The Other McCain

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It Was Totally Awesome

Posted on | July 5, 2012 | 30 Comments

Supplies for the McCain family fireworks show, July 4, 2012 (click photo to enlarge)

FROM AN UNDISCLOSED LOCATION
For the past two years, I had missed the annual family tradition of shooting off a crapload of fireworks on Fourth of July.  This year, however, we secured a shoot site and a sufficent stash to do it right.

Rather than just shoot a bunch of random stuff, my sons and I actually put together a show, using timed fuses to sequence the fireworks, with finale boards full of multi-shot aerial repeaters and racks full of 1.75-inch mortar shells.

This year’s show opened with a board of 12 fountains, followed by a board with six repeaters (106 shots total), then my sons fired two matching boards simultaneously (806 shots total), and then the one-minute finale: Three boards with a total of 811 shots, plus 96 mortar shells.

We used fast fuse (about 5 seconds per foot) on the finale and it all went up so quick that I didn’t even realize the mortar racks had fired until the finale was over. When fireworks are going off at the rate of about 15 shots per second, it’s kind of disorienting. In a good way.

It was an all-day job putting together the show — building boards, filling the racks, connecting fuses, etc. — and because it all had to be done outdoors, I sweated until my shirt was soaked clear through. I’m exhausted today. My legs and backs are sore from the constant stooping and bending, and even my fingers are sore because of splinters from the wood and so forth. But it was worth it for the look of joy on my sons’ faces as we exchanged high-fives afterwards. It’s kind of a male-bonding thing, a father-son tradition.

Unfortunately, in all the excitement, Dad forgot to get video of the show. So you’ll have to take my word that it was totally awesome.

– Robert Stacy McCain, Whereabouts Unknown

Category: Fireworks

When ‘Jessica’ Was 10, 11, 12

Posted on | July 5, 2012 | 40 Comments

‘Speedway Bomber’ Brett Kimberlin was sentenced to 50 years in 1981

“For three consecutive summers, 1974 through 1976, they took vacations of a week or longer in Disney World, Mexico, and Hawaii. Sandi couldn’t get time off from work, so on these summer trips it was just the two of them — Brett and Jessica.
“Eyebrows levitated. A drug-dealing colleague had memories of conversations with Kimberlin that struck him as odd: ‘We’d see a girl, who was pubescent or prepubescent, and Brett would get this smile and say, “Hey, what do you think? Isn’t she great?” It made me very uncomfortable.’ Another recalled Kimberlin introducing Jessica as ‘my girlfriend,’ and if irony was intended, it was too subtle to register. To a coworker . . . Sandi confided that Kimberlin was ‘grooming Jessica to be his wife.’ To another, Sandi explained that although Kimberlin’s relationship with Jessica was chaste, he intended ‘to wait for her and would marry her.’”
— Mark Singer, Citizen K: The Deeply Weird American Journey of Brett Kimberlin, Page 78

FROM AN UNDISCLOSED LOCATION
We do not actually know the name of the girl who was reportedly “groomed” by Brett Kimberlin. Mark Singer used the pseudonym “Jessica” for Sandi Barton’s youngest daughter, whereas a 1981 news article by Joe Gelarten of the Indianapolis Star used the name “Debbie.”

Jessica/Debbie was 10 years old when Kimberlin, 20 at the time, entered her life in 1974, and she was 14 when her grandmother, 65-year-old Julia Scyphers, was murdered — a crime that remains officially unsolved to this day.

Jessica/Debbie had an older sister who, according to Singer’s account, seems to have objected to Kimberlin’s weird interest in the younger Barton girl. It may have been the older sister who expressed concern to Mrs. Scyphers. As Gelarten reported, Mrs. Scyphers “violently objected” to the strange relationship between her daughter, her granddaughters and Kimberlin, a notorious drug smuggler. Mrs. Scyphers had the two girls move in with her, forbade them to see Kimberlin and, reportedly, Kimberlin became so despondent over this separation from the youngest Barton girl that he threatened suicide.

Then on the morning of July 29, 1978, a man shot Julia Scyphers dead, in a crime that investigators believed was a murder for hire.

Nobody ever said Kimberlin himself shot her, but his conflict with Mrs. Scyphers over the Barton girl made him the only person with a motive to wish her dead and he soon came under suspicion by detectives. A few weeks later, a weeklong series of bombings struck the small Indiana town and, when Kimberlin was apprehended for those otherwise unexplained explosions, police believed they understood the connection: The bombings had been a ill-conceived effort by Kimberlin to distract police whom he knew to be investigating the Scyphers murder.

Fred Scyphers was the only witness who had seen the man who shot his wife. In February 1979, he identified William “Bill” Bowman, a member of Kimberlin’s drug gang, as the gunman. However, Fred Scyphers died three months later and, with the only eyewitness dead, the charges against Bowman were dropped.

FURTHER READING:

Category: Crime, The Kimberlin Files

The Master Chief Rejoices

Posted on | July 5, 2012 | 9 Comments

by Smitty

Master Chief Higgs! They finally admitted that Bos'n Mates have been holding it together all along.

via Insty

Category: humor, Instapundit

Baldwin Bird-Dogging Bloomberg?

Posted on | July 4, 2012 | 12 Comments

by Smitty

Noted Barack Obama sycophant Alec Baldwin has been the victim of rumor-mongering by his brother Billy concerning a possible NYC mayoral candidacy.

We’d like to take a moment to peek into a future speech, wherein Alec and his possible SuperPAC, Future American Guidance, take the helm of the Rotten Apple:

By following the rules of Future American Guidance, the world can become a better place; that handles dangerous people with talk, and reasoning; that, is the FAG way. One day you’ll all look at the world us actors created and say, “Wow! Good going, FAG. You really made the world a better place, didn’tcha, FAG?”

N.B.: No cigarettes were harmed in the production of this post.

via Drudge

Update: Twitchy collects some helpy-helper Tweeps. Workin’ hard, tryin’ to put out that smokin’ FAG.

Category: New Jersey, New York, Politics

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

Posted on | July 4, 2012 | 24 Comments

by Smitty

Nigel celebrates the 19th Euro crisis summit in the last two years with a Rolling Stones reference:

via Bluegrass Pundit

Update: welcome, Instapundit readers!

Category: Europe

World’s Youngest Blogger: Make 04 July 2013 Even Better

Posted on | July 4, 2012 | 11 Comments

This is my first Fourth of July. I’m too young to vote, so I can’t really do much about he current crisis this November.
Thus, I must wield my power as the Secretary of Cute to influence patriotic Americans to give the country a chance to recover, starting in November. It’s not just the White House, but the Senate, the House, and every State office. My generation needs voters to push back the forces of Progressive, statist slavery and restore liberty.
As that famous political philosopher, Robin Williams, said:

“Politicians are a lot like diapers; they should be changed frequently, and for the same reason.”

Category: World's Youngest Blogger

Reminder: VA Must Elect George Allen

Posted on | July 4, 2012 | 6 Comments

by Smitty

Via Sissy Willis on Twitter, Quinn Hillyer points out at AmSpec just how wretched an abortion is ObamaDon’tCare. In particular, the roots of the the Senate circumstances go back to 2006:

. . .the Washington Post had to succeed in its unprecedentedly and viciously unfair coverage of the U.S. Senate race in Virginia, both capitalizing on Sen. George Allen’s missteps (he ran a terrible campaign) and skewing the “news” relentlessly against him even when he didn’t make mistakes. Had he not lost by a tiny 8,805-vote margin, there is no way he would have voted for Obamacare, which therefore — cue the refrain — would have failed by one vote. . .even if none of the other, subsequent abominations (as we will discuss) were forestalled.

Read the whole thing, and bookmark it for reference.

Conversely, Kate Obenshain details what a disaster Tim Kaine would prove, if elected:

George Allen for Senate

Tim Kaine is just Barack Obama’s meat puppet. Let Obama and Kaine take their Wayland and Madame act to Vegas, or something.

Category: Election 2012, Virginia

Fourth Of July Message From A Leader

Posted on | July 4, 2012 | 18 Comments

by Smitty

Would that some others one could name were possessed of such clarity:

via Brietbart

For contrast, via The Lonely Conservative we have:

Category: Barack Obama, Israel, The Lonely Conservative, Uncategorized
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