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Dispatches from Birtherstan - for 11-13 June 2011

In today's dispatches, "Rudy" needs thorazine, badly. Dr. Kate warns the DNC they better not nominate that scary dusky-hued man again if they know what's good for them.

The Pest and eFail posts a declaration from Gordon Epperly, which ignores certain of his past babble. They're also upset that Tennessee keeps ignoring Walter Fitzpatrick little nastygrams.

Carl Swensson gets his charges dropped, possibly though the legal procedure known as "singing like a bird". Darren Huff has no such luck with his tune. Herman Cain continues to play flirty birther games. And racism? In Free Republic? The deuce you say!

25 May - "Rudy", aka Lonestar1776, who we haven't seen since Lakin's court-martial, does another video. This is on Corsi's book, and he's up set that Corsi doesn't include Kerchner, Manning, Fitzpatrick, Lakin, and other birtherstani.

Which is then a springboard for the title of the video - "Are you willing to die?"

He's got a mad about Trump, calling for Trump be be hung from the nearest tree until dead (2:46), and seems to think it's going to make a birther "willing to die" to make people take the birthers seriously. Like, at 3:20, he states that James Manning is "willing to die", and that Corsi "isn't willing to die".

At about 4:19 he really goes off the rails, demanding that birthers who aren't willing to "lay their life down" get out of the way for those who are. At 4:25 he calls for someone "willing to step up to the plate and do what it takes and risk what it takes, and to put their life on the line to do what's 'right'"

No, I'm not kidding. And the screaming jag around 4:49 is just special. One gets the feeling he watches too much pro wrestling. And having to wipe off the spit from his face afterwards is a nice touch.

This is the kind of video that the news reporters show when asking why law enforcement failed to notice the warning signs.

Dispatches from Birtherstan - for 10 June 2011

In today's dispatches, Lep Donofrio courts the wrath of the birtherstani. Padawan Pauly comes up with a new legal theory even more crazy than his Sacred Sperm of Sovereign American Citizenship one.

Jerome Corsi's book seems to be gliding like a brick over the best sellers lists. And the Pest and eFail appeals to Sheriff Joe Arpaio to save them from the scary black man in the White House.

9 June - Leo Donofrio might find himself kicked out of the Birther Kool Kids Klub if he keeps up telling the truth like this.

"So here we see the US Government looking into an application for Visa extension by Soetoro. Further review of those documents reveal that the officials did not trust everything in Soetoro’s application. Therefore, the Government officials wanted to establish whether Obama Jr. was truly a US citizen. They made a direct inquiry on this very issue. And they concluded that Obama was born in Hawaii on August 4, 1961. Again, this was established by “W.L. Mix” of the central immigration office.

Having taken such an exhaustive look into Soetoro’s application, and especially considering the government’s examination of Obama’s citizenship, I don’t see how the government officials involved would have overlooked the fact that Stanley Ann Dunham would have been out of the US and far away in Kenya on the date W.L. Mix established as DOB for Obama – if Obama had been born in Kenya."

(Snip)

"I don’t see how two sets of US government officials, independently investigating the relationships between Soetoro and Dunham on one hand, and Obama Sr. and Dunham on the other, could both fail to reveal that Dunham would have been in Kenya at the time of Obama Jr.’s birth. The government officials would’ve had access to Dunham’s passport files. The contents thereof were relevant to the investigations since she was married to both men, and the marriages were relevant to immigration status, as was the issue of children.

Those who persist in accusing Obama of not being born in Hawaii do so in light of official government investigations, between 1961 and 1966, which established his birth, to the satisfaction of inquisitive government immigration officials, as having taken place on August 4, 1961 in Honolulu, Hawaii, USA.

As far as I’m concerned, the issue is settled with a massive presumption of authenticity. I do not see how the information published by WND regarding US immigration official W.L. Mix’s investigation into Obama’s US citizenship flew so far below the radar. That is the single most important fact I have come across that establishes Obama’s birth in Hawaii."

Oh dear. The birthers are going to remove him from their holiday card lists at this rate.

Dispatches from Birtherstan - for 9 June 2011

In today's dispatches, Dr. Orly makes a Times Magazine list. Dean Haskins and James Manning continues the "long form is phony this I know, for Douglas Vogt he told me so" song. The Pest and eFail sees one of their whiney letters published.

Dr. Orly gets a motion to intervene that's even more daft than Dr. Orly is. Molotov Mitchell does a "birthers 101" video that seems to spin the idea that World Nut Daily has always been 100% behind the birthers and that there wouldn't even be a birthers movement without Joseph Farah and his pornstar mustache.

Meanwhile World Nut Daily continues to try and profit off the birtherstani, Neil Turner shows his lack of knowledge about the Constitution. Again. And we have a Christa Chantal Allen sighting!

6 June - Time Magazine does a list of "Blogs We Could Do Without". And Dr. Orly's House of Malware makes the list

"Lawyer, dentist and ardent conspiracy theorist Orly Taitz is also a prolific blogger. She bills her site as the "world's leading Obama eligibility challenge website," TALKS IN CAPITAL LETTERS, dumps scans of documents into her posts without explanation and seeks donations via PayPal. And it may not stun you to learn that she's absolutely positive that the President's recently released birth certificate is a crude forgery."

Dispatches from Birtherstan - for 8 June 2011

Quiet day in birtherstan. Steve Cooper takes some time off. Tracy Doresy ends up taking her ball and going off to break the rules at LiveLeak.

Sharon Rondeau thinks "Ulsterman" is the bees knees. While the Pest and eFail continues their call for treason. coups, and sedition.

Jerome Corsi's book is in free-fall. Dr. Orly pretty much tells the judge "F-U!!" and does what she wants. And the Pest and eFail wants to know not only why the FBI won't take crackpot Douglas Vogt seriously, but why can't the FBI arrest Obama's entire family and throw them in solitary while they look into Vogt's claims??

26 May - Remember Steve Cooper, aka the "Conservative Monster" from James Manning's play trial?? Well, looks like he may have been one of the first birthers to get discouraged.

"I am taking 6 months off soon and I will be enjoying life. The "American idiots" voted for this communist in the White House...so choke on him. I am done breaking my ass. For what? Romney? PLEASE, the next election will be fixed and stolen with massive voter fraud. You heard it HERE. "

Bitter, party of one.

"My personal life has suffered in many ways from The Conservative Monster.com in regards to relationships and financially."

Wonder if he's managed to alienate his family like many of the people on Dr. Kate's blog have?? Certainly his comments are just as dafffy:

"05-26-2011 Steve Cooper wrote:
I am not abandoning anything; I am enjoying life. I have been fighting this war on the internet for over 8 years, since before Obama was a household name. No election will save us, because this is an international conspiracy and they are working for satan. This is now in God's hands...

Dispatches from Birtherstan - for 7 June 2011

In today's dispatches, Joseph Farah needs to learn that when being accused of racism, STOP DIGGING. The Pest and eFail announces a new policy, going from "we're going to practice censorship with your comments" to "we're not going to allow them at all".

Jerome Corsi continues to explore new lows of humanity, while his latest book explores new lows in prices. Dr. Kate is still looking on how to make normal people has crazy as she is. OPOVV decides to take his sheets and bullets and go home.

"Ulsterman" continues to make stuff up. The birthers get a new playhouse for the Kool Kids Klub. And Carl Swensson tries to convince the Georgia GOP to dig up the corpse of that state's birther bill and give it another go.

2 June - Note to Joseph Farah:

When one is complaining about people referring to birthers as racist, then maybe, just maybe, the one who hires people like Jerome Corsi (who has appeared on white nationalist radio shows), and supports people like Tim Adams (who gave his story ON said white nationalist radio show while at a white nationalist convention), isn't the one who should be complaining.

"The New York Times and CNN and other major media outlets published and broadcast dozens of stories questioning McCain's qualification as a "natural born citizen" – ultimately leading to a hearing in the U.S. Senate and a unanimous finding that the senator was eligible because both his parents were U.S. citizens.

That has always been the accepted definition of a "natural born citizen"

Ignoring the minor fact that it has NOT "always been the accepted definition", the fact that outlets like Newsmax and World Nut Daily publish dozens of stories A MONTH on Obama's eligibility shows a bit of hypocricy.

There was a question about McCain due to his not having been born in the US. It was determined he was a natural born citizen due to having citizenship at birth though his parents. Obama was born in Hawaii, therefore there was no such question until the birthers came up with their de Vattelist crap.

"Let me point out that the white guy in the 2008 presidential race – the guy who had served in Congress for 30 years and previously run for president – was the one forced to prove his eligibility. The half-black guy – with three years in Congress, whose two fathers were both foreign citizens and who attended school in Indonesia as an Indonesian citizen, was not asked to prove anything!"

Except the questions about the middle name on his birth certificate, place of birth, religion, parentage, travel..........

"Maybe now that a totally unqualified black man, who is ineligible to boot, has been elected to the presidency, we can stop whining about racism in America?"

And like most birthers, Farah digs himself even deeper when trying to claim he's not a racist. They don't seem to know when to stop before undermining their whole argument.

Dispatches from Birtherstan - for 4-6 June 2011

In today's dispatches, looks like tribble mobility scooter Donald Trump may not be done playing birther games yet. A 2009 article in a German Conspiracy / Humor site is so obviously a joke that no rational human would call for it. Which means, of course, the birthers do fall for it.

Tracy Dorsey's video is pulled by YouTube for Terms of Service violations. Since the birthers could care less about things to do with "facts", "laws" or "the rules", she starts to repost it over and over again.

The subjects at the Pest and eFail need their rabies shots. The floaters at Dr. Kate's cesspool continue to win over their friends and families. The Pest and eFail continues their traditions of calling for coups and writing whiney letters. Though one spittle-flecked diatribe would be applauded at Stormfront. The LA times writes about political conspiracy nuts. And Jerome Corsi swims in the tears of the mother of a dead child.

3 June - Looks like Donald Trump is still playing flirty birther games.

"Trump, who has since tried to stoke talk of his running as an independent, reprised his calls for Obama’s birth certificate — though the White House officially released a long-form copy of the document in April.

“I don’t know exactly what he showed, but you know, someday somebody’s gonna figure that one out,” he said."

Dispatches from Birtherstan - for 3 June 2011

In today's dispatches, we see the strawman approach to de Vattelist arguments. Tracy Dorsey comes up with an "investigative video" about "obots" which seems to result in "laughter" by the people "outed" in said "video".

Robert Bauer goes to work for Obama's re-election campaign, and the result is that the birtherstani again show their ability to put two and two together and come up with avocado. Docket updates in Dr. Orly's FOIA (basically "stop publishing SS numbers you ditz), which Dr. Orly seems to be seeing as a Glorious People's Victory.

Jerome Corsi and Lame Cherry both seem to think that Bauer leaving signals the start of the Return of President Hillary Clinton. Dr. Kate has a contest due to the lack of numbers in birtherstan. And Lawrence Sellin repeats the birther mantra of "....any day now.....any day now....."

1 June - Over at "Canada Free Press", Dean Haskins opines on why "liberals" can't accept the de Vattelist's definition of "Natural born" = "two citizen parents".

"Since the framers used Law of Nations as the blueprint for our Constitution, and they used a term that is found in Law of Nations as part of the law they were penning, and there is no evidence that any other definition for that term existed at the time of the framing, is it not just simple logic to understand that, if they had meant anything other than Vattel’s definition, they would have clearly specified those variances within the mandate? They didn’t; so the only honest conclusion is that Vattel’s definition is precisely what the framers penned into law."

Three problems with this claim:

1) No proof that the framers used de Vattel's "The Law of Nations" as a blueprint for the Constitution. Even if they did, they would be more likely to use the proper definition of such as shown in the original French, rather than the English translation the birthers cling to - the one that's ten years newer than the Constitution.

2) The only time the phrase "laws of nations" is used in the Constitution is in terms of international law and piracy on the high seas. There is no evidence that de Vattel was used as the template for citizenship requirements.

3) If, indeed, "The Law of Nations" was used as the blueprint for the Constitution, we would expect to see articles in the Constitution regarding the right of the state to restrict freedom of Speech (Book 1, § 114), the right to establish a state-controlled religion (Book 1, § 127), the restriction of weapons ownership to the military and nobility (Book 1, § 176), or the right of the state to take private property at need (Book 2, § 81).

Instead we see portions of the Constitution that go directly against these parts of "The Laws of Nations".

"Simplified, this is what liberals would have us believe:

The framers drew heavily from Vattel in writing the Constitution
The framers stated A (without any caveats)
Vattel’s was the only definition of A that existed at the time
A and B are not equivalent
Liberals claim the framers meant B"

Interesting strawman argument here. However, it's more accurate (in this moderate's mind), to go:

There's no proof the framers drew heavily from Vattel in writing the Constitution
There's no proof the framers used the "Natural Born" = "two citizen parents" rule
There were other definitions of "Natural Born Citizen" at the time, including Blackstone, which most of the legally-trained framers would have been more familiar with.
There's significant aspects of the US Constitution that directly contradict de Vattel.

Dispatches from Birtherstan - for 2 June 2011

In today's dispatches, "World o' Crap" comments on a world (nut daily) o' crap. The Pest and eFail publishes a long, rambling demand that elected officials do SOMETHING about that scary black man in the WHITE House. Complete with comments from the usual members of the 101st Fighting Keyboards.

But don't worry, they also take the time for the Pest and eFail's proud tradition of whiney demanding letters. Dr. Kate does a CALL TO ACTION among the floaters in her cesspool. Some conspiracy blather about Lucas Smith, who's still a guest of the Pima County Jail. Douglas Vogt continues his "Great White Hope" tour, and Rolling Stone comments on the nasty from the birthers.

31 May - "World O' Crap" comments on World Nut Daily's continued attempt to milk the birtherstani wallets dry.

"I'm no journalist. I am -- not to boast -- a U.S. citizen, but since I only have a Social Security card, a passport, and a certified copy of my birth certificate from the County Registrar's office, I can't prove it to Joseph Farah's satisfaction, so I don't even qualify as a citizen journalist. And even if I did, Mr. Farah was running newspapers into the ground long before I ever heard the word "blogger," so where do people like me get off criticizing his professional bona fides?

I have, however, seen The Grifters, The Flim-Flam Man, and more than a few Three Card Monte games, so I feel qualified to appreciate Mr. Farah's performance in other, though related industries. For instance, his work as a human centrifuge designed to separate fools from their money, a career which began with his co-founding of the Western Journalism Center in 1991."

*LAUGH!!!*

Dispatches from Birtherstan - for 1 June 2011

In today's dispatches, I have two additions to my "mythbusting" page, and I do some writing about the latest birther "Great White Hope", Douglas Vogt.

The Pest and eFail continue their tradition of whiney and abusive letters to elected officials. Corsi sends a complaint to the FBI, pity he can't find a better source.

The Daily Beast writes about why the birthers keep coming back, and Dr. Kate goes off on a rant about teh ebil of sociologists.

First I'd like to take a bit of time and address what seems to be the Birther's latest "Great White Hope", that of Douglas Vogt and his so-called "research"

Now the claim to fame that Vogt has is that he runs a company that sells scanners and scanner software. Somehow the idea that this makes him a forensic document expert has taken root with the birthers. It would be much like someone who sells cars calling themselves an automotive engineering expert.

Dr. Conspiracy addresses and does a take-apart of Douglas Vogt's research here. However, I'd like to point out Vogt's other work. You see, he also runs a book publishing company called "Vector Associates". And he doesn't just publish, he writes books too! For example, his book on "Multidimensional Reality":

Reality Revealed

"This historically important philosophy of science books is the first in history to theorize the Universe is the product of information. The first information theory of existence. explains many of the hardest phenomena in the Universe such as: the causes of the ice ages, polar reversals, mass extinctions, gravity, light, pyramid energy, kirlian photography, psychic phenomena, and more. the Table of Contents is listed below. We offer free downloads in text format of the whole book.

The first information theory of existence. explains many of the hardest phenomena in the Universe such as: the causes of the ice ages, polar reversals, mass extinctions, gravity, light, pyramid energy, kirlian photography, psychic phenomena, and more!"