SCOTUS ObamaCare Office-Pool Bet
Posted on | June 28, 2012 | 11 Comments
FROM AN UNDISCLOSED LOCATION
The thing about being dug in on a story — in the six weeks since May 17, I’ve done 61 entries in “The Kimberlin Files” — is that you ignore a lot of what would otherwise be Urgent Breaking News.
Late last night, I was checking Ace of Spades HQ, and it was nearly wall-to-wall ObamaCare SCOTUS ruling speculation.
Does the phrase “useless as tits on a boar hog” ring a bell?
Seriously: Who gives a damn? What possible difference could all this second-guessing make? The court will rule whatever the court rules, without regard for what a bunch of bloggers say about it.
I know, I know: Turn on the TV and all the talking-heads on Fox News are engaged in Very Serious Discussions about the case and its potential political impact. So let’s turn our blogs into little online imitations of a cable-TV pundit panel: Every man his own Krauthammer.
Look at this ridiculous gibberish, for example:
I think we all are pretty sure that Roberts will write an opinion, and Ginsberg will write the other opinion. What we don’t know is who’s writing for the minority, and who’s writing the actual holding.
I argued with this with Drew. If Kennedy has flipped to the liberals, he might permit Ginsberg to write the majority holding. Perhaps he is a Faint-Heart who thinks liberals will be mad at him, and so will vote with them, but doesn’t really believe in that vote all that much, and so will let Ginsberg write it.
But the Hot Air post reminds that Kennedy is fairly conservative as far as federalism, so: Even if he cast his vote with the liberals, he’d likely want to write the majority opinion to limit it. Even if he sided with the liberals, he wouldn’t want to sign over carte-blanche for more of this nonsense. He’d want to say “health care is unique, and don’t go trying anything else along these lines.”
Then again, I suppose that Ginsberg could agree with such an opinion, if it means she gets to deliver President Precious his Big Win.
But I would say — my guess — is that it’s probably 5-4 to overturn, with Roberts in the majority, Ginsberg in the minority.
Are you proud of that, Ace? Competing in the SCOTUS-Wonk Derby?
It’s like “Veepstakes” talk, if you see what I mean. For about three months now, everybody’s rattling their yaps about who Romney’s going to pick as his running mate, as if what a bunch of TV pundits say on the subject is anything other than a cheap and harmless way to fill 10 minutes of airtime for the amusement of hard-core political junkies.
Ultimately, it’s moot: Romney picks whoever he picks, and all those hours of “Veepstakes” speculation? Just so much wasted time, like one of those silly reality shows, as if it really matters to anyone who gets “fired” by the Donald on Celebrity Apprentice.
Your thing on whether the Politico pre-spin indicates the White House knows they’ll get a bad ruling from SCOTUS, that’s kinda fun. And I also like how you jacked ’em up with this one:
Dudes, the opinion was at the printer days ago. The conference vote was like two months ago. The opinions were finished, edited, and proofed like three weeks ago.
Exactly. And thus all the pundit speculation is like kids on Christmas Eve, hoping Santa Claus will bring them a pony.
My $20 says 5-4 to strike down the mandate, but 5-4 the other way on the rest, to permit a salvage attempt on what’s left of ObamaCare, with Kennedy mumbling something about the need to recognize legislative authority, yadda, yadda.
It’s probably a lousy, ill-informed bet, and that’s the point: Who cares whether my speculation is right or wrong? Not me. Nobody at the Supreme Court is reading my blog, and it’s not as if we’re living in a democracy, where everyone’s opinion counts.
We’ve abandoned democratic self-governance, punted our sovereignty to a cabal of nine unelected legal experts — out-sourced it, really. Let’s admit it: A nation in which Celebrity Apprentice and Jersey Shore are actually profitable entertainment franchises is not a nation capable of self-governance.
Whatever the Supreme Court rules about ObamaCare, it’s irrelevant to our ultimate fate. We’re Doomed Beyond All Hope of Redemption.
LIVE AT FIVE: 06.28.12
Posted on | June 28, 2012 | Comments Off on LIVE AT FIVE: 06.28.12
— compiled by Wombat-socho
TOP NEWS
Kofi Annan Proposes Unity Government For Syria
Russia supports this idea, even if Assad himself excluded
Colorado Blaze Devours Houses, Chars Land On Air Force Academy
Over 30,000 flee their homes
No Retraction For Romney On WaPo Outsourcing Story
It’s wrong in general and in specifics, but the Post is sticking by it
POLITICS
Governor Brown Signs California Budget Relying On Tax Referendum
Taxes proposed in initiative would raise $8.5 billion
Scott Brown: Holder Should Resign
Stowaways In Container Ship Docked In NJ?
EPA Proposes Elimination Of Beach Water Testing Grants
NH Lawmakers Override Voter ID, School Vetoes
Delaware Senate Approves Online Gambling
Christie: Democrats Won’t Deliver On Promised Tax Cut
Kansas Family Planning Clinics Seek Second Injunction To Preserve State Funding
THE ECONOMY, STUPID
Crude Mixed In Asian Trades; NYMEX $80.41, Brent $93.21
Latest EU Summit Promises More Of The Same
LightSquared Chief Charged With Hedge Fund Scam
Durable Goods Orders Jump In May After Two Months’ Decline
Republican Congressman Chides Crowdfunding Restrictions
Barclays Fined $452 Million In Interest-Rate Probe
JP Morgan Trading Losses May Reach $9 Billion
News Corp Set To Formally Announce Split
Google Showcases Nexus 7 At I/O Event
Google Glasses Make Dramatic Debut At Conference
NZ High Court Rules Megaupload Warrants Invalid
EU Court Rejects Microsoft’s Appeal, Reduces Fine To $1 Billion
BlueStacks AppPlayer Puts Android Apps On OS X
Microsoft To Feel Surface Heat From PC Makers
Netflix Wants Congressional Help Against Cable Data Caps
SPORTS
Yankees Lose Pettitte, Sabathia To Injuries

Joe Girardi and Andy Pettitte talk on the mound after Pettitte gets wanged by a line drive off the shin
Yanks GM Cashman says no trades imminent; will rely on minor leaguers to help preserve 4.5-game lead in AL East
BoSox Buchholz Released From Hospital, No Timetable For Next Start
Angels Pound Orioles 13-1 For Two-Game Sweep
Silly Time For NASCAR Free Agents
Phillies’ Utley Returns To Majors With A Bang
Packers QB Aaron Rodgers Voted NFL’s #1 Player By Peers
Romero’s Wildness Helps Boston Beat Toronto 10-4
Nats’ Bats Stay Hot, J-Zim Gets Run Support For Once In 11-5 Win
FAMOUS FOR BEING FAMOUS
Ann Curry Says Goodbye To “Today”
Could Natalie Morales also be bailing?
Anna Paquin, Stephen Moyer Expecting Twins
Katy Perry Needs “Catnap” From Busy Schedule, Won’t Be In Freddie Mercury Biopic
Charlie Sheen Puts The Party On Pause To Promote “Anger Management”
Tyler Perry Talks “Madea’s Witness Protection”
Oprah To Appear On Unspeakable Armenians’ Reality Show
FOREIGNERS
Turkey Deploys Flak Units, Artillery To Syrian Border
Egypt’s Generals Eye Turkish Model
At EU Summit, It’s Everyone Against Merkel
Indian “Spy” Surjeet Singh Returns From Pakistan Jail
Queen Meets With Former IRA Chief In Belfast
Friction Increases Between PRC, Philippines, Vietnam Over South China Sea Atolls
Jewish, Muslim Leaders Unite To Condemn German Court Ruling Outlawing Circumcision
Nigerian Police Kill 17 Suspected Jihadis
Aussie Senate Rejects Asylum Bill
BLOGS & STUFF
NRO Bench Memos: E.J. Dionne’s Anti-Scalia Tirade
Maggie’s Farm: Bipartisan Healthcare Reforms
Megan McArdle: Waiting For The Supremes
Weekly Standard Blog: Colorado’s Epic Firestorm Reveals Danger In Air Force Cuts
Weasel Zippers: Congressional Black Caucus To Walk Out On Holder Contempt Vote
Lonely Conservative: This Is A Bad Week To Be A Democrat
James Pethokoukis: The WaPo Is Going To Stick By Its Anti-Romney Offshoring Story? Really?
Wake Up America: Clinton Appointee Judge Hinkle Paves Way For Florida Ineligible Voter Purge
Washington Free Beacon: Donilon Double-Dips
Gateway Pundit: New Obama Regulations Prescribe Slope On Putt-Putt Courses
Power Line: Karl Rove? Whodat?
NRO Corner: Did “Fast And Furious” Not Happen?
‘The Gaped Crusader’: Brett Kimberlin Associate Neal Rauhauser Stalked and Taunted SWATting Victim Patrick Frey
Posted on | June 27, 2012 | 21 Comments
Neal Rauhauser: Democrat consultant at 2010 Netroots Nation conference
FROM AN UNDISCLOSED LOCATION
A Democratic political consultant harassed the victim of a SWATting hoax, employing the online alias “The Gaped Crusader” to taunt popular conservative blogger Patrick “Patterico” Frey and others.
Neal Rauhauser became obsessed with Frey during the 2011 Anthony Weiner cybersex scandal, declaring in a July 2011 post at the Daily Kos blog that Frey “looks to be a pretty good candidate for the planner/operator behind Weinergate.” Both Frey and Mike Stack — a New Jersey resident who helped expose Weiner’s online activities — were targeted by so-called “SWATting” hoaxes in June and July 2011.
Frey published a 3,000-word post at his Patterico.com site Wednesday morning that provides extensive evidence showing Rauhauser, a consultant who has previously worked for Democratic politicians including Rep. Raul Grijalva, used the “Gaped Crusader” alias in a two-month cyberstalking campaign in November and December 2011.
The dates of the “Gaped Crusader” online harassment of Frey, Stack and others are important because Rauhauser has boasted of his connections to Brett Kimberlin, director of the tax-exempt 501(c) group Justice Through Music Project (JTMP), and to another non-profit group, Velvet Revolution (VR), co-founded by Kimberlin and progressive blogger Brad Friedman. Rauhauser has described Kimberlin as a “client” and represented himself as an agent of VR in a September 2011 e-mail to leaders of the Occupy Boston protests. Rauhauser accompanied Kimberlin to a May 29 Maryland court hearing where blogger Aaron Walker was arrested for having written about Kimberlin’s criminal past.
Kimberlin has become the subject of widespread controversy since May 17, when Walker published a 28,000-word account of how he says Kimberlin tried to “frame” him for an assault charge earlier this year. Walker, a Virginia attorney, had provided legal assistance to Seth “Socrates” Allen, a progressive blogger who criticized Kimberlin, Friedman and VR in postings at a variety of liberal Web sites, including Daily Kos and Democrat Underground.
Kimberlin is a convicted felon who in 1981 was sentenced to 50 years in federal prison for a weeklong bombing spree in Indiana that maimed a Vietnam veteran and blew up a police car. Released from prison in 2001, Kimberlin founded JTMP and VR in 2005; the two groups have since raised more than $2 million in tax-exempt contributions.
Rauhauser, a founder of the Democrat political consulting firm Progressive PST, was a featured speaker at the 2010 Netroots Nation conference organized by the Daily Kos blog. He described his specialty as “solving problems in the social media work space for political campaigns and causes.”
Rauhauser’s reputation was damaged by his role in the so-called “TwitterGate” scandal in 2010, when he was accused of organizing an online harassment campaign against Tea Party activists. The association between Kimberlin and Rauhauser evidently began in July 2011, when Rauhauser used his “Stranded Wind” account at Daily Kos to write, “someone forwarded me the complaint [made by Kimberlin] regarding Frey running a cyberstalking campaign in conjunction with South Easton, Massachusetts resident Seth L. Allen.”
Rauhauser has called himself a computer “hacker,” and is a known associate of Gregg Housh, a figure connected to the “Anonymous” hacking conspiracy. In a comment posted at a progressive blog in October 2011, Rauhauser described being contacted by a “very big dog from the Anonymous pen” who agreed to assist Velvet Revolution in an apparent plan to attack enemies of Rauhauser and Kimberlin.
In a May 25 blog post at Patterico, Frey described how he was “SWATted” in July 2011, handcuffed in a police raid prompted by a fake phone call. Frey identified Kimberlin, Rauhauser and former Raw Story editor Ron Brynaert as those he suspected of complicity in that incident.
In identifying Rauhauser as “The Gaped Crusader,” Frey noted multiple similarities between Rauhauser and his online alias, including an obsession with the 2011 WeinerGate scandal, which forced a formerly popular New York congressman to resign in disgrace.
Rauhauser claimed that Anthony Weiner was the victim of a conspiracy, and elaborated his theories in multiple postings at Daily Kos under his “Stranded Wind” psuedonym. On July 4, for example, Rauhauser claimed — without citing any evidence — that a “Christian Infowar Militia” had attacked Weiner. Rauhauser then repeatedly attacked Frey in a series of Daily Kos posts:
- July 4: Weinergate: Patterico’s Penalization
- July 4: Disingenuous Chart, Dishonest D.A. (Weinergate)
- July 17: Weinergate: Patterico’s Petulance
- July 19: Patterico’s Personal Pipsqueak
- July 23: In Which Patterico Imperils Breitbart
- July 25: Patterico’s Prattling Puppets
Rauhauser has boasted of his contacts with law enforcement — including the FBI — and routinely accuses his enemies of criminal activity. Among the targets of Rauhauser’s accusations was an Alabama man, Greg W. Howard, who was viciously harassed during the 2010 TwitterGate scandal. In August 2011, Rauhauser filed a criminal complaint against Howard with the Alabama attorney general’s office, saying that Howard “has constantly menaced me via the Internet.”
In fact, Rauhauser had described in two August 2010 articles at the Open Left site his plans to use “a synthetic presence” — i.e., false identities colloquially known as “sockpuppets” or “trolls” — against conservative activists online, to “penetrate their anonymity,” in order to ”get up inside their network and collect actionable information.” Rauhauser explained that he hoped to be able to bring civil lawsuits or criminal charges against his political enemies:
“People engaged in provocative online conduct feel insulated; they’re in the comfort of their own home, if they’ve engaged in a little bit of caution they may feel completely anonymous, and this emboldens them. Specifying the strategy we’ll use to break their anonymity won’t permit any mitigation on their part without adjusting their behavior, which counts as a win for us. We’re dealing with people who have likely had no interaction with the court system beyond a traffic ticket; the potential for a pro se litigant to force them into expensive, long distance, lengthy, discovery laden litigation doesn’t seem to cross their minds.”
Rauhauser was subsequently accused of recruiting a number of individuals whom he called “beandogs,” who used Twitter to engage in an orchestrated campaign “to harass, threaten, provoke, disparage, intimidate, verbally assault, berate & employ hate-speech against those not in agreement with his brand of politics,” as conservative logger Patrick Read described it in September 2010.
The use of Internet aliases was the subject of an article Rauhauser posted online, describing “Persona Management” methods for maintaining online secret identities in order to avoid detection by others, including law enforcement agencies.
One of the targets of Rauhauser’s online activities was a conservative activist who uses the Twitter handle “@ZAPEM,” who Rauhauser believed to be a New Jersey woman named Michelle Lessick. ZAPEM played a key role in exposing Rauhauser’s role in the TwitterGate scandal.
Frey’s exposure of Rauhauser’s “Gaped Crusader” persona highlights the ways in which Rauhauser has employed deceptive methods in his online activities. In February, Rauhauser sent to law enforcement agencies (including the FBI) a bizarre document titled, “Andrew Breitbart’s ISR Cell?”
This document described a far-fetched conspiracy theory involving Frey, Andrew Breitbart, Mike Stack and the HBGary firm, among others. Rauhauser’s accusations, which seem implausible, may have succeeded in confusing officials responsible for investigating the SWATtings of Stack and Frey, crimes that have remained unsolved for the past year.
Red State editor Erick Erickson was SWATted in May. Georgia Sen. Saxby Chambliss, Texas Rep. Kenny Marchant and more than 85 House Republicans called on Attorney General Eric Holder to investigate these crimes. Despite increasing pressure, sources say, the federal investigation has lagged, perhaps because of the indifference of political appointees in the Justice Department.
Meanwhile, Kimberlin has continued filing a series of lawsuits and criminal complaints against bloggers in an attempt to silence his critics. In a Maryland court hearing Tuesday, Judge Nelson W. Rupp Jr. issued an emergency ruling that lifted a gag order that had prevented Aaron Walker from blogging about Kimberlin, who responded by filing his own motion that accused Walker of inciting harassment against Kimberlin. The same day Walker scored his courtroom victory in Maryland, he was targeted by a SWATting attack.
PATTERICO: Brett Kimberlin Associate “Gaped Crusader” — And the Evidence Connecting Him to Neal Rauhauser
(Note: This report was originally posted in a series of updates. The “update” notations have been removed for ease of reading.)
– Robert Stacy McCain, Whereabouts Unknown
- May 17: Is Democrat Operative Neal Rauhauser an ‘Associate’ of Convicted Terrorist Brett Kimberlin? (And Why It Matters)
- May 17: Convicted Terrorist Brett Kimberlin Received $70,000 From Tides Foundation, $10,000 From Streisand, $20,000 from John Kerry’s Wife
- May 18: Who Warned Us About Brett Kimberlin?
- May 19: Domestic Terrorist Now Using ‘Lawfare’? Convicted Felon Kimberlin’s 501(c)3 Raised $1.8 Million in Six Years UPDATE: ‘Convicted of Perjury’
- May 20: Deadline Loometh, and the Raven Is Croaking Brett Kimberlin’s Name
- May 20: ‘Other Computer Savvy Activists’
- May 21: Never Doubt That God Answers Prayer
- May 22: Brett Kimberlin Saga Takes a Bizarre Turn, Forcing Me to Leave Maryland
- May 23: ‘He Has No F–king Soul’
- May 24: Lying Felon Can’t Stop Lying
- May 25: KimberlinFiles.org
- May 26: Kimberlin v. Walker Hearing Scheduled: 8:30 a.m. Tuesday in Rockville, Maryland
- May 27: Brett Kimberlin’s Heiress Aunt Helping Fund His Tax-Exempt Harassment
- May 27: ERICK ERICKSON GETS SWATTED
- May 28: Somebody Tell Nina Totenberg Her Buddy Brett Kimberlin Is Making News Again
- May 29: Matthew Vadum Talks Brett Kimberlin
- May 29: REPORT: Aaron Walker Arrested After Maryland Hearing on Kimberlin Case UPDATE: Walker Now Released
- May 31: Aaron Walker Court Hearing Confirms Kimberlin-Rauhauser Collaboration
- June 1: Radicals Justify Their Evil by Invoking Their Presumed Moral Superiority
- June 2: When Neal Rauhauser Complained About ‘Menacing’ and ‘Cyberstalking’
- June 3: The Profoundly Dishonest Brett Kimberlin
- June 3: Raw Story Disavows Ties to Kimberlin
- June 3: Inside Neal Rauhauser’s Twisted Mind
- June 4: ‘A Faint Whiff of Vigilante Hysteria’: Weinergate’s Kimberlin Connection
- June 5: Ali Akbar Says, ‘World War Three’
- June 5: Fear and Loathing on Capitol Hill: The GOP Caucus Is Decadent and Depraved
- June 6: Walker Files Appeal in Kimberlin Case; Ali Akbar Says: ‘We’re Not Stopping.’
- June 6: Sen. Saxby Chambliss Requests DOJ Investigate SWATting
- June 7: CNN Gets Scooped on Its Own Story UPDATE: ACLJ Joins the Fight!
- June 8: NATIONAL DAY OF BLOGGER SILENCE UPDATE: Remember Seth Allen
- June 8: @AceOfSpadesHQ BREAKS SILENCE: #BrettKimberlin’s Escalating Threat
- June 10: Brett Kimberlin, Neal Rauhauser, and Their Transparent Empire of Lies UPDATE: ‘Anonymous’ Connection
- June 11: Florida Rep. Sandy Adams Leads 85 House Republicans in ‘SWATting’ Letter
- June 11: #BrettKimberlin Says He Was ‘SWATted’; Why Do Maryland Cops Say Otherwise?
- June 11: HUGE! Neal Rauhauser’s Vicious Lies Exposed by Yet Another Leaked E-Mail
- June 12: ‘Team Kimberlin’ Meltdown Continues
- June 13: A High Time on the Low Road: Smears Target Brett Kimberlin’s Enemies List UPDATE: SWATting Supect ID’d?
- June 13: Time to Ask: What Did Brett Kimberlin Know and When Did He Know It?
- June 14: Patterico: ‘Certain Big Media Reporters Are Scared to Write About Kimberlin’
- June 14: ‘Real Reporter’ @NYT_JenPreston vs. Blogger @Prepostericity (Seth Allen)
- June 14: Neal Rauhauser’s Online Slander Factory
- June 15: Neal Rauhauser’s Game Plan Involving Velvet Revolution and Anonymous
- June 16: Team Kimberlin’s Busted Hustle Now Beginning to Unravel Rapidly UPDATE: Perhaps Not a Coincidence
- June 17: ‘Scrubbed’ Writings Show Kimberlin Associate Neal Rauhauser’s Obsessions
- June 18: The Kimberlin Files: Ali Akbar, the Fight for Liberty and … a Disturbing Silence
- June 19: Neal Rauhauser’s Criminal Complaint Against Blogger Greg W. Howard
- June 19: Neal Rauhauser: Internet Super-Spy!
- June 20: ‘Persona Management’ for Wackjobs: Rauhauser’s Methods of Deception
- June 21: Recording: Leader of Anti-Limbaugh Effort Brags About Obama Campaign Ties
- June 21: ‘Iowa Boy,’ ‘Stranded Wind’ and the Sadistic Personality of Neal Rauhauser
- June 22: E-Mails Expose MSNBC Host’s Involvement in #StopRush Boycott
- June 22: BREAKING: Motion Filed Seeking Federal Injunction on Behalf of Blogger
- June 23: Imani Gandy, #StopRush and Neal Rauhauser: Confirmation and Credibility
- June 23: Neal Rauhauser’s Bizarre Suspicions, and Profiling the (Hypothetical) ‘UnSub’
- June 24: The Silence of Mark Singer; Also: Kimberlin v. Walker Hearing Monday
- June 25: UPDATED: Aaron Walker Granted Emergency Order in Maryland Hearing, Calls Ruling ‘Important Victory’
- June 25: Aaron Walker SWATted?
- June 26: Conspiracy Theorist ‘Qritiq’ Conspires Against Neal Rauhauser’s Targets
- June 26: #TCOT #BrettKimberlin #SWATting Important Event 9:30 p.m. ET Tonight!
- June 27: Professor Glenn ‘Exhibit E’ Reynolds
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Can Has Cheezburger?
Posted on | June 27, 2012 | 16 Comments
by Smitty
11 months old, doing fine as the Minister of Cute.
Update: apropos nothing, I present:
#DisappointingBands Blue Öyster Culture Club “Do You Really Want To Hurt Me, Godzilla?”
— Chris Smith (@smitty_one_each) June 28, 2012
Instapundit Recovered From The Incident
Posted on | June 27, 2012 | 11 Comments
by Smitty
As I was joking on Twitter earlier:
Instapundit holding M-16 after bizarre nuclear accident at Oak Ridge shrinks him by 50%: lonelyconservative.com/2012/06/brett-… @rsmccain #SadButTrue
— Chris Smith (@smitty_one_each) June 27, 2012
He has also noticed the S.A.L.V.E. project, which can also be purchased in dead tree format here.
Best Paragraph I’ve Read All Year
Posted on | June 27, 2012 | 4 Comments
by Smitty
Randy Barnett’s retrospective on the ObamaCare decision buildup over at Volokh is awesome, but if you have only time for one paragraph, read this:
I especially want to thank Orin Kerr for his unstinting and unflagging skepticism from day one. I admit that, at times, I found his posts personally annoying, and my one regret over the past 2+ years of litigation is in sometimes letting my annoyance show. But this was entirely my problem, not his. His indefatigable resistance to every argument offered against the constitutionality of the individual insurance mandate was essential to the growth and improvement of these arguments, especially in the first year of their development. He was a one-man moot court testing every claim, refusing to be brow beaten into concurring with a conclusion he simply could not accept. There is no question in my mind that our theories would not have developed as well as they did without his intellectual combativeness and persistence. If the challenge happens to succeed tomorrow, he will merit some share of the credit for that outcome.
It takes a mature person to admit that firm criticism was a big help, but it takes a full-on giant to deliver that firm criticism consistently.
Thank you, Orin Kerr, for your work here, and thank you, my own “Orin Kerr” figures the world over.
Garbage In, Garbage Out (GIGO) Legitimizes Obfuscation
Posted on | June 27, 2012 | 8 Comments
by Smitty
Daily Pundit points to GIGO and its effect on global warming research:
Nobody in climate science knows what GIGO means anymore?
Dude, without GIGO, the notion of catastrophic anthropogenic global warming couldn’t even exist. Which would eliminate a lucrative honeypot for a lot of “scientists.” So GIGO is a feature, not a bug.
Hey, don’t forget their spokes-twit, Saint Albert of Gore (emphasis mine):
Over the years, as the science has become clearer and clearer, some industries and companies whose business plans are dependent on unrestrained pollution of the atmospheric commons have become ever more entrenched. They are ferociously fighting against the mildest regulation — just as tobacco companies blocked constraints on the marketing of cigarettes for four decades after science confirmed the link of cigarettes to diseases of the lung and the heart.
Simultaneously, changes in America’s political system — including the replacement of newspapers and magazines by television as the dominant medium of communication — conferred powerful advantages on wealthy advocates of unrestrained markets and weakened advocates of legal and regulatory reforms. Some news media organizations now present showmen masquerading as political thinkers who package hatred and divisiveness as entertainment. And as in times past, that has proved to be a potent drug in the veins of the body politic. Their most consistent theme is to label as “socialist” any proposal to reform exploitive behavior in the marketplace.
From the standpoint of governance, what is at stake is our ability to use the rule of law as an instrument of human redemption. After all has been said and so little done, the truth about the climate crisis — inconvenient as ever — must still be faced.
Yuv got ta buh-LEEV, children!

LIVE AT FIVESIX: 06.27.12
Posted on | June 27, 2012 | 3 Comments
— compiled by Wombat-socho
TOP NEWS
Hatch, Rangel Beat Back Primary Challengers
Elsewhere in New York, David Duke-endorsed former Black Panther goes down in defeat
Turkey Warns Syrian Military To Stay Clear Of Border
Military response promised
Mediation Fails, Stockton City Council Votes For Bankruptcy
Biggest city to file for bankruptcy
POLITICS
Senator McCaskill To Skip Democratic Convention
Also stayed home to campaign in 2004
Local Police Step Up Immigration Enforcement
Appeals Court Rules Against States In Challenge To EPA Greenhouse Gas Rules
Condoleeza Rice Nixes Romney VP Talk
Obama, Marc Anthony Appeal For Latino Votes In Florida Campaign Stop
Tea Party Claims Another Scalp As Bridenstine Defeats Sullivan In Oklahoma
Pentagon Holds First Gay Pride Event
THE ECONOMY, STUPID
Oil Below $80 For Fifth Day As US Stockpiles Continue To Rise: NYMEX $78.99, Brent $92.58
Obama To Allow More Arctic Drilling…In 2016
Merkel Vows “No Euro Bonds As Long As I Live”
Best Buy Jumps On Buyout Rumors
US Consumer Confidence Falls To Five-Month Low
IRS Offshore Tax Programs Pull In $5 Billion
Are The BRICs Cracking?
Apple Wins Samsung Galaxy Tab Sales Ban
Google To Launch Android Tablet At I/O
Zynga Shares Drop As New Games Unveiled
Google’s Artificial Brain Learns To Find Cat Videos
Apple Shuts Out PRC, India In Expansion Of iTunes Music & Video
Iran Trade Sanctions Get Personal In Apple Stores
SPORTS
Darvish: 10 Ks, 10 Wins
First major league pitcher to win first seven home starts as Detroit falls 7-5
BCS Gets Boot; Four-Team Playoff In For 2014
Kenseth To Leave Roush Fenway Racing After 13 Seasons
Rizzo’s Two-Hit Debut Helps Cubs Top Mets
Red Sox Rally Late To Beat Toronto 5-1
Related: President Booed In Boston For Bringing Up Youkilis Trade
Bustin’ Out: Nats Offense Comes To Life In 12-5 Thrashing Of Rockies
FAMOUS FOR BEING FAMOUS
Screenwriter Nora Ephron Dead At 71
Oscar nominee for Sleepless In Seattle, others
Jennifer Lawrence Rescues Girl Who Collapsed On Her Front Lawn
50 Cent “Doing Fine” After Accident
Who Is Savannah Guthrie, Besides Ann Curry’s Replacement?
Feds Say Scarlett Johansson Deserves $66K From Hacker
Spice Girls Reunite To Announce West End Musical
James Cameron To Film Three “Avatar” Sequels Simultaneously
Charlie Sheen Parties In NY, Hotel Room Not Trashed
James Franco Still Pursuing Amanda Seyfried Even After “Lovelace” Wraps
Rielle Hunter Says She & John Edwards No Longer A Couple
FOREIGNERS
Fierce Fighting Rages Close To Damascus, Assad Admits Country Is At War
120 Rescued As Asylum-Seekers’ Boat Sinks
Morsi Names Six VPs Including Woman, Christian; Resigns From Muslim Brotherhood Party
Officials In PRC Forced Abortion Case Made To Resign
Heavy Rains, Mudslides In Bangladesh Kill 50
Tower Housing Big Ben To Be Renamed Elizabeth Tower To Honor Queen
Abu Hamza Confession Proves Pakistani Involvement In Mumbai Terror Attack
Lords Reform Fractures Tories As Backbenchers Dissent
BLOGS & STUFF
WyBlog: One Step Closer To Skynet
Nice Deb: Steny Hoyer Indicates Contempt Vote Will Be Bipartisan
Hit & Run: CNN Contributor, Journalist Of The Year Asks “Why Do People Need to Know So Much Darn News that the Government Would Rather They Didn’t Know?”
Doug Ross: Holder Also Withholding Documents He Shared With Terrorists
Rush Limbaugh: Regime Refuses To Enforce Border, Tells Arizona To Go To Hell
Sarah Palin: “Death Panel”, Three Years Later
Ed Driscoll: Convention Clusterfark Bad Omen For Dems?
Atlas Shrugs: Women In The New Egypt? “Please God. Please Make It Stop.”
Lonely Conservative: Obama Prepping Thousands Of Lawyers For November Election
American Thinker: Chicago Homicides Leap 38% In One Year
Jawa Report: Jay Carney Pretends Obama Not Booed In Boston Despite Transcript
Weekly Standard Blog: We’re From The Government, And We’re Here To Help You Lose Weight







