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Taking a Hypocritical Bite at Apple

The last week or so I've seen a lot of people ragging on Apple over the factory conditions at Foxconn in China, who Apple contracts to do much of their production.

I'm just wondering how many of the people who are bashing Apple and swearing they'll never buy an Apple product have anything by Acer, ASUS, Cisco, Netgear, Lenovo (or Dell. Do they have a Nintendo DS or Wii?? What about a Microsoft XBox 360?? Sony laptop. playstation, or PSP?? Do they have an Amazon Kindle or Barns and Noble Nook?? What about anything from IBM or HP? Do they have Intel Inside?? Do they have a Motorola, Sony Ericsson or Nokia mobile phone? What about a Panasonic or Sharp TV, DVD, or laptop? A Vizio monitor??

If the answer to any of those is "yes", then congratulations. You're using a product more than likely ALSO made by Foxconn, in the exact same factories and conditions that Apple products are made in.

Wouldn't it make more sense, rather than ragging on one company, to hold ALL of them to task for the conditions their contractors maintain? Or is it simply easier to lash out at one particular company and ignore the rest?

Dispatches from Birtherstan - 27 January 2012

In today's dispatches, The Pest and eFail has washed up at the conspiracy site "Gulag Bound", where they give their uniquely dishonest spin to the Georgia Birther Ballot Jihad hearing.

By this point the majority of birtherstan is firmly convinced that the judge in the Georgia Birther Ballot Jihad hearing gave them everything they wanted (and a pony) before the hearing, but the birtherstani attorneys just decided to go ahead with the hearing and their nonexistent "merits". However, we already have one ruling from the Judge that tells Dr. Orly she doesn't get one thing she wanted or a pony.

Some news video, along with a few YouTube hostings of the hearing footage, courtesy of Joseph Farah's buddy and comrade in arms Floyd Brown. Which meshes with the articles World Nut Daily managed to excrete without actually having had a reporter at the hearing.

Dr. Orly is in Media Whore Heaven. Sharon Meroni realizes she doesn't have what she needs to challenge Obama in Illinois after all. And the police officer in Arizona who thought it would be fun to post a picture of teens with rifles and a shot up Obama shirt tells the Secret Service "was that wrong? should I not have done that??"

Dispatches from Birtherstan - 23-26 January 2012

(Thanks to verbalobe for this one)

In today's dispatches, the biggest news, obviously, is the Birther Ballot Jihad hearing in Georgia. I delayed for a day due to the lead up drama on this event.

In a nutshell, Dr. Orly does some pre-hearing screeching, the attorney for the Georgia Democratic Party and Obama's campaign decides it's a freaking circus and goes "forget this.", giving the courtroom floor to the birtherstani. Carl Swensson wants his share of the birther bucks, while an article about the Georgia Birther Ballot Jihad makes the rounds of all the high-class white nationalist websites.

Sharon Rondeau whines about Democrats saying accurate things about the GOP. The inmates at "Birther Report" are throwing an entire Bandini Mountain of poo, while Dr. Orly shows the class, charm, and maturity of a spoiled brat pre-schooler.

And that was BEFORE the hearing. The actual hearing was a bowel movement in three parts, with Van Irion and Hatfield's de Vattelist nuggets plopping down before Dr. Orly's legal hershey's squirts began, followed by her attempting to seduce the media with her sexy wiles.

But that's all okay because according to Dean Haskins and Carl Swenssen, the fix is in and the judge told the birtherstani attorneys that he was going to give them everything they wanted and a pony BEFORE THE HEARING STARTED. When one considers the sources, one can assume that whatever the judge said, it wasn't quite what they claimed.

In other news, the cases that Dr. Orly were ignoring in Washington DC are coming back to haunt her. Andrew Adler goes "ooops, my bad" and resigns. The Pest and eFail is excited over the fact that one of their patriots actually CALLED a radio station! Miki Booth comes up with brand new and unexplained categories of citizenship. The State of Hawaii moves to dismiss Duncan Sunahara's case. Walter Fitzpatrick is still is jail. And an Arizona cop thinks it's really fun to post a picture of gun-touting teens with a bullet-riddled Obama shirt.

Dispatches from Birtherstan - 21-23 January 2012

In today's dispatches, the birtherstani are having a collective failure of housebreaking over their insistence that the Georgia Birther Ballot Jihad hearing on the 26th is the "OMG" moment that will result in that scary black man being frogmarched in chains out of the WHITE House.

Huckabee and Santorum (google it) are playing flirty birther games. Tracy Dorsey comes up with BRAND NEW EVIDENCE that turns out to be OLD STALE FRAUD, and makes a racist video to boot! Dr. Orly is trying to make it clear that it's All About Dr. Orly in birtherstan. Miki Booth throws Dean Haskin's shoes out the door and proclaims her undying devotion to the Temple of Orly.

The owner of an Atlanta Newspaper thinks it would be a great idea for Mossad to assassinate President Obama. Dean Haskins continues to get removed from birtherstani holiday lists. John Woodman gets shouted over by birther "experts". And Leo Donofrio engages in a 207 page legal wankfest that should leave him shaving his palms for a month.

Dispatches from Birtherstan - 19-20 January 2012

In today's dispatches, Ron Polland/Polarik continues his long slide into insanityland. The SPLC notes the past history of some of the people involved in the Georgia Birther Ballot Jihad. Sarah Palin riles the birthers.

We have the order of dismissal in Sorensen v Kennedy, along with a nastygram Sorensen sent to Kennedy after the dismissal.

Dean Haskins shows some personal courage in daring to point out to his fellow birthers that Dr. Orly is harming their crusade more than helping it, with the predictable response from Dr. Orly. Meanwhile, some of Dr. Orly's allies in California start their own Birther Ballot Jihad, while the other players in the Georgia Birther Ballot Jihad submit a "dance for us boy" motion to the court.

Colour me unimpressed with the attorney for the Georgia Democratic Party. The judge in that case seems to think so too as he denies the defense motion to quash Dr. Orly's subpoenas and Dr. Orly promptly piddles on the carpet and goes complete apedump insane with a pre-hearing "victory lap" that shows her as petty, immature, and just flat out nasty. And those are her good points.

Dispatches from Birtherstan - 17-18 January 2012

NOTE: Posting today's dispatches should in no way, shape, or form be seen as supporting or defending SOPA or PIPA.

In today's dispatches, Jerome Corsi continues the World Nut Daily line of "what? How could you question the citizenship of Mitt Romney?? He's…….ummm…..more reflective! Thomas MacLeran continues both his calls for armed revolt AND his fear that Muslims are hiding in his closet.

Dr. Orly continues not only her jihad against her fellow birthers, but the State of Hawaii and anyone else who looks at her cross-eyed. She's hit her manic phase for her upcoming "no, it really IS a trial! Honest! No! Really it is!!!" hearing. Meanwhile, her "Adobe Illustrator" gets a bit violent.

Sorensen is not only told "no", but told "keep your nose clean or we'll collect damages and fees". President Obama has fun with Betty White AND the birthers. Sam Sewell reposts a Sovereign Citizen-style rant by KKK apologist Mark McGrew. And Nick Purpura is on the warpath against the Supreme Court.

Dispatches from Birtherstan - 14-16 January 2012

In today's dispatches, I really have to wonder if we're seeing the meltdown and implosion of Dr. Orly Taitz. She has got so much invested in her lie that the event in Georgia is a trial and not a hearing that she's openly threatening State of Hawaii officials, berating her followers, and attacking her fellow birthers. "Birther Report" gets a broadside for daring to point out that Dr. Orly is wrong, and the "Article II Extra Jumbo Super Duper PAC gets slammed for the high crime of not giving Dr. Orly any money.

We also have run on sentences from David LaRocque. Birther fantasies. Joseph Farah throwing a tantrum that the de Vattelists are also daring to question white Republicans too.

Miki Booth blames Obama for the poor sales of her book, while thinking death threats against Obama are just fine. Dr. Orly brings an all-loser birther case to her "no, it's really a trial, honest, ignore what the judge calls it" event. Turns out Carl Swensson gave an interview to a blog with an unsavory reputation. And Lawrence Sellin wants the birtherstani to punish the GOP.

Dispatches from Birtherstan - 12-13 January 2012

In today's dispatches, we have an assortment of motions in the Alabama Birther Ballot Jihads, and a couple "nope!" from the courts in reply. The State of Hawaii tells Dr. Orly "nope", not once, but twice, while that state's attorney general's office goes "we can has sanctions now yes please??

Stefan Cook passes away from pancreatic cancer.

Both Thomas MacLeran and James Manning seem to be hitting the NyQuil and Peyote smoothies again. And Sharon Meroni - surprise! - challenges Obama on her state's ballot.

The Anti-Girl Scout Jihad

Yesterday I caught this article over at Huffington Post.

Now a little bit of back history. A few months ago, there was a young child in Colorado. Biologically male, however self-identifies as female. Said child wanted to participate in Girl Scouts. At first the local council said no, and later reversed this decision.

This caused some backlash, with a couple troops at religious-based schools dissolving their troops and going with an off-shoot group called "American Heritage Girls", described as:

"…a group organized in 1995 in protest to the Girl Scouts' decision to allow scouts to replace the word "God" in scout teachings with a word representing a personal image of God, such as a "higher being," "Allah" or "Buddha.

The newer group proclaims Jesus Christ as Lord, limits membership to girls and works to disciple girls as Christians."

American Heritage Girls (which claimed 13,000 members as of August of 2011), isn't the only religious offshoot of the Girl Scouts. For those who think AHG are too wishy-washy namby-pamby secular, there's also "Little Keepers at Home" Not to mention the "Pioneers Clubs", and GEMS, or "Girls Everywhere Meeting the Savior"

Dispatches from Birtherstan - 10-11 January 2012

In today's dispatches, more on the Hendershot dismissal. The birthers aren't done with New Hampshire. Cody Judy gives a big ol' raised middle finger to military families. Dr. Orly gets another trip to Hawaii.

The birthers aren't done with Alabama either, with one case warmed over Dr. Orly, and the other bound and determined to really piss off the judge. A birtherstani gets something almost kinda sorta like something that almost came close to a clue once, and suggests that Dr. Orly might not be helping their cause very well.

Dr. Orly goes apedump at any birther who DARES QUESTION HER, while Philip Berg smells blood in the water. Thomas MacLeran gives a unique spin to the concept of "civil rights". Not to mention US History. The Pest and eFail tries to rewrite the entire history of the US legal system, while one of their repeat offenders gets all threatening with the Georgia legal system.

Arizona has Yet Another Birther Bill. And sad news about one of Dr. Orly's plaintiffs.

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