Obama needs to show his birth certificate--the long form!

The following answer to our birther friends by Emerald 5 8 2010 North County Times

On the outside chance someone might actually take such wacko conspiracy theories seriously, here are THREE reasons Obama ain’t gonna beg you to believe him.

1. Your request has already been fulfilled.
A certified copy was posted in Hawaii, certified by the REPUBLICAN governor (Laura Lingle) and the Department of Health, and backed up by much other evidence including local birth announcements published in both major Honolulu newspapers way back at the time of Obama’s 1961 birth.

2. There is nothing that will convince the lunatic fringe who have already decided that there was a conspiracy all the way back in 1961 to fabricate a false birth record so that a BLACK BABY could be groomed for the presidency at a time when blacks weren’t even allowed vote in some parts of the country.

3. We don’t really want you to stop.
The loonier the wacko conspiracy theory extremists become, the more the general public is turned off by them.

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Heritage Foundation proved that Fannie and Freddie forced by Democrats to loan to poor caused global financial meltdow

Response to Rush Limbaugh:
First, why do you think anyone would find biased conservative OPINION sites such as Heritage to be the slightest bit credible?

Second, no one minimizes the role of Freddie and Fannie, but all intelligent analysts put them in perspective relative to where they fit with other, more significant factors. You say, “For those of you who said....” PLEASE BE SPECIFIC. Who are you referring to? Which statements? Please provide the name, date, time and statement you are referring to, unless YOU JUST MADE IT UP.

Third, Freddie/Fannie were dramatically successful for decades and collapsed during the Bush years when Republicans controlled the Presidency as well as the House and Senate. Why do you consider this to be a bad reflection on the minority party that was OUT OF POWER?

The reality-reversal desperation level here is palpable.

Brick Throwing Advocate is a "Welfare Queen""

This is priceless. The former militia leader so publicly advocating hurling bricks through Democratic leaders' windows? He's a welfare queen.

"Vanderboegh said he once worked as a warehouse manager but now lives on government disability checks. He said he receives $1,300 a month because of his congestive heart failure, diabetes and hypertension. He has private health insurance through his wife, who works for a company that sells forklift products. "

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/03/25/AR2010032501722_2.html?hpid=topnews&sid=ST2010032402500

And why does he hate Democrats so much? He's afraid of "collectivist" tendencies.

"He said he long opposed President Obama because he believed the president has "collectivism" tendencies. But he became especially energized during the health-care debate."

Yeah, collectivist. Like federally funded disability payments.

Owwwww, the stupid, it burns!

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This post thanks to the contribution of North County Times blogger,

CaroCogitatus said on: March 26, 2010, 9:21 am

Eric Cantor does not lie any more than Obama

Yeah, right.

Imagine if a non-Republican claimed that someone shot a bullet through their office window, telling the story to try to garner sympathy and make himself sound like a victim. Then, later it was found out that the bullet was a random bullet coming down with hardly any force. It could not have been aimed at his office. No one could shoot up into the air and have it land in a particular window hundreds of yards away. The bullet was an "accident" caused by some gun nut firing into the air.

Think how much ridicule Rush Limbaugh and the hired guns at FOX not News would heap on the poor unfortunate liar's head. But with the liar/exaggerator being a Republican, we all know from experience that FOX not News will either ignore Cantor's lie or try to explain it away.

Here is what USA Today said about the bullet, "A statement from the Richmond, Va., police department says a bullet broke the window of a meeting room in Cantor's office at about 1 a.m. Tuesday. "A preliminary investigation shows that a bullet was fired into the air and struck the window in a downward direction, landing on the floor about a foot from the window," the police statement says. "The round struck with enough force to break the windowpane but did not penetrate the window blinds.""
http://content.usatoday.com/communities/onpolitics/post/2010/03/cantor-reports-bullet-being-fired-at-campaign-office/1

So far Obama has not lied once. There are no government death panels, only private insurance death panels. There is no coverage for undocumented workers. There will be no government funds for abortions. All those lies came from FOX not News, King Limbaugh and the mental case, Glenn Beck.

Say when is the Kool-Aid crew going to chip in for a mental health intervention for Beck?

My son* is no longer threatened with death by you serial sociopaths that support the lies of FOX, Limbaugh and Beck. My son can no longer be cut off by my wife's insurance when he reaches the arbitrary annual cap or life time cap on medical coverage. These caps put in place by Private Insurance Death Panels.

All hail Obama and Rahm. Life savers. Thank God for the courageous in Congress. They will lose in November because lies stick in the heads of the Kool aid crew better than facts. But those Democrats did what no Republican since Teddy Roosevelt has done, they stuck to their principles of helping ordinary Americans, damn the professional cost.

* My youngest child and second son is 27 years old and suffers from psoriasis, psoriatic arthritis and worst of all ankylosing spondylitis. His first symptoms were as a twenty year old senior in college. Without costly medication, the AS freezes up his rib cage suffocating him. Twice his mother and I have sat by his bedside watching him all night long expecting every breath to be his last. Remicade saved his life when Enbrel and Humira could not.

The Remicade is VERY expensive. Out of pocket expenses for his care cost my wife and I around $10,000 a year.

I am disabled with a related immune disorder. I was forced to take a disability retirement after twenty five years in the public school system. My various jobs were as a custodian, bus driver, classroom teacher (math,algebra, bilingual math, science, US history and self contained), driver training instructor and superintendent of a tiny school district. I have six California credentials. I learned to speak Spanish while taking classes at night and teaching 6th grade during the day time.

My wife and I have lived under constant fear that we will lose her insurance and that we will not be able to afford the medication needed to keep my son alive since he almost died in the summer of 2007. Three years previous to his diagnosis I was forced from the classroom by my related immune disorder. My disease progression is much slower than my son's so I can take care of him while my wife is in the classroom teaching.

My monthly retirement check is $2100.

As a public school teacher in California of the wrong age, I have no medical insurance from my district nor do I qualify for Medicare. I cannot provide enough money for my son's meds if my wife's medical insurance is taken away nor can I provide health insurance for him as I was given none for my service.

My son and I are two of the disposable people that the folks, who acquired Selfish Con Disorder from Limbaugh and FOXnotNews, think should just go sit in a corner and die because they do not want to pay for our insurance.

Having a guarantee that our son will be covered is very nice. We thought we would have to move to Canada where my father in law's family is from if my wife lost coverage. We would sell everything and move, so my son could still get the medication he needs to live. Now we do not need to.

Obama won't consider Republican health reform ideas

The propaganda of Rush Limbaugh, FOX not News, Glenn Beck et. al. that Obama is too arrogant (code for uppity) to listen to Republicans (code for white men)is brillantly refuted in the post. This excellent reply to the lies was written by blogger Ms M in the Letters to the Editor comment section of the North County Times, Friday February 26, 2010.

Fact-checking the GOP on healthcare reform
Senate Dems adopted 161 amendments and key GOP planks while soft-pedaling the public option. That's not compromise?
By Ethan Sherwood Strauss

http://www.salon.com/news/healthcare_reform/index.html?story=/opinion/feature/2010/02/23/hcr_amendments

The six Republican ideas already in the health-care reform bill

http://voices.washingtonpost.com/ezra-klein/2010/02/five_compronises_in_health_car.html

http://www.whitehouse.gov/health-care-meeting/republican-ideas

Garrett ignores GOP influence in current health care legislation to say Obama will "start" incorporating GOP ideas

http://mediamatters.org/research/201002100034

http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/82665-white-house-issues-list-of-gop-health-reform-ideas-included-in-obama-plan

Are the GOP's Ideas on Health Care Reform Any Good?

http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2010/02/are-the-gops-ideas-on-health-care-reform-any-good/35699/

Global Weirding, Thomas Friedman, New York Times

Our conned friends continue to believe the dangerous nonsense that bought and paid for, conmen like Beck and Limbaugh are pedaling to the gullible about what we humans are doing to the earth's climate and oceans.

Thomas Friedman summarized what everyone should know about human induced climate change. In his column in today's New York Times (see below), he introduces us to a new and more accurate term for this human caused climate change. He calls it "Global Weirding."

Here he is in his own words. Please pass on Friedman's comments to any of your friends or relatives who are still deluded dittoheads, broken-brained Beck viewers, or have been fooled by the FOX propaganda apparatus.

February 17, 2010

Op-Ed Columnist

Global Weirding Is Here

By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN

Of the festivals of nonsense that periodically overtake American politics, surely the silliest is the argument that because Washington is having a particularly snowy winter it proves that climate change is a hoax and, therefore, we need not bother with all this girly-man stuff like renewable energy, solar panels and carbon taxes. Just drill, baby, drill.

When you see lawmakers like Senator Jim DeMint of South Carolina tweeting that “it is going to keep snowing until Al Gore cries ‘uncle,’ ” or news that the grandchildren of Senator James Inhofe of Oklahoma are building an igloo next to the Capitol with a big sign that says “Al Gore’s New Home,” you really wonder if we can have a serious discussion about the climate-energy issue anymore.

The climate-science community is not blameless. It knew it was up against formidable forces — from the oil and coal companies that finance the studies skeptical of climate change to conservatives who hate anything that will lead to more government regulations to the Chamber of Commerce that will resist any energy taxes. Therefore, climate experts can’t leave themselves vulnerable by citing non-peer-reviewed research or failing to respond to legitimate questions, some of which happened with both the Climatic Research Unit at the University of East Anglia and the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

Although there remains a mountain of research from multiple institutions about the reality of climate change, the public has grown uneasy. What’s real? In my view, the climate-science community should convene its top experts — from places like NASA, America’s national laboratories, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Stanford, the California Institute of Technology and the U.K. Met Office Hadley Centre — and produce a simple 50-page report. They could call it “What We Know,” summarizing everything we already know about climate change in language that a sixth grader could understand, with unimpeachable peer-reviewed footnotes.

At the same time, they should add a summary of all the errors and wild exaggerations made by the climate skeptics — and where they get their funding. It is time the climate scientists stopped just playing defense. The physicist Joseph Romm, a leading climate writer, is posting on his Web site, climateprogress.org, his own listing of the best scientific papers on every aspect of climate change for anyone who wants a quick summary now.

Here are the points I like to stress:

1) Avoid the term “global warming.” I prefer the term “global weirding,” because that is what actually happens as global temperatures rise and the climate changes. The weather gets weird. The hots are expected to get hotter, the wets wetter, the dries drier and the most violent storms more numerous.

The fact that it has snowed like crazy in Washington — while it has rained at the Winter Olympics in Canada, while Australia is having a record 13-year drought — is right in line with what every major study on climate change predicts: The weather will get weird; some areas will get more precipitation than ever; others will become drier than ever.

2) Historically, we know that the climate has warmed and cooled slowly, going from Ice Ages to warming periods, driven, in part, by changes in the earth’s orbit and hence the amount of sunlight different parts of the earth get. What the current debate is about is whether humans — by emitting so much carbon and thickening the greenhouse-gas blanket around the earth so that it traps more heat — are now rapidly exacerbating nature’s natural warming cycles to a degree that could lead to dangerous disruptions.

3) Those who favor taking action are saying: “Because the warming that humans are doing is irreversible and potentially catastrophic, let’s buy some insurance — by investing in renewable energy, energy efficiency and mass transit — because this insurance will also actually make us richer and more secure.” We will import less oil, invent and export more clean-tech products, send fewer dollars overseas to buy oil and, most importantly, diminish the dollars that are sustaining the worst petro-dictators in the world who indirectly fund terrorists and the schools that nurture them.

4) Even if climate change proves less catastrophic than some fear, in a world that is forecast to grow from 6.7 billion to 9.2 billion people between now and 2050, more and more of whom will live like Americans, demand for renewable energy and clean water is going to soar. It is obviously going to be the next great global industry.

China, of course, understands that, which is why it is investing heavily in clean-tech, efficiency and high-speed rail. It sees the future trends and is betting on them. Indeed, I suspect China is quietly laughing at us right now. And Iran, Russia, Venezuela and the whole OPEC gang are high-fiving each other. Nothing better serves their interests than to see Americans becoming confused about climate change, and, therefore, less inclined to move toward clean-tech and, therefore, more certain to remain addicted to oil. Yes, sir, it is morning in Saudi Arabia.

Maureen Dowd is off today.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/17/opinion/17friedman.html

Obama is incompetent. He cannot get anything done.

You don’t seem to grasp the very simple concept that we have a PRESIDENT, NOT A DICTATOR.
Republicans continue to OBSTRUCT any reform, with more filibusters in ONE YEAR than all the Southern racists used in opposing civil rights during the entire 20 years of the 1950’s and 1960’s COMBINED.

Why would anyone ever trust those Republicans who broke our economic system (and obstruct those trying to undo the damage) to fix it?

Emerald

The blog editor, con no more, would add. So interesting the cons want it both ways. They say, "Obama is a terrible socialist who is ramming his facist, socialist, communist agenda down America's throat" in one breath. In the next breath he should resign or be impeached because he is lazy and incompetent. Which argument do you want to go with my CONfused friends or aren't you folks troubled by internal inconsistency?