Having previously vowed to have no comment — no comment! — about the former Hillary Clinton intern who is now working in the “adult entertainment industry,” I’m obliged to point out that Bob Belvedere at Camp of the Saints has photos of the woman. Perhaps not the most interesting photos of her, but I repeat: No comment.
Conservative PAC Asks Law Enforcement to Investigate DOS Attack on Web Site
When the Turn Right USA political action committee (TRUSA-PAC) launched their controversial online video ad attacking Democratic congressional candidate Janice Hahn last week, TRUSA-PAC experienced a denial-of-service (DOS) attack that prevented people from reaching their Web site. Now the PAC is asking the FBI and other law enforcement agencies to investigate the hacker attack:
Turn Right USA PAC (TRUSA) has contacted the FBI and other organizations after being the subject of extended Denial of Service (DOS) attacks on June 15 and 16. They have been asked to determine whether the Democratic National Committee (DNC), the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC), and/or the Janice Hahn campaign have hired, instructed or colluded with hackers in order to launch DOS attacks against not only TRUSA’s websites, but Ladd Ehlinger, Jr’s personal websites.
Less than 24 hours after TRUSA launched the world’s most controversial ad, the “Show Me Your Cash, B—h!” on youTube, TRUSA’s websites www.hahnshomeboyz.org and www.turnrightusa.org suffered prolonged and sustained DOS attacks until we blocked the offending IP address causing the problem.
See also:
- American Power: “Alleged Denial of Service Attack Against Turn Right USA PAC“
- The Rhetorican: “Leftie Hacker Gets Fingered By Conservative PAC?“
PREVIOUSLY:
- June 16: CA-36: The Facts of the Case
- June 15: CA-36: Hahn’s Bad Rap?
- June 15: CA-36: Anti-Hahn Video Draws More Than 75,000 Viewers in First 18 Hours
- June 14: BREAKING: Democrats Call on GOP Candidate to Denounce PAC Video
- June 14: Democrat Janice Hahn Stars in the New Viral Video Smash Hit of the Summer!
Wal-Mart Wins, Women Lose, Stocks Rise
The Supreme Court sided with Wal-Mart against a bunch of malcontents claiming “gender discrimination,” and the Dow Jones Industrial Average climbed 76 points.
Mere coincidence, I’m sure we’ll be told — the Wall Street rally is being attributed to encouraging news on the Greek debt crisis — but it seems to me that the court’s pimp-slap to the class-action tort-mongers had to be a welcome relief to Corporate America. Here’s a video from, of all places, Al-Jazeera:
‘It Appears He Was Drinking Heavily Before Climbing Behind the Wheel …’
. . . of his 2007 Porsche 911 GT3. And now Ryan Dunn, one of the young idiots who became famous for being famously stupid on the MTV series “Jackass,” has gone on to that Big Reality Show in the Sky:
The double fatal crash happened at about 2:38 a.m. on Route 322 near Pottstown Pike in West Goshen Township.
According to the police report obtained by CBS Philly, Ryan was driving his 2007 Porsche 911 GT3 when it crashed into a wooded area and burst into flames. Both Dunn and his passenger, who has not been positively identified, died as a result of injuries they sustained in the crash.
Over the guardrail, into the tree, fiery death. And I know you’ll be shocked to learn that police believe “speed may have been a contributing factor to the accident.”
Wow. Driving fast in a Porsche 911? Imagine that.
Also, at 12:15 a.m. — about two hours before the fatal crash — Dunn reportedly Tweeted a photo of himself drinking with two buddies.
UPDATE: Thanks to the commenter who called attention to this episode of BBC’s Top Gear, which points out that the Porsche 911’s rear-engine design makes the car prone to skidding sideways — a drifter’s dream — so that it was once notorious as “the Grim Reaper’s company car”:
While I’ve never driven a Porsche, I have taken a few curves at high speed. Doing so safely requires (a) fresh tires, (b) a car with a low center of gravity, and (c) a careful attention to the momentum/traction situation. Were I to hazard a guess as to how Dunn wrecked, I’d imagine he came up short on (c), and started losing traction before he realized he was going too fast for the curve. Whether he was drunk or merely tired at 2:30 in the morning, the Porsche 911 doesn’t seem to be the most forgiving sports car on the market. Here’s the Associated Press report of the fatal crash:
Why Is David Epstein Still a Columbia University Professor After Incest Plea?
Jackie Carrero and Mikey Zhong of the Columbia Spectator note that David Epstein is still employed as a political science professor at Columbia University, even after he copped a guilty plea (to the misdemeanor of “attempted incest”) in connection with a case that made headlines in December.
Epstein, who had used his blog at Huffington Post to attack Sarah Palin, was arrested and charged with having sex with his adult daughter. And, as was reported at the time, “according to the criminal complaint from the Manhattan District Attorney’s office, professor David Epstein’s incest was committed between July 2006 and June 2009 at a University Apartment Housing building on 120th Street.”
So (a) it went on for three years, and (b) it happened on university property.
Neither the university nor Epstein has commented on the case since his May 10 guilty plea, but the question remains: If a professor committed such a crime on university property, wouldn’t Columbia be justified in firing Epstein? Surely such behavior violates some aspect of university policy, and yet it appears that Epstein remains a full-time faculty member in good standing.
The mind boggles . . .
UPDATE: Welcome, Fox Nation readers!
WeinerGate: Who Is Starchild111?
At least one reader has complained that it’s time to move on from WeinerGate, and I’m entirely willing to do so — but the dadgum story won’t stop, and stuff just keeps popping up.
This “Betty and Veronica” mystery continues bubbling. The person whom Tommy Christopher dubbed “Betty” was “Nikki Reid” a/k/a “Starchild111,” an alleged teenage girl who was one of Anthony Weiner’s Twitter correspondents. But no one can now verify her existence, and a New York Times report suggests that Nikki/Starchild was in fact some sort of sockpuppet honey-trap conjured up by Weiner’s enemies:
- Patterico has questions for Jennifer Preston of the New York Times and Tommy Christopher of Mediaite. The whole point is that there remain legitimate reasons to keep pursuing this story, however it turns out.
- Ace of Spades wades through the swamp of speculation about Nikki/Starchild’s motives. You have to be deep, deep into this story to appreciate what Ace is trying to do there.
- Prudence Paine has some very helpful background on Starchild111, noting that some theories about the alleged motives don’t make sense.
I’m just throwing this stuff out there, because now that the story is past the point of purely political interest — nobody’s partisan ox is going to be gored by further WeinerGate developments — it would be rather irresponsible to ignore the remaining loose threads.
Meanwhile, I will have no comment on the former Hillary Clinton intern who how has a new line of work. While I’m sure that some readers will be eager to research the young woman’s career in . . . er, the adult entertainment industry, I repeat that I have no comment.
If We Outlaw Martian Voting, Then The 2012 Election Will Be Swarmed By Disenfrachised Martian ‘Voters’
by Smitty
Does anybody understand the meaning of this buffoonery from E.J. Dionne, Junior? Emphasis mine throughout the post.
Rigging the 2012 Election
WASHINGTON — An attack on the right to vote is under way across the country through laws designed to make it more difficult to cast a ballot. If this were happening in an emerging democracy, we’d condemn it as election-rigging. But it’s happening here, so there’s barely a whimper.
The laws are being passed in the name of preventing “voter fraud.” But study after study has shown that fraud by voters is not a major problem — and is less of a problem than how hard many states make it for people to vote in the first place. Some of the new laws, such as limiting the number of days for early voting, have little plausible connection to battling fraud.
These statutes are not neutral. Their greatest impact will be to reduce turnout among African-Americans, Latinos and the young. It is no accident that these groups were key to Barack Obama’s victory in 2008 — or that the laws in question are being enacted in states where Republicans control state governments.
How, precisely? How would it follow that treating the identification requirement to vote as similar to, say, checking in for a flight (as distinct from clearing the TSA), reduce turnout?
Paradoxically, the rank partisanship of these measures is discouraging the media from reporting plainly on what’s going on. Voter suppression so clearly benefits the Republicans that the media typically report this through a partisan lens, knowing that accounts making clear whom these laws disenfranchise would be labeled as biased by the right. But the media should not fear telling the truth or standing up for the rights of the poor or the young.
Wait, E.J.: shouldn’t you establish that voter suppression has occurred, prior to connecting that dot to any major party? Oh, yeah: that would be an example of an honest argument. Given that you are sort of without fact #1 to stand on, it more logically follows that you’d not bore your reader with those pesky ‘fact’ things.
Sometimes the partisan motivation is so clear that if Stephen Colbert reported on what’s transpiring, his audience would assume he was making it up. In Texas, for example, the law allows concealed handgun licenses to work as identification, but not student IDs. And guess what? Nationwide exit polls show that John McCain carried households in which someone owned a gun by 25 percentage points but lost voters in households without a gun by 32 points.
Stephen Colbert is a comedian; do you normally accept his show as fact, E.J.? And what a crappy correlation==causation argument you have here. Could it be that student identification is insufficiently rigorous? Can you check in for the aforementioned plane flight with a student ID? I would be generally surprised if you could.
In part because of a surge of voters who had not cast ballots before, the United States elected its first African-American president in 2008. Are we now going to witness a subtle return of Jim Crow voting laws?
Given the systemic intellectual dishonesty of your post, Dionne, it strikes me that the greater threat to the integrity of the vote is from the Left, which, having spewed such inflammatory lies as contained in your column, will be forced to back up the lies with various acts of propaganda.
Whether or not these laws can be rolled back, their existence should unleash a great civic campaign akin to the voter registration drives of the civil rights years. The poor, the young and people of color should get their IDs, flock to the polls and insist on their right to vote in 2012.
Why, yes: yes, they should. Legally. They call these events ‘elections’.
If voter suppression is to occur, let it happen for all to see. The whole world, which watched us with admiration and respect in 2008, will be watching again.
Taken slightly out of context, as snarky post as this, the last paragraph almost seems a threat. But E.J. is a swell guy, and he would never do anything less that fair, balanced, honest, honorable, morally sound, and highly respectable. We just have to make sure the little green men don’t get too near his polling place.
On the other hand, Legal Insurrection, looking on the bright side, figures it might allow time for a vacation.
He’s Got His. Have You Got Yours?
While unemployment among the general population is about 9.1 percent, it’s at 16.2 percent African Americans, and a bit higher still for African American males. . . .
[N]ow it’s at Depression-era levels. The most recent figures show African American joblessness at 16.2 percent. For black males, it’s at 17.5 percent; And for black teens, it’s nearly 41 percent.
By the way, has anyone heard from Peggy Joseph lately?