“Miss Marble” Did Indeed Have One Marble, But Where Were The Others???

As the ObamaReleaseYourRecords blog reports, Ohio Birther Susan Daniels, P.I. got a reality check from Geauga County Prosecuting Attorney, David Joyce:

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Here is where you can read the entire story:

http://obamareleaseyourrecords.blogspot.com/2012/10/prosecutor-responds-to-obamas-social-security-number.html

Daniels follows in the footsteps of other illustrious  Birthers, such as Orly Taitz,  Sheriff Joe Arpaio, and the entire Cold Case Posse, in failing to check out the criminal statutes BEFORE alleging a crime has been committing, and gathering the requisite evidence BEFORE running off to the fuzz.  Or running off at the mouth.

Daniels is the alleged private investigator whose sloppy investigatory skills help start the whole Obama has 39 social security numbers Birther claim several years ago:

http://irregulartimes.com/index.php/archives/2010/05/17/fact-check-neil-sankey-barack-obama-27-numbers/

Her partner in stupid, Neil Sankey, had enough sense to realize that the database search didn’t prove anything because none of it could be linked to Obama.  But Daniels is the really slow learner of the pair, and has yet to grasp that  simple fact.  Compounding those failures is an inability to read and comprehend easy statements written in English. Daniels has been carrying on to beat the band that there is something fishy about Obama having a Connecticut social security number. My personal guess is that someone at the Social Security Administration made a typo back in 1977. It doesn’t matter because as the SSA states:

Since 1972, when SSA began assigning SSNs and issuing cards centrally from Baltimore, the area number assigned has been based on the ZIP code in the mailing address provided on the application for the original Social Security card. The applicant’s mailing address does not have to be the same as their place of residence.   Thus, the Area Number does not necessarily represent the State of residence of the applicant, either prior to 1972 or since.

In spite of this, Daniels went ahead and filed a Birther eligibility suit in Ohio. When she realized that the suit was about to be dismissed, and she would not be getting any more attention, she filed another claim with the courts requesting an identity theft criminal investigation because of the social security number.  Unfortunately for Ms. Daniels, The Geauga County prosecuting attorney CAN read and he told her the same thing as the SSA did, on page two of his letter. Here is a pdf copy in case anybody has problems with scribd at the link above:

David Joyce Letter

To add a little extra twist to the knife, David Joyce is a Republican. As she whines in the ORYR link above:

We are in serious trouble when a Republican prosecutor, David Joyce, who is now running for congress, does not care enough to look into a felony being committed by Barack Obama. The information in the letterfrom the SSA was added after I discovered that Obama is using a fraudulent social security number. The residence had to be in the state where the number was issued. They are lying. The issue could be cleared up by the prosecutor sending a letter to the SSA asking for a copy of the original application that goes with xxx-xx-4425. Apparently, that was too much trouble.

No. Actually, it is Daniels’ idiotic claim that is in trouble.  This is what happens every time that grown-ups have to deal with Birther silliness. But, she is way too much of an attention-whore to just shut up and go away. I wonder what she will try next???

Squeeky Fromm
Girl Reporter

Note 1. The Image. This is Margaret Rutherford who played Agatha Christie’s Miss Marple in various films. This particular one is from the 1963 film, Murder at The Gallop.  Here is website with some history, and some clips:

http://www.squidoo.com/margaret-rutherford-miss-marple-movies

Note 2. Words. The hat in the Image is often called a  ”Bowler.” In the Image Easter Egg, “Old Hat” means “repeated too often” or  over-familiar through overuse;

Note 3. Links to other posts about Susan Daniels.

http://birtherthinktank.wordpress.com/2012/09/10/susan-desperately-seeking/

http://birtherthinktank.wordpress.com/2012/08/22/mindless-blathering-stupid-drivel-from-susan-daniels-p-i/

She Couched Her Words, But Still Made The Point

Just the other day the Birther blog, Birther Report breathlessly reported that “CBS NEWS” was calling for Obama to release documents and questioning whether he was a foreign exchange student.

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Come to find  out, Scott Paulson was just another blogger posting at a local CBS news website. I let that one pass.  Now, Birther Report has this story up, wherein Yahoo News is supposedly pimping some silly Birther book:

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Birther Report isn’t out and out lying, but they are dissembling:

dis·sem·ble (dî-sčmąbel)  verb, transitive 1. To disguise or conceal behind a false appearance. 2. To make a false show of; feign. verb, intransitive To disguise or conceal one’s real nature, motives, or feelings behind a false appearance.

Why would anybody think that Yahoo News had any independent  interest at all in something like this:

Just in time for the 2012 presidential elections, author Bob Gard has released an eBook that sheds light on a controversy that, over the last few years, has become a grim contest of political wills. The book offers a historically verified definition of the term “natural born citizen” as it appears in the presidential eligibility clause in Section 1 of Article II of the Constitution.

With the ponderous but eminently searchable title of “On Gard, Obama, You Are An Unconstitutional President Because You Are Not A Natural-Born Citizen, Which I Shall Prove Beyond A Reasonable Doubt,” this 1,722-page volume lays out conclusive, verbatim evidence that the reader can analyze independently of the writer’s own opinions. Available at Amazon.com, the eBook can be downloaded on PCs in the Microsoft Word™ 2010 “docx” file format. The 175-megabyte file requires a longer-than-average downloading time, and some readers may experience intermittent warnings of “not responding.” Author Bob Gard says, “The wait will be worth it for those who wish to follow a path back to constitutionality.”

http://news.yahoo.com/book-proves-president-obama-not-natural-born-us-150108550.html

If you read it more closely you see that the PRWeb is a  publicity service, wherein the person who wishes to get his story out pays them a fee to publicize the “news.” Here is a link to PRWeb’s FAQ page:

http://service.prweb.com/learning/faqs/

Here is how it works:

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So, neither CBS News or Yahoo News were behind the respective stories. Yahoo News got it from some third party. Who knows whether money changed hands at that level or not. So why would Birther Report do something like this???  Why didn’t they just run a story about the book without all the Yahoo News gloss???

I think it is for the same reason World Net Daily and all the Birther blogs hopped on the “Israeli science website says” story a few weeks back? It was an attempt to portray a non-existent consensus behind the story. This is a form of logical fallacy:

This type of argument is known by several names,  including appeal to the masses, appeal to belief, appeal to the majority, democracy, argument by consensus, consensus fallacy,authority of the many, and bandwagon fallacy, and in Latin as argumentum ad numerum (“appeal to the number”), and consensus gentium (“agreement of the clans”). It is also the basis of a number of social phenomena, including communal reinforcement and the bandwagon effect. The Chinese proverb “three men make a tiger” concerns the same idea.

This fallacy is similar in structure to certain other fallacies that involve a confusion between the justification of a belief and its widespread acceptance by a given group of people. When an argument uses the appeal to the beliefs of a group of supposed experts, it takes on the form of an appeal to authority; if the appeal is to the beliefs of a group of respected elders or the members of one’s community over a long period of time, then it takes on the form of an appeal to tradition.

The truth is, the only people who really believe the Birther nonsense are other Birthers. When the mainstream press notices these kind of stories,  it is for the same reason they do stories on Honey Boo Boo. So that normal people can marvel at some of the abnormal people who make up the human race.  Or, with Birthers, to drive a few more people to voting for Democrats next month.

Squeeky Fromm
Girl Reporter

Note 1. The Image. This is one of Anna Held’s fencing girls from the Little Duchess.

The Little Duchess was the next production in which Ziegfeld positioned his wife and star product. The Little Duchess had a similar plot and song format to Papa’s Wife and many of the same cast members. Again Ziegfeld surrounded Held with tall, slim women. This time the show-stealing number featured the chorus girls in an elaborately staged, all-girl fencing scene. It was not the fencing talent of the girls that caused the public to scramble to tickets, but the beauty and sensuality of the all-girl physical number that had people talking (Mordden 63). The production cost Ziegfeld fifty thousand dollars and opened at the Casino Theatre in October of 1901. Ziegfeld and Held had another huge success on their hands. The Little Duchess ran for 136 performances and toured from October 1902 until May of 1903.

http://scholarworks.csun.edu/bitstream/handle/10211.2/1105/Ristaino-Thesis-Ziegfeld.pdf?sequence=1

Note 2. The Image Caption and Easter Egg. In language, to couch is to phrase your words in a certain manner. If you don’t want to hurt your friend’s feelings, you should couch your words carefully when you tell her that her everyone is leaving her party early.

Point : Touche a valid touch; the tip of the sword; an attack made with the point (ie. a thrust)

This is all playing off of Bob Gard’s title, which begins “On Gard. . .”

En Garde :  En Garde also On Guard; the fencing position; the stance that fencers assume when preparing to fence.

http://www.synec-doc.be/escrime/dico/engl.htm

Settee: set·tee, noun. A long upholstered seat for more than one person, typically with a back and arms

Note 3. Links. Here are individual links to the Birther Report stories:

http://obamareleaseyourrecords.blogspot.com/2012/10/new-book-proves-obama-not-eligible.html

http://obamareleaseyourrecords.blogspot.com/2012/09/cbs-its-obamas-turn-to-release-some-documents.html

When It Came To His Wallet, Todd House Suddenly Knew His Rear End From A Hole In The Ground

The Obama Ballot Challenge blog reports that the Kentucky Birther,  Dr. Todd House, decided to drop his silly little DIY Birther lawsuit when the court told him he could end up paying for the other side’s lawyer.  Here is an excerpt:

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http://obamaballotchallenge.com/kentucky-obama-ballot-challenge-dropped-amid-threats

You see, that is the thing about frivolous lawsuits. They’re only fun when you don’t have to pay for the other guy’s lawyer. The way things work with Rule 11, (See Note 2 below.) is that a party has this duty:

The signature of an attorney or party constitutes a  certification by him that he has read the pleading, motion or other paper; that to the best of his knowledge, information, and belief formed after reasonable inquiry it is well grounded in fact and is warranted by existing law or a good faith argument for the extension, modification or reversal of  existing law, and that it is not interposed for any improper purpose, such as to harass or to cause unnecessary delay or needless increase in the cost of litigation.

That is NOT a really high bar. All you have to do is have a sensible case based on a reasonable reading of the law. But Dr. House must have figured he stood to lose under this standard. Sooo, he exercised some good sense and got out while he was ahead. What this shows is that House knew darn good and well that he had filed a frivolous suit and just didn’t want to pay the price.

What a scoundrel and what a cheapskate. What was that sanctimonious crap he was spewing a few weeks ago (See Note 3 below.):

I am not a “birther.” I am a constitutionalist.

The Constitution either means what it says or is relegated to the dustbin of history. The U.S. Supreme Court has the imperative duty to resolve the issue of “natural born citizen” once and for all. This is an intellectual, legal and historical question that is very pertinent today.

Seasoned and brilliant legal scholars share sober opinion on both sides of this debate. It is, then, plainly clear that the U.S. Supreme Court should be presented this case so that a final answer can be had. My effort intends just and only that.

Yeah. Sure.  What really happened is that the little narcissist got some attention and then hauled buns before the bill came due.

Squeeky Fromm
Girl Reporter

Note 1. The Image. This is Milo Winter’s illustration of Aesop’s Fable about the Miser.

A Miser had buried his gold in a secret place in his garden. Every day he went to the spot, dug up the treasure and counted it piece by piece to make sure it was all there. He made so many trips that a Thief, who had been observing him, guessed what it was the Miser had hidden, and one night quietly dug up the treasure and made off with it.

When the Miser discovered his loss, he was overcome with grief and despair. He groaned and cried and tore his hair.

A passerby heard his cries and asked what had happened.

“My gold! O my gold!” cried the Miser, wildly, “someone has robbed me!”

“Your gold! There in that hole? Why did you put it there? Why did you not keep it in the house where you could easily get it when you had to buy things?”

“Buy!” screamed the Miser angrily. “Why, I never touched the gold. I couldn’t think of spending any of it.”

The stranger picked up a large stone and threw it into the hole.

“If that is the case,” he said, “cover up that stone. It is worth just as much to you as the treasure you lost!”

MORAL: “A possession is worth no more than the use we make of it”

http://whisperingbooks.com/Show_Page/?book=Aesops_Fables&story=Miser

Note 2. Kentucky Rule 11.

Kentucky Rule 11

Note 3. Link.

http://birtherthinktank.wordpress.com/2012/09/25/stupid-kentucky-birther-denies-being-a-stupid-birther-or-more-ky-puh-lease/

They Couldn’t Believe The Crap Sheriff Joe Was Trying To Pull

Well, a Birther wrote one of those “Open Letters” to the Maricopa County Prosecutor Bill Montgomery, and here is the answer. The original letter, and other information is at the link below.

Dear Mr. Reilly,

Thank you for taking the time to write and for the concerns you have expressed. There are a couple of points of analysis, though, in determining whether a criminal charge can be filed, regardless of the charge or who the suspect might be. The first is whether I have jurisdiction over the case. That requires that some conduct had to have occurred in Maricopa County for me to have jurisdiction. From the Sheriff’s Office investigation into suspect documents produced by the White House to date, that investigation has not revealed any evidence that conduct occurred in Maricopa County. I have discussed this with the Sheriff. As for any issues regarding qualifications or information provided regarding the Presidential Election itself, that is a statewide election. Under Arizona law, the Secretary of State and the Attorney General have jurisdiction over statewide elections. I do not.

I will share with you, as well, that the criminal statute you cited in your message requires additional evidence that the MCSO investigation to date has not uncovered. Specifically, we would need evidence to affirmatively prove that Mr. Obama is not a US citizen. To date, there has been evidence presented leading to speculation that documents have been forged and other documents do not exist. That alone, though, is not sufficient evidence to present to a grand jury and actually have a reasonable likelihood of conviction. I cannot speak for other prosecutors at the state level around the rest of the country or for prosecutors at the federal level but Arizona?s ethics rules do not permit prosecutors to file a charge they can only hope to be able to prove beyond a reasonable doubt at a later stage.

I stand ready and willing, however, to review any case submitted for charges and, if the evidence is there, I will prosecute regardless of who the suspect/defendant may be.

Sincerely,

Bill Montgomery
Maricopa County Attorney

http://obamaballotchallenge.com/reply-from-maricopa-county-attorney-bill-montgomery-as-a-result-of-open-letter

Birthers should not be surprised that there is insufficient evidence for prosecution. I patiently explained this to them in a previous  Internet Article:

Others, like Dr. Orly Taitz, Esq. and numerous Freeper Birfers, are filled with indignation because the saner part of the universe simply ignores Arpaio and the Cold Case Posse’s claims of forgery. Sooo, I have decided to deconstruct the issue and get down to specifics. First, let us get a workable definition offorgery. This one, from the Free Legal Dictionary, seems typical:

The creation of a false written document or alteration of a genuine one, with the intent to defraud.

Forgery consists of filling in blanks on a document containing a genuine signature, or materially altering or erasing an existing instrument. An underlying intent to defraud, based on knowledge of the false nature of the instrument, must accompany the act.

Since the word defraud is used twice, let’s define that word also, from the same source:

[T]o use deceit, falsehoods, or trickery to obtain money, an object, rights or anything of value belonging to another.

Legally, any erroneous information would have to have been put in, or altered,  with the intent to defraud, so that simple clerical errors or harmless mistakes would not constitute forgery. For example, if a clerk penciled in the number “9″ for the Father’s Race, when the correct code should have been “2″, there is no forgery.  Mainly, because there was no evil intent and no one is being defrauded of anything.

I would submit that Sheriff Joe, Deputy Zullo, The Cold Case Posse, Jerome “Jerry” Corsi, and other Birthers have completely and utterly failed to prove any of the elements of a forgery claim. Not only have they failed to substantially prove any of the forgery elements, they have not even made a credible  allegation of any element of forgery.

http://birtherthinktank.wordpress.com/2012/07/30/arpaios-f-bomb-is-a-dud/

In other words. . .

ITYS!!!

Squeeky Fromm
Girl Reporter

Note 1. The Image. This is Tyrone Power and Marlene Dietrich from the 1957 film, Witness For The Prosecution. Wiki says, in part:

Witness for the Prosecution is a 1957 American courtroom drama film based on a short story (and later play) by Agatha Christie dealing with the trial of a man accused of murder. The first film adaptation of this story, it stars Tyrone Power (in his final screen role), Marlene Dietrich, and Charles Laughton, and features Elsa Lanchester. The film was adapted by Larry Marcus, Harry Kurnitz and the film’s director Billy Wilder.

Note 2. Bio. Mr. Montgomery’s bio can be found here:

http://www.maricopacountyattorney.org/About_Us/Bill-Montgomery-official-bio.pdf

Note 3. The Image Easter Egg. Marlene Dietrich became famous in the 1930 film, The Blue Angel. Arpaio blew (messed up) his angle ( a biased way of looking at or presenting something) by failing to find any false information on the long form image.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Blue_Angel

To Find Birthers, One Just Has To Go Out In The Woods And Yodel Them Up

I have been looking for a good recent poll on how many Birthers there might be, and Lo And Behold!, someone at Orly’s World Facebook page had a link. Here is an excerpt:

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http://today.yougov.com/news/2012/10/01/birthers-arent-going-anywhere-update/

IIRC, back in 2010 about 58% of the country had some degree of doubt about where Obama was born. Now, that number is down to about 40%, but seems to be holding firm at that level. The comments at the above link are good, too.

Squeeky Fromm
Girl Reporter

Note 1. The Image. This is Minna Reverelli, and here is a youtube of her singing Cuckoo in the Wood, from around 1940ish.

I really wanted to base this on the 1937 Merrie Melodies hit, The Woods Are Full of Cuckoos, but I couldn’t find a copy.

Of Corset Didn’t Add Anything To What Was Already There, But It Did Make Things More Secure

Well, ObamaReleaseYourRecords is at it again. Here’s another deceptive post:

U.S. District Judge Emmet Sullivan Rules Natural Born Citizen Requirement Not Repealed By The 14th Amendment Or The 5th Amendment

Abdul Karim Hassan vs FEC – Court Opinion – District Court for the District of Columbia – 10/1/2012

MEMORANDUM OPINION

“Plaintiff Abdul Karim Hassan brings this action against the Federal Election Commission (“FEC”), seeking a declaratory judgment that (1) the Presidential Election Campaign Fund Act, 26 U.S.C. §§ 9001-9013, which provides public funding to Presidential nominees of major or minor political parties, is unconstitutional and invalid, and (2) the natural born citizen clause of the Constitution1 is irreconcilable with, and has been “trumped, abrogated and implicitly repealed” by, the Equal Protection guarantee of the Fifth Amendment and the Citizenship Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.”

“Hassan’s challenge to the Fund Act rests on his contention that the natural born citizen requirement has been implicitly repealed by the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments. The Court need not repeat the thorough and persuasive opinions issued by its colleagues in at least five other jurisdictions, all of whom determined that the natural born citizen requirement has not been implicitly repealed by the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments.”

“Moreover, the Supreme Court has consistently held that the distinction between natural born citizens and naturalized citizens in the context of Presidential eligibility remains valid.”

“Because the natural born citizen requirement has not been explicitly or implicitly repealed, Hassan’s challenge to that provision, and the Fund Act’s incorporation thereof, must fail.”

http://obamareleaseyourrecords.blogspot.com/2012/10/judge-sullivan-rules-14th-did-not-repeal-article-ii.html

The Birther take on this that YIPPEE, SEE ARTICLE II STILL APPLIES!!! THE !$TH AMENDMENT DIDN’T CHANGE THINGS AFTER ALL!!! Well, nobody on this side ever said Article II didn’t apply. It is the Birthers who either can’t, or won’t, understand the underlying concepts. The simple fact is that far from NOT REPEALING the natural born citizenship requirement for the Presidency, the 14th Amendment actively  AFFIRMED the common law concept of birthright citizenship, also known as natural born citizenship. From the SCOTUS decision in Wong Kim Ark (1898), near the bottom of Section V:

The foregoing considerations and authorities irresistibly lead us to these conclusions: the Fourteenth Amendment affirms the ancient and fundamental rule of citizenship by birth within the territory, in the allegiance and under the protection of the country, including all children here born of resident aliens, with the exceptions or qualifications (as old as the rule itself) of children of foreign sovereigns or their ministers, or born on foreign public ships, or of enemies within and during a hostile occupation of part of our territory,[wild Indian exception omitted.]

The Amendment, in clear words and in manifest intent, includes the children born, within the territory of the United States, of all other persons, of whatever race or color, domiciled within the United States. Every citizen or subject of another country, while domiciled here, is within the allegiance and the protection, and consequently subject to the jurisdiction, of the United States. His allegiance to the United States is direct and immediate, and, although but local and temporary, continuing only so long as he remains within our territory, is yet, in the words of Lord Coke in Calvin’s Case, 7 Rep. 6a, “strong enough to make a natural subject, for if he hath issue here, that issue is a natural-born subject;”

and, this case cited with approval by the Wong Kim Ark Court:

“In United States v. Rhodes (1866), Mr. Justice Swayne, sitting in the Circuit Court, said:

All persons born in the allegiance of the King are natural-born subjects, and all persons born in the allegiance of the United States are natural-born citizens. Birth and allegiance go together. Such is the rule of the common law, and it is the common law of this country, as well as of England. . . . We find no warrant for the opinion [p663] that this great principle of the common law has ever been changed in the United States. It has always obtained here with the same vigor, and subject only to the same exceptions, since as before the Revolution.

1 Abbott (U.S.) 28, 40, 41.”

What the heck is sooo darn hard about that??? If you are born here, you are “in the allegiance” of the United States regardless of the citizenship of your parents. If you are born here in the allegiance, or under the jurisdiction of the United States, then you are a natural born citizen. Period. End of story. From WKA:

V. In the forefront both of the Fourteenth Amendment of the Constitution and of the Civil Rights Act of 1866, the fundamental principle of citizenship by birth within the dominion was reaffirmed in the most explicit and comprehensive terms.

Paraphrasing ORYR’s favorite quote, the only people who don’t get this, are people  who don’t want to get it. The Birthers have been lying and dissembling about this simple legal fact for 4 years. It started with Ankeny in Indiana back in 2008.

The Plaintiffs in the instant case make a different legal argument based strictly on constitutional interpretation. Specifically, the crux of the Plaintiffs’ argument is that

“[c]ontrary to the thinking of most People on the subject, there’s a very clear distinction between a  “citizen of the United States” and a “natural born Citizen,” and the difference involves having [two] parents of U.S. citizenship, owing no foreign allegiance.” Appellants’ Brief at 23. With regard to President Barack Obama, the Plaintiffs posit that because his father was a citizen of the United Kingdom, President Obama is constitutionally ineligible to assume the Office of the President.

The bases of the Plaintiffs’ arguments come from such sources as FactCheck.org, The Rocky Mountain News, an eighteenth century treatise by Emmerich de Vattel titled “The Law of Nations,” and various citations to nineteenth century congressional debate.11 For the reasons stated below, we hold that the Plaintiffs‟ arguments fail to state a claim upon which relief can be granted, and that therefore the trial court did not err in dismissing the Plaintiffs‟ complaint.

No, there wasn’t a difference. Something like 7 or 8 subsequent courts have held the same thing. Sooo, of course the 14th Amendment didn’t overturn the  Article II Presidential requirement. It was way too busy affirming the underlying common law concept of natural born citizenship..

The Birthers should be ashamed of themselves for continuing to lie and dissemble about this.

Squeeky Fromm
Girl Reporter

Note 1. The Image. This is Scarlet O’Hara and Mammy from the 1939 film, Gone With The Wind.

Wiki has a great Internet Article on corsets, a foundation garment, which includes Images. This one is from 1898, the same year as Wong Kim Ark!

Wie die Pariserin ihr Haar ordnet  (1898 Das Album)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corset

Note 2. Pdf. Here is a pdf of Sullivan’s order. See pages 15 through 18:

Abdul-Karim-Hassan-vs-FEC-Court-Opinion-District-Court-for-the-District-of-Columbia-10-1-2012

When The Cody Judy Song Came On The Radio, It Was No Longer Paradise By The Dashboard Lights

Oh my goodness, I hate to be mean about people trying to sing, but Birther Cody Robert Judy has made a few videos which are sooo bad, that if he played them in Hell, Satan would chase him out.  If you want to hear what music would sound like without all those troubling things like scales and keys and pitch, get a load of these youtubes. WARNING! The Birther Think Tank is NOT responsible for any bad dreams or night tremors which arise as a result of these videos. Here is Money Cant Buy You Love:

I think the cat in the video heard the singing, and  died.  That is why his poor little paws are in the air.  I wonder how many animals went to Pet Heaven listening to his new one, Obama’s Carnival Barker:

Holy Crap! This stuff sucks!!! If there’s a barker somewhere, its that alleged song. Or more likely,  some sort of demented  howler. Mr. Judy could probably find a market for these songs with 7-11 or some other place that wants to run teenagers off the parking lot. The problem is that it would chase away the customers, too. And drive the clerks insane.

Maybe police departments could use these to break up demonstrations like the Occupy movement??? It would be a lot cheaper than water cannons, but I can see the polizei heading for the hills, too. Heck, entire downtowns would empty out in a hurry. If there is a dog in your neighborhood who barks too much, take either of these songs and play them when the dog starts to bark. Poor Fido will run squealing to a far corner of his yard and bury his head in the dirt. Do it twice, and he will bark no more, forever.

I have some advice for Mr. Judy, and I have put it in the form of a song. I could have written an entire song, but I am afraid Mr. Cody would sing it and put it out on youtube. I don’t want to be responsible for that. Sooo, I just did a single refrain.

Don’t Sing Judy

To the sound of Don’t Cry Joni by Conway Twitty
by Squeeky Fromm
Girl Reporter

Judy, Judy please don’t sing.

God, you make my eardrums sting!

You’re way off key,

Here’s my review:

I think you should just S – T – F – U!!!

That is my opinion.

Squeeky Fromm
Girl Reporter

Note 1. The Don’t Cry Joni song by Conway Twitty:

Note 2. The Image. This is from the classic 1953 film, It Came From Outer Space. Wiki says:

It Came from Outer Space is a 1953 science fiction 3-D film directed by Jack Arnold, and starring Richard Carlson, Barbara Rush, and Charles Drake. It was Universal’s first film to be filmed in 3-D.

The screenplay was by Harry Essex, with input by Jack Arnold, and was derived from an original screen treatment by Ray Bradbury (although it is said Ray Bradbury wrote the original screenplay and Harry Essex merely changed the dialogue and took the credit [2]). Unusual among sci-fi films of the day, the alien “invaders” were portrayed as creatures without malicious intent. The film has been interpreted[who?] as a metaphorical refutation of supposedly xenophobic attitudes and ideology of the Cold War.

“I wanted to treat the invaders as beings who were not dangerous, and that was very unusual”, Bradbury said. He offered two outlines to the studio, one with malicious aliens, the other with benign aliens. “The studio picked the right concept, and I stayed on.”[3] He has called the movie “a good film. Some parts of it are quite nice.”[4]
In 2004, Bradbury published four versions of his screen treatment for the movie as a single volume, It Came From Outer Space.

The uncredited music in the film was by Irving Gertz, Henry Mancini, and Herman Stein.

Note 3. Bonus. Over at Orly’s World on Facebook, someone posted this video, which has nothing to do with Birtherism, but certain stuff is supposed to come in 3′s:

Here is where you can buy it:

http://www.reverbnation.com/lisagailallred

It Was Becoming More Difficult For Birthers To Stay Au Courant

Well, one minute the Birthers are filing lawsuits like crazy all across the country, and the next minute the lawsuits are fizzling and the Birthers seem to have grown strangely quiet. For example:

The September 22, 2012 Birthapalooza in Phoenix, Arizona was cancelled due to low  ticket sales.

“Loser Suit Larry” Klayman seems to have taken the month of October off and his next appearance won’t be until Halloween, when he will be at a Citizen’s Grand Jury in Ocala, Florida. I wouldn’t be surprised if that gets canceled.

Mario “The Mangler” Apuzzo has not put up a new blog post since August 8, 2012.

Van Irion, the Tennessee Birther attorney,  has not filed any new suits since he got hit for $22,000 in court costs. Well, except for trying out get out of the fees.

The Kansas Birther, aka Joe the Birther, dropped his challenge in Topeka. He seems to have disappeared from sight and isn’t even posting around the Internet anymore.

The Free Republic Birther threads have become virtual ghost towns,  failing to break above 50 comments about half the time. See here for a list:

http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/naturalborncitizen/index

ObamaReleaseYourRecords has become little more than a place for CDR Kerchner to post his Washington Times advertisements.

The Post and Email is devoting as much space to custody battles and Tennessee jail conditions as to Birther issues.

Jerome “Deputy Jerry” Corsi rarely pens Birther nonsense anymore.

Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s mighty Cold Case Posse investigation has stalled, and neither he nor Deputy Zullo will answer any Birther subpoenas.

Meanwhile, Zullo seems to have developed some sort of weird Harold and Maude-ish attraction to an old lady in a Hawaii nursing home in the hope that she remembers something fishy about a birth certificate from 51 years ago.

About the only Birther who is still out there pitching and hitting anymore is Dr. Orly Taitz, Esq., and half or more of the Birthers don’t  expect her to accomplish anything.

It seems to me like all the fire has just gone out of their bellies. Could it be the constant judicial disappointments??? Could it be the prolonged failure to find any substantial evidence to back up their suspicions??? Could it be the failure of the Republican establishment to buy into their fantasies???  Or, could it be the well-reasoned and abundant criticism heaped on them by all of  us Anti-Birthers and Obots???

I don’t doubt that there are still millions and millions of them out there, and that Birtherism has become an article of faith to them. But,  have they become like the Easter Christians whose faith is so weak they only make it to church once a year or so, if nothing else is going on that day? Here we are about a month out from the election, and Birtherism seem to have blown a fuse. If the Birthers stay stirred up, and indignant, they could still play a big part in making Obama a one-term President. But, if they have grown bored with the whole Birther thing, then who knows?

Looking at the Birther agenda for October, there does not seen to be a Revival tent meeting anywhere on it.

Squeeky Fromm
Girl Reporter

Note 1. The Image. This is Sid Caesar playing Dentist Melvin Crump from the 1963 film,  It’s A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World.  Directed by Stanley Kramer, this is probably the funniest movie ever made.  Wiki says:

“Smiler” Grogan (Jimmy Durante), suspect in a tuna factory robbery (possibly a dig on the then-recent tuna advertising campaigns) 15 years before and on the run from the police, recklessly passes a number of vehicles on a twisting, mountainous road in the Mojave Desert of Southern California before careening his car off a cliff and crashing. Five motorists from four of the passed vehicles stop to assist: Melville Crump (Sid Caesar), a dentist; Lennie Pike (Jonathan Winters), a furniture mover; Dingy Bell (Mickey Rooney) and Benjy Benjamin (Buddy Hackett), two friends on their way to Las Vegas; and J. Russell Finch (Milton Berle), an entrepreneur. Just before he kicks the bucket (his foot literally kicks a bucket as he dies), Grogan tells the supposedly good Samaritans about $350,000 buried in a box (which turns out to be a suitcase covered loosely on top by a metal plate) in Santa Rosita State Park near the Mexican border, under a “Big W”.

Two detectives (main, Norman Fell; supporting, Nicholas Georgiade) arrive, with the main detective asking those five, who descended the hill to the accident site, some pointed questions about their interaction with Grogan. While not so artfully dodging the questions, each of the five internally changes from having had compassion for Grogan to becoming resolved to retrieve the treasure. Then the detectives permit the five to return to their vehicles after demanding and receiving Finch’s contact information. The motorists then drive away from the accident site and initially test each other’s resolve on the road, then stop to try to reason with one another on how to share the money, but when they can’t agree on any one particular distribution, they return to their vehicles to engage in an all-out race to reach the loot first.

If you have not seen it, put it on your bucket list.

Note 2. Au Courant. A little word play on the Image.

au courant French [oh kooran] adj

up-to-date, esp in knowledge of current affairs

[literally: in the current]

Mr. Scratch Couldn’t Help But Chuckle When He Heard Klayman Was Going To Represent Himself

Well, Larry “Klutz” Klayman, Esq.,  aka Loser Suit Larry, must have sold his soul to the Devil or Joseph Farah, whichever, because now he is going down the idiotic Citizen Grand Jury Birther road.  Here is what he recently wrote at World Net Daily (WND):

On Oct. 31, 2012, I will be in Ocala, Fla., presenting evidence to a citizens grand jury, chosen in the ordinary course without regard to politics and biases, seeking the indictment of the likes of President Barack Hussein Obama, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and others who have betrayed and terrorized the nation and violated the rule of criminal law. With regard to Obama, not only has he defrauded the American people by being elected president despite his not being a natural born citizen, but he also has compromised, in treasonous fashion, our national security. Once indicted, we will then seek to try him for these crimes. If he refuses to appear at trial, which he surely will, the people will try him in abstentia.

In effect, along with a coterie of other patriots, we will make Ocala in 2012 what Philadelphia was to the colonies in 1776. Please join us in the noble cause, as We the People have been abandoned and scorned by our so-called leaders for far too long. See www.citizensgrandjury.com. Now it is our time to risk our fortunes, sacred honor and lives to preserve the nation, using the rights that our Founding Fathers bequeathed to us: the citizens grand jury.

Forget about Mitt Romney and the Republican Party; their game is up. We can save the nation and live without them, so help us God.

http://www.wnd.com/2012/09/life-after-romney-and-the-republicans/

They must be getting desperate over at  WND, because the citizen grand jury Birther game is so old and toothless most Birthers won’t even fall for it. The scam was popular for a while several years ago. For example, see this article from April 2009:

http://www.salon.com/2009/04/01/birthers/

This is a familiar routine. The results are a foregone conclusion. Obama will be found guilty of whatever they charge him with. If a Judge ever bothers to look at whatever crap they produce, he will say something like Judge Lambert said in 2009. (See Note 2 below.):

[T]here is no authority under the Rules of Procedure or in the statutes of the United States for this court to accept [a presentment]… The individuals who have made this presentment were not convened by this court to sit as a grand jury nor have they been selected at random from a fair cross section of this district. Any self-styled indictment or presentment issued by such a group has no force under the Constitution or laws of the United States.”

The only thing remotely interesting about the announcement is the title  (Life After Romney And The Republicans)  and the  catty little remark about Mitt  and the  GOP, “Forget about Mitt Romney and the Republican Party; their game is up. We can save the nation and live without them, so help us God.” I sense that Klayman is a little miffed about the Republican grown-ups ignoring the silly, childish Birther stuff.  Sooo, we get the histrionic, whiny, little, “Who needs them, we’ll just do it all by ourselves!” mantra. Yeah, and next the Birthers will hold their breaths until they turn blue, and  run away and join the circus. Oh wait, they already joined the circus.

Anyway, I guess Larry “Klutz” Klayman does not intend to ever practice real-world, serious law again. Perhaps he is thinking of a new career in acting, or maybe stand-up comedy???  If he appears at your door on Halloween night in his little junior lawyer costume, don’t give him any of the good candy.

Squeeky Fromm
Girl Reporter

Note 1. The Image.  This is Walter Huston playing the Devil in the 1941 film, The Devil and Daniel Webster. Wiki says:

The Devil and Daniel Webster is a 1941 fantasy film, adapted by Stephen Vincent Benét and Dan Totheroh from Benét’s short story, “The Devil and Daniel Webster”. The film’s title was changed to All That Money Can Buy to avoid confusion with another film released by RKO that year, The Devil and Miss Jones, and later had the title restored on some prints. It has also been released under the titles Mr. Scratch, Daniel and the Devil and Here Is a Man. The film stars Edward Arnold, Walter Huston, and James Craig. It was directed by William Dieterle.

In 1840 New Hampshire, poor, downtrodden farmer Jabez Stone (James Craig) sells his soul to “Mr. Scratch” (Walter Huston) in return for seven years of luck and prosperity. With his time almost up, Stone begs famed orator and fellow New Hampshirite Daniel Webster (Edward Arnold) to find some way out of his bargain with the Devil. Webster agrees to take his case. Mr. Scratch offers an extension in exchange for Jabez’s son, but Jabez turns him down. He then begs Webster to leave before it is too late, but Webster refuses to go, boasting that he has never left a jug or a case half finished.

When Mr. Scratch shows up to claim his due, Webster has to risk his own soul before his fiendish opponent will agree to a trial by jury. Mr. Scratch chooses the jury members from among the most notoriously evil men of American history, with John Hathorne (one of the magistrates of the Salem witch trials) as the judge.

Loser Suit Larry is a word play on another famous “loser”, Leisure Suit Larry,  about which Wiki says:

Leisure Suit Larry is a series of adventure games written by Al Lowe and published by Sierra from 1987 to 2009. The main character, is Larry Laffer who, though still somewhat lovable, is a balding, dorky, double entendre-speaking, leisure suit-wearing “loser” in his 40s. The games follow him as he spends much of his life trying (usually unsuccessfully) to seduce attractive women.

The Birther “Larry Laugher” is always losing his Birthers lawsuits.

Note 2. Citizen Grand Juries:

Wiki even has an article on citizen grand juries, which did not start with the Birthers, and notes:

The earliest so-called 9/11 citizen grand jury, the 23-member “Los Angeles Citizens’ Grand Jury on the Crimes of 9/11/01,” was organized in 2004 by activist Lynne Pentz. By October of that year it had launched an “indictment” accusing George W. Bush and other administration officials of complicity and foreknowledge of the attacks.[1] Among those offering testimony at the event were Webster Tarpley, Barbara Honegger, Don Paul, Jim Hoffman and Christopher Bollyn. Similar citizen grand juries were organized in San Diego later in the 2000s.[2]

Some campaigners, led by Georgia activist Carl Swensson, have sought to, “finally expose the conspiracy behind President Obama’s birth certificate,” by forming what they term “citizen grand juries” to indict Obama.[3] The “citizen grand juries” are based on the Fifth Amendment’s premise that “no person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime, unless on presentment or indictment of a Grand Jury.”[according to whom?]

Although the activists managed to hand out copies of “indictments” to Congressional staff,[4] the courts have not regarded the “citizen grand juries” favorably. In June 2009, a group of 172 campaigners declared themselves to be a “Super American Grand Jury” and voted to charge Obama with treason and accused him of not being a U.S. citizen.[5] Chief Judge Royce C. Lamberth of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia dismissed the “indictment” on July 2, 2009 and declared “[T]here is no authority under the Rules of Procedure or in the statutes of the United States for this court to accept [a presentment]… The individuals who have made this presentment were not convened by this court to sit as a grand jury nor have they been selected at random from a fair cross section of this district. Any self-styled indictment or presentment issued by such a group has no force under the Constitution or laws of the United States.”[6]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizen_grand_jury

Note 3. The Image Easter Egg. A word play on “Sole Practitioner.”

A person, who through a regular program of study, is learned in legal matters and has been licensed to practice his or her profession. Any qualified person who prosecutes or defends causes in courts of record or other judicial tribunals of the United States, or of any of the states, or who renders legal advice or assistance in relation to any cause or matter. Unless a contrary meaning is plainly indicated this term is synonymous with attorney, attorney at law, or counselor at law.

Note 4. In Abstentia. I didn’t think this was a real phrase, and that Klayman meant “in absentia”, but maybe I was wrong:

The GENERAL CONTEXT of such use is: ‘in abstentia’ – the realities of legitimation: In order to understand that the social effects of the common or learned (i.e., taught, as by pedagogic communications) illusions (maya), which are sociologically implied in the system of relations between the educational system (the School) and the structure of class relations, are not illusory, it is necessary to go back to the principle which governs this system of relations. Legitimation of the established order, by the School, presupposes social recognition of the legitimacy of the School, a recognition resting in turn on misrecognition of the delegation of authority which establishes that legitimacy, or, more precisely, on misrecognition of the social conditions of a harmony between structures and habitus sufficiently perfect to engender misrecognition of the habitus as a product reproducing what produces it and correlative recognition of the structure of the order thus reproduced. Thus, the educational system objectively tends, by concealing the objective truth of its functioning, to produce the ideological justification of the order it reproduces by its functioning.

http://www.angelfire.com/ca/sanmateoissues/socdic/inabthre.html

OK. Either that, or it is a city near Ocala???

Wolfgang Mistakenly Applied For The P.I. Job Thinking It Was For Wild Irish Rose

Well, just when you thought it was safe to go back on the internet, darn if there isn’t a Secret Birther Group working to round up all of us Anti-Birthers and Obots. The name of the group is The White Rose! The original Internet Article was scrubbed, but I managed to get a copy of it anyway.  It looks like somebody accidentally posted the article and then realized they had let the cat out of the bag. There was even an abortive posting at Free Republic, but that was pulled also.

Anyway, here it is again, this time from a reposting at  a secondary website. You might want to screen save it at the link  before The White Rose discovers somebody accidentally posted it again. But, if you don’t, or it is pulled first, just let me know. I have the original.

New Crack in Birth Certificate Conspiracy

Frustrated by the lack of progress in fully exposing the conspiracy behind Barack Obama’s fraudulent Certificate of Live Birth, a nationwide group of web researchers, private investigators with access to national databases and individuals with computer hacking skills, led by a teamleader now located in California, have been investigating the individuals and sites involved in the creation of the fraudulent document and the disinformation campaign associated with the false narrative of Obama’s personal history.

Working over the last several months, using information already gleaned by other investigators and communicating via encrypted email and private social networks, the group has pieced together a web of conspirators including members of the legal profession, the IT community, journalists, web bloggers, Obama operatives and government officials.

The team leader noted: “The focal point of the conspiracy has always been Washington, D.C., but it has been supported by a small group of individuals residing in other parts of the country with bursts of activity in such places as the Seattle and Chicago areas and, of course, Hawaii. The number of individuals directly involved in the fraudulent birth certificate is small, but the disinformation campaign is much wider. There are both unethical and criminal activities involved.”

The group, loosely known as “The White Rose” named in honor of the resistance group fighting against the Nazi regime in Germany, has linked literally thousands of emails, blog posts and other information to identify both major and minor players in the birth certificate conspiracy, many of whom have used monikers, multiple email accounts, access through “gateways” and other techniques to hide their identities and locations.

http://www.wethepeoplenation.com/showthread.php?11205-New-Crack-in-Birth-Certificate-Conspiracy

Oh, this is turning out to be fun!

Squeeky Fromm
Girl Reporter

Note 1. The Image. This is Arte Johnson from the old timey TV show, Laugh-In. He had a running gag about which Wiki says:

Johnson is best known for his work on Rowan & Martin’s Laugh-In, an American television series (1967–1973), on which he played various characters including “Wolfgang”, a smoking World War II German soldier scouting the show from behind a bush (still fighting the war) invariably commenting on the preceding sketch with the catchphrase “Very interesting…” followed by either a comic observation or misinterpretation, or simply “but stupid!” Johnson indicated later that the phrase came from Desperate Journey, a 1942 World War II film with Errol Flynn and Ronald Reagan playing Royal Air Force pilots shot down in Nazi Germany; they managed to cross much of the country without speaking German or knowing the territory but, when captured, their Nazi interrogator doubts their story with the phrase.† Johnson reprised the role while voicing the Nazi-inspired character Virman Vunderbarr on an episode of Justice League Unlimited.

† Johnson was somewhat incorrect in his recollection of the details of this movie, and his faulty recollection was subsequently misquoted and widely repeated on the Internet, further distorting the origin of the phrase. In the movie, after getting shot down and captured, an English-speaking German officer played by Raymond Massey interrogates the flyers. During the interrogation, they see through a window some nearly-assembled aircraft being transported on trucks, and the Raymond Massey character says “I see you find that view most interesting … too bad you saw that, now you can not be even considered for exchange…” but it was not spoken doubting any story told by the flyers. The flyers escape from the interrogation and begin their “journey” across Germany and The Netherlands, traveling towards the English Channel in stolen vehicles while wearing stolen German uniforms. Along the way, they have several violent engagements with German troops and commit sabotage; they are actively pursued by the Raymond Massey character and at the end commandeer a British bomber previously captured by the Germans and fly it back to England, without any German remarking, to either the flyers or to another German: “Very interesting … ” and, the Errol Flynn character is fluent in German. It is possible that the actual source of the phrase is the movie “Berlin Correspondent” (use of the phrase in the movie is reported but unverified) and that Johnson had confused elements of the two movies and/or misremembered aspects of them.

Note 2. The Caption. P.I. can stand for Private Investigator, or Public Intoxication. Far different than White Rose, Richards Wild Irish Rose is a quintessential bum wine. Wiki explains:

An early reference to the problem of cheap and poorly made wines is in the “Report on Cheap Wines” in the 5 November 1864 issue of The Medical Times and Gazette. The author, in prescribing inexpensive wines for a number of ills, cautions against the “fortified” wines of the day, describing of one sample that he had tried:

“When the cork was drawn it was scarcely tinted, and was a very bad one – a thing of no good augury for the wine. There was no smell of port wine. The liquid, when tasted, gave the palate half-a-dozen sensations instead of one. There was a hot taste of spirits, a sweet taste, a fruity taste like damsons, and an unmistakable flavor of Roussillon [an alternative name in France for wine made from the grape Grenache]. It was a strong, unwholesome liquor, purchased very dearly.”[

It is reported, however, that the popularity of cheap, fortified wines in the United States arose in the 1930s, as a product of Prohibition and the Great Depression:

“Prohibition produced the Roaring Twenties and fostered more beer and distilled-spirit drinkers than wine drinkers, because the raw materials were easier to come by. But fortified wine, or medicinal wine tonic—containing about 20 percent alcohol, which made it more like a distilled spirit than regular wine—was still available and became America’s number one wine. Thunderbird and Wild Irish Rose, to name two examples, are fortified wines. American wine was soon more popular for its effect than its taste; in fact, the word wino came into use during the Depression to describe those unfortunate souls who turned to fortified wine to forget their troubles.”
—Kevin Zraly, Kevin Zraly’s American Wine Guide (2006) p. 38.

More recently, the appeal of cheap fortified wines to the poor and homeless has raised concerns:

Community groups in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Seattle, and Portland have urged makers of fortified wines such as Wild Irish Rose and E & J Gallo’s Thunderbird and Night Train brands to pull their products from the shelves of liquor retailers in skid row areas. In Nashville, Tennessee, one liquor store owner told Nashville Business Journal reporter Julie Hinds that police warned him to stop selling his biggest selling product, Wild Irish Rose, because it encouraged homeless people to linger in the area.

—Janice Jorgensen, Encyclopedia of Consumer Brands: Consumable Products (1993), p. 492.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bum_wine