Stacy McCain, Dianna Deeley, and I will be at our mics at 7 pm ET for the next episode of the The Other Podcast Live. Join us on Podbean.
Likely topics include Fact Chekists, AWFLs, and Crazy Cities Are Dangerous™.
Or movies from the ’70s.
In September, 2022, the Parker Solar Probe flew through one of the most powerful coronal mass ejections (CMEs) ever recorded. Parker’s data gathering while in the CME is providing information about the interaction of CMEs with interplanetary dust, with implications for space weather predictions.The spacecraft Parker Solar Probe watched the CME clearing the dust out of its path. The interaction between the CME and dust shows up as decreased brightness in images from Parker’s Wide-field Imager for Solar Probe (WISPR) camera because interplanetary dust reflects light, amplifying brightness where the dust is present.
Image Credit: NASA
During his first couple of SLAPP LOLsuits against me and several other bloggers, Brett Kimberlin sought preliminary injunctions against my codefendants and me. The TKPOTD for nine years ago today looked at how that went for him.
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The Dread Pro-Se Kimberlin wanted a preliminary injunction in the Kimberlin v. Waker, et al. nuisance lawsuit that would have required Aaron Walker, Stacy McCain, Ali Akbar, Kimberlin Unmasked, and me to take down everything we had posted on the Internet concerning him. His request was denied.
He sought permission to file a similar motion in the Kimberlin v. The Universe, et al. RICO Madness, but when he was told what limitations would be placed on his filing, he chickened out, saying that he would file yet another vexatious lawsuit and seek a preliminary injunction through it.
I now state for the record that I have decided to file a separate federal lawsuit against those defendants for conduct outside the current case, and I will file the preliminary injunction motion under that case number.
Go ahead. Make my day.
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Kimberlin kept trying to make good on his threat of “lawsuits for the rest of their lives.” He sued me again and again, and he lost every time because of his incompetence at putting together a competent legal complaint.
A man’s got to know his limitations.
Good advice is always certain to be ignored, but that’s no reason not to give it.
—Agatha Christie
New Mexico Governor Grisham is following the traditional Democrat playbook and engaging in massive resistance to the federal court’s injunction prohibiting her from enforcing or attempting to enforce her facially unconstitutional ban on the carrying of firearms in Albuquerque and Bernadillo County. She announced that she is amending her executive order so that is only applies to parks and playgrounds.
However, the judge’s order states—
In addition, Defendants are ENJOINED from applying, enforcing, or attempting to enforce, either criminally or civilly, Section (4) of the New Mexico Department of Health’s ‘Public Health Emergency Order Imposing Temporary Firearm Restrictions, Drug Monitoring and Other Public Safety Measures’ to the extent it imposes additional restrictions on the carrying or possession of firearms that were not already in place prior to its issuance.
Because the ban on carrying in parks and playground did not exist prior to the issuance of the executive order, reinstating it appears to be an explicit violation of the injunction.
I think so, Brain … but why would “Close Cover Before Striking” apply now that the contract negotiations were successful?
Video Credit: NASA
While I was reviewing one of the archived versions of the breitbartunmasked dot com, I noticed this post from nine years ago today.
The weedhire dot com website is gone and the domain registration is for sale.
Although he left the wholesale side of the marijuana trade in the over 40 years ago, it appears that The Deadbeat Pusher Kimberlin has maintained an keen interest in the industry.
Vote for the man who promises least; he’ll be the least disappointing.
—Bernard Baruch
I think so, Brain … but if we’re fictional, aren’t we supposed to make sense?
Video Credit: NASA
This episode of Yours Truly, Johnny Atsign first ran eight years ago today.
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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: Oh, hello again.
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
The presidency has many problems, but boredom is the least of them.
—Richard M. Nixon
I think so, Brain … but things were easier when there was only a single set of negatives.
Just before the Juno completed its 53rd flyby of Jupiter on 31 July, the spacecraft sped past the moon Io and snapped this image with both bodies in the same frame.
Image Credit: NASA
Back in 2012, Brett Kimberlin created a pirate-themed website called the Bloggers Offense Fund. That led to his being referred to as The Dread Pirate Kimberlin. Eleven years ago today, I posted Dread Pirates Compared–Roberts v. #BrettKimberlin.
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The Dread Pirate Roberts, so the story goes, is a pirate of near-mythical reputation, someone feared across the seven seas for his ruthlessness and swordfighting prowess, and who is well known for taking no prisoners. Ships immediately surrender and give up their cargos rather than be captured, a fate they imagine to be certain death.
The Dread Pirate Kimberlin is more like a legend in his own mind, a pretender who wishes to be feared for his ruthlessness and legal ability and to be known for vanquishing all comers in court. Critics, he thinks, should immediately stop telling the truth about him and give up their First Amendment rights at his command.
It turns out that Dread Pirate Kimberlin’s legal acumen seems to be as fictional as Dread Pirate Roberts’ existence. And no one will surrender to Dread Pirate Kimberlin.
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As the mockery continued, Pirate became interchangeable with Pro-Se, Performer, Protestor, Protector, Perjurer, etc., and when Kimberlin failed to pay court-ordered sanction, Dread morphed into Deadbeat.
BTW, The Deadbeat Pusher Kimberlin is still the Speedway Bomber.
The chief virtue that language can have is clearness, and nothing detracts from it so much as the use of unfamiliar words.
—Hippocrates
Don’t put anything on the Internet that you don’t want other people to find.
I think so, Brain … but even if they were doing an animated remake of Barbie, I don’t think they’d consider either of us for Ken.
The Global Warming Climate Change Scam is falling apart in the face of evidence. The usual suspects are displeased.
The globular star cluster Terzan 12 is an excellent example of how the dust in space affects starlight coming from background objects. The location of this globular cluster, deep in the Milky Way in the constellation Sagittarius about 15,000 light-years away, means that it is shrouded in gas and dust which absorb its starlight. Intervening dust particles between Earth and the cluster to scatter blue light, so mostly the redder wavelengths make it to Earth, and interstellar dust clouds are inconsistent causing parts of the cluster look redder than others.
Image Credit: NASA / ESA
This episode of Blognet first ran nine years ago today.
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MUSIC: Theme. Intro and fade under.
NARRATOR: Ladies and gentlemen, the story you are about to hear is true. The names have been changed to protect the innocent.
MUSIC: Up, then under …
NARRATOR: You’re a Detective Sergeant. You’re assigned to Internet Detail. A group of bloggers has been writing about the activities of a paroled domestic terrorist and his associates. He, in turn, had been seen stalking some of those bloggers, and photographs related to that stalking had been posted on the Internet. Your job … connect the dots.
MUSIC: Up then under …
ANNOUNCER: Blognet … the documented drama of an actual case. For the next few minutes, in cooperation with the Twitter Town Sheriff’s Department, you will travel step by step on the side of the good guys through an actual case transcribed from official files. From beginning to end, from crime to punishment, Blognet is the story of the good guys in action.
MUSIC: Up and out. Continue reading
As a rule, the more bizarre a thing is, the less mysterious it proves to be.
—Sherlock Holmes
I think so, Brain … but if Time and Tide wait for no man, we could switch to Newsweek and Cheer.