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Allen West Concedes FL-18, Expected To Take Up Watercolors And Scrapbooking

Posted on | November 20, 2012 | 15 Comments

by Smitty

CNSNews has a writeup:

Saying it’s time to “move ahead,” Rep. Allen West (R-Fla.) announced Tuesday morning that he is conceding his House race to Democrat Patrick Murphy.
“I think that now is not the time to try to draw the process out,” West told “Fox & Friends.”
“We brought up some incredible voting irregulaties, not just in Saint Lucie County, but also some that we found in Palm Beach County, but now is not the time for the poeple down here in Congressional District 18 to be left in the lurch.”
West said “leaders don’t need a title in order to continue to lead and also to be a voice, and so I will continue to a citizen-servant of this great nation and do the things that help restore this constitutional Republic.”

If you incline the ear, you can hear the echo back in time from a CPAC 2013 speech where that patriot is going to raise him some roof.

via Twitchy

Category: Allen West, Florida

LIVE AT FIVESIX: 11.20.12

Posted on | November 20, 2012 | 2 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho


TOP NEWS
SecState Clinton To Visit Mideast In Pursuit Of Ceasefire

Secretary Clinton and President Obama in Cambodia

Leaving Cambodia today for Jerusalem, Ramallah and Cairo

South China Sea Dispute Overshadows Obama’s ASEAN Visit
Philippines object to “consensus” on negotiations with PRC

FBI: Four Southern California Men Charged In Terror Plot
Conspired to join Al-Qaeda in Afghanistan



POLITICS
Tax Hikes At Center Of Fiscal Cliff Talks

Orrin Hatch argues against raising rates on top earners

Massachusetts Offers Tuition Break To Illegals

Hobby Lobby Loses Bid To Block Obamacare

Federal Judge Nixes Nativity Displays In Santa Monica

NJ State Senator Introduces Early Voting Law

NYPD Officer Pleads Not Guilty To Cannibalism Charges

San Francisco Board Of Supervisors To Vote On Nudity Ban Today

Conservative Republicans Fight Back After Romney Loss



THE ECONOMY, STUPID
Oil Prices Retreat After Spiking On Gaza Fighting: NYMEX $89.28, Brent $111.54
Twinkie The Kid Reprieved: Hostess, Union Head To Mediation
France Downgrade A Blow As Eurozone Remains Split On Greek Aid
Bank Of Japan Independence: War Of Words Sparks Words On War
US Existing Home Sales Rebound In October
Dow Jumps 200 On Fiscal Cliff Hopes
Why The Wii U Will Make Or Break Nintendo
US Analysts Unimpressed With Windows 8
Fiber Optic Breakthrough Improves Internet Security Cheaply
Sony Announces PlayStation Mobile Developer Program
Internal Videos Show Why The Microsoft Kin Cratered
Why Leap Wireless Shares Popped



SPORTS
Kaepernick Gets Big Assist From Aldon Brown As 49ers Whip Bears, 32-7

Davis and Kaepernick celebrate in the first quarter

Kaepernick’s virtuoso outing creating a QB controversy for Niners?


Beckham Hanging Up His Spikes At LA Galaxy

Maryland Leaves ACC For Big Ten: It’s All About The Money

Spurs Lose Game To Clippers, Also Lose Jackson 4-6 Weeks

Afridi Says No To BBL After Getting PCB Clearance

Bud Light Approves Marlins/Jays Deal: “Seems Legit”

Hayward, Jazz Run Away From Weary Rockets

South Australia Suspends Dan Christian For Trashing Change Room

Hoyas Upset #11 UCLA



FAMOUS FOR BEING FAMOUS
Grand Finale: MC Hammer And Psy Close Out American Music Awards

MC Hammer and Psy do the horse dance

Pair close out AMAs with “Gangnam Style” and “2 Legit 2 Quit”, bringing down the house


Rihanna’s 777 Tour Group “Revolts” Against Singer

Judge To Revoke Lindsay’s Probation?

Olivia Munn: Dry, With A Twist

Selena Gomez Visits Hospital After Spending The Night With Justin Bieber

Jessica Biel: Working With Justin Timberlake Would Be So Much Fun

New Documentary Argues OJ Was Right

THR’s Actress Roundtable: Seven Stars On Nightmare Directors, Brutal Auditions, And Fights With Papparazzi

Jessica Simpson Reveals Sixty-Pound Post-Baby Loss



FOREIGNERS
Israel Puts Temporary Hold On Gaza Ground Operation
Congolese Rebels Take Goma
EU Backs Syrian Opposition Coalition
Islamabad High Court Dismisses Blasphemy Charges Against 14-Year-Old Christian Girl
Indian Social Media Users React Angrily To Arrest Of Facebook Posters
Hu Steps Away: Parsing The CCP’s Big Surprise



BLOGS & STUFF
Valley Of The Shadow: How Romney Lost California
Legal Insurrection: The Crazying Of Marco Rubio Begins
Riehl World News: Buzzfeed’s “How The Conservative Media Lost The Election”
Power Line: Obama’s Latest Foreign Policy Blunders
Lonely Conservative: While Obama Blundered, Hillary Slept
Gateway Pundit: New Hope For HoHos? Judge Orders Hostess To Mediation With Union
Questions & Observations: Would You Hire These People?
Daily Mail: California Poverty Rate Highest In America, Beating Out Florida And DC
Allahpundit: Pew Media Study Shows Obama Coverage Improved Dramatically In Final Week Of The Race
Washington Free Beacon: Administration Won’t Criticize Turkey’s Assertion Israel Is Terrorist State
Rush Limbaugh: The GOP Consultant Class Blames Me
Gates Of Vienna: State Department Moves Istanbul Process Forward
Protein Wisdom: New Study Shows Why Heavily Taxing The Rich Won’t Work

Category: Live at Five

“You’d Be Excited If Barack Ripped A Post Tex-Mex Back-Blast Next To Your Face”

Posted on | November 19, 2012 | 3 Comments

by Smitty

Misfit Politics serves the toilet humor straight up:

via Chris Loesch

Category: humor

HuffPo and the Homo-Supremacy Agenda

Posted on | November 19, 2012 | 36 Comments

The rah-rah from the cheerleaders has become so deafening that people don’t even hear the noise anymore, and can’t think clearly about what is being constantly shouted at them.


 

Pardon my blunt language. One of these HuffPo articles is particularly intriguing. You see, not all “political causes” are created equal:

After her daughter’s eighth grade math teacher wore an anti-gay marriage pin to school, Cynthia Deford, a gay parent in Port Angeles, Washington, started an online campaign to ban teachers from promoting political causes in the classroom.
The Steven’s Middle School teacher, who has remained unnamed, wore a button to class in the days before the Nov. 6 election that stated “No on 74: one man + one woman = marriage,” according to Deford. The political message refers to Washington’s Referendum 74, which legalized gay marriage in the state, passing with 52 percent of the vote.
Although Port Angeles School District Superintendent Jane Pryne told the Peninsula Daily News that the issue has been addressed, and the school district already has policy regarding politics in the classroom in place, Deford wants more to be done; she is calling for an official apology and sensitivity training for teachers.
“It just shocked me that it happened here,” Deford told the Peninsula Daily News.
In her online petition on SignOn.org, Deford wrote that her daughter came home upset after seeing a teacher — who she once thought highly of — wear such a discriminatory button in class.

She wants to “ban teachers from promoting political causes in the classroom,” but tolerance toward homosexuality . . . Well, that’s not political. That’s just the way things are. Unless you question “the way things are,” and then you’re evil.

So the agenda now is compulsory approval. Everyone must pledge allegiance to the Rainbow Flag, and once you are forbidden to disapprove of homosexuality, logically, your refusal to participate in gay sex will be classified as an unacceptable form of “discrimination.”

This isn’t about “equality” or “liberation.” No, it’s about homo hegemony, as the fanatics seek to secure a privileged and superior status for themselves and their preferences. That’s not disco music you hear, it’s the sound of hobnailed boots marching over broken glass.

Tolerance gradually reveals itself as totalitarianism, and it’s amazing that people acquiesce to such bullying. According to a recent Gallup survey, 3.4 percent of Americans identify themselves as “LGBT,” to use the de rigeur acronym. Why should 96.6 percent be compelled to kowtow to the sensibilities of the 3.4 percent?

Why are we constantly being hectored about issues related to “LGBT” when there are probably more Lithuanian-Americans than there are lesbian Americans? Should a minority be rewarded with extra attention just because they make obnoxious pests of themselves?

What was once “The Love That Dare Not Speak Its Name” has become The Alternative Lifestyle That Won’t Shut Up, and their constant yammering about it has become clichéd and repetitive.

Category: Culture, Gays, Huffington Post

Rhetorical Physics

Posted on | November 19, 2012 | 12 Comments

by Smitty

 

More fully: “If you discuss Democrat’s 80 year old ‘free stuff’ strategy, Democrats say you’re racist, and establishment Republicans say you’re mean and divisive. This is pure insanity.”

In the Newtonian realm, we talk about force being the product of mass and acceleration. That’s the 2th Law.asdf For those who’ve spent the last few years leading a parched herd of horses to water and wondering why they vote for thirst, I’d like to suggest a Newtonian analogy.

The rational, intellectual, economic, historical, patriotic, liberty-oriented arguments that have been offered by conservatives everywhere from blogs to policy have been, well, massive.

Yet those arguments haven’t overcome the acceleratingly negative, emotionally-oriented racial and class-warfare rhetoric of the statists. The Left has a substantially greater negative vector  than that of the Right. Remember: enough speed in the wrong direction can weaponize a piece of insulating foam. Similarly, when dealing with people, a nonsensical argument delivered properly can devastate even the truth.

Why?

The facts don’t sell themselves. The stupefying Gramscian trajectory of the last decades has meant that no mass short of the Sweet Meteor of Death is going to budge our benighted electorate.

Thus, without losing any of the enlightened mass that has built up on the Right, the challenge is to uncover our own means of accelerating that mass in the public discourse. For example, had I the budget, I should look to run really short (15 second) spots in swing states at a low frequency, say quarterly. All thse would do is feature a snippet of family dialog pointing out how jacked up the Obama Administration policies are.

Kid: “I want to go to college.”
Parent: “We had to raid the college savings for gas. If you take loans, you’re a slave to the bank. Plus, you’re white, so you get no assistance. Because fairness.”

Vary the theme that liberty is giving way to patronage. Say it sharply, quickly, a thousand different ways.

The physics of the situation are ugly, but turning the inertia around is going to take a long time. Sorry. The quick fix was served with the free lunch. At Ché Bernanke.

Category: Uncategorized

UPDATE: Walker v. Kimberlin, Et Al. (Also: Why ‘Doxing’ Is Always Illegal)

Posted on | November 19, 2012 | 15 Comments

John Hoge’s latest news in the Virginia case of Aaron Walker v. Brett Kimberlin, et al., is that Walker’s attorney Dan Backer has filed motions for default judgments against Kimberlin’s co-defendants Ron Bryanert and Neal Rauhauser. Backer is requesting that the court in Prince William County schedule the hearing on this motion for Dec. 4, the same date as a hearing on Backer’s motion for procedural sanctions against Kimberlin.

Furthermore, Backer has filed notice that Brett Kimberlin has breached the court’s order on the sealed discovery for the fifth time.

It is perhaps about time to point out the hazards of amateurism illustrated here. As every student of Kimberlin’s criminal career knows, the Speedway Bomber became somewhat renowned as a “jailhouse lawyer” during his 17 years in federal prison, filing more than 100 actions on his own behalf. But what was his success rate? I’m not sure anyone has ever bothered to check.

So here we see Kimberlin as the defendant in a civil suit, representing himself pro se, in a case where the plaintiff Aaron Walker, although a trained and experienced attorney, has enlisted the services of the esteemed Dan Backer, Esq., to represent him.

Kimberlin evidently has taken this case lightly and/or has overestimated his ability to lie his way out of a jam, and as a result has committed numerous errors that may put him at an extreme disadantage as the case advances. In fact, it is entirely possible that on Dec. 4, the judge will find Kimberlin in contempt of court and have him spend a few days in the Prince William County Jail.

Meanwhile, the esteemed Dan Backer, Esq., methodically sticks to the law and the facts, with the effect of presenting the judge with a stark contrast between the two sides of the dispute: Humble law-abiding plaintiff Walker vs. arrogant scofflaw defendant Brett Kimberlin.

Now, ask yourself why neither Brynaert nor Rauhauser has bothered to respond to the Walker lawsuit, and the answer seems obvious: Kimberlin encouraged them to believe that he, Wizard of Jailhouse Lawyering, would succeed in getting the case dismissed before it ever got to the point of their being required to deal with it. If that was their belief, then it appears their faith in Kimberlin may be misplaced.

Judging from the filing for default against Rauhauser, it would appear that Neal is behaving like a fugitive from justice at this point, which may or may not relate to the federal case against Barrett Brown that I wrote about last night. Among other things, Brown is accused of conspiring to “dox” an FBI agent and, while his co-conspirator in that (alleged) crime is not named in the indictment, Brown’s acquaintance with Rauhauser certainly would make Neal a possible candidate as “another person known to the grand jury.”

It is interesting to note, in this connection, another lesson about the hazards of amateurism. While researching the Brown case yesterday, I came across a site called “Occupy Peace,” run by a liberal lawyer named Sue Basko. Her purpose is to help keep protesters and “activist” types out of jail, and in writing about the indictment of Barrett Brown, she says this:

IS COUNT TWO ABOUT “DOXING”?
YES. Count Two alleges that Barrett Brown asked someone to find info on the internet about the FBI Agent, and someone searched on the internet for such information.  The indictment does not state that the information was ever found or ever posted; it does not need to be.  The Conspiracy allegedly exists because the two people, Barrett and someone else known to the grand jury, allegedly agreed to commit this crime.  If two people agree to commit a crime and some step is taken in furtherance of the crime, conspiracy exists.

Maybe Barrett Brown should have consulted Sue Basko before he began making threats to against an FBI agent and the agent’s family, and conspiring with “another person known to the grand jury” to publish “restricted information” about them. It’s against the law to “dox” a federal employee, that is, to publish their private information — home address, etc. — in order to expose the employee to harassment or intimidation. Furthermore — and some of the script-kiddies are going to be shocked by this — “doxing” is illegal no matter who the target is, as Sue Basko elsewhere explains:

Doxing is always illegal, whether it is done against a federal employee, a state employee, or a regular person.  There are federal and state laws that specifically address doxing government employees.  With regular citizens, doxing falls under various state criminal laws, such as stalking, cyberstalking, harassment, threats, and other such laws, depending on the state.  Since these doxing threats and activities are made on the internet, the law of any state may be invoked, though most often an investigator  will look to the state in which the person making the threat is located, if this is known, or the state in which the victim is situated.  A state prosecutor can only prosecute violations of the laws of his or her own state, and of acts that extend into their state.  When acts are on the internet, they extend into all the states.
Misinformation was spread that doxing is legal.  I am not sure how or why anyone fell for that misinformation.  Surely, people must understand instinctively, even if they were misled about the law, that if they are threatening someone or putting them at risk, or tormenting or harassing the other on the internet, that this must be illegal.  Common sense would tell you that bullying or jeopardizing another would be illegal in some way.  So yes, doxing is illegal, no matter who the target.

What has Neal Rauhauser been doing for the past year and a half? What has Rauhauser done to Patrick Frey, Aaron Walker, James O’Keefe, Mike Stack, Lee Stranahan, Jennifer Emick, Ali Akbar and so many other of his targeted enemies? Has Rauhauser been “threatening someone or putting them at risk, or tormenting or harassing” these people?

Whether or not Neal Rauhauser has committed any felony, misdemeanor or tort against these people, we must leave to the judgment of qualified authorities. But to say that what Neal Rauhauser has done is wrong — well, that’s just a Neutral Objective Fact.

UPDATE: By the way, we should be extraordinarily grateful to Sue Basko for her common-sense explanation of why “doxing” is always illegal. This prompts the question, as she says, of why anyone ever fell for the “disinformation” that it was legal.

I’ve got a hunch that this mistaken belief originated in the anonymous/pseudonymous world of hackers and trolls, where nobody’s “real life” identity is known and where, behind the presumed protection of anonymity, people do all kinds of things they would never do publicly under their own names. We see this, for example, in the case of notorious Reddit troll Michael “Violentacrez” Brutsch.

No one would have openly done, under their own name, what Brutsch did at Reddit: Create and monitor a “jailbait” forum featuring photos of underage girls. Yet Brutcsh believed, and his Reddit hosts and fanboys shared his belief, in an absolutist view of “free expression” that included the right to anonymity as a principle.

To quote another Texan: “Oops.”

Within troll world, the people who engaged in “doxing” did so in the belief that their identities would never become known, and so this clearly illegal form of harassment — publishing people’s addresses, workplace phone numbers, etc., in order to intimidate them and expose them to harm — became an accustomed behavior that seemed to them entirely right and legal.

So when Barrett Brown became angry at an FBI agent, he did so inside a troll mindset where “doxing” is a routine method of retaliation.

“Oops.”

Category: Barrett Brown, Crime, The Kimberlin Files

The 2016 Campaign Begins

Posted on | November 19, 2012 | 30 Comments

Marco Rubio goes to Iowa:

Seven hundred people turned out to see the Florida senator at the annual  birthday fundraiser bash for GOP Gov. Terry Branstad. Rubio had the spotlight  all to himself — he said he was merely here to help the governor mark his 66th  birthday, but no one believed it for a minute.

Having spent most of the past two years covering the 2012 campaign, I’d hoped for at least a brief respite. Nevertheless, when the nation’s most charismatic young Republican figure travels to the Hawkeye State, it’s an obvious signal: He’s interested. “Testing the waters,” as they say.

But I’m not going to start covering the 2016 campaign this early. I mean, let’s wait until after the 2014 mid-terms, at least.

Heck, we haven’t even finished the navel-gazing post-mortem “What Does It Mean?” aftermath phase of the 2012 campaign.

On that front, Gabriel Malor makes a point:”We lost an election, not an argument.”





Category: Marco Rubio

What? Terrorists Lie?

Posted on | November 19, 2012 | 11 Comments

If they are willing to fire missiles randomly at innocent people, why would anyone expect the murderous thugs of Hamas to be scrupulously honest? Having figured out that victimhood is the measure of righteousness in the eyes of Western liberals, the terrorist regime in Gaza is busy exploiting this propaganda angle with the assistance of useful idiots in the media, as Melanie Phillips reports:

Last Friday, a number of papers along with outlets such as CNN in the US published prominent footage of the Egyptian Prime Minister Hisham Kanil weeping over the body cradled in his arms of a dead child, Mahmoud Sadallah, who Hamas claimed had been killed in an Israeli air strike. Blogger Elder of Zyon smelled a rat and, piecing together convincing circumstantial evidence, had concluded by this morning that the child was almost certainly not killed by an Israeli strike – not least because on Friday morning when the child died the Israelis had paused their bombing missions to allow for cease-fire talks in Gaza to proceed — but by a Hamas missile that was fired at Israel but had fallen short in Gaza. Now experts from the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights who visited the site on Saturday have said they believe that the explosion that killed Mahmoud Sadallah was indeed caused by a Palestinian rocket.

Via Memeorandum. And as Tom Blumer at Newsbusters points out, CNN’s Sarah Sidner proclaimed this dead girl “a symbol of civilian casualties . . . another victim of an airstrike.”

Sidner’s report was missing exactly one word: “NOT.”

 


Category: Israel, Media Bias, Terrorism
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