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Dispatches From Birtherstan - 3-4 January 2013

In today's dispatches, Dr. Orly has her date in court (basically, no, you can't have TRO, not yours). The birthers reply with a tantrum that couldn't be matched by an over-stimulated 2 year old on a sugar high who just lost their sippy-cup.

We also have Dr. Kate's merry band of septic tank floaters. World Nut Daily begs Chief Justice Roberts to save us from the scary black president. "Birther Report" continues their spiral down the drain, now making themselves a thought-free zone where only approved birtherspeak is tolerated.

Despite the best efforts of the birthers, the electoral college vote is, yes, confirmed again. And Cody Judy is trying to pimp his case (results next monday, I would be amazed if it's not rejected).

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 - 12 April 2011

In today's dispatches, Paul Guthrie aka "Padawan Pauly" writes more of his "Natural Law" blather and not even the birtherstani are willing to accept it, particularly not Mario Apuzzo. Professional Seditionist Sharon Rondeau touts the freedom of speech standard that the Pest and eFail upholds (unless, of course, you happen to support Obama or otherwise disagree with their party line.) Convicted forger and felon Lucas Smith writes a soft-core porn story as a declaration in support of Theresa Cao, which Holy Cao herself submits along with a mass of Sovereign Citizen droppings.

Sedition in the comments of the Pest and eFail? It's WAY more likely than you think. We have advice to reporters interviewing the undead marmosets attached to Donald Trump's skull. Some birthers are realizing Lucas Smith may be less than credible (which of course they blame on Obama.) Joseph Farah admits that World Nut Daily lies though their teeth for their stories. Sher Zieve and Neil Turner form "Seditionists for Trump". Dr. Kate tries to tell the birthers it's aways been about de Vattel, and that they've always been at war with Eastasia.

The Pest and eFail seems to have a flexible viewpoint on "acceptable times to override, bypass, or rewrite the Constitution", while continuing their tradition of whiney letters. One of their favourite seditionists throws Sarah Palin under the bus. April Downs gets released from her torture. And a quick trip to the PUMA litterbox known as PUMAPac results in some major irony.

11 April - Wading though the comments on Padawan Pauly's latest written defecation, I'm finding not even many birthers are willing to believe his tripe.

"Mike says:
Monday, April 11, 2011 at 11:11 PM

...Up until DNA identification it was impossible to prove who the father was of all any and all children born in the world. All you had was
1. The mothers word that she was not intimate with another male at the time of conception.
2. Similarities in features between the father and child.
Given that it is expected that a women would lie on this issue for obvious reasons a Natural Born Citizen status could not be conveyed by the status of male."

Something that's been pointed out to him before.

Dispatches from Birtherstan - 18 March 2011

And as this week in birtherstan draws to a close, Dr. Orly chalks up another loss on her court record. Nellie Ristvedt relies on bigfoot expert Doug Hagmann to explain why Glenn Beck hasn't boarded the crazy train to birtherstan. Dr. Kate continues to show her lack of knowledge about the Constitution.

The Pest and eFail has not one, but two calls for revolution. One for a "peaceful" one, and one so full of threats it ranks it's own link to the FBI tips hotline. The Fake Examiner shows it's got the same moral conviction and backbone as a bowl full of chicken jello. And "Jennifer C" is kind enough to share with us ANOTHER puppet video - and it looks like the person behind those videos is a regular at Dr. Orly's house o' malware!

14 March - Court order up on motion to dismiss in Dunn v Taitz.

(Scribd link here)

"There are no appearances by any party.

The Court, having taken the above-entitled matter under submission on 3/14/11, now makes the following ruling:

The court grants the motion for judgment on the pleading. The facts stated in the complaint are not sufficient to support any causes of action for violation of the Elections Code. Further, the facts do not support the elements of a state a cause of action to recover the costs of an election campaign under a theory of common law fraud. The court cannot see that any amendments to the complaint will cure the defects, so the motion is granted without leave to amend.

Court orders clerk to give notice."

Dr. Orly maintains her perfect track record of losing her cases.

Dispatches from Birtherstan - 3 February 2011

In today's dispatches, Off-Shore Jobs Bob seems to have come home and started to work for a living. Dr. Orly, the Pest and eFail, and Dr. Kate all seem hot to trot about the crisis in Egypt right now, while World Nut Daily uses it to pimp books. Dr. Orly outs debunkers who were never hidden, and in the process shows a major contempt for the first amendment. The problems with the birther bills are pointed out. World Nut Daily stomps their feet and demands that the birthers be taken seriously. And Sharon Rondeau gets her hands on the Fitzpatrick transcript and finds.......nothing.

31 January - Looks like Off-Shore Jobs Bob may not be so off-shore anymore.

"Viewers, members, friends and acquaintances — it is time for Bob Campbell to hang it up as Editor of American Grand Jury. This has been a very tough decision for me to make. I love this Blog and the American Grand Jury concept. I have vacillated over the decision thinking I could please everyone by keeping the Blog going. I just cannot. I don’t have the time nor the energy right now. "

Translation - "I couldn't con as many of you out of your money as I thought"

"For the past 2 years I have been living in China and free time was not an issue."

Makes me wonder what he was doing there. Goofing-off??

"The American Grand Jury experiment was something to keep myself and our members immersed in our Country, Constitution and Patriot Causes. It was also the only way I knew how to attack Obama’s fraud and eligibility in an honest and forthright manner."

Here's a hint - "honest and forthright" doesn't mean "using lies, myths, falsehoods, and questionable legal claims to a validity you don't have"

"Now that I am back in the United States things are more difficult for me and my family. The cost of living is much higher and my time is more valuable. I have accepted a job with my brother’s company which means I will be traveling through-out Arizona 2 to 3 days a week. That doesn’t leave time for me to continue publishing articles on the Blog."

Why do I suspect either his business interests in China cratered, or he was politely asked to leave said country?

"I think we had a very good run here at American Grand Jury."

Well, if you can call an unbroken string of failure "a very good run"

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??

Note to Readers - 1 July 2010

NOTE: I will be on "Land of the Obots" on Blog Talk Radio tonight (1 July 2010) at 5:30pm PST (8:30pm Eastern)

It's a two hour show, and we'll be going over the latest from Birtherstan, as well as taking call-in questions.

See you then!

Memorial Day - 31 May 2010

Dr. John McCrae's words echo as well today as they did 95 years ago.

In Flanders fields the poppies blow
Between the crosses, row on row,
That mark our place; and in the sky
The larks, still bravely singing, fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below.

We are the Dead. Short days ago
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
Loved, and were loved, and now we lie
In Flanders fields.

Take up our quarrel with the foe:
To you from failing hands we throw
The torch; be yours to hold it high.
If ye break faith with us who die
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
In Flanders fields.

To those who have given the ultimate sacrifice for their country, thank you. For you all, there shall be a returning.

Dispatches from Birtherstan - for 14 April 2010

In today's dispatches, we have some logical reasons why the Kenyan birth story has more holes in it than a donut factory. The Tea Party doesn't seem to want to play well with Dr. Orly, or extremists in general. World Nut Daily is being whiney because they're not being treated like serious journalists, (hint, maybe they need to try being journalists rather than propagandists). Lakin's supporters are tying to wrap their tiny brains around the idea a Medal of Honor winner read their "hero" his article 31 rights. And more of Margaret Hemenway's connections are made public.

21 March - New York Leftist does some number crunching to show how utterly unlikely it was - from several viewpoints - that Obama was born in Kenya.

First, societal and medical:

"Would Barack Sr. even take a white pregnant wife to Kenya? First, his father was adamantly against inter-marriage. Second, he was already married to a woman in his village. And Ann Dunham could not have gone to Kenya without a yellow fever vaccination - which cannot be given to a pregnant woman. She would also need hepatitis A, typhoid, diphtheria, and tetanus vaccinations, and a polio booster."

So let's see. Father dead set against his son marrying a white woman. Pregnant woman unable to be vaccinated against diseases in the region.

Logically, not a chance this would happen for either reason.

Then there's travel"

"The Boeing 707 did not go into service until late 1959. When my half-sister flew to/from New York in 1964, half of the time it was on a prop plane. The 707 had not yet replaced all the fleets. So the trip, on a prop plane, would have looked like this:
.
Honolulu - San Francisco, change planes
San Francisco - Chicago, change planes
Chicago - New York, change planes
New York - London, change planes
London - Nairobi
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That's five days, plus layovers. The New York - London - Nairobi legs would have been on a BOAC Viscount 810, a prop plane with a top speed of 200 MPH."

So quite the trip to and from.

Then there's the travel economics:

"How would they have paid for the trip? They were impecunious students. Ann's father was a furniture salesman, and her mother was a bank teller. Here is what the trip would have cost:
.
In 1961, Honolulu - Nairobi RT airfare was £476. That's £7,335, or $11, 025 in constant dollars - each person. Ann and Barack Sr. would have had to pay $22, 050 cash on the barrel head. Per capita income in 1959 in Hawaii was $1,863 or $13,872 in constant dollars. In other words, two tickets would have been a year's salary from each of her parents."

Ouch!! Pretty pricy!

Birtherstani New Year Shindig - Birther Update

And as 2009 draws to a close, the birthers and the birtherstani mullahs are running around screaming because not only is no one taking them seriously, but it's almost 2010 and Obama is still, despite their claims and projections and on-line petitions and fake "grand juries" and lawsuits, STILL in the White House and the birthers are STILL losing in the courts.

This tends to make them a wee bit cranky.

22 December - CEL3 seems to like to air his dirty laundry in public. Case in point:

"I do not think for two nano-seconds that what has happened between Orly and me is merely a “falling out.” Her treachery to me and the mortgage litigation which could have saved thousands of people their homes and showed the flaws in “Obamanomic” Socialism (which is, honestly, just a logical and even incrementally predictable outgrowth of Bush’s Grand Old Party Socialism) is not merely personal but leads me to question her willingness and commitment to fairness, honesty, justice, openness, and transparency, all the qualities for which we are allegedly fighting against Obama."

Ooooh, get the feeling he's a tad bit annoyed at his former paramour??

"You see, I happen to believe that Obama is a secretive, lying, thief who stole the Presidency based on fraud and trickery. He is also a socialist."

Sounds like he's trying to position himself as one of the next big names in Birtherstan.

" It was my belief that Orly and I were such people and I begged her to “come clean” and openly admit what had happened."

Which sounds much better than "My hotter, wetter, tighter Moldovanian love muffin and I were copulating like lust-crazed ferrets any chance we got while on her Dental Chair o' Loooove"

"My feelings for her were always entirely honorable"

In the sense of "abusing her law license to play my mortgage games" is honorable.

"Orly promised to aim her passion and dramatics against the Banks, which would have been a fantastic use of her talents."

In the sense of watching a mentally-challenged chihuahua trying to fight against a pack of very annoyed rottweilers would be.