Sunday, January 6, 2013

Birther wants Supreme Court Justice Roberts to refuse to issue oath of office to President Obama...

Yup, they're still at it...

The latest birther foolishness is from a Craig McMillan, contributor for Worldnetdaily.com.

Here it is, in its entirety:

Dear Mr. Roberts,
When you administered the oath of office to Barack Obama for his first term as president, you could have been excused for believing that Mr. Obama was qualified under the Constitution to hold the office of president, which he had sought and won. After all, Obama’s opponent, John McCain, never raised the issue of Mr. Obama’s qualifications.
Now that Mr. Obama has been re-elected and is preparing to serve a second term of office, there can be no doubt regarding his qualifications. This is because by Mr. Obama’s own admission, his father was of Kenyan nationality and perhaps holding British citizenship as well.
In addition to the nationality of Mr. Obama Sr. listed on Barack Obama’s birth certificate, we know that Obama Sr. was not an American citizen because of correspondence surrounding his stay in this country.
Because Obama Sr. lacked American citizenship, Barack Obama is not a natural born citizen, as required by our Constitution. He is not natural born, and can never be natural born, because of his father. Therefore, Barack Obama is not qualified to be president and never will be qualified. This would still be true, even if he received every vote cast.
Your failure to investigate these citizenship issues surrounding Mr. Obama at the time questions were raised during his first term places you in a terrible position. You are now confronted with a most difficult choice.
Your own oath of office, sworn before God and the American people, requires you to uphold the Constitution. (If not you, then who?) If you now administer the oath of office for the presidency to a man who by his own admission fails to meet the natural born citizen requirement imposed by that Constitution, you have violated your own oath of office and are rightly subject to impeachment by any House of Representatives, at any time, now or in the future.
If you choose the easy course of ignoring our Constitution, it does not change the fact that Mr. Obama is barred by that same Constitution from acting as president. I am sure that if you turn your judicial mind to the ramifications of this fraud, both foreign and domestic, you will understand that the harm you will have done insures your impeachment and eternal dishonor at some point down the road: If not this House of Representatives, then the next, or the next, or the next.
These things do not end well. One need only look to the aftermath of World War II and the Nuremberg Trials to see what awaits. Illegal wars. Illegal debts. Illegal laws. Will the rest of the Supreme Court’s justices, now knowing they are violating their own oath of office, continue the sham through a second presidential term? How, then, is the highest court of law in the nation any different than that pictorial proverb in Japan of the three monkeys who see no evil, hear no evil and speak no evil?
Given the gravity of this situation, we therefore urge you to take the honorable course of action and refuse to administer the oath of office to Mr. Obama. And yes, this will also require you to explain to the nation in the clearest possible terms why you have been compelled to take this most extraordinary action.
Thank you, Mr. Chief Justice, for your consideration.

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What's left to say that hasn't already been said or written about this subject? We've seen the birth certificate, birth announcement and we known that Barack Obama is eligible to be the President of the United States because his Mother was, in fact, a citizen
Letters which suggest impeachment of a sitting Supreme Court Justice will garner some attention from time to time, but the birther thing is getting sad and tired. Maybe these types will go to their grave believing that the greatest hoax of all time has been perpetuated upon the American People, maybe they'll loose their zest for this silliness over time. We have four more years of President Obama in office before he moves on with his next project. 
Unless of course, that bastard finds a way to get a third term...

Sources: 
http://www.wnd.com/2013/01/an-open-letter-to-the-honorable-chief-justice/
http://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/default/files/rss_viewer/birth-certificate-long-form.pdf
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Obama_birth_announcement.jpg
http://www.american-citizenship.org/
http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2012/11/right-wing-conspiracy-theory-barack-obama-third-term









NHL Lockout is Over...News Links...

The National Hockey League and the National Hockey League's Player's Association have announced an agreement. "Don Fehr and I are here to tell you that we have reached an agreement on the framework of a new collective bargaining agreement, the details of which need to be put to paper," NHL commissioner Gary Bettman confirmed to reporters early Sunday morning. "We have to dot a lot of I's and cross a lot of T's. There is still a lot of work to be done, but the basic framework has been agreed upon."

The agreement still has to be ratified by the players association, with details regarding the length of the season, start dates, schedules, etc. to be announced in the next few days. 

The deal is good for ten years with an opt-out clause after eight and should provide some consistency for the league for the next several seasons. How fast the fans will return is another question but I suspect the arenas across North America will be sold out on opening night. 

There's no shortage of stories on this announcement...

To see TSN's coverage, click here...

To read coverage from the Ottawa Citizen, click here...

To read coverage from the Toronto Globe and Mail, click here...

To read the CBC's coverage click here...

To see coverage from Sportsnet, click here...

To see coverage from the NHLPA, click here...

To see coverage from NHL.com, click here...

Wednesday, January 2, 2013

Tick tock on the on the fiscal cliff negotiations...

 Politico has an interesting tick tock on how the fiscal cliff negotiations played out over thelast several weeks. Utilizing numerous interviews from White Houee and Congressional leadership staffers, the article walks the reader through the entire process from the last two months.

From trade-offs from all sides to John Boehner telling Harry Reid not once, but twice no less to "...go fuck yourself," its a compelling portrait of how this legislation got made and the fiscal cliff was avoided.

It is worth your time to read this...Great work by Politico's John Breshahan, Carrie Budoff Brown, Manu Raju and Jake Sherman. 


Click here for the entire piece...

Source:

http://www.politico.com/story/2013/01/the-fiscal-cliff-deal-that-almost-wasnt-85663_Page2.html


The Implosion of the Republican Party...


The Republican Party is really two Parties. The Republican Party and the Tea Party. Republicans are petrified of being "primaried" by conservatives on their right, so as we've seen in the last session of Congress, the recent fiscal cliff negotiations and even the normally slam-dunk of a disaster relief aid package debacle, the GOP is having all sorts of problems. 

Conservatives from Peter King to Chris Christie are screaming mad at their Republican leadership, mostly for delaying a vote on the Hurricane Sandy relief package. Gov. Christie said, "Shame on you.  Shame on Congress. It's absolutely disgraceful, and I have to tell you, this used to be something that was not political. Disaster relief was something you didn't play games with. But in this current atmosphere, it's a potential piece of bait for the political game.  It is why the American people hate Congress." At another point, he said of Republicans in Congress: "We've got people down there who use the citizens of this country like pawns on a chessboard."

Rep. King also voiced his displeasure..."I can’t imagine that type of indifference, that type of disregard, that type of cavalier attitude being shown to any other part of the country.” “People in my party, they wonder why they’re becoming a minority party,” he continued. “They’ve written me off and they’re going to have a hard time getting my vote.” King also added that anyone in New York or New Jersey who gives money to the House Republican campaigns, "needs to have their heads examined."
A political party can't expect to fare very well in upcoming elections if they keep driving people away. The hard core conservatives will, of course, stay true. But its hard to imagine droves of Independents rushing to vote for the GOP next election. To piss off women and young people and Hispanics/Latinos and gay rights groups and labor groups and climate/environmental interests, etc. is quite something. 


It really is. 

They have time of course to make some changes and several fresh attractive faces like Marco Rubio ready to take on an expanded role in the party, but with the recent mis-steps, one wonders how long before the reset button has to be pressed on a national level. Someone or some group will have to find a way to save the Republican Party from itself. It won't be easy as the Tea Party are pulling from the right, which makes moving the Party to the left, almost impossible. 


Source: 


http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/dana-milbank-defined-by-a-sandy-sidestep/2013/01/02/b7b11b10-5532-11e2-bf3e-76c0a789346f_story.html

http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-pn-chris-christie-sandy-aid-congress-20130102,0,4385141.story



Al Jazeera Buy Current TV, plans News Channel...


Al Jazeera has announced the purchase of Current TV and its intentions to debut a US based news network utilizing Current's distribution network.

Read the full story here...





Source:

http://www.aljazeerausannouncement.com/