The Other McCain

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

Now And Then Walter Russell Mead Says Something Way Out There

Posted on | June 3, 2012 | 8 Comments

by Smitty

Mead on Soros on Europe:

. . .see what one of the EU’s truest friends thinks about the future of the “fantastic object” on which so many hopes have been placed.

The Soros article that Mead references is here. For a quick skim (I’ve reviewed Soros’s ideas here) the main thing still missing in George’s thinking is anything from the Austrian School that points out the existential impossibility of Holy Government and legislation offering any human redemption.

When you look at the Lefty outfits that Soros more or less overtly funds in the U.S., it’s hard to envision George as a true friend of anyone except perhaps George Soros. Remarks like the one above make me wonder just what has crept into Mead’s coffee cup.

Category: Uncategorized

The Profoundly Dishonest Brett Kimberlin

Posted on | June 3, 2012 | 45 Comments

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

FROM AN UNDISCLOSED LOCATION
While researching further background material, I happened upon a November 2011 post at DFQ2 in which Seth Allen discussed Brett Kimberlin’s ties to the left-wing news site Raw Story. Allen was particularly interested in Larisa Alexandrovna, a former Raw Story reporter who is an indefatiguable defender — or perhaps we should say, idolator — of Kimberlin.

In October 2006, a contributor to Democrat Underground discovered Kimberlin’s criminal past and wrote a post asking, “Is it smart to have our cause of election reform tied to a known, convicted bomber?” Alexandrovna posted 13 comments on that thread defending Kimberlin as having been wrongly convicted, secretly exonerated, etc.

What caught my eye in the DU thread, however, was not Alexandrovna’s defenses of Kimberlin, but rather the biography of himself Kimberlin had published — quoted in Comment #15 on the thread — while promoting his band, Epoxy:

Epoxy arose out of the hellish depths of Brett’s time in prison for exercising his First Amendment rights to speech and political activity. Without any trial, Brett was hauled off to federal prison after being targeted by right-wingers who wanted to punish him for being a musician, writing a book and speaking out about politics.

What a sociopathic liar he is.

Of course, there was a trial. Kimberlin wasn’t imprisoned “for exercising his First Amendment rights,” nor was he “targeted by right-wingers.”

His crimes were committed during the Carter presidency, and the prosecuting attorneys included John J. “Jack” Thar, who is still alive and well and practicing law in Indiana. 

You could ask Jack Thar whether he is a “right-winger” who “targeted” Brett Kimberlin “for exercising his First Amendment rights.”

– Robert Stacy McCain, Whereabouts Unknown

 

 

UPDATE: Raw Story Disavows Ties to Kimberlin.

Linked by Nice Deb and That Mr. G Guy — thanks!

Category: The Kimberlin Files

Liz Warren Stopped A VC Platoon With A Ka-Bar #WorldsMostInterestingCandidate

Posted on | June 2, 2012 | 12 Comments

by Smitty

Are these hands registered weapons?
[The rest adapted from here]

  • She’s fluent in all languages, especially Liberalese.
  • She tips an astonishing 100%, but not to conservatives.
  • Once while sailing around the world, she discovered a short cut.
  • When sailing the wind is always at her back. Politically, not so much.
  • Panhandlers give her money.
  • She does political Calculus in her head, with non-Euclidian results.
  • She always rounds to five decimal points, and in her favor.
  • Her 7th-inning stretch could last through the 9th….
  • She’s never not sat up straight.
  • As a toddler she taught others to walk.
  • At the book store people crowd to see her read.
  • Athletes seek her autograph.
  • Her passport requires no photo, just like her voting ballot.
  • She can keep one eye on the past while looking into the future, especially on genealogy.
  • When she drives her new car off the lot it increases in value.
  • Her 1913 Duesenberg still has that new car smell.
  • Though she can’t walk on water she’s never slipped on ice.

Update:

Category: Massachusetts

Of Course, He’s Canadian

Posted on | June 2, 2012 | 11 Comments

Police say that Canadian gay porn star Luka Magnotta murdered his Chinese lover, Lin Jun, dismembered the corpse and ate part of it, mailed parts of Lin’s body to Canada’s leading political parties, and posted video of his gruesome crime on the Internet.

There is now an international manhunt for Magnotta, who is believed to have fled to — you guessed, didn’t you? — France.

Category: Canada, Crime, Gays

Rule 5 In WI: Dana Loesch Interviews LtGov Rebecca Kleefisch

Posted on | June 2, 2012 | 18 Comments

by Smitty

Don’t let the fact that this is one knockout interviewing another knockout distract you from the importance of the message: as Wisconsin goes on Tuesday, so goes the rest of the country.
I did donate some money to Gov. Walker, but Kleefisch’s message (in summary, “Don’t get cocky, kid”) is spot on. Things have decayed as far as they have due to overall voter complacency.
Update: video kicked below the fold for reasons of obnoxious autoplay.
Read more

Category: Rule 5, Video, Wisconsin

‘Supidity’ Indeed. In Mathematical Terms, It’s Like Saying 2+2=3

Posted on | June 2, 2012 | 49 Comments

by Smitty

Bill Quick is taken aback at the postulated indifference toward the gay Green Lantern comic from DC:

Why? Because mom and dad are such freaking idiots they think their kids will catch the dread gay disease from reading a comic book?
I’m gobsmacked.

This is the same Lefty media that brought you, in no particular order:

  • Barack Hussein Obama
  • Anthropogenic Global Warming
  • Butchery of the unborn
  • Orwellian Progressivism
  • and so on

Do I cling bitterly do my Western, Christian tradition in the face of this onslaught?

Am I concerned that my 10 month know how to swim before his feet no longer touch bottom in our effluent culture?

If somebody were to proclaim that 2+2=3, would it take some sophistication to respect the speaker’s free speech right to be completely jacked up about math, while gently refusing to let the speaker serve as one’s accountant? My example may seem absurd, but consider Madoof and Corzine.

Face it: the gay Green Lantern will go over about as well as gay marriage, when voters are actually given a chance to express their preference, an not told what to think by the judiciary. But this could actually be part of a second Obama term plan by DC, come to think of it. Drive their sales through the floor so that #OccupyResoluteDesk has to bail out comic books, and nationalize them.

Then, via taxes, I could be forced to pay for comics I don’t even want to read. Call it ‘a higher form of gay’.

Update: linked at The Daley Gator: ” I really do not care about Gay marriage one way or the other, but I do wish that we would let our kids be kids.”

Update: Linked at Andrew J. Patrick, who has some deep comic book thoughts.

Category: Bill Quick, Culture

FMJRA 2.0: Sir Ape

Posted on | June 2, 2012 | 7 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

REPORT: Aaron Walker Arrested After Maryland Hearing on Kimberlin Case UPDATE: Walker Now Released

Kimberlin v. Walker Hearing Scheduled: 8:30 a.m. Tuesday in Rockville, Maryland 

Brett Kimberlin’s Heiress Aunt Helping Fund His Tax-Exempt Harassment

Somebody Tell Nina Totenberg Her Buddy Brett Kimberlin Is Making News Again

Aaron Walker Court Hearing Confirms Kimberlin-Rauhauser Collaboration 

Radicals Justify Their Evil by Invoking Their Presumed Moral Superiority

ERICK ERICKSON GETS SWATTED

Meghan, You Ignorant Slut

FMJRA 2.0: Working For The Clampdown (Brett K Remix)

Only Another 21 Or So ‘Worst Weeks Ever’

Brett Kimberlin Really Hates Racists, Eh?

On This Memorial Day, I Say: ‘Forget You, Van Jones’

How Did Fausta Miss That Joke?

So You’re Telling Me 1 In 3 Vets Favor #OccupyResoluteDesk?

Rule 5 Monday: Memorial Day

Matthew Vadum Talks Brett Kimberlin

Undisclosed Location Springs Leak!

Have Years Of Exposure To Biden Left Obama Totally Potted?

A Hint About Stacy’s Undisclosed Location

Donald Douglas Doubles Down;
Brett Kimblerlin, Perhaps, Will Frown

LIVE AT FIVE – 05.31.12

Court Declares Clinton-Era Defense of Marriage Act Unconstitutional

LIVE AT FIVE – 06.01.12

The Only Answer Is ‘Heh’

Not Ashamed Of My Country, But ‘Choom-Ba-Yah Diplomacy’ Makes Me Cringe

Top linkers this week:

  1. His Sublime Majesty, The Emperor Bloghoricus Maximus (18)
  2. (tied) That Mr. G Guy and Truth Before Dishonor (9)
  3. (tied) The Lonely Conservative and That Innocuous Girl (8)
  4. (tied) Da Tech Guy and The Conservatory (7)
  5. (tied) Daley Gator and Daily Pundit (6)
  6. Hogewash (5)

Thanks to everyone for their linkagery! Deadline for next week’s FMJRA submissions is Friday, June 8.

 

Category: FMJRA Award

When Neal Rauhauser Complained About ‘Menacing’ and ‘Cyberstalking’

Posted on | June 2, 2012 | 61 Comments

FROM AN UNDISCLOSED LOCATION
As September 2010 came to an end, Neal Rauhauser’s “beandogs” operation was rapidly imploding. Using his “WingNutWatch” Twitter account, Rauhauser had “organized 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 “TwitterGate” story was a brief blip in the blogospheric consciousness: An ugly online spat between Left and Right that seemed rather silly to those who did not grasp two key facts:

  1. Rauhauser was a paid consultant with the Progressive PST firm, providing “social media” services to Democrat candidates; and
  2. Rauhauser has described himself as a “hacker.”

Fact 2 could be dismissed as mere boasting — Rauhauser may have exaggerated his hacking skills — yet it is nonetheless relevant in light of Fact 1: Why would candidates for public office hire someone who bragged of his ability to engage in deceptive and potentially criminal activity? What services did Rauhauser’s clients expect him to deliver?

Whatever Rauhauser was getting paid for, what he was evidently doing in 2010 — as Patrick Read and others have documented — was organizing and directing a mob of pseudonymous Twitter trolls who sent a steady stream of abusive comments at Tea Party activists online. Care to see a few of the messages sent by Rauhauser’s “beandogs”? (Warning: Extremely Graphic Language.) Read more

Category: The Kimberlin Files
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