Every Brett Kimberlin Gets His Day

It’s Friday, May 25th 2012.

You know what that means.

It’s Everybody Blog About Brett Kimberlin Day.

“Who is Brett Kimberlin?”, you ask.

That’s a very good question.

Here’s part of the answer.

“Speedway Bomber” Brett Kimberlin isn’t famous enough yet to have a cult following on the Left but give the determined, energetic activist time. A few short years after his release from federal prison the radical leftist has been embraced by all the right people, winning grants from the George Soros-funded Tides Foundation and wealthy celebrities.

He’s earned the confidence of leftist luminaries such as Teresa Heinz Kerry and Barbra Streisand who have sent money to his activist group, the Justice Through Music Project. The seven-year-old Bethesda, Maryland-based 501c3 nonprofit entity buys into the radical environmentalist agenda, supports the goals of the Occupy Wall Street movement, and claims to have registered 100,000 people to vote. (See its latest IRS Form 990 [tax return] here.)

Read the rest.

So does that mean he’s just another socialist troublemaker supported by big money radicals?

Not quite.

1978: Brett Kimberlin owns a health food store/vegetarian restaurant in Broad Ripple.  Police believe the store may be a front for drug trafficking and have Kimberlin in their sights.

July 29, 1978: Julia Scyphers is murdered.  She answered a knock at her front door; a man inquired about some items she had available at a recent yard sale.  Julia led him out to the garage.  She was shot once in the back of the head.  Her husband caught a glimpse of the man at the door and saw the getaway car speed away from their home.  At first, investigators are stymied as to why Scyphers was murdered, as she seemed to have no enemies, save one: Brett Kimberlin, her daughter Sandra’s employer and boyfriend.  Kimberlin seemed to have a less than wholesome interest in one of Julia’s granddaughters.

Sept 1- 6, 1978: Eight bomb blasts ring through Speedway, Indiana  The final blast injures Carl DeLong and his wife.  The police suspect that the bombings were intended to distract the police from the Scyphers’ murder case; however, between 50 and 100 ATF agents descend on Indianapolis to assist local police with the investigation.

Sept 20, 1978: Kimberlin is picked up by Army investigators when a print shop owner alerts them about a suspicious customer.  Kimberlin is wearing a security guard’s uniform with DoD insignia and asking for copies of military drivers’ licenses and other materials to be made.  When officers arrive, he attempts to hide the incriminating evidence by eating it.  As a result of this, investigators decide to hold him overnight.

Sept 21, 1978: With search warrants in hand, investigators search Kimberlin’s 1970 Impala, which he drove to the print shop the day before; they find bomb-making materials, including timers which match those found at the scene of the Speedway bombings.  At the same time, another team of investigators searches a Jackson County property owned by the Kimberlin family.  There they find a buried steel tank containing 1000 lbs of marijuana, along with Tovex used to blast the rock to install the underground tank.  This Tovex will later link Kimberlin to other incidents.

Feb 8, 1979: Local authorities receive a tip from Texas border agents about a group of suspects they’ve rounded up.  Among them are Brett Kimberlin and his pilot, Robert Scott Bixler.  The group is released but placed under surveillance.

Feb 16, 1979: Kimberlin and his associates are at a secret airstrip they’ve carved out in the Texas desert, awaiting a shipment of Columbian marijuana.  They are being watched by local and federal agents.  The plane is unable to land, due to heavy fog, and dumps its million dollar cargo over a 125 mile area.  Texas agents recover the bales of pot, while Kimberlin and his gang are arrested.  Kimberlin will later claim he was simply riding around out in the desert when cops picked him up for no reason.

Armed with photos of the drug crew, investigators show the images to Fred Scyphers, who recognizes William “Bill” Bowman as the man who came to his front door on July 29, 1978, luring his wife to her death. Kimberlin and Bowman are still free, after being charged for the Texas “pot bombing” incident.

Feb 27, 1979: Based on Fred Scyphers’ identification of him, Bowman is arrested for the murder of Julia Scyphers.  Investigators hope that Bowman will admit that Kimberlin was behind the hit on Scyphers.

Feb 28, 1979: A federal grand jury indicts Kimberlin in the Speedway bombing case.

Mar 11, 1979: Sandra Barton’s sister, Patricia — who lives in Texas — contacts authorities to report she found a sack hidden in her backyard.  The contents of the bag — blasting caps, blue-and-white Mark Time timers, an AR-15 rifle and 14 plastic-covered sausages of Tovex 200 with factory markings — further connect Kimberlin to the Speedway bombings and the Tovex used to blast away rock for the buried steel tank at the Jackson county property.  Informants state they saw Kimberlin plant the bag, in an attempt to frame Patricia and her husband for the Speedway bombings.  (Sandra Barton’s daughters were now living with Patricia.)

Mar 14, 1979: Fred Scyphers dies of cancer.  With his death, the case against Bowman in the Scyphers murder collapses.

Nov, 1979: Kimberlin enters a guilty plea for charges related to the Texas marijuana smuggling case and is sentenced to 4 years.

Sept, 1980: Kimberlin is tried for the Speedway bombing incident.  A federal jury is unable to reach a decision on the bombing, but does convict him for impersonating a federal officer.  He receives a 12-year sentence.

October 15, 1981: Kimberlin is found guilty of the Speedway bombings and receives a 50-year sentence.

February 23, 1983: Carl DeLong, victim of the final Speedway blast, commits suicide.  He was in constant pain as a result of his injuries.  Later that year, DeLong’s wife, Sandra, won a $1.6 million settlement from Kimberlin, which she never collected.

First of all, there are many more details in the piece I linked.  I have to say a big thank you to kielpatriot over at Wisconsin Citizens Blog for doing a lot of leg work.  Read the rest, everyone.  I’ll be here when you come back.

Clearly, Brett Kimberlin is a man with a long criminal past.  He has been tried and convicted of violent terroristic crimes.  And this is the man who large well-funded elements of the political Left have embraced. 

Want proof?  The Liberty Chick gives shows us just how deep the progressive/Kimberlin connection really is.

But today, Kimberlin is embraced by the left, having proclaimed himself a political prisoner and martyr to the Republican cause, a portrayal that’s been proven false in research and court documents. Kimberlin went on to co-found Velvet Revolution. The organization describes itself as a progressive coalition that was formed “to go toe to toe with the right” because “the tactics and the power of the Democrats and progressives in this country have not been sufficient to check the actions of a corrupt Republican agenda.” Last October, Velvet Revolution launched an ad campaign which offered a “$200,000 bounty on the head” of Chamber of Commerce CEO Tom Donohue. Today, the organization is still behind some of these smear campaigns that are frequent topics of President Obama’s recent speeches.

Where does some of Velvet Revolution’s funding come from? The same place Media Matters gets much of its money:

The Tides Foundation. 

Again, read the rest.  Liberty Chick’s work here is crucial to understanding the intertwined relationship between The Velvet Revolution and Tides.

So The Tides Foundation has given money to Kimberlin’s political activist group.  What does Tides do?  Discover The Networks is on the case.   

Established in 1976 by California-based activist Drummond Pike, the Tides Foundation was set up as a public charity that receives money from donors and then funnels it to the recipients of their choice. Because many of these recipient groups are quite radical, the donors often prefer not to have their names publicly linked with the donees. By letting the Tides Foundation, in effect, “launder” the money for them and pass it along to the intended beneficiaries, donors can avoid leaving a “paper trail.” Such contributions are called “donor-advised,” or donor-directed, funds.

Through this legal loophole, nonprofit entities can also create for-profit organizations and then funnel money to them through Tides — thereby circumventing the laws that bar nonprofits from directly funding their own for-profit enterprises. Pew Charitable Trusts, for instance, set up three for-profit media companies and then proceeded to fund them via donor-advised contributions to Tides, which (for an 8 percent management fee) in turn sent the money to the media companies.

Just to give you an idea what kind of left-wing activists we’re dealing with here, check out how they responded to the 9/11 attacks.

Immediately after the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, Tides formed a “9/11 Fund” to advocate a “peaceful national response.” Tides later replaced the 9/11 Fund with the “Democratic Justice Fund,” which was financed in large measure by the Open Society Institute of George Soros, who has donated more than $7 million to Tides over the years. Reciprocally, the Tides Foundation is a major funder of the Shadow Party, a George Soros-conceived nationwide network of several dozen unions, non-profit activist groups, and think tanks whose agendas are ideologically to the left, and which are engaged in campaigning for the Democrats.

Tides is an unrepentant loud-n-proud left-wing organization.  Besides Brett Kimberlin’s Velvet Revolution, who else does Tides give money to?  Here’s a partial list.

Recent recipients of Tides Foundation grants include: the A.J. Muste Memorial Institute; the AdBusters Media Foundation; the American Civil Liberties Union; the ACORN Institute; the Agape Foundation; Alliance For Justice; American Family Voices; the American Friends Service Committee; the American Immigration Law Foundation; the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee; Amnesty International; the Border Action Network; the Brennan Center for Justice; Campaign for America’s Future; the Center for American Progress; the Center for Community Change; the Center for Constitutional Rights; the Center for Reproductive Rights; Changemakers; the Children’s Defense Fund; Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington; the Council on American-Islamic Relations (as revealed in FrontpageMagazine); Democracy Now!; Earth Day Network; Earth Island Institute; Earthjustice; Environmental Defense; Environmental Media Services; the Environmental Working Group; Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting; the Feminist Majority Foundation; Free Press; Funding Exchange; Global Exchange; Grantmakers Without Borders; Grassroots International; Greenpeace; Human Rights First; Human Rights Watch; the Immigrant Legal Resource Center; Institute for America’s Future; Institute for Policy Studies; Institute for Public Accuracy; the Israel Policy Forum; the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law; the Lawyers’ Committee on Nuclear Policy; the Jane Addams Peace Association; the League of Conservation Voters; the League of United Latin American Citizens; the League of Women Voters; the Liberty Hill Foundation; MADRE; Medecins Sans Frontieres; Media Matters for America; Mercy Corps; the Mexican American Legal Defense and Education Fund; the Mexico Solidarity Network; the Middle East Children’s Alliance; Mothers & Others for a Livable Planet; the Ms. Foundation for Women; the NARAL Pro-Choice America Foundation; the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People; the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers; the National Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty; the National Council of Churches; the National Lawyers Guild; the National Network of Grantmakers; the National Organization for Women Foundation; the National Wildlife Federation; the Natural Resources Defense Council; the Nature Conservancy (of California and of New York); the New Israel Fund; the New World Foundation; Nonviolent Peaceforce; the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation; Oxfam America; the Pacifica Foundation; Peace Action; the Peace Development Fund; People for the American Way; People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals; Physicians for Social Responsibility; Planned Parenthood; the Ploughshares Fund; Population Connection; the Progress Unity Fund; Project Vote; the Proteus Fund; the Public Citizen Foundation; the Rainforest Action Network; the Rainforest Alliance; the Rockefeller Family Fund; the Ruckus Society; the Sentencing Project; September 11th Families for Peaceful Tomorrows; the Sierra Club; the Shefa Fund; Sojourners; the Threshold Foundation; TrueMajority Action; Trust for Public Land; the Union of Concerned Scientists; USAction; Veterans For Peace; Waterkeeper Alliance; the Wilderness Society; Witness For Peace; Women’s Action for New Directions; and the World Wildlife Fund.

If you are curious as to what else this operation does–as well as how they get American taxpayer money–you should read the rest.

So Brett Kimberlin is a convicted bomber who is now firmly esconsced in the left-wing political establishment. 

What does that have to do with any of us?

Well, Robert Stacy McCain is in hiding due to the threats he and his wife have received at the hands of Brett Kimberlin.  McCain isn’t an activist.  He’s a blogger and a reporter.  However, he’s not the only victim here.  Aaron Walker, a blogger who writes under the names Aaron Worthing, has documented his various legal run-ins with Brett Kimberlin as well.

Here’s my opinion:  Given all we know about Brett Kimberlin–his violent criminal past, his harassment of reporters and his use of lawfare to silence critics–what are we to make of all this?

Read Dan Collins, over at the Conservatory, for an idea of what’s at stake here.

Kimberlin has made a practice of attempting, with some success, to deprive people of their livelihood and their rights. It’s time, for starters, that he was deprived of his, since he lives on the ‘charitable’ contributions of the left, given to him through his tax-exempt sinecures, the Justice Through Music Project and Velvet Revolution. He has attempted, too, to bring charges under RICO against Patterico (whose name probably suggested the scam to him), Nagy, and others. But whose behavior here reeks of coordinated criminal activity, anyway? Not his victims’.

Dan hits a lot of great points.  Go ahead and read his post.  It’s harrowing.

In Brett Kimberlin, the conservative movement is faced with the honed brutal tip of the Left’s spear.  It doesn’t care about particular targets.  It is indifferent to the suffering it causes.  In the end, all it cares about is silencing the American Right.  That silence can be bought with threats, smears legal action or–in the case of Patterico–the threat of death.      

We all talk a very big game about the First Amendment.  There are very few times when civilians are called upon to defend it.  This is one of those times.

If Brett Kimberlin and his ilk are allowed to use the threat of bodily harm, intimidation of family members, loss of livelihood or death to silence critics, then the freedom of speech is effectively finished in the United States.  I hate to sound apocalyptic about it, but that’s what we’re dealing with here.  What else could it mean?

There is no freedom of speech if a person knows that he will be sued for speaking his mind. 

There is no First Amendment if a person can be threatened with physical violence. 

It’s that simple.

One last thing:  If there are any left-wingers of conscience out there who are reading this, look at what is being done with your movement.  While I have many issues with the progressive ideology, I know that not all of you–or even the majority of you–support the tactics of Brett Kimberlin. 

Ultimately, the Left will be what you in the liberal sphere want it to be.  If you believe that political terrorism is justified, your movement will kill much of what is great about this nation of ours.  The Ku Klux Klan used murder and intimidation in order to get their way in the political sphere.  It destroyed the possibility of healthy race relations in the United States for decades. 

Now there is yet another organized concerted effort to kill political speech in America. 

Liberals–Is this what you want for your country?  Is this the road you want your nation to go down? 

For all of our sakes, I hope there are honorable people in the progressive movement who will stand against this assault on our First Amendment. 

An important note:  For a good honor roll of bloggers who have taken up this story, check out Paul Lemmen’s post.  Nice work, Paul.  Thank you. 

The Camp Of The Saints,

Trevor Louden’s New Zeal Blog,

Conservative Hideout,

Catholic Bandita,

Bookworm Room,

FilmLadd,

Ironic Surrealism,

Blazing Cat Fur,

Dr. Melissa Clouthier,

The Other McCain,

Capitalist Preservation,

askmarion,

Absolute Moral Authority,

PewSitter.com,

The Daley Gator,

DaTechguy’s Blog,

Nice Deb,

Noisy Room,

Gulag Bound,

Flashlight Web,

The Conservatory,

Goldfish and Clowns,

The Lonely Conservative,

The Wellington Street Post,

FavStocks,

American Power,

Dodo Can Spell,

Lady Liberty 1885,

Adrienne’s Corner,

Save us Chuck Woolery,

The Right Planet,

memeorandum,

Instapundit,

thatinnocuousgirl,

Michelle Malkin,

Ace,

Patrick Frey of Patterico,

Darleen Click at Protein Wisdom,

Darth Chipmunk,

Lee Stranahan,

That Mr. G Guy,

William Jacobsen at Legal Insurrection,

Doubleplusundead,

Carl of Israel Matzav,

Kathy Shaidle of Five Feet of Fury,

Kate of Small Dead Animals,

Yid with Lid,

Jimmie Bise of The Sundries Shack,

The Tamminator at HillBuzz,

Byron Preston at The PJ Tatler,

Bingley at The Coalition of the Swilling,

Susan Duclos at Wake Up America,

Evil Blogger Lady,

Richard Fernandez at Belmont Club,

Ken at Popehat,

Zilla of the Resistance,

Chris Muir of Day by Day,

The Radio Patriot,

iOwnTheWorld,

Blackfive,

The Jawa Report,

Kim Priestap,

Rosslyn Smith at American Thinker,

Paul Zummo at The American Catholic,

Bob Owens,

Allergic to Bull,

Liberty Chick,

Patterico,

SocietyBytes

Smitty at The Other McCain.

HUGE UPDATE:  Now a massive Memeorandum thread.  This has gotten enormous folks.  Stay tuned.

The Left=Insufferable Children, Example 59,192 (Also, #IStandWithSECupp)

Larry Flynt reminds us why everybody loves him oh so much.

Hustler Magazine publisher Larry Flynt told The Daily Caller Wednesday that he had a right to publish a fake image of conservative commentator S.E. Cupp engaging in a sex act.

Nice.

Look, I’ve been known to post fart jokes and cleavage pics so maybe I’m not the best guy to say this, but whatever:  The American Left is populated by the intellectual equivalent of a third grade remedial Play-Doh class.

You doubt my hypothesis?  Go watch your kid play with his classmates for about twenty minutes.  Inevitably, the girls of the class will get picked on by the boys.  The thing is, the boys aren’t teasing the girls because they dislike them.  More often than not, they’re making fun of the girls because they really like them, but can’t express themselves properly.  As they get closer to their teen years, this behavior only gets worse as the confusion of puberty kicks in.

After you’re done observing your son awkwardly try to start a conversation with his middle school crush by shoving her off the swing set, examine how liberals have reacted to Michelle Malkin, Laura Ingraham, Sarah Palin and now SE Cupp.  It’s the same behavior, only less mature.

Conservative woman:  “I believe that gun control is wrong.”

Liberal: “YOU CAN CONTROL MY GUN ANYTIME, LADY!!!!!  AM I RIGHT, FELLAS?!?!?!”

Conservative woman:  “I am against abortion.”

Liberal:  “HAHAHA!!! YOU LOVE BABIES!!!!  WHAT DO WANNA DO MARRY A BABY?!?!?!?  BABY-LOVER!!!!!”

Conservative woman:  “I think Barack Obama is not a good president.”

Liberal”  “OMG–BOOBIES!!!!!!  BOOOOOOOOOBIES!!!!!!! BOOBIESBOOBIESBOOBIESBOOBIESBOOBIES!!!! LOLZOR!!!!!  BOOOOOOOBIES!!!!”

And you can forget all about any attempts at civility if a female right-winger has the gall to forcefully argue her political positions.

Too much sass-talk from the women-folk give liberals a wicked headache.

Why, it’s almost like leftists just can’t handle strong women expressing themselves or something.

No.  That can’t be it.  They always insist that they believe in equality.  Naturally, they show their love for the ladies by not paying them the same as men.

As for SE Cupp, getting attacked by a rolling bag of slime like Larry Flynt is horrible.  But she has one very large advantage over Larry Flynt:  She’s not Larry Flynt.

Hustler got a vicious little cheap shot in on one of their political enemies.  I hope the Hustler Photoshop super-geniuses savor their tiny pointless victory.  At least Cupp will still have a viable business model in five years.  Unlike Larry Flynt’s flailing soon-to-be-bankrupt sleaze outfit, Cupp’s talent and brains aren’t going out of style.

Brett Kimberlin and His Threats On Robert Stacy McCain

How bad were the threats that Brett Kimberlin made against The Other McCain?

As McCain reported on Monday, this bad.

FROM AN UNDISCLOSED LOCATION
Law enforcement officials have been made aware that convicted terrorist Brett Kimberlin appears to be engaged in an attempt to intimidate me into being silent about his sordid criminal history.

Appropriate precautions have been taken to ensure the safety of my family and others who might be endangered if Kimberlin resorts to violence to accomplish his malicious purposes. At the urging of concerned friends, we have vacated our former residence and I am now blogging from a secret location which Kimberlin will be unable to discover or reach. Nevertheless, we sincerely ask for intercessory prayer, that God will send angels to guard us in this grave crisis.

But oh wait, if you think that’s bad it gets much worse:

FROM AN UNDISCLOSED LOCATION
Convicted terrorist Brett Kimberlin on Monday continued his effort to silence those who write about his criminal past by contacting my wife’s employer, claiming that I was “harassing” him. The resulting security concern required immediate relocation if I was to be able to continue writing about the case of Kimberlin, a violent felon, perjurer and admitted tax cheat who is employed as the director of a 501(c)3 non-profit that has collected $1.8 million in contributions since 2005.

Just who is Brett Kimberlin you ask?  Watch Lee Stranahan’s informative video about everyone’s new favorite domestic terrorist.

So we’re dealing with a bad dude…a really bad dude who’s doing his damnedest to turn American politics into a 3rd world banana republic strongman’s paradise.

Here’s another peak into Brett Kimberlin’s activities.  He’s not just a murderous convicted bomber.  He’s jailhouse lawyer and a liberal activist with connections to the Goerge Soros empire.

After barely serving one third of his sentence, the terrorist Brett Kimberlin was released from prison and made a name for himself as a “progressive activist” who has enjoyed the public embrace and heavy funding from deep pocketed leftists such as George Soros, prominent Democrats such as Teresa Heinz Kerry (wife of Democratic Presidential candidate Massachusetts Senator John Kerry), and liberal celebrities such as Barbara Streisand. Again, via Breitbart:

And of course, what must the citizens of Indianapolis think about Kimberlin’s recent success, all of the money his organizations have been awarded by donors who seemingly embrace a convicted criminal who caused their community such devastation and heartache? What must DeLong’s family think? In 2007, whenTime Magazine featured Kimberlin in its “Wizard of Odd Story,” notedIndianpolis Star reporter Joe Gelarden, who closely covered all of the Kimberlin cases in great detail at the time, had something to say about the public’s embrace of Kimberlin:

Brett Kimberlin is a terrorist. While I firmly believe in the doctrine of redemption and conversion, I remember a few things about Brett that give me great pause.

First, he was convicted of perjury – in federal court – before he got out of high school. Think about that for a moment.

Second, he was not convicted of smoking a couple of joints when he was in high school. He was a major drug dealer who officials believe got into terrorism to throw officials off the trail of a murder.

Third, he planted a series of bombs in Speedway, Indiana that not only endangered a lot of lives, but, when a guy bent over to pick up a gym bag in a school parking lot – Carl DeLong just wanted to turn in the bag to the school because he thought it contained a pair of $50 sneakers – it exploded.

The blast shattered DeLong’s body and that of his lovely wife Sandra.

But hey, no big deal right?  I mean, I’m sure the Left is going to police one of their own.  That’s always what they do in these kinds of cases.  You remember all those times when scions of the liberal movement like Spencer Ackerman, Alec Baldwin, Alex Pareene and Hustler Magazine were quick to keep progressives in check when they crossed the line.

Also, you will recall how Dubya press secretary Ari Fleischer’s advice to Americans to ‘watch what they say’ was a big fucking deal for the Fierce Moral Urgency crowd.  Oh,  the progressives angrily howled at this supposedly censorious comment from the Premier Bushitler Regime.  The White House press corps was full of more breathless fin-de-Republic jibber-jabber than an Edward Gibbon fan club meeting after the Rise and Fall enthusiasts got into the open bar.

Back in the real world, here we have an actual threat to free speech. It’s not some statement deliberately read out-of-context to drum up censorship charges against a political opponent.  No, it’s a threat–as in ‘somebody is going to physically harm somebody else’ kind of threat–against a journalist.  No Washington Post, no New York Times, no MSNBC, no Current TV; nobody is covering this except the blogs, and even then its only the righty ones.

Amazing, really.

In any case, Matt over at the Conservative Hideout notes something important:

I have always subscribed to the notion that the best predictor of future behavior is past behavior.  Considering Kimberlin’s past, as well as his current tendency to harass and threaten anyone that discusses his well documented past, he ought to be considered dangerous.  Is there risk in even mentioning this?  Probably, but when this happens, I always think that if we let people be silenced one by one, it’s only a matter of time before we are all silenced.  However, if we band together, not only is it much harder to force us into silence, but we stand a better chance of preventing people like Kimberlin for victimizing others. So, I’m taking my place on the line.

It’s tragic that this is the case, but it’s true.  The Left worships Obama.  As Ladd Ehlinger points out, they also hate the Right and everything about it.  Those two facts make physical/lawfare threats not just possible but, according to the progressive mind, necessary.

So what can we do?

Hitting Stacy’s tip jar wouldn’t be the worst idea.  Homeboy is probably racking up some expenses, what with the running around trying to avoid Brett Kimberlin retaliating against him and all.  Some cheddar would probably ameliorate at least a few of the problems stemming from McCain’s forced evacuation.

Among other things, Dan over at the great Conservatory suggests the #FreeStacyMcCain hashtag be used to highlight this story on Twitter.  Conservatives pretty much own Twitter at this point.  If enough of us blast this story to high heaven, even the jag-offs in the MSN will have to take note of it.

Michelle Malkin notes that Lee Stranahan has created a new special holiday in honor of the Progistani’s latest lawfare bomber.

So I’m declaring this Friday, May 25th as Everybody Blog About Brett Kimberlin Day.

Here’s what you do to take part…

1. Research Brett Kimberlin on your own. Don’t trust secondary sources; look for the original articles published about him, too.
2. On Friday, May 25th — write an honest, factually accurate post about what you learned and what your OPINION is. Brett may try and sue you, so be accurate, factual and separate fact from opinion.
3. The post doesn’t have to be long — ANYTHING helps.
4. After you post, Tweet, share, whatever — get the post out there.

Needless to say, I’ll be posting about this weasel on Friday.  Shine enough light and the roaches will flee.  Make Brett Kimberlin known beyond the shadows of the progressive underbelly and maybe we can help out our friend Robert Stacy McCain.  Let’s do this thing, ya’all.

The Exclusive Doctor ObamaCare Interview

You’ve seen “The Sick Cents”  movie trailer.

You’ve seen ”The Sick Cents” movie poster. 

Before you watch the flick, starring the lovely and talented Melody Tally, why not read the e-mail interview I did with the movie’s creator, Mr. Glenn Troy Morton?  Mr. Morton just wants to make some minor reforms to the American health care system, like obliterating the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and replacing it with something that actually works.

Sounds like a plan to me.

When not portraying the nefarious Dr. ObamaCare, Mr. Morton is actually a mild-mannered guy with a lot of insights into the mess we’ve gotten into, as well as some ideas about how to get back to some kind of sanity when it comes to our medical care.

KingShamus:  First of all, how did you get THE Herman Cain to get struck by lightning and turned into a crispy skeleton?

Glenn Troy Morton:  He was speaking at a Tea Party Rally in public. He didn’t pose for it or anything )

He saw me when I was there. Pointed to me and nodded in my direction. That was such an awesome day. We got mobbed while we were there, and the reaction was mostly positive, even though The Gateway Pundit thought we were nutty. Everyone saw Dr. Obamacare with the film crew: a filmmaker AND guy from the Occupy movement holding up a 4ft. x5ft. sign with Dr. Obamacare’s face on it. No one knew Mr. Cain was down to his last 9-9-9 ).

KS:  Hey, a fortuitous bit of good luck is never a bad thing.  What was your initial inspiration for Doctor Obamacare?  What made you go to the horror movie route?

GTM:  Honestly? God. Sounds corny, I know. But the idea came to me in a way that felt alive, and right., and powerful…so I didn’t question it. I just followed my faith and put trust in God that it would work.

I have been trying to get attention from politicians and media for over a year to let them know there is a better way than Obamacare. Over 600 media outlets, gave a packet to 5 different Republican Presidential candidates, and even handed my book to a White House employee after trying to contact the White house 4 different times. Squadoosh!

 

I thought, initially, that Obamacare was just a bad attempt with good intentions; I learned throughout this process WHY that’s not true. So many politicians are surrounded by people who want to leverage power for personal gain that elected officials never get told the truth, and there is no way for an average citizen with a better idea to break through.

 

Remember the Mortgage crisis? So many said “Why were those BAD brokers writing no-documentation loans. They are all greedy and evil”. Now that I’ve been trying so hard, for so long, I know why: there is no room for real people to have influence in politics except by being in large movements and, when they are, there are still agendas to overcome. I tried, and I tried harder than anyone I know. I still am, because this is bigger than me.

 

Most don’t really want better solutions; they want ABSOLUTION. Winning the argument, instead of winning their freedom. Thank GOD for Citizens United…

KS:  See, I don’t think it’s corny at all.  I think using the vibe of a horror movie makes a lot of sense given how awful O-Care is gonna be.  As much as you clearly dislike ObamaCare, were you an Obama supporter in 2008?

GTM:  Voted for Obama in 2008, and Clinton before that. In fact, though I was registered independent my whole life until Obamacare (which changed me into a Republican forever. Every Republican in Congress stood to the side and elected not to commandeer your money, and they deserve support from all of us for standing by our side), I was a pretty reliable Democratic vote.

Except Ron Paul, of course. He is still the only Presidential candidate I’ve ever given a dollar.

That’s why I’m glad it’s me trying to do this. Republican and Democratic CITIZENS really aren’t far apart politically; it’s the people who make money by dramatizing differences who keep us from working together.

As a combat veteran, I approached this like a military operation: planning, strategy, reconnaissance, intel gathering, etc. What I noticed is a disconnect between what we see online and on TV and how we live our lives in the real world. No one calls their gay co-worker names, or their conservative friend racist, in person.

I thought I could be a bridge. That’s why the SuperPAC is named Occupy Obamacare: both terms were made popular by opposite sides of our political spectrum. We likely have the only campaign commercial in existence featured on both Breitbart AND Occupythe99%. How great is that? It is by design.

 

No one wants Obamacare; they just haven’t heard yet how to reduce costs and increase access to care. When they read Passing Obamacare, they will know how and that it’s easy to do. I only used 120 pages, and a third of that is bad jokes )

Well…and a make-out session between me, Obama, Michelle Bachmann, and Sarah Palin. Creative license )

KS:  Hottest.  Creative Licence. Ever.

Also–120 pages?  So you’re saying you don’t need an unreadable doorstop to reform health care?  How can this be?  ;-p

You mentioned before about Citizens United.  Why is that Supreme Court decision so important?

 

GTM:  1) If I had known about you before…you could have been the 5th. Or holding the camera. So many possibilities ;o)

2) The reason our health care costs are so high is because the Patient/Insured and the paying customer are not the same. Doctors are paid by insurance companies, and charge for every single thing no matter how insignificant (like filling out your forms. Yes, they charge for that. Procedure code 99201, if I recall). Employers pay for insurance, and employees don’t have a choice except the one given by employers.

 Because both providers and insurance taps into large pots of money, they charge too much for what they do. Every business in America is has a natural limit: the ability of it’s customers to afford products/services. If they exceed that limit, they go out of business. That’s a big reason why Obamacare is so bad: it allows insurance companies to exceed it by giving them use of the IRS to TAKE money from people who could not AFFORD what they sell, and each penalty is indexed to an accelerator, so will increase forever. Who can say “no” to the IRS? That’s why giving free money to the insurance “pool” increases costs, not reduces them. Since Obamacare, increases higher than in our history. Premiums are now set to double in 7 years.

 3) Citizens United did a very important thing: it removed the monopoly politicians had on campaign contributions. In fact, as a SuperPAC, I can collect MORE money, from MORE sources, than they can. All I need is the mic (donations), and the politicians who voted for Obamacare will run for the exits. They can’t hold a debate with me on health insurance; I’ve been feeding my family by knowing more about insurance than my competitors for over 15 years. if they’d like to try…I’ll make time ;o)

 That’s why they try to make Citizens United out to be a bad thing. Yes, corporations can put their money where they want and drive the onversation. SO CAN WE, and we have more money than they do collectively.

We always said that citizens should have more influence than corporations to our political system. Now we do, if we don’t screw it up. Aptly named: Citizens United.

 

KS:  Would It be fair to say that the Citizens United has given you a greater ability to make things like “Sick Cents”?

 

GTM:  Theoretically, but this is the first time it’s had a role, so people aren’t used to it yet.

 

When a politician asks for money, we give it because we want that person to take a job that will benefit us. However, I’m not asking for a job; I’m asking for your attention so you can reduce how much you pay for insurance by thousands a year and increase access to medical care. It’s a bigger goal than 1 person getting elected, so getting people to believe it’s possible is the highest hurdle.

 Our goal is to reduce every politician who voted for Obamacare 10% in the polls by November. The fact that they are all Democrats makes it much easier to identify those who turned so sharply against the American people. If we do that, we can pass a constitutional amendment, which is the only thing that can overturn a Supreme Court decision.

 

The other reason to do that is to demonstrate power and control to our elected officials, so they never do anything like this again. We have to remember that Obamacare, in the womb, was a Republican idea. Gives a different flavor to the pro-life movement, huh? LOL.

 If we only vote for PEOPLE, and not LEGISLATION, they will never act in our best interest because communication has changed, and we must change with it.

When I was a kid, the news was at 5, 6, and 11, and followed the same format: bad news, bad news, bad news…weather, sports…good news. Now Obama is telling me that Republicans are evil and against women, blacks, and gays on the phone in my pocket. And, by the way, can I give him $3 )

 No average person can keep track of it all, so it’s easy to obscure the truth when it comes time to vote. Remember Obamacare was supposed to reduce the deficit, cost of insurance, and let you keep the plan you have? They still say that now, and it sounds stupid considering the MOUNTAIN of evidence to the contrary. Yet, look how many still believe it. Even Harvard grads still say it’s true )

If we really want to take our country back, instead of protesting forever and losing rights all along the way, we should create SuperPAC’s around every area where we know the government is not acting in our best interest, and attack until they do what the American people want.

 

It’s in our hands now if we just believe we can do it. There is nothing in our way at all thanks to Citizens United.

KS:  What did you learn about the creative process from making “Sick Cents”?

GTM:  Trust God and your gut. I’ve never written a book, given a speech, written and produced videos…anything…before taking on this mission. Never even tried. How they turn out is really not known to me until it happens. The Herman Cain video? Came to me in about 5 seconds; I just went with it.   I feel like an observer sometimes, just with better tickets ) And to see the outcome, and to be so inspired by it, is just amazing. I wish I could say I was some kind of latent creative mind or something…but I must give all credit to God. There is really no other way to explain it that sounds true to me.

But, if you try to do something with all your might, and you trust God to help you overcome obstacles and show you a way to win, you will. Not to say we’ve won anything yet; most people still don’t know what a better solution to Obamacare is and why it’s better, but out path is clear now. As long as people donate, we will produce videos every 2-3 weeks between now and Halloween (and THAT video is gonna change the game forever. I never wanted it to be Halloween so bad ), and each one will educate the public on WHY Obamacare is so bad, who voted for it, or what a better solution would be. We will drive the narrative, and use current Democratic talking points and turn them against Obamacare. Wait until you see how the “war on women” is portrayed in “The Sick Cents”!

I got the idea from School House Rock commercials from the 70′s…it’s how I learned to brush my teeth, about conjunctions, and how a bill becomes a law. I was a latchkey kid )

The videos will also follow 3 rules:

1) Verifiable TRUTH only, 2) never say anything bad about any person, 3) Reference to God in everything.

If we keep to that formula, and can maintain funding until Halloween, America will win a better healthcare solution, and more respect from our elected officials than we’ve ever had. Halloween is only 1 week before the election (which was another reason for Dr. Obamacare, BTW), and everyone will know who voted for Obamacare on that day. Until then, there will be about 12 more videos after this one, with each one being more and more sinister ). The intent is to develop a following (I can’t wait for the next episode of True Blood, for example). Using TV strategy for campaign commercial purposes.

 KS:  After all the work that you’ve put into “The Sick Cents”, do you see yourself as a filmmaker or are you an activist?   

GTM:  Well, I enjoy film, but the real talent behind what you see is Dan Cortes of Mosaiah Entertainment. I provide ideas, direction, script writing, and nuance. He turns all that into magic, and the outcome is always better than I imagined. I wish I knew what he knows ) Finding him was an answer to a prayer: I had tried another filmmaker before him, it didn’t work out, and I was at an impasse. I put an ad on Craigslist, he was the first one that responded, and was much more in line with the vision I had for Dr. Obamacare.  Wonderful how that turned out ) 

I’m only an activist because the Democrats passed Obamacare, putting in jeopardy the earnings capability of my children and future grandchildren forever. You mess with my kids, and I’m coming after you…and to WIN, not  just prove a point. That’s why politicians should have more respect for the American people. I’ve met tons of guys/gals JUST LIKE ME on this journey. Many of them read your blog, I’m sure ) 

I’m the same as most everyone else, except for one thing: I’m committed. I have to be if we are to win a better solution.

KS:  If you had to guess, do you think the Supreme Court is going to strike down ObamaCare or are the Republicans going to have to put in the work and repeal it?

GTM:  I think so, but a court is only a referee calling balls and strikes. They aren’t playing the game, so can’t affect a better solution. Right now, Congress is trying to figure out CONSTITUTIONAL ways to give insurance companies more of our money. They can just tax more, after all. Without actually solving the problem, more people will become bankrupt (number 1 cause of bankruptcy in America? Medical bills.) and die prematurely due to lack of access to affordable health care.  They have no vision. When there is no vision in government, the rights of the people perish. 

KS:   How important was it for you to not just criticize ObamaCare, but to have a health care reform plan of your own?

 

GTM:  If I only disagreed with Obamacare, but had nothing better to offer, I would be a fool for putting so much of my personal savings, time, and relationships on the line. If you only knew how hard it is to make big changes in your life like that. Almost all of my friends and family lean liberal and, when you create a character that looks like a Zombie version of Obama, they assume you’ve gone mad or been brainwashed by right-wing racist crazy people who want to destroy America )  I’m sure they are planning an intervention as we speak, and I’m not kidding…

 If you understand insurance and how it affects the health care marketplace, you’ll know exactly why Obamacare doesn’t work and how to fix the problem. When you read Passing Obamacare, 90 minutes later you will be like “WHY didn’t we hear about this kind of solution before?” It’s so easy a caveman could do it, and it does reduce premiums substantially and increase access to healthcare. The only reason we haven’t heard about it is that only high-level executive opinions are considered worthy by our government. No one who works in the kitchen where the meal is prepared is ever consulted except when they ask for money or a vote. Hopefully that will change through our efforts. 

KS:  Can you foresee a time when independent filmmakers can simply bypass Hollywood, make their flicks through alternative funding and use the internet to distribute their movies? 

GTM:  Yes. Easily. Once the average person can go online on their giant screen TV’s, with the same picture/sound quality…game over ) 3-5 years tops, though going to the movies is still a unique experience that will likely survive. Even the best song download doesn’t compare to a concert.

 

KS:  Of all the aspects of this project–writing, acting, casting, art direction, scheduling, etc–which was the biggest challenge?

 

GTM:  Getting people to believe that the average person can force our government to behave. BY FAR the hardest part; creating has been easy. So many people buy the notion that we are not powerful or important as individuals. I’ve heard so many times: “Who are you? No one cares about what you think! How can a lowly person like you fix such a complicated problem?” So many lack faith in themselves and what they are capable of with God’s support. 

 

It’s the same reason normal people don’t enter politics. Think about it: had I tweeted my junk in a previous life (ummm….nevermind ), or even had bad credit once, I would be painted as NOT GOOD ENOUGH to be in politics. Of course, those people know what it’s like in the real world, where people fall and get back up. The kind of people who might have said “Government being able to commandeer our money? HELL NO!”…LOL. When we stop looking for perfection, or someone who has to be BETTER THAN US to win in politics…and start looking for passion, integrity,  and intelligence, then we will get the representation we deserve. 

 

Until then, we get people who are excellent at obscuring the truth about themselves and, by extension, about everything else.

 

KS: You’ve nailed the subject of socialized medicine.  When this is all said and done, do you think you’d take on another political film project? 

GTM:  After this? I’m going to take a nice, long vacation. This is, by far, the hardest thing I’ve ever tried to do, and I would love to wake up one day and not think “Must…STOP….OBAMACARE!!!” LOL! Actually, I love everything I’ve done during this project. Filming, writing, giving speeches…creating. I never knew I could do any of it, so I think I’ll keep my options open and see what happens. I will say that I’ve heard from a TON of conservative filmmakers that Hollywood shuts them out. If I can help there, I would be honored. There should not be a political litmus test for a great idea. Maybe instead of Hollywood being the center of the film making universe, a southern city with glitz and glamour like Miami can step up to the plate and fill the void. Lord knows, there are enough people there who want to be in front of the camera!

KS:  Big thanks to the one and only Dr. ObamaCare aka Glenn Troy Morton for giving me some of his time.

 

 You can watch “The Sick Cents” either by going here or by going here.  Also, keep watching his stuff.  As Mr. Morton mentioned, he’s gonna keep rolling out episodes all year long till Election Day. 

 

So yeah, go check it out.  Citizen-driven activism and a horror movie?  Admit it, you’d totally see this flick.  

When is 8% Unemployment Not Really 8% Unemployment?

When it’s more like 11%.

LD Jackson has the explanation.

I am a firm believer that numbers can be manipulated to say whatever you want them to say. That may not be so popular with people wanting to make this President look good, but it’s the plain and simple fact. Obama wants us to believe the economy is better, but the numbers really do tell a different story.

If the percentage of adult Americans in the labor force — that being the total number of people who are employed or looking for work — were the same as it was during the end of the Bush administration, the April jobless rate would be at 11.1 percent.

That’s 3 percentage points higher than the 8.1 percent reported by the Bureau of Labor Statistics this month.

The agency’s official monthly unemployment number is calculated by dividing the number of unemployed into the number of working-age Americans who either have a job or are looking for one.

However, a statistic known as the “labor force participation rate” is key. That’s the percentage of the adult population that is employed or looking for work — in other words, the labor force. The lower the number, the worse the employment situation.

And it’s a figure that’s been trending steadily downward over the past decade. The lower number reflects a startling reality — a smaller share of the working-age population is looking for work.

See, that’s the thing. The real unemployment rate should be higher than 8.1%, mainly because so many people are simply dropping out of the official workforce. They have been looking for work for so long, they have finally given up and stopped looking. They may be working for cash, much to the chagrin of the IRS, or they may not be working at all.

Read the rest as LD drills down on the stats.

By the way:  Eleven percent unemployment–ELEVEN PERCENT?  WHAT THE FUCK, BARRY?–is a number Barack Obama never wants you to even sorta know about.

But yeah, the President of the United States of America is hunky-goddamn-dory because he’s for gay marriage now. 

That solves everything.

Or nothing.

One of those two options.  I always get them confused.

In the wake of Obambi’s big announcement that he had shifted back to his 1996 position on same-sex nuptials, Mitt Romney probably has to come out strongly against gay marriage.  It’s the smart electoral move.  It also gives Romney some more of that crucial differentiation shit that campaign consultants talk so highly of.

At the same time, Obama wants to turn this election into a culture war because he thinks it’s the only way to turn out his base.  No, not black people.  Obamster just wants them to be his unthinking lockstep foot-soldiers.  No Obama’s real locus of support are rich gay campaign donors. 

Romney and conservatives (alas, I dunno if I repeat myself) have to resist the temptation to hit Obama directly on the issue of gay marriage.  It’s gonna be hard for some to hold their fire here.  But the right-wingers have to discipline themselves and keep focus.  The crappy economy is the big issue.

Cultural issues are the icing on the cake. They’re the deal-sealers.  “Wait, Obama skull-fucks job creators on a daily basis, doesn’t have a plan to deal with insane entitlement spending AND he’s down with infanticide?  Okay, I’ll vote for Mitt.”

It’s that simple.  We could see Obama lose in a 40 state shellacking.  But that’s only if we keep our heads together.  Unfortunately, that’s not always so simple for the Republican Party.

Yes, We Do Need To See Obama’s Transcripts

And a whole lot of other paperwork too, even though Doug Mataconis insists that we don’t.

My response to this question is another question, why do we need to see the transcripts? Of what possible relevance are the grades that Barack Obama got at Occidental, Columbia, or Harvard Law School to judging his time in office and whether he deserves to be re-elected? What would it reveal about his Presidency that we don’t know? To ask the same question about Romney, what possible relevance to evaluating whether he’d be a good President his grades at Brigham Young University and Harvard (where Romney simultaneously obtained a J.D. and an M.B.A.) could possibly be. It’s been 37 years since Mitt Romney finished his college education, and 20 years since Obama finished his, as James Joyner asked back in 2008, isn’t there a statute of limitations on the use of college achievements as evidence of achievement? If there’s not, there should be.

To be fair, Mataconis stipulates that Obama’s college transcripts might have been more revelatory back in 2008 than they would be today. Good point and its one I’ll concede.  Obama’s record as President is plenty damaging all on it’s own.  How he did in Western Civ I is not as important as his current position on entitlement reform.

However, here’s a question:  Do businesses and organizations use college transcripts as a way of judging prospective hires?  Do companies demand college records as part of the application process?  Are college transcripts used as a way of comparing and contrasting several candidates who are going for the same job?

Let me get this straight:  Getting the assistant regional manager position at Staples means showing college scrips, but scoring the US President gig doesn’t require any presentation of higher education records.

Okay.

Makes perfect sense.

Especially in modern America, where getting college credit isn’t necessary for hardly any jobs.

But Mataconis isn’t done.

…the demands for transcripts is often linked to the equally erroneous belief that he wasn’t properly vetted in 2008. As I noted earlier this month, that’s a ridiculous idea:

Barack Obama has been President of the United States for nearly four years now, and he’s been on the national scene as either a candidate for President or as President since 2007. The idea that we have no idea who the man is, or that he hasn’t been “vetted” is simply an absurd fantasy that partisans are using in what looks for all the world like a desperate effort to find something, anything that they can use against him in the upcoming election.

Yes, because the press didn’t have to be dragged kicking and screaming to report that Obama ate dogs.

Mataconis seems to be arguing that conservatives should focus on ‘important’ issues rather than on demanding the media do a better job vetting the President.  Now that’s a noble sentiment.  But why did the Right have such a good time hammering the Exotic Food Connoisseur In Chief about chowing down on Fido-burgers?  It wasn’t simply to playfully zing Barack Obama for a few days.  There was a political motivation in answering back as well.

In 1983, Romney took his family on vacation and, faced with a packed station wagon, put his Irish setter Seamus in a travel kennel strapped to the roof of the car. Romney constructed a special windshield in an effort to make the dog more comfortable, but Seamus ended up relieving himself on the roof, which reportedly caused much consternation among the Romney boys. Ever since the story got out — it was reported by the Boston Globe in 2007, during Romney’s first run for president — Romney opponents have used it in semiserious and sometimes fully serious ways to portray him as insensitive.

In late January, for example, top Obama campaign aide David Axelrod sent out a tweet that included a photo of Obama with his Portuguese water dog Bo in the back seat of the presidential limousine. “How loving owners transport their dogs,” Axelrod wrote.

It wasn’t a random comment. “They’re obsessed with the dog thing,” liberal journalist Chris Hayes said on his MSNBC program Sunday morning, referring to the Obama campaign. “And the reason is that, I have heard, in focus groups, the dog story totally tanks Mitt Romney’s approval rating.”

Under Mataconis’ rubric, Team Barry is engaging in yucky politics when bringing up Mitt’s supposedly poor treatment of his dog.

When this or any other charge of allegedly dirty pool is brought up against the Obama campaign, Axelrod and Co. inevitably answers with a hearty “So what?”  A fair fight is the other guys problem.  That means they really don’t give a shit what Doug Mataconis or anybody else  thinks should be discussed.  When they brought up the Seamus story, it was because they knew it damaged Mitt Romney’s chances of beating Barack Obama in November.

Mataconis thinks that elections are about winning arguments.  They’re not.  They’re ultimately about winning votes.  Which is what Obama was trying to do by beating Romney over the head with the Seamus story.  But when the Right engages the issue to turn it back against Obama–again, in the hopes that their preferred candidate would get more votes than his opponents–guys like Mataconis wring their hands over distractions.

Worse than that, Mataconis doesn’t see the larger issue, which is the utter stinking corruption of the mainstream media.  Think about the most recent example.  Barack Obama stops fighting his feelings and embraces gay marriage. Naturally this causes everyone in the media to simultaneously proggasm over the President’s new-found enlightenment.  The next day, the Washington Post runs a story about a school age Mitt Romney possibly bullying a classmate who may or may not have been gay.

Forget that Robert Stacy McCain has spotted the flaws, baseless insinuations,White House/media coordination and outright lies in the WaPo story.  The fact is the Washington Post blatantly tag-teamed with Camp Obambi to damage Mitt Romney on a political issue.  Not MSNBC, the Daily Kos or The Nation.   Instead, it was the completely nonpartisan, totally unbiased, nope-no-sir-no-dog-in-this-fight Washington Post that was Obama’s press enabler here.

Whether it’s the MSM making Barack Obama’s college years terra non grata or coordinating an attack on the Republican nominee for president, the result is the same.  The American media is a major component of the President’s re-election campaign.  They are actively participating in the fight to marginalize St. Barry’s opponent.

Mataconis wants us to ignore all that.  He’d have the Republicans and conservatives fighting by the Marquess of Queensbury rules while the Democrats and the MSM bring a shotgun into the ring.  That’s the smart move here.

Because Obama’s college transcripts are not ‘relevant’.

They’re only irrelevant if you don’t want to see how badly the media is gaming the system.

Ultimately, getting the President’s college transcripts is not really about vetting the President.  It’s part of vetting the mainstream media.  The MSM, which hates anything to the right of Noam Chomsky and desperately wants Obama to win in November.

The President needs to be investigated.   But the left-wing press corps and the Gulfstream Jacobins in the entertainment industry need to be vetted as well.  After all, they’re playing for the same team.  Only a person who has deliberately blinded himself to reality would fail to see why the goverment-media complex needs to get taken down.

The “Sick Cents”/Anti-ObamaCare Movie Poster

Check it out, ya’all.

Notice who got the blurb.  Heheh.

I’m in the midst of interviewing Glenn Morton, the creator of the sinister Dr. Obamacare.  I’ll be rolling out our conversation before the premier of “The Sick Cents” next Tuesday.  Mr. Morton has a lot of insights and a few surprises too.

China: The Baby-Killers We’ve Decided To Do Business With

Baby-killers?

Yes.

Baby-killers.

Some enterprising types in China have found a profitable use for that country’s super-abundance of tiny corpses:

Thousands of pills filled with powdered human flesh have been discovered by customs officials in South Korea, it was revealed today.

The capsules are in demand because they are viewed as being a medicinal ‘cure-all’.

The grim trade is being run from China where corrupt medical staff are said to be tipping off medical companies when babies are aborted or delivered still-born.

Still-born? Riiight.

Read the rest.  Right now.

I’m sure Barack Obama will get right on this outrage.  He’s such a staunch supporter of human life, after all.  COUGHBarryIsCoolWithInfanticideCOUGH.

Look, I get the America has made deals with some shady characters over the years.  Foreign policy and international relations are tricky.  You often don’t get the luxury of working with people who share all or even most of your values.

But, I mean, selling dead babies processed into boner drugs?

Fuckin’ really, China?

Putting lead in our toys wasn’t bad enough, huh?

Well, one thing is for sure–You ChiComs have cornered the market on utterly indefensible depravity.  Congratulations, assholes.

Also: Eat shit and die, Maoists.

Or maybe we’re the disturbed ones here.  Check out the high-larious hi-jinks in the latest ‘Funny Or Die” video sketch

Funny:  Mitt Romney has the shadiest pro-life record of any GOP presidential candidate since Gerald Ford.  Everyone–his allies and enemies alike–is gonna have to take homeboy at his word when he talks about being anti-abortion.  Yet even a squishy moderate like Mitt gets turned into repressive right-wing sexual fascist by the Hollywood Left.  Amazing, when you think about it.

But leave it to Smitty to have the best take on this:

What a creepy, sick, Orwellian world these feminists live in. Remind me again why any mature, masculine male would want to be in the same room as these abattoir-vaginas, much less offering them any essence to destroy? I guess I should say “choose to destroy”.

Well said.

We should rightly condemn China on the human flesh pills horror show.  This is infanticide, pure and simple.  Moreover, it’s infanticide the ChiComs have sanctioned and encouraged.  They’re the textbook definition of abject moral failure.

But we here in the enlightened United States are  not so far off.  Significant chunks of the populace are cool with embryonic stem cell research.  By the looks of the video, lots of people in America think a child-hating anorexic harpy like Kate Beckinsale yukking it up about abortion-on-demand is totally rad.

Conservative Ghettos, Liberal Beachheads

Let’s let the terrific Smitty_One_Each over at The Other McCain fill us all in on the latest leftist dirty tricks on the internet.

Insty points to Treacher going on about the latest shenanigans at Wikipedia. It seems that it’s OK to have a page about Seamus the Dog, of Romney family fame, but no one need be bothered with talk of Obama’s dog consumption. Even though the dog munching is in one of Obama’s biographies, the dog may have been a composite of several species of small furry animals gathered together in a pot and grooving to world music. Wikipedia is great for scientific stuff, but goes high and to the left whenever a political topic emerges. This comes on the heels of Chris Loesch getting tooled on Twitter for offending the powers-that-delete.

Read the whole thing.

Smitty advocates using conservative alternatives to liberal-dominated crap.  Like, swap out your old and busted bookmarked Wikipedia for a fresh new Conservapedia one; that kind of thing.  Not to toot my own boycott, but some of us have been avoiding WikiLiberalpedia for a while now.

The thing I have an issue with is conservative self-ghettoization.  Don’t get me wrong.  I think some right-wing hedgehogging is understandable.  When much of the  the US media culture is full of closed-minded Bolsheviks, the temptation is to tell them to go fuck off and then start something self-consciously and proudly traditionalist.

However–why should the Right concede so much ground to the Left?  Liberals remain America’s minority political caucus.  It seems really counter-productive to let them create areas of public life where their ideology is the only one that gets a hearing, especially when they’re the ones who are most often outside of the mainstream of American political thought.

More than that, it’s about dealing with the larger culture.  Most people are just not strongly political.  That means they don’t really get a lot of the nuanced partisan hackery that goes into censoring Chris Loesch on Twitter or rigging Wiki pages to hide the overwhelming evidence against Algore’s climate change suicide cult.

What that also means is that most people will continue to use the most easily accessible and most popular social media/internet resources/world wide web thingamabobs that are available, regardless of political leanings.  If Twitter is the most popular social media out there, then by God that’s where the people are going to go.  Therefore, that’s where conservative people should be too.

I could see how a conservative version of Twitter might be nice to have.  It would be cool if right-of-center folks didn’t get arbitrarily singled out for their political views.  But then again, who would we be talking to?  Pretty much just us.  Meanwhile, while the Right is busy creating their iteration of whatever the latest hip social media comes out, the Left will simply gobble up the space conservatives leave behind.

Think about it this way:  If the ‘normal’ social website is Twitter, and everybody but Republicans are on it, who looks strange in that scenario?

That doesn’t mean conservatives shouldn’t try to create stuff for themselves.  Hell, right-wing blogs (like the one you’re reading right now) were made in large part as a reaction to the reflexive mainstream media leftism.  So places like Conservapedia and other traditionalist sites are very valuable in combating the socialist menace.

But I think conservatives should always look to use their resources as a springboard back into the larger American conversation.  Rather than get pigeonholed into a narrow political niche, the Right needs to engage with the Left and–more importantly–the unaffiliated low-information people that make up the majority of our culture.

Did Barack Obama Pull a ‘Girlfriend in Canada’ On The American Public? (Updated!)

Or is that called a ‘Girlfriend in New York’?

One of the more mysterious characters from President Obama’s 1995 autobiography Dreams From My Father is the so-called ‘New York girlfriend.’ Obama never referred to her by name, or even by psuedonym, but he describes her appearance, her voice, and her mannerisms in specific detail.

But Obama has now told biographer David Maraniss that the ‘New York girlfriend’ was actually a composite character, based off of multiple girlfriends he had both in New York City and in Chicago.

“During an interview in the Oval Office, Obama acknowledged that, while Genevieve was his New York girlfriend, the description in his memoir was a “compression” of girlfriends, including one who followed Genevieve [Cook] when he lived in Chicago,” Maraniss writes in his new biography, an excerpt of which was published online today by Vanity Fair.

Because who doesn’t lump all their girlfriends together when writing their first memoir?  Especially when you’re an awkward skinny nerdlington dude with a funny foreign name.  You know those guys always score lots of poon.  Who could possibly keep track of all those babes?

C’mon; these bangin’ hot broads are from New York and Chicago.  Those cities both have big tall buildings, multinational corporations, ethnic neighborhoods, two baseball teams, parks in roughly central locations.  Hell, they’re practically the same place if you really think about it.

In fact, if you were writing an autobiography you’d be stupid not to ‘composite’ all your girlfriends.  You know your wife is going to eventually read your book.  You wouldn’t want her to know how much ass you were tapping back in the day.  Keep your pimp hand strong, but keep it discreet.

I for one think that blending all of his pre-marital female conquests together into a single woman to create a more easily-digestible racial narrative in a memoir he published at the age of 34 years old is just another genius move by our raging heterosexual T-Rex alpha dog President.

I mean, there’s no way Barack Obama invented a bunch of girlfriends just to butch up his studly street cred, right?

UPDATE: My forever-rad blog-homie Edge of The Sandbox has a very interesting wrinkle in this story.  Go there and read it.

Tumblr Just Got Real

Real fiscally conservative that is!

Check it out:  Hey Girl, It’s Paul Ryan

And finally, Twitter homie Ezra Dulis brings us this one:

Really, go clickie the linkie and check out the rest.

UPDATE:  Linked by the incredibly cool and fabulously jealous Smitty One Each over at The Other McCain.  Thanks, homie.

Report: Elizabeth Warren is a Whole Whopping 1/32nd Cherokee Indian (Updated 2X!)

The other 31/32nds?  The Fuckawi Tribe, of course.

Desperately scrambling to validate Democrat Elizabeth Warren’s Native American heritage amid questions about whether she used her minority status to further her career, the Harvard Law professor’s campaign last night finally came up with what they claim is a Cherokee connection — her great-great-great-grandmother.

“She would be 1⁄32nd of Elizabeth Warren’s total ancestry,” noted genealogist Christopher Child said, referring to the candidate’s great-great-great-grandmother, O.C. Sarah Smith, who is listed on an Oklahoma marriage certificate as Cherokee. Smith is an ancestor on Warren’s mother’s side, Child said.

The missing link comes after Warren’s embattled campaign faced sharp questions about her Native American background in the wake of Herald stories that showed both Harvard Law School and Warren herself had touted her tribal lineage and claimed she was a member of a minority for years.

Say, what does it take to be considered an American Indian?

What is blood quantum?

Blood quantum is the amount of Indian blood you possess as determined by the number of generations of Native people you descend from, and it’s the process that the federal government uses to say whether they consider you a Native American or not. Between approximately 1885-1940, census rolls, the 1900 special Indian census, the Dawes Rolls, Durrant Rolls, and land conveyances involving Native people were taken. Based on that information, if any of your ancestors were on those rolls, you may be able to receive a Certificate of Indian Blood (see below). For example, if your great-grandmother was 100% Indian and your great-grandfather was non-Indian, their child (your grandmother or grandfather) would be ½ Indian blood. If your 1/2 Indian grandparent married a non-Indian, your mother or father would be 1/4 Indian blood. If your mother or father married a non-Indian, then you would be 1/8. Of course, the percentages change if there were marriages between Native people and your blood quantum or Indian blood would be more. As you can see from the above explanation, the bottom number gets larger as your blood quantum decreases, therefore it is essential that if you are applying for any services, you figure the blood quantum correctly.

How do I get a Certificate of Indian Blood (CIB)?

A CIB can often be obtained from the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) regional or area office that covers the area where your tribe is located. Send your birth certificate, your Indian parents’ birth certificate and if available, your Indian grandparents’ birth certificate (otherwise their name and approximate birth date), to the Regional or Area BIA office where your tribe or ancestors are from. If your ancestors were on any of the old census rolls, they might be able to provide you with the name of the tribe(s) you are from and the percentage(s) of Indian blood. This doesn’t always work, but it’s the easiest and fastest way to prove your Native ancestry.

That’s strange.  I’m not seeing a “I Need To Claim Indian Ancestry So I Can Get A Harvard Teaching Gig” clause in the how-to manual for obtaining a CIB. But then again what the hell do I know?  I’m not the super genius that laid down the intellectual foundations for the totally not violent–except when it’s really really really necessary!–Occupy Wall Street movement.

Even better:  It turns out that 99% Champion of the Middle Class Lizzy-Dub has a slightly bigger bank account than she’s led us to believe.  Only a teensie-weensie bit bigger though.  Not much, really.

Last Friday, she released four years of tax returns. Over those four years, Warren and her husband, another Harvard Law prof, averaged $300,000 more than Sen. Brown and his spouse, a TV anchor. In 2009, the Warrens made $981,000 vs. the Browns’ $249,000.

Even the Globe had to admit that Warren was “in the top 1 percent of earners” — ironic, considering her bragging that she provided the “intellectual foundations” of Occupy Wall Street.

As recently as January, Warren was still crying poor, saying on MSNBC: “I realize there are some wealthy individuals — I’m not one of them — but some wealthy individuals who have a lot of stock portfolios.”

No, she has mutual-fund portfolios. Her financial disclosures put her worth between $4.6 and $14.5 million.

Well, being middle class is “not about a number,” she told one reporter. “It’s about a place in your heart.”

That place in her heart?  It’s a nice piece of real estate with a mere $5 million dollar price tag.  Better start throwing some more coin in the ol’ 401K if you wanna run in Lizzy’s neck of the woods.

But remember, other than her fake Indian heritage and her fraudulent middle-class lifestyle, she’s the real deal.

UPDATE:  Since Lizzy-Dub is as Indian as a set of lederhosen, why not try to figure out what her not-Indian Indian name would be?

What is {ELIZABETH WARREN’S} Indian Name

Your Result: Woman with Broken Heal

You tend to live in the past and think about what could have been. Doing this will only hold you back from what is waiting ahead for you. Someday you’ll exchange this habit for a new one and will be unstoppable.

I found this Indian Name Generator in Maetenloch’s Overnight Thread at Ace’s place.  Post your faux-Native name for non-stop laughs.

UPDATE Numero Dos:  Now that we’re thinking about race, Clifford Thies over at Libertarian Republican has an interesting piece on the One-Drop Rule.  I really can’t excerpt it because there’s a lot there, so I’ll just give you a Spoiler Alert:  Bill Clinton wasn’t our first black president.  Read the whole thing.

Having Fun With The GSA Spending Scandal

Courtesy of Dan Mitchell.

But hey, America isn’t totally hosed or anything.

Obama and The Perfect Storm of Misery

Old And Busted:  Getting people off the public dole.

New Hotness:  Getting lots and lots of people back on the public dole.

The Congressional Budget Office said Thursday that 45 million people in 2011 received Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefits, a 70% increase from 2007. 

Political Junkie Mom is right.  Having the Obama administration do stuff to increase employment or oil production is just silly rugged individualist conservative yakkety-yak.  Far better for the government to do the things it’s really good at, like fostering long-term dependency.

But hey, it’s not poor people who are getting pounded by this administration.  The “rich” are about to get their comeuppance as well.

 If you thought paying your taxes was painful this year, get ready for more heartache next year, when taxpayers could be on the hook for almost $500 billion in higher taxes… That’s the size of “Taxmageddon.” 

Taxmageddon is the tax hike set to slam the economy and taxpayers on Jan. 1, 2013. It’s made up of seven different categories of tax cuts set to expire, and six tax hikes from the health-care law set to kick in, as soon as the ball drops on New Year’s Eve.

The Left’s definition of ‘shared’ sacrifice: Make the poor into a permanent underclass so they can easily be exploited for votes while simultaneously punishing anyone who tries to escape the statist suck-hole of fail.

Or maybe I’m being too hard on Obama and the rest of the progressive movement.  Perhaps I’m ascribing a conscious plan to people who really have no idea what they’re doing.   It could be that the President and his administration are just incompetent dolts.

Then again, that would go against everything we’ve been told about Barack Obama for the last five years.  People who identify themselves as conservative think Obama is scary smart.  Scions of the Left have insisted that Barack Obama is a great intelligence.  How many prestigious universities did Barack Obama go to?  Occidental, Columbia and Harvard represent the pinnacle of higher education not just in America but across the globe.  Anyone who wrote not one but two memoirs before the age of fifty has to be pretty sharp.

If President Obama is as smart as his sycophants and enablers insist he is, then he has the intelligence to see how his proposals affect the nation.  That means that Obama is happy to see more and more people on food stamps.  Obama wants to hammer Americans with tax hikes.  The current state of affairs in the United States is pretty much exactly what the community-organizer-in-chief ordered.

Here’s the rub–I think Obama is going to play dumb during this campaign season.  In 2008, dude was supposed to walk on water during a three dimensional chess marathon while simultaneously developing a vaccine for athlete’s foot.  In 2012, everything–and I mean EVERYTHING–will be somebody else’s fault.  Crappy economy?  Damn you, Bushitler.  Wallet-punishing gas prices?  Darth Cheney and his roving band of nefarious petroleum speculators are killing the electric car with their diabolical oil-based superpowers.  Stratospheric unemployment?  John ‘Satan’s Personal Oompaloompa’ Boehner simply won’t let America have the kajillions of eco-tastic green jobs that every US company is just dying to create.

That line of nonsense cannot be allowed to fly.  Obama has constantly billed himself–and actively encouraged others to sing from the same hymnal by the way–as a super genius.  Its time to throw that achievement-free arrogance back in his face.

Insanely High Gas Prices Got You Down?

Don’t worry–Donald Douglas over at the American Power blog has a quicker picker upper to brighten your mood.

(Via The People’s Cube)

Where does this come from, you wonder?

Promise kept.

Thanks, Barry.

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President Barack ‘Dog Meat’ Obama Is An Admitted Dog Meat Eater Who Has Eaten Dog Meat

So it turns out that David Axelrod, Barack Obama’s campaign hatchetman, posted a tweet that many folks took as a shot at Mitt Romney.  Specifically, the tweet was an oblique reference to the story of how Romney once transported his dog in a pet crate on top of his car during a family trip.  No doubt it was pretty clever to for Ax to ding Romney with this embarrassing anecdote.  Everybody knows that any tale Gail Collins has made a fetish out of reporting on is edgy comedic gold.

Then the right-wingers on Twitter pointed out in sarcastic detail how Barack Obama has some skeletons in his closet when it comes to man’s best friend.

Let Joe and Mika and some other hapless MSNBC stooges fill you in.

In summation, Romney treated a dog poorly once.

At least Mittens wasn’t thinking about which side dish and wine would go best with his Irish Setter spare ribs.

Not surprisingly, this kerfuffle lit up the twitterverse and the larger blogosphere.  Ace had a laugh at Obama, Devourer of Dogs. Manhattan Infidel posted a great satirical interview with the clearly endangered First Pet.  James Taranto threw his kibbles and bits into the fray.  Frank quipped some quips about the story (sample–”Dog bites man – not news. Man bites dog – news. President bites dog – BEST NIGHT OF TWITTER EVER!!!”).  Jim Treacher has been cracking on Axelrod and Co. for almost two days now, throwing in the inevitable, and inevitably hilarious, ‘Downfall’ clip to boot.

Don’t get it twisted, though.  Not every conservative has been having fun at Blood-Pudding-Hound Obama’s expense.  Newt Gingrich told Sean Hannity that focusing on the “Obama Eats Dog” story is ‘junk’.  He would prefer the Right to focus on big ideas and big issues.

The former speaker is almost impossibly wrong.  First, look at Axelrod’s twitter timeline.  He deleted the tweet that started this fight, which means he knows he screwed the pooch.  Homeboy wouldn’t memory-hole a tweet unless he knew it was a self-inflicted wound.

Another thing to note is that while Americans hate to hear about dogs being mistreated, eating canines is really weird to most people in the United States.  Granted, there is already a liberal thumbsucker defense of Obama eating a dog in Indonesia (“IT IS THIER CULTCHERR, MAAAAAAN!!!!!!!111111111eleventy!!!1!”) but that’s only going to work for people already invested in Team Obama. The rest of the country is going to be deeply creeped out at the idea of the President scarfing down a fido-burger.

Besides all that, why does Newt–or any other conservative–think this is an either/or proposition?  Why can’t the Right offer data-driven substantive criticism of President Obama’s disastrous policies while simultaneously busting on Schnauzer Skirt Steak Barry’s inherently strange biography and ideology?  Thinking that the conservative movement can’t walk and mock progressives at the same time is antiquated.

It’s not 1978 anymore.  There isn’t a monolithic leftist media vice-grip on mass communication.  The conservative movement doesn’t have to carefully craft the picture perfect message in the hopes that a Fairness Doctrine-era news organization will deign to pick up on it.

Let the free-market thinkers think.  Let the libertarian linkers link.  Most importantly, let the conservative stinkers well…not stink per se…but mercilessly mock everything about Obama and the lunatic left.  At a moment when our hapless President would rather talk about anything other than his pathetic failure of an administration, it would be foolish for the Right to put limits on its messaging.

ObamaCare–The Horror Movie Trailer

Starring none other than the Herman Cain.

Darcprynce over at the marvelous DaleyGator found this over the weekend.

A health insurance broker, Glenn Morton, has founded a super PAC called “Occupy Obamacare” and begun producing videos that using horror-movie imagery to attack the Affordable Care Act. This video features Herman Cain Struck by Lightning at Tea Party Rally.

Admit it; you’d totally see this flick.

Oh wait, that isn’t just a movie trailer.  We’re living the nightmare already.

Also…all those scary threatening prank phone calls you’ve been getting?

They’re coming—–FROM INSIDE YOUR HOUSE!

Voter ID Laws Are Pretty Popular

How popular?

(Rasmussen) Eighty-two percent (82%) believe all voters should be required to prove their identity before being allowed to vote. Only 14% oppose such a requirement.

Just 21% think laws requiring photo identification at the polls discriminate against some voters. Seventy-three percent (73%) disagree and feel that such laws do not discriminate.

Eighty-two percent.

That’s all.

You can’t get 82% of US citizens to agree on the winner of American Idol.  Hell, you can’t get 1/10th of 82% of Americans to buy hybrid cars or pick the best grade of crystal meth.  But eight of ten Americans are pretty certain that people should have to prove their residency status before voting.

You know what this means, right?

Eighty-two percent of the American public are now totally RAAAAACIST!

BTW, read the rest of the piece right now.

Also:  Thanks to the Conservative Commune’s @Vermontaigne for the link.  Muchas gracias.

The Karl Marx Family Tree

Go through the whole incestuous thing and see if you can find any faults with it.

I think this is pretty much spot-on.

Steve over at the Motor City Times found this neat gem.

I simply had to steal it.

Also:  Steve is pretty much fighting behind enemy lines by living in The People’s Republic of Mittenganstan, so check out the Motor City Times blog early and often…and twice on Sundays.

Insight of The Day

Every week the Conservative Hideout, led by the tremendous Mr. Evil Matt, has a round-up of the rad posts he has found on teh intertubes.  Usually he comes up with a cool theme to go along with it.  Sometimes its tunes, sometimes its cars, sometimes its something else altogether.

This past week, Matt looked to his Facebook homies for inspiration.

Haha.

Riddle me that, Nancy Keenan.

Also:  Keep checking out the Conservative Hideout, all day every day.