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Speaking of Terrorists …

Posted on | September 11, 2012 | 9 Comments

. . . it’s the 11th anniversary of 9/11, and the Truthers are blaming Bush again. Jimmie Bise Jr. says he’ll take the Truthers to the woodshed tonight on his award-winning podcast, The Delivery:

While you’re eagerly anticipating that epic ass-whupping, let’s talk about another terrorist, a guy named Brett Kimberlin.

Maybe you’ve heard of him.

William J. Hoge has posted a link to attorney Dan Backer’s Aug. 16 “Motion to Compel Discovery of Defendant Kimberlin” in Aaron Walker’s lawsuit against Kimberlin, Neal Rauhauser and Ron Brynaert, and it’s a doozy, folks. I’m not generally a legal-document fanboy, but Backer really rips Kimberlin apart in this one.

Kimberlin is attempting to evade discovery — i.e., the process by which evidence and testimony are obtained in civil proceedings — and Backer notes one tactic on Page 6 of his motion (click here to read it on Scribd):

Defendant Kimberlin has arbitrarily selected a date [Dec. 15] approximately four months away in which he has stated he will answer the discovery with various defensive motions including sanctions against Counsel.
Defendant Kimberlin has stated he selected this date because: “I am cooperating with the FBI and other law enforcement officials regarding several issues involving your client and I believe that the resolution of those matters will have a bearing on this case.” . . .
Given Defendant Kimberlin’s history, Counsel takes him at his word that he has in fact contacted the various law enforcement agencies he asserts. His complaining of harassment to law enforcement, however, is unremarkable. Defendant Kimberlin has repeatedly attempted to have Plaintiff arrested . . .
Yet, absent an independent request by a law enforcement agency, Defendant Kimberlin’s complaining to law enforcement about Plaintiff is insufficient to delay discover in this case, which is already eight months old. The reasoning put forth by Defendant Kimberlin appears simply to be another delaying tactic to thwart discovery and, by extension, justice in this case.

What Backer is describing here is Kimberlin’s typical “accuse the accusers” tactics: Kimberlin has always — always — attempted to discredit his antagonists by accusing them of criminal wrongdoing. If you’ve read Mark Singer’s 1996 book Citizen K: The Deeply Weird American Journey of Brett Kimberlin, you know that Kimberlin has never — never — admitted guilt for the crimes of which he was convicted and sent to prison. Instead, he blames others, defaming the police, prosecutors, witnesses and judge in his 1981 trial. While in jail awaiting trial in the Speedway Bombing case, Brett Kimberlin plotted the murders of the prosecutor and a key witness against him:

Brett C. Kimberlin schemed to elude justice with a series of bizarre plots designed to murder, maim and rob his enemies, create havoc . . . and discredit the chief government prosecutor. . . .
On sheets of yellow legal pad, Kimberlin asked another inmate in the Marion County Jail to arrange for the murder of Bernard L. (Buddy) Pylitt, the former first assistant U.S. attorney who coordinated his prosecution.
The offer contained a list of 10 names, including a potential prosecution witness, Robert Scott Bixler. Some names had crosses next to them. These indicated those marked for murder, it was learned. . . .

Kimberlin remains unrepentant for his crimes, and the dishonesty of his denials has turned his entire existence into one vast lie, including his false accusations against Aaron Walker. And now, in his attempt to evade discovery in Walker’s lawsuit, Kimberlin claims that he is “cooperating with the FBI and other law enforcement officials”!

Hey, FBI: Why don’t you ask Brett about Julia Scyphers?

Julia Scyphers was the grandmother of a pre-teen girl Kimberlin was said to be “grooming.” She was shot dead at her home in 1978. Authorities told Joe Gelarden of the Indianapolis Star they believed the Speedway Bombings were a misguided effort by Kimberlin to distract police investigating the Scyphers murder. Her murder is still an open case, although an eyewitness identified a member of Kimberlin’s drug-smuggling gang as the trigger man.

Kimberlin is an inveterate and shameless liar, who was convicted of perjury before he graduated high school and who has been called a “top-flight con man.” It is an injustice and a disgrace that an infamous criminal like Kimberlin should be permitted to continue harassing such an innocent and honorable citizen of Virginia as Aaron Walker.

Pray that the courts of the Commonwealth will rectify that injustice.

UPDATE: Linked by Dan Collins at The Conservatory — thanks!

UPDATE II: Linked by Bill Quick at Daily Pundit who laments “that 9/11 itself has become a sort of degraded political dog whistle used to ‘expose anti-Muslim bigots.'” Indeed, I was watching MSNBC today — I watch, so you don’t have to — where Jonathan Capehart of the Washington Post seemed to be arguing that the worst consequence of 9/11 was that it unjustly cast suspicion on Muslims. The resemblance between this idiotic attitude and the “anti-anti-Communist” posture of some liberals during the Cold War is, I think, not entirely accidental.

Category: Aaron Worthing, Terrorism, The Kimberlin Files

LIVE AT FIVE: 09.11.12

Posted on | September 11, 2012 | 4 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho


TOP NEWS
Poll Shows Obama, Romney Close Among Likely Voters

President Obama

Poll respondents still think economy sucks and Romney would be better at fixing it

Xi Jinping’s Absences Stoke PRC Rumor Mill
Sick? Injured? Fallen out of favor with CCP? Nobody knows

In Chicago Strike, Teachers’ Pay Not The Only Issue
Parents angry; debate intensifies over implications for Mayor Emanuel, the future of public schools and public-sector unions



POLITICS
Obama Scores Narrow Lead In August Fundraising

Mitt Romney speaks to workers in Mansfield, Ohio

Outside groups spending tilts $83 million/$30 million against Obama, however

Akin: No Plans To Drop Out Of Missouri Senate Race

Bill Clinton Summons The Spotlight For Obama

Romney Clarifies Position On Health Coverage

At Flight 93 Memorial, Secretary Of Defense Reflects On 11th Anniversary Of 9/11

Congress Expected To Pass Stopgap Spending Bill In Quickie Session



THE ECONOMY, STUPID
Seasonal Gasoline Downturn, SPR Speculation Drops Oil Prices: NYMEX $96.27, Brent $114.62
Dollar Eases With Fed, German Ruling In Focus
AIG Stock Sale Repays Bailout As Federal Government Profits
Euro Rescue Fund Faces Hurdle In Germany
California Urges DOJ To “Probe” Eminent Domain “Threats”
JP Morgan Thinks iPhone 5 May Boost GDP
US Consumers Cut Credit Card Use For Second Month
HP Increases Job Cuts By 2000 To 29,000
Rates On T-Bills Mixed; Six-Month Bills Fall To Six-Month Low
Samsung To Sue Apple Over LTE Use On iPhone 5
GoDaddy Back Online After Hack Attack
Apple Device IDs Traced To Application Developer, Not FBI
Microsoft Opening 32 Temporary Stores For Windows 8 Blitz, Holiday Season
Toys R Us Jumps Into Tablet Game With 7″ Tabeo
“Pokemon Black & White 2” Early Purchasers Get Genesect Free



SPORTS
Ravens Spread Their Wings

Ravens QB Joe Flacco airs it out early & often

Ravens go no-huddle, whip Bengals 44-13

Jerry Lawler Collapses During WWE RAW Telecast

Parker’s Seven Solid Snap Angels’ Streak

White Sox Hit Three Homers, Beat Tigers 6-1 To Increase AL Central Lead To Three Games

Rockies Pitcher Alex White Homers To Beat Giants 6-5

NHL May Take Lockout Fight To Alberta Labour Board

Nationals Go Yard Three Times, Get Gonzalez His 19th Win



FAMOUS FOR BEING FAMOUS
Miley Cyrus Investigated For Criminal Battery After Hollywood Hotel Brawl

Miley Cyrus

Man claims Cyrus pushed him, hit him in the face, but according to police had no visible injuries

Blake Lively Wedding a Good Thing: Personalized By Martha Stewart

Amanda Bynes Pulled Over In LA After License Suspended


Gwen Stefani Proud Of Her Successful Marriage: “It Was A Dream Of Mine”

Jessica Simpson Flaunts Her Figure After Chowing Down In New York

Randy Jackson Closes Deal To Return As “American Idol” Judge

Peaches Geldof Totally Has Her Priorities In Order

Katy Perry & John Mayer Go To A Vegas Strip Joint

Sheryl Crow: My Brain Tumor May Be Related To Cell Phone Use
Sheryl Crow has a brain?



FOREIGNERS
Al Qaeda #2 In Yemen Whacked By Airstrike
PRC Dispatches Two Warships After Japan Announces Purchase Of Disputed Senkaku Islands
US Rebuffs Israel Over Iran “Red Lines”
Outsider Hasan Mohamud Wins Somali Presidential Election
India Cartoonist’s Arrest Sparks Outrage
Canadian Diplomat To Head UN Envoy’s Office In Syria
Taliban To Accept US Bases In Afghanistan?



BLOGS & STUFF
Sultan Knish: Whither Goest Thou, America?
The Looking Spoon: The Obama Campaign Should Rethink The Bin Laden Is Dead/General Motors Is Alive Memes
WyBlog: Name That Party! Trenton Mayor Tony Mack Busted For Corruption By FBI
Zilla Of The Resistance: I Will ALWAYS Be A New Yorker – My 9/11 Story
Byron York: With GOP Jittery, Romney Faces Test Of Resolve
Gateway Pundit: Media Up To Old Tricks, New Skewed Poll Actually Shows Romney Leading By Wide Margin
Rush Limbaugh: Obama Will End Chicago Teachers’ Strike
Lonely Conservative: Nearly 80% Of Chicago’s Eighth-Graders Not Proficient In Reading
John Fund: Chicago Bled Dry By Striking Teachers’ Union
Michelle Malkin: Chicago Thuggery Personified – Meet CTU Head Karen Lewis
Jawa Report: Pakistan Sees US As “Worst Enemy”
Allahpundit: Laura Ingraham Says If The GOP Can’t Beat Obama In This Economy, Shut Down The Party
Jay Cost: Did Obama Really Win The Summer?
Jammie Wearing Fool: Obama’s Pizza Boy Frets Over Lost Business
NRO Corner: Obama Regularly Skips Intel Briefings

Category: Live at Five

Rule 5 Monday

Posted on | September 10, 2012 | 9 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

I’m way behind the curve this week, so let’s skip the Obligatory Warning with its Doctor Strangelove references and get right to it.

Leading off this week is Laughing Conservative with some surprising Rule 5 Cat Deeley. EBL has a Cowboys cheerleader and then gets political with Scarlett Johansson and Natalie Portman before submitting the Rule 5 Twitter Retweet of the Week. Reaganite Resistance spotlights FNC’s Patti Ann Browne, while Randy’s Roundtable goes big with the Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders. Zion’s Trumpet doubles up with Lisa Angelina and Mariana Rios, and IMNSHO follows the First Street Journal’s lead, posting girls with guns. Speaking of which, First Street Journal has weapons training this week, while Senator Blutarsky assembles a dossier of Democratic Mistresses.

A View From The Beach proclaims “No More Seal Clubbing For Heidi Klum”, has an explanation for the Great Depression, the reason cat ladies are crazy (with obligatory Cave Girl content), Norah Jones, Redheads and Global Domination, Labor Day Pinups, and a boating safety video.

Proof Positive’s Friday Night Babe is Jordana Brewster, his vintage Babe is Dagmar, and the Sex In Advertising segment is hot off the grill. Dustbury has Tiffani Thiessen and Emma Watson this week, while Three Beers Later offers substitute lesbians and Laura Branigan (not a lesbian).

Soylent Green bats cleanup this week, starting with a Monday Non-Motivationer, Afternoon Awesome Harley, Back To School Spassfabrik, Humpday Hawt Yuliya Kizim, Thursday tumblr, Over Nighty, House of Corsetcare (no relation to the Haunted House of Lingerie), Catalina Robayo Goes Commando, OverNighty Aria, AM Awesome Jessica, and something about not washing the car because it’s raining.

Thanks to everyone for their linkagery; deadline for sending links to the  Rule 5 Wombat mailbox for next week’s roundup is Saturday, September 15.

Category: Rule 5

‘Corrupt Maryland Democrat’

Posted on | September 10, 2012 | 7 Comments

The phrase is kind of redundant, really:

Wendy Rosen, a small-business owner running against freshman Rep. Andy Harris (R) in the Eastern Shore-based 1st Congressional District, released a statement saying that “with great regret, and much sorrow” she was resigning from the contest.
“Personal issues have made this the hardest decision that I have had to make,” Rosen said.

Personal issues? Yeah, like vote fraud:

Rosen’s announcement came the same day the state Democratic party released a letter to state Attorney General Douglas Gansler and state prosecutors reporting the allegations against Rosen.
“The Maryland Democratic Party has discovered that Ms. Rosen has been registered to vote in both Florida and Maryland since at least 2006; that she in fact voted in the 2006 general election both in Florida and Maryland; and that she voted in the presidential preference primaries held in both Florida and Maryland in 2008,” wrote Yvette Lewis, the state party chair. “This information is based on an examination of the voter files from both states. We believe that this is a clear violation of Maryland law and urge the appropriate office to conduct a full investigation.”

Not that Maryland Democrats are actually against vote fraud, you understand. Probably some Democrat got tipped off that Republicans had found out about Rosen’s double-registration, and so they dumped Rosen to prevent her from causing an October meltdown once the GOP blew the story open.

How many other Democrats from Maryland are also double-registered in Florida? Enough to tip a close election? Yeah, but never mind: No ID required! — because that would be racist.

Category: Corruption, Democrats, Maryland

Do Sovereign Nations Name Their Capitols? Not According To Joe Kennedy

Posted on | September 10, 2012 | 11 Comments

by Smitty

Wikipedia gives the answer for the capitol of Israel correctly: Jerusalem. Prospective Massachusetts Democrat Representative Joe Kennedy III, not so much.

It’s not like the question was: “What is the capitol of Burkina Faso” (Ougadougou). Israel is among the top, oh, five foreign policy issues today. So it’s far from nit picking.

Sean Bielat for Congress

Because Senator John Kerry has more than filled the Congressional Upperclass Twit void left by Ted.

via Gateway Pundit

Update: linked at American Glob

Category: Massachusetts

Striking Teachers: When Omitting Letters, Avail Yourself Of The Apostrophe

Posted on | September 10, 2012 | 7 Comments

by Smitty

Another best practice: lay the sign out in pencil before using markers. In the plus column, at least this is hand-made:

Spelling c’unts

via Michelle Malkin

Category: Education, humor, Unions

Obama Campaign Fundraising Claim Deserves More Than a Few Grains of Salt

Posted on | September 10, 2012 | 14 Comments

August was not yet over when word got around during the Republican convention in Tampa that Romney and the GOP had raised more than $100 million in August — their third consecutive month of nine-digit fundraising. The Democrats had nothing to say in reply at that time. You could hear the crickets chirping at Obama HQ in Chicago.

OK, so overnight the Romney campaign announced a specific figure — $111.6 million — for August and immediately the Democrats answered with the claim that they’d raised $114 million, resulting in a blitz of headlines like this:

Obama beats Romney
in August fundraising
— Washington Post

Obama fundraising edges
out Romney in August
— CBS News

This news contributes to the sense of a shift toward Obama, but permit me to offer an important caveat: We won’t get the official Federal Election Commission reports for another 10 days, and the official numbers on those reports may add up to different totals than those announced by the two campaigns. There isn’t any law that requires campaigns to tell the truth in their public statements about fundraising, and if you think Democrats wouldn’t fudge the numbers in order to gain a 10-day advantage in the media narrative of the campaign, you have a far higher estimate of Democrat probity than I do.

Be that as it may, however, even if we take the total fundraising numbers at face value, there remains the question of “burn rate.”

Ever since May, we’ve seen the Democrats burning through campaign cash faster than they can bring it in. The Obama campaign has built a very expensive infrastructure, with high fixed costs for staff salaries, and they launched an early ad blitz this summer in key swing states, at a time when the Romney campaign was hoarding its resources in preparation for the fall season. Ed Morrissey at Hot Air calls our attention to this detail from a Politico reporter:

Romney’s campaign, including the RNC and state parties it raises money through, have about $168.5 million cash on hand. The Obama camp has not announced how much they have.

Right. Some readers may remember how angry I got toward the Gingrich campaign in March, when Newt was acting like he was still Mitt’s chief GOP rival at a time when it was obvious to me — and to any experienced observer — that his campaign’s burn rate was out of control and that they were running up huge debts with no chance to win, thereby hurting Santorum’s chance to stop Romney.

Manipulating perceptions is part of the game in politics, largely because so many people are swayed by bandwagon psychology and susceptible to confirmation bias, believing what they want to believe. If you aren’t braced to expect these manipulations, you can be misled. This was why the Romney campaign felt obliged to issue a warning against panic in the face of the post-convention media blitz suggesting that Obama’s already won the election. And this was also why I felt the need to remind readers of a campaign that faced an even worse blitz of slanted media coverage:

Sixty-four days remain in the 2012 presidential campaign. Election Day is nine weeks from tomorrow, both party conventions are now in the rearview mirror, and Mitt Romney’s uphill battle to unseat President Obama has reached its most crucial phase. Everything that happened before today was merely prelude to this, the heart of the fall campaign season, and no “expert” can confidently predict today what the final result will be on November 6.
These basic facts are important to establish at the outset of any discussion of the current state of the race, because there are many influential people who would like you to believe that the outcome of the election has somehow already been determined, and that they have clairvoyant insight on what that outcome will be. But why bring Nate Silver into this?
Silver is the poll-analyzing guru of the New York Times, whose reputation as a wizard was developed in crunching baseball statistics before being applied to political campaigns. On Saturday afternoon, Silver published an analysis which asserted that Obama now has a nearly 80 percent chance of winning the election, with 317 Electoral College votes and 52 percent of the popular vote. All of which is very interesting — and very important, if true.
However, baseball isn’t politics, and public-opinion polls are not batting averages or on-base percentages or any other such metric of past performance. Readers of Michael Lewis’s bestseller Moneyball may appreciate this distinction, especially if they have any extensive experience in following polls and election campaigns. For myself, to cite just one example, I recall the Sunday in October 2010 when I arrived in New York’s 25th Congressional District and was greeted by a Syracuse Post-Standard headline proclaiming that Democrat Rep. Dan Maffei had opened up a 12-point lead over Republican challenger Ann Marie Buerkle with barely two weeks remaining until Election Day. There was a mood of grim determination at the Buerkle campaign events I attended that Sunday and Monday, and I was far from certain that she could pull off an upset. On Election Night, the vote was “too close to call” and it was only after an extended recount that Buerkle was declared the winner — two days before Thanksgiving — by a margin of fewer than 600 votes. . . .

Please read the whole thing at The American Spectator.

 

 


Category: Barack Obama, Election 2012, Media Bias, Mitt Romney, Polls

White House: Blowing Off The Homework Is An American Tradition And Stuff

Posted on | September 10, 2012 | 4 Comments

by Smitty

Top 5 excuses for why the White House didn’t get the sequestration homework done on time:

  • Too busy golfing/fundraising
  • Taking cues from the anthropomorphic lint that is the Senate Majority Leader
  • Numbers are raaaaacist
  • Math is hahrd
  • Clint Eastwood stole my chair
Category: Democrats
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