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Dispatches from Birtherstan - for 30 September 2010

In today's dispatches, more birtherstani civil war fun as Dr. Orly accuses Berg and friends of....well, acting like Dr. Orly does normally. The Pest and eFail pretty much demands a military coup as soon as possible. The Village Voice is wonder what is wrong with people. Lakin's dog bite attorney tries to do an end run around his court-martial judge. And Dr. Orly is playing "look at me, I'm an attention whore!!" with politics.

28 September - Dr. Orly's latest pile of crap in the birtherstani civil war. Which basically boils down to Dr. Orly squawking and screaming that she was ACTUALLY TOLD NO!!

You would think she was used to that word by now.

Anyway, it's 44 pages long, showing once again that Dr. Orly is the legal equivalent of the "Star Wars Holiday Special" in terms of the sheer amount of mind-numbing crap she spews from her hate-filled piehole.

(Scribd link here)

"Plaintiff's opposition provided zero evidence to deny the Defendant's motion for production of Liberi's PA driver's license, allegedly submitted to this court during 08.07.09 emergency hearing."

And you presented zero evidence as to why you should have it in the first place.

"Yet again Plaintiffs commit fraud on the court, as they bring forward slanderous accusations and allegations"

Afraid they're acting like you??

Dispatches from Birtherstan - for 29 September 2010

In today's dispatches we have various reports and spin on the latest development in the Lakin case. Plus a new addition to my records here at Bad Fiction - a 1990 to 2006 time line for Walter Fitzpatrick.

28 September - WUSA-TV reports on the latest in the Lakin case.

"But things aren't going well for Lakin as his case heads toward trial on charges of missing a movement, disobeying lawful orders, and dereliction of duty.

The judge turned down two more witnesses... ruled the orders at issue ARE lawful ... and found that Lakin's motives are irrelevant... at least until sentencing.

"It is impossible for us to put on a defense without them," says defense attorney Paul Rolf Jensen. "We've been deprived of everything, what else is left."

The Obama campaign did release a short form Certification of Live Birth that shows the President was born in Honolulu.
The state health director and registrar of vital statistics say state law prevents them from releasing the original birth certificate with the doctor's signature.

"And President Richard Nixon said he wasn't a crook, and President Clinton said he didn't have sex with that woman," says Jensen. "The point is, we are in a court of law, let him come in and be subject to cross examination with the original documentation. What do they have to hide?"

The military judge did delay the start of the trial for a month to give the defense more time to ask the court of appeals for help."

Dispatches from Birtherstan - for 28 September 2010

In today's dispatches, we have more flights of fancy from the cRAPpers and the secret cRAP masters. World Nut Daily reports on the feud between Lakin's defense team and those who are even more crazy and delusional. Walter Fitzpatrick sees his court-martial as one big conspiracy, complete with cover-ups and forgery. More about David Ben-Ariel, who seems to be racist, sad, and a wackadoodle. Dr. Orly posts her wedding photos, which should a replacement for ipecac. And it looks like Lakin and his defense team are, once again, told "no, you can't have discovery, not yours."

27 September - And it looks like some of the cRAPpers are on the "we can haz coup nows plez?" bandwagon.

This one is, BTW, by known internet crank "Sorcha Faal", who usually claims some sort of inside connection with the Russian Intelligence Agencies.

"The coup actions being made against Obama by US Military Forces, this FSB addendum says, is being spearheaded by the most feared Federal Prosecutor in America, Patrick Fitzgerald [photo 3rd left], who became an Assistant United States Attorney in New York City in 1988 and in 1996 was appointed as the US National Security Coordinator for investigating Osama bin Laden.
Fearing an attack upon the United States was “imminent”, the FSB continues, Fitzgerald was “placed” by his US Military backed allies in Obama’s home city of Chicago on September 1, 2001, just 10 days prior to the attacks of 9/11, a city that he had visited only one day in his life.

Now according to this FSB report, the US Military’s “placing” of Fitzpatrick in Chicago, just days before the attacks of 9/11, was due to their “growing worries” of what they called a “radical and powerful” Islamic terror cell being funded by Saudi Arabia and linked to Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan, elements of a 1960’s US terror group called the SDS, one of Israel’s Mossad most highly placed US agents, a labor organization named the Service Employees Union International (SEIU), and, most importantly, a seemingly obscure Illinois State Senator named Barack Hussein Obama.
Though we had covered some of these Obama “associations”, so to speak, with many of these FSB named elements in our August 26, 2010 report “President Barack Obama: Friend or Foe? You’re Going To Be Surprised!” it is important to note that the Israeli Mossad agent named is Rahm Emanuel, and who aside from being Obama’s White House Chief of Staff is also the son of one of Israel’s most feared Irgun terrorists operating in that Nation prior to their 1948 independence.

Unlike his father, however, Emanuel “turned away” from Israel, and her interests, and through his and Obama’s use of a newly created Israeli American lobby organization named J Street are said to have caused more damage to the Jewish state than all of her enemies have been able to do in the past over 60 years."

Didn't I hear the birthers and PUMAs saying "Fitzgerald will save us" up until inauguration day??

Oh, and Obama is supposedly planning an invasion of Canada.

Dispatches from Birtherstan - for 25-27 September 2010

Some nasty racism in today's dispatches, starting off with James Manning's proud announcement of his own wingbattery followed by a diatribe against "ragheads". We have David Ben-Ariel and his racist ranting about Obama. The Pest and eFail interviews a filmmaker with....issues. Some ponderings from "Citizen" Larry Wells about Tim Adams and his seeming disappearance to go live with the Sasquatch. Some worries about Larry Sinclair. Sam Sewell is *also* a racist bigot, not surprisingly. Loren does another good job of debunking. And Dr. Orly's readers want their military coup like, now.

13 September - Looks like James Manning is not just a birther, but has publicly embraced being a 9/11 "truther" as well.

More than that, he's calling for birthers and truthers to unite and join forces, something that should make Philip Berg a happy camper.

His congregation seems a little.....sparse. And damn, he's bloody shrill. How can he hit notes like that unless someone behind him is squeezing his testicles in a vice grip during his sermon is beyond me

Oh, and he's pretty strongly racist and bigoted against Muslims as well, calling them "ragheads" and claiming it's the "biblical Constitutional thing" to drive Muslims out of the United States and into the "burning sands of Saudi Arabia". Furthermore he states that Muslims shouldn't be allowed into the United States unless they convert to Christianity.

What a racist piece of shit.

Dispatches from Birtherstan - for 23-24 September 2010

In today's dispatches, Dr. Orly's new "friend" goes "umm, no". Chris Strunk is still insane. Doesn't seem like people at Forbes liked that article much either. An update on Fitzpatrick's buddy Darren Huff, and Dr. Orly's buddy Pam Barnett throws a bit of a fit. Dr. Orly herself continues her legal malpractice, filing Yet Another motion for reconsideration with her closed Quo Warranto case. Palin flirts with birtherstanis again. Sam Sewell's Pravda propaganda is now pining for the fjords. The Pest and eFail really really really wants their civil war fix. Gary Kreep wants money. Former Rep. Tim Walberg seems to be courting the birtherstani vote. And Dr. Kate cuts herself on Occam's razor.

22 September - Dr Orly last week boasted about Constitutional Scholar Ronald Rotunda, (Professor at Chapman University's School of Law) befriending her on facebook (malware and redirect warning) and that he supported and voted for her.

Well, according to an interview with Professor Rotunda at the OC Weekly, not so much.

"Speaking to the Weekly today, Rotunda set the record straight: He's no birther. And since we had a well-known constitutional authority on the phone--one who has demonstrated in a controversial Washington Post op-ed last year that he's certainly not an Obama lackey--we thought we'd get him to hold forth for a few minutes about the birthers' theories."

And doesn't have much use for the de Vattelists either.

Note for today

No update today due to my having to renew my CPR and First Aid certs.

So what bad movie would I review next??

1) Touch of Satan
2) Space Mutiny
3) Legacy of Blood
4) The Star Wars Holiday Special

Dispatches from Birtherstan - for 22 September 2010

In today's dispatches, we have some snark about Joseph Farah. Who doesn't seem to be reading his own website. Colin Powell suggests that his fellow Americans "get rid of the birther thing". The Pest and eFail continues to make stuff up, from Obama's church-going habits, to state fiscal habits, not to mention some candidate wingbattery, lack of knowledge about the US Constitution, and general racism. Dr. Orly sadly loses a supporter and shows a normal disconnect with reality or class. The birtherstani are upset that even their media heroes won't go full metal birther on them. And the Onion comes up with a parody that's only slightly less believable than what the birthers claim.

Also, a court case that shows just how the United States handles loss of citizenship by minors.

17 September - Over at Science Blog, Ed Brayton throws in his three cents about Joseph Farah.

"Of course, this is a man who already declares that the world is only 6000 years old and that humans were riding dinosaurs around the garden of Eden before the flood, so his declarations are often amusing. Tomorrow, no doubt, he'll be declaring the president to be an illegal alien -- half Kenyan, half Indonesian and half Martian.

And it's made all the more amusing by the very first sentence of his screed:

For more than two years now, I have given Barack Obama the benefit of the doubt.

Ah, yes. By "benefit of the doubt," of course, he means "browbeating the president about this bogus birth certificate issue relentlessly, crawling into bed with lunatics like Orly Taitz and falling for every hoax imaginable" for more than two years now. He's just so cute when he balls his fists up and bellows out in impotent rage -- especially when he simultaneously claims not to be doing so."

And look who shows up in comments!

"Please go to my site OrlyTaitzESQ.com to read the truth about Obama's illegitimacy to U.S. presidency. Simple fact, Obama is using today SS number 042-68-4425, issued to another individual in CT. (you can easily check, that 042 is assigned to SS applications coming from CT.) This number was issued when Obama resided in HI.Selective service confirms that Obama used this number since 1981. Not only he does not have a valid BC, he does not have a valid SS number of his own. The only thing that is more bogus, than Obama's presence in the WH, is Ed Brayton. His connection to science is as genuine, as connection of an alchemist to chemistry or connection of an astrologist to astronomy. He is an uneducated, rude Obama lackey. Please, read the truth on my site OrlyTaitzESQ.com

Posted by: orly taitz | September 17, 2010 2:07 PM"

I suspect Ed Brayton has a better connection to science than Dr. Orly has to the law - or reality.

"Rude? Orly, do you actually have the chutzpah to level that charge against anyone? After your conduct in several of the land's highest courts?

Pardon me for not asking your pardon. If I am rude it is only because I can be. And it's somehow very satisfying.

Posted by: Crudely Wrott | September 17, 2010 9:26 PM"

Yes, she's got the chutzpah. Or I should say the complete disconnect between her actions and reality.

You're listening to WUSS - Rock of the 70's and 80's

Since Birtherstan is quiet today, here's something completely off topic.

While listening to the Stephanie Miller Show's podcast, they started discussing the "Wussiest Songs of the 70's" (Air Supply was very much in their cross-hairs, but also on the list Climax, Al Stewart, Gary Wright, etc......) Problem is I LIKED a lot of their examples.

So, my readers fair, here's an open thread to give your answers to the worst song of that time period (I'll go has far as the 80's too), and worst band. What's your nominees??

Dispatches from Birtherstan - for 18-20 September 2010

In today's dispatches, we have Sam Sewell appropriately writing for Pravda, with some birther stars in the comments to boot. Philip Berg promply waxes lyrical about Sewell. For a change, we have some open and overt racism among the birtherstani. Dr. Orly is still delusional. The Pest and eFail gives Walter Fitzpatrick a forum to bitch about the military justice system, allowing him to vent about the two worms that eat his brain. Off Shore Jobs Bob has a Brand New Spiffy Idea for the Fantasy Tiddlywinks League. And once again the court of appeals tells a birther "no".

I would like to clarify something about my last dispatches though.

I did not intend to imply that Yosef Taitz had anything to do with a fake birth certificate or anything else about that rumour. Being as said rumour came from someone with even less credibility than Dr. Orly (i,e, Larry Sinclair), I tend to take it with a carton of Morton's iodized. Nor am I taking sides in the birtherstani civil war, as my usual response to Berg and Dr. Orly is "a plague on both your homes". The amusing part for me is Dr. Orly trying very hard to hide the fact that the majority of her cases for a long time were word-for-word copies of Philip Berg's cases.

17 September - Unlicensed "pastoral counselor" Sam Sewell finds a journalistic forum worthy of his propaganda talents - namely that third leg of the birther's tripod, right after World Nut Daily and the Globe Magazine.

Pravda OnLine.

The article itself is the usual rehashed and warmed over birther tripe, written in Sam Sewell's usually breathlessly arrogant style, and his catchphrase of "OMG".

Seems like he's been claiming the "OMG" moment for a long, long, long, long time now, hasn't he??

He also uses his background as an unlicenced "pastoral therapist" to make a "psychological evaluation" that is, of course, completely bogus and distorted by his own hatred and bias against Obama.

"Much has been written about AKA OBAMA's behavior that reminds mental health experts and others of NPD (Narcissistic Personality Disorder.)"

Much has been written by birthers on the subject, yes.

"A useful tool in evaluating things that are not known with certainty is Occam's razor. When multiple competing hypotheses are equal in other respects, the principle recommends selecting the hypothesis that introduces the fewest assumptions and postulates the fewest entities. It is in this sense that Occam's razor is usually understood. I condense this to the simple question: what is most likely? In our discussion of the documents which AKA has hidden, most of this article is an examination of which explanation is most likely.

For example, which is most likely;
(a) AKA OBAMA is hiding documents that are innocuous?
(b) AKA OBAMA is hiding documents that are damaging?"

Actually a better use of the Occam's razor theory is to apply it towards the entire birther movement. When you see official documents and verifiable evidence to support the claim that Obama was born in Hawaii, backed by 200+ years of US legal codes and US legal decisions confirming that "Natural Born Citizen" means "a citizen from birth, either having been born in the US or born overseas to a US citizen parent or parents", vs the birtherstani collection of unverified claims, outright lies, and increasingly complex conspiracy theories, then Occam's razor says that the hypothesis that introduces the fewest assumptions and postulates the fewest entities is that Obama was born in the United States and is a Natural Born US citizen.

Sam Sewell tries to use Occam's Razor to chose between two falsehoods, based on the faulty notion that Obama is hiding something.

Dispatches from Birtherstan - for 17 September 2010

In today's dispatches, fear and racism from The Pest and eFail. More "I don't care what the law says, this is how I want it to say!" from Leonard Daneman. Lucas Smith haz a blog. Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert haz a rally, and Dr. Orly wants to media whore herself into it.

But the most interesting (IMHO) is the affidavit that Berg submitted to the courts from Lisa Liberi's mother as part of the ongoing birtherstan civil war. To say she doesn't like Dr. Orly might be an understatement - and if certain aspects of it are true, Dr. Orly is even more loathsome and wretched an excuse for a human being than I thought. There are some levels a reasonable human being won't stoop to. And if this is accurate, Dr. Orly SWIMS it those levels.

15 September - More fear-mongering and racism from the Pest and eFail.

"Each and every day, The Obama is working to collapse more of this country’s Republic, while saying he is “saving” it. Does this remind anyone of Taqiyya–the Islamic practice of routinely lying to “infidels?” Note: He may not be a Muslim, but he seems to use some of their methods quite well."

Oh, and some interesting spin on the upcoming general election.

"Please remember in November that election fraud will be at its highest in US history to date. Remember in November that the ObamaThugs will be out in force to intimidate non-Democrat voters. Remember in November that all Marxists (Democrats AND RINOs) and anti-US Republic candidates are on their way out. Remember in November that We-the-People MUST turn out to vote in numbers never before seen in our country. But, most of all, remember on 2 November 2010 that this is the date We-the-People begin to take back our country."

So basically the party line is that if the GOP wins the House and/or the Senate, it's the "will of the people". If they fail to win either or both, it's election fraud by "ObamaThugs".

Nice. They've already explained away any possibility of loss as Yet Another Conspiracy. And to add fuel to THAT fire...

"mganzi says:
Thursday, September 16, 2010 at 10:14 AM
From another poster (paraphrased) “On November 2, the flicks of levers in our voting booths if honestly counted will set us back on course. If these votes are negated by the likes of ACORN, Black Panthers and/or Executive fiat, the next lever flicks to be heard will probably be from handheld pieces. Either works for me.”

So basically "we BETTER win the election OR ELSE" ??? My, how completely undemocratic and against the principles this country was founded on.