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Dispatches from Birtherstan - 5-9 April 2012

Thank you for your patience, but I needed a few days away from my listening post near the borders of birtherstan. Family is far more important to me than these seditious self-important nut balls are.

Anyway, in today's dispatches, we have the usual GOP flirts at birthers, followed by the usual GOP trying to get the stink of birther off. Godfather Politics is fast becoming a complete and utter cesspool. Dr. Orly is upset that Corsi and friends are daring to go after the birther bucks she wants to go after.

Dr. Orly's buddy David Earl-Graef has a mad at Sen. John McCain, has does Dr. Kate and Dr. Orly. The Western Center for "Journalism" has an odd idea of "breaking news". Dr. Orly plans to show up for Rudy's down-south birtherpollza. Charles Kerchner has an odd idea about civilian control of the military.

Dr. Orly passes on Leah Lax's latest brainfart. Joe Arpaio seems to be noticing that the GOP isn't flocking to his birtherism like they do everything else. Carl Swennson posts an anti-semitic video.

And then, there's Lame Cherry. Gods help us all.

Dispatches from Birtherstan - 3-4 April 2012

In today's dispatches, Dr. Orly gets the coveted felon endorsement. Disgruntled PUMA Bettina Viviano's claims get traction at World Nut Daily, Corsi's cabin boy Joe Arpaio, and at a site called "Godfather Politics" that really really REALLY needs to be on the top of the Secret Service's watch list.

Though the sedition, hatred, and death threats at Godfather Politics didn't stop a Fox News Anchor from thinking it was just peachy keen to share on Twitter. And it looks like Joe Arpaio decided to go full metal birther as a way to explain away the fact that his office was jerking the Department of Justice around.

Dr. Orly is in creepy obsessive stalker mode (well, moreso than usual), with a particular hatred towards Philip Berg and anyone who dares force her to act like a real attorney rather than a nitrous-addled chinese crested dog. Dr. Kate is currently listening to the waters of Lake Conspiracy.

The PUMAs are starting to get dusted off by their friends in the far right. We have Obama as the result of an Illuminati breeding programme. The Georgia Supreme Court tells the birtherstani involved that that state's birther ballot jihad a very familiar word. Lawrence Sellin surfaces at Margaret Hemenway's old haunt. And the drums of sedition and treason grow ever louder in birtherstan.

Dispatches from Birtherstan - 27-28 March 2012

In today's dispatches, once again the ties that a birther has with their family are shown. Rudy Davis decides to use a local church for his own birtherpoolza. Joe Arpario has an interview with the former Radio Moscow, followed by a Corsi-attended press conference where Arpaio and Carl Seel whined that Seel's birther bill is stuck in committee.

Also, Arpaio and Corsi's response to the claims of "media blackout" is to have no media for their upcoming tea party spew.

We're introduced to JEFF BOSS a democrat and birther WHO TYPES IN ALL CAPS to underscore the serious fact that he's BATGUANO CRAZY. The Western Center for "Journalism" loves them some Lucas Smith. Hugh McInnish gets told no by the Alabama Supreme Court, though one Justice seems to be whistling dixie. Dr. Orly tries to get Joe Arpaio and Mike Zullo out to Mississippi for a command performance. Dean Haskins interviews a British Birther who's Barking Mad.

And the lines are increasingly becoming blurred between Lame Cherry and a a KKK site.

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 - 3-4 January 2012

In today's dispatches, "Politics Today" recycles parody. Two year in reviews from funny people. Lawrence Sellin tries to tell elected officials "ignore the facts and the law, just keep that scary black man off the ballot or else!!"

There's birtherism, and then there's REALLY crazy conspiracy theories. Some decisions in the upcoming Georgia Birther Ballot Jihad, including one that has become the latest Great White Hope to the birtherstani.

Birther elected officials in New Hampshire throw a mini-fit, and the result in the reality-based community is "meh". Dr. Orly shows her lack of legal understanding again. Swiftboat liar Jerome Corsi wants people to stop talking smack about his hunky sheriff - or at least keep their nose out of his abuses in office.

A motion to dismiss is filed in the Alabama Birther Ballot Jihad. And Lame Cherry seems to be either completely off the meds, or throwing in the towel. Or both.

Over the last four days I've had a few more people donate to my tip jar.

Quite honestly I'm humbled to know my writing is valued like that.

I was reluctant to put the tip jar up or comment on it, since the last thing I wanted to do was follow the birthers lead in constantly hitting up their followers for donations. It is not my intention to ever hit up my readers for money or do fundraising drives. If you want to, throw some money in. If you don't want to, enjoy the blog anyway.

Thanks to those who did donate though. As I said, it's a humbling experience.

Dispatches from Birtherstan - 8-9 November 2011

In today's dispatches, talk show host Laurie Roth seems to be the latest birther Great White Hope. Mario Apuzzo takes a dip into Lake Malcolm X Conspiracy. Dr. Orly is upset that real attorneys don't want to spend time and money on her.

The Veterans Against The Constitution rally is starting to look like a Maytag Repairman convention. Dr. Orly harasses the courts some more. World Nut Daily proudly announces the advent of censorship in the comments. "Fellowship of the Minds" worries about satanic pizza.

Dr. Orly has more important things to think about than her dental patients. The Pest and eFail seems to be becoming a home for the "too right wing and crazy for the current GOP" crowd. Jerome Corsi wants real reporters to do his work for him. And Victoria Jackson seems to be in the race for "dumbest hominid currently banging rocks together."

Because Hell, Hell is for birthers....

So I was visiting a friend in Vancouver BC over the weekend, and stopped to get a take-out menu at Hell Pizza in North Vancouver.

Hell Pizza is a chain that started in New Zealand. They have a reputation for a rather irreverent sense of humour, pizzas named after the seven deadly sins, and ads like this one for lamb shanks.

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They're also known for their habit of using people's complaints about their motif in advertising. Which may be why I found a reference to birther site "Fellowship of the Minds" on their take out menu. Seems that on 1 September 2011, FotM put on their cranky pants about Hell Pizza....

"Another sign of the demented times we live in. There is a pizza store called Hell Pizza.

I’m not kidding.

Its brick-and-mortar store is located in North Vancouver (didn’t know Hell is in Vancouver!), but Hell Pizza has a website, with this charming (sarc) logo:

It has 25 pizza selections, beginning with “Lust: Pepperoni, Salami, Ham, Bacon & Andoullie lashed with your choice of sauce e.g, BBQ, Sweet Chilli, Smokey BBQ or Tomato.”

Then there are Gluttony, Greed, Sloth, Wrath, Envy, Pride (V), Nemesis, Creator, Pandemonium, Mordor, Mischief, Underworld, Mayhem, Cursed, Trouble, Brimstone, Grimm, Serpent, Damned (V), Sinister (Vegan), Limbo (V), Purgatory (V), The 333, The 666."

And look! Racism in the comments!

"josephbc69 | September 1, 2011 at 11:16 am | Reply
Take it from yr Canadian correspondent/ex-pat, Vancouver HAS indeed, gone to Hell. I last lived there in 1987, and left then as it was going downhill fast. The tsunami of the Chinese did bring some superb restaurants, but the crowding is insufferable. I moved to Victoria, BC in 1993 and haven’t been to Hongcouver since, except to get off the ferry so I could get Dakota, my newest Pom, from his caretaker, get back on the ferry and return to twenty-years-behind the-times Victoria!"

It's amazing how people can get their panties in a knot over the littlest things...

Dispatches from Birtherstan - 29 July - 1 August 2011

(NOTE - Bad Fiction will be on holiday during the month of August. I will try and stick to updates 2-3 times a week during this month)

In today's dispatches, looks like Vogt and Irey plan to join Dr. Orly's Hawaiian failure tour. The Pest and eFail and Birther Report have articles about Gary Wilmott's call into a a radio show where Wilmott came off as a complete and total loon.

The Daily Pen has an interesting butterfly theory on Obama, and by interesting I mean really really stupid. Lawrence Sellin continues to see how far he can push the line before crossing over into calling for a violent overthrow of the government and Obama's death.

Birther Report comments on Dr. Orly's newest lawsuit. "One Pissed-Off Vietnam Vet" doesn't like the fact that reports on Anders Behring Breivik makes him sound a like like a Pest and eFail writer. More Pest and eFail whiney letters. Birtherpoolza gets a couple more members. And a new article at the fake Examiner with an interesting new 16 year old "expert"

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 - 25 May 2011

In today's dispatches, the facts are never a birthers friend, but you think that some basic fact check about their own cases might be of benefit. The Pima County Sheriff's has a familar name as their guest. Leo Donofrio speaks, while the birthers continue to rave about Jerome Corsi's book o' lies.

The Pest and eFail is all moist over Dr. Orly's "subpoena". "One Pissed-Off Vietnam Vet" continues to be cranky, while the Pest and eFail actually publishes an article from "Jack the Marine" that doesn't tap dance around the issue or play coy flirty games, no, it actually calls for a military coup in just those exact words.

Donofrio and Pidegon need to break out the checkbook. And MissTickly breaks her silence to go off into conspiracyland and it's trained seals of both kinds.

11 May - The American Independent Party news has a rather interestingly fact-free article up by one Charles Fettinger of the Doo Doo Economics Blog.

"The first damning fact was his failure to disclose simple documents like birth certificates, school records and the like prior to the election."

He did, next?

"Next, his campaign and media allies manufactured an atmosphere of ridicule around all who questioned him"

Oh, it wasn't his campaign and media allies who made you people look like fools...

"Third, he was served in the Drake / Keyes v. Obama suit four times, but delayed response until he was sworn in"

There's a problem here. Drake/Barnett/Keyes v Obama was filed 20 January 2009, the day Obama was sworn in. In addition, it was filed AFTER he was sworn in. Fettinger is either confusing dates and cases, or making crap up.

"and then responded by assigning the U.S. Justice Department in an attempt to intimidate"

Funny, when you file a lawsuit against the President of the United States, the Justice Department tends to show up.

"The Obama administration had no counter precedent and could only rely on the fact that the suit was not answered prior to the inauguration."

Hard to answer a suit prior to the inauguration when it isn't filed until AFTER the inauguration.

"In fact, Obama lost this case by default and the only remaining option was to manufacture a precedent that fit the facts of the case to be used upon appeal."

Is he confusing this with Berg's claim that Obama didn't answer within 30 days and therefore he won via default, Dr. Orly's various default claims, or simple pig ignorance on how the law works?