It’s a long post, because it needs to be a long post, and not simply because the author is a lawyer.

The author is known online as Aaron Worthing, and his blog is Allergic to Bull, but you may remember him better as a year-long guest poster at Patrick Frye’s blog, Patterico. Well, he was known online as Aaron Worthing, but today he reveals his actual name and a lot of information about his identity. His name is actually Aaron Walker, and I’m proud to call him an online friend.

Let me summarize for the purposes of this brief overview the information contained in Aaron’s, um . . . magisterial post on his encounters with convicted domestic terrorist, perjurer, attempted murderer, and all-around vicious jackass Brett Kimberlin, aka the Speedway Bomber. Kimberlin filed a frivolous lawsuit against a blogger, Seth Allen, claiming that Allen had defamed him by reporting on his blog facts in the public record that were not very flattering to Mr. Kimberlin. Aaron Walker, then blogging at Patterico’s, provided him with brief legal advice from Maryland, but did not represent Mr. Allen in Massachusetts, because he was not licensed to do so. For this terrible crime, convicted domestic terrorist Brett Kimberlin dug up a bunch of information on Mr. Walker’s identity, which he egregiously attempted to insert into the public record by means of a Peace Order (think a Restraining Order) that would be made part of the public record, so that he and his henchpersons online, including former Raw Story writer Neal Rauhauser and former lefty associate Ron Brynaert, could then threaten the livelihood if not the life of Aaron Walker and family.

And given Mr. Kimberlin’s background, that’s not a paranoid stretch. He is convicted of having planted 6 bombs, the materials for which he got by fraudulently representing himself as an employee of the Federal government, in the period of 8 days thirty-something years ago in Speedway, Indiana. One of those bombs detonated with such horrible results to an innocent bystander that he eventually took his life. Subsequently, the man’s widow received a million-dollar judgment against convicted domestic terrorist Kimberlin, who was flush with money from assisting in writing a book about his Speedway bombing exploits. By a variety of crooked means, fraudster and domestic terrorist Kimberlin plotted to prevent her from receiving those moneys, and he was found to have committed fraud again by virtue of those practices.

I’m going to leave the pedophilia speculations regarding his motives for the bombings aside.

By means of gaming the courts, Speedway Bomber Mr. Kimberlin did succeed at getting Aaron Walker and his wife terminated from their jobs, which were with the same company, when the woman who headed up the company determined that the Walkers had unwittingly made potential targets of their co-employees at the hands of lunatic convicted domestic terrorist and thug Brett Kimberlin. Walker has had the decency not to name the company, though he and his wife were terminated without cause beyond the implied threats and general deportment of fraud, domestic terrorist, and all-around asshole Brett Kimberlin.

In an attempt to have the records pertaining to his identity and the facts of his life sealed, knowing what attempted murderer and his henchpersons would do with the information, Aaron Walker went to a court hearing in which felonious fraud Kimberlin was attempting to get relief from the truth-telling of Walker’s one-time lawyer. There, Walker asked the judge to seal the materials, and afterwards on the way out ended up in heated conversation with that domestic terrorist and notorious liar, Brett Kimberlin. Domestic terrorist Kimberlin took a photo of Walker with his iPad, which Walker seized from his hands without coming into contact with the person of murderous false-testifier Kimberlin, as it was illegal for a private citizen to take pictures in the court building. Sheriffs Deputies were called, and after a bit of discussion, Aaron Walker returned Mr. Kimberlin’s iPad to him.

On that same day, domestic terrorist and legal tar baby Kimberlin filed a false complaint asserting that Mr. Walker had assaulted him and caused an injury to one of his eyes, striking him at least 3 times in the process, and forcing him to spend 6 hours at the hospital. Later, a security cam video that was supposed not to have possibly been taken given the location of those purported events emerged, demonstrating that fraudster, liar and murderous cheat Kimberlin’s representations of the event had been a complete fabrication. Aaron Walker succeeded in having false witness and domestic terrorist Kimberlin’s charges against him regarding his blogging dismissed, but also had his own motion against notorious perjurer and Speedway Bomber Kimberlin dismissed. The judge in the case against Aaron Worthing had these sage observations for the malicious manslaughterer:

We’ve reached a point in this society where people think they have a right not to be offended. Where did that come from? You read about it every day in the paper. Somebody is offended by something and wants somebody to apologize. Where did that come from? Where is the right not to be offended?

So there’s a lot of annoying conduct that perhaps might be rude and would cause Emily Post to turn over in her grave. I don’t know if she’s still alive or not, but manners — and just for the record, I am not suggesting that the respondent doesn’t have proper manners or anything like that. But what I am saying are examples of annoying conduct, things that people can do that are just annoying.

This Court doesn’t blog. I don’t even know what it is. I wouldn’t know how to set-up one and I don’t know if I’ve even read one since I don’t know what it is, but I can imagine it is a medium in which published material can be made available to the public. I can imagine that a blog might be likened to a magazine except that it’s electronic and it’s not on paper, unless of course it’s printed out.

You say that things have been written about you that are not right. It is a dangerous, dangerous argument to make that a sanction should be entered against people when they choose to exercise their First Amendment constitutional rights just because it’s annoying.

Now let me say, parenthetically, there are civil remedies available if someone defames someone, however, truth is a defense.

So if a person says somebody has a record and, in fact, they do have a record, you’ll have a hard time getting a judgment in a libel or slander case. If someone said someone had a record for something that, in fact, they didn’t do that was, in fact, false and it caused the individual harm, then they perhaps would have a cause of action.

Unfortunately for felonious fraudster Brett Kimberlin, the truth still is a defense, but . . . give Obama and Eric Holder four more years and we’ll see.

That Kimberlin lied repeatedly in his sworn charges isn’t a surprise, but it is a deep disappointment that the Maryland prosecutor seems to think there’s no substantial public benefit to be procured by making wannabe mass murderer Kimberlin pay for his false testimony in trying to frame blogger Aaron Worthing. My opinion is that people who attempt to use the law and the legal system as a means of tortious aggression towards other citizens should be summarily sentenced on conviction to penalties at least twice as high as those they’ve contemplated for their targets.

Here’s how you can help Aaron Walker, who used to blog as Aaron Worthing:

So this is where you, dear reader, come in. There are several things you can do to help me out.

First, please spread the word far and wide about this story. Tweet it, blog it, Facebook it, link it, whatever. If you are a reporter and would like to talk to me about this and even view the un-redacted documents, let me know at any of my emails, including AaronJW72@gmail.com. I will be happy to speak with you.

Second, you can write to the State’s Attorney of Montgomery County. I did not name the subordinate responsible for the inaction, but ultimately it is the responsibility of John McCarthy, the State’s Attorney himself. You might also consider writing to the Governor, or the Attorney General of Maryland. Be polite. You will not help me by being foul or insulting. Simply state that you believe a grave injustice has been done to me—if you happen to agree—and ask them politely to see to it that justice be done.

This is his office’s contact information:
State’s Attorney for Montgomery County
50 Maryland Avenue, 5th Floor
Rockville, Maryland 20850
states.attorney@montgomerycountymd.gov.
240-777-7300

Third, and importantly, I will be setting up a defense fund very soon. This will not be limited to my case, but to all victims of Kimberlin and his crew because there are more of them than I am disclosing in this post. Their goal is to get anyone who crosses them fired, impoverished by continual and frivolous legal actions and so on. They have already cost me $7,000 and my job. You can help make sure that this will not happen to others and, yes, help me pay my legal expenses.

Fourth, if you are hiring, I need a job. I can work as a lawyer, blogger, researcher or any number of things. Feel free to contact me by email if you think you can offer me something.

Fifth, if you donate to his organization, please stop. It is apparent to me that this man does little else with his life other than harass people who dare to tell the truth about him. If he had an ordinary job where he actually had to work 9-5, maybe he would have no time to bother people for telling the truth about him. This isn’t a legal threat, but simply an observation of reality. If you donate to his charities, you are helping him to torment me and others. His charities might do excellent work, but as long as they employ him, they also support this criminal and immoral conduct.

Besides, can you really trust this man with your money? Look at the video and look at what he said about this incident. Is he a trustworthy man? In my opinion, he is not.

I want to thank you for reading my story. If you have read this far, you have put a lot of effort to get here and I appreciate it. And anything you do to help will be equally appreciated. By sheer shamelessness, Brett Kimberlin has damaged a lot of people’s lives, including my own. Hopefully we can fight back against him.

–Aaron Walker

If you can help in any of these respects, and I believe there is at least one or two that any of us can afford, please do. In my opinion, to which I believe I am legally still entitled, there’s no good reason on God’s green earth terrorist Brett Kimberlin should be a free man, entitled to pursue his terrorism by alternate means.

Personality goes a long way, according to unpleasant political observer and semi-decent actor Samuel L. Jackson’s afro-tastic Pulp Fiction character. He was talking about the difference between dogs and pigs, which makes his claim perfectly analogous to politics.

Knowing what you’re doing is a trait more valuable than your title, as shown by how long-serving officials rarely double as wise ones. Orrin Hatch will hopefully soon be involuntarily returned to Utah to discuss what he’s learned about never learning with Bob Bennett.

An individual’s background should be at least partly irrelevant in our somewhat meritocratic society. People ideally prove themselves after getting chances based on potential, as when hard work and natural ability allows a trainee to grow into big kahuna-level responsibilities.

Conversely, some particularly cloddish folks plummet after starting at the peak, which brings us to Barack Obama’s ceaselessly sinking performance. We could have done without a vivid demonstration of how some people will never be ready to take the stage, although it might at least be nice to have a harrowing example afterward.

Sure, he’s a rookie in a job best filled by veteran competitors who have earned free agency. But more time practicing for the presidency by the incumbent wouldn’t have made the present era any more pleasant.

Time served is worthless if it’s spent learning discredited work techniques and theories about how the government can prod an economy back to life. It doesn’t matter when the mushy-skulled subject began piling the mental garbage that impedes clear thinking. In fact, more intake of nonsense leads to even worse performance.

Lack of executive experience might detrimentally impact a presidency. Still, it’s well under being a French-style partisan lunatic on the factor list.

Legislative-minded senators may seem to make lousy presidents. But it depends on the senator. For example, John McCain would have been a little better as a boss than the man who trounced him, if only by default. Easier lives for all Americans thanks to lowered standards will stand as Obama’s chief positive legacy.

The imaginary alternate DC Comics universe presidency of Meghan’s daddy may be going slightly worse than the George Junior Bush’s terms went here on the original Earth. But W. was better presidential material than McCain, not because he had previously been governor, but because he abandoned conservative doctrine at less frequent intervals. Senator Jim DeMint would be better than the whole lot, present president included.

A leader doesn’t have to have been the boss. But he does need boss-style instincts. The willingness to make decisions is as crucial as the ability to make them in lieu of delivering a melodramatic soliloquy about the consequences to one’s legacy upon choosing. Most importantly, the man leading the charge needs to be oriented in the proper direction. Not facing the carpet is a good start.

Ideology trumps experience. Even executive training wouldn’t help certain hopefuls blossom. Serving as the governor of Illinois as opposed to its junior senator wouldn’t have helped this manager learn how to lower debt or increase prosperity. He would have merely been the same failed president with a slightly different political background.

Obama would have never gotten good at it no matter how much practice he had. Previous jobs occasionally help one deal with present situations, but only depending on the staffer’s capacities. Former governor Ronald Reagan was successful in all the ways that former governor Jimmy Carter wasn’t. Running a state’s government prepares people for running the nation’s, or sometimes not.

Voters can focus on finding an amply experienced candidate. But they’d be even wiser to look for someone endowed with common sense who doesn’t think Bill Ayers makes better company than Thomas Sowell.

Electing Obama in 2028 instead wouldn’t have made him a better president, as he won’t be blessed with any more wisdom by age 67. The man who only succeeds at proving his ideology wrong will remain a class warfare general and race hustler regardless of how many birthdays he’s had. His next books will be even more tedious, considering that he can document how he basked in the luster of his present position, although he’ll undoubtedly skip exotic stories of consuming house pets and shoving girls.

Obama hasn’t even improved with the experience of being president. How could a lesser job have been beneficial for him? The persistent campaigner would have skipped enough workdays to have never learned much as a governor or vice president.

Our economy would be almost as big of a mess as the present Afghanistan scenario, no matter how much time Obama spent community organizing before now. The lessons learned while building a work history matter more than the fact it exists.

The persistence of bad ideas can be seen in all the hoary leftists who keep trying to tear down the system when they should be having fun in the final straightaway by blowing hard-earned pensions in slot machines. We’ll just have to get used to one of those pathetically anarchic geezers being an ex-president.

He’s never going to get how the world works, which is yet another reason to avoid electing someone with his fantastically ignorant worldview no matter how long the person in question has bizarrely embraced it. The alternative would involve backing a man in his 70s with four decades of government experience for president in 2016. But who’s going to vote for Joe Biden?

Anthony Bialy is a writer and “Red Eye” conservative in New York City. He tweets at  http://twitter.com/AnthonyBialy.

Dear Ms. Warren,

I am writing this letter in the hope it will help end the current situation you have found yourself in. It seems you are being ripped apart in the media because of your claim of Cherokee ancestry and you don’t like it. According to a recent article in the Boston Globe, you believe your opponent is “creating a distraction” by “ridiculously” attacking you “with questions that have already been answered.” It seems you would like the “attacks” against your claims of Cherokee ancestry to stop so I thought I would offer some advice on how to make it stop.

Tell the truth.

You see, we Cherokees have lots and lots and lots of documentation supporting our claims of our ancestry. Our Cherokee ancestors are found on every roll of the Cherokee Nation (30+ rolls!) dating back to before the removal [that would be the Trail of Tears--the one where Warren's g-g-g-grandfather was on the other side of the gun] and in all sorts of other documentation, including but not limited to claims against the US government for lost property; the Moravian missionary records; ration lists before and after the forced removal, etc…yet your ancestors are found in NONE of those records.

Before there can be a ceasefire in the Mommy Wars, and the communication lines can freely flow, we need to stop believing the Mommy Myths. Here are 10 of the worst.

You can go check them out. I have nothing to say about her particular points. I have my own experiences with motherhood from a variety of points of view, including having had a mother and being a mother myself, but there’s not much I can add.

There won’t be a ceasefire in the Mommy Wars, for a very good reason. And no, this doesn’t actually involve feminists or “name-brand” politics.

It’s because you’re not going to stop status competition, which seems to be what most of this is about. Status competition can be destructive, as status is a zero-sum game. But the problem is that there are many status dimensions that one can compete within. You might try to make the most money, have the most lovers, have the best car, have the most popular blog… whatever you find to be important.

Thing is, posterity is one of the most important dimensions of status. If you’re a Darwinian, it’s not difficult to see why. Those who pass their genes on are the winners. Obviously, parenting styles are caught up in that status dimension.

I don’t see the Mommy Wars ending because it’s status-jockeying in one of its most naked forms. The Wars themselves, in broad terms of working mothers versus stay-at-home mothers, will continue because there’s no fixed dimension that is supposedly tops with respect to the status continuum. Status competition can be the most vicious when what constitutes “the top” is liable to shift at any moment (is it the football players or the basketball players on top? East Coast or West Coast rap?)

And the possible armies in this battle are even larger than you suppose, as even if one is not a mother, most people have had a mother (in a upbringing aspect) and many take umbrage at their own mothers being attacked for how they mothered. I got drafted in the Mommy Wars as a kid when I saw “professionals” sneering at my own stay-at-home mother. I still get peeved at the denigration of stay-at-home parents, not just for my mother’s sake, but now my husband’s.

I find it all very tiresome. But I do realize this won’t end, as long as humanity remains human.

Tamara Holder, a Fox News contributor, is accused of having an affair with Jesse Jackson, Sr. in a lawsuit that alleges the illegal use of a gay Jackson employee to facilitate the relationship.

The accuser, Tommy R. Bennett, was Jackson’s personal travel assistant and ran the legal clinic at Jackson’s organization, the Rainbow PUSH Coalition. He says he was eventually fired for protesting his treatment by Jackson and other PUSH employees and is seeking hundreds of thousands of dollars in damages.

Holder has not responded to repeated requests for comment from Accuracy in Media, but Jackson’s press representative, Lauren Love, says the allegations are false and will be proven so.

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Bennett worked for Jackson for more than two years and was known as “Aruba Tommy” on local Chicago radio station WVON. The lawsuit alleges that Bennett was subjected to “humiliating tasks” because he was a homosexual, such as “escorting women to his [Jackson’s] hotel room” and then being ordered to clean up after Jackson had sexual intercourse with them.

One of those women, the suit claims, was Tamara Holder, a pundit and criminal defense attorney who claims she “single-handedly” founded what she calls “a pro bono legal clinic at Rev. Jesse L. Jackson’s Rainbow PUSH Coalition.” A self-described Democrat, she appears regularly on Fox News to defend the Obama Administration and other prominent Democrats. “Because of the Democratic Party’s deep Chicago roots, Tamara has worked closely with some of the City’s most prominent leaders,” her website says.

Another Holder website says that, in addition to being “a legal and political contributor for Fox News Channel,” she “previously wrote for The Huffington Post and now writes for The Daily Caller.” The latter identifies her as “one of the nation’s rising attorneys and legal analytical stars.”

On one occasion, “Mr. Bennett was instructed by Rev. Jackson to escort Ms. Holder to Rev. Jackson’s hotel room at the Hilton at Chicago O’Hare airport,” the suit says.

The lawsuit, filed in the Circuit Court of Cook County, Illinois, says Bennett was director of the clinic but that when he objected to Holder taking a majority of the cases and charging too much to poor clients, he was replaced. He says Jackson then gave control of the clinic to Holder.

Well, go and read the whole thing.

I don’t really care whether or not Ms. Holder was the subject of some rainbow pushing, and I’m not a huge fan of Backsheesh Jesse, but I hope that if the charges are true, he gets what’s coming. Likewise, if they’re not, I hope his accuser shakes him down good gets his comeuppance. Meanwhile, I’m not going to dignify the story by posting on it. At all.

I think the boys at HillBuzz are going to have some fun with this, though. I’m pretty sure Tamara’s not a raaaaacist, but until she sleeps with one of them fellas, she still might be a homophobe.

In related news, a scientist has been teaching his dog how to understand sign language. The dog laughed her ass off when she saw this.

Proggies get all worked up about truthful information reaching the unwashed, by which I mean the better-washed-than-they. The latest kerfuffle is about George Zimmerman’s medical report, showing that he had a busted nose, two black eyes, and abrasions to the back of his head, along with the autopsy information that Trayvon Martin had abraded knuckles at the time he was killed, contradicting what the mortician said. Now, the mortician himself wasn’t an official channel, so one can argue all one wants whether or not his comments on the matter amounted to leaks. It’s certainly true that George Zimmerman’s medical file and Trayvon Martin’s autopsy report are official materials, and I think it’s unfortunate that they leaked.

It’s unfortunate that they leaked, but it’s not as unfortunate as all the misinformation and downright lying that’s gone on in the press and on the Internet about the facts of the case. That the material leaked is much less important than the facts. If you read the lefty op-ed writers and the left blogs and social media, you’d read that the facts ought to take a back seat to the outrage of the leaks. The leaks are inappropriate, you see, and facts pale in comparison with aesthetics. We see this strange argument in a variety of places, most notably this week with regards to Darrell Issa’s threat to hold Eric Holder in contempt of Congress. It would be inappropriate (and unwarranted), we are told, for Issa to do so. Why? Apparently because there is a hallowed tradition whereby progressive fellow travelers are permitted to lie to and generally thumb their noses at Congress. We’re talking important precedents here, son, none of this namby-pamby crap about the Bill of Rights.

The spectacle of this DoJ appealing to some standard of appropriateness is beyond white Hispanic Rhinoceros, but it is what it is. We may think that it’s inappropriate for Obama to attach chronicles of his supposed achievements to all the online presidential biographies at the White House site, but who are we to make the call? Nobody. We may think it’s inappropriate for the White House to persecute government whistleblowers, or to make an enormous deal about transparency and then to stonewall everywhere, but we haven’t any standing to determine such matters, have we? No, because we are racists and greedheads, and we have strange notions about fairness, and though we may cling to our guns and Bibles and get a little incensed when we are portrayed as every manner of ignorant bigots, we’d better not try to turn the tables and do a little critiquing of our own, because it only proves how unworthy we all are.

This week, we’ve been treated to the same behavior here in Wisconsin, over Governor Scott Walker’s employment numbers. Having endured months of lies about where Wisconsin’s employment picture stands in relation to other states’—many among the proggie ranks have repeated the bald lie that it’s the worst in the nation—Walker seized on new government information in the lead-up to the recall election against his opponent, Tom Barrett:

In an unusual effort to rebut bad news on the jobs front, the Walker administration is speeding up release of new numbers showing job gains rather than job losses in Wisconsin last year.

The numbers come from a source familiar to many economists but one that hasn’t figured until now in the state’s highly politicized jobs debate heading into the June 5 recall election: the Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages.

The new figures, provided to the Journal Sentinel on Tuesday, cover the final three months of 2011.

State officials said they show a gain of 23,321 jobs (public and private) between December 2010 and December 2011, which represents Gov. Scott Walker’s first full year in office.

That stands in sharp contrast to a commonly used and widely reported monthly jobs measure, the Current Employment Survey, which earlier this year showed an estimated loss of 33,900 jobs in Wisconsin for the same 12-month period.

Job numbers are reported in different ways, based on different sources, and it’s been common throughout the current recovery for different data to tell different stories.

But in this case, one set of well-publicized numbers (from the Current Employment Survey of businesses) put Wisconsin at the very bottom of 50 states in job creation during Walker’s first year. These figures were based on a sample of 3.5% of the state’s employers and are subject to significant revisions.

The other numbers, from the Quarterly Census, tell a more positive story, one the Walker administration is in a hurry to get out. They are based on a jobs count, not a survey. Each state gathers the quarterly census data from virtually all employers in both the public and private sectors, which are mandated to share staff and wage data as part of their tax and unemployment insurance reports. That makes it a more reliable source of employment data, state officials and many economists say.

At the same time, it’s highly unusual for a state to release this kind of data on its own before it is reviewed and officially released by the federal Bureau of Labor Statistics. The bureau, which has received and begun to review the new 2011 data from Wisconsin, isn’t scheduled to publish it until June 28, several weeks after the recall election.

My goodness! What an awful man! This is . . . this is highly unusual! It simply will not do! It’s . . . it’s . . . it’s inappropriate!

“It is, I think, stunning that Scott Walker has suddenly found 57,000 jobs and gone from negative to positive three weeks before an election,” said Barrett campaign spokesman Phil Walzak. “The timing is enormously suspicious. . . . Clearly the governor is losing the argument on jobs with the people of Wisconsin, and he’s now trotting out these new figures in an extremely unusual way.”

Walzak said Walker and his aides are now attacking the same jobs data (from the Current Employment Survey) that Walker has touted in news releases and campaign ads when those numbers have been positive.

Even using the more positive numbers from the quarterly census of businesses, the governor finished his first year just a fraction of the way toward meeting his target of 250,000 private-sector jobs in four years.

“It would certainly be nice if the particular year saw a 1% increase rather than a 1% decrease, but this remains a slow jobs recovery using anyone’s numbers,” said John Heywood, an economics professor at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.

Screw you guys. Was it inappropriate when the Dems fled so as not to have to vote on the budget? Was the collusion between Madison judges and officials with the Occupy idiots inappropriate? Was it inappropriate at all when the Occutards took over the Capitol? Was it inappropriate when Chicago pols on the state and national levels came up here to organize protests? Did John Heywood bitch and complain about the campaign lie that Wisconsin ranked dead last in job creation in the nation? I don’t remember that, John, do you?

Meanwhile, in Illinois:

Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn may use an executive order to establish a health insurance exchange, a website where consumers could comparison-shop for insurance that’s a key piece of President Barack Obama’s health care law, according to Quinn’s chief health care adviser.

Michael Gelder, the governor’s adviser, said the General Assembly’s workload on Medicaid and pension reform makes it unlikely lawmakers will be able to pass legislation authorizing an insurance exchange during the current session, which is scheduled to end later this month.

Amid uncertainly created by the constitutional challenge to Obama’s law, Democratic and Republican leaders in Springfield have agreed to shelve a bill that would create an exchange.

Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, I ask you: would it be appropriate for Illinois to set up such an exchange before the SCOTUS has judged whether or not it is, y’know, constifriggintutional?

Not that the proggies care, but I find it inappropriate that the ATF, on orders from the DoJ, shipped off weapons to Mexican drug lords in an attempt to get more stringent gun control in the US, and I find it inappropriate that over three hundred Mexicans have been killed with those weapons, and I find it inappropriate that Holder lied to Congress about it, and I find it inappropriate that he won’t turn over documents that have been subpoenaed by Congress in relation to this fiasco. I consider it inappropriate that the White House would propose budgets for which they can’t garner a single bloody vote. Beyond all of that, I find it inappropriate that such a morally challenged lot would lecture anybody else at all about what is inappropriate.

It’s inappropriate. And it’s inappropriate to try to sacrifice the truth to the vicious sensibilities of such a passel of conniving, insulting, fail-ridden liars.

UPDATE: Thanks to the excellent That Mr. G for the link.

Plus, at Ace’s, CAC’s delightfully red map of the latest Marquette University polling.

Saturday My Radio Show DaTechGuy on DaRadio on AM 830 WCRN was broadcast live from the Mall at Whitney Field (known to locals as the Searstown mall from the days when Sears was the only major store there) in Leominster Massachusetts.

It seems the local AM station is now carrying the Yankees so we at WCRN decided to show the flag to make sure that people in North Worcester County knew that they could still listen to every inning of every Red Sox game all season at WCRN.

We’ve already seen signs of the Yankees penetrating the area as evidenced by this video from Lids

It appears we got there just in time.

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Last Saturday in an interview on Meet the press, Joe Biden, good Catholic that he is,  expressed his public support for Gay Marriage.  After a few days of pressure from the press, the president followed suit in an interview with Robin Roberts of ABC.

The left wing gushed and the media which backs gay marriage with the uniformity of a cult, portrayed the President’s return to his 1996 position, as a “courageous” step.

But most important of all for the Obama campaign was the results from a scheduled fundraiser at George Clooney’s house:

He changed his stance ahead of a $40,000 a plate fundraiser at the Beverly Hills home of movie star George Clooney where wealthy gay- and gay-oriented donors had threatened to withhold donations, according to a Washington Post blogger.

The Post also reported that one out of six of Obama’s campaign bundlers are gay and, as Obama declared his support for gay marriage against his previous vague stances, it was their big money that was talking.

Interestingly enough, the president’s announcement came the day after the Vote in North Carolina on Tuesday on the subject.  Not only did he decline to make a statement before the vote but he made a point to cancel a scheduled appearance in the state to take place just before the election.

Profile in courage indeed.

Pundits, including me, have speculated whether this was planned or not, but either way it sure looks like the MSM, this campaign’s biggest ally, has decided to go obsessively looooooong on the subject. The Sunday shows were All Gay Marriage, and with this week’s Newsweek cover, we can be assured of at least several more days on the topic. It almost seems like all gay marriage, all the time.

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Well, I shouldn’t say ALL the time: in addition to the media orgasm on gay marriage we had the spectacle of the Washington Post devoting 5000 words to claiming Romney was a gay bashing teenager back when Hogan’s Heroes was in its first season.

As with any 5000 word piece, no matter how much time you devote to it, the Post was bound to run into a problem or two—such as this from ABC:

The older sister of Mitt Romney’s former high school classmate said she has no knowledge of any bullying incident involving her brother and the GOP presidential candidate.

Yeah who would expect the sister of the “Victim” to know anything about such a trauma?

But the real problem comes from a different source, as explained at the American Spectator:

The fundamental problem with this passage is that it purports to convey exact quotes in a private conversation based entirely on the say-so of David Seed. The man who allegedly said those words – offered as evidence that he was permanently harmed by Romney – has been dead for years, and never spoke to Horowitz.

How, then, could anyone possibly verify the accuracy of the quotes? The dead man’s relatives dispute the accuracy of Horowitz’s article. Will the editors of the Washington Post hire a psychic and conduct a séance, calling forth the spirit of the dead man to verify their story?

This type of reporting directly contradicts the common law origins of our journalistic standards, but what is that beside the cause of re-electing Obama?

Of course the Gay Marriage story and the Post story are unlikely to do the trick; in fact the fallout from both are potential trouble for the White House, but not as much trouble as speaking about the economy, or the president’s record, or the price of gas, etc., etc., etc.

How bad off does an election campaign have to be when shooting yourself in the foot is a winning week?

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Speaking of elections in trouble we’ve been told for almost a year how Scott Walker was taking the republicans down in Wisconsin:

If anything, the healthcare reform victory was the GOP’s Siege of Acre. Wisconsin is shaping up to be the real Waterloo.

And not just Wisconsin, but also Indiana, Michigan, Ohio, Arizona, Florida, and the rest of the over-reaching state Republicans. Governors like Scott Walker, Rick Scott, and Jan Brewer are riding on the coattails of the Tea Party, but they’ve become blind to the dangers of their radical policies.

This was E.D Kahn in 2010 right after Walker finally got his initial vote when the ride of the Democrats finally ended.  At the time, I agreed Wisconsin was Waterloo with the GOP playing the role of Wellington.  This pattern repeated after every stage as the left and the MSM argued that each successive failure actually meant ultimate success for the left.

Now after a disappointing primary where the hand-picked candidate of the Unions, Kathleen Falk, not only went down to defeat to Tom Barrett but—in an uncontested primary Governor Scott Walker supposedly had destroyed the GOP brand outpolled them both combined.

Dave Weigel, no conservative but an actual reporter, characterizes the situation:

The Walker campaign — the one currently leading in polls — is what every Republican presidential candidate tried and failed to build. There’s a perfect link-up here between Tea Party, Republican Party, and megadonor. Walker’s TV ads run constantly; the Democratic ads don’t. Walker’s swag is everywhere, paid for by $25 million in donations, two-thirds of which dropped in from outside Wisconsin. Tom Barrett, Walker’s Democratic competition, has raised less than $1 million.

And Walker and the people understand why:

“The reason we had to raise the kind of money we raised was because of the tens of millions of dollars that have come in from outside of the state from special interests in Washington,” said Walker at his Tuesday night primary victory speech, inside a packed Waukesha victory center. “They funded the protests to begin with. They funded the attacks in the Supreme Court race. [A 2011 retention election became a proxy fight over Walker’s labor and tax reforms.] You guys all know it well here—they spent tens of millions of dollars in the Senate recall election, and they’re going to spend tens and tens of millions of dollars trying to take me out.”

The real gem is not the article itself with its subtle left spin, it’s the comments by the leftist readers of Weigel that are so vehemently angry for not keeping them within the comfortable bubble that they’ve been in.

And once Walker wins the recall, they will not blame themselves, their actions or their positions; they will simply blame Republican money.

BTW, when Obama loses in the fall, expect the left to place the blame solidly on Gay Marriage as opposed to policy.  As I once told Nice Deb, the worst thing you can give somebody is an excuse.

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Wednesday I was in Manchester NH where Robert Spencer gave a talk called “Is Resistance to Jihad Terror a Right-Wing Issue?” We spoke before his speech:

As to his topic, the answer to that question actually came later this week in Indonesia.

Police crackdowns and attacks by religious extremists have attempted to derail the book tour of famed Muslim Canadian author Irshad Manji through Indonesia, a country she previously described as a symbol of “meaningful moderation in Islam.”

Irshad Manji describes herself as a devout Muslim; she is also a lesbian. It remains to be seen if the left that so embraced the president’s stance on gay marriage will embrace a lesbian Muslim who is arguing against violence.

It’s telling that on my own site, one of my resident leftists immediately pivoted to Uganda when I brought up Islam and violence. It’s a legit story, but unless people stop running away from this reality, we will see more of it.

Incidentally, Robert will be my guest on DaTechGuy on DaRadio on WCRM AM 830 to talk about his book Did Muhammad Exist?:  An Inquiry into Islam’s Obscure Origins next Saturday.  You can listen live at wcrnradio.com or on tune-in. Don’t miss it.

How many atomic bombs? 400,000! How often? EVERY DAY!

The amazing persistence of CO2 in the air has allowed billions of our small emissions, like those from the Enola Gay, to amass into an ever growing threat to civilization. How fast is that threat growing? In a must-see TED talk, NASA climate scientist James Hansen say the current increase in global warming is:

“…equivalent to exploding 400,000 Hiroshima atomic bombs per day 365 days per year. That’s how much extra energy Earth is gaining each day.”

I’m afraid! Hold me, Gaia!

Oh, wait. Willis Eschenbach does some math, which is hard to do, you know:

To convert Hansen’s figures to a per-square-metre value, the global surface area is 5.11e+14 square metres … which means that Hansens dreaded 400,000 Hiroshima bombs per day works out to 0.6 watts per square metre … in other words, Hansen wants us to be very afraid because of a claimed imbalance of six tenths of a watt per square metre in a system where the downwelling radiation is half a kilowatt per square metre … we cannot even measure the radiation to that kind of accuracy.

But our Gaia atmosphere raping can’t hold a candle (hah! Get it? “Can’t hold a candle”!  High-larious…) to what Old Sol does to her every second:

bvdeenen says:

May 15, 2012 at 12:44 pm

That’s what I thought when I read this:

Mussy-haired singer Ben Folds doesn’t like talking politics to the press.

The talented singer/songwriter couldn’t contain himself when asked about his home state of North Carolina overwhelmingly voting against gay marriage earlier this month.

Having been born and raised in North Carolina, what are your thoughts on your home state’s recent constitutional ban on gay marriage?

It’s embarrassing. I don’t believe that the population of people that I know [in North Carolina] agree with that. Everyone is confounded, even the right-leaning people that I know feel like it’s financially irresponsible. It doesn’t make any sense. I don’t like talking about politics publicly, but I think a lot of this is a result of corporations being people. When you can buy anything you want, we don’t know how that result came about any more. I’ve talked to one unnamed Senator recently who told me, about three weeks ago, to expect stuff like that in North Carolina. Basically, one man and his company spent 11 million dollars and bought the political system in North Carolina. It probably has something to do with that, but it never was like that before.

The article goes on to note Folds’ support for President Barack Obama, who until last week shared the same view of marriage as the majority of citizens in North Carolina.

Psssssst. Corporations are people.

I don’t mean in the legal sense, which is what he is bitching about. I mean in the reality sense, in that there are no corporations that exist separate from people. People make the decisions. People choose the goals. People try to execute whatever the actions they have in mind.

In any case, Ben Folds was making reference to a particular person and his company, without naming a name. So I went looking for CEOs who made statements on the amendment.

Was it Jim Rogers of Duke Energy that Folds was casting aspersions on?

Duke Energy CEO Jim Rogers came out strongly Friday against a proposed North Carolina constitutional amendment that would ban gay marriage.

“I believe that when you pass an amendment like that, you are sending a message to the world about what kind of community this is — not inclusive,” he told a crowd of nearly 400 at the Hood Hargett Breakfast at Carmel Country Club. “We don’t have equal standards for people with a different point of view.”

Cathy Bessant of Bank of America? This list of business owners? Oh wait, all those were against Amendment One.

I’m having a difficult time figuring out what shadowy figure spent $11 million on Amendment One. I found this post at HuffPo, which has a nice breakdown of the two major groups both for and against Amendment One. The pro-gay-marriage (anti-Amendment One) group raised $1 million more than the anti-gay-marriage (pro-Amendment One) group, which is actually quite a large difference given that the these totals were about $2.5 million and $1.5 million, respectively.

Neither of those numbers is at all near $11 million. The largest single pro-Amendment One donor was Phil Drake at $250,000. The largest individual donor on the anti-Amendment One side was Jon Stryker at $200,000. As far as I can tell, the two groups profiled at the HuffPo were the largest spending of all involved. Maybe I’m not as committed as some of my lefty counterparts in digging up nefarious spending, but I assume if someone spent $11 million on Amendment One, at the very least one of the major lefty sites would have mentioned it for the Daily Five Minutes Hate.

In any case, I don’t mind corporations spending money on political issues. And I don’t think liberals really object to it , as long as the spending is on the side they prefer.

And there can even be good business reasons — one of the top anti-Amendment One donors was the china and silverware retailer Replacements, Ltd., at almost $235K. You may be able to see why they’d be interested in boosting the number of weddings in NC.

In any case, various people, some of whom used the names of the companies or groups they represented, spent money on the Amendment One campaigns. They mostly came together into two interest groups, formed specifically to campaign on the issue. There’s nothing particularly nefarious about people coming together into groups, whether corporations, PACs, clubs, churches, what-have-you, in order to promote their ideas.

You may recall that the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution contains not only free speech and free press rights, but also the freedom of association. The importance of people voluntarily joining groups to promote some common goal was one of the founding principles of the nation. Not only as a protected right, but also as an actual activity:

Americans of all ages, all stations of life, and all types of disposition are forever forming associations

That was written by foreign observer Alexis de Toqueville in 1840. And it’s still going on today.

Pink Slime? That was people, too.

This ought to be a feel-good story:

William Henderson Foote was a black federal law enforcement official in America’s Deep South at a time of heightened racial tensions, tasked with collecting liquor tax revenue from wholesalers and retailers in post-Reconstruction Mississippi. He joined the military at the start of the Civil War and later was politically active, championing civil rights and ascending to the state legislature.
But his name was largely lost to history after his 1883 murder in Mississippi by a white mob irate that he had protected a black man who was targeted for a beating.

Nearly 130 years later, federal authorities on Monday honored Foote by adding his name to a memorial wall at the headquarters of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives. The ATF says Foote, a deputy collector at one of the bureau’s predecessor agencies, was the first black federal law enforcement official to die in the line of duty after Reconstruction.
“He lost his life as all of these agents did, protecting our community and enforcing the rule of law,” acting ATF director B. Todd Jones said, referring to the fallen agents honored on the wall.

Foote’s story was brought to the ATF’s attention by the bureau’s historian, Barbara Osteika, who came upon newspaper articles about his death while doing research.

The man died in the line of duty, for protecting another man from a lynch mob. So, why can’t I feel good about this?

Because of the DOJ cover-up of the gunwalking operation known as Fast and Furious, that resulted in the murder of Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry and possibly another agent in Mexico, and which has resulted in the murders of 300+ and rising Mexicans. It’s nice that ATF is now honoring William Henderson Foote, but it grates me that they prefer to make a publicity stunt out of his killing 130 years ago, when they are so little forthcoming to the families of the slain, who live and breathe and grieve today.

So, in sum: screw them, and God bless Agent Foote and Agent Terry, and the Agency’s whistleblowers, and the many slain Mexicans, whether they be white Hispanics or people of color.

And, you know, I’m just spitballing here, but I suspect Mr. Foote might have been . . . a Republican.

UPDATE: What is the matter with these people?

The U.S. government has accepted 10 percent of the profits of the upcoming “Passion of the Christ” prequel in a plea deal with a Mexican drug smuggler, despite apparently knowing the royalties had been obtained illegally.

According to AP reports, Jorge Vázquez Sánchez, 34, pleaded guilty to money laundering and extortion last week but managed to get his prison sentence decreased from 40 years to seven after he gave the government his cut of the profits related to the screenplay “Mary, Mother of Christ”, a prequel to Mel Gibson’s 2004 movie about the crucification of Jesus Christ.

That’s odd given that the government certainly knew that Vázquez obtained the screenplay by kidnapping the owner Arturo Madrigal’s brother in Mexico and forcing the man to sign over the rights, the San Antonio Express-News reports — Vazquez had actually admitted it.

Thug Boi and Henchman Holder don’t give a rat’s ass about justice, as long as they get their cut.