- Issue demands. Be audacious and demand it right now. By making demands of someone, you put yourself in their league; hence, the more important the person you demand from, the more important you look. Down side: You look pathetic if the person ignores you, or makes a joke about you.
- Give yourself an important title. Call yourself a lieutenant, a grand jury foreman or a journalist. Extra credit if you call yourself something with a science-sounding title like “forensic document examiner.” Down side: You look pathetic when people notice that you haven’t earned the title.
- Create a fancy web site. Lots of folks judge a book by its cover. Use bold graphics and popular symbols. Down side: You look pathetic when someone checks your site’s ratings and they are like 5 millionth in the US.
- Start a movement. Think big. Call for 1,000,000 people to march on Washington DC. Throw in some demands. Down side: You look pathetic when nobody but you and your cousin Vern show up.
- Claim that you are on a first name basis with God. You really look important to the folks who are impressed by that kind of thing.
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An Vern only showed up because he was hiding from Earnest!
Call for 1,000,000 people to march on Washington DC.
I actually saw a post on facebook lamenting the fact that the MSM has ignored the 1.6 million motorcycles that were in DC last week.
Wear a Chef’s hat to make people believe that you are an expert in soy. 😮
Actually, Vern couldn’t make bail and won’t be attending after all.
All 4 of these happened on the Mike Volin show tonight.
In addition to the four already described, I would add, “Claim that your actions are approved by God, and those who disagree with you are in league with Satan.” See for example, Bobby Powell’s latest post, “Satan’s Seat: Obama The Antichrist And The Abomination Of Desolation” http://bobpowell.blogspot.com/
Hell, I’m just gonna show up at random functions, for no apparent reason, and do that.
6. Claim you’ve discovered something sensational that was “forgotten”, “long lost”, “buried” or even “covered up”. Down side: people may not believe you know more about a subject than all experts from the last 200 years.
*sigh* Why do people keep saying Obama is the anti-Christ? He’s NOT Jewish.
Hey Bobby: I am the anti-Christ.
-I’m Jewish
-I’m male
-I put my Angel and Max ahead of people
Got it?
Here’s my favorite, keeping the tradition of televangelists: “Video Evidence Of Miraculous Healing; Reading Online Prayers Blesses Cancer Victim”
So keep those PayPal donations coming in.
Yeah, but some birthers believe Obama’s real parents are Golda Meir and Sammy Davis, Jr., so then it would all work out.
Claim 7: Do like Larry Klayman and hold a citizens’ grand jury
http://citizensgrandjury.com/
They’re not?! Uh, oh.
I found out why the military coup fell apart. The leader – everyone knows who he is – printed a gun with his 3D printer. When he tested the gun, it exploded and now this patriotic American is a basket case.
I’m sure Bobby Powell will be along to deny this, which will only prove my story correct.
Update: Military coup halted. Complete story:
http://newyorkleftist.blogspot.com/2013/09/report-military-coup-called-off.html
As I said last night many of these traits showed up last night on the Mike Vollin show: http://www.blogtalkradio.com/wheresobamasbirthcertificate/2013/09/21/guest-sharon-rondeau-from-the-post-email-reveals-new-info
Kerchner was on as well as Sharon Rondeau. These people are getting more and more desperate as you can tell by the vile hatred the spew not just about Obama but those who correct their falsehoods. Apparently they think Zullo is coming after the Obots who are a “lawyer cabal”. Apparently we’re all communist and yet “hitlerian”, we hate the constitution, we want this country ruined, etc.
They start out making demands that Obama turn over his real birth certificate for forensic examination but then say that doesn’t seem to matter because Obama’s father wasn’t a citizen. They talked about Obama refusing to give money to charity by being involved in Trump’s phony bribe. They went on about the selective service.
Zullo has been given the title of commander and lt. Sharon last week bumped him up saying he was a former homicide detective in a city that had one homicide during the period Zullo supposedly worked there.
They create “fancy websites”. Okay doc this isn’t particularly true no birther website I’ve seen can be considered fancy for anytime in the last 20 years. They’re using mostly 20 year old website design. But boy do they have websites. Vollin trotted out his website no less than 10 times on the show.
Vollin claims he started a movement with the sheriff’s kits and the overpasses nonsense. He then pumped another rally of truckers that supposedly will happen. These people have lost all sense of reality.
What a dilemma: I couldn’t choose between
a. “Not true:the doctor says it was definitely the Ex-Lax”, and
b. “Not terribly impressive: I have yet to hear of a single recipient who succeeded in assembling a sheriff”.
Sheriff kit includes:
Adjustable fat suit x 1
Sheriff badge x 1
Deputy badge x 4 *morons sold separately*
Unwarranted sense of self-importance x1
Instructional DVD of looking intimidating for photo-ops x1
Now I got my wires crossed and accidentally ordered the Omar Sharif kit, which includes:
Chin dimpler x1
Mustache shaping template x1
Golden Globe award x2
Mad bridge playing skills x1
Dr Kenn,
“These people have lost all sense of reality.”
The Birthers have reached the point of uncontrollable panic. Nothing is working for them because their foundation is built on lies. One lie leads to another and eventually their case implodes on their lack of substance and rational honest thought. These people are quickly sinking on the S.S. Zullo.
No amount of VIPs or Paypal donations can save them now.
I disagree: there are probably some among the promoters of the myth who are panicking, but the vast majority of the suckers have long since debarked the SS Zullo, into a land where the forgery is “a proven fact”, and the rather-technical debunking won’t dissuade most of them. They’ve already gotten past the exposure of the CCP’s incompetence in the “African Anachronism”, and their outright dishonesty in the “Coding Caper”. Unless there’s a really dramatic “explosion” (such as a fraud prosecution), they won’t even look back to notice the sinking.
Their focus now is on explaining how the Dark Forces of the Conspiracy (be they “NWO”, the MSM, or the ever-popular “Jewish Bankers”) are keeping The Ignorant Masses from seeing The Sacred Truth. At ORYR, you can see them pushing silliness like “false flag attacks” and “the Newtown/Boston/Navy Yard hoax”. They can live off that for years without the help of the CCP, PeePee Simmons, et al., just as others have before them.
But the good news, as I told NBC recently, is that the Xerox evidence _has_ torpedoed the SS Zullo, and they won’t be able to get any Congressional or court hearings for their nonsense. And the birthers, lacking even the apperance of credible evidence, will get pushed even further to the lunatic fringe in the public’s perception.
RT:
“But the good news, as I told NBC recently, is that the Xerox evidence _has_ torpedoed the SS Zullo, and they won’t be able to get any Congressional or court hearings for their nonsense. And the birthers, lacking even the apperance of credible evidence, will get pushed even further to the lunatic fringe in the public’s perception.”
Are you understanding any of this Pastor Gallups? Hmmmmm?
OK, I definitely got my wires crossed here. I could have sworn it was an “orthodontist coven.”
On a completely unrelated note, does anyone want a great deal on a few cases of rubber bands and some brooms, before I put them up on Craigslist?
This reminded me of the funny names the English language uses for groups of animals:
http://www.thealmightyguru.com/Pointless/AnimalGroups.html
We don’t have one for Birthers.
I humbly submit “A molestation of birthers.”
Hmmm, I tend to think of “molestation of birthers” as more of a “hobby” than “a collective noun” 😉
I thought about terms like “misunderstanding”, “incomprehension” or “failure”, but those are too likely to turn up in ordinary descriptions.
How ’bout “a re-election of birthers”?
A “bigot” of Birthers
A “lie” of Birthers
A “delusion” of Birthers
A “conspiracy” of Birthers
A “threat” of Birthers
A “podcast” of Birthers
An “Orly” of Birthers
A “stain” of Birthers
A “coup” of Birthers
A “logorreah” of Birthers
A “Putzie” of Birthers
A “Bitter” of Birthers
They just write themselves….. 😎
Took me years to finally learn what “A Murder of Crows” actually means (though the title may have been deliberately ambiguous). Make that the second set of terms I never bothered to learn completely (along with the names of all fruits and vegetables).
I could use some rubber bands for my immortality experiments. (Who gets the reference?)
I do like “a stain of birthers” and “a logorrhea of birthers”.
Upon reflection, I wish to withdraw my original nomination, in favor of “An anydaynow of birthers”.
Possible additions might include…..
A “Scream” of Birthers
A “Bellowing” of Birthers
An “Infection” of Birthers
A “Seep” if Birthers
A “Superation” of Birthers
A “Piteousness/Pitiful” of Birthers
A “Deceit” of Birthers
Too hoopy for me.
You’re a frood. 😉
I’m in favor of A “stupid” of Birthers.
What abut
A “Grotesquerie” of Birthers…….
A “Screech” of Birthers …
That one is attractive, but I lean towards “a paranoia of birthers.”
and…
A Flailing of Birthers
or…
A Preposterance of Birthers
or (my favorite)…
A ShitSack of Birthers
An idiocy of Birthers.
A “Scam of Birthers”?
An “Irrelevancy of Birthers”?
A “Hokum of Birthers”?
A “Bunkum of Birthers”?
A “Steaming Pile of Birthers”?
Sorry every time I hit submit, I think of another one.
I do but then I know where my towel is.
Before I scrolled down I had also come up with a “stupidity” of birthers but how about a “confabulation” of birthers?
A discombobulation of birthers.
A schmock of birthers.
A hoople of birthers.
I’m surprised we haven’t had a set of comments by Blue Falcon over at ORYR about how all we Obits must be sweating bullets ’cause we are calling them names.
A “Drool” of Birthers
A “Eructation” of Birthers
I think they’re distracted by birther report’s new layout, but its the same old dog turd in a shiny new wrapper.
Maybe Orly will follow suit. I think her site would look good with a nice big “404 Error. This site cannot be found!” replacing the current mess of owl screeching and malware.
“Call for 1,000,000 people to march on Washington DC”
The clock has started running. Klayman just set a date: November 19. Invest in popcorn futures now.
http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/conservative-attorney-larry-klayman-sets-date-for-coup-against-obama
Klayman thinks we should look toward Egypt to see real democracy in action. Maybe I’ll send him my latest book, “Republic – The Rich History of Liberal Democracy in Egypt from 1953 to 2007.”
It’s not a long book; all I have so far is the title…
bada-bing
What about an “Asylum of Birthers”.
Is that one taken yet?
I wonder how Klayman’s would-be deposers would react to the realization that he’s luring them into a “gun-free zone”, near large numbers of soldiers who’ve passed the “Obama litmus test” of swearing they’re cool with shooting Americans?
Not to mention that they’re bound to be at least one FEMA camp in the area.
Someone should check the PDFs of his court filings for multiple layers…
I thought maybe a “million of birthers” (a group of 12).