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Dispatches from Birtherstan - 8-11 July 2011

In today's dispatches, looks like the birtherstani are starting to wake up from their torpor. Little Sammy Sewell piddles on the carpet over a locked to the public mass email from "Tea Party Nation". Convicted forger and felon Lucas Smith is out on parole and dining with familiar friends. Not to mention still trying to convince people his fake Kenyan birth certificate is, of course, real.

James Manning has a new idea - yet another fake trial, with Manning himself as the chief prosecutor. Don't know yet if they're going to draw the jury from the same pool of birther sites they used last time. Dean Haskins is promoting the hell out of his birther summit, billed as a meeting for all birthers (provided they kiss Dr. Orly's ring and believe exactly the same as he does that is.) Meanwhile, Walter Fitzpatrick thinks Haskins is focusing on the wrong issue.

Sellin has another seditionberry. Vallely's mythical CIA agents appear all over the place. Apuzzo has a new legal hemorrhoid to inflict on people. Looks like Sharon Rondeau has been birthing, lying, and being racist for a while now. Some of Dr. Kate's floaters want her to surf to the aid of Dr. Orly. WIlliam Lolli Lolli Lolli (get your nutjobs here) thinks Obama is using some super secret birther judo to foil the Republicans.

The Pest and eFail continues their whiney letter parade, with excursions into bad poetry and requests for law enforsement to overthrow the government, thanks. Ron Ewart has a bold new plan for the birthers - more lawsuits!! And Dr. Kate looks at the media and goes "well isn't that special......"

Dispatches from Birtherstan - for 6-7 July 2011

It's been pretty quiet of late in birtherstan. Oh, sure, you get the usual wingbat theories about the birth certificate, the usual de Vattel rants, and Dr. Orly going off her meds and screeching at things in general.

But they seem to be in the doldrums of late. Despite Carl Swensson's great idea of surrounding the Georgia Capitol building until they institute that state's birther bill, it and all the other birther bills that were going to keep Obama off the ballot have failed. The long form was released and the majority of people accept it. Donald Trump went from being their Great White Hope to a washed up has been. The Pest and eFail is now mostly whiney letters since they dropped comments.

And they don't have much else. Orly's lawsuit of the week. Sellin's sedition. Dr. Kate's conspiracy corner. This "birther summit" thingamabob. And the usual "He's not the president! He's not he's not he's not!! WAHHHH!!" tantrums.

But a surprising lack of news or info. Of course, as the 2012 primaries and general election gets closer, it might pick up again.

Anyway, the Pest and eFail comments on Dr. Orly's latest legal fumble. Corsi comes up with a brand new anonymous "expert". Dean Haskins reveals more about his "birther summit".

Lawrence Sellin comes up with two new "revolution now" articles written from the safety of his home in Helsinki. Dr. Kate's crowd finds a birther who's REALLY out there.

Joseph Farrah touts his seven "experts". And more info about the fact that President Obama's parents marriage was confirmed BEFORE HIS BIRTH by US Officials, oh, and his dad was a jerk too.

Dispatches from Birtherstan - for 3 - 5 July 2011

Birther Summits and more calls for revolt and coups. Welcome to how the birtherstani celebrate the Fourth of July.

1 July - And Dean Haskin's comes up with the next great fail for the birthers - a "Birther Summit"

"..retired Major General Paul Vallely stated that he had “ex-CIA and investigators look at Obama’s birth certificate, and 10 out of 10 said it was a forgery.”

Let me amend my previous statement: there is not a single reputable forensic document examiner or software expert who has risked his reputation or career by authenticating that specious computer image."

Well, other than the State of Hawaii, who should know something about their own records. And, on the flip side of it, there's not been any reputable forensic document examiner or software expert who has claimed forgery either.

"It is time, for the sake of this nation, and our Constitution, that we have a Birther Summit! We’ll even abide by your setting certain parameters of such a summit. Accordingly, if you would like, there could be leaders from both sides of this issue assembled. You gather as many of your colleagues as you desire, and I’ll bring various leaders from our movement (which will include attorneys, Ph.Ds, and military, as well as other notable spokespeople). "

So let's see. Dr. Orly, Dr, Kate, Sharon Rondeau, Paul Vallely, Ron Polland / Polarik, Joseph Farah, Mario Apuzzo, Charles Kerchner, Walter Fitzpatrick, and who else??

Verses the State of Hawaii and the Full Faith and Credit Clause of the US Constitution.

Birthers fail again.

"I would ask, though, that in addition to anyone else who might be in attendance, you would assure me of the presence of Jack Maskell (CRS). I would be most honored for the opportunity to speak directly to him in such a setting. There are more than a few questions I would like for him to answer."

I suspect you wouldn't like the answers.