Patterico's Pontifications

10/10/2010

10-10-10!

Filed under: General — Patterico @ 11:33 am



I planned to note the time at 10:10:10 — but then I forgot.

I have been too busy reading up on the story that Breitbart is going to smash Brad Friedman with.

It’s an interesting one. Keep your eyes fixed on Big Journalism.

57 Responses to “10-10-10!”

  1. someone pointed out that 10 10 10, if you treat that as a binary number (101010) is translated into base 10 as 42.

    So today we shall discover the meaning of life, the universe and everything. Or our planet will be bulldozed. One of the two.

    (bragging rights to the first person who gets my bad jokes, here.)

    Aaron Worthing (f97997)

  2. btw, speaking of absurd british humor, i find a monty python connection in the bizzarro story of how men in spain are being given a hour per day away from work as “breastfeeding leave.”

    http://allergic2bull.blogspot.com/2010/10/life-imitates-monty-python-example-475.html

    Aaron Worthing (f97997)

  3. Something in the air tonight?

    daleyrocks (940075)

  4. This is called many things: the powers of ten, Eames Day, 42 Day, etc. Some are simply calling 10/10/1910 day, or ten days Diez Diez. It’s one of those rare calendar that nobody really knows how to explain, but for some reason, we are all fascinated by it.
    10/10/10 http://apusa.us/101010-3-4051/

    Zahra Khan (627cd4)

  5. @Aaron Worthing..

    Those are so much jokes as allusions to the Hitchhiker’s Guide

    beedubya (46b990)

  6. Swamp gas?

    Old Coot (ac0ff6)

  7. daleyrocks, Phil Collins?

    SPQR (26be8b)

  8. beed

    we have a winner. 🙂

    Aaron Worthing (f97997)

  9. The Metric System!

    AD-RtR/OS! (ba4174)

  10. Brad who?

    Dmac (84da91)

  11. SPQR – I meant the post, not the song.

    daleyrocks (940075)

  12. daleyrocks, you sure you weren’t singing it?

    SPQR (26be8b)

  13. SPQR – Might could be.

    daleyrocks (940075)

  14. Not only 10-10-10 but Oct 2010 has 5 Fridays, 5 Saturdays and 5 Sundays which occur in something over 500 years. If you had a job the 5 Fridays might come in handy.

    Scrapiron (4e0dda)

  15. Well, at 10/10/10 10:10 I took my family for brunch at Connie’s, on Harlem and Burlington. I ordered a Bloody Mary and was told “Sorry, no liquor before 12:00”. 😉

    nk (db4a41)

  16. Scrapiron, it is much rarer than that. Try 823 years!

    Gazzer (e12182)

  17. Scrapiron, it is much rarer than that. Try 823 years!

    That doesn’t make any sense at all. Any year where October begins on a Friday would have 5 Fridays, 5 Saturdays, and 5 Sundays. And any year when a 31-day month (January, March, May, July, August, October, December) began on a Friday, that month would have 5 Fridays, Saturdays, and Sundays.

    You have to figure that October 1st would fall on a Friday about once every 7 years, because there are only 7 days of the week. In fact, the next time October 1st is a Friday will be (drumroll, please) 2021…a mere 11 years from now.

    Some Chump (e84e27)

  18. Some Chump is right

    I’m laughing at how this topic has shown up on social network sites a bunch of times today. Another one of those fake rumor jokes, I guess.

    Dustin (b54cdc)

  19. SPQR – Not Phil Collins, but perhaps appropriate mood music. Sort of related vibe.

    daleyrocks (940075)

  20. Sometimes I think the numeracy rate in the US is about 7%. And sometimes I’m less optimistic.

    Kevin M (298030)

  21. D’oh! Silly me. I heard the 823 years on the radio and fell for it, even though on its face it is obviously ludicrous. Silly me. I am usually so cynical.

    Gazzer (2ef493)

  22. Actually, my old man used to save his old calendars and recycle them every so often.

    I need to find out if they’re still laying around somewhere. It would be pretty awesome to have a current calendar even though the year is from the 1970s. Absurd levels of cheapskatery are quite chic during the dempression, you know.

    Dustin (b54cdc)

  23. as semi verification, big journalism is linking to this post… Which i think is termed a “reach around.”

    Aaron Worthing (e7d72e)

  24. Btw, off topic, but in the NOVA congressional race, it is Connolly the incumbant v. Fimian the challenger. Fimian suggested a severe pay cut for congress, followed by a big bonus if they actually balance the budget.

    So Connolly says it is outrageous to give congress a bonus for “doing its job.”

    Well, if balancing the budge is Congresses’ job, then Connolly has not done it, Congress has not done it, and in fact Connolly apparently doesn’t even know how to do it.

    http://allergic2bull.blogspot.com/2010/10/gerry-connolly-admits-he-is-not-doing.html

    Also, apparently this is my most viewed post of all time: http://allergic2bull.blogspot.com/2010/10/quote-of-day-or-how-not-to-show-your.html

    Aaron Worthing (e7d72e)

  25. That is a damn good idea of Fimian.

    Ya know, I never do like these “I will forgo my salary” pledges. That’s unfair to middle class citizens running for office. Millionaires and corrupt can afford to forgo a check, but it’s not cheap to live in DC. This idea of a minimal paycheck and a bonus for a balanced budget sounds like a great idea. I’d even take it a step further with a few of their fringe benefits beyond pay.

    Connolly can puff his chest up about balancing the budget when he’s done that.

    Dustin (b54cdc)

  26. Dustin

    i actually contacted the fimian campaign, said that if they were smart they would play the clip of connolly asking if it is possible to balance the budget by spending cuts alone.

    Um, the answer is YES.

    I used to be in their district. Fimian has been running for office constantly about as long as i have been in NoVa, and Connolly would always defeats him. Can’t say how good Fimian would be, but how much worse could he be?

    Aaron Worthing (e7d72e)

  27. He’s run once before, Aaron, this is the first time that Connelly is up for reelect, I know these last two years have felt like a decade but come on now.

    ian cormac (6709ab)

  28. Having Dana Loesch as the new managing editor of Big Journalism is neat.

    SPQR (26be8b)

  29. Hello everyone,

    I have been in contact with Patterico. I’ve tried to help him out with some links and context with the BradBlog-Kimberlin story.

    I’d like to thank Patterico for showing me respect and keeping our profound, ideological differences out of the discussion. When the Breitbart story finally appears, I may decide to join the dialogue here. I’m not saying I am all that and a bag of chips, but I have been aware of this story for a long time. Ye all might appreciate my schtick concerning this situation. Myself and Patterico agree that the truth matters more than any political differences. I humbly ask that folks respect I am a lefty, and I will likewise respect you’re from the opposite side.

    My visit here will only be in relation to our mutual interest in trying to figure out Velvet Revolution and Brad’s close relationship with the Speedway Bomber.

    I want to thank Dustin for asking Brad about Brett Kimberlin at BradBlog. He figured out as I have that Friedman has installed software which blocks any mention of Brett Kimberlin’s name.

    I also agree with Dustin that Brad’s deleting of my recent comment appears to have been a lame attempt to make it seem myself and Dustin are the same person.

    This is the thing. I am proud of having made some original discoveries. However, I admit I did not uncover everything and have tried to explain where information has been located at various times.

    An important point that needs to be made is that this story transcends who I am in real life. Brad and crones like Larisa Alexandrovna try to spin any critique of their internet activities as being from one or a few people working together. Finally, I don’t think Brad will acknowledge the Breitbart piece when it is finally published. I don’t think he will ever come clean on Brett Kimberlin.

    Larisa Alexandrovna never retracted the lies she posted about Brett at Democratic Underground. I don’t see Brad going anywhere near the astroturfed lie that Brett was an exonerated, ex-political prisoner who won a huge settlement from the US government. Brad blogs in the realm of plausible deniabilty or card stacking. Of course he doesn’t want the zeitgeist to know that Brett has been the brains behind Velvet Revolution with Brad acting as the clean-cut face man. Thus I predict there won’t be much if any reaction to the looming Breitbart piece, despite Brad apparently having mentioned the name Breitbart hundreds of times over the last year or two. The implied spin will be that you guys are raging teanuts, and I am a psychotic stalker. I believe this will be implied through his silence. He’s always on the run. He’s always working on a big story. He’s the intrepid muckraker. Even if comments remain, like Dustin’s appears to be, Brad has that plausible deniability of why he’s not responding. He’s too busy to read and respond to every comment.

    He definitely does not want it well-known how much Brett Kimberlin is responsible for Velvet Revolution. Heck, Brett’s been rarely mentioned at all at VR itself. I believe that Brett has only somewhat emerged the last couple years, because he was outed as VR’s President in late 2006 on that DU thread. Time Magazine also ran an article a few years back disclosing this along with the fact that Brad serves as the face. This is a big story, and I’m glad Breitbart and Patterico are covering it, even if we have major differences in world views.

    Prepostericity (d6554a)

  30. Prepostericity – I have never trusted anything Larissa wrote. Several years ago, she and Scary Larry Johnson hounded a young American blogger into stopping his blog from exposing their lies by intimidating his family, even though he was located overseas.

    daleyrocks (940075)

  31. This is the piece you are referring to;

    http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1574161-1,00.html

    ian cormac (6709ab)

  32. You all are racists that endorae cheating at the ballot box by electronic means. And you prolly think unemployment payments are not stimulus.

    JD (d9926c)

  33. I’ve been curious whether Velvet Revolution has ever paid off on any of its multi-hundred thousand dollar bounties for information or even if they have the capacity to pay off on them, not having seen a Form 990.

    daleyrocks (940075)

  34. 15. Well, at 10/10/10 10:10 I took my family for brunch at Connie’s, on Harlem and Burlington. I ordered a Bloody Mary and was told “Sorry, no liquor before 12:00″.
    Comment by nk — 10/10/2010 @ 4:38 pm

    All you need to do is wait another 2 years, 23 hours, and 42 minutes.

    MD in Philly (cac12c)

  35. okay, i am new to even knowing what this bradblog thing is all about but… if you guys haven’t already, you probably want to do some screen captures of bradblog.

    I mean Dustin asked him if he was associated with a certain person, and well, these posts seems to answer the question pretty clearly in the affirmative.

    http://www.bradblog.com/?p=5493

    http://www.bradblog.com/?p=4617

    i will do my screencap pretty soon.

    And this is how you can search his site for references to a certain someone.

    Aaron Worthing (e7d72e)

  36. Why all the hippie punching? Dope smuggling peaceniks are great to have as buddies.

    JD (b0d0ea)

  37. JD

    more than that. domestic terrorist. set off something like 7 bombs.

    Aaron Worthing (e7d72e)

  38. I got into reading forum archives. That’s how I know what you’re referring to, daleyrocks. I wasn’t anywhere near this milieu until years after the fact.

    I think you’re talking about that dude named Seixon. I never got to read what happened there and had to rely on second hand threads at other blogs. I probably even read one or two here a few years ago.

    The problem is this has to be information overload for most people. There’s a lot of name dropping. A lot of the available archives contain a lot of chatter that one’s better off scrolling past.

    For disclosure purposes, here’s how I got into it. I had made contact with the blogger known as John Dean and BozosRnotforbush. I’m going by memory, so please forgive me if I misspell a name or get anything a bit wrong. It’s not intentional.

    I had first learned of John at a place called CitizenSpook. I started blogging when Plamegate was in full bloom, right before Libby was the lone indictment.

    I got interested in the concept of there being internet fakes. I was at this place run by a dude named Fintan Dunne. Soon enough I realised that guy was off-kilter. John had warned me about that, so when it turned out to be true, I put a check in the positive side for John Dean. (This is not the famous John Dean from the Watergate story.)

    Long story short, the Director of the Election Science Institute turned out to be one of Dunne’s main bloggers. Fintan was calling Brad and Bev Harris CIA internet fakes. I thought Brad would like to know about Mr. Hertzberg. John got me into direct contact with him. Brad gave me the impression I could eventually be a guest blogger at BradBlog. I thought I had finally found a blogging home. When Brad ignored the Hertzberg story, it set off alarms with my bullshite radar. I admit to losing my cool at the time. I got frustrated. I started to “cybersleuth” Brad. I searched for threads on Velvet Revolution. When I found the DU thread by troubleinwinter titled, “Uh-oh… THIS GUY!,” it was mind blowing. Then it became a search on Brett.

    I made contact with Mark Singer of The New Yorker, the journalist Larisa had described as wetting his pants. He was gracious enough to send me a copy of his book Citizen K.

    The problem with the Kimberlin story is that the internet truly didn’t take off until years after Singer’s book was published in 1996. If people can get a copy of that, they will understand better Brett’s capacity for lying. It fits in with how Velvet Revolution has generated some of the most awkward stories of all time centered around black box voting.

    I agree that the elctronic voting machines are no good, because there is no way to do recounts. There is no paper trail. The hanging and pregnant chads of 2000 were a mess, but at least there was something to look at and try recounts.

    There is basically a crucial difference between advocating against electronic voting machines with proving elections have been altered by it. Brad and Brett took a real issue and distorted it. It’s akin to what Brad has done with the ACORN story. While there hasn’t from my knowledge been one conviction of ACORN for voter fraud, there have been numerous instances of voter registration fraud by ACORN. But Brad twists it into being a non-story. It fits his image as being the leader in the movement for authentic elections. I actually feel awkward discussing ACORN. I’m sure many here think they have been convicted of voter fraud. Of course registration fraud is only a step away from actual voter fraud. Though I am of the impression ACORN’s problems had more to do with trying to meet quotas than any actual effort to illegally swing election results.

    I was ready to give up on the internet completely, but then the “Michael Connell Threatened by Karl Rove” hoax emerged. There is too much on that to go into it here. But basically that is where my blogging interests led to. I signed up as Prepostericity at Democratic Underground as a zombie. I had a successful thread going exposing Brett Kimberlin. I was on top of the zeitgeist. I was pounding on these people on their own turf. The thread and all the posts were deleted.

    Then I went to Daily Kos. Uhm, sorry for going into me, me, me mode. I just want to make it clear I do not believe in the use of sock puppets. Zombie accounts are a whole other matter, and I think they are morally acceptable for folks to try when they have been unfairly censored and banned from websites.

    Velvet Revolution’s whistleblower schtick hasn’t generated one indictment for election fraud. I think there is a need to uncover their books. There are certain things we can only speculate. We know for example that wealthy philanthropist Lori Grace of the Oliver Grace family has financially helped Velvet Revolution. However, we don’t know how much she has donated. We have no record of VR’s expenses versus how much they have fundraised. We can only imagine how much money Brett and Brad have pocketed. Maybe they are only guilty of blogging crazy stories. Maybe they should be investigated for fraud. I’d like to know the truth.

    I think it can be figured out, but only by those with the means and knowledge of how to investigate such things in real life.

    What we have is merely a game of gotchas. Until Velvet Revolution’s books are looked at, I guess the only good coming out of this is perhaps we are saving good-hearted but naive people from throwing away their money on unsubstantiated, Grade A tinfoil.

    Prepostericity (d6554a)

  39. Aaron, I just covered that recent attempt by Dustin at my humble blog along with screenshots. I guess it’s my fault Brad installed software to block any mention of Brett’s name. Brad’s problem is he has waited too long to come clean. I think he will ignore the Breitbart feature when it comes out. I mean, he’ll probably read it, but he won’t talk about it on his own turf. Maybe he’ll prove me wrong, but I don’t see how it serves his interests to discuss Brett Kimberlin at this point. It’s kind of late in the game for a real disclosure. Get this. VR has a campaign against domestic terrorism. VR’s founder was convicted of domestic terrorism but has had the nerve to portray himself as an exonerated, ex-political prisoner.

    Prepostericity (d6554a)

  40. Those two screenshots are accesible from Dustin’s link, but curiously not from your blog,

    ian cormac (6709ab)

  41. pre

    i am talking about screenshots where Brad explicitly calls the guy his buddy and that they co-founded that organization. i haven’t seen that on your blog, yet, but i admit i didn’t read too many posts there. but those two links i gave say exactly that. there is no reasonable question on the subject: they are associates, even buddies.

    Aaron Worthing (e7d72e)

  42. So I meant your link Aaron, but it’s a more subrosa
    version of how Ayers gained respectability

    ian cormac (6709ab)

  43. ian

    yeah, i thought of ayers, too. I honestly wonder how much brad will be even embarrassed by this, given the president’s relationship with ayers. but we will see, and the evidence is a little more damning here. Obama didn’t call the terrorist his buddy, as far as we know.

    that being said, i have the screenshot, if needed. i just have a feeling that all these old references to the terrorist will suddenly disappear. And maybe people’s capacity for outrage will pleasantly surprise me.

    Aaron Worthing (e7d72e)

  44. No he was just a partner on two of his own executive
    experiences, the CAC and that other gun control related foundation, and they lived in the same neighborhood, but other than, just folk

    ian cormac (6709ab)

  45. ian

    i know, i know. ayers should have been a bigger problem for obama. that is why i am worried this won’t be a big enough problem for brad.

    Aaron Worthing (e7d72e)

  46. Features and bugs, A.W., features and bugs.

    JD (d606fc)

  47. I had one of my posts deleted and am wondering why. Well, that wraps it up then for my participation on this blog.

    Prepostericity (d6554a)

  48. Oops, somehow it’s back, post #40. Must be a glitch. or maybe it went into moderation for being too long.

    Prepostericity (d6554a)

  49. Yeah, I see the new article is out. Someone better attend to making popcorn.

    Prepostericity (d6554a)

  50. Bradblog could not be reached for comment. He is too busy collaborating with his actual bombmaking terrorist buddy to reply.

    JD (431886)

  51. man, bradblog is taking forever to load. lol

    Aaron Worthing (e7d72e)

  52. timmah is sure to be along to defend bradblog.

    JD (431886)

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