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Report: Team Kimberlin Harassment Now Targeting ‘Blog Bash’ Event at CPAC

Posted on | March 7, 2013 | 21 Comments

‘Speedway Bomber’: Criminal terrorist Brett Kimberlin was convicted in 1981

Guests and sponsors of the fourth annual “Blog Bash” have been harassed by associates of convicted bomber Brett Kimberlin, the event’s organizer said Thursday.

Kimberlin associate Neal Rauhauser reportedly contacted the party’s venue Wednesday attempting “to gather information about Blog Bash, knowing that all of us will be in one room for the first time ever,” National Bloggers Club president Ali Akbar said in a report.

The caller “tried scaring” the venue’s staff, said Akbar: “This is harassment and nothing short of a threat.”

Since its inception in 2010, Blog Bash has grown to become the biggest private party at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC). At last year’s event, New Media entrepreneur Andrew Breitbart was recognized with the “Changing the Narrative” Award, the only journalism award he received during his lifetime. This year, the National Bloggers Club has renamed the award in honor of Breitbart, who died less than a month after being honored at Blog Bash.

The targeting of Blog Bash by Kimberlin is hardly coincidental. Andrew Breitbart himself warned before his death that “convicted domestic terrorist” Kimberlin and Kimberlin’s associates “need exposure.”

Kimberlin’s tax-exempt organization Velvet Revolution had called for criminal prosecution of James O’Keefe III and Hannah Giles for their 2009 video exposé of the left-wing group ACORN, which catapulted Bretibart’s online news operation into national headlines.

In October 2010, Breitbart published an account by Mandy Nagy (“Liberty Chick”) documenting Kimberlin’s criminal history as Indiana’s “Speedway Bomber.” In 1981, Kimberlin was sentenced to 50 years in federal prison for his crimes, but was released after serving only 17 years. By 2005, Kimberlin had formed two non-profit “progressive” groups that between them have since collected more than $2 million in donations, including substantial grants from foundations associated with George Soros, Barbra Streisand and the family of Theresa Heinz Kerry, wife of U.S. Secretary of State John F. Kerry.

Neal Rauhauser, a former Democrat political consultant, apparently joined forces with Kimberlin’s organizations in mid-2011, after Breitbart helped expose the sex scandal surrounding Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-N.Y.). Rauhauser had become obsessed with the conspiracy theory that Weiner was the victim of a hacking hoax. In fall 2011, Rauhauser represented himself as an agent of Kimberlin’s Velvet Revolution group in communications with organizers of the “Occupy” anti-banking protests. Rauhauser and Kimberlin have accompanied each other to court appearances, and Rauhauser’s specialty as an online troublemaker has been a major part of the controversy that resulted in “Everybody Blog About Brett Kimberlin Day” last May.

The National Bloggers Club’s defense of bloggers targeted by Kimberlin and Rauhauser has now apparently made the Club’s annual Blog Bash a new target:

My Blog Bash staff and I have been monitoring their online chatter for weeks now. They’ve harassed our sponsors, tried hacking into our personal Twitter and Facebook accounts, and now they’re trying to stop the National Bloggers Club from hosting our annual gathering of bloggers, Blog Bash. 

Read the whole thing.

UPDATE: John Hoge has extensively reported on Aaron Walker’s legal entanglement with Kimberlin:

Team Kimberlin just doesn’t get it. They’ve run up against a wall of bloggers who are determined to keep at the story until they’ve been brought to justice.

UPDATE II: Jeff Dunetz at Yid With Lid:

We will not be silenced. We will continue to fight for the truth. And we will have a great celebration of Blogging next Thursday night.
Want to piss them off? Donate a few bucks to the National Bloggers Club today.

UPDATE III: Jackie Wellfonder says, “WAR!”

UPDATE IV: Linked in a report by Oliver Barrie at Viral Read and also by Pete Da Tech Guy making the obvious point:

I think this is a huge mistake on their part, if you try to go after the odd blogger here and there online it’s pretty easy to convince a judge that it’s just some internet squabble.
However when you are harassing the organizers and venue of an event that draws significant guests from the political world and said event is held at a DC venue with some gravitas that’s a different story.

Pete also calls attention to a must-read post by Lee Stranahan about how Kimberlin’s crew have tried to expose Aaron Walker to make him a target of dangerous extremists.

 


Category: The Kimberlin Files

Senators Cruz And Lee Talking Doubling Down On ObamaCare Funding

Posted on | March 7, 2013 | 12 Comments

by Smitty

Byron York at the Examiner reports:

With Congress moving ahead on a continuing resolution to fund the federal government for the rest of the fiscal year, some Senate Republicans are proposing an amendment to delay funding the implementation of Obamacare — and they are threatening to stop the entire continuing resolution process unless their amendment is given a vote.
The amendment is the work of Texas Republican Sen. Ted Cruz, joined by Utah Republican Sen. Mike Lee. “I intend to object to consideration of any continuing resolution that does not include a vote to delay funding of Obamacare,” Cruz said in a press release Wednesday. Arguing that Obamacare will slow economic growth — already just 0.1 percent last quarter — Cruz added, “I believe we should continue to delay such funding at least until economic growth returns to historic averages.”

Slowing economic growth is one thing. The question I have is, if there is no balanced budget, and every time they revise the costs of ObamaCare, it goes up by a non-trivial number, how can we possibly be thinking of letting this monstrosity get funded?

York notes:

In the end, they will lose. It is highly unlikely that Cruz and Lee will receive a vote on their amendment, and even if they did, it would fail in a Senate with 55 Democrats. It is much more likely that Majority Leader Harry Reid would invoke cloture and at least 60 senators would vote to go forward over the Cruz/Lee objections and without considering their amendment. The end of the story, according to one Senate Republican not aligned with Cruz and Lee, is simple: “Reid files cloture and people don’t want to shut down the government.”

It would be a vote that would come back to haunt at least Mark Warner here in Virginia. Make these sunny beaches own the sand they’re kicking into our future.

Category: Health Care

Rallying To Find Ways That Lefties Are Not Completely Untrue RE Sequestration

Posted on | March 6, 2013 | 4 Comments

by Smitty

Americans for Prosperity sure isn’t Americans Trying To Help A Beleaguered Administration Find A Way To Navigate A Second Term. So, despite all the mean-spirited nit-picking of their post, this blog will, once again, fearlessly step into the breach, and try to salvage some of that tattered honor:

Fiction: FAA: “In one of the most immediate consequences of the pending spending cuts, the Federal Aviation Administration has informed contractors that … the agency will move Monday to close some 168 contractor-staffed air traffic control towers nationwide on April 1, and another 21 towers by Sept. 30, industry officials tell CNN.”– CNN 3/1/13
Fact: “Two days after a Federal Aviation Administration official told contractors that steps were being taken to shut down 168 air traffic control towers on April 1, the agency gave the towers an unexpected reprieve Friday, saying the official’s comments were ‘unauthorized.’”- CNN 3/1/13

Now, if by ‘close’ you mean ‘delay’, and by ‘168’, you mean ‘any positive integer’, then clearly we can connect sequestration with air travel delays brought on by the nor’easter to the capitol region today. Furthermore, for all George W. Bush is the pulsating heart of all universal evil, the White House has fallen short of blaming the weather on him or the GOP. Admirable. Read more

Category: Uncategorized

World’s Youngest Blogger Simulates Reaction To Incoming Drone Strike

Posted on | March 6, 2013 | 9 Comments

The WYB is not alone:

Category: World's Youngest Blogger

Rule 5 Wednesday: Snowed Out At The Tax Mines

Posted on | March 6, 2013 | 16 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho
Profound and abject apologies for the lateness of this week’s parade of pulchritude; pushed myself a little too hard and too long last weekend, and wound up too worn down to get any posting done on time. As usual, be circumspect as to where you open the links, as many of them are NSFW.
WyBlog leads off this week with a celebration of his one millionth hit featuring — who else? — Raquel Welch. Fishersville Mike notes Kelli Pickler‘s advent on Dancing With The Stars, Laughing Conservative presents Nazan Eckes, and Lowering The Boom pairs the Unspeakable Armenian with Irina Shayk. Subject To Change has a tasteful assortment of Rule 5, while Animal Magnetism offers Rule 5 Friday and the Saturday Gingermageddon. Conservative Counterpoint checks in with Dana Hamm, while Ninety Miles From Tyranny has a threefer this week: Lingerie Ladies, Hot Pick of the Evening I, and Hot Pick of the Evening II. The Pegu Blog returns after a long absence with a video review of Oakley’s “The Flask”. Yes, there is Rule 5 content! Blessed Blasphemy has sweater puppies! First Street Journal continues their tribute to women in uniform with the Portuguese Army. Also, Eye of Polyphemus is on Blake Lively this week.
EBL graces us with a whole herd of links this week, including kite flying (topless and otherwise), Diana Krall, House of Cards, Chris Matthews & Hillary (NMS), All This And Brains Too (via Instapundit), sleep, Nadia Lockyer Auditions For OAG, and Connie Hines. Also, Susan Stimpson!
A View From The Beach has a bunch of Christina Applegate pix in celebration of her nuptials, Sea Shepherds Committed Piracy, Found: Lost Continent (with cavegirl content), Seven Excuses For Another Cup Of Coffee, A Rumble In The Force, Way To Go Silvio!, Cavegirls Had Better Teeth, and Perfect Form.
Soylent Green submits a fine collection of NSFW snoochery, beginning with Monday Motivationer Lindsay, followed by Tuesday Titillation Nikki Anne, Humpday Hawt Mandy Dee, Fursday Featurette Kalin Olson, Corsetation Sequestration, Overnighty Sam Buxton, 4 Million Minions, Bath Night With Audrey, and A.M. Awesome Tasha.
Proof Positive’s Friday Night Babe is Adriana Sklenarikova, his vintage babe is Dyan Cannon, and the Sex in Advertising segment is Nina Agdal’s Carl’s Jr. Super Bowl Ad. Dustbury reminds us of Dorothy Stratten and Karen Carpenter. At The Camp of the Saints, it’s Lucy Collett and the Rule 5 News.
DaleyGator’s DaleyBabes this week include Anahi, a Bikini Model Photo Shoot, Hot Mexican Weather Gals, Raquel Pomplun,Dora Noemi Kerchen, Grace Kelly, Tianna Ta, Katrina Law, Jessica Cediel, Keke Palmer, Ashley Vee, Assorted Asian honeys, Arianny Cleste and Brittney Palmer, Chelina Manuhutu, more Dora, Marta Dabrowski, Lynn Allmendenger, Kana Yume, Michelle Sanchez, Angelique Boyer, The Hottest Race Car Driver Yet?,  a Rule 5 Linkfest, and Sabine Jerneljanova.
Thanks to everyone for their links! Deadline to submit links to the Rule 5 Wombat mailbox is Saturday, March 9.

Category: Rule 5

Lying by Euphemism: ‘New Revenues’

Posted on | March 6, 2013 | 8 Comments

Journalism is supposed to be about truth. Jackie Calmes and Jonathan Weisman of the New York Times are engaged in deception:

With Republican leaders in Congress forswearing budget negotiations over new revenues, President Obama has begun reaching around them to Republican lawmakers with a history of willingness to cut bipartisan deals.

“New revenues” = INCREASING TAXE RATES.

President Obama wants to RAISE TAXES, which Republicans oppose, but these lying bastards at the New York Times — dishonest partisan propagandists, endeavoring to assist their fellow Democrat — realize that the president’s proposal might be less popular if they described it truthfully, and so they begin with this 11-word dependent clause that hides the truth and shifts the blame:

With Republican leaders in Congress forswearing budget negotiations over new revenues . . .

In other words, if you buy what Calmes and Weisman are selling, you believe that the problem in Washington is that Republicans won’t negotiate, and that the ideal way to solve the budget problem is with “new revenues,” which could be had easily if weren’t for those Republicans “foreswearing negotiations.” As far as concerns the economic error in the underlying fallacy of their hidden premise, Ronald Reagan once explained that in a single sentence:

“We don’t have a trillion-dollar debt because we haven’t taxed enough; we have a trillion-dollar debt because we spend too much.”

Oh, to be back to the good old days, when the debt was only a trillion dollars! But of course, we can’t cut spending — President Scaremonger won’t let that happen — and therefore the question is how to raise taxes. Never mind that the government could actually collect “news revenues” if it would just stop strangling economic growth with its vicious policies.

No, in the fanatical brains of Democrats, it is necessary as a matter of “social justice” that the rich (however you define that term) be forced to “pay their fair share” (however you define that term). Words have actual meanings, except when Democrats are talking, and then you always have to ask yourself, “What do they really mean when they use words like ‘rich’ and ‘fair’?”

Once you know that someone is attempting to deceive you — and Calmes and Weisman have advertised their deceptive purpose in the first sentence of their article — then all you need to wonder is why they’re lying. Perhaps sinister motives inspire them:

“The object of terrorism is terrorism. The object of oppression is oppression. The object of torture is torture. The object of murder is murder. The object of power is power. Now do you begin to understand me?”

 That Orwell fellow was onto something.

 

Category: Barack Obama, Budget, Economics, New York Times

American Guts: #StandWithRand

Posted on | March 6, 2013 | 26 Comments

by Smitty

Rand Paul took the floor of the Senate around noon today for a good, old-fashioned filibuster. Spot on. The purpose is to find out just where the 5th Amendment line is on drone strikes on Americans on American soil. The direct effect of the filibuster is to threaten a delay of a vote to confirm John Brennan as CIA chief.

The last time this happened was, for a quick Google, Bernie Sanders in 2010.

Paul has been joined by Senators Mike Lee, Ted Cruz, and Jerry Moran, and given support by former Senator Jim DeMint. Senator Ron Wyden (D-OR) has made it bipartisan. Go, webfoot!

Let this be an important symbolic victory, and let it wake up the sleeping giant to the threat parked within our borders.

Live feed: C-SPAN

(h/t Becca)

Update: Soopermexican =>

Update II: linked by That Mr. G Guy. Thanks!

Update III: linked by The Lonely Conservative

Update IV: linked by God’s Own Crunk

Update V: linked by American Glob see also Legal Insurrection for important notes on how the Southern Poverty Law Center tries to smear this patriot.

Update VI: linked by The Camp of the Saints

Category: Uncategorized

Thoughts on Teamwork

Posted on | March 6, 2013 | 11 Comments

Have you ever hit Da Tech Guy’s tip jar? I have and you should. Have you ever contributed to the Protein Wisdom monthly fund drive? I have and you should. And how about hitting Jimmie Bise’s tip jar? Are you some kind of Commie bolshevik pinko sympathizer, or are you gonna do something to help these guys in the fight?

Well, I could go on and on suggesting bloggers who could use your contributions. It is the general idea that matters. As I once remarked, the world is divided into two kinds of people: Good people, and sons of bitches who never hit a blogger’s tip jar.

The spectacle of “MalaysiaGate,” about which I have written much already and plan to write more soon, brings to mind the subject of generosity and cooperation. Cynical sarcasm is my stock in trade. I’d be shortchanging my own tip-jar hitters if I didn’t make wisecracks like this:

Brutal dictatorships are bad things, and so are Republican bloggers who score fat consulting contracts and don’t cut me in on the action.

The self-deprecating humor is sincere. If powerful Malaysian interests had been willing to pay $400,000 to obtain the services of a natural-born smartass, how quickly would I have cashed that check? Immediately. 

Let’s not kid anybody. Honesty is a virtue, and it would be dishonest to present myself as morally superior to Josh Treviño, Ben Domenech and their friends, simply because I have never sought the kind of reputation that would make my services valuable to the ruling regimes of foreign nations. My intentional clownishness is a way of preventing myself from ever being tempted with such an offer, and also to prevent becoming the kind of self-important Serious Person whose colleagues laugh at him behind his back as the pompous douchebag he really is.

Please, laugh at my face, not behind my back.

And my face is mighty damned laughable, we must admit.

Being the court jester is a fun gig, and involves little responsibility, but I try to do my part as a member of the team, understanding that my success is dependent on the team’s success, and membership on the roster requires that I do work that is of value to the team’s common project. And this is just a 350-word preamble to an excerpt from an e-mail I sent in reply to a friend who had written to me about the MalaysiaGate story:

Ambition is a good thing. No one would get out of bed in the morning unless they had some expectation that their day’s labor would advance their own well-being. But unless ambition is wedded to morality — a sense of honor and duty — it will inevitably become a purely selfish thing. The sense of rat-race competition, the insatiable desire to exceed the fame and fortune of one’s peers, creates the idea that “everybody does it,” and that the only difference between winners and losers is that losers are insufficiently ruthless.
Loyalty must be a two-way street, and success requires teamwork. The selfish hot dog, who attempts to monopolize all the prestige of an organization by derogating his potential rivals and denying them credit for their share of the work, is seeking rewards he has not truly earned. Afflicted with narcissism, however, such people generally have the view that they are entitled to all they can get their hands on, that their personal excellence is such that they are born to rule over others, rather than to serve in any humble or obscure station. From the perspective of that worldview, the backstabbing and cronyism and conflicts of interest are just the way of the world, and anyone who criticizes those who succeed by such methods is merely envious at having been beaten at a game they were too stupid to play well. . . .
I understand that I’m playing a team sport. My success is not an isolated achievement, and I owe much to the assistance of others. Having been helped, I am obligated as a matter of duty to help others.
Generosity is not merely a moral obligation, but is necessary to the success of any cooperative enterprise. However great our personal qualities, however tireless our labors, none of us can succeed without the willing assistance of others. And such assistance is hard to obtain unless people are recognized and rewarded for their help.

Cynthia Yockey just called to tell me she wants to come to CPAC, but needs money to hire someone to watch her ailing father — for whom Cynthia is sole caregiver — for two or three days. I didn’t have time to listen to all her problems, much less to solve them myself, but I told Cynthia, “Don’t worry about the money. We’ll take care of that.”

Please don’t make me a liar. Go hit Cynthia’s tip jar now and read her excellent story about Commies, too.

 

Category: Blogging, Cynthia Yockey
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