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Is it time for Christmas music yet? No? Oh well, have an EPIC rendition anyway.
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I just wanted to note that Helen is back, and has yet to answer any of my questions, despite the fact that she continues to ask her questions.
Helen, since you’ve established that you are old enough to remember President Roosevelt, let’s see some comment from you criticizing the expense of taking care of Fala.
Don’t like Pres. Obama’s vacation? Think he should stay in Washington 24/7? Perhaps you can re-print for us your criticism of Pres. Bush for spending more than a year at taxpayer expense in Crawford. He was there ignoring 9/11 warnings. He was on vacation ignoring Katrina warnings.
Think Lakin is a hero? But for his medical expertise (and I question his judgment) I would have given him life at Leavenworth. He can treat prisoners. I’m one of those people who needed medical treatment in the field. Lakin but real soldiers at real risk.
But why can’t you answer questions?
Where was Pres. Obama born?
On what evidence did you rely in voting for Sen. McCain and Gov. Palin that they were natural born citizens? Or was it that they are white so you don’t need evidence.
I can’t even find where I responded to “Helen’s” statement about the DOH seal. Oh, well, I’m not missing anything.
You guys are the nicest people on the ‘net. I can’t believe your patience with the nutters.
We are coming up on 10 years since Pres. Obama spoke at the national convention. My son and I watched it on tv, as I wanted to inspire him to dream big, despite living on a small island in the middle of the Pacific with a foreign dad and experience living outside the US.
I hope that world awareness becomes commonplace in the US.
Blood…
The new birthers: http://tv.yahoo.com/news/birthers-republican-ted-cruzs-presidential-eligibility-questioned-141636992.html
Maybe helen, john, scott, and the CCP should get an early start on their investigation and not wait till he’s been elected. 😆
CNN: Is Ted Cruz Eligible To Run For President?
CNN’s Athena Jones investigates if Sen. Ted Cruz is eligible to run for president. CNN says the “natural-born citizen” question is dogging Cruz. For the record, CNN said every constitutional law expert they interviewed said Cruz is a natural-born citizen and eligible to be president.
ATHENA JONES, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Hi, Wolf. The big question here is whether Ted Cruz is a natural-born citizen.
I spoke with several constitutional law experts about this today. And all of them believe that Cruz is. But it’s important to know the Constitution doesn’t define who is a natural-born citizen. And those are the only people eligible to run for president. Also I should add the Supreme Court has never ruled on this issue. (The Situation Room, August 13, 2013)
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2013/08/14/cnn_is_ted_cruz_eligible_to_run_for_president.html
“Of all the loony PROGRESSIVE subsets, the Ted Cruz birthers might be the most pathetic.” (emphasis mine)
[……]
But, let’s say you’re a diehard liberal and true-believer. The shadowy puppet masters at the Congressional Research Service aren’t going to cut it. You’ll need to hear this sad news from a source you can trust – someone whose reputation is beyond reproach.
…Someone like Wolf Blitzer and his band of ‘completely unbiased’ researchers.
[….]
Fortunately, conspiracy theorists still have one honorable man who will pick up and carry their flag: Donald Trump.
[……]
Congratulations to the LEFTIST GOONS trying to derail Ted Cruz. You’ve aligned yourself with “The Donald’s” one-man circus. How proud you must be. (emphasis mine)
http://www.caintv.com/cnn-says-ted-cruz-is-eligible
time for more caramel corn:
Oral argument in Taitz v Barack Obama, Senator Diane Feinstein and Elizabeth Emken is scheduled for Thursday, September 26, 9 am 601 West Santa Ana Blvd, Santa Ana, CA. Supporters are asked to be in court. Presence of supporters means a lot
http://www.orlytaitzesq.com/?p=430385#comments
another empty chair?
On June 21, 2013, appellant submitted a faxed notice regarding respondents’ brief having not been filed and also included was a declaration of new facts that appellant believes will weigh in favor of granting her appeal. On June 24, 2013, appellant filed the original to the fax received on June 21, 2013. The clerk of this court is DIRECTED to reject the fax received June 21, 2013, and to strike the filing of the document filed June 24, 2013, and return forthwith both documents to appellant. The court is aware of the status of respondents’ briefs and the declaration of new facts is not part of the record on appeal.
6/25/2013 No brief filed by respondent after 8.220(a)(2) notice.
http://appellatecases.courtinfo.ca.gov/search/case/dockets.cfm?dist=43&doc_id=2032227&doc_no=G047746
Just saw this on the Twitter Feed, it deserves preserving:
Yes, wingers, if the guy born in the US is NBC, then the guy born in Canada is sure as hell NBC. (of course they’re both eligible, just lampooning the tweet’s “logic”)
I believe what the winger is trying to say is, if our meritless smears were ineffective, then any similar smears on our guy must also be ineffective regardless of merit.
“If we said your guy needs a pass, and he got a pass somehow, then our guy gets a pass no matter what!”
Always 3rd grade somewhere.
The interesting thing about the comments is that I don’t know a single Obot who has argued that Ted Cruz isn’t eligible. His potential candidacy does put birthers in a bind, though. If Cruz is eligible, then Obama is eligible regardless of where he was born.
Lani,
“You guys are the nicest people on the ‘net. I can’t believe your patience with the nutters.”
I agree.
Let me share a personal story.
I don’t drink alcohol. The reason that I don’t is because of some disgusting behavior I witnessed as a young teenager from a friend of mine who got intoxicated. I made a conscious decision never to be like that.
In the same vain, looking at the birthers, I never want to be like that.
CruzConspiracy.org is available.
Rickey: The interesting thing about the comments is that I don’t know a single Obot who has argued that Ted Cruz isn’t eligible.
OH i concur which is why i posted the laurie article from “cain tv” whatever that is – i have questioned mitt & george romney, cruz, rubio, etc only for consistency and not because i believe they are ineligible – i have also questioned the vattelists due to the english translation of the french “les parents” and was told by apuzzo to “ask a french waiter” what it meant – and then the “kenyan muslim marxist socialist clown” was reduced to the forgery of a document wherein the (supposed) forger copied the same data from the original document to produce another document which thereby makes obama ineligible?
and then big-mouth, crucifix-wearing, hatred-spewing ATTORNEY coulter says we have to speak with law professors about cruz? haven’t we done that?
and now, when obots never believed obama ineligible and some, like new hair for men, trump, etc again raise the question of eligibility (for publicity), we, obots, are referred to as “loony PROGRESSIVE subsets”, “LEFTIST GOONS” and aligned with “’The Donald’s” one-man circus”? it’s incredible –
I’m still living off bootlegging money. My grandfather supported us with his liquor store.
Ok, I don’t know whether Ted Cruz is a natural born citizen, as I do not know the poliical status of his father while in Canada. And I do not know if he has received a certificate of ciizenship from the American Consul in Canada.
If you are born out of the country to one american citizen parent as that country may consider the child as a citizen of their country. or following the citizenship of the father, not the mother.
Now , if he comes in as a citizen by birth,father not a ciizen, he would have to be citizen by law, and not a native born or natural born citizen.
(2) A child born out of wedlock in a foreign country to an American citizen mother and an alien father or U.S. Citizen father gains U.S. citizenship at birth if the mother had been physically present in the United States for a continous period of 1 year prior to the child’s birth. (See 8 U.S.C. 1409(c).) The child will gain the citizenship of the father only if the laws of the nation of which the father is a citizen so provide.
So, who know what will happen as the Democrats play birther to keep him off the ballot.
The Naturalization Act of 1790 declared people born outside the country to two citizen parents NBC. Why did the Founders do that if they “knew” that “natural born” does not derive from man-made laws as you allege?
(Yes, I know, birthers love to pound on how the act was changed by its 1795 version, but it doesn’t change that fact that the Founders enacted a *law* referring to NBC. This would’ve been impossible if you were right.)
That’s just another birther invention. Just like the Democrats didn’t go birther on McCain, they won’t do it on Cruz (if he ever runs, that is). Obama birthers however would.
The “now Democrats are going birther on Cruz” is a birther invention devoid of any reality. It’s as cynical as setting fire to your neighbour’s house and claiming he did it.
Keep him *off* the ballot?
Hmmm…if I were the candidate, who would I rather run against, Ted Cruz or Chris Chistie, Ted Cruz or Jeb Bush? It might be harder to choose between Cruz and Trump, but okay, how about a Cruz/Trump ticket, yes?
Some guy on Twitter was saying something like this. I don’t know where folks get these ideas. Maybe they are projecting their own attitudes on other people. Folks on the right are the ones who are fanning out across the Internet trying to drum up an anti-Cruz birther movement. Folks on the left know he’s eligible and I think he would make a great losing Republican candidate. Just last night I told a friend that I was considering putting a Cruz sticker on my car.
Just for the record, Helen is back, and has still not answered the questions I posed.
AHAHAHAHA!
There is no reason to keep him off the ballot. As Dr. C has said before, the fundamental mechanism used to determine whether Cruz, or anyone else, should go into the White House, is called an “election.”
I am not worried that Cruz will sell us out to his wily Canuck fellow travelers, just as I am not worried that Rubio is a Batista mole, or that Bobby Jindal owes any kind of fealty to India.
No, they all bother me for completely different reasons, but I’m not the slightest bit interested in making crap up to deny them their chance to crash and burn on the national stage.
Mr. Helen, I am so glad this keeps your mind occupied, and distracted from engaging in more destructive behaviors.
Trivia fact:
The phrase “magic bullet” comes from JFK assassination conspiracy theories.
President Obama singing “Made in the USA”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FWLFG-nffEY
Another way to drive birthers nuts! 😆
That doesn’t bother me, what will bother me is the influx of Canadians being bused down from Canada by Cruz to vote for their native son. Now that would would worry me. 😀
Seminal
Birtherism gets even weirder when American sperm gets involved.
TPM Reader JF brings us up to speed on this part of the law …
http://editors.talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/2013/08/deep_birtherism.php?ref=fpblg
I’ll be the first Obot to question if Cruz is a natural born citizen, just as I also questioned McCain…in part because I haven’t researched the issue completely (so if there is an amibitious lawyer out there who has or knows of a journal article..please share). NBC is an undefined term used in the Constitution. We look to the common law to determine the meaning of undefined terms used in the Constitution. WKA, following the common law, defined NBC as born within the territory and subject to the jursidiction. Now NBC only matters, to define who can be President and Vice President. Otherwise, it carries no additional benefits as compared to a naturalized citizen. Now the issues I question is, can Congress redefine a term used in the Constitution in such a way that it is a de facto amendment? So if they can re-define NBC to include those board abroad, what is stopping them from further redefining it to include an even larger group (i.e. any minor child who accepts citizenship by virtue of their parents naturalization). Couldn’t they just keep going and rendering the clause meaningless? All without going through the actual steps required for an actual amendment. And why couldn’t they do the same for other terms in the Constitution? Seems to me that if the legislation is causing a real change in the meaning of the Constitution, it should have to go the route of an amendment.
Second issue. The Constitution grants Congress the power to pass laws regarding naturalization. So by extention, shouldn’t anyone who can only point to a statute for the basis of their citizenship be considered “naturalized”?
OK..so those are my academic questions on the issue. But while I have an academic curiosity on the subject, should Ted Cruz run for President, be nominiated, and God forbid, be elected….I will not be filing complaints with the courts, FOIA requests, or calling him an ursurper. I may try to write a journal article on the subject…but I highly doubt that. I keep saying I’ll write an article on junk law and the birthers, and still haven’t done that after how many years now.
And if there is someone who has researched this, or knows of a good quality journal article on the subject…feel free to correct the error of my ways.
Well, we know that if a child born abroad to two American Citizens the child is an American Citizen, but we don’t know if the child is a native-born, or natural born citizen.
But a child born abroad to an American Citizen who is unmarried is not a citizen at birth
And a child born aboard to an American Citizen who is married to an alien citizen is not.
Native born, is a NBC,if born on two American Parents, but a child born abroad is not a native-born citizen.
Now it is common usage to say a native born citizen is a natural born citizen.
but is it that a natural born citizen may be born abroad.?
If so , then does “natural born” and “native born” mean the same thing.
Obviously not!
And then, it become obvious that “native born” is a legal determination and does not automatical ensure “natural born” status.
As you can be “native born” and not be a US Citizen at all!
So, it eventually works out that the only ‘natural born’ citizens are those born of two American Citizen and being born in the United States of America.
Ummm…no…but thank you for playing.
Contrary to what virtually all of us learned growing up. My very conservative ex-marine civic’s teacher drilled it into us all
“anyone born in the United States could aspire to grow up and be elected President of the United States”-
because unlike Europe of old, here in the U.S., a parents status didn’t mean squat when it came to being elected president
Sorry Helen. I, and most of the country, believe a retired SCOTUS justice a heck of a lot more than an anonymous poster
Former Supreme Court justice Sandra Day O’Connor: “All of our Presidents have, to date, been born in the 50 states. Notably, President Obama was born in the state of Hawaii, and so is clearly a natural born citizen.”
But. I have good news Helen. Your unamerican ideals still have value, for you that value was one vote. The bad news is, you lost. But, keep up your unpatriotic stance, 2016 is coming and you can vote for your pub candidate like Cruz…wait, to you he’d be ineligible. Ok, then Rubio! Oops, you’d make him ineligible too. Oh man, what you gonna do when you know in your mind the pub candidate isn’t eligible? I know! HILLARY 2016!!! 😆
CDR Kerchner (Ret)’s Blog: 100% Proof Rick Santorum Born a Dual-Citizen and is Not a Natural Born Citizen. Father perfected his naturalization and citizenship to the U.S. in 1961 3 yrs after Rick was born in 1958. FOIA Response Re Aldo Santorum
FOIA Response re Aldo Santorum, father of Rick Santorum
http://cdrkerchner.wordpress.com/2012/10/03/100-proof-rick-santorum-not-a-natural-born-citizen-father-naturalized-3-yrs-after-rick-was-born-foia-response-re-aldo-santorum/
The latest from NBC:
http://tv.msnbc.com/2013/08/10/birthers-greet-president-with-kenyan-go-home-and-impeach-obama-signs/
I cannot be sure but I think they’ve changed their position on Senator Santorum.
Fwiw, there’s several comments made in their forum by David Farrar.
I’ve listened to a couple of birther blogtalk shows recently and seen the videos of birthers embarrassing themselves and their members of Congress. These birfoons really seem to believe that Reps. Stockman, Yoho, and Barletta have agreed to push for an investigation in Congress. When nothing comes of this, I think we will be looking at an epic birfer temper tantrum. Perhaps we will see something along the magnitude of the birfer tears we saw when they realized that Darrel Issa wasn’t going to hold birfer hearings after the GOP took over the House in 2011. Or when Ben Shapiro of Breitbart Media told Joey Farah and WND to STFU about the birfer conspiracy theories related to Andrew Breitbart’s death. Fun times ahead!
It’s like watching my dog trying to figure out where the treats are coming from when he rolls the treat ball. Sad.
Any time a birther uses the word “case” in the context of what the Cold Case Posse is doing, or uses phrases like “official investigation,” ask them for the case number.
Who can blame them? They haven’t had an OMG moment in months, ever since the CCP stopped releasing new stuff and Orly’s cases/hearings faded into oblivion.
They’re on cold turkey which actually causes some of them to sober up about their wild fantasies – e.g. the number of birthers placing their hopes on Orly’s “whistleblower” is small, even on Orly’s site (which hardly gets 5 comments per article as opposed to the dozens in the past).
On Twitter, you get the occasional reference to the Alabama SC case, but most of them probably understand by now that if Roy Moore wanted to go real birther (i.e. actually buy into it and not just pay lip service to the wingnuts), he’d have made a ruling by now “because national importance”.
Classical non sequitur.
After all the alleged time you spent pondering the legal status of different types of citizen, you still missed the actual difference between native-born and native-and-natural-born:
Those native-born who aren’t natural-born are children of foreign diplomats and invading armies (and, back in the Founders’ days, Indians not taxed). *That* is your difference set, not your invented “those who don’t have two citizen parents”.
Waaay OT: I would like to recommend “Rabbi With a Beat and Tie-Dyed Prayers – ‘Soul Doctor,’ a Musical About Rabbi Shlomo Carlebach”:
“Back in 1938, young Shlomo and his brother Eli Chaim are studying the Talmud with Reb Pinchas, as well as learning to smoothly deliver a good joke.”
http://theater.nytimes.com/2013/08/16/theater/reviews/soul-doctor-a-musical-about-rabbi-shlomo-carlebach.html
Please identify a single history text, civics text, or Constitutional law text which states that a natural born citizen must have two citizen parents.
Get on this assignment right away, because it’s going to take you a while.
There are a few common law exceptions. None are relevant here.
helen: So, it eventually works out that the only ‘natural born’ citizens are those born of two American Citizen and being born in the United States of America.
congress’ gold standard is the CRS which found there is no requirement of two “citizen-parents,”
CRS says: “The weight of legal and historical authority indicates that the term ‘natural born’ citizen would mean a person who is entitled to U.S. citizenship ‘by birth’ or ‘at birth,’ either by being born ‘in’ the United States and under its jurisdiction, even those born to alien parents; by being born abroad to U.S. citizen-parents; or by being born in other situations meeting legal requirements for U.S. citizenship ‘at birth.'”
Cruz, by being entitled to citizenship at birth because his mother was a U.S. citizen and by being in the U.S. for more than 14 years, would seem to qualify as a “natural born citizen” under the definition in the report.
At ORYR, you can hear Carl Gallups and “Lieutenant” Mike Zullo bellyaching about Florida Congressman Jeff Miller reneging on their amazing meeting. Birther tears– oh, so bitter, so bitter and so sweet.
Gallups claims that they’ve always said that if they turned their “evidence” over to someone like Miller, and he could show them that “it’s all a crock,” then they would “walk away from it.” Apparently, Carl and Mike don’t understand that by refusing to meet with them, Miller is, indeed, trying to show them that their evidence is nothing but a crock.
Thinker.
“Perhaps we will see something along the magnitude of the birfer tears we saw when they realized that Darrel Issa wasn’t going to hold birfer hearings after the GOP took over the House in 2011. Or when Ben Shapiro of Breitbart Media told Joey Farah and WND to STFU about the birfer conspiracy theories related to Andrew Breitbart’s death. Fun times ahead!”
If there were any truth to the Arpaio and Breitbart last interview before death story, the Breitbart organization would have reported the event. They didn’t report it because it obviously didn’t happen. More birfer nonsense.
well, if they couldn’t understand “thanks, but no thanks” from 212 document examiners …
So, Helen, if the only folks who are eligible are those born of two American citizens in the United States,
Why did you vote for John McCain, who freely admits he was not born in the United States?
And why did you say you would vote for Colin Powell, who parents are Jamaican by birth (probably British nationals). Dual loyalties and Black.
Face it, Helen. You’re a troll, a liar, and a racist. Go back under whatever rock you came from.
Took a gander at Birther Report today.
I think the ride is about over. Save for a scant few die-hards, no one is buying what Zullo is selling.
When Cruz and Rubio run, Mr. “Helen” will support them.
I am an ardent Obama supporter. Cruz is eligible to run. He has citizenship by birth, not by naturalization. Rubio was born in Florida, to Cuban citizens. He too has citizenship by birth.
You mean if Mr Helen doesn’t take his emergency cyanide pill by then.
The way things are going for birthers, that day might be coming up soon!
Oh lordy what a mess.
Oh lordy lordy what a mess.
Why in the world would the Democrats want to keep Cruz off the ballot?
That’s exactly my point. I would love to see Cruz and Rubio in the primaries, if not the general election.
I sent several e-mails to Todd Akin, imploring him to stay a candidate.
Here’s Bible Spice telling the AIP what a great group they are: “I’m Governor Sarah Palin and I am delighted to welcome you to the 2008 Alaskan Independence Party Convention in the golden heart city of Fairbanks…I share your party’s vision…We have a great promise to be a self-sufficient state…So I say good luck on a successful and inspiring convention…Keep up the good work, and God bless you.”
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/09/01/581881/-Secessionist-Sarah-VP-pick-Sarah-Palin-and-the-Alaska-Independence-Party#
That was Palin, not Obama. Don’t forget Todd Palin’s BFF, Joe Vogler.
I can’t wait for Rand Paul to announce. Paul is a Constitution Party supporter. The CP advocates replacing the Constitution with biblical law, and making the USA a theocracy. Paul is also opposed to the 1964 Civil Rights Act.
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2010/05/21/868465/-BREAKING-Rand-Paul-Keynoted-Rally-For-Theocratic-Constitution-Party
Isn’t wonderful, Misha?
If it hasn’t already occurred to you, then please hear it here first:
Defying the bounds of human comprehension, the 2016 Republican primary process will be even stupider than the 2012 cycle.
By far.
It will set new standards for mass hysteria, media celebrity syndrome, abnormal mob psych, and comedic density.
I’m not a conspiracy theorist, but if someone wanted to insure that the US evolved into a one party system (like Russia today) while pretending on the surface to remain a democracy, one couldn’t play one’s hand better.
I’ve never seen anything really wrong with what Palin said in that, to be honest. Its basicly saying “yes I’m your Governor too despite bieng in different parties, and we share some values and we all love Alaska. have a great Day”
I’m no admirer of Palin, but fair is fair.
Exactly! Let the GOP get out the butterfly net and round up all the crazies and put them on the ballot.
She was saying she “shared the vision” of a party whose “vision” was Alaska seceding from the Union. Which makes
…more than a little ominous, don’tcha think?
She was “delighted” to welcome a party whose founder, Joe Vogler, famously said,
He was later murdered in what turned out to be a contraband explosives deal gone wrong.
And then she had the gall to accuse Obama of “palling around with terrorists.” Given that Todd was a member of the AIP, it seems to me that she was sleeping with one.
Not sure what you mean, Lupin …. that you think America will give in to The Stupid? That the stupidification of the Republican Party has been orchestrated by the Democratic Party?
There remains a healthy variety of political thought in the US. Due to the noise and groupthink of the crazy rightwing, it only appears to be polarized, the nutballs on one side and everyone opposing them on the other.
It’s more like an unbalanced washing machine. A big lump of dead weight on one side that needs breaking up and redistributing.
Or throwing away. *ahem*
No I don’t think that, but it is odd that you end up with only one reasonable choice as president (ie: the democratic candidate) which, coincidentally or not, leans increasingly to the right.
That makes more sense; implying someone is allowing the pretense to continue, while holding all the cards. The ‘smart’ money isn’t stupid, it buys both sides. Politics as a hedge fund … option one and short the other 😉
Today on “Hide Your Irony Meters”, @realDonaldTrump tweets:
Best selling authors to release book outlining the case for an Obama impeachment
“Consider this book to be a blueprint for drafting articles of impeachment,” Klein told MailOnline.
Klein’s and Elliott’s investigation book is set to be released on August 26, 2013 and on Thursday, in promotion of their book, they released a video trailer titled, “Impeachable Offenses: The case for removing Barack Obama”.
Aaron Klein is a WND journalist and hosts, Aaron Klein Investigative Radio on 77-WABC Radio, the largest talk radio station in America. Klein is also a regular guest on Fox News Channel and Fox Business Network, and serves as a columnist for the Jewish Press.
http://www.examiner.com/article/best-selling-authors-to-release-book-outlining-the-case-for-an-obama-impeachment
WND?????? hmmm where have i heard about them B-4?
It’s been more than 72 hours since I challenged “Helen” to identify a single textbook which supports her crank theories on natural born citizenship.
Beautiful halos
JPEG comment YCbCr
That settles it. My work is done 🙂
This is what I had been looking for. Now I am 100% convinced.
Tell Papit to warm up his Xerox WorkCentre 🙂
Glad you found a winner, NBC!
Yes, dirt common Xerox PDF, this one from a WorkCentre 7545. The 7000 series seems to be awfully popular!
Files like this are what convinced me, but I didn’t have any that were public and share-able … can’t believe I didn’t think of searching for the default filename earlier LOL
Have you had a chance to scan a mockup of the LFBC? It’s overkill, but still of interest.
scott e keeps posting stuff I delete. His general thesis is something like, if there wasn’t something to birtherism, we anti-birthers wouldn’t be here.
I would point out that the Solitaire card game is pointless, but lots of people play it anyway.
That’s just plain foolish
I agree that that should be done, but there is an inherent problem with doing it. Since we don’t have an original of Obama’s birth certificate to test with and we cannot determine precisely the color and contrast of the original, there’s a good chance the halos will be a touch different–bigger or smaller maybe. Birthers will grasp at any straw including any minute difference in the halos. Of course, they could be dead on too.
<tongue_in_cheek>The Cold Case Posse spent hundreds of hours and massive amounts of money creating a nearly-perfect test version of the Obama birth certificate. It’s a shame that they chose not to share that document with the public.</tongue_in_cheek>
Well duh … but the only something is a bunch of whiners spreading brain disease, that are in need of a good disinfecting. I take it that asking whether he is aware he’s indulging in a juvenile fallacy is moot.
Of course, of course. We neither have the original, nor do we know the exact model WorkCentre, it’s working condition, etc, etc. But we do know it was a WorkCentre, scanned as a text/line art document, and that there was a hard copy. Testing a mockup is showing off, rubbing it in, the icing. Not done for the birfer’s benefit (since they refuse to benefit, what can be done for their benefit?), but as a capstone, a cherry on the sundae.
Of course, it would be more of a test of how good the mockup is, rather than how right the identification of the method. The latter is nailed already.
Speaking of rubbing it in, I recently adopted 2 chihuahuas. They’re adjusting to a new environment, new schedule. There have been a few accidents. The way they studiously refuse to acknowledge those accidents reminds me of birfers dancing around the undoing of PDF Madness. If a scan of a mockup is posted, you can be sure “Medici” will pop up, halometer in hand. Watching such desperate gymnastics are approximately 50.1% of the fun, Doc!
😛
That’s part of their Catch-22.
If nobody refutes them, they go “Nobody refutes us, therefore we cannot be refuted, therefore we are right.”
If people refute them, they go “If we were wrong, nobody would bother, therefore we are right.”
I refuse to play those games with them.
Ah, but dogs can be trained. Birthers, not so much.
You forgot to add Chicago Bad
“scott e” cheats at Solitaire.
From a shelter, I hope. Max and Angel are from shelters.
I kind of think it’s akin to professional wrestling. Some of the birthers are more entertaining to watch than others but, at this point, it really is a spectator sport.
Absolutely. And, although they are beautiful, I did have them spayed.
They way they were egging on the boxer stud in the next yard, they were cruising for a very ugly episode of “She was asking for it”.
The worst thing that can happen to a breed is to become trendy. Plenty of Chi’s out there for adoption 🙁
Here’s a preview: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2393767/EXCLUSIVE-Explosive-new-book-sets-case-impeaching-Barack-Obama-Benghazi-health-care-reform-immigration-spying-scandals.html
Rand Paul going birther(?) … on Ted Cruz.
http://washingtonexaminer.com/ted-cruz-ally-team-rand-raising-questions-in-iowa-about-cruzs-eligibility/article/2534467
Well, it is an examiner article. A big chunk of it involves someone who wants Senator Cruz to be the nominee arguing that Rand Paul is playing a dirty smear. The article does quote someone who is a Rand Paul supporter, but it is pretty tepid. Shipley (the Rand Paul supporter) says that Senator Cruz needs to address this, but the article goes on to say that Shipley feels that it wouldn’t be hard to do so.
Pretty weak tea.
Was This A Birther?
Raw Story
As per “helen,” because there has been cases of cop impersonations, the loony was right in challenging the legitimacy of the uniform and badge.
Send ’em to Viet Nam. They were everywhere in Hanoi. The apartments are much too small for a ‘real’ dog.
I think that nbc would argue that both Cruz and McCain are not Natural Born Citizens.
Not only that, but since it is theoretically possible to forge not only a police badge, but also the shield that the police officer uses, the MinuteMan had a duty to take the cop by gunpoint to the nearest police station, in order to have the person at the police station identify them as a police officer, or not.
Of course, that person could be in on the impersonation of the officer, so the Minuteman has a duty to reject what that cop, so the minuteman has a duty to take the entire police station hostage…
In Italy, it happens quite often that tourists are stopped by robbers dressed as cops on lonely roads. There are even recommendations to *not* stop but drive to the next police station in such a situation. Just imagine this happened in the US, I suppose the driver would be shot before he reached the next town.
that for some reason brought this to mind…not thought about it in years
In the Desert
By Stephen Crane 1871–1900 Stephen Crane
In the desert
I saw a creature, naked, bestial,
Who, squatting upon the ground,
Held his heart in his hands,
And ate of it.
I said, “Is it good, friend?”
“It is bitter—bitter,” he answered;
“But I like it
“Because it is bitter,
“And because it is my heart.”
That’s a wonderful poem, and like you, I haven’t thought about it in years, though at one time I had it memorized.
Actually, I was stealing from Joni Mitchell. “Oh, so bitter, so bitter and so sweet” is lyric from “A Case of You” off her album “Blue.”
But, according to “helen”, we aren’t allowed to question the fake badge and fake investigation by Zullo. Kind of telling, isn’t it? 😀
That would indeed be my position But purely ‘academic’…
So since there are at least two of us, does that mean I’m not a crack pot espousing crank legal theories?
Often makes appearance in reference to the birthers! I wonder if birthers like it and can see the relevance? Heh. The poem is a brilliant comment on humanity’s worst tendencies.
Not to mention that the police station could be a fake. What a tangled web
“Helen” weaves.
That’s exactly what we were taught to do in Arizona in the 60’s if an ‘unmarked’ cop car tried to stop us – don’t stop till you found a protected place like an open service station or whatever.
The Terrible Obama Black Dog Conspiracy
http://crooksandliars.com/karoli/terrible-obama-black-dog-conspiracy
If you want to see another raging spasm of Obama Derangement Syndrome take a look at Breitbart. Warning: Wait until your dinner has settled before you visit this site:
http://www.breitbart.com/InstaBlog/2013/08/21/Humane-Society-Questions-New-WH-Puppy-Why-Not-A-Rescue-Dog
looks like RC got on Mike Vollins show tonight and got cut off within a second of mentioning NBCs information on the Xerox starts at about 38 minutes in http://www.blogtalkradio.com/wheresobamasbirthcertificate/2013/08/21/more-with-miki-booth-and-another-great-patroit-dave-small
Gallups loses his shit and starts stuttering throwing out a bunch of words.
Welcome to the Age of Denial
IN 1982, polls showed that 44 percent of Americans believed God had created human beings in their present form. Thirty years later, the fraction of the population who are creationists is 46 percent.
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/22/opinion/welcome-to-the-age-of-denial.html
http://livewire.talkingpointsmemo.com/entry/ppp-bobby-jindal-is-most-unpopular-gop-governor
If he wuz white, I bet his poll numbers would be better.
The Louisiana GOP staking its claim for being the stupidest cretins on the planet:
http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2013/08/21/2503281/louisiana-republicans-blame-president-obama-katrina-response/
Birther Report ran a couple more CCP regurgitations, and in the comments section I saw something utterly shocking! Falcon, who is the first to get all verbally abusive on anyone who dares question Zullo, has lost patience with the great boy defective and Sheriff Fife. Things are about to get a whole lot funnier inside ye olde birther echo chamber!
Yes, FALCON is in quite a dither. His world is spinning so fast I’m surprised he can even find his keyboard.
It’s not restricted to Louisiana. From Colorado….
“Vicki Marble, GOP Lawmaker, Links Poverty To Fried Chicken, BBQ”
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/08/22/vicki-marble-poverty-chicken_n_3794679.html
Stupid knows no boundaries.
Yes. Reminds me of how common it became for Americans to believe in the Saddam Hussein/9/11 connection.
From March of 2003:
“Bush never pinned blame for the attacks directly on the Iraqi president. Still, the overall effect was to reinforce an impression that persists among much of the American public: that the Iraqi dictator did play a direct role in the attacks. A New York Times/CBS poll this week shows that 45 percent of Americans believe Mr. Hussein was ‘personally involved’ in Sept. 11, about the same figure as a month ago.”
http://www.csmonitor.com/2003/0314/p02s01-woiq.html
And we all know what a tragedy it would be for Birther Report, if Falcon was unable to access a keyboard! Why without him to scream at any would-be dissenters, a free thinker or two might accidentally crop up and take the whole site down from within! 😉
Another enlightening piece of evidence that the Obama-haters are not racists, nosirree:
http://jelenawoehr.tumblr.com/post/58727073787/this-is-what-racism-looks-like-racism-is-the
Links? I always like to give Falcon a bunch of thumb downs…bugs the heck out of him! 😆
Of course they aren’t. The are simply patriotic Americans, who adore the Constitution. Nor are they seditionists, as this comment from the most recent article ORYR clearly shows,
“The country needs a total douching. From the top on down and side to side and the only way that can happen is if there is a full blown revolution, round up the traitors, conspirators, have a show trial and hang them all one after another live on television.
That will restore some faith, but not all.”
“Sovereign citizens” at work in Las Vegas.
http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/08/23/20151351-vegas-arrests-cast-light-on-anti-government-sovereign-citizens-movement?lite
Talk about the chickens coming home to roost:
“A Texas megachurch whose leaders have linked vaccines to autism is now asking its members to get immunizations or stay quarantined after an outbreak of measles was traced to the congregation.”
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/08/23/vaccine-fearing-texas-megachurch-urges-flock-to-immunize-after-measles-outbreak/
I wonder how many of the congregants are also birthers?
Second child of faith-healing couple dies after no medical care sought – A Philadelphia couple — serving 10 years’ probation for the 2009 death of their toddler after they turned to prayer instead of a doctor — has violated their probation now that another of their children has died.
Herbert and Catherine Schaible belong to a fundamentalist Christian church that believes in faith-healing:
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-201_162-57580900/second-child-of-faith-healing-couple-dies-after-no-medical-care-sought/
> 50%
Zullo was on Gallups show today. For all the words they spoke, they sure can say absolutely nothing.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7WgzMAAQMVs
Here is a better version.
https://soundcloud.com/reality-check-3/carl-gallups-with-mike-zullo-8
For those who like to read the comments at ORYR, there is a surprising development: a rift has opened between the odious “Falcon” and the repellent “Julio Schwartz” over the the failure of Gallups/Zullo to do anything but make promises.
http://obamareleaseyourrecords.blogspot.com/2013/08/team-arpaio-new-obama-fraud-details.html
Zullo says he doesn’t care about any of the Obots except for one that he is “intently focused on now”.
Doc. C. watch your back and check the fumes emissions hose on your car.
A threat?
The man is proving himself a pluperfect fool.
More on sovereign citizen tactics, in this case using false liens. A couple of telling (and familiar sounding) quotes from the New York Times:
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/24/us/citizens-without-a-country-wage-battle-with-liens.html
…
Mostly, though, sovereign citizens choose paper as their weapon. In Gadsden, Ala., three people were arrested in July for filing liens against victims including the local district attorney and Treasury Secretary Jacob J. Lew. And in Illinois this month, a woman who, like most sovereign citizens, chose to represent herself in court, confounded a federal judge by asking him to rule on a flurry of unintelligible motions.
“I hesitate to rank your statements in order of just how bizarre they are,” the judge told the woman, who was facing charges of filing billions of dollars in false liens.
…
The Eilertsons, who were charged with 47 counts of fraudulent filing and sentenced in June to 23 months in prison, were prosecuted under a Minnesota law that makes it a felony to file fraudulent documents to retaliate against officials. John Ristad, an assistant Ramsey County attorney who handled the case, said he believed the Eilertsons were the first offenders to be prosecuted under the law. “It got me angry,” he said, “because at the end of the day, these two are bullies who think they can get their way by filing paper.”
A short primer on the SovCit ‘movement’.
Sovereign Citizen Movement
The Lawless Ones: The Resurgence of the Sovereign Citizen Movement
The Lawless Ones: The Resurgence of the Sovereign Citizen Movement LIST OF RECENT SOVEREIGN CITIZEN INCIDENTS, BY STATE (to 2010)
Idiot Legal Arguments: A Casebook for Dealing with Extremist Legal Arguments
I was looking for the web page of the guy that purports to show how to ‘divorce’ the USA and lay claim to your ‘notional’ account, but I can’t find it now. I saw the link about a month or so ago but it has disappeared into the bookmark bit bucket.
Ahhh… here it is (warning wear all your safety gear (hard hat, steel toes, hivis, box, condom) if you browse this site):
Sovereignty Education and Defense Ministry
And this is the ‘divorce’ stuff: LEGAL NOTICE OF CHANGE IN DOMICILE/CITIZENSHIP RECORDS AND DIVORCE FROM THE UNITED STATES
You lawyers out there should have a field day with this stuff.
The biggest potential threat to Mike Zullo is Sheriff Arpaio. That KPHO interview where Arpaio threw Zullo under the bus must have been uncomfortable. Arpaio just might ask some uncomfortable questions. My IRS referral dealt only disclosure, but others that have been filed actually allege misuse of funds with specifics and demand excise taxed be levied against the posse. That’s what Zullo should focus on.
I am certainly not concerned about a play policeman from Arizona focusing on me. Indeed “focusing” sounds like just more of his pseudo-law-enforcement jargon. I am a profoundly uninteresting character. But perhaps Zullo would do better to focus on other Obots who are actually digging into Zullo’s personal finances and background, material that you will not see published here unless Zullo is charged with a crime in relation to it.
Which interview is that? Do you have a link?
Isn’t it fun to watch the hardcore ones start to realize they are being conned and the others try to to them back down by saying they “trust” Zullo? They are a con man’s wet dream! 😆
Here’s a write-up.
http://arizona.newszap.com/westvalley/124707-114/questions-arise-over-mcso-cold-case-posses-tax-filings
Thanks, Jim.
It’s also interesting to observe how vehemently the orthodox respond to doubts about Gallups/Zullo. They would have made excellent political commissars in the Red Army.
Comedy gold.
You are absolutely right. The other player in this area is the county itself which carries the liability for actions taken in its name. It has already paid out millions of dollars for myriad wrongdoings by the sheriff and his minions over the years.
If I were the county’s insurance carrier I would want to know more about these organizations that have Maricopa County in their name, wear badges and uniforms with the name on them and act on behalf of the county……but, according to the sheriff, aren’t part of his office or the county.
Under scrutiny it won’t fly.
Gallups still reports that Z has “decades” of law enforcement experience. How does 5 years equal “decades” in Birtherland?
Gallups still refers to Z as a “professional” law enforcement officer. How is volunteer who receives no pay a professional?
Worst case scenario if everything fails, look forward to a book a movie DVDs and any other way to make a buck. What an absolute crock!
The question that really should be addressed in Birtherville is how in the world has Z worked for 2 years 24/7 without pay as a volunteer? Who or what is financially backing this nonsense? Are private donations to the CCCP being used as payment to Z? And there is no financial accountability? What a crock!
It wil be interesting to see what kind of financial information Doc’s request manages to dislodge.
No information will be coming from bus driver Arpaio. What have your county commissioners done about this financial black hole that Z controls?
I brought that up in another post when I mentioned that the county’s insurance carrier may have questions that the administration and, eventually, the elected supervisors have to answer.
The bottom line is that Arpaio/Zullo can’t have it both ways: The Cold Case Posse is part of the sheriff’s office until it isn’t. Truth is it isn’t a part of the SO and that, along with questions about its finances, is going paint Arpaio/Zullo increasingly into a corner.
Pretty convenient set up. The “Catch 22” of law enforcement agencies.
Actually it’s a situation unique to some sheriff’s offices. Posses have historically been social clubs with some providing search and rescue support but never….never…..having any police powers. Arpaio has probably pushed that envelope too far and, eventually, it will come back to haunt him, the posses and Maricopa County.
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Open thread? We’ll see.
The question asked is posed in juxtaposition to many comments that were deleted. Many last comments. The moderators have proven to be hypocrites regarding own policy and principle of the people understood under this republic.
The comment is Cruz ineligible. The man was born in Canada. Some consider the law, naturalization, of our congress as blind equivalence to natural born presidential eligibility, others doubt.
Don’t forget the free set of Ginsu knives.
You’re still banned. Have a nice day.
I don’t of anyone who believes that naturalization is the equivalent of natural born citizenship. I would ask you where you got that idea, but you have been banned for being a troll.
Helen of Troll must have been vacationing in South Carolina:
http://progressivepopulist.org/2013/08/23/blacks-asked-to-leave-south-carolina-restaurant-because-white-customer-felt-threatened-video/
I wish there was a Wild Wing restaurant in my city so that I could picket it.
Carl, you have a sharp, cutting sense of humor. 🙂
Don’t look now, but I get the distinct feeling that “The Dolan”* will be saying something very birthery, very soon, to take the heat off of himself.
http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2013/08/25/n-y-attorney-general-suing-trumps-school-for-fraud/?hpt=hp_t2
*Dolan is the name of a particularly disturbing internet meme character. Take my word for it. Dolan fits Trump like a glove!
I named my dog “Taxes.” When I open the door, in come Taxes.
Thank you. I’ll be here all week.
Tonight 60 Minutes repeated a piece for earlier this year about the fact that it has been determined that 20% of all credit reports contain errors and that it is extremely difficult to get those errors corrected.
I wonder if Orly will be watching when it airs in California in a couple of hours?
Meanwhile: At ORYR, Falcon and fellow big-mouth idiot Julio, are in a pissing contest! It’s hilarious watching two birthers go at it like that.
It’s wonderful. Two toothless bullies spitting at each other.
Ah, the Keyboard Kommando Korps going at each other…..with blanks.
I liken it to watching the climactic battle from Highlander, but the swords have been replaced with “personal massagers”.
I was thinking more of Woody Allen in “Sleeper”.
Thanks for the tip …. I loved this comment, early in the thread, from “Don in Tennessee”:
“Renouncing his Canadian citizenship still leaves him a dual citizen. He is also a Cuban citizen through his father who was still a Cuban citizen when cruz was born”
I guess that darn Cuban citizenship just won’t rub off so easy as some others …. geez 🙄
And it gets much siller from there … even alleging The Fogbow will birf on Cruz LOL
Or a couple of LARPers going after each other with paper ball “lighting bolts.”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZ04mfAY2BU
“Andrew Vrba, PmG: Meanwhile: At ORYR, Falcon and fellow big-mouth idiot Julio, are in a pissing contest! It’s hilarious watching two birthers go at it like that.”
Things are lot more civilized in the world of Dr. C. They act like barbarians over at ORYR. Do they really think they are furthering their Birther cause with all the infighting?
Watching the Twitter feed go by, I find it impressive how many “BANNED VIDEOS” you can link to right there, plain as day, on YouTube. They seem to stay up for years, while song parodies and the like get yoinked immediately. Worst “BANNING” ever.
I think the folks who do all that “BANNING” need to subcontract out to the RIAA or something.
When I see Taxes, I usually yell “take a hike!”.
Bada-bing!
Nope, and the more infighting there is over there, the better. I suspect that Falcon is the admins sock puppet. If Julio is suddenly banned from posting there, that’ll be all but confirmation.
ok, bit of assistance needed here guys.
been looking at ann dunham’s passport applications on scribd, and in none of them does it mention the president in any of the boxes for children.
so how did he leave hawaii for indonesia, and then return later without a passport?
i’ve been using search here, but not getting any results
it suddenly dawned on me with embarrasment that after all this time i had a hole in what i know, and to be honest had never considered it.
links to an relevent docs would be much appreciated
cheers!
I find myself wishing there was a way to improve the Twitter feed widget … to automatically skip over repetitive re-tweets …
I know, I know, the hypocritical irony of reposting repetition in a complaint about repetition …
Doc could certainly answer better than about anyone else but I seem to recall the answer is that young Barack probably had his own passport by the time he returned. I believe Doc made that inference from what was supplied in his FOIA request to the State Department.
He went to Indonesia on his mother’s US passport. She took him off that passport IIRC in 1967 and probably got him his own US passport. Maybe they knew he would be traveling back to Hawaii by himself.
that’s the problem i have.
for once i can’t be definate with a birfoon!…oh the shame!
the only passport applications for dunham i’ve found don’t mention the pres.
c’mon doc! a lifeline here!
Any passport application for Barack Obama would be exempt under FOIA because he is still living.
Dunham had a 1965 passport that has never been seen, it is referenced in the 1967 application.
that would explain a lot…thanks
<blockquote cite="comment-284848"
Reality Check: Any passport application for Barack Obama would be exempt under FOIA because he is still living.
oh crap! that probably won’t be good enought for the birfoon i have on the hook!
ah well, my job isn’t to make them happy.
quite the contrary really 😀
Those poor little birthers. Let down by TWO congressmen in one day!
Steve Stockman and Tom Coburn have both left them high and dry.
So, I predict birther report to run a series of angry rants disguised as news stories in 3…2…1…
Why would anyone expect Coburn to birf? He’s the absolute least likely to birf!
Is this yet another Miki Booth debacle?
Yes. Yes it is! I know this because Birther Report loves to name drop anyone who gives them what they see as “useful information”.
The “Soebarkah” strike is the only passport application mentioning the President.
http://www.obamaconspiracy.org/2012/02/what-is-the-akond-of-soebarkah/
Why is he “least likely”? He’s been blathering recently about impeachment, and according to the Miki tape, he actually did have his aides give The Zullinator a call — twice!
(I was amused that Miki already knew about these calls — from the CCP side. And if I was hearing this correctly, Commander Pornstache was very, very disappointed that Coburn himself wouldn’t get on the phone personally with Shurf Joe. I think Miki got some demerits from the Z-Man for failing in this part of her mission. Coffee is for closers, Miki.)
Coburn is one of (*sigh*) ‘my’ senators, one of Okieland’s best and brightest. I said he’s least likely to birf, not least likely to be a rightwing extremist! He’s at home in August, doing the town hall circuit (just like ol’ Markwayne was …), pushing all the buttons of The Faithful, and stroking their crazy. It is despicable, and yes, his melodrama regarding what he sees as the administration’s lawlessness has been a local story:
http://www.tulsaworld.com/article.aspx/Coburn_backs_constitutional_convention/20130822_11_A16_ULNSii83988
He’s a gubbamint deconstructionist, the More Serious Second Coming of Grover Norquist. He’s worse than a birther, because he really believes his crazy, believes that cutting spending is itself the only goal, will defund anything and everything because that’s Cutting Spending. He is a soulless automaton incapable of grasping that money is not the only form of value.
But that’s his crazy. Cool, calm, collected, steady, stable. He’s not one to change his positions. He may qualify as a sociopath when it comes to limiting gov’t for the sake of limiting gov’t, but he doesn’t go in for baseless smears, such as birtherism.
It’s odd to be ‘defending’ Coburn (apparently, my votes against him have only been counted once. Grrr.), but if the source implicating him of playing backdoor footsy with Zullo is Mikki, I’m confidently on a firm foundation.
Speaking of Mikki, Wyandotte isn’t far away, maybe I should look her up and get to know her better. What a character!
And it is easy for a sane person to see that when a public figure encounters an approaching Birther or realizes one has pulled inside of Birther-exploding range, that public figure goes into assassin-survival mode, giving vague, disengaging responses, which the Birther then narrowly parses and widely publishes as commitments made to the Birther by the “interested” public figure!
As with the Birther-imagined non-existent Steve Stockman’s “Obama Fraud Investigation BILL”
And Coburn’s “promise” to call Sheriff Joe for a CCP update, as a substitute for starting a Congressional investigation to march Obama out of the White House!
And remember Orly disrupting the SCOTUS university lecture circuit to personally confront Scalia and Roberts?
You’re a SCOTUS Justice (Scali) and a loony lawyer breaking the house rules of your speaking engagement’s venue, unethically blurts out questions about specific cases (ORLY’S) already or about to come before you, and when you (probably following safety training suggestions for public officials approached in this way) respond generically with answers like, “I can’t remember”, hoping pistol shots will not soon follow, she announces the next day that your clerks must have never let you see her filings because you “admitted publicly that you had never even heard of the case!”
You’re a SCOTUS Justice (Roberts) and a loony lawyer breaking the house rules of your speaking engagement’s venue holds up a box containing 100’s of documents and asks you if you are aware that criminal acts are being committed by the clerks of the Supreme Court, and so you ask her to leave the papers with one of the security people and, sure, you’ll look at them.
And for a few weeks all of Birtherdom is chanting, “Roberts is looking at Orly’s papers! Roberts is looking at Orly’s papers! Roberts is looking at Orly’s papers!”
No he isn’t! He was just trying to get the crazy person out of the room.
Get this, Birthers: If a sane public official or their staff nods their head at your presentation of lies, they’re really already praying for survival, and getting ready to “duck and cover” and arrange to never see you again. Your power is the power of the lunatic to shock and dismay sane people by saying ANYTHING, no matter how crazy it is. That power costs you the consideration of your reasonable ideas by reasonable persons; that’s no net loss, since you have no reasonable ideas about your crazy issues.
Here’s how well your anti-Obama theme seamlessly merges with other issues important to Americans:
Hungry Birther :”I’ll have a Bacon, Egg, and Cheese Usurper!”
Behold: The ‘Impeachment Store’ That Sells All Things Impeachment
😉
Obama’s fake birth certificate, the lawyer, and the mailman:
https://soundcloud.com/nancy-owens-barger/white-genocide-paco-and-mosh
[Moved to the open thread, Doc.]
OT: Look on the bright side of Syria:
Bush would use this as an excuse to invade.
McCain would say ‘We are all Syrians now.’
Sarah Palin would say, ‘Where’s Syria? Isn’t Damascus a town in Maryland?’
True, Bush/Cheney would through military families once more unto the breach (hey, they signed contracts, right? Time to go defend our country’s right to make a buck!), and turn Syria into another corporate boondoggle, a bid-free contractor’s paradise!
They could call it Doin’ the Damascus Steal (*ba-da-bing!*)
Instead, Obama will probably just outsource the whole thing like Libya and not even manage to get a single American killed in action. Some wars this guys doesn’t fight.