Posing as a reporter from a San Francisco newspaper, Deb Frisch — probably by going through the entirety of the Baltimore phone book, cold calling everyone with my last name [update: looks like she paid for the info]– located my mother this evening, and threatened her and the rest of my family over the phone. She mentioned me and my son by name, and spewed a stream of profanities that had my mother very upset. She’s also posted my mother’s phone number and address on the web, along with that of my brother and sister. I’ve contacted Blogspot and requested that they remove the offending post(s).

I’m tired of dicking around waiting for Eugene, OR to do anything about this vile and deranged sack of uglycrazy, so in the meantime, if you have any personal information on her you’d care to share with me, please email. For instance, I know that she lives at 86474 N Modesto DR in Eugene, but I don’t have a phone number for her. I’d very much like to contact her parents and her sister so that they can intervene and get her the help she so clearly needs.

My mother, who is in her 70s and in bad health, will be contacting the Lane County DA tomorrow and filing yet another complaint against Frisch. But as we all realize four + years into this — with countless complaints and arrests in the interim — the likelihood that the law or courts in Oregon will stop her from harassing and threatening anyone other than them is vanishingly small. Otherwise she’d be locked away by now.

It’s time to take other measures, I guess. Like, perhaps, convincing her family to have her evaluated before she hurts herself or someone else. I won’t have my family threatened again.

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Here are Frisch’s family members. More to follow:

* Allen D. Frisch (age 69)
* Andrew M Frisch
* Lisa Beth Frisch (Age 43)
* Susan C Frisch (Age 67)

And so long as we’re in to posting family info:

858-350-1232 Allen and Susan Frisch, 319 Punta Baja, Del Mar, CA (Mom and Dad. Must be so proud!)
650-508-0829 Andrew Frisch 552 Alameda De Las Pulgas, San Carlos, CA (brother)
858-610-2952 Lisa Beth Frisch San Diego, CA (sister) Husband is Michael Mee. 4279 Corte Favor, San Diego, CA

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more: on recent court documents, Frisch listed her cell number as 541-520-2929.

update: cell phone disconnected.

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update 2: Police report in Baltimore being filed. Telephonic harassment.

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update 3: Waste of time. Keep in mind I have a permanent restraining order against her — she made veiled threats against my son back when he was just 2-years old — and that she’s been convicted of stalking and harassment at least twice since then. Plus, she’s on probation for assault and stalking.

But none of that matters when the trade off is having to file some paper work, right officer?

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update 4: Frisch is in one of her manic phases, putting up posts, taking them down, putting up new posts, etc.

For my part, I’ve put her entire family on speed-dial.

The court ordered her off the booze. She was also directed not to post about me or my family. Clearly, she’s not taking those mandates seriously. She hasn’t had a job in 4 years. Her family should stop enabling her (somebody continues to pay her bills) — particularly when the fallout is the misery of others who don’t deserve to be coated in their daughter’s/sibling’s filth. So long as she’s inviting people to call or visit my family, I’m determined to return the favor. After all, maybe they can help her if they know she’s acting out yet again — especially with a court date for numerous probation violations just a couple weeks away.

(more…)

…stupid.

“There would appear — all else being equal — to be a case for further action,” Bernanke said at a conference sponsored by the Boston Federal Reserve Bank.

I love the stink of faux understatement in the morning.

In a nation of severely divided and checked power, abrogating the most important power always ends well.

NUTTER!

More: A pesky radical conspiratorialist flat-earther from gold-bugger-nutter think tank CATO somehow finds it in himself to raise his hand in polite company and call for reform.  Our microphones catch the unbeliever in mid-remark:

As the years went by, Congress asked the Fed to perform more and more functions: maintaining high employment, economic growth, price stability, interest-rate stability, financial market stability and exchange-rate stability. Often policies intended to fulfill one objective conflicted with other objectives. Multiple objectives made the Fed’s policies more unpredictable, since private sector employers didn’t know which objective might be a top priority — and for how long.

It was especially difficult to anticipate what the Fed might do, because apparently officials couldn’t agree on rules to guide their policies. Meltzer reported that one Fed governor “received hundreds of pages of material, but none explained how the Federal Reserve made decisions. There was no written record and no agreement among the participants.”

The tape, it does not lie!

(h/t Monty)

Why am I not surprised?

Reuters

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – New claims for jobless benefits unexpectedly rose last week, hardening the view the central bank will pump more money into the economy in hopes of boosting growth and lowering unemployment.

At the same time, record-high imports from China helped push the U.S. trade deficit wider in August, which could drag on U.S. growth and increase international tensions over trade and currency policy.

“We are basically plodding along at subpar growth. Overall, the whole data set is disappointing,” said Omair Sharif, an economist with RBS Securities in Stamford, Connecticut.

Heckuva job, Barry!

Chrissy “Tingle” Matthews and Dick Trumka dabbling in crude cartoons

RICHARD TRUMKA: [...]But, but it brings up two other issues I think you have to look at it, Chris. One we’re very, very elated that these miners are safe. Second of all we have to thank the rescue workers that got them there and third, it’s the lack of health and safety in the mines of the world, doesn’t know boundaries, because you have to have good laws that are – and you have to have the people with the will to enforce them and the resources to get it done and we don’t have that in the mining industry.[...]

CHRIS MATTHEWS: Okay let’s talk about what the…message to a lot of the people was. The message coming out of the Tea Party people, and lot of them are good people, is every man for himself, basically. “No more taxes, no more government, no more everything. No more safety net. No more health care for everybody. Everybody just get out there, make your buck, save it, screw the government, move on.” Right?

RICHARD TRUMKA: Yeah.

MATTHEWS: You know these people, if they were every man for himself down in that mine they wouldn’t have gotten out.

TRUMKA: That’s exactly right.

MATTHEWS: They would have been killing each other after about two days. This is a story of how people can work together, the people who were down there for two months. The people who were above ground from all over the world, using state of the art equipment not to get rid of the need for manpower but to save manpower in this case.

From one of the Koskiddies

This is the ultimate example of humanity racing to better and save its own. [...]

The GOP thinks their mantra of “less government, less taxes” is still going to work. It might work in getting Republicans into office, but it certainly will not succeed in fixing what ails us. Their overriding concern is to keep the economically endowed with the opportunity for their continuing path to riches. This would be all well and good, except this course of action, this monopoly, also entails a chiseling away at the solutions to help those with no safety net, thus widening the gap between those that have and those that do not.

One glaring issue that all these dogmatic Leftcultists ignore (and hope you don’t find out)? The mine that collapsed, the questions of why it was allowed to operate when safety issues have long been raised, is owned and run by Codelco — a Government-owned business.

Hey, I’ve got an idea! Let’s have Government-owned healthcare! Because only Government can provide true efficiency (DMV) and compassion (IRS).
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It needs to be said. The rescue of the Chilean miners is a smashing victory for free-market capitalism.

Amid the boundless human joy of the miners’ liberation, it may seem churlish to make such a claim. It is churlish. These are churlish times, and the stakes are high. [...]

those miners had been trapped a half-mile down like this 25 years ago anywhere on earth, they would be dead. What happened over the past 25 years that meant the difference between life and death for those men?

Short answer: the Center Rock drill bit.

This is the miracle bit that drilled down to the trapped miners. Center Rock Inc. is a private company in Berlin, Pa. It has 74 employees. The drill’s rig came from Schramm Inc. in West Chester, Pa. Seeing the disaster, Center Rock’s president, Brandon Fisher, called the Chileans to offer his drill. Chile accepted. The miners are alive. [...]

This profit = innovation dynamic was everywhere at that Chilean mine. The high-strength cable winding around the big wheel atop that simple rig is from Germany. Japan supplied the super-flexible, fiber-optic communications cable that linked the miners to the world above.

A remarkable Sept. 30 story about all this by the Journal’s Matt Moffett was a compendium of astonishing things that showed up in the Atacama Desert from the distant corners of capitalism.

Samsung of South Korea supplied a cellphone that has its own projector. Jeffrey Gabbay, the founder of Cupron Inc. in Richmond, Va., supplied socks made with copper fiber that consumed foot bacteria, and minimized odor and infection.

Chile’s health minister, Jaime Manalich, said, “I never realized that kind of thing actually existed.”

h/t The Mood in Georgia

If absence makes the heart grow fonder, why do the mice play so much when the cat is away?

Or do the Germans not want us to even ask such questions…?

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Also, ObamaCare.

Once upon a time, a local school administration spent $35M on a bright shiny new office building by the sea, when half of the students in the district were schooled in trailers. Parents were understandably upset and complained. Bureaucrats don’t like their actions being questioned, so they developed an enemies list and exacted retribution on the children of complaining parents. These parents did two things: form a class and sue the administration, and start a movement to take back the school district, by recalling some school board members and electing others. These reformers won big and now control all 7 seats on the school board.
The superintendent was indicted for the enemies list. The new board settled with the parents on the enemies list.

Time goes by, and California’s fiscal situation deteriorates. The school district needed to cut their budget. All non-union employees took a 10% pay cut, and the board asked the teacher’s union to take a 10% pay cut. The unions refused, demanding the cut be only temporary and went out on strike. They miscalculated public sentiment, however, and folded after a week long strike, a big win for the school district.

The state and national teacher’s unions, however, saw a very, very bad precedent being set and vowed to not let this victory for taxpayers stand. They have poured enormous amounts of money into purging the school board, trying to recall some candidates and trying to elect others. This is Orange County, however, and they know they cannot win as the teacher’s union. They have found some useful idiot parents (and a recent high school graduate) to act as their stalking horses, and are trying to co-opt the language of the Tea Party movement, complaining about the settlement of the enemies list lawsuit, claiming that the primary reason for the new recall is fiscal conservatism.

These existing school board members are the proto-Tea Partiers, on the front line very early in the game against the power of the public employees union. If the unions are allowed to gang up and defeat these reformers, we are all in deep trouble.

Please help.

No reason to stop the blog entirely while I continue my 4+-year battle with evil, right?

So. Boy howdy. That Obama sure is a fuck-up, ain’t he?

Discuss.

Good lord, even the lad screaming “Leave Brittany Alone” put together a more watchable video. This is so excruciatingly lame, even the use of the nasty “teabagger” slur is lost in a fit of cringing embarrassment.

Hey, AFGE? If this is any indication of your talent and judgment, let’s just say job cuts and salary adjustments are way overdue.

Yeeeech. That’s a minute of my life I’ll never have back.

Mark Halperin crafts the Obamalot death notice:

With the exception of core Obama Administration loyalists, most politically engaged elites have reached the same conclusions: the White House is in over its head, isolated, insular, arrogant and clueless about how to get along with or persuade members of Congress, the media, the business community or working-class voters. This view is held by Fox News pundits, executives and anchors at the major old-media outlets, reporters who cover the White House, Democratic and Republican congressional leaders and governors, many Democratic business people and lawyers who raised big money for Obama in 2008, and even some members of the Administration just beyond the inner circle.

On Friday, after the release of the latest bleak unemployment data — the last major jobs figures before the midterms — Obama said, “Putting the American people back to work, expanding opportunity, rebuilding the economic security of the middle class is the moral and national challenge of our time.” But elites feel the President has failed to meet that challenge and are convinced he will be unable to do so in the remainder of his term. Moreover, there is a growing perception that Obama’s decisions are causing harm — that businesses are being hurt by the Administration’s legislation and that economic recovery is stalling because of the uncertainty surrounding energy policy, health care, deficits, housing, immigration and spending.

And that sentiment is spreading. Many members of the general public appear deeply skeptical of Obama’s capacity to turn things around, especially, but not exclusively, those inclined to dislike him — Tea Partyers and John McCain voters, but also tens of millions of middle-class Americans, including quite a few who turned out for Obama in 2008.

[...]

[...] Obama has exacerbated his political problems not just by failing to enact policies that would have actually turned the economy around, but also by authorizing a series of tactical moves intended to demonize Republicans and distract from the problems at hand. He has wasted time lambasting his foes when he should have been putting forth his agenda in a clear, optimistic fashion, defending the benefits of his key decisions during the past two years (health care and the Troubled Asset Relief Program, for example) and explaining what he would do with a re-elected Democratic majority to spur growth.

Throughout the year, we have been treated to Obama-led attacks on George W. Bush and Dick Cheney, Rush Limbaugh, Congressman Joe Barton (for his odd apology to BP), John Boehner (for seeking the speakership — or was it something about an ant?) and Fox News (for everything). Suitable Democratic targets in some cases, perhaps, but not worth the time of a busy Commander in Chief. In the past few days, we have witnessed the spectacle of the President himself and his top advisers wading into allegations that Republicans are attempting to buy the election using foreign money laundered through the Chamber of Commerce, combining with Karl Rove and his wealthy backers to fund a flood of negative television commercials. Not only is this issue convoluted and far-fetched, but it also distracts from the issues voters care about, frustrating political insiders and alienating struggling citizens (not that many are following such an offbeat story line). Feinting and gibing can’t obscure those job numbers.

Campaigning — and negative campaigning, at that — is really all Obama knows.

So is it really so surprising that, when backed into a corner, Obama tries to campaign his way out of trouble, rather than doing the more difficult work of trying to find workable solutions to the economic problems his faulty policy prescriptions has helped exacerbate?

No wonder many people believe the President is actively working to destroy the US as we’ve known it and replace it with a soft-socialist state run by a cabal of liberal fascists and their bureaucratic patrons. Because even were all of this destruction accidental, you’d think by now at least Obama would have changed course, rather than resorting to proposing yet another $50-80 billion in spending, using money we don’t have to camouflage the collapse of an economy his progressive policies have all but killed.

(h/t JHo)