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…his brain is squirming like a toad…

So, am I as’posed to say I’m being silent, or am I just as’posed to shut-the-hell up for a day?

Ha! Kidding! Ace is pushing June 8 as a day of blogger silence (or, rather, a day for pestering your Congresscritter instead of posting) on account of the above nutcake — convicted bomber, perjuror, drug dealer, Demo activist and all-around nasty piece of work Brett Kimberlin.

Unfortunately, Kimberlin is also a persistent and energetic jailhouse lawyer (and worse) who has lately dedicated himself to making the lives of conservative bloggers miserable. Follow the above link to learn more.

This may not be the party line on this one, but I don’t think this is a political issue. Not really. I think this guy is a classic sociopath first and a Democrat on a roll of the dice.

That’s not a good thing.

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Comment from JeffS
Time: June 8, 2012, 11:28 pm

That post title is a classic Doors reference, and fits Kimberlin perfectly.


Comment from Mrs. Compton
Time: June 8, 2012, 11:34 pm

“I think this guy is a classic sociopath first and a Democrat on a roll of the dice.”

kinda like our -resident?


Comment from Scubafreak
Time: June 9, 2012, 12:24 am

I think it IS telling that George Soros and Barbara Streisand, KNOWING his past and current activities, are giving him money hand over fist…..


Comment from Argentium G. Tiger
Time: June 9, 2012, 1:26 am

Scubafreak: Thanks for mentioning Soros’ name, he’s a regular pick for me in the Dead Pool, and I had forgotten to make a pick.


Comment from Mrs. Compton
Time: June 9, 2012, 1:30 am

Scuba, streisand might be duped but I don’t think soros is, I think he absolutely knows what he’s got and helped create it.


Comment from Scubafreak
Time: June 9, 2012, 1:41 am

Sorry, Mrs. C, but I believe that Mecha Streisand knows EXACTLY what she is funding.


Comment from JuliaM
Time: June 9, 2012, 5:19 am

O/T but….

Brutes of the British countryside!


Comment from harbqll
Time: June 9, 2012, 6:03 am

While I appreciate Ace’s enthusiasm for the mission, by blacking himself out for a day all he’s really done is neutralize himself as a communications device, which is the essential function of a blog.

People don’t listen to a silent news source.


Comment from S. Weasel
Time: June 9, 2012, 11:35 am

Worse. He’s going to a comment registration system. I hope that doesn’t kill the best commentariat on the web.


Comment from AliceH
Time: June 9, 2012, 11:49 am

Memeorandum seems to indicate some success with the tactic. List includes blogs with open letter type posts on “Why I’m silent”, blogs with posts on “Why I am NOT silent” and blogs with posts on “Why this is stupid wingnut behavior” — all, of course, bring the spotlight on Kimberlin’s abusive activity.

Also, Erick Erickson reports (via Breitbart) “I have been told that Monday, the House of Representatives will engage on this and seventy or more members will formally be sending a letter to Eric Holder, asking him on behalf of these members of the house to also get the FBI involved.”


Comment from Anonymous
Time: June 9, 2012, 12:41 pm

Anyone know what specifically the latest meltdown over there was about?


Comment from S. Weasel
Time: June 9, 2012, 2:42 pm

Ace was blanking the posts faster than I could read them, Nony, so I don’t know specifically. But generally, several posters were posting knuckleheaded and possibly legally actionable statements about Kimberlin. Or, at least, statements that Kimberlin could use to bolster his argument that he’s the victim here — I get the impression Ace thought they were friendly fire.


Comment from Subotai Bahadur
Time: June 9, 2012, 5:14 pm

1.) I think this guy is a classic sociopath first and a Democrat on a roll of the dice.

I am afraid, given the evidence of the last 20 years or so, that if you drew a Venn Diagram of the two events; you would find that the overlap is not only significant, but that it approaches the latter being an included subset of the former.

2.) Sweas, if you have not thought this through, I would advise cautious reflection and at the very least preparedness for unpleasantness. The pictures you posted and the link; while absolutely true, accurate, and reflective of reality may draw fire from the Soros-funded Left. And remember, y’all are not only not in America [where free speech is under attack and the issue is in doubt but still being fought for], but you are in Britain where free speech that is not politically correct is a crime. And you are now a British subject.

I am definitely not saying don’t fight this waste of protoplasm. Just … be ready.

I was about to say “lock and load” for that last sentence, but y’all can’t do that over there.

Subotai Bahadur


Comment from Redd
Time: June 9, 2012, 6:36 pm

That was me earlier, by the way.

Looking at some of the other blogs, I’m getting a very filtered version of the events. Ace said he wasn’t going to accept an award due to safety concerns, someone else called him a pussy. Then others said fuck it, let the guy come at me blah blah blah. However, I don’t see anyone claiming that there were any threats made at the litigious one. Maybe there were, maybe not. Anyway, I really don’t know.

The comments had gotten unmanageable years ago and he had talked of registration for quite a while. So, not unexpected. I just hope there are not a thousand comments piling on the people now on the outs. That crap gets real old, too.


Comment from S. Weasel
Time: June 9, 2012, 6:39 pm

I don’t think I’m technically a subject until I take the oath. I am a guest of Her Maj.

Anyhoo, I did think it through. Sorta. I’ve got the Daily Mail on speed dial. I think we’re okay, down here in the shallow end of the blogosphere.


Comment from Steamboat McGoo
Time: June 10, 2012, 2:26 am

I would like to believe that if the asswipe bothered this site, the blogosphere response would be immediate and ……massive.

Weaz is known and respected e.v.e.r.y.w.h.e.r.e.


Comment from Oceania
Time: June 10, 2012, 3:08 am

Big heads up folks!

Remember that radiation leak that wasn’t in your media a few days ago?
Here is a radar image at the time of the accident

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-vvTAnnjhwvc/T9DlSxA1-eI/AAAAAAAABoY/DU6ak_VM1Sk/s640/Indiana%2BRadar%2B-%2BRadiation.jpg


Comment from bad cat robot
Time: June 10, 2012, 3:09 am

At the very least the banjo-players would rise up in defense of one of their own. Can you imagine a maddened horde of banjos cresting the hill, all playing “Foggy Mountain Breakdown”? Total. Nuclear. Deterrent.


Comment from Oceania
Time: June 10, 2012, 3:10 am

Radiation networks with public data were recording 7000+CPM but were quickly shut down … but other networks continued, with private citizens recording …


Comment from the fella what is called sandman and such like
Time: June 10, 2012, 3:18 am

Hey Stoaty, Hey folks.
I have been wondering what was eating Ace for weeks. If he was that afraid of entering the fray with psycho Kimberlin, he should have stayed on the sidelines. The fastest way to an ass kicking is to get into a fight you are properly prepared for. So now, when his own actions have brought about then usual internet poseurs, Ace is getting thin-skinned About things.
Several years ago there was the great bit about the “banhammer” and cutting back on the offensive language and all that. then he seemed to ease up. Ever since he began his part of this Kimberlin thing, he’s way too high strung and easily offended. Hard to see where what I say as a commenter leads back to his culpability. No more so than an ATM robbery leads back to the bank for not having someone watching their mechanical money-dispenser.
Anyway, i left the HQ foe a long time other than occasional drop ins. Didn’t comment for over a year. haven’t done much in the last year, except this last week.
Unlike you, Stoaty, it feels like Ace is dumping on his Horde for the actions of some trolls.
Group punishment doesn’t work when there’s an internet and thousands of mile between you and the a-hole making the trouble.
I’m Sandman over there, as well, for those looking to see what I said about the Ewok and the Horde.


Comment from S. Weasel
Time: June 10, 2012, 10:14 am

I think of Ace as one of those high-strung overbred dogs. You know, shout at it and its eyeball pops out of the socket kind of thing.

Me, I’ve got a mutt’s temperament. This isn’t always a good thing.

He does totally look like an ewok, though.


Comment from Anonymous
Time: June 10, 2012, 1:43 pm

I think of Ace as one of those high-strung overbred dogs. You know, shout at it and its eyeball pops out of the socket kind of thing.

You mean like this guy?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=feCXr86HzMk


Comment from Uncle Badger
Time: June 10, 2012, 2:10 pm

Brutes of the British countryside, JuliaM?

I couldn’t possibly comment 😉


Comment from S. Weasel
Time: June 10, 2012, 2:10 pm

JuliaM, I think I just perished of a fatal overdose of cute.


Comment from Some Vegetable
Time: June 10, 2012, 3:49 pm

I shouldn’t worry too much about those cute little brutes. If they pop out of line an ASBO will fix things in short order.


Comment from Redd
Time: June 10, 2012, 5:04 pm

I shouldn’t worry too much about those cute little brutes. If they pop out of line an ASBO will fix things in short order.

Or, the back of a shovel (or so I heard).


Comment from S. Weasel
Time: June 10, 2012, 6:20 pm

You’d have to be pret-ty quick to el Kabong a stoat.


Comment from mojo
Time: June 11, 2012, 2:58 pm

Now the shit-weasel is claiming somebody SWATted him…

Gee, how conveeeeenient….


Comment from Redd
Time: June 11, 2012, 3:56 pm

You’d have to be pret-ty quick to el Kabong a stoat.

You sneak up on them when they are distracted making stoaty love. It’s a two fer one deal.


Comment from Some Vegetable
Time: June 11, 2012, 6:02 pm

Hey Stoaty, i’ve been back for some time now but just realized that I have your packets of Japanese tea just sitting here… if you’d like them and are not too busy doing whatever Redd is on about above, drop me and email and I’ll pop them in the post (hey, how’s my British, there, eh? “Pop them in the post” and all that, wot?) 🙂


Comment from Some Vegetable
Time: June 11, 2012, 6:06 pm

Oh, and how would one say, “el Kabong!” in British? Surely Uncle Badger didn’t grow up putting pence in the meter on the telly to watch him on Saturday mornings…

Sigh where ARE my heros of yesteryear? I’d love to see el Kabong show up at a few campaign events this year?


Comment from Anonymous
Time: June 11, 2012, 7:27 pm

I am a guest of Her Maj.

That really makes you sound like you’re in prison.


Comment from Russ
Time: June 11, 2012, 7:28 pm

Oops. That was me.


Comment from mojo
Time: June 11, 2012, 9:46 pm

Currently residing “at Her Majesty’s pleasure” in a palatial estate on Dartmoor…


Comment from Oldcat
Time: June 11, 2012, 10:00 pm

Part of Ace’s issue with BK is that he found that the minions were trying to find his own identity to start pulling the same stuff they were doing to Patterico and the other McCain, even before he went active in opposition. So staying on the sidelines wasn’t going to help.

And he’s needed a ‘new tone’ at the HQ since 2010, when he kind of overlooked a 100 seat pickup election because of a Delaware witch hunt.

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