The Other McCain

"One should either write ruthlessly what one believes to be the truth, or else shut up." — Arthur Koestler

Hereditary Genius

Posted on | July 8, 2012 | 48 Comments

Reagan, 9, and Emerson, 11, with their Dad at the
Marine Corps Memorial in Arlington, Va.

FROM AN UNDISCLOSED LOCATION
Among the numerous hassles which convicted terrorist Brett Kimberlin imposed on my family with his “I-know-where-you-live” call to my wife’s employer was the necessity of disposing of our old refrigerator. This meant moving the refrigerator down a flight of stairs, loading it onto a pickup truck and then putting it in a dumpster.

Choosing the dumpster as the refrigerator’s final destination was our 19-year-old son Bob’s decision, about which my wife was skeptical.

“How are we going to lift the refrigerator that high?” Mrs. Other McCain asked, obviously doubtful about our ability to raise that heavy monstrosity far enough to clear the top of the nearly seven-foot-high dumpster, when the only available manpower was her, me, Bob and his 13-year-old brother Jefferson.

“Don’t worry — we can do it,” Bob said. “Trust me.”

A sanguine temperament in action is a marvelous thing to behold, and the question that puzzles social scientists is whether such things are a matter of nature or nuture. Are distinctive personal traits — as in this instance, my son’s confident “can-do” spirit when confronted with a seemingly impossible task — the result of environment and upbringing, or are they an expression of genetic heredity?

Both factors obviously matter to some extent, and I’m not a social scientist, so there’s no obligation for me to come up with a definitive answer as to the exact role played by genetics and environmental factors in determining personality. However, I was obligated to get rid of that refrigerator, and had confidence in Bob’s plan for getting that done, even though he hadn’t bothered to explain what his plan was.

First, we wrangled the refrigerator out of the kitchen, down a flight of stairs, out the front door and onto the truck, an accomplishment in itself. When we got to the dumpster, Bob directed my wife, myself and Jefferson to get under one end of the refrigerator, while he slid the other end off the tailgate of the truck. If you’ve ever seen the famous image of the Marines raising the flag atop Mount Suribachi, that’s the basic explanation of how the rest of Bob’s plan worked.

And it did indeed work. Read more

Category: Family, The Kimberlin Files

Good News: The Libor Scandal Is A Purely European Problem

Posted on | July 8, 2012 | 12 Comments

by Smitty

Zero Hedge is on about the Libor scandal as though it was a deal of Biden-esque proportions. Robert Reich is shocked, SHOCKED! at this turn of events:

Suppose the bankers are manipulating the interest rate so they can place bets with the money you lend or repay them – bets that will pay off big for them because they have inside information on what the market is really predicting, which they’re not sharing with you.

Reich figures the Glass-Steagall Act could be our instrument of human redemption. Because nothing says “Save us from overly concentrated power by. . .using legislation to concentrate power in the government.”
At least two big points here:

  • At least we can rest assured that Ben Bernanke and the Federal Reserve are not engaged in related/bigger manipulation. So we’ve got that sorted.
  • Also, we can be confident that barbaric, recidivist, capitalistic market solutions, like opening banking up to greater competition from smaller lenders, is a total wash. The only cure for excess power is. . .more power.
Category: Economics

Romney Doesn’t Seem Interested In Winning Ugly

Posted on | July 7, 2012 | 32 Comments

by Smitty

Mediate has Krauthammer unimpressed with Romney:

Noted political strategist Sun Tzu:

“Appear weak when you are strong, and strong when you are weak.”

In 2008, we saw a weak candidate make weak decisions week by week, finishing weakly. While, at a high level, the Romney campaign may not be looking too brutal, I can assure you that the campaign staff is as serious as lung cancer. At least here in Northern Virginia, which seems to think it’s ground zero for the election. That may not actually be the case, but patriots here have to take this election that seriously. The Romney campaign has been ringing the phone off the hook the last couple of weekends.

Whether Krauthammer or the Romney campaign is correct won’t be known until November. However, little hints like showing up at the Solyndra Factory could indicate that, for all Krauthammer isn’t seeing the sort of scalps he craves, the Romney campaign may not be as feckless as Charles fears.

via HotAir

Category: Mitt Romney

Brain B’asploding #Bacon Burger

Posted on | July 7, 2012 | 24 Comments

by Smitty

You can feel the sodium, of this 100% ground bacon burger (with cheese and bacon!) even through the blog post:

Get it now, before Michelle Obama disapproves

That's one way to try to justify Obamacare.

You eat that, and your head could b’asplode. I’m super cereal.

via Sara Rumpf

Update: TrogloPundit provides dessert, which is called Pumpple Cake, but would be perhaps better named: “Michelle Obama Frowned”.

Category: Bacon

FMJRA 2.0: Still Aging

Posted on | July 7, 2012 | 4 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

All praise to Dominion Virginia Power for keeping the watts flowing this week, despite a heat wave and more thunderstorms. On with the linkagery!

Ten Questions for Brandon Darby

Brandon Darby Defamed by Kimberlin Associate Neal Rauhauser; Pursues ‘All Legal Remedies’ Against SWATting Charge

Fourth Of July Message From A Leader

A Drawer Full of Sockpuppets: Another Neal Rauhauser ‘Persona’ Exposed

Aaron Walker (and Freedom) Win Maryland Appeal vs. Brett Kimberlin

When ‘Jessica’ Was 10, 11, 12

Mataconis: Less Guano, Please

World’s Youngest Blogger, Wheels Edition

UPDATE: Lying Felon Brett Kimberlin Scores a Draw in Maryland Hearing

EXCLUSIVE VIDEO: Dick Morris Thinks ObamaCare, Tim Kaine, And ObamaNomics Are Swell

Rule 5 Sunday: Exile On Duke Street

Short Quiz: ‘Who Is She, And Why Is She Not In Congress??’

As Long As We’re Viewing ObamaCare With Integrity, What About Social Security?

Updated Doom Tick Turns You Into Vegan, Apple Zealot

Neal Rauhauser’s War on Women

Zilla Bears No Ill Will Toward Me Over The Absurd Tick Post

LIVE AT FIVE: 07.03.12

The Vulgar Left’s ObamaCare Arguments

Freedom Is Under Attack: Help the National Bloggers Club Fight Back

Inspired By The @DanRiehl Coming Out Post

Good News: Butt-Hurt Is Not Fatal

In The Radar World, @Nigel_Farage Is What You Call ‘Unfiltered Video’

The Master Chief Rejoices

It Was Totally Awesome

‘Her Fiancé, Garry Brown Sr., the Man Who Fathered 10 of Her 15 Children …’

Top linkers for this week:

  1. His Sublime & Ineffable Majesty, Emperor Bloghoricus Maximus (10)
  2. Lonely Conservative (6)
  3. (tied) Hogewash, Daley Gator, The Conservatory, and Daily Pundit (5)

Thanks to everyone for their linkagery! If you’re on Blogger, or some other platofrm WordPress hates, please e-mail me your links no later than next Friday, July 13.

Category: FMJRA Award

Neal Rauhauser Boasts of Access to Secret Congressional Staff ‘Policy Intel’ Network UPDATE: Don’t Believe the Hype?

Posted on | July 7, 2012 | 57 Comments

FROM AN UNDISCLOSED LOCATION
Brooks Bayne at the Trenches quotes an April 2012 text message reportedly sent by Brett Kimberlin associate Neal Rauhauser:

“Keep in mind policy intel for 700+ Congressional staffers runs through a system I built and I back up the natsec editor. I hear stuff average bear does not.“

Bayne interprets the phrase “policy intel” to include sensitive national-security information, which would be extremely troubling given Rauhauser’s clear connections to Anonymous, the international computer hacking conspiracy. However, leaving aside that potentially scary implication, and stipulating that this text message is authentic — that Rauhauser did indeed send it, and that his claim is not just more of Neal’s habitual bragging — Bayne still has produced evidence worthy of serious investigation. Some questions that investigators might wish to ask:

  • What is this “system” that Rauhauser built? Is it an official system, paid for with taxpayer dollars?
  • Have these staffers been authorized by members of Congress to access the system Rauhauser built?
  • What are the names of the staffers participating in this “policy intel” system, and which members of Congress do they work for?
  • Who is the “natsec” (i.e., national security) editor of the system Rauhauser built? What sort of “stuff,” unknown to the “average bear,” does Rauhauser access through this system?
  • Was Rauhauser working with these congressional staffers at the same time he was harassing Patterico as “the Gaped Crusader”? Was Rauhauser being paid to operate this congressional “policy intel” system (and act as backup to the national security editor of the system) while assisting Matt Edelstein’s “Stop Rush” boycotters? If so, by whom was Rauhauser paid?

Perhaps the reader who hasn’t been following my “Kimberlin Files” reporting in depth now understands why Rauhauser’s involvement with Brett Kimberlin caused me to take notice on May 17.

Neal Rauhauser isn’t just some random crazy guy on the Internet. He is a well-connected Democrat operative who has worked for numerous candidates and campaigns, who was a featured speaker at the 2010 Netroots Nation conference, a consultant who represents a direct link between his client, convicted terrorist Brett Kimberlin, and the official Democratic Party political apparatus.

UPDATE: Friends inform me that this appears to be a typical example of Rauhauser’s boastfulness, and that the “policy intel” mountain to which Neal refers may actually be an online molehill known as Progressive Congress News. Here is an October 2010 Daily Kos post in which Rauhauser (aka “Stranded Wind”) hypes PCN.

Of course, the administrator of such an operation could probably use his access in nefarious ways (and Rauhauser is a distinctly hinky character) but PCN itself doesn’t seem all that important.

– Robert Stacy McCain, Whereabouts Unknown

Category: Congress, Democrats, The Kimberlin Files

Zilla On Da Tech Guy’s Show

Posted on | July 7, 2012 | 5 Comments

by Smitty

As fortune would have it, I’m off to a retirement ceremony for my boss last year in Afghanistan, so I shan’t call in and harass. Nevertheless, the details are here, and you will be energized by taking in Pete’s show, which I can attest comes in just fine over the internet.

Also on the radio tomorrow is Valley of the Shadow. Check him out on the left coast!

Category: Da Tech Guy, Valley of the Shadow, Zilla of the Resistance

McCotter Is McGone?

Posted on | July 7, 2012 | 4 Comments

by Smitty

Whoa. The Blaze reports that one of the few semi-real people inside the beltway has ejected:

After nearly 26 years in elected office, this past nightmarish month and a half have, for the first time, severed the necessary harmony between the needs of my constituency and of my family. As this harmony is required to serve, its absence requires I leave.
The recent event’s totality of calumnies, indignities and deceits have weighed most heavily upon my family. Thus, acutely aware one cannot rebuild their hearth of home amongst the ruins of their U.S. House office, for the sake of my loved ones I must “strike another match, go start anew” by embracing the promotion back from public servant to sovereign citizen.
I do not leave for an existing job and face diminishing prospects (and am both unwilling and ill-suited to lobby), my priorities are twofold: find gainful employment to help provide for my family; and continue to assist, in any way they see fit, the Michigan Attorney General’s earnest and thorough investigation, which I requested, into the 2012 petition filing.

Godspeed, sir. I hope this isn’t an indication of weirder revelations to follow.

Category: Thaddeus McCotter
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