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Rule 5 Sunday: Super Double Coverage Illness Makeup Edition

Posted on | April 7, 2013 | 16 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Last week’s compendium was derailed by the flu or some other vile illness; going to unleash both weeks’ contributions at once by way of reparation.
Exercise discretion in opening the links, for not all of them are safe for work.

Really, really late (as in omitted from the last Rule 5 collection two weeks ago): EBL presents Rule 5 Ballet.

Last week, Laughing Conservative had Lisa Dergen, Redneck Insurrection had Rule 5 Friday, as did Animal Magnetism, who then changed things up with Asian Invasion Saturday. Randy’s Roundtable offered Lisa Poole,  while Ninety Miles From Tyranny had a threefer featuring Girls With Guns, Hot Pick Of The Late Night, and Late Night Ladies. Also, Morning Mistress! Reaganite Republican showed Miss Uruguay 2012, First Street Journal wonders if all Finland’s female troops are blonde, and Fishersville Mike reminds us that Big Bang Theory (and Kaley Cuoco) will be back for a seventh season.

A View From The Beach had Vikings!, Jobs Program, Ashley Judd, “Do You Know The Way To Bankruptcy?”, No. Next Question. Is Body Paint Legal? Gentlemen Don’t Really Prefer Blondes, and Amaryllis.

Soylent Green’s Monday Motivationer was Malena, followed by Tuesday Titillation Paulina, Bravo Canuckistan!, Humpday Hawt Jelena, A Week In Siberia, Miss Carbon Come 2013 Winner Is…, Chain Bra Linky Love For The Truth About Guns, Corset Friday Fever, Overnighty Classic Shannon Long, and Your AM Amber.

EBL brought back Amanda Marcum for an encore after Florida Gulf Coast U fell; Proof Positive’s Friday Night Babe was Lauren Cohan, his vintage babe was Blaze Starr, and Heidi Klum covered the Sex In Advertising beat. Also, Ashley Judd, Ladies carrying concealed, and a celebration of his fifth blogversary with Marilyn and a cake.  Dustbury offers Roz Greenwood and Ashley Judd, and at The Camp of the Saints, it’s Jodie Gasson and The Rule 5 News.

The DaleyGator’s DaleyBabes included Gretchen Rossi, Courtnie Quinlan, Arianny Celeste, Wednesday Beauty, Christine Milian, Carla Gugino, Jessica Cribbon, Kenya Moore, Hot Nurses, Lauren Anderson, Mallika Sherawat, Japanese Sunday, Emma Ceolin, Shattered Dreams, and Jessica Biel.

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Category: Rule 5

The Little Girl Was Kidnapped and Raped — Thank You, Governor Jerry Brown!

Posted on | April 7, 2013 | 26 Comments

Chandler’s Ghost reminds me of a story I’d really rather forget: The kidnapping and sexual assault of a 10-year-old girl in Northridge, California, by two career criminals who never should have been out on the street. There are layers and layers of horror in this story.

First of all, the girl was kidnapped at knifepoint from her own home in the middle of the night by two complete strangers in what police say was a “hot prowl” burglary that escalated. One of the suspects, Daniel Martinez, is in custody and, evidently, thought he was just going to be driving the getaway car for a burglary. Instead, the other suspect, Tobias Dustin Summers, kidnapped the girl. Martinez wanted no part of that crime, so he split the scene. Summers then took the girl to a nearby abandoned house, where he sexually assaulted her — and took nude photos of her — before the girl was finally dropped off at a shopping center several miles away. Someone spotted her walking barefoot through the parking lot, battered and bruised.

Compounding the harm — as if that weren’t bad enough — consider this: The girl’s mother discovered her missing shortly after she was kidnapped. This chubby redheaded girl’s name and photo were published and broadcast everywhere during the 12 hours when she was missing:

After she went missing, the girl was initially identified by The Times, citing authorities. However, it is the policy of The Times not to identify victims in cases of alleged sexual crimes.

Oops. Now her identity is known to everybody in the community — teachers, classmates, neighbors. At least she is alive, but to understand how badly was she victimized, it is necessary to say only this: Summers has been charged with 36 counts of sexual assault.

Thirty-six counts.

And neither Summers nor his accomplice should have been out on the street. Headline from the Los Angeles Times:

Suspects in kidnapping, sexual
assault of girl have long records

Less than a year before this girl was kidnapped, Martinez was convicted of “threats of death or great bodily injury,” which you might think would have kept him locked up a while, considering his previous convictions for burglary, petty theft, grand theft, resisting a police officer and unlawfully entering a property. But no, here he is out on the street within a year, wheelman for his jailbird buddy, Summers:

According [to] court records, Summers has convictions for receiving stolen property, grand theft, possession of an explosive and presenting false identity to police. In 2009, he was convicted of battery. Originally, he was also charged with annoying a child, but it was dismissed.

“Annoying a child”? I’m not exactly sure what that charge describes, but here’s the rancid icing on the rotten cake:

LAPD officials said [Summers] was released from custody in July 2012 under realignment.

“Realignment”? Better brace yourself for this one, folks:

The Cornerstone of California’s Solution
to Reduce Overcrowding, Costs, and Recidivism
In 2011, Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. signed Assembly Bill (AB) 109 and AB 117, historic legislation that has helped enable California to close the revolving door of low-level inmates cycling in and out of state prisons. It is the cornerstone of California’s solution for reducing the number of inmates in the state’s 33 prison to 137.5 percent of design capacity by June 27, 2013, as ordered by the Three-Judge Court and affirmed by the U.S. Supreme Court.
All provisions of AB 109 and AB 117 are prospective and implementation of the 2011 Realignment Legislation began October 1, 2011. No inmates currently in state prison have been or will be transferred to county jails or released early

Ah . . . not so much, eh? What was sold to the public as a beneficial “solution” was, in fact, a quiet surrender to the fact that California is slouching toward bankruptcy and had to cut costs, even if that meant endangering 10-year-old redheaded girls because the state couldn’t afford to keep creeps like Tobias Dustin Summers locked up.

As if that weren’t enough to make you want to scream, there’s just one more tiny detail: Summers got busted on a probation violation in January, but was turned loose within a week. And this was really a matter of policy, as our California friend Chandler’s Ghost points out:

It would be unremarkable if the prisons simply couldn’t afford to hold prisoners, though it would be bad enough. However, in 2011 Governor Jerry Brown signed a sweetheart deal with the corrections officers’ union that gave them unlimited vacation payout upon retirement and extra monthly cash if they got physicals once a year, among other benefits.
What we see here, then, is a government agency unable to perform its basic duties because of the deals that it made with taxpayer-supported labor. Criminals are allowed back into the  society that is supposed to be protected by the prison system.

In other words, dangerous career criminals get released from prison early, so that the prison guards can get extra retirement benefits.

I’m sure one little redheaded 10-year-old girl is happy about that.

Tobias Dustin Summers is a fugitive and is now believed to be in Mexico, after he was seen crossing the border at Tecate a few days ago.

 

Category: California, Crime

Harassment Is Not Journalism

Posted on | April 7, 2013 | 17 Comments

Bill Schmalfeldt of Elk Ridge, Maryland, a.k.a. “Liberal Grouch”

“If you’re so concerned about your safety, don’t come to Maryland.”
— Jim Brewer, Howard County (Md.) Assistant State’s Attorney

People who don’t use Twitter may not understand what it’s like when someone starts sending to your “handle” unsolicited messages full of accusations and obscenities. This is what Bill Schmalfeldt does to people he targets for harassment: He monitors their Twitter account and sends harassing messages to them, as well as to people he sees associating on Twitter with his targets. It is the persistence of Schmalfeldt’s obsessions with his targets that qualifies what he does as cyberstalking.

I have previously described how Schmalfeldt began cyberstalking Aaron Walker in June, when he sent these messages to Walker:

2670. Sun Jun 03 19:55:53 +0000 2012, liberalgrouch, 209372854213558273,
@catsrimportant can someone point me to something written about this Aaron Walker case that was NOT written by some right wing shithead?

2669. Sun Jun 03 20:30:58 +0000 2012, liberalgrouch, 209381683034722305,
@AaronWorthing Are you really comparing yourself with MLK?

2668. Sun Jun 03 20:42:09 +0000 2012, liberalgrouch, 209384499425976320,
@AaronWorthing I know next to nothing about this case. What did Kimberlin say you allegedly said/tweeted/google that proved threating?

2667. Sun Jun 03 20:42:39 +0000 2012, liberalgrouch, 209384626899255296,
@AaronWorthing Forgive me for asking, but I have some strong views about the First Amendment and I’m researching this story for my blog.

2666. Sun Jun 03 20:42:54 +0000 2012, liberalgrouch, 209384689511841792,
@AaronWorthing I promise. No one will come to get you. 😉

2665. Sun Jun 03 21:10:29 +0000 2012, liberalgrouch, 209391629881192448,
@AaronWorthing Well, certainly a new Twitter chum can recommend to another new Twitter chum a website he might find interesting, say wot?

The nature of Schmalfeldt’s obsession became obvious when he began to escalate his campaign of harassment, expanding his target list to include myself and other of Walker’s friends. The situation gradually got bad enough that, on the Sunday before Election Day — while I was in Ohio covering the final push of the presidential campaign — I felt the need to call attention to what Schmalfeldt was doing: “Monsters on the Internet: Sociopathic Sadism and Bill Schmalfeldt’s Madness.” Three weeks later, during the Thanksgiving holiday weekend, Schmalfeldt sent me more than 200 harassing Twitter messages in the span of 48 hours, including a message in which he threatened to contact my wife.

Schmalfeldt’s motives for this weird behavior have been a subject of speculation. There are those who say that Schmalfeldt is being paid by convicted bomber Brett Kimberlin, or by persons associated with Kimberlin, and that what Schmalfeldt is doing is part of a deliberate effort to intimidate or discredit those who write about Kimberlin’s criminal past as Indiana’s notorious “Speedway Bomber.”

I remain agnostic about these theories because (a) there is no firm evidence of any such payment, and (b) crazy people don’t need rational motives to do crazy things. So whether Schmalfeldt’s harassment is hired thuggery or amateur insanity is ultimately irrelevant to this fact: It is evil.

Evil, however, is not necessarily criminal. And describing the evil that Bill Schmalfeldt does cannot stop him from doing what he does.

Fish gotta swim, birds gotta fly, stalkers gotta stalk.

John Hoge and others have attempted to have Maryland authorities prosecute Schmalfeldt for his harassment, with no success so far. This illustrates a problem with law enforcement that has become increasingly apparent since I began covering the Brett Kimberlin story last May, namely the tendency to dismiss such harassment as “just a bunch of crazy people arguing on the Internet.” Which would be true, except:

  • Many of the people targeted as enemies by Kimberlin (and Kimberlin’s avowed associate, Neal Rauhauser) are being harassed for no other reason than the fact that they wrote about Kimberlin’s criminal past, or defended those who did;
  • The harassment is, to an extent, demonstrably an attempt to silence political opponents of Kimberlin, whose 501(c) organizations have been funded with more than $2 million in contributions under the pretext of pursuing various progressive “social justice” issues, including election-fraud claims and crusades against high-profile individuals and organizations including Karl Rove, Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce;
  • To intimidate Kimberlin’s opponents, people have had their employment situations jeopardized and their reputations attacked with unsubstantiated accusations of criminal wrongdoing; and
  • Because many of the targets of this harassment are citizen-journalists who use Twitter as a vital tool for gathering news, communicating with sources, and promoting their work to readers, the constant barrage of unsolicited hostile Twitter messages from persons like Schmalfeldt hinders their ability to do their jobs.

Ask anyone who has been subjected to this pattern of harassment — Mandy Nagy, Aaron Walker, Patrick Frey, Lee Stranahan, Ali Akbar, et al. — what it’s like to be besieged by a swarm of Twitter trolls, knowing full well their malicious motives, and then to see friends turn their heads because they don’t want to get involved, or because the trolls have managed, through the repetition of accusations, to cast a shadow of unfair suspicion around their target.

You can call that whatever you want — I call it cyberstalking and harassment — but don’t you dare call it “journalism.”

In an effort to encourage officials to take this online evil seriously, John Hoge has declared Monday — tomorrow, April 8 — “Everyone Blog About the Howard County State’s Attorney Day.”

Do it.




 

 


Category: Bill Schmalfeldt, Crime, Journalism, Maryland, Terrorism, The Kimberlin Files

Neo-Pagans Taking Over GOP?

Posted on | April 7, 2013 | 64 Comments

Liberals have spent decades warning that Christian conservatives were attempting to use the Republican Party as a vehicle to impose their theocratic beliefs on America, I guess that’s why nobody was looking when the Wiccans, Druids and Odinists took over:

A New York City councilman who was arrested Tuesday in an alleged plot to rig this year’s mayoral election is a “prince” in a cult that practices an ancient pagan religion, the New York Post reported Saturday.
Republican Dan Halloran, a councilman from Queens, converted from Catholicism to the pagan belief known as “Theodism” in the 1980s. Members of Halloran’s group “wear medieval garb, make sacrifices to multiple gods and compete in combat games” as part of “the pre-Christian Germanic religion, whose believers drink mead or whiskey from horns and dress like characters in a Renaissance fair,” the Post‘s M.L. Nestel reported. Halloran was “publicly flogged and lost a spear-throwing contest as part of his Theodish punishments,” and formed his own tribe of Theodish followers known as New Normandy, according to the Post report. . . .

You can read the rest at ViralRead. I got it via Memeorandum and the Daily Mail. It’s hard to keep from laughing when you read about people whose “religion” involves spear-throwing contests.

The more you learn about this nonsense — read the Wikipedia page about Ásatrú — the more childishly ridiculous it is: Play-acting as Norsemen, in a cult that was started in 1976 in Watertown, N.Y., by a guy whose previous gig was as founder of “The Coven Witan of Anglo-Saxon Wicca.”

The good news is that very few Americans are stupid enough to fall for that kooky stuff. As Lisa Graas reported in 2011, a survey found 768,400 Neo-Pagans in the U.S. (0.28% of the population), which is larger than the CNN audience, but still too small to really matter in politics.

Some people take CNN seriously, however . . .

 

Category: New York, Religion, Republicans, Scandal

Legislation Via Regulation

Posted on | April 7, 2013 | 5 Comments

by Smitty

Because the Constitution is, like, over 100 years old, we can safely ignore the notion of representative democracy.

Category: Uncategorized

Bill Schmalfeldt’s Very Bad Idea
UPDATE: Maryland Resident Brandishes AR-15, Recently Banned in Maryland UPDATE: Schmalfeldt’s Gun Is a Toy UPDATE: No, Says Schmalfeldt, He’s Actually Armed; Dangerous? Maybe

Posted on | April 6, 2013 | 28 Comments

Bill Schmalfeldt never gets any good ideas, so it takes a particularly bad idea for me even to bother noticing. Remember, Schmalfeldt is the guy who got banned from Daily Kos for his grossly offensive writings about anal sex. Schmalfeldt is habitually dishonest, and one of his most heinous lies involved a vicious attack on Andrew Breitbart’s memory:

In July, Schmalfeldt created a Web site called “Big Damnation” which he promoted with a Twitter account called @DeadAndrew that mocked Breitbart as supposedly repenting his conservative “sins” (and denouncing his former colleagues) while suffering in Hell.
Bill Schmalfeldt is a remorseless liar and, after this vile project was exposed, Schmalfeldt deceptively used his phony “Bill Matthews” alias at the Examiner to promote his dishonest (anti-Breitbart) version of this controversy. In doing so, Schmalfeldt (a) defended Brett Kimberlin and (b) pretended that he wasn’t responsible for the “Big Damnation”/@DeadAndrew atrocity, as Lee Stranahan has explained.

As I said, Schmalfeldt never gets any good ideas, but this latest one is particularly bad: “Team Kimberlin” T-shirts!

For obvious reasons, no decent human being would link any site run by Bill Schmalfeldt, and I can’t help but wonder: How much do would-be members of “Team Kimberlin” know about the man with whom they would be associating themselves by buying those T-shirts?

Brett Kimberlin, the “Speedway Bomber” — what do they know about him? Do they know about Vietnam veteran Carl DeLong, whose leg got blown off by one of Kimberlin’s bombs? And do those “Team Kimberlin” members know about the little girl whose grandmother got shot to death in what investigators believed was a murder-for-hire plot?

“For three consecutive summers, 1974 through 1976, they took vacations of a week or longer in Disney World, Mexico, and Hawaii. Sandi couldn’t get time off from work, so on these summer trips it was just the two of them — Brett and Jessica.
“Eyebrows levitated. A drug-dealing colleague had memories of conversations with Kimberlin that struck him as odd: ‘We’d see a girl, who was pubescent or prepubescent, and Brett would get this smile and say, “Hey, what do you think? Isn’t she great?” It made me very uncomfortable.’ Another recalled Kimberlin introducing Jessica as ‘my girlfriend,’ and if irony was intended, it was too subtle to register. To a coworker . . . Sandi confided that Kimberlin was ‘grooming Jessica to be his wife.’ To another, Sandi explained that although Kimberlin’s relationship with Jessica was chaste, he intended ‘to wait for her and would marry her.’”
— Mark Singer, Citizen K: The Deeply Weird American Journey of Brett Kimberlin, Page 78

There’s just so much to learn about Brett Kimberlin:

As thoroughly despicable as Brett Kimberlin is, it takes an especially depraved character to admire Brett Kimberlin.

And few characters are more depraved than Bill Schmalfeldt.

UPDATE: Schmalfeldt would be easier to hate, if he weren’t so hopelessly stupid that you almost feel sorry for him:

Almost, I said . . .

UPDATE II: Well, if Che Guevara gets a T-shirt . . .

UPDATE III: Further scrutiny of the photo in which Schmalfeldt appears to brandish an AR-15 reveals that the gun is, in fact, a toy.

UPDATE IV: OK, so Schmalfeldt’s been all up in my timeline on Twitter this morning, accusing me of “libel” and insisting that indeed he was brandishing a genuine AR-15 rifle in that photo he posted to the Internet. Therefore, I apologize for my mistake in correcting what I previously thought was a mistake, and hereby correct the record by stating that Bill Schmalfeldt is in possession of a semi-automatic weapon with a high-capacity magazine and, probably, lots of ammunition.

Also, he’s crazy as hell. But there’s never been any doubt about that.




 

 

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Category: Bill Schmalfeldt, The Kimberlin Files

FMJRA 2.0: Main Sequence

Posted on | April 6, 2013 | 2 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Teaching by Example

Why Did Those Racist Crackers at CNN Keep Roland Martin From Being a Star?

#SC01 UPDATE: Mark Sanford Cites His Vote for DOMA in Local TV Roundtable

Bostic Campaign ‘Surging’ Before Runoff?

Will Folks: ‘My Sacred Honor Requires Me to Endorse DCCC Fundraising Poster Boy’

FMJRA 2.0: No Bicycles

Sometimes, It Really Matters

The Final Push in South Carolina: Candidate Showdown at Aunt Chilada’s

LIVE AT FIVE: 04.02.13

Fear and Loathing in the Lowcountry UPDATE: Trail Hiker Wins GOP Runoff

LIVE AT FIVE: 04.03.13

Illinois Family Institute ‘Hate Group’; Racist Murder Gang, Not So Much

My Thing, Your Thing, Our Thing UPDATE: Apparently, It’s #WAR

LIVE AT FIVESIX: 04.04.13

Amanda Marcotte: So Dangerously Crazy, Even Conor Friedersdorf Fears Her Now

‘Undocumented Workers’: Dating Underaged Girls Americans Won’t Date

Teen Sex News: Federal Judge Orders ‘Morning After’ Pills for Underage Girls

Did SiteMeter Commit Suicide?
UPDATE: It’s Working Again, But Unfortunately, My Traffic Sucks

Classic: Anti-Gun Pennsylvania Mayor Drunkenly Seeks Oral Sex — at Gunpoint

Top linker this week was The (Perhaps Slightly Less) Lonely Conservative, with seven links. Nobody else came even remotely close. ;_;

Deadline for submitting links to next week’s FMJRA is Friday, April 12.

Category: FMJRA Award

‘Billions and Billions and Billions’: Biden Has No Comment on Fisker Failure

Posted on | April 6, 2013 | 15 Comments

“This is seed money that will return back to the American consumer in billions and billions and billions of dollars of good new jobs.”
— Joe Biden, Oct. 27, 2009

“With the help of UAW lobbying efforts for advanced vehicle manufacturing and federal dollars, the plant will become a production facility for Fisker Automotive, a new American car company that plans to produce 100,000 electric hybrid vehicles per year by 2014.
“GM’s former Wilmington [Delaware] assembly plant was selected for its primary global production facility based on its size, production capacity, access to shipping ports and rail lines, and skilled workforce.”
— United Auto Workers, February 2010

“Once again, the American public lost when the Obama administration attempted to pick ‘winners and losers’ in the free market. Today the electric car company Fisker Automotive, which received nearly $200 million in taxpayer money, is laying off three-fourths of its U.S. workers.”
— Sarah Palin, April 5, 2013

When Democrats piss away taxpayer money on useless boondoggles, they always do so while proclaiming their noble intentions, and the credit they get for their good intentions is sufficient to excuse their failures in the eyes of media stooges who consider it a career duty to help elect Democrats. It was therefore a rare moment in October 2011 when ABC News reported that Fisker — the company that Biden declared would bring automaking jobs back to Delaware — had instead pocketed its taxpayer-subsidized federal loans and was building cars in Finland:

But two years after the loan was announced, the company’s manufacturing jobs are still limited to the assembly of the flashy electric Fisker Karma sports car in Finland.
“There was no contract manufacturer in the U.S. that could actually produce our vehicle,” the car company’s founder and namesake told ABC News. “They don’t exist here.” . . .
Fisker Automotive, backed by a powerhouse venture capital firm whose partners include former Vice President Al Gore, predicts it will eventually be churning out tens of thousands of electric sports sedans at the shuttered GM factory it bought in Delaware.

Friday, we got the inevitable denouement:

Green Jobs: Taxpayer-Funded Fisker
Will Lay Off 75% of Workforce

Really, this is a drop in the bucket, compared to the “punch to the gut” unemployment situation, for the simple reason that Fisker never employed many Americans: Its U.S. workforce was only 200 people, of whom 160 got laid off Friday.

Twitchy is on the story, as are William Teach at Right Wing News, Rick Moran at American Thinker, Paul Swansen at Liberty News and the Washington Free Beacon. Yet when we consider the laudatory media fanfare that accompanied Biden’s 2009 promise of “billions and billions and billions of dollars of good new jobs” for his UAW buddies in Delaware, it’s strange to notice how the usual suspects of liberal journalism show no interest in following up on the story. Has anyone in the White House press corps bothered asking the obvious question?

Not that Joe Biden could actually answer any such questions — the man is a complete ignoramus about economics — but why won’t the media at least ask these questions, and get his stupid self-serving excuses on the record? Well, heaven forbid that the media should ever be honest enough to acknowledge that Sarah Palin was right . . .

 

Category: Economics, Environmentalism, Joe Biden, Sarah Palin
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