Good morning, everyone!
Well, like a loose tooth that you can’t keep your tongue off of, I can’t help ogling the trainwreck that is Orly Taitz.
Arianna Huffington’s evil twin has been taking her share of lumps lately, and Free Republic, which once had a multitude of threads on her every day (and hotlinks to them at the top of each page), has mostly had enough.
Belatedly, it’s dawning on them that not only have they been had, but been made to look ridiculous in the bargain. Me? I’m loving it!
Here’s where it all started to go wrong:
p>Judge tosses out Army captain’s complaint questioning president’s birth; Orly Taitz on notice
http://www.ledger-enquirer.com/news/breaking_news/story/841419.html ^
Posted onWednesday, September 16, 2009 11:48:30 AM byvikk
U.S. District Court Judge Clay Land today tossed out a complaint by
an Army captain fighting deployment to Iraq by questioning the
legitimacy of President Barack Obama.Land also put attorney
Orly Taitz, who represents Capt. Connie Rhodes and is a leader in the
national “birther” movement, on notice by stating that she could face
sanctions if she ever files a similar “frivolous” lawsuit in his court.“(Rhodes) 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,” Land states in his order. “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.'”Rhodes,
who filed her complaint Sept. 4 in the Columbus Division of U.S.
District Court, argued that some facts point to Obama not being
naturalized or possibly an illegal immigrant.“This plaintiff
cannot in good conscience obey orders originating from a chain of
command from this merely de facto president,” Rhodes’ complaint states.
“This plaintiff cannot be lawfully compelled to obey this de facto
president’s orders.”In his order, Land states in a footnote
that Obama defeated seven opponents in a “grueling” primary campaign
that cost the contenders more than $300 million. Obama then moved on to
the general election, where he faced Sen. John McCain, who Land states
got $84 million to wage his campaign.“It would appear that
ample opportunity existed for discovery of evidence that would support
any contention that the president was not eligible for the office he
sought,” Land says.The judge adds that Congress hasn’t started
impeachment proceedings against Obama, appears satisfied that he can
hold the office and has rejected the suggestion he isn’t.
Lemme guess.This judge was a Democrat appointee?
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posted onWednesday, September 16, 2009 11:51:11 AM
byConservativeMind
div class=”a2″>To: ConservativeMind
He was a Bush appointee in 2001. Before that, he was an elected
Republican Georgia State Senator. From his Senate website archive, his
bio included this…
“Land has sponsored a
wide variety of legislation which has been enacted into law, including
the 1996 law authorizing hefty fines against the City of Atlanta for
its pollution of the Chattahoochee River, landmark education reform
legislation expanding Georgia’s charter school law, amendment of the
expert affidavit statute, and privacy protection legislation
restricting access to motor vehicle accident reports by ambulance
chasing lawyers. “
I wouldn’t characterize a tort reform proponent and charter school advocate as a liberal.
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posted onWednesday, September 16, 2009 12:05:50 PM
byOldDeckHand
(No Socialized Medicine, No Way, No How, No Time)
“claims that the president is ‘an illegal usurper, an unlawful pretender, [and] an unqualified imposter.'”
Um, I think she meant to say “President Bush” as the above, not President Obama. Afterall, it IS chimpy’s war.
What One Firearm Would You Own If “It All Went Bad?”
Oh, Jesus. I would imagine that “if it all went bad” there would be AMPLE firearms available, but this is like … fantasy football for Internet Tough Guys or something.
Five’ll get you ten most of the people fantasizing about grenade launchers have never fired a Super Soaker.
A.
Ugh.
Although as an allergy kid, I do have to sympathize with the “ID to buy Robitussin” thing. I grew up gluping sudafed like candy.
And there actually has been a question of putting a lot of other over-the-counter drugs behind the counter.
(Just the article on the freeper thread starts off wrong by not considering if it wasn’t the govt making them ask for an ID but rather an overzealous corporation. Not to mention a lot of folks jumping on the thread trying to appear knowledgeable by saying “meth” instead of the fact that teenagers try to get high. Like many, many freeper items, a conflagration of fears).
MapleStreet, in my local drugstore, the pregnancy tests, ovulation prediction kits (none of which work worth a shit, btw), condoms and lube are all in a locked case that you have to ask a pharmacist to open.
When I complained, because hello, embarrassing, the manager told me such things were often stolen and re-sold on the street. So is your bottled water, I replied, but you don’t lock that up. Only the sex things. He told me to write a letter to corporate.
A.
Is it possible to tweak the system so these posts do not go in full to feed readers? I really enjoy this blog (and miss Holden), but when I get one of these posts on my iPhone and have to scroll I get really irritated.
Kirk,
Done. You should notice a change. I never even realized I had it set for full posts. If it’s still giving you the full posts say, tomorrow, drop me an e-mail.
A.
I have been reading all the Freep birther threads for a few weeks now. They are this fascinating combination of loonery, denial, and outright hypocrasy. I can’t take my eyes away.
And lately they have devolved into this “Lord of the Flies” dynamic. They are turning on their own, not trusting anyone’s opinion that even SLIGHTLY varies from the hard core brither line.
But what I most enjoy is the inability to explain HOW all this happened or went down. A birther will point to a 4 year old article int he West Africa Free Rpeorter that says, “Kenya’s native son, Barack Obama…” and offer it as proof that he was Kenyan. Then someone will point to the Hawaii newspapers and birth certificate to rebut. The result will be that some unverified article int he foreign press is ok, but clearly someone was lying to the US paper (or they were in on it) and that they created a fake brith certificate.
And I think they argue with a straight face!
Anyway, if you search the main page with “birthcertificate” you can get all the Freep threads the birthers use (that is their super-secret-double-probation key tag).
It is worth reading a few threads just once.
In particular, look for comments by the following, they tend to be reasoned and logical:
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Non-Sequiter
OldDeckHand
mno
BuckeyeTexan
Clearly thanks are in order that you scour the bottom of this cesspit, so we don’t have to.
When, exactly, do these people get beyond denial and into bargaining and acceptance, anyway? There’s more semi-pro scab-picking on FR than almost anywhere else.
(I also note this complaint about not being able to buy meth precursors over the counter any longer–this site is located in Fresno, about which the BBC titled a recent special, “The City Addicted to Meth.”)
But, this is the salient quote, I think: “We’ve had the soapbox, we’ve had the ballot box, and we’re coming close to the jury box being denied us. There will soon be no reasonable alternatives.”
At least another commenter made hash of that one. Still, it’s a clear instance of the way in which the wacko right perceives reality, bordering on cognitive disorder. The religious loonies of which they approve don’t even figure in the last election, and they’re being denied the ballot box. They see a Dem president talking on their teebees, and they’re being denied their soapbox. A flaky, fluffy, legal crackpot has a case tossed out for lack of substance, and they’re being denied trial by jury. The victimhood (not to mention the tendency to hyperbole) is strong in Freepers, Obi-Wan.
Thank goodness there’s just a few hundred hard-core paranoiacs there. BTW, when is R.J. Rushdoony Appreciation Day at Free Republic?
Some random bits of Freeperocity that got stuck in my breathing filter:
Would it were so. Sadly, I’m afraid Orly and the birthers are starting to fade. Like M*A*S*H, it was fun while it lasted.
Or both :).
They’re on to us! Run for the airlocks!
No, I’m pretty sure it guarantees: “the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and topetition the Government for a redress of grievances.” Start trying to redress them on your own and what Judge Carter had to say to Orly will look like a friendly chat. (But feel free to petition your grievances to your heart’s content–they may even listen.)
–Kibitzer