I have warned people: This is a serious business and it's not going to be won with silly games in a blog's comment area.

Bannings will follow.

I do not need such "help."

If you're too stupid to realize what's going on here, I no longer need your input in this site.

As Andy posted earlier, from me:

Now, when he eventually does sue me, I am of course counterclaiming for everything he might still have, as well as having a special master appointed to keep track of any payouts to him from his, um, charities, so that any judgment is satisfied (and not evaded, as a previous victim judgment was).
But understand this: I am going to be sued, and my life is going to be one of constant harassment and intimidation and fear.

Please do not put me in a worse position than I've chosen to be for the sake of some silly blogwar joke.

This is not a blogwar. This is not Amanda Marcotte. Amanda Marcotte does not write lists of people to be murdered.

If your want to help me, please do what I asked: Write to congressman.

Have we all forgotten this is supposed to be a participatory democracy? Do people really think this guy will be thwarted, finally, by a post in a blog's comment area?

We need legislative and judicial action on this. We will not get it if it appears this is just some big silly game where one side slaps the other and the other side slaps back.

If you're not sure if something will "help," then EMAIL ME and ask.

I am in this guy's crosshairs.

What can you post about Kimberlin? Things that are a matter of public record (his bombing and perjury convictions) or actual sourced and cited information.

I do not need speculations, jokes, or other such trivia.

For God's sakes. For God's sakes.

Please think before you emote.

Posted by: Ace at 09:16 AM | Comments (186)
Post contains 330 words, total size 2 kb.

I think this is because it's a 501(c) charity, and those donations have to be tracked by law. However, I'm writing to them to ask about this, and if there's a threshold beneath which information doesn't have to be entered, and etc.

I will let you know when I know.

Updated: Ali Akbar at the National Bloggers Club says that he's looking into other options. This is the typical information sought when people fundraise for political campaigns. Under the circumstances, of course, other options might be advisable.

He's inquiring now-- this being a legal thing, he needs to ask his lawyers about it.

Posted by: Ace at 08:49 AM | Comments (72)
Post contains 123 words, total size 1 kb.

Excellent piece by Tiffany Gabbay.

Front page, too.

Patterico's on the radio with him. (I am not sure, but I think this is subscriber-based.) I'll post clips when they become available.

John Hawkins has an interview with Kimberlin's latest victim, the dogged Stace McCain.

The National Bloggers Club just began the KimberlinFiles.org, where you can donate to defray the costs incurred by Stace and Aaron Worthing, and also (I think) additional future victims.

Posted by: Ace at 08:00 AM | Comments (159)
Post contains 99 words, total size 1 kb.

This post at Patterico's on Brett Kimberlin must be read in its entirety.

YouÂ’re about to listen to one of the most bone-chilling pieces of audio you will ever hear. At least, it was to me when I first heard it.

ItÂ’s a phone call that could have gotten me killed.

In this post you will hear that audio clip. You will also read about a months-long campaign of harassment carried out by at least three individuals: Ron Brynaert, Neal Rauhauser, and Brett Kimberlin — much of it directed at critics of Brett Kimberlin. This harassment includes repeated references to critics’ family members, workplace complaints, publication of personal information such as home addresses and pictures of residences, bogus allegations of criminal activity, whisper campaigns, frivolous legal actions, and frivolous State Bar complaints.

And finally, you will hear a comparison of one of those menÂ’s voices to that of the man who made the call that sent police to my home. And youÂ’ll read a declaration from a forensic audio expert comparing those two voices.

It's as long as an Ace of Spades movie review, but it is a shocking exposition of just how nefarious Kimberlin and his henchmen are alleged to be.

It also includes some references to our favorite Ewok and provides a good reminder of why what Maet mentioned in the ONT last night about this being no laughing matter is absolutely true. Ace:

Now, when he eventually does sue me, I am of course counterclaiming for everything he might still have, as well as having a special master appointed to keep track of any payouts to him from his, um, charities, so that any judgment is satisfied (and not evaded, as a previous victim judgment was).

But understand this: I am going to be sued, and my life is going to be one of constant harassment and intimidation and fear.

Please do not put me in a worse position than I've chosen to be for the sake of some silly blogwar joke.

This is not a blogwar. This is not Amanda Marcotte. Amanda Marcotte does not write lists of people to be murdered.

Please take heed of this in the comments.

Also, today is Everybody Blog About Brett Kimberlin Day. Consider it blogged.

[DrewM.]: There's a relief set up to help people who have lost income/incurred expenses for having the temerity to exercise their First Amendment rights. Check it out and if you can, help out.

Posted by: andy at 06:15 AM | Comments (371)
Post contains 437 words, total size 3 kb.

Lachlan Markay from the Heritage Foundation interviews Senator Coburn on the debt crisis.

“The problem isn’t that we haven’t agreed, the problem is that we’ve agreed way to much."

Video below the fold. more...

Posted by: rdbrewer at 05:48 AM | Comments (29)
Post contains 49 words, total size 1 kb.

FRIDAY!!!!!!

Marion Barry, the gift that keeps on giving, refers to Pollacks during his umpteenth apology for referring to Asian's "dirty shops."

The AP notices that the Obama campaign is lying about Romney moving the goal posts. Okay, so "lying" is probably too strong a term; Ben LaBolt isn't smart enough to realize his error.

Have a great holiday weekend.

Posted by: Gabriel Malor at 02:57 AM | Comments (265)
Post contains 68 words, total size 1 kb.

Star City in Pictures

If you want to go visit the International Space Station these days, the only way is through Baikonur. In fact Russia and China are the only countries currently that are capable of launching humans into orbit.

Baikonur, Russia's primary space launch facility since the 1950s, is the largest in the world, and supports multiple launches of both manned and unmanned rockets every year. With the U.S. manned space program currently on hold, Baikonur is now the sole launching point for trips to the ISS.

But before you get too depressed the good news is that privately-owned SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket was successfully launched on Wednesday and is on track to dock at the ISS tomorrow and deliver supplies.

And if you were wondering why it's taking so long to get there, well the answer is that all approaching ships must pass a series of tests:

No craft is allowed near the ISS without a battery of tests to show that the crew is in control and the capsule won't crash into the station, so the flight will be marked by a series of such demonstrations by SpaceX, such as testing the Dragon's GPS system and showing off its ability to veer away from the station if the docking procedure were to go awry.

...As the capsule moves closer to the station, the tests come faster. The laser-radar range finding needs to be tested, as does the capsule's ability to accelerate and brake on command. As it passes these tests, the SpaceX capsule is allowed to go to incrementally closer hold points. Finally, the Dragon will be allowed to enter the hallowed Keep Out Sphere, an imaginary circle drawn 566 feet around the station. Dragon will stop at just 98 feet from ISS, hold, and-if the final docking is given a "go"-proceed to just 32 feet from the fragile, irreplaceable space station.

And Scotty has finally made it into space. Longtime ONTers will also know why he had to use a hand double during transporter scenes.

Posted by: Maetenloch at 06:14 PM | Comments (426)
Post contains 1203 words, total size 13 kb.

When Nate Silver doesn't really buy them?

There are a few reasons here.

more...

Posted by: CAC at 06:08 PM | Comments (19)
Post contains 611 words, total size 4 kb.

Alan Scott?

Alan Scott isn't the Green Lantern that anyone thinks of. Alan Scott is the original Green Lantern from the 1940s, when the Green Lantern's powers were magic, not sci-fi super-power, and when the power of the Green Lantern would work on anything that was not...

Yellow, you say.

No, Yellow came later, with the real Green Lantern.

The original Green Lantern's power didn't work on anything... made of wood.

Made of wood?

Made of wood, yes.

If a Giant Robot showed up, and was made of wood, well, that would be a very exciting Green Lantern adventure.

The Green Lantern was a character rebooted by DC with a whole new Lantern (Hal Jordan) and a whole new mythos/backstory (Guardians of the Galaxy created a galactic police force of Green Lanterns) and a new costume (the original Green Lantern had no green in his costume -- he was like orange and purple. Explain that.)

This old grandpa Green Lantern does still exist in the DC universe, but as sort of like a legacy figure.

You ever see that Greatest American Hero were Bill & Ralph met the people who had the Greatest American Hero super-suit before them? Couple of old guys. Anyway, Alan Scott's like that. You would call him a Green Lantern, but never the Green Lantern.

This really is not "major" at all. There are three other Green Lanterns besides Hal Jordan who are more important than Alan Scott -- Kyle Rayner (the young one), John Stewart (the black one), and Guy Gardner (the hot-headed comic relief one).

This is DC taking a character who doesn't have his own book (and hasn't, for sixty years) and making a splash with him, because, really, who cares about Alan Scott?

I mean, I think it's a marginally interesting thing (marginally), but then, I can recite the Green Lantern oath and tell you what Sector of the Galaxy Earth is located in.

Anyway, you're bein' played for a chump, buddy!

IÂ’m hearing that itÂ’s Alan Scott, the original Green Lantern.

Created by Martin Nodell, and first written with Bill Finger in 1940, Green Lantern was originally a mysticaly-based superhero, whose powers were derived from the flame of a magic lamp and he became an original member of the Justice Society Of America.

I thought I saw on Twitter it would be Kyle Rayner, which made sense, except it was too... um, stereotypical. Rayner is a slender, single young graphic artist with a whimsical imagination, living in New York City.

They'd be crucified for that.

Kyle Rayner is the one person in the DC Universe who can never be gay.

Anyway, if you know comics, you know they are shameless hucksters. All day long they plot ways to trick people into getting into the news.

They're not malicious. But they are shameless hucksters. Always have been. How many covers have read "The Day Superman Died"? Like twenty. They ran that every third month in the fifties.

And how many times did he actually die?

Like, one time. Sort of. For four months. Every other time it was Jimmy Olson's imagination or some weak crap.

This is on the level of revealing that Mr. Mxypltzyk is bi.

Posted by: Ace at 05:52 PM | Comments (170)
Post contains 569 words, total size 3 kb.

And Zero hedge says it's both succinct but in-depth.

And to make up for that Chris Matthews misfire earlier, here's Chris Matthews getting very testy indeed about his various leg-thrills and tingles.

h/t @rdbrewer4

Posted by: Ace at 05:12 PM | Comments (82)
Post contains 50 words, total size 1 kb.