QUOTE OF THE DAY: 
GLENN BECK AT CPAC 2010:
‘Hello, my name is the Republican Party, and I’ve got a problem. I’m addicted to spending and big government…I’m addicted to spending and I just don’t want to spend today.’
(CLICK HERE FOR LINK TO QUOTE)
"If by a “Liberal” they mean someone who looks ahead and not behind, someone who welcomes new ideas without rigid reactions, someone who cares about the welfare of the people — their health, their housing, their schools, their jobs, their civil rights, and their civil liberties — someone who believes we can break through the stalemate and suspicions that grip us in our policies abroad, if that is what they mean by a “Liberal,” then I’m proud to say I’m a “Liberal.” ~ John F. Kennedy, 1960
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This stands on it’s own;
Dick Cheney’s lies about President Obama
by, Eugene Robinson
It’s pathetic to break a New Year’s resolution before we even get to New Year’s Day, but here I go. I had promised myself that I would do a better job of ignoring Dick Cheney’s corrosive and nonsensical outbursts — that I would treat them, more or less, like the pearls of wisdom one hears from homeless people sitting in bus shelters.
But he is a former vice president, which gives him a big stage for his histrionic Rottweiler-in-Winter act. It is never a good idea to let widely disseminated lies and distortions go unchallenged. And the shrill screed that Cheney unloosed Wednesday is so full of outright mendacity that, well, my resolution will have to wait.
In a statement to Politico, Cheney seemed to be trying to provide talking points for opponents of the Obama administration who — incredibly — would exploit the Christmas Day terrorist attack for political gain. Cheney’s broadside opens with a big lie, which he then repeats throughout. It is as if he believes that saying something over and over again, in a loud enough voice, magically makes it so.
“As I’ve watched the events of the last few days it is clear once again that President Obama is trying to pretend we are not at war,” Cheney begins.
Flat-out untrue.
The fact is that Obama has said many times that we are at war against terrorists. He said it as a candidate. He said it in his inaugural address: “Our nation is at war against a far-reaching network of violence and hatred.” He has said it since.
As Cheney well knows, unless he has lost even the most tenuous grip on reality, Obama’s commitment to warfare as an instrument in the fight against terrorism has won the president nothing but grief from the liberal wing of his party, with more certainly to come. Hasn’t anyone told Cheney that Obama is sharply boosting troop levels in Afghanistan in an attempt to avoid losing a war that the Bush administration started but then practically abandoned?
Cheney knows this. But he goes on to use the big lie — that Obama is “trying to pretend we are not at war” — to bludgeon the administration on a host of specific issues. Here is the one that jumps out at me: The president, Cheney claims, “seems to think that if he closes Guantanamo and releases the hard-core al Qaeda-trained terrorists still there, we won’t be at war.”
Interesting that Cheney should bring that up, because it now seems clear that the man accused of trying to blow up Northwest Flight 253, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, was given training — and probably the bomb itself, which involved plastic explosives sewn into his underwear — by al-Qaeda operatives in Yemen. It happens that at least two men who were released from Guantanamo appear to have gone on to play major roles as al-Qaeda lieutenants in Yemen. Who let these dangerous people out of our custody? They were set free by the administration of George W. Bush and Dick Cheney.
The former vice president expresses his anger that the Obama administration is bringing Khalid Sheik Mohammed, the architect of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, to trial in New York. Cheney is also angry that Obama does not use the phrase “war on terror” all the time, the way the Bush administration used to. But Obama just specifies that we’re at war against a network of terrorists, on the sensible theory that it’s impossible to wage war against a tactic.
Toward the end of his two-paragraph statement, Cheney goes completely off the rails and starts fulminating about how Obama is seeking “social transformation — the restructuring of American society.” Somehow, this is supposed to be related to the president’s alleged disavowal of war — which, of course, isn’t real anyway. It makes you wonder whether Cheney is just feeding the fantasies of the paranoid right or has actually joined the tea-party fringe.
I can find reasons to criticize the administration’s response to the Christmas Day attack. Obama and his team were slow off the mark. Their initial statements were weak. Obama shouldn’t have waited three days to speak publicly, and when he did he should have shown some emotion.
But using a terrorist attack to seek political gain? I have a New Year’s resolution to suggest for Cheney: Ahead of your quest for personal vindication, put country first.
Now when the wingnuts and conservo-tards get their bedwetting panties in a twist, and screech their talking points they have this post to rebut or fail in the talking point idiocy they play with.
But that won’t stop them any more the the facts ever have.
Yes the Virginia Governor went to the GOPer, but the brain dead corporate owned MSM (and the reich wing knuckle draggers) are totally ignoring a real historical fact, since 1978, the party winning the previous presidential election loses the governors house;
John N. Dalton, January 14, 1978, January 16, 1982, Republican, (Jimmy Carter had won the white house)
Chuck Robb, January 16, 1982, January 18, 1986, Democratic (Ronald Reagan had won the white house)
Gerald L. Baliles, January 18, 1986, January 14, 1990< , Democratic (Ronald Reagan had won the white house)
Douglas Wilder, January 14, 1990, January 15, 1994, Democratic, (George H W Bush had won the white house)
George Allen , January 15, 1994, January 17, 1998, Republican, (Bill Clinton had won the white house)
Jim Gilmore, January 17, 1998, January 12, 2002, Republican, (Bill Clinton had won the white house)
Mark Warner, January 12, 2002, January 14, 2006, Democratic, (George W Bush had won the white house)
Tim Kaine, January 14, 2006, Incumbent, Democratic, (George W Bush had won the white house)
Bob McDonnell, January 2010, Governor-Elect, Republican, (Barack Obama had won the white house)
and Deeds sucked as a campaigner.
In New Jersey, Corzine forgot he wasn’t still the head of Goldman Sachs. So you had a rich Democrat who thought he could buy what he wanted and a corrupt Republican, and the voters (who turned out) went with corruption over greed this time. BTW New Jersey has had a Republican Governor for 16 of the past 28 years, and has a similar trend to Virginia, picking an opposite party to the white house for their governor (Va nine election cycles, NJ six election cycles).. Wanna bet the GOPer corrupt crook don’t get reelected?
End of GOPer victory dance, plain and simple. PS both the GOPers, in Va and NJ didn’t want the fat drug addicted bloviater nor the wasilla hill billy campaignin’ fur them ….. (they both tried to MODERATE their positions to win votes)
The place the idiots brigade did stick their ignorant noses in?
In the 23rd congressional race, the democratic candidate won for the first time since 1871,
YES, I said 1871 … (138 years).
Way to go teabaggers, dumb Alaskan quitters, astroturf clowns ……..
Good try at retaking congress by handing a seat safe for well over a century to the democratic party.
Keep up the good work people, maybe you’ll eventually elect enough democrats with your brain dead screeching and lying, the democrats will finally realize the country in rejecting you time and time again.
In California, a progressive democrat won. A seat that used to be middle of the road, trading from centrist republican to centrist democrat, went to a openly progressive individual, so the blue dogs lost another one in the house, let alone the teabaggers wet dreams slippin’ away.
As for the ballot initiative #1 in Maine hard loss, but things weren’t all bad everywhere.
In Chapel Hill, North Carolina the people elected an openly gay mayor,
Yes, I said Chapel Hill, NORTH CAROLINA, in the heart of the supposed bible belt ……. doesn’t portent well for the hate mongers beating on their bibles does it?
As Grant has informed us, Houston, Texas saw an openly gay women come in first in their mayoral election (there will be a runoff).
In Canton, Ohio, a gay activist Eric Resnick won a seat on the Board of Education. (Oh my god, the fundies will go apeshit won’t they?)
Kalamazoo, Michigan passed an anti-discrimination measure that protects people from discrimination based on sexual orientation.
The biggest news, is Washington State voters approved their referendum 71, basically the opposite of the Maine decision. The fundie attempt to block the civil rights of American citizens lost in Washington.
So while the GOPers will be very shrill claiming they have turned things around their victories are hollow, and fleeting.
The governors races they are touting historically they should have won, (especially in VA) the congressional races in NY and CA are real loses for them. And openly gay candidates winning in North Carolina and Texas says the voters don’t always accept the hate filled fundies screeching ……
Because in referendums about taxes, w-e-l-l-l-l, the teabaggers got their asses handed to them;
In Maine they lost ;
Question 2 (Citizen Initiative): “Do you want to cut the rate of the municipal excise tax by an average of 55% on motor vehicles less than six years old and exempt hybrid and other alternative-energy and highly fuel-efficient motor vehicles from sales tax and three years of excise tax?” FAILED
Question 4 (Citizen Initiative): “Do you want to change the existing formulas that limit state and local government spending and require voter approval by referendum for spending over those limits and for increases in state taxes?” FAILED
Question 5 (Citizen Initiative): “Do you want to change the medical marijuana laws to allow treatment of more medical conditions and to create a regulated system of distribution?” PASSED
Question 6 (Bond Issue): “Do you favor a $71,250,000 bond issue for improvements to highways and bridges, airports, public transit facilities, ferry and port facilities, including port and harbor structures, as well as funds for the LifeFlight Foundation that will make the State eligible for over $148,000,000 in federal and other matching funds?” PASSED
No so good fur the tea baggers was it?
Washington State also roundly rejected I-1033 (This measure would limit growth in state revenues deposited in funds subject to the state expenditure limit, and limit growth in county and city revenues deposited into the county and city current expense funds. The limit would be adjusted based on annual growth in inflation and population. The limit also would apply to revenues transferred out of these funds. The limit would exclude voter-approved revenue increases. Revenues above the limit would reduce property tax levies. Should this measure be enacted into law?)
All in all not the defeat the corporate owned MSM or dumb as dirt teabaggers claim it is.
Here’s hopin’ the stupid reich wing teabaggers and their astroturf greedy manipulators keep rippin’ the republiscum party apart trying to get Real Republiscum, not RINO’s elected, it worked real good this time. (IE New York State has two republican members of congress, New England has NO members of Congress from the party of NO, and according to the clowns running the show fur the teabaggers, just two RINOs in the senate. Hope they keep a drivin’ the RINO’s out helps the rest of the country cause they keep losing when they do.
Matthew P. Hoh’s letter in full;
Dear Ambassador Powell,
It is with great regret and disappointment I submit my resignation from my appointment as a Political Officer in the Foreign Service and my post as the Senior Civilian Representative for the U.S. Government in Zabul Province. I have served six of the previous ten years in service to our country overseas, to include deployment as a U.S. Marine officer and Department of Defense civilian in the Euphrates and Tigris River Valleys of Iraq in 2004-2005 and 2006-2007. I did not enter into this position lightly or with any undue expectations nor did I believe my assignment would be without sacrifice hardship or difficulty. However, in the course of my five months of service in Afghanistan, in both Regional Commands East and South, I have lost understanding of and confidence in the strategic purposes of the United States’ presence in Afghanistan. I have doubts and reservations about our current strategy and planned future strategy, but my resignation is based not upon how we are pursuing this war, but why and to what end. To put simply: I fail to see the value or the worth in continued U.S. casualties or expenditures or resources in support of the Afghan government in what is, truly, a 35-year old civil war.
This fall will mark the eighth year of U.S. combat, governance and development operations within Afghanistan. Next fall, the United States’ occupation will equal in length the Soviet Union’s own physical involvement in Afghanistan. Like the Soviets, we continue to secure and bolster a failing state, while encouraging an ideology and system of government unknown and unwanted by its people.
If the history or Afghanistan is one great stage play, the United States is no more than a supporting actor, among several previously, in a tragedy that not only pits tribes, valleys, clans, villages and families against one another, but, from at least the end of King Zahir Shah’s reign, has violently and savagely pitted the urban, secular, educated and modem of Afghanistan against the rural, religious, illiterate and traditional. It is this latter group that composes and supports the Pashtun insurgency. The Pashtun insurgency, which is composed of multiple, seemingly infinite, local groups, is fed by what is perceived by the Pashtun people as a continued and sustained assault, going back centuries, on Pashtun land, culture, traditions and religion by internal and external enemies. The U.S. and NATO presence and operations in Pashtun valleys and villages, as well as Afghan army and police units that are led and composed of non-Pashtun soldiers and police, provide an occupation force against which the insurgency is justified. In both RC East and South, I have observed that the bulk of the insurgency fights not for the white banner of the Taliban, but rather against the presence of foreign soldiers and taxes imposed by an unrepresentative government in Kabul.
The United States military presence in Afghanistan greatly contributes to the legitimacy and strategic message of the Pashtun insurgency. In a like manner our backing of the Afghan government in its current form continues to distance the government from the people. The Afghan government’s failings, particularly when weighed against the sacrifice of American lives and dollars, appear legion and metastatic:
• Glaring corruption and unabashed graft;
• A President whose confidants and chief advisers comprise drug lords and war crimes villains, who mock our own rule of law and counternarcotics efforts;
• A system of provincial and district leaders constituted of local power brokers, opportunists and strongmen allied to the United States solely for, and limited by, the value of our USAID and CERP contracts and whose own political and economic interests stand nothing to gain from any positive or genuine attempts at reconciliation; and
• The recent election process dominated by fraud and discredited by low voter turnout, which has created an enormous victory for our enemy who now claims a popular boycott and will call into question worldwide our government’s military, economic and diplomatic support for an invalid and illegitimate Afghan government.
Our support for this kind of government, coupled with a misunderstanding of the insurgency’s true nature, reminds me horribly of our involvement with South Vietnam; an unpopular and corrupt government we backed at the expense of our Nation’s own internal peace, against an insurgency whose nationalism we arrogantly and ignorantly mistook as a rival to our own Cold War ideology.
I find specious the reasons we ask for bloodshed and sacrifice from our young men and women in Afghanistan. If honest, our stated strategy of securing Afghanistan to prevent al-Qaeda resurgence or regrouping would require us to additionally invade and occupy western Pakistan, Somalia, Sudan, Yemen, etc. Our presence in Afghanistan has only increased destabilization and insurgency in Pakistan where we rightly fear a toppled or weakened Pakistani government may lose control of nuclear weapons. However, again, to follow the logic of our stated goals we should garrison Pakistan, not Afghanistan. More so, the September 11th attacks, as well as the Madrid and London bombings, were primarily planned and organized in Western Europe; a point that highlights the threat is not one tied to traditional geographic or political boundaries. Finally, if our concern is for a failed state crippled by corruption and poverty and under assault from criminal and drug lords, then if we bear our military and financial contributions to Afghanistan, we must reevaluate our commitment to and involvement in Mexico.
Eight years into war, no nation has ever known a more dedicated, well trained, experienced and disciplined military as the U.S. Armed Forces. I do not believe any military force has ever been tasked with such a complex, opaque and Sisyphean mission as the U.S. military has received in Afghanistan. The tactical proficiency and performance of our Soldiers, Sailors, Airmen and Marines is unmatched and unquestioned. However, this is not the European or Pacific theaters of World War II, but rather is a war for which our leaders, uniformed, civilian and elected, have inadequately prepared and resourced our men and women. Our forces, devoted and faithful, have committed to conflict in an indefinite and unplanned manner that has become a cavalier, politically expedient and Pollyannaish misadventure. Similarly, the United States has a dedicated and talented cadre of civilians, both U.S. government employees and contractors, who believe in and sacrifice for their mission, but have been ineffectually trained and led with guidance and intent shaped more by the political climate in Washington, D.C. than in Afghan cities, villages, mountains and valleys.
“We are spending ourselves into oblivion” a very talented and intelligent commander, one of America’s best, briefs every visitor, staff delegation and senior officer. We are mortgaging our Nation’s economy on a war, which, even with increased commitment, will remain a draw for years to come. Success and victory, whatever they may be, will be realized not in years, after billions more spent, but in decades and generations. The United States does not enjoy a national treasury for such success and victory.
I realize the emotion and tone of my letter and ask you excuse any ill temper. I trust you understand the nature of this war and the sacrifices made by so many thousands of families who have been separated from loved ones deployed in defense of our Nation and whose homes bear the fractures, upheavals and scars of multiple and compounded deployments. Thousands of our men and women have returned home with physical and mental wounds, some that will never heal or will only worsen with time. The dead return only in bodily form to be received by families who must be reassured their dead have sacrificed for a purpose worthy of futures lost, love vanished, and promised dreams unkept. I have lost confidence such assurances can anymore be made. As such, l submit my resignation.
Sincerely,
Matthew P. Hoh
Senior Civilian Representative
Zabul Province, Afghanistan
cc:
Mr. Frank Ruggiero
Ms. Dawn Liberi
Ambassador Anthony Wayne
Ambassador Karl Eikenberry
This letter was addressed to:
Ambassador Nancy J. Powell
Director General of the Foreign Service and Director of Human Resources
U.S. Department of State
2201 C Street NW
About sums up the failures of Bush and Cheney for the last eight years, and why Obama shouldn’t send in new cannon fodder to the failed war Bush already lost.
Well the batshit insane crowd is gonna possibly go berserk again;
You know the insane clown posse of knee jerks, faux noise, Glenn Beck, Rush the addict, Hannity, O’Rielly, WND, the Cheney Criminal Enterprise, reich wing bloviating radio, Coulter, Malkin, and of course the cowardly reich wing troll brigade …………
Why you ask?
Wel-l-l-l-l-l-l …..
Saudi, Facing Oil Consumption Spike, Mulls Nuclear (behind a paywall, Rupert owns it now)
IE build a nu-kle-ar plant in Saudi Arabia
What?
They have LOTS of oil, they say so.
Saudi Arabia’s proven reserves stood at 264.10
billion barrels of oil at the beginning 2009 according to the 2009
BP Statistical Review of World Energy.
Although this amount has remained essentially the same from 1989, even with them producing a cumulative total of 64 billion barrels over that time frame.
Which lead to this:
Matthew Simmons, a highly respected oil expert, predicts in his book,
“Twilight in the Desert,” that most of Saudi Arabia’s giant oil fields, including the Ghawar field (the world’s largest oil field which has been producing about five million barrels of oil per day for more than 50 years) is now or will soon experience the same fate as Mexico’s Cantarell Field — inexorable decline.
So they can’t need a nuke plant can they?
Actually …. yes.
They have lots of oil, …….. for now.
Remember that Cantarell oil field in Mexico,
It was placed on nitrogen injection in 2000, and production peaked at 2.1 million barrels per day (330,000 m3/d) in 2003. Production declined rapidly after that, and by 2009 had fallen to 772,000 barrels per day
Well Ghawar in the Saudi desert;
The Ghawar Oil Field is by far the largest conventional oil field in the world and accounts for more than half of the cumulative oil production of Saudi Arabia.
The field’s copious production has had help in the form of water injection, which was initiated in 1965.
As wells mature, engineers must manage the pressure by pumping natural gas or water into the wells. This forces oil upward and maintains flow. As more water is pumped into a well, more is found mixed with the extracted oil (the “water-cut.”) High water-cuts imply that a field is running out of natural pressure and becoming more depleted. Ghawar is a rare example of an oilfield with extraordinary natural pressure, although there are some signs that more water is now necessary to help maintain pressure levels.
Water injection volumes are included in a number of publicly available articles about Ghawar, with one of the more recent ones pegging the injection rate at seven million barrels of seawater per day. Water cut, according to other sources, has been reduced from approximately 35 percent to roughly 30 percent since vertical well drilling was shelved in favor of horizontal wellbores.
Saudis eye CO2 injection at Ghawar
Remember the Mexicans used nitrogen injection to hold up production in Cantrell for a few extra years, but the eventual decline in production could not be avoided.
Seems the Saudis are trying a similar trick here; trying to hold up production, to continue their claims they have enormous amounts of oil. But they don’t seem to want to tell us all exactly how much oil they have, which is why they pump and pump (using what ever it takes) but claim they aren’t decreasing their reserves.
They have a rising population and ever rising demand of oil internally. This conflicts with the fact, everybody else on the planet also wants that oil, which is why in a recession, during the fall (when it normally drops some), the price of oil is actually going up: $75.08 at the time I am writing this. Much higher then last spring, when oil was in the $30’s area.
They have supplied oil to the world since before WW2, the and been the swing producer of oil since the US peaked in production in the early 1970’s.
However they are producing at almost full capacity, and either have to cut exports due to the ELM, IE less oil to sell to the rest of the world, which would cause another rise in world oil prices. Or the Saudis find a new source of energy to produce electricity from.
Since, from the WSJ article above:
With electric power using around 75% of Saudi Arabia’s domestic oil, the need for another source of energy has become acute. And as the kingdom rolls out a $400 billion spending plan over the next five years to build the infrastructure needed to diversify its economy away from hydrocarbons, it will need all the money it can get from oil exports.
Hmmmm ya thunk may-be, just, may-be the Iranians which have a larger population … read that … more people using more oil, and a lower total reserve of oil left, are trying to do exactly that?
Save the oil which they are currently burning to produce electricity for their population and use nuke reactors to create electricity, which would allow them to make more money off the exports which would lower the cost of oil to the rest of us if even just for a little while. That would mean Bush, Cheney, Bolton, Kristol, the Israeli’s and the rest of the neo-con cabal was lying to us for years about the Iranian nuke program. Like they lied about Iraqi nukes, chemical weapons, and the rest of the crap they sold the sheeple to get their illegal invasion of Iraq.
So can we expect a new drum beat for oil against the country which originated 15 of the 19, 9-11 high-jackers, and funded the in Laden network more then any other country?
Funds most of the madrasas network in Pakistan, which both Al Qaeda and the Taliban draw recruits from.
Has the most extreme fundamental sect of politically approved sect of Islam, Wahhabism. The sect of Islam which Bin Laden and the Taliban drew from in formulating their extreme violent sect.
Could we expect the reich wing to go batshit crazy over this,
We l-l-l-l-l, …… no not exactly.
Cause the oil+banking sect which was behind the original PNAC neo-con cabal has too many lucrative ties to the House of Saud.
Like, Prince Alwaleed bin Talal owning a large stake in Citigroup, who is currently requesting the US Government sell the shares the government got for saving Citigroup from bankruptcy.
Or the Carlyle Group, which both George H W Bush and Bin Laden family’s, (until after9-11) among several other interesting individuals, held stakes in that is.
Or Arbusto Energy
Arbusto Energy (sometimes referred to as Arbusto Oil) was a petroleum and energy company formed in Midland, Texas, in 1977, for former US President George W. Bush by a group of investors which included Dorothy Bush, Lewis Lehrman, William Henry Draper III, Bill Gammell, and James R. Bath. The company’s chief financial officer was K. Michael Conaway, now a United States Congressman from Texas.
It was later revealed that Bath made an investment of $50,000 while representing Salem bin Laden of the Saudi Binladin Group. This fact became controversial after the September 11, 2001 attacks due to Salem bin Laden being an older, half-brother of Osama bin Laden, who planned and financed the attacks. Upon Salem bin Laden’s death in a 1988 airplane crash, in Texas, his interest in Arbusto (along with other Binladin Group assets), passed to Khalid bin Mahfouz (a wealthy Saudi Arabian businessman residing in Ireland, who was accused of supporting al-Qaeda.)
As for the Israelis, they won’t complain, cause even though the Saudis mouth the words, they never took the actions Saddam or Iran has in supporting Hezbollah or the Palestinians. The reason is simple the House of Saud has as much to fear from the Arab street as Israel ever has. Al Qaeda’s primary mission is actually to over throw the House of Saud, and replace the pro-western government there with one based on strict sharia rule.
Al-Qaeda ideologues envision a complete break from the foreign influences in Muslim countries and the creation of a new Islamic caliphate.
Naw, I can’t see the reich wing neo-con screeching for a war against the Saudis, nor their lunatic fringe in the MSM to push for it, in fact I bet this doesn’t really register on the US Main Stream entertainment Media at all.
Not in their interest of stirring up the rabble rousers, nor in the interest of the moneyed players (on both sides of the ocean) who pull their strings.
PS: I bet you don’t even hear either dipshit; Sarah Palin or Michelle Bachmann mention it.
A federal judge has tossed the law suit filed by the batshit crazy Orly Taitz, out on her deluded ass.
Judge tosses birther suit, threatens lawyer with sanctions
A federal judge in Georgia has threatened Orly Taitz, de facto leader of the birther movement, with sanctions if she ever brings another “frivolous” case before him, news reports say.
Judge Clay Land of the US District Court in Columbus, Georgia, threw out a case brought by US Army Captain Connie Rhodes, who earlier this month sued for the right to refuse deployment orders to Iraq, on the argument that the commander-in-chief of the armed forces, President Barack Obama, was not born in the United States and is therefore not the legitimate head of the army.
According to the Columbus Ledger-Enquirer, Judge Clay stated in his ruling that the plaintiff “has presented no credible evidence and has made no reliable factual allegations to support her unsubstantiated, conclusory allegations and conjecture that President Obama is ineligible to serve as president of the United States.”
The ruling continues: “Instead, she uses her complaint as a platform for spouting political rhetoric, such as her claims that the president is ‘an illegal usurper, an unlawful pretender, [and] an unqualified imposter.’”
As WTVM-TV in Columbus reported, the judge also stated that Rhodes’ attorney, birther leader Orly Taitz, “will be subject to counsel sanctions for bringing any future actions in his court which are similarly frivolous.”
The judge’s ruling represents a significant legal defeat for Taitz and the birther movement, which received a great deal of attention from the media this summer. Media watchdog groups specifically targeted CNN’s Lou Dobbs, who gave the discredited theory that Obama was not born in the United States a disproportionate amount of coverage, according to some observers.
Taitz was behind this summer’s release of a purported “Kenyan birth certificate” for President Obama, which was dated two years after the president’s 1961 birth date, and contradicted Hawaiian officials’ long-standing insistence that the president’s Hawaiian birth certificate is legitimate.
Judge Clay ruled that that document, which evidently formed the backbone of the plaintiff’s case, was illegitimate because Taitz’s organization paid money to acquire it, making it tantamount to bribery.
The plaintiff “has presented no credible evidence and has made no reliable factual allegations to support her unsubstantiated, conclusory allegations and conjecture,
In other words she is full of shit.
QED
‘Bout sums it up don’-cha thunk?
BTW where the hell is the reich wing out-rage over her frivolous lawsuits?
Oh right, the hypocrisy of the reich wing is still operative here.
Update
Birther Orly Taitz Compares Self To Mandela, Wants Judge Tried For Treason
Even the writers at the onion aren’t half as whacked as she is.
Stay tuned, she obviously don’t know you do not piss off a sitting federal judge by attacking his jurisprudence, or his ethics.
Update Birther Orly Taitz Faces California Bar Complaint Over Attack On Judge
Oops she really don’t know how big a pile of cowshit she has stepped in does she?
Cause she can’t bullshit the bar association, they are real lawyers, not a mail order fraud.
Actions sometimes have consequences;
Opponent of ‘You Lie’ Rep. raises $96,000 overnight
However congresscritter you lie;
Exposed: Obama speech disrupter received $240,000 from healthcare industry; Largest industry donor
Me thinks the you lie outburst was connected to the payola he received from health care lobbyists more than the delusions he is under about the claim he made which is demonstratively false;
From FactCheck.org:
One Republican congressman issued a press release claiming that “5,600,000 Illegal Aliens May Be Covered Under Obamacare,” and we’ve been peppered with queries about similar claims. They’re not true. In fact, the House bill (the only bill to be formally introduced in its entirety) specifically says that no federal money would be spent on giving illegal immigrants health coverage:
H.R. 3200: Sec 246 — NO FEDERAL PAYMENT FOR UNDOCUMENTED ALIENS
Nothing in this subtitle shall allow Federal payments for affordability credits on behalf of individuals who are not lawfully present in the United States.
Also, under current law, those in the country illegally don’t qualify for federal health programs. Of interest: About half of illegal immigrants have health insurance now, according to the nonpartisan Pew Hispanic Center, which says those who lack insurance do so principally because their employers don’t offer it.
Which means when the idiot screeched you lie he wasn’t being honest as well as violating the decorum required of congresscritters when ever the president Of the united states addresses the joint sessions of congress.
But then again he is from the state where;
South Carolina, where the Nullification Crisis even predates their traitorous activity during the civil war.
South Carolina first shots fired to start the Civil War
South Carolina Rep Preston Brooks almost beats US Senator Charles Sumner to death on Senate floor after Sumner gives Speech against slavery.
South Carolina gave us Senator Strom Thurmond…need I say more?
South Carolina ranks 48 out of 50 on the Americas Health ranking IE it is near the bottom.
South Carolina, where Karl Rove used the untrue smear that John McCain fathered a African-American baby, so bush could recover from his loss in New Hampshire, to use the bigoted racists (like the congresscritter) to win there.
South Carolina Rep Joe Wilson first representative to call first black president of the untied states a liar from the floor of the house!
But then again South Carolina ranks 47th in the nation on both the ACT and SAT, can’t expect too much from them can we?
After all they have re-elected congresscritteryou lie more then once.
Too bad the republicans haven’t been honest or truthful through out the debate,
They hyped disinformation and out right lies,
Sent people to deny Americans their first amendment rights to speak, when their congress critter held town halls,
They spread lies through the corporate owned MSM all for the continued obscene profits of the same corporations which have created the health care mess we are currently facing ….
What a bunch of WATBs, but then again they have always been that also.
As an addendum,
Opponent of ‘You Lie’ Rep. raises $405,000 in a day
This seems to be congresscritter you lie(R-idiotville) macaca moment.
The donor page is available here.
Now it is $596,029 9:10 PM
BTW did you all notice the US house of representatives voted unanimously that Barack Obama WAS born in Hawaii?
The House resolution to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Hawaiian statehood — which included language recognizing the state as President Obama’s birthplace, in a none-too-subtle jab at the Birfers — passed this evening by a 378-0 vote.
The full text:
Recognizing and celebrating the 50th Anniversary of the entry of Hawaii into the Union as the 50th State.
Whereas August 21, 2009, marks the 50th Anniversary of President Dwight D. Eisenhower’s signing of Proclamation 3309, which admitted Hawaii into the Union in compliance with the Hawaii Admission Act, enacted by the United States Congress on March 18, 1959;
Whereas Hawaii is `a place like no other, with a people like no other’ and bridges the mainland United States to the Asia-Pacific region;
Whereas the 44th President of the United States, Barack Obama, was born in Hawaii;
Whereas Hawaii has contributed to the diversity of Congress in electing the first Native Hawaiian member of Congress, Prince Jonah Kuhio Kalaniana`ole, the first Asian-American member, Hiram Fong, the first woman of color, Patsy T. Mink, and the first Native Hawaiian to serve in the Senate, Daniel Kahikina Akaka;
Whereas Hawaii is an example to the rest of the world of unity and positive race relations;
Whereas Pearl Harbor is a strategic military base for the U.S. in the Pacific and also a historical site for the Nation, being the location of the December 7, 1941, surprise Japanese aerial attack that thrust the Nation into World War II;
Whereas Hawaii is home to 1/4 of the endangered species in the United States;
Whereas Hawaii has 8 national parks, which preserve volcanoes, complex ecosystems, a Hansen’s disease colony, and other sites of historical and cultural significance;
Whereas Kilauea ranks among the most active volcanoes on Earth;
Whereas President Bush nominated the Papahanaumokuakea Marine National Monument to the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization World Heritage Centre for consideration to the World Heritage List;
Whereas Hawaii has produced musical legends ranging from traditional favorites such as Alfred Apaka, Don Ho, and Genoa Keawe, to Hawaii renaissance performers such as Eddie Kamae, Raymond Kane, Gabby Pahinui, Israel Kamakawiwo`ole, the Brothers Cazimero, and the Beamer Brothers, and continuing on to contemporary stars such as Keali`i Reichel, Ledward Kaapana, Jake Shimabukuro, and Raiatea Helm;
Whereas Hawaii is culturally rich, as the Hawaiian culture has been protected through Hawaiian language immersion schools, hula competitions such as the Merrie Monarch Festival, canoeing voyages undertaken by vessels like the Hokule`a, and the continuing historic preservation of Hawaiian traditions;
Whereas the Hawaii Statehood Commission has held a Joint Session of the Hawaii State Legislature in honor of statehood and will be celebrating this milestone with a public discussion and with the arrival of the USS Hawaii; and
Whereas for all of these reasons Hawaii is a truly unique State: Now, therefore, be it
Resolved, That the House of Representatives recognizes and celebrates the 50th Anniversary of the entry of Hawaii into the Union as the 50th State.
Including the republicans pushing the birfer bill in congress;
Rep. Bill Posey (R-FL), Marsha Blackburn (R-TN), Dan Burton (R-IN), John Culberson (R-TX), Bob Goodlatte (R-VA), Randy Neugebauer (R-TX), and Ted Poe (R-TX).
What’s their likely excuse gonna be for voting for the bill;
They didn’t read the bill or can’t actually read at all? (It’s a home schooled thingy)
Is it possible these people didn’t realize what they were voting on?
Cause they are so full of shi-ite they never read the bills but just vote the way the reich wing clowns pulling their strings tell them to vote?
Or does their vote suggest there are limits to their craziness.
Oh some of them might claim they didn’t vote for it.
You see there is only a “certificate of live vote.”
It can’t be proved they voted for it
Unless there’s a “long form vote certificate” with an embossed seal that includes the name of the building that the vote took place in.
Quiting ain’t quiting even if they voted for it;
To the crazies Obama’s birth certificate doesn’t exist …..
But the WMD’s in Iraq do ….
It’s just the Syrians, Russians or maybe Martians hid them for Saddam …….
The earth is 6000 years old and flat, the roundness seen from space is just an optical illusion cause by Satan himself ……
Sarah Palin would be a great presid …. FUCK NO … nobody is that fucking insane.
Is Orly batshit crazy Taitz gonna sue congress now?
I hope the birfers heads don’t ’splode too much, realizing the republicans refuse to stand up for the lunacy they push when it counts.
Maybe Lou Dobbs can take a cue from congress since he don’t fucking watch his insanity hour if he ain’t on it … it would seem.
Actually nice job members of congress, both sides of the isle, nice way to deflate the whole scam the reich-wing has pushed.
Al franken was declared the winner by the Supreme Court of Minnesota,
The Minnesota Supreme Court has handed down its much-expected ruling in the heavily-litigated Minnesota Senate race from 2008 — and it’s a unanimous one — deciding against Republican former Sen. Norm Coleman’s appeal of his defeat in the election trial and affirming the lower court’s verdict that Democratic comedian Al Franken is the legitimate winner of the race.
The courts finds that “Al Franken received the highest number of votes legally cast and is entitled under Minn. Stat. § 204C.40 (2008) to receive the certificate of election as United States Senator from the State of Minnesota.”
The court also said give Al Franken the certificate Pawlenty has so far refused to sign, accepting the will of the citizens of the state he was supposed to follow;
For all of the foregoing reasons, we affirm the decision of the trial court that Al Franken received the highest number of votes legally cast and is entitled under Minn. 32 Stat. § 204C.40 (2008) to receive the certificate of election as United States Senator from the State of Minnesota.
The Gov, Tim Pawlenty said this over the weekend;
“I’m going to follow the direction of the court,” he said during an appearance on CNN. “We expect that ruling any day now. I also expect them to give guidance and direction as to the certificate of election. I’m prepared to sign it as soon as they give the green light.”
So it is over unless the shit-birds in the LOSER GOPer alternate reality delusional squad wanna waste a couple of million more dollars preventing the people of Minnesota from receiving the representation they voted to have, the RNC being such an anti democracy crowd,
See
*The Dulles brothers over throwing democracy in Iran 1953, and preventing true democracy in Vietnam 1954 …..
Kissinger overthrowing democracy in Chile 1973;
Bush trying to over throw democracy in Venezula 2002, and fighting against the free vote of the Palestinian people 2005.
Not to mention the GOPers who stole the 2000 election for the delusional anti-reality RNC crooks squad which enabled the PNAC neo-con crowd to start an illegal was in Iraq.
(image created by KayInMaine of White Noise Insanity)
Geeeeeee, how can one rig 11 million votes in favor of the guy who the Iranian people don’t want? Well Ayatollah, all that needs to be done is one person in charge of announcing the winner after looking at the vote counts, seeing that Ahmadinejad lost by 11 million votes, is not the actual winner, and then this person deciding to announce to the people, “Ahmadinejad is the winner!”. See? It’s very simple. This election reminds me of Ned Lamont & Joe Lieberman’s 2006 race where at one point in the voting Ned Lamont received the EXACT same amount of votes that one of Joe’s former opponents did in a previous race Joe was in! Yeah, yeah, it’s good to have friends in high places if you wanted to win your race when you clearly didn’t win it. It was as if Connecticut’s Secretary of State wanted Joe Lieberman to keep his seat for Israel so he said, “Screw it! I’m just going to announce that you won Joe even though you clearly didn’t, because the people of Connecticut wanted change and we don’t want that, right Joe?!”. Spit.
So Ayatollah, it’s very easy to “steal” or “rig” 11 million votes when you have people in power who decide the winner before the votes have been tallied, and even after they’re tallied and they see that Ahmadinejad clearly was the loser in the race…..they’ll just announce him as the winner anyway!
I have a feeling if the Ayatollah’s decision to announce Ahmadinejad as the winner today will result in the Iranian youth continuing their quest for change. It’s going to be a wild ride. We, as Americans, must stop demonizing the Iranians. It’s not them that is the problem…..it’s their leaders.
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Spits of rage…