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Can I Recall A More Pissed Off Whittle Than In This Fast & Furious Essay?
No, I Cannot

Posted on | June 22, 2012 | 18 Comments

by Smitty

Category: PJTV

Good News: Paraguay Demonstrates More Sack Than The U.S. Congress. Bad News: Franco Back In Power

Posted on | June 22, 2012 | 22 Comments

by Smitty

Paraguay’s Congress removed President Fernando Lugo from office after a lightning-quick impeachment trial on Friday that he said was tantamount to a coup but pledged to accept.
Lugo, a silver-haired former Roman Catholic bishop who quit the Church to run for president on a social reform program, was found guilty of mishandling armed clashes over a land eviction in which 17 police and peasant farmers were killed last week.
In line with Paraguay’s constitution, Lugo was quickly replaced by Vice President F. Franco, a fierce opponent of the president. Franco, a centrist Liberal Party politician, was sworn in on Friday evening.

Does this mean Chevy Chase may be funny again?

via Fausta

Category: Fausta

BREAKING: Motion Filed Seeking Federal Injunction on Behalf of Blogger

Posted on | June 22, 2012 | 50 Comments

FROM AN UNDISCLOSED LOCATION
The following press release was just posted:

Walker v. Kimberlin Complaint and Motion
for Emergency Preliminary Injunction
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
June 22, 2012 – The Law Office of Bruce Godfrey, in professional cooperation with Dan Backer, Esquire, of leading Washington, DC, campaign finance and political compliance law firm DB Capitol Strategies PLLC, has today filed a Complaint and Motion for Emergency Preliminary Injunction on behalf of plaintiff and attorney Aaron Walker, Esquire against activist Brett Kimberlin in the United States District Court for the District of Maryland, Greenbelt Division.
Pending the imminent formation of a legal defense fund, the Law Office of Bruce Godfrey is participating in this litigation pro bono publico on behalf of Mr. Walker, due to the paramount constitutional principles at stake in the dispute outlined in the Complaint and Motion for Emergency Preliminary Injunction. No further discussion of the merits of the case would be appropriate here at this time, out of respect for the rights of Plaintiff Walker and Defendant Kimberlin to a fair and unbiased jury trial, which the Complaint requests on issues so triable. The relevant filings are available from the electronic filing and records systems of the United States District Court.
The Law Office of Bruce Godfrey is honored to participate in this case.

UPDATE: It was previously reported by David Hogberg of Investor’s Business Daily that Aaron Walker’s legal team has also filed an emergency appeal in Montgomery County (Md.) Circuit Courty (click here to see to see that filing). Walker was arrested May 29 at a Maryland hearing after Kimberlin had claimed that he was harassed because of Walker’s writings about Kimberlin’s criminal past.

UPDATE II: It is important to remember that Kimberlin’s “lawfare” intimidation against bloggers began in October 2010, when Kimberlin sued progresive blogger Seth “Socrates” Allen, whose complaints about Kimberlin’s tax-exempt group Velvet Revolution resulted in Allen being banned from a number of liberal blogs, including Daily Kos. Walker offered legal assistance to Allen, with the result that Walker himself (who had previously blogged under the pseudonym “Aaron Worthing”) became the object of harassment by both Kimberlin and his associate, Neal Rauhauser.

On May 17, Walker published his 28,000-word account, “How Brett Kimberlin Tried to Frame Me for a Crime (And How You Can Help!)” and, by the list of links below, you can judge how much news this saga has produced in the past 36 days.

— Robert Stacy McCain, Whereabouts Unknown

 

 

 

THE KIMBERLIN FILES:

 


Category: Aaron Worthing, The Kimberlin Files

E-Mails Expose MSNBC Host’s Involvement in #StopRush Boycott

Posted on | June 22, 2012 | 92 Comments

Krystal Ball will co-host MSNBC’s new show ‘The Cycle’ starting Monday.

FROM AN UNDISCLOSED LOCATION
MSNBC host Krystal Ball was in close communication with leaders of an online boycott aimed at advertisers on Rush Limbaugh’s popular radio show, e-mails between the boycott leaders indicate.

Attempting to discover the identity of an infiltrator in their group, the #StopRush leader @Shoq (aka “Shoq Value,” who is believed to be an activist named Matt Edelstein) indicated that Ball had warned another member about the suspected “right wing disrupter.” The other member had “already inquired with Krystal last week, and Krystal said ‘we don’t like or trust this guy,’” Shoq wrote in an e-mail published Thursday by Brooks Bayne at The Trenches.

Bayne said the e-mail was obtained from a Google group, “Social Action Steering,” which was apparently deleted after The Trenches published the correspondence between the #StopRush leaders. The group was attempting to discover the true identity and political leanings of a Texas man, known as “Randy Hahn,” who had joined their anti-Limbaugh effort and caused dissension among the boycotters.

Ball, a Democrat who ran for Congress in Virginia two years ago, is a paid MSNBC contributor who was recently announced as one of four co-hosts of a new daily program, The Cycle, on the left-leaning cable news network. It is unclear whether MSNBC executives were aware of the extent of Ball’s involvement in #StopRush, which used the social network in a campaign to drive Limbaugh off the airwaves by threatening boycotts against advertisers on his conservative talk show, the nation’s most popular syndicated radio program.

Professor William Jacobson’s Legal Insurrection blog has described how the #StopRush effort was evidently coordinated with the tax-exempt non-profit Media Matters for America, apparently using so-called “sockpuppet” accounts in a fake-grassroots “astroturf” campaign.

UPDATE: In attempting to discover the identity of “Randy Hahn,” the #StopRush boycott leader Shoq sought the services of Democrat consultant Neal Rauhauser, the e-mails obtained by The Trenches show. Rauhauser provided the group with extensive documentation about a Houston man named Jason, whose surname was redacted in the version posted by Bayne. Rauhauser then mused about exposing the man to harassment by sending his personal information to online groups.

“I have been sorely tempted to point him out to various actors — a guy like this, he could really produce some high quality entertainment for 4chan, Something Awful, Encyclopedia Dramatica, etc.,” Rauhauser wrote in his e-mail reply to Shoq.

Rauhauser, who was banned from the progressive blog Daily Kos last year, became notorious in 2010 when he was accused of organizing “a group of E-Thugs meant to harass, threaten, provoke, disparage, intimidate, verbally assault, berate & employ hate-speech against those not in agreement with his brand of politics,” as conservative blogger Patrick Read said at the time.

The so-called “TwitterGate” scandal was largely ignored by major news organizations, but Rauhauser has in the past month gained increasing notoriety as an associate of convicted felon Brett Kimberlin.

UPDATE II: After blogging obsessively about Anthony Weiner’s cybersex scandal last year, Rauhauser became involved with Kimberlin’s 501(c) non-profit Velvet Revolution and, last October, described how he was approached by a member of the “Anonymous” computer hacking conspiracy and solicited their assistance in targeting his and Kimberlin’s enemies.

Rauhauser was one of three people — along with Kimberlin and former Raw Story editor Ron Brynaert — whom blogger Patrick “Patterico” Frey named last month as suspected of complicity in a July 2011 “SWATting” incident at his Los Angeles home. Sen. Saxby Chambliss and 85 Republican members of Congress have called on Attorney General Eric Holder to investigate the reported harassment of conservative commentators.

UPDATE III: Thursday’s revelation of e-mails between #StopRush leaders was the second consecutive scoop by The Trenches on the anti-Limbaugh group’s infiltration by “Randy Hahn.” Bayne previously posted recorded excerpts of a conference call in which the leader Shoq berated the suspected interloper by boasting of his connections to Organizing for America (OFA), President Obama’s re-election campaign: “Randy, I can pick up the phone and call the director of OFA, can you? I can pick up the phone and call the … battleground state director of OFA. Can you?”

If Shoq’s claims are accurate, the latest reports may suggest multiple connections between the Limbaugh boycott, MSNBC, the Obama campaign, Democrat operatives like Rauhauser, and tax-exempt groups like Media Matters and Kimberlin’s Velvet Revolution.

UPDATE IV: Linked by Legal Insurrection, Patterico, The Conservatory and Hot Air Headlines — thanks! — and welcome, Instapundit readers!

There are many developments in the Brett Kimberlin story today, which I hope to aggregate in a new post later. But here’s your headline: “Kimberlin vs. Walker: Walker Fights Back.”

Stay tuned. One source told me today that there may be “something big” coming, but I’m not sure what the source meant by that.

UPDATE V: Linked by Darth Chipmunk, That Mr. G Guy, Before It’s News, Liberty News Network, Newsbeat1, The Ulsterman Report, Tony Katz and The Lonely Conservative — thanks!

UPDATE VI: Michelle Malkin has more on the latest action in the Kimberlin-vs.-Walker legal battle, and Ace of Spades has more with a FoxNews.com column by Committee for Justice executive director Kurt Levey. What really caused me to take the Kimberlin story seriously was when I learned that Internet Super Spy Neal Rauhauser was stalking Ace via his IP address on the Forest Moon of Endor.

OK, maybe some of the readers didn’t get that inside-blogger joke. Forgive me, but it’s been a long, long day. Please hit the tip jar.

UPDATE VII: “Something big” turns out to be, “BREAKING: Motion Filed Seeking Federal Injunction on Behalf of Blogger.” So now Walker’s legal team is fighting back against Brett Kimberlin in both state and federal court.

– Robert Stacy McCain, Whereabouts Unknown

 




 

 


Category: MSNBC, Rush Limbaugh, Talk Radio, The Kimberlin Files

LIVE AT FIVESIX – 06.22.12

Posted on | June 22, 2012 | 10 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho



TOP NEWS
Standoff At Afghan Resort Over, 17 Dead

UH-60 Blackhawk flies near the Spozhmai Hotel

Most of dead were civilians

Moody’s Cuts Ratings Of 15 Big Banks
Citigroup, Bank of America hardest hit; ratings for these two one step above junk



Romney Seeks Common Ground On Immigration
Making everyone unhappy at NALEO convention



POLITICS
Boehner Takes Hard Line On Holder Contempt Vote

Attorney General Holder

No compromise with Administration over “Fast & Furious” documents

Liz Warren Celebrates Birthday With Fundraiser

Obama To Address NALEO Today


Polygamous Towns Face DoJ Lawsuit For Religious Discrimination

Commerce Secretary Resigns Following Seizures

Obama’s “Endorsement” Of Gay Marriage Does Little To Shift National Opinion

Kansas Board To Rule On Revocation Of Doctor’s License In Abortion Cases



THE ECONOMY, STUPID
Economy Continues To Suck, Oil Continues To Fall: NYMEX $78.20, Brent $89.23
Auditors: Spain’s Banks May Need $78 Billion
Factory, Jobs Data Highlight Struggling Recovery
Mongolia’s Uneven Economic Boom
Dollar Rebounds As Global Growth Jitters Hit Risk
Arch Coal Idles Three Mines, Cuts 750 Jobs
Monster Beverage To Replace Sara Lee In S&P 500
Nintendo Announces Jumbo 3DS With Double The Screen Size, Longer Battery Life
Wait For WinPhone 8 Or Buy Samsung Galaxy S3?
Hacker Group Claims It Crashed Twitter
Microsoft’s Surface Tablet Initially Wifi Only
Flipboard For Android Officially Released
Texas AG Accuses Google Of Withholding Evidence In Internet Search Probe
No Physical Keyboard For Blackberry 10



SPORTS
Heat Take Second NBA Title With 121-106 Win

Fish Stink: Bullpen Fails As Red Sox Rally For 6-5 Win And Sweep

NHL Draft More Of Trade Show; Buzz More About Deals Than Picks

Get Ready For Road Rage In Sonoma

Jacobs Repays Six-Year-Old Fan

David Ortiz Tired Of All The Drama

Mets Ponder Pitching Knuckleballer Dickey Every 4 Days Instead of Usual 5

Blue Jackets Still Fielding Offers For Nash

Espinosa Whacks Peralta For Game-Winning Double, Nats Take Rays Series With 5-2 Win; Losing Pitcher Also Gets Eight-Game Suspension For Wednesday’s Pine Tar Incident



FAMOUS FOR BEING FAMOUS
“Glee” Casts Jessica Sanchez?

American Idol's Jessica Sanchez

In talks for Season 4 story arc

Republicans Making It Look Like Alec Baldwin Attacks Paparazzi
No end to the crazy

Miley Cyrus: I Love Being A Fiancee
Also apparently fond of half-ass Daisy Dukes

Double Indignity For Ann Curry

Wife Ends Search For Missing Actor Nick Stahl

Meredith Vieira Turns Down Offer To Replace Curry On “Today”

Alec Baldwin, David Letterman Drop Pants On “The Late Show”

MTV Brings Back “Daria”, “Laguna Beach”, And “The Hills”



FOREIGNERS
Mexican Marines Detain Suspected Son Of Drug Lord
Defense Lawyers Argue Norway Killer Breivik Is Sane
Syrian Pilot Flies Fighter To Jordan, Defects
100 Could Be Lost As Asylum Boat Capsizes
Ecuador’s President Correa Ponder Assange Asylum Request
Egypt Braces For Protests As It Awaits Election Results
Burma’s Suu Kyi Warns Country Needs Britain, Others To Act As Watchdogs For Reform
Putin Seeks To Reassure Foreign Investors
Merkel, Opposition Reach Deal On Fiscal Pact
Court Gives Umar Patek 20 Years In Bali Bombing
Death Blow: ACTA Suffers Fifth Rejection Vote In Europe



BLOGS & STUFF
Legal Insurrection: So Who Hasn’t Pre-Recorded Their ObamaCare Decision Analysis?
Gateway Pundit: Boehner Says No Spiking The Football If SCOTUS Strikes Down ObamaCare
Volokh Conspiracy: Ezra Klein Still An Ignorant Idiot
Allahpundit: Romney’s Cold War Strategy Against Obama Working?
Riehl World View: AP/GFK Poll Says Romney, Obama Even
Villainous Company: Just Follow His Nose…Wherever It Grows
Heritage Foundation: Supremes Uphold Workers’ Right Not To Fund Union Politics
Gateway Pundit: SCOTUS Rules Against SEIU
NewsBusters: New MSNBC Host Spews – “Racist Conservatives Fear Obama Taking Money From White People”
Power Line: Major Lawsuit Challenges Constitutionality Of Dodd-Frank
Ed Morrissey: Four-Week Jobless Claim Hits New High In 2012
Weasel Zippers: UN Official Tells ACLU Conference Obama Has Committed War Crimes With Drone Strikes
NRO Corner: The Rise Of Rand Paul
TVNewser: NYT Rips “Fox & Friends”
Beltway Confidential: Worldcom Felon Gets $7.5 Million Loan From Oabam Stimulus
Astute Bloggers: Hey, Blacks – The Obama Administration Is Bad For You
Washington Free Beacon: David Duke Endorses Charles Barron In NY Dem Primary

Category: Live at Five

‘Iowa Boy,’ ‘Stranded Wind’ and the Sadistic Personality of Neal Rauhauser

Posted on | June 21, 2012 | 24 Comments

FROM AN UNDISCLOSED LOCATION
What kind of creep publicly accuses his ex-wife — an accomplished professional academic administrator — of being an addict? What kind of creep would brag about using martial arts against a woman?

Read the shocking story of how Neal Rauhauser maligned the mother of his two children using his “Iowa Boy” alias at Daily Kos.

When you’re through reading that, permit me to remind you of the vicious harassment Rauhauser’s “beandogs” inflicted on Tea Party activists in the 2010 TwitterGate scandal. And did I mention that Neal once wrote that he would “pop a cap into Dick Cheney”?

You really must read the whole thing.

– Robert Stacy McCain, Whereabouts Unknown

 

Category: The Kimberlin Files

Obligatory Seriousness About Commenting

Posted on | June 21, 2012 | 56 Comments

— by Wombat-socho

Moe Lane has already done me the enormous favor of outlining what my policy is on trolls, so this will be a mercifully short post. I just want to spotlight a few things that I am finding particularly banworthy in recent days, for the benefit of those Loyal Readers who want to make my job easier by pointing out idiots who drop by for the express purpose of fouling the premises:

  1. The old whine that Romney is no better than Obama. I am sick and tired of reading this BS.
  2. Stupid posts by people who don’t get why Stacy is posting like a madman about Brett Kimberlin and Neal Rauhauser. If you’re too dumb to figure out their significance after all that’s been written, GTFO.
  3. On a related topic, anyone encouraging vigilanteism or messing around with BK/NR a la Anonymous or 4chan is going to get banned. Period.
  4. [Reserved for future annoyances]

Thanks for your cooperation.

Category: Blogging, Moe Lane

Obama Has Learned Nothing

Posted on | June 21, 2012 | 40 Comments

“The slow-rising central horror of ‘Watergate’ is not that it might grind down to the reluctant impeachment of a vengeful thug of a president whose entire political career has been a monument to the same kind of cheap shots and treachery he finally got nailed for, but that we might somehow fail to learn something from it.”
— Hunter S. Thompson, “Memo from the Sports Desk & Rude Notes from a Decompression Chamber in Miami,” Rolling Stone, Aug. 2, 1973 (collected in The Great Shark Hunt: Strange Tales from a Strange Time)

“A third-rate gun-running operation?
“The claim from the left is that this is just a case of ‘criminalizing policy differences.’
“But that’s absurd. Does either wing of American politics support giving assault weapons to Mexican druglords?”
— Ace of Spades, June 21, 2012

Ace’s allusion to Watergate — famously dismissed at the time as a “third-rate burglary” — caught my eye, as my recent bedtime reading has included The Great Shark Hunt, and Thompson’s savage denunciations of Nixon were fresh in my mind.

Of course, Nixon wasn’t as bad as his left-wing enemies (like Thompson) thought he was, and neither is Obama as bad as his right-wing enemies think he is. But this is not a situation where finely calculated degrees of moral virtue are really relevant. Rather, what we are witnessing is the consequence of hubristic arrogance, and the failure to learn the lessons of history.

The president and his aides obviously knew the Watergate-era maxim about such scandals: “It’s not the crime, it’s the cover-up.” But maybe they thought it did not apply to them.

Obama’s henchmen seem to have believed they could stonewall Congress and dishonestly deny knowledge of basic facts in the “Fast and Furious” scandal, and never have to face the music.

Once congressional committees start subpoenaing documents and questioning witnesses under oath, however, what would in other contexts be mere lies become potential crimes.

Partisan finger-pointing and P.R. spin can’t solve a problem like this. The fact that Bill Clinton was acquitted by the Senate after he was impeached in 1998 may be of some comfort to Obama, but on the other hand, Monica Lewinsky’s blowjobs didn’t kill two Americans and dozens of Mexicans. However, the pro-Obama media, after ignoring the Fast and Furious scandal for months, continues to play along with the administration and pretend that what’s going on here is mere political gamesmanship:

A Pointless Partisan Fight
— New York Times

Grayson: Fast and Furious ‘circus’
will backfire on Republicans
— Raw Story

Failure to take the scandal seriously, and then attempting to portray it as a partisan fight, is going to leave Obama’s media apologists looking foolish because, as Paul Meringoff says, those documents must be dynamite. Whatever happened to common sense in the news business, huh? Can’t all those overpaid network superstars put two and two together and see that, if Obama’s willing to assert executive privilege to keep Congress from getting the Fast and Furious documents, there must be some very serious stuff in those documents?

Attention NBC, ABC and CBS: Katie Pavlich wrote a book called, Fast and Furious: Barack Obama’s Bloodiest Scandal and the Shameless Cover-Up. Maybe you could try reading that, OK? And there’s another incipient scandal you might want to stop ignoring, too.

 

Category: Barack Obama, Corruption, Crime, Scandal
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