LIVE AT FIVESIX: 09.05.12

After the car trouble that turned my trip home from Tampa into a three-day ordeal, I had hoped to spend a few days at home before going back out on the campaign trail, but . . . well, a sudden change of plans.

Meanwhile, it appears that the ever-amusing Barrett Brown has decided to throw in with Neal Rauhauser. Yesterday, Brown popped up on Twitter threatening to sue me, demanding I call him, etc. Readers may recall that Brown made himself the public spokesman for the international criminal conspiracy known as “Anonymous,” and was subsequently raided by the FBI at the time of the LulzSec arrests. Brown himself, however, was not arrested, which led to the obvious suspicion that he was one of the “unindicted co-conspirators” cited in the charges against the hackers. In case you’ve forgotten why this matters, I’ll remind you of the headlines:

Barrett Brown evidently considers it libelous to suggest that he would actually co-operate with law enforcement to help apprehend and prosecute criminal hackers. Therefore, I will state for the record that Barrett Brown hates cops and, in fact, Barrett Brown wishes violent death on all law enforcement officials. He is a dangerous outlaw, a menace to society and Public Enemy Number One.

This probably won’t be accepted as a “retraction,” however — it’s damned if it you, damned if you don’t with this guy — so whether I describe Brown as a violent radical anarchist, a gutless snitch, or a laughably pompous douchebag, he’ll still threaten to sue me, which was the subject of my e-mail to him last night:

First of all, spare me your lawsuit threats. Ever the publicity-seeking opportunist, you chose to make yourself the spokesman for an international criminal conspiracy, and if the consequences of that foolish decision did not cross your mind, that’s not my fault.
It was blindingly obvious to me, the minute I heard of this, that you could not speak for Anonymous unless you were in communications with its members and privy to their plans. The FBI seems to have reached the same conclusion.
The references to an “unindicted co-conspirator” in the LulzSec indictments? Well, who else could that possibly refer to? If not you, then it must have been Gregg Housh, with whom you announced a six-figure book deal shortly before the LulzSec raid went down.
While I am not aware of exactly how the FBI solved the case, I assume it was pretty easy once you announced yourself as the Anonymous spokesman: All they had to do was get a wiretap warrant to monitor your communications and, eventually, you would lead them to members of Anonymous. Once other members were identified, they would in turn be put under surveillance, and so on.
This was a typical narcissistic error, and a typical narcissistic response: You think you’re such a fucking intellectual giant that all your schemes will succeed, and when they fail, you start hunting around for scapegoats to blame, because it’s impossible for you to accept responsibility or admit to yourself that you’re not as smart as you think you are.
Your narcissism and your anti-social resentments are thus inextricably intertwined: You consider yourself superior to others and blame society for not recognizing your superiority. In the last e-mail I had from you, in March 2011, you wrote: “Why should the states hold a monopoly on violence? As long as it’s directed towards the state and those who act with it, violence is quite appropriate. … [I]t’s hard for me to get upset about my fellow anarchists attacking armed riot cops for any reason they choose.” This hatred of authority is symptomatic of an anti-social personality and yet, in typical narcissistic fashion, you think of such an attitude as evidence of your superiority: “All smart people think like me. I hate cops. Therefore, anyone who doesn’t hate cops is stupid.”
Or consider, for example, your use of YouTube: Arrogant lectures, the basic theme of which is your own superiority and contempt for anyone you dislike. You bounce from one embarrassing failure to another, yet none of your failures ever convinces you that you’re on the wrong path, or that you have overestimated your own abilities. You have no real friends because, knowing your own inner worthlessness, you have a special contempt for anyone who admires you. You serially alienate would-be friends until eventually your enemies list encompasses the entire world, but the root of your problem is not other people — it’s you, hiding your emotional weakness behind a fragile façade of bravado.
You don’t need a lawyer, Barrett. You need a psychiatrist, or perhaps a priest to exorcise your demons. You are traveling a road to destruction, as harmful to yourself as to any of your chosen enemies. Get help.

Arrogant sociopathic punks think they can go around threatening people and if you dare say a word back to them, you’re the bad guy.

Speaking of punks, an obscure talentless assclown named Bill Schmalfeldt is threatening to sue Aaron Walker.

Patterico has important background and urges readers to go contribute to Aaron’s legal defense fund.

Category: Aaron Worthing, Barrett Brown

DNC Platform Lets Hamas Off the Hook

Posted on | September 4, 2012 | 12 Comments

Jeff Dunetz reports:

Comparing the language of the 2008 Democratic Party Platform and the 2012 Democratic Party Platform a key section was removed.

That section called for isolating Hamas “until it renounces terrorism,” so now, evidently, Democrats are OK with Hamas terrorism.

Press statement from Matt Brooks, executive director of the Republican Jewish Coalition: “This administration is painfully out of touch with the mainstream of the Jewish community, which knows that Jerusalem is the capital of Israel, and that it must remain the undivided capital of the Jewish State of Israel.”

As I’ve been saying for some time, this isn’t your father’s Democratic Party. This is the Sirhan Sirhan wing of the Democratic Party.

Category: Democrats, Israel

Best CSI Episode — Ever!

Posted on | September 4, 2012 | 16 Comments

Except it actually happened:

Cops probing the deaths of a couple pulled from a river found a purple sex toy, duct tape, a computer hard drive and cable ties on their hired boat, it emerged yesterday.
Officers also retrieved a blood-stained sheet stuffed into a carrier bag, a laptop, screws, brackets, lengths of cable and two tubes of lubricant gel.
Last night police said the woman had been strangled and was dead before hitting the water. Her death was being treated as suspicious.

You don’t say. Laura W. at AOSHQ comments:

Also Sun reporter, why do I need to know the color of the sex toy? Really? Is this the important detail here?

But Laura, this could be a telltale clue! “Sherlock Holmes and the Mystery of the Purple Dildo.”

Category: Crime

VIDEO @PaulRyanVP: ‘Four Years Into a Presidency and It’s Incomplete?’

Posted on | September 4, 2012 | 13 Comments

Interviewed Sunday on KKTV in Colorado, President Obama was asked to grade his presidency and gave himself an “incomplete.” Maybe he’s grading himself on the curve, but Paul Ryan isn’t impressed with Professor Obama’s academic rigor:

CBS News:

Republican vice presidential candidate Rep. Paul Ryan said in regard to the comment, “Four years into a presidency and an incomplete?”
Ryan complained that “[t]he president is asking people just to be patient with him” before attacking Mr. Obama for “picking winners and losers in the economy” and borrowing and spending money.
“That doesn’t work,” he told CBS News’ Charlie Rose. “So, I think the incomplete speaks for itself, and that is why I think we are going to win this and get this country on the right track because we’re offering solutions.”
Added Romney Campaign Spokesperson Amanda Henneberg: “If President Obama can’t even give himself a passing grade, why would the American people give him another four years?”

I’m reminded of Bluto in Animal House: “Seven years of college down the drain. Might as well join the f–king Peace Corps.”

Category: Uncategorized

Blogging 101: Headline Juxtaposition

Posted on | September 4, 2012 | 6 Comments

Food-Stamp Use Climbs To Record,
Reviving Campaign Issue
— Bloomberg News

Mrs. Obama’s 2nd-Term Agenda:
‘Impact Nature of Food in Grocery Stores’
— CNS News

Africa’s Elephants Are Being
Slaughtered in Poaching Frenzy
— New York Times

Is there any actual relationship between these headlines? I don’t claim that such a relationship exists, but your mileage may vary.

Category: Blogging

Cherokee People, Cherokee Tribe: Elizabeth Warren Can’t Hide Her Lies

Posted on | September 4, 2012 | 12 Comments

Princess Fauxcahantas, the alleged 1/64th Native American, will give a major speech at the Democrat National Convention in North Carolina, ancestral homeland of the Cherokee to whom she implausibly claims kinship. Heap big trouble, Elizabeth Warren:

Elizabeth Warren can’t escape her Cherokee heritage controversy even at this gathering of loyal Democrats, as a contingent of skeptical American Indian delegates — including the great-grandson of Geronimo — are inviting Warren to a meeting tomorrow to explain her ancestry claims.
“I think she owes us that, she owes the Native American community here at least that,” said Stephen Lewis, a member of the Gila River Indian community. “That would go a long way in dispelling that question.” . . .
[M]any of them expressed anger that Warren listed herself as an American Indian minority in law school directories without any proof.
“If you are native, there is no doubt, and if one has to research to try and ascertain if they are Native American, I would have great concerns with that and I think naturally I would just wonder if that was a vehicle she would want to use to her benefit,” said Frank LeMere, an American Indian activist of the Nebraska Winnebago Tribe. “If that is the case, shame on her.”

The most recent poll — by a Democrat firm, no less — shows Warren losing by five points to Scott Brown. It takes a special kind of stupid for a Democrat to lose a statewide race in Massachusetts. William Jacobson at Legal Insurrection explains:

Warren has claimed internet fame for her famous “no one got rich on his own” speech which was the foundation for Obama’s “you didn’t build that” speech. Warren holds herself out as a fraud fighter, and her campaign theme is “Accountability.”
Yet Warren has yet to accept accountability for falsely claiming to be Cherokee during key moments in her career, starting in the mid-1980s when she started listing herself as Native American in order to appear on the “Minority Law Teachers” list in the faculty directory of the Association of American Law Schools. That directory put the law school community, including recruiters, on notice of Warren’s alleged minority status.

That is to say, Warren’s flimsy assertion of affirmative-action victimhood — the blondest “minority” imaginable — gave her twofer status in quota-conscious academia. As both female and minority, her stolen claim to ancestral oppression helped Warren jump to the head of the application line at elite Ivy League law schools. Legal Insurrection produced this awesome video — watch it:

You know why Warren is losing in Massachusetts? Because there are a lot of hard-working folks in Massachusetts whose kids never got a chance to go to Harvard, and the sight of this wealthy blonde woman gaining privilege by exploiting a phony claim to victimhood makes them very, very angry.

Category: Democrats, Election 2012, Massachusetts, Racism

Unions Boycott Democrat Convention

Posted on | September 4, 2012 | 4 Comments

Ken Binversie at Watchdog.org explains:

North Carolina has a Democratic governor, Bev Perdue, and sent its electoral votes to Barack Obama in 2008, but it’s still a right-to-work state. That means employees in the Tar Heel State are free to choose to join a union — or not. Because of this, North Carolina has the lowest percentage of union membership in the nation, just 2.9 percent as of 2011. . . .
[L]abor looks at the convention — with delegates staying in non-union hotels and dining at non-union restaurants, and Obama accepting his nomination at a football stadium built with non-union workers — as a poke in the eye. As a result, many in labor will boycott the convention outright. The AFL-CIO, International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, Laborers International Union of North America and others have withheld an estimated $10 million in contributions that would have helped pay for the convention — a radical change from 2008, when unions helped pitch in more than $8 million to help the DNC pay for its national convention in Denver.

Meanwhile, the Romney campaign has put out the word that they raised $100 million in August, but we’ve heard nothing at all about the Obama campaign’s fundraising. Just another data point to support Doug Ross’s “tidal wave” theory.

Category: Democrats, Election 2012, Labor Unions

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LIVE AT FIVESIX: 09.05.12

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Best CSI Episode — Ever!

VIDEO @PaulRyanVP: ‘Four Years Into a Presidency and It’s Incomplete?’

Blogging 101: Headline Juxtaposition

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Unions Boycott Democrat Convention

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