The Other McCain

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

Private Sector’s Doing Fine

Posted on | June 12, 2012 | 10 Comments

by Smitty

I’m not going to have time to cut a video of this and push to YouTube, alas:

Private Sector’s Doing Fine

“Private sector’s doing fine,”
said the Prez ‘midst quaffs of Coke.
Snorted he: “Bitter cling-ons

“Will fires of racism stoke,
and with extremists entwine,
’til Hope and Change on them dawns.

“Economy? I awoke
it from richest dreams, with yawns,
#Occupied by sweetest wine.

“Aren’t we a nation of Jonhs?
(If  I may Edwards invoke,
shafting him while I get mine.)

“Wasting too much on our lawns,
altered from natural pine,
as though ‘Gaia’ were some joke.

“It doesn’t take an Einstein
to free Capitalist pawns
and part Hayeckian smoke:

“We must seek fairness divine,
and the choom of justice toke,
thumbing Tea Party morons.

Category: Barack Obama

Reading Meghan So You Don’t Have To

Posted on | June 12, 2012 | 22 Comments

— by Wombat-socho


The right half of the blogosphere owes an enormous debt of gratitude to Betsy Woodruff, William F. Buckley Fellow at the National Review Institute, for she has done something few of us would have the courage to do. Yes, ladies and gentlemen, for our sake Ms. Woodruff took upon herself the vile, filthy, nigh-unspeakable task of reading the latest opus of RINO Poster Girl Meghan McCain, America, You Sexy Bitch, and writing a brief review of this appalling tome.


Now, nobody has ever accused Ms. McCain of being the brightest bulb on the tree, but it is evident from Woodruff’s review that the MSNBC commentator has sunk to a new low of incoherence, such that she apparently finds former Ohio Congressman Dennis Kucinich the solution to America’s political problems today. The less said about her (more) liberal co-author’s scribblings the better. Nonetheless, I recommend Woodruff’s review, not because any of us need a reminder of just how useless La McCain is as any kind of political commentator, but because in these stressful times of double-digit unemployment, autocratic Cabinet secretaries, and mad bombers turned political operatives, we all need a good laugh once in a while, and Woodruff’s review delivers.

Category: Meghan McCain, Politics, Republicans

‘Team Kimberlin’ Meltdown Continues

Posted on | June 12, 2012 | 104 Comments

FROM AN UNDISCLOSED LOCATION
Liars hate nothing worse than to be exposed as liars — exposure makes it hard for them to get away with their lies — and three weeks of public attention to lying felon Brett Kimberlin and his associates have put them under extraordinary psychological pressure.

We’ve seen evidence of Neal Rauhauser’s spiraling descent into madness, outlined by Dan Collins at The Conservatory:

In the email, Rauhauser concedes that the SWATting of Stack was likely performed by one of his “beandog” followers, but that he believes the culprit will get off because the call was untraceable. In Rauhauser’s demented mind, Patterico, Stacy and others were actually the cause of the SWATting, according to some as-yet-to-be-invoked legal theory. . . .
Sometime Kimberlin operative Ron Brynaert has been trying to play a double game, quarrelling with Rauhauser on the one hand and threatening Kimberlin critics who associate him with Rauhauser and Kimberlin on the other, and is likelier than Rauhauser to flip, IMO, but this revelation changes the playing field quite a bit. I wouldn’t be surprised to find Rauhauser turning state’s evidence against Kimberlin at the sane advice of legal counsel. Whether he still has the functioning neurons to try to pull his ass out of the fire, though, is an open question.

There is now a Memeorandum thread, and more and more people are beginning to see the connections between the various dots in the bizarre pattern surrounding Kimberlin’s tax-exempt 501(c) operations at Velvet Revolution and Justice Through Music Project. Investigative journalist Matthew Vadum assures me that lying is not considered a charitable activity by the IRS, and one wonders what the authorities would discover in a thorough forensic audit of Kimberlin’s lucrative (although “non-profit”) enterprises.

Kimberlin and his associates constantly claim to be victims of harassment, but who’s really harassing whom? Patterico exposes the vicious harassment of Mandy “Liberty Chick” Nagy by one of Kimberlin’s most vocal and persistent online defenders.

Furthermore — and there are so many dots in this pattern that new connections are sometimes surprising — Patterico demonstrates what would appear to be conspiratorial collusion between Rauhauser and Nadia Naffe, who has claimed that she was harassed by James O’Keefe. This is a connection involving Jay Leiderman, a California attorney with ties to both the Occupy movement and the “Anonymous” international hacker conspiracy.

One of Leiderman’s clients was the criminal hacker known as “Commander X,” who jumped bail and joined the Occupy movement. Leiderman had defended the denial-of-service attacks by “Commander X” as a form of civil disobedience. But now Leiderman’s  another attorney, Ed Fry, is on the hook for the $35,000 bond he signed for this Rosa Parks of hacking.

Cosmic justice is a funny thing that way.

-– Robert Stacy McCain, Whereabouts Unknown

 

 

 

THE KIMBERLIN FILES

UPDATE: Dan Collins has updated to correct a misunderstanding:

Correction: Mike Stack emails to state that he pressed charges against Rauhauser for harassment, but that neither is suing the other.

I’ve also corrected an error. I had previously misread the Talking Points Memo article about Christopher “Commander X” Doyon, which makes clear that it wasn’t Jay Leiderman who signed the bond for Doyon:

Ed Fry, a lawyer who has been involved in the the Occupy movement in Santa Cruz, told TPM he met Doyon during the summer of 2010 and put up the bond to help out a friend. He doesn’t think the law will catch up to Doyon, who joined up with the Occupy movement after being released.
“I don’t expect him to be caught. He’s pretty Wile E. Coyote,” said Fry, adding that he last talked to Doyon around Christmas. He said signing the bond was a risk he had to take.

Our first obligation is to get the facts right, and even minor factual errors — honest mistakes — are regrettable.

Category: The Kimberlin Files

LIVE AT FIVESIX – 06.12.12

Posted on | June 12, 2012 | 11 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho


TOP NEWS
Florida Sues Homeland Security, DOJ Sues Florida

Florida League of Women Voters comes out against purge of voter rolls

State of Florida, Feds throw down in court over purge of county voter rolls

Mitt Romney Quietly Raises $3 Million In Georgia
Related: Campaign practicing good operational security

Putin 2.0: Repeating The Soviet Union’s Mistakes
Bloomberg editors rap Russian president for refusal to restructure economy or political scene



POLITICS
Commerce Secretary Bryson Takes Medical Leave Of Absence

Commerce Secretary (and certified environmentalist wacko) John Bryson

Apparently suffered seizures in weekend crashes

Middleborough, Mass. Approves $20 Fine For Public Swearing

Oil-rich North Dakota Votes On Abolishing Property Tax

Obama Picks Two For DC Appeals Court

State Revenues Top Forecasts As Governors Cut Spending

Jeb Bush Takes Aim At Fellow Republicans

With Friday Budget Deadline Looming, California Legislators Have More Than Paychecks At Stake

Obama Off To Baltimore For More Fundraising



THE ECONOMY, STUPID
Oil Declines Again As Spanish Bailout Enthusiasm Fades; NYMEX $81.96, Brent $97.53
Europe Crisis Rages On Despite Spanish Bank Rescue
Fed Reports American Families Lost 39% Of Worth In Recession
Sprint Forfeits Clearwire Majority Stake
US Exempts India (But Not PRC) From Iran Oil Sanctions
Manpower Employment Outlook Survey Indicates Hiring To Remain Strong – In India
Orange County Register, Other Remaining Freedom Communications Assets Sold To Boston Group
Apple Kicks Google Maps Off iOS, Goes With TomTom Instead
Intel Says Android Not Ready For Dual Core
Researchers Find Direct Link Between Stuxnet, Flame Malware
Google Launches Metro-Style Chrome Browser For Windows 8



SPORTS
Kings Of The NHL

Dustin Brown hoists the Stanley Cup

Los Angeles Kings thrash the Devils 6-1 to win the first Stanley Cup in the 45-year history of the franchise

North Dakota Goes To The Polls To Resolve Fighting Sioux Nickname Dispute

LA Showdown: Pujols Lifts Angels Over Dodgers 3-2

Ochocinco Returns To Miami, Signs With Dolphins

Dodgers Sign Ethier To Five Year/$85 Million Deal

San Jose Tech Billionaire Reaches Agreement To Buy NBA’s Memphis Grizzlies

Jurors To Hear Closing Arguments In Clemens Trial

Jackson Solid As Nationals Beat Blue Jays 6-3



FAMOUS FOR BEING FAMOUS
Savage Blonde

Blake Lively, cover girl

The Blake Lively interview

Did Lindsay Lie To Cops After Accident?

Trace Cyrus, Brenda Song End Engagement

Zac Efron, Lily Collins Split

Maria Menounos: I Was Sexually Abused By Two Doctors

Miley Cyrus Auditions For Corset Friday

Kanye West Wants Kids With K-Dash
The union of the unspeakable with the unmentionable?

Britney Spears An “Incredibly Tough” X-Factor Judge

Marilyn Monroe Estate Threatens Legal Action Over Hologram Concert

Frank Cady Dies, 96; Played Mr.Drucker On “Petticoat Junction”



FOREIGNERS
Coroner: Actually, Yes, A Dingo Did Eat Her Baby
UN Wrings Hands Over Civilians As Heavy Fighting Continues In Syria
Thousands Defy New Law, Show Up For Anti-Putin Protests In Moscow
Ethnic/Religious Strife Continues In Burma’s Rakhine State
British Hacking Inquiry Sharpens Political Divide
Yemen: Troops Retake Town From Al-Qaeda Gunmen
Opposition Leader Capriles Leads Massive March In Caracas
Seoul Vows Decapitation Strikes If Norks Continue Provocations
No Progress On Indo-Pak Standoff Over Siachen



BLOGS & STUFF
Lonely Conservative: Dueling Lawsuits Over Florida’s Attempt To Purge Ineligible Voters
Ricochet: Detainees Strike Out At SCOTUS
Clayton Cramer: I’m Feeling Better Now
Rush Limbaugh: “You’re Not Special” – Great Commencement Speech By David McCullough Jr.
Power Line: Wealth Destruction, 2007-2010
Marc Thiessen: How Obama Can Really Help The Public Sector
Pat Dollard: Obama’s Early Rise Brought African-Americans Bankruptcies, Foreclosures
GayPatriot: BuzzFeed Spins Jeb Bush’s Remarks To Fit Media Narrative
Sister Toldjah: CBC Staff Says Opposition To Obama Is Racist!
Weasel Zippers: House GOP Schedules Vote To Hold AG Holder In Contempt; Issa Says 31 Democrats Will Vote With GOP
National Review: Ban Gas! No, Ban Coal!
Hot Air: EPA Chief Jackson Says Her Agency Isn’t To Blame For Coal Industry Problems
Mary Anastasia O’Grady: Castro Endorses Obama
Israel Matzav: Former Black Panther, Current Anti-Semite To Be Democrat Nominee In NY-8
Jammie Wearing Fools: Howard Dean Says “We Look At Wisconsin As A Win” (Video)

Category: Live at Five

HUGE! Neal Rauhauser’s Vicious Lies Exposed by Yet Another Leaked E-Mail

Posted on | June 11, 2012 | 57 Comments

Last night, I published an e-mail showing that Democrat political operative Neal Rauhauser, representing himself as an agent of Brett Kimberlin’s Velvet Revolution, had used his connections to the “Anonymous” hacker conspiracy to reach out to leaders of the “Occupy Boston” protests.

Tonight, Brooks Bayne at The Trenches has an e-mail he calls a “bombshell” — and quite rightly so!

UPDATE: I’m not a lawyer, but what Rauhauser appears to be doing in this May 24 e-mail — besides lying about me — is attempting to inveigle California attorney Jay Leiderman into representing Mike Stack in a nuisance lawsuit against Patrick “Patterico” Frey.

Stack is the guy whose involvement in exposing the Anthony Weiner sex scandal resulted in him being “SWATted” and, subsequently, harassed by Rauhauser, who became obsessed with a paranoid conspiracy theory of WeinerGate. In February, Rauhauser published his crackpot theory (“Andrew Breitbart’s ISR Cell?”) which suggested that Andrew Breitbart and the security firm HBGary were somehow involved in Rauhauser’s own 2010 “TwitterGate” scandal, as well as plots against Kimberlin.

Like I say, I’m not a lawyer, but I’d guess this incredible e-mail — read the whole thing — exposes Rauhauser to serious legal jeopardy.

My advice to Neal? Plead insanity.

UPDATE II: This scoop by Brooks Bayne — you’ve got to go read it, now — fits in with what one source told me in a phone conversation today: “Neal’s lost it.”

Apparently, Rauhauser has been sending lots of crazy e-mails like this to lots of different people, making insane accusations about me, Patrick Frey, Seth Allen, Aaron Walker, Ali Akbar, James O’Keefe and people who have nothing to do with the Kimberlin story, but against whom Rauhauser harbors grudges.

Rauhauser probably should have been institutionalized after he published his eight-page conspiracy theory treatise in February and sent copies of that deranged gibberish to the FBI and to police officials in New Jersey. He seems to have been undergoing some kind of slow-motion mental breakdown for the past couple of years, and has become obsessed with a variety of “enemies” who, in his demented imagination, are all conspiring against him.

For example, in June 2011, after he became fixated on the WeinerGate scandal, Rauhauser (blogging at DailyKos as “Stranded Wind”) invoked two of his Twitter nemeses from 2010 and threatened to get Dana Loesch fired from CNN:

When you read this, Ms. Loesch, and I know you will, I have a personal request for you. Go get with discredited, disorganized dullards @SwiftRead and @GregWHoward of Twittergate fame, and then show me those pretty, pouty lips of yours saying my name on PJTV again. That’s the only TV outlet you are gonna have, honey, because we’re going to make it impossible for CNN to keep you …

Those whom Rauhauser called “discredited, disorganized dullards” were instrumental, along with Michelle (@Zapem) Lessick, in exposing how Rauhauser (who at the time was a campaign consultant to various Democratic candidates) had aparently organized a crew of Twitter trolls he called “Beandogs” to attack Tea Party activists.

Why did Rauhauser bring up Patrick Read and Greg Howard in the context of trying to get Loesch fired from CNN? It makes no sense, but that’s just how his warped mind works.

UPDATE III: Let me remind readers that Rauhauser published his twisted game plan in two 2010 posts on the Open Left forum:

Those masterpieces of deviousness were, in essence, the blueprint for what Rauhauser attempted to do in “TwitterGate,” with disastrous consequences for his reputation when he got caught. You’ll notice that these articles are now only available as online caches, because Rauhauser deleted the originals. Neal’s always trying to scrub away evidence of his mischief, deleting stuff and trying to pretend it never happened. He thinks he’s so smart (and we’re so stupid) that he can get away with such crap.

UPDATE IV: Just in case you haven’t been following the story, here are my recent posts about Neal Rauhauser:

Category: The Kimberlin Files

Who Knew The House GOP Was Channeling Peter Cetera?

Posted on | June 11, 2012 | 6 Comments

by Smitty

Something about Political Junkie Mom’s tweet of Erik Erikson at RedState dredged up an old memory:

Did you know that House Republicans are still defeating amendment after amendment to cut spending — even relatively small amounts?
You probably didn’t realize this because, for some reason, no one is reporting it. So here are just a few of the amendments the House defeated last week. If you’re not happy with this record House Republicans are compiling this election year, let them know now!

Maybe some ’80s lyrics can help Tea Partiers empathize. Or clear an upset stomach, as the case may be:

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Category: GOP

Ticonderoga Classy

Posted on | June 11, 2012 | 4 Comments

by Smitty

I was a young lad of 1819* on USS MyFirst:

Yes, USS Ticonderoga was CG-47

Not even the World's Finest Navy can overcome inferior leadership.

That was back in the days of Bush41. The Cold War. When the last two words of the phrase “I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic” were somehow less immediate. Good times, good times. And, with the efforts of all liberty-minded Americans in uniform or out, the sun of those times may rise again.

Apologies in advance for light blogging this week; I’m doing the single parent shuffle. Props to all those investing time in raising children!

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The mighty Ramirez:

*Ludicrously old friend JW catches me cooking the books. I reported to my first ship at a ripe 19, turned 20 on USS Lake Champlain, 21 in Newport RI at Navy Prep, and 22 a few months into Plebe Year at Sing Sing on the Severn.

You reach that age where your own life seems someone else’s biography, no?

Category: Barack Obama

#BrettKimberlin Says He Was ‘SWATted’; Why Do Maryland Cops Say Otherwise?

Posted on | June 11, 2012 | 48 Comments

Patterico suspected Brett Kimberlin was lying — which is what Kimberlin seems to do habitually and routinely, perhaps pathologically — when his 501(c) non-profit Velvet Revolution claimed Sunday that Kimberlin was “SWATted” on May 31.

Lee Stranhan contacted police in Montgomery County, Maryland, who say no such thing ever happened. Now we can probably expect Kimberlin to claim that the cops are part of a right-wing conspiracy against him.

Little Brett is always the victim, y’know.

 


Category: The Kimberlin Files
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