Birthers at Work!

Over at the Daily Kos, I'm reading about an addle-minded Birther, Phil Wolf, who has basically screwed himself and his car dealership business with a billboard demanding that Nobel Peace Prize Winner President Obama prove his citizenship.

This reminded me of the birthers in my own workplace; a few days ago one of them showed us a birther email that he found very convincing (my comments in [brackets]:

--- On Wed, 11/18/09, [email redacted] wrote:

From: [redacted]
Subject: Fw: NEED FOR PRAYER
To: [long-ass list of email recipients redacted]
Date: Wednesday, November 18, 2009, 12:22 PM


On Wed, 11/18/09, [email redacted] wrote:

From: [redacted]
Subject: Fw: NEED FOR PRAYER
To: [redacted]
Date: Wednesday, November 18, 2009, 12:47 PM

----- Forwarded Message ----
From: [redacted]
To: [5 more names redacted]
Sent: Tue, November 17, 2009 7:58:57 PM
Subject: Fw: NEED FOR PRAYER

AS THIS E-MAIL MAKES ITS WAY ACROSS AMERICA AND BACK, EVERYONE WHO RECEIVES IT PLEASE STOP FOR A MOMENT AND SAY A PRAYER THAT GOD WILL PUT A HEDGE OF PROTECTION AROUND JUDGE CARTER AND HIS FAMILY.

[heh. I wonder if any of them participated in Operation Prayer Shield?]

Good luck judge!

Well well,

Here comes the Judge

Federal Judge Carter sets Trial Date for Obama's Eligibility!

The expedited trial has been set for Jan. 26, 2010!

[ah, yeah, about that--no it hasn't. See below.]

Many concerned veterans and citizens attended the hearing in Federal Court in Santa Ana in the lawsuit against Barack Obama to determine his eligibility to be President and Commander in Chief. About 150 people showed up, almost all in support of the lawsuit to demand that Obama release his birth certificate and other records that he has hidden from the American people.

Judge David Carter refused to hear Obama's request for dismissal. He indicated there was almost no chance that this case would be dismissed. Obama is arguing this lawsuit was filed in the wrong court if you can believe that. Obama would prefer a "kangaroo court" instead of a Federal court! Assuming Judge Carter denies Obama's motion for dismissal, he will likely then order expedited discovery which will force Obama to release his birth certificate in a timely manner (if he has one).

The judge, WHO IS A FORMER U.S. MARINE, repeated several times that this is A VERY SERIOUS CASE which must be resolved quickly so that the troops know that their Commander in Chief is eligible to hold that position and issue lawful orders to our military in this time of war. He basically said OBAMA MUST PROVE HIS ELIGIBILITY to the court! He said Americans deserve to know the truth about their President!

[Hah!]

The two U.S. Attorneys representing Barack Obama tried everything they could to sway the judge that this case was frivolous, but Carter would have none of it and cut them off several times. Obama's attorneys left the courtroom after about the 90 minute hearing looking defeated and nervous.

[HAH!]

Great day in America for the U.S. Constitution! The truth about Barack Obama's eligibility will be known fairly soon - Judge Carter practically guaranteed it!

Video from the press conference after the hearing coming soon. Congratulations to plaintiffs attorney Dr. Orly Taitz! She did a great job and won some huge victories. She was fearless!

[she's been largely ineffectual, actually; her big case with that other bucket of birther crazy Alan Keyes was dismissed by Judge David Carter--you know, the one they're gushing about above--in late October.]

This needs to be forwarded to everyone you know....

What a bucketload of crap. I got the guy to forward it to me--there's no way I'm gonna pass up an opportunity to mock birthers.

I especially like the bit about "plaintiffs attorney Dr. Orly Taitz," who was recently fined $20,000 for filing a frivolous lawsuit and could be disbarred. I wonder what those "huge victories" are that this dentist and soon-to-be-former lawyer has won?

(Yes, she does sign herself as "Orly Taitz, DDS, Esq.")

Johnathan Turley writes about Taitz' $20,000 FAIL:

The bill is in for Orly Taitz, the California lawyer leading the “Birther” litigation: $20,000 for sanctionable conduct. U.S. District Court Judge Clay Land previously issued a stern warning to attorney Orly Taitz and others in the so-called “birther” campaign: do not file another such “frivolous” lawsuit or you will face sanctions. Land threw out the lawsuit filed on behalf of Capt. Connie Rhodes who is an Army surgeon challenging her deployment orders due to President Barack Obama’s alleged ineligibility to serve as President. Land (a Bush appointee) noted that “[u]nlike in ‘Alice in Wonderland,’ simply saying something is so does not make it so.” In the most recent order, Land said that Taitz’s conduct “borders on delusional.”

There's already a Bar complaint against her in California--and Capt. Rhodes was considering filing one of her own back in October.


At any rate, I'm not surprised that my two co-workers are taken with this nonsense; both are conservative, neither of them is a fan of Nobel Peace Prize Winner President Obama (I need to start saying it that way at work, just to see if I get a reaction). Both of them seem willing to believe almost anything about him.

But all it takes is a Google search on a few words--"snopes+taitz+carter+2010+trial" to find the Snopes page about the email, and find that it's nothing but horseturds! The guy who showed us the email had it on his freaking NETBOOK. All his lazy ass needed to do was pop over to the Google and ask the Oracle whether the email was even true or not. He'd have found the Snopes link at the top of the search.

Lazy.