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Team Kimberlin Post of the Day
Here’s the TKPOTD from three years ago today. Kimberlin’s motion that it presents is full of lies, and it misstates the law related to discovery in the case.
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Yesterday afternoon, I posted the online docket entry for this—
I don’t plan to make any substantive public statement about this motion in any form other than a court paper until after the court has ruled on it.
Everything is proceeding as I have foreseen.
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One the most transparent lies in the motion was the claim that I didn’t allege damages until over a year after I filed the lawsuit.
After enumerating losses I suffered and costs I incurred, paragraph 33 of my complaint states, “Thus, Mr. Hoge suffered actual damages.” Similarly, paragraph 62 damages suffered and ends with, “Thus, Mr. Hoge suffered actual damages,” as does paragraph 71.
The Gentle Reader should not be surprised that the court denied The Dread Deadbeat Pro-Se Kimberlin’s motion.
Quote of the Day
Progressives conceive of themselves as a caste apart, a special and specialized group of enlightened men and women whose job it is to organize other people’s lives for them, a necessity because those people are too dumb to do it for themselves.
—Kevin D. Williamson
Are You Pondering What I’m Pondering?
I think so, Brain … but isn’t one of the markers of being middle-aged when you notice they’ve quit playing good music on the radio?
Getting Thugs Off Your Lawn
I see that the usual suspects are in a tizzy over the armed St. Louis couple who confronted BLM protestors outside their house. It appears that the pair are both lawyers, so I’m going to assume that they are aware of the elements of the crime of assault and that they would not have pointed their weapons at anyone who was not threatening them with severe injury or death.
However, their gun handling is clearly inept. They appear to have poor awareness of the direction their weapons are pointing, and the women never seems to be holding her Walther PPK properly. They both need more training in safe gun handling.
I haven’t had to shot anyone since I left Viet Nam in 1972, but I have been in several dangerous confrontations since then. In all of them, when the other people realized I was armed, they decided to withdraw. The sight of a holstered sidearm or a firearm slung over my shoulder or held at low ready was enough to influence their behavior.
The arms I keep for defensive purposes are not kept for offense. They are not kept to inflict my brand of justice on anyone else. They’re kept as a credible deterrent, tools that I am trained to use and willing to use.
One of the reasons Mrs. Hoge and I settled where we did was that the community was peaceful. I doubt that we’ll see much turbulence here, but if the rioters come to our small town, they’d be well advised to stay off my lawn.
Certain Sections That I Wouldn’t Advise You to Invade
As I’m drinking my second cup of coffee this morning, I’m finding pictures on the Interwebz of an armed couple confronting a BLM mob outside of their house. This may become a more common scene as the ongoing marxist lunacy tries to metastasize to the interior of the country.
While Rick Blaine’s advice to a couple of totalitarian thugs may no longer apply in New York, it still holds true in most of America.
It’s even true in certain parts of Maryland.
M87
The giant elliptical galaxy Messier 87 is surrounded by a huge halo. An increase in brightness in the top-right part of this halo and the motion of planetary nebulae in the galaxy are the last remaining signs of a medium-sized galaxy that collided with M87.
This wide field image also contains many other galaxies forming the Virgo Cluster, of which Messier 87 is the largest member. The two galaxies at the edge of the top right of the frame are nicknamed “the Eyes.”
Image Credit: ESO
Team Kimberlin Post of the Day
Through the years, Bill Schmalfeldt has done some mind-bogglingly stupid things. This INMTUYN post from four years ago deals with one of his dumbest.
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I received this email a few minutes ago.
The temptation to engage in PLM concerning this is great, but I’m disabling comments on this post in order to keep from educating the monkey.
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It didn’t take the court long to deny the petition.
Comments are on for this repost.
Quote of the Day
We should never believe anything we have not dared to doubt.
—Christina, Queen of Sweden
Are You Pondering What I’m Pondering?
I think so, Brain … but is Devil’s Food cake the right thing to take to the church potluck?
A Note to the Iconoclastic Rioters
Before you pull down another monument to someone you despise, consider this story from the Soviet Union—
A village was surprised to find they had some surplus funds, so a meeting was called to determine what to spend them on. One group wanted to build a statue of Stalin. The other wanted to build a foot bridge over the creek so the village children would not have to ford the stream coming and going to school. The debate was heated, and the vote was equally divided, but one of the village elders had not participated. He was asked to break the tie.
“Grandfather,” they asked, “what shall we do?”
He replied, “Let’s build the statue and let the pigeons speak for us.”
Interstellar Visitors
Video Credit: ESO
Team Kimberlin Post of the Day
This TKPOTD from five years ago today dealt with a couple of the minor players on Team Kimberlin.
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I see from the comment section that Very Ordinary Seaman Ferguson has graciously given me permission to sue him and 57F Osborne. Perhaps I shall, although if I do, it won’t be on his schedule. I shall file at a time of my choosing. I shall choose the forum.
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As a somewhat more successful musician than Willam Ferguson once noted,
You can’t always get what you want,
But if you try, sometime you find
You get what you need.
Quote of the Day
It’s much harder to be relevant than it is to be successful.
— Paul David Hewson (aka Bono)
Are You Pondering What I’m Pondering?
I think so, Brain … but I had more confidence before I knew what was happening.
The Other Podcast
Stacy McCain and I will be at our mics at 7 pm ET for Episode 18, Season 3 of The Other Podcast.
Give us a call at (646) 668-2541 and join in the fun.
Likely topics include Newsspeak, Kaboom, Doom, and Crazy People Are Dangerous™.
Don’t Know Much Biology
I’ll just leave this here.
Shadows in Space
Video Credit: NASA
Team Kimberlin Post of the Day
This episode of Yours Truly, Johnny Atsign is from four years ago today. It deals with an example of Teslacle’s Deviant to Fudd’s First Law.
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ANNOUNCER: From Westminster, it’s time for—
SOUND: Landline phone rings once.
JOHNNY: Johnny Atsign.
DEEP VOTE: (Telephone Filter) Good evening, Mr. Atsign.
JOHNNY: Yes?
DEEP VOTE: (Telephone Filter) I have some more information for you. Meet me at the usual place and time.
SOUND: (Called Party’s POV) Line hung up. Dial tone.
MUSIC: Theme up and under.
ANNOUNCER: The Lickspittle Broadcasting System presents W. J. J. Hoge in the transcribed adventures of the man with the action-packed Twitter account, America’s fabulous free-lance Internet investigator …
JOHNNY: Yours Truly, Johnny Atsign!
MUSIC: Theme up to music out. Continue reading
Quote of the Day
If you possess something but you can’t give it away, then you don’t possess it … it possesses you.
—Frank Sinatra
Well, I’m Glad That’s Done
The Real Wold has been imposing itself on my life more than usual this week. I’m a member of a team designing (and eventually building and testing) a widget that will be part of a robot mission for NASA. Today, a Preliminary Design Review was conducted on our progress. I was one of out team’s presenters at the review. Over the past week, I put in about 60 hours of work with the team getting our presentation together, and that took a lot of time out of my other activities, including blogging.
BTW, we passed the review.
I’m gonna go get a good night’s sleep.
I Missed This
Joe Biden says that we now have over 120 million dead from COVID-19.
I suppose the fact that I’ve already died from net neutrality and the tax cut caused to fail to notice.
Are You Pondering What I’m Pondering?
I think so, Brain … but if we switched to Chichewa, today would be a day ending in –u.
A Decade of the Sun
This runs for a bit longer than an hour.
Video Credit: NASA
Quote of the Day
Reality? Your “reality”, sir, is lies and balderdash, and I’m delighted to say that I have no grasp of it whatsoever.
—attributed to Hieronymus Karl Friedrich von Münchhausen
