced by mainstream politics. The idea that Bush’s presidency was illegitimate was fostered by Democrats who falsely claimed Bush “stole” the 2000 election, and the same ridiculous “neocon chickenhawk” argument embraced by Kokesh was the basic rationale of John Kerry’s 2004 “reporting for duty” campaign, during which Dan Rather of CBS News sought to revive the claim that Bush had been AWOL from National Guard duty.

If Kokesh and other alienated radicals demonized Bush, their kook-fringe hatred was certainly shared by mainstream Democrats. And having stirred up these irrational and counterfactual resentments, the political Left denies responsibility for the predictable results.

For years, I’ve covered the political fringe for two basic reasons:

  1. It’s fun — The daily grind of mainstream politics gets dull. American politics is proverbially a football game played between the 40-yard-lines, where flamboyant rhetoric about fundamental differences in policies and principles are usually just carnival-barker ballyhoo, an attempt to arouse the voting public from their typical apathy. (The recent ratings slump at MSNBC shows how difficult it is to make Americans enjoy a diet of all-politics, all-the-time.) There are plenty of journalists working the D.C. beat who can give you the latest score in the Democrat-Republican football game, and there’s usually not a lot of value-added factor in my joining the scrum covering those stories. But the activities of fringe kooks who seldom make the front page of the Washington Post — yeah, that’s amusing, and often I can have a story like that nearly all to myself.
  2. The future always begins on the fringe — Until the 2003 Lawrence v. Texas decision, the same-sex marriage movement was just a lot of angry noise from crazy gay people, but that Supreme Court ruling (and especially Justice Kennedy’s “emerging awareness” doctrine) immediately provided the legal basis for the Massachusetts court decision that mandated same-sex marriage. In the past 10 years, despite the fact that a majority of states have passed constitutional amendments to forbid recognition of same-sex marriage, activists in the media have made this issue so “mainstream” that no one dares even speak out against it for fear of being condemned as a hater. Likewise, when the first anti-war protest marches mobilized after the 9/11 attacks, opinion was strongly in favor of war, and both the 2002 and 2004 elections seemed to be repudiation of the radical protesters. Yet the next two elections, in 2006 and 2008, turned sharply against Republicans in large measure because of anti-war sentiment. In 2012, Mitt Romney was unable to articulate any important GOP criticism of Obama’s foreign policy, despite the obvious failure of Obama’s “Arab Spring” policy, because Republicans know they cannot win elections now as the pro-war party.

By successfully mainstreaming left-wing fringe movements, Democrats effectively deprived Republicans of two legs of what Richard Viguerie has called the “three-legged stool” of Reagan-era conservatism. Seemingly incapable of arguing over social policy or foreign policy, the GOP has effectively limited itself to arguing about fiscal/economic issues, only to discover the the Democrat “free stuff” platform has an inherent appeal to the so-called “low-information” voters whose mobilization was the key to Obama’s re-election campaign.

Yet to quote an old Red Rider lyric, “Lunatic fringe, I know you’re out there.” The alienated kooks who were attracted to the Left during the Bush era are still around, the same way ’60s refugees Squeaky Fromme and Sarah Jane Moore were still at large in 1975.

‘Daddy Issues’ as a Political Grievance

Look at how the Left is now trying to turn Barrett Brown into a mainstream figure, a heroic martyr for First Amendment freedom. Since his September 2012 YouTube meltdown that got him arrested for threatening an FBI agent, Brown has been celebrated as a “political prisoner” (!) by his fellow kooks who refuse to confront directly the abundant evidence that Brown was simply cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs.

December, 2010: Barrett Brown explains his plans on YouTube.

Barrett Brown was a heroin addict and, at a January court hearing, we learned that since his arrest, he has been prescribed Zoloft and Risperidon, powerful medications used to treat serious mental illnesses including depression and bipolar disorder.

Brown’s admirers choose to ignore this evidence, just as they ignore the glimmers of truth that emerged in his paranoid rants:

When I was seven years old, I first heard the term FBI. I don’t remember exactly the context. I did know that my parents were fighting a lot, that my dad would sometimes get angry and throw things at my mom. Uh, some of that I don’t remember; apparently I blocked it out, but it happened; uh, and part of the reason for that was because my dad was being indicted by the FBI. At the time, he had made several million dollars, after moving to Dallas as a young man in real estate; and one of his partners had been apparently been involved in land-flipping, which is so illegal and dangerous that it must be responded to, even, even the possibility of it, with a massive FBI response, regardless of the consequences for other people involved. Anyway my dad was found not guilty and apologized to by the judge sometime later, after he had spent most of the last of his money, uh, on lawyers – and the rest hunting in Africa; it’s not entirely the FBI’s fault. Ah, but it impacted me a lot, and I went from living in a nice house in Highland Park, one of the nicest communities in America, to living in a uhh, two-bedroom apartment with my mom and grandma, and sharing a bed with my mom for the next year, when I was in third grade. She taught me to meditate and whatnot; it was a great learning experience for me.
The fact that my complaint, my original complaint about the FBI, is that I’m no longer rich because of it, is a pretty small complaint in terms of what people go through every single day, because of not just the FBI but law enforcement and governments across the world.

“So, tell us about your Daddy issues, Barrett.”

Have any of Barrett Brown’s admirers attempted to verify this story that Barrett tells about his father? Not that I’m aware of.

My guess is that if you did investigate this story, you would find that Brown’s version of events is at odds with the actual facts of his father’s case. Nevertheless, the reader sees — and you can watch the YouTube video of this rant — how Brown uses this narrative to justify his hostility not only toward the FBI but also toward “law enforcement and governments across the world.”

The Quest for Cosmic Justice, as it were.

What is remarkable is that this transcript of Brown’s rant comes from the “Free Barrett Brown” Web site. Any of his admirers could read this transcript and, if they had the least bit of training in psychology, recognize the essentially personal nature of Brown’s insane rage.

Barrett Brown was crazy, and if you don’t see this — if you take seriously all his paranoid gibberish about a government conspiracy against him involving Jennifer Emick, HB Gary, Aaron Barr, Tom Ryan, Alan Everett, et al. — then you should seek psychiatric help.

In fact, however, you’ll find that many of the people who share Brown’s radicalism have already been diagnosed with mental illnesses. They’re on Zoloft, Prozac, Paxil, Wellbutrin, Effexor, and other heavy neurochemical treatments that suppress their symptoms without addressing the underlying personality disorder. Many of them, of course, are undiagnosed and untreated, self-medicating with marijuana, alcohol or other drugs. But time and time again, you will find that when you scratch a radical, a lunatic bleeds.

Via the “Free Barrett Brown” page, for example, you can find audio of Barrett’s August 2012 interview with John Tiessen. Recorded barely a month before Brown’s epic meltdown, the interview is remarkable primarily because John Tiessen is dangerously crazy — a convicted sex offender and admitted liar:

“I know I’m guilty. . . .
“The coke whore that I picked up promised me a blow job if I gave her coke and then she tried to renege on it, and I said, ‘No, you’re going to do it.’ . . .
“I’m a f–king true freedom fighter. I’m not one of these f–king wannabes.”

John Tiessen, ranting on YouTube

The very fact that Tiessen admired Barrett Brown is evidence of how the relationship between a radical leader and his followers is often a folie a deux. Once you know that Barrett Brown was crazy — and I take credit for having been one of the first to recognize just how nuts we was — then you realize to what an extent all such radicalism is not a response to legitimate grievance, but symptomatic of mental illness.

The Occupy Wall Street movement was a kook-magnet that attracted lunatics, perverts and criminals of every imaginable variety, a smorgasbord of derangement that was nonetheless celebrated by the liberal media as an authentic grassroots protest. Mainstream liberalism lost interest in the Occupy movement, and many pretended that the endorsement of prominent Democrats like Barack Obama and Nancy Pelosi hadn’t actually happened, once the disgraceful criminality of the movement made it unpopular. Yet the radical resentments the Occupiers stirred up among the alienated fringe have not dissipated, even if they are no longer manifested in organized protests.

It is wrong to dismiss these kooks as irrelevant to mainstream politics, because the mainstream influences the kooks even while the kooks influence the mainstream. When I first took notice of Barrett Brown, more than a year before I made him the central focus of “Narcissism, Isolation and Trolls” in December 2010, he was such a fringe figure that people wondered why I paid him any attention. But now we see allegedly serious people taking Barrett Brown quite seriously.

Seek psychiatric help immediately.

 

Category: Culture, History

Democrat Fundraiser Sentenced to Probation in Weird Stalking Case

Posted on | August 27, 2013 | 39 Comments

Nadia Cavner is a wealthy Missouri financial adviser who raised more than $100,000 for President Obama’s 2008 campaign and contributed $8,000 for Democrat Sen. Claire McCaskill.

Nadia Cavner is also the Crazy Mom From Hell:

Prosecutor Brian Coleman read a list of allegations during Friday’s court hearing. Coleman said Cavner’s daughter had a boyfriend when she attended Emory University in Atlanta, but they broke up and he moved to Memphis.
The man, identified only as P.M., then began dating someone else in Memphis, Coleman said.
From July 2011 to November 2011, Cavner harassed P.M. in efforts to get him to break up with his new girlfriend. Cavner had an employee send the ex-boyfriend an anonymous letter questioning his judgment for breaking up with her daughter.
Attempts at intimidation escalated when she asked private investigators to follow and conduct surveillance on the couple. The ex-boyfriend also received demeaning voicemails and a harassing letter in his mailbox at the University of Memphis, which he attended. . . .
Cavner then discussed the possibility of someone becoming violent with the ex-boyfriend, but not to the point of killing him.
“You know, break an arm or two,” Cavner is accused of saying.
Cavner also discussed a drive-by shooting to scare the couple. The drive-by would have been blamed on gang members, Coleman said.
Investigators eventually contacted the FBI. Prosecutors said Cavner spent $26,000 to harass her daughter’s ex-boyfriend. . . .

Moral of the Story: Never date a Democrat’s daughter. They’re crazy.

 


Category: Crime, Democrats, Missouri

LIVE AT FIVE: 08.27.13

Posted on | August 27, 2013 | 9 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho


TOP NEWS
Kerry: Use of Chemical Weapons In Syria “A Moral Obscenity”

Secretary Kerry on the case!

Talk, talk, talk…it’s only talk!

Bo Xilai Reveals Wife’s Affair With Deputy As Trial Ends
Prosecutors call for “no leniency”

Yosemite Fire Levels Berkeley Summer Camp
Giant fire threatens San Francisco reservoir, three towns



POLITICS
Debt Ceiling Looms, Treasury Secretary Claims

SecTreas Jack Lew: “Oh no! Not buying the BS! Plan B!”

Implores Congress to act quickly

Zimmerman Lawyer Asks Florida To Cover Up To $300K In Legal Bills

Missouri Legislature Meets To Consider Overriding Gov. Nixon’s Veto Of Tax Cut Bill

Feds To Restore Cuts In Mineral Payments To States

New Mexico Judge OKs Gay Marriages

Conservative Group Pressures McConnell On Obamacare Funding

Boys To Be Tried As Adults In Beating Death Of WWII Veteran

Critics Pan Pork In Immigration Bill  – $1.5 Billion “Youth Jobs Fund” Cited

Chicago Loses Court Challenge To Vacant Building Registry

Veterans Administration Workers Reap Bonuses Despite Claims Backlog



THE ECONOMY, STUPID
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Ackman’s Pershing Capital Sells Stake In J.C. Penney For $504 Million
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McDonald’s Menu Overhaul To Include Wings
Bankrupt American Airlines Posts Record Monthly Profit
Argentina Defies Court Ruling With New Debt Swap Plan
With Ballmer Retiring, Tech World Awaits White Smoke From Redmond
Apple, Google Remove Some Technology Restrictions On Iran
Facebook rolls Out Shared Photo Albums
Come And Get It: Feedly Pro Hits General Availability
Google Chromecast Update Blocks Local Media Streaming App
PRC Server Jammed In Largest Mainland Hacker Attack



SPORTS
Dickey Looks Forward To 2014 After Jays Beat Yankees

Knuckleballer notches 10th win of season

No joy for Yankees from Jeter’s return as Jays snap skid

Powered By Pierzynski: Rangers Blast Mariners 8-3

A’s Hold On For 8-6 Win Against Tigers


Mets’ Harvey Has Torn UCL, Done For Year

Twins’ Mauer To Remain On DL With Concussion

Royals Rout Rays 11-1 In Makeup of May Game

Dual Dingers In 9th Launch Astros Past Pale Hose 10-8

Craig’s Grand Slam Carries Card Past Reds And Into NL Central Lead



FAMOUS FOR BEING FAMOUS
Ciara: The Hip-Hop Star Gets Down And Girly

Cover girl Ciara

The Meryl Streep of hip-hop?

Miley Cyrus Team “Freaking Out”, Robin Thicke “Bummed” After VMAs

Brooke Shields: Cyrus’ VMA Act “A Bit Desperate”

Parents Television Council Blasts MTV’s VMAs For “Serving Sex To Teens”

Taylor Swift To One Direction: Shut The F- Up!


Justin Timberlake’s ‘N Sync Bandmates “Upset” He Scaled Back Songs For Reunion

Tina Fey, Amy Poehler Approached To Return As Golden Globe Hostesses

Vin Diesel Receives Star On Hollywood Walk Of Fame

Fat Joe Turns Himself In To Prison For Tax Evasion

“12 Monkeys” Drama Gets Pilot Order At Syfy

Rihanna To Play Josephine Baker In Upcoming Biopic



FOREIGNERS
UN Inspectors Renew Syrian Chemical Attack Probe
UN: NSA Hacked Internal Communications
Brazilian Foreign Minister Resigns Over Bolivian Politician’s Escape
Chicoms: PRC-Japan Summit Unlikely
Russian Lawmaker Proposes Ban On Gay Blood Donations



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Category: Live at Five

‘And It Just Blew Up’

Posted on | August 26, 2013 | 196 Comments

Heteropatriarchal slut-shaming? Hell, I thought I was just making fun of a celebrity, until @Andria_XX enlightened me, and she had no idea what hit her when her Twitter timeline blew up with reactions to her Master’s degree in Gender Studies mini-lecture.

So now it’s “cyberbullying” and “rage tourism” of which I’m accused.

Let’s explain to @Andria_XX what happened: Sooper Mexican was searching Twitter for reactions to the Miley Cyrus VMA performance, and found that “heteropatriarchal” comment and Zilla Tweeted it to my attention. I had been working on something else, but once I saw that, I said, “This other thing can wait,” and did a Miley Cyrus post to highlight that ludicrous jargon: “heteropatriarchal.”

That’s not a word normal people use, which is why the question occurred to me, “Who is this person?” And . . . Gender Studies.

Quod erat demonstrandum.

OK, so @Andria_XX had fewer than 200 followers and had never in her life gotten as much Twitter attention as she got this morning.

It’s like when I got Tweeted by Alyssa Milano or William Shatner — except not in a good way — so she freaked out.

But she wasn’t being cyberbullied or stalked, she just happened to be the person who had the Stupidest Twitter Comment of the Day.

Did I mention that @Andria_XX is Canadian? No, but she did:

Actually in Canada, which again is where I live, you can be criminally charged for twitter harassment.

Very well, then. I do a blog post about you. You do a blog post about me. Who is harassing whom, @Andria_XX?

 

Category: Feminism, How This Here Internet Thingy Works

#FreeKate Mom Defining Deviancy Down

Posted on | August 26, 2013 | 107 Comments

A few weeks ago, I used “The New Abnormal” as the title of an American Spectator column about Sydney Leathers and the Anthony Weiner scandal, and it’s also fairly apt for this example:

“My issue is this. These people are making Kate look like some pervert, some deviant because this happens to be girl/girl. People can deny that all they want, but its the truth. A senior boy would get a pat on the back for dating a freshman girl, it happens ALL the time, its happening at Sebastian High school and every other high school TODAY! . . .”

(Maybe it’s happening to your kids, Kelley, or to the kids of the other scummy no-account trash you seem to associate with, but it’s not happening to my kids, and if I found out it was happening to my kids, somebody would be in big trouble. Excuse me for interrupting. Now I’ll let you keep digging that hole for yourself.)

“Freshman girls, date, go to the prom, have relations with senior boys all the time . . .”

(Now that you bring up this subject, what about the claim that you let Kate’s sister Emily date a 20-year-old when she was only 14? Do you consider that perfectly normal, too?)

“. . . no one calls the boys perverts or deviants. They are making it some sick twisted, and dirty because its a lesbian relationship. BUt its NOT. Its kids, being kids. . . . .”

(You really should proofread your Facebook messages, Kelley. Or were you writing this while drunk?)

“Its 2013, kids are sexting in middle school. . . .”

(And you know this . . . how?)

“Do i like it, or approve NO but it doesn’t make these kids deviants or sex offender come on!! . . .”

(Ungrammatical sentence full of errors come on!!)

“This is a HORRIBLE situation and parents better be praying and getting on board to change these laws because any of you, could be next!!”

Kelley Hunt Smith never mastered basic grammar, and we can’t expect her to employ logic in her arguments, but the combination of bad writing, bad logic and bad morals is frightening.

Even if she believes her own childish “everybody’s doing it” argument, does she expect responsible adults to be persuaded by it?

But does Kelley Hunt Smith actually know any responsible adults?

If her kids were arrested for robbing a liquor store, Kelley Hunt Smith would be arguing, “Well, everybody’s robbing stores nowadays.”

She’s right about one thing, though: Parents “better be praying” — that their kids never get mixed up with skanky trash like Kelley’s kids.

UPDATE: This summarizes my attitude pretty well:

 

Category: Kaitlyn Hunt
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